001All right. Call the reorganization school board meeting. Um, roll call vote. All members are present. Student reps are present. A lot of people are present. Um, let's rise for the pledge to the stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> All right, moving on to election of the chair. Uh, are there any nominations for chair? Garrett Luans. Garrett Luth's been nominated. Is there any other nominations? Is there any other nominations? All right. Being none pass. I'm trying to look for that one word. You guys, you guys remember it. >> Oh, thank you. I need a second. Is there a second? >> So motion by N by Aaron. All in favor say I. >> I. All right. Thank you guys. >> Thank you. Danny and then Aaron. >> Yeah. Thank you.
002>> All right. Moving on to nominations for vice >> Aaron Kudson. >> Aaron Kitson nominated. Is there any other nominations? Any other nominations? Any other nominations hearing? None. I will just This I think what I should have done. >> Yeah, >> I'll second that anyway. >> I accept. >> Thank you, Aaron. But I think this is where it's supposed to be all um acclamation for directing that year. Thank you. All right, moving on to clerk. Is there nominations for clerk? >> Mike Mossman. Mike Mossman nominating for clerk. Is there any other nominations? Are there any other nominations? All right, Mike, do you accept? >> Yes. >> Thank you. Is there a second to it? >> So, >> I I'd second it, too, but I already did. So, >> right. All in favor? >> I >>
003Congratulations, Mike. >> On to treasure. Your nomination for treasure, Sarah Pullman. I'll second that. >> Sorry. >> Any other nominations? Any other nominations? Hear none. Do you accept? >> I do. >> All right. All >> second. >> I second that. >> All in favor say I. >> I. >> All right. >> Through our board. Congratulations everybody. Moving on to the official newspaper, which at this time, Dan, I don't think we are going to collect that. We're going to still keep posting at the local library and on the website. Is that correct? >> Yeah, we are still exempt until August with the legislation that went through a couple years ago. >> Yeah. All right. Nothing there. Moving on to official depositories. The list is presented. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Motion by Mossman, second by
004Homestead. Any more discussion? All in favor say I. >> I. >> Stories passed. Investments. Uh it's directing for treasur director of finance and the district controller to invest his funds as they become available. And there is the motion up there. Is there someone motion that >> moved? >> Motion by Danny. Is there a second? >> Second by Aaron Kudson. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? >> I passed. Schoolboard salary. Uh this is going to be affirming what we passed last year. Is there a motion to accept? >> So moved. Motion by Mossman. Is there a second? >> Second by Sarah. Is there any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Board seller passed. >> On the mileage. Is there a motion to accept the new IRS guidelines? >> So
005moved. >> Motion by sir. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Which one wants that? >> Whichever. >> Showski. Second. Any discussion? >> What is the What is it going to be? What is it? No other discussion. All in favor say I. I. >> I. >> Mileage passed. Board meeting dates and times. I would like to make some comments on this one. So >> which on >> meeting dates and times. >> I think it needs discussion though. So you motion then you discuss. Correct. Okay. >> Well, I was just going to Okay. So moved. >> Motion by Mossman. Is there a second? >> Second by Jingowski. All right. Now, back to discussion. Instead, it's stated here that we're talking about uh moving the regular board meeting. As this one is stated saying that we're keeping
006it, but this is where we're going to discuss about moving the regular board meeting to the fourth Tuesday and having our workshop on the second Tuesday of the month. in the process of doing that or the reason is to give the finance committee um some more space and latitude as bills are coming in. Did I misstate that from the group? >> Nope. I just add that um I know Sarah's been on the finance committee a little bit longer than I think anybody on the board, but the way it works now is the finance or the the um finance department has essentially from the end of the month until the first Thursday to get all reports ready and the board often doesn't get those reports due to time constraints until Tuesday or Wednesday at no fault
007to the the um finance team. And so by switching the two meetings, this will allow the finance team plenty of time to put together the reports in full, send them to the board for a full review, allow time for questions before our first meeting. >> I do have a question. When you were saying it, did you say the Tuesday? Because we did all our vetting of Monday. >> What did I say? >> Tuesday. >> I think we were talking about second and fourth Mondays, right? >> I'll say Tuesday. >> Tuesday. >> No, this is the May meeting. This >> Yeah, the May meeting. Yes, but just generally they would be Mondays, >> right? >> They'd be on Mondays. >> They'll be on Mondays only. Flip-flop. >> Correct. >> Gotcha. >> Just wanted to be clear.
008I wasn't sure. >> And when would this process start? Would it start? February. >> Yes. >> So, we would still have our work session in January as planned. And I do have I'm just confirming um making sure that the demographer is still coming and and then we would have a workshop for budgeting and and then February start the new >> I I don't know if we would have a work session right away after we just had one five days earlier, but we would start that >> cycle >> that um the regular meeting would be at the end of February. >> Okay. So I think that the motion is going to have to be rewarded. >> We >> go ahead >> right now. We have to vote on this one essentially decline it and then somebody
009states a new one in reverse. Is there any more discussion? All right. Take a motion. To be clear, this is the old system and we're discussing the new system. So all in favor of that current motion say I. >> Oppose. Same sign. >> I. >> All right. That motion failed. Is there a new motion for board meeting dates and times? I move that the uh regular schoolboard meetings be held on the fourth Monday of each month and that work sessions are the second Monday of each month. Um that the board meetings the official board meetings are held in this facility. work sessions will be other places and that the May regular board meeting would be Tuesday, May 26th and yeah that's it at 5:30. >> Did you get all that? Go >> ahead. Is there
010a second to that motion? >> All right, Mosman second. Any further discussions or clarification on the motion that was made? All right, Tina, did you get that one? >> All right. Hear no other discussion. All in favor of the motion say I. I. >> Oppos. Same sign. >> Passed. Congratulations. Short-term employment. There it is. Is there a motion to authorize superintendent to do short-term decision making up there on the employment? So moved. >> Motion by Pullman. Is there a second? >> Second by Homestead. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Motion passed. Petty cash funds are presented out there. Is there a motion to approve the petty cash funds as presented? >> So moved. >> Motion by Mossman's, second by Canudson. Any discussion? >> These are all unchanged from
011last year. Correct. >> Correct. Thank you. No other discussion. All in favor of motion say I. >> I. >> Motion passed. Committee appointments. I left them as is. And if anyone has anything to say or would like to do something different, let me know. But >> based on the feedback when I was talking with everyone there was some interest in moving but there was not enough members um I would say interested in moving. So for the sake of just continuity and for I think the district of just the members staying the same this round. But I would say if there's any interest in certain members please by all means let us know so we can swap some around if anyone has interest in swapping like an a policy or PRC. I mean these are not
012to live and die by up here. So >> is there another page to this because I don't see fine hands. >> Aha. Thank you. >> There we go. >> And I'm just I'm not sure because I looked at it so fast is we could just say calendar as well. I know that's not one that always gets up there, but it's >> Oh yeah, >> it's going to be um Sarah and Danny. So >> it's just kind of an addition to one. No, we decide to make it. >> Any further comments on the committee assignments? All right. Is there any other business anyone wants to bring up? Is there a motion for a German reorg? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Motion by Kenson, second by >> Mossman. Any further discussion? All in favor say I.
013I. Reord. Ajourned. Oh my gosh. All right, >> rolling back in. There we go. Calling school board back into the regular schoolboard meeting. No necess Sorry about that. Uh, no need for pledges and allegiance. Uh, roll call. All members are still present and we're going to move on to public comment. Anyone from the public would like to come up and speak on any items. All right, seeing none, we're going to move on to the consent agenda. Is there anything out of the consent agenda member would like to pull further consideration? All right, if there is nothing, is there a motion to approve the consent agenda? >> So moved. >> Motion by Kenudson, second by Mstead. All in favor say I. I. >> I. Agenda passed. On to programs. Student highlights. >> Hi everyone. Good evening.
014I'd like to start by talking about the blue collar tour happening at our high school January 22nd. This is the second year the high school has hosted the blue collar tour and it's open to the public. It's taking place at the high school from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. on January 22nd. It gives people a chance to see hands-on programs and learn more about careers in the skilled trades. In addition to that, I'd like to mention our Tiger Well program at the high school. In this class, students work on real projects while learning valued skills. Right now, they're building a trailer as a group, creating a sculpture for the Hutchinson Stroll, and working on a stencil project for the city. Students also have individual projects and spend time practicing their their welds to improve their
015skills and their confidence. This class is taught by Mr. Coring who does a great job preparing students for real world work and future careers. Thank you for your time. And then good evening everyone. Um I know Eleanor and I discussed this at our previous meeting, but we did some surveys for the junior and senior classes. This is a bit long, so bear with me. But I wanted to gather some feedback directly from students about their post-graduation plans. And then I know we brought up addressing any concerns I had for the board. So I went ahead and asked that too. So due to weather related incidents, we didn't have our monthly class meetings. So the surveys were sent out via email. I believe there was some non-response bias because students didn't choose to complete it or
016maybe they didn't see it. Um, so for the junior class, I received 75 responses in total. Of those responses, 67% plan to attend college or university, 12% plan to enter the workforce directly, 15% plan to attend trade school or an apprenticeship, and 4% plan to join the military. When asked whether or not they felt that HHS has adequately prepared them for life after graduation, 88% of juniors responded yes. Among those who answered no, the most common concern was that they have not learned enough real world or practical life skills in their classes. with the exception of some elective courses such as welding. For the senior class, there were 40 survey responses. For those students, 71% reported plans to attend college, 19 plan to enter the workforce directly, and 10% plan to attend a trade school.
017Notably, 98% of seniors said that they felt HHS had adequately prepared them for life after graduation. Similar to the juniors, those who responded no frequently cited a lack of real world skills. Finally, I asked the students from both classes if they had any additional concerns they wish to bring to the attention of the school board. A few common themes emerged. Several students expressed concern that bullying was not being addressed enough at the high school. And then others shared that they felt certain teachers do not show sufficient care for student success or emotional well-being, do not put forth the effort students believe is necessary to effectively support students. Overall, I believe that the survey shows that a strong majority of students believe that HHS has adequately prepared them and that they also have clear post-secary plans.
018I appreciate the opportunity to share this feedback on behalf of the student body. >> Can you can you share I'm sorry. The first concern that people wanted to address with the board, I missed what you said. >> Um, a lot of people said that bullying was a problem they felt was like really affecting them at the high school and that it just wasn't addressed seriously enough. >> Thank you. And when you mention bullying, you say a lot. Um, can you give me more concrete? Like was that like five people out of all of those or was that like 50% people said this is a real problem? >> I would say out of both the juniors and seniors, I probably got about like 20 complaints total. >> Okay. >> Which and I'd say that maybe like
019seven or eight of them cited bullying as their concern. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Any other questions from >> All right, moving on to tiger time. >> I have asked Robin Bman and Jen K. We're going to do a little presentation on devices and what we use and what we use um with some kids um in some of the programming we do in special education kind of a hands as we get to this point we'll let you pass things out. >> All right. Good evening. I'm Robin Deman Jennifer Kun. Um we are speech language pathologists with school district. I work mostly in well pretty much all in early intervention and known as in elementary school. Um today we're going to talk to you about augmentative and alternative communication at school and specifically what we're doing
020here in um all right so what is AAC? It's a set of devices, systems, strategies, or tools that support or replace spoken language. So, the first A in our AAC has to do with augmentative. It's uh supporting communication. We might have um speakers who are minimally um verbal or minimally speaking. Um and then alternative is instead of speech when we have students or adults um really any age of person who isn't using spoken language to be able to communicate. So we have some things to pass around. We have um different levels of technology that go along with AAC. Our first that we're uh the first actually is no tech and that would be things like gestures. You know when when a young child goes like this we know they're like I don't know. Um pointing
021is another form of no tech. Our next is low tech or light tech and that's what has been passed around. Um these are core communication boards. Um some of them have real photos on them. Some of them have um symbols that are meant to mean something. Um and then we have some that I was thinking we have some that are have four pictures on there. So that might be a communicator who Yes. who is either very young or um they may have a cognitive um delay or disorder where we simplify. And then we have some that are really complex that we've passed out. Another um level of AAC that we use here in Hutch is midtec. And so these are various switches or buttons. They use batteries, but they're not as complex as some of
022the um high-tech options that we use. Um so what what is being passed around? Yeah, you can turn it on. We have a couple of the buttons that are being passed around. Um, >> and so we try to record student voices on these or the voice of a child that would be the same age as the the child who would be using these at school. Um, one of them is a small button that says go. That might be something that we put at at the door if we have a child who I need to go to the bathroom. So we they could push go on the way out. We as um therapists or teachers might put that there and every time we're going to go, we push the button, let's go. Um, so we're using
023our own speech and um, sentences along with using these supports. The last we're going to talk about is high-tech. Um, and we are really fortunate here in the school district to have been supported through special education and through um, the some of the billing that we have to do um to be able to provide students with devices. Um, in our school district, we have iPads that have software programs on them that um allow various different sizes of um of layouts. And the nice thing about these is they're very they can have you can start with a small amount of language. We can hide pictures on the front so that we simplify these for kids and you can go all the way up. One of them has, I think, 144 symbols on it. Um, so these
024are meant to grow with students if they end up needing um continuing to need augmentative communication over time. Go ahead and push buttons. Well, and for the folks maybe that are all all the people that might be tuning in at home, what's really cool, too, is when you get into a box of one, it has a it sort of leads you to ask the next question, which is also very cool, right? So, you can press time and then a new set of icons will come up and the child can then share what part of time are you interested in. So, kind of >> leads them on. I'm curious, you know, uh, as to how, um, our non-English speakers use these or do you have like a Spanish program or do you operate with one? >>
025I'm starting to see a little. Yeah, >> that's a good question. So, um, >> both of these have a setup that you can have English and then there is a switch that you can push that will change it to say Spanish. Spanish is the language that we've used here in the school district. Um, and I would say probably we have three or four who have that capability. So, obviously we use English at school, but some of these devices go home and so there um the the families or the kids are able to switch into the home language um or some of them choose to speak that at school as well. >> The other cool thing is you can pick different voices. So, if they're a boy or a girl, if they do have a Spanish
026accent, you can put um a Spanish child's voice on there, too, that speaks English. So, it's nice that it's very customizable to the child. You can also change skin tone um in there so that you know they're represented how they look. >> How many kids in the district are using these? Now, >> we're going to get a great question. >> Perfect. >> Thank you for asking. >> Yes. So before we get to that, we'll just talk about a few um different categories of people who may use AAC. This is not I mean we could spend our 10 minutes just talking about all the different types of people, but these would be more ones we would maybe see in the school district. Um autism, cerebral paly, down syndrome, araxia speech, which is a motor speech disorder,
027which causes significant unintelligibility. um or very unintelligible for other reasons which could be um a severe funological disorder or articulation disorder. Um varying genetic disorders, ALS, Parkinson's, TBI, and those would be more of your progressive. We probably wouldn't see these as much in school. We could see TBI. Um but we do have some kids with some genetic disorders that are progressive. So they may have started with speech and um typically and then losing those speech skills. Um and basically any condition where verbal speech is limited or significantly difficult. Then we'll get to the next slide. Um so currently in Hutch schools we have about 40 kids using devices. Um it's kind of a rough number because I have some just starting. We have some who are are finishing up with that. So sometimes these devices
028are considered like just temporary or a bridge. So some of my late talkers um who haven't developed language but likely will and maybe they'll only use it for a few months or for a year. So it's just a a temporary solution um to help increase their ability to communicate and increase their ability to um get their needs met and reduce behaviors potentially. frustration with not being able to, but they won't be long-term users. So, we kind of consider it a bridge. And also, it's really hard to predict that which kids are going to need it, which kids aren't. So, even if they just use it for a few months, we feel that that's still worth our time learning it and giving it a try. Um, and then we have some kids who are also just
029part-time users. So, they may have some verbal speech, but um maybe in times of high emotion or in certain classes or or different times of the day where their voice just isn't working for them, where their body is just not not working. And we all have those moments. Um and I am the early intervention special uh speech pathologist. So, I work with kids from birth to five. And I've been doing this a really long time. And really just in the last few years have we been giving kids those high-tech. That one right there is for a three-year-old that's sitting up here. Um we're starting them with two-year-olds um in their homes and training parents to use them. Um and so that's been really exciting. We also start with some low tech. So I have some
030of those sheets that you saw. Uh, I have a specific one I use for early intervention. Um, we're giving it to daycarees. I'm actually hoping to start getting them up on some walls and daycarees because they're finding them useful for all the kids, not just the kids that were there to see. So, it just gives them that extra visual um for communication. And I just wanted to share one little story. Um, I had a young student. I've been seeing her for probably eight or nine months. Things weren't coming along as I had hoped. Um, so I'm like, "Let's give it a try." She was two at the time. Brought the device in. We sat down, started modeling on it. And we didn't really know how much she knew because she couldn't tell us or show
031us. And she found a page and she started hitting the buttons and we're like, "Had." And then she hit touched her head and then she found nose and touched her nose. So we knew she knew her body parts that we never knew for the year and a half that we knew her. So it was super actually I like could cry at that story. It's just been very exciting to see her explore it. Um she was she you know kids know how to use that finger on technology. So that's been a change just in um how we do things. but she was able to find buttons and she actually was able to tell me at school when she started in our tiger cubs program. Um she navigated to the birthday page which is at least three
032buttons and it was her birthday in the next couple weeks. And I asked mom, "Oh, you must be talking about her birthday." And she's like, "No." I'm like, "There's no way she could get there just randomly." Like it took a few and she and she is now um becoming more verbal. She's still using uh so that's probably eight months later. Um she's becoming more verbal. She's starting to talk, but she still needs the device to really get all her needs met. So it's it's been very exciting to watch kids just those skills through this kind of technology. Yeah. >> Do you have any questions? You guys are good. >> Thank you very much. >> All right, moving on. Administrative reports. Superintendent Dan. >> All right, good evening again. Um, I'm looking forward to attending the
033MSBA conference this Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Uh there's an early bird uh one on Wednesday. I think Garrett, you might be going to that one, too. It's on conflict and working with people and that kind of thing. So, are you going to that one? >> I am. >> Yes, you are too, Dan. Okay. So, looking forward to that. And then there's always a lot of breakout sessions on Thursday and Friday to attend. So, uh that should be great uh professional development for the people attending. I've decided uh today we kind of decided about how to maybe get some better communication from the district office to our families and staff. And Infinite Campus, which is our student management program, has a very lowcost sort of texting and calling feature that we can subscribe to, which then
034we can get the word out about things a lot faster and it'll be better than just email. And so, um, I think we're just in the process of getting that, but people can sign up and say whether they want a text, they want an email, or they want both, or they want a call as well. So, there'll be options for people, and it'll be instant, pretty instantaneous. So, I think we're we're probably a little behind that way, just sending out emails and people don't look at their emails in the morning or whatever. So, we're working on that and we're going to put that into place. Um, I had an opportunity because of of weather, uh, the first mentoring session with freshmen got pushed back after Christmas. It was supposed to be before. And so, uh,
035this this week we were able to get our first mentoring or last week our first mentoring session in with the freshmen for, uh, trimester 2. So, I had an opportunity to go do that. There are other ones on January 23rd and February 20th. I don't think there's a trimester 3. they they I think they're all done after trimester 2 for this year. So that was great. And uh I completed my 15th month my 15month program for the advanced leadership academy. And the academy gave me a lot of different topics to explore as an administrator and a leader. Gave me some different perspectives on how to work with people and to uh just some more effective ways to lead school districts. So it was well appreciated that I could go to those and learn I will
036be setting up quarterly meetings with the principles and directors as I do every three to four months depending on how the months lay out. Uh they help me connect with their my administrators and also get into the buildings and talk to them about how things are going in their areas. The 2026 27 calendar committee as I mentioned we have Sarah and Danny. Danny will be in a second year on that and Sarah will be in her first and that's kind of what we decide to go to this time. So there's one that's been there and there's one that will have been there. So then there's always that knowledge from the year before and that first meeting is on January 22nd and then from there we'll see kind of uh what is decided. A lot of
037times what happens is we come up with a lot of ideas and then people go back and they sort of they go back to their buildings and they sort of ask how things are going and what kinds of ideas they're interested in and then we usually get together again. Uh it may be uh March though before we can bring the calendar forward because this meeting kind of took a while to get set up with everybody's schedules. And the strategic planning committee can continues to meet. They met on January 7th to start writing the three-year continuous improvement plan and we got a good start on that and then we'll keep refining that and then at some point you guys as a school board will be folded back into this and you'll be able to see a
038lot of the work and be able to give some input on that. Any questions? Okay. For negotiations, um, for HES, we met on January 5th to review counter proposals from Hess. The district asked clarifying questions. Hes asked as asked if another meeting could be added before mediation, which is on January 27th. It was very hard to come up with a common date for all of us. Uh, but there may be some opportunity to work on some proposals electronically before then. mediation is on January 27th and another joint negotiation meeting is on January 28th for local 284. We met on January on sorry we met on December 19th. Counter proposals were discussed along with finances. The next meeting is scheduled for January 30th. That's it. >> Any questions for Dan? All right. Thank you, Dan. Director
039Scott. Okay. Uh I'm going to start with uh some updates that uh principal Jennifer Klesky was going to talk about tonight. She's not able to be here. Uh she's not feeling well. So wanted to ensure though that we got um these topics discussed in terms of some new courses because the course guide is coming out and students um I believe already at the middle school we're starting to hear about some opportunities and we want today um I want to make sure that uh if you have any questions or concerns with any of the classes that that you're aware but she comes here in January every every year and says if there's any new course offerings. So these have come before the comprehensive achievement civic readiness committee uh the last meeting and then again at at
040this one. So um the next slide just talks about when we're when the high school administration is proposing any new courses or amended courses. Uh we put this timeline together um a while ago at least when I started this position just to make sure that we had a system in place of introducing when we're going to start adding courses. Usually the high school starts because they get their course guide out and then if there are any other additions throughout the um other buildings there's it's not as necessarily timely because um we can add those later but when we're starting to talk about high school courses we need to um start this early. So uh talking about making sure it's staying within our mission uh vision and values of Hudson public schools continuing to be looking
041at Tiger Path. Sometimes uh we got to keep doing what we're doing doing it well. It doesn't mean that we need to constantly be changing something. we have to be able to have systems in place to maintain what we're doing. Uh but there's always um room for other um offerings for our students. So thinking about those those career fields and especially as they get into their um junior and senior year, what are some of those things that are directly even maybe more directly related to a a career specificity in some of these titles, you'll see that um engaging with student academic interests and then of course addressing any state mandates or um state standards. We want to make sure all our courses have that. So, uh, the next slide has the four or some of
042the courses on there. One of them, and I'll go in a little more detail, introduction to broadcasting, and then an advanced broadcast, sports broadcasting. Um, a little bit of a modification to our world of work, um, course that has a CDL option attached to that, and then, um, natural physics, uh, two sections, an A and a B, and then natural chemistry. So, a little more specific to the intro to broadcasting. uh one of our teachers, Tim Carroll, he was at the middle school for a number of years um and then I was at the high school this year and and did a little bit of this when he was at the middle school too um in the communications area. But uh this course is introduction to broadcasting, introducing students to fundamentals of broadcasting, speaking, writing,
043um listening, technical production, media analysis to learn um more about broadcasting, radio, television, that um path um pathway. Um and then the next one is advanced sports broadcasting. This is the other class was for 9th through 12th graders. This one would kind of be the ne next level of that. Um an expansion to uh produ production and uh technical support live broadcasting. I know Tim had talked about at our comprehensive achievement civic readiness meeting about how this can maybe even be hands-on and do some some real life broadcasting. So um it is uh looks like two interest very interesting courses very specific then as we start talking about career paths um doesn't necessarily need to lead into broadcasting type things but we know when you can public speak and um do these sorts of things
044that you can open doors for other things too maybe not just necessarily being on radio or television but in other areas of broadcasting and production. So uh that will is one two proposals to go in our course guide. The next one is something that um we'd like to even start this trimester. So, world of work is a course we've had for a number of years where students do in in class um learning about safety and and rules and about work um resume building those sorts of things and then are going out and doing things on the job. Uh one of the this component is um adding a CDL component to this. uh the students would still have to be doing if they want to as an option as an option if they're taking this course.
045If they're um taking world of work, they're learning those components in the classroom and then they're going out to work um in a business in town as part of their hours. They're still going to have to do all of that. This would be something in addition to that they would have to do some things in class to start this process of uh working towards um being able to be licensed to go do the CDL training. So, um, we'd like to try something like this, even try three. Students have to be 17 and 1/2 years of age. The the additional coursework that would be part of that is 14 hours of online completed um, training, our online completed coursework. It's supervised by our world of work teacher and um, we're in cooperation with Bridgewater College in
046that online coursework. And then this would students then could go take a permit test which I think is a written test. They take that piece um which is relatively inexpensive. I think it's $ 20 $30. Um they take that and then they go and are can be ready to go do the behind the wheel training for their CDL which um we're in cooperation with Ridgewater with that. They do this I believe at even at their Wilmer campus. Um but uh Andrea Moore, our tiger path coordinator has been working um with them is also gentileles about the partnership that we may be that we'll have with them if students when they're ready to be able to go do that or um um if there's any local talking potentially with some local businesses too to see if
047there's any interest in partnering to offset some of that cost. I believe it's somewhere around $600,700 depending or 600 to7,000 depending on where students go to actually go get a CDL license. There has been some parents that are that have heard about this are interested in saying well that um is something that's of very interest because I'm going to they can go pay that you know if you're going to college you're going to pay you know go to go to college you're going to pay that for classes or whatever. So there's definitely if this is leading right to post high school career of um having a CDL and where that will bring them, it's just another step of um our tiger path philosophy to offer something very relevant to students. So um that's also something
048in in development but wanting to have that available to students already even this trimester because it's already a a course. It's just kind of augmenting it. And then the last one is natural chemistry, natural physics. We've had this um in our course guide um a few years ago and um didn't so we're bringing it back and adding us um another um trimester of it. So when we the state standards changed um previously students took in ninth grade a half a year of chemistry physics and then in in 10th grade they took their biology and then 11th grade they might take that other half of physics or or chemistry or more. Um because of the state standard changes ninth graders this year and our current 10th graders when they were nth graders had took earth science.
049So there was no chemistry or physics credits available at that time and state standards still um have chemistry or physics one credit needed. Um so um now as these students are going to become juniors next year um having another option for chemistry and physics still offering our chemistry and physics courses that that are available. This is just another layer for students that might not be going on to postsecary schooling maybe not needing that in-depth um chemistry or physics. um still meeting state standards but just having a different layer to it. So, uh we do need to add a an A and a B section that for one credit and it's really because of state standard switches. So, um I'll take any questions if you have anything on that before I get into any of the
050district highlights or there's any questions, comments, concerns about any of the courses or go ahead and move forward. >> You're good. >> Okay. Thank you. Um some highlights. Tiger Elementary food drive uh donated to food to the food shelf. It's an annual event at Tiger. They had 1648 items. I don't know if they counted all those or how they did that, but um took probably took a long time. So, thanks for counting all that. And uh staff who assisted and led were Cassie Patternness, Casey Pattern, sorry, Joe Bridge, Melissa Ovaj, Casey Nornes, Jackie Bakan, Chad Harlander, and the football team who transported some members of the football team that transported items. Maybe they had them count them. That's a suggestion. Have the football team count them. and Tiger families who donated and uh parents who
051Kate um am I going to say that name right? A O A O A O A O A O A O A O A O A O A O Astroski. Did I say that right? >> Yes. >> Astroski. >> Okay. Uh who pic who packed it up. So there was a winning class from Taylor Hoffman's class had 341 items. So thank you to all the families and the for donating and the students who brought that in and all the people involved who assisted and packed it up and got it to the food shelf. uh middle school uh just wanted to they wanted to recognize that they had their student family reach dinner take place on December 11th. Thanks to Chad Harlander, Lizzie Brodzky, Jacqueline Milky, and Angela Young for their dedication to that that program
052and that event. It's a kind of been an annual event in our reach program to have families get together around that time. And they also had their winter choir and band concerts uh held at the high school. That was on December 8th for choir and the 16th for band. uh was very successful. Thanks to Laura Leopold, our choir director, and Lindseay Simonet, our band um teacher, for their hard work and dedication to the middle school program, and Mr. McDow for helping organize and supervise those events. Uh Carrie Taylor wanted to recognize Diane um Jenowski and Amy Redilius and all the people that uh helped with the Legion of BFW um holiday party. So, another successful event and a a tradition in in Hutchinson. So, thank you. open swim. U can see that a little better
053up there than I can on my screen, but uh at the Hutchson Middle School, there's open swim again this year. Uh 7 to 9 pm free open swimming on those Friday nights in January, February, March, and April. Looks like over about a dozen times that are available. So, just a um plug to see if for families be interested in coming to that. And um district highlight. Uh Dan spoke a little bit about this, but um they had their first uh MASSA um advanced leadership cohort uh Minnesota Association of Secondary Administrator or school administrators. Um it was a 15-month development series had 16 inerson, seven online sessions for district leadership, engaging your peers. And there's a picture of all the participants up there. Dan's in the upper right. So um thanks Dan for participating in that.
054And those are the um highlights that I they had. We have January 19th, our PD day. I wanted to say thank you to all of our presenters. There's some in the community um outside of Hutchinson schools. There's certainly people within our um district that are presenting some things that morning for our staff. I think we'll have our first round of our support staff this year that'll be completed with the redact training. There's more sessions that are continually going on and making sure that we can get as many done, but there's a all four sessions are offered that morning for our support staff as well to that are in need to complete that. Um, so we have a lot of topics that are offered um to not only meet lure mandates but also um obviously help
055in the classrooms and in in their in our staffs work with students. >> Thank you, Mike. All right, Miss Bowl. Good evening everyone. Um the finance department, we'd have a couple of other updates to share. Um with the annual financial audit and truth and taxation hearing behind us, we have the revised budget in process. Um we're also working on calendar year end processing. So W2s, 1099s, impact public schools just like other companies. Um I think the highlight from the last month would be the closing on the bond refunding. So, if you recall, we refinanced the 2016 bonds, um, issued the 2025A bonds, and we are going to be able to save our taxpayers about $400,000. And just as a reminder, that isn't general fund savings, that's taxpayer savings. Um, in addition, the department's working very
056hard to support negotiations, the paid family leave implementation, and then right before the holiday break, we received notification that we received a reallocation of voluntary pre kindergarten seats. And so we've been working um district office West Elementary and the early childhood programming um very quickly and diligently to open that program up starting tomorrow. Um so this will be $67,000 additional preschool funds that we convers includes meals and busing. So, that's really exciting for our district. Um, just wanted to make sure we shared that. The food service department would like you to highlight um the Minnesota Thursday meal that's coming up on January 29th. The menu is beef and bean chili, cornbread with maple butter and squash, and it's all made from scratch and locally sourced. Um, not quite as exciting, but just as important in
057technology, the cyber security initiatives continue. And then there's a lot of AI professional development that's going on throughout the district. Um, with that I can take any questions. Um, what's coming ahead in finance is we'll have a revised budget coming in February and then we'll be going through some long range projection scenarios as we work with our administrators and really all staff to plan next year's budget and staffing plan. So, >> no. Thank you very much for the update. All right, rolling on to this. There we go. Program position reduction resolution. This is a resolution we just do every year at this time. Is there a motion uh for the resolution as presented on the board? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Motion by Mossman, second by Kudson. >> We got them. Any discussion? So
058we have roll call vote is there. All right vote. >> All right. Pullman >> I. >> Mossman >> I. >> Jenowski >> I. >> Luans I. >> Nudson >> I. >> Olmstead >> I. >> All right. Resolution pass 6. Employee handbook 2025 2026. Dan. Is there anything you want to speak to? just mostly we had to get the paid Minnesota leave figured out over the since the last time we approved this and we couldn't have possibly had that all in here. So, uh that is now inserted in and will be um sent out to our employees. >> All right. Is there a motion to accept the handbook as presented? >> So moved. >> Motion by Mstead. Is there a second? >> Second by Miss Pullman. Any discussion hearing? None. All in favor say I. I.
059>> I. Both same sign handbook passed. All right. Off to committee reports. Uh comprehensive achievement civvy civic readiness. >> We just knew we were just at that today. >> Okay. >> Go ahead. >> Sure. >> Um so I think the one thing I wanted to highlight because uh Dr. Scott did mention many things that were already brought up, but one of the things we looked at is uh we keep track of the number of failing grades and Dminus grades. And we we keep a record of it and we're keeping track of cohorts. And so let me share some numbers. Um when we talk about what does it mean to be successful, a lot of times we look at MCAs. Um this is another way to gauge whether or not we're being successful. And so when
060we look um from now I don't know is it the 20 32 24 year to the 24 25 year. Let me >> and this we have this trimester right now >> the one thing that I that we went over today was the 25 26 just try one grade so far. >> Okay. So yeah, so the the numbers that we saw today for 25 26 are just try one grades right now. So we're if you kind of look at those and multiply those numbers by three, if we stay at an average, that's kind of where we might end the year. >> Got it. Yes. Got it. >> Otherwise, it looked remarkably well if it was >> Maybe that was why I was so dang excited today. >> Still be excited. It it will still look exciting,
061but Yes. >> Yeah. So when you look at say what the sixth graders were doing, then you look the next year at the seventh graders and those numbers are remarkably down. So that's it it just is a great indication of the hard work that we do to have credit recovery and identifying those students and all of that. It's pretty exciting. >> Yes. And while the kids can and the older kids can uh opt out of doing the MCA testing, they really can't opt out of this. So, we get a good uh indication as to how many kids are getting Fs or failing. And if that number is going down, that's a great that's a great thing for our district. And it seems to be in some grades that is happening. So, we're really happy to
062see that. >> Thank you guys for the update. Facilities. >> So, uh there's some really positive things right now that have happened on facilities or with regards to facilities. um happy to say that the facility rental where we partnered with um changed our policy and partnered with several of the associations to allow for uh their own members to come in and facilitate practices. That process is going really well so far. So I just wanted to update the board. Um and then from a staffing position, uh Mr. Tennic made an offer to fill our last um position which was a night float position. Um, so as as of that person starting, we'll be fully staffed, which is great. Uh, we do potentially see uh that we could have some upcoming retirements in the next couple of
063years. So, we may be um refilling those, but it's nice um to acknowledge all the hard work that uh folks have put into making sure we're fully staffed there. Um, a couple of issues that we're working through. Um, the windows at Tiger continue to be a process. Um, and uh, uh, we probably won't know more about that process um, for the next month or two. Um, we're dealing with some mechanical upgrades to the pool and we'll continue to do that um, through spring break. That pool is nearly 30 years old, so this is all pretty standard for um, the life expectancy of a site like that. Um, we are looking at um refurbishing or adding to some of our our to our playgrounds at Western Tiger and making them more handicap accessible. And I think
064we have a good plan for what we may um think is best there and more economical and what we can then maybe approach the community about doing some fundraising for. >> Thank you. That's all I have. >> Thank you. Finance, Men. So we have um 45% of our revenues booked and 36% of our expenses um our register the board members did ask the questions necessary and they were answered um and then we also did uh I did want to mention that the administrators have already started on looking at the budget um what does it need to be what needs to be cut. It's a I think maybe a 12 meeting um process starting in January before they bring us their recommendation. So that has begun. >> Thanks sir. Burks and wreck. >> Uh a couple
065things to mention right now. I know that these are all things many of which I think the community is aware of but just to highlight kind of where we are in the process. Um, Robert's Park is getting all new, uh, lighting, um, which is kind of a big deal because it's been a long time since they've had that. And, uh, the end date of that project will be April of 2026. So, they'll be very busy here in the next few months getting that up and going. Um, there'll be, um, some new signage going up at the AFS Park. Sorry. Um, we are applying, I believe, for the third year in a row, um, for the Greater Minnesota Transportation Alternative Grant. Um, we applied for this grant money specifically to form a link um, between the
066area between where the fields are by Tiger Elementary. Um, and that would be going east towards the residential area. I can't remember what street that is, but anyone remember, shout it out. But we've uh not received that grant, and it would really be amazing if we did. So, we keep re the Lyn Newman and her um wonderful people keep applying for that, which would be great. Um we're applying again for the Prairie Restoration Grant, um which really helped us out last year and kind of cleaning up some of the brush in the area. Um the rink at Park Elementary is open and then I've read was kind of slightly not open because of temper temperature issues. So um but it's I do see on parks and rock that they um would do really good job
067of sort of informing the public on Facebook when that is and isn't open. So keep looking out for that. And um as Mike already mentioned, there's going to be several opportunities to participate in some open swims at Carlson pool over the winter months which would be great. >> Thank you. Nice job. Question. Was there technology last month you guys? >> No. Nothing for lensure. >> No. >> Okay. Just wanted to make sure you guys >> All right. And just to confirm for the rest of January, um we'll keep our normal schedule. Then in February, we're going to flip over to the new schedule. All right. Hear nothing else. Is there a motion to >> just one one second? I'm sorry. Um on here it talks about January 19th being a meeting and I believe that
068maybe was originally when the demographer could come >> and it got put down as just in case but didn't think it get off of here. So we're not >> it's part of the strategic plan. >> Oh for them to come. Okay. All right. >> Oh okay. So we do have a meeting at 5:30 on the night. >> Oh that makes sense. That's why it's on. Okay. >> Originally I had talked about that with the demographer as well. So, um, but that's their strategic planning time that they come in. Okay, that makes sense. So, we have Sarah, I'll follow up with all the board. See you. >> Okay, got it on my calendar. >> All right. Um, we're going to close a meeting going into close session for the superintendent evaluation. Is there a motion to
069close meeting? >> So, moved. >> Motion by Kenson, second by Mstead. All in favor? >> I I All right. Being close.