001Well, my phone says it's 6, so that's got to be right. So, let's call the meeting to order. Let's stand and say the pledge of allegiance, please. Ice to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay. Um, everybody's here. Angie's with us online. So, looks like we have a few changes to the agenda. Um, and then Jen added remove 911 in personnel. Okay. Any other changes? >> Can you tell me what the changes are because I don't have an updated copy. >> Okay. Um, addition to add the recommendation to hire Darren Emerson as a substitute van driver. That'll be under 9E8. and also the addition of discussion and approval of the following Mau County tax
002abatements. So, in addition to the two we already have, uh there's a len lenh. >> Okay. >> And then we're removing 9E1. >> Thanks, Dave. >> Okay. Any other changes? If not, is there a motion to approve those changes to the agenda? make a motion to change those to the agenda. >> Thanks, Dave. Is there a second? >> A second. >> Thanks, D. All those in favor say I. >> Opposed. >> Motion carried. Now, we need a motion to approve the agenda including those changes. So, moved. >> Thanks, Dan. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Thanks. Thanks, uh, Kyle. Sometimes I forget people's names. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. Motion carried. All right. Public input. Was there anybody that signed up for public input? >> Anybody wants to say
003I'll let you say something even though you didn't sign up. >> That's all right. Do I have permission to hand these out? >> Sure. My name is Paul and I represent a coalition of current and past parents, community members, and employees of the district. And we have a few items we'd love for the board to address, sir. This is an extra copy for her. In the attached documents, you'll find that the first one I handed out, we'd like the board to review is commentary um from an educator. We've been notified that this educator has sent commentary to other families and we'd seek recognition um in the hopes that this no longer continues. The second document I have are testimonials given to me anonymously by communities members of the community and the coalition. So >> sorry
004Paul the first document is what these >> correct? Yeah, if you read it. Yeah. I'm not expecting everyone to read everything right this second >> but just just for your review over the next month would be appreciated. >> Yeah. Um the second document we have expresses some concerns that we have with the current um leadership of the superintendent um with ongoing issues and the strong underlying data you'll find from the department of education. Um we believe that the board will come to the same conclusion as listed out in the documents on both of them. Um how however we like to note that the coalition reserves right to file the appropriate complaints with the appropriate governing bodies. We truly hope that the board takes these documents seriously. In doing some light research, we've discovered that over
00550 children have already sought education elsewhere in our area. >> Since when? >> For the last 5 years. >> Okay. >> We we can't keep hemorrhaging students. We asked the school board to be curious why parents choose or send their kids to send them to other districts and what we can do to prevent it further. Um, long story short, essentially about the school, >> are those students that have open enrolled elsewhere or that have moved out of the district? >> Open enrolled. >> Yeah. Overall, our concern is not only just for the school, but for the community at large. If we continue to hemorrhage kids, parents continue to send their children elsewhere, we might not have a school in the coming years. And we've seen that with Elton where years ago they lost their school
006and we've seen what it can do to a town. The school's the largest employer in this city and uh not only as a a city official but as a concerned parent and community member, I believe the board has a a larger obligation to not only look at the school but the community as a whole. And that's all we ask. It's just review of the attached and go from there. So the issues that you have with the superintendent are listed in this out. >> Yes, sir. >> Letter or whatever it is. >> Correct. >> Okay. Anything else? >> That is it. Thank you. >> Okay. Thank you. >> All right. Moving on. uh recognition and good things happening. We'd like to thank the staff, students, and community members for making these first few weeks back to
007school such a great success. You guys are all appreciated. Thank you to the Lions Club for the breakfast uh in the fall in service. It's very much appreciated as well. Thank you to all the donors that have contributed in various ways these past months. And September is schoolboard recognition month. Wow, we get a whole month, guys. Awesome. So, thank you to all of you guys for serving on the board. Appreciate that, too. Is there anything else that anybody knows of that we should recognize at this time? Okay. Um All right. Reports. >> I have Kendall's report cuz she's not out of volleyball yet. >> Okay. So, she just had fall sports are ongoing. Um, l students participating in the fall musical Cinderella with cell phone this past weekend. Ellie Gumble, Scarlet Buchanan, Mabel Elwelling, and
008Aya Raburn. Uh, the senior class fundraiser started today and homecoming week is coming up September 28th to October 3rd. >> What is the senior class fundraiser? >> It's the usual candy pie. >> Sounds good. J. >> Thanks, Angie. >> Oh, we might have lost her. >> There she is. Thanks, Angie. >> Um, okay. Uh, who's next? >> Um, staff report. That must be Trevor. >> Ready? >> Yes. >> Beautiful. I'm all over. All right, let's >> We got two games going on right now on top of a practice, but >> Okay, >> I'm here. Um, it is the beginning of the school year. As you know, we've been in school for 10 days. So, I don't have my normal stats because I can give them to you, but they're not going to show a lot
009because they're good. So, I guess we can hinge on that. Um, from an athletic standpoint, uh, football is currently 2-1. Uh, we play Friday at Kingsland, which is going to be a fun one. Obviously, Kings will be ranked second in the state. They're currently undefeated. Um, and we all know that that's a pretty good rival between two uh two lead dogs, so to say. Two wolves, not cheap. So, nothing but respect for their program. They do a good job over there. Turn around pretty good. So, uh, volleyball is currently six and nine. Uh, they've won five of the last six, so they started out pretty slow, but we're getting better here. They play only Glennville this week. Glennville's a short week for us. Uh, they had a by-week Thursday. Um, Lindsay Mils got her 70th
010win on Thursday against Kingsland, which is great according to my records. Puts her second highest outside of >> Nope. Was before your 10. >> Lisa. >> Yep. Yep. Yep. She's got a while to go to catch her. Lisa was pretty good currently record wise. Um, cross country has eight runners from 7th through 11th. This week they're in Pine Island Golf Course. Homecoming is Monday, September 29th, Friday, October 3rd. That week, volleyball play Tuesday. Um, home versus Grand Meadow and then be on the road against Spring Grove that week. Um, it was a crazy week to try to find a home game because of football. Uh, we played the first game before school and then we played on NBA. Can't have homecoming those weeks. Uh, we gave a game to Lyall and then so we really
011had one option that week. Volleyball didn't play any home games which would hurt us more. So, I had to do some flipping to get some schedules changes there. So, uh, they're there. cross country will travel to Lewis Aluro that week on Thursday in football play home versus Lanesboro Burroughs which is my time here has been another rivalry of good coach and good program. So um always fun for that. Some projects we got done um recently uh there hasn't been as much uh but the trophy case got completely updated um as you can see with new paint uh new stain um and move more movement. We pulled down some trophy stuff from upstairs in the fax room that had some really old stuff on it. We need to update stuff that's down here. Nothing that says
012we can't have fun with their past. We get the pass is great. Um but we should make sure that we're acknowledging the current of the kids that are currently producing. So um we did make a stipulation I think and the board actually did it. Uh we kept everything from 1991 and on we kept in the trophy cases. Anything below that we have in the library all together. There's a great place to put that put it. That'd be wonderful. But uh so that's the case with that. the small gym got an update last week, last year and it got completed. Took a little longer than we expected um for a lot of different reasons, but the hoops are brand new. Um we use our fundraising money for that. Uh and then some of the school stuff
013for that. Um the program money that we collect money for, um I believe, don't quote me, but I believe it's I mean it's probably at least 10,000 right now. We use that to supplement the fact that we don't have a booster club. Not a lot of schools don't have booster clubs. We're one of them. Um, and we can't buy big ticket items after our after our money is is given to us. So, this allows us to help with that. Um, so we did all the new hoops in the small gym. Uh, the school did roof flooring in there as well. Looks much better. Still got some things to do. I want to cover up some of the windows there. I think that's positive thing. All that sun that's in our faces over there. Um, so
014more things to do over there that we we can get it done. Um, we updated the thousand point club. I do that every year. Um, which is a pain because once somebody makes it, you got to move people around. Uh it's not just a thing. So you got to undo all those little sticker thingies. Um we updated the PowerPoint. We updated the athlete of the year. All these things have been up to date um and not push back. I know doesn't seem like a lot of things, but when I took over, we were three years behind the athlete of the year alone on that plaque. So everything's completely up to date on that aspect of it. Uh both gyms look pretty good with car surfaces. I would like to do more padding in the small
015gym. It's a small gym and there's a lot of crevices in there. I'd like to pad that up and make our kids safe. Um especially when kids running around. So, it's just is a project on my on my list as well as those windows. So, uh otherwise getting a brand new gym, but I know that's not in the foreseeable future. >> Trevor, on that banning, do you have do you have a a price on any of that? >> Not yet. Um it's not cheap. >> Forward to the building and grounds meeting. >> I think when uh Mr. Olsson did it um years ago when he did it um they did the ends, which is great. That's a start because it was really bad before that. Um, unfortunately we do play side to side and although
016it shouldn't all come from athletics cuz P's in there running around, but I mean I don't care where the money comes from. We'll put money into it too because it's to be honest if you look in there. I think some of those corners on those edges are are completely unsafe. >> Um, and it scares the crap out of me even have a P kit sometimes or those corners of that brick um that are available and then we have those old mats from 1970 that have been updated. So probably not a lot of cushion in that too. So, it's something that if we can get the whole thing looking like the ends, that would be the kind of the thought process to make sure everyone's safe. That's just a project that we can try to get
017through out there as well. Um, some thank yous. Uh, absolutely want to thank John Stockdale. He is goes above and beyond. He's an absolute star for our school, not only with transportation, which is a pain. Um, and I deal with other schools with transportation as well. And John continuously rocks that out. He is a stud and he does everything else. He rests, he does so many things. So big shout out to John Stockdale and all the coaches in the fall. It is a hard thing to do as coach. I know we're here for education and I get this conversation, but if we don't have coaching and front sports, we won't have kids here either. My kids will transfer, other kids will transfer. Um, we got to have people coaching. It's not easy because it's a
018year- round commitment for not a lot of money. And as you can see, some of us can hide and and run and do things and teachers can come and go, but coaches are right there in the middle of it all the time and we're taking that on with people yelling at us and stuff like that. So, congrats to all my coaches for sticking it out. They've doing they're doing a wonderful job. Wins and losses are a dime a dozen, but they're they're continuously doing what we can. Um, so that's kind of the athletic part of it. Um, some of the Dina student stuff that I like to hit quick. Um, we've changed our missing uh assignment policy here. Aaron and I revamped it um to make it more sense every Tuesday. So kids that have
019kids or you don't have kids every Tuesday. We don't do Monday because this allows the teachers to get missing stuff in on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. 8:00 Monday. We weren't hitting that deadline good enough. So we moved it to Tuesday at 8:00. Um now that I'm not on teaching in the classroom now, it's not as easy, but Aaron and I are figuring it out. We'll we'll figure it out. Get it going. Um we'll print the missing assignment sheets for everybody. I'll go through it. Anybody has five or more missing assignments, we'll get a green sheet. So five or more. We're focus on the five or more because it's driving me crazy chasing down ones and twos because typically students are good students get A's and B's or whatever it may be and they'll get it
020done. It's the five plus that constantly on that on my radar. So, we got to we got to focus on the five plus. Now, do the ones and twos have to get their work in? Yeah. All they have to do is get it signed just like everybody else, put it in my office. They constantly do that. Um and I'm not worried about those ones. Um, I made it green just to make sure we we differentiate the fact that it is a green sheet is different than the white one. So that teachers do know that, hey, hey, this is a plus five here. So, uh, if they get a plus five on Tuesday, they have until 3:00 on Friday to get back to me signed by all their teachers. It's done. Now, they get a five
021new ones, that's fine. But these five have to be hit. If it's not to me by 3 p.m. I don't care if they've lost it. That's their responsibility. If you can't have responsibility yourself, what are we doing as parents right now? Let them get in trouble. Even my kid if he loses his sheep um they will attend the F room essentially. It's a wintime room where these kids if they're failing or miss have five or more miss they're going to go to this room for win time. They're not going to go hang out with their kid at friends and and do win time. They're going to go that way. If they stay on the list we're going to pull the lunch from they can do lunch in there as well. Right, Mr. H. Correct me
022if I'm wrong. Feel free to interrupt. >> You're good. >> Um if they don't get by 3:00 they have an intervention time next week. You know old fashion we call it detention, right? And we're calling it intervention because we are intervening. We're trying to fix the problems here, not just give a kid detention because they'll go in there, not do their work. We don't fix the problem. A lot of people do that. I believe in discipline, don't get me wrong, but they also got to learn from it. So, they're going to do their work in there and they will stay in intervention and they will stay in the f room until these assignments are done. If they're back on the list, they'll keep doing it. So, they're going to be held responsible. Um, if they
023have a thousand dentist appointments at 3:00 on a Wednesday, we're going to you're going to pay the piper at some point. If you're on these things, they're they're not going to do the homecoming and do all these things. You're not going to all these cool things we have around here because everyone else try as hard and you have 50 missing assignments, 50 Fs while everybody else is playing volleyball in the gym. You can be in my office and start working on that missing assignment sheet. So, I know it sounds tough, but I think we got to get back to a little more toughness overall in the world, just holding people accountable, including myself. But the kids, if they're not held accountable, why should I get held accountable? Why should Aaron? Why should Jen? Why should
024you guys as board members? It starts with them. So, let's get after them. make sure they're getting stuff done. As a dean of students, um I can directly correlate the fact that if you're getting Fs, why do we have Fs, Mr. Hunger Hole? >> Uh missing assignments assignments. If you get your work done, we are not Harvard. Like you're going to probably get a C, right? You know, if just get your get grades done. Um and that's what we're looking for. So we can't have those S. We got to get rid of the S U and increase that. Um we have not done our checklist for career paths for juniors and seniors. It's never two week, not even two full weeks in yet. So, that's will be on the horizon moving forward. I'll let you
025know percentages of who goes what. Not that it changes every single day with the seniors because they do. Um, but I'll give you the updated list. We check it this fall, we check it spring, and check it in the winter. See where they change. And some kids may came in and say, "I want to be um go to the army." By the time you check them again, they're going to be a vet technician. You get the idea. They're kids. They're just learning their ways. That's why we do them. Um, right now I can tell you though according to Georgin and my notes, tardies are way down and attendance is way up. So that's a positive things. Right now I don't have the exact numbers to give you. Um, but we know when we have to
026track it. So they are down and up. Granted, it's only 2 weeks in. Take it for what it's worth. Just wanted to throw it out there. There's a field trip on the Friday the 19th. Georgin Carlin and Chrissy Schuman are taking the 10th graders to Riverland uh to Career Quest. Career Quest, not Fest. Um, this is to explore future career interests and stuff like that, it's good for them to to get all that information in. Um, behavior has been good this year so far. I do believe that having me in the PE classroom has been good with the middle school. We've had way less issues with the middle school. Um, I think there's only been one kid sent to my office, Mr. Hung, correct me if I'm wrong. >> Um, bullying. I I do want
027to hit this and I do it every year, but I I do want to address this bullying because I did see stuff on the old face tweet and everybody else that talks about bullying is an issue. Bullying is an issue across the world. I understand this concept 100%. I have a child in their school district. If they're bullied, I get this conversation, but we do something different here at Leway and maybe we can afford to do it because I do it and Mr. Young does it. But I track right here. So when people jump online and say kids got bullied, whatever it may be, how factual is that statement? Because I call home, I call parents, I call the kids, I had interventions with the kids. But on my bullying list, if it comes up
028as a bullying issue where I think it could be as as easy as Aaron says that Dave was bullying him, if that's the conversation, it's being held regardless of the what I've seen, I put it into my spreadsheet. So here is last year's spreadsheet. I took away names and bullies, etc. And I do have the year before, by the way, as well. Um, and I can I can see it. I can track the student, the date, the student who's reporting the bullying, the grade the students is in, who the bullies are that they're classifying as a bully, what grade that bully is in, the type of bullying, whether it's verbal, physical, social media, electronic, racial, whatever the bullying I think I put it into a category. Then I'd write a description as simple as um
029a name call. I'll even name it on my list of what they called them. I try to get as much information. And then on top of that, I go into what the discipline is, if there is any. And then parent documentation. Did I call home? So all these come up. So if Billy comes in, say they got bullied and they're leaving our school district X, Y, and Z, I can pull and say, "Yeah, Billy got bullied according to this on September 19th and on April 24th." And if nothing's being done, then absolutely blame me. I take full credit for any of that. Not the school, not you guys, not administrators, that's me. I take bullying extremely serious because I know how scary and tough a school can be, especially if you're not in the cool
030group. But they're also pure conflict and the definition of those two have to be understood. We have a worldrenowned bullying guy who comes to our school districts all the time and those those rooms are empty by the way, right, Mr. Girl? And then we got um Larry Thompson who is just an absolute stud with RCD and he'll talk to you forever because he's just an awesome guy. And we try to accommodate and try to fix these things as much as we can. But it needs to be understood that if Aaron calls me a name and I call my name back, it's not bullying. It's a conflict that we're having. And it happens all the day every day at school. And by the way, if we're going to nail bullying, shouldn't we nail parents on bullying,
031too? You want to hear what I hear from his headset if I take my headset off cuz I called the wrong plate. Isn't that bullying, too? And it could be the same parent every time, right? Under that classification, Mr. Hung, that's bullying, right? Because it's happened a lot more than one time. Yep. >> So, I'm not really sure. Or if you go in and complain about somebody 7,000 times with no proof and just statements, take that how you want to. I think that's pretty I think that's bullying, too. So, where is bullying end? Where does it where does it be stopped? Where does it begin? But I can tell you right now, we have a safe school. I talked to more than enough parents to come talk to me. I had the tough parent calls
032to say, "Hey, this is an issue." We do had bullying cases last year that I thought I transferred into a bullying situation because it can't happen non-stop. Um, if there's a fight, they're immediately removed from school. So, something does happen, there's ISS, OSS, OSS for any kind of fiscal contact is what we've done. I believe we I mean, I'm not bragging. I'm just saying what 20 suspensions. I mean, we're not we're cutting to the chase where people are getting held responsible, but it's also not my job to raise everyone's child. If they want to use derogatory terms and swear and say things negatively, I can discipline all day long in school, but if it's not happening at home, then isn't that shouldn't we work together from a parental standpoint and an administration standpoint, you and
033me and everybody else. But if there's bullying, I'd love to take it. Um, I can tell you the ones that I have and haven't and I have names. Mr. Humbult knows. He's seen my list. Um, I also keep a spreadsheet for any issues. I also keep a spreadsheet for any discipline that's handed out. Um, uh, so I think that's like three spreadsheets alone that I have to enter in something every day. Um, if something happens and I try to document, um, you know, I'm not saying kids are kids. I'm just saying that if it gets to be repetitive, that's the definition of bullying, not you called me a name, I called you a name back, and then I go home and tell mom and dad that this is what they called me. You're right. That
034did happen. I tell parents that that happened. Absolutely. But do you know what little Billy said to little Susie? No, they didn't tell me that part. Yeah, that's typically what happens. Um I'm very communicate. I communicate a lot with parents. Um a lot of them. Um they know if my my cell phone even obviously my school phone, which I probably frowned upon. Um because most of the parents in Leroy I probably have my cell phone some way or another. Um and have that conversation with the parents and let them know prior to them going home. Same with discipline. So I I know that it's not always fair. I don't catch everything. Um, but if it's not being reported, there's not a lot I can do. Like, they got to feel confident enough to come in,
035talk to me about, hey, this is what's happening. Um, so parents, if they're watching and everybody else, you know, tell them, direct them to me, let them know that I'm here for them. Mr. Humble's here for them. We don't think we've ever pushed a kid away in four years saying, "Hey, your information doesn't matter to me." Um, we have great kids at Leroy Illustrator. I think you guys are doing a good job. So, appreciate the time. I got to go back out there for the JV and move them on. So, uh, good even coming back in. >> Uh, before you leave, before you leave, I wanted to thank you for stepping up and taking that FIAD thing at the last minute. Appreciate that. >> Yeah, >> if you don't know, I'm the PE teacher. >>
036I do seven, eight, and 10. >> And it looks like you're having fun with it. >> Yeah, they can work me a little bit. You know, the greatest part about the PE part is I don't got to sit in a full suit and tie. I can wear shorts now. And it's kind of comfortable. >> There you go. But then I, you know, I run around playing bad mitten all the time and I get tired. I realized at 41 years old after the first day of bad mitten, I had some spots on me that were a little more sore than usual. >> It's crazy. But they have good kids and they've been they've done awesome. I don't think one kid's not wor as normal or they are normal shoes and appropriate clothing and they've all gotten
037full points. They all participate. >> Some more convenient than the other cuz they want to challenge you and I can't say no. >> There you go. >> But I don't let them win either. >> They have Okay. Thanks. Thank you. >> Okay, that was a good one. Uh, principal's report. >> Um, I'm going to talk a little bit about testing, but first of all, I want you to take I You should have this hand out. There's two sheets, a little list here, front and back. It says students on top of one, staff on the other. Um, take my job very seriously. Um, this is just a list I put together some time back and try to add to it. This is kind of what's been accomplished over my 18 years here. Um, like I said,
038to me, I think it's a very extensive and if you look at what's there and then think about what the school didn't have before I got here. Um, I'm not one to toot my own horn if you know me. I don't really go down that road. Um, but sometimes it's it's I think that especially new board members need to understand especially in the light of things going on. Um, where we've come through in the last 18 years. Um, and we continue to get better and better. Um, going from there. Um, I'm not going to read it to you. Uh, but I would like if you just look through it. And once again, these are things that I can't do this on my own. Um, people bring me ideas. I work with people and and my
039doors open and it frustrates me when when people don't come and talk to me. I don't think I'm a very difficult guy to talk to. Uh, I don't know if I've ever argued with a parent. I definitely have never yelled at a parent. Um, don't think I'm that scary. That's probably my weakness. Um, but I build relationships. That's that's I think my strength with kids. And I feel it's the same with adults if they give me the chance to do so. Um, so I wish people would come in if they want things added, if they think we're doing something wrong or want to see things because if you look at this list looks like I've done quite a bit. Um, they're not all my ideas, but I'm willing to try things if it's best for
040kids. Um, one thing I do want to touch on, if you go to the back page where it says currently partnering, working with uh with student school success, these are the people I'm currently working with. Um, I do Larry Thompson is a responsibly centered discipline. Once again, that works along with relationship building, works with discipline, things like that. Um, Katie is our regional literacy network for English. U might meet with her on a regular basis to try to improve our uh English literacy with the read act. Eric Durand, he's the regional math lead. I work with him definitely with all with math curriculum as well. Uh Cindy Mullins, I've just made a connection with her. We don't we're not necessarily on continuous improvement, but I made a connection with her and she helps me out
041when I need help. Um Carol Swans is a regional ly who I work with. And then Judy Bruner, um she's the person she if you look up Educate, she's a national um speaker on bullying. um she actually wrote our bowling policy for us through legal um all of her legal trials and things. So our bowling policies based on actual legal legal terms and stuff. Um and she's been here two three times in my career. We've held community meetings and I can you can only guess how those were attended. So, it's very frustrating when I hear things, bullying, all these different things when I've provided opportunities for those parents to come in at those times when they don't. Um, I take it very seriously. My background, um, coming from Las Vegas for 9 years, you want
042to see bullying, you want to see tough places, I'll give you tough places in bowling. Um, I take pride in this. Our school is very safe. Um, and I take pride in that. My own kids go here. My own family works here. Why wouldn't I want this place to be safe? So, um, I treat all the kids as they're my family. So, this was just for you guys. So, when people say either I don't do something or whatever it is, this is just kind of for you guys. Um, I just wanted to share that with you. So, any questions on any of on that piece before I jump into testing? All right, testing. So, this sheet right here, there's two of them. There's front back. I have look at the reading one first. It should
043say in the corner there's a reading. There's a map. Basically, what I did was I took last year's MCA scores. Obviously, we don't get them through the summer, so that's why you're it's kind of tough to get behind. So, what I took was last year's MCA scores. >> Um, so MCA scores, like you all know, is a one is a one shot test. L is our yearly pro progress monitoring and we take a one test a quarter so we can progress monitor and see where kids are at. And then the AR percentage that's our that's the students reading levels. So I put those three right next to each other so you could kind of see the percentages is so we use all this data. I'm not going to say one is better worse than the
044other. But what I want you to know is we take data throughout the year and we try to drive our our teaching. Um we try to get better. We try to plan our staff development around this, help our teachers, whatever they need. But this is the data we use because we feel it's um comparable. You have a one-day snapshot. You have and you have some year-long um EXL is actually adding science and social studies. Um so we'll start getting some new data on science and social studies as well, but right now we use it for math and reading. Um so you can kind of tell the E and the M that's exceeds or meets. That's kind of how you get as long as you exceeds or meets that's the scores you'll see for the MC.
045So I tried to tailor the other ones the same so they kind of make sense. Um the P is partial. Um that means you got partial you're maybe around that I don't know if you want to compare it's around that C C range but you don't get credit for partial you know so the cuto off was is 350 for third grade and your and the kid got 349. You guys don't see that data but we're that's how close we I mean there's a lot of those if you look at them um when you look at the MCA scores of man one one more question you know or something like that in this passing so partial they're almost there and then the D is does not meet so those are the lower ones so that's kind
046of the the breakdown of where we look at so you can kind of compare you know our you know it should be higher because we're watching it every day but you can kind of look at that as you go across I got third fourth fifth sixth seventh eighth and and 10th for reading nth grade doesn't take MCAs. Um, 11th grade doesn't do reading and seniors don't. So, I kind of kept it to the where I could compare MCAs, excellent AR all together. So, um, you know, so you can kind of look at that of our scores do are a little bit better um when we progress monitor and use them throughout the year. Those are the scores that we're hoping to have. Obviously, we're always looking to improve. Um we we just want to keep
047improving and we want to get the kids at grade level or above. Um and that's our goal. So people can complain about test scores, what we're using that information to do as best we can. >> So quick question for you. You said if they get like a 349, they don't meet that partial. Does that mean they get the do not meet? >> No. So they'd be partial, but partials don't count for our score. >> So I mean this kid got 350. It shows how great of school we are. This looks 349, >> right? >> And you don't and it looks and they didn't need >> I mean so that's so it's kind of you know that's kind of discrepancy you just have to work with because there has to be a line but um so
048I take a I take a look at the partials because really if we could meet those partial kids hopefully we're grabbing kids on both ends. Um as you can see our partials are pretty high which which that's I'm glad that's where they're at because um we're reaching most kids. Um, so that's kind of our reading ones. So you can kind of take a look at those. Um, and then the other one is our math ones. Obviously I can only compare MCAS and Il because obviously AR is a reading thing. Um, but same thing it's the same exceeds meets partial and does not meet. So um, you know, and everything is thrown in there from special ed to kids that opt out um to, you know, all those different things. So really, you're kind of it's
049a big collaboration of of all of our students, you know. Now, if I really want to break it down further, there's there's different things I could pull out of free and reduced versus non free and reduced. I could pull out different, you know, different things on that, too, really. But this is just us as a group is what our score is. So, I could go much further than that, but we use that to try to hit all of our kiddos. So in most cases, it looks like the MCA scores are far lower than the other ones that we monitor on a regular basis. >> Mhm. >> So that's a one day snapshot. And if kids I I guess I didn't realize kids can opt out. >> So >> much more late much more in recent
050years than previous. >> So we have a small sample anyway >> in the MCA. >> And then if they Yeah. And then if they opt out then the sample gets even smaller. So that percentage just gets >> gets to the point where it doesn't really mean anything, >> right? >> And the MCA is just a snapshot of one one time the kids not taken seriously or go h then the other one shows the longterm growth. >> Yeah. >> So any questions on the on the number? And like I said, I I love this stuff. So if anybody ever wanted to come in and sit down with me, we can go through it, but people don't come in and sit down with me and go through it. Um but we want to make judgments on it.
051But I'd love to talk about it and we're always looking for somebody's got better ideas, let me know. But that's the numbers. And kind of on that same point, this sheet right here, it's on one of the back who was and this is I didn't make this up. I just print it out, but I just thought it was kind of responsible for standardized test scores. You see students, teachers, principles, leaders, and district and state. And they have the responsibilities, but the limitations are are kind of are what I looked at for students influenced by factors beyond our control. Home life test anxiety environment you know maybe that any dead day things like that teachers cannot control external factors like poverty attendance or home sport principles we don't directly teach the kids and then the district
052and state limited by funding policy changes or large scale factors um bottom line test scores are shared responsibility um so I just that I did not make up so I thought that was interesting to share however this one is I put some time and effort into I don't know if this is out there I made it I might have just reinvented the wheel So, I'm not going to take credit if I shouldn't and I'm going to take credit if I should. So, um when I read something like that, it makes total sense with the square of success of you need administration. They're the leadership and the structure of the school. You have the teachers who instruct and inspire, the parents who support and communicate, and then the students, the effort and the engagement. I feel
053that made total sense. If all four of those things um when all four sides are strong and connected, the square is completed, student success is maximized. I don't know. It's it's it's just a good recipe and it's not because I'm that smart. But I mean, to me, it's common sense, but we all need to work together instead of the pointed fingers of it's this person's fault or that person's fault or this person. So, I just thought this was a good reminder of everybody that when we work together, cuz aren't we here for the students and what's best for the kids, you know? So, I I guess when we lose the focus of the kids, then I I don't know what we're doing. So, if we could really keep that square intact, um that's kind of
054my goal of moving forward of using that model of those things. And then I'll leave you with one last thing. Um Jen and I read an article and the Minnesota teacher of the year. I just want you to read some comments on her thoughts of the MCA test scores, which if I I guess if you're teacher of the year in say Minnesota, maybe your words have a little bit of worth to it. Uh the title was teacher of the year. MCA test scores are not always reflective of students knowledge is kind of the title of the article. I'm just going to I just highlight it's down. The data shows scores have still not rebounded from the slump that began during the pandemic. About half of our public schools are proficient in reading and about 45%
055are only proficient in math. Um the another one is the one thing is if students were opt out of a test and that's a zero for the student in the school. So the opt out hurts schools that which we can't control. Um, the teacher says, "I have no idea if what I'm teaching is even helping the students for the test." Um, because we don't know what's on the test. We don't see the test. So, does that even make sense? Um, I think the last thing I'll leave you with or maybe I have two more things. She said, um, should should we try to bring back academics because everybody wants to see a higher test score or should we teach them how to be humans with one another and have civil discourse? So, there's multiple problems
056to attack. Which one? How do we prioritize? And then basically she just says it's an imperfect measure. But I thought that was kind of interesting coming from the teacher of the year. Um not my quotes, not my comments, but just something I read. So just kind of taking it from a different perspective um on things. That's what I have with test scores. Like I said, we we we use them on our stats of elements to look where we where are we low um because we can break it down into parts like strands like different parts of math, different parts of breeding. Um so we can attack it on on an even more detailed level. Um we bring in the experts like I have on the back of this sheet u from the Southeast Service Co-op.
057We partner with them. So, we're not sitting here taking these test scores and just oh well, we put a lot of time and effort into them and I and I think it's only fair that people and I don't even need and I don't want the credit for it because I'm not like I said I'm not the one in the room. I'm the one providing guidance for teachers or providing them with the resources so they can become better teachers and then they need to take that information and make themselves a better teacher and then everything from there. So, like I said, that's what I have for for testing, for MCAs, for how we attack it here at school. Um, so if if that's the judge of of me as a as a test score of of
058people want that to be the judge. Um, is that more important or or the four page saying that I've done 18 years? I don't know. So, that's for them to decide. You decide. I hope I'm doing a good job. I try my best. Um, and I'm proud of the school and I and I don't know why I wouldn't want what's best for the school when I'm one of the leaders of the school. So, there's no spiel. Sorry. Any questions or anything? I know it's a lot. If you have questions after reading through this stuff, let me know. I know I threw a lot at you. Um, but I figured I was working on it, but the timing seemed to be time. So I do have science just got released. They were behind on science for
059some reason. Um we did we so I have not analyzed the science pieces yet. So >> So you you're getting a new math curriculum, correct? >> We are. Yeah, we will. We are researching uh math curriculum this year and we'll be ordering new math curriculum for next year when we start next school year. So, and people need to remember when you do new curriculum, it takes years to to master that curriculum. So, just because we get new curriculum, our test scores aren't magically going to be better the next year or two. Um, it takes teachers several several years to master the curriculum before they can start implementing it. So, it will be a learning curve for everybody in the next couple years. So, >> very good. >> Thanks, Aaron. >> Thank you. All right. Uh,
060Jim. >> All right. Quite a few things tonight. Nothing major, but I'm going to piggy back what off what he said as well. Um, you know, leadership is tough. I'll admit that as a superintendent, I am the lightning rod and I have no problem doing that. Um, I've done my job a long time and as Aaron suggested in his list, I've also incorporated a lot of things here. I won't have it. you're getting a lot already from Aaron this month, you'll get mine next month. So, we didn't want to bombard you too much. Um, and people will disagree with us just like in any jobs and that's okay, but as Aaron said too, it's important on how you disagree and then how we find solution and how we can work together. Um, and so we're
061going to keep moving forward. Uh, I have loyalties to this district. I want to see it succeed, too. And I think everybody um who works here, the two people who are flagging me right now have done a great job of showing how important this school district is to this community. Um and so anyway, I'll just stop with that for now, but you'll hear more from me next month. Uh but I do want to get kind of down to some nuts and bolts details of things. So for example, I put people in positions where I know their strengths are. So, for example, Trevor has um done a presentation to the school board for many years now as our student services representative related to bullying. I trust him. I have to trust him. Um he's done a
062good job and his data proves that. Um so, I trust him when it comes to bullying as the example. that's not on my desk as a superintendent and I'm pretty confident. Most superintendents in our area would agree that they don't deal with bullying. Um, most principles wouldn't either if you have a dean of students that high they are right there in the classroom with the kids and Trevor does a great job with that. Uh, so I trust him and that's part of the job of leadership trusting that things are going to get done as you saw tonight with the presentation from your principal. I trust him with what's going on with testing. We constantly are, as Sharon will attest, buying new assessment data or assessments to find data. Um staff development developing people. Uh just
063today we had a lengthy conversation in our admin meeting about federal funding to use to staff development to develop our staff in math. for example, we're having these conversations at high levels and then it's broken down into building levels because trust has been established. Trust is established because there's proof of why wouldn't I? Why wouldn't I? Um, and so, um, I really want to kind of hit that home. Um, and also, you know, they talked about safety, too, and and we've talked about this many times. We have a building and grounds committee, and that's even a bigger discussion. We have multiple committees that have never that were never here before and we have voice now from the school board, the staff, administration, you name it, we have committees to do all this. Um, and so
064there's big picture to all of this. Again, I'll own it. I am your superintendent. Um, that's no problem. If there is somebody that did something wrong that we may read about here in the handout tonight, I will address that. Um, but it can't fall onto everybody's shoulders like this cuz that's not right. That's not right. Um, so anyway, some of my things that I want to share tonight are these are all things that we have to deal with on a daily basis. So we do prioritize school safety and cyber security. Uh, so emails are sent out continuously to our staff related to that. Uh we do have five school lockdown drills, five uh fire drills, and of course a tornado drill. So that's all legislatively driven. So we have to do that. Um cyber security
065with the recent happenings in local school districts near us. We have prioritized that as well. And so numerous communications are sent to our staff uh related to the importance of cyber security. Uh let's see here. Another thing is that every year annually, we have our fire marshall come in and we do deal with uh everything he or she needs us to deal with, including checking all of our sprinkler systems. Um, so every if somebody would comment that we maybe have questionable things related to that, we have records to show we shouldn't be in question because by law we have to have it done. We have to have it done. Uh, let's see. Oh, I hate to even bring this up, but weather will be changing. That's another safety issue we talk about. Um, but we
066get up bright and early and make sure we are making good decisions to protect our staff and our students. Um, yep. It is not fun being the superintendent making those decisions, but I understand that is my job and I take it very seriously. Um, and so that will be coming too. So, be ready for those fun phone calls and text messages you get from me nice and early in the morning. Uh, another part of the job is contracts, of course. Um, making sure not only are people, the employees fulfilling their contract, uh, but the school districts is fulfilling the contract. And so, one of those things we need to do, of course, is like, for example, post the teacher seniority list. The board, you will get that this Friday because it's all complete now. And
067then we have to post it of course internally to the teachers. Um just tonight your board chairman signed the notices of assignment um for our teachers. They look to see what their contract looks like and guarantee their time here with us for the next year. So we do things like that uh to make sure we're upholding everything. Um we also, you know, abide by laws. You know, there's a lot of laws that maybe our community doesn't understand that school laws are are sometimes different than community laws. Um, typically more stringent. Um, so for example, uh, grant writing, um, if you receive a grant, it's not always what you ask for. Sometimes, and Sharon is an expert in this, she has been I think she's been awarded. if she hasn't, she should be. But with her
068knowledge of things like this and so all of that, we follow laws with that, too. And and I I say that tonight because they they all start coming kind of at the beginning of the year on these grants and stuff that you'll be seeing. So, just kind of a heads up on that. Uh let's see here. Oh, November 4th is election day. Most of our community doesn't know this, but we as a school cannot hold school district activities um between 6 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. And so, uh Trevor does a nice job of sending that statute out for me. I trust that he does that to the coaches to make sure coaches and adviserss to make sure that happens. Um Filmer County hazard mitigation updates. Um, so I was only able to attend about an
069hour, uh, it was an hour and a half meeting, but I was only able to attend about an hour of it. It was held on Monday, September 22nd. And, um, oh, I'm sorry, that's coming up. I only was able to attend the first one for about an hour and it's very good. But our next one is coming up where we're going to dive a little bit deeper and actually potentially have more um comments and open kind of an open forum. That's when what we're kind of looking for. But again, that's creating safety, but also a a nice sense of um community and working together with other organizations um and having those conversations. Uh let's see. Couple construction updates which are kind of fun. We talked about some water issues that came in uh down the
070hallway. Uh really that's because we didn't have gutters on that wall and the it wasn't the roof, it was gutters and the um uh brick actually became saturated as well. So that's all now being taken care of. The bibs right here and we approved it. uh pool h dehumidification unit. Um so to replace that exhaust fan was about 6,500. So we took care of that. But then also the control board which we believe a lightning strike hit is about 3,000. So we took care of that as well too. So we are doing it. Um just want to remind you too that we had three staff members leave the district recently all of which were offered positions. um we try to do that in a small community. Um maybe we find a different fit and we
071all work together. The three of us sitting here, we don't sit here alone um or point fingers. For example, a teacher recently retired. I have not spoken one word to that teacher except an email and how much she will be missed and you guys saw that email. Um, but I I did not talk to her, but I support the principal's decision on the master schedule and I will support that decision. Um, he knows what he's doing. Again, I trust him to do that. Uh, so um, we can talk more about that later, too. Um, I think too it's important to say that we believe hard conversations are are really good. Um, meetings have always been offered to people who maybe have questions or want to challenge something or have conflicts and meetings are held. Um,
072if they choose not to come in and speak, that's that's fine, too. But we want you to know they're they're invited um to always come in. And as Aaron said, too, um, and I say this at every board meeting, we always want to improve. If we're doing something wrong, tell us. Tell us. I mean, the state tells us all the time and we don't buck it. We we change things and make things right. Um, if there is too much bullying going on school, I haven't been told yet, but I want to know and I will have conversations with Mr. Carrie or Mr. Hungerhol about that. Um, so, but we do we open open to have hard conversations and um, all of that. But overall, I' I'd like to say too, um, what a great start
073to the school year. Our teachers were prepared. You heard Trevor how happy he is. And you can tell he is because the kids are happy, too. Uh, things are going really well. And, um, that's a testament to everybody sitting here tonight, but also those that aren't sitting with us, our teachers, our paras, our custodians, our cooks, everybody. Um, so I really want to thank them too by doing such such a great job. Um, we put kids first. We don't put parents first. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'd like to. I really would, but we have to put the best interests of our students first. I know Mr. Hunger said that too, and I agree with him. Um, but yes, we want conversation, so please come forward. Um, and we have other things tonight to deal with
074though. But next month too, I'll have more information for you as well. But thank you. >> Thank you. >> Any questions? >> I think now would be a good time for me to say this that I I think I hope I speak for everyone and you guys can correct me if I don't, but I have complete trust in our administration and uh I trust you guys completely. Um, you don't lie. You don't uh make up things to make you guys look good. I appreciate that. If if you have lied to me, I don't I've never seen it. I've never noticed it. So, I don't think that happens. So, I mean, we will we will look at this stuff that was handed to us uh today and if there's something we can improve on, we will.
075But uh I just think all this these attacks on Facebook um are by people that just don't have the facts. And I think our administration is just an easy scapegoat for people that don't have have the facts. And so um I appreciate you guys and um I don't know if all you guys know it or not, but we had a on was it Monday morning we had the meeting with the teachers? >> Friday. Friday morning, >> we had the meeting with the teachers and and I expressed to them how much I appreciate them as well. I mean, we just don't tell people that enough, >> right? And I'm I'm more guilty of that than anybody. So, I'm preaching to the choir here. So, um I just want you guys to know how much we appreciate
076you and everything that you guys have done for our kids, my grandkids, our our school. There's so many great things that you guys have done here and people just don't know it. Um, we try to get that information out, but they they just don't know it. And I just think that that these attacks on you guys are are unfounded and unfortunate. And um you guys I find you guys easy to work with and uh if anybody in this community has an issue, they can just come and talk to you. It's easy to do. So, I guess I'm off my soap box. So, um moving on to the consent agenda. Um we need to approve last month's uh meeting minutes. Are there any corrections or additions to those treasures reports? Any questions on any of those
077reports? We got the expert business manager here to answer any questions if you have them. Uh, no fundraisers, no donations. Personnel, uh, we will move on to item two on personnel. Accept the resignation of Lindsay Mils as a teacher effective immediately. accept the retirement of Jill Cuni uh effective September 1st at 8 a.m. I think as long as that was kind of a bone of contention on Facebook. I'm I'm going to read her her uh letter. So that way there's no confusion out in the public about this. So it's dated September 1st, 2025, which happened to be Labor Day. to whom it may concern. I am writing to formally announce my retirement from Leroy Ostrander School District affected immediately. It has been an honor to be a part of the Leroy Ostrander District for the
078past 32 years. Working alongside such dedicated colleagues and serving my students has been one of the most rewarding parts of my career. Sincerely, Jill Cuni. So, at this time, I'd like to just uh thank Jill for her 32 years of service. That's awesome. We appreciate every minute that she was here and uh and we just wish her all the best in her retirement. Uh moving on, item four, um recommendation to hire Bill Miles as a substitute van driver. If anybody has any questions along the way, just speak up. Five. Recommendation to hire the following students as uh lifeguards at the pool. Wyatt West, Macy Gtormson, and Kylie Horn. Recommendation to hire Kelly Nelson as a FIAD teacher tier 1 effective September 22nd and accept the resignation of Don Holquist from one act play director. And
079then we added a recommendation to hire Darren Emerson as a substitute van driver. And what else did we Everything else is there. Gotcha. >> Okay, that should be it. >> Okay. Any questions on any of those items, comments? Is there somebody in line for Dawn's position or just going to have to? >> We just found out >> post that or >> it was just working the last couple days. >> Yeah. >> But yes, we will post >> uh internally, externally. We'll do all our things. And as a matter of fact, we talked today about maybe some people that we can hope some teachers we might be able to recruit. >> Are you interested, Kyle? So, >> uh, >> is that check your schedule? >> Yeah. >> No, we love we love to keep what I
080play going. We drive. I want to keep that going. >> Yes. >> What about a Is there an opportunity there for a student, you know, who maybe wants to go or is traveling down that, you know, a senior student to be shadowed into doing something like that, you know, >> with an adult? Absolutely. We would love that. Yep. We always open for that. Yep. For sure. >> Okay. Any other questions or comments? If not, is there a motion to approve the consent agenda? >> I'll make that motion. >> Thank you, Dan. Is there a second? >> I'll second. >> Thanks, Nicole. Any other discussion or questions? If not, all those in favor say I. >> Opposed. >> Motion carried. All right. Uh, moving on to the policy review. Think I might need that candy. >>
081Yeah. >> thing back here. >> Thank you. Um, we need to to approve the first reading of policy 616, which would be school district system accountability. 618, assessment of student achievement. 619, Staff Development for Standards. 620, Credit for Learning. 621, Literacy and the Read Act. 623 mandatory school summer school instruction and 624 online instruction. So what can the policy committee tell us about these items? Anything? Hello, Angie. >> Yes, Angie. >> There's not much to tell on this one. These are all just kind of basic uh I don't think there was much red line on any of it. online instruction was kind of a title change, wasn't it? And just just some basic stuff that we're mandated to have. >> Okay. Any questions on any of those? We got those in our board packets. Okay.
082Would someone like to make the motion to approve the first reading of those four mentioned policies? So move. Thanks, Kyle. Is there a second? I'll second. Thanks, Dave. Any questions or discussion? We vote hearing none. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. Motion carried. And we have the second reading of policy 608, instructional services, special ed. 609, religion and religious cultural observances. 610, Field Trips. 611 homeschooling. 612.1 Development of Parent and Family Engagement Policies for Title One Programs. 613 Graduation Requirements. 614 School District Testing Plan and Procedure. 615 Testing Accommodations, Modifications, and Exemptions for IEPs, Section 504 Plans, and LEAP students. Is there anything that's changed on those policies since we uh approved the first reading? >> Nope. No changes. The big discussion was just about um graduation requirements which at LO
083we require 24 credits. That was something that we have to meet the state requirements but we can have additional. Aaron I know has a nice sheet that's attached when we register or kids register so you can track all of that. So that's very helpful. So I think we've got it laid out pretty easily and um for people to understand but no changes. I just wanted to point that one out. >> Okay. Thank you. Any questions? If not, is there a motion to approve the second reading of those policies I just mentioned? >> Thanks Nicole. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Thanks, Jess. Any questions or discussion? If not, all those in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. Motion carried. All right. Moving on. We have to discuss truth and taxation date, which is
084suggested to be December 16th at 601. This is a requirement. So, any questions about that? I assume that's a normal meeting, right? >> It is. >> We just can't start at 6. You have to start. >> That is a If we're looking ahead that there is a basketball game that night. So, I don't know if we want to just look at changing December now or if you want to wait till November and change that. >> We can have that any night in December. Mhm. >> Right. Okay. Um, why don't we just deal with that in November? Does that sound a little >> things change? >> We have to I think we have to fix this date though because the county needs it to send out. >> Uh, good point. Okay. >> Is it a home
085game, Angie? >> Home game. >> Let me look. one will be home. >> Girls hat. >> Okay. So, that's a Tuesday. How How about that Monday night? Anything going on there? >> Monday, Wednesday are both free, it looks like. >> Okay. Well, Monday night works for me and doesn't get in the way of any church activities. You ready? Yeah, I can make Monday happy. >> All right, let's change it to Monday the what would that be? The 15th. >> 15th. Yep. >> Okay. At 601. Sound good? >> Someone like to make a motion to uh approve that? >> I say no. >> Said yes. >> Yep. >> Thank you. >> Is there a second? >> I'll second. Thanks, Dan. Any questions on this? Okay. Oh, >> that's going to be the not the board meeting
086at all. Correct. >> And the truth and taxation. >> We'll do both for you. >> Okay. Any other questions? >> If not, all those in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed? Motion carried. All right. Now, we need to discuss the uh preliminary levy certification. Suppose that would be Sharon's thing. their expertise. >> either way. All right. I know you've got quite a few emails from me about our levy. Um, just so you know that uh, every Minnesota I would essentially say every min Minnesota school district um, levies their local communities and it is a local property tax um, that we levy and um, basically it's for additional funding for our school district um, whether it's to offset costs or just continue with the costs we have and it's usually for operational costs. Okay. And
087what's interesting too is even today when it was run, it changed a little bit even from when I sent it to you Friday. Um, and so we want you to approve that max tonight knowing that it can still change by the end of September, by the last day of September. So we will max it out as your district has done for years. This isn't anything new. Uh we do it all the time and but we will tonight make sure MDE is aware that we are maximizing our life. Anything else you want to add? It is normal for it to change and that is something that typically happens. It's a 39 page calculation. Also, everybody in the levy area at the state is new, like brand new. And so, they've been really working hard to make
088sure that everything is entered um like LTFM reports and all of those because they all affect us. So, >> all so yeah. So, those changes can and will happen up and through, but not a great amount. you're not going to see great. >> So for you first year people um we've always as Jim said we've always levied to the max. So right now we're we're setting the the levy at the max. We finalize that levy in December and that'll be done the night of the truth and taxation meeting. So, and as of tonight, that maximum levy is a,245,18. Okay. Which is down 1% from last year. And that includes your community service, your general education, and also your uh debt service, which you're nearing the end. Yeah. So, do you guys understand or have any
089questions about about it? >> So, right now we're just saying that we're going to levy to the max and in December we'll actually finalize that levy >> and it Sharon does a really nice job of providing a PowerPoint at our December meeting. Oh, you guys maybe remember that. I think you were there for that. So, um, and then we break it down for you what she'll take part of the PowerPoint. I will will talk about, you know, how your levy is broken down and how we get our money actually from your taxpayers and why it looks the way it does. It's not just school driven, it's communitydriven, tax impacts, housing costs, population, things like that. So, we'll talk about that, too. >> Okay. Any questions? Anybody? If not, would someone like to make a motion
090to um to approve the levy at the max maximum? >> I'll make a motion to approve the levy. >> At the maximum at the max. >> Okay, sounds good. Is there a second? >> Second. Thanks, Dan. Any questions or discussion? >> If not, all those in favor say I. >> I. Can you get a new roll call? >> Ah, thank you. Appreciate it, Dan. >> Yes. >> Yep. >> Okay. Motion carried. Okay. All right. So, we have um three uh housing abatements that uh we need to approve. So, we had the Drinko, the Stasco, and the Linhardt, which was just added tonight. Any questions about any of that? These are people that are building new construction. We've never had uh those taxes uh collected those taxes before and it's just gives them a break for
091a few years. And uh we usually approve it because we haven't had it before and we want to encourage people to move into this community. Any questions? Okay. Is there a motion to approve those three uh tax abatements? >> So move. >> Okay. Thanks Nicole. Second. >> Second. >> Thanks Kyle. Any questions, discussion? All those in favor say I. I >> opposed. Motion carried. All right. Very good. Okay. So, um the uh the local uh teachers union has approved their contract. So, correct me if I'm wrong here, Jen and Sharon. We're because we we we moved to approve the contract last month. >> Correct. >> Yes. So, we're just uh there was some changes in the uh >> and we're going to explain why you're going to see this this change. >> Okay. >> And
092Sharon has a handout for you. >> Well, actually, it's not this change. This change >> I'm going to own up to this one >> cuz it was a >> a key, but I'm going to explain. I think there was a significant change in how these salary schedules were calculated um from what has been done in the past to what was decided on and done now. And so during that process um there was manual entry of every one of these and I'll explain that in a minute. But what I really want you to understand is how we went from calculating from years of costings forward to how we're doing it now. I just want you to understand. They're kind of hard to see. They are very small. So hopefully you can see them. But >> good
093thing I have my glasses on. >> I have two. >> Yeah. I should have mine on too, but um so the first one I want you to look at is on the very um let's see. It would be on the second group down. The number would be 47219 under BA1. That's the one I want you to look at first. So, right here it says 47219. >> Okay. So, if you see to the right of that, you see 47219 with 10 numbers after it. Okay. So now I want to take you up here. This is what was this is what the salary schedule was in the last um ma master agreement. This is what you saw in the master agreement. This this carried out to 10 numbers was the ending number that rounded got you to
094this schedule and then this was carried forward to this year's costing to get you to this number. >> So this was carried forward, not this. this is carried forward to do the calculation. >> So if this would have stated then this is calculated times the 2 and 12% to get the new 10 carried out number and then you round that. So 47 to 19.40 rounds to 47 to9. Okay. So carried out to 10 places and then this this would then become the beginning of the costing for the next time and that would be saved. I would make sure if I wasn't here or Jen would make sure if something happened to me that that's where we would start. But it was changed this year. So this here second one that says 25 27 on top.
095So there was always confusion as to how that number was gotten because they would take this number and multiply it by your 102.5% and it would be different sometimes. So, out of all of these, there was probably a dozen of them that were off a buck or two one way or the other. Because if you take this times 102.5%. I'll give you a great example, very first one. So, I manually entered all of these numbers again. I reentered all of these and I did it very quickly because I'm not making excuses. I'm going to own it. So, what you see here, yep, that was a typo error because I typed something wrong. Nevertheless, that went out to everybody as a draft to look at and it should have been caught by all of us before
096we got to this point. So, apologies for that that you're even doing this, but it gave us this opportunity because I want you to know this >> because it's important. Um so that we started with this now instead of this. So just the 4668 * 102.5% is now in this field rounded and now you see it's changed to 47220. That's the only one that went up. All the others actually went down. So this time it wasn't to the benefit. But in in the long run then what we're doing is we're truncating the number back down. And now this calculation down here is 102.5% of this raw number up here. And that's how it's so you're actually truncating numbers. Now before we were out to 10 places and so to me I'm a numbers person. I
097think this is more accurate, but it wanted to be changed because this is what if you looked at this in the contract, you would expect to see this. So, that's what it's changed to. >> So, I apologize for the typo. I apologize for the fact that I got through all these um drafts. >> No worries. Shows how well we check >> to this point. So >> yeah, one >> it won't it won't happen. I didn't get my calculator out and >> but um >> So yeah, I wanted you to know that because I think it's really important because I I think it's a lot more um correct >> with if you carry out 10 numbers because it's going to um you know, >> sounds good. >> It's going to compound >> and I assume you
098explain that to the teachers as well. the president today is the >> president today and then >> because we wanted to be reminded that this was on there >> and so then it just kind of snowballed our conversation of why it is what it is. >> I'm assuming for the rounding like if it's 49 or under it rounds down if it's.5 or over it rounds up. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> Thanks Sharon. Any questions? Any more questions? >> Can I just say one more time too, it was a great teacher contract negotiations. It was really really good this year and I I believe they would say the same. I know Christy has said that to our our board membership who was on that committee. Um but they it
099was great to work with them and we got through it in just a few meetings. So >> we don't always agree on everything, >> but we all came out okay, you know. Wasn't that the end goal? But we're all okay in the end. >> That's right. >> Yeah. Even even today when we were meeting I mean they are very they want to make sure that we heard what they are asking and vice versa. I think that you know the group was very cenial about discussing things back and forth. So >> yeah. >> Very good. All right. Any questions about we're just voting on this change that um Sharon just said was a typo in the contract. Um, is there a motion to uh approve that change in the contract? >> I'll make the motion. >>
100Thank you, Dan. Is there a second? >> I'll second. >> Thanks, Nicole. Any further discussion? >> I'm assuming that it's supposed to be a dollar sign. >> So, the >> Yeah. Okay. Okay. Very good. Any other any other discussion questions? >> Otherwise, is there a motion to approve that change in the teacher contract? >> Ah, sorry. Thanks, Dan. Who's second it? Nicole. >> Nicole. >> Okay. All right. Let's vote then. >> That's long day. Uh, all those in favor say I. I >> I >> opposed. Motion carried. Tried to try to pass two motions, one. All right. Um any uh board committee reports tonight other than we had a building and grounds meeting right before this and we did a walk through of part of the building. We didn't see it all, but we walked
101through and uh I guess just mainly our two items for this coming year that we're going to try to work on is the water issue. We have a a lot of lime in this in the water in this area. And we've got a lot of buildup of that lime scale and stuff, but we're looking at probably some sort of a filtration system and a water softening system and or I guess I should say. So, we're going to start researching that. And uh the other thing which has been kind of on our um spreadsheet for a couple of years is we've got a few windows that need attention and so we're going to work on trying to get that done as well. So we'll see what things cost and so forth, but uh that's where we're
102at. >> Did I forget anything, Kyle? >> Uh no. Uh >> just one thing. >> The elevator. Oh, the elevator. Yeah. Yeah. So, apparently there's an electronics problem with our with our elevator, which hardly ever gets used, but we got a few kids that are injured right now. So, um it's been used quite a bit lately and um I guess we've got an issue with the electronics in it. So, that's something that we've got to take care of and that's has to be done because it's it's code or requirement or whatever you want to say. >> Is is that from lack of use? probably >> could be. It's It's a pretty old system. >> Yeah. She said the >> the electronics are old. I mean, >> happens every other day. You know, >> that elevator
103was put in in 1997 when we did all the rest of this construction project. So, that's I guess getting old. >> Technologies changed a little since then. >> Oh, maybe. >> Yeah. So other than that, is there any other board questions, comments anybody wants to bring up before we close it down? Okay. Um, looking forward on the calendar, um, October 16th through 17th is the MEA break, so there won't be any school. October 20th is a staff development day for our teaching staff. Um October 21st will be our next schoolboard meeting. Um November 7th is a noon release for staff development. November 18th is the schoolboard meeting. Uh November 20th and 24th will be parent teacher conferences. And November 26th is another staff development day. So I finished school that day. Okay. And we just
104set the truth and taxation for December 16th. So I don't think I forgot anything else. Anything else we need to talk about before we adjourn? Okay. If not, is there a motion to adjurnn? >> I'll make that motion. >> Thank you, Dan. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Thanks, Kyle. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. Motion carry.