001ahead and uh call the meeting to order. Looks like everyone is here. Um let's uh stand and say the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance 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, there's a couple of changes to the agenda. Looks like um uh we added um okay we added a bullet point to the recognition of good things happening and uh we added uh recommendation of hiring an elementary special ed teacher. Um, is there anything else? Anyone? Okay. If not, would someone make a motion to approve uh those additions? Thanks, Dan. Is there a second? Second. Thanks, Angie. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed? Motion carried. All right. Now, we just need
002to have a motion to approve the agenda. I'll make a motion. Thanks, Kyle. Is there a second? I'll second. Thanks, Nicole. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed? Motion carry. Was there any type of public input this month? Okay. Thank you. All right. Uh recognition and good things happening. National Volunteer Week is April 20th through 26th. Thank you to everyone who generously contributes to volunteering at Leroy Ostrander. You are greatly appreciated. Thank you to L forever committee fundraising effort earlier this month. It was a great success. Does anybody know how much was raised? We have a meeting on Thursday and I'll get the report back. Okay. I'm just curious. Seemed like it went well as far as I know. Nice to have it set again. Yes, it was. It was fun. Um, at the
003Minnesota Football Coaches Association meeting, Trevor Carrier won subdistrict east District Coach of the Year and Section One Nine Player Coach of the Year. And uh, Coach Carrier was also named second vice president of the Minnesota Football Coaches Association. So, congratulations, Dan. Okay. Is there anything else that we're missing on those types of thing? Anybody else can't be recognized that we kind of want to mention something? We might do it during our report, but it kind of is great things happening with a student. Okay. So, maybe whatever you want us to do, Dave, we'll do it. Let's do it now. Let's do it. Okay. Aaron, you first. All right. Well, today um Representative Mueller and Davids came down and presented Camden Hunger Halt with a house resolution um honoring Camden Hungal gender school on being named
004Mr. football for 2024. Um and they came down and presented them and they have invited him I can pass this around instead of here eating at you guys. Um and they've invited him to come up to be recognized on the floor at the state capital. So, when is it? Do you know when that's going to be? No, they just they just came down. They presented that to him and then she said I need to be in contact with her and that took some pictures and awesome. It's exciting. Cam had his Man Ko sweatshirt on, so perfect. Yes, it was awesome, you guys. Congratulations to Cam. You bet. All right. Very good. Thank you. Um, moving on to our reports. How about this report from the student representative? Uh, spring sports are busy with games. The
005juniors took the ACT April 10th. The FFA chapter banquet was April 6th. State FFA convention is April 28th and 29th. The 2526 registration is due April 17th. Leadership trip is April 23rd. College fair at the Twins game is April 24th. Prom is April 26 and grand march is at 7 pm. Sounds like April's kind of busy. I know. Thank you. Um no staff report tonight. Excellent. Okay. Uh principal report Aaron. Okay. Um should have a a sheet in front of you. Um first one PLC goals. I always leave those up there. That's kind of what we focus on when we meet. um the data diving of the test scores, how to improve our teaching, our RCD practices continues and our marzano teaching evaluation process. So, I just leave that on there because that's kind of
006what we focus on um this year. Um 2526 registration and schedules have already been out. I had the parent Zoom meeting last Thursday. Um we've meet with students and registration will be due. Their forms are due Thursday. Actually, this Thursday, this Easter week already. So, this Thursday and then I'll be working on master schedules um the end of the month and hopefully have everything out beginning of May. That's kind of my goal so everybody knows what kids know what they have before they go home for the summer and teachers know their schedule before they go for the summer. So, that's how that works. College partnerships. I last month or two months ago, I had a list of maybe I don't know maybe 10 or so. We just got a new connection with Upper Iowa. Um
007I've not had any student teachers or anything with them. So we made the connection and we do have a student teacher coming here in the fall now. So I now have connection with Upper Iowa. So hopefully that will lead to more student teachers um in the future for that. So we're excited there. Readact uh completed phase one. We are waiting on phase two and we also are waiting on curriculum and what direction we should be going with our curriculum in the in that world. So we'll keep you posted. custodial updates. Uh working Tim and I are working on putting together maintenance plans and cycles. Um want to get those done before June 1st so we have everything in one um area and really working on anywhere from yearly to 6 months to monthly to weekly
008to daily. Um just really get a better grasp and control of what we need to make sure we're we're working on in the custodial world. uh math curriculum. We are gathering samples and researching other curriculum. We're hopefully to be ordering um in 2026. Uh master schedule, as I said, is in progress. Um that'll be finished after registration is is done. Uh CNA program update. We still do have a CNA program. Um we were running it out of the Mayo Clinic building. Um they city sold that. Um so we needed to find a place for the beds. Um because the I actually got the beds from Mayo. Um so we are working with Riverland right now because that's Emily Braum, our nurse left. We went there. So she's still going to be teaching the course. It's
009still going to be run through Riverland. It's still worth college credit now. But like we did find a building in Adams that Riverland is going to occupy or use. So we are moving the program over to Adams. It's still our stuff and our thing, but still run the same, just different location because we just didn't have a place um for the eight really eight beds that takes up a lot of space. So, if you're anything different, we still have the program. It's still ours. It's just not in Leroy. It is in Adams. Um same people teaching it. Um they did change the program a little bit. In the past, the students had to go even on classroom days. Now, they've changed it so classroom days they can zoom. So they only have to go over
010to the program for lab days. So that'll be less travel for kids as well. Um usually it's done by they start a little bit in August. Um it's based on hours and they're usually done by MEA. Um if things go well last year we actually had a waiting list. Um so we we had to take seniors obviously got first choice at that. So, if we continue with the um interest, they might try to run a second program in the spring. Um so, I'll keep you posted on that. So, if you hear anything different, we still have the program. Unfortunately, it's just not in town, but it is still our our stuff and working the same way. Um ACT test, we always offer, we do that for 11th grade. We've completed that here at school. MCA
011testing, we are in progress. Um they'll do MCA testing. And really that's what we have going on right now. I mean questions. So busy. Yeah, it's busy. Any questions for Eron? Um the CNA program when do you do it during school hours or is it after school or So that's a great question. So what we do is called zero hour. So it starts 7 or 7:30 depending on what time the instructor decides. So students usually go it's usually first or zero hour in first period. Um we try to have students back to their schools by start of second period. Okay. Um in the past we've done um couple longer days in August before school starts like maybe four four hour days or six hour days to knock off some of the hours so they can
012shorten some of those regular days up so they can get back to school sooner. Um, but really it's it's we try our goal is to get kids back to their home districts by start of what is that 9:00 9:00ish? We try to get it back. So, thanks. Yep. Any other questions for Aaron always? Thanks, Aaron. You got Jen superintendent report. That's Well, I have a lot of kind of really great things to share initially with all of you. Um, as all of you are aware, our state fire marshal came in this week and he actually wants to give us a gold star. Our staff did amazing. Our custodial staff, our pair professional staff, food service, administrative staff, teaching staff did an outstanding job of prepping the building and readying it for for us or for
013him, I'm sorry. We had maybe 16 items that are um they're not dings by any means. they're just in question or he helped us with how to save money in our budget kind of thing. So we talked about it at building and grounds but again huge shout out to the staff. They did outstanding outstanding. So pretty proud of them for that. If anytime you want to see the report as you can see it's not very long. Come on to my office and I'll share it with you. It's not very exciting though. Uh another great thing I am going to apply for a grant through Mau County. Uh what it is is we get people in who are experts at mapping buildings for safety. Uh so they are going to come in I hope I get
014the grant. Um but I'll apply for it and they'll come in and they are going to have this enormous map for us of all our exits, all our windows, safe zones, unsafe zones, things like that. So if I of course get that grant, I will surely let you know. But I'm hoping for it anyway. So I just want you to know I'm trying to get it. Um but in the same vein, I've reached out to um the sher Mara County Sheriff's Office in regards to some signage that we are going to be posting in our parking lots for specifically our students, but also our adults to basically put your cell phone down. Um and click your seat belt before you leave the parking lot just to continue on that safety journey with our kids here.
015We we feel like we should have a hand in that. So, we're going to continue to do that, work with Maro County on that. Uh, continuing to do some outreach with our community. This will be the fourth or fifth year that we are in partnership with the Iron Horse Marathon that comes through right or through Riceville and of course Leroy. And they reached out to me a few years back to see if they could use our facilities here as a break. And I, you know, I asked John Stockdale and Aaron and Tim Bllye if we could start partnering with this cause and sure enough they reached out again and we said yes. So you'll be seeing here in the summer and both and Aaron, Tim, John, we show up and help them any way we
016can um any questions they have too. So kind of a good outreach for us. Anyway, um I need to again express as we did in our agenda, a huge thank you to every person that helped with that L forever banquet. As uh Kyle Cernin said earlier, it was a great success and a lot of fun. It was a lot of fun. I spent more money than I needed to, but maybe not enough for some people right there. But it was so much fun. So, huge thank you to all those people that put that on. They did a great job. Um, and there's some more good news. The Lever Strander Public School has a faceelift. Um, it's been freshly painted. Uh, the the deck has been powerwashed. New testing monitors, hoses, drains, spa jet, motors, you
017name it. We are really tackling that pool area. And tonight, and our building and grounds folks can talk about it tonight, too. but we're doing everything we can to really revamp it and get it where it needs to be. So, you'll hear more about that, too. Uh, let's see here. I've been sending out um quite a few emails related to kind of the fiscal happenings at the State Department and how it will relate to Leroy Ostrander. And I can't stress enough, it will hit us whether it's this year or in upcoming years if they continue down this track. Um, so we are trying to be as fiscally responsible as I can as we can. Um, so today's email basically shared with the staff too that we know what's coming from St. Paul. We all also
018know what we're doing and we can control that. Um, but it's being responsible with the dollar. It's looking at our credits. It's looking at teacher duties. It's looking at attrition. If a teacher leaves, do we need to fill that position? That's not cutting. That's called attrition where you just remove that position. Um so that's kind of what we're working on. Um I'm not predicting cuts at this point because I think we've slowly done that throughout the years to make us fiscally stable. But things can change by the end of May by their exit. So I'll continue to keep you posted weekly. June will be a huge meeting for all of you, especially you new folks, you three in front of me, when we present the budget to you and where we have had some attrition
019or we have maybe said, "Hey, we're not going to use that substitute teacher anymore. She's too expensive or whatever." Maybe that's of course not the case. We can't find some, but that's an example. Um, but we'll share in great detail of why you should support the budget we're going to present to you. Um, but it's based off the information that I get from MSBA, MASA weekly. I sit in on a superintendent webinar and that's a good hour or two and that's with all the state superintendent. Um, and so we get a lot of information. I take a lot of notes and then send off an email um, you know, with cut and paste of some things and some of it's my own narratives too. But I'll continue to do that and uh make sure you
020guys are well informed before June before June. But just know people are are nervous about this as they should be. You know, all of us are nervous about jobs or um you know their husband or wives jobs, whatever this day and age. It's scary stuff out there right now. And um our first and for first and foremost priority is making sure we keep jobs. If we don't have teachers teaching, kids aren't learning. And we understand that. If we don't have aids or pair of professionals, custodians, and non-certified staff here, kids aren't learning. We understand that. Um, so we're good at looking at programs. We're good at um looking at outside resources to help us, whatever it is, to make sure we support the human resource here. Um, that's a priority I've always had. I'm going
021to stick with it unless I'm told by all of you otherwise. So, um, but you'll hear more from me on that for sure. Um, final thing is the, uh, Mau County and Filillmore emergency mitigation meeting. I should have talked about this earlier. I'll continue to attend those. Um, and I think that's maybe why a grant was offered to me that I could apply for just because sometimes I feel like I'm the only school person attending. Um, but they're pretty good. They're long. Um, but they have done a really, really fantastic job of just wanting our communities to be safe in every single angle you can think of. I'm so impressed with them. Um, so a huge shout out to them as well. Um, we also for the board to know, graduation is coming up, so
022you'll be getting a formal invite from me. Some of you will have duties at the school board meeting such as you, Mr. Dave. Well, definitely. Um, and so that'll be coming your way as well. That'll be a separate email. So, just be prepared for that. And we hope you can all attend. Uh, another great job. I should have said this earlier, too. I have to shout it out to Chris Hansen. We put her in a role that she was a little scared of, and I'm going to tell you, that woman has flourished. I am so proud of her. We have had we had the Minnesota Department of Health come down to do their food and beverage establishment. inspection. The report came back with flying colors yet again. This is like two or three years in
023a row now. Can't say enough good things. She's she's kicking button there. And so I'm so proud of her. She didn't want me to share that with you, but I'm told her she can't tell me what to do. So there we go. So yes, when you see her, please please pat her on the back. She did great. Um let's see. I think that's about it. We're getting all our emergency drills in. Um, as Aaron said, we're starting to talk about curriculum. So, all next year, um, we'll be studying, practicing new curriculums. Will this math curriculum work better for our kids and teachers or will this one? We'll have multiple examples to choose from. So, that's pretty fun. That's kind of our one of our most favorite things we get to do as administrators is curriculum
024stuff. So, um, that's coming our way as well. and that will be built into the next year's budget. Not next year, but the following. Um, but we'll keep you updated on what we're deciding on that kind of stuff, too. Um, also just want to say I know there's a lot of new stuff coming out, especially for the new board members, um, especially during budget season, but really anytime this is all new for you. This whole year is going to be new for you. Um, as some of my emails have stated to you, if you have any questions, don't hesitate to reach out. If there are school issues, we deal with them as a school. We don't have to answer to anybody except the school. That's who we answer to. And I want to be really
025clear on that. Um especially when it comes to programs. Um we have all the answers if people have questions. If we don't, we will find the answers for people. Um but we run the show. We're not run by the the city. We're not run by the county. We are locally controlled by us. And I just want to be clear on that. Um, but please reach out with questions. Please tell our community. Just this week we've actually last two weeks we've enjoyed we've had people come in and ask questions that we have never seen before. It's been really great. So yeah. So really promote that that we don't live in an ivory ivory tower here. We want people to come in. They may not like our answers, but they'll get answers. I promise you that. So
026truth and I'll get the truth unfortunately. Right. Yeah. Okay. So thank you. Thank you. Any questions for Jen? Okay. Thank you. All right. We'll move on to the consent agenda. Uh we need to approve the March meeting minutes. Is there any corrections or questions on those? Okay. Treasures reports. Any questions or comments about the treasures reports? Okay. Uh looks like more fundraisers this month. Personnel. A lot of personnel this month. Um administration is recommending the hiring of uh Logan Drees as a lifeguard at the pool. We're still on. Yep. still on it. Uh number two, we need to recommend uh the recommendation to approve the resignation of Melody Lunning as our high school language arts teacher end of the school year. Um recommendation from the activities office to approve the hiring of the following fall
027coaches and adviserss. Uh, head coach Trevor Carrier, uh, head JV coach Nick Sweeney, head junior high coach Ryan Evans, uh, junior high assistant coach Josh Sbert, uh, volunteer coach Aaron Hungerhol. So, all those are the same as they were last year. um all their salaries are based on the uh the contract the EA contract that we are just starting to negotiate for the next couple years and cheerleading uh co-head coaches Stacy Jacobson and Chris Hansen and the one act play advisor Don Homequist. Um lot of consent agenda tonight. Um, also recommendation from the activities office to approve the hiring of uh uh following spring 2025 volunteer assistant go golf coaches uh Dave Tangren and Grant Lunning. Uh recommendation to approve the hiring of Ian Tom Thomasson as a community ed director for the upcoming year.
028Uh recommendation to approve the hiring of Nikki Bergen as assistant activities director for the upcoming year. Um recommendation to approve the hiring of Leanne Drees as the community ed coordinator for the upcoming school year. And then the addition to the agenda, recommendation to approve the hiring of Brianna Klaus as the elementary special ed teacher for the upcoming school year 2526. All right. Are there any questions on any of that in the consent agenda? Anything at all? Or did I miss anything? I don't think I did. So, if there's no questions, would someone like to make a motion to approve the consent agenda? So, move. Thanks, Andy. Is there a second? Thanks, Dan. Uh, any questions or cons? Uh, discussion. Okay. If not, all those in favor say I. I. Uh, opposed. Motion carried. All right.
029Moving on to uh the discussion and action items, policy approvals. So the policy committee was busy again this month. Um we have the first reading of policy 601, school district curriculum and instruction goals. 602 organization of school calendar and school day. 603 curriculum development. 604 Instructional Curriculum, 605 Alternative Programs, 606 Textbooks and Instructional Materials, 606.5 Library Materials, and 607 Organization of Grade Levels. Is there any anything to add from the uh policy committee before the vote on the first reading? These are all ones that we had looked at and had that was nothing. Nothing on the first reading of those. Okay. Would someone that can make a motion to approve the first reading of those aforementioned uh policies? I'll make a motion to approve the first readings of analysis. Okay. Is there a second? Thanks,
030D. Is there a second? Thanks, Jess. Any other any questions or discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed? Motion carried. Dave, can I just jump in quick? Yep. As you begin to look and and approve our second readings, please make note that again we are our Congress is still in session and so some legislative items may come our way which include policy. Um so even if you approve second readings tonight they may come to us and say wait a minute you have to turn around and do something different with your policies and they may be our second readings. We don't know. So, we talked about that at our last meeting, too, that things are changing pretty rapidly right now in St. Paul and even with the feds. Um, but we'll be
031on it the best we can. Um, and we'll try to get everybody caught up as quickly as we can, too. So, those will come back to us and we Yeah. Sometime there might even even be ones that we read at second reading and there might only be like a paragraph change. We probably would only have a second reading of it and be done um because they want it done like that potentially. and but I'll let you know. I'll let you know if it's an immediate or whatever. So, okay, sounds good. Yeah. Okay. Um All right. So, now we're on the second reading of policy 530, immunization requirements. 531, the pledge of allegiance. 532, use of peace and crisis teams. 533 Wellness. 534 school meals policy. and 535 service animals in the schools. Is there any
032questions or concerns about any of those policies? Okay, sounds good. Any anything anybody anything you have to add policy committee nothing's changed since last meeting. Okay, if there are no questions or discussion, uh, is there a motion to approve the second reading of those policies I just mentioned? Make a motion to approve the second reading on 530 through 535. Okay. Thank you, Kyle. Is there a second? I'll second that. Thanks, Nicole. Any questions or discussion before we vote? Hearing none. All those in favor say I. I opposed. Motion carried. Okay. Um, no donations. Um, so we'll move on to approval of the hiring of the following fall coaches for school year 20 256. Yeah, we'll fix that in a minute. Sorry. Okay. These guys are some special guys. worried you were on the agenda that
033need special special attention, right? Okay. So, the these would be I blame Darren. These would be football coaches, uh, head assistant coach Kyle Stern and volunteer coach Super Dave Farley. All right, any questions? Otherwise, their motion to approve those two guys is separate because we each have to. Ah, all right. So, first we'll vote on the head assistant coach, Kyle Stern. Is there a motion to approve Kyle? So, move. Thanks, Angie. Second. Thanks, Dave. Dan, this is Dave. You're Dan. All right. Um, any discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor say I. I. Closed. There's one obstain. Okay. Thank you, Darl. All right. Volunteer coach Dave Faringer. A motion to approve. Thanks, Dan. Is there a second? Thanks, Jess. Any questions or discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor say I. I. Those opposed abstains.
034All right. Thank you. Motion carried. All right. Approval of the 2025 senior class trip to the Wisconsin Dells. All right. Who gets to he who gets to be the chef for that? Nick. No. Tip. No. I think it's Nick Fury, isn't it? Yeah. Tip doesn't go. Yeah. She doesn't know. She sets it up. Okay. Sounds like fun. You volunteering, Dave? No. Thank you. I'll let them know. I'll let you. We went to We went to the uh Yozar after the day. Kyle, did you still go there? Yeah. Wow. Watched us. We had Barbie and Marlin Y. Okay. I don't even remember those who so cool. All right. All right. Is there a motion to approve the 2025 senior class trip to Wisconsin? So move. Thanks, Kyle. Is there a second? Second. Thanks, Angie. All those
035in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion carried. All right. Um, the upcoming district calendar is April 18th through 21st would be the spring break. There's no school. May 2nd is midquarter. May 23rd is graduation. May 26th is Memorial Day, so there's no school. May 30th, the end of fourth quarter. And June 2nd is the last day for or that staff development and last day for school. So, all right. Anything else? Should we go on that? When's the senior's last day in there? The seventh. 17th. Yeah. Yeah. It's the Friday before that the Yeah. So, be prepared. And that's technically uh they're out in the morning. They check in with me. They're out in the morning. Okay. Oh, one thing we I probably forgot is uh are there any committee reports? I have a couple. Um
036we just met today uh our first meeting with the teachers negotiation. So we just set up some ground rules and some we scheduled a few meeting dates. That's really all we did. So so that's uh we'll be getting into that um our next meeting is in about a month or so. So um and the other one was we had a building and grounds committee meeting uh today which was attended very well. So I was happy to see that. Um Jen mentioned the pool already. So there's a lot of uh things happening there. Um there was some stuff that's probably been neglected over the last few years and now we're paying for it. So that's the problem there. But it is what it is and we have to deal with it now. Um, other than that,
037we talked about some other ideas as far as uh um bringing in a a group to uh maybe just take a look at our mechanical systems and train our people into into how to u you know check on those and maintain that kind of stuff. That's yet to be researched, but we talked about that kind of stuff. Um, anything else that we The pool was kind of our main priority. Pool was the main thing, but a lot of other things we maybe wanted to get done on the back burner for now. And the pool might have eaten up a lot of our building and grounds budget for this coming year. So, um, anything else? Anybody have any other committee reports or anything? We have scholarship meeting coming up. selection. Okay. And then we'll present at
038graduation. That's always fun. Our kids are very fortunate. I think I when I I had a little both I met with the seniors 3 weeks ago or so. I think I'd say on average we give out between 75 and 100,000 every year. Yeah. That's cool. How many schools our size can I don't think even big schools probably do that. No, that's cool. So that's something that we are very proud of here. So is there anything else? If not, it's time for a motion to adjourn. So move. Thanks, Dan. Is there a second to that? Second. Thanks, Dave. All those in favor say I. Opposed. Motion carried. We're adjourned. Sticks.