001let's go ahead and call the meeting to order so far we've had everybody here but Dave he'll probably show up let's stand and pl Allegiance shall we to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for it stands one nation God indivisible with liy and justice for all okay are there any changes to the agenda this gets easier all the time all right we'll move on to uh approval of the agenda then could I have a motion to approve the agenda so move thanks Angie thanks uh Dan um although those in favor say I I opposed motion carried was there any public input tonight okay uh recognition and good things happening uh would' like to congratulate the winter artist and athletes on an outstanding season we are very proud of their
002accomplishments um so moving on to reports um student representative rep uh basketb ended football girls basketball had their banquet on Sunday and boys basketball has their Thursday yesterday March 10th we hosted the small group music contest softball baseball conditioning and track started yesterday baseball practice and golf start March 17th prom tip night fundraiser at Sweets Hotel is tomorrow March 12th from 5: to 8 and promise April 26th NHS members volunteered at the blood drive last week and signed up for shifts at the upcoming scholarship pancake breakfast juniors are taking the ASVAB March 19th in the act in April okay lot going on how many k how many schools were here yesterday close to 10 say 12 10 there's 10 12 there supposed to I think there was supposed to be 12 yeah but I want
003to say Alden and Glenville were on spring break oh maybe that's right that's right so I think that's why we were didn't have a allall okay sure looks nice around here though you guys did a great job than uh no staff report or we no unless you want to Cathy staff is here there you go uh principal report Erin yeah I don't have a hand out for you guys night really because a lot of it right now I'm working on we're working on budget we're working on which will move into master schedule which will move into registration which will move in at all next year's everything so you'll be getting plenty of information probably the next couple months on what's been going on lately but we do have end of third quarter already at the
004end of this month um so that's wrapping up so yeah you get a lot more information at what's been going on the spring um next two months when kind of all the things that I'm working on um I I will bring up talk to Jen a little bit about the um you may have heard a rumor about our Sports programs uh actually football moving up to 11 man next year because of enrollment um we are five or six students over the allotted number um there is an appeal process which we did complete um Trevor actually has a um he gets to present for 3 minutes tomorrow to committee um and then we will know between tomorrow and next Wednesday what the future of our football program holds if it's moved up to 11 man or
005we get to stay down at n man so a little bit going on there but there's a lot of movement um there's a lot of those 1A schools are all moving up to two and there's actually some 18 teams moving down tonight man so there are I've never in all my years I've never seen as much movement is did we suggest today like 80 schools could be impacted yeah I think I was looking at the numbers today and that's just guest looking at the list May petitioning yeah there's a lot of things tomorrow so they're going to try to do it all like right now so I was I thought that they had a meeting about it today but that's maybe next Tuesday it's actually Friday no so today they had the meeting they did
006have the meeting to kind of get everything I think set up the St but tomorrow um the schools get to their allotted 3 minutes to Res to this committee and and then so you so we've sent in the the petition to stay down and why we think we should stay down then you get to present and then they'll make the final decision and they said it could take up till next Wednesday those decision so they didn't make a decision today no they had there's an executive committee Friday and it's on the agenda I think so we will know soon so then we can plan accordingly um and then there'll be a lot of things we have talk about M forward anyway so so just kind of yes it's out there we not sure but I
007think 1992 would have been the last year we played 11 football it was 93 was the first year Jun so there's just some discrepancy of they've they've changed it to where they used 9 through 12 numbers and then we used to use 8 through 11 and vice versa now they're so there's been a little bit of changing of what numbers they use so is there a certain number you can be you have to be within to to appeal is it like like can I can't imagine you can be way over and say oh I still no I want to say I don't I'm not 100% sure but so 150 is a cut off for n man I want to say if you're under 165 okay that's what I was think 15 that's something like that
008so there was a district that was over last year that number yes and was bumped down yes so it is kind of a floating number right yes yes so we will we will find out but yes that is true we are as of today we are 11 man hoping to stay down in one of the other semifinal teams is what's moved up to um most of the up north ones that were in state got moved up um what's the what's the one that got moved up I want soot neas got moved up most n mans that have been consistently in the north I think just about all of them got moved up okay I don't know if that works for our advantage or not so yeah so but if you looked at the 1A they're
009down to about one team left in Section 1 a 11 man so they get moved up to two and actually kind of some are coming down they're either going two down so did I really read Filmore Central numbers could put them down I've heard that they've had their numbers are close but I don't think they are I think they're they were the one constant that would would be the one and only one team I would stay otherwise everybody else's so there's be a lot of lot of interesting decisions made in the next in the next week coup years so there you go you know that's like I said I'll have much more information for like especially the new people next couple months with how registration Works Master scheduling budgeting Staffing all that kind of stuff
010coming up so we're just touching the Tim of the iceberg of next year craziness so I'll keep you posted all right thanks Ain Jen you got a superintendent report I do I do I want to start off with a really amazing report um so every year if not multiple times a year the Minnesota Department of Health and environmental health comes into our school district and checks out our kitchen or our cafeteria and I am so pleased to report that Chris Chris son our lead lunch lady and her gals um got an exceptional grade an A+ there was only I think one thing um that they didn't like and it was like something was plugged in wrong so they have to dig you some way that's what we decid they got to dig me on but
011I have to tell you it's an amazing report I am so proud of them I told them I talk about them publicly of course they didn't like that but I'm going to do it anyway so I'm so proud of them they have really um Turned turned you know I was given a mission one of my first years here to turn around our our food service department and I think we got quality people in there that have really done such an exceptional job and they just they listen to directives they go on staff development opportunities they read up on what they can do extremely creative um and it's showing it's showing the proof is in the pudding our auditing is exceptional so hats off to them if you see them please Pat them on the back
012they're doing a great job um another fun note I always love sharing this and I always tell Tina Tina often she's our um one of our elementary school teachers I tell her don't ever tell Aaron this let me be the one to present so I hope she didn't tell you and you're just being nice to me but she brought her eggs in so there will be chickens hatched again in the elementary school and they're so cute you can see it on YouTube and watch them hatch um and it's pretty cute but the whole Elementary School just kind of goes crazy when these darn chicks come about so we're hoping they're not going to hatch over break but it's likely they're going to that's what we're hearing hence the YouTube channel so take a peek at
013that but she does such a great job with things like that and it's a huge curriculum it's not just hatching chicks it's tons of stuff with that so she does a really good job um another huge very exceptional shout out to the filmar county and Mau County Emergency mitigation planning teams I sat on both of those um virtual meetings and they were on Friday or one was a Friday one was a Thursday and they were about 2 three hours long and they did a great great job um preparing us if anything should happen we you know kind of outside of our control as a school district or other institutions um but we're going to be doing this more than once a year um probably a couple times a year just to keep refreshing how important
014it is to not only work together but be pre-planning rather than not planning at all so um it's it's been really great um I have to of course mention this you guys are being bombarded and I apologize um with all my emails related to St Paul and Congress and but this is the time of year that happens so you'll hear it from me every spring um Saturday I sent you an email related to kind of budget forecasting um so I sat in on on the budget forecast kind of predictions and I did attach that to that email and I'll be sending it off to staff at some point too um and just kind of some of my thoughts I wanted on paper uh based off the presentation and I also I'm working on an email
015I'll be sending to you probably on Friday but I reached out to superintendent around the local region of what they're planning to do um and kind of being building a conservative budget because we don't really know what's going to happen federally or Statewide and it's really interesting to see where people are cutting or where people maybe aren't hiring anymore or how they're adjusting their budget so I'll get you that just so you have it it'll be confidential because it is other school districts and maybe they haven't talked to their board yet I don't know but I'll get you that info um but yeah I will keep you updated on what I know and what I'm learning from the superintendent groups the mde groups um and every other group I sit in um every week or
016a couple times a week um but we're doing well um here locally we're doing well um as I talked about tonight we had our world's best Workforce meeting and we talked about budgeting and you know for example what we like to do if we feel we might go over budget in the next year or two if somebody retires we might not replace that person so not necessarily a cut but more of a hey we just don't have that position anymore and um but but we also want to make sure like I said at last month's meeting we want to make sure though that we are good stewards of our our community's dollars good patrons of the dollar so we're not going to just be the um employment capital of Leroy either um we're going to
017make sure when we're employing people um for example teachers they're teaching to the standards they're here every day they have a full load of students they're not just teaching two or three in a class they're teaching 10 or 12 students at least in a classro so we're we're adjusting and that's what we do and that's what we need to do every year um so we're not at the point of you know cutting hundreds of thousands of dollars out of our budget and I'm not predicting that anyway it all depends over the spring on what's coming down from St Paul and but again I'll keep you posted and and now that we are in budget season we will be presenting even more stuff to you um and our business manager will be here I mean you'll
018start seeing more and more from us when it comes to money so you're well aware what's going on that's okay thank you any questions in Mak for Jen okay uh moving on to the cons consent agenda um we need to approve the uh minutes from the February 18th meeting are there any questions on those or Corrections or additions to those okay Treasures reports uh any questions or anything on that [Music] okay need to approve a fundraiser uh tip night for prom that's tomorrow night already so be sure you go out to eat at sweets tomorrow night um got one donation from the drama club $237 from one act play the public show performance and there's no Personnel it this month so there are no question questions uh is there a motion to approve the consent
019agenda make motion to approve the consent agenda thank you Kyle is there a second I second thanks J um all those in favor say I opposed motion carried so some uh discussion and action items uh there's no policy to deal with this month uh we had a like a blizzard almost a few days ago so policy committee couldn't meet um so uh we need a second reading of the uh and the final reading of our school district calendar for this next year um and as noted there has been no changes since the first reading what you see is what you get okay and again though let me I I do need to disclaim this though that if something should come up um we do make sure our parents know that you know a date change
020or something happens for example our music contest Monday we did notify early and we did legally change the calendar with MD subject change yep okay any questions on the calendar or anything if not is there a motion to approve the uh final reading of the 2526 School District calendar so move thanks Angie is there a second one second thank you very much uh all those in favor say I opposed motion carry okay um the next would be a discussion of a resolution we need to pass Jen why don't you yep uh fill us in on things there and then we'll read that resolution and vote on it perfect perfect yes so you may recall last month we had a lengthy discussion about um you formally allowing Administration to make proposals in potential Cuts what this
021is is basically a resolution to reduce a teacher to where she was when she was hired and per state statute um at one point she was above a point 6 FTE during her tenure here um so once that happens you have to go formally through a resolution to do a Ula or unrequested leave of absence that's also in not only state stat but it's also in our contract here for teachers um and the reason being there's two reasons one is that um she is less senior in the fied department and that's where her lenser area is we do have a senior teacher to her so that senior teacher currently holds a lot of our special education classes um those students who are in need of adaptive physical education and so those numbers are lower so
022we can can condense those classes still allowing that teacher though to be full-time the one that we're not talking about tonight she gets to be full-time because she is senior so that leaves this one with less FTE and also I want to be very transparent with our community as I said earlier we are not the employment capital of Leroy if there are not classes for this particular teacher to hold we are not going to financially stabilize them personally that's not our job to do that um so financially it would impact us if we just randomly selected a class to give her we just don't do that um that would be uncalled for it would be unethical um out of her Li out of her LIC yeah anything like that so if need be if we
023have to do that when fall Hits let's say we get 30 kids that come in um and we need her yes she would be welcome back to be a full-time teacher absolutely we want to protect her in that way too so that's what this is about okay well I'll go ahead and read this uh resolution as it's in our U agenda let it be resolved that it is proposed that Corey ronnenberg A continuing contract tenure teacher of this District be placed on unrequested leave of abs of absence without pay or fringe benefits at the end of the 2425 school year effective July 1st 2025 Cory ronnenberg will be a 6 FTE teacher for school year 2025 26 said action is taken in accordance with the District Master agreement and pursuant to Minnesota statute 122 a.40
024subdivision 10.1 upon the grounds described in said statute and which are specifically as follows lack of pupils SE C seniority list special education students and financial limitations okay does anyone have any questions on what we're doing at all we did do this last year as well so if there are no questions would there be a motion to adopt this resolution as readed so move thank you Kyle is there a second second thanks um I assume this should be a roll call please yes yes yes yes yes yes motion carried okay um are there any school board committee reports I don't have I'll just make a plug for our scholarship breakfast is on March 23rd weeks okay anything else okay um if not uh must have been a policy committee meeting today was not we cancel
025cancel that one too you guys are on a roll that storm kind of threw everything out of whack March 28th is Staff Development days there's no school April 8th then will be District policy committing committee meeting April 15th is the next Schoolboard meeting at 6: PM is that going to work with everybody's schedule by the way okay tax day I'll be in depression uh April 18th 21st is uh no school for spring break May 13th is District policy committee meeting again at 3:10 uh May 20th is is the May Schoolboard meeting at 6 and then graduation will be on May 23rd so doesn't seem possible that we're coming to the end of the year already no all right is there anything else anybody would like to talk about if not a motion to adjourn thanks
026Dan I a second second thanks Jess all those in favor say I opposed what she Carri 622