0017:00 we'll call the meeting to order. Uh this evening we have all board members present. We'll move on to 3.0 is the open forum. Did not receive any requests to speak uh during the forum. So we'll move to 4.0 the approval of the agenda. We will have one addition to the um consent agenda. Uh we got a res uh resignation in late. So, under um resignations on there, put Jennifer Tossson and you have her letter in front of you. It's not included in the the packet. So, Jen Tosinson for resation. Anything else that needs to be added to tonight's meeting? None. I'll take a motion to approve with that change. Second. Yeah. Motion by Kent, second. Second by Scott. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor? I opposed. Carries. 5.0 is from the
002approval of the minutes from the March 24th, 2025 meeting. Are there any changes that need to be made to those minutes? Hearing none. I'll take a motion to approve as presented. I'll make motion. Motion by Matt. Second. Seconded by Shannon. Any discussion on the minutes? Hearing none. All those in favor? I post motion carries. Moving on to 6.0. The honors and recognitions for this month. All right. Um so today we are recognizing the uh we have members of our YES club. uh were um these students went to Eminem Elementary to lead some activities on Earth Day with the elementary students. The feedback we got from um Tony and the staff was that that was extremely positive and very well appreciated. The kids did a fantastic job of just modeling Eagle Pride and and what we
003want for our our students. And so we wanted to recognize those students that put that together and taught the kids. So the following people come forward. Gertie se of us here. So okay. Yeah. Well, come on up. The three of you that are here and please tell us your names. And Satie Hacker, Brody Peterman. All right. Would you I don't mean to put you on the spot, but would you be willing to share just maybe a little bit about what you did? Yeah, definitely. um a couple members of our organization put together a presentation on Earth Day and what it means and sustainability and then we came up with ideas as a group on how to be sustainable and how to do that at home and bring in and celebrate Earth Day. And so after
004the presentation, we did a project with the kids where we had green and blue pieces of paper and had them draw their hands and then they wrote one thing they're going to do at home to be more sustainable and we made a giant earth out of all their hands throughout the whole school. Thank you very much. We appreciate you modeling for our kids what Eagle Pride is all about. So round of applause and we'll uh [Applause] Thank you. Thank you. That's it. Bueno is the student council. Hello, my name is a senior. My name is Brandon Boston. I'm a sophomore. Um, first off, I would just like to congratulate next year's um, leadership team as they voted president for Cali Khan, vice president Christian Milbrand, secretary and treasurer Shay Meer, junior rep Brooklyn Olsen, and
005sophomore rep as clans. Second, I would like to talk about our eagle mascot we have been working on. We decided to do this project to raise more school spirit. And with that, we have been fundraising money by selling chocolates before and after school as well as asking businesses for sponsorships. So far, we have raised 3,000 $3,725. Thanks to thanks to Appleton Dental, Appleton Area Health, Prairie Sun Bank, and FM State Bank. And lastly, I would like to mention our annual teachers appreciation breakfast we host will be on May 7th. We it's just a way to show our gratitude and appreciation towards all the teachers questions. Thank you. All right. 8.0 is the live update with Tony Smith. All right. I'm going to start with a uh a recognition, another one. Uh so we did a
006couple weeks ago we did the prom, the K4 prom at MN. Um roughly about 75 families, couples if you will, walked through there um along the side of the gym, up the back, across the stage, down the front. It was uh it was a great day. Uh but there's a short little story. So about 5:30 Barb gave uh gave me a call. Barb Pearson who was going to watch calls me and says you got to get to top. I said why? Well the the DJ went to Madison Lake and not to Madison, Minnesota. Um, so I was kind of dirty from being outside most of the day. And uh, so we got the the mic system set up. Well, when I got there, there was maybe, I don't know, 30, 40 people. By the time
007I was done standing on stage waving at everybody, it was front or full from the front to the back with chairs and people and I looked like a disaster. Uh, but it was a great night. Um, and so Sierra Canton, and I know I'm going to forget somebody, but Sierra Canton was the one that um, initiated the conversation and got it going. She just said, "You know what? We'll do it one year and and see what happens." And, uh, I think we'll continue to do it. I know that there's been a lot of side conversations about different things, how it worked, what uh, what was good. Um, and they had it all cleaned up and they were done by 9:00. So, it was a it was a very, very good event for the communities. Um,
008I think there was two or three families from the other side of the district that came over and participated. Um, but no, it was it was a good night. A lot of fun. Saw some cowboy hats, saw some dresses, saw some blue jeans. It was we had the gamut. Saw some baseball caps. Was all good. Um, and then as far as uh within MN, you know, this this readact and the letters training as they continue to as MBE continues to change and move around what they want to do. Um, we're continuing to move and change with them. So, uh, we will continue. Uh, Diana Smith, the reading interventionist, uh, keeps us up up to date and keeps us moving as far as the information that we need to have. And, uh, she does a great
009job connecting with the teachers. The teachers uh, go to her for a lot of questions uh, or with a lot of questions to, uh, hopefully get us going in the right direction. So, uh, we'll continue to work with with, uh, with the MBE as far as the Redact stuff goes. Um, any any questions for me? Any issues you're having building, anything, you know, really, uh, other than other than the flag pole going down in that windstorm, uh, everything seems to be up and up and moving. Um, you know, the the school year has gone extremely fast. Uh, we're uh, you know, we're we're in the midst of trying to figure out how many sections that we're going to have and and what that's going to look like, classrooms, and um, so had had great conversations
010with staff meetings uh, with with the teachers about the variety of different things, stopping in and seeing them when, you know, if we have a question or we need something clarified. So, I know Robin over in Apple and and Scott, they do some department meetings. Uh, ours is just more kind of spur of the moment. Hey, you know, let's give a couple minutes to talk or or uh do what we need to do. So, no. Uh, everything seems to be going just fine. Tony, how is the I mean, now most of your staff have been um the elementary level have been trained in in letters and stuff. How how has that been going seeing that now starting to root in classrooms. You know, I I think one of the interesting things and and you don't
011even necessarily so uh think about it, but we were I was observing Amanda Lowry speech uh for QCOP and uh in our post observation, she was talking about she is seeing the number of students um are kind of those tweener students as far as could qualify, maybe not, but she's starting to see less of those students qualifying because of the work that's happening uh in the letters and now they're starting in preschool. Uh they're starting with their letters training. They're involved in letters right now. Um we at MN are now all letter qualified. Uh we just finished up a group here uh last week. Um so I mean in in another conversation I had with Alyssa Besson and you know sometimes as teachers we get caught up into okay what's next? You know what do
012we have to do now? And that's in all walks of life, right? You get caught up in some of those things, but instead of taking the time uh or taking a breath to go, all right, hey, I'm seeing some of the improvements here in some of these areas where I haven't seen them now. We can maybe move into somewhere different and and attack in a different place. So, you know, it's it's and and as I I walk through the different classrooms, uh you know, you're you're just seeing how reading uh was taught for a number of different years and just the change and and kids really uh latching on to it. We we feel like it's very very good. Um you know, and and you get the MCA stuff, but then when you see our
013fast bridge scores, like there's some encouragement there. and we see see the improvements that is the the fast bridges three times once in the fall once in the winter and once in the spring. You see that you're like all right hey you know we're we're doing some things well here and you know as we start to get comfortable with this guess what now we're going to start working on the math and how do we keep going with the math and the science. So we'll keep uh keep plugging away. Any other questions for Tony? Thanks. Appreciate it. All right. 9.0 is the resolution to accept gifts, donations, and grants this month. So, thank you to those that are listed on there. Martinson foundation has quite a few donations, so we thank them as well as the
014others that are on there. Um, also John Sher, we must uh thank him for his extreme generosity for the track. So, thank you, John. I'll take a motion to approve. Motion. Motion by Shannon. Second by Scott. Any further discussion hearing? None. All those in favor? I opposed. Motion carries. 10.0 is the financial report. We do not have Brenda with us this evening, so we can peruse that. Or Scott, you want to highlight just a few things? Yeah, I I'm I'm no Brenda, but I will uh we'll try I'll do my best. Um there you'll you'll see the cash flow reports in there in exhibit two. um our pupil units served up slightly. Um from March to April, we went from 8:11 to 8:13. Um little change recently um if at all, but but we're hovering
015still at 8:13. Um and then I won't I won't go through each of these. You can read them um and probably already have. But the one thing I wanted to point out too is we're going to try to do some of our ordering for next year early this year. Um just anticipating with um the tariffs and things we we are likely to see some costs go up. We're going to try to lock in some of our our costs at a lower level while we can here. Um so we're working on that right now. Um and then the we'll have some budget revisions in at the main meeting that we'll have to share with you that'll focus mostly on revenue and and Brenda wanted you guys to know that as well. And then if we have
016any other questions, Brenda would be happy to receive a phone call. All right. Uh so 11.0 is payment of the bills and claims for the month. Quick motion approve the bills and claims for April 25 board bills of [Music] $233,8152. March 25 manual checks of $32,674.38. in April 25 construction bills for $155,672.70 for grand total of $422,14860. Okay, we have a motion by Scott. Second by Matt. Any further discussion on the claims bills for the month? Hearing none. All those in favor? I post motion carries. 12.0 is the consent agenda. And then just a reminder, Jen Tosinson should be listed as a resation under personnel. Take a motion to approve. Make a motion. Motion by Shannon. Second by Matt. Any further discussion on the consent? Hearing none. All those in favor? I post. areas. Uh
01713.0 is education Minnesota lock notice to desire to negotiate. Um so the next contract that will be negotiated is for the 25 through 27th school year. The current contract ends uh this June end of June. Um so this is uh schoolboard formally acknowledging that we've received that negotiation. Make a motion. Motion by Scott. Second. Second by Shannon. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor? I opposed. Motion carries. All right. 14 is uh the awarding of the garbage recycling services for 2526. So we have pulse and sanitation on exhibit 13. So that's uh 1616850. So roughly 134738 and very reasonable by that. Are we just going to go to the monthly instead of the school year and then the difference for summer? That's the way we had it bid out. Correct. Um that's a
018good question because over here they had the proposal. Yeah. Yeah. So they they added it up both up and just made it out and just do standard. It's 1449 a month during the school year. 835 not during I think it's together. The blended is the 1347 then. Yes. Yes. Okay. I would assume that just be easier. I'll make that motion. Motion by Scott. Second by Shannon. Any further discussion on the garbage recycling contract? Hearing none. All those in favor uh the OPED actuarial reports. Yes. Um so OPED stands for other postemployment benefits and it's basically um one of the the Gazsby's Gazsby statement 75. Um, this is the report on that that we we got through USI, which is the company we contract through. Um, and that was I emailed that out to you, um,
019to take a look at. It's it's some pretty deep reading because it's a lot of accounting. Um, but, uh, you know, it basically it'll show up. Again, it's not necessarily a requirement that it be approved by the board. However, we felt that it's a good practice for transparency to do so. But it will show up again also in our audit as well. You'll see again. So essentially this is the actuaries look at it and say are you underfunded overfunded and then we make the adjustment for that uh that account just like insurance. So I'll take a motion to approve. There's no other questions on it. Make the motion. Motion by Shannon. Second further discussion hearing none. All those in favor motion carries 16.0 is probationary teachers recommended for tenure. We have uh four individuals there.
020Janelle Bman, Patty Cruz, Katari Erenss, and Lindsay Cray, which is a fourth grade, second grade kindergary teachers um have to either be evaluated three times a year for three years and then um when offered another contract are eligible for a 10 or somebody who has been tenured elsewhere and teaches for a year. Um, we can also tenure that person as well. So, these are these are four people who have made it through that process of tenure. And it's something that I I just like to point out. It's something we don't take lightly. You know, we we want our kids to have the best. And when we say we're going to tenure you, we're saying we we feel that you're you're going to provide that. Um, you're demonstrating that. So it's uh we look at it
021as kind of an honor as well. Any other questions on tenure for these probationary teachers? Then I'll take a motion to approve those four individuals. I'll make a motion. Motion by Shannon. I'll seconded by Matt. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor? Post motion carries. 17 is to offer continuing contract to uh probationary teachers that have not met that criteria that uh Scott just laid out um to reach tenure. So those individuals are Avery Schmidt, Michelle Hut, Braden GDson, Kstrom, Jaylen Pma, Ben Travis, Kate Fisher, Diana Kudson, and Michelle This is not 10 years is offering them to continue on for another year. Um and and just I want to point out the continuing contract means we're offering them another contract. We they're coming back. They just haven't gotten to that point of
022tenure yet. that they're being offered a continuing contract. So, they're all tier three for the specialty. Yeah. Yeah. They're either tier tier three or tier four licenses. We're allowed to have them back because they're licensed appropriately. I'm just trying to get caught up on all this. No, there's a lot of go rules, so feel free to ask. I'll make the motion. Okay. Motion by Shannon. I'll second. Second by Matt. Any further discussion hearing? None. All those in favor? I opposed. Motion carries. So, congratulations to the tenure and to our teachers. Thank you for your hard work. Uh 18.0 is the monthly reports from building leaders. Uh Marine, anything to highlight? I actually I would as long as we're congratulating people. We had several pair professionals come out on April 17th to take an assessment that
023would deem them as highly qualified, which is a requirement to be a pair professional in a school in the state of Minnesota. And I'm so proud of the work that our pairs did in preparing to take this assessment. And on that day, 11 took both. There's two assessments they have to take and eight of them passed. First time through it was it was really fun just to see the excitement they had and the pride they had in themselves. So if I add Marina and I talked about that that peril test is not easy to pass it. There's el I mean there's algebra in it. I mean it it's shocking the the work that goes into preparing. So it's really fun to see. And then to kind of piggy back off something Tony talked about the
024letters training. We have two new teachers in the district who will require letters training. So I've got them slotted in to start right away in June in preparation for the work they will do in our district. So that's about all. Adam, anything to highlight? Yeah, just a little update on all the stuff going on around here. um HVAC. Um they started on the 14th in the pool area uh in the district office area. Uh then when we get the district office air handler switched out while the weather was still kind of cool so that uh when it gets warm they would they'll have their air air conditioning up and going. Um pool they started that also on the 14th. I think that was on a Monday. By Thursday, they were already craning the new ones
025in the first day. The kids were out for Easter break, which is pretty remarkable how much stuff they got pulled out of that place in two and a half days, three days. Um, so the district office is up and running, ready, it's uh recirculating air. Don't think they quite got the AC all done yet today. They were getting close. I don't think they quite got it, but I'll check with them tomorrow and see where they're at. Uh, with all the other projects, the washing of the tennis courts started last week so they could uh getting it prepped to put the top coat on, get it ready for uh being able to play this fall on there. Um, baseball field demo is starting tomorrow. It was going to start today, but it's a little soft and
026see they've got all their equipment out here uh ready to roll. They don't get any rain tonight. I'm assuming they'll be going after it tomorrow. Uh theater Monday they're going after that with the HVAC and all the demo of the seats and everything has to go on there. Lots of stuff going on. So that hallway will be shut down to students from where the seven doors are going into the district office area to the doors going to the commons. We'll be considered emergency exit only. Uh we'll get signage up there so that uh kids will know that. Uh they're going to redirect the kids for lunch past the band and choir there. Um, lots of things going on. Going to get real busy real quick here. So, and what about the track that they need
027to widen? Yeah, once they come back. I think they have some more asphalt painting to do with that pathway out to the tennis courts. I think when they get that equipment here, they will go and try to fix that. And I think their plan was to wait till after the track season. Is that right? Yeah, that won't happen till July. And uh with HVAC again, they're hoping that they are done by the end of July. They wanted to get it all back into our control that first week of August so we have time to work the kings out before school starts. That's the goal. Let's keep our fingers crossed. Any questions? Anything else? Thanks, Adam. Chris, Kelly, or Mackenzie, anything from the association? We kind of did our highlights in there. Okay. I know third
028grade we start the MCA math portion tomorrow. We did the reading a couple weeks ago and I thought it went really well. In third grade, you're really teaching the kids what it's like to take an MCA test and how long they are and how to do them on the Chromebooks. But I was really impressed with my third graders. They took it very seriously and I'm looking forward to those being done. Earth day was great. The kids love having those older kids come and share with them. They did a very nice job and it was good. So, we're looking forward to the rest of the year. We just finished up our trash bag contest. The soil and water conservation uh ran a competition, I suppose. I think it was out here as well for fifth and
029sixth grade and then the elementaryaries were doing it. And I'm proud to announce that the third grade wave with 143 pounds worth of recycled grocery bags. And so they were stoked. I had one little guy that was going throughout the neighborhood like trick-or-treating like, "Hi, I'm so and so and do you have any bags playing around?" So, it was we were glad to get it all out of our room. Friday, they came and and uh collected them all in the front entryway and weighed in and there was some very excited kids. We get a pizza party because we uh we managed to take them out. So, I wish I would have known that. Maybe another 50 pounds. How many I wish I would have known that. You have no idea what our rooms looked like.
030I mean, the whole back end of our classrooms. Yeah. So, eventually it was just getting shoved into other bags. And yeah, it was it was quite a present. But yeah, I told them I said when we, you know, found out that we were doing this, I said, you know, guys, if we're going to be in it, we might as well win it. So, it was like they were they were they were Another one had two gallons at Dollar General saving bags for him, too. So it was like yeah it was a fun experience. So yeah and MCAs and all the good stuff that comes with the end of the year. So yeah. Thank you. Anything else for the CM? I just have a couple things I could add as part of my report. Um I
031just would like to make the board and the public aware of um we have the Unstoppable Games happening on Wednesday of this week. Um that is a That is a So in the Merbed districts, uh we u worked together um Brandon Ramo actually organized the whole thing, but basically the goal is to have an event designed specifically for students with disabilities. Um there isn't an event like this anywhere else in our region. Um and we're partnering with Southwest Minnesota State. Um they're hosting the events. Um there's going to be an opening ceremonies. There's going to be um then the students get to compete against each other other students from within the Murbad cooperative. Um and anyone can attend. So if anybody would like to go, we encourage you to do it. But I just want
032to make you aware of it because it is a cool event. Um all the kids that participate get a free t-shirt. Um we I think we have eight or nine kids that will be participating from our district. Um so just a cool event. And I just wanted to give an update as well on strategic planning. We uh we we're working on that. We actually had a strategic planning team meeting right before the board meeting and and we're looking at the data that's been collected and having dialogue about um that to determine what are their areas of focus that we want to focus in on. And then lastly, I just wanted to share we uh you know, it kind of came up here a minute ago, but we had our our NIDI invitational track meet and
033it was a great success. A great job to Zach with that. Um, but the the big takeaway, the new track and new pole will perform flawlessly and um, even in rain, it all went really well. So, uh, it was a good event. Thank you to everybody who made that possible. Any questions on that strategic planning? If anybody from the board hasn't met with Dan yet, all you got to do is Thank you for all you got to do is just email him and he'll he'll try and squeeze you in somewhere because I think I just met with him late last week. So yeah, he's been very thorough trying to make sure that each and every voice in our district gets an opportunity to share their experiences and things we do well areas we might improve.
034Anything else for this evening hearing? None. I'll take a motion to adjourn. So motion by Scott. Second by Shannon. All those in favor? I posted. Thank you everyone.