03/16/2026 School Board Meeting

001I pledge algiance 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. >> Welcome. Welcome. She's throwing money. >> Roll call. Tanya >> here. >> Tom >> here. >> Jeremiah >> here. >> Lisa >> here. >> Lori >> here. >> Chuck. >> Belinda's here too. All right. I need to take take a look at the agenda. Mr. Superintendent. Are there any additions to the agenda? Um, just a note that uh Charlie Sears is coming for guest speaker, but he might not come right when it says guest speaker. So, we'll work him on and I believe Jill and the kids are going to speak few words to So, we'll put them in where Charlie was and then we'll

002consent agenda. Are there any questions, Mr. Lickson, or is there anything added to that? No, we should be good to go. >> Anybody want to pull anything off the consent? >> I didn't want to pull anything off, but I just want to acknowledge uh there's been a number of resignations on there again this uh this month. I want to just acknowledge uh thank you both folks for the service and wishing best luck and whatever their future plans are. Yep. Good. Good point. >> You got that on there, Miss. So, no questions. We're good. I need a motion to accept. >> Any discussion? Any discussion? >> Any discussion? All those in five in favor say I. >> Opposed? wash and carries. Is that for both agendas? >> Nope. We did the adoption first. The first one

003>> and then the consent agenda. You guys did it. >> All right. So, we're skipping Mr. Charlie. Jill, are you guys ready to say a few words or >> restaurant? Oh, it can bend down for you. >> Good afternoon. So today your meal will be served by a restaurant named Marango. A concept inspired by the beautiful fusion of cultures in our community. Just as our school brings people from many different backgrounds, our your meal today will blend flavors from around the world to create something memorable and unique. Um first, sorry. Uh so I am Elsie. I'm originally from Honduras. My other three members are Jennifer whose parents are from Mexico, Gladis who is from Puerto Rico, Katarina who's from Rome, Italy, our exchange student. For our first course, we prepare by Glattis and Elsie. We

004prepare a cheese stuffed jalapeno peppers layer with fresh mango slice delically wrapped with bacon. The dish is finished with crushed pork rinds. Ain and Chamoy caviar. The caviar was carefully crafted by Glattis and Elsie. The judges praised the balance of flavors, not noting that the sweetness of the mango, the crisp texture of the bacon, and the distinctive touch of the chamoy sauce and did not leave a drop in the plate. They really loved it. For our entry, we serve shrimp mango curry. A vibrant fusion of tropical flavors featuring shrimp in a rich creamy coconut curry sauce occupied by mango, pepper, and sweet potato creating a perfect balance balanced dish. The vibrant colors, aromomas, and layers of flavors in every bite are en enhanced by placing the rice in the middle surrounding it with the curry

005sauce. The sweetness of the mango and the sweet potato complement the warm spices of the curry, while the tender shrimp as a delicate savory touch. This presentation highlights both visual appeal and multicultural inspiration behind the dish. One of the judges remarked that this was the best curry he had ever tasted. For our final course, we present a silky, delicate panakota. Prepared by Jennifer, served as a refreshing and elegant dessert. The creamy base is topped with a carefully carved mango flower made by Elsie, adding a natural sweetness and vibrant color. Bring bright chamoy caviar pearls are scattered in the center of the flower offering a burst of tangy sweet and slightly spicy flavor while a light sprinkle of tahin enhances the dish with citrusy final tone of balancing the dessert. The judges were impressed that we

006were able to set the panakakota which was skillfully prepared in an hour. And usually a panakakota takes about two hours to set and for competition we only had one hour and we didn't fully made it to um to set but they were impressed that we made it most of it set. So, and we did had a plan B, which they were also proud of that because usually in the kitchen that's what happened most of the time where something goes wrong then you have to go with a plan B. And then also um I got really nervous so I forgot most of my English and I started talking in Spanish to my teammates. And luckily my um team member Katina, she's from Italy, she knows Spanish. So, it was a good thing that she knew Spanish

007that day cuz she really needed it. >> This is I hope you guys enjoy it. >> Thank you. >> Okay, you're going to be tasting samples of each one of the courses today. And um as Elsie goes and finishes up the first course, if you notice, they have used a culinary torch for finishing crisping up the bacon. Now, one thing she didn't tell you is they had an hour, but they had two gas burners. That's it. No electricity, no refrigeration, nothing. We set panicadas in ice. um and they decided they wanted to bake the appetizer and not the traditional frying which meant they gave up a burner. So first they got the panakata going and that burner was fully dedicated just to their appetizer. So then on the other burner they had to figure out

008how to do rice, how to make the curry and um for the curry you had to boil sweet potatoes also. So, you know, really kind of cramped in the space and everything that they were doing, but they were really good about kind of pivoting on a dime. And we've done it numerous times in our classroom when we serve something and something just doesn't go right. So, a little bit more about our culinary pathway as she's getting things through here at L Prairie. ProStart would be like the student organization competitive component that we have in our culinary pathway. It starts out with fundamentals of foods and everybody in culinary arts this semester I had in fundamentals last year in the fundamentals of foods that's where they learn their sanitation and safety. They take industry certifications. They

009become um a food handler. The and we are at such a dire need for food service workers. Now, businesses with the new food coats, they have to have at least a food candler on at all times. Watching from a camera no longer counts and they really want to move to a food protection manager. Well, our plan with that is in culinary arts at the end. We will work on the food protection manager. See how many of them I can get to pass that exam. But everybody that I have this semester passed the food handler. when some of my food handlers I've went and applied for jobs and brought it with. They've been offered $3 more than other people starting out. I did have one that as soon as he got it, they promoted him to

010a shift manager because he fulfilled that food safety requirement that is required by our health codes. Um so that makes it a little bit unique with that. Our post start competition was just last Thursday and if any of you have been in my room um for the beginning of March it's a really crazy kind of time kind of like first semester besides the sanitation and safety with that they learn all their knife cuts first semester part of what they're judged on in competition is knife cuts we don't have time to review or teach they had to have learned them and keep practicing them throughout in there Um, you know the competition? Well, let me show you a little bit more about it. It is not just cooking. With the competitions, they have to prepare recipes.

011They have to do a cost analysis. You can look at their booklets here. I have four of them. They have to do a cost analysis in there. They have to figure out what recipe is at the very beginning. That's their menu that they put together. And if you notice in it, it's written in Italian, it's written in Spanish, and it's written in English to represent the tea that we have there. Um, so with that, you can see the pricing on there. The pricing was designed using standard um pricing that restaurants use. That figure out the food cost of the recipe. That's 33% of your menu cost. And that's how those costs came about. Their appetizer was a whole jalapeno or two halves that you see there. That was each appetizer. Um, how we doing else?

012>> Excellent. Um, on there you see some little red sears. That is chamoy caviar. Um, you know, we had to venture out. So, we did um bass. Oh gosh, no, I can't even say it. But you know what I mean. where we're doing a little bit something different and we made caviar from chamoy. It shouldn't have really worked but we got it to work in there. So that was something that was really unique that our team had done. Something else they had told us um I get to know kind of some of the judges and one of them was doing sanitation. She wasn't judging ours but we were talking and she goes to me, she goes, "You're the first team I've seen that knows to wash and sanitize the tables." So far, nobody had done

013that. They're covered with plastic. Who knows what the heck's been on there? So, our team did that. And interesting thing is my team knew they could unpack everything that was being cooked without putting gloves on. Cuz when it's cooked, you don't have to unpack all of our equipment because it was all going to be used to cook. As soon as everything was out, Katrina yells, "Wash and gloves." And everybody went and washed and gloves. And that one judge, she said, "Man," she said, "your kids fully under food, understand food safety cuz most of them washed and gloved, then unpacked things out of totes that we hauled all over the place and stuff." So, they did a very real unique thing with that. So, I was actually very proud of them. I didn't tell them to

014do it. They just figured out how to do it and they did it themselves. So, they were really good. Okay. In the booklet there, you can see the various recipes. The kids got complimented on doing them standard recipe style where you number them. The judges said they had not seen somebody that had done that yet. Now, we were in the middle of the pack, but it's nice to get those compliments and stuff back from the judges. Now, what you did see in there, and I didn't even see it, and I was proofing stuff. I was named Jill Hansen. I was named Miss Hansen. I was named Hansen. And somewhere I didn't even have a name. The one judge caught that. Darn. But, you know, that was the only error they found in our book. So,

015that is really good with that. Um, the plating in there on the appetizer, they had done some different things with chamoy around them. If our little pearls didn't work out, we had our backup plan with that sort of thing there. Okay, back to our pathway a little bit as she is getting your um young or still finishing up apps. Okay. um with our pathway in here with the fundamentals of foods, I get all of the basics and some of you know the amount of community stuff that we do and within the school and preparing various items and um it gets down to kind of a real tight crunch sometime. As I said, the beginning of March is pretty tight for us. Last Tuesday, we had the desserts at the blood drive. Thursday, I had the

016kids on the ProStart team with me. My kids that were left were making parfets for the JLo volleyball tournament that I had committed to a long time before. Friday they finished up the parfets and they started working on the chili because this week we have the soup supper and I don't know if you know the first $1,000 that is brazed the state matches that for our food shelf. So that's an awesome thing. And you know we donated in some things. Um, I wrote grants. Coburn's gave us money that covered a majority of our supplies. Um, but like I'd written a grant. They got me the flour and everything for the homemade rolls. So, they've already made all of their homemade rolls. They have made turkey stock. They have made beef stock from beef shanks. Um,

017they have now their chili started. And when we were at contest, everything that we had left came home cuz it was going in the soup. And I think the kids were surprised when she asked to see the waste. And so they're bringing out everything and it's labeled. And the chef said, "Well, you could do one container and dump it all in." They're like, "No, we got soup supper. You know, you've got half of a bell pepper that can go into chili." Um, we brought with of course extra green onions just in case something happens, but different things that were left. So they knew to bag all of that, have it all labeled and put it in the cooler and ready to go. So our soup supper, here's a plug for that. This Thursday for the

018soup supper, they got chili, turkey wild rice from the turkey base that they made. We cooked up a whole t a whole turkey and they learned how to make stock there. We're going to do a beef vegetable if we got time. The kids want to do homemade noodles, but we may end up with Spzel or some little dumpling in it. It'll all depend on how this week goes on stuff. Um, and we're doing a corn chowder that is a vegetarian dish. The bacon that we bought that we have not used is going to be browned up and is donated in then for the soup supper and stuff. And that'll be really good on the corn chowder if you're not totally vegetarian. Um, and then for desserts, we're working on five different types of bars that

019will be put out. Then comes Saturday and it's the orchestra concert. Um, and I had it on for a week later on my calendar. Well, guess what? I was surprised. Um, so we've been working or starting to work on there that we're going to do mini brownie sunnies, mini strawberry shortcakes. We got donated a whole bunch of aerosol whipped cream um from student council after they did the pie in the face thing. So have to use it up, right? So we're using that. So that's then being donated back into the community in that. We are going to do mini key lime pies. Um hopefully we get enough cookies made that everybody can have one with I've adjusted the posters for the orchestra because we have an imprinted machine. Did you ever give them the cookies,

020Mr. Rude that have the school logo on them. Oh, hit him up for him. He's got some in the freezer. We've printed a couple different ones with the school logo on them and one is the Thunder Pride logo also. Um, and the kids have adjusted over the years. We've changed up the sugar cookie recipe and a third of it is white whole wheat and it's a good cookie. Um, they have adjusted the amount of sugar and the amount of fat. Actually, it's down from what the original one is. And they've developed a nice cookie over the years. Um, with that, they have to learn all about royal icing and be able to ice. And then we run everything through the printer. So, it's kind of a unique thing with that. Um, so that's kind of

021a little bit about some of the events and everything we do. Yes, they still do have classroom work and need to learn things, but we do an awful lot of different events, which as being career and teched, we're supposed to simulate as many job things as we can. So, by doing all of these events, it allows us to simulate the various job experiences. And I think if the kids went to Ben there where I'll be honest to Lori, you know when you had asked about that lemon curd, uh we had a couple things of a couple pans that the kids didn't seal the crust so the curd separated out. That's where we came up with the idea where we took it and we put it all on top. And Lori came in and said that

022was my backup recipe if we didn't have enough curd. Then the interesting thing was those had separated the kids like you know these two really taste good. So we had a couple pans and they turned them into lemon truffles and if you were at New Year's Eve for the orchestra you got to try the lemon truffles and those came out of our uh oh bars because in industry you don't throw anything. You have to figure out how to recycle or repurpose it. Um, it's funny. The kids will ask me towards the end of the year, they go, "Where do we put the carrot peelings?" Because I normally have a bucket that we can use in a vegetable sauce or vegetable stock. Um, and I kind of keep that in the freezer, but towards the end

023of the year, I don't keep that, but some of you guys may do that, too. Or keep the broth off of any canned vegetables and use those in stock. So, we do a lot of that sort of thing. Do you have questions for me about the culinary as Etsy's over there working her little heart out and for a lot of this stuff? This whole menu is student driven. Most ProStart programs have a chef. The chef designs their menu and hands it to them. That's not the way the contest is written, but that's what happens. Our kids design their own menu. And here's the kicker. I can't taste anything. I'm allergic to peppers and chilies. For three years, kids have went to competitions and had to use their own pallets and test their own recipes cuz

024I can't help them. I maybe get Blanch or a couple other people to come in and taste, but I can't be there for them. So truly, this with our kids is really their driven sort of thing. And if you notice in their meal, mango is their theme throughout is what they came up with. Now, for the curry, some people ask why with their heritages that they're at. Um, in the Caribbean, we do see an awful lot of curry there also. And since so many of our students are from that part um of the United States, it was a nice way of honoring them. Okay, I'm going to go. We'll I'll help Elsie real fast. You're going to get some curry and then we will bring around the panakata, which is the dessert with just a

025little bit of mango on top. And I'm sure she'll give you taheen, too. That was wonderful. >> While we are waiting, >> we can move on. Um, we're looking at race sports. Don't have any kids here. Program reports, activities. She's not here either. She's still in Mexico. >> She's I think on her way back. She's probably stranded. Poor thing. Um she had a report in the board book. Anybody have any questions or want to talk about anything? No. We'll let the guy go Mr. Charlie in when he comes. Um I assume Brad do you know are they all practicing already official day of everybody practicing baseball started baseball started today last year softball and baseball conditioning now so there's throwing and catching their arms ready to play >> crazy we still need a coach it

026looks like junior high I think they're going to go with one to start with because there's only like 14 kids. So today sounds good again. Anybody else have anything for activities? Thank the general. >> Yes. >> Okay, that was quick. >> I don't waste any time. >> Um, community, >> you all have a chance to read that long report that Mr. Evenson did that and we have to make a motion and approve it. The achievement of integration. He's going to tell us a few words. >> I'm not going to say much, but if you have questions, um, so what this is, achieve how achievement and integration works. Um it's a three-year plan that you have to turn in. Then each year you rewrite that your that portion of it. Um and you as well you

027go with a budget also. So um what happen what has to happen is we turn that in, you guys say yes, we can go ahead with a three-year plan and then they they send it back to us and we fine-tune stuff. But the overall plan is in place. Um uh and it's we did do some there are some changes in there. One good thing that happened um in all these all these uh times I we have to come and tell you that something got cut. This one did not get cut. We're actually going to receive between 37 and $40,000 more next year. Um so which is nice. So which that enabled us to actually add um we're adding a part-time a good chunk I would say probably like 7/10 of a parah. So, we're going

028to be able to have paras in both buildings again and it helps pay for um our family uh liaison, Guad and Valyria. Um this this grant pays for a large chunk of their other stuff. The other thing that we have in here and the big portion of this a lot a large portion of it is one of the things you have to do is you have to have a consortium. Our consortium um consists of seven different schools and they're listed on there if you have questions about that. We meet with them at least four times a year. Um, and the what happens at those places at the at the consortium events. Um, the kids are actually learning to about different cultures in different schools. So, it's not just about um being Hispanic or being from

029uh Haiti or anything like that. It's about what do they do in Albany or what do they do? So, it's it's a cultural thing for the school, not necessarily that. So, we meet four times. Um, this this year, one of the times was because of bad weather. they had to change it. So, we um we actually met online. Um and then the next one it'll be uh the next one will be in person and then the last one is the big one where everybody comes um and that'll be in in uh the beginning of May. So, that's part of this plan also. So, there'll be some stuff in there. And then the big the other big thing that was changed in here is the professional development. Uh one of the things that has been when

030uh went to the meeting about uh achievement integration uh there's been a lot of research on um trauma- based uh education for kids that come from different places. They come with a lot of uh if you know our our some of our kids that come from Haiti um they've been through in their life some of the high school kids have been through six to eight different coups six to eight different governments in that time. Um the this the government that's in place right now has only been in there I think it's like 8 to 10 months. Um so there's a lot of things that they've lived through um that change how they learn and how how they react to certain things. So um that's one of the things we put in there. I'm working with

031Sourcewell to come up with um kind of a professional development plan for the next three years and you can see that in there. Um we still have uh this grant pays for the whole career fair. It pays for a jump start for kindergarten. Um it pays for uh some of our literacy plan stuff. Um so there's a lot of stuff packed into there. And so what'll happen is each year I'll sub we'll submit a plan, we'll write it out. um this is exactly what we're going to do, but overall this is what's going to happen for the next three years. So there'll be a budget that goes in with that and it's about $260,000 for next year. Um which is up from 215 from last year. So and all I need is you guys to

032vote on this and just approve it that we can turn this in to the state as our beginning for our our plan. Um we will have feedback. uh one of the things that this will be brought to uh our um stakeholders committee and we'll let the parents look at it and if they have questions also. So any questions on that? >> Is this a done deal or this is just an application? >> This is a done deal. Um we were already approved for through what we did because we've made some good grow. So what hap has to happen how how it works Chuck is that you each three years you can up again as long as you have a consortium that works with you and you have some good growth you're showing that your school

033is improving in the areas that they want you to improve in. Our biggest improvements actually we did a a really good job um kudos to the high school. uh we have went from about 10 to 11% of the kids that were um looking for secondary education, so going to post-secary or looking for a job or some kind of training. Last year we had 41% of our Hispanic kids that did that. So we've improved that 30% over the last three years. That was a big goal for us. So as long as you're making good um gains, they re kind of re-up it. Um and then it's based on two things. It's part of it. It's a little bit part of it's a levy and the vast majority of this comes from state funding. So, and then

034you you go through the process. There's a two or three things you have to put in and then this is this one and then as soon as this is approved then I've already done the budget and I'll send that in. So, >> what what is the what is the approximate net cost of the district? >> Uh like I want to say it's probably like um 18 or 20,000. It's not very much. So, you're getting >> 10 times 10 times of what you spent. So, it's a it's kind of a no-brainer. Um, and it really does bring a lot of stuff, especially and it's not just to those kids. Um, it it benefits that career fair benefits everybody. Um, having extra pairs in the building had even in our liaison. I mean, how many times every

035a day do those people help us with other kids that aren't even in ESL or or don't have those issues? So, it's just a it's just a good program. So, any questions? >> Brad, I see one of the um council members that we have on here is also on the resignation list. >> Oh, yes. So, I've already taken care of that. So, what we're doing is um Chantel is taking over for So, okay. So, how this works, I'll explain this since you asked that question. Um it's a good question. So what we have to have is we have to have a student rep that works with those kids that um represents them in when they do the the consortium work. So it was Mrs. Hodak this year and she did a really good job and

036she's the kids really like her um and she works with those kids every day so they've got a good relationship. So the e ele teachers help them choose students that go to that um and it's kind of by um who really works hard in class and those kind of things. So, so what happened when she decided to leave, I immediately went to Chantel who is the teacher and said, "Would you take this over?" And she she had done it before and she before she wasn't interested cuz she had a whole bunch of stuff going on. She was getting her masters and all this other stuff. Um had an overload and uh she agreed to finish the year and she also agreed to take over for next year. So, we have her for two years and

037then what we're going to do, the other person that's going to help her out is Guad actually. So, Guad will be going with to those as an interpreter since um since that's something that they need when they get there anyway. So, Guad has has volunteered and he'll get a little stipen for that also which is built into the grant. So, so good question though. Very good question. >> I'm guessing we need a motion for Brad. >> I'll make a motion. >> I'll second it. >> Lori Tom, is there any further discussion discussion or questions? Any further discussion or questions? Any further questions or discussion? All those in favor say I. >> I. Oppose at the same time. >> Thank you. Any other questions you guys have for community ed? Um we did meet the meetings

038to keep going on with uh we met with um head of Freshwater um and we also met with um Lisa Wick. Um we were so what we were able to because you guys had asked about this we were able to um when we first when when they did the first submission we asked for 24 and 15 they did not allow us to do the part-time so we have 24 seats um is what we are looking at um there is a way to split those seats I don't know how that works um and that's what we're looking in um we won't find find out. So what we did for that um we determined that um we're going to at least extend the day. So the day will be extended some which allows us to use those

039seats um to be able to use those seats for the jump start program. So and I'll probably be calling and talking to you Lisa. I'm having I'm having trouble wrapping my head around this. So you so as you guys know about how we go from half right up to full. Um Lisa said there can be a transition year. I don't know if you guys did that or whatever, but >> we just went for it. >> You went for it. >> That's what I would recommend. >> Okay. Yeah. >> Love it. >> Yep. Well, every we did ask LA. So what we did is we handed a little sheet that said, "Hey, would you be interested in this if this happens, you know, to every parent?" I think we had one that said, "No, I'd only

040like to keep them half days because the statement for grandma and the but the rest of it was I mean, yes, where do we sign up?" So, we're hoping that that all comes comes out and um and the other thing is that I did find out uh Lisa talked to us about that we can amend the grant once we get it, which I didn't realize. So, so there can be some changes with that. We're just what happens the first grant that's that the submission is basically to get permission to do this and then once we get the seats um then we can make some changes to the grant. Isn't that what you thought they said Daniel? >> Yeah. >> So which seats are what? >> Right. Yep. So and then um we do have we

041think we've we think we've got logistics as far as classrooms and stuff worked out. Um so I think we're good to go with that. So >> Brad, is this federal or state dollars? >> Which one? BPK. >> Yeah. BBK is estate. >> Okay. >> Yep. Sponsored by Minnesota. Yep. >> Thank you. >> Very good. Thank you for >> They made us proud. All right. And I guess we're all invited to the career fair if we want to go. >> Yeah, that's that I put that on there. We'd love to have you come. Um I don't know if we'll have newspapers. Last year we had a couple newspapers that came and covered it. Kind of a cool thing. So we've got 35 presentations going on next Friday. Um, and I think there's 13 other either uh

042military colleges and then local businesses are looking for people to work this summer will be in the right sound. That sound >> that sounds correct. >> Very good. >> All right. Technology. Any questions for Mitchell? Any comments? Okay. Thank you. The bound credit card reader. Is that what they use like for the photos? Is that like the same thing? >> I think it's all Yeah. >> Okay. >> Yeah. Skyler was the one that worked on that, right? >> Okay. Yep. >> Copy machine. Are you happy with Tammy? >> The new coffee machine. >> Cool. Right. >> So far so good. It's very large and very quiet. So fast. >> It's good. Um, business manager. Any questions for Sherry? >> Sure. Would you share a little bit about what we do with I love you guys

043and Alice? >> Sure. Um so Alice is um it's called it stands for alert lock down and form counter evacuate. That is what we use um for if there would be a I call them evildoers. If there's an evildoer in the building and students have to students and staff have to make a decision on how they're going to react to that evil door. Um I Alice dovtales in with a newer program cuz Alice goes back I want to say I was trained and certified boy a good eight 10 years ago something like that and then I love you guys came about from um a uh mom and dad that lost a daughter in Colorado and they sort of dovetail together where I love you guys becomes a little bit more of a preventative uh reach

044out to students. Um it it does address uh how to react to an intruder and then it also uh takes on the the back end of I love you guys where if an evil doer comes and we would have to take students to a separate building uh how we would reunify those students. So it gives us a framework to use to work from. It uh provides a lot of information online that is free to us. And so when I started going to that those trainings like this last summer, that's where when you look at the um verbiage by the doors, for example, we changed um to try to make a little bit more plain language of what are we doing? Are we in a lockdown? Are we in a secure? Are we in a hold?

045It goes beyond um it goes beyond intruder as well. It uh will also be used let's say there's a medical emergency in our hallways. Let's say there's a fight in our hallways. We can use terminology where we just hold one wing of of classrooms until we deal with that emergency. So I love you guys kind of encompasses a more broad perspective um beyond Alice. If you go on the I love you guys website, it's very robust. There's lots of um videos to use. Uh there's lots of um free for us letters and um signage. Comes in multiple languages. If there's a language we need, we can reach out to them, which I will do because I believe they don't they do have Haitian Creole, but there's one of our languages they don't have. So, if

046we reach out to them, they'll help us get that. Um, I trained uh half a day on the staff November 3rd where we talked about did a recap of Alice, a short recap, and then talked a little bit more about I love you guys, the reunification and all that kind of thing. Um, the unfortunate thing about Friday is that we hadn't dealt with a for real and we did the the best we could with what we knew at the time. We did a debrief today with uh Ryan uh and deputy or officer Stoke from the city police um where they came in talked to us about what had happened and we've got a very long list of uh improvements that we're going to make. Uh we had lots of feedback from the teachers. Tammy and

047I both reached out to all our teachers to find out, you know, what went wrong, what went good, what could we do better, etc., etc. Um, so it when it happened, we put all this protocol in place. It was just one of those things where it was the since it was the first time around. Um, how does it look? So, I know that you guys have been hearing from folks on the outside. forward them all up to Daniel and the admin staff because I'm taking all that stuff from the teachers from the outside and we're going to keep improving. We're going to talk about it. I'm going to talk to the high school staff on Wednesday and then we're also going to recap again on the 23rd on our um PD day and we're going

048to continue talking about this and making it better so that teachers are more comfortable. Um, we're gonna also start working on um, one of our teachers brought up the the backside of all this. I think that that's where a lot of school districts is very hard to implement. What does the after stuff look like? What do we do? How do we um, deal with the students that especially special ed students, uh, the students that get scared, the students that don't understand? And so we'll be putting together a team of those people as well that deal more with the vulnerable students and making an afteraction plan that we can implement districtwide. So we're always always always looking for improvements. We're always looking for suggestions and again if you hear from other people, please forward them because

049then we can address um we can address everything that comes up and you know like I said continue to do our best, continue to have a plan and go from there. Especially for me because I'm not out with the students. You know, I I've got the I've got the the overview stuff. I' I've done a lot of training. you know, I feel like I can do a good implementation, but once it starts trickling down into the students, you know, that's where the admin team is. We're all working together to make sure that our teachers are more comfortable, our students are more comfortable. The hardest part about something like that is, and I tell the staff that, is that the decision you make at the time is the right decision. Because if you think about a

050tragic event like that, what do you do? You know, what do you do? We didn't know, you know, when it when the thing went off, we didn't know if it was real or not. Um, when the law enforcement didn't show up after 3, four, five minutes, I got on the cameras and started looking at the hallways, things like that. We also have the ALC in this building. So, um, I called, um, city police and I got officer Stoke here and he and I went down to the ALC and he cleared that area to make sure no one was in there because they also have a button down there. Um, and that's what triggers what went on on Friday. And then once that went out and we had looked at all the hallways and determined that

051false alarm, now how do we release? And what we chose to do at the time in a real situation, um, law enforcement would go through and open all the doors. We don't just do an all call saying everybody, you know, because they want to make sure that somebody's not hiding cuz when when the officer went through, I'd never been behind one doing that. He was, you know, keeping doors open and, you know, show yourself, that kind of thing. Um, we kind of simulated that whole take the key, go open doors, and you know, make sure the students know, like we went in and said, you know, everything's good, you're okay, etc., etc. And we even found out things that way that we need to improve because we went to one side of the building, went

052to this side of the building, we forgot about band down that hallway. And so, you know, those are the things that from an unfortunate event we tried to do the best we could to to make up for um those problems and now we have a list. So, >> yep. >> How much of the staff was trained in this Alice and the and the I love you. >> All of them that came to the November 3rd, we made it a requirement for uh food service, maintenance, clerical. We invited St. Mary's. We brought in Aximmit. We brought in city police. Um we invited all the partners that would go along. What we did was we did a um approximately 3 to four hour training where we had Ryan from the city talk first about like law enforcement

053side of things and then I did mine. Um and then at the end we did a half hour where we did uh I called them tabletop exercises. I didn't know what else to call them. where I had um for example, Audrey took the clerical staff. Um I had all the people in my office. Mitchell took technology. Um Jenny was helping with like the aximate and itinerate people. Um Bonnie took the food service. Cindy took the maintenance. Um I had Jenn um Jessica Richtor and Dustin Ble take the paras. They had gone to training with us too because they do our afterchool program because we also have to implement this for after school and weekends to try and get some sort of training for folks that use our building that aren't on staff 100% of the

054time. So Jessica and um uh Dustin took the Paris and then I took the teachers and we all did a tabletop debrief where we got to we let people ask their one-on-one questions and then um after I had the information from all those folks, then I put together a list at the next PD where I stood up and just did a recap for everybody again of what came out of the tabletops. So everybody, >> so that alarm was part of the fire alarm system. Like that's the whole it's the whole system together in one. >> Let me jump in on that one. >> Okay. >> Mitchell also does quite a bit with security on the technology side. And so this particular one uh the trigger originated from elementary and that's we can figure it was

055a faulty wiring like a blip on Wednesday. We're going to pull all the wire behind the button out. And so when it got triggered, um, it didn't call the police because in order to call the police, you have to push the button all the way up. And since it was a blip, it was it's like a sequence of events. So it wasn't triggered long enough to go through the full sequence. And so the we we uh taking a look at some of the wiring that happened with the um security system and fixing and adjusting that. Um, was was some of that from this summer? >> Yes. Still left over from the bad install. >> Yeah. So, >> but we didn't expect this because everything's been quiet and nothing was touched. >> We we had contested

056some of that and gotten some of that fixed. >> I also possibly blamed it on it could be a mouse that ran through the ceiling and the wire. We don't know. That's why we're going to look into it because everything's been quiet for months. So, >> and then the fire alarm. So when it calls out to the police, it goes through the fire alarm panel. So the fire alarm that went off over at the secondary school, there was a bad sprinkler head and basically it thought that there was something wrong in the HVAC system and then that turned out to be a fault like it was a false read. Um but earlier in the year we had a few times and it usually happened when there was a power blip. So our fire alarm panel

057which you'll see that we have a quote for repairing that later is like 30 years old about 10 years past expected life expectancy and so when we had these power blips um there's a communication happens between the lockdown and the fire panel and it the fire panel is in zones so like you know tells you which zone something got set off. One of the zones is lockdown. And so when we have the blip, it triggered the lockdown. Um that's why it happened with the fire. That's the one that happened at the beginning of the school year and we've had a few on the weekends. Um that's why we want to get the fire uh panel replaced because I believe it just communication issue between the two. One's extremely old. It's doing extreme like we've got

058extremely few issues with it for its age. And so that fire alarm will send out the calls. So like about police, different emergency. And so we're tied in that way. Um Mitchell, am I missing anything on those? >> No, I mean it the the system knows where the alarm was pushed. The police will go to that building because they will be informed. It's it's complicated system. One of the things that we had done too before CO uh we had what we called the security team where we would meet quarterly with um our staff, our safety committee, uh fire chief, uh these were the folks invited and and most of them showed up. We had the fire chief, we had uh city police, uh the sheriff's department, Aximate, um and any other first responders that wanted

059to come and show up. and we would meet before school and we would talk about, you know, the whatifs, the that kind of stuff. And when Ryan and Officer uh Stoke were here this morning, uh in the interim of that day, we did a debrief of, you know, what could we have done better? What would they have done better? And then, um verbally, we also talked about we're going to start those up again. Um because actually a lot of personnel has changed um school uh law enforcement the whole thing. So because that was back when you know Langanger was still chief and and uh um I think Steve was still sheriff. So >> Yep. >> When you started this conversation you said you weren't sure if it was real or not. >> Yes. >> I

060just should you always think it's real. >> We always think it's real. >> Yeah. >> Yep. >> What gave you the inclination? It might not be because the police weren't showing up. That was exactly what it was. When 3 to 5 minutes went by and the police weren't here was when I hit the cameras. >> Good to know. That's explanation. >> Yep. >> First thing I did too is I also called each office their personal cell phone. They said, "Did you guys push the button?" They said, "No." So then I knew right away. And then I went and looked in the logs and I could see that it was a just a it's a one thing. It didn't do the list of events that we have. We have tons of things that happen. I mean

061doors closed, lights global. It's it's a big deal. We only did that one thing, just the announcement. That was it. >> We all have roles. I have roles. Sherry Mitchell, our two billion principles, Mr. R, Mrs. Vila, and uh we're generally all doing something. >> And our biggest thing um besides getting all of the as much as we can predict um addressed, how do we do this, how do we do that? Uh then the my next goal really is to um for example um get this all written down so that all the offices all of us have been trained on what needs to get done because as soon as somebody's not here who steps in and does it what do they need to do again you know a person has to get it as close

062as they can and as best they can and that's why it's very helpful for me when I hear from other people when we did the the emails out to both buildings. I emailed both buildings and said, you know, tell me what I need to know. Tell me what you saw. Tell me what happened. And um and again, if you guys forward what you hear, that'd be fantastic because that's the only way we can address all that stuff. And hopefully we can get um enough training in and the more we keep building on it, you know, we hope to never lose it by the time at least I retire. >> But, you know, Yeah. But we got to be prepared. We got to be prepared. Yep. >> I think a lot of the feedback that I've

063received from community members has been the communication with parents and um I think they felt like there's a lack of an explanation of why this happened and there wasn't there hasn't been a really clear message sent to the community of like what happened and how we're going to improve it. And that's where I like to have the conversations as well because again um and especially having um admin honestly working together and having that the way I would communicate is very different from the principles because they have the figure you know their finger on the pulse of what do teachers expect what do parents expect what do kids expect and so that going forward and how we had our conversations today is you know we'll be working together to figure out what does it look like,

064what's the best thing, what's the best message to say. >> So, I guess then to follow up on that, >> y >> um looking through the second message, I note there really wasn't an explanation as to why it happened, >> you know. Um and I know we're you're still in the Yeah, you're still in the discovery phase. >> Um but is there something additional information that's going to be sent out or provided to everybody that explains it a little bit better? because I think right now people are still kind of like, you know, I don't think the message really hit home and explained the situation. >> We know later we have the fire alarm panel on there and we've had our debriefs. So, I mean, um, there's definitely information we can provide about like what

065we've been doing with the system, >> right, and the conversations we've had now, >> right? I mean, and I think that's good information to pass out and like I think if uh community members are watching right now, they'll have a fairly good understanding or explanation as to why this took place, but unless you're watching it, you may not. >> Right. Right. Absolutely. And anybody's welcome to reach out to me directly too if they want to. I'm I'm more than happy to take those. The other thing going forward that I love you guys does provide is that there there are talking points for um students like videos that they've put out on directed towards students on what to expect. There's videos they have out there to parents saying here's what we're doing to protect your students.

066Here's what to expect. We've also talked about doing that at back to school as well providing or when we do like a parent poperie um that they've done in the past uh where we've had what we've done before is when we had those families come up with of the different cultures and talk about their culture. We've talked about doing that same thing with parents and giving them the opportunity. We'd have to prepare something that is appropriate and I'm not ready to do that right now, but that's in the future too is to say I'm hoping this summer and by next school year having that available that if parents choose to come to an auditorium and give the parent side of this and let them also relay their, you know, their wants, their frustrations, maybe do

067the explanations, you know, if we can, but at least know what parents are thinking and stuff. and then also incorporate the student side of it as well. >> so have we fixed or found what made this happen? >> And can we bring somebody in to do that? >> They're coming already up and scheduled. >> Okay. >> They called immediately. >> Yeah. >> It's a Wednesday. >> We're going to replace >> everything for the wiring for the buttons. >> So, both buildings. >> I'm guessing an easy thing to do. No, it's going to take a lot of time. >> I don't I just don't trust it. I mean, this has happened twice now, >> so we're not we're not going to keep going forward with that. >> Well, I think it's good to know that it

068h it hasn't been found yet. So, if it happens again, >> it's real. But >> yeah, >> you know, we know that it could happen again, >> right? Like I said, it could just be a broken wire in the ceiling. It could be air blowing on it. Just something that just happened and there's no explanation for it. So, >> well, it gives us a chance to talk about too because, you know, I'm always I'm always trying I'm always rethinking how something could have gone better. And then my thoughts were, should I have gotten on the on the sound system and and and I'm not saying this would have happened, but do I start saying that? I'm looking down hallways and I don't see anything. You know, I it's hard to know what's appropriate at the

069time, but I start thinking about what would make it easier, better, but then all of a sudden the evil door pops out and now what, you know? And I do I do want to say within 5 to 10 minutes we did let the students know by PA they weren't allowed to leave the room and we were going to let them out but we calm them down and just said it's it's looking like it's nothing and you can desire relief and we'll just be around to help you out and that's what we did. Please. >> Um I I was disappointed that the board wasn't told what was going on and my expectation in the future is if if something like this happens that we would be let, you know, not that we're going to tell anyone

070what's happening. We'll forward it to you guys. But that way when parents are speaking to us, we're we're not like, I have no idea what you're talking about, >> right? because it doesn't feel good to be in the dark about things. >> Absolutely. Absolutely. Well, yeah, because I mean, honestly, you're going to be the first ones to hear. We just know that's what's going to happen. That and Facebook are going to be the first ones talking about it. >> Absolutely. >> So, >> yeah. >> Anything else for right now? Otherwise, if anything else comes up, please, please, please let me know >> forward or please ask. It was good that you took it seriously and that you even though after you found out that it may be a false alarm, you still took those steps

071forward um to kind of at that point in time work it as a drill um and just to kind of go through those steps and >> well and the other I mean the the word to say that it's not necessarily the best thing to say it was a good thing happened because it was not. But the time that it happened being lunch hour was opportune in the fact that we know we've got to make adjustments. We know we've got to make changes and we know we have to plan for that because when you look at statistics for school lunch um when people are in the building concerts and stuff you got to be prepared cuz you know statistically that are is a high opportunity. So the the unfortunate part was the timing let us know

072that you got work to do. So say we have children outside, we have an area where they can go not back in the building, don't we? >> Correct. Correct. And and that is a conversation. We've we've designed rally points uh per the Alice protocol and the staff knows where those rally points are. the what I've done when I've done my training is that I've told staff that the decision you make at the time is the right decision because I can't have anybody second-guessing what they're going to do because if they hes if some people hesitate does that put them in danger or not and so mostly I want people to think about the whatifs if I'm over by music what would I do if I'm over by fed what would I do and so I've

073given them the opportunity to say, "Make the decision you think you need to make." So, that's part of our conversation that I've written down is the students on the playground. Should they have come back in or should they have gone to our rally point? >> And again, that's a that's not a a definite yes or no right now >> because it depends on, you know, it's nice that they had their coats on, >> but we found that out with the fire drill that happened. Half the kids had coats and half didn't. Half had their stuff and half didn't. And that's another one just to put that out there in conjunction with this. Um Barton is going to be meeting with Aximmit and we're going to be getting a protocol with Aximmit on the fire and

074and this as well. What do we do with the students when they're on the bus? Do we send them? Do we keep them? Do we And then that'll also carry over in the summertime. We had that this past summer where um there was a tornado or bad storm that went through. We had kids on the bus. We pulled them in. We put them in the tornado shelter. Once we have those procedures in place, we can stand behind those procedures. And when parents get upset that, hey, you're not letting my kid out of the building and I want to take him home, we can say, this is our procedure. We stand behind it. We want all our kids safe. You're welcome to come in here with them. So, yeah, we're working with Aximmit on that as

075well. So, yeah, >> there are so many >> room for improvement. >> Yep. But there's so many things you have to think about. >> Y facets. So, again, please let me know. Please let me know what people are saying and and again if you want me to reach out and talk to folks I'm more than happy to do that as well. >> So okay >> Charlie I see you're here to step up. >> Yep. Okay. So if any of you don't know me I'm Charlie Steer. Um the golf coach for Browerville and Long Prairie. I've taught in Browerville for about 10 years now. I think it's actually right on 10 years. Um, and uh, since I took over golf about five years ago, it's kind of exploded. Uh, I started with four or five kids.

076Um, this year I'm looking at possibly 33 now. Uh, numbers more and more keep coming in. And actually on my sheet here, I had to white out my numbers a couple times because even today, this afternoon, it was more and more coming in. Um but um first thing I want to say is uh my board at Browerville does not know I'm here. Um I came to you guys first to talk to you um to hopefully get some support. Um so uh like I said, we're seeing some very large growth in in golf and uh more so out of out of Long Prairie in the last three years. Uh, three years ago it was one from Long Prairie. Last year was five. Now we're up to nine this year. Um, so it's it's grown pretty quickly.

077Um, and that's exactly the same thing that I saw in Browerville when I first took over. Started with four and then it just kept snowballing after that. Uh, last year I had a a fairly good amount of students and and a lot more girls. Um, which is great. I Last year was kind of the first year that we've had any girls out for golf. Um, but it also kind of created a problem with our transportation. Um, I tried to make it work the first time and I made it to Pillager in a van with nine people, golf clubs and carts all in one van. Um, and I got there and I said, "This cannot this this is not going to work anymore." So, I called Jenny Aximate right away and we started kind of trying

078to find some ideas and um, it came down to us. Basically, we did buses last year and the team was able we did buses for JV and that uh kind of forced us to send um more girls over to JV and they were very open to that. But I would like more varsity meets to get them more exposure. Um and overall uh last year we had six varsity meets, four JV meets, so 10 meets total. Um, and I did sat down with some numbers from Jenny and um, came down to for a total of 10 meets. It was right about $4,000 for buses just to get them to the meet and and back. Um, and we we made it work with varsity taking vans last year and and JB taking buses, but I don't like

079that idea this year for one reason, safety of students. That was dumb. We got there and when I stopped and looked back at the van and I go, if we got in an accident, the people in the back of the van are not making it out. That's plain and simple. Um, and I've seen that in my own endeavors on the ambulance and fire, and I don't want to go there. So, um, basically, I'm coming here to ask, uh, to see if you guys would be willing to, uh, pay for just buses for our meets, half of the transportation cost. Like I said, roughly four 4,000 total would be 2,000 from 2,000 from from Browerville. Um I have not talked to them yet to see what their thoughts are on this. I was coming to you

080guys first. Uh one being the host school. Um and two knowing what some of my board members think of golf over there. Um they're not super supportive of it. So um just wanted to come and talk to you guys. Some numbers wise, nine kids from Long Prairie, the rest are from Browerville. From Long Prairie, we're looking at probably six starters for sure. Uh, spread across JV and and varsity for Long Prairie. Six of those nine nine kids are probably going to be golfing at every meet. Um, the other three I don't know yet because they're out new this year and I have not seen what they're about. Um, and then the other six starters I uh would be from Browerville. Girls varsity, boys varsity, I can take 12 total, six on each team. And then

081JB I can take six on each team as well. Sometimes they allow more, but um yeah, so varsity would be kind of an even split. Um more so uh more girls from Long Prairie on varsity than boys. I think I got two from from varsity, boys from Long Prairie, and then um got more girls out this year from Long Prairie, which is great. Um loving having a girls team. It's kind of fun, too. So, um you guys have any questions? How does he coach 33 students a day? >> Um well, I've started having to do rotations on the driving range. Uh and luckily I I do have last year we got an assistant coach. Um before it was myself, but uh usually we split them um up at the driving range at the at the

082golf course and then at the uh funny greens. We start off doing that and then we move on um and get them out on the course. And um before when it was just me, I'd send them all on the course and then I'd get on a cart and a be bop around the course and maybe play or or walk them through half of a hole and then jump over to the next group and try to spread so thin. I'm trying um to help as many as I can. But you know, that's how that goes. But uh yeah. Um and I think you guys see I hope you guys see some of the uh fundraising we've been doing. Um, I'm trying different things this year with the fundraising, but we've we've done meat raffles in the

083past. Our sponsorship, putting sponsorship, there these new golf carts that are coming around. I just ordered 50 50 more of those today from the company cuz they're selling pretty fast. I have zero left. None. I ordered 150. They're all gone. Um, we've helped out in the course running uh u mini games during some of their tournaments in the summer. Uh we've gotten a food truck to come in and do food truck days of the course um during during tournaments. Uh and the list chili feed every year we do a chili feed. The list goes on of things we've tried to do to raise money. Um and we've been pretty fortunate on what we've been able to do. I think we're we've got to be close to making 10 to 12,000 a year. Um, and that's

084about what it takes to run a whole season without all this extraation cost. Uh, so I've been going to the Lions. Last year I did not go to the Lions to ask for money. This year I will be um to help kind of combat that, too. But yeah, >> the fundraising that started out to pay the coaches, wasn't it? >> Uh, yes. And it does still do that. >> It still does do that. Yep. Um >> um and I even if we just like I said, we're just starting off with buses and if we're still willing if we were to willing to do that, we'd still do all the fundraising to cover all the coaches fees, the green fees, our conference fees, medals and awards. Um what else? There's a whole bunch of them. Minnesota

085State High School League fees. Uh uh going down to section meets, which we before I started coaching, we never did before because they didn't have well to my knowledge they didn't have the money. It turns out they did. and then they just never went and I don't know what happened there but uh we've been going every year and then every year since I've taken over I've never seen a year where we've backstepped and gotten worse. Uh we've just gotten better and better every year. Uh last year we were able to place uh third at one meet and fourth and fifth at the rest and there's usually 10 10 schools at every meet. Uh, and this year if we get if we get a day where they're where the boys are golfing together as a group

086really well, I it would not surprise me if we pulled the second place off, maybe a first. We'd be pushing it for a first, but definitely within a second. So, um, yeah, and they've just gotten better and better watching the older ones. They even sit down with the elder ones to help coach once they get up there. I got a couple guys that graduated last year that started in seventh grade with me and um fabulous working with the seventh graders as they were seniors. So, it's a big help. >> Any other questions? >> Well, we all know that golf is a lifelong sport. >> It is. and just, you know, families do it and it's just so so I mean me personally would not have a problem sharing that cost $2,000 if we'd stick to

087that amount be surprised shock or something >> and you know if it if it if like I'm ballpark and I got to be within a couple hundred bucks at 4,000 4,000 like but if it was four or five I would I'm not going to come back and ask for another 250 from each. I would just say let's just cover that with our fundraiser stuff and get it taken care of. So, biggest thing though too is if we start doing this and I have a feeling it's just going to continue to grow the golf team. Um, I would appreciate it if I didn't have to come back every year and ask every year if it was if we made it an ongoing thing. Um, but if I do need to come back and ask and then

088if you know stuff takes a turn, which I don't think it will for less kids, uh, we could change that later. But yeah, that's >> it's such a minimal cost for an impact that that has on these kids. Seriously, >> it's minimal. I like you say that. It's huge. It's huge. a lot of money for something. >> I think at that point if you're getting bigger and bigger, kids are doing well, gets to be a discussion between the athletic directors and the districts and find out if we need to relook at our agreement. >> Okay. >> So, I have no problems either with sending a little money. I would bet Kelsey would almost have her budget some money left over. >> She's fabulous to work with, by the way. Did Did you say you've run

089this? You have or have not run this past the Barville board yet? >> I have not. Yes. No, >> I have not. I don't know how they will take it. Um I'm hoping that if you guys decided to to agree to it, that that would be, for lack of better words, smoking gun to make them kind of do it because I think it would look kind of bad if they chose not to after you all decided to do that. Do they does their legion or anybody do they have any races for like golf any sport? >> Um have some organizations. >> Yes. The biggest one they do is that uh they do the Tigers golf outing uh the alumni tournament in the summer which then that's what they that's the money they use to pay

090for all of the students athletic fees. That's how they get around having the >> Maybe you come up with $2,000 though because they need to go, >> right? >> Good good people to approach. >> I would make the motion to approve the $2,000 in transportation. >> I would have a motion on the floor >> and a second. >> You got a second. So Jeremiah and Tanya to upon the successful discussion with Barville. >> Sure. >> Split that transportation cost to the town tune of $2,000. Okay. >> And go from there. I think >> is that good enough for you, Jenny? >> We had a motion by Jeremiah, second by Tanya. Any further discussion or questions? Any further discussion or questions? >> I have a question. >> Yes, ma'am. Could we just say we'll put 2,000

091out there if they do it or not? We'll do it and hopefully they'll just follow suit. >> Yeah, I think you should talk to those term. I bet they'd settle 2,000 bucks right away. >> I'm going to go to their next board meeting. >> I mean, see is that what's that fun? >> Right. >> All right. But we have a motion and a second and a discussion. And how about we go from there? >> Yep. >> Okay. No further discussion. Any question you got? >> Nope. >> You were gonna think I heard it. >> I I didn't know it was that rusty. I was like, I could always I mean, if that was the route we wanted to go, I could always modify my motion, but >> Okay, >> it'll work. Come back and talk

092at us again. Whatever. >> I'll let you know what they say as well, what they do. So, >> all those in favor say I. >> Oppose. Same sign. >> Motion carries. >> Thank you. Thank you guys. Appreciate it. Thank you for coming. >> Should I stay? >> Is good. >> Y >> Thank you. >> Appreciate it. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Uh we are down to health office. Did you want to speak at us or just reading your step? It's it's lengthy questions to I can whichever whatever you guys >> you guys have any questions or concerns for Melissa >> we're here with the SER grant right? >> Yeah I can talk about that a little bit. Um, so I just sent an email the state department had put out. Um, you want me to

093come up or >> Sure. Um, >> um, the state department had put out a listing of everybody that got the grant. Um, they had quite a bit that were interested in it and pursued it, but um, I think if you read your emails tonight, that came out. Um, that was pretty cool to see our name on it. Um that's Sherry, um Mr. Loveixson, and um Kelsey and myself that worked on that. So, uh Daniel provided a lot of the actual writing and we put forth um the information and kind of got it all gathered up so that he could do that. So, >> our individual talents. >> Yeah. So, and and I went to one of my um LSN meetings for our our um central area and no one else had even applied for it.

094So, it was pretty pretty cool to be there. And um the lady from Project Adam, which is listed on our my talking points, too, that we're going to be working with. Um she was there and so that was kind of nice to meet her. Um I'll kind of go through that. That's kind of what we want to talk about. Basically right now um Project Adam uh is going to be coming here during workshop week week and we're going to run through um hands only CPR. So they actually have I I saw it at my last conference that I went to. It's just like a blowup person and everybody gets one and we're going to go through actually teaching handsonly CPR on those to I think we agreed the whole staff we kind of wanted to

095do it Sherry and um coaching staff will be invited to that too. And then we also have a red teams um in each building. We've had those for a number of years. So, a lot of this we've already put into place before the SER um kind of was required by schools or or they were telling us that this was required. Um so, then after we train the staff, we're going to run through mock scenarios in each building. Um we also talked about how we'd like to have support, police, um maybe centric care, uh the ambulance kind of come and do those mock scenarios with us. Um and the lady from Project Adam will be there and kind of go through it. It's part of the program. Um so we'll do that afterwards at the high

096school building and then we'll come over here and run the same scenario. And she said it'll take probably an hour and 15 minutes for the whole staff and ours roughly for the mock drills will be maybe 30 to 45 minutes at each building. Um and we'll go through and actually perform CPR on our mannequins. um have our team come. Uh we actually want to have you know say Mr. Hudala is the person that calls and says he needs help in his room go over the loudspeaker and practice that. Um we've had a few instances this this school year where people call up to the office and say Audrey I need somebody down in this room and and I'm like why aren't they calling for the red team like over the loudspeaker and and the one

097she said she was panicked. She's like I forgot what I even was supposed to do. But again, we don't practice those things. So, that's another thing that I've talked with Mr. Rude about is maybe making these into kind of like our our drills, having it, you know, during the school day. We used to do morning um practices. Now actually taking the time to call like and have a mannequin in a room and have that teacher, you know, maybe it's a study hall so it's not disrupting an actual class, but have it being a study hall and that person calls over the loudspeaker. Our whole team responds and then we do an actual scenario and and go through and it maybe won't always be CPR. Maybe it's EpiPen use, maybe it's um you know a seizure

098medication, maybe it's nlloxxone for an overdose and just running through each one of those things because unless you know we don't get to practice those all the time, obviously you hope you don't have to, but being prepared to be able to do those things. So, I think it's really good that we're going to have the support and also have the grant funding um to help us get, you know, new supplies, things um that we're really going to need um to do some of these things, too. Some of it does entail um buying new mannequins, buying some of those those products that we can use to to help with training. Um is there anything else you can think of with SER that you wanted >> the AEDs? Yes, we have some AEDs that we'll order and

099then outdoor cabinets that are um built for the weather resistance. So, I believe one at the football field and then one at the baseball like a little further out. You're supposed to be able to reach um the AD in 3 minutes. So, some of those fields that are out further from the high school that might be a little tricky to get into the school and run it all the way back in a 3minut time period. So, I think Kelsey and I had decided that we want one out there, too. Um, and then I don't think there's anything else with that. Um, but those are the main ones. And then, oh, travel ones, too. We had purchase some more AEDs for for travel purposes so that more teams would be able to take them with them

100on the road. So, all of those things, we just got, you know, the go-ahhead to be able to actually order. We've known we've had the the SER um grant funding. we just had to get um that actual okay now you can order and and we'll reimburse you for what for what you buy. So um yeah and and the next thing I'm working on myself personally is writing the actual SER um it's kind of there's a the state has an actual you know guideline for how to do it. We have a lot of it in place. It just needs to be put on paper now. Um, and project Adam will also help schools with that. So, that's the point that I'm at. We've already built our teams. We've already done all the pre-steps. We just have

101to put it in place and it's due I think it's July 1st that I think schools have to have it and then they implement it next school year. So, >> where are we? >> That's a pretty big one. >> So, >> we learned a lot about emergency responses tonight. Yeah, we've talked a lot about >> people come back watch the meeting. Do >> you have do you have a kit that the head of the red team grabs for with an nappy pen or >> Yep. >> So, >> Yep. So, each um team member has a job. Um typically, you know, the nurses since we have our orange bags in each of the um health offices, we grab those. Um, Guad, for instance, at the high school, he usually gets uh the AED. Um, we have

102somebody that's assigned to be the recorder, so they jot down the time and the events of everything. Um, you know, sometimes everybody's there. Sometimes we're lacking a person. Um, so people have been really good about stepping in. We've had some scenarios this year where we've we've had to have the red teams come at both buildings. And um yeah, it's kind of kind of like everybody has a job and we we do it. Um it's pretty straightforward, I guess. But we haven't had many team members drop out or change. They get certified for a 2-year period and then at that time if they choose not to, they can tell me like, I don't want to do this anymore. And then I can ask staff if they want, you know, if we want somebody else. But I've

103only think I have one person that's maybe left in the last last year or so. So, everybody's pretty much primarily stayed the same. And then I also train the um LP Kid staff, too. And a lot of those do both. They'll be on a red team and they work at LP Kids. So, that's kind of nice because they're dual purpose that way. So, yeah. >> Wonderful. Any further questions for Melissa? >> Your um account of illnesses or whatever. Last month or so, there were like 600 something headaches. Sorry. >> I heard there was a headache discussion. >> So, I had asked the question, could there be something in the air? Could it be the lights? We talked about all that stuff. >> Are we looking into that? That's a lot of headaches. >> So, generally

104speaking, headaches are um dehydration, lack of sleep, and not eating. And we have a lot of that. A lot of times, um I go through those three things with the kids. Sometimes they're willing to admit that they didn't sleep last night because they played video games. And sometimes they're willing to admit that they haven't drank much today. Or no, I didn't eat. I don't like what's for breakfast. Then usually I have food in either of my offices. So we offer that up or we do, you know, a 10-minute timer. We get to lay down a rest in a dark, quiet space. Um, and I would say a very large percentage of time those things work. So >> I just wondered I just thought that was so it just climbed and I thought well >> and

105sometimes related to um you know sickness and stuff when we log students in in the office say they present and they have you know I have a headache I have you know um chills I have um you know my uh throat hurts all of those things get logged like all three are presenting as that's the office visit when I run reports and get the data it'll say you know, all those things separately. So, it's going to count. So, that one visit might have been for, you know, five different ailments. So, but it is a lot, but >> it's also one thing that they can't like I can't prove that they don't have to. So, it's it could be it could be sometimes that they're just saying that. Who knows? But >> headache, you know. >>

106Yeah. >> You know, interesting enough, like I was at a school once where they reduce the headaches by having a water bottle. >> Yeah. >> So, they drink water. >> We do. We at the elementary we give out water bottles. Um the Delta dental program sends us those backpacks every year and they have them in 20 um student increments. So I always end up getting more because we you know I can only get it getting the amounts of 20 and over um each each uh you know package comes in. So I give out water bottles a lot in the elementary. Um the high schoolers don't I don't know they feel like they're permanently dehydrated. They don't like to drink water. I don't know what it is, but it >> doesn't fit in their locker. >>

107Okay, maybe. I don't know what the thing is. I've asked them and they they're like, I don't know. And and then I always tell them like, there's no way you're getting the amount of water that you should drink just by going to the water fountain cuz I'll just get it at the water fountain. I'm like, okay. But that's that's not enough. So, some of those things I maybe 10 years ago, I feel like we had that big water bottle push and every kid got one and they all ran around with them. and now less of a tweenage stage. They're not walking around with water bottles. I And I can't get them to um I offer to give them to them and they're like I don't want to be seen with that. >> I don't know.

108It's not cool. I I have no idea why. So >> I do try encourage it, but >> we can be honest. 90% of your visits are probably my daughters. So >> Oh, sometimes I don't see any kid. Like it's it's it's interesting like if I can I pull reports and I can see all the kids that I've seen and then how many times I've seen them. If you look at it, it's it's interesting that I probably haven't even seen, you know, 25% of the actual students in the school. It's more seeing the same students repeatedly for differing things. So, and some of them need to see me. Medications, diabetes, you know, they they need to see me. So, see us, I should say. Oh, yeah. Any other questions? >> Thank you very kindly. Nice to

109hear. >> Uh, principal reports. Any questions for our principles? >> Mr. >> Yeah. >> Do you know how many kids are going on this trip next week? >> Uh, count off top of my head. No, I don't. >> 62. 62. >> Would you like to tell a little bit about the band trip? >> Oh, yeah. Um, Mr. Spear is quickly organizing. He's done a fantastic job of that. We're going to be doing a bag check on that coming up next week and u beh, as I said, 62 students. I think the biggest thing uh going is just the fact that it's travel time and that's a big thing with the kids and that they're going to be set to go and we shouldn't I I expect nothing. We've always had very good turnout with the

110kids. It was we had an episode a couple years ago before they went but that was small. I don't expect anything to go wrong with that at all. Um I'm have Mr. spirit come back and give us a report on that. Um, I'm not expecting anything wrong with that whatsoever. I do want to bring up I did leave you some information though on that. Couple of things on that fire alarm. We do have a plan meeting. I set that up. I built a framework for it. Bigger thing that my bigger concern was working with Aximmit with that whole thing because we have a couple things. when we're off campus, Tammy and I, we have to have that notification. Kudos to Mitchell. He's already on top of that with our fire alarm system. I think once

111we get that sorted out, we're going to have it's going to be smoother and cleaner and everything. The concern always is what kind of procedures are set up. We're working with Aximmit to build those procedures because what we quickly found out when we go through these and I know I'm not going to harp on this because um Sherry did a fantastic job with this but you're finding out where those gaps are at and there was you know we're working with as to build because I can't go to the the bus drivers and say you need to do this. So I have to work with as to build and they're more than willing. I already had a conversation with Jenny. Um, so I didn't get to call her today, but it'll probably be the end of

112the week or next week. I want Mr. Atics will be there obviously, so it's going to be most likely next week. But I'm going to set around the table. Now, I did have an interesting conversation with Officer Strike because he came in later that day after the lockdown and it was I I don't want this I want this to get out because it's very important. This is a compliment he had from Kim to us as an officer of law. He said, "Hey, that went wrong today in the sense of the electronics." But here's the thing. He said from my perspective, the human element spot on. And I think that's so important because we know we've done I mean this goes back to Sherry, Mr. leix and that training that we have going on and that

113we're implementing especially with the you do I love you guys that's a very important part because I was I was subbing that day that hour I was subbing I we're short so I got a firsthand view on the other side of that you know it's easy when you're up in the office we've got our zones that were going out to we talked about communication today having communication devices um Mitchell's already working on that kudos to him on that and seeing what the kids automatically boom they were already on top of a new way to be able to replicate because they saw that over elementary me came over here. So I think that needs to be broadcast out that we've got that human element down. That's a good part because electronics can fail. Things can go

114wrong if you have that human element. They're adjusting as you're going. And that's what we're doing is not every situation is going to be the same. I took a lunch break later in the day for that fire alarm because things happen. I didn't get a lunch and I said, "Well, I'll go up and take my lunch off." So you remember I was up at the post office and the store makes it come. These things happen. How do you react? Well, people are in place. We have that. We're making those adjustments. You find where the gaps are. We build a framework. We readjust with XM. You need to do this with bus drivers. We need this. the busy year over there. So, that's not a bad thing and it's good to hear that from the officer's

115perspective. So, who knows? And another kudos to Mr. Gansky as we're going through this. He takes these things very personally because he's working really hard to put that electronics portion in. And that's a bearcat. I'm telling you, there's a lot of systems I got to talk to each other. And he's on top of it and they're done. And I know he takes that stuff very very personally. I need to stay on top because he's on top of that stuff and I appreciate that. I really do think so. But other than that, good stuff. I mean, these are all things that we're going to be fixing. I I I talk to other principles. We're miles ahead of other schools. And I hear that from officers that we're miles ahead of other schools. That makes me feel

116good because we're taking this stuff seriously. Maybe the last training we went to, we talked about who wasn't there. So, I think that says a lot. So, um yeah. So, if you have any questions, I tried to outline things for you on there. If you do have any questions, let us know. Um, yeah. So, but mine's raised to a third. So, Oh, and uh compliments to I was in the I was making my rounds uh the other last week and and I was in in Jill's in the fax room and I said, "Can you guys come to the board meeting?" And because they just got back from their fax comp, their post start competition. They did very well and to be able to do the things that they outlined that's pretty fantastic for our kids.

117It's a good example of our kids. Yeah. So there's that. So if you do have any questions on that, so let me know. >> Sir, you know how many chaperones are on the mantra? >> Um he's got four right now. I think four or five. Four. I thought he had four at the time I talked to him. He was working on the fifth one. He had four at the time. >> And they're staying in hotels overnight. >> What's that? >> They're staying in hotels in different places. >> Isn't that pretty standard? >> Yeah. I was say that's when we did our band trips in high school, you know, did multiple. >> It's no different than FFA or hockey trips or When we went to Hawaii those several times, they're all on different floors and we

118tried to make sure chef room was on each floor or at least as close as possible. >> Don't worry, we we worked our ways to get away. >> I mean, no, I was a good student. I didn't do any of that. >> That's true. I believe that >> we've always been fantastic. We've never had concerns with that plan for those things. That's why I asked for those. I'm not expecting any of his band to be any different than any others. So, >> we're entred into that. If anything, Mr. Spear is overprepared in some of those things. So, that's how many separate >> trip. Oh, stars. I think that goes back well before my tenure here. >> Before he was even here, he was bad. So, I think besides the chaperones of parents, you have to

119call them Mr. Lamb and Mr. Spears because they're also adults going with so I mean there's more than is more there than you think sometimes. >> Just one of the parents >> and that's why I asked >> their minds. >> We would never send kids off. I think. >> Yeah, but I didn't even know they were going. >> When they said that, I said Colorado. I thought that they were making a trip to down Florida. >> I did. >> That's the one that got cancelled. >> That one got cancelled. So, they were going to go he was going to find something else. >> And how did you hear about this one? >> No. >> They want to call out because I don't think Mine was she was pregnant for a long time already. So, but

120she had had surgery. But anyway, >> so anyway, they're they're going and they'll have a good time and they'll do musical things, both groups. So, >> any further questions for the principles? Hey board people, anybody go anywhere, learn anything fun, new and exciting. I will tell you one little tidbit. The negotiating team has been working our little fannies off. I think we're getting done sort of. So, we've been busy. >> Superintendent. Um well we got a few other grants I'm working on the solar grant the third time and um uh working on a report for updating on the innovative uh projects grant uh we have like uh some stuff with white rooms and little robes and stuff. So I look forward to seeing what the teachers have been doing with that Mrs. That's continued uh

121expansion of the reading resources there. Um as we've been working quite hard on negotiations, but uh is there any questions on my report? I did note that uh we had some fluctuations enrollment and then we take a look at it like we had a fair amount of students go ALC and online programs. Just something to note. How much more are because the special ed funding are they think increasing it like by a lot >> do you think >> I think we'll be lucky to keep what we have >> okay >> um so I'll be going to uh region five uh legis uh day at the capital on Wednesday and the big thing I'm watching is the compensatory aid The thing that came up with um special ed is like um for a while there we

122were worried we'd lose access funds which isn't special ed but special ed runs through like it runs through the special ed formula and um presently we're under the impression that has to stick around. We're hoping next cycle to add the high school onto that grant application. That's one of the reasons we started doing the standardized tests also up there because we couldn't apply last time because we didn't have that data. >> That's a very question. >> Yep. Cuz I didn't know if it was like a little increase or if they were just kind of saying that, you know, like what it really was cuz it seems like that's one of the areas that needs to keep it increasing. Well, the cost keeps increasing. I would misinterpreted you to be like their their commission supposed to

123try to figure out blue rig commission how to contain the cost and if they can't find a way to contain the cost supposedly um we're looking at potential cuts to special ed because the cost of special ed keep rising um in our freshwater unit like a lot of our schools are over 20% and you know ideally you would be under 20% % students need specialized instruction, >> but um that's trend we're seeing across the country though too, >> especially the speech and language. >> When does the ALC lease end? Are we terminating it prematurely? >> Um I do believe it's premature, but it' be at the end of the year because then next year it's going to go online. Are they using the building at all right now? Do they still have the classes there?

124>> I believe they still have some classes, but uh the numbers have gotten thin. So, I don't know what the numbers are top of my head, but it's a small student teacher ratio, which is why they were looking at closing the Montre. So, right now, you don't know the answer to my question, but the lease is felt for terminated. You're still paying rent. >> June 30, right? Said in the packet, the board book, it says June 30th. >> June 30 is what's in our >> Yeah, it's a mutual termination and lease agreement document. >> We have to approve this >> in the board book. It was 2028 when the lease would officially end, but this is a mutual termination. Yeah. >> 30th of June this year. >> Correct. Anything further for Mr. Lixon? >> Board

125minutes. >> So I I did one on the spirit of the law versus letter of the law, which you know went a little bit into that the law is really a combination verbatim words written, the intent of the law, case law, and administrative. And the administrative one is like the stuff you get into where you know president changes and now suddenly we read the law this way instead of black. And so just little tidbits if you have any questions but sometimes we think of those things as black and white. I can tell you from personal experience it has all kinds of gray forward highlights. I'd like to recognize uh teachers I went to the last tabletop. I don't know like Vanessa and Nicole, Sher, um Jessica. Is there Ric or am I missing anybody there?

126The train trainer was me and Vanessa in the Nicole. And then the actual tabletop was um Vanessa, Brad, Kelsey, Martin, Tammy went to um also went to special ed. Um I love you guys to make a a special ed plan. Tammy, Vanessa, and I did um a special ed tabletop as well to create our own plans um specialized for those students, especially the ones with the uh high autism and things like that. So, >> lot of lot of training in February. >> That's good. Any other highlines? I >> think the sex uh successful conclusion of winter sports between basketball and wrestling every you know did pretty well this year and have um have a lot to look forward to for next winter. >> We do indeed. >> We're looking forward to spring concerts coming up

127I'm sure. So these guys wonderful getting their awards wherever they placed in there. Mr. Hamilton's kids >> band did their concerts and they did large group >> and I think Mr. Spears told me they got 38 out of >> but what happened 39 out of 40 >> 38 out of 40. What happened to a bunch of the kids were ineligible in bann? >> Can you tell me the real story that happened there? >> Well, with the kids getting being ineligible during the ban, they're not getting the work done, you know, and that's that's that's what we're running into. We've had this numerous conversations. I know with Kelsey, not just in sports. We're trying different things. You know, on PBS this week, it was pretty challenging and we're having that's just an example where we're trying

128to address these situations where kids don't want to turn their work in. And that's that's what we're running into and getting the work done and getting it turned in and being responsible. I know it drives Mr. It drives Mr. Spear crazy. I was in there when he had the conversation with the kids and it was not pleasant and he's frustrated. But again, we're trying to figure out what how to get these kids to, you know, that's really what it comes down to is the responsibility he had on the on the students. I'm not going to beat up on my teachers because they're doing everything we can figure out how do we turn that as being an important part. A lot of it is is not the fact that they're not understanding the work. It's just

129getting the work done, the importance of the responsibility aspect of it. Yeah. >> And poor Mr. Spear is in there when he gets excited. So he came into my office. We had a discussion and with that competition, he wouldn't have enough to be able to get graded on that on that piece. So I said, you know, I said, "What are the other options?" Said, "The other option is that we can do it, but we at least get to do that." I mean, it's we don't want to penalize. It's like sports. It's the same thing as sports. the penalty of the team for the actions of fear. So they went and they were actually able to play it, but they weren't exactly graded against as opposed to so they weren't necessarily in direct competition. So everybody

130got to play and got the experience and were able to get some feedback, but it wasn't up against the competition because you're losing all you know your percussion. you know, you you only have so many positions and only so many parts that you start losing, you know, the percussion end of it or the winds end of it and it's just going to throw that whole piece out. I get it. I played a band. I've played several instruments. I know I know what he's going through and it's a frustration and that's what we're that's what we're dealing with. How do you balance it out? So, we're trying to figure out how can we get these kids at least turn the work in because nobody's going to fail a kid who turns the work in. What's going

131to happen if you don't turn the work in and you're continuously coping or we need the help of the parents? So, really that's what it's coming down to. The part was just I think it's the timing when that came out and then the band contest was >> absolutely and you know well we have I think we have a very robust we've been dealing with this ever since I've been here and before I was here we're dealing with an ineligibility I mean what is the best way to handle that you have to have something but also you don't want to penalize and whack kids all the time and it hits and choir just as much aspect of it. >> So, will these kids be eligible to go on a trip? >> See where the grades are.

132I theoretically we have it built in that you would be able to be able to go, but you know, there's enough time when we haven't penalized the kids enough that they get permanently whacked and they can't they have that time to get to get it made up. So, I'd have to check with Mr. I don't know where we're at today on that, but I'll have to check with Mr. with Mr. Spear on that tomorrow. But, you know, we've got it built so kids are permanently whacked. We're trying to find that balance. It's always been that way. We tried this and then you don't and that doesn't work. So, you try it over there, it doesn't work, you know. So, you're taking in what you hear from the classroom, the teachers, taking in what you hear

133from the parents and the students and trying to find that balance. So >> it's very frustrating for all of us. >> It really is. >> Band competition where they have a Minnesota State High School League event, right? So Minnesota State High School League. >> I'm just saying should they be rewarded if they don't have their schoolwork done to go on a van trip? >> I don't know. The problem you run, you know, I may wondering >> in the other end of that there's a financial, >> you know, the old story is you can do this or you can do this either. And the FR is nobody gets to do sports or anything unless you have, you know, 3 point zero average, a B or C, whatever you want to say, or you don't have anything

134at all. We're trying to find that middle ground where thinking financial aspects are very expensive. >> All right. Just a question. >> Like to also thank the people have been working on grants. Uh Melissa, Kelsey, Sherry, and Fer and um voluntary preschool slots. We have a lot going on in the school in case you had fig. >> Okay. Unfinished business calendar adjustment. Mr. Levixson, will you kind of explain quick? >> Yep. um when um we start putting in the days into the calendar at the office level following up quarter 1 and quarter two were a little lopsided. So I had the principles take another look at the calendar and so it affects the high school more so just because that u they're more closely tied to the quarter but what it would do was move

135one of the PD days up here to the 14th for MEA move that parent teacher conference back a week. Um move up one PD to this November 2nd so that you still have a PD right after the end of the quarter break. that gives enough time to print out grades. And then since we were taking a look at it originally down on this, there was a PD here April 2nd and that got shifted over here 30th because we thought that probably made more sense to have a longer Easter spring break. plan to have another short like two short breaks two a Tuesday Thursday week I guess personal is personal professional development that's a contract day right >> yes >> it's not a three-day weekend for five day weekend for the students it is but not

136for the teachers right >> yes and we have more PD days worked in there I've been working with PD committee and Mrs. Subila and Mr. Rude on plans for things like curriculum alignment PLC's and hoping to make use so that we work smarter, not harder. >> You need a motion to approve that. >> Yeah, because uh it's slightly different than what we approved before. >> I'll make a motion. >> Second, >> um to adjust the calendar that we passed before to this new date. Thank you for that because that really balances out those quarter classes because otherwise you end up with 38 and 47 or something. So when you have quarter classes it really hits hard. >> Any more discussion questions? Discussion questions discussion or questions. All those in favor say I. >> Oppose. Same

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139are getting fantastic opportunities because of our donor. We need a motion now. >> So moved. >> I'll second Tom Chuck. >> Any questions or discussion? Questions or discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Policy 625. I'll make a motion to accept it. Lori. Got a second. You want to talk about it first or >> um policy 625 is AI policy. the new one from MSBA. Um, this is largely the MSBA language other than I took out there being a special AI committee. Um, we probably deal with that in our existing committees and um adjusted there's a AI coordinator which congratulations Mitchell over there. Um, so the tech department handles more of the like uh, you know, is this a good program, bad program, is this on our approved list?

140Administrations handles the you know, inappropriate use or whatever, that sort of thing. And we did have some policy written into our handbooks this last summer. If you remember, I had to do that just kind of on the research I could do, but this is pretty consistent with what's in it. And the MSBA one is pretty thorough. So, we even learned a little bit more about AI reading. >> Okay, >> I'll second it. >> Jeremiah, >> any further discussion? Any more questions? >> This will have to come back at least one more time before we're officially. >> Yep. the um the way our policy is written and the way policies should be adopted is that there's initial reading and public has a chance to take a look at the board meeting and have a comment. And

141one of the reasons we moved the comment public comment up is when we have our second board meeting, the public has a second opportunity to say something after it was reviewed at the board meeting. So there um then if the board still chooses to approve it, they can. So then you have the two readings and then opportunities for the public to have comment. It's a good plan. So we're just making a motion to pass the first reading and so we did that. Gloria and Jeremiah. No further discussion. All those in favor say I. >> Opposed. Motion carries. And the two readings is for brand new policies. >> And that's one of them. >> Yep. That one's brand new. >> The only policy that you could go and ask the AI to write it own policy.

142>> Sorry, I couldn't help that joke. >> That's bad. Anyway, mutual termination and release. Okay, Chuck. This is where we talk about >> Yeah, the ALC. >> It's pretty open and forward. I'm assuming these empty classrooms are already being planned to be put in use for next year. >> Yes. Behind you, Mr. Villa. >> Big plans. >> I know we've talked about that before. So, >> I move to approve the agreement. >> I'll second lease with freshwater. >> Tom Lori with a second to approve this termination agreement here. Any further discussion? Any more questions? Any discussion? >> Let's be careful and just make sure that all >> the everything that's in there has been followed >> as to do >> what they have to do and what we have to do and what's left behind,

143what's theirs, what's ours. bring a point to make. >> Yeah, >> you'll be doing the walk through with them, I assume. >> I assume I'll be the lucky person. >> Okay. So, we have a motion and a second. All those in favor say I. >> Oppose. Same sign. >> Motion carries. >> Okay. Then auditorium lighting. So, the main reason this is up here is that it's not in the same order as our long-term facility maintenance. Uh, originally we're considering doing some work on like the elementary gymnasium floors. That's not currently a priority, but the phase one of the meter lighting. The board died this last fall. I'm not sure if you remember that. Um, it was quite old. It was probably five years past its life expectancy. I mean, um, Mitchell and Mr. Spear were

144doing a great job of getting it to limp along. And finally, it croked and then we couldn't get sparks for it. So, this would deal with the house lights, which are LTFM, long-term facility maintenance eligible. The next stages are probably a stretch. that they will probably become more so out of general because the um stage lighting is not necessarily long-term facility maintenance eligible experience. >> So we're basically moving these this and the fire replacement up in front of the gym floor >> as a priority. >> Yeah. though the fire replacement is slightly different as that will fall under health and safety which is LTFM too but we weren't anticipating the fire alarm um but we got the quote and so we're having Summit come out and do a quote and having the fire marshal and

145what I'm hoping to see is that gets placed as a health and safety item which led me like we'd get a little more money to do the repair but either way like we listen quite a bit to um some of the issues we've had and that it definitely needs to be done. >> So, did you say that the lighting will then come out of the general fund instead? >> Um in phases three and four will most likely because those the stage lighting is kind of considered like kind of like a like a sports lighting like it's not considered part of the academic curriculum. And so when you get to stage three and four, which will probably be a few years out, those won't likely be LTFM eligible. >> And do you know an approximate price

146on what that will be? >> The three and four. >> Three and four. >> Uh yes. Um I'll have to email it out later. I have the quotes in my binders. Me and Mitchell have been working on it, but uh we do have numbers on those. We need to accept this. >> This this this is strictly a quote, right? >> It's the one we want to go with because we got a couple of >> Did we get other bids? Did we put this all for bids? >> Yeah, we got a couple of different quotes. >> Okay. >> And there's Was there many that do the stage lighting? >> No. I move to accept the quote. >> I'll second it. >> Got a motion from Tom, second from Jeremiah. Are there any further discussions or questions

147on the lighting in the auditorium? >> So, you said we we did get other bids, but you said there aren't really anybody else that does it, so they're hard to find. So, we did get fits or we didn't get fits and we're only seeing one. >> We started looking at this project a few years ago and so we have trouble with different vendors. You get more than one pricing on it. And then when the lightboard went out, Mitchell helped with refreshing it and getting new numbers. >> Yeah, Gopher State Lighting was one. >> It's the company that we've been working with for a long time here. the ones that have been doing it. >> So, we're This is the one we got. This one we're going with? >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Any further discussion

148or questions? >> All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Fire alarm replacement. We've been working on getting a quote for the fire alarm since like the uh beginning of the year when we had the um fire panel trigger the lockdown alarm. However, it's been really hard to get vendors out here. So, we got the u you thank you quote and then we have the other one there from brothers. Um is best of detail and it's a little bit larger which is why I bring >> the brothers one came in at substantially more >> question. And then we took a look at doing it different ways like we could tie the intercom system in it. That did um end up being like like practical for like everyday use. >>

149The new the new system and the new way they install it. I'm sure like hospital has voice activated. There's no there's no sirens anymore. There's no it's just audio. >> We have a combination of the two. >> We have a combination. Okay. So ours will be strobes and voice. So there's no more annoying um buzzer that makes your ear bleed when you walk butt head. So yeah, >> and obs current standards with that system. >> They also sounds like they're going to be new standards. They don't have smoke detectors anymore, only in just a couple areas because it's all based on sprinklers. So that's a lot less that they need to take care of to go wrong. Right now we're having problems with smoke detectors quite bad. >> So you said you have multiple quotes

150on this. You're just providing us with the one that you guys like the best. >> Well, there's one in the board packet and then >> did Daniel give you the one from >> Yeah. We have >> brothers which is you can see is substantially higher >> and dual company is the one that does all our Hback already. So they're already we know that they do good work >> and they know the building too. >> Yes. And they talk to each other and they can work together. Yeah. The different departments >> and this is coming out of maintenance LTFM for sure. I'm hoping specifically All right. So, yes, we need a motion on that. >> I move to approve the one from UHL company. >> I'll second it. >> Jeremiah. No. Any further discussion or questions?

151>> Safety first. >> Any further discussion or questions? Any more discussion or questions? All those in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. And I think on the table in front of you, you have us and contracts that we the negotiators have worked on the card at. We have need to do these one at a time. How do you want to do? Uh it's you'd want to do the MLUS and individual contracts separate, but it's up to you if you want to do them as one vote or individual votes. I will make first motion to approve theou presented and no with Allison treatment bond. I'll second that. This is a young lady that is helping one student, a handicapped student to do trash. So, this is a one-time year. I mean, so isn't

152automatic going to happen next year? It would be I would assume it would happen, but every year we would have to do this then. So, I have a motion and a second to hire Allison Tumbbach. I think it says $1,500 in there somewhere. >> Yep. Mhm. Oh yeah. >> And it's written as an adaptive so that if we have other scenarios that fall in the same stuff that language could be >> and same if the kid does not go out then she's not we don't have to hire her then. So it's just for that kid. So we have a motion and a second. Are there any more discussion questions? Discussion questions. Any more discussion or questions? All those in favor say I. >> Oppose. Same sign. >> Motion carries >> and the three contracts we

153can do with the blanket motion. Correct. >> I think you can. >> Yeah. I move to approve those three contracts is presented to us. I second that. Any discussion or questions? >> Did Mitch did you negotiate both technology contracts? >> Just your >> coming at a different time is >> Skylers are both. >> Yeah. I was just wondering Skyler. So >> did did Skyler negotiate his own? >> I helped him. I mean do it, >> right? No, no, >> I read it. So, >> and that's about where everything should be for an assistant. >> Thanks. That's the items. >> Yeah. >> Any more questions? Discussion questions, discussion. All those in favor say I. >> Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. All right. Um, and it's safe and