001Call this meeting to order. Please rise and join us in the pledge 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. All right, let the roll call show all board members are present except for Eric Stramberg. And I don't see uh Eric Minkx on the Zoom yet, but uh he may be popping in here. Um we will move on then to citizen comments. There anything on that? >> Okay. Uh we'll move on then to board member committee reports. And um we'll start with Scott. >> I had MSBA officers training on the board, treasurer training on the 11th and policy. >> Okay. Thank you. I had policy and agenda planning. Thank you, Melissa. Uh we have public
002engagement like extra feeding for the legislative platform and what do we is the refere referendum communications that one. Um, we also, uh, I did the career crawl logistic meeting. That'll be super fun for high school kids. Um, 10th graders, I believe. Then my PTO report, which is not at all schoolboard, but kind of related. I'm going to give it anyway. We had our PTO counting for students reading for a readathon, and we had 522 readers overall. Um they read one wait 171,000 minutes total and we raised about um 1,500 bucks. So I mean sorry $15,000. So >> that's a big difference. >> Yes. >> And then I just wanted to say so the intermediate school so we did a competition this year between the primary and intermediate school and like who had the most participation
003and the primary school did win. However, the intermediate school went up by 11% from last year. So, just an extra shout out to like teachers, families, kids, whatever. They really wanted to win, so we're still going to get them something, too. But anyway, so, oh, and then a Tiger Care Foundation. >> That's it. Thank you. >> Yeah. >> Um, I had policy committee, public engagement, I attended the high school band concert and the robotics tournament. Thank you. >> Um I don't have a hint online. So uh I actually was at uh the Tiger Care meeting and the public engagement meeting um the referendum communications meeting and then we had agenda planning last uh Thursday too. So uh we will move on then to student council report. All right. Toddler and preschool story time with Miss
004Tiffany is at the Princeton Library next Monday and baby story time with Miss Amy at um is at the Princess Li Princeton Library tomorrow. For the primary, the character trait for February is cooperation and you could still donate shoes for the all-inclusive playground. Um, for the intermediate, this month is I love to read month. No, wait, that was last me. It's um read my shirt day on February 27th. For the middle school, uh the eighth grade parent information night is on Thursday for upcoming 9th graders. Students are working on ways to stay engaged this month. Students are celebrating the fact that celebr uh February is a month dedicated to reading. There's a one book challenge. All students will be encouraged to set a goal of reading at least one book during February. Once completed, students
005can turn in a book tracking to a prize. There's mystery reader Tuesdays in TA. Every t every Tuesday during TA, students will listen to an anonymous staff member read an excerpt from a book and try to guess both the book, both the reader and the book. Poster contest. Students can participate in a reading themed poster contest running throughout the month. Materials being picked up in the office and the date due date is February 27th. Book to Tik Tok opportunity. Students will also have the option to create a short book talk style video sharing on sharing or recommending a book they enjoy. Uh they will hold flex sessions with instructions. the high school uh Princeton got seventh in in the speech me speech meet on Saturday with many students placing in both levels of finals. Saturday
006letters of love had a fundraiser with coffee corner portions from the people who bought a strawberry macchiato strawberry macchiato went to letters of love. >> The high school choir concert is next Monday. The blood drive is tomorrow and the senior just desserts is on Thursday. All right, thank you very much. Um, superintendent report. Pat, >> sounds good. Thank you. Um, again, a couple busy weeks. Uh, do want to start off by saying, yeah, I saw some of the cool events like the robotics competition was fun. Um, the band concert was great at the high school and then a lot of sports games that I've been at. Um, and before I forget, uh, if anybody's still looking for a, you know, raffle ticket for the Lions, as a Lion, I have three tickets left. each event
007that happens on Sunday. So, um, uh, Tiger Care, we did talk a little bit about, uh, can we move into having our Tiger Care program go again? I've been talking at the foundation. We talked a little bit about it. Then I had a meeting with the urgent care provider. Um, there's some things we logistics we need to work out. Then we actually had a meeting with Jeremy and the new RN for our school, Jessica Tweeter, and we talked a little bit about there. to follow up with the urgent care to see if this is feasible or not feasible. It probably be next year if we do have that happen. Um uh continue to have weekly referendum prep meeting on Wednesdays. So that'll continue again tomorrow. Um and we are just kind of putting strategies together
008as we go. Um, for those that uh may have heard that we do have a community group that we're going to try to meet with next Monday. So hopefully we'll get some more community members involved with this one as we go out. Um the uh continue to have my admin meetings. We have one that Jason and I Michelle talk about our budget with each uh building administrator. Then I've been having the individual ones with the administrators on their goals and where they're at and how things are going to come along with that. And then from each building, we've been talking about strategies of how can we help um improve test scores and and and give uh teachers the resources they need to make sure that we're um doing as well as we can with our
009students with their test scores. Um, we've had our public engagement meeting with the with the board and we talked a little bit about legislative platform and uh what that might look like. Um, and then um again for a referendum prep um preparation. Um I've started building visits, try to get out to buildings at least every two weeks to kind of see the students, see the staff and and then take time to eat a lunch with uh our students. So, I've been learning lots of really good stuff from our students. So, that's been fun, but it's always good to get out, see the great work that's happening in each building. Um, there's just a great environment in each building. I I'm really happy for that that uh kids are feeling positive and so is our staff.
010Um, so it's it's really great to see. Um, I met with the uh chamber. Kim and I had a kind of conversation of continuing how we partner and the chamber is such a good supporter of our school and they partner as much as they can. Um, and again uh we have our monthly administrative leadership meetings and then we have administrative PLC meeting and make sure that we're following that MTSS uh platform and how we do that setting up the structures. Um we had a chamber lunchon which was uh the speaker was on more on how to use AI. So I think more we can learn there. I think that's good. Um I did have a meeting with the city administrator and just talk about kind of logistics of how we partner with the city. Um
011so a lot of those conversations were really good. Um had opportunity to go out with the fourth grade to the National Wildlife Refuge and um had their field trip out there. um learned all kinds of things. So that was kind of fun. Um and then uh last few things we had our board agenda planning meeting discuss different topics there. I did get a chance to go out and see Glenn Metalcraft and get a tour of the building and meet with Dan that note and just talk a little bit about how we might partner with uh with his manufacturing company and along with some others. um had a really good conversation with the principal at Eden Prairie Spanish immersion program and they use the same curriculum as we do and so there's a lot of similarities
012and uh we're going to actually do a uh a site visit with the Spanish immersion teachers teachers coming up here in early March. So that be a nice thing to see. Um and then last thing I had was the policy meeting that we just finished. SP those were going to be um what's recommended by Minnesota School Board Association. So that that's my report. Thank you. >> All right. Thank you. We will go on to item number six. Uh approve the agenda. Is there a motion to approve the agenda as presented? >> Motion's been made by Melissa. Is there a second? >> Second. Second by Don. Any comments or questions? All in favor say I. Any opposed? >> All right. Agenda is approved. Item number seven, discuss and act on previous board meeting minutes. Is there
013a motion to approve those minutes as presented? >> So moved. >> Motion's been made by Scott. Is there a second? >> Second by Jen. Any comments or questions on the minutes? Hearing none. All in favor say I. >> I. Opposed. >> All right. Minutes are approved. Item number eight, consent agenda. Is there a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented? >> Motion's been made by Jen. Is there a second? >> Second by Melissa. Any comments or questions on the consent agenda? Hearing none. All in favor say I. >> I. Opposed. >> All right. Consent agenda is approved. We're on to our first information item. The I the A I I think we have this spelled wrong. >> Is it A I T A C. >> Yes. >> I think I saw >> Cal says
014yes. >> Yes. That's our next item on the agenda. >> Were you gonna Were you gonna say something, Cal? Um >> I just want to say how much I've enjoyed the job. this my second year on the job and I have a presentation for everyone and if you have any questions for me afterward I definitely entertain those questions I'm sure video or is it first? >> Yeah. Does anybody have any questions or comments? >> Busy. >> Yeah. Yeah. Don't say busy. Yeah. Actually, I had a parents this morning that had found an eagle that was passed away down in the ditch on Dolphin Street and >> Highway 95. So, I went down and recovered it this morning. I smudged with it and I laid my tobacco and I recovered it a good way. So we
015have all kinds of feathers for our graduates and crafting feathers and things like that. Yeah, it's a gift which >> you are doing a fantastic job with blown away. >> Thank you. >> And uh when I was reading through the concurrence report thing today, I just wanted to you know like all the students have to you know Cal's doing a great job and all that. It's just really nice to read all of that and I've seen some of you guys in your groups and stuff when I'm out of the schools and it's really nice to see them all smiling. >> Yeah, I I love the job. I can't say enough about it. >> So, >> I especially pre appreciate your one-on- ones with the with the students. I think that's that's super important. >> I
016appreciate that >> and very impactful. >> Yeah. >> So, thank you for doing that. >> My pleasure. >> Just a quick comment. I know I was able to join your your uh parent. Yeah, meeting and it was uh great to meet the parents and the families >> and just see Kal's work. But uh just from my experience of seeing other programs throughout the state, this is one of the best programs I've seen. So thanks appreciate all the work you do. Appreciate that very much. >> Awesome. >> Any questions for comments? All right. Thank you so much. Thank you for letting me come in and do a little update for you. Um, is this okay if I say >> do I have to pull up here? >> Well, >> can I run it up here? >>
017You can run this up. >> Okay, that's what I was sure of last time. >> So, great. Click the button or res. >> Okay. >> Well, um, thanks again for letting me come in and, um, talk a little bit about online. Most of you I know. My name is Rebecca Fuller. principal of the K12 online program. So, um let's see. Yeah, I just want to start out with, you know, the core part of online is our mission for our district and our vision. Um the one area that we really focus on as a total program is building those effective relationships. without those relationships for these kids. Um, that's how we motivate, that's how we engage them and promote that learning and that accountability piece. Um, let's see here. Oh, she did not upload my new
018one. The robots in the classroom. >> Was there a different one? That's the next slide I have says robots in the classroom. Yeah. And this is not on here. Yeah, I should see the robots in my classroom. Is there a different one that's on here? You just didn't know there might be the one that Emily had out and I think she puts a like a stationary one from the last one. >> She puts a new one. She updated a new one. Okay. Um well, I wanted to start with kids in my presentation. So, in all of your information there, you'll see some pictures and um I have a uh one of the things in building those relationships, I thought it would be fun for you to see what it looks like from a teacher's perspective
019um with online. So, Adam uh one of our teachers has sent me some fun pictures. Um, and so what you could play there is one of the students brought their robot that they had made and they shared it with the entire class and this was actually a Princeton student that is in robotics. So it was kind of fun. So please feel free to watch that. It's super cute and he's so proud and I love hearing the kids respond and go, "Oh my word, that's so cool." And so it's super fun. So, um, >> I'll just keep going because I know you guys have a lot. Um, the other slide there is, um, two slides of of times, um, Adam does social studies and science. So, he had the kids dress up like the the main
020characters that they're learning about. So all the kids are all dressed up and that's what's really fun is because they're at home oftent times they have access to these fun things and um we don't have to worry about um dressing up and then going to gym you know they they're dressing up quickly. So yeah so I thought that would be fun. Um why don't I go ahead and just talk a little bit about um just numbers from last year. Um I thought that would be interested. I know I came mid year last year, but it might be uh interesting for you to kind of just see how we ended up. Um, you know, one of the things we really worked on last year and those improvements is um that's okay. You guys have access to
021the pictures, so you can peek at them, so it'll be fine. Oh, there it is. >> Great. Um, do you want me to play the the robot one? >> Sure. Sure. Let's do it. >> You do it. I'll just It's only It's kind of cute because it's not very long. So, one of the things that's kind of interesting is you can see that the teacher is admitting kids all at the same time as he's letting someone present at the beginning. So that's part of that transition for him. So oftent times the kids will bring things um that uh they can share with the class and that's kind of how we promotes that good connection with kids and making them be or having them be able to share a little bit about them that's unique. What
022I really love about that picture too is it really shows these kids and the investment these parents have taken because that is his classroom at home >> and it looked like a classroom. >> Yes. I mean and it was just a place of learning, right? like that's that's what it was for that family was a place of learning and that's really um um the value and support we want to give these families that as they create that if we can give them feedback and guidance to create that environment of learning um whether there's um you know eight kids in their family or one child in their family and there are families that we have five kids enrolled in our program so they have a classroom you know of activities that are going on So yeah,
023so I just want to share a little bit about what our teachers see from their ends into these people's homes. So okay, um so let's go ahead and just look at um last year. You know, you guys can look at all those numbers. I think it's pretty clear. Um couple pieces I wanted to talk about was last year in the 912, we really wanted to watch our passing rate, right? Um this year I'm going to do more of that in the K8, but um our passing rate for our 912 is really important. That's working on our graduation um requirements. So last year we were we ended the year at um 84%. Um it's kind of that average. We have 86 87 84 you know it kind of all goes in there. So I think that's
024great. um that's really a tribute to our teachers and communication and interventions and time that they're trying to engage and motivate them to complete the work that they need to. Um in our 912 we finished with 227. Um so um also if you look at our total K12 we finished the year with 163. Um our out of district is um was still at about 62% for our full-time students 912 62% of our students were out of district. Okay. Um I think that's probably the key areas there is um you know last year we really worked on that joint partnership um with venture upward. That's really that key piece is being able to partner with them, take advantage of the supports that they give us as a district plus um embed them into what we already
025have here and try to make that work, you know, like a machine. So um for our 91 12 for 12th graders, we have 32 graduates that graduated from Palm um and that's with a Princeton High School diploma and they participate in the graduation just like um all the other students. So Um so uh for K12 um I thought it might be interesting again for some of you who didn't see this last year to kind of understand what does it look like in the K8 program. Um I think two key pieces that are unique is that onboarding. So how how do we onboard them and get them all the information and train them and teach them and engage with them um in the learning process and then there's the learning um the onboarding one of the
026key pieces for online is our teacher coach idea. So every family has a teacher coach and so that family and especially in the elementary they might have five kids as the fin have or they might have one child but then that it's almost like a home room you know but that family is with that one teacher coach for communication. So that's really um kind of a key area that you can really train the family and um work with them, give them feedback on routines and how this would help and kind of look at them like a classroom like we saw in the beginning like they're looking at it as one piece. Um uh the other thing is um we also have some enrichment courses that we're offering all throughout the United States. um they're eightweek
027rotations and students sign up for as many as they want. So maybe it's learning how to play guitar or science in the kitchen and they join these zooms that are taught by adventure teachers throughout the United States. And so then that's scheduled maybe for five o'clock on Wednesdays and then they go to that. So I've gotten a lot of great feedback. Again, some they can take as many as they want. So some people have really taken advantage of them. Basically they are electives um and enjoyment things that they can um help make just for them. Um we also have online book club. Um so which is really great. Um I know one of the pieces for next year we're going to be working on is kind of that reading pledge and promoting that just like
028Princeton does because that's more of a Princeton way is the reading pledge. So, we're kind of getting that all into place so we can kind of um so we can promote that at the beginning of the year and get kiddos on on stage. So, um um the venture school is local here and all throughout the state of Minnesota. That's an in-person time that they can go for the day once a week. There's field trips, all kinds of activities, and these are all things that are organized by that partnership with venture. So when you think about what we kind of get for our money, I would say right like we have a partnership with them. Part of that is financial and these are things that are offered all through them. I don't plan them and we
029don't pay anyone else to plan them. So, it's it's great, you know, because these families have um field trips uh twice a year where it's an all school field trip somewhere like at the science museum or places like that that are all scheduled and all the kids will go and participate in families. So, um they really enjoy those things. It's kind of kind of neat, something unique that our program offers that other ones don't. Um yeah, and then our venture rewards. So the learning um remember again that this is um it's primarily an asynchronous um but they have lots of choices. They can choose to go to a live session as I showed with Adam um as Mr. Bar and I've got some other pictures in here. or they can choose to do a portfolio
030showing proficiency of a standard or they can choose to just go in the learning lab and do the work all by themselves and show that proficiency weekly. Okay. We also have some advanced academics that we are using in the district and that is something very unique to our program. we are continuing to streamline that and um we have families that come to us knowing that we offer that and um and and that other programs in the district or the state do not offer that. So um that's something that we've created for families. So here's a a math class. These are a little older pictures. Right now Adam has about 20 kids coming to his live sessions. I know he's been a little nervous about that with me, saying, "What do I do with 20 of
031them and trying to make everything, you know, um, individualized, you know, that you're talking to every student because you can't just walk by them to create a little connection like it it's more energy when you have to just call on the on them and get their attention." And so, yeah, interesting. 912. Um, I think you can look at this yourself if you have any questions. I just thought it would be nice for you to have the information um for you to look back at. Um, we've done our 912 for a while. We continue to do it. Um, it works. Um, the one area that we're really working on is that intervention. So, this is a second year we've continued with a seminar success class. So all students that generally first start with online um and
032or are struggling with some of their routines so that they're successfully passing all their classes. They can take a a seminar success class which is basically a guided study hall with lots of support and routines and accountability and they meet one-on-one with the teacher. Um um Jay Joseph Belar teaches that and I think she has um 45 48 kids in that class right now. And so she works um and and it's great like those kids we've seen dramatic um change in you know that rate of um success will definitely go up. We know that. So it's all about accountability. So any questions on the 912 while over here? Okay, great. Okay, so let's look at um this year so far. So last year we ended um uh well let's start with our 912. Um last
033year we started with 64. Generally our first trimester is a little lower and we saw a bump this year and starting at 84. Um, so that's a lot higher of a bump for our full-time kids. We always have around 120 to 130 students at the high school that we offer courses to part time. Okay. Um, and so that's kind of kind of just es and flows, but always kind of goes up and down. That's what we've seen for that trend data. Um, but our full full-time kids, you know, we've seen a bump this year. We already we started 84, we're at 89. I'm usually our third try. We're in the 90s hitting that 100 cusp. We'll see. Um we are trying to manage our part-time kids so that um they're only taking one to two
034classes online rather than three. um our our students that are taking three classes um for our high school students part-time. It's really that intervention for that emotional support or a health concern or something rather than have them transfer to online when we know they can't quite manage it. We're going to try to keep them a part of the day so they can be active and in person and then do a little online so maybe they leave early or they come a little late. So, we're trying to strategize ways that you use online without sending a child there that's not quite ready for it or that it they don't think it's the best spot for them. So, just so you kind of know how we kind of use that. Um, our passing rate first try was
035at about 76% which is fine. I think anything between 70 and 80 I actually feel really good about. if we did the passing rate of Princeton High School, you know, I don't know what that is, but I think it's probably close to what this is. Um, so we'll see this try. I'm kind of pushing some interventions a little bit different this try. We'll see how that goes and how we end our year as an average. Um, so in our K8, we started the year at 166 is where we ended the year. By October 24th, we were at 215. Okay. So, we that's a little bit of a moving target, our online K8 is. And so, just so you kind of know, our um our out of district was 177. So, 71% of our full-time students
036try one are out of district. So, they're not internal students. They're all out of district for both of our full-time K12 program. >> So, that's good. >> Yeah. Um and um right now, I just checked yesterday, we're at, so for total for our K12 program, part-time, full-time, we're at 487 students. Um and 252 of those are out of district. So, we're still at 70%. Okay. Um, yeah, there's probably there's lots of numbers there. Those are kind of the big ones that I want you to be able to see and understand. Um, we did have a new curriculum this fall that was a big initiative. Um we have um Edenum owns Apex and we've used Apex for three years and because Edenum bought Apex now they're trying to change into Edum as the curriculum. So we
037implemented courseware still an excellent course. Uh we feel really good but of course implementing a new curriculum was a little yes technology is always a little crazy. So this fall we implemented that and that's going great. Um we see a lot of positives in that. So in the change all right um I just throw some additional data down here. Um you know I already talked about the 160th students. How about withdrawing? I think that's interesting data too for you as a board possibly. Um, as of 91 to 92, like that first day, right, in September, we had 35 that withdrew from the previous year. Okay. Some withdraw earlier in the summer. I don't know how perfect that number was, but we'll continue to kind of watch that. So, from November 9th till currently, we've only
038had 20 students leave. That's good. I feel really great about that. And the ones that left primarily went back in person. We actually only had one transfer to another online program and were asynchronous. So they just needed more routines for their child so that they a lot of elementary online you go to a time and it's all scheduled out your whole day. >> We are not like that at all and they wanted that. Most people come to us because they don't want that all day screen time. And so, yeah, so that I thought I think that's an interesting point and data for you all to see. Um, we're at about 10% of our IEPs for our K8 program or 10% of our students are on IEPs from our K12 program. So, that's great for K8,
039our K12. Our 912 is a little higher. That's more aligning, which I didn't actually calculate it. Um, I just was kind of focused on that K8 because some of those fears from the board are we going to be able to manage the IEPs? Are we going to be able to manage a lot of those things? And I think um we're looking pretty good at that. So, so we have another picture for you from I think this is from social studies. All the kiddos on here, they're all so proud of their work and I love it. So, yeah. Any questions? A lot of data, a lot of information. Sorry. Sometimes it might be nice for you just to look through it on your own and kind of see what it is. >> Any questions from heard
040wonderful things about the program, so appreciate that. >> Yeah. Keep growing up, right? >> Awesome. All right. Well, thank you. >> I'll make a quick comment. Uh Rebecca, you know this well, but I came out of this I had a one-year stent of being an online school director and the numbers you're showing is not reflective of what you see in online schools in the state. It's hard to achieve at this high level of success. And I know from myself, I thought I was pretty good motivator, but never saw these kind of numbers. attendance, uh, success of pass rate and so on. A lot of times online school, especially at the high school level, it's a way to see if I can get away from going to school and pretend like I'm going to school and
041then you never pass. So these kind of 76% ratio passing school, those are unbelievable numbers for an online school. So kudos to you and your team and and all the work that you do there. >> All right. service. Thank you. Now it should work. >> All right. Hello everyone. >> Um for those of you who don't know me, my name is Danna Culie. I'm the director of nutrition services here at Public School. Um this year I added um a new position. Uh Kristen Alers, you want to just stand up? So put a name to the face and um she's the new nutrition coordinator. She's worked for the district for 15 years. She was the head cook at the intermediate school for the last seven. Um, so just wanted you guys to know who that was
042if you've seen her around and in the buildings. So, a little bit just I know I uh last year was the first year that I kind of brought brought us up to speed on what makes a meal. So, I just wanted to touch base on a few slides again for those that this is new. Um, just a brief interrupt introduction to you know what we put on our lunch trays. So lunch basics um you know we're required to offer all five components for lunch um the meat or meat alternates uh grain, fruit, vegetables and milk. Um you know we call them components but in the rest of the world calls them food groups. Um the meat alternates are things like yogurt, cheese, seeds or beans. Um the standard serving sizes that we have to use
043are pretty much 2 ounces for the meat and the grains and then fruits and vegetables are a half cup of serving are what required are on the tray. Uh we utilize something called offer versus serve ovs where students can choose three out of the five options that we are giving them the components u but at least one must be a fruit or a vegetable. Obviously it's governed by the USDA so it's a lot of rules a lot of regulations. The meal pattern is very very complex. Um we have daily guidelines, weekly guidelines. There's guidelines for every category, calories, fat, sodium. Um you know, so what do you expect? And then there's also changes coming, new regulations are coming. Um so this year was the first year where there was limits on added sugars um onto
044our breakfast, cereal, yogurt, and flavored milk. In the 2728, there's going to be weekly limits for both breakfast and lunch where we have to be um under the 10%. Um so those are, you know, kind of what we're working on right now. Sodium is a little bit of a harder target to hit. Um by the school year 2728, we have to have a 15 uh percent reduction for lunch and a 10 for breakfast. Um so we're kind of really analyzing our recipes. Um, this is going to be one where we're going to rely on our vendor support for them to uh change their their uh products for us and help us get there. Um, cheese tends to be the main culprit on the menu. So, we might have to see a reduction of some of
045those cheesy items limit to once a week or things like that because that's what brings kind of the most sodium into most of our menus on a weekly basis. And that's what most kids like, >> especially the younger grades, I know. Um, so yeah, so if we see a little less cheese on the menus, that's probably why. Uh, milk, new regulations, you probably saw, was all over the news about the last month. Uh, we can now offer whole milk options instead of just skim or fat-free. Kemps is our current milk provider. Um, I did talk to them. They said that they will be offering it next school year, but there's caveats with all of this when they change something. Those extra the fat is exempt from being added into your weekly totals that you have
046to meet, but uh the calories do have to be included included. So the question becomes, do you want the extra calories to be on the tray or do you want the extra calories to be in the milk? >> Uh so I'm not quite sure. And I also found out that you can't have the whole milk at breakfast, only at lunch. A lot of moving around with things. I know. I know. I don't make the rules. Not to the USDA. But um so we will make the determination um if we bring it in or not. I would love to bring it in, but we'll see if it works for our program and we'll go from there. And then also this year is the first year of something called by American where we now have to track
047all of our non-domemestic purchases and food. As you can kind of probably imagine, that's a lot. Um, so for this school year we have to be below 10% and as you can see the percents they ratchet down eight and then down to five. I kind of hope that there's going to be some adjustments in this category. I don't know how any district with the amount of fruits and vegetables that we put out during the worst growing part of the season. Um, how freezes in Florida and hurricanes and all this. I'm not really quite sure how districts are going to get to that 5%. Um because we're under the umbrella of the DoD, USDA, I think this was a rule that was it was explained to me. This was a rule that was written to be
048on a much larger purchasing basis and because we're under that umbrella, we got lumped in. So, I think when they start doing their audits and reviews, the year where we have to get down to the 5% and they're going to see it's just not possible, right? um that they might make some exemptions because there's some things that just never even come to the United States, mandarin oranges, pineapple, bananas, like we don't grow them here. So, um they automatically go right to the the list of things. >> You walk through a local grocery store, you see there's definitely that would not never happen. I mean, everything's coming from Ecuador, Mexico, or you know, it's a lot and it's a lot of tracking. We have to look out all the boxes coming in. Um the K12 suppliers,
049our vendor suppliers, you know, they pretty much are on board and they work towards getting this. But for instance, General Mills, huge Minnesota company. You can't get grain in the United States. It comes from Canada, but they make the cereal here in the United States. So it can be said that it's made in the United States then. So there are some loopholes. Um but it's it's a lot. So yeah, we we're trying to track it the best we can. Our food supplier, Upper Lakes Foods, is being really good about helping us track on our monthly velocity sheets what products are by American, what are not. And we're finding the more scratch stuff tends to be not American, like a lot of our spices and seasonings and side product that we use to make things from
050scratch. So, they want you to make from scratch and use fruit and vegetables, but then they tell you you have to track non-domemestic. So, I don't know what they want, but uh come in your kitchen for a while, right? Come on over. Secretary Kennedy, >> can I ask what the consequences are if you don't follow the regulations? Is this one of those things like Furpa that nobody's ever paid a fine for? >> Well, um I guess your state audit would not go so well. And >> money they can tie stuff back financially. >> Are there you haven't paid nobody's paid >> there are maybe some financial tieback that they can >> I mean I don't know anybody who >> doesn't follow it so I guess I don't know the people who don't want to follow
051go off the national school lunch program. Um like docu they voted several years ago to go off because and they put it into a vote of their parents and they wanted to go off so that they can they have the money. I mean whatever and they can charge what they want for lunch and they're paying for their lunches. Like that's the that's the and then you don't have to follow patterns. You can give more than two ounces of meat. You can get more than two ounces of grain. Um there's still a few things you have to follow but not quite as restrictive. So, um, and there's going to be some more new changes coming. We just don't know what that is. Every time they update the USDA diet, dietary guidelines for Americans, which just happened
052with the whole maha movement and the red dye, and I'm not saying it's it's bad. Like, I think some of the changes that are coming are really good. We're already seeing um the red dye is out of, I think, all of our chips and all of our cereal, but I think one maybe. So, they're working on it. um and they know these things are coming. Um so we're going to see it takes a few years for it to trickle down to um our p our meal patterns, but we're following a lot of the meal the stuff that they I think just changed anyway. So hopefully it's not too many changes. Um, but in order to help with some of these changes um because it's very very complicated and confusing, we did purchase some new software
053to help me um monitor the daily, the weekly, the new changes coming and every year they'll update the changes in the system. So next year when the sugars, it'll automatically be in there. I don't have to do anything. Um, so it tracks, like I said, all those requirements. It helps us with the daily paperwork, whether it's the head cooks doing them, the day of the production records, prep lists and plan meals. It'll assist with ordering so that we're not over orderering or under orderering. Um, it'll do meal per labor hour analysis for us so we know if we have enough um labor on hand for meals that we're doing or too many. The best part about it is the allergen tracking. Um, and it's more user friendly for households. So even you can even um
054flag everything that has pork in it if you want. So if you want to you know do that or obviously gluten, dairy, all those things. But it'll be a lot more user friendly for that. Currently I have to keep that database on our website and mine's only as accurate as the information I get. >> They keep the vendor database so it's automatically updated more regularly. Um so that's a huge huge benefit and there will be um all the required information that I need to provide for the MDE audits that I get every five years. It's just going to be a click away now where before it was all manual um compilation of all the recipes and crediting and all sorts of things. So that's one thing that I'm really looking forward to in four years
055when I have my next one. So, um, and we're hoping to roll this. I was hoping to do it, um, March 1st, but I I'm still in the process of getting the back end set up. It'll it'll probably be April 1st where it'll be um to the households on April 1st online. So, we'll get rid of Neutri Slice and then Emily will help me upload all that onto the website and we'll send out communication um through the the portals and and all that fun stuff. So, and this is just a brief screenshot of how it looks. Um, green is compliant. So, green is good. You see, it's kind of hard, but on the screenshot you can see the green um where it says Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. The green check mark means that day is compliant.
056And then this screenshot right here is telling you your daily steps compliant. This is your weekly fat, calorie, sodium. And up there is your weekly fat, cat, sodium, calories, and sodium, too. Yellow just means warning, not bad or good. It's just saying this area is um a little high, but uh if it was bad, it would be in red. So um so this is where this software will be very very helpful. And they also do store thousands of recipe ideas from all over the United States. Super super nice. So looking forward to that. A farm to school. A big part of bringing Kristen on board this year was to um get our farm to school to be a little bit more active. Um we like I said, we've always done some. A couple years ago,
057we started doing petted pastures out of Malaca where we get get our grass-fed raw raw ground beef. We are about 9,000 or 900 pounds per month is what we're currently using. Um so that's in all of our tacos, sloppy joe's, spaghetti, um things like that. Um we use many, many local companies here. I'm a big believer of that. Um, we eat Schwans, Kemps, Johnny Pops, Land of Lakes, just to name a few that uh that we use. The one thing I didn't put on here is we also started this year using Ranchers Legacy Minnesota beef patties, raw beef patties. Um, so that's also a Minnesota product that we uh started using. Right now, the only building not using them is the middle school because they were the last building to get the new ovens and
058so they have to use up our other supply and burgers before they can switch the new ones. And then um we also order produce through our USDA um fruit and vegetable supplier that we order local from them whenever we can. And then some of our new farmtoschool initiatives. Uh we just started uh getting a farm fresh apple. Um I believe it's out of Bayfield, Wisconsin. I'm not 100% certain on that, but we're going to verify that because we just started our first deliveries this tomorrow. Um we are looking at Shil Ve Vegetable Farm. We're looking at them for strawberries, raspberries, apples, lettuce, broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, winter squash, and maybe some local honey to do some roasting of some vegetables. Stony Brook Farms. Um we have used some broccoli and cauliflower in the past and we're
059looking to add some sweet corn, green beans, squash, and asparagus hopefully this spring. We're in the talks with them these last couple days just to set up um some planning for that and then to get in their rotation for next year's kind of planting season. Um like I said, it's a little hard with their growing season, what we can do, what they can do, but uh we're going to get on board the best we can. Um we reached out to several Princeton local farmers that just couldn't do the volume that we needed. Um so these two uh farms are located out so not too far away. And then we're hoping and we're in the process of filling out the application right now for a farm farmtoschool institute that uh Kristen and Michelle and uh hopefully
060a couple of our teachers are going to go to this summer um to look at new ways for them to help us partner and and mentor us through maybe starting up some additional initiatives in the farm to school arena, whatever that may look like. Um like I said, we set our own goals and you know, you don't want to do too much too fast. wrote a little bit at a time and and who knows where we'll be in a few years, right? >> Yeah. Participation. So, just just some numbers. Those are the numbers that we served all of last year. Um we average about, you know, 2,400 lunches a day, about 1,000 breakfasts. The trend, we're slightly down. It's it's less than a percent. It ends up being about 13 meals per day. A lot
061of it does have to do with um enrollment. um when you kind of look at the numbers and break it down per day. So overall, they're doing a really good job, one of the buildings is up in both, but the rest are just slightly down. And sometimes there's that one big class that's moving through >> or they'll get that really small class moving through. So you kind of watch where where those are behind the numbers a little bit. Um you can see what we get reimbured for a lunch and a breakfast. Um so it's not that much when you consider what grocery costs are these days. The average tray cost for lunch is $39. That's just food. That does not include all the other things, labor, equipment, gas, electric. Um, and then there was our
062revenue for last year. And we've also heard that there's actually a possible decrease in funding possibly coming um based on budget constraints everywhere. So they're talking about taking away 6% per trade. Well, good news there, right? >> Um um catering and all the cart. We do a lot of catering in all the cart, obviously. Uh catering things like the um magical >> magical. Yes, I have a slide on that. But no, the uh just desserts that's happening is that tomorrow Thursday. Yeah, Thursday. Um, but even everything from cookie trays to thin rolls to you name it to big events like the magical. And then we do allocart obviously the second entree and allocart purchases in all the buildings. And then um after school at the middle school and high school is the snack shop where
063the kids that are staying after for activities um can get something to eat before they go on to their magical this year we do every other year. It's a five course meal. Um the new ovens this year made all the difference. I never have had so many comments from people just coming up to me telling me how good the food was. Like I have never had that in 13 years I've been here. Um so yeah, it was a great event and you know so hopefully if you didn't get to go to it this year, plan put it on your calendar for a couple years from now because next year the kids will be in New York so there will be no event. Uh we deliver some meals too throughout the district to preschool head start
064onstart or onward student services uh care and treatment and then here at the district centers some staff order as well. So we have a lot of moving parts. Uh the high school sends it to onward student services care and treatment in here and the primary sends it to the preschool and head start. We do the summer meals program. Um let's see. I think I think we we started serving um in June of 2014. So, we've been doing it for, you know, quite a while now. Uh meals have moved around a little bit depending on the building uh where we qualify, but currently right now uh that the primary school is the building that's approved to be served out of. And um we mainly our our bread and butter is the Tiger Club kids. Those are
065the ones are the consistent numbers day in day out. Um, then those are just the numbers of what we served last summer. And we provide summer employment for eight of our staff. Like I said, I always have goals, plans, big dreams. Like I said, we got the new ovens now installed in um all the kitchens. Uh the middle school, it's technically their backup oven. They still have a huge backto oven, so they won't be using it as much as all the other buildings, but their goal is to use it at hopefully once a day. Um, we're just focusing on upgrading our recipes, whether it be to the new standards or to the new cooking standard. There is a there is a real big learning curve with these new ovens. It's they're pretty technical. Um, you
066know, you can put a something frozen like a leftover that you want to reheat. You can put a probe in there, put it in the oven, and you just turn the oven on and it'll tell you when it's to 165. It's pretty easy. You can do overnight cooking. There's a whole bunch of stuff. We're still kind of in the learning phases of our current recipes. Um, and then, you know, we're always working on some facility plans and things like that with with what we can do. We're trying to do a possible um addition to the intermediate school if the MDE will approve that plan um to add a freezer and then convert the current freezer cooler to a cooler because the milk cooler in the um in the lunchroom that they've painted and made it
067look okay. It's from the 1960s. It's we've had a little problem with it. Um and you cannot replace them anymore. They do not exist. And my current walk-in cooler cannot hold milk. There's just not room for it. It's not big enough. So hopefully the MD will approve that. And then Michelle and I just talked possibly about if there's a possibility to do a small little addition somewhere on the high school if they reconfigured the loading dock area possibly to get more storage and prep space at the high school because they don't they don't have a dry storage room. She can only bring in four cases of canned goods every single delivery because she just doesn't have room. Um, I mean, the kitchen is very, very small there. If you've never been, take a tour. Um,
068so we're just looking at some things and, you know, dreaming big and hopefully we can make some of that stuff happen, but MD has to release my funds in order for that to happen. So, and then the staff. I couldn't do it without the staff. We have fantastic uh staff members at the primary. We We're trying to get new pictures, but I didn't have any updated pictures with all the people in it. So enjoy the fresh fruits and vegetables on the street. And then Aaron, we couldn't do a lot of this without Aaron, the outd delivery driver that goes between the buildings. He moves a lot of product around for us. And a freezer, cooler ever goes down, he's helpful at that. And then um and I guess that's thank you and for allowing me
069to come up and tell you about our program. And if you have any questions, let me know. Any questions, comments? You guys do an awesome job with, you know, what you have going with all the numbers. That's I'm real glad they can have a computer do some of that for you. Sounds painful. >> I love that we're continuing to move forward with the farm school. >> Yeah. Um I community ed offers a class in the summertime for students um where you where you tour farms and I think there's like a list of I don't know maybe a dozen to 15 of them and they're all in this area and um I did that with my grandson last summer. I think we did probably about 10 of them. And I for one didn't know we had
070that many farms around here. And number two, it was so interesting. And one of the farms we did, well actually we visited Stony Brook and we visited um Edit pasture >> very impressed. Y >> very impressed with their operations. I mean >> there are a lot of hoops I have to jump through in order to provide to schools too. It's not as easy as just me going to the farmers market and like, hey, I mean, they they want you to do farmer school, but then there's 20 forms that >> Yeah, he did talk about that during our tour. So, I mean, it was it was really fun um to see all that. So, I'm glad that we're taking advantage of, you know, building some partnerships because we have a lot of farms >> out here
071and like you said, some just aren't large enough, don't have the volume, but there's a few out there. >> Yeah. Like I said, we're gonna start small, get the ones we can. Yeah, >> I love it. >> I think that's good. All right. >> Thank you. >> All right. >> Yeah, >> you just had an idea, Diana. We should have our meetings catered. >> I'll pay for it. Well, we have to pay for it ourselves, obviously. >> Um, all right. We'll go on to item number 9D, our 2627 restrictive budget planning. Uh, the first item here is capital. And we have Michelle here via Zoom. >> Yeah. Um, >> I do not have much of a voice, so I don't know if you can hear me even. We can hear you. Kind of >> kind
072of. I'm apologize. Um, so I'm not going to talk a whole lot. Um, Jason, would you cover the chromemer that is added um to our plan for this year? Yeah, we are looking to budget for a robot um painting machine to paint the football field and and the fields around the uh district here. Um guess I don't know what to say about it. I guess it's going to cost if we buy it outright it would be around 70,000. Um, there's a leasing option that's I think if I off the top of my head, I think it's like around 11,000 uh for a three-year term. Um, but it's 11,000 a year to lease it. So, they're fairly expensive, but they do have a lot of advantages from what we have right now. We have a chrome
073right now that the guys have to go out there and lay out the fields manually with tape measures and string lines and different things to get everything square and straight and nice looking. And then it's only as good as the driver to drive down that straight line and and stuff like that. So, this robot would be a good piece of equipment to add on. So, it would alleviate one guy um having to be out there to paint the field. and um somebody still has to watch it, so they'd have to stay close, but they could do some weed whipping or mowing or or whatever. So, it would help in that regard to free up some labor. Um, and it's supposed to use a a little less paint. Um, right now we use I I don't
074remember off the top of my head, but we use quite a bit of paint and it should cut the paint down a little bit as well. So, it would be a fairly good investment cuz there's some fields that we can't lay out the way we currently lay out fields as well. So, um I don't know what what else to say about it. I guess I don't know if you have any questions. Uh I haven't really seen the demo. I' I've let my grounds guys do it. I think I was gone the day that the demo happened, but they did a demo last uh fall, I think, at this high school. and Darren and and the grounds guys couldn't say enough good things about it. So, um I think it is the way to go as
075far as laying out fields and and painting fields. Um I am going to have a demo of it again this spring. They're going to lay out our lacrosse field at the high school. So, I hope to learn a little bit more about it, but right now I don't know a lot about it. We're still researching them and trying to figure out which is the best product out there to move forward with. We did we did talk about that at the finance meeting. >> Is that where you can lease them to and like get the new updated? >> The the leasing option comes with um updated software from time to time and if you have any repairs it it kind of takes care of all the repairs for it. I would imagine there's a lot of
076repairs or could be a lot of repairs for it because it's a sophisticated piece of equipment, I guess. So, um, there could be a lot of repairs needed on something like that. So, leasing option probably would be a better way to go so that we didn't have to worry about sending it in, waiting for it to come back, and we still have to do it the oldfashioned way at that point in time, you know. So, um, but we plan on keeping the chrome just as a backup because obviously things do happen with, >> you know, sophisticated equipment. So, >> but that's what I know about that. Um, >> where are we going from here, Michelle? >> Jason, just on a side note, I have seen that in action. Uh, it's actually uh where my grandsons
077go to school in Pquad Lake. They've had one for like three years. >> Sure. >> Everybody swears by it. >> Yeah. And that's what I'm hearing from from everybody in the kind of the industry of laying out fields. It's it's kind of the only way to go right now. >> All right. >> Great. The other item that we have added to the capital plan is a van. We have three 2012 vans that are on we use um for student transportation that we own. uh we will need to replace one of those. Um we are still researching which one that would be and you know all of these are plug numbers at this point. We don't have actuals. So I am going to stop talking on capital. I think you can read the rest of the
078report. All right, LTFM. >> I'm also going to hand this over to Jason. >> You want to go through the tuck pointing and the family center water barrier? >> Yep. I'll go through that. So, I have three different um kind of water building ceiling processes going on right now. Um the family center here has a leak over by our cafeteria area kind of. Um and they believe it's below grade. So, we have to excavate and water seal the block and brick below there to alleviate that problem. Right now, I've had the grounds guys haul in some fill and the leaking has kind of stopped. I haven't noticed it. I'm sure it's still there. It's still a problem if we get a big rain. >> But this will excavate down, seal that off, and then we
079will back fill correctly and and hopefully that'll solve that problem or that should solve that problem problem from my understanding. Um the high school I have phase one of tuck pointing that's going to cover the kind of the back side of the high school because there's >> some issues going on there with some lentils underneath the windows are bulging and there's some leaking going on. Um, so they'll remove a lot of that brick and replace it and do tuck pointing to basically seal off the building and bring it back to a a decent shape. I guess basically it's supposed to take care of all of the tuck pointing for the building and kind of everything. So, if there's any caulk or um expansion joints that are failing, they're going to replace all of that and
080try to basically seal up the building as well as they can. Also, at the intermediate, I have a similar project um that would be on my list to do the same thing half about half of the building this year because that's what we can budget for right now and then hopefully next year do the other half of both of the buildings. So, um, and it would just go around and basically seal up and take care of any block, brick work that needs to be done around the building and and fix up the buildings back to a have it in a good condition, I guess. Um, from there, I know Dennis, uh, Darren wanted the high school tennis courts um, taken care of cuz there's a bunch of cracking on the at least the north five
081tennis courts have a bunch of cracking. So, we were going to resurface the playing fields there because there was a lot of uneven areas in those. So, we were going to have that all repaired. Um, I'm still getting numbers on that. I have a a rough number um plugged in there with Michelle. Um, but until we can get the snow off the tennis courts, I can't really get a a solid number on that one. Um Darren also requested the pack stage to be um taken down to bare wood and replace a lot of the nosing on the front of that. Right now the paint that is on there is not adhering. So when um Joe drives lifts in there and stuff, it peels off and and we have a bunch of peeling issues. So it's
082something that they wanted done last year. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get it taken care of last year. So this year I have it on my budget for for them to get that taken care of. Um the middle school we're going to work on putting a floor in the freezer for Deanna. Um there is a vapor barrier issue between the cooler and the freezer. So the frost comes from the freezer into the cooler. And what has happened is the vapor barrier or ba barrier or the um insulation has kind of failed in between the two boxes allowing that air to migrate between the two boxes. So, I'm getting prices for an additional floor to be manufactured for the inside of that uh freezer to prevent that, hopefully mitigate that problem and and solve that problem.
083The only other options are to jackhammer out the floor and put in new floor and all of that stuff, which is very intense. So, um, this is hopefully the cheaper, better option to make it last a little longer. Uh, let's see. At the middle school as well, I have on my list, a bunch of the fire doors are failing there. Um, I had an inspection done right after I started. I think Keith maybe had it set up and there was some doors that are found that have cracks in the hinges and and different things like that and they're unable to be repaired. Um so we have to replace a few doors and then along with some of the hinge um mounts have to be replaced and some door closures and different things like that was
084on their list. So I have that on my list as well. Um, then the middle school gym floor. I talked to Brandon with FLR Sanders and I wanted to better understand gym floors because I don't know a whole lot about gym floors. So, I brought him in and I had him go over what we need to do. Being that the gym floor at the middle school is 26 years old, I think it nothing has been done with that. Um that floor has has a whole bunch of layers of um >> yeah sealer on it basically or or finish. That's the word I was looking for. Um and after time that becomes its own surface and it can buckle on its own and can cause razor sharp edges to form. Um, and if you go to
085the Tiger Gym at the high school, you can see some voids where this has already happened and this has happened some at the middle school already. So, when they come through and refinish the floor in the summertime, they sand it all off and it's it leaves a void a lot of times in the floor. But, these uh edges are going to start popping more and more the older the floor gets. It's something if we don't take care of it now, it could be a year, could be two years, it it could be tomorrow. It it's hard to say when we could have a floor that has quite a few issues with it. So, the middle school being the oldest is the one that I have on my list um for this year because I was
086talking to Darren and he said that he likes the way the Tiger gym floor looks. So, he doesn't want to do that. Otherwise, that would have been my priority one because it it has more of the areas that have issues in it, but the middle school is the older one and it's the more obvious one. Another thing Brandon talked about is the the floor can get tend to get less grippy when you have more layers of the finish put on there. So you can have it it it it'd be more slippery basically for the athletes to play on. Um moving um I guess he recommends or the industry standard um is anywhere between 8 to 10 years to have a floor re refinished. So obviously we've >> went way past that. He said that 12
087to 15 years is a better average for when you need to start looking into refinishing floors. Um, so that would put I would say the Tiger Gym would be up for this next summer to take it down to the barewood and then they got to put all of their lines in and all of their um stuff back in there and then do another layer of finish. Um, >> is that what they're talking about doing at the middle school right now? >> Yes. So, that that's what I would be doing at the middle schools. We go down to barewood and then they would start over with the finish layers basically. They would have to re relay out all the floors and then um put the finish over top and then it start all over again. Basically,
088then we'd have another 15 20 years, you know, somewhere in there. Um, any other questions on that? Because I, like I say, I don't know a lot a lot about gym floor. So, I tried to get the information that I could from Brandon because I feel, you know, he's a local person and I I feel like he would he's pretty honest with me because he's led me down the right path in the in the path past. So, I mean, I he said that we could go without doing it, but he said you could start having some major issues and you can see some of those if you walk the floor and you look at it, you can see some voids and you can see some different things in the floor. So, it's just something to
089keep in mind, I guess. So, that was on my list. And, uh, then I have a bunch of parking lot seal coating and stuff that I was going to work through. Um, the primary and intermediate is still in pretty good shape as far as parking lot goes. So, a regular seal coat would be what I need at the primary and intermediate. Um, they would obviously fill in any voids and um, seal the cracks and all of that different stuff that goes along with that. Um, if I wait, then it's going to push the cost a little higher because they're going to have to chip seal that parking lot. Then that costs a little more because they got to add the seal coat layer plus rock chips to it to to make it um that wear
090layer back on there again. Um, the middle school bus lot that is in a little bit of rough shape right now anyways that has potholes and different things. So, I have that on my list to to get done. Um, obviously they'd come in and fill the potholes and that one would have to be chip sealed, but it's such a small lot that it would it's not going to be that huge of a cost there involved in that one. Um, and then lastly, I I put on the high school tennis um tennis court lot and bus lane. I figured since the seal coating crews were here, that would be kind of an obvious thing to just have them take care of all of our seal coating issues. But that's kind of rounds out my list, unless
091I missed anything. Did I miss anything, Michelle? >> I think you did good. >> Okay, thanks. >> Nice work, Jason. >> Does anybody have any questions for Jason? All right. Uh, we will move on to the revised budget. >> Who's going to do that one? >> That's me. >> Um, every year we revise the budget. I'm going to make this really short because I can't really talk. Um, most of the restricted and unassigned in the second attachment are the same plans that we started with. Um, the number that we're always interested in is the unassigned. Uh at this point we are looking at a negative 824,000 which is down from 1.4. Um we have growing enrollment with that. We have expenses because most of that is in our online program. Uh we've gotten our updated
092sped numbers for the year. Um, we have slowed our hiring uh during the school year which has helped that revenue actually make an impact. Um, if you have questions, feel free to reach out to me later and I will get you your answers. >> Thank you, Michelle. All right. Uh, any uh Well, we won't ask questions of Michelle now. If you have questions, let her know. Um we will move on then to our first action item. Um we have the American Indian Concurrence uh certification. Is there a motion to uh accept that as presented? >> So move it. >> Eric motions made by Eric, second by Melissa. Um any comments or questions on that? All right. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. All right, that is approved. We will move on to
093the school calendar. >> So, one thing changed from the last time that you saw this. Um, the staff development department noticed that we were missing a staff development day in March, which typically we have after um third second try. And so in doing so, um, we ended up looking at the calendar and trying to find a spot that would make the most amount of sense, uh, without total disruption. And, um, the committee because initially we were going to look at it as the 8th of March, but that again would have kept all of our breaks in one month and we'd had April and May still with no breaks. Um, and so we're going to be looking to move that staff day to uh April 16th, which was a student date. And because of that, we
094needed to find a student day. And um, looking at the calendar, um, there really was not a place to pull another student day unless we went earlier in the school year, which we already had information basically saying when they wanted to start. Um, and so this would adjust December 21st and 22nd to both be student days rather than just having one student day. Um, we would do a two-day week that week. The nice part of that is it does also give us a additional day where we um uh by requirements, state requirements, we'd actually be at 171 student days. Um, at 6 hours per day puts us at 1,026 hours. So, if for some reason Pat decides to say, "Hey, we would need more snow days." Um, we would actually have one that we could
095do without having a makeup day. We'd have our five e-learning days plus one. >> Um, which would be nice because as of right now, if we were to go over, we'd have to pull, you know, days off of our existing calendar. Um, so that is something that, um, that's the change that's been made and recommended. Um, it mirrors actually a lot of what our prior schedules looked like in the past. I know a lot of staff are disappointed that we couldn't have two week vacation, but we also have a lot of family members that are um would prefer not to have a two week break as their kids aren't eating or there's other issues to come along with that. So, um, so that's the recommendation at this point. That calendar would be put in place.
096Um, we did have the 2728 calendar, but because we are looking at a referendum, we want to hold on that until we get a decision made because if there is construction that may alter that starting date or end date. Um, and so we're going to hold on that until we know. >> Um, so we're we're just asking for approval of the 20627 school year. Okay. Is there a motion to approve uh the 2627 district calendar and the uh Princeton online Minnesota calendar? >> So moved. >> Motion's made by Eric Stramberg. Is there a second? >> Second by Don. Any comments or questions on the calendars. All right. Hearing none. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. No, I'm not opposed. I was just late. >> All right. Uh motion passes there. Calendars are
097approved. Um item number 11 is additions to the agenda. We have no additions. So we will move um into our closed meeting to discuss grievance. So I need a motion to close the board meeting to discuss the grievance. So, >> okay. Motion by John, seconded um by Melissa. Um any comments or questions on that hearing? None. All in favor say I. >> I. Opposed. >> All right. The meeting is now closed.