001All right, it's six o'clock. We'll call the meeting to order. Um, everybody is present except for Thomas, Cheryl, and our student representatives. We'll start with communication items. All right, we'll start by inviting our elementary principal up. Somebody want to grab the door. Thank you. So, Cassie, let's hear what's going on at the uh at the elementary. Yes. Uh so, looking back at March and um the beginning of April here, we celebrated uh our food drive month. Um I know we talked about that last time, but we had great success once again. Um so, I put in some pictures for you to see. We had a big celebration uh with all students in the gym. Um and our theme was we sing for our supper. So we had staff who uh courageously stood up and uh
002took that theme to a whole new level. Um we had some recorder players. We had uh soloists, some duets. um really fun time celebrating uh the success of our um food drive. And we also had a one-man band with a symbol um that put on a a special little skit as well. Um Allison from the Paysville Community Service Center joined us um as our way to um present her our food items and that cash donation. So, I just want to say thank you again to our uh students and families that supported our food drive. Um with I've got uh the March Bulldog Spotlight students listed there. Um unfortunately, we haven't been able to get a picture quite yet. Um and so these students will hopefully find out uh tomorrow that they are the recipients for
003March for being mindful, connected, and respectful. But I wanted to get um their names out there and we'll uh get that picture to come soon. Um also wanted to share with you um Mike Matias created a kindergarten video to help promote our kindergarten uh registration here for the 2526 school year. Uh, so I encourage you to click on that and to post that on uh your own social media if you would like and just to keep spreading the word um for our future Bulldogs to come join us. How long is it? It's it's short. Um, can we watch it? We sure can. Yeah, that's fine with me. It's like a minute and a half maybe. Can we get that for the public? Yep. Hang on. A minute 49. I'm gonna get it over here so
004that people can see it. Don't mind me while I lumber through this. That was just a way for us to capture um the life of a kindergartenner, what that looks like at Pensville. Uh so, thank you to Mr. Mias for pulling that together. In kindergarten, I ride the bus to school and home. My favorite part of music is that we get to power stars up and we get to sing and have joy at Payneesville Elementary. We follow follow the big three. Mindful, respectful, and connected. We love theme time. In the library, you can read a book by yourself or with a friend. My favorite part about gym is when we get to do the parachute and we um get to play test. Our teachers are nice and help us learn. At recess, I like to
005play with my friends. Tag. We love kindergarten. Short, simple. Um, but they get to see a snapshot of what kindergarten is like at Paysville Elementary School. So, thanks again to Mike Mias for putting that together um and getting that out uh for others to see. Like like our website then when you say it's advertised to the public. Yeah. Yep. This is beautiful. I mean, it be kind of cool if you did something for Integrate. I guess my tip my hat to that. I just think that's wonderful. Yeah, definitely something, you know, to promote um our schools marketing. Yes, that's huge. That's a huge marketing. Um also um this week we started the Minnesota State standardized um testing with the MCAs. started reading today. Next week is math and then that following week is science which
006just pertains to fifth grade. Um so we've sent out communication to families around that. Um just ways that they can help their students be successful and again just to reiterate it's one one test, one snapshot of our learning. Um certainly we look at multiple data points uh to measure and recognize and celebrate our students learning um in all areas academic and social emotional um as you are aware through previous board presentations. Looking ahead um no school coming up um April 18th and 21st that's over that Easter weekend. And then we have our last twoour late starts for families to note on May 5th. any questions or anything for me? I do have a comment. Okay. Uh not sure if you're aware I'm the uh the board chair for the Community Service Center. So, I did
007have a chance to speak to Alison. She showed me the video somebody had shot there. She was just overwhelmed. She said it was so tearful for her. She became very emotional. So, thank you so much. Thank the students over there and the staff for all that they've done for the food service center. Yeah, I need to give credit where credit is due. And we have a a committee that's called the RAR committee and they put together um our celebration bringing different folks up on stage um and bringing Allison in and uh so they they did a great job bringing the whole school together and and creating those moments, right? Um for our school and for Allison and for our community. So, thanks for passing that along. Yes, you're welcome. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Thank
008you. All right. And let's transition up to the secondary building and see what's happening. Jesse, come on up and let us know what's going on. Secondary. Good evening, everybody. Um, so just kind of looking back at March, we had a a really busy full March and uh I don't I don't think it's going to slow down much here as we as we race on to the end here. But we had a one of the big highlights is we had a really musicfilled month. We had lots of band concerts and choir. We had two choir concerts, a band concert, we had small group contests, large group contests. So really kind of a a month where, you know, a lot of sports kind of took the back seat, but our our art fine arts really kind of
009had a big month in March. So that's fun to see and fun to celebrate with them, all their hard work. Um, we did have Mr. Herig here for Find Away. I put up some pictures of the event. Um, just a really cool event, a really cool celebration. uh they came in with a a a live band and they played uh music for us and then he came up and spoke about um his experience being a double arm amputee and a coach that um helped encourage him to find a way and to push forward past this and so just a real powerful message for our students and I know that you know there were a bunch of students who are really moved by the presentation and and took something away from it. So, a big thank
010you to Student Reach is the organization that brings these speakers around to schools in Minnesota. And so, thank you for Student Reach to reaching out and providing us that opportunity to have um them come. Uh looking forward at things in coming going on here. Um statewide testing is going on. So, um Cassie touched on this, but the MCA testing is going on right now. And that's just one metric that we use. I know we talked in our presentations a lot about fastbridge testing. Well, MCA testing is another metric we can look at uh to kind of assess programs and look at what we're doing um and look at student achievement. So, uh we had our access test that's for our um English language learner students. And so, that wrapped up on March 14th. Our ACT
011today actually was uh this morning in this boardroom. We had 25 students for three and a half hours taking their ACT test. Uh kudos to them. It's uh that's a a grueling experience and I know they were all pretty tired when they were done at noon and uh you know so we had that MCA reading starting today. MCA math is next week and then MCA science is the following week. So uh thank you to for parents for supporting students and um and encouraging them to do their best on these assessments. So we appreciate that. I did want to push forward some end of the year dates here as we're looking at um things that are going on. So on May 16th, we're going to have our dollars for scholars breakfast. Uh this is we do
012at Bugby Hive Resort where we uh award our scholarships to the scholarship recipients. We um have donuts for breakfast and then we we even bring some of the scholar the donors get to meet the people that they donate to. So it's kind of a cool opportunity for um donors and recipients to have a conversation. Uh that so that happens on a Friday. That Sunday then is the senior honors banquet and that happens here at school. And then May 20th is seniors last day in graduation practice. So we bring seniors in that morning and we do graduation practice. We collect their um school stuff and then that's their last official day of school and then on May 23rd is graduation that Friday evening again. So uh more information to come out soon, but I just wanted
013to put those dates on your radar. Um we have been doing some planning for graduation. It'll look very similar to what last year's graduation looked like in the pack. So, any questions for Jesse? It's uh this is the fastest year I've ever experienced and I you know I have no doubt that it's not going to slow down here at all. So, it's uh it's been exciting for the MCAs. What's it look like as as far as opt out? Was there a lot this year or don't you even know those numbers? So I it's hard to preliminarily say because we have three rounds of testing and so it's different groups each time and so you know like the juniors take the the math test but they haven't taken any previous test so we may get a
014lot of juniors that opt out. As of right now it looks pretty similar to last year if not a little less. Um but again you know that's it's hard to make a prediction moving forward with a lot of groups not haven't tested yet. Will that take more than a month? No. probably be a couple months, huh? Till you get the actual data back, right? Um August like the the achievement August. Okay. Most time it's not till August and unless they change it because they they used to want to announce it at state fair time, right? And it was a total waste of time because all of our administration has to figure out next year before it even happens. So you're you're not able to make use of the MCA because you didn't know what it
015said till then. I could understand it taking more than 30 days, but yeah, that's quite a few months. Well, I think they have it set up because they had to correct the test by hand. Maybe something needs to be updated a little bit. We can get I can get you opting out numbers. I'll know those by um by the time we finish the third round of testing here for sure. Um, but as far as actual published MCA data, that doesn't come out until August. And for me, that's a huge issue because we need you guys to know what happened there. So when we roll into September of next year, we are already ahead of the game and issues that may have arisen in the MCA, you get it handled. That whole system is set up
016not to make schools better. our FASA thing that is the fast bridge. Yeah, the fast bridge is it is that that's set up to make things better. The MCAs could be so much more useful. But we all have to talk to our Congress people and tell them we want that data in May so that our people in our schools can plan with it. It's much easier. Oh, sorry. Go ahead. So that's who you have to talk to because that was going to be my next question. When we're down to to MSB in January isn't going to help. You got to go through your politicians. And the only way I think you're going to make it work is through the politicians. They blame everything on the politicians that they can't decide. And some of it Yeah.
017Some of it has to do with the timing of um so the the reason that the Minnesota that Minnesota administers the um Minnesota comprehensive assessment is because it's part of our um data that's used for our federal accountability. So it's there are a whole host of guidelines that that the Department of Education has to follow. So, I would say our our Minnesota Department of Ed is another place to have a conversation, but they don't generally make change without going through the the legislature. So, I was just going to say the fast bridge assess assessments allow us to be a lot more responsive to student data because we we can test them three times a year and and we get the data back immediately and we can make immediate adjustments to instruction. And so, um, we
018tend to lean a little more heavily on on our FastBridge data, but and and I I I thank this school district, uh, you know, as far as you, Janelle, and your staff, uh, U, Jessie, and Cassie, uh, for really getting this fast bridge stuff going and moving it forward uh, to start taking a look at more of that mathematics type stuff. Not that you're not doing that, but you know, see what's next because if we're going to wait on the state uh especially with this MCA data to try to lead us someplace, uh we'll never get there. So, thank you. Thank you for for really pushing this. You guys are doing a great job. Thank you, Cassie. We have we have good teams of people that are that are doing good work. So, good. All
019right. Thanks, Jesse. All right. So, Chris, what's happening in the world of community education? We come into summer season. Your busy time, right? Busy time. Busy time. Right. So, since the last time I was here, we uh our catalog came out uh that week of March 17th to 22nd. I was hoping for just before April 1st, and I got it out done early, and and we hit the ground running. So, we've had over 700 registrations come in for our spring and summer programming. Um, uh, we are looking to add even though our catalog came out, we we have um some more summer uh classes that we are looking to add. We are waiting for the instructor to let us know what what works for them. And then I just got a call from Great Theater
020Summer Camp. They uh they went through some restructuring and nobody was talking to me. So, I thought maybe they were uh interested in coming back out here, but I just got a call today. They would love to. So, we're going to work on trying to figure out how to promote that. And because last year we had 19 kids sign up for that class, and they um uh we had a lot of good reviews. So, we're those will be two that we'll be trying to push out through social media and using the um newsletters that our principles. So those will be our avenues for those two programs. Our pause program, our summer uh child care, our themes and our field trips are set. Um we have most of our staff secured for the season where we
021can always, you know, we filling in a few gaps here and there. Um and there are 88 students registered. So that's looking good. Um our early childhood program, we um we are our big truck night is coming up on May 15th. um we're having at the elementary school this year right outside of right between our playground and Gazebo Park. We're getting the street blocked off and parking cars and or trucks in those areas. We have quite a few trucks, so I hope we have enough room for everyone. So, it's going to be Yeah. Uh we have uh one of our staff members, their husband is works in construction, so there's going to be like a crane. Yeah. So, it'll be fun. Um, we're working on maybe having some food there as well. Uh, whether that's
022a food truck or doing some of it ourselves. Um, just to make it an event. It's from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. So, parents can just show up and not worry about feeding their kids. They can come in and and work with that. Um, I'm also uh we'll have a display. This will be a great opportunity to put a display up about our playground, where we're at, see if we can recruit some people for the uh construction of that. Uh we added two additional ECF classes. They are not full, but we have enough kids to run class. So, these are new um classes. We typically finish in March, but I had an instructor that was willing to run class. And so, we thought we would just see what would happen. So, um I'm hoping that they'll
023that'll be a great um opportunity to build more programming for those families that have zero to three year olds. So, so more to come on that, but those classes have enough kids to run. our preschool program, our 202526 registration opened up March 17th. Um, as of now, it looks like we are going to have two sections of three-year-olds and three sections of four-year-olds. So, last year, we had three sections of three-year-olds and four sections of four-year-olds. So, we're it's more like we normally have um had in the past, but there's there's some spaces still available. Uh so, um if you're uh know some families or want to get the word out, um I'm doing a little outreach using some of our early childhood screening data to see if there's any names that are not currently
024on the list and reach out to those families, see if they're interested in preschool. um fitness center. Uh we have on April 19th our last winter market from 9 to noon. And then the winter market along with a couple of their partners are hosting a community Easter egg hunt. It is something they would like to make it a annual event. So, that is going to be also at the pack from 1 to 3:00 p.m. Um, and they'll have a lot of stuff going on. So, um, hopefully it'll be a big event. We'll we'll see. They're not sure. And then what's on the horizon, which I've reported before, is we are starting our um our rural talk around daycare. So that starts on we have our onboard or our core team meeting on April 22nd then
025and that's a long day that we'll be doing a lot of talking and then from that will be the goal setting and planning which will be on May 15th. So more to come on that as well. Any questions? Thank you. All right. And um Mr. Osenorf was not able to be here this evening and uh he asked if I could provide an update and I said absolutely. So, a couple things that he noted is um we still continue to work on one of the air handlers and um he had to pull the the fan shaft and build it up and put new bearings on it. Gotta say I'm very appreciative it's him doing that and not me. So, really grateful for that. Um you might remember that uh the state of Minnesota changed the lead
026and water regulations um in this building. They're still working to get a couple of um uh faucets below the the required lead regulations. Um so they're any of those faucets that are not at the regulations are are clearly marked not to drink the water and you know they're they're very very clearly marked but so they're working on that. Um the roofers will be here midappril to start on the new roof. So that's that's great news. And they have a few items to take care of on the fields so that they were uh ready to go for spring sports. So those are some of the things that are happening um in the buildings and grounds world. And if you have any questions or comments, you certainly feel email him and and let him know if there's
027anything that has come to to your attention. You don't those faucets, they're not the drinking water fountain. They're just ones where they wash their hands and stuff. Yep. And anything that was that would have been a drinking water is shut off. So they they can't bypass a sign to drink lead water. That make sense? I'm assuming you just replace those for you. I'm assuming this means they're just replacing lead pipes in there until they get far enough that they're no longer in those readings. Um I have to ask for sure. I know that there's a couple of different um some of it has to do with flushing, some of it has to do with filtration, and some of it I think could be about replacement. So I don't I can't answer that question specifically, but
028I can have Ken get back to you. Okay. Yep. Y question. Okay. All right. Okay. Um, moving on. Kingsville school strategic plan. All right. So, uh, we've talked a lot about our strategic plan and so I really wanted to try to just put together some guiding questions to maybe structure our conversation a little bit more around the strategic plan. And the other piece that I wanted to do was was begin kind of incorporating the student the um the um school perception survey that uh we did in 2024 before the um before the uh tech levy because that asked really more um questions about us as a district in addition to their support. So I think it's really important to kind of look at that. So, I'm going to um uh I'm going to just cast
029this and and we'll use this as a a discussion point. Um this is going to be a discussion point that um the questions that are here are questions that can be reflected on by our administrative team, by our buildings, by our um our um uh staff. Yeah, our staff. But I was thinking of our um community um organization that comes together having a huge mind the actual title the thank you the the district advisory council it was just lost but but the and so as you see the questions are really going to be thoughtprovoking that that really help us to understand like what are the actual things that we've done that have either helped us or where do we need to go. So let's just kind of start uh walking through these um walking through
030these Right. Oh, I don't want to share that. Peepers, wrong share. Let's try a slideshow. There we go. All right. So, just some reflections. So, um here's what are really the intention of this is is just to ask some key questions about those following three goals. Our growth, our communication, and our fiscal stewardship. And really just as a reminder, um the mission, our mission is to prepare students with the academic, social, and personal skills to succeed in their career and community. Uh the vision statement, we spend a lot of time kind of, we've referenced the mission statement much more prominently throughout communication. I think you've seen it on many presentations. You see it on our all of our board meetings. Um but the vision is also important to kind of keep at the forefront as
031well. uh preparing students to succeed in an everchanging world by nurturing and developing their natural curiosity, creating critical thinkers and problem solvers who possess dynamic academic skills that maximize their potential and build the foundation of responsible, ethical, and compassionate members of our community. Okay, we don't spend a lot of time talking about that, but I think it's important to keep at the forefront. Um and then the goals again we're going to look at each of those goals. The growth um communication and financial allocation and fiscal stewardship. So when you think about the first goal, so these are taken directly off of the strategic plan. Okay, so these Whoops, sorry, let me go back here. Um the uh the goals are taken right off the strategic plan. So Payneesville Area Schools prioritizes growth as an organization.
032We strive to maximize student and staff growth on a daily basis. Growth will be measured through a holistic approach that includes but is not limited to the following elements. Emotional and physical wellness, intellectual wellness, and social wellness. So, here's my questions that I would like us to start thinking about and and really as we um start formulating and and working through what is our next the next steps of our strategic planning, how have we supported student and staff growth across all wellness areas. So, as we go through this board members, if there's something as when we kind of get to the end, if there's something that stands out to you, that's kind of I'd love for you to um think of some examples of how we've done that. In what ways has the integration of
033social emotional learning SEAL impacted student behavior and engagement? How have have professional development efforts evolved to match strategic goals? What evidence shows progress in emotional, intellectual, and social wellness? What does that look like? Have capstone projects and pathway programming influenced student readiness for life beyond school? So we've had um we've had conversation about pathways but we haven't had a lot about capstones. Okay. Is that something capstone mean? It's like a capstone project is like a culmination. It's a culminating project that um so culminate meaning ongoing. A ongoing ongoing Yep. An ongoing long-term project. Yep. Um, and are our local learning expectations realistic, measurable, and inclusive of all learners? So, when you hear those questions about kind of growth, what are some things that come to your mind? the uh finishing up the the letters or
034the uh um I think it was just the elementary uh teachers, correct? Or has it has it moved over to letters has been all of the English language arts instructors? So, but but I know that this district is is finishing that up. So, what whatever that length of time was, there's a lot of growth from that. Y uh it's a great example. Yeah. and and then also uh the the growth uh as far as the the fast bridge of that has been laid out to help from the teacher side and also from from both our principles coming together and working. So maybe that's somewhat of a capstone. May have jumped out to that kind of a capstone thing, but now getting ready to launch that into something that's that's further than just the reading side
035of it. Where where do we move into the math side of it? Taking a look at the math and then possibly as far as that capsule and moving it out to the science side of it. So yeah, I guess our block scheduling um it's kind of been tweaking. Jesse's been um kind of tweaking that we that's kind of an ongoing process. Y and I think that's a really nice example of of um the pathways programming making sure that you've got things set up so that you can have kids have those opportunities for a longer course but yet you can all like the more hands-on opportunities. So that's a that's a good example too the the schedule reflection. Yeah. And then with that, like because I know the elementary school's been doing that bulldog tie, but
036uh with with Jesse's leadership now starting the uh from the secondary school, the uh and I always forget the name of it now. Lead time. The lead time really opening up that lead time and and and nailing it down as to what is specifically going to happen. Yeah. So yeah, I know with the seal I've noticed a change even in my kids just having them able to express themselves a little bit better just showing that much. So that's how I see that. Correct. In any case, so that definitely impacts student behavior and engagement. Okay. So, um, as we as we progress and kind of continue to think about strategic planning, let some of these questions kind of sit and and think about these were examples. These are things over the last couple of years that
037our district has done um that have really been in alignment to um to support the growth. Um, and then we'll we'll start thinking about next steps as well. And if I could just add one last thing as far as growth preparing the students uh for the future future in school but then future outside of it is what uh is going on over at the elementary school with with Cassie Cassie and and that group over there uh as far as recognizing kids that are you know as far as you know mindful and and you know helpful and stuff. So, and and really putting that out there and and getting their pictures because there's nothing that makes a kid happier than to have their, you know, their picture in the paper and and be recognized with that.
038So, the next goal area that we have is communication. Uh, Payneesville Area Schools recognizes the importance of clear, concise, and transparent communication for all stakeholders. Uh the district shall foster multimode communication to engage and inform all community members, students, and parents on school district related issues. So we've had a lot of conversation around communications. So let's look at some of the questions to think about. How effectively do our communication efforts reach all stakeholders. That's been an ongoing and probably is something we're going to have to continue to talk about. I would presume that conversation never ends. Yep. Yep. And and and in in my opinion, it shouldn't because communication needs are evolving and and ever changing. Where a person is getting their communication today may not be where they're getting their information tomorrow. Which digital
039tools or platforms are most and least effective for engagement? How do we gather and act on stakeholder feedback? What improvements have we seen in transparency and consistency? and how does our communication strategy support equity and inclusion? Um, that's an area where I struggle. Um, only because I I know that we um we don't always reach our Spanish speaking families uh with the same level of integrity as our English speaking families. And that's work that I need to do. I mean, that's that's something that I'm aware of. And but that one when I read that, I I was like, "Oh, that's a really good reminder, right?" because we have some a number of Spanish speaking families and we have uh we have some families who have communication barriers that we just really need to be aware
040of. So when you hear those things, what are some of the things that stand out for you as board members? The laptops being able to have laptops for for all iPads. Yep. Exactly. And but then coupled with that uh because it was mentioned when we saw that video and thank you Bruce for asking to see that it's not that it's not that we're that we don't have that this is the only way media of of which to to learn something to hear that young boy I think it was young child say I like going to the library and reading books uh either you know to myself or you know with somebody or or to a friend because I think we hear so much of that at least I hear a lot of from from say
041the community side that they don't have any books at school anymore. They don't have libraries anymore. Well, we sure do. Yeah. And uh so there's an excitement there from from whoever that child is. It must be more than one. Uh but then also stepping into say the 21st century or moving on with the with the Chromebooks and that. Yeah. I think um part of how just kind of as a a added point to that part of how our our access to books have changed is they've become more classroom libraries versus building wide library. So so students can go when they're when they're done they can go back to the bookshelf, grab a book and come and sit down. You know it's so it's it's different access than it was when I was in school. I
042went to the media center and I pulled out my card and Right. Yeah. Louis decimal system. Okay. What other things resonate with you about communication? Um, our news channel is definitely important and I know they've been having a little bit of turnover and just trying to figure out their path forward there, but it's definitely some comments from the community has definitely noted how many people watch it and rely on that for some of their info. And we definitely need to make sure we're keeping that as well. not supplied, but you know what I mean. We got to make sure that they're able to do what they need to do. So, for like the the live stream, live streams, you know, and we put everything up there, whether it's these board meetings, sports, that's how a
043lot of people just stay connected to our Sure. school. Yep. Yep. I believe that we are not getting to people. So, we have this bubble here with people who have students and they're active in sports and all that. What drives this thing is when we have votes that pass that the community's behind us and when we have to have situations put up to override a bunch of no votes. Are those no votes no votes because we never told them anything about what's going on in the school. What is the information getting to those people? Um, we always talk about the stakeholders and all those it's a favorite word but we are not getting to to those people. You can go many places, people that have their grandparents have parents in this community and whatever age
044and wonder what's going on. I, Bruce Vanderpool on the school board don't know half of what's going on in this thing. I don't have a chance to to go in and spend my time surfing through the website, which isn't a favorite place of mine to go. I'm on websites all the time. It doesn't flow nicely. Yeah. Um it doesn't search nicely. You want to go in there and search calendar, you can't even search calendar. So, let's not get all tied up that yeah, we got all that stuff done. We are not. We are not reaching them. I go back to something I picked up at the con conference years ago. They took a a newspaper sheet is this big. Okay. And whatever size it is, they had it so it folded up eight ways. They
045allowed it um two-sided full color and they put pictures with a story about all different things going on in the school including classroom which we never hear anything about classrooms. We have stuff going on in classrooms in some of these class with teachers. probably most of our staff doing things that are absolutely outstanding. Nobody knows. Nobody knows about that. We have um the arts programs. We have things like that that are just plain missing in this thing. We can get all the sports we need out of the Fasil Press, but that's about all that shows up there really. What about the rest of what's going on here and how they did it? It was a school down um north of Minneapolis. I can't um tell you exactly where Lynn's from some of those towns. It
046was three schools and they printed this up and they had it fold up. So it came to you in one 8 by 10 deal. You opened it up and there were all these things about the different things going on in the school. Yes. So I don't know if I can continue but I kept I was going to bring this up at the end. So today we watched the beautiful thing about the little kids. Right. Well, I can remember when we had the math instructors in here, we had the English instructors in here telling us what they were doing in their classes. We were trying to solve an issue, but it was interesting to know what the heck is going on in these classes that faded away. We don't have it anymore. Probably happened before you
047got here. We had times with the innovation center. for us in this bubble that appears to have gotten to be a little bit of an old standard. You know, we got this. No, it isn't. It's new and exciting to anybody looking at our community from the outside. It makes no difference how long it's been here. And we have to be careful that we don't just because it's here, we're used to it. It's old news. It is not old news. Lots of people don't know about that stuff. We don't know much about the automotive. We don't know much about the metals. We don't know much about the woods. We don't know much about um egg. Now, the egg program is going to have a a picnic out here one of these days. Is there a little
048video of that that we can have show up here? Just short and sweet just like Cassie did for those little kids and let the public know what what's going on. And I know that lots of people watch this. Y so it's not that we're not there but we have to reach those people. They still go back to the mail. Y So um we look at cataloges and things like that that we drive programs from that gets to everybody. Yep. And with community ed lots of that stuff has um left us look pretty good. But what about the guts of our program? I just think we need a lot more of that. And and I think that's th those are are very what you're talking about are really nice actionable items that then let's talk through
049how do we prioritize and that that then and make sure that um our our staffing and our resources are aligned to make those things happen because that's when you look at what we focus on um you've seen us focus on um uh letters and multi-ter systems of support and we're seeing results. you've seen us focus on, right? So, that's that those are the actionable those are the next items that I think are great suggestions to bring that and let's talk about what can that look like and how should that look and so then we can define instead of saying and I'm I'm going to push back a little bit and say not nobody knows. I think there is a population of people that don't know and I think that population of people is really important
050because I think to your point they feel as though I only hear from the school when Absolutely. So I think it's something we have to for sure be aware of. Yep. I I guess the thing I was wondering um and that kind of piggybacks on what what um Bruce was saying. I've gotten to I'm just starting to get into this shale volleyball thing, but it doesn't matter if it's volleyball, basketball, or whatever, but our innovation center there where have the glass windows. Aren't all these lights on timers or we've got LED lighting? I think those lights should be on 24 hours a day. I guess the reason I say that is is everybody's when when they're at a sporting event, it's like, what, you know, what's behind there? Well, I'd like to think nobody's going
051to break the window and and and break in there, but at least they can see that shop area. They can see that innovation area. Um, probably open enough can of worms. I was in in Melrose Kirkovven schools. Uh, hallways are open. um probably opening a can of worms for people to walk the school, but they really had nothing to hide. I mean, there's locks on the lockers. I mean, hopefully nobody's vandalizing or anything, but it was just interesting how people could walk down the halls and, you know, I hope they're nobody's destroying anything, but it was just interesting how they have a sporting event in two of their gyms. The whole school is opened up. um where you can walk down the halls. My sister actually showed me or actually my sister-in-law showed me area
052of the school there in Melrose and it was that was pretty amazing. But I guess we have that innovative center. We have that nice area that's new and it's glass all the way. Leave that thing lit up cuz people walk down that hallway and they're going to look in there. So again, these are actionable items. It was supposed to be lit when that program went through and the idea to the windows was to light it up so people could see it for every game they came to at night and everything. And it's never been lit up. It's supposed to have been lit up. Not a lot, just light enough so people could see. Goodness, look at all this stuff they got in there. Look at this welder have in there. It was supposed to be
053lit up and that was in the initial stuff and that was a lot of the reason those windows are there. You go to Dan. It's dark. Don't need the windows. It's dark all the time. So, I don't know why we have glass there. But people walk that hall and it's just eyecatching. But if it's dark, nobody knows we have it. So, okay. We definitely got to look into We can look into those. Yep. How we market. How often do we let the community like the community in general just come in, look at the school, walk the halls, and just see what we do around here? Um, we've invited the community in multiple times um to through events where we'll do tours, walk through um specifically the innovation center, um the uh the auto lab, the
054wood shop, the um Champs Cafe. Um unfortunately, um there's not as much interest as you would think. We were surprised uh to be honest with you. Um I think more so I've had better luck with um uh class reunions. Some of our class reunions um will ask to uh set up tours over the summer and they reach out to myself or Mr. Rasmmanson and previously Mr. Orline and we would just um bring groups through the school and I think that's probably some of our better opportunity and then word spreads and then a sibling has a class reunion and they bring their you know so um I would say we've we've it's um it's it's a struggle because we haven't been able to find the right platform avenue to it just hasn't we haven't had and
055and I wonder um you know when it comes to you know we've had conversation around supervision and how do we make sure that um you know you can let you could let people in but yet you've got um you're not you don't have um they have to sign in and you know well no like during events like during events that um and and to be honest with you some of what we struggle with is um we've got we've got littles running throughout the building um and it's not and it's not always safe And so we've we've balanced we've been trying to find the right balance and I don't know what the right balance is but it's a good conversation to be having but I do think that the innovation center that hallway could be could
056be lit because but I totally understand yeah it gets pretty touchy. I know it takes it takes a small percentage to ruin it for everybody else. I know today we saw a great deal on two kindergarten class. Sorry you go ahead. Um, consistency might be important with some of that just where the community knows, hey, if I wanted to, I could come in at maybe it's one time a year or a season where it's like, hey, first basketball game of the year, home basketball game, come on in, check out what else we got going on while you're here for the game or something. Just so consistent, consistency is just important for sure people. it then even if they miss the first one like okay it'll be around next year I will put on my calendar
057I know it's coming that's something that our administrative team can kind of bring back and think about how we can um and and really I think it's been helpful to engage the leadership of the buildings to know like what are some things that how how what are some activities or um events or things that might draw people into the building and so we can brainstorm those for sure I I think he can put out a personal invitation to anybody. I mean, I'd like to think that any taxpayer is welcome in in our school. They just have to, you know, common courtesy. They got to come in and and and sign in. And I would think somebody would give them the him or her the opportunity to see the school anytime they want. I think it's
058going to depend. I know. I need you people. I know that's it. It's really going to depend on if if we have if if we're in the middle of a school day and um and our our principles are are in the middle of supporting um their buildings. I I probably am not going to say just come on in. Um it's very different. I'm I have a little different availability. Um but there are times too where I'm not going to walk people through and disrupt a class. Yeah. You know, um because we're here for the kids and learning. So, it is kind of a fine line, but I I I'd like to think that we could show a welcoming if the schedule permits. I would say that I've sat here a number of times and I'll
059I'll extend the opportunity again. Anytime that somebody wants to, they can call me and I will schedule a visit with them and I will walk them through the building. Um, and if I'm not available, I've connected with Mr. Rasmmanson. Um, we absolutely we encourage people to come and see and we're happy to walk through and talk through what we do because we do have amazing things happening. Yeah, that's the best way of working. I shouldn't say just come in cold. It's a little bit of common sense. A little bit of Yeah. But is there a way too that maybe engaging students doing something virtual? Do a virtual tour and put on our website or do avenues that way too. Technology is ever changing. Something get the kids involved. Kind of promote everything. Yeah. Then we've
060had Yeah. Those are those are really those are really um good ideas that we've kind of um we've had um what is it when you start and stop starts bits and whatever. We've had like let's go with it. Let's get it going and we have a group of kids and then they kind of fizzles you know. So, so but I it's a really good concept to have engage kids and bring them into the conversation and then they can show because that's that's really more so what our community they don't really care what I think about something. They really do care about what our community what our kids are doing. Kind of like Well, kind of like when we have our our early afternoon meetings twice a year. Yes. When we bring the kids in, they
061get to talk about what they're new. That's something to kind of expand on that way too. Exactly. That's what I think about. So in community ed how many brochures are we sending out a year? Two now? Three. Three. Okay. So without duplication of effort, what would it cost for us to buy eight pages in hers and have a section in the back of a community ad that's going out on a regular basis with eight or 10 of the pictures I'm talking about? Sure. of classrooms, the wood shop, the metal shop, uh the welders, um the auto shop, which nobody knows about half the time. You're not going to see it anywhere. Um arts and some of the other stuff that seem to not necessarily get out and we have eight pages on something that's already
062in motion and already going. All we have to do is add into it. Sure. And we pay our portion of it. Yeah. It might be the least expensive thing for us to do. We combine it together. It's on a regular basis and you will make sure that we keep up with our pages or whatever articles in we have every the district office the elementary and the secondary do have articles in each of those but we don't have just the pictures of kids so that would be well we have pictures of kids doing the activities that are sponsored but your point is valid that we say pictures worth a thousand words so doesn't necessarily have to have kids specific specific as much as some of what's going on. Yes. If the kids are in there working
063on wood projects, take a picture of that so we know what it is. Does how many people really know the fish house out there that appears not to be marketed extremely well? That's a jab. But um um how many people know that that was built by our trades and that we're waiting to sell it so the kids can have more stuff to do in the trades because I on the schoolboard are going to hear that we don't have any money because we got our money stuck in there and now we can't have the program. That's what's coming down the pike. Does anybody know that? Is anybody driving by know that that's not somebody in the school's personal fish house that they're trying to sell on the property? Right. And and you know what? There are
064there are 150 things that we could do different. 151 290. I mean there are it's it's just getting the ideas to the table and then being strategic about how is this going to align, how's it going to work, and where is it going to go. And if our priority is about if it's going to remain multimedia um communications, let's work smarter not harder. Let's talk about that, right? um the we'll I won't go down the fish house line but okay so um coming to financial allocation and fiscal stewardship um so recognizing that fiscal resources are finite uh resources will be allocated to fulfill goals and objectives of the strategic plan and in accordance to all relevant state and federal uh statutes and rules. Um, additionally, additional um, additionally, Payneesville Area School strives to reinvent service
065delivery models to maximize the district's return on investment. So, when you look at that, how well are our resources aligned with strategic priorities? When you think about the things we've talked about and looking at the first two goals, have we done a good job aligning our our resources with what we've been prioritizing? I don't have to answer that, Bill. Yes. Thank you. We're we're planning. We are doing a lot of things. We're getting stuff at this school done here on a planned basis. And every time we turn around, we're not going to the public to ask them for money. We're being mindful. And we have budgeted and managed ourselves to getting some really good things done that have been sitting on the back burner for 12 years that I know of. Um I think we've
066done really good there. Are we maintaining a balanced budget while meeting student and staff needs? Uh, have we addressed equity and access to programs and activities? Um, I'm going to pause there for just a second because I'm really proud of the fact that we've um we've had a lot of opportunity for kids that maybe wouldn't have had opportunity and it's not it's the process has not been difficult for them to access. So, that's something that I'm I'm proud of the work that our district has done. uh what changes in service delivery have improved cost effectiveness. Um so I what I will give there as an example that I would maybe ask you to keep thinking about is like our ads application that's a that's a program that really takes a need that we have and
067it becomes a reimburseable program through the special education um uh department at the Minnesota Department of Ed. So it's it's again it's a service delivery option um to meet a need that we have and I have not yet heard but um how do we monitor uh financial performance and adjust spending as needed? So those are some questions and I think uh I've I've tried to increase improve um transparency about uh reports and bringing data to the board so you can see some from a financial perspective and the community can see from a financial perspective too. So, um, but those are I I think it's still a valid goal for us to continue to work on, but what's that going to look like? I think we're doing good actually in that whole area. And I think
068that in reality, um, it's just a matter of getting to the public what's going on here and maybe just letting them know there's some variables that we can't control. Yep. Yep. Um, so on this one, what I did is I linked in and Jacob, you um haven't probably, this hasn't, we haven't probably gone over this with you because this was in 2024. Um, but this was the survey that uh let me recast that. Um, actually here, let's share this tab instead. So, um, when we went out out to other community, I think one of the things that was really important was to ask in addition to do you support the, um, the, uh, capital project levy, the tech levy, um, in addition to would you support that, how are we doing? Okay. So, um, so
069this is here for you to to review because I don't know that you've had a chance to see that, but I also linked it in just as a reminder for the rest of our community that it's out there and we, um, we did that survey in 2024. So, this is really kind of a a where do the key overlaps where are the key overlaps between the plan and the strategic plan and the survey. Okay. And here were the things that were common alignments. um preparing students for life after high school. That came up as a theme in the community survey and it's part of our strategic plan. High quality staff. It was uh we have a lot of conversation about staff development in our strategic plan in addition to um uh that's one of the
070things that our community has valued in our um for us safe and supportive schools, strong community partnerships and communication. I would say although that we have a lot of things to do from a communication perspective, there are some things that we do really well for communication. So I think that's valued. Um and we can continue to improve. That's I think one of those things that you're going to have people who say this is perfect and spot on and there's going to be others who say I don't ever hear enough and it's not you know and that's okay and that's part of our role is to be nimble within that. So, um, the following are some things that we might want to consider. Um, and again, I think this is a conversation that I would like
071to have not only with you as schoolboard members, with our administrative teams, with our staff, with the district advisory council and just start thinking about maybe we want to expand the the focus and definition of future ready students. Do we want to talk about um financial literacy? Do we want to talk about stress management, goal setting, time management, teamwork, communication skills, leadership opportunities? Those are some things that we may want to consider integrating into a strategic plan. Directly address high expectations and academic achievement. So, we reference intellectual growth, but we talk about high expectations and what that looks like. What does that look like for our students? um continued continue to focus on literacy and expand to math. We've talked a little bit about that. That's some things we may want to talk continue to
072focus on. Continued technology integration, teaching and modeling responsible use. I think that's uh we've heard legislatively the conversation around cell phone bands and the policies and how that's all going to work. There's got to be a level of teaching responsibility. Okay. um fiscal planning to maintain high technological infrastructure. To your point, Bruce, we've we've um set ourselves up to be really strategic in how we can maintain this long term so we don't have to go back to our voters for technology and continued engagement with the community with a focus on public perception metrics and transparency. Those are a couple of things that we may want to think about that were that came up through the survey that currently aren't in our strategic plan. Okay. So, again, this is here as a guidepost for our communication
073and and our conversation. And um and I will um this this isn't the only time you're going to see it, but again, the questions I wanted you to just start thinking about so we have a little bit more structure versus just start reflecting on our strategic plan. Can you go back to the part of this that had the respondents the the age of the respondents? Oh, sure. And the percentage. Yep. Um Oops. Actually, let me go here. And these are people obviously paying a little attention to what's going on there. Right there. Yep. So 55 and up is 3.9% of the population. Yep. Okay. um take 54 on down to probably the the 25 probably quite active in the technology of looking into websites and all that kind of stuff. Um, some of the older
074group is so I can manage through everything. Drives you nuts when they work poorly. But, um, my guts, I can work through that stuff. But when we're talking about getting to our stakeholders, it says it right there. Yeah. And this is another piece of data that I think is going to be and and I I'll just put back out there is how do you receive information from the school district? Okay. The press continues to be a a a place that we've um had communication around. I was able to observe a meeting um at the elementary and um we were talking about um or they were talking about um um sh celebrating celebrating the achievements and celebrating the good things that are happening and and adding information and and we've I think consistently came into how
075can we how can we maximize exposure through not only the um the our Facebook and website but then duplicate that in the paint in uh the Paynesville press. How do we do that? And how do we make sure that it's and and again working smarter not harder. How can we just take the same information and put it in multiple places so that it's seen multiple times? So this is this is that's a very interesting one because non-parents uh non-parents non- staff. Yep. That's the purple. So those lots of those people are still interested in what's going on in the school. They were all educated once. Yep. And if I go back to community ed, that could fall into that first one. Okay. Yep. How would community ed program work if we weren't sending out the
076brochure, right? Okay. So, pretty simple. You know, um Chris had a a good example of um another school district that did kind of a and I'm going to kind of bring bring in your your flip-flop idea. Um and uh the front half was community ed. So you pick it up and when you open when you turn the page this way, it's community ed. You flip it over, you turn it this way, it's the school district, you know, just some ideas. There were some and I think it was Sock Rapids Rice. Is that you did it at Hartelli did it? We did it. So there are there are some creative ways to do it. So let's let's find what makes the most sense. Maybe we work with the paper and have once a month a special
077for just the education. Like they do it for every sports team at the beginning of every season. So maybe we just get a page that says what each grade's working on or something and include all that stuff in there. So we can it certainly is a it's a platform. It's a it's a it's accessible so it's utilized. So um this the survey is put in here so that you can see um just again a reminder of what are the things that um that our so this the top half was about specifically about the capital project levy and then the bottom half is about their feedback. So um we strive to be an educational leader in rural Minnesota. So here's how we're going to measure our progress. Okay. It's it's important to bring that back and
078and for our community to know that we are looking at that information and now we're going to do something with it. There's nothing worse than having doing a survey asking people and then do nothing with it. Absolutely. So, and that happens so often. Absolutely. And and I mean in all honesty, this took a year and a couple of months, but we're here. Oh, absolutely. What to do with it. Okay. So well and and with that, you know, I I think we we've put some things in place in order to get us here like the uh uh advisory council, the district advisory council that didn't exist before that uh and and we have met on that just to to kind of start laying things out. So sort of our first meeting, I didn't necessarily get the
079impression that most people in there knew what was going on in the school. I think you're right. Yeah. I I think you're right. So, it's a perfect example. It's a nice group that was put together. Yep. And it's representative of I think the public and lots of people didn't know what was going on. That's it's a main driver for this whole thing. Yep. Yep. So, maybe I missed. Yeah. Obviously, we did one in 24 with the tech levy. Do we send out surveys on a do we have a basis for when we send them out other than the levies or um so we had done we had used uh school perceptions specifically around the operating referendum and the tech levy um we we haven't had like a uh every year we're going to send um
080depending on what's happening. So, as a for instance, um last year around the block schedule, there was a survey that was sent to secondary parents, you know, and so we we do try to engage, but from a a full-blown community survey, we haven't talked about every one year, every other year, every five years. We've not had that conversation. That might be something we want to talk about because, you know, the one of the complaints we hear is you only come to me when you want my money. They like giving feedback or at least some people do. Some people will never answer anything even if you pay them. But um if we ask for their opinion on things when we're not asking for money, they might be less apprehensive when we are asking for I think
081we had three of them, but we went through at least a superintendent and a half. The whole issue was the cost and that is it was like $13,000 or whatever it was. So, but I think I think there's other ways and that's number four. Um, commu comm continued engagement with the community focus on public perception metrics. Those are and that that might be a survey, a focus group of whatever like how are we how are we consistently engaging the community and are we going to do it outside of those operating referendum tech levy times? We have a lull. We need to stay connected with our community and and we want to do that. So, I think that's a great another good point. Say we put this whole program together with community ed and let's say
082we have a page in there and we want to ask the public something have a quick survey form and see if people will fill it out. I think if you would if we would insert community scanning things if we make it like an every year with like say the new year and the winter one comes out where do a survey then people know hey this is when they're looking for stuff and I think I think too if we would use some somewhat consistent me uh questions we'd be able to do some measurement of growth So, all right. Well, thank you for the the conversation around the the strategic plan. Um, again, I I feel sometimes like I'm beating a dead horse, but at the same time, um, I really do think it's important to to
083have some of these preliminary conversations before you get to the place of saying, so what do you think about, you know, it's important. So, thank you for engaging in the conversation. I think it's very important you bring it up. Good. like you do on a kind of on a regular basis. Sometimes kind of gentle, but we got to talk about it. We got to figure it out. We will. Yep. We will. It's work in progress. Yep. Exactly. Um Yep. Moving on to committee review. Um we're going to review committee assignments um to make preliminary changes due to um Ron being a sub bus driver. um more particularly with regard to the negotiations. Correct. Um I it's been board board practice that um each board member be on at least one of those committees. So we
084can have discussion on that. Uh did did uh Thomas or Cheryl weigh in? Were they open to any changes? Um Thomas did and he said he could change um I believe the food service and custodian one. However, that doesn't help with regard to the transportation because he's already on there. Okay. And Cheryl seemed pretty flexible. Okay. So I mean any discussion on possible well Ron where where if he's going to be on where do you want to go me I don't want to step on toes but it doesn't matter to me no well you say what it is I'm guessing administration that must be a conflict correct for me my wife the the pra professional support is My wife's not at parallel. She has support staff. Support staff. Oh, okay. Well, then uh teacher administration.
085I guess it doesn't matter. Okay. So then either in teachers it either be Jacob or Cheryl or administration it' be Thomas or Cheryl. Um so since Cheryl Yeah, because Rachel needs to be on all of them because she's the chair. Let's find out if Cheryl will switch. Yeah, you better check. I don't want She was She said she was fine switching. She's flexible. I heard her say to step down from whatever and we went into What's that? You went into administration. Do you want either do you want teachers or administration? And then Cheryl, we'll go down to transportation. So, what what is your opinion or what? It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. It really doesn't matter. Teachers could be kind of difficult because we When I was on there, we always met before school early
086and then we met usually kind of right after school. If they think it's over my head, whatever. Nothing's over your head. Whatever you want to do. Whatever you want to do. You just put me in there. Administration better. Sounds good. Can you have that note or do you want me to just make a note on there and I'll I'll update it. Okay. All right. We should probably like share one, too. Yep. And and this will be approved or voted on at the next board. Yep. It'll be presented for action at the um business meeting. Correct. Okay. Moving on. Legislative updates. Okay. Uh there really are not um I wish I could say like, okay, here's what's happening. Um there it really is is not this week is a big week. Um everything has to come
087out of the House, has to come out of the Senate. Um, and then, uh, the the omnibus bills have to be out. I think I thought that the House omnibus bill came out last week and the Senate omnibus bill was supposed to come in come out today, but I haven't seen it. I looked right before I got here and I hadn't seen the omnibus bill yet. But, um, so those two are going to come. Um, it does continue to be a, um, a focus on, uh, budget reductions and and that's unfortunately a conversation. Uh, one thing I will tell you that um, uh, was concerning to me this morning. I was on the, um, MREA um, legislative update and um, their conversation with the lobbyists. Um, I I had not heard this yet and I
088was concerned, but uh, in the Senate there is a conversation about them um, taking a look at um, taking away the um, inflationary index for education. So I I it's I there's there's some who are some within the Senate who are saying no that that needs to stay there. It makes sense. And there's others who are saying this was a mistake. We shouldn't have done that. Um so that's an area of concern that I I don't think it's going to come through this year um because I think the House is very committed to maintaining that um that inflationary index. But we've also seen kind of what's been happening with other funding sources. Um because we have that guarantee 2.74 this year. There are other areas of education that um are being predicted to or um
089proposed to claw back. So um it just unfortunately it's still there's not a lot that I can share of certainty. Um, the one piece that I I will um share out because I I know uh last last week um the Minnesota Department of Education received um kind of a I guess a a requ um a request to certify um that uh they are going to follow some of the a federal um the federal mandates for um diversity, equity, and inclusion. Uh what what pro is problematically happening is that in Title 9 language and interpretation the Minnesota Supreme Court has ruled on um in in one way and the federal government is saying another way. So now we have two governing bodies that school districts are really accountable to and trying to figure out how do
090we navigate that. Um, so what what I what our school districts have been doing is waiting for kind of a guidance from legal counsel or our state or um Minnesota Department of Ed to kind of guide us because they would be ultimately our path through. So um the commissioner uh sent a letter back to the federal government stating we're going to follow the the jurisdiction of what's been the Minnesota Supreme Court in addition to the federal regulations and we're going to just see what happens. So, hold on. Stay tuned. And uh we're going to just keep doing what we're doing. So, that's what I have for legislative information. How's that? This be good. Next year will be an election year, so we'll hear a lot of talk to talk and not walk to walk. We'll
091see what happens. Yep. Okay. All right. Moving on to request for information roundt. Um, and follow up to that, just make a note that Tuesday, May 13th meeting is the afternoon meeting starting at 1:30. Okay. So, information roundts. I am extremely interested in hearing from the school like we did the kindergarten class and all that. whether it shows up on a little video here or something. But we tried this a few years ago and I think you were maybe with us where we're trying to have something every meeting because when you're on a schoolboard and we're at these meetings talking about all this stuff, all you got to have is the kids doing something and all of a sudden you feel 110% better just like snapping your fingers because you have an idea what's going
092on there. But we tried to have something kind of more regular. Um, and maybe we can do something like that. Could it be a a little video where they're in innovation center? Maybe just pick out a couple areas, quick video, it's done in a minute and a half, two minutes just like what you did and lets us know what's going on in there, right? And then we can do everything. Science. I mean, by next year, are we going to have our new lab by next year? We're working on it. By next year, if we got a brand new lab, well, then let's show people some of what's going on in there. I mean, that's I think that's what they want to hear. And you got all these kids in the video. Used to be they
093did a whole bunch of video on the innovation, right? I think they might still do that. Might be kind of fun to do a two-minute video about different things in the school and you don't have to even do it yourself. That's pretty nice deal. All right. I wish Bruce Bruce I wish I could say it came together just like that, but it's not. Well, I got faith in you. I'm not worried. It'll come together. But there are there are very talented people and there are um kids who are pretty savvy. So, all right. Next Monday, uh we do have a Monday 14th there is the uh community or the U district advisory committee. Yes. Have six o'clock. So So Bruce and Gerald and I think Ron as well. So you guys are going to get
094to hear this again. But it's fine. I like that committee. Monday the 14th at 6 p.m. is that uh district advisory committee. Okay. Y we have taken worthless committees and put them into something that's beneficial with that district divides between us. That's correct. That'll be the last one for this school year. Correct. This fiscal year. Correct. I think so. Yeah. Correct. Thank you for reminding. All right. I think we're doing Well, okay. I got a question. I'm confused. your other email. When when does this get talked about or is that next next? Uh um that would be probably or which one are you asking about? Uh we're going about uh so so that you talking about the uh two-hour late starts. Uh yeah, those are justformational. Those aren't those aren't action items right now for
095that one. Okay. And then the wrestling masks. I guess I um that would be if you have a question then I can circle back and gather more information. Well, yeah. I guess I was kind of curious and I don't know what kind of funds the district has. I mean, they're asking for 4,000, but I the question I have is I I know they did it for football. They they had volleyball they do for baseball every year these uh $100 chances. Although, trust me, there a lot of people are doing these $100 chances, but um I didn't know if they entertained that idea. The other idea I was curious about um if they did like a some type of breakfast or supper. So well why don't you like when you I don't know if that's gambling
096or how that works. Yep. So why don't you send me those suggestions and I'll pass those along to the wrestling club and let them um kind of navigate that because uh I didn't I didn't know what kind of money we had here because they're asking for 4,000 for community ed and 4,000 for districts but they were contributing 12. Yeah, folks. So, I'm gonna now Okay. So, so let me just I'll let the community know kind of because so informationally the board was provided with update and and a request for um putting um replacing wrestling mats. So, the the wrestling club had proposed a $12,000 um contribution um of 4,000. They were going to be requesting money from the booster club. They requested money from community ed. and they requested money from the school district to
097replace the wrestling mats. So the the question that theformational information that went out to the board was just as a a heads up. This is kind of coming your way. So board members, if you have questions about that, please send it my direction and I will pass that on to the wrestling club because they would need to um they need to either move forward or not move forward based on uh what they know for funds. But it's I can pass that back along to them. Because I guess I just didn't know what we had for funds. I mean, who makes that call? That would be on my call. Okay. Because it's it's it's whether we have money in the budget or not. And we have money in the budget, the capital project that we could
098we could assign to that. Okay. I mean, just to maybe save us some money. So, yeah. Well, $12,000 is a pretty big contribution that we wouldn't have to come up with. Yeah. It's about a $20,000 investment. I'm interested in uh how much they said about the potential girls team. I know that's been talked about forever in a lot of area schools are starting to have their own girls teams. So, Yep. And there's um some of our our area have more more girls participants in wrestling. Um and that's one of the areas that uh wrestling our we have seven girls within the youth program um that are active growing and pretty talented. So I think it'll be interesting to see how that um how that evol evolves over the course of years. So um but it's
099uh I I know one of my colleagues has in St. Michael Albertville they have a phenomenal girls wrestling program others too. What about volleyball? I thought they were going to have a men's volleyball. I thought that was approved for this upcoming year, but there just wasn't any interest in in our district. Correct. So, so we don't offer every activity that's approved by the state high school league. Um, and part of that interest, I suppose. Well, part of that is we don't have the student body to strictly support all of the activities. Um, some of our activities we have to host because they're we have to co-op to have enough participants to host. So, um there was not a discussion about um hosting a boys volleyball team. I was curious. We are. All right. Thank you.