001Welcome everybody. First item up will be to approve the meeting agenda. Anything on the agenda needs >> um I would like to request that um as I have in the past uh contracts. So items F and G on consent be move to business items. So the B and E. >> Mhm. Okay. Any else? No. Right. We have a [clears throat] motion to approve the agenda. So motion by Andrew. You have a second. >> Second by Molly. >> Okay. Any discussion on the agenda? Hearing no discussion. All in favor of approving the agenda signify by saying I. >> I. Those vote nay. >> Agenda carries. Opportunity for visitors to address the board. Anybody here to address the board? Okay, we'll move on. We have some acknowledgements. We have the Viking Gala Committee. The Hall of Fame
002committee principles, it's October is National Principal Appreciation Month. Custodians, October 2nd was National Custodian Appreciation Day. Mr. Cork, you have anything to add to that? >> Yeah, thank you to the Galla Committee for all their work on another successful biking gall, which helps uh raise money for education here at ISD 548. I want to thank the hall of fame committee for all their time and work of selecting the members of the hall of fame and teacher honoral. Thank you to Mrs. Jenneski and Mr. Nelson for all their work in their leadership. And I want to thank the custodians for everything they do, their hard work in keeping our buildings clean [clears throat] and safe. Thank you. So we have a presentation Mrs. Wter and Mr. Corf ANI and CACR presentation. Welcome. >> Good evening. So,
003our achievement and integration uh annual progress report, this is for last year. So, these all of this information is going to be on the 2425 school year. So, just a quick reminder, the ANI is a three-year plan. So, our current plan is 23 to 26. The reporting year is the second year. We're in our third year of the plan and we're going to be writing a new plan which will be due to MDE in March of this year. Really, uh, ANI comes down to opportunity. It's just equal opportunity for all students is is really what all the goals come down to. And there's three types of co goals. It's closing the achievement gaps, equitable access to effective and diverse teachers and racial and economic integration. So the first goal then is an achievement goal and
004this is our MCA reading proficiency rates for the pre and reduced population students will increase by 3% a year. So our target was 37.2 two or more and our actual was 37.9 and that was 5.9% over the state. So that goal was met. Goal number two is our reading proficiency rate. Again, we wanted that to increase by 3% a year. Our target was 32.8% or more. Our actual was 34.2%. And on this one [clears throat] we were 8.4% over the state. So this goal was met as well. The next page will talk about different strategies that we use to support the school. These um the core literacy support for students. So that includes teachers programs and curriculum. We have um the O and L train training at the high school, language arts 180 course, the
005read [snorts] 180 universal program, and our young adult literature elective course. At Viking Elementary, we have the letters training, the Bridges math curriculum and training. And then at both schools, we have individualized instruction with licensed teachers, differentiated instruction, and targeted interventions, and our Viking student success program. So again, that target was met. Um any questions on those programs. We also have family engagement initiatives. So at Viking Elementary, it's continuing with scheduled conferences and family night events. The target has been 90% or more of Viking Elementary students will continue to attend parent teacher conferences. And this year the average was 94% that attended. uh the family night events for the title one family nights. There was an average of a hundred parents and students that attended and then they also created a new um family program
006called numbers with the neighborhood. So there was approximately 326 parents and adults that attended that event this year. [snorts] On the next page, the other strategy that we have is early intervention for students needing academic support. So at the high school, we wanted to increase our outreach to identified parents and create new pathways to increase conference attendance and parent involvement. So what we did is our identified parent group is at risk students who have mid or end quarter D's and Fs. So our target was the percentage of identified parents attending would increase by 5% a year. Our baseline [clears throat and cough] of 44% was established in 2324. So our target then was 49% for this year. Our actual was 55%. In addition, we set a new target. So in addition to attending conferences, we
007also wanted to increase involvement. And so increasing involvement was things like contacting the school. So this year our actual is nine excuse me 79.5% of atrisisk parents attended conferences or contacted the school. So our outreach to parents of atrisisk students has continued to expand. That also includes contact by the high school counselor at mid and end of quarter via letter, text or email. It provides information about our homework help program and requests parents to schedule appointment to create an action plan for the students. And our high school counselor also schedules meetings focusing on juniors and seniors who are at risk of not graduating on time. questions. ANI goal three then on the next page is a teacher equity goal. This goal is to maintain student access to more effective and diverse teachers by continuing to
008provide staff development in areas of culture, race, ethnicity, and poverty for 100% of district teachers each year between 2023 and 26. So, one of the strategies that we've had with this goal is educational career opportunities. That's just been an effort to continue efforts to develop teachers from within. So, we are fortunate to have highly qualified, diverse staff in our schools, but we've also set a goal to have some of our students pursue educational careers. So, we've had a intro to education course and now we have an early childhood education course. So, our original target was to have 62.5% of diverse students enrolled in those education courses. Our actual is 57%. And so, that target was not met, but we're thinking maybe this would be a goal that we might look at just looking more at
009the diversity of all staff. Um, professional development is the second strategy that we have in this area. So to continue to focus on academic achievement of all students and provide staff development that strengthens knowledge around culture, race, ethnicity, poverty, and other challenges by increasing our capacity to understand and accept others target 100% of our teachers participating. And we did meet that target. the strategies or the um staff development trainings that we had in 2425. We had our foundational leadership programs, our seven habits of highly effective people and leader in need. Our new teachers also received all of that training. Uh Viking Elementary has continued with their lighthouse teams. They also had meetings with reps from Frank McCubby during the fall workshop and letters training for all prek teachers that teach language arts. At the high
010school, we had uh someone presenting to certified teachers at fall workshop and work one-on-one with the PLC's the training about strategies to support ELLL students. We had speakers. We had Dr. Uh Adolf Brown is rags to riches who talked to staff and students last year and also Amberly Snider sharing her story with staff questions on that. >> Becky, would you mind going back to goal number two? It's number three and goal number two. intervention for students needing academic support. And you might have mentioned this. I see the target of 49%. I see the actual 55 and then I see 77% fall of 24, 33% spring of 25. What what would you attribute the I mean when I look at that it seems like there's 44% less attendance >> in the spring. >> So what would
011you attribute that to me? I don't it seems very significant. Is there something that stood out to you or stood out to the >> I think that's been a trend with our fall to spring >> that big of a >> [clears throat] >> I want to well this is last year we did have one spring where it was the weather was really poor I don't remember that was last spring but typically our spring numbers are much much lower however the good thing is with that newer target where we're also having contacting parents encouraging them to get in touch with the school um that's increased quite a bit. So at least we're making contact with those families. So we're not just relying on conferences. >> Skyward Skyward helps a lot with parents >> to answer your
012question. >> I mean and maybe the answer isn't here tonight. It's just u you look at one out of every three compared to three out of every four from an attendance perspective between the two fall and spring um benchmarks. It just it's I I just think that opportunity and and you had mentioned there's additional outreach and there's additional connections above and beyond the conferences and I can appreciate that. Um, you know, we all have our own opinions on what's good and what's not so good. I just think parent teacher conferences are so good and I think everybody would agree with that. Um, to see that significant of a disparity between the two um just seems a little unique to me. And it could be weather, I don't know. But it's it's nothing further I need
013to figure out right now tonight if we don't have any real information to identify that [clears throat] that disparity or explain that disparity. I think that's why that new target is even more important because some pe some parents are maybe more comfortable texting and communicating that way versus coming in and or emailing and at least we're getting some contact rather than just relying on one. Plus then we're not just tied to one date. So if you do have bad weather or somebody has something going, these are other ways that they can still communicate. >> Thank you. Anything else on that one? Okay. Our last goal then the ANI4 is our integration goal and uh Kelsey Leage, our high school council will be working with me on this part of the program. She's taking um Mr.
014Buggerman's place. So, we're really excited about that. Um the goal here is the percentage of students participating in cultural immersion events activities with increased understanding and comfort levels with students different from themselves will increase by 5% a year. So originally we had 60% in 2023 and we wanted to get to 75% by 2026. Uh our partnering districts are the same that we've had uh Battle Lake, Detroit Lakes, Fergus Falls, Frzy, Holly, Purum, and Underwood. And our role as a racially identifiable district is to participate in at least one event with each partnering district or provide one event so they have an opportunity to to uh partner with us. So in uh last year we did offer a culture fair event in May. We also uh facilitate ongoing communication and collaboration between all the districts coordinate
015when we write our new plans and things like that. So last year our interactions with our partnering districts we had 12 um activities or events with six of the seven partnering districts. Um we are going to offer a culture fair again but probably do it a little earlier in the year maybe April so [clears throat] it's not quite as busy for people for attending and we've also been making a concerted effort to touch base with the districts and start planning right away. So we all already have a lot of things going for the 2526 school year. So students are surveyed then the students that participate in the events and that's again where we want to just measure to see if if that has made a difference in how they feel their with their comfort level
016um or interacting with someone outside their own demographics. So 84% of the students surveyed indicated that they did have that increased understanding and comfort level with somebody different than themselves, different demographics as a result of the activity or event that they participated in. So overall we [clears throat] had to do a kind of an impact statement now when we file our report with the states. And so the one thing that I noted from working with the program, it seems like the emphasis has really gone more from um evolved into awareness of similarities rather than trying to understand differences and people just gaining respect for people that are different than ourselves. And we really believe that the rich diversity that we have here gives our students real world perspective and experiences and we appreciate being able
017to share that with other districts in the area. Any questions? [clears throat] >> Questions? The second report uh that Mr. Corp and I are going to go over is our comprehensive achievement and civ civic readiness. This is another annual summary report. This again is on last year's data and this was our world's best workforce [clears throat] prior. So Mr. Corp is going to talk a little bit about some of our district goals and data. >> Okay, just [clears throat] a couple things to review before we get into a little bit more of the details of the of the plan here. Just a reminder of our mission. Uh Pelon Public Schools is committed to providing a variety of highquality academic arts and athletic programs in a unique rule setting. Priorities are community engagement, educate the whole
018child, increase student enrollment, sound and transparent financial practices, and district goals that we'll touch on through the report is goal one. 75% of students are ready for kindergarten based on teacher assessment. Goal two, MCA reading and math proficiency rates for free and reduced price students will increase by 3%. Goal three, 100% of students graduating from Pelican High School have a plan to attend post-secary education, military or workforce. And goal four, Pel High School graduation rate will exceed the statewide graduation rate. a little bit of our demographics, a review of our free and reduced status. And this is from 2425. Uh at Viking Elementary School, K through 6, 59.1% of our students qualified for free and reduced status. At the high school, 59.2. So districtwide, we're 59.1 of students who qualified for free and reduced status.
019Um breakdown of our demographics. Um American Indian, we have four students. Asian we have 2% 19 students. Hispanic 320 students 34.4%. Black 107 students 11.5. White 451 students 48.6%. Then multi-race we have 27 students 2.9%. A little bit about our breakdown of our demographics. Going to the next page. Looking at MCA's and this is districtwide compared to the state in reading and math. In MCA reading districtwide we were 49.3. State was 49.5. So state average 49.5. District in math MCAs was 49.3. Slightly below state average in reading. In math, we were 47.4 districtwide proficient. State average was 45%. So, we're above in math. You go on to the next page. And what happens here is when you can start breaking it down by grade level, seeing where each grade is at across the board, you
020can look over [clears throat] the years for third grade. So, if you look in the top one, pelvis, this is for pelrais, all students in reading. You can go across. If you look on the left side, it's grade three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, and 11. Okay, you can fall each by each grade by cohort. So, you could start, let's just take grade three and 2018. If you just go diagonal, they went to 74.1% grade 4. 2020, just a reminder, that was co year and take the MCAs. Go to 2021, you see the proficiency 2022, you can follow the cohort. If it's NA, that means they did not take the test that year. Okay? Starting in grade nine, they don't take certain tests. 10, 11, grades 12, they don't take any tests with
021MCAs. Okay? So now we can look at it by cohort and we can look across by grade each year. So that's what teachers can see here. The bottom box, same thing with math. Past fall, the last few weeks, teachers at both buildings had [clears throat] broken down looking at their test scores in more details. But this gives you a big umbrella of kind of how we did versus the state and how each cohort did in each grade level. Now, with MCAs, um, different tests that we and they'll talk maybe a little bit about tonight, but over the next few board meetings, they're going to be talking about things that will impact what we're doing that will hopefully impact, improve learning, will impact our test scores. That's what principles will be sharing with at the board
022meetings over the next few months. Okay, >> great. So, next page then is just our CACR. Again, that was formerly called the world's best workforce. It's created to be sure schools enhance student achievement through teaching and learning supports and it requires comprehensive long-term strategic plans that address this CACR goals and align with district goals. So, basically the first one, all children ready for school. All racial and economic achievement gaps between students are closed. All students are ready for a career in college. All students graduate from high school. And all students are prepared to be lifelong learners. That fifth one was new as of last year. So if we go to the next page, the first CRC goal then is all children ready for school. That aligns with our district goal of 75% of students are
023ready for kindergarten based on teacher assessment. The result for 2425 was 92% of the students being ready. Uh some of the strategies were just um ELO and school readiness standards which align to MD kindergarten standards, work sampling, child created work portfolios and classroom instruction based on where class is and then working toward where they need to be. So that goal was met. Goal number two, CACR is closing the achievement gap between student groups and that corresponds with the district goal. Again, this is our MCA meeting. This is now proficiency rates for free and reduced students. This coincides with what we had for our achievement and integration because we do want those goals aligned as well. So again, this is the same thing that we talked about where our target was 37.2, two, our actual was
02437.9 and we were 5.9% over the states. The next one is the math and again that's the one that we reviewed when we did the ANI. So again our target 32.8 actual 34.2 and 8.4% over the state. The next one then the CACR3 is all students ready for career in college that aligns with the district goals of 100% of students graduating from Pelican Rapids have a plan to attend postsecary education military or the workforce. So 100% of our students did have a plan and you can see the breakdown on the chart. So that was 51% planning to do the four-year degree, 6% gap year, 8% technical or trade school, 29% with a plan to go into the workforce, and 6% planning for a two-year degree. Some of the strategies then are on the next page,
025how the goals are supported for everyone. There's um local business professional career panel that's done in November [snorts] of every year. There's career expose. There's group and individual planning meetings with Mrs. Lege and different guest speakers throughout the year. And then the path the both postsecary education we offer the college and the school courses. Last year we offered up to 40 college credits. There were college rep visits. students can do up to three college visits per year and then there's some testing as well. Uh next to that you'll see again our the plan to earn a four-year degree or higher. 51% of students had that plan. [clears throat] 6% were going to do the two-year degree. 8% for the trade school trade program. Of last year's graduates, 23 students earned 3 to 15 college credits.
026Nine students earned 16 to 30 college credits and four earned 31 or more college credits. Uh the workforce some of the ways that that pathway is supported field trips to area businesses and industries CTE classes future farmers of America. So again there was 29% of last year's graduating class were planning to enter the workforce. 24 of those students completed the CNA class. Of those 24, 17 took and pass certification. Seven completed the EMT class. None had taken certification tests at the time of graduation. Eight completed the CDL course. One took and passed certification. 11 completed cosmetology classes. And 107 total number of CT classes that were taken. So, just to recap, a lot of when we went to the townships, a lot of those township boards wanted classes like this offered, which we're doing. So,
027working with our community and seeing what they're looking for out in the community. I think we're doing a really good job of trying to prepare our kids um for different jobs and helping our community out, but also if they don't want to go to the workforce, they have college to go to. And I want to thank all the staff for all their work and you know to teach college classes it takes extra classes for them to complete to be able to teach those classes. So very appreciative of those teachers. Any questions on that? Okay. If we go to the next one with CAC our goal all students graduates which aligns with our district goal of our graduation rate exceeding the statewide graduation rate. So 2024, our graduation rate was 88.5% and the state was 84.2%.
028Again, we're always a year behind on that one as far as the data that we're able to acquire, but you can see that we've uh the last four years we've been above the state average on the graduation rate. Uh the next page is the CACR number five. Again, this is that new goal that that um we're required to do. So, our goal is programs and experiences will provide all of our students the opportunity to develop skills for success and promote curiosity, leadership, teamwork, and perseverance. So some of the strategies that we have in place at both schools continue to provide opportunities to explore interests in the arts, athletics, academics, and leadership through school after school student activities, groups, and teams and also continue to provide art, music, and physical education courses. At Viking Elementary, all
029students in grades K through six will continue with student and classroom leadership initiatives, including student led conferences, student jobs, morning announcement, school patrol, helping with younger students in the classroom and lunchroom, and opportunities to participate in leader student lighthouse activities and events. at high school. All students in grades 7 through 12 will compile a Viking portfolio that'll include milestones and class check-ins, learning class artifacts that they can uh upload, interests, awards, recognition, participation artifacts and plans, resumes, career fairs, career expose, and some of their testing. I think with the school when you look at the elementary and you have student led conferences that's a lot of work in the teachers of organizing that and working with each [snorts] student to prepare their own conference and it's also a big task for the students to do
030that takes a lot of gives them a lot of ownership which is nice to see and if you sit in those uh student led conferences at the elementary school they're really neat. So, thank you to all the teachers for all their work with uh giving kids the chance at elementary to lead their conferences, take ownership. >> Any questions, >> Becky? Have we I'm just looking at the number five there too. Have um have we looked at the sleds data in that and just like how students are doing after they leave us and for example you know how many have to take any remedial courses when they get to college and I'm I'm just wondering because you have such uh like number oriented goals measurable if like looking at some sleds data um might give us
031some other things to look at there success measures. Yeah, those are things we can um look at as we move forward because again this is a brand new one. So that would that's a good idea. >> Anything else? We we've had that discussion our admin team about that and how do we contact how do we make sure that information is accurate is one and then the next one is how can we reach out to our kids to get feedback just not only what they're doing okay or what they completed or what courses they take but what did we do well to prepare them for college if they went to the college route what do we need to do a better job of getting that feedback we've had some feedback in the past years from kids
032that went to college which has been good >> yeah Well, and I mean the sleds is all for through MDE. So I mean it's they get the data from the colleges and things. So I would assume it's accurate. Yeah. >> Like the Minnesota court cards is a acronym. >> It is and I don't know. Ask me what it is, but yeah, it's an acronym. >> Anything else? >> Any more questions? >> Thank you, M. Okay, Mr. Nelson, enrollment, we're still at the 461. PPK is 42. Uh P3 is at 28 and Head Start at 32. So enrollment stay strong. Um like to tonight hire Nancy Husby as a law firm sub for a title one position for um period of time here. Uh thank you to Amazon. This fall we got a call and they
033donated uh $1,500 worth of materials told teachers about it. teachers submitted their request what they'd like and everyone that submitted what they asked for got it as well as extra stuff they went to the Viking boutique for uh supplies in there. So, I was very kind of them to reach out and that donation. And then also, Amazon donated uh backpacks, little backpacks that had three books in to all our kindergarten, first and second grade uh classes. They pick a different school every year, and we were chosen this year as their school to donate to. So, uh thank you to them. Uh I also want to thank uh T Farms. They uh had a very large donation for the milk program. So students who want milk not at lunch or breakfast but during milk break that
034can't pay for it that they covered a large amount of those. Um so thank you them for that donation. It was very kind. Uh September we had 273 students that have perfect attendance this year. Um, last year we're at 317. Uh, we had quite a few colds and sicknesses going around this year in September. So, perfect attendance was down a little bit, but 273 is still a very good number. So, um, thank you those students and families for being there. Uh, we talked [clears throat] about the assessments. Scroll up a little bit, Emily. Our fall reading assessments. Uh, as you can see, we'll go down a come back. Yep. Right to there. As you can see up above there, uh, you know, we do our teachers in our abscess reading core first part of the
035year help administer these assessments and then also our title teachers um, do these assessments and from the data that we grab from all those is helps form our intervention groups. So when our teachers meet, we look at the data and that way we're able to group students accordingly for intervention time. So we can target exactly what student need. We can group them together and um help the students more where they're at. So that individualized instruction. So and then down below map kind of the same thing. Uh we use that data for the same for math grouping. Uh so sometimes uh we wonder if students get test overkill, but I think a lot of the a lot of these assessments are very quick. They're short. They're not like MCAs that are 2 three days long. They're
036short quick assessments. Um and like the title teachers, they'll be constantly um going over the different assessment with students and keep grouping them accordingly. So, uh, Wednesday will be our pitcher retake day. We got most of our kids through the pictures, um, in our August workshop, back to school kickoff day, but that'll be the day for anyone who was not able to um, come in that day for students and staff. Friday we have a teacher workshop and one of the new things with the teacher workshop is with the letters or the um the read act is our pairs will be coming in uh four times throughout the year for 2-hour training that is required for the read act and Mrs. Johnson will be the one that'll be teaching those classes. she went over the summer
037got trained on that um what needs to be presented to our parents. So they will be their first day will be on the 31st. Um also then on November 3rd our teachers have our unit five for letters. This is their first unit of the second year of the letters letters training. And then November 10th is parent teachers conferences like Mr. Scorf said, "My teachers spend a lot of time getting students ready, getting uh them prepared, what to say, things organized, materials to uh present to the parents. And one thing I did forget is November 6th is our title one bingo, book bingo again at the elementary. Uh last year we had a great turnout for that and I think everyone walked out of there with several books. Um, so it's a great family engagement to
038get families in and get all them walking out of there with a uh couple books as well. So, any questions? >> Questions? >> I just want to make sure it's clear with a Friday workshop day and a Monday workshop day. Um, we have to remember that elementary they have letters training. So, every workshop day this year they have letters training except for this Friday. So last year they requested could we have a day where it's we can work on things um grade level meetings other meetings curriculum development grading things like that so we found them that's what we approved last year in the calendar that's just a reminder so if people ask because some people are going to ask why we go on Friday Monday so >> and it was kind of that date because
039it's kind of right before conferences to help them prepare stuff for conferences as So it's good for staff. >> Great. Thank you. >> Mr. Jes. >> Okay. Student enrollment. We are at 375. Um PLC BLT goal updates. Um we have three that we kind of put together as a school. First one is use information learned from the ancient generation to support students. So three of our PLC's are actually reading that in their um PLC. So they have a reading schedule and some discussion points. They've had some great discussions that I don't even think they use discussion points. It's just kind of created some natural discussion as they go. Um it has [clears throat] had us talk about the phone policy and then how we discuss that with students. And then I will um talk about
040this too. We are going to send out a quarterly newsletter to parents that just kind of highlights the in the fall highlight chapters 1 through three, winters 4 through 8, and then the spring 9 through13. Um just a way to kind of connect with parents a little bit. Here's what we're reading. Here's what we found. Um and I'll go through that a little bit here um later on. Second goal is use assessment data and strategies to increase student proficiency rates. We're really focused on the read um with this PLC. So um the end of October here we are testing students in grades 7 through 10. We are using the NWA MAP growth test. Mr. Nelson mentioned the elementary using Fastbridge. This is what we're using at the high school. Our English department adapted new curriculum
041from HMH. That's for grades 7 through 10. And then our ELA ELELLL students, our English department is also working through their English language arts standards and curriculum alignment. They went to a workshop MEA Wednesday at Lakes Country and that was going through the updates of the standards. And so what we're working towards is a standard alignment from kindergarten all the way through 12th grade. So that'll take kind of this next year, this year, and next year to really put together, but I think will be um really nice. And then we'll work through intervention strategies based on the results we get from that growth test in October here. And then students that um do not meet proficiency standards will then take the CAPY testing and CAP will determine if there's any um dyslexia for students. Um,
042third goal is create portfolio check-ins for grade levels. So, Miss Wter mentioned that we are working through our student portfolio. This is one that I've kind of mentioned over the years and we're finally kind of at the point where we are implementing it. Um, so we're going to work through those during advisory times. We added midquarter and quarter advisory times this year for students. So, we follow an adjusted schedule. day meet with a grade level advisor twice a quarter. Um midquarter 1. This time we went through grade checks. Um showed students Skyward um what their grade book looks like. Just some reminders. We talked about academic eligibility. Grades 9 through 12 went through an actual GPA calculator so we can kind of see what that looks like. And then we [snorts] highlighted biking student success.
043And then again, last week we did another one for quarter one to kind of give kids a warning that the end of quarter one is coming. So we did grade checks. Um grades 9 and 12 we did a careerfare reflection and then 11th and 12th graders learned how to address an envelope in past wonderful practice. Um the um postmaster came in and she did that with grades 11 and 12. Were you part of that? >> Yeah. So that was good. Um Hunter Pinky was here on October 8th. He came in the fall to fall workshops to talk to staff. He was back here to talk to students. Did a really great job. I had the pleasure of listening to my elementary kids talk about Hunter Pinky come and it sounds like he was able to
044span um the ages. It was pretty cool to hear my kids talk about it um at home. He had three kind of his no bad days had three main parts. I'm still here. I have a choice and I in love. He did a really nice job in that hour he had with students. Minnesota Honor Society, we had some new inductees here in October. Mrs. Lege continues to do a great job with that program. Her guest speaker was Mr. Doug Bugamman and he did a really nice job talking about creating your brand with kids. October is also college knowledge month. Um we work to help kids just think about college. So you'll see some of the different activities we have. Mrs. Lege schedules um senior meetings. Um we have grade level newsletters which I will show
045you. Our freshman went to Detroit Lakes for a career pathway field trip. Seniors went to Fergus Falls for career expo. um students took the PAT and then we'll have the ASFAB later on in the spring. Um and then this year we coined it care Wednesdays. So that has teachers wearing college apparel, some trivia and some bingo. Care stands for career apprenticeship readiness and enlistment. So just kind of a play on those different options that kids have um after high school. I am going to share with you just the newsletters. So there's one for seventh and eighth grade, one for 9th and 12th, and then um the anxious generation. So I'll let you take one um if you like. The first two um Mrs. Lege puts together. So one is for seventh and eighth graders, just
046kind of a snapshot of important dates. We talk about Hunter Pinky. Um she talks about in generation remind students of the boutique and the food shelf 9 through 12. She talks about college knowledge um month and how it affects each of our um grade levels. She mentions NCAA. So if kids are interested in playing sports in college, she talks about that. Um, on the back she has a really nice checklist for our seniors to sit down with their parents and kind of look through. What do my upcoming months look like? She mentions November 1st is the early admission deadline. So, just really nice checklist. She has a QR code for FAFSA. Um, she did go through FAFSA for seniors, I think, during um advisory time. So we posted these to Skyward for parents. Then like
047I mentioned the anxious generation we summarize the first three chapters for parents. Chapter one talks about the rise in um adolescent mental health problems. And then each one we give key takeaways and just some strategies to think about at home or talk about with your students. On the back, chapter two talks about what kids need to do in their childhood. So it talks about three things. Free play, attunement, so having some connection with other people. And then social learning, which is learning by watching and imitating others. And then chapter three talks about the kids need to do some things that are a little bit risky. And she talks or he talks about discover mode and defend mode. and he really advises that you let your kids stay in discover mode where they can do some
048reasonable risk-taking, experience failure, failure, and then learn how to rebound um from from failure. So, we hope parents want to read the book, but if not, we feel like it's a pretty good little synopsis for parents to kind of get an idea of what we're talking about um in PLC's and generate some talk at home with their students. questions about either three of those. So, this gets posted to Skyward for parents to to look at. Um, let's see here. Upcoming end of quarter 1 is Thursday already. Um, one other thing I want to highlight. So, on November 10th, we have parent teacher conferences, but November 11th, if you know any veterans, we will host our breakfast and program again on November um 11th. couple of school board or school agenda items. Um you'll see Stephanie
049Orbano. We'd like to hire her or we have hired her as a long-term sub one of our caras. Then the other thing that is on there is the Florida trip for our high school choir. Right now, they plan to leave on Wednesday, March 25th, spend some time in the Orlando area, and return on Monday, March 30th. Miss Wang would come at a later date to kind of give you more details on the trip. But it looks like an action-packed six days in Florida. >> Questions? >> Okay, any questions? Mrs. J, do we have a flyer or something that we could email board members that they could share with the details of the veterans program? >> Oh, yeah. I can do that. >> We could email it to them. And then I'm guessing this is on
050the website or will be on the website. >> Yeah. And I it was in the press. Uh I think Lou also put it in the press too. >> Social media. I also touch base with um Jim Clemenson out of the BFWs and hoping that he kind of helps spread the word as well. He's a pretty good um source for us. >> Any questions? >> Good. Thank you. >> How about a student rep? How about that for us? Um, in the extracurriculars, the football team concluded their season with a loss to Barnesville in the section semifinals. Both the boys and girls cross country teams finished their season last week at the section meet in Begley. The volleyball team was eliminated in the first round of the section tournament with a loss to BBE. The loss came
051after a very exciting play win versus Rosé. The boys and girls soccer season was also wrapped up. The girls team lost to a very talented East Grand Forks team and the boys were section runnerups after being defeated by St. Cloud Cathedral. Uh to piggy back off what Miss Jay said, MHS uh the Minnesota Honor Society added 17 new juniors and high school students also got to listen to a speaker named Hunter Pinky. If you're not familiar with Mr. Pinky, he was a football player for the University of North Dakota and just before his senior year, he was involved in a skiing accident that paralyzed him. He did a great job telling his story and his perspective on life. Uh both band and choir have fall concerts coming up in November. And lastly, winter sports have
052begun with both dance and junior high girls basketball starting their seasons. Questions? >> Was it the first time you addressed an envelope? [laughter] I don't hear anything. So, thank you, Mr. Martinez. All right. Uh, treasures report for the month of September. Uh overall pretty busy month. Um school's back in session. A lot of accounts payables are coming due. Uh state a starting to kick in. So overall uh lots of activity in terms of uh the business office. Um, in terms of our budget to actual report, uh, you can see that, uh, since our fiscal year until the end of September, we've received, uh, $2.3 million uh, in revenue out of the $16 million of the projected revenue. That accounts for 14% overall. Uh, in terms of our expenditures, you can see they're starting to add
053up. We're on month four of our fiscal year. So, so far we've uh accounted for and [clears throat] acrewed um $2.5 million in expenditures out of a $60 million budget that we approved back in June for a total of uh 15.9% of our overall budget. Uh pretty common. Uh this is where we start to see our expenditures outgrow our revenue and then we start going into approvals. Uh that's our accounting method. Uh so uh pretty typical month for the month of September. Okay, we'll go on to our cash flow. So, we'll go to the next page. Uh, uh, in terms of our investment account, we started our investment account with $5.8 million in our Minnesota liquid asset fund. Uh, we received $422,000 in state aid, of which we took out $823,000 from our investment account,
054transferred over to our checking account to cover our liabilities. At the end of the month, we had 4 point $5.4 million sitting in our investment account. Uh we started our uh checking account with a negative $20,000 uh,000. Uh we had $1.2 million in deposit of which $823 came from our investments. Total accounts payable for the month were $770,000. Again, very high month with lots of expenditures. Um total payroll came to 422,000. Um uh included in this uh payroll already the new schedules for our par professionals, all of our support staff in addition to all of our new teacher uh schedules. So um um uh a little bit again based on settlements. This is the new reflective cost. uh total cash on hand at the end of the month were 27,000 for a total of uh
055just a little over $5.4 million uh cash on on hand between our investments and our checking account. Um again, very very very busy month. Um uh we always talk about uh having a good uh a good fund balance and this is what this reflects. Uh next month in the month of October, you guys are going to notice that it's a what we called a dry month. In the month of October, we received no state aid because our levy kicks in. So our levy payment we received on a Friday. Uh and the state knows that. So they don't pay you any state aid. So this is why we like to keep a rainy day fund. Okay. Uh the last of the pages is all of the payables that went through our uh uh checking account. So,
056I'm not going to bore you with all those details. Um, that is what we have for the treasures report. Mine was short and sweet today. Um, any questions? >> Just a question on just for conversation is um with the government shutdown and our federal dollars, what kind of impact is that having locally? Uh so uh NDE put out a um a federal dollar website where you can see the fiscal impact to your community. Uh for us we receive two major sources. It is our food service program. So we get reimbursed for meals that we claim against the federal government and our title program. Um the federal fiscal budget is a year behind state budget. So for this year in terms of meal reimbursement and in terms of title funding we are guaranteed. Okay. So federal
057is on fiscal year 25. We are on state fiscal year 26. Now with that said with the government shutdown and uncertainty of what's going to happen we have no guarantee of uh the future funding of title programs or what the reimbursement rates for meal programs is going to be. So, all the communication that we've received from the state of Minnesota is hold your breath. We're working things out. Um, I think it's going to be a very big year in terms of legislation. I think there's going to be lots of bills to be introduced. It's a big it's a big language year because we're in the middle of our bianium and I think a lot of the bills that are going to be introduced is to help cover school districts for federal funding uh shortfalls. So,
058did that answer your question? >> Any other questions? >> Thank you. >> [clears throat] >> Okay, just looking over a few of our district priorities. First one is community engagement. We've had a number of engagement activities with our our community this fall. Over the next uh couple board meetings, we'll be sharing um little bit more detail what those activities were and we're engaging with the community. Uh increasing student enrollment is another priority. Uh October enrollment for K12 was 838 students. Again, last May we ended the school year with 88. PreK12 enrollment, we're at 940. In October, 940 students, preK through 12th grade, and we ended last year with 915. So, that's good news. So, in transparent financial practices, Mr. Martinez every uh month gives us a report, an update. Also, just so you know, uh
059in November at our schoolboard meeting, we'll have the audit presentation in November. District goals, 75% of our students are ready for kindergarten based on teacher assessment. Uh we had preschool boost in August. Um for students that were in preschool, which is extra schooling for them going into the school year, we'd offer preschool head start programming. So please, you could help us out. Sometimes you guys ask, "How can we help out?" If you hear of any families that have preschool age um students and they're not enrolled in our early childhood programs to con to have them contact the elementary office to enroll their student. This will help get them ready for kindergarten. Hunter Pinky, you've heard a few different um principles talk and um Mr. Hublin talked about Hunter Pinky. um inspirational [clears throat] speaker did
060a great job with her staff and our students. Elementary theme was dream, set, go. Um I didn't know and I don't know if Mr. Nelson if you both knew that Hunter could entertain kindergarten through fifth grade students and he did it for about 45 minutes and he did a phenomenal job entertaining them and keeping them engaged. Not just entertaining them, but also getting a message across. So um he did a great job and he did a great job here. sixth grade actually came over and joined grades 7 through 12 in the fine arts auditorium and he did a great job with them and his like Mr. J said it was no bad days. Um MSBA conference is January 15th and 16th. Please communicate if you plan to attend um with Mrs. Evston here. It'd be
061nice if you could do that um in about a week, two weeks in the next two weeks. Please let her know if you plan to attend. And if you do plan to attend, please let her know if you're going to stay Wednesday night and Thursday night or just Thursday night. Okay? So then she can get hotel rooms for everyone. Schoolboard agenda items. Um few things on here. Um first one is acknowledge the resignation of Dalin Evansson as wrestling assistant coach. Uh, we want to thank Coach Evson for all his work in his years of service coaching wrestling. We will miss having him on staff and I know the wrestlers will miss him too. However, I know that he will come around and and help out when he can. So, it would be great to have
062him when he can make it. Approved the hire of Kurt Stum as the um wrestling assistant coach and it would be great to have him on staff. He is currently on staff here at the high school. So, he'll be engaged with the students too and helping connect, which will be great. Lane change requests. I want to thank all the staff there that who have completed coursework um to help improve teaching and learning. So, we'd like to have them approved to further lane change. A couple other items, accepting donations. That is a monthly one accepting donations of people that donate money. Um, under business items, the resolution for nomination Lakes Country Service Cooperative Board. Um, Mr. Carter is willing to serve on Lakes Country Board. So, we'd like to have him approved tonight. Then we can
063communicate with Mr. Kovash, the executive director that um for his nomination. So, to be on the board there. So, he's uh served for quite a few years and and has done a great job representing Pelican Rapids and doing a great job on the board at Lakes Country. Um, next item is approve the principles agreement and approve the finance director um contracts um for them for the principles and the finance director. The process that we took to negotiate the contracts is Mr. Carter, Mrs. Welch and myself met with the principles and the finance director to negotiate their contracts. After negotiations with them, the finance committee reviewed the paying benefits. So, we move forward, present it to the finance committee, and then they had discussion and are moving um those two contract those contracts to the board.
064Tonight, we have completed over the years, we've completed a market analysis with the area districts to compare our pay and benefits for these positions. We feel we're offering a competitive pay and benefits in these areas. We've done a market analysis with all our non-certified staff and certified positions. And I believe and we believe the finance committee believes we're very competitive in our noncertified and our certified when we're comparing them to Eerie districts. So we want to thank them for their work and appreciate all they do for ISD 548, our students and our staff. So thanks for the work for the finance committee too. Um few big rocks coming up. We got teacher workshop again. We talked about that the Friday and the Monday and then parent teacher conference we're mentioning. November 17th is the regular
065school board meeting at 6 and then November 27th 28th before you know fall break. >> Any questions? Any questions for Mr. Cork? I don't hear any. So, should we move on? So, we'll move on to consent items. [clears throat] Item A is approved board meeting minutes from September 17, 2025, regular school board meeting. B is financial claims September bills. C is a treasures report. D is personnel acknowledge the resignation of D Evson as high school wrestling assistant coach. Approve the hire of a Andriana Barka as Club Vikes student helper at the elementary. Approve the hire of Pstrom as high school wrestling assistant coach. Approve the hire of Nancy Gizby as long-term title one substitute at the elementary. approved [snorts] the hire of Stephanie Gerbano as long-term special education paraprofessional substitute at the high school. So,
066we have some lane change requests. Amy Corp, VA + 10 to MA + 10, excuse me, MA + 10 to MA plus 20. [clears throat] And the following are moving from BA to BA + 10. We have Y Eric Lindberg, Kevin Severson, Parker Severson, Madison Tweeton, and Nicole tweet. We have a motion for the consent items. >> I'll make a motion to approve the consent items. >> I'll second by Stacy. Motion by Brenda, second by Stacy. Any discussion of the consent items? Hearing no discussion on the consent items. Those in favor of approving the consent items signify by saying I. I. I. Those opposed, nay. Consent items carry. Item A is going to be a resolution approving donations. [snorts] >> Do we have a motion and a second? >> Motion by Brenda. Second by Andrew.
067Okay. Any discussion on that before I read the resolution accepting donations. Whereas every such acceptance shall be by full resolution of the governing body adopted by twothirds majority of its members expressing such full terms in full such terms in full. Therefore be resolved that the school board of Rapids public schools ISD 548 great gratefully accept the following donations as identified below. Laura Clem $80 to student accounts. Laura Clem $80 to Viking Boutique. T farms $2575 to student accounts in memory of Jane Tros. Okay. So, this is a resolution. Andrew, how do you resolve? >> Yes. >> Brenda? >> Yes. Molly? >> Yes. >> Stacy? >> Yes. >> Greg? >> Yes. >> Resolution carries. >> Okay. Okay. Approve the resolution for nominations for the Lakes Country Service Cooperative Board. I'm interested in running again. If the
068board doesn't want me in there, that's fine, too. So, it's your call, but I am interested in running again. So, >> I'll make a motion. >> Motion by Brenda. A >> second. Second by Greg. Any discussion on that? Okay. And I need to abstain. >> I will abstain. >> Okay. Right. >> So, no discussion. Hear no discussion. Greg, how do you resolve? >> Yes. Molly? >> Yes. >> Brenda? [laughter] >> Yes. >> Andrew? >> Yes. >> Okay. Resolution carries. All right. You need this. You got it. >> I have it. Thank you. [clears throat and cough] >> Item C, approve the 2026 choir trip to Florida. Who would like to make that motion? >> I will make that motion. >> Motion by Stacy. A second. >> Second. Second by Greg. Any discussion on the choir
069trip? Assuming we get more information future meeting. >> Okay, it's closer. >> Any discussion? Hearing no discussion. All in favor of approving the 2026 fire trip signify by saying I. >> I. Those opposed same. >> Name. Motion carries. So item D is going to be principal agreement for July 1st, 2025 to June 30th, 2027. So Mr. Corf, do you want to go over the details on this or the We should have the attachment. >> This is what was emailed out to everybody, right? Yep. >> Yep. The increase um in salary is the same as all staff 3% 3.25%. Uh continuing ad reimbursement increased to $3,000. Uh increasing extracurricular supervision pay from 100 to 125 or 150 to 175. Uh sick leave payout. Um there's been a sick leave payout for um certified staff and now
070um [clears throat] looking at for principles and then the 403 B match increase to 2750 3,750. So we increased it by 250 each each one. Okay. So this is Molly and I had met with principles principal and Mr. for by the principal and um guess we felt this was reasonable. So didn't seem to be anything out of line compared to to uh other settlements. So, anything else discussion or I'll make a motion to approve the principles agreement for July 1st, 2025 to June 30th, 2027. Have a second. All >> second. Second by Andrew. >> Okay. Any discussion on the principal's contract? Hearing no discussion on the principal's contract. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Those opposed, same. Motion carries. Item G is approve the finance director's agreement for July 1st,
0712025 to June 30th, 2027. >> That's also here. So, you want to go over some details? >> Yep. Um same salary increase of the percent of 3% and 3.25%. Uh vacation leave increase to 30 days. Uh continue ad reimbursement to $2,000. Uh pre-tax contribution increase from 20 uh to 2500 was 1,500. Uh increase of life insurance policy. Uh severance pay upon mutual separation. retirement based on years of service. A 403b match program um increased 403b by 250. Okay. And it was the same procedure. Molly and I met and then like principal contracts. I went to the finance committee for some vetting. Felt this was reasonable. That's I guess my thoughts on it. So Molly and so I'm going to make a motion to approve the finance director's agreement for July 1st, 2025 to June 30th,
0722027. We have a second. >> I'll second that. >> Second by Andrew. Okay. Any discussion on the finance director? I do want to bring some discussion points forward and I I just want to uh clarify that one perspective um and that just as I have brought in the past questions on contracts it is about just thinking of long-term long-term impacts um and uh looking at numbers um and so there were two items that I did have questions on and that was the the severance piece um we talked about uh it I explained that that's um compared to the teacher longevity piece. Um but when you when I did the math and let's just I just said you know 30 years um in the district um we were looking at a difference of $60,000 between what
073a teacher would potentially being in a district for 30 years gain um and what the severance package um would do. So again, and know I just focused on again the like what the contract is, the long-term impact, um what that could potentially mean for impact on students, you know, 20 years down the road. Um also, I I don't know how many of us will still be in these roles 20 year, you know, 20 years down the road. So what are we um leaving um to to the next folks? Um and then uh the vacation days also um uh jumping from 20 days of vacation to um 30 days of vacation um seems to be something that you would gain those as you as you go um or having been in a district for 20 years
074then you would have um and and two just so like I did the math you know these are approximations but um 20 days the vacation is about $7,700. Um 30 days we're at $12,000 a year. Um and so over 20 years um that would be $230,000 that the district would be um putting forward in um you know in supporting vacation days. So I'm not I'm not against having um 30 days. I just in comparing with other contracts and things um I think that is something that you um you know you gain a day every year and when you've been in a district for 20 years then there's your six weeks of vacation. So I know it was brought up too that there's work done beyond um contract times answering phones and emails and things and
075um I I know our teachers do that too. if there's work beyond. So, so I was just I was having a thinking processing um about long-term um impact and wanted to bring that forward to the board in this discussion. So, those are the those are the only two items that um I had reservations um in the contract with. >> Anything else in the discussion? Okay. >> Like the severance pay, what is that? Or is it a percentage or is something decided at that time or >> Yeah. You want to explain that how that works? >> Yeah. >> Is there something like you follow like the teachers or >> so the seance pay would be based on nine months. nine months of pay and that's after how many years is what do you have in there
076for years? >> Um severance bay does not have a a year of service component on it. The the thing to remember with the severance clause that uh because my contract is at will, um this is a safety measure for me based on my years of service with the district saying that if the board decides not to extend me um um an additional contract, whether it's this term or the following term, um this would be a safety net for me and my family until I find uh different employment. So that brings up though to like how the language was written in there. What was shared is because it says upon mutual agreement. So um yeah. So I guess that just I would need clarification on that too if it's what does a mutual agreement mean if
077it were to be again and Mr. Martinez is not this is just like contract language not personal at all. So um >> is that the same in the teachers contracts too? mutual agreement would be where both parties agreed to be done. >> So, and you know and other what was you know shared in um in in other severance packages like paying out so much of uh well kind of like what are is in our principles agreement too like so many um sick days above and beyond or like those are paid out or vacation days are paid out in the severance. So, just thinking about long-term impact. [clears throat] >> Okay. And does it does it set a precedent for for other contracts or positions or where we um will we be um looking at language?
078I don't know legally what that Okay. Any more discussion? >> Okay. Who are the the mutual agreement component? Who are the parties? I mean the finance director is a party and who has who has the decision making authority with regard to the other party? Does that require schoolboard approval? It be the school board that pos finance director position. >> Anything else? >> So the the this the severance itself would have to be mutually agree. I'm sorry. >> Yeah. Good. >> So what is what is the agreement with regard to severance? If if this is approved tonight, what is the agreement with regard to severance if something later on would have to be mutually agreed upon? What's the school district bound to 9 months a month pay at that time? >> What would have to be
079mutually agreed upon? If it's mutually saying that we're going to not have the person in the position that's agreed between the two parties saying this isn't working, then we'd come to this contract and the contract would say in this package get 9 months of pay [snorts] monthly pay. So if if one party said this isn't working and there's no mutual agreement and let's say the finance director says this isn't working. School district says yeah it is then there's no severance afforded to that finance director. There has to be a a reason for why there is a separation between the two parties mutually agreed upon. So if no mutual agreement can be reached, what happens? >> Still employed. >> How do you force somebody to remain employed? >> Great question. >> So we're talking this would
080be like a retirement or >> Yeah. Retirement package. So he says I'm done. retire >> except for retirement >> get that. Yes. So V comes and says you know what I'm going to retire. We mutually agree it too. When's that date going to be? Is it going to be a year? It's going to be 6 months. We come to an agreement. So So that there's an assumption that there's going to be a mutual agreement. How do how do you ever assume a mutual agreement? You can't both parties are going to sit down and saying here's what we're looking at either the district or the person in that position. Then we have to mutually agree to what does that look like? >> Okay. I get that you say we have to mutually agree. >> Yeah. But
081what if one party does not want to be part of a mutual agreement? >> What happens with regard to the severance? I mean, we the school district can't force somebody to remain employed at the school district. >> Yeah. >> So, at some point, the person would get the seance package >> regardless of whether there's a mutual agreement. >> You're hoping for a mutual agreement to saying here's the date. If the person says, "I'm going to be done in two months from now," we'd have to come up with an agreement. Does that work or can we go three months? Can we do that? We would work that out with the person. The person would get the seance package. I uh >> so in this case so there was mention about sick day payout we're not doing
082sick day payout with this position we're not doing that we're doing uh a package severance package like this we're not doing a sick day payout >> right and I I'm just coming from the perspective I um I think that that sick day payout is clearer language to to use that um has so again like probably not going to be here in 20 years. So you know what are what does this decision what impact does that um make on the folks sitting at this table in 20 years? >> You want me to read the section of the contract? >> Okay. >> So this is the language that's in it. Finance director shall be entitled to severance pay upon mutual separation from the district comma retirement comma death or disability comma. Such severance pay shall be equal
083to one month's pay for each year completed as a finance director of colors public schools for up to 9 months or 50% of the final year's salary. Total payments shall be paid on the last day of employment. Deductions such as state federal income tax, social security, etc. shall be made only as required by law. >> So like when you said it doesn't include like and stuff like that, do we have to clean that up or add anything to that to make that clear? >> There's nothing in the contract that says there's payout on use. >> Okay. So that's not >> but that is it is in the principal's contract. Is it in teachers contract? >> Yes. [snorts] >> Yeah. Yeah. >> So the just for clarification, the only are all contracts in the sick the
084sick day payout except two in the district if this were to be ex accepted. When you say contracts, who are you talking about to not? >> Well, agreement like the severance or the vacation days or this I mean the sick leave payout. >> Um certified get it. >> Non-certified. >> pretty much everyone gets it. >> I think I'm clarifying. Yes. cuz when we approved your contract that this like this was the same language in your contract and as is in this contract but those are the only two in the district. >> There's a severance in the principal. >> Yes. And the principles have it. It's different. >> It's different. >> Yeah. >> But there is a severance. >> It's the sick the sick week, right? >> No, it's different. >> The principles principles are the
085years of service. Okay. >> May I say something? >> Yep. >> So, I'm looking at section 12 of the agreement. The I don't know what the name of it is called. Finance director compensation agreement. So, I understand the finance director shall be entitled to severance pay. upon death. I understand that. Upon disability, I understand that it also would be payable upon retirement. Is that retirement from the [snorts] district? >> Yes. >> Is that to be assumed? >> Yes. >> Okay. And then how about so those are three things where severance pay would be uh triggered. The fourth one is severance pay upon mutual separation from the district. So if there is no mutual separation from the district, there's no severance pay. >> Correct. Correct. But we're going to work with the we're going to work
086with the person in the position that's saying, let's say the person comes to us and says, you know, I want to work here. I'm going to do this now. Now, we have to come up with an agreement. What does that look like? Is it nothing? Is it the nine months? Is it um you're going to keep working? Is when are you going to be done? All that stuff has to be worked out. [snorts] >> It'd be great if it all gets worked out. What I'm wondering is is what happens if it doesn't. So if separation is not mutual, then the clause doesn't exercise. >> So what does that mean to the district? >> You do not pay the severance. >> The intent the finance director decides to leave. You do not pay the severance and
087it's not a retirement. There's no se there will be no severance paid to the finance director. If a finance director um contract does not get renewed, >> is that how that works in this situation? We renew the finance contract. Yes. So, so if the if it's not the finance director who's desiring to leave, but it's the school district, there's no severance paid. If there's no desire of the employee to be um no longer working here [snorts] and the school district desires the employee to no longer be working here, there would be no mutual agreement to that extent. Is that right? >> If we're saying that we are like firing the person in the position, >> it's not mutual. The phrase mutual separation when it was drafted, was it intended to mean like by mutual agreement?
088Mutual would those terms and conditions always be reduced to writing and that mutual separation would be incorporated into an agreement that gets executed between the school district and the employee. Are you asking for that to be put in? No. Is that Is that what that says? The mutual separation. So I It doesn't say anything about a mutual agreement or anything like that. The mutual separation. Are we to assume the mutual separation would be accompanied by terms and conditions that get incorporated into an agreement that gets mutually signed by the school district and the employee? >> Correct. Okay, thank you. Anything else? Okay. So, we still have a motion and a second on the table here. So, any more discussion? Okay. Hearing no more discussion. All those in favor of approving the finance director agreement for
089July 1st, 2025 to June 30th, 2027 signify by saying I. >> I. Those opposed say. >> I I'm just not comfortable with the long-term impact. So I'm opposed. >> Okay. Okay. So that carries. Um we have upcoming meetings. November 17th, 2025 regular meeting at 6:00 p.m. December 15th, 2025 is a regular meeting and truth and taxation. Prepare to stay a while. >> John, um I'm not sure how many uh but November 17th is MA. I'm not sure anyone is attending. >> Anybody go to Ma. >> Okay. Go. December. >> Yeah, I have [snorts] but not this year. Not this year. Okay. Okay. December 15th. Cover that. So, we have a motion to adjourn. So, question by Andrew. A second. >> Second by Molly. Any discussion on journey? >> All those in favor of the journey
090signify by saying I. I. Those post say or nay. returned.