001Everybody stand als for Welcome everybody. First item up will be to approve the meeting agenda. There has been a change is unable to attend tonight. Um so we report and then consent it moving the credit report underneath there. So that's what's different since he sent it out to the public. Okay, we have a motion. Motion by a second. Any discussion? Hearing no discussion. All in favor of approving the meeting agenda signify by saying I. I. Those opposition for visitors to address the board anybody. So we'll move on. We have some acknowledgements. We got quite a list here and I'm going to pass around something. But we have special education transport staff Christensen bus company and the bus drivers advisers and the spring coaches teachers and support staff. Certificate of appreciation of Rapid Public Schools from
002the BFW auxiliary for paying proper respect to the US flag during sporting events. So we got a certificate pass this around and Eduardo Sanchez. Thank you for two years of service as student schoolboard representative as well as being involved in multiple groups and activities and for being an outstanding leader school presentation outgoing board members get a little plaque from us. So we like stand and we'll present too close. Congratulations. You want a picture or you wear? Okay, that means you got to stay. Mr. Clark, do you have anything to add? No. Thank you to all of our special ed transportation staff, Christen Bus Company and the bus drivers, our adviserss and spring coaches, our teachers and support staff, and uh to Eddie for all his work and for everyone's work and time and effort for
003a good year. Thank you. Okay, let's move on for a presentation on the bathroom. You got something for us? I do. Thank you guys. Uh yeah, so there's our picture that we took uh in Time Square. I came out out uh a couple months ago and kind of walked you through the itinerary of what we're going to do and who's going to be doing what and everything. And uh the trip uh I have to say was uh I mean it was it was amazing. I I can't tell you guys how um our students in particular really how how proud I was for them to uh be representing not just our school but our city and really our entire state of Minnesota uh with incredible incredible class and dignity. These kids were were amazing and it's
004u you know we have relatively high expectations of how they need to act and everything and they met and surpassed those um big time. So uh really you know nothing like this can be successful without students making great decisions and uh just doing great things. And you know, for a bunch of high school students to uh represent our town uh in the manner in which they did, uh I just have to first of all, you know, thank those guys. They were just uh you know, just awesome. Just just no whining. There were just anything you can think of that kind of makes you a little bit angry about high school students. None of that stuff. It was just a they were they were so mature and poised was great. And so if you see some
005grand kids that were on that trip, make sure you uh you know, give them some love. You you thank them for how they conducted themselves. It was it was just awesome. So, and I don't know if anyone really realizes how much stress and uh work is involved in putting something like this together, but literally nearly impossible to do um myself. So, I I just wanted to make sure that I acknowledge especially Miss Jay who has been there for us from the beginning and doing so much uh with with us, you know, every little things like coming on in to recruit students uh for concession stand and um just really really making it work. I I remember years when I would be in there um collecting checks and writing receipts and all this and there'd be
006like two days that we'd go and I'd be doing that and the kids would be out there and we wouldn't play for a day or two, you know, just because it was payment time, you know, and so for those guys to step up and um you know, Emily with uh the student accounts and everything um really really really super super helpful. And again u Mr. court too just um being there making sure everything goes goes right in the planning stages and everything. So um you know this whole year has been um really really a good year and it's u probably one of my favorite years I've had since I've been to Pelican and part of it is because you know guys playing people that were uh involved in this trip. So had some amazing chaperons.
007We were able to bring uh Stacy with us. So, you guys know her well. And uh again, chaperones can Whoa. Let's play voodoo. Ready? But I'll just kind of continue here just so we a lot like a band. Yeah, it's that's exactly right. So, but anyway, I just wanted to bring the uh the uh the awesome picture that we take. That'll be on the on the wall forever then. And uh but yeah, I was just going to talk a little bit about chaperones. You never really know what you're going to get with chaperone. Sometimes, you know, they just want to be as standoffish as possible and sometimes they just go get them. And we had again just a beautiful beautiful chaff. So, thank you guys so much. Um yeah, that's my main reason for being
008here is to thank you guys really for all your support. not just the band, the band program itself for all these years. It's been just a really really awesome uh time personally for me to to be teaching in this great district with these great people. So, um yeah, any questions at all? We basically are I think pretty much the highlight of the trip was our uh were the Broadway shows, which to me that's the reason we go out there and so we we did a little poll. What was your favorite thing to do? uh by Flying Colors. It was the Broadway shows that the kids really enjoyed. And you know, a lot of kids I got to be honest with you, Mr. Pix. I I wasn't too excited about this Gatsby thing, you know, and
009uh but that was amazing, you know, and so when something that you're so passionate about, you know, you feel almost like a salesman. you're trying to sell, you know, stuff that you're passionate about and when they actually buy into it and uh, you know, start really enjoying it and and and loving it and hanging out afterwards to meet all the actors and actresses and stuff and just doing a lot of that. The kids were amazing. They they got to meet some some really really great people. We sat down with the Broadway in person and um, it was kind of funny because I for a while I think he thought it was they do a lot of different things. You know, we did a Q&A thing. You can do a a stage combat workshop. You can
010do a dance workshop. And for a second there, I thought they thought that it might have been a dance workshop, right? He's like, "You're going to be all sweaty when we're done here." And he's like, "Oh." Looks at the notes and he's like, "Oh, no." And for a second, we're like, "Well, no, we're not going to have to learn how to dance, are we?" You know? But yeah, really, really, really uh about as good as a trip can go. And again, that doesn't happen without so much of your support and uh and everything. And uh kids just making good good decisions. So um just want to say thank you. And that's our uh little picture that'll be up on the wall. We also showed a slideshow during our uh before our concert, the half an
011hour slideshow, which wow, man. I I've never really put one of those together. It's always the students or somebody else. And I went in to talk to Joe. I'm like, what am I going to do with the slideshows? You know, we got to get this put together. So just do this and do this. And so I went home and said, "I I I could do this." Well, I'm in my in my, you know, my little room doing my uh the pictures and the music and I'm like, "Let's see how that works." And I look and the music starts, I'm like getting teary eyed while I'm doing this. I'm just like, "This is this is really cool." So, um yeah, just basically wanted to say thank you guys. And uh again, if you have any questions
012or anyone comes to you with questions, I'm always here to um let you know how I can help. So, greatly appreciated all of you guys. Thank you. Thank you very much. Yes. Thank you. Mr. Nelson, you have an elementary surge of students here come the last uh month. We're up to 435 at the elementary. Our perfect attendance for April backed up to 271. And last month, Mr. Carter asked how many have perfect for the year. So, at the end of April, we had 16. I looked that up. Uh, so we had 16 people. I don't know where those 16 are for May here, but uh so so far that's the perfect. Uh May 14th, we had our numbers with the neighborhood and I had many positive comments from uh parents, grandparents that came in. Couple
013grandparents said, "I've never been in this part of this building before. Thank you for having us in. Thank you for doing showing us what the kids been doing." Um so it was a uh I'd say very successful uh time. The kids had fun. uh teachers had fun and we kind of brainstormed some things what to do different for next year. You always want to tweak things and uh so we got some ideas but they definitely had positive feedback and u sounds like definitely want to do it again with some tweaks to it. Uh Mr. Storm was there. What were your thoughts? Awesome. It was very fun to next year we got to make sure the kids can't break the games before the adults get there. I'll never down. I didn't beat Ryder once, but now
014it was fun. It was a great idea. I got beat by third graders in a few games. So, yeah, it was it was fun. But it's amazing when you sit down and play a game and they beat you all the just the grin on their faces. So, fun to see. So, that was fun. Um, thanks to Jasmine Peterson for her work as a parah and she's worked the walking club bikes last couple years. She is moving so she is uh resigned for next year. It also thanks to Naen Brown and Florence Smith for their work in Access. Um, and with that, we're we've had part-time people work in Access and looking to hire CLA Cassie Clasped as a full-time position in our Access uh for next year. Um, last week busy with field trips. Sixth
015grade got off at 6:00 this morning. We're there to send them off. Uh, most of them showed up. I think we had a couple no-shows, but um the rest got off. Uh tomorrow's kindergarten trip to the zoo has been cancelled due to all the animals will be inside because of the rain. So, but the rest of the field trip should be inside except for the kindergarteners going to the zoo tomorrow. So, um I just want to thank all the staff at the elementary again for all their work this year, all the extra time they put in. Um and I kind of always say everything is for the students and you think keep that in mind. What you're doing is for the students first to mind and it's a good thing. So, and then our unit
016form for letters will be on Thursday. So 33 of our teachers will be sitting from 8 to 3 on a Zoom all day in workshop. And just found out today Miss Hungry come in all excited because they got the reports back on their ELLL testing and we had 22 elementary students graduate this year from the ELLL program. So hats off to everyone that works in the ELLL program. Last year we had 16 graduate. So this year have 22 graduate. That's a great feat. Um and hats off to them. So any questions for me questions. All right. Thank you. High school. Okay. In the high school, our attendance or um attendance is 373 students. We are up two from April. Um, prom 2025 was a success. Mrs. Se did a good job in her um, rookie
017year of a paradise. So, thank you to her and her students that helped put that on. Also, thank you to postprom committee for creating a fun and safe place for students to go after prom. Scholarship night was last Wednesday. We gave away over $80,000. I think that number Um just some last um donations. Those awards are class of 2025 at scholarship night. We just had a great lot of money to be given away. Big thank you to Mrs. Lege and Mrs. Carlson for their work making that night happen. You'll see graduation list on my last page. We have 63 students graduating um on Friday. Summer school will begin um next Tuesday. Teachers will be Mr. Halgard, Mrs. Pork, and Mr. Rare. Mrs. Le has communicated with students if they are recommended to attend summer school
018and make up some credits. Upcoming week, it looks very um easy compared to these last couple weeks. Um Wednesday is the last day of school. We have teacher workshops on Thursday and then graduation is at 7 o'lock on Friday. Couple of fun items. Um Last Wednesday, we also had shadow dedication and we honored Mr. Bugamman and Mr. Rick. Mrs. Royson and her group students did a great job with that dedication. Staff appreciation week was last week we continued our grow theme. I gave staff some herbs and then little treats that go with it that helps grow. So, we have some water, some sunscreen, and then sunshines. Just kind of a fun way to end the year with our theme. Daisy Hall also attended the Minnesota State High School League visual arts state festival and received
019a spotlight from arts recognition and broke school records in girls. And then the last thing I have, um, this just came in. Mr. Marsh received a grant to buy another CNC router. I think that's a multiple thousand machine. So, that was a pretty cool thing for him to have in his program. He has one. Um, now two board consent items. Um, resignation of Bronco. This one is a sad thing for us, but a great thing for her and kind of a fun way to grow your own. She is attending Concordia College next next year to continue her plans to be an educator. very cool thing for her to move on. But she has been great for us. Thank you. Something from our students. senior had a last week of school um last week. Sunday May
02018th, the bachelorette was held for seniors in the fine arts auditorium. Scholarship night was Wednesday, May 14th in the fine arts. Uh graduation rehearsal was also last Friday as well as senior cookout really good. Thank you. Uh summer student activities to begin soon. Summer wreck, club bikes, as well as job opportunities for students. Uh band auditions have started for grades 6 through 11th. Chamber choir uh will perform on graduation day. Uh both band and choir have wrapped up school concerts. Um today the boys golf team had the varsity conference championships at Moral Golf Club. The girls team had their varsity conference tournament at Wild. Um the baseball team has their next game tomorrow at home against Naga. Their playoffs will start next Tuesday. Their opponent is to be determined. Um the softball team's next game.
021The playoff game is also to be determined. And the track this Last weekend, the girls team participated at the true team state meet and on Thursday both teams will compete at the subsection meet at area. Thank you. Enrollment district. We heard from both principles and enrollments up from both building which is great. We're up to 805 districtwide. We started the year our October 1st number was at 809. So that's good. Closer back to that number. Uh summer activities, we're doing a lot of planning for summer um for summer wreck in our academic programming that we offer. So we're getting staff. I think we're almost there in um academic pieces in elementary school and for summer, which is good. Um people are able to or kids are able to sign up for activities on our website.
022So there's links out there on social media, Facebook, things like that. Um with our related to our school special ed co-op update. Uh just a few items here. A few openings at our special ed co-op with the speech, mental health, and OT services at our co-op currently. Right now, they are working on staff assignments for next year. What they're trying to do is keep staff in their current work assignments and then also pay attention to the geography of the co-op when possible, which is good. Um, also special co-op um notice of desire to negotiate. We received a letter from the teachers union to negotiate. So, we'll start negotiations. I'm on that committee. So, we'll start with negotiations at the co-op late summer, early fall. So, everything's been good. Uh transition, they're working on the transition
023of our director, and that will be good. So, we're excited for our new director, but sad to see uh Mrs. Ericson leave. Update on the parent staff community presentation regarding sixth grade high school proposal. Uh we presented to the community. I say we had post anywhere from 40 to 50 people there total. Um had a presentation right away and after the presentation we gave a tour of the high school and kind of showed them different areas of where the classrooms would be um lunch area, uh gyms, things like that, music, band, so you can get an idea of what that would look like. And then we came back to the fine arts and we did a Q&A and that was a good discussion uh good questions and then at the end we gave a opportunity
024for them uh to do a QR code which would give us feedback of how they felt about the transition of sixth grade going to high school. So we're going to continue to analyze the space concerns as we move forward and keep um just kind of open for ideas of what would help to better utilize our here districtwide. So, uh, we're not going to The question was, are we going to move sixth grade over to the high school this fall? That answer is no. We're not recommend that. We're just researching, getting feedback, and we'll continue to do that over the next school year. So, we'll continue on. So, which is good. It was a good um good uh discussion with our community members and some of our staff were there and and parents. So, that was
025was a good night. Uh, a few agenda items. I think the principles covered most of them under consent items under business items. This the resolution accepting donations. That's what we do now every month to accept donations. Uh resolution non-renewing of probation teacher. What we're doing is right sizing our preschool uh preschool enrollment as defined. So we are right sizing for next year. Um we're going to go from two and a half staff members to two uh preschool teachers. So that will be the recommendation um with that that non-renewable probationary teacher. So we have a part-time position right now that we're that we're recommending not to remove for next year. Um if our numbers increase then we'll look on um if the position then we'll look to add that position back. So um next item resolution
026for membership the state high school league. That's a yearly process be part of that. And then this is J talked about graduation. She talked about I believe you said 63 Mr. Jesuski. Yep. 63 seniors that they're recommending for you to approve to diploma. You said on Friday night graduation on Friday night. It starts at 7 p.m. It's in leaders gymnasium. We um the seniors and schoolboard members and administration we meet in the legend gymnasium and then we could all be there by 6:45 we just kind of go over a little bit of of the night the ceremony at about 60 6:55 then we will walk over to the leaders gymnasium and then walk in. So be a fun night, good night, great celebration for our seniors. Any questions? Thank you for the update. So this
027is first meeting electricity. So we move on to consent items. Approve board meeting minutes. April 21st, 2025 regular school board meeting. personnel. So we have acknowledged the resation of Franco as ELLL professional at high school. Acknowledge the resignation of Jasmine Peterson as special education care professional. Acknowledge resation of Brown as partis interventionist at elementary. Acknowledge resignation of Florence Schmidz as parttime access interventionist at elementary and approve the hire of Cassie as interventionist elementary. We have a motion for the consent items. motion to approve items. Do we have a second? Andrew discussion hearing. No discussion. All in favor of approving the consent items signify by saying I. I. Those opposed carries. Business items. Item A is approved resolution accepting donations. So, we'll do a motion and a second resolution. We have a motion. So, resolution accepting
028donations. So whereas every such acceptance shall be by resolution of the governing body adopted by twoth3 majority of its members expressing such terms in therefore we resolve that the school board rapids public schools ISC 548 accept the following donations identified below. We have Laura Cleick. She donated $80 to student accounts and $80 to boutique. Elvin, $100 to girls basketball, $100 to boys basketball, $100 to wrestling, $100 to math team, $50 to girls soccer, $50 to boys soccer. We have anonymous $20 scholarship fund in memory of Alexa. $20 anonymous uh scholarship fund in memory of Chad Mstead anonymous $10 scholarship fund in memory of Alan. Another anonymous $10 high school scholarship fund in memory of Steven Barback $50. appropriate $1,000 scholarship fund smile $100 to staff. So this is a resolution. Brenda, yes. Yes. Yes. Resolution
029carries. Next one is another resolution. resolution. Now we're doing a probationary teacher. So I enterain a motion second. We have a second discussion on that. So resolution honoring a probationary teacher. Cherylyn Snavely is a probationary teacher within independent school district 548 resolved by the school board of independent district number 548 that pursuant to Minnesota statutes 122A subdivision by the district master agreement teaching contract of Sherland state. A probationary teacher in Independent School District 548 shall be nonrenewed at the end of the 2024 25 school year effective May 23rd 2025. resolved that written notice be sent to set teacher regarding the non-renees resolution carries. One more resolution. So this one is to approve the 202526 resolution for membership to Minnesota State that motion any discussion on this. So I'll read it out 2025 26 resolution for
030membership of Minnesota State High School League resolve that the governing board or entity of Rapids High School state of Minnesota delegates the controls supervision regulation scholastic activities and athletics referred to in Minnesota statute section C1 to Minnesota State High School reading so hereby certifies to the state commission of education provided for Minnesota statutes for the result that the school listed is authorized by this the governing board of said school district or school to renew it membership in Minnesota State High School League and to participate in approved intercolastic activities and athletics sponsored by said league and its various subdivisions for the result of this governing body or entity hereby adopts the constitution bylaws policy rules and regulations of said league and all amendments there too of the minimum standards governing participation in said league sponsored activity
031athletics. Further, the administration responsibility for determining student eligibility and for the supervision of such activities in athletics is assigned to the official representative identified by this. Okay. So, this is the resolution again. Andrew, how you resolve? Yes. Yes. Stacy. Yes. Great. Resolution carries. Looks like last up is to approve the 2025 High School graduation. We have a motion. I'll make that motion. We're good. Okay. Any discussion on this? No discussion. All those in favor approving the 2025 high school graduation list by saying I. I oppose. Nay. Carries. Cons upcoming meetings. So we have June 18th, 2025 as a regular meeting at 7 a.m. July 2025 meeting. All right. Motion to adjourn. Any discussion hearing? No discussion. All in favor of hearing say I. I returned.