001everybody is an attendance except for student reps believe they're busy tonight so we will stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge of aliance to the flag of the United States of America to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all welome everybody first item up will be to approve the meeting agenda there isn't any changes that I marked I'll make motion toe agaa I'll second that second great any discussion on the agenda he no discussion all those favor approving the agenda signify by say I I I those oppos same genda carries opportunity for visitors to address the board we'll move on so we have some acknowledgements we have the channel two staff for live streaming the events this season and winter advisers coaches and athletes
002and participants cor you noce uh thank you to Channel 2 staff and Mr hog for all their work and their time in the evenings live streaming so people outside of this that are not at the event can watch the events um especially people that uh are out of town also to our winter advisers coaches athletes and participants thank you for representing pel Rapids thank you for all your work your time your effort um we appreciate everything they do all right we will move on with a ban trip presentation from Mr fit Simmons well thank you guys for this time to kind of give you some of the details of this trip that uh you've known about it for some time but uh tried to get here last month but for some reason I wasn't able
003to get here so anyway uh yeah our van trip is scheduled for March 23rd to March 30th the cost of the trip for the kids was $25.96 and we have 50 uh people total going we have 42 students and eight adults and I'll just kind of walk you through what we're going to seeing in those five nights we uh fly from LaGuardia to Minneapolis on Sunday night this coming Sunday uh first thing we do guided New York City bus tour getting our first glimpse of the major sites of New York City then we go to Chelsea Pier 61 where we'll catch a DJ dinner cruise boat big boat on the Hudson and East Rivers for beautiful shots of the skyline from the water and up close to the Statue of Liberty Battery Park to ferry
004to Liberty Island Liberty Island ferry to Ellis Island Liberty Island obviously is the Statue of Liberty Island so get up close and on that island bre to the Statue of Liberty uh and then Ellis Island is the uh immigration Island uh where the kids can see kind of what that was like back in the day and there's also um you know lots of things that they can look up their own ancestors and and things like that at Ellis Island it's a really neat place then we walk uh Wall Street to see the fender building the financial district the New York Stock Exchange the bull and Trinity Church we go to Times Square and our favorite Blue Man Group which we've been doing for many years stopped doing their show not just last month after like
00525 years maybe even more you know uh so we needed to find something else uh and so what we did was we found a student friendly improv comedy show called Eight Is Never Enough so we'll be taking to those guys that uh taking the kids to the Eight Is Never Enough improv comedy show which I think they're going to get some of the kids up there hopefully not the adults uh up there and make fun of them and have fun and all that so it should be a good good thing but then we walk through Central Park we do the poet's walk to see Bethesda Fountain boat house sheep's Meadow lower Central Park Bandshell and strawberry field we do our band lunch performance at the Trump Tower Atrium then we walk and we shop Fifth
006Avenue the most expensive Avenue in the world and then we get to Rockefeller Center and go into St Patrick's Cathedral and once we uh get through that we get a guided tour of NBC Studios and then we get to see our first Broadway show of three The Great Gatsby which the kids are incredibly prepared pred for and this was uh it's a new show it just just opened last year so it'll be uh you know we're going to see Hamilton which is uh 10-year-old show and then one that's uh really just brand new so um the most modern Broadway technology and and everything with the kids really knowing it from seeing the movie um and uh obviously acting in the play so not everyone but 40 of them anyway then we do a guided tour
007of the N 11 Memorial Museum and the Weeping pools there where the uh Twin Towers used to be we'll have lunch in the Oracle transit station which is this giant transit station really really modern architecture right next to the New World Trade Center then we get to go to the Top of the World Trade Center uh the World Trade Center Observatory and we go shopping in Chinatown and Little Italy then we do an authentic Italian supper in Little Italy and then that evening we see Mulan Rouge in the second Broadway show we'll be seeing we will do a meet the artist workshop with Neil hasell who is a star of the Hamilton cast he's been with Hamilton since the very very beginning and uh has played literally every single role in that play most notably
008the king uh but he's going to sit down with the kids for an hour and uh just do a a sort of meet in the Greet meet and greet Q&A he's also he's been at seven other Broadway shows and he was on So You Think You Can Dance he was a finalist there he was in Glee and the unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt so it'll be neat for the kids to kind of meet him and talk uh with him about what it's like being a professional Broadway star we then go to lunch at my favorite place Ellen Stardust Diner with uh future Broadway Star singing weight staff so these guys don't just sing they are you know the future of Broadway and there are some Broadway singers that are kind of between shows and they're upcoming Broadway
009people and they uh literally just are they it's just amazing listen to these guys sing then we walk the new y New York City Highline to little uh Island Park that's a a new park that they use that they built on the old uh elevated train and it's a it's a really beautiful walk and and uh it's a park in New York now it's called the Highline then we'll see our third Broadway show Hamilton then we get a group picture in Time Square go to Grand Central Station we walk across the Brooklyn Bridge and then finally after all that we fly from the Guardia to Minneapolis and bus back to uh Pelican Rapids High School we'll be using the team reach app to keep everyone connected this has all the information the itinerary on the
010calendar with reminders and is hyperlink to additional web page and Wikipedia information about every site we see for those who would like to delve deeper really neat way to to learn about things you know okay we're going to the Statute of Liberty let's click on that on our phones okay what you know and uh it's it's pretty cool chaperon for this trip are Jesse rockstead father of Nicholas rockstead Tammy Hansen mother of Emma and Hunter Lance and uh Jill royon parents of andon and Anna Dana Severson mother of [Music] brod Tera Simmons and my wife Stacy Maris mother of Tate March and of course myself as the eth adult so that is the trip in a nutshell I gave you guys the really detailed packet it does take about an hour or so to read
011through this whole thing but you can see how we've got everything uh pretty much organized to The Last Detail and we've been doing this trip with modifications uh you know this is probably I don't even know my 12th or 13th trip uh with the kids so um yeah it's uh it's going to be a really really great one so really appreciate uh everybody's support on this and um it's a it's really really it's not just a people say oh it's a paid vacation no it's not any kind of a vacation you're working really really hard and seeing lots of really really great stuff so um any questions at all about the trip all right well again thank you guys so much for your support with everything with the B program and uh yeah so thank
012[Music] you all right so we're going to combine some of these right yeah I'm going to do the element High School part okay did you want to to start yeah absolutely um we'll start with the Elementary report uh enrollment in March year is 400 in 29 students um you can see preschool numbers and Head Start numbers looking like they've stayed pretty consistent thank you to Kim hog for her work in addess we're going to acknowledge her resignation uh 93% of Elementary parents attended conferences students with perfect attendance in September you can see there was 317 in October November December January February there was 212 um students that had perfect attendance that was up from January which is good March 17th will be letters training letters training April 3rd through the 5th or April 3rd 5ifth
013and sixth grade band concert and then on May 14th numbers with the neighborhood at Viking elementary school that's all Mr Nelson Has High School uh looking at enrollment and March is 371 students which is down from February of 375 congratulations to our senior high math team our math team completed the state math competi competition host at Spring Lake Park High School on Monday March 10th congratulations to the to our The Great Gatsby cast with more than 40 cast members Miss wng and her crew put on a great show so thank you to all them March Workshop sta meeting and PLC presentations of the had plc's and a BLT meeting and then they had department meetings and curriculum cycle meetings Wellness week the week of March 24th be Wellness week at the high school with various
014activities for staff including after school group fitness activities healthy snacks massages Wellness Bingle board team competitions and individual Wellness assessment upcoming events at the high school we got teacher Workshop that was today April 5th is celebration of cultures April 7th 17th will be mid quarter of fourth quarter April 18th through the 21st is spring break May 3rd will be Prom May 14th is scholarship night that'll be at 6:30 May 21st is the last day of school end of quarter 4 May 22nd is teacher Workshop no school and May 23rd is graduation at 700 p.m. other upcoming events sad spreads kindness during kindness Week business students will tour are businesses cosmetology students will tour Joseph School of Hair Design and it'll be winter band and Choir concerts and then Juniors take the ACT and ASVAB test
015and they've completed the ACT test you want me to continue with mine you want me to come back is that okay Mr Mar yeah it's completely fine he's on a roll yeah you have M up there [Music] okay my report uh enrollment overall we're down from February 83 students to 799 students uh District newsletter went out here a couple weeks ago which is great showed all the great news um with all the members of our community all the households uh work session in April be April 9th that will be at 6:30 um that will will be with Teamworks Teamworks will be here in person again that will be April 9th and that will be at 6:30 okay right here school board agenda items tonight for approval um I'm going to include everyone from elementary to
016High School uh acknowledge the resignation of Kim hog as part-time Addis interventionist approve the hire of Marty Carlson as a special ed prayer professional at the high school approve the hire of Steve Marsh as boys golf assistant coach approve the hire of Dave rund as softball assistant coach approve the hire of Ashley Holt as yearbook advisor at pelic high school um there's a letter from p and that is the desire to negotiate um that's included in your packet so they would like to um that letter is we do that every time we start negotiations with p uh under business item the master calendar just a couple items with Master calendar it's pretty similar to this past year or this year however there's one change when working with the teachers uh over theou um with letters
017and Ola they would like um some more time more time because their days are being used for letters training so what we did was we added a day in October October 31st as a workshop day and that will help them prepare for parent teacher conferences um the third is letters training so usually that Workshop day was to help give them time to prepare grading things like that so we try to uh fit in a day which means that there's only one snow built-in day there used to be two there is one snow built-in Day next year days 2 through six will be e-learning uh a change in quarter 3 I believe it was mid quarter and the end of quarter 3 that was a change we moved it back Mrs jeski at the high school
018would like to see the days be more balanced in each quarter so then we change the number of days in each quarter with that move other than that most of the U dates of War shop things like that were similar to this this year okay so that's on for approval and then the second reading of policy 504 student dress and appearance um you approved the first reading so if there's um nothing has changed there it's the same as last time that you read the first reading [Music] questions don't hear thank you thank you Mr Martinez all right uh we're going to present to you guys the for the month of February um again our primary focus for the remainder of the year is to make sure that we stay on target with our budget actual
019um after all the analysis everything we're right on target um um we're at 51% in terms of Revenue collected um and we are about 64% of total approv expenditures again this includes everything that we approved in our upating budget um for the fiscal year 25 um overall I'm not concerned that uh uh we're going to have a budget deficit I think uh for fiscal year 25 I think we're doing pretty well I think we're going to stick to Target so uh I'm very confident in that um again we always have uh um in terms of our Revenue we always have a little bit of a drawback um we always play catchup and remember that the state always withholds 10% of our um of our uh um entitlements and they do that because they don't want
020to uh practically get in trouble um there was a point in time where the state went bankrupt because they pay more than they should so they always withhold 10% um and then we carry that as a receivable to the next year but overall I'm pretty happy with our operating budget um uh overall we're we're doing pretty well we're right on target um you guys have any questions regarding budget to actuals okay uh we'll move on to the second page which is our cash flow statement um cash flow statement again we started our balance in our investment account with $3.7 million uh we received a little over a million dollars in state aid and F uh uh and federal uh federal aid uh we withdrew $752,000 from our investment to cover um all of our bills
021um and it left us with just a little over $4 million in our investment account uh cash on hand in our checking account uh we started with just a little over $390,000 uh total deposits were just a little over 840k of which 752 came in here total accounts payable all of our bills um added out to $728,000 total payroll for the month of February was $429 and then I had a journal entry for an adjustment which we'll talk here in a little bit so uh cash on hand at the end of the month in our checken account was $72,000 for total cash on hand this was over $4 million uh very very good place to be in um I know Mr cor and I always talk about the importance of having uh Good Financial uh
022background because you want want to make sure that you have a good rainy Fund in the event that a uh roof caves in on you big water break or worst case scenario government shutdown okay so uh right now some of the uh information that's coming out is just both parties are not agreeing on anything uh down at the capital so um the likelihood of a government shutdown is very high at the moment so in the event that that happens we know that we have sufficient funds to cover payroll and all of our debts so that's why we always want to make sure that we have good cash on hand okay uh we'll go on to the next page uh journal entry that we talked about this is simply a journal entry that I did to
023balance our books due to an insurance adjustment so we do that a lot of the times when we add or remove participants from our insurance so that's what we see there is practically our bill was higher than uh than what we anticipate it so then you see our cash our cash being credited and our payroll liability for our insurance going okay then we'll move on to our payables again here's all of the payables that go through our uh through our checkbook questions on anything please let us know and then we'll show you guys uh um backup for um any questions regarding the treasures report before I move on to the next item in the agenda for you guys to approve today [Music] anything okay with no questions um the second item that we're asking you
024guys to approve today is the budget for our achievement and integration program um our achievement integration Pro program starts with a written plan that um uh uh Doug and Becky are in charge of and right now it's a threeyear plan and we're in year two of three our budget is practically to meet what we wrote in our plan uh if you go up to page one real quick and just the kind of show here perfect right here uh so ultimately um this is for fiscal year 26 so this is for the upcoming achievement and integration budget from the state based on the funding foring that they provide us uh we're going to receive $67,000 for the achievement integration purpose right from there based on what we write in our plan we Dy out those dollars
025so now we'll go to the second page so in our second page you see that we are going to spend $218,000 in direct student services according to our plan we do that in uh investing in two teachers that help cover the achievement and integration uh pieces uh we spent um salary and fringe benefits for ESL teacher down at the elementary and then a read 180 teacher up here at the high school um in addition to that we are the core of the achievement integration Consortium in our area um which I believe we serve nine districts um and essentially it's our job to bring all of the districts together to make sure that we give them a taste of a little bit of a cultural difference and uh for that we set aside uh $2,286 um
026and all the other districts then pay their fair share for some of the services that we help provide you notice that we receive revenue of about 167 but we're going to spend $220,000 and I'm showing this very deliberately because this is some of those pieces that we advocate for in every funding by anym to show that the current funding formula even for achievement and integration does not keep up with the inflation of the the actual cost so we're about to spend $220,000 in achievement integration but the state is only funding us for 167 the difference gets covered by your general fund okay uh so tonight you guys will be approving this which is the budget for achievement and integration then we'll send to the state I get approved next year will'll be in uh year
027three of three and then we'll start working in um uh rewriting the plan for another 3 years any questions regarding the achievement in integration budget all I have for you guys today thank you thank you okay so for reports let's move on to consent items item approve board meeting minutes February 12th 2025 regular school board meeting B Financial claims February bills C Treasures report D accept donations we have student accounts $80 lower Clinic hiking Boutique $80 lower Clinic Special Olympics of that's a memory of Kathy Stan $500 from Jerry and Margaret Thompson Jerry stman and Mar Marg Thompson item a Personnel acknowledge the resignation of Kim h as part-time anist interventionist approve the hire of Marty Carlson as special education prayer professional at high school approve the hire of Steve rash as boys assistant coach
028at the high school approve the hire of Dave r as softball assistant coach at the high school and approve the hire of Ashley Hol as yearbook adviser for the high school item F approve excuse me acknowledge it received the notice of desired to negotiate from the P's Education Association so you have a motion for the consent items I'll make that motion and we have a second a second second M discussion on the consent items no discussion all those in favor approving the consent item signify by saying I I those oppos saying consent items carry item Nine Business items approved the fiscal year 26 achieve M and integration [Music] budget we have a motion move to approve the fiscal year 26 achievement integration budget motion by Greg do we have a second second man any discussion
029on the achievement integration budget hear you no discussion all those favor approving the motion signify by saying I I I those oppos saying motion carries B approve the master calendar for 2025 2026 I'll make a motion to approve the master calendar for 2025 and 26 Branda do we have a second a second that was sty M okay motion by Brenda second by Stacy any discussion of the calendar no discussion all in favor of approving the motion signify by say I I those opposed same motion carries approve the second reading of policy 504 student dress and appearance would like to make the motion I'll make the motion to approve the second reading of policy 504 St address and appearance okay motion by Brenda we have a second I'll second second by any discussion on the motion
030hearing no discussion all those in favor of approving the motion signify by saying I I I those oppos saying motion carries that's the end of our business items so we have upcoming meetings we have April 9th we have a work session 6:30 here April 21st is our regular meeting at 6:00 p.m. there's no school and May 19th 2025 is there and do we have a motion to adjourn motion M great you have a second second second any discussion on Journey all those in favor of a journey signifi by say n those opposed same or thanks everybody