001M up. Make sure you're miked up. All right. Call the meeting to order. We'll start with pledge allegiance. Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Um any any questions, comments on the agenda? Any discussion? Can I get a motion to approve the agenda? So second. I have a motion and a second. All those in favor signify by saying I. I oppose. Same sign. Motion passes. Number four, public forum. Number six, consent agenda 6.1, approved minutes of the regular schoolboard meeting of April 28, 2025 and 6.2, personnel report. Action required. Any discussion on the consent agenda? I have a question. Okay. Um, and Zach, maybe you can answer this. I'm not sure. The
002um, summer band help last year I noticed that it uh was just a set amount and this year it's the um, there's a a wage. So, I'm just Do you do you know like how many hours each of those put in approximate? Just because you know it's a little hard to gauge when there's not a a set amount of hours listed. I I can do a quick response and then Zach um so Zach and I had talked and one of the issues that we had was not necessarily everybody show up for the equal amount of time for the same stipen. So we're trying to get to a point where you're actually paid for the hours worked. Um, so that's why we went to an hourly amount and as Zach and I have communicated, we put
003a cap of $14,500 on that, not to exceed for the hourly support because last year we spent $14,048. So, um, that would be the goal and making certain that people are actually getting paid for the time that they're there, not paying somebody for when they're not. Did I say that accurately, Zach? Yes, sir. All right. Do we have any other questions from the consent agenda? Get a motion to approve the consent agenda with the cap on the ban. So second. I have a motion and a second. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Same sign. Motion passes. Number seven, financials 7.1 review budget year to date. This is budget year to date we're at 72%. Last year we were at 76, but you really can't. It's not really comparable because last year we
004would have had the May 20th payroll in there and this year we were not because we were having a board meeting earlier. Can't you just let us feel good about it? Every moment. Yeah. 7.2 approved treasuries report for April. Jackie got to get to that's the wrong one. Hold on. T report. Okay, here we go. Cash balance is I gota use my plus sign. It's 9.5 million. Last year, this time was 9.1 million. So, everything reconciled. So, other than that, $1,38212. And I'll eventually figure out what that is. Drted about that number. Can I get a motion to approve the charity report for April? So moved. Second. I have a motion and a second. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion passes. 7.3. Approve 2023A bonds treasures report for
005April. Okay. Cash balance is 2.8 million. The net cash activity is a combination of the interest income plus we there was a bill for builder's risk insurance which you'll see in your regular bills as a when you look at the account will be 06 ahead of it. When we start getting more bills I'll do like what I did when we had the elementary school and have a roof year-to- date expense but with just the one. I didn't do that this time. Okay. Any questions on the bond treasures report? Can I get a motion to approve? So moved. Second. Have a motion and a second. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Oppos. Same sign. Motion passes. 7.4. Approve regular bills. Anybody have see anything that stood out? Any questions? Going through the regular
006muffler bills. I see that there's one for the bus graphics for the activity bus. That looks awesome. It does look really nice. It looks really good. It does look really nice. Yeah. Kudos to Rick. He uh I I tasked him with that project and he did a great job of Yeah. And and rather than paying for a full wrap, just the decals and Yeah. It turned out great. It looks really good. Nice. Yeah. We went from a the prison bus. So I said you can no longer call it the prison bus. U there's no questions. Can I get a motion to approve the regular bills? So moved. Second. I have a motion and a second. All those in favor signify by saying I. I post same sign. Motion passes. 7.5 approve high school activity bills.
007Anything reviewing them? Any questions? Can I get a motion to approve? Second motion and a second. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Both same sign. Motion passes. Number eight, 8.1 board reports and updates. Committee meetings short month, but we did just have one um yeah, just had a committee. I know. I thought prom was turned out really nice for everyone that was involved in the setup and the just getting everything ready to go. I thought it turned out really nice and there was a lot of good comments from people that it was a good yeah it was very nicely decorated and and I've heard a lot of good comments not that we do that but I've heard a lot of good comments with the going to Sky Zone. The kids really
008thought it was fun and yeah, so something different. My one comment was going to be the activity bus. So that's done. And the second one, the second comment and and from baseball to softball the track meets that robot that we have to paint lines is amazing. I mean, I've never seen I've never seen the fields look so good. Um, the lines are solid. They're like perfectly straight. I mean, it it's it's really impressive. I mean, and Cody takes it to the field. He sets up like this little I don't know what is he I won't even guess what it's called. And then hit basically hit start and the thing just does its own thing and paints paint does the painting. Um, the discus area he used it there. I mean, that's never looked that good.
009Um, so I think my opinion it was It was a It was a good That was a good good investment. And that'll do the football field, too, right? Correct. Yep. And more efficient on paint, too. So, it should help. Sure. Cost pain. Yeah. And and Cody, you know, I remember when we when we did it. I mean, we're going to be one less person through the summer for summer help in exchange for for that tool. And so, but um it's it's it's pretty cool the job that it does. Anything else? All right. Number nine, administrators report 9.1, superintendent board report. All right. Um, you can see the enrollment report attached. So that's there for you board members. You can also see attached actually came in this morning. So, I apologize about that, but we didn't
010get it until late Friday afternoon. The um facade update on what's going on with the facade for the facilities. You can see that they're still doing quite a bit of work. And specifically, what's going on there is flashing work. And I've I've said it individually, I'll say it publicly, that I apologize to the high school teachers that have been impacted by some of the noise as a result of that. Um, but what this is doing is replacing the flashing. So then at the end of May, beginning of June when they come in and start the tear off, they'll be able to tie right into that new flashing that's being installed. And again, you can see some of the pictures and the work that they're doing with that in there. Um, today uh is supposed to
011be the end of the legislative session. That does not look like it's going to happen. The last report that I had was they will be moving right away into um a special session and um just because of some of the challenges that have have occurred last week when I had a chance to speak to the lobbyist. It's actually the lobbyist for the largest school districts, the metropolitan school districts. I asked what it's going to take to get to uh get a deal done at the legislative session from his perspective and he said June 30th. So, let's hope that it doesn't extend that long, but um certainly something we want to keep our eye on. The the projection right now, and we heard this in a committee meeting that was earlier, um school new funding is
012projected to be 2.74%. I've been real cautious about projecting that simply because we don't know what the outcome is going to be until we have the outcome. So, um time will tell. Had a great FFA banquet. It was great to uh see and recognize our students there and and participate in that. Um I'm happy to share that we have resolved the grievance that was in place. I know that that was something that um the board has has dealt with. We had our our opportunity to respond. Um so the grievance has been concluded. Um I mentioned the roofing updates already. And I also wanted to share that we are still working on the next steps of our portrait of a graduate. We're going to have Laura back on site June 5th and we'll be uh starting
013to peel through all of that data and put together ideally a preliminary draft of that to present to the full board um sometime ideally at the June board meeting with the intent then that that is wrapped up by July. So that's kind of the vision of the portrait. We know that also part of that we'll want to talk about our strategic plan and having some uh board members involved in identifying the metrics that we want to put behind that then in terms of how we're going to measure our implementation of that portrait of a graduate. So we're uh we're going to work through that process. Um last board meeting we mentioned just briefly the elementary school flooring. There have been some issues identified with the flooring. that flooring system um has some issues and is
014failing to perform at at at the expected level. So, we will be going through some process of of evaluating that floor and finding out a solution as we move forward and and handling that as well. Um we're going to work on some staff development this summer with staff. So, we're excited about that as we talk about our portrait of a graduate. And I would just like to con conclude and I'm happy that uh Dr. employer is here because he put forward a tremendous amount of work to have our community recognized for supporting music. As you can see, I put the graphic in there, 2025 best communities for music education. Um, that's no small feat. I I know there's a ton of work that goes into uh obtaining that recognition. And I would just like to
015have everybody join me in applauding Dr. Per and staff for what they do. [Applause] You hear a lot of stuff from the community, too, about how well our band is doing and how it's great for people to see it getting bigger again. Yeah, people really missed the band. So, great job. And the community band part of that at the band concert and then obviously the musical. I know a number of board members attended the musical. That was fantastic. All those things point to uh point to our commitment as a district and a community. So again, um, great work Dr. Floyer and your team. Thank you. Any questions for Clint? 9.2 principal board report. Thank you. All right, we are in full swing of graduation week. Tomorrow is the last day for our seniors, the majority
016of them that are ready and on track to graduate. Um Wednesday you are invited to Baloria at St. Leo's. We've got um senior recognition on Friday at 8:30. Um our seniors are walking through the elementary at about sometime between 10:30 and 11:00 depending on how long senior recognition is. And then we've got our graduation practice right after that. And then we have graduation on Sunday at 2. So you're all invited to that. We have a very busy week and very excited about it. Um, we've been busy scheduling. Um, I've attached the middle school high school schedule does not list our special education staff as their schedules are different in terms of push in and pull out and they do make their own schedules in that way. Um, all current 8th through 11th graders have been
017registered for classes. Um, I uh, Mrs. Dual myself have gone into individual classes and I've met with a lot of students one-on-one and also with parents to kind of go through some of those things um in terms of registering and um requirements for graduation. I do have a kudos for our middle school counselor Tanya Shroyer. She was recently appointed to the Minnesota School Counselor Association Board of Directors which is awesome. And then I've attached the um the schedule. Does anyone have any questions or concerns? Do we still have like the ninth grade orientation meeting? I just know because I'm I'm an eighth grader going to nth grade and I thought they always had that where they went through what all the requirements were and the class electives that were offered. And I thought they always
018did it in the spring. I'm planning on doing that um at the open house in the fall, but then you can't change your You can still change it. Um so in the spring since we did meet with all of the students um I the majority of the coursework especially at that level most of them are you know six out of the seven classes are requires and so um what I'm trying to do this year a little bit different from last is to have more of a hand in it and make sure that I get those registrations back and then by the end of next week have a document with the student schedule and a parent signature on there. Um, so that the student does is talking to the parent about it. Is it perfect? No.
019I'm going I'm planning on looking at different options. Do we do we know yet how many are going to walk graduate? Is that number finalized? That number is finalized tomorrow at two. We've got a few um that maybe maybe and then a few at the ALC that we're not sure if they're going to be joining us or not. So, that number will be will be available tomorrow, too. Okay. Any questions for someone? All right. Good evening. All right. We are in full swing with field trips. We have a lot of going all different places. Um, I mentioned quite a few of them on my board report here. Um, kids are learning a lot and it's so much fun. We had teacher appreciation week. That was fun to celebrate our teachers. We did a big grill
020out and a few little things for teachers throughout the week. Um, book fair. So, we did that a little bit differently. So, we grouped a whole bunch of things together. We have book fair usually two times in the year and usually the second one is usually a little bit earlier. And this year we decided to do a whole bunch at the same time. So when you walked into the elementary, we had the book fair. We ended up ordering more books that could come in because we've had so many kids that attend the book fair. So we had the book fair when you walked in and then you kind of went through the flex area and we had the art show. U Mrs. Lane did an incredible job with her art students. If you didn't get
021a chance to see it, it was incredible. There's probably pictures on Facebook that you can see, but it was a rainforest and it was really awesome to see that. Then that took you into the elementary gym where we had literacy night there and all of our students at the elementary are published authors and so all of the published books were sitting there and for family families to look through the books did get sent home with families now. So you have a copy of those with that. Um and then we had family community engagement. So we had community members coming in sharing with families. Hey this is the programs that we have this summer for your kids which was awesome. Carson's cause came for our fifth grade students to really talk about that mental health piece
022of it and and how do you take care of your brain? Just like you have to take care of the rest of your body, how do you take care of your brain? And they shared a lot of great information there and all the students got a book. Um we had climb the came today and that was awesome. Really just talking about, you know, empathy and manners and ownership and well-being and self-regulation with all of our different grade levels. Today we finished up end or we will be finishing up the end of this week dibbles and map testing and then we each set a goal and my goal was in regard to reading NWA. So I'll give you all of the results from that goal setting in our June board meeting and field day events. We
023had our fifth grade all day field event that was incredible. Beautiful day, hot, wonderful. And then the next two that we have on this Thursday and Friday. And then the last day of school is on May 30th at Oh, I have May 23rd. It's not. That is my mistake. Um, it's the 30th. Wishful thinking, right? No, it's May 30th. I see. So, yeah. Oh, I got more summer school. I've got that. Uh, letters are going out to parents for summer school. There's two dates. We have our reading and our math sessions. questions for you. Any questions? Thank you. 9.3 Curriculum, Teaching and Learning Board Report. Good evening. My board report is mostly on the NCA and access um assessments that we are now completed with for this school year, but the public release of all
024of those, the access, the reading, math, all the MCAs isn't until August 22nd. So that is when the public will be able to see what our scores are. The science MCA will be a little bit later on October 1st because There are new science standards that were implemented this year, which means there's a new NCA test that goes along with the new standards. And they actually don't um have, let me back up a little bit, they have to go through something called the standard setting where they have to figure out um the knowledge and the skills that are needed to to define the performance levels, which performance levels is also known with the science test. achievement levels of does not meet, partially meets, meets, and exceeds. Whenever a new NCA comes out, it is now
025going to be beginning, intermediate, meets, and advanced. So, when parents get their the scores of their students um coming up in the fall, they'll actually have three separate reports. It used to be one combined report, but now they'll have a reading, a map, and then the science will look completely different because they're changing all of the um parameters for it. They're changing the cut scores and all of those things. So, that will be something new coming in the fall. And then the standard setting years for reading is summer of 2026 because we have the new ELA standards coming out next year. So then we'll have a new MCA and then the math the summer of 2028. So whenever we have a new MCA assessment, but we can't compare like last year's science scores, we won't
026be able to compare with this year's science scores because they're now two different assessments. Um and just important to note that the MCA results um aren't the sole measure for ing the performance of our district. Um we also um have the end MPA assessments that are given actually three times a year so that we can see their growth over time and that just gives a better picture of where our students are at just like to capitalize if if I can on the last statement that you made there. We we observed some situations where students had a race to see who could finish their MCA test the fastest and um I think nine minutes was like the time or so five minutes, excuse me. So, just to give you some real examples of why we why
027we look more at the growth assessments as opposed to a once in a shot the the MCAs because there's really no no motivation to perform well on the MCAs and so we we look at a more holistic approach I guess I would say. I think it's just important to put that out there so everybody understands that those are some of the challenges that we we deal with when we're trying to gauge those assessments and those assessment results. Any questions for Lisa? Thanks. Number 10, unfinished business. Anybody have anything that we didn't already talked about? 10.1 10.1 proof policy 712 video surveillance other than on buses and the policy committee can weigh in on this too, but we did have a meeting where we talked about um as you pull that up um point number three
028placement and that the conversation was um it talks about video surveillance will normally not be used in bathrooms or locker rooms and goes on to talk about that and as we talked we really couldn't envision any circumstance in which that would be the case and thought that it's best just to completely remove that so there was no question and I think it reflects our community values as much as anything so I don't know if anybody else from the policy committee wanted to comment on that or not any questions or comment Can I get a motion to approve? So moved. Second. Have a motion and a second. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Same sign. Motion passes. 11 11.1 resolution accepting donations. Uh the first one we have pretty big list. Um I
029know I think I think all of us saw the email um for the David Johnson funeral where they asked donations to go to the FFA. Um so we got a we got a list here. Uh Brian and Michelle Nia $60. Terry Carson 20. Minnesota State Patrol $50. Daryl and Jan Steman $20. James and Linda Johansson $25. Milo Milo and Dawn Udall $25. Doug Suday50 $50, excuse me. Greg and Terry Larson $50. LS andbrall $50 and the Minnesota Prairie Saddle Club Association $50. Um that's I thank you to everybody that that donated and this is great for our FFA. So then the other want list we have Um, Pipstone American Legion, $250 donation for teacher appreciation week. Sons of the American Legion, $500 for teacher appreciation week. Um, Pipstone American Legion 22 $25 gift cards for
030teacher appreciation week. Um, First Bank and Trust $150 Hanks gift certificate. Teacher appre the These are all teacher appreciation week. Uh, quick trip $50 card for donuts. Sou Valley and $100. Hank's food 11 dozen buns and chips. Coburns 11 dozen buns and chips. JBS hamburgers, Pepsi Cola, Pop and Water, Dairy King, Ketchup, mustard pickles, and building the blessing $3,000. Um, that one is for talk to me of technology, communication, and board installation. Um, I I want to say thanks for all these donations. I think it's pretty incredible that our community steps up um and does this type of donation to pay our teachers. Um, I think it says a lot. Um, can I get a motion to approve these donations? Building the blessing. Was that the the board that we talked about on the playground?
031Yeah, that was presented at the public comment. So move second. Have a motion and a second. All those in favor signify by saying I. Same sign. Motion passes. Resolutions together. Yes. Yes, we do. 11.2 approve A and I integration plan and budget. Lisa, I don't know if you want to comment on this. I'll share just a little bit and you can fill in wherever. Um, so uh we are part of the achievement and integration funding that comes from the state and that's because we are identified as a a racially isolated school district. That's the official term that's used um at the state level and you can see what our revenue is as a whole. um we are required to partner with the neighboring district in order to obtain or receive this revenue. So we have
032historically partnered with Edertton and our intent is to continue that partnership and collaboration with Edertton. Um what we are going to be doing uh is some summer school opportunities with Edertton and then they are able to utilize their funds which they have done to support some things that they're doing with the um with I believe a a math person at at their site. I think they use a math pair if I'm if I'm correct. Um, and then you can see some of the things that we built into our achievement integration budget, which include the summer school funding, the cultural liaison, which you had an opportunity to meet last month, um, junior, and then some summer school um, obviously activities that are part of the summer school experience for our kids. So, um, I don't know
033if there's anything more you want to add on to that. I know that um we will we'll look forward to Junior not only doing what he's doing as a cultural liaison, but also serving as an interpreter for the district as well. So um that will offset some of what we've had before as a general fund expenditure for interpretation services and putting it into the achievement integration. So um Lisa, anything you want to add or share? Did you mention the literacy? Oh, I did not mention that. Thank you. So the literacy will be Emily Spear. So part of her salary will be paid for through um this grant and she's going to provide professional development staff standards. This is because we have such a diverse Yes. ethnic group. Yeah. Yeah. If we didn't have the diversity
034that we have, we would not qualify. And when you look across the state, um Southwest Minnesota has a pretty significant um amount of revenue coming to this corner of the state through achievement and integration. Um several of the metro suburbs do. Minneapolis, St. Paul, both are pretty big. So, yeah. Any questions? Can I get a motion to approve? Some moved. Second. I have a motion and a second. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Oppos. Same sign. Motion passes. 11.3 approve 2526 resolution for membership in MSHL. So you see before you the resolution to be a member of the Minnesota State High School League. Um and and again this is for our district to participate in those sanctioned activities that we do um with our various teams and athletics and activities. So um
035that's that's what this is is is uh ensuring that we can continue to participate as a member of the high school league with the the various activities and athletic events that we do. Any changes from last year? No, not at this time. And I know there may be questions about that relative to the um presidential executive order. I know that there's been some differences of opinion between the Minnesota State High School League and and what has come down at the national level. Um but at this time, the the position is is the same as it has been historically with the High School Activities Association. Any questions or comments from anybody? We get a motion to approve. Second. Have a motion in a second. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Oppos. Same
036sign. Motion passes. Number 12. We get a motion to adjurnn. So move. Second. Have a motion and a second to adjurnn. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Post sign.