001right call the meeting to order let's start with the pledge allegiance I pledge alance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation God indivisible with libery and justice for all want to say amen after that everybody miked up I think we are we should leave that door open thank you is this GNA get super hot here yeah it does it does uh number three approval of the agenda anybody everything look okay in the agenda yep so moved second I have a motion a second all those in favor signify by saying I I oppose same sign motion passes number four public forum Sharon Peterson he I just want you to know this is totally out of my comfort zone let me give it a world
002you'll do great I'm Sharon Peterson PA here at pip per schools I was hired on as a PA in August of 2000 so it been just a few years my husband and I live on an acreage West Island we are both graduates of Jasper four kids who graduated from Pipestone a three oldest went to JZ before few years before it closed some people tried to sway us to open and roll to another District but we chose to send them to Pipestone we liked the community did business in Pipestone move all to school and we like to think our kids got a good education pipes I first started out part-time in the ECFE program and was then hired by Don plan to fill a position in the library at BR school there I started to build
003my school family and continue to do so to the state I got to know a lot of you as parents before you became board members as I have had most of your kids come through the library and or the classroom when the new Elementary was built I was part-time in the library and then in some classrooms throughout the year for the last three years I've been fully in classrooms we've dealt with many different behaviors Defiance refusal been hit cleared a room because of behavior others have dealt with hitting pinching punching spitting running away from them running away from the school grounds meltdown Behavior screaming crying vulgar language who list can go on most days are wonderful some days make me wonder why I've been doing this for so long but I snap out of that
004think of the kids and give them the love while I they're at school it's a great job to have when raising our kids got to stay home when they had vacations Summers weather really can't see myself doing anything else with that being said I have 25 years of experience in the education system there are two other pairs of above me on the seniority list who have been here longer Kathy and Lori have 26 plus years can't see it Justified that someone coming in with little or no experience in education can almost make as much as myself and others it's so decided it really doesn't make me or anyone else feel good or appreciate I was at Lance O's last board meeting and he said at best it's all for the kids we really aren't asking
005for the world you're given to us just recogniz us for the job we have done and continue to do after all it's for the kids thank you [Applause] five presentation none six consent agenda 6.1 approved minutes of the regular school board meeting of January 27th 2025 and 6.2 Personnel report Court action required any questions or any discussion around anything on the consent agenda can I get a motion to approve the consent agenda so move second I have a motion in a second all those in favor signify by saying I I OPP same sign motion passes number seven financials 7.1 review of budget year to date Jackie okay this does have the amendments in it that will be presented later on everything looks good budet here today percentage of 85% last year we at 54% I
006can see now I say you don't have your classes ISU because good I can see just so what was it this year 65 you no perfect any questions for Jackie 7.2 approved Treasures report for January current cash balance is $8.8 million Investments I move to approve the treasures rep for January second there a motion in a second all those in favor signify by saying I oppose same sign motion passes 7.3 approved 2023a bonds Treasures report for January and the cash balance and the treasure the bond3 [Music] questions for Jackie get a motion to approve so move second all those in favor signify by saying I I iose the same sign motion passes 7.4 approve regular for February get a chance everybody get a chance to look through anything stand out any questions on the B
007for February you a motion to approve so second I have a motion a second all those in favor signify by saying I always same sign motion passes 7.5 approve High School activity bills for February so second you got something got a question uh so I see the first page departmentment and econom economically elev is unemployment for summer I was curious as far as why that's in the activities there it is oh this is this has already been adjusted this is what happened you see the cold there Z 130021 that's correct code that's a general fund code it just got taken out of the wrong bank account that's been fixed yeah my bank re won't work if that Happ doesn't happen very it's before she had the new eyes good catch thank you any other questions
008I get a motion to approve so second I have a motion in a second all those in favor signify by saying i i i p the same sign motion passes 7.6 approve fiscal year 25 budget amendments okay so this basically is what back that first page yeah this is s if you remember back in June I was projecting a $1.5 million deficit after all the budget amendments now I'm projecting $63,750 deficit this that's just overall so you can see how all the Amendments affected the general fund budget I should have switched it around but I didn't that's achievement integration okay so if you want to go to the achievement in integration okay so the achievement integration was changed because we need the two teachers that were providing the services we needed to absorb them as
009teachers in our system so therefore we came up with a new plan this basically explaining the new plan and all the changes that went along with that and I'll be happy to answer any questions if you questions about it and over here question on the educational side so this is what this is what was decided what we were going to use the integration money for with the new plan that that will be submitted to the St correct since we don't have the math interventionist anymore you mean or correct correct that's this whole deal still okay deal y okay y yep okay and we had two people actually that were out of that right so then the plan would be shows all the changes okay so we're not going to get as much because not spending
010as much those two positions of expenses for what we're using the money for okay and the pages below this also outline each each page is a separate separate Amendment so this is a closing Educational Opportunity Grant most I didn't know about any of these items June when the budget was approved so this is a closing ucation Opportunity Grant where basically I increase the revenue by the estimate of the expenses that we're going to be spending this year pertaining to that Grant essentially flow in flow out yeah Reven equal expenditures but I didn't have that in the budget questions on that next one CIT funds this is a this is the last of the CIT funds I didn't know at the time that we were still going to have payments in F year 25 to the
011gym air so basically I'm increasing the expenditure increasing the revenue so basically a zeroall expens that is okay now this is federal floser dollars that we get from the co-op these are all estimates in June there's still estimates in August so basically I'm just adjusting the estimates with better information that I have now this is federal money okay here we go next this basically back and look when I do the budget in June you just guess at your student numbers for this year because you don't have any information other than looking at last year which is still an estimate and kind of doing the great progression but when I go back and look at everything we have one we have numbers that have been submitted for our student accounts this year for like the fall
012account so that's what I use we also we also actually have the final for the prior year so you just basically go through and you update everything you have now than he did in June and these are all the changes any questions okay next onec these are a lot of miscellaneous grants we received a lot of them were through the high school library she basically initiated the GRS so that's what these are actually all them to the library in SCH initiated that one applied for that's what those are miscellaneous item this is for the revenue of the insurance money and the expense for the Porta Cotes the fast Bridge testing and I missed this expense down here on the original budget that was a Jackie fire and I'll just comment real quick you say the
013word fire the expense for the vandalism um you'll notice that's an expense that's outstanding uh talking to insurance company they're still pursuing restitution okay this is all has to do with the reack this is all money that is designated that's what that is okay this what special education and I'm increasing this 565,000 remember how I told you how how complex special it was I tried to explain it all on this so you have any further questions that's kind of how it works title money yeah tital money this is also Federal money these are just changes you don't really know for sure what you're in June you don't know for sure what you're getting the next year you don't what the over is so basically it's better information when I in June so I go back
014and it oh yeah okay so we did receive voluntary 3K money this year 37.7 adjusted people units we use St always Runner volunteer prea through Community Ed preschool program you can't do that anymore now it has to run through the general fund so now through the general fund we have volunteer pre which consists of the four and 5-year-old preschool class it's not going to get buried in the general fund because I have going to it in assigned fund balance because I want to keep tracing it separately but it's going to the general fun now I can no longer go to the community have fun with the new rules so that's what this is showing everything this is your voluntary pre okay so then therefore the Early Childhood family education was also changed and if you
015go to the next one you're learning Readiness three and foury olds was also changed because of the fact that we had everything in learning Readiness before and I had to pull out the Vol to putal for the make perfect sense here is M so and I'd be happy to sit down and I got all my documentation well thank you for all your work on that that's a lot of different stuff to keep track of I appreciate you how you do your job are there any questions for Jackie what was presented thank you Jackie thank you Jackie can um if there's no questions can I get a motion to approve that 20 fiscal year 25 budget amendments second Chrissy and Katy chy and ktie I have a motion in a second all those in favor signify
016by saying I I oppose same sign motion passes board Forum information 8.1 board reports and updates we had calendar um we met one time and I think we pretty much got it set for next year we're meeting again on the 7 7th just to make final adjustments I think right but I think it's pretty much set we didn't really look much into the following year because we were discussing running out of time yeah yeah we a policy meeting lot of talk around cell phone policy question if we have it strong enough think it's effective I guess it's the biggest concern what are we getting for feedback from teachers with the first policy I mean do you hear anything I think it's been relatively positive some of the feedback that's come back though is that it's
017not been consistantly applied in certain classrooms or certain areas um and that's that's a challenge and that's where when we had the policy committee discussion around it and you'll notice that under my report that's called out specifically just to see if we wanted to as a full board Workshop that one a little bit more to to get some more information get some more data talk collectively get some um additional input on how we want to proceed because um I think the greatest concern is when it's not universally consistently appli if if there's different standards that different teachers are applying in different circumstances I'd agree yes one that's all you hear about people talk about to I mean on the news I mean every everyone's dealing with it even businesses I mean it's just gotten so
018out of hand it was a large topic up at was and I went to a few sessions on it um there's a lot of there's a lot of data out there that even even with the phones in front of the room in the pockets that I forget what it was but it's like 15 or 20 minutes is lost just because the kid is thinking about the phone in front of the class in front of the class and is somebody texting me am I getting a Snapchat right right yeah there's some pretty compelling research data out there that shows the even the proximity of the phone like like Brad was saying in the front of the room it has some residual impacts on academic achievement so um so I think with the you know with everything
019everything out there and everything we hearing and then that it's not being implemented consistently that do need to look at something different that's why as a as a committee we thought that having a work session and getting full board would probably be the best standell I mean if you adopt this You' have to take it policy understand because ours is currently embedded into that and there was and I don't remember the policy numbers two that msba have um and either of them would work to to meet the state um law as far as having wasn't it was it March 1st March 15 that it has to be in effect which we have it in effect already we're we're covered by what we have but again the question is is it do we want to change
020for the direction that we want to go do we have information from other districts as to surrounding districts as to if they have to implement you hear some difference you hear some differences I think um RTR as I understand it they have the magnetic lock bags um when the student comes into school yeah um others it's just not accessible at all some are similar to what we've done we in passing time pull up the phone at the session I met there was a lot of comment from the districts that were in the room and basically the consensus was if it wasn't something like Clint just mentioned at AR nothing works because the kids will kids will find the way around they'll have a dumb phone um they were talking that that um kids are so
021smart that they can like connect their phone to their to their oh device device yeah and still Snapchat and stuff from their device um and then they were talking about getting enough getting enough protection on the chome that that they can't do that but no one found yeah and and probably the biggest thing too when when they were discussing the use of the cell phone was was Bullying True through through all different social media AVS but we can't stop what happens outside of school we can't you know unfortunately but yeah well unfortunately it's not just children that do it kids that do it right every day I look at Facebook and I see people that bully people on a daily basis right right unfortunate that the world is like that so I think we just
022we need to find time for a work session sure and put put some more thought in this okay so it has to be changed by March 15th or no as long as we have something implemented by March 15th which we good on the question is do we want to do anything more do we want to strengthen it or and what does that look like and feel like and this was something that the state pushed for districts that have nothing right and so msba has has a generic policy that you could put in place just so that your you know adhering is right right when I think you can make all the policies you want but until you can enforce them then it doesn't matter I mean and that was part of the question as well
023when the policy committee met do we need to delineate some of the consequences in the policy that failure to adhere and I I know we have Universal blanket expectations that failing to adhere to a policy can result in Progressive discipline but the question is do we need to be very explicit this policy or not anything else aside from positive stuff when I went to um negotiations training and Marshall couple weeks ago now very good um obviously just first time being involved with the negotiation te um learned a lot there one one thing I I have thought a lot about since is there there's a conversation just quick conversation of just the financial stability of a lot of schools in the area um and things aren't great looking for um you know so I think we
024need certainly need to be a keep a conscious eye on our financial picture I think sounds like we're doing very well um and have some stability there but just with all the stuff that has been passed down State inreasing expenses not necessarily offsetting those expenses um and just some other things just yeah trying to keep I've just heard I've heard some things from the community about the drum line that performed they said it was awesome I I seen it on Facebook which was fun but it would have been cool to see it I I just heard it was great and um just community members that said it's great to see that we're bringing new programs in that different kids can get involved in right you know and they the trap shooting they were talking about
025that too but they're really happy that we brought that we've you know allowed that to come into the school and just to try to get more kids involved in different things the drum line should be showcased more yeah well this I it's kind of new though right it was a grant right I just yeah it's a grant yeah yeah it's a grant I think they've been doing it since like the beginning of school right right but they should be out they should have done it they said this is kind of their first multiple every halftime event and people would have enjoyed it would have been phenomenal yeah I honestly truly missed the band at the home of oh yeah serly like there was so many opportunities for the band to be there and yeah it
026was actually kind of sad I think a lot of people didn't even know who they were where they were from well they yeah they didn't they had no idea that the right cuz the group I was sit who's that where are they from you know to be honest I didn't even know you've seen arrows on the back of their shirt so it needs to be published more because they were very very good really just cool cool to see new programs and things for kids there was young kids yeah third graders like Trev was doing it and I think there was kids younger than I think tr's about sixth grader there kid younger than him doing it clear up to seniors right bigid he had a fourth grade the first band year you can take band
027right fourth grade grade fifth grade fifth grade fifth grade fifth grade is B okay that was one of those PL on that sheet yeah that's really cool that was a lot of fun and it t and you know you can get money for things like that but it really takes like Dr play or you know people that want to be pedan people just all those people though that that want to do these things and take the extra time to do it and and bring excitement to it right so I appreciate that very good anything else all right moving on number nine 9.1 superintendent board report and enrollment report um well you board members you see the enrollment there I believe 11 six I believe um yeah that's and so it's it's something that obviously we
028continue to Monitor and and watch um the meat of my report a few things to share um we have our Workshop meeting coming up on the 27th and we have um provided the service Cooperative representative that will be here presenting one will be Mary Palmer who is actually going to be retiring at the end of this year she's the director for the special education programs through the service cooperative and then McKenzie helgerson is our director um they will both be here to present and answer questions and go through some of the details they won't speak as much about 504 just because that's that's not not a special education program but we'll give some information about 504s in general so um so at least you know the context of how 504s fit into an overall program
029of service for kids so we'll have that on the 27th um as was referenced earlier there is some dismal news continuing to come out of the budget forecast from the state um and it it it's not looking real positive as as Tyler was saying and that's that's unfortunate because um there are a number of things that have become unfunded mandates that have been put in place that we are are concerned about how those things are going to be sustained I know that there were some questions about um for example the the number of substitutes that the district has had and everywhere across the state they're seeing an increased number of substitutes because of earned safe and sick time and the way that that's being utilized so um that's that's going to be an ongoing expenditure
030for us there's a number of things with redak training while we have some money right now there's questions about the longevity of that and how that'll come to bear so um obviously we're we're speculating what might happen with legislative work but again with the start and the fits and starts they had to begin the session there's real questions if they're even going to be complete by the time the session is scheduled to conclude which I believe is is the 19th I believe of of May or something like that so um stay tuned we will do our best to bring forward some things but I do anticipate there may be some uh considerations for cuts in POS a couple of positions in the district if uh if we keep moving forward in the way that we
031have to just again to balance our budget and make certain that we maintain our sustainability going forward um there are some questions that have come up about the calendar as was talked about earlier we anticipate we're going to have that wrapped up here um some training that Tyler and I attended as was already mentioned U we're continuing to work through some HVAC challenges at the at this building in particular um we've had to put some temporary heaters with the terrible cold spells into the vestibules because things weren't working as they were supposed to there were a couple of times where Len was concerned the temperature was going to get below that freezing Mark so um we're going to be doing some real heavy work with that through the summer months and again going through the
032Building Systems to make sure they're all functioning as they should Train's going to be in and doing some things there um we've been in conversation with multiple Community agencies about adding a repeater onto this building for radio um services and it's something that uh has been viewed as a possible value to this portion of the community as a whole um so as we look at that there may be some Financial commitment that the district might have to make in in making that a reality um it would be a shared Financial commitment again again with multiple public entities and partners to make that happen so um once we get a little more substantial numbers with that we can bring that forward through the budget process as well um profile of a graduate meeting is something that
033we're looking to schedule later on in this meeting for March the 20th uhu making it a community me meeting but certainly we' like all the board members there so that's why we're suggesting you could declare it as a board meeting because certainly you'll be there talking about board related things because we're talking about our programs talking about our kids and talking about what we want to accomplish and want to achieve I guess the last thing that I'll close up with in my report um I know that that there's the references made earlier tonight about the negotiations and negotiation processes with the um educational support professionals and our next negotiation meeting is scheduled for the 17th of March so we have um about four weeks before we were able to sit down and negotiate again I
034know there's a number of questions about what's on the table so I'll just kind of walk through all those things again just to provide some clarity first of all um there's been some changes and some language for U membership dues deductions there's been some changes to the distribution of longevity pay um proposed additional compensation for custodians who obtain their boilet license um there's some additional compensation as well for custodians who check the boilers um on the weekends or over a holiday going from $25 a day to $50 a day over the weekend and $75 per holiday weekend um increases in 403b retirement account matches by $100 per level each year um acknowledging employees may take a few unpaid days of leave currently the contract does not allow for any unpaid leave um this would allow
035for some unpaid leave um adding juneth which we know is something that's happening with every contract um free activity tickets for all the employees earn safe and sick time which we have mentioned already is being implemented um there would be um as I referenced already bonus compensation for the boilers license advancements as well and then the offer that the board has put on the table is $1 per hour increase in year one and 75 cents per hour in year two and then part of that would be as well to maintain longevity compensation and then also that um there would be some proposed new language and I think this is where some of the some of the confusion might exist the proposed new language uh without getting into all the nuts and bolts of it really
036suggests that the district would be able to look at a potential employees uh experience in the a similar role and be recognized for that experience and it's language very similar to what we have in our teacher Master agreement where teachers who have experience in another school district um can bring that experience in and it's recognized by The District in terms of um their compensation and again it's it's an opportunity for us to look at how we can compensate people for their experience and help us fill positions when we know that um it can be challenging and again it has nothing to take away from any existing employees it's just how can we how can we do our best to attract uh new employees as we know going to have those needs in the district as
037we go forward so um just a few things to clarify there if there are any questions board members we can answer those but um overall I think uh we're just moving forward and I guess the last thing I'll share is I continue to do uh a monthly staff newsletter called quiver quips and I've had some positive feedback on that as well trying to continue to improve Communications throughout the district both internally and externally so um stand ready for any questions that you might have on that and then as was referenced before you see that policy um 5245 attached and before I get too far ahead of myself without saying there's nothing more to report um Mike Blum andal is going to be here this evening to talk about a couple of things one is a
038donation to The District for a batting cage um and and it's all spelled out here it's all the donations I can pass this around so you can see it it's a a little over $113,000 that's been generated and raised to support the installation he's hoping that that can happen this year and and with the approval of the donation I think it can this spring um when the frost comes out of the ground which days like today that certainly helps do they have a spot where they want to put it um yeah they do they have a spot over by the by The Diamonds that's been identified and then um the last thing that has come forward and there was actually a meeting earlier this year that existed um between the city and School District officials
039talking about how to make our parking lot area over by the diamonds a little more accessible and it reflects back to what happened during the duratio where there was just a bottleneck of people I wasn't here but it was bottleneck it was kind of scary for people um the city has brought forward a proposal to widen that and they would do all the work no cost to the district so you'd have a lane in and a lane out um we would lose a couple of trees out of the process one of them is is an older ash tree that's not in very good shape so that that's not that big of a deal um and they would uh make it look like what you're going to see here so I'll pass this around as well
040so you can see um and the intent is that would happen again yet this spring ideally if they can so couple of things that are brought forward and Mike would have been here this evening but had another obligation so he wasn't able to come what when is the the meeting on the 19th and 20th what are the what's the time of those meetings so the 20th would really be the community meeting we're looking at 5:30 on that one um the 19th is when they would be here starting to do some work with student focused groups staff focused groups um so You' want us here during the day mean um no don't just the even just the okay not just on the 20th or the just on the 20th okay I've got some questions here on
041um the ESP negotiations so obviously this is a very important topic um so as as I'm reading through this so current compensation offer so we have we have the the want was 75 cents an hour for year 1 and 75 cent an hour raise for year two right well the the the want was higher originally and then we went through a mediation process and through that process um the board came back with an offer of a dollar per hour and that was countered back at 75 cents per hour so a reduction of 25 cents per hour counter so counter back for a low lower raise to eliminate some language to to avoid the to avoid the proposed language yeah okay so as as I was listening to talk there U and as I was trying
042to read through the legal language of this which is not easy to understand um so essentially it is it is saying we we want to hold the ability to compensate experience on new hires right that's that's the that's the long and short absolutely that that if somebody comes to us from the service Cooperative as a pair professional that we would be able to recognize that pair of professional experience and hire a court that we'd be able to a w them for five years of experience that they've had or if they've been a secretary somewhere else and were hiring for a secretary position um that we could recognize that experience without that language what are we helpy with starting PID okay starting PID so if if somebody comes to us with 10 years of experience as
043a PA professional at the service Cooperative we have to start them at zero we recognize no experience and that's where I think the board negotiation team has tried to line up the language in this contract with what our teachers is because our teachers we say if you come from Dell Rapids with five years of experience we're going to recognize those five years of experience from Del rabids and again it doesn't take anything away from existing employees I don't think there's anything that any question for so you um the 91.1 discuss that 54.5 I think we've I think we've covered I think we've covered that yep moving on to 9.2 principal board report I think and I want to start with Sonia tonight um I know she's at home in South Dakota it's her seniors last
044basketball game and she wanted to be there to to watch it so that's why that's why she's not here tonight that's where she should be so I think I think one of you or Jennifer you doing both I'm doing both I got this no pressure no pressure well I don't have Sonia's little fun bubbly voice I'll try to do that but she would totally be doing this in a totally different way so for the musical it looks like the middle and high school present a music musical production this spring the junior version of news Newsies um is expected to be a tremendous success auditions will take place March 3rd and 4th so that would be next week the lunch program she's got some fun little pictures in here our lunch program is showcasing new vibrant
045signage and has introduced a variety of fresh options to the salad bar including cheese bacon bits chicken and beets attendance we remain committed to maintaining full transparency with families regarding attendance WEA absences are excused unexcused parents will receive formal notification I know that she's been working hard at that with between our two buildings really working on attendance schedule the schedule for the upcoming school year is currently under development with version one in progress any questions so one one question but I think more for Clint around the what we're seeing up there in the salad B is that what's being implemented by toer what what we discussed about in some of our food fund balance yes add part of enhancing the Food Service experience and and um well that happened quick yeah so we were working
046on something and and uh I'll tell you what I wish we could have um the chef every day because see I don't know what feedback you received from the Moroccan chicken wings but they were fantastic um so uh I think there's a concerted effort going on and continuing to do that with some grab and goes I know there were some suggestions of adding like a a Soup Bar as well because those are easy things that kids might want and just creating some different options well I know when we talked at toer up at msba one of the topics was getting protein on the salad bar yeah right that's unlimited um with the main meal not being enough for some students at least there's a free option to help yourself so I'm glad that that got
047implemented kids like build your own things in what you want always all right all right Elementary so for the month of February February is I love to read month I I love this month we celebrated with a lot of fun things we kept golf with our opening ceremony I did this by Flex area so preschool kindergarten and then first and second third and fourth and fifth grade and they set up a time I came read to the students shared all the fun activities you can see some of them we had dress up days um Bingo cards that's the kids loved this we've done this the last couple of years so they can go for a bingo and then on Fridays they can come down to me get a prize then they go for blackout so
048on our closing ceremony on March 5th they have all the way up until this Friday to try and get a blackout and then we're going to do a closing ceremony where kids will get books and a just a variety of different little prizes a full day of reading we had they've been reading with their buddies with another grade level we had an author so Marcy Schmitty our librarian brought in an author Douglas wood I didn't get to be there that day cuz I was at the Minnesota Elementary principles conference but I heard he was really great guitar music all that fun stuff uh February 5th to the 7th I went to The mespa Institute up in the cities I really love that it's a great time to network with Elementary principles and just things that
049I can bring back to the elementary yet this year and some great ideas that I have going moving into the next school year um we hosted student Leed conferences and I I love this this is so awesome um for our kids to come in and it's this is a time for us to just celebrate kids and what they're doing in the classroom show off their classroom talk about themselves all the things that they're doing um all of our grade levels I wanted this year is making sure that we really are bringing in the community if that is going to be our parents if it's community members whoever it is so every grade level is doing something our preschool class for the month of February did someone I love day and if you walk through the
050elementary there's a little little picture thing that you they created it's so fun and engaging they made cookies they did a lot of fun activities with someone that they love into the school uh this Friday will be a next terrific kid program so if you saw we took some pictures we should have done this at the beginning of the year but just a huge thank you to our community members as they're coming in and just recognizing our second graders who exemplify those positive um characteristics and stuff that is kind of of the elementary in a nutshell do you have questions for me I like the pictures hanging up 100 days of school yeah absolutely we have some bulletin boards the black bulletin boards we're starting to get more pictures too so as we have people
051coming in checking out some of the things that we've got going on in the school building and then the current enrollment food on the high school side is it is it the same on the elementary side too as far as the updates yeah that we're looking for more healthier options that they would be on the elementary side we won't have the we do have a solid bar but it won't be extensive as what the middle and high school is are there quick grab sandwiches or anything if they don't like the main munches well what they're doing right now is she's going to potentially look at um a third option maybe we might substitute the cold option for a peanut butter and jelly the Uncrustables there's a lot of kids that really like that versus like
052a salad or something so we are going to try that for the month of February or sorry March and just see what our students like because there's a lot of kids that really like the Uncrustables yeah well it's it's now a second um if kids want seconds it's an option for that and they are going through sometimes we have thirds I mean we've we've got hungry kids so as far as the student Le conferences what is the I mean do we have a pretty good percentage that come we do have a really good percentage I would say out of every classroom maybe one or two students is call good thank you y thank you 9.3 curriculum teaching and learning board report well my report isn't nearly as is Jennifers and all the thing that things
053that they're doing at the elementary um mine consists of testing again NWA testing is done now access testing for the ml kids is underway uh curriculum still looking at language arts curriculum we have three companies that we're doing presentations with just so that we can um see their products ask questions get a demo of what their platforms look like so that um we've got one of those done so that's been helpful uh prek curriculum we're looking at elementary social studies we need to figure out um what to do with that as well because those new standards need to be implemented 26 27 school year and then um with math I was on a webinar a couple weeks ago where they they said that we need to start looking at the math new math standards they
054don't have to be imp implemented until 2027 28 but with the math ones they want to do like a slow progression into them um so that when it's time for the full implementation this the grd levels that are taking the MCA test um are ready for the MCA 4 which is a new assessment coming up so just trying to get them prepared along the way um yeah so they do have a document out that um shows the correlation of the 2007 standards with the 2022 standards like one color is the standard is exactly the same another color is they're similar and then the red is like a totally different standard so that we can um have our teachers look at oh this is something that we're already doing this is something we need to add
055in so that that will be a very helpful document when we get that far how much involvement is there when you're looking at new Cur curriculum you know as far as like the teacher involvement or just so that we you know are we getting Buy in before we make a decision or we yes we we've been working very closely with the elementary because that goes along with the read act and with the read act there are um highly aligned partially aligned and Min minimally aligned curriculum and so we we've combed through that and and gotten um samples from all of the companies that were on there essentially and so we have met with the elementary literacy team once a month on Wednesday early dismissal we have them looking at curriculum last week was um saas
056did a presentation um for the elementary and then a separate presentation for the middle school high school so we want to make sure that it is something that they are choosing because we definitely need the Buy in otherwise um it won't be effective no matter what we what we choose so we meet with our literacy team once a month but then the literacy team is taking all the information that we talk and then they go back to grade level team so everybody is really looking at the everyone is yep and we have we have a rubric that we've went through that look at toic pieces of that you know student engagement their instruction we look at phonics program that's huge is a piece with that your writing your grammar your reading component um looking at
057Assessments in there online component I mean there's just so many differentes that we're really looking at and to we have spent the majority of this school year looking at curriculum literacy making sure that that we get what what's best for our district for our district that really looking at for our district RCT in our demographics and our students could you hear we started with 11 curriculums and we're down to three we're doing our due diligence but it to this all of our teachers are all a part of it you know like in fifth grade even though they might just teach math because they rotate our math teacher is still looking at any any other questions for Lisa thank you number 10 unfinished business there's none number 11 board action 11.1 first reading of policy 409
058employee Publications instructional materials inventions and cre um we we had just talked about this um at the policy committee and part of it um gets into if if something is created at at school um that that is the property of the Pipestone Area Schools that there's that that stays with the district um again it's it's just part of what is pretty standard oper in procedure in every other business and whatnot so um it's the proprietary rights in the school district regarding certain things that are created as as an employee of the [Applause] district holy [Laughter] word that big long paragraph consent y most that same literature teachers that we had here in PIP so okay so in that in the general statement of policy says unless the policy unless the employee develops this basically outside
059of work then that is their own am I interpreting thatly I did not interpret that as I read through this so does this like protect the school district from employees making and publicizing things that are happening during our school day and put it being put out there without the district's approval no this is more like if you if you would create your own yeah right okay that that if you created your own classroom intervention curriculum and you you couldn't hang a shingle that you're selling it yeah right okay any other questions there's a first reading so this the first reading so there's no action you can't wait baited breath bring your popcorn 11.2 approv policies 103 2011 202 23.5 212 301 302 407 408 412 422 477 519 520 522 612 .1 701 721 and
060751 have up changes lot of these are the ones that went through the policy subcommittee there wasn't like big changes in har any of them no but I read every single one of them that was why I was up to 11:30 now we know well I better read all of these even though no changes are going to be made wasting yes it was made you go to sleep yeah only kind of changes policy 522 title we're reverting back reverting back to the20 so just after they came forward with all these changes were going back question [Applause] pleas approve second motion second 11.3 resolution accepting [Applause] donations well we have the one that came late that we was passed around for the batting cage we have a donation of $545 from Cali men farms uh to
061the FFA a donation of $150 from THS to the little wrestling uh $300 donation from First Bank and Trust also to a little arrow wrestling 225 donation from pip SPO building materials to robotics $300 from Rudolph bus service also for robotics $250 from the Roose Foods tanks for robotics $100 from Everett Tyron a to robotics 150 from Christians and broadcasting to robotics $11,000 from Tad d right full more lanes for Robotics and then $3,814 from Pasa see on sh for the batting cage for softball like to thank all these everyone for these donations it's amazing any a motion to approve these donations second a motion in second all those in favor signify by saying I CL same sign motion passes 11.4 approve obsolete items um again in our ongoing effort to clear things out of
062the shop that are no longer necessary or obsolete you'll see three vacuum cleaners um with a nice note that says does not work and then you'll see an old old uh like dispenser water dispenser machine and then um some old um radios I guess if somebody's looking for one to put out in the barn or something I guess but uh yeah these are all declared Obsolete and um I will share that the last time we declared things obsolete we used Facebook Marketplace and had a tremendous response so again we'll probably use the same tool same process any discussion give motion to approve these items obsolete so second I have a motion in a second all those in favor signify by saying I oppose same sign motion passes 11.5 approve contracts with swwc service Cooperative um
063as you can board members the attached contract summary is is there for your review and it shows um the 2425 contracts and 2526 so you can do a bit of a side by side comparison um as you would expect most things did go up just again a factor of um some of the costs that go with operating year in and year out there are a few things that went down um but overall I think that the things that you see here spell to the services that we need if you look at the bulk of things under the educational Solutions that's the total special education services that makes up the the bulk of the contract that we have and $93,000 so um a a great deal with special education services provided by the service cooperative and
064again it's something that um that is driven pretty dominantly by our student population uh I know there was a question that came through earlier today just asking about um some of the Staffing in maybe certain categorical areas and what what I understand from the service Cooperative is they establish what they anticipate our need to be and then if there is not that level of need um again based upon IEPs based upon uh case loads Etc then there is an adjustment that's made in the final billing to the to the school district so um so again that's something that we'll just continue to Monitor and do that with McKenzie as she serves as our role there any questions is there any of this that we can look at hiring ourselves where there could be potential savings
065I have started to do some inquiry into that and um I don't feel I'm at Liberty to to speak at length about that tonight but I think there are certain things that as we look at next fiscal year before we approve the next fiscal year cycle we should look at at some different options again because this this is a it's a significant contract and it's it's expensive one and and I think when it's when you're talking this much money you know you should if there are other options or um opportuni or compare I know like um I know like with the thec has one on sta I don't know if qualifications but it be interesting qualifications that's in they come out and at least get a competitive qu so my question with that though is
066like when you look at that you're not just getting the staff right you're getting the curriculum and everything that goes with it so those are other extra items that we would have to often times there's some yeah those supports that go with it correct and those can get some of them yeah the tests and those types of things correct and now keep in mind just going throw the look you see that bottom line the 93,000 and if you saw my budget amendment for was adjusting Finance 69 fin 620 the actually get us federal education money okay they draw downal salary from that you're not going to see a out 6 it all depends where our federal money is if they won't know till August so when I sit down and do the budget and guess
067what we're actually going to have to cash out and say how you guys it doesn't matter they okay this [Music] is you're never going to see that expense or that Revenue the only expense you're going to see is what's not covered by the 6920 that they receed from the government for us how do you like that there you go and those numbers are basically Federal special ed doers and it's always re one thing I'm going to just say in case it was on the on the table I would strongly suggest never having spech as great so it's done not and so that's I was going to comment on that because it that's out there and those and those people that have that degree no are very capable of no I'm just saying but they're because
068they's so few it I don't agree with it either yeah but CU we yeah we had that a couple years ago and it did was not good right no it was terrible yeah can't lose sight that Josh's part of it so he's sitting B of breath open this B time oh what would we do without Josh Josh does an outstanding job so uh I'll approve it just because of you Josh no it is I mean it's it's a significant part but it it is services that we need to provide to our students and so I if they're the source that that get the bodies hired you know versus districts then I mean this is just what we have to go go with but again if we can hire our own you know but that might
069mean you know we have to do some recruiting you know various places for these positions because ising right I mean you know some I'm not saying again but I mean I think there's an opportunity I would agree with you I mean I think they save us money too in C certain instances because we maybe not need a full-time employee so it's a give and take situation we just need to be certain yeah right right yeah I mean we just have to be cognizant of yes how much we're spending and how if full-time positions are something we need then it might be more likely what we should yeah got just keeping our yeah their revenue stream obviously hire because they have the ability to hire players there's certainly got to be some some more efficient routes
070for us to go through and hire those people ourselves I feel like it's a trend though thater and they leave for the so certainly worth continuing to explore I completely agree because again we we want to be doing the best that we can with the dollars that we have I moly approve the contract as s wwc Service Cooperative as shown second motion a second all those in favor sign say Clos same sign motion passes 11.6 read act M so as I shared last month board members this was something that um we worked on and really didn't require a a full meeting of the negotiation subcommittee because this was boiler plate language that was put forward um in collaboration between Education Minnesota and the Minnesota Association of school board s um and so sat down with
071the Union leadership walked through it all made certain that we kept the language broad enough you'll notice that it says redact training it does not specifically call out like letters training um and that was intentional because we have not yet finalized what's going to happen and for example at the secondary level there's a couple of options out there um but it did kind of um bookmark the or or put some guide rails in terms of um who can access this this revenue and the maximum number of hours 144 hours and that is based upon the experiences that our staff had with the um letters training so again this is to comply with the state law and you see the state law referenced and it is an mou um which will sunset at the um next
072contract negotiations you that that's stated until June 30th question for discussion and there is money set aside for this that the state gave us that has to be used for this purpose that will be sitting in a reserve fund balance until a thank you for bringing that up back yeah it's specific amount of money that was by the state for this specific purpose I would call that a temporarily funded [Laughter] mandate any questions can I get a motion to approve someone second I did yes I have a motion in a second all those in favor signify by I saying I I oppose same sign motion passes 11.7 approve Builders Risk insurance policy all right board members as was shared when we approved the bids for our roofing project it was the responsibility of the owner
073in our case the district to provide the Builder's risk we worked with our um insurance provider we had two different Quotes come through um one is the quote that you see before you for 15,25 and the other quote was 27,7 64 um so pretty significant difference I asked our our um agent Joe ven is who we were working with and um I I asked are we certain that this is a reputable company somebody that's going to be here because for the price difference it just right you know nearly double um and he said absolutely a very reputable company a company that's trusted that they've worked with for years so um he said a company that'll stand beside us the insurance really take effect as you can see there um 5125 because at the end of
074May they will start to stockpile materials around the school and we want to make certain as we take ownership of those that those materials are protected under under insurance from damage theft or otherwise so this is uh this is the policy recommendation that we have before you any questions for PL motion to approve so Mo second I have a motion and second all those in favor signify by saying I I oppose say sign motion passes 11.8 set special board meeting on March 20th 2025 for knowledge works and as I was sharing during my board report that's the um really the kickoff of our work with the profile of a graduate and that work that we're going to do there that'll help develop our new strategic plan as a as a district so again that's um
075the date and that they were available to be here um we want to declare it as a board meeting just in case you are all there and start talking about board business we're not violating any open meetings laws so again all board members are encouraged to be there but we also know that things happening so if you're not able to that's okay too will it be in this room um it'll probably be out in the Count's area okay any other questions I have a question I just to followup how on the um emergency buttons I think there was like a was there a meeting that you guys did with the admin the Panic buttons oh yeah oh didn't yeah we did a a training did it go good yeah I think so I think so
076I think got a little bit of protocol to get sorted out some clarification on those but yeah that's question brought that up my but thank you yeah I know that you guys are going to work on a protocol for that or just a process so yeah yeah can I get a motion to approve the special board meeting for on March 20th what time was it 5:30 5 530 so move second I have a motion in a second all those in favor signify by saying I I oppose say sign motion passes number 12 adjourn so much second I have a motion in a second all those in favor signify by saying journ hey is there any