001I'm sorry. I would like to call our special meeting to order at 5:50. Would everybody please stand for the pledge of 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. Oh, okay. Amber, would you please know all board members and admin? And then um board, you have an agenda in front of you. Are there any changes? I would entertain a motion. I'll make a motion to approve the agenda as presented. I'll support. All in favor say I. I. I. Motion carries 4 Z. Um, next up we have communications public participants. Thank you. Okay, moving on to business items for um discussion. We have the K Resa by NA election. We just have to Yep. So,
002we just have to um consider who we might send to Kesa to vote um and who will be their backup on that day on the election day. Yeah. What day is it again? Sorry. June 2nd. On June 2. Is there a time frame? June 2nd at 5 o'clock at the service center. Any volunteers? My last kid. I can if I can't don't have to be there until 5:15. I can do it. But my last chance is surprise. Okay. Well, we can appoint Dr. Newton to go. Okay. And then I can be your backup. [Music] Oh, you'll be back in. Okay. Okay. And then I can be your backup. Thank you, ladies. Okay. So, moving on to business items for decision. Um, same topic. I would entertain a motion. I will motion. No, this one. Yeah,
003the point blank and blink. Yep. It just reads me. Okay. Motion to approve the resolution to consider for adoption to appoint Dr. Lindseay Newton as the designated representative of this district to the electoral body for the K recent bianual election to be held June 2nd 2025 and Jesse Estein as an alternate in the event the designated representative I'll support roll call vote please yes yes motion carries 4 um communication Do you have any board comments? Superintendent comments? I'm going to adjourn the meeting at 5:53 and we will start our regular schedule meeting at 6 o'clock. That was a fancy meeting that we just had to have. And then we will have our awesome fun meeting here at six o'clock once we can started them all last night. Well, first of all, I got those t-shirt.
004I love it. That was really fun. Yeah. Yes. Just queue me up one time while things I like the pen. That's cool. I didn't say anything like that. But a good way I'm Epic for nothing. You know, I look back here, too. Oh, okay. Yeah. You know, they play at graduation. Oh, no. That didn't age well. did not really. Yeah. It's funny. [Music] Yeah. I had bought these bags. already generator. Yeah. eventually look like I won't need that. eventually. Sorry, nobody's question. I'm looking [Music] I feel so weird not having somebody. I know. I feel weird. Yeah. Are they coming? No. Sarah's sick. Serious can't come here. Well, I'm going to make sure you made new people. Yes. Yes. So, I would like So, I'm going to call our meeting to order at 6:00 p.m.
005And everyone, please stand for the pledge. Louder and proud this time. I pledge algiance 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. [Applause] Amber, would you please know all board members and admins present again? And then board, um, you have an agenda in front of you. Are there any changes? Okay. I would entertain a motion. I'll make a motion to approve the agenda as presented. I'll support. All in favor say I. I. Motion carries 4 Z. Um, next up we have the consent agenda. Um, the approval of the minute meetings for our regular meeting April 22nd, 2025. Close session and regular meeting for April 21st, 2025. Approval of accounts payable in the amount of 2,391,923.34
006for the month of April 2025. Approval of the treasures report dated April 30th, 2025 for the balance of 6,588,961. Then next up, we have the approval of new hires and retirements. I'll turn it over to you. So, we do not have any resignations for new hires. However, we do have three retirements. Uh we have two prayer professionals, Leslie Bingart and Tia Travis, and Stacy Ryder, a fifth grade teacher. So, those are our retirements this year, and we'll be celebrating them at our end of the year um lunchon. Awesome. Thank you. Um reports, we have community input, agenda items only. Approve. Oh, I'm sorry. Okay. Um, at this time I would entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. I will make a motion to approve the consent consent agenda as presented. Also, roll
007call, please. Cory, yes. Shu, yes. Will, yes. Severstein, yes. Motion carries 40. Now we can move on. Um, nothing is for community input. Next up, we have celebrations, the above and beyond awards. So, historically, uh, GA has done the above and beyond awards for just staff members. Um, and this year we kind of paused on that trying to figure out what we wanted the above and beyond awards to look like. Um, and big our community just stepping up over the last year has really been noticeable. So, we wanted to recognize our community members. Um, and so is Mike in the room? Might need him. Hi, Mike. How are you? Can you come on up here? Sure. Hi, Mike. I'm good to meet you. So, I had a community member reach out to me and this
008is what she said. I'm going to pull it up for you real quick. I didn't have internet at home, so I had to not have electricity. I know who has electric who has electricity in the room. Who doesn't? I'm with you. I'm going with you, Tony. Sorry to hear, man. If you need to plug in your phone now, please do. Okay. Okay. So, I was I was talking with a community member um Becky Nurola at in my office one afternoon just to touch base on how things are going, getting some feedback, getting perspective. and she mentioned how we should just honor our community members um from the school into our community. And so Mike, she mentioned you and she uh told me how one day one of the buses was broke down or something wasn't
009right with it. So they were parked on the side of the road and Mr. Mike came and pulled up and lended assistance and helped manage the kids. Um went out of his way to be a GA Ram family member and we just want to honor you for that and we are just so so very blessed to be able to have you in our community. So, thank you so much. The last time you got a certificate? Um, I never get tickets. And he's also got a pin that he can wear here on his nice home. So, boy, thank you very much. We appreciate you taking time to come and join us tonight. [Applause] Thank you. [Applause] Okay. And then our next community member is also has happens to be a staff member, but um we have
010a who reads the climax crescent. If you don't, you need to find it and pick it up. It's pretty awesome. Um and the Bruce um from the Climax Present reached out to me and highlighted a staff member of ours that has done a phenomenal job over the last handful of decades to honor our athletic departments. Um and being able to just do more than what's just in our schools. Um and so he wrote a letter that Miss Corsy is going to read. So Mr. Mike Woodter, can we have you come up because we've got some words to say about you. Give it up for Mike. I'll get there. I got they also spelled my name wrong. Says, okay, so the letter says, "Dear Dr. Newton. I want to pass along a letter commending the excellent
011work that is being performed daily by Gailsburg Augusta athletic director Mike Ward. Ever since we started covering Gailsburg Augusta sports regularly in 1992, Mike has always assisted me when he was a coach with information I needed for our sports articles as well in his position as athletic director. As a newspaper sports editor, I deeply appreciate how we forward schedules and the names and contacts of GA coaches weeks before each sess season begins. This assists me greatly for sports coverage preparation. Mike has me included on the mass email list so I receive alerts when there are postponements, cancellations, and makeup dates for GA athletic events. He also keeps me updated about other school related events I may want to cover for the newspaper. I have witnessed many times Mike putting in extra time and effort to
012support students. Earlier this year, Mike, East Side Boxing Club owner and trainer Curtis Isaac, and the GA school district networkworked to allow Isaac the opportunity to put on an amateur boxing event at GA High School aimed at supporting young people. Mike arrived at the school on a Saturday afternoon to let personnel from East Side Boxing Club into the school to set up the boxing ring and chairs for the event later that night. The event did not get over over until close to 11:00 p.m. Mike remained at the school until almost 1:00 a.m. while boxing organizers took down their equipment. I was also very impressed with the recent kind gesture Mike recommended. Climax Scotts and Gailsburg Augusta play each other in the annual Cross River rivalry game in baseball and softball each year. This year, GA
013was scheduled to host the game because Climax Scots has had to play all of its home games at Bailey Park while Robert Les Junior Field was being renovated as part of the bond project, the CS baseball team faced playing all of their games away for from CS. However, when Mike Woodard learned there was a good possibility CS's newly re renovated baseball field would be available by May 23rd, he suggested the Cross River rivalry game be played at CS instead of at GA, allowing the CS seniors on the baseball team to play their last home game on the new field. These are just a few examples how Mike Woodard goes above and beyond to help students. The GA school district is very fortunate to have Mr. Woodard as an employee and athletic director. Sincerely, Bruce Ro.
014[Applause] Mike, we thank you for going above and beyond always and you too can have your face. Congratulations. Thank you. Where? I don't know where. Thank you. Next up, we have the dream program presentation. [Music] Hi, I'm Brent Tinga and I teach uh kindergarten kindergarten through fifth grade steam at the primary and then of course fifth grade at the uh middle school. So kids are mine from kindergarten all the way through the end grade. All right. So we're here to showcase our dream project. Um um this is I have a big I'm not really that worried about. All right. Um so the kids have been working on these projects the entire second semester in some respects. So, they began working on building model engines. These model engines, some of the kiddos actually got to take
015one home. Actually, two kids from each classroom got to take one build. Um, they actually do work. The fan goes and the belt swirls. And the kids learned about the basic parts of an engine um through this experience. Uh they also got to experience the um the thrill of victory and uh the sadness of the defeat part because we dropped so many little tiny screws on our floor that we couldn't find. Um and we had we dropped them into the oil pans and we were putting things on backwards and we would do quality checks to make sure uh before we went on to keep building to make sure it was correct. So we also had to do a lot of unbuilding and as they made their engines they kept a list of all the different
016things that would go wrong and that led to one of our dream projects that we'll be talking about in a moment. another they also all all four of my classes about almost 100 students um all four classes got to do a a robot build and learn about AI where they actually built a Lego robot that can move and go forward and backwards and again we had to do quality checks to make sure they were built correctly before we could move on every time to make sure that everything was built correctly. Another activity that we got to do was um learning about different types of alternative energy. So we got to do solar energy, wind energy and water energy. Um they got to build with snap circuits using solar cells. They built little engines. They built
017sounds, little sound systems. They built things that made music. And then some of my groups got to pick a little activity to keep in home using a solar cell. So some of them picked um a solar airplane that they built themselves and got to take home and it worked. That one worked with a battery, didn't the little airplane and then they got to build um solar cars that they could pick and take home and I think the other one was a wind powered car, right? So they got to keep those and take them home. And none of these experience would be possible without our partnership with Eden Cummins. The ECJV, the venture group at Eden Cumins provides us with the funding for all of these amazing experiences that we get to do with our all
018of my classes. Actually, these are just highlights from fourth grade classes. Um, but all of those activities funnel into this amazing dream project that we get to do. again is a joint activity with the ECJV. So we partner with them. They kick off this program by going on a field trip and they get to do a scavenger hunt of a whole building. They get to learn about what they do at Eaten Cummins and we have lunch and then eaten presents our fourth graders with a realworld problem to solve. So each of our classes has a different question. We have four classrooms being represented today. Mrs. Jubilee's class, Mr. Web's class, Mrs. Nope's class, and Mrs. Mrs. Meyer's class. Um, and we just picked some of a group from each class to highlight something that they
019got to do with this project. So they are actually going to introduce to you what their problem is that they were going to that they solved for and what they feel would be the perfect way to solve the problem that you presented to us. And then they built a prototype. And the prototypes that they built were of their own creation, their own imagination with very little um help from me. They came up with these ideas and then built a model to represent their ideas. I'm very proud of them. They've done such a good job. All right, with that being said, let's go ahead and start with Miss Julie's group. Go ahead and grab your project, Miss Julie's group. Good job. You guys want me to introduce your team name or do or No, you get
020to do it. You do it your thing, right? Yes, I'm doing your thing. Okay, so guys, you guys, it works. Okay, here we go like this. So, this girl, I made a mistake. They are missing two members of their group tonight. I accidentally left their two projects in my classroom and brought the other two projects with us. I was supposed to bring all four, but it got a little confusing. I'm actually managing about 30 projects right now. And so, grabbing out the five that I was supposed to bring, it got a little confusing right right as we were getting ready to head out. So, their their board presents their question. It presents some solutions that they came up with. They drew some ideas for their prototypes and then they came up with one main prototype
021in a way to represent their ideas to you. So, they actually have a little presentation. You guys may go ahead. Hello, I am Logan and this is Ari. We will be filling in for Adrian and Olivia and we are team blue dancing dream team from Gailsburg Augusta Primary School. We will be we'll be representing the ECU JV we can attract good employees to the company can be solved. We think that voting on different perks, community projects, traveling to different sites and even a Lego day where you can practice with Legos would be the perfect solution. We created the following prototypes to show you our ideas. We thought we could travel to different sites for fun and see good stuff. I thought about voting on different perks like bringing your pet to work or popcorn day.
022I thought we could do community projects like windmill. I thought we could have a Lego day and practice Legos. And that is how we think you should solve the problem of how we could attract ECJV good employees to ECJV. [Applause] I want to explain this because I thought this was such an amazing idea that they had. So together they brainstormed and they thought that wouldn't it be fun because Eaton is a global company all over the world and they thought that having an employee exchange um partnerships all of these global um locations where an employee can work from Gailsburg Augusta or they can go to Europe or they could go and maybe spend a month and learn about how it's the ECJB or Common works in those countries. I just was wowed by that idea.
023So, I thought that was great. Awesome job. Good job, guys. [Applause] All right. Our next group is going to be Mr. Web's group. Ready? Let's put your project right in front. Yes. This is just the brain work that went into the creation in front of you. Hello, I'm Lexi and this is Payton Preston and we are team CRMD from Russo Primary School. We will be presenting our ideas how we can collect and and use natural resources like rainwater, wind power and solar power to lower the amount of energy used at Eden coming that can be solved. We think that you use the p uh pond water to water the grass and put wind turbines at every eaten. You could use you could also put water turbines to make electricity and put solar panels on your
024roof to create energy to power up your your lights. We would we I know would be the perfect perfect solution. We created the following prototypes to show you our ideas. Eaton should use the pond water to save water to water the grass. Eaton should use wind turbines to make energy at every eaten. Every eaten coming should have solar panels on their route to It's okay. What is something you can create with solar energy? Uh, power and energy [Music] ever or should have water turbines. And that's how we think you should you could solve the problem of using natural resources to save energy at every ECGV. [Applause] There you go. So I'd like to point out this is so close. Well, they visited Eye Cummins and so they tried to make a footprint of the actual
025building. Um they recreated the parking lot. They thought the wind turbines could go in the back. They have already a natural pond there and that they could use um a cleaning filtration system to run that water into the company and use it like for flushing toilets and for um like washing the dishes and things like that. So, really nice job. All right, Mrs. No group is next. You can pick up the mic, too. Put your project right in front of it. Okay, right in front of it. There you go. Just pull the mic right out of this. Yeah, [Music] there you go. [Applause] Hello, I'm Eve Copen and we are and we are team the the team of the day Tigers from Augusta Primary School. We are presenting We will be presenting our ideas about
026how to fix an urgent or transmission if it breaks down. the engine solution. We created the following prototypes to show you our ideas. [Music] Hi, I'm Colin and my robot friend goes in the engine. The transmission and takes pictures and scans if anything is wrong and goes back to the other machine and alerts it. If something is Hi, I'm [Music] tells you what went wrong with the springs, gears, or loose bells or it tells you all what what went wrong on the screen. Hi, I'm Eve and I made a part of a machine that tells you if anything is wrong with the fluids. It has little buttons that beep red if something is wrong with the oil, gas, or transmission. [Music] I'm watching [Music] questions and I'll answer [Music] and that is how we think
027you should solve the problem of fixing broken engine and transmission. [Applause] All right, Miss group ready. You're ready. I'm hing. Okay. So we So we we are the team um say it we are team we are team the Debbies. The Debbies and you are I'm Christian. And this is Mrs. I'm not really on his team. I'm just helping because he's here on his own. Um his other teammates are Dariana, EMTT, and Aubrey. um and they will be presenting their ideas about how AI can be used in the workspace. We think that a robot that can that has threads, a safety bumper, a clock, a vacuum, mini robots, and a built-in computer would be the perfect solution. We created the following prototypes to show us show you our idea. All right. The little mini robots on
028the side, which I do believe were Christian's idea. Yes. Will clean, tell time, and are on security alert at all times. The robot is also a computer, and it has a keypad so that it also cleans. It can turn into a safety bunker. It can also store parts and scan/file work. And this is how we think you should solve the problem of adding into the workspace. [Applause] [Music] And those are our four classrooms. Thank you very much. [Applause] Guys, if anybody wants to leave, they can. We don't expect you to stay through the whole meeting, but you guys are also welcome to do that. This is your chance to ride. Enjoy that sunshine. Yes. Thank you. [Applause] [Music] Love the shoes. [Music] Have a good night, hun. Thank you so much, Mike. I'm sorry we
029spelled your name wrong. We'll get it fixed. Yeah, someone will fix that. We'll get it fixed for you. We'll drop it off. Okay. Well, that's deliberate if we need to. I like that. [Music] Okay. Sorry. If I hold it just right. Okay. Next up, we have Gailsburg City Council Tommy Tipskin. Thank you for coming. Even without power. Yeah. There you go, Ty. Maybe it's day number four. Ain't that okay? I know you guys got it rough in there. Um, not much updates from the city. There is a special city council meeting that was just announced today for city cleanup after the tornado. Um, it's only for this cleanup and how hopefully we can get regards. We did get a quote today from one individual. You guys may know him from around town and stuff. It's
030Eric Trombbley. um he has the manpower and the equipment to clean up everything. So, he was supposed to be getting us a quote together to finish up all the uh cleanup. And my hope is that with Kazoo County making it a disaster area, they'll be able to pay for that instead of the city of Gailsburg cuz Josh Reigns who tirelessly has worked um almost 24 hours since the tornado started like round the clock. Um they've been responsible for about every hour every eight hours running generators to get water to our water tower so that everyone has water. Um, I know this afternoon about 4:30, uh, Josh put me on a, um, a call with Lisa McNees, our count, our city clerk, with consumers energy because they're trying to figure out where to put priority and
031we don't have energy because it powers our water and our and our sewer and every place around that area that needs that power has power except there. So with with that though, I mean it seems like everyone in the neighborhood did well. Um there's a lot of kids a lot of people that came and helped clean up the ball field so the kids could get back to baseball this this week. Um their field four, if you're familiar with it, took the hardest hit out of any of them. Um but I know Eric was back there doing a lot of tree clean up today to make it least safe for the kids to be out there playing. Um, I know myself, my wife, my kids, we all cleaned up field one, so at least they could
032play on field one. I hauled like four truckloads full of debris back to the dump just from field one. Um, another parent, Ryan, I forget his last name, but he was out there with the chainsaw cutting it all up and then also loading his truck up. We were pretty pretty busy with the tornado cleanup. I got l we got lucky personally. We only had a limb and now we have no power. Like a pretty big limb, but I mean my wife's windshield got shattered, but our neighbor right next door got a tree on their house. So, um everyone's safe. Yeah. Sounds like nobody got injured in it. Um I know it came really fast. Super fast. Yeah. Like anyone that was in that heard it that night, it was super fast. like my phone went
033off and it went silent and then just a loud wind noise and we booked it to our basement and within I don't know 90 seconds it was pretty much done. Yeah. Then went outside and saw like everything and but as far as I mean that it seems like coming together as community everyone is doing saw a lot of people out helping trying to get stuff cleared up. I mean, that was a big ordeal for our little town, but other than that, there hasn't been much with the city going on. When's the special meeting? It is Wednesday night at 6:00 p.m. They just announced it. I got the phone call this afternoon sometime um from Mayor Marble. She had text me actually. She's like, "Oh, wait. You don't have power. I forgot." So, she text me
034saying seeing if I was available, but I happened to be on vacation this week. Wasn't how I wanted to start my vacation, but you know, doing tornado clean up. But hey, it is what it is. You know, everyone was safe and you know, we lucked out as far as damage. You know, there was probably about five houses that got a quite a bit of damage at least in that area. I'm not sure. It looked like behind Burgess 36th Street, there's a huge wooded section. If any of you seen that drone footage that got a lot of tree damage, but thankfully that was like just wooded area. It looks like can't see you. Do you know? No. Further further down between between here and 36th Street. Yeah. My brain just always go here. So, like I'm
035sure there's like a way for people to like report in if they're struggling with something, but like you know, we know that all our elderly and everybody are taken care of like that. I have not heard that, but I know I did hear from Josh that one of our council members was going around trying to find people that didn't have the means to at least help clear up debris they needed picked up. That's what I was told. I know a couple kids Yeah, I know one one kid in particular and then we found out after we got ours cleaned up that another one was had told mom like, "Did you tell them I'd help him?" But we were already we were already done. But so sounds like everyone's doing a lot better. You know, there's
036still a lot of construction going on. Um we still have not seen a single consumer's truck in our neighborhood. Really? I saw them on the corner. They were there enough to raise the power line off of that was across Maple. pulled a great big one on 36th Street and we haven't seen them since. We still have power lines down in our neighborhood, trees down across roads. Well, yeah. I drove back in there this morning. Oh, and I tried to go like I was trying to go down to Ike Payne, but then I took a left and there's still trees across right past my house. Yeah. The one that's across the road there is there's still a power line in it, so Josh can't clear it. Okay. I wondered. I didn't When I saw it down,
037I was like, that's probably there for a reason. I'm going to just Yep. It's the only one that there's a actual full power line I think through still that they can't touch until consumers ensures there's no power to it. Although I did see a tree company coming through when I was coming here. So maybe that's a good sign. I don't know. Take the bus this morning. No, I took them and dropped them off. Or actually, no, they did not. Mrs. Johansson brought them to school for us cuz we were out of town. Okay. that did say it again. I know families that did if you have a question. I just wanted to feed back. I saw the kids waiting in Harding's parking lot though. Okay. When I was when I left. So, there was at
038least four or five in Harding's parking lot that I saw. We are going to move it on that side of the tracks just so that they're we're taking that variable out. So, it's going to be on Beck and Nor's place. You might want to because I know Cynthia Reigns, I was talking to her. She still is thinking that it's in Hardy's parking lot in the morning and Norm's place. Norm's place in Beck with in the afternoon. I said I think it's going to be Nor's place in Beck with in the morning now too. I just I wanted to be clear about the afternoon and then tomorrow be clear about Okay. just tomorrow what we're doing. So because it may change by Uhhuh. Well, thank you so much. Let us know Wednesday once you guys meet
039and figure out if there's anything that the school district can do to help support. Yeah, for sure. I mean, I saw your message yesterday. appreciate you trying to get like it did make sense for the county to put disaster relief for Gailsburg and Comtock. Yeah. So, we reached out to the DHS just to see if we could host it at the school or whatever. And she said if there's individual needs, let me know, but they weren't able to do it. Okay. Yeah. It's kind of puzzling, but hey. Yeah. Well, at least they know now if and when we need future stuff that we're willing and able to host. Yeah. We're just hoping that with Camu declaring a disaster area, maybe Gailsburg will get more help from the county. This is the hope. Thank you. Thank
040you. Thank you. I see you guys have a turnout like we always get. Um so next up we have the senior events update. You got anything? We've got this week well we had decision day on Friday but we didn't have school so we are changing it to Wednesday their last day right before their clap out and when they're doing their locker cleanout. We're going to make them go down, do their decision day, fun stuff, and then we're going to go um they're going to come here to the library and get their senior t-shirts, right? And then shaving cream galore. Um then next week is senior drive and sunset. And then we there wasn't enough interest for Balor yet, so that got axed. Um so the senior drive is next week. Yes. Next Wednesday. Next Wednesday.
041and then the senior sunset and then Friday gradu all the graduation stuff. So So Friday morning we go um to the primary and the middle school in our gowns. But first of all we start off with senior breakfast. So they just come on in. They bring all their stuff, get themselves settled. We give them an overview of the day. They go do the tour at the primary in the middle with their gowns on. They come back. We make them take their gowns off and then they we practice graduation for a good hour and a half. Get the kinks out. And then um graduation they come back here for 6:00 and Wednesday is their last day. That's all we to Thank you. I'll go right into the superintendent update. Okay. Um so I have a different
042I haven't been printing this out for you guys, but I'll just continue to go over it. So, if we have a strategic plan, I can put this in my weekly update this week, too. Um, it's just an update over a little an update of um the the four goals that we had for this year, for year two. Um, I feel like I've gone over these consistently with you. This is an overview. I'm not going to go into super details, but you guys can see just some of the things that we've done. I think what we're very proud of this year is that the relationships that we've built with staff, um the transparency, which is an overused term, but it's been our goal this year. Um our evaluation process, we sat down in July with the
043GAA, ourselves, and then our evaluator, um Gail, lady that taught us how to do the evaluation stuff. And we came up with a plan of when we were going to evaluate, what that process looked like. and we have we have 2AT been on top of getting in classrooms and having midyear reviews and doing all the things that we're supposed to be doing and so we're very proud of that. Um we've gotten good feedback back from the staff as to it's been a smooth process. Um we've continue I think we're continuing to take that K8 steam and um career work up to the high school. We're working on how to do that continuing into next year with Workforce Wednesdays, but also with more steam stuff. So, we're working on that and continued. Um, and then we
044did a phenomenal job this year with our my kip and our fame. So, those are just two fancy words for how we do school improvement and even reflecting this year. We're gonna take our my kit and we're gonna take our fame process and we're going to put it into one because it is one and we're gonna just have one mode of how we do school improvement. So, just very proud of that work. Um budget um we are going to go I I have a couple things from Kesa budget but Philip went over the budget with the um committee the finance committee if you have anything to share from that shoot but we went over that. We're going to plan on going over that on the June 2nd meeting as well. Um there was pleasantly surprised
045by our spring count numbers. We are at 998. That does include virtual, so there's that funding offset there, but we have a plan for our virtual programming going forward. Um that I'm very hopeful will bring us a financial 10 students. Um so that's exciting. Safety, I I just kept the same thing on there. We're in a standby with safety. It's the same thing. We're just doing what we've been doing. We are going to be um up updating our emergency action plan uh that the state requires by 2026, which we already have in place. It's just going to be new names and things like that for the bond. Um I'm going to talk about it when we get into the agenda, so I'm going to skip it now. Staffing, uh Brandy Smith. So each year the
046GA nominates somebody from the district to be a partner in education. So they do a fancy dinner, and they did that last week, Wednesday, I believe it was. Um, and Brandy Smith was our winner this year. So, when you see her, please make sure that you note and congratulate her. Um, we do have one staff member that we are going to be having a conversation about non-renewal with. Um, I can get you more details off topic, but um, that just giving you that update. We have retirement, which you know of. We have the middle school behavior specialist position opening. Um, we have a ton of applicants because Amber has been a rock star um, with getting things on Indeed, which we're learning. people do that for unemployment for unemployment. So, we got to step through
047those. But the good news is we're getting traction. So, um Amber's got our process which for our hiring platform, another update on here is we are going to move over to Red Rover. We use that for our substitute platform anyway. It's very user friendly. We got zero traction with the last three-year contract that we signed that doesn't work for P school. Um, so we looked at we talked to three different companies over the last three weeks and we're going to go with Red. Nice. Um, is that what they used before Powers School anyway? Front Line. We used Front Line because that's what I wanted to go back to because that's what I knew that worked and so we went and talked to them was very expensive and through that conversation we talked about Red Rover.
048So then we set up a conversation with Red Rover, talked to them and I love that platform and all that it can do. if we actually utilize it how it what it has, we could we could do a lot of things with it. It does have hiring like process down the road, too. So, um evaluation tool for support staff. So, I've heard a couple like, I've never been evaluated in three years. I haven't been evaluated ever. And we've had some conversations about professionalism from just the the the support staff. We need to value. We need to validate. We need to provide feedback. We need to honor our support staff in that process of evaluation. So, I'm going to send out the evaluation tool this spring and ask support staff to reflect on it, provide feedback
049to me and let them know that we're going to roll that out in the fall with um these are your expectations for the year. You'll do have a midyear review and then you'll have your end of the year evaluation and it's around things um just just like professionalism. So, quality of work, attendance, functionality, reliability, communication, school skills, those types of things. So, just so that we're all on the same page. Um, transportation, it's a 12% increase this coming year for our numbers. We did check with our competitors. It's still the lowest one, but I've mentioned a couple times we are still um trying to figure out what our future looks like for busing and transportation. Uh, we are good to go. It's smooth for next year. We are green light with Auxilio. just need to
050financially look at our numbers as it's a huge percentage percentage of our budget. We are still waiting on Auxilio to figure out the bus agreement, bus purchase agreement. They've not given us their wire information to pay them and they've not given us the titles yet. I made it very clear that we were expecting that. They had an issue with their bank. I'm trying to be a good partner right now because they were going to have to take a huge ding on taking those out. So, it's like a 28% ding on them. So, I don't want them to have to go under, right? Like, we need them. So, they were trying to transfer banks. Um, but I told him, I said, "I want you to know that we're backdating this. I'm not paying for any of
051those buses for leasing and then this one's 36 on top of it." He said, "We'll take care of that." So, I wrote that in writing already. So, he's got that expectation. Thank you. Good. Um, facilities. Um, we're continuing to monitor the needs in district. I think we're all very aware based off of our um in our infrastructure assessment and then having elite and our architect walk around and look at our facilities coming up with a plan on what we need to do um for potential bond work and or putting money aside for our capital projects. One of the things I when Philip gets back from his wedding, his kids wedding, I really want to talk to him about how do we take some of our current contingency funds if possible to put away for our
052turf for the future. And if not, then what does that look like? What is that process? Well, we're going to need it in 10 year, 10, 14 years, so might as well put it away now. Can I ask a quick question? Did somebody scope out what damage the building got from the tornado, too? Cuz I did notice stuff on the ground. So, yes, Mr. Frank Couch uh was here on Saturday walking around and we had somebody on site today that was looking at the damage. She's we've actually had a couple wind storms that we haven't, you know, not been huge damage, but Frank reports it every single time to make sure that we um are getting those um insurance claims taken care of. Thanks. Athletic update. We are going to be in a partnership with
053Kazoo United for hockey. Um we have Blake um Jen Blake's son Colton's um going to be playing hockey for Kazoo United. That is going to be I'm informing you now. There's some fancy paperwork that's going to be filled out by Lorie Nors that we will bring here and we'll approve it and and just be part of that partnership. So, how does that go? Like could other kids like if since we have that partnership now, could other students participate in that or Yes, I think that they have to try out and like make it and stuff. There's still that process. But yes, they they have that option. So, it is very awesome to know that G will have hockey in its future. Yeah. Okay. Um, others, so I'll try to go quick with this, but senior
054day, we already talked about we're moving the walk to school event to the 22nd, which is what day? Thursday. Walk to school. Not walk-athon. Walkathon's tomorrow. Um, graduation events we already talked about. We have our end of the year celebration. We're going to do it a little different this year. We need a big different feel at the end of this school year. So, we're going to actually rent out the venue in town and we're going to have um seating there and bring we're going to have Chartwell's cater lunch over there, taco bar or whatever. And then we're going to just do a quick little celebration, honor our people, and then celebrate summer. And that's on the last day. That is on May June 9th. It's a Monday. We're doing it that afternoon. We're doing it
055that afternoon and then they can have a Tuesday after they're already checked off. Uh I have some um intentional dates on the calendar with each principal for summer planning for the next school year so that we're mapping out the year trying to get away from conflicts and whatnot. So that's exciting. That's coming up. Um for our senior trip, we had I don't know Laura if you want to do a little update when we do the comments or whatever. Um but heard great things. Heard the kids had a great time. Um, I heard that whitewater acting was the most fun thing that was out there, the best part. Um, we are going to be doing some talking around just future planning. What What is the role of the district? What's the role of the adviserss as
056we go? So, I think we have a meeting in June that we're going to figure out that that planning going forward. And then we have our big event, which I'm super nervous about, but also super excited, our ramping up event. We're going to bring all the kids to the track and have them ramp up into the next school year. I think our kindergarten teachers are the most fearful of that day. But I asked Sean's going to meet with them and just say, "Okay, what are your wonders and worries?" And let's get those out of the way so we can actually enjoy the event. So, um, are you guys all able to come? Do you know? I'm on day by day lately, but I What day this again? I'm sorry. Let me just say at 10:30
057a.m. That probably shouldn't be a problem. I have too many days off already because of all the senior stuff. And then it's going to be the picnic, like the parent picnic afterwards. I'm not sure how that's going to look. Um, we're going to keep it lowkey, but I will put an end time on it once I see and assess how fast we're getting through things. All right, that's my update. Sorry. My hair. So, I need to get us amazing shirts for that day. So, you try to be there. I can be there for What What time does the start? 10:30. 10:30. 10:30. Can you move it out to 10? Be a lot better for Christie. just change because I'm mad so much. No, I can be there 10:30 to 11. Um, 10:30 is a while.
058Can you write a letter to my dayare family just saying the importance of eating can't you bring them? I was going to say like that'd be really special. That's my kids. I have an infant and a one-year-old. I'm You might have saw that. You know what? trailer. Oh, sorry. Oh, you didn't need a home. I'm just picking something here. Okay. Um, the Spring Institute update is me. So, I went, it was at Menel Island. It was a really nice venue. Um, very cold, but the keynote speaker was about AI and um, he showed us some different platforms um, for school, for teachers and students. And my main takeaway from that, I talked to Lindsay about it a little bit, was basically like the longer you wait to have a conversation of what you're doing in
059the district, the farther behind you are. Um, and then I went to a class on um communicating effectively in difficult times. Bragged about our superintendent and like addressing stuff on Facebook. And then um capital planning for um our district trying to make connections um with a guy that taught that class and other people on their project. Um I did run our timeline for the bond by him and he said yeah it's very doable. Um we just need to to see what our community if they're like yays or nays. Um that's it. Then next up we have business items for decision. The kesa um discussion. Oh, I was d we already did this but we did um and then um election was there. We don't really discuss it again probably other than we're just sending me
060just sending you and then um the resolution that will um the second resolution. Um, we just need to name the two candidates that you'll be voting for on behalf of the district. There's two seats open, but there's only two candidates. Okay. Okay. Okay. So, then we'll skip down to files 2025 2026. Um, the well, the general fund budget narrative and resolution 2. That's just um Sorry. No, that's okay. I just went Philip asked me to speak on it for he's at his kids' wedding right now out in Oregon. So, um, the ISD, it's just part of the compliance. They bring it by a million and 10 boards. It came by us earlier today at the superintendent group. So, it comes in front of you. Um, if you like it, it's good. If you don't like
061it, it still holds. So, um, it's just the K reason budget. So, if there are any questions though and you do review it and you want me to get answers to it, I can get those for you next week by Philip. If it's this week, I can get it from Scott Thompson at I just saw Carrie said that it was the same. So char renewal um so we have to do a resolution um for approval for that and we the fees increasing 3.1% which is just regular inflation type it goes towards management things like that not so much the pricing of the food which was confusing to me but that's what he told me um so yeah just every year going through the chart did they discuss the food and amounts and all those things
062like the high schoolers concerns that really isn't part of that conversation. That'll be more when Phil David and I meet this summer and I'll just give him feedback as to okay do we know why we had less portions this year or did we you know having that reflection conversation. Okay. So not at renewal time. Okay. He's come to me and I said I got to wait till June buddy. I got to wait till June. So we'll we'll we'll talk in June. Okay. Um the course offerings intro to drone technology and flight. That seemed amazing when she came here and explained it to us. Does anybody have any questions? The information back was wonderful. Yeah, we are having a hard time kids signing up for it, but we didn't want to let it go. So, we
063want to get it approved so that that way we could maybe do a fun Friday and do something like that so that maybe even second semester we could put something into place and she would I know some grown men that would want to take who you get to sign up or do like kids will follow. You're so hard to drive or fly or whatever. Who would learn that in that class? Right. I'm afraid to touch ours. I'll crush it. um scope of bond and treasury timeline. So I myself and Frank had lunch with um Tower Pinkster, Sean from Tower Pinkster last week and we just kind of reflected a little bit on how mediation went and then we had some conversation about future scope of things and um he thought well since a couple of
064the area school bonds didn't pass and they were getting new dates to go back to Treasury um to see if we could get a date push back. I had two thoughts. I'm like, "Yeah, let's do it. Whatever you guys need." And then the other thought, I talked to Phil Clark, our true lawyer. He's like, "That's their job, Lindsay." Like, their job is to meet those timelines and to, you know, to get the work done. So, respectfully, we're going to just push our construction management and architects to get those number. We know what needs to be done. There's nothing fancy here. It is easy work. Easy work. Um, so we're going to stick with the June 12th deadline mostly too because we need to be able to have follow our board meeting dates and in the
065summertime I didn't want to try to have extra special meetings and things of that nature. So sticking with us being the service that we want and they can do that work that we're paying for. So what do we have to um what are we doing or should we be doing now to engage the community so that they know it's up there and we can see if we might be able to have it. Right now, what we need to do is we need to get the numbers from Jim and Sean and then we need to have conversation of how we're how we want to a talk to our board about it and then also then talk to our community about what the possible possibilities are. I'm planning on um Parchment did a little blurb in the
066newspaper or somebody did a blurb on Parchment in the newspaper about their bond project and I reading it was very user friendly and so I took a snapshot of that. I'd like to try to create what our numbers are in that and put that in our newsletter for June and then maybe even take a snippet out of there and just say, "Hey, we're going to Treasury tomorrow. These are some of the things and just kind of saying the main but Sean's supposed to be leading us in that too." So, I just need to once he gets his number stuff ready, then we can talk about how we engage. So, should we not be doing like community forums and stuff until after we vote to put it on the ballot? Once we get approval in there.
067Yes. Correct. Yep. I trust me I'm I'm a three-month out planner and so this is eating me up to like wait but we have this is a process. Gotcha. So just a little bit more of a timeline. So June 12th is when we meet with treasury. Um June 16th is our board meeting and then July 21st is our other board meeting where it'll come to you guys for approval process. And then August tw and fixing up of our PQ. And then August 12th we got to get it to the put it on the ballot. So that's the timeline. It is here. Any questions? But lot of conversation. I mean, I think we're very very aware of the needs of the district. It's just going to be trying to trying to share that message of what
068our priorities are and what they haven't been and what they need to be and how they are going to be going forward. Full disclosure. So yeah. Okay. Um, next up we have um the MASB um diamond anniversary give back form. So Amber is super on top of making sure that you guys are getting or that the district's getting reimbured for any classes that we've taken. So Mazby sent out a $750 basically gift certificate. And so Amber's gone through and any of the courses that we've taken she's submitted for reimbursement. Am I right? Or well that I've I've done that for MDE. Um, this is their 7 MASB 75th anniversary. Um, so I I think what happened is at the beginning of the year, they sent this form out to school districts and you were supposed
069to determine how you wanted to spend this money. Um, that wasn't done. So, I had to go through transcripts to see what you've actually taken and what qualifies for that 750. So, you're going back to file. So, how we find something? So, this is all the stuff above and beyond the classes that we took and got credit back. She went through and sorted all the ones that back and I think we're good. I just kind of wanted your eyes on it in case I missed anything. Just have a backup, you know, in case something didn't qualify. Um but um with your spring institute ticket, Jessica, that qualifies for $250 reimbursement. And then Sarah um went to the um annual leadership conference and pre-conference, which is another 375 and another 200, which brings us up to
070825. So, you should qualify um for leadership conference. Was that the one in Yep. back in October? Yeah, I went to that one, too. I don't know if that sound like I did, too. You did, too. That was fun. Thank you for paying attention and noticing. I did. I appreciate that. Oh, what was that? It was Laura. You guys, she got you. I had We had to call him to do the thing. Filter first. Filter First. So, Frank got the grant for I believe it was $95,000 or $92,000 for um fixing up our filter first stuff, which is a directive from the state. So, we got bids. We had two bids. One came in for 90 plus 90 plus,000. and the other came in for 55 I believe um $1,000. And so what we need
071to do is we've got our when I use the right word. Is it contract Amber? Is that what I'm saying? Yeah. We've got our contract that we want to sign with uh Maul City and and we're kind of on a timeline before May 26 is how good this offer stands for. So because they're so significantly different, we kind of want to lock in with M City. But the advice given to us from Trude to take the indemnity clause out and the have pay and do a 50% down purchase order. Okay. So, we're asking you guys to I'll read exactly what Frank said, requesting bond approval to contract with Maul City for the work under the condition that they provide the revised proposal, which is the two things I just mentioned. And then we're requesting to
072lock this in today so that we can get that fee as is and it doesn't increase for us. Cool. Any questions? Um, communications. I don't you have anything? No, you're our only You're our only person. I see the crowd. So, um, next up we have close session. I would entertain um we need to vote meet in close session under section H1 81H of the open meetings act MCL 15.2681H um for a term client privilege communication. I would entertain a motion. I'll make a motion to go into a closed closed session under the 81H 881H of the open meetings act to consider a letter from its attorney dated May. Oh. Uh, consider a letter from its attorney dated May 14, 2025 as the letter is exempt from disclosure under state law due to the attorney client
073privilege. You're good as well. I'll support. Um, roll call vote, please. Corsy, yes. Shuke, yes. Yes. Yes. Motion carries 4. We'll go into close session in one election resolution designated district electoral body representation and first ballot candidate choice. Who we picking? Where's our people that we have to pick? It's David Webster or James DeS. So they just is one need a priority over other or just go boom. They're both There's only two seats and two candidates and they're the same seat. No, they're two separate seats. Is that the same role? Trustees. Yes, that's what I'm wondering. Like one's not a vice president versus [Applause] that was we already did this one. We did in the special meeting. We did just the Yeah, but that was Yeah. So, I would entertain a motion. I don't have
074here. Read mine. It's okay. I'll be happy to knock out real quick. Thank you so much. Motion to approve the designation of Oh, wait. I know. We already did that. I'm sorry. Motion to approve the designation of Lindsay Newton as representative of this board to the electoral body. Which body will elect two candidates to the vacancies on the ISD board on Monday, June 2nd, 2025 and Jessica Emerstein as an alternate in the event the designated representative is unable to attend. The designated and alternate are further directed to cast a vote on at least the first ballot on behalf of this board for David Webster and James Divers. I'll support. Thanks. Um, I'm tired. Roll call vote, please. Shoe, yes. Wilks, yes. Yes. Yes. Motion carries. 4 Z. Um, next up, we have the Ka 2025
0752026 general fund budget resolution. I would entertain a motion. Motion. I support. I'm recommending the motion to the IST general education fund budget for the 2025 2026 school year to be supported for the reasons of reasons is just if you disapprove. Okay. And that the secretary is hereby directed to submit a copy of this resolution to the secretary of ISD board of education. Any further discussion? Okay. Roll call vote, please. Oh, thank you. Corsy, yes. Shute, yes. Neighborstein, yes. Motion carries. Um, the approval of Chartwell's 2025 2026 renewal. I would entertain a motion. Make a motion to approve the renewal of Chartwell's contract for the 2025 2026 school year. I'll support. Um, any further discussion? Roll call vote, please. Shupe, yes. Wilks, yes. Corsy, yes. Istein, yes. Motion carries 4 Z. Next up, we have
076the adoption um of the intro to dr dr dr dr dr dr dr dr dr dr dr dr dr dr dr dr dr dr dr dr dr dr dr dr dr dr dr drone technology and flight class. Motion to approve the new high school course intro to drone technology and flight as presented. I'll support um roll call vote, please. Wils, yes. Shute, yes. Horsey, yes. Bieberstein. Yes. Motion carries 4 Z. [Applause] Um, mediation, settlement agreement, and mutual release. I would entertain a motion. A motion that the board approve the settlement agreement and mutual release as presented in relation to the construction dispute with Honor. Any further discussion? Roll call vote, please. Shupe, yes. Corsy, yes. Wilks, you motion yes. Iberstein, yes. Um motion carries 4 Z. Um filter for M City Mechanical. I would entertain
077a motion. A motion to approve the $55,289 contract with M City Mechanical under the condition that they provide a revised proposal accepting a purchase order in L of 50% down and remove the indemnity. I'll support. Any further discussion? Roll call vote, please. Shupe, yes. Corsy, yes. Wils, David, uh, sorry, Eurstein, yes. Who's here? Motion carries 4 Z. Um, next up, we have close session um to go into the superintendent midyear evaluation and negotiations. I will entertain a motion. I'll make a motion present to close session under sections 8A and 8 C of the open meetings act for the purpose of superintendent evaluation and negotiations. Um I'll support roll call vote please. Chup. Yes. Wils. Yes. Corsy. Yes. Yes. Motion carries 40. We'll enter into close session at 7:15.