001call to order. >> Yes. Ben >> here. >> Connie >> Here >> Sarah >> here. >> Mr. Collins >> here. Troy introduction visitors >> perfect. Thank you guys. A motion for approval of the agenda. >> Motion to second. >> Second by Sarah. All in favor say I. >> I. >> All motion carries. positive recognition. >> I can't remember if I shared this last time, but it's worth sharing again just our custodial staff. Um, it's done a great job and with some of the water damage that we had, specifically Chris Lynch and Brian Strand just had to do it again and did a good job. And my god, they're back there works I don't know 70 I don't want to insult you, 70 hours a week helping get everything done. So just they've done a great
002job again. >> Awesome. >> Uh thank you Dr. Andrew Brandt. Series of books to the library with a $50 value. Just 10239. Clothing commission for the vise memorial fund. St. Clair fire department 500 for the speech meeting hospitality room. And the Slair Bank 24216 for the student council donuts and juice for the last day of school. >> Awesome. All right. Any other positive recognition from the board? All right. Unfinished business. Moving on to new business. Have a motion to consider the consent agenda as presented in the board. >> Motion by Karen. Second. >> Second by Nick. >> All in favor say I. I. >> All opposed. Motion carries. All in favor? Moving down resignations. So including supporting documentations are the resignations of Savannah Woody, Ernie Police, Nicole Jens, and Danielle Tlo. Have a motion to
003accept the resations of these four individuals. >> I'll make that motion. Thanks for their service. >> Motion from Connie. Do I have a second? >> I'll second. >> Second by Sarah. Any discussion on that? All right. All in favor say I. >> I. >> All opposed. Motion carries. All in favor. We have the appointment in your sporting documentation of Christopher Schmidt for the custodial position is open. Discussion on. >> Uh yeah, just letting you know that one of the two people that we just accepted the resignations, uh he will be um filling that one. and that's for the uh evening shift part-time right now because he's also committed to his previous job and wants to honor, you know, his commitment to them. So, he'll slowly transition to us and then we've posted for the uh
004what would be the daytime position from about 6:00 till till 1:30. So, we're recommending approval. >> What's the transition plan look like? >> Just he has to he can only work four hours a day beginning until he finishes up his commitment to another job. All right. Uh motion. >> No, not yet. >> I'll make a motion. >> Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> Second. Second by Karen. All in favor say I. >> I. >> All opposed. Motion carries. All in favor. Next we have request for f leave by Samantha >> Bish. Thank you. uh from September 24th to December 16th on her upcoming child. Discussion on that. Get a motion to approve Samantha's leave. >> Motion by Karen. Second. >> I'll second. >> Second by Connie. All in favor say I. >> All opposed. Motion
005carries. All in favor. School day beginning and end time. So for the 25 2026 school year, the school day for K through 12 students will begin at 8:05 a.m. and end at 2:55 p.m. Slight change reflects the removal of the high school's mid morning break, allowing us to adjust the end of the day according >> just at our summer um retrief work session uh both I Nine and Troy had recommended going this direction. We also looked at other school districts. They definitely have the same number of minutes in the in the day. Um brings brings balance to our high school classes um and meet all the requirements. So we are recommending it. >> And while it doesn't completely negate early outs for activities, especially in spring, it does change the time period of when the
006kids are getting out and at what point in the lesson that might be. Um some of those ones where it's just a few minutes letting them out early doesn't have to be now so they can catch a bus. >> And so there's no instructional time that's taken away with this. Correct. >> No, not at the high school level. >> Perfect. All right. A motion to approve this change to the school in >> motion by Sarah and a second. >> Second by Mick. All in favor say I. I. >> All opposed. Motion carries. All in favor? Next in your supporting documentation is the fall 2025 schedule of extracurricular advisors and athletic coaches. Any discussion on this? >> No, just that anybody who's new, we do do the background checks as we said in our cooperative agreements
007that we would do. >> One question I had on the uh soccer coaches were those ours or those other schools as we talked about before. We will be >> Yep. >> We have had an agreement with with those school districts. So, we will be getting theirs as well. >> All right. Do I have a motion to approve the fall 2025 schedule of advisors and coaches as presented? >> I'll make that motion. >> Connie made a motion. Do I have a second? >> Second by Karen. All in favor say I. >> I. >> All opposed. Motion carries. All in favor? Uh And this supporting documentation is the building lease agreement for the CCD building uh to house the preschool kids connection programs discussion. >> Yeah, we uh we've had a lease agreement um with the church
008for about four to five years now. So it was coming um forward and father and I just picked three years. We could have picked five years because within the lease agreement either party can break it after 90 days with written notice and justification. um they have been so generous to us and they are paying the utilities. So that the dollar amount that you see per month, we do not pay the utilities, they pay the heat, they pay the electricity. So um definitely been a great working relationship with them and I'm highly recommending the lease agreement. We will because we don't pay the electricity and heat, we will be able to do it under a lease levy if we want to. So the revenue we could get through the lease levy taxes if we want to
009for this hour and that's something that I'll be talking to you about at a work session whether we want to do that or not. >> All right. With that in mind, do I have a motion to approve a three-year lease agreement? >> Motion by Mick. Do I have a second? >> Second. All in favor say I. >> I. >> All opposed. Motion carries. All in favor? Next we have the palm prom contract with the barn at Ballard Creek. Any discussion on this? >> Just we had a a site and then unfortunately it had to change. So we're happy that we were able to work something out. Um we've been out there before and it'll be a great venue. And one of the goals was to get the date a little earlier. Last year's prom being
010second weekend in May, especially for the seniors, parents already trying to plan grad parties. It was just one too many things on top of each other. Then if you're in activities, it just we didn't need to stick to the last weekend in April or the first weekend in May. >> That's a great event space. So that'll be a good one. >> Do a motion to approve the 26 contract 26 contract. >> I will make that motion. All right, Connie made a motion to a second. >> I'll second. >> Second by Sarah. All in favor say I. >> I. >> All opposed. Motion carries. All in favor. Uh, next we have review of food services prices. So, student meals will be free for the 2025 2026 school year through the Minnesota free schools meals program. Each
011year NDE sets the minimum prices that we need to charge for our adult meals and second student meals to ensure they are not sub subsidized by state and federal funds. We are unable to recommend pricing for second student meals and adult pricing as we have not received this information regarding changes to the 2025 2026 school year. This is information should be available by the next board meeting. So there's no action to take here at this time. Uh next uh we have a school board vacancy. Uh St. Clair School District is opening its current vacant school board position to all eligible residents of the district. Uh the application process will be a submission period uh which where interested residents should submit a letter of interest between August 19th and September 12th of 2025. In the submission,
012the letter should be emailed to myself outlining the reasons for wanting to be considered the open school board seat. the review process. The school board committee will review the submitted letters, evaluate the candidates, and present a recommended candidate to the full board school board at the September regular meeting. Again, uh for all submissions or requests for information, you can email that directly to me at the stoveclones.org. Do I have a motion to accept this path forward for the school board vacancy? Karen made a motion. We have a second. >> I'll second it. >> Second by Connie. All in favor say I. >> I. All opposed. >> Motion carries. All in favor? We have the first reading of four new four policies. Uh 413 harassments and violence policy which is just an annual review. 414 report
013child neglect and abuse annual review. 415 report maltreat report malreat vulnerable adults annual review 522 student sex discrimination another annual review with that we'll move to the elementary principal report. >> All right we finished up our summer school program. We had 66 students that were served through that program this year. Um and there was a lot of growth. We have the kids all do pre and post test so that we can see how much learning happens and we're very pleased with the results. And I just like to thank the teaching staff who took time out of their summers to work with that program. Our summer library program continues to be well accessed by the community. Um so far 708 books have been checked out. Um it's a little bit down from last year simply because
014we haven't been open as many days because like June 19th happened to fall on one of the days when they would normally be open. There was were um times when they have to close because they were prepping orders and doing things like that. So we didn't have access. So um given the amount of time that she's been open, it's a lot of books. And I do want to thank the school board for that because last summer that was paid for through ESR dollars and you as a board made the choice that we wanted to continue that even though the disc was continued and it is a very wonderful service for the community. Thank you. >> How many books did we do last year? >> I would have to I don't remember off the top of
015my head and she still has a few weeks left. >> Um class assignments have gone out to families. Uh the email to sign up for a orientation conference with your elementary teachers went out this morning. So um everyone that is just getting really excited to meet the teachers and get started with the school year, all that information is there for you. Uh and that leads us to our elementary back to school bash which will be coming up next Wednesday, August 27th from 6:00 to 8. And that is completely sponsored by the PTO. They've taken that over and made it into a much more exciting party than I could ever make. So again, we appreciate all the time and effort that those folks have put into this. >> Any questions for N? >> I guess the
016only thing I have is do they have an alternate place for inclement weather? >> It'll be inside. I'm not exactly sure what gym space or whatever they'll use because I know that >> it just says on the athletic complex is that the >> Yeah. So, it'll be out more toward the baseball fields because that's on the track. >> But I know it's the same night as the high school open house. So, we'll just we'll be creative with space and we'll make it work because that's >> a big bash. >> We figure things out. >> K through 12 bash. >> Y So, I know we talked earlier in the summer about the summer learnings program and that we had to turn away a few. >> We get a good idea for how many we ended up
017having to turn away. Do we know? >> There were about eight students that we ended up turning. >> Just for clarification, is this the one where you get the dump tank by the way? >> Not this year. I was just I was just nervous K12 here. There's going to be a group of high school kids lining up. I know >> they decided not to do the duct tank every year because they felt that I >> nice. >> All right, moving on with the high school. >> Yeah, I apologize for N's tardiness to the meeting. That was my fault. We during a conversation about some personnel things and I got longwinded. Shocker. Moving on. Um, what students have all been waiting for, especially juniors and seniors, uh, blended language updates. So, we had talked quite a
018bit throughout the year about changes to blended learning based on parent feedback, student feedback, and teacher feedback. Um, the MCA data unfortunately for science will not be in by the time school starts. So, that piece by the end of September. However, two additions to the criteria and they pretty self-explanatory if you ask me. Um, a student cannot receive blended learning privileges if they are on attendance probation as well as they cannot have a Minnesota State High School chemical violation bylaw 205 or code of conduct violation bylaw 206 during that grading period and receive blended. So essentially while you're serving a penalty for something like that, you should not out of the school as a privilege during those days. Um that's going to impact very few students, but it's more of another reason for students not
019to partake in those things. And as we look at um artificial intelligence and students being more encouraged to cheat, um last year we started where with every single plagiarism issue we had, students received a code of conduct penalty. So trying to incentivize do your own work, do it well, be proud of your own work. If you want a perk like blend and learn >> questions on that. >> So to be clear, they're just out for the length of >> the length of the period. Correct. >> Not for the whole >> Nope. So if you're serving a twoe code of conduct penalty for those two weeks, >> you're back in in the seat. Um I'd be inclined to say it could be longer, but it's a starting point. Um next big thing, um 7 through 12
020enrollment. Last year at this time we were at 399. We are currently at 411 um 7 through 12 with a possibility of five more files that Sherry has sitting for prospective students. Um right now that's 11 new um from the end of the school year. So you always add drop a few over the summer. Um but believe it or not, we're not seeing it where it's just the growth in ninth grade. They are as na mentioned previously. are coming earlier um where we have three more in seventh grade that came over this year um from Mano um so as we look for that um it's a good thing it really is other schools I know are struggling for enrollment and St. is continuing to grow. Uh, and we do have another foreign exchange student joining
021us this year from uh, Germany. So, that's exciting. >> Questions on enrollment. >> That's net 11 from last year. >> That yes, correct. Yep. My last one is we have the back to school bash as Nen said on August 27th, 3:30 to 7:30. Um, not not quite as many um, attractions. You know, last year I was the main attraction's new principal, but uh that was a joke. He addressed that. But still an opportunity. The building's going to be open. With the way we've had construction things going on, it's another opportunity for the community to come in, get a tour of the building, familiar with the classrooms, meet teachers, administrators, support staff, um discover a lot of the student organizations, trying to get them there, saying what they do, how they're present in the building, encouraging
022students to get involved. Um, my goal I set for the student council was to try to make sure that every student, so all 411 students we have this year get involved in one activity or another. So that's kind of my challenge to them. So they're hearing it now officially. So the challenge is on and then there'll be fun prizes sponsored by the PTO. So it should be a good night. Um, no dunk tank with elementary principal though. So that's all I have. alternate elementary, high school, and >> I I'll be nice on that one. I have a few comments in my head, but obviously >> I just expect you to come back and say we do a three-year rotation. >> I want the board chair. >> Yeah, there you go. >> All right, on that
023note, moving on to superintendent report. >> Um, just a few updates again on facility projects. The track project is as you're all aware, coming along uh amazingly with all the rain that uh we've experienced tomorrow. Century Fence will be coming. Centry Fence is we'll start doing the track project also. Um we're putting fence around our varsity softball field as well. also will be working on that project um as well with the intention then and the hope to uh put the polyurethane on around the first week in September. Um and again, a lot of that ties into the the temperature that that we all know September was the plan for that. >> Yep. The first right after the they're hoping right after the first two football games because then there's a two two away game. So,
024they're hoping to come in there make sure that people are off of it for a while and go from there. >> Do we know how long it needs to set up? >> Well, I think it's 30 days. >> Yeah. I'm not >> as poly has to set up for a long >> Yeah. >> Well, yeah, it just has to be installed. >> Okay. >> Sorry. What's that? Do we have a plan to make sure that everybody's communicated not to get bikes on there that any wheels will >> and maybe I'm just saying it more for everybody watching at home, right? >> And it's a good way to say that. >> So I think on the first day of school there'll be a loud announcement coming over the speaker system from me. >> And I believe
025that uh this year is going to be have some signage that will be on the fences. >> Yeah. And the gates aren't going to be. >> And we'll do it in New We'll do it at E- News as well. >> Definitely anything with wheels. >> It's not a good thing. >> We'll destroy the track. >> The theater booth has been uh constructed. Uh Mike now is in the middle of finetuning it. Um but that's very nice to see it turned out right as Mike and I had envisioned that would would turn out. that's going to be a great asset to a program that continues to grow at St. Clair and continues to have um tremendous involvement. Uh former playground area will look to get seated well now with the rain hopefully by the end of
026this week or the beginning of the next week and then we're going to also ask them to seat around the track area at the same time. Um I should mention that I I forgot to mention this but at the beginning I should also give a posit to the athletic backers. They purchased a 12 by 44 foot long building that got brought in today. It's a concession stand in storage right between the baseball uh and the softball field. That's going to be a a great addition. Also want to give a shout out to Matt Lynch. He's been in once. He's going to be coming in again. He helped us move the sheds that our high school construction math class built a year ago. We moved one of them next to the baseball softball practice field and
027then this upcoming week he's going to come back in and help us move the other one on to the track area where we can then store batons and hurdles and um some of those things too. So, uh positive recognition to others that have given to our athletic complex. Um, we have a AI presentation coming on August 27th to uh all of our staff. Uh, you as board members are more than welcome to attend as well. It's from 10:30 till noon. Uh, this gentleman is uh gentleman. He's like a kid to me. He's 23 years old. But uh um I and Wendy Wellman have seen seen him. I don't know they needed you saw him as well. Six schools in the area are bringing them in. GP, uh, Austin, Richland, Hartman, um, Maple River, uh, Cleveland,
028we're all bringing them in. And, uh, of course, in a 90-minute presentation, the core of it is to make it user friendly for our our teachers and then also to educate them on this can be a really positive thing for our students too, to use AI in appropriate way. um even myself student handbook. Uh you could insert the entire student handbook and ask AI to rewrite it for you. It's really um something that's out of my comfort zone, but it's definitely the direction that we're going. So, you're more than welcome to attend. There will be what I call active users and there'll be non-active users. Um if you came, you'd be a non-active. You'd come and sit next to a teacher and you'd listen and you'd watch as they're entering and they're changing and they're
029they're adjusting. Our paras will be doing the the same. Um all of our teachers, all of our secretaries, our kids connection, our preschool, they'll be they'll be the active active users. So feel free to come in if you want uh on that day. Have >> we thought about opening that up like student council? Will there be any interest in some of the leaders in the school or is that >> I I did uh reach out to like I walked to the bank and said they want to send somebody over. Um I walked out to a few other businesses that I knew. I didn't know who to reach out to. But um definitely if you know somebody that would have an interest um have them come in. He's going to gear it more towards like like
030education, but >> you're able to cross it over and what you might do in your in your I've I've told him that if he could stay for the last five or 10 minutes and talk to business people a little bit on how they might might use it as well. >> And Ben, to your point, my hope would be that after as a staff we hear it, we we're going to embrace it in the classroom and we're going to use it tastefully to where we can teach the kids when's a good time to use when it's not what's you know appropriate and I think that would be the time that kind of a teach the teacher mode makes sense. >> Where's that going to be held in >> uh west conference? >> I just want to
031let you know that um we had in a a lift a week ago. The safety speakers and cameras are now up on the new playground on the post. so that if we announce uh whether it be a soft lockdown or we'll make any announcements. Um hopefully you're going to be able to hear it out there again. Um thanks to Mike for saving this district money and getting up in the Did you get up in the lift? No, >> you didn't have to talk out there. I know >> he was ground control. But then we also um as we talked about some of our I went to the city council. We had a really good meeting just talking about some of the potential safety school zone improvements. We did use the lift to uh trim a
032tree on Agency Street. We did that about a week ago, too. So, you can see signage. Um and so, we're going to slowly keep moving with the city council and the county. Um the county now as they get involved, I'm not bashing on them, but it'll be a little bit slower because they have more steps to go through than we do. Um but both the county and the city are very positive saying yes whatever we need to do to um try and get more safety we'll look to do it. Uh this Thursday we're bringing in CPR and first aid training. Uh statute requires now that anybody working in a after school uh age care. So whether they sub in there whether they're a high school student working there has to have at least a minimum
033of two hours of CPR. So we're bringing in training, the full the full one training to probably about 10 individuals. Um, some of our nighttime custodians, AD, coaches, uh, preschool, kids connection, and then the high school students will only have to stay there for the first two hours. They can stay for the full full four hours. And then, um, Nicole Ruland reached out to me, too. I don't think she mind me mentioning her name, but she's she's certified as well. Also, as we continue to move forward and have new people come on that we believe need to have the training, we can have her do the training right on right on site or if we hire a high school kid or somebody new to kids connection or the preschool, we can do that then in
034January, February. And that'll be happening this Thursday in the West Commons from 12:30 till 4:30. Uh, and then we're just we are still focusing on the two main entrances. It just takes a long time to get estimates back on some of the signage. Um, but we are we're we're slowly going to get there. It's not going to be at the quote that we saw five months ago, but there still are some things that we're we're looking at doing there and excited to start another school year. >> Okay. courts, >> city council. Um, >> well, they I see all the signs. They started a lot of the construction stuff already and the post office be hard to get to, but they would always be open. People might have to come way around from the north side
035in, but uh they're working at that. Um, and their loan for their fire truck has been approved. Um they uh doing some long-term uh funding for that and that's been approved. And uh just a lot of Vernon Center school, the old school is opening up a shooting range over there. So I'm not sure if that'll be accessible to all the and all students or what, but there's such an interest in us so that they're doing that. And that was kind of pretty much it as far as anything that I guess could share. Tim shared that we had a good meeting about the safety zone areas and stuff and the city council was gracious and met early so that Tim came and present them. They had pictures and that has picture pictures to now so he
036kind of knows the areas that we're talking about. So that's moving forward really positive and thanks to the student city council for being on board and gung keep our kids safe. >> So what's the deal with the road? I thought main street supposed to be closed for the last two weeks. >> Okay. So the deal is shallow. They're working on it. That's all I can tell you right now. Supposedly they're going to come in the post office street. They're supposed to start that. We got a second crew coming. They're the way I understood it is they're going to go from the post office entrance work to the bridge. Get that done. When they get that done, then they're going to go see the post office. You have to go around from there rest of the
037way up the main street. But we've been told. Okay. Um so when you come to the intersection, have you noticed the nice culvers that are still sitting here? We've been on them for the last since they put them there to get them moved and they ain't moved yet. So I don't know what's going on with that and uh it hit a few water lines already and uh they're down put in the new pole. Bill said the water lines right here. Well, they found it when they bought the aug. There was copper on there. fix that. And uh it's coming along and I don't know what's all going to happen beyond it. But uh so I got one thing to ask Tim and I you talked about when people park out in front of the school
038and when they leave. I'm coming in town tonight. There's this guy. I'm right beside him. He starts to turn to make a U go back out the other. I'm thinking there's already enough stuff here. You know what I mean? So these people have to be more aware of what's going on. So and I'm sure like last Monday when everybody came home or they came into Lake the barricades up just wide enough to get through. They had it all the streets of well between the sign people and the contractors lack communication. So they have to go back and move all the barricades back so people can at least get to the houses. It's going to be interesting where this is all going to go. >> Well, and the sad thing is is that the county is
039in charge of a lot of it, which kind of ties the city council's hand as what how things can be done. So, >> yeah, certainly we appreciate the city council. Here's the problem is they have meetings every Wednesday, you know, the afternoon. Not everybody can take off time and, you know, hear what's going on. And I'm not a person that goes on and reads all the city stuff. I'm a person I want to know. I want to go somebody tells me. I'm not going to go and look for that stuff. So it's always hard to say what's all going to happen. You know what I mean? So we're trying to do the best we can right now. >> Thanks. >> Uh community had a really fun event that was new this year called Popsicles in
040the Park where students and parents could just come and meet and get ready for the school year. Good attendance and it was like >> All right. >> I just thought of a quick follow question about the school board vacancy. Um you said I wrote the days you said tomorrowther being here and hearing it, checking it. Is it being communicated out to people that are going to know to apply? >> We'll put uh for sure we'll have an e-news coming out in the next day or two. >> So, we'll put it in the e news and then we'll put it on our website. But those would be the two main ways that >> it's going to be the journal. >> Shameless plug for Journal. It will be the KYC gets a hold. >> All right. Hearing
041nothing else. Open forum. Uh the next regular meeting will be held on Monday, September 22nd at 6 PM in this here room. Have a motion to adjourn the meeting. >> So moved. >> Got it by Nick. Do I have a second? >> Yes, I'll second. I Connie. All in favor say I. >> I. All opposed. Motion carries. All in favor.