001Start with the pledge of allegiance. >> 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. >> All right. Roll call finds all present. We'll start with the Titan Pride Awards. [Music] Good evening. Uh it's always a pleasure to uh recognize some of our Special Olympic athletes. Um we recently completed our uh uh TCU Titans Special Olympics botchi ball program. So we practice right outside of the where the soccer players do on Wednesday evenings and then we go to Shadic St. Mary's and we typically go someplace else for for um for the state tournament. So, uh we had four athletes participate this year that went and I know we have one of them here
002today. So, we'll recognize him right away. Um so, we have Special Olympics 2025 singles state botchi ball third place Sam Bez. Come on up Sam. You going to have them? >> Yep. >> All right. >> So then I'll recognize the other ones quick. Congratulations, Sam. >> Yeah. >> So then I'll recognize the other ones quick. I thought we had one more coming for sure. Uh George Derky, he got third place. Liam Olsen got third place and Hunter Jones got a first place. So I'll make sure that they get all this stuff. So congratulations the same and all to our athletes. Good job. Good luck. All right. >> Congratulations. >> Good job. >> Congratulations. >> Good job, Sam. >> All right. Next, we have the administrative report. I want to see if Todd's on here. Um,
003I don't see anybody in there yet. >> Kevin, was Todd coming? >> Was that Where are we going to skip? >> We're not going to do that report, remember? >> Oh, that's right. We're going to skip that. >> Thank you. >> That was just an update from our finance. >> Thanks for the update. Yeah, I'm kidding. >> Moving on. Uh, Lane, are you able to do community ed right away then for the update? Sorry. Well, thanks again. >> Okay, so um just kind of give a kind of our quarterly report on some community ed highlights and things we have going on um for everybody kind of knows what community ed does um with all of our programs from preschool to drivers ed and childcare and everything in between. And obviously we just saw our Special
004Olympic athletes. Um, with that, uh, a few highlights on and some upcoming things. Uh, right now, and Kevin alluded to this in, uh, his Sunday, uh, report. Um, our Little Titans preschool that started on September 8th. We have about 150 students right now, um, that are in that program. Um, and Lenter, we have a 2-day AM, 3-day AM, then a 5-day PM. Um, those numbers are down a little bit in the center. um compared to last year, just a few. But part of that is because we picked up six um students from Head Start because they closed in March last year. So, we picked up six of those students last year. Montgomery, we have two 3-day AMs and two 5-day PMS. Uh right now, we're sitting at 52 students. Last year, we had 50, so
005we're up a little bit um there, which is great. Ldale, we have a one two-day AM, three two three-day AMs, and two 5day PMs. Uh we're sitting at 68 students right now and last year we had 63. So we're up there up there as well. So So those are those are some good numbers that we have going on. Um our nature explorers for our ECF classes uh are starting this week. Um and those numbers and they're going to be going in all the spots. Kids zone overall numbers are about the same September 24 to September 25. Um afternoon wrap in the center. This is the first time we've had afternoon wrap um childc care in the center in about four or five years. Um and I think that was precoid. >> Um Ldale RAP, as
006Kevin also alluded to, our our wrap program is really high in Londale um to the point where we um kind of have a disclaimer on the website that they have to contact me ahead of time if they have any interest in RAP. Um three days during the week. um we can only have 20 kids in a row and there's some days we got 23 that are scheduled. So we are fortunate that we are going to be um utilizing three paras um in the early learning world that are going to help us take some of that overage and uh um we'll be when it's nice we'll be breaking the kids up inside and out. Otherwise, when it gets down to it, we're probably going to have a preschool room that we're going to use for two
007hours. Um so we're over numbers when preschool in the morning gets done until the afternoon preschool starts um for those two hours in between there. So once those 5day kids go to pre go to go to preschool then we're fine. So we have like those two-hour windows where it's really really high in Lndale. Um the other two days we're basically sitting at 1920. So if we do get some more interest we may have to kind of replicate what we do um with the three pairs. What the three paras are doing right now is they're kind of taking like 40 minute shifts, make sure everybody gets lunch, they help out in between. Um so it's been kind of a nice rotation um for the first two weeks of school. So it's kind of a good problem
008to have. So we're glad we got some great partnerships going on over there. Our before school numbers in Lanzville are also really high. Um most days are uh mid uh mid to high 30s. We do have two days during the week that are around 43 44 kids in the morning. Um, obviously mornings are really busy over there because of the Lawndale late start, you know. So, um, so numbers are tight over there and we've been using multiple spaces over there to to get that going. It's busy until about 8:20 or 8:30 when the kids can go to the cafeteria to breakfast. So, those are high high numbers over there. Um Special Olympics bowling as we we know that we um that's that's going to be starting on Wednesday. Botchi ball ended so now we getting
009into the bowling season. Those are typically good numbers. We'll have probably 16 to 18 um athletes that'll be participating in that. Uh the mentor program that we started last year. Uh we have a couple of those um matches from last spring that are meeting already and we're going to be working on getting our the mentors and the mentees that we interviewed last April May hopefully start getting those matches. We're kind of looking around MEA uh the fax room in the center. Uh as you as a reminder that was kind of a project that a few of us took on um Hillary and myself, Elida um a few others to kind of get that room equipped. We started having some classes over there over the summertime. We are doing a middle school um food program and
010the first day is today. Um and we have 13 registered over there. So, they're going to be meeting like four times and uh doing some different uh uh cooking and stuff that are over there. Uh Kevin alluded to in his also his uh um some of his past articles that our outdoor play areas in Lndale, we ended up making that fence bigger. That's because of um our high numbers that we do have in in preschool and of course wrapped with our preschool kids. Um so those pictures have have kind of come out lawns or in montgomery half of that space was mulch and the other one basically kind of turned into a mud hole. So we redid the whole thing as mulch and then which is really exciting. Um the center will be getting a
011brand new outdoor play area. Um, so if you've been over there, if you go to the east side of the main building between there and the primary where the flag pole used to be and that green space after all the work that we did recently, that that's one big green space in the middle there. Um, so probably at least a third of that is now going to be an outdoor play area. The plan right now, uh, with Jab's help, u, defense company's going to come in hopefully right at MEA and knock that out in a day. We wanted to do that because the guys are going to be having equipment. there be a lot. It's going to get loud and stuff. So, we want to do it on a non-school day and then it's going
012to get fully mulched. Uh most of that equipment that um for the the center space is already purchased. We purchased that through an initiative foundation grant here about a year ago. So, that's just sitting in storage at the primary. Uh just a couple other quick highlights for mostly events. Uh the Let's Smile Dental Program, we started that last May. We had 16 uh um students participate in that. They will be coming back again the second week of November. They will come to each school um twice a year. Um so they'll be going again in rotation with Lansdale I believe is first then it's Montgomery then it's the center. Um so hopefully as that continues to grow and they keep coming back we get we keep getting bigger numbers. Uh we will be hosting the Lonzo
013Chamber coffee break at the TCU Ldale facility on October 10th from 7:30 to 8:30. All are welcome to attend. Uh we'll be hosting the L Center Chamber lunchon again on October 21st from 12 to 1:00 p.m. The last two years we've been doing that. Uh we've had about 3540 uh participants that uh that come and uh visit us in the center. We hosted in one of the steam rooms um over there which has turned out great. Um Superintendent Babcock and I believe Joe Martin the county administrator and Dan Evans city of the center city manager will be this guest speakers again. Uh we I submitted a grant uh to hopefully bring back the Nutcracker. Um that'll be a one school performance during probably in the afternoon. Then it'll be a community performance. Um that grant
014that I wrote is a little bit less this year because they kind of redid all their program guidelines. Uh so this year I write I wrote a larger grant for the Nutcracker and to support our middle school play that we do with Elise Lundine. So, um, fire safety night coming up here in about 3 weeks over in over in the center. Um, sorry, Ldale, uh, we have a pop in and play program that's going to be district wide wide one night on, uh, on November 25th. So, that should be pretty fun on the same day. Then, of course, we're going to wrap it up with breakfast with Santa on December 6th. So, December 5th and December 6th up here is going to be really busy. Plus, I think the the PAC is used all day.
015>> Yeah, it's dancer side of the weekend, >> too. Yeah. Yeah. It's always fun though to see all that go. >> Did that happen? >> So, >> yeah. >> Any questions? >> Could you remind me what the Let's Smile, what they what specific services they provide? >> Yeah. So, they um they don't they don't want to say it's free, >> but it's at no cost. So, it's an organization that um they they say that because >> Sure. >> insurance. >> No, totally get it. Yeah. So, this company out of Owatana, which Hillary knows well about, too. Um, they will come up and provide basically some um some basic cleanings and and things like that. There's five different items that they they will do. And then um when the students are um done, they get a
016full report like everything's good or something to work on or this kid should be going this student should be going to the dentist soon because he's got some concerns. Um they bring their own water and all their equipment. We once they get there, we provide them a space. Amanda Slottic is the contact. Everybody has to sign a consent waiver. Um, so that's that's a big thing. And then you can't have any insurance. So this is basically somebody that's either on state insurance or they have no insurance, you know. So like if you know if your child has health insurance through you at work, they they don't qualify. >> No health insurance or no dental insurance. >> No. Or no dental insurance. Got it. Okay. Yep. So most of the students that that get seen by
017an organization like this, they're more than likely on some kind of state insurance or they have no insurance whatsoever. >> Okay. >> For that >> and it's free. So we we market it and then uh >> no cost >> at Sorry, >> look at that Alan. Uh no cost. No cost. Um yeah, so last year was uh our first time and it turned out uh you know really well. And then the day of when they show up, we provide them the space and then um Amanda Slottic is typically there and we when there's a student that's with them, we're going to get the next student. Then we're just kind of shuffling back and forth. It's a it's a great service and after they said after a couple years it'll get a lot bigger once word
018of mouth gets out gets out there because there might be some hesitation >> right away. >> That's cool. That's cool. Right next to my office. >> Wonderful. >> Any other questions? >> Okay. >> Thanks as always, >> Lane. >> Thank you, Lane. >> Building principles. Who wants to flip a coin and go first? >> Go first. >> Oh, thank you. >> All right. uh members of the board and Superintendent Babcock. Thank you for letting us share just a quick update from the start of the school year. Uh Jeff and Abby are out on some professional development. So I've chatted with them and we have some very similar highlights that we wanted to cover just as the year starts. First and foremost, this is some of the best feedback we got on our teacher workshop week.
019I think Alida, our TNL team along with the principles have done a really good job of being connected, listening to each other, seeing what the staff need. And this year we've really spent a lot of time on just be prepared. Just give teachers time to be prepared within their classrooms, within the professional development that they need. So when the kids get here, they have everything they need to make sure back to school conferences go well, the first couple of weeks go well, and we can really focus on on those routines because just as it's big changes for them coming into a school year with new kids, it's also a big change for all those kids coming out of summer routine, entering a new routine with a new adult in the classroom that they need to
020build a relationship with. So we felt like that went um very good. All the building principles that I've been able to speak with have said we really enjoyed the time that we had to be flexible with our staff. There's a lot of meetings that we would like to have with our own leadership teams, our building leadership team, our positive behavior um intervention team. All those take time and this year it felt really nice like we had the time to schedule that knowing that we weren't taking it from something else that the teachers needed to do. Our conferences for Bolton back to school have continued to be in the high 90s or upper 90s. So that's a clear indicator that our parents are really liking those 15 to 20 minute pre-conferences. You get to go in
021the room. It's not as vulnerable of a feeling asking specific questions about your child in front of everyone else. And I know this is the beginning of my sixth year here. And every single year they seem they seem great. They can come and get their pictures. they can see the nurse, meet with the counselor, talk to me, see the school, and it's it's just been a really good start to the year. Um the start of the year has been really focused on welcoming students and um really talking to teachers about we have to have high expectations and if we do and we hold students accountable to those, they'll meet them and become their best self. And we can't, we have to remember they're coming in without having those routines all summer, having different routines in
022different adults and just really saying these are expectations that we feel it should mean to be a Lonzale student, a Montgomery student, a Lee Center student. We are all one and we have to have those high expectations to start the school year. Um, a lot of the beginning of the school year is assessing students to see where they're at, to see if we retained information over the summer to see whether we did not. All this assessing is done and we just started our data days today. Lonzil was the first one to go. We grouped all of our students, kindergarten through 2 grade, and on Thursday we go third through sixth grade. And that's where Maggie Jerk, who's our instructional coach, along with our intervention teachers, go through every single student on how they're scoring and
023what we think is the best instructional plan for them to improve during the first quarter. And then we continue to revise that plan um throughout the year. Um I feel the best that I ever have when it comes to building safety and security this year. I've had Kevin out during our lockdown drills giving another um another eye to what we're doing. I got to be on the safety committee as a principal representative and really understanding all the things that we could be doing to to secure our buildings and making sure through basically the entire day when we're there and even when we're not there to ensure that they are are properly clean, safe, and locked down the way that they should be so we feel comfortable letting our kids back in. So, I really appreciate
024um that and Jab has been great in and wanting to come out to the buildings and see how we want to walk down um to or go through fire drills just because all of our buildings are are very unique from being right in town to to outside of outside of town. Um but other than that, all of us are looking to just a really good year. It feels really good having the same team come back and um yeah, it's we're all in a really good spot. So, that's that's all I had. Oh, another thing that's been a big highlight is seeing all the different renovations that took place over the summer when it comes to updated flooring and gyms. And then in Lndale, um the steam room that I know it just seems simple that
025it was a simple enclosure, but it's been phenomenal. It's been the best thing that happened to that space. Everyone's happy and it was just a simple a simple little um divider wall, which seems to be awesome. And shout out to the Ldale Community Foundation. and um I wrote them a grant to get more stuff for our upper elementary students on the playground and they were they gave us a grant of $4,000 to get stuff like a whiffle ball thing. We have a volleyball court now. We've been able to add two actual size soccer ball goals that they're used to playing on. And um the building and grounds crew um they've been coming and painting the football lines and soccer lines and the kids just think it's it's the best. So shout out to them. the
026little stuff goes a long way and that's their 25 minutes of I'm going to go let loose and they're they're really enjoying it. So, thank you all for what you do and making us be able to do these things. Is there any questions you guys have um for the elementary principles our our middle school? >> No, just >> you want to touch real briefly just because I know light is here too. Uh what you as a principal group did this summer as far as the teaching and learning model and >> meeting? Yep. Yep. I think all of us felt the best going into this school year. We all used a very similar um formatting when it comes to creating a school improvement plan. Um and and we have all of our action steps in order
027and we have a general outline. So, it's it's easy for us to stray to this is what's best for the Lzil building or or this building. But this year, I think it truly starts for these are the district initiatives. And if your buildings don't meet these district initiatives, then it might not be the right work at the right time for that because we all need to come united to that. And Kevin and Elida have spent a ton of time on that. And Elida meets with me um throughout the month and she also meets with my instructional coach. And it really seems like everyone is committed to these plans because they are it is very specific in what we're having to do. So like for the whole first quarter, all the staff in Lndale know every
028single date of what we're doing and how it relates to us achieving our school improvement plan. And that feels that's feels really good. It's not going to the meeting and kind of planning it out. It's saying, "Nope, this this is the plan and we need to follow the plan through." So kudos to them for being able to do that. >> Thanks, Tony. Thanks. >> All right. >> Thank you, Tony, for all your work. Really? >> Thanks, Tony. Thank you guys. Just an FYI, I just read an email. I think one of my athletes is going to be here shortly. >> That's fine. >> We'll bring you congratulate them when they get here. >> So, we know. >> Good morning, school board members. Good afternoon. Good evening, school board members. >> It's been a long day.
029>> Still coming off getting back from Denver Saturday night. Um, Superintendent Babcock, school board, student council letter. Um, I've got a list for you and I'm and I'll be happy to expound on anything even that's not on the list. But, uh, we have started week four if you can believe that already. Week four of the 2526 school year. Midquarter is next Tuesday already. >> So, this uh, first quarter is flying by. >> My anxiety just went up. Thanks. Um, on the positive notes, I did put out in my last briefs, I asked all teachers to get their grade books published and we're taking a look and we're almost there. So, that's a positive because you need those grades for midc quarter. Um, Chad Johnson, our activities director, he goes through those and has to level
030any consequences for students that are not reaching the level academically where they need to in order to play. We have 10 international titans here this year. Uh 2016 I think was the year when I signed off on 10 international titans here. Uh four from Germany, one from Brazil, two from Hong Kong, our first ever from Poland. Um one from Denmark and one from Italy. Um, what is neat about having international titans is that what they bring to our school and to our local rural community is is pretty incredible. Whether it be language, religion, culture, all those different pieces just they're public school kids across the pond. And what our students can give and learn is so much. So, it's an open street back and forth. Um, and just in case the board's wondering, we also
031get state aid for every international student. It's also brings in an extra $70,000 plus for state aid dollars. Uh, extended day will start next Monday and Gretchen Lily has signed on. I didn't get her to say yes until this morning's meeting when I told her I've got nobody who has applied for that position yet. So she will continue on for her third year. Extended day is a chance for students to u gain credit if they didn't earn it during the school year. So we we offer packets in English, packets in social studies mainly. Those are the two main groups. Um, and for every 17 completed packets and every 17 hours of seat time, that's how a student earns that one credit from extended day. Meets on Mondays and Thursdays. We go throughout the whole year.
032Our biggest and best piece with extended day right now is we don't have a lot of students that actually need it. Um, we only had, I think, six at summer school this past June. And the reason why I've shared this prior at different meetings with the school board is that one, we've got our Titan Achievement Academy, which we use first hour for students to make up credits that they have not earned. And then we also have um we put this in two years ago. Um we do not accept zeros on major assessments, major tests, major essays. And it's amazing what happens when you get a student to complete, even if it's only for partial credit or for late credit, but putting that zero out of 100 into a grade book as compared to putting a
03342 out of 100. Um, a zero out of 100 has a huge impact on that student's grade. Huge impact. So, that's what we started a couple years ago and it's really showing nice results thus far. Um, Kevin may know this if he saw Elida may know this if they looked at their email from about a half hour ago, but I've got Secretary of State Steve Simon coming to Tri City United on October 8th from 10 to 11 a.m. Um, Steve was here uh literally about 3 days before COVID hit February of 2020 and came in unpresented to our seniors. uh the secretary of state on position is a non political position in the Minnesota government. He's making a threecount tour and his people called me again and said, "Allan, can we come visit TCU?" So,
034he's coming during homecoming week, so that should be fun. Um I don't know how I'll be dressed when he arrives because I haven't seen the dress up days yet for that Wednesday. But uh um four years ago, five years ago, well a four and a half years ago, he only spoke to seniors um because just how it worked out. But uh this year we're going to have the whole student body to hear the Minnesota Secretary of State here at Tri City United. Jared probably knows because I already invited Jared to come and cover it with with the newspaper. So that's coming up. Um, Triton sensors. It's no secret we've got four Triton sensors. Two in male bathrooms, two in female bathrooms. Um, today I got I think it was five notifications. I just double check
035that. Um, yeah, the first one was at 10:21. Vape detected in girls, school, store, restroom. Then loitering was detected at 12:24. And then and that was also inside the girls restroom. A vape detected in the boys school store restroom and then loitering again at 220 detected in the girls gym hall restroom. So I share that because when we put these in in the school year started we we actually had one on the very first day of athletic practices in the middle of August. Um, we dealt with that one and then the first day of school I think we were at nine and we've slowly dropped since then. Mr. Reese has done an incredible job. Um, the challenge is I think I've shared previously that the latest demographics with vaping is female athletes in high school.
036Now, that may surprise you, but 70% of our vape warnings that go off have been with our girls restrooms. So, um, as you know, that's kind of a challenge cuz Mr. Johnson, Mr. Reese, and Mr. Fitter are all of the same gender. So, we've tried to deal with that. A Mr. Reese works our camera system extremely well. And no, we don't have cameras in the restroom nor the locker rooms, but we have cameras outside of both those areas. So, when a vape sensor goes off for a restroom, the easiest thing is when there's only one person who went in and one person who comes out. That one's a open and shut case. Basically, whether we find the vape or not, um it's it's that simple. So, that has cut down the amount of time of
037investigation greatly. um when it's three, four, five, six in between passing class time periods, those are more challenging. Um but we have really lowered the number of vape use at TCU High School this school year and it's due to um Kevin approving us to pay for four vapes. Um we've got them in our gym hallway bathrooms. We've got them in our behind the school store restrooms. It's no secret. I think most students probably know that at least I think they would by now. Um so just just sharing that with you. Uh oh and the the sensors these are at Triton sensors. It picks up vaping THC loitering and what's called violent words. So if somebody yells out, I'm gonna kill you or I'm gonna beat the whatever out of you, that sends us a text
038message and an email as well. So yeah, that's that's the challenging thing is the cell phone and my email goes off at the first start of the year quite a bit. Now it's now it's slowing down. Um, our Abbott 11 and 12 students, they visited St. uh John's in St. Ben's last week. They took the field trip up there. I talked to Gretch and Lily. She said it was a wonderful trip. They fed them well for free, which which was very nice. Uh the PAT test for 11th and 12th or for 10th and 11th graders um will be coming up in a couple of weeks. We average about 30 students each year taking the POT, which some of you may know that's the test which leads on to possible National Merit Scholarships. Um, we've had
039some very successful students since TCU started and prior to that I'm sure center did as well and Montgomery Lawsdale. We are in the 14th year of Tri City United School District and High School. Um, our building leadership team has worked on our SIP, our school improvement plan. We've been working with Alida with that. I've appreciated her leadership in running those meetings for us. She's got vast experience and doing this type of process and it's it's it's really really been good. Our building goal we're sending off to Q comp. It says at Tri City United High School, 50% of all students in grades 9 through 12 will achieve typical growth or aggressive growth um on the FastBridge A- Reading Assessment from the fall of 2025 screening to the spring of 2026 screening. David Reese reported to
040to me today that uh 96% of our high school Titans have been screened. Uh we were nowhere near that number last year and so that's a positive. I say kudos to our teachers, to our staff members who assisted with that. So we should have some good data next spring. So that's our Q count goal that Allison K will be sending off to Sarah to get in with the state. Um, and finally wrapping up homecoming. We are a couple weeks away. Homecoming 25 is right around the corner. October 6th through the 11th. Coronation for King and Queen will be on Monday the 6th at 12:30 p.m. in the PAC. We'll have the whole student body down there. Every year I hear from parents in the community. Why don't we have it at night? Well, frankly, the
041students don't come back to go to homecoming coronation. So, we want the place full. We want all kinds of Titans there. It's the best time to do that is we do it during our during our grade level advisory time. So that's the reason why in case you get feedback as TCU do this at at night time. Kind of like that, huh? Um Powderpuff football is in the center at Ray Plute Field at 700 p.m. That's on Wednesday the 8th. And the dance is on Saturday the 11th from 8 to 11:00 here in the Commons like we've done. We we save the snow week dance for downtown at the revival. So we do the homecoming dance here. That's also fire unprevention week. So it'll be a busy week. And also the secretary of state from Minnesota
042is coming. So we're just going to hit them all all during that same same week. It's going to be incredible. Anybody have any questions? You can grill me. I'm ready for it. >> Thank you. Thanks, Alan. >> Thank you, Alan. >> All right. Next, I'll seek a motion to uh to approve the agenda. I'll >> make a motion. >> I'll second it. >> All right. I have a motion by Chris Leach, seconded by Trevor Hone to approve the agenda. All those in favor? I. >> Those opposed? >> Motion is passed 70. >> Special Olympics. >> Oh, sorry. Yes, we've got some a Special Olympic person here. Thank you, Lane. My bad. Sorry about that. >> That's okay. >> Sneak that one in there real quick. >> Business right now. >> Well, this one's kind of
043fun for me because uh Hunter here is from Silver Henderson and he graduated with my daughter Maddie. So, I've known Hunter since he was little. >> So, Hunter is our first place recipient from Botchi Ball. He was the only one to get first place. So, congratulations Hunter. Congrats. [Applause] Great job, Hunter. >> Congratulations. >> It's okay. >> We'll fix it. >> Don't worry, Mark. >> Thank you. >> Good job, Hunter. [Music] >> Yeah, I know. >> All right. >> We looked at dropping down. get long enough quarters to run them underneath. They can stand underneath the tables. All right. Under the consent agenda, we have approval of minutes from the August 25th, 2025 board meeting. Under personnel, we have employment ending. Cassie Lebrun, PAR professional. Tanner Hadler, junior high boys basketball coach. Jeremy Towi, custodian
044maintenance. Jill Gangel, junior high basketball coach. Under new hires, we have uh Myra an Andred, kitchen helper. Uh Jenny Frederick, student success coach. Tyler Meyer, custodian maintenance. Isabelle Riddinsky, uh kids zone worker. Andrew Gullix, C Squad basketball coach. Austin Pink, junior high boys basketball coach. Lindseay Hombo, paraprofessional. Kendra Miller, paraprofessional. Under leave of absence, we have Michaela Simon Montgomery. Jamie Brunsley Center, Alexa Iverson Districtwide, Natalie Uten Dorfer of Lonale, and approval in of bills in the amount of $933,446.12 um covering September prepay, September paid uh fiscal year 26 prepaid and fiscal year 26 student a student activities. >> Thank you. for that. Natalie Utorfer is in the center. I don't know if that makes a difference. >> Oh, >> I'll make a note of it. >> Thank you. >> I have a motion by Marshall.
045I need a second. >> I'll second. >> Right. I have a motion by Marshia Craft, seconded by Susie Rip to approve the consent agenda. All those in favor? >> I. >> Those opposed? Motion's pass 70. and in the open forum. Does not look like it. Open forum. Okay. And we have the uh student school board report with our representatives Jules Roder and Gavin Phelps. Welcome guys. >> Hi. >> Good to see you. >> Glad to be back. >> So I am the 202526 student council president. And then >> and I am the 202526 student council vice president. >> So we're going to be here all the time with you. >> Wonderful. >> Um we don't. >> And you were just elected on Friday. >> Yes. Um, so we don't have too much as well as
046like specific things. It's more just kind of general stuff. Um, but also our other officers are Emily Kuhinka as our secretary and then Lucy Fleek is our treasurer. Um, the 2026 senior mural has just been chosen and is now in progress. So, we're looking forward to getting that started right away so that it's way ahead of schedule for what it needs to be done. Um, all clubs have just started andor had theirformational meetings. BPA is submitting orders for homecoming shirts tomorrow and we'll be sorting and distributing on October 5th. Me and Gavin are both BPA officers as well, which is pretty cool. Um, forms were sent out today for the ballot vote for homecoming king and queen. Um, senior class officers were established. Our president is Lucy Fleek. Our vice president is Zachary Kitzky. I
047am the treasurer. Um, secretary is Carter Belkkey. And members rights is Isaac Worm. NHS did NHS just did a ditch cleaning. That's kind of the most recent thing that NHS has done. Um they're easing in their new advisors, but it seems to be going really well so far, which is good. Um we got a bunch of big new TVs, which has been really fun and it's cool. It's like all of a sudden I walk around and I'm like, "Oh, there's a new one." So that's pretty cool. Um and then also the new policy not to eat on the carpet. Um, I was asking around and one of the things was TCU band is actively attending sporting events, which is good. Um, and then they just sent out Panorama survey today, too. And then you had
048this last second. >> Yep. News as of today at boy soccer practice, two of our international students that are playing boys soccer have been approved by Lee to start playing varsity. >> Great. >> Wow. >> Fantastic. >> So, that's kind that's kind of it so far. Like I said, that was a quick turnaround. >> Yeah. >> I didn't know if they were going to be here today because it was they just they were elected on Friday. So >> Oh, that is a quick turn. >> We're here. >> Yeah. >> We started in October last year, but we were we were happy to start early. >> Great. >> So, welcome. Welcome. >> Yes. >> Thanks, Jules and Gavin. Appreciate it. >> Next, we have uh the enrollment update. >> All right. Put that up there or
049not. So, so enrollment. Um I had Brenda look up where we were at last year versus this year. So right now we are at 1856 uh moving into this school year and last year at this time we are at 1836 and that is with PSO and all of our students in right now. So we should trend on that note pretty favorably the rest of the year. So even if we have some folks that leave from the senas and whatever um it should be pretty consistent every year. So uh hopefully we'll continue to see the the 20 plus trend. So we've gotten students that moved in, we got some students that came back. Um so it's a combination really kind of all over the place. Uh, and as Lane mentioned, preschool um, not technically on these
050numbers, but also is pretty stable. Um, and maybe up just a little bit, too. So, enrollment, we're we're sitting really good. It's it's obviously helping us with our overall budget, too. So, >> great. >> Looks good right now. >> Lane, you said a few students down in Lee Center, but we were up in Montgomery and Lonzo, right? >> For preschool. >> Yeah. >> Yes. >> Uh, how many were down in Lee Center? >> Two, I think. If you if you take away the six Head Start kids that we picked up, we would be down six kids, >> okay, >> from last year. But that's compared like what we had all year last year. So we might very well pick up kids throughout the year. And we always do. >> Remember census was almost showing we're
051going to be lower at those grade levels. So now I figured it out what Lane was saying is we're up about six total >> this year. So we're we're sitting pretty it's pretty pretty stable right now from what census was was showing. So, yeah, it was really cool. >> Great. And then MSBA events. >> All right. So, MSBA, uh, the conference is on January 1516. So, board members, if you want to write that down and we can get you there, it'd be great. Um, they also have the phase, uh, three and four trainings. If you haven't attended those, I highly recommend it. Uh, they just cover the different aspects of being on the board for those of you that have done those before. So you can see there when the when the dates are uh
05210:15, 10:22 for three and then representing your community through policy engagement. Uh you can see that 11:12 and 119 um are those different um meetings that you can um go overboard agendas and how that all how the board works basically separated into different entities. So recommend that if you haven't done that um try to attend one of those as well. But if you could do the conference this year that'd be great. January 15, 16, Brent and I will work on that. We'll send that out probably in a month or so when they actually fully release it. Um, and then we'll take care of whatever it is that you need taken care of for that like we've done in the past. So, you just have to let us know yes or no. >> Great. >> All
053right. >> Then committee updates, finance. >> Oh, you want me to go? >> Yeah, you go. >> Okay. Uh we met this afternoon before our meeting and really just kind of went through the budget ending 2025. So just they're trying to final up numbers or they are filing up numbers and they'll get back to us with final numbers after the audit. Um it's kind of what we talked about. We talked about the levy a little bit um which we'll be discussing here on our agenda. And really that was it. Pretty pretty simple. >> Great. Thank you. All right. New business. Uh we have some donations. Be it resolved that the school board of independent district number 2905 accepts with appreciation the following donations and permits their use as designated by the donors. Waste management $500
054student needs. Chad Johnson $200 high school student needs. Monica Lopauska microwave for the student use at Montgomery site. Bill and Christy Krennic. Chris and Tanya Hower, new flag for the pool area. Montgomery Legion Post7 Montgomery, $2,500 for TCU Robotics Club. Montgomery Legion Post 109 Lee Center, $1,000 for the TCU Robotics Club. Boy Scouts of America Pack 322, $3,500 for the TCU Robotics for the Kachki Day's help. Fransen Bank and Trust $500 TCU Robotics Club. First State Bank of Lee Center, $100 TCU Robotics Club. BFW1803 Lee Center $500 TCU Robotics Club. Montgomery Area Community Club, $700 FFA for Katchki Day's Health. >> All right, I'll need a second. >> I'll second. >> Right. Uh, we had Hillary Bzel introducing the resolution which was seconded by Chris Les. This will be a roll call vote. Uh, Cindy,
055>> yes. >> Trevor, >> yes. >> Marsha, >> yes. Josh is a yes. Chris, >> yes. >> Hillary, >> yes. >> And Susie, >> yes. >> All right, the resolutions pass 70. >> All right, next we have the language access plan. I will need a motion to approve the Tri City United language access plan to ensure effective communication with multilingual students and families. I'll make a motion. >> Did someone make a motion? Yeah, >> I'll second it. >> Can I ask what what it is for clarification? >> Title four of the federal government says we have to have an access plan and the state implements it so that we create consistency among how we're doing it not only in Minnesota but across our district so that we're doing things appropriately for our students that don't
056speak English that well. So it's comes from the federal down to the state. >> Okay. Thank you. >> All right. We have a motion introduced by Susie Rips, seconded by Trevor Hone to approve the Tri City United language access plan to ensure effective communication with multilingual students and families. All those in favor? I. >> Those opposed? Motions passed 70. Touch on this too, Kevin, on each of these. >> Yes. Y. >> Yep. So, I can do touch I'll touch the next one real quick. >> Yep. Go ahead. Next. We have a letter of agreement for community education support staff. So, uh, Lane approached me year ago, let's just say half year ago, >> probably beginning of towards the end of the school year. >> Yeah. So, with the number increase that we have um over
057in Lansdale for our our community ed uh we decided to try to have somebody that would coordinate uh all the staff to do a better way of uh manipulating the system over there. So, through Lane's budget, we decided that we'd try it. So we just we settled on a fairly I guess decent amount just to be able to provide that that staff member with the extra work that they were doing on top of the work that they were already doing. Um so it just gave the gave a commonality across um the entire staff uh over in Lndale as they continue to increase numbers and then we'll revisit it after this year to see if we need to add more teachers versus a stipen um and see what we need to do because we keep adding
058and increasing numbers over there. So, it just helps support that staff member with all the extra work that they did. >> I'll make a motion. >> I'll second. >> I have a motion by Trevor Hol seconded by Chris Leach to approve the letter of agreement >> for the Ldale Kidzone site lead. All those in favor? >> Those opposed? >> Motion's passed 70. I should just say too, I want to thank Lane and his crew because of the work that they do with that and the numbers that we keep increasing and uh maintaining staff to do all that work because it's not that easy of work in the summer um as they have a lot of planning and a lot of little kids. So, kudos to Lane and his staff too. I should have mentioned that
059prior to the the vote. So, >> how many total was it again this summer? >> Uh we're around 80 kids, you know. So, these are kids coming to us. Some of them are with us for 9 10 hours a day. 11. So it was a lot. Yeah. Had three spaces. We converted about a third of the gym into a classroom for the older kids and we had so we had two we had a kids own room preschool room. Then we took the older kids in the gym put a divider walls kind of head on make sure the classroom. >> Really cool. >> All right. Next we have a resolution appointing election judges. All right. Be it resolved by the school board of independent school district declares as follows. We have IC Church Civic Center in
060Lonsdale as a location for voting and the judges there are Evelyn Duban Sharon Kaisershot Jim Shiaak John Titus Shaina Utsky Coupe Ken Ces Kesh and David Sleeka at Montgomery City Hall in Montgomery we have Gene Kio Kathy Peterson Shirley Pumper Bob Trinka Colleen Pavoc Irene Yenda June Tupi and Marine Frick. And in Lee Center, City Hall, Inley Center, we have Carol Schwer, Connie Harmier, Sharon Traxler, Bev Stefen, and Lanne Leachch. Anything else? >> Prior to that, I want to say thank you to Brenda because that has not been an easy task. Um, she has voraciously trying to get people to do that. So, we're pretty close to having everybody we need, but uh we finally have pretty much settled on having somebody in every space now. So, it's been it's been a lot of work.
061Let's just put it that way. So, >> I'll make the motion or second it. >> All right. Hillary Birdsel introduced the resolution to appoint election judges which was seconded by Marshia Craft. Again, being a resolutions to be a roll call vote. Cindy, >> yes. >> Trevor, >> yes. >> Marsha, >> yes. >> Josh is a yes. Chris, >> yes. >> Hillary, >> yes. >> And Susie, >> yes. >> Resolutions pass 70. Okay, next we have preliminary 25 pay 26 levy. I'll seek a motion to approve the maximum levy authority for 2025 payable 2026. >> I'll make the motion. >> I'll second. I have a motion by Marshia Craft, seconded by Hillary Birdsel to approve the maximum levy authority for 2025 payable 2026. All those in favor? >> I. >> Those opposed? Motion's passed. 70% max.
062>> What's max? Six. >> All right. Next, we have a >> banking um motion uh to update the director of business services. I'll speak to that real quick too. Even I just mentioned it in your board notes. So, um, as everybody knows, we have SMS hired as our financial services, which has gone really well. So, we started off with >> Dion Karen, who was with us for about a year. Um, helped us to reestablish and really look at our budget a little bit differently. Um, put us in a good spot with opening up budgets to our principles and directors. Um, and then just looking at some allocated funds and redirecting some things. And then he got moved on to a little bit more area. He's a payroll person by heart. So we got that position.
063So then we ended up with Todd Neski who was actually the president and founder of SMS. Um so to have him right behind Dion to really look at our budget was was phenomenal. Uh our budget's in a really good spot right now. Um just overall and minimizing some things and putting things and allocating uh funds and looking at how we uh took some of our bank funds, put them in mint trust. Um sitting in a really good spot. But with that being said, he is the president. um he is extremely busy um and he's a little bit tough to get a hold of sometimes. So I had a long conversation with them and we are going to be moving over to Julie Grant who's been in business finances uh school finances for 25 years. 15
064of those in Nebraska uh 12 no 10 of those what I say 10 of those in Minnesota um so I got to meet with her um virtual last week and um she's going to be amazing. So, she'll be available often and all the time. Um, she serves two other real small school districts and this fits in perfectly to her schedule. So, I'm really excited to come off of Dion and Todd really redirecting and looking at our overall budget to now having Julie uh continue with SMS for our services on that. So, uh the biggest thing is obviously changing names on some things and doing some things. So, this grants her the right to be able to do our banking. The good thing is is we didn't Todd didn't switch it over to his name, so
065it was under Dion. So, we didn't really do too many switches there, but we still have to switch over all of our banking to um Julie Grant at that point so that she can go in and and monitor our our funds and stuff. So, that's what this is is for her to be able to do that. So, really excited to continue with SMS again and really looking forward to uh working with uh Julie Grant um what she's going to do for us. So, really, really excited. >> Is she any more local than Dion was coming from Marshall? Will we see her house at all? >> Uh she's a little bit closer than that. So, she's a little about an hour away. and her first comment was is that um I work weekends and I'm always
066available whenever you need me and that's that was right there. So reminds you of Dion a lot. >> Sure. Do you see us going away from them at all and getting our own like we had or this is working so well >> at this point? I don't think so. Uh I think Yeah, I think they're working really well. Um being that Todd is one of the gurus in the state and monitors these people and he only hires people that have been doing this for a while that are really good. Um I'd see us staying with them for a while. Yep. >> Yeah. I'll make a motion. >> I'll second it. >> All right. I have a motion by Trevor Hol, seconded by Cindy Flechek to remove Todd Netsky and Dion Karen from all Tri City
067United Independent School District number 2905 bank accounts and add Julie Grant, director of business services to the accounts. All those in favor? I >> I. Those opposed? Motion was passed 70. >> I should have mentioned Josh really quick that that'll be October 1st. Well, she'll be starting with us, >> which is next week. >> That is coming quick. Josh, I didn't want to say that because it just sounds depressing. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Next, I'll uh seek a motion to adjourn. >> I'll make a motion. >> Second. >> Is that Susie or >> Yes. All right. I have a motion by Susie Rip, seconded by Chris Wesock to adjourn the meeting at 5:54 p.m. All's in favor? >> Those opposed? Motions pass 70. When Alan said midterm, I I already went up the level. Now
068you said October.