001to uh start off. It looks like we've got some people that would like to uh come up and speak at our open forum. Uh please uh state your name. know that we've got a two-minute time limit and don't expect any um uh response back from the board. And thank you for coming up and sharing your thoughts. Um Melanie would be first. Come on up. My name is Melanie and I have been a resident of Albertly since 2019. I'm a licensed mental health professional and a social worker with over 15 years experience in child protection and advocacy. On May 5th, I provided you all with a statement and additional documents via email regarding not only my personal concerns, but also concerns from several others within our community. I'm bringing forward the same concerns as parents on
002April 21st and other issues to address the fact that this is a district-wide issue, not solely Lake View Elementary. They are pervasive and toxic and routing our system from the inside out and leading to detrimental impacts on not only our students but also our staff. I sit here in front of you today with a message that I implore you to pay attention to. I am speaking on behalf of over 200 community members and counting. We want answers. We want action. We want transparency. We want the hush hush nature of this district to come to an end. and we want our new district leader, Dr. Steven Hyle, to know what he is walking into. I find it concerning that within the new hiring process, the person you all unanimous unanimously voted to hire stated in his
003final interview, people don't really want to know the negative unless several major changes need to happen. I don't think I'm going to run into that. End quote. I believe the problems within our district have been identified and reported for several years, but district leadership is failing to respond effectively or efficiently. Instead, many of you seem to be working your hardest to continue sweeping it all under the rug and acting like that doesn't happen here. Sweeping the problem under the rug does not fix it, it feeds it. That's the history Dr. Hyle will be walking into and he is apparently not aware of the extent of our district's issues. You cannot change and grow if you do not acknowledge the problem exists. Dr. Hy said his platform is I hope he will do just that. Thank
004you [Applause] [Music] Melanie Sonia Olson. Yep. Would you like to speak or you just saying hi? Oh, no. Hi. It's nice to see you. It's been a long time, so hello. Teddy, no. Thanks for coming. All right. Um Carrie. Yep. And that's me. And I'm not Okay, that's all right. Well, thank you. And Melanie, thank you for sharing. And uh welcome everyone to our uh meeting tonight. Um we need uh an approval for today's agenda. Look for a motion. So moved. Is there a second? Second. Any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. And oppose the same. Okay. All right. And uh we've also got uh you've seen the request for approval of donations. I'd look for a uh approval of that also. So move. Is there a second?
005Second. Second. Any discussion or questions on that? Dave, if possible, it would be nice if uh Paul would read those before we voted on them. That way, everyone understands the amount of commitment and uh the goodwill of the the community that supports a school district. Thank you, Superintendent Kren, U Chair Clott, school board members. Um yes, so this is a nice change. uh Superintendent Kren had brought to the cabinet is an idea of as we accept donations to make it a separate action item and uh I did come prepared this evening to talk through the donations that you have listed in the packet in front of you. So um it looks like uh the Blackbod giving fund donating towards the Brookside uh ECSE. um the University of Minnesota uh donating $4,200 uh in an FFA
006grant and that money is going towards planting a field plot uh at the field north of Albert Lee High School for the first time I believe in five to it's five six years since we've last planted uh uh crops there. So um a nice donation from the University of Minnesota. Uh Shirley Sorenson, a parent of Southwest Middle School uh towards student projects. our Kowanas Noon Club uh donation to um the Tigers Den at Southwest Middle School. Uh the WRO Line for donating $1,000 for the teacher of the year program. Uh Mr. Gustoson, I believe, will be the recipient of that uh donation. Uh going towards a washer and dryer for our ALC program uh here at Brookside. um the CFS Foundation uh $500 to our FFA student account and the Lando Lakes $500 donation to
007our FFA student account. So, thank you to our community partners there. Thank you. And thank you for bringing I remember we talked about Evan Red. So, very good. Thanks, Paul. All right, let's uh we'll vote on that. So all those in favor of accepting the donation signify by saying I. I. I. And oppose the same sign. Motion carries. 70. Thank you very much. Uh consent items. We can take one uh motion on all those. Is there a um motion to accept the consent items as written? So move. Is there a second? Okay. All right. Any um discussion on the consent items? Seeing none, all those in favor signify by saying I. I. And opposed. Same sign. Okay. Motion carries. All right. Moving on to number seven, superintendent report. Dr. David Cren. Thank you, Dave. Uh,
008Chair Clatt, members of the Albertly School Board, Austin or Albertly Community, just a couple quick uh items for this evening. Uh, last week we did uh end up through one of our windstorms uh with a power outage at Lake View. Uh the whole neighborhood in that area had had a power outage. It lasted for about a half hour. Of course, it happened over noon and we had a group of parents coming in uh to help with lunch, but uh Zach did did a great job in contacting the families, letting them know what was going on, communicating with the whole school uh and the parents to make sure that they they knew that it um what what was taking place and the kids were all safe uh during the outage. So, that worked out real well.
009Uh secondly, uh this week is pretty eventful for a lot of high school seniors, uh with their ALC and high school graduations. Um, the ALC will be on Thursday at 6 in the high school auditorium and uh, keeping our fingers crossed. the high school uh senior graduation and many of the ALC students who will be participating in that will be outside at uh at the uh football field and um hopefully the weather will be warm and the rain will stay away. So the prediction is although I notice it's the percentage of possible rain is going up. So, if that should take place, uh Chris has done a good job organizing and uh we'll be moving inside to the gymnasium if that should happen, but it's always kind of a mess if uh your plans never
010go through. So, um Dr. Hyle uh will be in the district this Wednesday and Friday. Uh he'll be spending I know the whole day Wednesday. I'm not sure about Friday, I know. he'll be here in the morning uh on Friday. Uh so we're looking forward to uh conversations with him and sharing information with them and sharing uh data on the district. Uh big nine track meet will be this Thursday uh with the uh makeup day on Friday. So again, Thursday, no rain, no need for makeup. We'll be set for Friday's graduation in the evening. So that is my report. Are there any questions? One quick question. So if uh the track meet is there, do we go inside, Dave, Paul? I see Chris around here. Um right now if the track meet, it's it'll be
011a tight schedule, but the track meet is due if it has to be made up on Friday is due to start early enough that it should be completed by 4:00. That's the guarantee, right Paul? Okay. Uh by 4:00 so that then the stadium will be cleared and we can start taking people at at 6:00 for the graduation ceremony. Okay. Okay. I I like the guarantee from both of you. And Dave, he's playing was probably out busy tonight. So, thank you. It's been a busy uh busy time for those folks. That's for sure. You know, it's great to get that track meet here. It's been a while since we've had it and it brings in a lot of people. So, a lot of fun to see all the the schools here, many of them. Yeah. And
012I think that's what's so exciting for uh for the comm community for the uh high school and for the coaches especially. they work hard and and one of the honors is being able to host host a Big Nine track meet and um it's not nine schools anymore. It's it's several more than that. Um so it's going to be a lot of people. So Thursday or Friday. All right. Schoolboard reports. Let's see. We'll start with Kim. All right. Um had the opportunity to attend the curriculum committee meeting on April 22nd. Um we had some um um there were some updates on the ALC uh resources and uh uh group work. It was a nice update to see uh what's been happening at the ALC. Um, also some exciting news coming out of the high school egg
013department with some vet science offerings, um, egg leadership, aronomy, which we heard about the donation. So, that all goes together. I think Crystal Victoria at the high school is doing a really good job of, uh, igniting that. Um, some information about title spending and submissions. And then we spent a quite a bit of time on literacy plan and uh letters training, but also just concerns and and um I'm going to forget the the I don't want to say remedial, but it's um getting students up to where they need to be with literacy and the requirements legislatively for that and the expenses on the district. And so one of the things we talked about afterwards was about how does the community embrace that and help with that and are there are there um mentors that can
014can be part of that um or uh people helping in the community that want to help with getting students where they need to be with literacy. So really good conversations there at Click Curriculum Committee. Then I also um uh was a guest reader on April 25th at Lake View and I read to three kindergarten classes. Enjoyed that very much. My dates kept getting uh when I was when we were doing ReadAcross America, my dates kept getting cancelled because of bad weather. I was picking the wrong days, I guess. The only two days we had that were bad, maybe. Um, so I was able to go um on April 25th and I will tell you I was super impressed with um my interactions at the at the at Lake View and with the students. Um I
015read a book about even helpers need help and so that was a good message for students. Um and then I participated in scholarship night on May 7th and congratulations to Max. uh he was uh an award winner quite often that night. And then um I attended the business community partnership lunchon last Wednesday at uh events on Broadway and I'm excited about the academy structure that Sean and Chris are laying out at the high school. So it's great great learning. I was not at the curriculum committee meeting. I I was scheduled to be, but I was in Maryland, so I missed that. Um, thank you for your report. Um, I was also at the business community involvement uh lunchon a couple days ago and um very impressed with what's going on there. I've been a long
016champion of providing our students an introduction or a preparation for something other than a four-year college uh career. And now we at the egg program, our welding program, our indust program. Our connection with the community to provide for uh the the preparation of our students to to uh graduate into jobs in this community is very exciting. And so now I I have to announce that in spite of the fact that I'm a huge champion of the vocational program. Now I'm in the position where we need to emphasize the importance of the liberal arts background that we offer our students as well because that was where that was my role. And uh Theres Neter introduced herself as just an English teacher which is a bit unnerving. Uh so so there has to be a balance there.
017Uh I think for for quite a while we've always had both but but we need both. We need an emphasis on on preparing people to do things but also to uh to uh engage in a more productive uh approach to their own living, their own culture and and u ability to adapt to the challenges that confront us um every day, not just vocationally. Well, end of that sermon. Um I went to um uh along with u well Gary was scheduled but he had some something came up. So the uh uh the elderly healthc care coalition I've been a a part of that for a long time and and I would really like to see our district uh get somehow involved in in that in that movement. It just came from me a meeting uh with
018uh Bob Row and Dave Frame. We're on the education foundation committee uh that's preparing for the pathways to success program which consists of recognizing distinguished alumni and distinguished educators, usually four of each. That takes place in October and a lot of planning is is required for that. We're now receiving applications for teacher grants. That's always an exciting time because it's really fascinating to witness the wonderful ideas that our teachers had for enhance have for enhancing their classrooms and we provide funds for that. That's it. Um well Neil, you're much more than just a English teacher. Cute story. I was talking to a 1981 graduate um a year ago and I still remember the story because it was about you and he said um he's now an engineer up in the cities but he said that
019when he was struggling with math you were his tutor so English and math right have both um so I attended the facilities committee meeting uh held at the high school uh Kevin Peakley led the meeting he went over the summer projects talked about the boiler repair, the unexpected uh boiler issue that occurred. Um we toured the uh air exchange system, the new system for the pool at the high school. And I just want to say thanks to our maintenance staff and custodians. Our buildings are in great shape and well taken care of. So um but lots of projects and those of you who were also there can add more to that facilities report. Um it was at Halverson for book bingo with the fourth graders and the fifth graders. Um Principal Larson invited me in
020to do that and it was great and really fun to see her leadership in that building as well. It was very very very great leaders. So I really enjoyed being there. I also attended the presentation by the high school on themies that was held at the Broadway. Again, uh what the high school departments, school counselors and principles, administration are putting together is great. Um and it was great to be sitting at tables with all these these business reps from the community who are there to really um continue to build our partnerships. Um and then best wishes to all our seniors and Max, thanks for serving. Thank you. All right, Mary Joe covered the facility committee meeting pretty well. Um, I attended that with her and Davey on May 5th. Um, and I would just echo
021that it it seems like our district has really done a good job of planning for long-term maintenance and that has been a a strength of ours. Um, otherwise, I volunteered to do face painting at Lake View's fun night a couple weeks ago. Um, Casey Walters had invited me. So, thank you Casey. That was a lot of fun. I I think everyone had fun at fun night. I was just swamped uh doing face painting. So once the line started, it never ended and um that was a great event. Um otherwise, I've just been communicating quite a bit with Superintendent Corin on a number of issues and talking to people and um I just continue to appreciate your insight and leadership and what you what you've done to help get us back on track. So, as always,
022May is just a busy month for schoolboard members. I think we got to negotiate. I'm just joking. I'm just joking. Um, I've been participating in the MSBA legislative updates. Those are always very informative, always frank. I appreciate the honesty in those presentations. I think the finance committee has met since we last formally met as a board. As far as uh student activities are concerned, attended the band concert and Max, I think you picked up some awards there as well. Just an abundance of riches for you. Band concert was awesome. Attended a girls softball game and I did not realize how nice our softball facilities are. We've got a lot to be proud of there. And so I was it was I was really impressed. uh took in some baseball via BoxCast uh on my smart
023TV and received some regular updates from the robotics team on their national uh international competition in Dallas, Texas. Uh Neil and I presented some foundation scholarships on awards night and that was a that was an awesome uh event. Uh I was impressed with how respectful the and um I mean the students there just appreciated each other and the successes. It was just fun to be a part of that and see that dynamic. One thing I really was very impressed with is that I I watched the podcast, Principal Dibble and our student resource officers and a couple students were talking about vaping and the use of tobacco products and cannabis products and what they're seizing in our bathrooms and how they're being hidden and some of the issues with that. Boy, I tell you what, it
024was very eyeopening but also very good. I mean to me on a national stage that information would hold up. It was helpful for me as a schoolboard member and it would be helpful for parents to hear it. It was just very very well done. On a personal note, the student resource officers spoke to our Lions Club and they brought some samples for us as members, but examples of vaping uh stuff and some are as small as a big lighter. I mean, so easy to conceal um an eye openener for us as Lions Club members. Then I'm also happy to report through our Lions Club, we applied for a grant to purchase uh a cart. The in Southwest Middle School, they're going to change their distribution of food for the food for backpack program and let
025students, my understanding is select from bins. So our Alliance Club applied for a grant to purchase one of two bins and we were that grant was approved last week. So, I'll work with uh Dave Drummerhousen who coordinates that program in town through Grace Lutheran Church and get get them get the funds and make sure that's purchased. Should be set up, I would assume, sometime in June. So, that was good news, Dave. All right. I uh I also attended the facilities meeting uh where we got just our regular breakdown and update with all of the facilities and different buildings. Um it was kind of neat to see the big system over by the pool and um how they run that equipment is beyond me. I don't know how they know what they're doing, but he says
026he knows how to run it and it's it's amazing. Um I also attended our monthly Freeborn County Family Services and Children's Mental Health Collaborative meeting. I have to have it written in front of me otherwise I'm never going to remember all those. Um it was a pretty short meeting. We had just some regular budget reviews. Um Katie Nielsen from the high school presented and requested funding for the reach program um which was uh unanimously accepted and approved. Um other than that we got to uh tour the welding room at the last board meeting which was really cool to see. Uh it's I don't think that that was there when I was there. That was uh a lot of big equipment in there and the kids are helping build that which is even cooler to see
027too. Um, on a personal note, we are coming really, really close to opening up the playground, the inclusive playground, um, early June. I think June 5th, I think, right, Sarah? Uh, June 5th, we'll have a walk beforehand and then we'll have a grand opening. So, it's they're starting to put in the sidewalk and the curbs and the roads and everything. So, we're getting we're getting there. That's exciting to see it coming together. That's it. Thank you. Yeah, I walk by it every day and it does it's fun to see like you said the step by step and know that it's getting really close. So looking forward to seeing that. Thanks. U just a couple extra things. Um I attended the uh phase 4 for MSBA over a couple um Zoom meetings and um that's where
028it basically he's talking about representing your community through policies and different committees and it was really nice to see I'm I'm also on the MSBA board and interestingly enough over the last probably four weeks I've had a calls from a couple different school districts that we've been talking about policy and it really up to shout out to our policy committee here, Ashley. You kind of keep us on track, but to go through to hear of some of these school districts that haven't updated their policy. I mean, just policy 203, which is the standards of ethics and that for your schoolboard members. Uh, one of them went back to and I said, you know, that doesn't seem like a long time ago for me. I guess it seems longer all the time, but I I I
029tried to explain to them about the liability that they're running if they don't keep up on their policies because things change at the state level and if something happens and you're out of date, you can get into trouble. So, thank you to our policy committee. Just one of the several we've got here that it seems pretty redundant when we're going to go through 15 policies in a night, right, Ashley? But it's nice to know the changes and usually there aren't many but it's good to know that. Um also had a finance committee meeting Gary Mitch bring anything else up. Uh senior awards night uh was a great time. We uh presented two from our school board and it was Gunner Haroldson and Na Wacles and that was nice to uh give them their awards. Um,
030looking forward to graduation like we always do. ALC, the high school graduation. It's going to be a beautiful night, Max. It will be. We know it will. And track will be on Thursday. I know, Dave. So, um, but again, that's that's really about it. But it's been uh fun to see. Like I said, I appreciate when you talk to some of these other districts, the things that we try to stay on top of here at Albertly. So, all right. Uh, T, let's see. Let let's uh Max, you go first and then we'll come to um first up I have senior skip day was on April 30th and I know skipping school usually is not a good thing but um I think we did a really good job actually like taking advantage of the opportunity to
031like have another opportunity to do something fun together as a class. So, we all went to Edgewater and there was lots of fun games and we grilled out and it was I think it was a really good use of our time. Um, not that school isn't, but um we had Big Nine music on May 2nd and I thought all of our ensembles performed really well. It was a really fun day. Um, like it's been said, senior awards night was on May 7th. Uh, that was good just to celebrate all of our accomplishments over this past few years. Um, we have the final concerts of the year for our music department and tonight is actually the choir concert. So, I'll be heading there after this. Um, we had the Albert Lee Education Association teacher signing ceremony
032which was last Wednesday on May 14th before school and there was 12 students who basically just signed a letter of intent saying they want to go into education and I was one of those students. Um, going along with that, this morning I think it was five students actually signed letters of intent to play sports in college. So, that was cool. Um, last night we had senior sunset at Edgewater, which is kind of the same thing as senior skip day, just not skipping school. Um, and then like Superintendent Kren said, we do have big nine track here this week, which I'm really excited for and hoping it does not get postponed because otherwise that long day is going to turn into an even longer day. and graduation is this Friday, which is pretty crazy for me.
033But yeah, we have the after aftergrad party here at Brookside after, which I'm looking forward to. So that's all I had. Oh, wait, one more thing. Carly's not here, but I know she loves to share about publications. So, um, uh, we had the IMG be distributed, which if you don't know what that is, it's like the Imagine magazine, and it basically just showcases student artwork at the high school. and it was for purchase and they had like a little coffee shop and where you could buy like donuts and cookies and coffee. So that was a cool event that they do and the Tiger yearbook was distributed just last week and it was they did a really really nice job on it. So if you have the chance to look at it, I would definitely recommend.
034And then the senior edition of the Alahasa also just came out and that has all of our like senior quotes. It has impact student which Nvea Wacle's got and impact teacher which is Kevin Gens this year and yeah just a great way to end the year. So thank you Max. I'm glad to hear the IMAG is still here. It's a big deal and the coffee house was is a great tradition. I'm glad to hear that's still going. Yeah, it's a cool thing and lots of students are participating in it. So it's good to see that. Thank you Mr. Gasan. I think I turned that on. Yes. Okay. Um well, like many of you, it's a very busy time of the year, so I've got I've got a list. Um I'll try and get through it
035as quick as I can. Uh lots of culminating events at the end of the year. A lot of field trips. The uh elementaryaries are going to history center for county. Uh Zman Zoo, Fire Station, Science Museum of Minnesota. Elementary schools are all over the place. Uh fifth graders throughout the district met at Gustoson Field for field day last Friday and uh this from my own kids' um hearing from their friends. It was a great great experience. Uh Sydney recently hosted a family game night with group folks attended. made their ATPPS their goal in reading and kindergarten math had a 25% growth ending in 78% efficiency which is awesome. Uh Herson fifth grade math masters team did very well competition fourth and eighth place. somethingual. So yeah, lots of like they've been working on all year
036and now is the time Awesome. Thank you very much. Okay. Uh we will move along to our curriculum and instruction uh summer programming. Johanna Thomas. Good evening everybody. Thanks for having me tonight. Um I am going to speak to you about some of the summer opportunities that are associated with the um area learning center. So um I'll just give you a second. You can read this. I don't want to read it to you. Just a little bit about state approved alternative programs which is for our district is targeted services the area learning center and credit recovery and southwest middle school's tiger program. One of the largest um components that is um really important is that well two things that it is a any alternative learning program is a choice program and um the CLP or
037the continual learning plan involves parents um focuses on grade promotion or graduation high school diploma So, so, uh, credit recovery will be starting, um, couple weeks after school is out. It'll be located at Albertly High School. Starts June 9th and goes to June 26th. Um, there is breakfast and lunch and transportation provided. And again, that CL clearly outlines what the student is um, courses that they need to recover. And it includes a parent signature. So parents are very well aware of what needs to take place for a student to um move forward towards graduation. Joanna, the what's the process? When do the students have to register for credit recovery? What's that process? They're doing that right now. Okay. Um if if there's a big push right after school is out and final grades are in
038if a student is not already enrolled or doesn't need anything until right when till this semester and then we enroll the student and they can start anytime like if if we find out, you know, a week after school's out that their final grades came in and they needed to sign up, we Yeah. is Well, is there a maximum number of credits they can take in the summer? There is not. you can earn as many credits as you can earn in the summer. There there used to be a little bit more um guide or um sort of it used to be two credits and the state says now if somebody is showing competency in that um and earns that credit we move on to the next one and you can earn as many as you um
039work hard towards. So, uh, so this year, uh, we've been really lucky. I've had the same credit recovery team in the summer. Um, so I've got an English, math, social studies, science, and special education teacher. Uh, so we have all four content areas, which is really great for the kids, um, and their learning. So, uh, just to recap, uh, we also have credit recovery during the school year. uh that is Mondays and Tuesdays from 3:00 to 4:30. And this year we did do about once a month. I think we started in October, maybe November, we had uh a Saturday credit recovery from 8 to 12 one time a month. Very well attended. um and you know worked worked great for our student athletes that needed uh to spend that extra time and was very well
040attended and definitely a success and something we want to continue unduplicated that is unduplicated. Yes. Um so it and that doesn't mean that they all they all did sign up. Some of them um stop attending. They may not earn credit. They may stop attending. They may enroll in the ALC. So we lose several that you know couple do maybe 20 15 students that end up deciding to go to the ALC. um several um it's really exciting when seniors get caught up and are back on track for graduation. Um so that is some of our quick numbers from this year. Last summer in credit recovery we had 193 students enrolled and earned 170 credits. home. Our next big program, especially for the summer, is our targeted services program. And again, just a little bit for you
041to uh read quickly on uh what targeted services programs should have in them as outlined by the state of Minnesota. So, our targeted services program is called Tiger Tales and it really is uh the largest enrollment of students uh for state approved alternative programs is a summer program and uh this year it will be at Hawthorne Elementary uh June 9th through July 3rd. and we will meet 8:30 to 12:30. It does cover grades 1 through 8th grade. Um the seventh and eighth graders will be located at the high school. That's always kind of nice because those eighth graders um get to uh know the high school well. Being there in the summertime builds some confidence with that. Breakfast and lunch is served at all of our programs and transportation is provided for those students that
042uh are in the bus zones. And again that that uh CLP addresses goals in reading, math and social emotional learning. Um and it may also involve attendance as well this summer. Um, last summer I had 19 teachers. This summer I've got 21 teachers. It's going to be great. Our class size is going to be awesome. I also have a music of FIED, an art teacher. There will be a special education teacher based at Hawthorne. There are students with that do qualify for the extended school year program, but it is um more appropriate for them to attend Tiger Tales. So um there will be a special education teacher with PAR support as needed. Um we it's you know it's pretty much like a school going on during we have a health office clerk um and a
043coordinator uh on a daily basis while I'm at credit recovery most of the time. I the coordinator is then at at at Hawthorne. Currently there's 247 students enrolled. I expect it to be around 300 um when we get those last um last late ones in. And um that is our summer program. Um just a little recap from the Tiger Tales extended day that took place this year during this during the school year. Um, three elementaryaries, Halverson, Hawthorne, and Lake View, and Southwest served 150 students on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays from 3 till about 4:15. Some schools 4:30 depending on transportation. Uh again this year we'll be uh partnering with experiential education for the students and we will also have our rocketry program with third graders with Ken Fiscus. So those are our two main things.
044Um weekly students are involved in experiential education. I'm going to change it up a little bit. I'm trying to save a little bit on transportation. So, um, the students may spend a longer period of time there rather than shuttling back and forth and, uh, splitting some time. So, may not be once a week, but the time will be about the same that they spend at the boat house with experiential ed. And rocketry is always a favorite, too. They have a blast with that. Any questions for me? Great. Just a quick word of caution on the rocketry. Um, we found that in Austin, the Ellis Middle School that burnt down was caused by a rocket that flew on top of the roof, wasn't caught, and started on fire. So, just Dave, that's only in Austin. Sorry,
045I just had to say that. Just had to. John's coming up. Well, good evening, Chair Clott, school board members, Superintendent Krens. Uh thanks for having me in to give an overview of uh community ed uh for this past year. I've been told that the time window is about two and a half hours. Uh just kidding. Uh I will make this as short as we can, but we'll move fairly quickly. So I wanted to make sure you had a copy of the slides. Um some of the pieces we will slip over uh just as we move on to the other pieces. Um our mission statement is the same as the district. Our philosophy uh again is to gather, discover, and grow. and our process is working with our community. Just to sum those pieces up, we'll
046start this uh overview as we look at our community needs assessment that we just conducted. Uh we had a 90 194 participants which is up from two years ago. Uh we had two printed languages uh this time around uh which is an improvement in that. Uh we also had some that received verbal translation of the questions so they could respond. We had all age groups represented. Uh we did have one that was missed in the last um one for respondents and we did this just here in April 25. Um this wonderful graphic was put together by Kim out of our office just to highlight some of the big spaces or big things that came out of that. Still seeing that almost 67% of our folks prefer to see the book and that's their preference. Uh
047where we're up to 53.6 looking for that information online as well. it sleeves well with on the other side of the graphic 62 and a half percent completed the survey on their cell phone. Uh so if we're wondering about how those cell phones are are being used, uh there's one on how our community is doing those pieces. Um but some really good uh information there. And then we did ask an additional question this year. What night would you most like to see a class? And that night one was Tuesday night. So 61 and a half% of our respondents prefer class on a Tuesday night. Three of the challenges that were identified. First was the course schedule and that moved into first place. It was second place last time around uh at 62% almost there. Uh
048lack of course interest dropped uh uh um significantly uh to that second place which was a nice thing to see that actually drop. Finances also did increase and that's adult and youth finances. We asked those separately and they're combined in that result there. but that 33% of the respondents commented that uh either the youth or the family finances, adult finances would keep them from taking a class. Uh so we're looking at the best ways to address that uh challenge in our upcoming years. Our adult education, lots of neat things going on. You'll see one of the magazines coming around, our Albert Lee magazine did a wonderful piece on uh cultural and food. It's marked uh with the uh little sticky note. Uh the majority of the folks there or at least a good significant part
049of them are from our adult ed program and uh they had uh Sarah come and visit. I don't know if you got to try the food or not Sarah. Um but they did come in and and uh brought in dishes from home and and how showed how to make them and what the recipes were but those are our very own adult students uh taking those classes here. Uh these are the different types of classes that our program offers. Uh and it includes a collaboration with our math classes out at Riverland. Uh which is always a wonderful partnership to have. Program challenges. We had a number of different challenges through. We had new staff, three new staff in the department. So anytime you got new staff that you're getting to onboard and train with the new
050curriculum and those types of pieces, uh that always uh um is a challenge for the year, but not one that's insurmountable by any means. They did a great job getting everybody on boarded and making sure that time was important. Finding teachers for our evening classes. We know that folks would love in-person evening classes. It's just finding the folks that would like to teach those classes. So, if anyone's interested in teaching uh in the evenings, please let us know. Uh visibility and knowledge of our program, just letting more and more people know that it's out there. Uh it still amazes me when I go somewhere and I do find out that people don't realize we have an adult education program here in in the Brookside building that helps serve our adults. Uh but that still does
051happen. Uh so we're still working on on addressing that challenge of how do we get that communication out even further. Uh we had some programming changes again with getting people trained up on our curriculum as well as there was a change in the Riverland schedule this year uh in which our partnership there changed. it did. Uh the impacts on our program were a loss of 2,800 contact hours. Uh our adult ed finances, the only one that's within our control are contact hours that the state sets all the other pieces up, but then however many hours that you serve your students, that's the last component to determine your funding. Uh and then we also had the uncertainty with the political climate that affected some students uh participation and whether they wanted to be in a common
052space uh out in the community. our program successes. We did serve 327 students this year. 25 countries represented 17 languages and of which 62% of them were employed while taking classes with us. 19 of our students achieved their GEDs, 12 achieved another credential. And our contact hours did even go up by 7.4%. State average or the state target was 8% this year uh for increases. And even with the uh loss of the 2,800 hours at the start of the year, we did make up that plus an additional 7.4% this year. So just outstanding work from our our department up there. We did implement online testing as a new piece as well as we started a workplace literacy uh group with a Lamco uh wood products out there and the first day they had 31 students
053enroll uh right at the the site there. So it was a a surprise to them. They had to find a different location for the class as the space they had picked wasn't quite set up for 31 students, but it was great to have that. We also implemented more life skills classes such as swimming with a partnership with the Albertly Family Y uh to get our adults in the water swimming. And then we had a students learning with children day. So the students brought their children to school with them. So just like you have the uh bring your student to work or bring your child to work day, we did one of those with our students. And as you can see in the upper um corner there, you can see the some of the different pieces
054that they had done. And you can see the students or the kids in the class with our students um showing the importance of learning child care. We had our two different settings, our uh our Tiger Cub as well as our wraparound starting with Tiger Cub. Uh we had the different activities going on. We did even have a visit from our school resource officers for both of our child care settings. Um our program challenges, the biggest challenge uh that we had this year was our annual average fill rate. Uh we had seen that previously as well and we had a uh start to the year where we need to improve our start of the year numbers and we'll be working on that coming into the next year. Uh we also increased our tuition going into uh
055this school year. Uh so that became a hurdle for some families as well. Our staffing uh we did have some unexpected expenses that were rolled in as we'll talk more at the finance meeting later this week. uh as well as finding substitutes. So when our folks were gone, how did we handle that? Um at this point, we were able to cover our pieces and work through those. Um but knowing that there are additional background checks and pieces that need to occur, it's not as easy to find substitutes to work in our child care settings. Uh we did also complete a review of school age care co programs. uh did three on-site visits as well as visited with three other schools just to see what their programs were like, how they were funded, and how those
056might impact uh how we could do things here in Albert Lee. Um uh most of them had uh levy backing and levy funding uh for those school age care programs. Successes, we did have our staff consistency, which is always a big thing when you're working with students uh or with parents uh children. They always appreciate that familiar face, the same person they're bringing their students back to. Uh and the return of our our Tiger Cub families that were with us before. Uh we saw some grants and donations that came in. Uh we had some business uh businesses donation as well as some individual donations. We did uh maintain our parentware status which got us another grant to help with our training for our staff as well as a Smith early care and education grant. That
057one was a really neat opportunity. Uh we did not get the full amount, but we did get an amount that will cover trainings as well as a grow our own program, compensation for a class, like if they were to take a class at Riverland to help further their education as well as provide some parent training event or some parent uh experience events. We just had one in the uh spring here. We'll have another one in the fall. We also had a successful uh CCAF um five-year renewal process. And special thanks to our consultant Amy Charles, executive director Durban as well as director Rubishan uh for their guidance through that process as it was no small feat. Uh but always a good thing. It's the food service program for childc carees. A little bit different than
058the one for our K12 setting. And there's some pictures from the activity uh night at Tiger Cub. And the book they handed out was on biting and hitting something somewhat appropriate to that age group. uh program challenges in our wraparound. Uh the biggest one probably there was our summer relocation. Uh all they did was go around the block, but uh in their limited time, they had to pack up the room to be moved, wait for the summer, and then unpack it very quickly in a couple of days to be ready to serve students uh as our wraparound opens on the first day of uh staff returning. Uh they did a great job in getting everything to uh together. Um uh some other challenges, we did have a separation then from early learning uh as we've
059split to child care a little separately from the early learning piece. Uh getting used to some of those pieces. Um finding our substitutes again for our program. Uh so staff was gone. Our staffing was uh probably around two and a half people as a normal. Um so when one is gone, that's a very significant piece of our staff, our staffing. And then also our student needs. uh we're seeing additional student needs and this the communication to go with those student needs uh as they come into a child care setting versus a school setting. We had some great successes uh our pre-class numbers as well as especially our midday and our afterchool enrollments were up uh most of midday times we could handle up to 40 students and we stayed pretty consistently in between 36 and
06040 students every day. Um uh we increased our collaboration with Tiger Cub which was an outstanding piece to be able to have that flow back and forth since they had a very similar background check setting and all those types of things as well as a setting with the students. So we were able to really start working together as a larger team and then locating staff and substance. We did succeed in finding some that were able to come in and help us and work with some of our early learning staff to help cover the before school or the afterchool times uh when needed. You can see a picture of the room they put together there on the one side. Then of course our officer visits and we apologize to Kevin Peak for scaring him when they
061wanted to play the sirens for the kids. Our community ed advisory council. These are the folks that served on our advisory council for this year and we thank them all for their commitment to the program and to making community ed what it is today and as we look to grow further in the future. our enrichment programs. Um our programming challenges there. The first was our summer relocation. Uh the summer re relocation happened right at the start of August. Uh so the end of the design of the book, the start of the enrollments for the fall, uh as well as the start of the school year, and then we saw a staff turnover in our outer office of five people over the course of this year. Uh so again, when you've got a staffing turnover of
062that level, um there's a lot of retraining and training that are going on. Um, our biggest need instructors of course for both courses as well as uh for driver education. That is the next one that's coming down the line. Um, as we are a school program, we need folks that have the teaching license version of driver education versus the private school. Um, we're seeing an increase cost of course and uh cost of paper as well as postage. Uh, so we are working with vendors to uh see what we can do to mitigate that. And then of course there are post- project exploration challenges with the big one being uh that there's a cost for some of these programs now where during ESSER programming there wasn't a cost for those things. Uh and how are we
063crossing that bridge with families and trying to make sure that our costs are staying as reasonable and as close as we can to what it needs to cover the program. Our successes we saw an increased variety in our trips as well as our fitness classes. Uh we had a wonderful opportunity presented to us with the local home day to care association uh where we brought their developed training classes that they do through the course of the year into community ed opening them up then to the entire community. So they're already bringing the instructor on site to train their folks. We were able to enroll them all in the class plus then open it up for any other daycarees uh that had staff that needed training uh as we all have to put in 24 hours
064annually for those that time. So that was a neat opportunity and we look forward to continuing that forward. Our driver education, we saw that online classroom option kick in this year. We've had approximately 50 students already complete that and we're just going into our next summertime. Uh they really appreciate the flexibility. Again, they can take the class as late as they want at night. Um it just fits really well around their schedules. we found some alternative funding sources and that uh workforce development has been able to help some students because driving is one of those things that prevents folks from entering the uh workforce. So by getting their licenses, they're able to get out there. So there was some funding there as well as we've had a number of students or a few students able
065to access the American Indian Education Aid opportunity that was put into place by Apac. uh and we really thank them for for writing that into that grant uh programming as it is going to be impacting a few of their students over the course of this summer. We did have a successful grant to try our afterchool programming uh option to put something back in place uh to see if the students would come back um when there was a cost for the program uh that uh um gave that a try to see what it would be like this spring. experiential education. Lots of different things go on there from bikes to canoes, kayaks, and more. Um, program changes or challenges, of course, the weather. Two years ago, we didn't have any water in the streams. Last year,
066they were so full, we couldn't put them safely onto the water. So, we're hoping for a better year this year. Uh, but it does impact those things that we do outside. Uh, again, our post or after school programs. Um again the finances being one with the participant finances um impacting where the students can be participating as much as they were before. Uh and then program scheduling uh something that we saw in the survey itself was when the programs are the course schedule impacting family schedules and where do those meet. Um our successes we are again working with summer targeted services uh and that collaboration and really appreciate being a part of that as it really uh gets a lot of our students out there experiencing things. Uh we've got some new programming going on. We
067started a uh kids rock climbing club as well as a parents night out. And the parents night out is uh an interesting one. A lot of people are uh enjoying that opportunity as it comes around monthly. Our rock gym staff were trained in how to create their own roots. Uh the appropriate way to do that. So we've been able to start changing the rock climbing roots or roots regularly. Those are the different colored roots as they climb at the different difficulties which is increasing attendance. And then our experiential programs are still seeing that team building uh growing uh as well. We just had an opportunity with our district pair of professionals to to do a training with them. Uh facility scheduling was another thing that came uh to community ed this year. Uh in the
068last year we had over 11,000 schedule requests uh by the start of May and those were still growing as of today. Uh our average total requests are over 32 per day. Reservation hours when we're asking how much is it getting used, uh these requests are accomplishing almost 35,000 hours of time over the course of the year. Uh about 98% of them are approved, 2% are denied, but of those 98% about 22% of them canceled this year. Uh by group, almost 84% of those are a group one activity. Those are the ones that are school-based or community ed. 14.1 being a group two, similar to a booster club type of scenario. Uh and the group threes and fours, those are the ones that are uh more community oriented are the ones that are paying uh for
069the ability to use the facility. Uh by site, this is kind of how those broke down. The reason that Brookside is starred on there is uh this ML schedules became our communication tool between the programs in Brookside. We had very we have a variety of programs here and no way to say when different areas were using the different rooms. So we used the scheduling program which increased of course their requests. Facility rental revenues uh in the 2324 school year not including the Head Start rental. 11,240 were brought in. So far this year we're on pace to triple that amount of revenues brought in uh by groups using our facilities. Our challenges were communication and information and then the impacts of those things. Um since there were confusion and uh about some of those and public
070not understanding it did cause some uh um heated conversations uh that our staff uh took on and uh worked their way through uh as the uh uh ones getting to present that information. uh we had a lack of historical context just since none of us really had a a good understanding of what did this look like three years ago, five years ago, seven years ago. Uh expense reporting method. Um a lot of the things we look at in our community ed classes are are we at least breaking even? Since we weren't able to really have a solid way to track our expenses, we really couldn't answer that question. And then trying to balance that availability versus the usability. We want to keep our facilities being able to be in good shape and used, but how
071does that work with making it available for our community? Uh we did have some really good success, especially in the communication and information uh and consistency pieces. Uh those were really our target focus going in. Uh and we really were able to to narrow those down and get those figured out with with our our our vendor or not our vendors, our users uh that are out there. Uh we created some great partnerships that are really helping make those things work. Uh the annual revenues we mentioned, we also completed a research comparison of five scheduling programs to see what those would look like. Completed that in February and March. And we also uh submitted a copy of a revised district procedure and fee document proposal that was completed and submitted in April. Uh just things that
072we think would uh help in as we move forward for this upcoming summer. Our boat house opens on June 3rd. So, we hope you're all there to to check out a canoe or a kayak and and take it to the water here in Albert Lee. Um, our programming with targeted services is coming up. We have eight offerings for trips coming up this summer. Uh, so lots of different variety. Again, everything from a twins game all the way to different plays. Our driver education as well as defensive driving classes will be coming up and we have more adult fitness classes including we're hoping to get water zumba back now again. Um, we just need to make sure to find that lifeguard. um experiential and enrichment programming, lots of camps going on. A lot of the different
073sports and activities that are running those. Uh our parents night river trips will be back as long as the rivers aren't flooded. Uh we have music, art, and language opportunities and in-person cooking classes are coming back. So, we found a couple of instructors that are interested in doing the in-person versus the video-based. And then our technology robot and our rocketry classes. And our rocket tree instructor does mention that he gets rockets out of the trees, but they haven't hit any buildings yet. So, uh, also over the summer, our registration continues for our Tiger Care, uh, center, uh, for infant saddlers and preschoolers. That's open now, uh, and will continue through the summer, as well as our wraparound care for those that are in a qualifying early learning class. Lots of information. Sorry for uh uh
074throwing it all out there, but if you have any questions, please feel free to either ask now or find me later as well. Go ahead, Kim. Mine is more just a comment. We did have some under the adult education. Riverland did experience some some um changes, schedule changes based on um I'll just say based on uh uh common hour. We never had a common hour during the day. It was at the end of the day. And that uh interrupted some of our learning labs for math. And it was really just to promote students being um engaged in activities on campus or clubs and organizations. And your staff did amazing to accommodate what we needed and most of the math classes had learning labs which is a great partnership. So thank you for that. We look
075forward to continuing that again this year. Go ahead. Some of these class ideas are pretty creative and I'm just curious what is the process for coming up with ideas for the community ed classes. A lot of it starts with the instructor. We get an instructor in and they'll talk to us about here's what I'd like to teach, how does that look, and then we guide them to uh talking about how to present it, coming up with a title that's going to be catchy, um talking about what age group they're looking to hit. Um but there are some different ones based on the interest that's coming in. uh the cooking one. She kind of brought those to us as far as the mini donuts and the ice cream. Those are kind of good summery things to
076bring in. But we also have an egg roll class, egg rolls in five minutes or something along those names. But it's um uh some of them are just uh people trying to be more creative with what they're offering as well, like the technology ones uh keep changing with the times. So, how can the the families keep up with the technology of their kids? Uh and some uh great classes that come in that way. We work with the instructors that come in and they usually come in with an idea and we can help tweak that a little bit for them. Just by chance, Sean, do you have the number of people who reached citizenship this year? I do not have that number. I know that there was a change in how we did the class, but
077I can get that for you. I'm just curious. I noticed that a lot of the camps that are coming up this summer are like grades three through eight. like a lot of them aren't available for there are still some available for kids older than 8th grade but the majority of them seem to stop there. Is there a reason like a lack of interest for older kids or is there a reason that it stops at 8th grade? There could be camps happening in other venues as well. These are the ones that are just coming through community education. I know that there are some of our um um while we get a lot of the camps and we'd love to run all of the camps for folks. I know that there are some that choose to work
078on their own versus through community education. Um we'll be here for when they want to come our direction. Uh, but I do know that there's some that are offering the middle school, high school camp kind of on their own, but they'll run this one through community education. If there's a specific one you're looking for, let me know and I can try to find you an answer. Anything else for John? Very extensive young man. Thank you very much. Thank you. All right. And number 10, we come on into special ed organizational structure. Sheila Ree. Good evening, chair, school board, Superintendent Kren. I want to thank all of you again for meeting either one-on-one or small group um with me, Superintendent Kren, and and Ashley Matson a few weeks ago to review the organizational structure for the
0792526 school year. So currently our current reality um December one the child count data reported through MARS um every December one we get the child count and it's it's interesting to look at it's broken down by disability federal setting and I always look at that compared to our neighboring districts ours which includes our private schools we do serve our students with disabilities in our private schools as well looking at that count 22% of our student population are identified a a student with a disability. With that, our current administrative staffing includes one director of student services who is responsible for the oversight of all of our programs, our services, ensuring that we are in compliance um with federal and state regulations and statute, and then staffing to ensure that the needs of our students for all
080811 are met. why this is unsustainable. We have definitely seen an increasing complexity of the needs of our students. Um in addition to that, there are rising legal compliance requirements. Um, I attended the MACE conference last week, which is the Minnesota Administrators of Special Education Conference. And I always like to go to the legal the law um sessions. And two lawyers said the numbers of the compliance, the um complaints with MDE are astronomical. Prior COVID, one lawyer worked on one case. This year, she's over 50 cases. Um that's just something our district hasn't experienced before. Um so with that comes that the compliance and looking at our IEPs, our evaluations, progress monitoring and everything surrounded due process compliance, looking at our our highquality support for our students, our staff, our families, and our building leaders.
081being there to partner with building leaders in program development, our budgeting, our staffing. Um I think this year we've we've probably been hit by every state report that MDE could produce. It was just our year. Um you know, being there to during the conflict resolution or communication with families and caregivers and then that crossbuilding collaboration. This is looking at our neighboring districts in the big nine and who are also part of our region 10. Their total number of students based on that December one child count and then their identified students with disabilities and then what their current organizational structure consists of looking at from that role as an assistant director, a supervisor or then moving down to coordinators supporting the department. Adding assistant directors of student services. Adding this role would assist with the oversight
082of our specific programming looking from birth through age 21. Providing that building level support and collaboration with our building leaders. supporting staff coaching and development in a team rather than our principles leaders doing that on their own. Program planning, implementation, I mean being there to provide direct support to our families and ensuring compliance and high quality IEPs for our students. Benefits of the additional support improve student outcomes. We can offer, you know, we have closer support programming and intervention. We have staff support for our teachers, our contracted services which continue to grow and our related service providers. But that proactive piece for compliance with state and federal mandates to be there at the building level and and partnering with our principles for very unique situations that that tend to come up and have have come
083up this year. And we do understand that budget considerations are critical. And this, you know, as when we met this proposed the reorganizational structure does align with our district's budget reduction plan, we really looked at streamlining roles, maximizing the resources we do have through realignment. Um, I spent a lot of time looking at the services we contract because we are unable to secure those positions and how we can save additional revenue that way. um just all of while maintaining that compliance and giving our students the absolute best that they they deserve and will receive here in Albertly. So I know that was just brief but I again thank you for the opportunity for meeting with all of you um and your follow-up questions. So, anything any other questions since the time we have met or
084Yeah, Dave, any questions? I just I you you talked a lot about uh some structural changes. I'm just curious a little bit. Nothing was mentioned on the uh financial considerations. You mentioned as a slide, but uh uh you talked about adding the additional directors. Um how does this work out in the over financial structure of the program? And uh if we're adding administrative level, does that mean we're cutting teacher parallel support? Yeah. Did not reduce level the support in the building? It there was some realignment. Um the current model, we do have seven due process leads who are licensed special education teachers. They returned to the classroom. Um, we did some realignment with PAR educators based on student need, but there were not positions that were eliminated, realigned to meet the needs of our students.
085Um, due to some program shifts to Halverson Elementary, we had to realign staff to be able to support um there. Due to students transitioning from Southwest to the high school, we needed to realign to ensure we had a teacher to meet the needs of the the small group setting. Three Sheila, I just have one question and then a statement. So, one of the areas of that has consumed some time is some maybe some some work around an investigation or something. Can you say, you know, just just a kind of an average time that that would spend potentially or is that even not something you could guess? You know, I guess my point is taking taking those folks that are working on those type of regulatory pieces and not being able to be proactive. It's taking
086them away from the opportunity to support students. Correct. Okay. Because I I did have to lean into our due process leads, our building principal, and that special education team to gather the requested documentation for MDE. and one complaint had over 300 pages of documentation to submit. So, it is it's it's time consuming, but I do have to say it is good learning and knowing what what areas we need to improve and where I have to offer professional learning to our teams. So the only comment I will lend to that is that um at a time when cuts are something we have to talk about, we've been dedicated to not affecting the students in in in the classroom. And so um student outcomes, staff support, proactive support and um building collaboration to me supports exactly what
087we're asking. So thank you for that. Thank you. Um, one question. I know about a year ago we'd made some changes with special ed where we took, you know, people from administration and put them in the buildings and now it seems like we're reversing that. I'm just curious, are we basically going back to um what we were doing, you know, last year or what are the main differences compared to what we were doing before? Yep. Those the previous positions were in a coordinator position where we're looking at an assistant director um of student services, special education, someone that is able to step into my role when I am not able or to support in the exact same way that I am. So with this plan, Sheila, will the role of principles they will see a
088bit of a decrease in their time in being in IEP meetings or what what can we expect principles because I know they're Yep. Yep. In principles, the um for every IEP meeting, we need to have an administrative design and that is typically your building principal, but assistant directors, myself and our special education case facilitators, our school psychologists can also fill that role and there will be a process in training for our principles as to what that will look like. Yeah. So Sheila, the sounds like you're reorganizing existing staff into some other roles. So are we is there a net increase in staffing with this? Are we No. No. Okay. And then bargaining unit wise, I think I had asked you that before. This is in the director coordinators. Okay, sounds good. So does that mean
089there's a net decrease then overall in the total package? Yes. Yes, we decreased special education budget by 75 75,000 decrease. And and uh one question on the assistant um directors um will there be a uh a director at the assistant director at the high school, one at the middle school? They all going to be housed at Brookside or how is all that going to work? They will be here at Brookside in the student services area upstairs. They will be that will be their office space out of Brookside to work in um collaboration with myself, our case facilitators and due process clerks, but they will spend the majority of their day in our buildings districtwide, you know, from here at Brookside with our youngest learners at birth through um our adult learners. What I'd like to
090see just so we are making an informed decision um would be some sort of a spreadsheet of existing staff with salary and benefits and what does it look like 2526. So it would be a spreadsheet of staff staffing with again salary benefits so we can make that comparison would be real helpful. Absolutely. And am I correct in saying that the assistant director's post has posted that position has been posted? Yep. So we have clear job descriptions for all the new position I don't know if new positions what we call them or realigned. Yes. Okay. Another one just now we're getting in the weeds, but as you reorganize, are people leaving a particular bargaining unit and shifting going being shifted to a different bargaining unit? And does that impact salaries or no? If if a teacher
091would apply for an assistant director, that is leaving one bargaining unit to a next one. No. Back to the assistant directors. Will one focus on elementary and one focus on secondary or both work for the whole district? It will be districtwide. I think after I we interview and those the two positions are selected looking at their skill set and strengths and then how we do how we do divide that looking at looking at you know from ECSE or who has that secondary experience and how how is that divided. Is there a there's special licensing then for the assistant directors very similar to yours since you said they could kind of fill in for you type of thing. Correct. Exactly the same the director of special education license. Okay. Yes. [Applause] Any other questions for Sheila?
092Sheila, hold on. We like it when you're in the hot seat. That's okay. smile. You did a good job. Thank you very much. Thank you. I appreciate it all of you. Thank you. All right, that exhausts the agenda. Just a reminder, uh ALC Thursday night at 6 PM and um Friday night for sure at 7:30 at uh the Guses and Field. Thank you everyone for coming tonight and uh we'll see you at our our next meeting will be June 2nd a study session which will be here but hopefully before. What time? Uh it's about a half an hour early. Seven. Seven. Yeah. All right. Thanks for coming.