001He's out there chatting. I said, "You better go." So he'll keep everybody waiting. He did listen to see. Yes. Yes. Mrs. Oh, yes. Call to order the regular meeting of Independent School District 695 in Minnesota. Uh, director, can you take roll call, please? Crowdy Simon here. Rice here. Raha here. Lavy here. I'm here. Mr. Casey here. Thank you. Uh seeing that we have a number of uh persons in the audience. Anybody looking to speak? You're up. Turn. Just a real quick brief construction update. Um hope now you all realize why I wear a hat sometimes because those hard hats give me terrible hat hair. Um, so we just completed the walkthrough obviously. Um, a couple notes I wanted to touch on as we're getting a little bit closer to summer season. Um, overall big picture
002budget-wise, um, we made it through winter. Um, we've made some pretty good progress. We're actually tracking back to pretty darn close to what the original schedule was supposed to be. So, we've made up quite a bit of time. There's a couple areas that lag behind. There's a couple areas that jumped ahead. when I look at it and I draw a line, we're where we wanted to be a year ago. So, really happy with the progress. That being said, things are going to get extremely busy coming this summer. Um, so the site work on the west side is going to be kicking off in the next couple weeks. We've been emptying out. That's all going to get torn up and a lot of stuff's going to get shifted around. Um, that being said, we're talking playground,
003parking lot, all that. We should have that all installed and done going into the fall. I can't guarantee it'll be ready the day school starts, but it should be close. These also have been coordinating with the city for the pickup drop off lane on the south side of the high school. So, all that work on our end is going to be wrapped up this summer. The city street um should be as well. I think they're on a similar timeline. So, we have been coordinating and working with them. Um in addition in that back area um the district new district offices um those should be complete and ready for when school starts. We've got a little bit of ways to go there. Um but that's tracking. Okay. Um we're going to take a little bit more
004work in the band room. That's all slated to get done this summer. So there's a lot of stuff going on there and throughout the entire high school steam to hot water. So, I believe Thursday morning 8 am Jake and I are addressing the high school staff as far as mobile requirements and starting to talk about what's going to be required there, what it looks like. Um, it's going to be a bit of work, but nothing to be afraid of. Happens on every project. So, we'll just kind of be there to guide and talk through um what needs to be done um and kind of kick things off as we're getting close to summer. Once uh school is out and June 1 hits, those contractors are going to be in there hot and heavy. On that
005note, um the boilers are here. They're going to focus on top down in the high school to get areas complete. Um they've been working on the tunnels for months behind the scenes. That being said, we probably won't have heat up and running when school starts and that is typical knowing that we really don't have heating season till probably October. Um contractors have done this on many projects. That's a confined area that they can work out of kids' way. Um, so we just need to make sure we have life safety, fresh air, all of that. Um, shouldn't be an issue. That's typically how these remodels goes. The boiler plant is the last thing to get started. Um, that being said, takes us into fall. We'll continue plugging away on the building. And, um, financially, I didn't
006prepare anything detailed. I just wanted to give a quick spark note that everything's tracking really well. No huge major surprises or changes. Um, everything seems to be holding pretty steady. So overall, everything's going really well. Any questions? No, I I think thank you for taking us on a That's cool. separate tour, I guess, for all of us. We didn't uh violate any open meeting laws, but but uh we appreciate it and we appreciate that uh some of your staff was here too from Inensa and also from Woods. Um, very nice to see them come, too. So, thank you again. Absolutely. Thank you, Jordan. Absolutely. And, uh, some of you guys are starting to get to know Jake. He's off the hook because we let him take vacation for once, but uh, he should be back
007on Wednesday. And if anybody needs anything, he's the guy to talk to. So, and Jake's been great. I mean, he's been helpful. He's gone above and beyond what his duties would be within J. He's helped us out a lot of things, too. Super. Yeah. Now, if you see a guy that looks like he just walked out of the woods, that's Jake. I mean, I I don't mean it in a derogatory way. He's He's big and he's got a big beard and but he looks like a lumberjack. He'll also come salt your sidewalks for you. Thank you, Jordan. Thank you everyone. Thank you. No public comment. Jordan was our recognition of guests and visitors. Uh item four, principal Hake is not here today. Neither is principal Winter. So we will move on to item five, the
008approval of the agenda. And that is if you have your new agenda, there is under item eight business item F and that is um the motion to approve public sales and surplus equipment for the athletic director. So with that addition, I will entertain a motion to approve the agenda. So the park motion by director Laffy, support by director Randa Solder. Any discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed? Motion carries. Item six, motion to approve the consent agenda. These are the minutes of the April 28th, 2025 regular meeting. Payrolls for the month of April in the amount of $739,4929 and accounts payable for the month of April in the amount of 1,671,999.77. Can I entertain a motion? I'll motion approval. Motion by director Raha. Support. Support by director Ran. Any
009discussion? Lot of money going out the door. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. Item seven under personnel. I may motion to accept the resignation for the purpose of retirement from Donald Quirk by ED teacher effective May 30th, 2025. All motion. Motion by director Raha. support by director nappy. Any discussion? Yeah, I'd like to thank Mr. Court and congratulate him on his retirement and wish him the best. I've gotten to know him pretty well over the past 12 years. So, I just want to make sure that uh May 30th is not the day before the last day. So you'll be okay. Oh boy. I too would like to thank Mr. Cl for his many years of service to the district and hope hopefully he'll enjoy his uh retirement. Any other
010discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. Item B, motion to accept the resignation for the purpose of retirement from Stephanie Jensen, effective June 27th, 2025. I sadly make the motion. Motion by director Randa Solder. Support by Director Rice. Any discussion? Congratulations, Mrs. Jensen. There's a lot of fifth and sixth graders that are sad, but we're happy for you. I'm excited for you. I uh I have known Miss Jensen basically my entire life. She's been somebody I've gotten to look up to. And as an adult now sitting on the school board to approve this, I'm sad, but at the same time, you deserve to do all the things you want to do. I know you will still be touching kids all over because that's just who you are. [Music] Thank
011you, Stephanie. Thank you, Mr. Thank you. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. And there's no crying at public meeting. Tears of joy. Trust me, they will be. And every day is Saturday or Sunday or Tuesday. Uh item C. Motion to approve the hiring of Tyler Boyd to job number 207, level one, boys basketball coach for the 2025 2026 school year. I'll make a motion. Motion by director Laffy. All support by director Raha. Any discussion? And I I mean is do we tend to have any internal people posting for that position or I mean who is it? And I got one other question. Sure. Why does why is Keith Turner on our on the interview? He's not even Because sometimes we we will I haven't but sometimes we'll bring out
012just a somebody else outside the district. We had a parent on the committee and then a couple people that were just kind of outside the district um to get a maybe a I don't know a neutral opinion I guess. Uh Keith of course was an AD so he's involved but um I recognize everybody else on it. I just and I know Keith, but I just didn't quite get that why he was and I I don't know who this person is. Yeah, he's got some college level experience I believe um playing and I think some JO junior college a little bit of coaching and he's teaching over NLC. Okay. So lives over in H. So okay that's what I don't know much more about it. I did have the opportunity to talk to some members of
013the committee Miss Fleming Mr. Vaky uh Turner um and and they seemed rather impressed with them. And I had same question or concern, you know, as to where we hiring from within. Um my concern was, you know, just a recruiting basis. You're in touch with these kids all the time. Uh the committee members that I talked to were were very well in support of this gentleman. Okay. Say hello one day. Okay. Like to put a name. Absolutely. That's old school. Yep. Any other discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. Item D. Motion to approve the hiring of Roger Holman II at job number 258 transportation for make a motion. Motion by director Kate Simon. I'll support support by director Rice. Any discussion? Yeah. So we actually interviewed
014employees once for the custodial position that we did give to somebody else and then but he had 25 years of CDL experience. So, he doesn't have any busing experience as of yet. Um, but he's got he's got can handle the basic maintenance for the most part. Now, he's not changing engines or anything like that, but I'm hoping it'll be a bit of a transition period for him. Um, but it's too much for Ron with all the compliance stuff we need out in the bus. Need somebody in there to do some of the paperwork stuff, too. So, um, with the CDL background, I I would think that he'll pass the bus license. Real simple. um we still have somebody else on staff that can train new drivers and and he'll hopefully he'll get to that point
015pretty quickly. So, and I actually think that this is a good time of the year to bring him in that we've only have a couple couple weeks left. I mean, he'll probably sit on the sidelines or go for a bus ride. Sure. We're not going to start until June. We're going to wait till the end of the school year. Ron's got too much on his plate right now just to He's So, he's working on his bus license right now. He'll get it. Yep. He said he's going to try to get it before he gets started. Otherwise, we'll have to do it shortly. Well, he's going to do basic maintenance on buses, just oil, oil changes, things like that. Hopefully break some of the bands and things like that, but we part some of that out,
016too. Is there is there pardon me for asking, but are there certifications that he has to have? I don't think for the basic stuff, but I'll have to double check on it. Yeah. So, but I know we do it in house. We've done it three years. Okay, I will double check. Just make sure and he's going to be taking care of the bus routes and everybody doing all of that, right? Yeah. Any other discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. Item E. Motion approve the hiring of Nicholas Milani to job number 292, dean of students, effective August 26, 2025. All motion motion by director Braha. I'll support support by director Solder. Any discussion? real quick. We interviewed seven internal candidates and it was we we talked for
017an hour after we were done and um this is was the consensus of the group once we got there. Mr. Milani will be a good fit at the high school for the Dina students. So I do like this. I I do like this um throat that you suggested with the Dina students at this juncture and I think that's a good Yeah, especially with the transition of going to one building in the middle of the year. So yeah, just touch base candidates. Yeah, director Rice was a part of the interview process. I was a observer. I didn't do any of the Yeah, I was just So, and it took place over two days. Um I talked to Mr. Morrison, Director Rice, M. Fleming, um and Miss Papovich on their selection processes. And again, we had a
018number of good candidates. I I was very impressed with with everyone. I mean, we are very lucky here because we have a lot of good people on this staff here. We're very fortunate. And the general consensus was that Mr. Milani um was the choice and I think he'll do a fine job for us. Any other discussion? I think that's going to be a good good plan. Hearing no further discussion. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. Mr. Long, did you want to say anything? You don't have to. Thank you. No going back now. Yeah. No go backs. No. No back. Item made under business. Item a motion to approve Mark Morrison to act as the identified official with authority for independent school district 695 to authorize review and rectify users
019for the education identity identity access system edium. Is that what you call it? medium. I'll make the motion. I'll support by director Crowy Simon. I don't want you have to say that. [Music] Any discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. Item B. Motion to authorize the super superintendent to initiate actions considering the sale of the bond stepping through the school. All motion motion by director Raha support by director Lappy as everybody recalls I think this is the directive we gave Mr. Morrison to put it on this agenda so we can maybe finally just have our sold on our hair. Not a tongue twister for the time. Any other discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. Item C, motion to
020approve payment in the amount of $6,669.14 to Frontline Education for Afkin Tracking with Proactive Recruiting Subscription from July 1st, 2025 to June 30th, 2026. So motion by director Laappy support. Second by director Simon. Any discussion? This is something that that we do since we started using them on a year. Yeah. So they it's the online application process basically. Okay. Keeps them sorted, keeps track of them. Any other discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. Item D. A motion to approve the professional service agreement between North Homes Incorporated and Independent School District 695 for the 2025 2026 school year. All motion motion by director AA support by director Randa Solder. Any discussion? There's no cost to us. We just got to find space and it's done pretty well. So we've
021had good people. um supporting things that are in the building and real solid and consistent bill. Any other discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. Item E is the first reading of policy 533 under wellness. No action is required at this time. Uh item F is the revised or added agenda item. Uh the athletic director is looking for a motion to approve the public sale of surplus equipment to benefit the athletic director's fundraising account. Motion support. Motion by director Raha. Support by director Bappy. Do we know what equipment? We don't have any information. That's what I was saying. There was kind of Yeah, it was a last I think there was kind of a misunderstanding. I haven't had a chance to talk to Mr. Baky, but I'm
022not sure he realized he had to go through the board for this. I found out about it late Friday. Uh I tried I didn't get a lease out today. I didn't get a chance to call get a hold of him to see exactly what is being sold. So, you got to have board approval to sell anything. Um I saw it on Facebook. I thought it was apparel. If it if it's apparel that he has bought with the student his student account, that that would be fine. But if it's like football helmets and jerseys and I don't know what else it is. I think we need to table this till we can get more. I would agree with Cindy until we know what he's selling and what it is. We need more. We need more info
023on this. I I think motion and a second has been made. I'll withdraw. My motion is withdrawn. Let's see. He's planning on doing it like on the 17th, I thought, wasn't he? I have no idea. He hasn't come to the board and he needs board approval. Have to do it later. Director Lavy is withdrawn and there was a motion to table by Director Price. and support by director Ronda Solder. Is that correct? Yes. Any other discussion? I I just want to say I'm sure everything is probably on the up and up. It's just that there are questions that need to be answered. You know, what's being sold? um how was it acquired, things of that nature. So, I mean, and if it is, that's what you said, then he could still have his sale on
024the 17th because he has that right to sell that stuff. We just need to know if it's other things that need more. So, like I said, I know the softball game today during the day, I think, and any other discussion hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. I oppose. Motion carries. Item nine, discussion. I want to apologize to Miss Jensen. I was going to read your letter. We all read it. Very nice. Very nice. again. Thank you very much. Item 10 under information. Anybody? We've got our enrollment numbers as usual. They tend to decrease a little bit towards the end of the year. I just want to say that Stephan had their in lie of field day. It was called activities day or Field day. Field day. You still called it field
025day? Yeah, I think it was. But it was much different. It was held down at the bond and various stations that they had with different activities. Seemed to go pretty well. We had some good volunteers. In fact, probably had a lot of volunteers. Um, thank you to the PTA um for stepping up and helping out. They gave the kid freeze the kids freezies and Kool-Aid or orange drink or that seemed not to be dumped over most of the kids. They seem awfully clean. So, um, some of you may know already that the Inensa and Woodset took us on a little tour of the the building. uh starting to shape up pretty nice. Uh I know Director Rice was taking pictures and video. Um so for staff members who are here, um contact Cindy if you
026if you want to see some of those pictures. I didn't take video though. I took a few pictures. I was just I was just trying not to trip over myself. So that's hard enough for me to do. I'm with you. So, but uh yeah, come along nice. I I appreciate them taking us on on a tour, a pre-our of the final tour and uh hopefully everybody will get the opportunity to go through, especially the staff. Um we'll have to see what we've been waiting for. Any other information by directors? I just want to Oh, sorry. Go ahead. just uh the next Monday is Memorial Day, Tuesday, 26th. So, our board meeting is going to be on the 27th, I'm assuming. That is correct. That's on schedule. Yep. Okay. Yeah, we did that at the beginning
027of the year. Yep. So, I was going to say the Chisum Kiwanas Club is having the Miss Chism pageant next Monday, the 19th. And we have uh six 11th grade girls that are the candidates and we have seven little kindergarteners that are in the for Mr. and Little Miss. So, that is at 7 o'clock next Monday. Okay. I don't want to get it wrong, but since car is not here, there's I think prek graduation was last week and they have kindergarten like a sneak peek maybe. Don't quote me on anybody know is on Wednesday. Wednesday. Okay. Yeah. Usually, usually she would tell her, you know, she would give everybody those dates. Graduation that a graduation won't be until September. Yes. PreK. Yep. assets on the early for any other discussion seeing no other business before
028us I'll entertain a motion to journ motion by director raa support by director Rody Simon all those in favor signify by saying I I9 [Laughter]