001call to order the regular meeting of Independent School District 695 uh Lisa could you do roll call please director solder here director rice here director s here here director here here thank you see no public comment and no guests or visitors we'll move on to number four approv the agenda with the following following additions U Personnel under item a accept accepting a resignation under administrative business item end approving a lease extension and then I want to put before the board item o under business um construction add-ons uh namely the bandroom I'd like to entertain a motion to make those additions so made move by director Lappy support support by director rice any discussion hearing none all those in favor signify by saying I I oppose motion carries item five reports principales winter and in thank
002you good evening um couple things so we're pushing the end of the third quarter which is hard to believe we're already here uh want to do a shout out to the PTSA they're going to help support our PBIS celebration um we've also done our there'll be a fourth round of testing for fastbridge and have seen some great Improvement and growth there I want to thank our title teachers for doing those one-on-one assessments um with our kiddos we also have MCAS coming up um starting April 8th our reading and then it'll go math and then science and again we're trying to push again the encouragement of MCA we know it's not to be all end all but wanted to do a little bit more incen incentivizing for them so again PTSA is going to do offer
003some snacks prior to testing and then we're going to have each of the classes try to set goals and if they reach their goals then they'll do a reward party some kind of pizza party again any little thing we can do to make MC testing as fun as it possibly can um Starbase our fifth grade went to Starbase have gotten a lot of great feedback again I think the kids 100% said star base is the most fun you know they had learning about stem situations so again thanks to our fifth grade teachers for taking them there um I think it's a great experience for them kindergarten registration has started we have 21 already that um are on the list to come uh sneak peek is on May 14th so we'll have our Kinders coming um
004and introducing meeting their kindergarten teachers we also attended the skating show and one of the Kinders came out and said it was the best so they were super excited about it it was warmer in there this year so I think they they felt a little bit better about it and I think the music was really great so they had a good time with that too it was prek 6 minus our fifth graders because they were at Star base that week um Ryan Bennett Miss Bennett is doing an attendance challenge with our fifth sixth and um fourth fifth and sixth graders and last week I think our fifth graders won and there's extra shopping in our PBIS store and this last week it was fourth grade they had 95% attendance and I really think having her
005and I think ran canesta that that's been an excellent addition and making connections with fam so I do think we've seen our attendance um improve drastically from that one other thing I just want to put on your radar and something to consider is to maybe discuss about closing open enrollment we are getting um a lot of calls even now as third fourth quarter coming and kids students wanting to transfer in and knowing that um other districts are not having NLC as their um connecting districts um we're getting phone calls you know come to Chism so then they can go to the NLC and just want an awareness that it's not as simple as come to Chisum is a gateway till the NLC and also just knowing that um we're doing some like jumping back and
006forth with districts um we'll start here and if we don't like something then we'll maybe go to another district and then we'll get them back and you know as of October 1 our enrollment anybody that transfers in is um we count in for our MCA testing too so whether we get them tomorrow they will be included and the results for that so it just it's hard when we don't have that consistency and then also just our Personnel you know we're trying to hire them a pair if we do get a student that has higher needs and even special transportation and busing we some of our bus are our vans are already full and so we can't transport and so it's just very difficult to when I think on our teachers when we we work so
007hard on building Community those first six weeks and then you get different kids that are coming in and out and it just changes the dynamic in the room too so I know there are set dates by even mde like January I think it's 15th or something that um and there's different options you know whether you look at putting a c on in grade levels or if it is by October 1st maybe we don't um have kids come from other districts now if there are in our attendance area I think that' be great but just wanted to put it on your radar that we're getting phone calls especially now with Rockridge um not being part of the NLC and we have Hibbing not part of the NLC that it's just I think we're going to see
008um some shuffling of kids back and for so that is something that you can do as it just say okay we're not we're so if you have you know we got some kindergarten books I'll just use that as an example we want to keep kindergarten small if we can you know I think they got 51 you get much higher than that that's that's tough I mean and I don't want to say other grades aren't but yeah so you might want to look at a cap and this is open enrollment only so if family moves a chis we have to take so just I figured you knew that but I want to be clear so um I know we did it during Co because we didn't uh I suggested that at the high school and I
009think we didn't K because we didn't want kids jumping around whether we do it maybe after the first semester's over and we say um one week into quarter three we close open enrollment and we can do that so for the next yeah for the it is Mr W is right it does it it upsets the balance a lot and a lot of these and I'll just say it because I'm not speaking about anybody individually but it does it really upsets upsets the chemistry in classrooms a lot or even the whole building at times um students are come in do we get any of the funds yeah we get the yeah so there is that so there's the B that it just is very hard third quarter you know you come in why are we coming
010in third quarter off well again that's something that you guys would need I half a year I think you got to be careful doing it too early in the year um because we do we get a lot of solid kids also so I don't want to speak too much I would even say after the first quarter I think it would be okay but once you get you know much more than that and like I said we spend a lot of time on building communities within those classrooms and it does it changes the Dynamics and um just the hiring and needing more people and shifting um even our par Educators that have been with the same classrooms too then they get moved too because we have you know different students different need so just something to
011consider and um yeah with all the the changes around us too I think that's kind of is that is that something you and Brian as the principles have control over do or do you need a a directive resolution or something the board the board has to make that decision I know neighboring districts have Clos certain grade levels like that that's pretty common what is common other distri closer okay something to any other questions all right very thank you and just to Echo um especially I would say second semester I mean first semester for high school and it could be different grade levels um that you do do different things for but once you get into February January late January February that does really upset the apple cart when we have the kids coming in and
012we have been pretty um this year there's been a lot of kids that have one parent living in town and one parent living somewhere else so we have gotten quite a few of those and then a few of them have just moved to the parents house here so they could go to the NLC they were from a different District if that didn't work out so it's we had a lot of Hibbing you know obviously Hing chis and parents had in two different places so it is it is uh something that happens quite a bit um for us at the high school the schedule for next year uh we have most classes locked in we have our numbers we're shuffling kids around we are getting them into the appropriate places they belong whether it's band choir
013you know for the Specialties those types of things so that's going well it will be a fluid motion until you know September 7th or whenever we start next year it it just continues throughout the summer having to move things back and forth but the basic framework is there so we're ahead of the game there um again we do have the end of the quarter Friday um third quarter we're already into fourth quarter um 45 kid days left but it was counting um summer school is set up I do have two teachers for summer school who have volunteered to do it um so we'll be all good there I just put it into the NLC they just sent out their questionnaire today onto whether we're are going to have summer school and we do and that's
014credit recovery for 9 through 12 7 and 8 it is um what's that called targeted targeted Services thank you and uh it does basically the same thing so if we have a seventh or eighth grader they don't get credits obviously for the classes but we want them to go through the classes that they didn't pass and try catch up on that information before they get to nth grade and have to struggle through that um what else do we have our end of Year's events calendar will be coming out soon um you'll line up all the back laurate and graduation and Senior this senior that senior picnic the one part of that we've always done a kickball game at the end of the year we've always done it out there well obviously we can't do it
015that year so uh Mrs gado and have been talking about doing it on the last Wednesday afternoon up at the football field so we could run two games at once that way it's there's only two hours basically or hour and a half actually as school left at the end of that day and have everybody go up there just kind of have like a afternoon kickball tournament up there for everybody um that way we can still have it the kids really enjoy it um they look forward to it every year so we W want to miss out on this year uh caps and gowns are all in um covers for diplomas are here just waiting to get the diplomas stencl and yeah that's any questions any questions for Mr h a lot questions you know 45
016days right 44 I'm sorry sorry 44 okay moving on item six approve the consent agenda these are the minutes of the March 10th 2025 regular meeting can Iain a motion Bo motion by director C Simon support by director Raha any discussion hearing none all those in favor signify by saying I I oppos motion carries item seven under personnel motion to accept the resignation of Nicholas Milani level one boys basketball coach effective March 20th 2025 motion by director Lappy report by director Cate Simon any discussion thanks to Nick he wants to focus on football it's tough to be we still got footall yeah head coach for two sport it can be basketball yes a long season discussion hearing no others all those in favor signify by saying I I opposed I I get it ex official
017non voting member item eight under business is um Blue Street bus connection pilot program I can explain real I think I emailed but I just Aubrey hoer wants to um basically get some Community engagement and have people at bus stops once or twice a week um just to build it's part of buling too because there's things that happen bus stops all the time and uh they would do background checks on everybody before they do it it might involve some Senior High students some maybe some staff um you'll probably all get apprach to do it at some point from Aubrey and uh so and we're kind of the pilot I think the other shops are saying let's see what happens in Chisum first and then maybe we'll do we kind of mention so we thought we
018better get board approval on this um just because it is dealing with student so do they get any type of training or a handout the card or something ster or chocolate chip cookies I me cookies you me this yeah probably more directives there'll be some if there is like you said there are there happens to be bullying at some of the the bus stops so it's hard I when I drove bus I had my nephew ride the bus and I paid him money to ride the bus with me so he could just you know I me yeah so I I can see that this might be yeah who is going to be in charge of that so she's going to take out [Music] perfect can I entertain a motion I will motion approval motion by
019director AA support support by director Lappy any other discussion hearing none all those in favor signify by saying I I I oos motion carries Item B motion to approve the tech check eate proposal for the purchase of ethernet switches in the amount of $4 43,372 60 for the high school and new elementary school we did get bids on that that was the lowest bid 80% of it will be covered anyway so okay I have question because I don't know please don't ask what this is not part of the extra scope that we looked at um switches on there and stuff like that it will be yeah but most like I said 80% whatever 80% of 43,000 is it'll be covered so okay about 35,000 something part of the extra scope for the we'll have to
020cover eight or 10,000 on okay all right my concern was that that if Joe has worked with this company before so they're reliable so and I checked on that he's comfortable so that's by me yeah entertain a motion to accept Tech check e rate proposal support I mean you know what I mean by director rice I'm usually the supporter any other discussion hearing none all those in favor signify by saying I I opposed motion carries items C through M I will just go through these uh second reading of policy 512 School sponsored student Publications and activities second reading of policy 704 development and maintenance of an inventory of fixed assets and a fixed asset accounting system second reading of policy 801 equal access to school facilities second reading of policy 805 waste reduction and recycling
021second reading of policy 807 health and safety policy item H second reading of policy 901 Community Education item I second reading of policy 902 use of school district facilities and Equipment item J second reading of policy 904 distribution of materials on school property by non-school persons item K second reading of policy advertising item L second reading of policy 906 Community notification of predatory offenders and item M second reading of policy 907 [Music] rewards that is the second reading I do have concern with item J policy 904 but I'll bring that up at the next meeting item n motion to approve the one-year lease extension of Santander lease agreement for two school buses as presented Mr Kazar yes this would be currently bus number one and bus number five we've had on lease here for the
022last few years so so our options at this point would have been to either return them buy them or extend it for a year here and thinking is that the one-year extension gives us some options at this time next year to maybe get one send them both back extend again potentially but at least just gives us some more options to look at these are uh 2023 buses currently doing regular routes for us here and we haven't had any real issues with either either bus maintenance wise do you know does anybody know no I am looking at back yeah I considering uh it take more approval of course but I'm looking at I think there a quot from shot I had well Jaden did before she left but maybe possibly taking over that Hing route um
023it wouldn't really be a savings um I want a least out one of the leases we have a couple of leases running out December of 25 this year um it would probably be a wash but it would threee up our guys I talked around about it guys from well our custodians too it just might free it up um and H it's we got a lot of kids on that bus route and they got uh larger buses that can carry more kids too so why have to be more efficient uh if we get more kids next year from getting take so just a heads up I am looking at that I got a quote from them but I got to do some numbers and eventually I may bring it back to the board for approval but
024I want to time it so one of our leases runs out or we don't overlap a lease when too long I we can handle it a couple of months but I don't want to spend 30,000 on a lease on a bus we're not using if it's a partial year then maybe we can do that but I don't want to waste money just to heads up before you sure vote on this any other questions for either Noah or Mr Morrison and I'm sorry I should refer to you as Mr ker my [Laughter] apologies hearing none I'll entertain a motion I will motion approval motion by director Raa support by director rice any other discussion and I did hear that right I did hear that right that it was to extend the lease for one year correct
025yes yeah any other discussion hearing none all those in favor signify by saying I I opposed motion carries now the last one here is item o the band room for lack of a better heading I'll call it Band Room add-ons um and take this in in two parts we can accept accept it as a whole which is approximately about $330,000 or we can accept um don't have to accept uh the $212,000 for the one portion and the 1188 yeah for the other one these were Dan Danielle I don't know if you were here for that discussion not all of it but towards the end I just I heard about the carpeting and all of that but the 212 part I did not make it in for that explanation as to what that total was four
026can you yeah so we are already doing the we have to do the 212,000 I think that's the number we're give take um we already got to do that find 218,000 we already have to do that we're already we've already approved the board has already approved TNT to do some stuff um those are upgrades we got to do because when they broke into that ceiling we've got a meat code fire code amongst other things the upgrade did you hear the upgrades that we would be doing to the I heard carpet AC acoustic panels on top yes removing the risers removing the risers but not not putting them back in correct y having a flat surface in there those upgrades would be about 118,000 total that would then come out of contingency funds um from our
027referendum project so Jordan had texted me right after he got off the phone with us he said if we do it we get we can do it for but he's guesstimating these are not bids yet um about 118,000 if we wait and do it later because then the contractors are gone come it go close to doubling so that's just but that so the 212 we already agreed to or the 212 is an addition to no I think we agreed to like 78 was it 78,000 for the ceiling and that's part of the 22 okay that's what I was wondering okay got it now but the 200 we got what we got to do that to me Cod yeah so that's it's just going to have to get done the 118 would be extra but it'll
028be probably even with carpet and everything probably actually that 118 it's still going to cost us a vot 75,000 right to do it anyway I mean well probably would with additional materials and labor yeah and then they have to move that door they have to if they that's part of part that's a 118 yeah so yeah I don't know he said he said just removing because he my notes Here say just removing the risers was 27,000 tearing out the stage was probably going to be about another 50,000 that's about 77,000 just for those two things well he said the extra to do all that is going to be 118 yeah and that would include the tering authorizers and the St yeah any other the fact that that comes out of contingency helps it doesn't come
029out of the standard funds that we brought so and I do believe in the long run it's probably just the smartest thing to do I think so I do believe that but yeah SE I've seen you've probably seen it more than I have kids tumble down those risers all yeah they have to carry those um like they said the drums they talked about the drums I mean it is a there yeah I I do think it would be from a custodial point of view for sure it would be a a good thing so I will present this as I'll entertain a motion to do the project as a whole with the approximate 330,000 and if somebody would like to amend that just to do the required for the 20 12,000 somewhere there then do so
030so at this point I'll entertain a motion I'll I'll make a motion I'll amended to do the mandatory work I'll make motion for that just to do the mandatory yes PR Simon is there a second for that I'll support that support by director aha any other discussion so what Jackie saying is the mandatory work not the total to finish the room correct that's my motion y so it'd be just the 22 approxim approximately yeah well I I mean how can we do this as a board because I would rather see that whole room completely finished you will they're going to make another motion Daniel we can make another motion for the rest of it yeah okay we'll do this first we're doing two two separate yeah okay I don't think that's what he thought we
031were doing that's okay I was that was I say I'm I'm motioning for the mandatory work which to okay any other discussion on that all those in favor signify by saying I I I I oppose motion carries entertain a motion to I will I'll entertain a motion to do the thank you extended before I fumbled over my own words you saw that coming didn't you yes I did I'll support motion by director rice for have the additional work performed supported by director lafy any other discussion all those in favor signify by saying I I oppose motion carries [Music] item nine any discussion uh board members um just real quick again if you I apologize for we could get Jordan online so you can show you the graphs and so you can see so if you
032need anything let me know I'll try to send you some information uh on stuff if you need it if you have questions about the ideas I proposed for our positions and what not call me to stop in um I'll explain it best I can um or if you need need to get information from other districts I can do that too let me know what you need I just have a follow question to the just the principles and I was going to ask them if they were giving their rep on so if kiding and like rockid do not you don't have an NLC so if they're they have kids that are not do they have their own like learning yes they just service them within their own school so so for example a lot of our
033kids that go we they levels special I don't know if you understand the levels of special edit it means if they're level one they spend so many minutes in a classroom it goes up to level four which they spend most of the day in a special wed room okay so we send a lot of our level four kids over to NLC that take that have needs that we probably can't um we can't meet their thank you right um whereas Hing in rock rids they'll Supply those needs within their own dist okay I mean we talked about this about a year ago the cost difference for that is it's we don't save a lot of moneyy by not having those kids here where we save money at NLC is the psychologies the psychologists the directors the
034coordinators that's where we proba say but they're still our student yeah and they you're just going to the NLC for however many hours or whatever yeah okay additional special needs they have so what is the I guess what is the benefit so if there's kids at giving they don't want to go to the giving special classes and they want to go that so they en roll in a school that oh contracts at the NLC correct so it happens a lot of times they'll come here at the high school it happens once a month Mr raake a parent will call and say um yeah we just want to go to the NLC and we're going to roll here and um I kind of got to the point before I switch position this I just said No
035at times we're not doing it and um other times but they do it they do it anyway and then um sometimes NLC will take them but what happens what's happened to me before is you get this High needs kid and they come and enroll going to with the thought of going to the NLC I always talked to the NLC first when I was principal and then all a sudden they roll and technically we have to take them and then they don't go to the NLC and then we we dealing with behaviors that are principl Al it just upsets the right you're coming in different times so if we were to change that to close the open enrollment at a certain time just make the decision at the beginning of next year we we probably come
036with a recommendation and it probably beap classroom sizes at some point yeah so we just the principles would come with recommendation we talk about it first um so you can't do it this year say oh you can make a motion and close open enrollment completely for District if you want i' have to check the rules and regulations on that they can at any time but we're yeah we're starting to get pretty late in the game to but you can so you can do it by grade level if you want you can do it by this classroom's full this program's full you can do usually it's done my grade level well and I think it's important that we listen to the principles if they you know feel that if they make that recommendation I I feel
037that we need to support them on that because they know the working Mr Hank and Mr are you getting many requests now would you are are you looking for us to close this i y we've just gotten two phone calls on the last day wanting to and being there being told to come here so that they can go to the NLC and they don't realize it's not as quick I mean some instances it is but if they're not a level three or four already then it takes almost a year to help get them the services they need to then go to the NLC so maybe we can get that on the next next agenda and you can have a discussion with your principles yeah would that be soon next I mean you guys are okay
038with that there's there's always ways to delay I mean we right I get it yeah okay play the game yeah well you know I just think it's very important that we support them and they know what's best and I and I do thatting the AL any other discussion just a little information why I went over to the Hibbing school board meeting the other night I don't know but I did you know I had I had a a moment of labs Jud good judgment but I didn't stay for the whole meeting but on the brighter side uh we did receive uh Mr vaky and I went to the Owens Foundation um looking for some additional funds I just got noticed that we did today that we did receive $88,500 for Roses oh good class for the
039CNA class so I haven't heard anything on the larger request so I'm hoping that will turn out positive can we also try to schedule before the end of the school year a collaboration meeting because we said we would do it yearly and we have yet to do one since that well yeah we we can certainly try I I don't know if they're going to be receptive but we can certainly reach out to them could do it in the summer too in our meetings yeah and that that might be a better time during the during the summer well I think we need to meet before just to verify some of the rumors and hear it directly from them and I Know Travis has been hearing good things um about collaboration with some of our stuff but
040I mean it was a committee decision Hing members and Chism that we are going to do yearly and I don't know why there's such a push back even from our own board on trying to get in with the collaboration and trying to schedule it I've been asking since December to try getting something and nothing's happening so I'd like to see a collaboration meeting before the end of the school year okay noted any other discussion or any other items before us seeing none I'll entertain a motion to adjourn I'll May motion by director Raha support support by director PR Simon all those in favor say I opposed motion carries time is 543