001You good to go, guys? All right, it's 7 o'clock. Uh, we will call to order the Cleveland public schools regular school board meeting here at the media center. Today's Monday, April 28th, 2025 at 7 o'clock. Uh, we'll start with our adoption of our agenda. Are there any additions to our agenda? We do have two additions, one retirement and one resignation. Anything else? 7.2 nonrenewal non-certified exempted employee. All right. Looking for a motion for the adoption of the agenda. I'll make a motion to adopt the agenda. Annie makes a motion. I'll second. Kevin seconds. All in favor? I pass. Okay. Uh section 3.0 community comment. So this is the part of the meeting where we invite the community which thank you for everybody for attending. Welcome to our schoolboard meeting. This is the part of our
002meeting where we invite the community to come forward if they have anything they want to discuss or bring forward to the school board for attention. A little bit about this part of the meeting. We keep each speaker to a threeminut time limit time limit with a 15 minute per limit uh time top or time limit per topic. With that, I go ahead and open it up if there's any community comment. If you do have community comment, I guess you stand up or at least raise your hand and introduce who you are. I'm Katie Anderson here. That'd be fantastic. Newbie, sorry, I should say new to the school board meeting, not the school. And I have notes because I know myself. Um, well, thank you for letting me have a few minutes tonight. I just wanted
003to um ask that bring to the attention and ask that you would reconsider not allowing foreign and exch foreign exchange students next year. Um, our family has hosted a couple times. both times they've attended Cleveland and it's been a really great experience for not only the exchange students but our family and others in the school as well. Um both of those our family and other students from the school still remain in contact with creating lifelong relationships which is really cool to see. Um when we choose to host we're not just opening our home we're opening our doors for everyone who crosses paths with these students. They build real friendships with classmates, teammates, teachers and community members. They bring fresh perspectives, new traditions, and stories from places our kids might never get to experience otherwise. Uh
004those connections don't end when the year does. They continue on. Like I said, personally, we still speak with them daily. Uh when we talk about so much in our society about inclusion right now, I feel like not inviting them in really contradicts that. And I feel like it really closes off opportunities for our kids. And I would I don't see any better way to really embrace that feeling that society is pushing for right now than to invite students from other countries in to experience our small town. I understand that concerns were raised about past experiences. But I just wanted to be clear that the program that we've worked with in the past and are working with now uh share they have a very strict code of conduct. The exchange students actually agree to higher standards
005than most local students and if they break the rules or even worse laws, they can be sent home immediately. Share also provides incredible support with local, regional, state, and national coordinators ready to step in whenever needed. In fact, our regional coordinator is here with me today in case there's any other questions that people might have. Um, but the truth is hosting these students enriches our entire community. It teaches empathy. It broadens their perspectives and it creates lifelong bonds. We have a chance to show our students what real inclusion and community look like, not just in words, but in action. And I believe that Cleveland is the kind of school to lead by example. Anyone else? Sorry, I'm Elizabeth Morgan. I'm just wondering if I want to speak about the nonrenewal of the non-tenure teachers. Is
006that now or during that conversation? That would be the time. Okay, perfect. Um, so I have been become aware of a teacher that I think is a phenomenal teacher and has done a ton for our school in her time here. Um, not having her contract renewed. Um, understand that there's not reasons given um, for that non-renewal. Um so Miss Elias um is a teacher of my daughters and um we've had an excellent excellent experience with Miss Elias as a teacher. Um I feel that she brings in excitement into her classroom every day tries so hard to have new fun games ways to teach kids that um really brings a joy of learning. Um and so to hear that that's potentially going to um not be renewed for really no reason given at this point. um
007I feel is sad for Cleveland for our school and um something that I would like to have future conversation about. Thank you for your comments. Anybody else comment? Well, again, thank you for coming in to talk about your comments from the committee comment section of our meeting. It's uh a part of a meeting where we we as a board take information, don't necessarily reply back to it during community comment unless the specific conversation warrants it or specific details are asked. So, it can feel a little uncomfortable. So, I apologize for that, but thank you for coming in. Can we ask for details as far as why the non-tenure teachers are being um or why why that's happening? We can't because of data privacy. Um those teachers may ask for reasoning after the approval in writing
008after it's finalized. Final vocalized. that that's the difference between a a non-tenured or a non-ont continuing contracted teacher, a collationary teacher. Um we don't have to give the reasons. We will uh after the fact, but um so they will if they choose, they can have a written um response. Even if there's no like there's no like corrective actions or things ahead of time, it can just be just out. I can't detail. Last call for committee comment. Okay, hearing none, we'll move forward to our consent consent agenda. Consent agenda items are approved by one motion unless a board member respect or request specific action separately. Uh I'll note that we'll be approving all these in one shot. If there's something that you'd like to discuss, please go ahead and bring that forward. So, as part of
009our consent agenda, we'll be approving regular board minutes from the last board meeting, approval of bills and payments, approvals of contracts. Uh those contracts as presented today are Hope Sing professional as a new hire. Uh resignations from Ashley Jennan, ECF, Ening Williams, PAR professional. uh Rich Kern resignation as a black lady director and Jeff Skinner as a retirement. I guess the first thing I say is thank you to all those folks for what you've done for Cleveland. Appreciate it. Any comments or discussion or other topics or items? If not, I look for a motion. I will make a motion to approve the consent agenda. Motion second. I'll second. Any more discussion? Hearing none. All in favor say I. Against. Okay. Moving on to 5.0 of our board meeting uh presentations. Number one, we have Anders
010Early Learning Center. Um, most of you know me. Um, for those of you that don't, I'm Kate Anderson. I own Anders Early Learning Center. Um, I think that the what I decided I was going to do is kind of start from the beginning. um because then at the end of it I'm hoping that uh whatever decision is made uh that we can figure out a solution to the seven almost six years of um whatever's been happening we can get it fixed or work out a solution to to come together and work together on it. So my husband and I have been in the community our children um all attend Cleveland public school uh for at least I don't know the last 18 years. Um we have two still here and two graduated out. Uh we
011are taxpayers in the community. We open the center or build the center um in in the community. Um so we're invested in being here. Um it first started the our early communications with the school. Um I sat down with uh Brian at the time. My first meeting was July of 2018 to talk about the plans for opening a childcare center in Cleveland, Minnesota. Um after a conversation with him, we he invited me to the schoolboard meeting um which was held on November 19th in 2018. And at the schoolboard meeting um we talked about the collaboration the two could have. Obviously me being um money on my own, the school wouldn't fund this the center, but obviously working together to keep children in the Cleveland community from birth to 12th grade. Um it was talked about
012that they would help with providing a nurse for our um health consultant. Talked about school lunches. We talked about the school was obviously the referendum had passed by that point. And so, um, they had old equipment that they were going to give us, some smartboard, some random things that if they didn't need, they were going to reach out and they would be the first ones to be able to plan the the items. Um, so going forward, um, the school board gave me their support. We agreed that we wouldn't run a separate preschool program, meaning what Janelle or what Lenel and Jesse do. Um obviously we have preschool in our building because it's they need child care um whether they attend any preschool program. Um and so the original building was planned for 52 kids. Um,
013after my conversation with the school board, um, a month before we opened, I received an email from, um, at the time Brian, um, asking me to do a rate, uh, decrease for my preschool kids so that families didn't have to choose between the two. Um, I respectfully declined that. Um, I think that it was at the time we weren't even open yet. we didn't have a full house yet and so we just decid I just we had a good conversation about it and I did change my my preschool rate. Um the center opened in June of 2019. I met with Lenel and Jesse um to kind of make sure that we were touching the same things at least making sure that our letters and our numbers were the same because we did share kids back
014and forth um off the bus. Um that hasn't changed. I meet with them every summer before school starts to make sure that that's that that's being done. Um and then COVID hit. Um the school invited me to be part of the conversation about what to do with the school and the center to stay open during CO. Um we kept our doors open. We were able to keep kids who were in place. Um these parents couldn't stay at home when they went to kindergarten. They stayed back. Um we were in all the conversations that the school um had regarding CO um the center I mean we lost kids obviously um but the state stepped in and helped fund some of the missing money that the centers all childcare centers were seeing um in the summer of
0152020. It was August of 2020 or no, May of um 2019. Brian had reached out and asked if I would help with the summer sack program. We I have um email correspondents as we met about it. Um we talked about the Brown building next to my building was for sale. He they said that there was no money obviously to go buy it or to expand. and you guys were running out of room for the sack program and you wanted it to be better. Um, so we kind of talked about the chance of maybe, you know, me helping out or us taking it over. Um, in an email he gave me his blessing to go ahead and take over the or to offer not take over to offer school age care over at the center. Um,
016on top of that, we needed a little bit more space at the center. So, another conversation was had um about us putting an addition on. Um I made it very clear what our plans were um that I could take 30 school age kids. Brian uh told me that I had the right attitude for the entrepreneurial opportunity. Um so we started planning an addition. It the addition would house 20 more preschool kids. It gave us a lunchroom that we desperately needed, which was the main reason why we put the addition on. Um, and the lunchroom in the summer could have doubled for or could have been used for 30 school age kids. Uh, the lumber was delivered the summer. Um in 2022 we walked children over to the T-ball fields to the T-ball camp and the
017after school sack uh coordinator was over there. She saw the lumber being delivered and asked me a question um asked me what was what I was what was going on. Um I told her we were putting an addition on and she said, "Are you taking more kids?" I said, "Yep." I said, "We're going to take 20 preschool kids and then I have the opportunity to take some school age kids." Um, that conversation happened on June 7th. The next conversation I had about it was on July 9th at our son's baseball tournament on the weekend. We were sitting in the parking lot. I was asked again about it. Um, I'm not much of a liar, so I didn't lie. and I told her what we were doing, that we were going to possibly offer after school
018summer care. Um, two days later I got an email from the principal um telling me that I was not able to communicate with the after school coordinator. Um, I emailed back after I had 24 hours to take a deep breath. Um, a very short email just thanking him. Um the next day I got another email um a little less professional about um kind of staying in my own lane. Um that wasn't the conversation that was had. Uh she asked a question and I gave her the honest answer as to why we were doing what we were doing. Um August 1st the center phone rang. I wasn't getting groceries and my assistant director Megan answered the phone and it was Brian and Brian informed Megan that our lunch rate was going to go up and that
019if I had any questions I could. Up until that point, Monica and I have always worked together with a contract as to how much our lunch was going to be. Um I never worked with Brian about lunch. It was always between Monica and I. Monica checked in to make sure that we were um getting what we needed. um up until that phone call from Brian. Um August 2nd, I sent an email to him asking about the increase. He said it was a board decision. Um on September 6th, they reached out to Cali Remer, who up until that point was our nurse or a health consultant for the the center. um asking her to review the health logs because the relationship that we have with Cali was strictly she would check in once a month, sign
020off on our our policies and procedures and um just make I during co she was a blessing because I was able to kind of decide where to go from, you know, what we were what we were seeing and and some guidance with that. Cali didn't spend more than five minutes over at the center a month. Um, on September 6, I got an email from Cali saying that she was no longer allowed to be our health consultant. Um, and that came from administration. Um, we have invited teachers over. Um, we invited ECF to let us know if they need help. Um, the communication has never been there. Um, we were told by teachers that they were not allowed to come over. um and read the kids at the center. The guidance counselor was invited over. She
021could not come. She was told that she could not um that she was not allowed to do that. We opened the addition in December of 2022 um with the possibility of the 30 school age kids and we opened up 20 more uh preschool kids or room for 20 more preschool kids. We chose not to offer summer care because of the rift that it had caused clearly between us and the school. Um, and in fear of the only thing I had left from Cleveland Public School was our lunch, we decided not to open it. Um, to try to maintain some sort of peace between the two buildings. Um throughout the past six years, uh I have put I have been a preschool teacher for almost 20 years. I've worked for a religious facility for a majority
022of those until I opened the center. I've put my heart and soul into the things that I have provided for the children and the families of this community. The center attends the homecoming parade. We support um homecoming. We are a dig and pink sponsor. We put our name on the shirt. We have donated money for pig dig and paint. We donated to coaches versus cancer. We every year do a scholarship dollars for scholars for someone going into the early childhood field. Uh we're an FFA t-shirt sponsor. We're 4 age sponsor. We donate for boys every year. We work with Miss Whitas in the child development class for the last three two years. um they've come over and we've had a conversation and and um volunteer opportunities that the kids can have. We have done work-based
023learning for the last three years which we've paid the workbased learning girls to come over um and work with our teachers who I brought today just in support that not only does the decision of all day wrap around preschool affect me, it affects them as well. Um, and up until today, we're as of today, we have also off we've also given 23 Cleveland graduates a job. Um, a majority of those come back every summer during college when they're home. They come back for Christmas. They come back for Thanksgiving break. 23 students from Cleveland public school have worked with Andrew Early learning center in the past six years. The benefits of having us in this community is we send almost 20 anywhere from 16 to 20 kids to your kindergarten programs. We fill an entire classroom
024of children. Many are open enrollment kids. Um parents are able to leave their children from birth to 12th grade in Cleveland um in the Cleveland community. Our taxes which are high go to pay for um Cleveland public school. What this looks like if you do a all day wraparound preschool I understand that you're looking at 10 kids next year. ne the following year it could be 20. The year after that it could be 30. You you can't stop it. If you take 20 preschool kids from us, it doesn't pay for our addition. If you take 30 preschool kids from us, our teachers don't get paid. Child care centers are f are are mainly running off preschool programs alone. The infants, you're in the hole. You never make money with an infant room. toddlers, you're barely
025seeing a break even line. And preschool, because the ratios are higher, you see you see your profit. You see where your teachers can get paid. Um, we are not funded by the state of Minnesota. There's no other revenue coming in besides the tuition that our parents pay. paid teachers. Child careers alone in any child care center are not paid what they're worth, but they do it because they are probably the the hardest working people that that that I know because they don't get summers off. They are there till 5:30 at night. Um, if this community were to lose that, which will happen if we take preschool children out of early or out of child care centers, those families that we house now will end up in other communities. They'll go to Mano or they'll go
026someplace else where their parents are going to work and then they're going to go to school in those communities because those are the relationships that they have created. I'm hoping that this doesn't happen. I know um I have been part of a fellowship on the state of Minnesota last year. I've been in legislation the last two years trying to come up with solutions to make child care centers um a bigger topic than what they are. I do not think that schools should take all day preschool. They're too little. They're too little. The pressure of over structuring those kids. Um, they need to stay little. What do you do with them when they're at school all day long? They need to be able to have a place to to to just be little. I'm I'm asking
027for this not to happen in Cleveland because you you won't be able to stop it once you start taking all day preschool and it'll put I get you're trying to generate revenue. There's got to be other ways to do that without the expense of my business and I'm more than happy. I've met with Dustin last year. I've met with most of the schoolboard members at some point over the last six years. There's got to be a better way to make the relationship better. What's happening right now? That's all I got. Questions for Kate. First of all, thank you for coming in and presenting that to us. I know I appreciate it. I think I probably would speak for everybody else up here that appreciates it as well and what you do for Cleveland. I think
028we all see it as day and I think hopefully this conversation that we just got done having in this presentation helps guide us through our sack wrap our own conversation here in just a little bit. Thank you. Thank you. Hey, presentation uh two Chromebook 101 integration plan. All right. I was tasked with um trying to create a Chromebook integration plan for Cleveland. Um, a lot of schools are already way ahead of us. They've done this already. And we have definitely looked at this in the past and not done it because um because of I'm the only man here to repair the Chromebooks when they break. And mostly the main reason was budget. Um it was expensive. It was more expensive than us just having Chromebooks in a cart and leaving them there. But working with
029Dustin who came from St. Claire who was one of the schools that definitely been a one-to-one program for a long time. Um and chatting with about the budget. Um we found some ways to make it definitely work. Um so I started creating the uh integration plan again along with a list of help. Um the best part is is so many schools have already done this. So we're able to look and see what's worked for other schools and and take what they've they've done and fit it to our needs here at Cleveland. Um, so basically I attached uh I had Michelle attached in your guys's uh um Google document there. Um this a PDF of all the stuff I'm going to kind of talk about really quickly. My goal is to have you guys approve our
030plan so we can move forward with it this summer and starting next school year um will be one to one 7 through 12. Um so in order to do that though we have to slowly do it. We can't just buy all 7 through 12th graders a new Chromebook because it's too expensive. We're going and we already have an existing fleet. So, what we're going to do is over the next five years, we're going to plan to transition to the school of the one to one devices. Um, and basically our after going back and forth with it quite a bit. We decided that starting in fourth grade through 12th grade, we'll assign a Chromebook to a student. Um, that way they hold accountability for it. We a lot of schools have said if you assign it
031to a kid, they treat it so much better than when it's in a cart. When it's in a cart, you know, somebody breaks it, they just put it back in the cart and grab a new one. Um when we assign it to them, that's for the older grades. Uh you know, fourth fourth and up. Um the younger kids don't really have problem with them. We take good care of them. But um so the the one to one will only be 7 through 12, but starting in fourth grade, um we will um be assigning them one as well. Um so the plan basically would be uh fourth through 12 will be assigned a Chromebook. Students in grades four through six will keep their Chromebook in the school. The teachers can decide hey snow day or e-learning
032day coming take the computer home just like the other classes. Um but the for the fourth through sixth grader they'll stay in the cart. Uh students in grades 7 through 12 will be able to take them home whenever they want. That's expected of them. Um we've already kind of gone over this here internally and we will keep going over basically. you know, we've had the same questions as what if they forget to charge it and all that stuff. And we've already been addressing a lot of those issues already. Um, getting our our teachers ready is is a big part of it. Uh, integration plan is is making sure they're properly trained. Um, and I'll talk about that here in a second. Um, so with the the lifespan, we decided um, a lot of schools have
033been doing about five years for a Chromebook um, before they start to get too old and too slow. We're going to try to with this plan get six years out of it because budget wise it's just too expensive um for us if we only go five years. Um that might need to be adjusted over the next couple years but we'll be able to at least start with trying to make them last six years. Um um so right now our plan is for 7 to 12th graders we will assign a device we'll have a device maintenance plan will basically they'll have a website will assign it through campus right that you'll assign a $50 charge to them for the device maintenance plan for 7 through 12 graders. Um they'll pay that on infinite campus uh before
034the school year starts. um that will give them protection on any you know if they drop lose the device if they break the device or whatever that would cover the warranty for that um the plant the I do have a sheet called device maintenance plan if you scroll down a little bit you'll see that document in there but it basically talks about the first incident is fully covered by their $50 deductible um if they have another incident then there would be a another uh a minimum $50 charge for them um on top of the deductible. So let's say the park cost 30 bucks then they would only pay 30 bucks for the second incident. If it cost $120, they would have to pay 50 for that second incident. And then for the third incident, the
035the minimum charge for them would be 125. So that's a part of cheaper. So um that's how we would handle the device maintenance part of it. Um the other option they can do is if they want to insure it themselves, they can provide proof to the school that they have the device insured. Um and and then and then that be they'd be covered. It also talks about you know accidental damage if somebody you know damages someone else's computer and all that stuff that all the all the details are in that sheet there. Um a little bit thing too like you know the device man doesn't cover any accessories or anything. So they lost their chart or whatever that be something separate. Um if you look at um item number three um section D, we have
036our seven-year prediction on our cost. So in order to make it where we could afford it, because like I said before, I I looked at doing a onetoone program for a long time here. Um and it was always just too expensive. Uh working with Mr. cross art. We found that if we if we're able to move some of our budget from, you know, buying basically purchasing a lot of these expensive books and switching them over to digital learning, um which a lot of our teachers are already doing anyways, not all of them, but a lot of them are. um we're able to save money and then we can take some of that money and put a torque beef Chromebook um and then making sure that um the kids are getting a Chromebook that that's going
037to be fast and and everything um that can handle what they're doing. The plan would be they would get a new Chromebook, fourth grade would get a new Chromebook each year and then seventh grade would get a new Chromebook each year and then uh 10th grade get a new Chromebook each year. But the student is only having it for three years before they're rotated around the school. Um, the reason why this is a great time to be doing this now is I applied for an emer emergency connectivity fund at during COVID in 2020. Um, and we were able to receive about 250 Chromebooks um, for free, which is awesome. And we have them and we're using them. They're probably our best Chromebooks right now. Um, the problem with those is they're all going to end
038of life at the same time because we were giving them that, you know, in 2020. So, in the next couple years here, we're going to see, hey, these are starting to fail a lot more. um they're starting to get older. Um so we're going to create this have the big problem where we're going to be like, hey, we're going to have a big big expense. So this would get around that as well. Um I also attached some um some um Chromebook agreement plan. My my uh my goal would be for the 7th through 12th graders um when they sign in the first day of school, they can't even use their Chromebook until they agree to these terms. Um these will be posted online. We'll also send them out to the parents and families in a
039campus um um so they can you know know what what all the basically the acceptable use and all that all the policies that we have on internet usage and bullying and all that would be in there. Um, and then I also attached a sheet where it basically just parent tips and responsibilities where it basically just goes over um, you know, recommendations for if a student bringing a Chromebook over um, you know, kind of like a cell phone. I guess they can park it maybe at night so they can't use it all the time. Um, they're not using their room. That kind talk about um, how how we're doing that and everything. Um, in order to make this work though, one of the big things that we're worried about is the getting the teachers on board.
040Um so we've already started bringing in some classroom um tools um digital tools to do that. We we rolled out um securely classroom um which basically allows a teacher to when they start a class let's say for example they're starting English they hit start on their class all the kids on the Chromebook it basically locks them in says they're starting um and then they can basically push out URLs and it just opens up their computer to that site. Um, they can also see what the what's on their screen during that class period. So, if I was teaching, I could say, "Hey, I can see you're on ESPN. Please stay focused and I can close that tab or or force them to go back." You can lock them into things if you wanted to. Um, you
041can chat with the actual student. All this is logs for, you know, security reasons and stuff. Um, but basically we rolled it out about a month or so ago and our teachers have I've already gotten a lot of positive feedback saying, "Hey, we have kids that are playing games and doing all, you know, our filter is really good at block thing, but kids can still get around that stuff." Um, with our onetoone plan, we also plan to um ban bring your own device, which is a big issue with security mainly. The reason why we never have banned it is because it just you can't afford to force, you know, we don't have enough devices sometimes. We probably do now, but we always allowed to bring your own device because um we didn't have enough devices.
042This would solve that issue. Um kids won't be able to use their own device now, which when they bring their own device and they can have all sorts of games installed and they just sit there and they play them very fast. Um it'll prevent that. Um so that basically um a lot of that what we did is we brought in some St. Clair teachers and went over some of this. Uh, I actually was gone that day at a meeting, but the teachers came in. I heard a lot of good positive things about it. They came in and spoke to our teachers and basically said how it worked for them, some gave us some pointers and and got really good feedback on that um on on digital learning um and digital teaching. Um, we also I
043just got a a printer set up for for students. We're going to be rolling out before the end of the school year hopefully so students can actually try it out. We're going to install a printer by the elevator on the high school commons area. That way they can do some printing. I know one of the big things a lot of our teachers that don't necessarily want to adopt the change, they are worried like, oh, people want to have paper and sit down and still be able to write and stuff and allow them to be able to print some of the material and um and uh do that way. So, it's not like we're just going to force our teachers, hey, you're going to do everything on a computer. It's not like that at all. They're
044still going to be able to teach the same way. It's just a way to get a device in everyone's hands. So when we do have, you know, e-learning days or snow day, we don't have to worry about limiting what we're teaching. So yeah, that's our plan. Um I don't, you know, I I know that we've done a lot of worked hard on this and stuff. I know and I have met on this quite a few times and I met with Dustin and um none of this is I know a lot of people that I've talked to the first time were just they're scared like, "Oh, we're not going to be able to do that here." This is not new. This is the only people that are scared are the are the the students because they
045won't be able to play games on their devices and the teachers because it's something new. It's really not that hard. The students are going to adapt right away. It's it's going to be pretty straightforward. Um I do think it's going to be exciting and and it's going to be giving a lot of power to the teachers to to be able to keep the students focused. Um, so that's my plan and I hope that we can you guys see anything that you want to change or update, we can we can do that but get it adapted and and then we can u uh roll it out. Thank you. I don't really clash or anything I wanted to answer before. So maybe a question for administration and so assume that you just finished up all the appropriate
046training. How what do you feel the adoption rate from the teachers is today? assuming that you just finished all appropriate training. Um, is it 50% 90%. I would say it's probably up there probably 80% or so that are already I mean some of the younger teachers obviously have no problem. They just flew with this and they they were they live with it right away. Even the older teachers you know right away Mr. Appleton came in and he was like I don't want this change or whatever. And you know he wasn't being negative at all but he was he was just concerned. Um and we talked to him about it. Um, some of the teachers also talked about like, well, what if they throw targeted and stuff? And it's like, well, what if they don't bring
047their book to class? Like, what do you do then? And again, we're not the first school to do it. So, this has all been addressed. We just need to get our staff trained and and knowing I would say that easily 80% are not going to have a problem with this. Um, and maybe that's a little high, I guess, but I don't think it'll be that much of a problem. And I would just add to that, we've been spending some professional development time on it already and I think that's raised the comfort level of the teachers a lot. One of the younger teachers we talked about who's who's been at another school, new to our school this year, but she did a lot of this at her former school and our next early release, she's going
048to present some ideas to the high school staff as well. So, I think the more we get into this, the more comfort there is. I think the real advantage beyond some of what he's already talked about is we can keep our teachers curriculum much more modern. You buy a textbook and soon as it gets here, it's already out of date, right? This will allow teachers to be right on the cutting edge with whatever's new, whatever's out there. So, I think you're to answer your question, it's a slow process. There's going to be some apprehension for a while, but the more they work with it, the more comfortable they get. I would consider myself one of those dinosaurs, but I'm starting to get more comfortable all the time. And you know, and we did talk about
049like with African, it's not like we're saying that you you got to get a Chromebook out and you can't teach it now. It's just an option. It's not an option. Yeah, exactly. Um and just to get them, we don't want them to say no to things. We want them to try things. So, um I think it's been going great doing the the professional development. And I mean, we're not we're not no one's going to be blinded when they come into school next year. they're going to be prepared, which is awesome. We've been doing a good job of that. And for those that that it's a growth process, too. They can phase that in. Like you said, you don't we're not switching everything about how you do, you know, as you're comfortable. You add this and
050you add this and you add this. So, some people hit the ground running almost entirely off the Chromebook and and others will do a little bit here and a little bit there and gradually use more and more as they're comfortable. And we have a great staff. I mean, we have people in elementary and secondary and there's always someone who knows a little bit more or use it and they're always willing to to help the other teachers and we have a I mean that's something that is nice to see that we always have I you know bo can you help and she's always willing to help them and I think we're already that is the game the teachers who were apprehensive after we had Claire come in and talk after you know co we we've been
051mapping for a long time and I showed best in some of our what they're already doing. They're already ahead of the game. They're just nervous. Anything new, any change is always nervous. So, um I think they're sitting pretty well and they even asked if they could go over and watch it and ask in St. Clair apprehensive teacher. So, they're hopping into it more than I thought they would. So, it was a good direction. Every question that we I talked to got in front of the staff and talked to them, answered some questions. every question that they had I had 17 years ago when we first introduced it at Sinclair. It was identical. Um so I understood their ramp prevention and I think one of the things that I emphasized was we need to train the
052staff. We need to get them comfortable or this is going to fall like a rock. And I think Tavish and Scott, Dave, Alyssa have done an incredible job of of getting that comfort level to all the teachers. One last thing, what do you need? What kind of lead time are you looking like you need for a decision on us to do this? Uh basically, so either way I can order the devices and it's just a matter of um how we distribute them. So we can I mean no matter what we're going to do very much the same thing. It's just how if I say hey we're taking them home now versus putting them in carts. Um so not much will be changed. So plenty of time obviously for the summer I need to be able
053to work on it and get it going. Um so you know you have until then at least to order the new ones. You want to get those ordered? Yeah. And I've already ordered I've already ordered Chromebooks. So the Chromebooks are going to be coming and we're going to we need to order them anyway. So that's whether we go one to one with them or whether we keep it in. So they're that won't affect. Thanks. Thank you. Okay. Moving on to section six of our regular board meeting here. Old business number one. Sack wrap around proposal. Yeah, you heard at the work session um Amber gave a great presentation on what's going on. We know from the community survey that that was submitted that a lot of comments and and such were the school needs to
054raise activity fees, raise ticket fees, raise more revenue from within the school district. Um and the EU wants to see that the referral program offers that an opportunity to do that. Amber gave a wonderful presentation ready to move forward with that approval. Um you can do a couple things few things today. You can have another discussion and not ent. Or you don't have to do a thing in it. Nothing happens with it. But I do want to remind you that if the operating levy that we will be going for does not pass, chances are we will be cutting um positions and preschool will be one on the order of being brought up to be cut whether it's one position or the entire program. Well, this is an opportunity to solidify some of that money and
055and establish um at least I don't think you're you're going to break even in preschool, but you get a lot closer by doing the wraparound and and having that there. Preschool is not funded. It's all done through tuition and then backfilled through the general fund. So we do not get re revenue from the state board school and it won't be an everyday all day preschool that's mornings afternoon and then going to the after I guess my opinion um after looking at all the all the different aspects of wraparound care um I don't think that it's been given enough thought um as far as who it affects, what it's actually going to do for the school as far as if it's going to be helpful other than the the projected income coming in. There's always more
056expenses that come from that. Um you know, they're taking it from somewhere else to it's not a a cut and dry thing for me. Um, I think we have an amazing resource in this community that um, as a school district we need to work on that more. I I don't think that this I don't think this is the right time for it. Anyone else for discussion on this? I guess I think Nancy I agree with majority what NY's feelings are too but I think I need a little more time to kind of discuss some of the options and my suggestion would be to table it a further date. I'd agree with that. I think there's more I think we could use utilize a lot more information, utilize our community resources and make sure that we
057are ready for whatever would bring what is the negative effects it could have and the positive effects. I also think utilizing and being respectful of our community is also a big part of this. I guess I'd echo the same I guess uh you know going through this there's there's obvious benefits to having our own care program but I think there's also obvious benefits looking at the amount of kids that the center and town brings in to our town that probably wouldn't be if it wasn't for for that. I guess with that I would I would look for a motion to state the direction of the tableling is what we want to do or if we want to strike it down for now or just let it go I would look for a motion. Hey Ryan,
058can you hear me? Yeah. Hey, sorry. I just wanted to maybe jump in quick. I kind of um felt like Kate's, you know, timeline of where we started and when we came to, you know, was pretty helpful. And maybe just wanted to interject a few thoughts about, you know, how we got to where we, you know, are today as to looking at the program. Um, I think, you know, Kate's comments, um, did a good job summarizing kind of how it's gone in the past couple years. And you know there was a point in time where we didn't have any space um to even potentially think about this uh right and so I think that was partly you know what's changed or what the school board was trying to weigh is you know in the context
059of having a little more space uh having a new sack coordinator um and Amber who's you know put a lot of effort into the program and and has a lot of pride in it um combined with you know what you said Dustin to begin with about trying to make sure we're using resources appropriately and if there's a way to generate some revenue, you know, from a program that helps um eliminate some of that deficit, you know, it's our responsibility to look at it. Um, so I think, you know, all that's kind of important context, too, as to, you know, didn't just pop up out of the blue and and there's been a lot of thought into it, but I also agree with all of you and I think that it's going to take some more
060thought as to if or, you know, when or it can be or should be executed um kind of based on all the feedback we've we've all heard. So, um I guess like I said, if there's a motion to table or or wait or have a committee or or do something different in the meantime to see if there's opportunity, um I think we probably have some questions we can discuss between the groups too to to come to the right conclusion. So, thanks. Thanks, Scott. direction or if we want to just let it go and table it and not take any action on it, I'd look for that. I'll make a motion to um let the issue fall and um develop. So whatever um to make up a committee to work with people in the community to
061find a better solution. I'll second that motion. We have a we have a first and a second. Any more discussion on this topic around the direction on that motion? Just so everyone's clear, the motion is that we are not tableing, we are not saying yes or no. We are making a motion for a different direction to involve people from within the school, school board, admin, people within the school in the SAC program and the people in the community. Is that what we're agreeing to? Okay. With that, I would say all in favor say I. I motion carries for a second. Thank you. Okay. Uh onto our next topic. Section 6.2 two preschool preschool playground installation. Just wanted to keep that on your radar. We talked about the work session. Um they are coming down to
062install on the nth and want to make sure that it is happening. Do we have to have anything I can't remember from one session. Do we have to have anything ready by then or do they We'll have to take out the tide and the fencing. They will do all the other stuff. We have to haul the chips and any dirt away that's needed. Okay. So, is that all set up to be taken care of before the night? Okay. Good on that topic. Next topic, operating for discussion. We talked about the uh community survey. I said that I would put together a um presentation and shoot it out to the community as a result. So basically the results were go after another uh levy at 750. So, I'm asking for an informal approval of 750 for
063an operating levy, which then in turn starts the process of talking to a lawyer and getting a proper paperwork and resolutions and wordage of what that all entails and then come back in June with a formal resolution with that operating. That makes sense. Yeah. Any more discussion on that? We're all good with the formally going forward with the 750. Yeah. You want the uh you want a motion or a second on that or is it going to either way I talked to them today and they said you can do it just in formal a formal resolution. But you're you're doing the true formal resolution. I think we can move forward. Yeah. All right. Next topic, old business softball coaching realignment. We uh due to Rich's duties as as an AD, it kind of took him
064away from the softball program more than he had anticipated. Uh so we did a realignment with the coaching um with the current staff. just shuffled the staff a little bit, moved April up to the head coach position because she's available and can be there every day for for practices. Um Matt will be an assistant and Rich will be discussion on that. Look for a motion to approve the changes. Make a motion to approve the changes. Yes, you made a motion for a second. I'll second. Have a second. All in favor say I. Motion carries. Next topic, fiscal year 2025, revised budget. Yeah, this is a throughout the course of the year. You revise the budget as you go as different things arise. The preliminary budget is on the bottom. the current revised budget. And I
065guarantee if we went in there today and looked at it, it'd be different than what you're seeing in front of you. Um, but you see some some of those funds, revenues increased, expenditures decreased, expenditures increased, and revenue decreased. That's just the eb and toll of how education works. uh with some of those we get a lump sum at the end of the year and changes it completely. So um we do know that part of the special ed revenue that we had budgeted or thought was coming in um is not and part of that or all of that is due to the leg and funding with special ed. So, it's always at least a year behind. And it's based off of what we spent last year. Um, which wasn't as much as what we anticipated to
066spend this year. So, we didn't get that actual revenue to cover all cost back bill. And then next year, you may get more revenue than what you projected. And it kind of goes back and forth. And that's that's the frustrating part is always special ed. A lot of lot of frustration with special ed funding, but that's part of it is it's always lagging at least a year behind and you don't get fully reimbursed for all your expenses and special. Okay, thank you for that. Any other questions on the revised budget? Looking for a motion to approve or revise budget then presented. I'll make a motion to make motion. Now I second. Any further discussion? We'll vote. All in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion passed. A 7.1 non-renewal of nonur non-tenure teachers. So you all
067have this in your board packets the documents regarding that. So all this will work as we look for a motion in the second if that happens and then we will vote on a resolution on a person by person basis. Each one individually. Yeah. Each individually. So the first one we'll be voting on is the non-renewal contract for Llay. I'll make a motion to introduce the following resolution of the nonrenewal of made a motion. I will second it. Andy second here. We'll do a roll call vote. Uh, vote your yay or nay. Andy, yay. Nancy, yes. Ryan, yay. Kevin, Molly, yes. Pass. Moving on to the next. Uh, this will be the resolution to move to nonrenew Jordan Elias. Any discussion on that? Otherwise, I look for a motion. I'll make a motion to introduce a
068non-renewal of burden wise. Nancy made a motion. Is there a second? Hey Ryan, this is Scott. I'm I'm still here. Sorry I missed the last one, but I'll second it. Okay, Scott, a second. Okay, going to roll call vote. So, Andy, yay. Nancy here. Ryan, yay. Kevin, Molly, Scott. Motion pass. The third one, this will be uh looking to make a motion for uh the resolution to non new Madison Schustster. There's no discussion around this. I'd be looking for a motion. I make a motion to introduce the nonrenewal of Madison sho. I'll second. Have a second. Any further discussion? A roll call vote. Andy. Nancy. Yay. Brian. Yay. Kevin. Yay. Molly. Yay. Scott. Yay. Okay. A minute. Okay. Next order of business. Uh number three, roof repairs v talks about the issues that we're having
069with some of the roster repairs that need to be done. Um we have two quotes there. One from Jackson, one from Phillips. I would recommend accepting the Phillips at about 16 to do the necessary repair this summer. Any discussion around this topic? We talked about it on our work session kind of at length what needs to be done. Any discussion on this topic? Now I look for a motion to go ahead and approve the selection of the Phillips Brother roofing coat to fix the roping issues that we have. I'll make a motion for Kevin made a motion. Any second? Any further discussion? None. All in favor say I. I motion carries. Next order of business, work comp SFM quote. Um, pretty self-explanatory. We have to put money aside for workers comp every year and this
070is based on the estimates that that they figure out on you know past experiences and things that potentially could arise and then they estimate how much we should set aside and put that in there. There isn't much little room for anything that feel like this is is this up or down on the B? I think it's a little bit up, but I think just about every time you do workman's comp, unless you have a huge number of claims, it naturally goes up a little bit with with the cost of everything. So, we're fortunate. We don't have a ton of claims discussion on this. I look for a motion to approve. I make a motion to approve the work from SFM. Any made a motion? Second. Have a second. All in favor say I. I. Motion
071carries. Okay. Next order of business. health insurance. Yeah, you have to go out every so often to to get health insurance quotes. Uh we had Medicica and um submit quotes for the health insurance plans for our group. It's then taken to the the work groups and they're throwing it and they actually make the determination on which plan we want to use moving forward. and they chose to stick with Medica because it was the better option out of the two and that's where that comes from. So this comes back to us the teaching. Yes, they have their own question in their discussion. That's something that we did take. Make a motion to accept the health insurance. You made a motion. I'll second. I second. All in favor say I. Opposed. Motion passes. Your last order of
072new business. We have a couple maternity leaves to approve. First one would be for Emily Alber, third grade. Clar Lynch, second grade. Congratulations. First of all, I will make a motion to accept the maternity leave requests for both and Emily over to bring in more clippers. Made a motion. Do we have a second? Kevin second. All in favor say I. I. Motion carries. Hey, item 8.0 item discussion. Board member reports. Um, embedded, you guys got a tour of the embed billing building last week. Um, saw the some of the destruction that is caused um by the students that are there and some of the fixes that have already been done. Um, so I think that was helps put things into perspective as to when I say we need to spend more money on this stuff.
073That's kind of where it's coming from. You're right. Yeah. Um, boardwise, everything is going well. Um, the numbers have increased a little bit the last couple weeks. Um, new students coming in. Um, plans are in the work for summer school. Um, the re the remodel uh will start as soon as the equipment or the supplies come in and hopefully be done by the first week of August. so that um they'll be ready for next school year. Um um negotiations committee met um and we would like to um we heard back from open at any time the Yeah. So we had uh so Dustin had heard back from the negotiations committee on the school and the teacher union side on kind of what their thoughts are. I guess we would we'd like to meet with them
074sometime quite soon so we can get a ballpark feel for what they're looking at because we we got to do some budget work here coming up. You know, not that we have to agree on anything at the first meeting, but it would be kind of nice to at least get a feel for direction on how this is going to work so we can plan accordingly to pass the budget here in June. Yes. It's unfortunately in the situation we're in, we don't have a lot of time or equipment a lot of stuff. So at least a preliminary meeting would be would be good to at least know what we need to plan for from a budget standpoint with that group. Hey, any more board member reports report? So FFA had an Earth Day cleanup on the
07522nd. uh student sad students against instructive decisions uh hosted a blood drive on the 23rd. Mr. Roberts led that the sad students. Mr. Gibbs is um has taken over the MCA testing done a great job of of you know shuffling people around to make uh test times longer. So thank you for your hard work on that. [Music] Yeah, the state FFA convention is going on right now and we've got 10 students attending that. Miss Schustster, Miss the E are taking care of that. And looks like the student council for the elementary is planning to do a dance for the young kids, uh, fifth and sixth graders May 2nd. Proms May 3rd at 7. Spring jazz coming up Monday, May 5th, and the band concert at seven on May 5th. And the sixth graders do a
076shadow day every year. So that's coming up May 9th where they'll get a feel for what's what it's like to be a seventh grader in high school. And the National Honor Society is doing their induction ceremony at 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday the 13th of May. Music concert for elementary is Friday, May 16th at 1. then kind of getting into this. The class structures we'll share out tonight for elementary um preschool again with low numbers. We we're going to start out with two, but we'll possibly move to one if we have 18 again in the morning. Um we'll shift one of the teachers around. Kindergarten, we're go with two teachers. First grade, we're going to do the two teachers in a combo. Second grade will be two teachers in a combo. Third grade will be two
077sections. Fourth grade will be three. Fifth will be three. and six will be two sections. Uh preschools, two to start out with, possibly one if we have under 20. Kindergarten, we're going with two. First grade will be two with a combo teacher. Second grade will be two with a combo teacher. Third grade will be two teachers. Fourth grade will be three teachers, fifth grade will be three teachers, and sixth grade will be two teachers. That's that 17 we just and that's the same uh breakdown that we shared with you. Then there's a jazz concert Saturday, May 17th at Valley Fair. That's about all we have is the band concert, music concerts all being streamed. I We'll talk to Tavish. We'll get that 102. They have that streaming stream. Still planning on doing something similar like
078last year, sending out who the kids's teacher is at the end of this year. That's the plan. So tomorrow we'll send out all the information. So yeah, see we're so one thing I had talked to Justin about probably talk but I've had a request from a few different parents in passing and you know knowing that the end of the school year is coming up and it gets crazy busy around here with events and different things going on which is fantastic. It was asked from a couple different families. Maybe it would be nice if we could get a schedule. I know you a little bit. An elementary one pager, hey, here's the here's top eight things that are going on over the next six weeks or whatever that looks like from now to the end of
079the year, I think would be tremendous for parents to plan a little bit, get some info on some grandparents or, you know, whatever that looks like for everybody. Yeah. Yeah. And we did talk about that. Um, Rich was part of the conversation. cabish Alyssa I think was part of the conversation. Um what our plan is to get all that information on the activity. We didn't want to send that we're not going to put field trips on the activity just for fear of what potentially is out there. Um those will just go directly home from the classroom teachers. But that's the plan. We I think we've shot out an email to everyone to get dates and stuff out. Did we do that last year? Yeah, we'll do it again just to make sure. But we talked
080to just the one stop would probably be the best for that. So sense just so it's somewhere. Yeah, we'll definitely make sure they're all on there. And even putting out like for public events, just make those flyers that we do for Panda and put them out there for every thing. Just get them out there like you said, get it early so they know when it is and make that happen for like um you know concert and the talent show, things like that that are open to public. I I I do know some people in the community don't feel that communication goes out as much as they would like, but I will tell you right now the communication that's put out there in social media and such from Cleveland does circles around pretty much any school
081out there right now. We don't realize that because we're here. We we don't see anything else. But Tavish Alyssa do an incredible job. Um, I shoot them something and it's out before I think I can even shut off the pull down the email, you know, they they get it out there so quickly. So, we're very fortunate. Well, those people that don't have Facebook or those types of thing, I mean, the website is constantly updated, too. So that's that's nice that you know they they've done a fantastic job over here everything. So thanks for that report. Transportation director. Yes. So um last week we had our state inspections. Um state patrol comes in once a year scheduled. um goes through all the vans, all the school buses, and then also goes over any records that they
082feel they want to check on. It's not a it's a compliance check. It's not a you're doing it wrong or you're doing a bad job. It's are you doing everything you're supposed to do. Um so, we were fine in in records for what they wanted to look at this time. Um maintenance wise, all the vans um passed, all the buses passed.