LPA School Board Meeting

001submit to my request last Friday Tom so I told her oh my God not going to text Mar I'm huh minut okay it is 6:30 I'm going to call the meeting to order uh with roll call Mark here Becky's here Lynn here so clearly we don't have a quorum yet but we anticipate a few are coming still so we just won't be able to take any action but we'll proceed with non-action items up until then please rise with the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for yeah we can't even approve the agenda I don't think so moving on then to recognition of visitors to the board just one Lake

002Park aaban Public Schools welcomes all attendees at our LPA Board of Education meeting while this Gathering is public meeting it is essential to clarify that is a meeting for the board to conduct business and our commitment to transparency and proster and Goodwill the LPA Board of Education invites members of the public to share their thoughts we kindly request that public comments be expressed in a civil courteous and thoughtful manner any disparaging remarks towards board members employees or community members of the Lake Park ottoman school district will not be tolerated to ensure a balanced and efficient balanced and efficient session the public comment period is limited to 30 minutes with each speaker allotted a maximum of three minutes we kindly ask each individual speaker to State their name and address before presenting their comments during the

003meeting board members and administration will not respond to comments we appreciate your cooperation and thank you for your support of the students at LPA Susie do we have any speakers while I speak okay I'm here with with lak's area Patriots but first I want to read this prayer dear God we thank you for your guidance for these school board members here tonight as they seek to make good decisions for this school Community give them rest from any worry and peace to rest in the outcome from what they vote on in this meeting guide us safely home and let them awaken to your love in the morning and in the name of Jesus Amen my concern or our concern is um pornography and our library books so we would like to put together a committee of

004two or three parents of grandparents and uh go through the library especially to the otoman library and see if there's some books in there we have a list of 76 books that we would like to see if they in that library and uh see if they're there and let the district know that thank you thank you any other Susie that was it okay all right thank you um moving on then we're going to back up to 1.4 approv approval of the agenda Susan welcome do we have a motion hi motion motion by Susan do we have a second I'll second it second by Linn is there any discussion all those in favor say I I I oppose same sign motion carries moving on to 4.1 uh Elementary principle Mr bar yeah report was submitted and

005then just a quick highlight just acknowledge some of the hard work that goes into the fun events at the end of the year uh Field Day committee has been meeting to get that ready and all of our grade levels working on some field trips got our school of excellence celebration coming up on May 21st and then a shout out to our Elementary carnival committee um that's put on through volunteer hours from our Elementary staff to host that fun evening and a huge fundraiser that allows us to do field trips and other fun events at the elementary so just a shout out to all the hours that go in behind the scenes uh to make that happen Carnival is probably 2 three months into planning for that one fun night so just a shout out to

006our staff for all the time they're putting in those Mr bar can you just um remind our school board the what the Excellence of workation what the Excellence award is about and yeah can you explain who received that at the principal's conference I got to be the one on stage to get the award but as behalf of the elementary our leadership team worked on an application so where one of five schools selected in the state of Minnesota to receive that um our elementary has been a school of excellence longstanding but it was going to expire so we went for another applicant and around of getting that and got that recognition as a two-year process through Community surveys and then some reflection and plans for improvement and then highlighting some things are going really great too

007so our um executive director of our elementary principal Association will be on site to hand off the award and we'd like to make a kind of a community to show off the building a little bit too obviously there's still some construction happening and then we'll have Ninja um anywhere there to kind of entice some more family involvement and kids getting to be part of it too but yeah exciting it's a 10-year de designation so carry that forward for many years and then um yeah it just was a really good process too you have to dig into what you're doing well and then really reflect on things that you want to get better at to and highlight so it was a worthwhile going through it and then as part of that you get to reflect on

008other schools applications so it's nice to kind of Steal ideas or to to kind of tweak Things based on that too so I would like to just reiterate what Mr bar said that's pretty prestigious War considering five were award in the state considering it's an ongoing award for Lake Park aob I think that they deserve a lot for that and I think their leader deserves a lot as well thank you CL congratulations and I'd like to Echo I know the school carnival is a monster of an event so thank you to everyone working on that any other questions or comments so I have one on it's under April and it's the 23rd through the 25th and it's the MCA so and the only reason I asked this is I was in Arizona when my grandson

009was testing Y and so it was an anxious time in fact his teacher had been said to our daughter he's showing some signs of test anxiety so we as a family had to talk about that is this a really tense time for this grade and our teachers well it's third through sixth grade yeah teaches um I would say yeah Statewide testing is of course a milestone we had like a kickoff this year and we talked about just doing our best we do an incentive but we do a grade level so there's not that pressure um we're really trying to look for growth in that but of course it's I mean we talk every fall how limitting a Statewide test when it's a one day one snapshat so to that obviously just the nature of that

010kind of adds to it we try not to put more on that but then there's that balance you also want kids to take it serious because we know we'll talk about it and highlight it next fall on that too and it'll kind of be used as a ranking of course for our school so with that comes a little bit added pressure of course too but we tried to kind of lighten that and then anything and we um we rarely share scools with students um it's really meant to be more of a systemwide reflection but we try to make it really Broad and then over growth and kind of the more the effort than the Perfection use of it thank you but there certainly students that get nervous about it or teachers for that matter any

011other questions or comments okay then moving on uh Mr Meyer uh report was submitted I'm going to focus on our Middle School uh samanda Schneider is going to help me with a a presentation uh that will will be on the screen here uh you want me to bring that up now yes please okay okay okay so we're going to focus on first I'm going to go over the behavior data and then the Mana is going to go over the academic data so you go to slide three okay on this screen here uh two years ago we started a new online educ climber that's where we report all of our incidents or referrals during the day before it was kind of a paper copy and then trying to track there your first slide will indicate uh

012back in uh December of 2022 uh this is when we first started this process uh our seventh graders uh when it says one or more three or more or five more that's the number of times that were referrals written by teachers to the office so our seventh graders were 25% of our referrals three or more of them had 41% and then five or more was at 46 our eighth graders were at 26 32 and 26 so for a total of last year we had 51% or one or more three or more was 74 and five or more was 73 so this is where Mr Hanish Dr Gaffrey uh Mr bar and I started talking about how can we support our middle school kids and that's where the Middle School discussion started so if you go

013to the next slide in December of 2023 so f f forward into this year uh seven uh or seventh graders on the top there so it's range in from about that roughly 12 133% of referrals or seventh graders eighth graders were in that range from 25 to 32% of our referrals so the totals were kind of between that 30 to 44% % so you fast forward to the next slide so comparing the two years last year when we didn't have a middle school about 70 70 some per of our referrals came from seventh and eighth graders and then this year we're down to 44% so the difference is kind of that in between that roughly about that 25% of one or more three or more or five more percent so the furls have went down

014um we the next slide we only have since we're in our second year of the edgy climber and we're only in uh our only data that we could pull from is our eighth graders so in seventh graders uh they had 25 41 and 40% of our referrals then in eth grade they went down to roughly that 25 to 32% so our eighth graders this year uh the difference was uh one one or more was kind of that even range and then it was roughly about that 15% that their referrals were down this year the next four slides will be exact same as the first four but we're going to fast forward it from November actually excuse me from December to April so again April of last year we were kind of in that about 50

015to that 50 to 58% of our referrals uh we did add uh on the next slide the reason that the number has not went up we started adding our tardies to uh the referral list so the numbers are going to go up a tiny bit versus just having behavior peripherals uh so if you notice the numbers do go up a little bit and then if you go to the next slide it'll be the same thing April of this year uh but even with the tardies added if you look at the bottom number their feral lights are still down about that probably the average about 14% And then if you go to the next slide that was kind of the same thing our eighth graders this the only data we had because of the second year

016uh so one or more is kind of that Baseline it did go up uh with three or more but the important thing is it did go back down for five or more so that means our interventions that were in place uh have worked with our teachers uh things to know about these uh the data is teachers were required this year with the non-exclusionary ACT to uh almost in said it before it was almost like a warning but then it was on the teacher side now they were on educ climber we have a tracking device that way we can see if a kid what uh interventions could be or supports could be put in place for our students and then overall uh our behaviors have decreased uh large decrease in both uh both grade seventh and

017eighth grade uh and we really strongly believe it's due to the interventions uh the team time our teacher able to meet every day and they're able to support our students consistency and be able to address the problem more effectively versus before when we didn't have the time to be able to do that without a middle school let Amanda take over on the academic side so yeah academically um with this Middle School model and the schedule that we created this year students work getting math and um literacy instruction every day so we really wanted to see like did that hugely affect their academics where was it at do we need to make tweaks and changes um I will say that you know I just started in this role last year and I would say our star

018reading data and math data wasn't being collected as regularly to show us that growth or the not growth so we had to go to EDG climber unfortunately like some years last year our eighth graders nope our seventh graders last year eighth graders this year never ended up taking their star reading test so we had no data to compare so I tried to find the most similar data to compare so that we got a snapshot of what these students were showing us as far as proficiency but I I wanted to be blatantly honest that it's not a fair May toay comparison just so you know Amanda I think it's fair to mention that last year we didn't even have a win class or win teacher till mid year till mid year absolutely that too um so

019that can play a huge difference in um the student scores as well so looking at overall reading proficiency for seventh grade and eighth grade over the last three years um again this is going to we're going to say it's our end of year it might not actually be it's the snapshat we have but 19 and this is star reading so it's not MCA just so you're aware that it's not the state comprehensive test it's the star reading test um so 19% of our seventh graders were proficient according to Star reading and 34.6 in eth grade we had some growth and some fall um as you would you know this seventh grade class was only at 19% were they going to grow and be more we would hope growth but they fell back a little bit

020um and then this year's seventh graders so that would be that this year's eighth graders are currently sitting with our last star test having been taken in March we didn't want to give them a star reading test the same month they were taking their MCAS they already don't like them but we try to you know give them a break this month so that their focus is the MCAS um our seventh graders are sitting at 43% proficient and our eighth graders at 31 so there was a growth that we got to see um from those seventh graders last year as eighth graders this year next slide and then here is our math data so again not perfect comparisons but our seventh graders were at 26% in 2001 and 22 50% of our eighth graders were proficient

021this is the one you like to see where those seventh graders then moved to eth grade and 36% were proficient we did have a small drop with our seventh graders from last year to this year um again maybe that's contributed to the every other day math which is why we are looking to switch that around so that core classes are taught every day so the nice thing about having thata is that we can adjust our instruction to meet those students where they're at next slide so yeah they're going to be tested more consistently since I started in this position because there was no one leading that testing per se um and my hope is to get even more of a set schedule where may we do both reading and math but maybe it's in every

022other month so students don't get so wore out from the testing um but it is important so that it can guide our instruction um and then with the new read act that is coming out we're going to have to test all students that fall below a proficiency level that the state sets for us and then create interventions for them so we're going to have to spread this model through 12 eventually um but the react is focusing mainly on the elementary now but know that it is coming to go through the high school next um so yeah I also think a big factor that our our proficiency either grew or stayed similar um is that we did start the win interventions where some students if they were way below grade level were pulled out to a

023small group reading instruction instead of the core reading instruction and then on top of that those students could then get hit again with what's called tier two where they'd get another double dose so they were getting two times of literacy instruction throughout the day or if one of the studios was a math help Studio which I was surprised a lot of students actually chose that they had choices for other Studios they wanted that help because they felt it in themselves that they wanted that help which was great to see for kids um so students could also get some more math help and then again where we saw the need and next year where we see the need we're going to be able to adjust our instruction or which level of that intervention they're going into

024um to better meet each kid's needs and we're already doing it but the react is going to mandate it so we're ahead of the ball a little bit there too next we are in the middle of trying to choose a new English curriculum or choose a English curriculum um we really want to wait for what um MD says are the approved curriculums before we choose so that maybe we could get some of that money refunded however we are looking to start a pilot next fall so that teachers have curriculums in their hands um so that they're not having to create it all and can focus on differentiating their instruction as well I also want it's important to note about the the curriculum adoption after the red came out the state um went through a study

025to determine what five curriculums would be in alignment with science of reading we can use whatever curriculum we want but in order to get reimbursement from the state's alignment with the science of reading it has to be one of their approval so they came out with approv curriculums now we're waiting on second and more than likely it won't be till January or even later that they come up with their list um for high school or 612 curriculum um but doesn't mean we're going to wait for them we're going to get something in teachers hands that's our goal so um and then we are making a switch that instead of being pulled out of their core English class for a tiered intervention they're going to um be pulled out of a social studies class social studies

026in English align so greatly because what is all literacy about trying to comprehend social studies learning about the history they're going to PR really well together and with the teachers in middle school having team time they can collaborate that social studies teacher and that wind teacher so we're really hopeful that that's going to be a great uh change for us and then tier three can be done either in an alternating Studio where their studio is like a math intervention or a reading intervention and every other time maybe they choose they get put into a reading intervention but their next is a choice um and then again same similar with math we're going to try to get some math interventions going to and so yeah that's the biggest change is that we're going to have those

027core classes every day now um we really felt that that was an important change for us studios are going to stay daily and then we'll be able to have multiple levels of interventions for students and change students that are in them based on their growth or not growth so that's our plan for next year questions questions yeah perfect thank you thank you this had an interesting survey had the middle school kids do on Studios I just asked some five simple questions so first one was how interest were you in taking Studios uh 87% of them were very interested in taking Studios uh how important was creativity to them uh either they were is important or very important 91% of them was important to them uh next question was how important was collaboration to them 85%

028of them thought it was very important to them and then it just has some open-ended questions on like what was your overall experience of studios and uh just some comments that they made was it made a class that I was able to take that explored my interest uh Studios made it more uh made me want to come to school was more interesting uh it made my day studios are fun I was able to experience new things and it gave me a new perspective on things so be have some interest in things coming from our students right any questions for Mr Maya not a question but I have a statement would be great to see that in some kind of a presentation from the students maybe that could be a studio I think it could be

029a studio because I hearing from the students that how it engaged them because I think right now there is there's a clash out in the world as far as the way ucation should be and what it will become so I think hearing that from the students would would just I think that would help a lot of people understand the perspective better I can work on that so how are we we're Gathering data in seventh and eth grade we have Studios can we can you just remind us what happens once they get to the high school level what happens in ninth grade like do they still have Studios do they still uh right now like with the studios it's I'd say work in the progress that's what we like to incorporate like we're uh students that

030are our biggest thing they get to be the senior and they always say I have two credits to take so how can we provide this kind of experience for high schoolers so that's a a work in progress yet uh our Middle School is kind of our our starting point and then be able to build from there Madam chair I have one of my the parent updates me and I child care for many years ago but he is a seventh grader so he is so engaged in the studios he goes home on the weekend and he's trying to do extra work and yeah just absolutely fantastic like man have said that we're incorpor some kids that need extra math that need extra Ela help so that's going to be again continue to be one of the

031studios so it's pretty cool that the students know that they need help them and we're providing it he signed up for the extra math out too yeah any other questions or comments okay then we will move on to 4.3 business manager and I believe Lisa is on Lisa please let me know which do you want to pull up uh well you tell me which one you want me to pull up first um just go I I believe oh sorry I was thinking they were um let's go to the March 2024 Finance reports okay okay so this is a report kind of giving um an idea of basically what's attached um the expense and revenue summary by fund so if you go to page two we should have the expense and revenue summary by fund so

032the top section is all the expenditures year-to date um period to date year to date I guess I should say that in order annual budget period to date and year to date and then the second half of the sheet is the revenue um same annual budget period to date and year to date by F so we could go to page three please so this report shows the breakdown of the expenses by it's really by Pro prr code so um or program range salaries are in their own range and then benefits in their own range so we have payroll sub total for each fund and then we have the services supplies Capital expenses and other are also groupings of project or program codes and then we have the um nice little graph showing where all of

033the expenses uh how they broke down for the month showing 6 and a half% for salaries and wages and then this is a reflection of what kind of cash we have available right now so in March um 2024 the the general ledger balance shows three 2.3 million while the uh bank balance shows 1. 895 million and then further down we show a comparison of the year to date um from last year at this time to this year at this time as compared to the budget um so I think a a note here in my mind was the general fund revenues are 1.2 million 1.3 million higher than they were last year at this time and the expenses are 1.1 million higher than they were last year at this time uh Food Service looks like it's

034doing pretty well on the new program where the state basically is picking up the tab for for Food Service um then community service um and the building construction is on here The Debt Service and Student Activities um Lisa can you explain the community service there how Rees at the extent the art because I know this is a problem we had in the past can you say that again I didn't quite catch it sure so right now our revenues in community ed are surpassing our expenses and in the past it's kind of been flipped around so that's a good thing in my opinion is that correct well part of the reason that is the case is because there was a transfer um to make up for the um uh the shortage that's been um that's been

035in place over the few last few years got you so the the bo approved payoff of the overage correct yes okay and this last page on this report is um the expenses the project expenses that occurred in March so $246,000 so the other items were basically I was thinking that maybe they um go in the consent agenda but I wasn't sure I guess so you have the masloff statement the state Bon Lake Park bank statement and the persing bank statement and then you have the detailed list of uh expense or payments that were made in the month of March whether it was by check by credit card by wire whatever it might have been that's and those those are consent agenda items yes are there any questions questions so Lisa a few months ago we

036heard about um you know we were over and significantly over we were going through everything and moving some shifting had to happen between different accounts and categories are we through all of that now you know for for the most part I think as we find things we fix them but I'm probably at this point not uh looking for things to fix it's just if they come up I fix them if if that helps so do we have a projection of where we'll end the year at no I guess that isn't something I've done um at this point but I certainly could um do that um I'm meeting with both Lisa and am Mana scansen in Grand Forks on Monday uh we set aside time to look at budget projection for next year and have a

037proposed budget and we can I can talk with both of them that time and have something to ring back to the board as well I assume this will be a big part of our work session in yes May so we'll that will be actually the major part of the work session any other questions or comments from the board okay thank you y hearing none we'll move on thank you all right moving on then to 4.4 superintendent report um kind of a abbrevi report medical health insurance increase came back at 16% unbeknownst to us in January they made a decision to tier school districts based on cost so we're in a trust the purpose of being the trust so cost and revenue everything spread out across so when you have high claims in one district and

038low claims in another District it EV out they made the decision to tiers so we're in about the midle of seven tiers so four or five um we have a pretty large increase in cost we don't have the highest I talked with Lakes Country service Co-op they have a 25% and then we have some districts that only have a 5% so when we met with the Brokers um I asked them to go out into the market and see if they could find a comparable insurance test the market to see if there's a more affordable plan um we're in the trust for two years but we don't have to remain in the trust and as you know we have to bid out every two years for insurance but we're not um we're not relegated to just

039going every two years so they're supposed to get data we Sherry and I Sherry primarily got data together to send to them um there's tot us it's about a 12-day turn on for um different providers to give us the information so once that's back we'll take a look and then I'll bring it to the board if there's a difference in something that's more affordable board can make a decision to switch to that company if not then we'll continue with Medico um it's very shocking to us and actually our the Brokers were shocked as well online school we discussed this recently I met with Jeff Drake from Fergus Falls he's a superintendent there there he's one of three schools in the state that has an online school within the school um they have I explained to

040the board before they have about 700 enrolled in that school of that about 500 are open enrolled from anywhere across the state so they actually use a company called stride um stride does the advertising and enrollment we provide teachers and admin staff to cover and then we negotiate the revenue and the district picks up the ADM for that so this is just something in a discussion stage right now I don't know if you noticed perm um recent news article is actually moving in the same direction it's a way to pick up enrollment through school choice so basically somebody in Noah Henny pen School District can open en roll into our online program um but it's a way to boost enrollment still I'm I'm waiting the waters I have two calls in so far to stride

041and waiting for a reply um so I can get more information and know exactly what the process is so I'll update the board when that happens is Detroit likes also looking I thought I read an article about Detroit likes they have an online one as well they do okay um we have the the new housing update I got a call from um a jake Benson from epic company we have a meeting it's supposed to be the 24th but now it's tomorrow we're going to discuss ad advertising and investor possibilities um they're actually plan for completion that construction is this summer so it's a two unit um project the first unit will be this summer the next unit will be the following summer as you remember turn key is the construction company working on the apartment

042buildings the first one is supposed to open June 1st or around about that time depending on construction delays and the second building will be constructed right after that open um sometime before fall so we have that that's going to bring in an increase in enrollment but we don't know I mean that's unpredictable at this time and then I have a legislative update for you here um if you want to read through that we're getting towards the end of the session uh they adjourn May 20th so there's quite a bit of interesting information there but I also want to point to a couple other things um the House and Senate education supplemental budget bills uh they have a comparison so house to Senate in there if you want to take a look remember if the U

043if one uh party comes out with a bill and the other party agrees to it without changes then goes to the floor for a vote if not it goes to conference committee and there's a few in there that go to conference committee and it also discusses some policy issues in there that will affect our district as well so um read through that and then if you have any questions let me know I'll do the best I can can answer them but also contact our legislators that's uh Senator koic and representative Joy if you have any concerns with that and I've been in contact with both and then I have the insurance cost increase I'll just pop that up real quick for you to look um this is where it shows you see at the bottom

044our 16% increase overall so it's comes to about hundred and some thousand so it's an exera increase so if we can go out and basically go back out on Market what is the Ben I mean do we what are the potential disadvantages of doing that none because we don't have to accept it we're already in a trust so we don't have to bid it out we go back and Market seek bids does it hinder participating in that trust in the next round or anything like that no no and um so lak country service Co-op is in the trust and they had a group of superintendant that joined in the discussions for that we went with our Brokers that we typically go with who actually um they worked um bids and then they actually negotiated with

045those companies and Medica came out the lowest by far at about 9% we were with Health Partners at the time and they came out with 23% increase um so there's really no downside um if we decide to get into a trust again it's not necessarily Medica that's just the controlling entity of the trust it could be anybody it could be a sford trust it could be Health Partners which is a trust as well um our main thing is looking for exact same coverage at a lower cost and that may not come back that way Insurance in general is a volatile volatile market right now any questions for Dr Godfrey okay hearing none then I'll move on to 4.5 technology director Mr McDonald's in the back I see any questions everybody had a chance to review

046that okay then hearing none I will move on to 4.6 activities director yeah I just want to touch on a couple things on there um just kind of updates from when I submitted this on Friday um Jaylen Taylor um finished 13th out of 24 individuals in um in poetry down at the state speech uh event this past weekend um just want to congratulate all those individuals that had very successful seasons on that speech team and just thank Mr baky for his time and uh commitment to the program and picking up where Miss Snider left off um and her services that she she put into the speech team um and then just want to touch on a couple things towards the bottom there uh we're working on trying to finalize some summer X stuff um we're

047going to plan on getting kind of a brochure kind of put together some sort of document that's just got everything kind of all in one document so it's kind of easier to read kind of easier to find um we we are really really close to finishing up our registration links um as well so we we're planning on having that information um up to the public and registration all opened up probably by mid to late late in the week here um so people can start getting registered for all the summer activities that we're going to offer so and we're working on trying to finalize a couple other camps as well for the kids and so well once we get those dates and times um all figured out we'll we get that information out and then I

048guess last thing is I think your social media presence is probably more active than ever so get an opportunity to follow Facebook page please do so post and stuff quite frequently on there updates um for our activities Department any questions or comments yeah comment nice looking page on the summer wreck I've been waiting for this that's an excellent nice looking page I followed the link easy to understand thank you any other questions or comments I won't shop now that's good okay we'll move on then to 4.7 Transportation I see Mr Jensen here um he's doing a trainer trainer Workshop um so it's technician it's conference coming up so I okayed him to go to that that'll come out of professional development funds um he's got the information down there for it um he's got his

049bus list in there as well and remember we did go down to um we have the the new uh lease bus is coming in but we went from 2 to 1 coming in in the fall um yeah it's all there questions or comments got question where we're on the track for nine ders in the fall yes uh 10 10 10 so fully staffed fully staffed correct any other questions or comments that's a welcome statement after the last few years of Transportation uh Mr Jensen has done an amazing job recruiting and training as well so he is a trainer remember we had Kyle Benson before who was supporting us in that area but um Mr Jensen's a trainer as well so he's been doing that I heard from one of the bus drivers we were just

050standing at the gas station together and she just said that he is phenomenal yes um [Music] um which nice to hear from from a bus driver okay then we'll move on to 4.8 buildings and grounds I have nothing more to add than so here for any questions you may have on that everybody had a chance to review that report I want to remark on the still doors uh Mr Whit Rock did pick a very nice color for it matches our well I think it'll look very much when we talked about a wrap for the door even or an LPA sticker on there I think they're going to look phenomenal and we don't have to worry about them breaking as easily or not shutting or not locking we'll be able to secure that area a lot

051easier any other questions or comments I have a question the status of the heat pumps uh the Heat promps uh are on order um I did speak to Jared at the uhr and it's looking like probably end of May they're going to receive them so shortly after that uh plans on uh getting a crew out here getting us on a schedule for us to get those installed I'm told that it will be done fairly easy because it's the ones that are right over here um the one that's going to be is all the way on the other end of school so he said that uh he'll have it done and we probably won't even know he was there sounds great any other questions or comments okay hearing none then I will move on to the

052consent agenda which includes 5.1 consider approval of payment of independent School District 2889 bills claims in the district financial report 5.2 consider approval of minutes March 5th special meeting 5.3 cons contract approvals and 5.4 resignations and retirements Madam shair may I add something y um just a little bit of discussion resignations if youve looked in there and I'll pull it up uh Mr Vin Hanish did submit his letter of resignation today which is a shame for us um he did accept the position of West Faro public schools and that's something he's very excited about um um but I can tell you and I think I can speak for other administrators and our teachers we're going to miss him so he brought a lot to our district um very much needed um he supported our high

053school and our elementary principal to the point where they could get a lot of their instructional leadership task done um and our kids love him and I think parents love him and he's just a great leader to have around so we're going to miss him okay before we have any more discussion do I have a motion I motion motion by Susan do we have a second a second second P Mark okay now discussion yes I'm s in to see those names are leaving and uh they had a great positive influence on our students and staff it's uh sad I didn't see them any other questions or comments so and it it's really a comment not so much of a question because I remember we put a lot of time in really building out the rationale

054to have an assistant principal to be backing up both schools both principles will we be dedicating time to figure out how you're how you're going to handle that next year so the position still stands we as we need to go through the budget development process first okay and see where that lands but that'll determine whether or not we fill that position for next year um when enrollment allows that position will be filled again okay um and I do believe there's a need and I think we have board members that fully agree there's a need I I know our principles do and our teachers agree there's a need for that position again it'll all depend on where our budget projections lie okay thank you the questions or comments okay hearing none all those in favor say

055I I oppose same sign motion carries 6.1 donations pull this up here okay uh thank you many on this month so thank you to all the community and individuals for supporting all of our programs and students um so this first one is a clarification from March meeting adab and fire department $400 to the Middle School philanthropy Raiders give back for Sunnyside Center wish Sunnyside Care Center wish list and then Heather and Benjamin terson for PBIS $50 DL rotary Breakfast Club Elementary activities $500 exro Evangel and Evangelical student assistant homeless $800 $ client Insurance Agency Elementary activities Carnival $100 fols buildings Elementary activities Carnival $250 Anonymous Elementary activities Carnival $100 Jean and Robert shortz weight room $500 Vicky and Allison grandall weight room $500 State Bank of Lake Park archery $100 Don and Lori asalon weight

056room $100 Wagner Insurance fishing team $100 BTD fishing team $500 Raider booster club weight room $2,500 Totten Amanda North weight room $1,500 Ellie Hansen Farms weight room $5,000 State Bank of Lake Park Elementary activities Carnival $100 BTD archery $500 Raider booster club baseball cage equipment $1,000 Midnight riders robotics $5,000 team Foundation weight room $5,000 J Sherman fishing League sponsor $250 lak view egg fishing League sponsor $500 more engineering fishing League sponsor $500 kln Enterprises fishing League $500 Midnight riders trap $500 white taals unlimited trap $700 and St Peter Lutheran student associate assistance split between high school and Elementary $390 and again I'd like to say thank you to all those businesses and individuals any other comments I have one com does this do they go to the district or they go through West Central initiative

057these come these come from to the district so if it was from West Central would say either West Central or um the um Foundation Legacy Foundation okay sometimes the Legacy foundation will let us know where that specifically um people you know donate for specific items in Legacy foundation in that case if they let us know they'd be named it would say okay other questions mam chair is uh Dr Godfrey is are all the different clubs and stuff when they're giving it to a certain like for weight room and stuff is that parsed out in the budget reports or in the the financial reports it's not in the financial report it'll be under activities and under activities and it's parsed out okay so so they keep that money typically in a spreadsheet so you'll see just

058a lump sum usually okay and then on the spreadsheet it'll tell what amount goes to okay there's two different fund accounts for each type of activity would there be a way to see that by the work session in May when we're budgeting for okay thank you any other questions or comments okay moving on then 8.1 second read policies so this is on policy number 606 66.5 620 and 70 four everybody had a chance to review those again do we have a motion a motion motion by Brian do we have a second I'll second second by Lynn discussion okay hearing none all those in favor say I I oppose same sign motion Carri 8.2 superintendent evaluation so I had a stakeholder that attempted to access the Google Doc and wasn't able to so I added it

059in as a PDF so our stakeholders are able to see this this is the document the board asked me to compile um for our last meeting um these are the two standard areas or goal areas that the board decided they wanted to use for the evaluation it's first round that's the teaching learning with Goal staff development and student support um with supports for students and then um we wanted to know how it would relate to the um the Strategic plan so I pulled the areas out of the Strategic plan where it does relate so academic empowerment Innovations to engagement fore again down supports academic empowerment Innovation student engagement for season and social emotional learning and then if you look at the rubric that's just out of the school boards Association um handbook so that's what

060um Barb dor had shown us this so that's how you um rate it and that's the criteria for the different rating sets that would be the ranking when we review then correct correct now this is just a template this isn't the document for the board to use but again um what you had Tas me with was just developing kind of a framework for the board to look at uh dependent on what their decisions were and pulling in strategic plan areas that are associated with those this is what I determined um especially with this treat plan what best is fits and what's most relevant so those two standards that are listed there um just to recap a little bit those were identified by the board collectively when we met for that um training with Barbor from

061msba correct correct and the same thing with the goals questions comments when so I've got this document in front of me this is the resource for this so when I'm looking at this so you can see of course I've read it a lot and underlined a lot and so when I'm seeing that we still have to have performance goals and So within those performance so it says so the performance goals and the goal has to be in an outcome based so my question and so then what I did is I just so I took so we'll take standard six so I took standard six and I've got the Strategic plan information that Dr Godfrey added aligning that with the Strategic plan link can you tell us what six is six is teaching and learning curriculum

062okay and that's the standard six thanks for asking that so that is and then and then the evidence but one of the things I think we still also have to do is what is the evidence that we will use to do the evaluation so when you mentioned that to me before I thought the same thing but then if you look under the rubric for the grading or the the the numbering so assures comprehensive staff development plan exists in Alliance with school district and school specific goals complies with law that would be one piece of evidence I think and assure staff development programs fit School District specific plan goals and priorities and focus on increasing student achievement so when you you mentioned evidence that's where I think evidence could play in but where I don't understand

063is as a board where will we get that information so will it come out in reports will forance tonight I have the our professional development plan for next year when you look at that it's aligned with our strategic plan so that would be a piece of evidence and then the outcome of that would be a piece of evidence so it should be in the reports we are provided at work sessions Schoolboard meetings Etc correct yes but I think it would be helpful for board members also to know which reports so even for Dr Godfrey to know which reports will align with that area of evaluation we discussed prior um I don't recall Mark maybe you can help me out but we did discuss at one point when we do our board meeting to always have

064it linked back to what area of the Strategic plan it aligns with and so maybe that would be helpful I think that would be great discussion and work session on how we develop it further from there right and then in here according to this document because it says so this so before we get started with this that we as a as a board also have to come up with a goal not only does Dr Godfrey have to come up with one or two goals we as a school board have to come up with a performance goal which is what I think this is so these are the goals that the board came up with staff development and support for students St so that's that's what was gleaned out of the when we did our training

065she had us the board rank order and myself rank order um the standards from least important to most important the same thing with the goals staff development is a goal but then it's broken down in the rubric how that goal is determined is accomplished um so these These are the board goals and so then if they're the board goals though my recommendation would be we put it into a goal format because just saying staff development is not written in a goal format isn't the rubric in a goal format though but I was as a teacher I would never it's a rubric and so the the the performance goal has to be written as a it has to have an objective in there that says here's what the outcome will be and here's what the outcome

066might even you know I was when I was trying to map that out in my head even going back and taking this document here where you said next steps because also then we have to put a timeline together and in that timeline there's a midpoint evaluation there's all kinds of documents that go with this timeline other thing is we need to next look at the job description to make sure that we are all of it is matching based on if we're following their information so I I I think that we need the goals need to be in performance goal format so if I'm following you you want a set a goal and then steps along the way to the what the outcome right to the outcome so if the goal is professional development what is

067the objective are we increasing it to do this at a certain point versus just the goal being professional development well going back to the rubric though ures comprehension staff development plan exists in aligns with school district and school specific goals applies to law but then Ur staff development programs fit School District specific plan so other words the the Strategic plan so the our professional development plan aligns with the Strategic plan so I was thinking just had a thought would it be would it be beneficial if I contacted our neighboring District to see what they used and see how they've done that mam chair I um I think that I mean it does state in there I think we just have to flush that out just a little bit and maybe in the work session we

068can get that done so that we actually have the document to correspond with it but it is saying it in there about the you know plan goals and priorities and focus increasing student achievement because that's the ultimate thing to to get the highest of most effective rating that's what we want to see right and what you're saying and I'm not trying to put words in your mouth but you're saying what does that look like AB CD to get us to that point well I as an educator right now am very concerned that we're using the rubric to write the goals because I think the goal should be written and then choose what does the district want moving forward I think it's probably in the Strategic plan in these documents the standards are just when we

069start to do the evaluation piece but remember this is a moving forward this isn't a looking back so even when I read some of that it's really looking back have you insured does insured but to me what what out of that teaching and learning what is that six months from now that that you want we heard some of it tonight even in that Middle School the district to look like when it comes to the teaching and learning Madam chair I think I understand what you're saying as well this looks really similar to when I evaluate young children's development so I get this but in each child's development when I plan their goals I don't just stick to just this because I don't know each child and like add things in So yeah so I I'm

070my personal opinion is I'm I see what you're saying I'm not necessarily in disagreement my concern is is that we collectively as a board have managed to kick this whole process down the road for about a year and so I just want to see us I mean that's not fair to anyone right it's not fair to Dr Godfrey It's not fair to our district we need to get to a point where we're actually like so I'm okay I think personally if we want to talk about it at the next work session but we need we need to do some self-inflicted deadlines I think well and and I think um yes it has been maybe I don't call it kick down the can um and being on the committee um but it's been a lot of

071it it's been a lot of but also the board hasn't really and we're at probably the biggest point of where can we put an hour in and come out with it at the end I believe we can come out with because number one we as a board have to write a performance goal also I believe that if we just stuck with it maybe we need somebody to help facilitate maybe we're bring brainstorming out ideas but I believe it can be done M chair I think the more we do this to we'll get really good at it I think we can accomplish it yeah I do I'm Ready the RO so do we want to accomp I mean do we want to commit to accomplishing this at our may work [Music] session well and I I

072was looking at timeline so and correct me on this if I'm wrong so summer fall of 24 using their documents summer fall so and then winter 25 and spring 25 so the may work session would work if we're following those timelines wouldn't it it would provide feedback for the next school year yeah I think we can do this is there a is there a framework we could set up prior so that when we get to the work session we can just do the small little chunks and and not waste time trying to figure out what that format looks like or what we have to actually call well and I mean if you're on the committee and you're in education I'm just giv some guidance that well page 11 they pretty much so right here on

073page 11 they talk about the school board and superintendent established two or three District focused goals and then one or two professional development goals so yeah I um I think we do need to figure out how to bring it together and I think we have because we've narrowed down we've narrowed down two standard areas teaching and learning and then student support my question as a district have we with what the future could look like right now um um should should we be adding in the should we be adding in school district finances or anything else moving forward well Madam chair I think there was actually one or two at least two areas that could for sure have been added in when we looked at them but that's when we talked about doing it a six-month

074one so just get our yeah originally we were hoping to just do the six month and then kind of get back on track for a year not to say we couldn't add a finance and I just I think whatever those goals that we come up with have to be achievable in whatever time frame we designate don't be TR the one problem I have let's look at this support for students you know and their strategic plan relates to Wi times like well I'm not an education professional at wi time to me I wouldn't know were to think where were that achievement for when time be you know so I think that's up to our Administration to recognize that and and uh set that and I do too but when you evaluate how do you evaluate that

075well that's that's the our our problem right now is finding like a timeline of meeting these uh different uh goals or stand for these standards these goals a timeline for it and we're kind of spinning our Wheels there finding that outcome for a year you know are there data points that we could point to though or have Dr Godfrey point to for us to pull out to measure and and look at those different data points to help us measure that's when how much has this changed because I don't know the date on this one but even so when I when when you're were talking Middle School up here I was looking at this cuz this really this came after the Strategic plan and then where we're going next and so then I was I was

076listening up to the middle school and I went okay so it looks like in the Middle School you've moved forward on some of these that came in here so would some of that be at a a midpoint and then so then when I came so still in middle school now we come over to here work based learning came over to here and then so here are next steps for 2324 you've got 10th grade and 11th grade so is some of this in progress this is some of this already in process and the Strategic plan that can be part of that well Madam chair maybe we should have let's see what is it April if we looked at our May workboard session that we would actually probably think of more ideas and maybe more uh points

077we would want to look at to Value it when I I really think the only I mean I really here's where I with this the performance somehow just coming up with a performance goal under support student support standard number seven what kind of a goal would that goal be well Madam chair I think you would at where where we evaluated him at here so then say if he got a lower evaluation there we would look at what we what you would need to get to the next level so are you looking at a backwards or a forwards you can only look forwards yeah so only forward so it's really almost more like a professional development kind of goal so I I don't sure I do agree we need to move forward I mean we can

078set something you know now and then discuss it for the next one right and I'm I'm okay I'm I'm okay everybody with if you want to move it forward this way I'm well it can evolve you know uh not you know once we set it but the next one I'd agree with that just so we can get started and then take our takeaways and see how we can improve in the which is kind of where we were at last uh work session meeting I think um you know it was like let's just get started and then figure out so what are we wanting to do tonight are we wanting to um discuss this again at a work session and come up with at that commit to coming up with one or two goals in each

079of these areas I would caution you know if we I agree relate back to the Strategic plan as long as that truly is the superintendent's duties or is that more principal duties or you know what I mean we have to make sure that we're not like Financial reports yes the superintendent oversees the finances but he doesn't really do those reports somebody else does correct so we just have to make sure the goals are actually goals of his performance can we go back to the msba and just ask them to maybe help us get that last jump start say we picked our goals now would do you typically and either give us an Exemplar document to go off of I can email Barb Dorn um and we're not starting over we're just basically saying okay we

080we've identified them we've selected them and that way we don't have to Circle and and because this gets to be a lot for you know to try to pick through and then go okay what's the three things that we need to focus on when really the the data has to come from Dr godre for us to well that's the evidence right that's what I'm saying right yeah um that's the evidence and um so maybe even just circling them back to them I mean maybe maybe page 11 where they talk about establishing the goals because first they establish the goals and SEL select the criteria and then the district Focus goal maybe maybe msba doesn't doesn't advise most to do that I don't know that's why it'd be nice to know just if they what they

081do advise and then go off with that for the next work session maybe and I agree with Mark I think we got we got we got to move forward for his sake and the district's sake so I think at least if we get some clarity um that'll help and to stay on a track so we could be and one last thing is there a a way you can just like Point these things out I keep a document it's like how this is how that relates so then we look back at it kind of I can come up with something I'm sure so like for staff to mail them oh we did this and this and this and they have a book you know report things so so that that gives our evidence back to it

082over the year you know yeah and I will support whatever whatever you whatever you guys come up with okay so are we in agreement to do we want to move forward tonight or do we want to work on this on May 8th with you understanding we're GNA we're going to sit there until we have it ironed out is this is this an action I know or is this um well you just would you would just table it turn your volume off you turn your volume off your volume your volume's on on your phone turn that off so we would just table then okay is that it um someone's going to make a motion I think so I make a motion to a tablist for next month I suck in it okay well any discussion all

083those in favor say I I I okay moving on then to 8.3 public comment at work sessions the discussion we had at our L last um work session I told the board I would put this on the agenda discontinue U public comments during work sessions only just for the sake of Schoolboard work and business actually we had spoken with our district attorney about another matter and this is brought up and she said typically you wouldn't have um public comment during work sessions and then I pulled our districts around those that did have work sessions did not have public comment so this is work sessions only not Schoolboard meetings correct correct and the rationale was because you're there to kind of work right get down to business correct we didn't always have work sessions at least

084in my time on the board we kind of implemented those year or two ago I I think do we have a motion can do a motion in a second then we can talk about it I make a motion I'll second it motion by Brian second by Lynn okay discussion thoughts just so the public know that we welcome comment during the standard meeting questions Madam Georg I'm just making it clear that it's only during cork sessions okay any other comments okay all those in favor say I I I oppose same sign motion carries uh the 2425 LPA District professional development plan uh I don't know what just happened to our it says oops okay there we go well this is weird so now this shows up under public comment see the second So currently we have

085I'd like to remind the the board and our stakeholders that professional development funds oh I think it's there we go professional development funds or Reserve funds we get from the state um they can only be spent in professional development so regardless of how much we have reserved all that needs to go to professional development currently have $29,000 in our professional Development Fund reserves projected revenues for next year the 1,00 uh 114,000 and our reserves for next year will be 143,000 the estimated plan costs for our professional development for 2425 is that 85,000 I'll pull that up and share it and again this alliance with their strategic plan as you can see in the center um as we developed this through a community that was one of the um one of the requirements was that whatever

086was chosen was shown how it went back to align with the Strategic plan so as you can see we're going to work with cultivate 21 to continue to align our standards develop our essential learning outcomes learning targets and proficiency scales backwards design will probably be put on hold the reason behind this is we want to link PK through 12 L targets have a document we can share with the public to show at each grade level what the essential learning outcomes are um there's a goal right there so there's 21,000 then the next is the letters one and two uh if you'll recall I wrote a grant earlier so we do pay a stien for this wrote a grant earlier that was um we awarded $20,000 to pay for those stiens so for the next uh

087year and a half and we've already used portion of this to pay stiens um so that will be a cost not needed to cover uh a book study reciprocal teaching that will be conducted by um primarily Amanda Snider it be a K12 book study reciprocal teaching is a teaching strategy that we can use in all areas especially when we um look at reading um the cost of that is $3,500 they wrote a grant um to maximum of $112,000 through Education Minnesota we're waiting to hear on that at any rate we're going to include that in our plan regardless if it's funded or not uh responsibility Center discipline this we did discussed this several times U prior to tonight this is a pk12 uh districtwide classroom management plan uh we'll receive the training next year and

088put it together uh Implement in each class so it's a two-year actual training uh this first year we have on-site training and then we have coaching days we also have some webinar uh resources that we're going to use uh that's in the plan Alice training which is active shooter training we do have uh two trainers on our staff that conducting this training that $44,000 for um stiens for the extra time they're going to put in to conduct that training uh Hearts saer course it's going to be a districtwide training for um using our aads uh CPR and different first aid measures um I estimated $5,000 going in Prior experience that's probably going to be flexible um because I don't have a cost our school nurse Chris is looking up that information for me and then

089uh teacher personal professional development this is our third year doing that where we give a 300 stiping to each teacher to use for their own personal professional development could be a conference or webinar or could be a credit class they want to take but there you have it the total is $85,100 and again go back to um total cost there but we'll still have reserves after that of approximately just under uh $60,000 so that will be used for a variety of different things um but the majority of it will just be carried over to the following year do you oversee all of that uh I don't oversee it by myself um some of it's delegated um but I'll oversee making sure that these events occur there's the performance goal I mean it lines with this

090doesn't it teaching and learning yep curriculum okay so uh do we have a motion so move Mark second by Lynn discussion so Lynn's already identified it as a goal oops sorry I jumped ahead on that one I saw one more time I just want to reiterate for stakeholders in the board that these funds can only be used for this purpose of no other purpose they can't be transferred into a general fund they can't be transferred into an unrestricted fund they stay exactly there whether we use them or not it'll just accumulate until the department of Ed decides there's a cap on what we could carry over in reserves so we're trying to get the best professional development we can to train our staff to support our students and also to maintain the Integrity of our

091strategic plan and whoops go ahead I was say Madam chair um does this have to be approved tonight if have any changes if you have any Chang Su yeah suggestions um what Chang well well the only suggestion I would have is there any way that we could do 500 or 400 or a little bit more for each teacher to have her professional development um each individual this year if it's possible or next year I'd say do I would say at this point in time I'd wait okay but um I'm asking the board to approve this in Mass so we can continue some of these we have to do contracts with the vendors and we can't approve those until the board approves this but because those are simple amounts of of money that that's something I

092can do at my level okay and we have we have done and we have allowed professional development outside of that Prof personal professional development amount yeah just thinking all the changes in costs and Conference costs and everything going up there something unfortunately we haven't had a lot of teachers that have used it we have had some okay and I'm hoping more will because it's a freebie and it's it's I mean there's a lot of opportunities yeah and that's why say maybe a little bit more might incentivize to use it if it's a little bit more I can do a survey and kind of take a look at things that they have in mind and see how we can match that Madam chair how long have we had where the teachers can use these ones since

093I've been here three years have they increased over the time the teachers that are they have not so we also allow coming so if one teacher says I'm not going to use their funds I don't have a problem with them sharing with another teacher we've talked about that just haven't had a lot of people take advantage of this particular opportunity I was going to say maybe when you know one year you have a couple and then you have a couple more because they spread the word yeah and there I assume there's they know that the training is there or the dollars are there and yeah we put it out every year and we'll do that again do we um encourage them to use them they trying I've been trying um and a lot of times

094they'll say hey I'd like to do this I said that's a great use of your professional development funds we have we've had teachers that take some college courses and use that yeah um we've had teachers I know that they've used it for conferences so we have had some just not the amount I would had hoped yep um first a you know like you know CPR training I I don't know how often you have to renew that I know that's happened in the past once two years I wonder if that's something that may interest you know for the bus driver and pair you know the pair right this is a districtwide training the heart saer talking about yes um so we're limited on the amount of training days that we can give for Paris um due

095to the contract so this will be one that we're going to offer it to them with a stipid uh payment teachers will definitely be part of that um but a support stuff because the contract there's only so many days that we can require them to do training but you're correct this should be all district members because especially when we look at aeds which we have in both buildings if you're not trained how to use it but it's no good isn't it in Factor liability if you use it and you don't have training on it well they do have what they call the Good Samaritan law so using the ad I would say yes but doing um doing uh CPR no because they good samarit law so Madam chair so the CPR training is basically for

096the teachers it's for the teachers and they're going to get support staff in and offer them a stien to do it um because that'll be an extra training dat does that apply to the bus drivers as well yes all of our all of our because I know just on uh my bus alone we have a peenut allergy and then my daughter's diabetic oh yeah so I have about 10 seizures a week at the elementary cont wow any further discussion it's measurable we're going to go down a rabbit hole not you pause really that's my question though with with all of this it is measurable it's a two-year plan but it is measurable so that's really my question if we use it or not my question is is it measurable well that's a good way to

097evaluate all the goals yep can we measur it okay all uh Bri assume you're going to abstain from this okay all those in favor uh say I I I oppose same sign abstain and motion carries okay mou to reinstate retiree health insurance benefit Susan do you want to try to tackle it or do you want me to explain a little bit yes okay so in their 2123 contract a CLA was taken out retirees before that had a benefit of have a certain dollar amount you can see those in there the 21 22 there's a certain dollar amount in our in the contract that are allocated to retirees for health insurance there's also a clause that every year they would get a 50% they would get an increase 50% comparable comparable to what the teachers got

098so in the 2123 contract that was lost and it was pulled out um I think the discussion about that happened before I got here so I wasn't privy to it when we were the other it was discovered this year however because it didn't continue in this year's contract so um what we're asking is to and Amanda Snider and Kristen Frank I've discussed this with them as the eight co-presidents they're develop anou that we pay those amounts are back pay to the beginning of the contract now we're going to go back to 2021 because they haven't paid since contract um and then you can see the cost of what that is each year now there's a cost regardless so you can see what the increase is um and and so it's a big jump from the

09921 22 22 23 school year but then we also have more retirees um in that and then there's a drop in the next school year that's because we had less retirees that were on the plan because they're not U on Medicare so the total District cost altogether would be the $625 but there's only a portion of that that were actually would be an increase in cost you can see the difference between the years there so we did did meet and discuss this and um if I recall correctly that was a year that was not this last cycle it was the cycle before and so we were cleaning up some language and doing some things but I I don't recall us negotiating that out it would be our job to negotiate it out so we do

100think in the process of updating some of that language it just got dropped and nobody caught it so um that's what we're asking the board or recommending to the board is just to put a back in and again once the mlu if the board approves this tonight once the m is completed I know that they're working on that probably by tomorrow or sometime this week I'll sign that so we put it into effect and then we'll backp that um coverage on insurance so I'll go ahead and ask for a motion in a second then we can discuss do we have a motion all motion motion by Susan do we have a second a second second by Brian discussion I'm here I can you repeat that no Sure Shot off so somewhere along the line that

101Clause so retirees are supposed to get 50% of what of the increased for health insurance somewhere along the line that Clause was dropped out and wasn't recognized until the end of this negotiation period we're trying to add that back in if that is added back in then we back date to 2021 because that's the contract year that 2021 2023 contract was when that Clause was dropped down so it'll be back paid till then um you can see the different cost levels um realize we're paying we're paying this anyway these are small increases so the increases to it are are minor you're seeing the total dollar amount for benefits and the I would say the a small portion of that like in the amount of a few hundred or several hundred is actually what's going to

102that 50% increase these are the amounts we're paying out adding that um hundred and I about $300 onto it and then as um but we haven't paid it out we've been paying these we these are the total amounts okay we're just talking about the few hundred that would get added on to these correct okay yeah not this amount okay that's what I was thinking too we're already paying got it a large portion of that amount there's just a few hundred of it we have't been paying so we'll backdate that and we'll work out through theou how we do that it won't be cash because that's non- taxable so what we've done with teachers to back pay their health insurance that was negotiated in the contract is we just covered health insurance until that amount was

103paid off so it'll be something similar to that but that's so that we give those retirees that benefit that that they had earned yeah s so see if that works better any other comments or questions other comments or questions all those in favor say I I I oppose same sign motion carries so I just want to reiterate we author Dr got sign that then when that comes through as part of that motion okay all right 8.6 approved dgf application to join the Lakes area Lake aacy Education Cooperative excuse me I do want to say one thing I got an updated amount that this will save us it's approximately $30,000 per year question so this is a resolution so buckle up where has a joint Powers agreement superseding the previous joint Powers agreement dated July 1st

1041999 was entered into on September 18th 2018 between the following Minnesota Independent School District or member districts Independent School District number 146 of Barnsville Independent School District number 150 of Holly Independent School District number 914 of Ulen hital Independent School District number 2889 of Lake Park otan and Independent School District number 225 of Norman County East establishing a joint Powers education Cooperative to be known as Lake Agy education Cooperative the cooperative and Joint Powers education Cooperative board or cooperative board whereas on April 9th 2024 Dilworth glind and Felton Public Schools made an application requesting to become a member of Lake Agy education cooperative and whereas on April 10th 2024 at the regular meeting of the Cooperative board the board reviewed the application from Dilworth GL Felton public schools to become a member district beginning July

1051st 2024 and whereas The Cooperative board recommends that Dorth Glendon felon public schools be approved as a member district contingent upon D Dilworth glinton Felton Public Schools subscription and agreement to the terms of the joint Powers agreement and Joint Powers agreement for construction and maintenance of Cooperative facilities do I have a motion I motion motion by Susan do we have a second second by Lynn discussion has everyone voted the school districts yet I think with the last ones and there's a few board meetings tonight where they're voting on it so you um you just said this is a $30,000 savings be a $30,000 savings to release leing yes any other questions or discussion I sure I believe they can take on yeah when I asked when I asked Scott he said yes they have capacity

106they built that facility with future planning in mind so mam can we do they do ALC they adult learning they do not can they um I think that's been a discussion for the future that it's not in place now so that has been a discussion they were discussing that when I was on the board I don't know if they still discuss it but it's complicated too I do know that they have to apply to the state and you know there's all sorts of other discussion this is a resolution so it's a roll call vote Susan hi Brian hi Lynn hi Becky's I mark five motion carries 8.7 change made General board meeting date um So currently scheduled for May 27th which is Memorial day and I just suggest we change that to that next day

107May 28th need to check their calendars quick yeah I do know I'm not available it work for everybody else I checked you're good Brian you good Mark you good we g go on a holiday H 27th 28th would be is what the no I'm not good then we couldn't have it on the 27th so May 28th at elementary school it would be yes May 28th at elementary school same time 6:30 okay I I hopeful that it would work for Marge or Paul since Lyn cannot be there that night do we need a motion on that yes do I have a motion so Move Motion by Mark do we have a second I second second by Susan any further discussion all those in favor of moving the May uh Board General board meeting to May 28th

108say I I oppose same sign motion carries so succeeding meetings 10 seconds lateer than that but it'll need to be at the high school because of construction okay and we'll get that announcement out uh succeeding meetings 9.1 Schoolboard work session May 8th 2024 at 5:00 pm uh right here at Lake Park otoman High School media center and 9.2 regular monthly school board meeting May 28th 2024 at 6:30 p.m. at again Lake Park otan High School media and with that anything else we are adjourned you need a C thank you I thought I had I kind of forgot it was there to be honest with you gooded man I went down with call