001And uh If I could, I would like while Dr. G is uh around I would like to offer up an Ojibwe prayer. Ezhay Manidoo. Chi-Miigwech. Indinawemaaganag. Gidinawemaaganag. Weweni. Giminodedaadiyang. Gizhweyaadiziwinendaadiyang. Giminoshigendaadiyang. Chi-Miigwech. Bizindawiyeg. Ezhay Manidoo. Ever loving spirit bless us watch over us and help us so that we may be good to each other may help each other and do good work. Thank you. Chi-Miigwech. Inawemaaganag. Miigwech. I think they did. She was working on Here is one. Call a meeting for the word of year and seven. And then he came after you build a walk off lane. Mike Bear Here. Chris Jourdain Miss Stately here. Robert McClain Present. Jack Desjarlait Here. Thomas Bear and Cole Desjarlait Present. Anthony and Gordon Uh summary of the agenda Tim >> [laughter] >> Aman Day Miigwech. Summary overview of the
002agenda for today. >> Thank you, Chair Barrett. After we approve the agenda, we'll hold our allotted time for public comments and delegations. We'll then move into the report section of the agenda which will include a presentation by Red Lake Secondary Complex Principal Jolene Smith on the Check and Connect program at the Secondary Complex. After that, we will move into the consent agenda including approving the minutes from the February 18th, 2025 meeting followed by amending the 2025-2026 school calendar to reflect an additional snow makeup day on May 22nd. Next, the board will have five resignations to approve. Following that is a request for an unpaid leave of absence for next year. The consent agenda this month also has five retirements to approve. Item N on the consent agenda is the additions to the sub list. Following
003the sub list are two hiring recommendations. We will then close out the consent agenda with a motion to dispose of obsolete shop equipment through an electronic sale online. No need for a closed session at this meeting today. But we will then move into the action item which includes approving the list of bills and wires in the amount of $3 160,814.33 along with rejecting the bids received for the remodel and rebid project at $5.661 million. Adopting the 2027-2028 school calendar and then items D through Q are all non-renewals, 14 non-renewals of contracts to approve today. Routine procedural item at the time at this time of the school year and moving into April as well. With that, we will adjourn our meeting after once around the table. Thank you. Here, we need a motion to approve Second.
004the agenda for March 25th, 2025. I I motion could be A motion by Baby second by Gonzalez and Jack. Approve agenda. Further discussion. Hearing none, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed. Present. Public comments and delegations. Have any? I didn't see any visitors uh sharing to speak here. Yeah. Yeah, I know what you mean. Um Hello, welcome. So I just have a I went I attended the MIEA. Yeah. And I was learning about um IEP. Mhm. And I was wondering um I need more information About what they are for and what they do and how they work. >> here for Red Lake and due to the APAC do they also help the the students that IEP or do are they involved? Vice versa. Generally, IEP meetings or plans are put together with the team
005of teachers and an administrator and then parents or guardians of the student along with the student. Generally, because of privacy laws, outsiders who are not part of the school or family with educational rights are not involved, but they are welcome if the family would like them to be, absolutely. And that would be an option. couple grandson Yeah. But I'm just learning I just learned about it um over this probably Yeah. And and that made me concerned because now I'm looking at when I go out and visit what my two to my job I see kids at home and I and they're sitting there and can't handle the school or whatever. And you know, they're in my um when I go home, I want to learn. Mhm. As an elder I want to know what is
006going on with our students. Yeah. Yeah. Would you be able to like like make a packet for for parent committee to let them know what what it's all about? I mean, if they what that's all IEP? I could uh I probably wouldn't be the best one to put the packet together, but between Dr. Jourdain and maybe administrator like Jolene or Shelly and our special ed director, Dustin put something together that would be be a good presentation to provide a packet and maybe do a slide deck. Yes. At the next meeting or one after that sometime soon. Yeah, I will do that. I'll I'll get that rolling. in motion. And then is is there a way that we can put the parent committee on on our agenda to where they can come in and maybe ask
007questions or give their concerns about what's going on in the school? Usually, that's what happens at the meeting and then we provide an update. And Jourdain provides updates, not every month when we have a meeting, but when we have when we have the resolution of concurrence, that's what happened. And they say, "Here's what we like. Here's what we have questions about." So, technically, it is already on the agenda, but it's not every month. Yeah, but you bring up some good questions and good points. Thank you. I sure appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Yeah. Okay. Is there any public comment? Well, it looks like looks like we have one more. Waiting to be called on to speak. Okay. In the meantime, we kind of jumped ahead uh and passed over the
008March family newsletter portion of our summary and I just wanted to refer you to that if you wanted to look that over. They send out newsletters every month now and that one is very very um informative about the things that we're doing around here. Okay? And then have Estella would like to speak about policy, multiple policies. And uh if uh you're aware that we have the 5-minute thingy, right? But I was notified last board meeting afterwards that I might have sounded like I wasn't very welcoming. So, I want to thank you, those of you who are here for for being here. So, thank you. We can uh have timer going here for 5 minutes. Nope, not yet. So, um I'm trying to make this short and sweet. I do have um Oh, you can start
009it. Um my name is Asana Cook. I work in child protection. Um I work over at Oneida. Um and I worked there for going on 9 years in June. Um I've also coached through the school years since 2012. Um I took a break here and there. Um but I just have some concerns um that were brought to me by parents and students um in regard to the said school board member who was the incident a topic of incident last um school board meeting. Um I did provide all of those about all the documents that you have highlighted um on what points. I'm sure you guys know you guys read all of your policies and everything. Um I just wanted to like reiterate like these are the things that school board members are supposed to be
010doing. Um this is the rules that they abide by as school board members. Um I also put some things in there that um did a that kind of like overflowed into um like I guess that's the girls basketball head coach. Um I know she's a school employee. Um wasn't aware that we're not allowed to talk about school employees, but I feel like this is the school board and you guys oversee school employees or like have you know, expectations for them um with your policies. I also attached a copy of the handbook. I couldn't find a current handbook. Um but the handbook that I did provide is um 2024-2025 season, um which is the activities handbook and what the um coaches expectations are um in relationship between the coaches and the players. Um the main point
011that I wanted to talk about um with said school board member is disagreement with other school board members not in school board member school board meeting policies or school board meeting room table. Um addressing those concerns or disagreements out in the public in front of our kids who again you guys are um like in charge of their education. Um another thing is uh just the ongoing harassment um of younger children. I've had adults four adults now who are also um harassed by this said school board member when they were kids including like a 32-year-old who was 12 at the time um when she harassed her at the softball fields um during a school event. Um another one where said school board member went into the school and um harassed the child while he was in
012school and made him feel uncomfortable because there was a disagreement between him and uh said school board member's child. Um I do have letters here that I probably won't have enough time to read. Um but I'm hoping someone is able to read them. Um and uh I also want to play audio for you. I know I addressed in the school uh activities handbook of coaches not um wanting to like not making it a means to win. Um Let me see. I I believe like page four um of the packet that I provided. This is the audio. Is it Can you tell us what the audio is about? >> it's from February 5th, 2025, which was coach's first season. Um it's her yelling at the girls in the locker room. >> And we can't allow that
013because this isn't the right not the right forum for that. Because that would be So, that needs to go to HR and if you could >> did that. Good. I filed Title IX as well. >> Okay. Um because there are some discrepancies to where she's the head coach is going for athletic training, right? Um athletic training you have to go through a number it's a master's program. It's not a bachelor's program. I'm going for the same thing. Um but her diagnosing kids on the sideline, her disregarding the first notes. This is the coach you're saying that? >> Yes. Um Can you email that to me too so I have it? >> Yep, I also reported it to Ashley >> Okay. when I filed the Title IX. Thank you. Um she was disregarding doctor's notes. She
014still made the child play after injuring her ankle. Um or participate in practice. Okay, thank you. So, yeah. I do have other things that I wanted to address, but like I said, 5 minutes is not enough time. I did do the best to get on the agenda, but I unfortunately did not make it to the agenda. Well, you're you are on the agenda with your speaking here. Could you leave the >> Oh, well, I mean like I wanted my own place we could have like a discussion about it. The policy says that the only visitors come in and their their place is during visitors. So, but if Would you be willing to leave those letters? Um Or do you need to make copies? Yeah. You can make copies and then give them to Sherry here.
015I'll just make I'll make copies. >> I don't think we all need the letters. I think as long as HR has HR gets them, yeah. I don't know if you guys want to you guys want to read them. Are you guys It's it's HR that Yeah. Yeah, I want to read All right. Thank you. Anybody else? Do we have any other Nope. I mean so the correct form she has then is to speak with HR. Right? Yep. And just so we can have clear so we know. Yep, cuz the board does not supervise yeah anybody but me. And then do do parents whoever at the games and everything is that like like say I I go there am I just a parent there or am I a school board? >> You're a parent. Somebody might
016come up to you to talk to you because you're they know that you're a board member, but you have no authority outside of this meeting to do anything. So, okay. Well, um But they might come to you as a board member make a complaint or share with you >> So, like if anybody whether it's a school board member or whatever, but say there's two parents out there and one's harassing the other one does that other one have the right to sign a complaint then on the person that's harassing them? Do they have like say they go a game in Bagley and they're being being harassed by somebody They have to be there then. So, they can call It has nothing to do with us. It's an off school property. They can file a harassment complaint
017with law enforcement. Against that person that's harassing them? Yeah. But it's off campus and and sometimes, you know, what what the law says too is and this is why it it's if a board member is acting in their duties as a board member like at this meeting and being very rude and do and breaking the law somehow you know, then we might be able to take some kind of action. >> Yeah. But some kind of breaking the law. Yeah, not a civil law though. Criminal, right? >> Right. But there has to be a nexus with there has to be a criminal act connected to being a board member. If they're just being rude or disruptive um that that is not necessarily them acting in the role of a board member. It's very very difficult to
018remove a duly elected public board officer who's been elected. The best way to do that most of the time is at the polls in November. So. All right, we're getting off topic. Yeah. Thank you. Any of the incidents that happened in in Bagley, does the does the does the complaint get filed in Bagley or does it come here? Bagley. Mhm. Jurisdictional. Um but the thing but the thing is is what my concerns were is parents that are out there that witnessed it aren't just pointing the finger at the place to fingers being pointed at the complete board. That that's where I think that's where we have Well, everybody knows where Yeah. If a possible parent decided what I'm worried about is if a parent decided to uh you know, file something. Right. And then the
019parent would have to file that They could file it Yeah, they could actually file it with the state, I'm assuming. State or Yeah. But but it would have to, you know, be something substantive, you know. Maybe first with the county and then with the state. But we're Okay, we better let Delaina's been waiting for a while, so if you're good with it, we can move on to the second part of comments and that's Delaina's presentation. 5 minutes. No, I'm kidding. I'm going to talk fast, so listen. Listen to Delaina. Listen. We'll give you more if you need it. Um what you're doing in the way of what you're doing with your relatives I was at um as part of our Check & Connect program. We are obligated to present to the school board at least
020once or twice a year. And so I've been trying to get on the agenda for quite a while and today was my lucky day to be here with all of you. Um again, you all know me, I'm Dr. Delaina Smith. I am the Red Lake Secondary Complex Principal. So I work with the grades 6 through 12. So this is kind of a brief overview. Um I wanted to give you like an overview of what Check & Connect is and then how we implement it here in our complex. So it's a structured mentoring intervention. Um we're hoping to promote student success and engagement at school and we work on building skills by learning through relationship building and systematic use of data. So we're tracking our students that we work with. And um building relationships with um
021our certain staff who are trained as mentors. And you can see that's kind of how we would like to have student engagement through observable engagement and internal through that, the academic, cognitive, behavioral, and perceptive. If you need me to back up a slide, please let me know. Um so here are some of the components. So we have staff that are trained as our mentors and this year I believe we trained five new staff that have come on board. And um they work with our students and families for a minimum of 2 years. They do regular checks. So we use school data, so they look at attendance, they look at grades, they look at behavior referrals. Um and then where they are in their educational process. And then we work on timely interventions. Um It does
022say that we are to meet with the students at least once a week for a minimum of 10 minutes, but we try to um give more for a half hour or more. Um it's so we can check in with the students and talk about their plan. And then there's also a family engagement component and so they are to reach out, our mentors reach out to the families at least once a month. And that just gives you a little more of the visual. And Check & Connect actually could work with all of our students in the complex, however, it is a tier two and tier three, so it's more of a individualized program. And then the fourth component of Check & Connect, we have a mentor and Check & Connects with family engagement. So it's always
023working with the family, building um our program around the student. And again, we have the relationships, problem solving, and capacity building, and then persistence plus. And what that is for is more for our mentors, so that they're checking on the students regularly, um they're consistent, and they're documenting all of their contacts with our students and families. And then that's kind of a little bit more about the basic intervention they do. Again, I can mention that people are of what they look for, how they have conversations with their students and with the family. And sometimes with the families it may be attendance is a concern and so they're reaching out to the families to say, "Well, we have a junior student um just wanted to check in see how you're doing, how they're doing um and
024really encourage our students to come back into the building or find out what's going on. And then we work on problem solving with our students, so giving them some examples of what that might look like and empowering our students to have control of their educational journey. And then it's showing research has shown that Check & Connect works. And you can see they credit people, engagement in school, positive behavior, attendance, and school completion. All of that improves through this program. What grade starting? You guys what again? Grades 6 through 12. So middle school and high school. And so this is what kind of what Check & Connect looks like at the Red Lake Secondary Complex and I'll make a side note. I was the principal at Deer River and we did have Check & Connect in
025Deer River and each school customizes the program to meet the needs of your students. So there's no cookie cutter model that goes from district to district and what I had in Deer River looks completely different than what I have here at the Secondary Complex. So um just wanted to make that little side note, too. And so what I have is I have a working team that consists of myself, Jamie Hammerhand, Roxanne Belcourt, Jody Waldo, and Stacy Parkos. And we meet every other Wednesday. Currently we have 12 mentors, uh seven for the middle school and five for the high school. Um the mentors have 50 minutes, so when there's the district PLC time, we allow time, 50 minutes at the end of that time for them to get together at complex wide to problem solve, brainstorm,
026go over ideas, what's working, what's not working, and if they have any um uh time to collaborate amongst themselves. Um And then currently we're serving 12 middle school students and 16 high school students. And we also work with our MDE team every one Friday every month. And um again, the goal of Thomas time we try to have the mentors meet with the students. So um these these 12 and 16 students, then are they um you pick them out specifically? I I I'll get to that. If you could hold Okay. I'm not there yet. But wait, there's more. Here we go, selection criteria. So this is actually I inherited this criteria, so Dustin Kingbird was the one that started the program up in the district and I came on board last year with my first full
027year here back in district. Halfway through the year um I started joining the Check & Connect meetings and then I transitioned into leading Check & Connect. So that's kind of how I became involved with it here at the complex. Um so that's kind of our criteria and that's also through the U of M and MDE. This criteria here. So they have to have 70% or higher, a stable mental health status, um realistically able to earn their credits, so they're progressing towards graduation. Um they have average or below behavior referral um and their disability status aligns with their ability to participate in this intervention. And you may be wondering, "Well, why aren't we serving more? Why is it just students with a IEP?" So we are exploring another funding source through Access to possibly reach more
028students um that might not fit this criteria and then we would have to develop a criteria for those students. So we could potentially start serving more students through this program. And then data tracking. So with all of our programs, we always want to have data and we want to be able to look back at our data and I came on board we had an app that was City Year band and they inputted all of their data in there. Well, as of the as the our funding term turned over in July, the app was dismantled and went away. So, we had to figure out how to track our data. So, Jody Waldo was recruited by me to come in as our district data specialist and to help us for um a form to track data for
029our mentors and it's a real simple form for our mentors. They can get on there. Um we have a shared site through OneNote that they all of their information is there. They can get into their their form and as they meet with the student or the parents, they fill up that form and then we can pull the data on our end. Um they don't necessarily have the data. Um and we're working on building a system so we can check fidelity through our every other Wednesday morning meeting. So, at least one meeting a month that we're looking at our data and making sure that our mentors are tracking the data, inputting the data and that we have data to go by to see the fidelity of our Check & Connect program. And then again, we had
030to we had to adjust too. So, we're always looking for that as well. Like we're always monitoring and adjusting as we needed it. We noticed that the form wasn't working quite as well as we needed to. So, Jody went in and created a second form and that has been going a lot better for us. And the form actually started in January. This is and we worked with MDE to help develop our form and we weren't the only district. So, all the districts across the state that are working on Check & Connect had to do the develop a new system to track data. And then family connection. So, we're working on bringing more families into the secondary complex. Um and for next year, so we're planning for next year to have at least three events, one
031during fall, one during spring. This year we hosted a New Year, New Goals event. We had nine parents that attended or parent or guardian. And I'm working on braiding my grants and initiatives together. So, I have Check & Connect, I have Get Ready, Gear Up, I have uh MPBI S. So, I was able to kind of have an event that included all of that within the event. Um Get Ready, Gear Up is um based on college and career readiness and information. Um we invited Trio, BSU and North Mission College to be a part of that. They had booths. Um they the families worked on school goals uh for their students and uh so, we're working on having um more of that at the secondary complex. And then we also hosted um a cover letter, resume,
032scholarship and FAFSA informational session and that came about um from one of the APEC meetings. They asked if we've had any of that and if we could provide that and so um we're working on um hearing feedback from APEC and then building what we can within our program. And we just wanted from the team, we just wanted to share some of the positive things that we're doing at the secondary complex and we continue to strive to make our secondary complex a welcoming and positive learning space for our students, families and community. Any questions? Um So, this this is working with the parents? Mhm. And you only invite those parents of those students then or is everybody welcome? Well, we do everybody to welcome, but through this program we follow the criteria Mhm. to meet through
033that program. However, I have other grants that I'm like I said, I'm trying to braid them together so that each of my grants have a parent component to it and so having a parent activity informational um what parents want, listening to APEC, what they like the feedback they give us. Um Stacy's great about bringing it back to me and then we kind of talk it through, well, can we do this is what parents want, so how can we provide that for the parents? So, um it's a yes and no. Um for this grant specifically, the mentors only call the parents or guardians of the students. However, with my other grants, I try to tie them together so that we can have a more welcoming environment for our secondary complex and really listening to what our
034families want. And then and then with next year, we're hoping to have at least three um activity nights for our secondary complex families. And then that would tie in my Get Ready, Gear Up. Um we also tied in PBIS. Um and so in the secondary complex, we have Warriors Rise and we give Rise tickets. So, every student and family that came that night um got a Rise ticket and all of our parents uh I donated gift cards just cuz I like to give back. So, I donated gift cards and um Kitty Bolinas donated some of the foam hands from the school store and all of our parents and guardians that came were able to receive a Rise prize um as just for coming in joining us that evening. It's a great program. I get to
035check in once in a while. Great way for kids to connect which part of its name. Checking in and connecting with the kids. And like I said, we're we're working with Dustin to see if we can have another funding source to reach more kids and families through Check & Connect. Uh um and like I said, honestly all of our kids could benefit from this program, but it's a tiered system program. We can only work with a smaller number of students within the year that need those interventions. Great. Job. Job. Job. You only waited a half a year to get here, but finally got you in. Hey. The reports right after the fourth of February 2026. Thank you, Chair Barrett. I would refer you to uh for the financial report in your board book to uh
036page number uh 25. And it's good news. At least for now and that's the uh the fact that we have about 6 and 1/2 million dollars more at the end of the month than we had at the beginning of the month. From 19 to 26. Closer to seven really, but and that is a reflection of the fact that we received 50% of our impact aid allocation, 6.9 million dollars. So, everything is in order and uh even though our fund balance isn't quite uh where it was a year ago, it's getting closer and closer. But, we're still watching the fund balance. Trying to be careful because we don't know from month to month when our funding is going to come. Um we did also receive the other 40 an additional 40%. That's not reflected in here
037yet. And we'll get hopefully the final 10% sometime in the fall. They always wait for the final 10% in case if there needs to be some adjustment. So. And if you're okay, I can move on to the monthly enrollment report which is on page 116. And that's also good news. We're down a little bit but up until a month ago, we were only down 15 from our October enrollment. We are noticing a trend now. Uh in past years by now we were down 50 students. A couple years ago, it was 61 students. Another year, it was 50 something. We're down only about 40. And this is the time of the year now and we're going to start seeing the numbers go back up again. You can already see from last month to this month we've
038increased three more. So, sometimes students disappear for a bit for some reason and then they start coming back and that happened last year, too. So, I anticipate that we'll have uh you know, an increase again next month, but we're holding solid which is good for the district, but for the students and it's good for uh the school as a district. And I submit that to you as a report. Thank you. Okay. Um agenda for March 25th, 2026. Everything is routine there, so we just we just need a motion. I'll move to approve. Okay, I have a motion by Jack. Second. Seconded by Elaine. To approve the consent agenda for March 20th, 2026. Any further discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Vote. Aye. Okay, action items. Approve bills and wares for the
039month of February 2026. In the amount of 3.1 million and change. 3,160,814.32 dollars. I'll move to approve. Okay, motion by Elaine. I'll second. Seconded by Stanley. Any further discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Over here. Reject bids received for ASD/LCV model and fit projects. And the big portion for this is that we want to um more or less take another look at the project and instead of trying to do it all at one time which would cause us to take a hit on our cash flow and also be very disruptive to the students in the school because it would spill over into the school year. We would like to break it up into two different years do part of it one year and then finish it the next year. And that
040way we can still do most of the work in the summer and not spill into the fall as much as we would have had to. And we will then also be able to slow down our expenditures and keep our cash flow strong. Considering the fact that we don't know what's going to happen to the Department of Education or NAPEIS funding, you know, um the backdate funding and any other federal funding that we get. So hopefully our uh our board treasurer is on board with this too. We're trying to make sure that we don't spend down our fund balance too quick. I'll move to approve. I'll make an amendment. Okay, motion by Elaine. Yeah. I'll second. You need a second? Yeah. Yeah. Second? Yeah. Okay. I have a motion by Elaine, seconded by Stanley to reject
041bids received as stated. Any further discussion? Hearing [clears throat] none, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Vote. Over here. Okay, adopt the 2027-28 school calendar. Thank you. And for that, I refer you to page 249 in the board book. This is our attempt to make sure we can be planning out ahead, so this is the year after next. And it's our final reading, so it takes an action. And basically it's a mirror image of this school year and of next school year. And uh starting the year right after Labor Day, couple weeks off at holiday time. And uh spring break right around Easter on the 14th and 17th of April. Last day of school with students on the 25th. Last staff day, 26th. Graduation would also be on the 25th of May. So very
042similar. And it's nice to be consistent from year to year so people can make plans. So I submit this to you for your approval in the form of a motion. And a second and a vote. So this is just a This isn't written in stone. This is just to adopt. Right? Yep, we're adopting it and we can always change it. Yep. >> will probably need to change. I'm just thinking. Well when you think about it, we're even changing this year's calendar because of the snow days. So yeah, it's always It's always And I got a question about Well, let's go on with this one first, but I got a question after we get we do all of this. Sure. I'll move to approve. Okay, motion by Elaine. Second. To adopt Seconded by Jack. To adopt
0432027-28 school calendar. Any further discussion? Yes. >> [laughter] >> So because like with the makeup days, I guess like a lot of people are kind of struggling with that. Is there a possibility of doing e-learning days so that because people are making plans and then they're having to cancel and I'm hearing this from staff and parents alike because they're they're making these plans based off this calendar but then, you know, we have these snow days and then we got to come in and make them up and it kind of throws off, you know, what they have planned. Um and then to it it just from what I've been seeing and hearing, it's starting to cause a burnout with staff because they're anticipating these days off and then because of the snow day they got to
044readjust and I'm I'm just wondering is there a possibility of trying to do e-learning days on some of those snow days so we're not making up on those days that we have scheduled as off cuz I I'm just I'm just hearing it from not just not just staff but community and families and and it is one of those things I think we should have probably look into if it's possible. And I said I would bring it up at the >> Yeah, yes, possible. We can look into it. It will come with a pretty big price tag because we'll have to make sure we have devices for every student to go home and then they lose those devices or break them or get them you know, damaged. >> days are we doing this year then? Four.
045Four? Yeah. An unusual winter, but maybe with, you know, the way the climate's going lately, we might see more of them like that, but the general consensus for the state of Minnesota is that e-days are pretty much worthless. They don't provide much learning. So we can't add them on to the end of the year? That's what we just did for this last one. But we build e-days or we build snow days in during the year and then when we run out of those, we add it to the end of the year. Right. We certainly could. We could do that down the road, start adding more at the end of the year. Another problem Well, we we tried that before and then too, we had e-learning. We had all these computers and and I mean it
046was expensive. Expensive. And the other part of expense is when we have an e-day we have to pay everyone on our staff even though there's not much work for a bus driver to do. Or the custodial staff to do. Custodians can't come in cuz it's storming out. We still have to pay them. So it's money that we're paying out for work not getting done in many instances, so we would rather actually make up the days so people are actually here learning and working getting paid. And then a lot of people, some of them didn't have internet access. Yeah, exactly. There was another problem in different communities and so that was causing a problem too. Didn't you read what you put out on your thing today? The the boosted up the gigazone to help with that.
047I know that's in there. Yeah. I know. But we we did look into that. Uh I know we were talking about those Remember the point area was one of the biggest concerns on that because they didn't have internet access and we were talking about the bus with the Wi-Fi and all of that, but I'm just think I'm I'm just trying to figure out a way that we can do that without causing a lot of disarray is what I'm hearing from, you know, because they're like, I had this plan, but now we're doing this makeup day. I'm not sure where the disarray is because we we tell people ahead of time. Here, two years in advance, we're telling people this is our first snow day, this is our second snow day, this is our third snow
048day. And even in the year we remind people oh, the next snow day is six weeks from now. There's plenty of time to adjust. I would think we can be resilient in six weeks notice or a whole year's notice, make an adjustment. The the the last one wasn't though. The last ones weren't. There wasn't no six week notice on that. It might not have been the last one. >> Yeah, I mean I'm just saying More like three weeks Yeah, it was something like that. But but they can still go. They can still go if they've got something planned like a doctor's appointment or a family trip, we do still allow as much as we can for people to take that leave. They can still do that. Yeah. You know? But we can have more conversations
049about it, look into it if you like. >> That's fine. Yeah. I just wanted looked into it anyways. I think we just need a consensus on on that. Cuz like when I was down in the cities, St. Paul had e-learning but Minneapolis did. So it was one of those things, give and take, but uh yeah, it is what it is. I just want to see if we can look into it. It'd be easier for them cuz everything is I mean now, but within a certain area as far as Yeah. Mhm. What even up here? I've I've been seeing that with all the >> Well, we were losing centers and everything, weren't we? Yeah, when you when we were doing this some years back, we were losing community centers and Which we couldn't use if we
050had a snow day and it was storming like crazy. So again, that wouldn't be an option. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. It worked during COVID, though. Coming up, they were the internet was coming Yeah. out of it. I mean, I don't know. Right. But it would mean that people would have to go to a certain place, you know, if they didn't have a at home to go Right. Yep. Yeah. Okay, sorry. Thank you. Okay. All those in favor say I. I'm counting. I. Opposed. 4 0. Okay, here we get into these here now. Yeah, I can And D, E, and F are the first set of non-renewals and and this is always a difficult thing to do every year at this time. But we have to non-renew for various reasons and they can always reapply. But we
051have to go through these motions by law at certain times during the course of the year. So what I recommend is that we take D, E, and F and and I need a motion to approve of D, E, and F and a second and we can vote on that and then we have G through Q which are other non-renewals that are related to the licensing. These people can also reapply and at our May meeting we can address those applications. Actually, for all of these. But um if people want to reapply, they can, but we have to go through these motions. So I uh present this to you for a motion. D E and F this time. Does it matter if I abstain from one? Nope. Probably be a good idea, actually. Yeah. I want to
052abstain. Yeah. So we take them one at a time then and you abstain from the one. Okay, so item D approve the non-renewal of contract for Angela Harsh probationary >> them separate now, then? Yeah, so that she can abstain from the one. >> Oh, okay. Okay, item D then non-renewal contract for Angela H probationary teacher. Man, I hate these every year, bro. Mhm. I hate these every year. Yep. And I'm just uh because we don't get further discussion, right? Mhm. Okay. But we it's hard to do much discussion. Yeah. Cuz it's a personnel issues. But uh these are recommendations coming from the principals and we're required to do it. So we just need a motion and a second. I'll make a motion on the first one here. Move it along, then. I'll second. Taken by
053Katie. I'm moved by Beth. Taken by Katie. Hearing me. To approve non-renewal item D. Further discussion. Hearing none, all those in favor say I. I. Opposed. 4 0. To approve [snorts] non-renewal of contract for Reasonation probationary teacher. I'll move. Okay, motion by McLain. Second. Seconded by Jack. Further discussion. Hearing none, all those in favor say I. I. I. I abstain. Abstain. You took You took Oh, yeah. Okay, yeah. You took No. You said I took it. 3 0 1. 0 1. Okay. Okay, approval of non-renewal contract for William McMeeken. probationary teacher. I'll move. Okay, motion by Jack. I'll second. Seconded by McLain. To approve non-renewal of contract. Further discussion. Hearing none, all those in favor say I. I. I. Opposed. 4 0. Okay, now G through what are we going through here today? G through
054Q are all non-renewals for probationary uh probationary tier one uh licensers. Um and then Q is a principal on a special assignment probationary based upon a grant and we have to make sure the grant comes in. So unfortunately, we have to non-renew at least for now and hope the grant comes in. So Okay, so we're going to do G through P, right? They're all tier one. Okay, so we just need a motion. One motion will do all of these. Okay, on P, I want to abstain on P. On D? P. P? P. P is in Paul. Oh, okay. So let's go through O for now. Yeah. >> Okay, we'll go G through O. G through all of them. I'll move. Okay, then motion by I'll second. >> McLain. Yep, for G through O. G through
055O. Okay, and you second, Tina? Yeah. Okay, seconded by Tina. To approve non-renewal contracts for A Hoffman, Haley Jack and Whelan Stephanie H >> Happy. Happy. Yep. I'll read them off for you. Yep. Roma Myers Adriana Haley Caitlin Mudge [snorts] and Alexa Grove. Okay, we already did them all. Okay. Yep. Okay, no further discussion. All those in favor say I. I. I. Opposed. 4 0. Okay, and then easy. Approve the non-renewal of contract for Nicole Brown, a tier one teacher. I'll move. Okay, motion by Stately. Second. Seconded by Charlie. To approve non-renewal contract for Nicole Brown. Further discussion. Yes, I got a question on this one. Okay. Cuz it's 2 years in a row for Nicole. Sure. Yeah. That often does happen. Yeah, cuz she was on there last year. Yep. >> And that was
056my What's that again? And after this year, I'm just asking was the then she be Depends upon whether or not she gets her proper license. Okay. Yeah. Okay. That's all I had. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. 3 4. I'm going to abstain. I abstain. 0 1. Yep. You said I abstained. To approve non-renewal of contract for Kelly LaBelle Lewis, probationary principal. I didn't know I wasn't even aware they were right. I had another principal. I'll move. Okay, motion by McLain. I'll second. Further discussion. When did we When did she get hired? Probationary person. >> It's a special position, right? >> Yep, and technically, she's not a principal like Delano or Shelley or Tracy or the others. She's doing our MTSS coordinator work. So the special ed largely. Well, well, all right. Yep,
057cuz that's a that's a principal contract. That That's where I'm at. But it's paid for by a grant. And so the grant now we're waiting for it to be renewed. So So how would that work then? So cuz I'm pretty that we have other Hold on. Do we Are we have further discussion or we Now we got our motions. >> Yeah, we got a motion and a second we discussed. So for further discussion, how can we just hang out and have a licensed teacher doing that MTSS >> That's what we're we are exploring that next. Yep. But this was the person who applied who was the most qualified. And so we didn't want to hire somebody who wasn't necessarily the most qualified. But we're going to try again to see But they didn't have a
058principal license. Right. So they got a principal license but we can't have a principal pay that. That just don't add up to me. Well, they they were a principal. I mean it's a person with a principal's license and we are paying them within the grant for that. Okay. >> But if we if the grant can be done we're realizing now that maybe we can wouldn't have to be a principal position. It could be a teacher position. So that might mean that we can use the same grant but not as not quite as much payment. But there isn't that much of a difference between the two anyway. And then like these these ones that are are non-renewed and all that. They're not tenured though, right? I mean they're Are they or are they The first three
059were not. These other ones can't be tenured until they get a license that's like a tier three. Oh. So that's why we have to keep doing this every year for some people. I mean and my only thing is cuz there's so many resignations in there from teachers like >> [laughter] [cough] >> in our consent, you know. We got almost 200 teachers. So we're going to bound you know, we're going to always have We're running into rollover but I'm just like if we're rolling over This year we had a lot of veteran staff. You have you know, we have had a lot of veteran staff and a lot of these retirements or resignations are from veteran staff who are been here for you know, many many years. Yeah. So it's not like they're hanging up and
060saying I just hate this place except they're time for them to go on move on. Their lives and retire. For many of these. I I mean and that was my thing too cuz I'm looking at the consent I'm like >> [clears throat] >> And then we we're hiring people on the consent and then we're getting rid of people on Yeah. Action items that just I just That for me is just I don't like it. It just feels Neither do we. It's the law. That's why we got to do it but we don't like it either because it's I worry that we will lose people because we do this. But we tell these people you know, just hang with us and then maybe hopefully we can hire you back. Are these Are these non-renewals do they
061go on another school school or is this the only Oh, that's every school is required to do this. Yep. Yep. How long are they I I And I do want to say that Kelly LaBelle Lewis has done a stellar job. She's been a great addition to our staff. Wonderful work and uh has done many good things in the district for us in one short year. Less than a year already. So. Okay. Any reminders of coming events and celebrations? I have one that I make to make sure I mention so we don't forget but as uh Mr. McLean so astutely commented, we do a lot of moving around of staff. You know, uh laying off and then re-hiring. And this is you know, the layoff season and it's the hiring season. For that reason we need
062to have a special board meeting in April so that we can do some hiring. Be a special board meeting with a short agenda so we can do some hiring. And we've scheduled that for April 8th a Wednesday at 1:00 same time. And then we would like to move our regular meeting back a week so that we could space out our two meetings and have more hires at that regular board meeting. So two meetings in April. What do you mean move it back? Move it back one week. So move it to the 22nd. So So April 8th special board meeting, April 22nd regular meeting so we can space them out a little bit. So if you want to get that on your calendars and we'll get that into the minutes making this announcement. And that's all
063I had in terms of updates for um reminders or upcoming events. Is there some way to track over the years how many of these went on non-renewal and came back and how many of them were discarded? Is there a way to track all that? Yeah, we could ask HR to track that. Yeah, that'd be pretty interesting to see the ones that did get this non-renewal and how many of them actually came back and how many of them had gone the road. I have another question too. Well, a couple of questions. Um One is can we get like cuz I'm pretty sure nationally everybody has to take some type of uh assessment test through school? Like K through five? Some type of assessment like we got EM What is it? MEAs or >> MCAs. MCA test?
064You tell me. >> like like other around the state all of these other schools have them. And I'm just wondering cuz I just got in a conversation with somebody about this before. Like because everybody brings up test they keep harping harping on test scores. And uh I just remember when I moved from Red Lake to Louisville and I took my kids home. They ended up getting moved up a grade. One got moved up two grades. Because she was ahead of everybody there. And it was the same thing like with my brother-in-law when he moved back to Albuquerque from his kids going to Red Lake they ended up moving them up a grade when he got back to Albuquerque. So I'm wondering if we're just being compared against the state of Minnesota which at that time
065I think Minnesota was ranked like eighth or ninth nationally. Mhm. And then uh when I moved them to Kentucky my kids were further ahead than they've always been in Red Lake. In the Red Lake school district. Minnesota's many years I'd say 50 has been in the top 10. Many years it's in the top five. Yeah. So And I think that's one of the misconceptions is I think it's compared just to the state instead of nationally where we where we score at on these tests. I think that's a it is a misconception that they go off to these other schools and they because of the higher whatever field it is but if you take them and you move them into any other state they would do well regardless. But that was something that I I was
066just thinking about that cuz apparently I was talking to me about that and I let them know you know, Red Lake isn't as bad as what people make it out to be from my perspective. It's just I think it's more on the parent too. But that I was just my you know, my statement to them was we're not as bad as what those test scores say about us as far as ranking Minnesota In the state of Minnesota we probably are low but nationally I don't think we're as bad as what we're made out to be. Are you kidding? >> And then I did have another deal I wanted to bring up at the board meeting cuz I had to go to the elementary school few weeks back and it was uh and I no problems
067at the door or anything. I got in and but that was the first time that I've been in that school where I didn't hear any any noise. It was kind of eerie to me, you know, cuz I've always been in the school as a school resource officer, as a coach as just a parent but I've never not heard laughter or people just conversating. I'm That That to me was weird. It was scary cuz it was like I went during the middle of the day and I couldn't hear even a kid in the hall. That must mean they're they're working, you know, that's I mean yeah, they're working but my thing is they should be at You should have heard that laughter. Just kids just enjoying themselves learning. And I don't know what what that was
068but it just it bothered me. It bothered me really bad. I see that as a good sign because that meant that there were not a lot of kids in the hallways and that's been one of our challenges and our goals this year in all of our schools. Be in the classroom and be studying. What does the sound of learning sound like? Well, if I had there's noise and yelling and laughing. And in the cafeteria and they're talking, they're laughing and talking. But in the classroom it can be all sorts of different sounds. But if the doors are shut like they're supposed to be for school safety reasons, you might not hear much. The fact that you probably didn't see much movement in the hallways. Maybe I haven't said a good thing. I mean it's a
069good that don't get me wrong. I you know, I'm assuming that they're learning but just had hearing that that for me just kids laughter. Yeah. That they're you know, even if they're in the classroom they're enjoying what they're learning. And it's a mixture to me it's just a mixture of uh feelings, emotions and joy or you know, is it just one of those I don't know. It it just it was just one of those things I felt Mhm. compelled to like bring bring to the board table but you know, I've just never been in a school where it was that that unless they ain't nobody in the building at all but >> [clears throat] >> other than that I I expected at least hear staff talking to one another Mhm. about who that's all right
070how their day's going but that's all I got. I'm sorry to hold you guys up and all. The library in the elementary was like I really did sit up there. >> Oh, yeah. Libraries are a great place for that. >> to start with AR again and Mhm. The kids are looking forward to that AR. And then That's right. they would take donations for incentives for kids stuff. Yeah. Cuz right now he's got this machine that's making news. He didn't say here. And he gives Oh, yeah. Reading. Yeah. Thank you. The machine flat. Was there recently a Scholastic going on at the elementary? I met a truck this morning that said okay. Scholastic going on for you but that would get both. Was that a presentation or Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't catch Sorry. >> Scholastic
071that truck said Scholastic truck that was in I met on the road today. Was there a presentation recently at the elementary [clears throat] school? So, I'm not aware. I'm sorry. Yeah. >> Maybe he was just coming from that some other town coming through. I would like to uh recommend that uh you get a hold of this fellow named Michael Laughing Fox. He does uh presentations. The Ojibwe speaker out of Bad River. He plays the flute and he speaks and he's uh tells stories. Uh kind of geared towards the elementary. Remember when we went to school and everything we always had liciums or we always had Mhm. We had people coming in, you know, to give us a break from everyday Right. >> school. Okay. Matthew Laughing Fox. >> And yeah, Michael Laughing Fox. If you
072have any contact info you can give, that'd be helpful. He's on the internet. But I can I can search for him. Yeah. >> Yeah. What is uh Where's he from again? I believe he lives in the No, Moong Wan coming but uh Okay. He he uh like He's from Bad River. Bad River, okay. Yeah. I met him last fall. He was pretty he was pretty good speaker and everything. Okay. And then on those MCA tests that we do would you be able to show us the results of them for like last two three years so we can just kind of compare how they did now? I think you can So, what I've been doing is going on to that Minnesota Department of MDE Yep. website and it pops up and it gives us our scores
073our testing numbers um cuz I was following that for quite a while. I just haven't looked since maybe three years ago. But to me when I don't think we were that awful. But then too it was just like cuz I was following it when we had that academy over at the middle school so we were following it and it yeah, that just made me mad cuz that year the following we had it the one year and then they got rid of half the middle school staff and then when we got the results the following fall you seen the improvement. The kids jumped. But it was too late and everybody was just like that's what happened and we're all kind of I think that that that did take a lot out of the parents cuz we
074were pushing for that and the involvement just kind of fizzled out there. But yeah. One more thing. Um being that we were doing non-renewal contracts on all the teachers and stuff that does that go with the coaches too on all our sports? Is that all cuz are they Are you year to year or do they keep their position? Keep their position unless we choose to non-renew like we did for one coach a couple of years ago. Okay. I just had a question about her. Question. We can't let you speak at this point in a public meeting. You can talk after the meeting, okay? Okay. Cuz the meeting needs to be adjourned. We're off of our agenda now so just make sure, okay? I move and second to adjourn. I'll make that. You and yeah, move
075and make that. I'll second it. And actually um at this point then it needs to be a one-way actually we we can't you'll have to you know, speak to people like one at two at a time cuz once we're adjourned the meeting is over. So. Yeah, it always there's the eye. I hold. I'm hearing zero. >> [laughter] >> 4-0. Yep. Adjourned at 2:29. Thank you all.