001Tina Stley director Thomas Barrett director here Tim with superintendent Monday. Yeah. Thanks to Okay preview for today's agenda. Thank you chair Jordan. Uh after a lot of time for public comment and delegations we will review the reports. After that, we'll move into the consent agenda, including approving the minutes from the February 26th, 2025 meeting, followed by approval of the 2025 2026 capital projects in the amount of 845,927. The board has six hires to approve today. We will close out the consent agenda with approval of additions for the sublist. There's no need for close session at this board meeting. The board will move into action items on the agenda and this includes approving the list of bills and wires in the amount of 2,371,129.79. Next, the board will be asked to approve the 2025 2026 school
002calendar as presented. and I uh misspoke. That was a message from the last approval of the preview. There are no hires today. Congrats back. We will then wrap up with a miscellaneous portion of the meeting which was going to include a presentation from our peer leaders, but because they're here now, we thought that it would work well to have them do a presentation while they're here so that then they can go off to lunch ball and get back to their classes. Uh, first we should probably approve the agenda. Okay. I did have a question. Wanted to bring up MIA. I guess it's tomorrow. I just not found out about it. So, wanted to add that onto the agenda. I want to quoted that in the cities. I don't know who else. I don't I just
003found out. What is the question again? MIA to get board approval to attend. We don't need board approval for instate travel, right? In state, however, registration might be closed. It might be closed. Last year, they were closed early. They might be closed. I would open. It'd be good if you can go. Yeah. All right. Thank you. Uh discuss tomorrow ends Friday at noon. Yep. Is that in Hankley or Mystic? So when we attend those Indian egg edges one of the organizers they might let you know I think I went before and they let me in my to show up. Okay. Did you mention the sub list? Is that off the table, too? Because there you spoke about the six. Oh, that should be still there. Yep. Thank you. All right. Number four, approval of this
004agenda. I'll move second by McLean second by Darrove the agenda March 18 2025 comment discussion hearing none we'll call for the vote all those in favor signify by saying I I vote number five yeah public comments and delegations are technically call these guys a delegation and it ties into our reports a peer leadership update. Our peer leaders are here. Uh you had asked a few board meetings back that once in a while we could bring organizations or groups in to talk about what they're doing in the district. We have somebody lined up for next month. But today, this month's board meeting, we have our student peer leaders here to introduce themselves, talk about what they do, and lead a couple of activities for us, which should be kind of fun. So, is it uh Anthony
005or Travis? Okay. Hello. And as you speak, if you can introduce yourselves, too. Thank you. I'm Travis, one of the peer leaders, and these are a couple other of our peer leaders. And today I'm teaming bird. We're here to just talk about what we're doing in the pure leadership and what we're trying to do. Um our first game would be that we're going to tell you about is would you rather? It's probably a simple game. Everybody before you get into that, what what is it that you're trying to do? What are peer leaders for? Well, we're just trying to connect the students. Um just trying to get a general basis of everybody knows everybody vaguely putting a name to a face you know things creating community and with community comes trust and respect right and
006you also some of you going into classrooms and what are you doing there? Um, we're doing well, we're mainly doing little games, but we tell the students of what we do program like how me and a couple other students went to the evergreen conference and held a couple of games there and got, you know, and you're doing some tutoring as well, right? Yes. Okay. Any questions about that before they kind of start with their first game activity? I mean, okay. Our first game is would you rather, you know, something you learn in elementary, probably kindergarten even, you know, something you do in class, but we're doing it in high school just so that you know, you might not know everybody. Sure. you grew up with maybe like 10, 15 people out of your class from
007elementary, but there might be five or six that came from Kelly or came from PEMA. And it's just getting to know the students, getting to know what they're interested in, you know, and I could demonstrate with you guys, you know, u as the peer leader, you just come up with like a simple question. Would you rather Mountain Dew or Pepsi. And then I would say Mountain Dew come over here or Pepsi come over here. And I simply ask the kids, you know, Mountain Dew or Pepsi. Then it's kind of fun because you have groups of kids lining up. Then they treat each other, "Really? Mountain Dew? Crazy? Did your dentist know that?" You know, that kind of stuff. Yeah. just getting to know one another, getting to know what we might like on other stuff
008like that. Another one of our games is look up, look down, where we have them circle up, and as the peer leader, we just say look down, we go and then whoever they're making eye contact, they'll be out. So like me and Anthony, we made eye contact and we're out of the game. So then riding these winners and it's just getting getting the kids to be comfortable with one another, not you know, helping them not be shy or Indianish. Okay, now that you've explained the game and you're ready to lead it, who's leading would you rather, Ryan or Anthony or you? We can all stand up in a group and then we can try it out. Okay, you guys can join in too, right? Principal privacy. Anybody can watch. So, which side is what? We're
009going to go left and right. Yeah, we can go left and right and Ryan will just come up with something. Yeah, Ryan. Um, yeah. I know from playing basketball here, but um this side uh like Indian tacos or else it's like a Mexican tacos. Like Indian tacos, more tacos. Mexican tacos. Indian tacos or taco? Taco. or else um both or [Laughter] just remember though if somebody is neither or they could go in the middle sorry so somebody's not a Coke or Pepsi fan just go in the middle and that includes um Now then are you a morning person or a late night? I'm a morning person. Is LeBron James the greatest basketball player of all time or is Michael Jordan the greatest basketball player of all time? Of course. Oh, okay. I have changed my
010mind. Changed my mind. You've done so much for the community. Sorry. Got stay loyal. Another one might like PS5 or Xbox. I don't think you guys are. Okay. So I'm neither. I'm in the middle. You don't know what they are. I was saying the same thing. I had to [Laughter] white. All right, we can have a seat this next game. Okay, like this is your actually take that back. Let's stay standing and then when we're out, we sit down. Okay. All right. We got to kind of form a really nice circle here. We call this Superman style. We put our arms out as opposed to airplane. All right. That one. Okay. Good. So, it's a simple game. We look down and then we up. We look up. And whoever we're making eye contact with, we'll
011just simply leave the circle. So, if I happen to look up and I'm looking at Sherry, she's looking at looking at each other. She's looking at me. We're out. Okay. We don't know what's going on. Got dark. Hey, bye there too. Okay, [Laughter] I was trying not to look at Shelly. [Laughter] Down break down down. I went up five times there and made it. [Laughter] So one those are all the games we have for now. We do have many more, but those are usually played with bigger groups. There are some we could play, but I'm afraid you guys probably got to go back to your actual job. That would be You're afraid we're too old. I thought Nice work. Thank you guys. Appreciate your leadership. You leave whenever you need to, whenever you want to
012to go do lunch ball. Okay. Um, and and I want to point out, I don't know if you heard it, but there was a lot of laughter and that brings people together and uh see people laugh. Even at a board meeting, nice work. Thank you. Thank you for your time. Remember we did these at um like the staff first day of the year. Yes. The two that was second year a year ago. Yeah. And that's what it was just full of. Yep. And our our peer leaders led the entire stand activities all morning. Oh yeah. Yeah. The kids were good. So that's what we're going to uh standing Rock for. Learn more different games and learn more leadership skills. the 31st. Okay. All right. I guess we're still on reports. Should I jump into that?
013Yeah. Okay. We have the uh I gave this email view my superintendence report and that was going to pretty much wrapped up there. So, we can jump into the uh where I would refer you to page three, the financial report. And uh everything is in order there with a nice health and fund balance over $33 million and uh pretty much stayed status static this month. 33,450,000 down a bit 33,26,000. Every month it es and flows, but uh everything is in order as it always is when our business manager runs his reports. And then moving on to our monthly enrollment report. Again, we're holding steady. We're down a little bit about eight students, but again, that goes up and down. Usually this time of the year, we we trickle down a little bit. We are still
014well above where we were at at the beginning or you know about a year ago or so 50 students plus above. So that translates to more students here, more funding and uh greater community in our schools. Well, that wraps up the reports. Thank you. All right. to seven, the consent agenda. Thank you, Mayor Jordan. I present to you the consent agenda, which includes the minutes of the last meeting, the capital project, and uh moving the sublist, which we do every month. personal action on the consent agenda. Further discussion hearing no we'll call for the vote. All those in favor signify by saying I. I opposed motion carried. Yeah fact on floor. Is that what you guys got or if they just call what you guys? Uh I don't know what it's called, but it's it's
015meant for like you know what you want to do wheels like roll down much more durable surface. Tech is this right here. Something like this. Yeah. Yeah. Because remember we did the hallways, right? Yep. And it's something like what's already there but it's a better version of this. They're doing it for the cafeteria through the middle school. Good. And this is all stuff that we budgeted for in advance. So plan for this. Don't ever get hit hard with a sudden influx of bills or costs. Lift gates. That look bus. Yep. that will come in handy and be a good safety improvement. Then I was trying to make out on the map the um one of the roof improvement looks like it's above the cafeteria. No, it can't be that area. Oh, which right here? The
016roof improvement. Oh. Um, yeah, A7 would be just off of that. Yeah, it's not on the map, but not directly over it. It's kind of hard to explain just off of that area. But we can if you want we can check Chris after the meeting give you an answer for that question. Then is there any room with any of this? Remember I was talking about the sound system and the under table. Yeah that uh that probably wouldn't even necessarily need to be under capital because I don't think it would be that high amount. again. Why don't we have a conversation right after this meeting and we have time visit with both Chris and Willie on that require new speakers or anything. It's just simply rewiring or even setting up a um some type of Bluetooth
017system where the sound can be run from a iPad right at the scores table. Yeah. Yeah. Because the thing with the speaker is when you turn down the master when the music's playing, then you're able to utilize the microphone a lot better and time. Yeah. Just it's all about changing level. Speakers are still doing their job. Yeah. There was I was a little nervous there. Kind of embarrassed when I took a long pause there for about 20 30 seconds, but we got you know going. So that's on us. We got to get that fixed. I do know Walker for example, they control theirs right from their scoring table. iPad. Okay. So, it can do a lot more than you know what we got to run to the back, right? Kind of like a football scoreboard
018iPad. Yeah. All right. Cool. Eight. Moving for code. Action items number nine. Thank you, Chair Jordan. I submit to you bills in the text $2,371,29.79. A motion to approve. One second by Nicole second to approve the list of bills to 2 million $71,129. Further discussion and then call for the vote. All those in favor I post. school calendar. Thank you, Chair Jordan. I submit to you after two readings so far we've had, now it's time to take action that you're approved the 2526 calendar, which is very similar to the one last year, if you find a year that works, you try to stick with it. And uh all of the quarters are evened out nicely and uh includes all the important holidays, so on and so forth. So, I submit this to you for your
019approval in a vote. A motion. All right. Second motion by Tom, second by approve the calendar for 256. Further discussion? Hear none. We'll call for the vote. All those in favor signify by saying I I oppose. I do have one item I could have brought up at the very beginning probably if it's better miscellaneous. um when we get public participation. I wanted to uh after we had somebody here about five or 6 months ago and they spent about a long time maybe 20 minutes talking and a little bit of um using names which is not really appropriate in a public meeting. Um Mike and I, the chairman Mike and I got together and discussed the need to have some guidance when we receive delegations or people making public comments. The same thing we did when
020I was uh the superintendent from Biji. If you don't do that, you end up having people coming in and talking for 30 minutes and that's not what we should do. So generally we try to limit you know and tra traditionally we've been doing that where we try to limit speakers to about five names and the group comes in we ask the group have one representative and we ask them not to downspeak or misspeak and trash somebody's reputation because that can then hold us liable meeting if we let them do that. So, it's not a forum to trash people's names. So, showed Mike this and and uh told Chris this before the meeting, but let me just read to you what the guidance is when we have visitors coming in. Thank you for participating in the
021public participation portion of the board meeting today. Please share your thoughts in 5 minutes or less. I we will monitor you for that with a timer. If your time is up, when you're in the middle of a sentence, you may finish your sentence or your final thoughts. Then you will need to return to your chair. When I was in Baiji during masking, we had many people coming in and we had to limit it because of that. Um, but even if you just have one person, they should be able to say what they need to say in about five minutes. Then we ask please bear in mind that public participation portion of our board meeting is not a give and take session or a conversation between the members of the board and you but an opportunity
022for you to share your thoughts. So please do not expect a response or comments and questions from the members of the board at this time. Generally speaking we thank people and then we move on. Also an employes reputation is very important. Therefore, public criticism of an employee by name or implication is very inappropriate in a board meeting. Please refrain from using names or you'll be asked to sit down. Anyone who has a personnel complaint should bring that complaint to writing and submit it to the superintendent. If the concern is about the superintendent, it should be submitted in written form to the human resources coordinator. Even if it's about me, then it goes to Ashley. Finally, the school boards are not administrators. They're not involved in a daily administration of school issues. Therefore, if you're coming
023to the board with a concern or complaint, but have not first used the chain of command and spoken to a teacher or a principal, we ask that you do that first. And as MSBA says, that's something we all try to train our people to do. And uh so with that I want to give you an update. When Bob Smith came and spoke to us last meeting he he brought up some good concerns or important concerns. So we have addressed those and I have invited Bob to attend our monthly PBIS committee meetings and he graciously accepted and he came to our meeting last week and he had some good thoughts to share. So that was a productive result, good result I think of his his meeting. Um he kept his comments to less than five minutes,
024but then we engaged and dragged it out another 15 minutes, which he shouldn't really do, but it was still a positive thing that he came here and shared those things. So I want to thank him for that. And I want to welcome and thank anybody who comes and brings concerns because We need to hear that. But if if they haven't first gone to a principal or to me, I would encourage people to do that because that's uh the most efficient way to solve problem. Yeah, I really appreciate the elected tribal council member coming and share his concerns because now like they're more like one of us now because normally in the past elected council members send their kids to other schools. Yep. And they don't send their kids to the public schools. So they don't
025know what kind of issue we deal with. Right. So now he's one of us. Exactly. Enrich. Thank you. That's all I have. Thank you. What is the um so in the future when somebody signs up for that we need to go that little piece of paper then or? Yeah actually when we have I'll always have this ready. If we have guests coming in we can just say thanks for being here. If they need more than five minutes, can we still grant them more than five minutes? I mean, I think if it's legitimate, then we really need to know. Yeah. Sometimes some people need more than five minutes. Is our dialogue with them part of the five minutes? Um, nope. Technically not, right? Because that's that's the part that sometimes goes over. They'll say what they
026got to say and then, you know, we'll have dialogue about it, right? The only issue is when we start doing that according to MSBA then it reverts from a public meeting to a meeting for the public and it's not a not a meeting for public to bring all of their concerns because we have to stick to our agenda as much as possible but the they teach us this at MSBA training uh phase one. Yep. Exactly. You know there's phase one, two, three and four that all board members should be um Yeah. And when people come here we might not have the answer. We might ask the question additional question. Can you explain more what you mean by disruptive classes or can you explain more what you mean by this? then we can look into it
027during the next few weeks and like I'm doing now. I can come back and give you a report that I listen to his comments, reached out to the principles, resolved things and we've invited him to be on the committee. So technically that should be posted regardless at every meeting. Yep. Should be actually posted MSBA. should be posted wherever we're having our meeting so when they come in they see it they can read it themselves and we reiterate that to the good idea I can put this right uh by the wall there y and maybe between you and me we people come in we can say please take a look at this okay thank you all right anything else I just want to share that I I spent time with the Republican caucus last Monday. It
028was quite an experience for me. Um, everyone was quite friendly, although not all the words that were said were friendly, but you know, it was it was a good time. And I want to say that I got to talk with Val Duran, Steve Green, and Representative Matt Bliss. Um, we got 15 minutes. So I I took advantage of that and I went ahead and poured the capital and got to speak with these representatives who represent our area. So I just want to share that and it's important that we all should be doing that and I met with Fidel Duran and Green also. I missed Bliss because I went to some others as well. Okay. So you got to see them too. Yep. Great. the next day, Tuesday, and MASA, superintendent from Northwestern Minnesota went down.
029So, and we were there on Monday. Yeah. So, you prepped them for us. Thank you for that. Yeah. But it's a good thing we need to do. We need to get our voice out there. I just feel that they like seeing you in person, right? And then we just had conversation, you know, we really didn't disagree on anything, you know, and we just had good conversation. I just wanted to share that. Um, did anybody anybody going to the Red Lake Day at the Capitol? We're not invited. I know in the past we went that's when I went and kind of did what you did and then invited these people at the time to come. They'll invite the school board. They never invite us. They invited us. Yeah, I just said I I've been, you know,
030before and then that's when we I invited the guys up to come tour the school back to the expansion. Pretty sure they sent you something to them. I've never gotten invited. Otherwise, I would have. Did you get anything from uh chairman's office? Look, I would like capital. No, we never get invited. But maybe it's a standing invite. As long as we know the date, we can always ask. I'm sure that they would be willing to take our perspective. Let us hear our thoughts. You went Yeah. Michael, Roy, myself years ago. too. Invited years ago, but not recent at all. I think it's been open open invitation for us, but I don't think I don't know. I went a couple of times. Five years ago. Yeah. Yeah. I appreciate our partnership with the council. You have
031a date? Next. Next Wednesday. Next Wednesday. March 26th. Well, I wouldn't just want to show up there and pose as the school board director. I'd like to be invited. You know, it's their day, not our day. The email I saw had all the directors and I I just made the assumption you would have got the email, too, being hoping you are on the list, but I'll follow up with Laya or Barb to make sure. Yeah, usually I get emails from Barb, but because remember last time the council planned uh uh department of ed coming to their council chambers, they didn't even invite us nor did they include us. Here we were at MSBA leadership conference summer conference that day when it was happening. I haven't gotten anything from Barb, but maybe what was the other
032one? Maybe it was because we had that thing on the table too though, you know, that bonding request. That might have something to do with us. Yeah. Being invited. I don't even know if we invited. No, we we weren't invited to the department of ed. Maybe we were, but we had MSBA summer leadership that same day. So, I it was I'm just curious. Like you said, it's good to be with those folks, you know. Yeah, it is. represent us. They do. So, I just It was a good visit for me. I had a good time all around. What about the one in DC? Has anybody got more information on That was March last week. Two weeks ago. Yeah. Or last week. You would have to leave on March 8th. Yeah. Haven't heard anything about how
033that went. I generally get a phone call. I check my email. Yeah. Like I think everything happened like after that meeting which is crazy. The school email go redlevel us. Yep. Yeah. I was going to go I called this guy and I was like, "Hey man, I think somebody should be out there." And then but um but it was already after the you know out of state travel thing. Yeah. is um being a particious that's a big deal out in DC. So if you're part you know is the correct and you're on board. Twice a year. Yeah. Yeah. Nia Nissa Nissan National Impacted Schools. It did look like a school association. Yeah. Those three three Which one that DC DC? Yeah. Spring and a fall. So September the next one coming up. And then like
034in talking with these guys, they thought that would be a good one for sure. Important one was March 8. We might. Yeah. Well, they everything was kind of fluid right now. You know what I mean? We don't quite know. Yeah. But that was the important one when we went to Nice on December March and we both ready to go. Thanks. Um, all right. Anything else? Miscellane. So, when should we, you know, do that? I mean, put our names in travel. I want to go cuz I need we need to find out so we can respectfully speak about to people when they ask questions cuz like there's a lot of questions flo around already with the closing of department of ed not closing but the you know what's going chaos at the federal level at the
035federal level. So how much is it going to affect what's going on here? And then there's like a lot of weird stuff going on. And I hate to say it, but I don't think anybody we would have talked to in DC would have known the answer. They wouldn't have known. Too much chaos. They wouldn't have known. Yeah. They wouldn't have known in March. Not on that not doing that date because of it didn't happen till after. That's true. You're right. But they still probably don't know. But now if we go to September, that's something we can discuss in usually a month before that. So keep that in mind. Yeah. August. August traditionally. Yes. So that way we can get plane tickets. You know how it goes when we get closer to Christ. Yep. Okay. Yeah.
036I just want to drive. All right. Anything else? Number 10. Got anything to share? All right. Moving on to 11. a motion to adjurnn. The motion second call for the vote. All those in favor. It's a good miscellaneous session. Usually miscellaneous could be positive topics or questions about things coming up. Sometimes it ends up going into negativity, but it's best if it's It was good today. Good stuff. Yeah. Also, another thing I want to mention was um workshops chair.