001Tina sty director Douglas Jack dear director Thomas director Sim [Music] super thank you chair Barett after our uh a lot of time for any potential comments or delegations we will do what we normally do routinely and we re review the finance and enrollment reports after that we will move into the consent agenda which includes improving approving the minutes from the January 22nd meeting we'll then have four resignations to approve today followed by resending one job offer due to a licensing issue the board has then six hires to approve today after that the board will be asked to approve the opening and posting of eight positions for the 2526 school year followed by the approval of additions for the sublists there's no need for a closed session at this board meeting today so we will move
002right into the action items on the agenda originally there were six but we have two additional items that you have in the salmon colored sheets today including first action item a approving the bills and wires for the month of January in the amount of 2,778 88 next the board will be asked to Grant to Grant approval to solicit bids to build one storage building at Red Lake Elementary complex and one storage building at the Red Lake Secondary comp contracts followed by item C approving the non-renewal of contracts for 13 student support professionals as required by Statute based upon licensing again as I mentioned to many of you this is very routine and we will plan to have many of these people back after we've done our 60-day due diligence for hting these positions the same
003thing is true for item d approving the termination of contracts for eight student support professionals as required by Statute upon licensing permissions now the reason that there are two separate items C and D is because C is non-renewal of contracts for teachers ssps with teacher licenses who normally would have ongoing teaching contracts item D we use the word termination which sounds unfortunate but it's because they are not on on a renewable contract like teachers are these are individuals with um tier zero or tier one non-teaching contracts so we have to terminate but we're hoping to get them back too after our 60 days so it's just following a requirement of Statute even though some of them been here right yeah yeah because some of them even though they've been here let's say 25 years or
004more they might be in a new position this year that required them to get a special permission from pby with professional educator license and standard Sport and that means that when they get that special permission it's only good for one year and then we have to post to see if we find someone more qualified we usually don't and then we can go back to pby again and say we would like to hire this person back and get them on another special permission it's frustrating we have to do that and you got to post their jobs over here y so we're doing it now so that when 60 days are up at the end of April early may we can hire them back in our May board that way we don't push into the summer and
005end up maybe losing these people who look for jobs in some other District we want them back most of them anyway if they're willing to come back so then we move into item e which is to amend policy 522 Title 9 student sex non-discrimination in accordance with recommendations from the msba then item F action item approving an amendment to the 2425 school calendar and then we would like to add items G and H which are the salmon colored sheets in front of you 9g which is to approve a State travel for peer leaders and chaperon to attend a leadership workshop and conference on March 31st in Standing Rock North Dakota and the approval there is needed because it's an out ofate travel and then item 9h the eighth action item today which is to approve
006out of state travel and a camping trip for 10 students and two chaperon in the Red Lake Secondary complex science club going on a trip to Colorado costs there will be shared by the district and the signings Club then we'll move into our miscellaneous portion of the meeting which will include the second reading of 2025 2026 schol calendar and we we might as well do this now we want to make sure we announce that we need to move the March board meeting up by one day from Wednesday March 19th to Tuesday March 18th because I have an Masa conference with more lobbying and more work that will be taking place on that day the 19th so I won't be here that day what the 18th 18 yep you can note that and we'll send out
007a reminder and that then will'll wrap up and our meeting thank you okay approval of agenda I'll make a motion chairman second question all those in favor say I I public comments and delegation y we do okay okay so I just come come here talking I guess to the address the school board to look into how the school is going to address I was looking at the Minnesota's education department report card on Red Lake and it being in the lowest five percentile and then with like now that my older kids all went out and like for me with our younger kids now coming here like it's I don't want to be sending my kids out but I still feel they they still should be given a proper education and have certain standards and then as
008we went to conferences and talking with other parents like the big issues with creating these learning environments are the not gaining control of the class CLS so so this is what I'm like I first off I commend you on your actions last year on getting the fighting under control and the cell phone use that was one great to see happen but now I'm asking if you can direct Mr loots and the teachers like how are you working on getting your classrooms under control because from the sounds of it from other parents also it's more of a it's not just one grade level it's not one classroom it's kind of a full spectrum of it talking to them they get into class some kids ready to learn some kidss 15 20 minutes before the classes settle
009down now you're looking at half of their time gone throughout the whole year of their learning experience so that's my reason purpose for being here is just uh like I can't accept that we're going to stay at the bottom 5% out because looking at it it's been like this steady for a long time it actually it was good for a while and then it went down over the past few years so it's kind of going in the wrong direction so right now that's my ask to you is just to push harder for super superintendent to work with the teachers more and develop better game plans on how what are we doing to make this work better how are we creating this a more favorable learning environment for the students that want to learn because just
010seeing too you see all the buses leaving they shouldn't have to just to get that better educa or thinking it like this education should be here not send our students off like I want my kids to be here and and like so for now that's why I'm here now just ask use to push the superintendent to work with his teachers harder to come up with better game plans how are we going to how are we going to do better for our children here so I'm just here as a parent just but I'm also like I said when I speak with other parents it's kind of the common theme of the classrooms are too out of control to even get started at the beginning of the periods it's taking sometimes half of the class period to
011get started so that's my concern for you and I just wanted come here personally and address it so where I can don't got to run around and catch everybody I just want Tim can you give give them an answer yeah yeah actually my first thought is to say thank you for being here expressing that I wish we had more parents who did that because a lot of it is a struggle with the value of Education um kids come into school for many reasons but unfortunately a lot of times they come to school just to hang out see their friends not to learn and then they want to skip class and we tell them you got to get the class and we're getting a handle on that but when they get the class they're behind because
012they've been skipping or they've been well a lot of times too even if they're skipping it's because the teacher is just giving out handouts they're getting bullied some of them are getting bu we' stopped that now we've stopped the handouts and we've actually El even up oh yeah it is the curriculum is solid the testing is solid but it's the the students not wanting to learn and if you I'll show you the students who want to learn and they're the ones with parents who make sure they're accountable so we have to work not only as the school but with the community and we are working on that we've done the work with the cell phones we've added a new electronic attendance system so we can track students we' hired a couple people just to track
013students and skipping this it's going to take a year or two to get a better handle on the actual classrooms but that's why we've hired so many students supp support professionals over the last year or two get a handle on that but it will take a few years for those students who have gotten behind get caught up but it's but it's getting the classrooms under control like that's the that's the teachers job is to have a learning to control their learning environment not them be out of control but unfortunately the state has re restricted our ability to do things we can't kick students out anymore hardly ever we can't you know U discipline students we can't do so many things in terms of kicking students out of class or you look at the you look
014at the ele they have different tiered rooms too if you're excelling you can but not at the middle school this is where you're at we have no we have different tiered rooms here too and we have a mod you know mtss multi-tiered systems of support could youate on the state uh limiting the ability to I guess uh remove students from class and or the school um what do you mean by that we got our hands slapped because we're told that we're removing too many students in classes or suspending too many of students so that's you know one of the last things that we were and it's never good to remove students but if they're disruptive for the other students then we try to take them out of the class and send to a refocus room
015or a room to get things turn around the GU room gu wigig which is the turnaround room calm down think about your behaviors and when you're ready let's sit down and get your homework done but it's the students coming in not the teachers the teachers are working very very hard we have teachers who are very skilled here and they work very hard but when we have students who swear back at the teach teacher and who refuse to work refuse to learn and become a disruption and we send them out of class and we try to get them to turn their behavior around but when they don't have the kind of value system let's say at home that says hey you got in trouble today shape up and get back to school tomorrow and behave what
016do the kids do they come back to the next day and they do the same thing over again over and over but we can't tell these students we're done with you goodbye call in the parents to help straighten them oh we do and we call the parents in and say why don't you come to school for a day and watch what your students do and that has worked in schools like Alexandria I've heard St Cloud but our teacher our our parents will say we can't we got jobs or we don't have a car with gas in it we can't come to school so we're aware of all these problems and we're working on these problems but it will take time so what is your like do even have a game plan here's our XYZ steps
017we have many game plans it's yep for now like I said you watch that level just drop and drop over the years when you it's right on public record but we're actually going up we're going up with graduation the last two three years now Co really did a number on us and we're turning things around and you'll start seeing some improvements so I don't want to get beyond our five minutes here we usually talk but just a Qui we will continue working on this you have my word on that just a quick so like for for me I'm just going to talk about because that's all I know um what we ended up doing back I want to say 2012 when they shut down they actually shut down the middle school and got rid of
018half the teachers brought back but prior to that year the students met with the principales and it it is a long drawn out process and you're going to go back and forth and point the fler at because the principles did it to us they were like well the parents are to blame principal is the blame parents are the blame and then we finally just said all right let's both take responsibility for it but this is what we want for our kids what do you need for us to help you and then we met with the teachers because the principles and teachers got on board and it was the same thing how we started out they're in your classroom you need to take control well you're the parent you need to take control so that went
019back and forth and then we finally came up with a plan so what we had did is what that's when we created that uh Academy at the school here at the middle school and if you look at those kids that went to that Academy all of those kids ended up going to college but they disbanded that that program like maybe a year after but then when we look back when we tracked those kids from that graduated in 2015 forward all of those kids ended up graduating from high school going off to college but it was the parents pushing along with the the staff because now the teachers had the had the backing of the parents because we would come in periodically throughout the day somebody was always here one of the parents was always in
020this building and it kind of helped deter a lot of that stuff that was going on but I understand what you're saying because now I mean and that's a question for you Mr let we do need to open our school back up to the community to come in that's the hard part is on they're and welcome you tell them come on in and watch what we're doing I think that's what it is though is over the years it hasn't been that way and parents don't know that they're they're welcome in the building to walk around and see what's going on in these classrooms because like when I walk around the school when I take time out of my day to come in here and walk around you can hear the swearing but then when they
021get in front of you it's like oh you know they straighten up but that's the thing is we got to have that Community involvement back within the building and right now I just don't feel like a lot of our community members feel welcome in the building that's just that's just you know the way I I understand exactly what you're saying because I'm like I want everybody to understand that you know the school board where I I understand your grief um and I wanted you know I want my daughter she's in middle school and I want her to be you know when I talk to her about classes and you know she's not always an angel but it's like are you hurting somebody else from learning you know just because you already know it are you
022hurting somebody else but then two and that was something that we'll talk discuss later I did have a question about the curriculum because like I've been coming up and I've been seeing a lot of different things that have been occurring I just checked on a student today and I I wasn't really pleased with what I found out and then how long it's been going on and I didn't say anything about it just because I wanted to I'm trying to figure it out and let the let our supervisors do what they need to do but I'm hoping that that's going to start making that turnar around but I think you need to get a group of parents together Rob and come up here and visit the school and see what's going on because you can't I
023mean we I see it firsthand but I can't as a as a Schoolboard member I just you know I don't want to be micromanaging but I'll see it and I take not of it that's just my I'm sorry let him know what's going on the most challenging School I've ever worked in in all my years because of the student Behavior so here are some of the things that we've been doing in the last two years to turn things around we've taken the cell phones away we've added PBIS at both all levels so we have positive behavioral intervention and strategies that's beginning to work we're into our third year for the per leadership group trying to make connections and get peer leaders students to show and model how to behave how to go to class how
024to connect with each other and how to model good behavior we're working onms again bringing them back so that students who maybe don't want to sit and learn about traditional things can go off to Wells Academy and learn technology skills can uh work with auto mechanics can work with CNA and nurses so we're working with OSI to get some of these classes back so that students who really want to learn maybe Hands-On skill can do that and get out of those classes that maybe they're boarded in offering more options and more Hands-On work I think what worked for us Mr Le was that when we did do that Academy that we had here at the school what it was that year was the kids weren't learning traditional ways so they were basically learning they were
025doing projects which were taken along long period of time so by the time we had our parent meeting their project that they've been working on since the beginning of school those kids when they came in when you know when you came in for parent teacher conferences they were happy to show you hey this is what we did so Dad I need you to roll a dice so we roll it Dice and they were they were learning math by doing fun activities versus the traditional curriculum as far as okay we're going to move along they were just taking a long period of time to learn decimal and multiplications and fractions they were taking a longer period of time than just the customary five to 10 days um but it it it worked for those kids because
026they were learning more and it showed on their test scores but for whatever reason U the superintendent at the time just didn't feel like it it was working but you had the back in of the parents and then once that happened the parents all walked away and then the school got you know parents didn't feel well I'd like to bring more of that back you know more of those options more of those choices so but I hear what you're saying I'm not pushing back I agree with you that we have work to do so that was just my ask to the board to just keep pushing him hard to work with them to do for the teachers to do better to gain gain better control create that Better Learning environment and maybe even updates on
027like you said you have lots of plans you're working on WE update them on this is how we're moving forward this has worked this hasn't something just they know what's happening if it's not then it's you said it's viewed as just accepting it you can't can't accept it I'll share I'll share too that I feel that us as elected board members could be doing more in the community going out and and talking directly with families and addressing these issues one onone that's what I've been doing you know and I I feel like I'm all loan and so I just feel that our board can do more things too and as far as getting involved with families that that need that extra support um and also teaching our young people parenting and life skills so when
028they get to that stage of Life of being parents they know what to do because we see a repeated cycle time after time yeah and as Partnerships um something else that is important that we're trying to bring back is a career exploration if kids don't know what they want to do in life they're going to be asking this question you always here why do I got to learn this stuff why do I got to be here if they have a vision for a career path like they want to be in the medical field or want to be a successful business person or a mechanic or a leader you need to help them understand how to get there so in a class that teaches them possible career options they can catch a vision for their future
029and that's one of the problems we see with kids today they don't know what they want to do so they don't know why they got to be in school was um you talk about having like a redirect and is that the same as ISS and if it's not then my question is and I can't remember what the said but I did ask because our daughter came here from a private school and it was a big decision for us to let her come to Red because like you said our other daughters I didn't I didn't watch here because of the environment because of the education um but our other people are invol in for they want and so it was a big decision for us to let her come here um and it took her a
030week to get used to the environment that she was coming from because it a little more loud than she used to but um we have nothing but good report from her teachers that she does exactly what she needs to do she's one of the best students she follows directions um so my concern was that her WS were drop and I I'm just wondering like if you can have rooms that are designated for kid who need redirection or in school suspension yep we have can there be a room for kids who are here and they want to learn I mean I hate to separate but you know my daughter is already affected by this and I don't want it to keep happening you said what are you doing to build community engagement I know it's an
031issue you know I work with grant writing so I know there's all these social issues that come into play but you know it's just seeing how the environment is affecting my daughter and what she's we do have uh we have a redirect room we do have an ISS room then we have a calming room all these rooms are to deal with the kinds of behaviors that we want students that they can't behave and they start disrupting the class they go a room for kids who are here and they're doing everything to do so they can learn and that's the goal that when when well then the state would come down on us and say you're segregating but we do it the other way where let's move kids who aren't willing to learn help them learn
032with the help of some of our student support professionals other places my other da not legally you can't just say to kids you're going to be stuck over here now and all the good kids are going to be learning how does High School have lumberjack that's that's an alternative learning school and we have them here too we have the TLC and we have the alc okay so I guess like um when I think of the academy it's more so like because the the alternative you know ways of learning definitely good and a great option but when I think of an academy it's like the you do empower the kids who are excelling academically so they're you know um like if they do want those opportunities we're going to offer them those opportunities you know there
033has to be a way way where we can do it where it's not like we're going to take all the kids who are smarter ones and segregate them from the kids who are struggling you know I feel like there's a way we can do it where it's not getting into the legal needs of segregation it's by offering options yeah so students can go to PSO they can do college in the classroom they can go to Wells Academy certified nursing assistant classes so giving students options so that those who want to learn choose those things we can't just say oh in the 10th grade here's the class for the good kids use the class not kids who don't want to learn but so we're trying to do that but in a way that looks different so
034I would love to visit with you some more about this would it be okay to conect thing too that we can consider is our constitution for the nation and how we have the laws we have a couple council members here you guys can do that and figure out how our people parent their kids how they should be parenting their kids and we even have a group home school you know a JBC juvenile school all these different levels but you're right we need to make sure we have the room and the environment for those kids who want to learn yeah I sh the same concern talk to the princip yeah we'll see what we can do maybe there's some other reverse strategy we can do engag what are what is being done like I know that
035is one of the biggest struggles is to make people do the that hope would do we have homeschool Lea who reach out with the parents and try to encourage them to make sure their students are in school and that they're always that they're here and that they're focused on learning we have uh Indian Ed liaison Committee Member meetings we have Title One meetings parent nights um and during those sessions we try to get input from parents but we do well welcome people to come in and just visit and watch the hallways we did that when we had all those fights a couple years ago and that helped you I think it just comes back to I think you guys really need to I don't know what what grade is she in seven I think you
036really miss Olsen the I don't know what the title is she helped us with when we developed that Academy and it it it really did work because actually I want to say she was a teacher at the time it two different Festival but she knows the process that we had to go through and it was hard because we had to present it to the superintendent and the school board and then once everybody got on board it made things happen you know and it wasn't punishing the kids at the lower level it actually pushed them to get up to that level it was it was weird because then everybody was on the same level and everybody was striving for the same things but the longer you wait the harder it's going to get and it takes
037a long time just planning that it took us over the summer I mean we were coming in meeting two or three times a week just to get that Academy up and going and then to see it dismantled like that was it was heartwrenching I think for us and the school board didn't really know what was going on it just happened to come out of the blue so there was push back from staff and there was pushed back from parents and everybody just kind of walked away CU we wanted it to keep going once it got to once we got it into the middle school we wanteded to start working with the High School principles and implementing it there but it stopped so um Tara Tara Olen is a DEA student and she would be a
038good one to talk to and if you set up a meeting I could come to her too some more one thing too and I don't know who um is in charge of it or if it's an official School page but they have like a red sports page and would that be something I don't know that's an official school thing but one thing that I always thought is um we all have acknowledge you know the sports players and like my thing the past few months is like it's all was centered on The Voice and you know I would like to see more grow this knowledge um but other than that just Sports in general like if there's a p for like academic or test scores acknowledging those is school they don't play sport and that's right
039that's fine you know because ultimately academic is the most important in the school and those kids need to be acknowledged and they score high on a t they should be acknowled you know some goals that people can see like look at Improvement here you know look at and you know whatever know we do some of thats not that I don't love sports but I do love sports but we do some of that with our PBIS program award students publicly and give them honors and awards but a lot of the kids are embarrassed by that maybe they wouldn't be embarrassed on the web page understand yeah we can do more of that yeah on the website yeah I don't disagree with anything you've said I appreciate your comments today thank you and I apologize if I've
040sounded like you know oh we're doing this we're doing that we're working on things but there's always more we can do so thank you and tonight Mr Edgars is hosting second that has a lot to do with Community engagement parent involvement thanks for reminding me about that 100% graduate group and getting parents supported in that area too so yeah and I know you guys have a tough job to um I realize that it's just it's just you know it's making me be a little more aware just because my kid is here now right and iiz on another part of our structure change that uh Tim didn't mention too is our our principal structure that we just started this year so I'd like to see what that change in our overall structure because before it was
041we had a principal of high school middle school and a de of students correct now Smith is the um well I know she's called principal but she she's W complex wide principle and what she doing that change has like relieved our principles and de students of certain responsibilities and I've opened up their you know Lanes to help with the issues we have of you know the the tardiness the the fighting the cell phone the yeah yeah all these things so we're in year one of this new structure of our schools so I'd like to see what that change you know does over the next couple years we're making progress but it's always a long game because the changing human behavior and changing um institutional behavior that takes a while but I think we're on the
042way you know we're moving in the right direction which just I wish we could do it faster you know so what ways can we help move this process faster is us being elected officials being in the community with these fames we used to have a community engagement uh committee and it's no longer a thing maybe that's something we reinvent and we kind of take the lead on it to improve our community engagement with parents and Guardians to send the message to the community that we want you to come in to not only just be here but maybe even volunteer your scho some kind of way I can look into that again too and I would say to answer your question more lobbying for state laws is support what we do and maybe more work with
043the tribal council to support what we do the Constitution reform and also Community engagement being out there knowing who these families are and going visit with them directly spending your time with them you know that's what I've been doing just going around talking with different family that I know like to support if it starts at home exactly we better get back into the agenda no we're on those committees and stuff I looked up on them and they need parents on those committees like would this be a parent that could be on one committee or yeah absolutely yeah most of the Committees if they're not parent committees but you do have parent committees yeah because like all committees that we're on parents from the outside if one of them wanted to be on that comme they
044could right exactly y okay chairman I'll give it back to you thank you thanks guys other nope so did we question technically we took a five minute discussion to turn it into 30 minutes normally we just do five minutes and say thank you but this was uh important to address I so I really appreciate it thank you okay Finance report okay my window open here um as is usually the case with the financial report everything is in order uh we have a very strong fund balance right now and that's one of the reasons why we are able to finance and support the the building of two storage buildings too so uh we have a fund balance of over $33 million right now so we're very good and very solid so I submit that to you
045you no need to take action of course but uh we have a very solid fund balance and everything is in order I can also then move on to the enrollment report since we're still in the reports portion here and uh as of the middle of February we're still holding strong 1560 students um last year towards the end of the year we were down close to 50 students so we're we're holding very strong one nice thing that is an indicator that things are going well is that we're not losing a lot of students this fall we gained a lot and we had a Falls number that was kind of high but for the last three or four months now we've been up and down a little bit but none of this stuff which we often used
046to see having uh 50 more students than we did last year at this time means that we are you know very solid in our funding so that's a good thing so I submit that to you also as part of the reports thank you okay consent consent agenda for February 26 through 25 approve the school I just want to say that I'm really glad to see the music teacher being posted and advertised y you need music we do and some of these things the multi-tiered systems of support activities manager and School Readiness teacher and multier systems coordinator these are all in response to the needs of our students which again will help maybe with students who need to learn and we can help build these programs that support the students who aren't here to learn turn
047things around for them and make the school continually better so all favor say I okay approv bills and wirers for the month of January [Music] 2025 all mood approve I had questions um that I got confirmation from Will on uh the biggest one was there was a due process deal in there I still got some questions about it but I process out for 6000 um and I just didn't understand what we were plan do process for but evidently we have a teacher that's also doing contract work with the school um and I'm not for sure that was going to be my next question is and that's going to have to the answer about Willie is is it during her prep time is it once or twice a week or what's going on with that because
048I just don't I just didn't understand how that is working when you're already on an 8 hour shift are already in the school be generally it is extra time but I'm not sure of all the details but due process is one of those areas in special education that is required we have to do it and a lot of times we have to do it an extra time put in or Consulting time so yeah you can fill you in more on that y but other than that everything else checked out second okay there to approve question um what happened to our playground projects remember we had playground committee and meetings we were told we were that was a couple years ago now we were told we couldn't use our s dollars for that very unfortunate we
049were LED all along until we got to the point where we were going to move forward and they said no you can't use those dollars okay so okay okay all say I a motion a second to Grant approval to solicit bids to build one storage building at Red Lake Elementary complex and one storage building at Red Lake Secondary for that it's uh we have the funding for that we can afford it and what this will do is allow us to protect all of our assets we have a lot of uh uh you have a two food trucks that need to be stored we have some additional electric school buses that need to go back into the bus garage theu will go into storage we have a lot of hbac and plumbing equipment and a van
050that needs to be protected snow removal equipment a lot of ajibo language and culture program equipment and cultural experience items that we use and canoe builds and wild ricing and sugar bushing that needs to need to stay in a better environment than in these conx boxes that we have behind the school so this will be an investment that will protect other Investments that we have and we can afford it now so we recommend moving forward with this a motion to approve chairman Barrett to approve forther discussion so how big are these buildings going to be it shows in your packet okay yeah all the dimensions what P that page 22 it's it's about to go up but I was just thinking because we're only I think we're just getting bids for it so it may
051be cheaper is what I'm thinking right so the C B whoever bids the lowest bid hopefully the lowest B hard to say that too yeah I mean with that just based on working with the tribe in different projects sometimes what you pay for yeah sa money go with the lowest bit and then but see I don't know if that's just like uh if that's just material cost at 600,000 it's for the whole structure the whole thing construction and is that construction includ yeah works but if it's a bid then it should be coming from more than one person right I guess it's my only question that's what I took it as is we're gonna we're soliciting for bid so that's opening it so we get accept it I was looking at that too so y
052that's an estimate it could come in lower could be a little higher sooner we act the more it'll be so that's with Seth right so somebody else could come in and under bid it so I say we solicit bids wh is guiding us through it okay they're G to get the bids for us help us with that yeah just a request okay so we I look at that everything's LED here yep we just need a we got the motion already in a second right yeah yeah we're just in the further discussion yeah oh I think you wanted to know the size it looks like it will hold yeah well it's say 100 construction sub total is $100 90 a square foot yeah 111 and then $1.99 the grand total is going to be 1,462 so
053that's a different buildings I'm assuming for two for two build yeah yeah 6200 square feet wood framed okay I'm not getting a gra so are we yeah so are we paying the one this 1.4 the WID set no that's the total cost of the project estimated so estimated yic yeah that's all I'm worried about solicit my name on treas I'm like yeah the motion in okay motion second no further discussion I say I okay approv the non-renewal of contract for [Music] Ariana you can skip all the names if you there yep there you go um yeah okay and this again is routine and uh we are required to do it state law just need a motion a second we do this every year motion to approve okay motion I'll second second to approve contract discussion
054these guys still work then they work yeah yeah okay all favor say I I I abstain my boys on uh let me remind the board that we can vote for our own children it's just your spouse and let me remind the board abstaining is not recommended we are elected to either vote Yes or No I abstain the vote's still going to carry if everybody else votes yes I abstain because there is a conflict of interest because my name is Rob mlan Senor he's Rob mlan Jr so I am saying yeah but there's no conflict of interest if it's your um child okay motion car1 okay approve uh Item B approve the termination contract for those names as present present and it's same deal these are the U individuals who have teacher like jobs but they're
055not on a continuing contract like a normal teacher would but again we hope to get them back we do this every year I'll motion to approve chairman Barett second discussion I favor say I I I policy 5 title n discrimination thank you chett and that's to uh take care of uh it's actually an amendment of a policy but what it is is it goes back to a previous policy on January 8th the federal court issued a decision vacating the 2024 final rule on Title 9 so consistent with the Court's order the 2024 title line regulations are no longer effective in any jurisdiction including Minnesota this actually happened before any presidential change or anything so has nothing to do with that but this court decision does affect msba model policy 522 so in light of the
056decision of the Court MS ba has replaced the 2024 version of model policy 522 with the former version that was based on the 2020 rule on Title 9 regulations so what we're doing when we are amending policy 522 we were simply going back to a previous version that we had four years ago five years ago 2020 and this is a recommendation from the school boards Association so that we we just continue to stay current with our policy so I submit that to you for a vote today when we did amended a policiy before it would have like a old version and the new version with the lines crossed that are like highlighting some kind of way in this one i' I didn't know I I didn't know what to look for with the change was
057so and I actually didn't either but actually when I was chatting with Ashley about this a little bit in HR a lot of these things have to do with how we treat uh you know not so much uh it's just girls and boys and having bathrooms in certain gender bathrooms and offering opportunities in sports everything else that girls and boys should get equally treated and the reason we don't have these changes the cross out or the redline version is because the msba says no need to even look at that we're just vacating the one and going back to the old one so their recommendation their legal recommendation is that we simply go back to the old one the sooner we do that the better so that we're C okay a motion to approve okay [Applause]
058look like my that there a discussion and we're we're not changing anything that we do we're just continuing to do what we do considering every student as having a right to be in a safe environment here red L schools the rights of boys equal to the rights of girls yeah what's here is it's all good and straightforward and Minds up with everything I mean that I've been thought about TI mind I just thought I was wondering like is there something Miss or that I I'm not aware of you know when it comes to this that might have been left out or was changed about this amendment I just didn't know what the change was right in the way I understand it's mostly doing having to do with terminology okay for the most part it usually
059is just termin yeah say I I okay approve to amend 1225 2425 calendar for this one you have a 2425 calendar in front of you and unlike some years which are peaceful Winters that aren't too cold or too snowy because we haven't had that much snow yet we've had difficult weather we've had to have uh couple of snow days already and so now the next snow day is listed as April 23d but by that we have a lot of winter left between now and April 21st so I would like to recommend that we do in this calendar we have a revision much like what we're planning to do for next year's calendar and that is to take March 21st which is right now a non-school day it's kind of set aside as a tournament day
060for boys for basketball and make that our next snow day recovery day and have school on that day because when we do that that means we still preserve April 21st as a potential additional snow day if we wait until let's say we have no school on 21st and then on the next week we have a snow day we just kind of or if we don't have school on the 21st and then on the 26 we have a me for a snow day we might need an additional snow day in April but let's make March 21st a school day to make up for the day we just took out last week and still save April 21st for the possibility of another sow day so our recommendation is to revise this calendar so that we have school
061on the 21st as a makeup day for the day last week that we did not have school because of the weather so submit that to you as a motion to Long Mark STA and students that is true what about like if we have a snow day is there option for e-learning day so we won't have to nope that's something that we got rid of because e-learning days just don't work here okay and they don't work in most school districts kids just don't show up and then it's also an expensive day because we also are required now to make sure everyone else is paid bus drivers okay who aren't working got it and makes it expensive so but on the 21st I'm still anticipating that you know if we have something going on well we can
062still send students to that you know to if we end up in the tournament but we kind of need to have that day back so that we can have still have an extra snow day in April if we probably anticipate some type of uh remance that's another right that's another reason why we probably should be in school because it's 20th anniversary there might be a celebrate not honor honor yep of the monument that's coming up in Memorial so so thank you for bringing that up that's another reason why it would be I think good to have school on that day on on motion okay second discussion hear none say I okay item n g thank you CH bar and this is uh Prett routine it's just to approve out of state travel for Pure leaders
063go to standing rock and learn more about leadership ramp up our program a bit more you support our kids so I submit that to you for a motion and it's uh you may recall last month we accepted a nice $6,000 donation from the Olen family and it was for just this purpose so this will cost somewhere shy of $5,000 and we'll still have it'll be more like 4,100 so we'll still be well within then the boundaries of our gift that we can maybe use the remaining dollars for CP the following year so it's paid for by the gr okay a motion to approve Jett further discussion I I just want to say I'm so proud of U Mr L's taken lead on this and really um hold you know taking care and seeing this leadership
064program through I think it's doing wonders and students are um gaining self-confidence by being in this because I once was a peer mentor when I was in high school peer mediation ment it's important that we have student leaders the Next Generation thank you thank you chair this is another opportunity for students to learn and grow what we would call an outside or Outdoor Classroom experience you be able to go on a trip that uh involved a lot of camping and seeing sites around Colorado and between here and Colorado when they get there and uh Dan Rogers and another saff roomone will be taking them and it'll be a wonderful experience for 10 students anytime students can have a chance to learn and grow this way I support it so I submit that to you for
065a motion second how many kids are going 10 and how many shs is that and wife I am not sure who the other CH on is Mr Rogers and then I don't believe it's listed in here should be that usually is the case yeah that's what we're hoping to do with the pure leaders too have at least one he'll work out the details okay is that Tri it's the date is still up in the air he's got one lined up he's got two options that he's proposing but one this one here is the the one is starting right away at the end of May but it might get moved a little bit later a week later but it's right after school ends so May 28th June 6 so this is coming in for Mr Rogers
066right May 2 resigning but he resigned he's resigning but it's not you know stillo end of school year which is June 30th year so he could still participa that's what yeah that's what was throwing me I like why we yeah for it and I want to also point out that he he's retiring he's resigning to retire and I wanted to make sure that we thank him for his years of service but the first step is in resigning so that can then move on and retire so but it's Noble of him to to do this even you know at the end of the year in the summer take a long trip so thank you Mr Rogers oh I'll second that Mr [Music] miscellaneous thank you chair Barrett for this we uh have the second reading of
067our 2526 school year nothing changed between the first and second reading uh very similar to this year and uh when we have any snow days it will be um pretty much in line with what we just did we'll have S days that line up with uh what we've done this year including March 20th I believe it is the snow days would be January 19th which is MLK Day February 9th and then March 20th so it's doesn't take uh any action today but uh the second reading and then next month we'll have the third and final reading as an action okay expain any other expain I you have one more thing I'm wondering if we can revisit the decision to uh to have our meeting moved at four o'clock because it's 4 o'clock today Chris couldn't
068make it today because he had to be coaching today and I'm thinking looking down the road if you're still going to be coaching Mr mlan if that might be a challenge for you at 4:00 also I was hoping to have some pure leaders come and present today about the program and then a couple of them said we'd love to come and talk we're nervous but this would be great when is it I said well the board meeting this Wednesday four o'clock and they said oh we can't come because we are out of school and don't have a ride home so they could come next meeting if we had it again like when we used to have at 1:00 or 2:00 yeah like 1:00 time back I mean that's just me my opinion I agree with
069you Mr chairman I mean with [Music] me I'm fine with it I was only on board with it because I think our consent was we wanted to give people the option to come here see us it was closer to end of the work day but I'm actually looking at this and it's like yeah nobody nobody's here y it's better at 1:00 yeah and I mean they can make time I mean jobs usually let let you go you know do stuff you know Chris has hard time with the same happen with we had a board member come in or trial council member come in earlier too with the same predicament he has employee yeah he's an employee of the district and he's got to take Le to go to his TR Council meetings so what you
070know I'm just looking at it from Optics so like if I'm taking off at one o'clock and and then I'm not allowing an employee of ours to take that time to go to a probal counsil meeting Optics just don't right but it's no it's uh he's got to take leave and he's out of his lead what employees do when they go [Music] off over there well it's like seen as like a separate job so I can't claim like you know boys and girls go have working hours all a council meeting and the other the other council members who have full-time jobs they just they don't do leave so I'm following their suit we do offer a Le or a whole different calendar very very flexible SC calendar for him so if he needs more leave
071he just needs to come and talk and we can try to work it out okay yeah that's what I was just trying to figure out too because I mean just optically it don't look good um and that's just my ethical thoughts on it but I mean I'm fine with whatever you guys decide because that he couldn't be here today because because I want to say that the tribal council actually for us they actually give us time for elected positions they give us they give us uh time for uh board meetings if we in elected positions yeah yeah but yeah for the school district I don't think we have that and he was told that it was double dipping and I was like I don't think it's double dipping because with two separate entities and but
072that was my thoughts on it I think that's something that you and um HR can figure out but yeah I mean I'm fine with whatever you guys decide I just need to know so so then like they change it back what do we need to do then we'll have to have a second in a motion or second our board meeting shouldn't be that long anyway true ex we we can we do it now then long as there's agreement we can do it now so n let do it then you know so we can turn it into a motion that's nine I I if we have a motion in a second I have a class at 530 there's Edgar's meeting room in out right now okay so um okay how how are you going to work
073to change or to move to move the board meetings back to the meeting the times we had last year which would be one o' on the third Wednesday of the month okay you'll it anyway have it yeah in the M it'll be worded so just uh like I heard Nicole say she you could make the motion if you want yeah yeah a motion to approve motion by I'll okay second by I remember we moved it up to one one time for a couple years ago because sometimes the meetings ran long enough that you had to leave if it was a two o'clock meeting you had to leave pick up grandchildren or something that made it tricky so we moved it to one o'clock most of our meetings don't last one good can make it students
074okay discussion on favor say I I great okay um anything else [Music] Onan if not any motion to a motion to adjourn okay second second and then just a reminder one more time we'll send up reminders later but Tuesday March 18th for the board meeting yeah I thought that was pretty cool we had parents come in because I have the same concerns I want to share with the board that my young daughters are talking about fighting like come what's going on and they're fighting what are you doing they go well I got to teach her how to fight so she stand up herself I go no and so it's alarming to me that my little second gr hands that was a short practice regular time no okay we wrapping it up we changed it to
0751:00 so the 18th at 1 o' oh the next one yeah we got need a day I've got be gone the next day what else we have parents come in here and they want us to do challenge our students Middle School e e e