001welcome this regular meeting of Independent School District 535 School Board is called to order at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday November 30th 2021 in room 137 of the Edison building the board acknowledges this site and all RPS sites are situated on the ancestral land of the Dakota people and we honor the Dakota Nations and the sacred land of all indigenous peoples present at this meeting are Schoolboard members superintendent Kent pel a non- voting ex official member and assistant Schoolboard clerk Miss Michelle Severson Miss Severson will you please call the role thank you clerk Emmon here director Barlo here director Garcia here director mlin here chair Marvin here by chair Nathan here Treasurer Workman here thank you thank you as a reminder the school board requires effective masks to be worn by everyone uh to and over in
002all RPS buildings we are committed to slowing the spread of covid and as much as as much as possible and we can keep our so that we can keep our schools open and our students in their classrooms the Edison building is an RPS facility so if you choose to attend a meeting here rather than view it at home you need to wear an effective mask policies and consequences are posted we also remind you that this is a business meeting and although you certainly may record the proceedings attendees cannot position themselves in such a way as to disrupt the business whether you're a representative of the media or an individual you need to stay behind the stanions we appreciate the media organizations who regularly attend these meetings and understand and respect the importance of that protocol
003it's easy to understand and follow 2.0 approval of the agenda are there any changes to the agenda move approval second it's been moved and seconded all in favor say I I I opposed agenda is approved 3.0 comments to the board as you know although providing time for community members to directly address the board at meetings is not required I did and thank you at this time anyone who is willing can say the Pledge of Allegiance thank you I appreciate that I pledge alance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for thank [Music] you as I was saying although uh the board is not required to provide an opportunity for people to speak of these meetings we
004really believe it's important hearing different perspectives is useful and it's healthy what is not healthy or productive or legal is to use this time to launch personal attacks against individuals a high school student who often watches the recordings of comments to the board that get posted on social media recently said to me and I'll paraphrase Dr Marvin I don't get it some of those guys are saying stuff about people that is just really personal and really mean it doesn't have have anything to do with what you're talking about at the meetings it doesn't really have anything to do with us kids they tell us in school that it's not okay for us to bully other people or harass them so how come is it okay for adults to do that at board meetings and you
005let them I have been letting that happen and it's not okay this district has not only guidelines but also policy which has the authority of law that prohibits personal attacks I've been letting it happen and kids have been paying attention I need to do better speakers absolutely can continue to support or criticize programs and protocols it helps if the information used is accurate and factual however that's another issue but because we are here all of us are here and we are supposed to be good role models for children this board and this board chair is going to do a better job of following the procedure in policy 208 which states and I quote speakers may not make personal attacks against others including but not limited to any student parent community member employee or School Board
006member and that includes family members of all these folks it continues speakers may not make comments or gestures that are threatening profane lewd vulgar obscene harassing or abusive there is a clear procedure that can be followed for anyone who wants to Lodge a complaint or an allegation against District personnel but it is not at comments to the board children are watching we adults need to do better each speaker and we have eight of them this evening we'll have three minutes we ask you to respect this limit when your name is called please have a seat in front of the in front of the microphone at this table state your name and whether you're a resident of the school district as we explained before those those who are presenting presenting to the board and facing the
007board um and can maintain a physical distance have the option of removing their masks for those three minutes our first speaker is Kim Hicks welcome Miss Hicks ESP of the Year Dr C uh Madam chair and directors of the board as you well know we have a group of employees in our school district that provides incredible work uh support problem solving um assistance socially emotionally and in so many other ways and they we when Rochester we call them par Professionals in some school districts and uh uh our state teachers union Education Minnesota calls them education support professionals and I'm excited to say that in Rochester we have not one but two who were nominated for Education support profession of the year and so we want to take this moment to acknowledge those two individuals and
008also by extension thank the pair professionals across Rochester who do indispensable work for our students every day we've got two admin administrators I haven't seen yet in the room but also I don't seee there we go we got Nate wook from uh Century uh and we've got Carrie Hockinson from Mayo who are GNA um Step Up and introduce our two Award winners um who we are so excited to acknowledge tonight so thank you so much Carrie and Nate for being here yeah you can loop around the Rob good evening board chair uh superintendent pel uh the rest of the school board members in cabinet um I am K eer from Mayo high school and I am uh pleased to introduce you tonight a great PA professional at Mayo High School Michelle Diaz has been with
009the Rochester Public School since 2012 she's been at Mayo High School since 2014 serving in a variety of Capac ities her most recent position at Mayo has included her supporting and supervising students in our study halls one of the strengths of Michelle in this program is her vast knowledge of the classroom projects papers and assessments the connections and collaborative work she does with Spartan staff which help her support students in the completion of classroom work required for Success Michelle has strong connections with students from all walks of life partly because of the challenges that she faced in her youth these experiences shape the focus she has in her position and help helps her relate to students who face similar obstacles not only does she provide clear support but she's a steady caring and positive adult
010during the school day Michelle is a proud graduate of mayo high school and a proud mom of two Mayo high school graduates who are now in college she currently has a junior at Mayo so needless to say her Spartan Pride runs deep she is currently pursuing her degree in secondary Social Studies with the hopes of enrolling in a PhD program upon completion Michelle is thankful for her pair of colleagues throughout the time in the District she's grateful for the adults who show up and smile at kids and encourages everyone to remember how important caring adults are in the lives of our students so I'd like to introduce you to Michelle Diaz thank you my goodness thank you so much for um the opportunity to have us here um I I truly believe in in what
011I do and I believe in the kids that I work with every single day um and I would just hope that um we all can contribute to the the advancement to to students that are struggling um I truly believe that every student can learn thank you [Music] [Applause] nice coat thanks hey everybody uh my name is Nate wah Brook I'm the principal at Century High School and um I know there's a lot of my Century colleagues behind me that uh know Miss lusky a lot more than I did but um in the little time I've had to work with Miss lki um I've been ridiculously impressed at the sort of employee she is is um she's the kind of employee that we want in every one of our buildings in front of every single one
012of our kids um she started as a parah um and a lot of times we we sort of marginalize what that actually means and when uh one of the speakers was talking about thankless jobs I think that's probably a qualification for just about everything and then schools are a set of thankless jobs I think a PA professional definitely is in that realm as well but I think what stood out to me as I've been a ble to get to know Miss leky more is that not just was she willing to say hey I'm willing to be here every day on time do my duty as a parah but she was willing to go above and beyond and learn new tricks and new trades um now at Century um she is an integral member of our
013team basically whenever there's a technology issue um she's the first one that we call and um and she is there to help cover study halls and to do whatever it is is necessary without grumbling and with a happy positive attitude and that in and of itself would be enough to deserve an award like this but I think the thing that really sets Miss lki aside is that she um spends a ridiculous amount of time and energy and effort um seeking out our most marginalized and vul vulnerable students to support them to be there for them to love them um and again even that would still be enough but she's there not only for the students but for the staff um any staff that needs a lift any staff that needs a friend she's there for
014them whether it be any of her pair professionals whether it be um any of our teachers or whether it be a real lonely principal so um she is ridiculously deserving of this award and I wish I could clone her about a million times so congratulations lorry let's put more money in science and engineering and maybe we can clone that would be great um I I um I felt a little bit silly about this award um cuz I just love my job um and uh it's who I am a lot of times uh when people ask our category uh people say I'm just a parah and I would say that Michelle probably agrees with me that's just a really painful thing that anybody would feel like that because um we are a massive organization with a
015a massive um product category we have so many kids who need us on all areas and um there's no such thing as just a maintenance person there's not just a parah there's not just a work study teacher um it takes all of us um and none of us came into this um for accolades certainly not for money um but because we love kids and we care about the future and so um I am grateful uh that to get a little thank you a little thank you to somebody in education goes a really long way and I appreciate that there's been a few thank you thank yous uh to you all tonight as well we we just we just need to Pat each other on the back now and again and we pick ourselves up and
016dust ourselves off and and Jump Right In The Deep End again and this last year has been a really deep end so I thank you um for the sacrifices that you're making that have been brought up tonight and um I'm so glad to have my job [Applause] thanks thank you one of the best things we get to do and one of the most fun things we get to do as a school board is to recognize our students for academics and for sports and this evening we have the fall Sports recognition uh at first I thought everybody was here because the school board is so great and you just wanted to hear us talk um but more importantly we're here to support you and the amazing accomplishments this fall Dr pel uh Madam chair and directors
017of the board um before you know it you're going to be 54 years old and sitting somewhere and I know that strikes Terror Into the Heart of everyone use a high school student but I remember coming down to the school board in St Paul every fall winter spring for sports and we are so glad that you're competing that you're throwing yourself in that you're trying win or lose we thank your coaches we thank our activities directors one of whom I'm going to acknowledge now Mark queasy who heads up that work at Century High school to recognize all of you and your parents for uh making uh ourselves and our system better so mark thank you good evening chair Marvin Dr pel directors and Miss Severson I am going to have all of the athletes from
018Sentry High School and their coaches come up at this time and so that they're all up here in front right now and that might expedite things a little bit quicker for us so coach Leo coach hton uh Maddie and Tory hardiy if you guys had come up with your athletes Dr pel you mentioned the seal that our students have been going through here and this has been such a great thing to get our students back on the performance courts in the pools on our stages um in their comfort area to really to really work on the overall student athlete and we're not going to specifically talk about the gpas of these students because we want to protect their data privacy but up here with you tonight are some of the academic All State students who
019have a cumulative GPA of over 3.75 and you look at how busy they are and many of them are higher than that as well so um regretfully Nichelle Gilliam lives in Mabel Minnesota and she was not able to get through the weather tonight to get here but I want to speak on behalf of Paige Decker and I'll have Paige wave to you first Paige is an All-State volleyball player a junior for us at Century High School um if you haven't had a chance to watch this young lady on the volleyball court you should uh she is absolutely fabulous to watch um not able to attend tonight was Lydia neerad and Lydia was an academic all state for us in volleyball and girls Tannis Josh Heiden and the girls could not be here tonight Julia babber
020um was an academic all state for us and Paige Sant was her doubles partner two years ago they finished second in the state tournament as a doubles team last year covid came they couldn't participate they teamed back up again this year and and were very close but finished second again at the stage state tournament so we want to congratulate Paige sergeant and Julia babber for that also All State in girls tennis was Zoe Chen and Jenny Yang um I'll turn the microphone over to Karen Lio then we'll go to Hal hton and then um Maddie and Tor hardi hi I'm Karen Leo the Sentry girls soccer coach and thank you for having us here this evening I'd like to present to you Addison Clary who is um was named All State this year for girls
021soccer she was also a top five candidate um for Miss soccer um which doesn't come around very often um academically she's she's quite sound and she represented uh Sentry in the senior girls um classic and uh was able to get a goal scored up there uh so she was able to represent both herself and centry well Addison Clary uh I'm Hal hton the boys soccer coach at Century as well and uh I've had the honor of having not one but two All State players the first one is uh Max comfere uh Max has his this is his second year as a first team All State player um he's a phenomenal goal scorer I saw him at the senior classic as well um he had several opportunities to score a couple of near misses someday I'll
022get a chance to talk to him about those and uh then uh my other one is uh revaldo Peña um both of these guys are seniors unfortunately so I'm going to lose both of them um revaldo was voted the second Team all state um incredible hard worker probably one of the most passionate players I've ever had the opportunity to coach and uh I will miss both of them tremendously next season so here's Max and raldo um I'm Maddie hery I'm the well I guess I'm not anymore this was my last season so I was the head coach for their aester Raiders um tonight I want to recognize all of my team even though half of them aren't here but that's all right so we have Stuart Andrew will and Charlie and we had my captain
023was here too but but he had to go do something academic for school um these guys I mean I have eight players you play with seven on the court so these guys worked tremendously hard this season um in the state tournament we went from The Fifth Fifth seed one in the first game in a penalty shootout and the my five years of coaching I never imagine that would happen especially in an adapted but I mean there's no better honor for these kids than what they have right now I mean you won't meet a better group of kids than what these guys are so thank you guys for recognizing this group and lastly if their parents are here we would like them also to stand and be recognized for their hard work and dedication to these
024young men and women [Applause] and uh Mr Whitney is now up next chair Mar me offer a quick comment and while Mr Whitney is coming to the microphone U Mr Barlo wanted to say something uh yes you know I think as members of the board and potentially the community is unaware of the Raiders and the Adaptive program uh we provide and uh I appreciate how uh we're able to look upon our students with uh admiration versus uh ridicule or scrutiny and I think that is so important because sometimes we lose sight of what the important things are and and so I command those students and uh the coaches who have allowed their successes to occur and let's hear it one more time for the Raiders back there Mr Whitney thank you hi I'm Jeff Whitney
025activities director at Mayo high school and uh Dr beel and board members thank you very much for allowing us to come down and celebrate these successes um first of all before all of our guys and girls can you guys come up our coaches and athletes might as well bring you all up in front here and line up along the rail we uh you'll notice that we had a very successful fall season so it might be a crowded front and we're missing a few as well uh while they're filing in and uh moving on up um I would like to publicly thank not only those that are here tonight obviously we have some successful athletes and our head coaches of the of the programs but I'd also like to thank uh all of our assistant coaches
026our other head coaches that uh maybe didn't make it to the state tournament we have worked extremely hard over the last 18 months to continue to give all these uh athletes opportunities and work through all the struggles that I know that we've worked through in education as well and it's been a challenge in many ways with uh the number of uh things we've all experienced and they've all battled through it they've obviously done very well and continue to succeed and these are the ones that have made it to the highest level so uh i' I'd like to thank my staff at Meo High School our staff at Meo high school for their hard work cuz uh the assistant coaches that aren't here and the lower level coaches that aren't here have been preparing these kids
027since they were seventh and eighth grade all the way on up so thank you to those people all right thank you so first of all um I'm going to just bring up I Deb Frederick is not able to be here she's actually working at our girls basketball game tonight we have many other jobs other than just coaching and she's running the basketball game while I'm here um her team was all State academic this year gold all St All State academic winners U Morgan GA was all State academic and uh um obviously their team lost in the uh section finals they almost made it to the state tournament as well but had a great Academic Year uh at in the classroom and on the court they um they were also I believe big nine Champions too
028uh girls tennis we uh placed fourth place Jeff Demay is not able he works in the evenings uh in the winter he's not able to be here and I don't believe Sutton jel Rood Ella desis or Jordan ruskell are either here either I don't believe they're here they weren't able to make it tonight they placed fourth in the state tournament uh they uh I believe uh have been to the state tournament about uh 20 times in the last uh 21 years they've won the conference 24 times out of the last 25 years very successful program and uh um we're probably going to predict they're going to do it again next year so we'll bring them down next year hopefully if they do uh as well but they've had a great uh run in girls tennis
029and we'd like to congratulate coach demray and his program all right next up we've got a few coaches that are here and we're able to make it with some athletes we'll go with Juliet parlet in our girl swim program hi my name is Juliet parlet um and I'm the head girls swim coach thank you for letting us be here tonight um and these are the girls that came with me to State and some of my captains um we took five events to State five swimmers and one diver and we placed 12th out of 32 teams um fortunately and almost unbelievably everything we took to State we got into finals so that was pretty awesome so I'm just going to kind of announce races and the girls um at you know in the order of events
030and so and then talk about a few other things so our medley relay that also uh got a team record was Elise wearden who's in seventh grade just raise your hand dear uh Ava Guston who's in 12th grade meline gal who's in eighth grade and Natalie bouran who's in 11th grade um Ava then placed 11th in the 200 IM Ava just got off the plane um she was at the US Open Swim Meet where Katie Lei and Reagan Smith were swimming she was also swimming in that meat um so she got off the plane and got here and so uh came literally right here from there and so came in 11th uh in the 200 IM Natalie played seventh in the 503e that earned her an Allstate recognition Abby our diver um who's an 11th
031grade placed 12th in diving and I might mention that this is aby's second year of diving of diving so and she made it to State uh Natalie then placed eighth in the 500 free earning her another All State recognition Ava placed third in the ped breaststroke earning her an all state recognition she also broke the record for this event our team record that had been standing since 2007 um I also want to mention that Ava is an All-American academic Award winner too um our 400 free relay was Natalie meline Ava and Ellie PDA um who's in 12th grade and they plac 14th in addition we earned the all academic Gold Award and here to be recognized for that are our captains um I don't think Olivia is here she's our diving Captain but Ava Sophie
032Kaufman um Ellie PDA and Avery warberg are our captains thank you so much for having us you bet stay thanks Julet all right next we will bring up uh we'll go with Donnie hul our head football coach Swit all right Dr pel and Dr Marvin all the board thank you for recognizing all the athletes and coaches um and all the other teams with the Great accomplishments um I'm representing the football program today and I'm going to start with the uh accomplishment that I'm most proud of the team with uh as far as I've been here for the last 10 years and and been involved in mayo sports for 21 years we've never been able to get that team academic Gold Award and this year our team did accomplish that accomplish that so I'm very proud
033of of all the kids that contribute to that that high G team GPA um along with that we were able to do something else new uh that hasn't been done for a while in 24 years and uh at Mayo high school and that's win a section championship and make it to the state tournament so that was uh super fun and and again super proud of these kids because it's a neat accomplishment but then they're they're really good football players but they are great young men and everybody that we have involved in our program and that's what made it uh such a fun season with all these accomplishments I have captains three of our four captains here um Kaden hul Spencer Pearson and Kaden D young and a couple other things um highlights that that occurred
034both Kaden and Noah Smith were able to play in the Minnesota Vikings All-Star Game this last weekend and represent our program they also were chosen for the Minnesota Vikings uh All State team as well so very proud of this group as a whole and the way that they represent maleo high school and I'm just going to put a little plug in for Mr Whitney cuz nobody talks about him this guy is unbelievable with his dedication um to male high school and all he does and we always kid that he's got a cot in his back office because that guy is there 247 I know it's with all the ads too so uh super thanks to all the ads for all the work that they do and and thank you very much for recognizing all this
035there still isn't money in there for a his bonus so thanks Donnie I appreciate that I wouldn't be there if it wasn't fun all right so next we're going to go with our new head coach in boy soccer is Tim Jennings well thanks to all of you for uh inviting us here to honor our team today my name is Tim Jennings I'm the head coach of the Mayo boy soccer team it's my first season here I stepped in for Neil Cassidy uh this season on an term basis uh representing our team today are three of our four captains from the season Timothy perssons Adam mclen Cassie and Nate wiel a and uh our fourth Captain Alex Shaw could not be here today our team had a tremendous amount of success this season compiling of 15
036and five record we were the inaugural class one Tri or section one triaa uh Champions so we went to State winning in the quarterfinal round in a dramatic penalty kick shootout uh to take us to US Bank Stadium we end ended up finishing in fourth place with our players Jack HDI and Alec McBain named to the all tournament team uh they were unable to be here today as well uh most importantly oh also as an individual Accolade our assistant coach on JV uh fizd ront was named the section one triaa assistant coach of the year so congratulations to him and to all of our coaches uh thanks to all of them this season for all the hard work they've put in most importantly this season uh we were named as a one of the academic
037Gold Award recipients uh there are about 200 soccer teams in the State uh there were five boys teams that received this award and we are one of them so congratulations to all of our players and and thank you very much all right I don't think we've missed anyone and again thank you very much it's been a great fall and good job athet and coaches and I think Mr queasy got one more thing to close up yeah if we have some male parents please stand up lastly Mr KY could not be here tonight he's got a home basketball game and like Jeff said we we continually scramble I believe and trying to find workers and he he could not get away nor could his basketball player who we would recognize for volleyball tonight because she's on
038the basketball court Lily me was recognized for volleyball for John Marshall as an Allstate athlete too so we want to congratulate lily as well from John Marshall High School and Mr Barlo thank you for the comments about our adapted programs Tori and Maddie uh the twin the twin uh duel for us started this girl's soccer program for us uh and it's hard to believe we're six years with that program already now in the district and we're very excited always uh at how well our adapted students do but again thank you for the opportunity for our students and our student athletes because they are students first they're here to represent us in the classroom and we continue to strive to do that on behalf of the school board thank [Music] you [Music] and again to those
039athletes coaches and parents who couldn't be here uh what you do for these kids um how you perform and how you balance school and family and your other responsibilities is is really inspiring to everybody so thank you we'll move on then to 4.03 Summer of Discovery update Dr pel Madam chair and directors of the board when I got here in July one of the first things I did and one of the best things I did was to follow Amy Ike around to see our summer of Discovery in action and I will just tell you having been in lots of Summer Schools it was extraordinary we had pretty much a dramatic and entire flipping of the script from the days not that long ago when summer school was drill and kill sit kids down and catch
040them up with worksheets and instead we had summer school that was all about acceleration enrichment and engagement that that uh effort was ably led by Amy AR our executive director of Community Education and uh a cast of uh not thousands but a very diverse representative group of folks who really pitched in in the middle of a pandemic and completely reinvented the way not just Rochester does summer school but the way I think pretty much any school system does so Amy thank you for your leadership and I'm excited to give the board and the community a quick snapshot of the really good work that you did and as I'm sure Amy will allude to we're already beginning to think about next summer Amy thank you I'm just going to bring up my presentation yes just hit
041the wrong button there we go good evening board members Dr pel uh thank you for an opportunity to give you an update on summer of Discovery looking back and looking forward Maybe I'll do this so I want to divide my uh comments to you tonight into two parts one to look back at the summer of 21 as Dr pel said uh that was our first Summer with the opportunity to um make major changes to our approach to Summer learning and I want to give you a little bit of reminder of the context we were at when we began that work and then some information on how we are assessing the first year um always looking for continuous improvements so I'll show you a just a glimpse at where we're headed into the second year so
042a reminder that when we began this process I shared this equation with you that I truly believe in when we have a disruption and we have funding we have a beautiful situation where we can actually take the opportunity to uh reinvent ourselves so you'll remember that we took this on as a 2-year redisign design knowing that we would potentially not be able to accomplish all of our goals in year 1 uh we felt that at the time we were redesigning for year one that the highest need was for reconnection and if you remember the context when we began planning for summer of 21 this was around January and vaccines had just become available um much of our student population was still on distance learning um there was a feeling of that need to reconnect and
043to use summer to do that we also knew there were some Wellness concerns because of where we were as well as academic and then we're always looking to provide experiences that give us the context for vocabulary development and life understanding and all of that so we wanted a a strong experiential program the second year is about refining that process so it won't be be as big a mind shift from that we went through in year one uh but the idea that we can make it better continually our program priorities you I don't know if you remember the slides from way back when but there were many dots on a slide showing you all the different summer programs we were really focused on what we had called Summer School in the past and our grade 9
044through 12 credit recovery and we had identified several shifts in practice that had to occur in order for us to reach our goals so the investment in our teachers to really do the redesign in the spring and to prepare to offer a higher engagement program to embed mental health special ed and multilingual learner support into the program to create those smaller learning groups which was also uh covid related but yet we knew our Focus was relationships and then to really provide High interest Hands-On learning uh as you'll remember we had a very compressed planning and implementation period starting in January pulling off the program in June it may sound like a lot but for folks who've ever worked on a large complex project that's not a lot of time and then we told you that
045we would come back to you using the results-based accountability uh questions as the format for our feedback so that's what I'd like to do for you now so you remember that results based accountability focuses on three questions how much did we do how well did we do it and is anyone better off so question one how much did we do we really expanded opportunities last summer so we offered six weeks of programming as opposed to the three weeks of the past you can see there the number of sites that we offered and we increased the number of students at all levels which I'll show you in just a bit in detail we had significantly more in-person learning than we had in the past at the high school level where we had used a tool called
046Edgenuity for students to work at their own pace to recover credit material uh this past year we had quite a few more instructor Le courses in person at the high school and the High School courses were designed with student Choice embedded so the instructors developed what they called Choice boards that got at the skills that needed to be developed in their courses and students could choose among the activities that made the most connection to them as students we did embed those specialist roles into the program this year and uh found that quite well received among the staff and the students uh especially our mental health experts our multilingual learner experts and our special education and then this year for the first year we involved quite a few either current students of RPS or recent alums
047who took paid positions to support younger students and there too we heard great feedback about uh the lower stress that it was perhaps to work with a fellow student on academic rather than having to ask a teacher for assistance and then again we made a significant investment in teacher leadership and I want to really underscore that that was a key to making this program a success a task force worked together included teachers at the beginning and identified the parameters of the program the four essential learning areas that our goal was reconnection and then the lead teachers at the sites and the design teams at the sites really made this happen and so I really I'll show you a list a little bit later of who was involved but um just an amazing show of leadership
048among all of our staff so in terms of student participation notice column 2021 in bold there is the um total number of individual students served in our program Last Summer the percent change actually compares to 2019 because the summer of 2020 was an anomaly we had only online learning available and it was a relatively small program so it really didn't seem fair to compare back to 2020 so we went back to the last sort of regular summer year for that comparison and then I do have a note at the bottom that that High School number includes many different programs at the high school level just to give you an idea idea that it was not just Credit Recovery although that is the bulk of that number there were several other programs as well and as
049you think about this free program for students six weeks of additional learning opportunity we wanted to make sure as we always do that the the opportunity was well shared across those who might not otherwise have uh full opportunity to reach those academic goals and so our uh free and reduced um qualified students represented more than our uh typical percentage I've provided these at District level to give you an overview I can absolutely provided down to the school level if you need that as well and then our historically marginalized identities as well our goal is to always make sure that we're at least serving the proportion of the population that looks like Rochester Public Schools as a whole and you can see that in all those categories except one uh we exceeded that uh proportion so
050what did it take to pull this off in terms of Staffing 389 different individuals I'll say adults but I also include high school students that were paid to help in all of these different categories it took to serve all of those students in various ways and these roles you know could be a sub for a day all the way to someone who worked all six weeks so these are not of course equal in intensity perhaps but took a lot of individuals to make that happen so in terms of the quality or how well did we do it I want to point out a couple things in these pictures first of all the student on the left is holding a fish so if you rate the quality based on whether he caught anything we have that
051and then also the um picture on the it's my right yes I think it's your right is of a group of students who went to our city government to learn about how the government uh Works in action and you'll see the mayor in that picture she took some time out of her schedule to uh to be with our students so how well did we do it I would indicate that one of the things that I would use as a measure of how well is how many voices came into the work we had 50 plus on our task force that originally took on this idea and said should we do this and if so how we had more than 20 lead teachers step up and take responsibility for a site within our program and then lead
052that local design at the site level and then in our spring uh work to get ready for summer and create the curriculum more than a 100 different professional in our district contributed to that work in terms of response we had a uh more than a majority of parents who responded to our survey indicate that this was better than their past experience with summer school and I just put in a little note there only one person said it was worse and if you're like me you always focus on that one bad one right but um most of the others were either neutral or said it didn't apply because they hadn't done summer school in the past um and then 75% of those parents felt like the mental health embedded service was useful for their child again
053the others said I didn't use that service um and we did send our survey out in our top four languages in the district uh the those languages that represented the highest number of students in summer of discovery our staff reported to us that this filled their cup too which was one of our not necessarily named goals but we knew that it could be that way if we did the program in um a high quality fashion they reported better student engagement fewer behavior issues which you would expect with more engagement and then feeling better connected to their colleagues and to their students and from a practical level we've collected did all of this we have an online toolkit that we can build from this year and we have a repository of all the theme development that
054we did at the elementary level for curriculum as we reflected on the program we asked our lead teachers to think about what are you hearing what are you seeing how is this going and they shared a a number of things I just picked out a few to give you an idea of the types of things they commented on in terms of the student experience and I won't read those to you and I know you've had access to this presentation so I'll keep going and we asked them the same thing about the staff experience and they shared with us the positive nature of the staff experience everything from this is a first year teacher so they got more experience with kids um one saying they were already a leader in their building but this really took
055it to the next level by stepping into a Lead Teacher role um and notice the alumni Pas those are program assistants that was the name of the role that our students stepped into uh just a a really strong endorsement of that as well so the way that the state uh funds summer programs is it looks into the number of me membership hours so that means if I'm a student I went 6 days a week times 5 hours a day that's 30 membership hours so we add all of those students and all of their hours together and that's what you get with 155,000 membership hours significantly higher than in the past because we expanded Elementary to six hours a day and expanded to six weeks the revenue generated from that based on the formulas and that
056included a special bump for covid was $1.9 million and the program cost us $18 million so we're right about even in terms of uh the money we generated and the money we spent to offer the program and again this was completely free to the participants that uh took part so finally question three in our results based accountability is anyone better off and you see some examples of the engaging opportunities that students have in the program um I didn't choose pictures of the traditional academic work that you might think of but that was occurring as well in terms of math and reading and some of those things what you do notice is a lot of outdoor activity and with covid the more we could get Outdoors the better last summer and so uh you'll see some
057pictures later uh where they were doing the the work of the classroom right outside so is anyone better off this is what our parents said um related to some questions on the survey and Dr pel and I were talking about this and he pointed out that while this can't be representative of all the other parents what you do say or do see is that you don't see a huge amount of disagreement which is often a motivator for filling out a survey either a agreement strong agreement strong disagreement did I yeah explain that well people will tell you if they loved it or they hated it so right and so we would say that that is a positive indicator and these are things that we wanted to achieve we wanted kids eager to return to school
058in the fall more confidence better connected to other people I would also share that our high schoolers that participated recovered 564 plus credits this is huge huge in terms of keeping our students on the path to graduation our teachers reported learning new skills reconnecting with their students and feeling rejuvenated and I would suggest that all of the 389 staff that worked on this have made District progress in reimagining summer so in terms of next steps we're on a continuous Improvement cycle this is how mde portrays continuous Improvement and there's a link at the bottom if you want to see the whole document but I put a little star there at the bottom because we did step one we established a task force we established the lead teachers we assessed our needs and set those four
059essential learning areas and we um identified our core Vision in terms of reconnecting creating new relationships or or cementing those existing ones we had the strategy for what the program would look like and we tried it once so now we're at step five reassessing our needs figuring out what worked and what didn't we've got a steering committee pulling together right now and we will be uh fingers crossed bringing on those lead teachers in January to begin that refining process these are just a few of the ideas that already bubbled up just as we were taking notes during last summer but I put them here to give you an idea of the breadth of the types of suggestions that people have everything from very um practical type things um in terms of how we register How
060We Do Transportation all of that all the way to um broader can we do some PD around Hands-On Project based learning and by the way Mano has a degree program in this you know everybody was thinking about how do we continue to make this better so here are our next steps we will take a look at all of the data and feedback from year 1 um at the end of year one we met with all of the various groups of Staff types staff roles that were in the program and and sought their feedback um we did the parents survey we individual schools collected data from their students so we will look at all of that we'll work with sites on getting some more student and parent voice into the redesign and then we'll uh establish
061those essential learning areas for next summer we will have to determine the funding available um we know that there are some limitations on funding coming up because of the overall District um situation but we will be working on that in terms of what um Revenue sources we can tap into to fund this summer and how that might constrict or loosen our ability to serve students we'll select the the lead teachers finalize the student recruitment um we've already begun documenting processes where we found that there were hiccups last year and so we're in the process of creating all of those documents of course we have the Practical work of dates and locations the content um there's a huge amount of work that goes on in Skyward before we can ever register a student and so all
062of that the transportation and recruiting finally our accounting and payroll department needs to be involved and then we will monitor the data so I would just leave you with uh one set of final thoughts a couple of your speakers tonight um were uh focused on gratitude and I want to actually do the same thing and this document was added to board deck uh today but just to give you an idea there's our lead teachers and I have these are all of the staff that were involved summer of Discovery 389 and then we had a huge District support team that was somewhat invisible to those staff but I'll tell you they put their hearts into making this happen and then our summer redesign task force so I just wanted to to take a moment thank all
063of those people thank you for your support and give you that update tonight thank you Miss Ike do we have comments or questions at all I have a question maybe I maybe I miss this but um so could you talk to us about the money piece um you said it'll require additional Revenue so what does that look like what are what do you need well for last summer we looked at Revenue sources that we had available the state provides some funding through what's called our ADM our average daily membership for hours beyond the school year um up to a02 so we get some revenue from that that we can use we also use some money that was uh tied directly to providing mental health support and that helped to pay for our mental health staff
064that we added into the program we had some Co dollars that were specifically earmarked for summer or Extended Learning that we used last year and so what we need to do at this point I think we had John five six different funding streams last year does that sound right so we do what's called braiding and we take them all together and we braid them so that you can unraid them and figure out what exactly you use them all for um and we will do the same we will look at all of our potential funding streams in the district to see how much is available in each of these areas that could help fund year two uh we will also be creating a an evaluation plan for year two that's a little more robust than we
065had time to put together for year one and I'm hoping that we can secure some funds from outside the district uh to keep this going into the future thank you Miss Workman Miss Ike I would really like to congratulate you and these thousands of people who worked with you on making this available for um for our students I'm certainly not going to read through the entire list of names we'd be here for a very long time I'm really excited about this program and I really hope that we can have those funding streams available so we can do this next summer as well I know that our dollars are a little bit tight and I'm hoping that we would be able to have some Community Partners who would hope to um we would hope to help
066fund this for our kids because when our kids do better we all do better so thank you so much for this it's awesome you bet and I'm just the messenger they really pulled it off so thank you Miss Ike thank you next we have board member committee updates any board member want to report on work that they have done in recent weeks Miss Nathan so usually you see our updates for the policy committee through the policies that we bring to the board um to be briefed and approved but I wanted to give an overview of the work that we've done this year and a preview for next year because usually in January uh board members have the opportunity to uh select committee assignments so I wanted uh in full transparency anybody who might be interested
067in that policy work to see um what's been put together before I start I just uh it is a night of thanks but I really want to thank um my fellow board members Miss Severson superintendent and all of the cabinet members who come and attend our policy committee meetings once a month um they're about two plus hours and um we have really tackled a lot of policies and procedures this year in a way that I don't remember doing it in previous years where we've had some really good conversations about not just the words on the page but how it impacts the um Administration and the implementation and and the management portion of the district and I I appreciate the openness and the honesty and the information that all the cabinet members have brought to us
068and I look forward to uh continuing that next year so just an overview we reviewed 85 policies in procedures in 2021 and we're required to review all of our policies and procedures on a three-year cycle so next year we have about 65 in the next two year in each of the next two years 2022 and 2023 we have about 65 policies and procedures so I'm um I've put in board docs or board members uh a list of the policies that we've sort of mapped out for the next two years and also a monthly cycle of what it might look like for when the policy committee will meet and when the cabinet will will be doing their work to provide us the feedback and then when we'll be doing our briefings um what I appreciate about
069the process is that it will not feel as front-loaded and as heavy as it has in some months where we've had 10 or 15 policies and procedures to review we're able to get down to maybe six or five in a month and there's even some months we might be able to skip BR is clapping um so anyway for board members and for the public this information is in the board member committee update um with the details but I just wanted to give a sense of the the scope of the work that policy committee is working on and if I could jump in there because um it's director Nathan who has put in so incredibly much time not just um the work on the policies themselves but this this Grand Vision of the the cycle and
070the um timing and the uh incredibly intricate calendar of if we're going to talk about them this day then we have to have this by this day and we have to have that by that day and it goes back like eight steps so it's pretty impressive um thank you to my colleagues I was going to say since Melissa spoke I guess I should speak as well I'd like to speak um I really appreciate the work that the others on the policy committee have done um for Miss Severson for her work in getting things into board docs and correctly formatted I know it's been a huge thing for you so I applaud you for your efforts and your time and everything that you've brought to the policy committee it's greatly appreciated um I think we're good
071team um Kathy is a little bit of a slave driver at times and it's wonderful because she's so intent on focusing on the structure and how we get things done this is something that we've needed for a very long time and I'm very appreciative that this is finally starting to get into place um I guess most of you are probably aware that policies have been something I've been interested in for a long time and doing this work this year has made me even more interested if that's possible and it very much is so um it was also helpful during the times that we weren't meeting with cabinet or the superintendent or Michelle when the three of us would get together and hash through some of these policies and hash through how do we review them
072when do we we review them you know what is this structure going to look back look like so I think you know like what is it you know like knives that are sharpened on Stone we we sharpened each other a lot or I felt that you sharpened me anyway both of you so um it was just it's just been delightful to work on these I know that sounds very strange delightful and policies in the same sentence but it is it's really awesome work and it's important work and um thanks to all of you who've made this possible it's a lot of work too it is a a lot of work um and we will be revisiting committee assignments we agreed as a board that we would maintain our committee assignments throughout this school year but
073we're going to revisit it uh what each committee involves and whether those who are on those committees are currently able to make the meeting U meeting times and do the work that's involved because there's a difference Miss Workman when you were talking about sharpening a knife I was going to talk about the policy committee being on The Cutting Edge but I I won't I won't do that thank you for not doing that you're welcome moving on to I had another legislative committee it's maybe a part two of what we talked about last week was our legislative priorities our committee met again this week and we've developed a plan for how to contact our local legislators and um advise them of what our priorities are we we um decided to divide them between what's the current
074Senate District 25 and Senate District 26 to um make it a manageable Group by Zoom meeting um so we will schedule those in early January and figure out how to uh connect with them we also talked about planning a candidate forum for the candidates for those offices focusing on education and we're thinking about holding that sometime in the summer to um highlight not only our priorities but the important education issues that these candidates will be working on with us um we'd also invite you to contact your legislator legislators individually if you choose to but we will give further updates as we move through this process thank you and I apologize for yes uh miss work oh did you have a question I was just okay doing are we good on the legislative committee then I
075think so yeah okay so in connection with that um Melissa and I were at the delegate assembly on Friday night and Saturday um I was on the one hand rather disappointed that we weren't meeting in person but it really was helpful not to have to drive anywhere I thought from my perspective anyway and Melissa you can chime in if you want um I think that it went really well virtually I think we were able probably to have more conversations than we Mo than we usually are able to when it's in person um so I just like to touch a little bit on how our three of our four priorities lined up with the delegate assembly so the first one of our priorities um relates to full funding for public schools um there were 117 delegates
076there not everybody voted on every issue so it didn't always add up to 100 117 but on the first issue the full funding of public schools the vote was 112 yes to one no so I feel that we are really on the right course here with our legislative polic uh priorities that it really lines up well with the feeling across the state our second one about poverty and how do we identify students for free and reduced lunch and all that kind of thing um that one passed with a vote of 113 to for so once again something that districts across the state are very strongly interested in and unified over so the last one was the expansion of full Community Schools this one also passed the vote was 80 to 30 and it came Melissa
077did an awesome job about talking about um Community Schools and invited everybody to come to Rochester so um I volunteered to do the tours so don't worry that but it came really it was very clear to me that there was a lot of misconception and misunderstanding about exactly what full community uh schools are and how they are funded and you made the point really well in terms of the services that are provided like with our dental clinic and and so on and that are our most major expense is having the site coordinated coordinator um some some districts were a little bit reluctant like we don't really want to have to do this well you don't it's a choice but it's certainly worked really well here and um once again Melissa was just a a big
078cheerleader for the community schools and and spoke well to it um and I wasn't going to talk at all because it was my first delegate assembly and Julie's like no you should talk about this thing and then after I talked once I wouldn't shut up but so um for those of you who haven't participated in delegate assembly the idea is that msba adopts a list of priorities but before they and somebody has to write it up with a lot of background and um then they um you get to debate it I assume it's similar to what they would do at the legislature but um and it's very formal with you know you have to be you have to be given the floor and all that which seemed a little less formal on Zoom but I
079haven't been to a regular one but so the idea is that in this way the um msba all of the school boards join the state Association and the State Association gives us professional support for what we do and one of those things is a legislative agenda so the the whole idea is that before msba can adopt a list of what we support and what we don't support we have to make sure everybody's supporting it so it was um very instructive and um hopefully some of these initiatives will gain traction because they are all desperately needed by all of our school districts throughout the the state so it was it was fascinating and and everybody should try to be on delegate assembly at least once because it's so we're elected for two or chosen for twoyear
080terms so we we get to go through this again a year from now um and hopefully we will have some um you know more results or more forward motion on some of these resolutions um I did speak with Dr Marvin on the phone yes this afternoon about a wonderful experience that I had last night in view of how all all of our student athletes were were recognized she said well just share so I'm I'm going to talk a little bit more so last night I attended the Fel Mayo orchestra concert at Mayo the fidell orchestra 8th grade Orchestra played first and then the three maleo orchestras played they received a welld deserved Standing Ovation I talked with Katie queasy the mayale orchestra director a little bit afterwards and I said it is amazing what you
081and these kids have done together especially since they were playing online uh for last year so music singing playing an instrument composing music listening to it maybe not in the elevator can do a lot to help with mental health it is clear that both of these directors laui at Ferell and Katie at Mayo are respected and loved by their students it is clear that there are positive relationships and connections not only between the teachers and the students but also among the students there's a special kind of bonding that occurs in high school music being together for an hour every school day for four years learning together singing or playing together learning and growing through the Arts contribute to positive mental health and well-being the Arts also Foster and improve academic learning but are intrinsically important
082to who we are as healthy humans so once again congratulations again to um mayo and Ferell uh orchestras and their directors on a stunningly wonderful performance last night thank you m Workman anyone else all right then we will move on to the consent agenda are there any items to be removed for separate consideration Miss Workman um yes I would like to move 5.08 approval of resolution in support of an underpass walkway at Dakota Middle School which was briefed last week okay thank you any others then I would ask for a motion to approve the consent agenda absent 5.08 move approval second been moved and seconded all in favor say I I I opposed consent agenda without 5.08 is approved and um Miss Workman so I get to talk a lot in a row um I'm
083going to share with you a little bit of a history review in in Rochester Public Schools um which is a couple days ago I received an email communication from a retired teacher and former colleague who taught at Central Junior High I was also there I know that really dates me but that's okay so I have paraph phrased and condensed The Exchange we had as follows so the first email asked who is going to monitor the tunnel during school hours I just talked to a Willow Creek teacher about student Behavior a veteran teacher who hates what is going on there I remember the tunnel between Kaufman and central building and all the problems with that I responded by asking do you remember how the tunnel was monitored the response was teachers were assigned to monitor the
084tunnel much like Hall Duty I had to do it for one month each year it was way over on the other side of the building for me than I had to hustle back to my class it was crazy and there were lots of problems in the tunnel I wanted a bit more context so I asked what kinds of problems were there did you ever feel unsafe did students follow adult Direction I got a fairly comprehensive response which I'm going to summarize and have lightly edited with a few side comments of on my own um and the writer said no I never felt unsafe but seventh and eighth graders didn't like the tunnel yes there were problems in the tunnel fights bullying and kids sneaking off in there to skip classes and kind of as an
085aside to that I did receive another uh email communication from a different individual about skipping classes and the problems that ensue as a result but that's a different conversation so to continue this was a tunnel connecting two school buildings so the circumstances with the underpass at Dakota Middle School aren't exactly the same the n9th grade assistant principal kept a good eye during class time when he could also no kids were to cross the street during the day but were to use the tunnel however a lot of kids just didn't feel safe doing so more perception than actual data but there were problems teachers on the first floor and basement were assigned tunnel duty all three grades at certain times and during certain quarters had classes in both buildings part-time teachers I was one didn't have
086tunnel or Hall Duty except just outside their classroom then when we went to really Willow Creek it was really downsized from the central Kaufman campus and we opened overcrowded the first year at Willow was maybe the hardest year for problems my area was pretty isolated from most problems oh we always had students in the old Central that didn't follow rules and challenge teachers but not like now when teachers who have taught for years at Middle School are shocked at behavior and language used toward them it certainly doesn't compare to the worst back in the mid 70s and early 80s from secondhand statements from current teachers it is much worse now I believe this is true Nationwide just by reading the information shared to the board Administration and the post bulletin about the problems at Willow
087Creek it is certainly nothing I ever experienced in 36 years of teaching when did we have to lock doors to keep students from disruptive students not even in our class never so that was the gist of our correspondence so as I just mentioned the proposed tunnel for Dakota Middle School does not connect to buildings so students will not be going back and forth during the day uh theoretically they should only be in the tunnel twice a day coming to school and leaving from school um safety is my number one concern is there any possibility other than something that goes underground a walkway over the road a Crossing with pedestrian crossing lights and marked with a blinking warning sign before and after schools before Vehicles get to it with reduced speed could my concerns be alleviated
088by sharing a summary of any discussion about student safety I'm more concerned about the underground tunnel walkway than any of the Alternatives I just mentioned and there may be others that I didn't think of thank you thank you Miss Workman you raised some concerns about the walkway uh safety concerns and you also suggested that there might be other options we could look for on the consent agenda it asks for $171,000 that would be the budget uh the district's portion of the cost for building that walkway at this point um the underground walkway what did I say what you just said walkway I just wanted to clarify that it is underground it's underground walkway walkway at this point um this part of the consent agenda has not been approved uh with those considerations uh would anyone
089like to move this to be approved as well yes I'm Madam Char I'd like to do that but could I yes um you can so presently there is a walkway that serves re uh Riverside Elementary uh and has for a number of years safely and uh so I feel very confident that our children can successfully navigate have been able to and will continue to be able to so I move that this be added back to the the consent agenda that we vote on it is there a second second then moved and seconded to approve 5.08 uh all in favor say I I I opposed n and it passes thank you 6.01 world's best Workforce plan updated CH chair Marvin yes um when we remove something from the consent agenda then I think that we need
090to read the resolution at least that's been our past practice I don't know if it's required okay we can ABS I can absolutely do that so forget we just voted on that well we'll just do it the other way around but am I am I right your understanding yeah you voted uh to approve this and a second was made we need to read the resolution and then vote on that resolution as well okay I just thank you I just said five 08 I did not read the resolution so thank you V it resolved uh School Board of Independent School District 535 approves this resolution that supports the underpass walkway under 65th Street Northwest at the new Dakota middle school and verifies that funding in the amount of $71,200 motion passes again now we can move
091on to 6.01 the world's best Workforce plan this is an update Dr pel Madam chair and directors of the board very briefly if I may there's a long-standing tradition in Rochester that the superintendent recognizes retirements which our chair just reminded me of and I don't want to be the one that breaks that uh tradition so I want to thank and recognize uh Deborah weer who's a special education Fair professional at Hoover early learning school who uh retired in November after 16 years of service and James witkus who's custodian lead six at John Adams Middle School who will be retiring at the end of January um and he's been with the district for 19 years so I thank both of them and didn't want to break that long-standing tradition I think it's bad luck if you
092break that so absolutely I don't want to especially since we've been talking about the critical uh role that uh all staff and RPS play highlighting PA professionals tonight so with that another member of our incredibly valuable and talented team is Brenda witchman who is our uh executive director of curriculum and instruction as board members are aware Minnesota requires all school districts to annually set goals for what the state calls world's best Workforce which essentially is a framework of priorities and Improvement initiatives we had a study session a number of uh weeks ago in this room where board members moved around stations and asked questions and then we visited again at other board board meetings and so Brenda is bringing back tonight for the board a uh set of the goals that we have agreed are
093I think transitional goals as we are in the midst of developing our strategic action plan which once complete I think should drive future versions of Rochester's world's best Workforce but that's still a work in progress and so in some ways at least I think of the goals Brenda is going to share with you now as placeholder goals um but we do need to do this and we do need to request uh a vote from you uh a formal approval for this which to meet the state's deadline we would ask you to consider doing tonight so Brenda thank you for your leadership in uh pulling this together at a time of lots of change and I'll turn it over to you and and thank you for that uh introduction I I hope tonight I'm before you
094for the last time to talk about the this year's world's best Workforce plan it's a multi-step process and like Dr pel said said we were together earlier in November we went through the stations we looked at the data but we closed that meeting by saying hm um setting the goals for this year is going to be tricky because we we're not making forward progress in the goals that we had so I listened to your feedback met with Dr pel and we came up with some goals that I'm presenting to you tonight and I'm not able to get this to move forward oh I watched you do that and then I forgot so I I mean I just Breeze back past that you've seen that I just had that in there the placeholder about the five
095different goal areas so we're looking at um the goal for this year for that kindergarten Readiness is we want kindergarteners to score at low risk on the fast Bridge um and they just take the math from 73.9 to 75.9 and to score at yellow or blue uh for onset fluency on the hegr assessment um and the reason we chose that one specific part of the hegr assessment because if students score at yellow or blue that will keep them out of intervention and that onset fluency just being able to say the first letter of the word the first sound of the word is a really important skill for kindergarten so we'll continue that important partnership with Cradle to Career um it was great to have that update from Claudia last time we met and talking about
096those early learning materials that Cradle to Career provides for our parents and we are always looking to increase access and to get high quality prek for all students and that the assessment and the curriculum that we use in our preschool programs is uh it's very high quality so they will continue to use that assessment and that creative curriculum we're following you Branda activ siries Siri is enthused okay got it so um from that third grade literacy um we have to go back to our uh 2019 proficiency uh to uh increase to from 40 99.7% to 54.8 which is where we were in 2019 and then showing growth uh at the typical or aggressive Benchmark and the fast bridge and this year we were at or the first year we did it last year was 4.3
097so all of these goals most of them were just increasing everything by 2% because at that meeting I think we kind of agreed that 2% would be a good marker so uh most of these actually steps you've seen already but I did want to add um that last bullet we're going to begin some letters training and if you're following the work of the dyslexia people at mde or talking to anybody about early literacy in Minnesota they're going to be talking about letters training and that's language Essentials for teachers of reading and spelling so it's a uh great professional development for teachers but it's very involved it's not like it's a oh you take four hours of PD and now you're a letters certified teacher so um we were kind of hoping that we would have
098some help with mde to provide letters training and it doesn't look like that's going to work out but we will work directly with the Lexia company and they provide it so we're working with General Ed and special ed and and trying to get some people trained in that and and we're looking at do we go with the Train the trainer model because we have so many teachers that would need that training so we're just starting to explore that the closing the achievement gap between student groups remember when this goal was really confusing I do um because I was always confused by it and maybe you weren't but you know if we would say close the the the achievement gap between subgroups well what does that mean we want some groups to go down while other
099groups go up well certainly not we want all students to go up so we're looking at all subgroups at or above where all students are in Minnesota so with uh all subgroups increasing 2% with the long-term goal at being at or above the state average of all students so that's I did provide the data on this all of the subgroups it starts with where Minnesota is for all students and then where all of our subgroups are for reading and math and you can see we have a lot of work to do there and we'll continue you know it it's really hard to put in what are we going to do specifically to reduce the achievement Gap honestly everything that we do is to red uce that achievement Gap I mean we we know it in
100Minnesota it's larger than anywhere else and in Rochester we reflect what it looks like in Minnesota so I mean from you know all of the adding uh diversity equity and inclusion Department hiring Equity Specialists doing training for all staff not just our you know Equity Specialists and counselers I mean it's really something that I believe is present um in our effort efforts certainly more that we could do and then all students career in college ready went we had to go back to the 2019 um and looking at increasing those measures by 2% So reading from 48 to 50 and math from 45 to 47 and um continuing our percentage of students who access concurrent course offerings and that's an increase 2% year-over-year then we have that big um task force that's working on um College
101and Career Readiness and I think I explained this is really present in um a lot of new policy and new legislation that we beef up our efforts in College and Career Readiness and we stand prepared to do that and then the all students graduate the four-year graduation rate going back to that 2019 and remember that this is always a really lagging number because we still don't have um our 2020 gr no we have our 2020 but not our 2021 that comes very late in the game so yes we do have 2021 or 20 but not 21 and I just put in the data where we were for all of our subgroups in 2019 so an increase of 2% and kind of some of the same action steps professional development and this is really where our
102commitment to Equitable grading practices comes in because we want our grades and our achievement to be about the learning not about our teaching if a students aren't learning um then we have to go back to doing something differently for them and providing multiple ways for students to earn credit and I I do want to put in a plug you know developing multiple Pathways um we'll have uh an update on ptech probably in January or February but I'll just put in a little tease that already the number of students they have wanting to get in for next year's cohort is exceeding the number we had this year or at this time last year so that's exciting so the next step is um when approved hopefully tonight but if you need more time that's okay um this
103would need to be submitted to the Department of Ed by December 15th and then like uh Kent said at the beginning of this we really need to examine the world's best Workforce and how that fits into the context of our district strategic plan I mean this is a subset of that much larger plan have any questions or thank you and Brenda I think I'll read the resolution and then we'll have discussion this is an action item be it resolved School Board of Independent School District 535 does hereby approve the world's best Workforce plan summary as presented and Miss Nathan you had a question so so because I know I'll go back to this next year so I want to know that I have the numbers right for this year when you're looking at the numbers
104on closing the achievement gaps and the numbers for graduation are those numbers the goal numbers or should we add two% to those numbers for the goals great question we'll be adding 2% to that and I just I guess I was trying to be efficient and not it's just it's so much to look at you know like that's this year and plus two so I thought well plus two it'll yeah that's good question but it is when I write the actual goals I'll make that clear to mde the actual number is is two more than what's on all of these Miss Workman um one of the things I really like about this is that um we're looking for impr improvement in relatively incremental steps I mean we all remember the joy of No Child Left Behind
105and 100% of kids were going to be proficient by 2014 um which was overwhelming and didn't work so I I really applaud you on taking a very gradual um approach to this at least initially to see how these programs work where we can improve and where we can go so thank you for that and then the other thing I was going to just com comment on briefly um I was invited to be a strive Mentor over at the alc and in meeting with my mentee this morning she commented on how much she loves her culinary class and the best part of it is that it also meets um the standards uh for a math credit and what fun is it to actually be able to use math skills and something that you get to eat
106so and you know as I see as I see our curriculum developing and um as we're looking for new ways to engage kids I mean I think that's that's really helpful and of course we have that going on with our ctec and our ptech programs already so um anyways I'm and kudos to the alc they're really leading the way on that integration and looking at exactly which standards students haven't met and what they need to meet in order to get credit yeah that measuring thing in culinary arts that may be why my cooking is so lousy um I'm going to think on that Mr Barlo uh uh yes I wasn't able to attend the um study session that was held uh I did follow and as I look at the information presented this evening and
107I think it is um great that uh there's a realization that all subgroups should minimally uh increase their scores by 2% uh yet as I look at the uh reality of for one subgroup a black African-American and uh look at the math being 17.7 or the reading at 30 and I'm thinking okay 2% 2% 2% um that's not too exciting I'm sure it isn't to anyone so I try to if you will will understand the concept of a long-term goal okay not to put you on the spot and and certainly maybe through the Strategic action plan we're putting our eggs in that basket uh as well as the development of uh and usage of equity specialist which I think will uh perhaps provide additional insight and and Hands-On uh services to address this um I
108understand the need for approval of the plan but at the same time uh while I will vote for the approval uh I I'm just to say I'm not happy with excited by or or thinking that these are great goals and or significant uh movement and I know that's not the intent to do that I am more excited though about uh the aspirational uh planning that is before us and and so I will uh like I'm sure my uh fellow board members uh with baited breath be awaiting what is presented and uh putting a lot of stock in uh that uh strategic action plan uh the uh Equity the uh Dei Department the issues and initiatives they're going to undertake and how it will relate to increased uh student performance thank you any other discussion Miss
109Workman yeah um since I'm kind of on a soap box this evening I'll I'll stay on it for another few minutes um you're welcome to tune me out um so in um in my work as being on the purpose Center for Arts board of directors one of the things that I've observed in the Arts High School is that we have students who have come in who are um very talented in some area of the Arts many of them are also academically behind yet I've seen in those two years those kids make incredible academic progress and I know when we're when we start to talk about budget cuts It's usually the Arts get hacked at first and sometimes I think we're really going about it backwards when we're looking at you know what's good for kids
110what keeps kids in school um what helps keeps kid keep kids motivated like the student who cooking and math like wow um so I would just ask the the rest of the board and the community to seriously consider some of this and it doesn't necessarily have to be with programs that are or electives that are added to the school day but how we can involve kids in music we've got a bunch of musicals that have occurred in the high school I think uh Ferell is going to be doing um a musical in March maybe that's a different school anyway um these kinds of things that really keep kids engaged and focused um and we experienced a certain amount of that too with sports in terms of the kids are engaged with school and many of
111them are doing very very well academically so these things are all connected and while this is important um I think we need to discuss maybe the how of you know how how do we get there um and would like that to be part of the discussion so I'm done with that for now all right and Dr pel I just want to very briefly um Dr B I really appreciate apprciate your comment um this recommendation is only for improvement in the midst of a pandemic while we are in transition with the strategy I agree completely 2% incremental Improvement at a 177% proficiency rate would be educational malpractice to sustain for a sustained period of time I think what Rochester has a chance to do is rather than what um uh has been discussed tonight has driven
112America education policy for quite a while which is pick an arbitrary goal that someone may or may not ever have achieved and say you're going to make in equal increments toward it is in some ways nonsensical that's not the way any company would set its goals for profits what we need to do is identify the actual High performers those schools and systems that are achieving rates of proficiency for those African-American students and Benchmark against those because those people have actually done it as opposed to a sort of arbitrary effort to hit performance benchmarks ideally we're benchmarking against people who've done it in Rochester so that we don't actually have to just look at Kentucky or Montgomery County Maryland but we also can look uh across the country for high performers Rochester kids certainly deserve it
113um and so this is a transition strategy very explicitly um and I thank Brenda for helping us put together that that transition strategy but I know she joins me in agreeing that this would be uh wholly adequate for a long-term Improvement agenda thank you uh the uh resolution has been read all in favor say I I opposed and the resolution passes thank you Miss witchman thank you at this time uh we've been asked to have a brief recess so we will be in recess until 7:43 okay that might be a problem today tomorrow don't make her forg Ward members do listen real well in my um haste to be efficient um I did read the resolution for world's best Workforce I never and we voted on it I never asked anyone to move it and
114to Second it would you like us to do that now I really would so moved second thank you and we already voted on it and Miss serson captured that vote so thank you um moving on to approval of school district property taxes payable in 2022 this was brief on November 30th Dr pel uh directors of the board I'd like to ask John Carlson to come up in case board members have any additional questions or concerns that they'd like to touch on about this but as our chair noted we did brief this previously and Mr Carlson if it's start with you I will read the resolution it will be moved and seconded and then we'll have an opportunity and make sure that I get that right this time be it resolved School uh School Board of
115Independent School District 535 Rochester Minnesota being a school district in Olstead County Minnesota that there be and is hereby proposed a levy upon all taxable property in said School District a new calendar year 2022 School tax for fiscal year 2023 in the amount of 7,186 3874 as follows general fund 4,644 n96 84 Community Services fund 3,662 47991 General Debt Service funds $4,875 65199 total certified Levy 7,186 3874 move approval second it's been moved and seconded are there any questions for Mr Carlson or any discussion all in favor say I I opposed motion passes good job Mr Carlson thank you Dr Marvin before we go on I'd like to make a statement if that's okay does it have anything to do with the meeting yes it does actually yes it does yes it does um I
116really want to thank will ruen for bringing to my attention my very poor choice of words in describing Kathy's enthusiasm for um keeping on task and pushing it as a slave driver I certainly meant no offense by it but it was obviously very unthinking on my part and I know I've offended a lot of people so I really want to apologize for that so and I asked will to you know keep out what he's doing so that we can all so thank you and thank you for that Miss Workman we we all have to remember that we all need to do better so thank you for that 8.02 interim superintendent self- evaluation this is a midyear progress report and a discussion item Dr pcal thank you chair Marvin and directors of the board I I
117will be relatively brief both because of the hour and because there's a memo that is uh board members have received that outlines where we are we also will be gathering for a closed session for my evaluation which will be informed by some feedback uh through a survey that uh administrators and community members others in the district are completing so this is my effort to just briefly kind of give you a sense of where we are on the three goals that I proposed and the board approved for me back shortly after I arrived here in July and as board me board members Will Remember by Design we establish goals that are achievable in a one-year tenure as an interim superintendent thereby not including what uh we think as director Barlo was just highlighting a moment ago
118are the most important goals of our work which are goals in student learning and student outcomes but those are longer term goals and so these are goals that I think are critical process goals that lay the groundwork uh for long-term and sustained Improvement um as board members know and uh Community folks who've been following along the first of those goals is establishing a strategic action plan for the school district the second is keeping our schools safe and open during the covid pandemic and the third is working with Will ruffen II and his team and others in the district to conceptualize and launch this new uh not just a department of diversity equity and inclusion but the function in Rochester Public Schools more broadly so very briefly where where are we I I got here soon
119after in July and through dialogues individual meeting with each of you as board members and with talking to many people at the school district levels and in the community the thing that continually emerged is that while Rochester Public Schools has articulated some very bold Visions for the future of uh our school district and for our students in the the three broad goals of our strategic plan and The Graduate profile what we were lacking was a road map we were lacking the specific strategies and the measures that we're going to use to guide progress toward Improvement and so somewhat unusually for an interim superintendent we launched the development of our longterm strategic action plan I think it made sense for two reasons one it was the right time for Rochester second we are in the middle
120of a global pandemic when launching major new Improvement efforts in schools to change curriculum change instruct change programming frankly would get lost in the fact that our our staff and really in many ways our students are uh really overwhelmed with just returning to in-person learning at this time and so I think to Rochester's credit we're using this year to plan to lay the groundwork for long-term Improvement um that will eventually result in adopting new curricula and new measures and launching new programs but that's not what we're doing this year instead we are um doing our homework and trying to paint a picture of where we want to go in the future through the analysis that I did of Rochester's outcomes to date looking at many different documents that working groups and others had produced and
121then meeting with as I mentioned people from uh throughout the Rochester Community and School District we've identified five critical areas that uh we needed to roll up our sleeves and focus on and think about the first were outcomes and measures what are we trying to achieve and how are we going to assess our progress toward it second we're Improvement systems how do we get better at getting better especially in the area of teaching and learning the third was an economic engine how do we actually have the resources human and financial to achieve the outcomes that we uh we all have for Rochester kids fourth was organizational culture how do we create a space where all students all staff all parents and community members can be their full selves and their full and best selves uh
122in Rochester Public Schools and then fifth was family and Community engagement how can we understand what our our parenting adults want for their young people um other family members and also Community organizations and align our priorities uh with those strategies we invited community members to be a part of uh analyzing those five areas um about 175 applied we were able to choose 75 of those folks um so we were gratified by the interest and we are really gratified by all of the people who are serving on those five working groups we also added a sixth group that we call the coherence committee that is charged with connecting the dots across those groups so that the plan that results from this effort is more than the sum of its parts we are um going to be
123uh uh administering a quantitative survey very broadly to students to staff to parents and to community members who may have no direct connection to Rochester Public Schools but who are citizens of Rochester to get their feedback on the priorities and we'll also be doing focus groups that um we actually have started now we're doing the focus groups with students to go deeper and to understand you know where we need to go as a school district we are intentionally reaching out for both the focus groups and the surveys to some of those hundred people who wanted to serve on our working groups and who we just couldn't actually accommodate in terms of space um so they are going to have a chance to formally register their perspectives there that survey uh of the school the uh
124strategic plan will start in January because today we released another survey on the impact of recent school start times changes and so we had to be aware of survey fatigue um and so that's why we are um we're managing it that way I'm really confident of the ability to have a strong strategic plan um by June um like all of these efforts this is not at all uh entirely my doing it's not even mostly my doing uh Denise Moody has been doing a great job as our inter director of strategic planning uh in Carla bison's area and Carla has been involved board members are on the working groups cabinet members are and so I think we have a very good shot at having a very strong plan to present to you for consideration by June
125um the second goal was keeping our schools safe and open and as board members know that remains an ongoing challenge when we got here it seems like another Universe Paradigm we actually didn't have masks on and thought we wouldn't have to have masks on and as you know I initially recommended no masks at the middle and high school levels and just at the elementary levels where vaccination was not possible then Along Came the Delta variant and we have developed a comprehensive safe and open schools plan that was not static that we have periodically updated as we've learned more about ways to mitigate the spread of the disease we've had a great team centrally uh here that's been working on our Co strategy and Co coordinators and covid staff in our schools that have been indispensable
126I've talked to many School principles who said I spent my whole weekend contact tracing and I know it's not just principls our School nurses our health office professionals as a result of those efforts we've definitely had covid in our schools but we are entirely uh open and kids are learning in person we've had to date um a 1,48 positive cases of covid-19 in the district which amounts to about 5% um of our total seven uh staff of 17,800 students and 2700 staff um the vast majority of those I hasten to add uh have been unvaccinated between 85 and 90% in any given week and so I personally uh urge all of the parents Guardians other responsible adults uh in Rochester Public Schools please get your kid vaccinated get your boosters it's going to be our
127best way of getting back to uh normal uh such as it uh such as it can exist I think we've also been State leaders in our approach to to co I think to my knowledge we're the only District that has released actual vaccination numbers for both students and staff at the individual School level and that showed us that while in some of our comprehensive high schools for instance we we had 75% of students vaccinated as board members will recall at that same time only 38% were vaccinated at our area Learning Center and so we've hosted clinics and had other efforts I haven't had a chance to check the percentage at the alc now but it's significantly higher and we'll keep at it another area of innovation um has been our alternative to quarantine program or
128test to stay program which we have piloted at Bishop Willow Creek and John Marshall and has saved hundreds of hours of lost learning time to quarantine um we have closed classrooms and grade levels but no schools and I think that's a significant accomplishment to date we've closed two grade levels for quarantine periods one sixth grade at John Adams and one second grade at Long Fellow and we've closed 13 classrooms at the elementary level when I say closed we went to full distance learning and as board members are aware our classroom teachers in particular have told us I can do in-person learning and I can do full distance learning but a hybrid in which I've got some kids in the room with me and some kids learning is uh a huge challenge for us starting technologically
129because everybody can't see everybody but it's also just a completely different instructional mode and so in order to present prevent the spread of covid in our schools when we've needed to we have closed those classes and grade levels and as board members know we have got some thresholds that are not rigid uh triggers but that guide our implementation of that strategy and candidly we're always looking for ways to enhance the mitigation of uh spread of covid board members recently approved a significant investment in hea filters that are now all across the district and are going to be further I think hopefully uh mitigating spread within our buildings and we keep asking uh and scrutinizing our strategies to be sure that we are current with the science and current with the priorities for for Rochester kids
130my biggest concern remains right now quarantine because when we have quarantine kids we lose learning time and so my hope is that as hopefully vaccination rates increase and Community spread spre decreases we will be able to dial back the use of quarantine but we're not quite there yet as we remain in Olstead County at a very very high rate of spread and then the F final goal was working with Will ruffen II and many others to help conceptualize what our new the board's starting with the board's commitment to diversity equity and inclusion what that means uh with leadership and will and others we've secured an initial investment from uh the state continued further investment from the state of Minnesota and what are often called grow own programs to enhance the development of teachers of color
131for our district we are going to be a national pilot for a new app to strengthen teacher student relationships called along that was developed by a nonprofit called gradient learning gradient learning not coincidentally it was developed based on Research that I led during my 10 years at the search Institute on teacher student relationships and the kids fil the teacher films a short video sends it out to all the students the students send a short video back in response and then there's classroom activities in real reinforcing strategies and I'm excited that this is part of our Dei work because it relationships are at the core they're at the core of being being able to advance equity and so this will be an Innovative effort to leverage technology um to do that as well we've also launched
132the perspectives project where uh will and our Equity Specialists and other members of the staff are directly interviewing students who have been impacted by our discipline policies and procedures the kids who actually have been suspended or have been referred to get their perspective not just on what occurred when those incidents happens but what needs to happen to create safe uh and and welcoming schools for them and for all kids and I'm really excited to begin looking at the the the feedback that we get from that our partner in the strategic planning process Wilder research has been providing support for the team uh in setting up those focus groups and they're going to provide additional support in looking at the qualitative data that's going to come from them um and then finally as you heard at
133our recent discussion um of uh some of the uh well-being and behavior issues that are happening in our secondary schools we also are going to make using federal funds uh a major investment in additional Equity Specialists for our school district and those positions are posted and I'm pleased to report we have some really strong uh applicants um I'm confident that by the time we get to June uh will and I will be able to present the board with an overview comprehensively of what the Dei function in Rochester Public Schools looks like but I think in conclusion I would say it's pretty clear to us at this point that it's going to be at least two components both advocacy and capacity building advocacy speaking truth to power making sure that people actually uh are aware of
134disparities biases but also capacity building helping individual staff um and students as well to uh connect across lines of diversity to um uh provide instruction ruction that is culturally uh responsive and relevant so it's a work in progress um it's been 5 months um but I think we've laid Some solid groundwork um for the work to date and all of these points are outlined in somewhat greater detail in the memo that I submitted to the board yesterday awesome and we will be meeting as a board next um Tuesday in close session uh with Dr pel for for much of that time to discuss this further but at this point do you have briefly do you have questions or um qu questions or concerns or Miss mclin I just have a question it's probably not related
135necessarily to the evaluation but just one of the things you included in here was new to me this pilot with the along app is that going to be districtwide certain subsets certain buildings do you have a plan for that yet um director mlin it is going to be 70 teachers initially that will has recruited um very uh levels and and and grade levels and we would love to come and brief you on that I will say we have received a significant Grant from a foundation to also support that work that we'll ask the board to review and approve at a a future meeting so um it's pretty exciting work and I you know it's going to be like any technology effort it's going to be there'll be some glitches and some lessons learned but um
136the relationship the connection that I had was because they built part of the app on the research that we did at search Institute and so as will and I were talking about really his assessment of the district and and and vision of of Dei we just said it's all about relationships that relationships are just a through line and so that's why the a pilot is going to be a part of our Dei efforts I think it makes us pretty unique it it that's something that in other places might be housed somewhere else and I'm excited that it's going to be uh part of our Equity work thank you yeah Mr Barlo uh I'm excited regarding the test to stay program uh one of my grandsons um had to be quarantined he wasn't uh at the
137school where he was able to test the stay uh but I was curious regarding I thought at one point we I say we um so by we I mean the district had established if you will a a rigid your words rigid trigger a a threshold a percentage of U the classroom that uh perhaps when the numbers reach that level then there would be a uh distance learning mechanism to kick in and I I guess I was kind of surprised to hear that there isn't necessarily a rigid trigger but a guideline and um so I'm just simply acknowledging that was um news to me uh which a number of things are so well no actually Dr Baro I appreciate that my language I I think was not very accurate the percentage which is 15% at the
138classroom level 550% at the grade level or school which we haven't reached that is a hard percentage the reason I said it wasn't rigid um is that kids get covid often not in neat St progression and so when we said 15% sometimes we have a school that's at 11% and suddenly 22% um a classroom I should say and so the percentage is fixed but classrooms cross it sometimes in very unpredictable ways and so that's why and you can imagine when a parent gets the call that we're moving to distance learning um or not moving to distance learning they look at that percentage and often expect it to go like 11 12 13 14 we reached it and so it's not that they're not rigid but it's sometimes um the team will be looking at it
139and they'll say oh that's headed there so let's actually not wait around because then we actually have more spread so maybe it's 133% but it's looking like cases are rising let's go to distance learning that's happened a few times um we've learned if we wait too long that raises uh the concern of additional spread to other classrooms so thank you for that opportunity to clarify that other questions thank you Dr P we look forward to discussing with you more next week we will move to the um 5-year general fund Financial forecast thank you um Dr pel for asking Mr Carlson to talk and thank you Mr Carlson for the alliteration in that titley maybe if I if I made uh Dr Marvin well John is getting set up um this is a really important uh
140forecast for the board and and for the community um and I think before I turn over to John the one point I think is important to make is that the the budget deficit John is going to describe for the board now is structural rather than cyclical which is to say it's not the result of a downturn in the economy in which case as I'm sure many board members are whereare a a business or an organization may go into deficit during that downturn but they know that when the economy approves they can dig out of the whole they can pay it back because revenues will exceed expenditures in a strong economy um this is a structural deficit because we have an imbalance between revenues and expenditures that is not directly tied to the situation in the
141economy um and so it is one that we need to put in place strategies to deal with in a structural way um I have uh asked John and worked with John to just present board members with the situation we are not tonight beginning to present Solutions but I can assure you that between now and when you have a very important study session in January we will absolutely be bringing recommendations and parameters for the board's consideration tonight however we're just identifying the problem as John uh did uh yesterday with our partners in the Chester Education Association and we'll be doing later this week with our administrators we want the same set of facts because as I think uh many of us are aware in some discussions in the country today people have different sets of facts
142um we want the same set of facts and these are the facts and and we're grateful to John and his team for uh putting them together so John thank you all right thank you very much Dr pqu and school board members it's my pleasure to be here uh I was able to present this last night kind of take a test drive with the teachers group and it was uh it went really well actually I was a little nervous going into that and and didn't get beat up on the way out so thank you for that um so this is not unusual for those of you who've been on the board to go through the 5-year forecast twice a year this is our fall version of it uh we use this forecast to make short-term decisions
143as well as to think about long-term strategies and changes we might need to make to our budget um in the winter we're uh doing the forecast to adjust for the actual enrollment that we saw in October 1st we're making adjustments for the actual staff that we've hired uh for this school year and then we're taking into account any of the budget adjustments that we've proposed through October 31st and then in the spring we our Focus then is usually on has the state made any Law changes that might affect our revenue and have we settled out any employment contracts we also then try to um put in the uh real or the proposed budget for the next year at that time to see how that all plays out so also want to note too I wrote
144an very extensive commentary this time it was about eight pages way more than I've ever done um and so while I'm covering just very high level details um here um there's a very significant report in board docs for anybody who's interested in in reading through that later um but the basis of our assumptions um first start with the Revenue inputs we use a model it's a software that helps us project what number of kids we're going to have in future years our model as I was explaining last night seems a little bit um odd because we've been a growing District my whole 10 years here we've always had more students year over year over year except in the fall of 2020 and it wasn't just you know 10 students less it was 600 students less
145and so the model is trying to take take that into account and trying to uh project where we're going it looks at the number of 12th graders who are leaving it looks back to birth records 5 years ago to try to estimate the number of new kindergarteners that we're going to get and then it moves everybody along uh from kindergarten up through 12th grade um we do notice um at times that some of our grade from grade progressions uh go down but then other grades they go up one notable you know grade where we see an increase in number from the year prior is ninth grade and I think that logically times out to some of our um nonpublic schools or our private schools end at 8th grade and then um students come here to
146the public high school at that point so the model is saying that next year we're going to go up about 32 average daily memberships an average daily membership is just one student from the first day all the way to the last day that's somewhat unusual for us usually it's a number that's over aund so again I think it's still trying to figure out uh that 2020 year and how does that all play out into the future we've assumed that the state legislator is going to um increase funding 2% each year we already know that next year it goes up 2% but in the years after that we've also assumed 2% U because that's been the trend that we've noticed over the last decade or so we do have a voter approved referendum with inflationary increases
147it's good through the 25-2 6 school year so at some point in the fall of 22 23 24 or 25 we're going to have to go to the voters again um and deal with um either maintaining that or asking for an increase uh the increase that we'd be eligible to go for according to state law would be up to about 1,070 per pupil so if you just multiply that out by our it's around 18,000 pupil units uh that would provide a maximum of $18 million more in potential Revenue we've also not assumed in any of the numbers I'm going to show you the federal Co money that we have left unspent we wanted to just show you all the expenses as if we continued everything we have today plus what we think we'll need tomorrow
148or next school year to open up uh the new school buildings but we haven't applied any of the federal money to that yet because we wanted to see what is that Gap um without it salaries and benefits so we look at the expenditures second in salaries and benefits we've assumed a 2.4% increase for um our employees for this year and our employees for next year with the exception of our teachers and our principles that's the rate of increase all of our other unions and groups um agreed to for this school year no group has agreed for a number yet though for next year and so that's uh what we're uh negotiating right now for teachers and principles we also need to negotiate with all of our other groups after we finish teachers and principles at
149after FY 23 I've made a decision to assume 3% increases after that you've not told me you're okay with that you've not told me you're not okay with that that's something you know I've made as a managerial call to say at least for the purposes of this forecast I'm going to assume 3% we are estimating about 87.4 new positions next year we continue to staff at the ratios we're Staffing today and we move into more building and assume that we have to have similar structures to what we have today um that doesn't quite jive with adding 32 new students into the district but adding 87 uh new staff but that's kind of how it all worked out when I assumed uh the new buildings uh contracted Services supplies and capital in general we just flat
150out estimated 3% increases for inflation and all those budget codes we do know that our busing transportation contract with for student student calls for a 3.5% increase next year and then um natural gas was just one of those outliers where I I decided that we should probably use 6% just thinking about you know natural gas in general as one of those Commodities that's been spiking in price and um is expected to do so for another year or two or three so just a little background on our history 1617 was the last school year in which we spent more than we brought in Reven Vues that year since 1617 we had four years where our revenues were higher than our expenditures that's not exactly what we intended what was happening over those four years is we
151had positions in our budget that were not able to be filled we had as many I think as 184 full-time equivalent jobs that were vacant last school year due to issues with hiring staff and and I think I shared in last week in our my budg budget update that even right now we have 110 uh vacant positions that's not because we've been given a directive not to fill jobs it's a it's a stark reality of we're having a hard time finding qualified people to fill the jobs that we have posted so that's partly been masking our problem when we talk about structural deficits because you usually don't go for to a structural imbalance in just one year you you know good year Good Year Good Year good year and then oh my goodness it's really
152bad our expenditures were supposed to be higher than what they came in at had we filled those jobs we would have probably spend more than what our revenues were we have built up a fund balance of 12.5% so that's 30.2 million divided by 241 million of expenditures last year is 12.5% we talk about it all the time but board policy says 6% we basically sitting double where we um are required to be um that might seem like a high number because if if you're just looking back maybe five six seven eight years but if you look back 10 15 years ago we were at 16% very consistently year-over-year uh we had about two months of Reserve um in the bank so here's the forecast going forward as I explained last week this year's budget 2122
153obviously assume some of the roll over the unspent funds that we had from last year so I don't Focus too much on that year because we know that there's a built-in deficit when we allow our our managers our supervisors our leaders to spend money that they didn't spend the prer here the bigger problem is going forward next year when you add in those 87 new positions you cost that all out you assume that all of our employees uh get a a pay increase um and we take on other new expenses like utilities and things like that to operate our new buildings we're looking at about an $18 million def deficit we know that we can't come forward with an $18 million deficit next year because we'd be in violation of Schoolboard policy giving you a
154budget that assumes an unassigned fund balance being drawn down to 3% so we're going to have to make some serious changes we we and it's going to be probably a multi-legged solution where we uh come to you with different strategies as the superintendent said in January but I just for anybody who's wondering how did we get here because again it doesn't seem to quite Jive that we've got good year Good Year good year and then $18 million deficit I have been these are quotes I found on the internet they were by me things that I had said over the last three years so Google is can be your friend sometimes but in December of 2018 I said the third biggest risk for the district is potentially opening new school buildings without additional operating Revenue to
155support the new Staffing and building operating costs well that's that's what we're doing we're opening up new buildings we don't necessarily have the revenue um in place right now to support that in May of 2019 I said new buildings will bring new overhead expenses into the general fund without corresponding new Revenue an operating referendum to fund expanded operations may be required at some point in the future December of 2020 well you know a year ago I said the budget process cannot proceed normally into 2223 well that's what we're coming upon right now additional revenues or significant reductions will be needed to maintain us structurally sound budget and then earlier this year as we were talking about what do we do with our federal funds that's kind of the background of the context of these comments
156but our detailed budget planning for 22 23 23 24 U obviously needs to start now and more thoughtful decisions can be made along with public input if we desire about what would be reduced in spending or if a referendum should be considered to increase Revenue so I think that's kind of um where we're going to be going just a little bit more background though on on how did we get to this point well since our budget is 77% based on staff um I think it's quite obvious that if we grow our students at about 8% over a 12E period but we grow our staff at 30% we're adding staff at a faster rate than we are bringing in new students and that doesn't quite work in the long hul again like I said before what's
157been masking that is all these and vacant positions we have in the budget and when we assume for forecasting purposes that they'll all be filled because that's the intention we want to fill them all if we were to fill them all it just leads to this this large gap also that's what's been masking is these federal funds we've been able to do things start things um be spending money um because we've had this uh Federal Co funding sitting there um willing to uh uh back stop our expenditures I'm not going to go through every you can look at this later I just basically go through all of our paid students so this is the number of actual paid average daily memberships we had yearby Year all the way back to 1112 and the budgeted FTE
158we had all the way back to 1112 so back then we were just shy of 16,000 students and we had 2,100 staff Jump Ahead where we're projecting for 2223 is that we'll be at 17,25 paid students and we'll be at 2760 fulltime equivalent positions so we've grown 1300 we're projecting to have grown 1300 students but have added 650 staff in other words for every two students we've added one adult and the numbers again are catching up to us and we can't um probably afford to continue doing that without making some changes so where do we go from here again we're not here to recommend specific Solutions tonight we are just brainstorming the the the kind of the three legs of of the options we have here we we need to talk to the board about
159salary increase amounts we know that um our employees need to get uh their paychecks resolved so we need to talk to you about um some guidance and Direction on that we also need to talk about our staffing ratios so we're going to be dealing with that over the next month and we'll be bringing you some recommendations in j January on how to deal with Staffing ratios CU we want to get going on on Staffing for next school year and early February we need to determine how much Federal covid funding should go towards um maybe buying down some of that deficit if we should decide to do that and should we use any of our savings account these are the shortterm levers that we can all move around and and use all of them to some
160extent long term we're going to have to have further discussions about the numbers of Staff we have versus compensation when we've been adding staff at the rate we've been it's it's had an effect that's been holding down our compensation of our current staff because to buy more positions we've done it to some extent on keeping our level of increases low than our peers we need to talk about student enrollment are there ways that we can increase that I'm on that subcommittee of the strategic planning um so I'm very anxious to see what strategies we come up for that we need to continue our advocacy at the legislature you know was announced today $7.7 billion Surplus I've never heard a number that large come out of the state before perhaps There's an opportunity that some of
161that could be directed to schools to all schools and help um all of us with some of the expenses we're struggling with um there and then we do need to have the discussion about the timing of when and how much we would potentially seek through operating or capital projects which is also known as a technology referendum I really think one one one funding bucket that we have not ever accessed is that capital projects referend where we get a a dedicated amount to U fund our technology we're funding that all through other revenues so it's really duding what we have available for our general operations where other districts have set up the technology referendum basically provide consistent sustainable funding uh for their technology programs and then we'll want to talk to you too about the policy
162for the fund balance are we at the right amount are we calculating it the right way I think um hopefully Kathy that's on the list of 65 maybe coming up next year so that we can um have a discussion with you about that over the next uh few weeks the budget Advisory Group as I've kind of came up with that name last night is going to be meeting so that we're prepared to give uh a recommendation to the superintendent who will bring that forward to you on January 11th that will have kind of some initial parameter setting of which um uh we would propose to operate within and then we want to move into Staffing we probably in between January 11th and February 7th have to have another meeting with you though just full disclosure
163to talk about then even some more specifics because we won't have the whole problem solved I'm not predicting by January 11th but we used want to have a road map for you and get some feedback and then come back with even more detailed uh plans after that and then of course uh Staffing comes up and then we go into uh May where we will bring forward a approved budget um that probably uses some of all of those strategies and maybe even a couple others if I can think of a couple others so that's the high level overview of the financial forecast I know it's not great I don't want to pin it on anybody and say that this is somebody's fault I think this has just been a lot of circumstances over time I think
164also when we had 600 students withdraw at this at the fall of 2020 that kind of exasperated the problem there too um and we haven't maybe necessarily done all the tweaks we we could or should have for a staff a to deal with that do you have uh questions comments okay I'll leave now oh you got you were so close Amon you start I have two uh the superintendent mentioned that we are adding a study session on January 25th how does that fit into the Where Do We Go From Here slide um Dr Nathan it would be uh one of several sessions that I believe would be prudent for you to have in order to consider options and so I think if we meet on the 7th my I'm going to put this in not
165super sophisticated terms the 7th of January I think we can present you with some options for the buckets which is to say reductions Federal funding other fund balance I think based on the feedback we get from you on the buckets by the end of January we could bring to you strategies within those buckets um and that still puts us I think on a decently early timeline to begin to uh staff and budget schools so i' be I know when we talk about the annual calendar tonight we're recommending the addition of that study session on the 25th of January I would argue unless we absolutely can't avoid it only focused on budget issues so that we can really go dig deep at that time and we may need to add some others in the spring as
166well miss Amon did you have a question yes I had a a no up and it crashed and so now it's got all my numbers out of work help me walk backwards in the timeline um if we don't do anything at all and all of your projections are correct we are in really big trouble for the school year that ends in 2025 like we just can't approve that budget because we would be out of money right I would say that would be the school year of 20 ends in 24 2024 will actually be having to borrow money to continue it's it's the whole FY thing that always messes me up okay so absolutely 100% no matter what we have to either come up with more money or make Cuts in the springtime of 20 see
167this is this I I need visuals yeah um because it ends in 24 but it begins in 23 so it's the spring of 23 that we would be having to to and if we waited that long that wouldn't wouldn't be that great either so but spring of 2023 is really only one year away that's right now if we were to pursue an operating referendum in order to collect it in time to keep us out of that because this is the other thing I had written down and now I don't have it written down anymore um it would have to pass when in order for us to collect it in time because there's a significant delay in time y to affect that 23-24 school year where we would be basically have spent all of our savings
168up at that point you need to pass a referendum in the fall of 22 to increase funding if you don't want to use any expenditure reductions as a possibility and so in order to pass a referendum in the fall of 2022 we would have to authorize it by August August of 2022 there would be an exact date that we can track down later but correct you're like 10 months away from needing to call that election eight months away from calling that election and if we did some budget cuts we would be able to potentially delay that by a year correct yes correct I I haven't mapped out a whole lot of different scenarios but yes assuming if you could use some federal funds if you could make some spending reductions you could probably delay your
169vote to the fall of 23 to be used in the fy2 which is the 24-25 school year yeah my eyes are crossing with all those 20 23 24 25 um as a individual before I was on the school board many many years um I've been involved in the vote Yes community group for referendums and uh as somebody who has experienced that it's very difficult for the vote Yes group to um organize and get things [Music] moving without at least a year warning um to to start those efforts it's just a a lot to ask of a group of volunteers who it's not their full-time job and they very often have other full-time jobs so we're already within that 12 Monon countdown if we were to look at so um even though the the state requires
170us to take action in August as a board that is way way way too late to expect um a coordinated effort between the school district in any any Community groups to happen I I would urge the administration and the board to consider if we're going to pursue something in the fall that we have very few weeks to think about it um and and can I keep going because it's just there's an awful lot up here um I would say the same thing in regards to to the budget cut process that uh if if it were a small and perhaps you you have it in your 80 pages of of documentation but we've had a number of budget cuts um in the past and some of them have been involving the community to Greater extents and
171some have been just internal where where staff Administration decides on their own because it's a smaller number and and the they they identify the cuts that are needed do you recall off the top of your head what what magnitude those internal efforts were compared to the around 10 million was the last time we had a really big Community effort I think for sure over the last few years we've handled up to a couple million as a cabinet and a superintendent and recommended those to you without doing an extensive process of asking for a lot of input into that we we have felt at that level you know 1% of the budget we could we could handle you know pretty pretty easy this is going to be a little bit larger than uh 1% is it
172is it accurate to say it's the largest um budget cut we've ever had to make as a district off the top of my head I would say yes because I seem to remember 10 and 11 although they were almost back to back so it was almost probably felt like it was doing 20 um but it was kind of spread across two different years and just boom boom right so so I would also put forward to my fellow bir members that if we were to authorize some sort of a a interactive Community effort which I personally think is really wise because as a participant in one of those processes it was very educational to me and to my fellow community members um it's so easy to look in from the outside and say oh well this
173is easy you need to cut this or that but when we get educated by the finance department about what things we are and are not allowed to cut or we think we'd be saving money but it doesn't actually save money from the right place or whatever that be um budget cuts are very painful and I think the more um we can involve the communities so that they can learn about it themselves and feel like that they have input and um um agency so to speak that that the community starts to own a little bit of it as well and that ties in directly with referendum efforts because um when there are individuals in the community who are very involved or respected or you know what have you then they go out and they say no
174no this really is a thing it's not just you know we're paying people too much it's that that's how much we have to pay them to fill all our positions or or whatever that might be that that uh then that's the message that will go out at a time that we have a referendum vote on additional dollars that we may need and um it's cyclical you know the one adds to the other which adds back to the one uh involving people in budget cutting efforts will involve people in uh referendum decisions I I I know I'm rambling but but the idea is that we're probably a year behind on both of those efforts now again it's it's and Mr BR has that question too it's a lot of information and important information and certainly something
175we need to digest and that we will be discussing this in depth in the very near future Mr Barlo uh you and I were thinking along similar lines I just wanted to be sure uh director amonson is Raising very important issues uh were these the type of things uh John that you were planning on presenting or addressing in our study session yes okay in my mind the referendum would be part of that discussion um I don't know how detailed maybe the superintendent would want to go on that but I certainly think that we would want to at least talk about a couple of the options we have and then we go from there see where that leads us and to um again I appreciate what uh Melissa is saying I don't necessarily want to add
176my two cworth at this point if I can be assured though that uh of this one thing and I'll ask it in the form of a question did you hear anything uh Melissa raised as something that came that was news to you or something that you weren't anticipating or considering presenting in our study sessions uh no okay thank you this need so I don't want to have Melissa's head explode because I have one more referendum question you say that the current voter approved referendum um provides us Revenue through fiscal year 26 that's right so I assume when I look at the fiscal year 27 budget that is assuming we we have not renewed the reference that's right I didn't put that on the slide because I didn't want to shrink down the columns anymore that's
177in the detailed information but you can see the effect of pulling out are removing the referendum at that point it's tens of millions of dollars at that point so regardless of the other fiscal situation we're in we would have been considering whether or not to go to the voters to renew a referendum and in order to generate the revenue beginning in fiscal year 27 we would have to run a referendum no no later than 20125 is that am I got my timing right right okay so if it's not in the near term we didn't have all these other factors to consider it could be it it would have been in the farther out near term that's right okay I should uh Google some more but this this talk about referendums was never supposed to probably
178go right up to the 10th year of it expiring a lot of the language we used back in 2015 2016 2017 was like this will likely get us through the 1819 school year well look at we've made it 1920 2021 21 22 we'll probably get 22 23 but it was never meant to last full 10 years that's just normally not how the referendums work thanks Miss mcclaflin um Mr Carlson this is my first time going through this process so I apologize this is a stranger off the wall question is do you have a way to break down you talked about the vacant FTE in that those are somewhat budgeted for in your process um do you have a way to break those down as to what roles they play in The District in terms of
179are they in classrooms are they in technology are they in administration can you give us more information about that I definitely can do that in the budget um adjustments I did cover it very very briefly at a very high level and I was just going to pull that up is that in one of the other attachments it was yeah in one of our agenda items that went through on consent but um I can just go to the last page of that it looks like of the 110 vacant positions 56 were par professionals and of those 56 20 were general education 36 were special education 36 were special yep and then 22 student nutrition so that's our food service workers so I know that even the staff that kind of coordinates all of Food Services they
180go out every day and they're serving lunches to kind of back fill we have 16 maintenance jobs so in absence of not having enough maintenance people then we contract clean or contract for cleaning companies and then we have 12 offs scheduled positions which could just be a hodg podge of different either administrative or supervisory some of those might have student contact like Equity Specialists would probably fall in that group but um again that that one's a little more nebulous on exactly which positions they are I'd have to dig deeper in the data that I didn't provide here and just to follow up on that is a way to look at that that if we don't fill those vacant positions that classroom sizes could get larger is that something the community would need to be aware
181of that if we're not able to fill those positions or fund them that we'd be looking at larger classroom sies none these are necessarily like I in my mind of a teacher standing in front of a classroom we've got most of those positions filled okay these are the supporting roles of helping kids you know maybe you're pulling them out for a service maybe you're doing some Hall monitoring um food I think is a very important thing uh cleaning our building is a very important thing so um yeah we wouldn't necessarily see larger class sizes per se if these positions weren't there but we would lose a lot of the support that our class teach less services to less Services less support to our teachers who are teaching and to the students and to the yeah
182to the students of course thanks for clarifying that for me all right are we um ready to let Mr I was going to say ready to let Mr Carl and go you're not fired um thank thank I know I know this is going to be an ongoing and really really important conversation and a lot of decisions to be made so thank you Mr Carlson our next agenda item is 8.04 policy recommendations this is the first reading of the those policies and policy committee we only have a few tonight which you'll be glad to hear uh we have policies with changes recommended policy 425 staff development and mentoring the purpose of this policy is to establish a staff development program and structure to carry out planning and Reporting on staff development that supports improved student learning
183and the changes were driven by changes in msba model policy policy 5:15 protection and privacy of pupil records the school district recognizes its responsibility in regard to the collection maintenance and dissemination of pupil records and the protection of the Privacy rights of students as provided in federal law and state statutes these updates to the language are based on the msba model policy and format grammar and punctuation Corrections so policy 524 is the internet acceptable use and safety policy which is to establish requirements expectations and guidelines for access to use of electronic technology the upstate were from language based on msba model policy as well as clarification of device use in locker rooms and bathrooms we have one new policy which is policy 534 the school meals policy the purpose of this policy is to ensure
184that students receive healthy and nutritious meals to the school district's nutrition program and that School District employees families and students have a shared understanding of expectations regarding meal charges in 2021 the Minnesota legisl amended Minnesota statute section 124d do111 that now states that Minnesota school districts that participate in the national school lunch program must Adopt A School meals policy so this brings us into [Music] compliance thank you and these will come back to the board two more times yes thank you and then we have 8.05 procedure recommendations procedures reviewed with changes recommended uh the first one is procedure for 25 a.2 staff development individual requests there was a minor change to clarify requests that require approval and procedure 515a protection and privacy of pupil records um minor updates to language based on msba model policy
185procedure 515 A.1 notice of right to refuse release of public data our form was updated to indicate that all categories of directory data will not be disclosed if the form is submitted by the parent then there were procedures that we reviewed with no changes recommended the first one is pro procedure 425 A.1 staff development evaluation of progress toward educational outcomes also reviewed with no changes recommended procedure 425 a.3 staff development awarding of Schoolboard credit and the final procedure with no changes is 515 a.2 notice of right to refuse release of public data to military recruiters and or postsecondary education institutions and the last one is a new procedure that is recommended procedure 535 I'm sorry 534a collection of negative balances for student meals meal accounts this is a briefing item or you find with leaving
186it as a briefing item it'll come as a it'll come with a consent agenda when the policies come good okay thank [Applause] you uh 8.06 Schoolboard annual calendar update are there any changes or additions or agenda items to be considered for a future agendas for the annual calendar you want to talk about the changes that we've already have on the list yes okay so we have some additions to our agenda items January 4th oh adding a boundary changes update January 18th we're adding School Board Academy planning January 25th we're adding the budget deficit reduction plan and school start time study results on February 8th we're adding a School boundary changes update on February 15th we're adding a we're February 15th we have moved the school resource officers contract um that was previously at a later
187um study session uh to a study session on February 15th and that is the contract for the 2223 school year sorry 2223 year um so we deleted from the February 22nd agenda the um school resource officer contract on March 22nd um which is a regular meeting we're adding an action item on the school resource officers contract that same one that would that would start in June of and we have two items that were mentioned at the last meeting um that board members had talked about putting on the agenda that we'll talk about it exact on uh December 13th and that was the request to have a school openings and closings update perhaps every other month and um the request to have the school safety plans update that included um representation from school leadership and students
188to come and present so I'll figure out where that fits in all those items thank you any anything else all right we have two closed sessions chair Marvin can I ask a question just while we're talking about the annual calendar with the updates yeah where's the best way to find the most updated one I can update that so um after we tell you about it tonight um Michelle is going to be resp responsible for updating the calendar and then it will be placed in the both the library section of board dos but it will also be linked to on the Schoolboard page under calendars where there's a specific link so on the website on the website yep that link on the Schoolboard page goes to the one on board docs in the library one and
189the same thank you um if I may the in board docs every version of the annual calendar any changes are listed on there by the date so the newest date is the is the board calendar that's on the top any previous versions those dates of that those changes are below that a thank you so the one at the top is the most recent yes okay good was current date I have and I have to admit I should have checked into this before a um procedure question we have two Clos sessions we need two issues for Clos sessions we need need to address can we have one motion that mentions both of them and then vote on going into both close sessions we we can have a motion um to go into Clos session in Clos
190session you can make the motion to do the second one and then you come back out with the I'm just wondering if we can do that one and that one we move this and we move this and then we just vote once I'm going into both we can't vote vote while we're in close session though right right so those would come back out what well no this one's going to come back out so let's try this the next item on the agenda is a closed session to consider proposed student expulsion pursuant to Minnesota statute section 13 d05 subdivision 2 A3 the school board must go into Clos session if private educational data are discussed during a meeting the details of the proposed student uh fion our private educational data pursuant to the law I have
191cited I will ask clerk amonson to make a motion to go into Clos session for the purpose of cons uh considering a proposed student expulsion and I will also ask clerk amonson to move to go into Clos session for the purpose of Labor negotiations discussion so clerk amonson would you please I move that we go into Clos session for the purpose of considering a proposed student expulsion and I further move that following the student expulsion consideration we go into a second closed section to consider labor negotiations as Allowed by Minnesota statute 179 a.4 subdivision 3 second do need a second in a second all in favor of going into two separate Clos sessions say I I I opposed it is 8:50 and we are now going to move to close session School Board resumes Open
192session at 10 5:00 p.m. um clerk amonson would you read the members present at both of the closed sessions yes uh the first Clos session was directors amonson Barlo Garcia MCL and Marvin Nathan Workman and superintendent and Jackie Peterson and that was the ulion the second one was director Amon Carlo Garcia mclin Marvin Nathan Workman uh superintendent pel Carl bachan and John Carlson thank you I have a resolution about a uh Minnesota about a resolution expelling a student we it resolved as the basis for its decision the school board hereby adopts the uncontested statement of facts contained in the written notice of proposed expulsion School Board hereby expelled student a for the remainder of the 2021 2022 school year beginning on December 7th 2021 the expulsion period will end upon commencement of the 2022 2023
193school year which is currently scheduled to begin on September 6th 2022 the district will provide alternative Educational Services to the student During the period of expulsion to the extent required by law the superintendent or his design is directed to provide the following to the student and to the student's parent a copy of this resolution and a letter stating that the student has been expelled effective December 7th 2020 and may resume regular attendance in The District in connection with the start of the 2022 2023 school year on September 6th 2022 the superintendent or his design is directed to make an electronic report of this expulsion to the commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Education within 30 calendar days as required by the Minnesota statute section a53 and was that your motion or should I so move
194yeah could you I so move move the motion and second second second um there will be a roll call vote shair Marvin can I have one clarification yes did you say student a22 I thought I heard a it's a22 sorry this is student a that's thank you oh thank you very much okay student a 22 thank you very much good C have on here thank you so it's the the resolution has been read moved and seconded and Miss serus will take a roll call vote if you vote to support this resolution or against you state yay or nay yay or nay MH director amonson yeah director Barlo yay director Garcia yay director mlin yay chair Marvin yay director Nathan yay director Workman yay thank you and the resolution passes our next a meeting will be
195a closed session on December 14th and then we will have a an Open Session and a regular meeting on January 4th in January 4th there's nothing to and we are adjourned at 10:09 p.m.