001Okay, we will now call to order the uh April school board meeting for district 518. Um let the record reflect that six of the seven members are here. Missing tonight is Matt Wedboom. Uh recognition of visitors and guests. Thanks everyone for attending tonight's meeting. Uh, next we will stand for the pledge of allegiance meeting. I pledge allegiance to the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay. Correspondence and recognition. Um, we've had no requests for any public participation. Recognition of students, staff, and community. Eric, are you Eric's going to do that for me? Congratulations to Family Career and Community Leaders of America member Sarah Law in receiving a top gold medal on her project at the Minnesota Chapter uh
002Spark Award for her local work and efforts. and uh Jacqueline Perez Ventura, Kendra Sandival Lopez, and Wendy Vincente in also receiving a top gold medal and advancement to nationals. Congratulations to Jazelle Martinez in placing third in section 2A speech team meet uh which earned her a trip to the state speech tournament. Congratulations to Worthington Middle School sixth grade writer Elizabeth Gomez Montteroso on receiving third place for her written composition at the 21st annual SWWC creative writing contest. Congratulations to fifth grade student uh Delani Cummings on receiving second place in the Southwest Minnesota Spelling Bee. Congratulations to Junior Aiden Harwood on being selected and performing with the National Honor Choir at the National 2025 American Coral Directors Association uh in Dallas, Texas. Congratulations to Jakari Sweeney for being named to the Big South allconerence boys basketball
003team. And finally, but not least, congratulations to Mr. Languard for being recognized at the Minnesota Association for School Administrators meeting for his service to MS MSA. Good. Okay. Now, next we'll have a special presentation. Um Ann Foley, would you like to come up and would you like Dave and John? I'll help Annie out with this. If we could have Mr. Skull please come forward. I got a mic for you, Lori. I get a microphone. I mean, I'm not loud enough. Yes. Please come this way. Am I on? I don't know. Is she on? Yeah. Mr. Langard, you're going to need to stand up as well. Yes. No. Yes. No. Or I can just talk loud. Or I need both. Do I still have to hold this pocket? You hold that and I'll hold this for
004you. Okay. Um, in recognition of the retirement in December of Mr. Scog and the upcoming retirement of uh, Mr. Languard. Um some of the staff here and also some past board members uh got together and decided that we would um help buy a paver for each one of those um in the Brandle Memorial Wall at Trojan Field. So in appreciation to Dave Sco, director of operations for 27 years of service 1997 to 2004. This is a sheet. just pretend it's a big paper like you know heavy and in appreciation of uh Mr. Langard in appreciation of Mr. Langard's uh superintendent for 22 years of service 2003 to 2005 paper. So yes and so we thank you for your service. It's my honor to recognize you on behalf of the staff at district 518, um teachers
005all the way down to our custodians and food service and the past board members that we have standing over there. Uh we thank you everybody. Okay, next the high school music department has a special presentation as well. Would you guys like to come up, Joel, Brad, Steve? Last night, nearly 400 ISD 518 students played a concert for a packed gymnasium of their biggest fans and supporters. It was truly a magnificent thing to behold and it was a great reminder of how lucky we are to have a thriving music program in Warthingington, Minnesota. From their first day at Prairie Elementary, a quality music education is deeply embedded into the fabric of our students learning experience. Nearly 200 students each year begin the journey of learning to play a new instrument in our beginning band and orchestra
006programs. Our middle school and high school students are not only able to continue their participation in band, choir, and orchestra, they're encouraged to do so. Additionally, the quality of those programs is supported by highquality general music classes that ensure that music ensembles do not become a catch-all place for students to meet their music requirements. Additionally, students in music ensembles are further supported through summer band and strings, as well as individual and group lessons through high school. Our middle school and high school students routinely excel at their at regional, state, and national levels through competition and honor ensembles. And our marching band continues to win awards and hearts everywhere they go. Our students have had the opportunity to work with some of the best musicians in the country through festivals, clinics, and partnerships with Memorial Auditorium.
007It's no small feat to keep a K12 program such as ours running. It takes a lot of financial support and dedication to excellence from many individuals. We know that many districts do not receive the financial support that we have been granted by district 518 administration and we are infinitely grateful for that support. Tonight, ISTD 518 music and Wambo would like to thank Superintendent Langard for his role in supporting music education in Wington. Please accept this plaque as a token of our gratitude as you near your retirement after many years in the district. You can see those on the screen and they started at various times over the 50 years. Uh, one of the things that uh, we can be assured of in community education is that things continue to change and we've continued to grow
008and expand over the years. I'm going to tell you just a little bit about each of our departments. The first one that most people are probably familiar with is the enrichment department. This is the department that sends out a catalog that you probably get in the mail every quarter. Uh the coordinator for that is student tendiswong and uh we have we tally some of our enrollment data for that. You can see that our youth enrichment programs are the largest part of that department and uh they have around 1300 participants last year. And some of their most popular programs here you can see the gardening class that just took place about a week ago. Uh but celebration chorus is one of the most popular classes, ethnic cooking classes, gymnastics, a wide range of classes. And the
009enrichment department really serves people of all ages. It's open to anyone to participate in. The next department is our adult basic education department, also referred to as AB. Uh a lot of people don't know that our AB department serves much more than just Worthington School District. We actually serve uh 21 school districts here in our area. Uh an 8count region um is served by our adult basic education program. Uh even though it's 21 uh school districts we serve, we have in-person classes in 10 towns. Plus, we offer online opportunities. And we offer classes that start at 8:45 in the morning and we run classes until 8 in the evening. And here are the types of classes that we offer in AB. And if you look, you can see we have this is a current year
010uh classroom. The classes are very full right now. Uh we're thrilled about that. We're finally back to precoid levels of attendance in our adult classes. Uh anyway, you can see we offer English. Those are our most well attended classes. We offer citizen and citizenship and civics education, GED preparation, workforce readiness and digital literacy. And our workforce readiness, I do want to comment on that. We partner a great deal with Minnesota West and Career Force on those programs. And it's a real great collaboration that we have in the area. And this shows a little bit about their enrollment. We had a little over a thousand unduplicated number of students. Uh some of the numbers you'll see um will be more than that because people may take more than one kind of class. So that sometimes they'll
011be counted twice but unduplicated a little over a thousand students. The third department is our early childhood department and Melanie Cool is our coordinator for that. These are the different kinds of classes we offer in early childhood. Uh the very first kind of classes that we offered were ECFE classes, early childhood family education for parents and children to attend together. In our district, those are offered once a week and they're about an hour and a half in length. Uh we offer daytime and evening classes and we offer classes in English and in Spanish. We also offer a school readiness preschool that's offered three days a week for half days and that's primarily three-year-olds in the program. We offer a school readiness plus preschool which is five days a week all day and then our family
012literacy program which is three days a week for half days. And in that program the parents and the children attend together as well and the parents have time to go to parent education as well as adult basic education during the time that they're in school. And this is the enrollment from last year for our early childhood department um split out by the different types of programs. So 770 participants in our early childhood department. One of the things that I did want to mention to you that is potentially changing related to early childhood uh is the way that um we are able to enroll students in the program. The state has always had criteria for enrolling students in the program. Um, and the these are some of the criteria that are in statute for the priority
013of students in the program. And so for our three-year-old program, we strictly adhere to all of this. When we started the 4-year-old all day, everyday program, we do have some slots that are filled on a first come first- serve basis. And those slots are being paid for with some funding that all of you have approved. But uh one of the things that the state is currently or it's currently going through the legislature is the very last one that you see on the screen. A district can enroll students um if a student is defined as at risk by the local school district. And this year they're trying to delete that from the criteria and take that um flexibility that school districts have uh away where students would have to meet one of these criteria in order
014to participate in a program. So we're keeping an eye on that and communicating with legislators a little bit about that. I personally do believe that they should allow school districts to still have that flexibility because there are students who have high needs that maybe don't fit one of these exact specified criteria. So anyway, just to keep you aware of something that is going through the legislature pertaining to early childhood. The next department is called our family and community liaison department. Uh we just have the four staff people in this department. So, it's one of the smallest departments in our uh program. They receive funding, excuse me, from the United Way of Nobles County and grant funding from Southwest Minnesota Opportunity Council. Uh so, we are greatly appreciative of the contributions that they make to the
015work that the liaison do. Uh the liaison actually started out as being grant funded and over time uh different departments have contributed to the work. um or to funding the work that they do. And one of the things that they do that most supports the K12 system is that they are in charge of the preK through 12th grade enrollments for the school district. So any new student to our district will come through the family liaison to be enrolled. Uh they also provide language support to families and they help people with all kinds of things that they might have need. um to connect with services. So it can be referrals to agencies, it can be can be connections to uh different resources that are available in the community and especially we are helping families with how
016to navigate the school system. That is primarily for families whose um who maybe aren't familiar with how the school systems work in the United States. So that's an important part of uh what the work that they're doing. And you can see here that they had about 1,800 unduplicated uh clients last year and documented about 3,500 appointments. And our last department is excuse me. Our last department is the Nobles County Integration Collaborative. And again, this is a department that serves a broader territory than just District 518. We serve six school districts. You can see them listed there. Adrian, Ellsworth, Bula, here in Lake Okabina, around Lake Brewster, and Warthingington. And that's the staff from NCIC in the picture there. And we uh are very fortunate to have a very diverse staff, bilingual staff uh who are
017really helping us meet the needs of families and students in our district. Some of the programs that they offer are academic interventions. NCIC does fund uh some of the licensed interventionists that are in our K12 system. They have an equity council with representatives from all six member school districts. They provide integrated camps across the six school districts and retreats like the kindness retreat. A lot of people are familiar with that as something that fifth graders participate in. We have out of school time programs. Those are available three nights a week after school for middle school and high school students. We have professional development opportunities largely around cultural competency topics. And finally, they do offer teacher pathway scholarships uh to individuals who are pursuing a degree in education. This is separate from the Southwest Teacher Preparation
018Partnership, which is the partnership between Minnesota West and SMSU. The NCIC scholarships can be used at any accredited college. And uh the intention is for those people to return to Southwest Minnesota to be teachers in our rural area. And this is just a closing photo. This is our staff from this year. And we couldn't do the work that we do without the staff. So I thank them for their work and I thank you for the support that you've shown to community ed. Any questions? Okay. Thank you. Thank you Sharon. Okay. Moving on. We need 2.0 approval of the agendas. The consent agenda and main agenda. There's no additions. Need an motion to approve the agendas. I move approval of both the consent and main agenda. Motion by Lori. Second. Second by an. All those in
019favor of the approval of agenda say I. I. All those opposed, same sign. Motion passes. 3.0 approval of minutes. the March board school board meeting minutes and the committee meeting minutes as read. So, I need a motion to approve minutes. I'll make a motion to approve minutes from the March 18th and April 8th uh meetings. Motion by Eric. Second. Second by an all those in favor of the March school board meeting minutes and the committee meeting meeting minutes, please say say I. I. I. All those opposed, same sign. Motion passes. 4.0, the consent agenda. Need approval for the items under the consent agenda. So moved. Motion by Lori. Second. Second by an all those in favor of the consent agenda say I. I. I. All those opposed, same sign. Motion passes. 5.0 I know main
020agenda monthly financial overview. Carmen, um the board should have the um district revenue expenditure report for the period ending March um 2025 in front of them. Um we are nine months into our fiscal school year. Um the total um operating revenue for the period ending March 31st is um 71.03% currently compared to 67.42% 42% um last year at the same time. Um so we are currently on track with our budgeted um revenues. Um our total operating expenditures are also on track with um 65.59% this year compared to 68 16% last year. At the same time um over the next probably few months we've already started the ordering process. We will see a slight um increase in our expenditures compared to budgeted numbers as we are planning on purchasing some items that were planned um operating
021capital for next year. Um but due to some um increase in price due to tariffs, some of those vendors have reached out to us and we had um decided to move forward with those expenditures in this current um fiscal year to save um quite a bit of money based on what their um projected increases are going to be. Um Mr. Swanson will be preparing a revised budget for our May board meeting. So that will be coming with some revised numbers on both revenues as well as expenditures. Okay, any questions for [Applause] Carmen? Okay. 5.2. Approve the second reading of policy 704, development and maintenance of an inventory of fixed assets and fixed asset accounting system. John. Um, this was presented to the operations committee. There were no changes from the first reading. So, the recommendation
022from the committee is approval. Okay. Okay. I move approval of the second reading of policy 704. Motion by Lori. Second. An is that you? Yep. Second by an. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor of the second reading of policy 704 say I. I. All those opposed same sign. Motion passes. 5.3. Approve the tax abayment resolution number one from earlier tonight. Need a motion. So moved. Motion by an second. Second by Eric. Is there any further discussion? This is a roll call vote. Miss Dudley, I miss a guard. I Mills I. Mr. Bloom. I. Mr. Parish. I. Okay. Motion passes. 5.4. Approve tax abayment resolution number two. Need a motion. Some moved. Move. Motion by Eric. Second. Seconded by Aaron. Is there any further discussion? This is also a roll call vote. Miss
023Dudley. I. Miss Hagard. Hi. M. Shy. I. Miss Mills. Hi. Mr. Bloom. Hi. Mr. Parish. I. Motion passes. Okay. 5.5. Approve resolutions relating to the termination and non-renewal of teaching contracts. Was this instruction? Uh yeah, we presented that they would be coming this evening um for the termination uh or non-renewal. Um these were names were not presented at that time. you were given them through the school aboard agenda and uh this is the administrative recommendations. Yes, there's 11 of them. Is that right? Yeah. Okay. Anyone for a motion? I move approval of the resolutions relating to the termination non-renewal 5.51 through 5.5.11. Okay. Motion by Lori. Second. Second by an further discussion. Okay. This is also a roll call vote. Miss Dudley. I. Miss Aar I Miss Shudy abstain Miss Mills I Mr. Bloom I
024Mr. Parish I motion passes okay 5.6 Six. Approve soccerfield lease with the city of Warington. Imagine this was operations. Correct. Yeah. And the the lease agreement would be for a dollar for them and then of course they would do some of the maintenance and maintain and manage that piece of property over the summer months. Okay. Anybody want to make a motion to approve the soccer field lease? So moved. Motion by Eric. Second. Seconded by Darla. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor of the soccer field lease say I. I. All those opposed, same sign. Motion passes. 5.7 approve authorization by the school board to accept a quick quick claim deed from SMAK and authorize the chair and secretary to execute a warranty deed to SMAK. So this was presented to the operations committee
025and was uh recommendation from the attorney in regards to creating a paper trail so it could be tracked later if needed be. So um it's recommendation from the attorney. Okay. Need a motion. Motion to approve the quit claim deed from Smok and authorize the chair and secretary to execute a warranty deed. Okay. Motion by an second. Seconded by Aaron. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor of the motion say I. I. All those opposed? Same sign. Motion passes. Okay. 5.0 5.8 8 approve theou with education Minnesota warington and health insurance car. Oh, yeah. You want to talk a little on it, Carmen? Well, I I just um theou is I can read it here. The MUO changes it change eliminates the $500 deductible 100% plan. This is on insurance and replaces it with
026a $1,650 non-mbbedded high deductible plan offered through Sanford Health's Care. Um and that's uh for the two 2025 um year. Um the traditional 1000 plan uh contribution from the district stays the same. That's 10,600. The single HSA plan um the contribution is $10,700 from the district and the family HSA district contribution is 11,700. Um thisou will take effect July 1, 2025 and will expire once the the contract is ratified with Minnesota um teachers union. So then it will be null and void after the negotiations process is done and ratified. Okay. Need a motion for theou with education Minnesota warington. So moved. Motion by Lori. Second. Second by an. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor of the use say I. I. All those opposed, same sign. Motion passes. Abstain. Oh yeah, that's right.
027Eric's going to abstain. Sorry. Motion still passes. And I don't think the the full board got a copy of thisou. So, I would just request, you know, in the future when we're when we're asked to vote on something if it can be shared with the whole board prior to the vote. Okay. Anything else? No. Okay. Approve purchase of computers. So, um, we brought this up at the operations committee. Um, currently, right now, the pricing looks like it's going to increase and, uh, Amy Erns talked to me about purchasing these. Um, it would be for staff laptops, um, that were budgeted and then the art lab, which was part of the capital LA budget, as well as some monitors and keyboards. So, the total cost is $1,975, which is under the bid limit. And to avoid
028the increased cost, we're recommending purchase now. And then likewise, uh this is about $40,000 under the estimate, so it's good pricing. Okay. Motion to approve the purchase of computers. So moved. Darla. Motion by Darla. Second. Seconded by Aaron. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor of the approval of the purchase of computers say I. I. All those opposed? Same sign. Motion passes. 5.10 10 approved to declare surplus property. So, this wasn't presented at either committee. It I meant to trade it when we purchased one of the suburbans and didn't get that done. So, now we need to get rid of it. And so, we need to clare declare it surplus and we'll put it out for bids and get rid of that truck. It's the Prairie Elementary uh maintenance pickup. Okay. Need a
029motion to approve to declare surplus property. So moved. Motion by an second. Seconded by Lori. Any further discussion. All those in favor of the surplus property say I. I. All those opposed, same sign. Motion passes. Okay, move on to reports. John, superintendent report. Um, I really don't have anything this evening for reports other than I'd like to say thank you to the board members, current and past, as well as the music program or uh staff for the recognition. Appreciate it very much. Okay, instructional committee. Um, just looking here, looks like everything has been covered. Um, Mr. Langard did do some of the state legislation updates. Nothing specific really, but um, know that stuff's coming. Otherwise, everything else has been covered. Okay. Operations, Aaron, Darla. Anything additional? No. Everything's been covered. Okay, other reports. So, go
030back to our meeting last week. I I visited with John over the high school committee and that was my fault. There there is a facilities committee and I appointed the operations. So, it is up to you guys if you want to keep it operations or if you want to make the facilities committee lead the high school directive. The only difference is is I think Lori, you're on facilities and Aaron, you're not. Oh, okay. But that's up to you guys. If you're okay with the operations, we'll keep it that way. But if you're in dire need to want to change it to the facilities committee, we will. Um I have a question of what is the specific directive that either it's going to actually be I think the biggest thing was is just try and meet
031with the administration and get a kind of help prioritize what we're going to direct new administration in the future and what really needs to be done to the high school. Well, I think we were going to do that with like Tony and from our last meeting. So, specific to the high school. Just to the high school. Yeah. So, it would basically what I heard is it would be to kind of one establish getting more than just one quote or information from one company. two, it would be to kind of set what the expectations would be for them to provide a decent number and what um if you're going to focus on, example, the kitchen and secure entrance and how much more you want to do. And so the committee would set the direction and at
032that point then um the administration or office would do the work to start that process. But the committee is not in charge of getting quotes or right because that's the superintendent or this is the superintendent's job. So it's our job to set everybody clear on the direction of the high school and the job of the committee. Just making sure everyone's clear, Aaron. Yeah. Okay. Clear to me. Do you want to stay with operations? I don't care. Makes no difference to me. Okay. Let's just keep it at that then if you're fine with that. I did speak with Joel a little bit. I'll leave it up to your guys's discretion if you guys would like him I think he would kind of like to be a part of seeing it and what you're thinking. So maybe
033set something up with him someday and the rest of the administration as well. So is there a time frame of when this is going to happen or is it going to come back into the board for discussion to another work session? It'll come back to another work session, which would be later on. So, it's not like we have to do this right now, but you could do it in May or else you probably want to almost wait until August when people are back or I don't think you really want to do it in June and July when it's not much going on. But I'll leave that up for discussion for the operations committee. But then yes, the the direction will come back to a work session on what we're going to prioritize the high school
034needs for. And that was just the high school. That was that was it. So, okay. If everyone's clear on that 7.0, is there any other business? any future business I don't think other than normal stuff. So does anybody have anything else? That's good. Made in adjourned.