001good evening I call this meeting to order here on March 10th on a very warm day um Mr kosher would you please take attendance Olson here Fen here Skelton here Bossard here winegar here all present thank you if you could please rise and join me for the pled of Allegiance IED alance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all at this time any visitors who wish to address the board may do so we ask that you sign in when you enter the room and please list the topic if you have not done so please approach the Podium and do I ask that you refrain from listing any student by name or any Personnel by name
002is there anyone who would like to address the board as a reminder no action will be taken this evening we got you under this all right seeing none do we have um any tenter happenings this evening uh we do not okay thank you uh we'll move on here to approve agenda and conflict disclosures item a are there any changes to the agenda Dr Elie nope just as posted great I would take a motion to approve the agenda Mo second first by Mark second by Carol all those in favor say I I post same sign motion passes next up here we have indication of conflict of interest for South Dakota codified law 3-23 this is Rachel and I have none Carol I have none this is Jake and I have none Mark and I have none
003Mike I have none great thank you next up here we have our consent agenda um item a here approval of our minutes resignations new hires open enrollments and bills um first up here we have our February 10th meeting resignation we have Hannah Kerwin title Audrey job middle school council student councel Tanya Miller High School science new hires Kaye Olson sped assistant Sarah armur family consumer science teacher Lewis budm head football Amia Amelia Howard Head Dance and Sydney Kellen special education teacher would you like anything to be pulled from the consent to agenda this evening see none I would take a motion to approve first by Mike second second by Mark all those in favor say I I post same sign motion passes next up here we are not in need of any unfinished business so
004we moving on here to new business um we have several lease agreements tonight so we'll take one by one here uh the first up being approval of school lease agreement for Camp invention hello hi I'm Mindy Whistler I teach third grade at the elementary school um I'm requesting to use the elementary school to bring back Camp invention we took a year off we had it for seven years so I'd like to bring it back to the Youth of Rion um Hannah was in charge and then she moved away so I will be taking over as the coordinator um I would need four classrooms an open space um the playground I did send Dr Ali the insurance policy that camp has um we're just asking that the fee would be waved for us to use the
005elementary school for a week from June 2nd to June 5th excellent excited to see that be brought back a lot of kids like that yeah hopefully so Mr Elie we'd have the custodial fees attached with that if necessary I wouldn't imagine there'd be much because it'd be the same kids coming in go using the bathroom but it pretty much begin since it's a summer project so right y um it's been a I think in the past it's been very well attended uh the weeks that we've had it so it'll be good to have it back and and like guys I haven't really pushed super hard this year just trying to bring it back and the new building kind of seeing how it goes so hopefully we'll have about 25 campers I'm hoping for so can
006you um remind me what grades you're Target and what the students do while they're atamp Camp invention we're pushing for um it would be kids going into second grade and into fifth up to fifth grade would be sixth graders so kind of keeping it the older kids Camp invention is just a week of where they get to explore they send us all the materials they get to take things apart build things create things so it's just a whole week of exploring and learning about different inventors I want to say great job in the past with the camp um our kids have gone several times and really gotten a lot out of it I'm glad to see it coming back um how would parents find out more if they wanted to register um I've sent Flyers
007home so another flyer should have came home today and then I know Niel put it on Facebook since I'm not on there for the website um we do have flyers and just kind of word of mouth again trying to get it out there and how many students are you hoping for 25 at least 25 you know we we've in the past had up to like 50 or 60 but just as the first year coming back and just kind of getting used to it I don't want it to be super huge and not knowing how everything's going to work out with the new building the logistics so it's great idea kids do love it so it's a week of fun thank you Miss Whistler next up here we have Item B which approval of school facilities
008lease agreement for the PTO carnival coming up here Friday March 21st and I believe James so we're just asking for use of pretty much the elementary gyms both of them for the PTO Carnival it's our second largest fundraiser that we do throughout the year for the PTO and we're asking for the fees to be waved for that excellent I'm sure the high school is happy to have it out of there and I think parents be patient as everybody navigates the new space and how that'll flow so seemed appropriate to have it at elementary it's an elementary type activity as it is yeah just like always you know uh this is another thing that brings a lot of folks to our school and and great partnership with the PTO so we don't see anything uh being
009an obstacle to this same as all of our lease agreements if there is cleanup afterwards obviously you guys do a good job of cleaning up but uh our folks often have to do the sanitization of the tables and the the air that kids eat in so there would be some small fees potentially that would have to be transferred over but uh it's never been a problem in the past are you going to have cotton candy again I just received all the supplies for it today do you need do you need another volunteer yes you will be there Mark he's been trained well you can always use extra volunteers right any other questions for Jim perfect thanks for coming out we're going to have this place booked up here uh next up here we have item
010C which is approval of school facilities lease agreement for the Vermilion booster club Mr Cleveland hello I'm Joe Cleveland I'm here on behalf of the booster club I think that Andy has probably been in contact with most of you already but I have his little letter here and happy to read it off the booster club is requesting usage of the Vermillion High School gym and Collins on April 26th of 2025 to host our Hall of Fame banquet in the past we've hosted this dinner at a venue that could accommodate the numbers we anticipated however this year D due to our two honores we'll need a venue that can meet our needs and accommodate a much larger number of community guests as a Hall of Fame celebration we will have a Social Hour and are serving
011meals followed by a program during the celebration we're making a request to have consent to serve alcohol as a board we're fully aware that this may appear as a conflict of interest by having alcohol on site we can assure you that we will have all the necessary accommodations to ensure that alcohol is only available to those of legal drinking age as we will have be hiring professionals from the community and working with law enforcement to make sure everyone is safe our board is made up of volunteer parents Educators School staff Professionals in the community and all the conversations regarding this request have been long thought out and discussed in detail we're doing our very best to highlight and celebrate the careers of Gary Culver and Kirk Hogan and maintain the integrity and transparency of this
012event and the above requests we have filed the necessary paperwork with vermillian school district as well as the city of Vermillion and paid all required fees uh Andy won't be here presid obviously today cuz he's out of town we understand the city council's decision will they heavily sorry that this council's decision will lay heavily on the decision that will inut from the school board basically will lay heavily on what the city council decides at their upcoming meeting uh we thank you in advance for your consideration for this request and are happy to discuss any questions or details you may have regarding this event s sincerely Andy Meredith booster club president so the alcoholic beverages as I understand it was going to be beer and wine is that correct that is my understanding I can verify
013that that's my understanding okay thank you Ju Just a Little Bit Of History um uh last year was the first year that we've really allowed U alcohol on campus it was was allowed Outdoors um it was allowed in the parking lot for the um the all School reunion last year and it went fine we didn't have any issues with that um but this will be the first time that we've allowed it uh Insight if that's if if you choose to to move forward with that uh clearly the the booster club is a a a great partner and done great things uh for the facilities and our athletes and things so there's really no worries there or the cleanup I'm sure won't be an issue um it's just whether or not you know that's some schools
014do this and some schools don't obviously because of the um this basically the the the picture of having alcohol at a school function so that's really what you'll be debating t night and then be able to offer Joe and then the city I'm sure we'll be uh following suit with a a malt liquor license which would allow beer and wine um to be purchased or I guess I don't know if it can be purchased or if it has to be a donation uh at the at the uh at the event but that that would be something that the city would certainly work out with the booster club so I take it just because of the size you're looking at the high school or are you looking at it routinely being at the high school in
015the future if I mean ideally if depending on the size we would like to have it there it I mean if we were only expecting like last year's event a smaller number we could do it at another venue but even with that I can tell you it was pretty crowded and with the two honoraries this year we're expecting it to be much larger more than possibly um regarding uh on the letter it said that you're hiring professionals from the community and working with law enforcement to make sure everyone's safe what does that look like or what kind of like professionals or what do you envision as the process there well I guess I would have to defer to Andy and maybe get back to you on that answer but I do know that he's been
016in contact already with the chief of police as far as if we host an event like this how do we work that out how do we get the correct professionals there we want to make sure everything is you know above board and there isn't any question as to what's happening on school property basis basically have you guys done beer and wine events in the past I assume another venue where maybe they already had licenses ever had any issues with it we have not had an issue to date wouldn't expect so but I'll be honest when I first heard about it I had some reservations I don't know where they [Laughter] went any other further questions all right would you want us to do a separate motion on any of these keep going keep going for
017a moment like separate another question that I would have regarding the the alcohol my feeling would be I just I'm not crazy about the look of it inside of the building um but obviously if you haven't had issues then that that kind of takes care of that part I don't know other districts that have allowed it has there been issues with increased um usage among students or incidents or anything that you're aware of other rather us not be the case study so like other schools done in the in our my previous world we we had uh examples where this was used because this was our school gym was the only facility in town and so uh you either had a very small group or you if you wanted anything with a couple hundred people you
018had to go to the school uh but very similarly the city was behind it and then the appropriate people were hired the the only tend what you tend to do is you do have a bigger mess whenever there's alcohol involved you got a chance that there's somebody's going to overdo it and you're going to have stuff that's in your toilets or you're going to have stuff on your walls and you know that's just the fact it's uh some people treat it like a bar um but the vast majority of people that attend these events are there for the right reason to celebrate appropriately and to honor the folks that are there they'll they'll do their social time at at this event they'll get serious downtown you know so um that's what we would fully expect
019but my my experiences have always been positive because of the preparation and the groups that were involved took care of the problem so I think it is different than let's say weddings you know we allowed it last year and it's the first time I we've allowed it in my 10 years I guess alcohol hasn't been used but I don't see us doing a lot of weddings so um Public School Foundation booster club I I do agree I think it's your the type of people that we're bringing in it's their school a lot of alumni coming back for it ideally so hopefully we'll treat our school well y y so long as it was like that's why my question was on the the professionals and kind of what that looks like because that would take care
020of a lot of potential right okay you've had too many let's let's cut you off now and kind of protect some of those things that could potentially go wrong so you I can't speak for everyone but myself I plan on being there I'm not a professional but I plan on being in the area and you know set another set of eyes that can keep things under control which I don't expect it to be an is now I imagine it isn't stated in here but clearly there'll be a meal involved with this as well so you know obviously there'll be uh set up a takedown of meal and then there'll be some social time and perhaps there'll be some time that they could cut off the the drinks before late in the evening they're only going
021till 10:30 um and maybe not even that long by you know by the time this gets going so uh those are all things that will be favorable for for the event so EXC thank you thank you maybe we have the moment we can congratulate Kurt and Gary on their nomination so very nice thank you all right next up here then we have item D which is approval of the bid of the bus contract Mr ker uh we went out to proposals you might remember this a couple months ago um authorized to go out for proposals for our bus transportation services uh this was not a strict bid so it was not just a financial thing we looked looked at the entirety of the proposals uh we did receive two um just evaluating them they were
022very close financially and based on the financials that came in and the rest of the proposal along with our current relationship with our provider haros we bring that forward for recommendation for approval tonight to continue that relationship if you had any particular questions we could put Ken on the spot Ken is from uh he's he's our regional director here and he comes down um and visits us once in a while and works with us on projects or other things so if you had any bus related questions but uh otherwise he's here to do business tonight and then he's got other business in the area tomorrow so he has not you've never seen probably met Ken before in the past so that's here's a quiz then how how many years have we been with harlos well
023I believe it's three yep three make yeah yeah if you remember it was three years ago that ABC um busing that we'd had for several years prior to that ended up uh dissolving their bus part of their corporation and just stuck with Trucking and and arlos came in who's a big player in the Midwest for um busing in in the state of South Dakota and regionally so it's been a great relationship we appreciate it very much well thank you for taking care of our kiddos and keeping them safe nice one of your drivers very good any questions on the bus contract all right next up here we have um approval of anou with probably VL for Barstow Park use so Kurt welcome back thank you Kurt Nelson um here representing the Vermillion youth soccer league
024tonight I'm the president and uh first off I want to say thank you for the use of the schools for the Youth Soccer Tournament um that we hosted um so last time I was here we were talking about that really successful event the facilities were outstanding um we hosted 29 teams uh vermillian had about eight of those teams uh ages 8 to 14 boys and girls um the school was filled and see yeah Friday night Saturday Sunday um and it was a really really great event I was really impressed and heard a lot of good things from the community um from visitors um we had a ton of volunteers from uh some USD athletic teams and citizens of Vermilion uh so it's great to see all that traffic um Amy was there uh helping out
025um with athletic training and just a total group effort to uh have a successful event so really appreciate that um what I want to talk about tonight theou we've been working on with um Administration here essentially we've we've uh been really lucky to have a really strong partnership with you all in the in the past um we've utilize the combination of spaces between uh Barstow Park and the high school um we serve about 250 kids um each spring and fall so about 500 regist total throughout the year um Saturday mornings when we have games again the park spaces they're filled up you know probably up to like a thousand people in these spaces and it's just really fun to see all of the activity and uh people outside just enjoying um soccer and and the
026parks um one thing we've been uh so as we've been discussing the uh field usage obviously the boosters put in some really nice fields at the high school we've been utilizing those throughout some of the construction of the new elementary school um there's been a lot of use on those facilities and we really appreciate all the uh time and effort that the facilities crew puts into maintaining those um throughout the throughout the year and what we're proposing with this mou is to uh secure some space in the bar store Park area that's being unused um so outside of the football space and really kind of around that northwest corner um where we can have a 10-year agreement which would allow us to kind of invest in that ground um improve it uh make it so
027it's more usable for soccer and um really kind of takes some of that maintenance facilities burden um off of the uh high school grounds where you got track going on in the spring and stuff like that and we don't want to have little kids run around the javelin and and all that kind of stuff so the the new school um I like a lot of things about it um the playground is awesome and when we have like a thousand people uh at on Saturday morning or during practice times there's always kids running around um climbing on anything and everything so having a playground space there to keep them occupied will be I think a huge hit with our um constituents um there's restroom facilities there um plenty of parking and then uh some really nice
028shade too with some of the mature trees that we don't get at the high school for some of those longer kind of tournament days things like that so uh really yeah we we're trying to get this agreement um with the schools and then we also have an agreement with the city um for the next 5 years to work on maintenance and some of the things that they've been so gracious to provide for us um and really I see this as a partnership to yeah develop the land um secure some space for soccer and continue our partnership into the future maybe just to add on to that a little bit we've met uh I don't know how many times several times with the city um the parks and wreck folks um Jason of course the our
029athletic director uh and and Kurt's team about the the youth programs and those of you who've had groups in soccer have gone by the barcel park in years past it's been awful busy and been awfully nice well Kurt and his folks have found a way to re um redesign some of the fields there and maybe turn them different directions and in partnering with the city the city would take out a tree here or a tree there to make some really good um playing surfaces for them with also maintain paining the rest of the trees and the the park Ambiance so that other Park goers or the school can use these facilities for whatever they need but on weekends the park would be available to really be a soccer complex and it uh the diagram that
030was in your your board packet really illustrates the work that can be done so by agreeing tonight to continue on with theou that just gives us the permission to work more closely with Kurt and his folks and then with the city to say hey let's go ahead and take out those trees and replant some on the end where we'd still have shade or re you know replace something here or there and then it allows Kurt and his folks to start investing some dollars into the park to get the surface really where it needs to be to get rid of go for holes and you know do some work with some of the the the grass and some things down there so I think it could be a great complex for long into the future but
031we just are asking for permission tonight to move forward and continue that discussion so by the way thank you for a great tournament app a lot of fun yes appreciate it maybe next time we can beat souu boys did a couple teams that did yeah good uh I just have a couple questions on uh the diagram in area three here um that looks like it's the the u12 field is running right up to those trees along either side do you know or have an idea if those would be able to to stay I know you need some clear space around the field as well yes uh so we did meet with parks and wreck on the tree space and really how I have this designed is is that we could do a combination of fields
032kind of in area two and three and rotate them um so just overuse in the goal areas in particular is a is a big problem so being able to rotate those um as kind of depicted with the dotted and the soled lines will be um key so the the city um has um said that they're they could provide a lot of these tree services um a lot of the trees uh I do have a list but uh and I've pulled up right now um I think it was a about nine trees that were affected and I I want to say most of them like six or seven were Ash okay um that needed to be removed anyways and then there was I believe three trees that were smaller that um the the soccer club would
033pay to relocate yeah I know they yep around the field spaces so then there's a disc golf um pad in the middle there that um would need to come out I've thrown a lot of disl Frisbees into some of those trees so have a relationship built up with some of those trees just want to make sure that so yeah it's a handful of trees a lot of them needed to come out anyways and then we're going to relocate what we can I think it was maybe two or three that needed to come down outside of that there's an area in yellow the football field yeah that's our existing Middle School football field um so that gets you can uh and this is an older picture from you can tell from the buildings but uh this
034year we invested you invested a lot of uh effort in terms of overseeding fertilizer and water of that so if you were taking a picture of that now you wouldn't see any brown spots that that football field had that's a functional field we use got it and then naturally the city uses the softball park next to it of course so I've talked a little bit about this with Dr Elie uh bathroom so I think right north of Area 1 there's a bathroom complex there and there's the one that the city hasn't like maintained as it maybe due to vandalism which is kind of by Area 3 by fish Park basically is that one looking at in the future through the city going away yes yeah they they don't plan to the the one that's closest
035to our parking lot um to the north side of our parking lot at the school will likely be vacated because of just it's its use and it's it's been vandalized kind of heavily so they'll go all the way to the uh West will be where the the bathrooms over there will be the main bathrooms sure just then they just single bathrooms over there yep and then I think if I've recall the fish Park is going down below the hill yes for the pickle ball courts as well correct uh it's uh the the plan of the city is to improve the parks below the hill in C Park area and so they were going to take the functional what everybody calls the fish Park uh from which is on the north side of our parking lot
036and relocate that as soon as the summer yeah so it really be just our playground equipment that'll be out there after this point and I believe the restrooms were speaking of do not have utilities right that like it's the big it's the big problem Y and I think I've always been talking about you know future future expansion for the school to add the gym that we didn't get to do but there would still be room even with developing soccer fields and it's nice with soccer fields versus putting a baseball field in there's less infrastructure when we're talking saw and watering long term looking at um and it would be nice to what's that sof which is a softball field or a baseball field there um would be nice to be able to expand it to
037be able to play high school there too as we look at high school um softball y being added the city will be of course adding some baseball softball fields to the complex out at U the Powell Edition where the new law enforcement center is at some point in the future that's their long-term goal uh so we'll continue to have discussions about the city's Partnerships with us and the usage of those facilities as long as they need them and then good for the PE Etc to use the soccer fields right or recess spread them out spread them out keep them good keep them good fence them in spread them out awesome I think it sounds I think wonderful especially with what was talked about as the Paul Edition and kind of how that's evolved on what
038the future would was looking like for soccer over there and um good use of our Green Space staying as a good Park so thank you thank you thank you Kurt right next up here then we have item f um the set first negotiations meeting dat in time um it'll be March 11th which is tomorrow at 400 p.m. so there's a correction from what is on your agenda tonight so again that is tomorrow March 11th at 4:00 at the high school all right so now we have several lease agreements to approve um would any of them like to be pulled as a separate motion okay um I would then take a motion to approve items a through e so moved first by Mark second by Mike all those in favor say I I moot for same
039sign motion passes thank you next up here then we have reports Dr Elie yeah just uh you know this time of the year we're getting through with our winter sports so we want to thank all of our coaches and athletes and advisers and of course the parents for uh all the uh outstanding work for the activities and the great Seasons we've had this winter uh parent teacher conferences numbers uh were really uh at the elementary was about 82% which is pretty close to where we normally are Middle School is at about 27% which I don't know if that's too far off from normal the spring conferences are a little less attended and the high school had about 403 conversations so you can imagine um uh what that looked like was probably less than 40% um
040uh probably closer to Middle Schools uh in terms of the number of parents that came through but the ones that came through got the chance to see four five six teachers at a time which was good um as you know we put a considerable amount of effort with Nicole doing such a good job with our Facebook so she did a little uh uh review of that for us here this week and talked to us about uh the touches she she puts out a couple two to three uh Facebook posts a week on on the school district's post besides what the booster club puts out there and so far um R the tally has been that we've had 56,2 27 touches or views of our of our um Facebook data that's going out so what a
041great place to to put our um uh kids in place what's going on or news information about the district or upcoming event events uh the fact that we're hitting not only people in our community but as far away as Sous City sou Falls it's it's a pretty much in our region you know relatives in the area but we're getting a lot of a lot of hits on that which is really good uh this time of year we're often uh or we're really proud to talk about our employees of the year uh this is the time of year where we talk about our classified and our teacher of the year candidates and our candidates this year for the elementary school kin Wagner who's an slpa was um designated as our classified employee of the year and
042Laura Chandler was our early childhood was out of uh our uh Teacher of the Year from our elementary group at the middle school Teresa Stevens who's a special ed perah for us was our classified employee of the year and Audrey job who teaches science for us got the honor of the teacher of the year at the high school uh yiing Wang is a special education um perah for us and she was honored with our classified employee of the year and Cammy dibl was honored as our teacher of the year for the high school so uh three great teacher reps and three great par reps and classified reps um and like we said when we announced these winners at each of the buildings the fun thing about doing these is that you often as an administrator
043you think you see these things and hear these things in the building uh but when you see and hear the uh actual applications that people wrote about these fine people and others remember we this was a this was funneled down to to earn this honor from these folks here uh there was many other people that were nominated but to see the things that their colleagues or students wrote about them is pretty heartwarming and welld deserved for these folks um and then eventually it was Whited down that uh Cammy DBL was honored as our district teacher of the year so congrats to all those folks uh they'll be honored to again at the end of the year uh at our end of the year celebration and Cammy will of course be honored at the graduation this
044year as usual um just because we have been talking about this our cell phone discussion continues to be a topic uh in our buildings once in a while we talk about what we're seeing and hearing of course you've been talking a little bit our board meeting but just a reminder that we've sent out um some information to our parents about uh the education side of cell phones or social social media use M where we did the uh workshops with parents students and staff in January we did survey our staff um and 52% of the ones that responded back to our uh survey reported they liked our current policy as it is versus 41% that said they'd like to see our policy change so they're relatively close there um but certainly one area that people thought
045we could tighten up was just making sure um that the cell phones are not used in class for for usage uh that's why we give them laptops and and and they have the devices there so there shouldn't really be a need to have their laptop or excuse me their phones out during the conversations uh that are going on in class but more to come on that I attended some uh recently some sessions on cell phone usages and social media platforms and schools and I'll be sharing that with the board in at some future meetings here uh and the last couple things Envision Ed our Finland project is in its final week some of you have already committed to coming and help with the judging which is uh the the 20 better get my dates right
046here 25th 25th and 26th and 28th the Wednesday and Friday of the month here uh what a great uh deal that's been going on watching these kids uh work on these Outdoor Learning spaces for our facilities uh has been pretty neat and there's some really good ones and some that are very manageable in terms of that you could see being placed on our campuses because they're realistic and they make sense and they would be be able to offer what we're looking for so uh more to come on that at the end of the month naturally uh just a reminder to to our folks at home that we get out early on Wednesday for um our spring break our staff will have some uh uh professional learning time but uh there'll be no school for Thursday
047and Friday with spring break and unfortunately for our students we're getting to that point in time where a smarter balance assessments are getting close uh our test window is the end of March here through the first week of May so uh for folks at home this is that chance to ask your kids in 3 4 5 8 and 11 what their cycle would be for their testing we'll be sending those dates home naturally so parents can plan but if you can avoid missing days for doctor's appointments or dentist appointments or things on those windows would be great so we don't have so many makeups but more importantly lots of rest you know getting good breakfast and things in you for the kids uh because of course we want to see the kids perform well on
048those Smarter Balance tests uh this is the last year that our high school kids will take Smarter Balance starting next year the ACT will be considered a high school um exam for proficiency so that will be an interesting transition for our high school folks starting next year so anyway great things to report and uh yeah the hard part now will be getting through the week with this great weather so but we don't have to worry about calling off school maybe Friday because storm will happen on spring break we'll be in good shape sorry kiddos excellent well perhaps Carol if you're ready maybe first thing under school board report we can start off with our um survey report sure will that work or do you want to do reports first to repare no that's finee perfect
049um yeah what you see in front of you is uh some information that came from our staff survey which was um put out right before the beginning of the winter break um we did give staff um some extra time to complete this and I've compiled some um comparisons of results from the year prior so um we've had 124 respondents um this year I think last year we had 131 which is a good number number I think in past years um we often had under 100 so um a lot of people participated and I appreciate that um we had uh pretty consistently um stayed the same with the level agreements of some statements that included um uh being inspired by the vision and the mission of the district um having resources needed to do one's job
050enjoying coming to work um believing that our district is meeting the needs of our students um feeling that one's contributions are valued and that the district provides a safe and secure learning environment so from last year to this year those were pretty steady but you know it's one year so it's a little bit difficult to um establish some some Trends there um not on the page that you have in front of you which just includes this year and last year um but I do have some information that includes data from uh 2021 and 2022 and I can compile that and give that to you as well um there are some trends that are moving downward that I think are um important for us to take a look at so um as far as um some
051satisfaction with um school board or other entities um that our staff um work with in their day-to-day work so I guess um I'd like us to take a closer look at the data that we have it's my understanding that maybe four years ago we started being being more intentional about our surveys and giving them at a consistent time and being consistent with the questions that we're asking so I think that we're at a point where we can look at at Trends so um I'll take any questions but I'm hoping that we can continue our conversation as we look closer at these I can't remember the uh total of comments but there were several Pages worth of comments so good information to look at as well any quick overview questions for Carol appreciate for taking over
052that from Shane and navigating that qu TRX uh University platform thank you for that is certainly something that we can discuss as well is you know how to best continue continue um the platform the platform and um making sure that we're you know making the best use of our time excellent well thank you Carol for that any other school board committees associate School Board microphone Associated School Board thanks everyone for all of their emails uh Keith Larson uh just is about to finish his first year lobbying and I think he's done a pretty darn good job it's been a tough year but he's fighting the tough fight Mark and I also had a negotiations Personnel meeting as well as a building meeting as well kind of looking at some of the capital plans a little
053bit of the overview on some of the sheds that were completed maybe you can bring that in the packet next time I guess I think about that those are good pictures yeah um showing the sheds and I parked in front of them last weekend too so it worked out well for that um I was curious have we have we had staff starting to park now where fish Park is I guess like cuz we're out of parking we've just made that into a parking lot extension now unofficially unofficially I wonder yeah I think I think what that happens is uh some of our student teachers come and go or we have uh lunchroom helpers so when the parking lot's full uh they end up parking on the grass there so we'll have to do some work
054with that well and I didn't really grow last year cuz we had no rain um so I was thinking what might be a good extension because I do know we've had that common just between staff parking on the street and because of the amount of student teachers and In-N-Out people we have um but I I was wondering if it was an extension that was made so um any other committees policy Finance no perfect and then Public School Foundation uh I think they had who's on that one can't remember Mike Green aen ham I think was a success we did U green eggs and ham for 92 94 first graders um and that was a success we got to got to read them a story and everybody got socks and um had a fun morning um
055I am overwhelmed by the abilities of our early Elementary teachers to to do 92 kids 92 first graders at once so great job to them um yeah and I believe a new partnership with lunchtime Solutions helping us with that meal as well so thank you for those yep and thanks the Mike for being our our reader so he picks the hardest book Dr Seuss makes to read and he just you know took it out like a champ Fox on socks I didn't go at full speed but I had just been driving back across country the day before so I needed to slow down a little bit then obviously um booster club having their Hall of Fame coming up yep and boys and girls club I know they're gearing up for summer programming they have a
056fun night coming up here in April I just saw as well and tutor Club is going full steam ahead so excellent anything else everybody wants outside before the few minutes of sunlight left yeah okay well let's move on then um in into our financial reports item a funds Dr or Mr kosher uh financial report in your packet again I don't have a lot to highlight on there um obviously we're coming to the end of our legislative session for the year and we'll get into negotiations as well uh at some point probably in April we'll be looking at another finance committee meeting uh and we'll have some discussion as to what the upcoming budget will look like at that time excellent any questions comments see none I would take a motion to approve first by Jacob
057second second by Mark all in favor say I I I post sign motion passes um any future agenda items I was curious how summer meals were coming and kind of what the plans were for that so maybe we could talk about that in April which should be about probably the time you're talking about anyways yep and then I was as I was looking through the reimbursements I saw the Jag any possibility we can get an update on how the Jag program is going at the high school we sure can in fact they're at their first uh field trip oh excellent tonight so we'll have uh we'll be back tomorrow with some competition results and some things so we'll we'll have that ready for next month perfect any other future agenda items no everybody wants out
058okay uh we have our future board meeting here followed April 14 14 by May 12th we are in need of executive session for the Cod of codify law 1- 25-24 for negotiations I would take a motion to enter negotiation enter executive session so Jacob second Carol all in favor to say I I I same sign motion passes we are now in executive session at 7:46 thank you ladies