001Heat. Heat. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. And we'll start with roll call. Let it reflect that we are missing Carolyn Neto and Susan Bister today. And we do have a quorum. Next on the agenda is the approval of the consent agenda which includes the minutes from October 27 regular board meeting and the October financials and accounts payable. I move to approve the consent agenda October 27. >> Any errors, omissions or correction from anybody? Okay. All those in favor of approving the consent agenda, please say I. >> I. And any opposed with nay? Motion carries. Public comments. Anybody here want to address the board? >> Yeah. Good evening. Just want to
002know, have they done a student count yet? Do we know if we gain students or is that or is that coming? >> Uh, it's not official yet. Um, but it looks like we're going to be threeish. Just a couple up a couple. >> Sorry. >> Better than down. Yeah. Yeah. Kind of holding steady. >> Okay. And I just want to let you know that Denny Belmani and Rubardos are going to NCAA football playoff against Wisconsin lacrosse on the 29th. >> And girl is waiting today for volleyball to see where they're going. >> Cool. >> All those teams are naturally ranked and my daughter coaching at home and they're going down to Spartanber first time that those team men and women qualify. >> Thank you for that update. >> Okay, moving on in the agenda. Uh
003we move on to committee reports. Financial event. >> Sure. We just uh met prior to today's board meeting as we do every every board meeting. Uh pretty uneventful uh finance committee meeting. Went over of course our um usual accounts payable uh general fund and the ledger cross food service technology fund syncing capital improvement fund financials. Everything worked great. Uh looked at our October bond report. Um we're about 60% through that bond right now. So it's looking pretty healthy. So, it's good that we can make our dollar stretch, which is important. [clears throat] Um, and everything worked in order. >> Good. Thank you. >> Academic affairs that academic affairs met on the 11th of this month. Um we uh got an update on the um MTSS um [clears throat] award that the elementary got this year
004and they have been getting um you know kind of a you know standard award for this got extra that information. So this comes in with a behavioral data utilization office screening and it's improving recognized for that. So that was great. We also had a very good discussion about um the AP offerings at the school um and just how um great our students are and of course such a small school, how many classes our kids take. Um there are 13 courses, 71 students. Um they took 133 tests. So many of them are taking classes realm. Um we talked a little bit about how maybe to grow that um and potentially looking at just innovative stuff collaborations or trying to add to that as well. So there was good discussion good with our really motivated students. We
005talked about that metal talk about got an update on the strategic plan and things that have been done that is coming along those categories. Thank you. >> Uh, next up we're on to presentations. I thought we had a tag team situation. >> We were supposed to, but he's uh he's out being a father today. >> Playing dad tonight. >> Okay. Uh, this is a camera and overall building security update by Paul Henderson and would have been our resource officer Noah Robert. I'm going to do that from here. Um, that's the wrong one. This one. A little history of our uh cameras. I inherited that system when I got employed some some years ago. >> 15 years ago with we had about 40 cameras in this building. That's 210,000 square feet. So over the years we've
006improved that. We've got overund maybe 20 to 30 cameras now. um and going through process of like adding a second server for more storage which created its own complications because you might have door one is on server one and we had a blind spot that we filled so that's on server two so you'd have to connect to one and connect to the other. This whole process of getting better coverage and better film has been a long process and um this last was it last summer or the summer before? I think it was this summer. Um, we went to a unified security system with Genitech. Um, replacing our badge system and integrating that into our camera system all at the same time. So, we all have a one-stop place for everything. And this system is what
007Michigan State implemented after their 2023 incident. And Western just implemented the system about a week ago. So, >> Cody, [laughter] >> where's he supposed to be? >> In the hallway right now. >> He's keeping an eye on He's keeping an eye on the new bathroom. >> So, I gave a This is I'm not going to go through everything on the cameras here. I just want to kind of give you a preview of what we do have. So, um our intercoms are now part of our system where we can see when somebody badges in, we're actually recording that space. So we can see that on top of that when a door is open we can see if that door is open or shut. If somebody were to walk through door 16 right now this symbol would
008open. If it were open for more than 10 minutes we get an alert. So we're now proactive on everything that's happening on our systems here. And as we go through things you'll see like this is kind of awkward. I'm picking on John Allen for this one. I chose him intentionally. You can't quite see, but if you zoom in on our cameras here, you can deworp the image and now we can see everything. >> Yeah. So, >> so much better. >> This is a decent financial way to get this amount of space covered because this is such a large location, right? Um, Ideally, we'd almost have eight cameras in this location, but this has allowed us to get two in a certain area in New York. So, moving forward to our systems here though, um, we've
009also set ourselves in the ground of being able to move forward with AI. Not every camera has the same capacities. These fisheye lenses don't have the same uh, engine built into it. some of the new cameras here. We could say look for the white shirt or you know and it would find a film and if Cody were to walk through the hallway right now, it would go camera to camera to camera knowing who he is. Maybe not Cody for example, but this is the same person and it would automatically export a footage for us. So we can see if a student's not where they're supposed to be or whatever it is the incident is that we need to track. So these are all of the new capabilities up and coming and we have already set
010the groundwork to have it all set. And then there's new features that we really haven't even gotten into. Um like I said we do monitor if there were any propped open doors alerts that we haven't we could uh see them here on top of the doors. we can remotely unlock them. So, I could open up this is by the superintendent's office right now. And lastly, this is something I really haven't shared out with the staff. I'm still building it because I have to change the the actual physical blueprint of our building. This is now where the new bathrooms are. But we can see there's movement in the high school gym right now. I can come in here. I can click on it. See that door shut? I can click on the maybe and it'll pop
011up a mini preview of all these things. So, this does take up a lot of resources on the computer. What else did I do? Oh, yeah. I started to show you. We'll catch up. Like I said, the resources the angle in which this camera is viewing. So, we have a bird's eye view of the whole building and everything that's happening. So, it's a little intense. And now This is close enough on me, but that's okay. It's just a little laptop. It's not made to be streaming and doing the recording and all these other things all at one time. >> The biggest thing we just wanted the board um we put a big investment into school safety and the cameras have been a huge part of that. the the quality that we have now compared to
012even five, six years ago is is so so much better >> from about a 2 megapixel camera up to five for some of the lesser ones up to 10 for some of the big areas. >> We have exterior cameras um that uh NMPD has used times. Um if you see around the school, we're gradually um trimming some bushes and trees and other There's a little method to the madness with that. Not only to make things look better, but under the guidance of NMPD, they're like that sh's got to go. So that camera can go the whole way. Um, and so [clears throat] much better view and much better quality. Another thing that Paul Horn and Noah's they've gone through the whole building um and reumbered our cameras. So now there's a sequential order to as
013you're coming in a door, the the different cameras. And so now on the computer compared to the blueprint, you it's much easier to track if you want to follow a situation. Um where before, like Paul was saying, we had to bounce, we had to bounce around and now with the new numbering system and I think you guys put >> we also physically labeled every camera because originally when cameras were put in those details, we don't want anybody know what those details are. We put a number on it. So if there's an incident, we can say camera five, we need to look at camera five because it's not supposed to be secreted, right? We know there's cameras and it's easier for us to now find that incident. So the system froze out there for a little
014bit there um because the map is still being built and it's creates a lot of resources on this laptop. It just couldn't handle doing everything. over in the back. Hey, you had plenty of computers. >> I do. Yeah. But setting up all of this for this little presentation was >> gave a good >> Thank you very much for that update. Thanks, Paul. >> Uh, next presentation is Mrs. Nescott. Um, there was a little typo. It's not 2025 trip. I think >> it's the 2027. >> No. They're going to talk about the >> Yeah, >> they went on a trip this summer. >> Yeah. >> So, we're going to first just take a look at some pictures from our trip from this past summer. Um, we had a great time. We went to London, Ferris, Milan,
015Florence, and Rome. And I asked two of the NM students that were on the trip to come with and share a little bit about this. Um, so they're just some pictures from the beginning. I'll tell you, I had a lot of fun putting this together with all the pictures. I I cut myself off, but we could have kept going for sure. Um, we started in London. Um, but we saw lots of things in Europe overall, and I probably have a third of them in here. Um, it was a 10-day trip. There were 21 of us um from this area. Um, and we went to four countries because I counted that as one country as well. And we had So many we started in London. We did a walking tour of London. We tooured the Tower
016of London. Um we tried some interesting food. We got to walk to Buckingham Palace. It was a great time. The Tower of London. We got to meet the beef eaters. Um which I I had no idea what those were. So I certainly learned that, you know, back in the day people that were specially taking care of things actually got to eat beef. And that's why they were called beef eaters. But they now are just they get to answer questions there. We had some very good stories there. Um this was outside of the tower the London tower. There was Marissa. My niece Mlin also went on the trip and that's her. She and Marissa had a very good time together. I asked to see the London Bridge and they said you're not saying the right thing.
017You really mean the Tower Bridge. And they were right. I did mean the Tower Bridge. I thought that was London Bridge. It was not. So, we learned and it's right outside the tower and that's why it's called that. Um, then we went to Paris. We took a speed train. We went under the tunnel. Um, which you couldn't really tell except you were just underground, but still it was a cool experience. Um, we got to see the palace of Versailles which was a huge um just so big we couldn't even fathom it. Of course, there we have our famous we got a great to see the Eiffel Tower. We went to the L. Um the third one is in the gardens at Versail. You could spend days there and still not hit all of the gardens.
018Um we did some group photos. Uh my daughter went to Monu High School, so she came along and then some other of her friends from Monu also joined in our trip. So we had some of my relatives, some North kids and some kids. It was fun experience mixing them together. They did really well. We were a little concerned, but it turned out really well. Uh again, the silver side, we just could have taken a lot of pictures and I know Tracy's going to talk about that a little bit. Um we did a lot of walking around. We got a lot of steps in every day. Um we had some swollen ankles towards the end and some sore feet. Um and then we made it to Rome. Uh we went to Milan for a day. We
019did a little bit of shopping and a food tour which the kids loved. Um there were some weird foods. We tried them anyway. And then there were some um delicious ones at the end where we were getting really full. Yeah, that one had like noodles baked into it. Then it was cut like pizza. It was Yeah, it was very interesting. I'll just say that. Um in Milan, we got to do some shopping around this area. Uh you could we only had a couple hours so we didn't go inside this. We did go into the Notream Cathedral when we had a chance. Um and then I just put at the end this was so our group from Michigan also paired up for on the tour bus we had some a group from New York and a
020group from Kentucky. So that picture is in front of the whole palace of Versail and that's all of us together. That was our entire group. We were on the bus together regularly. mostly with our group. We still got So, and then what I just asked was um I'm gonna ask Tracy to speak last and finish. I asked each of the kids if they would share one thing that was their favorite thing. >> I learned a lot about like the different cultures there like different thing was getting to meet so many new people because I knew that was pretty much it. But I made really good friends with her niece and all of my kids and I just really helped me like [clears throat] I learned I learned a lot about I enjoy bus rides Well,
021if you want me to go back. >> No, that's okay. Um, you really hit much of what I was gonna say. That's beautiful. Um, [clears throat] one thing and I I didn't share this picture, but um, one I picked three things to highlight on and and I went two years ago as well with to Spain and France and we were able to meet up with two of our former exchange students who are both from Spain. Um and so that was an amazing experience and the one exchange student um was our exchange student went before Copen was even born. So he got to meet him, excuse me, for the first time. He met us again um in France because he though he's from Spain, he works in Paris as an occupational therapist. And so he met
022up with us one evening for dinner. And then when we were in Rome, Rachel's most recent exchange student came and met up again with her family. And it was just such a cool experience to have kids that have been in your life. And even though we weren't exchange students, we were just being able to meet up with them again. such a I just thought it was such a a really it's just a awesome experience. So, we we introduced everybody and they were out everyone was welcoming. Um the experience I just I cannot I mean I probably take the rest of the night just to go educationally. It's so profound the trip um on so many levels just as a traveler, as a mom, as a teacher. you're looking at all these different aspects like the
023money exchange and the culture like and as minimal as even food. food is so cultural and it's something that's such we often take for granted but then when you're in other cultures and it's just what the norm is for us versus others and then um for the things like um historical like I don't know that was in there but when we're at the coliseum and we're walking on steps that are stones that they're saying like these are the original um it's outside the coliseum original stone. These have not been touched for 2,000 years. And they said, "Actually, underneath here are the stones that are original from 9,000 years ago." And it's just like you have your walking history, you know, and I'm just like, this is so amazing. Um, in Versail, the corner picture, too.
024Um, the it is and I think it's you cannot explain what Versail looks like. And I told Rachel that I thought when she said we were going to this, it was like an added piece to Versail um the palace where King Lou the 14th and Maria Anat. So we get all that historical piece and all this gold and everything but then because he loved the sun and so there's lots of gold um melted gold on the building. But we go to these these gardens and I don't know I guess I've seen pictures but we could not imagine the magnitude and so I'm with um these four three of us from North and Ethan was is from Mountain View and we start off and the boys were like this is amazing and I was like this
025really is amazing. So then we take some pictures and we go to this let's just explore a little bit longer. So we go over to the side and it just kept opening up. It was like just an envelope. It just kept rolling out and it was and at one point one of the one of them says I'm speechless. And the other one somebody else tags on there literally I cannot even find words for what we're seeing. And I was like this to have teenage boys express that was just I was like this is such a golden moment. This is so amazing. But it was it was so true and we kept on going on and then we started talking about I started to like you imagine like Marinette walking out here and her big old
026gown and everything and there was this pause and I'm like well she probably didn't walk out here she probably was carried out well she probably wasn't carried out here the horses probably came and picked her up and then we were like well the horse which the horse like stables were massive and then they had all these scenarios in the story lines that we were the boys were creating as we walked along and it just it was just such a beautiful moment as a as a teacher. I I think that would be one of my top moments as a teacher. It was just such an incredible time. So, um, but the things like in the the kids come back with an appreciation while we're there. Like, um, when we're on trips, we can stop anywhere in
027the United States for the most part and go potty, right? You can use restrooms like at a gas station, at a store, or whatever, and you don't have to pay for it. And so, you know, in in Europe, that's a different mindset. You pay for every time you use the restroom, and you have to find a restroom. They're not accessible. And you do find one, you might be in a dungeon or you might go four stories high and still wait for a half hour long, you know, and so it's it's just all the or drinking water, accessible drinking water. It's just what we seems little are those appreciations that the kids come back and last time and this time I had both times we're boys. Um it's like, wow, I'm never gonna take for granted
028again the things I have, you know? like, yeah. Um, and then even like air conditioning and those are like little things, but it's just the appreciation coming back and realizing um there's so many things that we do have grateful for. And as about like this history um when we're there and you look at um that this building of inai for example um one of the it's more than twice the age of our country and it's just trying to conceptualize you know how all of this was done and we our country is half the age of just even the building itself and just it's just such a cool thing for the kids to experience, for the adults to experience. Um, and just the rich history. I I think that was an appreciation that it's just hard
029to put into words, but um the art, the architecture, food, culture, people, and and as mentioned, just the pace to appreciate how others live around the world. And we just want to say yes. I was gonna say and thank you. Thank you for supporting that and u the times that the kids have talked about um our experiences and and all the extra questions you can answer on Jeopardy. [laughter] >> That's a spectacular update. Thank you. Do we want to talk about 27 now or do we wait until it's up for approval? ahead to item 702, the approval of the July 2027 Gome Island. >> In your packet, you've got the breakdown of the trip. Rachel, if you wanted to add anything >> um well, we we're looking at 2027. We wanted to offset with the
030van choir trip as well, so that it would all be on the same summer and people time to do fundraising and figure things out. >> It is through the same company. Yes. >> And that was a good experience too. They managed the trip. >> They did. They were very helpful. We all had a wristband that had a number 247 away from our group. tour director that we had just really so full of knowledge. She was pretty strict at first. We were a little shocked initially, but it she did a great job. Kept us in line, got us, you know, there was a time when things weren't working out and she just went right up there and took care of it. I don't know what she said because it wasn't English, but she got it all
031straightened out. So that it was Yeah, very good company. That's um some people will look at and say it's a little pricey and pricier than others but the peace that you have traveling because of those kind of things I definitely think it's worth it and even like something we were in the Vatican when we went into chapel we were broke into groups of six and we were split up very randomly. Um, Copeland's group did not have the best experience and they went through like the museum and everything within it was supposed to be like a hour and a half and they were out within less than 40 minutes and um, meanwhile Marissa and I were all together and we had this amazing experience. We get out and we're talking about and they're like the our
032tour guide had actually met the kids. She saw them the exit and she why are you guys out and she's like no no no no she's like that is not the tour and so she got a hold of whoever that was their guide and that was reported because she's like that was not that was unacceptable >> so I appreciate that we want to know >> right ours was great and theirs was very much >> I think the emails on safety I would mention that too They said it's a Jubilee year. We're really worried about whether you're going to get in to see the coliseum. And they let us know that in advance. Um and and they just said, "Hey, we noticed there was a shut down in Paris six months out. We're just letting you
033know we're going to keep on top of it. For some reason, you can't go. We're going to provide something else." So, I thought the safety was really nice. >> Before we bring it to I want to thank you for I'm sure it's no easy task to It takes some work. >> Yep. And thank you for providing the opportunity for our kids. Any other questions, comments from the board? >> Okay. I would entertain a motion to approve July 27. >> I move that we approve the July 2027 Europe. >> Okay. Um We'll just take it to a vote. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Anyone oppose? Say n. Motion carries. Now we're going to back up. We have new business item 701, the second reading and approval of 24 policy updates. >>
034Yep. In your packet, you guys have seen these. We did not get any additional questions. Um, and they can be approved at the same time, Steve. And yeah, we didn't get any questions. So, I'm assuming that everybody was good with them. They were all pretty cut and dry type things. So, that's not surprising that it was fairly simple policy procedure this time. >> Any uh questions other things? Thank you guys very much for your >> report. Okay. Use a motion from somebody. to approve the policy updates as >> motion and second. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Any opposed with n? Motion carries. Okay, we're on the board comments. Would you like to start? >> Thank you, students, everybody. pres again extending congratulations to elementary staff award congratulations to all the
035students and thank you Jen for the beautiful academic award that took place last week always a Great thing to see so many of our students achieving high also most of the students for a wonderful breakfast. My dad very well. Um, thank you Paul for all the amazing updates. That's bananas. How well you could see everyone. Um, so that's fantastic to know. Um, thank you both for taking our kids and being willing to do it again. I think that traveling and being like a person in another culture is one of the most like beautiful things that we can do as humans. So, thank you so much for doing that. I'm going to be a little self- serving for half a second and uh talk about my grandfather-in-law who um we had a celebration of life for
036this past weekend. Ken Winter was an amazing man. Um if you grew up here, then you probably bought a lot of random stuff at Winter's Variety. Yeah, bottle rockets clothes. I I've heard so many weird random things that were sold at that store. Um, and then even after the store closed, uh, he was just such a big supporter of this town and of this school. Um, always supporting Norris Athletics. Um, most recently would be, uh, contributing to the baseball complex. Um, even his last wishes, he wanted instead of flowers, he wanted donations to the nurse education foundation. Um, so he was just a great guy and I am proud that I got to know him for the time that I did and did great things. Just wanted to pay tribute >> to like when I
037read his obituary, I could like it just had such a memor and your family. Thank you for the presentation. It was fantastic. I went to the song before my senior year like watching you guys in the br sets that perspective in your life as to what you want to do. So, thank you for sharing that with our students. Thank you, Paul, for all the updates. I know it's a ton of work that you guys have been working on for a long time and the safety of our students is so important. I appreciate that. Um, I want to say congratulations to all the students for National Honor Society and all of our student athletes who excelled on and off the field this fall. It's Always incredible how many students we have that receive such honors for
038what they do. Proud of them and proud to be >> everything's been covered. Don't have any fresh ideas to bring out. Thank you very much for your efforts. >> Thank you for that update and it's um very reassuring to understand the efforts we put into the safety of the kids inside these walls and out too. Thank you. That's it. Good updates all around. Love the opportunity. I think it's more I didn't get to travel abroad until I was 30. I just love it ever since. So, um, I'm glad the kids have that opportunity and love to support it. So, thank you for that. Love looking at the pictures, too. >> Somehow I want spaghetti for dinner tonight. [laughter] So, thank you, Paul. U maybe body cams on teachers. Is that the next step or [laughter]
039>> I hope not. >> No, Genitech does support body cameras as uh evidence based you can just add them in. >> No, but that I I think when I came to the board that my my main focus was security and I just that's you know feel very reassured and confident that we have that covered as best we can. So thank you. Um and yeah everything else is covered. So thank thank the board for teing that up. have two plugs to put in. Um, for those of you that were at the North Side Foundation function recently, you know how awesome it turned out and great attendance and um, good publicity for for education foundation. Huge thank you to Christie and uh, the team that put that together, >> but uh, and then the team that put
040it together, but huge amount of work by Christie and it was a great event. So, um, and then the other thing I just um let everybody know that the Norse advocates they're at we're at about parents that get invited and um you know usually have about 15ish or 16 that show um the concept is to give them information that they can help us spread the good words that are good things that are happening here and um the [clears throat] last meeting last week was awesome um there's so much energy in the room and a lot of people that really really care about this school. One of them is one of them in our audience today. That's all I have. >> Anybody have anything else? Thanks for approving the