001in there. >> One thing at a time. >> Yeah, >> excuse me. >> SP. [Music] >> Yeah, >> I've covered the tab. >> That's how it works. >> You got Jamie? >> Huh? >> You got on? >> Yep. just with your >> credentials, username and password. >> Oh, we're not. I was just going to check. >> Okay. >> Thank you, too. So, let me know who have questions. >> All right. Did anybody say anything? >> No, we just left them hanging. Right. >> 10 minutes >> each. >> Yeah. Floor is yours. >> Love story. >> Right. Yep. Start from the beginning. Where and when. >> Yes. >> I'm hated. >> Are these capitals? >> No. Go to this network. >> So student. >> Okay. So that's where I thought I was >> some networks or
002something >> said connected. Laurels. >> Click on another tab once. >> There it is. >> All right. Oh, >> let me type in uh symbol. Oh, was it there? >> Yeah, right there. >> Right there. >> Never mind. >> So, did you need this at all? >> I don't think so either. So, I think you can close another that first half. >> Sounds good. >> Do you know where's the speaker again? >> Yeah. This is echling so bad. I can't I can't see it. I'm not sure. I'll just take both. The two that we have here. [Music] >> Okay, that's working. >> Did you get it, Stan? >> I did. >> Thank you. >> Yep. >> Kristen might join room a little early. She's going to be late. She's here. for more than likely. >>
003Did you get on? >> Told me that's this afternoon. So, >> so we could do at 5:30. >> Okay. >> And Kristen's on remote. She's hoping to stay on till she gets here. She did get on. >> Okay. >> Can you hear me, Kristen? >> Yes, I can. >> All right. Perfect. Thank you. Maybe >> something went wrong. I think went wrong. >> Let me know. I'm going to steal over your shoulder. >> You don't have to finish. >> Okay. Okay. Okay. >> You know what I mean? You know. >> Yeah. As much as I know, >> right? >> Yeah. While they're there. So, >> Craig, are you on or not? >> I can move it. >> Yep. >> You guys, >> I'll go ahead and call the meeting to order. >> Do I have
004a motion to approve the agenda? >> So, moved. >> Second. >> Okay. All in favor say I. >> I. Okay. >> All right. Um, next we will review our five school board basics which are put students first, >> follow the law and our own policy, >> respect the chain of command, >> base decision based decisions on shared objective information, >> operate in the public eye. >> Okay. Next, we have our consent items. And Kendra gave us some more >> uh bills here. >> Public forum first, but I don't think we have anyone. >> Oh. I have that after I have that after visit. >> I think so. >> 2018. >> What the world? >> We're laughing with you, Laurel. >> Maybe >> I scroll down. You scroll up. >> I don't think we have any
005stuff >> right here. 1825. How about it? It >> says RC on it. Yeah. >> Okay. Yep. >> And >> additional bills were all pretty normal >> beginning of the year stuff. Okay. Any other questions on the consent items while I review the mission statement? At Ciblio Chetin Schools, we build partnerships to challenge minds, to invest in the community, and to embrace life. Okay, back to our consent items. Seeing there's no questions or um any comments or anything in regards to the consent items, do I have a motion to approve the consent items? >> You want to get a junior high volleyball coach? >> Yeah. >> She she is Mrs. Eler is working on it. I think we will. She didn't have it for this one yet, but I think she will. >> Okay. >>
006Good question. >> That's not far off. >> No, >> but I think she will. There's a possibility. We'll put it that way. She's working on. >> Okay. All in favor or do I have a motion? >> I'll make a motion. >> Second. >> Okay. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Those are passed. Okay. On to discussion items with our new teacher introductions. >> So, I would say the highlight or the most important part of the evening, right, is so our new teacher introductions. Um, and I told them at the beginning, um, that it's an in-depth process. You each ask three. No, I'm just three challenging qu No. Um, >> cut that back from five. >> No, they'll they'll stand up. They can I'll let them kind of popcorn here. Stand up. They can
007explain who they are, what position they're taking. Anything else? And and then we'll go from there. So, >> feel free to start. >> I'm Jane Classes. I'm the new middle school PE and technology teacher. and this is my first year teaching. >> I'm Destiny Martin. I'm the new middle school high school English teacher. This is also my first year teaching and I just graduated back in May, but I'm really excited to be here. >> I'm Carly Ward. I'm going to be teaching second grade. It's going to be my fifth year teaching. Um, but I'm really excited to get in the classroom. >> I'm Carly Vonil. It's my first year. I'll be teaching fourth grade and then assist Mrs. Nagel in high school volleyball. I'm Abby Payne and I'll be the elementary spad teacher and yeah,
008this is my first year teaching, but I'm very excited to get in and start our new rooms. And >> yeah. >> All right. >> We're excited for them all. And there are um in addition to these two, three, four, one, two, three, four, five, we have two others that couldn't be here, but there's good reason. They're actually in route. So um John and Rose. So, Rose's middle school science fifth, sixth grade, and John's middle school math. They are in route and should back here avoiding travel delays should arrive in Sou Falls this evening and Amos is on the way. >> Oh, cool. >> We'll be on the way to pick them up this evening with arrangements and be here tomorrow. So, um yeah, that we're excited for all of them to be a part of
009this. So, >> okay. >> We have Yeah, we also have a couple more who are not here. Uh but Jessica Peterson is another elementary special ed uh education teacher and Elsa is returning home and is going to be our elementary music K6 music. So excited about them as well. Just wanted to make note of that. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Does the board have any comments or anything? >> Have a great year. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. Okay. on to review the 2526 professional development plan. >> All right. Um I'm not going to go through it um verbatim. It's kind of listed and there's nothing to approve here for your information per purposes. We have the PD plan and the schedule kind of outlining that. So you guys have a rough idea of that. Obviously
010as we go through the year subject to change and a write up of the professional development plan. I am going to maybe pay or draw a little more attention to our welcome back um where we're at with that which is part of our overall plan for the year. We did our new teacher work um the beginning stuff onboarding and insurance and all that last week and then a day of tools and we had some additional staff beyond the new teachers and their mentor that were here on the 14th. Tomorrow is when we kind of kick off all of our stuff with all the staff tomorrow morning and you can kind of see the activities over the next three days. I wanted to thank those that are partaking the board some of your helping out in
011various ways and Greg and Jamie with grilling tomorrow and everything getting that all set up. I think that was received really well and people are excited for that to happen again this year. And then Wednesday we are looking at from 3:00 to 5:00 kind of doing our openhouse freshman orientation at the elementary. A lot of kids go in with their parents and they get to see their classroom where that's at and put the stuff in their locker and make your arrangements for the end of the day on bus or parents or whoever's picking you up. High schoolers if if they come and middle schoolers as well kind of get a chance to see where their lockers are at and get a chance to work on that and um see maybe where they go first hour
012if they come like that come at that time. Excuse me. And then freshman orientation. I don't want to steal Mr. hurts his thunder and he might talk about that a little bit later just real briefly, but they're trying a few I think new and cool ideas to kind of freshen that up and um help with that transition and things like that. So that's the big day on Wednesday. Then we'll finish Thursday with scheduled training. Friday staff's free to do whatever and Monday, a week from today, everyone will be here or have been here. >> I make a quick comment about the open house, too. We ask that I mean it's not going to be a public open house to show off our building necessarily. We're hoping to do that eventually, but it's a it's a
013time for students to and families to come and meet teachers and get familiar with their classrooms, some of those kind of things. Not not a construction open house, not a not a building open house necessarily. I'm glad Ken added that because we are planning to do something informally once everything's done. Kind of a public openhouse that if people want to come through and see um that they can this week would be for like parents and students to come in and get acclimated to >> get ready for school. >> Yeah. To get prepared for school, >> not the open house as kind of >> cuz not all the spaces will be 100% finished. I'm glad you said that. We will. I don't have the date, but we were going to do something informally on a night
014that the public could come and see the change spaces at the elementary if they want to, but that's yet to be determined. >> Thank you for clarifying. >> I just didn't want to get swamped with a bunch of people coming in expecting to see and have to be the bearer of bad news there. So, >> any other questions for me on that? >> Looks like a well planned out schedule there. uh two-minute board policy finance moment. >> So I thought I'd just do as an FYI um on this and we have enough other things so I just left it to um just kind of talking about this FOYI the school activity account the funding and expenses and things like that. So our activity account and I intentionally I was going to put this on here
015and then I didn't but in the past I did that spaghettiagramgram thing from Isfist that kind of shows where everything's funded. So I decided me and Kendra were talking about this. I decided not to put it on here and kind of give a quiz. Do you remember how do we fund our activity account? >> Uh the re uh activity tickets. >> Tickets. >> Yep. Ticket sales. Activity tickets or game tickets? Yep. Admissions. Yep. >> Do we get any state funding for it? >> Don't believe so. >> No, we do not. And yeah, I'm glad you said that. So, yeah, funding, activity tickets, you know, admissions, um, donations, if people donate to it, you know, when we get typically fundraisers from like the boosters or or the band boosters, I I should have said the athletic
016boosters, those type of things, we'll fund that. But it's really things that we take in or raise. You don't we don't get specifically funding for it. So, like when we pay $7 to watch a volleyball game or a football game, right, that's money that goes into that account. Um, and we haven't raised that. And just in the last couple of years, as an example, and I was going to double check the final numbers, and I didn't get a chance to do that today, but I I believe last year we were right at close, if not over 25,000 just on officials for the year. Okay. Um, that's just one part of our activity account, right? Um, another big expense is, and this is a good thing. I'm not complaining about this. I don't want it to
017appear that way, but anytime you go to state and paying for like the hotel rooms, and that could be all state for band or vocal or I'm trying to think for the past few years, state for cross country or any other event, >> Speech. Yep. If we would have someone to go like that, that would come out of that account. And like I said, those are good things, but they do add up quickly, right? And so those are all expenses. And those are just a few of the expenses I'm listing there. you know, we talk about uniforms and trying to stay in on a rotation and and we do and have a plan and that's why it's important the booster sponsoring and helping us support that. So, just kind of pointing that out as you
018know what's happened with different expenses the last few years referees they're not paid great, right? No one goes into it. We got two sitting right here just to make money off that. And so, we've increased that the last few years, but we haven't necessarily increased things on the revenue side. And, you know, uniforms aren't getting cheaper. And so just kind of something to keep an eye of and be aware of. It it's not necessarily that that fund is flush with cash. We try and make it to close out the year and end at least on the positive side. But that's one of those things that is really dependent on and like I appreciate the band boosters, the things that they pay for the band, vocal boosters, um the athletic boosters and some of the donations
019they've done because that that really makes that account flush because without that we would have to make a lot of other concessions. So, just trying to point that out. So, we thank our community for their support. >> Okay, we'll move on to our administrative reports then. >> Start with Mr. D. >> Yeah, thank you. Um, just super excited. I know there's going to be a lot of changes in terms of building projects. um we introduced five new staff members in the elementary building and so um very fluid as we go here uh as we prepare. Uh but super proud of our staff. Couldn't be more proud of our staff from um just everybody, all of our teams, the janitorial team, the pair professional team, the the teacher team, the I mean just uh getting things
020ready to go. It's starting to look like a school building again and and um we're getting closer and we have full confidence we'll be ready to go. So um yeah, just really excited and I know that's cliche this time of year, but um um it's palpable. You can feel the excitement building and it's it's time to get back into that that flow and that that routine, that schedule again. So um the flex day, I've heard nothing but good things from staff. So thank you to the board and to Superintendent DO for implementing that. I think that's been a good fit for us, especially this summer with the uncertainty of some of the things we have going on in the buildings. Um, yeah, I don't need to read this word for word, but um um the
021PD we're looking to continue with our MTSS. The state has uh put into place legislation uh for the math curricular area that will mirror a lot of the previous legislation that was in place for um reading and English language arts where if a kid is not proficient on two consecutive testing periods, we have to have a intervention plan in place and provide interventions and uh um support them to with an effort to get them to be proficient. And so, um, that will take a little bit more manpower and kind of transitioning our reading process, uh, over to the math side and, um, developing our bank of math interventions like we have done, uh, in reading and and just supports for students. And so that MTSS process will be key in in um, providing those interventions
022and supports. Um, our mentoring program, we will continue to offer in-house. Uh, Mr. Jazelle talked a little bit about um having the Aea come in. We did kind of did our mentoring kickoff on Thursday. Um that was very very good. Um with the uncertainty from state legislation for the Aea, we were kind of wondering how that might go. Their hands are tied a lot into what they can offer. Um but uh we were a little bit of the guinea pigs there. Kind of one of the first ones they implemented it on and so I felt like it went went pretty well. So, uh, like talked about some new staff that we're going to continue to integrate into the team. Um, yeah, and then our open house, like we talked about for our current students and
023their families to become familiar with their classroom situation, a chance for teachers to make those familial connections that are so critical to uh the support of all of our students. So, yeah, a lot of good stuff going on and uh need to be flexible with each other as we continue to uh get make those preparations for this year. But uh we're ready for a good year. So >> So what was remind me what the flex day was again. I know we approved that. >> So we uh put put that into place that teachers put in one full day um either continuously or in increments. And then on the first snow day, our plan is to uh forgive that snow day. that that will be teachers will already have put that time in and then students
024will not have to make that day up is kind of the plan. Correct me if I'm wrong, but um yeah, and then if we don't have a snow day, we'll make some concessions there towards the end of the year on how we do that with teacher contracts and those kind of things. So maybe both of you could speak or even Miss Schuler, maybe just a few examples of some of things that you've seen. So, they they submit a Google form when they're done, whether they do in increments or all at once, either way. But maybe some of the things you've seen up to this point that they've maybe Sure. >> worked on. >> Yeah. Physical room preparations is a big one. Um cleaning um arranging the room. Uh that was one of the topics of
025our um mentoring, >> introduction, training. Yeah, thank you. is optimizing that space and so thinking through and planning out every inch of that space to optimize student learning. So physical space organization um just planning and preparing curriculum and lesson plans and all those things to get ready and hit the ground running as kids come next week Monday. >> Um >> mandatory trainings. >> Oh, thank you. every every year there's a a good amount of online trainings that you know typically teachers would do that here at school if their rooms and things are set up. So I think some have taken that as opportunity to knock that out so they can hit the ground running when they're here. >> But yeah, a lot of room preparation that's been >> a common one. >> Yeah. Yep. >>
026Yep. So giving them time. The biggest request we've had is time. How are we supposed to get all this done? And so oftent time it's been on their time, but now we give them a little bit of >> how long. >> Y. So good question. Thanks. >> Yeah. Um, a lot to echo from Mr. Zo again. Super excited. The flex day, great addition. I I think staff are going to feel much less overwhelmed having had kind of a full day under their belt to get what they feel they need to get done. and on their own time. I think that's been an awesome addition. So, thank you for that. Uh, just kind of gave a little rundown of upcoming things on my report. So, tomorrow, first day back with all staff, freshman orientation. Mr. Do
027kind of mentioned this, but this year kind of doing two separate presentations, one for students and one for parents. And then while I'm not presenting to them, they'll have time to go to classrooms um and meet with teachers and kind of get expectations from teachers as well. So last year we did all got a presentation from me, parents and students, and then all parents and students went on kind of a mini schedule. We're going to split them up this year so I can kind of give specific information to kids that they need to know and then specific information to parents that they need to know. So yep, excited about that. We'll see how it goes. Um, last day to change schedules is August 21st. That's a change we made from last year coming into the
028the school year. Just lots of changes in that first week when students returned because our deadline was the third day of school. So students would get back, decide they wanted a schedule change. Well, by that point, teachers use the inservice days to create seating charts and print classroom rosters and prepare that way. So teachers were having to redo all of that work that they use some of their inservice time for. So we made that change to try to help start the school year with schedule set. And I think that's been really positive. And we've had lots of students come in uh you know throughout the summer or email myself or our counselor Mrs. Rugles to make schedule changes. So those are happening. It's not that they can't change schedules. It's just we moved that deadline
029up. So excited about that. Homecoming is the 15th through the 19th. Uh this year we'll have 10 uh homecoming court members, five male, five female. Uh the last five yearsish, we've had four years. Five years. We've had three years. Yeah. Right. >> So transitioning back to five of each and just recognizing more kids. Excited about that. So professional development, not much to add. the MTSS opportunities. Um, we do have teachers covering new curricular areas. So, that will be another place they can focus their individual professional development plan goals and definitely want our new staff that are going through the AA training to focus their professional development plan goal on that training, the six practices of classroom management teaching. And yeah, excited for our partnership with the AA. really happy with what was presented and that
030that will continue throughout the school year. So, >> they are they going to be able to follow up later on, too? >> Yes, >> we have them scheduled. Sorry to interrupt, but >> yeah, six or seven times they'll come throughout the first semester. >> It's about twice a month for sure for their first semester. We didn't want to overload our teachers, but at the same time, it's valuable enough information where we wanted to get through it with them without rushing, but to kind of get them that information so they can apply it and put it in practice. >> Yeah, the training is a two full day training, but the AA allowed us to kind of break it up. So, we've completed the one full day and then the second full day we spread throughout the
031Wednesday PDS for the first semester. So, and the AA is going to provide some support to come in and do some observation and coaching along with the training. So, >> yep, >> excited about that. >> Intervention process will look very similar to last year. State requirement of adding the that math component. That's something we had already started. Mrs. Schuler, Katie Schroeder led the way there. So, feel good about being a little ahead of the curve there. we already have the infrastructure in place to provide those interventions. Um, with success, uh, again, grades 5 through 11 will have success. Something new this year, we're going to allow seniors to leave the building. Now, that success is at the end of the day again. We're going to allow them to leave the building if they're in good
032standing and completing their deadlines that they need to. So, they have to be passing their classes and completing the success requirements. and that's something I'll go over with seniors on the first day of school. So, I think they'll be excited about that. Um, you know, want to reward kids for doing the right things. That's part of it. And another part is we just have a lot of kids that are out of the building already for school to career placements and things like that. So, they maybe are working at a place in town, would have to leave that to come back for a 23 minute success. So, logistically, it just created some problems as well. uh excited to be fully staffed except for one uh high school par profofessional position. So still looking for a special
033education high school parah, but we've shifted some things around um that we'll be able to get what we need covered to start the school year, but we still like to have one more pair of professional. So we'll keep posting and hopefully we, you know, get someone that's interested in taking that position. Um and then excited about our two candidates coming from the Philippines. Great that they're going to be here just in time. I love it. It's perfect. Then at the end last year, if you remember the same time, kind of went over some 100% goals. Just wanted to touch base with you on those. So in the 23 24 school year, we had 42 students fail a class in the fall semester, 29 fail a class in the spring. This past school year, that dropped
034to 30 and 28. So again, our our 100% goal was to get that down to zero students failing a class. In a in a perfect world, that's where we want that number. You know, obviously things happen and and not all kids will pass all their classes, but I am happy to see that trending in the right direction. Um and the majority, just for your information, of those Fs are from freshmen. So that's part of the change to the freshman orientation is to give parents more tools to help bring that number down because I think some of it is preventable issues that we're just not getting on top of. So the next piece uh was a 100% growth goal. So from the 23 24 school year we had 11 and a half% of students that showed
035a negative growth and that's from all math and reading testing uh five fifth through 11th grade. So the numbers just below that reading we went backwards a half a percent. So we had just slightly more students show no growth in reading but math we jumped 4% ahead. So really happy with our math growth. Um, and then reading. I think there's some things we can look at to continue to shrink that number. Ideally, all students show growth from one full school year of education. So, that's what we're looking for. And then our last goal was no chronically absent students. The data from 2324 was 17 high school students and nine middle school students would be classified as chronically absent. that number was down to 25 through 12. So a slight improvement there, too. So again, we'd
036like that number to be zero and we're making progress towards that. Then I attached our schedules at the bottom there. Any questions? >> So the success is going to be able to have some not necessarily tutoring, but time to help students with some >> Yep. I think that's from what I heard that was something that was really missed. >> Yeah. So last year we had one day built in for academic support. This year we'll have two days for that. So >> it won't be every day then >> won't be every day. So, one of the pieces of feedback I got um on Wednesdays when we increased the amount of PD time uh from, you know, a 2:30 dismissal to a two o'clock dismissal, that shortened class periods. Um and then in that same year, we
037also added success on Wednesdays because it previously wasn't on Wednesdays. >> So, we will transition back to not having success on Wednesdays to try to maximize the time in class. So you lose a day there. >> And then we'll still have reading on Mondays. Um and then community building on Fridays. So two days a week for academic support. Students can go to other teachers if they have questions or need help on assignments, that kind of stuff. >> Thank you, Casey. >> Yep. >> Okay. can go ahead with our superintendent report. >> Yeah. So, highlighting some things specific, you know, within the three goal areas that we talked about with district literacy and math. Um, obviously it's been a lot of time on the beginning of the year staff inservice and structuring and, you know, supporting
038our staff and our principles and Julie's done a great job with with that as well. And just the PD schedule overall and and trying to coordinate that with everything. We're still working through some of that, but um yeah, that'll happen as the year gets started. Plans and location for our sped staff and the distribution of students. I know they've been working through that and that is something they will work through the next few days and allocating that and um especially I think excited for what that looks like at the elementary and in their new spaces and how that can kind of shift things around moving up. Um I think there's a lot of positive that positives that are going to come from that. Um, in goal two, staff retention and engagement. Just talking about that
039PD schedule again and the the thank yous to our staff. This includes, you know, we're looking at getting donuts when we kick things off tomorrow. Um, the board and we've talked about last year grilling on the first day and that was wellreceived and we even have a local business in town providing lunch on the second day for staff as well. They stepped up and just said, "Hey, can what can we do?" So, we're appreciative of that and some other activities. And a lot of those things are maybe based on conversations maybe an employee had with one of the principles or Julie or something like that. And you know some things are doable and some things maybe aren't but you know just trying to incorporate those as best we can. Um just about hiring and filling
040all the positions as I think Casey said in his everything's filled but up and position at the high school but really in all three buildings that's probably the positions we're sto we're stored in. We have all the teaching positions and I don't say that lightly. you know, we've been years where we haven't had that and we have area schools that are short in those areas. So, I'm I'm very thankful and blessed for that. Um, just working with the principles and I know they're going to start meeting with their BLT teams and just talk through some of those things and some of the changes as an example of what Mr. Herz was just talking about success. Some of that came up through conversations with staff and the BLT and feedback and um there's sometimes there's things
041we can implement implement and change. Sometimes there's things we can't, but hopefully if they bring that in a positive way and just talk that through, then we can work those changes in. But when you grumble and you don't bring that up to administration, it's kind of hard to address those things. So, we thank staff for doing that and just working on the inservice schedule to better support our new staff. Um Mr. Mr. Dale talked about that a lot with some of the things and how just even the two full days of training how can we get that without overwhelming them for two full days of training back to back and so just looking and talking through that. So um the financial and stability a lot of the time recently has been spending time with site
042logic and all other parts of the construction project to finish that up and wrap those things up. um spent the month attending conferences like SAI and RSI for my own professional development support and starting on some projections for the end of the year things from wrapping up last year getting estimates for where we're at and where our indicators are for this coming year. Um we began working on with Kendra and I about line item budgets and just getting that done a little bit sooner than we have in the past. I think working together enough now trying to gain some efficiencies and do that together. working on finalizing preparations for our voted ple reminder that is on September 9th. Um and those conversations with the county auditor. I believe the week of uh this week or
043next week's paper is when the initial ballot will appear um with the auditor and I'll send stuff out to staff and we'll um put some stuff in the paper from the school as well that day. And just some other additional things of note, the staff has really been flexible and we're going to ask for more flexibility tomorrow because we know not everything will be done, but overall it's been very positive. So I want to thank our staff for doing that and I want to do a shout out to our custodians and our tech department. There's many people that have worked hard, but they have all had really challenging summers and a lot to do and they can make great plans for a week and then something changes and they have to do it differently and
044then computers don't arrive on time and then you have to clean this room that you just cleaned. So, the tech staff and our custodial staff has put in a lot of effort. So, I'm really thankful for what they've done and um just talking through also as well with some of the board members here. of elections this fall and just making people aware of that and things that we post on social media just to make the general public aware. >> How do you think psychologic and L&L and all that has worked on getting on the project as a whole? >> Um, from my perspective, I think it's gone very well. Um, we me and Kent were just talking about it was just the two of us before here and actually um I think some I won't
045speak for anyone else, but I think some have said they kind of wish they would have had LNL or story as their general contractor for their projects. Some other districts that don't have them. So, I take that as a positive that they have a good reputation and I think it's gone well. It's not been perfect, but I think they've done a good job of managing for it and they've been good to work with and yeah, there's been some hiccups here and you're going to have project problems in every project with some subs and they've been the ones dealing with that. So, I I've been pleased with it. I have I don't know if you guys you haven't dealt with it as much, but from what you've seen perspective, >> I've been extremely pleased and and
046just would echo what Mr. said in talking to some other local schools um >> have some push back another week. >> Well, and even >> yes, 100% that but just just hearing something it's like I feel very blessed fortunate to work with the crew that we have like they're we don't have some of the issues that I've heard that's happening at multiple other schools. So very very grateful. >> Some of the stories we heard when we were down at >> SAI. Yeah, >> going >> both with general but also with subcontractors and every I just >> I just think everything's been really really good. Not without its hiccups but been very good. >> Okay. Board committees. >> None of them. >> Sorry. Yes, we none of them have met. Um, yeah, they haven't had I
047think for the most part the board's been updated on things recently and yeah, haven't had a need to meet. >> So, we can move on to recognition of excellence. >> Would you be willing to do this, Casey? >> Yep. Uh, to start here, I want to recognize two staff members with perfect attendance for the 2425 school year. That's Ryan Weisma and Rebecca Fank. So, congratulations to them. That's a pretty impressive accomplishment. A lot of work goes into getting prepared for the start of the school year. There are often many people who do a lot of the behind the scenes work that goes unrecognized or others are not aware of what they do. We would like to recognize and thank the following staff members as we prepare for the start of the school year. Chrissy Acriman,
048Twilight Hemstra, Amy Dystra, Amber Voss, Jennifer Brookxford, Lori Kimbrink, Amy Elser, Ashley Hench for their work to get students registered and collecting all the required documents and paperwork for registration. Also want to thank custodial staff for their work preparing the building. And a thank you to Tony and Stacy for their work preparing all of the building's technology needs and working to prepare all the new Chromebooks and Vivie boxes. We'll move on to new business and consider approval of new contracts. So yeah, there it's looks like there's a um a lot of them on there and there are remember some of them are mentors and ideally we would have done that earlier but with a lot of things happening and speaking with staff we kind of intentionally waited on some of that stuff. So the mentors
049are just as a reminder as part of our um TLC program. there's someone that has to be in in our district and has multiple years of experience and then they get paired with a new staff member who's in their first or second year. Or we could have a staff member that's new to us, they might have more than two years of experience, but maybe it's a new content area for them that we want them to have additional support in. Um, if we had someone come to us new, but they had like 10 years of teaching, we're probably not putting them in the mentoring program. But especially for newer staff members or younger that have a new content area, we'll put in that. And so these are the mentors that have agreed to that. And then
050we have some additional um supplemental contracts on there as well. We have a few to fill specifically for this fall. Um they weren't ready to go for tonight, but Mrs. Ser's been working on that with the help of some others. So I I think we'll get everything filled for this fall. Okay. >> Make a motion to approve new contracts. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> All in favor say I. >> I. >> And that is passed. Consider letting bids or consider bids for snow removal. >> So, the three-year contract was up after this last school year. This is not approving bids. This is we need to have approval to let them out. We will advertise that. And then in the attachment, you can see there's a due date that those are interested submit
051bids by and then we would approve them at the board meeting after that. So really all we're asking for you to approve is for us to advertise to to let out for bids and we'd look to do that as a three-year >> contract >> or yeah, three-year contract again. >> Okay. Would somebody make a motion on that? I'll make a motion to consider letting bids for snow removal. >> Second. >> All in favor say I. I. >> I. And that is passed. Consider approval of payments to Site Logic. >> Yeah. And you can see the payments to Site Logic right there are attached. I'm pretty familiar with it. Remember at this point they're smaller because we've been paying things throughout the year. Right. >> Right. Make a motion to approve payments to Psych Logic as
052listed. >> Second. >> Okay. All in favor say I. >> I. And that is approved. Consider approval of LNL builder pay application number four. >> Yeah. And that's attached for the payup. And this is for >> the elementary. >> The ele Thank you. I'm looking at the attachment only. And so the amount of this one is um this billing is this pay is for 923,000 $83985 $23. Did I say that? Yeah. >> Okay. >> Make a motion to approve the LNL builders pay applicate number four for elementary for the amount of 92383985. >> Okay. Is there a second? >> Second. >> All in favor say I. >> I. >> And that is passed. And I managed to I think that's right. >> Application. >> Um, approve the application for or the pay application for the
053middle school project. >> And that one is a smaller amount. The invoice is attached for $38,170.31. Um, smaller mo a substantially more percentage of the project is complete over here and um less work going on right now. Hence the smaller amount. >> I think so. Yep. Okay. So is there >> so how many more payments are left than after >> after after the >> um we would well we'll for sure for sure because there's going to be work occurring after this board meeting for sure have stuff going in to the next meeting >> and then after that would be if there's any work that appears after that that wasn't build or anything that was withheld the um retainage is >> that was kind >> 5% if I remember right and that would be held out
054till we know everything's substantially completed. >> Yeah. So, so are we watching that or is site logic watching that? >> Site Logic does. Yep. >> Okay. >> Yep. >> Okay. Is there a motion? >> I'll make a motion to approve uh payment to LNL builders pay application number three the amount of $38,170.31. Second. >> Okay. All in favor say I. >> I. >> That is approved. consider approval of copy or lease bid. >> So didn't get we were not ready for this in the July meeting and I didn't feel the time based on the information we need to do a special um board meeting just for this. So, the current three-year copy year lease is up and about to expire, and our tech director put this out for bids, and the quotes are attached, and
055here's a simple summary of it, and I do have them attached, but Access Systems was a little over 19 grand, almost 20. A&B Systems, um, their primary option, would have been 28 grand and Marco, which is our current supplier, is 18,475. And then at the bottom, I kind of explained that. Um, but that's the one we're recommending and using here. It's recommended to approve the 36 36-month lease with the paper cut print management software for a total of $18,57. And then that's the lease breakdown plus the paper cut management software. And that's how we get the totals. So that's the one we're recommending for approval to go with Marco. Okay. Is there any questions? Okay. Is there a motion? >> I'll make a motion to approve the copy or lease bid with Marco. >> Second.
056>> All right. All in favor say I. >> I. And that is passed. Okay. >> So, the next item we will we would need to go into closed session for before we do so. If anyone needs to use the restroom and wants to do that before we go into close session, we should do that now. Otherwise, once we're in close session, we need to stay in the room till it's done. >> Missing you don't want this. >> Yes, correct. So, um, and Mr. Herz would need to stay in here and I think that opportunity. >> Yeah, we'll take care of that now. And I'm going to shut the stream off.