001the December 8th Aberdine School Board meeting to order. We begin with the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance 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. >> Roll call, please. >> Mr. Schultz, >> Mr. Olson, Mr. >> President, [cough and clears throat] Mr. Kevin here, >> Mr. Mark >> here. >> Good news items. We do have a very good news item this evening uh and some special guests to introduce this particular person. Uh we have coach Katie Anderson is here to help us tonight as well as the area 4 cross country coach of the year. Greg Merley is here as well. [laughter] If the two of you want to step up and introduce our special
002guest tonight. I >> I think it was it's really appropriate that I tell you a little story about Eston and the [snorts] guy working with smart kids. Um and actually Mr. Mr. Schultz's son was involved in this. We had a group text one time about ordering pizza and Sam wanted to order Hawaiian pizza. And I think it's a travesty that we would put fruit on pizza. And Sam pointed out to me after I objected that a tomato is a fruit. And it was a group text and Estston chimed in and cited uh 1893 Supreme Court case being a vegetable. And and I think uh uh you know, smart kids uh things, you know, and I I know I've been here before and I've said you you get what you deserve a lot of times and
003and I Estston is a great kid. I uh Carrie and Kevin um and just outstanding young man, great leader. He's never going to be the leader that yells at you. He's never going to be the leader that criticizes you. He's going to be the leader that goes out and he does things the right way all the time and he's going to have the right attitude. He's going to have the right work ethic. Um I couldn't be more proud to have him. I when I when he asked me to um write a letter for the ummies I I felt a little pressure because I I don't think anything I could have wrote in words would do justice to how great of an individual he is. West Point became a better place and will be a better
004place because of him and the United States military will certainly be a better place because of uh what a great human being he is and and I'm just can be more proud of uh of him doing that. So with that, Eston, if you want to come up and coach, do you have anything? >> Um yeah, those really nice words. I think throughout the whole process for me, it's it's obviously been a really long process. I knew I wanted to go to West Point since probably middle school. Um, and it was kind of in the back of my head, but I never really knew if I it was where I wanted to go until probably last summer where when I actually visited the campus and lived how that's their live and uh that really taught me
005about a lot about being a leader and how to just be a good person because a lot of the people there are among the best people I've ever met so far in life. Um, and as far as the school district goes, I'd like to thank all the teachers and counselors and co coaches who help me along with every step of the way. It's been they've all been really supportive and everyone I asked to do a recommendation letter or help me with this part of the application or another has been uh really helpful the whole way. So, I'd like to thank all those who did that for me. >> What initially attracted you to the military? You said middle school. Was there something back in your past or do you have someone in your family? [clears
006throat] >> Well, my grandpa was in the National Guard, but I can't I can't necessarily say that the military has always been where I knew I wanted to go. I think my mom was the first person who told me about themies in West Point and what they offered. And I think I did a little bit of my own research. And like I said, it was always in the back of my head through high school, but not until this past summer was I absolutely sure that was where I wanted to go. So, yeah. Other [snorts] comments, questions? >> Well, we know you're a great student and a great person. Can you kind of just walk us through like what does the process look like? Like what do you have to do for this? Like what does
007the application look like? You have interviews, right? You just kind of walk us through that a little bit. >> Yeah. So, it's it's a really long process. It started for me back in the last last summer. Um I kind of split it into three parts. There's the they look at your academics, your sports, and then your leadership and what you do in the community. So, academics, I've made sure I've taken all the hardest classes obviously throughout high school and taking extra classes when I needed to. Um, sports, I've I've done three sports throughout uh all my four years in high school and that was really helpful for me application. But leadership, this is something I really had to I couldn't just volunteer in. I had to take an active step forward and make sure I
008was participating in things in my community. Um, going into my junior year, I set up a car wash in town that actually raise money for local veterans. And that really taught me a lot about leadership and organizing and building teams, which is really nice. But, uh, with the actual application itself, uh, we have to do interviews not only with someone from the academy, but also with a the senators senators or house of representatives team. And I interviewed with Senator Rounds's team and they have a primary uh they have a primary appointment that they can give where they choose someone who automatically gets in and that's that's actually the one I was chosen for. So they choose one person out of I don't know how many applicants there. I know there's about 25 people interviewing. So
009yeah, >> years ago I did a interview a mock interview for Dustin Hermanson before. Did you do any certain prep thing to get ready for that? >> Uh yeah. Yeah, I did. Uh I actually uh was in contact with Dustin throughout the application. He really helped me along with it. Um his parents put me in touch with him and I was also my dad helped me do with interview stuff. He set me up with people who were good with speeches and those who actually went to an academy and knew what they were looking for. before and that really helped me um build um build what I needed to to set up a good interview. >> You went there this summer, too, correct? >> Yeah, I went >> You had kind of an interesting thing that
010happened at the library, I understand. >> Uh an old manual or something and >> uh yeah, I actually uh I was kind of just flipping through a manual at the library that's at West Point and it was really random. It was the first page I flipped to and it was actually an alumni from I think like the 1950s who went to West Point from Aberdine. So, it was kind of random, but that was pretty cool. [snorts] >> That's cool. >> Questions or comments? >> All right. >> I won't be able to sleep tonight. One, because I'll be worried about the weather, but number two, I have to know, do you eat Hawaiian pizza? [laughter] >> That would have kept me up. >> Obviously, Sam Schultz has that. [laughter] Hope for raising. All right, Eston, it's
011my turn. So, I first got to know your name, I think, in first or second grade basketball. Your father led the team to eight straight ties. I believe [laughter] uh at that time, uh [clears throat] you know, you got to got to know who you were and got to see that you'd be a good wrestler, I think, instead of a basketball player. [laughter] But what I had seen from you and obviously uh getting to know your parents and uh running around with Sam is everything coach said about you is absolutely 100% true. You are exactly who you are. You're the quiet leader. I've seen you be the one that was the favorite and the one that was nursing an injury. And you act just the same [clears throat] and people follow you because of who
012you are. And that's going to pay dividends in the future. But it also shows that people see something in you maybe that you don't even see in yourself, you know. Uh I know my my son looks up to you. And my youngest son who is a third grader, he asks if there's friends coming over, is Eston coming over? >> I don't know why you two are such buddies, but you guys are. And I have seen you excel at everything that you've put your mind to. I've known West Point has been your northstar for a number of years and you've had a lot of people cheering behind the scenes for you and rooting for you and uh we all feel like we've had a little piece of this. So congratulations young man. You've done a great
013job. >> Appreciate that. >> I would just like to add that I've known for many years as well back to elementary school at Lincoln and you had a real treat tonight. This is the amount of time we've spent together. These are the most words I've heard. [laughter] Have you enjoyed all the attention? [laughter] >> Perfect. [laughter] [clears throat] >> Congratulations. You made us proud. [applause] And congratulations to the coach of the year for uh cross country. Uh [laughter] welld deserved as always. And I think uh we were made aware of it by the person sitting or standing next to you. SO [laughter] just >> throw a bunch of names at draw one [laughter] right there. [clears throat] >> Well, congratulations to the Foss family and >> thank you. You're more than welcome to stick around.
014[laughter] >> You don't have to. >> You have district goals in front of us. >> Thank you. Congratulations. All right. Uh we do have the agenda in front of us this evening. I'd ask for a motion for approval. So moved >> by Sharp, second by Dr. Borton. Any further discussion related to the agenda? Seeing none, all those in favor signify by saying I. I. >> All those opposed. Okay. Persons wishing to adjust the board. >> Board remarks. >> We do have the minutes from November 10th, 17th, and 24th in the packet. I would ask for a motion for approval. >> So moved. >> By Murphy, second by Burgerard. Any further discussion to be had regarding the the minutes from the 10th, 17th, or 24th? Seeing none, all those in favor signify by saying I. >>
015I. Same sign. Thank you. We have the consent agenda next on the uh agenda for us. Does anyone wish to have anything pulled from the consent agenda for further discussion this evening? >> Seeing none, I'd ask for a motion for approval by Beckus. >> I'll second. >> Second by Dr. Broom. Any further discussion? I just uh want to thank the number of donations that you see on the consent agenda and thank those that uh continue to support uh Avenue Public Schools. With that, all those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Oppos. Same sign. >> Report to the superintendent, Dr. Guppin. >> Thank you. The first item on our agenda tonight is our ATH Academy reports. A tech director, Robbie Johnson, is here to share all things that are happening at a tech.
016>> Good evening. >> Hello. >> Nice. Um, so move to Josh's slides here. So hopefully uh everything works out all right. I' I've used lots of different uh presentation software, but just a few things that I wanted to touch briefly on is Game Fish Parks partnership uh that we entered into manufacturing day. Uh we hosted a build Dakota road show and then uh we just finished up with a a weld off uh and I brought a special guest for that particular one as well. Uh game fish and parks uh was a partnership that we entered into uh with our building trades um class and it actually was born out of this room. So, uh, when the job opened up, uh, one of the things that I kind of wanted to do is see where things
017were at. And so, uh, when Scott, uh, gave his presentation, one of the things that you guys had talked about was what the next steps were going to be for partnerships. And it was either Brad or Brian said something about, I wonder if Game Fish, and Parks has any need. And I thought, that's a great idea. I wonder if they do. And so, I did some contacting um, and found out that they absolutely do had a need. uh they currently uh partner with uh prison systems uh to build theirs. And so we uh got in touch with the Northeast director um and set all of that up, had some meetings and kind of came together and we ended up building or in the process of building those two that you see up uh on the
018screen. See a couple of part and uh one thing that was neat is our broadcast journalism class also wanted to do a story uh on that. And so when he came up to do um just kind of a check-in on some things, uh the journalism class interviewed him and then they made a um just a short clip for that and then he used that for his presentation to the state. And so seems like a [clears throat] good a good way to uh to kind of introduce that. So >> building trade students in the past have partnered with the city to build cabins for WY Park. This year they're building camping cabins for state campgrounds. These students are providing labor to build these cabins. South Dakota Game Fish and Park is providing the material they're using.
019>> If we can do uh you know ongoing training and with schools and the state provides the materials to do that, uh it's like a win for us. >> The state contracts with an electrician for some work on the structures and pays to move the cabins on site. They will go to Roy Lake in northeast South Dakota. In the past, inmates in the state pen have built cabins. This is the first year the state brought this project to Central High School. >> I've learned a lot in the what, two quarters we've been in here. >> Yeah. >> So, it's and it's been a lot of fun. >> I think this is a super super cool opportunity, right? Like, so not only are we paying for a way that we can get uh young kids like
020yourselves some training and experience uh in the trades as moving forward in their lives. Um, but it also for us, uh, we we'll be able to provide a product at a probably a lower cost than we would have paying a contractor to do these projects. >> A tech director Robbie Johnson reached out to the state about this partnership. It's one that could very well continue. >> Hopefully, some of the kids that make make these cabins and will stop at Roy Lake and say, "Hey, very cool. I helped build that when I was at Aberdeen High School." Game Fish and Parks is trying to start a similar project with schools in Hot Springs and down around the Sou Falls area. >> Uh [clears throat] manufacturing day. So, we hosted a manufacturing day on October 3rd. Um
021there were some businesses that uh had spoken with Gail Ox. Uh she set those pieces up and then we had a couple of that canceled at last minute. But um overall it was good to hear the discussion between the kids uh and the local businesses. There were some opportunities that I think they were surprised about. One uh one business was talking about needing CDLs and willing to uh willing to pay for those costs and and uh I think that surprised some of those kids. Uh Build Dakota road show. So the Build Dakota is a great opportunity. I'm sure you guys are are well aware of that. Uh we hosted a road show. So they had them come out. Rita Nelson uh crew and some local folks came out, walked the juniors, all the junior students
022were there. Um and then we also live streamed that for parents that uh had any interest in that. Uh and then the weld off happened on December 3rd. We took 28 students down there to compete. There were over 400 um different students that were there from 40 uh a little more than 40 different schools. Um, and then Mason was honored with that. So, I'll have Mason just maybe talk a little bit about um his experience and then he's got um he's got his his toolbox that he made. So, yeah. I don't know how to do this. I'm not good at this. [laughter] >> Doing great so far. M. >> So, we went down. We left at 6:30 in the morning or no, it was 7:00, I think. We left. got to Watertown and kind of
023they had breakfast and stuff for us and we kind of learned about what we were going to do throughout the day and then we broke out into groups and started some groups went to go and start the actual welding process. Um, another group went to go tour the campus and then I think there was a third group that went to go take the written test and talked to some other industry people about what was kind of going on and some opportunities there. So, this is what we made in the welding. This is what all 400 students made and they were scored. I want to say it was 50 points. Um, and the top three if they were seniors would be offered to build Dakota scholarship for welding. And so if you want to look at
024this, it's kind of heavy. [laughter] >> And then the the written test was a it was a 15 question test. Each um question was worth two points. So it was a 30-point test. And that was used. What they told us going in was just a tiebreaker is all that they told us that was going to be used for. But then we got back and they started they were going to start doing awards and stuff and they said, "By the way, we're actually giving out a prize for the top two or the top person in the welding test." And that was myself and one other student from Balls that got that we tied first place in that test. And I believe it was 26 out of the 30 points is what I ended up getting. And
025that other student ended up with. And so because of that, we got a the welding helmet is what the prize for that was. >> That's good. >> Was it a hard test, did you think? Did you learn it all while you were taking classes and stuff or >> Yeah, the the welding classes and stuff, Mr. Lewis' classes have helped for sure. And [laughter] I think that the um it was a difficult test. There were questions obviously that I didn't know and there were some that I just had to kind of make an educated guess on and apparently it worked out well. So >> is this something that you are thinking seriously about doing in the future? >> Um possibly. I I've thought [laughter] >> I've thought very heavily about the diesel technology. >> I thought
026so this would be a this would be another thing to kind of go with that and help with that. >> So what grade you're in? >> Junior. >> Okay. >> So have you started looking at postsecary at all? >> Yeah, I looked a little bit but >> had you been to Watertown before and toured? I this was the first time that I'd really gotten to actually walk around >> and see the campus. So, >> uh Robbie, talking to the business people, what's the job market for those businesses in Aberdine? Are they short help or >> Yeah, it seems like everybody's looking for looking for folks, especially folks with skills that, you know, have interest in CDLs were were a big one that they talked a lot about. Um welding is another one that comes up
027quite a bit. other trades. >> Are there other competitions that you're looking at uh competing in in the future or anything? >> Um I'm I'm involved in FFA. I'm the president of the FFA and so I do that and go do that in the spring and then last year I did do the skills USA as well for welding. So >> that's great. >> Very good. Very nice. Congratulations. That's quite quite a well done. >> That's very nice. >> Uh that that is a lot of kids when you put 400 uh welders in in one one place. Um and I I thought our kids really really did well. We look back on scores. It's tough. You have 400 kids and you only recognize three in the advanced and three in the uh in the regular. It's
028it's tough to do that. So, we were able to go back and take a look at scores and our our kids did really well. >> How many kids roughly did you take over to the weld? >> 28. >> Yeah. >> Great. >> Yep. >> And then the last slide, those are are um different different uh pictures that our digital photography class has taken. The top left one, I I had to laugh at that one. Uh Mr. Shoffouser was was sick and uh they had to get the Eagle Zone out and he said, "It doesn't matter if I'm there or I'm not there. You guys have got to get it done." And so they had some questions on the cameras. And so I came down and I had it on speaker phone. You could tell he
029was feeling terrible and he was asking questions and they were like, "Yes, yes." And they were just so um on on point. and they had a couple of questions on that camera and then from there they did the whole entire thing. He sent it out and it was awesome. It was good to see um kids being able to just take [clears throat] on those leadership p pieces and opportunities and uh just do a great job even if the instructor's on his death store. [laughter] [snorts] >> Questions for me? So on those cabins for the with the uh state, are we the first high school to be doing this in partnership with them? Uh >> with that, as far as I'm aware, yes. >> Is there any way that we can put a little placard in
030there of you know, made by the A Techch Academy at Everine Central or you know the date or something or just our logo or >> that would be uh yeah, I would hope that we could do something like that. It would be cool. So kid 10, 15 years from now can walk in and say, "I was a part of this class right here." You know, I think that'd be a neat >> opportunity for them. So >> is the city hopefully done with the work? [laughter] >> Yeah, >> they're mostly done. They're not going to have any more out there. >> Yeah, it sounds like their needs are filled and so's needs are okay. >> Yep. >> The game fishing parks mean going to be ongoing. >> It sounds like there's going to be some continuing
031opportunities there. Yep. that. Um, yeah, we're hopeful that that that will continue on and and be beneficial for both. >> That's great. >> Bortnham had a great idea. We'll have Mason make a sign. [laughter] >> Maybe a little bit lighter one. [laughter] >> It doesn't tip the thing over when you put it. >> Well, Mason, congratulations. Thanks for all you do. >> Congratulations. >> Yes. Thank you for coming. >> It's great. >> The next item on the agenda tonight is our district goals update. Um, as you know, we're only just about halfway through with the school year, so we have some work left to do on our district goals. But in the areas of student achievement, this call has been very busy working with our school improvement teams. Uh, those goals have been developed for
032both math and reading, and we're well on our way with interventions working with that. Um, very busy with the district literacy committee. Uh we did extend that to grades 6 through 12 this year. That group has formed. Uh she has a very robust schedule put together for the rest of the year and into the summer. Uh as well as the literacy grant that we received from the from the state of South Dakota with some funding to attach to that work. Um the Zord Reed, you've heard a couple of elementary principles talk about that already. That's looks a little bit different at each school, but that is up and running. And I think the principles have been very happy with what they've seen so far. But we we'll continue to hear reports as elementary principles come
033in to talk about that. And then uh Mrs. Call is also working on our grades 6 through 12 math curriculum. That's the curriculum adoption for this year and that is also well underway. Uh health and wellness. People are asking um when is the wellness challenge going to begin? Um some have already been accused of cheating. We haven't even started. So we did have a great time with that last year. Uh the group has decided that the wellness challenge will begin in the spring, maybe January to then a little [cough and clears throat] bit long this last year. So we're going to launch that in the spring. I think we're going to need something as we get through winter. So that'll be good. Uh under school and community relations, Alyssa has done a very nice job.
034We are sending that our monthly news to know that is going out to all district patrons or district parents um as well as our district staff getting some good feedback on that as well. and she's doing a great job continuing with all kinds of media posts and news releases that go out on a very regular basis. Uh the other thing that we had in her school in community relations is continuing with our job shadowing and our internship experiences. In quarter 1, we had 43 students and again this is only available for juniors and seniors, but they were at 41 unique training sites. And in quarter two, we had 37 students and they were at 42 different training sites. So really a lot of different places amongst our community that we are getting students out and
035about and having them experience some real world experiences. And in the areas of safety, one the thing that we did differently this year, we did a very um exhaustive emergency preparedness. We did a tabletop exercise before school started. That was our administrative team as well as the Aberine Police Department, Brown County Emergency Management and the Aberine Fire and Rescue. that was completed in July that we got some great feedback on that with some changes that we made to policies and procedures there. Safe schools continues to be a very viable um training platform for us. We can assign different training opportunities for students or for staff. You can see those trainings that all staff have completed off to the right. Uh we also continue with Alice protocols. Those trainings have also been moved to safe schools,
036but those um safe area um drills have been completed. And we are also continuing with our mental health first aid and we are working with our um educational support staff and that is an ongoing training that we do with staff. >> Questions that I could address regarding district goals so far. >> Great. >> You're progressing well. Thank you. >> We are. Yes. We'll give you another update. I'll address the um all the staff when we get together in January, but just wanted to give the board an update where where things are at so far and we'll continue till the end of the year. >> It's working hard. Okay. >> All right. The next item on the agenda then are the ASBSD standing positions and resolutions. Again, Dr. Borton was our at the at the um
037delegate assembly and she'll give us just some highlights as far as maybe some changes that were proposed and were approved at the delegate assembly. >> Well, I just hope I I do Mr. all proud because >> so far so good. He [laughter] >> because oh my goodness, you know, we were just talking about how he used to report back and I didn't always understand what he was talking about. So then you have to kind of dig deeper to understand it yourself. So basically we voted um at the delegates assembly to change things on the standing positions and resolutions and we voted basically the amendments um came out to um the investment in education that we they added that we need to explore for new funding sources and avenues. And then under non-public schools and alternative
038funding, we felt that um federal funding should be used for only programs in public schools and not private. Um they added to student achievement that um to achieve the best for our students, they should enroll until graduation, get a GED or reaches 18 years old. and that our education needs change and opportunities evolve. So, we want to continue to guide students down pathways for future career goals. Um, but this would change the compulsory school attendance, which was part of the resolutions. So, they deleted the compulsory school attendance because that was state law that changed. And then I've realized that under the um the resolutions they go by alphabet which I'm learning. So from A through let's see I got to get this right here. A through G under each one of those letters they have
039sub numbers. And so when they were looking at resolutions, they changed, they will make deletions or additions or changes and some of them are just a couple words or they delete the whole thing because of something happened at the state level. So the very first a under achievement and equity A2 they deleted the school attendance requirement because of what the legislation you know the legislature decided and under B which is local governing um E3 was t transgender le leg legislation and we had to they had to add within the parameters of state law. That's the only words they added under B4, which was legal and financial protection. Under state law, it just includes a new state statute that still supports legal and financial protection. Um B5 was under elections and state law changed when we're
040supposed to have elections for, you know, for um bond issues. And of course they added we have to change with the state law. Excuse me, but we still want to maintain local control. I'm sorry. B7 was to recall board members and they pretty much updated it to say within the codified law. It wasn't really a big change. And then under C which is school finance um they deleted funding CTE which is you know our our kids in the training program or okay what's CTE again >> career technology education and and this is where there was controversy about voting it in because they really I'll lose it again they really wanted to keep that um to make it specific funding for career education, but um it was voted that we delete it specifically but add it
041under student achievement because really that's um you know an evolution from K through 12 and we want to keep their achievement going. We should get funding for all those areas. That was the rationale under school finance still under um C10. there was a sus suspension of teacher pay and that just kind of supports that if they take the amount of percentage that schools get if they decide that the fiscal years when schools are not provided the annual amount that we should be able to adjust um teacher pay to go with our budget so we can stay within the limits. Um, under CD or no, under D is taxation and one [clears throat] change was they put a clause in to increase the state aid if they decide to reduce the property tax and D2 they
042deleted it because obviously they said something about tax collection administration fee and they said that this wouldn't happen which I didn't understand totally. but they deleted that. And then under F, um it was unfunded mandates. They just added to um they added the words programs because before it was just um schools and they wanted to add programs that are funded by federal dollars. So it was just a minor change. And the last one is resolution G and that was federal relations. That's what I wrote and it's under school nutrition. And basically it was a minor thing. Um they had put on new regulations and they really weren't new. It was just regulations in general. So does that make sense to everybody? It does. You've been doing this a long time though. >> I'm I'm learning.
043I'm understanding. So all those were voted on um with the delegates assembly and then I realized that there's a lot of work that goes on our state board of directors. This is really a committee under them and then they, you know, they're researching and working on it and seeing if we need to change it to update it and then they bring it to the delegates assembly which all the schools have a representation and then we can vote to say okay or we don't like it. So kind of learning all that. So we have a say. Any questions? How many roughly are on that board that you talked about the overall >> on the do you know I >> wondering I know >> on the subcommittee >> yeah of that top board I was just wondering
044how many I didn't know >> I don't really >> represent by region >> oh okay >> okay >> small >> y >> okay so small schools >> oh is that big okay >> okay >> it's a good question though >> I just didn't know how big it I got 20. >> There's 20. >> That's just the subcommittee. >> That's the executive board. >> Oh, that there's 20 on the executive. So then they have a subcommittee on the executive board and then there's 16 more that are on the board of directors. So total of 20 people. >> Oh, okay. >> Do you remember how many were at the delegate assembly? How many districts were represented? I think you said that last time. >> There were 144 schools. Wait, there's 147 schools in South Dakota and there
045were 114 delegates. >> Very good. >> Other questions? >> Well, thank you so much for your work on this and and the report out. Um, obviously the work of ASBSD is always important, but I think this year it's going to be crucially important. Uh we've seen the uh budget address and we've seen um we've heard the what's coming down the pipe as far as a lot of the legislation uh comes in and they're they're the tip of the spear for us. They're our legislating legislative body for uh uh schools and uh we need to support them in any way possible. So, thank you for updating us on that and uh >> continuing to update us and uh we are all LAN, uh participants at this point and so uh please pay attention and I'm sure
046there'll be more to come from ASBSD. >> Yep. >> Over the next couple months. >> Thank you. Well done. >> Okay. The next item on our agenda is the approval of a second reading of our [clears throat] calendars. Again, uh this would be approval of the 2627 calendar that we'll be following next year. And then the next one is the draft of the 2728. Again, we'll bring that one forward next year at this time as well to take a closer look at 2728 if there's things that change there. But any additional questions? I went through them specifically at the last meeting. But >> I move second reading of 67 and 78. >> Okay. We have a motion on the floor for the approval of the second reading of the 2627 2728 school calendar. >> I'll
047second. >> Second by Murphy. Any further discussion to be had on either one of those calendars? Seeing none, all those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Same sign. Thank you. >> The next item is the approval of the second reading of policy deletion. This is policy GBJ. This is our staff directory. And again, this is coming from the staff and they're saying we could do this a little different way. So asking to delete this policy. >> By record. >> Second by Dr. Bortnham. Any further discussion to be had related to GBJ? Here's that uh Mr. Olsen does still want a copy for himself. [laughter] We'll make sure that he receives that copy. >> Okay. All those in favor of uh policy GB, the deletion of policy GBJ, signify by saying I. >>
048Same sign. Thank you. >> Okay. And the next item on the agenda is the approval of our election date. Michaela is here with that. >> Yes. So each year the board has to approve the election date which will be June 2nd of 2026. That's the primary election date. >> So move on the floor by Sharp. Second by Beckus. Any further discussion to be had. All right. All those in favor of June 2nd 2026 being the election date signify by saying I. >> I. Sign. Thank you much. Seeing no further business board, [clears throat] I just simply want to say thank you for everyone for a wonderful school or not school year but uh the calendar year. Uh we made it about halfway through and uh more fun to come with weather and other things but
049want to say uh congratulations to all the staff and administration for uh a wonderful 2025. Looking forward to 2026. So thank you very much for uh your efforts. With that, I would entertain a motion for adjournment. >> So moved. >> Motion by Dr. Bortnham. >> Second by Beckus. All those in favor signify by saying I.