001fairly short. We're just getting kind of going here with all of the different things that we have to do each year. We got first fire drill in. Um we are working on doing some of our screeners that we need to do uh for different students. I did my first teacher evaluation last week. Um as Sammy mentioned, we have the uh CT career fairs. We got about 600 kids coming into Calonia on Thursday. Uh we right now have 41 different businesses that are going to be present um at that career fair. Anything from um the military to I'm trying to think of all to ascend to EMT, fire departments, things like that. So anything that's uh CTE related. Um we use the back parking lot and also the the gym space. So again we have 41
002booths um right now. So, uh, all of our students 6 through 9 through 12 will attend. We'll attend in two different groups just to keep the numbers a little bit smaller, but it's a great opportunity, uh, for our kids just kind of see what's available locally, too. Um, and we're going to do a little bit of a this year we're going to do something a little bit different where we're going to try to do um kind of some we're going to ask some questions to the students before their career fair just to get them thinking and then we'll also have some follow-up reflective questions about what they learned and what their biggest takeaway is. Um, so each year we do this event, we're trying to to build on that. Um, and then as also as
003Sammy mentioned, we have homecoming week coming up next week. So, we're starting to prepare for that. Uh, we will be doing the parade on Friday the 26th, weather permitting. Um, and that is at 2 o'clock. So, we run some alternative schedules on the Thursday and Friday just for all the different events. Um, the other thing academically, the benchmark reports came out uh last week. I don't know, but uh just kind of looks at for our students, how do our scores stack up? where are some areas within them where we are doing, you know, very well and where are some areas that we can try to improve. Um, the reading benchmark reports aren't overly helpful. They're pretty blah, I would say, and that's just the way that they're set up. The math definitely gets more in-depth
004and tells you exactly the areas that we can try to improve on. So, I do those for third grade through 11th grade. The science ones are normally very in-depth as well, but they are not coming out until later this fall, whatever that means, and that's because it was a new science test this year. And so, they're not publishing the results just yet. So, we're on the lookout for that. So, trying to look at some of that data and dig in and figure out where we can try to improve academically in those areas. So, those are kind of some of the the highlights. Somebody has any questions. >> Those those are the MCA scores or is that separate? Yep. That's MCA scores, but what they do is they break them down by benchmarks. And so they'll
005actually, you know, in third grade there's >> 20 different things. How did you do on each of those 20 things? Did you do some areas you do really well in and here's something that maybe we need to focus on? >> So that's separate then than from the final results that come later. broken down even a little further further than the final results. >> But it I'm just saying it went into the final results probably or is that included in like the benchmark? They they were already um >> we did a little bit of digging or Craig did a little bit of digging I should say and I did some digging and I don't know if that went out in a board update or not from that school digger where it looked like we were in
006the top 6% within the state of Minnesota right now. So doesn't mean that we don't have areas that we want to improve or areas we think we can really shore up. but it also only stack us up against other schools in Minnesota, which I think Minnesota sets a pretty high bar. Um, we got a lot of stuff to be proud of. So, >> cool. Excellent. Any questions for Mr. Bowler? Mr. Walter? >> Yeah. Um, just a couple fun things that have happened in the last couple weeks. Um, some elementary kids made it to the school forest in collaboration with some high school kids, which is really fun to see. It's um, awesome for the elementary, but just as awesome for the older kids, running them through activities and leading the younger ones and stuff like
007that. So, that was really cool. Um, on 911 in pretty I mean, I don't I can't speak for every single classroom, but there's a lot of learning that takes place with the history of 911. And I would like to highlight Mrs. Enen's thing that she does every year. Um really a cool activity for the kids. They learn about for multiple days leading up to it. Um as fifth graders, they start diving in a little deeper with 911 and the significance of it. You know, as kids get older, obviously can handle a little bit more. Um multiple different lessons and then the culmination is really cool. They learn about this story about the man in the red bandana. And if you if you ever Google that or YouTube it, it's like ESPN has like a little
008short documentary and it's it's it's one of the the many tearjerking stories. And then each kid gets a red bandana. They do 17 flights of stairs in honor of the guy who did that back in Yeah. Your daughters. Yeah. >> She loved it. >> So really, really a cool lesson. um huge example of how history can be taught in a really really cool meaningful way. So love seeing it. Um by our next board meeting we'll already have our first parent teacher conferences which is pretty wild to think about but ultimately just running full steam ahead now. The the first couple weeks under the belt, all the learning of how do what does a school day look like and all of those things, assessments, but we're just running full swing ahead. um full speed ahead and
009uh credit to the staff. Every day I work with the group of people I work with makes me very grateful. Shout out to the new teachers and new staff we brought on board. Miss Bruce is one of them. She's the special education teacher we hired and doing an amazing job. Huge addition to the team. Um everybody's going above and beyond. So awesome. Any questions for Mr. Walster? All right. We'll skip Miss June for now and if she pops in, she can do her do her thing. Miss Derky. >> Okay. Um been working uh or adds this end of the year report is due this week. We have to have a student service hour spreadsheet and they're very finicky on how that gets filled in. Um we also have an end end of the year report
010that we have to submit. I've been working on that for the last couple of days. Um, on Rotary meetings on September 5th, I spoke to the Rotary Club about our uh cop safety grant. I'll go into that a little bit more here and show you some of the things I did. But, uh, our um, and on on September 12th, uh, Rachel Stackhouse reported on the new equipment in both of the, um, kitchens and how the free lunches and breakfasts are going and and some of those things. So, thankful for her to coming to speak. Um, I'll go into the cops grant a little bit and if I can Well, we've talked about the distributed antenna system several times, but uh it is up and running in both buildings and um we got the fiber optic
011situation figured out and that's working. Uh we've had the police department come check it out and the radios work. Um, in fact, I think we were in your office with Officer Zender and he was surprised he was interrupted on his radio when we were talking to him because he usually doesn't work there. So, now they work. So, that's great. Um, and then I will pull up the strategics dashboard. Um, and this is this is the high school middle school high school building. And, um, it kind of shows all of the assets. Um, and it's it's a little confusing, so I'm going to go in here and remove that. But it just shows shows the building, shows all the room numbers, and everybody has these safety badges. And if if uh you click this three times,
012you you could get assistance. It'll it'll go to um some of the responders that we have listed in in the buildings. Um, if you have a emergency where you need to activate 911, you push it multiple times and and they will come. Officer Zender is one of our responders, so he would have access to this site as well. Um, let's see. I'm going go in here. I'm going to remove the fire extinguishers. We have a lot of those at the But it shows where electrical shut offs are. Um, fire department connection. >> Fire hydrant. Thank you. Um, where all the card readers are in the buildings, our police have card readers. They can >> see that where where you are. Yeah. So, if I were to push this now, I'm going to switch over to
013the elementary, show you the elementary view. I'm not going to do it, but if I were to push this now, it would show that we are in room 162 right here. And and then if I move it, it will track me. So, um it'll show with the position of the emergency. It shows the room number. Um it can show a satellite view. So, if somebody were to go outside the building, you still know where the person is. And I think Do you remember what they said? Is it a mile radius, two mile radius? It looks like it's a mile radius that's shown in their grid. Um, so I'm guessing I don't know if it'll work beyond that or not, but it'll show their grid. So push the button and you evacuate the building and are
014in, you know, D15, the police would know where that person is. So kind of cool that way. >> And it does work because I did run down the hall. They tracked me like running through the hallways when we did a test. If I go to the administrative panel, I can look and see the badge health of everybody's and um everybody's badge that we've given it to. Wanted to show you the alert types. And there are beacons like that one in every room. Um the gym has several on the wall that are bigger um that will light up if uh if we go into one of these different modes. There's a red is a lockdown. A white is a staff alert. A blue is a secure. Green uh means to evacuate the building. Orange would be
015just a shelter in place. Purple would be a hold. And we haven't used this yet, but we potentially use this for like a medical emergency where we have um EMS coming in to transport somebody so that we wouldn't interfere with that. So questions on this. There are strobes outside as well. So if you look especially at the middle school high school like when you walk or when you drive to the back parking lot about every third post has one on it and so you do see them outside um as well and just obviously make sure that nobody's going in when something >> those are battery operated those units >> those are hardwired. Um these are all battery operated and it sounds like they last >> two or three years. They are battery operated out also.
016>> Yes. >> Do you know where they're hooked up at? >> Or are they just right in like a smoke detector? >> So it just ties into the Wi-Fi or >> Yeah. >> How many of those units do we have? You know, like a ton of them. >> One in every room. >> I know. Remember you were like, "Hey, could I get one of those in my room?" That's not what I said. >> I think that's what you said. >> That's not what I said. We're live here. >> What I said was I didn't even notice it. >> Oh, okay. >> Yeah. Can I get one? >> I remember it differently. But >> no, but no, I didn't I really It was there for weeks and I didn't even notice over the summer. >> Yeah.
017You know, I noticed all the dust on my desk and I was looking up because I was like somebody was monkeying in the ceiling and it took me a few weeks to get it. >> Yeah. So, it start like beeping when the batteries are running low. >> I think uh it's all part of the programming. It'll tell you, right, Craig? >> That's a good question. I only knew about checking the batteries on here. I can look at the battery health and everything. shows all the badges are healthy, >> but I I haven't I don't know about that. I'll find out about that. >> So, their battery with the hardware backup. >> No hardware at all. >> Yeah, I think they're trying to tell you 10 new battery light. So, we'll have to find out about
018about that. There's got to be a way we can check that. >> Like the badges do register when they come each day. So, we were able to find one >> Yep. >> that uh hadn't checked in in a couple days. And so, we had to go talk to that person said, "Where's your badge?" Because it hasn't checked in. >> Oh, really? Yeah. >> Maybe you're the one yet. >> Oh, yes. It will it will um basically tell you the last time it checked in on our Wi-Fi. >> So I know uh when when I presented this to Rotary Club, there's obviously grandparents and parents on the Rotary Club and they were pretty excited about having an extra safety layer there. Cool. Um otherwise I think we should be I think fully complete. We still have
019one more year of um payment for uh our police liaison officer which is was Mr. Walstrom. Now it's Mr. Bowler. That's kind of an interesting one because they're both kind of police liaison with our officers as well as me. But uh that was written into the grant. So part of their part of Nathan's salary this year will get coded to that. So pretty good. doesn't help you any same page just coded differently. But um and to echo what John was saying, I'm really proud of the staff that just working hard and building relationships and and getting the year off to a great start. So that's awesome. The other got a little tidbit of joy. We have a student audit coming up next week. Minnesota Department of Education is going to come down and uh make
020sure that we're We have this we're the students that we're reporting and the time that they're spent here um is factual and we're not making up students or anything like that. Um I've never been through one of those and obviously Nicole is our MARS coordinator now. She has not been through one of those. I think we're going to circle back with Cindy Kerin to see if she's ever been through one um to give us an idea of what we can look forward to. Is the purpose of that just like how much revenue you're generating per pupil? >> Yeah, I'm not sure. She said it's a random check and and we uh randomly were selected to be checked and I think they just pulled like six students and then check them and make sure they're actually
021here present that type of thing. >> That's about all I have. All right. Thank you, Greg. Barb, >> um you guys approved the maximum proposed levy. They're still doing runs. They still they have lot of retirement. So there's some fixes in the programming happening. So by September 30th, we'll have to lock in the match will be and I'll send that information the levy information out next week. Monday self club has their meeting on the levy system that'll run through which some MBE personnel come down to do that presentation. um just looking for efficiencies in our smart finance system. And so we put in the process electronic signatures for purchase orders. So there's less paper having to be printed and shuffled around. Um just following up to make sure our staff is highly qualified, just attending
022a bunch of meetings on health insurance, war committee, hed um and then doing a lot of reconciliation and reporting to audit auditor will be here October. >> Questions for Barb. Thank you Barb. whole business strategic plan update. We have officially finalized the strategic plan action plan I should say of the strategic plan. So you all have the copy correct or everybody I don't know where they stop but anybody who wants copy should be there. So this is it folks. I'd just like to say thank you guys for all your hard work on this. This is this is a big project and you know we all work together pretty good I think. So we got it done and let's just uh follow through with it and see where it takes us. Anybody else have anything to
023add about the strategic plan? Questions, comments, anything? >> I can say I already got an email from a community member today. Our sixth graders went to the Cla House again today. our plan is go once a month and just that all the residents were smiling and happy and it was great to see our kids there. So I'm excited about some of the things that we've come up with at the middle school high school. So awesome. I think it'll be very impactful. So well that's good to hear and any time you have stories like that pass along. It's cool. All right. Um, as far as the hed is concerned, I don't remember. Oh, I'm sorry, Miss June. Do you want to do an update or >> Sure. >> Okay, let's back up then. >> Yeah, sorry.
024Just had to wait for one kid to head out today. >> I put my notes here. Um, we mailed out the catalog what, two weeks ago now, I think. Um, I spoke last week at the community coffee break. Um it was good to like just share with them what we have offered this fall and then I was able to ask a lot of questions about um like how they received their information, where we advertise, things like that. So was really um I think it was a really good meeting to be a part of. Um let's see. We've had a lot of hand foot mouth around the daycare. So I've been subbing for staff who are out with their sick kids or who are sick themselves. Um let's see. coming up. Working on our parent aware
025application for preschool. Um our rating for parentware determines um the funding we get for scholarships that we can offer. Um so that's due here in a couple weeks. And then just upcoming classes, we have ECF, a retirement cornerstones class, um junior robotics, intro to 3D printing, and defensive driving. Those are coming up in the next month. So >> that's all I got. >> Excellent questions for Miss June. All right. reverting back to the old days. >> It's okay. >> All right. Um, thank you. Moving forward, the HVED project update. The, um, at the last meeting, we did decide to make a, uh, committee dedicated to HVED transportation. Um, and so that first committee meeting is tomorrow night. And Craig, you guys, you had your superintendent then, didn't you? >> We did. Yep. >> What was
026the result of that? Um there were were a lot of questions or not really questions but there will be a lot of logistics with certain kids not being able to ride on the same vehicle. So I think we everyone was in agreement. Yes, we need to get together and figure out how we're going to coordinate and do this in a smart manner. Um, but I one guy said, "Well, we're not thinking about putting all these kids on one vehicle going." No, I don't think we could do that. So for those of you who are not in the loop on that, right, when we go to one central site in supposedly January, um the discussion would be having hed coordinate the transportation to Winona versus all 12 districts kind of doing their own thing trying to
027get their kids. That's the idea. So they the superintendents met and the there's a committee meeting tomorrow. Um so hopefully we can get some iron out that department to make things easier on each individual district. >> Yeah. And HVA doesn't have very many vehicles. Um and so yeah, it would be good to hash it out and try and figure out what to do. I know like there's a couple different ways to get to Winona from Calonia. You could either go through the Crescent and up or go through Houston that way. And Springrove would probably come through Calonia. Mabel would probably go through Rushford. So there we talked about maybe having potentially three different hubs so to speak where would be potentially Calonia, Rushford and Lewon I think was the other one. Everybody kind of funnel
028through right? Yeah, Mabel would would probably go through Rushford um to get a little bit maybe I mean the south route and north who knows but point being is >> hopefully it will be more efficient cost effective than than having 12 different schools doing their own their own thing. Um the only other thing there uh the you know Winona is is paying for services from Hed, but they're not part of the 12 schools that are helping pay to renovate that building and so forth. So um they do pay a little bit of a premium. It's 10% premium on top of the services that they purchase from HBE. Um, but I guess I was encouraging the board to consider bumping that 10% premium up a little bit to encourage Winona to join HBE and help sharing
029costs of renovating that building and keeping the lights on, etc. So, we'll see where that goes. They haven't they haven't really looked at that in quite a while. And evidently there's going to be a new formula they use when we move into the new building to kind of figure out what non-member districts are going to pay for services from HB. But I have yet to get that for I don't know what that is. But anyway, that's uh that's the news from up there. >> Still on target to get in January 6. >> That's what they're saying. Um, okay. New business. Nothing. Board member reports. Did we get any? All right. And uh, okay. So, I haven't done this in a while. So, to go into close session, we have to make a motion to go
030into close session. To go into close session, then we make motion to get out of close session. Right. That sound right? >> Okay. So, Spencer makes a motion to go go into special session to discuss a potential referendum. >> Derek seconds it. All in favor say I. >> I. All oppose say no. Okay. So, that carries a 6 and it is uh 6:00 on. Okay. So, if uh Any I guess we got to dismiss any non school board members or how does that work? >> Yep.