001To the flag of the United States of America to the stands one nation indivisible and justice for all. All right, roll call. Derek Julie here. Chad here. Lee here. Melissa here. Mike's here. Spencer here. Craig here. Nathan here. John here. She's closing up the shop. Gaddy here. Sammy here. Adoption of the agenda. Derek moves it. Lee seconds. All in favor say I. I. All oppose say no. Motion carries. 70. Warrior Pride. This would be accepting donations, monetary donations from the Lions for the Eagle Bluff Trip Calon. What is ESP? Anybody else? Educational support. Okay, so that's for the Eagle Bluff Trip and the field day and then the backstage boosters for the stage for paint and the Calonia Fire Department for Kleenex and sanitary wipes. So move it. I'll second. Julie second. All in favor
002say I. I. All oppose say no. Motion carry 70. the board showcase um video is linked. Does everybody have an opportunity to watch that video? I think the the only change is that they're moving uh Minnesota State High School League from 10 through 12 to 9 through 12. Is that like the big thing coming? And then he said in there that we were Do we have to each individual district approve that? Do you have any idea? Approve the the move like I mean cuz he said I I think we already did. Oh, we already did. Yeah. Oh, think we voted on that in Novemberish. Oh, okay. All right. So, that was the only thing that stood out to me. I'll be interested to see what changes come with u online schools and stuff like that.
003Mentioned in there that some changes they were working on. So, yeah, just curious. Okay, everybody's watched it. Moving on. Uh, student school board report. Addy or Sammy. Uh, spring sports are getting ready to go up and play playoffs and seniors have their last day today. They're going to do their practices for graduations throughout the rest of the week. Graduation's on Friday. Um, they did their senior prank today. What was it? Uh, parked cars messed up in the parking lot. Toilet paper the trees they threw. entertaining. Yeah, they threw streamers over the beans in the commons, balloons, confetti everywhere. But if I may say, they are the most thorough cleaners of any class I've ever had because they did a really nice job cleaning up themselves. They have fun. They cleaned up their own drink. Absolutely.
004I tell them that I tell them that weeks in advance. Like whatever you do, just remember you got to clean it up. So, cool. Um, just want to also recognize Addie. This is her last board meeting as she will be graduating on Friday night. And so, thank you. I did tell her, I just said to her, uh, how fast did those two years go? So, yeah. And I'm working on getting the juniors for next year the representative will have in place before August. So, cool. All right. Thank you Addie for your years of service and thank you Sammy. Okay, public comment. Nothing there. Consent agenda. Any discussion on that? All right, then I'll move it. Second. Derek Seconds. All in favor say I. I. All oppose say no. Motion carries 70. And then the uh
005action item A, this would be the just a yearly resolution to uh for membership in the Minnesota State High School League. Spencer moves it. I'll second. Okay. Uh all in favor say I. I. All oppose say no. That carries 70 burning through this administrative reports. Mr. Bowler, uh been a busy month and will be an extremely busy week. Um just to highlight a few of the things. Um you know, uh Eagle Bluff, the seventh graders went to Eagle Bluff three days last week. the sixth graders attended their field trip to the cities. We've had a couple other um elective classes in the high school that have had their um end of the year field trips. Uh Craig was gracious enough to um take the lead on neighbors day that I was going to be gone
006for funeral that day. And so um had a lot of things going on just activity wise. Spring is always a crazy time with sports. uh you know leaving early, missing full days, especially golf misses a lot of days. Um no lights on golf courses, so uh have to get those in. Um we also finished MCA testing. We have our initial results back that we've kind of done some digging through and I would say overall we're very pleased with the results. Um saw some good gains at the middle school, high school overall. um sometimes even 12 or 12 11 12% increases in our for our student score. So that was really good. Um this is a busy week. Obviously we have board meeting tonight. Tomorrow night is senior awards night. Uh Wednesday is my youngest son's
007birthday. Thursday is my wife's birthday and Friday is graduation. So um no looking forward to the graduation ceremony. Um six o'clock on Friday. Everything got set up today. all practice tomorrow and we'll do the senior walkthrough with the captain and gowns at all the schools. So there's a lot going on this week. So excellent Mr. Wilstrom. Yes. Uh similar to Nathan, I've mentioned this a couple times now, but the assessment season towards the end of the year um wrapped that up. MCAs and then also I Ready. We do a fast bridge assessment as well, but um the MCA and I Ready data. I'm excited to share that out at our next board meeting. Have some time to crunch the numbers and um similar to how I use that I Ready. It must have been, you
008know, half a year ago when I went over that data and kind of showed that scatter plot. Um I really like the I Ready assessment for that because it shows that that growth and um so yeah, expect a good report on that. uh when I have the time to you know compile that data. Mr. Hay Bison will help me with that again. So um otherwise yeah this spring I have a few notes on my phone here. Lots of field trips um lots you know each grade level some of them do multiple um things coming up. Fifth grade promotion and awards day is on Thursday on that half day. Um, so fifth graders, it's kind of like their graduation ceremony, so to say. I'm looking forward to that. Logger Dog Day is one that I haven't
009been participated in, but it's something we've done for a handful of years at least. But, um, students have the opportunity if they got a home run with their reading minutes with the lacrosse logger baseball team. They get a free ticket to admission to the baseball game on Thursday, May 29th. um one of the students, the highest reader, gets to throw out the first pitch, which is cool. So, I'm really looking forward to that. And kids that didn't get the home run, so to say, they also have the opportunity to go to the game as well. So, um that's going to be a good time to hopefully we get a bunch of elementary kids at that game with their families and it's kind of a fun outside of school year opportunity. Um yeah, I guess our
010staff surveys um we talked about that at our strategic plan meeting here. Um we have all the all the surveys back and you know they're anonymous so we haven't counted you know how many teachers we have and how many responses but at the end of the day um we have we believe every response back. So at the next board meeting, we will also have a good presentation of what those results are and um you know ideas and and you know search for areas of improvement and things like that um and identify areas for growth for the next year. So I believe that is it. Any questions for the elementary or anything at all? Did you say MCA and I results? Yeah. So the MCA they'll still be preliminary at that point. But can we can
011we see that preliminary stuff or do we have to wait for how does that work? Is it like the public can't see it? Public can't see it. I mean I can probably share some information with you folks privately. But I think in it's usually August that around state fair time when the test results become public. Okay. And then we can share them. But um I I have some general stuff I can share with preliminary data too. But it's good. It looks good. And one thing just know that there is no results um for the science test because it's the first year that this particular test has been given. So there's no results until the official results come out. We only have preliminary results for the film. So is that like eighth grade doesn't science eth
012and and one thing I just thought of the I ready sixth grade piloted that they do meet reading and ELA or mainly just did or sorry reading and they just did because we should include that when we look at that. Anyways, other anything else for me? Any questions or anything? No, that'll be fun. So, staff surveys and I ready stuff for June. Cool. Uh, Mrs. Speaking of June, Mrs. June is not here, Mr. All right. Um, wanted to share and it's been out there for a while, but Dan Winkler was named 2425 Filmore County Journal Teacher of the Year. That was pretty awesome. Uh, Mr. Bowler put on a little presentation at the high school and uh he was presented with the golden apple award from the Fillmore County Journal. He got a lazy boy
013recliner from Truries and Fountain, a $500 gift card from Rushford Harmony Preston Foods and a Green Mountain WiFi enabled pellet grill so you can like control your temperature of your grill from wherever you're at, which I thought was kind of cool. Uh, congratulations to Dan. It's the second year in a row that a Calonia teacher has won. Last year, Shan Kochi won it. And that uh is only I believe it's the second time that same teacher from another school has gotten it two years in a row. So, we'll have to see what happens next year. Um, some boring stuff. The cop copier contract is is taken care of. We're going to continue with Eio Johnson for that. and uh we they've been really good to work with. So um John will have information on the
014local literacy plan. We'll have to approve that in June and it's a little more in depth than than he was thinking it would be. Um but we'll have that ready to roll and we'll get that out to you guys so you can see it before the meeting. Um same with that community outreach document. We just talked about that in the strategic planning. We'll for sure have it ready to roll in a couple months. Um, state budget sounds like they reached a deal on Friday and um, today is the last day of the session, but it sounds like they need a few more days to finalize things. Curious to see how that ends up. Um staffing, we only have one teaching position open right now, high school math. Um and then we have a few pair
015of professional positions to fill. Um John missed out on talking about the Pace Dunt Tank. That was an awesome event. Thanks to Mike and the PACE people there that that helped with that. It was a fun event and it's a little chilly, but it could have been worse, right? It wasn't today. If it would have been today, that would have been really bad. Wow. Um, I was glad I got got a throw in there, too. Nailed it first first shot. Nathan was giving me a hard time. He said, "Well, who couldn't hit it from that close based on the video you should have seen the elementary kids basketball? They really couldn't." It was funny fun event and the kids really liked it. So, that was awesome. Um, we talked about MCA data. It really looking
016good. the elementary reading kind of stayed the same, which is awesome because they really been had some high scores. Uh, but the math went up in elementary school, middle school, and high the high school stayed about the same. Um, so that that's pretty good. But I probably shared more than I should have with preliminary data, but that's about all I have. Thanks for uh all your support. It's been a really really good school year. Thank you, Mr. Bart. Um, go through it quickly. Um, unemployment hearings and I have been dealing with some of those um and the billing just has been a struggle. Um, but last week we finally hit someone that knew what they're doing and actually fixed their situations. So, that's good. Um, still learning more about the kind of medical leave. Um,
017and I think we're just going to instead of doing private insurance, just going with the tax rate. Although I've heard they kind of talking about adjusting that rate. I don't know how to check out the legislation. Um, working on the budget for 2526. Um, I believe they moved it from 1.2% to 1.1%. So, we'll you'll see for sure and adjust our information. um our workers compensation experience rate went from 0.91 to 0 71 as long as we stay below 1.0. It helps with our workers comp rates. So hopefully we'll see that reflected in our premiums. Um still learning a lot on the incentive aid read and what we can and can't code to there and working with MT on some of that. Um the state knows what our title funds are going to be um
018for the state but they haven't allocated out to the district. We won't know that till the first part of June. Um uh there's been talk about how Medicaid is going to affect um the students in in Minnesota and that could have a direct effect on our direct certified free and reuse students which could eventually affect our compensatory revenue. So there's still a lot of unknowns with budgeting for this next year. Um my effort the pre-introduced stuff. What did you say about a mis? So a few years ago Medicaid was a qualifier for being unfree and reduced. So it was direct certified so they didn't have to fill out an application in order to qualify. And that was based off of if they're on SNAP which is from SNAP or Medicaid. Well, now if they're going
019to cut those that are eligible for Medicaid, that will then affect who's free and reduced for direct certified for meals as well. So that could affect trickle into our finances based on being compensated revenue based on those figures. And then also whether the state pays for the free breakfast and lunch or the federal government pays for the free breakfast. All right. Thanks Barb. Doing good that hard. Oh, Gretch. Hi. Um, let's see. We had our summer stack training last week, so we got all of our staff ready to go um for that and we should be um good as far as like the registration numbers and the staff we have. Um, we should be good with our ratios. Um, what else? So, we just had our facility use policy meeting. Um, changing a few things
020to put on the next month's agenda, but going to focus this next year on gathering data. Um, so we have we can make better decisions next year, just more informed on um the usage and how much it's costing us, things like that. Um, so we'll have that ready for June um for you guys to look at. And then, yeah, we have a couple programs um in the works for the summer. an adult cooking class and working with the school force committee on a program um for kids out there this summer. So, don't have all the details yet um but that's in the works. So, right now, thank you June. All right. um old business stuff, strategic plan update, strategic planning committee. Had our uh last meeting for a while here today, just before this meeting.
021And we have the action plan pretty much all done with the exception of goal three. And just to remind those of you who might not top your head, it's all students will be involved in at least one community outreach service project per year and they'll be organized at grade level. and the um so we have all these ideas and it's just Nate's going to need a little bit of time to know like what idea is going to be able to fit in what grade, middle school, high school and because some grades might have to split duties due to the amount of kids and so forth. So the plan of attack is the August meeting's going to have all that laid out and then the action plan will be complete and then it'll just be a
022matter of maintaining it from that point forward. So um any questions on where we're at with the strategic plan? And I don't know if I've ever sent you a copy of the strategic plan. I'll get it to you, buddy. All right. Um, anything with the HBE project update that needs to be discussed? Not on my end. Of course, I missed the last meeting. I had more important stuff going on. I'll be back up there next Wednesday night, so I'll see what they're up to. Could be a report after that. Any idea when we're moving into that building? They talk in December, but I mean I We'll wait and see. I mean, I wouldn't hold my breath, you know, on that, but she's pretty confident they will be. Have to wait and see, all right. uh
023new business stuff discussion on the early start renewal for next school year. Yeah, that was one of the things I saw in legislation that that got passed. So, I'm I'm glad you asked about that. We they approved schools starting before Labor Day, I believe. Um but again that session's not complete but that's one of the things that I heard was approved which made me then wonder do we need to fill out a flexible learning plan? Um we're obviously we have one more year and my intention was just to kind of bring this forward now and say hey is this something we want to pursue as a board looking looking at it again. There are three public meetings that have to take place. We have to get a memorandum of understanding from the uh teachers union.
024Um but I don't know what the legislation if changed if anything. So more to come. I did talk to uh the teachers union today and said that you know that might be something we want to look at again and we might want to again survey our um parents to see if it's something they want to do. I think last time we had 72% of our parents wanted to continue with it. So can't believe it's been 3 years since we did that. So nothing that has to be done on it tonight. Just I was curious whether we should move forward with it or if we wanted to start after Labor Day. I think most the vast majority of people like it. The people involved with the fair would rather we wait till after the fair. But
025I think was I think it was 72% of our parents wanted to continue the last time, but we could certainly put out another survey to see where we're at next fall. The main issue was this whether it was a 10:00 start or a normal starter, right? Most people like the August start date. It was like the time that was the contentious part. The private school were starting at A9. We started at 10. Yeah, that was that was one year. But but point being, is that going to come up again this year or are we No, we just we already done the calendar for next for this coming school year for 2526. That's all set. We're already talking a year or 14 months out, right? But so this coming year, the start date I I know
026we're talking kind of two things here, but they're somewhat related. The start date for this coming school year 26 is that an 8:00 start or kind of we decided on eight. Okay. Um, cool. Anything else on that? Board member reports. Julie, you got anything? Melissa, Chad, Spencer, no. Same. Same. All right. And uh I don't have anything either. So in that case, other than to say uh thanks for being a good sport, man. Those kids are going to remember that for a long time that makes an impression, you know. So way to go. They they earned it. And I mean that because I when we when pace when we came up with that idea I said I just want to be clear if we don't beat the goal we're not doing the dump. It's not
027the three trophy idea here. And if if we're willing to publish this to the kids we need to know that that's if they don't do the 100,000 minutes that's going to be really hard to break to them. So if we commit to it we got to do it and be prepared that they don't reach it then. But um are they well over it? Yeah. And that's by the end goal. Yeah. No, it was fun. It was fun for three months for 50 kids a day to tell me they were going to dunk me and then for every day since 50 to tell me that we did dunk you. So, it's been good. Get a good strong relationship. It's fun. Yeah. And the teachers pulled in. Oh my god. pulled in the parking lot and I
028was pulling into the space and there were actually kids around my vehicle and I'm like I I don't even know what they were doing there that early. They were waiting and um one of them ended up actually hopping onto the tailgate of my truck just out of excitement and I was like, "What are you doing? Get off my truck." It was there was a different type energy that day. So, it was fun. All right. Is that it? Okay. Then I'd like to make a motion to adjurnn. Do I have a second? Seconds. All in favor say I. All oppose say no. Motion car. It is 556. Thank you everybody.