001[Music] call the Manito Public School District meeting to order. Welcome you all here tonight. And uh if you would please rise for the pledge. I pledge algiance 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. Thank you. Make sure you've signed into board book and we'll ask for the roll by Christopher Ael here. David Bowman here. Here Loy Blanik here. Keith Shaw here. Tr. Thank you. And we will move on to public input. Barb post 825 Wilson Street man. I'm really happy with the outreach the board and the people have given but I'm also looking for peerdriven grade level home school inclusion with modification because this is so vital because it opens the door to true
002community. All students uniqueness on full display. By working together with staffs and students, they gain understanding and acceptance. Introducing it and starting it in lower grades. It evolves from there and becomes an everyday routine. Students have individual attributes that may be the same or quite different. It is the overall acceptance that truly matters. It builds a self of belonging. You are all unique and it is through communication and collaboration we find belonging and a belief in oneself and trust within your comm evolve. Be the change that is so needed. A strong team that role models what communication and collaboration truly is. Strive to share the understanding and acceptance to build students into strong self-motivated and productive community partners. Along with this, it stands to point out that we are never sure of a student's driven
003passion unless they are allowed to discover and grow. Embrace them. All their lives are forever changed by your interactions. Drive to be so that they can thrive. Without education, there is no life, just mere existence. There's no easy way. Commit to the task. And I also wanted to bring up another point that I heard the other day at the meeting. They were asking if you could get college credit for doing a portfolio. And my daughter did it. She was a junior talesin at Franklidd Wright School of which is not in existence anymore. She was a true apprentice and this is her portfolio that she had to hand in and she did get college credit for it. Oh, sure. Was in the gifted and talented program. You asked the other day. And here's the form for
004the public school district. Okay. Thank you for your time. Thank you, Barbara. Having no other requests for public input, we will close public input and move on to the consent agenda. And you can see it on your agenda there. Anybody wish to have anything pulled for discussion consent agenda? Anybody wish anything pulled? Third and final time. Does anybody want anything pulled? Hearing seeing none. Can I have a motion and a second to approve the consent agenda? So move. Second. Motion by Mr. Shaw. Second by Mr. Bowman. Discussion. All those in favor say I. Post say nay. They are approved. We do not have a student representative. It is summer and students should be off on summer vacation. We allow them to do that. That's what they earned from 180 days. That's not what my parents
005ever think. All right. And we move move on to the report from the superintendent. Thank you, Mr. Hansen. Um hopefully everybody had a wonderful holiday weekend. Uh the weather was great. I had a chance to play like four rounds of golf and do some things. So, it's great. I had a couple days in the UP. You can never go wrong with that. Um, so, um, my superintendence report this month just highlights a couple things I just thought I'd put in for information. It I wanted to make sure everybody had an updated list of our, uh, administrators in the district. So, have our building uh, administrative team listed and then also our central office team uh, with contact information for um, our new team. And speaking of our new team, I'd like to formally introduce to
006our community and to the public Stacy Opali, who is our new director of human resources, and Nathan Milky, who is our director of business services. So, huge welcome to them. Hit the ground running on him already. Uh we had bunch of team meetings and doing a great job and uh uh we're very grateful for them to be um on our team. Um, and speaking of gratefulness, I also want to say, uh, you know, two two real giants in my opinion in public education and service, uh, you're not going to get any better than, you know, Mike Null, Ken Mishler, and the service that they provided this district, uh, Mike for the last couple of years and and, you know, Ken coming in this year, um, to help us out is just a true testament to
007the type of people they are. Um they're highly committed uh very caring um they were collaborative um and um boy uh just a vast with their experience vast knowledge and I I will say um I wanted to be a sponge as much as possible working uh with the two of them because of all the things you can learn. So, a huge thank you to them and uh for their service and um you know, we'll stay in touch with Mike and and you know, Ken's still doing work for the foundation, so he'll be in every couple weeks. So, um just discussing uh our all ships. So, we've kind of talked about this a little bit. Um we went to this year we started a public relations team in the district made up of staff members from
008each building. Uh and early on in that conversation, one of the things that was brought up when we're talking about how do we build a true community of learners here in Manitwalk was this idea that we sort of seem a little fragmented uh you know with our mascots and things throughout the elementary schools. In fact, I think if you would walk down 8th Street and quiz someone and say, "What's Jefferson?" You know, they might go like, "I don't know." Um no, they went there, they definitely know, right? But um you know, one of the things that that that's strong successful districts in building this culture do is um they essentially come together as one mask. And for us, it's the ships, right? Um so we're announcing it's a soft roll out and we're going to
009do some rebranding. We've got a new website. We're going to be doing some different things uh with the ship logos and stuff uh with sizes and things. And um I think one of our elementary principles already said, "Hey, I saw your thing and we're ordering some banners and they're going to start uh but but you know, by no means we're not going to go scratching the Mustang off the Monroe or or anything like that, you know, but as things progress with our facilities work, we will be cognizant uh that we're all ships." And one of the things we'll talk about this this summer fall when we kick off school is um I'm a firm I I love the um the analogy of us as the educators in this learning community being the ship builders and
010our kids being the ships and I think it fits in and we talk about you know their dreams are you know your dreams our compass and it sort of all fits together and so we're just very excited about the idea that we can infiltrate our community with ships uh in and It's it it's very unifying in that if you think about it currently uh only 20% of our school district student wisely staff wise um are sporting the ships stuff right and in a in a competitive world that we live in in terms of you know marketing and branding uh we really feel strongly that if 100% of our learning community is sporting and repping the ship uh ships that that will be a a way for us to unify um as a district and as
011a community. Um in addition, uh we're working on our big rock planning. Um we just got our new teammates and so we're working through uh the 100 day planning cycles as we've discussed before and you can expect to see them in the months of August and September coming through committees. Um, one update on our facility advisory committee is that our groups have finished the phase where they were doing a build your own district project. They came up with over 40 different options when they're mainly considering these two factors uh number of schools and grade. Um, and so what they'll be doing now in this next month's meeting and we uh it'll be uh this month's July meeting will be towards the end of July. uh they'll be looking at all the different options and and
012Mike Hacker does a really good job of basically representing all of the options in like one sheet with some trends and some things that were commonalities amongst the different options or sometimes differences and then the real focus will will turn July and August as all right now from this let's start deducing some things down you know what information do you need uh additionally to make some considerations for us to consider moving forward. We're on pace with our timeline. Uh things look pretty good to be uh our hope is to be sort of wrapped up with that by October and then have some real um real things to bring you um all on that. Um and then I'm very excited that you know stemming from our visioning meeting um on May 21st uh we uh Biff
013and I had a meeting um with Patty Vickman at the at WASBY and discuss some of the items that came up through our conversation. Um the beauty of this is apparently because we used them for the superintendent search um this is considered a transition meeting and it's free so it's all nice and packaged and we're not paying extra for it. So, that's a nice opportunity. We're going to do a 5:00 start with uh we we'll do it like a Jimmy John's or some type of just have a bite to eat and then get going in the presentation, but it's going to be a two-hour deal. So, we thought we'd try to get it started at 5 to be done by 7. And I would be happy to entertain any questions anybody has. M. Yeah, Lee,
014I'm just curious about I mean, not that I need to have any voice on this, but I'd be curious to see what those 40 possibilities are. Is there like a succinct thing? I'll be able to share that with you. Perfect. I'll share u what I've uh what I've been doing or trying to do is share uh in these updates like the slide deck, but the last two months we haven't really had much of a slide deck because they're just doing the you know they're doing their activity. So now once he produces these documents, which I actually should have by next week, okay, uh we talked about having those by next week. So I'll share them all out with you. I'll send a an email communication with the Thank you. One of the nice things about
015the the Vickerman meeting special meeting this time is she's going to be sharing with us an evaluation tool for the superintendent. Yeah. So, what we can we can actually evaluate using data and and get a clear picture of um the job that's being done. And that's something we I think we've needed for a while. We had one for a while and then we had so I was really impressed uh when we were at the state convention Mr. Shaw and I had an opportunity to take a look at that uh in a presentation and it was really slick. I mean you all have your own login. You can go in and do the assessments and captures of I'll tell you it really takes a lot off the president because the president in the past you know
016like on the library board you're like the collector of all the things and then you have to put it all together. So this will be nice. I'm really thankful easier for us. Any other questions? Otherwise, of course, we also have the director's report which you have in writing and our our director team is here to answer any questions you may have about that as well. Are we still a principal associate down at Lincoln? Uh we are Stacy. Sure. I extended an offer to somebody today. So that'll be coming. Chris, thank you. I I just want to thank Director Oali because she made sure she called out on our personnel report for hiring everyone that is coming in on a um license with stipulation, which I I think is vital. I understand why we do it.
017I don't have a problem with that. I think it's vital that the board knows that we're doing that, how many we're doing, and that we're always looking to make sure those people are providing quality education. I trust that we are doing that. I know we have some stuff in place, but I really appreciate it at all being explicitly stated right there. Thank you. Any other questions? Seeing none, I'm going to unfinish business. I don't believe we have any um new business. Over to the finance committee. Mr. Shaw, the dinner service project at Manuel Public School District looked at your information that was provided by the Amanda Estelle who was the director of our food program. She did an outstanding job of presenting what this what this program would entail, what it was all about, cost,
018federal reimbursement, what we would hope to gain by it. um and and the possibilities of serving the community of which finance and facilities committee felted itself. Great information and a great benefit to this community. Um we're pretty much emulating and working closely with Manasha Public School District who has had this program for a couple years now. So that did an outstanding job or she did an outstanding job of reiterating this information. I cannot answer any questions outside of what you have read there, but it did pass the committee to go to the pool board to implement this program next year in hopes that we can service our community and um the community that has supported education a great deal. And if we can turn that support around and help less fortunate families with the nightly
019meal, I think that's the purpose of gain out of this committee. Committee members, any other anything you'd like to add and David? Before we discuss, we get a motion to approve. I do. I make the motion that the manual district enter into this this outstanding program serving dinner um with our two buildings Jefferson and Washington on a trial basis. 2526 school district was going to say supervisor but we're not supervisors. Miss Holson with the second. Um no discussion. Did you want to make a comment? Yeah, I do. In addition to what what what Keith um you know there's report from the committee um you saw also in that same committee meeting we looked at the preliminary budget 150 is our food service budget and as you saw in the last couple of years there's been
020a pretty consistent um you say uh reduction or deficit little draw on that. Now the good news is that we have a couple of years according to our numbers a couple of years to work this through. But the other thing that I really wanted to point out and I thank Amanda for her work uh in conjunction with collaborating with Manasha um is is really the financial impact of this also. Um, this is a very smart thing to do. Uh, because as we're trying to reduce the gap in our deficit, what we're able to do here is take something that we were we were providing a snack for those kids at Washington already as part of our boys and girls program, but that was being re reimbured at a rate of 121 uh, which I mean
021it cost us at least a dollar to give it to them, right? So, this is just a there'll be a bunch of we're figuring about a $3 margin uh that we can the goal would be if her numbers are right in this memo. You know, that's reducing that gap. And you know, I don't know if we can get quite that extra year out of it, but as I was explaining to Biff in a conversation, you know, as much as you can get, if you do decide to move forward with C, needing to subsidize it from 10, the the the smaller that deficit can be makes it more feasible. So, I just really kudos to her and her team for this work and uh thanks for the support of the committee, Chris. Yeah, I I absolutely
022support this. I think it's a great idea. I think it's a great thing to try and these are exactly the schools at which to try it. I certainly hope that it's successful enough for us to expand it to other schools. Any other member? I guess to go along those lines is this is a C program. As I learned this week, there are other schools that do this, but they don't qualify for C. they're taking it out of budgets because they know how important it is that kids get nutrition that's good. Um so we because we are in this program and we qualify for this program. Um we are using tax dollars that we send to Washington that's being sent back to us. So instead of it going somewhere else in the country to somebody else,
023we're actually able to use some of that money that we've sent in. We're using it for a good purpose and that's, you know, we're feeding kids and and hopefully with this program, kids at Jefferson and Washington will be nourished correctly. So, uh, I think this is a nice step for us and I hope this works out. Any other comments, questions? Then let's vote. All those in favor of the dinner program at Jefferson in Washington, please signify by saying I. I oppose saying nay. And it passes. Mr. Shaw, excellence. The next thing that that came out of the the uh finance and facilities committee was the um student accident insurance expenditures for the 20 2526 school district. Um Nathan and Ken brought up to the committee that the cost of this program as indicated in the
024memo that was sent to you in board book was $11,564 of which um our district paid and was never used wasn't used was needed because we have accidental occurs. We have we have uh insurance that covers all of the basic needs within the district plus we have a supplemental insurance program for an accident that does occur. So it was the recommendation out of the business office and finance office that we do not involve ourselves in this program this year that we do not take out this accidental insurance and it passed the committee three to nothing u favoring the recommendation from the business office to not get involved with this accidental insurance policy for the 2526 school year. So that is my motion to accept the um request from the business office not to get involved
025with the accidental insurance policy program for the 2025 school district. Do we need a motion? We have a motion that we do. We have a motion from Chairman Shaw and we have a second from Do we have a Do we have to have a motion? Something we're not going to do. Yes, we do. Yes. Oh, okay. Let's not go over that ground again. So I hope board member Tras with the second any other discussion on this any Nate do you have anything to no add okay I just want to you know there've been a number of insurance things come by us I don't you know the other one that we have we have no insure no no nobody that wants to insure guess but boy the premiums have gone way up haven't they way up
026and that's across the board is it yeah and you was a chance to save a little bit of money to offset the huge commercial property insurance that we have don't have any options and so let's keep the discussion to this but I think we need to discuss that other thing at a future meeting so um any other discussion on the accident insurance that this in a sense we're overinsuring for this um any other discussion All those in favor of discontinuing the insurance say I. Oppose say nay. And it passes. Do you have anything else for us, Mr. Sh? I do not. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. And we'll move on to the curriculum committee. Um the curriculum committee met and we were presented with the academic standards um for coming school year. This is kind
027of an annual process that we have to go through. Um extremely well written, extremely comprehensive. They give the guidelines for what should be taught without demanding how it should be taught which is exactly what we should be doing. Um so I would make a motion that we approve the academic standard to us. Motion and we have a second for Mr. Ael. Any other discussion on this hearing? Say none. All those in favor say I. Say nay. Hearing that. Do we have anything else from curriculum updated? Okay. So, we can go on to uh our committee reports and uh motions are done. We'll go on to other business remarks from the board president. I've been in touch with a lot of alumni when you were talking about ships in the district. It always amazes um when
028people come back for class reunions how much pride they have in graduating from Lincoln High School and graduating from Manatwalk and that's a good feeling to have but um uh class of 85 recently we had a reunion that doesn't seem very long ago to me but I guess um but uh yeah we had like 50 or 60 alum come to the tour it was really well attended a day at a you were a sophomore. You're not here. My 10th year of teaching. Um, but it, you know, so I kind of like that idea of shifts, but I like that idea of we do something right here. There's a lot of pride in going to our district and coming back and being a a shift. Um, that's a that's a good thing. Um, I would at
029some point, but I will talk to the committee chairs about this. I think there are things that we have to maybe look at um committee-wise on things such as the insurance issue that we're going to have and the uh review of some of the other policies we have just to see if we're doing it right or is there something we can change that's been changed over the last couple years that maybe holds the right. So that will some be something I will talk to committee chairman because it wouldn't be appropriate to get into that now. Um, but other than that, um, it's a nice fourth and it's it's kind of nice when you're out in the community and, uh, as a former educator, some of you know this kids come back and talk about how
030nice they had it at Lincoln. Question, Mary, I know that you had a recent visit to the Boys and Girls Club. Yes. Would you share some of that? Well, Le and I went and had we made it an official meeting, we wouldn't have had to open it to the public. So, and and it was quite crowded in there. Yeah. Their programming was rocking and rolling. There there is not they don't have a lot of space. And I think that was one of the things that, you know, they wanted to know where we might be going. We're not at that point yet. But, um, other things that we might be able to share with them, they um have after school programming. I believe they've done some things in our buildings with feeding or helping kids. Um,
031so they were looking at options to do that. Also, they transport kids from our schools to the Boys and Girls Club daily. Actually, they need more seats for I believe it's Franklin has extra kids that would like to come, but there's no ride on the bus. Uh there's an agreement with the bus company after they pick up their kids, they'll pick up Boys and Girls Club kids and drop them off at the center before they start their routes dropping the kids off. So there's little things that we uh discuss that maybe we can help them with and um down the road if things happen and we have space or we have places in the district that we're not using for school anymore, those kind of talks could come up. But it's just really more of
032an informal visit. Um It's It's a busy place. It really is. There were quite a few kids running around and um they were having lunch, I think. Well, one group was and then it was Yeah. And I was I was just joking because it was loud and it was noisy. It was like the, you know, cafeteria of Lincoln, you know, during during lunch and I was just thinking back when I was learning how to be a teacher. I was at St. Paul's and there was a sister on one end of this room and sister on the other end of the room and there was a loud noisy and it was just it was just a different you know decades ago how things have changed but this was this was pretty cool they do a nice
033service um they also work with Manashes it's oh yeah they have a lot in the valley in fact uh Boys and Girls Club the valley organization is known as like the top one around they really do a bangup job they have some programming in KE also in the county Um, and then our, you know, our very own Stacy. Paul's a board member, so we've got a nice connection there, too. Um, she'll be able to kind of keep us in the loop on what's happening there and what opportunities there might be to partner in the future. So, so, you know, bringing that up, Mary, it might be a it might be something to form an ad hoc committee of a few board members that might be interested in sitting down and working with them, you know,
034just to maybe get the ball rolling in some areas. um or finding one of the things I I felt bad about with the Franklin kids who can't get to programming even though they want maybe there's a way there's another place in town that could transport us but um let's think about that a little bit we do have um we are in conversations with Grant Bus about that okay a solution for that for next just you know like something we've done and there are also students at Riverview unable to go so we're talking about there's a bus going from Riverview there is now and they're all able on that every elementary school now have a bus, right? Okay. Y So I think Franklin's overcrowded, correct? So just know that we we have met with Steve about
035that and we're in conversation about Thank you. And I met there this spring with all the elementary principles and the elementary principles all did a tour and connected. Um you know, a big component of the Boys and Girls Club is tutoring and after school support for academics. Uh so the principles were really excited to learn more about that and then how they can partner with the Boys and Girls Club and communicate with them about things that kids may need to do or activities. Um so just trying to foster those relationships. It's what I love too is I know I thought Boys and Girls Club it's basketball and sports and stuff. It's so much more than that. Um with the academics and they do some art programming different things. The other thing we were kind of
036discussing when and I thought about it when you were talking about ships and ship builders, they do have athletic programs there. They do have these other academic things. Is that an opportunity for some of our kids and their service hours to go get a good experience of working with young kids. So I think that's something we can hand any other questions on that. Thank you for your question. Um, other business that's done. Future meeting dates, we have the 22nd, 5:00 here. Um, I think that's the only extra meeting. Yeah. And I thought, uh, can we get So, we did this last cycle, we stacked our committee meetings. Um the only major major difference was that uh finance and facilities had typically met either the week prior to that. Um thoughts on the stacking that we
037did. Does it work for people? I prefer you preferred it. Yeah. I I like the date but finance and facilities because of a chair a member of the committee has to meet at five. Yeah. Okay. Perfect. So I don't mind to end with that one. Okay. stacking, but I need to meet at five. You need to go at five. Okay, cool. We'll fix the only way it could get more convenient is through a drive-thru. I think we're pretty. You want it? Okay. Okay, we'll do that. You want fries with that? Yes, I do. Thank you for asking. I make a motion to adjurnn. I like that. Do I have a second? Second by Mr. Bowman. All those in favor say I. Post say nay. We'll see you on the 22nd. I have something. I see
038your face. Okay, that sounds good.