001All right. Uh we'll get started with the committee portion of the meeting. Uh we'll start with a report from Terra Rose on the athletic programs. So I'll make it as short as I can this year. Um and I'll send you the presentation uh tomorrow. U mostly because of a survey we did. So you can see those results. Um so first I just want to thank you guys. can keep going to the lights. Um, thank you guys. Um, big thanks to Dr. He's not here anymore, but he's been a huge supporter of athletics and of the school. So, um, but the board, um, having new administrators for me this year with Mike and Craig, they've been fantastic to work with. Definitely a transition because they're very different than Peggy and Mark, but it's been very, very
002good. So, um, if you want to go to the next one. So, um, we've kind of aligned our mission with school's mission. Um, but what the kids hear me say a lot is we talk about our core values. every time I talk with them, we talk about integrity, sportsmanship, and leadership. Um, and we do students of the month for that as well. So, if you want to move on to the next one. So, um, I always try to highlight, um, one thing that's we've had huge growth of, we have 78% of freshmen in some type of sport, which I think is a huge growth. Um, we have 62% of overall, but we've seen a growth in freshman and we have 71% of our general middle school, which is a growth as well. So, sixth graders
003only at 48%, but they're limited to the amount of sports. there's only a few we offer, but we offer all of our sports at seventh and eighth grade. We have 71% of participation. So, I've been really proud of the growth in that. Um, and that's kind of one of my goals is to help grow the middle school. Um, just because we know how being involved in athletic activities is linked to just so many wonderful things. So, um, with that, so if you want to move on to the next one. So, um, for the first time, um, this is year four for me. I sent out an athletic department survey. I sent it to all parents uh 5 through 12 um and kids um 7 through 12. Um and it was about it was a majority
004parents um and I will send you this so you can kind of look at it. We had a lot of positive response. Me, Craig, and Mike looked through it a little deeper. The only question that I feel like was was question number two had to do with communications. It was definitely one that was more neutral versus positive. Otherwise, we had 70 to 90% of like positive responses from families, which was really good. if you want to go to the next one. So, I'll send you this so you guys can look at it. Um, very happy with the sportsmanship and just kids developing, you know, relatable life skills through participation. But overall, we had a lot of like good, excellent or, you know, above average. So, if you want to work to the next one. So,
005we are addressing the communications. Um, so I'll talk about coaches a little bit, but um, me and Brian actually talked about this today. So, one of the biggest things that parents, particularly parents, not kids, they talked about communication being an issue within athletics. Not a huge issue, but it was definitely one of those things that flagged, and this was something I was looking at doing, um, but having the data to back it. So, we are going to use a communication app called SportsU. It's a US-based company. All data is kept within the country. And on an admin side, me, Brian, Craig, Mike, Daryl can, if we have a records request, they keep records for 9 years that we can pull data from for a conversation between a coach and a kid. I have told my
006coaches and tell them blue in the face, you should not be texting kids. Do some of them still do it? They absolutely do. And I've told them this. Like, I'm legally telling you, you should not be doing that. Um, I'm going to require I haven't required my high school coaches to do this, but I'm requiring all my coaches to have a SportsU team and to communicate at least weekly. Um, some of them do. And the reason why is this provides one place for parents. So, parents could have like a football, a wrestling, and a baseball team. Um, and like I have it, this is this is endorsed by the WA, by WA, um, by legal councils. Like this is the endorsed app for this because of what they provide. It's also free to the district,
007so it's no cost. It's Yeah. So, and I'm going to encourage over and over and over. This is how you should be communicating with your athletes and parents. And the coaches can have an athlete group and a whole group, you know, so if they want to just send a message to their team like, "Hey, we're leaving here for the bus or whatever." So, some new coaches that we've added a decent amount. So, Katie T is our new FIA teacher. She's committed to being an assistant volleyball coach next year, starting next year, girls basketball and track and field. She's been a great addition. Nick Johnson is coaching baseball right now. We just hired Dustin Bickerman for football and Hannah Enrun was hired for soccer. She's a Unity teacher. Um but obviously we co-op for soccer and
008so Unity hires that position. Um but both Corey and I were in on kind of the hiring. Hannah's been an assistant coach for the last couple years. Um and she does a really nice job. So, um, some things that we're looking to do this summer is a coaches retreat, like a half day where we talk about leadership and mental health within athletics. And one thing that I noticed consistently with my student surveys is students have felt like they say they're like it's not fun. Now, when you're winning, it's fun. We don't always win. Um, and it can be very grinding. So, one thing, so two things that both me and the coaches kind of talked about and my salt group, which is my leadership group, we talked about adding warm-up Wednesdays. Um, and I don't
009ever want to add something to the coach's plate. They're already overworked and underpaid. They, you know, constantly, you know, a lot of them are watching film at home. They're doing this for their sports. So, I said, I don't want to put something on your plate. So, what I said is have kids every Wednesday for 10 minutes, the kids plan a warm-up game, something that's fun. It's totally not has to be sports related, something fun. And my salt group, we do a lot of that in our meetings. We start with something fun, an activity. I said, we'll put a list together and you just say, "Hey, Abby, you have this Wednesday." Um, so a way to add some just kind of, and some coaches do this well already. Some coaches, this isn't their cup of tea.
010Um, but I said, put it on the kids. It's a win-win. They get to add a little bit more fun into practice. Um, and they get to develop their leadership skills because they're leading their own team in that warm-up. So, if you want to move on to the next one, can you just around line and stuff? Yep. What What is that group? The salt group. So, our salt group is student athlete leadership team. So, I remind them so we meet twice a month. Um, we have kind of three goals. One, I use them as an advisory council. Like, what are things you want to see in athletics? What are things you feel would be a better change in terms of not always policy, but so one of the things that kids have suggested is, you
011know, different things for pep fests or states. Um things that they'd like to see and this is one thing they're like practice can be a grind like and I love winning but 75 to 80% of our kids, they're not going to play beyond high school. They're not going to they're there for memories and a positive experience. So, but our salt group we do a leadership um we normally do a leadership reflection. So, we start with um some type of leadership activity. Um we've gone through books and different things that way. And then we also the goal is also to volunteer. So, some of our salt kids are going to help Mrs. Below with field day on Friday. Um we've done Ronald McDonald. We help they help with hoops for hope. So, things like that as
012well. They help with backpack like once or twice a month as well. So, that's what that group is. Thank you. Yeah. So Joe was the district one coach of the year and you may have seen our wrestling coaching staff get a ton of accolades that they'll technically get for next year. Um but we have the assistant coaches of the year as a group. Joe is the state coaching of the year for wrestling and Katie Ragger is the female district one coach of the year. So just a lot of awards for them want to recognize. You want to go to the next one? So here's our student athletes. So our salt group is that student athlete leadership group. They do leadership and giving back. So this year um we do backpacks. We normally sign up for
013once or twice a month to pack backpacks and deliver. So, they give up their study hall time to be able to do that. Um, we did Ronald McDonald House. And where that kind of started was, um, our middle son, Graham, was in the hospital a couple different times. He thought he had epilepsy at one point. He didn't, but our family benefited from Ronald McDonald House having a meal there. And it was something that I wanted to be able to give back because it was it's like the worst time when your child's in the hospital. So, um, uh, and the kids have loved it. They absolutely love going there. We make a meal and serve. They help with hoops for hopes. They also do a lot of youth sports and officiating. Um last week we went
014to ES recess. We're going to come back one more time. When we're there, we go over rules. So like we play kickball and remind them of the recess kickball rules with sportsmanship. We're talking about being positive for our team. So just kind of encouraging the kids to be really positive. And then we also so we normally do kickball and soccer and just remind the kids of the rules at recess time and things like that. Um we always do a heart of the north sportsmanship and leadership summit. We've recognized athletes of the month. Um for the first time this summer we have a mental health resource center and that's geared again more towards athletes. Absolutely able for all kids. So right now it's set outside kind of my office. During the summer, it's going to be
015outside of the wait room because that's one of the only times our upper middle school and high school kids come to school. And STAR provided some money to kind of get that started. And then I did some as well um with fundraising money. And what that is is it's a resource like resources for kids that are struggling with mental health. There's feathering sheets, there's books on it, and there's specific things for athletes, how to handle pressure as an athlete. Um, so things that kids could grab and use without necessarily having to talk to someone if they're not feeling comfortable. Um, and just different resources for them available for that. Um, so again, I always do athlete surveys. So I plan to do kind of that parent survey every four years to gauge how they're feeling.
016But students get surveys every year after the sport they compete. And I'm actually going to switch that next year to a midyear survey because I talk to coaches and I'm like I get this kids have really good perspectives actually normally but by the time the season is end the coach has to then implement that a year from now. So I feel I actually got another ad that's like I actually do midyear surveys. So then I can tell the coach, hey this is how your team is feeling mid-season and they can actually make positive changes for the second half of the year. Um so this year for the first time we had a signing night ceremony. It was great. We had nine kids sign for their college letter of intent. Um, and it was super fun.
017A lot of parents and grandparents loved it because normally we do it during the day. It's very hard for parents to come. So, I plan to continue this. The one change I'm going to make is try to make it a little closer to the end of practice time so we have more high school kids there. And then NIL education. So, I've been doing this slowly with kids and just kind of as we go through that. So, you want to go to the next one, Brian? So, this is a picture of our Hoops for Hope fundraiser. Um, we raised a little over $3,000 for a breast cancer organization. Um, and we honored Coach Materinowski as with her fight for with breast cancer. We um teamed up with Lady Smith this night for a double header. And
018Lady Smith's admin teams, coaches, they were fantastic. Their parents, everyone was super supportive. It was a great night. Um, Jen Ellison did a lot of the organiz like I did a lot of like coordinating, but she did the bulk of the fundraising organization. I certainly can't take credit for that. I was just more of here's a t-shirt order just more of the communication piece. So that was a super cool night. Um and you know a wonderful thing beyond just sport. So um some other I think there's one other some new things for facilities. So um I actually just got door wraps. So outside of the high school office are those door wraps. There's also more on the inside and on my doors. Um they really kind of spruce the space up. We got a golf
019simulator this year for the first time. Um that is in the fitness area. the both boys and girls golf will be able to use and there's plenty of other kids that want to use it. Um but this allows especially for boys golf they were able to hit and do things before they get outside which was awesome. Um and so that came from a donation fundraising and a little bit of athletics money. Um if you haven't been out irrigation area by baseball and soccer has had a big overhaul. Um and then batting cage improvements. Mr. Warner batting cage in the high school definitely needed some updates. It was a little unsafe if I'm being honest. And so it was nice to get that updated this year. If you want to go to the next one here,
020the other door wraps that are on. So the outside of my doors has athletics and our core values. And there's two quotes on the inside kind of about leadership. Um I think signage and kids seeing those things are important. You know, they're reading those things and they're constantly on their mind. So I have kids running in and out of my office to get candy every block for some of them. So they get to see those at least on the way. Do you want to go to the next one? So, a little bit for me. Again, I'm not going to go over all of this. Um, there's a lot that I do. One of the new things that will impact me in the next four years. Um, I'm very active in WA, which is our state
021organization as athletic directors. Last year, I was voted as our VP. So, I will do a four-year term for WADA. So, next year I'll be vice president. The year after I'll be president-elect, president, and past president. Um, this allows me to serve. And the reason I chose to do this, we have not had a representative from north of 29 in almost 20 years for the state of Wisconsin. Um, this is I'm only the fifth female to ever serve on the executive board. And we've also small schools are not represented well there as well. So it's right now we have 380s from the Milwaukee area on the board. You don't know what we deal with in the northwest portion of the state. The last person to represent the Northwest was Brett Neymik from Somerset and that
022was like 20 years ago. So, and that same that was the last time we've had a relatively smaller school. So, um I just felt like the northwest portion of the state um having that representation is really important and a lot of the rules that get pushed through are from bigger schools. Um and so wanted to be able to do that. Um, it also allows me to be a voting delegate at the national conference. So, Wisconsin gets five voting delegates. I will be one of those fives in the next four years. This year, I got the chance to go to Austin for the national convention. Not paid for by the school, completely paid for by me personally, and the S club like did my registration, which was really nice. Water will pay for me to go
023the next four years as a delegate. It was probably the best professional development I've ever had. Um, I got to meet one of my favorite things was being a we had a fe female like AD caucus. Um, and that was incredibly empowerful people all over the United States. Um, and being a under reppresented group in a largely maledominated um we we have our own, you know, things that we deal with for that. So, that was great. Um, but again, I'll share this with you if you want to go to the next one. Kind of more of my day-to-day things. So, um, again, some of you know this, but I'm a teacher during the day as well. So, sometimes I'm doing RTI. I'm gi the sports marketing management class. Um, and this year I've been in
024a lot of subbing. So, I've been subbing in the high school office a decent amount. Um, for Angie and just for coaches. So, you know, yesterday I filled in fourth block for Katie. I try my best for coaches to not be stressed, to be able to fill in in their classroom when I can. That's not always possible. Um, so the last couple years I have co-taught the sports marketing and management class. Next year, Mike asked me to teach it on my own, which is totally fine. I taught on my own this year when Katie Jacobson was on sobatical. It just adds more to grading and prepping and but in terms of my education this year, I got my CAA, which is a certified athlet athletic administrator that required me to take five like grad level
025classes and take an exam. Haven't taken an exam in a while, so that was like nerve-wracking. Um, but those classes, actually, three of them were law- based, so law based in athletics. um which scares the bees Jesus out of you because you're like, "Oh my gosh, I'm going to get sued tomorrow because there's so many lawsuits in athletics and um now it just prepares you kind of better to have so a lot of things that came out of that emergency action plans for every field, you know, those types of things, making sure we have that. Um and so I've really liked that. Um public relations and athletic promotion is a big part of my job. Um, I take a lot of pride in that a lot of people come here for athletics and the person
026they see there are one our ticket takers who are lovely old ladies. Um, and I tell them that and they're okay with being old. They like it. Um, but like they're always a pleasant and I no matter what I mean I see a lot of parents, lots of families, lots of kids. I think being that positive presence is really important for the district. Um, leadership and citizenship is incredibly important to me and so I volunteer for the backpack program. I volunteer for dollars for scholars. I do streaming for we are SCF when Chris can't. So I'm kind of that fillin. Um doing the senior lock in this year. I've been volunteering as a softball coach and I also fill in the wait room when I can. There's very few nights I can because I'm always
027at games, things like that. But when I can, I'm able to fill in there. Um working hand in hand with admin, district office, staff, transportation, maintenance, and custodian. We've had some change in maintenance. Um transportation. Rita and Deb have done fantastic. I'm not going to lie, the fall was awful. It It was rough. Um I like we became transportation directors, boom, like out of the blue. And fall was and Rita and Deb have done amazing to turn that around. Um but the fall was really rough. Um it was like, okay, we have to find transportation today. Um however, like again, I can't thank it's been working with Rita and Deb on that has been fantastic and it's in a much better place. Thank you, Lord. Uh, so I work with media, obviously, the heart of
028the north conference and the WA4 award recognition. We generate revenue and again, we have the new online school store, which is great because, uh, people can purchase things online whenever they need. Um, but we also get a kickback from that from BSN. We've already had like $600, so we could purchase uniforms from that. We could purchase clothes from that. Um, so that's a nice perk of having it as well. So, if you want to go to the next one, um, we have I'm very proud of the excellence that we have here. So, starting in 2023, we've gotten the WA award of excellence, which will continue. Um, and that's just kind of we've been a destination district. I like using that because I truly believe that. Um, but it takes a lot of things for improvement
029and just to share some of the success. So, if you want to go to the next one, probably know our wrestling team was state champions. Um, this does impact them next year. they're going to be moving up to likely division one wrestling. Um, which is incredibly hard. Um, we won't know for sure because next Monday I go to sports advisory in Stevens Point and we are voting on some tournament procedures which might impact how they seed the three divisions for wrestling because right now they're not even like it's not even amount of schools. Um, but there's a decent chance we're in division one for wrestling. And what really stinks is our team success is going to have a massive impact on the individuals trying to go to state. So just a heads up on that.
030So the next one um state hockey was in the or hockey was in the state semi-finals. So fantastic. We had 10 boys in the hockey program with Somerset. Um dance got fifth at state which is one of their highest places ever. A really wonderful group of senior girls finish their careers with dance. So that was super fun. And for the first time I got to go to state dance and that is a whole experience. whole experience state dance. I thought wrestling parents were crazy. They don't have anything on dance parents. So, no they don't. It was very fun. Um, volleyball was regional champs after a really great year. Um, football had a fantastic year as first time ever being hard in the North Conference champs and going level three. Um, and then if you go
031to the next one, just kind of consistency. Um, so me and Craig actually just had a conversation through email this morning on athletic training. So we tried to partner with S for health and we've kind of done that. Um what we felt is for the money we would put in and the time we would get it doesn't make sense for the partnership necessarily. It would be So what we're going to be looking to do is independently contract a athletic trainer. So warehouser does it. I actually have a meeting tomorrow morning. This app is called go for and it specifically coordinates. So you basically it's like athletic trainers for hire essentially is what it is. So, um, and this has been a it's been a it's been a bit of a stressor in my world. Um,
032because I get a lot of schools that come here and they're mad. They're mad at me that we don't have an athletic trainer. I need someone to take my ankle. Sorry. And I off like, so I take ankles a lot. Um, having Kirk, so Kirk Anderson and Mackenzie Nord have filled in, but they are EMTs. They're not always in the sports medicine world. They both have done pretty well. One of the biggest things is we have not had anyone to rehab our kids after school. We've had no one for the time that I've been here. And for families that have money, it's great. They take their kids to TCO. For families that don't have money, their kids get nothing. Um, and so for me, it's that equity piece of if we can provide it and
033we can find someone, I think it's important. And we are the only school in the heart of the north that does not have an athletic trainer. So now, a lot of them do piece things together like we have. Um, but we are the only one that doesn't have that kind of consistent piece. And so, and I, as it's someone who went through without an athletic trainer, as many of you did, it feels like a first world problem. But when most other schools provide that, it's hard to be the one that doesn't. And I've I definitely and I said multiple emails ads, please tell your coaches to we don't have that. Because I get a lot of coaches that were mad at me and I'm like, I did tell your ad. I want you to know
034like proactively that we just don't have this. It's not we're not trying, it's just something we don't have. Um, so cohesiveness within the athletic department is really important. Uh, wrestling space has been a big issue. We just have a huge growth, especially one, our boys program is huge and then you add 15 girls in two years and we just don't have a lot of space. So, we were able to utilize the stage for practice this year. That was huge. The girls were able to practice in there while the boys were here. Um, but that's something that we're continuing to look for because our program's not going to lower it probably at any time and that room is just not safe safety. We just can't have and so but the coaches have done a really nice
035job of okay, let's go to the weight room if this group while this group practices and vice versa, but it just puts more pressure on them. Um, soccer field improvements. Um, we're kind of always working to level that out. It's just a very bumpy field. Um, baseball, soccer, and track sound system is definitely needed to be updated in the next few years. um we can't play you can't play music on it because of just how the speakers are. So right now we've been using um the valley's like the church speakers that Chris Folkstead brings out there. It's great but you know gain folks I know at some point. So um we're adding Phil to baseball and softball this fall and just you know quality co you know quality paying quality coaches is something I monitor.
036We have a heart of the north spreadsheet of hey how are our coaches getting paid to the rest of the how are our supervisors getting paid those types of things. Obviously officials pay is dictated for the most part by the conference. The conference tells us what we have to pay. Um that keeps rising. The sports that are in jeopardy of not having officials very soon are soccer, football and baseball. like football games. You're going to see football games on Thursday and Saturday because we just and if you watch a football game, 75% of the crews are 60 and older and we just we do not have young crews going through. Um right now, soccer or football is the only sport I don't have. I have varsity field. I do not have I I normally fill
037officials out about a year ahead of time. I cannot find football officials for middle school. And I said, "Grant, will you please officiate middle school football?" And he said, "Yes." So, um, but like that's what I'm doing. Um, soccer is just the area we're in. And baseball, baseball and softball are really similar. Softball is an hour and 15 minutes. Baseball is 2 hours. So, a lot of officials have choose softball over baseball. Um, and it's just hard. And so, we need um some Unity and OciOla both have officials classes. So, they actually teach high school kids how to be officials in high school, which is awesome. Um, so I've kind of asked some of them like, "Hey, do you have like responsible quality ones that So that's something I'm going to look into." Um, for
038the most part, because I'm quite organized, I normally am able to fill those, but it's definitely something that I tell the kids like, "We have to treat officials with respect cuz we may not have them." And right now, officials want to come here. Um, a super cool thing that happened two weeks ago after I finished this is our basketball table won an award from the officials association for best basketball table. like hosting officials love to come here and that's something we want to do. We want our officials to feel that way when they come here. So I think there's just a thank you at the end. Yeah. So I will send this to you guys tomorrow. Um mostly because of the survey results in case you want to dig into that. Um I was really
039pos I was really it was very positive to see lots of positive comments, a lot of you know comments here and there but overall lots of positiveness from families. um and to get the kind of feedback that I thought we would on communication to share with coaches. If you haven't met my coaches, they're a really stubborn, awesome group. They're amazing, but they they do love. So, having that data to show coaches, this isn't me telling you that we need to do better in communication, which it is, but the parents and the community are saying we need to do better in communication. Um they like to see that data. My coaches are a why group. Why are we doing this? Why do we have to do this? They're amazing, and that's what makes them so good
040at coaches. They're detailed oriented. They're um and we just have an amazing group of coaches and even um Dustin being new here um he's like, "Wow, you know, it's it's not like this in Austin." So, um so that's been super fun. Any questions? Yeah. Do you know uh I don't remember the exact number, but there was like 130ome respondents on the survey. Do you know how many went out? 500. I can look at it. Yeah. 500 some. I send it out to all, you know, fifth and and some parents, you know, fifth and sixth graders like my kids aren't really involved or their kids might not be involved in athletics at all. There's, you know, 20% of kids that aren't, you know, involved. Um, I definitely I mean, you get obviously people that care are
041really passionate both ways, either negative or positive. Um, and I can share the comments, too. I can sh I can share the whole survey with you. Craig and I and Mike kind of looked through it more with a fine tooth cone of okay, what are we seeing in trends? communication was the biggest one. Um, and I remind my coaches this and this is one thing that's hard. Balancing competitiveness with the experience is really hard. Some of my coaches do it really well and some of my coaches are like, I just want to give my kids a great time but not challenge them. That's not what we want and I only want to win and challenge my kids. That's also not what we want. Again, I don't have a lot of those. Um, and that's where
042the conversations h and that's where I love the student surveys because it's really easy for me to share with the coach saying your kids want to be pushed more. So, I just had a conversation with the coach and said you could up the intensity. These kids can be pushed more. Um, you're doing a great job providing a great experience. The kids are having fun, but we want to we want to push them. We want to challenge them. We want to be more disciplined. Those are life skills that are so, you know, some of my coaches balance that really well. And um and so it's finding and and I've talked to Mike and we are not in the liberty of firing coaches or letting coaches go because well I have girls golf coach vacancy totally open.
043I have you know I had you know I went I'm always going to find coaches. It's not like we were lucky that we had applicants for football. Like we were incredibly lucky and that's one of the only sports unfortunately or fortunately that people are willing to move their family to coach. There's a lot of young men that want to be a varsity football coach. Um, and I'm also very fortunate that um, we have so many teachers that coach. Um, so Amory just hired an AD um, because their AD is leaving and that AD is my former student. He came to shadow me for a day and he's like, "Oh my gosh, you guys, you know, he was just very impressed." But probably 60 to 70% of the coaches at AMA are not teachers. And there's
044they don't understand that it's not like we talk about this as coaches. It is not the kids' job to adjust to you. It is you as a coach to adjust to your kids. You are a teacher first. You're teaching skills. You're teaching life skills. Um and that's something that we don't have to teach teachers. They get it. And so that's something that's great. Like a lot of times when I talk like so many of my coaches, they're teachers and they know how kids learn. They know how kids are socially and emotionally. They understand what, you know, the impact of trauma. They understand all of those things because they're great teachers, too. So, but I'll send you I can send you the whole global survey. You're welcome to look at the comments. Um, some of them
045are kind of funny. They're honest. You know, one Craig and I and Mike are looking through and and there's some very persistent people like there's one woman, she wants tennis here and she told me that on every single comment, I want tennis. And I'm like, we don't even have tennis courts. Like, do you know that? Uh and something like I agree I love that passion but some things are not feasible for our size of school. Some things are you know and we're not a growing school at least in the lower grades. So those are things that we have to consider. So with co-oping yeah any other questions. No you're doing a great job. You forgot one thing. We have an alumni that signed the Green Bay Packers. That is really cool. That is amaz I
046actually I had Tuko just send me the article that he you know shared with and that's just it's such a cool thing. We we talked about that in our class. Um because right now we're going through it's been fun because since we passed NIL we've been using the language the kids have to create like what would a endorsement at the high school level what could it look like with these rules because it they can't look they very much look different than the NCA. Um and it's just a ve that's a very different landscape that all of us athletic directors are trying to uh navigate because it's new. Um, and I think a lot of parents think of what it's done at the college level. Um, and it's very different at the high school level. Um,
047also probably shared that kind of slideshow with you guys so you can actually see how the new rule is written. The one other thing I forgot to mention that was passed that is good and bad. So, summer contact for coaches has changed. It used to be coaches got five days and that was it. Um, we just passed at the WA annual meeting that summer contact is completely open June 1 to August 1 minus a dead week in July. And as a small school directory and so I I appreciate that it puts it into local control. So here's an example. I'm going to use Stacy Hop. So Stacy Hoff always did like five days of volleyball practice with her girls and she would have a parent coach at league at volleyball league. Nothing really changes for
048the amount and one of my worries is I don't want one of our coaches going road. I don't want our kids to get burned out. I very much value multiport athletes and that is the cornerstone of our school is having two and three sport athletes. So I told my coaches we're not overwhelming our kids. Um, and this this is one of those things that came from a big school. This came from big schools. They want their varsity coaches working with say baseball player who only plays baseball. Great. Well, our kids are balancing maybe a volleyball, a basketball, and a track coach that wants their attention. Um, and so I've told my coaches, nothing changes this summer. You basically stick with that 5day rule, and we're going to adjust as we go. We're not going to
049overwhelm the kids. Um, and as a conference, we're going to try to build consensus because what always happens is, well, they're doing this at Oyola or they're doing this at at, you know, so that's where coaches feel pressure. Um, one thing this did, and I we kind of adjusted, um, this allows this allowed the conversation of some of our coaches are running their youth camps as a summer school class. It allows them to get paid as a coach, which is nice because this makes this makes coaches feel pressured to work extra unpaid hours all over the summer. You know, they're feeling pressure because, okay, now I can do it. I should be doing it. Um, and so I wanted to provide my coaches and so we talked at an admin meeting. So like Chad Hall
050and Angie, it looks different. They call it basketball fundamentals. Any kid can take it. We can't charge the kid, which is awesome. That means kids can go to basketball camp or volleyball camp for free instead of paying something. And our coaches get paid and the school can benefit with having that extra money. Um, and so that came out of this conversation. I heard other ads doing that. I'm like, that's awesome, you know, and it provides maybe for a family that couldn't afford that $40, $50 fee. Well, now it's free and our coaches get paid to do it as a summer. Now, it has to be more generic than just basketball camp. So, it's like basketball fundamentals and any kid can take it. Um, so it's offered through our summer school program. I just signed up
051my two kids for it for men camp. So, um, basketball and volleyball are running their camp that way. They're running the summer school class. Um, and so that was one way to show my coaches, hey, I'm trying to do what I can to get you at least some paid hours, right? Um, and it's a it's kind of a win-win for the school district, for our kids, and for our coaches. So, I do like them. It's not run through community. Um, correct. It's run through summer school. Yep. Um, football is still doing theirs through community ed as more of a fun. So, I basically told the coaches, you can run it as a fundraiser for your program. Charge the kids $40 or whatever t-shirt, whatever they want. Or you can you can't do both. Like, it
052it can't be a summer school class. We can't charge kids for um and obviously with summer school, we have to have um attendance, things like that. And just like what we do with the weight room and other class. So, um, so that was one, but that's a big change that, um, I've been very clear with my coaches. I don't want you taking over our kids' lives. Um, I want them one to have a summer. So, I I, um, so, as a Heart of the North Conference, we're kind of seeing how this summer plays out and talking as a conference and as a district so that the more consensus we can have to say, hey, everyone's doing about seven or eight days. So I know for volleyball and basketball. So like Stacy, what Stacy's doing, she's
053keeping her five days of practice, but she'll coach at league now. So the girls have no more volleyball this summer than they normally would. It's just that Stacy's going to coach lead versus a parent. Last year she had a parent coach Le. Um so Stacy will do those types of things. Same with Angie. Angie's doing that as well for um and football is very hard for coach contact because you have to acclimatize. You can't football can't you can't just like throw on pads and go. You have to have you have to step through which is really great for that. Um but it does and here's where it does allow. So you know like I use Nolan Mhof as an example. He long snaps. That's what he does in college too. Grant couldn't work with Nolan
054or he'd use one of his coaches days. Well now if a kid's just randomly doing something in the gym, you can say something to him. So that's the positives of those. So those are kind of the big changes is the um NIL and summer contact for that. So yeah, thank you very much again. You're doing great. Well, thank you. I'm going to go back to the games. I don't know that we need the comments probably, but I would like to see the slides and the the NIL slides for sure. I'll send those tomorrow. I sent myself an email. Send the board a presentation. So I'll send this presentation so you kind of look through it more. I'll send the survey um like the questions and just so you can see more of the details. Um
055and the NIL presentation is kind is what I've shared with parents and kids um and and the biggest thing with this is is educating that but honestly it's more so educating the public because a business member so um Kirk and I will do some more press release stuff with that as we go. So but it goes into effect June 1. So I know here we go. No. So, all right. Thanks, guys. Thank you. Yeah. All right. Moving on. We've got prom, right? Yep. All right. Prom date, location, and date for 25. Well, it's April 25th, 2026 at the fall. Oh, what am I missing? What is the fault? Same location as this year. Yeah. So, piece that com with Mike Wilson was is venues are looking for commitment a year in advance or more. We
056know the location and the date so bring to the board for next meeting for approval. Okay. All right. Any questions on that? Do the students nominate the location or are they a part of kind of suggesting different places or is it strictly a board decision? I believe the students have been involved in locating in the past. Historically, it was all students and then led by their advisor, but we just have to give the stamp of approval essentially to say yes, we're okay with that. And for example, in the past, if it's been some place at some great distance, the board has said, "Yeah, we're okay with that, but you have to take district transportation to that location still." Sure. So, we just kind of look for the the loopholes or the concerns, but otherwise we
057agree. All right. Hearing no more, we'll move on to Brian and the phone and bell paging systems update. Yeah, I sent in the board packet uh information regarding an upgrade to our existing phone system and a tool called Informiccast. Informiccast is an emergency communication platform. and also runs our paging and bell systems in our facilities. Um the two tools work intertwined. Um thus the reason this is kind of a two-step project. Um we'll be actually starting this summer with inform cast piece and then mid year with upgrade and migration to Cisco Webex calling. It's going to be a web-based solution versus our on premise uh hardware and soft and servers. um did put out the bid to competitive bidding to make sure that we're getting uh good value for our expenses. Um in the packet
058you saw that um lean forward with Hartland Solutions that came in at a lower price bid for both facets of it um compared to the other bid that was included in there. Um yeah, I guess I'm just bringing it for information tonight and the next board meeting be asking for approval to move forward with both packages. Uh the total cost of the project is $120,194. Thus involving the board and um it's included in my six-year capital plan. So I have a capital plan for purchases for technology and I always forecast out six years and this is within that budget that I had forecasted and we're paying all this upfront for 5 years correct? Right. Yeah. Which is odd because they seem to want payment but so we're getting the licenses for five years. We will
059be paying the connection to um digital first I believe is the company for the actual connection to the phone but up front on the Cisco licensing is all all up front for us. Okay. Is there any um like so the phones you don't have to replace but do they have to I mean are they at the light or are they going to be around or I'm assuming you can go to the app at that point if you need to too right. we can utilize. Nice part is the the solution doesn't require just our phone system. So in the case of a emergency, uh we'd actually be able to take our computers, go to a different internet location source and be able to receive and send phone calls as if we were in school. Um a
060cell phone can transition into the same thing. Um so that part from emergency perspective is is very much a a a plus. The other piece is our existing phones that we have are definitely under um compatibility. So we don't have to play new phones. That's the reason why I'm looking at this solution versus a Mel or other solution that um would require different hardware. There are some firmware and software updates that would happen um when this we're looking to target spring break of next year for the cut over. We'll do all the before work starting in January. Have you thought about like I know you're always going to need some physical phones, right? Um common areas or whatever, but even not right now because your phones are still good, but you know, five years down
061the road moving to just the software app. Um with the nature of the classroom, no. Um often times teachers are looking for that phone, they'll grab that versus a device. Um versus a desk worker, that's a different entity. So having a a physical phone in a room is still um I think going to be required of of classrooms. Um but we did and we experienced it in co is we have teachers that would be able to also make phone calls from their computer and look like they're coming from school as well. So it does provide that flexibility and we've leveraged that in the past. So be even more flexible going forward. Yeah. And if you have a remote day, I mean, technically they would be able to get the calls on there, too. But, um,
062sorry, I was going to email you a lot of these, but ran out of time. I think one of the proposals had 100 DIDs and the other had 170. It's um, did all the classrooms have individual DIDs? Which DIDs are the 10-digit numbers basically? So if you have a home phone that's a DI or you know some locations will have uh internal only number that's not a DI just to clarify what that is. Um we are specking it for existing one for one match of what we have currently in system. Um not all school phones have a external dialin number. Um but we do have a number such as we'll be extending them to the solution to the daycare. um dresser is also the same solution both coming in under the same umbrella. Um we
063would have to work with the various other teleos and make that transition. Um not all classroom phones would still have a call that elementary office. So that will still be in existence. Okay. You'll be able to then physically get rid of things for physical lockings. Correct. So that's where it captured I asked the Heartland doing this with other districts and they said we provide you a total cost of ownership review of the solution versus you know where you're at now. So I asked them to do that for me and we're 5 years time we'll start saving money versus staying with an on-remise solution because of that reduction of physical lines. We'll be getting rid of a lot of our um we're moving um to a analog to digital conversion. So our fax lines will go
064to analog to digital conversions. will be able to go into the solution. So, well, those are where some of the DIDs come into play, too. For a fax, machines, elevator, and the like. Um, convert an elevator. Supposedly, I'm told they do an analog to digital conversion. We have two of them here. We have an elevator in the fine arts center going up to the control room and one in the gym between the wrestling room and the locker rooms. And a pool on the fifth floor. you can swim that far. Um, all right. And then, uh, you talked about the, uh, daycare and the dresser and different things. Is it just a matter of porting those numbers over to the same company and then you're just relying on the internet or? Yes. Um, working currently to
065get fiber into Apple Seed building. Um, and then once that's there, I'm confident in the connection quality to be able to handle not only our video camera solution that's in there, but also um voice over IP. We're doing currently the summer connection address. And then what about you have redundant internet? We have redundant internet here at this location. Um, so if right now if charter spectrum goes down, we're still up. We don't feel that. But our current solution of phones, if charter spectrum goes down, we lose our phones because that's our current provider for our phones. Whereas we going to completely internet based, we'll be able to maintain that redundancy because I've positioned us to have redundant internet connections in the district. Yeah. Which is good unless you have a major major outage. If I
066lose power, we'll have a few minutes before power like you know going off and we're as I was talking with um some of the engineers in reality 99% of adults now carry a cell phone on them is that become a emergency solution at that point anyways right function without power internet is your worry All right, I think you got all my questions answered. We'll be bringing in next board meeting for approval. Um, it's a two two-step project. First part will be completed in the summer with inform cast upgrade to inform cast fusion which is required of Cisco voice um WebEx calling and then the WebEx calling will be kicked off usually January with a target implementation data break. You uh this takes care of all the ebang one requirements. uh works with a digital provider
067and actually we're going to work to utilize some of the mapping that we put in place within the district so that when a call is made from a phone it's going to be more precise than it is currently which is a federal rule now to have that one other thing but I can email you if I remember have any questions you clearly know a lot more about this than Y will our phones work? That was my only concern and I trust that Mr. Gray hasn't covered it. They I'm assuming they they have a bandwidth. I mean, you guys have a lot of bandwidth. Um, but you got a lot of kids too that you know it's not going to be impact. We won't have to increase that. No, I'm on an average day utilizing about
06840% of our capacity right now. So, we're fine. really good shape. Yep. Yeah. I mean, some of the other advantages of where I work, I don't even they didn't even assign me a phone number. It's all through Teams. Granted, I'm not even some of the vendors have relationships with us that, you know, they just call me through Teams, too, you know, or, you know, you're pushing the cell phone. But, yeah, you can start saving costs like you said over, you know, takes a few years. You're not going to see a big ROI in year one, but over time, yeah, you start seeing that reduction. They hold equipment or facilities, whatever you want to call it. Paper power, you know, those things, servers. All right. Hearing no more questions, we'll move on to uh the defecence
069of certain general obligations and rebonding. Craig, are you going to talk to us about that? You can fan that up on YouTube. Yep. I can't. I appreciate the commentary. But this is uh this is status quo. Um this is what we've done in the past. We did uh we did this the last few years um as a result of the referendum that was passed. And what it does is buy down some extra debt which then in the long term decreases the amount of interest the districts or taxpayers will pay uh for the bond issue. So um it's dollars that are levied for. Uh there's nothing new or different that we need to do. It's not like we're generating more funds as a result of doing this because we've already levied for them. was just making
070good on what we had intended to do. Yeah. So, nothing out of the ordinary uh chance for the district to save a little money. Correct. Yeah. And we could put together we will put together numbers in terms of what the overall um savings of taxpayers would be with respect to um less interest paid over the duration of the bond. That was already in your agenda. The spreadsheet. Yeah. All right. Any questions on that? Hearing none. We Does anybody need a break before we start the board meeting? Good. All right. We'll call the meeting to order. We'll start with the pledge of allegiance. 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. Roll call.
071Matt Bryce, Tasha Rager, Don Milky here. Ronnie Scheler here. Brett Mccertie here. All right. First thing is the Now I'm reading the positions, right? Reading of the mission state. Boy, we're going to do that. Thanks for having not a problem. The mission of the school district of St. Qu Falls is to provide a supportive student centered learning environment that cultivates character, fosters academic excellence, and embraces diversity. Our board meeting rules are to focus on the mission and vision statements of the district. Come prepared, be respectful of others and open and accepting of ideas, actively participate, avoid side conversations, and remember our board meetings are open for us. All right. Thank you, Ron. Ronnie, uh, I don't have any public here for that part. U, so no presentations or awards tonight. So now I'll move on
072to accepting the nominations and motions for voting on the following board the board positions of president, vice president, clerk, and treasurer. All right. I would like to nominate Brent Mccertie as um president. We have a motion by Ronnie to nominate Brent Mccertie. I'll second by Don. Any other nominations? Hearing none. I can't remember. Do we just do voice? Yes. Unless we're uncomfortable with it. No, there's only three of us. All right. All those in favor say I. I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. Um I will make a motion to nominate the Sheena Rager as vice president. Yes, she is okay with that. I will second that. We have a motion by Brent Mccertie and a second by Ronnie to nominate Dasha Ragger as vice president. Any further discussion? Any other nominations? All those in favor say
073I. I oppose. Motion carries. Um Matt was the treasurer, right? You want to hang out with me tonight? All right. I'll take a motion to nominate Ronnie Schuler as the clerk. I'll second. We have a second by Don. Uh any other nominations? Hearing none. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. I'll make a motion to nominate Matt as the treasurer. Very good. Quick. I will second that. Motion by Don and a second by Ronnie to nominate Matt Bryce as the treasurer. All those in favor say Oops. Any other nominations? Hearing none. All those in favor say I. I oppose. Motion carries. Our positions have been filled. Thank you very much. All right, moving on to curriculum and policy. Uh we will need a representation representative for the CC1 annual convention meeting uh
074which is Monday, June 2nd at 7 p.m. in Turtle Lake 8. It's uh I've been there before. You go there and they go over some CISA stuff. You have one member there. Multiple can go, but only one can vote. Um your uh kind of your delegate for the area or for your your your pod or whatever they call it a group and that kind of stuff. So, anybody interested in doing that? I'm just going to look and make sure I'm available. I'm free, too. Last year, she went with she could Yeah, but she's probably not doing that. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, she did come along with just to see what it was all about. So, I would be interested in going with available and check. up to you. You pick I don't have to live with
075the decision a year or in that race, but I am absolutely willing to do my part. Um, yeah, why don't you go? Okay. If you're available, I'm available. All right. Shall we plan to go together? All right. So, we'll need a motion to make Ronnie the representative. I will make a motion to for Ronnie to be the CISA 11 annual convention representative. We have a motion by Dom. I'll second it. Second by Bren. Any further discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. Thanks to both of you. Can you give me an idea how long that goes? Um, it says in the paperwork approximately an hour. Okay. There's not a meal at that, right? I don't think so. All right. Next is the vote on policy 8:30, rules and guidelines of the
076public use of school facilities, which we've had in our packet. Um, for at least one other time um, pull it up here. I did think of some things. I wasn't able to get into the attachment this time, so I opened the previous attachment agenda. Can you get into it right now? That link isn't hot. I mean, it's I pul questions. Yeah, I Yeah. Didn't you have questions at the last one? And Craig just to amend the language that was Yeah. previous time. So, we just brought it back one more time with that language addressed. But then I asked Oh, go ahead, Craig. Yeah, I was just going to say that the changes are fairly minor. What ended up happening is uh at the last meeting I neglected to have the um language change included for
077you to approve. So we had the conversation last time but it includes custodial services being built at a rate of $50 per hour per custodian needed. That was the discussion that was the whole reason pardon me that the policy was brought forward. And then um we included language around um associated fees may be waved and or reduced for organizations based in the school district that are nonprofit with a sole focus on children. So we could incorporate things like um community ed certain community ed courses and offerings and that sort of thing with respect to either reduced or a free uh use of the facilities. All right. So, one of the questions I had was um I of course can't find it right now, but I thought in here it said that we had custodians here
078on Saturdays and I thought I asked that to somebody between the last couple meetings and they said no, we don't anymore. We used to but So, which which is correct? We do not and it is not in the policy. So the policy indicates that when custodians are on for normal hours that it's not charged. Yeah. There's a note under the high school that says the hours. It says 8 to 4:30. Is that the hour? It says buildings may not be used when custodians are working during non school hours and that lists the school hours and it lists the Saturday. Oh, you're right. It is listed before Saturday. So that needs to be removed. So when we make our motion, we can just say with the removal of those Saturday hours. That's for both school. I
079would uh Yeah, middle school has also middle school's down there too. Yeah. So middle school and high school uh 8 to 4:30 would have to be removed. And you're correct, Bonnie, that could be approved with those being um strict. All right. And then so just for clarification, um Brent wants to coach Club Red volleyball and there's six of the girls are from St. Croy Falls and four of them are from other schools. It is a for-profit organization. Do would they be charged for that gym time though? If it's Club Red, we would have to um ask them some questions around uh their status. And frankly, having a daughter that has played in club volleyball, they have the money to pay for a custodian based on what they're charging people to be involved in. So, I
080think that would that determination would be made at the time. If you're talking community where it's a a parent/volunteer coach and you know there's eight kids from St. Detroit balls and three kids from Ocola, then it would likely be free. Okay. Yeah. So, there's going to be some of that that comes up, I'm sure. Yeah, I agree. I mean, I also had three kids go through all that fun stuff and they they pay for a lot more for gym usage in the Twin Cities or even in Still Water or whatever than they do here. Oh, yeah. So, all right. So, is somebody comfortable making that motion? I can make a motion to approve the changes to policy number 8:30, including striking the Saturday hours in both the high school and middle school section. I'll second.
081Have a motion by Ronnie and a second by Don. You got all that, Marie? Do. All right. Thank you. All those in favor say I. I oppose. Motion carries. Thank you. All right. Next is the hiring of the business education teacher position which was in that email. I can't that's correct. Yeah. Mike's not present I believe. Correct. He's at a ball game. Correct. Correct. Yeah. So the individual that in the c the community, pardon me, they interviewed um three different candidates, one of which just failed to show. Um so they technically interviewed two and they had arrived at offering that position to Dustin Vickerman who is the gentleman we hired as the head football coach. We'll let the board know that he is not a licensed candidate, but he has indicated interest in becoming licensed
082potentially. And so, uh, what our intention would be is to work through the process of getting him a, um, license with stipulations is what it's called now, rather than an emergency license. They've changed their language. Um, basically same difference and get him moving through that continuum. He does of course have some attributes and skills that will lend themselves, we believe, nicely, to to the running of high school business. Yeah. And I I just want to point it out for anybody maybe watching is that he was had his what a masters in sports management or something. Correct. So So does have some degree that would help with some of that. Of course, we'll trust your judgment. Um and he is a licensed teacher. Yeah, of course. Yeah. Yep. Yep. All right. Um All right. All right,
083we need a motion to approve the hiring of Dustin Bakererman. I can make a motion to approve Dustin Bakererman as the high school business education teacher. Second that. Have a motion by Don and the second by Ronnie. Any further discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. Just so you're aware, Craig, you just have your favorite Rita in in the building and Brian, of course. Well, I guess that's all you need. All right. Next is uh the vote and hiring on the candidate for the middle school English language arts teacher position. Yeah. So, in that respect, um as I shared with you in the board update, the committee is recommending Maria Hansen for that position. Um they had uh I think it was every eighth or eight team member that was part
084of that interview process as well as brought in Jody Wolf uh to go through his interviews. I want to say that they interviewed seven candidates, six or seven. And Maria is the individual that rose to the top. She has many years of experience um in another school district here in the area and is excited to come to St. Roy Falls where her kids and husband also uh spend a lot of time. So, all right. So, I'll look for a motion to hire Maria Hansen as the middle school English language arts teacher. I can make a motion to hire Maria Hansen as the middle school English language arts teacher. Motion by Don. I'll second. Second by Ronnie. Any further discussion? I think it bears uh repeating that we um have an epotism policy and we do
085review that on the regular and that we are cognizant of the fact that we are hiring another teacher's spouse and that we believe that she is the best and most qualified candidate for the job that she we don't hire because of relationship. We hire because of qualification. Thank you Ronnie. Yep. And she is in the middle school. He's in the high school. So there shouldn't be overlapping in that area. they teach different subjects. So, thank you. And I would also mention that our the majority of our interview, well, as far as I know, being here for just shy of a year, our hiring process is such that committees vote. And so, the idea that there'd be some kind of underlying, you know, inroad as a result of a relationship is diminished as a result of
086individual human beings having in independent opinions and votes on candidates. and the committee collectively selects who uh would be the candidate brought forward and that is what happened in this case and every other that I'm aware of. All right. Thank you. Any further discussion? Hearing none. Uh I'll take a all those in favor say I. I opposed. Motion carries. Next is the vote on the hiring of the candidate for the 4K teacher position. And as long as Reena is there, she can talk about that. My voice isn't great today, but I will it's allergies plus the writing conference, but it's Maddie Nichols who was a student teacher for us and has done two long-term sub gigs for us. She's phenomenal. We're we're absolutely thrilled to have her. All right. Thank you. I would make a
087motion to hire Maline Nichols as our 4K teacher. Thank you. Motion by Ronnie. A second. Second by Don. Any further discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. Next is the hiring uh the candidate for middle high school instrumental music teacher position. Yeah. And since Daryl and Mike are absent, um, I'm I'm going to apologize. I pulled it up, but I can't remember what the candidate's name was. He is the I'll go in here, Craig, if you want. Zachary Bartch is instrumental music recommendation moving forward. He does have a bachelor's of music education from WC and a master's music education, Corey Morehead. Um, he's previously taught in Hillsboro school district and last three years in Prairie Farm. So, this individual has come with experience. you interviewed a number again a number of
088candidates. Um I think there was nine seven or nine candidates that applied for the position which is uh definitely a testament to interest to our district. Um so that's been phenomenal pool and um the comments from the team that made the selection were very positive and his contributions to the school. Very good. Thank you. I didn't retain his name. Zachary Zachary Arched. B A R T S C H. Okay. I'll make a motion to hire Zachary Bar as our middle high school instrumental music teacher. Motion by Ronnie. I'll second. Second by Don. Any further discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion carried. Next is the vote on the resignation of Jennifer Alwin, middle school math teacher. That was her letter was in our packet. I'll make a motion to accept the resignation
089of Jennifer Alwin as middle school math teacher. I'll second. That's fine. We have a motion by Ronnie and a second by Don. Any further discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. All right, moving on to financial. We have a review and vote on the management services contract renewal. Um, did you get a chance to see that now? Because it's uh Yes. And I was a part of the board meetings where you talked about it. You were here? Yeah, I was here when I was presenting. Okay. Just wanted to make sure because we don't have a link on this show. just the recommendation to continue forward with law print management services and the price was remember but up a little bit um price was negligible change compared to our previous five year
090and it looks to be probably a cost savings over time because the per page cost is slightly lower. All right. So, I'll take a motion to approve the managed print services contract renewal with Laughler. I can make a motion to approve the manage print services contract with Waffler. I'll second. Motion by Don, a second by Ronnie. Any further [Music] discussion? We could just do a voice on this one, right? All those in favor say I. I oppose. Motion carries. Next is the vote on the resolution authorizing the transfer of funds, the establishment of an escrow account with respect to and the defeasence of certain of the general obligation refunding bonds dated April 1st, 2021. So this we're seeking action on what you just discussed in in committee and again status quo with what the district
091has engaged in in the past. I would like to um make a motion to approve the or to pass a resolution authorizing the transfer of funds the establishment of an escrow account with respect to and the defeasence of certain of the general obligation refunding bonds dated April 1st 2021. That's a mouthful. We have a motion by Ronnie. I'll second. Second by Don. Any further discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. And next on the buildings and grounds, we have the review and vote on the 10-year facility plan. And that was discussed last meeting too, which you were at, right? She was. I wasn't. Okay. Thank you. Um I haven't Well, we'll take a motion to vote. I'll make a motion to approve the 10-year facility plan as presented. We have a
092motion by Ronnie. I'll second. Second by Don. Um, I do have some questions. The stuff that we saw on here earlier, I can't remember if that was on the 10-year plan or not, what that tarot was showing with the soccer fields and the speakers and and maybe that's stuff that isn't uh major enough for it. Uh, but I was just curious about that when she was showing her needs for our athletic facilities if they I know other stuff is like the track and you know that kind of stuff, but I didn't know if those individual items that she was talking about were included in that and if they should be. Did see some of those things and I'm trying to get to it that were included. Yeah, I do know that um athletic fields is
093a tab that's on the 10ear facility plan and associated with that there are a number of items that um are related. Now specifically what uh Tara was just talking about quick review I got it pulled up here just like the clock systems. Yeah. I'm sorry I didn't hear what you're saying. Uh it was like the the overhead the speaker things where they can't play music and the uh fill that's needed for this summer. I think she said it was slated for the film baseball and the softball field. Yeah. So there is the clock system that is listed for track baseball softball field and football field on the facility plan. Okay. as well as line and dirt work um associated with the field. So Brian did do Brian wanted to do some had some conversations and
094some comprehensive feedback with respect to what's on the plan and athletic athletic fields that happen is under Okay. All right. Thanks for the clarification. All right. So we have a motion and a second. Uh any other discussion, questions? Hearing none. All those in favor say I. I. I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. Um doesn't have any announcements. We did get a thank you from it's from the elementary staff for the swag, the same swag that the board gave them for teacher appreciation signed by a great number of elementary staffs. Very sweet. But I'm not going to try to read it all up. Okay, now we have the upcoming events that we'll want to get some representation at if we can. The balorate is tomorrow at Peace Luther. High school graduation is next Friday, 7:00. Um, anybody?
095I'll be at both. Okay. So, you plan on being on stage? I'd like to, but I don't have to. No, that's fine. Um, I cannot attend tomorrow. I can't. I will be at graduation. Do you want to be on stage? Uh, do you need to be on stage? Typically, I have two board members. Okay. I mean, I can be. Well, yeah. I mean, it's up to you. I don't have any like personal reason, but I feel like I need to be up there. Do you have any reason why you feel like you shouldn't like whoever you were going with this year? No. Okay. Matt won't have anybody walking through or anything either. He said he would be if we needed that. Yeah, Doc plans to attend, but of course he wouldn't be on stage. It's
096not necessary. All right. Um, so that takes care of graduation. I can reach out to Matt then. Um, doesn't matter. I'll reach out to Matt about tomorrow. I can maybe make it um if he can't. All right. So, then we have our next board meeting on the 27th as regular committee and regular meeting at 5:15. Uh the um 8th grade recognition at 2:00 on the 28th. We typically have one or two people on that that two people. I don't have any eighth graders, but I am available. There's somebody with an eighth grader. I can make that one. You're going to be high school graduation. I can make that one, too. I'll do that one. That one? Y. All right. And then of course the last day of school is May 29th. Hard to believe already.
097And then of course we have our two meetings scheduled in June. It just dawned on me that I forgot to reach out to people about the uh board goals. So I'll probably be doing that to you shortly. You mean sending an email to find a date? Yes. Do it. Yes. I forgot to do that. I think last year we ended up harvesting one of our June dates because we didn't have longboard meeting or didn't meet two hours. Yeah, that's a good point. I don't know if that will happen again. Do you guys know? Yeah. Craig or Ray, what's going on for those meetings in June? I don't I I know what we have going for the next meeting, but I don't know about June. It it shouldn't be terribly busy, I wouldn't think. Um I
098do know we have a couple of hires coming through for sure in June that will be you know again what few minutes a piece but um aside from that June's usually pretty quiet. Yeah I mean we could plan on having a short pretty short board meeting one of the two and then having a board goal discussion afterwards. Well yeah we'll get some communication out about that again. I apologize. Well, one one thing that might be um a wise course of action would be to simply have it on the agenda. We'll plan on including it for both meetings and if we don't have time, then we table it and hit it at the next meeting. You know what I mean? We can do that. Okay. Sure. What's the next May meeting looking like? Is there a
099lot on that? Um there's a few things. I don't have a lot right now that I'm aware. I mean, there's a couple things on there, but not a lot. Um, it is the day after. That's excellent point. The hires I was talking about will be accomplished in that day meeting, not pushed to June. Right. So, all right. Well, let's keep May one the way it is, and then potentially we'll look at maybe the first board meeting in June, and if there is something that comes up, we can take care of it. We'll add it to the June 10th agenda and if we need it on the 24th, we'll put it to the 24th as well. All right, sounds good. Just discuss. All right, go ahead. Discuss the rules of the meeting. Yeah, I think we
100did all right. It was not a lot to be sidetracked by. So, remember board meetings are open for it was an easy one. side conversations to participate in. Well done again. All right, I'll take a motion to adjourn. I can make a motion to adjourn the meeting. Motion by Don and a second by Ronnie. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion carries.