001e e e hold sh e it's you get used to it Al to the FL of the United States of America and to the it stands Nation indivisible andice and will get thank you madam chair members of the board um enrollment is our first I bring it down to the graph actually that kind of tells a a picture I'm not saying it's a great piure our enrollment is going down again um I haven't I didn't do for January so it went from December into February but we're at 3219 I believe right now so it's trending download right now at this point we hope it'll even off a EV but that's where we're at as of February and if you look at the DBS monthly report um our budget's looking pretty stable right now if you
002go to the uh graphs which I think tell a better story um you can see our general funds revenues and expenditures are in line with years and they're up you can see they're higher than the last couple years Community Ed revenue is up so that's you know higher than other years too so our revenues are overe expenditures quite a bit there and with food service we right in line um with last year as well so budget to actual is looking pretty good right now um I just want to Al let you know that I'm working on a revised budget for the current year that we're in and I will bring that to the board in April too any questions for me on anything question oh you get to hear from me thank you app okay
003we will move on to our student represent that here tonight here tonight and G here tonight nice to see you all to see you too um which one of you would like to go start I guess I'll go first okay um so I'm this year I took a another step to be involved and I am assistant directing or student directing the Middle School play so that starts tomorrow as our first show at 7 o'clock and then our second and last show is this Saturday February 22nd at 2 o'clock um the kids are putting a lot of work into this we had a we we were supposed to have a show on Tuesday but the weather did not like that so they said you need more time to rehearse and so we got that actually a
004couple days there we're ready to go tomorrow uh kids are getting more excited because the show is coming more together so we're excited for that you can come pop out the tickets are on many platforms you can check the theater Instagram Facebook or LinkedIn schools websites um Council wise um last night was our powder buff game very exciting to watch uh finals are tomorrow at our petfest after like towards the end of the day seniors versus Juniors I am on the on the senior team so we're we're hoping to win but the Juniors have a strong strong ring um and we also had a movie last night um in the pack we previewed Mama Mia um it was voted by the student body they thought that would be a good movie to watch so we
005previewed that in the after the game kind of like a little extra festivity for the week since we lost a couple days we planned that anyways but it worked out because we uh we short two days of a five day week so that got spirits up uh our CES dance is on Saturday that starts at 7 o'clock goes until 10 o'c and the theme this year is a trip to Paris or a night in Paris I should say um um so that should be very fun uh and then the last thing student council wise is we have an Eastern Minnesota associations of student council meeting next Wednesday February 26th uh we'll be at Buffalo High School we hosted it this fall and then since they're they're uh the vice president of the eask board is
006from Buffalo they host it so we'll be in Buffalo next Wednesday doing a little bit of leadership conferencing which should be very fun it's usually fun and they uh it's the election of the new executive board for the emask board in that meeting so it should be fun as well um Deca wise we have our Deca State on March 2nd through the 4th um we had many qualifiers which is exciting the program itself grew tremendously this year um and even more went to State and qualified for state so that's very fun I'll be there um so I'll have more info on how it went next month but that's Deca wise otherwise um our sports teams are doing very good we're reaching the ends of the seasons here hockey team won their first sections game last
007night 13-1 against blo Tim Kennedy um and then basketball game tomorrow and next Friday and then it's a double header tomorrow so pop out I think it starts at 5 for the girls seven for the guys in between there's the award ceremony for the AAA winners and the Exel Award winners so that'll be exciting in between their two and should we highlight that g is one of the triple I one of the trip and then last thing is um probably one of my most exciting things for me is the band inquire greas trip is coming up for spring break March 7th to the 15th we're all excited uh we're all paid for so we're all locked in for that and I'm just excited to get going it's not supposed to be very hot there but
008you know I anything's better than negatives so I'm ready for that and it looks like you have the right shirt for yes oh I forgot to mention I don't just wear this on the daily we're doing our dress up days uh so today was tacky tourist so like Hawaiian I love New York shirts something that you like see out on vacation and you're like so yeah so this I wore this and then tomorrow is uh FFA day we we shared the week FFA shared the week with us so tomorrow is FFA day so it's blue and gold and then we uh themed it by calling it a trip to Sweden so it's like a partnership this week so we've Hado great thank you Catherine you a lot of stuff yeah I just gonna say I
009you covered a lot of it um I guess I only have a few things um we both also went on our College Spanish two class on a Spanish field trip um about two weeks ago it was a really good experience I think I had a field trip since I was in elementary school um so yeah it's definitely one way to get more immersive into a language that can be really hard in a commun SE we have right now um speech continues to be very successful our last me we came in um second in our team St s so um proba a good season so far uh as he said all state for BPA and deck are coming up so BPA state is uh right after deast State March 6 through 8th we had everyone on
010our team qualify um and so that's honestly an improvement from last year so we'll take it um Math League just ended um and we came second overall kind of intersection we lost the Cambridge by one point so a little bit um a little bit frustrating um but that's kind of um or Also are both involved in our community play we're doing our toown um through Community Education and those show dates I think are in April April early April yeah some point in April um so that's you know we definitely see some adults come out for that and that's a great way I feel like to get our community more involved or it's just you know in New Perspective going work with new people um and then I think kind of like the last thing I
011want to touch on is uh currently um I guess I could frame this as let's say I'm doing it for a class but uh part of um one of the esss I'm writing currently uh I'm conducting independent research um for students and staff in our district so whether that looks like interviews or surveys um I framed it to be Bally significant so that uh you have the proper sample sizing randomization compiling all the data so they're really boring stuff but you know getting a good compudance out of that um and while I'm not you know currently gonna present that data right now and I'm still um kind of running my reports or whatever uh I do plan to give you little an update um when I do have like all the information from these surveys
012and I will say that hearing um directly from a lot of students especially you know um across different grades across different backgrounds class has been really instrumental um I just learned a lot of different things a lot of different perspectives and I think that uh it can be a vital tool and really understanding um you know our students perspective on you know certain deficits and disparities that we have and how those are felt you know by our students and what we can do to orient our actions to be the best for them um I think one thing that I'll touch on today that I learned throughout the surveys which is you know more of a minor point but I think it's still important is um one of the things I've heard throughout the surveys and
013I think I have about 60 responses so far um and this comes up very commonly is that um as you know unfortunately we have a making problem at the high school um it's the same as many high schools across our state um dealing with the same issues however uh the current plan of addressing these um has been simply with shut bathrooms at certain times um and the bathrooms that still are open uh it's either you know a Tre from your class to go find that bathroom um or you know when you're in that bathroom there's you know someone constantly standing in there I mean I've been interrogated walking out of the bathroom simply trying to get back to class multiple times which I'll tell you isn't the best when I'm trying to get back to
014my learning environment um and so you know whether that's due to like profiling certain people or you know whether it's just unfortunately it's Solution that's not working in it unfairly um subjects the majority of people who aren't engaging in these activities to um UND punishment I feel and it's it's I will say it is a top point in a lot of I received but the bathrooms are closed and that it's extremely um difficult for people throughout the day to Simply use that resource there are bathrooms that are open there are some that don't doors but a lot of them it's a difficulty and so I think that that solution um needs to be re thought at the very least as students are definitely feeling the frustration of having that resource taken okay thank you all
015right any questions for student Representatives can I throw one more thing in there sorry yes what kind of a staff member would I be if I didn't plug that Community had to just post our the daddy daughter Brown oh uh it went very well actually um we had a lot of participants and it's always fun to see the dads and daughters dressing up and I think this this prom initiative really made the dad step up their dressing um so notable but it was very very great planning um on behalf like I think it was very fun to see I worked there for NHS um and I think even the NHS that kids had fun working with the kidos so had to plug that oh thank you sounds like it was fun I half the dad
016and daughters were at the stone when I was there really that night like oh was the cutest they were being so sweet fun to see our community oh yeah thanks gab all right and um Gabe I know you have somewhere to be for just so you leave when you feel like you need to we'll move on to thanks for the updates we'll move on to board committee updates who are Who start meting sick last week but I'm sending you the update they sent me um they did do an update on theal and learning and behavioral support program just so you know kind of what's all going on there there's just a lot of resources available for for teachers at every level so it was kind of they always lay it out in a helpful way
017take a look at that um middle school PTO sick that day too but you know um but they did give me a little update on lots of fundraisers and stuff coming down the pike including for the golf lovers in the group they're going to do a golf fundraiser um they working in together soting to see that take shape and they got it some nice donations they wanted me to celebrate for them from gold star department and then the policy committee is in new meetings policy updates okay so that's you and Josh all right any other committee updates business showcases this weekend with Community Ed um Hall of Fame game tomorrow the induction is tomorrow next weekend Brenda it's next weekend the Hall of Fame game is this weekend okay but the showcas is next anybody
018else negotiations of 284 I think we're moving closer Sarah Josh on that I know that they met for 284 I think in a productive meeting as I should talk to superintendent de this afternoon I think just understanding you know sometimes you're in a room and you're not quite sure what to say and I think a meeting in between was helpful to at least make sure everybody's thinking the same thing and what we say from both sides if it's agreeable because there was some distance I guess with numbers and just just understanding each other which I think the meeting was uh probably very productive and very helpful but we're moving forward trying to be collaborative and understanding and we appreciate all that our Paris do for us as a teacher I had relied on May Paris
019with some of our most challenging students to we just appreciate what they do and and yet we are in that uh bit of a budget you know crunch in some situations but we do budget improvements in the salary for every bargaining unit and I think that's really great planning our business director superintendent and I think we're just moving forward and and sometimes it's an arduous process as every board member knows sometimes but I think a lot of really positive things were achieved in the in between meeting and we're looking forward to the next meeting okay thanks for thees super I thought I was going to have a lot tonight but I actually have decent amount so let me start with this we had the opportunity to go down and Lobby last week for saf schools
020app game for fair it used to be SE and it was a good trip going down we were a little concerned because we were told because of the fact that one of the house Democrats might not be there they were s of giv us guid like this might not feel the same and I think since they just come back recently there were still a lot to are left in the air we had really good conversations and I think you know you walk away and you feel like a couple things one our story about how we're funded unfair is known by our folks not only our Representatives but also the people around as well so I felt good about that um but there's things some tough times coming up this session and the next one as
021well so I think talking about some of those pieces I think one message we really talked a lot about is we've got to curve the mandates um it's overwhelming districts and and we can't keep taking that on and I think there was a reality check to that's probably been a pretty prevalent conversation for most districts across the state too is that there's a lot of going to come down the road for distri cross state the next couple years and I think they recognize that piece and I felt again there was a lendy ear of yep we hear you we will try and do what we can to help it out so it worked out well on that note representative ryers will be coming to visit me tomorrow which I really appreciate we had a chance
022to connect really briefly that day so we're just GNA talk a little bit I might try to pop them over the high school I wanted to show them some of the things we're doing over there as well but he's been a great partner just you know getting know a little bit and set for conversation too Sarah and I have the opportunity to go speak at Beth um about two weeks ago give or take we're invited to come and talk about our Mentor induction program I just give you a quick history lesson about University is a new partnership we s started a couple years ago to really engage some of our relationships and how we can support each other and to offer more of a pipeline for student teachers coming into our school s of that
023nature it was awesome uh Sarah's awesome I'm to say that right now she's done a great job of the mentor induction program it's really fun because we talk to partner District so we had a lot of people clamoring afterward to get what we're doing things of that nature so and I think we left feeling pretty good about we have a really good model here and we do really good things for our staff to bring them in and get them prepared not just one year but over a threeyear period uh on that same note we actually got invited back to come speak again in April at another function they're only inviting one Public School District to we're the one they're inviting back so Sarah's going to represent us that night and just excited again about building
024that partnership on the same B too whether it's Beth or man um for the two years of Partners to really tied our horses to um we also have a lot of student teachers coming through our system too and that was a goal of doing the Partnerships is how do you bring more people in number one so we can build that through Pipeline and have them see the great things we were doing but second that again we're able to then to have really good candidates that might say this is a place that want to basically teach at after I'm done so appreciate again the work the universities have done um Sarah's been very instrumental and making sure to coordinate this as well but really excited about the amount of people we have comeing through our schools
025and again we have to really work hard because the teaching F fund is pretty dry and these are ways that we're being really advantageous and taking a proactive approach to getting people to last strategic planning so we did have our first report of all the goals we met in January and they were great meetings I'm so grateful for our staff um our parents our community members and different people that attended all of our means were I think really positive because a lot of it is we Define where we want to go and go for the next couple years but do the conversations and dialogue through the means are invaluable because it's us come back and say Here's what you want us to do let's talk about that and get to that right place so we
026already did the summary report that came out basically a couple weeks ago we already started our second round month two meetings already we have two already we have a few more next week but we're making really good progress and I'll share one quick story on that too is centered around sort of how do you build more volunteerism and mentoring in our buildings and we had a great conversation I presented at R today here in the town and we talked about the fact of again R's got a program called stride which I'm very familiar with to running other places that really focuses on building mentorships in our schools they are very interested in helping to support that goal by starting some work with us next year so we're just excited about the fact that we're find
027these inroads and Partnerships to do because like we talk today at Rotary we're here to support our kids we know that again there's needs that are out there and especially when you can put positive people these adults with our kids we all win when that happens so just excited to see that Synergy and those connections starting to happen because it makes a difference in the work I just make a statement representative rmer you made representative rimmer's newslet letter with them and I did share that anybody get that but what I think is interesting legislatively we can never get them to admit that there were issues with the school funding and now it seems like everybody Senator Gran had the principal and another uh member on his newsletter and so they're really starting I think to
028see what we've been saying now for three four years this or maybe even longer they're starting to believe it and they're starting to promote it and you're seeing people testifying like in your case and testifying on the house floor and the Senate that we have some problems and I think they're really starting to finally believe it so I think that's really a positive thing I know you know we've been saying that to our community too and hopefully people who listen to those things finally realize kind of what a position that we're in financially in the shortfalls the funding and those types of things so I appreciate you going down there and I know that our representatives are listening bra can I get a quick question for um the Strategic plan information where can somebody find
029that so it's on our website you know part of the website it's on our website then basically every time we get done with a new round of meetings I am sending out messages to everyone with the summary so you can find it basically emails going out we uh put down our social media and then we're trying to also make sure it gets in the papers well lot of people in community know that's what commit we made we're fall through everything we've master so those are three places you can find under our district there is a strategic plan and then if you go under each goal you can pull up um the update that was dripped pretty much every awesome and my rare time on Facebook I did notice I did post on Facebook all right
030move on we're moving on to the consent agenda and before we vote on this we are going to just pull out the volunteer contract for Sarah's husband Joe which we would not need to do but um we're going to pull his out and vote on it separately so that she can obain since it is her husband it was a volunteer position that never actually occurred because but it's best practic so we'll take the content agenda as it is minus Joe's volunteer basketball coaching contract so I'll to acenda I'll make ation to are there any questions if not all in favor say I I again same sign agenda passes and now separately we will vote on Joe's volunteer basketball little the last that's good enough I make a motion to accept we have a motion second
031any more questions okay I'll in favor say I against same sign Sarah motion okay okay no old business moving on to new business uh there's a a number of donations once again from St PA St C Valley Foundation this sh liance Club State Builders L Pound The Rock clu football the herb Jer 3 versus 3 basketball tournament the Minnesota high school league Foundation the winst fire department and the g family and uh the donations benefit a variety of programs from gymnastics to scholarships um brands for athletic ad Bridge math Lees Beech football basketball tennis baseball basketball tennis and softball you can see the an listed there um we will need it's a resolution so we'll need a motion and then we'll do a roll call question a commission for a cause was should I ask
032that ahead of time I don't know and that one just it's a good good amount of $3500 we will back okay do you any motion to the donations I'll make a second and we'll start with Sarah Lor I the donations are accepted all right we're going to move on to the ending our Charter School authorizing agre and I'm just going to read the letter that we're sending to um commissioner Commissioner of Education um Commission jet for Minnesota statute section 124 E5 subdivision 7 we're sending this letter to officially inform you that Chad school district is reign as a charter school authorizer effective June 30th 2026 chaga Lakes District authorizes one charter school Trio wolfrey and has notified them of the of our decision while the relationship has been mutually beneficial for 20 years we no
033longer have the capacity to dedicate time resources necessary to effectively service the authorizer in Minnesota we appreciate the support we've received from the Minnesota Department of Education over the years please let us know if you need additional inform so are there any questions about this if not we'll need a motion in a second to end our Au authorizing we have a motion second we have a second any more questions any questions okay if not all in favor say I I again say sign that motion passes hey we're moving on to our American Indian education Forum uh let's see I think this is something we see every year is that right Sarah okay so we need to vote to approve the American indic Indian education form is there anything we need to know about it the
034same one we same one we do every year okay so we need a motion in a second I'll make have a motion in a second any questions about all in favor say I again same sign that motion passes um now we're moving on to Community Education increases I see here to to us Madam chair permission to approach the mini fridge to grab water quick I don't want to choke on no don't do that thank you uh every February I've come before you kind of asking for a similar similar thing to this and we're trying to find uh that sweet spot of not not charging our families um not being as any more burdensome to our families than we need to be at relative to our cost our programming um so once again here in February
035we're going to just kind of ask for a slight rate adjustment um for some of our programming and I'll go through that real quickly um little wildcast preschool um our ongoing cost increase especially relative to um in 2028 we're going to have some anticipated costs number one uh but as well as just some of the Staffing and some of the things that we're kind of seeing having to respond to and we just really felt like it was important to kind of just come out for a small bite of 2% versus a large increase if we waited another year might be four or five% so we're asking for a 2% increase within that programming and that's going to translate to right now families for five half days pay uh 289 a month it's going to go
036up $6 a month for that 2% increase if if if approved for three half days a family would pay uh$ 178 which is a $4 increase over what they currently pay now for this year and this would be effective of course next school year um and then two half days you see the price there 124 to 127 and then our all day everyday program which is brand new for us this year uh we'd be seeing just a $1 increase um when relative to a 2% increase there so that's item number one item number two would be um what here's our comparison sorry my fault um so you see we're still well within sort of the people who are around us still water is just 50 cents more than us for all day every day but
037the other schools near us are couple dollars or a dollar over so we still feel like we're we're competitive relative to the market around us that way and we still feel we're fairly priced and high value for kids club um a lot of what we're seeing is kind of just some of the things that we the opportunities we try to provide to our families and our students um field trips things like that we're we're just really starting to see some of those prices just continue to increase continue to drive us up so and a lot of Summer programming most of these items on here are relative to our summer programming um but you know it's sort of in response to just those uh increasing costs so uh the the one that's not relative to the
038summer programming would be to increase our fee from $25 to $35 for registration fee we're still um when you compare us to North Branch Forest Lake and still water there in the4 to $45 range for that uh for the registration fee so we propos to go up $10 there summer preschool um we just offered started offering that recently for our four-year-olds could could utilize our summer preschool program and so this is sort of in response to what we learned um as a result of that offering so we're just expanding that a little bit more to $35 a day but it's still $6 less than what we would pay for our K5 or what our K5 families pay and then this bottom item um just for explanation sake this is for summer programming and we have
039always um authorize students who are going into kindergarten and are turning four or five on September 1st we want to back that date up to June 1st and that's going to offer families a little bit more flexibility a little bit more opportunity a little bit more options and um we actually have quite a large for next year when this would take effect we actually have quite a large contingent of families that would take advantage of that that are currently in our three-year-old programming right now so um we felt like it was appropriate to maybe make that change to kind kind of accommodate these families that have have started with us here in that three-year-old age frame and continue to meet their needs as best as we possibly can we recognize the burden that this is
040going to uh place on families as I know you guys all do as well I mean nothing's getting cheaper in the world um and and we recognize that but unfortunately our costs are going up as well so so this is the ask is is simply to try to to match that without having to jar fames uh wallets to to uh hard I just wanted to just run something else by you that we're working on I don't know if I need board approval for this or not but in case you guys here in the community we're also going to start renting out our Lockers in the WCC so we have 480 total Lockers in the pool WCC all of those kind of areas and we've had a lot of people especially in our Aquatics Department that
041would rather not have to bring all of their bags and all of the things that you know they bring various workout things to the schol and things like that they'd rather not have to to all that back and forth and it's some of our uh older members of our community so we're going to uh rent Locker space that they can sort of have this is in keeping in mind so we're going to we look at 280 lockers so there's still 200 lockers available to our swim teams our you know basketball teams when they're in the WCC all of those kind of things our daily lockers are still going to be a available to use bring your own lock Andor you can rent our lock we've seen a lot of theft at our Middle School ages
042this year so we're hoping if we could rent a $2 lock those kids could have the security of knowing okay my stuff is safe I just got to pay for $2 for the day to keep my equipment safe we don't always catch the perpetrators that are you know stealing from them and stuff so we kind of felt like this was a good compromise and I just wanted to bring it to your guys' attention in case you hear about it in the community if you do need to vote I'm not an expert on what you do or don't need to vote for but just wanted to at least uh make you aware of it as part of this presentation since I was here today but we're gonna we're going to charge uh $12 for people to
043be able to have a monthly rental that includes the price of the lock we would want all those locks to be our locks so that somebody doesn't pay or you know we go several months that we we control that lock versus having several locks that we have go around and cut if that ends up being too big of an issue but that is all I had I appreciate you guys' time and any questions well I don't think that they're I mean they're not just competitive your prices are I don't know if everybody could see it I wish everybody in the whole Community could see the comparisons that you did they're not just competitive but they're a good deal I mean they're considerably less than your comparables at least and I when I think of that
044and I look at that and I don't know what you said too you know you're it's thoughtful I guess you have to cover your cost you're a fee based operation at the the WCC and Community head and you have to cover your costs and seems like every time you come to us Dan it's you're I mean when you look at the price increases like they're odd numbers it's not like you're just going up to 280 or 295 or whatever it is I just think they're thoughtful and thinking you know we have you're raising kids at those ages it's really that's a tough strain but yet it provides a great service for sometimes freedom to do some things that they need to do business-wise or the jobs that they also hold so I just think they're
045thoughtful and yet they just had to you have to raise them from time to time yet they're very competitive so I appreciate that aspect of determining the prices that you have and providing the service I think when I listen to you I you know I hear what providing a service and required and needed anybody who's had young kids knows how important that is to have a secure and place that you trust and drop your kids off and I appreciate that you know I I was a father of am a father of eight I have eight kids not they're not at this age anymore but you know we had four and five kids at times in in in these services in preschool and and and child care and what both my wife and I have always
046been professionals that have both worked out of the home so I do take it seriously that that way I mean I it it's not lost on me the blessing that I have right now in life and and I I don't I don't feel like it's it's our any of our roles to uh to increase this any more than we have to in terms of the survival piece so I appreciate you saying that Jeff yeah I would also like to just say um being on the board seeing what you guys do at community at one thing that I've always appreciated is that it's very very clear that your mission is to serve the people in the community and time and time again when things come up I can just tell how your mind works as that
047hamster Wills turn a little scary yeah it's but it's it's very very obvious to me that your your mission that you got at the Forefront is the community and is the people in the community so um kind of taking on to what Jeff said I just I think that's very obvious and you know rates have to go up um costs go up and it's a difficult thing but I know that you have the community's best interest in mind as you're putting this Stu together appreciate it any other questions or thoughts for Dan okay if not it sounds like we're going to need a motion a second to approve the Community Education rate increases as they were just presented I'll make a motion to approve second we have a motion second again any questions if not
048all in favor say I again sign Mo passes thanks thank you guys all right um let me get back to we're moving on to the clemity list and once again this is something we take a look at every year um some of the names drop off and some of the names move up and we add some new names but all we have to do each year is just make sure that we're passing the official Senor list so we'll need a motion in a second to accept that I make a motion to accept the CL seniority second any questions about that if none all in say I again same sign that motion passes um same is true for the Clen half year Lane changes teachers are continually taking classes and adding to their education and so
049we do halfe Lane changes so they're able to make movement on each other schedules so they're all listed here um and we will need a motion in a second to accept mam chair I make a motion to accept the Clem half year Lane changes have ation I'll second it have a second any questions about that if not all in favor say hi again against same sign the halfe lane changes are approved uh teacher increments um we'll okay it looks Cory was explaining that we now reporting the teacher increments the career increments and that again it's just an approval that we're going to be doing every year um so we'll need a motion in a second to accept theer or if there's questions I'll any questions okay all in favor say I I against same sign
050that passes and now we moving on to the cleck administrator and we have a short description there do you want me to read it Brian or you want to talk about okay so scr is our special education provider and they have um one of the level four programs or two of them that they run are run out of marago like Middle School campus and they have been talking being scre about some changes they're looking to make because they do basically run the program aspects of our level four programs which is basically first set of our most uh severe needs to help support their needs with programming and over the last year they've talked about some ways in which they can maybe refine and put situations back how they think they should have them so currently
051we actually hold a contract for the principal for the program and we've talked we there's two districts that do this it's us and pin and we both talk to scre openly about the fact if you're running the program it probably makes sense to that you probably are overseeing the administrator because you you dictate how it's going to work and things in that nature currently we're doing that work we've done that for a while we have a transition happening in this program right now where someone has put their name in for resonation you accept it tonight and we talked about the timing why don't we do this work right now to make the transition SM or in the end since they're already basically managing the two programs that we have here at the middle school it
052also take over and have the principal underneath their aice their management and responsibilities as well so we have just brought that to your attention because we want to make sure that couple things one you're aware two we did talk to our principal Union Group which right now carries the contract currently in their agreement they are fine letting that go and giv it back to scr did have a conversation too with the Union to talk about the teacher piece because they obviously will receed teachers that we contract and just said that again we like to see that moving over so we' covered those pieces and this is more of a formality we talked to the attorney and they talk the attorney too there's nothing really will do formally but we just felt like BR to you
053and have you just formally saying yep we heard you we understand the reason why to make the transition I will tell you that I think that again this will be more spread wide besides our site it's going to front the other site as well down the road as they start to transition things back to where they probably re should be at this point hopefully that makes sense last this has something at the last couple of meetings needs at the level incre a little bit so having having all so maybe for some who are not super familiar how does that process work when you have spread running a program when it's staffed by sh how does that work my response so Cory on the spot the best way I'll explain it for you Josh is think
054of us as a Staff Agency okay um a lot of the times what happens is we're taking our direction from scre and it's up to Bri and I to make sure it's implemented into the program itself um this helps kind of that conduit for it to make sure that it's it's getting where it needs to be at the direction of such of the entity that's running it so at the end of the day when you talks about the principle of not being within you know being a scre employee they're going to be doing their valuation stuff like that in conjunction with everything that we require within our contract um so they're not going they're not going to go over and do their own thing that they founded another District right it's following all of our
055processes on how we evaluate all of our staff as well so um just as they come in obviously they'll be new and um we'll be you know introducing them to what those programs look like just like we would any principal in any of our locations um so it's just being able to hold that person more accountable to how strats is the program being is is where the big divide comes in and where I think we've struggled probably as a district and SC on where is that line of who provides the most direction to the actual administrator in the building versus who's providing the direction to staff so does that make sense I think so yeah and we we build scrp for the costs yeah that's so the financial part of it yeah salaries benefits we
056build down problems to put l i feel like we're more the middleman in some of our transactions and I think there's confusions on rules at times we're all trying to work support the program but sometimes it's like okay is this our direction we're giving or does this SC do this piece so I think this is a way that again and sc's looking at this globally across all their programs to say we have to put more definition of this so that we understand who's is what and then how we can best support each other in that process too I this is the right move I will tell you that our superintend the SC districts are all supportive of getting more clarity on this P we've talked about our me and feel like we Direction say this
057makes sense let they move in that direction how about how many students do we have now I'm really asking great question um no no no it's okay no no no it's okay um I'm gonna say I know it's under 20 I don't have the exact cal It's a pretty fluid situation but I will tell you this programs are usually pretty full for us because again those needs are tremendous and there's a lot of Need for those programs and not a lot of offerings overall part of the bigger picture in all this too is to talk about how do we basically maximize this spread wide so we can hopefully open up more opportunities because all of our districts are finding more and more severe needs that need to be addressed and there's not the space and
058not just us you can go to any District around the state the country everyone's find the same issue where it's like well I've got people that really need that level support and there's no place to put so I I think again in the long term this is absolutely the right way to go I think sc's doing a nice job to think beyond the initial problem and try to solve it from any other questions if not we'll need a motion in second to approve the transfer of the CL principal position to scrp for future management Contra say I again same sign that motion passes so we've been working on getting a working session date together it's been a little bit difficult um but it looks like Brian is presenting the date to the work session of
059February 25th at 8: a.m February 25th at 8: a.m. that was when the majority at least of us could be there if not all um because the timing is important with our our timeline for our budget reductions so we have to get it in we can't just keep putting it off so we eventually have to find a date and take whoever can make it because it's affecting other timelines so how's that looking everybody that seven um if it's working for the majority of us who is it not working and I will work with anyone that all right so then we'll need a motion in a second to add that work session on February 25th [Music] I'll make a motion to session motion second all in favor say I against same sign that motion passes there's
060nothing further we need a motion in a second to adj I that we have motion second thanks what [Music]