Our mission is to provide accessible and affordable health care to children of all ages to improve health and educational outcomes.

We're really sort of um providing the gap that is needed. So um for example, occupational um therapy students who might not qualify for inschool services um but maybe need some outside services.

So, [clears throat] with respect, I'm sorry, with respect to your financials, I [snorts] looked up your 990 and you had about a 30% deficit in 2023 and you only had net assets of 7,000. So, can you talk about the financial stability of this organization?

No, we're a separate nonprofit entity and that's be that's best practice to remain uh separate from a school for school-based health centers um within the state and nationwide. Um so so really best practice because schools follow fura um clinics follow HIPPA and to continue to make sure that that um delineation remains in place. We purposely do not want to take any any money from the district.

our fifth grade students in literacy received a 75.6% met or exceed. Um, and it's important to get a little bit of context to some of some of these numbers. So, in the state of Minnesota, about just about 50% of the students score at a meet or exceeds, but that's 75.6. That puts us in the top tier in the state of Minnesota.

I think about how do we prepare students for the future where it doesn't ex exist not just their technology their jobs their approaches how the world works doesn't exist yet for our young kids. So as we develop great learners for reading, writing, math, science, those are really important, but we also develop um the kind of learner that will adapt to whatever it is we don't even know yet and can't even imagine yet.

I also agree that it is important to compare ourselves to what other school districts are doing and just see kind of what's happening in other districts. I just would like to proceed with a little caution that we are different than other school districts. We are not the same... So those comparisons to me are not valid ones because we're comparing not even apples to oranges because it's not even a fruit. We're comparing an apple to a head of lettuce.

I would I [clears throat] would just say it's really sad that we're getting rid of German. We're getting rid of art history, ancient to medieval, renaissance to modern, um, US history, honors physics. I mean, I'm saddened by that a great deal. Concerned about if we're going in the wrong direction in terms of less rigor in our curriculum. Do parents know these classes that we're removing?

When we brought in CIS physics, we really considered how do we have honors physics, CIS physics, and AP physics? And if we do that, um, are we going to be able to to run any of them? And um when you're when you're looking at these options and you're trying to decide what might be the best option for the families, um in my mind, um you have an AP option that doesn't show up on a college transcript unless you score a three or four. Um and then we can offer a CIS option that um that grade is going to follow the student no matter, you know, what it is, if it's a A, B, or C on that college transcript. But um the idea of giving an option where it's not tied to a um a high stakes test at the end was I thought more meaningful than a physics option.

I I really like the idea of moving more to CIS as opposed to AP. Um [snorts] because even in AP they have to take a final at the end of the year in class and then they go take another test that they have to pay for and then I I I have so many stories of kids that have done really really well in college in the same course and couldn't get the credit for the AP class because either scored a three and they had to have a four or above or you know, they they didn't score, but they did well in the class. So, I I'm really encouraged to see moving in that direction.

The big change for this year is that we are we will bring forth the 2627 calendar and the 2728 calendar to provoke proposed starts before Labor Day and this is the conversation that we started last year and really what triggered it is... Labor Day which is always the first Monday of September goes a full week later

Four instructional days before Labor Day um still keeping that Friday off, which families and staff value to still have that long weekend really helps us with being done earlier in J in June, but that's not the sole reason on why we would make this decision.

Uh I am here tonight uh the district has reached a tenative agreement for uh with our Wer Lake area educators for the 202527 contract period. I do want to thank everyone that was involved in the negotiations process. We meet over long days during the summer and a lot of hours of work go into reaching this agreement. The teachers voted in early October and I am here today to seek your approval and I do so by asking that you pass the resolution that is included in your board packet.