I've got questions around them. I've got um yeah I I'm assuming robust discussions. We I I did get a chance to listen to the board meeting last week or two weeks ago and you guys talked about some of these policies and for example I think policy 526 and policy 533. The discussion that you guys had was around getting parental consent before something happened. But if you listen to the board meeting prior to that it was more of giving parental cons parental awareness that it did happen. So that is what I think is super important that you know that we can discuss uh when we get to that particular topic.

I just have one one discussion and I don't think it's appropriate in the in the policy 706 category, but acceptance of gifts. Um I know that we've had previous discussions with naming rights of buildings and it's not really a gift, but they're paying for something in that respect. Uh so I just want to just make sure that we I tee that up for a future discussion because we ran into that scenario uh a year and a half ago and how much do we charge? Do we not charge anything? what is the calculus around what's appropriate and what's not uh and then what is the rule around having a person or a name uh established.

Um, so as far as identifying our students, um, I think we've got a really good handle on that. Um, I've been partnering a lot more and getting a lot more information, um, through those that are enrolling um, that might be new to our district. Um and as far as um how we're doing achieving um with the goals for this year, I'm one major um thing that was written into the plan was to add an additional uh team member which I am very happy to say we have um Maya Contraras who joined us right before the winter break and um she's been in every one of the schools already.

I just want to make sure I understand the the design of the 2026 29 ANI focus plan. This is the second time us going for for a few of us going through this. Um the first one's the achievement plan. Uh it it says that the goal this goal is target the student with the largest achievement gap uh achievement gap Latino and Hispanic students compared to white students. And so we're very specific about just those two demographics. And so I wonder I'm I'm looking to learn more about that. So I I for for from my understanding I thought that whatever we were doing uh it is um applied to all students.

Well, I think there's a few different ways that it's important to answer this question. Um, first of all, I think if we look at the research literature, generally, school connectedness is an incredibly important driver of school success, academic success, as well as behavioral success for students, particularly those who are historically most marginalized in our school systems. What school connectedness is is whether or not you feel like school is a place where you see yourself as safe, as welcome, as cared for, etc. Now there's a host of research around positions like what we call a school success liaison that says that they they drastically improve school connectedness.

But but that's one last comment, Amber, and I'll I'll pass the torch. Um that's that's where I'm uncomfortable. Okay. Because we're hiring people, we're talking about a $2 million and even though it's being subsidized, I get that. but it's still coming out of tax funding, taxpayer money. We all pay state taxes and if it's not on a local level, we pay it on a state level. Um so, so where I'm uncomfortable is again if if we're basing hiring instead of interventionists, um were they leazison? Yeah, thank you. um if we're basing um decisions on hiring instead of Brian's comment about hiring um interventionists and we want to do leison I forgive me if I mispronounce that um but the the data that we're talking about three times black student two and a half times um Latino and Hispanic if that's not solid data because of what we're talking about here I'm uncomfortable with spending the money and hiring those Well, I'll note that that particular goal requires no hiring in the short term. There might be hiring that happens in year two or year three that we've proposed, but that in that particular goal, it's using staff that are already on our books to address the the need, right? And recognizing that those are numbers we are already reporting to the federal government and to the state government that are published, right? So the federal government says Lakeville suspends black kids at three times the rate of white kids, right? It's already there.

I make a motion to amend the the ANI plan to uh reallocate uh $620,000 uh to increase the reading interventionalists and the the EL coordinators.