all right good evening uh this work session of the ISD 279 School Board is being held in the Forum room of the Educational Service Center 11200 93rd Avenue North in Maple Grove on Tuesday January 7th 2025 the work session is being audio recorded the recording will be made available on the district website within two business days after the work session is end it with regard to the audio recording our communication staff has asked that we that we share a friendly reminder that side conversations during the work session are picked up by the recorder and can affect sound quality also conversations during transitions between agenda items are on the recording as well the intent of the Schoolboard work session is to allow for Schoolboard discussion of topics work sessions do not include an opportunity for audience members to address the board to acknowledge attendance this evening I'll ask that all present at the table State their name starting with the person to the left director Tanya Prince Schoolboard member Ivon Schwarz Len executive director of HR uh director Kei Tate School Board member s Mitchell School Board member Kelly parpart assistant superintendent for secondary schools Steve Fisk assistant superintendent for the elementary schools Brian bass assistant superintendent for equity and achievement John morstead executive director finance and operations Brian serson Hall executive director of community engagement K EX director of community relations Anthony pis executive director of Technology Amy Moore general counsel Director Erica pter School Board member Kelsey Dawson Schoolboard member superintendent uh Kim H and I Thomas Brooks Schoolboard member and present the purpose of school board work sessions is to build trust and teamwork to exchange information and when applicable to provide Direction in order to facilitate efficient and effective decision-making in regular board meetings Dr Hy you please share checking thank you Vice chair Thomas um um welcome everyone and Welcome to our new school board members we're so excited uh to have you here one of our goals with our work session that may have changed over the last year or so is for us to have an informative collaborative discussion where we're all learning from each other so please feel comfortable if there's questions or if there's something that you want to ask us our whole goal here is to share information but also to receive information back so I'm going to apologize to our new school board members we're going into some heavy topics for the first time so uh get your seat bels ready and we're going to get started so we'll start out with enrollment Trend information with Don morstad please thank you Dr H um so enrollment turns are reviewed annually at this time of year in order to project enrollment for the next fiscal year and to make new 5year enrollment projections the purpose of tonight's presentation is to provide an overview of En Trends used in making fiveyear enrollment projec…