[0:28] e [0:58] e [1:28] e [1:58] e [2:28] e [2:58] e [3:28] e [3:58] e e [4:46] it is September 9th um and we do have Quorum so I'll call this meeting to [4:51] order our first order of business is approving our agenda for tonight do I have a motion to approve the [4:57] agenda so move oh sorry is who is going [5:02] to Second so who moved it Elliot Elliot okay and Karen seconded um we will now [5:09] vote to approve the agenda all those in favor say I I anyone opposed our agenda [5:15] is approved um Dr Stanley would you like to review the agenda for our board and Community absolutely we're excited to [5:22] bring a start of the Year excellence and action to you we'll have hearing from uh members of the public um you'll review [5:30] the consent agenda we have uh Ellers here to talk about the reissuance of [5:36] some uh Capital notes and bonds uh we're going to get a great update about 2024 [5:42] summer programming from Community Education strategic Partnerships Department um School Board is going to [5:48] talk about their priorities their goals we have SE a few policies um to [5:54] look at and then for Action um we'll also move to um the board will move to [5:59] to act on that um possible refinancing um my superintendent's goals [6:07] will come forward for final review and action and then we actually have a collective bargaining agreement that um [6:14] has been ratified um leadership and committee updates and then my updates um [6:20] important to note that there are a few items in the packet around information [6:25] only thank you Dr Stanley um our next agenda item is excellence in action and tonight I believe we have a video about [6:33] the first day of school or first days of school I should say [6:39] so if someone wants to cue the video [6:49] [Music] [6:58] [Music] [7:07] [Music] [7:16] [Music] [7:27] [Music] [7:35] [Music] [7:55] [Music] [8:02] [Music] [8:15] [Music] [8:31] [Music] [8:40] [Music] [8:54] that was great I know you've been out to almost all or every school yeah we we were able [9:00] to get out to every school and it has been overall an incredible start to um [9:07] the school year um there is just such a sense of excitement and um just finally [9:18] moving beyond as as much as we possibly can the pandemic and it just feels good [9:23] we are just level setting um back to a norm that we once had and it was just [9:29] great we saw that within staff we saw that within kids whether it was early students in early childhood you know all [9:34] the way up to our 12th graders and just really um proud of everyone and especially proud of our teachers and our [9:41] administrators a lot went in to the school year kicking off uh in such a [9:47] positive way um whether it was administrators whether it was coaches whether it was teachers teacher [9:53] leaders um just all of the administrators working with all of the staff um including um Community [10:00] Education so it's been a great year feels really good that's great thank you thank you [10:07] to parents Educators for making it a great year so far um thank you U we're [10:15] now going to move on to our hearings from members of the public um and thank you to anyone that's here to address the [10:20] board when you sign in and ask to speak you acknowledge an understanding and adherence to board policy 206 which are [10:27] Community comment guidelines pursuant to this policy each speaker has a maximum of 3 minutes to speak a clock on the [10:34] screen will be a visual reminder of your time remaining and I will prompt you verbally if you're going over 3 minutes [10:40] when those three minutes are up you must conclude your remarks this time is not designated to address items concerning [10:46] specific staff or students and personal attacks by anyone at the podium are unacceptable if this happens you will be [10:52] warned and if you persist you will no longer be able to continue your remarks any feedback about District employees [10:59] needs to go to their respective site level leader the superintendent or be submitted in writing to the board the [11:06] public comment period will be limited to 15 individuals per our updated protocols the school board will give first [11:11] priority to Edina Public School students individuals who have children in the school district individuals who reside [11:18] in the district or individuals who are employed by the district the school board will give second priority to individuals who wish to address a [11:25] specific item that is on the agenda for that meeting if you're form was not filled out completely you are not [11:31] eligible to be called to speak all efforts have been made to ensure multiple viewpoints are expressed and [11:36] multiple individuals expressing the same Viewpoint or multiple people from the same organization should consider [11:42] consolidating the remarks um finally during public comment period our role as a board is to listen [11:48] but this is not the place for the board to resolve any concerns and as such no comments will be made from the board [11:54] issues will potentially be referred to the superintendent for appropriate followup thank you for your [12:00] cooperation and we do have one person that has um requested to address the [12:07] board and um is Laura lucans [12:24] here oh yeah sorry [12:29] okay good all right hello my name is Laura lucans I'm an resident and a [12:36] mother of three including a kindergartener and a second grader at Normandale I'll start with both a thank [12:42] you and an apology first thank you this is far from the first school board meeting I've attended so I know your job [12:48] hasn't been the easiest especially this year thank you for the way that you've shown up and kept the focus on our [12:55] children now for my apology I'm here to talk about something that is not fun at [13:01] all and I'm sorry because just talking about this topic has a strange effect [13:06] it's going to make your head start itching um I'm here to talk about [13:12] headlight my daughter attended kids club this summer she really enjoyed it and I found the program to be excellently run [13:19] the only problem is that kids club became a hot bed for headlice I didn't realize this until [13:26] late in the summer when my daughter got lice I took her to a lice clinic in Hopkins where the staff was incredulous [13:33] at the number of children they had treated from Edina kids club we've never seen an outbreak like this they told me [13:41] unfortunately lice carries such stigma that parents are often silent about it [13:46] when I tell friends that we had lice this summer I hear the same response [13:52] over and over we had it or we have it too we just didn't tell anyone [13:59] this is how life spirals out of control it's not the fault of eps it's certainly not the fault of kids club but the [14:06] problem has now reach such magnitude that it's your responsibility to act here's why lice isn't a health risk but [14:13] it is highly disruptive and expensive trust me I spent hours combing and [14:19] vacuuming and doing laundry my husband and I took time off work to take our family to a li Clinic we treating a [14:26] family of five costs over $1,000 this is simply not feasible for many EPS [14:32] families moreover that effort and expense does absolutely nothing to protect a kid from getting lice again [14:39] and again if others in the community aren't doing their part the cycle can be never ending so please do something I [14:47] haven't seen lice referenced in Communications leading up to the new school year or since here's how you can [14:53] turn the tide create a sense of urgency and responsibility first establish [14:58] urgency by communicating in direct unequivocal terms that Li the life situation is severe particularly at the [15:05] elementary level then in gender a sense of community responsibility responsibility means parents actually [15:11] report cases and there's so much more that you can do to facilitate this responsibility also means taking [15:17] preventative steps like checking hair regularly wearing hair up applying a [15:23] mint spray not sharing hats Etc families must encourage this at home and teachers and nurses can reinforce this at school [15:30] our community is incredible and I know if we put our heads together oh no sorry [15:36] wrong reference I know if we I know if we work together families can once again [15:42] Embrace school as a place of learning rather than worrying about school as the source source of yet another case of [15:49] headli thanks thank you um that was our La um only Community [15:56] comment for the evening um we're now going to move on to our consent agenda is there anything anyone would like to [16:02] remove from the consent agenda do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda so moved second all those [16:10] in favor of approving the consent agenda say I I I anyone opposed the cons uh the [16:17] consent agenda has been approved um on to our discussion items our first item is the intent to issue [16:25] General obligation Capital notes and Facilities maintenance bonds series [16:30] 2024a and I would like to welcome Director of Business Services M Woodard and jod zesa from [16:39] Ellers as they come up I will um say you know to let the board know that um there [16:45] have there was a conversation in the finance committee about this and then um [16:50] Jody actually there were a couple of um members who were on vacation so Jody actually um came to another meeting to [16:56] make sure that all um board members of the finance committee were um informed [17:02] about it as well thanks for that additional context Dr Stanley um good evening chair [17:08] allenberg members of the school board those in attendance tonight um in Live or virtually um as you know the school [17:14] district routinely issues um General obligation bonds to supplement its pay as youo long-term facilities maintenance [17:21] program this allows us to keep our district facilities in a good state of repair um we spend in excess of 10 [17:27] million million per year doing this in order to minimize the impact on our taxpayers and also to continue to [17:33] maintain our facilities at an accelerated rate we do issue those bonds to minimize the tax rate um something [17:40] that has um become an opportunity for the school district during the recent interest mate interest rate Market [17:46] rather um is the ability to refinance or refund some existing debt if you recall [17:51] in the year 2015 the school district successfully passed a a voter approved referendum to construct facilities at [17:57] the high school as well walls at the middle school to the tune of about $124 million the interest rate environment [18:03] has become much more favorable in recent years and as such we have the opportunity to issue additional debt to [18:09] repay the existing debt and pay the remaining principal and interest at a much lower rate thus creating a savings [18:15] for taxpayers so it's a very exciting opportunity a member of our Municipal advisory team jod is here to present the [18:21] details of that I would also like to add that part of this whole debt issuance also includes a capital note to finance [18:28] our school bus replacement plan um that will allow us to both maintain our current cash reserves and to make those [18:34] payments on a more pal palatable basis important to note that those bonds do [18:39] not um represent any increase to taxpayers that are made against existing funding [18:45] sources thank you merch good evening chair allenberg Dr Stanley members of the school board community members [18:51] anyone listening I guess out there so um I have just a brief presentation and we [18:57] did talk about this at the finance committee as well as the subsequent um meeting that Dr Stanley mentioned so I [19:02] will highlight some of the information but certainly we'll have time to ask questions so as Mt mentioned um we have [19:10] multiple purposes included in this data shoe so most often we have had a single purpose issue for the school district [19:17] often it is your facilities maintenance bonds to take care of the projects that mert mentioned um when we knew we had [19:23] the refunding opportunity though it made sense to kind of package all these together so that we can save on cost of issuance so that's the reason that we [19:30] are recommending proceeding with the four uh purposes the largest share by far of course is the refunding component [19:37] um there's an alternative facilities bond issue that we think we can capture some savings related to smaller uh bond [19:43] issue and then the school building bonds from 2015 the upcoming facilities maintenance bond issue and then the [19:49] capital notes so a little bit of information about refunding bonds so it's really the opportunity to uh reduce [19:56] future Debt Service payments and levies similar to refinancing a mortgage um but you're not able to keep any savings for [20:03] the district's budget you do need to pass those savings onto your taxpayers in the form of reduced Debt Service [20:08] levies in the future we are always monitoring your District's debt to make sure that we're taking advantage of [20:14] refunding opportunities when they come up we do provide semiannual reports to Dr Stanley and merch so this is these [20:21] issues we've been watching for a while and talking about them and um finally it was time to come forward and have that [20:26] more detailed conversation with the finance committee so a little bit about the [20:32] existing bonds so that uh 2014a issue that I mentioned was issued under what was called the alternative facilities [20:38] program at the time it's now the long-term facilities maintenance program and we issued just over six billion in [20:44] bonds um all of that principle is still outstanding so we we would be refunding the um total amount that is outstanding [20:52] um the savings really hasn't been sufficient to move forward with that as a single issue the call date was has [20:58] already passed it was February 1st of 2024 but now that rates have come down a little bit combining with this other [21:04] issue so that the cost of issuance are spread out and a little bit lower we are able to capture we think about $100,000 [21:10] in savings on this issue uh let's see here did you oh here [21:18] so this is the 2015 bonds that um Mt mentioned so the power amount at that [21:23] time was just over 113 million uh that election was held on May 5th of 20 5 um [21:29] financed a number of um improvements throughout the district I think majority of it at the high school if I remember [21:36] correctly for security enhancements infrastructure improvements and Next Generation learning spaces is what was [21:42] included in the ballot language back then so we still have 93,471 [21:55] of those bonds assuming you close within 90 days of the call date the call date [22:00] on these bonds is February 1st of 2025 so if we close anytime starting November [22:05] 4th or later uh we can proceed with this issue this gives you a look at the [22:13] savings for the two issues um the two refunding Bond components of the issue [22:18] combined so we're looking at about $6.2 million in savings and uh we have about [22:25] 20 to 25 basis points of kusher built in so so rates have um been fluctuating a [22:30] bit we'll show you a couple charts that demonstrate that uh last week they came down a little bit today they ticked up [22:36] just slightly so I think on Friday I was telling merch about 25 basis points and now we're probably in the 20 to 25 uh [22:43] percent uh about a quarter of a point of cushion so um should we uh move forward [22:49] with the savings today we'd likely be at [22:55] 7.4 roughly or 7 7.4 to 7.7 in savings every um 10 basis points or [23:02] 0.1% is a change of about $600,000 so if rates go up we don't [23:07] capture as much savings if rates continue to go down then we would capture more [23:12] savings the next uh chart shows you interest rate trends over the last year so you can see that uh rates went up [23:21] over the uh fall last year and that would have been the time when we were first looking at that 2014 issue so of [23:27] course it didn't make sense at that point in time but we've been kind of watching that we often get a dip in [23:33] January every year and we talked a lot about that at both meetings the finance committee meeting and the follow-up meeting and then um you can kind of see [23:40] how things have fluctuated since that point in time this chart just gives you uh same information a 20-year Trend so [23:48] you can see the volatility over the years the um High rate uh the high point [23:53] back in 2018 and then of course the low rate when rates were at historic lows for a while during uh the co [24:03] period so a little bit more about the components so as merch mentioned um the [24:10] facilities maintenance bonds um we coordinate the pro we coordinate that uh [24:15] the bond proceeds that we receive along with your annual what the state of Minnesota calls the pay as you go levies [24:22] to make sure we keep a nice level Debt Service tax rate along with your other capital and debt levies unless the [24:28] voters approve an increase so that's always our goal to keep things nice and level it's not all components of your [24:34] property tax levy but it's a good share of your overall tax levy so we're financing about 5.8 million in Project [24:40] costs for fiscal year 26 and 27 um whereas the total costs that you [24:46] approved over that period of time are about 25 million so the majority of your funding is coming from your annual payal [24:51] levies and not from your Deb issuances this gives you you've seen [24:56] this chart from us many times is how we monitor um the fact that we're trying to keep your taxes uh your tax rate nice [25:03] and level you can see the existing debt and kind of the um blue Periwinkle sort [25:10] of um uh bar chart bars of the chart and then the red is your Capital project [25:15] Levy or your technology Levy that's voter approved uh the green is the payo [25:21] general fund facilities maintenance Levy the hashed green is the future facilities maintenance bonds and that [25:28] those dotted lines are the refunding savings that would be we would be able to capture and you can see there are some step Downs in the future um to [25:35] provide some flexibility and capacity should you have some needs that you want to accomplish down the [25:42] road the capital notes are not included on that schedule so these are U [25:47] financing bus purchases but the debt payments as you pay those uh back overtime are made with existing [25:54] resources so there's no additional tax impact associated with the Capital notes component of this debt issue uh it's tax [26:01] neutral because you have a Debt Service Levy that's offset by a reduction in your general fund Levy and the proposed [26:09] authorized amount for the capital notes is 1,525 we're hoping to finance 1,500,000 worth of [26:18] buses and this gives you a picture of how the capital notes and what portion [26:23] of your annual operating Capital that it commits uh over time we have it's scheduled to be repaid over an 8-year [26:30] period which is the useful life that you use for your [26:35] buses so a little bit about the timeline so tonight uh you will have a resolution for your consideration um to issue the [26:43] bonds and we're pro providing our pre-sale report to you this evening we [26:48] would um accept bids on the bonds assuming rates are still favorable at that point in time during the week of [26:54] October 7th we're currently scheduled for October October 9th that Wednesday [27:00] and then uh at your school board uh when you meet on October 22nd I know that's [27:06] generally just a Schoolboard work session but we would add just a special a short special meeting component of [27:11] that for you to uh approve or ratify the results of the bond sale and a little bit about what mer and [27:19] Dr Stanley will be working on during that time frame so we gather a bunch of information for our preliminary official [27:25] statement which is the prospectus that goes out to investors so they've been providing information for that we have a [27:30] call then to go through the preliminary official statement and then importantly the rating call with Moody's and that's [27:36] scheduled for the 20 both of those calls are scheduled already for the 23rd and [27:42] then we would uh close on the bond so that we stay within that 90-day window that's required uh by federal [27:49] law so the resolution that you have before you tonight is similar to what you've seen in the past for your bond [27:55] issues it's an intent resolution with parameters so this allows us to move forward with the refunding bond process [28:02] and the other components of the bond issue make sure that we get The Debt Service levies in your Levy report which [28:09] was issued on Friday and still um mde is working on some changes and Corrections and they would get your debt service [28:15] levies included in that report then and it also includes that parameter so we had a long conversations about the [28:23] parameter and what level of savings might seem acceptable to the fin finance committee members and where we landed [28:30] was uh in the resolution you'll see a true interest cost rate not to exceed [28:36] 3.46 what that equates to then is a Debt Service future value Savings of about [28:41] 5.2 million so we are kind of thinking somewhere in that5 U million do range [28:47] seemed comfortable to the members everybody was supportive of moving forward with the transaction and kind of [28:54] monitoring the market certainly if for some reason rates Spike up and we're not able to achieve that we will just um put [29:01] the sale on hold which is fine and we'll proceed at a time when we feel like we can achieve that savings [29:08] then so that's what we have happy to answer any questions about [29:15] the overall information you also have a pre-sale report that gives some more details and then the uh resolution for [29:21] your consideration tonight um any other context from the finance committee or comments [29:30] um I think one of the questions that certainly came up um was the timing of all of this that you know we this really [29:36] wasn't discussed prior to with the board um when this happened um those was one of my questions that I asked like help [29:41] me understand why the timing is what it is um It's really because of looking at the interest rates and seeing what's happening and the fact that we can then [29:48] capture this refunding mechanism on both the 2014 and the 2015 bonds um there's [29:54] like a window of opportunity that has presented itself we would have done the facility maintenance ponds anyway um and [30:00] this was an attempt to try to then pull together all of these four elements under one um issuance uh expense so it's [30:08] kind of fortuitous in terms of being able to do this otherwise this wouldn't have come up in the manner that it did [30:13] the challenge with the timing is that there's some the expression that was used in our discussion was take your [30:20] winnings off the table meaning that we can book now Savings of at least 5.2 million assuming that the sale goes [30:27] through at the minimum parameters that we've set it could be higher than that but 5.2 million up to 7 million [30:33] depending on how it plays out that's a win for us it's a win for our taxpayers this is an opportunity where um [30:40] volatility will still exist within this Marketplace especially with the election coming up and so on so forth that it was [30:45] the recommendation of our experts that said this is the right opportunity to to jump on and let's take it um to reduce [30:51] our tax um burden for our taxpayers so I just want to make sure all the board [30:56] members knew that even though the seems short because we're getting a presentation now and we're going to be asked to take a resolution action on it [31:02] um in the second part of tonight's meeting this is sort of a unique element from that and it's all about us saving [31:08] money this would not be the type of pattern we would take if we were going to have to spend money or we were going [31:14] to have higher expenses for something it would go through a much longer process but given that this is a savings opportunity that has a somewhat of a [31:21] Time level on it um it was the recommendation of the of the team as well as to the finance committee and [31:26] they did agree with this we should move forward with this program thank you director Birman um do [31:32] other board members have questions or comments Barry thank you director bman for clarifying the timing aspect I was [31:39] curious about that with the changing interest rate Factor um my question is this does seem like quite a good deal [31:46] for savings for the district and taxpayers is there a downside that I'm not [31:51] seeing really only if rates continue to similar to when you lacked your home mortgage right I mean um if rates then [31:58] continued to decline and you could have captured more savings would be the um only downside um but at the call date [32:06] February 1st 2025 generally you want to proceed by then so it would really just be over this next kind of six-month [32:12] period of time that we'd be watching that and um like I said if they're you know if a week later rates go down um [32:20] you yeah that's that would that would be the downside so very similar to when you lock into a home mortgage rate [32:28] gaer thank you for this presentation and thank you for bringing this forward to us um I think just as we are talking [32:36] about this I think this shows the fiduciary responsibility that this District takes to with our taxpayers [32:41] money and so um you know as we think about future opportunities where we [32:47] might need to go out and talk to the taxpayers about the needs that we have I think this really shows the [32:53] responsibility um and how seriously we take this matter so I appr appreciate you bringing this opportunity to us and [33:00] then um I think it's important to restate what I heard you say in the beginning which is yes we would save [33:07] money but that money would not be coming back necessarily to the district but [33:12] we'll be going back to taxpayers we've just been through budget reductions and so I think it's really important to just [33:18] delineate for listeners that that is money going back in their pockets not [33:24] necessarily coming back to the schools did I hear that correctly that's correct and that's important distinction between [33:29] you know it's very different from a home mortgage right so in this case the district does not cannot keep the money [33:35] for its budget needs to pass that along to the district's taxpayers in the form of reduced Debt Service levies so you [33:42] can see clearly those you know little dotted lines on the bar chart that we showed you where that tax rate would [33:47] come down then anything [33:53] else great thank you thank you uh next for discussion items TW um [34:00] is 2024 summer programming with our Community Education and strategic Partnerships program I'd like to invite [34:06] up Dr an Marie Leland director of community engagement and strategic Partnerships and Dr Cheryl gunnis [34:12] Community engagement and purpose learning supervisor [34:19] welcome hello everybody thank you uh chair allenburg superintendent Dr [34:26] Stanley and director um we are so happy to be here tonight I am Dr Amry Leland Community Education [34:33] and strategic Partnerships director and next to me is Dr Cheryl gunnis our [34:39] supervisor of community engagement and purpose learning so thank you for the opportunity to have us share about our [34:46] 2024 programming delivered through our department it is exciting and um the [34:53] presentation represents so many different facets of what we do in terms of age levels and [35:00] opportunities it's early learning kids club enrichment and summer targeted services so Dr gunnis is going to walk [35:08] us through the presentation it's going to be quantitative qualitative and Next [35:14] Step ideas related to Summer programming thank you thank you I'm so excited to be here [35:20] and to represent our department and all the work that we did so we'll start with just a few basic numbers about the [35:26] program and then move on as you said to a little bit of qualitative um information [35:33] so um we'll start with our youngest Learners um we transitioned to new [35:38] leadership for the with the Early Learning Center this summer we welcomed Kim Isley as the new assistant director [35:45] of community education focused on the Early Learning Center on July 1st and [35:50] the summer The Early Learning Center hosted both um ECFE Early Childhood [35:55] family education programs for two-year-olds as well as some preschool enrichment programs um you can see there that we [36:03] had five course sections and about 71 enrollments in our ECFE program and then [36:09] 130 enrollments and 94 unique users and about 15 summer enrichment programs some [36:15] of the um popular camps there were Lego Camp the arrow tour preschool Edition um [36:21] Paw Patrol and a Garden Club um a highlight for the Early [36:26] Learning Center this summer was a partnership with udana with Hopkins Public Schools through achievement and [36:33] integration called Ready Set kindergarten this twoe program was hosted here at the Early Learning Center [36:39] and about 25 up and coming kindergarteners attended and learned about um taking a bus um keeping track [36:46] of their own items zipping up their backpacks packing their folders friendship skills um and also some math [36:53] and literacy moving on to kids Club um this [36:58] program is now overseen by my colleague Julie gabrielson this summer we had nine weeks of programming 892 students were [37:06] enrolled um in grades K through six an average of 22 almost 23,000 um hours of [37:14] care every single week that involves 194 staff and three different building [37:19] locations and I just wanted at this time to shout out to our buildings and grounds um Department who really helped [37:26] us keep the buildings running smoothly and efficiently and for their constant communication and flexibility both with [37:32] enrichment and the kids club program um especially while they're trying to keep those buildings running but also do all [37:37] their summer cleaning so they really spectacular partners with us um so for some context you can see in [37:44] terms of our contracts pre-co we were hovering in the 600 number we had a dip [37:50] but still significant enrollment during the covid summer and now we're up to [37:55] um let's see about 890 contracts for the past two summers so we feel like we [38:01] might have been reaching our maximum capacity in terms of the number of spaces available to us to to be able to [38:08] host the the um this all dayare program as far as highlights for kids [38:13] club 92% of families reported that they would recommend the program to a friend [38:19] um the family engagement surveys are always um very complimentary um noting [38:28] that we're working hard to improve every single summer um and the field trips are a big highlight so in those nine weeks [38:35] of programming we did 75 field trips um some of the favorites were troll hogen [38:42] Valley Fair linkx Game and any and everything outside to do with water um [38:47] also popular was a ninja course that visited all three of our summer sites so we kept kids [38:54] busy um moving on to our youth enrichment program program which includes um halfday camps and classes [39:01] for preschoolers through high school students um in this program we ran 11 weeks of programming 556 different [39:08] course sections over 8,000 registrations and over 4,000 unique [39:14] users um to run that program we add um 21 additional Summer Staff and work with [39:21] over 92 independent contractors and we had programming happening at 14 different locations around this um Edina [39:28] and another partner I would really like to call out and thank is our our colleagues in Department of media and [39:34] Technology services so many of those stem programs rely on students having [39:40] devices that they can log into where the apps are open and available them to you so that takes a lot of collaboration and [39:47] patience and and Partnerships we appreciate that um the story is pretty similar as [39:53] it was to Kids Club um where we have really doubled since in 2019 you can see [39:59] that we were um well we had a dip but it was still [40:04] significant even during the covid summer and now we've um with our 8,000 [40:09] enrollments and 4,000 unique users we also feel like there we've really maximized our capacity um at least with [40:16] if the current context that we have um as far as a few enrichment [40:21] highlights our first Camp to fill was safe sitter that first section was full at 806 on February 13th which was six [40:29] minutes after we opened um and eventually over 150 middle [40:35] school students um participated in these safe sitter programs um safe sitter is a [40:41] nationally recognized organization founded to prepare students for running their own business and building [40:47] confidence through the lens of Babys city um our largest performance this summer was Finding Neo musical theater [40:54] we had over 200 visitors um in epac for that performance the students um spent [41:00] two weeks with rehearsals and choreography um and then similarly 75% [41:06] of families rated our program nine or 10 out of 10 another 10% had suggestions [41:11] for improvement which we take seriously so um we're feeling good about um our [41:18] program on our family engagement survey this is one of my favorite quotes which was that my son woke up early got [41:25] dressed and was ready to go every morning not usually excited about school he ended the week saying I think I'm [41:31] going to like third grade so we really love to capture that enthusiasm and Propel students into the new school [41:39] year volunteer experience is a huge portion of our summer program um we're [41:44] very proud of that because we feel like volunteering not only provides a sense of belonging for students who are [41:50] getting a little bit older but maybe not quite um old enough to work um it's also [41:56] a form of career EXP exploration for them and we simply couldn't run the program without all of our volunteers so [42:03] the summer we had 131 St student volunteers contributing nearly 5,000 [42:08] hours of volunteering this summer which if you calculate it according to the National volunteer service rate is over [42:15] $165,000 of value poured back into our students um High School volunteers many [42:22] of them working on their letter and community service were placed in the Early Learning Center and Kids Club in our enrichment program a new this year [42:29] we piloted a volunteer program for middle school students and those students worked in our um unified [42:35] program and also our green superheroes of science team teachers program which I think you heard about at your last board [42:43] meeting um here you'll see a huge uptick in our volunteer um hours and volunteers and [42:51] that is based primarily on heavy volunteer involvement in our targeted Services um summer targeted Services [42:58] program called excited which we'll hear a little bit more about um so in Community Education we're [43:06] committed to helping each and every learner discover their possibilities and Thrive and for some students um [43:12] financial assistance is important for them to access our summer programs so um [43:17] thank you to give and go their partnership with Community Education um has allowed us to serve 187 students in [43:25] 354 camps and over $65,000 of support um I would also like to shout [43:32] out to Christa Phillips in the resource center who um coordinates all those scholarships and Al often provides [43:39] additional complimentary resources to families who are reaching out about um scholarships and just a side note [43:46] another thing we accomplished this summer is a new website for the diner Resource Center so I encourage you to check that out if you have a time and in [43:53] addition to these programs we also helped 34 students attend um YMCA Gathering Pines [43:59] Camp um a couple of highlights about the financial assistance is that we had a [44:04] record number of high school students this summer um doing driver's ed and College and Career prep [44:11] classes um 72% of the students who accessed this in this summer um did not [44:19] use scholarships the year before so we feel like we're doing a lot of great Outreach with new families and making sure that everyone knows about um this [44:26] benefit us to them and because of the funding um that we had available no student was turned away due to lack of [44:33] funding so we had adequate resources this summer we'll quickly transition now to [44:40] um a place to belong so um these are a set of programs [44:46] that um and initiatives that we are working on to be sure that we're aligning our work to the Frameworks of [44:52] public schools and um make sure that we're breaking down bar barriers and [44:58] silos so as I've mentioned we are committed to providing um fertile [45:03] environments for each and every student to discover their possibilities and Thrive um we consider ourselves a place [45:09] to belong um we are defining belonging following cob and Crown Apple in their [45:15] book um belonging through a culture of dignity as um belonging is the extent to [45:22] which students feel appreciated validated accepted and treated fairly [45:27] within an environment when students feel that they belong they aren't worried and distracted about being treated as a [45:34] stereotype or a thin slice of their multi-dimensional identities instead [45:39] they are confident that they are seen as a human being and a person of value so in the slides that follow we [45:46] just wanted to highlight a few um examples of the unconditional belonging [45:52] that we promote in our Community Education programming and that we see as The crucial Foundation to any sort of [45:58] academic or other sorts of learning um that will follow for the young people [46:04] that we [46:09] serve so one example is our summer unified and inclusion programming this [46:14] summer we offered 10 summer Community unified Community Education unified camps including cooking magic sensory [46:21] team building theater together and fit and active we had 133 students [46:27] participating both students who are typically developing and students with special needs um we are working hard to [46:33] be the most inclusive Community Education Program in the state and so we work very closely with our colleagues in [46:39] student Support Services um and the focus of our additional summer hiring that I talked [46:45] about is really on um so that we can provide the inclusion extra support that [46:51] students need to access all of our programs not only our UniFi programs and I think we're doing something right [46:57] based on one of my favorite comments from um our parent survey which is um [47:04] someone wrote I had two kids enrolled in the track Camp a special needs 12-year-old and a typical needs [47:09] 9-year-old and both kids had a great time I appreciate how your staff was able to assist my special needs daughter [47:16] so that she could participate and enjoy time with friends these opportunities haven't always been available when we [47:22] lived in other areas thank you so much and so I do acknowledge that we have work to do um I think for next year [47:29] we're going to be moving to a lottery system for our UniFi camps so that we can serve more um unique users in these [47:37] high demand camps so um they're in demand and we're continually getting [47:43] better another thing that I'm very proud of is that um as you know this summer [47:49] our district welcomed a new multi-tiered systems of support coordinator Sarah hosm Mo and so our team worked with her [47:56] very closely closely to understand and flesh out what mtss means in the context of Community [48:02] Education and we are developing shared understanding and shared language and um best practices so that students can [48:09] experience the same environments in Community Education as they experience um during the school time so thank you [48:16] to them and one of the projects that we worked on was this activity planning [48:21] guide so that we can share these foundations of belonging um with our own [48:27] staff but also with independent contractors that we work with so this includes information about the district [48:33] mission and vision and a port of well-rounded graduate but also the mtss [48:38] framework um the basics of tools of cultural proficiency and um a pyramid of [48:44] program quality so we're very excited about rolling this out and sharing that more [48:50] widely um this was our second summer that Community Education has collaborated collaborated on summer [48:56] targeted Serv Services programming so I wanted to thank um conquer's assistant principal Mark D young my partner in [49:02] planning um targeted Services Program um let's [49:10] see um so this summer to have sound this is not it's just going to be running as I just wanted to make sure everybody um [49:18] so our targeted Services Program ran for two weeks in July and served 221 students in grades one through six who [49:25] were invited by their teachers based on reading and math scores so we delivered over 8,000 instructional hours with 16 [49:33] Edina teachers 21 you high school volunteers eight Middle School volunteers we served 326 free lunches [49:40] and 122 bus pickups um so Innovations this year where we really double down on the idea [49:47] of belonging as the foundation for future success is that we extend the program to be an all day program not [49:53] just in the morning we had consecutive weeks now broken up by the 4th of July which we've had in the past and we found [50:00] difficulty getting students to come back um we had social emotional learning [50:06] lessons created by Sarah hillas Mo and taught by all the teachers and then we also um had enrichment camps taught all [50:14] afternoon so each student got four different enrichment camps taught by 64 [50:19] um uh 64 options some were taught by Dina teachers who got a chance to develop an enrichment program but we [50:26] also worked with compass teaching artists and did things like Guerilla Haiku um Haitian dance we learned about [50:33] the University of St Thomas Thomas's pollinator path and we worked at the Museum of Russian Art um other programs [50:43] ranged from stem and knitting and a class about creating your own [50:48] Intergalactic National Park and a stem Camp taught by the indomitable and Unstoppable Kathy rendelman from the Ed [50:55] Ed fund so I wanted to thank her for that um we had huge volunteer [51:00] involvement for that um 899 student volunteers and that twoe [51:06] program alone it's just like $30,000 with a value and that program with all the moving movement with the enrichment [51:13] camps really could not have happened with all those volunteers um I'm very proud of the [51:18] family survey data we got 71 responses and 86% of families agreed they would [51:23] recommend it um one quote was that my student loved going to excited every [51:29] single day and that alone says everything you took summer school and made it exciting and fun and enjoyable [51:36] so knowing that he was learning and couldn't wait to go to school each day and bubbled with excitement when I [51:41] picked him up was a huge win for us so it was [51:48] fun um career exploration so we welcomed our new uh career exploration [51:53] coordinator Jessica Jessica mclennen on June 24th Jessica came to us from acheve [51:59] Twin Cities and jumped right in this summer teaching um a targeted Services Camp about money and also um a summer [52:08] enrichment career exploration camp for middle school students which involved visit from an a registered nurse a field [52:15] trip to the Mall of America about business and marketing a field trip to an HVAC plant and a field trip to the [52:21] Humane Society so we will definitely be revisiting that um Camp [52:28] again um and then leadership development is my final topic you'll be glad to know [52:34] so um as you know a key tenant and principal of Community Education is community involvement and specifically [52:40] leadership development so we work hard every summer um making sure that we are [52:46] providing leadership development so we've talked about the green superheroes of Science Program green crew Adventures [52:52] was another Middle School student program um 35 students participated in [52:57] week-long camps um learning about uh leave no Trace principles and then they [53:03] spent a day working on um conservation projects at the Minnesota River Valley [53:11] um Isaac Walton League chapter house um as far as um the use our youth [53:20] skills training Grant we had 10 high school students who were um accepted into the Genesis works internship [53:27] program so this summer they completed eight weeks of um skills training and [53:32] now they have begun their paid internships um during the school year and an [53:38] additional 10 students were accepted into the Step Up achiev Twin City summer internship program and experienced paid [53:45] career experiences as well and then we're also providing um [53:51] leadership experiences for our own Summer Staff they are often students who participate in our summer camp camps and [53:56] then they became volunteers and then we hired them to help us run our program [54:02] and we were also joined by two americore summer impact fellows this summer who helped us um support learning and [54:08] engagement and help us build system capacity um so on the Winds of all that [54:16] work we will be um continuing our mtss training and implementation um in late [54:23] August the very talented Sarah hilos helped us train an additional 75 members [54:29] of our staff on the basis of mtss um we're continuing to work on our [54:34] um programming for middle school students and families can expect surveys to gather ideas and input in the next [54:40] few weeks we'll continue to build out our um career exploration programs [54:47] um and we're really going hard on making sure that the foundation of all our [54:53] career exploration is really about authentic belonging and identity and purpose um and we will continue to [54:59] manage that youth skills training Grant from the Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry and um final thing is we'll be [55:06] um doing a deep dive into our adult programs which we continue to um try to [55:12] rebuild coming back from covid so maybe you'll hear about that next yeah well [55:18] thank you so much um she is undeniable commitment to our young people and we [55:23] bring summer we bring our department brings summer right we really reach out [55:30] and make sure our summer our community is engaged and that there's plenty of [55:35] opportunities um she Dr gunis was able to Showcase her spinning skills you [55:43] inherited your spinning wheel from your my mom your her mom and um that was such [55:50] a fun class to peek in on and you did a beautiful job engaging students so Not [55:55] only was she checking in regularly throughout the year with the summer with her team but [56:01] she was also demonstrating some skills that she had and engaging students so I [56:07] just want to end with I've gently maybe not gently sometimes pushed our team to [56:13] really start digging into Data disaggregating that data trying to find out who are we serving and maybe who we [56:22] could be serving so we are doing that more and more every day [56:27] um it is just a pleasure to walk into the python coding class for our older [56:34] Elementary and younger middle school students and realize that that's our [56:39] graduate from Indina High School who's at Notre Dame now who came back to [56:45] facilitate that programming for our students so it was really giving back to our community comes full circle so we [56:52] get to see that all the time in what we do so thank you [56:59] do board members have questions or comments director [57:04] Gable wow I mean that's amazing when you look at those numbers 4,000 unique users [57:11] that's pretty impressive and I was one of those parents on at 804 trying to get my kid into the babysitting class and [57:18] you guys made it happen I think you may have opened extra sections I don't know but um the communication was phenomenal [57:24] the traffic flow I mean that's managing a lot of unique users it yeah so I think your [57:30] presentation speaks for itself it is job well done and it just keeps getting better and better each year like how [57:37] you're expanding to middle school and volunteers you know volunteering and what little kid doesn't want to have a [57:42] high schooler or a middle schooler helping out I know that's like having a superhero help out so thank you for all [57:48] that you do it's great job Dr Birdman I would Echo that as well [57:55] um I think it's almost like having as much as we possibly can of a good thing [58:01] and trying to figure out how to spread it around as best as possible so really I have one question is that for the [58:06] level of demand that we have for all of our programming of all things you just described both the summer kids club [58:12] things like that um and I've heard you say it twice in several different examples that we're kind of at capacity [58:19] of what we can from a building space and talent space and so on so forth I'm [58:24] curious as to from from a board strategy perspective do you feel that if you had [58:31] more space or capacity or something like that that you'd be able to fill [58:37] it well she's got Wonder in her genius and I've got ideas invention so we are [58:43] all about expanding our opportunities and and continuing to hear what's new [58:49] and engaging but I know you have probably a more practical um response um [58:56] I mean I we're striving for high quality right we have this like pyramid of program quality and we it's really [59:03] important that we're not just offering anything and filling it up we're really trying to be responsive and co-creating [59:09] the programming with our community and involving and changing and it's also it's um a huge responsibility like every [59:17] time you add another student it's the layers of complexity of the safety and the traffic flow and um how much extra [59:25] support we need and what nursing equ you know like what is the infrastructure available to help and so um I think it's [59:34] finding that balance so yeah um well I appreciate that answer because I mean I wasn't necessarily advocating for more I [59:40] just wanted but but I find that because of the success of the program and what you guys are doing in such an amazing way that when you have that type of [59:47] success and you have such wonderful things that in and of itself drives Demand right it's it's it's not a [59:52] chicken the egg it's kind of a a feeding onto itself kind of thing but we don't have unlimited capacity and so I think [59:59] your answer just now was perfect in the sense of we have to be cautious of how do we continue to bring the level [1:00:06] of quality and Excellence to the program while still trying to serve as many people as possible but that we might not [1:00:11] necessarily always be able to serve every single person who wants an opportunity that there's some just upper [1:00:17] limits that we have to that and I think that's just always important to frame for our community and we want to know [1:00:23] the students and we want to connect with them and it's about that connecting and belonging and we don't want to lose like [1:00:28] being able to know their names and greet them when we see them and make them feel authentically I really appreciate that [1:00:34] response um I don't think we've quite leveraged the possibility of the older [1:00:41] students and how do we involve the older students and really connecting them with the younger students I do feel like we [1:00:46] still have room to grow there in terms of the belonging and connection so keep going director arum I [1:00:56] just wanted to say thank you um my I have the unique experience of the fact that my daughter's in your programming [1:01:01] and um she has been for the last couple years not program sorry I'm working for you all and um I she's come back and [1:01:08] said the quality like the leadership and the training and everything has been phenomenal so it's been you know we talk [1:01:14] about the experience of all the students and the and the kids but the uh the fact that the quality of the staff that you [1:01:20] have in place when it comes to the leadership and training I just wanted to give you kudos for that too thank you for recognizing that that was one of the [1:01:27] changes when uh we we had Cheryl take this new position as supervisor she [1:01:34] oversees professional development for our department and knocked it out of the park this summer in terms of the [1:01:42] training that we put together that she put together um for our staff and it was [1:01:47] really well received yeah I appreciate that really seriously as I said we're all about [1:01:54] growing leaders Dr man I just wanted to offer Kudos as [1:02:00] well I all three of my kiddos were in different camps and they loved them all and uh just enjoyed the whole summer so [1:02:06] I really appreciate you guys' work and and thank you for all the information it was great too thank you and thanks to [1:02:12] our photographer K Kristen ban she puts together that entire slideshow on the [1:02:17] video so great it's amazing thank you this was amazing thank you very much [1:02:23] thanks thank you um we're going to move on to our school board priorities and um Karen do you want to [1:02:31] walk through this sure all right thank you chair elenberg [1:02:36] all right board you have seen this document um a couple of times and it is [1:02:42] essentially the same document that came to you be at the August 20th work session with just a few changes based on [1:02:49] your feedback so the first um in Priority One the beginning language um [1:02:55] The Lang language was changed from establish and seek out development opportunities to Define board roles and [1:03:02] identify development opportunities um it was at the work session it was decided that an ad hoc [1:03:08] committee would be responsible for starting the work so that column is changed and the action steps for that [1:03:14] priority are thus changed based on that ad hoc committee being the owner of that [1:03:20] uh priority so um then two priority two and three are the same so no changes [1:03:27] there uh priority four the only change there is under action steps there's a [1:03:34] third bullet uh we added that Jen will bring recommendations on the cultural [1:03:39] liaison representative role to the board at our June work session so uh that was [1:03:45] the change for that one and then for the last one um [1:03:51] we just changed the we added that last bullet point that the board will hold a [1:03:56] work session to identify action steps the board will take to further their cultural responsive practice so I just [1:04:02] wanted to call that out for you just it's hard to sometimes know what the changes were from last time you saw this [1:04:08] so are there any questions that board members have or any edits that you want [1:04:14] to make before this would come to you next time in October for [1:04:21] Action I don't have a question or edit I just wanted to add on context for people that might not have been following along [1:04:27] in the process that our goals this year look a little bit different than they have in Prior years and this was due to [1:04:33] a long a long discussion that we had about um really what is the role of the [1:04:39] board and um simplifying um some of our goals and clarifying for the community [1:04:46] that um two of the most important things that we do are um governing and guiding [1:04:53] our strategic plan which um our mission is um Student Success and [1:04:59] student achievement and so that is our first goal is um doing our governance [1:05:04] work and then our second or our priority um and then our second priority is [1:05:10] around how effective are we at that and so um some of the um goals specifically [1:05:17] under that um really operate around um leadership and our Effectiveness working [1:05:23] as a board to support the first priority and so it's uh laid out a little bit differently than a couple of years [1:05:29] before um so I just wanted to make sure the community understood the intent behind um the difference in formatting [1:05:36] for this year thank you thank you very much any other board members have [1:05:43] questions or things you want changed before this comes forward all right great well then we will see this [1:05:50] same document in October for Action thank you and thanks for that additional context that's important [1:05:56] thank you and thank you for your work on um doing these director gabler um and director arum um next we're going to [1:06:02] move on to our policy review um by policy chair G thank you chair allenburg and I'm [1:06:09] going to invite up uh Director D Hubert she is um the oneman show for all the [1:06:16] policies this month [1:06:33] all right I don't oh there we go chair [1:06:39] allenburg perfect timing uh board directors and um our community members [1:06:44] and colleagues I am here just to um go over the four policies today um quickly [1:06:50] give you an overview and see if there's any questions that I can answer I'll start with 603 and 603 is curriculum and [1:06:58] program review and development there are minor um minor edits to this one um it [1:07:04] really highlights um the edits really highlight um making sure that we're in alignment with msba policy as well as [1:07:10] legislation updates so one of the things that you'll see in here and then it transfers to some of the other policies [1:07:16] tonight is that world's best Workforce has had a change in the title and I'm going to read it because it's a little [1:07:22] bit of a mouthful and I'm not quite there yet in having it memorized but it's now comprehensive achievement and [1:07:28] Civic Readiness um so that um the work as as far as we know will have some [1:07:33] slight slight changes to it focusing on Future Ready which is some of the wording you'll see in the policy uh but [1:07:40] the highlights in this policy are really just changing that title and aligning msba and that legislation are there any [1:07:46] should I go over all of them or okay yeah any questions on that one [1:07:52] board members do you have any questions on that Cher Ellenberg [1:07:57] functionally for our district is there much you said there are a few differences but as far as how it impacts [1:08:05] our district is there a difference in how this legislation and policy affects [1:08:10] there's not and that's a great question because it really um is a great segue when we're ready to go there but to 616 [1:08:17] in terms of the district um School District system accountability um we will still have uh the meetings [1:08:23] throughout the year um in fact on the calendar already um individuals have been invited um we'll have the main goal [1:08:31] that this is a a group of stakeholders that includes community members parents students um colleagues within the [1:08:37] district across all levels just providing feedback on the areas of curriculum instruction and assessment [1:08:44] that are happening within the district so functionally um as far as we know right now um MD has acknowledged that [1:08:51] they're still working on all of the details and the updates but as far as we know right right now there's not a lot [1:08:56] of change um I also did get a feedback right that we will be reporting on last [1:09:02] year's world's best work for schools this year as we have and I don't know if that will change into the future in [1:09:08] terms of reporting to the board and in the public in terms of that goal and we [1:09:15] had a big discussion about that at the policy Committee in the fact that we don't have all the answers yet but they [1:09:21] have essentially changed the name of it at least um and we're figuring out as [1:09:28] Director D Hubert said about um how we will be we still have to report those things to the to the state so we'll be [1:09:34] using that committee yeah and I think the title you know even though it's not rolling off my tongue quite yet really is the area of focus and and where the [1:09:41] shift is comprehensive achievement and Civic Readiness so there is a highlight in some of the language that I've seen [1:09:47] about U making sure that our students are lifelong Learners perect all right well then we [1:09:53] will move on uh to policy 616 School District system [1:10:00] accountability and 616 um really is a nice segue because 616 talks about what [1:10:08] systems we have in place for the accountability in relation to our areas of instruction curriculum and assessment [1:10:16] and that is the functionality of our new committee same Committee of world's West Workforce in terms of function but with [1:10:22] the new title of comprehensive achievement and Civic readiness so there are in this policy also not a lot of [1:10:29] updates most are a changing of that title and um making sure that we have [1:10:34] all things in alignment with um msba and legislation updates there as well as I [1:10:39] scroll through it one more time in front of me really it's title updates there [1:10:45] primarily board members any questions or areas that you see Clarity [1:10:53] on okay great this will this one will move forward then for Action uh moving [1:10:59] on to policy 618 assessment grading reporting and student progress and this [1:11:04] one director DC Hubert did a lot of heavy lifting on so I want to thank her specifically for this one yes thank you [1:11:09] director GBL um I I do want to emphasize this when we did do a lot of collaboration um it was really important [1:11:16] to have input from a lot of our administrators as well specifically as [1:11:21] our Adina high school counselors on this policy um so so it had not been updated [1:11:27] for quite a while and so there are a lot of changes throughout it that are primarily um are 100% just updating what [1:11:34] we have as current practices and making sure that there's Clarity in alignment with a student handbook um specifically [1:11:41] at the high school and so that is that's what you see in the changes throughout the policy um and I'm really happy to [1:11:48] answer any specific questions that you [1:11:53] have I don't have a a question I just um wanted to comment that I appreciate that you added the note about um Middle [1:12:00] School grades for High School courses not go being factored into GPA um but [1:12:06] the grade appearing in the transcript I think that clears up a lot of confusion [1:12:11] that was maybe previously there so thank you yes thank you for that [1:12:16] feedback um I had a question around um I guess like B and C um because they talk [1:12:24] specific about I'm sorry sorry for that um so you increased the size so that I [1:12:31] didn't know um around general statement of policy B and C and maybe it could be [1:12:37] how we're defining but when we talk about grading policy does that apply to our elementary school students as well [1:12:45] we did talk with our elementary principles about this and so there's some language that shifted because there's some developmentally appropriate [1:12:52] things there that are different than at the secondary okay because this actually [1:12:57] to me it reads very secondary focused where even when you're talking about [1:13:03] relative to standards of the course um is it like course [1:13:09] curriculum um I think when we say yes that's a good question I think when we're referring to [1:13:15] course in the elementary we're like um that's like like a Content area so even though the kids aren't traveling from [1:13:20] course to course they are um moving within class to class and as we continue [1:13:26] to grow in integration across subject areas that's important but they still haveed classes okay because when I saw [1:13:33] course and both of those B andc yes it felt very secondary is to me and um and [1:13:41] then as well I was wondering additionally for B when we think about [1:13:47] elementary school students um there's a lot of things that [1:13:53] I mean we talk about like our care values and things that are part of our grading which to me was reflected a [1:13:59] little bit in that second sentence about I'm sorry on C about effort attitude and [1:14:07] behavior um and so I was just wondering it felt to me like we stripped [1:14:14] out some of that stuff and I was wondering for elementary school students [1:14:20] specifically um how are we going to grade them are we [1:14:26] not going to grade them anymore on some of those things that aren't necessarily course curriculum specific but it has to [1:14:34] do with um are you standing in line walking to the lunchroom are you um some [1:14:41] of those other other skills that are softer skills that are developmentally [1:14:47] appropriate that we're building in our elementary school students but aren't a subject matter yes and I think that's a [1:14:53] great question that um our teachers still strive to have some concrete evidence um right that [1:15:01] help them determine that I do understand what you're saying cherberg and I know um that that will be a a great our our [1:15:09] our social emotional learning um team that's working right now um on really [1:15:15] important work around those areas right I think that will be a great additional conversation as they dig deeper into [1:15:22] that um and we can also look at it a little a little bit more in policy to to clarify things really important it does [1:15:29] go back to your what's the difference between the elementary and secondary because it was really important that we [1:15:36] um shift some of that language at the secondary that was the biggest thing that stood out to our secondary principles as they looked at it the [1:15:42] first time so uh Director D Hubert can you [1:15:47] help me remember at our elementary schools when it comes to our social emotional learning there are standards [1:15:55] Norms that teachers are using to grade so it would be okay to say relative to the standards of a course because it's [1:16:02] kind of I mean those things are embedded throughout the school day right there teachers are watching for those things but there is it's not just arbitrary [1:16:09] like Karen can stand in line and Dan doesn't know how to stand in line or Dan knows how to stand in line [1:16:15] Karen doesn't know how to stand in line yes you are accurate in terms of um yeah there are standards and I think that we [1:16:21] need to continue to lean into adjusting those possibly with our curriculum review but in alignment with policy [1:16:27] there are covered yes we do okay thank you so I might just suggest that as part of your definitions you add course in [1:16:35] and Define for parents because from an Educator's perspective I think this makes sense [1:16:44] from a parent student Layman perspective I don't know that the terminology makes [1:16:49] sense if I was an elementary school parent and I read this I'm not necessarily thinking [1:16:55] yes so I think if I would just suggest maybe explaining to people when we talk [1:17:00] about course this is what we mean by course that's a great suggestion I was thinking of adding a class component [1:17:07] within the content but I like that suggestion as well just for just for point of [1:17:13] clarification on that recommendation are you are you saying that in section three which is where the definitions are [1:17:19] listed that you'd maybe add a a spot there specific to that purpose okay [1:17:24] thank thank you m I did [1:17:30] sorry my other question was I was wondering if I could get an example of [1:17:37] um what would be a variation in grading that the superintendent would [1:17:43] approve we have this I was like you have this question it like for a specific student is it for [1:17:49] no no it would be um so we did talk about this and an example I used was that um for for example at one point [1:17:56] Highlands was very interested in a grant and they would have been applying a grant that aligned with Environmental [1:18:01] Education and it would have shifted the standards slightly in in their Ela [1:18:07] classes and so that that would be a approval by the superintendent we didn't pursue that um but if we did that would [1:18:14] there'd be a slight change there for that period of time moved down it's still in there if you go down to D um 4 [1:18:24] d four it's in blue because I thought this we this was a very similar conversation [1:18:30] we had in the policy committee and it's still in there it's just in a different location I was just wondering thank [1:18:36] you all right other questions board members because my daughter [1:18:45] might it's a question that came up so if if we if we ever need to allow chair [1:18:50] allenberg back on the policy committee I know whose spot she could take [1:18:57] yours all right uh policy 620 our last one for this evening uh receiving course [1:19:03] credit for learning okay this policy was also done in quite a bit of collaboration um with [1:19:09] our secondary Administration um especially our high school administration and our high [1:19:15] school counselors and so the edits that occur within here um really focus on [1:19:21] ensuring Clarity for families the outside Reg ERS um and staff to inform [1:19:27] practices so in this this policy as well we looked at the handbook um policy informs handbook um so we made decisions [1:19:34] on policy but wanted to make sure that there was a high level of clarity across both and um get feedback from those that [1:19:42] are um implementing the practices and they're building on a day-to-day basis so um are there most of what you'll see [1:19:49] in there are changes to wording um the one that uh chair chair Barry um noted [1:19:55] earlier is throughout this one as well in terms of what grades impact what [1:20:01] classes and what grades impact a transcript um and lots of other edits in [1:20:06] and high a lot of editing within the um appendixes you'll see because that's where the the practices were implemented [1:20:14] um in Clarity we stripped out some wording because there was a lot of redundancy and that was back and forth [1:20:20] with a lot of people to make land unclear I've said that word a lot so I'll see if there's any questions at [1:20:25] this time I don't have a [1:20:31] question I would only comment that in the policy committee because I did get into this conversation myself is that [1:20:38] what was really impactful to my understanding was how the counselors in particular utilize this in their [1:20:45] dealings with both the students and families as it relates to the credits and so on so forth I found that very [1:20:51] useful given my own recent experience of looking at EHS um and how that process came to play so having our policy [1:20:57] aligned to those practices and and arms the counselors with a very clear understanding what that was very [1:21:03] important so I appreciated first that learning to myself but as why this policy is so [1:21:09] important thank you director DC and Hubert for all your work oh sorry one [1:21:16] tiny thing in appendix [1:21:21] one towards the bottom you have parent Guardian signature and then you have parent phone and parent email we could [1:21:29] just make that small change yes anything else yeah thank you [1:21:37] all right I can't believe I didn't catch that all right these will come forward [1:21:44] for Action at next month and thank you again for all the work and collaboration on this lots of great collaboration [1:21:49] thank you okay we're going to move on to our action items for the evening um do I [1:21:56] have a motion to approve the intent to issue General obligation Capital notes and Facilities maintenance bonds Series [1:22:04] 2024a so moved is there a second second I would like to welcome back to the [1:22:10] table Director of Finance and operations MK [1:22:21] Woodard good evening Madam chair members of the school board um so you've had an opportunity to hear the details [1:22:27] regarding the potential debt issuance earlier tonight as a reminder there are four purposes one to refund the 2014a [1:22:34] facilities maintenance bonds two to refund the 2015a voter approved bonds uh [1:22:40] those two items would be contingent on a true interest cost of 3.46% or [1:22:46] lower um the third purpose would be to issue new facilities maintenance bonds and the fourth and final purpose would [1:22:52] be to issue Capital notes and with that the recommended action is before [1:22:58] you do board members have questions or comments and I just want to reiterate [1:23:03] that this is saving taxpayers money absolutely those first two purposes would save um we think at least $5 [1:23:10] million that would be the 3.46% we're quietly confident that we'll do a little bit better than that great and just to [1:23:16] be clear it's the minimum we would save because if we couldn't save that 5.2 million it won't go through thank you [1:23:23] thank you for clarifying that um we will now vote to approve the intend to issue General obligation [1:23:28] Capital notes and Facilities maintenance bond series 2024a all those in favor say I I anyone [1:23:35] opposed um the intent to issue General obligation Capital notes and Facilities maintenance bond series 2024a has been [1:23:42] approved thank you director wooder um do I have a motion to approve the 2024 2025 [1:23:48] superintendent goals so moved is there a second second uh Dr [1:23:55] Stanley okay so uh my initial draft of my goals were brought to the board on July 23rd I received a feedback made [1:24:03] some updates brought what is in front of you to the board on August 5th uh there was no further feedback for modification [1:24:10] and so there before you for approval do board members have [1:24:19] comments uh thank you for um putting in the uh comments that we had earlier [1:24:24] I appreciate you modifying them and putting together the goals um for our board and for the community um with that [1:24:32] um all those in favor of approving the 2024 2025 superintendent goal say I I [1:24:39] anyone opposed the 2024 2025 superintendent goals are approved um we [1:24:45] are um do I have a motion to approve the 2024 2026 collective bargaining [1:24:51] agreement between Independent School District 273 and the Minnesota school School Employees Association PA [1:24:57] professionals so moved is there a second second I'd like to welcome Director of [1:25:02] Human Resources Sonia sailor and welcome back Director of Business Services sorry [1:25:08] Director of Finance and operations M [1:25:17] Woodard good evening chair allenburg Dr Stanley and members of the school board [1:25:24] we we are pleased to announce that the Minnesota School Employees Association which is our pair of professionals um [1:25:31] have ratified the tenative agreement that is before you for a new two-year [1:25:36] collective bargaining agreement effective July 1 2024 um through June 30th of [1:25:43] 2026 our PA professionals include our District's instructional assistance our [1:25:49] educational Associates most of whom serve our students with special needs [1:25:54] our security monitors and our technology assistant our negotiation teams um were [1:26:01] collaboratively to reach a settlement that values the important work that our par professionals do and also respects [1:26:09] the school board's Financial parameters I would like to commend our par professional negotiations team led by [1:26:16] Jesus Romero Jenny Anderson Elizabeth Murdoch and Liz Rosenthal for their [1:26:23] dedication to this important process um you have of course the [1:26:28] financial highlights in your packet as well as the draft and um clean versions [1:26:35] of the proposed agreement but to a few of the highlights include step inance [1:26:41] advancement for our eligible employees in both years of the agreement including [1:26:46] retroactive application to July 1 2024 an updated and reconfigured way [1:26:54] scheduled to provide competitive wages in both years of the agreement as of [1:27:00] January 1 2025 um The District's contribution [1:27:05] towards health health insurance will be increased by $30 per month and there [1:27:10] will be two additional paid holidays added as of the first year of the agreement they will actually take place [1:27:18] um the first two days of spring break we um that is to ensure that that income is [1:27:26] spread evenly over the year for our PA professional employees as well uh [1:27:31] language is modified within the agreement to communicate Clarity align with past practices and provide [1:27:37] consistency with other school district agreements two-year total package for [1:27:42] this proposed agreement is 16,491 [1:27:48] 1199 which represents an increase of 1,633 [1:27:55] $280 um using the Minnesota Schoolboard association's casting formula the 2year [1:28:02] percentage increase is 10.99% this tentative agreement is [1:28:08] within the authority provided to us um by the school board and as a result we [1:28:14] seek your approval for this agreement do you have any questions board members [1:28:22] questions seeing no questions or comments we'll now vote um to approve [1:28:27] the 2024 2026 collective bargaining agreement between Independent School [1:28:32] District 273 and the Minnesota School Employees Association par professionals [1:28:37] all those in favor say I I anyone opposed um the 2024 2026 collective [1:28:44] bargaining agreement between um Independent School District 273 and the MSA has been approved thank [1:28:52] you that concludes our action items for tonight are there any um board [1:28:57] leadership or committee updates director gaer um as the [1:29:03] representa the board representative to 's give and go they had their gear swap uh yesterday and it was a wildly [1:29:09] successful event um You probably have seen some pictures or maybe social media [1:29:14] footage out there the when the doors opened yesterday morning the line was out the community center gym doors all [1:29:21] the way wrapped around southvw um so it has words out it always amazes me that [1:29:26] every year the people of Edina can find clean out their basements and continue to fill that gym full of things but um [1:29:34] they don't have final numbers yet but it was a wildly successful event so yeah director Bergman I just had one [1:29:41] quick comment um I shared this with Dr Stanley over the weekend um I was at the football game on Friday and I it was V [1:29:47] visibly noticeable of all the new preparations and things we do to handle crowd control and student policies and [1:29:53] all kind of stuff were very visible and I thought it was an incredibly successful evening not just on the field but in the stands as well and so I just [1:30:00] wanted to say that I was pleased to see given what um we went through last year that the policies that we implemented [1:30:05] for this year seemed to be working I think everyone's still had a good time and the middle schoolers stayed for the [1:30:10] most part in control of themselves including my own middle schooler um but [1:30:15] uh it was great so I just wanted to compliment that and we beat you Prairie I didn't have to say that but [1:30:21] that was very nice yes so yay um I just wanted to point out um we put [1:30:28] a lot of important information items in the packet sometimes that don't get talked about but I wanted to give kudos [1:30:34] to our director of human resources that we have a 96% um Phil rate um and for our um I [1:30:45] can't come up but for our subs I'm sorry I was four Subs which is amazing that is a big deal it's a big deal for our [1:30:51] families our educators um so thank you for reporting on that I know the board asked for that and I appreciate it so um [1:30:58] Dr Stanley do you have any updates yes I do so first of all [1:31:07] indeed we did have a football game on Friday and I just have to say we won [1:31:15] that football game mightily and it may have nothing to do with past places of employment that I'm [1:31:22] so excited about that but um it was really great actually my colleague um in superintendent of Eden Prairie Jos [1:31:29] Swanson actually came to the game with me and um that was really good until we scored like a couple of touchdowns and [1:31:35] then he decided to sit on the other side so um that was really fun and I really [1:31:41] appreciate that Michael because we had nearly 6,000 people in attendance at that football game and I could not have [1:31:49] been and I shared this with Michael I could not have been more proud of just the efforts that Troy Stein um Paul pel [1:31:57] and the high school administrative team have put together um to make certain [1:32:02] that our football games are well monitored uh to make certain that you [1:32:07] know there's a gate now for students to come in there's a gate for parents to go into um put in the protocols where our [1:32:14] Our Guest teams and and their um cheerleading teams and participants you [1:32:20] know they go through the other side and it's just really making a significant difference in the enjoyment I believe of [1:32:26] of all participants you know I said um near the near the Middle School group [1:32:32] and I had anywhere from a grandpa who was uh 70 something years old he said [1:32:37] all the way to a dad of of a middle schooler and um it was just really fun to be able to cheer with them and to [1:32:44] just see my team out there doing amazing things and so um thank you for that shout out I want to give them that shout [1:32:50] out as well and then over the summer I I received a couple of compliments um [1:32:59] actually three different parents emailed me just about the leadership of principal bass um over the summer and I [1:33:07] I wanted to make certain that we just give him a verbal shot of that and you know really a summary of those um emails [1:33:14] is that he radiates positivity he creates a fun learning atmosphere he provides consistent and thorough [1:33:20] communication to parents and then he sets a Clear Tone and mission for the [1:33:26] school and I could not agree with them more [1:33:32] um principal bass's just uh focus on creating a strong culture and climate [1:33:38] for students for families for staff at valie is just prominent and it's clear [1:33:44] and I'm just really proud to have him as a member of our leadership team and then the other thing that I would like to [1:33:51] show is um it's it's like so well known now that um CNN gives Valley View Middle [1:33:58] School a shout out as well and so I'd like to um ask bston to play that for us [1:34:03] now on the screen is awesome a powerlifter lifting our souls all right big congrats to our [1:34:10] hashy word Wednesday winner Mrs Downs class from Central Columbia in Bloomsburg PA for submitting omnus an [1:34:18] adjective meaning containing or including many items thanks for boosting our vocabulary today you all really [1:34:24] brought it so many great words to choose from we're going to do it again next week our shout out today goes to Valley [1:34:30] View Middle School in Edina Minnesota go Hornets see you right back here tomorrow [1:34:35] lovely people I'm KY wire and we are CNN [Music] [1:34:41] 10 so even CNN knows about the valie vibe and we are really excited about [1:34:48] that um I shared earlier it's just been a great start to the school year you [1:34:53] know um no no school system is completely perfect and we're just really [1:34:59] excited about where we're at right now and kicking it off thank you thank you Dr Stanley before we [1:35:06] adjourn um did you know that September is National School Board appreciation month I bet a lot of you did not know [1:35:13] that and before we adjourn I would just like to thank my fellow school board members for your time and dedication to [1:35:21] the work of you public schools and I I know I can be sarcastic but I genuinely [1:35:27] um do thank you and um I know that our community appreciates the time and [1:35:32] effort that you put in for everybody here in Idina Public Schools so thank you very much um and without another [1:35:41] delay um do I have a motion to adjourn the meeting so moved is there a second [1:35:46] second all those in favor of adjourning say I I anyone opposed the meeting is [1:35:52] adjourned thank you [1:36:22] e [1:36:52] e [1:37:22] e [1:37:52] e [1:38:22] e [1:38:52] e [1:39:22] e e