The district families um appreciate that as again that's a kind of a graband go snack area.

Again, if you've noticed that it's kind of outside of the elementary. I know it's kind of under a remodel as we speak, but they get some really nice raised beds um donated from Morgan Stanley.

Mr. Chair and board members, you probably recall last month uh in July, we did approve um what Taher had uh given us for our food service. Uh and again, this is for the second lunch. As you recall, our breakfast and lunches are free. So, first meal is free. Second meal, although um the state set some minimum u charge requirements that came in late and again timing on this is always awkward. Um I think last year we passed it in August and and we had to make an adjustment. So it seems like we're making adjustments, but this is just a 5 cent increase as you can see from the middle column which we approved in July to the uh second column there on the right which is a five uh cent increase according to MDE's pricing.

Technology was a big discussion. Some of that was onetoone devices. A lot of it was around how do we proactively help kids put the phones and the personal devices away so we're productive in classes... We needed a more black and white system especially for adolesccents. So with the maturity rate and just the the temptation to be on phones.

Parents are really supportive. They want us to deal with it. They're supportive. They just want a black and white system so they can say to their child on strike three, if I have to come in and get it, you were definitely warned. You had a conversation with the principal.

Our office staff, we have a phone there. We'll never deny kids an opportunity to call a parent and the minute the parent calls the school, we're going to find that child and give them even a private spot to have a conversation if we need to. We'll always provide that communication.

Yeah. So, that was one of my big conversations today was for 30 days, we're going to teach and retach and just be robotic about it to some degree with kids. Um, it just if we don't do something, the productivity and the distractions, um, they're just going to overtake the quality of our education for kids.

The state um put a requirement back at the end of the legislative session for the 2627 school year that all districts and charter schools implement a cardiac um response um plan um required by state statute as well.

We were able to offer a class at the beginning of June um provided by the Ridge View Ambulance Services. Um and the costs of that class were covered by a generous donation by the Watertown Lions Club. So that was great. Um we did we certified 25 total staff. 17 were C members and then there were eight nonert.

I think it's just great that all this is laid out because in the elements with the elements that come along with a real life emergency, fear, anxiety, all the heightened emotions, um, hopefully this can provide some outline and guidance to make sure all the important interventions are happening.

We certainly know students can make a difference. I think I was reading somewhere where there's I think 32 um students under the age of 18 in schools across the country 32,000 that had some type of cardiac um situation occur you know on a school campus whether it be on the athletic field the basketball court in the school. So there definitely is a need for high school students to be, you know, trained as well.

One of the things that we'll be doing this year is uh development of a district-wide ai integration plan um to again establish usage guidelines, build staff capacity and then enhance the student learning side of that as well.

As you recall last spring we had a a lot of information uh from the world uh facilities audit. Now it's kind of getting to that point of how do we prioritize and meet the needs that we have currently.

My fourth goal um is to uh work in developing a safe routes to schools uh plan. Um and that would be again to enhance student safety and trail connections by using some of the grant money through safe routes to schools or county uh grants. um finalizing kind of a multi-agency and again that means the county, the local, our city uh in our school district folks working together to do that.