Okay, terrific. Let's get started. Um, welcome to the regular meeting of the Orono School Board on August 17th, 2026. Uh, the first item on our agenda are community members questions and comments. No one signed up tonight, so we will move on to calling to order. Um, I call to order. Um, welcome back everybody. Nice to see you. Um, next is the Pledge of Allegiance. Tim, would you mind leading us, please? Thank you very much. Next up is the consideration of the agenda. Does anybody have any changes they'd like to make to the agenda? Okay, hearing none. Next up is the consent agenda. The consent agenda contains routine matters that typically do not require board discussion. Individual board members may remove an item from the consent agenda for discussion or separate action. Tonight the the consent agenda items are as follows. Approving the minutes from the regular board meeting held on June 8th, 2026. Approve personnel recommendations. Approve wage adjustments for substitutes, proctors, students, casual employees, and athletic coaches for the 2026-2027 school year. Approve Director of Business Services contract for 26-28. Accept donations totaling $743,812.06. Approve the Treasurer's report for May 2026. Approve electronic fund transfers for May 2026. Authorize 2026-2027 local education agency representative. Approve the annual Minnesota Department of Education statement of assurances. Accept summary of the Superintendent's end-of-year evaluation. Approve the continued membership in the following organizations for the school year, 2026-2027 school year. Uh, Association of Metropolitan School Districts, uh BrightWorks, and the Minnesota School Boards Association. And finally, approve the voucher and payment registers, bill vouchers, EP register, EFT vouchers, and Capital One. Do I have a motion to approve >> So moved. >> Do I have a second? >> Madam Chair, may I uh you further discussion? I just wanted to make one comment. Coaching salaries are on there, and I wanted to note that I am coaching this fall, but only in a voluntary volunteer capacity, so I I feel okay with recommending this. >> Perfect. Thank you for calling that out and sharing that. And thank you for volunteering. Um uh were you the second? >> Yes, I will second. >> Any other discussion? Okay, hearing none, all those in favor, say I. >> I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Okay, terrific. Next up are the is the Superintendent's Report on Excellence, Dr. Fischer. >> Thank you, Madam Chair. It's good to be back. It's been a very busy summer here on Orono campus, and there are many people to thank for their dedication to our students and to the long-term care of our campuses and facilities. So, first off, thanks huge thanks to our Buildings and Grounds staff and to our leadership team of Nick Tainter and Chad Eischens for overseeing an incredible summer of construction projects, almost unprecedented this summer. Um you will hear a full update tonight from Mr. Tainter. Thank you also to our technology team, who is mostly in the audience, and our summer interns, many of who are here under the direction of Mr. Beaverson and all of the staff for continuing to improve technology district-wide and ensure a smooth start to the school year for our students. Mr. Beaverson and the team will provide a summer technology update tonight soon. Thank you all to both the Orono Special Education and Community Education staff for the creative care of our students this summer. I applaud the team's flexibility as they worked around construction projects on a daily basis and shifted their program locations, sometimes with not a lot of notice, as things changed and weather happened. Community Education reports more than 7,500 summer enrollments in 532 camps and classes serving preschool through adults. The number of enrollments of student enrollments each week averaged over 600, which is pretty amazing. Um 120 of our incoming kindergarteners completed the ready, set, kindergarten in preparation for this big change. Students had the opportunity to meet fellow students, learn the daily routine at Schumann Elementary, and review the rules of the school bus. Um we also continued to provide engaging programming for 55 students in the Discovery Kids and 146 students in Spartan Kids this summer. Community Ed also welcomed nearly 100 participate participants in this year's Family Color Dash on August 6th. It was a great success. The Discovery Center is now hosting their annual open house and vehicle fair on September 3rd for our youngest learners and their families. Please everyone come. And of course, please save the date for the popular Art in the Park event on September 22nd. Community Education also leads a number of fall activities for our middle school and high school students. Registration is open, but to date we have 44 for the fall dance team, eight already for Spartan running, 13 for girls tennis, and 70 for girls volleyball. So today is also the official start date of the State High School League sports. Our director of athletics and student activities, Mr. Paul Brunner, shared that 374 students are registered as of today and started in various practices. Good luck to all of our fall teams and athletes as the season gets underway. Um we also can't wait for the Orono High School fall musical production of Cinderella. Um acting and singing auditions are September 2nd with additional roles available on sound, costume, and stage crew. So um please come try out. Um it's a lot of fun. Um there are These are just a few examples of how our schools are engaging students in the arts and athletics, clubs and activities will fill quickly once school gets underway. New teacher orientation starts Wednesday this week already with all teachers returning next Tuesday, August 25th with our annual staff kick-off event and we look forward to welcoming our students back beginning September 1st. And that concludes my report for tonight. Thank you so much. Um I just like I the amount of work that's been done and I know Nick is going to go into that, but it's really impressive and um it felt really good to park in such a nice parking lot tonight. Um next up are the board members board members questions and comments. Nick, I'd start with Kim. I'll start with you. Sorry. >> Uh no questions or comments for me. >> Laura, any updates? >> Nothing to report. >> Nothing for me. >> You have it. I'll make it quick. Um so to um first MSBA um if we are interested in doing a resolution, they're due in September 23rd. So if there are any issues or um just topics that you want me to address, something I can work on, um happy to do that. Otherwise, everybody comes to the table with quite a few and we there's always some that um you know, are applicable to Orono. Um and then the final is just to make public um I know Christie Dr. Plourde put in the uh Friday update for all of us about the AMSD meeting and the not-so-great news about the special education cross subsidy um reductions. And um just to let the public know that um you know, we're looking at several hundred thousand dollars in reductions um in various uses that um areas that we use special ed funding from the state and so that will hit. Um they'll also hear about the permanent school fund um that's expected to raise um we'll get more into that another time, but um it's approximately $36 per student additional that we would get funding for, but that doesn't cover the costs of um reductions that we're going to have coming up. So, um I just wanted that to be known, um and if anybody has any further questions about it, um please feel free to ask. That concludes my report. >> Perfect. Thank you so much. >> Wendy, I may jump in. Just what we all know what cross subsidy for special education means, but to our viewers in the room and the viewers at home, that means we have to pay out of the general fund uh to cover that. So, that means we're pulling funds from other places. >> Thank you. Yeah, and 2 years ago the legislature said that they would cover more So, we are mandated. There are certain mandates, federal and state mandates. Um but the majority of that money isn't covered. Um and so what isn't covered by the state or federal government, we are still mandated to to um carry out, and so that comes from our general fund, and that's the cross subsidy. Now, the state is taking away more funding, um and so we'll have to pay more of that out of our general fund. Thank you for that. >> Gavin? >> Nope. >> Okay. Thank you. Uh next up, old business. Any old business? Hearing none, we'll move on to number nine, new business. The first is construction projects update, Dr. Flusher. >> Thank you, Madam Chair. We're very excited to update the board and our entire community on all of our summer work. Um we've been busy making improvements to our campus, and we'll start with facilities first, so I invite Mr. Nick Tainter, Arnold School District's schools director of business services to the board table for discussion regarding several facilities up state updates. We're going to start with an update to the board on the recent summer improvements across the campus as well as pre-planned projects for this school year. And I would just wanted to begin with gratitude. There've been so many workers every day on campus from parking lots, tuckpointing, windows, doors, painting, flooring, gym refinishing, plus all of the work to rebuild Schumann's electrical systems, the HVAC systems, and restore the building. So, huge thanks to Mr. Tainter, and Mr. Chad Eisens for coordinating all of this. Um and for, as I mentioned before, all of the staff that are here, some of them here tonight that are working through the constant shifts and the accommodations that needed to be made. And for all of our staff on campus this summer, we're grateful for your incredible work in creating a beautiful learning environment for our students. And I turn it over to Mr. Tainter to share the details. >> Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Flasher. Um Madam Board Chair, Board Chairs, and esteemed uh board members of Orono, thank you for having me up here tonight. Um proud to say that I'm still um here thriving and and upright as many as as others are here in the district, especially Chad Eisens. So, I do want to share some gratitude. Um Chad took on um not only what was already planned for the summer, but even more so with the water leak. Um and it's been it's been quite the uh quite the summer of of improvements. Um but just the coordination and the the detail um uh detail-orientated organization and those kinds of things have really kept things moving along. And obviously, there's been trips and you know, like little bumps and bruises that we've taken along the way, but I um and I want to give huge kudos to Tiffany Clifton um as well as others um that are involved in the summer programming and just the flexibility um to to do these things um throughout the summer. It takes a lot of coordinating efforts, and obviously, there's a few hiccups here and there, but we're able to band together and just really kind of be planful um uh with with certain projects and with certain things going on in the campus that needed a little coordination. And especially to I want to say say to all the all the contractors and the partners that we had out here this summer is a tremendous effort on their part as well. They've got other jobs that are going on and those kinds of things. And so when we did kind of get to a pinch point, they were very accommodating and I just wanted a huge shout out to Midwest Roadways as as our parking lot. Um there were a few challenges that we had to deal with throughout that process and they were really able to help us manage. So thanks to them. Thank you to Wold and their team for designing, you know, helping us engineer and architect these projects. And then our lastly not last but not least but our on the wire leak side of things, you know, had to help and the coordinating efforts of multiple people on and on every which way really led us to a tremendous product and an improvement to the facility in the time frame that we had to deal with. Now there will probably be some things that are going to carry over into the school year cuz of just timing and when the mechanical equipment was delivered. But we truly do believe that we'll have, you know, we're still coordinate effort and coordinate with those that need to be at Truman and those kinds of things. And we feel like that everybody's going to have a good a really good experience when all this is all done and and even though the the little dribs and drabs that will that will come over to this next school year. So with that, I will show you here the list of all the projects that were completed or in progress. So this is obviously a snapshot in time of current, you know, currently as of today. I'll share some some details around what are still in progress. But thank you to a very large contribution last year that we received through the Ornelas Foundation. We were able to complete a college and career center. So, that was really on last year as as everybody may know well enough about that, as well as high school science room and renovation. So, several projects and and and and you'll notice a lot of these projects are spread across the campus and district. It's not centered on one area, those kinds of things. Really truly do do like to balance the needs of all the different buildings and those kinds of things. So, as you can see these these points. Last the last one on there is the security cameras. That was a project that had been you know in the works for quite a while. Thank you to David Simkowski, our our safety consultant who does a phenomenal job of just ensuring that you know not only are our building, you know, our our safe, you know, our air safe and our building, you know, mechanicals are safe and those kinds of things, but he also jumps into the security camera side of things as well. So, we're able to add some cameras to a very nice donation through the foundation as well. And then enhance that experience and and make it a lot more efficient of a of a system in order to capture what we need when we those needs come needs arise. We parking lot improvements, you know, they obviously yes, thank you Sarah about discussing that that you know that they they are we're almost complete on this current phase. So, there will be more parking lot improvements next year we'll be looking at the lot west I'm sorry east of Schuman and then the the roundabout the student center where the new tennis courts are being will be installed and a few other and the discovery center as well which is which is a great need too. So, we'll have that that that to look forward to this fall. But as you can see it looks very clean and nice sound there on those parking lots. So, it's it's it's nice to see that that come to fruition. Um plan plan plan projects coming into this next year, so we have you know, again Schuman DC and then some paths also as well. You'll notice that it I it that's I do want to mention the paths cuz we've been um in in in great efforts and discussions around how we can do this and every time we had a plan, there was something that that threw us for a loop and with that plan. So now it's nice to have them good paths that are taking us through the campus and we'll continue to make those improvements as we as funding is available. Uh again, we're going to be probably working on the Schuman water leak for the first couple months. Um just kind of hopefully um little odds and ends, but um for the most part, most of the classroom um have been recarpeted or retiled and painted. They also um have redone the the gym floor, um which should be close to done if not already complete. Um and then just a myriad of other um the cafeteria they Dr. Dr. Fletcher yes, the cafeteria has been improved. Um so you should come check that out. It's it's a really cool feature there that we were able to to to do in that in that facility, but yeah, so just overall and then the mechanical last thing the mechanical will be what we'll have to be working on whatnot, but it's been it's been a good coordination up there as well. Uh the Discovery Center kitchen remodel, you'll see bids uh we just put out the bid bids for that um advertisement for bids. And we next month we'll have that ready for renewal. Um that's well past due um as far as the needs there um to enhance the experience for the daycare and as well as um early childhood learning as well. Um we'll be able to cook you know, actually process and cook meals out there rather than having them delivered from this campus, which will save us a lot some money as well over time. Uh baseball softball improvements continue to to to be at our at our radar. We've we've hired a outsourced group to help us with the field maintenance. We also are improving the fencing. The ADA parking is pretty should be complete at this point right now because they were working on that with the paths. Backstop and dugout padding and those kinds of things. So really enhancing our experience. And then last but not least, the stadium lighting. So do for we will be receiving a very large donation to cover the the the the stadium lights and and PHS and stadium, which is a great feature as well. So thank you to those that have privately funded that and are helping out with with that experience as well. So it's good. That'll be something that'll be coming up through this fall and we'll be managing that project in its entirety. >> I'll just add one thing. It sounds like the tennis courts we know that they were delayed this summer, but we think September 1st. >> Yeah, I believe so. Yes, we have to wait 15 days from two Yeah, so we're probably about yeah, probably early September that will will get that. There there had been some watershed issues that came up late in the review process. So we're they're carefully reviewing those those those that that issue and and and now we have gotten that approval. So we know we have to wait there's a waiting period and then we'll be starting back on that early September. So Hope hope is to have those tennis courts still again at least at the very least ready for that for for next spring season, but then that the tennis courts currently will not be removed until those are complete and then those will be taken down right south of the district office. All right. And that is up. That's all I have for the construction updates. >> Any questions or >> When is the tennis When are the tennis courts expected to be done? >> Um depending on the timing and and obviously weather, um we're still hoping to have them completed by this fall. Late this fall. Yeah. Yeah. >> Many thanks to you and Chad and everybody else. I know that there's way more people than I'm mentioning, but um a heavy lift and it's proving to be very worthwhile, so thank you. And also a thank you. Um there were many vocal people about some holes at the hockey arena parking lot and they were filled immediately. >> Oh, that's great. >> So, thank you. >> Yeah, it was great timing for that since we had Those are you doing parking permits, so they were able to help lend a hand, which is yeah, this is a good It's a great effort between the two parties. >> Can I move on to the next agenda item? Is that okay with everybody? >> I just want to say I thought it was kind of fun driving by seeing the parking lot the layout has turned in the high school lot. I thought that was kind of fun. I was thinking before and I failed to say anything of putting something in AI or whatever find out is there a better way to have the car snake through in the parking and better use. So, when I drove by and I saw that it was turned I was like, "Hey, that's so awesome they did it." Yeah. >> And I'm glad you brought that up, Gavin, because we were able to actually add more parking spots with that design. >> And make it safer for the students. >> And make it safer, yes. So, it was just yeah, right? >> A lot Thank you. That was awesome. >> Yeah. >> Thank you. Next up is our uh a 9B resolution to accept conveyance of real property from the Orono Ice Arena, and this will be a roll call vote. Dr. Flusher. >> Thank you, Madam Chair. We'd like to highlight the secondary facilities related to the Orono Hockey Association and what we hope at some point will be uh the home of a future arena. Thank you, Mr. Tainter, for remaining at the table. There are two items to come before the board for action related to a conveyance of land and the subsequent ground lease of the land. As the board is aware, the property adjacent to the current hockey arena was purchased and now will be donated to the arena from the arena board to the school district in the hope of um at some point with private fundraising they're hoping to um have an arena and an arena addition. There's a group of community members that have been working on that project. The first step though is for the school board to consider the land conveyance agreement, which has been vetted by our district attorney, Mr. Trevor Helmers. And then second, the existing ground lease has expired and we wish to account for also the property change. So, this new lease is before the board for action has also been vetted by Mr. Helmers. Generally, it's a restatement of our current lease language. Um but we thank the hockey board for their conveyance and incredible work for our children. It's amazing and we wish them well in their fundraising and I turn it back it over to Mr. Tainter. >> Thank you. I don't think I could say it better myself, but I will also I did pick up on each of your comments. Yeah, so this is a restatement. Our lease was coming due and with this opportunity with this additional um land conveyance um which you all will be voting on tonight of accepting that. Um they are they are technically, you know, you know, donating that land to to us through this ground lease um situation. So, it's a great great It was a great collaborative effort multiple times around um around the lease agreement and updates. Um our general counsel, Trevor Helmers, was was a was with us the whole entire time period there. Um but a lot of great efforts of just the board itself was very, you know, very open and and into our concerns and and those kinds of things. As always, there's when there's not only just one group, but there's other groups that are involved in in using those facilities, it can it can get um somewhat cumbersome and and we were able to work through each of the different scenarios in a in a way that I I feel like benefits us as well as them and their other groups that they support. So, it's it's a fair it was a fair compromise among all the different parties. Um this again this was a restatement. Um we've started these conversations in early January. So, it's been a long process and very detailed process. So, we feel very good about where we're at and they are at there as well. So, we're looking to have this signed within the next week or two. Any questions? >> Okay, do I have a motion to um accept this resolution? >> So moved. >> Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Is there any discussion? >> Um I don't know if I would say probably on the next resolution, but I'm not sure if I should need to abstain given my husband's position as president of the arena board. >> Would you recommend both or just this the next one? >> say both. >> Okay, cuz the second one he is a representative of the lessee. >> Yeah. >> So, I would say for sure for that, but I feel like for this as well. >> This one just >> Better to be safe. >> Okay. >> Thank you for mentioning that. Any other points? Okay, this is a roll call vote. So, all in favor, Tim. >> I. >> I. >> I. >> I. >> Abstain. >> I. >> Wonderful. Thank you all everybody. Um the next item is the ground lease and recreational facility cooperative agreement. I'll hand it back to Dr. Fletcher. >> Yeah, I think there's anything else you'd like to say. >> Yeah, nothing else. I think we Dr. Fletcher's recap and my recap certainly covered both in the same vein. Um again, like this is more towards the lease agreement itself, but yeah, so it's really what all we had already mentioned. So, nothing else to add. >> Any discussion? You know, I would just mention that gratitude to that arena board. Most schools, these are part of the the the city they live in. They support those and we have a very unique situation. So, it does take a lot of private fundraising and individual efforts. So, great gratitude because that's not a typical way that arenas are run in our state. Excellent point. Thank you. Any other discussions before I call? Okay. This is not a roll call. Correct? Um so, um do I have a motion to approve the recommendation for acceptance of ground lease and recreational facility cooperative agreement? So moved. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Uh any discussion? Okay. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Any abstaining? >> Yes. I. >> I. Thank you. Wonderful. Thank you all. Next up the the most No offense, Nick, but the most fun part is the DE Summer Technology Update. Dr. Flusher. >> Thank you, Madam Chair. We're also excited to update the board and community on all of our summer work in the area of technology. I invite Mr. Shawn Beaverson, Orno Schools Director of Technology, to the board table for discussion as well as we have Leah Staples here, Joel Malore, Jason Wyack, and we also have our members of our summer tech intern program, Jen Benson, Lily Wyack, and Ruby German. They're all going to share their summer work and after several years of massive projects like wireless infrastructure and revamping every classroom, um we worked this summer on a lot on safety, specifically cybersecurity modernization and process improvement. So, it's a little bit different than typical, but really important. Um Mr. Beaverson and his staff have worked again tirelessly on learning spaces and security and I wanted to personally thank each of them as well as our summer interns who have been a gift to our school district in their dedicated work. So, we are very grateful to you all and I turn it over to Mr. Beaverson to start and I'm going to share the details. >> Thank you very much, uh, Superintendent Dr. Fletcher and Chair of the Board of Trustees and Board of Trustees and members of the board. It's a pleasure to be here at the fourth annual, this is my fourth reporting of our summer work and, uh, as Dr. Fletcher mentioned, one of the least busy summers comparatively to the first few summers that I was here. So, it's great, it's always great to have an opportunity to come and reflect the work that has been accomplished over the summer time. Um, we're just going to cover some of the summer milestones. Uh, some of the optimization that we have worked on and some of our summer, uh, continued systems integration. When we don't have major projects, we're able to focus on the ways in which we can reduce friction out of the system and increase, uh, integration throughout the system to make things work better. So, this summer was about, um, continued system-wide modernization. So, looking at each of our various systems and how they connect to each other and how they continue to get better at talking to each other so that, uh, information flows well between them and then, as was mentioned, a continued focus on the safety and security as it relates to technology. So, I thought about, um, me as the director and, you know, my summer is not quite as cool as these other people's summer, so I had I'll share it with you some of the high-level things that I have been a part of this summer and then I'll let these other, uh, the other members of the team share with you some of the details and then we're very excited to, um, let you meet the summer intern crew that we have here. So, starting in June, um, we participated in the AI for Minnesota um statewide summit. Uh the AI for Minnesota summit um reflects an effort at the state level to translate AI into K-12, higher ed, and workforce. One of the unique things about that particular summit is it brings together all three sectors as a goal of saying if we're going to talk about this transformative technology, it would be better if we did it all together. Um thanks to the Educator Excellence Grant, we were able to send a crew of 10 teachers there. Uh a superintendent uh participated as well, and I have given her lots and lots of credit for continuing to be engaged to the level that she is. Um the goal of these experiences are to continue to provide clarity around this emerging technology, and so that we have um local talent that is well-trained and having the important conversations around this. Um so, it's a really exciting opportunity. Um we were able to present on some of the things that we have been working on. Uh Paul Ivers, who is not here this evening, he was also presented on some of the work that he is doing, and uh it's been a very rewarding experience, and we appreciate the support um as we do that work. So, that was June. In July, um we completed uh during the last school year, uh we Each year we have a retainer with FR Secure in the event that we have an incident in which we need additional support. Whenever we don't use that retainer, that retainer gets transferred into a different service that FR Secure provides. This last school year was a review of our incident response plan and making sure that we had a robust incident response plan that can support our district in the event of a cyber incident. As part of that plan, uh we provided or um participated in a tabletop in July in which the leadership was there. Uh Dr. Fletcher was there, uh Lisa was there, Nick was there, uh Dr. Ruland was there, uh Dr. Alders was there, um and so a really key moment for our district to have a tabletop exercise that is focused on cyber security incidents. Um and it went it went well. And so I won't step on Jason the opportunity to share some of what um we accomplished. It's a nerve-wracking thing to get started for the day, but the day went extremely well. And we're incredibly grateful as a tech department to the level of engagement from leadership to participate in that as well. It's not a short experience. It was 4 hours long. I said, "I don't think it'll take 4 hours." And then 4 and 1/2 hours later we were done. So, um it takes a while. Um also in July, um as part of our continued work in student safety and meeting the requirements of the student data privacy act and other prudent and wise decisions about protecting students on our campus, uh we participated in a coaches training. Uh this is a partnership with Lisa Campbell in which we're clarifying our communication standards across campus. When we have adults working with students, we want them within our system so that they are observable and interruptible. Uh and so we did uh completed a day's long training with the coaching staff to help migrate them from past practices to new updated practices in which they use our instance and our environment um to communicate with students. Um we do a lot of work in helping to get that all set up. It is one of the areas in which um when we first brought this approach up, Paul had asked me, "You know, are a lot of school districts doing this?" And I said, "Not a lot yet, but they're going to be." And just this fall we're already hearing more districts having this conversation. So, it was wise uh on our part to kind of look ahead of the curve a little bit uh and begin this work last fall. And then with the support of uh all of the people that I had mentioned, we were able to complete that training, and we will continue that for each season to ensure that our coaches and activities participants have the support they need to communicate in a way that is safe with student athletes and student participants. The other part of looking at August is preparing for the new school year. In the spring, the school board passed 625, the responsible use of AI. And so, just getting prepared for the school year, making sure that our staff understands what that policy means and how that policy will apply to their daily work. Again, I would say this is another area in which the district is leading getting that policy. I just did a quick temperature check with other local districts, and they're all working on that in the fall. So, having ours in place in the spring so we can start the new school year with some clarity on AI is a strength of our position right now. It really boils down to define the the guardrails are all student-centered and people-centered. And so, this is the plain language version of our school policy, which is number one, a human is always in charge at the beginning and end of any process that use AI. We anticipate we expect in policy language now that a human will lead and end that experience. That we protect the productive struggle, which means being intentional about the time and area at which students experience this powerful technology, and what we do to get them prepared for it throughout their school career so that when they're using it, they are they have experienced AI literacy and they're able to do that. Privacy required in our tool set, so adding clarity again as a board policy about relying on approved tools and what that means to rely on approved tools. This is all about clarity for our staff so they know how to move forward in this. Right use for the age is ensuring that we have a developed scope and sequence so that we know uh students in second grade are not receiving time with AI in ways that would make sense for a senior to be experiencing AI. And then finally, one of the perhaps more forward-thinking inclusions in our policy is asking for attribution and defining what attribution means to add a level of transparency as we continue to explore and experience AI more and more in daily life. So having that policy in place puts us in a strong place to begin this school year and I know that it'll be a work in progress and we'll continue to come back to it and review it. But I think us having policy in place is something that our teachers were hoping for as well. So it's a good it's a good position to be in. And then my final reflection as I hand off to the rest of the team members, I've said this probably each time that I've had the opportunity to be up here. I'm an English teacher who became a technology director. I am a classroom person first. I think a lot about a student's experience and one of the things that I think is particularly unique about our department and every member of our department is they are also very student focused. They think a lot about the experience in the classroom and they take a lot of satisfaction in that and that is special. There is not a person in our technology department that is uncomfortable in talking with and working with kids. And so that's not always common with technical people. You might find that hard to believe, but it is true. Sometimes we're a little bit nerdy and awkward, but our department could not be more well suited for a school district. And so just publicly an opportunity for me to sing their praises and share my appreciation at the quality of work and people that are on this department. Joel? >> Yeah. Thank you. So, I'll I'll reintroduce myself as So, this is actually year five for me now in the district. I'm Joel Malloy. I'm the cloud system specialist here. Um and so, I handle a lot of things. Data, how data moves, where it goes, the automation of said data, and then accounts, everything account related. So, how accounts are created, where they're created, where they go after they're created, what happens to them when somebody leaves. Um and a big part of that is ClassLink. So, now we're we're in year three with ClassLink, and ClassLink really is the the the main piece of infrastructure that we have that handles account creation, sending data. Um as an example, like from the from the moment somebody enrolls and is entered into our student information system and is entering kindergarten, ClassLink creates their accounts, puts them in the right places, um rosters them in their courses, creates their account in Seesaw as an example, and then it as their you know, student career changes and their grade changes, their schedule changes, ClassLink handles that all automatically and dynamically um and securely. And each summer is another opportunity um for us and myself to to build upon what we have in place in ClassLink to better enhance the automation, to enhance the security that it provides for us as well. And so, we added a couple of things this year that just hit our ClassLink account a couple weeks ago. Um the first being DataGuard. So, DataGuard is it's a an add-on to the roster server, so the part of ClassLink that delivers data to the various vendors that we work with. Um so, vendors such as FastBridge for assessments, Seesaw is another example I gave, McGraw Hill, HMH, various curriculum um vendors that we work with as well. And what DataGuard allows us to do is to take identifiable information, so PII, personally identifiable information of a student, and obfuscate that data when it goes to the vendor so that it stays anonymous. Um and then they've even built upon that now and given us the ability to then push out a a feature to teachers that allows them to hover and click and then it reveals the obfuscated teach data to just that teacher. So that way the vendor only sees anonymous scrambled data um and they only use what they have to in order to actually create the account and match it to the user each year and then the rest is just jumbled. Um but the teachers don't then have to try to decipher that that jumbled 1640 character number and they can just hover over and see it. The other piece that we added is threat scan. I'm sure at some point you have or you will receive an email or an alert that a password of yours has been compromised or exposed on the dark web. Um and so threat scan is ClassLink's defense against that and alert system against that. So it has continuous monitoring of dark web uh listings as well as breaches in data. So if there's ever a vendor that their data has been exposed or breached, we get an alert of that and we can actually take action immediately and reset passwords right from there. And then it gives us specifics on what was leaked too. So if it was just names, if it was emails, and then what accounts were impacted and and when and how many um and the risk involved. Um and then yeah, we also spent some time on some of our improvements in in in-house development. So some of the things that we've made ourselves for internal use. Um one example would be we had a like a status monitoring system um through the same company that we have our request and ticketing system through, but they ended up sunsetting that so we built our own monitoring system. And so what that does is um and actually improves upon is it now instead of like if if our internet is down or if we get another AWS outage, we don't have to go in and manually update that. We have um every couple minutes it checks in and looks at these systems um to see if there's outages or maintenance or scheduled maintenance or any any sort of incidents going on with the various vendors and platforms that we connect with. And when it alerts us that they're they're having issues or outages, so that we can better then communicate it to those in the district as well. Um the other thing that we worked on, um and this was actually in the spring, was continuing to strengthen our student account security. So now all of our secondary students 6 through 12 um no longer use a password given to them by the district. Um they all own and have their own individual passwords. Um on top of that, um grades 9 through 12 have enforced multi-factor authentication and then grades 6 through 8 have highly encouraged with soon to be enforced um MFA on their accounts. And we have had a number of them in in grades 6 through 8 already enroll in it um with some of the newer communication that we have around it. Um and so that's been good to see. Um uh that the students and the parents are taking that ownership and and strengthening their accounts as well. And we I mean you know with this change, especially with the timing of it, we do anticipate um students coming back and not knowing their passwords or forgetting like, you know, how to do MFA, but we are prepared and and uh and ready to to get them back in as soon as possible if they are having issues. So something that we anticipated for sure. The other piece of infrastructure that we uh of cloud infrastructure that we rely heavily on is our Google Workspace environment. So um you know, the the deliverer of all of our email um as well as the preventer of all spam and objectionable emails. And then um the also the environment that we do a lot of collaboration in with Docs and Drive and Sheets and all the various uh other G Suite applications. Um 4 years ago we did a Workspace audit that was really helpful. We partnered with CDW and their amplified um department, and they do a really thorough investigation and examination of of our workspace environment, and then they provide like it's like a 125-page report on um things that they've found, um things that we're we're doing well compared against best practices with suggestions, um and then helpful action plan um recommendations on changes and improvements to make to our workspace environment. So, we've been kind of poking away at those this year cuz we just had a new audit done in the spring, um and things change rapidly each year, so um I think we plan on doing it every, you know, handful of years just to make sure that we're always aligned with best practices and getting that third-party review of our environment, so cuz we're in it every day, so you don't always see the things that a outside person that's, you know, giving a thorough investigation would see. Um so, we believe it really resulted in improving our security posture and our workspace environment, as well as set us up for kind of what our phase two will be, which is improving upon our account life cycle automation, so more specifically like what happens to our data or a user's data when they leave, how can we transfer that in their off-boarding, how can we make sure that the person replacing them or the department that is now left without them has access to the things that they need, as well as with the some of the licensing changes in Google making sure that we're staying within our license limit by archiving accounts properly and then um establishing, in collaboration with HR, a more permanent account retention um policy on what happens um and when we actually delete accounts. Uh and then the next part would be data loss prevention, so um securing and putting up more guardrails on um keeping the data that needs to stay in the district within our internal emails and never leaving and going externally um all the sensitive information um and improving upon the ability to warn, block, or even modify or quarantine those emails. Examples would you know, real basic examples are if an email contains like banking information or social security numbers, um it might modify that and obfuscate that data or it might add a badge to it or it might remind the user who's entering the email um that it contains DLP and and to um that it won't be able to be sent externally or or some sort of message like that. So, those are my main updates. Um and I'll pass it along down the table here to Jason. >> Hi, uh I'm Jason Wyack. I'm the systems and security specialist for the district. Um so, basically I do infrastructure, which is uh boring to a lot of people, but also everyone uses it all the time. Um and trying to figure out how to tell this story, what I thought I would do is kind of draw kind of draw a path for you guys starting at firewall. So, we have a Fortinet firewall in our district that all of our traffic goes through and we recently brought in our consultants and re-architected our high availability. That's to say if our Fortinet if our firewall goes down, it automatically fails over with no downtime now to another firewall, which is awesome and um took a bit of setup. Um along with that, uh and this is something that we actually talked about in the tabletop exercise, which I'll get to in a bit, that this I was actually still in process of making this when we did a tabletop exercise. Since then, I've actually finished an immutable backup server. That is a relatively new technology. Uh we're using an open-source one called restic. The idea is once backups are made, they can never be overwritten or deleted, for instance, by ransomware. So, it provides us a permanent secure backup of our critical infrastructure like our user directory, which we currently have, and I have verified that they were stored, which is also really big. Um So, and then on all of our machines, we use a tool called Rapid7, which Rapid7 is a security monitoring service that basically the idea is that monitors your infrastructure end-to-end. We actually have the threat complete uh service from Rapid7, which provides 24/7 network operation center, and yeah, I mean, if there's anything that happens on any device with our agent on it, they will call me, like, trust me, anytime, like, 4:00 in the morning, I will get a call because some device had an agent on it that had reported an error, and it triggered Rapid7, and they're generally a false positive, and we resolve it, but I love that they call me because if anything actually happened, they would call me. Um and it's a great service. They're the industry leaders in it for a reason. All of these products that I mentioned are the standard in the industry for what they do. And we That is one thing that I'm a really big fan of, and something we as a group are really big fan of, is building all of our practice on established best practice, so that we can fall back and say, "We know we're doing this the correct way." Um and it's been really successful. There's a lot of work that goes into a lot of that stuff, and a lot of sitting on long calls with vendors and clicking through things in a Zoom call, but it has made a huge noticeable difference in our security and in how smoothly our things work. Um and moving right along, this got to this all of this infrastructure security stuff really got to um got to be kind of shown to everybody in the security tabletop exercise we got to do with Dr. Fletcher among other people, and it really that I would the thing I wanted to highlight about this is we did a lot of overtime back end infrastructure security work to have that not have to be the focus during our table top exercise, so that we could focus on organizational and admin response and making sure everybody in the organization understands their role in these situations and how to respond to them, and I was so impressed how everyone in that group did. Like, it was the smoothest one of those I've ever been a part of. Um and it was just it was a great experience, I think, for everybody, and we learned a lot. We learned a lot of things we can do better. We learned that we're already doing a lot of things the right way and should keep doing them. Uh it was a great experience, and um it really highlighted I mean, our, you know, incident response plan. I mean, one thing that came out in it, for example, is when you should call it an incident and when you shouldn't, because that's a really specific loaded term. Um and and things like that. And but I mean, the more we have consistent known documented language and standards and best practices, we it everything works smoothly and we can all work together securely and without people having to constantly be thinking about security, which is the goal. It's infrastructure and security when they work perfectly are invisible, right? Um and this is a good example of that. You have to do these kind of exercises so that it can be invisible for the rest of the time and function. And it was a really great experience. Um and yeah, I mean, it it really showed that we do have a a really mature understanding here in our organization of what we need to do, what our roles are, and a lot of systems in place that work. There's, like I said, a lot of things that we can improve on. It would be kind of disappointing if you came out of that without something you could improve. But but it was a great experience. Um >> I'm just going to read that quote on the bottom of that slide, cuz this is from FR Secure, Arnold Public Schools demonstrated a mature understanding of incident response principles and strong cross-functional collabora- collaboration through the exercise. The school district consistently focused on protecting students, maintaining operations, preserving evidence, and engaging the appropriate stakeholders. So, it's a it's a good review from FR Secure. >> Yeah, it was it was uh very well done in the and very professionally done by the by FR Secure, too. That's a really good partnership we have with them. Um and that kind of gets to the last slide that really kind of tells the story and I called it security happens together because, well, it does. As much as I do for security, if I was the only one doing it, we wouldn't be very secure. Um and so, I mean, it starts with security baselines, having practices in place, having our infrastructure be at a tested, verified minimum level of security, working with vendors. And a perfect example of that is having all of these systems in place and having best practices in place. We have this new camera vendor, Vigilant, that we're bringing in that has is a big project. Redoing your cameras is a big project. It's been going very smoothly because we have things established. I have I know exactly what VLANs things need to be on and what buildings and how to do it and what to tell them and I was able to give them a like a one-pager of what information I need from them and they've been really efficient about batch giving me all of the changes and it's been a great experience to work with them. And that's because we have standards and best practices in place instead of just kind of ad hocing this stuff or being like, "I don't know, plug it in here." Um it it really makes a huge difference and I just thought it was such a perfect example of why all of this stuff works. So, I kind of wanted to highlight that and also highlight that a big part of what I, especially in my role, but we in IT in general do is work with the vendors, other departments hired to do things. You know, we didn't hire the camera vendor, but, you know, we're working closely with them the whole time they're here because everything they're plugging in connects to the network. And that's kind of our job and a lot of times it's behind the scenes, so it's worth calling out that that's how all this stuff actually happens is partnerships with between different groups people in this room and outside vendors and coordinating and Nick and Chad have both been awesome on this and the vendors that they hired have been great and it's been a a good experience. And then it all kind of gets back to like I said being built on best practice and it really allows I mean my job to go smoothly and people to not hate me as the security guy as much. And except the students probably still hate me cuz I run the web filter. But um But you know, I mean but it works and I mean and even with the web filter, I mean we're constantly looking for ways to keep it secure but be able to give people the access they need without just locking everything down. But do it in a way that follows best practice and you know, not kind of inventing things unless there isn't something in place and then we invent it and share it. And and that's kind of how things work. Um and it's been a really good experience and it's it's been a really fun team to work on because everyone here is just so professional and good at their jobs. So but that's what I wanted to share. >> I'm Leah Staples. Uh this is my third year starting the school year. I started in June 2024, so like that was a really rough summer. So this is my second summer. Um and I'm the operations specialist and I I feel like that title is I'm in charge of all the stuff that goes through the Um So, this year uh this summer I wanted to start with uh getting our student devices uh inventoried and under control cuz it just felt like I didn't know where anything was. So, um it started at the high school uh and asking students to return all their devices at the end of the year. So, I guess in May I started with communicating to families um and students that you're going to be turning these in. If you need them over the summer, you need to check them back out. So, uh we did have a plan for students that needed them over the summer. Um so, we started with collecting. Um it was a great turnout. We were still getting them returned during the summer. Um but then that was part of the interns' job would be to inspect and inventory all these devices. So, um one of their tasks for the summer was to scan and inventory all of them. Um repair them. And then I had created a spreadsheet that had um two of our systems that have all of our asset information. So, when they get scanned, it would give me all the information I would need to find out where they were, who they were, if they were checked out, if they were lost, like um and any inaccuracies. So, that worked great. Um so, I've been able to correct a lot of uh inaccuracies. And then the next phase was to prepare everything for the fall, getting them into the schools um ready for checkout day. So, middle school is Wednesday. And I'm feeling good about our supply that we have ready for students. Um and then at the high school it's it's going to be a wondering cuz it's been a while since all the devices I think had been returned. So, we're kind of it will but it will give us a good idea of how we can plan for the future in our replacement cycle. So, that's kind of the goal of this is cuz it's going to need to happen in how long? How many do we need? Cuz how do you know how what to order? When it's bring your own device, you know, you can't have enough for every student in secondary, but you want to provide what students need. So, that's the challenge. Um And then the next thing I've been doing over the summer is working on the student information system, Synergy. There was uh we found out during the school year that they were releasing a new mobile app. I was very excited to just try it out. So, Ms. Fuscher, Dr. Fuscher, tried it out and liked it, but kind of wanted to pull it back a little bit and so we stopped for a little bit and then the spring we um decided to release it again and started sending out communication to families like this is available. Um the office staff, we let them know it's available and they had a great idea is like we you know, we should start telling people now so we can get the passwords and um trying to make this a smooth transition. Um you know, you can always go in the browser to get to your portal, but people like their apps, so um I've had many support tickets in the past month. It's I counted over 70 today that I've responded to. So, and they keep coming. But I'm handling them in the office uh staff is responding to them as well and most families are getting in and are thankful and grateful for the help. So, and then I've also been helping try to improve the elementary scheduling within synergy and making it more efficient. So, I think that is going well and next year it should go even smoother now that I understand a lot more. Um and then uh we had our summer interns which they did um I just was going to go over a few of their projects that they did. What was that? You want them to come right now? On this one? Okay. Sure. Oh, okay. Oh, yeah. So, but at the end of the year we had my um the site techs and the tech facilitators maybe come up with some tasks that they would help them to for the fall this school year. So, um one of them was uh converting some files for teachers that used uh smart notebook cuz that's kind of sunsetting and so um a lot of teachers submitted um Coda, do you It was Gem who worked on them all. Um over 100 and I feel like he did it in a couple days. So, he did that was huge um and that he converted them all to either my viewboard um which is a software with the new uh ViewSonic boards that we have or he, um, or they could choose a Google slide. So, they um, converted those files for them and then, um, we also have new time clocks that they all installed throughout the district. So, our you won't even know they got replaced cuz they look the same, but they were out of date and they needed to be updated. So, that they did that task, uh, while I was on vacation that week, so I don't even know. It went great and Jason was super grateful cuz that's that was a big thing that, um, he had to do. >> day. >> Yeah. Right. Um, and then, yeah, more on the student devices. They, oh, and they also have connected all the classroom workstations. Um, it was Lilly came back last week cuz, um, we had ended, but Schuman was a little later in their cleaning schedule. So, she stayed and helped a lot with that. And Schuman, um, and they did the intermediate school, middle school, high school, um, and and they also helped with, um, community ed. All their They were the tech support. They were on the list, you know, they need something and they just go run and take care of it. So, um, that's half their, you know, time here, but there was not a lot of issues this year. Um, and then, yes, the inventorying of the devices. They scanned over 1,400 Chromebooks. Um, they repaired, uh, they organized our testing fleet, which was all over the place. We have a one model that we like to use for when it's testing and they were scattered all over and we've now we have them all contained in five carts instead of 10 carts that weren't wired. And they wired them all and labeled them all and now they're in their home and are ready for testing and checked. That's just a >> Would you mind each of you introducing yourself and telling a little bit about your summers? I know two of you are off to college soon as well and Ruby's going into her senior year, but just tell us a little bit about you and your experiences if you start. >> I can start. Um, I'm Ruby Gorman. I'm going to my senior year here. This is my second This has been my second summer as a summer intern. I started out with the tech department by using by participating in our tech buddies program. I don't know how much you guys know about that, but helping the seniors in the community about once a month. So, I really enjoyed working here. It's a really fun environment. I've learned a lot, learned a lot of good skills that I'll take into my future. Might not be specifically in tech, but a lot of really good lessons I learned here. >> Um, yes, so I'm Lily Warak and I found out about this job cuz my dad is Jason, so you know. Um, this is my second summer working here. Um, I just graduated at Wayzata High School, so I'll be going off to college in the fall at um, University of Manitoba. And yeah, I'm also not planning on pursuing a career in technology, but this job has definitely been very educational for me in a lot of different ways and I think it has really set me up for success. >> I'm Coda McCann and I am going into my junior year junior year here at Orono. Um, I found out the job from one of the other tech interns, Jim Benson. Um, the job has shown me a lot about how stuff works here behind the scenes and learning a whole lot about how this works. >> I really just wanted an opportunity for our summer interns to present to the board and say hello. Jim Benson wasn't able to be here, but he's one of our original members. He started with us in Tech Buddies and then has been with us every summer and it's been an incredible program. It is we thought a little bit about like I don't know what they did before we had this program. I don't know how we set up all of the classrooms to the degree that we set them up. Our goal is to have as smooth a start as possible and every year we've done a little bit better and we look forward to this year as well. It really is incredible what these kids accomplish and we have been remarkably fortunate to have such mature, reliable, and thoughtful students on our intern program and I I should make sure I I definitely want to make sure to acknowledge Tiffany Clifton's partnership in this as well. This is split half with Community Ed and so um it's been an incredibly successful program. Um these kids are just a real highlight for us. They're great to have around in the summertime and I really just wanted an opportunity for them to get to meet you and for you to have a chance to meet them. I didn't know how many would be able to make it tonight. We have a total of How many do we have normally? Six? Six. So we have got 50% of the crew here tonight. Really um an amazing program. It's really great. >> I guess I'm sorry. I was just going to share a bit on some lessons I've learned working here. I feel like I've learned a lot about dealing with hurdles in projects and lots of multitasking and kind of shifting focus depending on who came in to work that day and if they could help us on this project then we can work on this, but if that didn't work out then we'll shift our focus and it's just been really good to learn about these like really foundational skills I think in any career. Knowing how to work with a team or new people and yeah, it's just been really impactful. >> Yeah, and I think for me, I have kind of a similar experience, but also um having that week where I work kind of solo after working with the whole team was very interesting because I definitely did a lot of, you know, problem-solving and a lot of kind of troubleshooting things that I didn't have to do as much when I was working with others and you're kind of brainstorming together. So, that was very interesting. And then also just a lot of teamwork as I was working with, you know, some people I've never worked with before. Like last year I came in and I knew absolutely nobody, but you know, I came out of it with some good friends and it's been awesome. So. Yeah. >> We're super excited that Code is going into his junior year because that means we have him for 2 more years. Uh it's always a little nerve-wracking >> Presumptive close, that's good. That's very good. >> Yeah, so we've got a good We've got We've got a good crew coming back next 50% of our team will be returning next summer as well, so Um it's been a great experience. Very grateful. for this group of students and for the support from the community and um from the board. >> Uh thank you so much. I I want to open it up for other comments and questions if anybody has them. >> My question was actually for us. Is this the end of the tech presentation or are we asking just for the Okay. Yes, I do, but I'll wait. >> What? This is it, right? >> Yep. Yep. Yep. >> Uh So, my my first is just a a comment. Um I'm just terribly impressed with your group every year that you come up here and do this. Um you know, Scott, I think about Scott's You guys demonstrate, you know, hungry, humble, and smart. You're passionate about these the the work that you guys do. Um it's not for everybody, right? Uh but you get excited about talking about data protection and threat management, and it's awesome. I love that you guys enjoy it so much in the the culture that you've created in that team. It's just Yeah, it's strong leadership. Love what you guys are doing. Thank you for protecting us in everything that you you guys do. My question Dr. Fletcher probably knows where I'm going to go. Is um What are your thoughts on over the last year since we've last discussed or maybe it was in the fall. Um Or the spring, I guess. Where are we on individual plans and what your thoughts are on how we can incorporate AI into classrooms, right? So, in particular We're getting hit with the cross subsidy cuts as you heard at the very beginning, right? And it continues to be an area of of stress. How do we incorporate this more? We've heard for your ideas in the past. This goes very quickly. Do you have new ideas or new thoughts or kind of where is your head at with this? >> It's a great question and um As Dr. Fletcher knows cuz she participated in the summit, we had Chris Agnew was the keynote speaker and he was speaking from the Stanford Institute on AI. And to your question, one of the things that he was speaking about is where the research is currently. And so, the research on impact on student learning is pretty thin. There hasn't been a lot of longitudinal or peer-reviewed research projects on what it does for student learning. The one place that is showing up consistently in the research is teacher efficacy and the impact it is having on teachers' time. So, to your question, are there ways in which we can continue to find efficiency and support our teachers in their development of the skills, the answer is yes. And do we continue I mean, it's sort of like our focus is around that specific thing because we know that currently the research is showing that when teachers are empowered to use this, they're taking time back and they're using that time more targeted on behalf of students. And so, I think Paul and Bailey and I were just speaking about this today, in which is it isn't just about the efficiency, it's how we um articulate and make visible the time that is saved and how we're intentional about repurposing that time. So, I would say that's a key part of our approach and where we're at in year, I forget, year four of um rolling out a new school year with this technology available, is focused on um what it means to be fluent at the teacher level, and then what it looks like for students to experience it throughout. >> Yeah. Thank you for uh I think it's great that you guys have identified that already. That is a a common crux for everybody that's trying to leverage AI is what do you do with the the repurposed time? >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> I'll I'll I'll say I'm encouraged to hear how you all are thinking about our world we're thinking about it cuz I know some of the other studies show that uh the time we gain we just work more with uh whether it's engaging AI, but in this case in an educational context this actually does enable teachers potentially to engage more with students, which I know is something we all would appreciate and want to see happen. >> Yes, so John Hattie's work on visible learning talks about the ways in which we make sure that the learning is visible within the system and it just dovetails well with talking about the capabilities that this technology provides. And it is one of our core discussions. I think it's one of the benefits of having a tech director who used to be in the classroom is knowing like it isn't about just saving time cuz that will be that'll just evaporate into the ephemeral. It is about repurposing time specifically for the things that we value most. And we know in education that relationships between students and teachers are the single thing that create the greatest uh change for the students. And so, how can we use this time uh intentionally to repurpose it that way? It fits incredibly well with the MTSS work that we're doing. Like, it is dovetailing extremely well, and it I think the way that it is dovetailing well is truly um an affirmation of the direction that the district has been in. This is being built on a foundation that is uh student-centered and whole child. And so, when you are building on that foundation, this is about a new set of tools to help support that foundational work. >> To the students, how many hours a week were you guys doing this? Was this like a full-time job or part-time? >> Uh it was part-time. I believe it was 20 hours per week. We worked 8:00 to 1:00 Monday through Thursday, and it's a 5-week program. >> Okay. Um I'm so impressed with you guys. Like, you will use that whatever you go into with your career. You'll interface with technology. You'll learn how to do problem-solving. So, kudos to you, but thank you because you also saved the district a ton of money. So, that's really awesome, too. Um but the whole team, you're talking about being invisible. Um Yeah, it sure isn't invisible when it doesn't work well. So, thank you. Thank you. Like, we are so so grateful, and yeah, this team just continues to be so amazing. Thank you. >> Uh yeah, thanks as well, and I I just appreciate seeing the way I see you all come alive in your work. And when you come alive in your work, that reflects both in students and in us. And uh definitely great to see. And thank you for having that joy in what you do. >> I'll just pile on because I'm glad I'm not in that You don't want me anywhere near technology. So, um I am in awe and I'm very appreciative of all of the work. And the students, uh you know, we talk about it takes a village for this community uh for this district to run and to have your involvement is really builds on the strength of our district. So, thank you for your time. >> Well, I think I can do better too. I'm I'm I think everything you guys do with like the tech buddies and just helping folks that are not tech savvy. That is absolutely amazing and and as I help my parents with challenges they run into there's a lot of patience involved. So, thank you guys for all of that and I love seeing the excitement as you said of as you guys work on stuff that this makes my putting a mesh network in my house and feeling pretty awesome and tech savvy not nearly as cool. But I think you guys are way beyond that. But it's so awesome you guys do all this. So, thank you so much and as you said of when things don't work right, that's when everyone's like what's going on. So, thanks for checking everything 17 ways and making sure it all is. So, thank you guys and I look forward to hearing what all you guys do going forward even if it's not in the tech world. You're going to use that stuff. So, it's awesome. Thank you guys. >> Well, I think I'm hoping that you're hearing loud and clear how much we appreciate your incredible work. Your strategic student-centered focus on making this as as smooth and as invisible as possible. And to the students you have just helped every single student and teacher and staff member in the district have a smoother start to the fall and that can make a huge difference. So, thank you. Really appreciate it. So glad that we have this program. It makes sense for everybody. So, thank you. Do you have any parting words or um can we just say thank you again? Good? Wonderful. Thank you again. Um Moving on if that's okay. Moving on to e other new business is necessary. Anything? Okay. The next regular meeting will be held on Monday, September 14th, 2026 here in the district office at 7:00 p.m. Do I have a motion to adjourn? >> So moved. >> Do I have a second? >> Second. >> All those in favor?