Uh, next on the agenda is the pledge of allegiance. Gavin, would you mind helping us by leading? Thank you. Next is the consideration of the agenda and I would like to ask the board to vote on whether it's okay to move item 8A which is new business Schuman Elementary flood response team recognition to be next on the agenda. Do I have a motion to approve? So moved. >> Second. >> Perfect. Any discussion? >> Okay. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Perfect. Let's do that then. Um Dr. Flesher. >> Thank you, Madam Chair. Uh we're going to start our board meeting this evening with gratitude and recognition. Um as the board and community are aware, Schuman Elementary experienced what was described as a catastrophic water event over winter break and there were so we had so many helpers and we wanted to say thank you. Um we want to thank the numerous staff who assisted in our school community. Um, on behalf of a very grateful school district and school board, we want to publicly express our deep appreciation to the numerous staff members for their incredible work as well as our community members who helped. The professionalism, long hours, and collaborative spirit demonstr that everyone showed demonstrated a deep commitment to our school community, and we're grateful. Thank you to everyone who worked so hard over break, many throughout the night and multiple nights. Uh we have recognition certificates and a brand new um first ever excellence pin that you'll get to see for our staff and our students and our community members. Many of our staff work very long or very early hours. So I know a 700 pm meeting is way too late. Um but we are still going to recognize the staff that I know it's past their bedtime already. um and they were not able to come tonight and we have a couple of many of our students were also at the band conference concert tonight but we wanted to and we'll we'll make sure that they receive their recognition later this week but we're going to I just wanted to mention those staff members who were not able to be here tonight first. So um Tim Damka our facilities manager Dwey Fzen custodian and both Tim and Dwey and Mike Daniels um custodian as well. Um, I know we're here um throughout multiple nights um helping pump water out and salvage um everything at Schuman from walls to floors to um uh furniture. Ruby Garman um is a student and an Orno tech buddy uh program who helped um with an um all of the materials that needed to be put back together for our teachers um all the technology parts. Gretchen Gubbins is a cook as well and works in child nutrition and she as well as several staff members here helped all the food that needed to be transferred. Um Jesse Heights, another custodian who was also here um throughout nights. Um Sophie Middleton, a student and also an Orno Tech School's tech buddy. Um Jamie Peterson, a custodian at Schuman Elementary. Lauren spoke as our child nutrition specialist who worked throughout break to um try to figure out where all the food was going to go with Debbie um and Liddell. Leah Staples, a technology operations specialist. And then we also had Jason Wyak, our network and security specialist, and his daughter Lily was also here um as a student helping with the flood response. So, we thank them all. Just take a minute to round applause for them. And now I want to st thank the staff and students that are here with us tonight. Um as I call your name um please come up and receive a thank you um from board chair Sarah Borchers and we also have Wendy Lensgard who will be handing out some as I mentioned newly crafted excellence pins for Orno. Um and we have um both Tim Asset and Gavin Tempro who would like to shake your hands and say thank you. So we will start with Dr. Scott Elder, executive director of human resources. Scott spent way too much of his uh winter break. >> Jason Banks, technology support specialist. [applause] Jason, I think you and Sean were some of the first people here. We thought it was a power outage at first. Sean Beaverson, our director of technology. [applause] I don't know if Sean called Chad to say that it was not um just a power outage. >> Yeah. voice. [laughter] Jim Benson, Orno High School student, tech buddy program. Not too many students would give up part of their winter break to be here to help us put our elementary school back together. Thank you, Jim. Debbie Burrquist, child nutrition. Debbie and Liddell were there that next day moving food [laughter] >> trying to figure out what what in the cafeteria worked. Um, Liddell Dickinson, child nutrition and cook. [applause] and one of our fearless leaders, Chad Aishan, coordinator of buildings and grounds. Chad didn't really sign up for this. [applause] He was supposed to be ice fishing. >> Yeah, exactly. Dr. Adam Lamparski, principal Orno Schuman Elementary. Adam moved more furniture than um Hoovers and was taking pictures and trying to figure out where teachers were across the world and saying, "Is this what your room look like?" And Mr. Nick Tainter, director of business services. >> [applause] >> And we have one more as well. Miss Lisa Campbell. Yeah, you took your name off. I saw that you did that. [laughter] Mike, where did Lisa's name go? Okay, Lisa spent her time writing letters. >> [laughter] >> I know if if people wouldn't mind if we could just take a picture that would be wonderful with the board. That Thank you. Yes. >> Okay. Yes. Well, I didn't want to announce my own name. >> Yeah. It'll be better. Three, [laughter] two, one, two, Before you leave, do you mind if I say one more thing to you, Debbie and Jason? Do you mind if I say one more thing? I just wanted to mention that um we were able to start school in January on time and I truly believe your work saved our building for our school community and our students. As we close, I also wanted to publicly thank again our restoration company Mayo, our electrician Daily Electric. Uh they were amazing. They rebuilt systems, our world architects, our HVAC and mechanical systems. They they rebuilt temporary systems of power, electricity, water, and all the heating um that we're working um right now. And they're planning for full restoration this summer. So, it's truly amazing work. I also last wanted to sh thank Shoreline Fire Department for helping us in the middle of the night on a cold January night. Um and the city of Orno who did the same in December. Um so again, thank you all. [applause] Thank you. Next up is our consent agenda. The consent agenda contains routine matters that typically do not require board discussion. Individual board members may remove an item for the consent agenda for discussion or separate action. Tonight, our consent agenda items are as follows. Approve minutes from regular board meeting held on February 9th, 2026. Sorry, 2026. Approve personnel recommendations. Accept donations totaling $12,12.39. Approve treasurer report for January 2026. Approve electronic fund transfers for January 2026. Approve voucher and payment registers as presented. Bill voucher register, EP register, EFT voucher registers, and Capital One transaction registers. Do I have a motion to approve? >> So moved. >> Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Any discussion? Okay. All in favor say I. >> I. >> I. >> I didn't hear anybody say anything else. So, we'll move on to the superintendent report on excellence, which I hear is a monster. >> It is a monster. Um, everyone will have to sit down. Um, okay. Thank you, Madam Chair. Um, have a lot of really great news to report. So, we will start once again with the arts. Um, and we have some more pictures up here. Um, thank you, Lisa Campbell. Um, once again, our district artists are being recognized for their talent and skills. Art instructor Dr. Sheila Gamble shared that the following pieces have been selected for the Metro West Conference visual arts exhibition. Start with Riley Corkran um marker and ink called Snake. But maybe we'll just start this way. Dario Mayo pencil evidence of love. Morgan Malke acrylic is beach. Seth Null watercolor cave point. Nick Nye pen and ink perspectives in ink. Diana Olen, acrylic daisy. Lydia Richardson, free nose job. Anna Lisa Tedland, mixed media survival. Oops, I missed the first one. Um, that's okay. Riley Corkran is marker and ink snake. And Jordan Flesher, acrylic, self- sabotage. A Hansen, Stonewear, Ceramics, Layers, and then I think we'll just end with Daria Mayo, pencil, evidence of love. These artworks will be on display at Normandale Community College now through March 3rd. And there will be an artist reception and awards event on March 3rd from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. And we wish all of our artists the best on that. History Day. Last month, our seventh grade students presented their history day projects at their annual showcase event. This project is a wonderful example of academic choice for our middle level learners. Students self- selected a research topic connected to this year's theme, revolution, reaction, reform in history. Next, they choose the format that best showcases their learning. A documentary, a website, an exhibit, performance, or a traditional research paper. It's always inspiring to see such thoughtful works from our seventh graders. I am pleased to announce that the following projects advance to the regional competition taking place in March. This is partly why this is so long. Um in the individual exhibit we have Lissi Toppen for Munich Massacre. Reagan Lilard for Hindenburg. Juliet Moon Japanese colonization. Grace Matilia in for Titanic. Tatum Lubc for Mayo Clinic, Cara Reer French Revolution, Emmy How Tea Act, and Rose Speedy for Agent Orange. In the group exhibit, Maya Tottman and Alyssa Sha Schultz for Boston Tea Party, Quinn Rogers and Evelyn Verplank for Donna Day Verona, Tyler Tate and Reed Windmill Miller for Tet Offensive, Gabby Vasser and Nikki Barishnikov for Edgar Allan Poe and Emma Barlage and Evie Hall for Match Girl Strike. In the individual documentary, we had Henrik No, Ty Bernard, Grace Leman, Isa Meyers, Meyer, Robbie Crawford, and in the group documentary, Nathan Radcliffe and Tommy Manazi. In the individual performance, we had Harold Campbell, and we had Madivan Kandichada. And in group performance, we had Violet Woolly and Payton Healey. And an individual website we had Emma Zel, James Vosan. See what I mean? Eveie Stafernon, Penny Cyp, Harley Robelard, and Feimi Zel. And the group website, Jack Nelson and Wes Madson, Levi Marfield and Leo Phillips, Libby Lendelle and Rhett Anderson, Weston Haden and Sam Madson. And last but not le least in research papers we had Freya Freya Blessing, Brody Marcus Tula Dowen, Lauren Corbmacher, Henry B Mika, Nathan Baird, and Riley or Riley Stalo and John Klene. And that is the most I think we've ever had for seventh grade um history projects. It's pretty amazing. So on to our speech team. They're also doing well. At the fourth annual WildTink tournament in Shakapei, the Orno speech team competed against 26 teams and more than 630 speakers. Congratulations to the team for earning third place overall in the large team category. This marks the first time in seven years that our team was large enough to qual qualify for the large team division. As the smallest large team, their third place finish reflects the depth, talent, and strength of our speakers across the board. So really great work. The following students placed in the top three. Ariana Langden and Harrison Stenbach first place duo interpretation. Sophie Middleton first place extemporaneous re reading. Laya Delisandro second place extemporaneous reading. Maya Hogan second place storytelling. Ariana Langden third place discussion. And Harrison Stinbach third place pros reading. Thank you again to Barb Schoffner for guiding and encouraging our students. And congratulations. The fifth grade cave experience. Our fifth graders just wrapped up an arts and letter letters module where they read all 13. The incredible cave rescue of the Thai boy soccer team by Christine Sun Torvant. Students were asked to reflect on the essential question, how does an extreme setting affect a person? As a concluding activity, students were challenged with an escape room experience in a cave-like setting. Teams worked together to apply their critical thinking skills in a dark cave to solve various puzzles and unlock their team's box. Students wore headlamps and worked by lantern light until they successfully unlocked puzzles. They used Breakout Edu boxes borrowed from the middle school to make this possible. And Breakout Edu is an educational game-based learning kit that harnesses the excitement of escape rooms and infuses them with academic content for the classroom. So, huge shout out to Kelly Buckner for designing and leading the implementation of this exciting experience. Baileyette for her creative instructional support of teachers and students, parent volunteer Jamie Jessica for transforming a classroom into an amazing cave, and PTO for purchasing headlamps. Um, in athletics, our Alpine and Nordics teams have closed out their season since we last met with some pretty outstanding results. Danny Kzer competed in the Alpine at the state meet, finishing in fourth place. Congratulations to Danny. Thank you to coach Brian and Kelly McGoldrich. Boys Nordic team finished in second place at the state championship race. This is this season was so impressive, fueled by commitment and consistency in the boys first ever team trip to state. We're so proud. Um and thank you again to coach Speedy Mccclure. Um boys basketball defeated Wakonia 7973 on Friday and will play Benel St. Margaret tomorrow evening at 700 p.m. at Benel. Good luck to our boys. The final regular season game is this Friday against St. Louis Park here at home. Girls basketball went undefeated in conference play to win the conference championship for the second consecutive season and receive the number one seed in the six AAA tournament. The Spartans will host the quarterfinal game Wednesday night this Wednesday at 7 p.m. The girls are having a remarkable season. We hope you will all turn up for the game. You'll remember that both of our dance teams qualified for the state and I'm proud to share that they advanced to the class doubleA finals in the state competition. Congratulations to our girls who turned in outstanding performances with the following results. Third place state finish for the jazz team and fourth place state finish for the kick team. Shout out to head coaches Megan Eder and McKenzie Iverson for all their and all the assistant coaches for their dedication and enthusiasm year after year. Boys hockey picked up a 96 win over St. Louis Park last week to advance to the section 2A semi semifinals. Congratulations. The Spartans will play the number one seed Delano tomorrow night in St. Louis Park at 5:00 pm. Best of luck. And then congratulations to our boys swim and dive team that finished third overall in the section 2A meet. In the section prelims, Ben Mitchell set a new school record in the 200 IM with a time of 15678. Um, and we are excited to announce the following individual state qualifiers. So, this is another long list here. Congratulations [snorts] to our boy swim team. The 200 medley, Gideon Fish, Ben Mitchell, Eli Fish, and Davis Kelly. The 200 free, Luke Mitchell. 200 IM, Eli Fish, Luke Hammer, and Ben Mitchell. In diving, Gideon Fish, Jackson Hadley, and Bjorn Jenin. The 100 fly, Ethan Weiss. The 500 free Luke Mitchell. The 200 free relay, Davis Kelly, Henry Parks, Ethan Weiss, and Ben Mitchell. The 100 backstroke, Eli Fish. The 100 breast stroke, Ben Mitchell. And last, the 400 free relay, Eli Fish, Henry Parks, Tyro, and Luke Mitchell. The state tournament is February 26th through 28th at the Gene K. Freeman Aquatic Center. We're so proud of this group. Very well done, boys. And last but not least in wrestling, congratulations to Brett Kicker on winning the 2A 114 pound individual tid title and punching his ticket to the state tournament. Brett will compete again this week at Grand Casino Arena in St. Paul. And that concludes my report for tonight. >> Thank you. >> That was a lot. >> Congratulations to all of these amazing students and for you making through that. Uh next are board members questions and comments and per usual we start with finance and facilities andor policy. We did not meet as a policy. So Tim would you mind doing the finance and facilities update please? >> Yes. In terms of that last meeting we discussed some options and updates on the tennis court project as well as uh lease levy capacity and then from there we talked updates. We saw the congratulations tonight on on the leak but uh more to follow on all of those areas uh to come before the full board. >> Perfect. Thank you. Uh [clears throat] do you have any other updates that you'd like to share? >> Uh other than I had a Nerf war with my children yesterday and it was quite a bit of fun, but uh no nothing nothing significant. >> Wendy, did you have any updates you'd like to share? >> Um so I was uh able to go to the curriculum and accountability council meeting last week. I will not spoil because that will be part of our workshop. Um, but it was really fun to hear from the community community members who are on the council. Um, just to hear their thoughts about how everything's going mid now that we're midyear. Um, and kind of get their feedback. So, you'll hear some of that tonight. Um, the last was I was on um the MSBA Friday chat. I'll be updating here and there. um that's the legislative um committee who uh tells us what's happening at the capital so that we don't have to go down there every day find out and basically I think the big things for um you all to know a reminder you know this but a reminder is that it is not a budget year so a lot of policy um the other is that there is um report that it is visibly tense at the capital right now um and yet they're going to have to pass bipartisan legislation. Um the good news is they could pass nothing and the government would run because it's not financed. So there's that. Um the other two things are um if you do go to the capital there is enhanced security weapons screening um all done a through AI. So it's um uh easy quick um and the other is um February 27th is when the economic forecast is uh will be released and that will update um all revenue and spending pro projections. So we will be looking forward to that date. That concludes my report. Thank you so much Kevin. >> I have nothing to report. >> Um I have a few things to report. I um went to the most recent meet and confer which was my first time ever being on that uh committee. Uh and it was extremely wellrun and uh efficient. We talked about the various follow-ups from prior items. Um uh the calendar was featured as well. So it was a good discussion. Um I wouldn't I don't think there's anything pressing that that that everybody here would need to know about, but it was just I was very impressed. Um I also attended the Orno Foundation for Education board meeting. Um and uh things are going really well with them. They're the they're switching from a gayla to a suare that is a little more casual. I distributed the invitation. Um tickets will go on sale for the May 1st Friday May 1 event right after spring break. Um I also um in addition to the finance meeting attended the special education parent partnership committee meeting u recently and that was uh um a terrific meeting where Tiffany Clifton and Kim King talked about summer opportunities um and and meeting kids where they are and um figuring out solutions through the summer um for all learners. Um, and this is a this is a invitation to the community. If you are a parent of a child with um that is in special education in any capacity, you are welcome to come to these meetings. They're very um um welcoming and sharing of u best practices that is really helpful from the parents that are there. Um they rave about how helpful it is. So, um, there's a there's a website or a portion of the Orno school's website that's dedicated to this. Again, it's the SEPPPC, the Special Education Parent Partnership Committee, and um just would love to see more parents be involved because it's really um helpful and um it's a great way to grow your network. That concludes my report. Um on to uh any other any other business, old businesses. Okay, hearing none, we'll move on to 8B, APAC compliance. Dr. Flesher. >> Um, Madam Chair, I'm wondering if it's possible, given that we're we're waiting on um um our APAC chair um Katie Andell if we could she's got a band concert if it's possible we could just move it down would that and then just in the case that she's she's trying to come. >> Yeah. >> Do we need to vote on that or do you >> I'm not sure. Maybe in just in case if that's okay. So move until we can't move any longer. Um all those in favor say I. >> I. >> I. >> I. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Perfect. Thank you. >> So next up then is uh Schuman Elementary flood update. Dr. Flusher. >> Thank you, Madam Chair. I welcome Mr. Chad Eishens and Dr. Adam Lamparski to update the board on our restoration efforts at Schuman Elementary. As a reminder to our community and viewers, Orno Schuman Elementary um experienced, as we talked earlier, a devastating flood as winter break commenced mid December. We were able to highlight um the amazing work of multiple staff members here tonight at the start of the meeting, and we're very grateful. Um oh, and Mr. Tainter, u Mr. um Tainter, Mr. Aish, and Dr. Lampars will talk about the initial event, the work in problem solving and our restorations as we look toward um this next [clears throat] school year. So I turn it over to our team. >> I can I can introduce Yeah. Thank you Dr. Flesher board chair boarders and the esteemed board members or thank you for having us tonight to talk about where we have been um since we had the leak, where we currently are and where we're uh where some future planning is coming in. I think it's really important to really kind of give you all and as well as the public some just a little bit of in in look into um our daily uh our daily basis as far as what we've had to handle and where we're going to with with this uh mitigation restoration of Schuman Elementary. Uh first I just want before I turn it over to uh Mr. Aish and Mr. Lamparski I just want Dr. I want to make sure that everybody understands that these two are are are the ones that are really put in all the efforts and they're they're leading through um a disaster of this nature. Um was second to none. Um they put in a ton of time, ton of effort. Um made sure people um had what they needed as far as staff and teachers and those kinds those things are considered and that their staff was um well attained and knew exactly where to go and what to do and everything of that nature. It was a very complex situation and and um I think their temperament um also showed through it as far as just understanding that we're all in this together. So I I just wanted to mention that before I turn it over to these two fine gentlemen. >> All right. Thank you. >> Thank you. Yeah, you're very kind. >> Thank you. >> Is that we all turn it on? All right. Well, as as Mr. Tainter said, we're going to kind of break this presentation into three different parts. Um, but [clears throat] but starting off with a phone call on um the evening of December 20th um between myself and Sean Beaverson. Um and he was questioning the power in the building. And I said, "Well, that's that's pretty odd because generally I get an alarm or XL Energy will send out a notification." Um, and the next day he sent uh one of his staff members in and lo and behold the power was completely out but just in Schuman Elementary which again is a little bit odd because if there's a power issue usually it affects more than one area or different parts of the community even. And so as we we started exploring a little bit um Mr. Damka was there with me, uh the manager for the elementary complex. Uh we started poking around a little bit and we saw water running out of sidewalks. And then we we opened up the door to the um utility room, the the maintenance area of the building, and it was filled with water, and that's about 5t deep. And right there, we knew we were um in trouble. We had a situation uh on our hands. Um was a bit bit of a blessing when when it happened over winter break. It it gave us a real opportunity, a two-eek window where we could um get to work right away uh without interrupting uh student learning. But I think from day one, and I think Adam, you would agree with me, that our goal was to get students back in the classroom um on January 5th when they came back in the building, get them back in in their classroom, uh get them back in a clean classroom, get them back in a safe space, um and in a good learning environment. Um so after a couple of phone calls, uh our team jumped into action. Um Dr. Flesher mentioned Mavville. We had done some business with Mavville previously and they were a reliable contractor and they they told me we'll get right on it and literally within two hours they were they were in the building with fans and vacuums and pumps and things like that. And I also have to really give credit to um Mike Daniels and Tim Dona for their work especially the first 48 hours. Um there was a a time period where there was somebody in the building around the clock, literally 24 hours a day. Um and that's really credit to their hard work and and even some of their ingenuity to help mitigate some of the damage early on. Um some of this um uh early response is really about relationships, relationships with um the city of Orno um Excel, our restoration contractors. We've mentioned daily already. They've been fantastic. Uh W um our excavation contractor that come out and and did work late at night and on weekends. Um and we we really can't thank them enough for uh the time and the effort that they put in to help stop the water and and mitigate what was happening pretty immediately. If I could just add on to that chat a bit. I I I just want to emphasize how I I don't think I can emphasize enough how impressive the response was. I think that um some of us met there. I want to say it was like 10:00 a.m. on that Saturday morning and by the time um I arrived it felt like I was late to the party. Um, and we had only just known about it for a handful of hours and and as Chad mentioned, all of these groups and ORO staff members um were already on scene working really diligently to to come up with solutions on how to ultimately get kids back in school the day after break. So, really impressive. So, again, a bit of a blessing that we did have the holiday break in a 14 uh day period. Um, the scary part about it is that we knew we had Christmas in there. we knew he had um New Year's Day in there, which was um you know, days off for any contractor. Um so it was, you know, pretty pretty impressive the amount of work that we were able to squeeze in in those those 14 days. Um sheetrock came out, cabinetry came out of classrooms, carpet came out of classrooms. Um everything was deep cleaned, wiped down twice actually. Um, and if you would walk into those classrooms right now, I don't think you could see where they cut out the sheetrock or or painted. Um, it's nice to see the the new carpeting. That's a fresh a fresh new look. Um, but it was it was truly a sprint uh to get through here and again with our our eye on getting those kids back in the classroom on their first day back. I would say that it's um in many of the classrooms, not all, but many of the classrooms um when you walked in on January 4th, it was as if nothing had happened. Now, there are exceptions to that. There are a few cabinets removed and things like that, but when you had classrooms that had carpet entirely replaced, sheetrock cut out, repainted, and to be um ready in that way for kids to come back was really was really incredible. took a lot of hard work to get there, of course, and the people that we mentioned and also teachers um having to sort of get things back uh back in order um once the carpet was finished and the and the painting and the drywall. But it was um was truly remarkable to be ready to go on that day. >> Um our our only missed day of of class was on January 16th and uh it was a little bit unrelated to the flood actually. um our temporary heating unit um misfired failed um and uh with the lack of lack of heat and uh some of the cleaning that needed to be done because of that uh we had to cancel class. But again, due to our our partners, uh they were able to get in uh they worked throughout the weekend round the clock to get the building cleaned up and and operational again when we when we came back on Tuesday. Actually, that was over Martin Luther King holiday. So, we kind of talked about where what happened uh where we're at now. Um, we talked about uh all of the all of our classrooms, all of Schuman, uh, the rest of the building are in a really good spot. Um, things have been remediated, replaced, uh, cleaned. Um, you see the the photo here, that's our temporary heating unit that's just on the the north end of of Schuman. Um, that's going to remain in place for the rest of the school year. Um, it's it's a large unit. It's been keeping up. it's comfortable down there, I would say. Um, so so that's good. Um, we do some um monitoring uh throughout the course of of time. Um, so we are testing some indoor air quality once a month just to make sure that um things are still in a in a safe place. Um, Adam, you may just want to talk about the the staff and the feedback you've gotten with their spaces here. Um, as far as the HVAC Y goes, yeah, I think one of the things that was a bit surprising to us is that um the the rooms that uh were were actually flooded um are sort of the rooms least impacted uh for the rest of the school year. And and we found that um those were able to be put back again with some exceptions that we're still working on. Um some cabinetry here coming up soon that we'll mention. Um, but really the HVAC was I think the u trickiest thing to work around and we've I think we've done a remarkable job but it just took uh took a little bit of time and tweaking figuring out um the position of the unit um how hot to have it blowing air to do we put fans on just how to get everything um um comfortable for for students and staff and um and I think we're at a place now where where staff are really u pleased with u with how things which is pretty incredible. It's a big space to heat with a unit like that. And um as I mentioned, it took a little bit of trial and error. Um, there were some times where probably the first couple days there were some sweaters and and days after that where there were t-shirts were the required wardrobe, but we I think we've got it figured out now and just happy to be able to be we had that that week where it was very very cold to be able to know that we were in school uh without a working >> central HVAC system was pretty impressive. >> Yeah. So everything from the cafeteria north is under control of temporary heating unit. Um, everything south or this side of of the cafeteria still has fully functioning HVAC system. Yep. Um, again, that's the temporary heating unit. I'm anticipating that we'll have a temporary air conditioning system in place for the summer as well. Um, we will not have any activities in Schuman in terms of like community education and and things like that over the course of the summer. Uh, but we still have to protect the assets that that are in those class. So that's why we're uh looking at some air conditioning for the summer. Um so this is this kind of lays out a little bit of a a timeline. Um again, we we've got our instructional spaces functional. Um there's still um some work to do in them. Um one of the big things to do is obviously the mechanical systems, the electrical systems, and the HBAC. Um we're going to start uh removing some of those systems over spring break. Uh the tricky part with these systems is that they have very long lead times. Their lead times uh once we order is, you know, roughly 20 weeks. And if you do a little bit of quick math in your head, that gets you into August already. So again, uh we've been meeting uh weekly with our mechanical teams, um talking about uh the systems that we need to put in place, um the timeline, how and how we can get those ordered. And um Mr. Ter has been working with our insurance company to make sure that we're able to order those things and pay for them on a timely manner. Um we do anticipate that um the majority of Schuman will get new flooring over the course of the summer. Uh we're going to do cabinetry work over spring break. Uh so there'll be some more changes when when students get back. Um gym floor needs to be replaced entirely because it got wet and warped. Uh that is going to be taken out over spring break and we anticipate the new floor will be installed before the end of the school year. Uh we're going to wait to put the actual lines and finish on it until summer. Um, but during the course of the school year, you'll see a little bit of work and again working with our partners and understanding their schedules and what we need to do to get kids ready on September 1st. Um, that's kind of what we're working towards now through uh that first day of school. If I could just quickly too, I know we acknowledged a lot of people here tonight, but just looking at the classroom floor and cabinetry, I think it's important to again just acknowledge the work that the classroom teachers um who were affected this flood have done uh just to get things um back up and running. They've done just as much as work as as any of us um as much help as we could give them. They still have um they're still incredibly organized people and want their want their things where they're supposed to be. And so when we think about, you know, the cabinet replacement that has to happen, we've talking to teachers about um uh that they will need to empty those and put those back in in the way that they want. And um and uh when we did the the um the carpet as well, just making sure they a lot of them came in after hours to make sure that their classroom was put back in the way that um was needed to to um best serve their kids. So So again, here's a little bit of a timeline with some of those key dates on there. Um, again, we're going to be doing some work over spring break and as much work as we can over the course of the school year, um, without interrupting classes and and keeping that educa education continuum going. And our our next key date is is going to be that first day of school where we expect everything to be wrapped up and and functional. Um we've made sure to to communicate that uh throughout the pro project and our our um our vendors and contractors uh know what our expectations are and and what our goals are and um I think if we continue to work together like we have since the beginning, I think it's very very attainable. So that wraps up our our presentation for you. Do you have any questions that we could answer for you? >> I just have one question. Uh first, thank you. I know we had the opportunity to thank you all um already, but again, I we were getting reports over break of what was happening like already that was really fast. You know, this is happening. This just happened. This just happened. So, um, very much appreciate that work. Um, I do have a question about how, and this might be more for Nick, um, how will this impact the parking lots? Um, I know the work that was going to be happening this summer with >> Yeah. >> I mean, maybe we maybe we don't know, right? >> Yeah. I mean, >> yeah. Um, Mr. you might have more information on this, but I uh at this right now we're planning to do the north end of Schuman, the parking lot in between the high school and Schuman. Um there there shouldn't be a whole lot of disruption, I would assume, because most of it will most of the activity will be right around that mechanical room, which is actually on the south south end of Schuman on on the other other side of the building. So I wouldn't anticipate any disruptions or delays that would cause uh any issues on either project. Great. >> Yeah, I would I would agree with you. Um, with with where our parking lot projects are laid out, there should be no interruption to deliveries or the work that's going on around Schuman. >> Fantastic. >> Uh, not a question other than another thank you. I know I heard some fishing was interrupted among among other things, but when things like this, it's obviously all hands- on deck, but it interrupts other parts of your lives. So, so thank you for for all of your efforts. So, I would like to also say thank you and my recollection I came on site um to see the mechanical area and where the water line was and um just how to Wendy's point how fast everybody worked together and I want to just mention a couple things for the public which is the insurance company from our understanding said everything that you have been doing in those first crucial days was exactly what you should have been doing. You the team was incredibly professional and incredibly efficient and working really well together and um and that's from a huge insurance company. So, they're not going to just say that they don't have any need to. Um but I think to your point, Chad, is that it does come back to relationships and the PE all these outside vendors want they they were invested in helping us get to that goal of getting kids back in the classrooms in a safe manner. And that's because of how you all work with them day in and day out over time. And um the teachers coming in and doing extraordinary work, everybody coming in and doing this extraordinary work in a catastrophic situation speaks to the fact that that Schumann and um the district has worked so hard and consistently to build really positive relationships. And so thank you for that too. That's um irreplaceable. And so that is one of the main reasons in my opinion that this went so well is because of how you all interact with everybody whether they're within the district or outside the district um with respect, kindness, understanding all of the things that we hopefully are trying to teach all of the students. And so I just um it makes me really proud and it makes me feel really thankful. So um I just wanted to give you a shout out for that. Anything else? Any other comments? Thank you. Thank you for spending your evening with us. >> Thank you very much. >> One of many. >> Um, next I would like to go back. >> Oh, I just because >> uh is it is it super long? Perfect. Uh, so uh 8D federal single audit reports 2024 2025. >> Thank you, Madam Chair. Um, I think we'll just uh Mr. Tinter will stay at the board table. we invite him to stay. Um, so we had a federal single audit for 2425 that wasn't included in the November report just simply because of the delay at a federal level that wasn't provided. So it has now been complete and we have very good news and I'll turn it over to Mr. Tainter. >> Yes. Thank you Dr. Flesher, board chair Borchers and the esteemed board members of Orno. Thank you for having me tonight to present uh to you an actual item that you'll accept uh for the federal single audit reports that are required. Um these are required reporting. Um this is a required reporting from an independent auditor standpoint for any uh when we exceed $750,000 of federal expenditures. Um this is a special audit separate from our financial audit, more of a deep dive. um auditors will go through uh a process of um singling out or or sampling a uh program itself and they typically have to rotate through several of them. Our two biggest hitters are uh child nutrition, school nutrition and federal special education. Um this year was uh the chance for them to review our uh child nutrition program um which was uh reviewed in in depth. Um the uh let's see um I am proud to say that we had uh received a clean audit opinion um as well as no uh significant deficiencies reported in internal controls or no material weaknesses. It's what exactly what you want to hear when you get these reports. No um no even comments from the auditors on any of that action. Um a big I want to show a big thank you to uh Jackie Doma as well as Lauren Spoke. um both of our leaders of the child nutrition program ensuring that we're compliant with all the rules and regulations of the federal government um as well as uh Rachel McQuiston, our controller, who also oversees that process are helps out with that process and ensuring all of um all the all the uh eyes are dotted and the tees are crossed and all the numbers are as accurate as possible. Um with without their help um you know we would most likely have a lot more findings than zero that nature. Um, usually at I want to go back to uh Dr. Flesher's point. Yeah, normally this would have been covered on the November report with the financial audit. Typically that it goes hand inand like to get them done um just a little more efficient. However, uh there's a compliance supplement that was not issued until well after the holidays um season. Um so uh this report is actually due no later than March 31st um of of each year. Um, typically we like again we coincide that with our financial audit and reported to the office of the state auditor as well as um the uh the um Minnesota Department of Education and the federal government itself has a clearing house that we we we um submit those files to and all those have have been reported um on time and no issues on that reporting timelines as well. So tonight you have that report um included in the packet um to accept. Uh and then again next year I just want to say next year um they will be increasing that threshold to $1 million. Um uh but I would say more more times than not we will end up having to have that single audit report um because we do spend I think last year we spent just shy of $1.3 million in expenditures for future reports. Thank you. Any questions? >> Do I have a a motion to uh go with the recommendation that we accept the 202425 federal single audit report and related management letter as submitted by our auditors from LB Carlson. >> So moved. >> Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Uh any discussion? All those in favor say I. >> I. >> I. >> Okay, that was unanimous. Thank you so much. Now we'll go back to 8B, the APAC compliance. Dr. Flesher. >> Thank you, Madam Chair. This worked really well. Um, I welcome our APAC team to the table. So, first a warm welcome to L Dr. Leslie Lach, um, our new American Indian cultural liaison. We also have Miss Donna Ofig, our Orno schools integration and engagement co coordinator, and Miss Katie Andell, >> [snorts] >> um, chair of the Orno American Indian parent advisory committee. And I I I take it Mason wasn't able to be here. We just wanted to highlight Mason. He was at a band concert, but um [snorts] thank you for being here. Um Katie is here to present a vote of concurrence which is required by state statute and we appreciate your work very much and look forward to hearing about both this last year and your future activities. So I turn it over to is it Katie going first or Leslie? >> Dr. Luck. Okay. support. Okay, >> turn it over to Miss Sandell. >> That one. Thank you for your patience and accommodations. Um, my son is a senior at Orno High School as performing in the wind ensemble this evening. um you will be very proud to know tonight is a competition and Orno sounded incredible. So um it's yes so much so that uh Mr. Arnold made sure he sent out an email and said this is the best that he's heard a wind ensemble at this time of the year and encouraged us parents to be there and I was like well I have to be there. So [laughter] again I appreciate it. Um, so this is the third time I've had the privilege of presenting um a concurrent vote from our advisory committee for our APAC. Um, and I have to tell you that this 2025 2026 school year has really set in motion I think the most exciting year that we've had. Um, and so I have some notes of all of the things that we've kind of um, covered since the last time that I've been here, some of the successes, and then some of the really amazing things that we have on the horizon to look forward to. Um, so first of all, some of our accomplishments since the last time that we met include we met all of our goals for our last um, season of our grant period for that AP pack committee. Um, funding from MDE, which included 100% graduation and post-secary plans for all of our high school graduates. um an increase in MCA scores for reading and comprehension and increased materials in classrooms for more choice and representation for our American Indian students, which is incredible. And I'll touch base on why that's important at the end here. But um second thing is that one of our committee members and Orno family members um Dan Ballinger provided the Orno student body and community with a taste of his family's wild rice recipe soup recipe at the wellness expo last spring. Um he brought seeds for the children to touch and describe how important it is not only for him and his tribal community but for Minnesota and the natural environment around us. Um Nina Olirri came to pres and presented at the Orno High School about her published book native enough. And not only was that important for her to, you know, speak to our Orno High School students, I got to bring my children to that presentation, too. and how important it is that she provided this landscape of her struggling to see herself as a native woman and and the stereotypical norms that we identify with being native and how that is just not true and that um it no longer applies and native students look just like everybody else and that's validating enough to say that you it is who you are and you don't have to defend it because it is just a fact. So that was an incredible presentation. Um we also had a very strong presence at the Orno Art in the Park event where we created a community weaving project. So, my husband built this fantastic 4 foot loom. And we purchased with Apek Funds ribbons and fabrics for the community to come together and weave it. And it was a long overdue process. Uh we finally finished it a couple of weeks ago or we tied it off and we are in the process of um getting it framed so that we can um have somewhere to display that. And as I was finishing it here at the district office for like an hour and a half, um, alone with my thoughts, I was like, this is such an incredible representation of our community and these little straggling strands and some of us are in started in our process and some of us are finishing and some of us are neat and perfect and some of us are a little all over the place, but together we hold each other up and we're stronger together and we provide this beautiful tapestry. that is very reflective of our community that I just love so much. Um, [sighs] the APAC committee also continues to maintain strong relationships with our neighboring schools to share ideas and collaborate. We attended Rockford High School to see their three sisters garden and they did a harvest celebration um which we attended. Um, we also met at West Honka's college scholarship night where a representative from MDE shared all the opportunities available um through the state to support our native students to be successful in college. With the great support of this school's team, Dr. Ruland and Miss Donna, we posted a position to help provide individual support to our committee and students. And we got to hire Miss or Dr. Leslie Lockach to be our American Indian student cultural liaison. We are thrilled to be supported by such a knowledgeable and committed Orno alum and community member to [snorts] help take us to the next step. Um to help provide teachers and principles in our schools support while also being an advocate for our students to help provide them with resources and education to help them grow in their knowledge. So, those are some of the very amazing things that we've accomplished since the very last time I've talked to you, but we have even greater things, I think, on the horizon. One of the most exciting new traditions we are hoping to instill will be the native student graduation ceremony. Uh, with the help of Norman Benson, he's an elder uh with the Mandan tribe in North Dakota. We will conduct an intimate ceremony to help se celebrate the hard work and success of our graduates and bestow blessings on them as they embark as adults in their next journey. And that's kind of important for me as I have a senior who's ready to do that. So, um, with the leadership of Dr. lock and her rapidly established relationship. Um she's really kind of taken initiative and gotten in and met different um cultural liaison across different schools um including Rockford. Uh we are being gifted some seeds from their three sisters garden and we'll conduct a ceremony and do it right for us to have our own three sisters garden so that the it'll be a place where our students can learn about the importance of relationships and cultivating the earth with native seeds and being good stewards of the land. And lastly, um the work that Orno schools has done to support our indigenous students has already had an impact personally on my family in particular. Tula, my daughter, due to the choice implementation and greater representation, had the courage to select a topic close to her and has been selected to state for her history day paper on the trail of tears specifically impacting the Chalkaw tribe, which is our tribe. She also gets to talk about her ancestry and those that have walked the Trail of Tears within our family. My oldest is graduating senior and is excited to be part of Oro's first native student graduation ceremony and has been allowed to be part of that process of planning. So, um, he's been very excited and thankful to help start that tradition and hopefully incite some ex instill some excitement with some of the the younger students. So, I want to thank you to the board to Dr. Fleer, Dr. Rulan and especially Miss Donna for the support of our families, building these relationships and creating a sense of belonging and confidence to our program to help continue our students and with a confidence that they know that they can be successful. And with Dr. Lock's guidance, I know we are on a trajectory for success. So, thank you. >> Thank you. That is amazing. and I'm so glad you were able to make it tonight. No offense to you, Leslie. I'm sure you would have done great, too. But I mean, that was You talk about the love of the community and you're just exuding it. So, thank you for your leadership and for your incredible work. Does anybody have any questions or comments? >> Uh, other than to say thank you and it was wonderful to hear about all the great work that that you all are doing and that we're able to do together. >> I have a question. You mentioned partnerships with other districts and you know working together. How um how do we compare in terms of you know [snorts] population like numbers um how far along we are versus they are you know. >> Sure. >> Um we have 42 indigenous students [laughter] within the district. um that is quite a substantial number compared to Rockford, compared to West Honka. You have to have a minimum of 10 in order to assemble an APAC committee and then be provided with funding to support those students. Um Weisetta is at 64 and Weisetta school district is obviously a lot larger than ours. Um, so if that gives you some sort of scope, we all are relatively about the same age. I think we started our orno apac in 2020. I think the fall of 2020 or at least that's when I was invited to make to be part of this committee. Um and and success is five consistent parent representatives really advocating. Um the goal is to touch as many students as we can um and provide them with opportunities whether they want to be involved in the APAC committee or not. This isn't for us parents. It's not it's to help support those students. And so it's from, you know, Donna meeting and emailing all of the students that are enrolled in um >> AP classes. >> AP classes. Thank you. Um to say we can pay for your AP exams, right? We have funding set aside just for that. And that's one burden that you don't have to worry about. So you can just focus on doing those tests. So >> college applications as well and college visits if they're within Minnesota. We have funds and so it's fun to share those messages and share those funds with families that are involved on not involved at all on the impact committee involved interested. Um it's great to just do what the funds are set out for which is to give to those families. Great. Thank you. >> Anything else? >> Thank you for zipping over here after what sounds like a wonderful concert. Really appreciate all of your work. Um and I'm so excited for next year to hear what what it'll look like. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Just wanted to thank you for your vote of conc concurrence. >> Absolutely. >> And then the only other thing I wanted to say was also thank you to Dr. Lock. >> Absolutely. Um, we're super excited that you have joined us. >> I'm super excited to be here. >> And thank you always to Donna. >> Yeah. Yeah. And make sure to grab a cookie if you want one on the way out. >> Okay. Um, we're at 8E. Um, any other new business? >> Not new business, but going back to reports, I I will mention that Todd and Wendy and I all got to attend the professional development day, the morning of it, uh, with Dr. Dr. Clay Cook and I would say that that presentation on the uh challenges of changing behavior within systems was was quite inspirational and it was it was cool to see that uh the way that people here are engaging that that work in MTSS multi-tered systems of support uh is I believe the acronym if I remember that. >> Thank you. Thank you for making time for that and for the report. Really appreciate it. Um any other new business? Okay. The next regular be meeting will be held on Monday, March 9th, 2026 at 7 PM here in the district office assembly room. Um, now I would like a motion to adjourn to a work session for an administrative midyear report. >> So moved. Do >> I have a second? >> Second. Any discussion?