Good evening. I'd like to call the Roseville area school board meeting for Tuesday, May 13th to order. Clerk will take the role, please. Yes. Good evening. Director Shaw here. Director Gagan, here. Chair Anderson here. Treasurer Clark here. Director Busushvski here and clap Chu is here. Thank you. All right. Uh any agenda adjustments for this evening? There are no agenda adjustments. Okay. Moving on to announcements, comments, recognitions. Uh this evening's land acknowledgement will be read by Director Bogeski. Thank you, Chair Anderson. Um, Roseville Area Schools acknowledges that we reside on traditional, ancestral, contemporary, and unseated territory of the Dakota people. From Bedote, a confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers, a place the Dakota people poetically claim as the center of earth directly beneath the center of heaven, to Indian Mounts Park, a sacred place of burial built by ancestors of living people and home to the only known remaining burial mounds within the Minneapolis St. Paul Urban Corps. Indigenous people have cared for this land through warfare, genocide, relocation, and removal perpetrated by colonizers, the state of Minnesota, and the federal government. Injustices that reduced over 150 million indigenous people to around 300,000. Indigenous people have given their blood, tears, heart, resilience, and love to this land. And during boarding schools, there were an operation from 1879 through the 1930s where assimilation through humiliation was the curriculum and unspeakable atrocities occurred daily to the foster care system where more kids were removed from indigenous homes than any other group in Minnesota. Indigenous people have not lost their culture or identity and still reside on this land. Roseville Area Schools is committed to ensuring the culture of our indigenous relatives, the original and rightful caretakers of this land, is studied, preserved, and celebrated. We are committed to understanding and honoring the sovereignty that has been denied to nearly 600 indigenous nations, including 11 federally recognized tribes in Minnesota through the breaking of over 400 treaties. and we are committed to the truth of the history of our indigenous relatives, the success of our indigenous students and to the healing we hope to create through this commitment. Thank you. Thank you, Director Bogeski. All right, moving on to summary of community input received for action items. We have received some community input and director Bogasheski, we have. So, um later on today, we will have an action item around the uh uh contract, potential contract for the transportation services to run our buses for our kids. And we did receive two emails and we had a speaker in person this evening. And the emails uh and the speaker were generally in favor of us uh considering uh whether we could move at some point to electric school buses as an alternative to fossil fuels. Uh the emails were fairly brief. I think they just stated that and for the all the all the reasons that the the live speaker talked about too uh better for health for the kids, for the district, for the environment. Um also the live speaker mentioned that grants are available uh in some places to uh to to help with obtaining or companies to get uh electric buses. So uh generally in favor the three that we heard from the live one and the two emails and we'll be discussing that tonight as an action item. So, I think I think that's it. Y Thank you. Thank you for that summary. Right. Moving on this evening's agenda. Um the consent agenda. Um there are no retirements this evening. So, I will entertain a motion to approve this evening's consent agenda. I move it. Okay. Is there a second? Second. Okay. It's been moved and seconded. Um any further discussion? All right. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. All those opposed. Consent agenda has been adopted. Uh gifts this evening. Uh, Director Kitty Gogggins. Um, as always, we're very fortunate with a very generous community and supporting our schools. Um, this evening, uh, we are acknowledging a gift that Edertton received from CHOPS, uh, funds for families in need. Edertton also received from Barb and Rick Craft funds for cultural responsive books for the media center. Falcon Heights Elementary School received from Charity Aid Foundation America in care of Cyber Grants LLC funds for students in need. Harambe Elementary School received from Christa Kudson via Bank of America funds for the media center. Little Canada Elementary School received from Rebecca Nimi via your Cause Blackbod funds for school needs. Rosevelary High School received a number of of gifts. Um, the first I'll read is from is an anonymous gift via cyber grants, uh, funds for school needs. Brian and Katherina Eggman, uh, funds for the girls track team. The Roz Bullpen BA baseball booster club uh, gave funds for clothing items for the baseball program. Uh, Chad Funfiffer and Carla Zabachnik, funds for the boys golf program. True Green, funds for the boys golf program. Um, Adam and Nicole Hughes, uh, funds for the girls golf program. Punch Pizza, funds for the Latino Club, Jack Bro, um, care of the Jack Bro agency, funds for the trap team. Uh, Safari Club International Minnesota chapter, funds for the trap team. Linda Romik, Leo Leon Betterman, and Timothy Johnson, funds for the boys track program. Pamela Samuelson, funds for the boys volleyball program. Minnesota Vikings football LLC, funds for the girls flag football program. Gary Gray via Beveriti uh causes funds for the alpine ski swim and dive programs. Jamie Johnson via Beverites funds for the rip tide ultimate team. Karen Dy via your cause blackbod funds for the district need. Um and then Roseville areas the uh the from the gift from Karen Dhy was for Roseville schools broadly as is a gift from Aaron Mastrian via your cause blackbod funds for the district needs. We are greatly appreciative to the generosity of our community continuing supporting their schools. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you Director Gogggins. All right. Moving on to reports and non-action items. Um 6A policy 616 uh instructional material selection. Uh up for the first reading. Uh director Jake Lindy. Welcome Jake. Thank you board chair. Yes. I am here with policy 616 which is the instructional material selection. And this um we're looking at an update for this um to include an addition of our library meeting specialists and their collection and how they go about their process. Um, this policy didn't include that before, but as we've looked at it further, we know that our media specialists go through procedures and and um, they do have um, ways that they want to collect and build their collections within our library media centers and wanted that to accurately be reflected within this policy as well. Um, so you'll note that there is um, multiple areas in the policy where we included the library materials. So 4.2 two um talks about the the library materials and the um media specialists that are in charge of that. Um you will note that after 4.2.1 um it should say or um that was pointed out to me by uh Mike Bogvsky. So that is um make sure that that you know that that it's uh 4.2.1 is or and 4.2.2 is or and then um so you have all those different things. So those are different um selection processes and then after that you'll just see that we started to include and library materials throughout um to reflect those piece. The other um change that we had in there was 5 uh 5.73 which is um support reading for pleasure. So, as our media specialists had a chance to take a look at the um the policy, most of those things within 5.7 fit with their view of it, but also um they really wanted to support reading for pleasure as well. Um and so that was included in 6.0. We again added the library and um procedures that we are working on as well behind um behind the policy. So, those are the updates that we made and I'm ready for your questions. I just want to say thank you for adding the or the uh independent and dependent clause issue following semicolons is often tricky. So, thank you very much. I don't have any any questions. Just a comment that I I read with pleasure the addition of support reading for pleasure. Yeah. Yeah. Great. Any other Thank you for working so closely with all of our media specialists on this recommendation as well. Yeah, it's we're starting to work in their curriculum review and we felt like this was an important part of uh to reflect that. Yeah. So, I wanted to ask the um libraries in all the buildings then are staffed with with um with licensed media specialists. Has that always been the case or is that is that something that's that's recently? They are actually staffed with licensed media specialists. There is um one um I guess yeah Harambe is um doesn't have a licensed media specialist but what they do talk about is that they're overseen by that person as well. So as they work with their collection they are working with um somebody good thanks any other questions just thank you for this effort to include them. I think it's just really wonderful way to to kind of think about the what the expertise they bring right to the table in terms of how they look at books and what books our students should read and so yeah really appreciate that. So thank you. Thank you Jake. All right we'll see you next time for the second reading. Great. Thanks Jake. Thank you. All right moving on to action items. um 7A the transportation services contract and we have some special guests with us here this evening. Welcome and director Thompson. Sorry. Good evening. Good evening. So I'm very pleased uh to in introduce you uh to our representatives from Schmidian Suns. Uh we are we have brought the contract to you this evening for uh for transportation. Uh we actually have a 4-year contract uh with the option for two additional three-year renewals um upon negotiation. So this could last uh uh for up to 10 years. Um and I will uh actually let you introduce yourselves. I'm Bill Forb, the chief operating officer of Schmidian Suns. And hi, I'm Katherine Forboard. Um I am uh the direct director of operations. um for sense as well. Yeah. Thanks for being here. Thank you. So, it's our pleasure. We have been working fast and furious as you know um ne working on negotiating a contract. Um uh Schmidy and Suns had complied with the same information that we had re requested for the RFP when we had originally gone out for the uh RFP with other vendors. uh they do work and um the work they do uh references speak very highly of they uh do the work in Lakeville as far as transporting all those students and I believe that's been since the early 50s or maybe even earlier before I was born and yeah so um and then also uh for Burnsville uh they have also been in Stillwater um since 2022 um and So they have worked through a lot of transitions. We have had a longtime vendor and we're we are looking forward to making the transition going forward. Um we're excited that Schmidian Suns is going to come and operate in Roseville area schools. And I don't know if you want to add anything to that, any comments or obviously if there are questions. Well, we're both real passionate about what we do. So I I'll go first and then let Katherine take over. But we're unique as as a bus company. We are employee owned and so uh you have to work for for a certain period of time and then uh you become an employee owner and I was fortunate enough to run the company when we were privately held and then uh about 10 years ago we became an ESOP and it's it's a great thing for our employees. They're passionate about what they do. They care about what they do and it's u it's an enjoyable experience to lead the group to say the least. Um all of a sudden you got everybody raising their hand. I think we should do this or do that but the end result is a very safe operation. People care about what they do and um it's a different company in the sense because we are we have some diversity and when I say that different lines of business uh primarily school bus but we do some transit work, some work at the airport. We have a motor coach division or charter division as well. So, uh we're really a full-ervice transportation company and that seems to be a good fit for the communities we serve and also for our drivers because they can get the hours they need and find you know so many people are passionate about driving school bus but they want additional hours or opportunities and um it's one of the reasons we're successful. So, you know, Katherine, I if you want to Yeah, if I can just add um you know, I'm I'm very proud of the company I work for. I um grew up in the communities that we serve. My kids go to school in those communities. Uh it's it's really and that's not just me, that's most of our team. Um we're all local. Um we believe in investing local and giving back to our community and that is at the roots of what we do. Um I also serve as the vice president. and I moving into the presidency role um for the Minnesota School bus operators association. So, I also represent our community as school bus operators as a whole and what we do for our community and what we do for our kids and um and you know just promoting safety and it's um it's really rewarding and and I'm very proud to be able to sit forth in front of all of you today and I can say that we will be dedicated to doing the very best job and um having a really great team here to support everyone. So, thank you. Questions? So employee owned company. That's good because you know then they're not caring about just doing their job. They're caring about the good of the company. That's exactly it. Y um I'll dive right in. I mean, I think you heard me report earlier, we had a guest speaker tonight and we've had a couple emails and we've had numerous groups, including a very uh very committed group of students from the high school who are interested in in green and environmental issues who have been lobbying to in some way, shape, or form be able to incorporate electric transportation into into the fleet or into the company. And my understanding is you're you were actually on a board at one point and you might have experience in your history with or no, the other the somebody you were if you were me too. Yeah. And and and maybe there's experiences you've had with Lakeville, other districts that have had the opportunity to do electric transport. So maybe just share your vision, your thinking. You know, the community understands there's grants available, but they might not always understand what that means, how applicable you really are, whether they cover costs. So maybe just take the floor and and share where we might be on this journey because I think we and the board hope that at some point we will have electric transportation as part of of of what services us. But just as with the solar panels that are on top of this building, it it took years. It took years for the technology to catch up to where it would be cost-effective, etc., etc., Sherry worked really hard for us to to get that accomplished after a period of time when it became viable. So maybe with that as a lead and just share your thoughts, your visions on on Well, we're proud of the we were the first company in the region almost in the United States that brought electric buss online and that was uh over eight years ago and that Russ was brought online as a result of a partnership with Great River Energy and Dakota Electric and uh is exciting times. I'm the guy who got to drive the bus around the state and show it off to other operators and It's very It's great. Um it's eight years old and the technologies changed so much and we've got the experience. Um and I mean just we're talking electric now, but we've always uh been open to every type of energy that you can use to operate a bus. We've we've had compressed natural gas buses, we've had propane buses, we had the first electric bus. Um, I mean, even to the point that to get that bus licensed and approved to use in the state of Minnesota, we had to go through that process because it had never been done. So, um, the way that the grant money is often delved out is that you've got to be in an area where they identify in the criteria for you to get the grant. And we are aggressive in trying to get more. I think it hurt us that we already had one. Um, and then the cities that we serve didn't meet the criteria that those funding the grants. So, we've only got the one, but you know, we're certainly willing to look at it. Um, it's a hit. The kids like it, drivers like community likes it, but at the end it has to economically work and and we understand that. um you know through Katherine's association with the Minnesota school bus operators there are some new electric buses that have been put in service since ours and we know how they're doing and how they're performing and there there's some new product coming out we're excited to look at too uh because again it imagine having an 8-year-old computer that's kind of how our bus is now it's it's old and it's dated it's a great bus but we can't even buy the batteries anymore because they don't make them anymore That's our problem. But so we're on it. We will look at it and um be it'd be a interesting project to be involved in up here really. So Frank um I know that we are as a district um moving toward uh a kind of a different concept in in how the the bus stops are organized. Um, it's it's uh it's something I think we've been working on for a while. And so to what extent are I haven't I I haven't memorized the contract here. So, so to what extent um are you would would you be working with the district in terms of where the um where the stops are and uh do do you do you have any criteria that we have to meet uh for for that sort of at at the outset? Sure. um the the way it's currently structured right now, I mean the routing would have the primary control obviously come through the district, but um we're very we have um routing teams throughout a company. Um even if routing isn't a primary function of what you know is covered in the agreement, we still take a very active role in that. Um you know, constantly checking whether it's a detour, whether it's a a new area, existing area, stop locations that need to get changed. Um, we a lot of times we'll have our safety supervisors out and monitoring. Um, we also, um, very much so pride ourselves in, you know, the training process with drivers and ensuring that they're out doing their test runs of their routes, bringing forth any concerns that they have. And we take those seriously and would work in conjunction with the district to say, you know, you know, could is there a possibility of of, you know, moving this or adjusting that to to the extent of, you know, what you're open for? But um we do hope and that we will be able to continue to have a primary or have a u you know active role I should say in in the routing. Yeah. And just to expand a little bit more on that um so we've moved from um driveway stops right to corner stops except for our youngest uh our youngest learners. So that was that was an adjustment this year. Okay. So that's a yeah that's true. That's it's already happening. Yes. But yes, so we have routes, but we have talked about that the fact that yeah, we look for input on that and um things that you see as transportation specialist that we may not pick up on. So, we're looking forward to the partnership. But that was one of the issues that we've had this last year is moving away from uh some of those driveway stops to corner stops just to make the we'll work with your transportation department staff and understand what their expectation is. But it's it's typical those first few weeks of school especially when routing has changed that there are stops that aren't safe. And we have a a mechanism internally those first few weeks of school that if you see something as a driver, you need to report it. And and we we prioritize and push those through. So the most, you know, the ones that we see the serious get changed right away way. The ones that can wait the convenience type stops or those. But the first two weeks of school, I mean, anything that's important, we communicate back. and we've taken a few rides with the routers in the car and said, "Well, look, here's what we're seeing." And it it always works out. Nobody wants an unsafe stop. So, yeah. Yeah, of course. It's just getting the information out. Thanks. Could you talk about your experience or ability to use technology and have the GPS and the mapping and the apps for families to follow their children on the bus? Sure. Yes. So all of our vehicles are um currently integrated with GPS. Um so we have the ability to monitor those stop locations, what time the stop or when the stop arm was deployed. Um you know, we can measure any hazards, if there was, you know, a speeding or a harsh breaking, all of those factors. Um the parent app part, you know, is usually dictated based on the routing software that's utilized. Um, but we've worked across a lot of different platforms and um, we're we're I will say I I feel we're pretty fast at being able to adapt and to be able to help implement that. Um, we we have other um, colleagues on our our team here that are very specialized in, you know, all those connectivity um, issues with the buses and with the software. And um, in one of our school districts, I mean, to be honest, we we never hear from parents about the app. um it works very smoothly and um it's I I I haven't heard one comment since the start of the school year. So um I'm confident if you know that's a a path if you know we Yes. Thank you. And we have a internal policy as well. I'm sure the district requires it in the contract, but we have cameras in all of our equipment that we operate and we're used to dealing with cameras. They work. uh if they don't work, someone get a call from me usually. Uh it's high priority. It's it's part of what's in the bus and and u so we'll whatever your system is to, you know, when the schools request it, it'll be timely. They we won't be waiting for a day to get camera footage. So, if I could just quickly add, we were um one of the first companies in the state too to have stop arm cameras equipped on all of our vehicles. Um and so that is uh that's an important aspect of what we do as well. So thank you. Um as a juristric we've prided ourselves in having an equity vision, a vision where all all of our students, staff, and families are treated respect with regardless of a variety of differences um that make our our our wonderfully rich group of of students here. um was wondering what kind of training or preparation do you provide to your staff to be able to help support uh this kind of vision for our district? Yeah, absolutely. Um we take pride in in making sure that all students and our drivers and aids and everybody is is able to work collectively together and in a positive environment. Um we provide uh classroom training along with our behind the wheel training for any new employee um where we go over a a vast group of of different um topics. Um we also welcome um the school district to come and present at a safety meeting um on specialty um you know presentations and things to um you know further educate our team. Um we have monthly safety meetings and um that it's mandatory attendance and um so that would be certainly we we would hope or you know would love to partner with the district on. So thank you and we found it to be very successful. Uh we've got a diverse workforce, but sometimes people don't understand what they're they don't know how to handle situations whether with parents or the students. And it's great to have the staff interact with drivers because we're all in the same we're all trying to accomplish the same thing. And uh we've had great success with with having school staff interact with our staff and this is what you can do in that situation or you know this it's awesome. So make that available to you. Thank you. Wonderful. Anybody? All right. Thank you so much. I mean this this was a detailed contract. very detailed, but I I like how specific and detailed we get. You know, driver responsibilities, dress code, we backup drivers. It's just um any other um if not, I will entertain a motion. Well, I move, but before I do, I'll just say I'd also like to uh extend kudos to Sher. Yeah. Yep. Who who was the prime mover behind this very detailed 742 page or whatever. and the master editor. Yeah. So, thanks Sher for doing this. So, thank you. I'll move that we What's the form of the motion? I move that we approve the four year a four-year contract as presided. All right. Second. Okay. It's been moved and seconded. Is there any further discussion on the motion before us? Okay. Um seeing none, all those in favor signify by saying I. I. All those opposed. Motion is adopted. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much for being here. Super excited to get started and uh great. You know, uh we're hiring and and we look forward to meeting your staff and and getting out in the community and u anything we can do just let us know. Because I also want to say harkening back to you may see students every now and then or you may be hearing from students uh who are very passionate again about electric busing. I just want to mention that we've had students. We have to bring ours up. Yeah. And I want to say and maybe Rose Parade here. What a good idea. That's this board supports that. It's just a question of when it can be made feasible both economically and just in terms of the number of buses that you need in a fleet to make it viable. Yeah. So I would we would our our hope if not expectation would be that as you're able to implement that start here. Sure. Yeah. We'll be the next electric bus that you It's uh it's just so complicated because I remember we put a grant in for eight and we had the power company come out and say, you know, put eight buses in there and he said you couldn't get four. That's it for the the supporting the grid to charge them. And it's those challenges. Sure. So when you're writing the grant and they they want you to get certain quantity and you can't get the power at the terminal. There's those are all of the little things that are behind the scene that it's just not as simple as you think. But uh like you said, we're we're looking at we will look at anything and we are on our transit side running some electric vehicles for one of our customers and they're performing well. So thank you. Thank you very much. Have a great evening. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right, moving on in this evening's um action items um 2025 2026 and the 2026 2027 school year calendar adjustment associate superintendent. All right. Thank you, Chair Anderson. Uh tonight we are bringing forward a proposed amendment for the 2526 and 2627 school year calendars. We have information now that we didn't have when the calendars were approved back in February. So this is kind of in the spirit of know better, do better. We see a problem on the horizon and we want to proactively propose a solution. This is specifically um around Good Friday. So to provide some context, last year it fell during spring break. This year uh Good Friday fell on a staff development day and next year it is scheduled to fall on a school day. This April, we had 60 plus staff request Good Friday off as a religious holiday or a personal day, which is their contractual right. Um, and if that were to happen next year on a student contact day, one, I don't think that would be good for students. Uh, two, I think it could create some issues due to the demand for subs that day. And three, it would also come at a cost of funding 60 plus substitute teachers. And we want to be good fiduciaries of taxpayer dollars. So, we've discussed this at the superintendent's calendar uh cabinet at um labor management council and with the calendar committee. Uh the cabinet LMC and the majority of the calendar committees recommend that we move the collaboration and application of learning day to Good Friday, meaning it would be a non- studentent day uh um a non-school day for students and families. staff could still still take the day off and it would not impact students or substitute teachers. Uh it does move the collaboration and application of learning day before the staff development day in third try but we were able to put them in the desired order two out of three times during the school year. Therefore, the recommendation is that we move the collaboration and application of learning day during the 2526 school year calendar from Monday, April 20th to Friday, April 3rd. And that would be for both the district and the year- round calendar, which you have in your packets. And we recommend that we move the collaboration and application of learning day from the 2627 school year calendar from Monday, April 19th um to Friday, March 26. We'd also be taking a closer look at the 2627 um school year calendar when the calendar committee meets again next fall. Um the last piece of information that I'll share is we have not yet broadly communicated this um our 2526 calendar with our families or our staff. we were holding on that to see what the decision or recommendation was for this evening. So with that summary, I'll open it up to um comments and questions that you might have. So So the the the Good Friday is I I don't know when the full moon is in next year. Yep. So So it would be it would move to Friday, April 3rd. April 3rd. Okay. So you can see where that one's kind of shaded out. And then if you look to the 2627 calendar, it would move to March Friday, March 26. Again, I would I think we'd have bigger discussions as a calendar committee around it. Um, but that would be the proposal at this time. So, are you looking for approval tonight or it would take board action to change the calendars? That's my understanding because we already approved them in February. Yeah. Okay. What I guess was you were saying about wanting to take it out and getting more input after we approve it or Nope. Um, sorry for the confusion. We would um every year when we approve the calendar, we approve the calendar for the following year and a draft of two years from now. So the 2526 calendar is approved and then we have a draft of the 2627 calendar. So then it all just for folds over the next year and the calendar committee meets several times and has a robust conversation about all things related to the school year calendar. So that would still happen two years out that you're wanting to get more input. Yes, understood him. But we approve it as a draft and then if you get input that you change it, you'll come back to us then and say, "Hey, we have a revision to the approved." Yep. So we always get like a final calendar, a draft calendar, a final calendar, a draft calendar. This is also the time of year where all the dates blur together in my mind because we're talking about so many different calendars. So, so you're looking for the approval of the 25 2526 school year, the change of the date from April 20th to April 3rd. Correct. Yeah. And then the draft of 2526 moving from the draft of 26 26 27. I'm sorry. See, I told you on like I start to get them mixed up. Thank you, Dr. Lake. 2627 from Monday, April 19th to Friday, March 26th. Yeah. Okay. Lots of dates to keep track of. Yeah. Okay. All right. We approve it as presented. I Yeah. Okay. Been moved and seconded. Um any further discussion? All right. All those um in favor signify by saying I I. All those opposed. Motion carries. Thank you again and the calendar committee for doing this important but thankless work. Yeah. the world's best game agenda. All right, we are moving on to um action item 7C. Uh we do need to the board does need to officially move um we need to set some closed sessions for May 27th and June 10th. Uh the first one May tw uh 27th will be the for the purpose of evaluating the performance of the superintendent as permitted by Minnesota statute and also for the purpose of considering strategy for labor negotiations as permitted by Minnesota statute sections. And then also on June 10th for the purpose of evaluating the performance of the superintendent as permitted by Minnesota statute. A little bit of context May 27th will be the board discussion will be the close discussion that we have without Dr. Lake and then the June 10th discussion will be the discussion we have with Dr. Lake. So can't make sure we're all on the same page there. And then just again also as a reminder during the regular meetings of both of these we always ask for a motion to close the meeting. We go into the close session and we have this very interesting process of coming back into the regular session. So just as a reminder for everybody. All right. But any any questions? If not, I'll entertain a motion to set the close sessions. So moved. Okay. Been moved. Is a second. Okay. Been moved and seconded. Any further discussion on setting the closed sessions for May 27th and June 10th. Okay. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. All those opposed. Motion carries. Thank you. All right. That moves us to board reports. Uh I would like to start with clerk Chu this evening. Oh. All right. Well, okay. So, um, I had a chance to visit the the ECF, the Early Childhood Family Education Advisory Meeting. Um, I have to say this is my second time and it's just great to see the family engagement, looking at volunteer, looking at um, uh, some of the events that are going on. So it it was a great great meeting um to to kind of be there and listen right our role is to really listen and kind of know and be really thankful. I mean I'm just grateful for so many people. I heard that there was like a there is a lending library of things that people can do and two parents just did all that arrange all the whole thing and just set it up. So, it's it's it's been great to be part of that committee, you know. And then the second thing is um I had to say it really stuck with me. Uh I went to the Little Canada. I had to take a break from work and I went to the Little Canada art installation. Oh my goodness. Uh the um the art teacher uh Sarah Wolf redid her whole room into like black background with a lot of things that are like uh glow in the dark kind of thing and the whole school were involved. Wow. Lower grades did like little little fish that they hang up. Upper grades did like paperiermâché of a whole dolphin and other things. And so you walk into the room, literally it was just so beautiful. And we had to go see it. I had to go see it because it was going to be taken down because it was her classroom. It was a classroom. So really just, you know, I when I see something like that, you think about how amazing the amount of time that she put in and dedicated to make this happen. And so during the family night before the night before uh family were walking through this and just everybody and every kid is like that's my fish. So at the end before the installation all the kid would to have to look for that thing the thing that they make so that she can take it down. So uh I was teasing say don't we need a room where this can be permanent instead of you taking it down and then putting you know so so something to think about right but it was just amazing to to see that um two other things I would say I've been to like two conferences lately one with the um Singapore public school equity summit and I got to listen to Dr. Patina love and then I was at the Bush Foundation student centered learning for equity conference yesterday and um director Gaggins was there and listened to Dr. Christopher Mden. And I have to say both of them really were very inspiring to think about how in this unsettling times that we're in, what does it what does it mean to stay the course? What does it mean to not betray? Oh, I I love that term. Not betray our purpose of why we do the work we do. So, I thought both of them were so inspiring, right? to remind us that we all have a why as to why we do the work we do and that regardless of what is happening that the work continues. So and I would sum that that's a summary for both of them that was just much needed much needed for the attend attendants of teachers and educators to hear that. So and that's my report. Oh, I guess we we did just have a finance committee. Um, and I'm trying to think maybe I should treasure clerk maybe I'll let the treasurer report on that one. Yeah. Thank you. Thanks, Clerk Chu. Uh, Director Basheski. Uh, a couple things. So, um, several of us were able to go to this year's, uh, teacher leadership program presentations, TLP for short, where each year a group of teachers, um, is is nominated, selected to work on an issue of their own. It's a it's a topic. It's something that they might hope to see implemented as a policy or a process or a practice within the district. and they work on those over a number of months through the school year gathering data, articulating their their statements, their vision statements, their value ads, all that kind of stuff. And they present to a group that includes board members to the extent that we can that we can come. And um this year, as in the past, it was a exciting group of topics. There were nine um teachers who presented. There were a couple that presented on helping new kids transfer into the district. One what we could do internally for like mid-year transfers and late transfers. one on how to maybe marshall community resources and support services to help kids transfer in. Uh, one presented on things we could do to help with retention of teachers and help prevent prevent burnout. One was on mental health skills and how to better train particularly at the high school level. You know, how to recognize mental health issues. Um, one on registration awareness for the kids. How can we make kids and families better understand the real content of courses that they're selecting in the future? So, it's a better match for success and helping them succeed in courses that they that they really want to take and interested in. Um, one on community uh collaborating even more with the community around career education and CTE stuff. Uh, one on embedding career education across more classes in the curriculum. Uh and then one on um how to how to creatively adapt the curriculum and the uh DL DLSI curriculum uh and and how to break out of some of its limitations. So just a wide variety of things, a wide variety of areas to help the district that were presented to us and the superintendent and uh we'll get some thought and we'll see which ones might make sense to move forward with. Uh the other thing and again I think all of us except Rose because you were traveling were there for at least a little bit was the annual um celebration of our of our teaching staff and other staff uh and their anniversaries 20 25 years 30 years 35 years and honoring those who retired recently from the district. And so that was held at the Cedar Home Golf Room where we have a lot of events now. And it was it's one of those events that is if not great already was made great because there were cocktail meatballs there for everybody to enjoy and all kind of little veggies and stuff. So that's always good. But as as Superintendent Lake and as Chair Anderson had a chance to remark, it was just it's kind of thrilling actually and moving to be in a room with all those folks who devoted so many years, 25, 30, 35 years of service or those who have were retiring and spending their whole career because if you look at, you know, what is the district and what are our values and what is our mission and what is our our vision statement, that's them. It's it's it's the folks here. It's your cabinet. It's the teachers. They they embed it. They are it. they they live the mission and so it's just really neat to appreciate them for the years of service and those who will be leaving us at the end of this year. So it was a very nice evening. So that's it. Great. Thank you. Thank you for your clerk. Um I Well, I will uh reiterate what Mike said about um the TLP was very good. Appreciate also Mark Jaspers for coordinating that. He did a fine job with that. It was a good time. Um, I'll let some other colleagues talk about One World there as well. We did have our finance committee meeting tonight. Executive director Sherry Thompson led our group which was a good group of um some boards and staff as well as some community members um through talked about the budget development for 2526. We also looked at some long range um long-term budget um projections. We also discussed um options for safety or tech levy um that we will have a study session tonight. Um, so it was a good meeting and we have some still some work to do, but I think it went well. And the last thing I'll just say is we had the 9:16 meeting and this will only highlight really is that the first reading of the fiscal year 26 budget and part of that we do it early there because their budget affects all the member budgets which be one of them and it feeds us. So um and they finance director work with our sher Thompson to make sure that there is there because they're expected some things to be a little bit higher than it was in the past. But it okay wonderful director show um I went to the opera in the school production that the fourth graders put on at Falcon Heights. There's a group from Madison that comes around and with professional singers, but the fourth grade um does the choruses. And so the choruses, they've been working on them all year. And so they sing with a professional company. They sing the backup and uh the company brings um uh costumes and it's just a gayla affair and and uh everyone remembers when they in at Falcon Heights remembers when they were in fourth grade and what opera they did. So, it's just wonderful to see that um that special um program brought in. it as as I've witnessed several times this uh since uh being the liaison to Falcon Heights, the students there are wonderful as audience. They are just they're the best possible audience. They're really paying attention. They're having a good time and they're um and yeah, it's it's it's exciting to see. What opera did they do? Sorry, what opera did they do? They did they did the magic flute. Yeah, I was going to say they did the magic flute, which is has got a completely absurd plot or they they sort of moved it a little bit in the direction of um of Star Wars and uh everyone was an alien and it it worked. Great. That is awesome. Thanks, director Shaw. Director Gogggins, a lot of things I've done uh were covered by others, but there are a couple I'd like to mention. One was there's the equity leadership advisory committee had its last working meeting. Um and the group has spent a significant amount of time going through the BIPAC stay interviews because it's really some very good street data. Um which was what our whole book study was about this year and had some good conversation around that and some implications. And then through that we also started on some other conversations that identified opportunities in the district where we can advance our equity work. um went to the One World Show which was amazing. Um I would like to thank the police department for co-sponsoring that. There must have been a dozen police officers that were serving the food. Oh wow. It was just you looked at the lineup and there's all these smiling faces interacting with the kids. It was just a wonderful community building um uh opportunity for our students and our police officers. And it just to me really highlighted the importance of the partnership with the police department, how they've been such good partners with us in our schools and really working to build that relationship and connection. Um and uh greatly appreciated that. And then the students, I mean the uh dances, song, food, ethnic attire, it was just really well done and our students must have invested a lot of time because those performances were just excellent. Um, so it was overall it was a really really wonderful activity and they had like an hour of performance and then a break for an hour where they had the fashion show and food and then another hour of performance different dances or different features and it was just really lovely. Oh, and there's also spoken word. I me forgot to mention that one. Um then um the last one I wanted to mention was the student centered learning for equity conference and the and I'd like to go at it from a different angle than what uh Rose reported. This is a different kind of conference than any other conference I've attended as a school board member because its intent is providing um teachers and districts guidance on how to incorporate student voice. So for example, the two breakout sessions I went to, one was around a group called um good work um you know uh kind of a John building up a John Lewis's trouble um thing and it was two um kind of college students or a little bit beyond that are are working with Shakipi and three other school districts around how do you help students get ready to themselves run focus groups then take all that learning figure out the key learning from it and and move forward with it. And it was just really well done and I will be forwarding some stuff to um Dr. Lake about that because I thought that um the work I mean they're in progress um they've done some schools but they're looking for more partners for one thing um but they're also they had some good material already from some students that I thought was worth was worth looking at. And then the other one was something I know Mike's been connected to and I have, which was the youth executive board that's run through story arc now. It used to be run through the East Metro Integration District and that was how my connection of Mike's was through it. Um, but um they continue to do the good work there and the curriculum they have, but they also this year have assembled an of lists from or anthologies from about 25 youth about their experiences. and they have a lovely summary that they put together some of the themes that came out across the different uh students. Um and I will share that as well with the board and um and others because I just thought it and then like during lunch they had a student panel that answered questions. I mean, so it was really about students and hearing the student voice or techniques to try to incorporate the student voice or things that you could take back to your own school or own classroom and use. And that's really different. Um, that's not like other conferences we go to. So, I just uh want to mention that because I know next year I won't be around here and I'm hoping somebody else might be interested in going there and bringing some of this back to our is MC by I mean I take it for granted because I've been to every one of them and it's free. It's a free free conference MC by students. Yeah. They run the show. Yeah. Well, yeah. And Bush Foundation is very generous in the funding of it. So, it's in a nice facility with nice food and um you know, lots of student presence. Yeah, lots of students are there. Yeah. Um, yeah, we I I'll just have to make sure that you know about this so that you know people who can. Yeah, it's a great conf. Thank you. Thank you, Director Gogggins. Okay, I've got a couple things. uh had an opportunity to attend um the most recent district curriculum advisory committee meeting. And I know we're going to get deeper into the new course proposals in just a few minutes, but I think it's important to highlight the robust the fantastic conversations that the district curriculum advisory committee uh continues to have. Um one of the new course proposals we're going to learn more about was multilingual learners, the peer tutoring group. Um that unanimously passed. Um had a great fantastic discussion. Um, and one of the points that I jotted down was just, you know, let's truly honor, you know, these students, these kids who are assisting teachers, you know, with this work, you know, um, let's get them a full credit. Let's get them credit for what they're doing and especially many of these students who are looking to get into teaching, you know. So, um, that unanimously passed. A great discussion around the AP art and design third trimester option that unanimously passed. Um, and the PE online um, that unanimously passed. So, and like I said, we'll get into these deeper, but just wonderful discussions around the DCAC around these new course proposals from everyone was in favor. And then the last thing uh for the meeting that evening was our family and consumer science team had a report on the implementation plan and purchase discussion phase. So, uh that went well. And then just one of the last things of the last district safety and security team meeting for the school year. Um we reviewed policy 520 which is a rather robust policy on student discipline. Very robust. Um and one of the reasons why that it was brought to us. Um there were recent legislative changes that we wanted to highlight and Melissa walked us through a great exercise to kind of lead us into a discussion of some of these changes. So um you know we had any questions that we had uh kind of this how you call it this marker this marker talk marker talk marker talk we got a marker you know kind of thing you know where just a fabulous way to uh lean into these discussion about some of the changes. So, we went over that. And then, um, one of the things that, um, is going to be new starting next fall with the DSST is it's going to be having a ro a rolling rotational membership to try to get some new fresh faces, some new perspectives. Um, so half of the current uh, team will stay on for next year. Half are going to be members are going to be joining. So just to kind of give us all new you know again perspectives uh cultivating you know as you say these credible messengers regarding safety and security. It's always great to look at it with a fresh fresh perspective fresh eyes. So um continue to love to be on this. So you know I will definitely be on the next one. So that's it for me. Uh superintendent report. Dr. Lake. Good evening. Thank you. Uh much of my report was simply I'll echo what Director Bogashevky had to say around recognizing our years of service and retirees in the community. I'll add your years of service reflect a deep and lasting commitment to our community and we are stronger because of the relationships, care, and consistency that you all have bring brought to our schools each and every day. I'll add a special thank you to the Roseville Area Schools Foundation for joining us in the celebration and for providing thoughtful gifts and words of gratitude. Your presence added so much to the event and helped us truly honor the incredible people who make this district such a special place. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Leop. All right, that brings us to the end of our regular meeting. Um, if there's no further just maybe a reminder, let's just take a five minute a five minute break before we head into the study session. Uh, if there's no other business before the board, uh, stand adjourned.