We have three outstanding um bat inductees are nominated every year by the public and then we have definite criteria that the alumni association board goes by to select our inductees.

Mary's motto kind of was like play is kids work. So you learn through creativity and play and that's how you learn.

Basically, I recognize that you folks are newly elected. Um, you have the jurisdiction, the authority and the accountability, frankly, to be district voters. Um, and we really really appreciate all that you do. the school district is a big part of shock the community.

But to be honest with you, when it comes to curriculum, education policy, that's your guys for I'm not the guy that you want in your room.

I just want to say that uh looking looking through the donations that uh mayor science donated over $156,000 worth of value to the school district.

We are partnering with Chamber on a workforce uh work skills bill for Shaky. And so, that's a really good thing that we made some progress on and we uh Ben and I are working on it this summer in order to get that to the next step.

The state has a ton of resources and a ton of financing um available for for helping these things.

we're currently part partnering with the city on the safe schools grant. We you will see some changes to infrastructure in particular around Sweeney, but also at some path in the high school.

Dr. Redmond is recognized as a capable and missiondriven leader with opportunities to build on his successes and further strengthen relationships throughout the district.

That consistency it takes a long time to build trust. It takes a second, right? To to that. So, we appreciate you.

I'm happy to share that for the first time in in quite a few years, the district is fully staffed to start the school year.

I am going to Washington DC with MSBA September 6th through the 8th and we'll be meeting with all of our 10 congressional members really focusing on uh fully funding our public schools.

a recap of the project that they're trying to do is feedback tool and the good trouble staff members, they're trying to several Minneapolis schools. Um and obviously Minneapolis is a different school which is which is in the suburbs. So they wanted to pilot at a school.

we increased 96%. And the only thing we did different was we tried and I guess managed more of the social media aspect.

that welcome back event that we have is 100% funded by donations from breakfast to everything that's given away.

my job certainly has its challenges and things like that, but uh I love coming to work. I love what I'm doing. I get to serve uh with a you know with outstanding folks on a school board. We get to serve a great community. We get to serve nearly 8,000 amazing students and their families.