like to call to order the sh the school board regular business meeting for November 18 20124 Tiffy can you please do the roopy here Peterson here Smith here Al here Johnson here valz here Mohammed here here Mich please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance United States of America and to the for it stands Nation indivisible good evening everybody it's good to see a packed house always always like that um we start with our saber Pride section of the meeting and we have a lot to be proud of tonight uh everything is going to be about fall Athletics and here to present is our Athletics director Matt Hansen welcome mat thank you all uh yes it was a good fall and a lot of excitement and just came to a conclusion actually last on Saturday night so uh the first team we are going to recognize and unfortunately both of the boys couldn't be there one is a driver for the Nordic team that participates in Burnsville so he wasn't going to make it back in time but uh our cross country team uh so this is from coach H Haskins our Shak cross country team had a great season this year the boys finished fifth at the conference and fourth at the section meet the girls ended up finishing in seventh place in the conference and sixth at the section meet both teams earned the team academic award and then the reason we are honoring two of them is because we had two major standouts on the boys side Owen Stewie and Kyle mesn uh both of them qualified for the state meet last year for the first time and then they repeat and they went back again this year uh Owen broke the school record and then re-broke the record again this year ending with a personal best of 15 minutes and 37 seconds uh and then Owen and Kyle also qualified for the griak race at the University of Minnesota which is the top cross country athletes uh and they come from quite a distance in and so was fun for both of them to qualify for that um and they qualified for the state meet to cap off uh Kyle's career and he ended up in 93rd Place but Owen ran a 1553 and finished in 10th Place overall this year which uh gives him a medal and also gives him all State honor so how long or how what was the distance 3.1 miles so it's a 5k 5K got that yeah did you say that no I didn't but yeah so traditionally it's a 5 15 minutes made yeah so it's uh it's incredible I think the winning time was 152 I believe so they almost uh the the champion almost broke the 15minute mark which is exceptional wow um they also received individual academic All State Awards as well and so it just capped off a really fun season for our cross country a so unfortunately we can't take pictures with them tonight uh but it is a a very cool accomplishment for both of them Owen will be back next year to uh try to just improve a little bit on that 10th place standing so that's our cross country team coach beton I believe is going to come and bring some our football captains in and he's going to chat a little bit about our football season let them come in come morning fellas all right to my right I have these our captains uh Max Kohl's Michael neighbor Trey Boyd and Braden Klein all seniors um uh just really proud of the whole team uh the whole program you know we had our best um best season in sh history uh Mak it to the semi-finals also I mean the conference shirts we've never been our we've never won our section before or our district which is a very tough District arguably the toughest District in the state the West District um and we were co- co-champs with minona this year um you know these guys can probably tell you where they're going on the squad I'll tell he's going to South Dakota St Thomas uh Northwestern Big 10 Northwestern and probably looking at Duke maybe no first first school first school not football but still still tent athletes right I mean this is awesome um but no um this this thing I mean these guys have talked we knew this class going to be pretty special since their freshman year um and they just worked their they worked very hard and these leaders right here they LED in the weit room uh classroom in the building um they were everything you can ask for as a coach so um you guys can ask yeah I mean just just from my end so the one thing that I was kind of telling people is so uh my wife and I actually do the clocking book for the ninth grade games and we used to watch when neighbor and some of them played ninth grade basketball and I remember after that thought these guys are pretty talented kids and that summer I just kept overhearing how much they were going to maybe step away from another Sport and start in the weight room and so it's a testament to the three years that these guys have worked I mean this this wasn't an overnight thing this has been three or four years in the making they grind every day they have fun doing it um but just you know if you ever hope that all the hard work pays off it certainly did this year so we can't be more proud of our group uh you know Friday night was even though maybe it didn't end up the right way on the scoreboard the fact I think you guys saw too just the number of fans we had the community support uh huge band and then our boys gave it all they could had a lead but at the end of the third quarter and thought hey there 12 minutes away but uh wasn't meant to be but it was uh you know something we we're very proud of our guys so congrats guys was it playing in the bank have any guys ever done anything like that before I mean it was everything you dream of I mean looking at Maple Grove expecting them to I mean be packed I mean they side to be packed and I mean they probably filed a little bit um but then we look at our side and it was where like the entire city showed up it was like something out of a dream I mean all of us played in seventh grade at at us B we got to play against M K West um and then yeah we played there and it was kind of something that I thought this is my only chance I'll ever be here and then being there on Friday it was I mean something something you dream of and it was it was unbelievable even though it wasn't a win it was an experience in the moment that we'll remember for the rest of our lives for sure said we were thinking so it was really fun for the fans too so thanks for getting us there I think you guys are coming over here we'll see see for a little picture here what are we saying big dogs big dogs all right big dog big dog to qu the thank well done than so does it work better if they stand here sure okay all right so now we have uh coach Jenny Carlson and our swim team to talk a little bit about their season so [Applause] ladies go ahead okay okay so here's our State team I mean they had an amazing Meek we just got done I think everybody's still a little exhausted from the weekend Christy got a front row seat to all the excitement it was great having her on deck and ping out medals but these girls like state meet this year um of the 12 events we qualified in every single event which that hasn't happened ever I don't think or I'm sorry every every every event but one um we had state champion Ari zalen you know what maybe let me first introduce them all and then I'll tell you a little bit about this is Ari zalen Abby Beckman Olivia wimberger Ellie Leisure Maddie Hansen Hy K Grace C Kramer Carly Schumacher Janessa centers Miranda frat and Lexi tippy and that is my assistant coach Alex craft so yeah Arie state champion this year that was uh reclaiming her title from last year 100 freestyle she was also automatic All American they're very tough time standards they have to go for if they hit them there's automatic and there's a All-American consideration um automatic means she's guaranteed to have one of the fastest to top 100 times in the country um that was in her 50 free and her 100 free uh the girl Ari Maddie Lexie and Jan Janessa were also part of a 400 free relay that took second place at that relay was also automatic allamerican um Lexi Tippy took second place in the 200 freestyle she got an All-American consideration time she also did 100 freestyle you were seven I'm trying to do this out memory um Miranda plac third and 100 breaststroke Miranda's only an eighth grader so this is pretty cool she'll she'll we feel we're going to see a gold medal before this she's done um uh Miranda was also on our 200 medley relay which took six okay um Janessa centers competed in 100 backstroke 100 butterfly 100 fly he placed 11 and 100 back 16 Carly schacker was one of our alternates so um our alternates were Carly Haley and Abby those girls they they play a very important role on Deck they just they keep the girls energy up they keep them motivated laughing having fun and they're there in case anybody were to get sick anything they're my next group that I would move in to step in on those relays uh Grace Crow Kramer was on her 200 free relay which took fifth that 200 free relay was all American consideration uh Maddie Hansen was on the 200 medle relay the 200 free relay and the 400 free relay so she is an not aaic all- American and has all American consideration Ellie Leisure was our first diver that we've had at State since 2010 uh she ended up 23rd did a great job Olivia wimberger swam 200 IM you were 13th 13th in the 200 and sixth in the 100 breast stroke yep and yeah that's it these girls work I mean this isn't this isn't three months of work that does this for them they've been doing they've all been swimming since they were pretty young they train year round uh big goals Big Dreams and they know how to work for him and it's fun watching it all come to fruition how many of you are seniors these are also my four captains this Seas so the rest they are junior oh well um Maddie's a junior Haley's a junior Grace Carly are sophomores Lexi is a sophomore mirand is eighth grade janess is ninth grade so you're going to see a few idiot few more times and Miranda not to put you on the spot are you at East because this is the second time in this room today we had a leadership team in here earlier Mr Ellis was talking about the eighth grader who did great and so your principal is pretty jazzed up in the same room this morning talking about you so well done yeah so congratulations to our swim team as Jenny said the best finish since 1998 and in the last three years it's about this but I think we were eth seven tied for seventh and then yeah we were seventh tied for seventh last year with our our big rival Prior Lake and then the two years before we were Fifth and just across the board you know the number of pool records whether it was AR set at other pools or school records this group has been very impressive this year so it's been fun to watch from start to finish and they ended up being our culminating event on Saturday night for the fall season it was great to have chrisy hand many of our medals and I believe you gave the third place trophy to our team so little fun for that too so congratulations to our girls we had the fortune because we because we hadn't won a conference Championship in 37 years so uh Tiffany out to a couple of news organizations and one of them picked up uh picked up our story and they ran in the women and sports so Tiffany is going to play that every day that they are ferce competitors and athletes and every Monday here at 5 we showcase some of their accomplishments in a segment we call women and sports yeah marel Mo does that sport so you have the story of a dominating swim team is that what they are yes coming from the south Metro and the shaky girls swimm and dive team is an incredibly tough conference this year competing against powerhouses like Prior Lake Egan and Lakeville north and south and for the first time in 37 years they came out on top we spend almost 20 hours a week together so it just creates this a large Bond the Sabers girls swim and dive team is having one of their best years in over three decades we were Conference champions this year um we haven't been it since 1987 so it was a crazy accomplishment for all of us it's just been such a fun ride seeing how much this team has grown throughout the years these four captains helped lead the team to victory in a tough conference part of this team's success is their physicality we lift three times a week in the morning you can physically see how much stronger they've gotten then you I the results in the pool show it as well the other secret to their success is their sportsmanship which head coach Jenny Carlson says developed long before this team was winning we're not known as the fastest in our conference but let's be known as one of the friendliest the nicest the the most fun to swim against and they really Rose to that challenge and as we've continued to build success they've held on to that being good sports was definitely something that as a team we agreed on Coach Carlson's mom Kathy started the shocka swiming dive program back in 1979 and she was coaching the last time this team won the conference or 300 now her daughter is helping carry on her mom's Legacy by creating a team as close as family and these captains hope their leadership leaves its own kind of imprint I hope that all the younger girls really like look up to what we did this year and especially how like us four LED them and try to strive for that same thing or even more even better and the Shak Sabers compete in the section tournament starting Wednesday if they win they'll move on to the state tournament where they told me their goal is to be one of the top five te [Applause] thank you so I'll just say while he's handing out to T said it was so exciting to be there to share in your excitement to see all of you perform so well um you never know as a board of director for the State High School league um what sports that you'll be assigned to it's not just a it it just happened to be that I was assigned a girl swimming this year and it couldn't have turned out be a better opportunity for me to see our girl shine and um there were just a lot of amazing performances um from all the schools in both classes all day but it's uh it's hard for me because I'm I have to remain neutral but inside I'm like go go go so it was great job and it just it made the the day complete for me to see our girls do so well so congratulations to all of you and I noticed from your text evidently when you text you don't have to be neutral come I got a all right one two thank you [Applause] great awesome stuff well done well done thank you okay and then we had a few other sports that didn't quite make uh the state tournaments but our adaptive softball or excuse me soccer team has made up of the seventh through 12th graders from Prior Lake Chan Chas and Shaka and this year we had three athletes that competed in adaptive soccer on the team they had a had a good season uh wasn't quite that state caliber type of team but many of them should continue to participate in floor hockey this winter so another good season for our adaptive soccer team um our next team is our girls tennis team and uh this team had a 13-4 record this year uh the best record they've had in over a decade they finished third place in the conference as a team they won their first round playoff match against Mount West Tonka uh unfortunately our second round match was against the eventual section champions in Eden Prairie so we did not win that one but what's neat is as individuals every one of our singles and doubles teams won at least one match in section play which is not uh that doesn't happen very often and then our number one doubles team with AA kale and Aurelia Lucas won two matches to the semi finals so uh overall we just have a couple seniors on that so on that team so really we feel like the future is very great for a girls tennis program as well our next one is girls volleyball uh and girls volleyball had a little bit of a tougher season this year they finished 9 and 15 overall it was tied for six in the South Suburban Conference uh started a little bit slow we had a couple injuries kind of played about 500 uh soft or volleyball through most of the season and then finished uh with a couple tough losses but what's crazy and I also say this when I usually talk on the radio the couple times I have to as just how deep our conference is and to kind of explain how deep our conference is a team that tied for us in sixth place ended up making the state tournament so you know when you get down to the sixth best team in the conference it could be as good as the first team in the conference it makes for a lot of really really tough nights um but yeah so that was kind of interesting to see a six Place team make it to state uh again just showing the depth of our conference we were on the road for our first round match up against wakia a team we did beat in the regular season but uh it just didn't wasn't our didn't fall our way in the section tournament so we did lose that one but we do have a a bunch of returners coming back next year so so it should be a good year for our girls volleyball team and our next team is our girls soccer team and they had a little bit of an up and down season they finished seventh place in the sou Suburban Conference we were a little bit more on the younger end this fall uh so we'll look to build on some successes that we had what's interesting is this was the first time that we had a little bit different scheduling model and the soccer season as Dr Redmond can probably explain to you is a very truncated season when you're playing three times a week for five straight weeks you know teams really are sore and tired and so we had about a week off before our playoff game and ended up being our very best game of the season we were tied with minona who was the two seed all the way up until the last five minutes of the game and they end up scoring at the end to to eventually beat us but uh you know I think sometimes it's you know scheduling sometimes it's the team but sometimes in girls and boys soccer there's so much going on right away that uh maybe the depth is uh tested throughout the season so but again we are we were very young so we'll bring back um a good team for next year and our final sport uh was boy soccer and boy soccer had a really nice season a bounceback season for them they were 96 and one they finished in fifth place in the conference battled every night uh we were pretty senior heavy so it was really great to see them have a good year uh we beat Eden Prairie in the first round of the playoffs and penalties which is always kind of fun I think the game ended up being about a three-hour game it was just crazy with a couple injuries and timeouts and how much time we needed for overtime but uh it was really fun and we had a really fun exciting crowd on both sides so it was it was a great uh section playoff game and then just to show and prove you know kind of how far we've gone in the second round of the playoffs we end up losing to minaka and double overtime there was just a couple minutes left otherwise that would have gone to penalties as well um so just a great season coach Poppin did a great job this year was fun to watch him this fall um and then just last Wednesday we had signing day and we uh had you know they're technically not called National letters of intent anymore they're contracts through the NCA so we had eight student athletes signed their contracts last Wednesday uh from left to right they're a little bit small on the screen but from left to right Sarah Heckle is going to Augustana to play soccer Nick Johnson's going to Minnesota State University mano to play baseball Ryder peace is going to the University of Jamestown to play baseball Cooper Simpson's going to the University of North Dakota to play hockey uh Landon Tower is going to Rockhurst University to play lacrosse Paris wander is going to Drury University to play softball Luke whle is going to to the University of Jamestown to play basketball and then Ari who we saw tonight Ari onelan is going to the University of Madison to swim so uh eight student athletes this fall we'll have a few of our football guys as we heard that will sign in December and then we'll have a big group signing um in the spring so uh that is our fall Sports recap uh couple things to maybe just note on my way out is uh Andy Brown and I were asked to participate in the inaugural activities podcast last uh Wednesday so not necessarily my forte but uh we did have an opportunity to talk I think you can find it online if I'm correct Tiffany uh if you guys want to hear in one of our Alum Bill Scher was the moderator for that so it was good it sounds like we might be doing it uh maybe the same kind of timeline as we would do our fall winter and spring updates to do that as well to give the community an opportunity to hear what's going on and then um another really cool thing that is happening this upcoming winter is the shaky saers were selected as the Wild's dream State team and so dream state will be a u series that Chronicles the team from pre skates which are kind of like Captain's practices a couple weeks ago and it'll run the entire um hockey season so through our conference through the hockey day Minnesota and then the goal they try to kind of pick who they feel is the upcoming Dream Team to make that state tournament at The X so it would be the first time if we were fortunate enough to get there as a doublea school so there's U you know a little bit of uh excitement to go around there and I think it's either getting announced or it just got announced and then uh the first episode comes up here before the end of the year so that Jersey cool yeah I think we got another jersey for hockey day that should be pretty pretty cool as well so Co and just just a reminder we do the uh the sports part in November and then because a lot of our activities our Fine Arts you know like Guys and Dolls is performing this weekend we give them a little more time because their fall season tends to run a little bit later and Andy Brown our activities director will be with us for the December 16th board meeting in case anybody was wondering you this was Sports heavy uh the Fine Arts will will have their their night to shine in a month thank you right next our agenda is item four the consideration of the agenda as presented so move second have a motion by bro a second by Aldrich any further discussion seeing none all those in favor I oppos motion carries next in our agenda is item five public comment this is the time where members of the public can participate in the meeting without being part of the meeting agenda a member of the public May address the board on an agenda topic or on another topic we allocate a total of 15 minutes for public comment at this meeting each individual speaker may speak for up to 2.5 minutes the sign up for public comment has been conducted online and in person prior to this evening's meeting no one has signed up for public comment prior to this evening's meeting we will move on to the next item on the agenda next on our agenda is item six the consent agenda you can see we have some Personnel items uh previous Schoolboard minutes bills and authorizations wires State High School league uh Grant and the storm pool fac facilities lease and U we have donations as a separate action item tonight but we are still going to do a a resolution approval for the consent agenda would entertain oh no we're not no just for the donations just for the donations I misunderstood when it was explained to me earlier we are just going to do a voice voice R for this one but I still need a motion I'll make a motion to approve you we have a motion by Aldrich and a second by Peterson any further discussion seeing none all those in favor I I oppose motion carries thank you for clarifying that uh next in our agenda is uh action item item 7.1 this is donation and this will be a resolution ation to AC organizations that have uh continuously generously donated toward this second we have a motion by Peterson a second by broy further discussion Tiffany can you please do the role ropy yes Peterson yes Smith yes alridge yes Johnson yes Valdez yes Mohamed yes resolution pass next in our agenda is item 7.2 the acceptance of the fiscal year 24 audit report and here to present is our director of finance bill maazi good evening Mr chair members of the board Dr Redmond uh thank you for the opportunity to talk through our fiscal 24 which is the 2023 24 annual Financial audit uh my role in uh tonight's agenda item is to introduce Jackie nolles from Bergen kdv uh who will be here to present the audit results uh I would be remissed if I didn't also introduce Natalie did who is our supervisor of fiscal Services uh Natalie along with our finance team really played a a big role in a successful audit that you're going to hear about tonight so thank you to our finance team for all of their hard work behind the scenes and getting ready for uh the the audit presentation this evening uh with that I would like to turn it over to J so so I'm going to be going over a summary of the audit results and then also we'll look at a summary of Statistics operating results for 2024 so the main purpose of our audit is to provide our independent Auditors report which comes as a result of us testing audit balances reviewing internal controls things of that nature and this year we are providing an unmodified or a clean opinion it's the best that we're able to offer what that means is the district's financial statements are presented fairly in all material respects the position of the district as of June 30th 2024 and then all the activi that occurred within that year um we have a couple of additional Communications the first is the report on the results of our audit performed in accordance with government auditing standards so because of some of the state and federal funding received by the district we have to take a closer look at internal controls compliance with grants contracts other regulations we didn't have any compliance findings but there is one repeat internal control finding that may sound familiar the lack of segregation of accounting duties um so something that we want the board to be aware but nothing um that we recommend being implemented at this time the next additional report is the report on the results of our single audit so this applies this year specifically to the federal special education program in the education stabilization money or the Esser money those were the two programs that we were required to test and um no bindings either compliance or internal control related for either of those programs and then the last bullet point the office the state auditor asks us to test for compliance with certain State statutes applicable to Minnesota school districts and we did not have any findings related to that either so clean across the board besides just that one repeat internal control finding to be aware of and then with that we'll move on to some of the financial results for the year so we'll take a look um starting with the formula allowance so this is the basic piece of general education Aid the districts in the state get uh per pupil unit served and so you can see for 2024 that was up 4% so that's the largest increase that increase the districts have seen over the last 10 or so years and we'll see how that impacts revenues in few slides here and then of course the other main factor being the district's student counts so we start off looking at the resident average daily membership or amm so these are resident students residing in the district's boundaries regardless of where they're attending school and so this number you can see has trended down downward over the last five years um decreased about 1.3% from 2023 to 2024 and then on this next slide those resident ADM are converted to what's called a pupil unit number or pun number and this slide here also takes into effect the accounts of the effects of open enrollment um and so you can see here the non-resident number that has grown each of the last five years so there are a number of non residents enrolling into the district and then also the resident count um has trended downward as we saw in the previous slide so the pun number down about 2% from 2023 to 2024 and here is um showing the change year over year so the 2% I had mentioned whereas resident ADM down about 1.3% and then looking at revenues for the year um in total revenue was up almost $6.2 million and a lot of that had to do with a large increase from the state state revenue was up about $9.6 million despite that the decrease in pun that I had mentioned earlier that 4% increase in the basic formula allowance um offset that and resulted in an increase in general education Revenue also the compensatory piece of general education Revenue was up significantly State special education Aid entitlement was up significantly with an increase in special education expenditures and an increase in the cross subsidy um reimbursement rate so all of that playing into that state revenue number going up significantly one item to note as well as other revenues that was down about million in total and that primarily had to do with the decrease in the spending of pandemic related funding so that was actually down5 million and then there was an increase of about two million in interest ears and the change in market value of the districts Investments so that's what contributed to that3 million decrease in others overall looking at budget to actual results inal revenues over budget about $8 million and if you look at that final column and the various sources of funding almost all revenue sources came in over budget um the levy more fiscal disparity came in then what was budgeted um other local and County revenues just being conservative with the budget for interest and some of those amounts that can vary from year to year revenue from the state conservative budget for um the education the special education AIDS and then Federal revenues was over budget with the district utilizing more Federal special education them initially budgeted for on the expenditure side in total over budget about 32 million that's about a 2.7% variance um one of the largest or the largest program variance was instructional Support Services over a budget of about 1.7 million and if you look down the B section titled other financing sources there's a lease issuance for about one and a half million um so the district entered into new lease for devices and when that happen be recognized both the capital outlay expenditure which shows up in that instructional Support Services line and then it proceeds from that lease which shows up in that lease issuance line so those amounts cost at each other and the people support services was also over budget about 1.14 million um and that had to do with a change in the coding of principal and teacher time spent on counseling and support activities uh that was coded to people support services for the first time in 2024 but was not reflected in the budget um also Transportation costs were over budget um so I just wanted to note that and then the administration line being under budget had to do with that same um change with the the coing moving from Administration to people support servic and then just the last item I wanted to touch on on this slide was the proceeds from the sale of capital assets it's about the fifth line from the bottom a large number almost $2 million there this year um and that was primarily the sale of the Central Family Center this year so not not being included in the budget but if you look at the bottom line fund balance up almost 8.6 million as a result of 2024 activity so the budget by about 8.4 million in total next we take a look at The District's expenditures in the general fund and in total expenditures were up about 7.9% the largest increases were across the largest spending categories regular instruction and special education instruction due to increases in salaries and benefits related to contra increases and then also inflationary increases across the board people support services those expenditures were up again with that change in the coding of the portions of principal and teacher time and increased Transportation costs and then sites and buildings was up due to the Middle School roof replacement in 2024 that was funded with ltfm money the general fund so as I noted expenditures were up about 7.9% in total but if you look at the allocation of spending across the programs that was fairly consistent from 2023 to 2024 so as expenditures have increased it has increased evenly across the various programs of the district and this next slide some of these numbers are quite small but this does summarize the general funds operations for the last five years so revenues and expenditures have increased year-over-year if you look at the bottom of the top half of this uh table it shows the total fund balance of the district which has gone from about eight and a half million at the end of 2020 all the way up to 3268 million at the end of 2024 so significant increase in fund balance and when you look at the components of fund balance in the bottom table um there's a couple of change just well four lines up from the bottom there is a new committed fund balance and that is was approved by the board for feature maintenance and capital Improvement projects um so that's a new set aside and then the assigned fund balance right underneath there that's up almost a million or about a million dollars and that was due to an increase in the amount that's designated for future District programming and then fund balance came in at about 12.25 million at the end of the year and that's an important number because that is the number that's addressed in the district's fund balance policy so that number equals 10% of expenditures based on 2024 spending levels and the district's policy is to have eight to 12% of the annual budget in that other SCI balance so the second year in a role that the district has been in compliance with this policy so 12% um it's 10% the unassigned is 10% so right in the middle of the 8 to 12% in policy this next slide shows the cash and Investments of the general fund which has correlating closely with the total fund balance and then Compares it to the unassigned fund balance that agrees with the previous slide so unassigned has grown but at a slower rate due to the district utilizing some of those set aside the committed fund balance now the assigned fund balance and set aside setting aside money for specific purposes in future years and then we'll look at the food service fund next um significant increase in revenues this year with an increase in the number of of meals served at the beginning of fiscal 2024 that's when the state began providing reimbursement to participating districts for all student meals served that were not federally funded um so that resulted in a big increase in the number of meals served and then we see that um reflected on the expenditure line as well so food costs increased with more meals served and then also some inflationary increases for food as well but a big increase in fund balance up to almost 2.9 Million the end of the year and that's about 51% of expenditures based on what the district was saiding in 2024 but quite a significant increase from what where fund balance was five years ago and then in the community service fund uh revenues were up about $889,000 while expenditures were up about $475,000 uh revenues were up with an increase in some of the state AIDS for this fund while expenditures increased related to salaries and benefits uh contractual increases and then also Transportation costs um in this fund as well so fund balance decreased to a total of about $85,000 at the end of the year in the community service fund um so we do recommend that the district um develop a plan to address the negatives for the Community Education portion and the School Readiness portions um of this those activties and that concludes what I had prepared for the board I'm happy to take any questions and circle back to any information please so every year that I've been on the board I've asked the uh auditor um what percentage of the audit was spent on procedures and how much of it was spent on uh going over the numbers um maybe a different answer from what you've been given in the past but just me personally if I had to estimate it I'd say you know looking at internal controls walkthroughs discussions with different staff things like that I would maybe say maybe 10% while the in-depth testing of balances looking at supporting documentation that type of thing would make up maybe 90% of the work wow I don't know very interesting because it had been about 30% on procedure 70% on number so actually I really prefer the 1090 i' really like that you didn't know it was a trick question in advance either know oh no I I I do I'm nice I War the Auditors that that question is coming to give them a few minutes but I I do appreciate that answer there's I'd say there's a little bit more of a walk through of the internal control specific to those Federal programs that we have to test just because that is required by the federal government um but as a whole financial statement audit I would say more inline 910 thank you Mr chair if I may we we did talk about the segregation of Duties and there's practical reasons for that because there's roles and responsibilities but not necessarily staff to enforce a lot of that we also touched briefly a little bit on the pychology side call security and access control uh and you know Bill feel free to to jump in but just to look at who should have access to even what levels of information let alone you pushing the buttons If you will um but certainly appreciate the the incredible work and transparency that you and your team have done so I it's a resounding thank you overall uh and there's from my perspective there's no concern colleagues also in the finance facilities meeting so you guys want comment look good and I know numbers and those numbers look good I just have a quick question um in regards to the Food Service fund is that a trend that you're seeing amongst other school districts to see such a large jump in having a fund balance like that we are seeing that at a lot of districts and the state actually had guidelines for our districts weren't supposed to have more than months expenditures in fund balance based on a 9mon operating year and they actually did increase that to six months now just recognizing that a lot of districts um are seeing higher fund balances now with these changes in in funding for that food service fund um so I know a lot of districts are looking at you know how can you spend that do more fishing equipment cafeteria tables things like that so something to to plan for in future years maybe that pling and what is our six month would that number approximately be 51% so we're right at that at the half where we so what would be our plan if that number continues to go up of where we would use those because I know that this is a fund that the expenses have to be used for very specific items and I know the legislature has provided some flexibility with u in the past year or two on legislation to allow for kitchen equipment or more tables or other items that might be used um for serving our students uh for wheels for example and I think there's more legislation that might be proposed for this upcoming legislative session um to allow even more flexibility I think some schools are seeing that they don't have space to serve breakfast and lunch for all the students especially the breakfast piece of it and so really looking at can expand the eating areas the cafeteras and some of that might need it so I I guess I just would ask you know we're at that point where are we going to start putting some of those dollars because I also know ltfm from maybe an equipment like a stove replacement or something probably covers that I'm not sure yeah this is actually something bill and I I think have been talking about for about 18 months because and you want but with all the changes coming out of the pandemic there was kind of a almost a lumpsum increase into that fund balance one time and with the universal free lunches what did that mean and so we will be you know we'll be bringing those things back to our finance and Facilities committee um probably I don't know two three months but uh we've been looking at a lot of factors and even and some of it might be you know as we hear some of those different things from the state but there are some pieces of of that that we' certainly looked at through budgetary lens but uh I think we have a better sense now what the ongoing picture looks like and that was really tough to discern over the last really three four years so it's like a recurrent topic and we go all right we need more information so but we're certainly aware it is a common topic that we talk about and it does it it's exciting it it affords us an opportunity to invest in that program that we didn't have half a dozen years ago so we're aware of it uh and I think the timing is right that sometime this winter the finance and Facilities committee will hear a presentation on some of our ideas and thoughts moving forward any further discussion this is an action item so we need to I will make a motion to accept the audit that present second a motion by Aldrich and a second by broy any further discussion seeing none all those in favor I oppos motion carries thank you next in our agenda is an information item item 8.1 secondary math curriculum implementation update and here to present is Sarah wenberg assistant director of learning teaching equities welcome thank you good evening Mr chair superintendent members of the board I'm really happy to be here to present on secondary math curriculum and I class Monica Miller one of our LTE coaches Monica has been here throughout uh the entire math curriculum adoption process so she might be able to answer some questions from context of last year that I was in for so thank you for joining us so as we all know adopting a curriculum is a big huge thft it takes a lot of work and we are supporting our six through nine Math teachers in four major ways one is we are gradually rolling out this new curriculum over time so instead of all of our six2 Math teachers all having to jump into new teachers who are teaching two to three different perhaps having two to three different curricula we're slow rolling it which I think is really a big support for teachers to have a be gradual um second we have very Clear Vision for implementations and we communicated very clear expectations to teachers on the specific things that need to be implemented this year our third support is offering that implementation coaching in grades six through n which we'll speak about later and then the last is being very intentional to listen to and respond to teacher boys so this shows our our scale well out over time this year the new math curriculum is in place in math 6 prealgebra Algebra 1 and alra in nth grade and then also an acceler accelerated pre-algebra in sixth anything in the pink is the old curriculum and then you'll see in next year the green expands into grade 10 with geometry and a precal and then in school year 26 27 it expands even further so slowly we'll roll out all of the old curriculum and we'll roll in all of the new curriculum I talked about our Clear Vision and communication for teachers so one thing that happened earlier this fall communication went out to that went out to all of our Math teachers about exactly what we want to see in classrooms with year one of implementation we didn't want it to be guest and we didn't want it to be overwhelming so the two big requirements that all teachers had to do was one use the new resources on a regular basis use the Envision resources for the warm-ups for board work for practice and applications and then the second part was implementing our new math pedagogy which is called building thinking classrooms and that's where you're getting students up at these vertical so if you were to go into one of our 6 through n math classrooms You' see a combination of students working at their desks and a combination of them up in small groups working at board and solving problems together which has been a really powerful experience both for our students so the new pedagogy which is you know how we are teaching how we're engaging students and content it's called building thinking classrooms some of the highlights of this are defron the room instead of that being in front of the board all of the time they're trying to defr that classroom have it be a lot more problems faced have it be a lot more rooted in student discussion a huge component like I said earlier is these vertical boards so we purchased how many did we get for each classroom like night uh depending on yeah probably of clroom yeah yeah so one of the H RS is we B these big huge portable whiteboards that can be posted all around the math room so students don't just go up to the whiteboards in the front and so now you'll have these GR groups of math students all around the math room solving problems together teacher might call them back and do some quick instruction on what to do or he might or she might add to the problem and then let the students go back to their vertical boards to continue solving problems so that's one of these 14 components of building thinking classrooms it's one of the more structural components of this pedagogy and teachers are loving it they are so excited they're seeing huge gains in the caliber of student discourse um increases in student engagement so I think this is one of the the teacher favorite Parts about the change is really delving into this new pedagogy and see how rich it is and how it's pining up it also aligns really well to assessment for learning so a lot of the components of building thinking classrooms is already being DED with by teachers through are work with AFL the new curriculum is called Envision some of the highlights of this curriculum and it a very clear scope and sequence for learning so teachers don't have to do all of that work to figure out what they're going to teach over time it's all done for them they can focus on differentiation they can focus on engaging lesson plans another highlight of Envision though it is creating some tension it is very rigorous our students in grades six through nine are expected to be thinking more deeply about math more rigorously about math which is a little bit of an adjustment for our teachers but we know over time it's going to pay off we are slowing down a little bit with how we are engaging students in the curriculum teachers are getting a little bit more time to create scaffold and to figure how transition them in but it's it's to be expected anytime that you're implementing a more RoR curriculum there is always that adjustment period where where we're getting used to it and then as students as as soon as students adjust to that level U that's when you're going to see the payoff and student outcomes inning some of the other highlights of the curriculum are there's a lot of digital resources students can go into the program and take notes on their computer there's um personalized like AI supports in it a question they can ask access support to the online curriculum there's also some Spanish resources so implementation coaching is something we offer all of our teachers anytime that they're implementing a new curricula this is to help answer questions about both pedagogy the curricular resources to help guide plc's um to help answer teacher questions and concerns so all of our sixth through nth grade math teachers get at least two touch points a month to the enion and the building ping classrooms in addition we're doing implementation checkins uh one day per quarter where each grade so like all of the sixth grade math teachers will come and they'll sit with me and Monica and we'll problem solve with them we will give them some time to plan plan forward with the resources um so that's where we can troubleshoot any of the issues that are coming up school leaders are also assisting with Gathering data on implementation they're checking in with Math teachers we are problem solving together on a regular basis and I'm really happy to report that our q1 implementation data shows that we are right on track so all of our teachers are using theing resources most of our teachers are using vertical boards multiple times a week they are all using them at least once a week so for the first quarter of the implementation we are feeling pretty good about that and the energy from teachers is that they're very excited to continue using building people classrooms and even stronger at that um the last thing I'd mention is making that we are listening and responding to teacher voice so earlier this fall we sent out a survey to all of our sixth through nth grade math teachers to see how is a new resource feeling for you what are the sticking points what's coming up for you what suggestions do you have where are barriers and so there have been a couple Math teachers that I've gone to personally because they wanted a check in so I've gone to classrooms and talked with them just to see what was going on and just listen to their experience and solve problems and then we're also doing that in our implementation check when our teachers come in so really trying to cater that experience to what teachers need because we know it's a lift and we know that um our teachers are pouring their hearts and souls into teaching and we want them to feel like their voice is respected and it's heard and that we're being responsive so while we're not dropping any of the expectations we are adjusting our supports for teachers to make sure that they are getting what they need so that they can move forward with informations okay that's a brief summary there any questions I have a couple of questions actually um so my first question is I guess I'm lacking background on what ProMed all these changes like adaptation of Invision for example bringing back um are because what is what I'm seeing is you're increasing rigor with the younger classes 6 to9 but at the same time you're bringing back the curriculum and say the super advanced classes like Algebra 2 is not Lev three cost exactly so what is whated this of these changes and what are you expecting to see at the end you were asking the right question so now I'm going to Pivot to Monica I'm going to put you in the hot seat you were here when the team made these decisions and then I can add in the context that I have okay so in terms of rigor our Minnesota State Standards have changed tremendously um and so with Co and everything everything was pushed back and now they're going out all our new standards and so with the Minnesota state standards um the up and expectations is Du because we want kids being collaborative and and um thinking differently that it's transferable beyond the math classroom it's not about I've learned this formula and now I can repeat it it's not about mimicking what the teacher does it is about that idea of exploring that's more inquiry based and then the teacher comes in to to help support the misconceptions in terms of the scope and sequence which you're talking about is um math is the only our Minnesota is only one of four states that has algebra one by eth grade nationally it's organized as best practice but it is what we have in the state of Minnesota and so we were finding a significant number of aers relieving eldra one without the needs that they without their foundation and math and so what we did is we looked to other neighboring districts to say how do you roll out the math curriculum implementation and so a lot of times they take that algebra one and we we take it and we think about it in terms of what is attainable at an eighth grade level versus what is attainable at a nth grade level and really thinking about going deeper rather than faster and further and so that's how we went from elra on one and eth to intermediate algebra and 9th so it's kind of that that year so taking what was super cramed not super successful for like at least 3% of our population and thinking about how we look at math differently to go deeper and not faster and so that's why you see that algebra too so what will happen is Algebra 2 and you would go into FST which was essentially taking Algebra 2 over two years what they were doing is we're phasing FST out so that's um I just forget it function statistics and trigonometry why we call it FST call it's a big one and we're actually taking FST and adding that to algebra one adding a you know so FST is kind of spread over like three courses to make attainable and meaningful for kids that help yeah no for sure when are you expecting to see change like change but like when are you expecting to see students become stronger at math in terms of like this is 2027 but so this does start K5 so it usually takes three to five years of an implementation for any curriculum no matter what the content for us to really see the difference and benefits because it's not only a shift in what we're asking students to it's sh what we're asking teachers to do and so that is that's I would say so you have two variables that are working together and so our K5 programming that rolled out this year is doing the same thing buing thinking classrooms is embedded into that curriculum as well so what we're seeing are very young students doing it's going to make it that much easier once they get to middle school and high school so I you can add that to that would yeah I think we expect to see a difference in standardized test data in we expect to see other inal changes by the end of the year so like in the quality of student discourse and math classes I think that is something that we would expect to see here pretty quickly students using academic vocabulary to solve problem students generating their own questions and solving their own problems without teachers so those kinds of mathematical thinking we would expect to see this year at a higher level but in terms of a standardized test we'll see that in a couple years thank you guys for the concept this makes sense question my last question was with Envision itself and I saw that you guys said that it has a lot of Spanish resources in it it does yeah my question is how expansive are the ml's resources as a whole like could a student who isn't in um generalized curriculum but like their other peers but there the ml Tri for example could they completely rely on the Invision um platform to like learn that and learn the same so oh that is such a great question so in theory It lines up with all of the skills it is a direct translation of English material so there would need to be some teacher interaction I think the other it's not adaptive so you would still need some instructional component because there are some of those online programs that are personalized and adapted to the user and so you only need to have the individual user and the computer and it will do all the instruction pieces for you and vision doesn't go home that far so you would still need some teacher support to curate resources you do that direct instruction with so just to pigy back On's questions we talked uh in some Link at the district advisory council meeting through some of these details and I think we may have even watch the video at our last development session where you know listening to kids actually having fun doing that but to piggy back on your question I think it was really important something we talked about particularly in the K5 space where homework isn't necessarily gr home right uh and so how are we measuring success because I'll excuse myself for example I can't do new math I I learned it the old fashion with right and so I'm not even equipped to even support a student but if my student is to my home with homework how do I measure like what success looks like and I guess and we may not have that fully baked yet but is it fast Bridge how are we measuring success in the classroom when this is all kind of evolving both of the educator and the student are we measuring success in the math class yeah uh well I think there are there are assessment strategies baked into the curriculum they've got some concept checks and so we would hope that through their formative assessments and then the summative assessments so all of our grade six teachers are using the same subm of Assessments and then you'll see it reflected in grade book and we would hope that teachers and parents are communicating regularly through the grade book about how students are doing I think also you know giv students in the moment and so that's part of when we get kids up and moving and collaborating so math is much I mean it should be a noisy classroom math classroom should never be quiet and that's a shift um and so it is you know infusing those AFL and DP strategies into the daily work devel developmental designs is another student engagement student engagement um but I think that it is going to be a shift for families too because the back in the grading is going to ultimately look a little different with the exception we will still have concept checks we will still have exams and then obviously our state testing that we can use as a a dipstick but not an absolute taking more the cont of being proactive than waiting for the test to come home and be what happened right really more that space But yeah thank you no I think those are good questions and I think it's questions we we think about especially at adolescence um not just for ma but for all of the contar what's the right dosage of how do we do that really good question so are all the math teachers six12 going through some sort of training right now for this implementation or is it following the phased in approach um of when they would start implementing it in their class question it is following the phased approach so right now it's just the sixth through nth grade teachers that are getting implementation coaching and then next year will be our Algebra 2 and our geometry teachers that are getting that implementation coaching building thinking classrooms that ped that ped can't say pedagogy say that like it's late um M isn't working that we offered to all Math teachers last summer um we're going to offer it again this summer for those that either need a refresh or that would weren't able to attend as like a introduction to and we're hoping to offer a second dat for those that have delved into it are ready to go deeper Beyond just the vertical spaces and then tie that into their curriculum adoption as well and we'll keep cing back so how many are going through it like right now What's the total number of teachers that are in that are in the implementation right now I mean is it is it 12 is it 24 is levels probably 2ers 24 however that's not the exhaustive LIF of teachers that participated in the building thinking summary that's just the implementation support that's coming by Mon and so will that number be consistent then as we continue to roll this out throughout the different school years or will that number get smaller it will change it will be smaller next year yeah yeah because there's fewer courses that are are going to be so there's a lot more maybe right now than maybe what there will be next school year and the following school year is that kind of what I'm to say I think um in theory depending on who you are and what courses you're teaching so if you're a geometry teacher this year the lift is light because you're not doing anything different but if you teach geometry next year then that is have year and I would say like when you think about our Middle School teachers are teaching accelerated courses so we're going to roll out geometry and Accel geometry at the same time in m in high school so we're hoping to face it in as much as possible but there might be some double ups for some teachers just due to what they teach it would be really interesting to be in the classroom and watch this as a math guy just to see how different it is because my big fear is so what if it doesn't work what if kids are falling behind math You' mentioned 30% weren't that didn't really get it before what if it's 50% 5 years from now we don't know what is your what's the goal it was because you had mentioned earlier 30% just did not really get with the old system correct that's with right yeah so what what number do you want to see that 30% turn into zero yes zero what's realistic what if it what if it is 50% all at once so I I do think that we have got brilliant teachers that are paying very close attention to student learning and we're also looking at quarter one grades and that principl and teachers in us are having and so if we have reason to believe that this is not the right course then we will course correct however all science point to yes we are having the normal bums with implementation but what our teachers are seeing from the building thinking classrooms pedagogy is worth it and they are all eager to continue they're so excited about this they are loving it what I get excited about is we one of our coaches went to chasa to observe a building thinking classrooms in chasa and she's convinced and I'm convinced that we can be one of those districts where everybody is coming in to observe us do building thinking classrooms because our teachers are so excited and fun into this I think it's beautiful opportunity i' would love to sit in the class come join me I just let me know and if it's not you know every every Wednesday morning let's do it do it join I think what is so powerful about the pedy especially if you think about students who have a lot of experiences with failure with math you don't think of yourself as but this is an opportunity for students to reclaim that identity as a scholar because you can't just sit passively in the back of the class and pretend to take notes right and tune out like you are physically engaged well I think with math I think a lot of it has to do with confidence because sometimes and I have a spouse that might have a I'm not any good at man so they've already they're they're defeating themselves and we get more people being confident in any kind of mathematical skills that's part of part of the solution and it is really grounded in the conceptual understanding that that this if I don't know the formula then I can't complete it at a certain time and this is about shifting that about you know really understanding what is conceptually happening and then naming so sorry I'm laughing at that because I could look at a word problem know the answer I couldn't figure out the formula but I knew the answer right so it that's what it's getting TOS that you can look at it and figure it out you don't need a formula where I think in historically we've relied on oh so I could have passed the math right now sweet but I also think you're on to something there with the confidence because I also think that those students previously that sat in the back of the classroom just took the notes that might be a little bit more shy was afraid to ask for help they didn't understand it and they just continued to fall further and further behind because they didn't have that confidence to ask for help well now as part of small groups and getting that real practical experience that you have other students that are helping them and with their understanding and maybe can speak their language a little bit more than maybe what the teacher can yeah um I I think it's it's a also a confidence booster from a self-esteem perspective um to be able to advocate for yourself and to say to be you know not afraid I don't get that how did you get there because I think you have a better connection with maybe I would have a better connection if I was working with Tim versus you know you if you were the teacher um because it's somebody that I know and friend or or what the peer-to-peer learning is so effective right and I I want to say we watched the the video the one that we watched at The District Council we may have watch that um in a previous board meeting as well but it it speaks to both what you and said and when the students get up and they get to walk around because they're literally you know with uh the dry race markers to see how they work through that and everybody gets to see called that problem solving technique there was a student that said good at math you don't have to if you if you're good at problem solving then you're good at math and it was like uh very uh transparent very um freeing for those students who otherwise would would struggle now felt equipped uh not afraid to fail if you're looking that way and your spot on with appear to be R you know building up a personal experience completely I think advocating to teachers about yourself is such a skill that you need to you know get as soon as you get into High School come into high school because curriculum gets Advanced and obviously teacher expectations are up there and you want to be proving yourself every chance you get um and I think this you know curriculum change has a lot of potential in making sure that students actually reaching out and connecting with teachers on a personal level that a lecture based scenario wouldn't give them a lot of opportunity to do like they're actually you know they're almost forced to like ask a teacher as the teacher walking around looking at every white that I'm struggling with this particular concept so I think I personally really like that that opportunity that it comes with this and thing about m is it all builds upon itself so if you if you if there's something in seventh grade you don't get you might just never get it until you come to sh School we're going to identify that L you we're going to provide an intervention we'll make sure that you're and you know what if if that if that is the case and you get more kids confident in math and and everything that's that's great I think yeah it's definitely our hope I wouldn't say we're there yet but it'sin all right well thank you very much s mon thank you all right next on our agenda is item 8.2 achievement and integration plan approval I'm here to present from football field now to learning teaching Equity supervisor rayon thank welcome R thank you for having me I was hoping you're coming with your white Vis I like that I know we coaches said we're going to go all black you know we dark SK El so the kids can see me you stand all right so um here to report on our U integration and achievement integration update um we want to make sure that each and every student reaches their greatest learning potential and that's something uh Mr red says to us all the time right always that that is our this is who we are in the district right um so we our goals were um number one make sure each school is a welcome in place you guys see the Welcome Center out there you see the improvements that we made there on all our families um and our students when they walk into schools to feel the same way it's a welcome place for all um having enrollment in our most challenging courses be representing our student body improve our graduation rates eliminate racial disparities and then a high quality learning experience for each and every student um something I talked about last year uh it's a partnership that we do with Jordan and Prior Lake which is now expanded to Lakeville and Burnsville Public Schools as well it's our carrying committed conversations we do this three times a year it's about student voice um this year our we we did it in October um Jim was able to come and and witness a little bit of it as well we had World Savvy come and um they they partnered with us um for our caring committee conversations um it was about like you know Global competence um helping these kids thrive in an interconnected um world you know and um was they really open up these kids um to reimagine education in the future you know they might you know questions such as um you know what would happen if gave you $10 million to bring to your school what would you do with it and you got to get deep with it um Imagine School with no Bells uh what would that be like you know what if there's no homework you know what about grades you know and just getting kids to really think about you know why what what is the reason they're in school and you know and just reimagine you know if somebody thought differently about school and um and and I think kids when they leave out of there just go wow like that that is that is different so get him to think about SCH so really like that um when it comes to making our school more welcome you know we got our family engagement nights um you know when we did this school when we first started the school three years ago uh you know we just put it from zero to 50 um two years ago we had we had over 100 families and this year we had over 175 families attend family engagement nights um it's something that our CFLs um have have done a really good job of getting the message out um to our families regarding these nights um we've got someone designated in in our department that also helps with those kns in y of old which I'll talk about him a little bit later as well um and then we talk about our goal to increase our percentage of teachers of color um from 1.7% in the fall 20 2019 4 and spring of 24 we quite didn't get that got up to 3.67 but um if you look at the things that we're doing um you know we partnered with u that's myself and I know we showed you this picture last year Clayton Ellis Jordan Allison uh partner with black men teach um along with masassa and we've got the BR your own Grant and it's nice to hear we've got three just people from our department Evelyn Hernandez um Anna Doo and Yaya who are in our Ro your own program right now in our first year um y will be done at the end of the spring and be a full- pledge teacher in the fall which is awesome so you'll see that number go up um I love to grow your own because um the adults kind of know uh our district they got those relationships not only with um staff uh but with with the students and kind of know the system and how and what we're doing and and how the changes and things that they see from their lens or some things that's are going to change in their teaching and things like that to really help out our students as well as our families um next was U have enrollment in our most challenged courses um 14.8% of our students in Shaka are black 99.1% of those students in 6 through 12 are enrolled in accelerated courses we'd like to see that discrepancy at zero um so the discrepancy is currently at 5.7 percentage points if you look at last year it was seven uh percentage points away so we did move in the right direction uh with our Hispanic students it was 16.5% of our students were hispan our Hispanic 6.8 um were enrolled in accelerated courses which gives us a discrepancy of 9.7 which is um down from 10.1 so U moving in the right direction slowly but we're moving in the right direction and then we look at our graduation uh rate with our our Hispanic students which is our highest demographic of students of color in our district and the first one that you see here is our in 2023 our district Bo which included the TLC um our goal is to increase the graduation rate from 62.4 in 2019 to 73% by the spring of 2024 um in the in that District cor along with TLC we're at 67.6 shows you the trend for for the fiveyear trend since 2019 if you go to the next if we go with just the high school alone uh we're at 75.6 so we did increase that way but and the base goal is 85% graduation rate 85 and we're 75.6 so um just got to keep continuing I mean I can start I I think diversity you know as a woman of col I think diversity is so so important and you know it often gets thrown around as a bus where like oh diversity is important to our district but I love the action plan that's you know laid out here and the fact that you're recognizing that these are strengths but these are things that we have to improve on and we have to improve on the way um I guess I have I I guess one one of my thoughts is instead of just like reaching out to current students at theol have you considered reaching out toiz that have already graduated from sh and they're like oh these are the experiences I wish I'd had more act sh in terms of like activities or just curriculum that they're being taught in General Life classes because I know like for example AP and CIS they have a very um direct approach that's you know monitored by national National organizations view of them but focusing on General Life classes um year um we did videos uh of kids that are either graduating or kids that were a year out of school uh to come back and speak um about their experience um as a student color in shaky schools um and they were able to talk and we had them all over from kids that uh maybe just got here when they were in seventh grade maybe just got here when they were in third grade just talk about their experience um from an education perspective uh clubs Sports things that they can get involved involved in um we use it for our teachers to look at but um you're correct we should get that out to our our our students into their careers as well something that we should do um how is the how is the Outreach happen to families of color like how are you reaching to say you guys should be participating are your ways to participate more within school or take more challenging classes yeah a lot of times it's with it's in our family engagement nights um with our our our Cultural Family Aon getting that message out there another one is with those um uh caring committed conversations we we try to really bring get those kids from all the different districts and when you come and you sit and you talk about your experience and your accelerated course right we all we always leave those meetings about everything that we talked about here this is not a closed meeting like we want you to take this and bring it back to your District find the the leaders of your different groups your organizations and get this message out here about the things talked about so that's something that we go through hopefully they go home you know if you're like me I don't know my parents sometimes you ask hey how was your school day you know when if a kid can say Hey you know how we did this you know tell me what that's like you know what I mean so things like that word of mou it's always but with the parents how we get it out there is email um phone calls engagement nights um you know parents getting uh families to involved that are that that we normally do not see at engagement nights not even it's the gate even open houses you know like hey we have an open house we'd like you to get here um you know we can provide some food and some things learn more about our our district and what we can provide extra besides just sitting in the classroom what is some other things we have going on in school in our district which are a lot of different things by May so and I think se you asked the right question and as I'm thinking through this really the parents obviously it's just communication if we talk about the vision students develop an agency for their own learning what what might be some of the barriers for students that are choosing not to take some of those accelerated classes uh and maybe I'll turn it back to our student school board members we talk about peer-to-peer learning what what advocacy can you put together you know as hey you know uh you'll get much more out of your school experience you know by taking some of these challenging courses are the barriers real or are they perceived what are your thoughts you know Joe you mentioned you said your wife how she said I'm not good at math and she just gives up right right this the same thing with some kids right as soon as you say accelerated course what they think automatic hard too much it's a lot it's going to be a lot more work and and they don't see the benefits right right and so they automatically just know right and so it normally takes a peer takes teacher to say hey I see this in you and you can do it you know I'd like to hear what you would like to say about this as well I I completely agree with that I think for a lot of students Unfortunately they have this like mental barrier that I feel as if I won't be supported in this class um or just that I won't be able to you know succeed in this class and which is why I feel my energy will be better in this you know easier class and I can focus on the other things in my life but I also think a lot of that comes like you guys said from the teach the teacher has to literally sit down with the kid and say I believe in you and I know you can do it and it doesn't even have to be a teacher it it needs it should start ideally with the like parents coming and sitting with a kid and ask telling the student that you should go further and challenge yourself further but a lot of the times obviously you know families they they either aren't aware that their voice can make that much of a difference or they don't have time which is why I think teachers and staff members and school really need to take that opportunity and go in and which is why be so so important to have you have to see yourself represented in future careers and teachers are right there in front of you as you know future successful yeah and I think some of our kids always always hear them say like they're the only one in there of color sometimes and it and sometimes they feel like um and it's just what I'm hearing from kids you know uh they feel like a token or like you know you're only in here because they needed you in here to help with the number like how did you get in here you know and some kids it makes some kids feel you know some type of way and they don't you know so they tell that story and some kids go W don't want to be in there you know what I mean um but I think we just got to keep pushing it you know what I mean but that is some of the messages that I hear some sometimes just like math does come down to confidence right and and if if you believe in yourself and you believe that you can do anything you can disguise and it's just getting to kids and saying you believe in you and and it's it can be that simple and when you get a I think when you get a teacher that you trust and um that trusted adult says you can do it when they point you can do it you know and I and I'll be here with you like I've got you you know take that chance you know that that that that else as well I've said before I've love like a mentor program with kids who are in these accelerated classes speaking with kids in seventh and eth grade um of the of the same right saying you know I can do this so can you and and it can and and that can give kids confidence just G me a good idea I'll be on I also think that there's there's could potentially be the barrier of the parents not having to have that experence or that opportunity to take some of those classes um and not knowing what to encourage their students to take because they didn't have that um experience and they may not know what all these accelerated classes about to encourage your student at home to take them and as a parent of someone that was at the high school a few years ago I had no idea what they were registering for or they did that all themselves my son did so I mean I wasn't like you should take X Y and Z the kids just kind of did it themselves and so I wonder you know parent involvement is important but when you come to registering for classes and encourage them to take those accelerated how much parents really are involved in those especially when they get to the sophomore Junior and senior and years to to kind of build off of that I mean for me personally like my parents are like barely involved with it's all it's like Mr students learning that they can take agency of Their Own of their own you know future plans might own that you want to be successful but all of that has to add some point even if it's like super early on on in their academic Journeys in for his second third grade a teacher has to sit down and tell them that I believe the can do it and they have to feel that confidence at an early on stage to know that they can go forward in middle school and high school and actually take advant all the opportunities that our district has to offer thank you next in our agenda is Communications annual update and here to present is our director of communications and strategic development Tiffany Olson welcome Tiffany good evening um my goal tonight and similar to actually this time last year when we presented an update this is the second time that we're doing this and from a department perspective you know you'll have talent engagement in front of you technology provides a report you have Community Ed and then obviously the great work being done by other departments and to support our building so this is meant to just be a very high level here's our annual update there's my disclaimer if you want to geek out with a Gant chart I would love to do it Sarah has enjoyed some with me I know that Jo would enjoy it we have all those little details but the intent is not to give that tonight um because we can certainly go on and give you a whole list of all the great things that uh we attempt to do to share the communities work and by we I mean more than Communications just our district but we just want to give you uh kind of a snippit of what we're focusing on as a district so that you feel comfortable with the direction that the district is taking um you saw this last year when it comes to Communications again it's not a department um there's a lot of uh strategic decisions and actions and we've also worked really hard as a leadership team to ensure that those that are closest to students or supporting those that are so our building leaders understand that they are communication Hub as well and the more information that we can share internally in addition and externally uh only helps further what we want to do so again and students are at the core of everything we do sha and everyone else always the core of what we do we'll gain some high level hopefully understanding of what those goals are we've talked about the one brand the one district and we really try and ensure I mean this is 101 I I can look at Christy here living in the marketing and communication world this is 101 but it's really hard as a school district and any large entity to live up to this really commend our team in the past years of really trying to operate by this without losing those personal connections or things that make each department School whatever that may be you know unique in home to each one of those um from a Communications perspective I'd be remiss if we didn't uh make a note to the audience because we can talk about things and strategies all day long but at the end of the day it's not about what we wanted who we connected to so the information on the slide has been updated to the most current using information actually through November of of this year of this month uh you can I mean you know our student numbers you see the enrollment data that JY presents but when you look at the breakdown of that if you look at uh four down in the paragraph there we have over 670 District households that speak Spanish you can see the breakdown for Somali and other languages other than English so from a perspective of who are we communicating to we have to ensure that we're being very Equitable in the information that we're sharing out and with that is also the percentage of households that have one or more child or children in our district so you can see that breakdown as well we hover around that 40 to 50% Mark uh and it's important too because when we think we're just communicating one topic we have many where you're getting information from multiple levels because you have kiddos in multiple levels and that's something that we take into account um thanks to the chamber County uh city of shaki they do a great job of ensuring we really understand the community that we operate in you can see um the uncertified numbers here from July 2023 and the growth that we're experiencing here the um global companies you know being on the chamber board it's outstanding to see all the members that join and things that Michael kiry and others are doing to make sure that we not only retain our current Community or get students to come back and work here that we attract those from outside the area when we look at visitors bureau you'd be surprised about how many folks are coming from Lacrosse Wisconsin and North Dakota and South Dakota and what we get from that quote unquote River s area and they're really looking to also have them live and stay here which is important for our district to know and you know also when it comes to the Shak PD things that we're doing from the Safety and Security side um I definitely am excited to tout a lot of that because that does have play a role and impact our um our school community so really the the meets of this presentation and I'll open it up for any questions is really what we did is take the compelling vision and broke it out by each of the three statements that are in there just to give you a taste for what does that look like from a Communications perspective so with changing until our systems measely work for each and every students the three examples and obviously this is not fully comprehensive or I'd be here for way too long um um but really break it down to the high quality communication that's empowering our families the targeted student communication especially among our secondary students uh I think it started with Co at least when I was here where there was just a large opportunity identified by a great student um who's doing wonderful things that just said you know we don't know what's going on and at that time it was operational but you know you're talking to our Guardians our parents but we want to know this information and we took that intentionally outside of Co of we need to make sure that's actually part of our Communications plan is having dialogue outside of classrooms with our secondary students and those that have the ability to to digest that and also just tailored communication strategies I mean you looked at the diversity in our school districts uh you look at the families that we have we have to Target the communication so it's the right method format easily digestible and I think that's a way that we're trying to have our tactics match the compelling Vision there with the second part from a high expectations and support um you know we see our department of 1.75 that huge Department that we have um but everyone is is running really Slim because they want to put all the money into the classrooms into those that are closest to students and we want that interdepartmental collaboration and also with the wonderful HR team that we have of retaining the right Talent attracting the right Talent so you can see in order to do that we've identified from a communication standpoint a lot of our actions are based upon fostering these two uh elements here and then lastly with just the quality core instruction and agency I loved hearing that Sean you mentioned that agency point of you know how do we do that well the big thing is the Community Partnership so from a Communications perspective that's a large part of what we want our goals to be is how strengthen that because they help provide those authentic experiences um how do we capture and showcase what's going on so that when it comes to Quality core instruction what does that even mean from a student perspective how can our families understand that some of the great information that was shared today how do we get that out uh and then it was great I think you read our mind Johnny about alumni engagement like we can't stop here and how do we make sure business partners those that are um moving how can we make sure that everything that we do connects to that there's a little snippet you have in front of you it's an adjacent topic but there was a great steering committee meeting that was conducted by the high school and you'll see an Academy's report packet in front of you here it was also uh in the wrap and that's where we're starting thanks to our counselors and high school team to actually look to what is that trajectory where students going how can we engage and that's just one of the many tools to do that um there's three slides I'm not going to spend any time on them but if you remember these this was from our 2024 Community engagement on feedback opportunity with thought exchange the reason they're on the screen here is this is some of the quote unquote data that we want to use to measure Effectiveness and obviously we want to make sure we get the right sample but that respect and pride uh that is one way that we're measuring the effectiveness of communications because that should go up if we're doing our job and sharing the things that are going on uh in addition to just where people are receiving the information are we being Equitable and are we going to them are we making it hard or easy to be engaged in our community and then just the general awareness and again awareness Pride respect those should all somewhat be uh connected if we are doing the right thing as a district um on the 2425 Department goals there was a great exercise I think I alluded to this earlier in the year that uh all departments had to just give three basic goals and you know I won't speak for Mike but he says three and then I come up with 15 and he was like will you just put three because it's marketing and Communications and I don't want to leave anything out and told her she can do the other 12 but I can't track those um and I just love that we all got to see as a leadership team you know what is what is Sarah wenberg and NCA doing what is Brian doing how are we all working to move the compelling Vision so these are very great specific Department goals I wanted to at least share these all align with things I just mentioned you can see you know if you want to get to a specific action it's a new website you know number three on there that's going to help attain all the things we talked about you can see some other pieces but at the end of the day this is just giving you a little taste for again when we talk high level what does that actually mean from attainable elements um Partnerships I think you're all very well aware especially with presentation that are given how strong our Partnerships are and it's just how can we keep capitalizing on that we've outlined some that are here and I'm very uh happy and fortunate to be involved in the chamber we actually have a four and a half hour development session on Thursday of just you know what do we want this community to know and be and how do we want to integrate and the school district has a seat at the table the city does most of our Academy Champions are actually represented there too and it's discussions like that that I think will continue to make our district just even more connected and successful from student learning experiences because we are part of the conversations rather than just an entity that's here and then I'd also be remiss if I didn't mention just the role of Crisis and safety Communications and the partnership I can't say enough good things about it's weird to call him Canon because I always said officer Christensen but uh that partnership has been so rewarding because we are taking action on communication elements that greatly impact um the Safety and Security of our school so the sample that you see here it might be hard to read everything but it's even the basic piece of building trust and easing fears in our buildings for our staff when we have a hold or a secure and people understanding what those really mean uh so that they feel comfortable and our school Community is familiar with Nationwide terminology so again we're partnering with an expert which is Canon who's bringing in other folks but then to communicate that hopefully for the betterment of our school community so you know your your kiddo doesn't come home and oh my gosh I was on a hold and you think it was something different on here when it was just perhaps a student that needed medical support and privacy and at no point was the school in any sort of danger and then the last piece from enrollment and Welcome Center Claudia Fuller is also someone I'd like to make sure you know I say her name enough because she's doing an outstanding job there's a full list of things on here and I said I wouldn't give you a list so I don't want to go against my word but from a communication standpoint we truly have the opportunity now to look at that forward facing engagement and that is a focus um for this year and Beyond of some of those items on there how can we further refine those systems those engagement opportunities um really excited you're going to see the read mobile uh it's going to be out and about with Shak be all involved in that and we're getting to underserved areas on a frequent basis there's just a lot of great things happening but I can say every single one of these things on here is happening because we have really good partners it's Scott County it's the Family Resource Center it's the Shak BP it's many other folks Ina and I just think that again it's us just simply making an effort to take advantage of great opportunities rather than having to to dig and find them and we wouldn't be in Communications if we didn't stay on top of Trends so of course AI is one in there there's social channels connections we're working on that podcast initiative I'm happy to share any of these in person I certainly don't want to belabor it here and be the longest speaker tonight I'm trying to go for shortest but um it is really great when you have a department of 1.75 there's a lot of things that we can do that for for two hours makes it look like we have a department of six thanks to Ai and it doesn't hurt the Integrity of what we're doing it's just simply you know capitalizing on technology that's out there I know chrisy you know that all too well when you have a small Department um and just really appreciative that we have the autonomy to be able to do a lot of these things without compromising the quality or Integrity of what's going on that was as quick as humanly possible as I could give that you know I could love to talk more but I'm happy to answer any High Lev questions or Mike or Jim if there's anything you felt that uh we left out here what were the other 12 goals again be a short career for me if I listed those right now well I'll just say that I mean our Communications is just from when I started on the board in 2019 to where we are today it is on this world I mean that that was one thing we were desperate to better communication with our community and the work you've done Tiffany since you've been here just been phenomenal from One Communications person to another I know the work and time that it takes and it takes time to build everything but you've done a fantastic job kudos to you and Amber for everything that created here it's fabulous I appreciate it it's still feels weird though because it's just it's a great Community it's a great thing to do I mean everyone it's just we kind of just run around capture and share what everybody else is doing so I think it's I owe a lot to this community and our teachers and I mean it's just so fun when folks get excited do you want to come film this this is what I'm doing what do you think that yeah absolutely we're GNA have a chef that's going to come rate all of the cakes and everything that's who's coming Jim again Andre yeah just Andrew Zim coming no big deal would you like to film it yes we would but I think you know I when I think about like Shaka being in the news where we were to where we are today was just everything your news to hear there's so many good things that are now being covered not that these I mean good things were always happening but it was just there were other things going on that masked it and we've certainly overcome that and just all the positivity that you know WCCO thing on the swim team those little things just Shaka is is more widely recognized of the place to be than it's ever been before and I hope it continues to stay that way I want to Echo what chrisy said you've also done it in an environment you basically had to re platform we lost the local newspaper right other other media channels so you've had to Pivot to try to continue that communication and find other other paths so just tremendous work thank you thank you I'm excited and Michelle to give us some pointers on how we can better connect with students and that they did a film crew I think they're going to be SP thank you everyone you Tiffy yes next on our agenda is an action item item 9.1 the American Indian education grant approval we have Justine Boo the American Indian education coordinator here to present welcome thank you good evening um chair Smith members of the board and Dr Redmond um thank you for having me back here again um I know in August we kind of went over my program goals and objectives for the year um so this is just a quick outline of the aid application um the American Indian education Aid and the program consists of six goals um one goal is supporting postsecondary prep for American Indian students um one example of that is college visits that I take students on um the second goal is supporting the academic achievement of American Indian students um how we do this with our Indian education program is having students meet self-identified goals in different areas so it could be academic goals it could be Behavior goals or attendance goals um our program's third goal is making curriculum relevant to the needs interests and cultural heritage of American Indian students um so for that that's where we have um the native group in K through 12th grade um and those consist of culturally re re relevant teachings um and this year I'm teaching basic Dakota and oig language in some of those groups as well um goal four is providing positive reinforcement of self-image in American Indian students and one way that we do that is our annual feather ceremony for graduating seniors and collaborating with other districts for our south of the river po uh goal five is developing developing Intercultural awareness among people's parents and staff and so those events consist of drum groups throughout the year um different events like our Native Pride event that is coming up this Thursday um where all fifth grade students are bused to the high school to to partake in that event um and then ribbon skirt making and other family engagement opportunities and then finally supplementing not supplanting state and federal education and co-curricular programs um so this program plan and budget is made in collaboration with the Native American parent advisory committee and then that budget is approved by them um it was unanimously approved in October with those committee members and now brought to you for your approval and feedback by yeah please yeah I would just EO the sentiment Justine's doing a great job the uh the parent advisory committee doing a great job this is easy for me to just say uh I completely support the aid application it's well done and it's uh going to serve our students well I love the rhetoric supplementing on supping and obviously Prov ask you how much yeah so it's 84,500 and that um that budget is based on our American Indian State identified students I would make I would make the motion to be approved byed second by do any further discussion see none all those in favor I I oppos motion carries thank you next our agenda is another action item item 9.2 course approvals and Sarah is back along with uh yes Z thank you yes take one Zach and I are here to very thoroughly but quickly review the courses we are proposing being add to the school year 20526 registration c um so the courses that we are proposing the new ones are in the left most column I'll quickly talk about the now and then we can go through more detail uh additions to the academy Pathways so US citizenship and government and economics are two new courses being proposed only because State Legislature is requiring that there's that separate citizenship and government course so right now it exists as a hybrid our proposal is to pull them out we have them live as two separate courses in the course catalog so that we can be in alignment with State legislation we are proposing the addition of an AP pre-calculus course so we already offer an accelerated preal this is a new course offering through AP it aligns very much with our existing accelerated pre-cal curricula it would make sense to offer this for our accelerated track as well and then we have a few additional elected yourbook journalism one and yourbook journalism two these are courses that were previously offered during the day it was changed to be an after school activity we're not getting as much student interest in the after school activity students want to be involved in courses during the day for yearbook so we're proposing that we re them back in and then we've Global business culinary for baking and P3 2 which are just expanding our Pathways I'm not going to go through all the course yeah additional updates for our core content area so secondary language arts there are no course changes however I want you to be aware that there are new Minnesota Ela standards the implementation year for these is next school year so right now we have groups that are meeting regularly the 912 articulation team is currently revising the current scope and sequence within the existing course model so not adding additional courses just changing some of the scope and sequence and possibly adding new texts if we are switching out any texts we'll have those selected by March 2025 for the 68 articulation team is going to select from a nationally published curricula they are very interested in paying attention to what K5 is doing and just continuing that build math we talked about that a lot already so I'm just going to bre through this slide secondary Social Studies are also new Minnesota State Standards implementation years schol year 2627 so the year after Ela right now we've got a 912 articulation team that is meeting they're going to collect they are going to select a new resource from a published uh nationally published curriculum they're also adjusting the scope and sequence and then next year the 68 articulation team will need to do this all right and I pivot to you with some updates on GNC B and caps so you're going to see a couple updated Academy grids so you can see in arts and communication really for the most part just simplifying some of the language around some of our courses in arts andc so you're seeing that music performance and production pathway just calling that intro course music production one and then having options for music production 2 or performance Studio at the intermediate level and then the Advance being creative professional music so having a call out of that music specific Advance course similar in video production intro course just calling it video production one uh then video production two and creative professional video then you can see some additional elective offerings there on the bottom so like Sarah mentioned bringing back yourbook journalism one and yourbook journalism two to have that as a during the school day option and then animation and game design also being offered as an academy elective and we'll talk a little bit more about this in a moment but our caps program just rebranding as caps Creative Marketing and Communications to align with our partner smsc who calls their Department marketing and Communications as well and then on the b& grid adding Global business as an intermediate option in the entrepreneurship and business management pathway so an opportunity to see things from a little bit more Global Perspective tax supply chain some things that we don't necessarily have in some of our other intermediate courses at the moment and then our culinary and bacon and pastry programs have totally exploded we have a ton of student interest in those areas we're starting to get some really good momentum with our proart program our students went to the national competition in prart with our culinary program last year so being able to expand some of the offerings we have there with bacon and pastry 2 and then culinary arts 4 as an additional elective goal with that culinary arts for program especially would be to get students connected up with some opportunities to start getting some of their hours out in the culinary industry to be able to earn their Pro certification and then last just caps program update our arts and Communications caps offering was formerly called caps Creative Media so rebranding that to caps Creative Marketing and Communications which is again the name of our smsc department that we work with and as our main host for that program and then Shifting the college credit opportunity in that course from graphic design with henen Technical College and changing that to social media marketing with Normandale Community College so they' get those three college credits and social media marketing along with their High School elective credit for taking that course and that social media marketing course just allows us some flexibility instead of being tied just directly to some of the graphic design software and things like that that our students would need to work with being able to see things with some graphic design some video some of the social media elements and content that's a little bit more all-encompassing with what's actually happening with our marketing and Communications Department with smsc have a quick question was there not a government and economics class that was required yes so right now it's combined instead of pulled out and the legislation said that we need have a dedicated citizenship and government course so it was a government and an economic class as the son of a teacher who used to teach government economics I was just wondering yeah so this what they had they had said they wanted a call out specifically so that the standards wouldn't get blurred or that report of the class kind and only one quarter would be citizens the spirit of legislation and and just one more comment I love these classes I just kind of wish I was 16 17 care when I but it just and the fact that accounting and cooking are in the same area is right I I agree these classes sound great do you do you have do you know in advance when you propose the classes do you is there student interest that that's been expressed in advance or are some of these you're just you just don't know till till people apply for them or register or we're anticipating student interest in AP pre based on all of the students that are involved in a current accelerated so that should be about the same and you a citizenship and government required so we got those hand I'm sure you are getting feedback from teachers about as far as the academy electives the yearbook journalism is a big one just knowing that we we need to get some things up and running that students have the opportunity to do during the school day so that's a big driver bringing those back because they were when we're on the seven period Day schedule they were during the day when we moved to the 4x4 block there started to be some scheduling things where yearbook might only happen one specific time of the year so that became tough so we moved it to an after school activity and we're seeing there's probably a need to be able to bring that back into a school day activity as far as our b& Academy we have culinary classes filling our culinary lab every single block of every single day so being able to get some additional offerings for students to go beyond the offerings that we have now we feel like will be a win for our students and that Global business class gives us something a little bit of an angle in business that we haven't taken in any of our other classes and that is our biggest Academy and one of theems that we see students also from otheres looking to take some classes there because there's just that cross cutting nature of business and all of our othery as well so we have a lot of students that take if they're in the b& academy they're not just taking that one three course sequence they're taking as many classes as they can fit in their schedule in that Academy so we feel pretty good about that being able to get up in in this year yeah I like the global business CL a lot of value to that can can we take it can we audit the class I want to audit accounting see how audit accounting yeah um thank you um see if I can pass W where is that well that's why you a then you don't get a right exactly so this is an action item um so we do uh I'll make a motion to approve we have a motion by alri and a second by broie any further discussion see none all those in favor I oppose motion Carri thank you uh next our agend is another action item item 9.3 approval of Sweeny playground project and Bill Bazi Director of Finance will present good evening um what you have before you is a recommendation to approve a Sweeney playground project so this was a a project that was discussed at the meeting before this one which was the finance and Facilities committee meeting you have in the agenda item the total estimated cost is $385,500 uh approximately $8,000 for shade trees is expected to be donated from The Sweeney PTO there is a ltfm um so deferred maintenance portion of that total project cost estimated that 5284 which would leave the remaining balance of approximately 332,000 to come from operating Capital so both the ltfm and operating Capital uh portion of the Sweeny playground project would be um in accordance with our ltfm and operating Capital long range plan um the details of the project were discussed by edet our manager buildings and grounds at the finance and Facilities committee meeting and so at this point I would just uh stand for any questions otherwise recommendation for approvement this is going to be done in the summer 2025 I have two questions for you um is this like the sunpath one that was just put in very similar to it very similar yeah with the board in play and some of that and so the other question I have is um in regards to is it just time for to be rep from aging out or what's the rationale behind the decision it has reached its end of life that's it's well beyond end of life Ed shared some statistics on how long playgrounds are expected to to last and and this one is well beyond it's it's useful life Ed usually says around 20 years and you know we didn't talk about this in the finance facilities but is there is there a requirement to have a playground I mean obviously it's used recess and practical reasons to have the space um it still cost money to you know divest or decommission the existing playground but this is just something that is is a good spend or is there anything that would mandate that building having the playground space well that's a good question I don't know that um requirements to have playgrounds at elementaries I'm not sure that answer that's a good question into that well what I would say is it's absolutely good practice it's good practice best practice and to have the variety and the the different kind of you know skills and muscle groups in addition to things that can be played on fields or other spaces and so it's good for vental wellness as a kid that you're getting outside and playing on the jungle that's the quality time El and we talked about sorry go ahead is this place the old one yes yes it will so is the 20 years the the existing playground and correct me finance and Facilities committee so I think the useful life that was shared by EDS of matter buildings and grounds was 20 years and I do this one is beyond its useful so I think it's over if 20 years is the number it's over that amount um we talk about Ed mentioned that they look they did a study in 2020 and then it was deferred as a result of our oby of the events related and so that was four years ago and so we're we're approaching years it's it's over it's it's overdue the top of the need list was Sun Path The Sweeney playground was next I think the other thing that I pointed out which is you know that safety material is that um yeah which is fantastic because now it's more accessible with wheelchair Walker those type of things to get to the different things rather than wood M and I think many of you seen the one at some path the use that gets during a school gr and outside of school I can make the motion to be approved second motion by Mohamed and second by valz further discussion see none all those in favor iOS carries next on our agenda is item 9.4 consideration to approve policies and board director Chad Johnson will present so uh two readings at this point now it's just time to we had a bonus reading so uh now is just time to uh approve so last chance for any questions about these I'll make ation to approve second motion by does is second by Muhammad further discussion see none all those in favor I oppos motion carries thank you ch uh next our agenda is another action I have 9.5 annual resolution establishing combined fing places and Dr Redmond yeah this this is simply an annual item that uh something we asked the board to approve uh towards the end of every year for the following calendar year which is necessary by Statute and again it doesn't you know we've uh we've done this motion and had this uh you know in place uh for a lot of years where we did not run any election but it's the case because in order to have a a combined polling place which in terms of especially in an off year if it's a time outside of a general election as you know the entire responsibility for running the election falls upon the school district and so just the practicality of having that combined ping place and having this you know in case it's necessary uh really just changed the dates from last year's resolution the combin Ping place still be shock us middle school hopefully it changed all the 202 24s to 2025 I think I got them happy to answer any questions otherwise we just recommend approval make that motion to approve second a motion by Peterson second by Aldrich any further discussion see none all those in favor is a resolution thank you for the correction it says resolution right here so I I could read it better too um Tiffany can you please do the role absolutely yes Peterson yes Smith yes alridge yes Johnson yesz yes Mohamed yes resolution passes thank you thank you for the correction all right this next one is not a resolution item 9.6 but it is an action item so we have to vote uh school board meeting calendar Dr redond and Tiffany can you pop up the document that is U says that's the one man here step ahead of me even as I'm thinking it it goes up that's well done uh I did put this in the wrap and uh at our board development meeting we shared uh a draft calendar to try to give you some time to see if there were any any changes anything and lo and behold uh we did run into that same sort of issue in October where the Ford NGL superintendence uh Council gets together would it would be on Monday October 20th and so that would entail you know most most likely both Jim and I being present for that uh and so throughout two options doesn't mean there's not a third or a fourth option that's even better uh for us to adjust the prior to approving it here this evening for next year for the meetings for the school board uh option A would would take the October the the meeting that was previously scheduled for October 20th uh the board meeting and moving it to Monday October 6th um you know and that you know we have some more space it's December September 15th board business meeting then an October 6th board business meeting uh then board development on November 3rd followed by a board business meeting November 17th that that calendar of events or schedule events certainly Works um the only other option that that seemed kind of possibly pragmatic uh which would would spread those dates out maybe a little bit more evenly uh would be to hold the uh board meeting on a Tuesday October 14th and not sure you know we're just trying to give you some thinking materials here uh I don't know that one is any better than the other I really have no personal preference um October 6 keeps it on a Monday that we know is an available date October 14th would move it to a Tuesday and that keep kind of the flow of meetings either one would keep a similar flow of meetings uh in terms of timing and spacing hoping you will select of those options or come up with a third option this evening as a step one step two then we would ask you to approve the school board meeting um we can then put things together for next year 15 September it's only in September similar to we did on the six I think would be the I'd like to keep it on Mondays having on the six is like three weeks and then four weeks that that seems logical I think so too I I agree with that I think that we have you don't have such a big gap then um in meeting dates um and it's better than having it on the 27th then it's just a large gap a week I don't know October 14th I think that's the week before Southwest Metro board meeting which is always Tuesday night but we don't have that calendar out yet and then there are some other looks other committees that would shift as part of this to looks yep they would all kind of move accordingly to kind of match up with that similar flow to what we've had but everything then stays on Monday yeah the ne of consistency keeping on M I don't have I will make a motion to uh approve option a um the uh October 6 board meeting I'll second that any further discussion seeing none all those in favor I post motion carries option A all right then Tiffany we did not rehearse this prior to the meeting oh can you click on option A on that uh that last place sorry I was a little slow on that and open that up and what we've done is we've move the option A into the uh official calendar the official calendar for 2025 is that what's next then we approve school calendar we yeah this would be to approve the uh the entire 2025 school board meeting calendar I know that we can adjust that but it lets us put the meetings in place starting with that organizational meeting and it's a you know with the exception of the change to October 6th and the kind of related committee meetings it's identical to what what was shared on November 4th it's early in the month sorry I'll make a motion to approve the 25 26 school year what are we on I think we're are we ahead one I think we're ahead one because no we just approved the October but we we haven't even talked about the next one why we're making a change for the school year this is just for the school this is School Board this is School Board this is School Board the next item the list is the school year calendar which is something completely different gotta this is what we're discussing our so the motion we we made a motion for the October 6th option and this is this is approval of the whole of the Schoolboard calendar not the district calar correct correct you picked October 6 instead of October 14 and now we've taken October 6th and put it into annual second motion to approve corre this and is that what we just did do we need to do it twice but we're not doing it twice we only approved the October change right yeah you basically voted for October 6 but not the whole calendar just simpli I'll make the motion then to approve the calendar with option A I'll second that's what I thought we were I thought so too so you moot you second we have a we have a motion by Peterson second by Aldrich any further discussion see none all those in favor I oppos motion carries thank you it's another calendar [Music] item so this is item 9.7 the 2025 26 school year calendar update Dr re this one uh this came to us uh from Dale Anderson our teachers union president via Andy ground our activities director and seems to uh you know be a great idea our high school has the uh opportunity to host a national speech meet and we are talking about not this year's school calendar but the 2526 school year student calendar and what we're asking the board to consider is to move a professional development day a no school for students day from May 1st of 2026 to May 8th of 2026 so that we can host a national speech meet on that date and uh certainly uh absolutely recommend uh it's a it's a small you know moving by a week uh really doesn't uh impact the the date of that professional development dat giving us the opportunity to host the the national speech me you know seems like a small price to pay if you will for an opportunity to do something of that magnitude so I would absolutely recomend opinion would it be cool to have a national speech meet [Music] spee and of course you guys are like more than welcome to come in and watch very ey opening I mean I love watching other categories and and I always come out of the like new information and knowledge my a actually was with the person that the recommendation that Shak host the national speech tournament or event all day on Saturday so we had a nice conversation that well now the only thing that stands in our way is the school board approving the rec is it just the eth or is it the eth nth and 10th or is it a couple of days or what is it's May one not May they moving the PD day to May right yeah I would assume it's probably multiple days um it should be I think it's May so I actually don't know what may oh May is a Friday they're both Friday Friday Saturday and then Sunday with the awards IDE so to keep the continuity that's why professional I believe we're hosting professional development school day for students building available so the event is May 8 I believe so or is it May 1 it's May 1 ACC the way it reads it's May no we're moving it to may may correct so that would mean that we are moving CL for that day oh I see no the me will be on the same date as my understanding stud to not be here just because of many students from outside of it's still an old school day just moving the professional it's great for all of Shan this is not just for their schools it's going to be a economic boom you can think for the entire city so I will make a motion to uh remove the uh from tral day for May 1st to May 8 2026 with motion by alation second by ro further discussion see none all those in favor I oppose motion carries that concludes our action items next is an information item item 10.1 student school board members progress update and Shia will present honestly what me and Michelle have been able to do in the past two weeks since our big meeting together is we've been networking like crazy with teachers at school I mean I personally have been I mean my goal has been so far is to sit down with teachers and tell them about you know what the school board is working on what and what we as student representatives to implement in terms of student voice and ask them about their opinions and things they're noticing with their students and things they wish um would be brought to the attention of the in terms of like student or student um in terms of equity among students and um just like from the perspective of students and so so far we have kind of tried to narrow down a specific set of questions that we want to reach out to different um student groups in the high school with um and these questions are focused on Equity whether they like feel um represented within the cul out side with other school activities and clubs and sports and how they feel like teacher relationships for example so that is you know the list we're still working on the questions and as SM to make it very open-ended and inclusive to all people or to all students and that is where we are right now we have reached out to Mr Brown the activties director and we're hoping to start to you know send out these questions to the student groups in the next couple of we um just so we can get data back from them in terms of feedb and see how do we want to add on the feedback because my personal goal is before Michelle we be narrow down on a top on a particular project that we want to that we want to see student representatives and CH and Implement in the next couple of years um one very specific project that um impacts a lot of you know the underserved students at school um throughout the different school buildings and really vocalizes and changes something that hasn't been brought to like yet so that is that is the goal with the student people that we're trying toct that is that is what we have so far I I love the the concept of building it forward and we kind of called succession planning board development meeting where you're equipping the the next student School Board member class to take the work that you've started and continue it so tremendous effort because it is is way too lofty to think that we will be able to make change happen in the next two years that I'm a representative like we want to set a foundation for um other student representatives to easily hop on to it and like make and like further and P as efficiently as they can we want to make sure that we give them a good foundation for that I love the selflessness of that it's not about your achievement it's about it's organization scho SE are you senior or Junior I'm a junior right now good thank you sh next our agenda is item 11 committee reports and other information uh let's uh start with Tim uh we had financing facilities uh prior to this meeting so we don't need to unpack that again and I did attend the dist advisory council meeting we got to dig through some of the curriculum and look at all that fun math and so that was also discussed here so tomorrow have board meeting um hopefully you are all receiving the communications that are coming up from southest Metro um everybody should be on that list if you're not getting them let me know but I think that helps give a little bit more insight into the programs going on there um just one thing to note that we did have a recent resignation of our executive director Business Services um his last date is the end of this year so the job's been posted and hopefully we'll have somebody hired um to fill that go before um just obviously busy with state tournaments right now Friday's uh my football day and then up for that and then just get ready for Del assembly which is the first weekend in December for Ms so a board meeting prior to that that starts on that Friday as well so just lot of stuff going on thank you had to find out some facilities but um tonight uh attended the uh the mountain bike Team banquet last night um a lot of awards a lot of personal records uh so that will be that'll be in Andy Brown's presentation for activities coming up so looking forward to that uh and got my tickets to see Guys and Dolls so looking forward to that Joe Jeff already mentioned finan and Facilities uh we just went over everything that uh the audit and the uh the playground um the audit took went into a little bit more depth um but yeah that's all I have ch Community engagement we haven't met since we last gave an update on that um but I've been about yeah next week we're going to need um so um we're we're trying to find uh somebody like a you know a leader type person within the Somali community that we can connect with um to come and um talk with us at one of our meetings so um Mohamed provided a name so I reached out to that person um just recently might have been yesterday morning or something Emil so I haven't heard that quite yet but uh hopefully that works out um other than that uh was at the football game on Friday and the Middle School play before that so out about a little bit weed I tiet football game so just really trying to get out more in the community and enjoy these um I just shared with you um good news my person now um I have been selected uh to go um nonprofit uh leader leaders they select about 20 every year so I'm one of them so I will go I will start January and finish uh June and to teach us a lot of stuff about media uh the story tell and um some um Finance Management so I'm excited and I get that Friday and also I like to share with you community resource center they are doing fantastic work in the community they um trained 30 students so three student drop but six um 27 they got their credential uh medical V certification from the naal um others Cisco um so I'm very happy you know for the FY uh we have this morning uh F checking monitoring from the state and I like it you know how we did things thank you sh um I mean I don't have more updates I'm excited for guys and dos this weekend my thank you Jim I would just say in addition to the Andrew Andrew Zimmer visit we have a legislative visit along with representatives of proart will be visiting our um our culinary program on Wednesday Tiffany I just have a couple quick shout outs I just want to make sure both sha and Michelle just the death that they're going to and how serious they're taking their role asud SCH members and governance I would not want to to anybody else they just doing some really awesome things so I just love love that dialogue and I'm glad they let me be a part of that and then when um Ray shared and grow your own we are actually filming the next week some of his classroom time at so we will have a spotlight just on that Evolution so hopefully it can Inspire others and as Justine shared we have a great event that you have coming up on the next item of upcoming events and also Canary signing that you approved in the previous Mee to support attendance for thank you Dr re no just Echo all the great things that have been shared and thank everyone for for their time and commitment to uh putting students first thank you everybody um next on our agenda is upcoming meetings and important dates which is up on your screen um anything we should uh focus our attention on of all the great things we have going on there probably just those two this week and Mike always loves company at coffee with the superintendent so don't forget about him on Thursday morning thank you and Michelle I should know what chair Smith Michelle is not here tonight because she is in her mandatory rehearsal for Guys and Dolls so I know she would appreciate support with that I would entertain a motion by Peterson second by Johnson any further discussion all those in favor I oppos