like to call to order the Shaki public school regular business meeting for July 27th. Tiffany, would you please >> here? >> Johnson >> here. >> Aldridge >> here. >> Peterson >> here. >> Broy >> here. >> Valdez >> here. >> Here. >> Brian >> here. and Claire here. >> Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Yes. Welcome to our new addition to our board, our student school board member, Clara Soft. So, welcome to your first official meeting tonight. Thank you. Happy to have you with us this [snorts] evening. We will roll into our Saber Pride and Tiffany Olsen, our director of communications and strategic development, has some summer saber highlights for us. >> Sure, if Peterson's okay if I share from over the spot. Uh, so we have an infographic on here. This was not developed by AI. Just so uh Amber can feel good that she gets the credit she deserves of some of this on here. Uh lots going on. You can read it at your own time. We also have it on social media. But just wanted to take a few minutes as part of our saber pride. We usually have students and community members, staff members, teachers here. Uh a lot of those folks are getting the the rest and relaxation they need or they're out traveling. But there are a lot of folks that are doing a lot of great things. uh and just attempted to summarize just a snippet. Um you know, we had to be a little quirky with it as a summary instead of summary. So you guys can all laugh and said about that. That was that was not intentional. But there's a lot of great things happening that's going on in our school. We've already had presentations uh prior to the end of school from the targeted services team. You'll see in the upper leftand corner about the summer learning programs that are going on that you have from first all the way to 12th grade. Um, we also have things specific for our newcomers. Those are in grade ESY, uh, and EASA camps. You'll see that staff number there, and that's definitely a 225 plus. That's excluding standard year round staff, but we have folks that are going in specifically to support summer learning. And that's everywhere from food services, the custodians, the clerical staff, para educators, you name it. Uh there's lots of other fun facts on there, but this is the first year we have um the Reed Mobile through Scott County Library that's partnering with Pearson Early Learning Center and also our welcome center here. and they're going to communities uh bringing some of our CFLs with them and trying to ensure that not only they have information for enrollment, but that we are screening kiddos as you know with your Scott County joint meetings that you have getting those done early and being able to support students early is very important for education. So you can see that around and that combined with what Pearson already does, they're at 60 plus screenings as of June 1 uh to today of what they consider summer screenings. Kinder camp is coming up next week. So I know uh when Dr. Redmond uh said hi to Clary said, you know, school year has kicked off. That's kind of how we feel, too, with all these great events. Uh the meals is great. David and his team and and Molly. Uh 2,675 free meals. That's that 10 to 12:30ish over at Pearson. Any kiddo from 0 to 18 can partake in that as part of that summer meals program. And then there's other fun statistics that you'll see on there too from community education. Um the folks approved a wonderful lawn mower and you can see that it's maintaining about 200 acres of grass that's out there. Um, Saber Strength is great. That number, I just want to call that out. There's some great partnerships. There's over 450 students right now, including alumni and about 130 middle schoolers that are doing offse, or just general training through a saber strength program at the high school. There's all sorts of partnerships that are going on right now, whether it's through the science crew, STEM reading, we have books for summer, uh, so many great things just to try and stay connected. um in addition to good news whether it's Lexi Tippy, uh Special Olympics, football prospects, all of that. So, it's just a snippet. Um I would love to have had all of these folks that are part of this show up for this, but this was just to hopefully kickstart the year and all the good news that we have. And I'd be happy to to open it up to the board as well. We just talked as a chamber board last week on Thursday and I shared in the wrap some of the great things that are going on in the community from a development standpoints as far as, you know, trying to bring in more business, trying to connect the community and there's definitely that sense of, you know, let's all work together the best we can. So hopefully that's the Saber project field here. But again, we open it up if anyone else wants to add a a little snippet of your Saber summary. Well, it's hard to believe that we're only a little over a month from school starting. So, I don't know when the summer went, but definitely a lot of activities and events. And I think you could just tell the community coming together just with all these different events, but you go to Rhythm on the Rails and the amount of community members that continue to participate in the heat and all the challenges that they might have had this summer. And just to have the run for a little caramel I think on Sunday. >> They do. Yes. >> So just all the participants have been involved in that and just Yeah. just awesome. >> And there's a one on the bottom left there. You've seen from a board perspective multiple times, but we'll be have a ribbon cutting soon for the safe roads school projects. You have some path. You have Sweeney that has the majority of it high school. some of that obviously coming out of funds from the district of grant and partnership with the city as well. So, a lot of good things that are in motion that you're seeing and the city is doing a great job of trying to share some of the enhancements they're doing from lighting to the brown belts and and everything else. So, lots going on for sure. fishing team. I think we have some state contenders >> for which one? >> Fishing team. >> Fishing. Oh, fantastic. >> Yeah, I saw that contenders for state and couple other fantastic team's been very successful since it started up. They do some great things. >> Yeah, I've seen some pictures that hurt my feelings. [laughter] >> There's some nice fish. any other saber pride look forward to seeing otherwise just kind of basking this and I'm excited to have folks come in and share more of that as we progress into August in the school year. >> Well, I'm impressed that you're able to capture all the statistics and put this all together. That in itself is a lot of work just to measure what's going on. >> Well, if you notice so that David would approve them and Dr. Redmond, they're rounded. There's >> Oh, right. >> So, that's we get into levels of signal. is not most of us. [laughter] >> Let's be precise. >> We have one saber alumni starting his first NFL training camp >> as well. >> Oh, yes. Correct. Yes. Thank you. No further questions. Appreciate being able to share >> the world champion. >> Thank you, Tiffany. Yes. >> Moving to item four on the agenda, which is the consideration of the agenda as presented. >> I'll make a motion to approve the agenda. >> Second. >> Have a motion by Aldridge and a second by Roie to approve the agenda as presented. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. >> I. >> Oppos? Item five on our agenda this evening is our public comment. This is a time 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 pertaining to the school board business. We've allocated a total of 15 minutes for public comment at this meeting. Each individual speaker may speak for up to two and a half 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. So we will move on to the next item [clears throat] on the agenda which is item six and that is our consent agenda. We have some personnel items. Approval of schoolboard meeting minutes from June, the consideration of our bills and authorization to pay the same wire report and also a field trip approval for the cross country team for this fall. I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda. Second. >> We have a motion by Smith and a second by Aldridge to approve the consent agenda as presented. Any further discussion? >> See none. All those in favor say I. I. >> Oppos. Item seven would be our donations this evening. And we have a couple of one of them in our packet tonight. And that was um a trainer some special needs equipment from Andrea X. Appreciate the generous donation for that program. We'll make a motion to approve. Second have a motion by Valdez and a second by Roie to approve the donations as presented. discussions. >> Seeing none, tech could please do the role. >> Smith, >> yes. >> Johnson, >> yes. >> Aldridge, >> yes. >> Peterson, >> yes. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Moving to item eight on the agenda and that would be 8.1, our legislative update. I invite to the up front representative Ben Baker who represents 54B in the House of Representatives in Minnesota and is also an assistant leader. Thank you for us this evening. [clears throat] >> Thank you for for having me and Claire congratulations on your work. That's fantastic to have some student voice. So, uh, Ben Vap, I have the privilege to represent communities of Prior Lake Jordan and then the Dean Lakes area of Shaki. So, that's why you're stuck with me tonight. So, um, so, uh, yeah, I just finished my second term. Uh, you know, we're in that that in between season, so just trying to get connected and meet with all the boards and and constituents. But, um, just to kind of review very high level what happened this session, just as a reminder, it was a tie house. So, um, anything that was going to pass [clears throat] required that it had bipartisan support in order for it to pass out of the House. So, going into session, there was lots of conversations about, you know, should we even have a session? Nothing's going to get done. Kind of all of that. And and I'm happy to report we able to get some some really meaningful things accomplished for not only Shak, but just Scott County and the state of Minnesota. So kind of high level HCMC um some support for HCMC but also there's there's some fiscal oversight and accountability piece on that to try to keep HCMC operating from a good place from a Scott County standpoint. If you if you remember when when some of us were in school, uh there was Oregon Trail that game and the uh the technology modernization, the systems that Scott County is using for health and human services or their different programs literally is on the same type of software as um or country. So you guys can can post that up. But um [clears throat] but get getting some funding for technology modernization is going to be able to help the county with their error rates and and all of that stuff. So uh some property tax relief, car tap uh relief. We were able to um do some one time things for that. The big issue is fraud. I mean that's it was during session. Um, it was, you know, even as I'm talking with people across the community, you know, that it kind of comes back to fraud and and how we can address the needs of our community, it it kind of continually circles back to we have to take care of fraud so we can take care of our community. So, um, we were able to pass some really good bipartisan measures. The Office of Inspector General uh, was passed [clears throat] and, um, there's it's it's independent. That was really important to to me that it was an independent agency. Uh and then that there's a an accountability piece within that agency as well to be able to um make sure that that we're addressing fraud. I mean you're you have an independent agency come in and audit you and um that should be the same that we're doing. So um couple other of of fraud provisions that we put in place. There was um some statute of limitations to give agencies longer look backs into being able to um to address fraud. And then there was a I mean honestly it was more of a ceremonial but it's a it's a 100% tax. It was called the take it back act. I think it passed with unanimous support that basically if you steal a million dollars you're taxed a million dollar. So it's trying to be a little bit preventative and and force people to to think before they're going to steal. So um we could have a long conversation about just that. So I serve on uh labor and workforce [clears throat] and the education finance committee. I'm the the co- vice chair. So we have co-chairs, co- vice chairs because of the tide house. But um one thing I really want to highlight for you is the amazing work that that Shaki High School and Shaki public schools are doing with themies and particularly what TJ Hendendrickson is doing. Um, so Representative Tati and I worked on worked [clears throat] with DE around youth skills and one of the the the requests that came actually from businesses here in Shakabe was to be able to have kids work on site um in their corporate offices of construction buildings. So my daughter is a an interior design or interior architect major at Dun Woody. Prior to us getting this passed, she would not have been able to as a high school student work in the Greystone office. It's it's not a job site. They're not swinging hammers, none of that. It's she's literally doing would be doing CAD design, you know, in in a corporate office. And because it was classified as as construction, uh kids weren't able to do that and and makes no sense. I mean, just illogical. And TJ was just dogged. And you know, we um Tim Zunker from the chamber, a number of Shaky businesses came and testified and frankly we got his attention and uh we were just very clear that this is going to come back. This is illogical. There's a business out um in Prior Lake. They have four it's it's one building. They have four different types of businesses. Two of them are classified construction. One is was is automotive. a kid could work in the same building in the automotive, but they couldn't go next door and work construction because of DED's interpretation. So TJ uh and and Representative Tab Key and I worked together. Um we didn't have to pass a law. We just, you know, worked with Deed and said, "We're either going to push this through or you just, you know, interpret the the way that it's the statute the way it's supposed to." So thankfully that happened, but I don't think it would have happened without TJ. So kudos to him. I just want to recognize him for his amazing work in that side of it. Um maybe he has a a career in politics and go from there. So but um and then education finance on that side of it. Uh school safety was obviously the number one priority going into this session. And we were able to get one-time funding for uh for different buckets of mental health. anonymous threat reporting system is a really uh good way that that kids and the community frankly can anonymously report um something that's concerning. Uh there's money that went to the BCA to be able to have investigators to look into. So um that's a those are really good things. Um but the the mental health dollars are one time is important to keep that in mind. uh you know, kind of looking back kind of the way that I approach uh this from a school standpoint, it really gets down to three different buckets. Funding flexibility. You as a board know way better than I do how to spend money for SH. So you should pro we should provide you the funding from the state level, but we should also give you the flexibility to spend it and be able to move the money around to be able to meet the needs locally because needs shift uh faster than a legislative cycle shifts. So um so that's it's funding flexibility, mandate relief, pulling back some of the mandates and then local control is is kind of how things work together. Just high level a couple things to keep on your radar. uh compensatory revenue is is a big deal. There was $10 million put into into compensatory uh shock didn't get any of that $10 million from from the runs that I saw. But um it was really for those those schools that were going to go backwards and it still didn't fill their whole bucket. And I think you have to we have to be honest and and recognize that that is because of some of the changes that happened with the passing of universal meals and and that piece. Uh there's a $250 million cut coming for special ed. I mean just being aware of that as you're coming forward and planning. Um I had a bill and it had unanimous support out of education finance to repeal that. uh but if there's not legislative action taken in this next budget cycle, that cut comes on board and it will be a general education cut in essence because we're we're mandated to provide those special ed services. So, uh, and then unemployment insurance, depending on who you talk to at the department. Um, uh, you know, a business manager reached out and shared that someone from the department shared that there's not enough money in the fund to cover this summer. Um, and then but the department also said that there's plenty of money to cover in the fund. So, just be aware that that the UI mandate that stop the the hourly workers over the summer. And full disclosure, my mom was a parent. She she um worked as an hourly worker and it was it was great. Um it's an it's an apples to oranges comparison to compare school hourly workers to um to a landscaper. Those are the comparisons that are made. Basically, the landscapers are paying into the fund. So if I hire a landscaper, they the the bid that they give is assuming that that blue eye money. Basically, the option is going to be for for us as schools is that uh you're going to have to either reduce your expenses or you're going to have to leap locally is is where it's or the legislature can fund it, too. And then the other piece uh you know I I watched last month's board meeting and and discipline continues to be a an issue across the state. We tried I had multiple bills to this is a local control piece to empower our local uh administrators to be able to suspend K through three students as a last resort. Um, you know, the last amendment that we had was um up to three days with superintendent approval and unfortunately it didn't pass. So, that's kind of high level and I probably took more time than I than I should have, but I just want to say thank you. Thank you for serving on the board. Uh, I truly believe that that uh the school board is u one of the most difficult elected positions. you know, you go to the grocery store, you go to a game and you just want to watch a game and then a half hour later you're still talking and your spouse is mad at you or um but yeah, so just just thank you. Thank you for for reaching out. Um if you don't have my cell phone number, it can be shared with you. So but yeah, I just thank you that if you have questions, I'm happy to to stand with questions. >> Questions for representative I guess just one you said the the blue ribbon commission deal with the $250 million cut. So there's still a chance that next year is this kind of the last leg of that going away and not having that a burden to us? >> Yeah, it's there's time. Uh we would have to move pretty quickly and frankly that's going to you know the entire legislature you know everyone's up for election so a lot depends on that. So, um there is time to do it. The problem with it is is the budget cycle of of schools. So, um you're all going to be doing planning, you know, in January, February, but we're just getting back in the legislature in January, February. So, uh I I will say that there is bipartisan frustration about that uh that provision, but also there was bipartisan support for the bill that that was included in it. Um yeah, so I didn't know if that was very >> supposed to be out in October, is it? [snorts] >> Yeah, it's the fall. is it's expected to be out, but >> from the people that I've talked to, there's not really anything earthshattering in there. Um, you know, and we had we had multiple bills to address some of the special ed costs. Um, and and just about from a paperwork standpoint and there was lots of concern and opposition to even tweaking some of those paperwork requirements. So, it's the recommendations are going to come from the commission. There there may be some good ideas. I'm optimistic, but um we have to get to a point where we're we're funding these these mandates and part of it's it's a federal issue as well. So, >> thank you for being here this evening. >> Thank you guys. Have a great day. Thanks. Great. We are going to move to item nine on our agenda this evening, which is a public hearing. And I am going to convene that we are moving to our public hearing uh for this evening. and David is here this evening to discuss the tax. >> Oh, thank you for having me again. I'm sure I wanted PTMA to be here because I'm sure you had enough of me from the last few meetings in June and May. Um, but they weren't able to make it tonight. So, it's it's on me. So, I'm excited to do it as well. So tonight's presentation is part of the scheduled public hearing for the district's proposed tax abatement bonds. The financing plan supports $ 29.5 million of roofing and parking lot improvements scheduled from 2027 to 2031. It also provides an opportunity to refinance the district's 2028 bonds and generate interest savings uh following the bond process. As we move forward, the board has gotten a chance to review this information along with the facility projects over several meetings. Michael Hart was here May 11th and presented the financing and related facility projects over several sorry estimated tax and tax and project costs. Beni then presented on June 8th proposed uh presented a deal detailed scope of work for each roofing and parking lot project. June 22nd, the board approved tonight's public hearing and approved a 10-year long-term facility maintenance plan and also declared its intent to issue the LTFM bonds. Tonight on July 27th, the board will be asked to approve the tax abatement and authorize the district to proceed with the bond seal and establish financial parameters. um and then wrote the timeline. October 7th, the board will anticipate uh pricing of the bonds, which will be the interest lock in rate. October 12th, the board will be considered ratifying the resolution of the bond sale. And then on November 3rd would be the bond closing and then summer of 2029 would be the second sale of the issuance of funds as needed. As you've seen before, the project work scope, the planning is approximately 29.5 million, as I said before, for roping and parking lot improvements across multiple buildings. This phase approach allows the district to identify facility needs and coordinates construction and financing over several years. The project estimates were prepared by holding architects. As you look at it, you see on the left hand side, it's the year of construction and then what building is as you move over to the right and then item if it's parking lot rook and then the estimated cost if you look to the bottom is 29.5 million. As we move on to project financing, financing uses three separate tools based on the type of work being conducted. Roofing projects will be financed for general obligation facility maintenance bonds using LTFM authority. Parking lots projects will be financed for the general obligation tax payment bonds. The financing also includes proposed refinancing of the district's 2028 capital facilities bonds. This structure also matches each projects with appropriate statutory financing authority. The next slide shows the estimated tax impact for the district. As we've seen before, the tax impact on a $400,000 retro residential homestead is approximately $19. Um those estimates estimates are based on March 18th interest rates plus at 3/4 of a percent. As of today, the interest rates are still lower than what the estimates were. I just talked to Michael today about that. The analysis also assumes no growth in the district's net tax capacity. Um, based on the district's current growing, you know, next tax capacity, we would see that $400,000 being relatively low, lower than the $19 estimate. It's a very conservative estimate as we move forward. The bond structure, the chart shows the district's existing debt alongside the proposed 26 and 29 bonds. The yellow on the chart from 27 to 2030 is the 26 bonds. The the red is then the proposed debt for 29. As you can see, the district does have a decline in debt around 2031. We have done some pre-work working with the community on asking questions of what they would like to see as we move forward. The goal is always to maintain, you know, a stable net debt for the taxpayers so there's not a burden to them as they move forward. Next slide is the refunding candidate. This is the 2028 capital facilities bond is eligible to be recalled February 1st of 2027. Based on market conditions of July 15th, refinancing of 3.7 million cable bonds is estimated to generate about $ 109,700 in gross savings. This is over the lifetime of the bond. That's roughly $15,000 in savings a year. And here's what kind of the date along with new payment versus old payment and what the savings would be over the life of that bond when we reissue it. The current analysis shows so the resolution that you will approve tonight requires the refinancing produce positive present value savings. So the district would not proceed with a portion on the list that remains beneicial financially beneficial bond resolution as where we are today. Uh the resolution accomplishes three important steps. First it approves the tax tax property abatement of 12.4 4 million over 15 years following tonight's public hearing. Second, allows the district to submit an application for the state credit enhancement program. Third, it authorizes superintendent or director of finance and school board officer to complete the bond sale within the following limits. The limits are a maximum true interest of 5%. A maximum par amount of 13,625 positive present value savings from the refinancing and also completion of the transaction by December 31st, 2026 questions. >> All right. So, we're going to hold on questions for this meeting. We are in a public hearing and with that um if there's anybody here from the public who would like to comment on this portion of the meeting only this would be your time to come forward just like in our um earlier public comment portion of the meeting. Um the community has 15 minutes for public comment to speak in regards to this topic. Each individual speaker may speak up for 2 and a2 minutes. Is there anybody from the community that would like to come forward and speak in regards to the public hearing topic? Seeing none, I will then close our public hearing for u the tax abatement topic and we will move to item 10.1 on the agenda which is the abatement approval and set sale resolution. So this would be the time for the board to ask questions u that you may have in regards to the tax that we are about to approve. question. >> I just have a quick question. Just curious. So, the refunding uh $15,000 a year, what would that save everybody like a dollar? >> It would actually save our operating capital funds. Um so, that would go back to the operating capital, which then >> So, it's not like we just want that directly to the >> Yeah, it's not directly to the tax. >> Well, it is to the point >> to the point. Yes. >> Okay. Just I I just want to clarify that. Thank you. >> Any other questions? [clears throat] >> One quick one. Uh on the bond structure chart that we have on here with the debt. I think it's a couple files up. I think you guys addressed this in a previous meeting, but I was just going to clarify it again. Like in 2034, it looks like we pay down these school building bonds, the Navy green, >> the [clears throat] navy blue. Sorry. Um and then the next two years it's back up to like six million. How is that? Am I misreading how that chart works? So you're looking at 2031 >> 2034 where the Navy you know the red which is the proposed debt for 2029 is significantly more is that >> that would be when the 2029 you know bond sale for these parking lots when that's when the majority of the principal and interest would be paying on. So, >> so should those in the next two years 20 2035 and 20 2036 I assume should be the red should be equal to >> yeah we're going to pay more on it for just that 2034 but then it kind of gets set back because then we have some new debt that comes come in line with that school bond sorry interrupt you >> yeah we did a lot of work over the last I don't know handful of years to try to level that kind of the debt out and there was no way it was always kind of But I don't know an oddball in there was that 2034 and so that they just you know the others are are all pretty balanced and I think they looked at that um just because of the nature and it made sense to keep all of those years relatively balanced from 2031 to 2036 in terms of shifting the debt around. Now, you could have spread it evenly, but then we'd still have a a kind of a drop in one year and then an increase in the following year as we have bounced from 2033 to 2034. It would have dropped and then would have gone back up in 2035. So, a lot easier for people to understand if there's consistency in their total taxes. But yeah, that was always kind of a piece where it's like, and if you'd have seen this table eight years ago, it was chaos. It it went up, down, sideways. And so a lot of hard work with refunding and doing all those things to to at least make it make sense as a debt payoff schedule. So I think was that kind of what you're getting? >> Yeah, I think so. So I mean is the the the building bonds that are in that that is something that we'd still potentially sell more of then to for us to take on from to go to 3 million to back to 6 million for that particular bond. That's bond that we would still be selling. >> I think it's the same bond. It's just the payment schedules will be adjusted so that it's flat across I got you. >> Thank you. >> Any other questions for David? >> There are no other questions. I would entertain a motion to approve the abatement um and set the sale for >> I'll take a motion to approve the second. We have a motion by Aldrey and a second by Johnson. Any further discussion? >> Seeing none, Tiffany, could you please do the roll? >> Yes. >> Johnson, >> yes. >> Aldridge, >> yes. >> Peterson, >> yes. >> Roie, >> yes. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Thank you for all your work on this. >> Thank you. Thank you. Thanks for your support. All right, the next action item is item 10.2 and is going to be approve the next couple of items and 10.2 is our health assisted contract approval. Good to see you. >> Good evening. So um the next three parking unit contracts all of those groups um voted on this tenative agreement and they all approved the contract. So it's coming to you now. Uh the first one is the uh health assistance. They are the persons that are in our buildings um serving students through the health offices in each of the buildings. They're also these are LPNs. They're also nurses who are um registered nurses and school nurses who are also part of that service that these folks are sort of frontline folks. So um in terms of this contract, go ahead. And the the registered nurses are they part of the teacher agreement? >> Yes. >> Yeah. >> This is a separate agreement. >> Separate agreement. Perfect. >> Yeah. Thank you. >> So, um this is their agreement. Year one uh 70 cents per hour to the base wage and wage schedule. Year two, 70 cents an hour. and then uh requested and um bringing to you tonight the different amounts the district will pay for health insurance for both single and a blended rate of employee plus one family together total sum of them 5.27 to yourself calculation. >> Any questions? >> Do you know how many employees this covers and how many of those take the health insurance through the school? >> Roughly half the group takes health insurance. Um, and the total number should look that up, but it's probably about 10. Okay. It's a small group question. >> Just want to acknowledge from personality perspective. Um, we received this information in advance. Kudos to and your team for getting this settlement done as quickly as possible and certainly speaks volumes to the trust that the teams have. We Just in terms of on these particular parameters these corporations budget perspective over here you provided that information to everything's in line just want to acknowledge their effort this all all three of these will be in line with the parameters that we establish from our budget and you know in terms of settling contract um it it is very unique that we settle contracts quite this fast um the most these three contracts the most the group that we had the most meetings was three. I have never experienced that in my entire career. That was great. But I think both the district and the group got down to the brass tax of it really pretty quickly. And I think you know to some extent I'll give credit to to you guys in terms of I think and and our team we've communicated our economic realities to people fairly extensively. So I think when we say this is where we are from an economic perspective, it doesn't start out that way, but I think people understand that the money is the money, so to speak, and we don't have any more than we have. So I mean, I I I really praise these three groups for seeing that and working with us to try to get us on because I think it's a personal one. I think people are getting they're are getting p paid um where we intend them to be competitive. Um but yet we do have a budget that we have to and and as you guys have managed you know the future is a little darker than it has been in terms of the economy. I mean it's a little more tentative. So um it's nice to be able to work with your groups and you know come up with something that works for both the group and the ministry. I'll just echo what Tim said too. I I I think I agree that I think people are seeing the financial realities of school districts across the state, not just our own, and and seeing all the cuts that are being made. And um I think that's maybe helps a little bit too from a set perspective that we are right now from a financial place in a better spot I should say than some and that probably helps the situation >> and I think keeping you know for lack of better keeping your eye on the ball making sure that we are trying to stay within our budget um that's helpful because a lot of times cuts happen because you are not making necessary adjustments along the way to be able to foresee that and now there's a lot of things that are just unpredictable that you can't see but to the extent that you try to be able to stay within your budget That's >> question a motion to approve the health assistant contract as presented. Sorry. Further discussion on this one contract. See none. All those in favor say I. >> I. opposial contract. >> Yeah. So, this this group is um by and large they work all year round. If you go around our buildings right now, they're getting those buildings reconditioned for the start of the brand new year. And if you're lucky enough to go in on the first day or so, you'll see some floors that are super shiny and some gyms that are looking spectacular. So, they're doing a lot of that work and they're also cleaning up after all any other projects that we're working on that those guys are talking about. So, they're working all year round. Um came to a very similar um settlement with them in terms of number total MSBA calculation was 5.53. They wanted to set their steps a little differently. So we made some individual adjustments to make it what they felt more equitable. And you can see there the single and employee plus one and families again blended as a as an amount that we contribute. And these these numbers represent the district's contribution to their health insurance. >> Questions. >> Keith had the same question for this one as I did on the last one. again is approximately >> yeah roughly 50 >> and then how many of them take insurance? >> Uh that group is actually almost all. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Yeah. >> And Keith this custodial uh cohort they support maintenance for you know like rental facilities and clean up after >> they work they work. Yes. First first we have two shifts first and second shift. Not as many on the second ship, but you know, there's a lot of things to clean up. And then they also will come in on the weekends if we have something going. Some of them to, you know, put things back to where they were before the group that came in, you know, the rent or used. >> No small task depending on which which groups are renting some of our facilities. >> And really dedicated. I mean, all these groups are dedicated. this group comes in and, you know, does it because they, you know, quite honestly, they want to have their buildings clean on Monday, >> right? >> You know, so they're they're, you know, pretty happy coming in do it. I think it's that's in a lot of cases it's extra extra pay, not just the hourly rate. Depends on whether they're working full hour week or not. Any other questions for keep on the custodial contract as presented? >> I'll make a motion to approve as presented. Second motion by a second by Smith. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. >> I. The last one is our food and nutrition services contract. >> Yeah. So, these these folks are, as you saw sort of in our early presentation, not all of them work in the summer. Some do try to supply those. I think it was 2,000 some odd meals. Um, but they work during the school year primarily. So, they're doing breakfast and lunch. And that's that's the bulk of this group is what they're what they're doing. Um they again sort of asked for um the step amounts um to be adjusted um they actually have the same rep. So that also part of it they're trying to their business agent is trying to get those worked out. And then they have they have actually three different rates for health insurance in terms of the district's contribution. But that again came down to 5.53 on a speed calculation. >> And how many people take the benefits from this group? >> This group probably 2/3. And it's roughly 50 as well. I'll make a motion to approve the contract. Second, we have a motion by Valdez and a second by further discussion. I do have one question. This group would be one of the groups that would be eligible for unemployment insurance. >> Yes. >> Do we know approximately of all the groups not make just this month that take the unemployment insurance. >> The summer employment program is extensive utilization >> like more than 50%. >> I'd say yes. >> We can get you an exact number on that. >> Yeah, >> I can I can tell you anecdotally, we don't normally have this big of a stack of they even though they're electronic the unemployment office send you paper so we get envelopes get opened up and the file is pretty big I think you've seen some >> I think there are some person >> I mean the processing is I you know I don't know what they're doing but the processing is involved but it's mostly just seeing so many I mean you know from a from people who do sort of the economics of this in terms of it's a pretty significant amount >> yeah I would think that be some interesting >> yeah we we have >> any further discussion >> see none all those in favor say I I post carries. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> We're going to move to item 10.5 and this is a pro we're calling it a procedural correction and I'm going to turn it over to you for further discussion and discussion. >> Sure. So um what we found sort of um what we found is we had a Quite unexpectedly, we learned we had a procedural error in the format of the recent schoolboard approval of the superintendent's contract. The procedural error is that we made the changes in one step when in fact the change should have been done in two steps. The action item that you have before you will correct that procedure error procedural error and leave us with the exact same results in all contract terms as a previous onestep action that was taken on June 8th, 2026. The motion is to resend the superintendent agreement that was approved on June 8th, 2026 to reinstate and amend the 2427 superintendent contract and to approve the subsequent contract for 2729 for the superintendent. You have handouts And you can see there's an original contract and then you have an amended contract and then you have the subse contract which would be for the the 27 29 years. So three different contracts. The economic reality of all those is exactly the same. It's a procedure that we um shouldn't should have done this in two steps. We haven't did it anymore. Same exact effect. Any questions? question. So the exact same contract procedural thing. >> Yeah. Same the same effect. It's just that we we had incorporated it all in one and we should have had a two-step process. >> So is it fair to say in effect the contract would be null and void if we didn't? >> Yeah. Because we needed to have two. We needed two. >> So all we're doing is we're making it right. >> Yeah. To make it right. >> It's kind of a norainer, but I'll make a motion to approve. >> I'll second motion by and a second by Valdez to approve the correction procedural correction to the superintendent agreement that was made on duty. Any further discussion? Just one question for you, Keith, is when when was this a procedural error discovered? >> When was it? >> When did we figure out that we had a procedural? Um it's more recently with um talking with an attorney I believe and you know kind of having about another contract and realizing oh we didn't do that >> and I can I can say that um this was something that I found actually when I was working on the new superintendent contract at Southwest Metro. So it was fairly recent and when that was brought forward because Dr. Redmond was the interum and there was a contract for him for an interim role for a few hours a week. That's when I was discovered and I brought it forward to make sure that we were doing the right thing and bringing it back to the board for reapproval the right way. And I I brought it to Dr. Redmond's attention and then it went to the attorney and the attorney was the same attorney as Southwest Metro's attorney. So very aware of the situation. So we do have a motion and a second. Is there any further discussion or questions in regards to this? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. >> I >> oppose. >> Moving to section 11, which would beformational items and 11.1 is our 26 leadership retreat highlights. And Jim McCaus, our assistant superintendent, is going to present. Thank you, Chair Peterson, members of board. Um, [clears throat] yeah, our leadership retreat is an annual event. Um, as you can see, it took place before we all um had our opportunity to to go away for the summer, which is intentional because we want all of our leaders to be able to plan for the the 26 27th school year as it will be in this case. Um, you know, the the leadership retreat is really, you know, the one time in the year where we can get a really huge group of people together. Um, and everyone isn't looking at their phones and worried about what's going on. But it's our principles, assistant principles, deans, directors, assistant directors, supervisors. It's a group so big, we actually moved it over to the Saber community room. But it's it's really nice to have all these minds in one room and to be able to have conversations back and forth about what we're all seeing and talk about how we can can get better and improve the coming school year. Uh one of the things that we do is we we look at data. Um we take feedback in particular the community survey which Tiffany presented. We have conversations and we and we look into those items and we we really spend a lot of time looking at your vision and priorities along with you know really trying to build alignment so that we can be ready um when teachers start to come back here in a few weeks. Um this year our theme was was building visions. Um, we have a uh we have a compelling vision as a school district and what we really wanted our leaders to do was reflect on their visions for their schools, for their departments and figure out how does each of our individual visions support and build um the you know build on our district's vision. And really when you when you look at day one, you know, we have this little process on the bottom. Day one was really defining and creating, you know, what do different leaders and their teams have in mind for their their building's vision? And then you can see, you know, as we went on in the in the day, we talked about how do we turn a vision into results? How do we turn visions into high performing teams? Um, and it was just really an opportunity for us to learn together and collaborate about doing doing this work. You know, when we talk about vision, I mean, you know, you hear Mike use the term core values all the time. I think as a board you reflect on core values all the time and you know so often it's so busy on the dayto-day that you don't have that real chance to to sit and think about it talk with your team and really define these things and we really you know we we spent a lot of time trying to figure out not only you know what is that roadmap you know what are the steps we're going to be taking to to achieve these goals but you know what are the steps we're going to take this fall when our teachers come back to make sure that everyone is clear and everyone is working together and and you know we know that when you have a clear vision decisions get easier to make. You know your your decisions are based in your vision and I think it was really a good opportunity for for all of our leaders to to really stop and think and put some of these items into into writing. We came back on day two. Um and day two of our leadership retreat was really giving people more tools about how do we build a vision that includes all um you know we we took the IDI which is an assessment that um allows all of us to reflect on where we are with different components of equity um and and come up with next steps for how we can grow as people to support each and and every one of our students. Um we had a a wonderful um wonderful share out called Good Intentions Are Not Enough, led by three of our district staff members, new hires. Um Sam Oak, Perry Wilkinson, and Malik Pier um who work in different departments. Sam's actually at Red Oak Elementary. And they each brought different perspectives um from other districts uh to here, having all been in different districts last year, and then they shared what they saw in Shakipi and talked about how we could how we could build on that. uh in the lower right hand corner you might recognize Jatendra Pulk Kundan or JIT as we prefer to call him um who came out and talked with us about restorative practices and you'll be hearing more about restorative practices um as the year goes on but it's really that you know how do we respond when a student makes a mistake um how do we respond as a school community not just administration but teachers paras etc etc and um you know JID brought us developmental designs and now he'll be working with us going forward on on restorative practices. So um from there with some new tools in our toolbox we spent time refining our vision and if you uh go back to the the graphic you can see refining and clarifying is what takes place and after we had day two of the retreat um that's exactly what we did. We went back and we spent additional time um you know making sure that we um that we were still aligned. I think what's most important is always the the next steps. Um, a week from today, we'll be getting that same group of people back together over in the Saber community room. Um, we're going to be sharing out the visions that people have now collaborated with their teacher uh their teacher leaders on. um and make sure that we have plans for how are we going to bring these building visions, these department visions to life when we have over 500 licensed and 500 um hourly workers return in in a little over um five weeks. Um you know throughout the year um the other piece that our principles and their leadership teams are working on their site improvement plans. Um there was a third day to the leadership retreat led by uh Sarah Wenberg and Nicola Summer um where teachers really got into their site improvement plans which is you know how are we implementing arts and letters at the elementary level? How are we implementing AFL at the secondary level? You know what are other needs that we have in our buildings that we really need to focus our staff development training on? And um those plans will be done sometime in the next few weeks. uh Nika uh Nick and I at the elementary Sarah and I at the secondary then have regular meetings um you know with our building administrators to find out where they're at in implementing their plans. I think that you know one of the things we've learned about plans over the year is too often they get written and they get put in the in a cupboard and they get dusty and then we go back and revisit them and we aren't sure that we've actually taken the steps. But we make absolutely sure that we have regular check-ins to make sure that we're taking action on the plans and also that people are receiving the support um that they need. And then throughout the year, I think you've heard us talk, we have building instructional leadership meetings which again are led by learning, teaching and equity um where we talk about specific instructional strategies and how we as leaders can support them and also systems meetings to make sure that we remain aligned throughout the year. So, um, there's a lot of, you know, we we get this done in early June so that our principles have that 6 to 8 week runup to the school year to make sure that they're absolutely ready for when their teachers return. And as I said at the, you know, a little bit ago, um, you know, Monday morning, we'll be sitting down and we'll be hearing more shareouts and really making sure that we have, um, you know, really detailed plans for how we're going to implement these these visions. >> Any questions? Where did day three fall on the calendar in comparison to day one and two of this retreat? >> It it wasn't really good. Uh it wasn't really good math skills. Day three was first, but we still kept uh days one and two intact after day three >> because day three has always been kind of the similar activities and we weren't sure which way we wanted to confuse people. So yeah. >> No. Uh this year Scott County um scheduled a meeting without connecting with us that they needed deans and assistant principles for on um on tr. So we decided to give Scott County our day three and we just confused everybody that >> we started. >> Any questions for Jim? uh typical and I love the fact that it's getting done building right those needs locally keeping in mind like the development designs and that like consistency framework so is there like you know here's the umbrella we'll call it development design to stay within that but then also apply these principles at the building level you know you don't want everyone doing kind of their own thing right too far off what the original intent was. Can you speak to that? >> Yeah, for sure. I I think that's another area that we've really improved. For example, um you know, when we when we were making our shift in our math curriculum and we were going um you know, implementing building thinking classrooms, NICA actually met with our five elementary principles and they designed they designed a rubric for this is what great looks like. This is what good looks like. This is what development looks like. I think when Nika was here last year um presenting information from those walkthroughs, she talked about how they found that the problem that they the area that they most wanted to improve was around synthesis of math and they they were able to identify that through the rubric that they've developed. And we're um we're going through a similar process with arts and letters. Um and our our principles are training on that right now so that they're ready that when arts and letters rolls out they will have a common understanding of what of what it looks like so that they can you know meet with our instructional coaches etc and continue to support our teachers. >> One quick one for you. [clears throat] It says here like the entire district and building teams are present. Who's that exactly like how many people are at this retreat? >> I don't need the number. No, it's so it's like I said before, it's every principal, every assistant principal, every dean of students, all of our directors, and then um those that have assistant directors bring them, but we also, this is what I love, um you know, folks like Molly Allison from food service are able to come um you know, Tracy Cornier who runs health service, you know, anybody who supervises. So, it it hits a minimum of 50 and it might be closer to 70. And I think, you know, like I said at the start, it's just so nice to have that room together in a place where we can, you know, sit and talk and everyone isn't worried because it's really hard during the school year to pull that team together unless uh, you know, there's no students around because there's always got to be someone minding the minding the store. And so, it's a really uh, it's a really powerful event. And again, we're looking forward to have folks get back together on Monday and talk about it more. >> [clears throat] >> Item 12 on our agenda would be the first reading of some policies and I will turn this over to the policy chair Chad Johnson. >> Um so yeah, these are we're looking to um approve these policy changes in September. Um, as always with these policy changes, there is um, a bit of a summary in the notes column on the right hand side, but it's really impossible to go through all of the details in the context of this meeting. Um, to truly read them all would take a very long time. So, this is just kind of our opportunity to introduce them, encourage you to read them on your own. um I can go through and hit some of the high points of the more significant ones because a lot of these most of the time when you have policy changes they're either uh in response to statute changes or they are um Terry Mororrow from MSBA reviewing these things and just trying to make them more um uh like more precise Um so the first one uh is pretty significant. 412 um the company 412R is um policy [clears throat] around um um expense reimbursement and um it's much more detailed than anything that came out before. And you'll notice the middle column where typically we call out like there's line by line accounting for all the changes. We can't really do that with this one because um it's a differently structured document. Um so it's just there's the old version, there's the proposed version. Um you kind of just have to read an understandable. Um the next one 808 um policy around drones or on manned aerial vehicles. Um, essentially, uh, we haven't had a policy like this before and it essentially boils down to no drones unless you have permission ahead of time. No drones on school property. And then um 208, this is mostly minor changes except the one significant part is it does give school board ability to um make changes. Um, we can, it doesn't have to be in public official meeting. We can, if there's just technical changes to the policy, like kind of minor revision things, we can change them without a formal vote. Um, and it's again not meant to be uh like the spirit of the policy that we would change something drastically. It's just like something needs a small tweak. We don't have to wait for that. Um some more changes in the next few related uh some statute changes. Um policy around SRO's is again another statute related change and it just mainly talks about how they have to identify themselves. what kind of law enforcement agency counts as an SRO? Um, things like that. Again, some non non-discrimination type stuff coming. Um, some changes to online learning around myself because there are a lot of these to keep track of. Um I think the one around online learning as well how we have open enrolled students and to open enroll students who are truent we can uh define what does truent mean exactly at level trying to think if there's anything else nature here. So, there's a lot of non-discrimination type stuff throughout all of these. Um, so yeah, again, um, I can give my brief explanation and my understanding of what these things are. And, um, I can tell you that they're all relatively minor and there are some significant ones, but I do strongly encourage everybody to read them all for yourselves. question. >> I have I have a quick question on the drone policy. Um like what distance above the grounds can I'm not I'm actually serious like if >> is it 100 ft above the top part of the school or whatever. It's very It doesn't say because I read through there and it didn't really say that >> and it's like if you say it's 200 feet and somebody's having a drone at 205 ft above the high school monitoring something that >> I think that would it talks about uh like FAA regulations and that's where that would fall into like we're not going to define what our school's airspace is. >> Perfect. Okay. And typically your own operators have to be registered are supposed to be registered and follow and that's kind of what it says on under section B letter A >> criminals don't necessarily follow rules. So just pointing out the obvious but yeah is that policy that >> sounds good. So, I do have a question about that though with the 10day written notice um under procedures. Um so, does that mean every time that we have an individual here that's does really good drone footage needs to let us know when they're going to be at a game? >> Um I think we will use good judgment in that. I think u a designate can do that. you know, if there's somebody who's going to repeat if they're working for us or in partnership with us, that's a whole we're giving permission ahead of time to them. >> Like it's just 10 days prior to date of use. You can say I'm going to be at all of the games. No, I just know that we have someone that does a really good job of capturing a lot of cool things in >> I would assume that this policy would fall under that >> 100%. And if it's we're thinking of the same person, that person already communicates well in advance. And I think really appreciate that the policy committee interesting to find out when and where everybody's reading these before the meeting, but um part of this is there's a hesitancy sometimes of well can they do that? And and typically we're picturing a sporting event or an outside event. And what this does if if we don't know who that is or whatever and and even it goes by it's starting to beat in the air what are we going to do you know but I think it it allows us to give guidance to people of what they should do um and we're just trying to avoid some of those you know that's our administrators and we've already kind of walked through some of these and coach them and this is really working with the crisis and safety team as well they were the ones who really wanted that just to Well, you know, you're there supervising an event and it's like, well, wait, hold on. Do you have permission to do that? Is a really good question to ask rather than, oh my gosh, I don't know if they can do it or not. And so, we're trying to help them to hopefully take, you know, proactive if they see somebody setting up and going to, you know, launch a drone next to field track and kind of go, hey, you know, can I ask who you are, what you're doing here, and some of that. And so I think it just helps us to be consistent as well and and to do this before the events, before the activities and how we train. We have a lot of different folks supervised at different activities. So I was just going to say the genesis of this was um last year during one of our check-ins, Ken Christensen said to me that he had a call from a community member who had was flying a very small drone over our high school on the weekend and he lost contact with the drone. And the person called and said, "Do you guys have some kind of like anti- drill in the laser system at the high school?" And and Candace said, "I blew it." Because the correct answer was, "Yes, we do." But when I when I froze and I said, "No, I think your drone just crashed." And and then after that, Candace said, "I really think we need to get something in place because it was on the weekend. It was a small little thing, but it really got him to thinking about we need something to to keep everyone." the robotics team. They did really well putting that up on the school. It was one of my favorite stories in the school. >> Well, I think the challenge becomes, you know, drones that you don't have to be on the premises fly. You can sit at home and as you know, technology has gotten so good. >> You can sit in your basement. >> I know from my time with the Cub Scouts, uh, we left a lot of aerial vehicles on the roof screening for for our rocket to be >> that's the real reason we're doing the policy those rockets go real high and they come down real slow and if there's any wind they're um so yeah that's that's about all I have for um the overview of the policy changes So again, uh take time to read these and uh our second reading uh is our first opportunity to ask more detailed questions on August 24th and then we'll have more time for questions and voting submit any other questions for more action items And that would be uh 13.1 on the agenda which would be the 2627 school handbook. >> Yep. Thank you again Sher Peterson. So this is our annual meeting where we we update our policy handbooks. This is work that's done by our building administrators. Um I'm you know much like our like our previous presentation. I'm going to go high level and just kind of talk about some of the things that I think you might have questions about and then I'll take obviously any questions that you have. But these are the the shifts that were submitted by our building administrators. Um you know there's one that appears in all of our handbooks about parent test um opting out and and what MCA testing is. That's an MP mandate. So it's being added this year um K12 so that parents have that that document in front of them in the awareness. Um for Pearson Early Learning Center, they have language in their handbook about um daycare which is shifting from the YMCA to Saber Connect. So their changes are are just in um in conjunction with that with that shift. Um at the elementary level um they are adding the digital device agreement to their handbook which I believe is already in the 612 handbook. They just felt for alignment purposes um it was best to have it uh K12. Um they're also along with the middle schools adding the term uh smartwatches to a personal electronic device um because that's frankly I think they see um kids distracted by their smartwatches at the elementary more than any other device because that's the one that they have. Middle school's adding it as well. And then from our um uh we're adding uh some wellness language around treats and how treats are handled and distributed and what's allowed and not allowed. Um again, basically this is language that um is in most elementary handbooks across across Minnesota. Um at the middle level, um they have a lot of language. Um the big one, uh the two main ones are one, uh elementary and high school have a student life section. The middle school never um added a student life section. So when you see all of this talk about uh you know different responsibilities of different people in the school setting um they took the elementary they took the middle school and they develop made created developmentally appropriate um student life at the at the middle level expectations again uh purely for the sake of alignment and the fact that we had them in two out of three handbooks. Um and then uh also adding the language that cell phones are not to be visible during instructional time u which I believe has been the practice. This is spelling it out directly in the handbook that it needs to be out of sight. Uh at the high school, uh they are adding some grade replacement language. Um this has to do with students retaking the course. Um the language that they're adding has been the practice for some time. Um however, it was not in the handbook. Um and they felt like it was time to put it there. There's a credit procedures manual that our counselors follow that was developed when Nancy Tulle was here along with the counselors and the high school admin team. This is taking language from there and just making it more uh more front and center. Um there is some language about uh 3:30 uh the campus being closed unless you're supervised. Again, that has pretty much been practice. It doesn't mean everybody's out of the building by 3:30. It just means you're with an adult, whether it's working on academics, at practice, um etc., etc. Um there is some language that came from our attorney about uh recording and the use of uh digital devices and the fact that um you know we have the right to inspect phones if you have them out you're recording something you know tick tocking whatever again that's been practice and that was something that Mick Waltsburgger gave us a year ago um after we adopted handbooks um now we're putting it in and then there's a great deal of activity language you know really again providing clarity to student behavior at after school co-curricular events. Um, nothing is really changing in practice. We've always had the the right and and told students up front, if you bring a backpack, we're going to search it. Um, you know, we've we've had language around ebikes a year ago. And again, we're just trying to really call these things out so that we have them um in place and provide students with clarity about what the expectations are um at after school events. And realistically, the expectations are very similar to the to the school day. Um TLC has a couple of things um regarding scheduling. You know, one is they're going to move their flex period to the beginning of the day to provide students um more uh academic support on the front end of the day. Um Eric is also trying some new uh some new work around projectbased learning um that I'm actually really excited to see what we can do. that's going to give students the opportunity to propose projects um within reason, work with a teacher and be able to earn a credit, you know, basically doing a passion project which will then be a part of the school day at um at TLC. And then he also took um the high school cell phone expectations for alignment and added those to to his to his handbook. So that's a lot in a short amount of time. There's some I didn't cover because I thought they're fairly self-explanatory. Does anyone have questions about anything I did cover or anything I didn't cover? >> Jim, I have a couple of things. One, uh, at the high school level, I'm glad to see the cell phone usage recordings, postings on social media be incorporated into the manual this year, not an after. >> Y, >> um, I think that's really important with some of the things that we have had to deal with. Um, but one of the things that I wonder about is we don't call out it just says face disciplinary action under unauthorized recording. What does that mean? I would say that >> do we need to be more specific as to first offense is X, second offense is >> I I would put that into the category of it depends in the sense of what is the unauthorized recording. I think that you can have some very heinous unauthorized recordings that would lead to pretty severe and immediate consequences and then you can have you know much lower level offenses if you know what I mean. And I I mean because there have been incidents across the state in locker rooms. I would assume in that case the the most extreme action would be taken but then you also have two kids you know screwing around in the hallway which is very different. So I think you know in in looking at our policies you know 506 514 I think that we have the tools that we need to respond to these types of incidents. And I actually asked Jeff Piki this specifically on Friday and he told me that our our current student discipline policy gives him every tool that he needs to take the appropriate action. >> I think if people know that in advance we set the bar high to start with hopefully it would curb some behaviors that we don't want. >> Agreed. >> Does does the Yeah. Sorry to jump in but does the uh the handbook reference policies at all? Is there said you know for more information check this policy >> in some areas it does. Yes. >> Well not not all. >> So to support your point just but I appreciate that question because chef told me he had all the tools that he needed. And then the other one I um just thought about was um when I was looking at this was the page the high school six going on the seven in regards to sportsmanship. Um it says South Suburban Conference and Sh public schools. I'm wondering if that should also have Minnesota State High School League in there as well. >> Because they have And maybe that's what the South Suburban Conference adopts. I don't know. But I know the State High School League has very specific expectations for not only the participants, but also spectators. >> But what Tiffany just highlighted, is that what you're looking for, or would you like it spelled out someplace else? >> It's Yeah, it's first sentence of the second paragraph. >> I just think if we're going to say suburban conference that we probably should have state high school because they are part of the state high school as a conference. So unless they're the same rules, but >> I would assume they are, but we can spell out Christie's on that. Not to go back backwards here, but on the cell phone thing, I see like the TLC does have these three items will happen if if the student's cell phone is misused. I do like that having that for the rest of the school. Personally, just for clarity for your staff and students to have that expectation. So, like like you said, Jim, that if there's a more severe incident, of course, having these expectations at a minimum written out in there, I think is helpful. Um there's always some discretion if needed. Of course, if there's an emergency or something like that, no one's going to have a problem with that for an emergency. I think to your point, that is the practice. Um I don't know why the other administrators, you know, didn't spell it out like that, but that is the practice across our buildings. I also know that TLC is a little bit different because they've got 75 to 100 students, and so the way they, you know, the way they're able to interact with the kids is a little bit different. And I'd be happy to know if I could. I believe some of that I can pull out to share that it is in the current one. It's just that it wasn't being edited. So it's not necessarily in that excerpt that you're seeing on the Google doc. Um just because I know the principles of that there. >> No, go ahead. >> I was just going to one other item on class celebrations in the K through five. Where where was that coming from to change that policy? I mean having treats to for birthdays. I know we've always dealt with allergies and it's usually clearly communicated at the beginning of the school year. What's going on with the classrooms? >> I believe it is highlighted up here that it came um it's aligned with our district wellness policy and committee recommendations. So that would be Tracy Cornier and her staff. Um she oversees our district wellness committee. So, I'm assuming that came from something that was that was more statutory. We're not doing away with treats. I think what we're just saying is that the you know, there'll be a donation and the and the teacher will provide the treats to make sure that everybody's, you know, ju just to up the level of safety for each each student. >> I'll say I like treats in high school. [laughter] I hate >> I'm not cancer. >> I still like treats. >> Well, like gelatins and things depending on the ingredients may not >> fit other dietary requirements beyond allergies. >> Uh if I had a question with respect to the scooters, ebikes, and this sounds like it's more around events in the the stadium. Are there also policies around transportation to and from school? And I believe you may have heard from a community member just parking in general at the high school and how to enforce that. So it's one thing to have an handle in the policy partner, you know, plans in place to be able to hold kids accountable. >> Our school resource officers are very involved in that. I'm actually sad we lost Officer Church in the West. He was known as the Shock PD's ebike expert. But um but we we do have things in play. Well, it's you giggle, but it's funny. There are no laws surrounding ebikes. It's it's the wild west. And so he was he had done a lot of research about what was legal, what wasn't legal, how we could apply different things. And he communicated it. Um you'll see signs outside of all of our schools, sandwich signs. We had those up last year about where ebikes can and can't be ridden. And the shock police and our SRO's are very active in helping us enforce that because realistically we have a very limited jurisdiction with the ebike, right? It's once they hit the the sidewalk and we say, "Nope, you got to walk it." they get across the street, you know, it's it's out of our jurisdiction. So, but it is a point of emphasis with our SRO's and we will be meeting with them for our annual back to school meeting um the week before the the kids come back >> that first football game last year. I think it was it was the wild west of the ebikes at the stadium. That was before school started. >> And and the and the funny thing is the police were ready for it. I mean, we had the conversation and they asked me, you know, what we were comfortable with and I said, "Just, you know, go after it. You've got our permission. I think >> I don't know. >> I see a lot of them see a lot more of them down here than I do in the city, believe it or not. >> And the old Tomos moped from back in the day cannot even keep pace with some of these things that are on. >> And yet those mopeds those mopeds had license plates, turn signals, and headlights. They were fully street legal. These have none of that. >> Yeah. I have strong opinions on you. Yeah, >> I have one thing that I I wonder about and I I don't know this because I've had anybody go through this, but is there a handbook for participants in athletics and activities? >> There there is a guide book on the activities website. Yes. >> And why wouldn't that come before the board for approval like the schools wanted to? Yeah, I think we have a number of places where we've got rules and procedures and we've done the handbooks for the broader school. Most of the stuff which umbrellas under the policies uh we certainly could but it's more where people want to give specifics because the handbook people go there and go all right I give behavior expectations we're crossing over their stuff about how do I behave in an activity and participate in an activity. Um it's the other kind of points of emphasis that they want to make and make sure that people really understand the specifics of that and you know they'll share with athletes like the Minnesota State High School League code of conduct and they sign that. Um we you know we could but typically people do rules and procedures and even um you know we've done that like with community activities they have rules and procedures or protocols. Our our student activities have rules and procedures and protocols. Otherwise, we'd end up with 28 handbooks, too. And now all of a sudden, what handbook do I go to? But the handbook's supposed to be kind of an overarching umbrella and then more details and we can Yeah. And I think we're trying to provide clarity. It's a little bit some of this is the school board does governance in terms of policy. Buildings do rules. We still have buildings who go, "Hey, we have a policy on that." It's like, "No, you don't. Policy has to be approved by the board. you have, you know, you have handbooks that come out of those policies and then you've got more specific rules and procedures. So, we could and I think that's, you know, got some work come up coming up with their activities and athletics and I think even, you know, I think one of the things I know they want to work on is what are their rules and procedures. They've tried a number of different things over the years. I think we found an old handbook or I saw an old handbook recently and it's like yeah it should be rules and procedures and what does that mean? >> I'm just curious. >> Yep. No, great >> questions. I applaud all the effort that's gone into this and the evolution, you know, from the real paper copy to online and just creating like a consistent framework for as far as parents and students on onetop shop. So from a systems perspective, one online handbook is the best decision we ever made. Helps a lot easier to update. >> A lot easier to update. I would make a motion to approve as presented. Note to that between now and August that there may be some minor revisions or is this what we >> This should be it. This should be it. This should be it. >> I'll second. >> So we have a motion by just for clarity. Tiffany, did you make some of the changes that are not that I made I added the Minnesota state in red for that one issue by FCC and then chair Peterson the bro comment by August one that was I'm sure the website reflects everything that's the date you saw >> that's the yes >> so >> so the motion really should be with the changes incorporated by that >> yeah noting the MSA for Minnesota high school edition. >> Any further discussion or questions? >> Seeing none, all those in favor say I. >> I thank you, Jim. 13.2. We'll turn this over to Dr. Redmond for a change. >> And this is uh taking a look at our calendar. uh our December 14th we have a you know regular schoolboard meeting and truth and taxation and we got facilities and finance for that. We have one board member who knows they they can't be present at that date and with you know the kind of the double truth in taxation and uh schoolboard business meeting uh proposing to this group that you consider moving that uh to December 7th and that the facil also December 7 >> and then that that would be the only meeting in December then. >> Yeah, we would just well we would just change where it says December 14th on the calendar to December 7th. Y >> and the finance and facilities as well. >> Yes. Yep. We did confirm u with uh with our finance team with David that no problem went through with the taxation on December 7th. Just thought that that's a nice meeting to do what we can to make sure we have all all seven board members present. Possible discussion. I'll make a motion to approve. Second further discussion. >> Seeing none. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Item 14 will be committee reports and other information. And I will start with Nick tonight. Um well, we had a good like month break meetings as well. We had the policy committee meeting prior to this which we did dive into drones and school buses and other items as well that we all to read through. Um, I left my family. I did I left my family at the cabin. Did some policy reading um as I was riding along uh in the car beforehand. And um >> I don't have much to report. Um the communication doesn't meet until August. I was also part of the policy uh committee meeting. We had great dialogue about some upcoming AI policy that still needs to be vetted. So stay tuned that exciting conversation. Um and other than we've got mountain bike races coming up here in just a few weeks off to the races as they said. We've only had one practice canled so far due to weather. that state when the air quality is pretty much stay >> um southwest metro just to bring everybody up to speed you actually had three meetings so far being here at Chaki and happy to say that as with Dr. she will start a week from today. Um, and we're really excited. She was chosen out of 19 candidates for that position. Uh, she actually has time back to Shaki. She started her career as a teacher here in the Shaki district in Sun. She worked her way through the high school and worked with early childhood family students here in Shaki. Went to Ed Prairie from here to be director of social services. Went to co-op in one of our northern um metro areas for rural districts. A co-op to basically help school districts that maybe can't afford to have their own special education services. And so they work with a a co-op to help their student needs. She went there and then she her last position she was the assistant superintendent for special services at St. Paul public schools where she worked for 69 programs principles and she wanted to come back and work at Southwest Metro. So, she had worked with Southwest Metro when she was working in Shakipi and knows some of the member district superintendants, know some of the staff. Um, everyone is super excited about her. She's very well known in the special education space. So, very excited to have her jumping on board. We have a board meeting on Thursday to approve a few things. Hopefully that won't last very long in the morning. And then our next sort of regular meeting is August 19th. Um and just again want to thank Dr. Redmond for the support that you gave the district over the past six, seven, eight weeks, whatever it's been. Um at Southwest Metro. Um, I know that the board at Southwest Metro really really appreciated your help as well as the staff. Um, the staff is a lot of wonderful things to say about your guidance and leadership during some very challenging times there. So again, thank you for for all that. Um, MSBA board meeting I have on Sunday as well as a state high school board retreat and meeting room that starts Sunday night. I don't have anything except for factory related. Finally get to check out the amphitheater on Wednesday night. So I'm really excited for that. >> Cool. >> Um yeah, nothing. We talked about policy committee and the other community engagement. >> Um was that the Pearson Early Learning Center workg group? Um last week Jim was was there as well. Um of note there Lisa Ron presented on the new Saber Connections and how there group discussed integrating the stepping stones with Saber Connections. Um it was interesting because there a lot of opportunities with Saber Connections now that were not available YMCA. So that just making it a full day experience for the kids where Stepping Stones and Saber Connections will integrate kind of seamlessly and um it it was it was just it's always fun just hearing all the the experts talk about that and and progress moving forward that will put you on the spot next. >> Um the summer my senior year kind of nerve-wracking, but it's been a great summer so far. In June, I got to go to Duth and then Indianapolis with Minnesota HOSA. Um, and then just to recap, I got to go to the International Leadership Conference. HOSA is an international studentled organization all about healthcare. Um, it's kind of the only one in I guess Minnesota that's all about healthcare. So, that's really fun. I was officially installed as the Minnesota HOSA public relations officer. Um, and not Sprat or anything, but >> in my first month as public relations officer, so I manage all the Instagram like content and stuff like that. Just in the month of June, I garnered over 555,000 views with over 300,000 of them coming through Instagram res. So, if any of you guys need a little Instagram promo, [clears throat] the student intern that you need. But >> great, >> um, look you up. [laughter] >> June was amazing. And then July has just been full of work, college, and then in August it's fair season. And I work pretty much most of those days minus the days that shock via school. But um I'm excited to spend the rest of my before senior year summer just hanging out with friends, going to work and hopefully having a lot of fun. >> Mine's definitely not as impressive as that. [laughter] I've just been working a lot. It's basically all I do, like 50 hours a week, working a lot. Um also doing a lot of college things and I've been working a lot for some of our shock youth and government stuff. Um, I have been looking forward to hang out with my friends as much as I can, but it's hard when I'm working a lot. I was impressed with his head, so that's kind of what I've been doing. >> Jim, is there anything else? >> Yeah, I'll just go with a fun fact. Um, as of noon on Friday, we had 437 kindergarteners registered. Um, we uh we targeted 462. That was just based on the the formula that we use. um you know, assuming we have a a sort of standard August, um we shouldn't exceed that 462 fairly easily. I will say, um August is a week shorter this year because we're starting before Labor Day. And also, I think um a ton of credit to Claudia and the enrollment center team. I think we're doing a much better job of reaching out and contacting families early, getting them in and getting them registered. But um still we're uh we are on pace to to out uh you know go over that that number that we we set. >> Kinder camp and that's something that uh you know I think we're three or four years into now and it really um has been advantageous to get those kiddos acclimated to school and build those relationships so that we do they can concentrate and feel confident when they're starting that first day. So having that next week I have to think when I say that but it's next week I think is really great in there just a lot of great um events going on in the community. So hopefully you see our teams out and about. There's whether it's community ed Pearson welcome center just other folks that are joining forces. There's a lot of great events that are happening and obviously I know that's another agenda item too but just some authentic interactions that I think are very positive and always open the board to be a part of. Nothing further to add. >> Um, our upcoming meetings and important dates, you can see a lot of calendars are linked there in our board packet. Our next board meeting will be our um leadership development uh at 5:00 p. on August 10th with a personnel committee meeting at 400 pm prior to that. And I just want to make sure that um everyone is aware that our board development will be looking at um our alignment on our strategic plan and our areas of focus within our strategic plan and our progress. Um, we will spend a bunch of time discussing the community survey results as well as the schoolboard member evaluation slash survey, whatever you want to call it, the results from everyone's participation. So, look for that information to be coming, I'm sure, in the wrap uh with all that you can look at to prepare for that meeting that night. And then we will have another meeting on August 24 prior to that. Is there anything else to do that? The only thing I will add to that is in the coming weeks I'll share some more information on the app that's detailed on events that's usually coming up back to school. You know, if you're interested, we want to make sure you have a role and that you're not just showing up and hanging out at the table and things of that nature. So, I'll share more of those, but those will kick off uh starting about mid to late August and then roll into that first week of September. Anyone have anything else tonight? See, I entertain a motion to >> move second to any further discussion. See none in favor say >> I meeting