e e e e e e e e e e e [Music] he [Music] good evening it is Thursday March 6 2025 at 6 p.m. we are at the district service center in Cottage Grove Minnesota we would like to acknowledge that the land in which We Gather is the land of the mowan Dakota people mowan means dwellers of the Spirit Lake the first item on our agenda is 1.0 roll call Dana Ryan Clark here Sharon vanir here Eric Tesmer is currently absent Melinda dos simy petag Katie Schwarz here 2.0 is Pledge of Allegiance please stand 3.0 is the approval of our agenda can I get a motion to approve second motion by Sharon seconded by simy all those in favor I opposed motion carries 4.0 is our Workshop items we do have one this evening and it is 4.1 kids club and Avid and sashco cares partnership and that will be introduced by Jake winchill director of Community Education thank you chair Schwarz uh good evening board I'm excited to be here tonight to introduce to you uh a handful of individuals who have really formed a really neat partnership that spans across uh numerous sashko programs in the district and a handful of schools as well um their they all share the same goal their motto is our community helping our community um as you can see here we have a handful of individuals here and some of the crowd um for moral support as well and here to answer some questions so with that being said um I will introduce the staff members here that are with us today maybe the students can take a second to introduce themselves as well but we have Heidi Wright one of our kids club supervisors Cheryl jogger with Community Education and soash cares Foundation um Amy Sana with kids club she's one of our osts and Julie Anin with Avid so with that I'll turn it over to you thank you Jake good evening I'm Cheryl jogger I'm the community engagement coordinator for the school district I'm also the founder of sashco cares which is the community-led nonprofit that supports our schools the slogan for sashco cares as Jake mentioned is our community helping our community we have some very special guests with us tonight to tell you more about how they're doing exactly that and so this year our school district applied for and was awarded a Innovation and Service Learning Grant through the Minnesota Department of Education for nearly $25,000 um with the support of this grant our Woodbury High School Avid seniors have been working with our kids club students at pin hill Bailey and Woodbury Elementary Schools the funding provided by this grant has allowed our students to um select purchase and donate uh items to the uh sashco Care's winter clothing program which has helped over 450 of our students and you may have seen uh the video that the students created to for their fundraising Campaign which raised over $55,000 for snacks and then going into third trimester we'll be working on a school supply uh program and so this is not just a collaboration between Avid and kids club and cares there are other partners who have been …