[Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Okay, so I already read it, so we're going to 1.0 roll call. Louise Hines, here. Ryan Clark, here. Sharon Vanlair here. Eric Tesmer here. Melinda Dos here. Simei Pnak here. Juliana Palis Palasio Sanchez here. Kira Mcdana here. Tagan Vu here. Katie Schwarz here. 2.0 pledge of allegiance. Please stand to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Okay. 3.0 is approval of the agenda. Can I get a motion to approve the agenda? So moved. Second. Motion by Sharon, seconded by Melinda. Any comments? All those in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion passes. 4.0 is comments to the board. At this time, individuals may speak to the school board on any item relating to South Washington County Schools. The board will not respond to or discuss your comments. Character abuse or specific complaints identifying staff, students, or task force members will not be permitted. The superintendent may be asked to prepare a response to your concerns. Each speaker is permitted to speak for up to three minutes in total. At the three minute mark, the microphone will be turned off and we will move on to the next agenda item. We do have one person signed up tonight and that is Jerome Kustri. Student highlights 5.1 is dis student district ambassadors and that will be introduced by Julie Nielson, superintendent. Thank you. I don't know what was more exciting having all of our kids here this afternoon or having these three uh young ladies up here um to share some comments with the board. Uh from the first day we met back in uh September and October, uh I know the girls would say we were all really quiet. We didn't talk to each other. And now one of the biggest highlights as we concluded our time with our student ambassadors this year were just really all the connections and the relationships that our students have made. Um that along with just the opportunity to lead and to have a voice. So tonight we have with us three students, two elementary and one middle school. And so, um, in true fashion, I'm going to do some asking of questions for our elementary students. I just want you to know that this group of three is so prepared. They really could do it on their own, but they just need a little support yet. And that's okay. Um, I also did share with them that when we have conversations, um, I know it's natural, uh, to wonder why aren't the kids looking out at the audience, but we really want them talking to the board members. So, if you don't see your child making eye contact with you, just know that they're really talking to board members. All right. So, to start out with, um, Juliana, do you want to go ahead and introduce yourself and share what school you go to? My name is Juliana Palasio Sanchez and I go to Crescu Elementary and I am in fifth grade. I have been a part of the Cresue family since the middle of my kindergarten year. And can you share one thing that you like about being a student ambassador? The thing I love most about being a student ambassador is having the opportunity to help my school with lots of things. Last year, we were able to help our custodian pick up trash at the end of the day. We've also gotten to make videos for the morning announcements, helping Cresby students remember our school expectations. Um, can you s share something interesting happening at your school? One interesting thing happening at our school is our culture night. Better together building together. We host this night to celebrate our diversity in our school community and help people learn about other cultures. The celebration is coming up May 8th. Everyone is welcome to come and we hope to see you. Okay. Um, what types of things are your student ambassadors working on? As I mentioned, our school ambassadors focus on helping others. Another thing we've done is create cards to welcome students who are brand new to um Do you want to talk just a little bit about being in fifth grade and who your teacher is and what kind of things you do? Um my teacher right um my teachers are one thing that motivates me to learn. Right now I have Mr. T and he is always reminding us to keep going and never give up. He makes he makes learning fun by encouraging us to get up, move, and work together. He's also really funny. He happens to be in the audience tonight. So, please don't pick up any comedy shows, Mr. T. People know you. I think you must be one of our top senior teachers right now. So, glad you're here tonight. Um, what do you love about being in the classroom? I love when we have Carninal Jam. The whole school comes together. Each grade gets to take a turn leading it. Kindergarten just let our most recent one and it was adorable. We always end with a group chant and say, "We are respectful. We are responsible. We are safe. We are kind. We are Crest View. Um, if you could add any program to our school, what would you add? If I could create a special class or program for kids, it would be a class about helping others. It would We would think about ways to improve our school and make it a better place. We could also design ways to make our school more green and take care of our planet. it would be helpful to make posters to promote the work we are doing. And finally, Juliana, I know you have other note cards. Is there anything else you would like to share with the board? Um, not really. Well, maybe what is what is one thing we did um a walkound of our district office here? What's something that you learned about the school district during your time as an ambassador? One thing I've learned from being in a student ambassador is the importance of helping others. The student ambassadors got a tour of tour of the district s service center. I enjoy seeing all of the amazing people who work here and help keep our district running smoothly. We got to visit the technology department. I had no idea they could control so many things like phones, computers from that space. It was really cool. And they got to see how the floor lifted up and how cold it was and all the wires. just a matter of pulling one and we had the internet down. Not quite. Um, thank you Juliana. Let's move on next to Kira. Kira, do you want to start out by introducing yourself? Hi, my name is Kira Mcdana and I'm in fifth grade and I go to Pullman Elementary. And your principal happens to be here tonight, too. Yes, he is. Correct. Um, what do you enjoy most about being a student leader? I like being a student leader because I like to learn about schools and help them. And what is uh something interesting that's happening at your school? Well, we have clubs coming up. Some of them are ending, but we have cribage club coming up and we had chess club and we have girl science club and also comic book club. What types of things? Um, as leaders in your school, what types of things are you doing? Well, we are making bracelets. They're kindness bracelets. They have kindest words on them and we're going to give them out to people who do kind things. Oh, so you're going to pass out bracelets to kids who are kind. Yeah. Fabulous. What motivates you to learn? Well, I really want to get a higher education in school and have a great career. So, I really want to get good grades and stuff so I can get to that high level. Wow. Now, that's motivation. Um, if you could create a class or a program for other students, what class would that be? It would be about art because I'm really passionate about it because I want to be an art teacher when I grow up because I love teaching kids new things. Is there any form of art like clay or paint or I like a lot of forms. I like drawing and like sculpture the best. Okay. Drawing and sculpture. And um lastly, what's one highlight um of our time together here at district service center? Well, you guys are just all so nice and um having to be able to do fun activities with people and and I really liked that we did that. And they neither one of our elementary kids said pizza. That was great. All right, Tagan, you're up. Our middle school friend from Lake Middle School. Go ahead and introduce yourself. Hi, my name is Tagan Vu and I'm in seventh grade and I go to Lake Middle School. Um, some new things that are happening at school is that we just found out there's new construction as like there will be like an addition to like the building to the front. Um so me and the other student ambassadors at school have really been working on how to make school like a better place for others. Um we have done surveys and we've discussed on like new ideas and a better path we can take. [Music] Um, so I've learned there's so many people who work behind the scenes at the district to make uh schools a better place and to make sure students have what they need, which I really appreciate that. Um, a highlight I've had at the district is just having the ability and opportunity to like meet new people and students who have new ideas and new opinions. Thank you so much. Um, this is a very highly soughtafter position being a student ambassador in our school district and I think that speaks a lot about our students. Um, what they want to achieve, their opportunities for leadership. Um, I know that one of our our we had our members for next year join us today. So, we had almost double the crew. Um, elementary, we had fourth graders coming. Um, and one of our new fourth graders when they found out that they were going to be the student ambassador apparently cried and had tears. They were so excited to be part of a student ambassador and making sure that student voice was at the table. So, um, to our three students this evening, thank you so much for coming and [Applause] sharing. 5.2 is our national merit scholarship recipients and presidential scholars. and that will be introduced by Kelly Jansen, assistant superintendent. Good evening, Chair Schwarz, board members, superintendent Nielsen, and student ambassadors. It is with a It is with immense pride that we introduced to you tonight some of our district's most remarkable young people. These scholars have achieved the highest levels of academic distinction, finalists for the 2025 National Merit Scholars, and the candidates identified as presidential scholars. Their dedication and pursuit of excellence embodies the very best of our district and we are thrilled to celebrate their outstanding accomplishments. To help us celebrate these exceptional students, I'd like to invite two of our high school principles to the podium. Please welcome Sarah Sornson Wagner from Eastridge and Jim Smokovich from or [Laughter] sorry, you do not know how much I'm gonna pay for that later. graduated. Sarah Sarns and Wagner from Woodbury High School and Jim Smoker from Eastridge. I know. I'm so embarrassed. Wow. Thanks for having us here. Here's our Why don't you go so people can see you? Can they see you? Okay, perfect. Um we're so excited to have um some students. I was listening to you and your goal for higher education. So maybe in how many years when you're a senior you'll be standing up here. Okay, have that be a goal. So I am going to begin um by telling you a little bit about National Merit and introduce some of our National Merit finalists. The National Merit Scholarship Program is an annual academic competition among high school students for recognition and college scholarships that began in 1955. High school students enter the National Merit Scholarship Program by t by taking the PAT test, which serves as a screener of over 1.3 million entrance each year. This past September, approximately 16,000 semifinalists were designated. Each semi-finalist, which they were, was asked to complete a detailed scholarship application, which included writing an essay, providing information about extracurricular activities, awards, and leadership positions. From the semi- finalist group, approximately 15,000 students across the country were selected as finalists, and so schools is proud to have 10 students achieve national merit finalist status. From Woodbury High School, we have Joey Capistrant, uh, Mio Olsen, and Arjun Centville. And from Eastridge. And from Eastridge High School, we have Eliza Kubichek, Yajar Ivy Lynn, Derek Lee, who is ill and not with us tonight. Maya Win, Simon Rail, Noah Walquist, who is also not present, Carolyn Jien, who is not present. I believe she's in California touring schools. And those are the seven and a total of 10 from Eastridge and Woodbury High School. [Applause] Congratulations. And next we have our candidates for the US Presidential Scholars Program. And the way our students qualify for this um is through their SAT and ACT college admission tests during the testing window. and in which if they score high enough they are automatically considered for participation. This program cycle concludes with recognition events held in June of 2025. To be considered further candidates must continue to submit candidacy materials, essays, self assessments, secondary school reports and transcripts. And then candidates are evaluated on their academic achievement, personal characteristics, leadership and service activities and an analysis of their essay. Those that do submit candidate materials are considered for semi semi- finalist recognition and then approximately 500 students nationwide are chosen by an independent national committee of educators convened by the commission of presidential scholars. Here with us tonight are the 2025 US presidential scholars from South Washington County schools. And we have uh seven uh presidential candidates from Eastridge High School. Jan Wu Choy who is not present. Eliza Kubachek, Yajigar Ivy Lin, Darren Lee, and then Derek Lee uh is sick. Aarva Aarva Thakor and Dylan Zelinger who is also not present with us tonight. So we uh wish our presidential scholar candidates uh a congratulations on their efforts. So we have asked our students to well not give a big speech but we'd like you to hear from them. So, um, we've asked them to just share their name, uh, if they've made a college decision, what they're interested in studying, and then to share with you a highlight, maybe from high school or an activity that they participate in. So, we're kind of going to go through and, um, there Mio's going to be the very first one. Hi, my name is Mioko Olsen. Um, I'm from Woodbury. Uh, currently I am still undecided for college, but I'm considering either Pomona College in Claremont, California, or Carlton College here in Northfield, Minnesota. No matter which college I go to, I'm planning on majoring in either pre-law or business and minoring in gender studies. And one of the highlights from my high school career has been my time on the speech team. Hello, I'm Joey Capistrant, also from Woodbury. currently undecided for college, but I know I want to go into electrical engineering. And uh one thing from high school I've really enjoyed has been my experience on the robotics team. Hello, I'm Reginel, also from Woodbury High School. I'm currently thinking about going to the University of Minnesota Twin Cities for college and likely doing electrical engineering and mathematics. One thing that I liked doing in high school was participating in science olympia. Thank you. Hello everyone. I'm Ivy from Eastridge. I'm committed to Harvard, planning on studying earth and planetary sciences. And a favorite moment of mine from high school is also science Olympia. Hi everyone, my name is Eliza Kubach. I go to Eastridge. I'm committed to WMadison and studying biomedical engineering. And one of my favorite memories from high school was probably playing soccer all four years. Hello, I'm Maya from Eastridge and I'm planning on going to the University of Arizona in Tucson for astrophysics. And one of like the highlights of my um high school career has been going to Worlds twice for robotics. Hello, my name is Darren Lee. I'm a senior from Eastridge. I'm committed to WMadison for actuarial science. One memory uh my favorite memory from Eastridge is participating in science olympiad. Hey, I'm a core a senior at Eastridge. I'm going to commit to University of Minnesota Twin Cities for biology and premed. And my favorite memory is a science Olympian. My name is Simon Rail. I'm committed to WMadison for physics and I volunteered with National Honor Society for three years. [Applause] Thank you all. Good students. Okay. 6.0 is consent items. All consent items are considered routine and non-controversial by the school board and will be approved by a single motion. There will be no separate discussion of these items prior to the meeting. Board members had the opportunity to review each item and may have requested that any item be moved to an action item for individual consideration. That did not happen this evening. So, can I get a motion to approve? So moved. Second. Moved by Eric. Eric. Seconded by Sharon. All those in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion passes. Okay. 7.0 is our information items. We have one on the agenda tonight and that is 7.1 long range facilities planning update and that will be presented by Tyrone Brookens, assistant superintendent. Right. Good evening, Chair Schwarz. Uh, schoolboard members, Superintendent Nielsson, and student ambassadors. Uh, Dan and I were just kind of flashbacking our high school experience and he was very fond of the science olympiad and I was fond of the math Olympiad. So, making a connection with our high school students here. Yeah. So, for this evening, we have uh an update, I would say more information than an update around our long range facility planning. and I will be uh doing the presentation along with Dan Hines who is our assistant director of engineering and infrastructure. Uh through this presentation we're going to cover considerations from previous long range facility planning talk about our current reality anticipated enrollment uh community development and then close out with some next steps. So in our previous uh facility planning uh time we talked about space for an alternative uh learning center. Uh the needs for our students continue to grow. Uh we are currently serving 10th and 11th graders at our turn of learning center and uh there is definitely a desire and uh opportunity to include 9th and 10th graders and as they come into that particular environment we want to make sure that they have exposure to CCT CTE uh opportunities and equipment um I would say green space and also some gym space to make sure that they have uh opportunities to kind of further their learning opportunities. Additionally, we also have uh opportunities around early learning and preschool programs. Right now, we have waiting lists uh at most of our elementary schools, and we turn families away each year. And so, we're looking for an opportunity to have uh space where we can meet more needs and kind of decrease that that waiting list opportunity there. There's also opportunity for space for transportation. uh as the district continues to meet the needs of our students, transportation will always be a need. And so we want to make sure that not only do we have the proper equipment, but also the space for that equipment to meet those transportation needs. And then when we think about special education, we know that we were successful with lease levy to meet the needs of our transition program students. Uh but we also recognize there is an opportunity to meet the needs of our students who are in our K12 programs that we are currently contracting out with 916. And if we can uh provide our own uh federal setting for programming, then we will be able to keep those students within our district and meet their needs without having to contract out our district service center. uh as we work to uh out of this particular space there's there are some compromises. Uh we have teaching and learning. Uh we have uh uh student support services and we do our best to make sure that they have a working space. Uh we call it a satellite space. Uh it's like a standing cubicle. Uh we even have some employees working out of the warehouse. We want to make sure that they have an environment that is conducive uh to their optimal work. And so there will always be a need to consider a space that is conducive that to meet those needs. Additionally, opportunity for a land purchase. And here on the slide, it will say uh looking out for future needs. And uh if you get into the future and uh you you will have those needs, but the land may be gone. And as you look around uh these uh communities both in Cottage Grove and also Woodbury, the housing developments are going up. And so that's going to continue to happen. And so at some point, the district is going to need to take action to secure some land for future needs. And those future needs could be buildings, uh, spaces for, like I said, early learning or alternative learning center. But there is definitely a need and we got to take advantage while the opportunity is is still available to us. And then lastly, our athletic and performing arts uh, opportunities. When we look at the current conditions of some of our athletic fields, uh some of our theater pro uh uh programs, they're sufficient right now. But when when I go to other facilities and and other districts, I see what the uh state of the art uh is producing and and what those opportunities are. And we're a little bit behind. I know a couple of years ago we were probably in front, but we have slid uh with some of the u bond opportunities have been passed in those districts. And so we haven't cu uh kept up to speed with some of those districts. And with that, I'm going to pass the mic to my colleague here, Dan Hines, and he's going to talk about some of our current realities. So, it's been a while since we checked in. Um, so really we want to just touch base on what is the current reality, how has our most recent demographic report, which we released in 2023, sort of materialized, and have we recognized the students we were anticipating? Um so firstly we know we have our ongoing school construction projects as some of our students have told us tonight they are becoming very front and center as they're breaking ground. Um we know from these projects that we will have enough capacity for the next several years just with the secondary construction. So when I say secondary I'm talking both middle and high school level. Um so that construction will provide sufficient space for the foreseeable future. We also know that we are facing about 2,000 empty seats at the elementary level. So, we continue to see that lopsided behavior in our enrollment that we've talked about for a very long time where some of our schools continue to either shrink or sort of stagnate and other schools continue to grow. We haven't seen any drastic changes in which schools are doing those very things. And we know that between those schools, we vary in size probably about 250 students at our smallest elementary to over 900 students at our largest elementary. So there's a decentsized gulf in the um sizes of our elementary schools. And then we also know that we have five elementary schools even after the current construction is complete that we anticipate breaking that 90% capacity mark um by the end of this current demographic report which went through the school year 2728. and that we have eight elementary schools that will remain well below 80%. And those numbers are based on efficiencies on how schools work. So we know that kids don't come in perfect little chunks based on grade level. Um so there's sort of a sweet spot in school enrollment where we have enough seats that we're not crowding classrooms, but we also aren't so over on classrooms that the school becomes inefficient to run. That sweet spot is between about 80 and 90% is that typical sweet spot as far as operating goes. So here's our anticipated enrollment. So the farthest column on the left, the data column, that is the amount that we had anticipated based on the Hazel Reinhardt demographic report that was released in 2023. Now we can look at the next column over and basically that column in the middle is the amount of enrollment we are now anticipating based on current trends. So where those numbers come from um we have about three years of data that are realized data from that demographic report. The report provided five overall years. We have one year completed of that report. We are in a current year from that report and we have an estimated enrollment for next year from that report. So we've got about three fifths of the data that we need from that report to realize the overall report. So where those numbers come in is we compare the three years of data that we've collected against the three years of data that were represented in the report and we check them from an overall accuracy standpoint. Now the farthest column on the right those numbers represent that accuracy rate. So if it's a number less than 100% that means we didn't get as many students as the report anticipated. If it's a number over 100% that means we got more students than the report anticipated. So, keeping in trend with previous reports that we've had over the years, we can see that the elementary level got close, but we didn't quite realize the amount of students that were projected in that report. We came in at about 98.8%. At the middle school level, we actually overshot a little bit at about 101%. And at the high school level, we were almost dead on at about 101%. So what this tells us, you collate all of that data and what it spits out is that the report itself comprehensively was 100.0% accurate over the course of the first three years of the report. So kind of extrapolating for that, we feel like we can actually trust the report quite a bit in looking forward for the next two years after that. So, when we're talking about the schools that we're seeing these enrollment numbers at, um, we'll start with the schools that we're seeing less than 80% and that we're anticipating that 80% or less for the next foreseeable future. Those schools are Armstrong, Cottage Grove Elementary School, Crest View, Hillside, Middleton, Newport, Royal Oaks, and Woodbury Elementary School. The schools that are sitting in that sort of sweet spot as far as the balance between efficiency and enrollment are concerned. We're seeing that and this is post construction enrollment u would be Pineh Hill Elementary. So that's post the project that's currently underway. Pullman Elementary and Red Rock. Red Rock was previously in the tax column but we've seen a bit of softening of enrollment at Red Rock. So that's sort of moved into that more um middle column. And then schools that we're anticipating greater than 90% efficiency at or enrollment at are Bailey Elementary, Greycloud Elementary, Liberty Ridge, and then also Newavis and Valley Crossing. But with the caveat on Newevis and Valley Crossing that we have control over a district on the enrollment in those choice programs. So if those get to be too taxed, we can downrate enrollment slightly on that. Just to make a point on this slide that Bailey, Greycloud, Liberty Ridge, again, same three schools we talked about um in addition to Pine Hill and Red Rock in this most pre previous bond referendum. So, we add the capacity, but we know they're continuing to grow and that's simply based on the fact that the lion share of the development in the district is within their attendance boundaries. And so, that continues to jack that enrollment up at those schools. Community development. So, we meet regularly with our cities. Um, this regularly basis is a bi-weekly basis at moment with all the construction going on. Um, we are provided with their housing data. Um, that includes current lots that are available to developers to put houses on today as well as upcoming lots. Um, the cities base their comprehensive plan. They're now talking about their 2050 plan. Um, previous demographic report was based on their 2040 plan. Um, so this data does go out quite a distance. um and they have tracked very close to their estimated housing. Um we know that the housing that was reported in 2023, the mass majority of those developments have come to fruition. A few have moved a little bit slower than the demographic report anticipated, while a few have actually moved a bit quicker. And so what we've sort of seen is this balancing act um and the overall number of houses that are being built. And we're anticipating that that keeps pace. Um always a big asterct on that. the economy can play a massive role um in housing and that can happen birectionally. Um if interest rates drop, it's likely that those housing numbers will come up. If we go into a recession, it's likely that those housing numbers will go down. Um so we're very market dependent on that. Um but even through recessions of the past, um we know housing projects in this district have been resilient to fully going away. Um they soften for a while and then they play catch-up. Um so it isn't a matter of these developments are going away because they they just aren't. Dr. Brookkins. All right. So from moving from that current reality, we also are cognizant of the challenges that also will present themselves. Math and science academy is expanding uh in the year of 2026 2027 and with that expansion they are adding about close approximately 350 seats at the elementary level. There are currently a 6 through uh 12 building and they're adding elementary. So that's uh the seats that will be added at that particular level and then they're adding about 500 students at the secondary level uh with the second campus and growing that secondary program and the current trends show that we typically lose about twothirds of our enrollment to that particular uh program. Additionally, there is a capital campaign that is uh has launched and is underway at New Life Academy. uh they're expanding their facilities and they haven't launched or or said specifically that they're adding school space, but with a capital campaign, you get a building, all of a sudden school pops up and then uh as Dan said, they with the housing uh market, there are some unknown impacts on economic volatility on the housing growth. It may speed up, it may slow down, but we're not 100% sure with that. but it could potentially be a challenge for us. So with that, our next steps, uh, we want to commission a new demographic report to account for the enrollment trends and also any emerging impacts to enrollment. Dan mentioned that the percentage of accuracy was spoton and so we wanted to leverage uh that accuracy and make sure that we are uh planful and as accurate as we can be with what we do as a district. We also want to examine and update our current building capacities to account for the uh school operation conditions and the instructional needs of our students. We want to establish a consistent operating plan um for the location and the allocation of space resources for early childhood and also um I would say early learning and early childhood. And then we want to monitor school enrollment to assess the potential for the future need for potential attendance boundary adjustments. We went out to the community for this uh bun of 2023. We said no adjustments to boundaries, but we want to continue to monitor that to see if that will uh address the need at the elementary level where we have those 2,000 empty seats that is projected. And then we want to study previous uh items considered in the long range facility plans. Uh those were those first couple of slides uh that I shared with you this evening. And lastly, in conjunction with the demographic study, we want to do a con uh conduct the community survey um to review and hear from the community one, how we're doing as a district and how they perceive the needs uh from the community and also the school district. With that, we will close it out and open up for any questions. Thank you. Does anybody have any questions? Um I had a question with the um you said the lion share of development is happening within the boundaries of Bailey Greycloud and Liberty Ridge. Are there any other schools where there is some anticipated development like a phase two or phase three or whatever on this on either city's comprehensive plan that would um materially shift those um capacity numbers? Yeah, absolutely. So if we look out beyond that 2728 date that we've been talking about um eventually in Cottage Grove specifically development will move to the east of Highway 19 when we push east of 19 then we start to see that increase at Park High School and Cottage Grove Middle as well. Um parks already feeling it. Um you know with the Pine Hill neighborhoods going up. Um but that could significantly grow that. Um and then we look over that direction. And you know, we continue on with Greycloud in that area and then we also start to spill into some of the Hillside and Armstrong neighborhoods moving that way too. Um but their attendant attendance boundaries aren't quite as extensive as a Grey Cloud's attendance boundary. Um so there's not that level of housing in it. Um if we move to the Woodbury side of things, um currently that um major construction is right south of Dale Road. It's about halfway down that section. um at some point utility will move even further south to what we're seeing now and get closer and basically cross Military Road um in some spaces there and so as that infrastructure moves south we'll see increased growth. Um fortunately for our conversation tonight that is all Bailey Elementary right now too. So um that's one of those places where as that takes off we'd see even further swelling um in the Bailey attendance boundary. Okay. Okay. And so when we when we had the vote in 2023 and we asked the taxpayers to expand elementary, the um they expanded the elementary and they added bathrooms to the schools that needed them. Um and did we tell we gave the taxpayers we told them it was like like a fiveyear this was a five-year plan in terms of budget or boundary adjustments and stuff like that? Yep. The end of that particular term is the school year 2728. Okay. Uh the good news is um out of this is the construction that's ongoing at all levels is sufficient through that date. Um so we have sufficient even at the schools that we know are going to continue to be taxed after that. We know up until the school year of 2728 we're covered with the current construction where it begins to um feel pressure is post that 2728 school year when we get a bit into the unknown because we had changed that dynamic of you know referendum four years ago being a full 10-year plan. We stepped it down to a five-year plan um to get within tax tolerance and and with that it just gives us a smaller window u you know of kind of longevity in that space. Any other questions? We will move on to 8.0 and that is our action items. We do have two this evening. 8.1 is proposed policy changes presented by Julie Nielsen, superintendent. Thank you. The following policies being brought forward this evening have been reviewed and revised to reflect updates in Minnesota statute, definition of terms, legal references, and cross references. Um, at the workshop meeting on April 10th, we had the opportunity to review the policies. This evening, I am asking for approval on the nine policies. Policy 407, employee right to know. 504, student dress and appearance. 507, corporal punishment and prone restraint. 513, Student Promotion, Retention, and Program Design. 517, Student Recruiting. 518, DNR, DNI orders. 521, Student Disability, Non-Discrimination. 529, staff notification of violent behaviors by student, and 532, use of peace officers and crisis teams to remove students with disabilities from school grounds. Um, and again, I am asking for approval on those nine policies. Can I get a motion to approve? I'll move. Second. Motion by Sharon, seconded by Simmyi. Any comments or questions? Okay, seeing none, all those in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion passes. Um, 8.2 2 is our resolution for unrequested leave of absence and that will be presented by Abby Baker, executive director of human resources and operations. Good evening, Cherish Schwarz, members of the school board, Superintendent Nielsen, and our student ambassadors. Um, tonight I will be presenting 8.2, the resolution placing the assistant principal on an unrequested leave of absence. The resolution is to provide notice of intent to place an assistant principal on the unrequested leave of absence effective at the end of the current school year. The timing of the ULA process requires that a resolution propo proposing placing an assistant principal for placement on ULA be passed by late May. The assistant principal will have the opportunity to request a hearing over the proposed placement on the unrequested leave. In the event of a hearing, the school board must read the transcript of the hearing and consider the findings and recommendations of the hearing officer. This allows the district to meet all contractual obligations before the board can take final action regarding the unrequested leaves. This timeline also allows the district time to notify the assistant principal of the final action before the July 1st, 2025 deadline. Administration requests approval of the resolution. Can I get a motion to approve? So moved. Second. Motion by Eric, seconded by Sharon. Any comments? Okay. So, oh, I did have one question. Abby, could you clarify again with the unrequested leave of absence? How what is the time frame again for the for recall? Recall. Yes. Yep. So, under the principal's contract, if a similar position in that classification becomes open within three years, that person would have rights to recall. Okay, I have a question too. So, um my understanding is this person will have the opportunity to take on a teaching job if another position of equal does not come open in that two years. They would be eligible to apply for a teaching job. Okay, Dana, can you call the role? Louise Hines, yes. Ryan Clark, yep. Sharon Vanlier, yes. Eric Tesmer, yes. Melinda DS, yes. Smi Pniaak, yes. Katie Schwarz, yes. Okay, motion passes. Thank you. Okay, moving on to 9.0 and that will be our superintendent report. Thank you. Well, it is testing season and Kira, how was testing today? Okay, I was just checking in on her because you had you had to miss ambassador's day for testing. What test did you take? Math. Math MCAs. Um, full testing season. We're getting results back. So, we're of course monitoring that. Um, I wanted to highlight that this morning I was at Park High School along with Simmyi. Um we had the junior book awards and students were recognized from various colleges. Uh Simei presented for uh Welssley um a book award to our outstanding uh students uh on academic for volunteerism etc. So I believe it was 14 students got recognized today by various colleges and um while it was a great honor for our students and they were very surprised um it also very quickly became a competition of competing universities to get our students attention. So it was a little bit of kind of a a job college career fair perhaps a little bit going back and forth but just a wonderful event again to highlight um the academic achievement of our students. Um on Saturday we will have the Cottage Grove Community Showcase. So, uh, that has been out in our information. So, please plan to attend 10 to 2:00 at Park High School Activity Center. South Washington County Schools will be represented along with community education and our early learning program. Um, and finally, also an invitation. U May 2nd, our South Washington County Schools Education Foundation will be having a May mixer. Um, it it will be held at the VFW in Cottage Grove from 7 until 10:30. Um and it the proceeds will go toward a scholarship fund. Thank you. Okay. 10.0 future meeting dates May 8th 2025 a schoolboard workshop me meeting here at the district service center at 6 p.m. And then on May 22nd 2025 a schoolboard business meeting also here at the district service center at 6 pm. And with that 11.0 we are adjourned. [Music] Hey. Hey. Hey. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Hallelujah. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] I [Music] love you. [Music] I [Music] love it. [Music]