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From YouTube: School Board Meeting - December 14, 2021
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Fargo Public Schools - Board of Education Meeting - December 14, 2021
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There
have
been
no
doubt
many
individuals
that
have
been
involved
in
helping
to
bring
this
space
to
fruition
and
hopefully
down
the
road.
We're
going
to
be
able
to
have
some
time
to
acknowledge
those
that
have
been
involved
in
helping
us
have
this
space
to
conduct
the
business
for
the
public.
Hopefully
this
is
a
spot.
That
is,
we
know
it's
more
advanced,
technologically
wise
and
there's
more
space
for
the
public
to
be
here.
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Opposed
same
sign,
motion
passes.
The
agenda
is
approved.
The
next
item
on
the
agenda
is
a
report
on
enrollment
projections.
Memo
60..
We
do
have
a
printout
of
the
report
here
and
we
have
rob
schwartz
from
rsp
and
associates
joining
us
this
evening,
virtually
for
the
presentation,
I'll
turn
it
over
to
dr
gandhi.
At
this
time,.
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Yeah
good
evening
board
members
first
and
foremost
thank
you
for
allowing
us
to
re-do
the
agenda
to
allow
for
this
report.
I
do
know
that
rob
who
is
joining
us
virtually
has
another
commitment
as
well.
So
we
appreciate
that
time-sensitive
agenda
item
on
an
annual
basis.
We
provide
to
you
our
an
analysis
report
done
by
rob's
organization
rsp.
D
They
do
a
demographic
study
and
housing
analysis
to
really
talk
about
and
create
projections
for
fargo
public
schools
for
a
five-year
plan
that
has
been
provided
to
you
with
your
board
packet
for
the
purpose
of
the
meeting
tonight,
we
did
ask
rob
to
keep
it
to
10
or
15
minutes
of
high
level
information,
so
you
can
have
an
opportunity
for
questions
afterwards.
We
know
that
this
is
often
a
very
dense
report
with
a
lot
of
questions,
but
just
wanting
to
honor
the
time
that
board
has
set
for
for
that
report.
E
All
right
good
evening,
I'm
going
to
share
my
screen
here
and
we
tested
it
earlier
and
it
seemed
to
work
so
we'll
see
if
that
continues
again,
it's
a
pleasure
to
be
able
to
talk
to
you,
I'm
in
troy,
missouri,
and
they
graciously
gave
me
the
space
to
have
this
meeting
before
I
go
into
their
board
meeting.
So
again,
thank
you
for
changing
your
schedule
as
well.
E
The
key
thing
that
I'm
going
to
want
you
to
take
away
from
this
presentation
is
your
enrollment
will
be
increasing
for
the
benefit
of
everybody
who
maybe
doesn't
know
much
about
rsp.
As
the
superintendent
indicated,
we've
been
working
with
your
district
for
many
years
and
we
only
work
with
school
districts
and
we
work
towards
providing
a
high
level
of
planning
analysis
to
help.
E
As
dr
gandhi
indicated,
we
are
going
to
take
this
at
a
high
level,
and
this
report
has
a
lot
of
information
that
you
can
get
into
to
understand.
Why
we're
saying
what
we're
saying?
So
if
I
go
past
certain
slides,
it's
not
that
they're
not
important!
It's
more
that
I
want
to
make
sure
that
I
adhere
to
the
time
limit
and
to
get
some
questions
from
you
as
board
members.
E
So
we've
broken
the
report
into
four
categories:
there's
the
baseline
enrollment
demographics,
a
section
about
developments,
the
projections
and
things
to
consider
from
the
information
that
we've
provided.
As
I
indicated,
the
district
is
growing.
I'm
here
on
page
six
you're
able
to
see
where
that
growth
is
at
what
specific
level,
and
you
can
see
that
the
elementary
is
increasing
but
we're
starting
to
forecast
where
there
will
be
decreases
at
the
middle
school
and
high
school
I'll
talk
about
that
on
a
couple
slides
that
make
this
apparent
and
why
that's
happening.
E
We
do
know
that
there's
a
lot
of
housing-
that's
probably
slowed
a
little
bits
and
when
the
diversion
is
officially
in-
and
I
think
it's
seven
years
from
from
now
that
it
would
officially
be
in
that's
really
going
to
signify
a
lot
of
other
areas
to
break
loose
quicker
than
what
has
happened.
The
last
couple
years.
We'll
talk
about
that
because
I
think
that's
that's
important,
as
you
try
to
plan
for
your
future,
there's
always
visuals
in
our
report
to
give
you
the
perspective
of
the
district
boundary.
E
E
Come
to
that
when
we
get
to
the
projections,
because
that's
important
when
you
look
at
that
data
again
the
visual
of
the
existing
elementary
attendance
areas
and
then
what
the
secondary
attendance
areas
are,
it's
getting
nice
pretty
maps
to
help
you
understand
where
things
are
geographically
and
then
2223
the
new
attendance
areas.
You
know
talk
a
little
more
about
that
when
we
get
to
the
projections.
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One
of
the
things
we
do
do
is
break
the
district
into
planning
areas
and
we
have
almost
600,
and
so
that's
a
way
for
us
to
monitor,
what's
happening
with
enrollment
demographics
and
developments
very
key
in
our
ability
to
accurately
forecast
what's
happening
again.
There's
visuals
in
this
presentation
to
help
you
understand
that
there's
even
our
statistical
formula,
that
we
look
at
whether
it's
a
built
out
area
or
a
developing
area.
This
is
the
science.
This
is
how
we're
accurate
again
with
understanding
what
happens
in
those
570
planning
areas.
E
One
of
the
things
I
did
want
to
talk
a
little
bit
about
is
live
birth
data.
You
can
see
the
second
column
by
year.
You
can
see
that
here
in
2019
2020
we
have
fewer
live
bursts
than
what
we
had
going
back,
let's
say
to
2014
or
2015
and
16,
where
we
were
over
2500
2600
live
bursts,
that's
importance.
Many
people
made
assumptions
during
the
pandemic
that
there
would
be
more
live
births
more
babies,
and
I
don't
think
that's
happening
anywhere
that
we
do
work.
E
Elementary
by
grade
this
starts
to
tell
some
of
the
story
where
we're
starting
to
see
the
senior
classes
equalize
out
and
will
soon
be
similar
to
what
we've
been
seeing
for
incoming
kindergarten
classes.
So
it
starts
to
stabilize
enrollment,
says
one
part
of
the
enrollment.
If
we
look
at
that
same
data
on
what's
happening
with
cohort
change
from
year
to
year,
we
have
kind
of
a
mixed
tale
here
of
information.
On
what
happens.
Some
grades
are
decreasing
from
year
to
year.
Other
grades
seen
increase,
I'm
generally.
E
The
greatest
decreases
are
from
9th
to
10th
and
10th
to
11th,
whereas
our
greatest
increase
is
from
8th
to
9th,
so
the
last
couple
years
are
kind
of
a
difficult
challenge
to
be
able
to
say:
here's
what's
going
to
happen
moving
forward
into
the
future,
particularly
from
two
years
ago,
where
you
can
see
most
grades
did
see.
A
decrease
saw
that
most
every
school
district
we
worked
with
in
the
midwest
migration's
important.
This
is
a
visual
to
help.
E
You
understand
how
we
had
students,
so
the
the
orange
or
red
areas
where
we've
lost
students
that
were
receiving
services
and
coming
into
this
year.
They
were
not
here,
the
black
columns
bars
and
those
indicate
those
students
that
were
new
this
year
and
at
what
level
we
have
maps
that
show
where
that
change
is
happening,
with
the
dots
representing
where
those
new
students
or
students
that
left
the
district
were.
E
We
also
are
understand
that
there's
intra
transfers,
and
so
we
give
you
some
visuals
of
how
those
transfers
are
moving
through
the
buildings,
some
of
it
based
on
programming,
some
of
it
based
on
maybe
the
household
is
two
addresses
and
which
is
the
primary
address
is,
is
dictating
what
attendance
area
they
would
actually
be
in.
So
again,
you
can
look
at
this
information
to
understand
the
flow
of
kids
in
each
of
the
levels.
E
We
have
maps
that
help
you
understand
where
enrollment
has
changed
orange
areas
being
an
increase,
green
area
is
being
a
decrease
and
you
can
see
from
comparing
2021
into
2122,
we've
seen
a
resurgence
of
enrollments
and
we're
trying
to
isolate
with
the
enrollments
declining
the
way
they
did
two
years
ago.
How
does
that
impact?
How
we
trend
that
data
moving
forward?
Where
we
see
the
students?
Is
this
heat
map
and
really
cool
things
help
you
understand
that
past
as
we
move
into
the
developments?
E
What
I
wanted
you
to
take
from
this
section
is:
the
green
line
is
census.
Population
estimates
so
we're
increasing
it's
above
zero,
so
more
people
are
moving
into
your
district
specific
to
your
boundary
on
the
blue
line
represents
building
activity
and
you
can
see,
we've
had
some
decent
building
activity,
but
it's
not
as
much
as
some
years
going
back
to
2012
2013
and
then
our
enrollment
is
kind
of
oscillated.
Really.
What
we're
trying
to
establish
here
is
what's
happening
with
the
population.
E
E
E
Again,
this
is
hopefully
a
way
in
which
you
can
see
when
there
is
a
new
type
of
development.
Moving
in
how
many
students
do
we
potentially
get
from
those
different
types
of
residential
units,
we
do
look
at
the
median
home
values
so
in
this
map
the
orange
and
red
are
the
least
affordable.
As
we
go
down
to
the
greens
and
blues
it's
more
affordable.
So
you
look
at
the
core
part
of
town,
it's
definitely
more
affordable
than
some
of
the
new
emerging
developing
areas.
E
E
We
look
at
where
the
units
are
being
built,
and
so
the
dots
are
definitely
predominantly
in
the
south.
Around
davies
high
school.
We
look
at
that
year
built
distribution
by
decade.
This
is
kind
of
interesting
information,
take
some
time
and
look
at
that.
It
gives
you
some
perspective
of
the
existing
units
versus
the
new
units
that
came
online,
and
so
it
shows
that
there's
been
quite
a
bit
of
building
activity
over
the
last
20
years.
E
E
At
this
point
I
mentioned
some
things
as
you
look
at
some
of
these
tables,
so
the
flood
diversion
project
on
the
lake-
that's
just
outside
your
district,
all
that's
impacting
how
there
will
be
storm
water
control.
So,
as
those
elements
come
online
sooner
than
seven
years,
we'll
start
to
see
a
lot
more
activity,
but
as
we
get
closer
to
seven
years,
the
ability
to
have
the
flood
diversion
project
minimize
what
insurance
costs
are
for
flood
insurance
is
going
to
be
huge
and
how
quickly
we
see
development
happen
once
that
diversion
project's
completed.
E
That
gives
me
some
time
to
get
into
the
projections,
so
I
indicated
that
we're
seeing
some
enrollment
change
specifically
overall
enrollment
growth
and
a
majority
of
that
is
at
the
elementary
level,
like
all
of
it's
at
the
elementary
level,
we're
basically
at
about
5200
kids.
We
have
you
growing
to
over
5700
kids
and
if
we
look
at
the
middle
school,
enrollment
pretty
stable,
pretty
close
to
to
what
we
have
in
most
years.
E
When
I
look
at
the
boundary
change,
that's
being
discussed
or
will
be
proposed
and
voted
on,
what
this
will
mean
is
the
boundary
will
get
us
out
to
2526
before
we
start
having
capacity
issues
at
either
bennett
or
centennial.
So
that's
that's
some
good
news.
We
have,
we
see
orange.
We
typically
are
saying
there's
a
challenge
with
how
that
programming
may
work
in
those
buildings.
E
We
have,
I
think,
what's
important
is
what
the
high
schools
can
handle
is
managing
what
size
or
number
of
kids
that
we
have
in
any
of
these
middle
school
buildings.
To
try
to
have
this
nice
feeder
that
that
works
well
into
those
high
schools.
So
ben
franklin
is
slightly
over
their
capacity,
but
they
likely
can
be
accommodated
in
that
building
and
then
you
can
see
at
north
high.
E
We
start
to
get
over
capacity,
but
one
of
the
things
that
we
spoke
about
with
administration
is
that,
with
the
phasing
of
things
that
are
occurring
with
moving
the
students
with
the
secondary
change,
we
should
focus
on
the
attend
line
so
that
third
row
for
each
of
the
buildings,
and
so
north
high
should
be
fine
with
the
changes
that
have
been
put
into
place
for
the
22-23
school
year.
Another
quick
thing
on
this
page
that
I
want
to
make
sure
you
understood,
because
there's
a
lot
of
data
we
have
each
of
the
buildings.
E
We
have
the
target
enrollments
for
that
building
and
then
for
the
past
enrollments.
We
show
that
enrollment
three
ways
so
the
middle
row-
green
fonts,
always
going
to
be
where
the
student
resides
in
relation
to
the
attendance
area.
The
blue
third
row
attend
is
the
students
based
on
the
coding
in
the
student
database,
where
they
actually
attended
the
top
row.
Purple
fonts
is
a
subset
of
the
reside
it's
where
they
resided
and
actually
attended.
E
E
A
A
Well,
I
don't
see
any
hands
up
rob.
You
must
have
you've
done
a
fantastic
job
of
walking
us
through
the
very
detailed
information
in
front
of
us,
I'm
always
impressed
and
it
seems
like
every
time
we
receive
this
information,
it's
more
and
more
detailed
and
and
just
thought
up
in
an
improved
manner,
appreciate
seeing
the
formula
or
formulas
that
are
put
together.
A
That
gets
us
to
this
information
and
it's
going
to
be
so
valuable
as
we
move
forward
with
the
crucial
conversations
that
that
we
are
going
to
have
so
good
to
see
that
we
have
some
growth
coming
as
well
and
we
can
work
on
planning
for
that.
So,
okay
again
one
last
time
any
questions.
If
not,
we
know
you
have
other
work.
You
need
to
get
to
this
evening.
E
A
A
We
ask
that
each
speaker,
who
has
assigned
up
to
a
who
has
signed
up
to
address
the
board
state
their
name
and
home
school
district
for
the
record
speakers
must
refrain
from
using
this
form
to
criticize
or
complain
about
a
specific
employee
or
student
by
name.
Vulgar
or
profane
language
will
not
be
tolerated.
A
The
board
is
interested
in
your
comments
and
will
listen
carefully,
but
is
not
obligated
to
respond
or
debate
issues
in
this
forum.
Should
you
desire
a
written
response
to
a
specific
question?
You
may
request
it
this
evening.
Each
speaker
will
be
allotted
a
maximum
of
four
minutes
upon
conclusion
of
the
allotted
time.
A
chime
will
sound
and
the
speaker
will
be
asked
to
conclude
if
necessary.
A
final.
A
final
time
will
sound
15
seconds
later,
signifying
the
end
of
the
your
time
at
the
podium
you'll
notice
too.
A
G
Hi,
my
name
is
stephanie
manises
and
I
live
in
the
school
district
right
here.
I
wanted
to
talk
about
possibly
having
mobile
units
down
the
road
for
vaccines
in
the
schools.
I'm
quite
concerned
I
used
to
work
in
the
pharmaceutical
industry
in
marketing
and
I
used
to
write
the
materials
that
would
go
to
doctors
and
there's
a
lot
of
deception
and
manipulation
that
happens
in
the
pharmaceutical
industry.
G
So
far
to
date,
there
have
been
more
deaths
with
the
covet
vaccine
than
all
the
vaccines
combined
since
they've
been
tracking
since
1990,
which
is
on
vares
verse,
stands
for
a
vaccine
adverse
event
recording
system.
It's
a
it's.
A
government
agency
that
tracks
deaths
and
adverse
events
with
vaccines.
G
H
Hi,
I'm
krista
williams,
I'm
a
parent
of
multiple
children
of
fargo
public
schools
on
the
guest
speaker.
I
did
have
a
question.
I
hear
a
lot
like.
I
understand
we're
growing
south,
but
I
am
an
advocate
because
I
feel
like
north
fargo
is
being
overpopulated
over
crabbed
and
I
don't
know
if
there
are
any
options
or
if
that's
something
you're
looking
into
expanding.
H
H
I
have
a
lot
of
questions
moving
into
second
semester
and
I
hope
that
I
don't
overstep
boundaries
or
offend
anybody
today,
because
that's
not
what
I
had
intended.
I
just
have
some
sanity
questions
these
questions.
I
do
request
formal
reading
formal
response
from
individuals,
not
just
one
group
response,
not
sure.
If
you're
taking
notes
of
the
questions,
I
have
several
questions.
H
H
G
I
I
So,
first
of
all,
in
regards
to
the
last
meeting,
we
have
heard
time
and
time
again
from
different
members
that
we're
not
to
compare
districts,
we're
not
supposed
to
compare
fargo
to
west
fargo,
rebecca,
I'm
sorry,
but
last
the
last
meeting
you
compared
fargo
not
to
west
fargo
but
to
shakopee
minnesota
and
that's
245
miles
away
with
a
completely
different
demographic
that
cannot
be
compared
to
fargo.
So
that's
a
little
frustrating
for
a
lot
of
parents.
I
Excuse
me
when
west
fargo
is
literally
just
separating
us
by
a
road.
So
we
have.
We
have
scientists
that
are
actually
studying
the
data
from
west
fargo
versus
fargo
that
are
relating
that
data
to
the
cdc
and
trying
to
get
some
national
attention
between
fargo
and
west
fargo.
So
if
you
guys
weren't
aware
of
that
now,
you
do
know
in
response
to
these
mobile
units
that
we
have
been
made
aware
of
we'll
be
coming
to
different
fargo
public
schools
across
the
city.
We
already
have
dates
set
for
elementary
schools.
I
I
We
have
parents
that
have
two
separate
separate
views
in
their
household
and
what
happens
if
one
parent
does
not
consent
and
the
other
parent
does
I'll.
Tell
you
what
happens,
because
I
called
and
asked
if,
if
there's
a
signature,
there's
a
shot
and
that's
scary,
because
we
do
not
have
long-term
safety
studies
on
these
products
and
we
cannot
be
putting
our
children
at
risk
when
we're
not
even
doing
our
due
diligence
to
make
sure
again
that
these
signatures
are
valid.
I
I
I
also
want
to
make
aware
we
had
a
speaker
up
here
that
was
talking
about
vares
data
we've
already
up
until
december
3rd.
There
have
been
a
total
so
far
of
61
vares
cases
reported
for
children
under
the
ages
of
18
in
north
dakota
alone,
just
61
north
dakota,
specific
cases
relating
to
children
and
one
of
those
cases
was
a
12
year
old
child
that
received
an
entire
vial
of
the
covid19
vaccine.
You
guys
this
is
scary.
I
An
entire
vial
one
sixth
of
the
vial
is
what
the
actual
dosage
is
supposed
to
be.
Now
this
happened
in
a
full-blown
medical
facility.
What's
gonna
happen
in
a
van
parked
outside
of
the
schools,
we
need
to
stop
these
mobile
units.
We
need
to
be
making
sure
that
health
care
facilities
handle
health
and
schools
handle
education.
J
J
It
has
been
made
public
that
dr
newman,
who
is
the
health
officer
for
fargo,
cast
public
health,
is
the
one
making
the
masking
recommendations
for
fargo
public
schools
when
dr
gandhi
references
meeting
with
someone
from
fargo
cast
public
health.
He
is
in
fact
talking
about
dr
newman.
How
is
that
you,
as
a
board,
did
not
find
any
issue
with
the
fact
that
she
is
creating
the
recommendations
then
voting
on
them
as
a
board
member?
J
She
is
being
paid
six
thousand
sixty
six
dollars
per
month
from
the
city
for
her
work
as
a
health
officer
for
fargo
cast
public
health,
and
she
is
also
being
paid
as
a
school
board
member.
How
is
this
not
a
conflict
of
interest?
I
understand
the
board
lets
her
decide
whether
she
feels
like
there
is
a
conflict
of
interest.
However,
when
she
is
being
paid
a
large
sum
of
money
to
give
her
recommendations,
it's
impossible
to
remain
unbiased.
J
This
is
a
scenario
when
the
board
needs
to
step
in
and
take
the
matter
out
of
her
hands.
The
board
is
allowing
another
member
to
not
only
influence
policy
but
both
create
it
then
vote
on
it.
I
request
the
board
vote
immediately
to
have
dr
newman
recuse
herself
from
any
vote
pertaining
to
fargo
cast
public
health
recommendations.
J
K
I
find
this
hard
because
there
are
people
on
this
board
that
I
know-
and
that
has
been
that
treated
my
son
as
a
physician
for
many
years,
and
I
trusted
this
person
and
a
friend
that
also
was
a
part
of
activities
in
elementary,
but
I
feel,
like
you
have
to
say
something.
It's
important
that
we
speak
and
I
guess
what
I
want
to
know
is:
what
do
you
really
know
about
the
covet
vaccines?
K
K
K
A
L
Well,
thank
you.
I've
been
working
on
my
master's
degree,
so
tuesday
evenings
are
synchronous,
class
time
with
zoom,
so
I
haven't
made
it
to
many
board
meetings
lately,
and
probably
this
will
be
the
only
one
until
september
of
2022..
So
a
little
journey
ahead
of
me
personally,
but
thank
you
for
for
allowing
us
to
deliver
an
fda
report.
Every
time
you
you
meet.
L
L
Secondly,
know
that
you're
not
alone
seek
out
a
trusted
adult
when
life
feels
hard
and
third
in
recommendation
of
the
surgeon
general
in
my
recommendation,
and
probably
many
parents
recommendations
replace
some
social
media
use
with
some
face-to-face
time
with
family
and
friends.
I
think
we
all
would
benefit
from
that
this
time
of
year,
secondly,
to
any
parents
or
caregivers
who
might
be
listening.
L
L
There
was
a
recent
board
meeting
at
which
one
of
the
board
members
asked
the
fea
representative
for
specific
things
that
can
be
done
to
help
teachers
and
students
in
our
district,
as
we
continue
the
difficult
work
ahead
of
us,
and
I
thought
really
critically
on
that.
What
does
the
board
have
the
authority
to
do?
What
is
in
the
range
of
the
board's
ability?
L
And
so
tonight
I've
come
prepared
on
behalf
of
fea,
with
a
few
recommendations
for
motions
that
could
be
passed
that
would
bring
additional
support
to
students
and
the
staff
working
most
closely
with
them
number
one.
I
encourage
board
members
to
make
a
motion
to
direct
administration
to
use
esser
funding
to
expand
school-based
mental
health
workforce
by
reducing
the
student
to
counselor
ratio
by
at
least
20
percent,
while
teachers
work
hard
to
connect
with
each
student
in
their
class.
L
Thirdly,
the
surgeon
general
recommends
that
employers
consider
additional
employee
benefits.
In
addition
to
paid
family
leave
and
sick
leave.
Fea
has
and
will
continue
to
strongly
support
any
motion
to
reinstate
a
coveted
leave.
Bank
funding
could
be
used
to
prevent
the
district
from
facing
any
kind
of
financial
setback.
From
doing
this,
a
motion
should
be
made
and
passed
tonight
that
any
employee
who
tests
positive
for
kovid
shall
not
have
leave
deducted
from
any
of
their
individual
leave
balances.
L
So
thank
you
for
allowing
me
some
time
to
return
to
the
podium
in
the
boardroom
and
to
share
some
of
what's
been
on
my
mind.
Lately,
I
I
think
together
we
can
continue
to
strengthen
our
students,
while
also
supporting
our
staff
and
ultimately
provide
an
ability
for
all
students
and
staff
to
achieve
mensana
incorporate
sono
thanks
for
your
time.
A
D
D
And
what
else
can
be
done
as
well?
So
I
appreciate
mr
craft's
recommendations
and
in
the
conversation,
because
I
do
think
that
we,
along
with
several
other
school
districts,
we
are
on
a
continuum
of
services.
You
received
a
report
by
gensar
what
we
are
doing,
there's
gaps
that
we
will
continue
to
address
in
our
district,
and
it
is
a
priority
for
us
as
well
specific
to
the
fda
recommendations.
D
I
do
want
to
just
share
with
you
some
of
the
things
that
we
are
doing
with
with
esser
funds
or
some
of
the
conversations
we've
had
decreasing
the
ratio
of
school
counselors
sources.
Students
has
been
a
priority
for
for
the
district
for
some
time,
not
only
for
school
counselors
but
for
school
psychologists.
D
For
those
of
you
that
have
looked
at
any
of
our
legislative
lobbying
work.
You
have
seen
that
for
the
past
two
years,
specifically
addressing
school,
counselors
and
school
psychologists
and
the
ratio
has
been
something
the
district
has
focused
on,
because,
unfortunately,
those
are
positions
that
we're
unable
to
fill.
D
But
we
are,
we
are
talking
and
looking
at
how
we
can
use
esser
funds
to
maybe
create
more
of
our
internal
pipeline
for
current
educators
that
might
be
classroom
teachers
wanting
to
pursue
school,
counseling
licensure,
that's
something
that
we're
looking
at.
We
are
looking
at
using
other
things,
but
those
are
things
that
we
want
to
do
also
just
let
you
know
that
legislatively
we
need
to
reduce
the
ratio.
D
Legislation
was
passing
this
last
legislation
session
to
have
a
dictated
ratio
for
elementary
and
secondary
school
counselors
to
students,
and
that's
something
the
district
wants
to
do
so
for
us,
it's,
unfortunately,
not
a
funding
thing.
We
do
need
to
figure
out
how
we
can
recruit
some
of
those
individuals.
These
are
some
positions
that
we've
had
posted
for
long
times
and
sometimes
the
duration
of
a
year,
specifically
when
we're
talking
about
school
psychologists,
but
those
are
great
recommendations
and
things
that
we
want
to
look
at
as
well.
D
I
did
want
to
just
spend
some
time
today
on
our
my
superintendent
report,
just
letting
board
members
and
community
members
and
staff
know
as
well
that
we
are
going
to
have
our
annual
state
of
the
schools
and
public
focus
group
on
thursday
january
13th
at
south
high
school
sign
up,
for
that
is.
I
believe
this
friday
is
the
deadline,
and
people
can
sign
up
online,
but
if
you
can
encourage
anyone
to
participate,
we
are
about
five
years
into
our
strategic
plan
that
was
last
comprehensively
created
in
2014.
We
do
annual
updates.
D
It
is
time
for
us
to
give
it
a
new
facelift
or
renew
the
plan
as
the
words
that
we're
using
as
a
district.
That
means
that
the
strategic
initiatives
may
not
change,
but
the
actual
items
that
we
use.
What
we
want
to
see
and
be
able
to
do
as
a
district
and
how
we
measure
our
progress
will
and
that's
going
to
be
through
a
research-based
process,
but
this
focus
group
will
be
the
first
opportunity
to
collect
some
of
that
feedback
from
our
community
on
what
we
want
to
do
for
our
strategic
plan.
D
I
also
wanted
to
share
briefly
today,
I'm
not
sure
if
some
of
you
had
the
opportunity
to
see
doug
talk
a
little
bit
with
some
of
our
media
partners
around
the
substitute
crisis
that
is
not
just
relevant
in
fargo
public
schools,
but
across
the
nation
as
well
administration.
Along
with
the
board.
We
want
to
do
what
we
can
to
encourage
more
substitutes.
It's
something
that
we
see
a
significant
shortage
of
our
teaching
staff
is
directly
feeling
the
impact
of
that.
D
We
are
a
work
in
progress,
so
there's
signages
throughout
the
building
that
are
still
coming,
there's
pieces
of
av
that
we
will
learn
and
grow
together,
as
we
kind
of
figure
out
how
the
new
building
works,
but
that's
just
kind
of
part
of
the
process
of
moving
into
a
new
building
and
working
with
the
new
space.
So
I'm
very
grateful
for
all
of
our
staff
have
worked
tremendously
hard.
D
You
know
they've
encountered
challenges
because
of
covid
that
really
aren't
in
their
control,
whether
it's
supply
chain
issues
or
labor
shortages
or
contractors
not
being
able
to
do
some
of
the
work.
But
I'm
glad
that
we're
able
to
meet
in
person
in
our
new
space
today,
knowing
that
we'll
have
some
kinks
to
work
out
along
the
way.
A
A
A
B
A
B
What
you
have
before
you
in
memo
65
is
their
recommendation
and
in
particular
on
page
four,
if
you
go
back
into
page
four
you'll
see
what
they're
recommending
is
that
any
current
student
that
is
enrolled
at
bennett
elementary
would
have
the
right
to
stay
there
through
fifth
grade
before
they
go
on
to
middle
school,
they're
not
required
to
stay
there.
They
certainly
could
shift
over
to
centennial,
but
they're,
certainly
grandfathered
or
grandchild.
I
don't
know
if
it's
grandfathered
for
an
elementary
student
if
they
want
to
stay
in
their
current
building.
B
B
N
Thank
you,
I
would
just
mention
and,
as
I
did
in
planning,
one
of
my
concerns
was
really
that
you
know
we're
right
around
the
time
where
we
need
to
update
our
10-year
plan
and,
as
we've
seen
with
rsp,
there
are
going
to
most
likely
be
some
additional
things
that
we'll
have
to
talk
about
here
in
the
future.
In
terms
of
that
particular
area,
and
so
I
would
have
liked
to
have
seen
this
provide
more
than
just
a
three-year
sort
of
band-aid
approach.
N
F
A
It
wouldn't
it
wouldn't
change
things
as
quickly
as
if
we
wouldn't
have
grandfathered
but
taken
into
consideration
the
feedback
from
some
of
the
families
to
be
able
to
do
that
and
and
realize
that
it's
okay,
we
didn't
have
to
have
as
me
as
a
media
of
an
impact,
if,
rather
than
not
grandfathering,
also
I'm
supporting
this,
because
this
and
additionally,
this
does
help
us
address
some
of
the
exact
points
that
rob
brought
up
in
his
presentation
today.
He
mentioned
that
specifically
when
he
talked
about
elementary
school
population
growth.
A
O
C
B
P
A
B
Q
Tara
yeah,
I
would
just
say
if
there
are
any
questions
on
the
joint
powers
agreement,
I'm
happy
to
answer
them.
Essentially,
what
you
have
in
front
of
you,
as
jim
stated,
is
the
agreement
between
the
district
and
the
city
of
fargo
to
provide
school
resource
officers
to
our
buildings
personally
went
to
state
law,
the
district
has
the
authority
to
designate
a
law
enforcement
entity
or
to
provide
for
those
services
through
another
entity.
Q
So
essentially,
what
we're
doing
in
this
joint
powers
agreement
is
it's
we're
agreeing
with
the
fargo
police
department
to
have
those
resources
provided
by
them?
This
document
has
been
reviewed
by
the
attorney
general's
office,
the
city
of
fargo
attorney,
and
it's
once
it's
approved
by
this
board.
If
it's
approved
by
this
board,
it
will
move
forward
for
the
approval
by
the
city
of
fargo
and
then
the
attorney
general's
office.
R
R
They
are
also
victim
to
staff
shortages,
so
we
will
see
we
are
experiencing
some
movement
with
our
sro
appointments
within
schools,
but
I
am
a
big
fan
of
this
and
the
pro
the
preventative,
proactive
relationships
that
are
built
with
our
students
and
staff,
help
our
our
students
succeed
and
have
great
futures.
Thank
you.
F
O
O
Q
That's
a
great
question,
so
the
primary
changes
in
the
agreement
that
you
have
before
you
is
related
to
liability.
Both
entities
in
this
respect
are
just
saying
that
they
will
be
liable
for
their
own
actions,
as
required
under
state
law,
and
then
there
were
some
minor
tweaks
to
the
confidentiality
language.
With
regard
to
what
law
enforcement
can
pass
on
to
people
who
aren't
operating
in
a
school
resource
position
other
than
that,
it's
really
more
of
a
structure
change
just
because
two
public
entities
are
sharing
their
statutory
authority.
F
Q
So
the
previous
language
and
the
mou
said
that
the
parties
would
be
liable.
They
would
indemnify
each
other,
so
we've
just
essentially
updated
this
to
say.
Instead
of
providing
indemnification,
we
are
both
just
going
to
be
responsible
for
our
own
actions,
which
is
typical
state
or
language.
That's
in
these
agreements,
and
it's
language
that
has
been
drafted
by
the
attorney
general's
office
and
put
forward
for
political
subdivisions
to
use
in
contracts.
N
N
D
I'll,
let
jackie
speak
to
maybe
the
difference
between
the
past
mou
and
this
jpa
in
terms
of
cost.
One
of
the
things
that
happened
in
the
discussion
was
that
the
practice
of
the
cost
wasn't
worded
accurately
in
the
previous
mou,
and
it
was
the
practice
was
what
was.
It
was
indent.
What
was
it
was
intended
to
be,
but
it
just
wasn't
clear
clear
in
terms
of
who
was
providing
the
difference
for
increases
for
cost
of
living
raises
for
the
sros,
along
with
some
of
the
benefits.
D
So
I
know
that
we
clarified
that
language
in
terms
of
growing
the
program.
I
know
I
and
I
have
to
look
at
jackie
because
we
haven't
surrounded
all
of
our
secondary
buildings.
I
wasn't
here
at
the
time
of
the
last
thing,
so
I
don't
know
if
we've
added
a
secondary
building
since
then,
and
so
I'm
look,
I'm
getting
heads
are
no
because
I
know
davies
came
online
in
2011.
N
And
in
terms
of
like
would
that
be
to
you
jackie?
I
would
assume
that
would
be
you
a
budget
question
and
then
in
terms
of
not
growing
in
numbers,
but
that
we
grew
in
hours
that
we
contract
or
no,
because
we
have
an
sro
now
here.
So
I'm
just
assuming
like
we
talked
about
or
governance
did
about
that
decision.
S
I
don't
believe,
there's
an
increase
in
service
for
this,
but
the
increase
in
cost
really
is
due
to
our
old
mou
that
we
had
had
no
inflators
in
it.
So,
as
the
the
police
department
gave
raises
to
staff
every
year,
that
was,
they
always
ate
that
difference
then,
and
so
the
new
contract
just
puts
in
the
wording
that
says
you
know
just
in
effect,
we
will
share
the
cost
50
50,
whatever
that
cost
may
be,
for
those
staff.
D
And
I
would
just
to
further
capitalize
on
what
jackie
was
saying
is
just
direct
board
members
to
the
last
page
of
the
memo,
which
is
page
10,
the
appendix
b.
It
does
have
a
breakdown
of
what
the
cost
is
and
you'll
see
it's
by
salary
for
the
amount
of
sros.
It's
stopped
by
hours
of
service
along
with
benefits
and
then
uniform
and
equipment,
and
things
of
other
nature,
so
you'll
see
the
full
cost
breakdown.
At
that
point,.
T
So
we
still
have
seven
sros
one
at
every
middle
school
and
high
school
in
the
dakota.
However,
in
the
past
you
never
had
paid
into
my
role
as
an
sro,
and
so
this
is
also
the
first
time
you've
had
a
supervisor
of
the
sro
program
that
was
formally
and
trained
up
as
an
sro
as
well,
and
so
as
a
result
of
the
additional
services
that
I
provide,
predominantly
being
the
liaison
to
all
of
the
elementary
schools
to
your
facility,
the
district
office
and,
of
course,
your
board.
T
D
The
decision
to
have
a
supervisor
at
the
board
meeting
made
by
governance
was
recent.
Her
primary
role
has
been
the
increased
usage
at
as
the
liaison
to
all
the
elementary
schools
and
being
used
in
those
situations.
Right
now,
sergeant
jacobson
is
the
person
that
is
called
anytime,
that
there
is
an
elementary
situation
that
requires
law
enforcement
along
with
the
supervision
piece
of
the
sro.
So
this
might
be
one
component
of
her
portfolio
from
an
operational
standpoint.
D
The
primary
usage
of
her
portfolio
is
both
through
the
sro
supervision
piece
she
meets
with
both
bob
and
missy.
I
believe,
once
a
month
to
talk
about
the
sro
program,
what's
happening
at
the
buildings
and
then
being
a
direct
support
at
our
elementary
buildings,
which
I
know
she
gets
pulled
in
all
14
directions
at
times
as
well.
So
that's
the
primary
function
of
that
portfolio.
F
P
F
R
I
would
say
the
increase
of
sixty
thousand
dollars
is
not
solely
due
to
her
attending
board
meetings.
It
is
writing
the
cost
of
who
who
has
the
cost
share?
I
don't
anticipate,
there's
any
additional
charge,
having
her
attend
board
meetings
and
certainly
not
to
the
tune
of
sixty
thousand
dollars.
So
I
do
not
want
it
understood
by
the
public
that
the
board
is
paying
sixty
thousand
dollars
to
have
an
officer
at
our
board
meetings,
because
that
is
truly
not
the
case.
A
Exactly
and
the
purpose
really
of
this
ammo
of
this
memo
is
to
get
us
to
an
agreement
so
previously
an
mou
now
joint
powers
agreement.
That
is
a
legal
document
that
exists
that
will
exist
between
the
two
parties
so
that
we
can
continue
to
operate
in
a
way
that
is
most
appropriate
based
on
on
century
code
in
the
ag's
office.
So
it's
very
important
that
we
have
this
document
in
place.
Jennifer
excuse
me
robin.
I.
R
N
N
I
don't
think
we've
been
given
any
reason
to
be
fearful
and-
and
so
I
I
would
agree
with
that-
I
can
support
like
I
said
the
contract,
but
I
do
think
it's
an
appropriate
time
to
say
that
you
know
we
weren't
part
of
that
governance
and
by
we
I
mean
there
were
five,
not
nine,
so
it
wasn't
a
full
board
discussion
to
to
add
those
services.
So,
regardless
of
whether
or
not
it's
costing
us,
you
know
60,
000
or
20
000
or
whatever
part
of
that
portion
of
increase.
A
O
P
C
P
A
Knutson,
yes,
motion
passes.
The
last
item
on
business
is
a
covid19
update.
I
will
turn
it
over
to
dr
gandhi
in
just
a
second
for
the
update
that
he
normally
would
be
providing
or
that
he
did
provide
previously
under
the
superintendent's
report.
That
was
a
couple
meetings
ago.
So
we
all
know
that
we
have
are
working
under
the
direction
that
the
administration
is
working
under
the
direction
that
the
board
gave
it
to
follow.
A
D
Thank
you.
I
will
start
with
just
the
three
pieces
of
information
that
I
have
been
asked
to
present
in
the
previous
update.
So
first
was
just
whether
or
not
there's
been
any
updates
from
fargo
cass,
public
health
and
or
the
north
dakota
department
of
health.
There
have
not
been
any
updates
prior
to
at
least
since
the
last
board
meeting,
which
we
have
communicated
to
board
members
and
to
the
public
about
a
change
in
mitigation
strategies
that
we
need
to
utilize
beginning
january,
so
there
have
been
no
changes
to
that
guidance
at
this
time.
D
D
D
So
this
is
the
first
chart
that
I've
been
asked
to
share
and,
as
you
know,
what
this
chart
is
is
the
student
positives
by
school
weeks,
the
colored
represents
this
school
year,
you'll
see
the
key
on
the
bottom,
elementary
middle
and
then
high
school
in
comparison
to
the
same
week
last
year,
which
is
in
the
black
and
gray
scale
chart.
So
again,
we
know
that
this
data
is
as
of
right
now
and
we're
in
the
middle
of
the
week,
as
as
it
is
tuesday
as
well.
D
So
the
previous
weeks
would
be
the
full
indicators
in
comparison
from
where
we
are
this
year
to
last
year.
The
other
piece
of
information
that
was
asked
to
be
shared
is
information
regarding
our
students
that
have
been
able
to
be
exempt
from
quarantine,
using
one
of
the
different
mechanisms
that
we
have.
So
I
will
zoom
in
here.
D
This
is,
as
of
this
morning,
the
distinct
number
of
students,
so
the
unique
number
of
students
that
have
been
able
to
avoid
the
quarantine
requirements
that
we
have
in
place
because
of
a
massive
mass
exemption
or
because
of
them
being
vaccinated
or
having
coveted
in
the
last
90
days,
is
3762
unique
students
that
applies
to
5996
cases
of
those
students.
489
of
those
students
have
been
able
to
use
the
testing
mechanism
to
test
multiple
times
to
continue
to
stay
in
school.
D
There
have
been
173
students
that
did
not
have
to
test,
so
that
could
be
because
of
their
vaccination
status
or
mass
mass
exemption
or
something
else,
and
then
there's
been
114
students
at
the
time
that
they
were
notified
as
a
close
contact.
They
had
to
test
once
and
then
were
able
to
stay
in
school,
or
they
chose
to
test
once
and
then
to
school.
D
After
that,
so
total
number
is
4538
and
then
what
you
have
below
there
is
just
what
I
shared
at
the
previous
school
board
meetings
and
again,
thank
you
to
stephen
duro,
as
you
see
at
the
top
of
my
email
for
pulling
that
information
for
us.
So
that
is
what
I
have
shared
in
the
past
and
what's
been
asked
to
share
of
me
to
share
during
this
2019
update.
N
P
N
Part
of
this
to
to
really,
you
know
remind
us
that
their
role
is
to
ensure
an
adequate
level
of
public
health
infrastructure
right
to
provide
education
around
early
prevention,
there's
a
general
welfare
clause
right
to
ensure
sort
of
access
to
these
early
treatment
options,
and
none
of
this
is
happening,
and
so
we
need
to
ask
ourselves
what
is
the
goal
with
this
with
mass
mandates?
What
is
our
goal?
Is
our
goal
from
what
I've
heard
us
say
to
reduce
or
control
the
spread
to
prevent
yourself
or
someone
else
from
getting
coveted?
N
N
N
N
N
O
N
In
terms
of
masking
seth,
yes,
west,
fargo
and
fargo,
I
mean
we
have
examples
right.
If
you
look
at
scientific
evidence,
that's
what
I
was
referring
to
in
terms
of
masking
it's
emotional
based
decisions
right.
I
want
it
to
work,
we
want
to
will
it
to
work,
but
there
isn't
sound
science
that
supports
it.
That
actually
shows
that
it's
effective
in
reducing
the
spread
there
is
there
just
isn't,
and
that's
I
mean
the
evidence-
is
all
around
us.
N
F
O
N
I
absolutely
can
I'd
be
happy
to
send
it
to
you.
There
are
many
scientific
experts
out
there
that
you
can
follow.
Dr
mccullough
is
one
of
them.
Dr
malone
is
another
inventor
of
the
actual
technology
platform
they're
out
there,
and
they
are
desperately
trying
to
educate
us
as
citizens
about
the
dangers
of
some
of
the
of
these
men
mass
mandates,
vaccine
mandates.
O
O
N
I'm
talking
nationally,
I
mean,
I
guess,
you're
asking
me
for
evidence,
so
I
was
speaking
you
know
of
the
evidence
right
not
just
specific
to
this
school
district,
but
I'm
sure
we
could
take
a
look
at
you
know.
I
mean
look
at
overall
rates
under
18
and
the
case
rates.
You
know
I
mean
so
so
I
guess,
if
you're
asking
me
for
scientific
data,
I
can
I'd
be
happy
to
give
that
to
you.
M
I
the
the
question
that
I'd
like
to
answer
when
you
say
what
what
is
our
purpose?
What
is
our
meaning
for
doing
this
is
to
keep
our
kids
in
school
as
safely
as
possible,
with
our
staff
as
safely
as
possible,
we're
in
the
business
of
education
and
if
we
can't
keep
them
in
school,
it's
harder
to
educate
them.
We
know
that
that
them
being
present
in
school
is
the
best
that
we
can
do
for
them,
and
so
that
is
the
purpose
behind
all
of
it
and
sorry.
N
R
A
To
if
I
may,
I'd
like
to
facilitate
the
conversation,
I
do
want
to
build
on
to
what
nikki
said,
in
addition
to
academic
performance,
mental
and
emotional
health,
which
does
tie
into
academic
performance,
and
we
had
some
guests
speak
to
us
today.
Mr
kraft
spoke
to
us
quite
thoroughly
about
mental
and
emotional
health,
and
we
had
some
also
additional
discussion
from
dr
gandhian
points
shared.
So
it's
it's
tied
in
mental
and
emotional
health.
We
know
that
there
were
challenges
last
year.
A
That
doesn't
mean
there
aren't
any
challenges
this
year,
but
even
more
challenges
when
we
weren't
able
to
be
in
school
in
person
for
both
mental
and
emotional
health
and
then
tying
into
learning,
so,
and
and
also
the
mask
mandate
that
we
have
for
the
fargo
school
district.
As
we
know
as
we're
following
the
guidance
from
cast
public
health
is
expiring
january
17th,
that's
after
we
get
back
from
holiday
break
and
currently
it's
not
only
our
children
that
are
being
asked.
A
A
P
I
I'm
so
glad
that
nikki
brought
up
what
she
said
about
that.
We've
been
told
many
many
times,
that
the
reason
that
we're
wearing
masks
is
to
keep
the
kids
in
school,
because
we
all
know
what
a
disaster
last
year
was
in
not
having
the
kids
here-
and
it's
been
pointed
out
to
me-
by
board
members
and
by
administration
that
all
we
have
to
do
is
look
at
west
fargo
and
look
at
the
numbers
of
days
that
students
are
missing
over
there
because
of
their
mask
recommendations
rather
than
mandates.
P
However,
the
closure
usually
lasts
one
day
because
they
have
on-site
testing
of
the
students
and
if
they
test
negative
the
next
day,
they
can
return
to
class.
The
t
the
parents
have
the
opportunities
of
keeping
the
kids
out
as
long
as
they
want,
but
dr
agree
told
me
that
they
have
lost
very
very
little
in
person.
Learning
there's
been
very
of
a
minimal
amount
of
online
time
spent,
and
the
consequence
is
that
the
kids
are
in
school
they're
without
masks
and
their
incidence
rates.
P
I
have
actually
continued
to
be
lower
than
ours,
so
I
I
just
see
no
practical
reason
that
we
are
continuing
to
mandate
masks.
Anybody
who
wants
to
can
certainly
wear
a
mask
staff,
students,
anybody-
and
I-
and
I
and
that's
great
by
me-
but
it
should
not
and
never
should
have
been
made
a
requirement
of
all
students.
N
So
in
in
regards
to
a
follow-up,
around
fear
and
and
closures,
you
know
this
is
something
that
also
came
up
on
our
superintendent
conversation
with
school
board
members
around
closures
and
fear
driving
our
policy
and
again
it
goes
back
to
my
statement
around
we're
letting
emotions
making
our
decisions
rather
than
scientific
evidence,
and
so
we're
allowing
organizations
that
have
the
power
to
say
we
need
to
close
to
cl.
You
know
we're
allowing
that
and
we're
allowing
these
policies
that
aren't
based
in
science.
N
You
know
just
because
we're
afraid
that
we
might
close
down-
and-
and
today's
point
I
think,
excuse
me
that
whole
story
truth
be
told-
I
think,
even
in
shakopee
the
real
story
there
correct
me.
If
I'm
wrong
rebecca
excuse
me,
is
they
just
extended
their
holiday
already
vacation
by
one
day,
so
you
know
they
make
it
sound
like
it's.
N
The
entire
district
has
closed
down
and
and
the
reality
is
I
mean,
we've
we've
even
heard
fargo
cast
public
health
say
this
is
going
to
be
an
endemic,
something
that
we
live
with
right
from
year
to
year.
So
are
we
really
going
to
be
closing?
What
about
all
the
data
out
there
that
says
we
did
more
harm
than
good.
By
closing,
we
should
be
fighting
up
against
that.
We
should
not
be
afraid
of
it.
We
should
be
fighting
up
against
it,
so
I
guess
the
last
point
I
would
like
to
make
around.
N
That
is
when
it
comes
to
again
ask
yourself
these
important
questions.
So
the
last
change
was
really
didn't.
Come
from
fargo
cast
public
health,
it
came
from
north
dakota,
department
of
health
according
to
dr
gandhi,
and
and
that
change
said
we
can
remove
the
mandate
after
2
32
pm.
So
anyone
in
our
buildings,
after
that,
including
students,
whether
it's
classroom,
opportunities
or
sports
or
how
much
sense
does
that
make
does
covet,
not
happen
or
spread
after
2
32.
N
A
A
O
C
O
B
O
C
A
U
U
U
I
went
to
the
discovery
choir
concert
on
november
30th
and
tomorrow
I'm
attending
the
ndsba
lunch
and
learn
for
engagement
during
difficult
times.
I'm
looking
forward
to
that
one,
and
then
I
was
asked
by
north
high
school
to
present
at
their
career
day
for
the
high
school
students
next
month
in
january,
two
I'll
be
speaking
one
on
being
a
physician
in
our
community,
but
they
also
wanted
me
to
speak
on
being
an
elected
official.
So
I
have
a
whole
little
talk.
O
N
N
We
had
a
presentation,
and
I
just
want
to
make
sure
that
I
hit
the
highlights,
because
it
was
really
around
homelessness
and
some
of
the
things
in
the
community
and
partnerships
that
happen
and
and
clearly
that
is
something
that
has
increased
in
terms
of
our
student
population
here,
and
so
I
had
some
highlights
to
offer
you
but
I'll
bring
it
next
meeting
and
then
there
was
also.
We
also
did
a
a
conference
follow-up
zoom.
N
F
F
B
A
couple
things,
first
of
all,
for
those
on
planning
we'll
be
meeting
at
7
30
friday
in
this
very
location,
the
sec
had
a
board
meeting
earlier.
Last
week
we
finalized
the
process
for
the
innovation
fund,
grants
that
are
now
going
to
be
made
available
to
all
the
sec
districts
by
application,
and
then
somebody
will
be
awarded
those
grants
had
a
facility
update
right
now.
B
It
looks
like
the
sec,
we'll
probably
be
relocating,
either
march
or
april,
to
our
new
facility
out
in
south
fargo,
and
we
are
scheduled
as
an
rea
to
have
our
credit
accreditation
visit.
I
believe
in
january
it's
going
to
be
remote,
zoomed
in
so
more
to
come
on
that
and
lastly,
I
just
want
to
take
this
opportunity,
as
a
board
member
and
on
behalf
of
the
entire
fargo
public
school
community,
to
express
my
condolences
to
the
stigman
family.
I
don't
know
if
you're
all
aware,
but
kathy
stigman
passed
away.
B
R
The
reason
that
applies
to
the
school
district
is
the
majority
of
the
nurses
that
they
have
recruited
and
I
believe
and
missy
was
there
as
well,
have
already
recruited
several
hundred
to
start
phasing
in
april
and
a
good
majority
of
them
have
students
that
will
attend
the
fargo
school
district.
So
I
appreciated
having
that
information
and
they
are
seeking
communities
advice
on
that.
The
predominantly
a
lot
of
the
recruits
are
from
the
philippines.
R
However,
all
of
the
nurses
that
they
are
recruiting
speak
fluent
english,
but
we're
not
quite
sure
about
the
families,
yet
so
I'm
sure
the
district
be
able
to
handle
that
wonderfully
well.
This
morning
I
participated.
I
I
serve
on
the
chambers
public
policy
committee.
That
is
a
regular
meeting.
I
was
also
interviewed
by
the
financial
audit
team
that
is
going
through
the
audit
process
for
the
school
district,
which
is
an
annual
process.
R
R
So
there
were
some
wonderful
comments
about
one
of
the
teachers
from
the
explorer
academy
and
without
going
into
detail,
they
want
to
express
their
appreciation
for
the
drivers
and
aides
of
valley
bus.
We
all
know
that
is
a
very
a
special
population
that
has
some
extra
needs
to
board
and
depart
the
bus,
and
so
our
valley
best
partners
are
very
much
appreciated
as
well.
R
I
have
sincere
and
growing
concerns
about
the
financial
limitations
imposed
on
our
school
districts
from
the
state
legislative
level
and
how
those
limits
will
hamper
districts
ability
to
provide
competitive
salaries,
especially
in
today's
job
market.
I
am
referring
to
the
state
foundation
aid
increase,
which
we
received
one
percent
last
legislative
session.
We
had
to
work
really
hard
for
that
and
we'll
continue
to
fight
for
that,
but
also
many
are
not
aware
that
our
state
legislature
also
limits
how
much
we
can
tax
locally
without
voter
approval.
R
I
have
been
a
long
time
advocate
for
smaller
class
sizes
and
our
current
level
of
programming.
I
am
quite
sure
that
our
students
and
our
community
and
our
employers
appreciate
the
level
of
education
and
and
the
wide
variety
of
what
we
do
for
our
students
and
we
need
to
start
working
on
this
as
a
community.
R
I
I
guess
what
I
guess.
What
I
want
to
say
is:
we
need
to
continue
to
fight
for
smaller
class
sizes,
and
that
means
more
educators
and
more
space,
and
that's
why
we
have
to
sometimes
move
boundaries
to
keep
these
class
sizes
small.
But
I
am
a
firm
believer
in
that
so
planning
committee.
Please
keep
that
on.
Your
radar.
Governmental
affairs
will
be
discussing
it
as
well.
It
is
not
pointing
fingers
at
anybody,
but
we
need
to
work
on
it
as
a
team
to
work
together
to
compensate
our
teachers.
R
Well,
if
you
will
close
and
saying
there
is
a
fast
food
restaurant
on
south
university,
that
is
paying
17
dollars
an
hour
that
annualizes
to
about
35
grand
a
year,
how
are
we
going
to
continue
to
compete
with
those
type
of
salaries
right
now?
We
are
part
in
part
of
a
negotiated
agreement,
but
we
need
to
start
working
on
it.
Thank
you.
M
Thank
you
and
before
I
begin
thank
you
for
the
grace
to
attend
my
daughter's
first
band
concert
ever
she's
in
sixth
grade,
and
I
was
thrilled
not
only
to
hear
her,
but
what
wonderful
band
instructors
we
have
at
discovery
and
I'm
sure
throughout
the
district,
but
it
was
exciting
to
to
be
a
part
of
that
and
listen
to
all
the
different
things
those
kids
are
exposed
to.
So
I
apologize
for
being
late,
but
I'm
grateful
for
that
opportunity.
So
thank
you.
M
M
We
have
some
real
successes,
some
real
things
to
be
proud
of
in
those
schools.
We
have
some
real
wins
and
I
know
we
have
hurts.
I
know
we
have
needs,
but
the
amazing
job
that
these
educators
and
principals
are
doing
with
these
kids.
I
was
toured
around
each
of
the
buildings
by
students
who
were
so
proud
of
where
they
were
at
and
what
they
were
doing
and
what
they
were
learning
that
it
was
just
really
really
really
a
joy
to
be
able
to
do
that.
M
That's
one
of
my
favorite
parts
of
our
school
board
responsibilities
so
shout
out
to
them.
We
have.
We
are
ongoing
with
the
recess
commission.
We
have
now
planned
our
meetings
through
the
end
of
january
and
we
are
targeting
to
have
our
work
complete.
Then
so,
we'll
see
if
we
can
meet
that
goal
we
met.
Last
week
we
meet
again
tomorrow,
fps
foundation.
M
We
met,
I
believe
it
was
last
week
they
are
doing
incredible
work
and
they
are
always
working
on
fundraising
and
supporting
a
lot
of
the
needs
that
we
have
within
our
district
they're
doing
a
fabulous
job.
I'm
proud
to
be
a
part
of
that
shout
out
to
becky
and
corey
for
all
that
they
do
with
slim
staff
cea
will
be
meeting
next
week.
M
A
Thank
you,
okay
back
to
to
me
regarding
committee
reports
and
liaison
assignments.
I
I
attended
the
greece
production
sunday
and
that
was
fantastic.
In
fact,
I
was
able
to
attend
all
musicals
for
all
of
our
high
schools
and
they're,
just
all
great
in
different
ways,
the
from
into
the
woods
to
guys
and
dolls.
In
greece
we
really
had
a
variety
going
on
within
the
school
district.
A
It's
fantastic
entertainment,
oh
my
goodness,
and
we
trans
we,
we
moved
through
from
into
the
woods
where
the
entire
cast
and
everyone
there
was
performing
wearing
masks
so
then,
gradually
getting
to
guys
and
dolls
in
greece
where
that
wasn't
required,
I
don't
think
it
was
required
for
guys
and
dolls.
So
it's
just
really
interesting
to
see
that
that
progression
and
the
talent
and-
and
today
I
happened
to
be
on
facebook,
facebook
and
I
saw
the
there-
was
a
live
feed
from
the
vivace
davies
choir
performing
one
of
the
parents.
A
A
There
was
a
health
technology
and
trades
career
expo
overall
for
ninth
graders
with
in
local
schools,
but
I
understand
at
least
from
talking
to
a
couple
of
the
folks
in
charge.
It's
I
understand
that
fargo
schools
sent
both
ninth
and
tenth
graders.
To
that.
I
hope
I'm
correct
in
in
saying
that
I
believe
it
was
to
help
make
up
for
not
being
able
to
attend
last
year,
so
I
learned
there
that
santa
gets
from
his
sleigh
to
the
chimney
in
well.
Let's
just
say
in
a
way
that
some
of
us
haven't
imagined.
A
So
if
you
operate
a
crane,
you
might
have
or
have
seen
how
a
crane
operates.
You
might
have
another
idea
on
how
santa
gets
from
the
sleigh
to
the
chimney
at
eagles
elementary
november
23rd,
a
group
of
first
graders
listened
to
ricky
white,
who
was
the
fargo
schools,
indian,
ed
cultural
specialist,
give
a
short
presentation
on
a
native
american
cultural
presentation,
and
so
eagles
is
one
of
my
liaison
schools
as
well.