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The Mounds View representative said Kate Reber, a senior, received an Athena Award after involvement in cross-country, track and basketball, and that the school will send 15 students to All-State Music camp July 29–Aug. 2 (eight orchestra, four band and three choir students). The representative also reported that a student startup, Eartha, won $6,000 as Junior Achievement J Company of the Year for upcycling glass beads into sustainable bracelets, and Girl Ease took third and $3,000 and will advance to nationals in Atlanta. The school’s DECA competitor Macy Adams placed on the podium at the DECA International Career Development Conference in Orlando. The Mounds View representative noted signing day for 28 seniors, prom on May 10, senior awards night on May 14, and other senior events including a senior picnic, sunrise/sunset gatherings and a senior breakfast at Bethel.

Irondale’s representative reported that the school’s robotics team, Nightcrawler, placed first in the Archimedes division at the national competition in Houston and that junior Afomia Mespin was named a Dean’s List finalist. Irondale students earned numerous honors in speech and debate, including a state first-place finish for student Boyana — the school’s first state champion in speech since 2002 — and the coach was named coach of the year at sections. Irondale also reported a second-place finish in the ACE (Architecture, Construction and Engineering) competition at the University of Minnesota, scholarship awards to team members, art awards on display through May 16 at the Ford Family Gallery, a marching-band garage sale May 17 at Edgewood Middle School, and a mental-health walk held the same day as the board meeting.

Both student representatives thanked the board for the opportunity to report. The session consisted of informational updates; no action or votes were taken.

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Perry told the board the district implemented multi-factor authentication for staff, a 24/7 event-log monitoring (SIEM) solution, an accelerated patch-management process and network segmentation for higher-risk systems such as HVAC. He said those steps were the main contributors to an improved external assessment score that rose from 6.89 to 7.34 on the firm’s scale.

“We implemented an event log monitoring solution, sometimes referred to as a SIEM solution, that monitors all of our core systems 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for abnormal activity so that we know if somebody's trying to get in,” Perry said. He emphasized that improving the district’s security posture is a continuing, multi-year effort and recommended repeating external assessments annually to measure progress and maintain accountability.

Beyond cybersecurity, Perry described a “sprint and marathon” approach: rapid fixes this year (replacing broken classroom displays and improving help-desk pathways) and longer-term planning for sustainable device-refresh cycles, classroom hardware standards, software standards, training, and systems integration. He said the technology plan’s core principles are regular and reliable access, full support for teachers and students, and “seamless and secure access to resources.”

Perry also reported work to formalize security documentation and vendor data-protection agreements, called for ongoing staff cybersecurity training, and recommended business-continuity planning as a multi-year priority. The board asked whether the external assessment would be used as an ongoing KPI; Perry said the district intends to repeat the assessment and use it as part of an accountability framework while noting the score can shift as standards evolve.

No formal board action was taken. Perry said the department will continue annual reassessments and will bring multi-year budget estimates to district leaders to support planned refresh cycles and continued security work.

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“Rather than pursuing a single physical location for a community resource center, we are really shifting towards strengthening our coordinated network of support,” Laudine said, describing the refined model as one that will emphasize streamlined access, shared needs assessment tools and multiple entry points through schools, cultural liaisons and partner organizations.

Carl Brown presented usage data for the Ralph Reader food shelf to illustrate the need for a network approach. He reported more than 38,000 individuals were served in the last calendar year and that utilization increased about 34.5 percent between 2021 and 2024. Brown said the food shelf’s Snack Pack and Smart Sack school programs distributed close to 20,000 weekend snack packs in 2024 and that the annual school-supply program serves between 900 and 1,000 students.

Brown said the food shelf’s Operation Joy holiday program recently served about 400 families, roughly 1,000 children, and noted that summer meal sites will operate at Pike Lake Education Center and Pinewood Elementary this year for children 18 and under. He also urged continued community financial and volunteer support as needs grow.

Laudine said the network model will include a formal referral and resource system, a shared needs-assessment process for partners, clarity on partner roles and responsibilities, metrics for impact, and a focus on sustainable funding and training. “By meeting families where they are and inviting them into a support network, we continue to foster stronger relationships, reduce barriers and promote access to services,” she said.

No board vote was taken; the presentation was submitted as a final report on the yearlong goal to explore a community resource center and refine next steps for implementation in the coming year.

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Leatherman said the sample is projectable to ±4.5 percent at the 95 percent confidence level and that the average interview time was about 12 minutes. “If we ask about a tax tolerance for capital projects levy, 25% say nothing,” he said, then added that when respondents were told a $10 million levy would fund safety and security, cybersecurity, and classroom technology, support rose to 67 percent with 31 percent opposed.

The survey found that 93 percent of respondents rated the district’s quality of education positively, a figure Leatherman described as “among the highest” compared with metro norms. Respondents named teacher quality and academic programs as the district’s strongest attributes. At the same time the survey recorded a 51 percent perception that total property taxes are “high,” which Leatherman said places the community in a broadly hostile tax climate category — though he noted the district’s figure is lower than many peers.

Leatherman gave specific cost examples tested in the questionnaire: a $300,000 home would face roughly $15 per month and a $400,000 home about $21 per month under the proposed $10 million levy; the average was presented to respondents as about $18 per month. He also reported that those who described themselves as “persuadable” were most responsive to safety-and-security messaging and to arguments about cyber/data security and classroom technology improving learning.

Board members asked follow-up questions at the meeting about whether current favorable ratings represented a return to pre-pandemic levels and about whether the survey result will be repeated. Leatherman said the district’s quality rating is back in the low 90s and recommended repeating assessments; he also noted that the polling instrument and the public’s concerns may shift over time.

The presentation included demographic breakdowns the firm provided to the board: 65 percent of respondents were cell-only households, 24 percent reported a resident aged 18–34, 38 percent were older than 55, and about 24 percent had a child attending district schools. Leatherman also reported elevated financial stress in the region compared with pre-pandemic benchmarks, and he cautioned that economic insecurity and property-tax concerns remain the leading obstacles to passage of a levy.

The board did not vote on any levy at the meeting. Leatherman concluded by saying, in his assessment, a $10 million capital projects levy focused on safety, cyber/data security and classroom technology would have a high probability of success if run with appropriate messaging and given the current community attitudes.

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Mounds View and Irondale student representatives report spring awards, competitions and senior events

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District survey shows strong favorable views, finds majority support for $10 million capital projects levy tied to safety and technology