On the minutes, I'd like to suggest a correction to the minutes. During the discussion on April, was it April 13th on the federal audit? I was recognized and spoke regarding the need for an operational audit. Member Ellison interrupted me while I was speaking by calling the question for an immediate vote. Calling the question cannot be used to interrupt the board member and therefore it was out of order.

I would wanna just clarify that we can make sure that that is the proper procedure before we make the change.

Sure, we could table the approval of the minutes until we find that out, and then go, you know, approve the rest of the consent agenda.

Bids were opened on April 22nd, 2026, and two vendors submitted bids. After reviewing both bids, it's recommended the award go to the lower bidder, St. Paul Beverage Solutions in the amount of $290,162, a difference of about 70,000 from the next bid.

Since 2019 it's gone up almost 60%... The cost will actually reflect what the federal market order for milk is... if in September of 2026 the price drops for milk, our price will drop. Our expense will drop. If it goes up, our expense will go up.

There are other benefits beyond school lunches that come with it involved with participating in activities. There are some consumer benefits that are available, you know, out in the market for people who qualify... Amazon Prime is available for a much lower rate... mobile phone providers provide reduced rates for people who qualify.

The district acquired this property in February of 2020. After we passed the bond referendum, our plan was to where possible expand the footprint of our high school and middle school site... That plan changed because properties near the high school, adjacent to the high school became available. And so the district was able to acquire more properties next to the high school, making this property no longer needed.

I would think that if we could revise the resolution so that, because the way this works is that this resolution gives staff authority to negotiate and sell the property without the board reviewing the purchase, or the sale agreement, is that true?... I would suggest, I would just do a, you know, a revision that the agreement, the sales agreement should go to the full board for approval and that it should not be delegated to two board members.

No, it authorizes the board to, or it authorizes the administration to work with the realtor to list it and then it authorizes the board chair and clerk to sign the purchase agreements... That's the way this is written.

Well, I think we would, we would not take a loss on the house... We've had conversation with them of what they believe they can sell the house for, and it would be, you know, a positive amount, a positive balance for us.

So contrary to media reports and those feeding the media reports, requiring a majority vote to pull items from the consent agenda does not silence individual board members. And it does not prohibit individual board members from speaking on items on the consent agenda... However, maintaining the trust of the community is more important than the considerations that led me to vote in favor of this motion.

Well, I just would say thank you for correcting this judgment error, and getting back on track to what I would call good governance. At least it's a step in the right direction. And hopefully we can do more things to add to transparency and listen to the public, public forums such as streaming the public forum and things like that.

I just wanna say that for this I have the expectation if you're gonna want to pull something that you're gonna reach out, that any board member's gonna reach out to the superintendent, whoever says that, because there's a lot on that consent agenda. So if you have something very specific, let us know so that we can have that information ready for you at the meeting.

When I hear statements like unusual spending, I would like specifics around that because we're throwing stuff out there to the public to cast doubt, what are we talking about here? Like what are you specifically referring to when we make comments about unusual spending? Because these are people's careers, these are people's reputations, and we are paying these folks to do their jobs.

I sent an email... I did review the video. And during the meeting, while Mr. Skaar was speaking, Member Ellison made a point of order, which is allowed to be made while a different board member is speaking. The chair is allowed to decide if that's a valid motion... It doesn't seem like any one board member was more out of order than any other board member at that point.

Discussion stopped, and I was interrupted when it was called into question, that was out of order... I'm sorry, but that's not in the minutes. What's in the minutes is called into question and then it immediately came to a vote.

I would just say, you know what, in general, maybe in general we should just adopt a policy where you let board members speak without interruption.