I'd like to call the April 28th, 2025 regular school board meeting to order with all members present minus resations and we will stand Father, one nation under the agenda. Anything that anyone needs to add or change? comment. I will entertain the agenda. Second. Any more conversation with the agenda? Hearing none, we're going to move on. See, this is ending. So, all those in All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed? Motion passes. Consent agenda. Yep. Um so I would like to point out on our that um um hold on a second issue with the uh sorry um that we have hired a few of our few employees for next uh next year. Um, so, uh, you can see down there we we hired, uh, Kala, Abigail, Jiren, um, Dne, and Lily to to fill some of our special ed positions and our middle school positions as people are moving around. So, on behalf of the administration from Central Public Schools, I'd like to welcome some of our new teachers. We did have a couple of resignations late last week. Um, people are just relocating to a different area in Minnesota. Um, so those resations are up top and we'll be posting those jobs to fill them for next school year. Question on that. Those any of those regular teachers or what were the you know because you pull all the new hire you know what do you mean regular one they sign teacher par. So so the so the ones below or the the res. So one of them was a parah and the the A and D were paras and B and C are are teachers. Okay. Anything else on the consent agenda? I'll move to approve the consent agenda. All those in favor signify by saying I. Acceptance of gifts A6. Yeah, I Yeah, go ahead. Okay. Um, there was $100 accepted from Teresa George for bowling fees. There was $214660 from Minnesota Bofuels Association for a field trip for Mr. Messik's class. There was $4,66 from Central Boys booster basketball boosters for coaches, $2,000 from Tina Shower for soccer goals, $200 from NYA West Carver Lions for the fifth grade health unit, $200 for bowling from Elroy Lat, $5,000 from American Legion Edward Born Post 343 for track hurdles, and $1,500 from the city of NYA for an AED. Someone like to make second. All those in favor signify by saying I. I public forum. Uh did anyone is anyone here for public form? I don't think anyone filled on the list. Okay. Seeformational items, monthly reports, student council. Um, first for we did like an egg scavenger hunt. Basically, we just hid eggs around the school and then when kids were out of class during passing time, they were able to look for it and bring back the egg to Miss Hammers and for just a prize of candy. And then we had one golden egg that was hidden with hints that Mr. Larson read out throughout the day. We also did the t a teacher. Um you basically just buy a fake tattoo at lunchtime that you can put on any teacher that chose to participate and all those funds would go to restoring cologne Benton Lake and a the emerald ash or park in Norwood. All right. All right. And then we also did another blood drive um just around here again and it was successful. Um so that was good. And then coming up we have a mental health day on May 16th. It's something like a lot of the kids look forward to. Um there's time outside and also inside um student council help set up and then also help run bingo and other activities inside. And then there's also like for the seniors last week there's a couple activities. There's things such as dress up days. There's some chalk on the sidewalk where some seniors go outside. There's also like guess that baby picture is an activity. Um there's a couple others. Those are the the big ones. Right. Does anyone have any questions of the student council? All right. Thank you guys. Thanks for coming. If you if you want to stay, you're welcome to stay, but most people don't. Thanks you guys. C2 student representative. Yeah. Um, lots of people excited for mental health day. That should be fun. And then also, um, a group of juniors, I think, and freshman or sophomores are going to sky zone that day. And there's lots of excitement for that. Can you tell a little bit more about that? Like, how did that come to fruition? Like for like a reward for like the MCAs and like trying hard, like preparing, we get to go to Sky Zone and Yeah. Yeah. And then also people are just like excited for prom, like sports outside, nice weather. I don't know. Yeah, the things that come with the end of the school year, you know. Thank you. Yeah. Superintendent report. Um Mr. Larson, if you can pull up the finance report for April, um I'd appreciate it. So um no change is good. Um so our our you know and just to uh remind everyone the biggest factor for finance in a school district is enrollment. Um our enrollment has uh held steady since December. Um again uh during our revised budget we revised um our our um our budget to 930 students. Um yellow line is the is the revised budget line. Blue line is the trend line for a moment for for the school year. Um, and every month we do uh a recap of our um 2019 promise to voters in terms of of what we did for passing the levy and how we're spending those dollars. Um, and that just kind of shows where we're at right here. A little bit later um in the in the board meeting, I am to be talking about the legislative session, which um has a lot to do with finance. It's a funding year in the state of Minnesota. So, I'm just going to pause right here on this and and we're going to be going into a lot more depth of some of the things that are happening down in the capital in St. Paul um that directly impact central focus most questions. All right. Thank you. Board reports. Does anyone have any reports on any committees? um 288 we had been having some marathon meetings um but it's great. No, this last month. Um, so they have been on um, you know, trying to staff, which has been really hard, especially with special education. Um, and they've been, you know, really looking outside the box and bringing in teachers from other countries. Um, to uh, fill these spots and they are like super super close to being fully staffed. Um, so they brought all of the international teachers into our meeting and had like a big dinner and we got to like meet them all and just it was really cool just to see like how many of them there are, how appreciative they are to be here and excited to work with the students. Um, and they're coming from some from Mexico this year and some from Philippines. Uh, yep. Yeah. And then there's we somewhere else too that they're just working on right now, but we don't have anyone yet, but their their visas are like pending. But yeah, they've done a lot from the Philippines. Um, and they are also looking at like how can that support the school districts like the larger school districts that have trouble finding special ed um teachers and can he continue doing this and staffing 288 and then back fill the schools from that um as need be. So it it was it was pretty cool to see. Um and they're all obviously very happy that we are almost fully staffed for the first time and I don't even know three years probably. Yeah, okay. We're going to move on to discussion items. D1 Raider Baseball Association. So, as uh Crystal and Matt are coming up, um I just wanted to see this up a little bit. So, uh Crystal Kubby and Matt Yaker are going to be talking about the Raider Baseball Association uh with the board tonight. and we've been in dialogue. Um the the board, the Raider baseball association board and I have been in dialogue about how we can make um baseball accessible to as many kids as possible in school while also uh improving facilities while also keeping costs down as much as they can um for participants in in baseball. And so with that, I'm going to turn to Crystal here and Matt Yake. the vice president board member and then also our president Kevin is here. Um just kind of a background of how the Raider baseball association kind of came about three years ago community it was all ran through community ed and it's just the summer base through a league through Hutchinson. Um there were changes with um you know administration with school um communication gaps. It was kind of growing bigger and didn't know where it was going. So there was a need um so we some of us stepped in to create something more stable for our youth baseball players. That's when we kind of came up with the association. It's just parents volunteers and with school growing we figured it was a good time to get this to go. Last year um we partnered with community ed and um on field equipment uniforms. This year we are taking it on solely on our own now. Um but we are still working with community as far as scheduling for baseball and softball. We have a collective shared calendar that we all use. Um so we know who's using it what and it works wonderfully. Um, kind of though, our goal is to build a youth program that feeds to the school system, setting players up for long-term success, um, by providing great facilities and doing that through fundraising, um, hosting tournaments, all that kind of stuff. So, we can do, you know, improvements to the field without having to spend any of the school's funds. Um, and it looks great, you know, when you drive in and it's a great looking field and people want to come here and it helps the community as well. Um, so we're kind of laying the groundwork for a stronger future for athletes and just hoping that for everybody to grow and support teams and kids through all levels is what we're starting out with here. Um, so um, so this year actually was our first year doing this. We held evaluations. We had a record amount of kids that had ever even registered through community. I think it was 95 that we had. Um we ended up yielding seven teams this year. So we did add a whole another team to the league which is great. So we're capping all of our teams off at 12 kids. So you know um just you know easier all kids get reps, all the things. And then just putting them on teams that are more skill-based. We again like I said participate in a pro river league. We travel between Rockford, Hutchinson, Annendale, Yal, um Lichfield, Lichfield, Silver or Sibly East, too. Yeah. So through all of those and so I mean it gets a lot of other towns coming to ours as well um to see you know what we have here. um wonderful and with that all of the kids that do participate in this are all district students as well. It's no one from out of district. So we all are supporting internally here. Um just financially kind of what we came down to with it going from community ed to us. Um community didn't have per se budget. It was more like a bucket. So, we did have to raise funds as of sorts because it wasn't covering the costs for just leave fees, um, uniforms and field maintenance by any means. Um, so that was all-encompassing and we've had great response from the community as far as asking for donations um, and things like that. We ended up only having to raise costs $50 from what it was prior. So, it was still trying to keep it lower. Um and we are trying to add two tournament or another tournament for everyone. So that's including two jerseys, a hat, um three tournaments for all players, and all equipment is included for all of them. So they can just um so kind of what we've had here and like Tim was saying we've been communicating in a kind of a lease agreement um to use the fields because with the new facilities rental agreement um with being now an association not affiliated with school we still want to work closely with the school since all the kids are in district here. Um, so with this, we are looking at partnering with the school to just make upgrades to all the fields. And it wouldn't be an expense at the school, it' be our expense. Um, and just looking at the breakdown of what a field would cost for us to rent. So it would cost about $1,500 a year for practices and games. With that being said, our contribution to the field every year would be um numerous things and we have, you know, sorts of lists and everything, but as far as safety, um it'd be fence tubing on top of all the fences, which is approximately $900 a field to do all that. So, that would all be raised through all of us, nothing on the school. Um follow poles is another almost 2,000 per field to do that. um back stops, just that kind of stuff to upgrade the field. And school would also benefit because they play softball and baseball games on this field as well. So, it would be a shared it just be us contributing and paying a rental facility fee. Um as of right now, what we're looking at is upgrading the current concession standards there. it was only given one window and it's really hard for to get parent and volunteers because they can only see out one side. So, in order to to do that, we are going to be purchasing or we have purchased two of the windows and we've been fortunate enough to get people to donate the rest of the material and their time to put in a so it' be available for all sides. We also pulled a permit through the city which they didn't charge us for because we already have know what's going on there. Yep. Uh we did that just because then that way the parents can watch all the fields put out the west side and they can watch both sets of fields. Otherwise, it's kind of hard for us to get any parent in there to watch a field that they can't watch your kid. And again, that's all on us. It's all the cost of us. Um and another in the future we're looking at is constructing dugouts, permanent dugouts, very similar to what the city, the softball has down there. um just safety, hosting reasons, all sorts of things. And Matt has worked with local companies too that would donate all of their time and some material to those as well. Um so that would be just another temporary coming from the association to those fields and that and that may look where it might be if we raise enough funds where it could be year two could be one field, year four could be another field, year six could be another field. It's I mean it's cost it's 15 to 20 grand. As a board you're having somebody draw out the plan. So it's just not Yep. So once we get the uh approval I mean obviously from you guys uh everything will be all um engineer drawings. They're going to be stamped permits for the city for the whole thing. We don't want to we're not going to do it on weekends and just do it you know as we want. Yeah I know. So I think that's I'm I'm going to jump in. And I think that's some of the dialogue that we've had where um what uh what Crystal and Matt are pitching is is just something in public that kind of outlasts all of us. You know, I I'm I'm usually here three years. You all have four-year terms unless you're unless you're reelected. That that way there can be some stability and it gives everyone it does there there is an out if if it's not working for anyone. But um I don't want to just I don't want to jump ahead here, but I mean you've like I've run the numbers from our side in terms of facilities rental um that we would generate in revenue from from the district uh point of view and just the capital upgrades just far outweigh like what the what the facility um what the facility fee would be and um the district gets to keep the upgrades. You know, they keep the improvement. You don't got to worry about, you know, tidying the $1,500 or whatever it was going to be a year. Yeah. Into something else whether we put in a field that stays with. Yeah. And I'm sorry. Just during any construction or improvements that are happening, you know, is there any additional risk or liability that district would be taking on from the insurance side of things? Like how would that Nothing's going to change the footprint of the fields or the buildings. It's all going to be per permits. is all going to be done the right way. So I dialogue that I've had with Matt is is I mean we're when I jokingly said hey this is a I know a guy stuff like and we're we will be they would the baseball association would work with administration and then we would ensure proper permits get pulled. So what I think you're hinting that um Spencer is like let's say there's a workplace injury on the field while we're constructing this. Does that put us as a district liability in a liability? And the answer would be no. Ensure that proper insurance um was taken out to make sure that that didn't happen. Yeah. All of our all of our contractors that are going to be on site if if we if and when we do this, they are licensed and insured themselves. They might be doing it at nights and stuff because they're donated, but they're still insured. And kind of just to that like insurance part, so we're looking at just what for the facility rental agreement says at this point as to for us like renting the fields. We are just we have the insurance right now just encomp encompassing that part. But we will the more we grow and keep doing things and hosting tournaments and stuff, we will be upping our insurance, our liability, all that stuff. And the insurance company working once it's completely school goes through as well. And that's and um just to point out that's like catastrophic injury insurance. So if somebody gets hit in the head with a ball, heaven forbid, that that way everyone's covered to a certain level. Who makes the decision for like design? Do Okay. Well, I I think I think in in a perfect world, they would the baseball association association is bringing this to you or as a board like do we approve the the the concept. So, there's going to be an action item and then the baseball association would we the district would have final approval of what this what this looks like. So, that way it doesn't it's it stays with the flow of what we're trying to do. We'll we'll submit plans engineer plans to the school board. You guys can look more if that's what you want because then I need to change whatever you want to do. We just want to be careful not to set precedents. That's the only reason you know just because we are a growing sport and you know there could be more down the and just that like the football field the school the base they all I mean colors all the things that it's all very cohesive. Y um just kind of on that we are working right now with what we have down there. I mean it's great but um the upgrades is the shot class. We're working with them. They are building shelving in there and all the material was donated for that. So we have it figured out between the athletic department and us who's going to use what shelves. That way everything's organized. All of the chalk and the quick dry will get out on the floor so we won't have to worry about it getting wet. Um where equipment is going just how it's cared for. open and closure procedures of how we want they want the fields and just working together with the school that too. I mean I think a lot of that we went over mutual kind of benefits here it's kind of you know contribution would outweigh what you' be gaining in funds by us just renting it. um look great from school, the fields, that kind of stuff. And there will be some years where, let's say we uh enhance the fields by 4,000, the following year might be 20,000. It all depends on what we have for funds, what we can afford. No, I think I think the bottom line is is I believe that the baseball association is trying to leverage the talents the moms and dads that of kids who are playing in the in the system right now to to enhance the experience for all kids at at those ball fields. Um I I think uh it's been pretty much a win-win. It's like it's uh our our middle school and school ball is on there like right now and so there really there might be a weak overlap if if if even and um and then and we have some agreements of like who who maintains and manages your job my job. Um but again we uh we are looking for um some dialogue with the board if this is in our best interests and um and my reation is that it is in our and one one thing I like about it this does affect the school affects our communities because it's going to affect the restaurants the gas stations you know the bars whatever as people come in for tournaments I mean so it should be it's not a win-win for the association the school and it's also a win-win for the the community too as we're bringing extra funds into the community because these tournaments do get quite large and are there any other users of the field besides the school association professionally created? So I would say right now the community uses the field for the T-ball level. Um, and so, uh, Crystal alluded to, there's a shared, let's just say a shared Google document between, um, Mr. Stacken, the baseball association, and the softball association, so that way they're they're not clumping on each other. Um, I would I would say I've had minor dialogue with the softball association. I think one of the questions raised initially to me was, well, you know, is this something that we could partake in? how to we've made all these upgrades down to the sports complex down to that field which that is a city-owned field and I really don't have I mean we as a board or a school district really don't have any say of what happens down on that field. Um but I would say at the time that was probably a really good decision for them because these other fields didn't even exist 10 I mean you were involved in that I don't know was that 2014 probably I mean it was a decade ago. Yeah. Sorry. So, but it's also like school ball. So, school ball, both softball and baseball does happen at those elementary fields. This like that that's kind of the win for us is we we as the school would get to use that and and our kids would benefit from that during school ball. And then where those fields are generally not used because we we only have a T-ball level team really. Um um this would keep this would keep kids on the field. But yeah, I mean just I would imagine that people in the community like driving by and see and kids out there playing I think you're missing a little bit but I'm guessing people like that. Good question. Anyone else have any other questions? The field sign stuff on that back page six and then well um also on the scheduling before I forget. Thanks for taking that on because having kids in baseball and showing up in another team there and then trying to work out how you're going to make that work because your whole school, you know, double book what a nightmare. So that's that'll be nice signage. What can you touch on that? So we had spoken there were field signs. So, right now there's just small field signs on there as far as like um we are getting pricing from a local print shop who is also doing all of our ad banners as to getting bigger signs for all the fields and doubling for both of them as far as well as concession ones. And then we are pricing a sign there like an entrance sign or things like that. Um, and actually kind of to piggyback on that, when we were there for seventh grade game, I think last week, there's that sign on the corner with the little roof. I always say if um that would be something I mean, work together, but pointing like, you know, this way, complex this way, school fieldhouse this way, but just, you know, doing so, so that um I want to talk to you about that. So that that what you're talking about is a monument sign and and I have because I this sign down here on the fiveway is unfixable at this point in time. I have priced out monument signs. They're a lot more expensive than what you think they um like 35,000 bucks each. So it just um we would this is kind of an on air production meeting, but this is what we're talking about. It's like the ideas come forward. So how can we work together to get to the end to get to the plan? And I think um ultimately you got to find a name for these fields. Yes. I think you can make this a community project put out to the kids out to a vote. You see what the kids come up with, you know, they take some pride with trying to name the fields. So bring you know the parents elementary we're playing elementary school like we get all the time but they're just across from the elementary school. And my other thing is scoreboards onward. We talk to Joe Clay because I know he has something I know, you know. Um, well, there is a scoreboard project. Well, and maybe this is what you were trying to get at, Josh, but uh I mean there's there's a lot of things kind of coalesing around here. So, there's there's some advertiser things that are happening and and part of that is going to be in the outfield. I think uh you know, there there's a lot of fencing out there. So, I mean, I think there's there is enough to go around, but those scoreboards are the ones that Mr. Clay came and talked to you about um that he's working on th that those are for the the the right the football field. Um so we currently as it is we do not have scoreboards out there and there really is not a plan at this point in time. um doesn't mean never, but it just it just when time does come about that, whether it was a line road that would donate the scoreboards, there's no reason we couldn't put a joint Yep. a joint uh advertising on those scoreboards as well as your football and football. Is that what you were? That's Yeah, we hope. I mean it just well it just dresses up like you said I mean anyone to drive by and oh look at that kids using them it's school property it nobody driving by has a clue what association or who it is they just kids out I mean that's our goal and the more improvements that we can do it doesn't cost the school anything it's so nice when somebody comes up say how much that cost us how you get that done baseball so and and I think I think we kind of like cap We we buried the lead a little bit. I mean um you know I mean and Josh I mean to give you credit. You weren't part of this but we moved that angle line out um I don't know 20 20 feet 30 feet something like I can I don't it went from it went from zero to 24 feet and and and added um plugs for for different base paths. So I mean 60 70 80 foot out there. Um like already the baseball association has donated I by my estimation about $30,000 worth of time and material um just upgrading those those um those infields and yeah we went from a fields that we couldn't use to fields that we were able to use on multiple different levels of softball baseball because we we spent the time on the other that was before our board was even and I I my experience has been I feel like I should be out there with you guys. I feel like my experience has been it's been a very good working relationship thus far and um it's something that I would like to see continue. Yes. So um there there is an action item later on that talks about theou and um and the elementary field specifically. It just is general. It is just general in the in the agenda. But I think what the baseball association is looking for is times of May is kind of a critical time. They have some of these people that are going to donate time and material available in May. And really what they're and I'll say this again, but really what they're looking for is, hey, do we want to enter into a partnership with each other? And B, can we um do some enhancements to the to the um to the concession stand like right now? So that way that those windows that that Crystal was talking about and that was talking about are available and ready to go for when this when the Cor River season starts on June 1st this May. So I think that is those are two of the items that would be action items later on in the meeting. Thanks you guys. Yeah, thank you. Thank you very much. do 2025 end of year parent survey. Okay, so just to update everyone if you want to look at that if you want to look at um that document in here each year we do a parent survey in a parent survey in the spring. Typically it's um administered in May and then I report back to the school board in June. Uh this is a copy of the 2023 2024 parent survey and um we basically disegregate by school. So if you if you have a if you have a child at each school, you would fill out the survey three times. Um um and the questions are the same for each school. Um basically I'll read it to you here. I regular I regularly receive feedback from school staff on how well my child is doing. the quality of instruction meets my expectations, the technology my child uses for school meets my family's expectations, and I would recommend um Central Public Schools uh to other families. And um we have or previous boards have kept these questions the same. So that way we can disagregate the data over time and kind of see, you know, did something did something change at say the middle school um from year-over-year and what could that be and maybe we can address things specifically by school. That being said, this survey is mainly for you all and it this is part of our report card that comes back to the school board in October. There's it's called the um oh gosh, it's called the Oh, it's I'm blanking now. Um, the big one with all the colors. Yeah, with all the colors. Oh gosh. Oh, this is terrible. I feel bad. Don't look at me on the video. Um Um, you know what I'm talking about. But anyway, it gets it gets reported publicly then and back. Um, just just so you know, at least this has been the practice for the past few years is there is an open you can see this area is for comments that parents may have. Um, generally we get quite a bit of we get quite a few comments. um I share those with the board chair. I don't necessarily share those individual comments at the board level because generally speaking they are very specific to a a specific staff member or like like it's it's usually somebody that's had a difficult problem and they want um they want someone to understand that and I do look at all of them and then but if there are general themes I'll I'll create like three big things. There was a theme around, you know, on my and I'll try to quantify that for you all. Like we had seven people that talked about the c like last year there, you know, um Josh, if you remember, there was a there was something about the calendar like, you know, spring break or something like that and and so we asked some follow-up questions of families, but I leave it to you to talk what uh what do you want on the parent survey? Do you like it the way that it is? We'll give you some feedback in terms of changing it and then I'll report back to you in June. Was there something that was added last year? I feel like we added the question, but I think different. I think we took out well we because there was the questions about construction. Yep. There was separated we separated it by the three. Yep. So that was the that's exactly the change. So there was a question about facil like the facilities meets my needs and um and and you're Josh what you may be thinking of is I added a question around the calendar survey last fall. That's where like do you do you I think that what that question was is do you like spring break at the beginning of March, middle of March or end of March and um that was added to that to that survey. That's cool before. Yeah. Yep. That was that was added to the calendar of feedback. Not not to this one. Well, it seems like we've gotten really good feedback. Like it's not it's not like people are just ignoring it. We're getting a really pretty good response. Hundreds of responses. Yeah. And so I don't I don't necessarily see a reason to change any of the questions because I personally like to see the data over the years and if it's different questions, it's different data. So what would you say is the percentage if you had a percentage percentage on what are filled out versus what are not? So um we have we have about 580 unique families and um we get around 200ish back that that so it's it's not quite 50% but I mean the statistics class that I took at one point in time said if you had like 35% uh response rate that's good okay on a on a survey. So, I I don't feel like we've in the past said, "Oh gosh, our response rate is low." Um, you know, I think keeping it short and sweet, too, is probably what helps us get the responses. Usually, if I send it out, please take your time to fill out this four question survey. People can Yeah. Yeah. 30 seconds. And And it's kind of fun because I can see them in real time coming in and really when I send it out, I'll get I'll get a hundred in like the first 10 minutes. just people just do. So what I'm hearing is for right now this is what you would like to see. Yeah. The only other question I would have is there any you talked about there's certain themes. Is there any themes that have been kind of year-over-year that you see consistently that we can make question? Um I would say so I think the question that that has the most variation in it is I regularly receive feedback from my school from school staff on how well my child is doing. And I would say the theme generally speaking very very broad brush is our elementary school receives the highest marks and our high school receives the low marks. Generally speaking um I would I would also say from from year-over-year things have generally gotten better since um since we started doing this and asking for feedback and people have seen small changes. Um um I would also say a theme is when when I add up all of the would you recommend Central Public Schools to your family. Um we regularly hit like and and when I say an affirmative is a four or five. So people that fill it out and give us a four or five we are well over 90% of our families recommend that is what and and I will I compare when I report this back to you. I compare and contrast year-over-year. So you'll be able to see faster. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Anything else? Okay. Well, I will I will get it together and I will report back to you in June on the results. Thank you. D3 2025 legislative update. Okay. So, um I'm I am uh going to give you some updates from uh the legislative meeting uh that I was at just recently and um I'm I'm just going to be really straight and and I this isn't good news. This really is not good news at all. Um and in case uh for you know for all the people at home um two years ago uh we were uh the state the legislature was thinking of all the ways they could spend an $18 billion surplus and that has now turned into 6.2 billion deficit and that means at the state level there has to be trimming all over the places. So um Mr. Larson if you go to the second slide here please. Uh this kind of outlines uh three plans. So there's a there's a a governor's plan, a a a senate DFL plan, and a joint DFL GOP plan. Um these are all uh set in millions of dollars. So how the legislature works for funding is is it's the first year of a bianium and so all the funding happens in year one and then the second year is is referred to as the tails which um typically that's more for like um um like policy. So first year they handle funding, second year they handle policy and um I mean the numbers kind of speak for themselves. So the I want to give the joint DFL/GOP house a little bit of a break here. At the time that I that I did this, they there was not um they had not come to consensus of what their plan was going to be yet because um they are um in heavy negotiations because it's a split 6767 um GOP and DFL uh house. the Walls and Senate DFL plan. Um Walls is proposing for next year or for the 2627 school year a $240 million um cut and then 445 million the following year. And the DFL's plan um is to make the reductions $687 million all in year two. And one of the from a from a school st school funding standpoint, one of the big wins in the last legislative session for schools was that there was an inflation uh factor put on the formula. Um and and they are proposing to repeal that inflationary factor. Um which um is not necessarily good is not necessarily good for schools because that as we know in the last four years like inflation has kind of hit everything. Next slide please, Mr. Larson. So, some of the things that um that are on the table and again the closer we get to to May 20th, uh the more finalized this becomes. Um but uh eliminating non-public student aid and transportation. So, um we do get funds that that we act as a third party that I send right to Zion, right to Emanuel, and right to St. John's. And and we uh allow busing of those students of those private school students on our buses because the families do pay taxes here. and and um we get some reimbursement. Um the the plan here from from the governor is to eliminate all those. Um there is some um uh charter school um cuts as well. Um a big one that that I've kind of been talking about the last few months is eliminating um it's called a Q compts. We are an ATTPS or comp district. Um so our teachers all develop goals with their principal and based on meeting those goals they they give for for all intents and purposes like a bonus at the end of the year. Um so uh in 2014 or 2013 we joined um that plan one of I think 150 districts in the state that do that. Well they u the governor's plan is to repeal that. And essentially what that means I mean it's not guaranteed that our teachers get that but we have a pretty high percentage of teachers that meet their goals uh as well they should. um that that equates to about a $2,700 pay cut for each of our teachers. Um that's a big deal. Um uh reducing schools uh school district special ed transportation. Um you all know that we are uh one of the worst cross subsidies special ed districts in the state. We're the the last I check the 13th worst. Um, basically they're they're saying typically what what happens is if I have to send a student to um, Chaska for a a low incidence program, say we have a student that's deaf and blind. Well, we don't have deaf and blind programming here. We send them to Southwest Metro that Emily was just talking about where kids from Prior Lake and Chesca and Chakapi all that that have similar needs all can have a really good school experience. we typically would get 100% of that reimbursement. I have to float the cash up front to pay the transportation bill, but in a two-year lag, I we as a district get that funding back. Um well, the governor is proposing that um that we would only get 90% of that back. So, that just straight off the top is just a hit to the to the general fund budget. Um reducing our school library aid, we get some we get some funds to pay for mistreat. Um I think $45,000 to be exact. uh they want to eliminate that. I'm not exactly sure what telecom uh equity aid is, but my guess is that's bringing um highspeed internet to like the Iron Range places where it's not there. And um and and the last one is eliminate school district uh compensatory pilot funds. Um this if if this gets if this happens um this would be about $120,000 straight out of our out of our budget. Um so there's I mean there's just a lot of hits. Um if you keep going, Mr. Larson, thank you. Um the de the the Senate DFL plan is to in addition to some of those things um repealing the the inflation form uh the inflation uh in on the inflation inflator on the formula permanently in the tales meaning on the second year. Um, also the non-public aid, um, modifying the literacy incentive aid. Um, uh, basically saying, hey, we're going to give you I'm going to try to keep this totally layman's here. Hey, we're going to give you this money, but we're going to tell you exactly how to spend it, which honestly doesn't help us. Um, and then, um, which this would be a good thing. Uh, the the LTFM, above the line, uh, levy expansion. Basically, that would give you the schoolboard levy authority where if there is a a roofing issue, even though we we've kind of redone all of our roofs now, but this would have been really great like 10 years ago. Um saying, "Hey, you have levy authority to say we need that section of roof done and we're going to levy three million bucks and we're going to spread it across taxpayers." that like that is a that is a actually a good thing because it's not like you're just willy-nilly saying, "Hey, let's spend $3 million on." Obviously, they would have to um and then uh the final thing um which could affect us is giving the school board authority to renew a capital projects levy. So, already um it's in law that a school board can if we pass a levy like we did in 2019, we passed two different levies actually. We passed uh an excess levy of of of $640 per pupil. And then we also passed a $350,000 year tech levy, which is also a capital tech levy and capital projects levy are the same thing. Um you can renew one time the $640 per pupil. The school board can. You can't renew the other one. So in 2029, we would have to go out and renew that if we want, or the board would have to make a decision in 2029 whether we're going to renew that. In this case, you could say, "Well, we're going to renew that for the exact same term for the exact same amount if you want to." Um, and um I think some people would say that's a really good thing. I think others that don't have that don't have a capital projects levy would say you have now just made it impossible for us to pass a capital projects levy. So um you know it's a it's that that has some double-edged swords. Um I'm just I think I mean um let's see here. Um skip the next slide. Uh go to slides. Yep. So I think uh some of the other some of the other pieces there there is some um um there is some things in question um with the with the uh repealing of the of the federal um department of education. It it just leaves a little bit of some unknowns. Um, so with the Department of Ed, there's three main funding streams that affect central schools that that are just like obviously in question because we don't know what is going to happen with that yet. So, we do get federal special ed money. Um, for us that's about a half a million bucks each year. Uh, nutrition is the largest one. Um, that um that's several hundred thou, you know, 78 $800,000 a year um from from the USDA. And then title one, uh we are a title one district which is basically we get some money for depending on our poverty rate to to to help pay for intervention teachers um um or and EL second EL elelll second language students. You know, if that money were to be given back to the states, I think I would hope that the state would then just say, well, whatever your allocation was, you're going to get that. But there's no guarantee. That's why I didn't say it's a question like um um you know sometimes sometimes um very loud interests get listened to in St. Paul, you know what I mean? And and we're not as big as some of the other um people on the block. So it just hopefully it's just in it's just in question. So I think that's my wish. Um, but I will keep you updated. Um, as you know, I think May 19th or May 20th is is when they have to have the uh budget passed and and again that's the that's the hope is that the budget gets passed. We can see how that affects us and then I can develop then I can develop a fiscal year 26 budget for you all to to pass by law on June 20 or by June 30th. Um, so we'll see how that ends up going and um, just know that things are in flux and I'm willing and if I'm can answer any questions, I'm willing to entertain any questions or comments that you have about this. But um, a lot of it is in flux. But this is but generally why I bring this up, what gets talked about is what gets talked about in like the conference committees and things like that. And if this is what's on the table, there's probably not going to be a ton of changes from what's on the table from the different houses and branches of the net. And not really any of it is good financial. Yep. Sorry. Yeah, no problem. Do we need any more conservative this upcoming budget in preparation for that? Maybe I I it's I that that is a great question. So I feel like we've already been conservative. So when you um we are starting to a game out a little bit of a little bit of preliminary budget for for 20 um for fiscal year 26. And um like I said last month, we have we have a negative we have a net negative 30 students from our senior class to what our anticipated kindergarten is. Um so that's like 300,000 bucks. And the good news is I just I just looked at our enrollments for 20 uh 25 26. We have 22 enrollments already that of kids that aren't even here. We're already we're already filling that in from from kids academy St. John's Emanuel and Zion. So, um, that feels that feels really good. And, um, when Amy asked me, "What are we setting the budget at?" I'll tell you, we're going to set the budget at 215 kids because that is conservative. You know, I it's where you really get upside down is when when you're thinking that 230 are going to walk through the door and only 200 or I said 20 915, excuse me. um is when you think 930 910 that that that gets really bad really fast. So to your point we we do need to take a conservative approach and um and unfortunately we have to almost in a position where you have to they give you a year they give you a year to get set for it and then you have to be you have to respond to that. Um I I don't want to say the sky is falling, but I'm I'm honestly really worried about the 20 2 the second year 27 28 that's the second year of the budget is is what is really worrisome to me. So it's a great competent question. Any other questions? move on to operational items. E1 elementary ballfield upgrades and okay so if you look at theou um that's up on the screen behind us and in front of you here um this is is basically outlines um the proposal that um the baseball association just talked to you about. Hey, we would enter into a five-year agreement where we would wave um I'm just going to give you the highlights here where we would wave elementary field usage fees. In return, uh administration would work with the baseball association for them to develop a five-year plan of capital upgrades. At the three-year mark, um we would we would um enter into dialogue with the association to see if we wanted to extend that. And I my recommendation is to a move forward with this and b keep it at five years because five years I'll like I was saying before I'll last always. I think um if I'm fair in discussing a concern that the baseball association has is they would be concerned that if the superintendent changed or if the majority of school board changed like overnight an agreement could just dissolve. They would like to they would like to outlast everyone and it gives everyone a chance to to chime in as um new board members or or new superintendents or what new administration comes in. you know, like if that if that, you know, so but we clearly lay out, you know, whose job it is to chalk the lines. Um, and then we wave the fees, who's getting umpires, who's paying everything. Um, and but it but what it doesn't say is year one, we're going to upgrade this, this, and this. We I would I would work uh in tandem with the with the association about what those upgrades would be. the upgrades wouldn't necessarily be part of it. It like the specific upgrades because um like like Matt was saying um some of the timeline of when some of the upgrades happen are dependent on some donations which they have not yet. So, but they're they're confident and I'm confident based on their past experience that they will be able to get it because a lot of the a lot of the time and mater material are um being provided by moms and dads that um are associated with the association. I struggle to see anything concerning or negative about this. I I just feel like this makes really good sense for both groups. So along that lines, um this is so um if you go back to when I mean last year when we made the rental agreement or the facilities use agreements, the the rental fees. One of the models that we looked at was Watertown Mayor and basically it said, "Hey, um they're their baseball association. You can use our fields. We're going to wave the fees because you're a 501c3, but you are required to make a five 5,000. Yeah. Uh 5,000 per year capital improvement. So they So essentially, and we decided not to go that way, which is fine. It was it was my recommendation not. And now um I think it would just for this one, we're we're seeking that sort of arrangement. I either way it's I feel like it's a win for us. Agreed. Agreed. Just a couple more specific standard operation. Um is that going to be so for for them to use which I can be fine with but that way we won't have a community trained to use their equipment. Is that we have to give specific? Um, I don't know if community has ever used that concession stand. Yeah, I don't know if they would for something else. I don't know. So, I I think it's I think what the intent is is similar to the to the concession stands here. So, here the the Raider um uh booster club runs both of our concession stands up top and down below. I think um they're like, "Hey, we're going to put these upgrades in that." I mean, this is one mechanism that they're going to fund raise, selling candy bars and pop at these tournaments and these home games. So, um I mean, from my honestly, from the from the operational standpoint of the school district, um I don't I really don't want anything to do with concession stands. Like, I just I I love that other people are are banning it. They're collecting money and they're turning around and giving it right back to our programs. I would agree. I'm just thinking more of now all of a sudden, let's say something goes wrong with the softball field. Now they want to use that stuff and the concession stand where it was done with the baseball association. We have with them and now softball comes in, they want to use stuff and we want to be just protect ourselves that this is like an outside. Um, so I so I'm open to a whole bunch of suggestions and and then if there's a part of this that that you want me to look at that we could that I could dialogue with them. I don't I guess I don't necessarily want to have this negotiation on their face sitting right in the corner. But like but I would also argue like around Stiffton's Fest um if let's just say there's a softball tournament out there like that like somebody has to run the concession stand you know and and I guess I'd rather have it be a school entity or an entity related to the school than the Stiffens Fest and and I and I love Stiffens can we can we spell that out can we spell out that so I'm not so so you're saying make it the baseball. I would I would misunderstand. Okay. I misunderstand clarification that it's not us and it's or like first right of refusal or something like that. That's essentially what it says. That's how I read it. Okay. Yeah. Okay. So, I'm getting I'm getting some head nods from the baseball association in the corner that they'd like that. Well, that's for their games. That is for their games, right? That's how I read it. Yeah. I'm just just to be clear because if we're all gone now, the next person reads it as it's their games. Yeah, it's the So maybe I can just add a word any any game or event. Yes, I can I can very easily add that. So if if if somebody eventually when we get to the point of somebody making a motion about this, if when you make a motion, I think somebody needs to say with the edits discussed, you know what I mean? And then the senior arrangements just so the school is just maintaining senior areas respected. We're not adding anymore. We're just it is where it is. If there's any additional stuff that would be that well that so the the actual facility is owned by the school. So when we're saying maintaining like if if something breaks on the bleachers it's it's like yep they're one could one could take the approach of well they use it 50% of the time. Let's let's charge them. That's not It's our bleachers. We're going to have to have bleachers no matter what. If something if if it's part of wear and tear. Exact. I think that's the even if we add twice the bleacher that are out there, we're still going to maintain whatever is out there. Exactly. Exactly. And the only other thing that ISB was like Troy alluded to earlier with the uh the field and the signage and sponsors. Is there something that we want to so we'll see how that goes with um play in the whole scoreboard but we don't want to be locked out of these fields for five years and not so we so we have had um part of part of the scoreboard uh package if you will um that that Mr. is doing. It does have some signage out there and um in addition like the I'm trying to I don't mean to call on you out here but like it's you guys are going to put signage on the on like the seventh street all green field out outfield the whole all of that the whole outfield we needed to so like we when I emailed you like we need to just talk about where there's going to be we're going to dialogue about where where the signage goes because there is a package that we're trying to do for scoreboards that that obviously the school district has to want to have something in in here with that once we figure that out. Um I can add something like that. There there was some there was a a bullet in here around around signage and I just took it out because I knew that there was I knew there was some something added in there and then based off of earlier um I know there on that other slideshow there was a committee I think we should have on the as a school board we have our community ed committee we have our policies committee we should have a facilities maintenance committee or whatever to be a part of so that way when something gets brought up. So like the sketch for the dugouts, then we have a committee that can report back to the board with that color and just for whatever it is. Maybe it's the lawn care, it's the football fields, who knows? Anything outside? We have a bigger outdoor area now to cover. So we should have a committee look at for next. So maybe I can put that on the agenda for next month and we can discuss it. I mean, as a board, you can create whatever communities you want to create. So, that's a that's a good thing. I don't disagree. I think it would be good to see here are the here's the capital plan. Here's what we've accomplished to the investments being made into it so that we can as a board, as a softball, as a baseball association be able to communicate that public as well. Okay. But hey, we've um the baseball association, we've we've given them $4,500 in rental fees and they've contributed $70,000 in facility upgrades. I mean, that's a good story for everybody, right? For us to be able to tell anybody that's, you know, in the community that's wondering why why do they get it for free? Well, they they sweat sweat equity into it 10 times more than what Yeah. Can we just put them on the schedule like we do with the community giving, you know? So when we do the when we do the board um yearly plan in June, let's we'll add them. See you next year. So probably I mean it would be like a great kickoff time. So like April, May or even like around when triyouts are or something people starting to think this is what the baseball did last year. Hey, we're getting ready to ramp up for this year. I love it. And that protects us and the baseball to because I'm assuming you are lifers. You're going to have new people in your roles. I think it's great. Any more discussion on this topic? Otherwise, I'll entertain a motion. Motion to approve. Second it uh with the with the changes discussed that we have discussed and and those are the um signage and uh the concession standpoint. Oh, second by. Okay. Is there no any other discussion? Any other discussion? All those in favor? I Any oppose? I got you. It's our first time. It's okay. It's okay. Next board meeting is May 19th. Uh it's the third Monday because of Memorial Day at 6 p.m. Entertain a motion to adjurnn. So second. I Troy. All those in favor? I I comments. All those opposed? Motion passes. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. It's all good.