I'd >> like to call the central school board meeting for November 17th, 2025 to order with all board members present except for Kger and welcoming our new board student rep Chrisi. Welcome. Happy to have you. Please join me in standing for the pledge of allegiance. >> I pledge to the flag of the United States of America. and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Is there any changes conversations from board members? >> Move to approve as >> I'll second that motion made by Crayle, second by Aishans. Any other conversations? >> All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. All those opposed? Agenda is approved. Moving on to A5, the consent agenda. If you were in here a little bit earlier, refresh your screen. There was some um extracurricular assignments that were added to the consent agenda. Is there any conversations or questions from board members? Hearing none, I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. Is there a second? >> Motion by second by Ericson. Any other conversations? All right. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. All those opposed. Present agenda is approved. Am I going too fast? >> No, you're good. >> We'll move on to acceptance of gifts. We have the Norwood Young American Lions for $400 $400 for title one night. The NY Lions Club for $400 for literacy night. Central Booster Club for the steam Lego kits, $2,500. Central Booster Club for drama sets, props, costumes for 3,000. Any questions? All right. Again, extremely generous from our community. So, thank you. Move >> over gifts. Mot by Proox. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Second by Vince. Any other conversations or questions? All right. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. All those opposed. Gifts are accepted. Moving on to public forum. All right, we'll move on then to the monthly reports. We'll start with the student council. If you want to just stand up, say your name, your grade, and give a little report, we'd appreciate it. >> My name is April. I'm a senior and I am one thing that we're doing. So, but like how many food items you can get or donations. Um, and the winning writer time gets a free liquor. We're also competing with the middle school like as a high school versus a middle school to see who can get the most because we've been trying to get in a lot of donations in these past years. Um, also our rock outside is primed by Mr. Roi and the theme is Minecraft I believe. Um, also we are starting to plan. Oh, we also had a blood drive in October and I think it went pretty well. We donated blood which is always a good thing. Um, and then we are starting to plan things for winter and we have a meeting tomorrow. >> Excellent. Any questions from board members? >> All right. Thank you. So, is there a place for the community to donate food also or? >> We are going through the bal basket and >> Okay. Yes. >> Excellent. Thank you. >> Also, if you have kids here, send it with them. >> Are you doing it by pound? >> No, I think we're doing it by item. >> We'll get those ramen boxes. >> Cheat code. Excellent. Thank you. Thank you so much for coming. You're more than welcome to stay, but you would be probably the first student council repside would if you chose to. So, we understand if you have other things to do. So, thank you very much for being here. Appreciate your work. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> We'll move on to student representative report. I know Chris, it's your first day, so you don't have anything that is okay, but if there's anything you want to bring up, here's a good time to do so. I think the whole smart pass thing working pretty well for the past few days since we've like pushed down on it. >> Other than that, I think the kiosk sense of getting rid of it, I think they did work in classrooms, but otherwise I think everything's going pretty well. >> So, just a little background. So, when our students at the high school are going to go somewhere, um we don't have like a paper pass system. It's a smart pass system. It's online. And so when we first rolled it out, um, and please fill in if I'm saying something wrong, when we first rolled it out a couple of years ago, maybe three years ago, um, you you you typed you typed in your pass, you got your pass, and then you kind of left your Chromebook on your desk, and your teacher could see when you were gone, and like after a certain amount of time, it like would turn red like, "Oh, where's Sarah?" you know. >> Um, but teachers went to a kiosk system in their in their room, so it was like one computer for the entire class and things weren't working as well. Uh so, uh it it's we went back to we went back to um the individual system and and we're seeing good results kids of kids where they need to be middle school. >> Part of that is Mr. Larson and I send out a weekly recap of the top users and >> destination where people are making passes to. So, we're trying to just collect more accurate data with the kiosk. >> Got a little funky because some kids would fake on, you know, all the ins and outs of things. So, we're trying to tighten that up more accurate. >> The days of bringing the toilet seat to the bathroom. >> No, no more days of burying the toilet seat to the bathroom. That is funny. That's funny that you bring that up. Oh gosh. >> All right. The key. That's No, it's good. >> Yeah. No, that's good. >> Um, anything else from Chrisa or questions from board members? >> Thank you. Welcome. >> Thank you. Welcome to the team. Um, we'll move on to superintendent reports. >> You bet. Um, so up uh in your screen and behind you here, I have our monthly um check-in on uh enrollment and um we're holding pretty steady. We're in that we're still in the 940. I mean, we lost uh kind of some onesies and twoozies here. Um but we're still um well above our budgeted our our fiscal year 26 budget amount, which is 915. That's represented by the yellow line. So, um, and then year-over-year, um, we're we're still above what of of our projected, um, enrollment. So, that is that is really good news. That's, um, um, a really positive trend that we've seen over the last couple years for sure. Um, any questions on enrollment? Uh, tech uh, the the tech and, um, the tech levy, staff development, and curriculum um are are attached here. And um just for your approval, we we generally don't go over them. But one thing I did want to bring up to all the board members is uh the leader the 2026 leadership comp MSBA leadership conference just opened up. Um and that's in January. It's um uh January I put it in my calendar. Hold on a second. Let me say the right dates here. I think it's January 16th and 17th. 15th and 16th is the actual conference. Um but one thing that I would like to point out is on the 14th um there is uh an opportunity for any board member that's gone through uh phase one and phase two which is everyone at the well everyone except for Tony at the table um uh to do phase three which is igniting uh I think it's called igniting strategic teams or something like that. Um I you know honestly I would I would love it if you would look at your calendar and see if this is something that you wanted to um wanted to do. I would encourage all of you to to come as a as a board or to go as a board. It's free of charge. Um you can I know the last time we've had people go down there and stay down there just because it's easier with with traffic and whatnot. Um but it is a it it generally is a good conference. Gives you a chance to connect with other um board members. Um it's it's quite well attended. I mean I I would say there's probably I don't know over a th there's generally over a thousand people there um from across the state of Minnesota. So um just uh uh I think it enrollment closes like a like the to it closes on January 4th or 5th or something like that like right away at the beginning of January. Um, so if you could take a peek at it and maybe um I'll check in with you again next month, but if you already know it's something you want to do, I can register you right away. Um, I really would encourage it. I'm going down. I I I go down every single year. >> The 14th was the three phase three. >> Yep. So the 14th >> before >> Well, I think that I think phase three is a day long piece. So it's like a 9 to four or something like that. So it would if you if you went to just phase three, it would be all day Wednesday. But if you went to the whole thing, it would be all day Wednesday, all day, excuse me, all day Thursday, and then it gets done at like 1:30 or something like that on Friday >> is the last is the last session. So, um I have like if you haven't if you haven't gotten the the journal, um yeah, so if it all the details I it's it should be like right in the middle here. When I was looking at it, it'll talk about phase three. Um here this is it's right here on this leader. It's this page right here. It has the leadership conference. So if I'm looking at phase three is 9:00 am to 4 pm on on Wednesday and it's at the high regency downtown. So um I would just really I've never done phase three >> conference. >> Pardon me. >> It was good conference last year. Fun. >> Yeah it is a it's a Yeah, it is kind of fun. Good way to refresh. >> Mhm. Yeah. So, um, anything, um, uh, just to follow up from last month, I know we talked briefly about soccer, our soccer co-op. Um, uh, we did have I did have like a back and forth with Sibly East. Um, and I talked to I talked to the superintendent there today. Um, they came back and they're like, "Well, our busing costs are going to go up. We would like to put the busing costs in the fair share agreement." and I just said, "No, that's not that's not how we do a fair share agreement, we're not going to take on their busing costs." Um um now, if we have if it's a game night and they have to have an additional bus to like bring a to bring a kid to a game, that would be something that we would put in a fair share agreement because that's part of a a a contest, if you will. Um but not their daily practice busing costs. Um I honestly don't know how they're leaning. I know they um I think they weren't successful in their levy here a couple weeks ago. I think that just adds another layer of complexity to an already complex situation for all of us now. Um but I will stay on the record as I think it's a good thing if we would take it on. Um just for the simple fact that our players, our athletes would get recognized in a conference. We have a set conference schedule. Um um we can like I said we can get all conference um nominations. We can qualify for playoffs. I mean there's just there's just a multitude of of positives um for all the students in particular central students. So >> how many kids are we away from having our own team? Um, so we c so I think the I think the hard part is we are young like really young and um so I think Joe I'm looking at you Joe. I think we had we had 13 or 14 participants just for us. He's looking it up right now. >> They I Let's see how close I am. I think we had 14 and Sibly East had 20. I think there 34. Am I close? >> 13. 13 >> had 22. >> 22. Okay, I was close. >> Yep. So, um, so we had in the mid-30s. I the like ideally you want at least 18 to field a varsity team. >> At least 18. Um, um, you know, and if you were going to run a full schedule, JV and varsity obviously need you could you could do that with 40 kits. Um, so it at this point in time I think we need the co-op and and I think they want it too. I I do. I I just there it's a it's a it like I said we're just young so we have a lot of lot of seventh, eighth, and ninth graders playing against um a lot of older kids, juniors and seniors. It's it's boys versus >> grown men here. >> They only played eight varsity games. The rest of the schedule was JV to >> build that group. We kind of follow Rockford Schools is doing the same thing >> for three seasons in a row. Rockford played a JV only schedule with the hope of, you know, as they're a seventh and eighth grade, by the time they're 10th and 11th, then they would play a varsity schedule and a JD schedule. >> So, we we've been talking about kind of that similar process. >> Yeah. >> So, we could do a sign like a two-year agreement with three. We wanted to do three. >> Yeah. So, we'd want to do three. And the reason for that is is we are currently in or the season that just ended was the first year of the Wright County Conference two-year schedule. >> So, next year if we did this, we would still we would be they would still be in the right county conference, but um we could pick up some games, but we would still be running a quote unquote independent schedule. Yeah. And then we would pick up the following year we would be in the mix of the right county schedule. So we would do that for two years because they do like home and homes and then we could like and and that's basically what I pitched to um civiliz superintendent is we would do this for three years and if we found that it wasn't working or if somebody was unhappy we could just walk away from it after two years and and go back to whatever it is we wanted to. I think another piece of this is Lester Prairie is part of this co-op. They have yet to send somebody. But but you have to remember like going from Lester to where where do they practice? Gaylord. They practice in Gaylord >> is a is that's a hike. and and if we were here and we already have an agreement from the city um that Friendship Park would be our you know an additional practice site and potentially a JV game site um that we could you know >> 20 minutes is different than an hour, you know, and and especi So we would see we would see how that goes. And and I think we talked about last time I think uh um we had we had somebody on staff step up to be the coach. Um but he fully admits that he is not a technically he is not a soccer coach. He is he is a logistics coordinator. Kind of like me with esports. It's like logistics coordinator of getting all the ducks in a row. Um, I do think we would have a really good chance of getting a um a soccer person that would be good for our kids technically and and coaching wise. So, >> so he said he'd let me know by Thursday >> because I I know our athletic director wants to build a schedule one way or another. >> What's our alternative? We just maintain >> maintain Yep. maintain the system and and again over there with them as the host the what's their conference Joe? I'm sorry. >> Uh they're in the South Central >> South Central Conference does not have soccer. So we are running a fully independent schedule down there. We're playing like St. James, St. Clair, New Alm Cathedral or Yeah. You know, and and pulling going the other way to the city. It it's just it it works. It's just not the best for our kids. Okay, that's all I have. >> Has Lester Prairie been involved in these conversations? >> No. No, they don't. I mean, we're we're in contact with them, but they I mean, they uh it's >> um I think >> um we will let them know. Okay. That and >> yeah, so they so they're part of the girls they can join the girls co-op as well. They No, they can't join the girls co-op. That's just Mayor Lutheran >> and us. Thank you. >> And Castle. Excuse me. Thank you, Joe. >> What would the like the practice day busing costs like just ballpark >> currently? Or >> so currently they be because of how many girls they send over, they use a van. Um uh so their costs are significantly lower. We have to use a bus to send our boys over. Um, and it was, let's just say give or take, $6,000 for a season for those busing costs. So, they'll they'll probably they're they're gonna they're they're gonna eat the cost between whatever that van is and the driver and >> probably about $6,000. They use 4.0 as well. So, I'm guessing the costs are similar. So, we're So, let's just say it's $4,000 more than what there is today divided by x amount of x amount of participants that they have. They and we like I I don't want to sound um just like that's just kind of the way it is. We did that we did that with our girls soccer and Mayor Lutheran for years >> years and and boys to Watertown mayor for that matter. I mean, it's just it's it's I think it's it's it's easy for me to say because it's not it's not my it's not my transportation money, but it's the the experience is going to be significantly better for all the kids or all the athletes. >> Thank you. >> That's all I have. Yep. >> Any other questions for Superintendent Shakmire? All right. Any other board reports? >> All right. Hearing none, we'll move on to discussion items. Mixen. >> Discussion items. D1, fiscal year 25 audit presented by DB and K. >> All right. This is Andrew Grace. You've seen him before. He is going to be presenting our audit. and um have at it whenever you like. >> Thanks for having me again this year. Present the audit June 30th, 2025. Um there's two documents that you have in your agenda packets. One being your financial statements and the other being our communications letter. So in that financial statement, I wanted to highlight our independent auditor's report. So going on to the next slide here, uh it does highlight kind of what our role is as your auditor and also what your role is at the district. And your role is to prepare the financial statements and our role is to provide assurance on those financial statements through our audit. So that provides assurance uh that the financial statements are fairly stated in all material respect. So do that through our audit opinion which is a clean unmodified opinion which is the best that we can give as your auditor. Uh just a couple other bullet points going back to that that last slide there. Um in the communications letter we do have some other uh information included in there. Um, we also have our government auditing standards report and our Minnesota Minnesota legal compliance report in the financial statements themselves. The government auditing standards report talks about our consideration of internal control over financial reporting. So, we take a look at the processes and procedures and the policies around the preparation of the financial statements and we're required as your auditor to provide in writing any significant deficiencies or or material weaknesses in internal control that come to our attention as part of that understanding. We had one finding to report this year that was a lack of segregation of accounting duties. It's a it's a common finding for a finance office uh of this size and so without you know adding additional employees. It's it's a difficult one to address but something that the board should can continue to be aware of. The Minnesota legal compliance report then addresses the office of the state auditor's legal compliance guides. Uh we're required as your auditor to report any non-compliance that comes to our attention as part of our audit and we had no findings to report for this year. The communications letter includes all other required communication in accordance with audit standards. So not a lot of updates from previous years. Uh but it also includes a financial analysis. So we'll take a look at some of the trend data, the charts and graphs that we have within that document. Also includes a legislative update and as well as some emerging issues for some uh future accounting changes. So going on to the next uh slide, we'll dig into the charts and graphs. So to begin, I wanted to start by taking a look at the general education aid formula allowance. So about 74% of the revenues within the general fund come from state sources. The largest component of revenue uh that comes from the state is in the form of general education aid and that's a function of enrollment in this uh formula allowance here. So that formula allowance was at $7,281 here for 2025. That was a 2% increase over the prior year. The other side of that equation is is again enrollment. So you hear quite a few different enrollment terms. uh adjusted ADM is one that was one that was kind of on the slide there previously. But to kind of tell the story of this calculation, we wanted to to just start with resident ADM. So these aren't uh the U students that you actually serve, but these are the ones that are exist within the district boundaries that you could serve. So it kind of gives you an understanding kind of that demographic here over the last five years. It has been pretty um consistent or flat since 2023. did increase a little bit here in 2025 to 1,00 about 250. Majority of that being in that kindergarten um area with the other, you know, areas um um elementary being fairly flat and a little bit of a decline in secondary there. Uh those numbers get um you can go one more forward just uh there we go. So um to get to the pupil unit number which is used in that calculation for general education aid uh it starts with the residents uh that are served and it also takes into account the open enrollment process and then after uh after those numbers are determined. It also takes into account waiting. So that waiting chart there at the at the top shows um that you get about a 20% premium for secondary students. Uh so that again it goes into that calculation of pupil that adjusted pupil unit serve number. But one thing to highlight just in terms of the open enrollment process is we did see uh residents going elsewhere remain fairly consistent dating back to 2023. It's been right around 560, but the non-residents coming in have increased considerably over the last five years. So that was at about 161 back in 2021. It has increased each of the last uh each of the years presented here at to a high point here in 2025 at about 252. So that's really uh kind of what's driven the that adjusted pupil unit number increase to a high point here in 2025 at 1,61. Next chart just kind of gives that same information just in bar graph form format. Um one other chart that's kind of helpful is just to kind of look at the rate of change uh with those numbers. And so you can see that here in 2025 I did see about a 3.2% increase in the pupil unit serve. Going on to the next chart. Uh also wanted to highlight just the makeup of general fund revenue. So again 744% coming from state revenue uh which was the largest component of the increase here that we see in 2025. Uh overall we did see about a 6 and a half% increase uh increase of about $910,000. Um that state revenue uh increase relates to that increase in enrollment, the increase in formula allowance as well as well as some additional special education funding. Uh so really kind of driving that increase overall. um other um categories are fairly consistent with the priority year. Also wanted to highlight the budget to actual results. So this really highlights the board's role as it relates to the financial statements and that's adopting and monitoring the budget. Uh the final budget called for $13.9 million in revenue, $13.9 million in expenditures uh after transfers out to other funds. Expected about a $220,000 decline in fund balance overall revenues came in at about $15.1 million. So about $1.2 million better than anticipated. Majority of that occurred in that state sources line which came in about $900,000 better than anticipated. So being conservative for enrollment numbers, special education funding which ultimately came in better than anticipated uh ultimately drove that variance there. On the revenue side, uh expenditures are basically right on budget, just over 1% variance overall. Uh about 14.1 million compared to a $13.9 million budget. Then after uh considering transfers in and out had about a $974,000 increase overall in fund balance. Uh next wanted to highlight the allocation of general fund expenditures by program and this really just highlights the consistency in terms of that allocation with about 62% going to the instructional category. Uh going on to the next slide. Um this highlights the general fund operations overall but also provides kind of a breakdown of um the different fund balance categories. So as we saw uh in in terms of the overall operations we did see an increase in fund balance of about $975,000 which brought uh total fund balance up to $3.5 million the highest in the years presented. If we take a look at the bottom part of that chart uh this highlights the the different components of fund balance. The first that I wanted to highlight is all of those restricted categories. So when the state provides resources to the school, uh certain funding sources are restricted for particular programming and activity. And if those dollars are unspent at the end of end end of the year, they have to be set aside uh for those purposes in future years. And that those restricted categories rep basically represents what that balance is as of June 30th, 2025. So some of those uh resources were spent down, some of them grew a little bit. The most significant changes that you're seeing in terms of the overall increase in fund balance occurred in that assigned fund balance category that increased from 387,000 to 998,000 for future programming and the unassigned uh fund balance uh increased from $987,000 to1,482,000 at the end of the year. >> Can we stop right there? Does anyone have any qu I I anticipate some questions on that slide. Does anyone have any any questions on this slide that we can talk about? Amy's here. I'm here. >> I mean, I know we had um targeted, you know, higher unassigned as a portion of total expenditures. >> Yep. >> Uh the it feels like the >> the revenue uptick was more than we >> expected. Is that what's driving that? and and and I would say generally that's in special ed revenue. And so like I want to paint uh I'm looking at you so just I'm gonna I I'll say this and then I need I'm going to look at you to kind of correct me if I say something wrong. So in the last year we've had an increase of 44 students on IEPs and um and so we've had to hire more staff for them as well. So even though we've had more revenue in special ed, there's some costs that come along with that because there because the it's yep, we have more revenue, but it l it it l it lags it lags when when that revenue comes in. Um and in in addition um part of the reason we put we put some of this money in a in a signed fund balance is if you recall uh in the last legislative session um special ed transportation is is decreasing from 95% to or 100% to 90%. And um special ed cross subsidy aid is going to be we don't know what's happening with we're assuming that something's going to happen special cross subsidy aid. I think the the governor and the legislature targeted $250 $280 million in special ed cuts that are going to hit us this year. So, we are we are anticipating that those funds filling in the gap of of what's going to happen that um we don't know that's going to affect us. So, um we feel like this kind of sets us up for the least amount of student impact. I I'm look Okay. All right. any anything you want to add? >> I was just going to add one other thing too and we um just that unassigned fund balance category at at the bottom there at 1,482,000. You know, one time one thing we like to highlight is just the board's policy as it relates to reserves and financial health. It's not necessarily a target fund balance, but it is a minimum fund balance threshold that the board's established, and it's to maintain no less than 7% of budgeted general fund expenditures. And right now, that ratio is at about 10.5%. So that can sometimes fluctuate just based on, you know, legislative changes, the economy, um, you know, and really kind of establishing those to allow for more flexible decisions, you know, during those processes. So just kind of wanted to highlight where that fell for this year's comparison to that. >> So when we were talking as a board, we were like, should we up our fund B? Yeah. I do you remember that dialogue? It's like, it's seven. It's like, should we should we aim for 8%. >> And and and I think our our decision was we would love to really get to 8%. um but we're not going to change the policy. >> And so like this kind of gives us a little bit of runway if if if the policy committee wants to look at that. And and when um when when Andrew goes to the next slide, it I I also I'm trying to set this up. It's also important to see where we are in comparison to um like school or schools in Minnesota as well. And that's on the next slide. Okay. So I'm g I Anything else before he moves on? >> My my other question was on this next one. Yeah. I know we made some changes to be a little bit more conservative on the budget side, >> expecting to increase this number over a couple of years. >> This was just a larger jump than I expected. So my >> thought was that >> are we um are we spending enough in certain areas, right? You know, are we doing the right thing? >> So I how do I want to answer that? Um are we spending enough? It was more just a little bit unexpected. >> Yeah. Yes. I I would agree. So I think what was unexpected to us was the to Amy and I was the level of specialed revenue that came in. >> Uh we met with Paul Faren who is the head of specialed finance and and he um he tried to explain it. He's like you he's like you he's like you've got some things that are lagging. You had more kids. He's like, and and I mean to kind of sum it up, he's like, you're just one bad year away from this kind of going pear shape the other way, you know, and and and we hit >> there will already be a reduction next year. >> Correct. >> And and he kind of get and I can't say it I can't say it on camera here, but he gave us a number that if he said if it all came out of out of uh if the $250 million in reductions came out of special ed cross subsidy aid, he gave us a percentage that we should maybe shoot for. He's like, "If all of it came out, this is what it would be." He's like, he knows that. But, um, uh, what was I also going to say? Um, shoot, I sorry, I lost my train of thought. There's just something else that he pointed out that that it it just gosh, what I I can't remember what I was going to say now. I'm sorry. But, um, I I think we we want to get a handle on it. And for for cross subsidy aid again I just want to point out we have to for every dollar we spend we get 44 cents back. So it's it's getting more cross subsidy aid it isn't necessarily the greatest thing either. You know what I mean? Because that means you're you're you're out you're outputting to get it. So, um, and and we had to make adjustments because of the increase in numbers of our of special ed students. For sure. You know, >> we're essentially set to absorb the impact of some of the upcoming budget cuts >> better than we would have been otherwise. >> That is a perfect that is a perfect summary. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Going on to the the next slide. This gives another ratio. It's not directly or not exactly the same as as the board's policy, but does give more comparable data in terms of, you know, how the district compares to statewide averages. And this specific ratio is unrestricted fund balance. So, this would include both your assigned fund balance and your unassigned fund balance as a percent of unrestricted expenditures. So, think of those other restricted categories. It wouldn't include those related expenditures in there as well. So, that ratio with the surplus for this year did increase to about 21.3%. uh which is a bit more in line with with the uh statewide averages overall. >> We also provide two other charts here. One being the revenue per student number as well as expenditures per student. And this just gives some um a different level of of of analysis just in terms of you know how things have shifted in comparison to enrollment. Also it it kind of factors in maybe some of the construction activity that's taking place. So we can see here in 2025 uh did decline a little bit from 21,000 down about 20 20,000 overall there was an increase in in the general fund uh number there with uh increase in revenues at a greater rate than enrollment. uh community ed increased uh building construction kind of uh came down there with with um some of that construction activity, but historically the district's been below statewide averages as well as uh you know similar districts within the uh same medium peer group on the expenditure side. Um also, you know, kind of historically has been below statewide averages as well as the peer group overall. Uh but did see a little bit of a decline in the general fund, meaning that um expenditures did not uh enrollment increased at a greater rate than expenditures, but overall did see a significant decline uh because of the activity in the building construction. Last two funds that we have to cover are the food service fund and the community service fund. So first uh highlighting the food service fund. uh did see a fairly break even year, just a $8,500 surplus, and after other financing sources, ultimately did see an increase in fund balance to 170 uh $178,000 at the end of the year. And then the next slide highlights the community service fund. Um, this fund uh did have some spend down of fund balance over the last couple years as there's been some changes in programming in this area and and did see a surplus here in in the 2025 of about $137,000 increasing that fund balance to $142,000 at the end of the year. And I think that's I think based on our discussions kind of part of the goal is to establish some reserves in that area too again just to allow for some flexibility in terms of programming. So that's it in terms of our our audit results and as well as that financial analysis and uh you know appreciate you know Amy the team and all their help throughout the audit process but I'd like to open it up for any questions >> on the community service fund. Why were there so we're up 136 what's the difference in that? So I would say if you look at the if you look at the two previous years I I think it's important to look at it from a from a global standpoint. Uh we were running some classes that had seven eight kids in them. >> Yeah. >> So we basically said we need to have full classrooms and um and that I mean so we Yeah. So we we trim some of that up. Yep. Um, and I I think furthermore, we're probably anticipating a little bit um that increasing a little bit more this year, too. Um, as we shut down the Cologne site and >> um moving to moving to one site, it's going to make things more efficient for sure. >> Anything else for Andrew? It's nice to see you going in that direction. >> Yeah, it's I I honestly it's it's been >> Yeah, it's been it's been a few years coming for sure. It It feels We're not in a trend yet. I don't want to and and I just I I do I know Andrew already did, but I want to thank Amy. Um she just Everyone needs an Amy in their life. I'll tell you that. She's uh she she is she is um very cognizant of where we're spending money and um and just ask the right questions at the right time. So it's good. So thank you Amy for everything you do. >> Any other questions? >> I think it's good to see that, you know, our adjusted people unit rate is going up at a higher rate than our resident rate, right? So >> we're getting people entering into the school at a higher rate than people are coming to the community. So we're, you know, converting it, bring people in. >> Thank you. >> All right. Thank you so much. >> Thank you. Thank you, Amy. >> Right. You too. >> D2 student support services update. >> Welcome back. >> Hello. >> All right. So just a few things in our world. Um we had a back to school supply drive um back in August. It was supported by Love Inc. Um you don't have to call them. Um St. John's help organizer event, but Sarah Being was there to help and approximately 60 kiddos from our district were able to get school supplies um for this school year. Um weekend backlog program is up and running. Um the food shelf helps us and then um Sarah gets u grant money um to help support this. So um kids go home with a bag full of food for the weekend. Um and this year we have six families, 13 kids that are benefiting from this program. Um we are in the season of thanks right now. Um so we have 21 families, about 41 students this year that will get a Thanksgiving meal. Um, community feed members donate and then mac and cheese provides the meal for us with a 15% discount. So, they get turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, gravy, um, sweet potatoes, green beans, and fresh baked pie. Um, and then the admin team plus um, Kirsten and Sarah, we help deliver all the meals um, to the families, which is is really fun to get to go and, you know, deliver some joy for them um, on that day. Then in December, we're doing our season of giving. Um when I printed this, we were at 23 families and we are now 25 families. Um so roughly 60 kids um will have presents under the tree this year. Thanks to teachers, um raider time groups, um community members for donating um so the kids can have some joy on Christmas. Um so we thank all the community members, all the staff for their generosity. Um the next one is uh structured literacy training. So part of the read act um our staff got trained or in the process of getting trained with the letters um and our pair educators who are in the thick of working with kids um with reading um they are also getting trained. So Leah J our school psychologist became a trainer. Um so on our half days our paras are coming in and they are getting two hours for training each time. Um, and you can see the sessions. Um, there's four different sessions and what they're going to be trained on. So, they've finished one already. Um, and we have good feedback from so I think I think they appreciate that continued education themselves. So, they feel confident when they're working with kids. Um, multi-tered systems of support. So, our MTSS team is what we call it. We have one at the elementary and one at the high school. So teachers who have concerns with kids um it can be academically it can be social emotional um they come to the the team and we um develop interventions. We look at the data um and this year if you go to the next slide it's showing how many kids we have in that tier 2 tier three um piece of the triangle. So elementary and title one we have 45 kiddos. um reading core we have 40 which I can't remember if this is after I talked to Andrea we have another reading core person that joined our team so that number may have increased already um and then social emotional those kiddos are working with like Sarah Beadley um and we have 85 kids that cycle through and um have groups with her um and then at the secondary level in middle school we have 48 kids that are receiving um reading intervention high school 24 middle school math 42 um high school math 11 which is a math elective with Miss Lunford. I think uh Mr. Larson has talked about that too but um we've seen a lot of success by having that elective. Um and then social emotional at the middle school we have six kiddos and executive function we've got 20 kids um Mr. Halbach and Miss Hansen um are helping with executive function. >> Can you talk about what executive function is? >> Yeah. Um so executive function is uh the way in which you're organizing things. not necessarily always just in front of you, but even your thoughts like graphic organizers just to help prioritize um how do I get all this homework done, you know, how do I make a schedule? Just kind of helping kids learn and understand. Some of us naturally just know how to organize and other kids kind of need that direct instruction. So Sarah and or uh Mr. Halbach and Miss Hansen have groups where they're pinpointing those skills and helping kids develop them. Um, and we've seen good success with that, too. I think, um, it's a good thing that we've brought. Not all kids just need academic support. There's other pieces of us that make the puzzle all together. So, um, and then our last piece that I wanted to share is Allison Cruz, our speech pathologist, is, um, headed to Washington DC for the National Speech Conference. And she's actually going to have a piece, um, that she's presenting, uh, with our name on it. So, they'll represent Central Public Schools while she's there. um and it's part of her grad school that she did um her thesis on, but it's like gestures and how that relates to language development. So, she is headed there on Friday. Um it's a quick turnaround. I think she comes back on like Sunday. So, but she's really excited and wanted to share how cool that I think that's just an awesome opportunity for her to share what her knowledge is and that she works for us. >> So, St. Cloud, right? >> Yeah. Cloud. >> Yeah. So, so St. cloud state and asked her to come along and and they were impressed with her with her work. Yeah. I mean, honestly, it's we have we have a lot of great staff that work here and I mean, it's just a it's just a testament to her hard work and and continued learning. It's just fantastic. >> She's been a great asset to special team. >> Agreed. >> Any questions? >> I don't have Poppy this year. >> No, Poppy. I love this. >> All right. >> Great. Thanks. Thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> All right. D3 2026 27 calendar final and 2027 28 school calendar. >> Okay. So, um it's um mark mark aside so that way you don't get it confused. 26 27 it's it's back to back. So we're talking about 26 27 first. So um this nothing has changed. Although although >> it's very Yeah, it has changed. This looks a lot better. So So I'm I'm sure I'm sure our city leaders are watching are going to be watching this podcast. But I had I had a city leader um the executive director of economic de development. She's like, "You know what? That calendar is on on most people's fridge." She's like, "That's you're missing an opportunity to like um to to kind of show off Central Public Schools. You should brand that thing." And I'm like, "You >> should laminate that." >> I know. You Yes, you should laminate this calendar. Anyway, we rebranded it. It probably it feels honestly it feels a lot easier on the eyes in terms of layout. Um I was joking with the folks down at this end of the table that um um design work is not my forte. So, somebody else did this and I'm very pleased with it. But so so we imported everything from our from our other version of our calendar into here. I worked with CA. We had a meet and confer here about a month ago. And we added we added in the conference days. So if you if you if I bring you through, we added in November 9th and 12th for secondary conferences. And where's elementary conferences? Um where >> um there should be some other Oh, that Yeah, because uh the other conferences are before school and then we and then we have the elementary conferences and secondary conferences um uh on March 10th and 12th there. That something's off on there. I can I can tell already that something's off. I think we're missing a conference date. So, >> we have one. >> Yeah, we we have a we have an uh there's something that has to be adjusted on conferences here. So, I hold on. Let me grab my other my other version. So, so here's here's what happens when we import. Uh I I I just got this one back today because I noticed it before and then Okay, bear with me. On air production. >> Yeah, it's I I >> Yep. Here. Wait. Wait. Uh, let me get my um, listen just a second here cuz well, and we're not voting on it today. Um, but I will I will get Here we go. Here's the calendar with conferences. This is the old version. So, we were going to do November 9th and 12th for the secondary conferences and then November 10th and 12th, need to add that in. November 10th and 12th for elementary. And then in the spring it was March uh 10th and 12th for secondary conferences and then um March 11th and 16th for elementary conferences. 11th and 16th. I'll I'll talk to Kyle and get those added in. Um but just taking you through the overall calendar again. Uh this this next year um we are back. So this year, if you recall, we are we are going after Memorial Day. Um because we have two weeks off over winter break. This this calendar, which which you approved the bones of last year, we're able to get back to that 20 May 28th, which is before um which is the the day before Memorial Day. Memorial Day is on the 31st. Um um I I guess I don't I mean typically adding conferences in I I mean there hasn't been a ton of discussion at the board level about conferences. I just it's um >> Yeah. Yeah. So I'll I will get So again, this is first blush and then we'll approve it next month. So I'll I'll make these edits and again I have a version that has them on. They just in the import there was a something lost in translation. But and any questions about the overall just structure? >> Are there any teacher work days after? No. >> Would you ever are they done? >> So, so the 20 So the 23rd is a no school, but no, there aren't. No, we do not have so at the same time. >> They're done at the same time. So that's that that's a half day and then and then we do that and we we've had actually pretty good success the last few years about getting staff to come to graduation. And again, you're all obviously invited to graduation, too. So we want to have as many staff there as as possible. So half day they get their grades submitted, clean up, graduation. See you in See you in August. Okay. So I'm going to I'm going to have you flip to the other side. The 2027 2028 calendar. This does not have conferences on it. So again, what our our cadence of calendars is we approve two calendars at a time. This is I just bear with me. I'm just saying this for everyone here. We so we approved the first the first draft of of this calendar um the bones of it and then next year at this time we would add the conferences in and then do 2829 calendar. Um so this is our this is our first draft. So I'm going to take you through it from from the beginning. So go up to the top to August of 27. Um, our new teacher workshop will be on on that um on that uh Friday before workshop week. Then workshop uh so there's they're already So we got some they did it they did it the wrong way. I need to move those down. See I'm already seeing some errors here. So uh workshop week would be the 30th, 31st, 1st, 2nd and not the Friday. They just they shifted it down um uh when they did the coloring of the boxes there. and then we will continue transition day. If just I I would like a brief bit of dialogue about transition day. Um I know I know we've asked about it when we do our parent survey. Um everyone's still on board with transition day. I know like the feedback that we've gotten from middle school uh parents specifically is like, "Yep, this is really good for our kids." Um the feedback that we get from elementary folks is um for some of them they probably don't even remember the old the old way we used to do it because we used to do like a pop in um like an open house style where um I'm just going to pick on Sarah because she's next to me but like Sarah's Sarah's very um um assertive as a parent and she dominate, you know, she would dominate the time with the teacher in the way that we do it now that some of you have had with your with your children is there's a set time you're alone with your teacher. It's one-on-one. It's more personalized experience. >> Um, >> and I guess I'm I would like just a brief like if we're going to change something, now is the time to change it, you know, as we set the calendar. That's why I'm just asking. I'm not suggesting that we change it, but this would be the the time. Carissa, do you have any feedback about transition day as a as a because it would it's it's our sixth graders, new students, and ninth graders. I don't know. You're just a couple. So my grade we had co seventh grade and then nth grade was the referendum >> the construction >> so it was not the best >> transition >> but I know that it helps the middle school students for sure. >> Bad example. >> Why' you bring that up? >> Perfect. >> Just kidding. Just kidding. Just kidding. Um >> appreciate the elementary >> intro. like a quick one-on-one with your your kiddos's teacher >> good to set the stage. >> Yep. >> Yeah. >> And I think it's a good opportunity to kind of level set as far as like are emails correct. You know, do you have all your supplies? Everything like that. It's just a good opportunity so the first day isn't so chaotic trying to come in. The kids already have a familiarity with the school teacher and >> and kind of know the cadence of where to go. So, I think it's been really good. >> Any has there been any confus? I I don't we've never had a child show up on the wrong first day. So, I I would imagine that there hasn't been confusion, but have have you heard of anything particularly particularly from from Spencer and Tony? I mean, you have elementary age students. You haven't heard of any kids, so it's fine. >> Yeah, but they >> No, I mean, I always have to stop and think, are they going to school this day or >> But elementary has school on the seventh, right? >> No, elementary. No, so the eth. Yep. So, they start the eth. >> Start the eth. I was reading that wrong. So, >> yep. So, they start the they start the 8th and then um because so so what they do is is that used to be a transition that the the the day after Memorial or the day after Labor Day used to be a transition day and they actually got elementary got feedback from their parents. So instead of so one of the nights that we do the or that the secondary does the open house they have one night there and then they do it the next day that Friday which when all the secondary teachers are in professional development for that half day the the the elementary teachers are doing their conferences. >> So then that day is made up on that Monday. So when so when secondary is doing their transition day on that Monday, elementary has a professional development day. It's it's all the same amount of time. It's just on different days. Yeah. >> And and they have found um well I mean honestly what kind of part pre precipitated that is um we actually had poorer attendance um on that day after Labor Day because some families it having it before Labor Day is just we're we're we're clipping at 97% attendance at the elementary school. It's very very very well attended. So I'll just leave frame that in a positive. Okay. So then um moving through October MEA is typical November um we have that uh half day early release on November 5th PD day on November 8th um uh Thanksgiving break again typical just you know it's that the 24th is technically technically considered a teacher comp day and then the 25th and 26th are off. So, we continue that two-day week moving into December. Um, uh, uh, the the Christmas Eve is a holiday. Um, and again, we try to try to keep when and all possible. I I would and I know we just didn't do it in November there, but we try to keep a three-day week when possible. Those are just better. Um, um, so, uh, we went through, you know, through Wednesday of that week, took a took a day off, um, because it fit in the calendar. um and and and moved it forward. I just want to point out that there is an there is an extra day kind of floating out there and it's April 14th. I I know I'm kind of jumping around here, but to make the student days and the teacher days line up, I like there's a random day that we just have to take off and and um we've we have in the in the past few calendars taken a random Friday off in in April. Um, like we could move April 14th to December 22nd or or some other place. Uh, I the way that this sits right now, I like having that day just as a as a float day because where where it kind of can get tricky some years is depending on where New Year's falls. I have to take a like New Year's is a holiday and if it lands on a Sunday and it's going to this is going to happen in the 2829 calendar. It's gonna land on a Sunday and we are going to be required to take that Monday off. So like that I would anticipate that April 14th day moving to like March or January 2nd the following year if that if that makes sense. >> Friday >> that that for that which is Good Friday >> uh April 28 14 >> April 14th or April 28th >> sorry April 14th >> 14th is Good Friday. So yeah. So that so that's not one of our um assigned holidays but but >> let's people travel like it is it's people >> that's what we've done I feel since I've been on it's always been that >> Yep. We can do that >> year before Easter weekend is over spring break >> over spring break. So, so I get and that's I think Josh just pointed out that's the nuance of it is is if is if we if we have spring break over over Easter weekend, you kind of gain a day in there, you know, in in theory. It just it it it all when where where Christmas lands um actually drives a whole lot of the calendar >> to be and this year we have two weeks off because that was the right call. So um >> from March 24th to May that's a grind. >> It is also a backup. >> Yep. So so again that that okay Josh brings up another good point. It's it's like you try to balance how many how many days how many professional de development days that you have at the beginning at the end. Like personally I want our professional development days early because now people can apply the things we're learning right now. Um but the reality is is we do need some some days on the end um like April 14th like um you know some of the days on spring break there where if we if we get one of those uh what's that thing called a bomb cyclone or whatever it is the the the polar vortex what I all these all these terms that we've been learning over the last decade um where where especially if we get some of those cold snaps um um you know where where we're minus 35 -4 40°ree windchill. Um, we have some backup plan there. Um, I I'm at I'm I'm at uh February here. So, February um uh uh President's Day. Um we do have that off. That's for everyone. And that's typically when we would host the um uh the pork produ the pork producers conference is here. Um that's not it's that's not a must, but it's kind of a nice thing uh to to have us in. That's one that's another one of those days that's movable uh if we need it to because I've aligned all of our contracts now that um President's Day and Good Friday are not written in our in our 12-month contracts. We have 10 holidays that are named and then two floating holidays that I can assign uh that I can assign anything to. Just gives us more flexibility. >> Um and then uh moving on to March spring break. We tried to fit that as best. It's it's it kind of is what it is. It's we try to get it between winter season and spring season. No matter I mean, you know, it's it's it's going to affect somebody all the time. But this but honestly right here if you if you look down um if you look down way in the bottom right hand corner and when we're looking at third quarter and fourth quarter it's 43 days in each in each quarter which is we try to we try to even those out you know what I mean um as as best we can. Um and then uh like I said April that one day off and May uh uh the 26th will be our graduation. And that's and and in case you can't see that, that's a little graduation hat emoji on there. It's just little it's really cute. >> And regarding uh the March 17 to March 27th y early release or the step out day. >> Yep. >> Can we move those around? >> Uh yeah. So, so this is the end of a So that is the end of the quarter. >> Yep. >> The 17th. Um uh so that's typically where where we would we would have a marking period um because that's the half day. So we that's that's where we do the the marking period. Um that's honestly where it makes sense. I mean I can move around the the 27th. That's for sure. >> Well, I'm just thinking for you know that long two two months of being in school and then if we do have to use that 14th for a snow day. >> Yep. >> Now you have two months where there's no break at all. So, is it is it going to do >> the 14th and 17th >> in terms of in terms of like one of those would be the professional development day? >> Yeah. I don't know if that's I'm just thinking of because then there's no school that day at least then like >> in case we have to use a day. So, if we have to use the 14th and snow day now they're in school from the March 28th until May 26th. >> Yeah. I it it it is Yes. I >> they're already off a week for spring break and plus one if we keep the end of the quarter. >> Well, we we we do need to keep the Well, I I don't want to change around the quarters. You know what I mean? But but the but the 27th I mean any honestly I can drop the 27th >> on any day. >> I mean we could we could put it on a Wednesday if we wanted to. I don't I don't think >> I don't want to put it on a Wednesday, but I'm just I'm being a little facicious. We can put it where we can literally put it wherever we want. Um, do people have suggestions of where So, I guess here's how I would like this to go. Um, you're the input team. So, uh, right now you're the input team. You'll be the decision-m team next next month when we bring it to the final. But does somebody have a suggestion on where we like leave it as is, put it somewhere else, and then I'll I'll do a feedback loop with CA and say, "Hey, we thought about moving this in a different spot, and here's why." I I don't know if Kissa, if you have any suggestions or move it from there because the two two months is up really hard on students I think to continuously go for two months straight >> with this schedule. What would be a good I guess day off if you had to pick for two months? I mean, is it better to do it go a month and then have something early May, end of April? >> Um, I think with May like we already have senior week and like the end of school days like you do fun event events. So, I think April would be the best. >> Good. So, how do how do you how do you feel about if there was like if if if we you know, right now it's attached to spring break, so that's just a longer it's a longer break. If it was attached to the 14th of April, >> like I I mean, how do how do you feel about that? Does that feel I I honestly have gotten no feedback, which is probably a good thing, right? like, hey, you're when you do take a break, they're longer. I I haven't gotten negative feedback about that. To me, that is a spot that makes sense. >> Well, and it, you know, like for you look on 26, 27, Easter is on March 28th, so that people traveling through the 29th. It works good for family. So, nobody's going to say anything. >> Yep. >> The only time we're ever going to hear anything is when we need a snow day. And now you're back in. >> So, so I I the Okay, I take this back. I did hear feedback and and again keep it in keep it in perspective. It was one person. We had to add we it was three years ago we had to we had to add one day back in >> and it was on Good Friday. I heard about that from one person >> but that was the only day. I mean I think they were like why did you choose that day? Well, it was literally and after I explained to this person that it was literally the only day left in the calendar to to to come to session in, you know, unless it was after graduation, then they understood completely. Oh, yeah, that makes sense. You know, >> I mean, I'm not going to lie, moving it back gives us more flexibility. Mhm. >> I would say to me the 17th because then we could still keep the >> in this calendar year change of year, but then we could keep the 14th >> and then our snow day would be the 17th if we needed a makeup. >> Then we would scratch the edge of that comment that you had. >> It's and then it's a good break because like Chris said, then you have one, two, three weeks sort of on each side. >> Yep. of a for sure four maybe a three-day weekend depending on I mean sorry for sure three maybe four day unless it's a really bad winter >> but there's nothing no >> I I'm looking I'm seeing a lot of I I've seen head not Spencer you good >> yeah I feel like yeah >> we're predicting the snow two years from now >> it will be wrong >> it gives us more flexibility It it would >> Okay. Um, so how about this >> back to CA? See if they because it is a staff development. So do they not want to do a staff develop? >> Um, I I don't I don't Yeah, I think I think it just I I think it just depends on what we're doing and we haven't even developed that calendar yet. So >> what are you what are you thinking? >> On which on development? Yeah, I'm just more dates that I have to work around. >> Well, there's a date. There's a date no matter what. >> I know. >> Yeah. >> Well, you can still do games and everything as old school, they can still do games just like you. >> Yeah, it's it's scheduling it. Let's just Yeah, he's Joel's just tipping you into his world. Like spring sports is just >> Oh, yeah. >> Spring sports. Yeah. >> Yes. And yes, he's it's it >> spring sports are >> Yeah. March 27th is a more likely of a day to cancel than April 17th. Yeah, I got you. I I'm tracking. >> It makes sense. Okay. >> My teacher My teacher hat says >> Okay. 80 80 hat says >> Okay. I will I will get this I will get these colors cleaned up um and get those dates uh for conferences cleaned up on the 26 27 calendar and I will have a feedback loop with CA and expect this to be on an action item for next month. >> Do you need any of like the other federal holidays marked on here like Junth or do you even need June and July on here? >> Um >> if it feels too cluttered. >> I don't have a strong opinion. I'm just >> What was that Sarah? >> Do we need to have June and July on the calendar >> if it's a school calendar? >> I don't think so. >> If it and if it >> maybe that provides space because we have an inter we have an internal calendar that we use for holidays like Junth and and Fourth of July and things like that, >> right? So I mark out the days that doesn't have >> Okay. Well, see there you go then. >> What What do you What did you say, Emily? I'm sorry. I was just thinking if you took out two date all fit right there and >> y >> you could put the attendance lines >> number each of the >> just >> not to not >> I like that feedback. >> I just didn't know if you needed >> but I don't know I wouldn't want to clutter this up more with putting lines on there but if you were to take those dates those two months out then >> do we need Okay. So, it's been and and again, you've got kindergarteners coming in like when we did the whole change to e-learning days, it was a big deal to add that e-learning day procedure in the lower lefthand corner. Is that does that need to be on this calendar? >> I would keep it on there. >> Keep it on there. >> Many people won't remember and people in the district. >> Okay. >> Do we need the student? Do we need the student? That's more for CA and and that's more of an internal thing. Do you care about that >> as parents? >> I don't think so. >> Okay. >> I'm more about knowing when the semester ends. >> And and we can have that on here. Last day of it is on there. Yeah. End of end of first quarter or whatever it is. >> Okay. Yeah, it says it end of first quarter. >> No, >> end of second quarter. >> Like I said, I don't have a strong opinion. I just know if I would. >> All right. I didn't hear what you said earlier. take off June and July. >> Um, yeah. And then Spencer uses it. But but I think what what I think the feedback could we do that, but then right alongside that was could you add the attendance lines on this? >> That's Yeah. To to maybe maybe even keeping the TW but even keeping this the attendance lines could go down here. >> Yeah. It's just something kind of >> Hey, that's >> to encourage people to if you're gonna make this really nice calendar encourage people to >> have it posted on and like it's got all the information that you readily need. >> Okay, >> just >> I like it. Thank you. That's a great thought. All right. Anything else about the calendars? >> Thank you all. Great discussion. Honestly, well done. >> Okay. key operational items. E1, consideration of the fiscal year 25. >> Okay, so what you're seeing here is those are um those are the communication documents. These are the ones that are 40 to 90 pages long. This is uh the presentation was the the the highle stuff. This is the actual audit. Um and you're required as a board um every year to um uh finalize the audit by approving it. So uh that is That is your responsibility to do it each year. So >> any further questions about the audit or >> second motion by Ericson, second by any other conversations. All right. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. All those opposed. Audit is approved. >> Our next board meeting is December 15th of 2025 right here at six o'clock. >> Mhm. and and that's our truth and taxation meeting. So So um uh particularly for um it's that starts at 6:10. So this is maybe more for Tony because you haven't done it before. So how that's going to look is we start the meeting, we go until 610. Um however far we get. Generally we we get through like the board reports and things like that and then we stop. There's an there is a um there's an a a a pause or no a you don't adjourn. You >> Oh, shoot. >> Yeah, there's a recess. Yeah, you recess. You you recess the meeting >> and then Sarah will call to order the truth and taxation meeting. I come out there and I present basically our tax levy um for the public. You there may be people in our in our audience that day. I mean, we've had a couple over the years, but generally it's not it's not attended. But >> I think it was just me last year. >> Maybe it was you last year. So, I will present it. Um, and then and then during just during there's a separate public comment section during that that meeting that's just about the truth and taxation. >> Yeah. >> And then later on, you will approve the actual levy. So if we happen to make it to public forum during our regular meeting anybody steps where we talk about audit, we just have to wait until the truth. >> Yeah. About the truth and taxation. Exactly. So that and then and then we will adjourn the truth and taxation meeting >> and come back into our regular meeting and finish the meeting and then adjourn reg. It's it's awkward or it's a little cumbersome, but it's once you do it a couple of times, you're like, "Yep, that's how that works." So >> there is a band concert that night as well. There is a band concert that night as well. Yep. And and usually so I I already know that on the agenda will be um Joe's going to be on the agenda and truth and taxation. It it's generally and the calendar. It's generally a lighter a lighter meeting. So um we will >> Yes. >> move it along. >> Yep. >> Okay. >> Okay. >> All right. Anything else before we look for a motion to adjourn? Hearing none, I'll make a motion to adjourn board meeting. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Motion by second by Cra. Last chance to say anything. >> All right. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. All those opposed. We are joured. Thank you everybody. Everybody happy Thanksgiving everyone. >> Yep. Happy Thanksgiving.