to call the central school board meeting December 16 2024 with all board members present except Pearl box please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance Al to the flag of the United States of America and to the repblic for which it stands one nation God indivisible liy and justice um a couple things about today's agenda we'll go through it until 610 we'll get as much accomplished as we can till 6:10 and we'll do the truth in taxation we'll close the regular meeting for temporary and then open the truth and Taxation and then go back to a regular scheduled meeting so we'll just kind of start rolling and see how far we get we'll move on to A4 approval of the agenda any comments or questions from board members changes be approve second motion by CRS second by lury any other conversations all right all those in favor signify by saying I I all those opposed agenda is approved we'll move on to the consent agenda Mr superintend Shak is there anything you want to highlight in there yep I do um we did have a resignation um Connor Smith uh director Smith or clerk Smith uh yeah there we go director clerk what what do you do again um resigned uh effective January 1 um and so we will be accepting that resignation as part of the the consent agenda and just like we talked about last meeting uh there will be a process to fill that vacancy um that the new board will consider in January but I want to thank uh clerk Smith for his service to Central Public Schools thank you any questions comments question on high is for special letter are we fly yeah so so we so we are we have two postings or two job out there so um we did hire a special ed teacher and that is for elementary we did have an increase in enrollment and along with that um a lot of those students had IEPs so we are sitting at a case loads of 22 23 26 um right now so this will curve that we still then have an ECS opening special education that will be Tracy Warner that position is still open um I know director Brun has a couple of irons in the fire hopefully we can get that our hope is to maybe fill that with the December graduate so um so these so these are positions that were vacant since the beginning but we're also part of the budget and then laun supervision is there do we have so we had one she resigned okay um and so this is a replacement and then um yeah so no problem any other questions from board members move to approve the consent as presented I'll second that motion May Ly second by I any other conversations all right all those in favor signify by saying I all those opposed consent agenda is approved we'll move on to A6 acceptance of gifts um $2,679 190 from the American Legion for Central band equipment $3500 from clone Fire Relief Association for boys basketball trip expenses $400 from Josh Arnold for project Christmas $2,000 from the Raiders touchdown club for football coaches 2,000 from the Central softball Boosters club for softball coaches $500 from the Clone Fire Relief Association for holiday lunch treats $2,680 from um post SE BFW post 1783 for Central band equipment $3,500 from BFW post 1783 for standards standards excuse me $3,500 from BFW post 1783 for boys basketball trip expenses and $4,500 from Elroy Lotti for boys basketball girls basketball and wrestling thank you to our very generous community and their very generous gifts what are standard thank you so volleyball standards so it's the it's the it's the it's the it's the pieces on the end that holds the net like what the referee would stand on so part of our part of our project we we did buy a new one for our Varsity gym and then we've been using the older ones in the in the Fieldhouse so we we're just expanding so that we have newer equipment throughout I was wondering the same thing thank you for ask probably probably could have elaborated on that yes volleyball standards to approve gets back second by Ericson any other conversations all right all those in favor signify by saying I all right all those opposed gifts are approved we'll move on to public forum think so okay we will move on to the monthly reports student council if you'd like to just state your name and just stay under you can you are stay where you're comfortable I'm Marley I'm kinsky and last month we did a thankful tree so we kind of cut out paper fo on the wall had all the students write down what they were thank to for and they were they were like written on Tiny leaves and we put them up on the tree we are currently collecting brown paper bags for the bable uh baskets for cologne we will take plastic but we really want ground paper bags um we are also working on a service for the uh Valentine's thanks thanks student council any questions from board members for student council thank you ladies I appreciate you being here Kaitlyn is not here so we'll move on unless did she have something that she wanted you to address okay or the super we'll move on to the superintendent's report um so uh I just can we do this now or do you want to do reps this this part oh is is that okay yeah we can jump into that you want to um I just uh want to take a moment um we do have uh three board members present that uh are this will be their last board meeting and and just personally I want to say thank you to uh Sarah Kyle and Connor for your service um here at at Central Public Schools um and are do you want to say sure say a couple of words all right sure well I'll start with I don't know who you have um Conor just want to thank you for your service and it's been your time with Clerk and being on teacher negotiations and just really pulling that Community engagement part I really wish you all the best in your new Endeavor and hope that we can continue to be a bridge between the city and the school and look forward and best of luck to you yeah even though I'm going to be sitting here I'll be yeah hopefully serving in a different area so yeah hopefully work together in different capacity so thank you yes thank you and then H Kyle and SAR when I sat back and reflected on what this place looked like and felt like five years ago I think it's important for you guys just to take a deep breath and think about that first meeting in the old Media Center on the chairs and tables that were falling apart and your commitment and drive to just make this place a better place inside out teachers students the place is lighter and brighter in many ways because you guys Le your leadership so thank you for everything Sarah your tireless efforts on Community Education all that vote Yes stuff you did prior to becoming on the board the phone Banks and everything you did for our community thank you um and then Kyle your tireless efforts on being the treasur and just making sure everything is transparent and you really kept those voter promises first and foremost every time we met as a finance committee too so just it's been an honor and privilege to serve with each and every one of you and we are going to miss you so congrats you guys thank you I have the three of you come over you're not yet you're not done yet we got you have to social just why don't we go yeah yeah yeah we Paparazzi I know that noise thank you guys for everything is there anything that you guys wanted to share words of wisdom to the next one's coming on or so it's funny because I've been thinking for the last month too um five years ago this place looked a lot different and I'm really grateful for the opportunity The Learning Experience thankful to all of you to serve with and to Kim and teacher staff admin team we couldn't have done all of this without everyone um and I'm just it was such a great learning experience so I'm really really grateful that I had the opportunity and spener my biggest piece of advice is to make sure to always keep everyone in mind when you're making decisions and having hard topics to cover not just certain groups of people but collectively the whole that's all I got yeah I thought too the last five years of just what we've gone through I mean uh it's been a lot it's it's uh I thought we as a board um two different board groups I should say worked really well together as a team and uh that's my advice going forward you know work together as a team um you're going to get you're going to accomplish more and you're going to get further uh working together than trying to divide and and uh you know try to get your own way right but working together as a team I think is is very important and I feel like that's why we've been successful the last five years and we got a lot accomplished to see it from coach pattle our Coach K yeah and for those new ones coming on just yet don't be afraid to speak up if you have any questions there's a lot of stuff that get thrown at you at the beginning and you ever have any questions feel free to reach out to any of the current ones or Tim or any so I I do just out of personal like I I mean I each one of you at the board table I spent a number of individual hours with for various reasons and and and I'm not trying to single Sarah out here but like Sarah you were the very first person I met when I started my job here and um and and I like for those of you that have been around a while it's Sarah and two other moms came in concerned about the decision about how the softball decision was made that that that fall and and that parlayed into um Sarah Shelby and Sarah mono like helping with uh the vote Yes group and then you you two running for school board at the same at the same time and it just um I don't know it just it it it's just amazing how how far it's come so I just each and every one of you thank you and um and uh it just it makes my job um really enjoyable having did you ever think we'd be sitting under this r five years ago Chang environment it felt sometimes it felt like forever it was gonna happen but it did come together so yeah so is there anything else um that you have so just some side notes um this is a okay how do you how do you how do you transition off that and I'm just gonna transition it um last Friday uh I was at uh saf and that stands for schools advocating for fair funding which is a a group of um 93 school districts that advocate for equity in the in the funding formulas that that fund our schools and this is a legislative year so it's it's it's going to be a wild and crazy ride and and I mean I'm sure some all of you have seen some of the budget forecasts coming from the state of Minnesota so it's just we are we are a group that that's going to be active down at the capital um advocating for equity on the funding formula um to um um to make sure that that towns like the towns that Central represents um have tax Equity um just like if you were in Minneapolis because it I mean from our perspective it seems it seems that um henpen County and Ramsey County get a lot more tax advantages than than other than other counts so we're going to be advocating for that so when you see updates um from me for saf that's that's what they come that's what they are for so um and I just want to and and it's not just because she sitting here but um I just want to give a a shout out to Becca Bron she's our special ed director um finding special ed teachers in 2024 is a is a task and um she has kept her nose to the grindstone to try and uncover whoever it is we can we can find and and and I think we found a good one here and doing that mid year is rare and um I just I just want to give a a public shout out to her she's been working tirelessly and keeping the keeping the troops as happy as you can because we know yeah it's it's it's just hard it weighs on everyone for short so thank you back up so we'll move into other board reports anybody have anything he update from uh Community Ed so as who just I just asked her sort of a update last month years so I'll just read from her the craft fair was a big success with positive feedback about the layout with the Fieldhouse set up instead of the elementary we had heavy traffic all day with some vendors recording it was the best Revenue event they have had even topping Canterbury canbury has a big craft show and if they were more successful here um they're preparing for the spring summer catalog in January with the end product and mailboxes first part March instructor proposals instructor proposal forms will be sent on January 6th basketball then full swing and adult volleyball bpn the first Sunday in January and preschool registration will open for current families in February and new families will have the opportunity in March answer is that about how the curent sale went yeah well right any questions for right any other board reports Kyle did you want to do can do one more do it you got it more Finance so it's attached um so just want to kind of highlight the enrollment uh we did go down a little bit um do you want to yeah so we we did I mean we had a bad month uh we lost 10 enrollments uh six of them were online and the other four were Elementary and um online I I I really have no words about just online options but um we you know I pull this at the beginning of the month I know since then we've had we've had three improvements but I just I think this this highlights you see the yellow line of what we budgeted at that that's what we budgeted at so that like there shouldn't be alarm Bells going off but um I think we had a really good few rounds of patting ourself on the back for our enrollment the first few months and now reality is setting in and this is our Trend like we will start higher and and as the year goes we will we will lose some students um the ones that aren't going to an online option have left the area they're they're they're they're not going to Neighborhood Schools they're going to Bidi so um just kind of keep that in motion but this is this is the number one metric that we have to keep watching is is enrollment so yep um so this is a time of year too where the the finance individuals are are working on a revised budget so that that'll be coming probably in February um so everybody you know hang on enjoy uh no just just want to say that the overall the the district um Financial fund balance is is in is in decent shape compared to how it's been in uh in Prior years so um you know the the district is is uh is is managing the funds managing the money well and uh I think you know the individuals that we have in place are have have been doing a good job and will continue to do good job any questions for Kyle no right thank you Kyle thank you for everything any other board reports um I have some stuff from Southwest Metro so um just kind of continuing with uh Jeff Horton's um first you know he did like his 100 day report um and he is uh doing a lot of things right now we're working through kind of just decided that with things changing and and turnover and stuff just time to start everything new so we are going through every single policy and updating everything even if it's just Yep this is fine but just so that there's a starting point um he's holding a lot of like focus groups um with he has met with every single employee now um but then going forward like how can Southwest Metro support us as a district um what other options are there available so probably look for stuff there um but it's just it's it is pretty cool just like the whole atmosphere there has changed um it's it's all about transparency and you when somebody tells you that they're making some sort of change nobody you don't even think to question it like it's just it's so genuine it's it's really cool to see yeah so hopefully some some changes in ways that we can support each other grow and changes coming coming coming forward so he did he did mention at the suit meeting that he may be jumping around to to uh board meetings of member district so if he if he shows up um if he shows up just take it take it for what it is he would introduce himself so yeah yeah he would come and I would know he was coming so he would be on the agenda and I would probably have him do a board report update okay excent anyone else any questions for S bu okay we move on to D discussion items Miss sorry I'm off track here do1 student services midye check-in all right so an update from our world um the first slide is the weekend backpack program so miss speedling our new school counselor at the elementary one day week here um has been putting together weekend bags with food for uh kiddos so um it's supported by the food shelf and also there's a $500 grant that she's been able to um access so Tuesday she goes up to the Food Shelf she gets the food and then she has got a Target to supplement some stuff um with that grant money but then she puts the BCE together and they go home in the backpack on Friday so they've got eight families which is 15 students that are making sure they have some food for the weekend so that's the one update yep um so this year's seasons of thanks and seasons of giving previously known as project Thanksgiving and project Christmas we renamed it to be more inclusive for all our students um we served 15 families for seasons of thanks and we partnered again with munes um for all the fixings and all the good all the good food and then um Sarah feeding the counselor at the elementary school and I and our admin deliver those meals right before things it's a big success we have some smiles and then seasons of giving this year this week we are handing out all of the gifts that the teachers staff raer time classroom School groups um community members all donated gifts um and so we were able to help 17 families and this year it was 49 kids and we fulfilled 145 tags which is had to take seven gift cards to Target it was really so they're all coming in this week before Friday to pick everything up and the smiles and the joy is is my favorite great all right and then next popping the cow so in the Elementary Mrs Hanish um she has our setting three uh program uh DCd ASV population for the most part and they she found this um it's called discover Dairy and they got to adopt a Cal cow um and literally the cow was like pregnant and then the cat was born and they get updates um and I love this their cat so the group decided on poy yeah um and so they get monthly updates with like the size of Poppy and they also um on the next slide they've gotten to know who the dairy farm is so who and what activities they do on the farm so not just cows but what kind of farming what kind of other animals are there um they've done some learning with it so they found it's a Minnesota dairy farm so they found on the map where this was and they plotted it and measured how far away it would be um from us they've um gotten to meet the family and like I said just all the updates they've done a a growth chart and the kids are actually bigger than poppy which that maybe sounds weird but I just thought poppy would be bigger but the kids so they get to see where they're on the chart they say hi in November they got to vote for their favorite cow which of course they voted for Poppy and they got a sticker that said I voted for poppy um and on the next s you get to meet happy so there's the certificate of adoption and what her name is so the kids love it they she's up on the um board and they say hi to Poppy and one of the kids likes to call it Poppy Cat everything's cat but they love it so a little joy for you and the kids adorable I want to adopt one the school maybe the school all right then our last part yep so next up we wanted to talk about some things that we've been doing in the elementary and middle school called multi-tiered systems of support and these are the steps that we do and then we'll kind of talk about data next but step one we meet as a team and discuss and review student data and those that students that are indicating meing a higher level of support and then some two interventions are developed and then discussed with the interventionist or teachers to implement and then step three intervention is implemented for six weeks with follow-up meetings to review the data and develop next steps so on that last part you can kind of see the tier so tier one is everyone full group tier two is targeted intervention in tier three that was intensive interventions um so at the elementary level we have 41 students that are receiving tier or that Title One support we have 43 in Reading Corps and then 75 are receiving some sort of social emotional um and that would be with missing um that are receiving those social skills types of groups um this doesn't Compass the number of like interventions that teachers might be doing within their classroom these are specific like full out working on those um interventions at the secondary level um our middle school has 14 kids receiving um intervention um high school has 11 receiving reading and then there's eight middle school and bath and then 10 that are receiving that social emotional um we also have added um just recently some back support that's going to be five days a week for kids um we recognized it's one of our areas that we could do better and we had the opportunity to hire Lauren um and she came train right now and started working with kids um and we just met as our mtfs team this morning at the elementary and a student was getting two days a week and we decided like it wasn't enough and so we've had this option now that the student have five days a week more intensive um intervention to see does that make a difference um at the high school this morning we were meeting and um we have in the middle school that's going to take on an executive functioning um intervention during wind time um so that's going to add more kids that need kind of that organization work completion that type of um skill um to learn and then um we also have at the high school on math support with Miss leford that has been showing some really good improvements for kids even helping get some of that math work done um and being able to show that within the classroom so we've come a long way with our m MSS process from all the name changes that we've had to we are mtss now so but it takes a team I mean there's a team of us that meets weekly before the meetings and then with the teachers and we've seen some good success so wanted to share with you guys so you know any questions for us no we all want to go adop to C to share this good thank you thank you thank you D2 Elementary make your checkin uh so about a year half ago we were fortunate enough or unfortunate enough to be assigned someone from the state of Minnesota to come out and do some things with the elementary and to be quite honest with you the first year I find very productive some of that certainly could have been a personality conflict you mean mine wasn't driving so well with Theirs to be honest with you and um that person found a different job which is good for that person because we have been given someone else's this year and lo and behold I've known this person for like 20 some years and one of the things I've been thinking about a lot for the last two years is we've made a lot you've talked about changes you've made to the outside of buildings and I mean those are fabulous changes right but Tim and I have talked lots of times until we change what happens inside building outside building just is kind of nice but isn't really what we're doing so we've made a lot of changes in the last three years years with what I believe were sound processes and good people making those decisions but we I wasn't still 100% sure right so it takes a little while longer than I would hope to see results and I asked this person this year along with two of their colleagues to look at the processes we've used to make those changes to take a step back for us to look at C curriculum adoptions to to look at uh the reading core training the letters training we've done and the process we're going to use we find a new math curriculum and I wanted them to be in our plc's our professional learning communities with our teachers so we could be assured to the best of their ability that what we're doing looks like it's really good stuff and fortunately the the answer is it is and I think I knew that and I think the people around me knew that but it was just really comforting to get that uh get that confirmation from the state so I'm just super excited that I think all the things you folks have planned and we've tried to implement according to the state were on a really good path and and that feels good and obviously that plan they always make side swipes for us returns and we've made adjustments and I I'm confident that what we've done and what the board has done and uh charged us with doing we're GNA we're going to see really great results starting as early as this year and I'm excited about that so R can you give the board a little bit of background um so this is this the The Advocate is is assigned through the Southwest Center for the Southwest for school Excell the the region the Southwest Center region of Excellence correct and just kind of just kind just kind of just kind of talk about like okay so we had some we had some um we had some not good results specifically with Elementary special ed students in math and then you were assign this person so what what types of things are they looking at just just the things you described or is there a rubric that they're looked at bring the board through that so weirdly our test scores that had a land on this list were MCA test scores during Co strange really strange that were on the list and but you know and but it's also been really good for us you know after you get over being grumpy about having to do it and understand that there's some real value in doing this and then you find some teammates to do that work with that it feels really good so we we were assigned to this person for three years and the person we had was here for a year and a half and we walked through just all of our structures all of our processes from start to finish and then some of the dreams and goals we had and then what could we do to start implementing some of those and the one we picked which had not a direct correlation to special EDG but I picked we bad word we picked tier one instruction which would be what you would walk into a classroom and see so if you're talking about tier one you're talking about roner moach being a social studies teacher in a classroom with Josh KS 25 years AG that would be tier one and that was hard work and tier two would be these interventions they're talking about where we we have reading core and and we have a math interventionist and then tier three would be the top of the top kid to need to ex time and that's and that's our specializ population but it didn't make any sense to us to tackle tier three when the most effective way to get to most of our kids is through tier one so um we made that choice I I think it was 100% right and all the PD we've done since that time has been with an eye towards how we can change that TI one instruction so what a classroom what a biology classroom looks like what a second grade classroom looks like what A fifth grade classroom looks like that's the process we've been on and and it's it's not over we have a year and a half left but I feel I have to a lot more comfortable where we're at today than I did a year and a half ago and started the process and I'm honestly super hopeful I was I was optimistically hopeful before without really knowing for sure did the work we're doing is it was it the right work is it the right work and and some sometimes just good to have an expert from next door assure you that the work you're doing is good solid work I think that's I think it's the most important thing going on in the all country is is the work that happens behind the scenes and doesn't get Facebook photos because it it it isn't it isn't fancy cool stuff but it's the nuts and bolts what will drive that chain so is this um cohort or group that you're working with driving kind of what the building goals are as a building and what you guys are trying to implement and build off of to practice we created goals they back filled in with support okay I don't know that I could have told you that a year ago that they back filled in with support but I can tell you now that the people who've been in our building and have toured actually toured our building and been in classes and been in PLC groups have really done some of the the stuff you have to do to figure out what we should be doing have a bunch of count and by the way we're not anywhere close to D someone else Wednesday and someone else in January so it's going to be an ongoing process which adapting and managing change is ongoing that's what Never Gonna questions fromers I'm gonna leave and go help supervise any questions yeah well we can let's let's do D3 let's do D3 I think we can I think we can I think we can squeeze it in all right D3 consideration of the board member onboarding plan okay so last month you all saw an onboarding plan um I don't think this is something that needs to be like approved by the board um because you shouldn't necessarily approve a plan for for for Spencer and and Troy um but I mean based on the based on your experience as board members and the the items that were lined out like having with new board members having having at the beginning monthly meetings and um and then like bimonthly meetings to talk about agenda items does that seemed like it's it's useful um making sure that we moved off and online on boarding to an inperson on boarding which we are like Shelby Sarah um Spencer and Troy are going to be going and myself are going to be going to the msba um phase one and phase two training in Minneapolis um all together just can dive into that I know there'll be some downtime at that we can take that plan and kind of look at it as the for us and kind of flush out a so I just process or Rhythm or something bring it back here and I know so I know you saw it one time and I'm just I'm just wondering if there's dialogue about it and if there if there are things that that weren't on there that we should consider or if there are things that were on there that we should scrap um any any thoughts I'm not expecting a ton of dialogue so don't feel like you have to I just I tried to be I think the the more we can do to support the new board members and for them to have that that place to ask their questions and I the better off the team will be building the team as a whole to that's and I think standardizing it helps helps them hit the ground running a little bit more whereas it was a little like earthquak for us for a little while just because we were off there was a number of us that were new well not for Kyle because he had spread cheeks but yeah got through it we did but I think it was clunky standardizing it and and kind of having an expectation for everybody would be helpful good right let's give it a go okay so you need to ENT a motion to um um suspend the meeting and and move into the truth I just make a motion to temporarily suspend our regular board meeting to move into the truth and Taxation meeting second motion second by lury any other conversations right all those in favor signify by saying I I I all OPP post we are now in truth and Taxation just looking for that motion no oh that that wouldn't be in there no um okay so um we are moving into the truth and Taxation meeting uh so I am going to be running this section of meeting um anyone here from the public you have the opportunity at the end of this to ask any question that you would like of the school board or myself um about truth and Taxation so um moving on to the second page uh moving on to okay there we go I can see them the mirror there um so Minnesota statute 27 uh uh uh 27565 requires these three things of the truth and Taxation we're going to discuss proposed property tax levy for p taxes payable 2025 we're going to discuss the current Year's budget and the public is going to have a reasonable amount of time to ask questions at this meeting reasonable amount of time is tonight um so the first thing we're going to do is talk about the school Year's budget um so the as you all knew from and have known from our finance uh presentations next slide Mr uh Larson um enrollment is the main driver of of um our financial health or not being healthy so this shows our our enrollment Trends and as everyone has known we've had a we've had declining enrollment since uh 2017 um we did have a blip um up last year and why it went down this year is again this is what we budgeted on so we budgeted on 915 students we don't have 915 students right now but we we adopted our budget last May at 915 students which is what this is showing um so moving on to the preliminary budget um this shows uh the difference between our actual and our preliminary budget um um from from year over year and though the though the the budget looks like there's a 10% difference just know that um for the last four budget three budget Cycles we are spending a significant amount of our construction fund down and and that's going to be uh very much highlighted on the next on the next slide um where you can see uh down at the bottom where it says building construction fund um we're moving from a $27 million of budget to a $6 million budget because we've spent um a lot of that money down so um uh in in terms of a budget cycle um getting ringing out the construction expenses and the and the construction revenue is actually going to stabilize us a little bit and make our uh make our books kind of catch up and look a little bit more typical for a school district um this is just a reminder the next the next a couple of graphs of where we receive our Revenue um you know nearly nearly um 75% a little over 75% of our Revenue comes from state state aid and um we spend our revenue on um the two most important things and that is uh staff and students so you look on the on the rightand the rightand graph the orange part uh signifies the salaries and wages and the yellow part is benefits and then the green part is is um purchase services so in a lot of districts um like bus drivers Food Service people custodians will be part of salaries and wages but we we hire Dasher 4.0 and toer so um um th those purchase Services I I could argue are actually part of our salaries and wages because they're there are there people that are in our building that are doing uh doing the work so you can see if you if you count the the the orange the yellow and the green um we spend we spend nearly all of our all of our cash on hand on people that go home in that um and I think that's important so we're going to be talking about um we're going to move into the school levy and um just a just a reminder for everyone um in the room and watching at home there are two things that that determine a school levy the formula set by the state of Minnesota which just tells us they just tell us hey this is how much money you're getting based on um your student enrollment the type of students that go to your school um any specialized Aid that you would qualify for or if we go to our voters and say do you want to voluntarily raise taxes and vote on it those are the two only two ways that a that a levy can be raised so um uh this this year this is what are um this is what the property taxes property tax statements look like and things that can change your property taxes uh changes in market value of your home changes in rate or or class so for example if you move out your primary residence buy another home and turn that into a rental property that changes the class of the home and your tax your taxes would change on that home um any market value credits that you get again voter approved referendums or any state adjustments all of those can have an impact on your on your taxes the next two uh slides just kind of show us the the market value uh and the and the adjusted net tax capacity of our school district and I think here's the thing um in the orange slide you go back one rich in the orange slide here if you remember last year people um there was a lot of people across the state of Minnesota and in Norwood uh Young America particular that we're talking about a change in their property taxes and if you notice from 2021 to 2022 there was a there was a pretty significant jump in in property values it stabilized a little bit um here this past year so again hopefully the the what that translates to is the stabilization of prop property taxes on your on um a resident um Homestead home in um second public schools and then the adjusted net tax capacity this is um this is the values of our of our of our um res of our property um within um within Central Public Schools and as you can see our property values are continuing to an increase um which does have a a a positive effect on spreading um spreading the the the levy amount or the taxx burden across a greater um greater number of homes um if the if that in fact new HS are being bu so um probably the most important slide what is our Levy history so in 2019 our Levy actually went down and that was due to some decrease in enrollment then in TW pay 20 remember in in this in 2019 we passed our first ever Levy so we had a pretty significant property tax increase that was voter approved then our property taxes uh the increase was small again then in 2021 we passed a bond and those two those two property tax increases hit over over two separate years those are those two larger ones then last year we had uh I would call a fairly normal year and and this year an even more normal year um I'm going to I'm going to our on this slide that that last graph for pay 25 uh indicat a 1.6% increase of taxes so uh what does this all mean what board you are uh what you are tasked with tonight is you are to certify you are required by law to certify the levy for Central Public Schools in 2024 that will indicate to the County Auditors to collect that will tell them to collect the taxes in 2025 and then Central Public Schools will get those taxes that are paid in 2026 or fiscal year 26 um like I like I uh you know like I said in the in the previous slide here um next slide Please Mr Larsson um this is our this is our uh levies for the last two years um so you can see um that a couple of our a couple of our um funds general fund and community service funds are actually decreasing a little bit but then um now we are now we're into paying our our bond back so uh some of that some of that um uh Redemption schedule um is is baked in here so um It All Nets out to a to a 1.64 uh% increase I do want to say like general fund is going down 30 $33,900 does that mean that we are getting $33,900 less no that isn't what that means what what what is actually happening is we are actually increasing in some of the in some of the categorical AIDs that we're getting from the state of Minnesota so instead of getting it in the ter in the form of um residents in Central Public Schools having to pay tax to do it we are getting it in the form of Aid which is out of the Minnesota Department of end coffers if you will so we're like for example we are U we are getting a significant bump in compensatory um compensatory education funding um and I want to say year-over-year we're going to get um somewhere in the neighborhood of like $390,000 in addition uh above and beyond what we are this year and we're paying less taxes to do it I guess is the is the uh is the theme so points to remember revenue for uh Revenue formulas are set by the state legislature except for voter approval referendums property valuations do not change the amount of Revenue the district um receives it just changes the way that the amount is divied up amongst um homeowners and taxpayers as value change the property tax Burden Burden shifts between taxpayers um between smaller value valuations and evaluations any questions thank you nicely done now we didn't let the public comment um if you need to give them the opportunity to comment and I'm not seeing any comments anyone want to come you don't have to come it it is it is thank you Mr FL okay so then we can entertain the motion to well just hearing that I'll make a motion to adjourn the truth and Taxation meeting and resume our regular school board meeting second motion by aish second by lury did I do that right okay all those in favor signify by saying I I all those opposed we are back in our regular meeting operational items one considerations of the 2025 26 and 2026 27 calendars um okay so I have not made any changes to these since October I think last month we talked about them last month and then we also reviewed kind of that calendar feedback survey yep um I guess at that time I took away that it sounds like in general most of our families are happy with how our calendars are lining up yeah so I didn't I personally didn't see any big changes I know you and I after but board memberss so so I will say I know there was some dialogue around just the early releases and and so I am we are working on we are working on some ideas of of um how do I want to say this uh changing the Cadence of our grading schedule specifically at the secondary school so that way we could maybe reduce those from 3 to one but we just have to let some um some internal systems kind of work um because right now most of our uh classes run on a semester on a semester schedule except for some Middle School ones um so I know principal Larson is is working with his leadership so with with that being said would that be something you would bring back and we would adjust these calendars at that time when when if were to happen yes I I my recommendation is to um approve the calendars as presented based on feedback that I've received okay comments questions from board members I move to approve both the 2627 calendar as well as the 25 26 Calendar as presented motion by lury second by ericsen any other conversations hearing none all those in favor signify by saying I all those opposed calendars are approved F2 F2 consideration of the final tax levy all right we all had a ton of questions yeah I know so so uh by law you need to um approve the final tax levy and I'm just going to say the number and and the the sheet is in um clerk uh clerk um uh Smith's packet here um the recommendation is approved for 6,161 not $693 and10 for the this uh pay 25 um Central Public Schools ly okay any conversation anybody any else I want to say okay I'll make a motion to approve the final tax levy as presented at the mount superintendent Shak Ander just stated not write that downon something um second we show by I second by any other conversations all right all those in favor signify by saying I I I all those opposed right we'll move on to G our next board meeting is January 27th 2025 at 6 o'clock here in the boardroom um anything I'm going to leave it to probably the three of you to do the very last one if you want to do it together you sure can but I'll entertain a motion to a Jour motion to a Jour motion by lury second second by all right anything else board members all right all those in favor signify by saying I follow a post we are returned thank you so much Sarah Kyle and Connor you yeah