Our ultimate goal was to ensure our facilities can continue to meet the needs of all students from Early Childhood through Elementary education in addition to our strategic priorities there are a wide range of considerations we look at during this process consistent with past attendance area adjustments our guiding principles have been to create attendance areas that protect the concept of neighborhood schools are contiguous and follow natural boundaries when possible and allow room for growth consider middle and high school tenant areas and adhere to all state and federal guidelines specifically the Minnesota state desegregation and integration rules making sure that through our adjustments we are not creating any racially identifiable schools.

because of this feedback we are proposing a transportation transition plan for our current third and fourth graders who will be fourth and fifth grade next year to allow them to stay at their existing schools if they wish to do so.

I think you've done just a really nice job and it makes a difference in an elementary school if there's 9133 kids or if there's 355 kids it just makes a huge difference for all those little bodies so I think you've done a really nice job I will support this and just thank you g you gave families voice we heard what they were saying you gave them some choice and I think this is really a smart move.

So the as Danny said the district received a clean unmodified opinion what that means is the financial statements are materially accurate I just like to point that out because that does not mean that we recalculated every single transaction it does not mean we tied things to the penny it means that we looked at a sample we had a materiality threshold and everything looked good from that standpoint.

The district has a policy of a minimum unassigned fund balance no less than 5% of your annual operating expenditures so that's what the district has put in place that number can be looked at if you think ah we've got some big projects we want to kind of bump that up that that policy can be revised.

I'm just curious I know that we've been maintaining that that assigned Reserve which has been in discussion is before with some of internally on the sidelines we have been talking as well as a board to that 5% uh minimum to have on reserve which is then with the inflation everything given and the large projects that we have you said that's a a month recommendation on personal level at least you need to have ring fund of three months something like that so that you could sustain you mentioned other district and mean I think now is like 12.4 16 with the you know GFA recommends what is the recommendation or the go around nowadays on other districts on our level.

The proposed edit of policy 502 can be found in section 3.6.3 of the policy which covers Transportation due to boundary adjustments the change is simply to add a reference to tonight's November 4th board action regarding the Elementary boundary adjustments.

the timeliness here is the um interdistrict transfer application process is open now until mid December so we'd like to get this little change made sooner rather than later and then it is a very small change quite routine and there is the recommendation of the superintendent and the board chair to do it in one.