All right, welcome everyone. I'm going to call to order the Nove or September 9th, 2025 uh Lakeville area school board meeting. Uh if everyone would rise with me to say the pledge of allegiance 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. All right, we're going to do roll call. Starting with my right, >> Amber Cameron, >> Paul Carbone, Matt Swanson, >> Michael Bowman, >> Kim Baker, Karly Anderson, >> Brian Thompson. >> All right, and Director Nicholson did attempt to log in. I think he might still be attempting to log in. Um, so we'll see if he hops on or not later in the night. But, uh, moving on to any additions to the agenda. Um, I had one that I shared with the board that I it did not get on the agenda. It is on the online agenda. Um, but I would move to add a discussion item. It's under the board member report on the online agenda. So, we could put it under there uh to see whether or not the board is interested in um approving a resolution encouraging a legislative change. Um, and it's similar to legislation that I showed you. So, just a discussion item. Uh, I would move to add that to the agenda. Is there a second? >> I'll second it. >> There's a second. Any discussion? >> Can I just clarify we would be adding it for discussion or for a vote tonight? >> Just discussion. >> Okay. >> If there's no discussion, all in favor say I. >> I. Any opposed? All right. It is added. Any other changes or additions to the agenda? If there none, I'd entertain a motion to approve the agenda. Without addition. >> All right. There's a motion by Director Cameron. Is there a second? >> I'll second. >> Uh seconded by Director Anderson. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? It is approved. Superintendent Bowman. Over to you. >> Thank you, Mr. Chair. And good news for Lakeville Area Schools. First day of school was on the 2nd of September. And we are very excited to welcome back all of our students, our families, our staff to another outstanding year here in Lakeville Area Schools. We want everybody to enjoy some of the fun that we had uh when we started out. Hopefully, you participated uh on the first day of school by visiting uh our district and seeing us online on district's Facebook. So, if you haven't, please dive in. uh if you did, thank you. School board appreciation week. This is a big week. First of all, thank you to all school board members for your service. This week, September 8th through the 12th, is school board appreciation week in Lakeville Area Schools. And we want to take this opportunity to recognize and thank our school board members for your leadership, your commitment, and your service to our students, our staff, and our community. Your dedication helps guide the mission of our district to ensure that academic, social, civic, and personal readiness for every student is accomplished. So, tip of the cap and thank you all for your service and your continued service. I think I saw some crumble cookies out there, but I don't know if they're for you. Anybody own those? >> No, but I saw them, too. >> Okay. I think they said schoolboard on them. I don't know. I can. >> Okay. Jason just awarded the ACS-hawk hack h grant to advance chemistry education. Congratulations to Lakeville South High School chemistry teacher Jason just recipient of the 2425 American Chemical Society Hack High School Chemistry Classroom Grant. The National Grant supports ideas that enhance classroom learning, foster student development, and showcase the wonders of chemistry. With the support of the grant, Just acquired a large monitor on a mobile cart, enhancing digital integration in his classroom. This technology allows him to more effectively model complex chemistry concepts while also giving students opportunities to create and present videos that highlight their learning and creativity. Congratulations, Jason. Alice Ye is selected for the USA debate team. We are proud to announce that Lakeville South High School senior Alice Ye has been selected to join the 2526 USA debate team and will be representing the nation at the annual World Schools Debating Championships in Kenya in July of 26. He is the only member from Minnesota on the team. This is a tremendous honor and we wish her the best as she represents Lakeville South, our district, and our country. Congratulations, Alice. And you can read more about the amazing things happening in our district at isd194.orgnews. Mr. Chair, thank you. >> All right. Thank you, Superintendent Bowman. We are going to open up the floor for public comment. Uh to participate in public comment, individuals must have registered in advance using the form provided on our website by noon on the Monday before the scheduled public comment session. Uh there will not be a board response during the session. Any public comments framed as complaints and or concerns about students or staff are not appropriate in the public forum due to the data privacy laws and these comments should be addressed to the administration out outside of a public meeting. Likewise, complaints about school board members should be privately directed to the board chair and or the superintendent. Uh, no formal action will be taken on a topic presented during public comment at this meeting. Um, but if needed, the administration will follow up with the appropriate personnel on any concerns that need to be individually addressed. Also, if necessary, the board will follow up during board communications at the next regularly scheduled board meeting. Uh, individual remarks are limited to 3 minutes. The board will provide a signal. A speaker will hold up the 30 secondond sign when you have 30 seconds left. Uh, please try to keep audience noise to a minimum in order to allow people to speak uninterrupted. And we actually only have one individual who signed up for public comment tonight. So if Mr. Colbear, I don't know if it's Co Bear or Colbert. >> It's Colbert. >> Colbert. >> Um, you have the floor. And if you could speak closer to the mic. >> Okay. Um, my name's Mike Colbert. I'm a parent to two Lakeville North students. Um they're both swimmers and uh they work really hard. Anyways, um three years ago the Blanchard Aquatic Center opened up and it's an amazing pool. I've spent a lot of time in pools all over the state and uh it's something really to be proud of. The only problem is it doesn't look like a Lakeville North pool. There aren't banners hanging. There's no panther. There's no cougar on the wall. We don't have uh trophy cases. We don't even have a um a record board. So, it's just doesn't feel like a home. And these kids, they work so hard. I mean, they're working 18 hours a week at swim swimming. It would be nice if when they come into the pool and when other teams come into the pool, they know it's Lakeville North or it's Lakeville South. Um it's been long enough. We need to do something. We can fund raise. We can make it happen. We have parent volunteers. We can make this happen. We just need to turn this into a home. Just like when we you move into your house, you put pictures on the wall. Um it's time to make it a home for our students and our athletes just to feel like it looks like Lakeville schools. That's all I got. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Colbert. >> Thank you. >> All right. Uh that concludes our public comment. Again, if anybody is interested in sharing anything with the board, just sign up on the Monday by noon on the Monday before the board meeting online. Um on to uh consideration of approval of the consent agenda which just includes the board minutes from 82625. Uh I would entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda. >> I'll make a motion to do so. >> All right. There's a motion by Director Carbone. Is there a second? >> I'll second. >> Second by Director Anderson. Any discussion? If there's none, all in favor of approval of the consent agenda say I. I. >> Any opposed? It is approved. Uh down to reports and discussions. We're going to start with uh state of the schools update early childhood. Miss Dexter. Not sure if that's my mic. Is that mine? >> I think somebody was just being happy for Molly. I >> think so. Turn that off. >> Do I have it? Oh, there we go. Okay. All right. Good evening, Chair Swanson, members of the school board, Superintendent Bowman, and members of the community. My name is Molly >> looking for those cookies. >> My name is uh Molly Dexter, and I am the director of early learning for the district. and I also serve as the administrator for the Crystal Lake Education Center, lovingly called CLEC. And I am joined this evening by a couple of our leaders. We have Julie Gekal, our early childhood special education coordinator, and Amy Galardi, our Small Wonders preschool supervisor. Um, we have a couple of staff people in our uh audience tonight, too, representing our 125 strong staff that we have at Click. I'm grateful for the opportunity to provide an update on the state of early childhood education in the district and to educate the schoolboard and the community about the many programs that the district has to offer for our youngest learners and their families. Click is a vibrant, very busy place and it's the place where learning begins for so many of our Lakeville students and graduates. All right. Um, a little background information. The Crystal League Education Center was established and opened its doors in the fall of 2012. All of the early childhood programs at that time were moved from seven different sites across the district to one shared site in order to provide a home or a one-stop shop to meet the needs of families with young children. Initially, parts of the building were used for district meetings, including schoolboard meetings were held there at that time. And the demand for more variety in early learning programming increased very swiftly after we moved into that space. Um, the spaces that were used for district meetings were continually repurposed until the building now only houses only early childhood programs. Over the years, we've actually occasionally heard the the suggestion or the comment um from people in the community to turn KLE back into an elementary school again. Um, and I'm actually about to explain why that's simply not a possibility. At KLEC, we house five early learning programs. Um and while these programs each are um individually address different community needs, we've worked really hard to be collaborative and to present as one early learning department. Previously functioning mostly under community education. Now most of our early learning programs are now under the department of teaching and learning as we work to align with the rest of the district. We made this um transition a couple of years ago under the supreme leadership of Dr. Emily McDonald that helped us make that transition. Um and now we are under the leadership of Tracy Brovold. We've also appreciated the the recent change that we hear um we're hearing more and more um a change to the vernacular when we are referencing the district as a prek to 12 district instead of a K12 district. Um and we are really appreciative of that. Um and now we're just going to move into highlighting each of the different programs that we have to offer. Starting with early childhood screening. Screening is a free developmental opportunity. Um, and this process is one of the uh few requirements for entering kindergarten. The optimal time to complete screening with children is at age three and a half. The purpose is truly early identification for any health or developmental concerns. And so obviously we all know that intervening intervening early is key when concerns are identified. At Click, we offer screening appointments to the community all year round and we have done um some screenings at the Ready Set Achieve event the last two years. We also work really closely with local child care centers to promote screening um and and encourage families to sign up for that. The health portion of the screening includes hearing and vision screening, height and weight check, and a review of immunizations. And for the developmental portion, activities might include counting blocks, um naming colors, balancing or hopping on one foot, completing patterns, those kinds of things. Um we also offer um we have interpreters present as needed to present screening tasks in each child's first language. And last year we screened 763 children over the course of the year. Moving on to early childhood family education. This program was started in Minnesota just over 50 years ago. So ECF just celebrated its 50th anniversary and the program is unique to Minnesota. So we're the only state that it was developed here and and it's it's unique to our state. Um licensed parent educators and early childhood educators facilitate classes for families with young children. And there are three components involved in early childhood family education. That includes families learning together. So, parents or caregivers with their child learning together and then parents separating um learning with a parent educator while students learn with an early childhood educator. Some of the highlights of ECF include the fact that we offer a sliding fee scale and our indist families are never turned away for the inability to pay for that experience or that opportunity. We also offer family school um which is a great program. children attend preschool or child care while their um adults that are that come with them attend English language learning classes with an adult basic educator. And this year we have six different languages represented in that class with a weight list. We also host events um such as the vehicle fair which is a big hit um down at Steve Mashad Park every spring. Um we have all kinds of vehicles. We partner with the city of Lakeville and they bring vehicles in for um kids to explore and see. Um the firefighters are lifting kids up into the trucks. It's great. Um that is put on by our um fabulous ECF advisory council. We also host Baby Palooa which is an event two times a year. It's kind of like a community baby shower and we um we have a a point person on that who secures a lot of different donations that are um given for that event and uh are our expecting parents leave with lots of different um prizes and swag. So that's great. Um we also offer preschool open gym throughout the year. Um, we also have with ECFE there are collaborations with the library to provide story time, books and beyond events and we collaborate with uh Northfield Hospitals to have specialists come in and present to classes. We also offer stepping stones which is a really good blend of ECF and practicing preschool. And then um we are also for ECF required by statute to have a a ECF advisory council. Um and uh we have a strong group of parents who support ECF through that. I didn't know a lot about ECF until a few years ago um coming into this position, but I can tell you that this is a program where families make lifelong connections and lifelong friendships starting um in these classes. And we also build a lot of trust between the school district um and families. It's built through the relationships that parents and caregivers develop with staff. And it's truly a remarkable remarkable program. Um here is some statistics on our current enrollment. Um our current enrollment and last year's registration and enrollment numbers. And it's important to note that some of our classes are offered year round or fullyear classes and others are offered by session or semester. So that number for this school year will grow once we have folks registering for our spring um sessions. And when that registration opens at 6 a.m., parents are usually sitting with their laptops in their coffee cup to sign up for classes because they fail really, really, really fast. Um, we would love to grow this program and be able to offer classes to more families to benefit from this fabulous, fabulous program. Um, however, we are limited by space. Moving on to early childhood special education. not advancing. I don't know where to point it. Can you advance, please? Thank you. ACSCE offers services for children who are eligible based on a developmental evaluation at no cost to families. And if students are eligible, then these services are available for children from birth to kindergarten age. Um, they could include working with a special education teacher, an occupational therapist, a speech language pathologist, physical therapist, or other specialists. Students receive services in a variety of settings based on their age and individual needs, including the home, community programs, or school-based early childhood education classrooms. And this is where that early intervention is really, really important. Um, the earlier we address the needs, the better the outcome. And services are pro provided in the least restrictive environment. We're continuously working towards moving students towards those um inclusive general education settings. The state does reimburse for ECSC students served. Um and we are required to provide services. So we're ex we're required to provide any services to a student that arrives at our doorstep with an active IFSP or individualized family service plan or an IEP. Um we can't say no or place on a wait list. So if they come to us from a different district, we have to accept them and find room in our programs. Busing is provided within district boundaries. So we might have a lot of students, we do have students um coming in who attend child care centers. We have a lot of childcare centers in Lakeville. Um they may be um a resident of Burnsville or Farmington or somewhere else, but we provide that busing from the childare center to collect to provide those services. Advance, please. Thank you. Um, so our current enrollment numbers include students who receive everything from speechonly services to services in center-based classrooms and then our itinerant services or services in um, other childcare settings or at at KLEC in small wonders. And this number will continue to grow as the school year goes on. So, the 202425 school year, um, we started with total ECSE students at 242 and we grew, um, I know that this statistic isn't up there, but we grew to the end of the school year having 40 students and this year we're starting at 279. Um, I know that Julie, our ECSE coordinator, and Alexia, our director of special education, are currently trying to problem solve where to put students. um our birth to three, also known as our infant toddler intervention team. Um our birthto3 team who provide services in the home before age three. Um we had a little bit of a growing pain with them a few years ago. Uh one of our one of our growing pains that we experienced is that this team was relocated to the Christina Huddleston Elementary um site uh just to create more learning space at Click. So, um the decision was a difficult one. We made it because they spend most of their times out in in homes and so their um office space is not as heavily used. Um but we do miss having them at at Click um as their home base for better collaboration with other programs. Um again, ECSC is another one of those programs where staff establish those relationships with our families and um they deal with really difficult topics related to their children. Um, this staff often delivers very difficult news to parents and they sit with parents and help them process information about physical, developmental, and learning disabilities. And often parents are hearing the news for the first time from this staff and and our staff. We have two evaluation teams and they handle that just absolutely beautifully. Um, it really sets the tone um for for their experience for the rest of their educational careers. Okay. advance. Um, Small Wonders Preschool. So, Small Wonders Preschool is really truly the premier preschool in the Lakeville community, serving three, four, and 5year-olds. It's rooted in active play-based learning, and Small Wonders fosters cognitive, physical, emotional, and social development in a safe and engaging environment. The curriculum really explores or encourages exploration, creative expression, and problem solving. Um recently a four-star parent a aware rating which is the highest possible rating was again awarded to Small Wonders by the Department of Children, Youth and Families through an application process. So we're very proud of that. And just a few of the program highlights include the fact that we offer 27 class sections with 17 different schedule options to fit the varying needs of our families. Um, we also offer STEM classes for our one year before kindergarten and and many of our all day classes. This year we added a Small Wonders social emotional development coach to assist students with regulation and behavior needs. Um, Small Wonders also collaborates very closely with early childhood special education to provide inclusive settings for our students who receive special education services. And then we have a very robust scholarship program. So we receive school readiness funds and pathway one and two dollars to um provide scholarships for our most at risk students and um that is facilitated by our family outreach specialist. We currently have 62 scholarship spots and uh I believe 55 of them are full and we're working to fill the other seven advance. Um here are our current enrollment numbers for small wonders. Um and also where we ended last year. Um as you can see there is a high demand for preschool in our community and registration fills very quickly especially for our all day and and morning classes tend to be more popular for our families. Um, Small Wonders has what we call a dynamic wait list, meaning that we have frequently changing lists of families waiting for a spot and it might change as families find other options um adjust their needs or as openings become available that that may not match their schedules. Couple highlights there. Enrollment opens in December for the following year. So, parents are really truly planning ahead. And again, those academy all day classes are the most popular. So we currently have 29 people that we would consider on our wait list for small wonders advance. Okay. Um moving on to Wonders Zone. Um Wonders Zone is our child care program for preschool children and this program still function functions under community education. Um, it works in collaboration with Small Wonders Preschool and ECSE to offer a full day of learning and fun. Um, it focuses on social, emotional, physical, and intellectual growth through enriching activities. The program hours for this program are 6:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. And it really mirrors that Kids Zone um program. It's kind of the the sibling program to um kids zone, which operates in our elementary schools. Staff plan lots of fun activities. And one of the things that the Wonders Zone staff wanted me to to share was that last year um they actually brought in the Lakeville State or Lakeville South High School state champion volleyball team and some of those um members uh of the volleyball team were alumni of Wonders Zone and Small Wonders and had fond memories of the program. So they they hung out for the day with our students and that was really fun for them. Um we've talked a little bit I might have mentioned once or twice about space being an issue. One of the things about Wonders Zone that I want to highlight is they actually use one of our motor spaces or our small gyms as a classroom. And um while it is a creative use of space, it does present some challenges um using a motor space as a classroom because the kids would rather be doing other things in there. Um you can see enrollment numbers here. Uh, one thing we're always telling parents and and Shirley Ward oversees this program, um, it's to sign up as soon as registration opens because it does fill. Um, and this program also has a dynamic weight list. All right, advance. So, I I try to have a theme each year for our staff at CLEC, and our theme this year is building a strong foundation because that is truly what we do. Um over the past couple of years since the transition of early childhood coming under teaching and learning, we've worked tirelessly to raise awareness and to establish an identity that early childhood is a truly important part of this district. Um some of our accomplishments and strengths that we've that we've managed over the past couple of years is that um through a very strong partnership with the amazing district communications team, we've developed a brand new website for the Crystal Lake Education Center. and we're really um on the website on the on the district website being recognized as a district building. So um we have so much going on there. It it just makes sense that we have our own website. We're increasingly better aligned with the other levels. I I believe most people call it K12, but um I call it preK12, but the other district's um professional support structure through our shared leadership team and participation in shared leadership team activities and the PLC work that is done at different levels, too. We're involved in all of that. Um we're also working very closely with the enrollment team and Cheryl Gangler to establish a process for continuous progress monitoring that will allow us to collect and analyze student data on how they're doing. And then regarding professional development, we're aligned with the elementary level in that staff have and are currently participating in readact training. We also are kicking off using the Heerty literacy curriculum which is used at the kindergarten level. Um staff are very excited about having that. We have been using the character strong curriculum which aligns um that's our social emotional learning curriculum and it's pretty cool when we have older siblings come into the school and they see on our on our TVs the word respect or whatever the word of the month is and they say hey we're talking about that at Cherry View too. Um so it just really aligns and parents can have those conversations um at home. Uh let's see. We're also um the early childhood standards. We do have standards, the the um early childhood indicators of progress and they were just recently newly published um and updated and we will be working uh very closely with the teaching and learning team to align those standards with our practices in the next couple of years. Um we continue our very strong partnership with community education and I really want to give a shout out to Steve Porter um and the community education team. Steve has served as a mentor to myself when it comes to all things related to budget planning and budget revisions. Um, our budget still flows through community education and I'm really grateful for that support. Um, and for always championing our our early learning programs through community education as well. Um, we also offer awesome summer programming. Um, so we pretty much are open all year round. Um most of our programming in the summer is at KLEC, but we also work closely with targeted services to provide programs in the elementary um schools for our kids moving on to kindergarten who are at risk. And those um those are school readiness funds that we use to um run that program and they're usually taught by current kindergarten teachers working with incoming um kindergarteners, which is great. Um, and as I have stated, I think I've said a couple times, we're creatively using every space possible um, in our building at Click. Okay. Advance. Um, as far as future areas of growth or needs that we have, um, one thing coming up is that there's new legislation that states by July 2028, public pre kindergarten teachers will be required to have a license. And in a field where there's already um a teacher shortage, we are going to face concerns with recruiting and retaining highquality teachers when that happens. Um so we are we're not exempt from the teacher shortage in in early childhood and with each year it becomes more and more difficult to find uh and hire highly qualified staff. One of the projects that we took on last year and um I will say Julie Gekakle really led the charge on this one. Um, we are pretty proud that we had a collaboration between the child development classes at Lakeville North and Lakeville South High School and our building. And what we did, we had our our leadership team go over and present to those high school students on the different career paths for early childhood. So, talking about being a a parent educator, a preschool teacher, a school psychologist, an occupational therapist, all of the different opportunities. Um and after we presented then we had both classes come over to click and they spent the day um observing in a variety of classrooms um in some therapy settings and um interacting with our students and it was a phenomenal success. It was so great. Um the high school kids loved it and and our kids of course loved working with the high school students and it actually led to some of the high school students applying for summer positions within our district. So that was a really great effort and we hope to to do that again this year. Um, I will say though we've used our space at KLEC very creatively, it's increasingly difficult to accommodate the needs of our growing community, um, and everything that that we have to offer. Um, we just don't have have the capacity to do that. Um, and currently, uh, one of the other things that we've talked about, and I've talked with our our enrollment team and with Tracy Brold, um, we're using an averaging method to estimate the number of 0 to four year olds that reside in our district to receive funding for ECF and school readiness rather than using a census process. Um, and so that is one need that we're going to look into. um the most accurate form of reporting would be to have a dedicated census collection process and and a staff member to support that work. So that's something that we're looking at advance. Um so the heart of KL click truly um this work is is really really hard work and um our early childhood staff welcomes families and students into the district and they really make that first impression on families. Um they set the tone in the community when it comes to education. Our staff and our programs are really truly the the genesis of Lakeville area schools. It's where it all starts. Um, I told staff at our kickoff meeting that you may work with small humans, but the work that you do is in no way small. We've worked really hard to raise awareness of the importance of this work and we frequently receive glowing feedback and and um positive comments from our families and I wholeheartedly absolutely give all of that um back to the staff. All of that credit goes back to the staff that does this work. Families choose programs that collect time and time again for their children's first learning experience and then they return with their next child and their next child and their next child. Um so in closing, I would invite you and I I really truly urge you to come to Click. Please come visit. Um take a look around. Look around. Walk around, right? Um to see all of the incredible things that are happening there. Um I don't recommend that you come at 8:55 or at 255 because you won't get into the parking lot. Um, and we do have one of the bigger parking lots of all the schools in the district. Um, but please do come visit. It's it's truly where learning begins for the Lakeville community. So, thank you. Any questions? >> Questions? >> Director Carbone? >> Yeah, Molly, nice presentation. The the um comment you made earlier about >> you couldn't turn this into an elementary school. I you piqu my curiosity. What what's your sense of that >> of of people making that comment? >> Well, I think yeah, I thought you said something earlier about you you can't turn this into an elementary school. So, curious. >> I we heard it a lot when we were talking about building High View Elementary, right? Um why are we building a new elementary school? There's nothing happening at Click. What's happening at Click? And so, truly, this is really an opportunity for me and for us to express to the community what is happening at the Crystal Lake Education Center. It is a vis busy busy vibrant place. There's a lot happening. I don't know if the community is is completely aware of all that happens there, but we are, you know, all year round, all the time. It's like I said, 855 if you drive down, you almost can't get down at Pava. So, I just really want to express to the community that there is a lot happening there and it staff will come to me sometimes too and say, I heard again from somebody that, you know, they might turn it back into an elementary school. So, I've had to to reassure them that no, that that's that's not happening. Director Anderson. >> Yeah, thank you Molly for a really wonderful presentation and for your staff here as well. I just wanted to um and I I will I keep wanting to come and I'm going to make a plan to come visit. Um I just really wanted to understand you know I think um director Baker has been a wonderful advocate for um just the spacious space issues you guys have been facing and I know director Cameron is involved now as well. Um I am trying to understand as we approach conversations around space in the district in general what your vision you know you brought this up we were creatively trying to address this um what is your vision for what KP could be so um about I think 11 or 12 years ago there was a 10-year plan if you remember um and then a lot of things has hap have happened since then and so um at that time there was somewhat of a plan to develop up like an an ALC, a district office space and early more additional early childhood space, not replacing click, but additional somewhere south um in in Lakeville to accommodate some of those families because we do lose families to the new Prague district um from Elco. Um and so that was one vision. Um I think a site in the south area is still a a good um opportunity or a good, you know, plan to look at moving forward. Um in addition to to click, we've also entertained some thoughts and ideas about um preschool classrooms in elementary schools and are exploring some of those thoughts um and potential opportunities. Um there are some limits to that when it comes to having, you know, safety rated playgrounds um necessary. Those are are costly. Um, there's also something to be said about having staff separated from the hub, um, and having a preschool staff person, maybe being the only one in a building. Um, so some of those kinds of things we need to navigate and think about, but also looking looking I'm I'm connected with other districts um, other people in my position in other districts to see what's happening um, across the the county, too. >> So, yes, it more space. I don't know what that looks like, but that is my vision. >> Director Cameron. Yeah, I echo um Director Carbon and Anderson's um comments. Thank you for your presentation. Our family has been lucky enough to participate in many of the programs you described. We are an ECF family and both my kids did small wonders and now I'm thankful to be a liazison from the board on the parent advisory. So, thanks for inviting me um into that space and to all your staff here as well. Um, I think as we think about space and think about um, uh, the financial resources that our district needs, I'm I'm constantly looking for the data to help our community understand, right, that. And so I think the statistics that you put up here are really helpful to to gauge interest, but also demand and weight list for the programs. Um, and I also I'm not I'm not an ECF expert, but I'm pretty u aware of the research showing that stu kids who participate in these types of programs typically or many have um have long-term academic outcomes that are positive. And so I'm curious, have we ever been able to look at our programs and track Lakeville students? And I realize this would take staff time, but how how is how have our ECF, Small Wonders, um early special ed resulted in better academic outcomes because that's a priority of this board? Um and I'm thinking if if we can show the correlation, it would warrant then a conversation of how to increase this so that more of our students can participate. >> I don't know if has any research around that been done? We we don't have any long-term um plan DA data right now um currently that I'm aware of, but we're starting that work. So, we're starting that work with like I said with Cheryl Gangler to just start with the data dashboard, be able to collect um progress and and show progress that our students are making and then hopefully hand that information off to kindergarten teachers and just go from there. Um and with that with starting this process perhaps we can capture that capture that that data about you know what are the outcomes. We do know you know one of the things that kids um open enrolling into our district for preschool or for early learning services they tend to stay in our district. So there are some of those things that we can capture. But as far as long-term progress we know that early intervention is is very key. Um I just don't have hard and fast data with our students. Great. But hopefully we'll get there. >> Uh, Miss Dexter, just on the on the use topic, if I have the numbers roughly correct, it looks like there's about 850 students right now at the CLC. What What do you think would be the ideal capacity for the CLC? >> Um, so and that will grow. So I know that by the end of last school year, we had over,00 students um in in our school. Um, and and that's over the course of a week because if you think about our schedule, we don't function like the other levels. We have some students that are there Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and then others that are there Tuesday, Thursday. We do have some that are there Monday through Friday. So, when we count each and every one of those students um that that will continue to grow, our our special education numbers grow significantly um as the school year goes on. And then we'll have further enrollment with early childhood family education, too. So, over the past couple of years, we've been like,00 a,00 to,00 students by the end of the year. >> Yeah. And I guess my question was if if you needed another space like because I I see you have about 40 people on the wait list for the different programs. I mean how many would you shift from the CLC right now? I mean should we be running at 900 for that building or >> so that that's a great question. I I think um that census piece is is very important. Um so being able to track we we're not really aware of how many three-year-olds we maybe aren't serving, you know, how many four-year-olds we aren't serving. Um but having a census to show us what what the capacity is for the the district um we would be able to show that um 40 kids on a student on a waiting list isn't a reason to open another building. You know what I mean? I mean that's that number isn't but we don't know what we're missing if that makes sense. >> Well and I guess my point is are are we cramming too many kids into the CLC right now? You know where if we had another space you'd shift some of those kids to that space as well in addition to >> Yes, we would. We definitely would because like I said, we're using we're doubling up on space. Um we are currently looking for space uh to for another early childhood special education program or classroom. Um we have kids in in motor spaces and those kinds of things. I don't have that number of how many um would be ideal, but we've turned we've we've put up walls at the ends of hallways to create workspaces. Um we've turned every possible classroom space into a classroom space and then and then office spaces staff are on top of each other. So, >> Director Bake. >> So, first of all, I just want to say thank you to you and your team. Um, I'm sorry that you've felt over the years that early childhood has been overlooked. Um, I I don't feel that way. I feel like early childhood is I can't emphasize how important it is to have these services available. not only are you providing services to our youngest learners, but you're also um a family's first introduction into our school district and just giving the getting the feedback from the community on um early childhood services. Everything I have heard has been positive. So, thank you so much for giving all of our families this positive start into early childhood education. Um I also want to just highlight birth to three teachers. Um, I did birth to three for a while and um, I've also experienced birth to three services with my own my own children. So I, my oldest son went from birth to three services all the way up through transition services through age 22. Um, birth to three services, you go into the home, you provide services with a family. Um, and and David Anderson can attest to this too because he has told me so many times that those providers when they came into the home to help us, it was like a lifeline, right? It really was like a lifeline because it's like we can't get out of the house because we have kids that you know are having immune immune issues and uh we we're trying to go to all these appointments and then the provider comes in and then just kind of brings the calm to the chaos and hey what's let's just focus on one thing like what what what can we do today? How can I teach you to work with your with your child so that you know when I leave you can still do the things right? It it really is an amazing program and and I think the birth to three services are often overlooked. I don't think people really understand those unless you've utilized them. So, thank you to your to your team because I know you have a wonderful birth to three team um for your preschool staff because I hear wonderful things about um that transition to kindergarten going going well. Um the the teams that receive students like know where students are and how to pick up and go and and the kids that have been in our programs are thriving in kindergarten. So, thank you so much for the work that you're doing. Um, I can't say enough good things and I know that you utilize every single space within that building. I've walked in it. Um, I feel really bad that like I don't really feel like you have like a great really great place for staff to eat lunch because you know you're giving up all these spaces for kids and that just speaks to the heart of you and your team that you want the kids to have the spaces. So, you give of yourselves. So, thank you again for that. Um, I did have one question. Um, now that I've showered you with praise, um, one of the one of the early childhood programs that I've been following is the Prior Lake team, and I know that you're familiar with that team, particularly with their unified program. And that's what got me thinking about that was because you mentioned how you had the high schoolers coming down and and doing the triing with things. Well, they do these like great unified activities where the high schoolers come down and they do like track and field day with like the little kids. And it's just I see all the pictures about it and I'm like we need to get this in Lakeville. Like how do we bring this to Lakeville? >> So I don't know like if you can but I would love to see that in Lakeville. So reach out reach out to Prior Lake. >> I certainly will. All right. >> Director Anderson, >> can we just request that once you get that census data we we get that filtered back to us just because I think that will help inform some of our decision- making. >> Yes. If we're able to create that position and create that that fulfill that fulfill that need, we will definitely come back and share what we learned. >> Good for us to have those numbers to just provide that support. And I will just say my daughter's in that child development class, so she'll be coming. She already told me she's coming her way, so that's the expectation. She's very excited. >> Awesome. Look forward to it. All right. >> All right. Thanks so much, Molly. Appreciate it. >> Thank you. >> On to a slightly less fun subject, tax time, but Charter Homegrren, >> Chair Swanson, members of the school board, Superintendent Bowman. Tonight, um the school year just got started, but tonight we get to talk about next year. So, the the levy information we're going to talk about um is for the fiscal year 27, which uh you'll vote on um and certify that in December when we get that far. But tonight we're going to talk about the preliminary numbers and then that's what goes to the county to set up um everybody's you know tax. So um see we got so we just received actually the information from MDE yesterday. So we've been um working through the numbers making sure that they're correct. There's a few things that uh we're getting um changed and repaired um from the state state of Minnesota, but the numbers we're going to share with you, we really believe these are the numbers that's what they're going to be. Um and we'll need you to take some action in two weeks. Um we have to take action in September. Uh so the county has the numbers in time. Um so just like I said September 23rd um we'll be back um to take action and then we'll have a truth and tax uh hearing in December and then we'll certify the uh levy at that time. So looking at the levy there is multiple different variables affecting the actual values. So we're going to go through and define each one. We have going to start with the market value go uh go on to the next tax capacity the sales ratio and then the adjusted net net tax capacity. Spit that out. >> So what the market value is is if you sold all the properties in our district today. This is the value that the county assesses that it's worth and this is how much they would give us for those uh properties. >> Yeah. And you can see here that the increases have come down back to a normal a normal view I should say. If you look back right after the pandemic, we had some huge increases in values um across our district. Well, across the state of Minnesota. So we look at net tax capacity, you see the p percentage changes are about about exactly the same. Um, and then when we go forward to on the sales ratio, what the sales ratio looks at is what are houses selling at compared to what they're assessed at. And in most cases, you're going to sell your house for a higher value than what it's assessed at. So, that's what that percentage is showing that um, from what you can sell your house at, the value that's assessed at the time is about 92.9%. You see a small small change there. Now you see a negative um of one, you know, one tenth of 1%. So it's very is very stable compared to what we saw here just a couple years ago. Okay. And then um what what the state of Minnesota does is they know that sales ratio is real, right? So they take the next tax capacity and divide it by the sales ratio. As you know, if you divide a number by a smaller number than one, you're going to get a bigger number. So really looking at our adjusted net tax capacity, you see there's about another another $10 million there. And that's what they use to actually assess the tax is the higher the higher amount. And >> the main reason that the state does this, it's more of an equalization thing between the counties because every county prices things a little differently. So this makes sure that everybody is treated fairly. Okay, we'll move into the numbers and we're not going to see any big huge changes tonight compared to what we had the year before. Um, this whole first page here is all tied to our operating levies. If you remember the local optional revenue, these are these are numbers that the state of Minnesota knows they're not funding school districts at the level they should. So that's $724 per pupil unit that we can levy, but as that's come on board, it it comes off of the operating levies we had. So it didn't give us extra, it just shifted the dollars. So our total is still about the same. Um, so you can see that you're seeing small increases in our our LO and an operating referendum and you're seeing a small decrease in equity and that's normal as the as the operating referendum gets larger for us. that means we have a higher closer to that cap and we lose our equity revenue. So, I mean $2,700 is is not a big number, but it is less than the than the year before. And then I just want to point out these prior year adjustments. We talked about this that our our enrollment um we looked at the uh at those numbers here the last couple years and our projections were a little bit too high. So, we had to pull those back and that's why you're seeing those um negative adjustments in um in both 25 and 26. But overall, our operating levy is going to bring in another $1.3 million in 27 than it is now. So, right now we're going to look at the designated components. These are ones that are based on net tax capacity rather than RMV. Um, so the interesting piece about all these uh different sources is they're all part of the restricted funding. Um, the one thing I really want to point out here is the vocational section. So vocational that is based on our expenditures in our like CTE courses. Now to get funding for those, we need teachers to be licensed in the program that they're teaching. And hands uh kudos to our teaching learning department. they've been doing a fabulous job of ensuring that people had the proper lensure or the proper OFPS. So that's why there's such a big increase in that vocational piece. So that's pretty good to see. The next piece that we're looking at is more designated components. These ones are primarily based on enrollment besides uh OPED. OPED is based on our actuarial studies. Um so when enrollment goes up, we end up getting more in those different buckets. Okay, I'm going to talk a little about the capital pieces of the levy, our operating capital. These these funds are based on how old our buildings. So, every year our buildings get a little older. The state of Minnesota say, "Oh, yeah, your older building could be a little bit more money to help maintain that building." So, you're seeing a small increase there at $68,000. our LTFM. This has um as we've gone forward the last few years, this number in the general fund has grown a little bit and we've done a little less borrowing. So you see again here about a million dollar increase um to our LTFM in the general fund itself. Now you see under district 917, this is the first time you see this um from district 917. They haven't been asking for LTFM dollars in the past. Um, but they are asking instead of just sending us tuition bills a little higher, we're actually use it do it during a through a levy process. You see about $86,000 here going to district 917. Um, capital projects levy. Remember this is this is the uh renewal that's coming up. So this is showing that that we're assuming at this point in time that that would renew. Okay? So if if that doesn't renew, then that $4.4 million goes away. And here's just taking the general fund as a more of a summary. So you see our our unassigned components which is really our operating levy pieces up there with an increase of 1.3 million and then our restricted dollar area another increase of 1 million and our capital components of 2.3 million. So the general fund we're seeing an increase of 4.7 million for fiscal 27. Okay. Okay, when it comes to um community education, um I thought we fixed this. There's a typo here, so I apologize for that. On the very first line, you'll see that the basic levy is actually decreasing um by $6,23. But at the same time, I want I just want to tell you that community is not getting less dollars. There's actually a aid component which we haven't received in the past of about $28,000. So they're still have an increase even though we see an inc a de small small decrease there. Um also when you look at the basic levy you use service and after school that's all based on a per capita. So that's why um Steve Porter brings to you each year a memo to have the state look at our population and if there's some growth we get it included so we can get a little more levy for that those programs. But very small he he had mentioned that in his his last presentation. very small increase, but we do have a small increase there for them. Um, ECF, that's another area where you see a negative. This happens back and forth on a yearly basis. This doesn't mean they're getting less. It just means we're getting more aid um from the state of Minnesota. Um, home visits are meaning exactly what they cost us. So, we we are getting reimbursed for those those costs. Disabled adult, same way. um they look at what we actually spend and uh we get more or less because of it. Now school age care I want to just touch base here shortly. Um this is the before and after school um program that is for our special ed students and we're able to levy for the costs of the support in those programs. You can see going from 566 to 589. Now the state of Minnesota looks at that. I mean we're doing our best guess of what that budget's going to be in the future. Um, but if we don't spend that, of course, then we give that money back. So that 120,000 you're seeing there is a negative adjustment. That is from prior years that we didn't spend the whole amount. So we're giving that money back to the community at this time. And looking at debt service, um, we are allowed to levy up to 105% of our debt cost uh for our future payments. Now, occasionally that debt service fund grows and grows and there's too much in it. So we decide to underlevy and give that money back to the taxpayers. And that's what you see there in 26 where there's the debt that debt excess adjustment is us underleving and giving that money back to the taxpayers in that year. So you can see overall in the debt service we actually have a decrease here of over $4 million. Another reason that that's going down besides the the uh under levy is and when we look at our debt service um plan, we're getting to that point now where it's actually we're getting things paid off and it's stepping down. So we have a little less paying out here the next year. So this puts all all three of the funds together. So you can see that uh we have that increase of 4.7 at the general fund. That's an 8.8% uh percent increase mainly because those negative adjustments we had in the past are going back up. Um community had a small decrease there of 8% and then debt service down 19. You can see overall just like we had last year our overall levy is shown there to increase by a quarter of 1%. And I just want to say too that because of all the building that happens or is happening here in Lakeville that that those numbers get diluted as the new comes on. So most people won't see an increase at all. Um we can't tell you exactly what that's going to be, especially when you look at some of the numbers we looked at. You remember it said 20 24 and everything. Well, that's because 25 isn't over yet. So we don't have those numbers exactly. But um right now we're looking at a quarter of 1% increase in our levy going into next year. I think with that said, that's what we have. So is there any questions? And you guys will be back in a couple weeks with an updated proposal. >> We'll bring back any any adjustments that we have saw happen with the state of Minnesota. So you'll get exact numbers might tweak just a tiny bit. Uh but it won't be it won't be very much. >> Um yeah. So I need you to take action in two weeks. >> All right. Thank you, gentlemen. >> Yeah. Thank you. >> Uh board member reports. Does anyone have a board member report to share? >> Director Anderson. >> Um, so one, I got to go to a couple of the schools on the first day of school and that was really fun to see the students coming in the buildings. Um, so I just want to also confirm great first day of school and I also want to say that I was at the um, Gopher football game on Saturday and lots of the so Lakeville North and South uh, South bands were representing there as well as I think our cheer teams and dance teams as well. It was great. Um, my daughter saw one of her friends and we took a picture. It was just very fun and great to see our schools represented. So, they did a great job. >> My daughter actually said she saw you at Century. Mhm. I saw Garley. Anybody else? Director Carbone. >> But yeah, last week uh there was an all staff kickoff at Lakeville North High School and uh Director Cameron, myself and uh Chair Swanson uh attended and and uh took care of the table and it was really an enjoyable experience. We got to meet a number of teachers from elementary all the way up to uh to high school and uh it it was just really nice to see the passion that they were showing getting ready for the coming week. >> Yeah, I I have to say I was impressed by the jerseys, the matching jerseys that the Christina Huddleston staff were wearing. So really priding it out. Um if there are none no other reports uh I will jump into the added agenda item under board report as well. I had shared a resolution uh with the board this last week just a draft resolution that I had seen uh I had just kind of modified it um but I saw that a neighboring district just approved this Farmington did. Uh and what essentially it is, it's a a resolution to encourage the legislature to kind of address a gap. Um right now, current state law requires us to approve um our budget, our annual budget by June 30th of each year. Um however, as we've seen, you know, consistently there are there's new legislation passed by the legislature that affects that budget. Um and once we've approved our budget, we're kind of stuck. And so then we're making adjustments. um this kind of addresses that and asks the legislature to make sure that anything that they pass um either to pass it earlier, their budget earlier, or to make it um not effective until our next budgeting year. Um yeah, I thought this could help us just preserve our resources. And I thought Bill would love this. Um so yeah, this is just something I I thought I'd put on, see if the board would be interested in joining in. Uh there are a handful of other districts that are doing this and then the MSBA is collecting them on September 24th. So we'd have to have it approved before then. Um and they'd be pushing it to the legislature. So are there any questions? If there was interest, I'd say we'd probably tweak it before then just to be more Lakeville specific. I'd, you know, take any recommendations from um Director Homegrren or Superintendent Bowman. So, but I assume this would help us if it were passed, right, Director Bowman or Superintendent Bowman? >> Not a director. Uh, I would say yes. Um, I know that the Association of Minnesota School Districts, uh, which we are a member, lobbies and they lobby along these lines, uh, and have for at least 20 years. Um, I would say anything can help if MSBA were to adopt this u from multiple districts seeking it. Um, that could be helpful and just be be another lobby opportunity uh with the legislature. But this has been a long-standing problem in the system. Uh, anything we could do to support that or to uh affect change with the legislature, you know, I be remiss not to support that. Director Baker. >> So, um, this has been done in the past over several issues that have come through, uh, with legislation. Uh, there was one, I want to say like two years ago that a lot of districts did, um, asking for the federal government to fully fund special education. I see this resolution similar to this one go through pretty much every school year. Um, I guess the issue that that I have with it that um or at least that I see is that a resolution without action is just a piece of paper that we've printed and and wasted a tree on. So, I kind of feel like um if you want action, like go and talk with your legislators, like write an email, um call and talk to them on the phone about the things that you're concerned about. and and I feel like I get more ground um doing things like that and trying to be involved than um worrying about resolutions. But that's just my opinion. >> Director Cameron. >> Um thanks. I think a couple of thoughts I have. Um I mean I I understand like the impetus behind it and um know that when the legislature or the federal government makes decisions on school funding, it creates challenges, right, for the local level to to react, especially when um there isn't necessarily a lot of time um in between when the legislation is passed and and when the um the budget takes place for the school district. So, I appreciate that part about it. A few things I might offer. Um, well, I mean, to to Director Baker's comment, I mean, I I I appreciate the aspiration of it. Um, I think the the likelihood that this would ever take um or have legs is pretty um not realistic. um uh just because of how like I think for some of this the state constitution would have to be revised in order to accommodate what's being asked here which obviously is a big process but nevertheless like it's it doesn't hurt to like let people know that we continue to like think about how how the different levels of government interact with one another. I think um the revisions that I would be interested in talking about. One um is under requested action or this is rather a question but when it says um in the first bullet no new mandate andor budget reduction that poses financial costs should be implemented um until the next year next school year. I'm I'm summarizing what it says there. What I'm thinking about here is like the challenge that for example the state had in this last year where budget cuts were needed across the board in in every area of government. And so there isn't, as I understand it, there was there would not be an opportunity to say, "Okay, we're going to we're going to cut, but we're not going to cut right now." Like um we're going to wait a year because the cuts were needed immediately. And so I think that's the part I struggle a little bit with is like if the if the state or federal government needs to cut budget, it often is going to happen immediately. Um because there is no money, you know, like it's not like you can wait longer. And so not sure how that works out. My other question around the second bullet was around the March one date. Um I know that like the governor needs to submit an education budget to the legislature like midFebruary and then based on whatever um is proposed by the governor the the forecasted budget um for that proposal is given um has a March one deadline to the legislature. So um with this with the timeline that's written in the resolution with the current with the way the state constitution is written that that wouldn't provide an opportunity um for the legislature to to react to this resolution because they wouldn't have the numbers in time to accommodate that. So there's a question I have like why why March one? Might there be a different April one or a different date that we could pick? And then maybe both to um Superintendent Bowman and and Director Baker, um I'm wondering if section two doesn't really need to exist in the whole resolution and that um I feel like this is really focused on one legislative session rather than um a problem that has existed for decades. And so I feel like both um section one and section three encompass kind of the the goals of um the goals of the resolution without needing to um hone in on a specific legislative session. Um and I I would argue that as a nonpartisan board by eliminating section two it would um create more conversation and more opportunity for this to be discussed as a nonpartisan resolution. I feel that section two breaches us into partisan uh politics. >> Director Anderson. >> Um Director Cameron just made a lot of great points. Um, I would just kind of echo I'm not sure um this just doesn't seem achievable in terms of um and I'm I'm just I feel like to Director Baker's point, there are many fish we could fry with these resolutions and I'm not sure why we're zeroed in on this one. Um, and I just don't think it's like the focus of the board at this moment. >> Director Baker, >> I totally applaud um what you're trying to do here. Um, I think that I I agree with everything Director Cameron said like that that was pretty much spot on when I was reading through um the document myself. But um if you really want to like chase down some of these things like we could start a legislative committee of the board and we can talk about like based on what they're talking about, you know, a campaign of talking with our representatives, bringing in bringing them into the board, letting them tell us about the things that are going on and then having like a discussion with them back and forth. Um, I think that brings our needs and our district closer to the representatives that are supposed to be, you know, our voice at the Capitol level. I know we did have um some representatives in last school year. Um, it would be great to bring them back in again and and just kind of talk about what some of those needs needs are because I think the big thing is is it's got to be collaborative. like it needs to be a conversation. And um the thing about it is like every time that I have worked with someone in the legislature, um they'll say, "Well, I've never been in a classroom." And I'm like, "Hey, that's okay." Like, "What do you do for a living?" And they'll talk about different things. And so then we we'll get to talking about like what it is like in the classroom because they don't know. A lot of them don't know. And they're the ones that are writing our laws for our district. So if we bring them in and have real life conversations and and have opportunities for them to engage not just with us but with our teachers and our public, I think that we could get further. But that's just my opinion. >> Can I just make one comment? So as I said, so I didn't draft the resolution. Um and I understand that yeah, it it might be something that's difficult to do and I I I appreciate your comments, Director Cameron, about maybe taking out two because it's very specific to what just happened. I do think it is an opportunity for a school board to step up and take action via a vote to tell our legis our legislators, even our local ones. Um, and if multiple school districts are doing it across the state, um, we are speaking more united. Like I said, uh, MSBA did review this and, you know, said, "Yeah, this would be great if we could adopt something like this and encourage it." Um, because it is something that happens and has impact on our district. Um, again, I'm I'm not sure how it would play out. I mean, the legislature set our deadline. I mean, created the statute to make it. So, we had to adopt a budget by June 30th. Um, so again, I mean, I think it's an easy way for us to step up and and act as a unified board and say, "Yeah, these things are important. Um, pay attention to us, you know, when you're passing laws um that affect our budget and affect our students." But uh again, I brought this forward just as a discussion item to see if the board had interest in looking at this further and possibly um adopting some form of this uh before the September 24th date that MSBA is requesting that resolutions be submitted. Uh if there is not enough support, then we will not waste time on the 23rd. So, Director Anderson. Yeah, I mean I just want to kind of echo um I would be far more supportive of this with section two removed, but I'm also wondering if there's been any consultation with our local um you know in terms of our house representative if there's been discussion about this get getting their input on it. >> No, this came up pretty quick. Um I mean I just became aware of it last week. So, >> so that might be helpful just to see, you know, I think there is the if it won't have legs or if it just is not if there are too many barriers in the way. Um, it just it makes me question like where our time is spent in terms of what we're moving forward. But, >> yep. Sorry, >> Dr. Cameron. >> Um, I was able to connect with um my state house and senate um representatives uh this week about it. Um, and so some of what I shared today was just feedback I got from them. I don't think I don't think from my representatives, which are um, Senator Port and Caleb Berg, I mean, they're they're willing to think about this and and understand like the the situation that this resolution is trying to bring up. Um, I think they understand it's like this long-term, decade long challenge and and are willing to to to have conversation and and think about how it could be improved. Um, and so I think I'd be ha I mean I I do think it's a challenging resolution um in terms of actually making progress on it. However, um I wouldn't be opposed to supporting it um so long as we remove section two from the resolution. >> Okay. Any other comments before we move on? If there are none, Mr. Bon, anything for the superintendent report? >> Well, you guys captured a lot of them. Although, I will say with the Gopher game, I'm not I I don't mean to insult the other team, but um they were running up and down the field. I wish they could do that to Michigan or something. Uh Ohio State, anybody? Um maybe one day. Uh I think I I just want to say uh thank you to our all of our staff again for a good start to the school year. Um, we the goal is upward trajectory, so upward and onward. And I know uh everybody's in good spirits and we're trying to do all that. Um, if if you're able to get out, I would highly recommend kindergarten class or our ECS uh down there at Clack. Uh, the little ones are wonderful. Not that our other kids aren't wonderful, too. It's just they uh they just say the darnest things and it's fun to it's fun to be around them. So, I would encourage that. Um, and then the last thing, uh, got a big football game coming up on Friday and that's going to be at South this year. Um, if you didn't know, the Panthers and Cougars are going to see who's the best in the southwest metro. Um, we'll see how that goes. So, if you can get out there, I think the weather's going to be nice. So, um, hopefully you can get out there. That's my report, Mr. Chair. All right, with that there is no recommended actions on the agenda. So I would entertain a motion to adjurnn. >> Motion by director Cameron, seconded by Director Carbone. All in favor say I. I. >> Any opposed? We are done.