on an annual basis, our district runs an audit of all the different fees that we charge and aligns those fees to the cost of the services that they're connected with. And then as appropriate, they're adjusted to make sure that we're, you know, our board goal of long-term financial stability.

If these fee changes are actually approved, comparing ourselves to our, uh, Lake Conference, uh, co-chools or co-dists, uh, we currently have the lowest average fee structure in the conference. We would be the second lowest, about $5 above what Buffalo is at compared to the other schools in the conference.

if a student can't afford this, is there some some way that, you know, we want students to be able to participate? Are there scholarships or what would a family do if, you know, this becomes prohibitive in some activity or

activities? Director Schultz has the ability to uh look at situations in in wave fees.

actually activities director shows says that that uh had had produced some information for superintendent law and myself that these changes would allow them basically to keep operating on a break even level with all the costs that they have to run.

The board decided to pilot a new model for student school board representation. And that model was actually presented by students from our vantage program.

It was a unique and amazing opportunity to be heard. We got direct input into real district decisions and it was overall very positive and a great experience for everyone who was involved.

the core goal was to include authentic student voice. That was the number one priority for this and that's what we succeeded at.

One of them being the student survey. Um, we think this would be a way for students to feel more comfortable sharing their voices just because not everyone's comfortable going up to a representative or something.

I will tell you when I was a freshman or sophomore in high school, there is a 0% chance that you would have gotten me to come and speak to a room full of adults while being live streamed. So, I commend you for that.

Our last middle school program review was in 2006. A lot has changed. It's time for us to revisit this.

We structured this master schedule, we did it in a way that uh created continuity for math and language arts because um you know on a four period AB schedule, you know, one option is you could just have math be one period on A day and uh language arts be one period on B day. Um and we were really concerned about the the lack of continuity for that.

one of the biggest challenges in working with middle schoolers is um we know that they need support and seal and executive functioning, but uh very few middle schoolers believe that they need support and seal and executive functioning.

And you can see in seventh grade uh the forensics course new course has been overwhelmingly popular. uh the financial literacy which you know I would have we were always curious about whether you know mom and dad were going to win that one or if the kids were going to win that one. Um and as it turns out mom and dad won that one a lot and um and it's been very popular.

in this new model, we lost minutes in science instruction. And I understand that when we're doing a science lesson that we don't have the setup and the take, you know, I mean, that that can be beneficial, right? But I I would like to know like what is our plan to monitor our students and make sure that I mean that that's working the way we wanted it to because I I do believe we lost some significant chunk of time there.

And when you go to the block, you reduce the minutes you're losing in transition. Teachers also have done extensive work uh making some modifications within the curriculum in terms of how they're designing their lessons, their units. Um so that the essential learnings are all still being prioritized within their curriculum.

the tone around the change like the beginning of the year compared to the middle of the year compared to the end. It like there was a dramatic shift and hearing them talk about the way the classes were structured especially after that midyear PD day where they talked a lot about how to effectively use a block period. It seems like students felt that whe I mean they didn't articulate it in that way but there was less time being kind of not used efficiently or they weren't being asked to sit for a huge chunk of time alto together.

The language in statute for this is like for a like. Like, you don't use long-term facility maintenance to build a pool where there is no pool or to add to a building. But if you're replacing current with better because it of the need for maintenance, these funds can be used for that.

We're one of the first districts in the state to be 100% LED lighting. We went in big time on those and and uh, basically we were all LED by about 2013.

if you want to be a district of excellence, you have to exceed excellence in every every facet. Our uh cafeteria HV replace HVAC replacements at Dpave and Excelsure.

our 1,871,000 square feet would take about $479 per square foot at current construction costs. And it's about $900 million to rebuild our buildings.

we bought about $60,000 worth at that time of additional R22 which you while you still could buy it and we have it stored at our our mechanical uh shop that that's our contract mechanical repair people for the uh ice rink and uh there's enough there to replace four complete failures of the ice rink.

One of those things is this concept that Mr. as well. We'll share tonight that um in 2027 or 2028 won't generate millions of dollars, but um could be the start of something really incredible.

we talk about Minnitonka public schools in some respects in a manner that most of people talk about their college, you know, where they graduate from university, their college elma mater. So just a strong community pride and support and it's evidenced by support for various referendum.

So what this idea is is to do a trust but just kind of give it a little more oomph in terms of having specific documents and um uh and and and a little bit more structure around it that would give people the opportunity to do what I call legacy giving.

we make we make the promise in our in our trust documents that we will never touch that $5,000. We'll utilize the earnings on it. And, uh, so we'd then be able eventually over time, we'd be able to make annual dividend withdrawals from the investment earnings only.

I mean, you're talking about it's hundreds of millions of dollars and you're pulling millions of dollars out in earnings you know so this is a long-term play