At this election, there will be three board member seats up for election with a term of three years...the period for filing of the affidavit of candidacy for a schoolboard election begins on July 29th and closes on August 12th.

LTFM is a program under MISO statute that establishes the long-term facility maintenance uh revenue plan where revenues can be uh used by districts for the following. So there's deferred capital expenditures and maintenance projects uh necessary to improve the future erosion of facilities, increasing accessibility of school facilities, health and safety capital projects.

I think one of the responses on that question too, I think from John was that we do have genderneutral bathrooms and each one of our school buildings. Um, I don't know that there's necessarily a goal to have one on each floor... but I think there's a general interest in uh, uh, maximizing privacy of restrooms and providing choice and options um that help ensure that all of our students are comfortable.

I heard from teachers from other districts... Since it is enclosed area, it is hard to see what is happening and I'm hearing especially obviously on high school level kids um smoke marijuana then uh they wipe and there are some other activities going on. So in that case uh first of all why I'm asking it I don't want to put this responsibility into teachers because I don't think that this is their job to to watch.

if something comes in higher than what we have planned then it's a rep prioritization, you know, does something come off the list or vice versa if something comes in under? Is there something else that we maybe have projected to be a year or two out that we can push into the current year?

The bond sale results we received this morning were at 3.18% 3.17% um and JP was the low bidder... So our our uh market timing was very excellent today. Market conditions were good and I think you can kind of see um the results of uh people wanted to buy Weisetta bonds this morning with the AAA rating.

The district did go through a rating process. I think it's important to note public schools is one of three districts in the state of Minnesota that holds a AAA um bond rating.

Moody's AAA rating. It clearly shows how financially stable the district is and it's not it doesn't happen on its own. There is discipline behind it. there is that fiscal conservativeness if you will especially coming out of COVID. It's a big deal. So really kudos to the administration and folks who are on the team who were on the team.

The recommendation includes a salary schedule improvement of 2.25% for the 2526 fiscal year... we really do need to increase that to keep up with um what the expectations is for individuals entering these positions uh is of our district... we have to make sure that our our pay plans and benefits are are competitive.

I'm not trying to be mean to specific people but I'm trying to hear I mean have some sort of a discussion so that at the end of the day we are open for students uh we are not for vacations we are not for as for uh business world.

we had about, you know, a dozen or so formal agreements in place that again, as of mid August, we'll be suns setting those formal agreements and going to really an individual circumstance type of a situation... overall number of days that remote work is occurring will will be significantly reduced.

I very much appreciate the district's commitment to an in-person model. Especially for our students and so I think when we expect that of our students, we need to expect it of ourselves. And it starts from leadership, right? So if we expect our students to be in schools, we should also be in our schools.

Some of the sources of funding for some a lot of these positions come from categorical areas... those are all four of those funds that I just mentioned are not funds where you can skim off some to buy a first grade teacher or a science teacher at the high school. Those are you can't co-mingle those fun those funds.

our our substitutes in our district help out immensely uh on a daily basis... we also compete with surrounding C uh districts like we do um with other positions for our substitutes. So we want our uh substitutes to to stay with us and and work as much as they can. And um this increase again helps us uh stay competitive with with reserve teacher rates um in our area.

Thanks for all the bits and pieces that make a good experience for our kids. There's there's just no way to be able to explain all the little pieces that come together for choir concerts, for wisetta kids, for all the things that have to happen to create a fun and happy academic experience.