Good evening and welcome everyone. Thetime is now 7:01. The Visetta Public Schools Board ofEducation regular meeting for Monday, September 8th, 2025 will please come toorder. Will the clerk please call the role?>> Heidi Kedar >> here.>> Sheila Prior here. >> Sarah Johansson>> here. >> Harris Bend>> here. >> Valentina Ays>> here. >> Dan Janestra>> here. >> Milan Sahony>> present. >> Chase Anderson>> here. Thank you. We have a quorum. Please rise for the pledge ofallegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of theUnited States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nationunder God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you and welcome everyone on abeautiful, beautiful fall evening. I hope it it stays like this through thewinter. Okay. If you wish to speak during theaudience opportunity to address the board, please fill out a form placed atthe back of the room and hand it over to our district admin assistant, Amy,sitting to my right in the far right corner there. The first item on ouragenda is the approval of the agenda and the consent agenda items. Consent agendaitems are considered routine in nature and will be enacted by one motion.There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a board member or acitizen so request in which event the item will be removed as a consent agendaitem and addressed. The consent agenda items are listed in the materials. Therecommended action is to approve the agenda and the consent agenda items. Isthere a motion? I so move. >> Is there a second? Second. Moved andseconded. Will the PL clerk please take a roll call vote?>> Sheila Prior, >> yes. Heidi Kedar,>> yes. >> Valentina Ays,>> yes. >> Dan Janestra,>> yes. >> Sarah Johansson,>> yes. >> Harris Bend,>> yes. >> Milan Sahony,>> yes. We have an agenda. Thank you. Right. The next item on our agenda isreports from organizations. And I would like to invite Rachel Lynn,student council vice president from Visetta High School to please comeforward. Congratulations, Rachel, on beingelected vice president. Welcome. >> Hello. Okay. Good evening,Superintendent Anderson, members of the board, and everybody else gathered heretonight. I hope you're all having a great start to your week. Let me startby briefly introducing myself. My name is Rachel Yen and as a student body vicepresident, I will be providing monthly reports to the school board on theWeisetta High School experience. I will keep these reports brief as I know theboard has wonderful work to get to. With the school year kicking off, ourwonderful link crew spent the first day of school welcoming roughly a thousandfreshmen to our high school, bringing our total student enrollment count toaround 4,000. 130ish link leaders gave the freshmanguided tours around the high school to help them acclimate to the building.With homecoming a month away, our student council is busy grappling withweighty tasks like orchestrating the school dance, gathering concessions forour block party, raising donations for tackle cancer, and determining whichpack of balloons give us the best value for our book, and it's always the Amazonone. In addition, I am honored to announce that I will be serving as theMinnesota State Representative to the National Student Council, and I'mexcited to bring the incredible work and advocacy that we do locally to thenational stage. Other organizations are in eagerpreparation for the year ahead as well. Wisetta Theater has eagerly begunassembling their musicals, Anything Goes, and The Visit. Pre-professionalclubs like DECA, BPA, and HOSA are soon to host informational meetings forprospective members. Our marching band and showstoppers performed at JJ HillDays. Our National Honor Society is in the process of organizing a blood driveand the Trojan Tribune, our high school newspaper, has just launched their back-to school issue. It's always amazing to to hear how actively engaged our studentbody is within its own community. Lastly, we can't forget about sports.The girls cross country team dominated at their St. Olaf meet, winning firstplace by 100 points. Girls JV and varsity tennis are currently undefeated.And boys varsity soccer just defeated Hopkins 2.While our school year involves, students have an incredible number of ways togain support and get involved within our school community. Thank you. Have agreat evening and I can't wait to share more updates next month.>> Thank you, Rachel. And congrat Hang,hang on, hang on, hang on once. Hang on. Rachel, Rachel,can you please Thank you. I was going to congratulate you on beingelected or n I don't know, appointed something, but you are on the nationalstudents council as a Minnesota representative. So, congratulations onthat. So, now I'm going to ask my board colleagues if they have any comments orquestions for you. >> Yes, Sarah,>> I do. Congrats. We um have a history with Natsuko and it's super fun and socongrats to that. Um and then my question for you is tell us about theTrojan Tribune. And so last year I think they said order for like outside thehigh school that there was maybe a QR code to do. How do we how do can peopleoutside the high school read it and if so how?>> Yes. So, I believe the Children Tribune isn't exactly affiliated with the highschool, but they do provide um seasonal reports on happenings within our schooldistrict. You can access it through their Instagram. I know they provide QRcode um QR codes to their issues and so I highly recommend Yeah. everybody readit. I'm not exactly sure what their Instagram um account is, but I know itis accessible through there. >> Okay. Thank you.>> Yes. Anyone else? All right. Now, now you maygo. Thank you, Rachel. Again, >> thank you.>> Hopefully, we'll see you again next month.>> Yes. >> Thanks a lot. >> Okay. The next item on the agenda isrecognitions. Hold on. Jeez, I'm to read the Are you going to read the MSBAthing? >> Good evening, everybody, and welcome toour school board meeting. I think you might be present on the night when we'veset an all-time new record for attendance. uh in this facilities forboard meeting. So great to see all of you and welcome and thanks for joiningus. Um it's always my honor at our regular school board meetings to convenethe recognitions portion of the of the meeting. And tonight we are recognizingour very own school board. And while I read the script, perhaps I'll justinvite them to feel free to sit right where they're at. And then after I readthe script, we'll come down here, take a photo, and then uh provide anopportunity for uh our chair or any others to uh share a few thoughts ifthey would like to do so. Probably out of the sake of convenience, feel freeafter the photo to make your way back to your uh seat if you would. So, I'd liketo share the following with you in regard to our school board. September isMinnesota School Board Recognition Month, a time to honor the dedicated menand women who serve as the guiding light for student success in our publicschools throughout the state. And right here in Weisetta, school board membersserve countless hours to ensure our students have access to highqualitylearning, extracurricular opportunities, and a public education system that helpsthem thrive. These public servants are chosen bytheir communities to govern local schools, manage multi-million dollarbudgets, and make decisions that directly impact the future of ourstudents and families. School board members don't seek the spotlight, butthey play a critical civic role. They help set the vision for our schools,shape educational priorities, and make tough decisions, often after extensivedeliberation and study. Their leadership touches every corner of our schoolsystem. Their efforts can often go unseen, but their impact is felt inevery classroom, every program, and every student success story. This monthand every month, we encourage our community to say thank you to thesededicated individuals. Their service makes local control of public educationpossible, and their leadership helps shape the future of our schools andcommunities. We proudly recognize the members of the Weisetta School Board fortheir service and commitment. And I'll list their names and years of service.Sarah Johansson, 12 years. Milan Sahony, four years. Heidi Kedar, four years.Sheila Prior, three years. Paris Bendy, two years. Valentina Ayes, two years.And Dan Janestra, two years. Would you please join me in a round of applausefor [Applause]And just a moment off script, if I may, I would just like to also uh say thanksto uh the seven of you for uh your dedicated efforts, for uh all of thework that you put in, not only in preparing for each of our two schoolboard meetings, but they also serve on several committees and are involved inour strategic partner uh groups such as uh district 287 and um others which arevery critical and important to uh the overriding success of our schooldistrict. So uh it's not everybody that gets seven bosses but superintendantstoo. So anyway, I appreciate all that you do and uh if you would please uhcome forward, we'll take a photo and then I'll invite you to come back and ifyou would like to make a few comments then you can do that.>> We do the photo first or the comments first.We can do it either way. >> Let's do the comment first and then dothe picture and then we'll go through the retirey recognition.>> Sure. >> But I just want to say happy Minnesotaschoolboard recognition month everyone. >> Uh please make any comments if you feelfeel you know feel so. >> Yes B.>> Yeah I just wanted to take this opportunity and thank you all. Um it isan honor to be sitting here amongst you know my peers as well as the communitymembers. um last year and a half uh the school board meeting when the schools,teachers, students when they come and present that is really the spotlight andthat actually shows you know the work the efforts that you all put in. Uh yeswe are here uh but again thank you for all your help and support who actuallymake it happen on the ground. So again thank you all.>> Yes, >> I'll second that really from the bottomof my heart personally. Thank you so much for all your dedication to ourstudents um your colleagues and our community as a whole. you know, Soffmansaid that when we, you know, made the decision to run for the school board,um, there was maybe some um, you know, uncertainty as how do you, you know,navigate this? But I think what we've found is that we campaign in poetry, butwe govern in pros. That was said once and, um, to see the dedication of ourstudents, our teachers, our staff is so remarkable and to be part of acommunity. I've lived in Wisetta schools nearly my whole life and it's such awonderful place to be. So to everyone who has made our district's storypossible, thank you. and um we look forward to no doubt countless years offuture success. Thank you so much. >> Okay. So, I just want to just say justone one thing. I I feel very very honored andprivileged that the community uh put me in this seat in the service of students.This is the best job I've ever had by far. So, thank you everyone.All right, let's go to the side there by the podium. If you could please join mefor a photograph. working with you.>> Well, you even got a certificate there. >> The certificate from is from Minnesotaschool board. Is it from Yeah, it is from the Minnesota School BoardAssociation which um which is the kind of the parent organization that hasabout 330 plus districts as board as members of the association. So thiscertificate is from them in the recognition of school board month.U Sarah would you mind joining Chase for the next part of the recognition? I think I should turn the microphone on.We only have one additional uh recognition this evening and it's alsoour tradition at our regular school board meetings to announce the names ofthose who have indicated their intent to retire since the previous board meetingthat we had. And uh we have one who has uh uh indicated such and that is SarahStack, special education supervisor at Weisetta High School for three years.I've not spotted Sarah here, but Sarah, if you're here, feel free to comeforward and be recognized. Probably tuned in via YouTube tonighthearing her name. Let's give her a round of applause.[Applause] All right. Uh, congratulations to theretiree and thank you Sarah and Dr. Anderson. Okay. Moving on to the next item, thedistrict spotlight presentation by Dr. Anderson. Good evening, Mr. Chair, members of theboard, and all in attendance tonight, and our staff that are here with us thisevening. Thank you for giving me an opportunity to do the annual back toschool update. Um this has been a tradition for uh I think time the timeprior to my beginning this work uh at the September meeting just to kind ofgive a quick overview. So what I've put done is put together in tandem with uhseveral of our staff members just a quick fly over of uh some of the dutiesand responsibilities of the different departmental areas that uh work to helpget ready for the school year. It's an opportunity to say thank you to a numberof folks for their hard work and uh to just share a few of the things that areon the radar for the coming year. So, I appreciate a great deal uh having thisopportunity to share with you tonight and hopefully my technology will workand it did. Here are a few photos uh from around the uh school district anduh from the first day and obviously school buses are a big part of thatfirst day. Welcoming students into the building and helping to ensure that uhthey get off to a a great start is really important. And I did a little bitof math the other day and uh was reminded that this is my 18th firstday or Tuesday was my 18th first day of school in Weisetta. My 43rd first day ofschool since I began as a first year teacher. And I hate to admit it's my61st consecutive year of having a first day of school since I startedkindergarten. So that's a pretty good run. And uh six decades of uh first daysof school is pretty good. And while that might be an indicator I'm getting old,uh the first day of school never does. It's always a fantastic uh first day andI just appreciate all the work that everybody put in to help get us launchedand airborne and uh soon to be at cruising altitude. I'm sure maybe we'renot fully there yet, but uh we'll get there. And I just appreciate the effortsof everybody and those uh that group is pretty comprehensive. The list is here.I won't spend a lot of time on each line, but do want to acknowledge andthank our teachers, many of whom are here this evening, our WeisetteEducation Association, all the support staff and the principles for theirdedicated efforts to help get everything ready for uh school. Having uh been ateacher and having served a number of years as an assistant principal andprincipal, I know there are a number of moving parts and a lot of things thathave to be dealt with intended to uh to help ensure a really solid uh first dayof school to make sure the kids get off to a great start. Also, our departmentsof human resources, teaching and learning, finance and operations, andI'll hit on each one of these a little bit as uh we move uh through the theslides this evening, all contribute to uh help make sure that we're ready to goon that first day of school. Uh also including our equity and inclusiondepartment, community ed, who uh I always kind of debate about community edbecause I don't know that their uh season uh really ever starts andfinishes. is kind of continuous all summer and uh into the uh school year aswell. So, they had a lot of summer programming as did our special servicesstaff, technology services, our communications and community engagementdepartment, um all of our district administrative staff for making surethat all of the materials and supplies for the school year were ready and andjust a whole long list of others. It's a great team effort. everybody has topitch in and and help make sure that a lot of things come together in highquality fashion so that we can help ensure that we get our students off to agreat start. Um, as a reminder, we have three executive directors, Dave Luds,Dana Miller, and Trevor Peterson uh for HR, teaching and learning, and alsofinance and operations. And uh these uh individuals are also part of ourstrategy leadership team which is a superintendent cabinet and includincludes Jenny Eert in community edit equity and inclusion. Jenny Nyas inspecial services Amy Parnell in communications. Wade Phillips intechnology and Rachel Falcowski is our WA president who also attends our uh SLTmeetings uh on a weekly basis.Uh first a few of the highlights for the human resources department. Uh DaveLootz again is our executive director in that role and uh you can see all of theuh different areas that our department of human resources is responsible forrecruitment and hiring. And I'll share a little bit in a moment the numbers of uhnew staff members that we've welcomed into the school district this year uhand aligned with which uh areas or departments that they're connected to.all of the benefits administration negotiations of contracts and ensuringthat uh uh those are maintained throughout the year. Uh FMLAuh leaves ADA accommodations, title 9 requirements and uh uh employee supportand collaboratively working through issues. So those are a handful of highlevel duties that our uh HR department works on. uh you can see that we hired164 new uh people this year and that means not 164 interviews but probablythree four or five times that number in order to go through a long list ofcandidates and on board and bring in new uh individuals into the school district.So uh we put a lot of time and effort into our hiring. It's uh among the mostimportant things that we do and making sure that we bring in talented uhhighquality people that complement those that uh have been with us for a numberof years and it's always a a fun opportunity to u meet the new staff andhave an opportunity to welcome them uh into the district. This is a pie chartof uh how the different positions uh break out within the the schooldistrict. And you can see with that number at top,we're a little over 1500 total staff members uh throughout the the schooldistrict in a variety of different positions. And again, I'm just alwaysreally proud about how this team of individuals comes together andregardless of what their specific role is, um they all contribute to uh thecreation of the conditions that uh make for a great place to work and a greatplace for our students to learn. So we appreciate uh each and every uh group onthat pie chart for all the work that they do for us. Teaching and learningdepartment has a pretty comprehensive list of priorities for the coming yearand u in the event that you might have any questions. I've got my team hereready to respond to some of those. But um I thought for the sake of efficiencywe would work through uh these uh with me sharing the the high level uhoverview and then uh creating opportunities for you to ask anyquestions that you might have. I'm sure a lot of the people in the room seethese terms and they're uh well suited to speak in much more depth and uhdetail than than I can with them. But the key headers are uh the curriculumimplementation and standards uh for both elementary and secondary. You can seethe departmental areas that are uh currently under review and that will beuh priorities for the current year. the ongoing work with our literacy and readact which I know uh all of you were involved along the way hearing about theuh professional development the different things that we were doingaround the district and generally I have heard positive reviews in regard to thequality of training although it was intense and and uh time consuming and alot of work um I've I've heard good reviews on uh much of what was done andthat it was very helpful student system supports um including our enrichmentprogram um our MTSS uh program uh and you'll notice a a termthere Aubé ABR that's the name of a software package that uh we're going tobe piloting this year and a number of folks that have become familiar withthat are very excited about what that is going to be able to do for us in regardto data tracking of our students and it should really give us uh a lot of accessto information to um help get a better understanding about how to be even moreresponsive to the unique needs of our students. And uh we're excited aboutbeing able to um implement that here in the coming year as well. And restorativepractices, uh professional learning and new staff development. You can seethere's a few statistics about the number of hours of professionallearning. Uh this summer, 650 hours are listed there. uh academy for Weisettaeducators as part of our uh QC comp or altco comp uh program. Uh that alsocreates opportunities for our own staff to uh create and deliver and uh lead uhbook studies or other types of studies that um have a a team of individualswith common interest. And then of course new teacher orientation and mentorshipprograms. As you saw on the list, there are 86 new teachers that uh wereonboarding this year. That does not necessarily mean that they have not hadteaching experience in other districts, but uh we do our best to help ensurethat they have opportunities to learn about the curriculum and and unique uhaspects of our school district. Uh technology and uh innovation. Again,lots of software packages there and things that our teachers use to helpensure that uh students have online access uh and uh are able to uh haveease of access to uh all of the curriculum materials that are beingdelivered in the classroom. And then finally, student achievement, continuousimprovement. that's always an ongoing focus for our teaching and learningdepartment and really all of our departments is it's always a a focusarea to continuously improve and help ensure that we continue to make uhprogress moving forward. And we're fortunate that we have uh teachers thatare learners and want to continue to improve their practice and and workreally hard in teams and in their PLC's and uh several in each building on thebuilt teams or the building instructional leadership teams which isconnected to that center for educational leadership CEL program that you've hearda lot about in a number of board meetings uh over the past several years.So, I think that we're really working hard to try to seek better alignment andhelping to ensure that um we have a really clear pathway forward to helpensure that we deliver on that mission for our students of excellence for eachand every student. In the finance and operationsdepartment, uh we have a new executive director in that role, Trevor Petersonto my left. And uh there's a you know really I could probably have just hadthe bottom bullet point on that first uh column of all things finance andoperations related pretty much summarizes everything else on the page.But uh you're all apprised of our annual budgets and that process by law thatpublic school districts in Minnesota need to have a budget approved by nolater than June 30th uh of the fiscal of the day before the start of a new fiscalyear. um working collaboratively with our auditors. Uh public school districtsgo through an annual audit. So there's a careful review with a number of auditorsto help ensure that uh all the practices are being followed and and uh dollarsare being utilized in ways with which they're intended. Managing capitalbudgets and projects and LTFM, which is long-term facilities maintenance. Uh, asyou're aware, we approve uh work every year uh to uh implement with our LTFM.And uh I would say every year when I've done PTA meetings, I've been able toshare with the parents that I meet with that our buildings have never beenbetter than they are this year. And I think it's true because we've uh eitherbuilt new buildings, built on new additions to many of them, and uh we'vealso done a lot of upgrading to mechanical systems and air ventilationsystems and all of the things that uh help keep our facilities really in intop-notch shape. Our finance department works closely with our HR department anduh there's a lot of complexities of administering employee benefits plansand programs and those two departments uh work closely to help ensure that umthat that those are uh implemented well and that staff have opportunities to uhgain a clear understanding about their benefits packages. overseeing our OPEDfund which stands for other postemployment benefits which is uh atrust that was established about 17 years ago I think uh and has done a agreat job of meeting the needs of our postemployment obligations for employeebenefits and that was great foresight from uh the school boards at that timeto establish that. Um, a lot of districts uh need to uh utilize generaled fund for many of those uh benefits for uh retired employees. So, that'sbeen a wonderful thing for us. And then over on the far right, uh the financeand operations department working in tandem as the bottom bullet pointindicates with our district welcome center really track all the enrollmentprojections uh determining attendance areas which we all just went throughthat the past year. I'm glad to announce we will not be going through that againthis year. Um tracking our school age students that are within the district,managing open enrollment. Um intrad district transfers, which is essentiallythat process of moving from one building to another. Uh on rare occasions, uh wedo accommodate some of those requests, monitoring special education placements,uh managing the homeschool requests. We do have some uh families who choose tohomeschool their students and there's paperwork uh that's associated with thatthat's required by the state uh to be on file with the uh school district ofattendance. So, we work with that and also fostering non-public schoolrelationships and monitoring students choosing other educational placements.So, even though they might make a choice to go to a private school, they're uhstill uh connected to us in in some forms and and fashion. So a lot ofdiverse different types of uh aspects of uh of the finance and operationsdepartment. This is a summary document for this year's enrollment when comparedto last year. So this year's uh this is as of about September 1st. I thinkthat's the date that I pulled these data uh to put this chart together. But umI've highlighted a few numbers. So, for the first time in our school district'shistory, our high school has surpassed that 4,000 9 through grade 9 through 12student mark. For the first time in the history of our district, uh we'vesurpassed 13,000 K12 students. When I started here in this role in July 1 of2008, I think we had 9,500 students K12. So, we've added uh about 3,500 studentsin grades K12 in that time period. So that's why we've been building newschools and adding on and uh continuing to update and refurbish. For the firsttime ever, we're over an average of a thousand students per grade level. Um ifyou add up elementary, middle school, and high school. And uh when compared tolast year, we're up about 201. So we did grow um we did not grow by asmuch as our projection models were suggesting. So we're monitoring that. uhthe projection models and as you know we went through a couple iterations of thatin the past year actually three or four of them and the average was kind ofindicating 350 to 400 students and I think we're still in that postcoavid erawhere we're trying to uh hit a good equilibrium again and get on a goodtrajectory line. It's been difficult um since that time because you might recallthat in the 202021 school year we were down 200 studentsfrom what we were the year before and we didn't grow by the 250 that had beenprojected all related to the pandemic and that really altered our ability touse historical attendance and enrollment data to make projections out into thefuture. So, we're still trying to uh equalize that and and establish newtrend lines and uh you know, so that we can be sure that we can do the best jobthat we can of of projecting. You'll notice that in elementary we actuallyhave 32 fewer students on September one than we had a year ago. Um that'susually contingent upon the the kindergarten size and we were lower inkindergarten this year. our so-called capture rate. Uh it's probably not thenicest term, but the uh rate of attendance within the public school uhfor the students that uh reside within our school district, the kindergartenstudents um uh has been a little bit lower and I think other uh schools,school districts are experiencing a little bit of that, too. So, we'retrying to figure out what are the new kindergarten trend lines going to be.Middle school went up 142 students. That's probably a function of a largersixth grade and a relatively smaller eighth grade to make up some of those.Although middle school is a common transition time for students who mayhave gone to a private elementary school and then who make their way into themiddle school. And we're up about 91 students at the high school. Again, someof that is related to the fact that we had a probably a smaller graduatingclass last year than we had in a larger nth grade class uh coming in. So that inaddition to just more families moving into the school district um is uhcontinuing to help us with this uh increased growth rate. This is adocument that uh I put together to show what we use for elementary class sizeratios. I know the school board's always interested in seeing where we're at. Soif you look at that far left shaded box, that indicates our staffing number thatwe utilize for class sizes. That next shaded box under the header that saysprevious year was the last year's average class size. Um, and I can'tremember where I pulled that data from, if it was September one or if it was atthe end of the year. And then if you follow the arrows over to the right,that first column and kind of the peach shaded uh area indicates where we wereat September one. So in general, you can kind of read across there to see wherethe trend lines are. In most cases, with the exception of fourth grade, I thinkwe've dropped. And if you look at the very bottom line in those two columns,K5 for last year was at 24.6 average, and on September one was 23.8.Um, so that just kind of gives you a little bit of a feel where we're at withuh grade level enrollment and and average class sizes. You're pretty wellacquainted with our facilities. Um I don't know at some point in the futurethis uh slide might look a little bit different if uh we end up buildinganother elementary school which would be number 10 and uh perhaps a fourth middleschool. But we do have one early learning school, as you're aware,connected on to Oakwood Elementary School, nine elementaryaries, threemiddle schools, one high school, and uh our one transition school, whichcontinues to grow and accommodate more students uh that are their our 18 to 22year olds that continue with their public education following um a moretraditional senior year of high school. um some of the projects that we'reworking on. I won't go through all of these again uh line item by line item,but we're doing a quite a lot of uh roof replacements with our long-term facilitymaintenance during the summer months. Parking lots, a lot of the things thatwe do with our long-term facilities maintenance aren't necessarily all thatexciting like roofs and new sidewalks and parking lots and those types ofthings, but they're all necessary just like with our own homes. And we'refortunate that the state of Minnesota has a good long-term facilitiesmaintenance plan and and program for public education and public schools thatwe have been able to utilize a lot of uh resources over the last several years touh upgrade our buildings and uh get them and keep them in good working order. Umsome other work, Oakwood is uh getting a new kitchen oven. I hope that works wellfor the kids. um West Middle School locker room renovationwhere we had about 13,000 square feet in West Middle School that is beingconverted into three new music rooms. So that ability for us to be able to dothat, as you might recall, was the reason we were able to uh take threefeeder schools at West, which really helped alleviate some of the crowding atCentral and uh allowed us to go back to a two feeder school system at EastMiddle School as well, which really East can accommodate two elementaryariescomfortably. Three not. Um, and while Central probably can accommodate fiveelementary schools, we have to wrestle with do we want middle schools of 1,800to 2500 students. And uh, and West now with this modification should be in apretty good place to be to be able to accommodate uh, those three elementaryschools. Uh, couple quick facts and buildings and grounds. We have about 2million square ft of uh building space uh placed upon about 500 acres of landand we have about 90 custodians that uh help keep our facilities in uh greatshape and and conducive uh environments to learning. We have about 85 buses.They run 495 routes. Uh we have 45 special education buses in addition thatrun 172 routes. Our buses drive about 10,000 miles a day, which is uh two anda half trips around uh the Earth's equator uh each week. So, that's that'spretty good. Um I'm not sure that data is right. Yeah, I think it I have toredo that. I think might be two trips around there's equator, but it's still alot of driving. It's kind of a fun stat. Even had a parent the other day at ameeting I was at uh that recalled it or no, it was a a city council meeting. Ithink a parent who's on the council said, "Oh, I remember that stat." And uhanyway, it's a lot of driving and uh a lot of lot of safe deliveries.Thankfully, we're 95% staff. That does not mean we have 5% of our busescruising around without a driver. It just means we have to scramble to fillthose empty driver seats uh uh with uh long-term subs and using driversliterally. I think a number of them have been brought in from Californiauh to drive for a while. I think they had back before the snow flies. Uh,which probably we would all want to do. Um, and then our food service. I'veoften joked, I was just talking about transportation. Um, we run the largestUber service in town and we also run the largest uh restaurant in town. Last yearwe served it looks like about a million and a half million 600,000 lunches andjust shy of 400,000 breakfast. So, you can see that we have a pretty big uhfood service program and I have to compliment Michelle and and all thosethat work with her uh to uh deliver that that program to our students. That's athat's a big deal. Um our community ed department, Jenny Eert, is our directorof community ed and they exist to help our E12 students and families uh thriveand be successful. Uh community ed continues to grow. It evolves. it uhencompasses uh each and every of our 75,000 students within the footprint ofthe school district. I oftenimes share that I like to think that our schooldistrict is really uh owned and uh is part of all 75,000 of those uh residentswhether they were born last week or if they just had their 100th birthday. umthey are part of us and we want the school district to be theirs as well andto serve their needs and and for them to have educational opportunities and foruh the school district to be a source of pride and something that uh they arehappy to brag about as well. They're good messengers for us and and we'revery fortunate to be in a supportive community. Um, community ed is about 300full and part-time staff uh in the department and uh it's embedded withinall the school buildings whether it's before after school uh care andor uhutilizing facilities and and providing uh other types of of uh learningopportunities. Uh this is always one of my favorite schematics because it showsthe complexity of community ed. Um, you might recall, I don't know how manyyears ago now it was, I I actually spent one year uh being a community eddirector here and superintendent dual duty. Um, it was in a transition periodwhere uh we did a review of the program in advance of when we sought to hire ourfull-time new replacement, which at the time was Jenny Eert. So, uh, Annie Dodiehad the great idea for me to go back to the University of Minnesota and get mycommunity ed license so that, uh, the year after she retired from HR duties,she could, uh, work in partnership with me. I would have the license and shewould do kind of a program review. And I think it was really a good thing for usto have done because it, uh, created an opportunity for us to take a good lookat uh, our programming and what are some of the changes or modifications we mightwant to make. And I would like to think and hope that Jenny would say that itwas helpful that we had uh a lot of good data for her to get launched into thework with. But uh you can just see the diverse set of things that uh communityed the before and after schooletta kidsprogram which serves about 1500 students right now. Elementaryum and probably some middle school but I think mostly elementary school students.our volunteer club. Um I think we've typically had well it says there arejust about 1,976 high school students that are involvedin volunteer club formerly called uh yeses I think at the high school. Wewent through some rebranding with this a few years back to try to name thingsthat sort of made sense as to what it is actually that these groups do. And uhit's been a real popular program and and u um yeah, we're we're just fortunate.Um you see our students around all over the place and it's it's fun to run intothem. Um early learning school, we provide a lotof prek programming at our uh at our site, our early learning school, as wellat the elementary schools. We do our best to maintain at least one classroomin each elementary school to accommodate uh prek learners uh for children thatwill most likely be attending elementary in that building. We have a lot of greatstrategic partnerships. And I think I might have mentioned briefly that uhcommunity ed is also responsible for overseeing facilities and for uhmanaging those spaces and and uh all of the agreements and arrangements forleasing our facilities. Special services includes not only ourspecial education programming, but our mental health and colllocatedpartnerships, multilingual learning, health services, and our 504 plans. Anduh Jenny shared these two goals which are pretty consistent with our builtteams across the district of focusing on an academic goal, our academic goals andalso a student experience goal along with all of the other standard work thatis done in buildings through the leadership teams and and PLC's and andacross the whole school building itself. But again, this is uh somewhat tied toour CEL program and uh uh a lot of cross departmental work occurs with this toothrough our uh uh MTSS and that's a Minnesota help me Dana MTSS. >> Thank you. I always think I'm going toknow that and remember it and then I draw a blank when I try to pull it out.But anyway, those are some of the special services team uh focus areas,technology. Um we're so appreciative to Wade Phillips and uh all of his techteam members. Um a few of the things that they focus on are listed here.Personalizing uh experiences, accessibility and adaptability forstudents. Um updating access to educational resources. uh upgradingclassroom technology, replacing student devices, replacing staff devices, uhproviding safety, security and privacy protections, uh providing infrastructureto meet evolving needs and maintaining uh essential technology supports. Theseare some of the goals for our technology department for the coming year. Uhexcellent service and support. I think most anybody you talk to in regard tothe technology level of service would say it's off the charts and top-notchand uh we have to compliment Wade and his team for uh the work that they doand if you envision which I know you have uh all of the different movingparts in our technology department all the tools and all the systems and thesoftware and our thing lately has been the wireless internet's been acting upand creating issues and so it's a sort of a daily adventure for Wade and histeam but they just manage it uh uh seemingly with ease and help make surethat everything is continuing to work well for us. Digital literacy andcitizenship ensuring that we have a a good um platform and a good opportunityfor students to understand you know the all the appropriate ways to utilizetechnology and to understand uh all the operational mechanisms with it.Professional development. We have a number of tech support folks that helpour staff learn more about software and hardware and uh security and privacy isa big deal. We work with a cyber security firm that does I think anannual audit and uh puts together a really nice scorecard and set of metricsand uh we often uh well we always score very high with that and uh I know thatthat's a very high priority for Wade and his team uh developing ourinfrastructure and uh also future readiness uh just with that wholeculture of innovation and and uh adopting and emerging technologies asyou know those change quickly and and a lot of things uh occuruh in a relatively short period of time and all of that is accelerating. Theseare some of the the outcomes for 2526. I texted or emailed Wade today and justasked are these uh completed or are they underway and he said most of them aredone. Um but just that ongoing instructional support um technologyupgrades to 170 classrooms. I think this that was primarily summer work. uhcertified staff uh got their uh laptop upgrades this year. I know a lot ofpeople were coming through the district service center getting their newcomputers and getting those uh ready to go. Uh exchange of about 3,500 iPads forstudents. Uh the Aubrey system that I mentioned before is something that ourtechnology department will be supporting. Um internet and firewallupgrades and protections. Uh network switching refresh. Don't ask me whatthat is. I have absolutely no idea. But it's a good thing Wade and his team knowand I'm sure it's important. I'm glad they did it because I'm sure it's goingto make a nice difference. I'll have to ask him what that one is, I guess. Butand then just campus physical security upgrades that's uh always on everyone'smind. The cyber security I mentioned before and uh the ever evolving AI uhwhatever that will become for us in regard to operational components and andcurriculum areas as well. So a few things on the radar for 25 26. Sorry forthe size of that. It's a little bit hard to read. But uh as I mentioned,onboarding a lot of new teachers, um facility studies, as you know, we'vekind of been involved in facilities for I don't know all the the whole time I'vebeen here. I think I remember when I was interviewing and uh engaging with somefolks about the anticipated growth in the district. I forget who it was, butit I think it was a little bit of a miss and that um I remember hearing, well, wedon't really anticipate there's going to be much growth and there shouldn't be alot of construction in our future. And I think I've had a hard hat on uh nearlyevery uh every week or every year uh during the time that I've been here. So,we continue to grow. We continue to have a lot of new facilities that are goingto be needed. uh continued development of the district roadmap that's been inplace since 2011 and updated several times and that's always uh our one ofour guiding uh documents just monitoring our current budget and also consideringfuture budget years and that's so small I can uh hardly see it myself butmonitoring enrollment projections as you know we get our funding based primarilyon number of students uh enrolled in the district and our voter approved leviesthat complement the um state aid that comes to us as well as categorical aidsfor special education and and other title programs etc. So those are thesources of funding uh for our school district. There was uh some reduction insome of the categorical state funding for 2526. You've heard me speak aboutthis before at other meetings where two years ago they'd allocated a three-yearroll out for additional student support services money to hire counselors orother support staff. And we were to have gotten an additional $300,000uh in those revenues for the 2526 school year. And uh during the process thelegislative process they ended up cutting that. So, um, we, as you know,the session ends in June and we hired the counselors in March and April. So,uh, we're fortunate that we have counselors this year for the first timeever in all of our schools. We're happy we were able to move forward and dothat. And we also had a reduction, kind of a similar type of story with some ofour reimbursements for special education transportation. So, collectively, thosetwo things are about $500 to $600,000. So I share that just because you knowthere's a couple other points here about the uncertainty with school fundingwhether it's from the state or from the federal government. I mean it's just ait's a challenging business model in that we really only control expendituresand we don't really have a lot of uh opportunity to uh I don't know to usethe the private sector uh terminology increase the prices of our products andservices. we just can't do that to help balance uh things. So, we're reliantupon state funding uh that comes our way. And there's also a task force,which you're probably aware of, where uh they're assembling to take a look atspecial education costs in the state of Minnesota. And I think the goal is tofind a way to reduce by $250 million statewide special education funding uhfor uh the next bianium. And in the event that they're not able to come upwith that, then they'll I think the plan is to dole that out to individual schooldistricts to figure out how to uh help ensure that um they can make the budgetbecause there is a forecast for the next bianium of uh significantum uncertainties again and and uh deficit. So we're kind of heading out ofthis time when there were some resources and funds to a time when it might be uhgetting a little more challenging in that next bianium. So anyway, those arethings that we have to take a look at not only for the current budget year butalso for future and ensuring that we can continue to be positioned as well as wecan. And the last couple of things uh before I think I hit my last slide. Thisis probably it here. I'll start I think next week meeting with PTA groups andother groups around the district. I'll probably make a second round of PTAsthis year. Um, in the event that we move forward and determine that we're goingto uh go to the voters in the spring for facilities, I'll probably make anotherround in January and February to all the PTA groups and uh provide an update anda presentation then. And uh my final point that I make there is we just havea whole lot of standard work that we do and a lot of uh wonderful thingshappening in our district. And again, while a number of our teachers are here,I would like to say thank you to all of you for your great work. My own daughterstarted her kindergarten uh teaching last week in another district in themetro area and she's excited and it's been so fun to meet her kids and she'soff to a great start as well. So I get to hear the dad stories too and all thefun that happens within classrooms. I think we have our back to school videothat maybe some of you have seen. We're going to pull that up and I'll let thatbe my closer and then we'll turn it over for any questions that you might have. Gall Dr. G from Greenwood and we are so gladyou're coming because let's face it, school is a lot more funwhen you're here. So come. >> Hi everyone. We are super excited towelcome you to Northwoods Elementary School. One thing that we're lookingforward to this year is our >> new inclusive playground.>> Have a great year. Let's howl it out. >> Hello, I'm Marian Boyd, principal ofCentral Middle School. On behalf of the staff, I warmly welcome you to CentralMiddle School where we are building community, every student, everyopportunity, every day. >> Hello, my name is Scott Gingler. I'm theprincipal here at Weisetta High School. Uh, want to wish everyone a wonderfulstart to the 2526 school year here at Weisetta. We are going to welcome over4,000 students for the first time in the history of Weisetta Public Schools. Um,on behalf of everyone here in the Weisetta High School community, we wishyou all a wonderful start to the school year. Hi everyone, my name is RyanCarlson. I'm the principal at West Middle School. We are super excited forthe 2526 school year. Behind me, you'll see just some of the construction wehave going on here at West. We got new windows through much of the building,some new smart panels, and our locker room has started the process of beingconverted to an unbelievable music suite.>> Hi, Dr. Krie Wearman here, proud principal of Kimberly Lane Elementary,welcoming you back for the 2025 2026 school year. We've had a lot ofconstruction this summer and a lot of big changes. Also, we have a lot of newfriends coming our way. About a third of our building could be new students. Soexcited to meet all of you and to welcome back all the other coyotes thatare coming back. See you soon. >> Hi, I'm Mrs. Magazy, principal at GleonLake Elementary. I can't wait to have all our gators back at school. Lookingforward to seeing you soon. Hey, it's Michelle welcoming back our new andreturning students for the early learning school. Parents, if you want toget involved, join our advisory council. >> Hi, I'm Ross Williams, principal here atSunset Hill. We cannot wait to get the year started. We're looking forward to agreat year of learning and making new friends. See you soon.>> Hello, I'm Sarah Beth and I am the principal at Oakwood Elementary and I'mexcited this year to find out new things that we can learn together. See yousoon. Hey Panthers, the teachers are inside getting ready for you and thesefolks are outside getting the playground ready for you. Wecan't wait to see you soon. >> Hi, I'm Alana Walsh and I'm the Wisettatransition supervisor. I'm here to say I'm jumping for joy to start this schoolyear. >> Hi East Middle School students andfamilies. Miss Bennett here, principal at East Middle School. We are so excitedfor the start of the school year. See you soon.>> Helloana. This is Ashley Farington and I'm the principal at BertviewElementary. And there's a lot of exciting things happening at Brew thissummer. We have 100 new kids in grades 1 through 5. We help 90 kindergarteners,which is our biggest class of kindergarten in such a long time. And wehave 13 new staff members. And this year we're really going to focus on thattheme of at BB you matter so that every new person and every returning personcan know how much they matter at our school. See you soon.>> What's new at Meadow Ridge this year? >> I am.>> And it's going to be the best year ever because we are 10 years old. [Music]And now you can see why I saved that for last. Mr. Chair, I'll turn it back overto you and if you have any questions, my team or I will do our best to answer.>> All right. Thank you, Dr. Anderson for that presentation. I just have a quickcomment first before I move around with the colleagues for questions. So youmentioned cruising altitude, airborne. Are you thinking of becoming CaptainAnderson in your next career? >> Well, yeah. I suppose it is a little bitlike being a pilot, although I've >> Yes, but you you have piloted thedistrict well though in the 18 years. >> Thank you for that.>> Thank you. >> Good colleagues. Any questions,comments? >> I have a quick question.>> Yeah. >> Well, welcome back to 2526. It's been agreat start in my house. Um and uh I have a quick question on teaching andlearning. So there was a a one of the focus areas is around fidelity checksfor interventions and I'm wondering what that if you can tell me a little bitmore about what that means and I'm guessing that aligns with PLC workmaybe. >> Yeah, correct. So, our coaches and umour teaching and learning literacy team, Julie and an um we look at that data andthen we also are in the classrooms with our coaches and just taking a look tosee are we following doing spot checks um on how that instruction is going inthose spaces comparative to our data performance. So,>> just a followup. So is that it's a it's an increased look at the so you're doing>> we've always been doing fertility checks are part of the>> focus it's a focus on it thank you >> anyone else okay I have one quickquestion for you a clarification Dr. Anderson. Uh maybedirector Luds can answer this, but I noticed that you had a slide where itsaid you are 95% staffed. Is that typical of our district or if we havelet's say we had 100% staff would how would that affect the class sizes? Wouldit make any dent or I'm just trying to understand put my>> that specific data point was for transportation.>> Oh. So, it was yeah, we have 95% of our buses with a full-time assigned busdriver and the other 5% are filled with uh substitutes or uh individuals that asI'd indicated were actually brought to Minnesota from California to help fillthat void a little bit. >> That's what I was supposed>> I was nervous with that question. >> Okay. Sorry. I'm>> not. >> Every classroom has a teacher and uh>> my bad. support helps in the in the building as well.>> So, but we are we are usually 100% staffed, right?>> Yeah, we're 100%. Yes. >> Okay. Thank you. That's all that's thequestion only question I had. >> Anyone else?>> Okay. No. >> Thank you. Appreciate.>> Thank you. All right. Next, we have the audienceopportunity to address the board. Amy, do we have anyone? Nobody uh is hasshown an interest in speaking this this evening. So we'll move on to the nextitem which isadministrative reports and recommendation. Again Dr. Anderson, youwill be presenting three policies for approvals. Mr. chair and members of the board. Uhbefore you there are three policies that are included um and I'll read the uhnarrative outlining these policies as you're aware and uh for the benefit ofothers uh in the audience. There's um a policy committee that meets monthly uhincludes three school board members who review policies and make edits andmodifications, recommendations for changes. And these policies andregulations were uh reviewed as part of their regular review cycle using theMinnesota School Board Association model policy were available or applicable bydistrict administration and other district stakeholders where necessary.The final review was completed by the policy committee of the school board andthere are three policies tonight. Uh policy number 503 compulsory attendance,602, acceleration retention and enrichment program designed for studentsand 609 commercial media use. And the recommended action is listed for you touh read for your colleagues. >> Thank you Dr. Anderson. So colleagues,the recommended action is to approve the policies as presented. Is there amotion? I move.>> Do you wave the second reading? >> And I wave the second reading.>> Thank you, Sheila. Is there a second? >> Second.>> Moved and seconded. Is there a discussion? >> I I mean, I don't know, Valentina orParis, did you uh I wanted to just say that there wasn't a whole lot of changesfor these policies. They were mainly just um terminology, I believe. Um, soI I'm going to be voting to approve them. I didn't know if anybody elsewanted to comment or Okay. >> All right. Okay. Thank you so much. Soagain, the recommended action is to approve the policies as presented. Thisis a roll call vote. >> Valentina Ays,>> yes. >> Dan Janestra,>> yes. >> Sarah Johansson,>> yes. >> Harris Bendy,>> yes. >> Sheila Prior, yes. Heidi Kedar. Yes.Milan Sahonyi. >> Yes. The motion passes. I want to thankthe policy committee for all your efforts.Okay. So, most of you know that this year there is an election for theVisetta School Board on November 4th. District election clerk Amy G willrecommend a resolution for the appointment of an absentee ballot board.Amy, >> good evening. Superintendent and schoolboard directors. Um, as Dr. Sahony mentioned there is a November 4thelection. Um absentee voting does start on September 19th for our listeningaudience. Um that will be held at the district service center at 1330512thAvenue North um both myself and our three absentee um judges will be thereready for you to vote. So feel free to vote early um or on November 4th. Um thefirst item before you for elections, the school board's required to officiallyappoint the qualified absentee ballot board judges for the um school boardgeneral election. Um they are listed in the resolution that follows. Um and therecommended action is before you. >> Okay. Thank you Amy. So the recommendedaction is to adopt as presented the resolution appointingabsentee ballot board election judges for the general election on November4th, 2025. Is there a motion to approve? >> Right. So move and ask that we wave thereading of the resolution. >> Is there a second?>> Second. >> Is there a discussion?I do have a question, Amy. Uh this is because I I I you usually duringan election I try to get my absentee ballot from the secretary of state mailto me and then I mail it back. I found out that that cannot be done in thiscase. Right. Is that is that true? >> That is not true.>> But it said I have to go and pick it up from the city office.>> You are able to um now still receive your ballot via mail. You can go onlineand request that. It can be mailed to you and you will mail it back to thecounty and the county will collect those, okay,>> on our behalf. Um, and the directions are there. You can also have it mailedto you and come in and return it. Okay. >> Um, and we'll spoil that ballot and um,give you a new one. >> Okay. Good. Thank you. Thank you forthat clarification. >> Okay. again. So the recommended actionis to adopt as presented the resolution appointing absentee board ballotabsentee ballot board election judges for the general election on November4th, 2025. Uh this is again a roll call vote.>> Dan Janestra, >> yes.>> Sarah Johansson, >> yes.>> Paris Bendy, >> yes.>> Sheila Prior, yes. Heidi Kedar, >> yes. Valentina Ays,>> yes. >> Milan Sahony,>> yes. Um, the motion passes. Thank you. >> Next, Amy will now recommend aresolution for the hourly pay rate for election judges.>> Yes, this is not a resolution, just a >> vote. Um, the uh hourly pay rate isbefore you for election judges. We since I'm the only qualified election judge inour district, um we do employ absentee ballot um election judges to help outwithin in the office. Um we also employ judges for election day. So we do pay aslightly higher rate than the city of Plymouth because we do hold ourelections in odd years and it is challenging to recruit during that time.Um, but we have three stellar absentee judges that have worked for us in thepast that have agreed to come back on. Um, but those rates are before you.>> Thank you, Amy. So, the recommended action is to approve the 2025 hourlyrate for election judges. Is there a motion to approve?>> I move. >> There a second. Second.All right. Is there a discussion? Hearing none.I Well, I would like to just ask a question because it says um head judges$20 per hour, technical judges 18 per hour, and judges 15 per hour. Where arethose amounts? I mean, like how do you decide those amounts? Is it juststandard? >> The amounts that are offered are in linewith 2023. We did not raise the rates. Um and we had raised them from the 2021election. um I believe a dollar for at the 2023, but these are the same ratesthat we offered in 2023. It's about a$150 more than they're offered from thecity of Plymouth. >> And this is, you know, if once we starthaving um even elections, we will no longer have to>> we will pay zero >> pay zero for the judges. Okay.>> Yes. >> Thank you.>> For the judges. For the judges. >> Okay. Any other questions or comments?Hearing none. Again, again, the recommended action is to approve the2025 hourly rate for election judges. This is also a roll call vote.>> Paris Bende, >> yes.>> Sheila Prior, yes. Heidi Kedar, >> yes.>> Valentina Ays, >> yes.>> Dan Janestra, >> yes.>> Sarah Johansson, >> yes.>> Milan Sahony, >> yes. The motion passes. Thank you,Sheila. All right, there is no teaching andlearning report this evening. And now we have the finance reports executivedirector of finance and operations Trevor Peterson will present thecombined financial report for the month ending July 31, 202. Trevor,>> yes, Chairperson Sahony, Dr. Anderson, members of the board, good evening. Um,in your packet, you will find the combined financial reports for the monthof July 2025. Um, as you might expect, um, with Julybeing the first month of the fiscal year, it's kind of a boring report. Um,so we'll zip through it pretty quickly, but, um, the first statement, um,includes a statement of revenues. Um, you can see that there's there's onlyone line item on there, and that would be the the miscellaneous local revenue,um, within the general fund, which, um, represents one thing. Uh, res representsuh, the interest earnings that we received on our cash balance um, for themonth of July, and that was the only revenue included. Um and as you can seefrom the the comparison to fiscal years that is uh similar to what we have seenum in the prior two years. Um in the other funds um similarly the foodservice fund and debt service fund um that does include the interest earningson the cash balance. Uh the construction fund is the interest that was earned onour abatement bonds uh that we currently have held with a fiscal agent. Um andthen community service fund did have a fair amount of revenue just becausetheir uh programming continues throughout the year and and throughoutthe summer. Uh moving on to the statement of expenditures. Um salariesand benefits continue to be the the number one expenditure of the schooldistrict. Um you might say that why isn't it 112th? Um a lot of um our staffincluding the majority of those who are in the room today do not get paid inJuly or August. Um so you will see that um the the majority of our staff that donot get paid then lowers that percentage um as the year-to-ate expenditures forJuly and August. Um otherwise um everything else um appears to be quitein line with uh what we have seen in previous years. Uh some of the outliersespecially in the capital expenditures you'll see two years ago we had 28% ofour budget spent uh already after the first month. That's really a timingthing of based on when uh certain projects are done. we did have asignificant project um or a couple significant projects that year thathappened to be finished in July. Uh so that's when the payments were way weremade. So that's just a timing thing uh for some of those. Uh otherwise all ofthat um is certainly in line with what we would expect at this time of theyear. Um the final then is looking at our cash balances. Uh we do have about$60 million um in our general fund investments and then we have about $2.3million that's held uh for those abatements bond that I referred toearlier. So um in total about $62 million. Uh we are paying attention. Uhwe do expect the yield rates or the interest rates to be dropping a littlebit. It's kind of been the noise the last few months. It it hasn't yet. Um umbut we are monitoring that as um if that can if that does drop as we expect itcould. Um we'll continue to monitor our budget as we do have interest earningsas a pretty significant revenue source for the district. So uh with that uhagain the the recommended action is before you and um I we did have anopportunity to look at this as a finance committee of the board last month orlast week um in a little greater detail. Um otherwise I would um certainly askfor the recommendation as put forth in the packet.>> Thank you Trevor. Uh is there recommended action? I don't know if>> No, these are just routine in nature. No recommended action.>> Okay. >> I scratched that then.>> No action. It's just routine in nature. >> Yes.>> Uh thank you. Uh any any questions, comments?I'll just say thanks to our finance team and uh it's it's just fun to have youhere. And Trevor, welcome on board. I think that was your first full one thatyou gave the report that you gave to us. >> Yeah. And I messed up on it.>> Well, no. My gosh. But you're talking historical. You know, we're only goingup. So, thank you so much. >> Anyone else?Valentina. Yeah. I think that maybe you discussed at financial committee but Isince I'm not there I'm curious uh uh why there is a difference betweenexpenditures and revenues I mean over 8 million.>> Yeah that's just the timing of um how the state meters um all of the revenuethat comes forward to the district. So typically what you'll see is um not alot comes in the month of July um for state aids um just because we're goingthrough the process of cleaning up what our final enrollment was from 2425um and once that gets finalized then you see that catch up a little bit but umthis is it's very typical. It's just how everything is metered in in state aids.Um federal resources sometimes, especially back with in the CO yearsthere uh we did have ESSER funds. Um so if we had expenditures that were fromESSER, we'd have to draw those at a certain time. Um with that being done,we don't have as much federal revenue anymore. So you might not see um thatfor a few months either. But again, that's just um the metering of of whenthe state uh makes their state aid payments to districts.Thank you. >> Anyone else? Okay. All right. If thereare no other questions, thank you, Trevor.Okay. I don't think there are any human resources uh services report today. Noother board action. And for board reports, I did not get any any requestto have board reports. Anybody want to say anything now? So, no board reportseither. All right. We are zipping through. So, the next board work sessionis on Monday, September 22nd at 5:00 p.m. Please note the change in the starttime. It's not at 4:00, it's at 5:00 p.m. And it's going to be the case alsoin October. Thank you, Amy, for reminding me of that. All right. So,this concludes the Visetta Public Schools regular board meeting. Is therea motion to adjurnn? >> So moved.>> Any second? >> Second.>> All right. Moved and seconded. All in favor say I.>> I. I. >> Oppose. Nay. The time is now8:15. The Visetta Public Schools Board of Education regular meeting for Monday,September 8, 2025 is adjourned.