Al to the flag of the United States of America and to the for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all chair Mo for approval of the agenda is there a second second all in favor I oppose motion carries announcements uh next school board meetings July 15th right here at 6 o'clock and um we'll move right into um the Athletics and activities Jeff shair the success thank you so much for having me here today and Emily thanks for the reminder we had a Schoolboard meeting tonight uh it's hard to believe that it was a year ago that I was here talking about um our our two um recipients for the Athena and the yast hator Leopold award the year went extremely fast um faster than than I can believe actually uh this spring we've had uh we've had quite a finish here to the end of the school year um our boys tennis team finished uh third in the state in class A Carter rybold and Charlie Paul uh took second in doubles uh first time in school history we had eight students who earned All State Awards in track this past weekend Jack markstrom set a state record in the 400 uh 47.2 seconds it was absolutely amazing looked like he still had a little bit in the tank too um did not look tired our 4x200 relay team which included Jack markstrom Owen McHugh Brennan seon and Charlie deck uh state champions in the 4X two and they set a School record our track team this year um set nine school records so we'll be replacing a lot of a lot of hardware on that board which is absolutely awesome they had an incredible year our boys volleyball team which is still a club team is playing in the state tournament on Wednesday and I believe Thursday and Luke sunor is competing at State Golf so we're still going it's been just a great year and and it's been a an exciting finish to the school year um like to have Jack Nelson come on up Jack Jack is our uh y hat Leupold um award recipient for 2020 2 4 and Jack had just an incredible uh High School career we started recognizing our Top Male athlete here at M West TKA High School in 1953 uh Jack participated football wrestling baseball GPA of 3.61 um lettered in football five times in uh wrestling three-time state champion a fiveyear state part participant four times All Conference two time All State academic two Time Captain might have said this but fiveyear letter winner uh baseball fiveyear participant three-time letter winner Captain I just heard that he earned all conference yesterday at their end of the season banquet Jack's going to wrestle this fall and he's going to go to classes the University of Minnesota uh Twin Cities mom and dad uh Dan and Lisa are here with us tonight and I I say thanks for your efforts over um over Jack's and Carter's High School careers it's been fun to work with you guys I'll miss you um in eighth grade Jack Jack qualified for state and again state champion in ninth 10th 11th grade and came up just a point short here his senior year um great story between uh Jack and and uh Gary Erman that was ran earlier this year both three-time state champions here at M West Tonka High School uh the only two student athletes to achieve that um see just a incredible High School career um it's been fun to watch Jack as he's as he's grown and matured but also uh just a true leader in our school uh whether it's on the mat or on the grass or or in the classroom Jack's just done an incredible incredible job we're going to miss him and we wish him the best of luck going to put him on the spot I told him and Natalie out in the hallway I said hey I'm going to going to have you share maybe maybe uh your favorite memory or something that that you're going to miss or just something about your high school career so congratulations Jack uh something that I'm going to miss about being in high school and high school sports is probably just the team atmosphere and competing with all my friends and getting to play alongside of them my whole High School [Applause] career congratulations congratulations congratulations congratulations than you that was a great career thank you all right Natalie so Natalie is our our 2024 Athena Yost hatar Leopold recipient and we uh started to recognize our top female athlete here at M West Tonka High School in 1973 with the Inception to Title 9 and Natalie just had an unbelievable High School uh career participated in uh hockey and soccer and in track and uh participated in the state tournament in 2021 it's academic All State 2023 uh True Team state track participant Mom and Dad Jim and Stephanie um obviously just like Dan and Lisa did a great job here and we get at least one more year with uh with the miners but it's been fun to work with you guys too and I appreciate all your efforts and support um Natalie a five-time letter winner in soccer two-time Captain two-time Team MVP two times All Conference uh somehow she earned a letter in uh cross country as well that's also a fall sport so way back win um and was all conference honorable mention I'm sure Mr Humbert wanted her to continue to run cross country a five-time letter winner in hockey two-time Captain Hobie Baker award recipient um again participated in state in 2021 was our most valuable defensive player four-time uh track and field letter winner uh Captain True Team participant academic All State and hockey and soccer academic All Conference in hockey soccer and track and National Merit finalist I don't see that I had your GPA on here but I know it's good I know it's good I don't see that I wrote that down uh we have the pleasure of uh it's one of my favorite days of the year uh Gary's been there um Kevin's been there before um Ralph's probably been there but the Athena uh banquet is truly an amazing event where this year they they recognized over 50 female athletes that have just done incredible things as I sit there and I listen to the things that that they've done and what I'm going to read about Natalie I wonder what I did in high school um it's truly an amazing um event the food's good venue is good it's a lot of fun but this is what um Nancy Manderfield uh read at that uh lunch in about Natalie no grass will grow under Natalie's feet as she's a five- sport athlete from M West Tonka five years in soccer and hockey twice captain and in soccer twice MVP she has four years on the track and field team once as Captain and as if that were not enough she sneaked in one year of cross country she has the greatest number of goals and assists in soccer for the White Hawks in hockey she won the Hobie Baker award and was voted the most valuable defensive player track and field she helped our team to a conference Championship Natalie has proven leadership skills as president of the student body and Communications officer in the student Senate Junior officer for the national Honor Society vice president of deca two-time state champion International finalist and six-time international qualifier and president of like a girl a woman's empowerment project I don't know Natalie if you can get better than that uh when she when Nancy read that at the banquet I thought oh no Natalie's gonna think she's got to do better than that but but in here she had a smiley face in her writing uh she's academic all conference and all state in the National Honor Society and National Merit finalist and has an academic Excellence award in 2023 she was M Wan's recipient of the mshsl Excel award designated for juniors who demonstrate excellence in Community Education and Leadership and Natalie will be attending Duke University this fall majoring in math and economics congrat congratulations [Applause] M all right thank you Mr Peterson for that um I'd say my favorite part like Ja Jack said has been being part of a team atmosphere and then I've also learned so much about being a leader that I've been able to apply in so many different things and parts of my life and I know I'll be able to take that with me in the future thank you Lu and I just end by saying this that even though these two just had some some amazing accomplishments uh we had a whole another group of kids that were recognized and nominated for uh both both uh on the male and female side and it makes things really difficult for our committee when we choose those kinds of things so it's just great uh Natalie and Jack I thank you for your leadership and your efforts and I wish you the best of luck moving [Applause] forward are there any members MERS of the public who wish to come before the board tonight to speak thanks for coming in thanks you guys um if not then we'll move on to the student rep report all right so our student Senate just ended the year and we just hosted elections in May and we have 36 new members and um nine members per grade so we elected eight um and then one honorary member for grade and then we'll have eighth grade elections in the fall um the National Honor Society also had their induction on Wednesday May 1st and we had a total of 56 students inducted and 54 returning members inducted at the ceremony and then they have several Community Service events planned for the summer um moving on to Arts um the mwhs theater earned spotlights award from the henpen theater trust for their foot loose performance in April they had five Spotlight honors nine individual honors and five evaluator shoutouts and then the West honka Community Theaters has also become begun their work on the summer production um of Cinderella they had auditions in April and they are starting rehearsal now and then mws art students competed in the mshsl visual arts festival and out of 18 entries students earned 11 Superior Awards and five Awards of excellence and you can view the artwork in the pack and then Mr Peterson covered a lot of the Athletics but we had a great end of the season we had 13 track and field athletes make it to State um we had a lot of Records broken the season and two first place finishes and um first place finishes were the first time in school history which was very for the Bo team in track field and the M Luke son ofor qualifying for the state me and the wanka boys tenness also competing state so thank you thank you thank you before you run off we want to as a school board Administration say thank you and this is for you oh thank you good luck with your future thank you enjy duke that'll be thank youie my sister did I was going to ask that did Stella get president yes she's co-president with somebody fantastic you can miners you can just keep on coming you um we'll move on to the report all right well it's going to be hard following those act but uh we begin with April cash Don nation's Modern Heating West haa recognition event $500 laugher Westt recognition event $500 otter Care Foundation Shirley Hills $275 American Heart Association Shirley Hills $700 Progressive Insurance Company Shirley Hills $225 Charities Aid Foundation mws 8732 anonomous Community Ed sponsor student $25 Rotary Club of MW uh M wanka Community Education $2500 Mohawk JC's Mohawk JC scholarship $4,000 John Stevenson Jr Jeff Stevenson scholarship $1,000 Butch Humbert Larry XL basketball scholarship $100 Del charitable Sue Riley Memorial Scholarship $2,000 Anonymous captain Club 1 $14.32 David linquist Dave ice Memorial $200 Northwest T Alliance first robotics $3,000 bejor and Natalie Carlson first robotics $1,000 friends of baka high school first robotics $2,176 back Channel Brewing first robotics $126 Anonymous first robotics $310 Cynthia and Michael typus first robotics $95 Richard and Sandra ker first robotics $100 Mound American Legion first robotics $500 and Rotary Club of B West Tonka first robotics $11,000 West Tonka softball boosters West Tonka softball team $2,939 120 we now go to May contributions Egan West Tonka recognition event $11,000 Tracy Gunderson Shirley Hills $300 Box Tops for Education Shirley Hills $71.40 Shirley Hills PTO Shirley Hills $ 7,148 183 GMS PTO GMS $4,160 68 Anonymous mws $34.50 sh a foundation mws $873 Ohio file Prince Inc westa Athletics $18.55 nwhs golf boosters nwhs girls golf team $1,000 LPL Financial Mary Esther Coral scholarship $11,000 Butch Humber bar Exel basketball scholarship $100 Mound Farmers Market Mountain Farmers Market Market scholarship $1,000 and finally University of St Thomas first robotics $500 to date 33782 47 have been contributed and I have looked at the check letters and checks for May and April and all awesome thank you help do we have any school board committee reports if not work go move on to teaching and learning Mark all right it's good to see everybody again tonight and I thought tonight I'm going to take a little bit of time and just recap a lot of the work that's been done this school year and a lot of great things um have been happening before I get into that you know uh the the teamwork the the culture in the staff our administrators allows for everything I'm going to Shar tonight and it it truly has been uh a labor of love this year a lot of challenges but we also learn how to work together uh through those things yes you've heard me talk this year uh all year long has been the focus on the read act and a lot of great things a lot of challenges with that and the big Focus has been on the professional development and we have figured out our schedule we have figured out the training the training has launched for Elementary staff it's launched with our K12 special education staff uh intervention teachers um across our buildings and it started back in our May Workshop day it goes through the summer uh the training will go all the way through the entire 2425 school year and and what's most important is that we figure out ways of doing this training in in ways that we build in collaboration and we build in ways that for the teachers they feel successful and they feel like they can put that into their day it's not easy but in the end we want this effort to impact our students so we are on our way uh with that piece you've also heard me talk a lot about mtss multi-tier systems of support we finished our third year of this process and again that is all the intervention supports we think about in academics Behavior social emotional health and the goals for this year was to really help building teams get clear with what their role was what their expectations were to really work with all staff about what we meant by tier one cor instruction interventions inide the classroom so back in October 18th we had a workshop day training um on those aspect and then we continued our partnership with Carrie and Laura Potter and Dan canitz have been great partners for us and what we did this year with Carrie with Dan and Laura where buildings had specific needs around mtss we built in time for them to work specifically with building teams and that's been effective so you start you know your first couple years with the overall picture the big Theory let's get through what this all is this year was a shift into very specific topics and needs at the building we'll continue that partnership next year in each of our building s and then of course this has been forever and ever in the teaching learning Department curriculum review cycle and that is always a critical aspect of the work we do that is our mechanism to look at our curriculum look at the needs of our students it's a seven-year cycle this year was a big focus on inventing new academic standards from from the Department of that and then we're going to go into um actually the bottom um well I'll get to the last slide but we'll have new academic areas that we'll focus on next so I'll get to that the last Slide the other the other big piece this year you've heard me talk about high school redesign a lot of you have been involved with different committees and and just getting exciting about the work that we're doing so my aspect my piece has been developing the program and working with Jolene with that and of course it's the woods program rision Machining certified nursing assistance program and then the MRI and the the EM EMR and the EMT uh programs and just to just to fast forward here um we've been developing Partnerships with different organizations and I just read some pictures tonight and you'll see julan over the right hand photo this is is our probably our second or third visit to Spring Lake Park and that is the like the gold standard for certified Nur assistance program and EM programming and they they'll continue to be a great partner with us just to help us figure out how we're going to make the West Tona version of these programs and then we also uh made visits over to Dunwoody and over in the upper left hand corner picture that's EJ dagel he's a Dean over at Dunwoody he has been a great support to show us the actual equipment that we are thinking about and figuring out how to bring into our high school so and John tro from Minnesota Precision manufacturing association he's been another player in this these are individuals that understand what you need to build quality Machining programming and so we're right in the middle U figuring out those those details and then um moving on to this piece here some of you are at one of our Friday tnl meetings I invited Katie rutage to that meeting she's our mentorship coordinator but I wanted to bring her in because she has stepped up that game where a traditional mentorship program where you have a mentor you have a mentee she's dived she's doved into academic coaching this year so she takes it to the next step so whether you're a first year teacher or a teacher that just wants more intense feedback she'll come to your classroom she'll observe uh take notes and have a consultation with you about here are your strengths here are things to work on all in the spirit of support and not everybody has those kind of gifts by Katie does and that is something that she's been doing at grandv for a couple years we expanded to the high school and she'll continue that that work uh in the 2425 school year also another program that you maybe heard me talk about is the dream catcher program and the dream catcher project is is through the department of AD and it did start with uh Department ad working with American Indian populations but what this program is it's not only for American Indian students but it's to work with special education departments when we are in a referral process to think about cultural backgrounds as part of the considerations for special ed um needs and we're just getting going looking at this piece and this will be something we'll be do we'll be doing some training only at the elementary level we'll be doing some oversight review with all our Elementary staff in August but it's it's a program you'll hear a little bit more from me as we get into 2425 school year but again it just brings another uh layer of looking at students their needs backgrounds to make the best educational decisions that we can for them so there'll be more to come dur you catch your project this coming year and then I just want to end with you you've heard me talk about Deca vers robotics now those we know there are many many success stories uh with Athletics and with different activities these are two that I've been most closest to because they're they're almost like a extension of our business department in our industrial Tech engineering department but Deca again just just an amazing year sending 40 students to the international competition coming back with first place wins 10th 10th uh 10th um the eighth grade wins and 10th Place finishes with the program and then just all of these M TAA high school students that were there representing our high school it was truly a a proud moment and a job well done and then as you know this year was a Cinderella team with the robo and it started out in duu they won the regional that earned them a trip to the first World's championship in Houston Texas and again um the takab Bots really did an amazing job that second Bullet at the 145th out of 2,000 almost 2800 us teams um just amazing work and then they finish out their season May 5th with the Minnesota high school league competition and they they took it off they took first place in that competition at the U again there's the trophy but I think that picture uh Mr Kimble with Toby um Fleer who is our Ace driver I think it says it all it says it all job well done and again they are already busy they're planning uh for this coming year they're looking at offering again the second your middle school robotics camp run by the students and just some really great things for coming up so thank you for the support of that okay looking ahead for 2425 just a just a very high summary we always continue looking at student achievement we'll have a more intentional focus on growth with our standardized test scores we'll be entering year four implementation of the mtss framework and then as I was mentioning number three continued work around our high school redesign programming there we're going to get into course development we're going to finalize all the blueprints the equipment we need for these different programs that we're going to be ready for the 26 27 school year and then continued work around the react uh professional development work and then as was mentioning earlier curriculum review cycle this year uh coming up 2425 will'll be focus on math social studies health and Industrial technology so a lot of great success this year will continue the work next year and uh certainly appreciate your supporting rights oh thank you great great school year what do you free time yeah all that free time let's talk later about that my goodness you you do so much it's incredible hands Mark I had a question about the the coaching and the mentoring program is that is that unique to West TKA is it is it more widespread is is it a required by the state how yeah yeah it's fairly common in big school systems okay if where you have big faculties where you just need more support than than a principal or an AP uh but so here are a little bit smaller so not as typical um you'll take a like a like a wetta they probably have a whole team of academic coaches maybe a half dozen of them that's all we do but they also have a lot of District what called qop and so that's a program for the Department of that and that's another night to talk about qop was that ever in use at was no it wasn't it wasn't so our size District I would say the work that Katie does is Right sized for us and then we have Natalie buulo our literacy coach at the elementary level and she does something similar supporting teachers but it's not required but it is something that we find of high value when you get the right person in that position Kath thank you Mark good evening board um tonight I'm here to present the adopted budget for the 2425 school year um but before we dive into that um I'd like to share with you just a brief snapshot of um I make thank you to get older there we go that that definitely helps okay there we go all right thank you thank you um anyway um I want to share with you the um revenue and expenditure statistics through the end of May um we have received uh 31,2 4,000 or 81.1% of our revised budget and again our revised budget is the yellow column in the middle um the adopted is in green and then the presentation following this slide will be the blue con which will our next year budget um expenses through the end of May uh show that we have spent uh $32 m81 th000 or 82.4% of again the yellow revised budget um uh it appears that both receipts and expenditures are at the appropriate level um as we enter into this last month of the fiscal year okay so again um I'll be covering the highlights uh just the high points of our proposed budget for next year um the board finance committee met on May 30th a couple Thursdays ago to discuss the budget in Greater detail um and at this time I'd really like to thank um Brian Carlson uh Ralph Harrison uh Pastor Lauren Davis and also superintendent Borg uh for their time dedication and commitment to the finance committee this school year we um we cover a lot in about uh nine or 10 meetings a year um as I go through the presentation tonight if you have any questions uh feel free to stop and ask otherwise we'll have a time at the end okay uh um as always the Cornerstone of every budget um is the district enrollment not all but almost all funding sources are tied to how many students we serve this chart this up uh this chart gives a five-year review of our enrollment Trends and also what we're estimating for next school year our school district has been very blessed with stable enrollment outside of the covid hiccup um and uh we look forward to that Trend continuing um a few weeks ago we graduated um almost 200 students and we are planning on 170 kindergarteners next year so we are expecting just a slight decrease at this time again I um uh Kevin and I both always pride ourselves on being cautious and conservative with our projections until uh we are at the revised budget when we have more actual data um um one thing I am to note um in our enrollment projection model this slight decrease that we've had um we're anticipating that this will be the end and then in future years we we have graduated some of our larger classes and then we will be experiencing um enrollment growth um Beyond this SCH Point okay um school districts uh Statewide need to um adopt in a budget by July 1st of each year to open our budget to be able to um to um cut checks make payroll it's difficult because um there's a lot of unknowns our staffing isn't complete uh we don't know how many students will be here this fall and so what we do to create this budget is to come up with assumptions and this slide gives a nice high overview um recap of the budget assumptions we're working off of again next school year we're planning on at this point 2,386 students or uh 2598 weighted students again uh this is a slight decrease over the prior year because of that larger graduating class in our anticipated kindergarten class of 170 um highlights on the revenue assumptions um we are planning um we know that we'll be receiving a 2% increase in the General Ed funding for next school year um two years ago would be legislative session gave us 4% last year again next school year for the 2425 school year it'll be 2% for each weighted student um it will be moving to $728 per student other state categorical AIDS we're planning on 2% um the capital projects lby is an area that is not tied to students that's tied to our values um we've had nice growth in that area so in this next year's budget we are planning on uh just over a half a million dollars of additional Revenue in that um category um and the other um item that's very noteworthy is um next school year will be our first year of step two if you remember we had a two-step Levy um and so we've been being funded off of the step one and then step two is an additional $350 student and again that will be um implemented next year this St to with inflation uh legislatively uh they've been um supporting special education cross Subs be much better uh this year next year and then the following year they're trying to reduce that um deficit by 44% so that's built into the budget um after that point they're going to be funding at 50% um we have a small amount of compensatory Revenue additional compensatory Revenue coming in which is based off of our redu counts um uh we received estimates for our federal title programs and that is showing about a 100 $100,000 less um than the prior year we do get actual counts um in the spring and we're hoping that that will be better but at this plan at this point we're planning on about 100,000 less of title one two and four revenue and lastly on the revenue highlights is our opep um we have an Actuarial study um and that support comes in in terms of Revenue to help with our uh retiree benefits um and both implicit and explicit um opep funding um expenditures the largest part of our budget is um obviously salary and benefits we are a people-based uh operation um many of those contracts are settled there um this budget was built on what the board has approved or similar estimates uh we always include um additions for Lane changes staff develop or excuse me um and staff additions that might arise um as needed by students um Personnel benefits we receive uh we have we're planning on uh a 3% increase in health and dental um we are very pleased with that the trend um tends to be more like um 8 10 plus and so we're really happy with our self-insured which we'll talk about um a little bit later but we're we included 3% in the budget and then um the other non-salary non-benefit costs we applied to 3% increase all right um this slide gives a recap of the revenue that we receive for general fund and and it tells the source of in a simple terms of where it comes from um if we put them into buckets we have four main categories of Revenue we have state aid we have property taxes we have local Revenue which would be like ball game receipts interest donations um and then lastly federal revenue um on the left hand side it indicates the Year we're in and what our revised budget is built around on the right hand side is next year's budget um and where those dollars come from so you can you can see that um the state um definitely is the biggest player we received almost two-thirds of our revenue from the state of Minnesota um property taxes usually run around 30% um in state and local now that our feder U Federal Co funding um is closed out um those are equate for to about just a little over 6% um everything is fairly similar to the prior two years you can see there's just about 2% higher um property taxes and that is due to the step two of the levy y okay expenditures um this slide gives um just a quick look at our general fund adopted EXP ures um by program um percentage wise this was almost identical to the prior year um this percentage um when I do this chart it always makes me um very pleased I feel like West Hanka does a fantastic job of spending the majority of the district dollars directly in the classroom benefiting students um in areas such as regular instruction special education instructional and pupil support um and Vocational instruction all right uh this graph shows the anticipated fund balance on the far right hand side for next school or at the end of next school year as well as the prior year history of our unassigned and assigned fund balance the 2425 adopted budget plans on a fund balance gain of just slightly over 200 excuse me 374,000 as you can see over the past several years our fund balance has hovered between 12 and 15 plus% um the adopted budget is planning on a ending fund balance of $5.5 million or 13.7% of our total general fund expenditures uh this uh continues to stay within our our fund balance goal of 8 to 18% it's right at that midpoint um we monitor this very closely um with our financial planning model our board finance committee and uh and again study it very closely fiscal responsibility long-term planning and forecasting is a top priority in our department okay um in addition to general fund uh the district manages seven other um smaller funds obviously general fund is our our largest fund balance um the uh the next fund that I'll highlight um and all the funds that have laid out the same um the estimated fund balance for June 30th 24 is where it's counting on being this year the revenues and expenditures are highlighted whether there's a surplus or a use of fund balance and the bottom line indicates where we will feel like we'll land at the end of next school year so again um Student Activity fund has a budget of just under 600,000 um those monies account for uh co-curricular and extracurricular Student Activities um such as wolfridge student Senate Deca athletic and EXT curricular and they um they do a lot of fundraising and a lot of great events uh for the students um that they manage themselves and again it's um they're planning on just um just a slight Surplus Kathy K is that where like the money I know we get advertising like on the sign at the football field and in the gyms and stuff does that go into that font or yes it does that goes into that font for uniforms and stuff so you saying the advertising on the fields goes into Student Activities um yes they do it goes into the captain's Club okay yeah curious where that that seemed like a really good place for it okay uh the next fund is fund two uh Food Service um they are forecasting um an increase uh in the fund balance the West tonis have West Tonka Foodies have done a great job and they're enjoying this uh school year of serving all students breakfast and lunch at no charge through the recent legislation for the national uh food Nutrition department um even though their fund balance is growing um you can uh kind of plan on this um being brought down they have equipment needs as well as they will be um uh funding a lot of the um construction within the food service departments um with their fund fund balance so that's going to be um very helpful um to have that support um from the food service department is that free and free lunch and breakfast is that National this year is that state um each state is different um but um it's free for Minnesota so yeah but it's through the state now it was through the national dur Cola right right um so we submit our free reduced counts at the end of each month and um students still complete a free reduced application the federal government actually still pays but whatever the federal government doesn't pay then the state picks up the okay thank so Kathy you said that anticipate a decrease in that fund balance because of increased Capital cost basically but yet we're still showing an increase predicted for 25 right and when we do our revised budget this winter um Ralph um depending on the pacing of the the building construction project I believe that's scheduled for next year um I receive a draw schedule and Kevin will be able to shed more light on that but they will be helping again with the food service project some of their equipment and um I believe that's four coming into next school year with the high school a UE it's a timing issue right um but once we know exactly if it falls and it gets a little bit tricky because a lot of stuff um in our world happens in the summer and July is this year and or excuse me June is this year and July and August is the next year so again um like I mentioned don't be surprised um if you see that being draw you know drawn down by some U capital projects whether it be construction or equipment okay all right another highlight is um Community Education um our Community Education fund balance um at the beginning or we're planning on at the end of this year uh being about 275,000 and again they're just continuing to to grow that um to restore um their um Financial footing following covid again Community Education um this is um houses our Adventure Club um youth after school enrichment um summer enrichment adult programming the West Tonka Activity Center the whack Early Childhood programs adult basic Ed Early Childhood family Ed and preschool screening screening to just name a few um again our community education has done an amazing job of of solid rebuilding following the pandemic um and it's their goal to um to offer exceptional programming to our community from birth to senior citizens okay I have a couple on smaller funds on this page um Debt Service um is the first um this um is where we track our bond payments so again it's much like our mortgage payment for your house it's it's our principal and interest payments and we we refinanced our 2012 bonds um this also um takes into considerations our payments for the 2425 school year for the building bonds from 2016 again the whack um and the Pack building are abatement bonds and the biggest change is in this budget um is our first Bond payments for the 2024 project that's um that's underway right now so it's very exciting on the far right hand side is our trust fund our trust fund um tracks all the activity for scholarships um receipts and payments um this Spring Mount West Tonka High School awarded 75 scholarships worth over $344,000 to our students um you can see that this budget is um around 85,000 so it's only about a quarter of the scholarships that the students receive some of the recipients give them directly to um this the student and and these are only the um scholarships that we are the Fiscal Agent for and some come right from a a different foundation so uh again we have um a fabulous um amount of gifts um for students okay and then the last two funds are internal service and opep Trust um internal service um is our self-insured dental and health insurance um our uh projections are showing another steady year of growth um we are um again increasing um the revenue by uh 3% both for um health and medical and dental insurance and this fund um has done really well it's um was a a wonderful fincial um strategy for the school district to um contain the um uh health insurance rates and uh Dental that are um just gives us more control um our employee benefit committee as well as our adviser we monitor these statistics monthly to see how again we're pacing just like we do for the board meetings um and again we're really happy with having um the fund balance to um weather any storms of um unusual claims and the last fund is the opep trust fund um again another um real blessing for the district this fund tracks the post-employment benefit activity of our retirees or implicit rates um and these uh you can see that the revenue is 80,000 um that is um nothing more than than interest earnings um these Bonds were paid off so we're not loving for them anymore they were paid off in 2019 and um according to our Actuarial stud we have the payments that go out um we have um again a fund balance we're planning on to still over $3 million to U support those expenses in the coming years okay this is a little bit difficult to read but this this concludes the um review of the adopted budget this slide gives a one uh onepage view of all funds in our entire um adopted budget um later on the agenda tonight you'll have an action item listed um um to approve the budget and again keep in mind that this is our adopted budget um we'll be back in February of 2025 and when we have a better indication of the new legislation how that's going to impact our budget when our staffing is final and when we know how many students will be um attending um our district next school year um at this time I welcome any questions um comments or superintendent BG if you'd like to add any items we start anybody have any questions for before your projected budget and the actual are we projecting a certain are we estimating percentages above that or um for general fund at the end of the year yeah um yes we we do as I mentioned we do put contingencies in there um a lot will um a lot of light will be shed this fall um because so much of our budget is based on students um but our our general fund budget now is $40 million and so um Kevin and I often talk about you know if there's a 1% variance that's 400,000 and so again we we really pride ourselves on being conservative and very thoughtful when we put the budget together and so when we have the audit and we have final data for this year um we do hope to come back um again if if all the stars align um for next year but our past practice say in the last five years has pretty much been on par with what is necessary for estim yeah um good question what what they measure us against really isn't so much the adopted budget but when they have the audit um they measure against the revised budget and I'm pretty proud to say we've been pretty pretty dialed in very close within percents on the revised um they don't again they don't really dial in so much on the adopted budget because of the it's based on assumptions or looser assumptions I should say you guys have done just just so everybody knows our finance department has done an excellent job of managing the finances I you're not going to find too many institutions the kind of budget level that we have that's going to come as close wer we like almost dollar for dollar the last there's a few years I feel like I've been closer here than I've been at home you don't have to go to that yeah you to do a better job here home at night I guess those home budgets give be more I know yeah I would just Echo um and I we obviously as a board there's just a lot of shared appreciation of the the effort and the projections obviously with all budgets there's variables and I think you're experien your team's hard efforts the guidance of the finance committee has really worked well over these years of keeping a good Rudder for our decision making and it's something as Kathy said we really take serious because because you're there's other opportunities but they come at cost and so you try to we always try to evaluate our budgets to make sure that we might have to rep prioritize our budgets to allow new things ending older things um more effective less effect of constantly being fluid with that but in the end there's a projection of a dollar and we have to we got to live within that and I think you give us a good compass on how to make that decision making and you have a track record that's excellent thank you Kevin again thank you again to the finance committee and and like Kevin said I have um I I don't do this alone I have a just a fantastic team so I'm I'm really blessed and and enjoyed coming to work every day so awesome thank you thank you move on to the superintendence report Kev yeah we um you know sometimes you start in June and you don't know what to scale back I was listening to Mark and I was trying to think think of some of the things we're talking about it seems like it's been around for a long time but the last board meeting maybe that's new news and I think back to graduation and it seems like I've talked a lot about graduation at this point and uh really it was pretty recent and we just had the most beautiful day uh to have an outdoor graduation it was it was San Diego weather it was 72 it was a very light wind it was warm but not overly warm and it was it was done very well very thoughtfully our kids were just tremendous and it's such an accomplished class and so all that coming together for one hour it's just one of the best hours you can spend of seeing uh the efforts of these kids walk across the stage and hear their stories and the greater piece is you know a lot of their stories as they're walking whether it's announced or unannounced and uh they saw a lot of success they saw failures they had to overcome things they were elevated and just knowing the efforts that they put in that their parents put in that certain staff or coaches put in um I just really thank this board for the stability that you give this community in running the school system because it's um it's a lot of excellent stories um we have uh we had a really great uh close to the school year um it was it was exciting to see that come and it's exciting to see what's ahead and when we talk about what's coming up ahead in July we have a branding review that we started this review because we knew we're going to make some large physical changes with the high school redesign we also knew that we had inconsistencies with our brand we had to get our arms around that in the time you could make the case that it was needed before but now it's really time with some of these physical improvements and so we're going to be bringing that to the board at the July board meeting and then it's really making sure that we have the measures to try to keep consistency with that when it would go forward uh we have plans on our finances and Kathy talks a lot about enrollment and there's a lot of ways to make sure you have stable to slightly increasing enrollment and a lot of that is just having a quality education and having stability in your district and people seeing hope of continuous progress uh but there's also communication efforts and there's efforts that we can do to uh reach out to our community in better ways and so those are some of the efforts we're taking on Mark highlighted some of the academic efforts and uh one of the efforts that we're also taking and putting upon ourselves is looking at how we go about innovation in our school system and so we really feel like we're in a position now where we have just a strong financial Foundation our facilties needs are starting to be addressed we see that we have we don't take it lightly but we have great Community Support of our staff of our district and it's really to look at what should we prioritize in ascending and so when we talk about Innovation it's not coming up with an idea it's really identifying a need that our kids have and how can we do an excellent job at that and I have so much confidence in our team right now when I look at our administrative team I would say I didn't exactly do this math but I bet 85% of the team right now has been here 10 or more years it's just incredible stability of people that you're not talking about a career now you I said to them you get approaching 30 years you're not talking about a career you're talking about a life and I I almost can get uh emotional about it because it's just it's part of your family but it's it's the fabric and we don't take that for granted again we feel very privileged that we can work in a wonderful place like this so we I just want to share with the board from graduation to some of these uh these efforts right now it's a special time to work in West honka and I'm very thankful for your leadership when we look at the action items today Kathy obviously took time with the adopted budget um that's the primary item on here there's the e-learning day plan which really goes almost entirely unchanging from last year I think the great news about the e-learning plan last year is we didn't use it and we hope that's a plan that can stay on the shelf because truthfully the best plan is having kids in school not having shortened days I'm sure there's a lot of kids that are rooting for at least one snow day but that's where e-learning comes in is if you have inclement weather and you can't have a day how you can do that differently and our plan again has it that the first day is a snow day and we don't make that up and then the next days go into e-learning the question is asked what if you actually what if it's the opposite and you have a horrible year and you go beyond that then we're talking about adding days to the calendar but those of you that have worked with me after we start getting a few snow days we start doing that regardless if we can do it in advance and so I start looking at we get five five one snow day and then five but before we got to get to that point um I if we if we end up getting snow days or poor cold days that start coming in before February we start making adjustments that we don't think impact families as much which is usually that may Workshop day but if you ran into a situation where it was late in the year you might have to add days to the calendar it's never happened in my time and now that I've said it out loud I suppose expect dealing with that um the the next action item is with the West honka Foodies with their Staffing uh Laura has done an excellent job of Staffing to the needs of our services and what we've noticed is that we've been able to broaden since uh it she did not replace staff during Co when they left she kept it at a lower staff level because they're able to meet that need and still as they continue to offer new things and bring things back that kids are showing that they appreciate it requires some staff and so this is uh part of that effort um our contract with iea it replaces we've been within muser environmental for I think about as long as I've been here uh for this need uh they are ending their service to districts like ours and so they're still keeping a certain part of the state geographically but they've dropped a lot because one of their Steve actually has moved to Colorado or Wyoming I think it is and so we're looking for someone else to take this and i8's already done some of our services because Steve musers didn't do them all and this seems to be a really good fit for our school district and so when you ask about environmental health safety it's things like uh testing water it could be air quality uh it could be checking uh how we uh Service First a kids or the L goes on with health and safety uh the next action item is on the staff development route Revenue waiver and you see we do this annually uh I'm a strong proponent of a percentage should dictate uh your budget the need should and I feel blessed that our our Union along with our leadership would say let's make a plan so that it fits our needs versus saying well we have 2% we have to spend 2% it could be above it could be below but the need should drive what the percentage is not what that you hit a percentage and so um as long as I'm I in this role I would recommend that if we can have the flexibility we drive it by need versus a state Mandate of a percentage U not much gets determined by census when it comes funding because a lot of it is by student or maybe it's um maybe it's uh certain things on uh the taxes of a community but some things with Community ad would and so this is just updating our recent census so that their funding stays consistent with it it's a slight increase I think this new census brings probably additional 3,000 dollars uh into Community Ed so it's it's more of a what should I say a maintenance of an update that you should have the current number put in versus that there's dramatic changes really excited about G bringing in a chief engineer position uh we have done this differently but as I mentioned earlier We've Ended our contract by Mutual decision with Dasher they've been here for 18 years you'll see in the contract or in the board agenda today that you're going to approve uh James Collins as our new facilities director uh James comes with a great background in a number of Industries and I think he brings the skills set administratively that can really benefit uh our district we look at uh in our Dasher contract we also had a maintenance uh a m Chief maintenance position uh in that we decided we were having trouble filling it under our Dasher contract so we did a service agreement but we we believe bringing this back in District holds a lot of value of just making sure that we can maintain we've been introduced to some people that have uh stri credentials uh one in particular that we feel could be really a a great asset to our community and so we person be under the facilities Direct in this position would oversee our facility engineers and so uh we have two Liams we've had our property casually work rooms comp renewal just came in over the weekend and so we're asking you to update those that was competitively bid uh we took uh the best bid that was presented to us one thing that's really changed is they've asked for a lot more information from school districts as they've seen probably different claims losses and so they wanted a lot of information about roofs and boilers and years uh there's also requirements with cyber security to make sure that that's being maintained that they've been asking but that would be one change I've noticed was that percentage increase on pretty standard for I'm talking in talking to Cathy um they would present that they've seen as high as 30% in some districts I think it probably depends about workman's claims of what you've experienced in your communities but yes it would be it would be more um probably on the better end of what at least our broker would be noticing um that's hard to say on a 15% though yeah see that I mean you seen that in homes and everything else uh lastly our our Bo telephone system voice over system um this our contract now comes it concludes and so that served us well uh this is an estimate that became a lot more competitive but it was uh we bid that out through ller and um this will meet our needs um it's uh our telephone system and so gives our telephone capability and then it has a 5year service agreement with it and so uh we're pleased with the results of that and that's in your agenda as well I think just uh concluding this um really really busy between um we have different bargaining groups that we're negotiating with uh today we did uh some training with safety practices in the district with our team of how we stay coordinated in time of emergencies uh obviously the facilities planning is something that is very very exciting and we will be beginning uh the tennis courts and the primary projects we're just um waiting on some permits and then once we have those we're set set to begin um and then with u with uh designing of the high school in Grand View the last things to be designed would be uh the stadium and the two primaries with their maintenance projects so excited about that work uh continuing to go but I would expect here it'll probably be July that we have a lot of these projects projects starting thank you Kevin chair moves for approval of the consent agenda is there a second all in favor I oppos carries hopefully my voice holds out for this uh discussion items chair moves for approval of action item um 8A approval of the 2425 adopted budget is there a second second all in favor I oppos carried chair moves for approval of action item 8B approval of the 2024 25 e-learning day plan for West TKA Public Schools is there a second second all in favor I oppos carries chair moves for approval of action item 8 C approval of adding labor to the Waka Foodies kitchens is there a second second all in favor I oppos carries chair moves for approval of action item uh 8D approval of a contract with IA Inc is there a second second all in favor I opposes chair moves for approval of action item 8 approval of Staff Development Revenue waiver is there a second second all in favor I oppos carries the chair moves for approval action item uh 8f approval of resolution certifying the population estimate estimate for the 2024 payable 2025 Levy of Independent School District 277 is there a second second all in favor I oppos carries chair moves for approval of action item H approval of adding a 1.0 FTE chief engineer position is there a second second all in favor I I all oppos carries chair moves for approval of the leate action item 8h approval of the property and casually and workers compensation Ren is there a second second all in favor I oppos carries chair moves for approval of late action item 8 um 8i um approval of replacing the district uh VIP phone system is there a second second all in favor I oppos carries anybody else have any other topics at this time hard to believe we're halfway through June already you guys The Summer's going to blow by um if there are no other topics I call for adjournment is there a second second all in favor I I oppos enjoy your J we'll see everybody in July thank you