I would like to call the Waconia Board meeting to order. If everybody would please uh rise and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Yes, sir. I'll give you the chance to off this. Um Um Chair moves for approval of the agenda with the removal of the contract for Cameron Neddle for a long-term substitute kindergarten teacher position at Shirley Hills. Is there a second? Second. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Announcements. Waconia staff and retired employee recognition, May 8th, 8:00 in the Performing Arts Center. Um Policy Committee meeting, May 11th, um 5:00 p.m., right up here in this building. And the regular Board meeting, May 11th, uh 6:00 p.m., right here in this room. Are there any members of the public that want to talk to us tonight? Seeing none, then we'll move on to the student rep report. Welcome again, you guys. >> Thank you. You're back. Fun time at Bingo. Oh, yeah. That was a blast. All right. Just starting out with some sports, obviously our spring sports are in headed full swing now with the start of their seasons. We do have a couple updates from some of the teams. The girls lacrosse team will open their season this Thursday at Hutchinson. And then the boys lacrosse team lost to Waconia last week, but they will host Hutchinson this Thursday once again. The track team competed for the first time last Friday at Rockford and will take on another conference meet tomorrow at Dassel-Cokato. The boys tennis team faced a tough loss against Holy Family last Tuesday, but are looking ahead towards the next couple weeks of play. And the baseball team was off to a rough start going 0 and 2 to start the season, although the season ahead is looking much brighter. And then moving on to activities, there's actually a lot going on right now. Everything's coming to the end. Our math team recently competed at the state tournament. We placed fifth in the double A bracket. Last year we got fourth, but it's all right. We lost a lot of good seniors. We did our best, I guess. Moving on to DECA, we had 47 students go to ICDC this year, so we'll be competing at Atlanta. Cool, we're right here in Houston. And then junior Ellen McLellan was named the vice president of communication for the state board DECA this year, so that's a great achievement. And then obviously we got that thing that I had mentioned. We were just talking about. Uh the National Honor Society also had very successful blood drive cycle of the year on April 2nd. We got 64 units of blood, uh which helped to save 192 lives, which is very, very impressive. And then additionally, this next Saturday we will have our boat side clean up at 10:00 a.m. And then senior Hannah Christianson uh qualified for the national speech and debate competition. She's the first student ever to do this in school history, so that is very amazing. And then our speech team was named Wright County Conference champions, so they had a very good year this year. And then finally, this past weekend we had a team campaign for a spot on the Minnesota Association of Student Councils. Unfortunately, she did not win the spot, but she learned a lot from the conference activities. And then Student Senate hosted a very successful Stuff the Bus drive in early March collecting over $2,500 in donations. The middle school collected 2,634 items. Hilltop collected 2,986, and Shirley Hills left us all in the dust with 5,771 donations of items and monetary. And then Science Olympiad competed at state, Carlos Jordan and David Matola placed fourth in their events. And then onto the arts, both the Wayzata Jazz and Jazz Band will be performing coffee house jazz at St. John's Lutheran Church on Saturday May 2nd. And Wayzata Middle School will present Shrek Jr. this weekend at the PAC. And then academic-wise, senior Erica Johnson was named the recipient of this year's Athena Award, which is amazing. And Wayzata High School has had a 97.7% graduation rate, which is among the highest in the state, which is also awesome. And then finally, students are currently preparing for the AP tests, which are coming up. A lot of work is going into that right now throughout the school. Stress is a little high now. And then finally, construction. Construction has moved along well. The north area looks wonderful. I'm not sure what's going on there, but my son works there. Looks great. He's doing a great job there, yeah. Yeah, just minor details. >> And then just the students, well, I wrote this book where anticipating the new doors maybe opening soon. Looking forward. As always, the classroom and art beating expectations. Thank you. Yeah. Two things. One is in comment to the doors. One thing maybe you don't know or think about, there's two levels there. One thing that's going to be different right now if you're going to see a counselor at the school, you'd walk like you'd walk to the administrative offices. Yeah. In the new facilities on the north end, the administrative offices, the principal, vice principal will be on the lower level. Okay. The counseling will be separated and on the lower level. That's awesome. So it's a little more private if you like that. Yeah. Second thing, besides serving on the school board, I school I serve as the chair of the Wayzata Community Food Shelf board. So on behalf of them, I want to thank you. Last year, the food shelf gave out 1.8 million pounds of food. And so, your donations for that, both cash and food, through all the schools are just huge. So, thank you. Yeah, thank you for doing that. Yeah, thank you so much. You like what they did? Thank you. You know, it'd be nice if they could get the other students for a speech. Just the speech come in and explain that whole process. I'm not real familiar with it, but that might be a Anyone to have them come in and talk to us about that? Now, we'll move on to construction report. Yeah, we hear all the good news. >> Right. What was the progress so far? So, that beautiful section there that reaches out with with all the windows inside. Where is that located? What we just did. Yep, as soon as this is the north wing. The counseling and the upper part there is the >> That's okay. That's okay. >> Yeah, so upstairs counseling and this new entrance is It's supposed to be by May. Looks really cool. It looks great so far. All right. Um, just back to the color-coded map, um the light green is what we're talking about, the admin stories. That's what we're we're wrapping up. Um The red The red area is where we're off to next. All right. What What have we been doing, um this last month in the admin space? Just doing, um layout framing, mechanical, roughing, drywall, um and >> Don't you worry. All right. Um just finishing on the finishing up the finishes in the admin space. Um we have we are in the corridors um just doing a little bit of work. Still up in the penthouse mechanical work kind of behind the scenes. Um and then we are um into the gym now. Um so we're starting up some some demolition work. So what we have coming coming up is finishing up the admin space for handover. There's an abatement going on in the in the gym. Um but we're doing some more finishes in the in the corridor. Pictures. Um here's some pictures of the tennis court, so that's been demolished. Um the pile pile of rock. And then uh we actually do have some crews out there as we speak out on the uh on the track. So we're starting up the the way at that. Um I would I would s- Right now we're on road restrictions, which I would assume by the end of this week those are going to be off given that we're s- we're in the 60s here. So it'll be full steam ahead out there and get to work. Um here's just another photo of the front. Finishing wrapping that up this this month. Um lower level. You see the casework's in, ceiling grid's in. Tiles up in the bathroom, so now it's just flooring and ceiling grid or ceiling tile. Um so we get those spaces wrapped up and and ready for for handover. These are some of the um Uh what are we looking at right now? This is the second counseling area on the second level. So it's just a little bit behind the admin area, but they'll both open up at the same same time. Yeah, so what do you estimate this one? Looking at the first week of May. And the north entrance then opens at the same time? Yep. We're going to do a temp asphalt entrance there because they need to grade and rework the parking lot. That'll happen this summer, so we'll have this temp asphalt entrance uh for the month of May while they're starting to do the courtyard because that won't be able to be an entrance anymore. So all that bottom all that becomes temporary asphalt? Well, it's not all, but there's going to be about a 12-ft path. And then you'll have plenty of mud if you want to get messy. As long as you take a bath as they clean the asphalt. We'll do that at the temporary and then come this summer and get it all back to where it's supposed to be. Um all in all, we're we're feeling really positive where we're at with the admin space and on track for that turnover. Um again, the big push will start to be on the outside as well, so we're feeling good about where we're at. We feel like we're we've got our ducks in a row and now we're just waiting for the Any surprises in the gym at all? No, not at all. I mean, the the I saw the old floor with the slip and slide things. Yeah, really? You got to see the old floor? Yeah. Yeah. They all look the same in the picture. Really? It's the old floor with the old MW. But it's a it's a band-aid kind of floor, so it's not wood. Oh, I see. Uh the So the media center just is opening up, too, currently. I don't know if you have a slide of that here coming up. Uh if you can just go south there. What's what's absolutely amazing when you walk by is we've always had those skylights. But due to the painting that they've done around it, the light comes in like never before. And so it looks people say, "When did you put in the skylights? I didn't know that was part of it." No, that's always been there, but it had a concrete color up there and that absorbed it and now this reflects. And you walk it's really amazing when you're in the just outside of our current office and the student commons and you look there, there's a whole natural light wash as you look in there that has a it's a great visual. Where we never really appreciated it to that degree. Maybe years ago, but lately it hasn't been that way, so it's a it's really an impressive really an impressive space. And so there right now, what if you were in those picture to the right, they have a bunch of bookshelves that are going to be there. They're not up in that picture, but they have a lot of work to restock. And once that gets restocked, that'll be moving ahead, but it really uh it it serves so much more. I mean, obviously it's a media center, but it's another access of natural light coming into that whole building, which works really well. So Gary, what's going well overall and what's not going well overall? I would say going well, I'll I'll back to just working in a functioning school. I mean, I think the kids and the staff have been great. I mean, so they're very accommodating. Everyone kind of We have a lot of meetings, you know, with with staff, but everything seems to be going smoothly. Everyone's excited, you know, they they realize that there's a little bit of pain, but it's temporary and it's going to be great on the on the back end. Um What's not going well. It's always weather, right? That's always like the wild card, but of course it's been nice and now we're we're feeling we're feeling positive. Uh, we have the big courtyard construction project to come and that's that keeps people up at night, but we have to feel like we have a fine place in there. And we start that as soon as the north entrance is open. Yeah. Yeah. So, that's going down a whole level, right? >> There's a lot of Yeah, just to get the footings and it's Yeah, in the level Yeah, there Yeah, so there's a lot of excavation That's where the weight room >> Yep. uh uh was storm shelters. Yep. Yep. Yep. So, it's that's a lot of a lot of work, but we're we've been thinking about it for a year now, so Is the track totally up already, too? Um Yeah. Yes. Yep. >> Okay. Where will the I saw the when I was walking up at the community center, I saw that they were taking down the backstops on field 7, 8, 9. So, you're working on that. Yep. So, like where will football be this fall? Or like in August when they're practicing? So, right now we've worked where football most likely will be on field four across from we will rent a connex box, so that instead of having their shed, they can have their equipment by them. Uh I I would say if I were to answer a little bit, I think that our our students, our staff have been great, but I'd highlight for example our track team right now. Our track team they're doing track without a track. You know what I hear from people at track? They're excited about what's coming up. And obviously, it's it's sometimes painful to be as creative as they're trying to be because they're doing things in ways that we've never had to do. We've provided a track. They have been nothing short Sarah Schwartz, Jamie Landgren, all the way down, nothing short of absolutely incredible. So, that spirit of saying we're part of this, we have to work through this. And we've seen that department by department, but that's a pretty big example of someone doing something completely different. We've had teachers teach in classrooms that weren't classrooms before, students that had learned in those spaces. And when you you two are around, you're going to have it happen with every board member I've gotten in there with, students coming up to board members saying, "Isn't this great?" I mean, they're coming to them with the excitement of how happy they are. And so, yeah, there's a grain with construction, um, but I'd also say what's really good is like this uh this admin addition, I mean, we're tracking on time. And so, that's that's a good news item that we're we're hitting our dates. Uh we were able to get into the gym as we wanted to, and that's going really well right now. So, we're going to take that. Uh like you said, the courtyard and anytime you're doing this, but the engineers and the contractors have met, they've reviewed plans, and re-reviewed plans. We believe we're ready for that. Yep. So, Hey, what about the timeline for the fields next to the whack entrance? So, we're hoping we're hoping that the multi-use field can be in September, pending weather, and then we think the stadium will be November. And so, those are the the dates, and then obviously what soil conditions are to our weather is obviously a big thing. But the contractors that we have, they really go after it when the weather is good. They're the same group that did the tennis courts. And so, I've been really pleased about how they approach it, and they make me feel like even if we have some tough weather, we can we can be working our timelines. Yeah. We're hosting our first tennis tournament tomorrow. That's true. Are some of you playing at the old courts? Hopefully at the old courts that just got torn up. No, no, not at all. Here you go, no. Think think about that though because it was just it was last week that we did ground break. Last week was ground breaking in this district. Many years ago. And look at all that's developed and the big pressure at that time was when when are we going to be able to do that surface on the courts and when can we get in or when are they going to start and there was so much angst of just wanting to get going and now they're fully operational. They're excellent. Yeah, I was thinking about it. What Kevin just said is that you know, like the staff and the students have really bought in during the construction and are and I think part of it is the way you guys have worked it where you're opening different parts in stages. So like these even the seniors who don't get to enjoy the benefit of all the new construction have seen some new construction and I know it was when I toured with Kevin was a senior guy I knew that talked about how great everything was and how much they love it. Yeah. So they are getting the excitement of seeing and then I think that gives them more more ownership in the whole process and and and in putting up with the construction. >> Right, right. The benefit of getting to see a a little bit of what it's actually all going to look like when it's done. Yep. So that So beginning of May the north entrance opens. Yep. And this the courtyard closes. Yep. And there's I mean people will walk to their cars and from their cars they know what they'll still be able to drive up here. It's going to get to be back to be more normal for them. I mean they had both, but you look right now they have to all come around. The majority of our parking will be going straight in now instead of having to walk around. Where it where it'll be a little bit of an adjustment is how we do the performing arts center. Yeah, right. >> For that piece of >> messy of a demo will it be for like during May? And is it going to be We're going to keep it pretty accessible but it's going to be it's going to be pretty Yeah. Well, okay. But Cuz this whole parking lot's going to be down right here, right? Not the Uh almost all this one and a good chunk of the north one. Yeah. Yeah, as far as site work, I mean we won't touch too much parking until school's out, obviously. And then but everything will I mean when you guys come back in the fall, it's going to everything's going to look new. So. This could be a mess out there. Yeah, well, it's not We should tell everyone like just go on vacation, go on summer break, go away for a long time. Hopefully at the next meeting we are showing the admin area open pictures. Yeah, that'll be very exciting. So then Thank you so Okay, great. Thank you. Thank you. Move on to the treasurer's report of donations. Again, we have Squires Waltsburger and Mace, your staff and retirement employee recognition, $3,000. Frost Sanderson, staff and retirement recognition, $1,000. Westhampton West Nyack Special Services, $500. And Farmers Market Hilltop Primary School, $100. American Online Giving Foundation Hilltop Primary School, $48,055. So. Black Bond Giving Fund Hilltop Primary School, $50. Black Bond Giving Fund West Nyack High School, $20. West Nyack Hockey Boosters, West Nyack Hockey Team, $1,645. Wedge Fund for Student Scholarships, $100. Minneapolis Foundation Tyler Hill Sunshine Scholarship, $2,000. Patrick Jackson James Jackson Memorial Scholarships Scholarship, $2,700 and 50 27 150 dollars. Elaine Marshall Austin Goodermote Memorial Scholarship, $1,000. Troy Hemming Shirley Hills Wolf Ridge, $525 Melissa Gates Shirley Hills Wolf Ridge $1,000, year-to-date contributions cash $225,474.97 And Mr. Chair and fellow board members, I looked at the check registers for March, February, and January, and all seems to be in good order. Thank you all. We'll move on to teaching learning. All right. All right. I have four updates for you tonight, and it is spring, and that also means state testing. And that is what we're into or we're fully into state testing this week and and next week. I just put the calendar up there, and we have MCAs in reading, and math, and in science. Everything is going great. Everything is going fine. And I I just wanted to point out tonight that the reason why it goes fine is like a well-oiled machine. That is the 381-page procedure manual. And to give you context, back maybe 15 years ago, that was about 100 pages. And so, that is the manual. That's called progress. Yeah, I don't know. I guess it is. It's detailed. It is detailed. The The The procedure manual is something that all administrators here They they know. They may not have it memorized, but they know exactly where to go in that. And that becomes the basis for our training. And and before state testing occurs, we get our hands around what's changed. We have proctor training. I meet with IT to make sure all the technologies are working. There's a big component where we work with special ed, and it's all these different accommodations that we have to identify by student and then there's a whole MDE database that those are all uploaded. And then we prepare the students, we talk about the test in the classroom, we give them there there's modules where they can practice the different tools. Um about to take the test. And here we are. So one thing that that happens now is that we can get results back. We'll call them draft preliminary results within an hour after a student finishes. Those are not official, but we get an idea. This year, like science, the reading MCA results will not show up until October. It was the same thing with science. Uh for the state, they gather all the data. They have a committee in the summer, they review the data, then they set the cut scores of the benchmarks. And then that gets released next fall. So um as much as our staff, I remind them all the time, you're not going to have the results. And they they try to know. They want to see how our kids did. And it can be really hard waiting till October to see them. But that'll just be what it is this year. And then next year, spring 2027, it'll be a normal year of testing with reading, science, and math. It'll be spring 2028. It'll be a new MCA for math students. And so more to come much later on that. But what about the 11th graders? Yes. So they should be in I'm sorry. Either math or science grade 8 and 10 reading. That needs to be changed to 8 and 11. Got it. I'm only asking cuz I know Maddie took it today as you know. That's right. I was like, all right, that's weird that's not there. Or or she said she did. No, I was over there today. I probably saw her in a bunch of other little creatures and they were very active with them. The The other thing I wanted to mention to you you have maybe you heard the term M test and and there is an alternative MCA that we administer to special ed students. You have to qualify for it. It's a very rigorous process to administer the M test and now it's called alternative MCA. And those are tests that align to the the state MCA but it's just it's just a different based on the disability. It It's simpler. It's not as complex. It's more appropriate for the special ed students that have very specific disabilities that it would not make sense to give them that state test. That in itself has its own training and processes for setting up and and that that goes on as we do the the MCAs. So we have moved to the alternative MCA in science and reading. It is still called the M test in math and that will change in spring 2028 when we do MCA for math in spring 2028. So that's another piece of this whole student testing. Okay, want to give you an update on where we are in the district with artificial intelligence and I I I'm really happy to to share that this is a fast moving train as you know. I can also say that we're getting after and we're securing the floor and where at these bullet points where that top one where there is not a lot of guidance from the state from the federal level, it's really up to local administrators to really figure out what's our direction. And that second bullet point is really paramount where data privacy of student data is is number one priority when we're working with with AI. A lot of work is is going in to how we're going to use AI, what it means for students, what it means for staff, what it means for our families. But this is where we are right now and I think about that second to the last bullet, both higher ed and K-12, we're all trying to figure it out. And there isn't a lot of guidance at the moment. It just keeps rushing at us. But I will say this, uh as you've heard me speak and Kevin speak, we we all we do have a partnership with QBS, Quantum Bridge Solutions. And I maybe I've spoke with you about Rick and Jake. Rick, a retired superintendent. Jake, he is an absolute expert in technologies, AI, um just anything that around this arena. We're We have a partnership with them and what they're focusing on with us in our district is in the lower right hand corner, coming up with AI guidance for teachers. We have completed that. It's 12-point guidance. We've done training with our staff. So this initial training has been done. And now we're working on a procedures manual. And that'll be our playbook. That'll be our That'll be the go-to uh document that anything of that we're doing around AI in this district. That'll be like our procedure manual for state testing. It'll be for AI. That is in formation right now and we'll have something set to go for the start of the school year. So that's just securing the floor. And then the other things are happening will be you will see very soon the MSBA model policy AI. I'm going to come with a West for you to look at with an administrative directive. And the goal is going to be our request will be for the board to approve an AI policy by the start of the school So, we have time to do this work together, but that'll be your piece and more information to come your way on that piece. I also want to mention April 29th. It's going to be a really important day. And we have a day scheduled where QBS will be with us in the morning working with some very key staff members on developing procedure manual. And in the afternoon, it's going to be about how do we roll out AI staff and students for the 26-27 school It'll be a big plan for us, but it'll be important that we come to August workshop understanding what we're going to train on, understand what we're going to be communicating to students. What are the different tasks we're going to get after during the school year next year? So, that is going to be happening April 29th. And then in June that that that afternoon there Minnesota Generative AI Association conference is in Cloud. We're sending seven people to a two-day conference and the focus is going to be on networking. And it's really different districts that are doing some really neat things, unique things. Um it's a time to collaborate. I really hope we can walk out of there with even better ideas about how to support our AI So, my message tonight is that we we're after this. We're doing things. We're not just waiting for things to happen, but we're trying to be very proactive um in in this whole realm of AI. The last two things I'll share with you, our foundation when we do any of our work will be with this H A I H framework. And simple way of stating that with you is that you start with a with an idea. Think of AI as a thought partner to support that work. But you don't stop there. Whatever task you're doing it comes back to that individual to really make sense of what AI is suggesting to make it your own. That will serve us very well. It'll serve students very well, but you cannot just put something into AI, copy and paste, and say you're done. So that'll be a lot of conditioning training about how we look at how to use AI. And then the other piece that we will be our anchor that we focused on. Number one, any work that we do safety, security around our data and and ethical decision-making. That gets into academic honesty and how we use the AI, especially with academics, especially as students. How they use it. We'll be talking about that with them. And then we have to have a mindset that we're constantly learning. That applies to staff. That applies to students. We have a responsibility to work with our parents, also. And help them move them along with this. I guarantee you you're going to have parents, probably a lot lot of angst. They're going to want to know if if what's being communicated and how our teachers using AI in the classroom. And that's for us to really communicate well and be consistent across our staff on how we're going to approach this. So I give you that update tonight. There there's a lot of work in this area, but there's a lot of exciting opportunities for us, also, Any any questions? A lot of work you're doing. Just got to just a couple last updates for you tonight. As you hear about construction and and remodeling, I I'm banking on what I heard that everything's on time, that we're going to have a nursing lab ready to go. We're going to have a machining lab ready to go. And with the nursing assistant program, we have our staffing. All those pieces are coming together. My next really big thing is going to be submitting the application to the Department of Health and everything gets certified. Not only for nursing assistants, but also for EMT and EMT. With machining, I would just mention Mr. Hummel and I, we had a day last week where we are coming up with the different outcomes for the first course in machining, and we are working with the federal Carl Perkins dollars to buy more equipment that I'll have in after July 1st. And then we'll have the space from when that machining lab was done until the end of first semester to get all this equipment delivered, installed. You know, he's a one-man show and train on these things. So, he'll be ready to go on second semester. So, there's some really great things that are happening in that area. And you heard from the students tonight, and I'll just reiterate just a fine graduation rate of 97.7. This is the for the 2025 year. And and what has happened is that we have now developed processes. We are tracking very tightly. Twice a year we have big meetings where we are going through the data for dropouts, continuing students, those are ones that are in special education, and they graduate 5 years, 6 years. The unknowns, that means they have left at the end of the school year. We have no idea where they went. Only one. Only one. That that must feel good. It feels very good. It used to be a lot higher. Yeah. So so one of the things that we do now is that we when we figure out first day of school, we we're missing five kids. Where are they? We're calling those families. If we can verify they've enrolled in another school system, whether it's in this state or another place, we can change that count. That alone um now makes our numbers more accurate than they were in the past. So we will celebrate that. That that is a fine graduation rate, and I would expect they'll continue to Awesome. Mark, it's it's an incredibly impressive list what you just quickly went through here of state testing and all that's involved, but just the learning targets that you continually lead our district through to then talk about the new programming, and as we navigate EI and the results that you're showing, but it's it's um it's easy to present in about 10 minutes, hey, here's some updates, but incredible work. So we appreciate the teacher outcome uh meeting that we had, being able to talk more in depth about EI and stuff like that. It was very uh very helpful for a lot of us. Mark, are you using AI to develop the district's AI manual? Uh um no, I think no comment tonight. We'll leave it at that. Financial report, Kathy. Great. Um good evening, everyone. Um I'll be presenting a brief overview of our financial data as of March 31st, uh 2026, and also just a high-level glimpse of our um April 1st enrollment update. Okay, as of April 1st, we had uh reported 2,453 students, which is a gain of one over the prior month. So, again, I always say whenever this gets filled up, I always know we're getting to the end of the fiscal year. So, we'll report May 1st, and then uh following um the month of June, we'll do the actual reconciliation. So, this is always a good um checkpoint to see how we're doing enrollment-wise. Um the financial data um through the end of March, um we have collected uh $24,065, or 53.6% of our revised budget. And we have expended $29,307 of our revised budget, or 65.8. Um and both the revenue and the expenditures um appear to be trending um as we would expect them to at this point in the year. Um just a few other quick notes. Um the uh as you know, the adopted budget is underway. Uh later this week we'll be um issuing to our department heads and um principals their budgets to work on. Um we'll be bringing that back for you at the June meeting. Um, in addition to audit prep, we're also this time of year we always get quotes on insurance, uh, property, liability, workers comp. Um, this time of year also I work with Mark on the federal title we have an opportunity to revise that budget before year end, so we're working on that at mid-mid window. And lastly, um, we have an upcoming board financial, um, committee, um, on June 4th. Any questions? Yeah, so your agenda today you're going to see that uh, spring brings the topic of staffing. And so we've gone through a series of of some of our targeted uh, reductions. There's also staffing, uh, some staffing changes that you're going to see in here where uh, maybe some employees have chosen to retire or uh, made other decisions. And so we also have started our hiring process, so uh, this is natural that the consent agenda is a little bit longer with some staffing items one in spring. Also you're going to see on your agenda is the approval of our individual contracts. And appreciate board members that sat in and helped with that process. Um, that went well and uh, pleased pleased to have agreements from those groups. Uh, lastly I would uh, just briefly comment um, you have also our medical and dental insurance. A great decision for our district was becoming self-insured. Uh, it's it's really uh, helped our district financially, but it's also helped uh, it's been really good for our employees that they have control of their insurance and as a group they've made decisions of how that can best represent what they want both in compensation and how they value it and so that voice has helped the district financially, but it also has given ownership to our employees and that's really really served us served us well and so we've had a good trend. This year we're our rates went up but we've had a number of years where we were far below the average. Uh, I think that's happening in a lot of areas right now with health insurance so we're not alarmed. We're just appreciative of of being self-insured and we're working with them. So, uh, in that, um, I appreciate the work of the group that manages our insurances. Thank you. Thank you, Kevin. Um, chair moves it for approval of the consent agenda. Is there a second? Second. All in favor? Aye. All opposed? Motion carries. Move on to discussion action items. Chair moves for approval of the action item, uh, 8A, approval of the group medical insurance renewal on premium increase. Is there a second? Second. All in favor? Aye. All opposed? Motion carries. Chair moves for approval of action item 8B, approval of group dental insurance renewal with no premium increase. I get a second? Second. All in favor? Aye. All opposed? Motion carries. Chair moves for approval of action item 8C, approval of individual contracts. Is there a second? Second. All in favor? Aye. All opposed? Motion carries. Chair moves for approval of action item 8D, approval of obsolete equipment to be sold at auction or recycled. Is there a second? Second. All in favor? Aye. All opposed? Motion carries. The chair moves for approval of action item AE, approval of the first reading of policy revisions to policy 4235, high deductible health plan with funded HRA plan. Is there a second? Second. All in favor? All opposed? Motion carries. Chair moves for approval of action item AF, approval of the resolution relating to the termination and non-renewal of a teaching contract of Gregory Kimbral, um, one final probationary teacher. Is there a second? Second. All in favor? All opposed? Motion carries. Chair moves for approval of action action item AG, approval of changing the ELC ESC custodial position to night shift hours. Is there a second? Second. All All in favor? All opposed? Motion carries. Anybody else have anything at this point? I just want to say yesterday there was a article that it would catch the eye of the Star Tribune about metro school districts and it's it was kind of a shame to see how many of the metro school districts has have run deficits the last three years. And I'm proud to say that we are one of four that have not run a deficit in the last three years. So, kudos to Yeah, kudos the school one of four metro area. This is according to the Star Tribune. Wow. I didn't see that. That's I didn't know it was one of four. We are a A a lot goes into that, right? It's Cap and team gives us great guidance with great uh um great dashboard that we can see what we're doing. But it really involves everyone just being mindful and challenging and there's a culture of of let's try to save where we can save and let's invest where we can make a difference. And I I think that credit goes to many, but I really appreciate the finance committee and the board for your support of our programming, but also helping us be in this position. I didn't know I was one of four, either. Well, that's awesome. Big news. That's a big statement. It is. Well, if there's nothing else, the chair moves for adjournment. Is there a second? Second. All in favor? Aye. All opposed? We're adjourned. Thank you.