Calling the meeting to order at 6:00 p.m. This is the board of directors regular school board meeting for Monday, March 31st, 2025. Uh, welcome to all of our visitors, guests, and media. As usual, starting with uh board and administrative roll calls. Mr. Phelp here. Mr. Burns here. Miss Danielson here. Miss Gatskco here. Mr. O'Neal here. Mr. Scheler here. Mr. Hennon here. Mr. Girtton here. Miss Okonnell here. Miss Payeyton here. Miss Dimmler here. Mr. View here. Mr. Samansky here. Please stand for 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. There have been no public comments prior to the start of the meeting. So, is there a motion to approve the agenda and addendums? Some moved. Second. Motion made by Miss Danielson, seconded by Mr. Onell. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor say I. I. All oppose. Nay. Motion carries. Item three, the consent agenda, which includes the school board minutes for February 24th, 2025 meeting, the personnel consent agenda, and the business consent agenda. Approval. I'll second. Motion made by Mr. Burns, seconded by Miss Gets. Any further discussion hearing? None. All those in favor say I. I. All oppose, nay. Motion carries. Uh there are no recognitions, presentations, or showcases this month uh due to it not being a non- studentent contact day. Mr. Chair, yeah, I just uh want to make note of that. Uh we had scheduled all of our winter activities um to come in and celebrate their outstanding accomplishments this past winter, but uh what we didn't realize is that they didn't have school today. So uh most of the students are either still on vacation or enjoying their evening. So uh we just did not have great attendance uh from the coaches saying they just couldn't get kids here. So we're going to reschedu that for April to recognize them. Uh we also have our middle school and elementary student council that were scheduled. Same reason uh there a lot of those families are still not back yet from vacation or other things. Um so we'll invite them back either in April or May. So apologize for that. Will we be adding mock trial or BPA to this list? I think so. Yeah, we've got a few. I think they were on our original list. So we've got a bunch coming in. It's one of those we're going to have to open up the other side to get everybody here. So, good problem they have. Yeah. Mhm. So, don't plan for Mexican Monday. All right. They leave it open. Okay. All right. They know the burns. Yep. I get it. Um, moving on to the action items. Item A, the acknowledgement of donation, contributions, and fundraising. And it looks like we have a lot this month, Mr. Schuler. We do. Uh, we'd like to recognize a number of donors. Um, and here they are. Uh, the youth Warttoary Youth Basketball Association, uh, donation to girls basketball for $990. Uh, not designated yet. The Marttown Lions Club, uh, to the letters of love group at the high school for $500 for supplies, paper, markers, stickers, snacks, food, and other, um, part participants. Um, the Watertown Lions Club uh, donated $3,000 to mock trial and their expenses. The Argusy Foundation um donated to robotics $1,000. It's a direct donation from to First Robotics account for their regional competition fee. That was one they were recently in here a few weeks back. Uh Northern Medical uh metal products and um Albright is a donation to robotics for $600 for robotic parts. Shelby Jade Photography um robotics donation for materials again for design and and uh to produce the team banner and some team photos. Speed Pro uh donated to robotics materials also for sponsor recognition team banner and sponsor stickers. Wiretown Pharmacy donated $250 to robotics for supplies. Wilson Development Services uh Dan and Kathy Wilson to robotics are $1,500 for robotic supplies as well. and holsted uh laser engraving to robotics for some wristbands and outreach materials and t-shirts for the t-shirt cannon. And then uh Martin um promotional products to robotics $150 discount um donated on team apparel and then our local American Legion Post 121 to BPA for $1,000 to offset some of their national expenses that will be coming up here soon. So, we'll let you catch your breath. Yes. Wow. A lot. I'll I'll make a motion to approve the donation contributions and fundraising. Second. Motion made by Mr. Phelps, seconded by Mr. Burns. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor say I. I. I. All oppose? Nay. Motion carries. And thank you again as always for for those donations. I you know it just helps our programs out so much and see the good things that we're doing. Um item B, the first and only read of district policies requiring annual review. Mr. Schuler. Um yes, Mr. Chair, this uh is our 700 series and a part of our 800 series of policy. Um our policy committee did meet in uh March to review. Um just going to call one to your attention just because the policy committee did not see this change. It's minimal, but just want to make sure you're aware. So, uh, under, uh, policy 802, it's the disposition of obsolete equipment and and materials. Um, just want to make a note at the bottom of this policy, we just added a clause. Um, it's in green. If the district-owned device is used by a student is leased, uh, it will not be eligible for sale. Um the end of this policy talks about electronics specifically. Um Mr. Stzman u brought to my attention that you know since we do lease our student Chromebooks um we don't resell those back to students. Um we sell them back to the leasing company. So um that practice he just wanted to make sure that was in policy. He had not been in previously. So, we did add that last sentence just uh that was a change from when we met reduce any confusion at that time. Yeah. If a parent was to come back and look at that, wait, wait a minute, I thought my kid could buy this. Um, you know, we we don't sell those. So, just to be clear and so the policy committee has reviewed these and we're all good on that. Yep. Pretty uh changes pretty minimal. Not a lot of changes in this at all. Move approval for the first read items policies. I'll second. So we have a motion made by Mr. Onell, seconded by Mr. Felt. Any further discussion on the first and only read of the policies? Hearing none. All those in favor say I. I. All oppose, nay. Motion carries. Item C, the first of two reads for district policies. Mr. Scheler. Uh, thank you again, Mr. Chair. Um, the policy committee asked that we pull um policy 714 for further discussion. Um, and that was kind of the point for tonight is to give this a first and a second read in in April. Uh, with the idea of just taking some time to review this. Um I know uh the personnel committee, the finance committee and certainly now the the policy committee um has all talked about the the fund balance um policy and the reason for that is um the range in which um the policy sets forth for us as as a board or you as a board um is that 7% to 20% of unassigned fund balance. Um it's been an ongoing talker I know for for some of us. Um and I guess the the point was just to to review this takes some time. Um you know every three years that we get this opportunity is that the right range that you want um if you go down to minimum fund balance it's number five uh in the policy that speaks to specifically what I mentioning. Um that that would be the the discussion point. I think you may have saw in my Friday update, I I did do a quick research of about eight area districts around us and just to see kind of where they're at. Um and and just, you know, seeing how we compare and I think, you know, it is kind of a wide range. Um some go to a minimum amount. Um some have uh that range such as as we do. Um but it it really varies from from board to board. Um not a lot of consistency, I guess you'd say. Um, but again, we have a month to to talk or discuss um and make any changes to recommend for the April meeting. And is that 7 to 20? That's our current policy. Correct. Yep. Yeah. That's why we wanted to reook at it because I know we've had discussions before about and and there I think we I mean as the policy committee we felt the minimum of the 7% were comfortable with it's that maximum. and just wanted to verify with the personnel and finance committees. Yeah. On where and and and as Mr. Schuler said too, there's lots of different boards that have a minimum of 5% no maximum, right? Or or we want to keep it under 15%. So there's really no rhyme or reason for neighboring districts or consistency per se. Yeah. So, that's just something that, you know, maybe we'll have a representative from the the personnel committee, finance committee, and policy, and we can have a special, you know, to kind of hash it out or, you know, that that type of thing. Something along those lines just so we can kind of make sure everybody's comfortable with it moving forward. Is there what's a recommendation from either MDE or MSBA or anybody else? or or from the finance people in there who actually know what stuff means. Completely up to us. Yeah. They do not well there's got to be at least a guideline to say no I swear look the reading is strives to maintain. So it's not like we're held to you know just if we're not within that range. Well I think what's a healthy range? She's going to say seven to 20. It's a good number. It's arbitrary. Yeah, it really is. And the reason you have it is the auditor will look at it and say if you're within budget, I mean within policy, meets policy. So, and if you're not get written now, being a former auditor, yeah, you got to fix it. So, Mr. share what I'm hearing is possibly pull uh committee members from each of those groups together for some kind of like a working group type of thing just to make sure and make sure everyone's on the same page because I know like you said Mr. This is something that finance wanted to look at, personnel wanted to look at, policy kind of wants to make sure we're all in alignment on it if we're making any changes. I think we just thought it was a good time to do it because it came up and agreed. We've had conversations. So, and we we've had many conversations about the fact we felt like that lower number really should be up a little bit more and it kind of aligns with what we saw and what you pulled together with other districts. um just to have a better cushion um especially as things are unstable. Yeah, it's fair. Looking through it looks like most of these are starting at least at eight 18% too. I see quite a bit and and also too just spoiler alert in a future presentation tonight we'll kind of see where our fund balance has been historically as well. Okay. So that that kind of keep that in the back of your mind as well. So do we need to refer this to a committee? Then I my recommendation would be to take somebody from personnel, somebody from finance and somebody from policy just to kind of have a representative of each since those are the three groups that Mr. Chair, I move to refer this to committee of three appointed by the chair with the power to report back at our next meeting. Putting a lot of power on me. I could give you the names, but I think talk to those people and make sure that they're willing to do it. So, is there because that you made the motion. Is there a second? I'll second. Motion made by Mr. Burns, seconded by Miss Gets. Um, any further discussion before I have the power to make a committee of three hearing? None. All those in favor say I. I. All oppose, nay. Motion carries. And that does it for the action items. So, we'll move on to the review and information items. Uh, the FY26 programs and budget reductions and adjustments. Mr. Scheler. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Um Lisa and I would like just to kind of walk us through um just kind of where we're at currently as March has has typically been our recommendation month to the board on any budget adjustments or reductions in staffing. Um just to remind the board just going back in time a little bit um some of our goals for this year in terms of looking at the budget. If you recall when we left last spring, um one of the things we talked about was looking at um reductions for this upcoming year. So for the FY26 uh school year, um some of the goals that we had, I think to to make this um to work um was to first, you know, move from a fourb block schedule in the high school to more of that six period day um just to improve our staffing models and and provide some additional offerings for our students. Um the other part of that was to align the high school um sixth period a day to middle school schedule. Um to align those two together for improved sharing of staff and additional electives for both middle school and high school students and then to attempt to move some of our current staff to that access or compensatory budget uh which would move it out of the general fund. Some of the factors that we saw that improved um our budget situation from last year to this year was you know there were some positions we weren't able to hire due to just there wasn't people uh to fill these roles. So pair professionals, custodians, certified staff even uh we just didn't fill those because there weren't uh candidates. Save some money there. Um, as you remember last spring, um, in April, we made about $430,000 roughly in budget adjustments, um, to to help the budget there. Um, we had the long-term facility maintenance projects that we had scheduled that just didn't get completed. So, for whatever reason, um, bids didn't come in on time, work wasn't done, that money was not spent. Um, curriculum purchases were not made, um, for during the school year. So, we had some budgeted items there that we just didn't make. Uh, we'll probably make those this year, but that did not count against the budget last year. Um, if you remember, might been a long time ago, but the warmer winter weather helped a lot of our heating costs. Um, so, uh, heating was down, snow plowing and such. Um, and then, uh, one nice increase from the state was that cross special ed, uh, cross subsidy, which we talked about. um some additional dollars there um help support general fund and um use more money towards our general fund and that's cross subsidy could help in special ed. Um so that was great. Um the signed fund balance uh was increased about 1.2 million um due to the fact that we set some money aside for roofing projects in the future in the near future. Um and then a reading curriculum purchase as a part of the read act. We know that we're going to have to purchase some reading materials um and we're due. Um that'll be something that'll probably happen this spring into ne into the summer. Um so there'll be a pretty significant cost there. And we've talked about the roofs has been an ongoing LTFM item that we said um it's going to be a pretty big number. So we've got to get ahead of that a little bit and let's put some money aside for that uh to be completed. And I and I think about the next two years we should be able to get that done. So those are some of those factors that improved our budget situation leading into kind of this discussion further. Um as you can see our budgets you've seen these before you know where our expenditures go and where our revenues come from. Um again for us it's it's usually that staffing is really the biggest piece of our expenditure. So the human capital if you will is is a big piece. revenue. Obviously, our state uh funding is is the main source. Um you can see that as well. Um and interesting enough, if you look at the federal numbers, that's been a talker uh amongst a lot of people is, you know, how much of the federal funds do we really receive? And there's a good example of, you know, how much um in that year's budget, and that's been pretty consistent, I would imagine over the years. CO, yeah, co did jump that up. Thank you. Good point. Um, so just gives you a little history there. And if you have questions, please stop me. Um, again, uh, I think I shared this slide even last year, but again, um, our levy, local levy, you know, provides us with about $462 or $92 per student. Um, so that goes that's in addition to our our state funding and and federal funding that we do receive. Um, but again, um, what's happened is inflation hasn't kept up with that. Um, we know CO uh kind of bent our budget out of shape for a while. Finally kind of getting back on track there. So, there have been some other pieces that have um kind of skewed where we're at. Um, as Hunter mentioned earlier about the unassigned fund balance history, you can kind of see where we are and where we've been. Um, we're about that 13.7 uh percent going into 25 here. Um but again um pretty consistent over the years. We know the outlier was at uh 2023 when we did some borrowing against um the fund balance to pay off a road project um and kind of right besides that uh the following year. So back on track there. Um some of the things that have kind of come into play this legislative session. Um we talked about readact um requirements and again um that one-time funding. You can kind of see what we're receiving for that. Uh the teacher compensation part um is another component that the state is contributing to. Um but again um all requirements that uh district teachers have to be certified if you fall within that realm of teachers. Um and that's paid through literacy aid as well. Uh compensatory aid. Again, this has been a hot topic this legislative session um due to the changing formula potentially um that you know in the past districts used to have to collect the actual physical forms to u certify you as far as what your compensatory aid was. So your free and reduced lunch forms now they use what they call as a direct certified number um looking at your free and reduced range and your poverty levels. Lisa probably knows a little bit more about how that's changing, but um that is a number that has stayed pretty consistent. It's gone up a little bit for us and now stayed there. Uh but the governor in through some of his proposals is looking at a different way to measure compensatory aid for districts. Uh this year we're held harmless, but future years this could be a one that uh is hit. So just some things to consider. Can I ask a question about the certification for the Redact t-shirts? So, how long is that certification? How often would they have to be reapplication? So, right now it's a one-time fund. Yeah. Yeah. Right now it's as far as we know it's if you're once you're certified, we have do not only about anything about ongoing training uh moving forward. It's just that initial training. But any new teacher who's not trained at the college level, uh, obviously is going to be our responsibility. Any new teacher who comes in the district possibly from out of state, I think the cool thing will be that every teacher who is a teacher currently in in the state's going to need to have that training. So, if you're moving from a different job within the state, you're going to be okay. But outstate teachers and new teachers to the profession are going to be the ones that we're going to be on the hook for. Um, good question. I don't know if Mr. you is I don't I haven't heard anything in terms of ongoing training moving forward. I think they're just trying it's not like a threeyear cycle or anything like that or a fiveyear lensure like your No, there's no mention of that. Okay, one and done. Thank you, Joe. Um did that answer your question? Yes, thank you. Okay. Um so again, um just some things to consider. Um special ed uh again some of the funding changes there. Um the state did a nice job of closing that cross subsidy percentage. So about 44% is prorated up to about 95%. Um and then in next year in 26 it's going up to 50%. So one thing you have to realize is they're giving you more but then they're prrating it. So that means that there's more special ed expenses than they can pay for. So instead of getting 100% of your funding, you're only going to get 95%. So even though they go up to 50%, that doesn't mean that they're not going to turn around and prorate it. So it's sort of a um Yes. percentage of a percentage. Yeah. And then the next thing on the thing is they're reducing the special ed transportation and that is uh 5% of last year's um transportation is $34,500. So um and then they're going to go to 90% in 27. So they're giving you a little bit more but now they're taking it away. So makes no sense. Wonderful. Um the other one subsidy, but we're not going to let you get to school. Is that kind of what the answer is? Yeah. And then unless you pay for it. Yeah. And then there's another They're possibly going to take up the non-public Yeah. uh transportation away and that's about 77,000. But in theory, you would think our transportation bills should be going down, but we'll have to see how many different routes are in excessive to just our own students. So, you don't know about that. Thank you. Summer unemployment for hourly workers as an ongoing cost as well. Right now it's 100% funded. Uh but we've talked about this as is, you know, the pot of money that the state set aside in the 23 um budget year is is drying up quickly and they don't right now have a plan for how they're going to continue that. Um the one idea is mentioned here is is there an ability to levy against that? Um which we used to be able to do for unemployment costs. Uh they took that away. Nope. You still can't for the nonsummer. For the non-summer. Sure. Um but the summer ones we can't levy for. So that is a concern. And I'm going to just add it was um $151,8652 for 23, which would have been June of 23. June and July. August of 23 and June. No, July and August of 23 and July of 24. and then July and August of 24. So we still have June left that we will be paying claims on and it's usually about 12 $13 a month a month uh for yeah about June. Yeah, just June. And then lastly um family family medical leave which is slated to start um January 1st of 2026. This is the one where it's kind of going into an insurance bank, if you will, um where the employee pays the 0.88% pay payroll tax and the um employer uh matches that as well. So um that is slated to come and there has been some talk about delaying this a year um at the legislature just because people aren't ready for this. We've heard a lot of stories. I think when we were down at the capital, this came up quite a bit of we're just not ready for this. The technology that's going to manage this isn't ready for this. And they're modeling this after about 13 other states that have tried this. Um there's just a lot of unknown. So they're trying to pump the brakes, I think. Uh I don't know if that's going to happen, but regardless, that's something we have to be aware of uh in our budget. Um, also just noting that there's some other increases. The TRA increase um is moving. So the uh employer contribution is moving up to about 9.5%. Uh non-public transportation and education aid like Lisa mentioned, governor's talking about eliminating that for the non-publiclix. Um but again flows through us. Um, student support aid is another one um that came through that 2023 um budget year. Again, looking to drop that significantly um as you can see there. And then that literacy aid as well is decreasing that. Our current budget is down to about 46,000 uh in literacy aid. uh that is one where we'll hopefully be able to to continue to fund our literacy lead position which we um will be adding to uh next year. So FY25.6. Can I ask about the non-public transportation? So are they saying that the non-public will have to pick up the tab for that or is it going to be our responsibility as a public school to pick up the tab for the nonpublic school? Good question. Yeah, I don't know if I have a firm answer. have all sorts of good questions today. I thought I heard I think they're talking I thought I heard somewhere along the line it's going to flow through us. We are going to have to pay for the nonpubliclix. I thought I I thought I read that somewhere. Maybe I could be wrong, but yeah. So, and I know they've talked about getting rid of the nonpublic aid as well, which is about 170,000, but that just flows through us. We get 5% but which is more like books and curricular materials and those type. So right now, Lisa, we get those funds and then we push them down to the Yeah, it's just my time. Okay, that's all. Write the check. Write the check. Okay. Um, also we've talked about what the governor's proposing um in terms of just community equalization aid could be impacted. We talked about literacy aid and then STO school library aid was another new item. Um again looking to reduce that or just eliminate it alto together. So just things that are being proposed. Um next slide shows a little bit of just again um enrollment trends. Um this one's a little bit tougher to read maybe, but you can kind of see how K4 is in the blue, middle schools in the red, and then high schools in the in the green in terms of ADMs. um how we get paid out from the state for our students and that allowance is about $7,281 per student um in 2025. But you can see the overall loss over the years. Uh the next slide kind of gets into a little bit more of just the enrollment history um kind of where we've been where we're headed. um elementary you can see from uh 19 uh excuse me 2019 to 2020 we're about 568 students uh this past year about 475 and we've lost about 93 students there. Um middle school as well. You can kind of see the the trend there. Um net loss about 66 students and high school is our one anomaly right now. We've got some big classes still coming through the high school with about um a net gain of 21 students um in our high school. And then again, just another graph that shows that historical um where it's been, where it's going enrollment wise, last 10 years or so. So, just to review the process again, back in January, actually even earlier, I think December, uh, principles uh met with Lisa and I and just looking at ways that we can reduce, reallocate, uh, look at other revenue streams or or adjust accordingly, uh, each of our our three buildings. Um, and just look at that sixth period day a little bit deeper. Um, again, Mr. Hennon and his staff leadership team did a lot of work uh leading up to that even starting last spring um looking at the best uh schedule options um beyond the the fourb block period day. Um and then in March uh we brought the finance committee in to review the FY25 um revisions to that budget um and other staffing needs. So we kind of brought that forth to that group. They had an opportunity to weigh in um on the uh this board meeting. Obviously, we're reviewing some of that. And the next slide or two here will show um kind of what we're proposing. Um and then the finance committee will come back together here in April to get one final say uh on where we're at um with these um adjustments and then uh move it to the April 28th meeting for your approval for any changes or or adjustments to the budget. Um and then we get into June, that's the annual um approve the revised budget and um approve the FY26 budget. So that's kind of your timeline for remainder of the year or at least the school year. And just an FYI, I do stand corrected. It was the elimination of the non-public student. It was just that pass through for us. That's what they're eliminating that nonpublic transportation. We're not funding that. We're not. That was just a pass through from the state, the police. Yeah, the aid. Yeah. But if the aid's eliminated, will we have to pay for it? I don't believe so. I think it would be I would assume tough to do at at the legislative level. Um that it would be on the the non-publiclix, but more more to come. That's just his budget proposal draft, if you will. So, sorry, Mr. Schuler. No, that's okay. Uh the next few pages just kind of show what we're doing in terms of some of those shifts and um eliminations through attrition. Um so you can see on the left it's the current 2425 um model and kind of the enrollment size there. Uh on the far right hand side it kind of gives what we're proposing um in the elementary. We're proposing right now to to reduce two staff members. And the way we're going to do that is through a retirement and then a non-renewal. So two individuals that would not be back anyways, if you will. Um, and that really doesn't impact anybody else. So through that retirement, the non-renewal, uh, we're able to to do that to to get down to two more FTEEs there. Um, in the middle school, it becomes a little bit trickier um, in terms of how we're staffing that. I don't know if Mr. Hennon and Mr. Girtton, I don't know if you want to come up and just kind of explain this a little bit more detail maybe just because this a little bit they'll work pretty close in tandem to to make this uh happen. Um, one of the things that we are reducing, I'll probably jump up to the high school. Um, you can kind of see there what our reductions are. um in terms of the high school, it's about a um a about a three um FTE reduction, but the way that's working is we're going to be sliding some folks out of the high school into some roles in the middle school shifts, if you will, um some adjustments. And maybe I'll let you kind of explain that a little bit more detail kind of how that looks. So, what we did with by aligning our sixth period schedule allowed us to share more of our staff. Um, for example, like you know, one of the things next year we're going to see is in help of providing more middle school electives, our industrial tech and egg teacher like are going to provide like one elective per day down there. Um, we're also by, you know, like Mr. Girtton had a one of his teachers knew the literacy lead. So instead of hiring somebody, he had to backfill that. So that my one of our math teachers are going to combine to cover the seventh grade math job down there. Um, we're going to help provide coverage in eighth grade science for one section a day. So, again, by doing that, I think there was a better utilization of our staff and more efficiency instead of having a bunch of like point8s and things like that. Everybody's full-time and then allowed him to he can talk more about the interventions, but that's really what it came down to is so we just looked at we looked at high school numbers first and kind of what I needed for sure to to run our schedule. And then as a result of that, we looked at what he needed to backfill and then how do we utilize our current staff and then fill all the spots. Um 7 through 12 it's a little trickier because lensure does matter a lot. But even with that, we were still able to fill everything the high school needs for next year and then able to shift a decent chunk, like I said, some of those um FTS over the middle school to help him in terms of again providing students more choice, but then also covering that seventh grade math and then some various um like science electives and things like that. So, the combining of our our schedules really made this much more efficient and in years past we would have never been able to do that. At least it been very inefficient. Well, this year it's very efficient. So, with that process, before Mr. Girtton comes on, one of the things that um Mr. Girtton and his leadership team identified was just some more need for intervention support similar to the elementary model that we've been using for the last few years here. Um we've seen some some maybe some stagnation of our scores. And I just think that by providing them some more intervention support um will give them the the MTSS support that they need and that tier 2 level to make a difference and start turning those scores around. Um again, not that they're terrible, but we we know that we're kind of hitting a plateau and I know you'll probably speak to that a little bit, but I'll try not to confuse you. So as we inherit high school teachers because of the efficient schedule what happens in the middle school uh we are looking at we we knew that because of our data we had too many kids that weren't making the growth to exit intervention and our model wasn't as targeted as it was at the elementary school. So we were we were wanting to see additional interventionists come in to do small group targeting especially in fifth and sixth grade. the data is there to support that. So, as Bob brings over middle school or high school staff in the middle school, some of them go into core classrooms, for example, he brings over four periods of math. I can then take a math teacher that was in that classroom as a middle school teacher, convert them into an interventionist, if that makes sense. Right now, we don't have a math interventionist and use compensatory dollars to make that affordable. The other thing that we've been able to do, and this is huge for middle school, so our schedule, we've never really been able to give kids electives. We've given them exploratory classes. They had a variety, and those of you that have had kids come through, we've tried to really improve those. Now, we have access to our industrial tech program. We have two periods where seventh and eighth graders will have access to those spaces, work with Bob's uh industrial tech and egg teachers. um we put together a schedule using his staff and our staff to create an electives option of SK option for seventh and eighth grade and provide intervention support primarily for fifth and sixth grade. So it's just a really good way to utilize um it's it's a good opportunity. We took we took something and made uh programming better for everybody in the middle school. That's my impression based on what our data was telling us and what our kids have been telling us about wanting elective choices. So I hope that makes sense. Any questions about that or comments? Thank you. Thank you guys. Appreciate it. If you didn't get a chance to see the middle school piece, um that kind of lays out how that looks as well. And for those intervention teachers, it's just that separate bucket of of funding. Yeah. So we were able to shift until we said that compensatory bucket um instead of taking it out of the general fund um it's all the general fund it's just not it's ear earmarked for a certain rule. Yes. So I think some positives with this like I said earlier we're not going to be reducing um any staff. So, we're not um releasing any staff due to the fact that uh we're able to do these shifts and cover internally. Um we still will be probably deficit spending. Uh that is that's going to happen if we're comfortable with that in this model. U I know Lisa is going to bring that forth at the April board meeting with kind of where we're at in terms of the deficit spending piece. Um so, um it's certainly not going to be outrageous. Um but there is a piece of that that just to to understand that to pull this off um without making any you know cuts to actual people um you know this is the recommendation that we're looking at. So any questions things that I missed Miss Raider you go back to slide 16 here. Yeah. Yep. This one. Yep. Y. Okay. So, Lisa, I know you've got some models that predict the ADM side of it. Do do we see this plateauing, leveling off, continuing to go down? Similar is our big high school class that's leading and then after that, I think we'll have one class over 100. I mean, I think it's pretty. Okay. But so do we see that trajectory kind of at that same rate continuing? Uh it it'll go down in 27 and then hopefully it'll just kind of flat out. Yeah. Okay. Because all the bubble classes are gone. So we're just left with our 90 to smaller more consistent maybe. Um, and looking at your timeline, I know this will be coming back again and then I think it was June or something like that. Will we see the a draft of the budget with April so that we kind of have an idea of what the staffing changes and what that how that's impacted the budget before we make the decision on staffing changes. Yes. Excellent. Thank you. It's a good question and that's my hope. I well and that being said that you know we have two years before that big class leaves we'll be having this discussion again I would assume I I I assume we're having this discussion every year for for for for better efficiencies with the enrollment trending how how it's trending um and also too you know the first what six or seven slides that were on there that talked about you know a lot more of our funding that we're getting currently today is going away. So, you know, our budget's going to be reduced. We're not going to be able to keep that same level. So, eventually we're going to have to start continually deciding where we need to, you know, make make, you know, have the scalpel and not a hammer, you know, or, you know, hacksaw, whatever term you want to use there. So, it's just sort of those small minor efficiencies. The more we can do that year-over-year and and obviously, you know, for for budget adjustments. It's it's keeping it away from the kids as much as possible. You know, with this, we were able to lose two two staff, you know, just by attrition, but yet, you know, if you listen to Mr. Girtton, we're actually able to to provide more to our kids. So, it's just those creative opportunities, I think, is what we really need to focus on the next couple years. But the finance committee is is attuned to that. So we're we're not going to let that slip. So I think like Hunter said, I think the bigger piece for us moving forward in future years is kind of that scalpel approach where I don't think we have to do major cuts, but I think we have to always reflect on every position that if someone leaves, do we need to replace them? You know, and and really take a hard look at that. I think that's going to be the probably the marching orders of our admin team is that when someone leaves, let's have a hard conversation whether or not it needs to be replaced. Can we do some internal backfills or those type of things? Um, you know, those are the conversations that make this process easier moving forward sometimes. Um, so I think that'll be probably the the marching orders moving forward. And you said that we aren't able to levy again until 2029. Is that correct? You said every levies are only good for 10 years. Mhm. There is in statute that you can renew and we do have the inflationary factor factor which is good. So at when that time comes you can renew just for what you need right but you can go out for more but I don't know how successful right yeah where we'll be at that point. Yep. Any other questions? Thank you, Mr. Schiller. Thank you. Moving on, you can update us with your strategic plan. All right. Outstanding. Um just a few quick items here. Um this month of just focusing in on people. Um our leadership team has been working or starting the work on uh revising our our survey. So, our May survey which goes out to parents, uh, students and staff, uh, we're taking a little different approach. If you recall last year, um, at the end of when we reviewed our our information, there was just some unclarity um, maybe on some of the student questions especially, um, we didn't get a great response from the parents. So, we're we're kind of revisiting all of our questions and we're trying to make it more building specific. So, the first five questions might be district level questions and then you get to answer the question, what uh building is my child in or children are in? And it directs you down to that other uh set of five or so questions. We really want to keep it very short. Some of the feedback that we received is if you go over 15 questions, it's too many. You got to keep it shorter. So, uh we're doing that as we speak. The kind of neat thing is we're um for the student side, we're asking our leadership teams in all three buildings to help devise the questions. What are we really trying to ask? What do we really want to know? Um so we're putting it back into their hands to kind of help with that. Um and then again, our leadership team is working on the questions for the the parent survey and also the staff survey. I'll have that for you uh at the April meeting for your review. So you can kind of see those questions and hopefully you in advance of that I can get those to you um just to see where we're at and then just how we're collecting the information then storing it. You remember the vision card that we currently have up um now um is a nice model but we're looking at some other ways to record that information as well and um kind of starting a new benchmark if you will with the new questions. So, um, that is something to look out for here, uh, within next month. That's all I have. Any questions for Mr. Scheler? My question, I think you just answered. So, we'll start using this as a go forward your regular measurement after that. Yeah. Um, again, this seems like a moving target. Um, surveys in general are are tricky. The nice thing is we have we can pretty much encapsulate all of our students and we can pretty much encapsulate all of our staff. It's as simple as sitting down at a staff meeting and just saying you get 10 minutes, please just fill this out for us so we can get pretty good data there. Um the parent one's the tougher one where it's just hard to get the return. I think we had 99 return last year. Um but I think if we simplify it, put it out in a few different ways, um hopefully we can get a better response. So, we'll see. All right. Thank you, Mr. Schuler. Moving on to the admin reports. Starting off with uh Mr. Hennon. Just a few quick items. Uh we did hire uh somebody to replace Mr. Joshik for next year. Um she's coming to us with a few years of experience from Cibil East. Uh felt really good about it. But I think between her and Mr. Anderson, we've kind of figured out a a plan for next year. But again, just to find somebody with experience, I feel pretty lucky actually because I think most schools who are looking for that position right now are getting zero applicants and we had two in and again I think this one's going to be really good fit. So that's positive that we have somebody for next year. Um I think it'll be she'll be a good fit to get through the rest of this year. Um Mr. Anderson Anderson is doing an overload and then we also just consolidated some classes. So it was a way to still offer things we needed to but way to to get through that at least. So uh registration wise today I met with I think 11 of our 13 departments to go through a a draft of what it'll look like under a sixth period day next year. I think that was the biggest you hesitation a lot of them had was to see what would actually look like. Um I think the feedback was I mean I didn't walk away thinking anything negative I guess with all the meetings. It was pretty positive. I think they were pleasantly surprised with just the different ways that this can still happen to where yes, it looks different, but the positive is our kids are, you know, everything that have the the necessary numbers to provide a class is going to be offered next year. So that's the positive. Um, and I feel really good about that and it's just done a different way. So now just the work comes in, you know, making that final master schedule. But felt really good about that and I think people feel a little bit better as as they got to see. Um registration numbers were, you know, like always there were some surprises. Art was the one that took the biggest jump by far. Um significant jump in that. Otherwise, you know, college and school CT numbers, I mean, they were they were high, but I think the one thing that I heard from some kids was, you know, again, it's different, but they said they actually have more spots. they could actually take some things that you know previously if you were like a foreign language and a band require kid and double up on math well you were just done and now they still had spots so I think it actually helped a lot of our elective choices to to have some more spots for them so and then just lastly I know we are a little ways away but make sure you have graduation on your calendar May 23rd 7 o'clock rain shine anything we're outside the kids told me so dress warm I was told very clearly buy some of them. It doesn't matter. I don't care what my parents think. We are outside. I'm like, "All right." So, and Jim and you fell for that last year. Yeah. Jim will get your calendar ready so you can help set up again. So, this year the boards will be painted. I promise. Don't have But I mean, just Yeah. Get I mean, it's always a big deal. And I know it's crazy that we're that close already. It's not far away. So, any questions for me? Nine weeks of school. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Gertton. Hello. I know, right? Just to piggy back off Mr. Henning with the schedule. Now that he's finished, it's my turn. So, what we're doing now is we'll start looking at registration for seventh and eighth grade first because they'll be uh registering for electives and I'll work with Mr. Hennon on trying to figure out how to calibrate and go through that this first time around, but we'll figure it out. Um so kind of the timeline for the middle school right now registration wise is within the next two weeks we're going to have communication out and um be getting feedback on seventh and eighth grade registration that'll help us inform how we're going to put that elective schedule together. Shore up staffing there. Uh we'll register sixth grade which is very easy. They're more in that in that exploratory um set of courses. So, um, they they more or less get assigned courses. Um, I met with leadership today and shared everything I could possibly share based on, uh, what we worked on over spring break, Mr. Hennon and I, I'll be meeting with all our staff members this week to tentatively talk to them about where I see their assignments for next year. And again, tenatively, but remember, the middle school staff has not seen a sixth period schedule. They've been waiting. So to avoid speculation, I will explain to them where I see them heading in terms of their assignments. Um we want everybody to be reassured that things are moving ahead and they've been very um very forgiving and patient. Um so again, things are moving really smoothly now. It's just um rounding the corner and getting the details we need from the kids and then uh getting what we need from staff so we can finalize the master schedule over the summer. Uh the second piece here, um I'm publicizing this because there have been a lot of questions. Vicky Tim Anderson, our band teacher, is out on a medical leave and she stepped out a week ago. Uh and so there has just been an outpour of interest in trying to help her. Our PTO, uh kindly agreed to help tornado collection benefit for her. They've started that process and there'll be more going out, but right now what we do know is that she'll be out on a medical leave through the end of the school year. So, um, but she's touched a lot of lives and works with, you know, a lot of our students. She's been a member of our school for over a decade and works with all of our 5 through 7th grade students. She has stepped out and Miles Atot, the high school, actually 8th through 12th grade band instructor, he's stepping in, rejuggling his schedule. Uh, Mr. Mr. Hennon has been very supportive and he is teaching the large group sections, band sections that we have, handling the ensemble part of it. And we're actually in the process of trying to hire a part-time band person instructor to come in and do the small group lessons. Fifth and sixth grade need those small groupoup lessons. It's foundational. Um there's only so much you can teach individual students in a group of 30. So, uh we actually interviewed a candidate today. Looks promising. Uh, but the goal is to try to get somebody in here right away so they can do those small group lessons while Miles continues to to take the large groups through the rest of the year. So, so there'll be more communication going out on that. Um, that's all I have. Thank you. Thank you. Miss Okonnell. Good evening. Um, an update on kindergarten registration. As of today, we have 52 students that have completed their registration for kindergarten for the upcoming school year. We continue to monitor registration and to reach out to families that indicated at our Royal Roundup event that they plan to attend but have yet to complete registration. Currently, there was 15 families who attended registr or attended our roundup, 11 who committed yes that evening but have not registered and four who were undecided at that time that we're still trying to do outreach for. Our next um step after reaching out to those is to go through census data and reach out to everyone who we have in census data who we have contact info for. We found in the past that that process is a little complicated because the census data means that we know that they were here and have a child of age, but they could have had a child here when they were born and maybe no longer live here. But we'll begin that step in the process. But if we can get those 11 and then maybe those four, that puts us in a better spot and then we'll work on some more after that. Um, we also have our yard signs that we'll be getting up. We put the banners up by the elementary school and also by the CLC that say to register their kids. So hopefully that will help us get more business drummed up, too. Um, right before spring break, we completed an artist and residence experience at the elementary that was generously funded by our PTO. Heidi Jube was the name of the artist. She came from a program called Compass and she worked with Miss Demars to provide every student at the elementary an opportunity to participate in a collaborative painting project. The students created a series of large paintings on canvas that will be exhibited in the elementary school. We will unveil this amazing creation at our celebration of learning event in May, which is on May 22nd. This multicanvas mural will become a permanent installation in our elementary school and had every student's hand involved in painting a piece of it. So, it's a really cool experience that every child was involved in creating that they'll get to see for years to come as they visit the elementary school. And then lastly, it is pair professionals week. So, we want to thank all the amazing pair professionals who support our learners each and every day at the elementary school. Crystal an Anderson, Angela Dusky, Kristen Heinesy, Cheryl Hyornne, Sherea Hirsch, Jenny Hoover, Christine Loris, Amaya Matskco, Anne Nelson, Aiden Newman, Amy Olsen, Dyla Sell Horton, and Joyce Stzman. We couldn't do it without their help and assistance for our little people every day. Any questions? I enjoyed your video. Your video was Thank you. Heather gave me strict assignments. So there was actually a multi-part series that if edited would have probably been 15 minutes. So she did a great job condensing it down to two minutes and and the feedback that I got from your presentation down in Atlanta was fantastic. Oh, thank you. Um that even came from the executive director of MSBA. Really enjoyed it. Said there's a lot of good information. So you know kudos to you and I know that they're in discussion maybe about even doing an article at MSBA about it. So great and how we've wow flipped the triangle. Great job. Thank you. Fun to share about our school and thank you for taking that on and and presenting and representing us. Well, so thank you. Thank you, Miss Dmore. All right. Well, we opened summer registration and we already have over 400 uh registrations um as of right now 50 of them um by 2:00 a.m. this morning for aquatics. So, yeah, people got up early to get their aquatics registration. Summer youth theater. Yeah, that actually opened on March 10th. Oh, okay. So, that was full by I don't know 9:00 a.m. So, yeah. Um our uh preschool for next year's next year is already sitting at 108. And just to give you some perspective, right now we have 109 in preschool. So we are excited about that. Um we do have some staffing coming up for preschool for next year. We um are going to be hiring two new preschool teachers because we have two resignations. Um and we do have our kids stuff sale happening on April 12th. So looking for some new stuff? come on out. Um we had our parent event on um March 13th and we had about 50 participants who attended. Um we had some really good um reviews on that. Um so that was great and we will be having our next advisory meeting on May 13th. So that's what's going on in community ed right now. So any questions? All right. Thanks. Thank you. Miss Payton. Right. Um, good evening. Um, I hope you all had a wonderful spring break. Um, it's been a busy time, productive time for special education. Right now, we are actively hiring for several key positions, including an early childhood SLP physician, a school psychologist, evaluation coordinator, um both an elementary and high school special education teacher, and a part-time secondary special education teacher. So, we've been busy conducting interviews and we are pleased to see a higher number of applicants compared to last year. Um we are in also in the midst of planning for extended school year ESY. Um we continue encourage teachers and pair professionals to apply and we are pleased to report that we are nearly fully staffed for that. Um ESY will run Monday through Thursday 8:30 to 11:30 during the weeks of July 7th, 14th, 21st and 28th. Um each spring the Minnesota Department of Education um special education division um selects a random sample of parents of students with IEPs to complete parent survey and this year 10 families from Watertown Mayor have been chosen to participate. The survey provides valuable insight into parent involvement in the IEP process, the support received from administration and teachers and perceived successes and challenges. This survey is an essential part of MDE's um state performance report submitted to the office of special education and it just helps inform policy decisions for both at the state and local levels. So um in addition um MD conducted its annual file review. So, they randomly chose 10 um student files for evaluation and the review has been completed and we're just waiting for the final results. But I'm pleased to share that um our staff demonstrated strong attention to detail and compliance with MDE criteria and um so I'm excited about that. So I think we're going to get good results. Finally, um, as Miss Okonnell stated, we have National Pair Professional Week during this week and we're se celebrating with a bunch of activities and gifts for them. So, we're incredibly grateful for their dedication and the invaluable support they provide our students every day. I don't know what we'd do without them. So, thank you for your continued support. Um, and just want to see if you have any questions. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Samansky, just a little bit uh winter highlights. I a April board meeting is going to be very long. Just be prepared. So, just a couple things from this past winter. Two conference titles, two section titles, both in wrestling and gymnastics. Gymnastics 11 years in a row. Wrestling two out of the last three years. First state title in program history for wrestling. Um, and on the boy side, this is the first state title on the boy side since 1986, the football team. And if we know anybody who played on that team, individual state champion, Hessa Gonzalez in the beam or on the beam, um, teams like speech, robotics, a lot of our fine arts, um, they have section competitions coming up, state competitions coming up. BP has got nationals coming up. So all of that should be done around that April board meeting and we'll recognize a lot more at then. Uh spring participation numbers we're sitting at about uh plus seven. Clay target and SWAT are the only remaining to finalize. So SWAT isn't until the summer. So we should be um okay for this this school year. Uh first competitions are scheduled for Friday maybe. Um this is a resectioning year. Watertown Mayor High School enrollment number for this the next two years is 470. This is based off of the October 1st enrollment numbers from the department of ed and the high school league puts it into a formula. Free and reduced uh numbers are taken out of that and that's where they arrive at. Our number is 470. Um previous cycle our enrollment number was 439. Um where this plays in is tomorrow the full AD advisory committee will meet to review all section assignments. Um once it passes their approval it'll go on Thursday to the board of directors. They will take action on the AD advisory committee's appeal recommendations and section placements pending approval. Schools will be notified of all competitive section placements for next year and the year after. Um, and as soon as that takes place, district football placement committee will start work on districts uh with a goal of having a football schedule by the end of May because right now we don't have a football schedule. So, well, nobody does. So, we're playing the waiting game there. So, that's what's going on until the weather changes everything. Any questions? Paul, real quickly, um I know in the May AD and superintendent meeting, there's a principal meeting, there's a always a conversation about conference changes. Any schools looking to leave the conference at this point in time? Is there any changes in the west and the east or right now? No. Um but I think every school looks to improve, you know, their situation. So, I I nothing publicly has has been talked about as far as any schools leaving, any schools joining or anything like that. That doesn't mean there aren't conversations happening, but right now it's looks like it's status quo. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Schuler. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Um, couple of postings will be happening this week. Hopefully, tomorrow we have a human resources manager position. Um there's currently Cindy Eton's role in the district. That'll be coming out uh for a posting um soon this week. Like I said, hopefully tomorrow. Um and our director of uh finance here uh Miss Raider's position will be posted uh simultaneously. Uh hopefully tomorrow. Um and again, um thank you for those who weighed in on the job descriptions and u those will be up and running and help start recruiting now. and uh uh hope you're looking for some great candidates. Um also today we did wrap up our third installment with Cindra Campoff, Dr. Campoff um and her beyond grit book. Um so today was teaching staff and and um couple real good focus areas. Uh own who you are was one areas and uh live and let go and then uh choose your courage courage zone was uh the third area today. Um her final exercise was to write a personal uh purpose statement. Um so all of us uh had to write a purpose statement on kind of what's our why as either uh as human beings or as an educator. Um so it was really good. I think we had a lot of fun with that. A few of us uh were brave enough to uh go up and read our own and thank you Mr. Hennon who was one of them who volunteered uh to read his uh purpose statement uh with the group which takes a lot of courage to get up in front ofund some folks to read that so thank you Mr. for him. And um so are you encouraging him to read that right now for us? No, I want to ask him to do that already. He forgot it. He left it in the car. But uh No, I think it' be a good time for Nick to do his Google Chad GPT. But no, we will uh we'll be gathering some feedback. Uh Miss Campoff sends out a survey. Um Joe and I are going to review that and possibly use that in place of the one that we have is just to gather some feedback. But overall I think um I think preliminary we've had some really good feedback. Um again a lot of the buildings were using uh the book as an RPT so reflective practice teams and having these conversations um on a on a bi-weekly basis. Um I know the elementary is doing it at their uh bimonthly staff meeting uh second uh meeting of each month. They're having some good conversations. So, uh, just really good takeaways and I think just your self-improvement ways to, uh, sometimes get through some difficult times or even in your in your role as professional. I think it was really valuable and some really good feedback and takeaways. So, uh, thank you to Cindra. And we also have a staff member that we didn't know about this, but, uh, staff member of the high school, Andrea Razer, uh, is now a certified, um, help me with the name of that, uh, topic. It was called the mentally strong coach. Thank you, Joe. Mentally strong coach. So, it's a certification through uh Cindra Campoff and her organization uh to be certified as a uh coach. So, um she put 25 hours in and um be able to certified. So, pretty neat to have someone on staff who went on to to get that. So, congratulations. That's all I have. Any questions for Mr. Triller? Thank you. Uh moving on to board member reports. Anybody have anything from the last month? Um all policy committee met. Um and then um marketing communication had a meeting um where we just kind of went over again our outreach um our mail um and then looking at um new providers for our newsletter. um putting out for bids um just try to be a little more cost effective. Um so working on that and then um Mr. Phillip or Coach Phillips provided um some information regarding um our uniform process and um kind of the vendors that we looked at that just trying to pair that down. So, I think we'll be meeting with um the coaches um as a committee then just so that everybody can get on the same page as far and whatot more consistency. Correct. And maybe some cost effectiveness. So, correct because we don't. Anybody else? just um the foundation is going back to the um a Polaris Ranger raffle again instead of um the cash um and then they're still thinking about a um casino night option as well. So that looks like that will move forward. Um it's just better turnout, better event. So start saving my pennies now. Um they have a couple other uh things that they're thinking about doing as well, but um and again it's scholarship season. So So I was going to say, isn't that kind of coming around here pretty soon? Um anybody else? Negotiations. Uh we're starting next Thursday, the 3rd. Looks like we got the third. This Thursday. Yep. Sorry. Uh the 3rd, the 7th, the 9th, and the 16th are all on the schedule so far. All right. Well, we still don't have finance committee meetings or not facilities in between there, so that's always good. That is good. Y um we had a facilities meeting on the 12th. Uh we're still working through prioritizing some of those LTFM items and and sort of what are the what are the things that we can work on over the summer getting it completed by next school year. So, there's a few things that uh that are in the hopper for that. Um some are big, some are small. You know, that's just kind of how it goes. Um finance, we met on the 19th, obviously, to kind of go over the presentation that was shared today. Uh we'll also be meeting again in April to kind of finalize some of those recommendations that we'll bring to the board meeting in April. Um, also me, Mr. Scheler, and uh, Miss Danielson attended the day at the Capitol on uh, March 10th. There was over 200 attendees uh, that were there, which was their largest turnout ever, represented about 94 districts. So about a third of the districts were actually there. Um, I believe we met with six different representatives. We had to divide and conquer because we had overlapping meetings at at different times. Um I've all the meetings I was in, we were met very favorably. We were part of uh bigger districts as well. So, a couple of them that I sat in had big west metro districts and us, you know, uh what was really interesting is the day at the capital came out a day or two after uh the budget came out saying that in the next couple years we're, you know, Minnesota's the the $6 billion uh deficit. So when you go into a meeting and meet with your legislators and you say, you know, we really need more funding formula, you know, five and five would be fantastic, that's pretty much immediately off the table to get those because everybody's asking for that. Um so, you know, my approach and and we the handouts you guys have in front of you kind of they were provided to all our legislators. Um my approach was what can we do at the local level? How can we you know, reducing those those mandates, unfunded mandates, put more local control. That's the stuff that they can try to fix that they can try to push forward because obviously it's the the funding is not there. So, what can what can you control? um it was really eye openening for me personally uh meeting with one of the representatives in a in a large west metro district um that when they were talking about budget reductions I I my immediate thing was any of our reductions are really coming at the cost at at the at the student level you know we don't have four communication people we don't have eight HR people any you know we don't have that district office fluff if you will. So any challenges, any reductions from a staffing perspective are coming and they are affecting our kids and that was kind of an eye openening experience for for both the district and the representative. Um I guess the only thing that that I one of my biggest takeaways well one we actually have a couple meetings coming up with some of the legislators are actually coming out um to visit our district. I think we have two scheduled with one to two be scheduled. Yes. Uh one uh is Friday. Uh Representative McDonald, former Watertown alumni will be here at uh 100 pm on Friday. If you're interested in touring, we're going to tour the high school. Uh Mr. Hennon will help provide that tour with us. So, you're welcome to spend some time with Joe. And and we had one scheduled for this fall. Yep. Yes. Another when we come back, right, Senator Coleman. and then one more I think we're going to try to schedule too. Um but but again really coming out of that it was it was a fantastic time. You know I I learned a lot. It was good to kind of meet these folks on their ground. But but really we need support from our local communities, our local governments. That that's where we need the most help, right? If we're seeing the declining enrollment, we we need to be a partner with these communities more so than we are. You know, a strong school district and a strong community, they go hand in hand and you can't have one without the other. So, you know, whether it's, you know, family-friendly housing, attracting younger families, you know, we need to get we need to ingest ourself with our communities and and say, how are how are they bringing in those young families? How can we be a help? You know, we've done a lot. I mean, we're what 25th in the state. You know, we've gotten, you know, fantastic facilities. We can market ourselves, but we need everyone's help to kind of pitch in. And we can't rely on the state, you know, the the the state legislators to to help us out that much. So, we kind of really going to have to try to focus on the local factor. And and that was something that I came away from the day at the capital with. Not saying it was a waste, but it was we we need to, you know, to to to form those bonds with the city councils more than we already have and see how we can work together. Well, it's somewhat of both, right? So, this was the first step and first of all, this is fantastic. I mean, I know we all had some, but I it just is a great piece. But I also think, you know, opening up our doors and inviting whether it's, you know, city new city administrator or getting our representatives and senators in and just h having them come and see the facilities and, you know, we we got to start somewhere and I think we're we're doing a great job of that. So, thank you for your leadership on that. Um, and and one little piece of feedback that we got from uh when Representative Meyers came He's his kids go to Minnetonka school district and we toured the elementary school and he was so complimentary. He said these are better. The facilities here are better than the ones in Minnetonka, the elementary schools in Minnitankka. You you know and it's like well thank you but how do we market that out there? How do we try to recruit those kids that are open enrolling to other schools that are that may be looking to open enroll? You know, it's it's those types of things because again, we we see the enrollment numbers and it's not promising. So, we need to try to be creative and be strategic about how we do that. But, I think we got a lot going for us because you did have the new city administrator. I think Mr. Schuler did. Yes. Thank you for that. Um, that's kind of what I had from the from the MSBA side. The only other thing I have is was five years ago we were in a whole different world. You know, five years ago COVID kind of came um kind of kind of um you know and and and to me it it was hearing that it was sort of reflective where have we come from and what have we done? you know, we had two weeks we were going to be at home. That turned into two years, you know, with the students and everything like that. Five years ago, you know, we had a new superintendent coming on board, you know, a new board chair. We had some board turnover. We had no way to know how to act, how to how to govern, you know, at our level. We did the best we could. You know, we provided still those opportunities for all of our students to learn. And you know if you look back at it, how does education change as a whole? You know, we we can provide that remote learning. We can provide e-learning days for students. So, you know, they don't have to take those other days. So, while we're still kind of catching up a little bit on the on the learning loss, it does provide some benefits that we can technology-wise that we are using using and utilizing. So just think about where you were 5 years ago and how far education as a whole has kind of come I think and that is what I have. Anybody else? I make a motion to adjourn. Second motion made by Miss Danielson, seconded by Mr. Burns. All those in favor say I. I. All oppose nay. Motion carries. Meeting is adjourned at 7:19 p.m.