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. >> Michael, we approve you again. [clears throat] >> Oh, yeah. Maybe I'm on the list. >> All right. The next item on the agenda is public comment. School patrons are given the opportunity to address the school board regarding items that are not on the agenda. All patrons will be asked to state their name for the record. The board appreciates feedback from the public in this forum. Board members will not comment on or discuss topics brought up by speakers at this time. Is there anyone here for public comment? Anyone here for public comment? Is there anyone here for public comment? There being no one, we'll move on to the next item, which is our program review, which is the audit uh presentation. Thank you, >> Karen Doll from Bergen KDB or Creative Planning, our audit firm. So, he has a little presentation for you this evening. Thank you. >> Thank you, board, for the opportunity to present here tonight and the opportunity to serve as your district's auditors again this year. So yeah, we'll kind of walk through the results of the audit. >> I don't know why. [laughter] >> I don't know. >> There we go. Sorry. What this is doing, Bobby? Do you know what? Why is it showing it like that? >> It's not up there. >> It's fine. There. >> Oh, you're good. >> Nailed it. >> Your notebook is going. Good for you. We're good. Okay, we're good. All right, here we go. All right, we'll start with the independent auditor's report. So, uh with our independent auditors report, we have financial statements. Um those are the management's responsibility. Uh and then we as auditors are responsible to express an opinion on those financial statements. Uh for fiscal year 25, we did issue an unmodified opinion on the financial statements, which is the best opinion we can give as auditors. So, kind of a clean opinion um is another term for it. And with that uh we're stating that the financial statements do present fairly in all material respects uh the financial position and the change in financial position. We also issue a report in accordance with government auditing standards. Uh we did have one internal control finding again this year. It's one uh you've seen in the past related to the lack of segregation of accounting duties. So just kind of based on uh the size of the district uh there is some overlap in duties within kind of the district's office and the accounting. So, um nothing of concern that we found. Um so, we always like to point that out. Uh we did go over the internal controls and things like that. Um but just there is that um lack of segregation in some of the different reconciliations um and um job duties of the district office. So, also in that report, uh no compliance findings. So, nothing in relation to the government auditing standards that we had concern with. Uh we also issue a report on Minnesota legal compliance. So, we take a look at things like bid testing, collateral, conflicts of interest, things of that nature. Uh, and happy to report no findings um on compliance with the legal provisions contained in that legal compliance audit guide for local government. So, great clean reports all the way around. So a great job uh by Mary and the finance team again this year to have those uh clean unmodified reports >> as this lack of segregation is constant not just here but among why can't there be some kind of correction on your guys's part on how many schools in Minnesota? Yeah, I mean the majority of districts do have some overlap. Um, and we are kind of required within kind of the auditing standards to disclose that to the board each year. So, um, again, nothing of concern and it's wouldn't necessarily be costefficient to have that complete segregation uh where you have all the checks and balances like separate people doing all the different responsibilities. So, um, it is important enough where we need to bring it up each year, but yeah, um, nothing of concern, I guess, especially for a district of your size. So, All right, next we'll kind of jump into the financial financial communications portion. So, kind of going over the communications letter. Uh the first chart here lists the general education aid and the formula allowance associated with that. So, uh the largest single funding source for Minnesota school districts is the basic general education aid. And each year the state legislature uh sets a basic formula allowance and that total basic general education revenue is calculated by multiplying the formula allowance shown here uh by the number of pupil units for which a district is entitled to aid. So uh for fiscal year 25 you can see there was a 2% increase uh had been 4% the previous year and then actually kind of jumps up to 2.7% here in fiscal year 26. So, another nice little jump, but um always like to keep an eye on where that lands, especially in relation, uh to the student counts, which we'll take a peek at next. The first one we have here is the resident ADM. So, uh the number of students available within the district's boundaries. So, not necessarily dis or students going to your district, but students that live within the boundaries. Uh so, taking a look at that, it was relatively flat for fiscal year 25. uh you can see jumped a little bit from uh 2258 to 2266. Uh that was an increase of point4% uh in the past year. Uh kind of taking a look at the 5-year trend, uh that has increased by 3.9% since 2021. So just kind of jumping into the numbers a little bit further, it looked like there was a decrease there for the kindergarten grade. Uh that dropped from about 166 down to 145 uh with an offsetting increase there in the elementary. So that went up from 1,029 up to 156. Next we have the pupil units waiting. So uh those ADM numbers get converted into what are called pupil units. Uh you can see most have kind of the one factor uh with the secondary having the 1.2 factor. So a little bit higher there. Um and then we have the pupil unit numbers uh for each of the past five years. Uh for 2025 it did decrease by 6%. Uh as you can see, more students did leave through open enrollment. So that number kind of jumped from 284 in the middle there up to 316 for 2025. Uh but part of that was offset by the non-resident pupil unit gain. So students coming from outside the district's boundaries into the district. So that went from 456 uh to 463. So overall um a decrease in that pupil unit serve number of about 17 pupils. Here we have kind of um the change in resident ADM in that pupil unit serve number. So just kind of taking a look at the percentages from year to year. Uh as you can see kind of over the past four years it's been relatively flat. Um those numbers do kind of tend to go hand in hand. um as the resident ADM goes up or down, typically that pupil unit serve number kind of goes uh in a similar pattern. But uh since you've kind of had stagnant numbers, uh those have kind of remained close to 0% after seeing kind of that bigger drop off back in 2021. All right, next we have the general fund sources of revenue presented for the past five years. Uh state revenue does make up the biggest percentage of the district's revenue at 77%. uh that increased by about 700,000 for 2025. Uh looked like a lot of that related to increased special education aid along with some new additional state aids that were received for 2025. Local property taxes represents about 16% of the total general fund revenues. That increased by about 243,000 for the year kind of based on that tax levy allocation. And then the last category is other which does contain um both local uh local sources along with federal sources of revenue uh which includes the investment earnings as well. Uh that accounts for 7% of the total uh that decreased by about 466,000 in 2025 and a lot of that uh relates to the federal funding. So a lot of those COVID grants kind of dried up there in 2025. So some of those esser funds um which were were more prevalent in 2023 and 2024 um kind of dropped back down to a kind of normal basis there in 2025. Uh just kind of taking a look here in graphical form some of the same information here. Uh taxes and state hides have increased each year while um that other category again has fluctuated uh especially with that co funding. All right, next we have some metrics just kind of taking a look at revenues per ADM serve. So kind of taking into account both the revenues and then also the student counts as well. Uh in fiscal year 25 you can see that number jumped from about 13,700 up to over 14,000. Uh and kind of the reason behind that is the increase in revenues. um with enrollment kind of staying steady, uh those increases in revenues allowed that um revenue per student count uh to increase as well. We also have the state averages shown uh below there as well. Um historically uh the district has kind of been below those state averages um but those have kind of trended in a similar path as well which um you can see have increased in each of the four years presented there. And here just kind of in graphical form kind of comparing the district's numbers in green uh to the state averages there in blue. So again you can see both kind of trending upward um in similar patterns based on those revenues per ADM. Similarly for the expenditure side we have uh expenditures per ADM served. So again, uh with the expenditures increasing and enrollment remaining relatively steady, you saw uh an increase there in 2025 from a little over 13,000 to a little over 14,000. Uh and again, similarly kind of falling below the state averages. And then we also do kind of present a peer group there um in the kind of the brown category with districts of ADM between 2,000 and 4,000 there. So um again, similar trends, not a whole lot of um comparisons there. uh all trending upward um in each of the four years presented. Next, we have the general fund expenditures kind of broken down by program. Uh the the percentages for each there uh pretty much identical from year to year. So even though the expenditures went up in total um the way it's been being spent has been uh similar for each of the two years there and then we do point out the three instructional categories. So the regular, vocational, and special education do comprise 65% um of the total general fund expenditures for each year there. So good to see the majority of the expenditures are going to the instructional programs. Next we have the budget and actual results for the general fund. So uh with that original budget, you can kind of see down at the bottom line there a projected deficit of about 1.4 million. Uh some revisions to the budget. the final budget projection of a deficit of about 855,000 uh with the actual results uh having a deficit of about 285,000. So overall a variance there um of about 570,000. Uh revenues were over budget by4% so pretty much spot on there. Uh while expenditures were under budget by 1.2%. uh that total re revenue variance um the largest being from that other local and county revenues category uh due in large part to investment earnings for the year. So always kind of hard to predict where those are going to land. So those came in higher than anticipated. Um on the expenditure side, those were under budget by about 428,000 uh with the largest variance there being in the sites and buildings program uh due to some unspent budgets for purchase services. But overall those um expenditures by program were pretty much in line with what was budgeted. Um nearly all of them being under budget slightly. So um pretty much in line with what was hopefully anticipated by the board for fiscal year 25. Next we have the general fund operation. So kind of taking a look at the whole picture uh comparing both revenues and expenditures along with the components of fund balance. Um overall fund balance did decrease by again 285,000 uh compared to 2024. Uh this is the third year of the five years presented where we had kind of that deficit um with the previous year having that bigger surplus of about 1.7 million. Total revenues again increased by 1.4% with expenditures increasing by 7.7%. Uh the most significant fund balance change in 2025 was in that operating capital uh fund balance. So that dropped from about 912,000 down to 488,000 which I think was anticipated with some of the projects the district had going on. Um and yeah overall that decreased by about 423,000. Uh taking a look kind of at the unassigned. So kind of in the middle there uh that had a slight increase. So that went from about 5.68 million up to 5.76 million for 2025. And here we have uh the fund balance as a percentage of expenditures. So this does uh take in to account the unassigned portion the assigned portion um and then any um committed pieces as well. So basically anything that's not restricted. So uh you can see that dropped slightly went from 23 a.5% uh to 22.9% in 2025. Uh we also have a comparison there with um all traditional school districts there as well. So pretty close um to being in line with what um other districts across the state are uh just slightly below again there in 2024 uh by a half percent. Um overall that uh percentage decrease as I mentioned but there's still three and a half months of expenditures um in that total fund balance. And then lastly we have the special revenue fund. So, starting with the food service fund here, uh the revenues exceeded expenditures by $494. So, pretty much uh break even on the food service side of things. Uh revenues decreased by about 105,000 with expenditures increasing by about 115,000. Uh revenues decrease with less federal revenues um related to supply chain assistance. Uh while expenditures increase as a result result of increased staffing um and increased food costs. So that was kind of an inflationary trend across the state as well. Then lastly, we have the community service fund. Uh revenues here increased by 232,000 um with expenditures increasing by about 110,000. Uh that resulted uh in a surplus of about 250,000 for the year. Uh revenues increased with increases in fees, programming, and participation in the child care program for 2025. um with expenditures increasing related to additional purchase service costs uh for those programs run uh by outside organizations as well. Uh the end results was an increase in fund balance um up to about 781,000. So the highest of the five years presented there. And with that I can open it up to any questions or comments the board may have. So on the I have three questions actually. So the first one and they're more just clarifying questions. The part where we talk about uh more students leaving the district than coming into the district. That number of students leaving is not only open enrollment elsewhere but also includes things like homeschooling or other things too. Right. >> Right. Yep. >> Like there's a few of those things that have kind of >> upticked. >> Yep. especially I feel like the charter schools have continuously kind of increased over that 5year trend. >> Um but yeah, it's a common common thing across district. So yeah, >> definitely not something unique to Delano. Yep. >> And then secondarily, there was a metric in there somewhere about our district compared to other districts having less revenue and also less expenses than other districts. >> I think it was state funding related. Is that just due to qualifying for less state and federal funds for things like >> uh yeah things you've brought up before? But it's also why we have less expenses, right? Because we're not paying them out. >> Can't pay for something we don't know if we're to >> Right. Okay. >> Yeah. And that obviously includes demographics from across the state. So obviously things like up north would be a lot different with some of those funding sources and >> kind of in greater Minnesota as well. So yeah, it's not a great apples to apples comparison, but we do kind of show it just for reference purposes. >> Okay. >> Then my last question, which is probably not technically for you, but it came off your report, so maybe it's generally for everybody. I know we talked about how our community education fund again continues to grow, but we've also had a fair number of conversations about how we don't want to price ourselves out of the market on services like before and after care and things of that sort. Have we ever I'm assuming we have, but like what types of considerations do we need to make about maybe reducing fees if we're surplus growing every single year in terms of that fund balance? Because we can't take those dollars elsewhere. Why wouldn't give it back to people in the form of reduced preschool costs or reduce, you know, before or afterare, some of the things that end up in that fund? And I think you're um that's going to be >> remember this is Aby's first year and we've had a lot of turnover in that position over the last few years and um I think she's going to be able to look at that. She we aren't sure how things are playing out this year quite as well just because the preschool numbers are down compared to they were last year and but we still have the same number of staffing as well. So she just needs a little time to look at that. That could very well be something that could be looked at going forward as well. >> I just asked the question because given we can't like take those dollars and put them in the general fund or move them elsewhere like >> that is correct. >> Yeah. >> What else could be done for the community >> or or how do you not then like this is the wrong way to put it but how do you not then like overcharge or charge too much, right? Like how do we get that in line with what the expenditures are so >> you know it kind of cuts the folks a break who are using the programs. But I know that takes time and analysis and it's different year to year, but >> Yep. But yeah, no, we're still looking at a growing that fund >> something to look at. >> Okay. >> Absolutely. >> A while ago, we had looked I think when I think it was before Abby when Eric was here like the goal of >> Yes. >> 250 or something comes to my mind. I can't remember what the goal was to get that fund to >> just from a stability perspective. I don't remember now. >> And we're north of a million. So that's why I asked >> and remember last year we grew part of it too just because we were in transition so we had some savings in that as well but >> we're still looking at moving it up but >> maybe both >> Abby and I have a budget meeting next week so we're going to do a little deeper dive too. >> Great. Thank you. That's all I have. >> Any other questions for anyone else? >> Thank you very much. Yep. >> Thank you. >> Next item on the agenda is the consent agenda. This is the portion of the agenda uh with minutes of various financial reports. Do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda? Uh first by Jim, second by Corey. Any discussion? >> All those in favor? >> Any opposed? Motion carries to approve the consent agenda. The next item on the agenda is the resolution uh for the acceptance of gifts. The following uh charities have generously donated for the items listed below. The Charities Aid Foundation, $44 for Delano Elementary School, High School Pie, $250 for conferences meal. Ford Motor Company, $1,320 for the Spain trip. Franklin Township, $2,172 for summer wreck. Odell Sllayton, $2,000 for community ed. And the following donations are for the Orange Crush Robotics Team uh 3026. Delano Area Arts Council for the trailer rental of $200 and Lorettto Lions Club for $3,000. All of these organizations, as mentioned, have donated for to support these um initiatives funds noted. Do I have a motion um to approve the resolution the acceptance of gifts? >> So move second. >> First by just second by Ryan. Any discussion? Right. And this is a roll call vote. >> Board member Baker. >> I. Board member Mora. >> I. Board member Roser. >> I. Board member Shouse. >> Hi. >> Board member Gerky. >> Board member Deppa. Hi. >> And board member Black. >> Hi. >> Motion carries. Thank you. Next item on the agenda is personnel um matters. Um you know, we value everyone who um takes time and commits service to um continuing this and supporting our district. There's one name on this list that I'll call out at this time. Again, we value anyone who has spent time with us and um but this person has uh been behind the scenes and would like to recognize and thank Mary Reer. I know you have a few more months and so maybe we can just do this every month. Um um but that is um my appreciation to her for the work that she does for the district. Um >> thank you. [laughter] >> Come visit. >> Oh, I'm sure I'm going to be a Ron Py [clears throat] meetings. You know it sounds like >> All right. Best meetings that I've been to. [laughter] That would be the new role. [laughter] >> All right. Do we have a motion to approve uh the personnel matters? >> Steph moved. And then Jim second. Any discussion? All those in favor? >> Any opposed? >> Nay. [laughter] >> Do that, but I was going to get in trouble. >> Is that a legit nay there? >> All right. I >> Okay. All right. The motion carries regardless. Thank you. Next up is the administrative reports. Um, Miss Thompson has a a written thing for Miss Thompson. >> Thank you, Mary. >> Yes. Says, "Ladies and gentlemen of the board, thank you for allowing me or me to present to you this evening as a representative of the Delano Intermediate School Sitebased leadership team. We have been they have been preparing for and planning upcoming events. The evacuation drill took place today. Turkey bingo is happening tomorrow. At their last meeting, they also began planning how to review student data data. They collected some student survey data as part of the assessing the impact of their multi-grade tiger time this year. And they also recently administered the my saber screeners. So they are discussing how else they can use this data to support students. PD. Their early release time gave them time to work on their action card number one, which is focused on curriculum development. Specifically, their math team watched a video on mathematical rigor and laid out the plan for looking at their new curriculum reveal this year in order to be ready to imple implement it next year. Reveal math is new. MTSS, as I mentioned above, their next MTSS process will revolve around reviewing the screening data that they have from their Sabers assessment. This involves their MTSS data review time looking at each individual student and ensuring they are properly placed in an intervention. Stabers is social academic emotional behavior rating scale and events that they have had or are coming up. They held an emergency evacuation drill this morning where they came down to the Tiger Activity Center here in the high school. Went very well. Um, and they are going to have their annual turkey bingo activity tomorrow morning, which is a partnership between PI and their student council. And they are looking forward to door decorating and some festive fun in December. There you go. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mary, on behalf of Miss Thompson. Next up, the agenda. >> Back to the agenda. [laughter] >> Good evening, ladies and gentlemen of the board. It's a pleasure to speak with you on behalf of Delano High School. Uh I just want to first say congratulations to our girls swim team who finished sixth at the state meet um recently. So um a very successful season for them especially since they had lost a tremendous number of seniors in the previous year or whatever. So kudos to all of our girls swimmers. Um to give you an update on our sitebased leadership team. Believe it or not we are in the process of preparing for our uh 2627 school year registration. Uh we don't expect a ton of changes. We will be um inputting an ethnic studies course into our uh course guide for this coming school year and that is in response to state uh law changes related to ethnic studies. Um so we have uh created at least a course description for that course, but we don't yet have all of the work put into planning um because of course we need to decide if we're actually going to offer that course depending on student interest. So while we are required to offer it as an elective course um is offered just like every other class and subject to student interest we may or may not run it. If there is sufficient interest in that course then we will certainly put our team together uh to go to work in planning for that course. Uh in addition to that course there are numerous updates to course descriptions but very few changes in terms of any sort of course sequence or or things like that. The one thing that uh relative to our registration guide that we are contemplating and that is a change to our career life prep course u as you know we've talked a lot about career life prep and the importance of building relevance for students um getting students to think about their postsecary plans and kind of how they can uh develop and create their own pathway toward that um those goals. Now we're considering actually moving that from nth grade to eighth grade. Um, and the reason being is uh it kind of fits maybe a little bit nicer uh in terms of some of our uh sequence um uh with all of our curricula. But uh by giving the eighth graders an opportunity to think about sort of their four-year plans, they actually can kind of develop those plans before then they start their high school career. Um if you consider that some nth graders wouldn't actually get the career life prep class until the third trimester of their nth grade year. it's sort of like after the window of time in which they would actually register for 10th grade. So in sequencing uh that course it actually makes a little bit of sense to do it in eighth grade. And keep in mind we would still maintain the uh revisiting of those course plans through advisory. Um I also mentioned in the work session today we talked about um integrating artificial intelligence and digital citizenship as part of our curriculum. We do that currently through communication arts. Um, if we were to make the change with career life prep to eighth grade, we would actually marry career life prep, digital citizenship, um, artificial intelligence, sort of all of those kind of skills into one career life prep class. I know everyone is super interested in our discipline data for the first trimester. Um, I'll start with cell phones. We've had 124 first offenses. And just a reminder that this year for first offenses, we take a phone for the entire day. Um those numbers are a little bit higher than um maybe we've seen last year. Um but we didn't have any grace period. Last year we sort of had a a week-l long period kids could acclimate to the plan. This year we started right [clears throat] from day one. And so there was sort of no mercy. Uh 124 first offenses but only 21 second offenses. And a second offense is where a parent has to come and get it. In total, when we're looking at discipline, um our numbers actually look really pretty good compared to last year. Um over the same time frame, we were ironically a little bit higher in September compared to years past. I liken that to the fact that there was no grace period with cell phones. U we were at about uh 10.7 disciplines per day, which was up from 9.6 last year. That does sound like uh kind of a staggering number. Keep in mind that those include attendance, cell phones, and all of that stuff. And in addition to the lack of a grace period for cell phones, we also had a number of attendance offenses at the beginning of the year because students that just didn't come back and we didn't know where they went. So then our system that automatically tracks that stuff processes those as discipline offenses. Um so there's always sort of a caveat when looking at discipline offenses um because of attendance. But the good news is in October we were down uh from 20.4 offenses per day to 17.9. And in November we went from 25 last year, a little bit more than 25 last year to um less than 15 this year. So overall our numbers are trending in in the right direction. Hopefully that continues. I want to just take a moment to uh summarize our achievement data relative to our fast scores. Um over the years we've maintained a pretty and I when I say over the years I mean over the last four years with the same cohort of kids um we've maintained very good numbers with respect to math. Uh so we've gone from 88 to 84 and a half to 89. We're currently at 87.11%. So 87.11% of our 7th through 10th grade students are achieving in the lowrisk or college pathway level for their math screening. um with respect to reading that number is a little bit lower and the reason for that is it appears that at least half of our 9th graders um didn't take the screener very success or very uh seriously. So we've actually gone from 75 to 79 to 85 at the end of last year and now we're down to 76. However, when I take a deeper look at those numbers, we have 86% of our seventh graders, 83% of our eighth graders, 85.9% of our 10th graders, and our ninth graders, for whatever reason, are at like 51%. So, that tells me that they just blew off the test in mass. Um, anyway, [laughter] >> it wasn't there incentives in places for some of the nth grade or not. So we don't really do the incentives for the fall because that's their baseline. >> The incentives is in is comes into the >> look at the spring. >> So maybe they were sandbagging >> to get that. >> Maybe we were so good at incentives and they caught on that they were going to lowball >> fall so that >> smartest grade out there. We don't know. [laughter] >> [clears throat] >> But I just wanted to provide some context because if you look at the trend line for the last four years, it was, you know, it went basically dropped 10 10 points. >> Um, but I think uh there's a a reasonable explanation for that. >> Um, >> other than that, um, I'll be happy to answer any questions that you have about the high school. I know I talked at length earlier in the work session, but would be happy to answer any questions that you have related to Delano High School. Thanks, Mary. All right. Next up, um, Rachel Miss Schultz. >> Good evening, everyone. Happy to be here on behalf of the elementary school. I will start us off with sitebased update and PD. We focused on two action cards this month. One, at our staff meeting, that was our SEAL tier one practices. Um we did sort of an idea swap among staff on on how we all run our morning meetings. So every classroom starts with a morning meeting where they kind of come together to set that community within their classroom with a greeting um sharing time um message and then they do an activity. So it was really great to hear staff members that we mixed them up. I had I made them sit not with their teams at a staff meeting. that was a lot for a Wednesday morning. Um, but it always ends up to be really collaborative and they have really good conversations and they remember like, "Oh, I don't get to talk to this person very much." So, that's always fun, too. And then um at Sitebase, we talked about our third action card, which has to do with our special education practices mostly from a process perspective because each year we tend to have students that come in in one setting and then they are transitioning to a different setting due to either an onset of a mental health health crisis or um a significant behavior increase. So then that shifts how much time they're in the general education classroom. But then it's sort of confusing and sort of like how does this go from A to B? What what do we have the the correct staffing? Are parents informed? So what we realize is that there there needs to be sort of this process of how that all occurs, but it is really not going to be the same for every student. And I think sometimes we really like that this is very clear A B C D. But really when we're working with students and they're all unique and they have different needs, it isn't that clean all the time. Um so that is just ongoing and our um assessment coordinator and our special education team are are working with Paul and I to just kind of develop some of those processes and and work on that together. Um, and of course at our site base, we're always looking at our handbooks and how we need to revise and add those. So that kind of has started and they'll have that throughout the year. Um, next I would just like to highlight our fundraiser. Um, that wrapped up at the end of October. Um, a big thank you to our PI leadership. Our kindergarten um, teacher Lori Pricketett is our PI president. And our PI leadership team is outstanding. They're amazing. They come in, they volunteer all the time. They carry out all these tasks that really make it easy on the on the teachers and fun for the kids. Um the community, family, friends, grandparents, everybody. They we we raised and exceeded our $60,000 goal. We ended at about $79,000. So that um money will be going to our media center. um their first renovation or upgrade update um is to redo our circulation desk so that is it so that it is accessible for all um students. Right now it is really tall and so um our younger kids and and and students with mobility issues are not able to access that. So they're going to get that out of there. They're working with Demco on that and our custodial staff. Um, and then u the tables that are in there were more like desks because it used to be a classroom with Miss Verhe in there and now that she's a district um media specialist, we don't have that. So, we're going to get some reading corners in there and some flexible seating for kids when they're in there for their book checkout time. So, the timeline for that completion is hopefully winter break and maybe into spring break depending on availability of staff. to help with that. Um, an MTSF MTSS update. We are wrapping up our Sabers data completion. So, that means the teachers are completing all of those for our students and then we'll review that in December. Lindsay Westfall is working on the winter assessment plan already for our screening. It's um relatively time consuming um at the elementary school for those K1 kiddos that we need to administer all of those assessments one-on-one. So, she's working on organizing that. And then we had an edge climber PD session today as Mr. Voit referenced. So we are continuing to learn about that and using it to our advantage. It's going to be very very helpful for us as we look at all of our data. A few shoutouts. Our adventure club teachers are Theresa Lankton, Sarah, and Ally Dearling. Our adventure club is like our targeted services um additional support for kids that might need that for their academic um reading and math mo most specifically. We have about 30 students in that program and they meet once a week after school. And then our PBIS team has started incorporating monthly staff boosts. So we've done like an all staff rock paper scissors game, secret staff dress up days, and then a pop-up snack cart. So, just to try to bring some of that morale boost throughout um the school. So, those are very wellreceived. And then to all of our staff helping with our parah staffing needs right now. Um we have very flexible teachers and paras that I am so so grateful for. Um and every day Heather Wahlberg and Wendy Scandan at the front they meet. What do we have today? and then they kind of talk about it and then they manipulate who needs to go where and then Wendy works on finding coverage for the kids for the rest of the day. So, she's got a little side gig going on right now until we can get um all of our um staffing needs met, but they have been doing an amazing job. And then last shout out to our social workers for um coordinating and organizing the holiday helpers each year. So we have families that can sign up if they are in need of something over the holidays and then they all come together, package that up, give them wrapping paper and then the parents and families just come and pick it up and it's very very successful. Um and then upcoming is all the things holidays. So we have holidays around the world that our first grade um kiddos do and then of course the all school sing along among a variety of other things for the holidays. Any comments or questions? Thank you. >> Next up on the agenda is Miss Mary Reer. The [clears throat] Here we go. We'll get into it right away. We've seen a lot of finance stuff tonight, so [laughter] sorry about that. um did a big budget revision. So, not all of that is reflected because this is of course October and I did the revision in November, but um again, still showing that we're spending 65% of the budget in the classroom or in instructional side of things. um kind of we're still on par 33% of the year so far. But again, if you look at what we've taken in in revenue and expenditures, we're in the 20% range, but that's because we do have the latter part of the year where a big punch of our expenditures will go up because their salary and benefits. So, still on track for everything. Um it's looking good. I did put our new from our audit presentation the 24 and the 25 um pie charts and again they're pretty much similar to what they were last year as well still spending 65% in the classroom. Um the FY26 original budget um it's the unassigned fund balance was decreasing by 673 a which put us at a 14.5% unassigned fund balance. That was the original budget. Now we're looking at just a little under 400,000 after I've done the November budget revision and putting it almost at a 16% fund balance at the end of the school year. Enrollment is down as noted last month, a little bit in the elementary school, very little in the intermediate school, but then more students in the high school. And when we were talking about more resident students leaving the district, what we've seen is people who have moved into the district, but they're opting to either stay at the school districts that they were in or I've seen a real uptick in homeschoolers as well. Um, a lot of the new families that moved in are opting to homeschool as well. So, um we'll see if that continues as a trend, but I did share that with Matt uh last month, just as a little FYI. Um food services deficit spending this year due to some equipment purchases. And then community services continues to perform well and is anticipated to do so again. And then the operating capital fund was deficit spending, but that was due to the big math curriculum purchase that was done for this year. And it's and then we also did um that special ed renovation in the intermediate school that was part of the deficit spending for um capital as well. Any questions? >> Thank you, >> Mary. Next up, community ed. Abby Lang. >> Good evening everyone. Thanks for having me. um here on behalf of community ed and excited to share what's been going on this past month for us. Um so last night we successfully hosted a holiday Lori line concert uh with about 500 patrons and 30 minutes prior to the doors opening we were wrapping up a large basketball tournament. Um, yeah. So, huge shout out to DBA for stepping up and stepping in. And like I said, 30 minutes before doors opened, we were closing up. And by the time doors opened, you would have never known we had a basketball tournament. It was completely spotless. The custodians, the DBA volunteers, um, I came to help with the transition. They didn't need me. They absolutely um, it was fabulous. It was it was lots of basketball all day Saturday, Sunday and a complete turnaround to fancy dresses and Lori line and in the evening. So, big shout out to everybody that pulled that off yesterday. Um, Santa's workshop and the holiday boutique are quickly approaching. Um, next weekend is the oldfashioned Christmas. The holiday boutique, which is an annual tradition craft fair within ECF, is full with over 40 vendors. Um, they will be completely in the gym lining some of the hallways. Santa's workshop is scheduled to be the longest it's ever been. Um, used to be Santa was here for an hour, then two hours. This year he will be here for a full three hours. So, we're looking forward to having him. Another shout out to Boy Scouts. They are coming and volunteering to help serve hot cocoa. So, in the cafeteria, we'll have hot cocoa, cookies, arts and crafts. On the main floor, we will have the holiday boutique. And upstairs, we have Santa's workshop, um, which we are looking for volunteers to help read Christmas stories for about 20 minutes at a time if anybody's interested. Um, there's also letter writing to Santa, visits with Santa, um, and then some sensory bin winter activities. So, not just for early childhood family education, for children and families of all ages um interested in having having cookies and cocoa and telling Santa what what's on their wish list this year. Um everybody in the community center is getting in the holiday spirit and decking the halls. We also have a door decorating um contest. We uh students and everybody are getting involved. I think I just saw some TKC uh staff members. they were headed to Dollar General because they were not going to get beat by the neighbor down the hall. So, um, everybody is is definitely in the spirit and it's really fun to see the creativity that that comes out. I don't think I've ever been in a building with as much um decor and just that dedication to creating a warm and and friendly environment. So, it's really awesome. Um, as a staff, we're partnering with dees social workers and friends for a cause to adopt a family. And you know, we have three little boys of various ages and you know, a long list for each and it's just fun to see everybody kind of fighting for spots. I want to get this, I want to do that, I want to I want to help contribute. So again, it's it's making sure that everybody has a has a good Christmas. Uh last week, the preschool team, we had a chance to sit down and get around the table, and that doesn't happen very often. Um number one, dedicated staff training right now is still in letters. Um, number two, preschool teachers often have different schedules. So, for all of us to get around the table, even for a short amount of time, is kind of few and far between. Um, but we're really talking about some exciting information. We are really going to do a deep dive into our TS Gold assessments and using that data to drive decisions that help us um determine our curriculum, to help us determine lesson planning, collaborating with kindergarten, um, also making sure that we have the right PD. So um it's a huge process and right now it's you know very much in its infancy stage but very much also aligned with our strategic plan in increasing student outcomes um with our goal of of making sure that we have incoming kindergarteners testing at certain percentiles for fastbridge early uh reading and early math. We want to make sure that we're setting our students up for success as they go into. We want to make sure we're collaborating with kindergarten and we're aligning um our curriculum so that we can set them up for for the best experience possible. Exciting to see everybody around the table say, "Oh, we really want to do this. We really want to put in the time. We really want to put in the work." I think that's also a testament to just how dedicated um these teachers are to their their students and their craft. Um, we had 25 uh 3 to 5 year olds screened this last week. Um, I had said that one of our strategic goals is to really target our three and three and a half year olds versus waiting to do early childhood screening as they're going into kindergarten. We know earlier is better. This is a developmental check-in. We want you at three, three and a half. So, we're taking a a look at how are we marketing, how are we targeting families. Uh we recently changed the website from asking families, do you have a kindergarten that's or a kindergartener that's going to be enrolled to have you just had a baby, moved into the community, recently experienced an adoption? We want to know then and we're going to encourage and tell tell our families why we want to know earlier versus waiting until kindergarten. So, everyone that we can get as early as possible gives us that much more ability to give them the tools to put in their toolbox before they get into kindergarten and and so on. [clears throat] Um, our next brochure is intended to be online by the end of the week. I know we're we're anxiously awaiting um an update from the printer. It's there. Um, the print shop that we use also services the majority of community ed programs in the state. So, everybody's emailing, do you have an update? Do you have an update? Um, but we should have our online edition here in the next couple of days. That will be online. It will sit online for about a week. Um, while we wait for brochures to land in mailboxes, then we open up registration and let the games begin. >> Thank you. Uh, next item on the agenda, um, is the student board representatives reports. Logan and Brady, what do we got? >> All right. [clears throat] So, I'll start us off with the high school. So, I attended the scheduled listening session. It was about the advisory program that we have. It was available to the entire school above 10th grade, I believe. And I was the only one to show up. So, not much was discussed. We're hoping for a better turn turnout in the future. >> The day you showed up. >> That was the only one. [laughter] >> Um, National Honor Society has been hard at work preparing for the annual Santa Shop. All the gifts are now fully wrapped and ready to go, and the group is excited to support families in our community. At our recent sitebased leadership team, the student members had the opportunity to give input on the characteristics of a new principal on behalf of the student body. So that was pretty cool. >> Yeah. So for the intermediate school, Brady and I are very excited to attend the next student council meeting. It's on December 5th. Uh last year Sophia and I just took a little bit of time to like introduce ourselves and just get to know the kids really and like say first off just like have a friendly face when they're transitioning up to the high school and also just to like get [clears throat] to know the kids. You know, it's nice to go down to the uh intermediate school and elementary school and just say hi to them. Um we'll help them later on in the month with their hot cocoa party. So Brady and I will be there and then we're both working on recruiting some NHS members or just honestly kids who are willing to help with the hot cocoa handout. It was really fun last year. I think teachers were singing, there's music playing and the student council members, intermediate and us were just handing out hot cocoa to all the kids as they walked in. So very fun time. We have a spreadsheet with the elementary school that we discussed potentially expanding to the intermediate school as well. We're still trying to workshop how to get kids to sign up for that. like they know about it and they've been asking about it, but they just can't figure out how to type their name on the spreadsheet. So, I didn't think it would be too difficult, but we're still trying to work on like actually getting the kids connected to teachers and getting them in the classrooms um to help. As for the elementary school with the upcoming holiday parters there parties, there are always extra hands that are needed. So, again, we're just um NHS and Brady and I are just going to be available like communication uh to get high schoolers connected with them. Um, yeah. So, we're just continuing to foster those connections and yeah, that's all we have for you this month. Any questions? Thank you. >> Thank you both. Next up, board reports. First, MSO. >> Um, thank you. Add Bobby on the No worries. >> Agenda. >> Oh, is it on there? Did I refresh? Yes. Um last month in October, Masiko um had our meeting at Village Ranch in Coco. Uh that's a residential uh care and treatment program that serves boys generally ages like 13 to 18. Um students live there. Masiko provides the education component at Village Ranch. Um, and just as a kind of a background for a care and treatment, that's not um necessarily something that the member districts are paying for in terms of the education. Those dollars get build out to a student's resident district. So, if our district has a student who lives in our district and is placed at village at a at a residential facility like Village Ranch, then we would get tuition build for that. But the MASICO dollars are not um funneled through MASICO for care and treatment programs. Um, Village Ranch really has a neat story and if you just Google Village Ranch CO, it's worth checking out their website and and this this program which has four sites. um one in CO um a girls program in Annale and then houses in Rochester and Hutchinson was started around a table at a church where a group of um church members got together and and just thought we have a gap in services for students um in this way. So it it really does have a neat story. Um students are placed there either through um social services or sometimes corrections pathways um is how students get there and the length of stay can be up to a year or more. Sometimes generally students are not there that long. Um the education piece itself is really a thriving really robust program offering all the core content plus some electives. Um we got to tour the classrooms a really dedicated um exceptional teachers I think teaching in that program. Um there's a teacher who does music and just wrote a grant and got a got money to buy a whole bunch of musical instruments um that students can use. Um they do have some outdoor space there. Um yeah, really like a very caring and um like I said, robust educational program there. So um yeah, that was the bulk of our agenda, getting tours there. We didn't have a lot of business that night. Um we do have our next meeting tomorrow night um at the ed center in Howard Lake. Any questions? >> Thank you, Sarah. Next, Right Tech Center. Jim >> Right Tech also had their auditor um found to be mostly positive other than a short staff blah blah blah that whole thing. Um [laughter] fund balance of course is uh not where it needs to be, but we actually passed a resolution to have all the member districts uh give a stabilization aid to get this right again. And with bills being paid, this will get better and better each year. Um the supers and the business managers of all the member districts did approve a part-time SRO, so this is a very good thing. Um, we also approved our calendar for the next year or their calendar for the next. So, that's it. >> All [clears throat] right. Next, under new business, we um have three extended field trips to approve for robotics and then uh jazz band. These were discussed at work session last month. So, um, anything else to add? The attachments are on the agenda. >> Motion to approve. >> All right. Motion first by Corey, second >> by Ryan. Uh, any discussion? All those in favor. >> Any opposed? Right. Motion carries to approve those three extended uh, field trips. The next item is approving the 2025 2026 Q comp goals. Again, we heard this discussion and presentation last month um in the agenda or in the the work session. Any questions or comments >> related to the cucumb goals from last? >> Do I have a motion to approve the depa approves the cuc by Baker? Um any discussion? All those in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion carries to approve the 2025 2026 Q comp goals. Next is the um list of surplus items to be sold, recycled or junked. >> Treasures. >> Nothing really great. I hate to tell you, but things that um two the bottom two items I'm putting them on the list because they were on our list of fixed assets. They were traded in when we got the new um serving line at the elementary school and the new um ovens in the high school. Both of those we've got credit on off of our bills for those. Otherwise, the other things um they're very old. They're decrepit, but we'll declare them surface. We'll try and sell. I do have a list of things that we had declared surplus before that we were waiting. I thought we would be selling some of the serving line and the ovens, but we didn't. So, I was holding off thinking we'd be doing all of that. But I'll put together a list that we'll put up for sale and whatever doesn't get sold will be recycled or thrown away. So, [clears throat] >> um, do I have a motion to approve the surplus property to be sold, recycled, or junked? >> So, moved. >> Corey is first. >> Second by Dea. Any discussion? All those in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries to approve the list of surplus items. Next item is adjournment. Do I have a motion to adjurnn? >> So moved. >> So motion by Ryan. >> Second. >> Second by those in favor. All right. We are good evening. Text me.