Back to order. First item is the >> Yeah. >> Good. Okay. >> Okay. Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge algiance 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. All right. 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 while the board appreciates feedback from the public in this forum. Board members will not comment on or discuss topics brought up by speakers. Professional decorum is expected at all times. If at any time there are any violations of the rules of decorum, the chair reserves the right to call a recess or the end of the a recess or end the session. Is there anyone here for public comment? Anyone here for public comment? Anyone here for public comment? All right, there being none, we will move on to the next item which is the consent agenda. This is a section of the agenda that has a variety of financial um reports on it. Um if there aren't any questions, entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda. >> With the first second from Baker. Any discussion? All those in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries to approve the consent agenda. Next item on the agenda is the resolution of gifts. Following organizations have generously donated for the items mentioned below. Delano Elementary Pie, $17,394.37 for the media center. Velocity Aquatics, $518.18 for swim overages. Delano Tiger Athletics Booster Club, $4,378.68 68 for basketball overages. Delano Area Youth Hockey Association $1,558.92 for youth program recreational equipment and food from Wikos Entertainment for an event on August 7th, 2026. All of these have generously donated to uh the Delano Public School District. Do I have a motion to approve the resolution for the acceptance of gifts? >> Second. Sec. First by Jess, second by Ryan. Um, any discussion? This is a roll call vote. >> Uh, board member Mariah. Hi, >> board member DEPA. Hi, >> and board member Roser. >> Hi. >> Member Baker, >> hi. >> Board member Gerky, >> hi. >> Board member Shaust, >> hi. >> And board member Black. >> Hi. >> All right. Motion carries to approve the resolution of gifts. The next item on the agenda is the personnel report. This is pretty standard for this time of the year. We've got a lot of different um employment hires to get the teams ready for the start of the school year. Um any comments or questions related to the personnel report? If not, I'll entertain a motion to approve the personnel report tonight. >> Motion >> first by Jim, second by Jess. Any discussion? All those in favor? >> Any opposed? Motion carries to approve the personnel report. Next up are administrative reports. So, first up is Superintendent Shane. >> Yes. Um I've waited on purpose here for a little bit. There has been and there will be coming up to the election. There'll be a question a constitutional amendment question on your ballot. And this is throughout the entire state. So, I thought I'd just take an opportunity to share some information about the permanent school fund that's been around since the beginning of the state and give you a little bit of information. In fact, I'm actually going to play a video to kind of help discuss or share what this is. All right, hang on. Did you know that every Minnesota public school student is part of a public school trust? More than 168 years ago, when Minnesota became a state, lands were set aside to create a permanent trust dedicated to one purpose, supporting public education for generations of Minnesota students. Today, that promise continues through Minnesota's permanent school fund. Revenue generated from school trust lands is invested, creating a permanent financial resource that helps support public school districts, charter schools, and tribal schools throughout Minnesota. Over time, careful management has helped the permanent school fund grow to more than $2.3 billion. This growth has prompted a discussion about how annual distributions from the fund should be calculated. This November, Minnesota voters will be asked to consider a constitutional amendment to update how annual distributions from the existing fund are calculated. The proposal does not create a new fund. It does not change the purpose of the trust and it does not raise income or property taxes. Recommended from a nonpartisan task force and with strong bipartisan support from the Minnesota legislature, the proposed amendment reflects modern trust and endowment management practices and will increase distributions to schools while maintaining the fund for future generations. Learn more about Minnesota's permanent school fund and this fall's constitutional amendment at minnesota amendment.org. a little bit more information about this because it's not really known. Um, so the the inevitable question is, well, what does this mean for Delano? What does this mean for potentially us? The key piece here that I think that I wanted to share with you is that first of all, it's on the the amendment. So voters in the state are going to decide. Says no tax impact. It's just a different way of managing what does that fund look like. So basically this is what the current process of the way the trust works. It's about 2 to 2.5% which is an annual distribution. That's about $68 per pupil. Okay. Now, what I'm not sure is whether it's resident pupil, but let's say we use just general numbers of we have 2400 students in the district times 68. That's what we get from the permanent school fund. It's interest only and dividends only. What they're proposing in this amendment to the constitution that will be on the ballot is to change how they distribute that $2.3 billion. And it'll continue to increase in the value of the lands that are mostly in the northern part of the state, mineral rights, things like that. So now they're looking at distributing about an annual 4.5% annual distribution. It'll include full market value of the land that the trust has. And then it estimates that the average would go up to about $101 per pupil. Okay. Now, what does that mean for us? At the beginning of this deal, the difference between 68 and 101 about 80 grand. But as the fund continues to grow, that potentially could have another financial impact with us. Does 80 grand. Hey, listen. 80 grand is 80 grand on top of new money. Great. Wonderful. But the important part of this is is that it's aligned with getting school districts more money to provide services. You just had an extensive conversation about the difficulties of school funding. When do operating levies come into play because that's a necessity nowadays. This is just another opportunity to hopefully at least in a small part soften the blow a little bit about where we're at in deficit spending. Now again, this will have implications way down the road that'll be in a bigger dollar amount as the fund grows. Okay? And then what I wanted to share with you too is just what I think I had on here is what the actual ballot question is. Okay? And basically it is a question on every ballot. Shall the Minnesota Constitution be amended to increase the funding going to all school districts from the permanent school fund, which is a fund that supports school districts without raising individual income or property taxes effective July 1, 2027. So that's the question. So when you're out there having those conversations that you do about levies and about all this school funding, this is another piece and say, "Hey, by the way, vote yes for this because it will have no impact on your property taxes and it'll give the ability of the state to provide, you know, incremental but some dollars, some additional dollars to districts." >> Nicely worded question by the way. >> That's pretty clear compared to what we thought about. Yeah, it's a little different legally where we our questions are usually, oh, by the way, we're going to increase your taxes, you know, >> head gun to head. So, >> and that concludes I thought I'd stay in the same theme of trying to follow up the great show that Scott put on. I thought I'd share some information about the Minnesota Permanent School Fund. >> Very nice. >> I will send you the website link in the Thursday email for you. >> Perfect. Thank you. >> All right. Next up, our principles. First, Miss Schultz was killing summer school fired >> very intelligent decision. >> She is making a fiscally intelligent humor here. Dark humor. I usually make statements like that. Thank you very way too much time with us. Sue, >> let me tell you how our summer school program went this past summer. >> It right up. All right. We had 64 GenEd students attending. We had 24 ESY students attending. Laura Voit did a great job overseeing our summer school this past year. And Nick Moore was working on his admin degree. Um he's been attending a few other things um with us as well. and he um worked alongside Laura and learned a lot from her. Our custodians as always did a great job keeping up with the kids in the building and getting our building ready for the upcoming school year. >> I think just to clarify that in case because this is the part that's recorded, right? Like it is >> that was the number of people who were enrolled. There were a lot less that >> for the enrolled. >> There were a lot less that actually attended. >> Correct. >> Which is why we're evaluating continuing it at all. >> Yes, that is >> correct. That's pedal. trying to put cover for Rachel here. >> Can't wait to see the video of Rachel being walked out the door in handcuff. >> Um then we had our sitebased planning day in August. So our sitebased reps come together and we work on our continuous improvement plan for the year in addition to our action steps within our action cards. So you'll hear about those throughout the year, I'm sure. Um, our action cards stayed the same, but we built in new action steps to kind of follow the work that we did last year. Um, and then we also spent a little bit of time just focusing on what we kind of refer to as the good stuff because when we review all of the things that we accomplished the year before, it's kind of amazing what our teachers are able to do in a year. Um, different things kind of thrown at them last minute and they just do a phenomenal job. So, it was it was fun to kind of reflect on that as a group. um and welld deserved in the work that they all do. We had our popsicles with the principles event recently and that was very well attended. We had over 300 um families come and we went through all the popsicles. So it it was just a great way to kick off the start of the year and the Delano Education Foundation funded that event for us. So thank you to the Delano Education Foundation. We are kicking off workshop week this week. Today we had our math training for our new math curricul curriculum reveal Minnesota reveal and it was fantastic. I could not be happier with how it went. We have a curriculum. all the materials arrived and we had a great trainer today and they were so just attentive in what um the trainer was delivering and she did a great job sort of delivering information, gave them time to talk with their teams, work within the system um and then the teams had the afternoon to kind of go through some steps that we put out um as administrators for them to kind of focus on what next, what else do you need, do you have everything that you need? um and what are some other things that we want to get started for the upcoming weeks as far as a pacing guide goes. So overall it was a great start to the week. We also have um educ and then going over some of the TD and E updates that Katie and Sarah presented so all of our staff have that same information. Um and then we are welcoming Emily Bartles our new um speech clinician at the elementary school. Um last I will just kind of give you an update on our um enrollment for this year compared to last year. Currently we have seven sections of kindergarten. Um we have 150 kindergarteners enrolled. Last year we had 157. We have seven sections of first grade. We have 164 students. Last year we had 163. We have seven sections of second grade. We have 162 students. Last year we had eight sections of second grade at 181 students and we have eight sections of third grade. We have 186 students and that is the same as last year as well. We have a current enrollment of 666. Last year we had 687 and we are welcoming 24 new students into Delano Elementary School. So we are excited about that. And then we have our orientation days next Tuesday and Wednesday. And our first pie event will be the outdoor movie. Any questions or comments? >> Question on the popsicles and parents. It might have been a suggestion about 30 times online. Could they get their classes before they can meet new friends on the playground first? >> We we have thought about that. So, we're filing it away as a suggestion box. Yes. Any other comments? >> Thank you, Rachel. >> Yes. >> Next up, Miss Thompson. >> Good evening, ladies and gentlemen of the board. Thank you for having me this evening to present to you on behalf of the intermediate school. It's going to sound like I copied my homework from Miss Schultz. Um, they didn't. We're just really in sync, very aligned. Um so I'll share with you a little bit about our sitebased work, our PD and some enrollment numbers as well. So um I'll just start off by sharing what our sitebase has been working on. We also met on the 13th for our strategic planning day. Also worked on our action cards. A lot of it is a continuation from previous year. So um a lot of focus this year on our math curriculum and our interventions um and some other continuation from that. Uh we also spent some time um with our sitebased team using Edgic Climber and doing some data digs which we haven't really done in the past with our sitebased team. So I'm looking forward to the opportunity that that um is going to bring us. Um Cindy Patton, our new um teaching and learning coordinator joined us for that. So um that was just a good experience for us to start to look at some achievement data and work on that um with our sitebased team. Obviously it's workshop week. um our fourth grade and fifth grade staff joined the elementary for the reveal training and I would just echo um what Rachel shared. I was a little bit nervous. It's always a little scary when an outside trainer comes in. You never know what you're going to get. Um but she did a great job. Staff were really engaged and I thought it um was just a really good opportunity for them to get familiar with the platform. They had lots of work time, lots of time to um have conversation with each other. So um that training was really helpful. We have our staff meeting then together tomorrow. we'll do some educing. Uh Wednesday is our open house for our fifth and sixth graders. And then Thursday we have our district welcome back with our district reunification drill. Um so we'll be busy on Thursday doing that. Um enrollment updates for the intermediate school. As of today, we have 586 students in the intermediate school. Last year we had 575. So we've increased by 11. Um we've had um 31 new students in the intermediate school compared to last year. We added 28. So some steady growth for us there. Um I'll go over sections really quick. We have 193 kids with us in fourth grade. That's seven sections. Uh we have 208 kids in fifth grade. So that grade is our big one right now. They have eight sections. And then our sixth grade is at 185. They have seven sections. Uh we are fully staffed. Uh we're looking for a math core tutor. So, we'd love to get that person on board, but otherwise, we've got all the staff we need, which is great. Um, and then I'll just wrap up by sharing some acknowledgements. I want to acknowledge um Jess Banker. She's our fifth grade teacher who facilitates our STEP event. Um, we've been doing STEPP now for three years, and that's just a fun um kind of orientation event we do for our incoming fourth graders. We had about 135 uh fourth graders come and join us a couple weeks ago and we bring in a presenter from a company called Ovation and they facilitate the day and they put kids in small groups and they do all these fun activities just to get them comfortable in the building. Um kind of have some time with friends but also kids they maybe don't talk to very much. Um and that is sponsored mostly by the Delano Education Foundation. So we really appreciate um their um investment in that event because it's been really great. Uh this year we added a fourth grade parent meeting which I haven't done before. So we invited parents to stay after the event and just kind of introduced fourth grade and the intermediate school to them. Um so that was well attended. I'm hoping next year maybe a few more parents stay. Um but it was just a good chance to kind of welcome parents to the intermediate school as well. I also would like to as always recognize our custodial staff, our IT staff especially this summer worked really hard. Our office team um they're always working hard all summer to get us ready for staff to come back. Um, and then finally, we'll be implementing our fourth grade meet the teacher days for the second year this year. We introduced that last year, which is similar to what the elementary school does. Um, and we just carried it over into fourth grade because we feel like it's an easier transition for our fourth graders. Open house can be a little overwhelming. So, um, fourth graders don't have school the first two days of school, similar to elementary school. um but they sign up for meet the teacher conferences uh which is just a nice again way for them to acclimate to the school um without just kind of throwing them in on that first day. So um that's all I have to report on from the intermediate school. We're ready for another great year. If you have any questions or comments, I will take them now. >> Thank you. >> Good. >> Next up for the first time, Miss Edgererman with the high school. Let's not let's give her a warm welcome. >> Yes. No jokes. No jokes. Excellent jokes. >> No pressure. >> Oh, good evening. Um I'm so excited to be here for my first administrative report to the board. Um I wanted to start by just highlighting what a warm transition I've had. I I couldn't have asked for a better welcome to the Delano community, specifically at the high school. Um it has been really really motivating for me as a leader to see the greatness that already exists. Um from staff to students to community members. Um I've been really impressed and and welcomed just so gracefully. So I really appreciate that. Um we are kicking things off this week with our welcome back. We had teachers back this morning. We spent some time building community this morning talking about some goals for this school year. Um this afternoon our staff participated in educ climber training which will help support some of our action cards that we're going to dig into this year. Um so we had a really wonderful first day back. Excited to see what the rest of the week brings. Um and so excited to welcome our students back next Tuesday. Um last week on the 17th it was um athletics and activities kickoff and it it was a full house in that performing arts center. I was shocked. Standing room only. Um so we welcomed all of our fall athletes back and they are getting out on the fields on the courts on the stages. They are ready to rock and roll for the school year. It's my favorite day of the year when the students come back for for fall activities. In August, we also had our first sightbased leadership team meeting where we were able to dig into the work that was done last year um and sort of create a roadmap for where we're going to go this year. Continuing some things, starting some new things up as we get into the school year here. And I want to plug our open house on Wednesday for all of our staff and students um with a special welcome back for new students in the performing arts center at 5:30 um so they can get a little bit of a lay of the land of Delano High School from someone who is also new. Um it will be a fun year for us to sort of experience that together. We had a lot of professional development throughout August from educr training with a specific group of staff, mental health training, deescalation training to support our students. Um, a couple things that I want to highlight is a fun data point that came in over the summer is to highlight our AP scores. We had 235 students take an AP test and 91% of them received a three or higher which means they're earning dual credit at Delano High School and then that college credit as well. So, that's definitely something to be celebrated and highlighted. Um, and again, I just want to I want to thank everybody here. Thank you to those at the district office, Delano High School staff. Um, I want to especially thank Katie, Rachel, and Abby for all of the million questions I've asked and pinged them for and and, you know, dug into them. So, I I just couldn't ask for a better welcome to the district, and I'm really excited for the upcoming school year. Any questions? No, >> I just wanted to mention that your presence at graduation was just noticed by both the kids and us and it was nice to see as invested as >> I assumed you would be. >> Thank you. Thank you for saying that. >> Welcome to Dylan. >> Thank you. Welcome. Thanks everyone. >> Uh didn't have your enrollment numbers. I >> did. I was like they're not going to ask me that. I have on summer school. I will have it ready to go for next time on my >> I love the new tiger and I will say that there the new tiger has made its presence at the high school in several spots and it is it is very very pleasant to see. So yeah, >> we're usually nicer at our meetings than we have been this evening. I just wanted to point that out. >> It's a Monday. >> I think it's been great. I haven't been a target. I'm great. All right. Thanks everybody. >> Thank you. >> All right. Next up, um Scott on this is going to be much shorter. >> I didn't get in anything there. >> Oh, do you want me to pull it up online? >> Okay. >> Switch. Start slid around 12:50 math. >> All right, members of the board, Superintendent Jane, thank you for um allowing me to present this board financial report um for August 24th, 2026. This is a report obviously that you guys are used to and we would bring it every month um to the board. Um this obviously this is for July, right? So that's the start of the fiscal year. Um and so with all due respect like we're looking at these numbers, but we're still um obviously there's uh things that are going on with the audit, right, that haven't happened yet. So you will see some variation. Um but um it it's such the numbers are very small at this point and um they're not completely meaningful. Like after we get those first payrolls done in September and October, it becomes a lot more meaningful. Um it doesn't mean to say that I'm not looking down at that bottom part, salaries and benefits. We're always paying attention to that, right? Because that's the line share of our expenditures and that's where we can kind of get in trouble for not watching the forecasting correctly. So, um, nothing really to point out on here. Um, um, we'll just bring more updates. Um, but you can see the budget is laid in there, the prelim budget. Um, it's called revised budget, but that's just because it backs into it. Um, obviously we'll come to the board at a later date with a revised budget. Um, the second part, um, is just looking at the different funds. So, um, food service um, they had a spectacular July with $105 in revenue. um and 17,000 and expenditure >> and so obviously that will catch up. I'm sorry. Um >> sorry, >> I had to. It's like the one time a year I get to do that. Um so obviously you guys know with food service on a serious note um it's very uh it used to be very similar to uh community service, right? Community ED where it was very feebased. Currently the state is still funding that. Um there's been a lot of conversations about that too. So when we talk about forecasting, obviously that's separate from the general fund and the unassigned fund balance, but that's something to keep in mind too. Um I think that will send kind of a shock through the system if they take that away. Um especially if they don't um depending on how they take it away and what they put in place. I think um just like a lot of things that we've seen in the economy, a lot of people spend out of sight, out of mind. It's not in their budget right now. So now you're going to put that in. Um, so I think that could be very interesting. Um, community service. Um, you can see here they obviously have more programming. So, um, Aby's all over it with revenues over expenditures for July. So, um, good job, Abby. Uh, but as I said, it's it's just so early that it really doesn't um have a whole lot of material impact at this point. It just becomes more valuable as we get into the school year. more um just like I said is 8% of the fiscal year. This just again um presentations that you guys had um asked about tonight. These are things that we'll bring on kind of a continual basis where we look at breakdowns of the funding streams and the expenditures and kind of year-over-year comparatives. Um and then just finally financial updates. So the unassigned fund balance um is budgeted to be 4 point about 4.8 million at the end of the year. Obviously there's going to be variations, right? Um but it's projected right now to be at 12.9% of the budget. Um the target is 12% at this point. Um but the completion of the audit will allow this to be updated based on where things actually end up as you guys are used to. Um in that November December time frame, I'll admit Mary had October in there and I went um I'm not Mary at this point yet. She's really good. And so um we'll look at that November December time frame. um when we'll come to the board with a budget revision and that will be done for all funds and maybe we'll come with a couple budget revisions depending on how the year goes. Um but at this time um you know at that time the prior audit will be completed fall enrollment will be more finalized and then new staff information will be updated. So just like we talk about and Mary is excellent at it but when you're doing a prelim budget um you have a lot of unknowns, right? You don't know how many kids are actually going to show up. Um you heard the elementary with kind of the lower uh enrollments in the lower grades and um that's always kind of worrisome as we kind of walk that path. Um and then the business office continues to transition and is back to fully staffed as we head into the audit and new school year. Um I do want to give a shout out to the team. Um I know Rebecca I've done a lot of fist bumps to everybody. Um it's just a really busy time. So um and they've been doing a great job and honestly I'm brand new. I know I've been in schools for 10 years, but every district is different. Every district does stuff very different. And so I have bothered them with a lot of questions and kind of looking over their shoulders of show me how to do this. But um Rebecca, this is kind of her week where she burns the midnight oil as um staff comes in. Um Holly's just been fantastic. Um helpful everywhere. Sometimes I'm like, "How are you keeping up?" Um but she's done really really great. Um, our new payroll person, Tracy, uh, is is doing a really good job so far. Um, we're we're wanting her to stay for a long long time. Obviously, just like the rest of them, that's a critical position. Um, and then Debbie is uh, excellent to work with. She's been super super helpful. Um, I think one day she saw me kind of sinking under the water and she went, "What are you working on?" And I told her and she goes, "Give it to me. I'll do it." And so it was something that she could help with related. So, um, great team effort. And then obviously um Melon Food Service is gearing up for the new school year. She's really excited about that. I think she's got her staff meeting on Wednesday. Um but it's really fun to have someone that's really excited about what she does and has the knowledge she does and she's not afraid to hop in there with her staff. I'm excited to see that this year. Um and that's a very difficult job. Um because they are under such constraints. I'm sure if you have children or your friends that have kids going through the lunch program, I don't know that it's super tasty, you know, um in some of the things and that's not by choice. They do a magnificent job on what they can do, but as we know the standards have changed. So, um and then Martine with his buildings and grounds crew has done great. Um talking to a few of them in the hall today. Um it the summer's a long time for them, right? They they get a lot of work done. Um that's the crazy thing about schools. lots of projects and cleaning has to take place in a short amount of time. So, just wanted to thank all of them. Hopefully, I'm not missing anyone, but um great staff. And then, um the recreation of data continues. We did get one, um really positive thing. Uh we got a Jackson's back there, so look at him. But, um thank you, Jackson. But we did um we did get the audit files restored. So, what they put out on the dark web um the team was able to grab and restore. Um there was a few glitches in it where some of the folders were empty so they must have grabbed some stuff but luckily the audit folder wasn't empty. Um so that has been a positive. Um we're just getting going on that. Mary will be a huge help with the audit for me this year. She transitions out to fewer hours and fewer days. Um and we'll look to her for historical um perspective and just like I said at the last meeting um when I text her it's still going through. So that's a positive. hoping it does even after September. So, or I might have less hair. So, um but anyways, that is it for the financials. Anything you're at with recreation? I mean, like I know this is going to take a long time, but like are you feeling good about like year to date, so to speak, and then how much more work do you think you have to do percentage basis? Like think you're 60% there. Oh, I just being honest and I think Matt's okay with me saying this, we're probably 5% of where we would want to be. Um, we lost a ton of data. So, but I'm not necessarily overly concerned about it because Mary has um stayed on and I mean and obviously she's down to fewer days and hours, but um we you know, we lost all the budget background information, but like Matt and I talked about um we'll recreate that and um things will just take a little bit longer, but um you know, there's some positives in that in the sense that you're going to all be kind of in the ground floor recreating too. So, um there would just be so many things. I mean, honestly, I will probably reach out to Mary periodically on stuff, but um I think we'll be able to restore back a ton of that stuff, right? And maybe >> historical I mean, do you have enough to run the business and you're like, >> "Yeah, >> back on track there." And >> Yeah. >> Yeah. And Mary was so attention to detail. I can tell you, and I won't name schools or my counterparts, but there's a lot of districts that take, and Matt has probably seen it, too. They take like an Ellers's model and they have their um estimated costs in for salaries and benefits and supplies and materials and they literally I mean I worked at a district that they did this um they roll 3% on everything and roll it forward. Mary had detail of everything just like we did at prior places where I was at where if they came to us and said you know at like MCO what makes up this building staff we could give every person by detail what benefits they took um all of that kind of stuff. So, um, we'll be able to recreate a lot of that. It'll just take a little bit of time. So, I don't know, Matt, anything I missed or >> Yeah, there's going to be some data that we just won't bother. >> Yeah, for sure. >> And just Scott will create new models and moving forward. So, I think that the the recreation will will be some of the last duties that Mary will will have as she transitions next month. Um, but I think we're in good shape operationally. haven't missed a payroll, haven't done anything on a day-to-day basis. In fact, the team's back full force. So, um it was some good nuggets of good news that we got some of that data back, but uh we'll start making decisions on this isn't worth the time to do it. Let's move forward. No, that's pretty vital. Let's get some historical data in there. >> And we might not know what we don't know yet, right? So, when things come up, that's when we might cross those bridges. >> Thank you. Any other questions for Scott? >> You mentioned from a food service perspective the change in dietary restrictions for this calendar year. Do we anticipate any change in in the finances? Um I noticed from a revenue versus expenditure the expenditures were higher. I'm just curious was there any talk about a change in pattern of people purchasing versus not or people leveraging this or not this option. I think it'll stay pretty consistent. I mean, you're I think you're going to have um you're always going to have those kids that come through and go multiple meals, right? Or all a cart and mom and dad call and say, "I thought lunch was free. What happened?" Their kid just went through a lot of times. So, um but to answer your question, um I don't I don't I would want to talk to Melo a little bit more about it, but I don't think they're forecasting any real large changes at this point. There's just a lot of chatter about the sustainability of it. Yeah, I understand she had come and done a great job talking through it. I just did there was any discussions in the background around what we might see as a percentage change just based on the new >> requirements. >> Yes. >> Yeah. I I don't think it'll move the needle too much. >> Okay. Thank you. Just >> Scott. All right. Mr. Abby Lang. >> Hi again, everyone. Thanks for having me. Uh we're going to wrap it up with a little community dead information. Um last week we had a joint program open house where um TKC or Tiger Kids Club, early childhood family education and preschool had an open house with families coming in to learn about all of the programs and how they connect and and what opportunities are for them. I don't have a direct headcount, but in asking the staff that were there and worked it, I recognized two people of the at least I would say at least 20 different families. Two um and the very vast majority of the people that I talked to are new to Delano um or new to community ed. They didn't know that we had this sort of programming. And there was a couple of of veteran staff there that kind of know most of the families and same sort of thing. These were all new people, new to us. And so it was super exciting to have them come in and see our spaces and talk with our staff. And um I think it was highly encouraging and I believe we have two new preschool students based on that open house. Um by and large, one of the things that I thought um was kind of interesting is a lot of parents were bringing their their children in to see what the spaces are, but also um toilet training is a requirement in order to for for preschool. And there was, I bet, half a dozen families that were bringing kids in just to have them try the bathrooms to see how it would go. I was like, I mean, it's actually kind of smart, but we're happy that you we're happy that you came and and we're glad to see you. So, um, overall, it was a it was a very fun night. It was it was busy in that, um, teachers were constantly had somebody that they were talking to, but we had the ability to talk to every single family that came in. Um, and then following right on the tail, it fall registration opened last Tuesday and at 6:00 a.m. and at 6:08 swimming lessons were full and I was receiving emails from parents and right now we have 107 kids on the wait list for swimming lessons. Um, it just reaffirms I put on the back page of the community ed um brochure, want more swimming lessons. We need more swim teachers. Um, so we're going to try and add a couple of more sections. Um, we're going to try and increase the class sizes by one or two, but we're, you know, the very vast majority we're hoping will will be able to increase our staffing, which will help us meet that community need. Um, so I mean, it was it's super exciting, but also I feel bad that that there's so many that are on the wait list, but um encouraging to know that we are moving in the right direction. We are off the ground floor. We have leveled lessons. We have swimming instructors, and we're going to have kids back in the pool. So, we are excited about that. Um, also just a couple of other numbers. Uh, football this fall. We have 272 Delano students playing football from flags uh flag football grade 1 and two. Uh, flag football grade three and four, fifth and sixth grade tackle and seventh and eighth grade. So, 272 under um our ninth grade teams. And I thought that was a pretty pretty good number. Um, we also have the a brand new uh Tiger Baking Club is a new enrichment uh class that has six different four different sections. Um, brand new this fall, each have 15 students in them and there's 40 students on the weight list. So, that's a pretty awesome out of the gate brand new class offering. Um, we also have an adult enrichment one that is called it's a partnership with Vintage Story Time and it's called there's a deck for that and it's all the different ways you can use decks of cards and that has 15 adults registered for it. So for I know that seems like a small number for but for an adult enrichment class that's a pretty big number. So I would say out of the gate um we're kind of crushing it this fall and and that's through all of the hard work that team members put put together throughout the year. Um, speaking of, in the ninth hour, we got a seventh and eighth grade volleyball coach. That was super exciting. Um, and now we're looking for an assistant tennis coach. So, the grind never ends. There's always going to be those needs and there's always going to be some sort of adaption that we're trying to work on. But, um, and we're excited about how how things are going. Uh speaking of numbers, our preschool we are at 121 students and that would be 54 between our threes and fours and 67 in our fours and fives. That is spread between six teachers with eight sections. So one of the one of the things we talk about in preschool and with staff is is that balance, right? You might have a section of threes and fours that comes four or five days a week and you have 12 students or 15 students in that class. You might also have a teacher who has two sections, one that meets Monday, Wednesday, Friday, one that meets Tuesday, Thursday, and you have a total of 36 students in your classes. Um, balance comes in when we talk about the n the amount of time that it takes to do an orientation and have those personal meetings with families with a class of 15 students or two sections of 36 for that a different teacher. Um, same sort of thing when you're talking about conferences or assessments or even just getting to know and build the relationships with all those students. Um, it can look very different from class to class and teacher to teacher. So, we really try to work on that collaboration in that our threes and fours and our fours and fives need to be working together because no one person needs to shoulder that entire lift. has to be those group efforts in that they all have a framework for their curriculum and their lesson planning, but then it has to be tailored to meet um the needs of their their classes. Um but that should definitely be a similar um assignment between between teachers. So super excited to welcome everybody back today. I did want to talk a little bit about um in speaking of preschool, we did a dive into our teaching gold um assessment data from last year and looking how we bring that forward to this year and we know that teaching gold strate teaching strategies gold or TS gold is our assessment data. And one thing that really caught my eye as we were working through it is that um last fall in our fours and fives classes when we did our initial assessments 41% of the students were below expectations in social emotional um parameters. Those are things like managing your feelings um following limits and expectations, solving social problems, making friends, um all typical things for four and 5year-olds, right? But 41% fell below expectations in in the fall. When we looked forward at the spring, um just 8% were in that category still. So we went from 41% to 8%. And if you look on the other side, um in the fall 22, so probably one student meet or exceeded expectations in social and emotional while in the spring 13% exceeded while everybody else was was meeting those standards. I know that might sound small in some regards, but it also shows the amount of work and growth that these ages can do over the course of a year. And when we fall back to the basis of preschool is school readiness. So, it's all about trying to get students ready um for that next chapter, which would be um kindergarten. And speaking of TS Gold, it assesses in the areas of social and emotional, physical, language, cognitive, literacy, and math. So here again, balance. When you're a preschool teacher with 15 students, that looks very different than when you have 36 students. So it's kind of it's finding those supports um and being able to work together as as a team. This next week, we're excited that Monday um is the first day of the fall session for Tiger Kids Club. So that is a break day. We will welcome students back into the building. Um they have this week off. This is the the one week in between our summer session and our fall session. And then on next Tuesday and Wednesday, we have TKC in the building, but we also have orientation and um early childhood screenings set up. So, we'll have those kind of um different flows moving between and then we start preschool next Thursday and Friday. So, um, staff are back and they are they're hard at work, but there's a lot of moving parts coming up in the next couple of weeks as with all the buildings. Um, but this is a glimpse into community ed. Any questions? >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> All right. Next up are the board reports. First board report is from MSO. Um like um regular schools, summer's kind of a low time for MASCO, so not a lot of updates from last month's meeting. We uh approved some contracts, some Atwill and some other um bargaining group contracts. Um we reviewed our evaluation of the executive director um and we will review her goals for this upcoming year. this tomorrow night at our monthly meeting. Um, again, they're always in the busy business of hiring and making sure everything is appropriately staffed. I think things are in a good situation right now. Um, couple things to note. I know I've talked about this before here. Um so early childhood special education which is birth to three or 3 to five those referrals for less for the 2526 school year were um saw some increased and an all-time high referral number. All of those referrals are evaluated in terms of students served. things have stayed relatively the same across those two age groups, but referrals come with a whole evaluation assessment process that is um staffingheavy. So, it's just something to be aware of as we think and and learn more about the changing landscape of special education funding. Um, we need to remember there's a changing landscape of of students who receive special education services across our state. Um, I think I've talked about this before. Our member districts pre-buill purchase services at a higher rate. Now, what did it used to be, Scott? Like 85? >> It was 85 >> 85%. Now it's 90%. The reason for that is to help Masco cash flow. Um if we are working in three different school years, Masiko is working in three different school years but at like exponentially different levels because of federal funding and flow through funding and tuition billing. So it this pre-billing purchase service percentage increase helps Masiko avoid having to take out a short-term loan to cash flow and to pay their bills. Um, yeah, that's that's pretty much it. >> Ask you a question, Sarah. >> Yeah. >> On the number of evaluations they're doing, is there but they're still servicing the same number of students. Is there a concern that students are getting sent for evalu if this number of students we're servicing >> isn't? That I'll ask that question. I I think like with all things um sort of identified, all things being identified, the more information you have, the more maybe flow comes into that, right? We we know more so more concerns come forward. That would be my guess. And then that threshold of qualifying for services hasn't changed. So, um, I think this is just my personal opinion. Anecdotally, we're seeing kind of like what Abby was saying with social emotional skill level. We are just seeing students from an earlier age have different skill levels than we may have seen in the past. that doesn't always necessarily rise to a level of service indicated, but the the range of skills I think continues to get wider and wider if that makes sense. That's my own that's just my personal interpretation of it. But I will I'll ask Melissa about that. >> Sarah. >> Yep. >> Next up, Right Tech. So, I was actually not able to attend Right Tech this month due to a sick child, but I did talk with Principal Carson and Superintendent Nutter. It was a very short meeting, sub 30 minutes. Um, most of what they reviewed was either procedural policy items that they needed to get done before the year or else general enrollment numbers. Their notes didn't specifically call out the numbers, but the way he made it sound, they were tracking very similar to previous years. So, he didn't have any major concerns with staffing or, you know, budgetary things beyond their normal budgetary concerns. So, it was a pretty slow meeting or kind of relaxed meeting according to him and, you know, things will kick off here now in September. So, I don't have a huge update today, but sounded pretty procedural. Thank you, Ryan. >> Yep. >> Moving on. No old business. New business is to approve the branding style guide and logos for Delano Public Schools. >> Last last month at the uh at the work session, you reviewed it. Um, remember that this is you guys are not approving it, saying yay or nay, but the what you're saying is that you approved the whole process and that we have this new logo, we have this new color, this new colors and uh fonts and all of that and that you support moving forward of it. So, >> what do you think the timeline for the website color change is going to be? >> The color change on the website will not change because that's all the colors that they have. >> So, that that color will stay the same. >> Okay. >> I see your new like news stuff is now the new color. Yes. Yes. So slowly but surely we'll see it roll out in that phase roll out that we talked about low um lowc cost high impact tactics. >> So are all the uniforms now from here on out if they have the logo it's going to be new? >> So the uniforms are on a cycle. So when their time is up like I think it's every six years when their time is up they will get the new logo. If their time is not up for five years that sport won't have a new logo for five years. But their warm-ups, the students warm-ups and stuff that the boosters pay for or some of the students pay for themselves. Um, and they get new warm-ups every year that they they pay for. Um, that will have the new logo on there. >> Anything new from here on? Cool. >> We've also I've also had it was kind of nice, but the choir director reached out to me and he wants new teachers or new t-shirts for the the concert choir and he's like, "Can we use the new logo?" So, perfect. You know what I mean? is something that they will pay for. He's budgeted for and it's a it's an opportunity for us to get, you know, the logo out there. >> Thank you. >> We need to vote on that. >> Yeah. >> Isn't this where we get stickers? >> I was done to vote. >> Isn't >> Oh, wow. Wow. I feel like this is bribery. >> Not bribery. >> 10 sticker. >> All right. Do we have a motion? >> I will make a motion. Contingent upon a sticker or >> Yeah. >> No. >> Oh, there it's ready. >> All right. >> I'll second. >> Okay. First by Corey, second by Ryan. Any discussion? >> All those in favor? >> Any opposed? All right. Again, this was not necessarily approved, just packaging everything and of support. >> Well, too, I'd like to just say, you know, thanks to Bobby for this was a big work. It was a heavy lift and uh it's not always easy to engage and to get this all put together and I personally love the tiger. I think it's great. It looks it's a great balance. Um but what this also does to do what you did tonight is is so when we do go back and we have to have difficult conversations because this district is not used to standardized way of presenting information or having something visually presented. And there's going to be times when we're going to say no, you can't do that. And when there's push back, it's board approved. >> Love it. >> And so that's where it gives our practitioners just that ability to say this is board approved. >> So for sure >> which is part of our strategic plan by the way to make efficiencies in processes, right? And this leads into our plan. Great. All right, that is the last item. >> Do I have a motion to adjurnn? >> Just second. >> Second with Tory. All those in favor? >> I >> All right, we are adjourned. Have a great evening everyone. Bobby, >> sticker time.