All right. I'd like to call the West Tanka school board meeting to order. If everybody would rise and join me in the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you. Um, chair moves for approval of the agenda. Is there a second? >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I >> opposed. Motion carries. Announcements. July 13th is a regular board meeting at 6 o'clock right here. And uh that's the only announcement this week. Um are there any members of the public that want to address the board? Everybody at once. Okay. Um at this point, uh we'll do the uh uh Cross Anderson construction report. >> All right, we'll start with the stadium first. Um, >> there's a ranger greens. That was that was a productive week. >> Um, so what we we've done in May, uh, the track demo, cut and remove trees, and a lot of the mass grading has been done. Um what we're continuing to do, uh strip top soil, um get the top soil off the the site that we don't need, um do this do the site utility work and install the electrical um at the buildings. One of the exciting things, we're going to start the footings for the um for the stadium building tomorrow. So it's a that's a good milestone for us. Well, drone footage that's the same as last month. We He actually was out here this morning and did the drone, but I couldn't get it fast enough to get into this. But just a couple pictures of what's going on out there. Nothing too nothing too exciting. Just moving dirt. >> The weather's cool. >> The weather Yeah, the weather's been great. >> Y um >> the trucks still going? >> They're still going. They were still going when I was walking in. Soil conditions have been positive, too. >> Yep. Yep. Soil condition been positive. Weather's been great and we haven't I don't think we've lost the D yet. Um yeah, so we're just fine tuning the the schedule things, you know, things are a little bit a little bit ahead. So, um this is one that new um image that we added just a little bit more of just like site logistics and what's going on. So if you have time you can take a look at that but we're just trying to denote the the specific dates for areas. So like the the parking lot out here um you know now until the end of July July 27th get that back open >> which really these are closure dates right here. >> Yeah. Yeah. dates needs for closure like the main the big main parking lot on the north that's now until August 11th. So >> we've really stressed trying to keep people off the campus and so those people using daily they'll get direct communication from the programs on how to entrance for people that are coming to this building. Uh we have uh parking across the road and they be walking up and then on certain days it's going to work to drive up here. But really for direct communication trying to keep up with what day you can and can't it's best for them to come. Our fields it's all north of Sunny Field that they're going to be able to utilize. So really we're we're we got a lot of curious kids and community members that still this is part of their walking route and we're trying to keep people out just as we're working on so much of the parking lot, so many utilities etc. that just to avoid potential problems particularly when work is happening. >> Uh a lot of trucks whatnot moving around and so that's one communication that's gone. uh this drive will open up the end the end of um of July again and that'll give the whack the ability to open up again and so we'll start seeing more traffic end of July and then the next milestone is fall sports which is the middle of August we'll see people starting to utilize the lot so really working with KA that when we get to the middle of August you can see that north lot in blue August August 11th turnover. We really want that to turn over then so the students have a place to park. They can walk in the front of the building and we really have a safe way for everyone to access. >> What's going on with the field seven? What's >> 789? >> So we're just waiting to move a fiber line this week and then that'll begin. but they've been able to stay busy on the other field and you'll see them starting to draw attention to that after really starting next week. >> Okay. >> Um we still feel like that's on the timeline of turning over to us about the end of September. >> Okay. >> And so we're hopeful that um weather everything can continue that. >> So >> yeah, just the logistics of the actual turf install. So you're actually we're actually going to do the turf install at the stadium first and then finish up at the at the practice field. So >> it's there's just a lot more infrastructure in the stadium obviously than what's needed on 7 8 9 years. >> Is the landscaping going to be done by the north entrance? >> Yeah. So >> Yep. So when we open up the plan is when we open up on the 11th that that's all done. Okay. because we just don't want again once we open it up to people don't want to be in there. So they'll have a front though. Um just a couple photos of the of the of what's going on at the high school. Of course you can see the sites future parking lot here. So we're getting ready um back in the machine shop. Some of the exhaust that's big exhaust for the plasma cutter. just some more photos of this last month, but just in um the gym right now, we're we're in the middle of it. Um as of today, we're half halfway painted out on the on the gym ceiling. Um gym floors about a five week fivee process. Gym equipment's another couple weeks. So, we're trying to squeeze them all into the the space and and get us out of there in time for uh for fall sports. >> No, no surprises there so far. >> Couple surprises, but we're battling through, you know, just couple things, but um like with everything, you know, something always pops up, but I I think we we've got it we've got it handled. So, we're we're working through just have to adjust a couple contractors in their scope of work or in their their phasing some more. It's it's I we were over there this afternoon walking walking through and it's Yeah, just don't go over there. It's It's definitely torn apart. It looks a mess. And I know even I've been doing this for 25 years and even when I walk through, I'm just like, "Are we sure? Are we sure? This is a lot of work to do." But it just feels overwhelming in the month of June. when you walk through and everything's torn apart, but it's a we're on track. Everything's looking good. >> Those trees are gone. >> Yep. Yeah. These photos were taken like I think late last week and we're already >> So, what you're looking in these pictures off to the left is uh the lower level special education classrooms and a lower level bathroom. They got access in there in April and so that's how walls are already going up. It wasn't just demoed and walls gone up. They had earlier access to that part of the building. And then the same with the nursing area. They got in there early and they've been going on mechanical units. They got the old boiler all out and now we're working on putting the new ones in. So quite a bit of quite a bit of activity from a mechanical standpoint from site works around the building to the interior. And so a lot of coordination with Krauss and the contractors of these are the areas that really need to turn over for the operation of school and a lot of attention to the schedule so that that can happen. Like the big stair big stairwell that's coming down this week. So that's >> that's going by the cafeteria. >> Yeah. >> They come in with a robot >> jackhammer. So it's safe for >> Cool. >> Then Hilltop and uh Shirley Hills. >> Yeah. Hilltop and Shirley Hills. We're we're off and running this week and everything is looking good. I know we've been doing a lot of coordination with the building staff over there to make sure that everything's packaged and and separated so we can get in there and do do the work. Feeling pretty good. really good to start. Great. >> Anything else? >> When you start digging up the courtyard, >> it's it's happening. They're in there right now shoring up some of the structural stuff. So, that that's going to be happening as Yeah. This week or next, we'll start cutting cutting things. >> It's a lot of it's a lot of work. So, that's >> Yeah, that's the part that's going to take the longest. >> Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. That that's where we'll finish. Yeah. Yeah. It's a lot of lot of structure, a lot of lot of things to be make sure we don't got to demo a lot of stuff, but keep the important structure up there. >> Thank you. All right. Thanks. >> Thank you very much. >> Yeah, we'll move on to the treasurer's report, please. with Ohio final West Tonka Athletics $31.77 W Cunningham Cunnington Community Education Sponsor Student $500 anonymous community education sponsor student $100 United Way Hilltop Primary School $495 Minneapolis Institute of Heart Hilltop Primary School $500 Kelly Godard Austinard Memorial scholarship $50. Butch Humber cross country scholarship $100. Stern family Austin Goodard Memorial Scholarship $100. Patrick and Trisha Brother Austin Goodard Memorial Scholarship $100. Alan Alma's Charter Holdings Company all scholarship $1,500. Blackbod giving West T high school $55 plus TA soccer boosters plus TA high school soccer team uniforms $9,26423 unit total contributions $268,84028 and Mr. Chair business I looked at the check register and checks and all seems to be in good order. >> Thank you Rob. Um any committee reports from anybody? Not at this point. I guess we'll have to wait till this fall. So um and then uh teaching learning part. >> Yes. Well, how exciting to see all this building going on. And I'm here tonight to give you three updates. Um as the buildings are being built, we are building the programs. And I'm happy to report that this last week we had a nice milestone with the EMR EMT program. We normally submitted. It's our office of emergency medical services application. That's the big application now to get certified for the program. So, we under the hood have done a lot of work with documentation requirements you have to meet. Uh equipment is going to be coming in tomorrow and then we'll have an inspection on June 18th. And hopefully, cross our fingers, everything is looking good. And what that's going to do is unlock that EMT grant of $79,000 and we can start spending money. So, and that means the program certified, we're ready to go. So, that's been a great thing. >> And once you get certified and that is there certifications, other certifications down the road that you have to go through or or >> No, this this is it. >> This is it. >> We can launch the program. >> Good. So, so that that's a great milestone. >> And then the other, you know, the other piece that we're working on is our N nursing assistance program and and the same thing is going on here where with that program, different program, but that's department of health and we're working on that application and then we're going to be entering a cont agreement, a contract with Monarch Healthcare. So on your agenda tonight is a discussion item for an agreement between Monarch Healthcare and the school district where they'll they'll provide the nurse the required nurse for instruction and skills assessment and the clinical center. You have to have those two things to have an N program. So that'll be in your agenda tonight. And then the the other piece will be the actual application and that is called the nurse aid training competency evaluation program application and we're working on that now. We'll submit that to the department of health by the end of this month. So again once that is solidified that will um move us forward to offer the program. And I think the most exciting piece, Caitlyn Peglo, she's going to be our medical careers um staff member teacher. She begins work here in West June 15th. >> And and I may be the most excited about that because I just been waiting. I was communicating with her back last fall and she works fulltime at Regent's Hospital. And she finally said, "Mark, we just have to take a breather until I can resign from there." and that she'll be here full time starting June 15th and she's ready to go. >> Each one of these bullets are put up there pretty simply. You know, there's the Monarch Healthcare, the amount of back and forth and coordination of just trying to understand what are the requirements of an N program and then finding a partner and making sure because you're in new territory that you've done this correctly. I just want to compliment Mark. There was a lot of back and forth uh verifying with our attorneys to make sure that what we're setting up is truly in the best interest of our district. There was a lot of contact with also if it would be Lake Minnotonka Shores or Harrison Bay about if they want any type of relationship with our programs. And so a lot of reach out and repeating those reachouts to see who's interested in partnering with us. I think the development of the program, just a lot of coordination. Then with Caitlyn, Caitlyn used to be a trainer here in the district and so she's familiar with this area. She is going to do part of her time as a trainer and that allows us to have a full-time person because we don't right now at the beginning have enough classes to fill that full-time. But we had a very impressive enrollment into this right off the shoot. So, I think um there's a lot of excitement for our students on this program, >> but it just really worked out nice of how we could create a full-time position that had really great value to us with our training. We have to go beyond just Caitlyn. And so, we're working with how our partners can make sure we got coverage for our other programs. And so, it's all neatly on one slide. a lot of back and forth and scratching the head and just kind of moving forward and Mark is really to be compl complimented on this. >> What I would >> Caitlyn is a parent too, right? >> No, she's not. >> No. Okay. >> She's high energy though. >> Is um >> does a monarch I assume that they do they're in agreement with other school districts on similar programs. >> Yeah, it it's you know something to add to what Kevin was sharing about Monarch. So we talk about them providing the required nurse and the clinical site. That's at no cost to the district. >> That's a cost to them. >> No cost. Of course, what they're hoping for is to develop new employees. And of course, they'll be very interested in uh our students possibly working in their sites in Delo and Excelure. But I also want to emphasize we still have good relationships with Presbyterian Home Paris and Bay. I that that those doors are open. When they want us and they have need, we'll be promoting those openings also in those facilities. It just turned out that Monarch is a place where this is a program they offer in different high schools around the state. And so it's a win-win. >> Do you know how long they've been offering now to other high schools for >> Well, I know they've been offering for at least four or five years. >> So obviously it must be working for they wouldn't keep doing it. It's seen. >> Yeah. Yeah. I think so. I think so. How are the finances work? Um they make that work uh with that. So um before I move on to the last point um in the consent agenda will be the application for the EMR ET program and then in your other part of your agenda will be the discussion item for this agreement with public health. So really some great developments as this continues to implement and keep building these programs. The last piece that I wanted to share with you tonight is a little bit more detail about the youth skills training grant and the youth skills training program grant. It's really is a mechanism to connect businesses vocational businesses with high schools. So, we're going to be in this partnership with this program with uh our machining program and also with our nursing assistance program. And really, it's about building relationships, partnerships is giving students industry exposure to these career paths. And then what we all hope is that for some students, this becomes their career path. And the amazing thing about this, once we now sign off on the paperwork, this is going to be about $99,000 in grant money over two years for us. That's awesome. So, it's a big it's a big deal. But again, It shores up. It complements these programs that we're building. And if there's anything that we've learned, there are partners out there in our state, in our different agencies where they want us to succeed. They want to support us in these programs. So, I think it's going to be an exciting year next year as these things uh go forward. So, that is all going on this summer and in this month of June. I just want to add just um there's a last minute um agenda item uh the first reading of our AI policy and that's policy 6250 responsible use of artificial intelligence. So of course that is another effort that we're working on that we do this well we do this in a very thoughtful a pragmatic way with implementation. So in front of you will be the first reading and what you have in front of you will be a policy that is modeled from MSBA and we've tweaked it a little bit but is the M the MSBA policy that we'll be using as the the solid foundation that we'll need next year as we go forward with so that would be my thank you Welcome financial report. Mark's keeping me busy with all these grants. >> I just told him it's a good thing we get along so well. >> She going, "Oh, no. Not another paper chair. Yes. Um uh good evening board. Um tonight we will be reviewing the fiscal year 2627 adopted budget. Um but before we do that, I would like to just quickly look at our traditional monthly financial reports. Um as we do each board meeting through May 31st 2026 um we have received uh 35,787,000 um or 79.7% of the yellow revised budget. Um we have expended 36,632,000 or 82.3% of our yellow um revised budget. And as we enter um our last month of the fiscal year, we feel really good about um how this is pacing um both expenditures and revenues as we close out the uh 2526 fiscal year. And again, I won't be touching on enrollment because we'll give final numbers as um those numbers are cleansed with the state. All right. Um again, I um will be highlighting the um the high points of our proposed 2627 adopted budget. Um, school board finance committee met last Thursday, June 4th, um, to discuss the budget in greater detail. And I would like to thank board members Brian Carlson, Pastor Lauren Davis, Ralph Harrison, and Superintendent Borg as well for their time and commitment to the finance committee this school year. As we go through the uh, presentation, if you have questions, feel free to stop me or we'll have time at the end as well. All right. Um, enrollment is the foundation of all school budgets. Um, almost every um, source of our revenue is tied um, to how many students we serve. This chart gives a five-year view of our enrollment trends and then also what we are estimating for the upcoming school year. Our district has benefited from stable enrollment. Um, after considering our projected kindergarten enrollment, our typical migration patterns, and the size of our most recent graduating class, we're projecting just a slight conservative decrease in our enrollment this fall. Um, we will continue to monitor this enrollment all through the summer months. Um, and if there's any significant changes, we will incorporate that to into our revised budget this winter. um accordingly. All right. Um uh all school districts have to have a budget approved by July 1st. And so the adopted budget um that we always approve in June is based on really heavy assumptions. Um and this slide gives a recap of those assumptions that uh that we came up with. Um again, our enrollment um we are planning on at this point is 2,429 students. The state of Minnesota recognizes that that high school kids um it's more costly to educate them. So they are weighted at 1.2 Um and so our weighted count in this budget is 2,655 and again this uh particular school year um we are planning this fall on 18 or excuse me 160 kindergarteners um which um equates to a loss of 18 um students over last year since we had um a larger graduating class of over 190. Um our largest source of revenue is our general education formula aid. Um we receive um not we just school districts across the state receive an increase from the state based on um a flat amount of 2% and then there's a inflation factor. So all schools were awarded an increase of 2.69% over the prior year. So that went from uh 7,481 to 7 683 per weighted student um in this budget. The other categorical categories um that we estimated also that same 2.69 um we know from our levy that we will be um including additional capital projects levy of just um those dollars of just over 50,000. Um also in this budget, one of our larger sources of revenue which we are incredibly grateful for is our um two-step operating referendum which also an inflation factor. Um this year um we will be receiving six additional percentage points for um cross subsidy special education aid. In the 2023 legislative session there was additional support given LA the last two years we were paid at 44% of the cross subsidy aid and next year that increase will be 50 or at 50% or h half of what it um of the cross subsidy aid. We have just a slight gain of compensatory revenue which is tied um to our free and reduce counts. Um it seems like our federal revenue is shrinking as far as titles and different categories. So we are budgeting for a little bit less of title revenue and in this budget we also um show a draw of our oped funds um to cover those obligations um for retirey contracts. Um as far as our expenditures, our teacher groups are settled and those are incorporated at at what the board um has approved. We have three retirements and we have estimates for the team the um groups that have not yet settled. Um we always put in um contingency for staff late changes um and additions that we may need. Um the largest change in our personnel benefit was our health insurance. There was more support needed there um to keep our internal service fund um um healthy. Um but thankfully our dental also our life insurance did not have any increases for the upcoming year. Outside of salary and benefits um everything else in this budget we applied a 3% increase. All right. U this next slide gives a recap of just general fund um and where we receive our money from. Um it just gives you a quick glance a glimpse of our adopted budget on the right and on the left is our a revised budget. Um so again revised compared to the adopted and you can see the primary source of revenue um in both years u roughly 63% um comes from the state of Minnesota. We're very dependent upon the state. Our property taxes make up about 30% and the um rest is made up by federal and local agency. Uh this um slide gives you an overview of by program of our um adopted general fund budget. Um again, just a little over 46 million. Um when I look at this, I um I'm very proud of West Honka doing a fantastic job of spending the majority of our dollars directly in the classroom as possible, benefiting students. Areas like uh regular instruction, special education, instructional and pupil support services. Okay. Uh this next uh slide gives a recap um showing the anticipated fund balance at the end of the 25 or 26 27 school year and also the prior year history of our unassigned and assigned fund balance. Um in the adopted budget, we are planning on just a very slight gain of $32,000 over the prior revised budget. In the adopted budget, we are projecting um an unassigned assigned fund balance of 7,165,000 or 15.54% of the general fund. Um again, you can see over the prior years we hover between 14 and 16 plus% um which aligns um very um closely to our our board policy of 8 to 18%. We enter this um fund balance closely with our finance committee, our district um long-term financial planning software and um that is that forecasting is um very important to our committee, our district and our department. The next seven slides I will go through will uh recap um the other smaller funds. Actually, I shouldn't say smaller because we have construction in here that's um not small. Um and so I'll go through just a real large overview of the other the funds. Um food service uh food service is again once again anticipating a spendown and intentional use of their fund balance um to spend on equipment and their facilities spaces for next year. Um they're doing an exceptional job um even serving meals this summer and they're looking forward to um the new spaces um at the high school. >> Kathy, is there um like services. Is there a certain amount they're allowed to carry and then you have to start spending spending it? Is that >> guidelines to that? >> Yes, I'm glad you mentioned that. Um there there's um there there used to be a rule of thumb that they wanted you to have um no more than three months um operating. So if your if your annual budget was um you know 1.2 million, they wanted you to have 300,000. And then there was some quite a bit of funding and support during COVID because of all the meals going home. And so they loosened up on that and they said you can have six months, but I I think it's next year they they want you to bring it back down. So the timing of our building project and spending some dollars on equipment is it's perfect. And so we will um try to stick around that threemonth operating budget or fund balance I should say. That's a great question. >> All right. Um, community education. Um, again, we programs in this, uh, fund our adventure club, um, after school enrichment, summer um, enrichment, adult programs, our West Tanka activity center, early childhood programs, adult basic ed, early childhood family ed, and preschool just to name a few. Um, our community ed department is continuing to grow. Um their mission is always to offer exceptional program at the same time continuing since um um co to rebuild their fund balance. They've done a great job of just inching that up each year. Um building construction. Um this shows the building construction fund expenditures as well as the revenue that we are expecting for next school year. The revenue obviously is only Our bond sales are all complete. So we are expecting 725,000 of interest earnings this year and um the expenses that we will be spending uh this year are estimated at this point or at this time of $28.5 million. Um again going back to the you know the construction is big enough and it's been phased over um several years and we also tied our our bonds to that um only accessing the money. So the two the bond sales um having two bond sales was um really great access or saving of unne or not say spending unnecessary interest earnings. The fund balance of 41 million does include that second sale. So those funds are there waiting and they just came in in February. Uh debt service uh debt service is where we make our principal and interest payments for our bonds. We have two sets of refinance bonds which has been great. We keep an eye on that every year if we have the opportunity to refinance. Those were our 2012 bonds. Our 2016 bonds were refinanced. This also um these payments include our abatement bonds from 2018 and then our two um two most recent bond sales, the first phase and the second phase. Uh trust fund. Um this tracks the um activity of our scholarships uh for the district. Uh this spring uh the high school awarded um 87 students um $430,000 worth of scholarships. And you can see that our budget is just a little over a hundred. So that represents only the scholarships that we manage. So it's about a quarter of the um the scholarships um we manage here and then um others are given directly or through a foundation. And so um again we are just fiscal agents and again um those are always my favorite checks to issue every year. um internal service fund is where we house our um medical and dental and um activity and when in our projections we were showing that we were needing more support to keep balance healthy. So we are uh worked closely with our um advisor as well as our employee benefit committee to um increase the medical by 14% and again dental is at zero. Um we watch um again these statistics very carefully and we meet monthly on with our employee benefit group. >> All right, last fun um OPED which stands for other post-employment benefits. Um u many many years ago um legislation granted school districts the opportunity to finance their um liabilities through a bond. Uh West Hanka took advantage of this in 2009. those bonds were paid off in 2019 in the uh even though the bonds are paid off, the fund balance reserves are set aside for future obligations. So that's a great support um to our general fund to um to make those payments. All right, I realize this is um small um and that concludes the review of the uh adopted budget. This slide um is a onepage review of of the entire budget, the estimated beginning fund balances, the revenues, uh the expenditures, the ending fund balance, and the net change. Um this was in your board packet and for the public. Um this also is on our district website. Thank you to Emily for posting that for me. Um later on your agenda, there'll be an action item for the budget. Um, and keep in mind, um, this budget will be revised this winter when we have a better indication of how the legislature will affect, um, next year, um, when our staffing is final, when we know, um, how many students we'll have this fall. And, um, I look forward to coming back in this winter to give an update. And I always tell Kevin, I hope I'm too conservative. So, at this time, I would like to um ask Kevin, do you have any comments that you'd like to make in addition to that? I >> think um Kathy has done such a a nice time, a nice job over a long period of time with preparing the budget. I've um I've appreciated how there's almost a rhythm to it where there's just a lot of trust and confidence and that we're not just granted there's a lot of hard work that you and your team put into this year after year that gives that confidence. So, thank you. >> Any questions from the board members here? >> Now, those dollars that that are there, is there a time period that that'll go till and then it'll sunset? I mean, gone or is that something how long how long do you foresee that going? >> You know, it kind of depends on interest rates. There's not a hard stop of you know, we have to close it within five years. So, as long as the funds are there and we hope that it'll be needed slowly and that interest rates will be successful, the the um the investments are strong that we have. And so, um again, um it just depends on interest. So, it's it's forecasted to be around for a while. Uh but again, there's just too many variables on when people retire or what interest rates might be. Um but um again, we took this out in 2009, so it's has a long one of the best things we did. >> Yeah, it's been very nice. >> Any other questions? >> I just had a question. The So on enrollment numbers, so um we gained 40 from last year to this year. What was that more in upper grades or lower grades? Do you know? >> Kindergarten was our big gain. >> Okay. >> Uh but we did gain throughout the grades. >> Okay. >> One thing that we noticed this year that broke trend is the number of kindergarteners that had the option of going to school and chose to hold back one year. That number as it wasn't large probably threw us off what our estimated average is. And there's other factors too, but that one in itself was one that was probably close to 10th. And that's where we also last year gained a lot of students in August above what our trend is. And that could happen again. And so it's really as we see it right now that we enter into this. I think we're going to find that our kindergarten right now we would project next year's kindergarten number to hit that number that we have with our um with our demographic study. So, we're about 20 some students above it. Now, right now, we're projected to be about 10 students below it. Um I think next year we'll be above it again. >> I have a question. You had the slide you had on the estimate for revenue sources. You had the club I think seven categories in there. Is as as you as I understand it, then yeah, go back there. Uh, no. It was uh the one prior to that where you're doing an budget, you're doing your budget estimate for >> the whole like the overview slice >> and then you >> Yeah, that one. All of those revenue sources at this point are are educated estimates basically on past practice and whatever you've done in the past, right? None of those at this point is a hard fast projection for any source. Is that correct? The only thing that's hard for next year is the levy because we have to do that ahead of time. Most everything else is kind of hinged on um how many students we serve. But the levy we we do know that. >> Okay. >> But 2.69% that's hard. >> Yeah, we know it. >> Just we just don't know how many students it is. >> Right. Right. That so that one the increase of general education funding 2.69 69 that shouldn't change to the to the one but anything under that right those are can you can you point out anything that would be other than an estimate other than that first line item 2.69 69. >> The federal is an estimate. We really don't um receive our final federal till, >> you know, after the holidays. >> The federal title, >> correct? Y >> right. >> Yeah. And so we did talk about a little bit one outlier in this might be the subsidy cost subsidy for the educational aisle on. >> We we've uh we've spoken about this a couple times. Uh right now they've increased our cross subsidy to 50% and that will be true. Uh with what we're concerned about is the discussion at the state with the blue ribbon work group of trying to target 300 million. There's just over 400 school districts. So 300 million is a big dollar amount for them to tackle. And we look at how could that impact schools. And so that's something on our radar that won't impact this budget. It will be the following year budget. And we're ex I think they're expected to have kind of their recommendations in uh this coming fall and then that year's legislature would have to take action whether they do or not. That would be up. So, it's a deadline for when you have your final fixed budget on there and these are, you know, with the majority are are like you say an educated revenue estimate, right? Do you have do you have a methodology then just just for my own edification that you go through and say, okay, loss of federal title revenue 22,778 on this date I should have a figure for that check one. Second one, added subsidy f special education check two. that kind of thing. As you get close to your budget, you do line item check offs for all these things to see if they match or don't match basically. >> Absolutely. >> Spreadsheets. >> And I suppose it's scattered all the way through the year then. You never know. Or do they get fixed date? >> Yep. But you you do it enough times, you know, um, you know, when the different deadlines come in. But but I've got spreadsheets upon spreadsheets that >> when I joke with Kathy that she was off by one student the previous year and there's room for improvement. There really isn't much room for improvement at all. >> You give her the task. >> She has spreadsheets for spreadsheets on what she's tracking and it's well organized. >> Well, and that's also why we don't do we do a revised budget for February because this is changing. It's very fluid number of students, right? I'm just curious to see how I mean you you know like say you have what nine or seven or nine of those things that you have to really and they almost come in at different dates if I understand it correctly. >> They do. Yeah. Levels are different than state aid. >> Do they change from year to year or is it pretty much steady as far as any line item coming up with an answer by a certain date at a certain time. >> It's usually relatively predictable. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. you >> superintendent report. The the big big thing I would comment on is we had a wonderful graduation. We um were able to be outside. Uh one thing that we put uh time and planning in is if we were indoors, we were going to hold it in the activities center, which is going to be a would have been a completely different configuration. We would have had to run tickets. We had had overflow in the performing arts. We're trying to pay attention to how we're navigating the construction with that. And to have it outdoors was just wonderful news because everyone could bring who they wanted as it was sunny and warm. It was it was a beautiful night for graduation. And so we were really pleased that weather cooperated. Uh there's a lot to celebrate in this graduating class. Um, and the high school did a phenomenal job of a a really thoughtful, efficient graduation. You you graduate about 200 students in about an hour and the highlight are the students and their speeches and it's the students and their music and it's the students uh receiving their diploma. So there's just great focus on this being studentbased, which is what it should be. And I just want to say thanks to the high school staff. A lot of staff show up for the graduation and coordinate from everything of helping students with their speeches to making that just a really uh beautiful, beautiful night. And so that was uh great. Uh, as soon as the students were out of the building, the demo guys were going as fast as they could. And uh, Jolene mentioned something I thought was funny. She said, "They're like a bunch of those cartoon characters. They come in and they're demoing and they're going and it's uh, it's just wonderful because that needs to happen so you can take the next steps." And as we were commenting with Gary, uh, you know, there's there's a lot of plants and you get into an old building and there's things that you discover that needs different solutions. And so really thankful for our team of just working through