on June 2nd, 2025 attending this evening uh is Right. Uh we're joined by student repres representatives and his guest for his last we have Cassia Lopez. Also the table we have superintendent Steveowski. and assistant superintendent Dr. Uh, other members of the district leadership team. It's coming in and out. Mic truck. Yeah, we need to start over again. You can keep going. For those of you who miss us, we're all here. Uh, let's see. Richfield Public Schools mission is to inspire and empower each individual to learn, grow, and excel. And we aim to keep that focus at the heart of the discussions this evening. Thanks to all of us joining us here live and in the boardroom. We also thank those of us who are streaming the meeting or watching after the fact via YouTube. I apologize if you didn't get all of our names. You'll have to watch another previous version. We appreciate when people bear witness to our meetings when we conduct the necessary official business of the district. Our first item of business this evening will be to approve the agenda before us. As approval of the agenda is routine business item. I will briefly pause to see if there are any comments or questions related to the agenda or if we need to move something around or a special guest. Uh hearing and seeing none. We have a motion by Director Cole and a second by Director Pollus. Bring it to a vote. All in favor, please say I. I. All post, please say nay. The chair votes I. And our agenda is approved. Moving right along. That brings us [Music] to information and proposals. Uh before we move into our topics for the evening, just a reminder that our next opportunity for public comment will be on June 23rd, 2025, which is not our normal 3 week cadence. Correct. We shifted that meeting because the Spartan Foundation golf tournament well ceued happens to be on the 16th. The Spartan Foundation is one of the great partners and funders um of the students of Richfield Public Schools. And so their Spartan Foundation golf tournament for any of those who are wishing to play in that event is on June 16, which brings us to the superintendent updates. All right. And just as an FYI, so we do have a little bit of tech challenge today. So we want to make sure we are on microphones. Um we are still streaming and we are um presenting three things on this evening's superintendent update. Uh we'll be starting um with Dan Cretzinger and Faith Breeden presenting about facilities health and safety presentation before we go on to our part one of vision cards and our superintendent goals which will lead into our closed session later on superintendent evaluation. But with that I will turn it over to Dan and Faith. Great. Thank you so much again. I'm Danzinger. I'm the facilities and transportation director here at Richfield and this is Faith. Is that better? Yeah. Okay. Is that better? I know. Let's do this. Dude, that's a I didn't like it either and I got it like right here in front of me. So, all right. I'm all off. No, I'm just kidding. All right. So, I'm Dan Kretzinger. I'm the director of facilities and transportation here at Richfield Public Schools. And I'll also introduce uh Faith Breeden. She's with us from IEA tonight. We'll also be uh sharing more on the health and safety presentation as we go here. So, before I start, um we have a departmental mission statement that um we believe in wholeheartedly. Um we believe that students can learn, grow, and excel to their highest potential. and a clean, well-maintained facility and transportation fleet. Our goal is to provide exceptional service to Richfield Public Schools by maintaining the highest level of quality, safety, efficiency, and accountability. And with that, we um we'll start with this first slide um showing our district information. Um so, you'd see here we have 98 acres total in the district. that also includes the buildings that are that they rest upon. Um, and then we also have a little over a million square feet of total square footage in their in our buildings. And it's just to give you a little perspective on what how much our team and facilities takes care of on a day-to-day basis. Um, and just just for example, an an average home in Ridgefield is roughly 1,400 square feet, and the size of the average yard in Ridgefield is about a quarter of an acre. So, I I think about how uh cleaning my how long it takes for me to clean my house. I I can understand um this a little clearer. Um, next slide. In this um depiction here, it shows what the national um cleaning level is um per the government um for our an 8 hour full-time equivalent custodian. Um we do our best to try to keep our buildings at a level three. Um and sometimes like this building for instance um it's uh each custodian has about 52,000 square ft that they're responsible for. But we take a lot of things in into consideration too such as room usage, closets, basements, unused classrooms, um larger larger areas like gymnasiums and cafeterias. um they'll take um less time to clean just because of how big they are. Um it also depends on different floor types and equipment that we have. So robotic scrubbers and things like that also um help us to bring those those numbers down uh per custodian. Um, we also use a program called CCAP from Hillyard that also is a um, it's a digital way of taking all of our staff and square footage and measurements and it brings it down um, so that we know exactly how many staff that we need to have in a building. So total staff that we have um we have about 80 staff members total um around 70 total FTEES that are that are here and that is um a mixture of building cleaners, head custodians, maintenance staff, bus drivers, warehouse employees, laundry workers, um bus mechanics, and an admin assistant too. Um it would be we're um roughly five bus drivers uh short at this point. So we'll we'll be looking to add a few more drivers as well. Um this slide shows uh day-to-day operations for our staff. I won't go through everything um but a couple of key pieces. As you can see uh we estimate about 745,000 total cleaning square feet. um if you take out basement and things like that. Um we also do 3,500 air filters uh three times a year that we change out in all the buildings to keep to keep the air uh circulating and clean for our students. Um snow removal is a big piece. Um we also uh transport or 2196 students every single day um up to three times a day. Um, we also route uh 276 uh special ed students um to and from school as well. Um this slide shows a little bit of our uh the system for uh help desk which is called limble and limble helps us to manage our maintenance tasks in our buildings. Um, as you can see, we've today we've um completed around 7,100 tasks. Most of these are health and safety related items um such as checking fire extinguishers and emergency exit lights, eyewash stations, and things like that. So, um emergency exit lights, for example, in this building, there's over 500 of them. So every month we have to go through and test each one of those. Excuse me. Okay. Excuse me. Um and then work requests. Um nearly a thousand work requests every year that we're receiving from staff members who need something specific done or repair in each building. Next slide is showing our completion performance. So we've had 2300 uh on-time completions of those tasks, 7,000 overdue ones and then 295 that uh went past and a lot of those like I said are those um checking of of emergency exit lights and things like that. So, there's definitely work that needs to be done there um that we can do. And then one of my favorite slides here is our community outreach programs, um student education, um professional development for our staff, and then also uh spending time with legislators um in an effort to um bring more money into facilities. uh for for our district. So, some of the projects completed this year, we completed the high school ephus repairs, tuckpointing at central. We've also installed some new doors, um middle school gym restoration, renovations, um just to name a few things. Uh what we have upcoming this upcoming year is um we'd like to um install a new storage shed at the high school stadium um if if finances allow that. And then uh middle school um main entrance doors are a big thing. Replacing the skylights here at the high school. Um tuck pointing again for a second phase. and then um gym floor replacement at Centennial are just a few of those things. And then the next slide are actual pictures of what we have um what we did. So that first group on the top on the left are uh doors at central and then some of the gym um before and after pictures and then the ephus replacement in the middle the high school. Uh the top one is a before and after shot on the below and then uh the high school track was finally completed um last uh last summer. So, and then additional pictures of the e or the uh tuck pointing that is going to be done at the high school as well as the skylight replacements um that are just they've been there 20 years plus and they're uh deteriorating. So, next slide. Excuse me. So, our facilities and transportation budget um for the for FY25 is just over uh 18.7 million. And within those categories, I assign funds to about 160 specific finance codes allowing us to be more organized um with our funds in our department. So, all right, with that, I'm going to turn it over to Faith, and she's going to tell us about health and safety. All right. So, a quick overview of the things that we'll talk about today. So, I'll go over some of those um cycle uh health and safety projects that school districts are often going through every five years, every year, every other year. Um I'll talk about some of the health and safety tasks that we completed this year. Um I'll also go over the radon results from January. I'll go over the findings from the Mach OSHA inspection at Richfield Middle School and Sheridan. and then I'll also talk about next year's health and safety projects. So, overview of some of these repetitive um uh projects that we do for health and safety. The main one that I'll talk about is going to be Raidon since we did that just back in January and I'll go over those results. So, we completed that in January and we're not due for that for another five years in the 2029 and 2030 school year. um lead and water. This is a Minnesota state statute um where all lead fixtures have to be under five parts per billion um in schools in schools and school buildings. Um so we did that in 2023 24 school year. So we aren't due for that until 2028 and 2029. Um there's also bleacher inspections were which are required which were last done in 2022. So we'll um get that in 2027. We also have the turf field testing, which this isn't required, um, but it's always a good way to maintain the turf, especially, you know, we spend a lot of money getting these nice turfs. We want to make sure that they are maintained properly. So, we do these every other year, and we're planning on doing these in actually about 2 weeks. So, we'll be doing those 2025. And then we also have the indoor air quality testing, which is required by MDE. Uh, so we do this annually in the winter during the heating season. So this year we tested 708 rooms or areas over throughout the district. Next slide. So some of the tasks that we accomplished this year um the first one is the forklift and power pallet jack reertification training. So we had about two staff members who were up for uh reertification and then two yeah two staff members that were new to the position. So OSHA requires that any um employee who is operating a forklift or a powered pallet jack has to be trained every 3 years. So we completed this training. We did the PowerPoint training as well as the uh uh evaluation. We also did some lockout tagout authorized person training. So this is required by OSHA upon uh the start of employment. Um we had quite a few custodial and maintenance staff kind of moving around buildings and starting new positions. So we wanted to make sure that they were trained on doing lockout tagout. Um so we got quite a few of those trainings done this year. We also did the annual respirator fit testing and audiogram. So this is required by OSHA for anyone who uh uses a respirator as part of their job duties. So we had four people that we did their fit testing. And then we also had about 20ish people doing um the annual audiogram. So OSHA requires uh the employer to offer audiograms to any employee who is required to be on the hearing conservation program. So these employees um I'll kind of skip to the next bullet, but um these employees during the noise monitoring that we did in January, they tested above the permissible exposure limit for um noise exposure. So they tested over 85 dB over a time weighted average. So they were required to be on the noise um the hearing conservation program. So we have to give them the annual audiograms and then have to provide them hearing protection. We also did a um training for the management team on the process of an OSHA inspection. So we kind of talked through the different sections of an OSHA inspection and then what to expect for admin staff. Um, we did the indoor air quality walkthrough which is required annually and there was nothing too crazy compared to the other years. Um, we have our GMAX field testing coming up in a couple weeks and then we also did the aerial lift training for um, new staff who are operating aerial lifts. Um, and then lastly, we did uh the radon testing in January and I'll go over the results on the next slide. So, um, we did radon testing in January in every occupiable space on at or below ground level. Um, and then 10% of any, uh, floors above the ground level. So, um, we followed all of the MDH requirements for testing and we ended up testing 574 locations throughout the entire district. Um, we also have a management plan for radon testing to ensure that we're still being compliant and um, meeting all of the goals that Richfield has set for radon. And um, one thing with Richfield is that is fantastic is that they've been testing since 2010, which is um, far above far um, ahead of the game than other school districts. A lot of school districts didn't start doing radon testing until 2018. So, it's great to see that RA or Richfield has been doing this for quite some time. So, um these are the results from per each building and the great news is that all of them were um didn't have any rooms that tested above the action limit of four pico curies per liter. So, there was no followup after the testing. So, that's great news. Um here are the results from the Mach OSHA inspection that we did at Richfield Middle School and Sheridan. So, at the middle school on the top row is um we have a picture of a guardrail that wasn't installed. So, um we want to put that that guardrail back to uh the location to protect employees from falling uh greater than a distance of 4T. We also found some expired um contents in the first aid kit over by the pool. Um in the middle school wood shop, there were some machine guarding missing um specifically on the table saw. And then there was the portable eyewash station over by the pool as well that had some expired solution at Sheridan. Um it was much smaller items. So, you know, blocked exit routes, storage within 18 in of sprinklers, um missing labels on uh ladders, and then damaged um extension cords. So, for this next school year, we um are going to be doing our uh field testing here in a couple weeks. And then the big item that is um health and safety related is going to be the aware program implementation. So this past March um Minnesota OSHA has um required it for K through2 schools to develop an aware program which stands for a workplace accident and injury reduction plan. So this establishes a guide for identifying preventing employee injuries. Um, and what I've noticed with Richfield so far as, um, as we've been develop developing this plan is that a lot of the items are already in place. It's more of just documenting and developing a procedure for uh, many of the requirements. Um, and then lastly, we'll be going through management plans, reviewing and updating them as needed. Um, some of them are getting um, a few years old, you know, from 2019, 2020. So, it's always good to take a deeper dive into those every few years. Oh, any questions? Just as a reminder to board members, um they also we have the IEA contract and so this is part of our IEA work and so if there are any questions about that contract or any information about IEA, now would be the time to ask. So they don't have to sit through my evaluation conversation or vision cards. Not that they don't want to. That is a scintillating experience. yet ask those questions now. Maybe a reminder for everybody to bring your mics closer to you since we're having technical issues tonight. This is fun. Can I ask um you the you mentioned the mock OSHA inspection and so there are a number of things that come up as they do every year. Can you remind us and the and the community what happens when they're identified and you know what kind of um length of time might it take to correct some things or are there some things that are still outstanding? Yeah. So um it does take time to make those corrections but um I make a report after each uh Makosha inspection. It basically makes a checklist or a to-do list for the custodial staff and I send it to the building leads um following the inspections. Um, and they've both been reaching out with plenty of questions to try and um, correct those. I know at the middle school they've um, been ordering the um, ladder labels and have been um, going through the first aid kits as well to try and make sure that they get through that list. But some of those items like especially the guardrail that will take some time to get that back installed. Um, but I think they're making pretty good progress. I suppose you you you brought up the latter labels. I mean, if they're like this at the middle school in Sheridan, I suppose that's a call to action for all the buildings, Dan. Is that correct? It does. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. How often do you have real OSHA inspections? And do they give you a heads up where they show up? They do not give you a heads up, which is unfortunate. Um um but so most of our clients are school districts and I think in the last like 6 to 8 months I've heard of four of our clients um having uh yeah I think four of them having mock or OSHA inspections. So, they are somewhat frequent for schools, but also um I don't want to say that they're never going to show up, but you know, um yeah, it's hard to say how often they will show up to schools. Um but yeah, about four or five in the last year. question. Do you want to explain the lockout take out procedure just talk about it? I hear about it, right? I've asked about it before, but yeah. Yeah. No, that's a great question. So, lockout takeout is the control of hazardous energy. So when um any custodial or maintenance staff are working on uh equipment like boilers, you want to make sure that they're not going to be exposed to any electrical or thermal hazards when they're working on it. So they use these devices. They're usually um red plastic devices to um hold the uh usually like the on and off switch in place and then they put an actual pad lock on there so no other employee can be able to turn on the equipment. So, it's a huge safety item. Um, that's one of OSHA's top cited um items that they go through just because it is really important to do that correctly. So, yeah. Fun fact. Well, you said it and I'm like everybody else you're glossing over it like I I know you guys do. Yeah. Know, I appreciate it. Questions, comments really tonight. So excited about our closed sessions plural. Okay, then. Thank you guys. Appreciate it. Thank you. All right, so that transitions us into our first um reporting of performance. And so we are going to do vision cards, end of year update part one, activities, business operations and communication and marketing. And just as a reminder because we do this repeatedly, but we want to always go through that it is our vision cards our way of reporting um and helping us to be accountable to our strategic plan and also keeping us focused on our top priorities. Uh we are doing three of our vision card updates today. We are doing activities business and operations and communications and marketing which means in three weeks in here uh we will be doing our other two vision cards academics and climate and culture. But vision card 2, three, and five are today. Um, inside the board packet, there are three pages. Um, there is an overview of the current status with our measurement. There are a list of the actions because it's not just outcomes, it's also the actions we do to achieve our goals. Um, and then the rubric and the scores, um, the data behind our analysis. Um, so the vision cards are entirely in the board packet. Um, but in our presentation today, we will just be going through um some of that overlying detail and overlying information with the rest of the detail in the packet. Um, as a reminder, each progress report has this cute little thermometer. Um, our baseline is at the R, but when we have brand new data, um, you will see it represented in red. And because this is the end of the year, you're going to see a bunch of things, um, with new data. If we are making progress from our baseline, you'll see us moving in the positive direction towards the two. Um if things are not moving that direction and things have regressed in terms of our data analysis, things will move towards the negative two. Um so let us take a look at some of the details of what we are talking about in regard to activities. Um and so we do have updates in pretty much every activity area. Uh we have our overall um goal of providing more um activity programs catering to the needs of students and then looking specifically at new activities. Um we're trying to increase student participation and better aligning that to our demographics and we have new data in each of those measures and then trying to increase attendance and performance to foster a greater sense of community. And you will see also um progress in each of those areas. You do see thermometer wise the R moving significantly to right in all of those areas. So we did from a data perspective have a positive perspective on how things went this year in our activity department. So goal one new activities started by students and again there's a full spreadsheet um a couple of pages after the PowerPoint uh three new activities were started by students and increase from the baseline year um of which two new activities were created by our students. Uh we also have um activity participation which increased at the elementary school also increased at the middle school. Um and then in terms of demographics um we also had um a decrease in the gap of participation in act in academic or in activities. And then finally activity and performances. Uh we continue to grow those attending our activities. And so we had over um a thousand people who bought tickets or gathered tickets um to participate and observe in our activity events this year. So overall across um there are positives and positives in the data um in basically all areas. Um as we move on to business and operations um we also had significant success in our measurements in business and operations. um not data in every area. Um so maintaining and improving staff so decreasing the number of staff who voluntarily left um decreasing the magnitude of our unmet facility needs improving our energy performance all areas where our data went forward. Um some of the other areas like meals uh those were at our previous uh midyear card and so we don't have specific new data um also because we haven't finalized our data yet for this year. Um in the second, we don't have data yet on the audit findings, but we do have data on increasing the financial investment in technology and then also increasing the number of students receiving district-wide transportation each areas um within business and operations um where we are feeling positive about those outcomes. On the next slide, you will see some of the specific measures. Again, there's a full spreadsheet after this that will give you further detail. Um but in the 24-25 we had 48 staff members voluntarily leaving a decrease from in that significant year. Um and so definitely positive in that area. Uh continuous improvement of facilities. Our long-term facility maintenance budget has continued to drop as we had those updates and we are spending fewer dollars to continue to or uh identifying fewer needs as we move that forward. We did see a B3 benchmark score increase from 3.2 2 to 3.5 and so we're positively impacting in a positive way energy performance. Uh investment in technology continues to grow from 3.5 million to 4.2 million. Um and then transportation access which also continues to grow up to 65%. And so business operations activities and then you're about to find that um communication and marketing um we did well but there are also a little bit of areas that are mixed as we note that social media is not quite having the same impact particularly Facebook that it might have had in the past. Um and so within communication and marketing in our third and final card for the evening um improving our family communications with the measured by a high level of connection to teachers um reporting that district communications effective and then also um families and staff both making that report supporting our positive reputation with positive news stories and increasing average um engagement um and uh that stayed at baseline. And then an area where things didn't uh things did not move necessarily forward is increasing overall district enrollment. And so we have been working in that area. Um but you'll see uh not the same progress as we found in the other areas. Not due data from this from this particular report. Uh families reporting a high level of connection and as we all know we had high participation in our survey and very positive outcomes. Uh 95% of our families reported a high connection to their teachers. 95% of staff members reported that district communication is effective. 94% of families reported that district communication is effective. Uh we had an increase up to 25 positive news stories this year. Um and in regard to social media engagement, we did see a decrease specifically to our Facebook posts uh down to 36 engagements as social media has um has had some changes um and people aren't engaging quite at the same level. our other progress measures were reported at the midyear. Um and so the areas where it is not red and where you see black um print within within that um those are areas that we do not have new data in for this particular report. So that is the overall summary for activities um business and operations and marketing and communication. And then a reminder there will be a lot of in-depth information in regard to academics and climate and culture um presented at the next board meeting. So with that I will pause and see if there are questions questions from the board. You know budget technology are we getting more or is it because what we're getting? Um it's a mixture of both. So as you consider where we have evolved over the past set of years, we have moved to a onetoone. We've needed to increase and support our overall network. Um but then also the software and technology that kids integrate with um has grown and expanded and so the technology needs have grown and so there is more more dollars being spent on technology and more technology being utilized. I think it question is that measure future right we have a number so when you start to think about quality of technology I want you to think about the two cards that are coming up specifically around academics and so technology is a tool specific to the engagement in um our outcomes um and so as we separate out the cards business and operations components are not always ends unto themselves some of them are catalysts to the learning that actually occurs. And so we have measures that are around the things that are inputs and we have measures around the things that are outputs. Um that is a good uh transition to also remind us um that next year um will be the last year of this strategic plan and so beginning in January we'll be developing a new strategic plan which will then also cause us to develop new measures, new vision cards and we can also recalibrate some of the things that we're looking for. Um, also, uh, we can recalibrate some of the words that we are using in our surveys and some of those other components so that we can make sure, um, that we are updating all of the things that we do as we learn more. I mean, you question talked about that all of ours are a new benchmark. Yes. So it'll be yeah there'll be an interesting couple of year window right so we will develop our strategic plan we will develop the measures um that'll be the activity of 2526 26 27 we will have nothing to measure against other than very old data so it'll be challenging but we will then create a brand new baseline um and then the four years that follow or if we decide to go with a longer than fiveyear plan um we will then compare against that um and then also just be able to maintain and keep I'll acknowledge I think we developed this plan with two of our current board members and um other elections have happened since then and so time passed quite significantly. Yes, Tim and Tim and Paula have been here for two strategic plans. Although you weren't there at Yeah. one Tim is the elder statesman. I just wanted to say elder statesman that being pointed out. more questions, comments. I was just thinking about you know talking about this technology because I think that in given the state of the country whatever will be a different thing you know factoring in tariffs. Yeah. Yeah. I think things will start costing more. I also think I think back to if you think about cell phone policies of our board and practices of people with cell phones um I feel like when we started with the strategic plan if you were to ask somebody to have their kid not have a cell phone in school um they were very angry with you 5 years ago. They needed to have access to their kid their kid needed technology. They needed their hand all day every day. And now the state legislature after COVID and after technology engagement have said we should have cell phones not in people's hands during school. And so all of that evolves. Also, when you think about social media, um social media was very large and then is changing the products and how those are going. Um and so 5 years is a long measure. Um and um different things as you point out like the dollars spent when tariffs could double the price of a computer um could definitely make some of this a lot more challenging. All right, we are on a roll. Um, and so then just summarizing bringing that back, there will be a lot of information around academics and culture and climate as we go to our next meeting. um superintendent goals and this is the final year end uh end of year progress report for um me and being presented in preparation for my evaluation which will come the close session just as a reminder of the process. Um we will have a close session at the end of this meeting um and it and we will talk about my evaluation. Then at the meeting after um there will be conversation around um Eric will report back to the board or in the community uh what happened in that closed session around evaluation. Uh the board will then engage in a conversation um since that is the last year um next year will be the last year of my superintendent contract. Um if we are going to engage in dialogue around a next contract, I will tip to you all that I have shared with Eric I would be open to that conversation and would love to stay here. Um but that'll be a conversation that happens at that next board meeting. Uh then uh moving forward into July and beyond that um there is review of evaluation beginning to set goals for the next year um and moving that forward and talking about um talking about our future. That is the process. Tonight um is the final presentation around superintendent goals. Really talking about my evaluation in the three components. uh student achievement, um process goals, um which are those strategic activities, some of those actions you hear about in our vision cards, um and then overall performance, which is determined through that evaluation, um based on survey data and based on our outcome data. Um I will foreshadow to say um some of our outcomes were mixed. Um our survey data has been spectacular this year. um our social emotional climate data has been spectacular and our achievement measures um have absolutely been mixed and so we want to be clear about that. We also want to be clear that ultimately in the end outcome measures of our students are the things that are most important. Those are the things that build for their future and we want to keep keep our eyes on that as we move forward. So we were looking at common assessments um including Fastbridge um looking for fivepoint gains and reducing the gap for our students of color. Um and so we made gains um from fall to winter um in both especially um in fifth grade proficiency specific to reading. Um we made um measured gains um and were relatively flat in our eighth grade proficiency. Uh we also had in fifth grade a significant decrease of the gap between white students and students of color. So a very significant set of gains um and achievement in that area. Um and eighth grade not quite as much. Um and so eighth grade things were more stagnant and relatively flat. Uh moving on to um so that would be a goal partially achieved um in regard to the same assessments um looking at third grade um and looking to try to expand the number of students making typical to aggressive growth. And so we are really looking to expand that. Um we're looking for 65% of our students. Um we did end up with lower numbers. um and um the gap did not necessarily close at this point. And so that is an area clearly for further focus and that would be a goal not achieved. And so that is definitely something that we need to examine and really be talking about um with all of our focus um last year on reading and this year on reading. How do we make sure that we really see that accelerated growth occur? Um and how do we really make sure that we move things forward? Um looking at our MCA scores and this is preliminary data and so we don't have anything official. Um we are seeing um and projecting some gains across our system in both reading and math on the and on the MCA. And so while our fastbridge data was not um as successful as we would like to see it, um we actually had um reasonable gains in regard to MCA reading and MCA math both in the grade levels identified but then also within grade bands. Um we also had some positive gains in regard to gap closure. Um but um certainly did not um make that everywhere and did not make all of the gains we were trying to accomplish. Um and then finally graduation rate which we talked about at our previous meeting. Uh graduation rate this year um did not follow our consistent pattern of moving forward. Um, one of the things as we examined our data is that students who entered our schools in COVID four years ago who then did not return to our school or moved and did not necessarily enter another school in the state um or in the country um led to a pretty significant drop in our overall graduation rate. Um and so again, this is a goal not achieved. And so we need to absolutely as we're thinking about goals for next year um continue to focus not only on the things that we are focused on which is course pass rate and overall graduation rate um but we need to focus on all of the students who have entered the school um including those four years ago and making sure we have accurate measure for all of the kids. Um this is anomaly we have not seen in the past. Um, and what what what we saw when we really broke it down and looked at it is there were a number of students between 12 and 15 of them who started our school in 9th grade or 10th grade and did not return to school after um that first COVID year. Um, so they might have moved back to a home country. They might have moved to another state and dropped out. They might have moved to another state and entered school um and not asked for our records uh because of a brief time with us. Um, but that was a pretty precipitous component of the drop in these numbers. Um, in talking in my evaluation with Eric and Kirk, we really narrowed that down and we still had a small regression either way about two to three points. So, this is absolutely an area of focus as we look at things moving forward. So, that is achievement goal um mixed results um and not quite as positive as they've been in the future. And that also foreshadows that we look at vision cards um we're going to see areas of gains um culture and climate we're going to see significant gains. But this is one of the years that I have not had this conversation with us frequently, which is um our academic achievement is not um taking the same level of gains in all measures um that we would like to typically see. Something we're going to need to focus on um and some of those ways to do that are really deepening our look at data. um using our fastbridge assessment and progress monitoring better, continuing to implement the literacy curriculum, um increasing our representation in parent participation and feedback, um continuing to lead through readact um and then also um was an ongoing goal is really improving our school climate and public perception of RMS. Um and so um over the course of this year um we have really trained all of our management members, but then all of our teacher leaders. So on each site there was a number of folks um taught and professionally developed into utilizing new data progress and monitoring using our fastbridge using our data um and using who knew it to really figure out what is it that our kids need and how do we adjust and accommodate in real time and how do we improve I will say I'm going to suggest um this is an ongoing goal um because as who knew it has improved um this is an area where we need to continue improving our skills and continue our overall focus um in terms of fastbridge assessment ment and progress monitoring and typically um process goals are achieved. Um this is one that's partially achieved. We did not get to where we needed to be. If you recall early on um we were just getting started with 30% progress monitoring on our tier three interventions and 2% uh jumped to 70% and 72%. And so we really you can see the progress of how do you progress monitor? How do you intervene? How do you make sure our kids are getting what they needed? and we move from doing very little of it to doing a great deal of it. We were looking at 95% not 70%. So we'll celebrate that gain uh but absolutely need to be doing that at a much higher level as we continue and from the start next year and we've built a whole set of systems to make sure we are launching quickly and supporting our students immediately out of the gates. uh learning walk data um in showing the implementation and improvement in our literacy curriculum and so that is where our teams go into classrooms. Um we train them this fall and we are using now the letters evaluative tool. I did learning walks in the fall and in the winter um seeing some very significant improvement. Um you see the number of areas and we had this conversation when our directors presented a couple meetings ago. Um and then the areas for continued improvement is advanced phonics, phological awareness, and continue with the things that we're training on in letters and benchmark curriculum. Really improving our overall implementation in those specific areas are going to be goals for us as a system moving forward. Um looking at um that equity goal of increasing representation in parent and student feedback. So we moved from 478 parents and guardians of which 55% white were white um to 1,335 parent and guardians. So we basically tripled the number of families responding to our survey and moved to uh 51%.6% Hispanic Latino families engaged. Um and so we really changed from over representative and white families to demographically representing our district in terms of the survey response. Um, next one was leading us through um our overall redact training. Um, and so we have continued to make really really strong progress as of May. Uh, we have 54% complete with the asynchronous components. 76% have completed these synchronous component units 1 to four. As a reminder, phase one is a two-year training and so almost 80% of our staff, 76% are exactly on track with where we would want them. And we have a set of things happening in these next couple of weeks um to bring that number much higher. Uh the reason that we are at that number also is our special education teachers specifically those across secondary are identified as phase one and we have accommodated some requests in partnership with our union that they can begin the training in haste over the summer um as they look to improve and and continue with their due process work. And finally, overall um improving school climate and public perception at RMS. Um you can see since 22 23 23 24 25 a very precipitous drop in our major behavior incidences and those are those that lead to or close to suspension. Uh we did have a jump of RMS staff by 27% who said that they would recommend RMS uh to other parents or to other uh yeah to parents. And then the percentage this past year of parents and guardians who said they would uh recommend RMS to other parents increased by 11 points. And so continues to show significant growth. I would say as we look at survey data disagregated by school uh based on the significant gains in the survey from RMS, they are no longer for lack of better description off the bottom. You cannot look at who has the lowest survey data and say it's the middle school. Um they are actually integrated in with the data of all our schools and are not identifiable as having a gap. um of perception that is below the other schools and similarly no longer are the behavior incidents higher than at other schools. So this is one of the components that leads to my overall evaluation. Um we'll talk a little bit about in the closed session um the data from parent surveys. Um you all also got data from my direct reports. Um you all took a survey as board members and then we'll have that close session evaluative dialogue um later on this evening. With that um I can take comments or questions now. Um and then also again water. Yes sir. Like when you see in the mic you're you're you're here just fine but everyone else like maybe like five inches away from the microphone. Heard the man close to the mic. Roger that. Roger. I'm close. So uh making sure that Steve is drinking water, not coffee because you go super fast. result. I I I don't have necessarily questions about the results. I I just have comments. You know, you'd mentioned the, you know, things an area focus for like on the achievement side and it's I I'll give you a pass on the wording of that. That's an area focus like that that that is our focus. That is our main point of of what we are how we are graded and evaluated by the public is our ability to to provide, you know, education and educational opportunities for the kids in the community. And so, I mean, I'm I'm interested to see what we do next year and how we as we unfold some of the other new things like the reading curriculum and others and how we can, you know, eventually we're we're we need to at some point make instead of the series of incremental improvements, we need to unlock the path, which is difficult because no one else is really finding a way to to some sort of jump that's meaningful. Yeah. What's unique this year um is our MCA scores made gains in both reading and in math um by a couple of points. Um and we expect um we don't know how the state will measure that but we have guesses somewhere between one and a half and three and a half to four points. Um we aren't seeing that in all areas um and so it is um it is a different pattern. We have made gains year-over-year in most of our areas um and this has not been as many gains which does not match all of the other subjective data. And so that is a lot of the study for this year. And I I will echo I agree. Um you've heard me say that academic outcomes are what we are about. Um and so it's easy to say this is a successful year. And when you look at our academic data, you can say and we have a lot of work to do because this was not as successful from an academic perspective as we typically would have despite some survey data that is overwhelmingly positive and our behavior data that is overwhelmingly positive and other areas that have been overwhelmingly positive. um the thing that I really value the highest um we just have not had the same level of results that that we need to have. I have noticed as a mom that fast breach is very rigorous. uh the benchmark curriculum also I guess which is good uh and I would say that I don't mean that we have to teach to the test but I think there's some things that that children uh that confuses them especially when they're little. Uh, one example, my kid, um, I was able to see the, you know, her responses to a multiplechoice, uh, test in literacy, and she chose B, which was something that made sense, but the the most, you know, the closest uh, response would have been D. And so, uh, what I've noticed her teacher do is to talk a little, you know, to teach the kids more about what's your evidence and to make sure that they read like all of the things. Uh and because one one problem about standardized testing is that to make a standard you have to make it in in a certain way that may or may not be aligned to the things that you're teaching. So um I I I do encourage us to really think about growth uh next year so that we can then you know instead of trying I mean proficiency is great grade level proficiency is what we want and exceeding those is what we want but we also want to see that to to check that aggressive growth uh we really make need to make it start to go to those are happening more often three times a year in fast bridge case. Yeah. I think the thing for us to remember and again you'll hear about it on the 23rd. There are a number of academic success areas you're going to see in the vision cards um and the things we have selected for my specific goals. um we don't have as many of those in there and there have been years where it's been different um where um there was more of a spread in the vision cards um but um we're going to continue focus on moving forward raising rigor and always figuring out how to do better. I guess what I was trying to say is I'm very uh grateful to see the increased rigor in education and I'm also very pleased with uh seeing teachers adjust their instruction following uh the information the data that they have and I hope to do more of that. Oh, what are you putting it? Questions, comments? If there's I guess I'll I'll comment in quick. I mean, we obviously Yes. results driven. Um to echo what you said in our closed door initial discussion, well in our initial discussion, right? It's like we did have a a long talk about this and we'll talk about it more with the board about like how do the achieve how the achievements just impact overall, right? It's like and what are we going after? Um I I will say on the record too, right, Steve, I appreciate your cander and this and um kind of the selfcorrection of like how do we get it better, right? Um and and knowing that this is something we need to work on. So any more questions, comments um moves into our consent agenda because that's the last update and there were no commendations tonight. Um so consent agenda which is a collection of routine or fairly routine business items that we consent to pass in bulk without individual discussion. I'll pause for a moment and just see if there's any questions or requests before we proceed hearing and seeing none. Is there a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented? So move. I'll second. Have a motion by uh director Banks Cupro and a second by director Pus. Any more discussion? Then we'll bring to vote. All in favor, please say I. I. I. All post say nay. The chair votes I and the consent agenda is approved. Bring us to old business. The policies for this evening continued review and possible action. The first item is policy 112 wellness and administrative guidelines 112.1 and 112.2 our third read. Yes. So we have these in front of you for um recommended passage describing our overall commitment to nutritious food and opportunities for physical activity. Um guideline 1121 has details about our meal program and food and beverages and 112 is the procedures for operations and meal charges. We did run this by um nutrition services, health and safety and wellness, safe and support of schools, parent guardian, REP, RHS and RMS. Um we have red lines indicating um the changes that have come since our last board meeting. And so we had some changes in reading two um and some small changes that have occurred for reading three um and so just as well as a small language change um in regard to the policy. And then there's some additional components in the guidelines. Um clarifying some wording. Uh clarifying the fresh fruit and vegetable program. So as a reminder, one of the side byproducts of free lunch for all is our free and reduced lunch count drops. Some of our schools are not necessarily going to be eligible for the fresh fruit and vegetable program. Um and so we will apply in any scenario where we can. uh we want to make sure that we are abiding by nutrition standards and those are clarified and recclarified in here on multiple occasions. Um and then also um just clarifying our communication around um one of the questions we often get is um about asking parents and guardians to refrain from bringing items in school to celebrate birthdays that are food um because that doesn't typically align to USDA guidelines um and it is something that uh we typically try to avoid. Um and so with that, um all of the clarifications are there in language. Nothing significantly substantial since the last reading. We have that for you for either questions or uh recommended passage today. I'll move that we pass policy 112 and the guidelines associated with it as presented. I'll second that. Wow. I think that was genuinely at the same time. I'm thank you for letting me pick it a look at that and concession. We have a motion by director policy, second by director Spencer. Uh since that was such a heated motion and second, I'm assuming there's no more discussion on that. Bring it to a vote. All in favor, please say I. I. I. All post, please say nay. The chair votes I. And policy 112 is approved. Bring us to policy 546, use of peace officers and/or crisis teams to remove students with IEPs from school grounds. Second read. Yes. And that is um a statutoily required and most this language is statutoily required um specific to special education who has reviewed this um and we have aligned uh our language to MSBA model policy and our branding guidelines. A couple of clarifications in the update. Uh it specifically outlines crisis teams, who they are and what they participate in. Um clarifies very clearly what physical holding is. some which is also something that should be avoided at all costs but only used when very clearly and necessary. Clarifying things like who is a student with IEP and what is this specific mean in regard to statutory language about um how we would partner with um law enforcement peace officers as needed and as required only under those particular situations. So that language has been updated. Um, it's here for you for that second read, um, and for questions, but another opportunity for all of us to review comments on this one. Uh, yes, that is just how the text showed up and that is uh, some of the new definition language. Hearing none brings us to new business and we're on to a resolution approving ISD287 LTFM budget. Bringing Craig to the table and hold the mic. Uh thank you very much. I have for your approval a resolution for intermediate district 287's long-term facilities maintenance uh plan and revenue. Uh it is requested authorizing inclusion of $100,750.80 on Richfield's as Richfield's proportionate share for that LTFM plan. Um one of the things that intermediate school district 287 and um I was noticing there was an acronym here BDAC which is business directors advisory council. So the business managers um of the member districts and their business manager connect up and work to make sure that we're aligned on the financial vision for the district for intermediate 287 and are responsible shares of that. Um and in that uh we've agreed that we will work to combine the long-term facilities maintenance levy and the lease levy and maintain a consistent um funding source between those two levies specifically so that it's more stable for our each one of the member district's taxpayers. Um, Intermediate District 287 does not have their own levy authority. So, they require individual school districts to approve that levy authority for them um and tax our tax base. Uh, this levy really is guiding the levy that will be brought to you here this fall for approval in December. Um, but we need to submit this data as well as our own district's data prior to July 31st so that can be added into the school district levy. Um you can see for uh these details, Richfield's proportionate share um is about 5.9% of the total long-term facilities maintenance budget uh for Richfield schools. You can see it's divided out between health and safety for fiscal year 27. Um deferred maintenance of 108,000 um and then debt service. about uh $54,000 of their overall long-term facilities maintenance is pay as you go and then $46,000 is associated with debt service. Um, we had originally intended to bring forth Richfield's uh 280 independent school district 280s um long-term facilities maintenance, but there are some funding changes that are occurring at the state legislature, specifically the opportunity to potentially include roof repairs um as part of the long-term facilities maintenance revenue associated with the district. Uh so we'll be evaluating that as that comes out and this uh state of Minnesota releases their information for individual districts that way. Uh so with that if there are any questions I would be happy to respond. There's some additional details about future projects in here as well that intermediate 287 has submitted for your uh review as well. Um I just have one question on the methodology for the percentages across districts for Yep. that based on enrollment in each of those. Um, it's a combination. It's based on one-third of it. You can see it's included in that header. So, one third is adjust adjusted pupil units of the member districts and then 2/3 is on a three-year weighted program um usage formula. So, the larger districts are helping support if their APUs are there, but their um participation in the 287 program isn't as high. Um, it used to be primarily just around the participation. Um, but this was a way to kind of balance that out a little bit more consistently with the member districts. Did that explanation make sense? Okay. Can you remind us what last year? I I'm sorry. I did not look at 287s for this year, but it would have been about the same time. I'm just I just want to have have a I'm not against it. I mean, it's part of the partnership. We We have to, you know, we're kind of obligated to support it. Otherwise, we've kicked out a very different I'm just curious like does this level represent the the most common level? I'm looking it up. I'm trying to find out. Yeah, I believe um it went down slightly um for some reason. I'm thinking it was about 120,000 last year, but don't hold me to it because I haven't looked at it for a while. Um, Minnotonka is a new member supporting this program again or has kind of re-entered the intermediate 287 program and I believe that helped reduce some of our overall costs associated with that. I'll try to look it up if I if I find it before we end our questions. I believe it was the first meeting in June that we brought it last year. Other questions or comments? I'll move I'll move the resolution as presented. We have a motion by Director Pollson and a second by Director Liss. More questions, comments, or do we want to give Tim time to find it? thought I give you a chance. I mean, it was approved by our representative board members. So, I saw that down there as well. So, if there are no more questions or comments, we'll do my favorite thing on the planet. And to bring it to a resolution vote since I'm looking to my left, director Spencer, I, Director Cole, I Franko, I, Director Palace, I. And the chair votes I and the resolution is approved. This whole close to the mic thing is tough. Brings us to the next thing on the agenda, which is the IEA contract renewal, which we've already had a chance to ask questions about, but doesn't mean that you get to talk about it. Very good. I'll jump in and just uh identify a couple items. Uh this is a three-year contract renewal with IEA. obviously had a long-term partnership with um them providing health and safety supports for the district. You heard earlier a number of the things that they are supporting as far as making sure that our environment is safe, healthy, and clean um as well as those Makosha walkthroughs and making sure that that is supported as well. Um it is on a fee for service basis um with an hourly rate. Projected um cost of contracts this year are 25,000 for 50 fiscal year 26, 27,000 for fiscal year 27 and 28,000 for fiscal year 28. Um it provides primarily that health and safety coordinator um available three weeks each month to assist in coordination in the management um of those programs specifically. there is some additional services that we purchase for um asbestous abatement supports and things like that that would be on top of that overall charge of that contract um but is articulated specifically as we work with them. So with that we seek your approval for that three-year contract renewal. Um just one question on the on the terms. Um, so it looks like it's 25,000 you mentioned this coming year 27 then 28, but that's that's an estimate and then not to exceed 33,000. Is that right? Um I think it is 304. Yeah, I think um I think it was not to exceed 33,000 um or would require additional uh Yeah. So if it exceeds the 33,000 then it would request separate approval by the district. Any more questions? I should be asking more questions. IA is a great partner and they've been a positive support for us for as long as I've been here. when you factor in what you know what what can we save given the the dollars that are within it and the and the human time it would take right bet an alternative so I'll move the contract as presented I'll second have a motion by director poll and a second by director Cole more questions comments hearing none we'll bring it to a vote all in favor please say I I post please say a chair votes I and we have a renewed IIA contract. Bring us to policy 411, local and out of state travel. All right, so this is a first read. Sorry, did I jump back? No, that's um policy related to professional development for staff and board members. Um indicates when travel is appropriate in the process for reimbursement for allowable expenses. And so we have this in front of you for first read. As we all know, uh this is how we uh refamiliarize oursel with the process. Um and so this is here just for a first read for us and we'll come back um a couple more times pes just one comment on this on the page that talks about mileage reimbursement it says.57.5 cents per mile it's probably 57.5 but it up at whatever the IRS allows right half a penny per month it's not.57 7 cents. Correct. And so we will make sure to look at that and update that um as we continue that dollar sign. I'm sure our experts will figure it out. But thank you for putting it out. I I will comment having having read it and and thinking of my own business travel and what is allowed and what isn't it and um I I went through and found we have another policy or guideline on use of the pec card and what is allowed and and not and so my concern you know for example meals are are are food and beverage and and non-alcoholic beverages in particular within the policy collective policies. So that was my concern is like the the expenses must be or or food and and and beverages consumed are things sort of an extension of campus for for whoever is doing it for what is there's a required return of the receipt and alcoholic beverages cannot be on that receipt which is very different from my day job and that's I'm not arguing for it it's different industry well the additional differences on public governmental land and in schools Um, alcohol and cannabis are forbidden. Um, which it may or may not be on your work site or that be is all I'm saying. We don't need clarification on that. Mr. Just clarifying the governmental rules for school sites. My day job is also different than the school and that is totally fine. Four questions on our first read. Hearing none brings us to donations. All right. So, it is recommended the board accept the follow donations with gratitude. RMS music department received a donation of a trumpet valued at $200 from Scott Dalquist of Richfield. So, thank you Scott Dalquist for the trumpet. With that, do we have a I will move that we accept this donation of a trumpet valued at $200 with gratitude. I'll second. Thank you both of you for the motion of the aforementioned donations with gratitude by director Spencer and a dire second by director Cole. All in favor please say I. I. I. All post we say nay. The chair votes I and we graciously accept the donation bringing us to advanced planning. All right. Legislative update. Thank you. Thank you. A couple of things. um they have come to agreement on a set of components that would um impact us very positive in the short term not quite as positive in the long term. Uh they have kept the formula tied to inflation which means we can count on 2.74% increase in the overall fund formula for next year. Uh they did uh in this bill have a one-time hold harmless for compensatory education. Um and so you are able to use either um the pupil count from FY26, which is the typical for next year, or um the revenue from FY24. Um that holds us harmless. Um in FY24, we were charging for meals. And so that $ 1.9 million difference we've talked about, um is to our favor for next year. Um and next year alone, uh they are having a compensatory revenue task force look at that. Um and so we have no promises about a year later, but for the next school year, um our compensatory education was held harmless. And so we weren't penalized or our students were not penalized with the finances that would have disappeared due to the new methods of calculation for free reduced lunch. We're going to have to go back to advocacy in the year after uh because they only gave us a one-year um to that hold harmless. And hopefully that compensatory task force of which I was on a similar task force over the course of this year um will push things forward in that direction. The only other thing that we have typically and historically seen on our agenda um because there are some small reductions here and there um that will counteract that but nothing on our top priority list. Uh something to be aware of because it'll come to calendar committee. Uh they have approved not next year but the 26 school year and the 27 school year. Um it does allow local teams to determine if we would start as early as September 1st. Um and so you can start before Labor Day, not this coming year, but in the two years after. I don't know what will happen. Uh but that'll be a conversation for calendar committee and we will gather feedback um as to what people want um in that time window because that change has been passed for the two years. Those are the main things happening. We do not expect a special session necessarily by the end of this week. Uh but within the next two weeks, we do expect the government to come together and pass all of the bills. Um and then we will have official information on all of it. Information and questions from the board. And in there you will notice a thank you to our student representatives. So it has been two spectacular years with Herardo Castinada Lopez. So we are excited for him to move on to his future and we will obviously miss him and his positive and lovely presence here. So we know he has a great future riding ahead of us. And Vanessa Rosas Miguel spent her first year with us as did Tenia Brackenidge who is not here. Um we are hoping they will choose to remain with us in their senior years. Herardo thought it was the greatest thing when he came back. Uh you can see from the giant smile on his face. So we appreciate your voice. We appreciate your presence and we are hoping you will continue on with us. I will stop talking and see if there are any board members that want to thank them for saying anything themselves. I've enjoyed hearing your questions and your thoughtful feedback and your um willingness to answer questions on the spot from us uh very often. uh is um it's been great to see you grow uh also here. So, thank you so much for being part of this board. I I would echo that. It's it's um we're just we've been so fortunate with the the great student representatives we've had and um and and it's not a it's not a contest. every year is just so impressive and it's it's the the the thoughtful things you bring, but also like actual eyes and your ability to translate for us what is happening within the building in a way that that it's not a knock, but like the adults don't necessarily always see it the same way. And so I appreciate the perspective you've brought and the things you've pointed out. It's been very helpful. Make sure you have a seat at the table for real. All right, because no one's going to necessarily give it to you. So, just make make room for yourself. Bring a chair if you have to. And Paulus pretty much said everything I was going to say, but it's always good to have people who are in the trenches come and talk to us because again, it gives us a whole more realistic perspective. So, gracias and thank you. um ditto. But on top of that, I think that neither of you hold back, right? You you don't hold punches. You're willing to ask really difficult questions. You advocate for your your classmates really well. Um I can tell that you're asking people about their experiences, bringing that to us. So really appreciate that. Congratulations on your graduation. Excited to see that tomorrow. Just to be clear, you haven't graduated yet. You have to walk the stage tomorrow. So, I I'll I got a couple things for you. For starters, I'm going to say this, and I'm going to say something I probably shouldn't say, especially on camera, but I'm going to say it anyways. I'm going to say an indication of how much you loved here is how much we fought and will continue to fight in the close session arm wrestling for who gets to hand you the diploma. Oh, yeah. And I'm not going to say who is. It'll be the surprise tomorrow to see right. So that's right. The first thing um again wrestling close session. No, this will be in preparation because tomorrow be your surprise. Uh thank you for the questions, right? Thank you for the insight. Thank you for sharing. I guess I'm echoing what everybody else said. Fine, whatever. I'm saying it my way. Uh we do appreciate you being here and participating. To you the same, right? Uh we we appreciate the student feedback, the insight. Um we appreciate being able to have you guys here to go and turn and go, "Oh god, what do the students think?" Right? And then have you guys tell us andor you guys go out and do the research for us. And I will echo the sentiment sentiment of we hope to see you back next year. With that, I'm going to pause quick and hand this out now. I'll walk over here quick. Sorry. There there are keep going. There are cookies to celebrate and then thank you cards from our team. Um because we do appreciate the things that um you have brought around. Go. Where are the cookies? There are cookies in the back of the room. Um and we are almost at the end of the open session moving to closed session. So it can be cookie break recess time. It would have been awkward to to to point out there were cookies. It's true. I can still see that there are I can still see them. There are cookies. I cannot see delicious. Maybe I need to put my glasses on. Yeah, I still can't see them. So, thank you again and thank you Tia for you're not here, but you we are appreciated. We appreciate you as well if you're watching this later. More questions from the board. Suggested future agenda items, future meeting dates. Uh like I said, June 23rd is a is our next meeting and is open for public comment. Then our one meeting in July will be special and it'll be handled by our seated members because it will not be handled by our outgoing members. Surprise. Yeah. Super unique scenario. So I believe Kirk, you are out on June 14th. So this is a study session. So July 14th, I Are you here on July 14th? Oh boy, we may have to have a problem here. Are you here on the 14th? Yes, but you are running for office. So, um Whoa. Whoa. Oh, you are sorry. You would theoretically be a candidate. So, I will tell you this. Um with you, uh Rachel Banks, Cupcho, and Tim Palace as candidates or possible candidates or people whose board uh four years is coming to an end. Um Ken Liss who just got volunttoled and I will be facilitating and co-f facilitating the study session. Is there a rule to do it in July? Because I'll be here in August. Um August is a little bit late. So I believe the Oh, because the filing and again not a big worry. Um we've done this before. We have all the materials. Um I am comfortable doing it myself, but I can't technically sit here. Um so Ken and I got this under control. We are smooth and we got it made in the shade. Kenless, step forward. Look at the smile on his face. We are giving that man the chair spot and the microphone for the study session. Well, I appreciate you saying Ken step forward. I feel like Kirk Compella step back. But yes, you got to take the Why you got to steal his thunder? Kunch forward. He was just like, coach, put me in coach. I'll second that, Eric. Volunte. I will say uh for the going back to the June meeting, I don't know if I'll be present on June 23rd. And so if anyone else knows that they'll be absent on June 23rd, because knowing that we have we are supposed to pass a budget if Yes. All jokes aside, possible. Yeah. I would I would then find out what address I might be at and provide it so I can participate. Correct. So, so everybody here is to be clear, we could get by with an unofficial meeting in July if for some reason our two board members were out and anybody else had an emergency. We could still run everything but not vote on anything. Um, however, on June 23rd, we need to have a quorum. Um, if not, we will need to call a another meeting on June 30th. Um, and so, um, Tim has already said he will not be there on the 23rd. Um, so we are hoping everybody else will be or at least four of us. Um, and one of those will not be Tim. So, please make sure mark your calendars. June 23rd here, be here or be square. And we'll follow up as we get closer. Yes. Yeah. Okay. That brings us to the super awesome part of our agenda. The final item, our business of the agenda is normally to adjourn. Tonight we have not just one close session but two close sessions as allowed by Minnesota state law 13 DO3 for labor negotiation strategy and 13D5 for the purposes of superintendent evaluation as such. Here's the tricky part. We'll be going to close session. Then we will come back to open session. We will reconvene in open uh close session. go back and do the superintendent evaluation not do them back to back or is it and then we already had this procedural discussion before the meeting started to make sure we're doing I was even early today and I still missed it. Yeah, it's super exciting. Uh and then um and then we'll come back here to close the meeting. That said, the video portion of this meeting will end now. We will be back here a couple of times to go ahead and continue on with the procedural portions of the meeting. We thank those uh well actually I should before I close. Well, do we have a motion to go to close session? So moved. For clarity, I'll second that we're going to close session for labor negotiation strategy. Allowed by statute 1303 for that topic. Thank you. Thank you. All in favor, please say I. I. I all post. As we are going into close session for 13 DO3 for labor negotiation strategy, this will end our video session. There will be no future agenda items to discuss other than us to go back into session, close session, and then close the meeting. Thank you for attending. Oh, I can't get