this is the first long-range technology plan that he and everyone else that I have talked with recall being developed um in Rochester public schools.

our job here is to figure out how we can provide the same level of service or better at a reduced cost. That's one of our goals.

Technology is the means by which the students learn, not the learning goal itself. It's a tool.

I I was sort of uh taking notes as you were going and making some call outs for areas where the board I thought could likely support this work. It seemed like there were some obvious uh uh policy implications um in 4.6 around the AI policy. I imagine that would be a district policy and uh perhaps some student device or usage guidelines in goal 3.3 related to screen time.

I think when you mention Los Angeles it's very telling. Uh one of the books that some staff in our schools are reading right now is the digital delusion. How classroom technology harms our kids learning and how to help them thrive again. Um, this is a throw the baby out with the bathwater strategy. It is a wholesale all screen time is bad. Um, to me, uh, that's as nonsensical as where we were with the all screen time is is good or necessary.

I was very impressed, especially the third time through that you're very clear at the beginning that this is about tech deployment and tech support. You talk about deeper learning. You talk about critical thinking. You talk about problem solving and it's it's very clear to me that this plan is about not only making our management more efficient and effective... but also providing teachers um with not only the tools but the training for the tools that they can use to help differentiate curriculum... this will support, not replace that.

Um, so to answer your first question about the the cost, uh, we annually see about 75,000 a year in repairs and a half to two-thirds of that is at the middle school level.

the deferred amount is about 1.2 million um over three years.

LTFM isn't simply just a bucket of money. we can do anything related to facilities is very specified uses. ...It's really intended to be those projects that keep our existing assets in working condition, presentable, and uh something that we can then uh continue to use into the future.

We are adopting software... that is going to allow us to continually baseline the physical condition of all of our facilities that will drive future versions of this plan as opposed to essentially what we've been doing like many districts for a long time of of a a sell by date, a repair date where we would have a presumed date and instead we will be continually updating the actual observed condition of all of those HVAC systems and the facilities.

If you don't do A, it could impact you C and D, maybe focus on B instead of pushing it all the way down to E. So, sounds like a stupid way to, you know, make an analogy of it, but that's what at the end of the day, we we don't have that at our fingertips right now, and we've been long overdue for it.

the fact that we our taxpayers can see this as an investment that we're consistently making in our infrastructure um that they can predict in terms of having what the impact is in their overall school taxes. um we're not um surprising them. We're we're not giving them fluctuations from one year to another and it can be tied to um us wanting to make sure that we don't have our buildings go into repair.

policy 208 uh allows the board to approve changes to policy at a single board meeting if it's the result of legal action. And these changes come from the changes in Minnesota law that repeal the previous alley system used for elections in RPS and replace it with the standard atlarge election format that is used throughout the state.