Thomas Rusbower who was a custodial services at Harambe Elementary School for 18 years um is retiring at the end of October. So uh I move that we accept that retirement with grateful appreciation to someone who's been associated there and and done that that work and just as part of our family for so long so long so many years so almost two decades.

As a condition of admission to an attendance at voluntary school district sponsored event, students may be subject to screening by a passive alcohol sensor device. Such screening shall be pursued of policy 406 drug-free workplace, drug-free schools, section 5 0.55.

This simply aligns to our practice at least for the last 12 years or so we use a passive device that's used across I think internationally called an elk blow for our high school level uh school dances including homecoming and prom and has really changed the environment and created safer schools. So we we have never had a problem connected to that u but we just wanted to make sure that our policies aligned with our practice.

My opinion is it's just worth one reading because again, it doesn't really change anything. It just brings it in alignment with existing practices andor in alignment with the titles of different policies.

That plan does drive um the deferred maintenance that we do throughout the district. Right now we are in year one of um Edertton's remodeling with the replacing the HVAC systems and lighting and everything that goes along with it.

It can't be used for LTFM cannot be used for new buildings or programming changes. Again, it's um it's defined and it it is about extending the life of our existing buildings.

Yeah. Actually the um m the department of education will adjust future levies for that. Got it. And that's why sometimes even when um because this is really the one of the big first steps in your preliminary levy process. You'll approve the preliminary lobby in September and then the final in December uh for taxes payable in 2027 and there's a reconciliation process so that if it's not spent we can see sometimes see a negative adjustment um on our levy. Got it. So that yeah, it takes a couple of years to reconcile, but it's comforting because it means in the end the MD there's a check and balance that even if a school district wanted to there's no way they could like build a slush fund with this. Exactly. It's really very specific and tied to things. Yeah.

We made adjustments to the salary schedule consistent with what we've done with other negotiations. So, we did 2 and a half% increase to the salary schedule on years one and two. for adjustments to insurance. We did um 13% increase to district contributions for both family and single coverage in the first year of their contract.

We also added a title change. So, building secretaries um expressed that their jobs have shifted over the course of the years and wanted to have a title that reflected that. And so, that new title for the 2627 school year will now be building a office lead.

It is. And it's consistent with what we've done with other district with other bargaining groups. One of the things that we don't necessarily talk about a lot is that our pair professional and ask me clerical group or excuse me office support group have asked to follow what our teachers receive in terms of the contributions to benefits. And so that usually is the pattern that we use for this bargaining and it was consistent with what we did with other groups.

What I will share is just the improvements. And so for this group, we did a two and a half increase to their salary schedules on year one and two similar to our um office support team and group. And then we also added 13% to district contributions in year one for both single and family.

But we did update links to resources. Maybe they were presentations, maybe they were outside resources that just needed an update. Um, and we did update some board member information. Your officers changed. We had two new board members.

So, what we're proposing is that instead of January, we move it to June and then you would set dates for the the following school year in its entirety and you don't have to come back and do bits and pieces.

So, I'm really glad you just approved that because we're actually going to ask you to approve the remainder of your schoolboard meeting dates for next school year. So, in January, you would approve calendar year 2026 dates, but that only took us up through December 2026. And we just would like to approve the rest of um 2027. So, that would be January through June.

Only thing to note would be spring break is the second week of March and you normally have a schoolboard meeting on the second Tuesday. So we've just bumped that meeting and then the subsequent meeting back by a week. So it's actually the third and then the last Tuesday.

Now this was an amendment that was made to the 2526 SRO contract. Um and so now we're just getting it into the contract. Um, so this is already um been an approved amendment to the previous one, but now it's a part of the current one.

Thank you. I'd also add that again we're very grateful for the city of Roseville in terms of our partnership and just as an example of that we had a large administrative meeting and training today in addition some safety training and we had SRO and city presence in those trainings. So we really do consider them a part of our staff and in terms of following our strategic plan uh including our equity vision.

And I always think about how the way we approach our SRO's you know kind of being part of the family being educator being consultative and the fact that they are very present in our community in our events right that's just really it it speaks it just warms my heart to think about that because there is other narrative about SRO's and I often have to kind of go well not in our district right that this is the way we treat them. This is the way they are viewed and treated. And so that that relationship is so helpful when we do have issues, you know, that we have to deal with because their relationship is what matters, right? The relationship they have with the families that will help deescalate or help resolve the the problem.