like to call to order the shock be school board regular business meeting for June 24 2024 Tiffany can you please do the rooll Michelle roopie here Peterson here Smith here alridge here Johnson Mohammad yes all those here here can you please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance i al to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all [Applause] all right welcome everyone we've got a packed agenda tonight and some distinguished guests um we'll move on to the next item on our agenda our saber Pride item uh item three and uh first up is item 3.1 we are recognizing our uh student School Board member at DT of pane this is his last day with us and uh I have the pleasure of being being a DT's mentor and um a dtl along with Danielle D were the the first two student student school board members in quite some time I don't know exactly how many years but I I know it's been a while and uh adtia has the uh the honor of being the first uh two-year member on the board um and uh you know just for me personally it's just been a joy having you here your your insights and contributions have been invaluable and uh uh it's uh it's can be uh can be tough to to see you go after after all this time and I know uh you you're going to be at the U ofm at the College of uh science and engineering and so wish you well there and how anyone else have any uh any comments well we've got uh you a little bag there uh from from all of us uh that Tiffany put together do you have any uh any parting thoughts this is here you get the last word um it has been a privilege and an honor to be part of this school board and like I never like I've said this before like I knew before being on the school board I knew the school board like did a lot of things but I didn't know like the extent of all the things and all the different processes all the different rules regulations that were that like went into doing any anything on the school board I didn't know any anything about that and it has been a massive privilege to be able to learn learn that process and like go through it and like get a good understanding and appreciation for all the time and effort and processes processes that go into making the school as good as it can be and I as sad as I am to leave I'm happy that I know I'm happy that I was able to learn so much from all of you and got to experience his experience it's never going to come again I'm happy that I'm and happy that I got I was lucky enough to experience it um D I just want to tell you you've done a great job it's been a pleasure getting to know you the last two years and I would hope people just join me and let J Smith May uh we have a speaker on the agenda that's about 4 minutes behind for item 3.2 just so you can know how you'd like to proceed all right uh thank you uh we uh will come back to item 3.2 then um when our speaker arrives uh yeah we'll go through the next uh the next few items here and do do you know when they're con here or approximately four minutes four minutes you did say that okay thank you yeah I think we can get through a couple items here um let's do item four on the agenda the consideration of the agenda as presented so move second we have a motion by roofi and a second by Aldrich any discussion seeing none all those in favor I oppos motion carries next is item five our public comment section this is the time where members of the public can participate in the meeting without being part of the meeting agenda a member of the public May address the board on an agenda topic or on another topic we allocate a total of 15 minutes for public comment at this meeting each individual speaker may speak for up to 2.5 minutes the sign up for public comment has been conducted online and in person prior to this evening's meeting no one has signed up for public comment prior to this evening's meeting we will move on to the next item on the agenda next on our agenda is item six the consent agenda you can see we have several Personnel items uh minutes from the last meeting our bills wires we have a scoreboard agreements uh donations cap agency uh YMCA and cross country uh agreements I come make the motion to be approved motion by Muhammad and a second by Peterson in discussion see none all those in favor I I oppos motion carries okay thank you all right we have uh two distinguished guests here tonight next on our agenda is item 7.1 legislative update and we're pleased to have our uh uh state senator for District 54 Senator Eric Bratt welcome Senator well thank you thank you thank you chair stth and directors for the invitation I appreciate it um and and just let me say thank you for your service I know uh you know local government particularly schools are are uh extremely important to our community side you know often times our schools are the heart of our communities that's where we come together and and coales and and uh I I don't envy the job that you have you're expected to be perfect all the time um and uh well let me put it this way Perfection is expected anything less than that is uh is difficult I uh I have just a few notes there we go just because I know we're on U on a tight schedule let me just start off by saying um I don't want this to be a partisan discussion um but I also have my opinions and and those are influenced by my you know my beliefs and values so please don't take them as politically partisan they're they're just meant to be my my thoughts and and you know you're welcome to agree or disagree uh you public schools in Minnesota have been uh a part of our values for a long time you know it's been in held in in high regard that every child uh have access to a public education and and you know as I see my role in in the Minnesota Senate it's to help promote and um and protect that right that we've guaranteed our students in our state conversation and so when I think of Education I really want to focus on on the student what does that student be I want to enable that student to be successful in the classroom I want them to have they need a great teacher in front of them now I'm a I'm a finance and a banking guy so I would be remissed to say that you need stable and reliable funding as well but you also need community and parent support I think if we get you know and when I look at at things that are important in education I try to put them through those lenses you I've been extremely uh proud to talk about um the various programs uh in our Scott County Schools and and and I know the superintendent and I have have talked to other legislators about uh the acmy that Shock Me and really uh linking a student's education to their you know to their career Futures and I think it's been a great success and and congratulations to you on that but even you know even as we have great schools in this District we're not or in this in these communities um we are not immune to the to the issues of the problems that you know are faced Statewide by other districts I'm just going to you know it seems like whenever there's a problem with Minneapolis public schools or St Paul Public Schools there's a reaction to have to uh you know and oftentimes it's due to their own lack of leadership that we end up with a one- siiz fits-all solution and it impedes upon what I believe is the local control and your ability to to meet the needs of your students so a couple issues that come to mind some of them you know have affected other communities in the in the county more than you but you know one was the school resource officer controversy not really a problem but we created one and and it was an issue that should have been fixed fixed in a special session last year um regretfully we didn't end up passing uh the law and getting it signed in the law until mid-march but in that meantime we we kept a lot of of uh uncertainty out there and even though we had you know 80 some schools that um made some change to their school res off officer agreements or suspended their school resource officer agreements um even communities like Shak there were concerns within law enforcement and other areas as I talked to folks that you know there were still concerns with that law under the surface even though you were able to to help make it work um and kudos to you and your partnership with the city on on being able to do that uh as you know as we've seen in in some other communities it was really important that you know I think we've seen the importance of school resource officers regretfully became a partisan issue and it should have never been a partisan issue um but I'm glad we we got it fixed and I and I think that was a a good thing to come out of this session you know we've got prescriptive uh discipline policies that have come out and I talked to a couple of principles who have said that they're going to be difficult to implement um I worked on the uh revision of the teacher licenser system and I was disappointed to see uh new regulations that make tier 2 licenses more difficult to get so so if you think about it the idea was that we had four tiers of licenses one was effectively replacing the community expert by putting in some minimal criteria two was for people who were working in the district um so many district came to me and they said they wanted to do a grow your own program we had alternative teacher prep programs like Teach for America that wanted to come in and so we created a tier 2 system that allowed someone to be working and to be getting their you know be be progressing to a full license and um it was it became particularly interesting that teachers with existing licenses were using it to get additional credentials I talked to one teacher in Prior Lake who was using it to become a special ed teacher he was able to work in special ed and um get the necessary lenser credentials uh in order to become a fully licensed special ed teacher and and so that's going to be more difficult uh like I say I worked on that um and and I think that was one that that I felt particularly sad to see um impacted I was really glad to see that we put some additional money towards the read act as you know um a child's ability to read at grade level by third grade is probably the best indicator that we have of their academic success and uh I I've been working on literacy and different issues for a long time I think this is one of the most exciting programs that we have um I would hope that the Department of Education be a little bit more flexible for schools um to implement the program but I'm I'm extremely pleased that we're finding that that renewed focus and and energy and actually putting uh our resources behind it uh to get a moving um I was also happy to see that we put together a uh study on truy to look at the root causes of chronic absenteeism and um look at ways to um you know combat that that issue represent Baker will be here one other week um was extremely instrumental getting that through and and it was a a particular interest of of scale which um is a collaboration of all our our Scott County local governments couple of things that I didn't think went very well um last session we passed paid family medical leave this session we made some changes to it um paid leave is going to cost Minnesota school districts over $173 million in 2026 and 27 and um that information comes from the um from the Actuarial reports as well as the uh legislative budget office uh we put sick and safe time mandates into place that override collective bargaining agreements we had the creation of a state librarian at the Department of Education in St Paul now I find it hard to believe that we have to put that position in up in St Paul when we have so many school districts that are cutting staff and really struggling um unemployment for seasonal workers your bus drivers and those folks um I served as chair of the of the jobs committee and I was in charge of of U unemployment insurance during the during the co crisis and I can tell you it's it's an interesting system once you once you learn it as a reimbursable employer that cost is going to fall entirely on you so you're not part of the insurance pool you're but but you have to reimbursement pool for those for those amounts paid out and according to the legislation you can't let me for that cost and you know I I would say expanding U uh voluntary prek a year early was I think a disappointment I think um there were other ways that we could use that money that would be more effective for student achievement um and it puts in my mind it exacerbates uh the issue we have with uh our shortage in child care so you know my I would say my criticism of the last bium was that the legislature has really tried to micromanage school districts from St Paul almost uh all of our 331 school districts often time find solutions for the issues that that seem to come up I served on a school I know we we came up with those Creative Solutions that work for the students work for the you know for the rest of the student body but again it seems like we have to have these one- siiz fits-all mandates which in my mind impedes your ability to serve your students your families your staff and your community and Mr chair I'm happy to take any questions if there are any um thank you for being here so PR I appreciate your support of all of our schools across the state of Minnesota obviously specifically sh SC schools but I I just want to piggy back a little bit off of what you said about um local control um not every school district is the same and not every school district has the same needs and I know that you know that but um I think it's just really really important that we try to maintain as much local control as possible um so that we can meet the needs of our students in our district the way that we see that the needs need to be met um and obviously next year we know that it's a um new bium and budgets are going to be set and I know that you're very supportive of our schools but um funding obviously is up for discussion starting in January again and uh how important it is to continue to give us the increases more than the 2% that we that we've received except for this last year with the 4% but the additional more than the 2% increase to cover what the inflation costs are is critical um so hopefully we can work together at the capital to try to achieve holding that Gap you got a long ways to go but two and is not going to close the gap moving forward absolutely uh um and thank you you know thank you for that comment um you know when inflation was running at 1 and a half 2% 2% 2% seemed you know pretty good um you know I was on the board when we had three years of flat funding and unfortunately we were never able to to kind of make that up along the way um what I would say is that that it's not just the amount of money that's spent on schools but it's how it's allocated and and one of the criticisms that I've had and a local superintendent uh said to me that it was like getting $1,000 but being told how spent 995 of it and so I I agree with you we need to be able to put more money on the formula um which then also U automatically increases some of the money that goes into special education and some of the other compensatories that um are so important that are in your control to meet the needs that uh that your students your families your staff uh need and not being told how to spend 995 out of [Music] ,000 wow I did so good yeah please I just want to tell you thank you number one for being here tonight number two just being available and uh certainly being a a state senator that we can connect with we can reach out you always return our our emails our phone calls and uh that is much appreciated so thank you very much well thank you and I appreciate your partnership as well and uh as as a superintendent knows I you know I often brag about our Scott County Schools and the acmy of shaky which you know I've been involved in as on The Advisory Board is has been a tremendous success and I think um you know I'll honest with you when I first heard about it I'm like let's see how this goes wow it succeeded I think it succeeded my expectations um and really U you know I hope we'll be a model for what others do I would say I hope we don't mandate it um I think it was you know you talked about the local control and and that's what allowed the Innovation to have something like this program not only be able to be considered and implemented but to become the success that it is so well thank you very much I appreciate ination and I'm happy to come back anytime thank you appreciate all right our uh speaker has arrived so we are going to go back to uh item 3.2 our uh spring activities presentation with Andy Brown our activities director all right Andy greetings boy apologies for being a little late and for being one of the sweatiest presenters I have um my soccer team that I coach uh this was our last practice of the season and because of all the rain we also haven't had more than one practice in the last three weeks so it's just been a wild time so I had to get out there with humidity and all um so uh in trying to come up with the highlights here um I just want to let you know that I feel like the stuff that I kind of pulled out doesn't even really scratch the surface of how many cool things um were happening just as um uh as I think I've mentioned before I don't run in clear Seasons the way that the sports do so when I come in it's kind of always thinking back what did I tell you about already and what um what might you want to hear about so just know that this is just a hint of kind of some of the cool things that are going on um our spring play was The Hobbit it was really well received um had the best attendance we've had through the spring play in a long time I think partially just the name recognition um had a few people uh show up um few audience members show up in costume and some things like that so it was uh it was really fun um big cast and uh just lots of lots of laughs and some good special effects in there um we're really excited about the season for next year that's another click that you put up we're doing Guys and Dolls for the fall musical um which is a classic a really fun one um if it had it's been a long time since it's been done in shaki um couldn't figure out exactly when we just know there was a hint that it was in there somewhere so excited about that one and then in the spring we're doing Harry Potter and the cursed child um which is this is actually the first year that this is available for high schools to do um so our director was really um has been kind of following the progress within the last year A lot of times when a property like this comes available they'll do a test run so there was like a couple schools in each state that got to do it last year and then they give a bunch of feedback and then they um send something out um and our director is already trying to work with um our engineering construction um uh classes and teachers to try to see what they can build in some of this special effects that they might be able to create there's some different things that might need some metal working and some woodworking um kind of just beyond what our normal set builder could do in that short calendar so she started that process of doing that so um we're pretty excited to be we don't know at the moment if anyone else in the Metro is doing it at all um uh but we'll we'll probably find out fairly soon if anyone else has the rights for this upcoming year um but either way it will be one of the first um right off the bat so that's kind of fun Should um again name recognition should draw some good crowds um we sent two teams this is right before the end of the school year we sent two teams to the esport state finals um a rocket League team and a Super Smash Brothers team both I think finished one win out of placing um where they were um so that was pretty cool um Alexi Houston who's on our rocket League team he was here he was at a meeting not too long ago um he was actually our senior athlete of the year and the first one to have a plaque that had uh had is the two other sports he plays hockey and tennis and then also they put Esports on the on the plaque that he got for it so that was kind of a a cool thing um they went to St Cloud State University which has like a full Esports program and a dedicated facility um that they said was fantastic so um you know there the hope would be that maybe at least a couple kids their eyes open and this is something that they could do in college or you know a hook to get them thinking about postsecondary education at the very least um so that would be that would be great um yeah they got to go up with uh Andy Benson who's one of our art teachers is in charge of that um our Deca program s 10 um I think that works out to 10 um yeah eight qualifiers there some of them are pairs um to the International Conference that was in um Los Angeles actually so they went out to Los Angeles and competed didn't have any place uh Place winners or finalists but that's the whole Squad that is more than 10 if you weren't if you were counting the picture so um they had a good showing there um last time I was here I talked about our culinary Club had just left to go to the pro start um Invitational the National Pro start Invitational um where they placed 13th there's one team out of each state um there were two states that didn't have a culinary team so that's 13th out of 48 um at Nationals for the first time ever with this program um and if uh if you've met Heather bomach um it wouldn't surprise you that she came back and she said well I know how we'll win next year um that's kind of that's kind of her mindset is is uh just just absolutely maximizing what they can do um but it was they had an incredible experience uh and uh it showed showed up really well for the school there um so we have that um speech finished off their season um as usual we have um by these kind of big Point systems uh in which students accumulate points that's run by the National Speed and debate Association we have um I feels like every other week I get a letter in my mailbox that says you've now achieve diamond platinum triple status and all these things and so we do have a a top you know nationally like a top 5% speech program um it really performs well um so you can see we had um a ton of State uh competitors um placed two in there shamanur in fourth and Shan ailala in seventh place um the nsda tournament there are two national tournaments the nsda is the tougher one because there's like a single qualifying tournament um and uh so they um went in there you can tell that when we list somebody as being top 125 that tells you that um you know they're they're competing as three or 400 I think in the initial category um and so Rohan finished 31st um in that and then the nto is the other National Tournament this was just this last week um and you can qualify for that by just performance over the course of the season so enough placing and enough finishes at the various registered tournaments and you can get to that one um so we went there had these five students um what they call the OCTA finals which is the top 60 again out of another starting three or 400 or whatever depending on the category so um another um banner year um for the speech team um yeah so there's that um I'm really excited about this next one our fishing club is kicked off we've got teams in the Minnesota junior Bass Nation um Luke Allison who's a special ed teacher and then Jeff pamman is a Community member um we're kind of spearheading that done with some other parent help um and so we've got uh we've got five teams competing you can see that group on the top there no and Tanner finished sixth um I can't tell if he's just holding that one on the far left closer to the camera but I think uh that really was a huge one that put him up in the uh up in the standings there so this was on Prior Lake last Wednesday which was uh terrible weather day um and they have their second competition um two days from now on Lake lonia um so I'm hoping I can get over to that one um and see um the other team in the bottom right there those are both um kids of uh District employees um as well so you know Rachel pson and Elizabeth deer um those are their kids competing on the team there they took 10 in this month so we're hoping uh to finish high enough to get a couple teams to the state tournament for that as well um and then the last one we got all sorts of other things that are had wrapped up or kicking out for Ultimate Frisbee team um concluded their season had a really successful run in the middle of the season and rattled off like five straight uh five straight wins um and then had a little dip going into the state tournament um and I think went like uh one and three at the state tournament to I remember um we won both uh probably a good development in general is that we've got our head coaches um needs to step down and give a little more time to his kids and he's still planning on participating but we've already got some alumni um interested in taking over um and helping coach with that and um they've kind of set up a little bit of a um we've had alumni coming back and spectating and helping out a little bit and I think U that will really help uh build the program um the FCCLA National Conference is in a week don't ask me what the acronym stands for um but that's our education um education students um who competed in the state um at the state level and qualified for Nationals they're going to Seattle with um shaa Wilson one of our back teachers um about I think three of of the five students um are covered under the grow your own grants so that's one of the things that that has really um that that has paid off in is um students being able to to travel and compete um in this stuff and um just get all that additional training experience hopefully as as future Educators in in our district uh mountain biking starts um in about a week July 6th I want to say off the top of my head is that sound right check with he is eth maybe that yeah the yeah the eth um so mountain biking will kick off um and uh we'll be off and running with that again and then marching van starts right about the same time our numbers are up from 40 to about 60 um as of last uh last count and we um maybe we'll have a flagline we're about two people short of what we need to actually um do a flag so Michelle if you're not busy just trying to regr just trying to more um anyway so we so we may have that so we're kind of continuing that um little bit of slow growth they'll do the same thing where they um they have um they're not going to do any major competition um they're going to walk in the State Fair Parade again um and then we've also got um something that maybe open to other band students where they're going to go play with the University of Minnesota so there's kind of this open thing where they create this huge band at the U and they get to watch the U marching band and those things so we're hoping that that can maybe um fire up and kind of push us into that next level of uh of participation in the marching band so just trying to um trying to be cautious about growing it um you know uh slow slowly enough um you know that doesn't implode but be ambitious enough that uh that um that people want to do it and want to be part of it so um yeah so those things are um you know starting up in a week or so not much of an offseason um in this world like I said so lots of things uh going up but not too busy until the fall starts again so yeah that's the big run of stuff yeah that's a lot thank you you have any questions comments it's exciting great thank you very much for thanks right bill is Bill is anticipa we're up to item 7.2 with our second distinguished guest we have Bill Reno the city administrator for the city of Shak thank you for joining us bill well thank you for the invite uh I'm always owing mic flavor so anytime I get I to do something I check something else off my list that I don't have to do for him later um yeah uh thank you very much uh first of all let's start off first and foremost thank you for what you do uh for the strong partnership we have and have had for some time now and uh you know we really appreciate everything that you bring to the table and and some of the things one of the the one that Mike and I worked on specifically that I'm going to reference to the Future here uh but we we've had many things that we that we worked on together uh including uh being one of the co-sponsors for the Human Services Academy which we are exceptionally proud of uh I try to advocate for theem at every opportunity uh and uh they are truly a transformational educational uh environment here and we're proud to be a part of that so just really quick uh I've got some slides I want to go through uh this makes my M Council happy you know whenever I get to knock some of these points out so please bear with me just a little bit our mission is to deliver high quality services essentially essential to maintaining a safe and sustainable Community we commit to doing this effectively with integrity and transparency uh those are two things that are very important to me personally and those are any anytime the administration is involved with anything we're talking about integrity and transparency big things for us as a whole our values uh Integrity well there's a Shakra right at the top uh you can read them yourself the one I want to refer to and the one that we're most proud of is the last one fun we're one of the few governments that I'm aware of that actually has the word fun listed as one of our values we mean it we're an entertainment Community that's what we do but we also recognize internally that we have to enjoy what we do and we take our roles our jobs very seriously we do not take ourselves seriously if you come to my office every time I walk in there's something else that somebody's put in there that's making fun of me personally you know what it's a great environment to be a partner and we're proud of that that fun piece really quickly our government is what's called a weak mayor form of government I answer to a board which uh you know much like Dr Redmond does and uh you know for me I don't need to count as high as here I have to count to three I have four or I have five board members including the mayor and uh my role is not to make everyone happy I can't make everyone happy I can't make every board member happy I can't make every resident happy because if I'm making you happy I'm probably making you unhappy so the key is as we look at things very simply uh we want we want very much to do what's in the best interest of the community as the whole and I am sure that I'm just regurgitating exactly the way you guys look at things as well we're very aware of that I have 177 fulltime and 197 ctime staff and you can see them right there one of the things you you know you can see that we actually have a pretty big uh Recreation Department which is uh you know 21 people and of itself that's bigger than than my department of Administration financial goals we are very very very proud of our our place as one of the lowest tax communities in the Twin Cities area uh we are the seventh lowest tax and this will change this year when we will be even lower probably within the top five in the whole state for of the 60 that are above uh uh uh 20,000 population out of those there are three of those that are higher than us that actually receive money from the state and including this thing called uh fiscal disparities fiscal arities is is only happens in in Minnesota it's one of those great things that we all Shake our heads and scratch our heads about where they take $7 million of tax money from the residents of Shak and give it to other communities sort of like our poor friends in Prior Lake who who you know can't afford their taxes apparently so we give we give Prior Lake $2 million a year I I often would just wish they'd let us the state would let us keep our $7 million and we would even be more lower when it comes to our tax rates uh I'm a marine so you have to bear with me I say things with graphs I can understand that I really couldn't understand the other slid so that makes a lot easier and we're also we have one of the lowest cost of uh uh living or cost of our services that we're responsible for amongst cities as well and we're under $11,000 uh compared to our comparable and local cities which you can see on the slide also something we're very proud of we are a fiscally conservative community and we take pride in that in this particular budget our tax rate decreased uh and if your value of your home didn't go go up you should have received a tax break as well and we have a history of doing that in shock I just note that I paid more for these than my annual Property Tax Bill cell phone cable TV and internet electric electricity and gas that's all more you know I pay more on on my my family cell phone plan than I do uh in in taxes one of the ways that we can keep our taxes low is this slide right here the role of growth we are a growing Community it's very important because as we continue to grow your piece of that pie that tax Pie gets smaller uh I don't understand that I don't know how it works you got to talk to the finance people they can kind of figure it out for you I just regurgitate what they tell me and they tell me that that's the case but the bottom line is is that uh there isn't a lot that the city can do in and of itself to promote growth but we can manage growth there are a few things that we can and we manage it typically through our zoning code uh trying to make sure that we have the ability to to have certain uh uh certain uh sectors have certain things that are in them now this year uh we almost lost that uh I want to thank Senator Pratt for being on the front lines of helping us keep uh you know something as simple as our zoning code in place so where we we know what we're going to have because if you think about it we build infrastructure for what we're planning to have in that particular area so if we are building infrastructure for 25 single family homes in in a certain area and then suddenly uh somebody decides that they want to build an industrial Factory there uh well we don't the stuff that's in the ground isn't going to marry up and and that's a real concern and then we have to ask ourselves who's paying for it chances are pretty good it's us paying for it which means it's all of you paying for it and how are we growing this is stuff these are currently on the books right now being developed or in the pipeline that is a lot of homes that's a lot of apartments that's a lot of activity but it's not only there it's commercial industrial too uh I think as you drive around in our industrial section you can see B big buildings going up all over the place but what we're really particularly uh excited about is what's happening at Canterbury Canterbury has been a city project that we're partnership with canabury we've got a little over $35 million into the project at this point through Tiff funds which means that we're building all of the infrastructure within canterburry property proper so that all is city streets that are there and we're currently working on the Entertainment District and you can see portions of that being developed now and you will also see that right across from McDonald's all of those Barns and everything have been cleared out that's where the Entertainment District is going to be it'll be coming off the side of the amphitheater which will anchor that and as we look at the amphitheater this is a very special project this is this is going to this is the next Jewel on the crown if you think about it when it comes to entertainment we got Valley Fair we got Canter we got mytic you know we we've got the Renaissance Fair you know we're we're we're the place where it's happening we're we're the place where people come to have fun well now we're going to have a state-of-the-art Midwest finest Amphitheater almost 20,000 seats where major acts as opposed to going to the Target Center or or or or going to you know a baseball field where there aren't I mean this place is designed for the Acoustics for a concert and and we're excited that that's going to be a part the next piece of our crowns and our crown jewels of uh entertainment here in Shak when does that open sorry jump in uh it will open in uh May June of 2025 if you haven't had the opportunity to go by and look uh it's right across from the the water tower it's a h huge assembly and it will be fun can we get tour sometime just all of us yes at some point that'd be great thank you uh we're actually taking our Council on a tour at the end of July but I will I will make sure that that happens uh so we've got a lot of amenities that we've been working on as well and this is just a list of them but I like to say hey it's all for the kids right this is exactly we have something in common yet again I mean a lot of this stuff of you know playgrounds uh but the one that I'm most proud about is the pedestrian bridge that we got with help from Senator Pratt and representative uh taby uh and and the M mountain bike course that was that was something that you know Mike and I literally had a phone call about and we're scratching our heads and and you know we were able to work something out to put that and that is a that is a great mountain bike course it's well used uh we were able to get Excel Energy to the table to be a part of it as well so it was literally a private uh Public public partnership and it's been wonderful these are just some pictures that's uh our pedestrian bridge new Yuber park playground which uh will be underwater relatively shortly be clear uh new Lions Park pickle ball Courts for all those pickle barall Ballers out there yes we're we're still building them uh seeing Heights the the fitness Court off to to the right is our newest addition to the scenix height Heights Park uh that will be opened up next week I think it is or or soon after that so when we talk about all the things we got going on and we're talking about all the growth this is the slide that should be most important to you this is our future this is what we just have in the pipeline now I had a meeting this morning and we're going to have more uh houses that are coming in we you know land was just bought developers have already made the call it's not even on this list so even with just what we have on the list we're looking at uh with just what we have in the pipeline of being over 53,000 people uh and that's just using them at council's when that total estimated population when is that like how many years out uh I can't answer that uh my planning uh uh director says by mid2 25 we should be there because these places are being built right now um yeah so that's that's an important piece of of what I've come to tell you that expect more people we have challenges we'll always have challenges I think everybody understands that uh I wanted to talk about one of our challenges that has become a success and that's our fire department you know we had some serious problems in our fire department we recognize that we told the community that we're going to fix them this is the future of our fire department and we are fixing it I'm very proud of our new Chief uh and and our Deputy Chiefs that we have in place we've transferred into a 24-hour system we don't we we no longer have paid on call uh you know volunteer essentially we have part-time employees and we will continue we just hired three captains uh We've hired a couple more full-time firefighters we're redoing portions of Fire station number one so we can have people you know actually do 24 hours in sleep uh and then when the bells off goes off uh you know they can jump up and head head to the things one of our problems you know in the past and you know if I may you know the district has had problems in the past where now it's it's it's it's the Stellar it's it really is a stellar organization that has done so much and you know I think it's important that we recognize what our past is and what our issues been in the past and how we're committed to moving things forward may I interject there just it's timely we did a a large scale reunification exercise last Thursday and uh in fact there's folks in that photo that were there participating but the the efforts in the partnership the collaborative efforts with shakb fire department shakb PD and lots of other area organizations what we're learning from them uh is just amazing we're incredibly incredibly appre itive to have Partners like that in our community that are looking to be proactive to to figure things out to do the best you can you know to keep people safe and to plan for things you know I think our our exercise was a gas leak at one of the elementary schools and how do we reunify and my go they were phenomenal to work with so thank you not like we've had any gas laks or anything in the past uh now I get to brag a little bit uh uh we are in award-winning City now it hasn't been released yet but on Thursday for the second time in 5 years we will be one of five cities in the state of Minnesota that will be recognized as a city of Excellence by the league of Minnesota cities no other city has done that in five years we've been recognized twice there's only five in the state that get it in in year uh so that will be at the league of Minnesota City's uh uh uh uh Conference in Rochester which I will be going to early tomorrow morning but we literally uh have an incredible amount of of of hardworking wonderful uh talented people that work for our organization uh and I I like to brag about them whenever I can but it's not only me bragging about them it's others that are doing this by the way you'll also see here in the inter International City County management association the uh which award is it it is voice of the people award for transformation and safety you won that in 2020 two we are one of 10 cities in the nation that won the voice of the people we are a finalist again this year for that same so I'm I'm excited about that and uh you know much as you were talking earlier with Senator Pratt about the importance of local control and literally it's all about Innovation if the if the state is telling us how to run our operations we're not being Innovative if we're not being Innovative we're not finding ways to do things better better to save money doing them in different ways and being each City being its own laboratory where we can figure out what works best for us Prior Lake and shaky are right next to each other we are fundamentally different even though we're right next door and and that's what I try to tell people all the time when I'm when I'm testifying at the State trying to fend off some of the actions of trying to make us all one uh that that you know we're not we're not uh sure if you think of us as a zoo well we're a zebra and and you know prior to like's a hippopotamus no offense it's the water love all my communities seally that doesn't sound like a politician and and this is this is uh I think important when I talk about Innovation and talk about local control this is a question I get all the time why can't we why can't we be more more like a business that actually is pretty easy question to answer go ahead yeah we're not a business it's not what we do we're not concerned about profit profit uh we deliver public value it's innocuous thing um I'm going to have to look up that word I'm not sure what that means but it it's it's it's something that we can't put our finger on uh but it is a value it is something intrinsic it's something that uh brings it makes people want to live here it makes a community it strengthens their fiber that's what we do um and and for me personally when we are involved in a tax transaction I'm reaching into your back pocket and I'm taking that money you don't have a choice that for me is a very moral thing that means I've got to take only what I need I've got to be able to to to to spend that in the most efficient way I can and I've got to be honest and upright about how I've spent that money so that's what we will continue to uh operate from uh at the city however and this goes back to Innovation we must learn from business business is motivated by profit so it's simply different but they're the ones that are figuring out how to do things more efficiently more effectively uh and and we always got to be looking at business and we always got to be grabbing onto those things that we know can help us in our business I mean you know we both run essentially multi-million dollar businesses they're a little different you know you know it's not the profit motive but it's still important to understand that we have to keep on mind and and and and look at those kinds of things to make ourselves better and finally how does someone navigate government bureaucracy I'm the most anti-government bureaucracy bureaucrat you're ever going to meet uh I've been in government a long time uh my whole life in one way or the other uh and I worked at the US Senate for a while for almost 10 years and and you know when I was when I was working there I used to tell my people all the time that it doesn't matter um what's on your plate when someone calls with an issue that's why we are here it may not mean anything to you that someone I work for the senator for Pennsylvania that that someone is calling you that's a little old lady from Philadelphia who hasn't uh received her social security check because of social security check has told them told her that she's dead true story you know I'm not dead I'm right here no no you're dead it says so uh but it is the most important thing in her life and that's why government exists is to do everything we can to try to hand to help those people in need that's ultimately our role and so we must always look towards that and understand that we can you go the next SL we have to be accountable you must demand excellent customer service from us and you must hold us to accountable uh without that you know uh we're we're no different than a a Banana Republic in South America and if anybody's from South America I apologize in advance all right that's my Spiel that's my contact information if you have any questions don't ever hesitate to ask I will forward them immediately to my deputies so I don't have to answer them uh but in all seriousness thank you very much and as always thank you for everything that you do and thanks for the strong partners and I'd be happy to take any questions or I would ask a question yeah um thank you so much um last time I we met was when they hire you um it has been a long time yeah 10 years see you you still you are energetic and strong thank you for coming and explain you know the great things happening sh I'm very proud a lot of good things yeah I I'm I'm exceptional proud this and it's and it's and it's because of our residents and everything that that that that occurs I uh my question is um um Ampitheater is good um I work a nonprofit above housing mhm there is a housing issue housing crisis and we were part of the 2050 planning for that Council yeah and they conducted like uh Ted interviews um so um we need you know more um like before B F back so can you uh tell me or tell us if there is a housing because we are growing you know yeah and and we are more uh diverse you know um family size is different three four um so um also I remember the city has given go ahead for the the nonprofit yeah they were build like 30 to 40 d did they start they have not started yet I do not know when they will start um is there other um housing yeah I mean we have some of the housing that I I had thrown up there some of it is Affordable some of it's not affordable okay some of it is luxury U but uh you know we try to do life cycle housing we try to have a mix of everything uh and you know if we have just one product uh that will that will skew who wants who wants to move here and we very much want to be a welcoming community and we very much want to have the one thing the one thing that we will not stand for and and that is um It's All About Management and so we had we had a a a a an apartment building that's only four years old with terrible management and that apartment building looked like it had been there for 40 years there's trash everywhere and and and you know we basically said you clean up your actor we're shutting you down uh and and the reason for that is is think about those people that live in that environment it's it's it's it's it's housing that is affordable housing but you know what if you're afraid to come out of your apartment if you're afraid you know you know to walk down the stairs is if you live in an environment where there's trash and people don't appreciate what they have that's not safe and that's not something that we won't I I I will not allow uh that to exist we will we will take care of those issues and we will make sure that uh because those people have don't have a voice is the bottom line so thank you I hope that answers your question thank you Mr chair com uh first thank you lots of information and all the great work you're doing I uh became a shock resident in 2000 and roughly in that 2000 to 2005 window on a national level shock be doubled in size yeah right um yes and as we're hearing in the next what uh year and a half or so you know RI rivaling some of our neighbors to the South I grew up in the Mano area for example yeah um do you believe that the current growth is manageable sustainable and you use that word manageable just in terms of building permits and the like yeah where's the trajectory um and is it growing at a pace that's healthy yeah it is growing at the pace that's that's healthy um you know every budget cycle we are analyzing if we need to provide more services so we just last year uh added two extra police officers uh the year before that we added a couple of Public Works uh Department employees so we're we're very comfortable with where we are we do have a very robust uh permitting and and building department uh you know we I mean there's they do a lot of work as you as you can tell uh you know my inspectors are out every day uh but we're very comfortable I mean this is this is what drives us it's fun it's you know you're not bored you know you coming in and you hear about oh this new company's coming in we we have a we have two companies that that that we can't talk about yet but one will have will take their base of operations you know they're in five different states uh currently uh including California and Texas they're going to make uh they're multinational they're going to make shock Fe they North American headquarters everybody's coming here and that that hopefully will be able to be announced in a couple weeks we have another uh company that is is on the very edge of innovation of let me see how much I can say uh of of of a scientific process that will revolutionize what we do with anything that has batteries uh and and we believe that they are going to choose Shaka um and we're in the process of having conversations with them another major corporation another feather in in shak's hat and then we can get ready to give away a big portion of that money because that's how fiscal disparities is concerned and we'll send some more over prior Rel I one question um you didn't talk about I don't think it's on this uh or any of these slides the Gravel Pit with the Gravel Pit yeah hey you know that's that yeah um almost in the pipeline but the Gravel Pit is going to be500 uh homes uh which not even on the slide uh you know we're in partnership with uh our great Partners at Shak Public Utilities where they're going to put a water plant there um uh there will be a lighted sledding hill for the winter use uh among other things it's going to be a a a very incredible uh development overall um but yeah that that will be now the only problem with I shouldn't say problem the only hurdle for that is that it has to be tiffed in order to be um done which is fine you know people talk about Tiff which is a t tax increment financing which simply is the property currently uh is worth this much uh after development it's going to be worth this much so we're going to take and take this much for the next 10 years let's say and we're going to use that into infrastructure and then once that's over then the property goes to be worth this much okay so it's a win-win all the way around uh but that property has to be Tiff because it's it's a big hole and it's got to be filled in and you know there are multiple different communities in the in in the metro area that have done exactly that including Burnsville Maple Grove uh who have filled in uh their gravel pits and then developed that's going to be an awesome uh you know another awesome development yeah I wonder how you're going to fill that in long was going take to fill that in well I'm I'm not doing it because I don't have a shovel that big so and it's a big hole it is you know you don't know it when you drive by cuz it's got that burn but it's it's a big hole it's 80 ft deep I uh just related to growth well first of all thanks thank you again for for being here um it's related to growth and it's a personal question so I can't lower your tax maybe I should well maybe I should even kick kick this anill but we've gone from what 10,000 people before the Bloomington fer Bridge went in up to 50,000 is it is it time to look at a bigger city council to serve serve that many people expand the SI I'm not the person to ask I work I work with whatever system is in I just have a quick comment can I steal your line about the uh uh taking tax money and making it high moral responsibility because I yeah because I'm sure I stole it to begin I just I just love it and we really you know because we do take people's money and we have to be very responsible with it and frankly we should say this to anybody sorry Senator Pratt who is uh who who's an elected official and make sure that they know this and live by it because it's it's our money and it should be used responsibly there there I meet with every new employee that comes into the city um I talk about two things uh ethics uh and customer service on the ethics part we talk about exactly that and they all understand that you know we do have that moral responsibility because it isn't inv voluntary transaction well again thank you so much I appreciate it yeah I just want to say thank you uh for your partnership and lots of things and I I know you mention theem this is one of those you know it's not in his job description anywhere but you want want somebody who's out who's lived the experience of the acmy who then sells it to other potential members uh that's Bill and then you usually when he starts doing that I just get out of the way because he takes care of it but uh he he he truly when he talks about that it it it it comes from a a great place and it is something that he lives you know day in and day out and the idea that all of us together in Partnership you know we we all we're all successful together and so I appreciate the efforts of Bill and everybody else at the city of Shaka so thank you thanks for being here tonight my pleasure in your next meeting uh my deputy be here to tell you about all the things I didn't I wasn't I wasn't that's her Ro so awes thank you next on our agenda is item 8.1 the Takata Learning Center lease renewal and here to present our bill maazi Director of Finance and operations and Cory Whitbeck the T tat real estate advisor good evening Mr chair members of the board Dr Redmond my role in this is uh simply to introduce Corey who is going to go over uh some information related to Takata Learning Center um in your school board packet and up on the screen you'll see a a summary that was put together and and uh I believe Cory is planning to review some of the information related to that uh renal thanks uh thank you very much for having me um you know just a quick recap uh Takata has been here in um in pack Town Square for a number of years um and uh our leases up um next year in July 2025 and we have the ability to renew the lease and so there were some discussions uh amongst um with the superintendent and some of the other facilities team about you know what does that look like and what are our space needs and I think generally speaking the space you know still works very well um in terms of serving the students um with a couple of caveats it was you know it has been here for a while and it's been he heavily used and if you walk through it you can see it's probably time to get a refresh of some things just some very basic items like carpon and paint and so uh we had some discussions with the landlord about um you know whether or not we look to just simply do a three-year renewal uh which we could have exercised and and got no no money from the landlord to to do any work to the space so basically the district would have had to come out of pocket to make any improvements to the space and so um once we all agreed that the space seemed to be working well um it it seemed to make sense to to have discussion about maybe a longer lease term and so we explor doing a 5-year lease um with the building um really in exchange for getting um uh an improvement allowance from from the landlord so um so that's uh what you see on the board is essentially a summary of the terms that we um have agreed to subject to uh everyone's approvals here um that we thought was a very reasonable deal um and just real quick again it's a 5-year lease um I'll skip the next point but um our the rent would be $8 per square foot and just to give you some perspective um rents in in Shak for office space are about 15 to 1850 a foot retails about 16 to 20 a foot and just simple barebones Warehouse base is 550 to seven bucks per square foot and what we're talking about is paying is eight bucks a foot so I think it's a a very good deal uh very cost effective particularly given that it's not warehouse space right it's highly improved space that works you know that is designed and built you know to serve the students um and so um the point that I jumped over was we also have the right to to terminate so we felt good about making this trade of doing a a fiveyear uh lease and getting money from the landlord where the landlord is going to to essentially cover the cost to carpet and paint the space um and knowing that we also had the right to terminate um every year it's just something that's has always been in the lease and part of uh the leases that we have here um in the event that the board doesn't approve you know dollars to go to it so um it's a pretty pretty simple transaction again it's the same space we've always had I don't know if you want me to mention the the the bridge space at all sure there's a um so in addition to the the 12,000 ft of takato space there was some neighboring space that had been sitting empty in the um and so um we Takata leases that space um essentially it's 5,000 ft we pay a a fur even further discount our rent at $7 gross or that's what proposed $7 gross on 2500 square F feet so we're essentially paying about 75% of the rent on half the space well we're using all the space um for the most part and that has a that has and we talk about this at facilities and finance correct me if I've got this this wrong but that has a little bit different kind of rental conditions where you know we could leave at any time or they could kick us out or you know we think they you know if they found a new tenant or possible tenant they would probably come to us and want maybe a more formal agreement but for right now it just we're continuing to use it it's U you know it's advantageous at that price yeah that's right heavily discount of and and different it's not an annual termination it's just it requires some notice and either party has the right to terminate so if we ever decide we don't you know want to use it we can we can give it back and there's a risk that the landlord you know may want to take it back that's probably less likely I mean I think you know if they're going to lease space it's most likely going be the space in the front end of the mall where the storefronts are um you know the space in the back is a little bit less desirable just T typically which is why they had agreed to you know to do this kind of arrangement where we're paying a low rent on half the space does anyone have any questions um just for clarification it's the net r at $8 per square foot plus yeah the taxes you know approximately what per square foot that adds on because usually the cam costs are somewhere around the same as the net R rent but I just want yeah and I think they're um four and some change um yeah so around five plus plus utilities right so is it four four of them plus I I both five is what I budgeted so so between the two it's 8 plus 5 so it's 13 yeah and that's actually and that's actually quite a bit lower I mean a typical build but you know you're also doing some of your own cleaning and things like that so typical office space you're going to see probably 10 and cam charges It's usually the same as the rank around give or take a or two which is what this is so it's good that it's lower than that that's right yeah that's that's advantageous as well I have a question how old is this facil or this building it's been here as long as I can ever remember even as a young child coming to the cities on the old yeah whatever it used to be called 169 yeah I don't recall I can get that answer I don't recall how how old it is but you know obviously over time it's it's it showed its age um and you know the ownership had some Financial challenges um along the way um and but along with that you know I think there's been some um Patience by The District in terms of just knowing that we're we're getting you know really U very favorable rent and with that came came some problems but um both with the district office lease and and the T lease we've had some requirements that the landlord do certain things I don't if you recall but replac the ceiling the roof HVAC systems some parking lot so those types of things um you know have have continued to occur I we've talked briefly about that I think that's all a good sign um in that I think the owner has you know turned the corner on some of the financial challenges that they've had and for the most part they Ste not only they stepped to the plate with the things that we required as kind of being the bare minimum um but you know when we had the the rain damage here I recognize this is a different lease than the Takata lease but same owner same you know potential issues um you know there's all new carpet and paint replaced here because of the water damage which I think was um you know that was out of their pocket that didn't F an insurance claim so to me yes it's an older building but we're paying a lot lower rents because of that and we're seeing some improvement in terms of how they they manage and and um operate the center and I think they're you know I think they're cautiously optimistic they're very excited about the pickle ball um you know down and so they're they're hopeful that they'll continue to see more leasing here in the in the retail portion of the center I mean so and we talked to the finance facilities meeting too what why the Takata Learning Center is such a unique space uh for the students that it serves and that there really is ultimate space available you know in other uh District buildings uh just a like a swag what would it cost to build or or require equivalent space yeah um you and again just a rough estimate because just to weigh the cost to to acquire a build relative to this maybe 68 million bucks you know to get a you know a building you know you can go out and buy a building but we all know that to to make it a School building we've looked at this at Central we've looked at this we've had these exercises and so um you know so the good news is that that money was spent on the on the front end we did the initial lease um and once that was done we went back down to these discounted rent right um because the landlord help fund those initial improvements so that's right so alternatives to either buy um or build you know you could probably relase this for a couple decades and still be ahead from as opposed to going out and building something right and that's exactly you know the spirit of the question is what would be that return on that investment over time so just yeah to me yeah I live here I kids go school I pay taxes too and you know I I would I wouldn't be uh recommending this if I didn't think it was in fiscally the right decision for the school thank you the M was built in 1973 second uh so this is an action item so the uh I'll entertain a motion I'll make a motion to approve second a motion by aldrid and a second by Peterson any further discussion see none all those in favor I I oppos motion carries thank you next on our agenda is item 8.2 this is a resolution um community education census resolution with us to present is Lisa Ron our director of Community Education good evening thank you uh members of the board for um allowing me to present this to you which comes at a timely manner since we were just talking about the population of chak um so um we did this last year where I brought this to the board um there's a census update the state demographer has determined that the population in SHP um is um for this upcoming year is increasing from 50, 562 to 51,6 39 and so um those are numbers um straight from the demographers department and so um I'm bringing this to the board because there's advantages for um funding for Community Education with the possible and and other areas um with the population increase is it is it worth clarifying the difference between the population of the school district and just shopby itself or are they yeah so the population this would be school district population only um so there would be um town I believe we have townships in our school district maybe Mike can answer that but um and includes those areas as well um not just the city of Shak so the areas Savage prior yep so this is a resolution so this be a roll call vote any further discussion none Tiffany can you please do the Ro sorry resolution I'll second I said I said so moved but you can be second let you Jo Pap how's that no I don't I don't care [Music] a motion by roopie a second by Peterson now now we can do the RO Tiffany please do the rooll roopie yes Peterson yes Smith yes aldrid yes Johnson Mohamed yes allz yes motion passes 60 Resolution passes thank you l uh next on our agenda is an information item item 9.1 budget update and here to present is billar Director of Finance and operations welcome Bill good evening uh on the screen you will see the general fund budget update now as of May 31st so um uh our last budget update until the end of the fiscal year on June 30th so uh a brief agenda item for you I'll just review some of the details Again by way of orientation uh the green highlighted column is our revised budget uh the uh 2324 received YTD that stands for year to date is what we've received on both the revenue side and the expenditure side the budget less the received gives you your budget remaining and then most importantly the three percentages uh the percent that we've received or spent in the current year compared to Prior year at second prior year is really a barometer for how we're doing compared to the prior and second prior year so in total on the revenue side we have collected 97.7% of our general fund budget of $18.9 million compared to 87.6% the prior year and 10.3% in the second prior year a couple of items of note uh some of these are repeats Carri forward from months previous first on the property tax line similar to Prior years what what we do in finance is when those property tax payments come in I record those during the year to the general fund which is what you see here in why we're 130% collected we have not really collected 130% of the revenue in the general fund for property taxes all of the taxes whether it's general fund Debt Service fund or Community Services fund is collected right now and the general fund we get past June 30th and then I go in and do a journal entry to allocate property tax revenue to The Debt Service Fund in community service fund otherwise Lisa would be very very upset if we didn't give any of the property tax money to Service uh and then under the local line uh as a reminder that does include the revenue from the Central Family Center sale uh that seems increasingly long ago but that is still in this fiscal year and it's concluded in there and then also some positive variances in our interest Revenue so uh that continues to grow and show a positive direction for 23 24 year under the expenditure side you'll see salary and wages uh we're significantly above where we were in the prior and second prior year and the reason has to do with the number of payrolls this year so uh May 31st was the payroll date and so we have incurred as of the end of May 21 of our 26 payrolls in the current year and in the prior and second prior Year we're looking at 20 payrolls right so one additional pay Ro in the current year is attributed to that increase in percentage so I don't foresee that as a budget variance on the negative side for wages and benefits rather it's just one additional payroll this year when compared to last year at the second prior um and then a question was brought up regarding the role for equipment uh and really the equipment is a little bit misleading that's the object description but uh where we've only spent uh 68% of our budget this year that's really timing related for ltfm projects so we've talked about our ltfm plan some of those expenses Ur in June some come through in July and August and it's really sort of a guessing game in terms of when we get those projects started and what the payments come through so that's really creating the budget variance there forment uh so as I mentioned where we go from here we will finish the fiscal year after this month here in June uh we'll have Auditors out in July and then again in September I'll have a pretty good idea of what our preliminary results are by the first part of October and then Auditors will be in in November to present the auditor results for the 23 and 24 year that's all I had from a budget report we have to take any questions if [Music] have thank you Bill thank you uh next on our agenda is an action item item 10.1 the ltfm 10e plan plan and Bill is here to present again and bringing guests with him yes I'd like to invite the more important group here is I'll wait up so I I'll sort of kick things off but by just by way of introduction Ben Barry from World Architects and Engineers is here as well as as our manager of buildings and ground so appreciate them attending our meeting tonight to go over what is an annual process ltfm stands for long-term facilities maintenance so if you hear us use that acronym that's just a mouthful to say long-term facilities maintenance every time so it's ltfm uh an annual process whereby uh we ask the board to approve a resolution there's a statement of insurances the bulk of our time tonight will be spent on uh Ben's presentation of what our ltfm planning or spending plan uh is and then there's also a 10-year expenditure spreadsheet and 10e Revenue spreadsheet um as I mentioned it's an annual plan whereby we lay out our spending for areas of deferred maintenance health and safety and disabled accessibility under that ltfm plan and the one item I'll make mention out before we turn it over to uh Ben and Ed uh is the use of this money so this is uh as some of our as Senator Bratt mentioned this is some of the categorical funding uh that can be used for deferred maintenance health and safety and disabled accessibility can not be used for uh classroom needs in terms of personnel and that type of stuff so very important set aside of money to use for uh maintenance needs around our schools so with that I'll turn that over to F great well thanks for having me good to see you all again uh as Bill mentioned why are we here annual process you have to go through all these steps to receive the funding uh all the items listed here are the attachments on the agenda again ltfm uh it was established in 2015 you'll mention the allowable expenditures I think I'll just add on to that uh there it's also a restricted fund so it doesn't allow you uh to do new construction with the funding it's really about asset preservation or it's about uh maintenance of what you currently have this year um you can see projected Revenue about 1.5 million you have a project a fund balance of about another 1.5 million uh and then uh the planned expenditures in FY 25 uh the first four items salary inspections interior surfaces mechanical systems those are allowances that allow you to uh uh provide a budget um to accomplish items that pop up over the course of the year uh so an example I give is let's say there's a valve uh leaking somewhere uh there's 61,000 00 set the side uh to allow Ed to go get uh and take care of that uh quickly so the first four are allowances again if they're not spent uh they will carry over as part of the fund balance uh the uh larger project identified um Is East Middle School toilet renovation project um she allocated about $1 million uh to renovate the toilet rooms uh that um uh those were identified um they are eight uh I think it's been at least 20 years it might actually be 30 years but it's at least 20 years um since they've uh been renovated uh and um uh so they are just uh have lots of wear to them uh that needs to be addressed uh but then in addition uh as we do that we'll bring it up to current accessibility code thus uh being a qualifying ltfm expense both under U maintenance of your current uh assets but also bringing up the current accessibility code uh so when we complete fy2 the estimated uh kind of remaining fund balance be about 1.4 million or pretty close to where you're starting uh starting the year uh and this decision isn't made uh in a vacuum or it's the project that Ed I picked and said this is the one we should do um there is a comprehensive uh facility audit of your buildings that lists all identified mainten items that's updated annually um so as new items pop up or um as things reach certain age we we update that annually um and we also um uh this year went and met with all the buildings and all the head custodians at every facility and made sure that uh that list of facility maintenance um matched up to their priorities in the buildings and so this is a reflection of um both where your recent Investments have been and in recent history um so you can see uh that's the blue arrows is where recent Investments on facility maintenance have been the projects are on the angle there uh so like for example um Red Oak is having the carpet replaced this summer so the carpet getting completed at Red Oak um but then we're also identifying um and tracking kind of those top needs um that are identified through the facility a and also meetings with the buildings um so as we continue into the future we can continue to have have uh these items identified be part of the discussion as I mentioned highlighted here at East toilet rooms um and that was really selected um based certainly on condition uh but also we want to be Equitable in this funding source and making sure it's being spread across your facilities and your square footage uh we wouldn't want to see all of it go to one building consistently uh we want to make sure it's spread across as you can see East um doesn't have that Arrow there so it made sense um based on kind of the age and and where investment has been to take this time to invest any questions I can answer about LTV plan again um there uh so tonight what you'll be voting on then is uh the um it is the resolution the 10year plan uh and the 10-year expenditure plan as well as a statement of insur insurances all required by Minesota [Music] education I have one question the pent system yeah is that considered a tech expense or is that considered an ltfm and is it better to be at one the other the dollars come from yes good thanks for clarifying um so this this list actually is tracking top building needs it is not necessarily tracking top of them qualifying needs um there might be might be oh the serving a serving line in s is another example uh identified as a top need but actually wouldn't qualifies as ltfm because uh you have one serving line but you can't add a second with ltfm funds so this is about tracking top needs not necessarily top ltfm projects uh and the paging system in and of itself um technology items are typically not covered mil I didn't think so is why I asked questions entertain a motion this is a resolution we'll be voting on make a motion to approve second have a a motion by Belz and a second by broy any further questions or comments Tiffany can you please do the role roie yes Peterson yes Smith yes alridge yes Johnson Mohamed yes Valdez yes pass 6 thank you thank you next in our agenda is another action item item 10.2 it's the consideration to approve the fiscal 25 budget and Bill is here to present again okay um just the one that says presentation thank so there's there's three uh attachments on the online version of the agenda the first one is just simply a cover page uh Tiffany has on the screen thank you for doing that the the presentation and then the full uh budget executive summary is also included in the agenda as well and I believe there's a presentation there's there's budget summaries that your place as well so we should have our basis covered in terms of uh all budget all the time um so uh just by way of review um our finance and Facilities committee had a chance to review this budget at uh the June 3rd meeting they also had a chance to review that the budget uh in summary form again tonight um the school board as a whole had a chance to review this for discussion on the June 3rd meeting there have been no changes to this budget since the one that uh you saw in June 3rd uh and so we're bringing this forward tonight and recommending it for school board approval uh in accordance with the Minnesota statute 123 b77 which states the school board should approve a budget before the start of the year on July 1 and so really what I have here is an abbreviated version that I'd like to go through uh not metion be all-encompassing by any means but I'd just like to review some of the um highlights of the budget before seeking approval and the first one that's really small on the screen that's my fault is uh uh enrollment in budgetary decisions um in our school district seek to support our mission of educating lifelong Learners to succeed in a diverse world that's really our way in our finance department of supporting the Strategic direction of the school district with funding uh and we take that job very very seriously our finance department uh our major budget budget assumptions in this budget as you see in the bullet points our operating Levy as we all know is tied to inflation our operating Levy Authority is 1,3 13382 per pupil for taxes payable in 2024 District Revenue in 2025 State a per pupil which as we know state aid is the the main funding for the educational experience in the general fund increase for next year is 2% uh the formal allowance for next year is 7,281 and I'll get into a little bit later what that actually means in real dollars in the state aid form allowance year-over-year or lack thereof um decrease in interest Revenue with expected interest rate decrease in 2425 a one-time uh the one-time pandemic relief funds decreased down to zero the expiration of the one-time pandemic relief funds at the end of next year that Federal budget goes to zero for next year uh budget enrollment projection of 7,430 students a decrease of 203 students are 2.7% from this year's projections and then enrollment adjusted Staffing of a -7 FTE for next year that's enrollment or that's Staffing needed to keep our class sizes the same next year or similar uh next year compared to this year go on to the next page uh which really shows our fund balance projection so this is sort of a a a financial snapshot if you will so um the main point of emphasis that I'd like to get across is that top role our unassigned fund balance is projected to end next year as of June 30 2025 at 12, 311,000 10% 10% is right in the middle of our uh the mid-range of the Schoolboard fund balance policy that's States it will strive to maintain a fund balance between 8 and 12% 10% obviously right in the middle of that um you can see under our restricted categories ltfm funding is forecast to be relatively flat operating capital is forecast to have a decrease of just over a million that's a plan spend down related to our curriculum adoption so uh some work being done in our lt& learning teaching and Equity department for some curriculum adoption uh budgeted to come out of that operating Capital account our Capital project subby is forecast to be relatively flat building fund balance by about 26,000 uh and then down under a sign for district programming we are projected to utilize about 725,000 uh of that assignment for district programming moved up to the unassigned in order to keep that fund balance at 10% as of June of 20125 then you can see under our non- major funds Food Service fund our community service fund building construction fund uh the 518,000 uh spend in the deficit spend in the construction fund is the continued spend down of the ltfm bond so that's Bond proceeds that we've collected in a previous year and we're no longer collecting the revenue we're just spending that down to zero that fund balance um and so you would expect that to be in a deficit position and then our debt service fund that's just our principal and interest uh Bond payment schedule as well and so uh on the bottom of the page before I flip to the next page you'll see that our total revenue Vue that we're bringing forward tonight recommending for approval for all funds combined is 161.5 million and our total expenditures are 163.5 million so obviously all funds combined north of 160 million that's a very large organization um and a very large budget that you're being asked to take approval on or approve tonight going to the next page we've touched on this quite a bit so I won't get into a a great detail about it but uh we do have an enrollment committee that meets monthly to ensure there's alignment between enrollment for Staffing enrollment for budget and what we're submitting in what's known as Mars our student accounting submissions and you can see where our enrollment uh history has been and next year I mentioned uh our enrollment projections of 7,430 uh ADM a decrease of 203 from this year going to the next page skipping from enrollment history to enrollment proje c um it's important that we develop enrollment assumptions so that's what you see in letters a through e we've developed the following enrollment assumptions for next year the first one is related to kindergarten so kindergarten held constant at our projection of 433 students moving forward and you can see that down under the kindergarten room um letter B kindergarten through grade eight rolled forward this year's kindergarteners become next year's first graders and so on and so forth uh letter C we've assumed an increase of 49 students from grade 8 to grade nine primarily driven by an increase in Chaka Catholic School students from grade 8 joining our high school enrollment in grade nine postsecondary enrollment option PSO estimate of 60 students and then early childhood and tuition estimates based on a 5year history and so developing those assumptions allows us to build a enrollment projections and you can see those enrollment projections for FIS 25 through fiscal 29 we're projected to be a continu a period of declining enrollment um and that's that is almost entirely driven by uh decrease decrease in birth rates in Scott County and those fewer class sizes working that way through through our school system so obviously that creates some budget challenges moving forward it's something that we're aware of we'll continue to Monitor and make this a big part of what we do uh is monitoring our student enrollment and bringing you up periodically shifting now to the financial uh and a a snapshot of our revenue and expenditure pie chart for all the funds and you can see by far in way our general fund is our largest fund on the revenue side and the expense side accounting for about 3/4 of our total budget all funds combined our food service fund accounts for about 3% our community service fund is roughly 2% of our budget our building fund fund uh is is much smaller that's our spend down of our ltfm bond our debt service fund is uh between 11 and 12% of our total budget and then our internal service fund which is our health our self-funded health and dental accounts are in the 7% range and then lastly getting to uh some revenue and expenditure assumptions first on the uh in the general fund on the revenue side I mentioned uh state aid uh the primary increase in state aid is related to an increase in special education Aid and English language learner Revenue as a component of basic skills but in the uh in the chart that you see on the screen I mentioned at the at the beginning that we are scheduled to receive 2% increase in the state aid formal allowance and so how this chart reads is the state aid form allowance this year is $7,150 per pupil unit a 2% increase increases that state aid formula outs to $728 per pupil but uh given our decrease of 203 students the corresponding pupil units you can actually see that that 2% increase from the state is actually a decrease for us in our state aid Revenue uh of about 336,000 so obviously when the state aid general education formul all is the main education funding for for the general fund and our our increase is actually a negative number year-over year that really does create some budget challenges and underscore some of the comments that were made earlier related to the importance of that state aid form in allowance funding under property tax revenue our property tax revenue is going up almost entirely attributed to the net tax capacity so as as we've talked about previously our capital projects Levy is tied to the net tax capacity we continue to see healthy increases in the net tax capacity and the property tax increases is related to that Federal sources touched on that are decreasing sharply as a result of the expiration of the pandemic funds and then our local revenue is actually de is is decreasing slightly as well driven by a decrease in our interest Revenue projection skipping to the next page our expenditure assumptions um our our total expenditures are projected to go up by 3.6% and you can see the overview of the different buckets of our general fund expenditures by far in a way our largest bucket is our salary wages and employee benefits uh that accounts for about 96.5 million of our total budget in the general fund uh and that increase in salary wages and benefits is just about 5.26% um you can see the status of our employee contracts and is often the case with the adopted budget this is already outdated at that time uh the chak B Education Association contract is still being negotiated uh that contract has been settled and I'll update that chart and the revised budget to resettle um and then we have different categories of of our general fund under purchase Services supplies and equipment and other expenditures and you can read the detail in that as well and then lastly under acknowledgements um we started this budget process as we do every year way back last winter um by identifying our enrollment assumptions revenue and expenditure assumptions and scenarios uh and options related to next year's budget uh this budget at this point has been reviewed by School District administration our Citizens Finance advisory committee the school board finance and Facilities committee and this SP as well and with all of that uh we are uh bringing forward a a grand total budgeted revenues uh on the revenue side of$ 161,162 and Grant total budget expenditures of1 $3,864 348 that's the end of the presentation I'd be happy to take any questions if you have Joe why are you laughing at that um I have a few questions um is there there's nowhere in the budget that actually shows what what the cost per student is per year and has been for the last several years is there or did I just miss it no and that's a really good point uh that's included as part of our annual audit presentation uh but I have not historically included that as part of the executive summary something I'd love to see on there I I know that it's part of the audit um it just it would be it's just an interesting question so when Bill Reynolds was in here he said that a shaky uh population is going to include their increased by 8,000 people amazing that none of them are students I'm isn't it yeah is it is it just unknown we don't we don't don't I mean obviously it's unknown we don't know who these 8,000 people are but you you look at the projections going forward it's like if some of these people have um that would help so please start children I think it's a really good and and thank you for bringing that up I should have mentioned this our enrollment assumptions are are related to that to your to your comment um especially related to kindergarten through grade eight just moving forward we don't have a growth formula built in uh knowing that we want to make sure we build a revenue budget based off of enrollment and then come in at or under I know why why we do it that budget and so it's a really good point because it would be like like oh 8,000 people coming in 1,200 of them are students we don't want to do that that fun well and I and I know you know this you know but that's part of as we've grappled with this you know when you and you're going back a few years now you're you're kind of go there was a pandemic was that it no that wasn't that the obvious might have played a role um but it it's still and it took a long time to kind of grasp that but for not the continued development our declining enrollment would be even deeper than it currently is and that's a hard you know but yes it it is a good sign and we saw you know and we do we work with the city you know constantly kind of hey what are developments what's happening but it truly is and sometimes I'm a little flippant in saying you know the average size and price of you know residence in our district has increased and there's more of them there's fewer kids living in you know many of them and that's just kind of the math of that and so we'll see when you know when or if that that turns around or changes but having that development is certainly uh offset what would have been even greater you know reductions in enrollment or decreases I should say in enrollment just it's just one of those things you just look at you're like hopefully hopefully our dire predictions I don't know if D is the right word but I used it anyway um don't come true and and we don't lose as many students because there's yeah well we're you know we don't know for sure we think we're close to the bottom in terms of those little kindergarten numbers but we continue to do research we continue to see things I'm kind of pointing at Jim we knew that this isn't a shock me thing it's across the state of Minnesota almost every school district it's across the United States and we even had an article recently across the world yeah there's a there's a global different population which hasn't happened since the black plague apparently um you know I I just looked it up um we have 52 students registered for kindergarten who are not in our census which means they've either they've moved here in some form or fashion since they were born now they're not all in new housing but you know looking at where those kindergarteners are registered to attend kindergarten they would be it would be consistent with neighborhoods that are or or some of our schools that have more of a new construction so I think to Mike's Point if we didn't have the new construction um this this decrease in enrollment would be even would be even more significant and sure I think we continue to capture um capture students at a rate higher than the state level meaning we are keeping our students in District it's not that we're losing them here or losing them there you know we have the the standard outflow to to the local private schools we have the standard outflow to you know communities where people work etc but nothing staggering I mean it's just that the reality is we don't have the same number of of uh of babies being born in Shaka right now again hopefully these new houses will help to help toer that children are a wonderful thing that being said the budget projection of 10% in the unrestricted fund balance is you know a little bit lower than what I mean just percentages or half tents of percentages lower than last year and chrisy and I have been on the board when it was at a lot lower than that 2% 1% 1.7.9 I think yeah and uh to see the unrestricted fund balance at where it needs to be for consecutive years and and hopefully going forward is just is is just a remarkable accomplishment uh for the entire District I have a couple of comments I think um as I said earlier the state and the additional dollars on the formula for each student it's extremely critical that they give us more than the 2% and what is on page 11 every single number is 2% with the exception of two one was 2 and half% and then just last year the 4% um and I know that it doesn't just impact sh it's every school district in the state needs that additional more than 2% refunding so so that's number one that's going to be extremely critical from from an advocacy standpoint all the way around for everybody in our community and our district to work with our representatives and our Senator to make sure that our schools are remembered when it comes to setting those budgets for next year or the next B any I should say [Music] and com was going to be but U oh I you're talking about birth rates and this is it just a shock p a Minnesota thing I was with a bunch of Schoolboard members from across the US this um the last 3 days and it's something that we brought up as well um that there a lot of districts are seeing that in other states so we're not we're not alone Minnesota is not alone any other questions or comments uh just Kudos uh to you and your team um we talk about transparency Mr rol talked about it but the due diligence and the efforts this us thank you thank you and else has any comments I like to make a motion to approve the 2024 2025 adoped budget a motion by Al and a second by Peterson any further discussion seeing none all those in favor I oppos motion carries thank you Bill and I know you've got the next two items so do do you need a break are you no I'm good thankks for the offer all right item uh 10.3 this is a resolution this is the ltfm resolution for Southwest Metro our Intermediate School District and Bill was going to present again uh fear not the next two agenda items will be much shorter um these are recurring uh items along with our ltfm for shocke schools each year in June uh the school board is asked to approve resolutions for ltfm and also Al for safe schools uh related to our intermediate District intermediate District 288 um intermediate District all intermediate districts but specifically 288 is what we're talking about now they do not have a tax base for Levy purposes uh however they have needs just like regular school districts do for ltfm lease Levy and save schools levy important funding for the school districts so uh as such intermediate districts are authorized to uh pass pass along those Levy dollars to their member districts in accordance with our utilization and you can see uh in the in the packet our utilization this year uh as a member of intermediate 288 is 25.7762602 [Music] visualization specifically related to this agenda item which is uh our ltfm resolution for Southwest Metro the ltfm levy or shaky uh for Southwest Metro will be $39,100 27 cents um 2.77% of the Southwest Metro Total which is 152,000 uh with that uh we'd recommend approval and if youd happy to take any questions so this is I'm I'm new on the uh the finance ltfm uh maintenance committee so um this is a question I asked there so I just put it out for people's knowledge so our our contribution of this is based on our usage so it's not based on enrollment of the member districts it's based on usage so that's where that number comes from that's exactly right yep our utilization is 25.7762602 [Music] this is a resolution so I entertain a motion I will make a motion to approve second a motion by aldri and a second by Muhammad need further discussion seeing non Tiffany can you please do the role roopy yes Peterson yes Smith yes Aldrich yes Johnson Mohammad yes all this yes MO carries thank you next on our agenda is uh another resolution item 10.4 safe schools resolution for Southwest Metro and we have Bill to present again an even shorter agenda item um our portion again for safe schools for Southwest Metro uh based on our utilization is $57,200 67 um last year was 53,000 and some change so an incre INE of about 4,000 related to Southwest Metro safe schools levy uh recommend approval and so yeah I'm just reading that sentence there so it includes the the cost of an SRO Safety Equipment non-instructional Technology Hardware so that's what this stand for exactly yes thank you for the clarification I got make a motion I'll second the motion by Muhammad and a second by Del any further discussion uh this is a resolution uh Tiffany can you please do the role broie yes Peterson yes Smith yes goldridge yes Johnson Mohamad yesz yes motion carries thank you Bill thank you are you are you done I think [Applause] so thank you it's a long night don't enjoy uh next on our agenda is an information item item 11.1 uh the 2024 Community conversation results and here to present is Tiffany Olsen our director of communications and strategic development all right I am very excited to share this information with everyone here today um we could talk for hours about this and aside the fact that it's almost 8 we do want to be conscious of the time that's on the agenda here so there are some items that I will go through perhaps quicker than others uh and an important item I want to call your attention to that's in front of you printed and also in your board packets is the brief this is a two page overview that will summarize many of the items that I will highlight here and if I go over anything too fast here feel free um to ask any questions or we can discuss it further in a a development session in the future but tonight we're going to go over the results uh that we have also the goals when we initiated this community exchange and conversation and also some action and next steps and that board brief mentioned is in here as well um this is a revisit of information that we shared in the past I think it's pretty clear of why we host a community conversation and very grateful that the board um make sure that this is something that's a consistent priority um that's speaks to the survey history that we do have here as well this is our second year using thought exchange and it's our second consecutive year being able to get ongoing feedback which helps our longitudinal data uh and then we have relevant pre and postco data as well if you will with other school related events that occurred with some of the history that you see in front of you here this is just mindset just remember where we where we've been and where we are today planning occurred in Spring of the school year that is now over and May 1st through May 24th is when we conducted this community conversation so that we could have ample time to get as much feedback as possible and we've spent some time internally reviewing everything we're presenting today so first thing to bring up is National B Benchmark there's the 55th annual pdk um and the pdk um f out thecabin survey is something that's been around around for the 55 five 55 years I can't talk right now about public attitudes towards public schools and there has been a longitudinal data component that interestingly enough this year was not included in the same capacity that it has in previous years um this pdk poll usually um was a benchmark for us when it came to grading performance of various leadership areas so School Board superintendent overall you know view of public schools things of that nature they did shift for the 2023 pdk poll um to focus on key topics and you'll see them highlighted on this slide here when it comes to alternative school schedules uh different Community expectations and values of teachers mental health and also the overall discussion of curriculum there are about a thousand individuals give or take you'll see at the bottom there the statistical component um but what I can say at a very high level and you'll see it as we go through the brief highlights here a lot of the topics brought up by our community do align with the topics uh that were brought up through pdk but you will not see that longitudinal data when we get to some of the grading components from the survey so we're going to Dive Right In we're going to dive right into our participants so a lot of data to look up on there and again I'm going to go relatively fast and try to pull out the high points for you but please Sher Smith and others feel free to stop me if I go too fast um um but I'm actually going to start from the bottom bullet up and say that while engagement and awareness remained you know above average it was relatively flat as far as how many we had participates um things of that nature but that is still very healthy because I think sometimes when you say relatively flat that sounds negative we still have very very healthy numbers you can see that we did increase the number of participants you're trying to break down what's on here there's obviously people there's various stages of this exchange and Survey where folks can participate so we had 58% complete the full 20 question close-ended survey and we had 603 individuals provided open-ended feedback and an individual on average rated about 14 other thoughts so they looked at about 14 other feedback uh opportunities provided by their peers and overall um about 23 thoughts were rated on average and uh staff that we are definitely excited to keep growing is that we did see an increase in respondents that chose to take the exchange in Spanish that does not mean that is the only th that those are the only um individuals that can speak Spanish but they chose to use the translate feature in Spanish so um 31 respondents this year relative to much less in the previous year so that is something that we want to make sure we can see increase uh Community breakdown overall if you're looking at the left to right here 2024 you'll see this on various slides to just give you a mirror of last year and this year and thought exchange we did see an increase in that K through five grade as far as participation and then a slight decrease in those without children that participated in this exchange and Survey but otherwise the other grades of breakdowns that you see here are relatively consistent year-over-year common themes the the main thing I just want to point out that you'll see in multiple areas it has to do with preparation being challenged quality safety Community diversity those are themes you see it on here the larger it is the more it came up uh and the ones that I just mentioned here were definitely consistent uh throughout the results that we received so diving into the open-ended question that's where you're going to get the most diversity in our results as far as you can slice and dice it more ways then you get just the standard close-ended feedback question is on here really um centered around value when it comes to our district and things that we can do to prepare prepare our students and serve each and every student there's a lot on here to digest I won't necessarily do a full pause uh but so that you can digest briefly what's on here on the right you can see that this was last year what was important not in any sort of ranking order to our community and this is again open ended feedback this those are statements and a summary of what was important and this year you can see again some of those common terms and themes that came up from the community it has to do with that sense of community diversity quality of Education how instructional technology plays a role in that safety came up at various capacities teacher dedication consistency and quality you'll hear about here extracurriculars actually had more feedback than we had in the previous year about its impact and its positiv AC ity on our community and students and also uh references to real world preparation at various levels so top five common themes so again if you're thinking of going into this everyone's providing all this open-ended feedback there's 400 words or so per person where this is then now trying to slice and dice that take that to the next level you can see in this year versus previous year this is actually a ranking of the top five common themes in that open-ended feedback um again I'll let you digest it you can see that what's happening in the classrooms and The Learning Experience is obviously um the most important student support along with that as well and then you can see some shifts when it comes to the environment and extracurriculars that I mentioned are a little bit different this year than the previous year these top five common themes details this is the part that I'm going to encourage everyone to read on their our own uh there's two slides where basically we take that one through five of those common themes and what you see is a check mark those are the things that our community felt were good in that category they felt you know for example academic quality variety of classes Real World skills opportunities for college credit that's a summary of a lot of the positives opportunities with the light bulb are on that topic some feedback constructive feedback that was provided by the community to Aid in that specific topic and again I won't go over each of these there's two slides that outlines all of them uh but folks really did provide solid feedback and what you see here is not every single person but it's the greatest um responses that have the greatest feedback and rankings and engagement so those that either put in the most or that folks rated as the most important out of a 1 through five scale highest rated thoughts this is just a a real time snapshot absolutely no edits to this whatsoever this is verbatim um open-ended feedback that was provided by folks that took the survey and they are the highest ones on here so you can see received the most rankings I think 32 was the most uh a thought received as far as a ranking and almost five stars there and that's the true life skills you can see safety um and also the safety of the relationship side of knowing that kids feel safe loved in a good environment and obviously teachers and the greatest asset from that perspective and their impact on learning Common Grounds and differences this is something that I get really excited about that we have the opportunity to see this because a lot of times you know you get data and you want to understand where various viewpoints are and with thought exchange we're able to actually use um Ai and other components to analyze the results and say these are the the biggest differences in the two sides that have and if I can break down all the wordiness that is on there it's really the focus that they're saying so the community there's two different sides of you know Focus being perhaps more on uh the nurturing the support uh things of that nature inside A and B being more of the academics um the involvement with the families things of that nature so different approaches to learning is really how I would summarize it where our community is on two different sides however I think the great part is the common ground that came out of that no matter what the thoughts are on a and b the Common Ground here is really good stuff I mean it's fostering curiosity um the use of Technology they may have different thoughts on how you use it but there is a common theme of the need for it period um the real world component the importance of communication teachers all those things you see on there those are the common ground elements if you're looking on the right those were things that were polarizing in the previous year where we actually only had an A and B uh this year uh this is something that I would encourage you to read on your own as well but basically what this is is based upon those different viewpoints these are some suggestions that folks provided in their open-ended feedback that's relative so again this is just our community speaking trying to be Solutions based providing some feedback definitely encouraging you to read through that um new this year we did have an AI supported question so this was an opportunity where it took thoughts from various folks in the survey feature and then also shared it with the individuals as they were typing it and you can see it's focused on instructional technology Internet safety and general school safety and what are the most important why and what we're doing well in those areas and what can be improved and I know in a later presentation some of these slides will come up again so I won't go over them in depth but what I think is important to call out for this group is again very similar to the side A and B of the different type of learning environments where kids Thrive um there's still a common ground here on the A and B of you have folks here that are expressing concerns about the excessive use of technology and then others sharing obviously the support needed for technology and education but regardless of which side folks are on um all respondents agreed about the importance of school safety um both physically emotionally and in various capacities um and also the opportunities to make sure communication and other elements of the school day when it comes to supporting students are done well um this as well because again I want to be conscious of time and you will see this coming up again what thought exchange does is in this same question question it provides the top five common themes relative to this topic so you can see instructional technology was the most important common theme when we use the word technology and there's thoughts uh that are uh positive and then those where they provided opportunities for feedback so again using an example of instructional technology um there's it was stated that there are various benefits of student students having access to devices and what that does for the learning experience but then also feedback of making sure that there's not a Reliance on that and consistency across the district when it comes to using that technology so again if you chose to go through all five that are on here instructional technology Internet safety General school safety School communication and school environment these are the top five items that are most important to our families when you talk about technology and to make sure sure we're clear on four um School Communication in this sense was more about grades progress communication with teachers school things to understand how your student is doing and the tools that the student has to complete their work performance we'll fly through these but again please stop me at any time if I go too fast this is where we have longitudinal data and depending on which question is asked you may see 24 through 19 with those Gap years because of of Co and others maybe a shorter period depending on when we started asking the question but overall this is just our overall grade you can see that the top reasons for the grades provided was relatively consistent we may have swapped a few here and there but B is uh the consistent grade that has been given to the district as the quality um or pardon me the overall grade of our school district and quality of instruction and student support are really the main reasons that folks are providing that grade to us so that really hasn't changed student learning so this is quality of Education compared to neighboring School District so you'll see in the top right is a favorability score so that means really anything from the same all the way up to much better we are roughly 76% that fall into that category you'll see the green that goes all the way across meaning that we did remain consistent we're same was considered the highest ranking result over this period but we did have an increase in much better uh while favorability went down from 2023 it went from 83 to 76 we did add an option of being unsure um for those that do not have students so that we could further refine what we're looking at here quality of teachers it structures in the same way we just looked at for Education very similar in result results where you have same as being the um common response and uh results on that side favorability did go down from 94 to 80% but this is exactly the same where again we added an unsure component so when you look overall our grades are staying the same with same and why favorability is being adjusted we're having more in that unsure category so that's going to impact that favorability score year over-year quality of After School athletics um same same situation you'll see 71% here we did adjust wording a little bit so you see too we're only looking at two years worth of data same is the is the response that was provided over that two years and the adjustment was from 84% to 71% but again we added unsure which has 16 respondents that have been added to that percent cies of SHP real World preparation I will note that there's been slight adjustments to the wording of this question over the years just given the status of the acmy of shakan whether it was brand new or something that's ongoing you'll see the green where we remain consistent the addition of unsure which adjust some of the ratings on there um and favorability for this one stayed roughly the same so it was roughly at that 64% safety and critical technology ports you can digest those common themes I think it'll be probably pretty clear this is a new question and it had to do with instructional technology and the availability to support student learning in our district this was great um you can see this one here this is 95% obviously we can't back this up to any other year but I would say that this is a a really good favorability score where it was either about the same to much better if you want to be a a strict grader you could take out the about the same on there but still from from a favorability perspective it goes from that neutral up and that is at 95% Safety and Security another component from that perspective this does have year-over-year data um 71% was the favorability score um we did add again some additional identifiers so that we could really understand the data that we're looking at and favorability did increase by 8% for this one so you'll see that positive star next to strongly agree there's some pre-co data you can have just again if you're going to look at this in your time School Board performance this is the one I know you've been eager to look at um School Board performance I will say just straight out of the gate School Board superintendent and finance they were all very similar and how it was the grades stayed um relatively flat you were all generally I believe in the same letter grade no significant shifts I put some reminders on the bottom of things that have happened but I will say it's great to see if you look at 2019 to 2021 you either had bad grades or I don't want to provide a grade at this point in time you can make your own assumptions of why that's how our surveys um received results but for Schoolboard performance you stayed at a be there superintendent performance as I mentioned very similar you'll see those same patterns in there as well and then financial management again very very similar with the flat results remaining positive with that letter grade of B so we are all B pardon me we are all be incl in the finance department and you're an A in my book but I I know I know that yes I'm talking about you are correct yeah I remember last year they were not nice for the finance um Al I don't know this year is the is it different uh so the finance score is exactly in the same category as superintendent and school board so it's B to be and again those years of 21 and 2019 you had consistent responses amongst the group it might have been 21 I don't think it was last year yep um decision making this is definitely a good one to gauge results on um the adjustments were made to make sure that we could better understand neutral comments favorability did increase with by 5% where we're at 63% now meaning um there's an increase in trust that we're making the right decisions in the best interests of students and families that you'll see on here and then engagement and connections I think the big takeaway from respect and pride um you'll see at the bottom it summarizes we were relatively neutral on the respect piece although it was very high to begin with so that is a positive Pride did go up 3% uh which is great as well it's at 68% communication the takeaway from this this is um a fancy little heat chart here heat table um but what you can see I pull over my notes here um really the the very aware and the areas of opportunity too I mean we know that that prek actually was a little surprised with some of these the prek and then I do not have children in school obviously have the lowest the prek we have some opportunities you know first coming into the district maybe not as aware and connected so we know that we always have greater opportunities to connect with those folks and then you'll see the darker it gets and the higher percentage where we actually have folks most engaged which if you're looking at that is sixth through seventh grade and 10th through 12 being the most aware which is a shift from previous years and then when we go to the next slide communication methods it definitely follows some patterns that we've seen in the past with that elementary age younger age and those that are not in school um relying more on print Publications and things that are coming directly to their home or word of mouth and more of the digital Avenues meaning um those that are in between so next steps actually we've been uh working furiously on a a really Hefty and uh exciting Leadership Retreat that starts tomorrow it's 3 days this information will also be formally shared with everyone at that so you have principles APS Deans directors assistant directors uh it will definitely be a part of everything that we're doing in addition of the compelling Vision uh and obviously there's discussions from a capital project Levy standpoint where this AIDS um feedback and necessary research and those discussions as well so going as fast as humanly possible is there anything that I can answer that you did not review prior or perhaps I should have elaborated on more a lot of information yeah well I I'll be look I looked at it a few times before the meeting I'll be looking at it several times because there's just so much data in here it it's good it's great stuff we're doing the right thing according to the uh survey for the most part and I commend the community with the feedback that was provided there was definitely a lot of thought put in um it wasn't just let me just take this to take this so we wouldn't get all of this if we didn't have a community that provided us solid results so very happy with that that 58% that took a survey generally speaking 30% we should be happy with out of those and we're at 58 so it's definitely something to be proud of that we're getting the feedback well and just an observation I'm drawing a correlation to the extracurricular because that seemed to be a standout uh in this survey in particular which also speaks volumes to the fact that hey we you know passed question number two on the operating Levy to afford more of those uh you know activities sports but certainly Mr Andy Brown has to be pretty happy with just the participation um were seeing this presentation for today uh and again I'm I'm drawing a correlation that it's because of how that investment was made to afford those opportunities to students and that it's coming out that the community is recognizing it um as something favorable um certainly a lot to digest I hope that at our our next Ard development we can look at some of this see what's actionable how do you get you know for a B for example the grade how do you get the C's to say well what what would it take is it something that's missing or is it more communication like what are some of those actionable things um kind of like what to do with the data um but I agree with my colleague Mr Al there just there's so much uh to kind of unpack here yeah look forward to looking into it more and I agree um with that Mr roopy as well the you know is there any untapped audience areas things that we go into further that will definitely be a part of our review and our discussion over the next year of how can we make sure that everyone's voices are heard we can dive deep on things that maybe we decide we want to go deeper on yeah I I know I I like going through the the thoughts the shared thoughts um and those are the people who are who are passionate they had something to say and you know to your earlier point that the vast majority of them had very very thoughtful constructive uh feedback and that was uh it was rewarding to to see and you know whether whether it was praise or or opportunity ities uh it was uh yeah it was just encouraging to see that the thing with thought exchange not that I don't get paid to say this by any means but is that I think they the structure gives a voice to folks that maybe wouldn't normally provide that feed Bike by being able to rank and interact with those that do articulate their thoughts and I think that's a really powerful tool for us sometimes you only you know you only have the loudest person in the room or maybe we don't do a good job of hitting everybody um so I find that very valuable for us to be able to have true feedback thank you for any comments yes thank you next on our agenda is uh an action item item 12.1 and Tiffany will remain where she is to present on this item this is the academy Champion Business and Entrepreneurship Academy Champion agreements yes and I don't have anything to put on the screen here because it seems more appropriate just to talk through some of the high points we do have the agreement in this action item uh as a proposal for the board to take action on but at a high level um Hometown Bank has been a valued uh b& uh Academy Champion uh for since the Inception of theems and last year around this time they provided a one-year extension uh we work together I should say a one-year extension to their contract that would be due on June 30th of this month and the reason for that is I really commend them conversations Mr Dr Redmond was there and many others from the high school is they wanted to take a true assessment of Are We being an academy Champion are we doing what we're supposed to do and are we providing the value that the students need and how can we make sure that we're fully committed those conversations were had they've done a great job of adjusting their involvement looking at ways they can optimize engagement and have the right people where they would like them and then in addition of those conversations there's actually been an opportunity to partner to have Hometown Bank partner with canbury Park very similar to how the city and the county partner for Human Services and that was advantageous to both parties because they want to provide a well-rounded experience for our students hospitality and everything that canabury Park can provide complement them very well while you only have hometown bank here the intent is that you would see another one hopefully very soon should there not be any uh legal concerns with the academy Champion contract where actually both would be the academy Champions you'll notice um if you open up that attachment this agreements and Canary should it be added in the future are actually for four years versus five so that they can end on the same term as all of our other Champions just for consistency um and hometown's contract is not not dependent upon canbury so that is why it is okay to have it on here they are very excited and hopeful for that but it is not dependent they are all on board uh and they are very involved to I can say I'm being on the choe chamber board and Foundation board um Hometown is all over the place and they're doing really great things as is Mr Reynolds that was here earlier great partner um so my ask is for the recommendation to approve the new contract period which is a continuation of the Academy Champion partnership with Hometown Bank I'll make the motion to approve second have a motion by Peterson and a second by broy any further discussion see none all those in favor I I opposed motion carries thank you thank you Tiffany next on our agenda is another action item item 12.2 this is a capital projects L presentation and resolution and here is Dr [Music] Redmond most if not all of of this presentation uh will be a a repeat uh a very brief repeat kind of an overview uh reminder uh and then we'll move on to um you know the recommendation of of a resolution to put a capital projects levy on the ballot on November 5th of 2024 um capital projects Levy is often commonly referred to as a technology Levy or a tech Levy uh it really is all about uh safety you know Internet safety cyber security physical safety kind of all those kind of uh you know a lot of those things we that aren't visible necessarily that go into uh a lot of the you know Operational Support uh especially you know with with things related to technology and then critical support and it's one of those everywhere you look in in student learning there there's technology uh you know even the curriculum we get now is often online or updated online and uh lots of the learning activities and you know just the you know we talked a lot about theem is a shocky this evening lot of those student experiences and how they connect with others uh is Laden with with technology as well um background information I won't read all of this uh to you but this is uh the voters in Shak approved uh the current capital projects Levy back on May 5th of 2015 for a time period of 10 years um meaning that you know we we have uh the current tax year where the revenue you know being provided by the taxpayers is to be used for the 2425 school year and then the final final tax year is calendar year 2025 uh that is that 10th year and so the earliest opportunity to renew capital projects Levy in terms of placing it on a ballot is this November 5th of 2024 um and again part of that Community conversation that that Tiffany shared uh you know a lot of feedback on the importance of school safety and and critical support and as I've mentioned you know when we talk about a capital Project's Levy renewal what we're really talking about in this case and it's why it's highlighted in blue twice there is a continuation in other words if the current capital projects Levy did not have a an expiration after 10 years we wouldn't need to do this renewal and the idea is we want we're you know the ask of the voters would be to continue this the same Levy uh in terms of the tax rate and and those things for another 10 years so you know carrying it forward and so that that is the idea in essence it's the same ballot language um the same tax rate because the total net tax capacity is different than it was 10 years ago uh that amount of Revenue is different but also so are the expenditures on on Technology and Safety as well um again it's a renewal uh projected and we've worked with our our you know Financial Partners from PMA and others um that the the revenue in for the 26 27 school year which would be calendar year 2026 uh is projected to be $6.2 million uh that would be if it were successfully you know approved by the voters on this November uh if not uh that you know we would in essence have the absence of our our capital projects Levy revenue and that would certainly be a uh a a large impact uh a large negative impact on our ability to operate the district that we would have to make a significant financial adjustments for and there's a list of those things um sample ballot which is also in the re the the resolution I can't put it there it is uh basically the same as the ballot language from 2015 and then the uh you know capital projects Levy School Board recommendation uh it would be my recommendation that the capital projects Levy renewal be added uh to the November 5th 2024 general election ballot uh you know the question then is what does the school board need to do at this evening's meeting uh to have the renewal placed on the November 24th general election ballot uh and that is very straightforward uh the board would need to approve a resolution calling the capital projects Levy renewal election for November 5th of 2024 and then Tiffany I'm sure will will put uh that resolution up and as she's doing that I'll pause briefly if there's any kind of questions or thoughts May Mr chair I'll just make a comment we saw it the thought exchange feedback included obviously in the presentation uh there's a common theme that technology and use of Technology important as is safety and so I think it D tells nicely with presenting this Ral I hope it will be received favorably um but you know I think we're being consistent both community and uh ultimately for the betterment of our students in the district person the favor thank you just to build on that you know Brian is here you know you presented to us a few weeks back and you know these are essential Services it's not it's not optional and so if we didn't have this Levy we're still going to have to provide those services and you make that point earlier after as well so there's not really too many places we can cut so now if this didn't pass we're at a $6.2 million defic is basically going into the the year so so you had it at the presentation technology is embedded everywhere everywhere if this doesn't pass you know we're still going to do the cyber security we're still going to need to do all these things we have to do we're just going to have to figure out where we're going to cut the money from it's that simple and we also talked earlier uh technology items do not come as long-term facility maintenance U options so that doesn't we can't go well we can do that with this money but we can't legally we can't it's just not an option and um one great thing about uh school districts is the people get to decide how they want to see their District going forward unlike a lot of elected officials we don't just get to say we're just going to do this uh and from what we saw in the survey technology is very important to the uh residents of the district and uh I I really hope that they uh can continue to support this because supporting this is supporting the future because technology is everywhere without it I mean this is not 40 years ago when I was in school doing Oregon Trail on a very green screen uh monitor you know Control Data Play-Doh yeah PR much and what did you die of uh dentary probably I don't know actually I I always made it because I was better um but um but this is this is important um and I hope I think uh the people of the district will continue to support the uh the schools and uh I hope they do i' like to make a quick um comment uh this is a very important uh this is a continuation because the last time we have done was 2015 when we were doing Bond referendum if I if my memory is okay right um and also technology is everything the cameras uh the doors um the uh the the curriculum the infinite cus uh canvas so parents can access and see you know the lessons they are taken that day uh they have access they can see the projects that the student see to take care of and everything and it's very important and it's like you know it's a flavor of for the education is Integra without technology you know we cannot run uh the school and I will make the motion um for the technology uh the Capal project of the technology to be on the ballot for November 2024 motion by Mohammad second second by broy any further discussion I think it's important just to clarify that this is a continuation meaning that this is not a tax increase this is a continuation of the uh taxes that have been paid since 2015 so um that's what continuation means and the ballot doesn't reflect that but you'll notice that the ballot language does not say this is a tax increase so hopefully that message to the community will be loud and clear that this is a continuation this is not a tax increase um because I think that's going to be extremely important to the passage of this yeah if I may just in terms of the resolution itself and I'm not going to read through um all all that's in there but what it is it's the col of an election and then embedded in that is the notification responsibilities the board clerk has called out quite often in terms of all the various public notice that has to be given and by when uh and then if we scroll down again I know this was in the presentation to the sample ballot uh is also prominently displayed and um you know and then other pieces there but just wanted you know and this is in board book and its entirety and uh we obviously we've worked with uh you know Bill maazi the finance team worked with PMA the financial advisors and then we've you know back and forth with making sure with uh school district attorneys in terms of the language and having things in in uh in appropriate form for both this and then uh you'll see the Schoolboard election resolution shortly as well but that is it to kind of summarize all the different parts and it's an extensive resolution any further discussion see none Tiffany can you please do the role roopy yes Peterson yes Smith yes alridge yes Johnson Mohammad yes do yes resolution passes thank you next on our agenda is another resolution item 12.3 School Board election resolution and filing period and um Tiffany olon will present uh may I speak from the spot chair SM is that okay I'm tethered uh so as noted in the action item Title Here I am here to present a proposal for the board to approve a resolution related to the election of school board members on November 5th 2024 General ballots um there are three School Board seats as you know that will expire in January 2025 and it is necessary for us to hold a general election for the purpose of electing three school board members for the term of four years and that term would start on the first Monday of January 2025 um if you are following along I'm reading some highlights of the lengthy resolution so I'm not going to read it verbatim on here some additional items to note is that the general election would be called um and that this recommended um resolution would be held in conjunction with the Statewide general election AKA no special election just felt I needed to say that um and that the election just for clarity too we did already State the date of November 5th 2024 but that would be between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. just want to make sure we have that on the record that this is what that resolution would be calling for the notice of election would follow all of our secretary of state guidelines some of those are outlined in this resolution and other we others we follow as we need to um some additional information that might be helpful to know is that the candidate filing period uh would be begin at 7:00 a.m. on July 30th 2024 and it would run through 5:00 p.m. on August 13th 2024 uh that would be done here at the district office uh during our normal business hours during that um Monday through Thursday period and we'd have a drop box for Friday to make sure that we could handle that accordingly um per the Secretary of State there is a $2 filing fee that is cash or check and we handle that appropriately with the finance department for that um in terms of the Secretary of State guidelines and then candidates do have 48 hours to withdraw after the August 13th deadline at 5:00 pm should they want to do that there's all sorts of other items when it comes to eligibility both MSB and the Secretary of State outline that happy to remind or share any of that but that is provided to all the candidates with other resources as well um and Affidavit of kesy is what is provided and there are other details that again are provided to anyone that files in that period but in order to do that again today's action item would be for the board to approve the resolution related to that calling and then we would proceed with the proper notification with our community I'm happy to take any questions or Dr please let me know if I missed anything on there so that you all feel like the right information I'll make a motion to approve a resolution for the school board election I'll second it the motion by Peterson and second by Aldrich any further discussion Tiffany does not want to manage another special election that's all all you caught that all right see no further discussion Tiffany can you please do the rooll roopie yes Peterson yes Smith yes alridge yes Johnson Mohammad yes wellz yes resolution passes thank you all right that is it for Action items uh next on our agenda is item 13 committee reports and other information uh start with Michelle um nothing super important from the community engagement meeting uh that we had was it a month ago I think uh U Mar her n is going to come by on the August meeting um kind of more on a personal note on the hostess students I'm part of HOSA pretty involved in HOSA and we actually have nine students that are heading out to the HOSA Internationals at in Texas it's it's tomorrow they're going to goe out so pretty excited for them um and also just I'm just waiting for AP scores to come out in two weeks so that's what I've been kind of just the deadline ticking down in my head right LU on that how many did you take three so three5 cents H hopefully hopefully are you following the Twitter I am that I it's on a tab right here actually every time it's just I hope it's one of the ones I fire off quiet thank you um so we had Finance facilities certainly Haven packed enough of that today uh was miss our last meeting we did actually have our first uh outdoor spaces uh meeting uh that's one of the um the committee groups that we put together just to look at how we're using outside spaces and where they're most have utilized and about they're well utilized but more to come uh we have some homework to do over the summer and we reconvene uh we heard that mountain bike season is uh almost upon us but I'd be remiss if I didn't say June 30th is the deadline uh to get students signed up and we can always use coaches so uh uh you know jump on board uh it's a lot of on the job training uh but looking forward to that season as well um that's all got um not much has been going on at Southwest that was sarcasm for those following at home as you are aware we have uh last Tuesday night uh we prepared for a tornado in case there was a tornado during our um interviewing of candidates but um we interviewed two candidates great candidates um it was hard to make a decision but the board did um unanimously select Dr Jeff Horton who is the current superintendent for gfw which is given Fairfax winr um he will be joining Southwest Metro as their permanent full-time superintendent starting July 1 so uh we have a board meeting uh Wednesday morning at 700 a.m. to approve the contract for him to start on July 1 so very excited to have that process behind behind us um and thank you to Dr Redmond for stepping in and helping out at Southwest Metro when there's been a need um on an interim superintendent basis um that was uh I know it was was very much appreciated by staff and just U everything that you did over there in a very short period of time so um and then um just we hav't mentioned that our boys volleyball uh club team our state champions um it's kind of fitting that the fifth year of it being a club Sport and the last year before transitions to uh being part of the State High School league that um the Champions are where it started here in Shaka so um it was a fitting way to go out and it was I went to quite a few of the games um and just wow I mean those kids can really play volleyball it was very impressive and look forward to what a competitive season at the State High School with more teams um involved um will be like so cool do I have it right they won 1513 in the fifth set I ship game championship match that's awesome yeah it went back and forth and it was uh very tight they played the Rogers in the championship game and U yeah it was it was back and forth but we barely played a 15 on the fifth set and uh just it's kind of a fluke type of a play and won it for Shak so happy for the two ladies that started the program here and um I believe one of them's going to be our head coach next year for your voice so continuing that so um Tim had all the same things I did so I'm just done Joe Finance facilities yeah we covered everything here on the uh um in the meeting uh next month on I'm going to get these dates wrong Maybe it won't July 17th July 24th I'm going to be at Rhythm on the rails in the uh Shak School tent um not sure who's playing that night but uh hopefully it'll be as gorgeous as it was uh W last Wednesday night um for the first one and if you haven't been to Rhythm on the rails it's it's just a fun experience it's it it's crowded it's festive it's it's just a great time uh the city uh uh chamber puts on for for the years it's just been a great event um nobody's brought up graduation and we had a couple of them uh Tim Jeff Chad and I were all at uh Takata graduation on June 6th um and and principal Eric service does does a great job and it's it's just a great ceremony and of course uh gr Knight on the e was just it it really is the best part about being on School Board is handing out uh diplomas and there's there's it's it's just the best so for those who might think about running for a school board you got that to look forward to maybe only that but that um wow did I make that sound negative I don't know it's it's great being before um I'll convin myself um that's all I have um I I don't you know everything was good um I don't know if like to say I need to go home Caroline um well we had the community engagement on the 28th of May not really much to really add Rhythm Of The Rails just signing up doing more Community engagement um and then kudos to the boys volleyball and you know graduation was spectacular so kudos to all the individuals that graduated D last time oh yeah um I thought I thought like it being my last meeting I thought I would have something like more to say but but honestly uh I don't really have much uh just waiting for my AP test scores to come anxiously patiently um I wasn't able to go to the community engagement meeting during May so I but it hurts that there's some good things coming out from that so that's good um graduation was a fun experience felt really good to be called out in front of the entire crowd which is it felt really good we were all trying to high high five here but it didn't didn't quite work out that way but yeah I I know besides that I don't really have much thank you Jim yeah uh Leadership Retreat starts tomorrow morning 7:45 Charleston Meadows uh day two will be at uh City Hall here in shocke and then day three will be at the district office it's kind of the one time all year that we have prolonged time together with our directors assistant directors supervisors principes APS Deans everybody so uh we'll have a report on that next month at the uh at the board meeting but it's a wonderful learning opportunity thank you Tiffany I not I hope that 95% favorability and uh instructional Tech is reflected in the vote November that's all I got to say well so word Dr re I got nothing nothing further so all right uh thank you next up uh upcoming meetings and important dates um you can see them up on the screen there um I guess you can read read for yourself I I know any anything worth calling out to Tiffany or Dr redond we have our summer program starting July 8th there's a lot of great work going into that Rhythm on the rails if you are looking for the lineup and dates that's linked there and otherwise if you're curious about to school year dates that um school year Hub will provide a bunch of the community opportunities that will come in August but we won't talk about all right thank you with that I would entertain a motion to would you like to make a motion oh yeah second motion by Mohammad second by Al all those in favor thank you