Sit next to you. So I can spread out. >> Scratch. Oh, easy shot. And then it's not I'd like to call to The Shaki public school board work session for Monday June 8th to please >> Smith >> here. Johnson >> here. >> Here >> Brian and Sha are absent today. >> Please join me in the plugin. Happy Monday everybody. Good to see everybody again. It's not been that long since we were all together on Saturday for graduation which is our u pride uh topic for tonight. Uh that is our class of 2026. Tiffany has a short presentation that she would like to make for that topic. >> Peterson, this is just a way to give a little additional context and welcome for it to share any of your thoughts, but we just want to celebrate the class of 2026 to come bring all 700 plus in here. They seem to be busy after Saturday. Uh but just wanted to remind you folks um just few highlights because hopefully we'll be consistent doing this going forward. very familiar to most of you. We got some uh we had great attendance. Uh talking to Mr. Puliki this morning, 718 give or take, you know, is the graduates that he has here. Um and obviously you got to hand deliver many diplomas and other items to those folks. And at the same time, I know we have three board members present for our TLC board graduates. And every year, um it's just extremely special what is shared. There was highlights with PSO classes and things that haven't necessarily done before. Um there's kiddos that went through 13 credits I think was one of them and one that was finishing a test right when they were done with the graduation. Um I know others a lot of comments to that as well. Um because we had board members Aldridge and Smith I believe there as well. I just want to make sure we we share those special moments that were shared with us. Feather ceremony again we the class of 2026. There's so many different ways that we celebrate all of our students and I know many of you were present for this as well. Justine go really does a great job of incorporating as many of our native families and partners and things that are meaningful for this tradition. 13 graduates, 14 students honored. Um and again the tribes represented this was shared by Justine thought it was great whether it's speakers with chunk and then the um actual tribal nations of our students that graduated. So yeah, just a great representation of our student body. There's some fun fast facts in here. Board member Smith has seen some of these. We cheated a little bit. We have that steering committee meeting for themies of shock be few weeks before graduation and that group is always looking at what can we do better for themies and you can see the snapshot is out there client projects you know if we have 50 plus client projects that means there's most likely 50 that are stepping up to give those authentic experiences to our students. You can see things such as college credit tuition saves and then the counseling team at the high school gave us a little teaser on social media if you saw it. We don't have the full senior survey, but the top five colleges and universities that were shared as plans for attendance are listed there in in order. And I was trying to get last minute, but I didn't want to give you an inaccurate figure. There are so many students that graduated with actual credits um for training and are able to go into the trades and go right into apprenticeships without having to do a lot of us through skills grants through things with shop foundation. Um I'll save that for Mr. Poy so he has some more fun stuff to share when he updates you but just so many great things for this class. There's a lot going on here but it'd be impossible for me to show you all the great things for this class especially the last month. But just some reminders we have on graduation rehearsal day which was June 3rd this year. Our kids get to board graduates and adults get to board a class of their choice or their elementary schools. Do a fun little high five either to those they knew or just those that are looking up to them. The hate difference is always possible. They all have to go down their little high senior night was fantastic. There's a list to the left of our inspired teachers that were honored. um senior awards I know many folks there are members foundations that are strapping and field day there's big for a lot of folks that are on and are graduating senior breakfast that's that same day that they do they start with the breakfast they go through rehearsal and then they get to go to elementary schools and then signing day barely fit everybody here we have a lot of students that are pursuing their dreams point. So again, just wanted to give a little extra shout out before hopefully. I know Chair Peterson wanted to say a few words, but just give everyone at the board an opportunity to to celebrate this class. So we'll keep doing it throughout the summer because there's too many good things to share. We can't get it all at once. Sheriff Peterson, if you'd like to start. >> Yeah, I just want to extend my congratulations to the class of 26. One of the things that I thought was really neat about graduation was number of students that came across to receive their diploma and also wore medals whether it was from the high school league or NECA or HOSA or speech or you know whatever it might be that I've never seen that before. This class was the first class I think that's done that and I thought that was really something that to show how proud they were of their accomplishments not just in the classroom but also outside in our activities and athletics as well. Uh graduation is a significant milestone and it's really a time to celebrate the hard work and accomplishments of of all these students and while one chapter ends for them, it's also the beginning of new opportunities and challenges and adventures for for all of them. Um and I would just say to the graduates as they move forward to remember that success is not measured by not only by what you achieve but how you impact and uplift those around you. And I think that that was something that of the message that Javier gave during his message to the social community. Um, and just the story that they're writing [clears throat] is far from complete and some of the most meaningful chapters are still ahead for all the graduates. So, I just want to express my congratulations to all of our graduates. Yeah, I'll just I'll say I think it's you answered like four of my top five things right here, you know, for being a board member. You know, the high school graduation, Takata graduation, the thunder ceremony. Um, and then Saber Pride is one of them as well. And then new teacher welcome the only captured here. So, we do that in the fall. Yeah, just just gratitude that just being part of that just to see uh the culmination of you know 13 years of of work by by the students and the joy you know that they and their families have that day and just be part of that. It was really my baby graduated. >> I meet so many people in this class and you know congratulations to class of 2026. They do really well in life and succeed. Well, and I can echo that the the Roie Facebook page blew up because I had a picture from from stage same with my baby girl graduated. Oh, and not to create a rivalry with gold absolutely. >> Yeah. Uh again, what what an incredible, you know, all the accomplishments, all the medals. And in fact, we have a couple graduates. I know we're busy. uh you know, runner up uh in the state uh track finals. Uh one broke her record. So again, just what a highlight to celebrate. >> Joe, you did a fabulous job. >> You don't need to lie, but I tried to go through that as fast as I could because I couldn't brea I said the ceremony is enthusiasm, the energy in the room is fantastic. The student speakers, their their skills and ability to reason their message is so well at that age is so impressive to me. The choir, the band, the whole presentation. My favorite thing is, and it's always has been, you know, trying to get these students who are walking, you know, taking it seriously, and I'm just beaming. They're like, "Come on, smile. This is a great moment." And all at once they give up five feet away and all they start smiling. And that's just try just like just have that joy for that moment. And always just the highlight of the year. Thanks. Item four on our agenda is the consideration of the agenda as presented. >> So move second. >> We have a motion by a second by Aldrich. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. >> I. >> Motion carries. Item five is our public comment portion of our meeting. This is a 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 pertaining to school board business. We allocate a total of 15 minutes for public comment at this meeting. Each individual speaker may speak for up to two and a half minutes. The sign up for public comment has been conducted online and in person prior to this evening's meeting. requests are not processed on an overall first come first serve basis. There is an element of first come first serve representing a specific viewpoint on a particular topic. If more than six speakers sign up for public comment, topics and speakers will be prioritized. Topics on this evening's agenda will take priority over topics not on the agenda. Speakers living within the school district take priority over those from outside of the district. When speakers plan to share differing perspectives on the same topic, an effort is made to balance the quantity of the speakers on each side of the topic. Public comment is conducted in accordance with schoolboard policy 206, which can be found on the school district website. Persons who wish to address the school board during public comment must sign up prior to the start of the school board meeting. Provide their name and subject to which comments pertain. Only those persons who have been recognized by the board chair will be allowed to speak during public comment or at any time during the school board meeting for that matter. No personal attack will be allowed on any district employee, including school board members. As a reminder, schoolboard members will typically only listen and not interact in any way with a public comment speaker. The board may at its discretion ask questions for clarification of any issue. Tonight we have one h person for our public comment and that's Janet Johnson who is uh here to speak about district transfers. Welcome. >> Hi everyone. Spoken to many of you over the last few years. Around this time last year I emailed the board asking for help with her request to transfer my daughter for this meeting. At that time I expressed concern that the outing principal had unilateral authority over the transfer request out of their school. I said is unacceptable. I was fortunate was informed enough to understand the transfer request. started over being denied enough to know how to challenge that decision. As a result, my daughter was able to attend see me this past year since everything hoped it would be. More importantly, it's very clearly in my daughter's best interest. When I spoke with you, I've asked the board to create a procedure that internal family who denied a transfer request simply because of the best interest of the school they were trying to lead rather than attention to the student. Instead, the procedures adopted say the transfer request with the outgoing principal and the viceant. told there's more to this procedure than what's in writing. procedure still still pays significant authority with the school students ting to leave another parent sorry another parent I sent you last year response can simply now be that procedure is given that principal is given authority by that procedure our district's compelling vision states if our moral imperative change to all of our systems measurably work for each and every student it also states we must maintain high expectations for upgrading support to ensure every student receives what they need to succeed the current transfer policy in fix of those commitments as a school should not have the power to an opportunity to school that meets their needs better. Respectfully ask for board to revisit this procedure and remove the down authority from the school of students trying to leave students are guided first and foremost what's best for each student. Thank you. Item six on our agenda this evening will be ourformational items. And the first item on that portion of the agenda is uh discussion on our roof parking lot access bonds. Um and here to present is David Rasking our director of finance and operations and Ben from W Architects and engineers and is here as well to present. Thank you for having us. Um, as we'd like to talk to the today's focus is to review the FY27 to FY uh 31 facility improvement plans. Uh, the project the projects will be implemented through the FY27 to 2031. As we go through the list on today's information and presentation, uh, we'll discuss the phase roofing and parking lot replacement needs across the district and review estimated cost projected. projected costs and proposed funding sources. Um estimated project costs including 5% inflation factor. Provide an overview of longterm facility maintenance planning strategy and discuss next steps and project timeline for >> All right. Well, like David said, we just want to go through the sites just so um there's no surprises and you kind of you can understand what's going to happen at each one should you move forward with the bonding. Um and some at some level these projects are kind of black and white projects, right? There's not a lot of nuance to them on on what they what they take. Um that said, it's important that you understand the scope. Um and even though these are maybe not complicated projects in the world. Uh they are very impactful to the sites themselves um because you can imagine taking out a parking lot has an impact on that building's use for that uh summer period. So um just want to walk through them. So uh we're going to start with Pearson and these are go in order of the phasing. Um phasing uh it's kind of done for a couple reasons. One is you know uh first we looked at priority just what was the highest priority site. Second, we looked at how it fit the financing. And then third is, as I said, building use. Just making sure that we're not taking out too many of your sites over the course of the summer. So that's really why these projects are phased over time instead of trying to just get them all done in the summer, for example. Uh so start with Pearson. Um uh so the parking uh parking lots, it's the west parking lot. Um at this site, um there's been some discussion over the year about waste. how can we increase parking capacity on the site? Um, and so, uh, the budgets include doing a small expansion to add some additional parking spots and that place turn staff. Um, and then there's some miscellaneous other pavement and sidewalks to get impacted when we do that. Oh, and I should highlight um, all of these projects um, are LTFM eligible projects for this bonding because um, because of their age. So, they meet the deferred work um definition from MDE. So you can see the parking lot age best as I could estimate is about 27 years old. Um and what we and there's been some higher things over the years but uh lifespan for pavement in Minnesota we see about 15 years. >> Ben, can I ask you a question? >> Um is 10th Avenue the street that's running along the west parking lot is I'm just trying to And then the student entrance is >> uh so student entrance is right off the west parking lot. >> Dakota 10th Avenue is along be along the bottom. >> Yeah. You can see that they don't want to but uh if you look at the little uh there's a little jut out in the northwest corner that's the entrance. >> Okay, I got it though. >> Uh red oak then um would be uh so the first scope there would be a roof replacement. That roof was installed in 2001. Uh so that we've put the roof age of 26 years and an expected lifespan for um that roof type which is ballasted EPM 15 to 25 years give or take. So you're right in that window. Um again uh fairly black and white on the scope. Um that whole everything in yellow there will get replaced. Uh the the lighter blue that was an addition that was the kindergarten edition was done in 2014. So that still got some Sun path again parking lots um miscellaneous sidewalks uh as we go uh parking lot age there about 28 years expected lifespan 15 to 20 years as I mentioned um and this one is slated to go again in that first FY27 it's probably worst pretty tough shape Uh, Red Oak again could be a little repetitive now, but this now clicks over a year. So, this would be a year later, FY28. Um, but getting the parking areas and related work, sidewalks, etc. And you'll start to see the prices climb a little bit. That's that inflation factor that Sweeney uh parking lots Of course, uh I think additionally the the board knows that there'll be a city project as well to uh close the current entrance and have the traffic flow from the from the park. Um and again, this makes more sense to face later and kind of let the city do their project, get it out of the way, and then we'll come back and finish up the rest of the picture on your property. Eagle Creek. Um Gibnus now bumps out another year. So we clipped a year down the line to FY29. Um that's 2006 vintage roof. So it'll be 23 years. You're right in that replacement age for that roof. >> Does the uh the materials that we're using in the roofs are they similar before? Are we getting better? >> Um it'll be similar. >> Yeah. you'll receive a 20 year warranty uh minimum. We've talked some strategies on there's a couple there's different roof types you can go with and there's not they're not really it's not really one's better than the other kind of a situation. It's just what you prefer to maintain. Also, the market can drive a lot of what our decision might be. Oil is used in a lot of these products. So, um just the market might one roofing type over the other to be cost competitive. Um, but that said, no matter what system we end up with, you'll end up with a 20ear warranty. We might even a 30-year warranty just to understand what the value, what that might cost up to a 30 year and I can add a little bit that's here is only 20 years fully. be that would be like a 30 to 35. So that's where you get vers east uh again parking lot and it's both the south and the west north drive there as well as a few parking spaces. So all that included And you can actually I don't the south parking lot I could find that was 17 years old but again it's showing some age already. It's got quite a bit of small especially near the entrances. A lot of cracks through it. Um and the west I think that is pretty the west's pretty old from what I could find on the uh Eagle Creek. Um so you'll be at 23 years. Again, we're bumping down the line now. We're at FY30. So, you got 23 years at this point. Again, check span 15 to 20. Um, that would include the south parking lot as well as the bus lot. I guess I I went a little quick on this. So, this site, Eagle Creek and Red Oak, um, has some budget set aside to expand the entrance drive. Um and so the entrance drive, um currently it's basically a two-lane in and there's a lot of congestion with buses and cars in that location. So when we're doing this, we want to we're going to try to widen out, get a dedicated bus um entry into the bus lot to keep the cars and buses separated. So um exactly how that'll happen, we'll probably again as we design it, we'll figure out exactly how we do that. In this case, we're we think expanding to get you a three lane makes the most sense, but uh you might depending on the site, we might do an old our own dedicated bus drive kind of thing. So, that'll get studied here. Um and Jackson actually has the same thing. We're actually expanding a little bit uh just make the entrance a little easier to move around. Um but both parking lots there again that'll be at 19 years um when we get to it in 2013. Um and that'll be 15 to again expect 15 to 20 years. Um and then the high school roof um that's a big one. Uh high school roof uh the original roof uh was done in 2006. So when the additions were put on in about 2016 to 2017, you know, that roof was about 10 years old. So very didn't get touched with the additions just based on its age. Um but when we get to 2031, you'll be at 25 years on that roof. Um and again, I expect you're right in that expected lifespan range. Um and it's obviously the uh it'll be the biggest roof project that this will have undertaken. Um, and it'll be good to get that one get that one out of the way. And then also at the high school would be uh parking lots. So the again as part of the uh expansion all the lots on kind of the west half. So the south lot, west lot, bus lot uh listed here that was all paved in the 2017 range. Um the east lots um were original that was original to the 2007. So, um, so the project here is to repave those east lots. Um, and then to seal coat the west side and that is just to extend the extend the time frame out. You're right where you want to be at that'll be at 13 years old actually when we get to it. Believe it or not, 2031 those West lots. So, getting a seal coat on there will be more than appropriate for it. And just to uh kind of close out on this, uh there's a few roofs that we didn't highlight. Um that's because they've been done. So just has ways to uh get through some of these projects. Uh so West Middle School got done two years ago, I think. Uh Pearson was done in 2018. Shock East was done in 2020 and Sun was done in 2017. So this really kind of cleans up your roof for the district with the exception of Jackson. Jackson be the one roof that kind of only gets the end of these projects. You'll hit that 20 year mark Jackson and that'll be time to plan for that. So um this really does kind of like I said kind of reset the district on kind of where their roofs are in terms of age and then in terms of throwing out Do you do this as a multi-year agreement or as a year? How does that process new cycle? It's just it's really difficult to bid um when there's not continuous work. It's really difficult to have contractors bid multiple phase summers and hold their hold their pricing, >> right? >> And if they do it, they probably are putting a lot of guess work into what the market's going to be like that following year. And so we want to make sure you're getting you're not getting the guesswork on the market, you're getting what the market prices essentially. So more than likely we'll phase it out. Like we talked a little bit like the high school just when we get to it. Um it's a lot that's a lot of area to cover and so that might school might be the one spot you want to phase um roofs and park and actually parking lots on the same schedule. kind of talked about we might want to phase that over two summers just based on the size of it but other than that new bidding cycle so we'd be coming back to you uh basically every January with good results for the next particular commodity space you mention oil prices >> then the um for red oak and You have old things. Parking lot specifically. Is that original then for those buildings? >> They are all original. >> So that's how old. >> Yeah. Yes. >> I can't believe >> Yeah. They're not They're not your new buildings, believe >> Yeah. When you have a brand new building, you know, the a lot of times they get you a long way, but Big expenses are things like carpet, right? That gets that gets and we've done we've gone through the buildings and got back down. The next thing that hits is going to be your roof and your parking lots. You got to get those done and we're doing that. And then uh you know future uh with those buildings going to be dealing with mechanical systems that will be 30 some years old. So that'll be kind of the next wave of going through those buildings is planning out how we accomplish older mechanical systems. I was just going to mention that so your annual LTFM allocations is about 1.5 million and so uh you can see almost every one of these projects exceeds that amount and so that's why we're talking about this funding mechanism is it's you know really it'd be really it would take you 30 it would take you 30 to 40 years um to go through each of these buildings and address these uh products. Try to use your uh LTFM that annual basis. So that's really why we're kind of looking at this mechanism is it gives you something allows you to take these projects out and get them done without chunks for a very long time. >> Well, I appreciate the fact that we plan to maintain our buildings so we don't run into issues with leaking roofs and more damage costing us more than what maint I just appreciate the plan to make sure that we're keep >> yeah that was one of my things when I came asking for a long facilities plan we had met with car previously and they showed us what the cost of rebuilding we talking about cost and knowing that we're not a district. I kind of have a little bit of a hard stack. I was like, how are we going to afford this in the future? So that's what stepped working with PTMA and also that is to how do we tackle this into the long term, but also making sure that we can we can fund it properly. >> It's nice state to be. >> Yeah. And I just wanted this kind of for the board members. We have uh June 22nd, you know, seeking approval for these projects. We've done a facilities and finance committee meeting. We brought whatever the date of our May 11th. >> Um the May meeting we had uh folks talking about the financing of of the project and now we've got Ben, you know, they've worked through kind of the project to order details of that. And so the question will be with Christie is What do you need in terms of, you know, information on June 22nd? You know, and certainly we could have somebody from, you know, PTMA, somebody from Wolf, but also want, you know, if you think of questions between now and then. Certainly want to make sure we're answering those and want to give you the right amount of information. We don't want to plan a 26 minute presentation. If you go, hey, we're pretty good. We think we got it. We just need kind of a summary again. So, that's Just wanted to make sure I share that thought this evening. >> And I'll maybe add on top of that is one of the reasons um we're at the meeting now talking about this is to hit those FY hit F next summer construction essentially. So we're we're kind of backing up going okay we got to put together the bid documents. We got to get out to the bidding community. We got to get bid. got to come back to you, prove those bids, um, and be ready to go hit the ground running on about the last about a year from now. So, um, that's part of the reason why we're here tonight. >> Just one follow question. We don't have to get into detail here. So, I think we get the roof done that positions us to take advantage of those opportunities should they become available. on radar at this point. >> It's not really on our radar right now. Um the grant program that they had when we put them on East and Sweeney has been drastically reduced that they're they don't cover near as much the project as they did in previously. Um, we've looked into it and it just for how low the grant for what the grant covers now is just don't seem to be fiscally responsible to to look into it now. If the grants do change in the future, that may be something we look into in the future, but right at this time there's no plans for it. >> Yeah, perfect. We also, one of the things that we developed I think is a really good relationship with public utilities with his team and uh they're monitoring that for us and they talk about what's out there and even you know the advantages and again they're part we're part of the cooperative for a lot of you know they are so it is something they're keeping an eye on but we have not had those situations that were as advantageous as they were previously but who knows that change in six weeks But it is something that they know that we're interested. They always keep us in mind and they do share it once in a while. But yeah, we don't think they even share with they don't think it's a very good opportunity, >> but u Thank you. Item 62 under information is the school agent preschool care zer connection update from our community director tonight and thank you for giving me the opportunity to come and present on saber connection. Um it's an exciting time for us in Indiana and I'm happy to be here. So um I'm starting out the presentation with saber connection sites and hours. Um these are the same hours that were that were this past school year when the YMCA was running our program. And um it's um also in red. can see if it was red up here. In red, you can see the numbers of enrolled students that we've had so far um at each site before and after school. And this pretty much mimics um the enrollments that are um at the YMCA as well. Our lowest enrollment is at Red Oak and the lowest enrollment during the school year is also at Red Oak. So, that might be one we keep our eye on. Um as you see, only two kids after school might not um be a good idea to open will probably open there but start considering do we bust it bus those kids over to Eagle Creek or something like that but we're going to wait and see um we usually get uh we'll get a big rush in August again when parents realize oh yeah I have to sign up for school age care um so we expect to see another jump in our enrollments um for that and then we have been already hiring as you guys are well aware Um, Julie Canella started in March and she is the saber connection manager. She's on the far right there and we hired our clerical assistant Jesse Laauo and she started in May uh with our registration process and we have um interviews for our specialist position uh this Wednesday and we'll be hiring two of those and they should be starting July 1. They're primarily going to be responsible sites each and also um doing youth development in our high school and middle school level and they uh will be in charge of curriculum as well. Um you'll hear a little bit more about that later in the presentation. And then we have posted currently our coordinator position at Pearson. Uh we'll hire one there and then we will hire coordinators for each of the elementary school sites as well. And then the PAR positions have been posted because we heard from our paras that they really wanted to have us post those positions um before school was out. So we got that posted about um two weeks ago and we've been um working with principles on any recommendations they might have for those job share opportunities. And then the aids, we'll post those later in July. Those are typically the high school students. And so we'll be working with the high school on, you know, ways that we can recruit uh high school students. And we already know some some students are already interested and keep our keep our list for many of the emails we get, but lots of hiring going on and we'll continue to go on throughout the summer. We're also in process of getting a child care assistance um program. So that's we um it's called being certified. It's not licensed because we're a school district. We don't have to get a license, but we have to get a certification. Um, so we have started that process and we have been assigned a licenser and our fire inspections are going on at each site. And even though um a lot of those sites already had fire inspections about three weeks ago, those are not um inspections that the certification process will accept. we have to do our own um tire inspections. So, Julie has been she's got two schools done and working on the other four sites to get those um inspected as well. Um background checks have been started. Um I don't know if you're aware or not, but the background check is pretty intensive to be certified. So, it includes fingerprinting and and things like that. So, our whole staff will have to go through that process and any new hires we have will have to go through that process as well. And um we should get our final approval hopefully by next month so that families can go into um and apply through the county and then we will get uh site visits later on in um the school year. So those don't happen until they've also been working on safety and security. Uh you can see our work group there and uh we've been working on our safety protocol manual for that before and after school care, full day care and uh summer care. And as you can imagine, it might look a little bit different than what the safety protocols are during the school day. However, it's going to be as similar as we can make it. So, um, as we work through this process, we're working with Canon and, you know, we will follow the same multi-tered safety matrix that the school district follows. Just how we do that might look differently if we're not going to be announcing it on the intercom. Let's say for instance, we don't have access to to the intercon system. We have walkies and announce it through our walkie-talkies. So, we're talking through those sorts of ways that um we can follow the basically the same protocols that are followed during the school day and adjusting them to make it appropriate for before and after school. And then we have access codes that are going to be um how families access our buildings. So, the buildings will be locked up now after school and each family will get an access code and they will use that code and those codes are assigned by uh times. So, Monday through Friday, you can use your code at 6:30 in the morning till 9:00, but it shuts down after after school starts or whatever time school starts. And same for after school until 6:00 p.m. when we close. They tend to use that code on the weekend and Saturday because I'm on the and I need to use the bathroom, it won't work. And we can ask actually see who's attempted to use it. So we can say, "Hey, what's up with trying to use your code?" So, um, it's a pretty neat program, but we are are working with technology on how to mass import from our registration program into the S2 program um to see if there's a way to streamline some of those initial entries um instead of having to do the 250 families or 300 or eventually 400 or more. Um so we are working on that process currently and then just some additional things there. Um phone numbers are established at each site. Um the recordings were done by communications and and that's a process too because you don't think about hey press one if you want to reach the office, press two if you want to reach the principal, press three. So it The whole entire reporting has to be re-recorded just to add the saber connection option. But that has all been completed and we're ready to go when school starts with that. And then we'll be ordering um walkies and iPads also for each of those sites. And then we've had um quite a few meetings with our different departments um as we go through this implementation. We of course have our implementation team that is ongoing and uh we've met with Tracy in health services about medication distribution and storage. Um with the certification process, we cannot store our medications in the same place that the school stores them. So we're working with her on what appropriate storage is for those medications and and having access to the immunization records. We've worked with Molly on um snacks. As you can see there, uh Red Oak and Sunpath do qualify for free snacks for the kids. And then the other sites will be ordering from snacks from food service or if it happens to be cheaper, we may go with the Sam's Club or something like that. We'll do some costing on some of that. We've met with NICA about our curriculum and um what types of choice activities we want to have. As you know, Usually the student gets a choice activity. So, uh we want to make those choice activities to support what's going on during the school day in a fun uh a fun way. So, we're working with her on what that might look like um with those types of choices, using some maker spaces, uh using some of the math games that are used during the school day and those sorts of things. And then we would be also following the same type of um PBIS and restorative practices that are during the school day. When we met with the principles at each site, that was one of the really key messages we got from them is we'd like to have the same type of vocabulary around um behavior for our kids um before school and during school and then after school again. So, we'll be doing that and then we have a upcoming meeting with special services for um accommodation support for the students who may need that. >> We've done a lot hopefully you've seen a lot of marketing for Saber Connection. Um kudos to Tiffany and her team for the help that has helped with that. Um we've done a lot of beginning stuff when we first approved the program and then when we named the program and then we been very mindful about how we get that communication out to families and the timing of that with um flyers, community ed catalog. Uh we were at kindergarten roundups uh at different events. We've got information tonight at picnic with the police. Uh we have them at all all of our different events so that parents can come up and ask questions. And we'll continue to do that throughout the summer. And then um even as things progress through the school year, we can we can go at conference nights and things like that to keep and continue to um advertise and market that. So and then our next steps, we have to order a lot of supplies. As you can imagine, there is a lot of um art supplies and toys and furniture and things like that that need to be ordered. So, uh, the goal is to have a good list by the end of this month and order by July 1. So, it's in the the next fiscal year. And we've got our budget forecasted for next school year. I worked um closely with um David on that. You'll see that with his budget presentation. And we've kept the fees like we mentioned in in previous meetings. The fees are remain the same as the YMCA was this school year, which actually is a savings to parents because they typically raise their fees about 3% each year. So, we kept it the same for this upcoming year. Our first day will be connect and assess at one site. It's typically a lower day, but we're offering parents the opportunity if you don't have those days off with your kids before they start that first full day of school, we'll be there at Red Oak to offer care. We have one day of before and after school care on Thursday and then we have our full day on Friday. Our first full non-school day on Friday. Um so that'll also be at Red Quest. >> Yeah, with respect to marketing outreach and technique feel free to jump in here. This is all great stuff to build that relationship with Scott County. Is there information available through Scott County government or another >> I can answer question one thing I'm really excited for has worked on this partnership Scott County mobile library is one of our greatest markets so we have those two sites at sun and that'll be doing those opportunities will be crossotion there the county itself is great so making sure that we have access to all of us. So, those are some right now in addition to just general posters. >> I figured you were all over it. I just didn't see it the list. Thank you. >> Yes. I think this [clears throat] highlights, you know, one of the reasons that excited about this being able to use our other departments through this program, special services, food service. on that. So this actually paints the picture a little better. >> Yeah, thank you. I feel like when I have those meetings with the department leads, there's a lot of excitement around what we're doing. So it feels really really a good fit for for us to transition this program. I was going to say question of this opportunity. questions. >> Yeah, keep promoting. Right. >> Think I'll just stay here for the night. >> You will move to item seven on the agenda, which would be our action items for this evening. Uh 7.1 is our community education census. And I will let explain that to us. Thank you. So, I I believe I've done this every year since I've been here, and I'm sure Bob G really did it before me, but each year we take a look at the census population that the state demographer said sends out um at the beginning of June. And this year, our population is going to increase to 54,968. And with that type of increase um it does impact the revenue that um the community programs received based on based on that um the funding calculation that we have. So we bring that to the board for approval. So, um, that's basically I think I put some background information in the rap, but that's basically it. >> Questions for the census information. >> Yes. The the population the way they listed the 2020 census was 49,000, but we last year were at about 52,000. >> I remember We had it come across the board a couple of years ago that we were above that 50. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. This is an increase from from last year when I came here by a little over 2,000. So >> David, I want want you to catch me here if I messed this up, but uh we're doing this in 2026 payable in tax year 27. So it will impact the fiscal 28 or 2728 school year. Thank you. If you weren't here, I might not have the courage to >> question. I would like to make a motion to approve the certific >> Thank you, Lisa. Okay, we're going to pop back over to information items 8.1 and David, our director of finance and operations is here tonight to share with us the proposed budget for school year 2627. >> Oh, thank you for having me. Uh, [clears throat] it's been a long long work in progress. want to apologize it's a little bit later than previous fiscal years but once I kind of walk through the process I think you'll get an understanding of where I came and looked at this budget comparison of how we had done in the past so um budget agenda we're going to look at the budget foundations which is the budget development process revenue assumptions expend assumptions also we'll look at the financial outlook and action action will be on June 22nd as we know um the finan financial outlook will be for the general fund and other funds such as food service commission fund debt service internal service fund and also our op and scholarship funds and then we'll look at the financial outlook we'll bring all those together as one at the end and look at their fund balances as a whole see where the district lies for 27 so budget development process when we look at it the first thing we start with every fiscal year is where is our enrollment projections going to And so we have a group that meets every month and looks at our current enrollment. We look at our previous historical enrollment. You know, the superintendent projects out what their assumptions are going to look like. So for next year, we have that enrollment. Um 7,464. That is going to be our basis for building our state aids off of. That's going to generate our revenue for the next fiscal year. As you know, 70.9% of the revenue that's generated in the general fund is state aids. Um, next we look at the state aid calculation. What's our increase on our funding formula? We know they increase for next fiscal year. How does special education compare? Where's our expenditures for the current fiscal year? As those will be expenditures, those will be converted to revenue for the next fiscal year. So, where we're projecting, how's it looking? What's the revenue going to look like? that we also look at literacy, incentive, um, integration, revenue. Those are all EDF based and we project that out and that builds us on to what our state aids are going to look like. Next, we look at the property tax levy. This is what you approved in December. This is the 2025 April 26 levy that you approved. This will be our revenue for FY27. We bring that in to bring those revenues together. And the last but not least, we look at the federal and local revenues. The federal revenues are our title programs along with some special education funding and a small portion of uh Indian funding from the federals along with the local revenues being our athletic fees, interest earned, sales of inventory, our iPads that are outdated. We auction those off every fiscal year as we move on and donations and miscellaneous revenue as we collect those incoming. the expenditure plan. This is kind of where I come in a little bit different than what we have done in the past. As I take all of our financial system, HR us is that I take all those employees out. I look at every employee. I look at what they're taking for salary benefits of the current fiscal year based on budget assumptions and contract negotiations. I project those forward. So teachers, we know those contracts are solidified for FY27. I know where their health and dental benefits are going to be. I know where they're going to fall in the salary steps and lanes. So, we roll those forward and roll up one step. That's the new salary. We take the projected benefits and health. That's going to be their cost. And then we also know for next year Minnesota paid family medical leave is 44% started for the full year instead of halfway through the year. 22. Then when I'm done with that, I go through it with each program area. We look at it as who's retiring, who's a non-renewed staff, who's a TBD, who's uh to be determined as we're hiring that position because someone retired or left the district. I worked with each department um technology, LTE, special education, buildings and grounds, community, and also food service. So I run through every single staff, we align it, we make sure that that TE is correct for the next fiscal year. And then now I go back and I project those forward and then I come back to those program areas. And now we look at the non salary expenditures. And so after the revenues, after the salary revenues were done, expenditures done for salary and benefits. Now we know what we can spend on non-salary pieces because we have to look at integration. Let's just take that one for effect. They get a certain amount of funding. They can spend portion of it on their, you know, staffing allocation for salaries, benefits. Now what do they have left over for their non salary benefit expenditures? And then we incorporate all of that those expenditures into the assumptions of the FY27 budget. So our budget foundations uh general education formula allowance for next fiscal year is going up 2.69% uh to 7,683 from the previous fiscal year. We approved the 25 payable 26 property tax levy in December. So we know we're oper our operating referendum authority is at the state cap of $2340.76. Our projected enrollment for next fiscal year FY27 is 7,464 adjusted ADM sorry average adjusted ADM. Um our settled contracts employee contracts are teachers, principles, administration and unaffiliated. Our health insurance rates are increasing by four to 5% um based on the coverage plan the employee takes and also our dental insurance rates are increasing from zero to two. We have two dental rates. We have supplemental and just our normal dental. Supplemental is increasing at 2%. Our normal dental coverage is increasing at zero. We know our transportation contracted services increasing at 5% on the contract form as a face value, but we know we're reducing from 171 days to 167 days for FY27. So, we know there's a cost reduction in that transportation there. So, really the actual in that cost in that transportation is around 2.4%. Increase. Um the key variables to monitor for FY27 as we move forward are our current employee contract negotiations. We know we're negotiating custodians, food service, para educator, secretary, health assistance. Those are all up for negotiations for the FY27 fiscal year. So, we're building assumptions on where those contracts are going to be negotiated. Um, we also need to keep in mind that the final FY27 state aid estimates and legislation adjustments coming forward are not finalized. We know unemployment based on what the state FD is talking about, we might run out of unemployment funding in FY27. That would be something the general fund would have to cover as we move forward. Um and then eventually once we hit October 1st, we're going to know our first student enrollment, actual enrollment. We'll be able to look at that and then every month we'll review that as a group and see where our trending in the future and then that will be updated during the revised budget. And also the next one we need to watch for is inflation impacts on goods and services. Here's a little historical enrollment project and projected enrollment for the district. So every fiscal year the the enrollment has projected downward in shock above the school since 2020. Um this is because of a decline in birth rates in Scott County. So we have a higher graduating class leaving with lower kinderg. So for FY26, our revised budget was 7,571, which was a oneative 1.1 reduction from previous fiscal year's ADM. Our FY27 is 7,464, which is a negative 1.4 reduction from previous fiscal year, which is in line with where we have been previous fiscal years, except for the outlier of FY25, which was just a decrease of.1%. The governmental fund structure as you've probably seen this before there are about seven funds that we look at at the school finance is general fund which is supports the daily operations including infrastructure transportation administration utilities supplies technology. Our food service supports student meal programs and cafeteria programs. Our community education fund supports community education, early childhood, family education. Um, child care, adult education and program enrichments. Uh, building construction fund supports major large scale projects and large scale facility improvements which are funded through bonds. Debt service pays all principal and interest and long-term debt obligations along with collecting the levy revenue we received for that. Um, internal service fund. This is for our health and dental since we are self-insured. This tracks our health and dental where we're going to the future. It collects the revenues we collect for premiums and then also what we pay out for claims as expenditures. And then we have the trust fund which includes our scholarship which is fund 18 and our oped trust which is fun. On to the general fund is the first slide. So as you look at it the left hand column will be our revenue sources and expenditure series. As we move to the right, we'll look at a revised budget, FY26 proposed budget or 27 proposed budget, our change, and then the further farthest one is just change of percent. So, we know local property taxes since we have solidified that in December, we know that that is going from 27 million uh 269,000 to 36,879. This is a $9.6 million change. Um that because of the two questions we had that they approved was question one at $620. Question two at 310 along with some previous fiscal year adjustments based on what we put in for ADM into the levy system. So it's always two years prior what we're getting our adjustments on. So our ADM came in better. So now we're getting some fiscal year adjustments on that. state aids. Um FY26 was projected at 99 999,846,000. Proposed budget for FY27 is 103,358,000. This is a change of 30 3,511 and roughly 3.5%. Well, you might think, well, that's higher than the 2.69% we're getting on funding formula along with the decrease in enrollment. Well, I broke it down a little bit more as we go through it. State aid, the increase in the formula is 2.6, which is roughly about a million dollars with increase with a decrease in student count. Um, we also are seeing an increase in our sped aid since special ed expenditures are based on prior fiscal years. Our aid is increasing at 1.85 million. We also are getting in cross subsidy for EL for $400,000 extra which was based on our FY25 expenditures for FY27. And then we're also seeing a slight increase in about 120,000 in our grow your own grants. Um federal aid we're seeing a slight decrease that's going from 2.65 million to 2,434,000. This is a $216,000 decrease. This is because the revised budget includes carry forwards. So every fiscal year when we're done, we have funds that state and federal can carry forward. So that we revise the budget to include those carry forwards. So FY27 is just based on the original allocations we have. When we come with revised once the audit solidified for FY26, we'll see a flip up in those revised revenues. Uh other local revenues, we're seeing a slight I'm not going to say slight, a large decrease which I'll point out in you know what the what the decrease is. So we're going from five um four million sorry 4,546,000 to 3,999,000. This is a 1 almost 1.4 million $1.5 million decrease. This is because of the EL the ML increasing cost subsidy. At the end of the fiscal year we have to do that journal entry I told you about. It's an in book revenues. It's a budget transfer from English learner multiple languages to the unassigned general fund. So it increases revenue and English learner increases expenditures in the general fund to move those costs. But with the new cross subsidiate and also our cost reduction on ML teachers our our journal entry goes from 1.4 million to 300,000 for FY27. So that is where you're seeing that adjustment but you'll also see that adjustment in other expenditures as well. So they just offset each other. Um so for FY26 revised budget we have a total revenue of 134,313,813 to FY27 proposed budget of 145,771,385 which is an 8.5% increase on revenue. On to salary and benefits and I promise this will be the longest one. It's much quicker after this salary and benefits. Our our salary and benefits are going up. So, we're going from 103,776 to 108,500,000. This is a $4.7 million increase or 4.6%. Um, this would be higher if we did not do our budget reductions for next fiscal year. Our budget reductions in salaries was one point uh almost 1.2 million. So, if we were to add 1.2 2 million onto those additional uh proposed budget of what we have. We would have been growing at a 5.6% increase without those adjustments which would align to our previous fiscal years of salaries benefits where we have we've grown from either from 6 to 8% every fiscal year in salary benefits. Our proposed services we're seeing a slight increase in that from 17,942,000 to 19 million. This is a 1,68,313 uh 13,000 increase. Um as we know the transportation is going up 2.5%. The contract face value is 5% itself. Special education services were serving higher need students. That's a slight increase of $240,000. Our operations, contracted services are increasing based on snow removal, repairs, mainten uh building maintenance and utilities of 450,000. Um this is to align based on fiscal activity. I looked at what the revised budget was for our buildings and grounds and it always was underbudgeted. So FY25 was 1.1 million spent in our contracted services for buildings and grounds. FY24 was 1 1 million.5 and then FY23 1 2 million. So, this was to align that along with those increases with utilities. Um, we also see a small increase in LTFM 120,000 as we move forward with the projects we have coming on this summer with East Middle School carpet replacement. Um, sorry, no, East East Middle School bathrooms this summer. Apologies. Carpet replacement FY28. Um the next we go to supplies and materials from 4,269,000 4 yeah 400 4,269,000 to 3,756,000. This is a 512 512,000 decrease. This is also goes in line with our operating capital. So I'm going to combine these together and just have a big conversation about these two areas. Our operating capital also goes down from 8.8 8 billion to 6.9 almost $7 million. This is a $1,859,000 decrease. This is because in FY26 um we did a one-time curriculum purchase and we used operating capital. So that was our our implementation of our curriculum. We spent all that money brought in those curriculum. There's a onetime cost. We had an operating capital fund balance that would cover it. So now for FY20 center, we're not seeing those expenditures. So we're not budgeting as we move forward. Um, our other expenditures, this is that offset to the ML. Um, we're going from 2,149,000 to1,174,000. This is a $978,000 decrease in expenditures. Um, like I said, that is a decrease of $1.4 million transfer in FY26 to a $300,000 transfer in FY27 along with the grow your own grant increase in scholarships of 20,000 which offsets that and next we move on to the general fund fund balance. This is going to kind of give us now where are we going to sit? You know, all of this is based on, you know, FY26's project revised budget. The next column is FY June 30th, 2027. This is our new proposed budget. And then what are the increases decreases? So assigned, as you can see, goes from 13,698,000 to 13,943,000. It keeps our unassigned fund balance at 10%. Which is what the district strives for based on policy 714 as our 8 to 12% range. Um our non-spendables stay the same. We stay this consistent since we book those at the end of the fiscal year when the audit is completing. Those are our prepaids and inventory. So we won't know those until the end of the fiscal year. What is sitting on our prepaid and what is sitting on our books for inventory. A long-term facility maintenance plan is an increase from 2.5 million to $3 million. We are getting some additional funds based on the debt that fell off. Those funds were used. The LTF funds were used to pay off the debt that we in our levy and now they're moving over to the general fund. So, we are seeing a slight increase with that levy revenue. Um operating capital we're going from 1,373,000 to 2 million6,000. This is that increase. We're not spending that literacy incentive. Sorry, that curriculum adoption. So now we can let our fund balance and operating capital grow and we can plan out the future what we need to do with the district under that future curriculum assumption. So operating projects, which is our tech levy, that goes from 2,894,000 to 3,6,000. That's 111,000 increase. We have slowly been moving funds from the unassigned fund balance over to our operating to our capital projects levy over time to absorb those costs. They wouldn't be coming out of the assigned fund balance. That's why as that grows every every year from five 7% we move those costs over. um are assigned which you'll see a little bit different from previous fiscal years our district programming as we get into it. This is kind of our savings account as we enter this next bianium with no so we know the next bianium FY27 funding unemployment funding is running out of revenue that $500,000 will be have to be covered by the general fund and that would be the unsigned fund balance uh paid family medical leave this is the last year of We'll have to see where that's coming into alignment and how much it's being used and what the increase will be for percentage. Uh we we want to make sure that we can support the district's program programming needs in the future. This would be something that would be able to help that program as we move forward. We know special education is having at the state level having to cut $300 million which would eventually if they can't find it at the state level would be something they would either reduce the cross subsidy aid at districts or they would look at access that's to the conversations I've heard of. So that would be able to help support that to the future and then al outlook for the next benium just as a group looks poor for the district. I know they've also talked about removing floor to the ceiling on the general education aid. As you know the floor is 2% the ceiling's 3%. They've also had conversations about removing that just doing zero in the future. So that is a piece that is there to help us with our district program and make sure we maintain as we move forward through this next banium. Uh the OPE reserve um that goes from 2.1 million to 500 uh to 5,144,000. Uh I wanted to add this one on as a sign. So every district has that has an OPE has sunset. So OPE stands for uh other postemployment benefits. for retirees that stay on our insurance and we our premiums that are higher because of that and so every two years we have an actuary study that looks at what are our liabilities they forecast in the future so based on FY25 our liabilities stood at $12.1 million our OPED trust which is solidified to cover those as we move into the future fund 45 had a fund balance of $5.7 million which leaves $6.4 million remaining as a liability that the general fund would have to cover in the future. And so when you think about it, most districts strive for 70 to 80% funded. Right now we're at 50% funded in our oped trust. My goal long term is to see what we can do with that OPED trust as it grows and outpaces expenditures. We can reduce this OPED reserve and bring those funds forward. But it's it's a placeholder to make sure that we know that we do owe a liability to that postemployment benefits in the future. Um and then the next one is cash flow reserve with the next bianium come up. One of the things they have done past the state has they have prrated your state aid payments. So in 20 2015 it got down to 64%. So out of your prorated needs, so let's say we were getting $100 million, we were getting 64% in that fiscal year. So now looking at this, we need a cash flow reserve. Just because our our fund balance looks like we have, you know, 13.9 million doesn't mean that's always perfect because between steady day payments and also the four payments throughout the fiscal year for our taxes, there are low points based on pay the debt in February that we have low cash on hand. fund balance says otherwise it's just a point in time. So that is another placeholder that to protect us from that in the future. And then also our committed fund balance um grows at 250,000 to 914 in FY27. That is the transfer from our from our community education all the facility rentals over to our general fund which the board set up in the past and that is moving forward will generate another 250,000 into that community and now I promise it'll go a little bit quicker. So next one is food service. So as we go through it's the same kind of pattern. uh state aids are just seeing a small increase of 6,173 thou 6,171 um which we are trending I projected forward I worked with Molly we looked at it we think we're going to generate the same amount of state aids it's not until FY28 that they reduce the reimbursement on food service funds for that meal replacement so federal aid is a slight reduction this kind of goes hand in hand kind the same situation as the MLBL revenue we receive uh food from the department the US department of agriculture and they also provide us rebates so based on historical activity I reduce this in the revised I'm also reducing it in the prelim budget for proposed budget for next fiscal year we book it we receive these commodities from food service like carb commodities you know uh grapes I know milk we book those as an revenue at the end of the year based on a USDA report and then we book them as expenditure. So literally it's an in and out. So we have a revenue with bond two and expend two which you'll see later on that expenditure also decreases a little bit. Um meal sales we're seeing a slight decrease of $22,980 to $380,000 500 380 $520. This is because we are seeing what generates these meal sales are allocart sales, second lunches and also adult lunches. So with the students decreasing at the high school which is mostly the allocart and the second lunches, we're we're projecting a small slightly decrease in that. Um the other local revenue uh FY26 revised budget was 120,000. This is our interest earned revenue um proposed for FY27 is 95,000. As you know, the fund balance is we're spending it down this next fiscal year in FY27, which we'll get to. Also, we know that the general fund fund balance is growing in the assigned fund balances and the unassigned committed. So, at the end of the year, we break down the interest earned entry and base it on how much fund balance has of each revenue and what their portion is. So based on that with the general fund growing community will get less interest or revenue based on that how much they hold and how much comparison to the general fund they hold in the bank account and that's how break down percentage wise salary and benefits uh a slight increase of 56,528 which is $2.1 million. Um Molly has done a wonderful job this year. She has not filled position. She's brought in subs. She plans on doing that for next fiscal year is really looking at those and how does it align aligning them better with sites because it right now we have sites that have the same amount of food service staff but they're serving less lunches. So she's going to align look at cost per meals and make those adjustments as we move forward. Uh purchase services we're seeing a slight increase on that of 21,513 to proposed budget of 439,500. Um this is an increase in due to uh increase in activity due to repairs and maintenance of food service equipment which will go in line as we move forward on uh food service and supplies is a slight decrease from 3,668,000 to 3,685,000. This is where the USDA foods journal entry also lives. So we would see that $143,000 decrease in that. We also are seeing a 3% increase in supplies of materials as we move forward for that fund. So it just slightly offset that with a small decrease. Um operating capital, we see a increase in that from 50,000 to $250,000 which is $165,000 increase. This is future replacement of equipment that is costing us in repairs and maintenance. We're going to start building a plan on how we replace those uh equipment throughout food. to make sure we can bring down the cost to purchase service repairs. So long term, what's the life? What's the useful life? How do we process? How do we update this service equipment? So we can look at it long term. Um our other expenditures are just a slight decrease of $1,200 to FY26 revised of 1,600, which is just memberships and dues. Um as you look at it, we look at I probably missed this on the last one actually the more I think about it. Total revenues for FY2627 at 613,000. Uh total expenditures at 6 million sorry 6,313,313,6,521,000 which is a reduction in food service fund balance of 206 just because of the operating facility replacing equipment. So right now food service has an operating fund balance of more than six months of operating. uh MD has given us a window to extend that through FY27 but FY28 they would like all districts to be a window of three months of a fund balance of operating for three months that is their goal that is what they have for recommendations but with this new you know food service revenue coming from the state everyone's dealing with this issue with their food service so they all have we all have large food service funds it's now how we use that utilize that for the community education. Uh same format as we talked about. Local property taxes is 668,400. Proposed budget is 619,000. A slight decrease due to previous fiscal year adjustments of 49,24. Our state aids are going from 934,384 to 1,994,921. It's $160,000 increase. This is due to uh early childhood family education increase of 45,000. Non-public aid allocation, which we owe the nonpubliclix, they ask for reimbursement as the fiscal year goes out, is 34,000. And then also the community uh State aid was budgeted to fees and tuition. So for FY27 is correct. It moved into a service code 300 um which is that 160,000 our fees and tuition. This is where we're going to see our large increase due to safety connection on boarding. We're going from 2,262,000 to 3,734,000 which is a 1.4 almost $ 1.5 million increase. of that $ 1.5 million increase uh 1.5 that is increase in tuition and fees of saber connection. Uh on to the next one. Salary. So for total revenue revised budget is 3,864,000. Uh proposed FY27 budget is 5,448,000 which is a 40 40.9% increase in revenue due to the onboarding if they were connected for FY27. Salary benefits. Uh this is where we did quite a bit of work with community ed. So we're going from a re from a revised budget of 3,116,000 to4,385,000 which is a 1.2 almost $1.3 million increase. This is like I said roughly in connection with saber roughly connected with saber connection of which salary and benefits for that program is 1.25 5 million increase and also we made some reductions. We would see a larger increase in this but we also made some reductions in committee to align that that fund balance moving forward since it is in a negative fund balance. We made some reductions in staffing some other areas make sure that we're generating a surplus. Uh purchase services we do see a decrease from 801,000 to 656,000. It's $145,000 decreases is because we're not doing any more service with YMCA. So we see those purchases services reduced. Um supplies of materials goes from 114,000 to $142,000 27,000 increase in supplies and materials. Of that 27,000 we have reduced some in the normal community ed also. um normal community ed stepping stones and then early childhood family education. There's three fund balances within community. We made some reductions there, but saber connection is an increase of 34,000 based on, you know, the implementation of that capital. We see just a small decrease from $12,000 to 109,000. Sorry, 10 10,900. Number uh which is $101,000 decrease. Other expenditures, we see a slight increase from 5,750 to 10,500. This is because grow your own grant. So we we did budget $5,000 for the grow your own grant which also lives in fund 4. That is that increase there. So we have total projected expenditures for revised budget of 4,150,528 uh proposed for FY27 expenditures 5,25,83 for a net change revenues over expenditures for FY27 of 43,273. Our construction fund. Uh this is uh these are the remaining funds from the facilities maintenance bond of 2020. Our plan is for the upcoming fiscal year in FY28, but we will see some costs in FY27 as we implement this uh for West Middle School HVAC improvement project and also Pearson Elementary HVAC improvement. So the other local revenue as we look at the top this is the interest earned that we'll earn on those bonds sitting with PTMA. So in the revised we're at $79,10. We'll see a slight reduction above $9,000 which brings the proposed revenue to 70,000 for next fiscal year as draw down on those funds around May and June. So will be less funds earn interest on and also where the interest market is going. Uh purchase services goes from $0 projected in revised budget to FY27 of $147,85. This is in alignment with the West Middle School HVAC improvement project and also the Pearson HVAC improvement project which you'll see on the 10ear LTF we bring in June 22nd. Um the other capital is also in alignment with that. It goes from zero in FY26 uh revised budget to 492,415. Um so in total we'll see a revenue of 70,000 expenditures of >> I think that's slightly off. >> Think that total expendure that copied from the previous slide because it matches where you got >> Yeah. Sorry about that. >> Just want to make sure you know million. >> Yeah, it's like I don't know how that happened either because I went through >> it's the same total expenditures are the same. >> I'll update this but really >> the guy you showed it to wasn't as good as these two. >> Yeah, I guess so. >> I really I ran through this a few times. So, I wonder if when I ran through it something happened. But for net change, we have a fund balance in there of $1.7 million based on FY26. We'll spend that on that fund balance. That's the goal is to use those bonds up into the future fiscal years. They're sitting out there. We want to use them for they used for LTF projects and HVAC systems are one of the ones that we'd like to do. It's the last remaining schools as we move forward that need new HVAC systems. >> I I really appreciate the fact that you're trying to make sure that we're all still paying attention by throwing that in there. >> Yeah, I like I said, I even ran through it today. So surprise debt fund seven debt service. Our local property taxes are going from 18,314,000 to 12,819,000. It's a decrease of $5.4 million. This is because of the debt falling off, the debt drop for FY27. So we're not generating that revenue. We don't have to pay that debt service anymore. state aid. You also see that decrease from 351,69 693 to 305,000. That is also the debt that fell off was LTFM eligible debt. We've received some state aid. The state aid also being reduced because we're not paying on that debt anymore. Uh other local revenue stays at 150,000 which is the interest earned. We've outperformed that 150,000 that we budgeted in previous fiscal years. Um, so I kept that the same even with the general fund growing and how we distribute that interest based on the fund balances at the end of the year. Principal and interest, uh, we're going from 18,76,919 to 13,871,950. That is also due to the debt drop um that we had. So that reduction in debt service where we don't have those expenditures, we're not paying the principal interest in FY27. Other expenditures are just our banking administration fees that we have to pay as our 10,000 which is continuation of every fiscal year and that's why I kept that the same. I'd like to jump back to local property Texas. There was an excess debt adjustment in our FY27 fiscal year of 699,000. That's why you're not seeing an exact like forl like and adjustments there on our debt service to revenue. So really our projected net change for FY26 is uh a negative adjust negative adjustment of 66,000 but we do have fund balance. We every district levies for 105% of their debt service. They carry a fund balance but we eventually do see these adjustments come through from the previous two fiscal years. Internal service fund second to last. I know you're all bored. Say all. >> Uh internal service fund is our fund 20. This is our health and dental. Um FY26. This the revenue we receive in the service in the internal service fund is from the premiums we charge our employees from the district portion and also the employee portion. So revised budget was 12.6 million. uh proposed is 14 million78,000 which is a $1.3 million change. I took this year's revenue projected it out based on the growth that we've seen and also where the premiums are coming in because it can adjust based on that four to 5% increase of premium charges and also whether or not people switch from you know single to family to single. Um we are in line for next fiscal year to be at 14 million you know 78,000. So that is what we're projected at to collect premiums. Our employee benefits and claims these are what we claim out of our internal service fund. The revised budget as 12.5 million. Our proposed FY27 budget is $14.1 million, which for net change in total is 61,139 decrease, which we have a $2.7 million fund balance in there. So overall very well, but previous fiscal year we also adding 143,000. So it offsets the $61,000 deficit. Scholarships and OPET fund. So this is the last but not least, scholarships and donations is our fundate team. We receive roughly about $12,000 every fiscal year in scholarship funding, which is a donation. I kept that the same from revised to proposed budget in FY27. So Z change. Our oped interest where our FY26 revised budget is 600,000. our FY27 since we will draw funds out of there this year at the end of the fiscal year for employee retirees staying on our postemployment benefits and bring those back to the general fund there'll be less interest to earn also where the market's going talking to Dave Anderson from PTMA I projected 575,000 interest earn revenue um scholarships our expenditures for revised budget was $12,000 our proposed is based on fiscal activity we'reing the last two fiscal years we've spent 20,000 which is an $8,000 change from revised to proposed budget for 27. Our oped expenditures are what we draw down out of our oped trust for those retirees that are eligible to see on our benefits. Um so for revised budget in FY26 it was 430,000 for FY27 it's 450,000 because we do see an increase in those liabilities as the market trends on medical rates dental rates in our actuary study. So they'll give it us an implicit rate. We'll draw down those funds. They'll be transferred over to the general fund to cover those. And so total expenditures over revenues for the first fiscal year revised budget is 70 170,000 projected net change with proposed budget FY27 117,000 project change. So adding the fund balance continuing these are your FY26 27 combined fund balances. So we know general fund based on the projected FY26 we will have a fund balance in the general fund of all funds combined uh restricted assigned unassigned committed of 33,491,5250. Um we know our our revenues are projected at 145,71414. Our expenditures are projected at 139,400 sorry 139,433,80 which if we add to our fund balance for FY27 of 39,829485 food service we know based on what we've seen that we were going to spend down that fund balance into FY27 by $26,000. So see that adjustment from 3.5 million to 3.3 almost 3.4. Uh community ed we have a projected fund balance of 295,000 for FY26. Um with the increase in saber connection and also our adjustments within the normal community education programs. We are going to reduce that negative deficit fund balance to 51,944 at FY27. our construction fund, which is our LTFM bond, the 2020B, we're at uh a projected fund balance of 1,774,000. We're going to have revenues in FY27 of 70,000, expenditures of 639,500, which will bring that fund balance down to 1,25,000. Our debt service fund, um our projected fund balance at the end of FY26 is 59,000. We know our revenues are 13,275,000 based on project portfolio budget. Our expenditures are 13,881,000 which reduces our fund balance to 5,452,000. Internal service fund projected at the end of FY26 is 2,96,000 revenues of 14,78,000 expenditures of 14,139,000 which brings our fund balance down to 2,285,000 which is fantastic fund balance for our internal service fund as we move forward. Also our OPM trust goes from 6,188,000 FY26 based on revised budget with revenues of 587,000 expenditures of 470,000 which brings our fund balance which we still add to by 117,000 to 6,35,000. So total funds all combined revenues expenditures for the district for FY proposed budget for FY27 is 1 million85,546,185 revenues expenditures are 180 million 291,15. So I was trying to figure out how I could make it shorter and I was like without going forever now. question. [laughter] >> This looks great. the total fund balance for the most part increasing a sign staying at 10% which from when I started on the board years ago is incredible how we've been able to do what we've done is just remarkable. My only real question is, can I see the spreadsheet of all the uh salaries? I'd love to compare it to what I do. I mean, I only have six employees to go over, but >> just so the board knows, uh, full-time equivalent positions, we have 1,08.69 full-time equivalent positions. out of all different employees. We have roughly 12 thou uh 1,224 employees including, you know, substitutes that are not full-time positions. We have 8,751 lines of code, which is revenues, expenditures, all funds have gone through every single one multiple times. My wife has asked me because I've been in just a a kind of mind not make mood that I've had just no emotion. She goes, "It's budget season, is it?" And I said, Yes, it is. And so I started from a fresh slate. So I took everything, started from ground zero, built out all these salary benefits, built it out to the FTE, built it out to the program. The programs know their FTE allocations. They know who's in their funding. We know where their funding is projected. We know what the TBDs are projected at based on the s average salary and average benefits. We know where they're going. The only variables, like I said, are, you know, our enrollment. The variables in salary benefits are I don't know if they're going to switch from, you know, family to single to single to family for coverage. That is a variable. I take it at, you know, that point of time of the current fiscal year and roll it forward based on what the allocation is for that, you know, coverage plan that they're currently on. And so, it's been really fun to go through the whole thing and kind of develop this process. You laughed the word fun. I get it. >> I knew he was going to use the word fun. I was gonna It really when you get into it, it can be fun. >> And the best thing is it's now that we know our FTE and where we're sitting and you know program areas, departments also know their budget. It's solidified. It's in our financial system. It matches to what they wanted. Now when we do revised I can run that same listing of employees and I can say hey what is this additional and who approve so we know where the district's going. We know we're reducing or adding it's not just a random number that we're throwing it at. >> You have everything set up correctly. You can actually look at the next three to five years have a decent >> Yep. >> estimation. So that's awesome. >> Yeah. So that kind of this was the this was the bottom floor work to build on that right three to five year projection model of like really solidifying where are the funds going what are the trends and so that's what took me so long to build this out but in the future it should be like correct because it's already done. >> Question can you repeat the number of >> uh we have full-time including positions 1 18 It's 169 and that's fulltime equivalent, >> right? >> Yeah. >> I was just going to say um very very appreciative of the work that David's done and I I get the anecdotal feedback. Our uh our team leaders are incredibly appreciative of the budgeting conversations that they've been having which you know that that's not that's not always an occurrence. organization, but they're literally making a point multiple folks who are team leaders to come in and go, "Hey, just had a great conversation with David, our my data, the conversation really, really helpful." So, I know I have deep appreciation. I know our leadership team does as well. Um, and I'm just glad you're having fun doing all that. So, that's awesome. >> Yeah. So, I I I really do thoroughly enjoy it. I appreciate the opportunity to do it for schools. I I have one question. You were talking that I don't know which side it was on >> the revenue that we get in for facility rentals. >> Yes, they're committed. >> Um I know that that was reviewed several years ago as far as competitiveness with other facilities in the metro area or surrounding area for fees, how much we charge for our local youth associations, that sort of thing. Um Is there a plan to review that again anytime in the near future so we know where we're at competitively to make sure that our >> funny thing that you brought that up because it was just I was on this email chain of business managers finance and operations that >> that is one of the conversations just a couple weeks ago that was brought up everyone was comparing what they're charging what their rate includes so in the future yeah definitely it' be something to look at so but I also don't want to overcharge community to where the the spaces aren't useful like it's too much to cover for some >> but I know it's been a while since that's been do I think that might be >> something that maybe we get on a threeear cycle or four year cycle or >> yeah I think we can share that they they've been reviewing and I'm trying to think it's tiers three and four our outside renders pretty regularly doing that and but I think it would be good to take a look doing that as an informative thing. We have purposely set our local renters, our youth associations, they're below market rate and that, you know, that goes way back to just different relationships and kind of participation. And it's also one of the nice things because our school district community, you know, the boundaries mesh with a community and, you know, there's a a lot of really good synergy with with those relationships. Um, you know, and it's work. Those have ticked up over time because we have plans and we've laid that out, but they're really incremental and I think we share, you know, our youth associations are primarily, you know, they're serving our students and we want to make sure that, you know, and they they do that with fairly similar kind of missions to us and try to serve everyone to do that. So, but we're happy to to share that and and even uh I think the the folks that are doing that make This this will be part of David to we talk about working with folks in their budgets. This would be a good thing to present again bring folks up to speed what we charge how that works and what their processes are. So thank you just to piggy back on that too. This is probably more of a finance facility because the wear and te expenditures dedicated but just to look at you know as we're using these spaces they are heavily utilized and there's some cost to maintain that comment to bring that forward because I heard heard some evidence to the fact that we need to be the >> yeah and I think I think long term what those some of those will eligible. This is what that fun. I hope you know my goal is to build a market facility plan that is even further than just LTF the district is to really go further and say what can we do for our grounds you know what are we doing at the sites you know the principles what's needed so we did that for the plan >> and then unrelated followup question if I so we're looking 26 27 at June 30th next year. >> Yes. >> And everything that uh you presented earlier having to do with the box that technically would take place July 27th. >> We wouldn't do any projects. None of the projects would be started this summer. They would be started >> the following summer. >> So anything to do with those bonds or that >> would be in the following. >> Yeah. So they would be in the You would still see some costs like the back systems. You would see some still around that May June time frame because there' be you know implementation would be doing specs working on it. >> You'll still see some of those costs be ordering supplies. You'll be paying you know your contracting services based on who wins the bid you know as as they order those supplies in performing services. So you'll see some still in the spring but majority would be based over that FY28 summer. Yes. >> You [clears throat] know, like clearly a lot of work went into this. Appreciate that. This is a great spot for a district to be financially. Um it looks like their plan here essentially is most of all the line items in the general fund. Uh the balances are all up on each line, which is great. Do we have I know we have a specific target for our assign for these other funds that have the balances. Is there any projections or ideas of where you want those to be from year to year and ideally when we can in years? >> Yeah. And I I think the big one is the I I'll go with the OP reserve first because that's really you know one bigger ones you can talk about. what are we doing longterm funding to make sure that our op trust is growing so that the general fund doesn't have to cover those liabilities in the future and so as as those actuary studies we'll be conducting one summer with USI also known as guild I'll be curious to see where based on the medical trends and also dental trends those costs where our liability lies because as people retire that liability you know, a little bit less. They get off our plan, they retire, they, you know, they age out and so that liability decrease, but also based on medical, you know, trends, the liability can increase. So, it'll be kind of curious where that one goes. That one will be kind of an eb and flow, I would say, unless we can really get that OP trust to grow where you'd want that op it's a irrevocable trust. Um, that means it has to be set there. You can't use it for anything other than employment validation benefits. Um most districts try to maintain that between 75 and 80% funded. That is kind of the, you know, perfect goal where you're not overfunded, but you're just funded enough. Um so my goal would be able to get that one long term. Uh increase that funding based on investments, bring that to facilities and committees, have a conversation a little bit more on that because we used to have that was in a court quarterly conversations on where our trust was going. Um so that one will kind of we'll have to see where that goes. I'd be curious how this fiscal year ends on that actuary study. Um the cash flow reserve and also the district programming. I think that's Dr. Ren you may want to touch base on it but I think it's also looking at the long term these next bianiums to survive that and I think most districts we've set oursel up in a really good place to survive that next benium if it is to become what everyone thinks it might be. You know, let's say it comes back. Well, perfect. Now, we say it does come that we're cutting across subca those funds are going to be won't be utilized to keep ourselves out of you know using our 10% fund balance. >> I would just the example that pops in my head. We were worried that should take a hit. We end up,000 this coming year. South St. Paul I believe ended up about 900,000 worse they were expecting. So there's a lot of uncertainty in some of those things and even leading into the next bianium where people can't afford some things hopefully it can turn out better than that but feel like we're we're compared to other districts we're a pretty good spot to, you know, continue to provide a good level of services and trying to live with our needs predictable future, but parts of it concerns you. >> Yeah. And I think also could support bring us to this financial position you know with what you everything you've done in the past to this moment you know with containment but also moving forward the operating referendum we are positioned ourselves for this next benium to not only survive continue with the safe service that we have so that there >> yeah I certainly think we have financial headwinds facing us. Not just our district but every school district where the state is there for the next question will come back to us on the 22nd. >> Yeah. I don't know if you want me to run through the whole thing. >> Maybe twice. >> I'd like it to be a little more thorough. I will. >> All right. Thanks, David. >> Thank you. Thanks, David. >> All right. The next item on our agenda is item 8.2 and that is the public sharing of a summary of the superintendent evaluation results. The superintendent has the choice for this to be shared in a public forum or in a closed session of the board. Dr. Redmond like in years past has chosen the summary to be shared in a public meeting. The evaluation of the superintendent is completed a few weeks ago. The agenda item is to share summary of the results. The board is not evaluating the superintendent during this board meeting tonight because by doing so it would be a violation of professional practices and also avoid data protocols. I will now turn over this agenda item to personal chair just >> thank you madam chair. Um Tiffany do we have anything to on the screen for us. Okay, that's that's probably unbeaten. We didn't really talk about that at a time, but um so what what this is and and Cher Peterson described what it is not. What this is is a survey that was put out to um uh district leadership comprised of schoolboard members um uh district leaders and directors and uh principles and um The results are uh are broken down by group but uh there's overall averages. So we had 19 people overall reply which uh was not everybody. Uh so you can see that the group averages. Um and then the categories the questions that were asked were in the categories of leadership, culture, customer service, student achievement, financial credibility, communication and inclusion and everybody was has received the results right from Pete. So we can we can talk through that. Um and then we can discuss what we want to put in the uh the minutes I guess for the community. But we'll talk through the the overall results. On the first tab, we have the group averages all so and and then it's broken down uh by the 2425 year and then the 2526 year which is the the current one. So um and then comparing them both you can see overall if we put all the numbers together um every category still remained above four. The rated on a on a fivepoint scale. So one to five, five being the best every uh every category >> actually. Yeah, you are live. That's actually helpful because we compare them right there. So um Chad Chad fix all the shared document you don't have to scroll over left. Oh, now you no if you scroll left to right, you can see the results from the last survey to the current survey. And um all um all eight categories remain above four for for every uh every category. And then if you go to the next tab, you can see that's broken down by the groups. You've got board members, the district-wide leadership, and the principles. Um Again, even within the groups, uh, every category remained above the four. See some fluctuation depending on which group it is between the 2425 and 2526. And then the third path, the two comparison, it breaks down a different different way again. But you can see um each category now is is together. You know, you've got leadership last year, this year, you've got culture last year, this year, broken down by the different groups, four members, districtwide leaderships and principles. In all cases, we're making above four. And then and then finally on the fourth tab uh there's an opportunity for pretext comments kind of similar to the uh the communitywide survey that goes out. Um and uh the comments that were provided were as far as I can tell were all were all positive. Um there's, you know, there's a couple constructive comments about equity and inclusion. It' be nice to see some training in this area for all staff, including custo. Um so some constructive feedback, but otherwise every other comment provided was a positive overview that you would like to add that didn't touch on >> I would just say out of the eight categories I feel like they're very consistent last years you can see the consistency whether it's customer service culture leadership so I mean it's it's a really nice testament to really well um for student achievement you know the financials of the district that is so important as you know we at 10% for our unsight balance so >> I having the longitudinal information we can go back to previous tracks and certainly consistency leaders Um and and I do appreciate that there is constructive criticism, right? We're we're not perfect. And I would say as a board member, I hold myself accountable too, right? This is a certainly partnership. Um so it's that constant improvement, right? But the fact that the trend is what it is. I think this also dubtales in the community survey as well. Have to do with superintendent performance or based on what the community feels. It took a long time. build trust this district uh and I you know commend Dr. for taking an in number of years I've served on board going back to 2019 there were some times where it wasn't uh you know is financially uh leading to a global pandemic uh I think you can write a novel about that so I just want to echo like when we start talking about leadership what that really translates to so thank you leadership We will then move to um an action item which is 9.1 uh and that is the superintendent um contract and is down to present tonight but he was unable to be in attendance. Uh so uh Jeff Smith the chair personnel will be presenting. >> Thank you Chair Gerson. So on the screen you can see the overall numbers. Um and I'll I'll step back and just say um this is a this was a a long process to get here. This wasn't something we did immediately. Um by and I'll just I'll just read this. By September 15th uh of contract year, the school board superintendent declaring their intent to enter into a subsequent contract. Uh we either we either uh choose to enter or not enter. discussions. We chose last fall to enter into discussions. Uh so we've been doing that since I think October. Uh we started with the personnel committee from last year. Um and uh continued through the personnel committee for this year. So we've had four people uh various combinations personnel committees working with Dr. Redmond on this. We've had several meetings over the course of seven or eight months, whatever it's been. So, um, these final numbers you see reflected here, uh, was not were not something we came to quickly. Uh, this is something we worked out through several meetings. Uh, a couple other, uh, things I I'll just add, you know, I' I've been involved in the last personnel committee, this personnel committee. Uh, you know, Dr. Reman wanted to, you know, revisit this as an opportunity uh for for his uh, career planning. um the the numbers that you see reflected here are um they're they're still below if you look at comparable districts these numbers kind of get you know we talked about the teachers in past sea negotiations we wanted to get the teachers you know closer to the middle of surrounding districts this is kind of along those same lines but there are still many many comparable districts that compensate for superintend and much more than Dr. Re. So I want to bring that up and one thing that Dr. Re was looking for was more time necessarily the compensation and I hope I'm not too with that but you know that was the motivation. So one thing that you know it's now flect main screening but one thing we're adding in the next two fiscal years 28 and 29 is five more vacation dates because that was something Morris was looking for. Um and so We went back and forth with several meetings uh to come to these numbers and uh I think it's a a very fair package that uh approaches the middle of comparable districts like we've done for the teachers um but it's very in line and fair and with that I would make a motion to approve second. All right. So, we have a motion by Smith and a second by Roie to approve the superintendent contract through fiscal year 29 as presented. Any discussion? >> Yeah. You know, one of the things that that I feel is most important to me we have as members is this particular topic right here. Superintendent, you know, you are the only check and balance for this item. And I just like want I think the public and everybody deserves to realize that you all had adequate time and attention put into this particular topic. And so, um, with that said, you know, the transparency time of this, I'd like I'd like to postpone this decision beyond today for a couple of reasons. partially just the timing of this. This came out on Wednesday. I think we were originally planning to do this on the 22nd. It was moved up to the 8th as far as signing the contract. We're not all in the personnel committee. So, a lot of this to all of us outside members. And unfortunately, the way these meetings are designed and worked, we don't really get the ability to sit down and all discuss any of this stuff outside of these public meetings. And so I just think that, you know, everyone deserves a right to know that we're putting our full effort into researching these things. Um the survey that we just got done using maybe partially to make these decisions. A lot of those topics we can be experts on like the finances. We have those numbers. We can see where we stand on those things. The culture and climate, I'm not in those buildings nearly as much as others are. So the the 19 participants of particular survey. Um, more than half of them aren't necessarily in the buildings rather than the district office and they're in uh a set of countries, you know. So, I I don't I'm not here to make a determination on this contract. I'm just asking that there's pretty much no way that public know we're doing this or even discussing this until Wednesday. School got out Thursday. I doubt anybody that has any interest in what we're doing is paying that close attention right now. And I just feel like it's something that we should put plenty of thought and interest and time into not so much even the semantics of it but just performance measures and things that we expect out of later of our schools. Um that's why it's more of a tiny thing discussion. somewhat agree. I don't know how they are, but I think I've seen so far action for us that I've seen so far on the other hand the survey responses Dr. performance you know my company evaluation for better is very good so balancing if Nick has concerns that he needs addressed else but uh what are the consequences of consequences at the next meeting. It must be on the schedule for the 22nd and we didn't know Jeff was going to be gone until last week is what I found out. So that's why it got moved up to be up tonight because it's not it's not right for us to approve the contract committee chair is not present. >> Yeah, I'm aware of that. But the decision to move forward I guess for me to postpone it, I would have to understand like why do we need to postpone it? Because this information was actually presented maybe a month ago. We really wanted to approve it in May, but we postponed it because of I think it was the timing of graduation. There were so many things going on. And I look at, you know, from an HR lens, you know, we have to look at the job responsibilities of the superintendent. That's the true purpose of renewing a contract. And, you know, I think we wanted to lock it in for three more years because, you know, Dr. Redmond has been doing a good job. It's based on the survey results of the 360 performance reviews. So, I think when you look at it from that kind of lens, look at the job responsibilities. Um, and that's why I'm saying like I have to understand like why are we going to postpone it? And I I just I want to chime in a little bit because I obviously Joel and I've been on the board for eight years. When I looked at the evaluation, um, it's very consistent across all eight years and I have I believe all eight years, seven years of the evaluation results very performance year after year. Um, I will say from an evaluation standpoint, MSBA does not recommend the approach that we take in our district for the evaluation. Their recommendation is only the board does the evaluation and no one else because the superintendent is the board's responsibility. No one else is. And so we actually go above and beyond what most districts do. Most districts only have the board duty by superintendent. Um, I will also say that um, um, the community survey that was just completed that Tiffany's going to be sharing with us at our next meeting. Uh, the community feedback for Dr. Redmond is very, very high. And over the course of six years, I went back and looked to see what our thought exchange ratings were for the superintendent and the school board. The superintendent averaged over a course of those four year or six years like 43% A's and B's. The next highest ranking after that were people that didn't rank at all that were they didn't know. So they didn't provide any sort of a letter grade. Um and then were next with uh I guess I did I did write that one down but I guess my point is is that I don't know by postponing it what additional information that we are going to receive. Um I think that we as someone that's been on this board for for quite a while um I know Dr. Redmond came into this district very well compensate very low compensation for a reason because the school district couldn't afford to pay but he still chose to come here because he knew that he could help our district uh and get us to a better place. The district was in a very very difficult situation when Dr. Redmond came on board. And I want everybody to remember where we were in 20 October of 2018 when Dr. Redmond was was hired. Um we were not in a very good spot in the community. we're not in a very good spot financially. Um, and so I think if you look at those eight years that Dr. Redmond has been part of our um of our school district, I think he is should be commended for the amount of work and effort that has gone into getting us to where we are today. Nobody's perfect. Dr. Redmond has opportunities for improvement just like all of us do. Nobody is perfect. If there was a perfect person in the world, we will be in the spot that we are today in our culture. Everybody would get along and everyone would be able to be over that conversation to each other. Um that's not where we are as a society and nobody um not everybody is going to provide positive feedback um on individuals. That's just the reality. That's the fact of life. Um and so I don't I don't I am not in favor of tableing this. I don't know what information we are going to have in a two week span. Uh that would change the contract itself. Um I would say that we have a motion to approve the contract as presented and we also have a second. So that is the motion on the table that we will be voting on at this time. >> I just have a quick comment. We did have the survey results and the thing that struck me the most the leadership committee under leadership allies which is phenomen as Christy said going back to October of 2000 you go back to two previous years the amount of turn between super couple of interire hopefully gonna be around for a few years. >> [clears throat] >> Um and just that that stability and where we where we were financially culturally this district light night and day. So I I don't I don't really see what two weeks what what changes that I see. So >> the other thing I was going to mention that I was going to say was that originally we had the contract on the agenda back >> and I actually brought forward the thought that we need to complete the evaluation before we offer a contract because that's an important piece of feedback that we need to have uh before we can offer a contract. Uh I wasn't expecting to see anything that would change my mind on wanting to offer him a contract but process and procedure um you know I don't know how many people give raises to people without giving first and it didn't feel right to me and I feel that I was the one that asked for it to be off the agenda in May so we could do complete the evaluation work and then based on the evaluation and how that turned out that was going to dictate uh when the superintendent contract is going to be presented. And so I I just want to be transparent open about that. Um that was the original plan, but that has changed was delayed for a month because of the evaluation not >> madam chair I was going to comment exactly the same thing that uh we would certainly I will also commend Dr. This could have been done in a close section session. We chose Dr. Redmond was comfortable having you know you know the review the 360 review and feedback uh be part of this u and strong vote of confidence and leadership. The only other question I think that came up uh and Dr. keep me honest here to do so. This needs to be approved prior to June 30th because as of effective July 1st, we're in the next school year. And so effectively what this does is it cancels the third year of the current contract, creates a new three-year contract in the technical construct of policy. Looks, you know, why FY27 is effectively will change and it's really years two and three to become extension. So the timing is critical short of having a special meeting to do so prior to uh the end of the month. I see no value in delaying this conversation further. Tim could it be done? Yes. But we did change we had put a retired medical thing in the current contract uh and then found out that that didn't work the way we wanted to. that change goes into effect July 2026 with this. Yeah. Could you do retro sort all that out? Yes. But it's it's a lot more straightforward for the support from my intent to vote on this and also was depend I just add just want to acknowledge it I received as I'm sure the board did a couple couple emails before this meeting tonight um you know kind of in line with with Nick's comments um you know raising some concerns um that it's not the first we've heard you know and the and the the community survey expresses those concerns too and and just to answer those emails RC because we read our emails we read them all and you know and if you don't get an individual response somebody will reply on behalf of the board but we do read them all we take them seriously um I guess my point is renewing this contracting doesn't stop us from addressing addressing those concerns and it goes back to what Christy said. Nobody's perfect and the district is not perfect and we have issues we need to address. Um and and when in knowing our role as a board, which is governance, you know, we're not managers, we're not administrators, we're not we're not telling principles or teachers what to do, but when when issues become, you know, we become aware of issues that the board does need to address, we will continue to do that regardless of when a contract is is is approved. There's not there's no timing involved with that that stops us from doing our job working to address these issues. >> You're right and we talked about how you had brought up the delay in hopes of having a survey and discuss something related to this topic and I looked at it. a chance to review it. And part of me kept thinking that this is a small sample size survey. It's good results. That's great. But the decisions and things that we do at this district from administration, Dr. Edmond, the board affects a lot more people, the staff, the community. We have community survey that we haven't even reviewed yet. Um the delay isn't I'm not asking us to make a decision and say that delay the decision that happened to ourselves might not happen. It might I don't know I can't predict what the future would happen in two weeks from now. All I know or even further out if we had to do that that given this due time and due effort for our most important job just seems to make sense. The the staff and folks like that wouldn't know this was even going on until essentially tonight. So we haven't given them an opportunity to give us any input. Community survey we haven't reviewed. those are far bigger groups. Those are those are essentially the customers of this organization um and the operators of this organization. So I again I don't think you know the contract that we're renegotiating the terms of this next year are very similar to the terms that we already have for Dr. for next year. I would imagine if we had to push this decision to the first meeting in July that we could retroactively add two or three small changes to this contract and pay whatever else you need to do. I just think it's a good look for the board to announce that we're doing it and then do it all at the same time. I don't maybe nothing changes and it's a quick fast small thing on our board on our board approval process at the next meeting that we can attend. I know it's a little more work for all of us. It's not easy and it makes for, you know, uncomfortable conver conversations. This isn't anything first said this many times that had good relationship with Mike. I just feel like this is one of the first times I've been a part of this process. I understand many of you have done this many times and been a part of it for for longer than I have, but it just felt that it happened quick. I I know we got the contract. I reviewed it. I don't have problem with the terms. benefits, any of those types of items. It's not about that. I just feel like all the like for for example like our our decisions on roofs and and improvals to the schools, we're going to have three different meetings talking about what it looks like, what it's going to cost, and when we're going to approve it. And here for a decision to make for the leader of our organization, we're going to have a s survey of 17 people that report directly to Dr. essentially and then approve the contract essentially without any other thoughts or processes of making it a two-step process. That's all I'm asking for. If you guys all disagree, that's just when a superintendent is evaluated. It's the evaluation is done by not by other individuals in the organization. That's just because he's our employee and if people want to provide feedback through the appropriate channels about something that they don't agree with, they are more than happy to do that. But this the evaluation of the superintendent is our responsibility and our responsibility. And so if people have concerns, they should be following them through the appropriate channels, whether it be their principal directly to Dale representative or their junior rep in the buildings. Um if they're not comfortable going to their principal, they can go directly to Jim, they can goirectly um to get their concerns resolved. They have that opportunity every single day. >> To me, this isn't about the contract. This is about the evaluation. >> You just said you just said that you are okay with the contract as it is. >> You want people to provide evaluation for Dr. >> Contract. Correct. But you just said you're okay with everything that's in the contract. You reviewed it. You were fine with that. You said you wanted to table this for an opportunity for others to provide input. That's the evaluation piece. That's not the contract. >> Yeah. And so our our evaluation and I can't speak for all of I have another job career and I'm not allowed to I don't have the time to be the schools any any close even remote that I'd like to be and that most of the people that this affects are and so most of my information that I have to base this decision on is items that are addressed in most of these schoolboard meetings which are led by the district committee meetings and a handful of interactions. I'm not saying again I don't know why this is that controversial to to give a little more time to make this decision. >> I think for us is to make the time in two weeks what what is that what do we want to accomplish? Is it that we want because again we as a company we evaluate that nobody follows it. So I guess in two weeks are accomplished. That's all I'm asking. >> And I don't know the answer to that. It could be potentially nothing. We approve the contract with our lives. It could be we've had more time to process something. That's pretty important. Just make sure that we're very very comfortable with our decisions. We have Dr. Contract. I'm not disrupting anything to do this. I just So I know that it may not it may not help anything today but it gives it gives the public the opportunity to provide but if you use that for your evaluation you only use other tools for your evaluation process of this then that's fine but each of us might use different metrics as far as what's going on in our schools than just presented what we meetings, the finances, which are great. Those are all factors of this. We all weigh them differently. I get that. That's process. That's how we got elected or didn't get elected as what we said we were going to do. So, I I don't know that anything would change, but I don't know that it would hurt either. I don't see any repercussions. If anything, it'll strengthen our district to see that our our school board cares enough to really a lot of time and effort to hear everyone out for making the most important job at the school. So, we have a motion on the table and a second to approve the contract as presented. Is there any further discussion or changes that anybody wants to do? discussion. If there's no further discussion, then Tiffany, could you please do >> Smith? >> Yes. >> Johnson, >> yes. >> Yes. >> Peterson, >> yes. Yes. >> Motion carries 61. >> Thanks for discussion. Item 10.1 on the agenda is the schoolboard election timeline and Tiffany is going to present. >> Yes. This is a very brief item and the transparency that we have to um secretaries, states, county, various entities share the general election period what uh seats are up. And at our school district, we have four school board seats that will be on the general election ballot. I counted wrong Joe out, but so we're going to give each other a little smart, but it is the four individuals that are noted there that would be on the general election. Uh there's a link to an important uh Secretary of State that gives all sorts of feedback as far as the requirements of age, living in this community, things of that nature. Uh but again, my goal in sharing this today is to be very brief. Have on the record that yes, we have those forceful board seats. That's also noted on the meet the board page of our website. It always says when the individual's term expires in addition to their contact info and file. You'll see that the candidate filing period is July 14th through July 28th. Even though it's a general election, since it's our school board, that candidate filing doesn't occur here at the district office. We'll ensure prior to this, you know, website has various pieces of information similar to what I'm sharing today. U there's the affidavit of candidacy that you'll see is linked here. This is a standard form for the state that any school board member Uh just the process that we go through here at the office to secure that. We report the same day to the county and then the county post candidates on their general site that goes to secretary of state. Um you'll see as a school board prior to August 21st on school board meeting agenda. There'll be a formal resolution to call that you have these seats. But prior to that August 21st date, there's nothing that the board needs to do other than that resolution. and we will just echo um filing information so that's available for everyone and again the county also shares that information um in addition to other elections that may so again general information happy to answer any high level questions I'm not as savvy on this as I am on other elections but I have enough to hopefully answer any basic questions that that you may have question Tiffany will thank for the information. Will this come back again in our next meeting or not? Is it just a one time we have to talk about it during our meeting once? >> This was actually optional that we shared this information publicly just in general as information item. I can't recall if it's June 22nd or July, but we will have a formal resolution and I'll just remind some of these people or some of these. >> Yes, >> sounds good. Thanks, Tiffany. >> Yes, >> 10.2 is a schoolboard self assessment through a thought exchange. I will keep it with Tiffany for this item as well. >> Yes, thank you. This is again very high level information. You'll uh receive actually on Friday in the communication that comes out from the superintendent's office. the actual link to the assessment that you all provided feedback on was it March now I think of development session where you have the questions that schoolboard does to assess uh yourselves and how you're working together the meetings and everything of that nature those questions stay the same however we did imported it to thought exchange so there's an openended opportunity um for everyone to answer the same question that was on the community thought just lens and then there's opportunities relative to selection so that it's you can add additional thoughts in addition to the scale that is in there. June 15th through July 15th is that assessment period discussed. So that's when that'll be open. I'll make sure that you all can easily access that and then the goal of meeting pilot obviously unbiased man give it to you and walk through it how you ch August. Sorry, >> just confirmed the resolution for the board election is June 22nd. Thank you. >> All right, we are going to move to 10.3 on the agenda, which is the Minnesota kids rise. information and I had Tiffany add this to the agenda tonight promis I can't remember when I sent it within the last couple of weeks um announcing um that uh this initiative called Minnesota Kids Rise is now um up and running. This is something that MSBA has been involved in along with several other education organizations in Minnesota. And this was really kind of an idea that started maybe about 18 months ago um to talk about how do we bring to life our public schools in Minnesota and tell a story about all the awesome things that are going on in all of our public schools. Um we're down to 329 public school districts um starting July 1. There were a few consolidations that happened. So we're down from 331 to 329. But when you think about all of the things that happen in our our public schools. We want everyone in Minnesota to say that I'm a Minnesota kid. That's really whether you went to a public school in Minnesota or you have your kids going to a public school in Minnesota. We want to be able to tell those stories and have people say, "I'm a Minnesota kid and this is what public school did for me." There's so many amazing stories across our state and we just really want to elevate all the good things that are going on in our public schools. There's a steering committee that has been meeting on a pretty regular basis um for about the past year working on this of how what the messaging is going to be, how we're going to communicate it. Um and I will u share with you that the big first big event where this is going to really be blast it out to the world, I guess you could say, is on September 2nd and that will be the Minnesota Kids Rise Day at the state fair. It is a day that is dedicated to this initiative that will be um there'll be a booth there. We're hoping to have some of our uh real um strong success stories. I know there's um somebody that I believe is involved in NASA that might be in the booth for to come and meet. There's going to be activities um and we're hoping to blanket the fairgrounds with Minnesota kids schools are important. So, more to come, but I I just wanted to just bring it to your attention as aformational item. I think this is a really cool initiative. Um and it's like I said, it's a real it's not an MSBA thing per se. It's a uh a consolidated effort between MSBA, AMSD, M MA U and any other educational organizations in the state of Minnesota. So if you have questions you can reach out to me but again I just wanted to bring it to your attention that you're going to start to see a lot more and billboards that sort of thing initiative anybody has questions. I think that's all for that topic. All right, we'll move to 10.4 which is a district update and Dr. Redmond is going to present your presentation. >> Thank you, Tiffany. U more than just putting that up on the screen, Tiffany communications department 98% of the credit for this. They've done great work capturing in a little bit uh more detail than what we captured at the beginning which was really focused on the uh class of 20 26. A lot of great things happening in our school district. Uh you know this was an event uh we have multiple school districts get together to uh you know further develop student voice on how things are going. Do they feel welcome? Do they feel like you know you belong in school? And how do we uh and how do we continue to grow that? Because our our goal, we want every kid who's involved in our district when they walk through the doors of our school to not only feel welcome, but to feel like it's their school, they belong, they're respected, they're liked, and that people want to see them reach their greatest learning potential. So, it's nice to watch students from different school districts. Uh Jim and I stopped by. It was great stuff. And then uh safe routes to schools city grant. Uh shovels are going in the ground. Uh might have gone in the ground today, but uh we've shared a lot of this. Really want to point out that the the money is coming from the safe 270 grand from the safe routes to school grant. Um working on a safer crossing at Shaki High School and a new sidewalk at another new sidewalk at Subpath Elementary. They put the first one in which goes down. Oh boy, what is French >> French >> and now they've got one going the other way to the homes and so really really good improvements there. And then by the high school trying to have a safer crossing and put some controls in the the turn lane. We've gone through the uh the Sweeney project. I do want to say that we we are expending a you know little I think it was $11,700 of school district funds to add six parking spots to the uh parking you know parking lot on the west side of Sweeney just taking the opportunity we've got folks out there in the the ground dump and we were able you know we're not doing a staging cost to get new asphalt because they're building you know new roads and access points and so thought it was a great opportunity to do Um, you know, we we change our mission in the summer. We're still serving students and their families and our community. Lots of different really cool things going on in the summer. Um, and targeted services, uh, which is, you know, the the the source of, uh, the the sponsorship for many of our summer student activities kind of listed there. This would be the you know a lot of the different programs happening across the district. Um this was I stopped by this event uh the Miracle League of Shakape uh the brand new Miracle League field on my way to the senior awards and I'm really glad I did. Uh one of our teachers Matt Iverson spoke at this. He did just a great job explaining what this means to our students especially our participants in glomies. Uh I believe we're the 14th Miracle Field in the state of Minnesota. And again, it's one of those things we talk about belongingness and this is about uh inclusion and making sure that every kid who wants to to play ball on a on a field like this has the you know some form or the other has the opportunity to do it. So it was just uh it was a great community collaboration. You know just lots and lots of folks that got together over the years to make this a reality. To be quite frank, it's one of those things that that makes me proud to live and work in shock people. It's just super cool. Um, congratulations uh to uh you know, one of our SRO's who made Sergeant uh Officer Kirchbomb pretty pretty darn cool. And then uh the academyy's a shock pee trying to with the steering committee working with our partners our you know businesses and the other organizations that partner with them is a shock and I always picture kind of the steering committee as you know school has one hand on the steering wheel and the community partners have the other and we're learning from each other. They've got incredible expertise in how things work outside of schools. We've got great expertise inside of schools and so working with students and lots of other folks to really figure out what are those next steps. How do we continue to make themies of shock be even more amazing and build more in the way of authentic genuine learning where our students are preparing for real life while they're still in high school. And then uh we've continued to learn and grow as a leadership team with instructional leadership and then s systemic structures meetings and um I think in the wrap I said you know you have we we get a short breath kind of as as district leaders end of the school year and uh next week we're right back at it with the leadership retreat on Tuesday and Thursday our days one and two day three is actually this week and I know we're not real good at number order uh but that's on Friday that's really focused on the instructional leadership part Uh but just you know lots of lots of good things happening in terms of the planning continuing to build those systems and structures uh and learning and grow and that staff gratitude. I think I I know where that came from out of the writing. Uh thank you Tiffany. But uh that was my message I think the day before the last day of school. It meant uh truly you know just uh hats off to to all of our employees uh all the members of our team for the many many amazing things that they do each and every day to serve our students and their families and our community. Uh it's one of uh it's one of the great joys of my life is I get to see so many of those things up close and firsthand. And uh we have people just they go over and above uh just each and every day. And so uh really really appreciative of all the efforts this past school year and then yeah every day is always a great day to be a saber. So again lots of lots of cool things um you know with just being celebrated there. >> Questions really It's hard to believe in school year. I just cannot believe that. That year went so fast. I I don't remember where time goes, but it was it was a great year, but it was also a year that was filled with um tragedy and sadness along with all of the exciting things as well. And I don't think that u can't forget about all of those individuals that we might have lost throughout the course of the year. That a lot to our district and the classmates athletes just all right. Item 11 on the agenda is a uhformational item on the proposed Minnesota constitutional amendment which will be a ballot item on the November 3rd statewide election. Yeah, this is linked in the agenda. Uh although I am going to dig into a lot of the component parts. Uh but it's reminded myself there's still there's still a little bit of history teacher and me or maybe a lot. And so want to start with we're we're hearing about this constitutional amendment. It's on the ballot November 3rd statewide election and it pertains to the Minnesota Permanent School Fund. Um, you can amaze your friends at parties and social events in the next couple weeks by knowing all this. But, uh, the Minnesota Permanent School Fund is a trust fund held by the Minnesota government that is used to aid the funding of public education. The state was officially created in 1858, but its origins predate uh, that year's start of Minnesota statehood. Uh going back to 1785, the US Congress passed a law requiring that one square mile in each township in the west, Minnesota was in the west, uh be dedicated specifically to the support of public education. By 1858, more than 8.1 million acres in Minnesota were dedicated to the support of public education. When the Minnesota Constitution was ratified in 1858, the ownership of these lands was placed into the Innesota Permanent School Fund. Uh, three state agencies manage and administer the fund. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, the Minnesota State Board of Investment, and the Minnesota Department of Education. The three agencies work together to manage the revenue received from the land and to distribute the interest in dividends from the fund to school districts uh throughout the state each year. The constitutional amendment would change the original funding mechanism. Um, you know, which started with the concept that this fund needed to be perpetual and inviolent. Uh, and that only the net interest and dividends of the fund could be distributed to school districts each year. And so the amendment is really about changing that language if approved by the voters. Um the statutory policies would change and they would be amended to permit 4.5% of the three-year average value of the permanent school fund to be distributed to school districts each year. Uh the people that manage this do this believe that you know that is not going to harm the future prospects or the longevity of the permanent you know uh school fund. Uh but it would increase the payout for school districts from the current $68 per pupil to an estimated $95 per pupil each year starting in the 2728 school year. In Shakabe's case, kind of using rough uh you know student numbers, uh it would be it would be an increase of about $210,000 in funding each year. wanted to make sure that our board members and our district leaders, we'll share with them as well, have some information on this. You're likely to be asked questions. And the number one question you're likely to be asked is, "Does this increase my taxes?" And the answer is absolutely and unequivocally no. Uh the funding source for the permanent school fund, the land that was put into that trust a long time ago, uh that is that has nothing to do with each of our taxes. the source of the revenue isn't changing. Um, and we wanted to share that tonight, figuring that you will begin to hear about that. And a lot of the state edors are putting together some kind of campaign things and get the information out. And um, you know, it's a positive in terms of school funding. So that's that's what I got. >> And I'll just add to that that by leaving question unanswered is a no road. >> So when you talk to people about, you know, last question about what this is, I talked about my golf league few weeks ago and there were probably 10 of us sitting around the table and everybody was like, "What? What is this? Is that going to raise my taxes? What?" So I mean, people have no idea about this this trust fund that Every kid in the state of Minnesota is a trust baby and has been since the day that you know the state was born. >> And so this is something that has been in the works to change for many years. And um as Jeff knows, Denise Dietrich from MSBA who used to be a state representative worked on it when she was a state representative is now at MSBA in government relations. Um was task force looked at this and made the recommendation to the legislature who passed it on a bipartisan vote um 100% favor of putting this on the ballot for everybody in the state of Minnesota to vote on November 3rd. So please be please be an advocate for this because this will help our public schools without impacting anyone's taxes at the state level or the local level. I just So where did the where where did the money go previously? >> Same place. >> It it was just the fund was building up more and more and more because it was just it was based off of that. You know that the other way >> just extremely conservative in how they >> they could only distribute the interest and dividends off of it. >> So the 210 is an increase we've been >> this much money. And instead of them giving out this much, they're doing this much. >> Yeah. And they feel that the core base amount I mean it's part because the value of land is still increasing and so yeah. What was the number you said we currently have? >> $570,000 that comes into source code 201. >> I love that. We all knew that. No, just kidding. So there just again this is not cutting anything else. This is not coming from any other state expenditure. It's just an increase in that fund. Okay. >> Well and I guess my question similar to what Joe so you got the value of the land the interest dividend be a function of value of land increasing or is other investment contributing to the current payout structure. Um because by increasing it to the four and a half% over that three year average, is there ever risk that you're going to defund or cut into that principal amount? It sounds like no based on the projection. >> That's the question that has been asked by a lot of people. The answer is they feel very confident the invest um on the 4.5% payout because that is a lot of fun as a percentage for payout and they feel very comfortable running many numbers that people >> and it's a threeyear average >> right >> and the numbers are the payout is based on your ads So that's how we get. So that number is going to fluctuate as your fluctuate school. So even it's I mean it's Certainly something to advocate for. Uh zero tax results in additions. It doesn't it doesn'tffect taxes. It doesn't increase it spending from anywhere else. I can't see why. People just need to know what it is. So they don't >> unfortunately this could be a a question on the second side of the ballot. Some people don't know the ballots might be under votes for judges or even school board members. It could be just be ignored. Yeah. 49% vote on it. They all Yes, they still >> Well, there is a board of people that have uh come together and are working on the marketing and the publicity for this. So, that group is starting to meet and there's I think at this point less than 100 days until they at the last meeting it was 113 days and that meeting was a while ago. So, we're less than 100 now. >> No, it's over. Maybe they were talking about the timeline. I I don't know. They said we have 113 days. That's all that was a couple weeks ago. >> Maybe that's before. >> Could be. >> That's all right. And we're going to move to item 12, which would be committee reports and other information. And we'll start with Nick. >> Outside of graduation, which we talked about quite a bit tonight, of the year picnics at elementary school and all the seniors showed up to the kids. I love that stars. That was fun to go to. Other than that, hours of conversation research. >> Um other than graduation, I We have tonight and that's uh also personnel committee tonight. Um celebrated young we watching our babies graduate the TLC graduation never stories of these kids who persevere. Super cool. And then a happy note. Uh I don't know who put me in charge at the color for all the drink table. There were a myriad of donuts from which to choose. Will power prevailed. Um and so we gave them to all the participants. I think we had about 120 participants that day. Uh and it was uh just another great example of uh community involvement watching enjoy getting various colors of chalk. It's great. >> For the record, I only had a tangerine. >> There you go. >> Not telling you what I ate the rest of the day. >> Um, yeah, graduation. I attended the feather ceremony as well. That's always an awesome event to go to. Um, we have a finance committee meeting before our next board meeting. Uh, had a Southwest Metro board meeting on May 19th. We had some pretty deep discussions on budget uh for next fiscal year and we have another board meeting coming up next Tuesday where we will be finalizing and approving the budget for um school board meeting last Tuesday and then a fun thing um I was able to award go to um and award three MSBA student scholarships over the past month always exciting to see those students have no idea that they want and it's kept a secret from them. Uh so first one was in Prior Lake so that was that was fine. His mom was in the back in in an office waiting for the item to come up with an agenda that she snuck in the bag. So that was cool. Watertown Alleian Morristown that girl um said I've been checking the website every day for like the past three weeks to see if they listed the winners and I wasn't seeing anything. we appear with this big check if anyone remembers when got it. Um and then the last one was at Tri County United TCU when she was in Montgomery. Um and that girl also said she was checking it like every 10 minutes because she hadn't heard anything and it was the end of the school year and she was graduating in two days and hadn't heard anything whether she won or didn't. And the cool thing for me was the girl at TCU that received it for her mom used to work for me. So that was a lot of fun. Her parents also kind of surprised her. She was very very excited. So yeah. >> Yeah. Graduation graduation is just always so fun to go to just to listen to the stories. I I I think I've said every year if we had if graduation for the high school was like that every teacher or somebody spoke for each student for five minutes, we would almost be getting out of now. >> Um but it's just it's just great. It's a reminder to all kids that uh life isn't you know it's when you start here a lot of people go like this. People go just at their own pace, but they get there and it's more important to get there eventually that you get there with on somebody else's timing. So, it's just said that about my children that with every kid just have to have patience because we have to work on their time and they don't work on ours. >> That's what happens. Patience. See, I'm patient. >> So about that graduation. I try to prioritize those, but it's just my schedule, but I did go to the feather cere was really good. Yeah, the graduation takata and feather ceremony. I guess all three this time. Um what Joe said that you know I really like your speech here that was mentioned. Um you know he he kind of I was I thought that was great that he he you talked about Mr. Rogers because he just he's he's like the modern incarnation of Mr. Rogers. But but the take away was uh you just you just talked about the concept of being a neighbor and why that's different than being family or friend. It's just seeing seeing somebody in need and stepping up to help and and you see that to college too that you know they didn't use the word neighbor but it's somebody really meaningful in their life that helped them cross the finish line get to where they need to be. So kind of you know all blends together that you know you got somebody in your corner that's that's ready for you stepping up and too. Um, and then I was at the academy steering committee so I got to see more air because he's everywhere. Um, and and also who graduation he just graduated as well. And then personal >> Jen. Yeah. Just on the graduation theme, I want to thank, [clears throat] you know, we we get to sit on stage. We get to do a lot of cool things. So many people working behind the scenes from logistics to set up to tear down, you know, safety and security. So many people that we see that so much great work that made, you know, three amazing nights from ceremony to you to grace the other night come true. So just great team work by everybody. >> Just echo the end of the year. We'll do our best in the next months to try and get all the storytelling out of the great things that You know, we went to there together. You know, you got teachers crying and kids crying and people cheering and a teacher playing a guitar and I mean, you just go anywhere and it's just a lot of positivity. You have parents showing up, guardians, whoever it is trying to support those folks. So, a lot of great things. We can't share them as quickly as I would like to, so we're going to spread them out, but I hope that you can pictures you can capture what we got to experience. Pearson graduation. If you've never had a little kid stepping stones graduation, please put that on your list, too. Um there's just there's a lot of great things that overshadow maybe things that we wish were different. >> Anything else you want? >> I also attended the class to be my first, you know, full year. It was really fun to watch that see the leaving. So, I thought that was pretty exciting. My mom was a great teacher, so you know, it's kind of nice to watch. >> Just a couple accent points on a couple of things. I agree. I caught the Takata graduation as well. And then I got to watch, you know, Eric Service, the Takata principal. was sitting right in front of me at graduation, celebrate with the same kids that he had celebrated with two days earlier at the big graduation. And that something about that was just really touching. And you'd mentioned the uh you know the seniors going back and visiting the elementary schools and how cool it is for the elementary kids. Jim and I happen to be uh passing through and and at uh Sweeney and talking with their principal Derek Bell and Well, the seniors, they came by. That was they were I think that was his when he first got there. They were fifth graders. And then Miss Wangan came over and goes, "Yeah, I got this poster from when they came by." And uh and actually the kid she picked out was the tooling kid who lives down the street from me and goes, "Yeah, he's in my fourth grade class." And she had a picture on a poster she had made. So it's not just, you know, the seniors visiting. Yeah. It's really cool for the younger kids, but a lot of a lot of folks, a lot of adults as well touch the lives of our students in many different ways uh on that journey and that you know kind of that reciprocal relationship is just really cool to catch just kind of you know unplanned moments like that those different connections so just wanted to share that >> right next um our upcoming meetings and important dates June 22nd is a facilities and finance committee meeting u followed by a board meeting And then we have a little bit of a break. Uh our next committee meeting isn't then until July 27th and a board meeting also that evening. So Tiffany, is there anything you want to make sure is highlighted for summer on the engagement calendar? >> Yeah, I'll just sure folks check that we did not through August. There's some community engagement opportunities whe Mobile, you want to be a part of Scott County partnership of elementary schools with them on the rails. We try to engage with the community there as well. So there's ever a night where you're looking to engage and then definitely save I believe it's August 4th but 19 is that first Tuesday in August neighborhood signed up and that's always a great opportunity on the chief and the family there but it's just a great opportunity and our principal as well. >> Um, yes, I don't think is August 4th. I thought I got I thought I got switched like August 13th or something like that due to an event at the >> Okay. I thought I' seen that a couple of different times. I could be wrong. I will make sure. >> Anything else? evening. >> I'll make a motion to adjourn. Second by a second by bro to adjurnn. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. I hear