I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Good evening and welcome to all. Thanks for coming for the Dassel School District's regular meeting, May 4th. Um, we will start off with uh, student reports and sure Charlie's on you. >> All you. >> All you. >> me back for what was it, 2 months ago? >> That's last month. >> Okay, so in the past month, um, over the last month the girls track and field team's been very busy. Since the beginning of April they've competed at seven meets and placed highly or won all of them. They faced some big competition including Delano, Monticello, and the 2025 state championship state champion team Alexandria. Drama's one act this year did very well and made it to subsections. 12 Angry Jurors was this past weekend and went very well. Seats were practically full every show and they had a great time. Bass team's been learning about fishing techniques every week. The rugby team has been doing all right with a record of 2 and 4 and have had consistent practices. They're looking forward to state but still have a lot to work on. The robotics team went to Houston this last week for worlds and got back Sunday. We took fourth in our division and had a great week of competition. Archery went to the national tournament in Utah and had some students do well. NHS has had their induction this past Sunday. And student council has been working on planning spring fling. In the coming months track's going to be competing at true team sections in hopes of going to true team state. Um, after that they'll be finishing out the season with conference and second champs the last 2 weeks of May. Bass team has boat night on the 14th where they bring in boats and have a garage sale. The band and choirs will be working hard on their end of year concerts. The band's pop concerts will take place on the 11th and the choir shows on the on the 14th, sorry. Um robotics will be working on maintaining our robot through state championships this year on the 16th, and our banquet will be the following week. And it just students are still trying to squeeze in the last of their IEPs yet. Prom is coming up this Saturday, and yearbook is distributing yearbook obviously end of the month, so pretty quick senior. Do you guys know anything about how softball, baseball, anything like that is doing? Feel free to contribute by the way. >> I also heard baseball's back to 500, 5 and 5. >> They had two no-hitters last >> Oh. >> week or week and a half ago, and then softball's around 500 as well. >> Well, I'm sure Weston can give you guys a good wrap-up for baseball next month. >> It's wrapped up. >> Yeah. >> You never know. So, all right. Want to do this? >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Um every year we have a certificate for those who have been representatives on the school board. So, Charlie, I'd like to give this to you. We'll save Weston's for another time. >> Thank you for 2 years of service. >> Thank you for showing up and your great reports. >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> We're going to get a photo this time, we can >> You don't want to accept this. >> All right, Lauren, you be able to Lauren, why don't you take a picture of us after the meeting? After the meeting, yeah. We'll do it over there. Um all right, brings us to student superintendent report. >> All right, graduation will take place at 7:00 p.m. on May 29th at the multi-purpose field, weather permitting. Um looks like everyone's going to be there, so that's great. The end of the legislative session is May 18th. There's obviously been a lot of talk about different things going on with the legislature. We're not sure if they're going to vote on anything related to us fully, but um there's there's still a handful of things that are still related to to schools. One of them is limiting screen time for students and children. So, it eliminate all devices the glasses um phones and and things like that for K through 8 from the building. Uh and then no class and not in class for 9 through 12 is the proposed one that I saw last. Uh we're looking at the possibility um for limiting screen time as well for our students related to that. So, um part of that is the problem with iPad costs going up and and things and looking at the younger grades and how much they're using the devices and how they're using them and things like that. So, uh we've had some discussions with our kindergarten student uh staff uh particularly in in looking at what we're going to do with with our devices at those grade levels. I don't think we would go away with them. Um but just maybe not be one-to-one with them to lower some costs and also make sure we're using them the way they're supposed to be used for learning. Uh So, yeah, again, lower levels of the primary school. And again, there's a lot of stuff at the legislature, but not as much as normally I would say, but we're just not sure where that's going to go. The scholarship granting organizations, the SGOs, that's that's the $1,700 thing that's out there. I don't know where that's The governor has to agree to that and it doesn't sound like they will. And then the Republicans in the House and the Senate are saying if the governor doesn't agree to free money is what they're kind of saying, then we're not going to agree to anything that he wants. So, that it plays as a game that's played, but um And there's a Yeah, there's a few other things out there, but we'll have more next month. We'll know what passes and what doesn't. I haven't been to the capital as much just because I don't There's not as much action that's been going on there that I think is going to happen. They're all up for election through the governor this year, so they don't want to rock the boat too much either. Uh we have staff appreciation activities taking place this week, May 4th through the 8th, the cabinet members, school board, uh PTSA have all donated and and things to update. To help support the staff. We've got Facebook posts going on every day. PTSA brought in treats on Friday and this morning for staff. Tomorrow we'll have bagels for everybody. And then Wednesday we have our festivities at Pebble Creek and everyone's invited. Um Yeah, I guess that's going on there. PTSA snacks, yeah, social media posts. I think that's all of it, but we're very thankful for our our staff who've had a wonderful year this year and um you know, we've just appreciative of all the hard work that they've put in and and the they've done from everybody all the way through and I I would list them, but I'm going to leave somebody out if I do. Um but everyone that's on our on our team has really had a wonderful year and it's been a really positive year and I expect a lot of positive things from when we get our test scores and when we wrap up the last 20 or so days of school here as well. So, thank you to all them and thank you to school board and PTSA and and cabinet members for providing that for them. We went around community and I think we got like 120 or 130 different donations, so almost everyone that signed up to go to the event is should win a prize. Um at least 80% of them probably will, so. Um looking forward to handing those out. Summer construction work began today. Uh so, if you came in the front parking lot, you'll you've you've saw the stuff up there probably. Um so, that that started today. They've started staging and things like that for the roofing work and then they'll start with the roof drains tomorrow. I did hear noises up there, so I don't know if they were already starting some of that stuff, but um and then woodwork on May 6th and then start roof demo and re-roofing the gym roof uh on May 11th and then May 18th rainwater and glycol lines and move those and um then the tennis courts also be done redone starting this week. So, we're redoing uh the one half is going to be completely torn up. That's the that's all cracked and stuff from the lights going through. And then the other half is going to get resurfaced. Um so, they'll be unavailable most of the summer time. Yeah, it's all the pickleballers. Yeah, yeah. >> Yeah, we can't do it in the winter. >> And then uh the last thing I have is on the agenda as well, but um spent a considerable amount of time working on staffing decisions. Uh I think I brought this up before, but our focus has always been on the impact on students. We also looked at staff impact, we looked at community impact, and then short-term and long-term impacts. Uh we had a great opportunity for a lot of feedback and and a lot of different ideas. Um our goal was to get to 600,000. Uh I think we ended up with 593 based on our estimates and rough numbers. Uh and then we added another 100,000 on there. So, we went to 693 uh on there. Um the decisions we made help put people in their licensure areas. Um it saved a couple probationary teachers. So, what we decided to do is there were going to be two positions in the classroom cut at the primary school. Uh but there's also two openings at the Well, there's one opening at the intermediate school. Uh due to retirement uh or somebody leaving, I guess. I don't know if they I don't they didn't retire. Um somebody leaving. And so, we we because we really liked our teachers we hired last year, the newer teachers, um we we're going to shift some of them over. I don't think we finalized that who it's going to be yet. But we shifted one of them over to fill that void. And then we're going to add one back to the fourth grade classroom. So, this year they have third grade has eight sections, fourth grade has eight sections, and uh fifth grade has eight sections. Next year, our third grade class coming in from second grade this year uh is a little larger than what they had in third, fourth, and fifth grade. So, we're going to have nine sections of third grade, eight, and eight. Uh what that does and with even with the cuts at the primary school is our based on our current numbers um kindergarten class size is going to go up 0.2 per class. So, two classes are going to have one more student than they have this year. Uh first grade is going to go down uh 1.4 students per per uh class. Second grade is going to go down uh student. Third grade is going to go up a half a student. So, half the classrooms will add one student to 25. That's our biggest uh section our biggest class sizes will be 25 in that third grade with that nine sections. Fourth grade's going down, fifth grade's going down. So, four out of our six K through five classrooms will have a lower class size, again, based on our current numbers than they have this year and we we're able to get $700,000 in cuts. What we also did is we moved people into licensure areas. So, some people were out of licensure areas uh that were currently in positions and and some of them were in our mental health spots and and things like that. So, we took a look at everyone's license and we shifted them based on need in certain areas and and things like that. So, um that was again, there were a lot of really good ideas that we had in our team when we we met on the last time we met for a few hours after we put a lot of information and time into that. Um it's very helpful. Um one of the things you may have heard or might hear is some of the mental health supports um changing a little bit. But, if you remember three years ago, we added an extra counselor at the high school and an extra counselor at the middle school um with our enrollment going down and those added positions we were able to still have a um a better ratio of staff to students um in 6th through 12th grade and we cut a half from middle school and a half from high school. So um so we'll still have again our class sizes or the ratios in that case will be lower than they were um 3 years ago with that. So Yeah, it's it's incredible how we did it. Um I think our team did a wonderful job of that. We do have some cuts that are not on this paper that count toward that 600,000 or 693,000. Those will come from the paras um or our relief staff. Um we're going to wait until August because we'll do some of them with retirements and leaving and and things like that um possibly and then we won't have to tell somebody they're out of a job and then have to hire somebody again in August. So we're going to wait till August. Um we don't have a deadline for for those groups um like we do with the teachers for that. So we're going to wait um as long as we can and we never know who our students are going to be. Sometimes we get one-to-ones and different things like that in in August and things like that. So Any questions or anything else you're hearing I about that? I guess that's probably the biggest topic on my agenda today or my list today, but you know, that kind of thing. >> person question that persists >> Did um I guess one question that I would have um it it sounds like you were able to utilize some maybe some new ideas, some things that maybe we haven't thought of in the past, right? So um have we maybe it'd be a good idea to have some type of review process to where things don't get so far out of whack, maybe. And I'm sure it was just, you know, the snowball just over time people are going over there cuz they need help and then they stay and they don't come back, but um it's exciting to me that we were able to, you know, obviously save jobs and and the programs that we have on there. But it it sounds like you kind of uncovered a lot of things, you know, through the process, which is good. >> Yeah. And again, some of some of the stuff came up because of the referendum that didn't pass and you know, in November of last year. And so you know, that that would have accounted for for some of these changes as well. And the rest of it really is a isn't really I would say it's not budget cuts, it's more of a right-sizing type of thing. And that's why our class sizes How do you cut two teachers from a primary school and your class sizes go down in two of those three grades? Like that that just means we were probably overstaffed or we just didn't get as many students as as we anticipated at those classes. >> Yeah, well done. >> Yeah. Thank you, Jeremy. Um moving on to item 2C, committee reports. Uh Connie, I think you have policy and finance. >> Um yeah, so last week on the 29th of April, we had a finance committee meeting and went through with the uh revised budget and also next year's budget, which Kevin will be covering later in the meeting. And then we also talked talked about the staffing um cuts or the uh what Jeremy just covered, so. And then policy committee, we met last week Wednesday, also. And um we went through a bunch of policies that will be covered in later in the meeting and most of them are I think all of them are due to um statute updates, so that'll be covered later in the meeting, too. >> Any questions for Connie? All right. Thank you, Connie. Uh Pete, you have a Pete >> Uh yes, uh met uh Let's see. >> week, I believe. Don't have Don't have the date on there. It was the, uh, last, uh, meeting of the year, I believe. Um, main item on the agenda, again, was to talk about rates and fee increases, um, for the next 2 years. Um, you might remember 2 years ago we decided to review it every 2 years cuz I think it was like 13 or 14 years since we had even touched any of the rates. So, uh, as we know, things have changed. A couple things that I found out was just, uh, increases in in, uh, the transportation costs, um, the officials, um, we had baseball alone had an 18% increase in official costs. So, just, uh, each official gets 110 per game right now, three officials. So, I mean, we're at $330 per per game just for, you know, baseball for the season, per game. Um, also, they were looking at putting a, uh, mileage rate, you know, additional mileage rate for anywhere from $30 to $40. Um, that's going into effect. Uh, I believe we pull from two different organizations for for officials, um, and then there's a third, but it's mostly it's mostly two. Um, so, that's something that gets reviewed. Uh, but that's something that is coming down, uh, down the pike. So, um, overall, um, we've decided to go from 200 It's our recommendation from the at the high school level to go from 200 to 250 for the next, uh, 2 years, and then that's an increase $50, and then, uh, $25 from 150 to 175, um, at the middle school. And that'll basically keep us right in line, right in the middle, upper upper echelon of where everybody else is in conference. So, >> As long as they don't change. >> Right. Well, and which is changing. So, I think um we took those numbers into consideration, too, when trying to come up with a number. Um >> And the cap move? >> Yeah. >> They go. >> Yep. So, uh what And then, also, we'll be able to bring in uh the credit card fees, which is something that we weren't charging for for the online events, so um hopefully, we'll be able to um you know, close the gap a little bit. You know that we'll never, you know, make it up, you know, from from scratch on it, but um I think it was fair and justifiable increase, so uh Yeah, so that is going to be what we recommend. Got anything else on that? I know that you we were kind of in there. It has been a long journey to finally get to a decision on that one. >> What will those be for the 2026-2027 school year? >> 2029 school year, yeah. >> And then, it was also >> You just skated out. >> Your activities are right, too, like the musicals and the those things increased a little. >> So, you um we did not actually I don't believe we're going to raise anything for the fine arts. So, it's just sporting activities. >> Okay. >> Yeah, we left those alone. It didn't affect both the high school and the middle school. >> Yeah. I think they they didn't Yeah, the fine arts did go up, but not for the reduced. >> Okay, that's right. >> the middle school >> Like that was like 20 bucks or something. >> Yeah. Yeah, 20 25. >> Reduced and free did not change, and then they didn't change for the any of the middle school for that. Um I don't know. I don't think they changed at all, except for the high school 9 through 12 reduced and free lunch. >> Okay. >> So, what are you talking about? They're going up 2 years, right? This is like 2-year plan, so that'll be a So, we could say that for the 27-28, 28-29 school year for the next rate. So, that 250 is kind of a >> Yeah. Yeah. So, 26-27, 27-28. >> Was there any talk about maybe 25 next year and then 25 again or is it just a Well, progressively just look at it as a family, right? 50 bucks is >> Yeah. We looked at doing it a couple of different ways. There's there are districts that charge different per sport. >> Mhm. >> Um we weren't big fans of that and um >> I agree. >> Uh so, we we just figured based on where everybody was at, you know, we obviously didn't want to just raise to raise, but um we thought that that was a good spot to to put us going forward. And again, we haven't been looking at this for, you know, historically for the last whatever. So, I think now that we're staying on top of it, we'll be able to, you know, know where everybody else is at. >> Did you ask him why isn't it going up 25 when you >> Well, I was just saying no, not so you can question, but it was more of a gradual increase, like incremental one year than another. You know, or then you can just have it like a progressive, like it's just going to go up $10 a year. What I mean, I just those conversations just kind of put it out there again. >> Yeah. I I and I think I think those were talked about as well. Um we just we because we made the change, we decided to leave it at every 2 years, but definitely things are going to change, you know, the uh officiating is going to keep going up, transportation's going to start going up. >> For sure. >> I think they did a 190 different trips, they said, in fall and winter. It was almost an $8,000 increase just just in that range is what Dave Doll has saw. Um that I don't anticipate any of those costs coming down. >> No. >> Unless they redistrict the season. Just go back to playing your neighbors. You're not going to taking those long trips. >> Right. >> All right. >> Thank you, Pete. Corey I have you for curriculum. You actually just met this before this meeting. Had about three different topics to talk about. The first one was just kind of an update on the read act and we're going through. One thing is I talked about the updated screens that will be used moving forward such as fast bridge for your intermediate schools children and the cap deep for more of the reading pieces. That's kind of more of that little later intermediate middle school high school students. I talked about letters training. You heard a lot about that in the last two years. So a few teachers that just need to finish so I talked about that and then there's this new strive training that's coming up from MDE that are going to be this year vectors going to focus on the 6-12 English language art teachers that will make sure that they can take that so so they are involved in the the same boat talking the same language as they move forward. We then the talk about kind of more of the one I spent a lot of time on was our curriculum review. So they we approved tonight a new social emotional learning platform for all the buildings. There's a K-12 they're going to K-2 building and intermediate buildings can use the character strong program as kind of their main one and then 3 through 12 is going to be going to a way finder so getting away from character strong in that area which is kind of a they're all staff that have gone through that is pretty excited about that. They also talked about social studies also to new requirements standards to go and they needed to kind of find different curriculums. There's a lot of different curriculums it's kind of crazy but I like what all social studies is it's not a not a build upon you don't you kind of can pick and choose and so they really did a really good job the teachers did in setting down and trying to pick out which ones they thought was best for their grade level and they have kind of that so we approved our recommendations so and this is no be leading forward and making those purchase orders as we go forward. Um there will be information if you're interested on the programs that they did select. There'll be a link on uh the district website under curriculum advisory, so you could go and look at those and see kind of the rationale and the description. So, the description a little brief description of what the program is and then a rationale why they chose that. And then lastly is just kind of a plug to continue to get more members. Um it is out there as well on the curriculum advisory link in the on the district website. We are always looking for community members. You can have up to five of those, some parents to be there. I think that's three of those and then one PTSA member who uh is far as outside of the district. So, if you know of anybody, encourage them to be a part of it. >> Well, can I add one thing? I don't know if it came up in your meeting or not, but a number of those talked about budget cuts in my presentation, but a number of those things that you just listed are requirements that have increased costs. And social studies is one of them, too, because we have double up next year of social studies in two grade levels. I have to teach the same >> History, yeah. Well, we're doing the same thing with >> So, to now it's like we got to buy more materials for two two classes, but only for 1 year. So, we can't we don't have to use them the year after and and things like that. And then you go back to some of the required assessments and and things like that that are all part of the Read Act or other mandates. I mean, it This is my kind of my soapbox, I guess, but like it is it does a little frustrating when we don't >> just the sheer cost and it's like I mean, we let $7 a kid to take a FastBridge test. And it's like >> that we have to take. >> to take it. It's like >> It used to be I think it's $11 now, but it used to maybe be seven. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. But when they find out you have to take it, often the price goes up and it it gets a little frustrating from Kevin's chair and my chair when I'm sitting next to Kevin in that chair. >> Yeah. >> We talked to him and I have been mad about before Carla, and I about some of those things too but more maintenance less money. >> Yeah, you you Aaron's talked about that quite a bit a lot of maintenance out of state and they don't give you always the funds for or they do for a limited time. >> But I'm really happy with the selections that team has made too. >> Yeah, it's one of the way they put a lot of effort into picking ones that are going to work for them. >> All right, Carla did a great job negotiating to get those prices even lower. >> Yeah. >> Thank you. And then I just have a quick update on the co-op. We met last Thursday for our final meeting of the year. Talked about staffing and hiring for next year. Um a brief overview of how so they moved most of their I should say a lot of their programs into one building over in Monticello and just how nice that has been to be able to administer administrate that within the same building instead of having your programs all broke up and everything. Um spent the bulk of the time talking about staffing and what that looks like for next year and the needs that we need for um staff development within the co-op and things like that and what that's going to look like throughout the summer rolling into next year. So >> Yep. >> Any other committee reports? All right. Brings us item to item number three, the consent agenda. Entertain a motion for that. >> Sure, I'll make a motion to accept the consent agenda. >> I'll move to approve this. >> I'll second. >> We have a motion and a second to accept the consent agenda as written before us. Any questions or discussions? All those in favor signify by saying I. I. All opposed? Motion carries. Brings us to item number four, resolutions for accepting donations. >> Can I call her or what? Can you still hear us, Renee? >> Yes. I. >> Right. So, which one? No. >> I. >> I think what she said was >> Yes. >> All right. >> Item number four. >> Having a motion in a second. Are there any further questions or discussions on the resolution for accepting donations? >> I think to all of them. Those that are in >> All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> I. >> Those opposed? Motion carries. Item number five, activity fees. This is what Pete was speaking to. Having a motion in a second. Are there any further questions or discussions about activity fees for 2026-2027 school year? >> The activity still committee did a really good job. It's just be fair. That's something we look at as a community member. Yes, it's going up, but it was with a lot of hard thought. A lot of >> Well, this was >> words in your mouth. >> This was probably the longest decision you guys have had in years. >> It was never an easy decision to charge anymore. So, yeah. >> One of the One of the you know, difficult areas was was what's the target, you know? It was It's hard to hit something when you You know you have to raise it, but so a lot of time went into, okay, what's a reasonable >> I appreciate that. I think the community appreciates that. So, thank you. >> Right. I Everything associated with it goes up. Right. >> Yep. Yep. >> All right. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> I. All opposed. Motion carries. Brings us to item number six, policy review updates. >> Can anyone speak to that? >> Yeah, there's uh there's a lot of them. I don't know if you want me to go through all of them. Um but you can see what what is changed on there. Policy 306, they changed the entire code of ethics to to update it to the Minnesota code of ethics. Um 414, just some statute updates like Connie had talked about earlier. Uh 418, if you get a temporary license suit if we had a festival or something like that on our campus like Freedom Days, um you can serve alcohol um on campus for those types of things. Um so that opens that up, but uh school weapons, make sure that was just update to MDE requirement, reporting dangerous weapons incidents. Uh 516, just changed some words around from auto injector to delivery system. Um 516.5, we talked about that one for a little while about um Narcan and other overdose medication, uh not allowing students. So there was a optional piece to add in there about 9th through 12th grade, allowing them students to um provide overdose medication, but we our SROs have it, our police officers in our community and county have it. The nurses all have it. Um and so we just didn't we haven't had that issue. Um and we don't know if students know when somebody's overdosing or not, so we just didn't know what to to put in there. So we're going to leave it the way it is. If somebody gives overdose medication, saves somebody's life, then that's great that they had that available, but uh internet internet acceptable use was no changes. Um Policy 602 was adding the Labor Day start, Which we only did with our calendar. Um so that was where we were behind on that one. Um read act was a change to statute. Transportation, um there were some changes to students with disabilities in there. And then 709 was um some dates that were removed and then 802 was talking about surplus books um and how to uh what to do with those when when you're done with them or have extra of those. They're very minimal. That just aligns us with MSBA's. on here. >> These are ones that didn't need a second reading. >> Correct. Yes, sorry. >> Any questions on those? Okay. We'll move on to item number seven. Second readings. These are now the ones that needed. >> Yeah, and these are the same as last month except 503. Um we we noticed one mis- minor change in there, a mistake or whatever. Um the word shall was on there instead of may. Um so we changed that to may. It was in regards to a student who had a certain number of absences we were we are allowed to change their grade one letter grade um talked about in there. Um but getting some feedback from staff members and and things they said keep that open if possible cuz it says uh shall remove it when you hit I don't know what I can't think it was 12 of chronic excused absences. And then we changed it to may so they may still do that cuz it dep- everyone has a different circumstance and and things and it gives our staff flexibility on that. And then the other two were I didn't hear anything on. >> I recommend approving. >> Entertain a motion. >> I'll make a motion that we approve to update both policies. >> Having a motion and a second to approve the second readings listed below us. Any further questions or discussions? All in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> I. >> All opposed? Motion carries. To the highlight of the night. Number eight, revised budget. How well did we do, Kevin? >> Say the walk up. Um So, the item number eight is the revising of the current year's budget. Uh once we have new things, remember you set this budget last May. Uh so, we had negotiations that went on. We, you know, other things that happened during the year. Uh so, we revise it to the new amounts. Um the top portion is the general fund. Um you'll see we have revenues of 43,580. Expenditures of 44 uh million 257. So, we actually have a decrease of 687. Most of that is in the reserves of the uh operating capital and long-term facilities maintenance. Those are the next two items. You'll see there's a variance. We actually are spending down our operating capital by 231, which we knew of. Um and then the long-term facilities maintenance, which we also knew we were going to spend that down. Um then you have a bunch of restrictions. Uh There These are just restrictions that the state requires us to put out there. American Indian Aid, uh the literacy aids, uh scholarships, the student activities, the site building activity uh reserves. So, those are like your field trips and and all that fundraising that they do. Yelm School uh and then the non-spendable fund balances, which is really the uh prepaids that you set up at the end of the year. You can't spend them because you they're going to get spent the next fiscal year. Uh So, really then the general fund unassigned balance, which is really the the 8% uh that the policy is relates to. Um there you'll see pretty much break even uh 32,000. And again, these are still estimates cuz we're not through the end of the year yet. We'll be in a Oh, no. Um or in or in August come in September. Uh but projected right now, it'd be then that far right number there that 9.15% is where the fund balance would be at. Then the next fund is a food service fund. And through that, there's also a planned reduction of 299,000. Um it's putting together the last uh the freezers that we were doing when we moved the food service programs out to each of the sites. And again, the fund balance there does have a restricted maximum that can go to. Um they did extend it one more year to go to 6 months operate uh expenditures. Then after next year, it's going to go back down to 3 months. And we'll be within that by the end of this year. Uh then you have the community service funds, and in there, there's three different areas. Um the reserve for community ed, which is really the recreation, your general um community ed. Uh and also your like your classes that are put out uh that people can can go go to. And then the other two areas, it's the ECFE and then the school readiness, which is the uh the um preschool. The camp op also is in that community ed top portion. Um they're and again, I'm still kind of putting out there um the maximum that I think it's going to be uh the the community ed is probably going to be okay. It probably won't even go down 19,000. I have been meeting with the director who wants some She's on board to where she needs to be. Um the school readiness part, that's the part where the state continues to fund the ECFE portion. They they keep increasing that state aid, but they don't really increase the the preschool uh aid. Uh they really should be looking at it the other way around and giving the increases more to the school readiness and not the ECFE cuz the ECFE, as you can see, is plenty of fund balance. Um and school readiness is always struggling. And that's not just us. Um all four districts I've been in it looks like the preschool is struggling to to their budgets. Um then the building construction fund, so that's the money that's still left over to complete the the roof uh the last of the high school roof here, and in this fund it it will spend it down. Um if this is really what expenditures we've already had last July and August, September, and then it'll be June's expenditures. And then in the next presentation, it'll spend it down in July and August and and be done. Uh and the debt service fund is the uh on that collects the property taxes to repay the principal and interest on our bonds that we own. Questions there? Anything? The spend downs are now So, there were you know, shocks that we were So, and you'll even see in the the long-term facilities maintenance up above that 900,000, that will actually go down the next year because the funding that we had, the reason why we saved up some of our long-term facilities was because the amount that to do and finish the roof, we knew we weren't going to have enough in the building construction fund. So, the long-term facility maintenance going to pay the rest of it. >> I'll make motion to accept the revised budget for 25.6. >> I'll second that. >> All right. >> Okay, so then the next sheet is for 26-27, next year's budget. Um and in here you'll see also there's a variance up on the top for the total general fund. But then go down to the capital reserves and you'll see that's where most That's where all of that spending is coming down and that's mainly again, like I mentioned, it's the remaining part of the roofing contract that we didn't have enough in the bond to finish it all. Like that. And that's why we saved up on the long-term facilities maintenance to cover that cost. So Uh then you'll see again it it's all those other reserves um or restrictions and assigned fund balances. Um this one this one's a little bit harder to, you know, lots of estimates go into this thing. It's pretty much a wash uh for the expenditures for the unassigned again that 8% fund balance that we're looking at. Yeah, so 19,055 hundred. Exactly. It's going to be either maybe a little bit more, a little less. Uh but again, the fund balance is still 9.02% so we'll still be meeting our 8% policy. Um then the fund food service, you can see there uh we we come down a little bit more, 672 and that actually does get us to that three months worth of below the three months because by the June 30th, 2027, that's when we have to be down to that only you can only have three months worth of They don't take it. No, they don't take it. What they would do is they would say, "Okay, give us a plan of how you're going to reduce that within 2 years. So. So, not taking the money away from you, but they do ask for a plan for what you're going to do. The two. Bring that. Um and the community ed one on this one, this one's a little bit harder. I went real conservative on this and not having a full year yet being the current year that we're in 25-26. So, I went real conservative on the community ed until I know what this year finishes up, then next year I can revise this close to what I know what this year is. So, I went real conservative on this and I do know that there's already about 30,000 that would be out of that 57,000 reduction that I have in here. We're not wanted to be the conservative and put it in there. Yeah. And then the as you can see that reserve for ECFE, yeah, it does continue to grow and that's again because the state over funds that. Um the the school readiness, um that's as it is right now and then I believe the community ed director is also looking at that because if they do have any teacher reductions in there, they have to follow the same timelines. You know, for notices to teachers. So, she's looking at that now and and there is any, she'll give it to Jeremy to come to you on. >> Well, they don't Well, they don't have to 15 They don't have to yet because they don't need the license yet, but once they have their license is required. So, I think 2 years. >> Is it 2 years if they have to have >> So, once they have their license required cuz the definition that 122A.40 has is it's teacher, yeah. They're not considered a teacher without cuz they're not required a license to do their their job at this point. So >> Okay. >> So they have I think they have in our contract, I think it's to August 15th or first or something. >> Okay. >> Well, it just know that there might be some reduction there too or cuz she is looking at the Um and then you'll see the building construction fund it might get that will be done you know by August. So that will be all spent next year. It goes to zero. And then the debt service fund again is just it's it's the levy portion is the revenues and then the expenditures the principal and interest that we pay off on the bonds. So that's series one. Questions? It's not that exciting. >> No. >> No. >> Same every year. >> You know. >> I want to stay in the black. That's all. >> But it is needed. Yeah. Yeah, it's exciting that it's in the black. >> That's not a bad thing to go through. >> Not a bad thing. >> Okay. Kevin, real quick for take the 8% number. So the 9.027 that comes from the from the the uh >> That's taken on the 3,627. >> Yep, divided by the >> Divided by the 40,179. In the expenditures. Under the general fund on the side. >> So just so public knows that >> Yep, it's the 3,627 divided by that. And again, remember, you know, the 9% is what? Mhm. >> On ish. Month and a half, maybe of expenditures. Well, it's not a lot. I mean, I know it's a big number, the 3,600, but it's really not. >> How does that compare? I'm assuming you must have copy with other >> Oh yes. There he is. I'll share with those. >> We are on the low end. The majority of districts that I know and I talked to, they're between 12 and 20%. But we're meeting the policy, that's a good thing. >> We're meeting the policy. There was years we didn't. Entertain a motion to accept 2026-2027 budget. >> I'll make a motion to accept the 2026-2027 budget from one of us. >> Having a motion and a second, is there any further discussions or questions? All those in favor will signify by saying eyes. >> Aye. >> Aye. >> All opposed? Motion carries. That brings us to item number 10. This meeting is adjourned. Charlie, enjoy the next couple weeks.