[Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] 2025 at 6 PM we are at the District Service Center in Cottage Grove, Minnesota. We would like to acknowledge that the land in which we gather is the land of the Midwakatan Dakota people. Mawakington means dwellers of the spirit lake. >> First item on the agenda is our roll call. Dana >> Louise Hines >> here. >> Ryan Clark >> here. >> Sharon >> here >> here. >> Melinda Dolnik is absent. Katie Schwarz >> here. 2.0 pledge of allegiance. Please stand als one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> 3.0 is approval of the agenda. Can I get a motion to approve an amended agenda adding 7.6 the 202526 school calendar? >> So move. >> Second. Moved by Sharon, second by Luis. Any comments? All those in favor? I. >> Any opposed? Motion passes. 4.0 would be comments to the board. We did not have any this evening. >> We do. >> I don't have it. considered routine and non-controversial by the school board and will be approved by a single motion. There will be no separate discussion of these items prior to this meeting. Board members have had the opportunity to review each of these items and may request that any item be moved to an action item for individual consideration. That did not happen this evening. So, can I get a motion to approve? >> Move. Second. Motion by Sharon, seconded by Eric. All those in favor. >> Any opposed? Motion passes. 6.0 information items. We do have one this evening and that is 6.1 and that is a financial update and that will be presented by Chris Blackburn, director of business services. I thought about walking slow because you're going to see a lot of me this evening, but here I am. So, good evening, Chair Schwarz, members of the board, and Superintendent Neielsen. Each month, the board is presented with updates concerning the school district's financial condition, and tonight's presentation will center on the 2025 legislative session and federal funds we receive like I'm peeking just making sure if the slides were coming. Um, to start with, I'll start with the state legislative session. So the regular session ended on May 19th and there was no action taken on a number of bills including the K12 education um funding and policy bill. Special session was convened on June 9th at which time they did pass um a significant amount of legislation including that K a combined policy and funding bill for K12 education. The highlights on tonight then is really the key funding outcomes that have impact to our district. So the first one that I'll discuss is the basic formula. Um, and we receive a significant amount of our funding as you know that that's the unrestricted per pupil aid that we receive. There's no change in the inflationary factor though it was discussed significantly. Oh, Sean pointed out that I have the clicker. This seems dangerous perhaps. All right, now I'm rolling. But there was no change. So on this slide is the basic formula is that first bullet and again there was no chan…