001The flag is there. >> Call this meeting to order. I'll rise for the pledge. >> I pledge algiance 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. part of our meeting. We will also read the district mission statement in part partnership with the communities of the the mission of the D and Felton school district is to educate individuals in an environment of trust and respect so they become self-directed responsible lifelong learners. We have um Angela, Nicole, Micah, Laura, and Troy. Uh David will be joining us shortly who's got another meeting. Then we have Shannon and Brooke >> and Sarah from the lake. >> Wonderful. All right. Um, so do we have a motion to adopt the
002agenda or is there any changes to the agenda? >> Uh, there's no changes to the agenda you have in front of you, but we did have to make some changes here during the week. And the one change was that letter to the commissioner that is now going to be an action item uh asking for that money transfer that I think I shared with you guys on Friday in my weekly update. Um so we did add that today after my visits with Gary Lee from MSBA. So that is not on your agenda but it's different from what we sent out week ago. Okay. >> All right. Can I get a motion to adopt the agenda? Motion by Laura Troy on a second. We got a motion and a second. All those in favor say I. I.
003>> All those opposed. Motion passes. All right. Um any public comments? Okay. None. Uh rebel recognition. >> Yeah, a couple things. Uh Ryland Kudson, congratulations to him. He ended up getting third place in speech, state speech, I should say. So, congratulations to him. And then also we have some art winners uh Minnesota State High School League art winners uh that Carrie Kinsler shared. There's a list of them here. So I'll just pass it around. There's some that got superior awards and excellence awards. So yeah, congratulations to them. And so I'll just pass it on because I don't know if you guys got the car. So >> I also saw that um we had some kids in honor band um recognized five middle schoolers. I believe it was >> um name while you're doing that um
004a huge congratulations to all the kids who are competing or have completed NCA and the teachers who are home support through them. I know it took a lot of energy and coordination to get all that tested and underway. fast with this one. Super savvy, but there were lots of kids involved in that and it was great to see. >> All right, hearing none, we'll move on to 6 uh one special education report. We got Sarah here. Hi >> Sarah. Normally we have the podium over there because of this computer setup. We'll just if you I have a presentation tonight too and I'm going to just go stand there because we needed this for the computer. So I apologize. >> Oh no. I'm Sarah and this is a special interm. So it's been an interesting and
005fun transition. in front of you. I did give you guys a handout just for a set overview picture wise. Um so we'll just I'll just start in the top and then just go straight down. So right now in ECSE, so early childhood special education, part B and part C, we have 33 students receiving services. Elementary school, we have 124 students receiving special ed services. Middle school, there's 89 students receiving special ed services. And then in high school, there is 51 students. So altogether we have 297 students at TGF that receive special ed services with us. This is anywhere between just speech. We have case managers that working academic behaviors, functional life skills, anything in between where there support. And then with a education cooperative programs, how well versed are you guys in our programs? Can
006we review them? >> You guys might be perfect. So, our elementary inter agency is a half day program for K through six and we support students that need a little extra support in behavioral regulation and emotional social emotional learning, mental health. Um, we have a referral process that then they're accepted into our program. We have a morning group for like our upper elementaryaries and our afternoon group is our lower elementaryaries. It depends on the year if those timings are right. Um right now we're seeing about six kids are going to be in our elementary and our ABC program starting out next year. Our um acceptance referrals are open throughout the year. This is just what we're going to start next year. High school agency is a little different. It's a full day program. So but
007again it focuses on our social emotional mental health um those needs. Um we do attend classes. We have special ed teachers there. We have social workers, school psychologists, Lakeland mental health partners with us. And so we have four DJ students currently in our high school learning program. Our last is our glacial ridge program and that is our functional life skills program. It is 7th grade to 22 years old but DGF you guys have the capability capacity to support your kids um at this time through um 12th grade. So we have students that come to our program after they quote unquote graduate here and then they do their transitional skills with us. So we're going to have three of your students in that program next year. >> Questions while we go on. So there was a
008gap between K through six and elementary and then high school. I'm assuming high school. >> Oh yes. Acceptance. Yep. >> How long does it take from referral to acceptance into those um inter agency or yeah agency? Great question. Depends on how much criteria is met. So we have criteria um that all case managers are aware of that and we're aware of um so I'm just being off the top of my head. Students need to have a goal in the social emotional area. Um they need to have service minutes to support that goal. They need to have um a behavior support plan that has been updated at least within the year. So some of those pieces have not been hit and there's more criteria, but some of those pieces may not they maybe are missed. We
009might say, "Hey, we need to go back and we need to work on this before we're able to accept you into the program." >> Sure. >> Um so try to support them at the school first. Absolutely. And then if that restricts them 100% meet their requirements or their support then they can go into >> agency. Exactly. Yeah. Our case managers work tirelessly and I know I think some of them are here um to support students like at our districts first and if there's you know they need a little bit more support then we would potentially consider referrals to our programs. >> Sorry. >> Yeah. No totally. So, we're at a total district of 197 kids um in the specialized >> 200. So, the district, right? >> Yep. >> Is that a normal like that seems
010high for a school district? Is that >> last year? We're at 261. >> I don't think um ECS was included in that number last year. >> Uh that was 34. >> 34 26 261 and then there was 34. >> You know, I think our case managers can probably attest we've had a lot of referrals. currently. But I will note that the 124 in the elementary um a lot of times we have students that need speech at the elementary level that will get dismissed by them. So that's sort of sort of the uptick isn't that much higher. Not crazy, but >> I I will say I want to say and and maybe you guys you can maybe help too or um a couple years ago it was I think it was Marian's last year. I thought
011we had 305 or something. Wasn't it just over 300? >> We had a big number that we had. Yeah. >> Yeah. So, this is down a little but not down a little. And I would say this is kind of where we've been >> overall. You know, we have some big grades that has some huge amount of students and we have some that are way smaller. So, >> based on school districts, yeah, based on school district typically in like off the top of my head, typically um I think the state averages between 16 to 18% of students receive specialized services. And I think we're right around that 18% is where we're at. >> Good questions. And then again, I don't know how much everybody's aware of special education, but there's just a table of um supports
012that we have in place through at DGF and through a um to support special education programming in the district. So we have early childhood social teachers, school psychologists, um physical therapy teachers, vision teachers, um deaf and heart of hearing, um we have specialized teachers here that support our students. Um yeah, any questions with any of those positions colleges. And then last um is we're looking ahead. So we're shifting staffing as student needs change. So as we see numbers fluctuating, student needs change. Um the three are the big areas that next year we'll see is we added a um another 5.5 early childhood special ed teacher to support DGF programming because our numbers are a little high um for one teacher to cover all those needs. And then with that we're also have that um individual
013support kindergarten. So they're going to be half pretty much like about like.5 kindergarten early childhood to help alleviate some of that support. And they're also adding a school psychologist to support some social emotional um service delivery through um IEPs and they will also um coordinate the K through four initial special ed referrals. So that will take one thing off of our case managers which will hopefully be helpful. And then lastly I specialed teacher middle school high numbers. >> Just so everybody knows all of these things that Sarah just talked about was a part of our presentation instead with our budget cuts and adjustments. These were already all figured in there. So if you remember, special ed budget was going to be up a little and that included these >> and they'll be housed at the
014their respected um buildings here. So early childhood um special ed will be employed by Lake Dy but be full time here at DGF. Got um the school psychologist employed by Lake Ay fulltime here at DGF and then the middle school case is employed by DJF at DJ as well. Gotcha. Thank you. >> Yeah. So it helps with our achievement testing. So when we do special education evaluations, we have to do achievement testing and some of our criteria. Um so they help with some of that. So it's the KTA and they'll help with observations too procedures question. uh coming over here to two um with some of our spent teachers that have been with us and then transfer over to the lake agency. Um still part of the community else here. Has their roles changed? They
015were expected to thinking they would be here three two whatever days of the week. Is that still pretty consistent or is that really shifting to now they're sitting more at holiday? >> I you know the time commitment hasn't changed so like I guess staffing has but um like we haven't drastically changed the kind of supports that you're receiving. >> I was just curious from if the numbers are still the same. >> Yep. >> Are they still here or are they elsewhere because we are higher there or >> Yeah. No, I think I mean Like I said, the amount of time DJF is getting is similar, but not necessarily needing the person delivering those services. >> And I would say there's been a little change there, Micah, with some of them. There's been conversations throughout that
016whole process with our admin team and with like APC who's kind of that process and if this change is good or bad or what's best and I so you know I know there's been some flexibility like point two or >> a shifting point two of somebody's position to somewhere else. There's been a little bit of that but hasn't been a long >> and that's the thing with special education. We sort of flow with the need >> for sure. So, you know, we have, you know, right now we have a big need at the middle school. So, we're simple with that, you know, just sort of going with them. >> So, just to make sure understanding your ask. So, two years ago, they were housed and fulltime went to co-op. So, they became like a employees.
017>> Yeah. So, those that became like a employees, your question is of those employees, are they still doing that work at DGF or is they ask that they are now supporting other schools like as a promise that still as you know they would still be predominantly teachers but >> I'm just wondering that still same or there and yet things change if they're being pulled elsewhere you want to solve some services here >> yeah and I I'll just answer from so you can jump u I would say we have a lot of at all, but there has been some little tweaks with some of those people. I know for the most part, and you can correct me if I'm wrong, for the most part, those people are in the same spots with a couple exceptions, I
018would say. >> It's not exact. I know that for sure. >> Just curious as a whole. >> I got one question. I'm not sure you probably be able to answer here, but I'm going to ask. So, look at I'm just looking around from last last year when you guys were here and talked or whatever. And one of the things I wrote down was from the 2023 to 2024 school year. We we gained an additional $120,000 in funding. Did we gain anything from last year to this year in funding in money we got back from from the state services? >> Uh well, if you remember, and I can't remember the date, no, Marcus isn't here either. We got another check for 149,000 from that number during this school year because they clean up afterwards. We won't
019know this year until probably into next year just because it's always behind uh because we got to get all the reports in at the end of the year and then we get the reimbursement. But not last year at this time whatever. >> So if it was 127 that could have been the check. I I don't know that for sure. I'd have to go back and look at that choice. I know that during this year we got as they closed out their books and their audit we got 147 was thousand was the check from them afterwards plus the savings on personnel obviously but yeah >> Marcus talked about that his last big update. >> Any other questions? Thank you Sarah. board committee reports. Um we have the district leadership team. >> Uh so last uh two
020minutes ago I think it was right after the last board meeting. So was they had uh we had both the middle school middle school in there. Ken talked and then uh both Jason and Katie came in and talked about the activities. Uh just kind of went went through of of where they're at where they're at this this year on with supporting staff. uh a little different this year with not having Katie around the middle school uh as the assistant or assistant principal. Um talked about the the readax um student council engagement uh from Kent to the middle school. One thing I thought was very interesting is he went in into the middle school student council meeting and talk to the kids about hey what can we what can I help you guys with? What what
021do we need to do? And one of the things that was brought up was just teachers in the hallway and they wanted to see more of that and it was a quick fix that yep no problem and they they got it done just like that and it was something interesting that you know going back to the the students asked for something uh it was something simple and took care of it. So it's interesting to hear that that got done. Uh another thing uh Miss Lower talked about Kayla talked about the kindness card program that they're doing. um worked with Landon Landon's life this last year and did four different events. Uh birthday in a box. Uh there's some QC hope volunteering a kindness card and then delivering stuffed animals to uh the hospital patients. So
022from the kids so it was good to get them involved and see that class that tied to uh last uh activities activities just went through all the spring programs. I mean with with everything changing with the weather that we even see today but good good numbers in all our spring spring activities and yeah we're switching to a new uh new system to register uh this next year it'll be the bound system so beginning July 1 uh the district will be using that which will manage activity registration scheduling ticketing payments rosters staff so and we still be using using Huddle uh which will be working through YouTube So that does not change. >> Yeah. The one thing I'll add they're switching to bound. It's like why are we switching to B? Well, our schools today got
023bought out for a bigger company. They're making some changes and so then it was a conference decision too. Like what are we doing? The state is in a let's say it this way in a state of flux trying to figure out because our schools today was kind of a statewide program that everybody used as an activity director. They got bought out and tweaked it. So they're going to try this bottom one out. They seem to be happy with what it's it looks like preliminarily anyway. So hopefully that for parents too registration. >> Uh yeah. So there's I mean we have there's the freshman class seems to be the biggest that show up but you still have you have representative from every representatives from every grade and I'd say probably I mean also in addition with
024with parents uh that are part of it so I just got on in Janu in January so >> there's some different Florida from when you were on Yep. There's some the same some that are different. Dallas, I don't think, was on that when you were there. Okay. Yeah. Um, yeah, there was a I think the start this year there was maybe two or three new that weren't on it before because some that said, "Hey, I can't attend anymore." And then that's going into next year. That's what our last meeting may be about, too, is we need to get a new batch of freshmen and then ask the current kids, "Do you want to stay on? Do you want to get off?" There's been a lot of discussion about um you know you get students uh
025recommended and they're usually the high flyers if you will. It's like you know be kind of nice to get kind of a mix of kids and so uh that's something we're going to discuss as well. I'm going to be using but they do come. It's been very well attended by our students which is interesting to see at 7 a.m. for the kids show up for this. So >> yeah it's been good. would you say? >> Sure. Uh, yeah. Well, and I'm curious. So, Troy, I don't know this either. They're just getting into it. >> But the bound is the ticketing, too, I think. Yeah. Everything, which is >> Okay, I'll say nice because it's going to be all bound and hopefully it stays that way for a while. Yeah, I believe Katie had mentioned that
026there was one school who had already worked through it or maybe was the test school and seemed I feel like yeah or they had worked maybe on the back end of it in a virtual setting or something but she seemed cautiously optimistic idea but yeah it was an all-incclusive >> situation. All right, any other questions? All right. Then uh we have policy committee. We met um last time and we talked predominantly about the AI platform and the questions and things that were going to come with that. Um and our recommendation was to hold off until we had some additional information uh because um Angel correct me if I was wrong. Uh there was a lot of pieces in there that were unknowns that we weren't sure if our school was doing if our school was
027going to be following these processes or these procedures or if we were going to be able to follow through with some of what was in the recommended policy. Uh we as a committee felt that it was more prudent for us to follow uh a policy to its total uh versus adopting something just to say we have something on the books. Um, so John uh was working very diligently with other directors and things across the state to try to determine if this was the best fit or what he needed to tweak uh because the state had largely said this is a starting point. Every district is going to look a little different. How we use technology, how we incorporate those are going to be different. So anyways, that is still a work in progress. Um then
028we went over the rest of the policies um which were largely just minor tweaks um maybe statute change a slightly different verbiage but nothing contextual that really made a big difference. >> Yeah. >> I think we did um discuss fully eliminating the sick leave donation policy um but after a lot of really good conversations and some examples we decided it's more possibly. Thank you. Yes, that was the other piece. Any questions for the policy? No. Hearing none. Um 6.3 is superintendent report. >> Okay. I'm going to Yeah. So, this is going to be wonderful for you guys. I think if you guys could cuz I'm going to use a TV. It's just going to be better. And then we're going to share this presentation on our website. Tom's going to take it. So, if you
029guys just want to go sit in the very comfortable seats over there and I will get this up and all um so been working obviously a lot with this. What I'm going to do is I'm just going to take you this presentation talk a little bit of history. I won't spend a ton of time on that. I do have the actual plan too. Uh so this this PowerPoint is basically the new plan uh on a slideshow. Okay. But I do have the written version too. So if you want to get more in depth and read about the wonderful history of of why this came to be, well, you can. So some context. Uh the Morehead School District started in 1873. It merged in 1955 with some of it. So back then it was like townships
030or town, you know, they had their in their little country schools and they start to merge and pretty soon you get a school district, right? And so that's more edge Dworth uh was approved in 1896 serving eight children. It grew rapidly in 1908 and it become a more established district. Uh new boundaries were formed. So this is kind of where that all began is that the third the third section there is Dorth covered a pretty compact one by one square mile with no blessing. So Mor had transportation so they kind of just took on everything else around Dorth and that's kind of how these boundaries were kind of established one time ago. Um and then here's a little bit more history. So in 1978 through 2005 there's been a lot of conversation with Gilworth and
031Morehead. Um Morehead has obviously looked at it. Thanks for asking but at this time we don't feel comfortable making that move and so nothing was nothing came of it. I guess as an example, orchard estates when that started to develop out there in northeast Dorth, that was something they talked about and it was nothing came of uh and during that time period 1994 consolidated with Glenel. So that created a new identity here. The Glendon district came way over into the Morhead district, but Dworth was still just kind of in his little pocket. So that was interesting. uh in 2010 uh Dr. Warner uh his associates and himself came up and did a study uh and through that study they just made a recommendation that maybe hey we should make some changes share some propert and
032let's try to make this more of a community school setting it's a little bit easier with the enrollment and so that was his findings and his recommendation from that study um they had some chatter but nothing really came of it right away until 2015 15 2015 DGF initiated a new boundary discussion with Morhead. You can see there's a task force there on the right that involved more people and obviously DGF staff and representatives as well. Uh they went to work and they did a ton of work and came up with some maps which I'll show you here in just a little bit. Uh Governor Dayton did need to sign a supplemental budget bill authorizing that realignment. Um the nice thing is and I've talked here talked to uh Paul Markort who was a representative at
033this time too and he was a major player in making and developing the legislation that allowed this to happen. One thing I appreciated about and Paul was really proud of it as well was that it was written so that the legislators don't need to get involved after that point. So the school districts have the authority. So if they mutually agree, the land boundary or the boundaries for the school districts can change and you don't need legislators to be involved which makes it a lot easier obviously right um and then July 1st 2016 is when that first parcel transfer took place and that started it um one of the guiding principles or some of the guiding principles in having a land swap moving forward then from that plan 2016 was it needs to be a win-win
034for both districts Uh, and they also wanted to model future city growth and I'll show you some maps and talk a little bit about how that benefits more and how it's going to benefit or the DGM district as well. And then the third thing is it's got to be financially neutral or as much or as close to neutral as possible that so both districts can obviously get together and make an agreement. And so I'll show you kind of where the numbers are today and why this was something uh we both felt needed to happen on. So we have some parcels that still need to be transferred uh in the original plan in 2016. This parcel 1 2 3 and four that I have here on the right, those were parcels three, four, five, and six
035in that original plan. So I'll show you that. Uh we're just counting 1, two, three, four. These are the new ones that need to be not new ones, but these are the ones that still need to be transferred. Clay County auditor, they manage it. So once we come up with an agreement um and if the districts agree on the plan, then we and they have board action, we'll send it to the county auditor and Mark said he they did it Jason just a little bit and he'll get it to the state and then we'll be done. So here's and know I have a pointer on here but it doesn't work on the TV. So interesting. Um so what I try to do is I then I went back to my office and made a little
036circle here. So that little wonky spot there kind of where I have that green circle. The green or the green whatever postage stamp or rectangle um those are the two parcels that that were transferred in 2017. So the plan was done in 16 and the green is what Gilworth got in 2016 and the blue area is what Morehead got and that original uh realignment plan. What still needed to happen or the goal was we have that little pocket there in the middle, the green box again the next year that worked out based on the plan and the taxes and all that. So it could naturally be swapped. So that was awesome. That happened the next year. The problem with from 2017 till today, as you guys know, in your own property values, residential property values
037went through the rut. And this plan was written and established on that residential property values would stay steady and commercial would override an easy swap in a few years. Well, that just threw the whole plan out of whack. So, what needs to be transferred still? Um, so this is parcel one now. This is the old three. Oh, I can you can see me there. So this area right here is parcel number one now in our new plan. Old number three. This is parcel four. Uh, the old four. Now it's two. So this is parcel number two that still needs to be transferred. This is parcel the old five is now three. And then this is right on Highway 10. Um, and this is parcel four, which goes through all six. So, um, our new plan
038shows it as one, two, three, four. There's no confusion. Everybody in Morehead is seeing this exact same slideshow. They're looking at the same maps as us and the same language. So, when we get the document, it's shared. Uh, the language is exactly the same. So, those are so it's kind of an unusual spot uh in deal. Obviously, we've talked about it quite a bit. Uh the next few slides, table one's going to show you estimated impact on the DGF public school. Table two is going to show you more impact. I have a few things highlighted I'll point out when we get to those tables. And then table three is a tax impact. Obviously, this is just like if we go for an operating reference, which we did. What's the tax impact to your house based
039on your values? So, we'll talk about that. Um over on the right, these are just recommendations from the original uh realignment plan is that the final phase completes a decade long collaborative effort to align the district boundaries with the community's growth and future. And so I should go back. If you look at this map right here, the blue uh on the upper left there, that's where Quick Trip came in. And that's kind of across the street from everything already Morehead has. It's there's a U-Haul there. That's County Road 9. That's still kind of weird because it's in the Dorth uh city limits, but it's in the Morhead district. That is something that's not going to change, and I don't see that ever changing. The blue over here, you can see out by Highway 336. Uh
040the airport is on the south side of 94. That was former BGF property, but as you think about, Morehead is expanding out that direction. they already have the other land because that's why I think this plan worked in 2016 because more could they see themselves going out that direction. So it only made sense that hey let's trade something that's adjacent to them and they already have an elementary school out here. They have their middle school out here. So they just figure future growth that makes sense for their future alignment as well. So tax impact stuff. So this is a lot of a lot of information about Ellers puts this all together. I'm going to get to this. So this page which is it goes this is just underneath this. I couldn't fit on one slide
041so I did it like this. But so for the DJF school we're kind of up about $6,000 with the land. Okay. That's just in tax and levy based on current all of this information that comes for school funding. That's what it all kind of breaks down to. Okay. So, what's that say for our taxpayers? So, school property taxes on the sample residents. So, if you look over here, your house is worth 100,000, 200,000, 350,000. Here's what you're going to save annually. So, you're going to see about a DGF uh residents are going to see a savings of about a 5% savings. Okay? Based on again the value of your Okay, this is Moreheads. One thing here in Morehead, you saw that we got a $6,000 gain in our levy and aid from the state. They're
042going to lose about $24,48955. Part of this plan is we do a one-time payment to them for that amount. Um, and so that'll be kind of our our investment into getting this to to go because um, as you can see here, the Morehead taxpayers are going to see about a 1% increase. Uh, we were seeing a 5% decrease. So that's our way of saying, hey, we know you're going to lose some levy and some aid. We'll give you that if we can get this thing to go through. Okay. Um these the next few uh tables talk about tax impact. So if you're a DTF resident right now and your property values fit right in here between 100 and 500,000 that's what you're going to save annually in your taxes. So uh $200,000 home you're going
043to save 39 bucks a year. 300,000 60 and so on. You can kind of see that that's existing property owners. So live in the district, that's what you're going to see for a saving. You can see the commercial and other properties as well. Uh this slide shows what Morehead if the land swap goes through the way it's drawn up. This is the increase they'll see. Remember we talked about they got about a 1%. Um this is kind of a worst case scenario. Ellers thinks that this number maybe could be a touch less by the time this this happens because it'll be July. they've already had more growth because their city growth is in that four and 5%. Uh the average is well over three. So they said, "Well, this is what it is today for
044them. Um so they see that and then this is for the people that live in those areas that still need to be swapped. So they live in Dworth, but they're in the Morehead district. You can see their values of their homes and what they're going to save in taxes if they come over to the DGF district." Um so those uh those residents will see the biggest impact and over savings. Um here's our timeline. So this is the last slide. This is here we are today, April 27th. Uh the Morhead uh school district is seeing the same exact slideshow with Morehead colors. I put it in all colors. That's pretty much the only difference. And the reason is we wanted to make sure the message is exactly the same for both districts. both school boards see
045it and understand it in the same fashion or have questions. That's great. May 26 is another board meeting we have. It's the day after Labor Day. We're hoping that both districts at that time will approve the resolution supporting the transfers. Um Morehead, so Brandon has visited with his governance board before this meeting and they said to take it to the full board. They're in support of it. Uh he's visited with a couple others. He's optimistic that that is something that can happen. Uh obviously he's going to present it tonight which may create some questions. Good. We got a month to answer questions. Uh hopefully give the answers uh that they need um and can move forward. July 15th is a final board action and that's when we would have the the official minutes. So this
046will happen before June 15th, but on May 26th, let's say both districts say, "Yep, let's get it done." Honestly, the 27th is a Wednesday. I'll probably get it all together and I'll get our action items right to mark right away at the county. Brandon said he would do the same thing. Uh county will get it. They'll go to all the information to make sure it gets to the state. So by July 1st, the boundary can be effective and realignment adjustments officially will go through and be in effect. So then in January 27, the tax adjustments will be implemented based on the new boundaries. So questions like, hey, if we go for another referendum, which we've discussed at the previous meeting, uh those people uh in November can vote if this goes through and this plan
047goes through, those people can vote then knowing that they'll be a DGF taxpayer. And uh that's a big part of what we're trying to get to. Obviously, you can see the tax savings for our residents just through this process. And so hopefully those are things that come to fruition. questions. >> I have a question. Sure. >> Can you go back to the eye chart? We have all the numbers where you're going to see the one time I'm curious as to how that $24,000 onetime payment calculation came like how was that decided? >> Um that's through all of this. So it's their levy changes, their eight changes. So one of the things that the Morhead district so if we just do the swap boom right all at one time we give all four portals or they
048give us access to those or whatever they're going to still gain aid for about a year because their growth in their city is going fast or they're going to lose aid. >> Yeah. >> So one one of their motivators for them is they're going to have to levy less because they'll get aid for one more year >> and then after that it'll go away. So that's what's calculated here. So so levy spread across refer market value. Well, they had they just passed a capital project levy. They passed an operating referendum. And if you break down local optional re L transition, these are all oops these are all categories. Levy spread over tax the net tax like capital project levies. After you get through all of those weaves and all the numbers and the impacts, their
049tax and levy overall, their district's going to lose the 2489 on your on year one and then after year one they actually their taxpayers they're not going to see it because the growth of Morhead is going faster than that increase. So this 1% for more and this is the other reason why it's a good time for them do it now and uh in a year from or the year after that their taxpayers it's going to be eaten up and spread out amongst other property or commercial or whatever. Um so that should be it's going to have a minimum impact. So yeah, >> and that's that would be so that's essentially equalization >> pretty much. Yes. Yeah. Thank you. That's >> question. >> Yeah, that was what fund does that >> for us. That's something we're
050going to have to talk about. I I don't know that that's until it comes. We're kind of thinking, okay, how where do we is that general fund? I'm assuming, but that's where Yeah. Well, we can't take it from it'll come from the general. Yeah. You know, you start talking about an investment, right? >> Yeah. That was >> So, we would ultimately gain that $6,000. So, it take us a couple years to recoup that, but then we would also have our own taxpayers voting on DGF situations. >> Yeah. So, if you think about the total, so there's 244 here and our savings was what? There was a little over six. So, it's about 18ish, you know, a little over 18. that would be, you know, the net loss for the district. But the other thing you
051got to remember is this is constantly changing, right? I mean, you add one more house in Dworth or two more houses in Dworth and one in Glendon. Okay, the numbers change by 50 cents, $2, three, you know what I mean? And so this was a snapshot from Ellers on current data on that date. Um, so for example, I talked to others about, hey, if we go for a referendum again, we ask for $500 per student. Uh, it's for 10 years, it has inflation. Um, we want to start talking about what's the impact again? Has it changed any from last year? And they said, well, because they've been helping with this project, too. And then I, you know, as we're talking, I'm saying this all alone. I go, hang on a second. Let's wait. I don't
052need you to do any work on it because if this does happen obviously all the numbers will be different. So let's just put it on box. So they agreed yeah that makes sense. So if this can go through uh obviously those numbers from the past probably be different. I'm not sure I asked this, but uh so you talked about the L for Morhead going away or going starting to go down next next eventually because of their growth, right? Or um No, they're they're pay so so they're taxpayers. So right now, oops, I'm going the wrong way. So this is Morehead right now. They're about a 1% increase. Yeah. >> And then their taxes uh right here on their state aid, right? they're saying I'm sorry eight or whatever it's gonna because of their growth or
053whatever it >> because then equalization so I'm glad you said equalization because the equalization factor because their their net easy for me to say net tax capacity is going up and so it goes up enough where they won't even get state aid anymore. So do we so do we lose I think it's a great but do we think that we'll lose it by adding additional homes or does that have negative effect >> it'll have some effect on us for sure but for us with our aid and stuff it will because we're getting more value right um anytime obviously the good news is we're a property poor district right and it's not like we're taking on Walmart and Costco and it's residential properties um and so when you figure that in the referendum market, they don't
054have the same value as a commercial property. Um, so we have some room, but yeah, our aid will be affected a little bit. Um, >> does that >> but the tradeoff is we're still going to be ahead on our tax dollars for sure and then obviously the voters and just making it I I'll be honest with you, one of the things which was refreshing that um Brandon heard from one of his board members had his governance meeting which had three board members. one just said, "We need to make this community schools." It was more of a philosophy than a dollar thing. It's like, they live right over there. Let's get them in there. We got some property that we're going to expand in the future. We're already expanding. Let's just be done more, you know,
055that more than, hey, we're down, you know, 10 bucks a house or whatever. It was like, no, let's maybe it's time. So, sometimes easy to say, sometimes not. I get it. Numbers still matter, right? So, and I'm sorry, did I cut you off? Angela, did you have another? >> No, I was just wondering if that our loss in state is included in that 24 or >> you know, I didn't get in deep into the weeks um into that. >> Also excited about this opportunity. So, I'm sorry to ask all questions. Just trying to understand more. >> You know, I know we're going to lose a So, let's go down here. Let's see if I can help you out. 14,000. That pointer is not great. Right in here, we're going to be down 14,8. >> Yeah,
056which I knew we know we're going to have some. Our net gain is six. So, we're going to >> Yeah. Yeah. >> That number is in there and already factored. >> Yeah. Again, based on the numbers on that day. Yes, that's so >> that date and time. >> Snapchat. >> Yeah, it is right because it is what it is, right? So, yeah. No, it's great question. So that's that. Um, yeah. So if you guys want to work your way back or if there's question more questions, >> I think something that's interesting about this is a really good conversation, but if we do decide to go forward conversation, you alluded to it could really muddy the water until final decision is made in how we move forward. >> For sure. >> We're going to need to
057talk through like If this if you do not feel really confident on the direction of this vote, we're going to have to make sure that you're super clear on >> Well, here's the good news. It's going to be done in May or not done in May. >> Fine. Oh, and then it'll be >> Yeah. So, if we know that both boards approve it in May 26th, we know it's done. >> Sorry, missed that date. >> Okay. So, so we're not I'm not going to run around until the summer anyway. And we will know, hey, it's going to go through. elders could start working the numbers based because they have all the numbers. Yeah. >> They just don't know which district those numbers are going to be applied to. Right. >> So >> I saw that
058July. >> No, that's okay. Yep. And July one is just the official for the state. >> Got it. >> So they can start making sure that in January they get taxed. >> So Mark to the state by June. >> Yep. And we just put June 15th because Mark said look it's going to take me a couple days a week or whatever to get it organized. We just said that as a but he said it would for sure get to the stating time for the July 1 location and such. Sure. >> Yeah. Yeah. So anyway, uh if other questions come up in the future, please reach out. We have a month now. Like I said, um if uh and I don't know, maybe a Morehead board member might even reach out to you. I don't know.
059Uh if you reach out to them, um that's up to you, too. Um but this is that month now kind of a discussion. So if it comes up to you please you know and if you need something from me please ask I I want to help and support it also. Okay. So yeah. Um next thing on my list is building the grounds interview. So and I I shared some information with you guys on Friday. Yeah I think if I remember now or the week before anyway about that. So Chase's last day is tomorrow. Met with his maintenance staff. His maintenance staff has also worked with the custodians. So Alex will be in charge of the custodians. Uh we've already he's already met with all of them. They know everything that's going to be happening until
060the replacement is is found or hired, I should say. The deadline or the application deadline is this week, the 30th. We're going to let it run its course. Um right now we have a handful of candidates. Uh, so that was positive. Next week, maybe later this week, I'm going to see start lining up those interviews. And then I'm assuming as we hired Mike tomorrow, he gave his his boss a two weeks notice. So, we thought we'd give a little time. So, our mentally in my head is start date would be June 1st. We'll have to see, you know, based on who we offer the job to and what that looks like. But that's kind of our guesstimated start time. Uh, like I've shared before, uh, I had a meeting with Chase a lot about as
061we transition and I talked to Phil over at Holly. They're very open to him coming back and forth to make sure things transition smoothly. Um, so he chased met with him again today because we have some HVAC things that have already been started and talks about them and kind of where's that at. just want to make sure we don't leave anything um open-ended and unaware of it. So, we had great meeting this morning and kind of our plans moving forward. So, again, hopefully by June 1st that's up and running. Um, next thing on my list is Concordia visit. So, Joe and I are going to go over meet with Colin, president of Concordia, and then uh he's in charge of all registration. We've met with him a couple times. We're just working on our partnership
062with them uh with getting student teachers out here, getting students out in our building and helping. Uh I just want to make sure that college kids know education's like, so we invite them out here. They they love that they get to come out here. So we're just having Cody's been very receptive to that. Uh we have a ton of MSUM kids out here, too, student teaching. So we have a great relationship there as well. But um Joe and I were going to meet with him today and that's why I was on here. Uh we had to move it. So we're meeting with them on Wednesday. So just to let you know that we are continuing conversations and hopefully we get our students uh connected there. Yeah. Questions? >> All right. Moving on to 7.1. This
063would be a motion to approve the regular meeting minutes on April 13th, 26. >> David or a second. >> I'll second. >> That was second by Angela. We have a motion and a second. Um, all those in favor say I. >> I. >> All those opposed? Motion passes. Uh 8.1 is our claims and accounts. We've got approve the bills for April 2026 in the amount of $261,745. and to approve the and file for audit the treasurer's monthly budget report and to approve the resignation of our board's recess supervisor effective May 8th 2026 and approve the resignation of Livia West par profofessional effective May 27th 2026 I have a motion >> motion by Troy is there a second >> second by David any questions or discussions any questions or discussions hearing none all those in favor
064Say I. >> I. >> All those opposed. Motion passes. Uh 9.1. This is to approve the following ESY contracts uh for summer of 2026 for Carrie Krebs. Uh $35 an hour up to 36 hours, $25 an hour up to seven hours. Kristen Warren, um $35 per hour up to 36 hours, and $25 an hour up to seven hours. Uh Samantha Brown for 20. Hannah Mer 1990 per hour um up to 36 hours. Stacy Jensen for $208 an hour up to 36 hours. Alicia Gonzalez $28.66 per hour up to 36 hours. And Brandy Overbone $28.86 per hour up to 36 hours. Stephanie Elbert for $216 per hour up to 36 hours and Carrie Johnson $208 per hour up to 36 hours. Do I have a motion? >> Motion by Micah. Is there a second? >> Second
065by Laura. Any questions or discussions? >> Just so you know, uh when you see Carrie Krebs and Kristen War and they got $35 an hour for this and 25, the 25 is their prep time and work time. uh because their contract says when they're with students they get 35 and when they're working staff development prepping it's 25. So that's why there's a difference there if there was a question. >> Any other questions or discussion >> hearing? None. Um all those in favor say I. >> I. Um all those opposed. Motion passes. 9.2. This is to approve the second reading of the following policies. 802 disposition of obsoletes equipment and materials. 805 waste reduction and recycling. 806 crisis management policy. 807 health and safety policy. 901 community education. 902 use of school district facilities and equipment.
066Um 902 use of school district facilities and equipment. Addendum A. 903 visitors to school district buildings and sites. We have a motion. >> Motion by Angela. Is there a second? >> Second by David. Any questions or discussions? Any questions or discussions? Questions or discussions? Hearing none. All those in favor say I. >> All those opposed. Motion passes. 9.3. This is to approve the first and only reading of the following policies. 410 Family and Medical Leave Act 411 uh sick leave donation. 503 Student Attendance. 515 Protection and Privacy of People Records. 530 Immunization Records. uh testing accommodations, modifications and exemptions for IEPs section 504 plans and leap students 701 establishment and adoption of the school district budget and 721 uniform grant guidance policy regarding federal reserve sources. Do I have a motion? >> Motion by Troy.
067Do you have a second? Any questions or discussion? >> Just a couple things. Um, in 503 we are going to follow the handbook and that was something we discussed as a group and just so you know those changes are going to be made in that after tonight. And the other one was the $25,000 for policy 721 with the superintendent. So that'll change that also tonight uh after the approval. So that was something you guys policy recommended. I do want to say and Angela mentioned it in the earlier in the report uh policy committee report is that the 4112 we just had a few things that we thought oh we won't need it anymore because when this was paid leave there's just some lucky circumstances and one came to light I think it was during our
068negotiation with non and so it kind of means like okay let's don't eliminate it because there's some pockets here where still baby come into play so I appreciate that statement and that's kind of why it's And then just like for point of clarification, the student hand the student attendance policy currently has the same policy that's in the handbook. And so instead of having to update both of them, we're just pointing the the policy to the handbook. So the handbook will be one place up. >> It's worth knowing that we handbook. >> Correct. Yeah. >> Yeah. Sure. >> So we don't have to double >> We don't have to double double. >> Yes. >> Yeah. We just want to make sure there's consistency for parents. So, yep. >> Any questions or discussions? Hearing none. All those
069in favor say I. >> I. All those opposed. Motion passes. Uh 9.4 is to approve the donations as presented. All right. We have this one. All right. Uh we are going to um vote to accept the following donations from Landon's light in the amount of $600 uh for DGF Elementary community helper baskets being a resolution. Do we have any questions or discussions with that being >> just a great resource for our school and it's fun. >> Yeah. And I think the kids are getting so much out of it from what I've heard. I don't have a kid that is is directly participating, but I've heard a lot of positive things coming from it. >> Any other questions or discussion? Hearing none. Um, roll call vote. Laura, >> David, >> oh, we did not have a
070motion. Yeah, that's a good point. That you want to go ahead and motion for that? All right. You have a second, David. Thank you. All right. Perfect. Thank you very much. All right. Having a motion in a second, we'll go ahead and do the roll call vote. Laura >> David, >> I motion passes. All right. 9.5. This is to approve the list of certified staff members who have now attained continuing contract status. Do I have a motion? >> Motion by Micah. Is there a second? Second. >> Second by David. Any questions or discussions? Any questions or discussions? Hearing none. Um all those in favor say I. I. >> All those opposed. >> Motion passes. All right. This is a um to approve the noncertified contract for Pete Ralph custodian class 2 step 2 effective April
07116th, 2026. Do I have a motion? Motion by Troy. Is there a second? Second by Laura. Any questions or discussions? Any questions or discussions? Hearing none. All those in favor say I. I. >> All those opposed. Motion passes. 9.7 is to approve the letter requesting permanent fund transfer authority. This is the thing that Shannon had sent out. >> Yeah. So, the letter is in your packet. Um, I was going to send it out to you Friday, but Gary Lee from MSD, the deputy director, thought, "Yeah, let's wait. I want to make sure we hear from NDE on Monday." And so, I had to make a few tweaks to today. Nothing nothing crazy, but didn't want to get it to you on Friday and then, okay, by the way, throw that away later than um so
072um one thing after tonight, if you look through it, I can read it. Maybe should I just read it? Would that be It's not that long. I just want to make sure people understand what we're asking for and that's okay with you. >> Should we get a motion? >> Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah. Yeah. Good point. Yeah. >> All right. Did we get a motion? >> Motion by David. Is there a second? Second by Laura. >> All right. >> Yeah. Sorry. Uh, and this is just as it's this is a little convoluted, so I'm going to read it because I didn't think we were going to have to do this. we were going to be able to just use the new statute 124D which I was working with Senator Kunish Senator on um the and that
073legislation came in 2023 um which said you have more freedom to spend your $22 on other things uh which was great. So they expanded out what you can you're allowed to spend the money on. The problem with it is we want to use it for our food service items that was a part of our construction project. And because we were in litigation, uh it's not current year anymore. It's 2021. And so because that's old, the the statute 124D111 said it has to be in current year. They said, "Well, all those things apply. We get it, but it can't because it's not current year." So then they said, "Well, how about if we or I said, "What if we use statute 123 and and which allows the commissioner to sign off on a onetime fund transfer?"
074And so that's where this round and round we go kind of deal is. So basically what I'm saying here is that pursuant to Minnesota statute 123B uh 280 specifically leveraging the authorities granted under 124D111 subdivision for school board deal public school formally request permission to execute a one-time permanent transfer of $200,000 from the district's fund two which is food service to fund one general fund in order to cover a fund six constru construction deficit. I've been working with Senator Kunish and Senator Coop on this potential fund transfer. They suggested Minnesota statute 138 and a potential option due to legislation changes in 124D. Uh the justification is is that it it permits this 124D permits the use of excess food service funds for building utility work such as plumbing, electrical, air handling, ventilation required to operate
075essential food service equipment. Uh while that that statute 124D typically requires expenses to be recorded in year, statute 123D provides a necessary path to rectify this for the specific costs incurred during our recent project. This transfer is vital to address funding gap resulting from the comprehensive remodeling project that faced significant pandemic related delays and architectural performance issues. I talk about then our settlement that we went through with mediation but even after that we still carry a deficit of 900,000. The proposed transfer will reconcile specific cost costs to food service infrastructure that were initially paid for from the construction fund but are legally eligible under the food service expenditure definitions. Now BG public school remains committed to the fiscal responsibility of our fund two. So then I break down our fund too and show that we've
076had a a very healthy audited balance, our 25 surplus of $651,61627. This follows consistent trends because part of statute 124D of 111 says you have to show a surplus of over three years in order to use this these funds. We show a trend here of over four years and how it's grown in each year. So I share that with the with the commissioner and then we do that to ensure that our requested transfer fully complies with the federal regulations regarding the use of federal lunch. And then I just say by approving this transfer the department will enable the district to settle construction related food service debts without further impacting your general fund reserves which have faced steadily steady declines due to inflationary pressures and the legislative changes. This actually ensures the capital expenditures are correctly
077aligned with the student nutrition facilities maintaining the financial integrity of our special ed. So it's a run and round but uh it is a way for us to get the commissioner sign off so we can make a transfer which we definitely need. So um if the board approves this I do need David I need your signature on this as the board chair so we can send that. All right. Any questions or discussion? No questions or discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor say I. I. Those opposed. Motion passes. 10.1. Our next board meeting is Monday, May 11th, 2026, 5:00 on the door media center. So here, just um reminding everybody that it's 5:00, not our typical 6 o'clock. Uh and then our personnel committee meeting following the school board meeting. All right. Um the next
078is to um a motion to adjourn the regular meeting of the school board. >> So second any questions or discussion hearing? None. All those in favor say I. >> I. So close. Motion passes. Is 75. I have a question. Any opportunity to move personnel for me? I would always I would always >> because for sure >> and I will be leaving if