001All right. Call the regular schoolboard meeting to order. Uh, all members are present excluding Danny Olstead. Let's all rise for the pledge to the flag of the stands. One nation indivisibley andice for all. All right, moving on to public comment. Anyone from the public come up and speak? >> All right, moving on to the consent agenda. Uh, is there anything or is any board member like to point anything from the consent agenda? Further consideration hear nothing. Is there a motion to approve consent agenda as present? >> So moved. >> There's a motion by Erin. Is there a sec or second? Second by Diane. Any further discussion? >> All in favor say I. >> I. >> Sent agenda passed. Moving on to student highlights. Snor Bernard. >> Good evening everyone. It's hard to believe the school
002year is coming to an end. As we head into the final stretch, there's a lot happening at the high school. Our spring sports activities are wrapping up and many of our teams are now heading into sections comp competition. The time of year is always exciting in the school and students are working hard and preparing for finals next Wednesday and Thursday. I wish best of luck to baseball and track next week and this week as they have their sections. Currently at the high school, one highlight I would like to bring up is floor culture 2 taught by Emily Lions. For their final project, they are creating personalized flower arrangements for staff members at the high school. This project is very meaningful to the students and the staff. They It's very real world floral business wood. Staff
003members were asked to share information about the occasion for the arrangement along with any personal preferences and students then designed and created the arrangement specifically tailored to that individ individual. After completing the arrangement, students personally deliver them to the staff members which made the experience even more meaningful for everyone involved. It was a creative project that combined technical skills, communication, professionalism, and thoughtfulness. The floor culture students also had the opportunity to take a field trip today to Milkhouse Flowers in Gleno, where they learned about the process of harvesting, preparing, and storing flowers for both wholesale and retail markets. Experiences like that help connect classroom learning to real careers and real businesses. We appreciate the opportunity our community gives us for that. Thank you. Um, so again with the school year wrapping up, I just wanted
004to highlight a few of the senior events going around at the high school. Last Monday we had senior salute, which is with NHS and then senior awards night. And I just want to say that we are incredibly thankful to our community for the amount of scholarships that they provide and the continued support to invest in our futures. I know that myself and all the seniors really appreciate it. Um, and then this next Friday we're doing the senior walkthrough, which is where seniors go and visit the elementary school and the middle school and they go and say hi to their old teachers. And then after that, we're going back to the high school and everyone's looking through the senior slideshow. So that just says like where you're going to school next year and what you're studying.
005And then graduation is June 5th, so pretty close. And then I had day one of golf sections yesterday. And I just wanted to point out El Schwin. She's advancing to state actually. Um, so that was super exciting. and she finished first individually when you take out Minnotonka who was the top team. And then finally, I just wanted to thank the board like for this opportunity to serve as a student representative this past year. I've deeply appreciated the perspective I've gained and I think it's been such a valuable experience and I will truly reflect upon it and I don't know, I just think that it was a really valuable way for me to gain perspective. So, thank you everyone. Hey, we should thank you too for putting up with us for a year. And Eleanor, I
006hope you continue to. It's another year. >> Guys, good. Thank you, ladies. All right, moving on to Tiger Time. Wanted to uh take the opportunity to introduce Melissa Vajay, our Tiger Elementary art teacher. She's going to come up and speak about art at Tiger Elementary. Thank you. I know Jen wishes she could be here. It was so sweet of her to call, but she did not sound so good. Um, welcome or welcome. Thank you for having me. Um, I have a little presentation and I just wanted to introduce myself first. Um, I know that I know some of you, but some of you may not know who I am. Um, I'm Melissa Oaj. I am a Hutchrad and my native name was Kirkoff. And, um, here's a picture of family. My husband is a sheriff
007with Hen County. Um my son Liam is in fifth grade and Emmy is in third grade. So I have her in class right now. Um before I was a teacher, I was a par professional at West for a year with kindergarten. Um and then eight years at Park Elementary with grades second through fifth grade. Um and then now at Tiger. Um I'm going to start with our annual youth art show. Um the month of April and March getting ready for the art show is very busy. We have the third grade musical and then I'm also having kiddos help me prepare for the art show. This is K through 12 and it's at the Hutchinson Center for the Arts. Um it's been there I think every year that I've been a teacher here. Um I know
008growing up we went to the mall and we would have our art in the mall. Um, not only is it K through 12, but GSL attends um, newsies, the Mon school has, at least in the past, um, as well as Anesthesia. Um, and so the art center is filled with art all the way up to high school. Um, there's a couple pictures from my daughter. One is from, I think, kindergarten. Um, there are some projects. The yellow banners are from Tiger Elementary. So, graders um as well as the clay ceramic leaves and then the clay. Um I wanted just to lead into the next slide. Um I follow standards of course and I also go by some national standards just for bigger picture questions of why do we make art? What is art? And um
009these pictures are of students mixing values and then of students missing mixing um secondary colors from primary colors. And so on the easel it says using artistic foundations. And something that I do in my classroom is relate every art project to the elements of art. And so the elements of art on the bottom kind of left middle are line, shape, color, value, form, texture, and space. And so we talk about how all art has to have at least one of those. Um but all of this stuff is all the things that we do. So um with different projects, we talk about safe material management and exploration. Um a standard is safe studio practices. Um and then also exploring different materials. Um I have a very growth mindset in my classroom of just try something, you
010might be good at it or um attitude and effort are more important than art, I say. So um we're not professional artists. We're just children and just try. Um again, the national and state standards um reflection and revision are also Minnesota state standards. um reflecting on your art, but then also getting feedback and then revising your art. Um I add in art history and artists, of course. Um and we talk about ancient pottery and stories in clay and how clay lasts forever and archaeologists dig up clay and they can learn about ancient civilizations um and what they were like or what they ate, what they did. um technology. We you saw a little stop motion animation that was used with an app on iPads. Um we use Quick Draw which is a drawing game. Um
011I use Book Creator to make uh books with illustrations and with writing. Um and more that I did not add on there cuz this was a lot. Um the why the benefits of art. Um, every day I see kiddos using their fine motor skills with drawing, painting, cutting and gluing, building with clay, building with paper, um, creative development, problem solving, critical thinking skills, communication, even it's if it's communing, um, communicating, how to share the markers, that's important. Um so collaboration um and of course creativity and coming up with their own ideas and um original ideas which is another Minnesota state standard. Um some student statements that I had gotten were art is important because you can be creative for symmetry you might te need to split something in half equally. So art teaches you that.
012Um there's a lot of shapes and forms that are in um the second and third grade math curriculum as well. And so that crosscurricular um exposure is very helpful. Um art is important because it shows imagination. I just love art because it calms me down sometimes. Um, and then the last thing I just have are any questions? And thank you for having me here today. >> Thank you. Any questions? >> Thank you. Thank you. >> All right. Superintendent update. Mr. G. >> All right. Good evening. It's a hot one out there today. >> It is. >> Feels kind of good though, I think. But um we'll see how the track and field goes for Tiger tomorrow because it's going to be warm. So hopefully it'll go all right. They bring a lot of water bottles.
013I want to thank everyone who's helped develop um the 2627 budget. Um I did send out a budget memo. Hopefully you guys had a chance to read that as well. We sent it to all staff and um tried our very best to write it in a way that it was un and that they would understand it and um also allow them to ask questions if if they need to. So, uh, that was sent out. Uh, I will say I didn't have any questions yet, so maybe maybe hopefully it did it did resonate with people what we were doing. Um, I also, Mike and I really were going to be attending quite a few of the end of the year things. It's kind of fun to integrate with the kids and and you know, there's knowledge
014bowl over at park and there's track and field tomorrow at Tiger and we're trying to get involved in some of that as our time allows us. So, that's great. Um, as as was mentioned, graduation is going to be on June 5th at 6:30 p.m. in the Wayland Gym. I hope you can all make it and uh it'll be fun to see the seniors off. So, congratulations to the class of 2026. I'm also looking forward to attending the TAP graduation. The TAP graduation is on June 5th. It's, you know, June 3rd, sorry, from 12:30 to 1:45 at the Hutchinson Event Center. until the 3rd of June. Um that's open to people coming as well and wanting to if you want to see the tap kids. So congratulations to them. We are putting the finishing touches on
015our strategic plan. We have final meetings scheduled on July 13th um with the principles and school board and then there will also be one last one with the principles and Mike and and Becky and I on 720. And then we should start to we'll start to talk about communication and how we can get communication out about what was happening, what we did with all this and then start working on it, right? Because we're going to have a bunch of things to do in year one. So, it's exciting. Um, I also want to thank you too for coming each time and you've had very good attendance. Um, that's been nice to see. You've you've added a lot of great um stuff to our meetings and making sure we're up to date. So, thank you for that.
016And as uh Erin said, um Elellanar, I look forward to working with you and I'm sure there's going to be somebody else then, right, that's going to be with you. That's kind of how it works. So, we'll see who that person is, but we enjoy having you on the board, so thank you for doing that. Also want to thank the staff, students, and parents for another successful year at Hutchinson Public Schools. Um we've had a lot of great things happen this year, and we continue to work hard and provide our kids with a lot of opportunities. And uh just thank everybody for the collaborative effort and for doing that legislative update. Um the legislature did adjourn like on the last day at 5:18. Um some notable items that affect Minnesota public schools. They did approve
017$10 million towards a hold harmless for compensatory funding. If you would remember um they had held harmless this year so we didn't go backwards and then they would have had to do it again. That's kind of what it was like. Um, they gave $10 million instead of 50 million. So, we we got a little hold harmless, but it was not near as much as we had hoped. So, that then um now the districts just have lost revenue in that in that regard, and they have to take that into account when they're doing their budgets. Also, a constitutional amendment will be presented statewide to the voters on November 3rd, 2026. Um it's the it's the trust fund that they've been giving money to schools for many many decades um from up north. It's federally um owned
018and but it's meant for schools here in Minnesota and because both the Minnesota House and Minnesota Senate both had common language to put it on there. It's going to go to the taxpayer uh to the voters in Minnesota. And if they get enough yeses, then about $70,000 would come to Hutchinson. So, everybody's going to get a piece. It's about $28 a student is what it comes to. So, I guess we'll just have to sit back and wait to see how that goes. Um, also some items that we are tracking for 2027 for the Minnesota legislature. Um, and we have to remember there's going to be a new cast, right? I mean, we have people up for reelection. We have a lot of people that retired out of out of the house a lot. So, I
019mean, there's be a lot of new House members, but also a new governor. So, we, you know, that'll all play into how this might might look in 2027. But, one of the things we're going to be tracking is summer unemployment for our non-certified staff. Um, non-certified staff some years ago were allowed to apply for unemployment even if they knew that they were coming back. They just could during the summer. right now that's being covered by the state but like the like the compensatory it's not covered but much more than one more year like this summer and June of next summer and then if nothing gets done that becomes our bill. So I don't know how that's going to look. Um so we're going to be tracking that and also special education funding. uh the 2025
020leg Minnesota legislature um made a reduction of $250 million to special education funding and it's supposed to be kicking in for the 2728 school year. Um they have a blue ribbon commission they call it. If they cannot figure out how to make this cut, then districts will have to absorb it through paying more for the cross subsidy or some other means, some other cut that they might make. So, we were tracking that to see if if we have to take on that cost as well. Uh, also we're waiting because we know Minnesota paid leave started on January 1. We know that they said it was 088, you know, 044 out of the employer employee. We got a little better because we're with a insurance a third party, but um we're going to be really tracking
021to see if that was enough to cover it because we're a little skeptical whether that's going to actually cover everything that's going on. And if it doesn't, then they have the right to move that up from 08, which means our employer share would also move up with it. So, we're going to be tracking that to see how that's going to come out. And then um also there's kind of a push for a statewide health insurance. I know we've seen this before in the past. Um there's another big push because there's been just so many so many premiums have gone kind of wild, right, with renewals and things. So um there is a bill and they kind of got a certain amount of done this year. some was just to get people to understand the issues
022and then um in Ed Minnesota would be the main the main entity that's trying to get this and then next legislative session 2027 I think there's going to be another push to see if something can happen with this and we don't know how that's going to look for school districts just simply because we don't know like is that going to cost us money is the state going to cover us and make us hold harmless we just don't know enough about that but that is that is out there so and that's all I had are there any questions. Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you, N. I'm moving on. >> Yeah, I'm sorry. >> Not moving on. >> We are. It's just um we thought it would be nice to try and this is a this is
023a tricky one to try to summarize all that PowerPoint that we got back for the election um survey. But we did I did we did put this together. Um and you know it basically 400 random Hutchinson School District residents were called either through their cell phone and landline. Um I'm just going to say I did not take every single page and put it up here. It would have gone on and on. So you guys have that report and at the end people can email us and we can send the report to them because it's a public document. So um overall respondents uh believe that the Hutchinson's community is taxsensitive, not adverse. Um, respondents believe there's a high quality education, a strong governance board and administration, excellent teaching staff, and consistently reliable financial stewardship. 82% of
024people pled felt that the education provided by Hutchinson public schools is excellent and good. 16 felt it was fair and 2% were unsure. 23%, which was just barely the largest percentage, felt the most serious issue for Hutchinson public schools is facing a lack of funding. The next highest percentage was 22% where they felt there were no serious issues. When discussing meeting the needs of students, 92% of respondents feel Hutchinson Public Schools is meeting all or most of the students's needs. 7% felt that they were um they were meeting some of the needs and 1% was unsure. 77% of respondents felt Hutchinson public schools is spending their tax money effectively, efficiently. 89% of respondents felt the district is providing a good value. 85% feel they can trust the district to do the right thing and 83%
025feel the district does a good job involving the community. 78% feel the school board is doing a good job. 74 feel the administration is doing a good job and 93% felt the teachers are doing a good job. 62% of respondents feel the district is doing an excellent good job with fiscal management. 30% feel the district is doing a fair job. 5% feel the district is doing a poor job. And 3% are unsure. And 51% feel the district is not adequately funded. 40% feel the district is adequately funded. And 9% was unsure. 42% uh feel the school taxes are very high or somewhat high. 46% feel school district taxes are average. 4% feel school district taxes are somewhat low. And 1% feel they are very low. And 8% were unsure. And 77% feel technology is very
026important or essential. 19% feel technology is somewhat important. 4% feel technology isn't very important and 26% are for a vote, 48% are persuadable, and 24% are against the vote with 2% being unsure. And then when considering an operating referendum, 78% feel a tax increase should go to competitive wages and benefits. 77% feel a tax increase should help maintain programs. 72% feel a tax increase should maintain and expand Tiger Path. 65% feel a tax increase should help provide financial stability and 64% felt a tax increase should help update classroom technology. When looking at a capital projects levy, 76% felt the taxes should help maintain programs. 73% want taxes to support safety and security. 69% want taxes to maintain and expand Tiger Path. 68% want taxes to support cyber security and data privacy. 64% want taxes to
027support technology infrastructure. and 61% wanted it to support classroom technology. And um the survey supported asking district residents for a vote for up to $12 per month for a $350,000 home. And then I just have on here if anybody wants the full report, they can certainly email me and we'll get it to them so they can see everything. That was my best attempt to try to summarize what was kind of a lot of information. So any questions? I know you heard it already at at the work session. So, >> Thank you. Y >> All right, moving on. Dr. Scott. >> All right, couple district highlights. Uh, the first one is Kaden Fer was selected to represent Hutchinson and the Minnesota Fast Pitch Coaches Association All-Star Game Series. There's a banquet and game, the banquet of
028games will take place starting on June 7th. So, good luck to Kate and congrats for being part of that. Uh Bobby Angela, a senior, uh competed in the class A state tournament on uh Friday, April 24th, I think uh both for board reps maybe spoke to this, but um maybe a meeting ago um at Park Center High School after three preliminary rounds of discussion. Bobby made it to the final round where she placed seventh overall. The last time a student from Hutchinson qualified for the state uh speech was in 2023 and the last time anyone placed was in 1994. So, in order to qualify at state, students have to be one of the top three in their category at sections and that was on April 18th. Um, other students who had good performance but didn't
029uh quite make it to state um were Lola Bradford sixth in discussion, Kate Oberg and seventh in discussion and Princess Inging Ingling and tied for seventh and humorous. So, congratulations all of those students and especially to Bobby for making it to state. Uh Carrie Taylor, our special ed, our our special services director. We just wanted to recognize our uh staff at our TAP program. They've worked incredibly hard. Um despite being very limited on staffing. I know we're I'll speak here in a little bit about just a staffing update, but u we're kind of we are short everywhere, especially in special ed. But um when fully staffed, our our staff at TAP has two teachers and 10 pair professionals. and uh many times are maybe down one teacher and uh two or three pair of professionals.
030So um really having to make uh things neat for the students um and the staffing and and and um all the staff coming together and trying to to find ways to make sure all those holes are are filled. Uh the Minnesota Department of Agriculture um is proud to announce the winners of the 2026 Minnesota uh grown cream of the crop awards. Uh this contest recognizes K12 school districts or early care centers that show outstanding leadership in promoting and serving Minnesota grown and raised foods. So this year's winners have earned the title of cream of the crop in the respective categories in the Hudson public schools was uh school district of the year. Um, so congratulations again to our food service. There's some more narrative there that Leslie Mueller, our director of uh, child nutrition had
031put on there. I think there's some accolade that this department gets just about every month just with the uh, state uh, recognition in our grow your own program and and trying to continue to reach out to our community. Um, you know, did I did just speak to some of the staff shortages. We already have 18 new teachers for next year. are hired either new or some shifts from somebody going to a position that's they're already teaching right now in the district to a new position um or a long-term sub or again new. So that's kind of where it's at with with that at 18 and um right now we have another eight special ed openings, teaching openings um and a couple more uh teacher positions yet to fill. So if right now where we are
032without the school year over um is probably around the 25 26 uh new I don't want to say new teaching positions but newer new teaching positions or long-term subs or new to a position. So, we continue with that um where where we are with it with the turnover and the um need for for teaching staff and we have um just an update yesterday that goes out to all of our staff if there are any new staff that start and that's continual there are new staff that start even as the year continues that we have you know everything from coaches to event workers to teachers to support staff 40 different um you know um job advertisements and some of those are for multiple positions itions. So, um there continues to be a need um for for
033people to work in our school system and um every like I said everything from teaching to event working to support staff to to cooks, custodians, part-time um etc. So, um, the end of the year is coming quickly as we've all kind of spoken about our building, uh, our preparing for the end of the year thing reports, especially with our ADS programming and we have service hour spreadsheets to send in and narratives that that are being completed. Uh, we have to work on our literacy plan. We have a meeting set here next week that we need to report um, our literacy goals, how we have done, how many staff have been trained on the read act, all that thing, all that has to get reported by the middle of June. Um and then in June 8th
034our QC comp coaches will be doing their report to you as well. So we've had some of our curricular training already um in social studies. Our sixth through 8th grade social studies training took place last week and our 9th through 12 from our from the new resources that they have. So they're well on their way to being ready for next year with the resources. We've got another one next week for our middle school language arts. Um and then in in August for our K3 language arts. So, uh, some of those things are are continuing to over the summer then with with teaching staff, uh, working together with some curriculum writing time. Um, MCA testing is now complete. The windows closed. There's post test editing that is taking place right now to make sure that all
035students were assigned a test. If there's been any missing tests that I've put in why there was any missing, whether it was opt out or weren't able to complete it. Uh but want to again thank the the tech department uh building teachings or the building teachers, the support staff for proctoring, administration, all the coordinating. It really went without a hitch again this year. Um and good luck to all our students. I know we've got two days left for seniors and I think six days left for all of our our students. So um hope the next six days or two days go very well for everybody and have a good um summer. Thank you. >> Good job. Thank you. No questions. Moving on. Miss Bowl, >> good evening. Wanted to echo congratulations to the food service
036department on their cream of the crop award. Um, and I just wanted to highlight all of the hard work they put into the scratch cooking and the meals for the students. Um, while we're just touching on food service, want to make sure that the community checks out the summer meal program running June 8th to the 13th. Um, the hours are posted on the website for the middle school and then the pool rec center locations. Um, in addition to supporting testing and doing a great job, the technology department is busy with its server and device replacements and projects for the summer. Um, as we discussed at finance committee, the unspent supply equipment budget is what we use to cover technology replacements for the upcoming year. Um, this is the first time that those dollars didn't cover
037all of the needs in that department. So revenue generation is needed or resource allocation is needed in order to preserve um and replace the technology um and keep it relevant for the students and the staff. Um a couple of other things um that haven't been touched on already. Since we last met, we held a successful open enrollment for employee benefits. Um if you recall, we were using a new enrollment software platform that went very well. We're in the process of compiling the census so we can share um which plans um were subscribed to the most and and what that looks like from a district contribution perspective um in the coming weeks. Custodial retro was finalized with the May 15 payroll. The HESP retro is in process but not yet finalized. Um we've been doing a
038lot of referendum research and planning in the department. Um the preliminary budget work is continuing. Do have an update on kindergarten. Um that had been tracking really really strong up until the last months or so and now we're actually at a point where it's tracking behind and so we'll talk more about that during the budget adoption um in June. The operational budget is ready to be rolled up. The personal budget though is still in process pending the completion of the Hesp retro. Um Mr. talked about the compensatory and the proactive decisions we'll need to make next year regarding expense management due to less compensatory funding coming than anticipated. Um we did meet as a finance committee on the 20th. Um we reviewed the financial reports. I know Sarah will give an update as well. Another
039highlight from the meeting was the insurance contract renewals. Um, I think those are the most important things coming out of the the business department. >> All right. Thank you. >> I I do have one more thing I should have said. Um, most recently there is kind of like a little water mane leak going on outside of Weston Tiger and um, initially we were concerned we were going to have to close school on Friday and the city we met with the city and they worked with us and they are going to take care of it on Saturday and I was very pleased that we won't have to cancel school and I want to thank the city and the people there for stepping up and finding a different solution. So I just want to make sure I
040said that. All right, moving on on to the 2026 27 2027 resolution for membership to the Minnesota High School League. Admin recommends approval of membership. Is there any changes from last year, Dan? Nothing. Okay. Is there a motion to accept the resolution? >> So moved. >> Motion by Kudson. Is there a second? Second second by Mossman. Any discussion hearing? None. Roll call. Canudson >> I. >> Lewan's I. Chinowski. >> I. >> Mossman. >> Hi. >> Homeman >> I. >> All right. Resolution passed. All right. On to resolution non-renewal vocational teachers. Is there a motion to accept the resolution as presented? >> Motion by Mossman. Is there a second? >> Second. Diane Jenowski second. Any discussion? All right, moving on. Roll call vote. Luans I. Jenowski >> I. >> Mossman >> I. >> Homeman >> I.
041>> Canudson >> I. >> Resolution passed. All right. Moving on. Resolution to con conveyance of a property. Dan, do you want to get a little bit just in case? >> Actually, I think Mike's Mike's gonna talk a little bit about this one because he's been more involved with it. So, just to give you an idea of what it is. >> Thank you. So, I think as the resolution speaks to, there was um you've probably seen a lot of um publicity a little bit about the Kaminsky school building that the um ownership has changed. And I think the long story short is is that through all of the paperwork, there wasn't a clear um ownership possibly could was maybe a little I don't know what other word to say, but it just wasn't clear. uh a
042south um portion of that property that when the school was no longer a public school, uh there was some paperwork that in the past years that maybe didn't clearly say that that didn't go back to the school district. So this resolution and this uh paperwork as um that organization is working through this is to make sure that it is clear that that halfacre is belonging to that um Kaminsky school building and the whole property is going to be tied together so that we don't have any um ambiguity that that school district has any ownership of that. Nor have we felt that we ever did but this would clear all that up. And and I I would add when I talked to the attorney, it would be over $10,000 to even try to get it put
043in our name and it's not even close to being worth that. So, we're just recommending that we we be done with it. It has no value to us. We're not going to do anything out there with it. So, all right. Is there a motion to accept the resolution as presented? >> So, moved. >> Motion by Kenson. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Dian Shankowski seconded. Uh any further discussion? Seeing none, roll call vote. Diane >> I. >> Mossman. >> Hi. >> Pullman >> I. >> Canudson >> I. >> Garrett I. Resolution pass 5-0. All right. On to the motion. Well, let's more start discussion first for the minute to prepare a resolution for November 2026. >> So, I want to be really clear. We're not voting on whether we're having an election tonight. What
044you would be doing is voting on whether you want us to prepare the document to vote on the 29th of June whether we want to have an election. So, um it's just one step in the process and we want to make sure that we can gauge where you guys are at to do that part of the preparation. And uh what we need tonight is we would need to know um if you are interested in us preparing this resolution whether you'd want to um be more interested in having an operating referendum vote or having a capital projects vote. That would be one thing we would need to settle. And then the other thing would be um how much revenue per year we'd want to try to generate um because we need both of those both parts
045of those information to make the resolution if we're going to be directed to do it. >> Does the term need to be set or is it an automatic time? >> That's probably Yeah, I did. You're right. Um whether it's a 10 year, 5 year, 8 year probably that is something that we wouldn't have as well. Thank you. Would you mind kicking us off on >> Well, um >> a recommendation or of all the data that we just spent on >> Right. Um I think when you looked at when you look at the the election survey, it supported both kinds of votes, right? I mean, it was kind of like you could go either way with it. Um I know uh the Peter talked about you know uh technology right now and and some people have
046views on technology whether it's good or bad. There's a lot of stuff out there with technology. um operating referendum uh can you know it's more wide open of course to we can still say what we're going to use the money for what we're not going to use the money for but it's a little more wide open a little less you can't put as you can't put anything really in the question it's very regulated by the state whereas a the other you know capital you can put kind of the things right in the question um I felt like you guys were kind of 50/50 on that which vote to do if you were going to um choose um I think we are open to either one because we need revenue and so that's I'm not going
047to say one can be better than the other. I mean that's I it didn't show that necessarily in the in the survey. Um I think obviously the more revenue we can get but we don't want to overdo the survey because we found out last time what that happened when we did that. So, my thought, and I I don't know what you guys are would say, is we we wouldn't want to go under $750,000 a year, but $950,000 would even be better if and it did support it somewhere between that. So, um based on um the monthly cost on a $350,000 home. Um but we also don't want to get to a point where we went too high either. So, we're we're willing to listen to you and see if we can come up with something.
048anything in between there. Um 10 years is the normal um is what most districts ask. If you do something less than that, you're going to have to go back sooner. So, um we would recommend 10 years, but we're open to a different year, amount of years, too, because if you have more information, if you think people would be more open to something, I would not want to go under five. I think that would be really tough because you'd be almost talking about it two years later again. So, Do you guys have anything to add >> or any questions or >> did anyone send questions often after our workshop? Nothing came in. Okay. >> Well, let's open it up for a discussion because we do need a motion stating if it's going to go anywhere. Dollar
049amount, year, and the type. >> I'd like to ask Tina if she can go back. I I think you're running the um remote. Can you go back to uh when Mr. Dia was discussing what the survey results were >> be right before Dr. Scott's presentation? There you are. Can you go to the end of that one? They gave a recommendation. The survey supports asking district residents for a vote of $12 per month >> up to up to no just because that was kind of the max was 12. I mean, it supported 12, but I wouldn't say up to because there were other lower amounts that also had supports. So, um but um in order to generate 950,000, you're probably going to be closer to the 12. Um and I forgot what 750,000 meant. >> 8
050and 9. >> Between 8 and 9. You're talking about the operating room. >> Yeah. Yeah. It's different, right? Because it's different ways to tax. So, we would have to if you know maybe I mean for clarity it might be better to talk about what kind of vote because then these numbers change >> based on what kind of vote if we're interested in a vote. Um but she was just saying like$8 or $9 if you were at the 750,000 and more closer to the 1150 if you're at the 950,000. Okay. So my Oh, go back. Go back. Okay. So, the operating referendum can be used for more things, including competitive wages and benefits. And we've had a lot of discussion about whether or not um the community would support that. and the uh the study said
051that that would be um that they'd be more interested in an operating referendum. Um but I do like the fact that with an operating referendum, it can also be used for technology. And one thing I was going to mention during my finance report is um we are putting off replacing our student Chromebooks because we don't have the money to cover that for this current year. Um we kind of take some leftover money at the end of the year. Any money that was budgeted but wasn't spent, we put that in for technology. Am I speaking correctly? The one thing I would add is there's there's that, but there's also pricing right now and availability challenges in the market and the technology director and we have talked extensively about waiting versus trying to jump in right now
052when so many entities are trying to purchase and refresh for the next year. Um, and then we would be able to pull some of the funding needed from the set aside that we made a couple of years ago within operating capital. So, um, that's a one-time fund, though. So, to your point, it's not it's not a recurring stream, which is part of the discussion here. >> AI is really causing problems with memory, and they're just jacking the memory up, and so it's causing those Chromebooks and all all that stuff just to go get very expensive. That's a new thing obviously in the last couple years that Nick has talked about. So Garrett, if you want to write down what I my perspective after all the discussion we had at our last meeting. Um I would
053before an operating referendum at the $12 per month for a $350,000 home for 10 years. Those were the three questions you had, right? >> And length. Oh, you said 10 years. Yes. Yes. >> Okay. >> Was that an official motion? I would love to make that a motion and then we can discuss more after that. Right. >> Yeah. >> I would like to make a motion >> that um >> Oh, hold on. We write up a >> Sarah >> made a recommendation or motion for an operating referendum. >> Mhm. >> 10-year term. >> Mhm. >> At the $12 or >> per month for a three for a $350,000 home. >> Okay. Is there a second? >> I will second that. Therefore, open it up to more discussion. >> There's a motion and a second. Now
054for discussion. >> A lively bunch. >> I I will say um that sort of been ruminating on the difference between an operating referendum and a capital projects levy. And I think they both have positives and they both have negatives. And so I have come to a very neutral place and would be interested in partnering with what everybody's else's opinion is because I think that we I agree with our administrative team that we need the funding. Many of the things the community are pointing out are exactly the things that we need the funding for and would be supported by either one of these asks. Um, I do think that a capital projects level, we talked a little bit about the word capital, it being a little bit confusing um, for folks because this wouldn't necessarily be
055used to build any new properties and we've certainly been through the building phase in this district. I think with good education to our community, we can explain what that is all about. And I do like that capital projects levy lets us offer a little bit more detail in the operating referendum. But again, I think there's room for either to suit what our needs are. I agree with Sarah that um the surveyor was was very confident that um a $12 ask would be supported by the majority of folks in our community. And because we don't often ask for these things and because we do we are in need of the funding, I would suggest also and support going for a $12 per month for a $350 home. And I think people get inundated with asks a
056lot and so a 10-year frame timeline is what I would also support. >> Thank you. Um, I'll speak. I I'm I'm good with the operating referendum. I would just hope that we do the best we can making a go of it and show that we're wise cuz the next one's going to be up for renewal. So, that's always the thing that sits in the back of my mind is showing the residents, the taxpayers that we are good stewards of it all. The board is always directing that because the next one will be up for renewal. So, we got to make sure we are keeping our eye on the horizon on that one. >> I think the community feels that thus far and I this is a credit to the administration, not to us for necessarily
057balancing the budget all the time every day and looking at it continuously, but they do feel that that money is well spent and it's um the education provided in this district is of good value and I 100% um agree with that. And I think with any campaign, you know, education and fielding those questions is of paramount importance. I think the surveyor pointed out to us that there's two things that people really want to know when it comes down to this sort of thing. One is what are you using the money for? I think there's a a plethora of people that know that we would benefit from it and we can show very easily what we would use the money for. And secondly, how much um per their household it will cost, which is maybe the
058easier thing to let people know once we decide on that amount. But I agree, we have to be very transparent and clear, as clear as we can be with all the financial unknowns that we're facing right now about um what we're using that money for and how it could benefit the students in our district. >> Right. >> Correct. Any other discussion? >> No. >> All right. Motion's been um discussion. This is for motion for operating referendum 10 year at $12 a month. All in favor of the motion say I. >> I. I. >> Those same sign. >> Motion passed. >> Did you get that down? >> Yep. >> Thank you, Tina. >> Thank you. on the committee reports facilities. Can some >> Sure. Um so many in the community have been made aware um that
059the city is sponsoring a study of the school road corridor. I thought I'd touch on it briefly because I personally didn't know as much about it and I think maybe there's other people that are like me. Um and there was a meeting last night to sort of gather some information um and ask our constituents um about how things are going in that area. There was no plans made or designed. I think that we're just the city is in an information gathering stage about um how we can make that better. And anyone who's traveled through there during school hours know that it can be quite congested. We continue to have um we're continuing to search for and um get answers to um the window leakage at Tiger. Um and that's a work in progress and has
060been for some time. Um we're also and that that will work will continue over the summer and it might be disappointing, but I'm going to be honest and let people know that it there might not be a solution over the summer. they might still be in sort of the information gathering phase of this. Um at Park Elementary, there's a couple of leaky areas too um that we're hiring um a team to come in and actually focally identify where those issues are so they can be patched rather, you know, just waiting for things to leak and guessing where they might be patched. Um the pool, as you guys know, was closed for a while. It's now reopened. Um there will be a big project coming up where um we have to replace the sand filter um
061that's currently being ordered and so there will be some time in the future where we'll um need to shut that down again. Um Dan already talked about the water main leak at West Tiger and it's great news that the city is um working on that this weekend. And then we just um kind of got a quick overview of all the summer projects that Justin and his team are going to be working on. um they'll be very busy. So that's all I have. >> Thank you. I would just add the great thing too is that we do have some leftover money from the TAP and district um in the district office and that is being used like for the pool thing. There's some features we're looking at some flooring. I mean so that's going to help
062our budget because there's some remaining money for those purposes. >> All right, moving on to finance. Miss Bman, >> um Rebecca definitely gave a full uh overview of what's going on this month uh in the business department, but let me add that 98% of the budget or 38.3 million um in revenue is on track with prior years. And as far as our expenses, we're at 74% or 36.9 million. And again, on track. Um hourly salaries and benefits are behind on expenses due to unsettled contracts. Um hourly regular education and special education substitute costs are ahead of prior years and that's due to the Minnesota Paid Leave Act and the Minnesota ESST as a benefits. Um, and that covers everything that hasn't already been discussed. And but once again, I assure you that um, our team
063of three ask a lot of questions on the check register, the the uh, revenues, the expenses, and we always have great answers. >> All right. Thank you. Technology, Mr. announcement or yeah >> technology was a 12minute meeting and I was in another meeting that was 10 minutes behind and so I missed the majority of the meeting um but I know that one of the topics was um how we want to stick to meeting throughout the summer um especially with some devices that we haven't currently found or decided to purchase some of the short short funding that we're running into and if there's anything else Becky I know Becky was on the meeting on time. >> I think I think the only other two items would have been he always gives a next week gives an
064update on cyber security. The training continues um and the utilization of the training is still above the industry average. I think the other piece is is he had ordered a server ahead of significant price increases and that server is here and it's been connected but they're going to be transitioning from the old server to the new server later this summer when it's a little bit quieter in the district as far as number of students and staff available. And I will say um parent square is going to be our communication with the texting and the calling and better communication with our our people, our community and our staff and students. And we are looking at getting that on July one. So that's in process. It's on track. So thank you. >> All right. That cleans up
065the committee reports. Upcoming board meetings. Um, speaking with Dan, the June 8th, we >> we have some scheduling things with that one and we're kind of wondering if we could move it to a week later. Now, I know not everybody's here. We've gone through this with strategic planning, but if we could get a quorum, um, we'll have to work with our admin, but does does the 15th work for people? Could we move it to that? No, Sarah. >> Does not work for me, but >> no, Erin. Okay. How about the 21st? Is that any better? >> Father's Day. >> I know you're Sunday. >> Oh, no. The 22nd I meant. Sorry. >> 22nd. >> That's fine with me. I can make it. >> Okay. So, >> the tricky part is we'll work with our admin
066to see if they can come, but we'll we'll fill in if they can't come. Obviously, we can't if people have plans. Um, so let's let's see if we can move that to the 22nd. I know Mondays are not taken in this in this city chamber. So, we should be okay on that. >> The 22nd. >> 22nd. Yep. And that'll give a week. Then we'll be back a week later to finish it off with the second. Yeah. But the regular meeting >> is that going to Oh, that's the workshop meeting then. >> Yes. >> We just wouldn't have a meeting on the ETH. >> Okay. That's >> at that point because we'll have a different meeting. >> Okay. Is everyone following what's going to happen on that 22nd? >> Mhm. >> Okay. And Aaron, we can
067always get stuff sent out, too. >> That's good. >> Yeah. If you can't make it, Erin, you can't make it, right? But if you can't, we will send it out to you anyway, and then you can ask your questions and still be okay hopefully for the 29th. >> Okay. Moving down. And next month we will be conducting the superintendent semination actually. So there will be a survey handing out to us very soon. Is there a motion for adjournment? All >> moved. Motion by Mossman. Is there a second? >> Second by Aaron Kudson. All in favor? >> I. Meeting adjourned.