001school board meeting July 14th. All are present including Danny Olmstead and we will rise for the pledge 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. All right, we'll move on to public comment. Anyone from the public like to comment on anything on the agenda? Just come up to the mic. All right, seeing no one moving. Moving on to consent agenda. Uh, is there anything from the consent agenda that wants to be pulled for discussion? Hearing nothing. Is there a motion approve consent agenda? So move. Motion by Mans. Is there a second? >> Second by Pullman. Any further discussion? All in favor say I. >> I. Off to tiger time. >> Good evening. >> So, uh,
002food service has had quite a busy summer already. Um, menu planning has involved a lot more forecasting, uh, to guarantee our products starting the start of the school year. Um because I really want to get the kids the things they like and sometimes it isn't always easy with product. Um so trying our best this year with a few areas to forecast better with so they can get product and also to bring our commodity dollars down efficiently and save on those meals. Um summer feeding's just been really crazy but a good crazy. And um also uh Amy's going to speak on how the gardening's been going and also the lessons and um experience that the kids have had out there. So uh coming up here uh there's a lot to do behind the scenes when it
003comes to summer feeding. So, here's some pictures of our staff and um when we're doing non- congregate, there's just a lot of super pack a lot of packing going on of course um organization and um they've really um have developed a good system there and especially even when parents and kids go around the line and stuff, they get them quite through there fast. So, um they've done a fabulous job. So, there's some more pictures there. So, so yeah, um as I talked about um when the summer feeding surface is going about going along well. Um we do congregate and non- congregate. Um and then uh Amy's going to speak on um more gardening topics. I do want to introduce our new outreach coordinator, Ann Basset, and she's the one that's there in a daily basis
004for summer feeding. um she checks in the families and she get um gets volunteers scheduled um does registration. So she does she's really in the thick of everything. So if you have more detailed questions um wanting to know about summer feeding I that's why I have her here to ask those questions. So So here's um some pictures from the summer feeding program and we do have something new this summer. Uh we did start the non- congregate last year besides doing the congregate and because it was so successful next last year we decided to um increase the hours um because our participation numbers have just really gone off the chart and so it just gives them more time to pick up those meals. Also, um new is our weekend meals and that also um when we
005do those on Thursdays, we really need that extra time for them to pick up their meals. um with all of them that take advantage of that. Our registration numbers at the halfway point are like at 30% increase compared to last year and we're at the halfway point now and it's,00 uh pre-registrations and right now we're at um got to get the numbers here right. 32,000 um and that's at the halfway point for meals this year and that's just slightly lower than the entire summer last year for numbers. So, we're really doing well with um getting kids fed and um you know, families feeling pretty um safe with economy, you know, going well and they can spread their dollars further that way. Here's a few more other photos. Um you have more there with families going
006through the line picking up their meals. You can also see in a couple pictures um some kids even have volunteered and that's kind of cool to see that they get excited about um helping handing out the food. Um, last week we thought it'd be a good idea to do put out a comment box and we did receive 55 comments. I'd say a few of them were mostly more um criticism and you know how we could improve things more than being negative and then the rest were really quite positive um thankful mostly that you know that we have this program for them. Um some exact uh comments were we love school lunch. Everyone works together so well. Um we love it. Thanks so much. Love the veggies. Amazing job. So friendly and kind. My children love
007the different options. It's so nice to introduce them to new foods. So um those that was nice to see. You know, you don't expect that most when they come out that way. So they're really appreciative. So that's great. Go to the next one. and we got eating. Did you have any questions besides what I talked about for summer feeding? >> I just have one quick question about what's in the lunches. Um, particularly ones I know you give out several on Thursday. Yeah. >> For the weekend. So, what kind of like main course items are there? >> So, a lot of those are like prepackaged items or they're an item that they can easily reheat. But we do have sides where a lot of extra fruits and vegetables. So it's not completely, you know, what I
008want to say is processed, but it's we're trying to put minimal processed items out there as possible. And you still want to include your whole grains and you look out for your fats and sodium. So um that's still being looked at. Um we give out gallons and half gallons of milk rather than going through a million cartons, which they are really appreciative of. So, um, yeah, we do our best to make it, um, you know, a wide variety of items. Um, but I'm grateful that we can at least provide those fresh items to on the weekends. So, thank you. >> Have you had any issues with staffing? >> No, surprisingly not. I I'm really grateful. So, >> great. And then the other question I had, you mentioned some youth were volunteering. Um, if there are
009people in the community that want to volunteer or want to come to one of the sites, how do they how do they do that? >> So, they get a contact with Ann and she's got a schedule she sets up for that. Um, you want to talk a little more how they can do that? >> So, um, typically they'll reach out to me and I'll take a look at schedule, see what openings we have and let them know yes, this will work or no, is there something else you'd be interested in? And it seems to work really well. We have great volunteers. Staff works well with all of our volunteers and a lot of them are repeat which I'm thankful for. >> Excellent. Thank you. >> And her information is on the flyer. You might have
010seen that was a >> I did want to add that one thing that the state asks is that the meals that we offer are easy for kids to prepare because their assumption is that parents are working. So >> that's good to know. Thank you. >> Yeah. Okay. Hello everybody. I'm Amy. I'm the farm to school coordinator. Um and I'm here to just give you a little garden update which consumes most of my time in the summer growing season. Um we are in the fourth year of this being a food service um production project. the year prior the FFA crew did that um and then we we took that over to have um a clearer direction about what can um seamlessly incorporate into our summer feeding and school um fall meals. Um we have an awesome
011crew hired in a competitive process. This is the second year we've had like 10 to 15 17 applicants. Um so it's a it's a fun job that students um want. Um, so we hire two high school students and then I have two other adults with experience um to help me manage um the flow of the season. We did increase um the production space this year about 50%. Um and of course June was wild. We had wild rain over 10 in measured um at the school farm. I'm ready. I'm ready for that to be done. Um new culture more opportunities culture as in growing culture. Um in June we completed the installation of our first high tunnel. A high tunnel is different from a greenhouse because it is in ground production and is unheated. Um this
012is a flexible um plastic film structure. Um the sides crank up. It's well ventilated. Um and it's really going to be um a gift for us to do some sensitive crop production um and extend the season for things like tomatoes and peppers and cucumbers. And what we use a ton of in food service is head lettuce. Um, so that was uh partially supported by the Hutch Health Foundation and the IG Birch Family Foundation. So we thank them big time for that. And that's a crew of allstar volunteers with experience. So that was a fun night. Um I think we're at the point four years in where we are trying to prioritize community connection and it seems like the the logical the next and important step um to bring people along with us. We started the
013farm stand two seasons ago. It's open every Tuesday started last week from 2:00 to 5:00. Um so you can stop by for local abundance at the farm. Um, we are currently harvesting salad mix, radishes, kale, basil, summer squash, peas, and broccoli. And just spotted about an hour ago is cucumbers. Um, I'm going to go over there and open up the newsletter that we've been sending out last year and this year for um, just a little enhancement of community connection. [Applause] Is it on? >> Yep. >> Okay, great. Um, so this is a grad school newsletter. Um, just wanted to make sure. Okay. Um, the farm to school garden update number one. This was last week's edition. Obviously, if you want to um sign up for this, there will be a link on the next page
014or a QR code you can scan um from home. But this year, if you want fresh um any ideas or inspiration fun that maybe go along with it, um last week's prop was kale. Um we have our student hires two of their props that they're interested in learning more about. Um and this was Courtney, one of our staff. um choices. We like a recipe there. Um and part of uh I guess I was a farmer, so I love seeing the students um want to learn about how to plant and take this into their life moving beyond this opportunity. So they choose topics that they want to research and share with the public. Um and this was Patrick's heard. We deal with a lot of we are three most popular or common weeds at the farm.
015Um and then we always um list kind of the current and a little bit of fun information about this that's out there. This is Patrick. He's a junior. This is his second year working at the farm and he came back. So I think that's a good sign. um is hard work and and we love the court and our smile and funny um when we had a good time. And then finally um and most importantly I think for our outreach at the farm is our invitation to students participating in their summer bridge program. Um it's been a wet June so they have not been out there. Um, but we did meet them at Tyber Elementary for the first two weeks of Summerbridge and we're hopeful uh that they can join us this Wednesday and Thursday. But
016below are some pictures of this of them building their compost pockets. They got real uh sign of gross motor skill um workouts last week or the last uh week we saw them. Um so we're teaching them about growing um and rooting and nourishing. And this is of course um a lesson on nourishment. And this is how we would like to nourish um more of these kinds of corn through composting. So there is a good look at that. And we actually buried these um all the packets like 55 of them in the soil on the corn and they're going to give these out um on there last week and see what has decomposed. So anyway, this is their terminal. Um this student said their their uh family traditions and celebrations that make them feel connected and
017strong is to garden and together. Um that's an example of organic and non-organic things that they hope to compost. Um yeah, but that's it. This is the garden um center and we're just trying to keep the community informed of what's going on out here. Lastly, Megan's place. So, this is another opportunity for community organizations. Um, from the outside that want to use the space and learn, too. So, they helped us harvest our first harvest and it was a blast. Um, I was having a rough day and this totally turned me around. So, sharing us with those in the community um is utmost important. And here you can just um scan those to lend a hand and be a volunteer or um don't miss a beat that needs letter to kind of stay informed. >> Questions
018from you guys? >> Okay. >> Thank you. Thank you for your hard work. >> Thank you. Thank you. All right, on to uh first policy readings 700, 800, 900, and 4,500. Is there any questions from the group right away or any of them that we want to hit on? >> I just have a couple questions. Perfect. The first one is on policy 503. Uh this is student attendance. Um it looks like a change was made. It it says it reflects MSBA change removing the board as an excused um approver for attendance, but that doesn't line up with state law. So I was just curious if we're aware of an upcoming change to that law or did MSBA recommend it for a different reason? >> Yes. Um that was a recommended change from MSBA reached out.
019Um and that's part of the MSB update from Terry Marl, the attorney. Um what that basically states from my interpretation and from um some of the things that we've seen at least on their newsletters is um a family can't reach out and just talk to a schoolboard member to excuse the absence. They actually have to talk to a school official in the building um to excuse that. So administrator talked to the school secretary and so forth. So apparently in the past uh families were able to contact a school board member and have that absence excused. But okay, yeah, that's what that that's what that means based off the interpretation we have. But it is an MSBA update. >> So the the attorney that we worked with didn't have concerns that that contradicts state law >>
020from my understanding and I could look back at um you know what the legislative update is. it was changed and removed due to the the new legislative session. Um I can double check that too. >> Well, Mike, just so I can Terry Mororrow is the attorney that works with MSBA and he's their policy person, but he's not our attorney, >> right? >> So, it hasn't been run necessarily past Mick. >> Just to make sure we have that in Yeah. Okay. Um, and then I had a question on policy 9006 informing the community of um, child predators, section 2, paragraph B. Um, it says that if a person in the community is found to be guilty of committing crimes against a child, the superintendent can notify parents with students of similar ages. And I'm just curious
021what similar ages means. Which letter is it, Mike? I'm sorry. >> Uh, section 2, paragraph B. >> Oh, that was added that part. Is that >> No, it's existing. >> Oh, okay. Um, you know, I Good question. That's something we would have to ask Mick. That's why I would say if you if we have those questions, we should just write them down and send it his way >> between reading one and reading two >> along with the one that you just asked to make sure that it all makes sense. Yeah. >> And then I have one more question. This is more of a the entire policy. I'm confused by um policy 904 um school district distribution of solicitation materials. Um the conversation started based out of a concern that it's hard to enforce. It's cumbersome.
022It's uh it puts us maybe at risk of liability if we're allowing one group to do it and not another. But then the policy looks like it it doesn't revoke the district's ability. We're going to continue to do it. >> Is 904 in here for a first reading? >> Yes. >> Tina, did 904 get in here for a first reading? >> I'll have I can't My computer's up there. Um if it is, it's something that's Okay. 904 was we were waiting. I don't know that wasn't supposed to be >> I don't see I don't see it listed on the 900 policy right now listed because we were waiting for >> um our attorney feedback on 904. It wasn't on the the list but we had talked spoken to him >> about that policy. So we
023put it on here. >> We weren't meaning for that to have a first reading tonight that we were waiting for Mick to get back to us to figure how to do that one. >> Okay. that I saw in the summary of proposed changes. So, I just I was curious about it. >> Okay. >> I think I can assist with the confusion. The summary that the 900 link goes to, it's a PDF in the board packet. It lists 904. You can see the bullets are empty. Yeah, there should probably just be a note there that it's pending legal. >> Perfect. That's all the questions that I have. Thank you. >> All right. Is there a motion to approve the policies as presented for first reading? >> So moved. >> Aaron Kenson motion Mossman second. Any further
024discussion? >> Hearing none. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Uh policies passed. On to the student handbooks for the middle school and high school. There was changes summary changes presented. Did anyone have questions for the principles? >> All right. Is there a motion to approve the handbooks as presented? >> So moved. >> Motion by Mossman. Is there a second? >> Second by Miss Pullman. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All in favor say I. I. >> I. Handbooks passed. All right. On to the superintendent update. Mr. Gates. >> All right. Good evening everybody. It's a hot one again, but um looks like later this week we might get a little reprieve. Uh we have been working closely with Superior Transportation. It's going to be their second year as we all know and uh just
025to roll out the summer transportation that they've been doing and they've been doing a great job there and then to continue to work on the beginning of the year. Uh there were some improvements we needed to make from last year. They won't, you know, they have a bus garage now, so it'll be a lot easier on them to function compared to what they were doing at the beginning of last year. But they did also buy a new uh trans uh telephone system and they have multiple lines now and multiple ways to leave voicemails with people still answering. So it should hopefully go smoother that way. And their routing system that they're using um they are right now loading it in and getting it ready which would be an improvement over last year when it wasn't
026functioning very well. So some improvements that they they are making there and we're just going over our transportation policy and making sure it all kind of goes together. So, been working on that. And then, uh, you probably might be aware that, um, and Mike might or Becky might bring this up too, but we are waiting to see if some title funds get released from the federal government. Title 1C, 2, 3, 4, uh, all does impact um, especially 2, three, and four impact Hutchinson schools. And, uh, we'll have to wait a little bit to see what happens with those. It is worth noting though that the federal uh that the Congress already did release those from their end. They just haven't been released from the depart the US Department of Education. So, we'll have to wait
027a little to see where that one goes. And then also, um, as you see, people have been working very hard on the policies. I want to commend them for all the work that they do. It takes time. You got to put them together, get all the committees together and and, uh, then get them ready for the first hearing. and then we'll go through and uh get them ready for a second hearing if there's anything like that. So, I just want to thank people for taking that on, especially also our committee that um our board committee that comes in for all of them and so they're on the hook for everything, but um that's Sarah and Diane and Aaron. So, and then also uh we did select teamworks as the company that we're going to do
028our strategic planning with and it's all one word. They capitalize the T and the W. So, if you're going to look for them, you can find them. They do a lot of work in Minnesota. They have a lot of uh a lot of uh references. I've called the references. They seem like a good fit. And we we'll have a preliminary meeting uh next week. And then we'll be able to start rolling out more timelines and kind of the meat of what's going to happen with that. So, I'm excited for that. And then, as you saw tonight, I also want to commend the food service people. They have been going uh with the increase that they've done. And I think it's probably because they're allowing more pickup of lunches and for people to leave and they
029they really kind of pivoted to that thinking that would help has increased those numbers. Uh and so um it's pretty exciting to see 32,000 meals and you're only halfway through the summer and that's already as many as what they served all last summer. So that's pretty pretty awesome. And now the garden's going and that's always fun to see. They have their store and if you haven't had a chance to ever go over there, take a chance, take a time to go over there between 2:00 and 5:00 on Tuesdays. Uh the kids are so excited when you drive up and walk up to the stand to sell you something and it's just kind of a fun experience to see all the stuff that they have. So other than that, that's all I have. Any questions? >>
030Thank you. I would just like to say a thank you to you and uh Rebecca as well um from the transportation committee. When we made the decision of moving to Superior, we knew it would take a lot of work um this first year and we know you put in a lot of work and just want to say thank you. >> All right, Dr. Scott, your turn. Um, a couple announcement highlights that have uh come in that I know that in June when we had our meeting, we primarily were focusing on the budget adoption. So, we have a few highlights that are still from the spring. So, uh, for this fall middle school, they're getting ready for their sixth grade orientation. That's going to be Thursday, August 14th at the middle school. And there'll be more
031information coming out to families as that date approaches. So, it's kind of an FYI. uh as well as their parent orientation will take place on that day as well. Um our high school uh new world singer sang the national anthem um at the Twins game on July 10th. I I know that there's some videos posted out there on social media as well. They sounded extremely professional. They'll probably get contacted to be singing more. It sounded like they've been doing it for a really long time, but uh they were selected from an audition tape from choir director Jake Huntley. So congratulations to them. It was quite an honor to be uh singing the national anthem um at a at a Twins game. And uh I know spring sports, like I said, we didn't have a lot
032of time to be doing that in June to be recognizing that. But uh baseball had a really successful season this year. They won the Wright County East uh title. Uh went on to win the section title. Uh came back from uh losing their first game and winning all the way through to to be the section champs and then compete at the state tournament and received fourth place. So, congratulations to the team as well as senior Brady Larson was named to the all state uh or all tournament team and then coach Tim was voted coach of the year for section 8A. So, congratulations to the team and and Tim and and Brady for uh their recognition and accomplishments on the baseball team. Um, girls golf, I know I talked about they were going to that L.
033Schwein was going to state and uh she had placed 39th out of 166 golfers. So that's quite an achievement to think be that's probably the top quarter of the of all the students competing. So congratulations to her and I know she's a senior next year. So have another another shot at continuing her um state meets potentially. And in track, uh Tiffany Dean, she had qualified for the state meet the 400 meter race and competed there. And Hanley Newman as well qualified for the stat state track meet and the 100 meter race. So, congrats to them for competing in the state tournament. Um, and uh just um announcement for our community members for the um on demand regular school board meetings. Um not only will we continue to still be here in person, so come and
034come here and watch if you want to uh see everything, but uh be in person uh but we'll they'll it'll still be live streamed so people can see that live while they're um while the meeting is going on. But then in addition to that um thanks to Sternswood Incorporated for making this opportunity possible. Um there'll be the direct links within about 4 days. So they won't be a available right away but they will be linked uh for the HCVN YouTube channel. Um they can access that directly by um going to the to youtube.com/hcvn online. they can go to the HCVN uh website to get those links and then we'll also have them linked on our district um website where the schoolboard meeting agendas are. So, lots of places to go get those links but again
035within 4 days of the um schoolboard meeting. Um just a few other things I guess in the teaching and learning area we've updated I talked about we updated our teacher evaluation rubrics uh with administration and representation and teachers. The reason was twofold. one, we had been using um a version three of the Charlotte Danielson model. So, we updated that to addition three. Um and some of the subdomains that we had focused on, we had talked over the course of um a few years about adding some more of those subdomains in there so that we're talking about u other um more focus on maybe the professional growth and professional aspects of the teaching profession. So, we've added those things in. And then the second thing was more legislated um based on the 2023 legislation about incorporating
036uh some of those standards of effective practice. The Charlotte Danielson model still had some of those already in there, but we did the crosswalk of aligning those documents. Um we did send that to the Minnesota Department of Education. Since we're a UC comp school, they do need to anytime we make any programmatic changes for Q comp, we need to send that in. So that is there for their approval. Um, and more information will be provided by the building principles when we get back to school. Um, as to what those documents look like, our QC comp coaches, Ruth and Ruth, Haml, and Tiffany will share that with teachers as well. So, again, want to thank the committee for their input and we we met, I think, four or five times to put those things together, line
037it up. Um, and the UC compound coaches and the committee for their leadership in putting that together. Um uh Dan and I had um met with eh leadership today uh just a preliminary preliminary meeting about the readactou that we'll be bringing forward for 2526 um just um like we had last year had put in place for and this will be particular basically for new teachers or any of the teachers that are finishing um the two-year cycle of the letters training specifically. We probably will need another one for 2627 as we go into uh the phase with um the phase 2 teachers that need to complete that. So uh that was a good preliminary meeting and hopefully we'll have a anou to bring forward uh shortly for that. Um, in the last board update I had
038sent that we sent to you um, weekly uh, I had the days of the new teacher uh, week, the new support staff week. Our all staff breakfast will send something out more an email to you as board members just to RSVP for those, but hopefully you saw those and those dates. Certainly, you're invited to those um, all three of those things. Um, but again, we'll send some more information out just more specifically. Uh, I think we're about 5 weeks from the new teacher week starting. Those schedules are 99.9% ready to go. We'll send those out to our new staff here in a couple weeks. Um Dan Dan talked about the uncertainty of the title 2, three, and four funding. Uh we're going to keep moving forward with the planning for that, meeting with non-public schools,
039uh since they do receive a portion of that uh this week. So, we'll be communicating to them what their preliminary numbers may be. I don't even know if they're in there. Um but moving forward with planning when if if and when we do get um the appropriation of those funds. And finally, I think in the I guess the world of curriculum and standards, um there's many teachers working this summer with writing um and implementing the new ELA standards for the fall, our high school personal finance with some schedule changes and um and other schedule changes at both the middle school and high school. So, a lot of great work is still continuing and collaborating uh this this summer. Uh, one of the standards that um is still in the in the works that I maybe
040haven't talked about in terms of like science, English, math um is the MD is working through drafts to adopt new health standards. So, right now um local um education entities are uh putting together local standards and we've followed national standards or standards that are aligned to the um MDE FIED standards. So, right now there's another draft, draft two out there that they're looking for continued feedback that uh any members of the public or school district can go and provide feedback on those draft um health standards. Um and I think that closes on July 18th. So, it's been open since June. So, if anybody wants to to provide that feedback um and they will be then moving towards adoption. um we don't know when, but once they are adopted, um school districts are supposed to shift
041from local developed standards to the statewide standards. So, it'll be something else that we'll have to be looking at um whenever that happens. I don't anticipate that happening this next year for any implementation and probably not the year following, but it'll be after that. So, if there's not any questions, that's all I have. >> Thank you, Mike. Miss Bowl, >> good evening. I do have a few um different items to share and an update on the operations side of the school district. This is the time of the year for the next three months where we will be working in three fiscal years at once. So, the team is in go time. It is it is that time of year. So, current year, fiscal year 26, following the budget adoption um here at city center at
042the end of June. We uploaded all of that into our accounting software and we're busy proofing that and working out any bugs with our administrators. Um when we closed the books in June and reported to finance committee last week, we were not only closing that month, but we were closing the prior fiscal year. So, we're going to continue with that um up until the middle of September. And then our preliminary financials will go to the auditor. The auditor is scheduled to be on site September 29th through October 3rd. And as long as all of that progresses well with their team and ours, there should be a November board report and presentation on the finances as of June 30th. Then we are also starting to work on the revenue for fiscal 27 and examples of how
043that is being completed all relates to the levy timeline and the levy cycle. Um if you recall September what's coming is the preliminary certification of the levy and then the final happens through board adoption at truth and taxation in December. Um one of the first pieces that you see every time we start a new levy cycle is the long-term facility maintenance revenue and expense plan and that was adopted as a part of the consent agenda. And then we'll be working to put in um fiscal year-end numbers into various levy components um through the m website in August. all of that's turned around September 8th and then work on verifying um all of that through the month of September. Um one additional piece to comment on with the Trump administration holding back federal title 2, three,
044and four funds that equates to approximately $100,000. We are going to continue our programming. Um, as was mentioned, we will use carryover dollars that we've been permitted to keep in order to to address that and support that programming throughout the school year. And then depending on how that all plays out, we may or may not need to make adjustments for the following school year. Um, also related to title, that was the one of uh six audits that the school district was a part of from the state level this past year. Um we did receive very very good results. Um they stated that we met expectations in all but one area. We do need to resubmit some work um detail reports as a corrective action by February 1. Um but as all audits go they always
045find something and so we will work with the team to correct that. Um food service corrective action plans are underway and the majority of them will be due December 1 or sooner. We are down to one um outstanding item on the food service side of things and I don't have an update on the student reporting audit. Um other than that, we're busy with negotiations preparations. We did meet for the first time last week with HESP. So, we appreciated everyone coming together for that meeting and then we will begin bargaining with local 284, the custodians on August 1st. Um, I know a great job was extended to food service and even though Leslie, Ann, and Amy departed, I just want to make sure to highlight their leadership, not only with the summer feeding program, but the
046school gardens, because they really continue to extend and grow each of those every single year. So, that's noticed and appreciated, as are all of the staff that are working really hard behind the scenes, packing the lunches and distributing to families. I'm also pleased to report that all of the technology projects um are on track for the summer. If you recall, we have some changes going on with Windows 11 copers and phones. Um and with that, I can take any questions you might have. Thank you. All right. Uh last month we did the superintendent uh evaluation. Dan, I would just like to say thank you for the past 3 years and we're all looking forward for the next 3 years and appreciate your team. And this is what give it a hot second on the previous
047one. So, thank you, Dan. >> Thank you. >> All right. On to committee reports. Facilities. >> Sure. I'll take that one. Um, facilities committee uh spent most of its time discussing two main items at our last meeting. The first was a uh as you might recall from last month's meeting um there was community interest in revisiting our facility fee rates and so a small group has been working through this um with Justin leading that team and we started by meeting with some community stakeholders um and getting their feedback and then um Justin and his team were able to take that offline um and I and are sort of working through what a different facility fee schedule might look like. Um that um facility fee schedule um in the past has looked like this you guys.
048Um it is a policy 813b attachment. Um and so both that policy and the fee schedule chart will need to come before this board. Um we're looking at bringing that first reading to you on July 28th and then the second reading on August 11th. Um, so look for uh that to come and there'll obviously be time for questions and we'll reach out and talk about that beforehand. Uh, the second issue that we spent some time on was our long-term facility maintenance um 10-year plan. Um, as those of you that have taken a look at this in the past, it's a it's a very large document with many different um, subdivisions. Um, and we have to submit this every year to um, the state to show that we are planning um, for facilities for a 10-year
049span. And so there's a lot of um there's a lot of basic data that goes in there that Becky Bull was helpful enough to to um provide to us and then there's a lot of other summations and estimates that you make over that 10ear span. As you know um a lot of things can change and we're doing our best guess um to give that to the state to update what our facilities um are doing and what they might need. Uh the last maybe uh little brief bit that I'll mention that we talked about was we're continuing to um discuss options about um maintaining the parking lot at the bus garage. And so um might be moving forward with some with some plans there to fill in potholes and take care of it for the some
050plans that will take care of it for the next few years. So we may have to revisit that again. >> Thank you. um to finance. >> Um the important stuff was already mentioned uh earlier from the director of finance. Um but we did uh as usual review the revenues and expenses um and they are on track and there's going to be a lot of review as it is the end of the fiscal year and then um all the questions were answered regarding the check register. Thank you. Technology Masma >> technology met on the 24th. Um despite it being summer, it was still a good uh group of staff present. Uh we talked through infosc training. um obviously seeing a a decline in participation rates, but on the flip side, they're seeing um an increase in
051staff uh identifying fishing alerts, fishing attempts, um and sending those on to the IT team, which is great. Uh summer projects, as Becky mentioned, are all on track. Those include uh CAD lab upgrades, uh new storage installed which was um a lot of that was able to be done inhouse, the Windows 11 upgrades, and then a new server was installed. Uh there was an internet maintenance um event done by an outside provider on June 19th. Uh Nick was happy to share that there were very little uh interruptions and and outages. And then the last thing we talked through was um a regional AI guidance draft that was put out by SWWC. Um Jocelyn had the idea of um maybe putting together a a subcommittee of the technology committee to begin reviewing that draft and coming
052up with a district strategy for the integration of AI in our buildings. That's all that I have. Thank you. >> Thank you. All right. Um, outcome meetings are up on the screen. We will have a workshop on the 28th and we will be back here August 11th. And if there's nothing else, we're going to close the session for negotiations. Thank you guys.