001April 19th at 6 PM. Um, our attendance roll call if you will please. Is that me? All right. Jeremy here. Alicia here. Nadia here. Kelly here. Me here. David here. And Carrie is absent. All right. If we can rise, face the flag for the pledge of allegiance. 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. Vision is Byron public schools, a community of learners committed to making the world a better place. Mission is to learn, share, innovate, inspire and priorities are to personalize learning in the pursuit of academic excellence, inspire students and staff to develop their character, share their talents, and apply their learning, maintain excellence in resource management. I did not get
002any visitor cards. Did anybody I didn't have any out there because not here. Is there anybody here that's here to speak? Okay. All right. Great recovery. Thank you. All right. Any discussions or question on the agenda items? If not, would entertain a motion to approve the agenda as presented. Motion to approve the agenda as presented. Second. Motion and a second. All in favor say I. I. All opposed. Those are approved. And we will move into our reports for the superintendent report. Yes. So, it's already May 2025. So, great community service day. I want to thank all the parent or the students and staff of Bon High School uh especially Ryan Ratkkey for or organizing be part of the community service day on on May 7th. They do a great job. They go out and they
003help the community in all different um facets. They came here and and put down a lot a lot of rock. They washed all the windows and and so forth like that and vacuumed and just help clean the district office cuz we needed that help. And then they also went out to a lot of different businesses and people's homes. And so it was great. It's great skill and great thing for our our uh students to be able to give back and and I think they meet some people as they go and work with people. So that's awesome. Um I want to congratulate girls track. Uh you know they won the true team section meet and then they were heading off to the true team state meet. Uh they competed for the conference meet at our at
004our own track and they were crowned the conference champions for the 13th consecutive year and they'll have uh should say state uh coming soon not section but state is happening soon for them. So good luck to them. We have some great events or great event coming up this Wednesday at the spring showcase for the middle school. So if you could make some time to work your way over there if you don't have a middle school child. There's lots of projects. It's from 4:00 to 6:00. So, please stop over and see all their hard work. And then also some fun events at the elementary school this past Friday was the color run. So, um if you made it over there and went through and got all full color, I don't know if anybody did, but uh
005you know, the kids love it. Uh the staff loves it and I'm amazed on how much energy those kids have cuz they just keep running running, right? And I get tired watching them. So also on the morning of the 21st, so coming up, uh there the seniors are going to be doing the walk the halls of the schools. And so that's a really cool event and they get a clap out as they get ready for graduation. So it's cool for the younger kids to see, hey, you know, these kids were young like me once and then all the big cool kids, right? So um so that's this week. Graduation, this year's graduation is at 700 p.m. on this Friday at the high school. uh the elementary schools. Oh, I'm sorry. I got mixed in there.
006We do have a year in picnic on the 28th as well for the primary and intermediate school. And so if you can make graduation, please do. Um Carrie is representing the school board on Friday night and she will be up on the stage shaking hands and so forth with the seniors as they get their diplomas. And then I want to congratulate all the seniors on making to graduation. I wish them the best of luck. And I also want to thank the veteran staff for all their hard work um K through 12, PK through 12 and helping help kids be successful. And uh so I hope the staff, students, and families have a great last two weeks. Remember that our last day with kids is May 28th. And then we have two staff development days um
007for the readact on uh Thursday and Friday. So um just a couple weeks away. Our wait um for enrollment is uh right now we're at uh registered make this a bit smaller but we are at 22.99 but I was told this afternoon that we have nine more students coming in we're at 138 um and then there's in kindergarten which is we remember for a while we were hoping at 130 and we have five more besides this that's in the queue so we're a little over 140 which should be helpful. However, we do, you know, expect as always, it's it's great optimism, but also realistic that there will be some students who will leave school. So, as Dan works on his preliminary budget, it'll be conservative knowing that we won't be as we won't have as
008many kids as next year. So, um that is really my report. Any questions? Great. All right, we'll turn it over to Dan for a financial update. Um, good evening. Yeah, I don't um didn't have any presentation or anything. I just want to give you a brief update. We just met with the finance committee and um I showed them the revenues that we talked about the last board meeting and then I've we've been working on the budget um almost there as we as we work on every line of the budget to make sure that we are um not missing anybody as far as staffing and things like that goes. So, right now we're like I said, the good news we're within 1% of balancing it, but u bad news is 1% is $300,000. So, um we
009have to um keep working at to get that get down so we have a balanced budget. Um as I looked at what's going on this year, we're still hanging in there. Um, our expenditures are maybe a half a point ahead of over what they might be at this time of year, but that was mainly because we had an April 15th cutoff for expenditures and people got all their spending done in April. Um, so we probably won't see a lot of spending done in May and June. So the main thing is that the salaries and wages look like they're in line and that's always a scary one. So otherwise, I think that you should be ready to have your draft budget presented on June 2nd to the school board. Great. Awesome. Thank you. Thanks. I just
010will add to that as a financial update that we do um have as we brought up and approved Sean. So Sean Ellbury coming from island as our new executive director of finance and operations. Uh I met with him today uh because uh he's also in his busy time at Pine Island trying to get their preliminary uh budget done. He will start on his first day here will be June 3rd and that week he'll be here two days a week. the following week he'll be here two days a week and then be at Pine Island on the other three days and then starting on the 20 the week of the 23rd and the following week of that June he'll be here three days a week working with Dan and so forth and then starting full-time on
011Tuesday July 1st the transition he'll be on some of the days that he's here he'll be working with Dan on the preliminary budget and be able to do that so we're excited to have him and uh we have a plan for him to get started and and he does uh and he does have a school email now and so um I know that uh Nate has also been in contact with him and their superintendent. So just want to keep that as updated when he's going to be starting. Can I just ask Dan a quick question before we move on? So Dan, you said 300,000. Are we so like a deficit of 300,000? Yeah, right now is around the first. Okay. to to finish out the school year for next year's budget. Next year's budget. Gotcha.
012Okay. Okay. No, this year's budget. And we're budgeted to have a $50,000 deficit spend. Okay. Expendures hold as they are. I'm projecting about a conservatively about a $50,000 surplus. Okay. Good. Hopefully it be higher. Yeah, I I remember one thing Dan told me is that the preliminary budgets are usually wrong because there's a lot of assumptions. There's a lot of things that you put into there. You don't know, especially now as a legislature. You know, they're supposed to be done today at midnight and they're probably not going to be done. It'll be a special session. So, there's just but we have to by law have a preliminary budget done by the end of June. So June 16th is when you get the information to look at on June 2nd and then June 16th is when
013you'll have to approve that preliminary budget. But that's why you go through all your negotiations, go through the start of the school year, do all that after the operating referendum. Then you will um do a a revised budget and Sean Ellbury will do a revised budget and then um compared to then you'll be able to see where you are at after all those you'll get October 1st is the enrollment. so you know how many kids that you're going to be given for your formula and so forth. So then you do a revised budget just like um Julie Sink did with us in December of this year and then that's what we use to track the rest of the year. That's what you use to make sure that you're on budget the rest of the year.
014But yeah, the preliminary is very preliminary. Okay. All right. We'll move on to the information regarding the operating referendum. Yes. So, this is from Jeff Daylor from Daylor PR. He just wanted to give an update of what's what where what's been happening. And so, those uh that are on the committee and have been involved, please chime in if you would like. But, uh first of all, the community engagement goal. We have a goal of trying to get to as many um people giving their input and and their thoughts. And you know for this the goal is to make sure that in November that you have given the community what they need to make an informed decision regarding the referendum um that the operating referendum that you'll be going out for in November. So I think
015that's uh very important. And then uh the project is uh again it is right now uh operating referendum. Things could change slightly but most likely it'll be operating referendum. you will be deciding after the budgets and after the survey and so forth um how much you will be asking or going out for. That won't be probably until July. It doesn't have to be until the first week or so of August, but you'll probably want to have that at your board meeting in July. Um, I will tell you that I think um right now the Nate uh would would like to have that still have the work session in July, but I know it's originally scheduled for the 7th, but we talked about moving it to the 14th if uh because some people are out of
016town close to the 4th. And so you will probably hear from Mr. Walbrook to have a work session on the 14th so that him and um PR and Daylor PR can go through the whole survey. They're going to be doing community meetings um and so forth and they can come to you with all the information so you can make an informed uh decision on July 21st regarding the referendum questions and so forth. Okay. Um, do we have any idea how many people have taken the survey yet or any although I I I brought I brought it to the uh Yeah, we we do have a community survey, public opinion survey right here. It's been sent out in the in the in the buzz. It's been sent out to all the staff. Um we are working
017on getting it on to social media. The first part that we've been doing is trying to get all the staff and parents involved. So, um, we've been using, uh, you know, again, the buzz or our email, the links to send it out to the staff and our parents to get them on there. And then we'll be doing social media. I know it's um, the city is gracious enough gracious enough to put it in the newsletter in the water bill that's going to run out at the end of the month with the link to be able to go on. And then um we'll have a lot of other places to distribute uh the half sheets um that tell people where to go on. And our goal we we talked last week um we meet month uh
018weekly with dealers and we talked about we'd like to have 800 to a,000 you know surveys taken and uh right now we're uh I have to budget on I got my numbers mixed up. We're not at 485. We're at 458. And so four so far as of 3:00 today, there were 458 surveys that have been completed. Um so we're but again we don't I I know that they would like to get four 800 to a,000 surveys would be great. So we'll continue to push that information out. They have until June 20th to complete that information. And there is an email going specifically to parents in the coming days. Correct. Okay. Great. Um Yeah. So, if you see social media posts, share them. And um I handed out the the half sheets with the QR code
019before the middle school concert. And people were very happy, I think, to see a board member saying, "We want to hear from you." So, if you are at stuff in these final days, Aid is a good or if Mike too if but if you're busy, um if you need those sheets, if you are somewhere and you're getting there early and you'll have 15 minutes before, just standing at the door and handing them out is great, I think. Um yeah, and u at those events if you if you need to I can I will make sure that the pass sheets are there. You know, just remind me that you're going that way. I know last week at the high school choir concert and make till later. Um and so um you know I left the sheets
020on the table. I just dropped them off because I couldn't be there. So but if if you if I know you're going to be there, I'll leave the stack there. Um, I have the original copies to make make them up and so does Anna Lixson. So if I'm not around or whatever, you can you can email and you can email both myself and and then one of us will make sure that those are copied in to you. So now is somebody going to be at the uh showcase on Wednesday? Yes. Brett and I can primary picnic. What's that? Primary picnic. The primary picnic. Yeah, send me and I'll have I'll bring sheets and whoever can be there. Great. So, yeah, that'd be great. And we I know our um we are having our our administrators
021have been talking about their staff meetings about filling the filling out the surveys. We have a end of the year staff me send off sort of thing where one of our teachers uh are is going to get up and talk to teachers about fill out that survey and what can they expect in in the near future when they come back from their summer and so forth. Um and then we met with the budget committee gave them the information gave them some talking points because they get the inside scoop sometimes with some of the questions they get to see on the budgets and so forth. So we uh you know give them information as well today and then committee meetings. I know that Mr. Walbrook would be is looking already at meeting with the budget committee
022the week. He's going to be in town um the week before July 1. So uh kind of move himself in. So he would take time to come over and he's going to have a a meeting with the budget committee and other committees they were trying to set up for him so that he can go through the survey the survey results and get people's input and so forth so that they can come to you meaning them and Jeff Daylor on the 14th at the work session in July to present all those results and what they're hearing from all these other committees. So, and I'm sure he'll be hearing be asked to be part of some of those committees as well. So, yeah, a lot of things going on and by the way, they're moving on and
023so a lot of people are get in place and you'll hear you're starting to hear some things, but you'll start hearing more come um late June into through August. And once August starts and this and the kids and staff are back to school, that's when most of the stuff will be in the road almost daily, right? So, okay. Great. Any other questions? Thanks. Do we have any old or unfinished business? I don't think I think so. All right. On to uh taking action on the U FY 2526 schoolboard calendar. Excuse me. So, this is uh we presented this last week uh or two weeks ago. Again, the question is going to be in July. Um do We said we're going to wait uh and because it's easier to add a meeting sometimes. So, we'll wait
024to add that meeting, but kind of pencil it in on yours for right now. And then Mr. Wal will get send that out to everybody if that's exactly the date that they're looking at for a special or not special meeting, but a work session to have and that would be Monday, July 14th. Thank you. Otherwise, these are that the dates that we will be posting and will be posting on the website and so forth for next year's um schoolboard dates. Are there any questions? No other questions. Would entertain a motion to uh approve the schoolboard calendar as presented. Move to approve the school board calendar as presented for 2526. Second. motion and a second. Um, all in favor say I. I. All opposed. Motion carries. Am I giving you enough time to Okay. Uh, all
025right. Action on the 2526 uh handbooks. So, we uh at the last meeting we presented the handbooks. I know a lot of people didn't get a chance to go through them all. It's a lot of reading. Um, we did get some feedback from some board members at the last me last meeting as well as since then. I presented those to the edund team. They've made some changes. They were making changes yet today. So, I know there's still some questions regarding uh dress code at the middle school high school. Essentially, the two say the same. U right now the middle school is a little bit more prescriptive or specific um when it comes. So, I know that they've talked about um you know the wording and and so forth. Um, again, they followed uh the what's
026in the policy for dress code. It's just that and I'll tell you, being a former middle school principal, sometimes you have to spell it out for the middle school kids that it's hard, you know, harder for them to understand and and be, you know, logistically reasoning compared to high school kids. They they get it more and so forth. Um I I am talking to those two administrators about how to make it more more unified and I think it's fine if it's not unified. I just didn't know like I don't know enough about it to know what the best it's important or not. Um the main things that I saw and I haven't looked at them this afternoon so maybe these changes have been made um were the pronouns we talked about and I think I
027sent you um the list of this the specific instances I found like basically anytime there's um like she he I think we need to include they or just eliminate the gendered program pronouns completely and just use they them there which some sentences already do use they them there. Um it's just simpler I think. They also talked about what you had suggested and we talked about last week about just moving to the students the student or the athlete or the I think that's like eliminate all pronouns. I think that's fine too and and they were working on that. So send me that today. I did forward it on to them and great and they were having their admin assistance going back and double checking the ones that you had asked for. Yeah. So if we do
028approve these um for me it would be with the stipulation that the pronouns are addressed. Um, and then just a couple housekeeping things like I think we should add the contact information for the human rights officer. Um, and then linking things like when it talks about activities um, like link the activities handbook under the student activities section in both the middle and high school and link the bullying report forms just because I think if people are having a problem that's when they go to the handbook. So, we just want to make it easy. Yeah. And then u po just posting them in multiple locations because I think they're hard to find right now. The student handbooks are um and then the only other thing was if we have use the word parent and mostly this
029is done but there are a few instances where I think we could also add guardian just to be inclusive and all those again were put on the administrators today. Okay. Just to double have their people go through and double check everything and Okay. and put those things in. Okay. And then the last meeting tomorrow, I'll make sure that that Okay. Um the last one was just because we if we're going to update our harassment and violence um policy. So this would make sure the handbook is congruent with that just to add gender identity and expression specifically to the h harassment and violence prohibition section. It was already in there in a different section. Um and then the it talks about the nurse office a few times. I wonder if we should say health office instead
030since But that was it. Any other questions or discussion? I was looking through the handbooks earlier today. I think most of it is that the pronouns, correct me if I'm wrong, Mike, but what I'm seeing is yeah, the pronouns are being removed. Okay. Um and then just addressing students, teachers, that um I would be okay with that. Um, I don't want to be adding he, she, they, them. I think it's a little confusing. So, if we can just keep it more simple. Um, I guess I'd be okay with that. I do know I know Carrie's not here. Um, she had some discussions. Unfortunately, I don't know what her discussions were. Okay. So, I want to make sure that she also has a voice maybe, but anyone else knows. So, do we have to wait on
031this then or? I mean, you don't I mean, you can approve it anytime. The reason why we're doing it now is so that in the the old days, you used to have printed handbooks. They had to go to the printer, you know, and to take it back by the time school starts. Now, our handbooks are online. So, it could be something. But again, I think most of these changes are the things we talked about at the admin level and uh doing the the students and parents and just trying to be take the pronouns out. So it's is also more specific as well as as that. So that's what we're talking. So that's what we're that's why I've asked them to move to and go through. So again, we meet tomorrow. So I'll bring it up
032to tomorrow. Okay. Make sure it's ahead of time. So do we want to approve them like you said at least with the stipulation of we know this is in process, right? But it h or do we want to wait? Yeah. too. I'm comfortable approving with the pronoun changes. Yeah. Kelly, do you know Jerry sent her concerns via an email to anybody or like whatever questions she had was not concerns necessarily? I'm not 100% sure. I don't have an email, but they can still be you can always go back and have those changed later on, too. It's not set in stone. It's just telling the the administrators. Yes, we approve of these rules and while in these wording the wording or at least this what's h you know what these handbooks stand for. So when people
033come back to school in August you know these are already said you're not trying to do this in August but you can make changes you know between now and then if you see something and you want to go back you can ask uh Mr. all to bring up if they're they can make it before the kids come back and parents you just want to make sure that the rules and policies and all that are in place before everyone leaves kids some changes but do you know what Car's concerns were kind of about I think the they them and adding that to the he she um however I think if we did approve this on the stipulation that the stipulation for the pronouns is the students, staff, teachers, etc. versus the he, she, they, them. Um,
034I think that would result that. And I just want to be very clear that adding they them is just making our language inclusive as our policies tell us we need to. Um, to me, it's the same as like in disability language, we put the person first. And so, um, I just I I think as board members, we need to realize that we need to make our language inclusive as well. Um, so, and I'm happy to talk to Carrie about that if she has more questions about it, too. But, yeah, I think just um, changing it to students and athletes was a good choice. Any other questions or discussion? We'll look for a motion. um to move forward on the handbooks. I'll make a motion to approve the handbooks as written. Okay. Motion. Do we have
035a second? If we don't have a second, the motion will fail and the handbooks will not be approved. Are we just not approving them because the language isn't finalized or what's the problem? I'm I'm hesitating because if there's um I I don't want to be accused of pushing something through that wasn't discussed. Sure. If there were changes today, I don't know if I would see them, especially the middle school handbook. Um, I have to keep requesting access to that one and not out of it again today. So, I don't know what changes were made with that one. Um, I think perhaps I know we have to rule on that motion first, but perhaps a motion with the understanding that the pronouns will be addressed as not pronouns, but pronouns will be removed and changed to
036student or whatever kids, whatever is applicable, especially if they're still making changes. So if we approve it how they are here, they might change. Does that make sense? So you so I can clear this up, right? So your motion is to approve the handbooks. So what I'm hearing and and so I can say this out loud is we don't want to approve the handbooks as is. We want to approve it with a stipulation that there are changes coming. Is that correct? Yes. So I think you need to resend your motion. Resend mine and then I think that's the right term. Okay. But it it didn't get a second. So that all right. Somebody else could make a motion regarding the next part and adding the pronoun language. So okay. Somebody else want to make a
037new make a new motion then? That's correct. Yeah. Okay. And the motion would lay out how the acceptance would be. And if you need more time, you can certainly we could discuss it again and more time and then make sure that all the changes are made in the handbook before you do that. I mean, you can certainly approve. You can certainly do that. And um I don't I don't know if that needs a motion to move back or just we decide to move it back. This one failed. So you just some No, you just have to if that one fails. So you don't have it. So then you can move it to another meeting. Should we are we comfortable moving this to the what would that be? The June I don't know that day. Well,
038June 2nd, we usually don't do voting on, but you could if we want to have all those changes done. You look it over. You can do it. You can put things on the work session as an action item. And that way because I know that uh um you know, even the principles are still and their admin assistants are still in the offices that week. So, they could make changes and you could revisit this for an action item on the June 2nd. Okay. Okay. work session. Okay. Okay. So, we will do that. Then we'll look at uh item C, the action on rescending uh the 2024 revision of policy 522. There any questions on on this? I know we've talked about it. We entertain a motion to resend the 2024 revision of policy 20 522. And
039this is the one where the language. So we're going back to the 2020 language. Correct. And the 413 covers that new language. Is that right? The four because it's part of the Minnesota. Okay. and res part of that and but uh by the 2024 revision we've been told by MSP and their lawyers that it does it's no longer valid for really what it's and so their recommendations is to revert back to the policy 522 that was proven from 2020. Okay. So, we've had this conversation and then, you know, but in policy 413, we did make some of those changes that were brought up um in policy 413 to cover more. I did talk with our um attorney regarding that. And so, so it's just a matter of, you know, following what uh MSPA and our
040attorney is saying about 20 policy 5224 revision. So really what we're doing tonight is removing the 2024 revised one because now it's back to the 2023 one. Correct. 2021 which is this one here. Yeah. So, you're going to remove the 2024. You're going to adopt the former policy that we had on the books up until December. And we all were told that we should move this new one. We were all told we should move it back. So, um so we're in this former where we would adopt this policy for for the title 9 part and then you're also going to adopt some amendments to policy 413 regarding the bullying and harassment. So, that's bolster the 522, right? This should all this be as a one motion because it's No, because you approved one, it's better
041off than three different motions because there are different policies and and so forth. So, you're better off resending taking one weight and then bringing on the other one. So, they all go together. They all kind of do go together, but you have to do them in three different boats. Okay. Motion to send policy 52 to the 2024 revision. Copy. Second. Okay. Motion and a second. All in favor say I. I. All opposed. Motion carries. Now we'll take action on the adoption of the former policy 522 which would put us in line with all the federal guidelines. A motion on the adoption of the former policy 522. Second. Motion and a second. All in favor say I. I. All opposed. Motion carries. and we will look at uh action on the adoption of amendments to policy
042413. So we did add um in the purpose um gender identity as one of the uh protected classes and then also down here we took out when it came to the harassment part uh where is it? um my red line right here number nine and just instead of putting sexual harassment just as harassment or violence as abuse. I think those were the two areas that we were asked to make changes to and I checked with um our attorney and they were okay with those those changes as well. So okay, I motion to approve the amendments to policy 413. Motion and a second. All in favor say I. I. I. All opposed. Motion carries. Then we'll take action on our second read and policy amendments to 423. So this one is just about student employee student
043relationships we talked about before. But the big thing here is just the all this is MSBA policy. All the all the changes the legal changes all those things that were put in there. So um everything else is still the same. Just need to approve this policy. Are we now is this so it's we can do two of them together both of them at the same motion right um together I'm sorry and then this one here public participation what we changed in here is if we have somebody who does come and do the uh public speaking um it used to read that it was you'd have to be a resident a veteran now it reads that you are a just a little bit you just passed right that it can be and school district and or
044parent guardians of students enrolled in Byron public schools since 22% of our students are open enroll. So you you can be a resident of Byron or you can have a student here in in our school district which means open enroll parents can come in and talk to the board and so forth. Okay. I motion to approve policy 423 and 206. Second motion and a second. All in favor say I. I. All opposed. All right. So, those are good to go. And then action on the 2526 MHSL resolution. Wait, we had one right here. Oh, I missed. I'm sorry. Yep. Resolution on the non-renewal. So, we have a teacher who actually was a retired teacher who came back to help us this year in special education that at the CEC for early childhood and did a
045great job. She got a tier one license um to be able to do that. However, we are not because of numbers and so forth. We're reducing that position up for next year. So, she knows it. It's not anything performance-wise. It was just reduction in staff and uh so just we have to do this as a resolution. Um, so if somebody wants to read that and then we have to do a roll call. I get a motion to accept it and then do a roll call. Does somebody want to read that or I can um resolution relating to the Okay, I went down one. Do you need a motion to accept first or not? I think you need to probably read what you're going to uh accept. Y resolution relating to the termination and non-renewal teaching
046contract of a tier 1, tier 2, or probationary teacher as described. School Board of Independent School District number 531 hereby adopts this resolution on May 19th, 2025 for the following certified staff and directs the administration to provide copies of the adopted notice of termination and non-renewal to the identified staff and to prepare individual resolutions in the format provided for board approval following the adoption of this resolution. And then the next right. Um whereas Ruth Bailey Holmes is described as a tier one, tier two or probation area teacher in independent school district number 531 be resolved by the school board of independent school district number 531 that pursuant to Minnesota law that teaching contract of Ruth Bailey Holmes, a probationary/tier one tier 2 teacher in independent school district number 531 is hereby terminated at the close
047of the current 2024 2025 school year. Be it further resolved that written notice be sent to set teacher regarding termination and non-renewal of their contract provided by law. And then that's just the letter that is sent. So yeah. Okay. All right. Would entertain a motion to uh take action on that resolution. I make a motion to approve. Second. Motion and a second. This is a resolution. So roll call vote. All right. Uh let's see. Jessen, yes. Uh, David, hi. Nadia, hi. Uh, Kelly, hi. Alicia, hi. And Jeremy, I motion carries. Now, we'll move on to the Minnesota State High School League resolution for membership. I don't know if you need to read all of this. This is what we'll just say that because this is what some we sign it every year. This is to
048be a part of the high school league um for the for next year and so we need to approve this. It is a conservative resolution. So um but if you want to read you can but there's just a lot of things that again is it's for us to be part of the high school league for our athletics and so forth. Motion to approve the resolution on the MSHSL membership. Motion and a second. What was the second? Nadia. Nadia. Yep. All right. All um we'll take a roll call vote there. All right. David, hi. Alicia. I. Nadia. Hi, Kelly. Hi. Jeremy. I. And Lisa. I. I think that gives me like unanimous. Whatever you want to do. All right. On to our Byron City Council update. All right. Let's see. They had um four or three
049kids that did the mayor for a day presentations and those were really cute. Um some of the the great ideas were a stoplight by the high school and actually you wrote about this in the books, right? Okay. Yeah. So, a stop light by the high school, um a library, a dog park by fairway, a bigger refrigerator in the food pantry. Thought that was kind of interesting. Um cameras at the red park where the basketball courts are. And let's see, lower pricing for getting into the pool. One of the kids said, "These are all fantastic." Yeah. More lifeguards at the pool, a police department in Byron, and a community center. So, we'll have to let them know we have a community center. Yes. As soon as they can start paying taxes. Yeah. Yeah. So, um Daryl
050Glass Maker, um just kind of told them, you know, okay, these are some great ideas. And he said some of the papers, they had outlandish ideas. And so he told him, you know, a few things about why we can and can't do certain things in Byron, like a police department environment and that kind of thing. So it was informative. Um, let's see. A pickle ball update. They already raised over $60,000 for pickle ball. Wow. And there was a like a bunko tournament or something over the weekend that raised 3,400 I think I saw on Facebook. So um, and maybe you can speak to this too, Mike. Do you know anything about the pickle ball? Um, they're just trying to raise money. I know they need quite a bit of money to do a a to
051do the as many pickle ball courts as they'd like. I think I'm not exactly sure the location, but they were talking about down by the soccer fields. Yeah. Those are off of 20th. And there's space, green space back there behind the Yep. By the community gardens. Yes. Back there behind them. So, okay. All right. Um, let's see. I do know there's a lot of pickle ballers. I do. Yep. And let's see. I think that's it. I think the biggest thing we need the city to figure out is what are they going to call it now that it's not a red park. I'm still kids. It'll always be the red park for, you know, a lot of people. Uh Z update. Krie did not send Well, she sent something to me. She did. Okay. She did.
052So, uh, the futures program, which is, uh, the level four, um, program, it's pretty, uh, intense type program, uh, has had four students fully transition back to their home district, which is awesome. And you're lucky to get one every year to be able to transition back and be functional in their buildings. Um, and there are five more in process of transitioning. So, a huge year over at Zed, so that's great news. May 9th was the activity day in Triton. It was a gorgeous day out there. Um, and the kids had a lot of fun doing. They get to walk around while the Triton High School band is playing and and they had all their elementary kids out there in the stands cheering for them and each team walks by like it's the Olympics and they're
053going by and they're all waving and things and really kind of a cool scene. And then each each um student gets to run a race or or participate in a race sometimes in a wheelchair sometimes and do the best and then they hold little cray paper line at the end to bust through and um so and then they get a medal and there's high school kids out there giving them medals and so forth playing that and then they get to do fun activities like a just a there's even a bouncy house there but there's other different types of just fun different activity that they can do. Some of them, you know, with their disabilities and so forth and they go from 10:00 to noon and they have a lunch and it was just a great
054day for for those kids and those staffs to celebrate everything. So, that went very well. And uh then also at their last meeting they heard from the Med City Moonshots who came out and presented their baseball team um what they do for baseball and for kids u for athletes 15 and and older with disabilities. So a lot of times those are kids that are part of zed and and so forth. So they um there by the way if anybody's interested they have openings the moonshots do for players for coaches and volunteers. So see Carrie if you have any uh questions or invol and want to be involved. I know she has some connections. And then also the ALC graduation is uh on our last day of school by uh on the 28th of J of
055May at 4 p.m. I will let you know how many kids there are and if there are any Byron students graduating at from the ALC. So I will let you know. Sometimes we don't have anybody um graduating. And what day did you say that was? That was that was May 28th at 400 p.m. over at Zed. Okay. And you get to stay for a little cake and a little fun afterwards. So, okay. Okay. But that's that's her report. Wonderful. On to the consent agenda. Do we have any questions or discussion on the consent agenda? Board would entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda. Um my only question was on that check register there was one check number that was missing and um Mike said that that check had been voided and you will be
056providing a report that shows the voided check. Yeah. So from now on u because when you look at the check register there might be one that's missing. So, um, I talked to Stacy and she called over to region five and there's a a void check report that you can so that it shows and she had just add that we don't have one a month before we had like five. It was all in one spot because it was miscoded to the wrong u fiscal year. So we had already made the checks and we fig and through all of our oversightes and double-checking we found out that and avoid those out and do the checks and so it just doesn't come up on the register then you know as as checks that go through. So u but
057Stacy Magnus said that she was able to run a report right off what that is and we'll add that to from now on so you can see if there's anything missing if there if they're avoided checks. So great entertain motion to hold on for a sec. I do have a question just about the business office structure. Yes. Um so if we are eliminating uh Jenna Johnson's position as the as the curriculum director admin assistant right okay so then the curriculum director and sped director will not have an admin assistant. Um, so then Jenna will Let's see when she if she interviews and for the next for the position that's open, it'll be a um a 260 day. It'll be a 260 day because she's um halftime curriculum purchasing, which happens a lot during the summer.
058Okay. As well as accounts payable. um she'd be doing all the accounts payable, paying the bills, doing those things that right now Stacy Magnus has been part of. But um but just know we don't have a curriculum director anymore with Jessica's inter lead. So, and um Marie, remember part of that we've add we're adding that person who's also going to be Marie support um with MA billing and as well we can pay some of that through special ed through MA billing and then also she's that person he or she or whoever takes that position is going to also be our district assessment coordinator. So they will be doing all the testing uh coordination that Jennet does right now for the district and so forth. And then Stacy Magnus will um continue with all of her
059Mars reporting and that's we know when we look at enrollment has to go into the state every month and make sure we have the right kids so we get the right funding and so forth. There's a lot of other types of reports that you would have to do. She is all central processing central enrollment. So everybody who signs up would go through her and then she'd work with um Infinite Campus to be able to do all the tracking, all the things that are kind of spread out now that would go to her and then with Sean Ellbury taking a lot of the operations when it comes to transportation, food service and and grounds and facilities. Um Stacy is very knowledgeable when it comes to budgets and with um coding. She would be crossrained and helping
060with payroll or be able to do payroll in case something happens there. They've all been will be cross trainined together. But she'll be doing a lot with the also the tracking of fundraising um donations, student activity accounts, which you know those things kind of come and go and making sure that she's working with those adviserss who are on there and and meeting with them or sending their stuff monthly and saying here's what you have here. Right now we just don't have the capability of doing that. And um so by moving reorganizing the business office we're able to do that and be able to have better customer service and then after a couple years once Sean Ellbury and Neil Wal are here they can reevaluate and see where they're at to make changes as needed. So,
061but again, these are changes that were actually recommended by Julie Sink in the fall and then Dan kind of said the kind of same stuff is these would be good changes and so forth. And so, that's kind of what we're going with. What was the total change in cost to the district? Well, it depends on who gets it and so forth, but it it add the the days and look at because when you add days, you add some benefit to it. and benefits becoming full-time fully year employee. Um there's some that also goes in a little bit more for being salaried because they do so much on outside too and so it's a salary part and then also your FICA and other things that you have to pay. So it's around 15 to $18,000 that
062part of next year's budget as well. So and you think these are good changes to the business office? Yeah. Yeah. caught up. Okay. Was already in your proposed budget as well. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Any other questions or discussion to entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda? I make a motion to approve the consent agenda. Second. Motion and a second. All in favor say I. I. All opposed. Consent agenda is approved. We'll move on to donations. Mr. Treasurer, would you be so kind to read the donations? Yes. Uh, Methodist Church donated $200 for Bearpacks. Spearmman Energy Good Steward Consulting donated $1,000 for the food pantry. Dad's Auto and Repair LLC donated $500 to Dtown Meats processing class. Any questions or discussion on the donations or would entertain a motion to accept those? Make a motion
063to accept the donations as presented. All right. Uh David motion. Let's see. So there's only a second right here. Julie seconded. All right. David also. All right. Okay. Roll call. David, hi. Uh, Alicia, hi Nadia. Hi, Kelly. Hi, Jeremy. Hi, and Lisa. I Okay. Okay. All right. That brings us to our final uh agenda item, adjournment. Motion to adjourn. Second. Motion in a second. All in favor say I. I. I. All opposed. We are adjourned. You got 10 minutes.