0015:31 on March 3rd at 6:00 pm uh attendance please here here Lisa here here here here yes all right our vision Byron Public Schools a community of Learners committed to making the world a better place mission is to learn share innovate Inspire priorities personalized learning in the pursuit of academic excellence Inspire students and staff to develop your character share their talents and apply their learning and maintain excellence in Resource Management any questions or discussion on the agenda items make a motion to approve the agenda as presented second motion and a second all in favor say I I I all opposed agenda is approved we'll Dive Right into our reports the AI report yes so so uh Kelly Brun um was supposed to be here to do that but she had called and there's an illness
002in her family that she cannot uh be here tonight um so I'm going to do my best just to give you uh um what um our AI is about and Dan probably knows a little bit more as well um but so one of the things that we have for um we talked about the categorical funding is is one of the funds is achievement and integration it is something that we work and have to propose um a plan for and um each year and um the plan doesn't change a whole lot we have there's some goals that go with the plan but it works with um Rochester you know there are some you either have the eligibility is you have to be racially isolated which has enrollment of of a protected class districtwide is more than
00320% compared to the people around you uh that you're a joining district with that racially isolated so r Chester is considered uh racially isolated and and we are are joining them so it would be programs that we would work with Rochester at times to be able to do um a lot of it has to also deal with to increase um some racial and economic integration so we do some teacher Equity work as one of our goals um is to by the year 2026 100% of Bin certified staff will engage and participate in network with adjoint districts and study cultural responsive trauma informed practices and we did the trauma informed practices last year so this is kind of a two-year um thing and then reduce achievement disparities this is where really we um will really concentrate
004on is that each year the proficiency of our our uh students who receive educational benefits for all grades tested on the state reading uh MCAS 3 through 5th will increase by 2% and the students testing grade K through two using fast bridge will also increase by 2% so it's how to get extra supports to those to those students and then also Byron will participate uh will increase participation from 25% to 50% for under served student groups in our by and career path programming so we're trying to get um students who may be underserved or maybe not have a lot of U chance to do things to participate in things like SE tech classes and through Rochester and so forth be able to do that so that's been our goals um as we move forward so
005again it's really about cultural competency uh careers course and teacher we have at the F Middle School that works with our kids we collaborate with Rochester Public Schools and ctec and then we reduce um achievement disparities through adoption of our wonders program so when you look at the um and and what we'll do is I'm just presenting it tonight if you have questions email me and I'll and I'll get those to Kelly or you can email both Kelly and I if you have questions as you go and then we'll approve this budget um coming at the next meeting so but this is this year's budget for this school year and the mcis is what they use in middle school and high school for career planning and so forth and then professional development uh there's money
006for that and then Pathways some supplies and dreams and then uh last year we imple started implementing at uh Intermediate School the Wonders curriculum it is a one that goes with the science aring it's approved by the state and so um we we use um but it's quite a bit when you look at the curriculum and you know it's about $180,000 or more all together so we're able to space that over 3 years using Ani because it's one of those that um helps uh has different levels uh again works with science and and is approved by the state so they allow us to pay for that using our a&i budget so you'll see uh wonders this for this year you'll also see wonders for next year and then you'll see this one more time for
007the achievement and integration and so it helps us get get that curriculum for and that will actually be a K5 curriculum May 15 or K5 I just know it's the the elementary school curriculum so um really though then each year we have to put in here's what our are here's where we meet our goals or here's what we want to work on here's um and some of them could be two or three year goals and then uh we get that back and you can see it's $135,000 that we get but it's one of those again that's categorical that here's $135,000 but you can only use it for certain things and for certain reasons and U programs and so we want to make sure we're we're capitalizing on all of those um this year and and
008going forward so any question questions for me I'll try to answer them otherwise email me and I'll give them to Kelly she would have gave a much better presentation how does this compar to numbers from last year do we know for salary I mean for what we get we get 130 for this year okay and it goes up to 135 for right now that was an estimate might be a little bit less and then we have to kind of go from there oh so okay okay and the fiscal year 2025 is this what's that I'm sorry and the fiscal year 2025 there is that 2024 2025 Year yes we're right now in fy2 next year's FY 26 it's when the it's when the school year ends that's the best way to remember it so it's
009the it's the the school year 2024 2025 yes yep for this year that's what we're getting right now is here and this is the goals that we put in and were approved for um and then this is for next year for the 25 26 school year mhm okay and are all of is all of that amount um provided to us via State funding yes this is true State funding and it's targeted right okay y um do they have any recommendation of how to allocate those funds or is this a program that we have developed and we are we we can send send you the eligibilities and the reasons or the things that they want that this has to go towards and that's what it's kind of open but yet it's really not you can't just
010go spend on anything and then what will happen is next year they'll have to re redo it but they'll probably have to work with because if you think of anybody that's that any District that touches with Rochester they can be part of it so they have to get together with them and say here's how we're going to use this money because we only get a portion of what everybody else gets that sort of thing so that's what we'll happen is they'll get together and say here's how we're going to use this money for the next two years or so okay okay any other questions turn it over to Dan for our finance update you can drive oh okay um good evening um yeah I just have a a short Financial update tonight um as we
011said we like to during the workshop sessions um more of a try to do more of a learning thing teach a few things us uh School Mota K2 School Finance so now we're into our 2526 budget process um as you know the B school board approved $1.6 million in adjustments its last meeting uh in addition to the $1.6 million the year before um so these adjustments that were made were based on what's happening in the 24 25 budgets as we work on the 25 26 budget um as we forecast and looked out we knew we needed to make these adjustments to balance the budget um and now that that's done Finance can now incorporate these adjustments into compiling next year's budget so we did find some things out exciting time for business managers last week
012as we got a memo from mde telling us that they figured out what the basic funding formula will be next year um based on the inflationary rate of 2.74% um they're raising the basic formula rate $200 per pupil unit as you recall a pupil unit is a calculation of the number of students depend a waiting dep on what grade they're in theyve made it very simple nowadays um K through six is weighed at 1.0 and 7 through 12 is rated at 1.2 so you take your number of students throw them into the formula and gives you the number of pup units what does that mean to BU in this $200 per pupil unit increase um well the current year right now we have uh the basic formula is $728 and we have 255 $2,551 people
013units so that equals about $18.57 6 million um next year with the 7,481 basic formula uh but people units are going down as the Roma goes down that two 2 mil 2,56 that's about 18, um it's an increase of about $172,000 in general education Aid I know for years we went to legislature and said this basic formula is not going up to match inflation so they finally passed some legislation to match inflation I have not seen the calculation of how they came up the 2.74 and how it really relates to the inflationary numbers we're looking at but it's a good it's a good thing that they're doing that now if we can keep our expenses at inflation also with this decline in enrollment where we'll see our local optional Revenue will decrease about $32,000 uh
014local optional revenue is $724 per pupil unit and that's um similar to a referendum amount but it's for determined and I probably would think almost every District in the state uses local optional Revenue um but with dropping enrollment that will actually be a decrease in our Revenue now the state does have declining enrollment Aid which probably never thought you'd ever have for a long long time but as if your Roma goes down they'll bring some Aid back to make up for that so that kick that's kicking in next year at about 70,000 so it's kind of making up for the loss in U enrollment so we know that the impact of the increase in the formula which we're all excited about is tempered by the decrease in the district's enrollment so as we're putting this
015budget together the expense information we're going to use um obviously the Staffing our biggest expense uh Staffing is going to come at us from all directions from the elementary side and from the Middle School side and from the high school side and obviously it all works differently because on the elementary side um teachers have grades we have number of sections in each grade and besides the fact have specialist but the teachers are pretty much with the kids all day and then they get into Middle School go to different classes and teach teach are seeing 160 different kids every day and in high school the same way so as the principals try to figure out you know if the class is big enough to have um gets a little they have to combine the schedules of
016the students with the number of teachers they have so as we look at that kind of Staffing it gets a little complicated um class sizes are huge in doing your budget um and I had had a great mentor that always said I always told the board and told everybody that enrollment doesn't come in need little packages we we're dropping at this point 52 students from last year not dropping them less enrollment and someone might say well there's 52 students that's two teachers you have to let go well it's not all in two sections I mean you divide that by 13 grades and it's barely enough to move any staff around so it's not as simple to to fund it by student but it's not simple to to um reduce expenses by student um we have
017to look at our special education needs um as we look at what students are enrolling and and the Staffing required for that of course we have to kind of guess on what inflation will be on inflationary costs and then always wild card is contract settlements um we have to make sure we balance our budget um but then we also have to try to figure out how to you pay our employees and offer benefits and then of course the information from the budget adjustments was very helpful because it it kind of tell us where we can reduce where we're going to reduce in each side and then obviously with our discretionary costs so the process at this point um just in general the plan is to present a balanced budget um we'll the finance staff is
018beginning to compile all the staff and all the other costs um generally looking at the size of budget I I'll probably I've been looking through the budget but I'll probably just you know budget line by line and and um Department by Department it's shouldn't be too difficult um June 2nd um is one will present the preliminary budget um for 2526 and that terminology is a little Antiquated um we've always call it the preim preliminary budget that you approve in June and then we'll run that's our actual budget and then we'll revise it sometime in November December January around then as you did this year um with that information we can probably prepare some pretty good fiveyear Financial forecasts because you're always looking ahead to see what's going on uh we also will start having um
019the books audited and once we get the audit done we'll know our starting point for this year but we have to kind of guess this year at this point and then just no we also have to put together School nutrition budgets uh community service budgets and de service budgets um which will also be approved in my other districts there were the last one was was very large we actually had those budgets approved the capital budgets and the um uh Debt Service budgets and we had those approved ahead of time so we could start working on the other ones and also so that um some of the Departments could plan their spending we'll also at some point well in July you'll also approve a long-term facility maintenance plan um so we'll we'll put some dollars in
020for that but the actual plan will be approved by the board in July and that's uh that's what we got for tonight so question yes uh Dan so thank you for the update um so does it mean that you will be able you will be able personally to prepare the budget for the the next fiscal year right uh yeah because I I mean I be around long enough to do that yeah thank you appreciate it um or if you hire someone I'll I'll drive over you will help them not so bad no we we need help thank you thank you Dan um so as we go into the negotiation contract negotiation this is a little bit technical so but do like in the in your budget the way you preparing it do you have flexibility
021to adjust the numbers the salary numbers so that we can see how changes in the contract negotiation would impact the TW the next year's budget yeah we use a a costing model um that generally will give us I mean the budget model I can plug numbers in it'll change the whole thing and we'll know how we're doing um but then we get a little deeper what the costing model when we actually negotiate but yeah those those conversations you know we we don't get too deep into what we don't want to negotiate the contract in through the budget but um it's it's a tough answer it's stough as you can appreciate given what we have gone through right we'll need to make sure that we understand exactly how that works right yeah I mean the beauty
022of doing the but a line by line budget basic a zero based budget you know find out I need to make sure that every employee is in that budget ability of doing that is you can kind of see which direction you go just by making different assumptions okay and will will we will be able to dynamically adjust that every employee right once we have whatever percent adjustment we're going to end up with well for the contract negotiation yeah um so for this next year and then you also mentioned the the fiveyear plan yeah and those yeah generally it's just a matter of saying what what should we assume but yeah okay thank you and would it be is it the Personnel committee that does the negotiations right yes okay so then you would be you
023guys would be overseeing the numbers and make sure that the right things are plugged in or and then always a report to the board and a closed meeting about the status as it moves through the process okay Dan I have just a question on the uh the special education needs is that something separate from is that a different pool of money from the state versus J no it somewhat uh the special ed is is uh we get special education aid but it's not enough to cover the educational cost of all the special ed students so it creates what's called a special education cross subsidy okay and what the state had done three four years ago was started another Aid called special education crossy Aid also but that isn't enough to cover it either but it's
024lowered the Gap now that's going to go up another 6% in 2 627 that Aid um but no we we figured it into the total general fund budget is not categorical in that sense but then we're able to get reimbursed for 60% of the cost um but it's kind of always kind of a guessing game on special education Aid because the tuitions we pay to other districts for students that are ours but they go to different districts for special ed um um and also like's your called those tuitions come off the aid you get um because our students like go to zed they get the money there from they charge tuition okay they they they don't collect basic formula Revenue so it's it's not a per student funding for special ed students every special student
025also we receive general education basic formula money for um but when it's all said and done the state will reimburse us for about 60% of our Personnel cost for special end and that's called special education Aid okay thank you K uh one question on the declining enrollment Aid is that anything that we have to do as a district no it's just part of the state formula pops up into somebody's screen and say Okay Byron's declining by X percentage yeah well I I plug in the the enrollments for this year and last oh this year next year then automatically oh you're going down here's some more money okay but it that will roll on a on a sliding scale So eventually it goes down but yeah and that's something that we get every year if there's
026declining enrollment yes okay I hadn't heard about it before so thankfully 70,000 sounds pretty you really don't want it mean all that money but you're not going that you're going the other you want to go the other way here's an example if you take the 52 um adms you're losing keep say losing that or declining um and multiply it by say you get 10,000 per student you get your basic you get your l and some other AIDS you know what's that 500 ,000 and the declin Roman Aid is 70,000 yeah I'd rather have the 500 yes of course thank you any other questions or discussion for Dan we'll move on to discussion item a action on the release of Tier 1 tier 2 and probationary staff for the 2526 school year yes so this one
027here is um what you approved last week for the amount of staff that would be um this one is it doesn't include all the um you know the salary or not the salaries but the different Supply budgets all this is strictly for for staff now um so these are the ones who are tier one tier two or probationary staff um that um will be reduced for next year there is it is a uh resolution um you can probably just start from the second page here and um because it the name the names will be on top and then what will happen is we'll read this and then it'll be a motion in a second and then um there'll be a letter the sample letter is down below and then that letter will be um put
028together tomorrow and and then delivered tomorrow again these are for the probationary uh tier one tier two or probationary teachers okay any questions with this all right so if you could read the resolution on the second page for the so where it says the name put teaching contract as named above the whereas yes yep okay whereas the teaching contract um as described above um as a tier one tier two or probationary teacher in in Independent School District 531 be it resolved by the school board of Independent School District number 531 that pursuant to Minnesota law that teaching contract of Staff names tier one and tier two of Independent School District number 531 is hereby terminated at the close of the current 2024 24 25 school year be it further resolved that the written notice be
029sent to said teacher regarding termination and non-renewal of their contract provided by law and that said notice shall be subse uh substantially the following form you don't have to read the form but that's the letter that'll be going out okay so any discussion questions or entertain a motion to approve and this is everything that's already approved it's just assigning the names to it I make a motion to approve the resolution second motion and a second uh any questions take a roll call vote Jeremy i k i Nissa I I um David I Kelly i n i carries we'll move on to action on the resolution of proposing placement of continuing contract 10e teacher on unrequested leave of absence so this is different because it is a 10e teacher um who has a continuing contract it
030means they've been in our district or in Minnesota for in the same district for more than 3 years years and has that U and part of the seniority list unfortunately we do not have enough sections in the area that they teach in order to um have a full-time position for them so they're placed on what's called unrequested leave of absence for a full 1.0 um we and then they would be offered but they want to take those smaller sections I think there's only four of the 12 they certainly can do so if not even if they do they're still put on unrequested leave of absence for for um 2 years so if that position becomes a full-time position over the next 2 years then we go back to that person and in this case it's
031Jason Bubala who's a Spanish teacher and we would say we're going back we're adding these sections back they're yours do you want them and then he he has a he can move right in without interviews or anything like that for the next two years um however the difference here is though that the state says we put it we prop CL it tonight and then there's um he has 20 he'll be um given the letter tomorrow and then he has 14 days if he wants to have an hearing about maybe doesn't agree with seniority list or whatever something like that he has 14 days to come back and say he wants a hearing so on here on this proposal there's a date that we would put or on his letter there would be a date that
032we put that when the proposal um hearing would be um if we don't hear from them then the 24th we will approve the do the final approval of his Ula at that time so any questions with that it's different than the other one who you just did so so this one you probably should read um here so be it resolved too so but but um you'll have to yeah so you can do it with be it resolved be it resolved by the school board of Independent School District 531s 5 follows that it's proposed that Jason Bubala continuing contract 10e teacher of said District be placed on unrequested leave of absence without pay or FR benefits at the end of the 2425 school year effective August August 16th 2025 set action is taken in accordance with
033the District Master agreement pursuant to Minnesota statute 122 a-40 subdivision 10 upon the grounds described in said statute and which are specifically as followed Financial limitations be it further resolved that a notice of proposed uh placement on un requested leave together with a copy of this resolution be forward to said teacher and that a an Affidavit of the same be placed in the teacher's personnel file with a copy of notice and resolution that's good all right any questions or discussion on uh this resolution so is this one of the high school teachers yes okay and that's is that the only one or are we going to go through a list no you right now this is the only one that's a unrequested leave of absence and I'll explain in a second the other one that
034would have been but okay thank you looking for a motion to approve the resolution as presented I move to approve the resolution as presented second motion and a second um roll call please j i car I Lisa hi David I Kelly I I I just um before we move forward just want to say there was what would have been one more unrequested leave of absence and that would have been for uh a licensed school nurse position as what was reduced last week but because of a resignation that happened since then um that has changed um that position or the need so we don't have to at this point reduce an LSN because of the resignation so so that way that when you look up there and say I don't see where that all was reduced
035because the resignation kind of took that away so a resignation can we ask where I mean one of the lsns another one of the lsn's resigned in the last week so so we don't have to reduce one they they reduced already so okay moving on to discussion on the district operational plan yep so um I want to bring this forward I just did the part where it's for the school board um we have each year um right around Springtime we start looking at next year already for the operation District operational plan for this year if you remember we had a conversation and and hopefully you had a chance to look through this and read this but there were um some board priorities and one of them was a stent student and staff mental health one
036of them was Financial stability um and then it shows it'll show some of those things that uh we were working on for this year one of them is also the profile of a graduate and then the fourth was facilities you wanted to stay with four or the previous board wanted to stay with four for this school year um so what happens is uh the board will have their District um operation plan their their goals your goals um for starting for next school year this again is from July on forward and so I want right now you can ask questions about but what I would like us to do is think about or maybe have a small discussion about what some of those board priorities will be we can kind of fill in you can go
037through me I can put those in there and I come back in in on the 24th we can talk through them again and then have get your goals so that we can then tell the administrators here's what the board goals are and if there's some that they can use in their goals because they're going to be meeting with their staff their leadership teams in their St in their buildings and coming up with their um goals for next year The District operation plan sometimes it's nice to be able to um go off of what the board is it doesn't necessarily have to be um but you know they they but then you will get a chance to see them in May we try to come back to May or June we'll try to do it in
038May um but to so you could approve the overall District operation goals for next year and uh it just it's kind of that um Northstar kind of gives you the guide As you move forward next year into reaching some goals um again my suggestion is that uh you you will continue to learn about the profile of a graduate and and you let the administrators keep driving that bus um you know I will be honest you know that was the goal and even last year and then when things happened last spring um the focus has been as even with you um totally Financial right and and so forth and so um they're still working but they've been working every day inside their buildings about still doing the profile of a graduate I think they're doing a
039great job um I think next year they just as um you are some of you are new continue to have them come in present on what they're doing for the profile of a graduate let you ask questions um they're still working on some of those things that we started last year and and moving forward I my recommendation to the board is that you continue to um look at two things one is the financial stability of of this uh of this District moving forward and that that would be your number one your number one goal again that's just my recommendation the other recommendation that I have is because um some of you are new and you're going to have a new superintendent and a new Finance director that kind of the whole leadership part is is
040new and you're working on your handbook that you're really working on your the board development throughout next year as well and how do you run meetings and so forth um you have to kind of start slow to go fast and I think I'm recommending that this board um you know go slow at this point let the administrators take care of the things that are happening in the school let them report back to you you guys questions but keep your focus on the finances especially that operating referendum coming back in November and then also having a new superintendent new Finance director you're really going to have to kind of gel a little bit right and that would be my that's just my recommendation but you guys can have a discussion where you think you might want
041to go for next year and then again we can bring discussion a little bit now and then you can send things to me and I can put together a draft and we can have this discussion at the next meeting on the 24 Jeremy and I can kind of put a draft together not me Jeremy and I will help them um and put something together so yeah Nadia um it would be great to introduce some of those presentations when we have a bit of a downtime in between budget conversations and and other important things well this is also very important so it would be great to start bringing those forward those presentations yeah whenever we have a relatively less intense meeting right and um I would say for this year um and what we've done in
042the past if you remember that we start in the spring or in the fall excuse me so we usually start in October and we usually have one or two buildings come in give their presentation at each meeting we have a 10 to 15 minute presentation we kind of space them out and then at the year at the end of the year people want to hear something specific then we invite people back but at the end of the year you have budgets to worry about you have the AI budget presentation you have other things at the end of the year and and you get your board reports from the board members you know at the end of each quarter about what they're doing but if you but we always try to bring the have them come
043in talk about the profile of a graduate that they're doing and then maybe highlighting a program or highlighting something so you you know that's what we would do but if you want if you want to hear about something between now and the end of May or June let me know and I can try to do that I'm hoping that things going of start slowing down here but but there's something else that you want to hear about I know that we have a couple other presentations on technology and food service and everything coming up in the next few meetings next couple meetings and so but if you want to hear something particular let me know so thank you otherwise I wait till the fall and have them talk about what they're going to be working on
044so and then you also mentioned that by the end of this quarter so March end of March we will get reports yeah usually I think it's at the March one or or April I think the board reports for the principles it's at the I think it's at I think it's in April that you get it that's at the beginning of April the April 7th meeting you know where you get the beginning you get the the reports from each one and you read through them um so the end of the quarter is around spring break I believe so then they usually talk about how the quarter went and then what to expect for fourth quarter okay thank you now when when we did the board priorities was that two years ago three years ago no this
045was this was a year Well you you with remember we we had like you know charts up on the wall and we were writing stuff wasn't that at our that was at at one that was one The Retreat last oh that's right year we had um yes we had the U person from no this was a person from a person from ceso and and he came and and spoke and then talked about how to look at those I can pull those up again um but again those may be something that again that you may want to think about as where where exactly we're at at that point we we weren't at the financial situation that we were so and and you have different board members and so when does that conversation take place then whether
046these are going to be our top four still starting the conversation now and then we and then then May 24th Jeremy and I can come if you have any ideas or if you want to talk about them now like what what would you like to work onch 24 I'm sorry March 24th um when at our next meeting we'll come back with a rough draft of this um and then we'll finalize it and vote on it and then I can let the admin team know and then they're starting the conversations with their leadership teams now about what they want their operation plan to look like for NE for next year okay well and when coming with these you know Financial stability was our number two and it trumped everything um but I think the correct word
047is stability now I don't know that stability was the right word for a long time there um but my thought is we have to also include in there the mental health because it was our number one priority it took a back seat and now we have to figure out how to do more with less and so that that's my opinion is you know those have to be but we're focused more on the stability of like always getting the board notes that have this is how much we got in the bank account this is how much is here and there um knowing that kind of stuff and knowing you know Dan I think the number what is 150,000 that were roughly saving in expenditures comparatively is that sound like great y okay about you know just
048being on top of that and then finding out how we can find creative ways to maintain mental health that's my two sons yeah and I I still want to keep are you like wanting to flip-flop number one and two so number one personally no yeah but that's up to the board um I feel very good after Julie and and Dan have been here um the the admin staff and the district office is phenomenal and has has learned an exponential amount above where they probably should uh have to know but you know like I said my my thought is it's the focus on the stability uh of the financials which is from our view as a board 20,000 ft just let us know we're doing okay and how we can help and we'll get out of
049the way but mental health I think is and I don't want to speak for everybody but I think that's important to the to the majority of us I was thinking about that too because you mentioned less is more now and that's kind of one of the things where we are dealing with less with a lot more Yep so and how do we and I would just um yeah so when you remember that you are at the governance level and that you are at the 20,000 foot view or wherever how many 000 ft up so when you say mental health means that you would um want the administration the superintendent so for to report on where uh the data on mental health and where where where our schools are seeing it and how best you as
050a board can support them not for you to come up with the programs and stuff to be able to put in there um but if there's money available and we're and and you have money where do it go if you want to go to that area that would be a focus but you just have to remember that uh you know you're at the larger view so you're not really you kind of said and look at how what programs we can put and all this that would be more for the administrators but you can how what do you what can you do as a board to support the administrators as they as we do have some reductions in mental health and our seeing and some different um have to do things a little bit differently for
051them to report to you to make sure that we are still getting the services you know and so forth and then they can report how they're dealing with the changes in that I would just kind of put that up there and then how best you can support them so okay so kind of along the lines of that so since we're all parents in the community some of us are connected to mental health organizations and stuff like that so is it appropriate to ever have a conversation with a principal saying oh here's something and it's free you might want to look into it I mean is that appropriate or not at all or or send it to me okay or or the new superintendent and we can send that forward and put that out there we
052can have a discussion at the uh leadership team mean which are for me are held Weekly right now um and and as you head into next year if there's programs I'd send it to the new superintendent and let them distribute that information and then be a resource that if somebody has questions that they can give you a call at that point you can always send them the information say FYI you can do that U I'm just trying to make it simple for you instead of having to go out and see four or five administrators to get done right we can have that conversation and you can have a conversation with what one person the the superintendent and they can disseminate that information and if they have need more information they would come back to you
053all right and I will say just from a business standpoint like one one line of communication cleans up a whole lot of stuff I'm sorry I'm new to this process and maybe I'm not understanding the purpose of this document but this is so our priorities right you show your priorities you w to your pocketbook right so in this round of budget cuts to me the message was that we are prioritizing the profile of the student compared to mental health so if that's the case should we put the the profile of the student in the first place and mental health on the third place after the financial stability fair question again makes sense but I don't want to do that no one wants to do it right but that that would be honest in my opinion
054again this is something that we can change prioritization once we have an opportunity to support the mental health better than what we're planning to do right now and that's what this conversation is about is to create that okay to literally have that conversation what we what is most important to this board right now it's not m f in my opinion our opinion that is that it is but it's not really doesn't come down to our op took a back seat to the financial no exactly we don't shy away from that yeah mhm so we're still prioritizing the profile of the student and that's the goal for us to attract or maintain the population of students right Financial stability and then mental health okay I guess I kind of look at it a little bit different
055um these were our priorities for this year correct unfortunately from an outside perspective as well maybe didn't fall the way you guys planned when it was made I think mental health is extremely important and should be a priority and while maybe we didn't get to it last year because finances did kind of take over I think it's important that we as a board come together and Implement and really push to make it a priority um in large part we got rid of an LSN that raised a lot of community speaking up that hey we need to do what's best for the kids now if we're putting Mental Health on the third I don't know if that's going to be best for the students and we have to be thinking of them um mental health goes
056a long ways they'll have better education um they just overall do better as a individual so I think that needs to stay a priority and we need to figure out how to get there with the budget reductions and everything and and I'm guilty of we we keep saying students this is also consideration for the staff as well because a lot of them are taking on overloads and and admin level two of extras uh how do we how do we make sure that there's not burnout and it's not just in the school it's every business in the in the world uh from our very very good and talented people but there's no right answer well and as a board how do we support the staff in their in you know their own mental health that's one
057of the things that we don't really expound on very often I mean what can we do what well and as a board I mean that that's the key achievement Target develop programs for students and staff to participate in around the prevention of stress and mental health issues so we would create our Target M and then turn it over to the admin staff and say this is what we want you to focus on and like you said Lisa to hey here's something I found this may help but lean on the leadership and the admin teams to be able to say this is what we are seeing and finding that works well in this building it might be different in this building so uh I don't know if that answers your question but from our standpoint I
058think it's it's letting them know that right it is it would be that this is a priority um for them it would be that maybe some of those um presentations that are given are more regular about what mental health is happening you know that you're asking you're asking the new superintendent for updates on what's happening in mental health so that you can ask more questions maybe it's just putting in front of the board and keep bringing it Forward about what's happening in our buildings people be able to ask questions and then you can give some direction hey can we think more about in this area but then you you're right you give it back to the superintendent and the admin team to come up with there's if the board doesn't think that there's enough or
059we need or you need it in a different way then you can um you know present that or say here's have we thought about this keep giving Fe them ideas and seeing if they can do it but doing it a way through that process but for you as a board it's more of um keeping asking the questions and keeping the topic in front of you um as a board you know and having the superintendent and administrators keep presenting that just like you they come in and present the profile a graduate you may have they may have to come in and do a tment presentation on what did they do in for mental health this month you know or or you know how do you present it to the community more to your students and staff
060is there something that the board can do or allocate resources or time or whatever figure out a way for for some mental health time for students or staff not that you have to figure it out but you would say we want the administrators to to work on this and then that's what you do because you want to put that out there and then you know present again any information or new stuff that you're thinking where you think as a board there still needs to be support and then you can help figure out how to get that support for them but let them do the work and then it goes on to like like the budget balance the budget for 2425 and 2526 develop processes for tracking of expenditures and revenue we'll check and check so
061what do we need to update there same thing like Nadia mentioned with the profile of a graduate okay what's being done what do we add if this is a focus how can we guide our admin team to make sure that we are finding out what's going on and um and then to tweak as we go and Facilities develop a 5-year projection model in regards to facility needs you know I think Hazel really helped us there I don't I don't know that that's as much of a priority because not at the time because you're not growing yeah and um also that there is a facilities committee that will be looking at that as well along with uh the new Finance director and then and so forth um but I do and I don't know maybe Dan
062would say something different um but even at a high level you know keep really in mind that there's going to be a lot of decisions yet by this board regarding Financial you know where where you go especially if the operating referendum does not pass and um and some of those unfunded mandates do come from the state right that that we're thinking they might right and so there's going to be a lot a lot of decisions moving forward so even if it's to really educate yourselves as a board when it comes to the financial part to better educate yourself as a board so that if those happen um you can make um decisions because you may have to make decisions on on the Fly next year in some ways um because when you look at that
063revised budget if you know that you didn't pass the operating referendum you do a revised budget after that um you know there may be things that come up for next year we we cut 1.6 to try to give a cushion but if there ends up being more something like that then you you're going to have to to Really concentrate still and tell and and tell you that stability is there and you're moving out of that and you're at towards the 8% or close to 8% that's got to be one of the main F main focus of this board moving forward and then like I said being new and and um work on your Bo and having new leadership um working on that board your relation together as a as a group moving forward is going
064to be important especially if you don't pass the operating referendum you're going to really have to come together as a group to be able to do that the next level would be even harder than it was this level yeah cuz what was the proposed impact it was 1.9 million is that right if it was at if it was approved it wasn't it a 1$ 1.9 million be around $2 million a year that you would get from an operating at again it all depends it's around that it was that for this year but now you have remember it's per student it was per student so you'd have to take a look at what your need is and I think that's what we'll down be presenting for the future because there's always that and um facilities like
065I said that will take there'll be things like phones and roofs and things that need to be contemplated you know that all would put pressure on on the budget so like I said I mental health don't don't get me wrong I'm I I'm great you know I think it's great that the board would keep that as uh out in front of them in conversations but I know that the admin team and the staff are really concerned with that as well and so but you you have more control over the budget issues in some ways and than the mental health issues and so forth I just want to keep have you keep that in mind and until you're at that 8% um and you have an operating referendum you're still it's it's you know it'll be
066harder in the future so I think that's what in my opinion that's what I think this board um and this District should be moving to you you first uh because you you can you can think of all the mental health you want but if you don't have any funds and you know and you're really struggling with that then it's hard to move forward that way so you know that's why for me Financial the financial stability is still needed and should be your number one priority and then either mental health or but remember that that the mental health and the profile graduate the inner workings of those are what the admin team is is doing so and if I'm not mistaken we had three priorities we added a fourth is that yeah but you you can
067have two priorities so you guys know you can have two priorities three priorties you don't have you can have something totally different than what's up there if you think that there's something else that needs to be watched or monitored for next year but you know that's up to that's up to you and it's a threeyear goal right can be doesn't have to be you can have a short-term goal you can have a because it's yearby year you're just going to go back and revisit and say do we reach it do we need to keep working on it you know but it could be a three-year goal could be a always goal with financial stability or right your mental health that's that's almost an always thing unless you have but you could have a small specific
068goal that you're going to want to reach you know in a year or or less but again I the more goals you have the more diversify your thoughts are going to be and less Focus maybe and right now I still think you have to be pretty focused for a while so I guess I would ask if the board members would send me an email with priorities listed so that way we can compile where they sit for everybody and we'll know and remember send it individually to Jeremy yes okay any other questions or discussion all right we'll move on on to our board handbook Pages 14 through 17 yes so this is one of those things you guys started um and at the at the organizational meeting so or at our at our Retreat so I
069think it's a good idea we left off on page 14 and we talked about doing the learning the job and the next few pages any first one is learning from board colleagues workshops Retreats I would jump to the informal meetings work with the superintendent to schedule informal meetings with key staff members to discuss specific areas of interest it's not that none of us can go directly to that person but it's like we just me like that chain of command the the streamlining of every bit of communication um because they may having conversations about something and Lisa for example goes in and has the exact same conversation and then I go in and have the exact same conversation it it's not um efficient use of time for our admin for us uh it's just coordinating so
070that everybody knows what's going on and we're not monopolizing our our admin staff time and then mentorship was the next one I was going to talk about it says each new board member will be uh paired with uh an experienced member um this Mentor will be a seasoned board member uh uh I would recommend that we change that to your Mentor will be a more experienced board member than you yeah not you it's we don't have a um I would call Matt priy a seasoned board member uh and even in life we're all learning every day so even as an experience board member we're all taking in new things and um you know two years ago I thought uh a very in retrospect a very small issue was big now I can appreciate a very
071large issue at hand um but before that I wouldn't have known how to deal with it I I think you know just changing that wording to mentorship is important but also taking advantage of the mentorship mentee uh relationship and it can be as simple as a text or an email hey I got this question what do you think um and that and there is that um link here to the new board member orientation year at a glance so that's great for them mentored and to work with or make sure that who's ever new has that so that they kind of see what's happening and so let's see yeah I would suggest if we're going to keep this in there that we actually do this then yeah you know and assigned mentors and mentees it was
072kind of like and I can't speak for previous boards but it was kind of like when I came on I was surrounded by amazing people that had done it a long time and I was the only rookie and so I had this like I don't know Village and I didn't know how to teach anybody how to do this when we had newborn so um but this uh what's it called the new board member orientation year at a glance I think is going to be huge but you're right if it's going to be in here we then have to follow up on it and personally I know I have to hold myself accountable for it um let's see I know when you and I were talking about this stuff for coming and getting the stuff ready
073for the retreat this year that was one of the things both of us said we wish we had y before we were board members or when you were brand new right right but I do hope our whole board has that comfortable feeling that you could call email text any of us um because we're going to like we're going to learn as much from the new board members because you see things with a different set of eyes and that's true that's how we need to see everything as a board do you presently have that I mean you're working with Felicia right y David's working with Kelly and krie are you or who's working with Nadia we we haven't really I mean that I mean it's a really a go-to person to go to and then as
074a mentor you especially if you see something that we' talked about before here and now it's going to be happening later on and you want to give that person kind of heads up here's what was talked about or here's what to expect or here's something to to look at um you know then you have someone to do that so doesn't have to be a a huge thing but I think it is if you follow some of that and you just have somebody to go to um and then that Mentor does step out and help them whenever keeps keeps checking in I think that that's important too so and you again more than one Mentor as well so you know but maybe we return back to the conversation about the communication between board members and the
075staff teaching staff um I so do we have to go through the administration to schedule appointments with the staff members no I think it's it's not an expectation I think it's a a courtesy uh but also I I think that checking with their boss to make sure that that they would be available so how do we so how do we make sure that we maintain um or develop some form of communication where we can directly go to the members of Staff if we have questions right I don't want to engage 10 more people to schedule a meeting a 30 minutes appointment with somebody it would be wasting everybody's time in the same time I understand that as a board member um me asking for an appointment with somebody would be maybe perceived as something that
076they cannot refuse right so how do we how do we establish a process that kind of is open for for an opportunity for us to go direct but also in a respectful fashion that that maintains everybody's ability to if they do not have time or if they are not willing for some reason to say no I this is just me speaking I don't think anybody feels like they have to meet with a board member right um okay I would feel bad if that was the case uh no it's not a matter of not right not being able to contact it it is but where does the process come to to we are a governance body and not a managerial body right but as we're learning through the process and in order again as a board
077member in other organizations right when I have a question when I have a specific question that requires certain set of expertise that is not available to people here right for example I would go directly to the person who has that expertise and I would ask them the question that I have so how do I develop the same mechanism here where I can go and ask whatever questions I need to have responses to to in order to do my job right how do I do have this process but in the same time yes not create something that can get out of hand I'm not sure I have an answer for that my my struggle with that would be if you have a question and I have the exact same question Lisa has the exact same question
078and Jeremy has the exact same question now we've wasted two hours of that admin's time not necessarily maybe that then if it's the same question right maybe I can just email them that this is the question that I want to talk to you about okay and then if that's really the same question or along the lines of what you will ask tomorrow right then that person can say okay well I've already spoken with n about that she can um you know keep you updated on this feel like we're acting Rogue and not is a team at that part some kind of putting the staff in the middle yeah so what's what's the right approach here remember earlier I think it's in this part um that we talked about last time as the procedures you remember
079that you are governance and you hire the superintendent to do the managerial be the CEO um not that you couldn't go talk to someone but you're you have positional power now as a school board member and um yeah you would hope that people wouldn't be nervous if a Schoolboard member gave a call but there would be staff members that would go WR their admin say well I just got a call from the Schoolboard member what's this about I don't know um should I be worried what should I say you know they they worry about saying the wrong thing um you know I'm just trying to tell you that in a lot of cases that could be compared to um calling either the admin or the superintendent you should really talk go through the superintendent say
080hey I have a question I don't think you can answer I'd like to go talk to so and so can you set it up and and say can I email him some things can you let them know cuz then I would let them know if you're going to come in and visit and because I've heard of board members is now going into and and emailing a teacher say can come visit with you without letting the admin or the superintendent know that they're coming in you know again some staff are okay with it some staff are not and at the same time the superintendent should be the one that has an idea of what the questions are with the board board as well and where they're thinking so they can help guide that as well not
081that you can't go do them go talk to them but you you certainly want to make sure it's a fine line and I get you want your questions but there's a fine line between governance and between um you know another I I about the managerial part this there are things that you're you're aware of or you might get emails about and there might be a question question regarding the staff member um or how a procedure was done and you want to go find out how that procedure was done so that you can have a better idea well if you go right to that staff member that's in question I worry about some of those things and and so you really should contact the superintendent say can I reach out to so and so here's my
082questions um and then you know we can just give a heads up and say uh so and so you know this teacher you're going to be get an email because they have this question I don't know the answer could you please give them the answer that's a lot less stressful and and everyone is now on board than just reaching out to that staff member without your superintendent knowing I think that's that's the important part okay you know so thank you that that's helpful so may I summarize so that so the process would be if I have a question to a specific member of staff I would I would send an email to you first with my questions yes and with and ask to talk to that person right yep okay and then you will connect
083me with that person but it will kind of go through you okay so this this would solve the problem that where everyone different members have the same question correct um okay um but it also still has like this process will still also have an ability for us to have direct access to the staff if we have specific Questions AB sounds good thank you y that that that would be the the process that I would prefer I think any superintendent here would want to do that as well so that they know what's going on they can help and just give the heads up to the teacher they are the experts and they probably have a better answer than I would give I would like to give them the heads up that they're coming and and definitely
084if you want to go into a school uh you know just to show up all of a sudden and say I'm coming in to talk to you that can be a little frightening for some teachers just because of your positional power not because you're Fring just because you're a Schoolboard member so do we need to make uh changes in the in the board uh in the handbook according to what was just already says that okay well it we yeah we'll double check that that the way it reads um and right now may just be to visit a school that that's it says informal meetings so we'll also make sure says that and I'll make the change that you mentioned about the more experienced and take out seasoned y okay um anything else on and remember
085all of us have um what's the right editing rights on this so if you see something that you want to include or or update um you can just post it on there and then excuse me as we're reviewing it then um we can discuss that let's see because I really don't have any other probably stop at the board governance model yeah um so we went down to this area and then we would stop here at the individual board um excuse me um working working as a as a board okay I think that would be the next part okay so any other questions or or updates to the uh handbook Pages 14 to 17 and then next month we'll I'll send out what pages Jeremy you can web pages to look at for next month to
086see if there's any changes and we'll redo that at the next meeting in in uh April the April 7th meeting okay uh um discussion on the lpnrn posting yes so after last week and um what we would like to do is uh as part of our support staff contract is to add the category of lpnrn um I have looked at and I sent out to you um before last week what other districts have done for salary ranges for LPNs and RNs who are working in their school office health health offices and so forth they're not the lsns but they are working in the school office um this way we can uh recover some some ma Billing at times and plus we um want to put the priority on getting more highly highly qualified people not
087that are health aids aren't but when they've gone and been licensed as an lpnrn that just comes with the territory being more educated be able to do more things as well so um my recommendation we'll take a vote on it at the next meeting and approve it is to add a category in the support staff with the health aid but add another line for LPN RN the range would be our present health aid range is 1740 to 2425 um we would have their range at starting at $22 and going up to 2775 um and and start from there that's kind of our range of where we would start people and um again they're not doing the LSN work um they are you know being in the health office and we would assign them to that
088the reason why we bring that up now is because we do have a a president LPN working in our health office so we could move that person to a uh May for the rest of this year have a a bump and salary for that um and and then we could do some ma billing to to cover that up and or to help cover those costs then um what we talked about doing the adventine talked about after spring break or so that we would post then for an LPN or an RN um remember we're we could um replace two people for the LSN we would need to so next year's LSN would be housed at the primary school is is the idea and then have one person in each building so we would have four um
089one health aid at the high school she does a great job and and so forth so we you know she would still be at the high school and then uh we have right now have an LPN at the intermediate school and then hire and go out for an LPN with a preference to work in the school health office with a preference of an LPN or RN and see if there's anybody that even now in the spring says yeah I can and they can start planning that we you know we're Nail's backyard and so other school districts around us are able to find RNs and LPN for that same range if they are a a mom who children are in school and wants to work same same days and so forth it's a great opportunity for
090them to do that and be part of that so we thought we would post it to see if there would be any takers at at this time and and so we could start planning for next year and people then could feel confident that who we have in our in our schools instead of waiting till summer we would try to do it now if we can't find anything or find anybody to to apply um you know we would then post it you know again and we would again go out for with the preference of an LPN and RN and give us some time so this would be a separate line item in the contract the sport staff contract right yes they yes and I'll be coming to you I will be working with um the LSN
091who will be here next year and um and it's been working on because we used to have an LPN and RN job description and so working on a new job description for that position um and working with LSN to look it over and present that to you at the next meeting and then approve that part of the support staff contract and that category so then we could move people and then go out for that hiring because we had that we had that positions and that salary range so anything that you any questions or anything that you would like to do differently or yeah the salary range is open too but that's about where everyone else was following in at so okay okay move on to the uh update on the Trap Team fundraiser yep so
092I know that the last work session we had we uh Mr pinley the uh coach um came and talked to you about the Trap Team fundraiser and um I know there were some questions and we're going to be bringing it back uh he has he had talked to our lawyer talked to other Trap Teams um and then looked at the timing and so forth and has decided not to do the fundraiser at this time um he may come back to you with a you know next year or another time when they have some more information but he just thought with what needed to be done in this spring and as busy as they get with things happen that they just didn't have time to put it together so I'm just updating you that he is
093pulling that request off and you don't have to vote on it and move it forward okay sounds good uh update on our finance posting so right now we uh as of today we had um three people apply um none of which have school um Finance experience and um one has started one of those three started the application but didn't finish and then closed so we reopened it back up today um to see and put in filled for right now so people can still apply for it um one of them um I do not recommend bringing forward from his information the other two um if he if the one re ques or submits it um we'll be having Dan look over those resumés especially if they don't have school experience Dan said that uh he would
094be available at times if it's raining out he can't get outside um to come in and work with um uh the person you know and coach and so forth but uh we're going to have Dan's expertise give us an idea otherwise um we'll see if people bring come forward otherwise we'll repost it again um probably not till April after April 1st when the superintendent is hired but we'll see we'll keep watching see if anybody's applies and if we have to bring a couple people in interview we will and so forth but that's kind of where we're at at this point so than all right discussion about having students on the school board uh and the referendum committee yes so um Alicia he went and if you're listening to the Friday chats that msba puts out
095if you get a chance even if you can't W listen live or watch it live please um go on at some point over the weekend or the following week to watch it it's very informational one of the things that's coming in front of the legislature is that someone proposed a bill that all School boards need to have a student representative on the school board um and there was a particular way that they get on the Schoolboard many districts do have a student rep on the school board each District that does it does it gets uh they elect the students a different way you know and have them so they don't it's not that people are against it they just don't want to be told you have to do it this way and you know and
096not this way and um some will already have their Traditions Byron used to have a before covid or right around Co time um had a student representative on on the school board and again they would they would have to come um to the the third Monday meeting the actual Schoolboard meeting um unless you would want them also to be here on a work you know a work meeting um like a work session to add input otherwise it would be at the board meeting part they would give an update a student update about what's happening in schools they would be somebody that could if you want a student um input you could reach out to them and here's your student input um that sort of thing um usually in we do have a policy it's policy
097202 .1 that talks about it and that they are actually elected or chosen by the student council the high school student council and then they go back and talk to the student council about what's on the board um we brought this forward a couple years ago I know Jeremy was on the board right I think when he got on I don't think anybody else was and I um we didn't bring it forward to the board because uh I I asked Malia to see what it would be like at the high school and she went to the student council and at the time no one uh none of the students they're so busy especially those student council kids who are in a lot of activities and do a lot of things to be able to commit
098to two nights a month or even one night a month and do that now you can't have an alternate but um Alicia heard that and we might have to do it your B you know this District all districts might have to do but at this time you don't have to but if you want to pursue it um I can ask mle to pursue it again with the student council um and see if there would be somebody but you certainly don't want a different student each time because they do have to be trained they do have to know what they can and can't say those sort of things um so but you could have one main person and one alternate if they can't make it so a discussion to think about um any any thoughts um
099about the school board part I think it'd be nice to have the student input on the school board I I don't know that uh the referendum committee is the right fit that was the next thing so she also so that was what that's not on the chat room the referendum committe is for this District the chat room is uh about the legislative and that's the school board um student so but the referendum She also asked about having a person a student on the referendum steering committee and so forth when we talked at the steering committee the last time we're having another Mee on the on the 12th with the talk was that um when Abe romiter went to that session on referendums they talked about having people at different Generations or different age groups as
100you go up so you get the different perspectives I worry about having I worry about having students on there only because now you're kind of promoting that's also kind of the steering committee or the group that would go out and try to get those votes and uh if you start trying to incorporate students in that and people say really you're going to have students go out and I mean some will do it but you don't want to be out there having thing and you know I it's one thing for alumni is um aless the students boarding age you know it's hard to have somebody that's just my thought right so I I think it's worth having M schroer reach out just to see if there's an interest on the school board yeah I mean they
101may not have time and that may not fly again yeah and if it's not I'm sorry I just have to excuse for one sec for one minute I think it would be great that we have um an ear from the inside of the school and perspective because you know it's going to be 100 way different than we would you know come out here so that's right it's our inside yep and it would be a great opportunity for somebody who's following you know maybe somebody who likes government or somebody who just likes management or or just you know board policies all together yeah I think uh it's a great Resume Builder for him so I think it would be advantageous um yeah I I think uh we'll just ask Dr debec to send y two ladies
102have an opinion I think it would be good for the school board um but again I don't want to I want the individual or student that is on it to truly want I don't want make it feel like hey this is mandatory kind of that flexibility that sounds like it may become mandatory at some point still can't people I'm sorry about that so we would just uh I think as a group suggest that reach out to to see if anyone was interested okay for the school board part not the well well I'll I'll ask how when they choose student council members if it's for next year you know if it's this fall or if it's the spring and then they can have a conversation with with who's ever going to be on the school board
103once they form it and then and so it might not be something that they do right now I don't know when they may choose that but so okay all right we'll move on to reviewing the enrollment for 2526 so um this is what Dan brought up the um earlier just wanted to show you at right now we are up to 125 students who are enrolled we have four open enroll families who haven't um enrolled yet and we um have one that we think may be um coming yet so that will get to 130 um but again we don't know any of those will decide to leave at some point usually the Kings don't leave as much unless their family decides to move but right now we do have 125 enrolled at the kindergarten level um
104but as you can see though again we are um graduating about 175 and having 125 come in you know and we don't have a lot of students right now who have applied for open enrollment that would be this this lane or this one right here you've approved them all um and and uh they've all registered the ones who um have applied um have registered right except for it was four kg this morning but one dropped off the age just just oh because the age because they were want to come in they were too young so but you can kind of see we we in the past we've had as many as 50 students open en roll in grades 1 through 12 and we don't have that many at this point so we'll just keep promoting
105our schools and our of our programs and we'll see if that changes throughout the summer and we hope that many don't leave so okay all right we'll do the first reading of the policies first one is acceptance of gifts the just talks about that the school district can accept the accept gifts and um those are the donations that you approve at board board meetings It also says that it's you're in charge of uh to so authority to determine whether a gift or any precondition or condition or limitation can be put on on those gifts and so forth that's why you do approve them because if it's from someone that you um or it's for something that you would not approve don't think it's right for the school district you can deny that as well so
106um any questions with that okay um the next one is um Schoolboard meeting minutes so um after each Schoolboard meeting then Ann puts those together and and runs them by me and then um then we'll send them out and and then put them on our website for now um again they are just over view type minutes there and now they don't get into details and so forth those are what's on the board agenda people can look at but it's like here's what was discussed here's who voted here's who or made a motion here's who second and how and how they were voted on so um but we do have to have minutes and Records moving forward then they also talk about any closed meetings and um how do you um record those and when do
107you record them and when they can be used and so forth so any questions and again there isn't any changes these there's just some statute number changes and so forth so and the ones that we're talking about um instructional services this talks about special education and that we have um from children birth through age six um we do have uh ways to test them and so forth and so um and we do have uh education uh services for our families moving forward you know and and we will work with zed zed does the birth to three evaluations any questions the next one is the legal sta of the school district just talks that we are um our own entity the school district is a separate legal entity it's coordinated with but not a subordinate to
108the county or or to any other municipality in its territory so the school board is its own own place and its own group and talks about funds um and you can see there's a change of Statute but um it talks about how to go out for fund raising funds selling property if we have any property and then entering contracts and so forth with with other institutions or or groups that you can do so any questions with those and then 301 is uh School District administration says that we have to have a School District administration and um and that um even though you have a superintendent to kind of officially supervises them that you will can ask them to do things and and ask questions of them they are still um you know leaders in our
109in our district and um and School Board shall seek specific recommendations or background information professional advice from them um as administrators and so forth but we do have school school administrators any questions again pretty straightforward ones and then the last one is religion so um this one is about promoting religion um or doing neg or saying negative things about a religion that that's not um permissible U but we do recognize that uh you know religion um has a spot and has uh where we would have this actually mentioned like a school choir um you know concert that is religious music we will have some things around school for holidays at times which are religious based but it's something that the students are are a part of and we're not um we're not necessarily promoting it
110we are talking about religions in different classes but it's not something that we promote um throughout the throughout our buildings or curriculum but we do talk about it any questions okay so we'll just put those on to approve if you do have other questions please let me know so okay recap of the listening session okay um going to mention oh yes so I I want to recommend um and you can let Jeremy know if you think differently but um now that the reductions are done and sometimes this room can be hard with people moving and doing all these things around that we would um move back to starting in April so the April 7th meeting that we would move back to the district office for meetings just a little bit more conducive and easier to
111have a meeting in that in that realm so we would doing that starting back in April so if you have a concern about that let Jeremy know otherwise well plan on doing that starting April 7th okay if nothing else then uh would look for a motion to adjourn I make a motion to adjourn the meeting second motion on a second all in favor say I I I I'll oppos we are adjourned