0017 o' we'll call meeting to order um roll calls everybody's here except for Corey who's home sick move on to uh 3.0 which is the open form for public comments don't believe we received any so we'll go to the agenda and I actually have a couple of additions to the agenda so under 11.0 on the consent agenda for personnel we have a resignation effective 223 um it's Shane mithan who's a PA at the high school middle school so I'll add that under 11.0 and then at the end of the meeting We'll add 18 .0 which will be District owned excess equipment to sell just two buses and then we'll also add 18.1 which is the purchase of two new or two used school buses so we'll add those at the end with that I would
002take approval of the agenda motion motion by Shannon is there second second second by Kent all any discussion all those in favor signal by saying I right those post same sign motion carries 5.0 we have the approve approval of the minutes from the January 27th meeting I so move a motion by Danny is there a second I'll second second by Matt any discussion if not all those uh in favor all right all those opposed same sign motion carries next we have 6.0 which is our honors and recognitions can I'll turn that over Scott yeah and uh we're delighted here to be able to recognize our um our the Shadows our dance group and I believe we have Carly wager here somewhere come on up um like the girls since you know winning the state championship
003have been pretty busy so we're not going to have them all here today but we did want to recognize you your coaching staff and your girls for giving us a lot of reason to have Eagle Pride it was pretty cool so thank you very much congratulations thank you so much yes congratulations to the dance team thank you so then we will move on to 7.0 our student Council report we have Council here yeah stand uh with snow days being over the student council got feedback by sending out a survey to all the students 9 through 12 to see what they thought of the activities and dress updat we decided to do this because we take ideas presented from there and apply them to the Future snow days and see how we can get the most
004student involvement some of the questions asked were what kind of snow days activities were you looking forward to after the games what prizes did you want to see how did you feel about advisor games being in the comons do you still want dress up days and advisory games what dress up days do you want to see the Freshman were in charge of the crush can event that is during week every can is $1 the students who purchas a can re fell of slip with the person they want to receive the can to their seventh hour then during seventh hour the upper classman hand them out the students were encouraged to purchase cans as the crush cans are a fundraiser for student compt Mrs himz created posters to further put the word out that the student
005council was selling Crush cans prior to giving the cans out members of student council were encouraged to purchase cases for student council to use with full reimbursement we sold over 200 cans any questions student council no all right thank you guys for coming next up we have 8.0 which is the resolution for acceptance of gifts donations and grants list is there thank you to all those for their donations I'll make the motion motion by shanon is there a second all second second sign that any discussion all those in favor signal by saying I all right all oppos same sign motion carries next up we have the monthly financials from Brenda um enrollment you may have noticed in the agenda P page 16 and 17 can went up like from December to January when from 806
006to 810 we still are considerably less than what we started the year out at but um uh currently interest rates are are up there so that's kind of hopefully going to offset some of that decline that we're seeing this year um our biggest concern of course will be next year um we'll have to wait and see how our enrollment pans out for um um for z um in your agenda p you look through the manual checks you'll see there's some um larger ones in there we did um pay on um our bonds that were due on February 1st um there's five um bonds that we have paid on in that listing there um so it's a just shy of about $4 million so that's that's the majority of our manual checks actually for this past
007month another item that we should probably touch on again we've talked about this a lot and that is compensatory Revenue um that of course is the piece of funding that we get in the general fund it comes from um free and reduce qualifying students and families um it's um a Hot Topic at the legislature right now um we've been talking about it like I said for a long time probably for two years and reason being is the um State changed the formula and um our population also was open up um which caused additional funding to flow to schools um what they did is um the state of Minnesota allowed Medicare eligible families to be included as on the free and reduced listing so that increased the populations uh or the population um actually Statewide so
008funding of course then went up um the problem is is that we did not know um if that population will stay at that level um for the simp reason we were riding off of covid um numbers um Medicare recipients were having to reapply and we had no idea what our population would be and that was a lot of the talking points that we've had for the last couple years we were concerned that our population would go down so um now fast forward to now we um we do know our population we that is based off of um our fall Mars which was just finalized in January and our population did go down um went down about 43 kids BR reduced wise um percentage um went down as well but the um the state did um
009recognize that um when they redid the formula that that was going to happen so they adjusted the formula what they thought was to help that um for us um if you current Formula current stat and our decline we're still fine I mean if if current statute was to stay in place we would have about 149,000 increase in funding in that one single line item the problem is is um there's many schools that their population did not um just really tanked really went down and so there's definitely winners and losers and they knew that would happen and that was one of our other concerns too are we going to be um in the the short ends of the stick or the other end of the stick and it's it's such a range the top um losers
010range anywhere from down here um one $1.1 million loss or $1.4 million loss to a $5.5 million loss those are the the the biggest that are losing funding the biggest gainers are gaining anywhere from 1.1 million to 4.3 million those gainers are mainly if you look at the list they're mainly Charter Schools andies the ones that are losing funding are regular school districts so um so current law like I said we we are looking fine in that regard but you we know that that's not going to happen that there's going to have to be a change in the in the statute because of what we're seeing here they only have a certain amount of money to work with um unless they change that as well however the state is having some financial problems so I'm
011not seen that that's going to go up um they're probably just going to have to work work through it and and try to make things a little bit more Equitable um the governor has done that already with the November forecasted um numbers um for the state of Minnesota and with that and what they've published out there for every school we go from an increase of funding of 149,000 to an increase of only 40,000 so still you know it's way better than what I had um feared um so um it's good news for us um but there's a lot of schools that this is really really hurting hurting them badly and the problem is is that they the the legislature you know is in session until they gotten a lot done it's been a little bit
012um on the rocky side this year and um so they're I don't know what they're going to suggest to to these schools that are seeing these huge huge changes um but you probably will be hearing about it if you haven't already in the news um but I just want you to know where we're sitting and um we're one of the very lucky ones honestly um and we have been talking about this I probably talked you guys to death with it but but we were we were worried about this very very worried and um thank goodness um um looks like at this point in time what we know right now is we're going to be okay and of course um we have planed for it too um that is the piece of funding you know when
013you look at your budget um in the general fund it's that piece that we pull out underneath was that 457,000 that was the bumping funding that we got way back when when they added these Medicare eligible families so that was the piece of funding was the increase we weren't sure if that was going to sustain that we were going to be able to keep it based on new population new law new formula all of that um so that's what we know right now but um it's it's a very Hot Topic in in fact excuse me they um they had kind of a an Emergency webinar for everybody once these numbers came out because it was they were they they I'm sure had 300 emails on State Department did they had a special webinar just for
014us um in the business office and they had a a special one for superintendent um and then I think they presented it as a couple other organizations just to um tell them what they know and and tell them what they they have no control over at this point in time until um it works its way through the legislative session so some of that contributed to the fact that they went to the preschool lunches that just not as many people are signing up for free and redu um no I think um the the new the new way that they're calculating the population is based on um data that we get from DHS so if they're on a a food a a federal program through DHS or if they're Medicare qualifying and and like I said our
015concern way back when was um we knew that those Medicare applications we we got a ton of them our list was huge and that's what caused our funding to go up but um we knew that those families were going to have to reapply and they were riding off of covid and one year postco and they kept delaying that application deadline and I believe it was last May May of 24 so we knew our this Falls counts we're going to have a real population we just didn't know what that population was going to look like and there's a lot of schools that their population went significantly down and that's what they're faced with and and too I should mention um I forgot to mention that this piece of funding is restricted Revenue um we only have
016certain things we can spend it on and um that's another um uh little clinch in the whole thing but um but it is is restricted we had added programs to cover um some of our El needs and that's what we're funding um a good chunk of of some of that increase in that funding so um and then um two again I when I mention that the um the governor's um proposal where we're looking at getting a potential 40,000 increase that of course um could easily change um that is writing off of the November forecast we are anxiously awaiting for the February forecast and so that would be the February forecast for the state of Minnesota and that'll be all over the news you'll hear about it um they're expecting to release that on March 6th
017and and hopefully it looks better um because then that way it'll relieve some of these situations that they're dealing with um which of course will filter down to us um and then of course once that um March 6th um updated forecast state of Minnesota is released then the governor will go back in and update his budget to to meet um what that forecast says so think that was it questions any questions I need some clarification because you spit out numbers and it's just sorry so the 457,000 that we sometime talk about yep we took it out and set it off to the side y was that from the three and reduced lunches over the last couple of years no that was one years of funding that was our increase and that increase was because of
018um the new population that they added that would be allowed and um which was Medicare eligible families I mean we get a a direct print out from the Department of Human Services we still we have that one sit there right now or in our um it's um we have I don't I always bring my fund balance sheet and I didn't tonight but it's um it's it's in our fund balance not 457 um it's what is it 200 CU we used it for E yes we added programs so so the thought process our planning process over the last couple years has been we're going to set aside this money we're going to we're going to budget um some cost we added El but we're not going to spend it all and I believe our budget was
019like um spending everything but about 189,000 and we actually um we're a little bit better off than that I think our fund balance at the end of the year ended up maybe 200 something don't quote me on that but that's what's sitting in the compensatory restricted fund balance okay so what we're what our thought process was is okay we're going to let that um we're not going to spend it all we're going to leave it in fund balance we're going to do the same the second year because it was a two-year hold harmless let that increase and then we have a buffer so that when we find out what the new formula is and what it's going to do to us locally then we have we have planning time you know we can keep our
020programs in place and and we can adjust as needed or um it just it just safeguards so that we're not in a situation where we don't want to be in so that money is sitting there yes then the free and reduced lunches we anticipated it was going to be 140 some thousand but we found out now with the way they' refigured it with the population in that we have a potential of a Delta of 100K so we we're still anticipating that we might get 40,000 right as it stands from the November report so we would take that 40,000 let's just say and we' add it to that $200 something th000 compensatory restrict um kind of so so um so the 40,000 I'm sorry 40 the 40,000 is the increase in funding that that we are
021would expect if the governor's proposal went through so we would have an because this school year right now we get 1.2 million is what we get for this piece one line item that's why it's such a hot topic for for everybody for us it's 1.2 million so we're we're seeing right now that if um statute goes through we would get about 1 1, 353,000 if the governor's proposal goes through um we'll only get um is it one we get 1 million um 280,000 so we' only get 40,000 increase um and what we've been safeguarding is that increase we felt like we would get our base kind of should get our base and then we're safeguarding that huge increase that we recognized a couple years ago and that was the money that we set down that's
022exactly the money we set aside okay now I'm tracking good thank you good don't say anything more any I won't I don't know if anybody else is here but I got smoke coming out of my ears thank you for good all right any other questions for Brenda all right with that take motion to accept my monthly financials I'll make motion motion by Shannon second second by can all those in favor sign by saying I right all those oppos same sign motion carries on to 10.0 which is the payment of the bills and claims I'll make a motion to for bills and claims of 4,183 72246 okay got a motion by Kent we have a second second second by Shannon any questions regarding those claims not all those in favor signal by saying I all right
023all close same sign motion carries next is 11.0 which is the consent agenda you have the all the Personnel stuff there the resignations the appointment um contract adjustments and substitute pay for NE make motion a motion from shanon a second second second by Matt any questions all in favor signal by saying I okay all post same sign motion carries 12.0 is our resolution the non-renewing a tier one or two tier two teacher uh this is something that every school district in the state has to do by law for all tier one and tier two teachers um and then anybody has any questions on it um Scott was just going to give you a brief um description of what tier one tier 2 tier three and tier four teachers are so really simple way of putting
024it tier one um is is a one-year temporary license that you can get to have a teacher teach a class that they have not um you have to have a college degree um but you you can teach the class but um basically after one year you um you have to be non-renewed from that two licenses are a little bit different they go to a person who is in an approved program and getting lure but licensure may not be fully completed um and then that would be a tier two and then tier three is where um a person has full licensure for the area that they're teaching in um and uh and then tier four would be same same situation but in a uh non-probationary status that's very over version but that's that's what two one
025two and three are thank you so with that we have our um list here of tier one and tier two teachers that we have to give notification on um and this is by law by law yep by law every state um School District in the state of Minnesota with a tier one or tier 2 teacher has to do this basically the state require that you have to you have to post um a position that doesn't have a tier three or higher licensed candidate in it not as a requirement by the state you have to post and seek a licensed candidate and I know we've done this but like Mr G right because he teaches I believe it's SCI uh business business didn't he do science before yeah so bu in for Science and then this
026year he came back and did which would have been Mr yes cor corre did some of that this year we again so with that I would take a motion to approve the resolution of non renewing tier one and tier two make motion motion by Matt we have a second second if I can't any further questions or discussion just we really don't have an option we don't have an option no it's it's state law yep and so then July so we go out and we try to get um a tier three or tier tier three or higher lure for those positions at starting July 1 but then anybody um that was a tier one or tier 2 can apply for those positions and if we don't get anybody by the time um that we see fit
027then we can go ahead and go and go again with the tier one or tier two so July 1st it opens back up so what happens is the state says after July 1st if you've been unable to locate a licensed candidate then the state gives you the latitude to consider tier one and tier two licenses for those positions we could hire back a Mr gar or whatever if we haven't found okay any other questions okay so we're going to do roll call so myself is I Danny I guess I State regulated Shannon hi Matt motion carries move on to 13.0 which is the request to solicit lawn Mo bids for 2025 for both Appleton and Addison motion motion by Danny second second by Shannon any questions question prob be beating a dead horse but we
028we've got this new mower right and are we able to uiz that for any of this at the elementary school yeah so then that would require hauling it to the schools and actually doing it um then having somebody around while that would actually be running um Appleton is probably the biggest area to mole Madison isn't as big um but typically it's yeah and then we're also short to disto staff so it just is always kind of that we just use our buildings and grounds for out here um for the summer stuff and then we've always just bit out um the mo and either Appleton or Madison and and the cost is probably cheaper than having our staff load stuff up and take it there or buying equipment for because we used to have equipment at
029both schools we used to do it then it just you're we're maintaining too many things with breakdowns and and having staff go from here to either one of the other schools where the I can ad what where the the auto um excels is in areas like we have out here where we have vast Wide Open Spaces it it uh that's kind of what it's designed for you can do smaller spaces but then you still have to come back and do trim work and things like that so you end up having to have somebody go over with it if we were to send it and then the the other piece that Adam made me aware of is during the high peak growing Seasons it actually pretty much stays going all week here you know so it
030it doesn't have time to go anywhere else but but good question okay we got a motion a second any other discussions all in favor signal by saying I I right all poos same sign motion carries move on to the request for approval of proposed 2425 service Cooperative contracts this is something that we have done year in and year out with s swwc you can see there we have an increase of roughly a little over $2,000 for those services and these are all the services right here correct and this is for students or School staff for these Services um predominantly for students so these are Cooperative um we we basically to to purchase Services you know that that for a small District that you can't afford to have on staff full-time for all the different areas
031and so um we contract with them to be able to cover each of these different areas of the ad minist of the three up top and then like Mars supports Administration and so does the Privacy program system like IA comes out into all of our buildings and and checks them all out and everything that's one of the services that we contract for business smart system Services is that fun that IA is that fall under like environmental Occupational Health safy I think that'se correct you they help us to make sure we're in compliance so o we to come out we're we're safe and we are doing what we're supposed to do okay okay we have a motion for approval motion by Shannon second by any other questions or discussion all those in favor signal by saying
032I allos same sign motion carries 15.0 we have the resolution relating to the renewal of the expiring referendum and this is actually for our operating referendum um which because of certain dollars for each pil that we have um at the school so this is what Brenda talks about when we take our pupil pupil units units y but now this new referendum I was reading it and I just don't understand we're dropping like per student operating sure um when the vote um occurred um 10 years ago in November of 2014 um the um it went for $866 per pupil unit okay um since then there were statutory changes where um they gave every school district I believe this is the language that they use but it's it's for um um every school district the um ability
033to have the $300 per pup unit so that was taken out of that referendum that we voted for or that our our taxpayers voted for and they put it in another bucket and they called it l um and so then in the end it we're we're getting 866 it's just that the 300 was pulled out in another category I know complicated but but we are I'm sorry my world this is so my world but um they yeah it's a statutory change that happened so we're not losing nothing we're not losing anything so 566 in the end it would be comparable to what we're receiving right now for that line item that you call referendum and the other 300 is called L it's just the way statute so this would be good for another 10 years
034if at any point we wanted to or needed to adjust it then we would go back to the voters for the operating but this just gives us the right for 10 more years to have what we're getting and it's a substantial amount of of the revenue that we use to run as a school district and then I if I could add to so this was this was was one of the brand new changes that they made at at the legislature a lot of schools were soliciting this that um they wanted to just keep going with what they had versus going out and having a vote and um um paying um for that election just to get what they what they're currently getting and so where the way the statute worked is you can do it
035one time for no more than what you're getting right now and no more than what the term was that the taxers originally voted for so that's why the the numbers are very strict in what they are um and and then of course they have to be adjusted from what happened throughout that 10 years which is why it went from the 866 to the 566 and then 10 years would be the maximum so it's it's basically keeping everything status quo and the board is allowed to um based on current statute to approve it at the board level versus going out and having a a a vote to continue on receiving so essentially we 20 years if we keep it the same we'll be operating at the same funding level for 20 years without any adjustments for
036inflation and so if at some point the board were to decide that that Revenue isn't isn't adequate we would have to go back to the voters because we can't said we can only renew it at the current level okay my question all right did did you and and then oh sorry yep no sorry so yes so so then we are required if there's any public um testimony or discussion relating to the expiring referendum so if anybody would like to speak to that uh the floor is yours otherwise if there is nothing regarding the expiring referendum we can take a motion to approve motion motion by Shannon there second second by Kent and this will be a roll call for myself Scott I approve d hi Kent hi Matt hi Shannon hi motion carries 16.0 is
037the strategic planning survey you see a copy of those and then I'll let Scott touch on that yeah um if you look at exhibit eight in the back of your board packet there um there is a draft and I I say draft because um it it's it's very much in draft format but I wanted I wanted the board to be able to see um at one of our previous meetings the board had um tasked myself and um our our leadership in the district to start working on a strategic plan um a part of that planning process is to get information from our stakeholders families um Community people so um there's two ways we plan to do that one is through stakeholder meetings where we're going to have a meeting in each building in each um
038Madison um here in this building in in applon um and people will have the opportunity to come and share feedback uh for the development of that plan but we also uh would like to do a survey as well and so that is what is in your board packet there um and I I wanted to get to this meeting so I put it in there in a it's pretty close to done but there's a there's a few minor edits that we're still going to need to make but you can get the idea of the types of questions that we're going to be asking is basically just giving the uh the community an opportunity to weigh in and provide us feedback of areas they think are important as we set that strategic vision for the next five
039years and so uh more than anything I just wanted the board to see it before it went out and just to ask the board for your um your I guess endorsement of us going ahead and moving forward with that and I guess Scott I'll leave that to you if it requires a vote or if you just need the board to say thumbs up as long as everybody's on board with it um if you see I would say if you see any questions or you want something additional just touch face with u yeah with Scott and if there's something we don't touch on you think we should you know let me know and then we'll we'll be planning to get this out here before the end of the month so I know when the predecessor Rick
040was here we asked him to send out a to so this survey is going to go out to our school district wide right some students have and parents have chosen the sign other school districts is there any way we can incorporate a question in there to briefly ask why you open and R why you open and rolled out now we know that one of the answers was obviously just because of location we know that right but I'd like to get a little bit more meat if there was specific reasons as to why without making that the whole survey in itself but I mean somehow tie a question in there to find out as to why are they actually going to send it back they say something from to to I don't know that' be I
041mean in my opinion if I got a thing from dson high school i' I think your point is a good one and that is something actually we have been working on as a survey that would be specifically for families that have open enroll elsewhere and if they're willing to give us survey going on yeah we've identified they are but I do I do think that that is good information we want to gather so more to so the the hard thing to get feedback on right is because everything's such a far a lagging response right because you don't know how you prepared kids for college until they're there right or the workforce so is there any way to you know I almost think continually check back in with students one to two years after they've graduated
042to see what their feedback is I don't know what you're going to get but because I mean well I mean I had a son that was on the fouryear path and then got into it and said that's not what he wanted to do well I'm thinking like when I was school know some classes you didn't like but then when you got to college you realized like well that's why I did that and it makes it easy now like or why didn't I do it because now it's costing me money yeah yeah I don't know if that would be part of this you know this this one would be almost like a another separate type one for kids but feedback on how how we're doing from a student perspective I think that's something we can talk
043about I think it' be something could kind of look at because you really don't know unless you specifically ask somebody that graduated because they're not the ones typically going on in doing the surveys probably their parents okay anything else on strategic planning so Scott can move forward with that then we're on to 17.0 the monthly School board reports so in packet you see Robins from Appleton have Tony's from madon um Scott do you have anything you want to add or I I just wanted to I wanted to highlight exhibit 12 which is the uh NCA incentive that we that we run each year um this has been kind of a it's been a practice over the last few years really a um something to promote best effort for our students on the NCA assessments it's
044it's feedback that our teachers get we take it very seriously and it hopefully provides us tools with where our strengths lie and where we need to continue to focus some some curriculum um enhancements if you will and so this has been a pretty popular deal um we'd like to run it again and and in a nutshell what it says is if our students meet or exceed on the MCAS um their semester exam will automatically be a be if they meet and a if they exceed because what we feel they're telling us is they've demonstrated Proficiency in the standards that are being taught at that level anyway uh with the idea that if they met and don't like the fact of getting a B on the semester exam they can still take the semester exam and
045whatever grade is better um we will give them so it's kind of a a free free opportunity if you will um the the challenge this year is we will not be able we don't believe we're going to be able to do this for the MCA Science assessment um because it is a a new assessment and we don't believe we're going to be getting the preliminary results in a timely manner so we won't have that feedback to DET make the determination so and we will likely see this um Range over the next couple years in both math and reading as well um as they as they adjust those assessments so um with your support we would like to move on with that again um as a as a carrot if you will and hopes that our
046students give their best effort I got a question for Scott so I personally look at the MCA and the scores that we receive as a report card to the teachers right that's how I want to but I'm also after speaking with some students under the understanding that they get so many tests and then they get done and they do the bbaa BBC you know what I mean just to get the test done which does not give them an doesn't give the teachers a fair accurate report on how that one individual student is so where my question is prior to handing out these tests in both math and reading and now science is there some type of spew that the teacher sends out some type of brief that says listen like this test is this important
047and here's why just so that they comprehend it that it is an important test because they take lots of tests here yeah but this one here is the metrics as a school board member I look at to say okay where are we at are our kids learning and I don't know how to fix it because I don't want them to just go in Mark B all the way down I want to be able to say hey our teachers are doing well right I I share your your exact your exact thoughts and and um the truth behind this Danny is um I don't know that there's going to be a perfect solution or at least I haven't thought of one to to make sure that everybody gives their best effort I do think that what this
048incentive does is it uh does take some of our students and say yeah it's going to be worth my time to save a little energy on the semester exams um I get the incentive part I like I totally agree with you I I I added to it because MCA is what I it's it's a concern for our teachers in those content areas um to be honest with you and and yes I do believe that they giving motivational pep talks prior to those assessments uh how like for fourth third and fourth they have like a whole preest thing that we go through and when I did it last year was my first year ever taking it doing MCAS like I saw that this is very important um please read as slow as possible and some of
049it yes is very it's hard for some of the students to read it's overwhelming but I'm but I know like I Madison because I haven't done it naon but that they were focus focus focus and we give them rewards you know like to give them breaks and to relax and so yeah it's the teachers do the best thing but we can't control what the kids are doing so because I know if the kid gets done quick I know that they just went and we can see the gra we can see what they did and how long it took them but we can't take it yeah have you heard any negatives about this incentive program like I haven't um other than I'm sure there's some kids that would like to like to get to that point
050you know and and um but I I guess I haven't heard anybody complain about it uh actually on on to the opposite uh when we have our student forums in November it's often a comment that comes up that our students appreciate the opportunity to maybe get out of the test get out of the test you know kind of a big exam I don't know why there would be any opposition to this incentive I I really don't I just wish a majority would sit down and actually put their heart and soul into it so that we could actually see if doing the job it would be helpful I think a p from board member [Music] persecute aori floress [Music] all right so nobody's everybody's good with the incentive thank you Scott um 17.5 is Marine anything
051to touch on there no just just to Echo what Scott said with the administering of this MCA for for science the results will not be immediate and we're being told August might be the earliest we get any results so the MCA just haven't done science it's a it's a new so the standards were new this year no the standards were not new we implemented the 24 or 2019 standards and so they updated the MCAS to align with that so yeah so they'll have to get distribution curves correct yes yes Mar anybody from EA got anything good we got yours Zach you have his in there um his is in there as well we have um Scott anything to touch on on yours um I've been sending you guys a lot of updates so I don't
052feel like I have a lot of extra things other than um there are the two items that are in the um addendum one that I I would like just to particularly the the second one dealing with excess equipment and the buses that we should probably talk about okay so then we can move right away into 18.0 which would be the excess equipment um which you can see there in the agendum is to sell one bus and then remove and sell one from the system um there as well are both 2004 units one's been parted out you can see the other one has a bad brake system I think the plan with the second one would be to remove it from service part it out and then eventually sell second one first one's already been parted
053out B Scrap It y SC so if there's no if there's any questions or anything otherwise we can take a motion to um remove the Access Equipment I'm assuming the cost is more than the bus yeah thought Kristen does a really good job of making sure that everything usable gets parted out from the the bus um and then we uh we put them out to bid uh for someone to purchase the remaining shell of the bus so to speak motion for that I'll make motion by Shannon second second by Danny any other questions or discussion on getting rid of some excess equipment not all in favor signal by saying I I those both same sign motion carries then 18.1 is the purchase of potentially two new school buses or used school buses next brand new
054so um there is if you look in that same packet there is um the invoice for each of the the two buses they're [Music] Bluebird um buses with cumin engines the um so you know we have two more buses which I think makes three or four three this year that we've we've had to let go down the road um and so Kristen would like to be able to replace with two buses um I did share with the board in the the budget for this year we had budgeted for one bus um at an amount of around $90,000 uh you can see that two buses would be significantly more than that um couple things to consider are that um good used buses that are low miles and and good quality are kind of hard to come
055by um and so chances are you know our choices are we can we can purchase both now um if we don't do that we you're probably going to have to look at replacing another one next year cost probably will go up you know things tend to go up about 8 to 10% every year so where's our transportation budget at right now that's one that we hardly ever tou we've had cost savings with uh on fuel and everything else because of the mild winners that we've had the last couple of years so I know we've had some grow back into it is that the right word grow back yep yep our fund balance increased last year so if we budgeted for one at 90,000 we'll have a Delta roughly at 50,000 is our transportation budget able
056to withstand that I say so I look at it more so that um if we don't budget it if we don't buy it this year when we have the opportunity then we're going to have to try to find a used bus next year with next year's budget and we may not be able to find find one U according to Kristen it sounds like if if we don't buy both of these they already have a buyer for the second one um because they they're hard to find and like Mr L said low mileage as well so um so my my recommendation to the board would be that we go ahead and move forward with the purchase of both but that is a board conversation as well and that up to you guys so this is really
057opportunity to purchase two rather than a need to purchase two type of thing correct because we'd have to buy one no matter what we have one budgeted no matter what we like to get we're getting rid of one bus that we currently use yeah so the opportunity just presents itself to prob it maybe get a little bit of savings for next year that we don't have the budget for and so when that bus next year goes out the idea will be everybody's okay with that I take a motion to approve schoolb purchase by Danny is there a second I'll second second by Kent any further discussion or questions all those in favor signal by saying I all right all oppos same sign motion carries with that I if I can add one more thing just
058to the superintendent's report I just uh I just wanted to share I had a great time I was invited to both of the elementary schools and got to read in every one of their classrooms and we had a blast Shannon was a part of it Shannon is a singer as you know and and there was some singing going on and everything so U but it was it was a lot of fun and the kids were a delight to work with so guar I see that um also to the 18.0 I messed up I forgot about the dollars to scholar there's a letter in there problem um from Dollars for Scholars to Cory or the board um basically do what explaining what um Dollars for Scholars does and in the past we have always donated one
059board meeting to that and um have a scholarship given in in our name um so everybody's okay with that just do that again I already wrot my check so I guess we're doing it we're doing it well it's a good thing I think it it helps all the kids out and it's a great opportunity for kids to get a little bit of something yeah when they move on further in their education when's it du April H April 1 April 1 but even if it's after it's fine it's covered there so no we say we'll just write your name down make sure you get it in there it will be ail okay anything else board members have nothing else take the motion sh second second by Matt all in favor right we are