001Please. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right. Roll call. Lisa here. Lori here. Here. Linda here. Tanya here. Can't write that. Uh Tom here. Jeremiah. Yes. All present and accounted for. We need to look at the agenda. take a look. Anybody have a question or Mr. K, there additions to the agenda? Sure. Uh, so initially I think I put it in the um, uh, information sheet uh, the hiring of uh, Amy Langford as a high school secretary. Um, I your your recall, Madam Chair, relative to where you want to put that. Can we do it in the consent? I think you can. I think you can. Yeah. Then let
002somebody pull it out if you want. Any other ones? Uh the second item would be under the consent agenda would be item E7 uh approving membership to MA. Those materials did not come. Um so I I maybe you do it in July when we have them. I just soon you see what you're paying for. for dues and and such. So delete that. Um and then uh also at at your station then this evening we did receive so you could probably replace E7 with uh recognizing the receipt of the intent to negotiate with the Long Prairie Grey Eagle Principles Associations. Put that in in there. And go of course that's very obviously it's common with all the bargaining groups in the in the district. I need a motion to accept the agenda. Motion second. Um any
003further discussion? Any discussions? All those in favor say I. I. Opposed? Motion carries. Um, we are conducting a hearing on the renewal of the district operating levy. Correct. That is correct. All right. So, folks, if they have questions about the operating levy, this is the levy that the board can approve, which comes due without voter consent. Um, so I guess you have questions, we can try to answer those. I think it'd be important to add in there too that we are just renewing this. This is a this is a new one. So these are already funds that our school receives that we'd like to continue to receive going forward. Everybody's quiet. There it is. the state has elected to allow us to do this once in the 10 years that the the levy is good
004for depends on what they do if we get another chance to do this 10 years down the road. So should be the same dollar figure that we pay this year. So the amount then as you can see then then the district we've received is $512,122. Um the uh those are those are as as Jeremiah indicated those are dollars that are already filtered into the district. Um and that are what are currently functioning for us in in uh in many areas uh from salaries to supplies um professional development um all of these all of these different areas and and so very important source of revenue for us. The design is is that the um the idea that that the per pupil formula increase that is set by the legislature uh mostly on a on a bianual
005basis has not kept up with the rate of inflation um over the years and as such then it has forced districts to go to what's referred to then as an operating levy. Um there are two within uh within the uh uh Long Prairie Grey Eagle district that have been formatted over the years and approved by the voters. Um and so this is uh a renewal uh for another 10 years of the first uh the first um operating levy or the first levy authority. Um and and as such then um we're allowed or we're required by law to hold a hearing and about the renewal again is a renewal the same amount um that's been authorized by the voters um and then this would be for another 10 years. Oh Excuse me. [Laughter] [Music] All right.
006So, do we have any questions further? Does this this meeting uh is is the meeting, right? Correct. Okay. And we do need a motion on that. Um you will do that later. Got it. Yep. We'll do it later in the meeting. All right. As long as there's no more questions, we'll go moving on. Uh I need a to approve the consent agenda. Madam Chair, do we need a motion to We'll do it later. It's later in the agenda. It's down there. So we need a motion to accept the consent agenda with the changes that we stated before. I'll make that motion. I'll second it. There any further discussion? Any discussions? Discussions. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. Okay. We don't see any children out there. No um guests on the list.
007Jenny, were there any? No. Okay. Program report activities. She is not here tonight. She had a previous engagement with her family. So, you had you read her report, I believe. Anything we want to talk about? Can you guys? That's congratulations to the track people at the state and placed. Traction the kids did well too. Yes, they did. Thank goodness they went last week and not this week. They've been like delayed and everything this last few days and they had to take shuttles the other day because it was flooded like over the weekend. So nice they got good weather for it. We get to hear it a lot. I bet. Yeah. Um it was nice to see her report on the ticket the concession stand the money that's made that way. So That's good, Dad. Mhm.
008I like that. Anything else for activities? All righty, Mr. Evenson. Are you busy this summer? Are you? Yeah, I got a few things going on. 21st century is still an unknown. I got a thing today. We got a correspondence that we're still in the hunt and they're thinking which I thought was because it looks like the amount of people have narrowed that but it says that they will be making Mr. Fro making decision in sometime in early July. Yeah, there is good hope there. All right, good. Any further questions for Mr. All righty then. Technology. I had little questions here. I have gotten a parent call um concerned about the Chromebook changes for seventh and eighth grade. So, who do I talk to? They want to know how come seventh and eighth graders aren't going
009to have their Chromebooks. Well, that came down that was a discussion at the administrative level uh due to the number of Chromebooks being damaged. We had 56% over half our Chromebooks damaged that along with the nonacademic use at home. uh look at the long range is that looking at the classes of dollar Chromebooks and trying to get as much life out of them and what is not being done at home in the academic end the administration along with the um Mr. Gazby um felt best that we limit the use in in school but they'll still be able to check them out if there's a need for them at home. So, it's instead of giving them to them, students are going to have to proact and say, "I need to check this out because I need
010this at home." So, we're not shutting the valve off completely. Um, the handbook will obviously reflect that going forward, but at this point, um, this might be the best answer as we look at, you know, the amount of damage and Toway is working on that. And that's, I'll be honest with you, proverbial. It's one of those things we hit every year. And I hear from Miss Towway, they want a damage and we know you have the conversations with students. We have uh insurance policies, all that. We're still sending this these Chromebooks and it's a costless school. And it would be one thing if you came back and I, you know, Mr. Dance has got all the data on that. I don't have the data in front of me, but you look at the amount of
011non-academic use in whole, then you start weighing, okay, if they're not going to, you know, we'll still open it up. If you want to check it out, go and see Miss Charlie, check it out each day, sign off for it, and you get to take one home. That's not out of real. We're just not going to hand them out to everybody like we would with 9th through 12th grade. So then two questions. Are you going to give them time so they can catch their buses after school to check out? Well, they'll have time throughout. We'll work this out within the schedule, but you're going to have before school, you're going to have lunches, breakfast. There's plenty of time. Miss available. Plus, you can go down and see her. There's not like you cannot leave the
012classroom and to go and see her. So, there's plenty of time throughout the day. So, if the kids, you know, it comes to the end of the class period, we'll work that out with the staff that the students feel that they need to go and see Miss Darling, let them out, go see Miss Merling for the, you know, because I I feel I know I've helped Kylie with enough homework. She needs it for every single class. And she might be one of those students. So, we're going to give this a shot. Mhm. If it doesn't work out, we'll pull back, figure it out from there. I I just think that overwhelmingly we're going to be looking at smaller percentage checking the Chromebooks out at this point, but it's really going to be a cost item
013on that end. For sure. It's um also just what other schools are doing. They're pulling back. They're saying that they're not being used at home like they should be and they're just it's we're not the only school doing this. There's other schools that are doing K12 leaving school and check out when we need to. So, it's it's it's going back from what it was. The whole program was to be a one-on-one school, but if you can't, you know, kids can't be respectful of the equipment either. So, all right. I just wanted to talk about that. We'll see how it works. Well, that's all you can do, right? Yep. So, it's in motion then, basically. Mhm. Sounds wonderful. Anything else for Mr. Gansky? You doing anything with your summer hours, right? Not on time. Not a
014tough. Yes. Is the high school interfering with anything you got to do? Not at the moment. I've been attending a couple meetings, but um you know, we'll we'll be getting the new uh HVAC software up and running and the whole system is going to be computer based now. So, more more stuff for tech department to make sure. That's good. Yep. All righty. Anything else you want to ask the technology people? I'm moving on. We are at the principles. Any questions for them? Oh, she's got words to say to us. I'm going to discuss this packet that I handed to you guys. Um, so the Minnesota Read Act literacy plan, uh, that is what MDE calls this document that I just gave you. It's not something that needs approval because it's already been submitted. It was
015due June 15th. Um, it was submitted in May, but um, what it is is the literacy plan that I had to submit last year. This is the report. So, it's got the data on it and then it has and this isn't in my report because we just got it back. Um, this is the plan report and then it's the new plan. So, it's going to look like on our website that we have old an old document, but this is what MDE has called it. So, it's the 2425 literacy plan, but it's the report. So, if you guys I want to go through a couple things because you might get questions on it because I know everybody's going to read it really thoroughly. So, um page three has our last year's goal, which was to train
016all K12 staff in structured literacy. That's the readact training. And then it has the new um literacy goals for 2526 which is to begin to implement those structured literacy plans that we all learned about all the training and things. So there's a few details in there. It's also to increase our reading proficiency based on our structured literacy training. So I'm not going through line by line, I promise. Um, but if you would turn to page six, this is new language that is going to come up and I might as well explain it right away. It's called dyslexia screening summary student count for K12 and then two pages later is 4 through 12. Um, but this is K3. And if you look at the chart, it looks like for kindergarten, 60% of our students have characteristics
017of dyslexia. That is not the case. None of those numbers are specifically that. What it asked me for was numbers of kids that for whatever reason are not reading at grade level and then the state puts them in a chart that says they all have characteristics of dyslexia. However, we all know our students and so I wrote them down so I don't forget but these include new students coming from different districts that might be at different places. They are language learners, their special ed students, etc. And yes, some of them do have dyslexia characteristics, but that is not a diagnosis at all. It says it right up at the top. Um, it says demonstrating characteristics of dyslexia is not the same as a diagnosis of dyslexia. So, yes, while I'm sure we do have kids
018with characteristics of dyslexia, it is not all of these children. So, keep that in mind. One hard part when they're clumped together like this is to differentiate. And so next year we will be adding in an assessment called CAPI. And Beth and I have been doing lots of trainings on this. And CAPI is a new screener for characteristics of dyslexia as well as other um areas of need for our students. And that will be given through is it fourth starting at fourth grade. Thank you. Carissa's been reading up on it too. So fourth grade on up will be taking this. And so this is something new and in addition to our fastbridge testing and we don't know what it's going to cost yet, just so you know that too. So unfortunately it's not an optional
019thing. If you turn to page eight again, same information, just this is the fourth through 12th grade students. Same um students demonstrating characteristics of dyslexia. They just were we were able to drill down slightly more with a couple different assessment pieces, but it still includes all of our students. If we go on to page 12, you have probably heard about MTSS, multi-tered systems of support. And while Long Prairie Grey Eagle School District does do all of those pieces for MTSS, we are not quite at the MN MTSS, Minnesota multi-tered systems of support. And so that is a project that I'm working on this summer. It's a work in progress. It and it's going to continue to be a work in progress because there's multiple pieces that we need to pull together. But we are whenever
020somebody asks, yes, we are doing multi-tered systems of support. We just don't use the exact framework for Minnesota yet. on the page 13. I just wanted to point out that these are the curriculums that we are using in case you're wondering how many minutes we're instructing the students in reading and all of the different things. Curricula is divided into either knowledge base or foundational skills or both. And so you can see foundational is like your phonics and your learning to read. And then your knowledge base is also your comprehension skills and other parts as well. And so that's kind of the breakdown of that. And then finally, Chuck asked me about the read act and he said, "Is this everything I need to know?" So, if you turn to page 15, this is the section
021about the professional development, which is the ReadAct training. And I'm really proud of our staff. Um, every single one of our staff that did the OLA training passed with well over 80% which is what was needed. And so, 56ish teachers completed that this year. And then we have another 20ome teachers that are ready to start their second year of letters training. And then the rest of them are already completed with letters training. So you have an amazing staff that has worked incredibly hard and learned a lot. And nope, it hasn't always been fun, but they have done it and they've done it to their best ability obviously. So I just want to publicly thank everybody for working so hard. So, any questions on this document? I think you meant to say we have an incredible
022staff. I mean, you're part of that. We do have an incredible staff. Yes. Clearly, leadership affects that ability. Well, thank you. So, any other questions? Who does the dyslexia characteristic assessment? So, that is part of what we give with our fastbridge assessments. And so anytime the characteristics of dyslexia are any kids that fall below grade level um but it there's such a connotation with that word dyslexia and it's not the same as a diagnosis. So they're looking MDE looks at the di the definition of characteristics of dyslexia as anyone following below. And so to me that kind of gives my heart a little bit of a pause when I hear that. So, okay. Yeah, makes sense. Any other questions? All right. Thank you. Thank you. I agree. Staff is wonderful. Mr. Barton, I just have
023two things to point out. Um you got a list of a number of programming coming from the state on the state level not from us. These are thou shalts. This reaches back what two years ago two and a half years ago when the state decided to implement 65 different changes in educational law. Um these are not all worked out yet at the same level. Right now some of them are a little tenuous. There are a little bit of information still need for them to sort out on their end before they push it out to us. I will be attending my conferences next week hoping to get some glean some information from Roger Arson. He provides legislative updates for this for us principles as he's our lobbyist but he's also he does all the trainings for
024us and keeps us on the legal end with the state. So hopefully next week we'll get some more information where this is all going. Um even within if you look at the MD website, you know, which is good for everybody to take a look at from time to time, you know, and see what's going on. They're pulling back. I've watched some changes in some specific areas that they initially had said they will be coming and they pulled back because they're getting such flak on it, which is fine because they get we're really going to get flack on some of this stuff. So, I'm going to give that to you as we uh get going on some of this. One of the things you'll see is that we're already working the civics portion out and we
025can do that with scheduling. That's not a problem. That's rather easy. The more difficult is points are going to be creating classes. Now, we have to figure out where we put it in in a 7-hour period because there's only so much room for electives on top of what's coming from the state. So, this is going to be a juggling act and every school's going through it. We're not the only ones. So, I'll be bringing things to you this year as we start getting ready for next year. What class, who's going to be teaching it, how we're going to fit this all in. It's kind of a jigsaw puzzle. We've got room. We're in a good spot. We've got room to work. So, nobody kids aren't going to be without. In fact, we're we've got room
026over in certain different class areas and departments that we'll be able to fit things in. So, we're in a good spot. So, that makes us makes me very happy. So, bear with us as I get more information. I attend four meetings a year typically for my association. Those are handbook and law classes, updates, things like that. So as I get that and that comes from the state legislature and department vet too because they work through MASSP, Minnesota Association of Secondary School Principles. Tammy is the same thing for elementary. Roger Ernson represents both of us, both of our groups. Um there's about 200 principles in the state. So that's who they're representing. So as that information comes from, they work with the MSBA and as that information comes, I'll bring bring that to you so we
027remain legal. We're doing everything we're supposed to be doing. That's number one. Number two, you're also seeing every month I give you that PBIS update. Thank you to Mr. uh Gibbs who compiles it. He does a great job with that. We've made some really changes this year. We put that Thunder Lounge in in the in the uh in the spring. We kind of test ran that. We've got that up and running. We're going to make some changes to that. It's really been a positive um re it's been received positively from the students. So looking at that data now, this is the year- end collection. I give you the month to month from year to year on that month. Now you're saying the year from one year to the next. Our numbers have dropped literally in
028half. And I thank the staff because they've grabbed on to that PBIS. One of the things I I was looking at initially was that capturing kids hearts. If you recall at the MSBA convention, I was part of that group from the company that they wanted representation from somebody use. I'd use them on prior school. I basically told them I'm going to be stealing from that, putting in our own program. I want that program initially. It's a very expensive program and I didn't want to spend $25,000 on it. Very intensive for staffing. But I'm glad we went with PBIS because obviously Tammy and the elementary crew are using it on elementary. It folds right over to the secondary. So the numbers speak for themselves. Speaks to the staff taking this very seriously and having those conversations,
029building that relationship with the students. We got Zeus, the wonderd dog here that helps. All these little things that we're making changes on have cut literally everything in half. So I'm not promising things, you know, something isn't going to happen. What I'm saying is the frequency for which things happen is really been a positive. So, we're starting to after three years of doing this, we're starting to glean some of this from it. So, that and we're going to continue to make different changes, different ideas. We're going to try different things. I've got some up my sleeve for this year. I'll be bringing to you probably August um when we be trying. So, we're going to continue on that trend. So, positive. That's all I've got. Um Bart, these are some really good numbers. I mean,
030uh, just the total discipline incident is 389. And if you take out, you know, if you take out tardies, that knocks out a lot of that. So, good job to you and your staff for knocking all that stuff down. These are really, really good numbers. And we're going to work on attendance. Attendance is a thing that's hitting every school. There's no magic formula for it. So, we're going to try different things. It's a carrot and a stick type of approach. And I don't know, you know, we can try different things to try to get the kids to take that seriously. I mean, that's a challenge. And to your note, too, that thunder lounge does look really nice. I mean, I saw that when we were at graduation, you know, up in the little area there
031and those couches, the tables, everything looks really great. Kind of gave me a vibe of like a college type hangout area. So, good job. We're working on neon. I can't promise. We're working on a really neon signage up there, but All right, we got on to the school board. Anybody been to anything fun and exciting? I want to compliment all the graduations that we did because I was there for kindergarten, sixth grade, and the high school. All were done very, very well. And kudos to the kids cuz they all behaved. It was just very nice. It really was. And good, good job for the trap team. Good job for the trap team. I think it was a good spring for a lot of things. Concerts were all wonderful. So, anybody else go to anything? You
032were at stuff this spring, weren't you? I know. and do so well. Yeah. I'd like to say thanks to Audrey and her helpers for keeping us in line. Yes. For the graduation. Anything else? We've got Mr. do some special assignment, district planning, strategic planning. Cool. I got a little summary on there including a um the innovative grant summary. There's a larger one in the paper per the grant requirements that's going to finish up this fall due to timelines. Anybody have any questions on some of that stuff I was sharing? So, we have done some things like with Thunder T-shirt or um trying to get the Thunder Pride going. We've done something back I believe last two years. There's a start in the document, a fuller one, and um it's still being updated, but it lists
033some of the stuff that's been done and under consideration needs to be gone through again because obviously um a year has passed. So you look at what you've done. The biggest thing that I added to it was the data at the end with you know discipline, academics, uh participation and athletics communication. So we can take a look at where we're are where we are and adjust to where we want to be and reset goals. Be really good to review them to see if there's anything we want to change or highlight or put some, you know, targets for that we'd like to get to. The wraps on the doors look kind of slow walking down to the especially school for graduation. It was kind of cool to see that. I think we need to do all
034we can to promote our school and our kids and our parents and teachers. We have very good, wonderful people all over. Okay, ready? Mr. Superintendent, it's your turn. Sure. Just u a few things here. Try and try and keep this as as uh quick as we can this evening. Um so as a as a point of of clarity uh item number one that May enrollment down one for the month um we we asked uh the office staff to run uh run enrollment on the last day um of the of the school year. And that maybe was a little confusing in some of the reports. We had, you know, uh, May's board meeting and then you have June 1, right? And so that that's what that was. We tried to delineate the two to separate and
035get a little bit more clearer understanding of of of those uh of those u uh spreadsheets. But anyway, um obviously the um the movement wasn't a lot which you're glad you you wouldn't think that there would be over the month of May and and that kind of thing. So I think the number was 967 at the end and again we go kids in seats, right? um uh at that at that point in time. Um one of the interesting numbers uh that that is associated with that is is that we do periodic reports in into the department. Um we'll just say you know every other month and and that's done by Bonnie Bendorf in our office. Um and that last or excuse me the first as it talks about the first ADM the end of year
036ADM run uh from the MDE as we talk about kids in seats uh that number was 1,23 okay so in other words kids ran through our system from September to the end to the end of the school year and so when you talk about that number and how we were this way the entire year running 960 in that area 970 it's incredible um and how how it stayed there and then as you get into then the enrollment report the first drop happened last Monday um where we take a look at that ADM number which is the number we're funded at and how we base our our uh our budgeting uh and how we base our payments uh that come that are metered to us um uh from the department every two weeks. So again, as
037I I kind of noticed, it's always it's kind of a big deal for me. I get excited. It's kind of like the new phone books are out, right? Um that's an old thing. What was that movie? Um can't play range with a baby. I don't know. Uh 997 and our um uh 997.9 and last year's number was 99.99. It's incredible. Uh again, you have 1,200 to have 1,200 bodies come through the system and not impact you in a negative way. It's incredible. And so um it's also you could probably look at it the other way too that we should have seen something uh more increasing and we didn't. But um as it goes then 99793 uh there will be submissions um in we'll see the next drop right around the 4th of July if not
038a little bit before and then August um and then September and that's when the auditors will grab that number in September and say that's the number we're that that we'll base your revenues on for this past 24 25 school year. So that's kind of where that's at. I again I don't want to spend a lot of time um uh because I know that we I kind of communicated that with you um as soon as that hit last Monday. Um the other the other number two then was was as we talked about um as we talked about uh oh about every other month during the course of the year. I was thought this was kind of neat to talk about the the million-dollar business of of a million-dollar business of of uh the food service program.
039And uh we ended up I I will tell you that um the if you took a take a look at the bottom number, we ended up as comparison to last year about 8,500 meals short. Uh April hurt us. There's no question about that. uh that April being the the snowstorm. Um and then the second the second factor was the f was the um uh change with the HVAC project, right? So we we eliminated uh a few student contact dates there. Um and that then accounts for the shortage um uh in in the number of meals uh throughout the course of the year. So um you can kind of see then how that all how that worked out in uh comparison to 23 24 school year to 2425. So that will tell you then that revenues
040in fund two uh as that comes in will be a slightly less than last year and and so um we'll see how that all turns out as the audit draws closer to there are other factors that impact uh like commodities and and so forth but uh again right now just to keep an eye out fund two the revenues will be less than what they were last year. So, uh, you know, and as you have to make those decisions, there's a little thing called food service that, you know, I mean, yeah, we we look at, okay, yeah, the we can go with a an e-learning day that hurts, you know, in another area and and so just keep those things in mind because uh certainly that's been impactful uh here. Um item three, um legislature final
041final K12 bill. Um those were items uh um those were items that uh were in your packet as well and and you saw a lot of a lot of things. You all know we talked uh significantly about um we talked significantly about the the the inflationary piece to the funding formula. Uh we'll see a 2.74% increase to the per pupil formula which will be the basis for your decisions relative to collective bargaining with the various uh bargaining units and employee groups. Um that's for the 2526 school year, 3% for the 2627 school year. Uh so those uh those numbers are out there uh now. Um and it helps you plan uh going forward as you start uh the discussions with those groups and formulation of of a of a of a more solidified budget uh
042going forward. Um, so it the the other thing was then the the handouts that uh relative to the compensatory revenue piece, we talked about that last month. The the huge swing that we could have seen uh anywhere ranging from a deficit of 150,000 to 800,000. We survived. You have a one-year re reprieve. We survived. And to see that that number come in on a $1.8 8 million revenue stream to come in $13,000 less than what you're getting right now was amazing. And and certainly your legislators here in the in the area, if you see them, make sure and thank them because that took a lot of work to get there. And um certainly the special session uh was this was a key point of discussion but uh it will the the district will have that
043same amount of revenue given again 13,000 on 1.8 million is is basically the same um you you're going to face the same issue um next year at this time. So um I would venture to say that there is going to be a group to talk about that as uh that funding stream because it has taken off in terms of uh the amount of money districts are receiving the amount of money that the districts are receiving are a revenue source for us for the state of Minnesota it is an expense okay so that's the way they look at it and they have to figure out with with their conditions going forward, how they're going to fix that. Um, and so you'll want to you'll want to pay attention to this group that will be that has
044been assigned to study the issue um as it as it impacts you significantly. But again, a redrie for one year and and we're in good shape again going forward for the 25 26 school year. Um, taking a look at the the um other issue right there. Just some some ideas. Roof maintenance on now can be applied toward um LTFM. Um it it was previously. However, the most of the time a roof project would drain the LTFM. Uh the the dollar amounts for roof projects are significant and it would take basically all of the year's allocation. So now what they're allowing you to do is if you want to uh bond for a roof project out of LTFM, you can do that. Um and and so just some some things like that that are u that
045are really beneficial. Um the uh other under the modernized the open meeting law. This will be very interesting to see um how the Bureau of Administration addresses this, which would allow um it would allow Linda to uh uh tune in uh from the board and be an actual voting member of the board while uh in in another location other than here. So uh it it it gives a little bit of of flexibility to the board members and their obligations on a monthly or bimonthly basis. So kind of some uh interesting piece there. Um and again we didn't talk a lot about this but uh obviously our calendar is set for next year for 26 27 and 2728. Um you can start before Labor Day. Um and so that obviously next year is the earliest uh
046school can start that being September 2nd. Um 26 27 28 728 is the latest. So it gets into September se September 6th and September 7th. So just some things for you to start for you to um uh think about. Um let's see what else. There were a couple other handouts in here. Um but at any rate those kinds of things a very uh obviously a very um tough session and uh that that u a very tough session that the the legislators had to go through. Um it was a zero% increase for K12 for this year. Well Doug, how does that how does that work? What do you mean zero? We the compensatory was funded at 50 million more for that revenue stream. You've got we all got 2.74 uh on the perview pupil for house
047K12. Well, they took from other areas that other areas that people had a passion for and and so that was uh that was interesting. And then next year they started to set the table for a a $460 million reduction to K12. So, um, very tough session in in that regard. I did provide for the board's review. You can see the individual handouts and in terms of of spreadsheets and and and what Long Prairie Grey Eagle schools got in the area of compensatory um student support aid, which we thought we were going to lose. Um and we were we were ready to accept it in a in a in a in a tradeoff for uh uh getting fully funded on compensatory. We were willing to accept that and and they came forward with a with the
048full uh student support aid or level funding there which impacted us positively. Library aid um we took a little bit of a hit um but again something that we can we can address. Um, so just a just a hard hard uh session. It's obviously trying to to address uh feelings on both sides of of the aisle and they got it done. Unfortunately, it was late and went into special session again. Um, so that that impacted us from a a budgetary standpoint. So I'm trying to think here. I want to get to some of the other issues here. HVAC project again continues to float along in a timely fashion. Uh we're we're going to be uh mindful of equipment needs that are coming in. They talked to us last week about that in the weekly weekly
049construction meeting. Um if equipment comes in in a timely fashion, we should be in good shape to start school on time. Uh we hope that's the case. They're not impacted by weather. They're not impacted by the rain. So they keep going and and uh so it's amazing how much work they've gotten done in the in the time that they've been there. Um so uh anyway, we continue to be on track and turf. Um uh again got the the contractors on site um a little later than we thought, but certainly when they got here they went to work. And you can obviously drive by and see the fruits of their labor. And uh we're uh we're um going to have uh likely a change order um here uh coming before the board um in in uh
050at the July meeting. We have a conversation with the facilities committee after tonight's meeting to to go through that change order. Um so anytime you deal with uh with dirt, it's there are issues and and and expenses. So, can I just input on that? When you have that meeting, just ask what happened to all the soil boardings out there that we did in the past. Mhm. They knew what was underneath there. Yeah, they should have. Should have. Okay. It's frustrating. Yeah. No doubt about it. Uh 287 in Harmony Park, you see that, too. Um I reported is obviously we we've got about two weeks with with them um impacting the school and uh so that lots going on. Lots going on. Uh property and casualty and and workman's comp insurance renewal July 1st. Um Matt
051Mitchell and Sherry and I met on Friday and went through the the policy. They are, as I indicated to you too, that they are negotiations uh relative to the premium renewal and that will run right up to the right up to the July 1st deadline um or renewal deadline. Um that's please know that we are lucky to have the MC has quoted you for a number of years which is even more interesting. Um, and they are continuing to want to write you and and support you in in your insurance needs. So, that's a good thing. I don't know if there there's only about five insurance companies in the nation that write schools. Okay? But you need to understand that this is a this is a very difficult business. Schools are risk and and you've got
052to be you've got to have um backing behind you uh to be marijuana carry to school and and the the issue has become that some are starting to see themselves being dropped uh by insurance companies and having to go with the state. Um and that's not a good thing and and yet you continue to have a good relationship with the MC and that's that's good. So, um, again, you'll see that renewal come around in in July 1st. Um, I was glad to see I think your, um, your replacement values are are in line with what they should be if you would experience a major catastrophe. That was good to see. Um and and so um that's a good sign that that your agent of record Matt has kept kept moving that number forward uh each
053year which is which is that's being good stewards of property and you you've done a good job in that regard. So anyway um sound too. What did I do? Anyway, I had some I had putting put out some parting thoughts. Um, I I'll just go off of off of u this is yeah, this has been a a ter terrific experience. I'm just going to tell you that. Um, good luck to you folks. Um, I would I would tell you that that uh I grew a lot here and and uh just watching um the how you function and operate on a on a daily basis. It was fantastic. You have I I put on that slides. I wish I could remember where I put it in my machines. you have something special here and and you
054really do and and uh good luck to you going forward. Um the things that I thought of right away that that um um I I I pointed some of the work that's being done from an elementary perspective, I talked with the staff on the last day about the the behavior management techniques that are taking place um in in there. I I was just wowed. I I told the staff I had to call some of my colleagues and tell them you need to come and see this. This is unbelievable. And and then I look at at some of the things that um that uh the high school is right for u a careerbased uh pathways set. It it really is. as you take a look at go out and take a look at the as an
055example the themies of Nashville um the the the student demographics in Nashville are are much like they they are here and and in order to keep our economy because you are a driver of your economy in these communities in order to keep the the cycle of of of a thriving economy you need our kids our kids are an important part of going going uh and supporting our our business and industry. Um and and um you know that they the themies of Nashville teach you about you don't need buildings that are brand new. They will teach you about how anybody a kid can can get a a CNA and go and wind up and and making 30 bucks an hour on the weekends. That's happening. But how do you formalize that as a as a as
056a foundation of your of your high school? Um I put on the on the slide too the youth science. Um this doesn't start when you're a junior. It starts when you're a freshman because the four years go by so fast and and what's that freshman thinking about and and how do you know but providing I put it's called it's a company called youth science again used it and and they provide an assessment that one measures their interest two measures their uh their aptitude and the two intersect and they provide then careers based upon interest and aptitude that the kid has. And at that point in time, you've started them down their path because that kid then goes, "Wow, yeah, that's right." And it's amazing how right it is. It's incredible. But that's that's what you're
057able to do is to get the kids on a track and thinking about it and then um and then um uh executing that plan. These are the classes I need to take to match what what I've been told by you science and why owe you science. And uh it's phenomenal. And you know what? Create an account. You take it too. You you it's fascinating how you can find out about yourself. But um anyway, like I said, Nashville um you go out and find out places that have done this and have done well with it. And you go over to Alexandria, they do it. Um it's a little different. Their student population is remarkably different than it is here, but it's fit and the fit is here. Um, and so by all means, that's what I
058would tell you. But anyway, good luck and thank you for the opportunity. Thank you, Doug, for coming out. Anybody else? We're on board highlights. I guess we kind of did board highlights a little bit ago. Anybody else have any comments on board highlights? Thank Mr. Froak for his time and wish him well wishes on his next adventures for sure. We're on unfinished business. Mr. Bro, what do we got? I got something. I was wondering, has there been any progress made on the uh uh school board agenda meeting being translated into Spanish as well? We talked about this at the last board meeting and you guys were going to kind of check amongst the staff to see, you know, if it was feasible kind of how much was going to be trans uh translated, stuff like
059that. We checked around other districts that do or don't found out there's same do or don'ts. um found out uh it's a little difficult to get somebody to translate um and then would depend on what you want to call translated. If just the agenda that would be a 200 thing but if we went into the full minutes etc etc would get more which would then get into the newspaper which uses more that way. I guess we didn't go any further. Okay. I guess since over half of our community speaks Spanish, I think it probably something that we should do moving forward. Um, even if it's just like the agenda and the key highlights would probably be beneficial. I know getting all 136 pages is probably unrealistic, but um I at least think the agenda going
060forward. I think it's in al libery, isn't it? Well, even if like on our Facebook page and stuff like that, we'd have to probably I'm sure talk to the translators to see how fast they could get it out to see because I know they're busy. Checkp does all of my translating for me. Is it Spanish that they all can understand or is it different dialects? So, it actually gives you two different options to pick from. So, you go with the more traditional or more kind of um uh Spanish. So, but I mean you the agenda doesn't have much on it. I think our translators would be able to knock it out in 45 minutes. That would be something the office staff would take the office staff. We're going to put that on his agenda right
061away. Okay. But we'll we'll Yeah, I guess we kind of put that on at the end because we were busy doing things. We will take a look at it. All right. Um, any more unfinished business? All righty. New business then the donations. And we got a list again. Oscar Jacobson, American Legion, made $550 for football. Oscar Jacobson, American Legion, gave $100 for prom. Oscar Jacobson Legion gave $600 for football and Oscar Jacobson gave $250 for the athletic banquet. Sherry Pong gave $150 for FFA. Freedom Wash gave $500 for golf. Magnify Financial gave $50 for golf. Vonbury Lions gave $500 for the Web Crew fishing event. The Red Cross gave $1,500 for dollars for scholars. Green Eagle Cemetery Association gave $300 for the marching band to go over there and participate in Memorial Day. The Flavor
062Shack gave $200 for track. Impact Tech Foundation gave $2,000 for dollars for scholars. Our way gave $1,000 for welding. Minnesota National Bank gave $500 for the wait room. LP Lumber gave $250 for the wait room. Library Lions gave $4,526.77 to the trap team. Gremler Financial Group LLC gave $50 to Stan Hortness Memorial Scholarship. Long Prairie Dairy Queen gave $100 to the wait room. Rinfeld Group gave $50 to the wait room. Philips Repables and Collision Center gave $500 to the wait room. And Charlotte Tavern gave $150 to the wait room. Let it be known that this school district truly truly appreciates all these wonderful donations. I need a motion to accept those. I move to accept the donation. Second, glory. Any discussion? Any discussions? Any more discussions? All those in favor say I. I. Opposed? Motion
063carries. Okay, we have the teachers that achieved their ten tenure and congratulations to all of them. Um, do we need the motion on those or is that just we need a motion? Probably a good idea. We do all 13 together. You can I'll make the motion to accept the tenure teacher list for elementary and high school. I'll second it. Jeremiah, is there any discussion or any questions you have for the principles? Any more discussion or questions? Madam Chair, I just point out as a point of clarity um for the board uh as it relates to Lisa Marty um she is a speech language pathologist at 6 FTE. So as she is granted continuing contract status, her continuing contract status is at 6. Okay. So as you get just kind of keeping it out of the
064seniority list and that kind of thing. Um everybody else on the list here is 10 because she's worked in that tenure status at 6. Then that's her 6 is where she's given continuing contractor or tenure. So if we if she ever came back and worked full-time, would she have to go through three years? No. Once you extended a full-time contract for her, she would be right then and there. Yep. She was at 1.0 at 10 year 1.0 at that time. That's right. So one last time, any questions or discussion on the 10 years? All those in favor say I. I. Opposed? Motion carries. Okay. You want to talk about the preliminary budget? Sure. Um I'll put this up uh initially and I put this up initially. So um the the um again the the picture
065of uh the budget is a a picture of the financial affairs uh of the district in a calendar or a fiscal year. Okay? So it doesn't stretch out into 14 months. It doesn't stretch out or it isn't nine months. It's 12 months and and it captures the district's financial activity. Okay? Okay. And that's that's very important because we take a look at at um items that are in flux throughout the course of uh throughout the course of the year, particularly building projects. They take time and as such then they run over um that that they can run over that 12 month period of time or they we could start a project in in uh June and obviously it finishes in August over two different fiscal years. So that's that's very important to remember. It's a
066snapshot in time of what the district's u uh revenues and expenditures are from July 1 to June 30. Okay. So, as you take a look then the other part of that is is that there are two pieces to a budget. Two pieces are revenues and expenditures. And then you meld the two together to see how how um uh the district is doing from a fiscal standpoint. Um that's that's at this particular point in time. And I put the expenditures uh uh the expenditure summary uh for the board um up on the screen um as it goes because we spent time talking about the uh the legislative session and the fact that it ran over um the the it did not allow the district um uh time to adequately put together a budget particularly on the
067revenue side that would accurately reflect what it could receive. So what's happened here and I I understand it is uh common practice is that the district has uh taken and rolled over the existing budget um to operate uh in the time being until better data can become available. Um that roll over then does one thing, the main thing and that is on July 1 the board the district has to have a budget in place statutoily to allow it to pay bills and that meets this rollover meets that obligation. So pending your approval um you'll have um you'll have the ability the district in the the district office will have the ability to pay bills. So um that's what that's what this does. So um the the March revision was the catalyst for what's um what's
068in front of you this evening. uh particularly from a um uh particularly from a um expenditure uh sideline. Well, I should say particularly from a revenue side. Uh we do know what those revenues are going to be. We just didn't have the structure internally to be able to put that down in a formatted u uh in a formatted sequence because uh that comes from the department. Okay. So that's that's where we're at at this particular point in time. The big thing that I would talk about as it relates to a rollover and and um the expenses would be um fund one. And so there there was uh a little uh we did make a little change relative to the expenditure budget in that under fund one the general fund we did remove the um interim
069superintendent contract which um which was in the March revision. Um so that is out to accurately reflect those expenses. And then two, uh, we took out the, um, we reduced the legal expenses budget, uh, by, um, $30,000. So those two items then were taken out, um, and so, uh, to to get it because we knew those things could could be pulled out. Um at this particular point in time there is no um again because it's a rollover there is there is nothing put in for inflation. Okay at this particular point in time maybe you'll do that in October. Um maybe you won't um again as you go to go and deal with um the the issues around the the employee negotiations. That's what will be uh in in this revised budget. Okay. Um I want
070to go I want to go down to um construction. Okay. Um this is a con construction fund is fund six. Um that this is the expense side. Again going back to what we talked about when we started that this is a picture of 12 months. a lot of the and this is the expense side. Um this is a carryover from March. Those will things that you will update and again we talked about the potential of a revision um in October. Those numbers will be that'll be a key part of the project will be identifying the expense side of the construction project of which the district has many. Obviously we just got done going through all of that. Harmony Park, the Flashers, the field, the turf field, um uh the HVAC, all those things. That's going
071to be that'll be a large part of Sher's work in in uh in uh September and and the early part of August is is bringing that number uh a little bit closer than what to reality because now we're we're distancing oursel from March, right? So just so but we had to have a number in there. So we did that. So that's the expense side. The revenue side then um again is is brought over uh from uh as a rollover from uh fiscal 25 or the 2425 school year. And again, you take a look at general fund. Um there there are no changes there. Again, um food service, community service, uh construction of 540. Um that that number and that number will change that number of 540,000 because the uh bonds or the certificates of participation
072we received in May. So that's on they're in this fiscal year. So do you know that number will look bigger and and a big bigger reflection number reflected in here right now? Is that number reflected in here? No, it's not. Okay. Where is that number now? Where is that? Where is that money right now? What balance is it reflected in? It's in an account with um Zion Financial Institution. Okay. So just like just like the the the the the money the abatement dollars are held with Ellers this was held with Zion Financial Institution the the certificates of participation for the term and as we need it we're going to draw it out. Correct. Put it in here. Correct. Okay. Yep. Mhm. So, and then as you get into as you get into debt redemption, that's
073that's how you're you receive the tax dollars in, they go out to pay off the the uh principal and mortgage, right? Or it's like a mortgage, the principal and interest, right, to go out and and pay those projects HVAC. Um, and then the turf, the turf and uh project will go out, this first payment will go out this year, too. One one more quick question. We pay the Do we pay the food service director out of fund two out of fund two? Okay. Correct. All right. Mhm. Okay. So here then I um I I I kind of hit a little bit about on on all of these issues, but I just want to review it. Um I just want to review that for you. Um just to make sure that you know we we touched
074on everything impacting the budget. Um again, we talked about the rollover. We talked about the fact that you need to have a budget in place, need to take action tonight, um as you do in June. I understand it's it's customary that you do roll over. Um and then also uh the again the fact that it is a picture of 12 months of the activities of the district and then take a look at at the preliminary budget based on an ADM enrollment of 982. Um look at there same as fiscal 2025. Well, what do we know about what we learned about our enrollment right for for fiscal uh for fiscal 25 the new the new ADM came out very strong likelihood we're going to roll over a thousand in ADMs I would say by the time
075you see things in in September I don't know why we'd change it in other words in fiscal 25 we had a we had an we were funded on an EDM number of 982 which we met and obviously now we're going to get that money because we had more kids. We'll receive more dollars. I don't know why we'd change it maybe and run run 982 back for the 2526 school year, you know. Um we don't we don't know um especially the mobility factor that we talked about earlier. So that will be the number and I would guess even in October that will be the number and cherry certainly feel free to yeah unless we see a a major change one way or the other we'll just keep it right where it's at because then we can
076um what happens is if we stay at that nine or thousand level um we'll just put more money that'll come to us when the state pays us off. So they always catch up to us if we um put our student population lower. Item five and item six. We get on both those item seven. We touched on containment stuff contaminants. Um they they were the again they still remain in play as we know we deal with attrition. and those kinds of things. So, uh they remain in play items 9 and 10. So, that's what we have. you have a lot on the table about it, a lot of things and it's going to continue to be that way as the legislature deals with, you know, 80% of uh most of the school district budgets are are
077state funded and your auditor will talk about that. We're not quite at that level, but it's close. So, you're married to the state. Any questions? So the the 2026 budget that you want us that we're going to approve tonight, the um expenditure is probably somewhat realistic. The revenue side of things is just a broad snapshot, right? Yeah. Madam chair, I move that we accept the um fiscal 20 26 budget as this. Okay, we have a motion by Chuck on. I'll second it. Any more questions or discussion on that? Thanks for good report. That was for sure. Any more discussions or questions? Discussion or questions? All those in favor say I. I. Opposed? Same sign. Motion carries. Language access plan. Who's going to speak to us about that? You can. Okay. I go ahead. if you
078want to go ahead. Go ahead. You're good. Okay. Uh, so this is a collaboration of a lot of staff members um including Larson and Mr. Rude, myself and also yes and then um our leaison as well at school and our school secretaries. And this is a requirement by the state. It will need to go into our parent handbooks and on our website. We do have it translated into Spanish already. Ada did that before she left for summer vacation or summer break. Um and then so it just goes through all of the different things. The state gave us a template and we went through how our district handles families that come in that need have different language needs including sign language including different languages and we've started to implement many of these things and the rest
079will be implemented as the school year starts. So does anybody have any questions? There's a lot of information in it. This is a new policy for the coming school year. It is. It's more of a plan than a policy because it will be there's things that in it that will change and be an ongoing changing thing. But yes, this is something new. And we need a motion to approve that. I believe yes. Right. Yeah, I would. Yeah. I move to approve the plan. I'll second it. Okay. We have a motion and a second to approve the language access plan. We have any further discussion? Any further discussions? All those in favor say I. I. Opposed? Same sign. Motion carries. Okay. This goes back to what we talked about before. Um we had our hearing to
080renew the district operating levy. So in case you have more questions, we could do them or we could just make a motion and go from there. This extends it from 10 years from the end of the current term. Yep. So I think that makes 11 years, right? Are we a year left? Right. So 11 years from now. I need a motion. I'll make a motion to approve it. Motion. Do I have a second? Any further discussion on it? Any further discussions? Good. Thank you. I think yeah. Any further discussions? All those in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Okay. The last thing on the agenda is that last little piece of paper you have in front of you. That's the agreement and release of all claim. Um this is something the legal
081thought we needed to do to clarify. um the transition between Doug and Daniel. So these are the contingencies that were there, all the wherees and therefors. Um Doug and I have talked about this for a while. It just explains fully how he's going to get paid for his unused vacation, unused sick leave, things like that. Um, any questions in there that you kind of let us hold tonight a little bit as you can see on the bottom of the paper. I guess I would ask for questions if you're have a question if I explain it. So this is a dispute over that last month of August, right? August. July and August. July and August. Yeah. And so with this then we're just providing insurance going forward for the next year. Right. I guess I would
082make a motion on accepting the agreement and release claims. We have a motion. I'll second it. Second. There any further discussion? Questions? Any further discussion or questions? All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. And I just want to say thank you very much, sir. Thank you. A pleasure knowing you. Hope to see you again sometime over. Might be another jelly. Toast. Told you. English muffin bread and butter and good. Okay. I