001So it is six o'clock. So we'll call the meeting to order. All members are present. So we will move on to there is a few additions to the agenda which we'll cover later on. Um move on to approval of the agenda. I'll make a motion. Second by Thomas second by Gerald. All in favor? I uh any opposed hearing? None. Motion passes. No public comment. Move on to the consent agenda. Uh Cheryl, I think you were in for bills today. I was in today. Um nothing really out of the ordinary. I noticed the grand march decorations and prom decorations were paid out of there out of whatever account. Yep. and uh the Costa Cost Costa Rica trip first payment that's coming up. Um I don't remember what the travel dates are, but coming up anyway, the
002first payment was made on that and the audio enhancement in the both the senior high and the elementary school that's finished now. It's done. We're uh we're at the point of just troubleshooting um random here and there and so it's it's been nice. Yeah, just u that was about it. Roof project of course is of course the roofs are ongoing so I probably don't even need to comment on that. But this was a big one and this is a this is a big one for us. So that's that's about all I really noticed and nothing out of the ordinary. um personnel items. Uh there are two career instruments that I just want to call out because uh we missed them last month and um apologies to Sarah Hadath and Amarie Stevens um for missing their
003career inment. Um you know they nothing happens for their payment but I think it's important to make sure that uh we recognize their career career increments along with everybody else. Uh we do have a couple of resignations and hires. You're going to see some ins and outs. So those are comparable. And then this is also the time of year where we have all of our summer uh services. So we have our pause workers uh which is going to be the summer date with the summer child care uh program. But then you'll also see ESY which is extended school year services um and that's that's for services um uh based on individual education programs. So um different types of contracts. Uh and then I do want to call out donations uh because we have a number
004of donations uh this this month. Um again uh coming back to uh the wrestling club donated $12,000. The booster club donated $4,000 toward wrestling mats. Um I think that's a an important amount of money to acknowledge and recognize. You're also going to see River of Life um donated $500 toward weightlifting. um that is uh that's a really fun kind of competition that some of our students get to compete in and then uh when they win money it comes to the school district to put into the weights program. So um that's an exciting competition. So just wanted to acknowledge those um those donations and then I would stand for any questions on the consent agenda. I'll make a motion to approve. Second by Ron. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Hearing none. Motion passes. Moving on
005to communication items. Um my administrative report is uh included. Um couple of things. Uh May is uh always does bring teacher appreciation week. Um I know the principles talked at the our main meeting about uh teacher appreciation as well. Um, but it's it's just a a nice reminder as I kind of come to the end of the month just to look back and and I really think at this time of year it's a nice time to look back at all of the individuals who really make our school district function. And it's from our custodians to our cooks to our teachers to our pair professionals to our administrators to our bus drivers to all of the individuals that are really working every day uh to make our school year successful for kids. So it is teacher
006appreciation, but it's kind of a nice time at the end of May to do a quick look back and say thank you. So, um the legislative session, uh I was hoping to have had a has concluded and here is the deal. Uh it still has not concluded. Um hopefully at the June work session I can go into more detail. A couple of things I do want to call out though that are are pretty important. One is that Governor Walls did sign a bill boosting um uh pension reform for Minnesota teachers, police officers, and firefighters. Uh that was a a really uh large push to um to really eliminate some of the penalties for early retirement. Uh it does not make them completely penalty-free, but it certainly does limit the penalties for early retirement. And so
007it's more of a um you'll see that it a reduction in the teacher retirement age from 62 to 60 and the lowered the percentage for teachers with 30 years of service. So, um, uh, I'm hopeful that that helps to draw some individuals into our profession in education. Um, and I'm hopeful that we have, uh, teachers to replace our retiring teachers in the future. But, uh, it's certainly something we pay attention to. But that was a there was a large push and I and I was actually, um, a little bit surprised at the the pace that it went through. So, that's good news. Um, also there's some additional funding that has been allocated to offset the cost of unemployment insurance for summer staff. Um, this is an ongoing conversation about the sunsetting the eligibility. Um, the
008speaker Hortman did note that uh there was not enough votes to repeal uh that mandate, but I do expect that conversation to come up in the future. Uh for us, what that means is that there will not be a financial implication for the school district for uh for the summer unemployment, which has been a a large advocacy on our part to say um if you if this is the mandate, you know, let's talk about funding and and working hard to not put that on our taxpayers backs. So, we'll we'll see where that goes. But um that's that that was good news that there's u money there for the summer unemployment. The other other piece that is uh good news I think is that uh there is an amendment that passed allowing school districts to begin
009prior to Labor Day in the 2627 and 2728 school year because Labor Day is so late in those years. So um that's uh that has been a long time a lot of advocacy and so we were excited to see that come through. So when our calendar committee meets I know that'll probably be a valid discussion. Um just the end of the year wrap-up. Tomorrow is the last student day. Um enjoy summer and uh we'll see kids in the fall and um staff will be here uh half day on Tuesday or um if they they have flexible um professional development days and some of them attend graduation. So um it starts to be pretty quiet here by the end of the week and and then the custodians we can get out of the way out of
010their way and let them do what they're doing. So, um I am excited to uh remind students and parents and our community members and staff that uh as we go through the strategic planning process, uh we are going to be seeking feedback and we're going to ask questions about what people would like to see and and um because I think it's really important for you as you do your work as a school board that you hear from community members and um you hear from students and staff and you hear from many parties involved. So, um, that'll be coming up as well. And then lastly, just the summer meal program is available once again. So, I included the, uh, flyer just for Oh, wow. I'm not presenting the right document. Let me let me go back
011and I just want to share that. Uh, I want to share that document so people can see the times of um, there we go. Of the summer uh, the summer food service. So, um, we'll make it a little bit bigger. So, kids eat free. Um, breakfast is from 8 to 8:30 and lunch is from 11:30 to 12:30 at the elementary. So, just a reminder. Uh, that's I know we've had some really positive feedback by the summer food program. So, wanted to make sure that that was shared out as well. Um, that's for all kids, not just pause. It's for all kids in the community. Okay. I just wanted to Yeah, thank you. Good question. Uh, revenues and expenditures have been updated. Um, did I That's There we go. Revenues and expenditures have been updated. Um,
012we'll take a quick peek over. Nothing stood out uh super dramatically. Um, but I will uh just pause for any questions that anybody might have. Um, so again, as just as a reminder, as a couple times a year, I like to just remind people if they wonder what things these are, they can always go back to the beginning of this document on the July tab and you'll see all these notations that are going to tell you what makes up. So, state aid is our per pupil aid, compensatory funding, concurrent enrollment, special education aid. So, people can see what goes into each of those different funding sources. And then uh similarly as we get to the expenditures um I'll just remind people too if you wonder how um how is this broken out. So again July
013that first tab salaries and wages is pretty self-explanatory. Um but employee benefits are our future retirement account the um public employee retirement account insurance 403b and so on. You can see some of the things that are included in each of those areas. Um, and again, kind of scrolling over uh to April 30th, um, they are updated through the end of April for expenditures. And then, uh, this this document and the expenditures breaks it out a little bit more. And it's it's kind of just a couple different ways that you can slice the pie. So, you can look at how our expenditures are um, divvied out, you know, whether it's all salaries and wages, or if you want to look at administration versus regular instruction versus vocational. and so on. So, just a reminder kind of
014how that's set out and and that you could take a look at things and in different p different pieces cutting up the pie a little bit differently. Um, so that's what I have for my administrative report. Any questions, comments? Moving on to committee organizational reports. I don't know very many people that Yeah. Um I I just want to pass on uh just a reminder about the community building. I know it's kind of early because it's at the end of June, but uh for the playground, uh if you could uh think about this, mark your calendars. Uh June 23rd to the 30th is what we have that Chris is working out with company as far as that community build. More information will be provided once we know how much of the port in place we're going
015to have and what it's going to take uh as far as landscaping or these things in that area. So, and then just one other thing uh I did have a community member uh ask me about the free lunch program uh for the summer if the school will continue doing that and I said yes and they were extremely happy about that. So, kudos on on school district for providing that and folks that do that. Anything else? Districtwide staff development met early this month, but just really kind of finished up the plans for those dates for the rest of the school year. And then I did not make it to the staff meeting out of work. Yep. Requirement. Yep. staff had the um it was a little bit um antilimactic because oftent times we're highlighting the end
016of the legislative session and so there was still a lot of kind of whatifs and and conversational circles. So, um, but it was, uh, um, so not a super productive. You didn't miss much. Let me just say that. Okay. I'm hearing nothing. Other student representative report. Um, all the, uh, other organizations have kind of like closed up, so there's not much new information besides for FFA. We got our new um, officers. So that was on one Sunday this month. I don't remember which one. And we found out our new officers and got a reward. Okay. No old business. Moving on to new business. Um adult basic education glacial lakes consortium. Uh so annually we have an agreement with um one of the requirements in education is to provide adult basic ed and we do that
017through a collaboration with um a consortium. It's the Glacier Lakes uh adult basic ed consortium. I'm going to quick open the document and you can see all of the individuals that are part of that that are part of this uh organization. um because there's actually a quite a wide uh array of individuals that are are part of the participating agreement. So you'll see we've got ACGC, BBE, Buffalo, Lake Hector, Beth, PO, Hutchinson, KMS, Lichfield, and New London, Spicer, ourselves, and Wilmer. So um all part of a consortium and then we also are able to provide adult basic ed services to the Candy Ohio County Jail. So uh this is an annual agreement. Uh if there's any questions, I would stand for those. I make a motion to approve the uh Glacial Lakes adult basic education
018agreement as presented. Second by Bruce. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Hearing none. Motion passes. Um moving on to the Minnesota State High School League resolution. So this is again an annual agreement for the Minnesota State High School League. Um you will find in years past um I've asked the board members to watch a video and in alternate to the video there is the Minnesota State High School League letter. So you can read the letter which essentially um as a school district you're agreeing uh we will support and follow the Minnesota State High School League rules, regulations and um be governed under their their entity. It's either yay or you're not in. It's either you agree or you're not in. I'll make a motion that we approve. I'll second. Motion by Bruce, second by Cheryl.
019Roll call. It's a roll call. Yep. Bruce. I Cheryl. I Jacob. Hi. Rachel. Hi. Thomas. Hi. Cheryl. I moving on to So that's carried. Moving on to teacher appreciation week. So, this is just the formal recognition uh with everybody's names. So, I'm gonna just uh pull that up again so that the governor's proclamation is here for you so we can see the actual proclamation. But um also just making sure that we take just a second to recognize uh the staff that are that are our our teaching staff. Um and uh we have see the list of all of our teachers that are part of our district. So just the formal recognition of our teaching staff and that does not require any um action. It's justformational. Looking forward upcoming meetings. Okay. Any questions, comments, missing anything?
020Oh, okay. Um, moving on to closing the meeting. It's recommendation of the superintendent close the meeting pursuant to um chap Minnesota statute chapter 13D.03. I make a motion. Motion by second by Ron. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Hearing none. Meeting closes at 6:17. All right. The recording is active. Make a motion to open the board of education meeting. Motion by Cheryl. Second. Second by Gerald. Um, all in favor? I. Any opposed? Hearing none. Motion passes. Meeting is back open at 7:37. I make a motion to adjourn the meeting. I second. All in favor? I post motion carried in. It will return.