001[clears throat] [cough] >> Well, it's 6:00. Should we get the meeting started? Molly will be a little bit late. She's stuck in traffic in Park Ridge, so Unless we have everybody, let's stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance 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. So, the first item on the meeting is to approve the meeting agenda. >> [snorts] >> Nothing there? Are we still the same? Yep. I make the motion to accept the meeting agenda. Motion by Brenda. Do we have a second? I'll second. Second by Andrew. Any discussion on the agenda? Hearing no discussion, all in favor of approving the agenda, signify by saying aye. Aye. Those opposed, nay. Agenda
002carries. Opportunity for villagers to address the board. You're the only visitor? I'm the only visitor. >> [laughter] >> Thanks for coming though. You're welcome. All right, we'll move on. Acknowledge residents we have the special education transport staff, Elegant Bus Company and bus drivers, advisors and spring coaches, teachers and support staff. And last but not least, I'd like to thank McLean Hoglund for two years of service as our student school board representative, as well as being involved in multiple groups, activities, and for being an outstanding leader in the Helena Public Schools. >> [applause] >> Got anything to add? Yeah, I just want to thank uh our our special ed transportation staff for their time and their effort transporting our students safely. Also to the Pelican Bus Company and bus drivers for their effort and time transporting
003students safely to school, home, and to all the activities. Not easy in the winter time for those who transport our students. Thank our advisers and spring coaches for their time and their effort and sharing their passion, knowledge with our kids. Want to thank our teachers and support staff for a great school year. We appreciate our staff sharing their skills and knowledge with our students and other staff members. And I want to thank Mr. Howland. You have a great future ahead of you. You'll be a great asset to our company and to any organization that you're part of in the future. McClain is a team player, hard worker, works well with others, and just an overall great person. Thank you for your service, your time, representing the student body. Thanks, McClain. Thank you. And we have
004a gift for you, a parting gift. Photo? Yes. You want to have her sit in there or Yeah. >> [clears throat] [laughter] >> Congratulations. Looks just like you. >> So we're ready to administrative reports. Mr. Nelson, do you have a directory report for us? Because I'd just like to second what Ms. Herb said about the plane. And from what I hear is he's the reason why the pheasant farm is still even open. All his hard work over there while everyone else is taking naps and messing around. True? Probably. >> [laughter] >> Good answer. Enrollment K-3-6, we ended up where we started, 461. Uh VPK up couple 43. Reads at 30 and head start at 32. Uh title one family night, we had 52 students and 30 parents show up playing games, activities. Uh ice cream
005was a treat for some. Um it was kind of fun where I was standing there talking with Stacy and two girls came over and "Hey, you guys come play with us." They got us over there playing games and so they uh students got the adults involved as well. So >> I beat you and You did every time. Yes, yeah. Uh May 13th, we had numbers in the neighborhood. We had another great turnout for that. Um every class had different activities going on depending on you know, the level and grandparents neighbors, high school kids that came down thanks to the math classes and National Honor Society come down play with kids. So um it was another successful day. Another way to get people in the building and see uh what their kids were doing and just,
006you know, interact with their kids. So um it was good. And then also we had on the May 13th, we had DARE graduation. Uh special thanks to Officer Staten. He does a DARE at the high school throughout the winter and then ends with the program on the 13th. [clears throat] So. Uh 6th grade left this morning at 6:00 a.m. They were all there by about quarter to. They were ready to go over to the buses and get down the road. So, um haven't heard anything, so no news must be good news. Everything's going well, so. Uh Wednesday's our last day with students. And then Thursday is our last letters training for our teachers. This has been a 2-year thing and this will be unit eight, their last presentation they have. Um that will complete the
007letters training for all of our teachers. Uh like to hire Aaron Tolhurst for a long-term sub starting the year in second grade next fall. And then one other thing I forgot to add, but I'd like to thank the Masons. Masons again donated seven bikes, one for each grade. And teachers nominated students who had good character, um good work ethic, friendly, things like that. And uh so they uh had them come down, get their bikes Friday. And uh lots of smiling faces with their the bikes that the students had won, so. Thanks to the Masons for again donating bikes to our students. Any questions? I don't hear any. Thank you. Oh, thanks, Derek. Just Jen Chisesky, high school. Enrollments, we are at 367 students. Um PLC PLT goal updates, I'm going to hand out the commencement
008program that Miss Wanzer has been working on and then just kind of touch on the back side of it. I think it's kind of a nice It's a nice picture. I feel like all the work that our teachers and staff do to help our students figure out what they're going to do once they walk across the stage and get their diploma. So, you'll see that 47% of our senior class plan to get the four-year degree. 12% plan to go on to four-year, two-year degree. 9% plan to go on and study in the trades. 21% are going to go and enter the workforce. We have a few that plan to take a gap year, and then this year we have six students that plan to enter the military, and some of those students will be also
009getting their degrees as they do that, but that has been a really nice partnership with our local VFW, and I think it's a reflection of the career fair that kids continue to have with that military night for kids to see the opportunities they have for those those avenues of the military. Then you'll see some career and tech ed numbers as well. 19 of our seniors took the CNA class. Nine took our EMT class, and 10 got their or took the CDL class. So, I just think it's kind of a nice picture for you to see what our students plan to do. And then, I think it's a reflection of the skills they also got in their classes and activities we do with students. >> [cough] [clears throat and snorts] >> Prom was a success in
010early May. Mrs. Severson and her prom committee did a nice work pre-dating the night in Greece for our juniors and seniors and their guests. And then, as always, our post prom committee does a really nice job of making a fun space for them together after the dance. Scholarship night, Mrs. Lage did a really nice job putting this together. 42 of our 59 students earned 48 different scholarships. Just a great night and a great way for students to have some financial help from the community. Uh graduation list, we have 59 seniors graduating on the 22nd. The list is on the third page of my report. So, we ask you to approve that tonight. Summer school will begin on May 26th, which is the Tuesday after Memorial Day. Um in my report, I had Mr. Hager teaching,
011but Mr. Folkey, who is um one of our subs and also a social studies teacher, will be teaching with Mr. Weir. Mrs. Lage has talked to students about the ones that need to make up some credits. School board items, I have three. Acknowledge the resignation of Andrea Hart as paraprofessional, and then approve the hire of Alexander Diaz, and also Emily Diaz. Just a few events left on the busy May calendar. Wednesday is the last day of school. Thursday is workshop, and then graduation is at 7:00 on Friday. McClain, you did a really nice job. He was one of the easiest people to work with in terms of working on reports and just always prepared. So, and he's going to be advising us on the curriculum. >> [laughter] >> Thank you. All right. Thanks. Okay. Mr.
012Hubbell, Mr. Um last week was full of events for the seniors, including the senior barbecue, scholarship night, and baccalaureate. Moving into this week, the boys golf team had a meet today at Wildflower Golf Course. The girls golf team have their conference meet today at Balmoral Golf Course. Uh for track, both the boys and the girls teams have subsections this Thursday in Frazee. Baseball had their final regular season game tonight against Barnesville. Playoff dates and times will be determined by seeding later in the week. Um softball, varsity sections begin tomorrow in Frazee. Choir had their spring concert on May 11th, and band had their spring concert May 7th, and will also be performing for graduation. Any questions? No, I don't hear any. Thank you. Mr. Martinez, can we have All right, give us an update. Yeah,
013absolutely. All right. So, um treasurer's report for the month end of April. It is the 10th month in our fiscal budget. Um I added a couple of charts in the report that I'll uh spend a little bit of time just to kind of uh well, once again, uh continue the education piece and some of the metrics that we look at, uh what it means for us, uh but essentially, uh here's our overall budget for the year. Um uh out of our overall budget, we've collected uh 11.7 million dollars. We still have 4.4 million dollars of outstanding revenue to collect. Um, of that, uh a lot of it has to do with our levy. Uh we have the final levy payment uh that will be due here within I would say by the end of the
014week we should receive the majority of this outstanding 4 million dollars. Uh so far we've collected 72% of our overall budget in terms of revenue. Uh expenditures, uh so far we're uh about 13. Uh 13.3 million dollars. We have uh 2.8 million dollars outstanding forecasted expenditures. Uh so far we are at about 82%. You can kind of see that gap of our revenues to [clears throat] our expenses catching up. Uh expenditures of our overall expenditures, uh we have uh the majority of those expenditures are directly related to salaries and benefits. Uh so um our contractual year for our teacher overlaps with our fiscal year. Um we pay our teachers starting in November all the way to August 31st. So what we do in the business world is we take uh what is July August and
015then we recognize it in our fiscal year in our uh uh in in June. And we call that payoffs. So majority of this 2.8 million dollars again has to do with those salary and benefits that we recognize in our fiscal year. Uh this graph that I put together for you guys, this is our current fiscal year. Uh this just shows kind of the trend of our revenues and expenditures and the relationship that you guys have or that we have. Um essentially we start in July. And you can see that our revenue practically starts at zero and then we start accruing expenditures right away. Uh also the reason why this is at zero that's what we call the dry month. So, a lot of the times the state does not start paying us until August. So,
016why is that important? Well, that's where our reserves come into play. Then the rest of the months you can see expenditures and revenues tend to trail and they like to dance back and forth. October you see revenue they over pass revenue over passes expenditures and this is due to the first levy payment that we receive. Then you can see expenditures start to come out over over gap our expenditures or I'm sorry our revenue. But then come January towards the end of February you see our expenditures significantly spike when our revenues stay steady. The reason for that is that levy payment that debt payment that we have at the end of January. This particular spike here in expenditures drives our investments down so we have to pull from our investments to make our debt payment and
017then from there on we start to play catch up and then you'll start to see this particular gap close. The difference here is what we use our fund balance to help cover those expenditures until we make up from the state. So, that's why it's very important for us to have healthy reserves, healthy investment balance. So, I wanted to show you guys that graph so you guys can picture visually see how expenditures and revenue come into play. Okay. Any questions and I'll move on to the general fund charts. Okay. >> [clears throat] >> Now we go from our overall budget now to our general fund. General fund we are at $9.6 million in revenue. Uh we still have about $3 million outstanding to collect. That accounts for 76% that we've collected so far. Expenditures were just
018under shy of $10 million as well, and we have $2.5 million in outstanding expenditures. Uh again, majority of that will do will be directly related to salary and benefits. And you're starting to see that in our general fund, our revenues and our expenditures are starting to catch up to each other, and that's that's what we want. We want to be right within that marker. Okay. Uh the next chart, or the next uh uh the next report is our our cash flow. Uh this is just how we use our dollars. Uh um and directly related to the money that we bring in and the money that goes out. Uh we start with our investment account. We started with $4.3 million. We received federal dollars and state aid uh worth $1.4 million. Off that, we took $1.2
019million. Leaving us a total balance of $4.5 million in our investment account. Then we started with our uh our cash in our checking account. We started with $67, and you can see how it breaks down per category. We deposited $1.3 million, of which uh $1.2 came from our investment, and it went into our uh checking account. We had a total payables of $835,000. This is These are all of the bills that we paid in the month of April. Total payroll was uh $424,000. At the end of the uh month, we had $49,000 in our checking account. Total cash on hand between uh cash in our checking account and our investment was uh uh just a little over 4.4 million dollars. And here is the trend of our investments. You can see that we started the
020fiscal year We started that fiscal year in that 4. our 5.3 million and you can see how it grows and dips every single month. And then here is us drawing about 2 million dollars so we can make that debt payment and then gradually we start to make up our investments. Okay? Our strategy right now with the market being very fluctuating significantly is practically we buy treasury treasury bonds and and and we hold them for for we structure between 3 6 and 12 months and that's ultimately what pays us dividends and interest. Right now the the yield is a little bit lower than what it was at the beginning of the year so those the interest on those treasury bonds are starting to come down so we're not we're not seeing as much returns as we
021used to in the past but still pretty significant so and we can give you guys a report on what that is at the end of the year but ultimately you're going to start to see us towards the end of June get back to that 5.3 to 5.5 million dollar range in our investments. Okay? That's about starting to see significant journal entries. Journal entries is what we use to adjust whether it's a state change or something that we need to correct in our books. And right now we're starting to get significant mandates asking us to correct our books because either the accounting department at the state is retiring some codes and they're having us to create new ledgers. What you see here left to right tells you the type of ledger that it is. It's an
022expenditure. It tells you the fund that it is. It tells you the organization. It tells you the program. It tells you if it's restricted or non-restricted. And then it tells you the object. The object is specifically if it's a supply, if it's uh labor. Um and it reads pretty well and we can do lots of reporting for you guys. Uh essentially the first the first uh journal entry that you see there is us correcting some uh RED Act making sure that it sits in the proper GL account. So, if you guys recall 2 years ago, uh we received that one-time uh allocations from the state to help support the RED Act program. So, the state said, "Hey, we're retiring 356 restricted account. Now open up 357." So, in this situation, it's me moving everything. Uh
023I'm sorry, vice versa. It's me removing everything from 357 to 356. So, again, these journal entries that you see here is directly related to uh what the state had us to do. One big emphasis that they're doing this year is uh with all the legislation that has been happening, the legislation and and the EU wanted to see more direct revenue and expenditures uh directly related to our English learner program. So, in the past when they would pay us the income compensatory funding, they would they had this giant formula that helped us uh generate uh compensatory revenue that accounted for EL revenue in addition to free and reduced. Um now the state is saying, "Nope, we want to now separate it so we can actually uh track revenues and expenditures per site, per program more directly."
024So, they had uh in my situation, they had us open up 42 different general ledger accounts so we can go ahead and distribute all Those expenses so they can run more analytics on those programs. So, this is me taking while legislation in the accounting department sent down to us and then moving those expenditures appropriately. Yeah. Um and it's practically dollar for dollar. So, I'm moving from this old retired accounts to now specific uh English learner accounts that the state wants to see that data on. And you see that throughout buildings. And then just one small uh one small uh fix that we had to do um as we saw that a part of one of our teachers was to be reported to our AO3 program and it's no longer there. So, then we had to
025move it to the correct uh labor account. So, just correcting some of our uh distribution errors that we did when we were coding that teacher salary. The rest is just all the expenditures that kind of go through our uh through our month. A lot of information that I threw at you guys, so I'm going to stop here. Any questions that you guys have? Anything you want me to expand on or explain a little bit better? Uh like I said, if any any information that you guys need, let me know and we can provide it to you guys. If there are no questions, I'll jump on to uh another piece on the board [clears throat] agenda today that we want you guys to approve, which is um a tentative settlement with our bus contract. Uh uh
026Mr. Korb, myself, John, and Molly um have been involved with our negotiating our transportation contract that is with um uh with uh uh Mr. Brady Galler, um uh Cherry Coach, and and Berry. They met with us three different times, I believe, in which they were great to work with, very open conversations about how we want to do our contract better. Both sides had really good input, really great ideas. In terms of what is changing in the contract, this is what we put a summary for you guys together. So, we're doing the contract in 2 years. 5 years ago, we used to do it annually, and then we decided to switch to a 2-year model just to help us with a little bit more of stability. So, we negotiated for next year and then the year
027after a 3-year 3-year increase on the monthly regulation transportation. We have nine routes district-wide that cover a significant footprint. So, that monthly monthly charge is going to increase by 3%. On top of that, we also get charged for open enrollment transportation. We are increasing from $2 per mile to $3 per mile. The big change here was in the past, we used to be invoiced per household outside of district lines, and we were not okay with that. We worked out a new formula with them where in in which we said, "No, if the household is on that route, they're picking up the open enrollment students, we're only going to pay per mile rather than per household." And they agreed to that, so that was a significant win for us. That means that we're going to pay
028less on those open enrollment students. Extracurricular activities, this is anything that we do outside of the school day. This is for sports, co-curricular activities. um We are increasing the rate per mile from $2 to $2.50. And the driver hourly rate from $22 to $23 to stay competitive with the market. That's what a lot of districts in our area are paying for those extra curricular transportation. And then we were also able to negotiate this clause in the contract that the minimum they could bill us in the past was 4 hours per trip even if the trip was only an hour they would bill us for 4. We were able to reduce it down to 2. So again, big significant win for the district. Midday transportation. This is bringing our BBK kids to a registered daycare within
029district boundary lines. That's going to remain the same. They think it's a great great program that we have for our families. So they wanted to keep it the same and they >> [cough] >> that it's more than willing to do it. So we did not negotiate it. We were happy with the constant $60 per route. The big conversation was fuel. Everyone is aware of the current fuel prices. One of the things that the bus and company wanted to negotiate it was the cost of diesel. So in the past we would only pay a flat fee. And what the fuel escalator does is that they set a rate where they say we're going to cover the first two dollars when we fill up. Anything after two will bill to the district. So in our invoice we
030receive our fuel escalator charge after everything else. But the big negotiating piece here was adding that diesel fuel piece. It's a it's a new it's a new clause that went into our contract. So we're going to now start to see an increase our fuel escalator, paying for fuel. The first $3.75 $3.75. The bus and company is going to cover anything over $3.75. The school district will cover. Gas price for just regular gas is going to go from two to $2.75. So, the bus and company is going to take care of the first $2.75 and then we're going to take care anything over $2.75. They also shared with us that they're looking into potentially having gas containers because they can buy in bulk and potentially giving us a cheaper price than what we see out in
031the open market. So, more to hear from them on that. Brady being part of the fire department, he's aware of all the different regulations and everything that they have to abide by. So, he's going to keep us in the loop with that. Other than that, nothing but great things to say about them. They were very transparent with us, willing to work with us. So, that's what we have for you guys today as a business item to approve. Woo, that's a big vote. Any questions? Any questions? I'm not hearing any. All righty. Thank you. Thank you. Let's go. Okay. Enrollment. Um last May, we were at 808 K-12. Right. Ending here in May, 829, which is great. Pre-K through 12, last May, we ended the school year with 915 students. This year, we're ending with 934.
032So, that's great news. Long-term planning update. Um I've met with um the group True North Consulting. And we met here a couple weeks ago and we worked um more on details of what it would look like. So, we are working on focus groups that will involve students, parents, and community members, and staff. Reminder of our timeline, May to August will be the preparation of information, organizing our focus groups, then August to November, our focus groups will be meeting, and we will survey our staff, our students, our parents, and our community members. So, it'll be a busy time. It'll be good information, good feedback for the school board. Policy committee meeting, we're going to be looking at a meeting in June, so I'll reach out to you here in the next week or two to see
033a date and time that works for all of us to meet in June. Some school board agenda items. There's a few resignations. I just want to thank Mrs. Moe and Mrs. Hart for their time and work here at ISD 548. Thank you. Approve the hire of Mr. Diaz as Spanish and ELA teacher. Also, approve the hire of Mr. Diaz as head boy soccer coach. And approve the hire of Mr. Diaz as assistant wrestling coach. Approve the hire of Mrs. Diaz as special ed teacher. Approve the hire of Julie Jones as full-time evening custodian. And then Mr. Nelson mentioned hiring of Mrs. Tolarud as long-term elementary teacher substitute. Approve the hire of Beau Kirkwood as head girls basketball coach. And then, approve the following summer workers. Again, the workers below there are just for the summer.
034So. On your business items, approve the resolution accepting donations, what we do monthly. Mr. Martinez talked about the contract with the bus company. And Mrs. Janusheske took talked about the graduation list. Just a reminder, in June we'll have our meeting at 7:00 a.m. That's at on June 17th. At that meeting is when we will approve the dates for >> [snorts] >> July to next June. School board dates and times. So, we'll do that in the June. So, just a reminder to everyone that June, July, and August we have met at 7:00 a.m. The June at 7:00 a.m. but then we'll set the dates and times again for the next year. >> [snorts] >> Upcoming big rocks, graduation. It's a big one here this Friday. We just asked the board if you could be in the
035Legends gymnasium at 6:45 at 6:55 and we'll walk over to the Leaders gymnasium. Okay? At 6:45 in the Legends gymnasium we'll just tie up the details of our role in graduation and things like that. But, right now we have you handing out diplomas and then you'll help me with the awards. Getting the awards ready during that time. Okay? Okay. >> [snorts] >> Questions? I don't hear anything. Thank you. Okay. Let's move on to consent agenda. So, I'll read the list. We have approved board meeting minutes from April 20th, 2026 regular school board meeting. Financial claims, April bills, treasurer's report. Item D is personnel. Now is the resignation of Heidi Moos, special education teacher at Viking Elementary. Approve the resignation of Andrea Hart as special education paraprofessional at the high school. Approve the hire of Alex
036Diaz as Spanish and ELL teacher at Peter HS. Approve the hire of Alex Diaz as head boys soccer coach and assistant wrestling coach at the high school. Approve the hire of Emily Diaz as special education teacher at the high school. Approve the hire of Julie Jones as full-time evening custodian at the high school. >> [clears throat] >> Approve the hire of Erin Tollerud as long-term elementary teacher substitute at the elementary. Approve the hire of Beau Kirkwood as head girls basketball coach at the high school. Approve the summer workers Cole Bikes. We have Ian Bogan, Chelsea Blakeway, Emily Evenson, Cameron Kirkwood, Alex Arias-Blanco, Madison Thompson. Custodial Eli Beechy, Ben Honrud, Andy Rader, and Arturo Saavedra. Weight room Logan Norr, Summer Wreck, Zaelan Arrow, Rachel Green, Anika Chico De Souza, Ryan King, Rochelle Richardson, Nuer Bain, did
037I get that right? Ebrahim Serik, Zane Scholty, Layla Cypher, Finn Stewart. And for summer school we have Spencer Pokey. So, do we have a motion for the consent items? I'll make a motion in order to approve the consent items. Motion by Stacy, do we have a second? I'll second that. Any discussion on the consent items? Hearing no discussion, all those in favor of approving consent items signify by saying aye. Aye. Those opposed, nay. Consent carries. Business items. So, we have item A is a resolution that's approving a resolution accepting donations. So, do we have a motion and a second for that? I'll make the motion to approve the resolution accepting donations. Motion by Andrew, do have a second? I'll second. Seconded by Chris. Discussion before I read the resolution. Okay, resolution accepting donations. Whereas Minnesota
038statute 123B.02, subdivision 6, provides the board may receive for the benefit of the district bequests, donations, or gifts for any proper purpose and apply the same >> [snorts] >> purpose designated. Whereas Minnesota statutes 465.03 provides any city, county, school district, or town may accept a grant or devise a devise in a will or personal property and maintain such property for the benefit of its citizens in accordance with the terms prescribed by the donor. Whereas every such acceptance shall be by resolution of the governing body adopted by a 2/3 majority of its members expressing such term in full. Therefore, be it resolved that school board of Falcon Heights Public Schools, ISD 282, gratefully accepts the following donations as identified Laura Klemic, $80, student accounts. Laura Klemic, $80, Viking Boutique. Colonial Dental, $1,500, Perry Just Scholarship. Central
039Evangelical Lutheran Church, [clears throat] WELCA, $100 to Samtastic Scholarship donation. And Retirement Advisory Services Incorporated, $225 for the Celebration of Cultures. Brett Fraser, $400 for the music scholarships. So, this is the resolution. Andrew, how do you resolve? Yes. Brenda? Yes. Yes. Molly? Yes. Chris? Yes. Stacy? Yes. Resolution carries. Item B, approve the 2026-2028 bus contract with Palmer Bus Company. Do we have a motion? I will make that motion to approve the 2026 20 bus contract with the power company. I will second. Seconded by Stacy. >> [clears throat] >> Do we have any discussion? Okay. Hearing no discussion, all those in favor of approving my motion signify by saying "Aye". Aye. Aye. Those opposed, "Nay". Okay. Motion carries. C. To approve the 2026 2026 Bel Air High School graduation list. Who would like to make that
040I'll make the motion to approve the 2026 high school graduation list. Motion by Brenda. I'll second. Okay. Seconded by Molly. Any discussion on the graduation list? Hearing no discussion, all those in favor of approving the motion signify by saying "Aye". Aye. Aye. Those opposed, "Nay". Motion carries. All right. We're done with business items. So, upcoming meetings. So, our next meeting is June 17th at 7:00 a.m. So, explain to you that I'm just the time. >> [snorts] >> And uh the meeting uh to be determined in July. Uh it will also be at 7:00 a.m. So. >> [snorts] >> I'll entertain a motion to adjourn. So moved. Motion by Andrew. Do we have a second? I'll second. Seconded by Molly. Any discussion? Hearing no discussion, all those in favor of adjourning signify by saying "Aye". Aye.
041Aye. Those opposed, "Nay". We are adjourned. Thank you.