001going to call the regular school board meeting of June 2025 to order. Pledge of allegiance for all those Oh, it's over here. Where's it at? I know. 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. Got their mics on. Thanks for the reminder. I always forget. Approval of the agenda. Any questions? Seeing none. Do I have a motion? So moved. Second. Any discussion? It has been motioned and seconded that we approve the agenda. All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed. Motion passes. Public forum. What? I'm assuming none. None. Okay. Moving on to presentation. None. None. Okay. Moving on to the consent agenda. 6.1 approved minutes of the regular schoolboard meeting of May 19th,
0022025 and 6.2 personnel report. Um, any questions? Seeing none, I a motion to approve. So moved. Second. Okay. Any discussion? It's been motioned and and seconded to approve the minutes of the regular meeting and the personnel report. All those in favor say I. I. Those opposed. Motion passes. Number seven, financials 7.1, review of budget year to date. Okay. Um, we're sitting at 87%. Last year we were at 84%. I moved some money between optic codes, but other than that, it looks like we're on track. Any questions for Jackie? Okay, moving on. 7.2. Approve treasures report for May 31st, 2025. Current cash balance is $10.7 million. Yep. And I still haven't found that $1,38212. Same amount I was off last month, which is a good sign. Okay, good. I still don't know where it is. I'll
003find it. Any questions? Maybe June. Maybe I'll find it in June. June is almost over. No, this is amazing. Okay. Do I have a motion to approve the treasures report for May? So move. Was that? Yeah. Second. You did second. I did second. Okay. Um all those in It's been motioned and approve or and seconded. All those in favor to approve the treasures report for May say I. I. Those opposed. Motion passes. Moving on to 7.3. Approve 2023A bonds treasures report for May 31st, 2025. Okay. The cash activity was interest income of 10,000 and our current balance is 2.8 million. Any questions? Motion to approve. So moved. Second. It's been approved and seconded to approve the 2023A bonds treasures report for May. All those in favor say I. I. I. Those post. Motion passes. 7.4.
004Approve regular bills. Anybody have anything that questions? I What does Midwest Alarm do? Yep, that was my question. A lot of things. Security cameras and all of our building access. Perfect. Thank you. I just had a question on the gopher mods. Sorry. That's all of our repairs. Okay. For iPads and Okay, got it. Perfect. Thank you. Any other questions? Okay. I have a motion to approve. So moved. Second. It's a motion and seconded to approve regular bills. All those in favor say I. I. Those opposed. Same sign. Motion passes. 7.5 approve high school activity bills. Any questions on those? Are you done? Do I have a motion to approve? Some moved. Second. It's been motioned and seconded to approve the high school activity bills. All those in favor say I. I. Those opposed, same sign.
005Motion passes. Board forum, board reports and updates. The budget committee met and went over that. We're going to do that later in the meeting though. So it's the only thing I negotiations has been meeting with Ludolf and Okay. Yeah. been going well so far. Tammy attended the portrait of a graduate meeting that we had. [Music] I know we'll be with the um legislative changes, we'll be scheduling some policy committee meetings coming forward because there are some changes that are forthcoming from the legislature that need to be captured in policy. So, a couple of those will be coming soon. and who members on the policy committee. I know Brad is too, but the earlier the better because I have to make all the changes for the first reading for the July meeting and they also get
006changed in the hand as well. I am just not the first week. No, maybe the second. Yeah. No, no, not doing it. It's crazy. We No, I don't know. I just have I just think that the um outdoors people have been doing a really good job of keeping everything mowed up and looking nice this summer. Very nice. It's nice to come out here and just everything everything look nice. Yeah. And I agree. The trees that we took out look nice. That looks nice. Just get some of that dead stuff out of the way. It was surprising how much that cleaned it up. It makes a big It made a big difference. I would agree. Perfect. Moving on to the administrator's report, superintendent. All right. There are a couple of attachments that you'll see. One was
007added late late this afternoon. Um I know my report itself was laid addition as well, but um I'll start with one of the attachments and it's the portrait of a graduate. Um preliminary work that's been done and I know there's still a little more detail to work out and is printed in its draft form in both uh Spanish as well as English. Um we had a couple of um Hispanic and Latino parents that were there and Junior did a great job of of interpreting everything that was being said. Uh I just marvel at his work that he did throughout the day as we had our day of meeting. But you can see the key themes that came out were collaborator, communicator, community contributor, a strategic thinker, and a performance mindset. Um, and so those are
008kind of the big rocks. And then you'll see some of the details that are spelled in underneath each of those in the descriptions. And I think those are some things that need to have a little more clarity and um put it in a little more kid-friendly language so that as kids go through this and our students go through this, they can clearly state what it means to be a collaborator, communicator. Um and it was really, I thought, important that we saw the community contributor come forward. It's not just that you're a member of a community, but how are you contributing? and that kind of surfaced through some of the service organizations and how some of those membership areas have gone down. So, um, all in all, I thought it was a great day. We we
009covered a lot of information that had been shared through focus groups, through uh through the survey data that was communicated through um the input that occurred at the meeting. So again, just uh a lot of different information that helped us distill out what those core pillars are. And if you have any input or comments to share um please do so um as we get closer to drawing that forward. My goal is to have this into a format that ultimately can be presented for board adoption at our July meeting. Um, so then we can launch the school year with with some of this language and and start talking about how we implement and how we how we really operationalize some of those things that that have come forward. Um, the other attachment that you'll see and
010then I'll get into the meat and potatoes of the other things that I've shared. You'll see the facade report. The facade work is finished now. Um you'll notice that it's the final facade report and you can see as you open that report um from TMCO the work that's been done. Um and Deb has it up there or whoever has it up on the screen. Um and as you as you look there's there was a considerable amount of facade work that was done. Um and again apologies to the teachers that were impacted by the noise that occurred. Um hopefully it wasn't too disruptive. I know there were days where we we had to call the company off and just say, "Stop. There's too much shaking, too much noise going on." Um, but again, this is this
011is really impactful work and it's it's already paid dividends. You can see um some of the brick courses that were removed and replaced then with the appropriate flashings and those types of things and they tied in the new brick really well with the existing brick. So, um, all in all, really pleased. And then as I share in my report, um, we do have our delivery. You probably noticed that as you came in this evening. Um, I think we had seven or eight semi- loads of material that were dropped off. And that pile is only going to get bigger because as you look at these facade reports, all that rock on top of the building is going to be removed. We're going to stockpile that. Cody's assured us that he has some places for that rock
012and what we don't use. Um, we'll probably look at other places around the building for some landscaping or some other areas that may have some issues with some erosion or something like that. So, there's literally going to be tons of rock removed from the building so that they can pull back the existing membrane and then start laying down the the new uh insulation and those types of things. Um, we've had to have TMCO out a couple of times to do some patching um, in their interim and it's they've done a great job. So, it's been a really positive partnership. So, I'm I'm really pleased with that. Um, budget, as was mentioned, we've worked through that. We're still going to fall within the parameters of our fund balance policy, but um, Jackie will share more about
013that later on. Continue to hear positive things about our our turf tank. if you haven't seen that in operation, it's it's quite the deal and and uh again, it's been really effective and efficient in terms of doing that. Um you'll notice I made a note about academic eligibility and there's some discussion about what do we need to do to ensure our academic eligibility is is meeting what we would expect. And and I I don't want us to rush into this. I wanted to be very intentional and thoughtful because um this is something that obviously has big implications for our kids and for our programs. So, um I would suggest that we would take some time over the next next 12 months. Um engage the board subcommittee in this discussion, get some parent input. Um, obviously
014our teachers need to weigh in heavily on this discussion as well and we just need to make certain that we're holding our standards where we want to need them to be in terms of academic eligibility for our kids. Um, we had a group that attended the Northern Cast Personalized Learning Institute and I think overall the feedback was very positive. I do anticipate that we'll have uh that team of teachers present at a future board meeting probably at our July meeting just to share some of the things that they learned and that they walked away from with that. Um heard some phenomenal presentations had an opportunity to network with some other teachers and staff. I know our teachers actually arrived early the second day of the of the institute to go visit a classroom in the
015Northern Cass School District to network with the teachers to see some things that are happening in the room. So, um all in all very positive couple vacancies still going on. I'm I'm anticipating Mrs. Moritz may talk about that in her report. And then legislative session um as I shared before there through policy we're going to have to make some updates. Um there were some changes that uh were for are forthcoming that impact teacher retirement. Um obviously there's the paid medical leave that's going to be taking effect um July 1 that we need to plan for and prepare for. I did include a newspaper article that I thought did a nice job of summarizing some of those key points. So if you're so inclined, you can click on that and read some more details. Um, as
016we talked, we've started uh negotiations with the district transportation and then u Mr. Dulas and I have communicated a couple of times and we're working forward on on getting our times to meet for our teacher negotiations. So, um, just a few things going on in the district. Um, I'd seen there was an email about a water leak. Was that from the roof or was that from That was from a plug drain. Oh, okay. Yeah, there was a plug drain in the uh in the um library area that we got it cleaned out and it did what it's supposed to. Any questions? I know one thing that I had um like you know you had mentioned that international sorry I'm looking at my notes here um teacher y thing like what what expenses do you know
017like that that we as a district would have to incur if we were to hire someone like do we have to like pay their moving expenses or How what what is that? Yeah, great question. Do you know any of that stuff yet? I wasn't quite sure how. So, the only thing that we would have to pay for there is a like a partnership fee or or recruitment fee that we share with the company. And as we had our conference call, and I say we because the administrators, we all did have a conference call together. They said oftentimes those expenses are offset because you're not paying those federal like federal income tax and and okay those fixed costs that are associated with like social security and those types of things. You're not having to pay those
018matches. So okay often times it becomes a costneutral impact. I I think it's like $4,000 a candidate that you bring. Um, but they're responsible to make their own move, find their own housing, line up all those things. And they're typically here on a like a I believe it was a three-year work visa that okay that they are here on and I think a couple of board members may have sat in on a session at at MSBA where they talked a couple of districts talked about this. Um, Wilmer's done it, Comrey's done it. So big district, small districts, and they've been happy with it. They said the main thing is if you if you do recruit in an international teacher that you typically do it in like twos or threes so that they have somebody from
019their culture and it's identified to be a cultural exchange. There is the expectation that they teach something about their culture while they're in the in the placement. So yeah. Okay. I just Yeah, I was just kind of curious as D. Great questions. Okay, moving on to principal's board report. All right, so last year Dr. Miller asked us to do a academic goal and a non-academic goal. And so my academic goal was 80% of students in grades K through 5 will demonstrate measurable growth in NWA reading scores from the fall to the spring. I was so happy when I went through this. 87.8% 8% of our students kindergarten because fifth grade demonstrated growth on that which is absolutely incredible. I listed the students down there um that we of those 518 455 showed growth and 63
020remaining either the same. I had quite a few that didn't any increase and a couple of them with you know one two three point decrease with that. Awesome. My non-academic goal with attendance uh when we looked at that overall an overall attendance rate of 94.63% 63%. I think that's great, but I think attendance is always something that I think we can always improve on. So, I really want to focus on that for next year and making that something where it's a little bit more than that and really focus on that and focus on, you know, that homechool family connection piece I think will really help kind of help grow that for next year. um with that and then down below just kind of some of the things that I've been working on in the month
021of June uh to kind of wind up the school year and wind down really looking at academic attendance and behavior data uh finishing up uh staff evaluations printing them off making sure they're in the their folders looking at grades report cards student placement for next year finalizing and updating handbooks looking at our schedule not much of our schedule is going to change I am going to be intimately implementing win time next year, what I need time. So, really just kind of personalizing our students and what they need. Um, we I've been working with Lisa, working on the staff development calendar and our PLC time. I'm excited to kind of unveil that with our staff. I've been talking to them a little bit about that. Um, really looking at all of our class lists, classroom room
022assignments. I' I've did a little bit of room room changing, some back to school events. I will be meeting with my secretaries this week, really looking at our fire drill plan and our tornado drill plan and kind of changing that up just a little bit. Um, hiring, we have almost everyone hired. I am still looking for an ML teacher and a counselor. I have offered the position out to different candidates and they've um declined for whatever reason. So, I'm still looking for ML and a counselor. um working on orientation and new staff mentoring stuff for next year. I just wrapped up all the requisitions. I just need to sign those so everything can get ordered. Uh Lisa and I along with what was there 15 other teachers, we've been doing some MTSS training and I'm
023really excited about that and what that's going to bring for our our elementary. And for the sake of those listening, MTSS, um, it is my report. Oh, she's got it in her report. I knew she was gonna have it in report. That's why I'm like, I'm like, how much do I want to say? Because I knew she was going to do it. Um, and then the personalized learning that Dr. Bullard talked about. So, it was actually my kindergarten teachers. I had two kindergarten teachers that went to the personalized learning training and I joined them and we went to go visit another classroom, a couple of classrooms actually. And it was fun just to listen to them and how much we are already doing maybe with different language that you would probably use. So I was
024excited when I walked away from that conference up there. And I know that my two kindergarten teachers for sure along with my music teacher. She was kind of pumped up. She got to meet with the other music teacher and my second grade teacher got to meet with another second grade teacher as well. So that was fun. And yeah, that's what I've got going on for the months of June. Two question. What's ML teacher? What is it? Multilingual. Oh, okay. And then EL ML and then uh are you getting a lot I mean how is the pool I mean is there a lot of applicants or no? No. So I offered it to one person. Um and then I did an I was going to another applicant put it in and when I called her she
025had just gotten offered a position that day. So okay she had just submitted it the day before and I had seen it the next day. So it's nothing that we're not offering people or no necessarily. Okay, sounds good. Moving on. Are you doing Sonia? I'll do this, too. She is currently at the principal's conference. Uh attendance update. Like I said, attendance is always a concern. I think it's something that we're definitely going to focus on. So, in her preparation for the upcoming school year, she's going to kind of conduct a thorough review and really look at the revision of the current attendance policy. I know that under the existing policy, families are not required to provide that reason or medical documentation for student absences. And I know that that can be a huge lack of
026accountability. You know, parents can call in and say, "This is what's happening." So, I know that that can be a little bit it's tricky waters that you can walk on. So just kind of strengthening the attendance expectations and making that a priority for next year. She stated that during the fourth quarter, the middle school had a 7% absentee rate while the high school had a 9% absentee rate. Um summer school update, there are 25 students that are attending summer school to um get that credit recovery. 14 of those students are currently attending summer school. A furniture update. furniture is kind of a big issue over here that they definitely need some updating in the middle and high school buildings. Many of those desks and chairs just are breaking for a lot of reasons. And I
027know that they tried to repair them, welding, taping, a lot of different things for the short-term use, but it's not sustainable from long term. So, with that, they're going to be doing a a phased update with new furniture. So, in this upcoming year, two to three classrooms are going to be at new sets of seating as well as flexible seating. And it sounds like there's a senior coming. Um, the attendance policy did I know that we reviewed that. Did we did we pass that here? No, not yet. No. I think we talked about it. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, we didn't do anything with it. Okay. because I think I think the principles are going to go back and you guys were going to kind of like vamp up what you wanted to do and then Okay.
028Yeah. I wanted to see this data that really get some hard data about okay what is a lot of absences really mean? What does that look like? Well, is that just a few students making up those absences or is it I mean to me that makes a difference too. I mean I can speak to that to the elementary. We do have a a significant amount of students that have missed a lot of school. We're looking Yes. We're looking at 40 to 50% of the school year. And you look at that and you kind of average that out. I think that's why our average is so low. So that's where my interventions are going to come. Well, and to me that's different than widespread absence. You know what I like if you know um do you
029know how the families were contacted for credit recovery for summer school? I do not know. Usually they get a letter I think don't they? I I do not know. Yeah. I think I would like to know. I I mean if someone can reach back out just cuz that that's not a lot of I mean that's a significant amount from or the maybe who's getting the mail. Well, right. Well, that's true. Right. Well, the kids get in the mail. Oh crap, here's my summer school letter that's going in the garbage. There was a specific transportation set up for a family in Holland and the transit show. I I'm guessing that the communication was pretty good, but I don't know. I mean, that's I mean, that's just over half that came. That's not Yeah. So, you had
030a follow on that? Yep. and I will I'll share that with all the board members. Sounds good. Moving on to Lisa. All right. So, curriculum update. We have landed on elementary curriculum or actually prek through six, which is benchmark advance, which aligns well with the science of reading and everything that goes along with the readout. So, we're pretty excited for that. Oh, yes. And also align with the Minnesota standards. And then we also have some new high school courses um for social studies, some CIS classes that we're going to offer um next year and a new programming and coding class. So we got new curriculum for those as well. And then the M MN MTSS, which stands for Minnesota Multi-tiered System of Supports Cohort. you've heard of RTI. It's similar to that, just a new
031um way to go about things. And so we attended a six session introductory introductory cohort. Um so basically it's a tiered program where tier one is you're teaching all of the students in your classroom. Tier two are students that need interventions. So when Mrs. is more of it's talked about um including some wind time. That's when those supports would come in. And then tier three are for students that need more intense interventions. Um also include special education students, but they don't have to be on an IEP to be considered um tier three. So just to get the students the academic, behavioral, and SEAL supports that they need. where RTI was more of the academic part, this encompasses more of the whole child. And then um working on inservice agendas for the fall, PD calendars, um
032assessment calendars, all of those things. We're going to be wrapping some of those up on Friday when our admin team meets. So, I had a question in the handbook, but since we're talking about that MN MTSS, I'll just ask it now. Um because on page six in the elementary handbook you it it did a nice layout in there of what it was. But I guess I'm still confused as is is it in conjunction with special education? Is you are you trying to replace some of because to me it you know tier one, tier two, tier three that's also language of special education. So and there some of the beh some of the verbiage is similar. Sorry, what's what's special? So, this is this is not special education. This is for all of the students in
033our district. And we will actually use the assessment data from the NWBA, from Dibbles, from um what's the other one CAP that the middle school high school will be using. We use that data and how the students are doing in the classroom. And then we can like I said tier one is you're teaching the whole class all of the skills and then you break it down into um with the MWA data it it gives specific areas that the students are needing extra support in and then we can bring in title teachers and other staff to um help get those supports to the students and we have the staff for that. Yes. where the staff or people coming in and and helping the the students, you know, like are they gonna, you know, is this going
034to be a once a month because we've got so many kids that are, you know what I mean? I'm just like, do we have enough help to Yes. justify doing this and and like benefit the students overall? Yes, absolutely. So when you look at tier one, tier one is instruction that all students in the classroom are receiving. Of those 100% of students who are receiving that instruction, they say about 80 80% of your students should be successful by receiving that tier one instruction. 15 10 to 15% of those students are probably going to need tier 2 instruction. So that's where we have our title teachers coming in. That's where gened teachers are doing different interventions with their students. And then of those students that are not successful at the tier one or the tier two
035need the tier three. So you're looking at 5% of your students need tier three intervention. So that's a little bit more could be special education. Could be something else in the classroom that they might need. So would this be in addition to special education? I just feel like there's an over like and I may be misunderstanding it there. I feel like there's an overlap where we're maybe trying to substitute this instead of special education. Special education is like tier three. Yeah, that's and they're talking about tier three, too. So that's why I'm it doesn't necessarily have to be, but it could be. Special education was level one, two, three, and four within tears. It's not tears, right? Okay. So, we want we we and I love the concept and I love the idea. I I
036think it's fantastic. We just need to be clear. Yeah, absolutely. And, you know, Lisa is going to be heading up the academic portion of it. And when you look at the behaviors with our students, um Scott's going to be doing a lot with that and really looking at what is our behavior sports at every one of those levels. And then, um Meline and our counsel will be doing that with our portion of it in the system, too. What at every one of those. I'll have my hands in all of it, but they'll kind of be the ring leaders of Is there a system that'll take the top tiers of the kids and elevate them higher? You mean the kids that are like academically excelling? Yes, absolutely. That that's all I always worry about that system
037as well. And I think when we look at some of those kids that are already meeting that level and are ready to move on during our win time, it's giving interventions to our students that need it, but also um providing the instruction that we need for our kids that are already excelling to bump them up as well to push them too. To push them, it's for both. It's for both. I mean, I know quite a while ago they had a gifted and talented or I know whatever teacher. I don't know that that's I mean that's probably what was called then. That's probably not the right term to use, but I don't know. Was that is that something that you as admin feel that that might be something to look at, you know, or do we
038not have enough high scores to justify that expense? I think that's what's going to come a lot out of what we're doing this year with wind time to really start seeing that data and really seeing our students when when we spend time and breaking down that data and looking at our kids in our classroom and going, "Wow, we've got some high flyers. We need to do something even more." Maybe it is a a program that we have and somebody leads that, maybe a counselor or a social worker, somebody that that leads a program, something like that. So, we do have some highf flyers. I think this year is going to tell us what more do we need. And I think some of that gets into the personalized components that we're talking about too, that that
039oftentimes those those students don't need as much direct instruction as much as they need direction where here's something we would like you to work on. Right. Right. And and I think that that's that's a mindset shift in some of the things that we do in our teaching because while direct instruction is important and that's at tier one instruction, there are often times those other cases where we can give a little bit of instruction and then release the brakes a little bit because we see it all the time with our kids where you give them a task, you give them a project and give them the opportunity to succeed and fail. Um that's when they're going to learn the most. Yeah. So, um I I wouldn't rule that out. And I think just for a financial
040piece, we have a I could probably tell you what it is if I would go there and get a binder, but we do have a we do have a we do have a gifted and talented fund reserve. We receive like your See, I'm guessing I don't like doing that between 15 and $18,000 a year for that. It's just been going into fund balance. Okay. because you can only spend like a talent and I I'm but that that's some resources that we could use to find ways to augment what's going on. Right. Well, I can't think of what's the computer program that you can work ahead like where you do different objectives and then you can work ahead. What's the There's some my kids doing have done it. I can't think. Yes. Yeah. No, I that
041you can kind of What was that? I heard that was a budget cut. Oh, I liked that. That was nice. Budget cut at the also the reading thing that my kids used to do, you know, like you would read and then you would take like a little test and but then they sort of got rid of reading. Yes. AR. That's it. And then that again was like another budget cut a long time ago. I mean I just feel like there wasn't enough like reading because I looked at my three girls and then there came Max and then that was when the read were you are you reading? Yeah. I know the kid doesn't read right like are you reading anything? I love you Max. Um everything's in their Yeah. I just I just feel like
042that sort of went away you know. Not that you don't have not that the teachers don't maybe send home stuff, you know, but it sort of gave the kids a little I'm just incentive but this year is going to tell us if that is something that we're going to do. There is money there, but I know when Kevin was here looked into spending it. I know that you have to and I'm not I'm not an expert at this either. You can't just say, "Oh, we're using this for talent run it through there." there's more of a plan that you we have to have some very specific the outcomes and well Jackie I'm not planning on using it this year but I do need I was just saying it's it's it's it's more complicated than just
043saying right yes we're able to run it through that account you know whatever we can buy this program and yeah I get it but yeah I'm so you Anyway, okay. Well, that's good. I guess good questions. These are really good questions. Okay. Any other questions? Moving on to new business. 10.1 First reading of the 2526 Little Arrows preschool handbook. And then why can I do them all? All of them. That's just the first reading. 10.2 2 first reading the 2526 elementary handbook and 10.3 first reading of the 2526 activities handbook. Does anybody have anything in any of them? I guess I would just like to um we talk about communication and how we're communicating with parents and how we want parents to communicate with us. If we put this in our handbooks, we need to
044make sure we're doing that. That's just my you know I've seen a couple places where it's emails. We want you to email us. We'd like you to you know. So, I just I really want to make sure that that that's how we're communicating with people and that's how we're following up with people and that even you know it's not that you have to solve the problem but you need to make sure that they hear that you've they've been heard that they've been heard. Right. Yes. Right. In a timely manner. Correct. That would be my only um I had a couple questions. Which handbook? Um the athletic handbook activities. Sorry, not athletics activities. The uh pay on coaches for coaches education is that that's we're not doing that at all anymore. Save right now. They were
045just not putting a dollar amount on it, right? Is that just not a dollar amount? I think they took the dollar amount out because more summer last summer. Is it the 125 that was limited? Okay. That was Rick's um recommendation, I guess. So, okay. I know. I kind of thought about there is I kind of think there should be some sort of cap on it, though. I mean, unless Rick just has to approve. Does it have to be approved still? Because that was my other thing. I'm like, I feel like there's, you know, there should be some type of cap on how much it says a prior approval of the activities director. So, there isn't process. Um I think I had my other question answered in previous discussion. Let me just make sure here. Um
046okay. Um on eligibility on page 12 the two weeks two contests for athletics one um event or contest contest for activities. talking about academic eligibility. If at any time a student makes up work for the previous course failed classes and the student becomes immediately eligible once the grade changes have been recorded and corrected, are we do you know are we following through on this or are we just having them uneligible for two weeks because I've kind of heard mixed mixed things. My understanding when I asked Rick about that was we are are doing that. But if there are instances where we aren't Mhm. Yeah. Let me know because Yeah, that that was my understanding you are. Okay. And it's for both A and B, athletics and activities. That's my understanding. Yeah. Okay. Do we still
047do an ICU list? Now that you're just like scrolling up there, I see that letter D. I'm like, I don't think we do ICU. ICU is no longer I do have one more question, too. Actually, now that you 13, but yeah, you're right. Like, they don't think they do that anymore. No, they don't. Um, page three, number seven. The athletic director makes arrangements for athletic fine arts banquetss. All activities and athletics are required to host in their own. Correct. They are. This is all verbiage from Yep. Yeah. Um, are they required to have banquetss or no, right? I can just see if there's some that do and some that don't. We It runs into an issue. Yeah, I don't know. I think it's up to the coach. I'm not sure. Can't think of any that
048on number seven. I had a question yesterday. So, I mean, my my son didn't tell me about the golf bang. I was there. Yeah. Yeah. It was a team supper. And then I was like, why are all these parents here? That's your team's mom. Yeah. Well, then like the team got like free supper. The parents had otherwise. So yeah, don't be making calling. I'm a bad parent. No, I didn't. No, I didn't say that. I didn't know. Communication there has been like really lack. So hopefully it'll get better. We shall see. I'm going to go on the record and say I still think we should have a fall banquet for all the sports, a winter banquet for all the sports, and a spring banquet for all the sports because and not do it individual. And
049I get some coaches don't like doing that, but I also look at it that their other peers can see what their other peers have accomplished in the sport that they're not in. And it I feel like it's just supports everyone. That's my two cents because I feel like it's sort of thrown together. Some coaches do it well, some coaches not so much. And I just feel like some kids feel like, you know, they were recognized and others maybe not so much. And I and I, you know, again, that was back when the booster club, the athletic booster club kind of took charge of of that. And then there were some coaches that didn't want to be a part of it. But I I just look at it that I just think the other kids get
050to see what their classmates have accomplished in something that maybe they didn't participate in. But that's my two cents. I'm no longer involved in any of that. But and however they do it going forward, but I just I just feel like that was important to do. But again, the coaches make their own decisions and if they didn't want to participate, then that's kind of where I think where it was. But so it used to be Yeah. And I know it was talked about just because it was it was so much work that um they at one point talked about each um coach having their own individual banquet and then having a big one in the auditorium and presenting their awards or coming up with their rewards and in front of all of fall sports, all
051of winter sports. But I think financially it was and planning wise. We used to do potluck, right? Like parents bring the main meal with well sometimes it was like when I was in high school. Yeah. And then how many years ago? Like you just brought your like you brought your food like there's zero expense. They changed that though. It was catered in when my girls graduated. It was three bananas. The fall, the winter, and the spring and it was sports. Yeah, potluck. All potluck and every sport had to bring one might be main dishes, one might be one might be dessert, whatever. Y I know they started catering them in though. They they went away from bang or from the potluck style and then parents were able to buy a ticket to come and it
052was okay. That's ridiculous. That's ridiculous. And I do think if you're going to do it, you need to just do all activities for like I think right whether it's band, however. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Cuz I know it wasn't right, you know, cuz back in Yeah. my day. I mean, the hard part that I was it gets to be kind of like and I'm kind of like the awards banquet for see you know the last it gets to be a lot information, right? And so it gets to be a long it gets to be a long program, right? I mean where that one lost like two hours, you know, and so I think it's hard for people to sometimes. Yeah, that's why I think they talk about having individualized one big one. That was real that
053was quick, but I mean I think if you do do it like that, you really have to move it along, right? You know, otherwise you'll be there. Yeah. seem like the individual ones you went down a little bit more of a stat by stat awards and then for that larger one you give your three big ones your MVP inspirational whatever it is your letters keep high level because then it's not drawing everything sounds like the activities or polity committee well and And like where we don't have ICU anymore, how do coaches know if students don't have work done and stuff? Okay. I mean because that was when I see you was you knew who had I mean so are they getting to the point where it's getting behind the eightball? You know where Mr. Das
054I or Mrs. Styles. I hate to put you on the spot, but do you have because you're If I have a student in my room that's behind, I will contact the coach. I've walked down to the gym and have told the coach, "Hey, this kid, I need them. They're behind." Some coaches are receptive to that. Other coaches are they'll come in in the morning when they're so we have some very good coaches and some So, we need to have kind of high expectations. I feel like that's going on. I feel like you're maybe one of the only teachers that would also march down to the gym, right? Well, it's education first. Well, I mean Well, Right. Exactly. I mean, I I don't know. Maybe that's something that Rick does on a weekly basis at the
055end of the week. Does he I I don't know. How does it That's why we've talked about the education, the academic, right? Eligibility policy discussion because Yeah, that we need a little more teeth into it. Sure. When I used I I don't know why we don't have the IC program memory, but I liked it because parents got an email, you know, you got an email and then I would be like, hey, where's the assignment? You know, I mean immediately. Yeah. At our house anyway, it was like, where's this assignment? You know, and I just don't I better not be getting an email, right? if I get an email tomorrow, if I don't get an email that says it's taken care of, we're gonna have, you know, I mean, you're emailing the coach and saying, "Sorry,
056they're not coming." It was very And then the parent was aware that that was what was going on. I, you know, I just think that's important because on a daily basis, I'm not checking and they're not always the scores aren't always put in right on a daily basis. So, you don't know where they're at necessarily. It helps parents keep their kids accountable as well. So it's not just the teachers, right? Right. Well, number one, te parents can look at the grade book, but like you said, they're not always updated, but you know, but I would like to see something from the board where it's not the end of the quarter. It's more consistent like in the middle of a quarter, right? Student is missing assignments. Yeah. Right. They should have to come make those up
057until it's turned in. You're not going to practice. And they midterms, man. I would like to see that, but I'm one of the few that Well, well, I remember they had midterms. Like you say, I mean, education is what we're here for. All the extracurricular is is extra. So, we should and most teachers, all teachers should be wanting their kids to pass. So there should be communication from that teacher to the parent as well. Yeah. Um and you would think that the coaches would want that too, right? Like Right. Yeah. Well, policy committee. Yeah. There you go. That's Yeah. That's why we need to talk about it, right? and establish a common shared expectation that everybody hears. So, Right. Right. Right. Well, and and I'm so I mean these I think coaches as a whole
058should all have the same I mean when it comes to this that should be the expectations. I mean we should be telling them these are the expectations, right? Anyway, any other questions? It's just the first reading, so we don't have to do anything. No. Anything else you want to highlight in changes in yours, Mrs. Morg? Um, I just put that in mind. I I did put something in there with pets because I frequently get asked about bringing pets to school and I think that we need to have something and very well laid out, you know, with kids that have allergies or kids that are scared of pets and what are we bringing in because if we don't have them up to date on shot records, you know, there's just a lot of liability part of
059that. So, I did put that in there, put the SS stuff in there. Some other little minor changes, I changed that up, so I just rewrote it. And so, instead of changing it, I put that in there. Um, yeah, once I get everything finalized, I'll there's a few little minor changes in there, just what pages it land on, all that stuff. But I think those are kind of the big ones that I put in there and changes that I made. with that. You know, I've had some people with dogs that have, you know, when they're bringing their kids to school and dogs on the property. I think we just need to be aware of that. I don't know who these animals are and kids get either scared of them or they're very friendly and, you
060know, something could happen. So, I think we just need to have something. Did something change with immunizations? might when do you like to have these done, Deb? Well, we need to have a policy meeting because all the legislative policies have been updated now and a lot of those go in the school high school handbook, right? And when do you want them? So we need to set a policy meeting to review them and we would act on that at our July board, but it would only be the first reading of the middle school high school first which is fine. Okay. Which is fine for that one. Um because I think they all get electronically copies. Okay. But the policies there's a b like I said there's a bunch of them in the handbook as well. So
061it's like doing the policies and then doing the handbook that I need to get all that done before the 28 I think of July. But the activities one, that one obviously is a little more timely because of our practices, fall practice. That one has to be approved in July because start like August. So that would be a committee relatively and we could do a few other policies, you know, very tiny ones that didn't change, but not the first week of July. Not the first week of July, please. [Laughter] Well, moving on. Any more questions? Okay. Number 11, unfinished business. We have none. Number 12, board action resolution accepting donations. Sorry, I should have done this. Um, we have a donation from the Arrow Booster Club for $2,000 for donation for acceleration camp. And then we
062have a donation from Chrysler King for $100 for the wellness room. And then the American Legion post six from the pull tab account for $250 donation for teacher appreciation uh week. Okay. Can I have a motion to accept these donations? Moved. Second. It's a motion and second to accept these donations. All those in favor say I. I. Those opposed. Motion passes. We thank everyone that um has donated for these programs. Um moving on to 12.1 or 12.2, excuse me. Education and identity access management board resolution. This just ba basically authorizes Dr. Willard to give everybody anybody in the district who needs access to submitting certain reports to MDE. Can I get a motion to approve? So moved. Second. It's a motion and approved that we accept the education identity access management board resolution. All those
063in favor say I. I. Those opposed. Motion passes. 12.3 approve garbage proposal for um 2026. You'll see the proposals there, but you'll also see in front of you a document that Deb created and uh has printed out for you to review some of the historical um information on the garbage proposals. So, um as you can see, their recommendation this evening is to proceed with Van Dyke sanitation. Have we my thoughts? Oh, go ahead. Have we utilized their services in the past? Yes. Okay. Issues. I I feel like we when the city started trash is when they started getting. So, I mean, they haven't always done trash. Yeah. They didn't submit last year as you can see. Yeah. passed in that day or his it was they called me to make sure that we received it
064and I I did call this was inclusive you guys did you receive that yeah I'll put it on desk I don't know I get I get that there's a difference um minimal I mean it's pretty minimal but um I do like to keep things in tight stone myself that's just my thoughts It's good to take care of your Any other discussion? Do I have a motion? I make a motion to approve Van Dijk as our garbage uh vendor for the year. Second. So, a motion to approve to approve Van Dyke. Let me see what is there. Do I have to read it? $1,542 a month. Okay. $1,542 a month for the um fiscal year 2026. All those in favor say I. I. Those opposed? I motion passes. Um 12.4 for approved membership to MSBA for
065uh fiscal year 26. You can see the attachment that's included in the information. It does include the policy service um our district membership and then our continued partnership with them for the software and the workbook program that we're utilizing for our schoolboard meetings. You can see that the total membership fee is $8,775. Any questions? Hearing none. Do I hear a motion to approve? So moved. Second. It's been moved and seconded. Seconded to approve the membership for the MSBA fiscal year 26. All those in favor say I. Those opposed, same sign. Motion passes. 12.5. approved membership for MRAA for f fiscal year 26. I did not receive an invoice yet for them. Um it does end on June 30th. And I think, correct me if I'm wrong, the reason that we have these on here every
066year because at one time they were like budget cuts at one time and it was directed to be brought to the board every year to make sure if you wanted to continue membership in that [Music] could be. Yeah. So do we have without a We don't have a actual bill. Yeah, I don't I don't have a billing statement either. So, because we Deb and I communicated about that today. We did receive I emailed them twice. I emailed them last week and then I emailed again today. And we did receive an email that said, "Please remember to pay your check with Carol and Carol is not receiving invoices." So, I I think we could uh table this. Okay. Move on. Okay. Do we have to motion that want to bring it to the board for approval?
067I mean, are you planning on doing it? What is typically the amount of Let me check last year's. Yes, it was very similar. And what is MA again? Minnesota Rural Education Association essentially. It's every it's every rural school district in the state practically. I think there's a handful that aren't part of it. um predominantly serves as a lobbying body for the rural education rural school districts across the state. The metro school districts have AMSD which is the association of metropolitan school districts. Um how have they done so far? Good. Y I would say very good. Sam Wall says is a highly respected lobbyist in the state. Last year M was $2245. Yeah, I guess I I moved a table until we get an invoice. [Music] It's due July 1st. It ends June 30th. Send us
068an invoice. All right. Yeah. Why won't they send an That is weird. Okay. So 12.4 has Excuse me. Oh, is there a second to table it? Second. It's been motioned to table and seconded the membership for the MEA for fiscal year 26. Okay, moving on. Do I have to do a vote, too? You do vote. Oh, you do vote. Okay. All those in favor say I. I. I. Those opposed. Motion passes. Um 12.6 approve 202526 literacy plan. Um this was added late because there were some processes that we had to go through at the state level. So, I guess I would defer to Lisa and Jennifer to comment on the literacy plan. Um, what you see before you and how it ties back to the read act and what's going on with um our requirements
069that we have as a district when it comes forward to literacy. I know we have identified a literacy lead as well in the district that is part of this. Um, so again, I'll I'll defer to you to comment on on the literacy plan. Sure. Um, this mostly asks about what screening tools are we using, what in K3 there's a different screening tool for grades 4 through 12, how are we utilizing that data once we do um get the data after the screenings? Um, how are we notifying parents? How are we involving parents? Then it also talks about the MTSS, multi-tered system of supports, and how we're going to implement that. And then um interventions prof professional development regarding the read act um it's just something that we have to update um every year also talks
070about the literacy aid funds that we have received and what we've spent so far or what we spent in this year 25 which wants to share a little bit on that. Well, not really because because we just got done paying some people June 20th. This was two. So, it's not the expenses we spent this this year because some people just don't know how quite to state. No. So, those numbers are not true. Nope. not updated. If they want something, if they want expenses for a fiscal year, you don't have it due in June, right? June fiscal year ends June 30th. I mean, that makes absolutely right. Right. But here it is. Those are the numbers when Lisa and I met that we had at the time. There we go. And basically the um local literacy
071plan is just more for our information. We do have to submit it to MDE, but it's more for our planning purposes at the local level. Any other questions? So, your your funds, just so I'm I understand this here, Jackie, so the the literacy aid funds, so 2024 to 25 school year, $54,127. That's the aid we received, right? And then the other below number, the read act aid is also aid. We've received only one time. We're not ever going to receive that again. So the $43,415 we received that once and we actually get some more read money, too, but they chose not to put that on this report. Okay. There there there's three different pots of redact money. There are stipulations of how each pot of money can be spent. Okay? Because when we were doing
072this, please make sure there's not another page. Why are they only requesting information on two of the of the three buckets? Yeah. Like for example, some of the funding can only be used for the state approved the highly aligned highly aligned curriculum resources and and that's where there have been questions about how much of this is being a mandated curriculum resource versus not. And Our team has looked at what's best and understanding that that may differ from what the state highly aligned are and that we're not alone as a district in doing that because there have been other districts that have said these stories that that are being promoted in the highly aligned resource are not necessarily highly engaging for kids and not they're not following. So that third bucket of money that they're missing
073would be when the teachers What do I want to say? Training training with the redact training. There's another bucket money that pay comes out of that's not on here. That's that letters training that all in that bucket. We've probably used some of that versus these two. Looks like we only used a couple hundred dollars. Correct. Yeah. Thank you. Any other questions? Do I have a motion to approve? So moved. Second. It's been moved in a second to approve the 202526 literacy plan. All those in favor say I. I. I. Those opposed. Same sign. Motion passes 12.7. Approve fiscal year 26 budget. Yeah. Go as fast or as slow as you want. So I'm going too fast. Tell me to slow down. Ask any questions. You want more detail ever? come and see me in my
074office. Got plenty of documentation. So, these are just some of the budget assumptions and there's many more, but I just hit the highlights. We used to get library aid of 40,000. The state reduced it to 20 in this last legislative session. TR would be the teachers retirement. We used to have to contribute 8.75% now we have to contribute 9.81%. The general education aid did increase 2.74%. And they did pass a legislator that it will always increase by the inflation amount with this a floor of 2%. I'm going to get this wrong. Lowest can be 2%, highest going to be 3%. So that's good. The student accounts actually remain the same. Then we have the pay paid family medical leave that there's a44% additional in the budget for that that we have to pay to the
075state. This is treated like based like social security now does the state will pay people who run their paid family medical leave act not the school. So we have to contribute to the fund. And then I would just I would like to make this announcement that if you look at the budget year to date, the salaries, the transportation, especially contracted services, they account for 81% of the budget. Special education estimate is very soft and there'll be budget amendments to be prepared in January or February. And as far as like the title money, the federal money, this is we don't even know what those are going to be until August. So I need to be conservative. I take the title money, I drop a 10%. It's there's just so many unknowns when you do the budget.
076So we get as close as you can and we do amendments later. Oh, yeah. But our title grant needs to be submitted by June 30th, but we don't have the final dollar amounts until later on. Nice. Excellent. Sounds like the government. Sounds like Sounds like the government. Smile and nod. Okay. So, you go to the next sheet. This is the overall. My next sheet. The next sheet. Yep. is if you look at this sheet you'll have the overall general fund revenue and expenditures and I'm projecting a million dollar deficit which is conservative and if you go to the next sheet it's all the revenue and I compare the revised budget from 25 to the original budget of and then if there's any big differences and I usually go back and check on those and say
077why is this difference here and that's another thing you guys can look at let me know if you see something that looks odd to you please let me know because then I'll do some more research and I I can make mistakes. Yeah. And the budget committee went through it too, but we did miss something too. I mean, but we did go through it. Yeah. So, that's comparing the revenue. And the next she next sheet is comparing all the expenditures for the general fund. And then I did do the fund balance percentage calculation was we have a fund balance policy that has to be within 25 and 34%. And even with the worst case scenario saying that what I projected this year actually happens to be what it is and with the worst case scenario of
078losing a million dollars, we would still be at a 31.4% 4% fund balance. So you would still be within the fund balance policy that was approved by the school board. And now that I have this, oh look at our gifted and talented fund balance has a $273,688 fund balance. That's a lot. So there is money there. And I have all the details behind this. I think I just gave you the one sheet, but I have the actual fund balance polic. if anybody wants it. I came up with this. There any questions? I've got all sorts of fun. I didn't know them all. No. Yeah. Yeah. Now, now we have the food service fund, which what's that? Oh, okay. There is your overall food service. Um, and we're going to have a projected five miles of
079a million dollars, which we don't want, but not really anything I can do about it. We talked about kind of going through and replacing some equipment or like, you know, like tables and stuff that are just broking or whatever. Doing it in little pieces. At least it's some there's a couple of things that I want to do. And there are some some changes that occurred this legislative session allowing for some expenditures that previously weren't allowed to be allowed now as long as they're food service related. And um so we're going to maximize and capitalize on those. Obviously we've been in conversation with Taher to increase food quality. We've talked about that before. For example, a processed um chicken sandwich versus a whole muscle chicken sandwich. just finding those types of opportunities to provide to our
080kids, increasing the chef presence, um food service, uh salad bar options, and adding more protein options to that as well. So, there's there's a few things that'll be part of this where hopefully we start whittling that fund balance now. And we did purchasing what we can do. Any other things I ask for? Is there anything else I asked for? You said no. I've gotten that, too. So is no. Tried. So that we're food service. Now we have next. Oh, and that's just comparing the revenue from this year to last year. And the next one would be expenses. And like I said, you know, in that consulting piece, that's kind of a shot in the dark. I used last year as I kind of ask because if the food quality, if they do start, you know,
081increasing the food quality, obviously that's going to go up. But I had to use information I have at the time to come up with an estimate. community, community kind of consists of three different umbrellas. This is a regular community education fund balance and they're projecting a fund balance at the end of 26 of $36,864. You go to the next sheet. This is just showing the revenue and the expenditures and what goes through the community ad budget. And the next one would be your learning readiness. And this would be your three and four year olds because now the four and five year olds run through the general fund for the voluntary pre kindergarten funding. And I don't know if you remember at one time the learning readiness used to have a huge deficit. We don't have
082that issue anymore because now we're getting the additional funding with PPK for the four and five year olds which is in the general fund now because the state told me I had to do that. And then we have our early childhood which we have a large balance here. Building construction fund. This would be for the roof. And basically what I did is they gave me a draw schedule. So that's where those construction costs where that dollar amount comes from. And then the interest income. And we did talk about and I know that Dr. Willard and I have a meeting with PNA on Wednesday. with our LTFM, we can now levy for roofs. So, which is good. Gives us another lever to to help pay for and that's why we we had planned in our draw
083schedule to only utilize through phase one bond monies that we have on hand by being able to leverage LTFM. It's actually a benefit to our taxpayer because LTFM qualifies for the egg to school credit where at one point in time we had talked about like a lease levy to pay for the other portion of the roof. There's no egg to school credit with lease levy. So there's there's benefit in doing it that way and we'll have some of that that we'll be able to bring forward for PMA. Yeah. And what what helps with this, we would always receive the our LTFM money. we would get a certain amount like $200,000 and we could have always had an LTFM model which we were going to have to do anyway for this roof but that would reduce
084the amount that we actually had left in LTFM. Now what the state is saying you don't have to reduce your initial amount. You're going to increase that by the amount of the bond for the roof which is a good thing. And this debt services is the easy one. This basically is all set by the state, our revenue and then our expenditures for our debt payments. And then I just have compare the revenue on one sheet and the expenditures on the next sheet. And this is your high school activity accounts. It is basically the expenditures. You have to have a positive fund balance in each one of these. And then if you keep going, you can see all the various organizations that run through there. And other than that, that's all I have. Any questions for
085Jackie? Please mind us to fix the roof on the kitchen. What's that? [Laughter] I like your thinking. Right. It's part of the Right. Part of the food service. I got a mail letter every year and I say we're going to spend it, what we're going to spend it on, and so far that has been sufficient. Nice. Any more questions? Hearing none. Do I have a motion to approve? So moved. Second. So a motion and approve or approved motion and seconded to approve the fiscal year 26 budget. Any discussion hearing? None. All those in favor say I. I. Those opposed, same sign. Motion passes. 12.8 declare textbooks obsolete. You can see that there's u some textbooks that we are recommending to declare obsolete. I'll let Jennifer and Lisa speak to those. Lisa in particular. Sure. Um
086lots of them are hardcover text hardcover textbooks which we have now um transitioned into consumables. And so these have actually some of these have actually been on the shelves in the library for a couple of years. They just haven't um gotten on the surplus list. Um also the Journeys textbooks to surplus those. Some of these have gone to online curriculum just to empty out also some of the of textbooks that are no longer being used. Can you intent with the books after we declare them obsolete? Uh Lori in the library has a couple of places that she um can reach out to to see if anybody would like to purchase those. Um like the leveled readers, they're just small um books that we would like to put out in the entryway on the back to
087school so that children can read that attorney's textbook. Any questions? A motion to approve. So moved. Second. A motion and seconded to declare the textbooks obsolete. All those in favor say I. I. Those opposed? Motion passes. 12.9 declare four bookcases surplus. Um Lori Gunick approached me about um some bookshelves that are not being utilized in the library. You can see the pictures of them. She would she has asked that we declare those obsolete. Um and if we do proceed to declare them obsolete, I believe we may have a potential buyer um from Tyler. The RTR school district may be interested in purchasing them. So, um, again, they're just they're empty. We don't have a collection large enough to fill them up, and that's why we're cleaning them up. Any questions? Motion to approve. Some move.
088Second. It's been motioned and seconded to declare the four bookcases surplus. Any discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Those opposed, same sign. Motion passes. 12.10. Property casualty insurance. Okay. Um I'll ask for Jackie's help on this one as well, but what you see in front of you is uh what EMC, who has been our property casualty insurance carrier, um has brought forward. This is something that we've moved to. Um last year, I think was the first year that we've been with with them. And as you look at this, you'll notice that the quote has gone up um pretty significantly. And the key driver as we've had our conversations with EMC on our insurance and property casualty insurance is really the replacement cost that they thought our existing replacement cost that had been in
089place was understated and undervalued. Um and therefore they've changed the valuation for the replacement cost and that is the key driver in what you see as as the cost increase in our property casualty insurance. Um, I know Jackie had to answer a number of questions. I had to answer a number of questions as well to make certain that we have all the policies and procedures in place. All those boxes were checked. Again, it really came down to replacement costs if indeed we had a catastrophe and lost a facility or or Jackie, anything that I missed or that you want to add? No, that's basically what you told me why it was going up is because the value of a property is higher like everyone else's properties and the square footage to replace it is higher.
090Do we get more than one bid? No, because there's Well, the reason we had to go with this company is because no one else. Oh, okay. Because they just won't fit in this area. They say there's too much damage. We haven't had any, but now they're getting very particular. You have to go with these huge companies because these other companies won't even take as long as the client. We had worked with Kazowskis to arrive at a partnership with EMC and First Main Street that we have here. Klowskis has a relationship with them and yeah, so it's and when I was on the team meeting with them, John was also part of discussion. Yeah. So, there's not a bidding process. You got a new roof now, too, so it's higher value. Well, see, this is a
091company. They go out and get bids. You know what I mean? Like this First National is like a broker. Got it. So, they go out and get a bid, right? Am I saying this right? Yeah. So, so they're they have a bidding process. We don't. They several carriers. Somebody's looking at different ones. And what's happening is fewer and fewer insurance companies are picking up these types of policies because of the losses that insurance companies have incurred and it's often times because of commercial losses or you're just going to have decreased coverages your deductibles. Yeah. What she said. Yeah. Joe, I think his name was Joe. He went back and he was going to try to negotiate with the underwriters to see if he could decrease what it would cost for us to replace it. He
092said he tried and they were not much. So there is somebody trying I mean I just want to make sure that yeah or at least y checking you know doing diligence. That's the actual policy. How much did your evaluation go up? Is that in here? 25,000. 71 to 80. So your per total business personal property limit went up by 3 million. Total building limit went up by 15 million. Page right at top top left. honor the property total building limit. Oh god, I better go over and they came out and did a complete walk through too. So last year we kind of were rock all of a sudden. So I don't think they had as much time as charges. They didn't. And then we we were fortunate to even have insurance, right? Like I remember
093that for that last year to be quite honest. I do. They're plump up this year. Yep. Most are seeing 50 to 60% increase. This one's 31 31.75. So main First Main Street Insurance is the insurance company. Is that correct? Or they are the broker. They are the broker agency. Yep. They're like And you'll notice the recommendation EMC. Yep. That's that's the company. That is the company. Okay. And if I understand correctly, I believe IASB stands for Iowa Association of School Boards and they have a massive group policy that we're able to participate in. I think that's why our I mean our obvious rates went up but I think since we're involved in such a big group they didn't go as much it's a pool because they do automobile and everything right still any other questions
094Do I have a motion to accept the um insurance quote for property casualty insurance? So moved. Second. So moved and seconded to approve the property casualty insurance as um presented in the quote. All those in favor say I. I. Those opposed, same sign. Motion passes. Number 13, adjourn. So moved. Second. It's a motion and seconded to adjourn the meeting. All those in favor say I. That about insurance. Motion passes. Meeting is adjourned.