001We'll start with the pledge to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> All right. And for the roll call, um the only one we're missing is director. uh he called me earlier and said he might not be here or he might be a little bit late if he is able to show. So um I have uh two things to start out with for board member comment who's actually first at wheel welcome uh for first meeting here today. Um the other one Mr. Schultz thank you for uh thank you for being here today and uh looking forward to sharing your legislative content with us. Um, and then you know, one of the awkward things that
002we do every meeting is accept donations. And, uh, I just wanted to call out we again have $28,000 in donations. So, $25,000 from the Royal Fire Relief um, matching T-Mobile Fund and from the Optimus Club, there's $3,000 to go towards Robot. So, just wanted to say thank you to those organizations all on behalf of the board. Uh, and with that, uh, we will swear Abigail. So, if you'd like to stand, you got to do this last one. Anybody hand? Uh, you don't have to repeat anything. Um, just say I do at the end. I swear affirm that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Minnesota and will faithfully discharge the duties of student school board representative serving independent school district 485 to the best of my
003judgment and ability. >> Thank you. Awesome. Go ahead and have a seat. All right. Uh, next I will entertain a motion to up the agenda. >> Motion director. Thank you. >> Second trout. Thank you. All right. Uh, any discussion? All in favor say I. >> I. Opposed. All right. Motion carried. Uh, next we go into uh presentations from the Spanish club. >> Um, I believe the advisor like Madison went to go locate where the girls are. >> Um, I do believe two of them are on basketball team. So, they have the first night of practice. >> That's not good. Um, all right. Uh, recognition of citizens principal purposes. Okay. Uh next is uh we'll go right into the legislative update. So it's all you. >> Thank you, Mr. Chair. Uh for the record, I am
004State Representative Isaac Schultz. I represent House District 10B, which covers portions of five counties here in central Minnesota. Uh Royaltton is near the heart of my district and honored to be with you this evening to provide a little bit of an update from uh the state legislature. uh we have passed the state budget which uh and I I'll try and keep my remarks primarily uh through the lens of education this evening and uh and then take your questions in the topics that you would like to most uh touch on this evening. Um first off, the state budget did uh actually see a reduction in this budget. So it went from about 72 billion to about 66 billion overall. The education picture in the short term is stable. The next two years or two years from
005now, we're expecting to see a decrease in education funding funding to uh to K12 education. And that's primarily driven uh by the fact that the state still has a two and a half uh billion dollar budget deficit in our tales or our outy years two years from now. And so each of the different budget areas from the department of human services to education and other areas are seeing reductions. Um it's just that that area specifically around special education is likely to see the largest um cost reductions in years to come. And it's important for you to know that prepare for it um as it's going to likely impact local districts. There's going to be a lot of local uh school board members from across the state who are going to have a role in shaping
006what that looks like. um it's not directly uh directed by the legislators to how that's going to happen and certainly economic factors for the state could change that outlook and there's certainly a possibility that it could improve or get worse and we need just just to be aware of that economically for the sake of the state and the funding that comes from uh the state level. So, one very positive thing in my eyes is that we're not seeing new mandates on on K12 education um or school districts um based upon this budget. However, while I see that as good news, we also weren't able to provide relief from the previous 65 plus new mandates that were added in the previous bienium. Um you all are working through uh the READ Act um and its implementation
007in addition to a whole host of other uh mandates. The workforce mandates are especially costly for school district budgets. Um from paid family medical leave that begins on January 1st of next year to the earn sick and save time. Um and while we sought to make progress on those issues, there was not the appetite from uh from the the left uh on the political aisle to to see any changes to that at this time. So, um, from a budgetary perspective, those are some of the main things that are happening for school districts at the moment. But also mentioned that from a state perspective and nationally, the conversation over Title 9 and women's sports is something that the legislature sought to address this year uh, in the House of Representatives. We we did take a vote
008to really clarify that in state law and direct the state high school league to uh to make girls sports only for girls sports uh or and and only for girls I should say and and the and the direct implications to bathrooms and locker rooms and the like. Um and all Republicans in the legislature both the House and Senate voted for that but there were not the votes from Democrats. There was no Democrat who joined us in that effort to clarify that. And unfortunately, while Democrats had the complete control of state government two years ago, they made a decision to add additional language to the Minnesota human rights um law, which has then been challenged. And the Supreme Court uh in Minnesota, the Minnesota Supreme Court made a recent decision, I want to say it was
009two weeks ago really stating that Minnesota's position is is that that biological men can participate in women's sports. and and that is the current uh principle that's guiding the state high school league at this moment in time as you know that puts us in direct conflict with federal law and and so that is certainly something that is happening in public discourse. You looks like you tonight are having a discussion about it on your agenda. Um and I know that school districts across the state are having this conversation. Um it is my belief that this is one of the political issues of our time and that this is going to be decided ultimately by the people. Um and so the next election in 2026 is likely to shape the future of the state. The governor and
010all the statewide offices as well as the legislature, both the house and the senate will be on the ballot next November. And depending upon the direction that that goes, we'll likely see uh changes in one direction or the other. The other thing that that we should uh just note is certainly the federal government has made I'll just call them threats to uh to states across the country who have not been adhering to federal law as it relates to title one. And um in the short term because of the last 40 days worth of the government shutdown, it's my understanding that the the Trump administration staff that would have been working on that was furoughed. Um and so it was delayed in the short term. However, we could see now that that appears to be wrapping
011up that there will be um potentially action coming from the federal government towards the state of Minnesota towards either school districts or the department of education in Minnesota or the state high school league. Uh that could result in consequences um down to local levels. Now, Royaltton isn't going to stand out different from other school districts across the state. It's just it's going to be amidst the whole of what that legal battle will likely play out. And um and I do believe that based upon what the Supreme Court said in Minnesota versus what is law at the federal level that we basically have conflicting laws and and that will have to be decided at some some level within the court system. So important for you to know that. Um, when it comes to the the next
012legislative session, uh, and before I move on for that, I I do also want to thank the members of the board, um, who have signed a letter, um, in regards to to Title 9, um, and and been a part of a coalition just saying that we we want to protect, uh, girls sports. I I find that to be really important. Um, and but you know, I looked at the list of of members across the whole of uh the state and I personally think that the district that I represent is the best represented probably in the state. Um, and so so thank you to to those of you who signed that. Um then when we look at um education and our schools and the safety of our kids uh and especially following what has been just
013a a a tragedy of frankly a summer here in Minnesota from the murder of the former speaker of the house Melissa Hortman to uh to the annunciation school shooting that happened at the beginning of the school year to Charlie Kirk being murdered at a a higher education campus. School safety is certainly a major topic that uh that is going to continue to take place in the public sphere here in Minnesota and across the country. Um there is a very unlikely possibility that there will be a special legislative session to deal with school safety and instead we are likely to have that as a primary conversation for the 2026 legislative session. That legislative session begins uh February 17th and will run until May 9th. So about a three-month period of time where all all of the
014people at the table will be able to have that conversation. And it won't be done in private or it will be a fully public conversation about how we're going to best address school safety um and the safety of our kids. And I will just say there's been a number of different proposals that have been thrown out there. Certainly there the political left has focused very much on on the guns. Uh but I think the number one thing that we should be doing and and what Republicans have been talking about has been about securing our schools and and helping uh school districts just like Royaltton have the conversations about, you know, can we make a school resource officer happen? Do we need to harden the points or close additional um you know uh close additional doors
015coming into the school? and and what does it look like to upgrade our technology to best serve the students of today and the facilities that we have today? Now, there's about 870,000 kids in schools uh across Minnesota and and obviously a vast variety of different school buildings and uh and there's a lot of ideas over how to secure schools. Um a uh a number that has been floated by the governor and legislative leaders is that potentially $20 million could go to school districts where you could apply for grants to best, you know, upgrade your school, but $20 million for the number of school districts that we have would be pennies compared to the greater need. and um other proposals have suggested that that um it might cost just shy of a billion dollars to secure
016the schools across the state. Uh and so as we deliberate on school safety, uh I certainly would desire your input um on that topic and uh what would best fit you. I think that um for us at the legislature, one thing that we don't want to do, at least from my perspective, is tell you how to protect your school. uh you know how to do that best from a a board perspective or administrative perspective. And so if we can uh provide funding flexibility, which is a goal for Republicans on a whole host of fronts, that would be our desire. And uh so those are a few of the major topics of the moment. And with that, I will turn it over to you for any questions you might have for me. So, I've got one
017started. Um, well, there's federal dollars that come in, right? I don't know what that number is, right? It's I think it's in the billions, right? So, when they have the ability just to shut that out for the state of Minnesota, like that's their plan. Like, we talk about a state government saying we're going to continue to do this. Title N is strictly federal, right? That was in the 70s they started this title 9 thing right the federal field that all public school debt follow so how does the state government over rule of federal ruling could they shut that money up I mean we're always talking about funding we need to follow the rules to shut funding up right that really what we're looking at is to shut all federal funding off to Minnesota >> while
018I can't speak for the Trump administration or their direct uh action. What I would point you to is what they have done on other topics during the course of this year whether you know the the premise of Doge and wanting to stop waste fraud and abuse in government um and even you know you know whether it's it's been some clean energy projects uh transportation dollars different different things that they have done to stop funding I and especially when there is federal law that they have to point to and make the case in in court I think that that's an action that they probably would consider. Uh and so and my understanding using kind of a broad stroke here is that education funding from the federal level to local uh schools is approximately 8% of of
019school budgets. Now that might not be the direct number for Royaltton, but you know that's the the the barometer that I have heard spoken uh kind of across the state is about 8% of every school budget is federal funding. And so I think that there's a there's a possibility that at least in the short term or until that is played out in the court that that could u be withheld uh for school districts across the state. at that point, like that obviously creates quite a political rub when you've got a whole bunch of uh districts across the state that just had referendums a week ago uh to um to to you know the major school districts in the Twin Cities that face very heavy um budgetary challenges, right? These are these are things that are
020going to impact um communities for not for not doing what's right by the kids and protecting um spaces for women for women and for girls. Could you back a little more on the idea of flexible spending and some of the you know line items and the mandates that came through last uh you know we're looking at um trying to be a school resource officer and I'm the treasurer and just trying to kind of navigate all the fiscal restraint, you know, like will the funds go to or allocate to this space or this space or you can only allow these three options of this, you know, whatever line item. Um, still progress you think what's the what's the real percentage that they're going to loosen up on some of those types of restrictions and restructure that?
021>> It's a pertinent question and it's an evergreen question. So that that is a a conversation that takes place every single year at the legislature. How can we how can we make the funding able to suit the students best in Minneapolis and in Royalton and in Morehead all at the same time. And it's every school district seeks to meet the needs of their community, their students, and their parents best. And and yet there are times that I see especially when uh when at the legislature where some of my colleagues get elected to the legislature and have carry a great deal of passion over education or and it could be over other areas too. But they carry such a a you know a level of passion over their topic that they could just get elected to
022their local school board and implement it in their community. But instead they take their idea they get elected to the state legislature and say this is such a great idea great idea that I don't just want to institute it in Egan but I want to institute it all across the state. And then if they rise to some level of political prominence or power, then they do implement that. And that's that really is what happened when we saw those 65 mandates last year. Um the Republican priority has been to make that funding as flexible as possible over the bevy of different areas. You know, I'm looking at just a giant list of different education funding mechanisms right on my on my sheet here in front of me. and and a lot of times those dollars get
023absolutely tied into specific needs from a legislative lens and that's not that's not my preference. Um but it is something that until we're able to achieve more political change in Minnesota that I anticipate is going to continue. But I also should touch on just the political moment and time that we're in here in Minnesota. It's easy for us to think about our lives just through the lens of Royaltton, Minnesota, Morrison County or Benton County and say, you know, we we're dealing with these set of headwinds. We've got these statewide elected officials and um and nothing's ever going to change. But I I need to kind of encourage you for a moment because when you look across all 50 states across the United States, there is no state that is more equally divided uh politically than
024Minnesota is. Uh most states are either hard right or hard left and it's a constant battle for ideas of Minnesota because the state legislature right now has an equal number of Republicans and Democrats and that's how closely divided this state is. Uh and it's a battle for ideas. It's a battle in our communities and it's a reason why for any voter or for any parent or for the next generation of students as you're considering what it's going to be like when you when you leave school that you should be really engaged civically in in the future of our country. So it's it's a really really neat time to be a part of this. And so >> I have one along that uh same vein even this year with the first year that we didn't get
025funding for both years of the bianium. It was the percent that we got for the first year and then next year we'll see which is really hard to budget anything after we uh do a two-year contracts and things like that. Is that going to be the way of the future or is that just a one year we need to fix some things and we're going to do something different next year type thing? >> That's a very good question. Uh the state overspent two years ago. We had a nearly $20 billion budget uh surplus. Um and our budget at that time has been 52 billion. They went all the way up to 72 billion with ongoing spending at 66 plus billion dollars. And when you do that, when you are so unsustainable in the model that
026you build, it's not I'm not surprised that we're now projected, we were earlier this year projected to have a $6 billion budget deficit in the outers. Um, this legislature cut it to two and a half billion in terms of a deficit. So, we've made made essentially three and a half billion dollars worth of cuts. But school districts are the ones that are going to have to deal with that level of uncertainty as we figure out what the state budget's going to look like moving forward. So when you talk about or when we talk about the next election, what that's going to look like, it's it's all about how how this gets sorted out. And it it's my belief that it's going to go one way or the other and we might not be in this
027middle ground where it's just equally divided and like both sides are at the table. I actually think the next election given we have um the governor's race and the statewide offices that it's either going to go all Republican or all Democrat uh in the next election. Now, I could be wrong, but we could see sea change from that and there's going to be different approaches to how to tackle those challenges. Um, I would assume that that if if Democrats were to get complete control, they will raise taxes significantly to cover the gap in the budget. Um, I certainly think we've been overspending and so from a Republican and conservative perspective, we're going to try and roll back a whole lot of new programs that were created a couple years ago, but the state should have
028never been in the business of in addition to stopping the over $1 billion worth of fraud. Um that previous legislature gave $1 billion to nonprofit organizations, not state entities, not school districts, nonprofit organizations of the politically well-connected. Um those are the decision points that we'll have in that 2027 budget. Um, and so in the short term, I I don't anticipate that you're going to have a whole lot of certainty until after that 2027 election. And maybe I can come back to you, you know, this time next year to give a preview of what that would look like. Thank you. Any questions for you guys? I also want to just take a moment and congratulate you all on that T-Mobile uh amount of money and that big win. I was glad to check in every day
029and make sure that I was voting for several weeks straight. Um, and I think that that's really cool and it was fun to showcase you all on a statewide basis and uh and to see Minnesota rally around you and what you got. Was it somewhere close to 300,000 votes or was it more than that? I >> um I think it was close to 400,000. We ended up fifth place >> which when we started like after the first day I think we started like 13th place. So never really stopped like a lot of the other schools. So we did 13 away from the top two. Awesome job and congratulations. And that's what community is about, right? We all rallied around and I think we got a lot of help from our neighbors around here, too. So,
030way to go. Awesome. Thank you. All right. Any other questions? All right. Anything closing beyond that? >> No, I would just continue to encourage communication. Uh Wayne, congratulations to you and I look forward to working with you closely and um I just encourage that um your time contacting me doesn't have to just be at the once annual or or uh the time that I come before the school board, but just feel free to reach out whenever. And I really do appreciate the input uh you know oftentimes whether it's administrators or uh schoolboard members when they travel to the capitol um and share some local perspective. It's always helpful for me. And keep in mind that I don't always know exactly what the challenge is that's being faced in in in your school district and what's
031happened in Royaltton is likely different from Alaca or S Rapids Rice and and I represent all three, right? And so it's really helpful to have your input. So thank you so much for giving this time. It's it's super valuable to me. I appreciate the >> Thank you very much. Right. >> Yep. So, uh we will go to uh our presentation from Spanish folks. >> Yeah. Uh so tonight we have uh three students that went on the Spanish trip that happened in June, right? when you were gone for two weeks. >> Uh 17 days. >> 17 days. And then their um teacher Blake Matson who was also along with the trip. So they will talk us through kind of what they witness and experience and Yeah. >> Yeah. So we were invited here to kind of
032talk about Spanish club and this is one of the components of the things that we do in Spanish club is plan this trip. Uh this was the first trip since 2015 and which was multiple years before I even came here but I came here right in the thick of COVID. So then we were very cautious for a while not wanting to plan things and then have to cancel them. So I would love to be able to make this a um routine kind of recurring trip that happens every couple years and so this one was our was our jump back into the pool of uh taking of going abroad with students. Okay, so we started our trip in Iceland. We flew from MSP to was it Rebec Iceland and we were just there all day and
033we did a lot of sightseeing. So like this is when we were landing. You It was kind of weird because you fly in and you don't see the land until you're like there. It was pretty weird. And then this is what they call the Golden Circle, which it was a huge waterfall. I don't know if you can tell, but these are people walking and they're standing right there, too. That kind of shows you how big it is. And then we also saw the Blue Lagoon, which I'm sure many of you guys have heard of. It's like a giant what is >> Yeah, so we got to swim in that, which is cool. And then other places. It's been like a big bus for all the >> Yeah. 12 hours, right? was awesome. >> Okay. Um
034>> so the first city we visited in Spain was Madrid. Most of the stuff we did here was like sit museums and like capital buildings. >> Yeah. Monumental buildings. A lot of like older stuff, more learning opportunities here. Spent what three three days there. Three or four. >> Yeah, we did a bus tour, too. Got to the whole city and >> a lot of walking. >> Really fun. >> So much fun. And then >> to go and we met um a teacher that taught around here. He lives there now. And he showed us around and took us to this castle and there's a big wall. And we >> we were only here for >> an aqueduct. >> Aqueduct. And we were only here for one day, but we found like a really nice and local
035food shop and it was really good. It was really fun. We walked a lot that day, too. Um, in Toledo, we got there and went by our bus and we all went ziplining there, which was cool, like over uh this river. I don't know, you guys get it. Um, then it was kind of a dated tour on your own, but we went and saw this cathedral, which was super cool. And then these are kind of what the streets look like there. They're really small and somehow cars get through them. Not frequently, but they do. >> Yeah, it was. He was our awesome waiter waiter, and he taught us how to say we want our checks split up so we can do it on our own. Um this was Kadis. It was the first city we
036visited that was like on the coast. Um so we kind of jumped into more like exciting things here. Um one of them was surfing and yeah it was a smaller city so we were able to like go off adventures in like smaller groups and kind of do our own things sometimes. And then we went, it looks like Seville, but in Spain they pronounce it Sevilla, which is really hot. It was like 109 degrees. But we got to go to this like museums and we went on horse carriage rides. There's Ryan and Henry Landon and it was really fun. We went through the whole city and we went to a >> flamco flamco which is like they >> performance in Spain. But it was really cool. stab the feet around and heard >> very long. >>
037Um, and then we left Spain. Well, not really. We went to mainland mainland and went to the Canary Islands. So, we went to Tennere Bay, which was really cool. It was very like resort like um we did a lot of walking and touring. I don't know. It's really pretty. A lot of more sightseeing then. Yeah, there's just more pictures from there. This was a giant bus tour. All these pictures are from >> mountains everywhere. So, we went up like the entire mountain one day and went up to the top and that's where we saw this. So, we were like above the clouds. We did star amazing. And >> this one's kind of hard to see, but like this is all the buildings down here people are. And like our bus is up here. The tiny
038little road that's like a whole city down there. Whole town. >> It was cool. >> Very windy road. driving to get bus. >> Yeah, not put any other parts. We had everything. That's all. >> It was cool. >> That's all we have. >> Thank you for approving our trip because a lot of them >> you guys have to use a lot of Spanish when you're there or we tried our best. We went to a place where if you looked off on the side, you could see Morocco. >> So, we got some like authentic Moroccan food. >> Yeah, I would say probably for you guys anyway, it was mostly ordering food, going to stores, interacting with >> surprisingly a lot of people know English there, though. Spanish speak English. From a European country standpoint, I would
039say that they are very low English speaking. Um, from other countries, so like the Croatian, as you get into the Balkans, that's about 90% speak English. Uh, for shopkeepers and stuff like that, I bet it was about 25% at least shopkeepers. Um, and didn't matter the age range really for for that like there was a communication barrier and we were going to buy food and it was we were going to get there eventually. >> It was pretty good. That that's the one thing uh one question I had for you guys is um talking about the difference in foods that are over there versus here. You know, the one day um it was lunch from a grocery store that was completely different. You couldn't buy the same stuff that we have here. So, you want to
040talk about some of your favorite things? >> We like did a little pre-order when we were still here of like a restaurant and we all picked steak to save >> and then we got there and it was steak, but it was not the steak that we have here. >> Also, each place you went to in Spain varied so much too. like games. It was like the secret pork which >> and then we go to the island and we had octopus and that was >> cheese. It was >> Oh yeah. >> Some stuff was a lot healthier and then some stuff there was like a seven course meal and then I can eat more. >> But there was always bread so he didn't like it. >> Yeah. I would say the comments I heard most from
041the students and then from the chaperons from the other class whoever we drive with it to where it's the freshness of the food but it was just significantly less prepackaged food. Not that it wasn't available if you went to the supermarket but just the meals were fresher but the um the composition of the foods was different than students were used to. So then also ate a lot of pizza like oh we have a lunch free let's find a pizza place. wasn't going to be like Domino's, but it was something. >> It was also kind of different. Like we would be walking down the street and they'd have like meat markets, but it's like 108 degrees outside and the meat's just hanging there and people are still going to buy it and whatever that but I'd
042rather not. >> Say another like highlight of our trip is we got went and visited our like past foreign exchange students. So that was Paula who's from she was here four years ago four years so like we knew her and then Maria flew actually to where we were and she stayed in a hostel and spent the day with us. So that was fun too to reconnect with some students that had come here spent a year with us. So was your um experience with the locals? Were they overall friendly or were they were they warm and welcoming or were they kind of stand out or because I know when I went to experience Rome obviously >> I'd say for the most part they were friendly. A lot of times they just laughed at us because if
043we were going to interact with them they thought it was funny. >> Just like do something rich to actually ask them. >> Yeah. >> But I'd say overall it was positive. >> Yeah. They could immediately tell that we were American to be that clear of like 15. >> Were you able to find your way around, read the signs, understand where you were at? >> Well, like Madrid's huge. Like when Paula came, she took a train and it took her an hour or hour and a half to get from one side of Madrid to like the middle part where we were. So like we did not go by ourselves in Madrid. But like the smaller areas like Toledo, we would go out on our own. >> Yeah. Usually we just use our phone maps because we
044have a few paper ones and >> we got we sent this like map quest and we're walking all sunny out and just hail everywhere like go against walls and it's really funny. >> So um I notic you said that the space trip was going to be every couple years. How's that going to interfere with like the band cruises that they usually go on? >> Yeah, that is that is tricky given that they're every three, right? >> There are band cruises. We did it three this last year because or well, we're doing it three this year um because a lot of the choir kids weren't able to go when we went last year, but typically it'll be every four years in. >> So, if there was a way to like plan around that because I know
045some kids are in both band and Spanish and they want to experience both. So, it's really hard to like if you plan those all in one year. They're expensive trips, so it's hard to do both. So, if there's a way that we could like space another day. >> Yeah. I think it was nice that they did not coincide um before, but now they are going to on this year. So, that's something we'll have to talk about. I I agree it is not ideal, but it seems like it's either going to coincide with one thing or it'll coincide with drama. It'll coincide with Yeah. And there's always going to kind of be something where it's that right between the two, which is why we were so lucky with all the fundraising we were able to do
046and the really extremely generous donations um that we got. We're going to hope that we can continue in that same um along that same path so that we can make even if it does coincide that we can make the trips as accessible to as many students as possible. >> All right. Well, thank you for the presentation. >> Okay. Uh October 28th, we uh a few of us met and with our strategic planning group at the elementary media center. Um Andy, um David, Tony, Joel, Elan missed out, uh Jennifer was there, and each one of them spoke to their department or their their buildings and where we're moving with things this year. Uh we started off by uh highlighting what was what was accomplished last year. Uh data dashboards, academic, and athletic. Uh that's something on
047our website that Caitlyn has set up and it shows I don't think they've seen it or not. You seen that? It it actually shows the u uh how many students are involved in either courses or uh athletics. Then there's a the fifth and sixth rate transitional plan last spring and into this school year in August, September. uh the refinement of the communication plan and then the pilot of the apprenticeship program this year. Uh some action items for this year uh expansion of community ed programming, community ed advisory council meetings for that that are scheduled throughout the year. Um a more secure uh camera system. I think there's 29 I believe new ones we're getting. I know you'll touch on that probably later. Yeah. Um the capstone requirement for graduation, character strong curriculum, the read act,
048closing achievement act, those those types of things. um the SRO reunification plan and then some some uh refinement I guess I'd say as far as our communication plan with the website making it more user friendly and uh streamlining our communication plan um as far as how we communicate or able to communicate with our people, our community. Um just the suggestions I that I had uh and look for feedback I guess is to add security as a strategic priority number six where now we have five priorities adding a sixth one that would encompass school resource officer re reunification planning the camera system um and then adding to strategic priority number four uh that's highly effective communication. So, uh, getting a more well-designed website and moving to what's called parent square. It's a hosted website for that.
049Um, and then it also has some pieces towards uh, communication. I guess streamlining that a little better. Um, and again, I I mean, our people did a fantastic job presenting on their departments and their areas. What did I call you guys? All stars. That was they are I know there's some probably some questions about the SRO. I I we had a sen at the U city council meeting last week and um our uh Jason invited me there to kind of just be there. But um uh there was I think he had a plan going in that their budgetary meeting everything was fine. he's got enough dollars in his budget to to make it go. There were some questions u as far as city dollars versus school dollars. Not so much how much we're offering, I
050don't think. But um I think the biggest piece that I took and yeah, you heard it too when you were there, but uh there's some questions as far as if it's should be all city dollars or if it should be more of a a county type of thing. like the one of the questions was should it be the sheriff's department instead of the city? Uh you know our students are not just Royaltton students they're several other students using that as a perspective I guess. So um Jason still doesn't feel like it'll be he still thinks it'll be a go but they're having a agenda at their 25th special meeting and which will give us clarification on what they actually are looking for. So that's kind of what they're going back to. There was a lot
051of questions that came up at the meeting. So like uh we need to get together with our budget and actually analyze this and figure out what we're talking about and what we're asking if we're going to do that. So I mean yeah and so the dollars that I had put was 56,000 and that's all to itself. Well, then the questions they want to line in bunch of everything that all the expenses break down to FICA all these different. So anyway, well stay tuned. Uh one more thing, um I was going to touch on ADMs. Uh uh we have as of today 918 students and then we budgeted for 916 this year. It's kind of hovered around that 916 to 920 since the start of school. So hopefully we don't drop under that 916. So we're
052we need to talk to the principles and start doing some recruiting. >> Yeah. >> We were running higher than that last year, right? Because 916 was conservative number. >> Yeah. Yeah. Well, we started at 929, I think, day one and it dropped after we got about this about 920. on that, >> but I know every other year it seems like it's either higher or lower because one year was 907. >> Yeah, it's consistently been low by >> I would have thought that school closing in Granville that we would have seen a little bit more enrollment here, especially this village filled up immediately and post moment. I thought that it was just more flux in that but not >> that's I have >> you said that the city council meeting was on the 25th >> 25th.
053All right. Any other questions for Wayne? All right. Business manager report. Good morning everyone. I'll turn on my video here. Sorry, I was doing some last minute calculating and missed my queue there. Okay. So I uh this is the budget update through October 31, 2025. Looking at the general fund, um we have collected 2,519 for revenues. Last year at this time, we're at 3,121. So we're at 20.4% of our budget collected. um down a little bit compared to the prior year primarily in property taxes and state aid. Uh special ed's kind of lagging behind the prior year pace. So um I think it's just a timing thing like metering out payments. Also this time of year um we can be impacted by the reversal of the June 30 receivable. So this year's receivable on June
05430th was larger than last year. Um, so that it's kind of complicated, but it results in a negative revenue and then we have to collect the 10% hold back. So that'll work itself out. All in all, I'd say revenues are coming in on on target. So nothing alarming there. Um, on the expenditure side, salaries and benefits, we should track super close to the prior two years. When we look at last year's spending as a percent of final, so this year we're at 19.8%. 8% of our budget through October 31 last year we were at 19.6% of where we ended up and two years ago we were at 19.9% at this time of where we ended up. So one thing to keep in mind is we do have some settlements still coming in yet. So um
055but right now what we're tracking today as a percent of budget we're right on right where we should be. Um on the benefit side, we are down a little bit compared to last year when we look at percent of budget versus percent of final. Um comparable to two years ago. So and then overall spending we're at 2,931,000. Last year we're at 2,989. So we're down about 58,000. And overall we're at 24.2% of our budget. Last year we were at 24.7. So again, expenses are looking good and on track. The by program series, um I won't go through that in detail, just these same numbers summarized by program series. And then we got the other funds here. Food service, not a whole lot of activity through October. Um I don't believe September meals have actually been
056posted yet. Um actually I know they have I need to claim those meals um here in the next day or so. Um and then that revenue will come in um later in November here. Um community education, we're down in revenue a bit compared to last year at this time. Um debt service looks like we had some taxes collected last year through October, not yet posted this year. Uh spending is up a little bit in food service about 15,000 16,000 up in community education and debt service payments are up a bit 130 230,000 or so. So that is the current budget update through October 31. Any questions on that? All right, then. Uh, I want to switch gears here a little bit to look at our preliminary financial results for FY25. So, we have we made
057um a lot of progress here in the last week. Even today, we had some kind of final adjustments to post. I'd say we are near complete with the audit. Um, I spoke with the lead auditor today. Um, she is basically, you know, in the at the point where she's reviewing the staff's work and, um, if all looks good, there might be some follow-up questions, probably some expenditure and revenue variances to explain things like that, analytical stuff, but the, uh, lion share of the work is done. So, um they are planning on presenting to the board on December 8th. Not sure if that was the original plan, but that is um they will have everything wrapped up here in the month of November and ready to present then. So looking at then where our kind of
058results are coming at in at our unassigned fund balance went from 1,927,000 to 1,775,000 down to 152,522. When you look at the fund balance as a percent of expenditures, we went from 15.8% to 15 or 14.7% which is down 1.2%. Um, our restricted fund balances overall those are down as well or actually sorry up 296,000 with the biggest increase coming in the area of LTFM which increased 202,918. Our non-spendable fund balance decreased by 13,000 and the assigned fund balance increased by 69,458. Uh so the total general fund was up 199,838 for the year increasing from 2,425 to 2,625,815. So, one thing we could do is we could still take a look at our fund balances that are restricted. And we talked about this a little bit at a finance committee. Is do we want to
059shift expenditures around to potentially bring down our restricted fund balances and bump up our unassigned? Um, sometimes there's expenditures that were coded to unassign that we could shift to these areas. Um, but we are close to final. So, um, we can continue to chat about that, but this is where we're at right now as of today. Uh, food service had positive results ending up 12,148. Our ending fund balances at 181,125. The community services fund, all that fund are positive except for school readiness. And that deficit went from a negative 21,000 to a negative 90,000. And then we had the debt service fund which um we have a our fund balance there of 439,16. That's down 9,998 compared to the prior year. Any questions, comments on our financial results for last year? How do we continue
060to spend on school readiness to go from a negative to further negative? >> So, school readiness is a program that I'm sorry I didn't totally hear your question. Could you repeat it? Uh just for school readiness, how do we go from starting off at the negative and then going further negative? Is that from funds going or expenditures going just towards that fund and then how do we correct that? >> So I I don't know the whole history here, but I know school readiness is very difficult to break even in. Um, I don't know, Wayne, if if you're up to speed on this, but I know a lot of districts use their school readiness program, they invest in it to to get the youngsters into the school district and into the programming. Um, if you have
061a teacher or a couple teachers here, um, often this is going to run negative. So, I have districts that are are negative like 600,000 in this fund. and it's a conscious decision to invest in that programming knowing they're not going to be able to to to get in the black, if you will. So, I'm not sure if that's the case. I've only been with the district here a couple months. This, of course, did jump out at me today when I saw this. It's going quite a bit further in. Um, that's something I can dive into in the next couple days and have a conversation with with Wayne about. >> But >> this is our preschool dollars, right? >> Is that what we're talking about? Preschool. >> Okay. For preschool preschool. So, yeah, we're well aware
062of that of that that just calling it something different. >> All right. Uh any other questions for uh All right. Thank you, Todd. Uh I'm not going to forget it this time. We'll do the principal reporting. >> Cheers home and host members of the board, superintendent board. Um just a handful of updates here. Um coming out the last month, we had conferences the 28th and the 30th. Uh they went well, busy building, a lot of energy, a lot of smiles. Um we had a 94% uh rate uh for coming in conference. And then those that didn't come in, we were still making contact, calling home u making sure that they were checked in. Um um that Friday was a packed house with Halloween parade. Um people were parking all the way down by the fire
063fire department uh down the road. Um there was people just kept streaming and it was it was a pretty well attended event. So it was it was fun to see the see the costumes and that capped off a crazy week >> led by the elementary principal >> in the building dressed like Elvis. >> He needs to bring it down a little bit. There's a lot of struggle from my >> Wow. They thought oh jeez it's the guy from Lilo instead. No, no, he was a guy, unique person. Uh, no, it was fun. It was, it was a good day. Um, tomorrow is our veterans day program. I just remember that 8:45 in the elementary gym. Uh, we have a program inviting people in. Uh, our fifth graders set up chairs as as some of them
064came over band and they were able to help us um set up and they'll help us take down tomorrow as well. But, uh, Veterans Day program tomorrow, 8:45 Elementary gym, and then about a half hour later, 9:15, come on over here to the commons. Um, and then they there'll be a breakfast, free breakfast for veterans. So, doing that all all tomorrow. It's it' be it's a fun fun thing. We got some speakers coming in, talk to kids uh at the elementary school. So, it's going to be another good day. This Friday is our our first PD day for the school year for teachers and this is our our first of four inservice days for our letters live. So we're we're on volume two. This is our first one of our our four for the year
065and that's an 8 to 3:30 um full day full day of stuff center on vocabulary. So that's going to be that's going to be a good day for teachers. Also that day it's our first of two days for our support staff. So, a state legislature uh support staff or professionals, volunteers, uh they need to get literacy training. So, this is the first half of that training. The second half of the training is April 27th. That's the last PD day for the school year in school. Um and it's it's the same topics as what teachers are doing for their letters. It's just a paired down version to to get them what they need so they can support our kids as they do interventions, tier 2 interventions, uh doing pull-up, stop, push in, just to make sure
066that they're on board. The the feedback I've gotten from principles that have already started this and our district leaders meetings is it's been positive. They've they're asking why didn't we do this training for our understanding a lot sooner. So I' I've heard nothing but good feedback. Sourcewell is leading that uh PD for us and um so it it's going to be a good day full uh we got 30 31 uh support staff coming over to the elementary 8 to 12:30 on Friday. Um, and the last thing is before our next schoolboard meeting is we have our Christmas concerts already. We already thinking about that. Uh, Thursday, December 4th in the South Gym, grades one through three have their Christmas concert. So, we two shows for for public 1:30 and 6:00 shows. So, it's Thursday, December
0674th. That's all I have. All right. Any questions for you have anything for high school? >> Um trying to think if there's anything big. Um not that I can think of like Tony said we'll be doing the veterans breakfast at 9:15 following the elementary program. Um I know this last month student council was busy doing some stuff this October so they were bringing in donation socks to be able to give out. Um I think november is the hungry homeless and hungry awareness kind of month. So there have some things and not as extreme as what October was but some things there and then getting ready probably for activities day in summer. So >> and then turkey thing. >> Oh turkey finger though. >> You guys are next. folks. >> Um, so yeah, I mean things
068are going pretty good. Next thing, the last couple days we've had kids out there. >> Yeah, there's there's some of that. >> Um, all right. uh for our student section here. Um what do you guys have for >> So like Miss Arson said, we just wrapped up sober. We ended up donating 589 items. Um we gave that over to Miss Weir for the care closet and then she was also going to distribute it out to some other places that she knew of. Um we didn't quite reach our goal of 1,000, but it was still a heck of a lot of things that we gathered. Then we got to pie Spencer in the face. That was really fun. Um and then we Abigail Thomas talk about national. >> Yes. So last year it was brought up
069that students wanted to start celebrating National Hunger and Awareness. We're specifically celebrating it the week before Thanksgiving. Um so basically just draw students attention to things outside of our school. So, we're going to be asking the janitors to um do simple things like count how many um garbage bags we go through every day at breakfast and lunch. Um just so students have an awareness of it. And then we're going to do wear the change day on Friday. So, we're going to have students wear orange. We're not entirely sure if that's the color that represents that day, but it seems to be what um excuse me, a lot of the websites dedicated to that show. So, so just do a quick dress up day just for fun, just throw something out there and just to get
070them thinking about stuff. We're passing out three stickers. So, that's always fun. >> Yeah. And then, uh we've got turkey bingo coming up. So, that'll be the last day um before break. Basically, students will um come in and they'll buy bingo cards. Everyone gets a free card per round um and then they can buy extra ones to increase their chances. And then we're going to donate that as well to I believe the care problem. >> We were between that or a local shelter. >> So, donating that as well. And then we're thinking about Christmas activities already. So, trying to just plan a fun day. No fundraising with that other than like hot cocoa. Um but then just having a last fun activity day for break. And when is the middle school activity night? >> That's
071um Friday, November 21st. Um middle schoolers are planning that we separated the high school and middle school councils this year um to let middle schoolers have a little bit more creative liberty with stuff because I know in the past they haven't had a lot of experience on the council. You were just basically just showed up and listened. So we're trying to give them a little bit more initiative. So they planned a activity night. So it be like a dance. They'll have open gym concession and stuff like that. So they're taking the reigns on that. Awesome. Anything else? Any questions from the board? >> All right. Well, thank you for doing that. I know uh a lot of kids, a lot of the students look forward to the activity days to to do some of those
072things, especially bingo. You can yell bingo >> and gobble down the hallways. appreciate being the one time you get to run down the hallways without getting in trouble. >> All right. Well, thank you. Um, next, uh, technology, David. >> All right. Uh, we have a busy year ahead of us here. Um we are currently in the process of uh migrating from the Skyward uh SMS system which we're currently on which is our student information system uh to the Skyward cumulative uh system which is their new version of Skyward. Um, we started this process uh this summer in July with some cleanup of duplicate accounts that were in Skyward. Um, we've been removing old reports, um, fixing phone numbers that weren't formatted correctly and, um, fixing addresses that weren't formatted correctly and just different things like
073that. Doing all kinds of cleanup. um the secretary's guidance office, nurses, and admin. Um just this last week I went through some training with them uh showing them where they're going to go in the system uh to actually go do training uh where they will be um watching different videos and then they can take that video and apply what they just learned in that video into a database um a sandbox database that we have where uh Skyward took a snapshot of our database in our current SMS database in October and put that in Q so that our um so that our people can go in and actually use live data or our data for um things to practice to kind of learn the new cumulative system. Um, so they um most everybody I have a
074few that I still need to uh get to uh that weren't able to be at that training, but I will be doing that here soon so that they can get started as well. Um, and there's different deadlines that they'll that they will need to meet. Um it's going to be um from here on out it's going to be a heavy lift for some of these users especially the secretaries and guidance office um just because of the different areas that they touch um there's a lot of stuff that uh those different jobs touch uh within the student information system. So they have a lot of different learning to do. Um, but we're hoping to be able to kind of set away some side time for them to be able to uh take care of some of
075the different things that they need to do. Um, the other thing uh so the teacher grade book piece will be um also updated um along with the family access and student access. So that all of that will be rolled out uh for next school year. uh the camera system. So I applied for the MDE building and cyber security grant uh towards the end of August. Um Royaltton was allotted up to uh $50,000. Um and we received that $50,000 um for that. Uh we decided we were going to use that on upgrading our video management system. Uh, so that would be our camera server. Um, so that will take all of our existing cameras, add it to that server, and then we're also going to be uh purchasing about 29 new cameras um that will be
076uh spread out throughout the buildings um in new locations. Some are going to be replacing existing cameras. Um, and the ones that are replacing existing cameras, it's just going to give the new cameras will just give a better view um or a wider view of the different areas. Uh, one new ca um location that we're putting in is uh playground um by the ECC. Currently there is nothing down there. Um but we are putting in a light pole and then there will also be a camera there for uh for some security. Um and then up by the bus garage. So uh the install they are going to be coming tomorrow uh to get started with that. So, and I believe the electrical and cement work for the light pole was done last week. So, uh
077new communication platform. So, that's the other thing we're working on. Um so parent square will be replacing uh school messenger and then smart sites uh will be replacing the wix website um which smart sites ties in with parent square um so parent square is an all-in-one um schooltoome communication platform. It centralizes uh your email, text, app, uh voice messages all into kind of one uh platform. Uh everything will just kind of be in that one location. You can log into an app, you can log into a website, or you can get it in email. Um kind of however however people want to receive those uh communications. Um, it's a secure two-way communication between staff and families. Um, and it's designed specifically for uh K through 12 uh school districts. Uh, it's a district, school, and
078classroom level uh communication. Uh, direct messaging and group posts you can do from it. It allows for emergency notifications. Um we can do different calendar and event management from it and then it will also integrate with uh social media and the new district website. Uh the smart sites works on all platforms. So whether you're on a tablet or a computer, if you resize the website, it will resize according to what device you're on and whatnot. And it's not that's probably one of the biggest complaints that we get with our website right now is it is not friendly with mobile devices. So um the benefit to the stakeholders for parent square so families um we'll just kind of have a one platform for all communication um simple and uh consistent experience. Um for staff it'll be
079streamlined uh a streamlined workflow uh fewer redundant tools and for administration it provides analytics on communication re um reach and engagement oversight and consistency across all the schools. So questions >> just a comment thanks for taking the time to apply for that grant. Okay, I may have missed this. Um, but did it need arise that there's more security cameras being purchased or was this just uh part of the overall initiative? Just >> so we just have some areas where you could call them, I guess, dead spots and whatnot where there just wasn't a whole lot of coverage and whatnot. And so that's why we're just covering some of the areas where we have some areas. So, another location for instance is at the corner of the building over here. Um, we can't it's an outdoor
080camera and one up, but it would be like by Mr. Shane Rock's room. Um, but it should get a little bit of that corner. Um, kind of the sidewalk over there and um the grassy area out there. There's not a whole lot of coverage out there. The cameras that are over there aren't picking that type of stuff up. So just different areas that just needed better coverage. So >> the other big part of that is the the server upgrade that that goes with that because we wanted to kind of start that about five years ago and we've never had the money to actually do it once we worked on the exterior building and that stuff. So it has been on the want need list for for quite a while. >> Yeah. The majority of the
081cost of this project is the server. So >> I have a couple questions for you. Um transferring from the Skyward SMS to the cumulative system. What was the purpose of doing that? Is it just is SMS going to be obsolete and we have to move or >> So Skyward has a sunset date? Um the report has kind of set a sunset date for um and they set this last year. um for about four years for Minnesota schools to be off of the SMS system. Um so they're kind of starting to force the Minnesota schools to do it. Um so we made the decision last November, Decemberish to kind of go that route. Um, the nice thing about the family portion of it is the app for cumulative is a lot more userfriendly than the current
082one. The issue we really run into a lot is people want to use their mobile devices for filling out the online registration, those types of things for the new school year. and you really can't with the current system. Um, you can, but it's not user friendly. Um, this will be much more user friendly. You can do it right from the app. So, >> I got my second question is um on the parent square. So when we um transition over to this parent, >> is that going to so I you say it's going to replace school messenger, but will it replace like uh Seesaw and all these other smaller applications and other forms of communications that is it going to streamline everybody communicating through the same process, same app >> or not? >> So I mean
083yes and no. It depends upon It really depends upon the app and whatnot. Um some of the applications, yes, we'll be able to move away from them. Some of them we won't and what not. And so we're looking at which ones that'll be question. That was my question too is from gaining this what can we lose you know that we won't need anymore on the back side. >> Um the other question I had is you know in what is it in the next year or the next two years we have to have uh the website accessibility. Um is that is this going to bring us to where that needs to be to be compliant with with that? >> Yep. So that and that's part of our building process as we're going through this is that
084they work with us um to make sure that we're ADA compliant and stuff like that. Um we have to also make sure that the things that we're linking to are ADA compliant. Um which I know right now that's probably not the case, but we'll be working on that stuff soon. >> Yep. like scan things with signatures on them and figuring out how to right >> how somebody can read that if they they can't see it online. >> Yeah, >> that's neat. >> Thank you. All right. Any other questions for David? All right. Uh we will move to the consent agenda. So um the board is consenting to approve items listed below as presented at one time. At any point the director can pull an item off the consent agenda for further discussion. Uh so the
085first one is approval of the regular board meeting minutes. Uh next is approval of claims accounts and financials. Uh approval of personnel changes. Approval of employee handbook change um for the Minnesota Leave Act section. Approval of creative planning agreement uh for business management services. approval of the substitute teacher pay increase, approval of the REM memorandum of understanding, uh, and approval of the state of Minnesota plan, uh, for the LEAC and the approval of the uh, final policy reading back for the policies. Uh, does somebody wanna Is there anything anybody would like to pull? All right. Uh, somebody want to move the consent agenda? >> I'll move. >> Director, thank you. >> I'll second. >> Directors, thank you. Any discussion? >> Yep. >> I have one question on the claims council financials. Um, so I see
086two withdrawals for Midstate. Um, there was one on 102 for the 41,000 and then we have another draw for them on 10:30 for 83,000. Two draws in one month. I can't remember how the midstate payment plan works. So can anyone refresh me as to why that occurred? I think the one of them was a uh I think the 41,000 was something from last year 20 24 25 and there was a final payment 83 I can't yeah there there were two monthly bills from Mstate that we did not pay and as we were doing the audit the May one came up first and that was that one and then the June one came out uh recently so or more recently I guess and uh Christine had asked Lisa to talk through it with business managers and
087all that stuff. So they they were going to do that and then poof everything was gone and and that sat. So we at least that's what I found. All right. Any other discussion? All in favor say I. >> I oppose. All right. Uh, next on to item N discussion. Over. >> All right. So, um, Isaac had touched base on it a little bit and I guess as a four I wanted to see, you know, if we wanted to submit something to the state of Minnesota um, in our feelings on the title issue um, to the women's sports that's I mean personally I was one that signed the addition because it's a firm belief that there should be boys and girls sports in my eyes. But I mean, as far as a federal mayor made, what
088are you guys feeling we should? I mean, I know our school district alone can't have made a decision for the state of Minnesota, but we're not complying then. >> What have other districts done that have just decided to I do know a separate Yeah, I do have like a force lake letter that the board had submitted to the attorney general and yeah, attorney general, Department of Education. Um yeah, I don't know how far you want to go with that. Whatever one's opinion is and whatever it is that's fine. I know mine and like I belong to the alliance. So I think it show support what the federal government's doing level. I mean, I think if it comes down to it and the federal agencies come in and say, "Hey, we're going to pull funding." We
089say, "Hey, well, what we're trying to, you know, buy money and we want to do what's right and obviously the state's not allowing it." So, it's, you know, we're doing what we can at the board. Um, I think it shows our constituents in the area where we're at. We get to invite people and I've had people come up to me and ask me where we stand on district and >> there is people paying attention because after I signed it, I had district members reach out to me and thank me. So, it is something people locally are paying attention to and we don't district parents I don't see it hurting the district at all. Hey, we're willing to do what the federal government is telling us to do with a federal mandate. My opinion, the state
090really doesn't have any oversight over that. In my opinion, it's going to go to courts like I said. But if we're willing to abide by those rules, then the federal government comes out and says, "Okay, if you're willing to do it, then we're willing to give you your funding. I mean everything's backed by funding and I don't see why it hurts to be honest with you. If you want to see forest legs it's a very good letter well written obviously by their attorney I would assume but >> yeah can you email that? >> Yeah I can mail that to everybody. Yep. >> Do you know there was a different outcome from Lake sending that letter independently versus the coalition of schoolboard members that signed the collective letter? I mean both letters went to the same
091offices I presume. Right. >> Was there any was there any further? I think the coalition went to a few extra people, but they did attorney general um say high school league. >> No, not >> so were they the school were they the school district that um was interviewed viewed by a couple news outlets or >> were they on that were in the news? I can't I can't quite remember. I just I didn't watch it but I seen it um you know kind of flash through news updates. I was just wondering how much further they got I by collectively, you know, sending this as the this is the school's full intention versus this was individuals figure out what Isaac said that you don't know because there's a federal government shut down right now. I don't know
092>> there has been Sure. >> on a federal level with it. Yeah, >> I wouldn't mind reaching out to one of these members and talking to the person. I'm sure they >> I'd be fine if we if we want to draft something and and approve it to do that, you know, probably have our attorney look over just >> right once over. >> I would agree. I don't think it can hurt and I feel like that we all have similar beliefs and why not stand on that. We might as well show our support to show the community. >> Right. >> Yeah. Any feedback from you, please? >> Yeah. >> Um I personally would appreciate if that um was something you guys took initiative to do. Um I'm the same as you guys. So great. >> Yeah.
093>> Are we good on the line? >> Yeah. I just wanted to see what everyone thought because I think we >> could probably do that before the next meeting. I would think so. >> I don't understand. I would say you can probably forward that to our attorney. Just change that the royalty thing and there's a few different verbages and we want to change. >> Yep. >> Yeah, it's ready. >> There you go. Um All right. Next is uh the proofal donation resolution. So uh does anyone want to introduce the resolution and uh wave the reading for our accepting donations resolution? >> So moved. Director Trout. Thank you. All right. Um, so I talked about it at the beginning of the meet meeting. So, uh, school board is, uh, gratefully accepting following donations, um, which is
094$25,000 from the Royal Fire Elite uh, toward the activities fund and $3,000 from the St. Cloud Optimus Club uh, towards robotics. Uh, does somebody want to second uh, this resolution? I second. >> Director Boy. >> All right. Um and then can you call the RO? >> Director Trout. >> Hi. >> Director. >> Hi. >> Director Boy. Hi. >> Director Angry. Hi. And director. >> Hi. Thank you. All right. And then uh we have the first policy reading. So, these are um they're all new policies that are uh that are in the bin. So, we haven't taken a look at them at all yet. So, we're we're excited. At least this last time it was coming out like that. So, this time it's been way nicer. >> So, that's that's much better. Um all right. So,
095the next uh finance committee meeting is November 26th. Believe that's a Wednesday, right? >> Um at noon. So that's the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. Everybody's good on that day still. And then policy committee, same thing that afternoon. Any place? >> Awesome. >> Should be good as well. >> Awesome. Um and then December 8th, we have truth and taxation. Um and Mandy's got the uh stuff for that. Um, and then we'll go basically directly into our regular board meeting uh right after that. Uh, anything else before we uh before we close this off and and you're you're going to send that to us and then Wayne's going to send it to >> us. >> Yep. Perfect. All right. do have one question on the donation dollars from department and that money out that we're getting. How much
096is the grand total from the donation? >> Um I think the last that I'd heard and I did get the list from Jamie so I will be making sure all the ones that haven't come through you guys or come through and I will be doing a post on social media. Um but I think the total ended up with everything including stuff from T-Mobile is 151,000. call. >> Um, that might include because they had scheduled the fundraiser right before they found out about the T-Mobile thing, that might include the money that they got from there, too. But it's still about $150,000. >> We have set things we're going to spend the money on or where is it going to go to the football field or >> So, I mean, we I've worked with Jamie um on
097kind of figuring out what is kind of what we want to do. Um, I know he has made it clear that he is all for also trying to help improve some of our track and field stuff. Um, Brandon did it's going to be hard with the money to really put a lot of energy into it. Um, but we also met with a general contractor who donated his services to kind of start getting an idea to all what like the the biggest thing is we want to extend out where currently the cement slab is by the press box. like basically another slab on each side plus a whole another row of the same length down below it to bring in more bleachers to add a little bit more permanent in some seating. Um I know we've
098got quite a few people that donated like cement work and aspadating and stuff like that. So um that's our first big thing. Um the other thing they decided to use it is um use some of the funds plus it come from a couple of the other different areas but um they're getting a robotic um painter like so it's called a turf tank. So it pre-programmed for um football field, baseball field, softball and it can also do some parking lot stuff and you just it's GPS and it just does its thing. um they did a demo and they did actually on the multi-purpose where they did the practice field and it was pretty slick. And so not only will it save um human time because instead of especially like when they first do like the football
099field that first time, it's like two to three days of going through laying out the lines and painting it and stuff like that. It'll cut it down by a lot just in manpower and then also um use of paint will also decrease. So, in the long run, it will save us some money for the gifts. >> So, will we paint it like maroon and gold checkered or something like that? >> It does come with like we'll be able to put like a logo at the 50 yard line and we actually are able, I think, to put stuff in the end zone, too, that it comes programmed with it. So, there's a couple other little added things that comes with it. So, and we decided to do a three-year lease um just so that way and
100say in three years that they have a better product and we can change versus being stuck with the system than having to >> and then there's a system here and then somebody here is going to get trained on it. >> There'll be a fair amount of people that will get trained on it actually. So, um I know a couple of the grounds people plus a couple of different coaches just so then that way we have people around like especially like come summer and stuff because it will be able to be used for baseball softball painting too. So >> great question. >> I have one more question. Yeah, >> piggy back off that when it comes to track and field, I know like obviously the dirt track is the greatest need we have, but are there
101other what are the other pressing needs that could be met? >> Um the track. So right now they like we there that big cement like asphalt square is that really is meant for high jump but because it's not like rubberized or anything on top high jump that actually practices inside which means that they don't actually practice with spikes with ch can change stuff when it gets to meet. Um the track team actually just purchased a new runway for the long triple jump because the current one that we had was fully and it didn't even go long enough for some of our kids to do their full approach on it. Um so they purchased a new runway to at least help kids out that way. Um we don't even have a spot for PVA which is
102an event um which would be nice to try to get. So I think we actually have a couple kids that would be excellent in it. Um, and the other thing would be actually putting in a discus ring would be another big thing, which I mean it's just a cage in that area and stuff. So, there's some things that are possible. I know the track team is motivated to try to get them things done, too, but they haven't done quite as much fundraising and stuff. So, and then a lot of those kids get pulled into, you know, other sports and stuff. So, they haven't they'll maybe be working on asking a couple area or um like firemen and stuff to see if they do the help improve a little bit more of the area cuz I
103did ask where we got the runway. I did ask them what it would be if we did something similar for the high dump area and I think they quoted us at like almost $19,000 for just the rubber. So, All right. Um, let's see. Does somebody want to make a motion to close the open meeting at 7:35 p.m. in accordance with 13D.05 for superintendent evaluation? >> Director Hol. Thank you. Second, director. Thank you. Any discussion? All in favor say I. I post. All right. And we are