001[Applause] do you ever get this yeah do you ever get this I don't have see up there it shows that her link is live for the D and I don't have that do you ever get that well yours says pending is that an old one I you need to go to the website to the schol oh okay um to click on some of the links all right I get it now not everybody I just thought I didn't realize that until yeah there were I [Music] that 7 o' oh my goodness sorry 7 o' I now call this board we need order please rise for the pledge allegiance iedge Al to the flag of the United States of America and to the for it stands one nation God indivisible withy and justice for [Music] all Miss
002will you please take roll everybody is present awesome is there any new business to bring before the board hearing none I would seek a motion for approval of the agenda second I have a motion by Mr Welch and a second by Miss keeper all those in favor signify by saying I I I po same sign motion carries next item on the agenda is item six recognition of the triaa award winners Haley lores and Jay clo by Mr Hughes come on up thanks everyone it's my privilege to introduce our tripa award winners for this season or this year I should say um each year the every school in the state has an opportunity to award um a triaa um certificate to a male and female at their school for those who aren't aware of what AAA
003is it stands for Arts academics and Athletics both of these individuals in the pool of applicants that we had uh Rose to the top very quickly they um uh are leaders in our school academically um they are both involved very much so in uh the choir and athletically they um excel in the sports that they're in Jace is a three- sport athlete for us um and Haley is also a three sport athlete for us what's unique about Haley is her three Sports comes in two seasons oh last year she was the starting center fielder for our softball team and she was also ran on our track team and qualified for state track that uh last year for the first time so um they both bring um uniqueness um to our school and Leadership to our
004school and I'm proud to um award hilly Loris and Jace clug with these AAA certificates [Applause] questions they're always questions there's always questions whoops I didn't tell them that part whoops um I think the obvious all first off congratulations um um what are your plans for next year uh start with Haley um I plan on going to W State University and pursuing a degree in accounting okay good okay um and then my plan right now is to go to Upper Iowa to play baseball and major and business a minor and [Music] analytics of the sports that you participated what's your favorite oh yeah that's not a question yeah I probably say softball I mean I've been doing it since I was like five playing te- ball oh yeah just the team Dynamic and everything is
005really fun baseball baseball have were have you been doing C or track and softball all the years in high school no so I actually did both for the first time last year oh so last year was also my first year in track um it was kind of a very new thing figuring out the plan like when I'm going to softball when I'm going to track but it was a really good experience and I plan on doing it again this UPC season you guys have any advice for kids I feel like you know doing well at those all those three things is really hard to do so any like good advice for kids coming up for recommendations for because there's probably a lot of kids watching I'm sure yeah and you're talking about go in the
006paper you know the three things of art Athletics yes the art Athletics how do you do and keeping up with the academics um I would just say like do the things that like if you have fun doing them do them and I don't know just that's good just do what you enjoy yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah my answer was going to be pretty similar just try to find enjoyment in all the things you do and have fun while you do it because you don't get much time to do it all also find people to do it with like don't just sign up and do it by yourself have a group your really helps find your people having support helps m sure well we are very proud of you and congratulations to you we're proud to
007have you represent the Tigers and wish you look at the state competition yeah you're the first face they see when they walk in those High School doors it's very very good representation that's awesome for the next 12 months you're the faces yes you are faces sorry the faces congratulations to you both thank you for coming oh picture yes we are sorry usually we have the star we take them now before them so you have to be in there too it's a group thing awesome nice smile all right thanks everyone you can stay for the meeting or you can go thank you for coming I'll you can go we'll wait if you want have a good night thanks you guys too okay next item on the agenda would be item seven consent agenda items 7 a
008through D is there any item any board member would like um removed and discussed separately hearing none I would seek a motion move second I have a motion by Mr G in a second by Mr Raven horse all those in favor signify by saying I I I clst same sign motion carries 7 Zer next item on the agenda is item eight to consider an adopt the resolution for accepting donations and there were several for the stem solar suitcase looks like a fundraiser and peoples and the Farm Bureau all donated to help Mr buh Height's going to talk about that in a little bit here so I would seek a motion so moved second I have a motion by Mr Raven horse and a second by Mr Mr gist Miss Cook hi Mr gist hi Miss
009kefir hi Mr lman hi Mr ravenor hi Mr Welch I I for myself resolution carries 70 next item on the agenda is item nine to consider and approve Miss Fester's extended stay for BPA to travel to Minneapolis this is an annual trip Miss bester took over for Miss Morlock um for BPA um so we didn't see any reason why she needed to come and discuss the trip as it happens every year are there any questions or discussion is BPA BPA is business Professionals of America it's a high school group organization uh they do things as far as like making websites um budgets accounting online yeah marketing marketing um presentation so I after this they go up there then we'll find out if any of them get to go to Nationals and then they'll come and
010talk to us about how they won it's a lot like FFA business related y they have their specific field to focus and then they compete and yeah any other questions okay I seek a motion second a motion by Mr G and a second by Miss kefir all those in favor signify by saying I I post same sign motion carries 70 and they usually represent sto very well so we will hear about it I'm sure after they are done up there um next item on the agenda would be 10A principal and director updates which were attached if you have any questions I ask that you reach out to the designated principal or director is there any discussion okay hearing none we'll go to 10B the solar suitcase fundraising project and Mr buite is here to discuss
011that come on up looks like he has Jenny with him one of the students are you helping out perfect welcome um hello I'm Riley buite I'm a stee teacher High School science teacher I'm Jenn and I'm one of the students and I'm Lisa Benin I'm Jenny's mom we we just raised money for a solar suitcase um to purchase a second one so uh the total amount that we raised was just under $3,000 uh bulock of that came from candle sales which we just started handing those out today my wife and I burned ours tonight smells really good there's like six different scents but those are really cool it's out of a company from Iowa so it's kind of local St aner Iowa mil C candles and then we we uh had two grants that we've
012uh filled out with a lot of help from Lisa and one of them was Operation Roundup uh so that is $1,000 um it's through energy people energy Y and that's in or noo so if you go to a gas station and or somewhere simar and it says to would you like to round up to the new dollar that's where some of come from uh they had $25,000 to give out this uh quartered and they've given out over a million dollars in their 10 years so far um so we got $1,000 from them and that is a reimbursement so you spend it then once you show them what you spent it on which our suitcase will be coming by uh March 7th and so I got a kid that is working on making a design for
013the coverboard because it sits like an electrical box they'll go to a school in Kenya or Uganda and then that cover whatever he paints on there will be there for hopefully 10 years hopefully longer depending takes care of it and then um in addition with with the People's Energy Co-op that covers a big large area and so all of your energy bills and everything that are always rounded up that's where the dollars go um they go to the grants throughout the region and the plus side is this is something that could be reapplied for again so it's not a one time so if the solar suitcase project um is successful and they continue in Steam they would welcome that you would go back and request funds again so that's an opportunity um and then the
014other uh my family we are involved with Farm Bureau and they also provide monies and grants for different things so my husband at one of the board meetings discuss the solar suitcase project and approach them if they would consider donating and so the elmstead County Farm Bureau did donate then another $250 towards a solar suitcase um so we have that check is just made to steart bill right now because they didn't know who all to put to make sure that it gets into the right area to want to you can put it in the envelope so it to the right Source yeah can I ask a quick question what was your what was your um goal to how of funds to raise uh $2500 2500 Okay so so yeah we have a tab bit extra
015that should go over to next year and then hopefully uh hopefully the program just kind of keeps kids excited and hopefully they want to contribute to that how many suitcases do you think you could do in a year well um it's hard to say I mean if you had the money right yeah oh like if we had if you had the money we could do quite a few my high school physics kids are about to do it and there's some very capable kids in there sure and then a lot of the seventh graders were really kind taking underneath their wing so in fact some of the board members kiddos were very handson into doing that so it's it's kind of cool and realistically I don't think 10's too much of a stretch but that's also
016$25,000 sure yeah but I mean $2,500 per right that's what you're saying your fundraising y so we are a legacy school now sorry it's not crazy yeah not a crazy what that mean um well since we did it the first time uh new schools the first school that does this $3,500 so uh we sh Soler kind of cuts a break so to speak for returning people I think you should share the media attention that you received this which was pretty amazing yeah um we had three different local news networks come to our school uh just invited them out to see something positive in news and then uh one of the stories took off on the national circuit so uh Lester H presented a Stewartville school that was on CNBC it was it was really cool
017because the kids from Stewartville you can see them they were all in there great the first pictures here from that clip so um well if I remember correctly didn't miss Manion come with some students too Ys yeah they came earlier too and those students talked about it too and so it's great that you're trying to continue yeah m multiple FS so and there are um the funding opportunities is it's more than I don't remember how many times a year but they have several three three times a year that you could apply so it depends but um some of the groups have applied years and they are funded and it could be a thousand it could be more it could be less so again if it takes off surely is a group People's Energy P up
018would welcome sure yeah we were one of three or four superville groups there that night so like trash in the parking lot if you ever need another group that needs a fundraising opportunity have any other questions you're doing amazing work Mr buite appreciate it and thank you for your support and your advocacy that's awesome yeah she's a large part of why we got this SC any be fun didn't [Music] you very good this is such an awesome project and I love how the kids are involved in learning something and serving others it's just a dual benefit correct me if I'm wrong but this second one you had planned on doing the ones like that was a unit you were doing but the kids the kids loved it so much you're like they kind of wanted
019to do another one right and that's why this is coming about y so there's for this the candle sales there's probably a core of eight kids that really took it to heart so if you went to any basketball games in the last uh couple months you probably saw some kids at the front door that were selling so there's um I know seven or eight kids boys and girls that kind of wanted to do that and um I bought a bunch of candy from Kenya to give them and some traditional Ugandan bracelets too it was mostly them though it wasn't all me awesome that kids want to continue with that but also awesome that you're willing to do that because that's extra work too for you so thank you for going above and beyond and being
020like they're interested I'm going to keep going with it too so that's awesome thank you well yeah if we want to piggyback to the next item on the agenda is to recognize you for your nominee for Southeast service Cooperative outstanding educator Award of steam forward and that is why yeah so I'm going to share with you what we shared at our bank that we had um for Riley and a bunch of other steam stem teachers and everything so um I'm just gonna kind of share what we said it is my honor to recognize Riley buite for his outstanding contributions to se steam education and his well-deserved nomination for stem educator of the Year Riley doesn't just teach science he brings it to life for the students in his classroom his students don't simply memorize Concepts
021they they experience steam firsthand through Hands-On experiments problem solving challenges and Innovative projects brightley ensures that learning is active engaging and deeply meaningful one of the most expiring examples of this is the solar suitcase project he facilitated with the students this year the solar suitcase project did more than touch students teach students about renewable energy it connected them to a global Purpose By building solar suitcases to provide electricity for communities in need Riley students soft firsthand how steam can change lives Riley's commitment to real world application in his instruction ensures that every lesson prepares students for careers Riley provides authentic experiences through connections with local businesses for all of his classes Riley buite is more than an educator he is an innovator and leader in Steam it is with great admiration and appreciation that we
022celebrate this nomination congratulations Ryo [Applause] congratulations thank you do you want to picture we got a ton of pictures at the oh okay oh this is take two all right perfect there was an event at the workshop and it was really kind of cool to see what everybody else is doing yeah so there was four winners um and they all pretty outstanding stuff their respective classrooms so well I can say R's whole family was there my in-laws my parents my wife and daughter amazing I had some seventh graders in my car after school today and they were talking about Hydroponics aquaponics and I'm like we're not talking about Middle School drama or Sports so that's a huge Testament to you I was like what is this drive home so impressive yes they were super excited
023about it so that's impressive congratulations again congratulations thank you thank you thank you for coming okay well you thank you good night have good night thank you he'll be right back should I go okay next item is 11 which would be consider and approve the annual rate on testing and this is something that we have to report publicly every year and um just have on the agenda to approve nothing concerning everything was normal just wanted all of you to know and just have to put it on here so this round of testing it was bar Cage's turn and we were within um required limits on every site that they tested there's a map here that shows you where they had the pucks on the testing pucks and the results from every site so um everything
024turned out as expected and we are good to go with our annual rate on testing always great to hear so this does require approval and that you reviewed it and that you approve it yes so I would uh seek a motion if there's no other questions I was that you Mr L okay I have a motion by Mr lman and a second by Mr Welch all those in favor signify by saying I I post same sign motion carries 70 next item on the agenda would be the revised budget for 25 and Mr sh yeah one page your hand off to you [Music] okay so this evening we're going to go through the 2425 revised budget um and discuss all of our funds and all the changes that have taken place within those since we did
025the preliminary which would have happened last spring so a number of changes and updates as usual on that um and then we will basically this will be the piece that then moves us into looking at fiscal year 2026 and what we need to do going forward and that process will begin as soon as we're done tonight basically so um I'll go through this this sheet here first individually and then we'll come back and we'll kind of look at the stuff um the summary um and then there's also detail that was attached behind that too um with a lot more of the individualized coding lines and stuff like that a lot of numbers as usual in there that you're certainly welcome to look at if you want to um so our enrollment that we're using for
026the refis budget is 1,944 and that's K12 students so we do have typically we do have some early chapter special ed that also count as well um I budget 20 of those that's typically the range that we're in but that is not included in the 1944 that listed here this is just K12 um so on the revenue side our basic form fora we have an increase there of about $60,000 and if you remember now our basic formula amount is $ 7,281 per student uh we will find out what that goes to next year um once the legislative session here wraps up um The Hope is it will be somewhere between the two and 3% that they have assured us in the past uh based off of the inflationary um rate too which is an interesting
027process that they're looking to use for that but we'll save that discussion for another day once once they get uh their job done and we know what's actually happening um redak so there's a couple different things going on with the whole redak thing that came down so we have some redak dollars we were allocated 80,000 then there's also some redak training money which is another 72,000 so um that stuff's all new in this budget was not originally in the preliminary at that time they were still going through that whole redact process figuring out we didn't know exactly what we were going to be provided how much we be be provided and in which way we could spend those dollars so they are relatively restricted obviously the things dealing with the redex so there's there's a
028number of hours of training and things like that that staff are having to go through we'll be able to use those dollars to provide stiens and stuff for that time um the next one TR P special funding so so this is something that a while back those uh employer contribution rates increased so when they increased what the state said was that they would cover those that increase piece in Aid basically okay so what we've done is I've increased that now another $75,000 to be more in line with what we're seeing each year the revenue comes in we have the same amount of expenditures it's it's a situation that we deal with at audit time as far as allocating those dollars out appropriately so that we're able to get the funding then for that difference so
029um there are there's an increase coming again on the TR side for sure I don't know about P exactly um but I also don't know if that's going to be an unfunded piece going forward or if they will also pick up an additional increase St so more to come on that part uh Federal special ed flow through that's a decrease of $70,000 so last year we had about 160,000 that we received in federal dollars that we could use strictly here at through a bill um from Zed so Zed gets all of our federal dollars to them they basically figure out what they need and then there's usually an allocation to each of the school districts every year that we can use toward of our special ed costs which here that that has typically always gone
030to cover special ed benefits which we don't get any reimbursement on so um going forward that was decreased this year so what I did not know last year was when they increased our amount that was due to them having a sizable amount of carryover which essentially was onetime money so preliminarily I thought we would be in that same ballpark because that's typically how things have gone with them um but we're actually being allocated about 990,000 this year instead of 160 so um General lby can I ask does that become come across subsidy from our general fund yes that will we won't be able to allocate as many benefits towards those fed as we would have in the past yep okay thank you um General Levy decrease there 34,000 so once we go once we do
031the preliminary budget then in September and December we're dealing with the levy piece and then that gets finalized so initially in the preliminary Levy we're kind of working with numbers that don't have all the adjustments built into it quite yet but that's so that's a decrease of 34,000 there is that due to enrollment um not so much this year there was a lot of stuff in uh fiscal year 23 that had adjustment line items to it okay um for whatever reason I don't know why that year seemed to be a little bit messy on the on the State side of things but um the levy process as we go through that all those adjustments are made for the data that we need to have final information on usually all the formulas or most of the
032formulas are tied to enrollment so there's an estimate built in and then as the enrollment gets finalized then they go back and determine whether or not you collect more or less based on where you're your final enrollment ended up being compared to your projected numbers um career and Tech can increase there 30k uh staff salary increases mostly for that so we do have a new employee within the egg Department specifically that has a little higher salary than what we had previously in that position so we are able to get about 35% reimbursement on salaries for any of our Career Tech staff that are in those positions um and then we did have uh an insurance recovery piece of $80,000 and that was due to the central roof Insurance claim on that piece here that was
033done so that came through now this fiscal year uh any questions on those Revenue items those changes with the re with the two redac lines um you know they equated to about $152,000 what is that even relatively close to what the cost might be incurring well or those I we're not through it yet people are you're still we're still working on that so the the training piece essentially is supposed to be allocated out so what districts would do is you had a set number of hours that had to be completed some of them built those into their current staff development days things like that and then you may have had some hours that were going to need to be done outside of normal contract time and then they would take that in take that figure
034out what they were allocated and then provide a stien based on that extra amount um in most of the cases that I've dealt with that Sten amount is not exactly a lot as you spread that over your entire teaching staff um or depending on how you were going to allocate that out if you were looking at most of your Elementary and that and that type of stuff initially and then secondary following after that those types of things all came into play but um you would have had to develop anou with your teachers right and that would have kind of laid out how you were going to go about doing that um in some situations it was fine other situations where maybe they didn't build those hours into their days they already had now you have
035a lot of hours where they're doing it outside of contract time for very little but that's not what we're doing no no we have an so the 72,000 is the flow through so we're getting the funding it's going straight to the teachers sure but we're including our employment taxes in that yeah so all of the employment taxes that go with what you pay for wages are included in that 72 lays out how that all we will be died up and chair raymaker signed tonight um the 80,000 that came through was for so for materials things like that that we may have to purchas some of that's still kind of up in the air as to what that is going to be what it looks like those types of things um so that one that one
036as well was pretty restricted on how that could [Music] be and this was but I guess the concern would be the ongoing training and things like that that potentially would have to happen you have a new employee come in straight out of college I don't believe that they're getting it there at this point so ultimately they're going to have to put that time in yeah right get get to that point on being trained so we'll need to be able to have something available to compensate for that for that piece when we did the calendar we were proactive by adding in those yes days yeah we but not all districts were no so that I think that's what Mr shter getting at is some are doing it this way some are you know there a real
037variety just because I think there was a lot of unknowns to in some of this stuff as what what was really going to be the best way to roll this out those types of things correct by getting rid of the early release days and just doing it the way that we're doing it even in theou like the um what is I'm really sorry what is a Mr Mr Aken he helped explain to staff really well too about how how us as a district are doing things because there's a lot of chatter of way other districts are doing things of so us what they are required to do is um complete the full training um get 80% on the assessments and have a certificate of completion so if you don't get the 80% you won't get
038the statment if you don't complete the training you won't get this typ in so the training for the elementary is two years if you leave after this year you won't get this typ in we're going to PR rate it based on the number of hours that the elementary have to put in versus the secondary and so secondary probably will not get as large of style because it's supposed to be half as long as a training course than the elementary so I think it's pretty well put together um it was a collaborative effort between Mr Aken and myself to make sure that Equity was considered thank you on the expense side of things under Administration then we have a decrease there of 61,000 most of that has to do with the HR payroll position change due
039to retirement and moving that to a contracted service piece which you'll see a little later on here had an impact on our fees for services part uh license instruction teaching staff a decrease there of 130,000 um license support an increase of 25,000 most of this was within the area of special ed and then PA of professionals an increase there of 250,000 so what we've had is we've always had kind of a split of pars who were District employees and Paris who were peton call employees and so now that shift is changing to where most of them are moving to the district side now and and fewer fewer within the TOC um contracted side of things so I'll explain that piece when the um esps became a bargaining unit part of the contract stated that all
040new positions must be posted and available as District employees first and then Toc would be our um our vendor for positions that we could not fill with District employees so when a new position becomes available the TLC employees prefer to be District employees and so they'll leave their TLC position to become a district employee and that's why you see that increase of District employe costs but it's really kind of a trade sure instead of paying Toc for them we're paying them out of our district cers and then they want to and they want to work for us and they want to show up and they don't want to go bounce District to district and also I think like the whole point of teachers I call was try to combat the turnover and not have to
041on the administrative side right to not have to deal with all that so if you got a teachers on call employee that's obviously proven they want to be here yeah I mean it's a a good thing in the end um Next One non-instructional support an increase of 84,000 there portion of that was district office staffing um changes in additions in that title one Subs I decrease that 60,000 so what's happening there is we get allocated a certain amount of money for title one and actually Title One and title two and we've now rolled title two into Title One so they're both that lump sum we're able to use then for our title one teacher and Paris at boner um those positions typically exceed more than what we're receiving in that Federal funding so normally if
042I had anything left over I would be able to code those subs to the title one two to use up those dollars instead but in this case we're already exceeding those expenses so there won't be anything there to be able to code so that's just a general fund hit that we absorb on any of those sub costs for our Title One staff uh fees for services forgot the k behind that one it's not $278 it's 278,000 sorry about that um I wish it was $27 so that's all that's our payroll contract moving from the retired payroll position there and that was for basically that position handled all the hourly staff so that's now moved and so we have one person doing all of phal and not split between two um and then we had an
043asbest project and our cleaning contracts also were adjusted um during the summer and shortly thereafter um as we had some changes within our current custodial Staffing as we've had over the last few years with things uh coming and going in that area um and then also feature Subs so that was increased beyond what we had originally projected and aligns more with where we finished last year in those areas too so um an increase in that piece uh I think it was so the sub teacher cost increase there was 30,000 uh