001You are live. All right. Good morning. It's 7:01 the secondary school media center. We'll start with the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance 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. Roll call. Vincent, yes. Olrich, yes. Sour, yes. Sandstead, yes. Porter. Yes. And girls here. All right. We do not have any public comment this morning. Um, looking at the agenda, you'll see there's a couple of modifications. The, uh, dean of students hire was removed. Um, Katie Schmidt, summer custodian was added. And we also had the, uh, West Central community actions agreement was removed as well. Are there any other additions or corrections to the agenda? We'll make a motion to approve motion and a second.
002All in favor say I. Motion carries and we'll move right into committee reports and superintendent report. Okay. So, I think I did send out the uh MSBA legislative update and so you'll see that there's several pages. I know they've already sent out some corrections. So, I think there's some things that'll still be adjusted as those corrections come out. Uh they'll get those taken care of and give us updates that way. Uh fortunately, funding is going to stay where we hoped it was going to be. Now, the next bianium, that's where we'll have to really be concerned. And there's some uh budget reductions in year two of the of the um of the bianium this time around. And ones we'll really have to keep an eye on are going to be the special ed funding as
003well as um special transportation. And we do have students that ride special transportation. And so right now it's reimbursed at 100%. They'll drop that to 95%. So we're going to really kind of review that. It's a responsibility that districts have to provide it. Uh but it really is supposed to be taken care of and an IEP meeting and things like that. So we'll just want to make sure that we're watching that closely there. Uh congratulations to our state golf uh participants. Had a great uh week down there those two days. And and so Miley Dwey placed fifth overall. Macy girls finished 31st and Marshall Dwey finished 8th. So again, just more success to end the school year and and so congratulations to those student athletes for their great work. Just Global Conference, we will be
004leaving on Friday of next week and then we'll be getting back in the early hours of Tuesday, July 1st. I think we return up to Barrett by about 3:00 in the morning. It's a late flight back in, so it'll be a late a late night there, but we're excited to go there and see what ideas we can bring back. And the thing that I keep reminding myself of and both of our building principles is sometimes you go to those conferences and you come back with a lot of great ideas, right? And if you lay them all out on the table and none of them get done um the way they're supposed to or with fidelity, then it's not a positive thing. So, we're going to really lay those out clearly. That's what we want teachers
005to go with to say, "Okay, what pieces can we implement? We know it's got to be a slow start to make sure that we have a great finish." And I know that the sales rep from Just so he'd actually mentioned the three schools that we had checked with. So that would have been Brainard, Biji, and Grand Rapids. He said, "Please know, you can't be them right away." He said, "That's over years of time." He said, "That wasn't one year and then they're where they're at." He said that takes time to get theres, but we want to make sure that we have things ready to to move forward on that. Uh community task force meeting is this evening. This is meeting number eight, and it'll start at 6:00. Uh it'll take the full two hours, I
006believe, uh to make sure that we can come to consensus. And so, we've already kind of talked about the fact if there is any challenges coming to consensus, what would be some alternatives and things like that for recommendations to the school board? when I say we really with Seth and uh and myself trying to figure out what we're going to look at there. Um you know that way. So but the key piece to know for everybody to know is this cannot be placed on the November ballot. Uh we just don't have we won't be able to meet the statutory timelines and we need more time to really share with the public. That always seems to be a concern, right, of we didn't have enough information we didn't know. Uh, so it won't be able to
007take place uh on this November uh ballot, which would be a special election anyway, which brings me to my last point, the special election. We will have a special election in November to take care of our board vacancy that Ryan is graciously filling for us right now. Um, so Maggie and I will go through the training uh to take care of that election. We'll have our two polling places again. It'll be down in Kensington as well as Elbow Lake, the uh city halls for both of those. And so we'll have that set up ready to go November. I believe that'll probably be the only election. Um but it'll be a significant expense still for us to run that um on our own to fill that board vacancy. It's a special election because I believe it's
008for the remaining two years of the term. So if it does it's not a four-year seat, it would be a two-year seat. Um and then the uh Ryan, so you know the uh affid or the filing period is July 29th through August 12th is when that period takes place. And folks will just file here this time at the school district because we're the ones operating. I think before when folks were registering to to be on the ballot, they could go to the uh county courthouse as well. But now you'll just come to the school district and we'll make sure that those instructions are clear. And then just no board meeting. Remember the first Wednesday in uh July, it'll be that third Wednesday um at 7 a.m. All right. Any questions, comments for Mr. Brown's report.
009All right. Then we'll move into approval of payment of claims. Mr. Porter, you have anything for us? We had a couple things to note here. Uh for checks, um we um the uh cost of the ACT testing this year was $3,64. Um we did a large purchase for our gym flooring um materials for 17,033. Um one one big item that you'll see on there is special for $247,816.76. So um that was a big expense to us this this go around. So, um I guess that's all I have. If there are any questions or anything you guys notice on there, um total payment of $796,152.64. All right. Any questions, comments? Is that your motion, Mr. Porter? I will make a motion. Is there a second? Second, Claire. Claire. Okay. All in favor say I. I. Motion
010carries. That moves us into our consent agenda. Um you'll see item number one is to approve the meeting minutes. Um those were in the packet. Uh the May 21st buildings and grounds committee, May 21st regular meeting, and the June 4th committee meeting. Um, is there any additions or corrections to those minutes? Motion to approve. Uh, we'll just wait. Pause one. I just want to make sure. Um, approve the following items for hires the uh, community education interim support. Do you want to speak on that a little bit, Mr. Brown Law? Sure. So remember when Miss Dots leaves here at the end of June, we had talked about how we were now that we've changed that job description for um Dina students, we have that interim position here to get us through the summer months. And
011so April Richards has agreed to do that. So she'll take care of all those pieces that are kind of in that description there. And she and Megan have already met once for some training so they know how to get the rosters off of our our payment system and things like that. So that'll be a smooth transition there. And we still do need to get something ready to go here. Probably we're working on it now, but so it's in place by mid August for how we're going to fill that position then of the community ed uh director piece that uh Megan was covering before with that Dina students position. So um it does include some some Facebook postings as well, so people will be informed. People like to or families like to see grandkids or kids
012right on Facebook to see what they're involved in. So, it'll include those pieces there. And it's a $1,000 stipen to cover that. We're figuring anywhere between 25 to 30 hours. Okay. And then the hire of Katie Schmidt for a summer custodian. And then we'd also have the um following uh membership contract agreements. uh the Minnesota Rural Education Association membership, the Minnesota School Board Association membership, the Lakes Country Service Cooperative Agreement, the Is that a Q? Yeah. Interquest interquest detection K-9 agreement. Um as well as the final reading of the following policies. Uh, policy 521, students with disability non-discrimination. Policy 523, uh, policies incorporated by reference. Policy 525, violence prevention, and policy 526, hazing prohibi prohibition. Are there any other things to add to consent? I would look for a motion to approve the consent agenda.
013Some moved and a second. Second. All in favor say I. I. Motion carries. Um old business. We have award the milk bids and that was in the packet as well. Yep. And we were fortunate to get three bids this time around. remember a couple years ago seemed to be right after the pandemic uh transportation became uh an issue uh for some folks and uh but now we've been able to get that taken care of and you'll see in that spreadsheet there that the recommendation is to go with cast clay. I think we had cast clay uh a few years ago and we're looking to get back uh with them and you'll see it's quite a significant difference. So, um, and we, but the one thing that I should note is we will continue to use
014the bulk milk because we got the grant for the machines here at the secondary school. So, that'll still, uh, be Stony Creek to take care of the bulk milk containers, which, you know, I I think there's some there's some drawbacks with those, but really there's a lot of positives. Our students have become um, acclimated to those machines. We don't have the waste. One of the things that the Barrett uh, city of Barrett is talking to us about is kind of doing the organics. I think that's been a big push from the county here recently just to the cost of tonnage what goes into the landfill and I just think about the number of milk cartons that we would throw away you know if we weren't using the cups and just rewashing those. So the the
015plan is to stay with Stony Creek for that because of the grant. But then this would be for both of our elementary schools. And if you look at that far right column, you're going to see that we're projecting based on numbers that we've used in past years that it'll be about uh, you know, about $2,000 difference between the the lowest bid to the next bid up there. But again, just grateful that now we're able to because there was a couple years that we had to go with our food vendor and uh that wasn't a positive experience. And so I think getting back to somebody delivering the milk and they'll meet our parameters that they'll be there before 8:00 once a week because for a while too it was we'll come once every other week. I
016mean they just had a hard time with transportation but that's all been fixed and so recommendation is to go with Cass Clay Crab for the elementary schools. All right any questions comments? I look for a motion to accept that bid from Cass Clay Crearyy. So move and a second. Second. All in favor say I. I. Motion carries. Um new business. Uh accepting resolution accepting donations. Uh we have the following donations today. Um WCA hoops boosters. Uh $2,638.94. That's for the state uh bus cost. Um C uh Casey's General Store, $10.80 a loyalty donation. Hoffman Fire Auxiliary $250 for summer wreck and wrestling boosters $860.74 for the state wrestling bus cost. I would look for a motion to accept those donations. So move and a second. Second. Roll call vote. Sour, yes. Vincent, yes. Sansstead, yes.
017Porter, yes. Yes. Gross. Yes. And I'll be a yes. Um, next item is the me resolution for membership in the Minnesota State High School League. This is a yearly yes item. And so let's see here. Um be it resolved the governing body of West Central area schools located in the state of Minnesota delegates the control supervision regulation of intercolastic activities and athletics referred to in Minnesota statute section 128 C.01 01 to the Minnesota State High School League and so hereby certifies that the state commissioner of education as provided by Minnesota statute. So to approve motion to approve a second. Uh roll call would be Gross. Yes. Olrich. Yes. Porter. Yes. I'll be a yes. Sanstead. Yes. Vincent? Yes. And Sour? Yes. Great. Um the next item is to designate Superintendent Brownlow as the identified official
018with authority for West Central Area School District. This is also a yearly um item. And what is it? So there's different like we have to do a title one application. There's um reporting other reporting that needs to be done with compulsory attendance. So I'm the responsible authority. Uh while even our DAC positions there are stuff like that. They want one person to grant authority at a local level to who has access to those some of those secured um sites and environments. So, it's just giving me the authority then to grant access to those other folks there. Got it. Um, any questions or comments there? Look for a motion to approve to designate superintendent Brownlow as the identified official with authority. So, move and a second. Second. All in favor say I. Motion carries. All right.
019Preliminary budget for 2026. And I don't see Todd here yet. So I wonder if we should move down to the other piece. I just sent him an email to see I'm going to make sure that I've got him on the invitation there. But yeah, if we want to continue to move down and then I'll just make sure that I Oh, there we go. We don't There he is. Good timing. We're just right at your agenda item. the preliminary budget for fiscal 26. All right. Okay. Paul, have you talked through any assumptions or should I walk through those first? If you want to. Yeah, we just got to that agenda item. So, if you'd like to do that, that would be great. Okay, I will share my screen. So we'll start with enrollment. Uh total ADM
020projected for FY26 708. So that consists of 690 ADMs grades K through 12, eight BPK adm excuse me, ADMs and 10 early childhood ADMs. So 708 total. Um, in terms of some legislative changes, um, they did hold harm with the compensatory funding. So, I'm holding that essentially flat at the FY25 levels. So, 6506 668. Um, special education, uh, we talked earlier, we're, um, doing our best to be conservative on there. Right now, our entitlement is at 1.6 million. I've budgeted 1,550 for next year. So, we did get have a jump over FY24. So, we're just hedging a little bit in case that number changes um for FY25 between now and when it's finalized. So, we have a little bit of cushion built in special ed. Um the state did lower our library aid by 20,000.
021Essentially cut it in half from 40,000 to 20,000. Um they have expanded our ability to use student support personnel aid. Um I can't remember. Um Paul, are we able to use that now? Um, did we add I can't recall off the top of my head. We were be we were able to keep that aid. Yep. For our our counseling and the social worker services. Yep. Okay. So, that doesn't really impact us. Um, what else am I missing? I think so. I think those are the big assumptions. And I think just to clarify too, Todd, right, that that student population number gives us a five student cushion as well. I think that was our conversation a little bit to be conservative there. We just never know what our enrollment would do over the summertime. So right
022now where we project we do have ourselves built in with five fewer students than we expect to get. And then I guess the the other big one is the formula aid is increasing by 2.74% for FY26. Um so based on those assumptions, looking at the budget overview, uh we're projected to end FY25 with a fund balance of 1,608249. That's unassigned. Uh 13.11% that would be. And based on the budget assumptions, we are increasing that fund balance potentially in FY26 by 4,422 ending at with a fund balance of 12.9% or 1,612671. Um operating capital would still be at 152419. That's assuming we would use roughly 90,000 of capital next year for the HVAC project. and safe schools at 23,000 and we have some other fund balances here too. LTFM small uh medical assistance of 81,630 um
023also using 90,000 of our committed funds um which would leave us committed funds of 911,993 that would be the other half of the HVAC project. So total general fund would be deficit spending at 174,48 ending with a total general fund fund balance of 3,ion59250. Um fund two um has had a positive spending variant there of 14,893 ending at 57976. And community ed as we know we have work to do there. uh potentially deficit spending at 2292 ending with a deficit fund balance of debt service uh fund balance increasing at 1987 to 66,03. So overall all funds we would be deficit spending 368538 ending with a fund balance of 2,ion448004. Any questions on that? Give me one second here, Paul. Allergies are not good today. Okay. Well, I can just jump in here a little bit.
024So, as you see that fund four is our biggest concern. I know Todd, I and Maggie are going to make sure that all the accounts that are being driven that right direction and that maybe something isn't being missed. um that is, you know, of course we've made some changes. We're not offering summer care this summer and we continue to review our daycare options just to make sure that we're breaking even. We're not looking to make money, but we also can't um deplete the fund, you know, as you'll see with that negative balance is going to to be there. So, I think we've got some work ahead of us on that, but hopefully that'll make some changes. I do know back um and Todd and I talked about this a little bit after the auditors have
025completed the audit, and I know we did this back in 2022. Um, that was Diane's recommendation because she said, "Yeah, we know that we're going to have to fill back fill in community ed because we don't charge for preschool." And we're hoping our VPK will help a little bit this time around as well, but we made a transfer, I think, back in October of 2022 of about $25,000. That practice hasn't happened since then, uh, because our general fund has kind of had its own. We've had some deficit spending there. So, it's probably time to look at that. So, we'll see where our fund ends. We believe that for fiscal 25 we could have a positive fund balance because we've been conservative in some of those areas. So in October we would probably come to the
026board to say hey the recommendation is to transfer from general fund to community ed fund whatever that dollar amount if it's 100,000 if it's 150,000 200,000 whatever we would believe would be appropriate the board would you know review that and see if that would be appropriate. As you can see, that doesn't wipe out that negative um deficit in our negative balancing community, but that is one of the options that we're trying to look at to see um because it does. And then just making sure we're maximizing every revenue we can as well because that is going to be a challenge there. Todd, did I say anything there that wasn't maybe what we covered or anything you could think of as well on on fund four? I think that was complete. Yeah, everything we talked about.
027So, all right. So, then any questions or comments about preliminary budget? Can we take action on the Yeah, we have to approve that so we can pay the bills right away in in on July 1st. And here's the other piece too and I struggle with this and so Todd sometimes have has to remind me as every other business manager I want to be so precise like that we're within 10 bucks and they tell me that that's not what a budget you're setting your guidelines because we don't really know where all of our uh where all of our revenues are going to be. So this is just really that opening um guideline. I know in some districts or at least back in the day, Todd, I remember as superintendent his practice was just to approve 75%
028of the expenditures for the prior year. That always amazed me because that you know you're going to already overspend that. So that's not really but it just allowed it meets the statutory of guideline of having a budget set. So um I think that's so that's really it's got to be set by June 30th. That's what we're doing. So we can say that we have a plan for the upcoming school year. questions, comments there. I look for a motion to approve the preliminary 26 budget move and a second. Second. All in favor say I. I. Motion carries. Did you go with Darren or Nathan? His paper rock. Okay. Darren there. Um, anything else for us, Todd? I will just hang on for negotiations. So, and the committed and assigned funds, right? You had some explanations there
029as well. Oh, yeah. Um, yeah. So we um currently have committed funds for um and I don't know the exact categories that those are committed for but um looking to end FY25 at 9919 993. So, I think what I've experienced is it's nice to have more flexibility flexibility with that. Um, putting that in an assigned fund balance. So, that would allow us to move between assigned and unassigned. Um, Paul and I and of course any any ideas we have along those lines, we would get the board and talk talk through that at at the board level. Um, it's not a big deal committed or assigned. it just um allows a little more flexibility. Um and we would, you know, look at what we've assigned or what we've committed those for now and continually review that.
030Essentially, those are dollars set aside for known future needs uh that we're going to have. So, just a thought that when we complete the FY25 audit, perhaps we move those from permitted to a signed fund balance. and Todd, our our two our two committed funds are the bus purchase. Remember, we um remove or uncommitted some of those funds to purchase the uh the the van and then the other one are then the other one, a small dollar amount is still left in our environmental learning center. We have roughly just under about $2,800 there. And then the other big one is that long range capital improvements. I think the board was it maybe five, seven, maybe even longer than that where there was some excess revenue and so they committed those funds um to to the
031committed fund. So that gets us to that $991,000 balance right now. That's why we're looking to use 90,000 potentially to cover that HVAC project um for that long range capital improvement. But um according to policy just as a majority vote so for committing fund balance a majority vote of the school board is required to commit a fund balance to a specific purpose and subsequently to remove or change any constraint so adopted by the board. So that takes board action each time to do that. On assigning fund balance school board by majority vote may assign fund balances to be used for specific purposes when appropriate. The board also delegates the power to assign fund balances to the following superintendent and business manager. Assignments uh so may so made shall be reported to the school board on
032a monthly basis either separately or as part of an ongoing reporting by the assigning party if other than the school board. An appropriation of an existing fund balance to eliminate a projected budgetary deficit in the subsequent year's budget in amount of no greater than the projected excess of expected expenditures over expected revenues satisfies the criteria to be classified as an assignment to fund balance. I probably should have left that paragraph out because that was a lot there at the end. Yeah. So really committing I mean so both board has to be kept you know up to speed on everything. It's just that there's a little more flexibility with the assigning fund balances. So right now our assigned fund balances our corporate sponsors is our big one in our assigned one of our assigned balances there.
033Can you give us an example of additional flexibility? What would be an example of something you can't do now that you could do that? You change it. Did you Did you hear that question, Todd, on um an example that would be used? Why, you know, by making the change or what flexibility do we not have now that would be offered by going to the assigned fund balance? Um so, say we're wrapping up the audit. um we need to make the judgment call to assign additional funds. Um we can go ahead and do that. Um give the board a heads up, but it doesn't require board action. So um we wouldn't technically be able to make any transactions or do that until we have board action currently under committed. So if we were to commit, we
034would need to have that board action first before we'd be able to do that. where potentially a signing it could be a conversation. Does this you know with the board chair does this sound appropriate and and then come and update the board. The board would always have that the u opportunity to you know say we don't like that idea let's keep it unassigned and we move it back. But it's just that kind of thing. um just flexibility purely. And Todd, because of we're getting to the end of the fiscal year, do we have to make a decision now or is this something I know you just mentioned a little bit earlier when it came to the audit or could it be done at that point? It could be done at the time of the audit.
035Yeah. September, October. Yep. Sure. I don't have any issue with it. I just wanted to see. Right. So I guess is anybody else I mean if if nobody else has an issue we could take the action now and it would be or do we want to think about that and bring it back to a later board meeting? I don't have an issue with it. Let's be efficient and do it now. Okay. So then we're going to just jump right down to that 7.8 considered a transfer. Um, so basically are we now we're just now committing we're transferring our committed funds to an assigned fund status. Is that essentially what this is portion under the same titles, right, of long range capital improvement and bus purchase. You're not you're not moving all of it there just
036part of it or all of it? They just become instead of being a committed fund, they turn into they turn into an assigned fund, right? Right. Yep. And we just move down here and then be added to this 79307. So we just re basically recategorizing those dollars that have been there for a long time. Yep. And maybe Claire, it's easier if you can see it. So right here on the the audit sheet, it just shows they've got committed and assigned. So it's just moving it from one category to that next category, but they're still will have the same subtitles of bus purchase and things like that. So, we still want to keep that part there because that was the board's intention at the very beginning was to say bus purchase long range capital improvements. I
037don't think it should just be an open fund to say, hey, if we need additional dollars, here's where they can be, you know, that way. So, Todd, do you have the dollar amount then that you're proposing? Is it the in those subsequent categories? No, at this time it would be um we're projecting to have 991,993 at the end of FY25. So that would be the dollar amount. Okay. Any other questions, comments there? Then I'd look for a motion to approve the transferring the committed funds to an assigned fund balance. So move. Is there a second? Second. All in favor say I. I wonder if we should do a roll call vote on that one since because it probably should we should have a resolution. So I'll draft that resolution. So maybe we should do a
038roll call vote on that one just to be clear. Roll call. Sour. Yes. Vincent. Yes. Sandstead, yes. Porter, yes. Yes. And Gross, yes. And yes. All right. Then we will jump back to the superintendent stipened. Um, we had discussions in the negotiations process about how our administrative assistant roles were left and the additional duties that Mr. Brownlow took on outside the regular workday. And so, can you guys jump in if you if I misspe here? It was part of the negotiation was asked for that sip. I don't remember what the exact dollar amount was, but um and through negotiations, we determined that it' be better as a one time thing at the board table versus being in the contract for those additional duties that were done after hours preparing for I believe it was $100
039a month. Is that correct, Mr. R? Yeah, $100 a meeting. Yep. Yep. So it was uh 20 23 $2,300. Yep. So um so that's what the stipen portion of this is. Um just to try to compensate that extra time that went into all that without having anybody in the office there. Any questions, comments? I guess it wasn't a long explanation, but that's basically what it is. I'll make a motion that we approve. Second. Second. Yeah. Claire second. All in favor say I. I. Motion carries. Um and then uh the superintendent contract. And do you want to lead this Claire or I can certainly start it? No. Essentially um we we came to an agreement with the superintendent contract. um a three-year contract, first year being a 2.5% increase and then a 2% and 2% increase.
040Um as long as as well as a $50 a month for health insurance increase. Um there were some typos in the contract and so we did not get those cleaned up yesterday. So you do not have that in your packet yet, but that will be coming out shortly. I would assume probably today or tomorrow you'll get that official uh view of the contract. Um, again it was there wasn't really much language change. I think we had what we had to add Junth was not on the previous contract. So that is now a holiday um that is added into there. Um otherwise there really wasn't any other No. And just from a systems piece now that contract and when it's totally formatted we're about 95% there. It gets housed here not with like I didn't want
041it on my computer. Who knows if I'm going to be involved. So we need to get that so that is systemic here in the building. So in another three years it could be revised for whoever. Right. So I just think we need to move in that direction with things like that. So essentially the the moral the the nuts and bolts of it is two and a half two and two over the next three years as well as $50 uh a month for health insurance increase. Um, again, I think the last the last one was just two and two and the health insurance state and the health insurance stayed flat. Um, and so, um, I guess it seems to be a pretty pretty conservative contract. Um, any questions on that? ask for a motion to approve
042the 2520 to 28 superintendent contract move and a second. Second. All in favor say I. I. Motion carries. Uh next we have the disposition of obsolete equipment list. And so Chad just came to me and I think it's also kind of got brought up during some of our um when we did our building reviews uh that we have a lot of stuff in storage and some of that stuff hasn't been used for years. We've got lots of desks. So on that list you're going to see sled desk. That's the desk that has the chair here at secondary school all one piece that they can slide around. We have desks at the elementary with some chairs. We have quite a bit of those taking up the entire stage at North Elementary. Um we're not going to
043use them again. So rather than us storing them, we felt it would probably be appropriate to try to sell them. I don't think we're going to get a lot of money for them. Sometimes you're fortunate if so what I'll probably do is MSBA used to have a posting online that you could put on there. We'll put it on Facebook and try to find other avenues. Sometimes private schools or somebody who's starting something or homeschool families will say, "Hey, we'd like to purchase one of those." When I say dollar amount, we're probably going to get5 to$10 for them is all we're going to get. But it's better than taking up all our storage space because Chad said we're we're running out of we've got storage cubicles, you know, down at South. We've got one back here
044and so we just need to garner more space and no sense in holding it if we're never going to use it when somebody else can use it. So the big one is desks and chairs. Uh we also have a table. Uh Chad and I are still thinking about that. Evidently the table that's in the district office um conference room, that large one, we have another one that's sitting in the back of the auditorium. And so I mean those are expensive tables. So I'd like to see if we can find a space for it first before we go to sell it because again I'm sure it wasn't cheap to purchase and then to sell it. We're not going to get much money probably for it. I know we're using one in the special ed that was
045at flex classroom. So maybe there's another space there. But that's another item. And then the other big one is the hydraulic lift. I know Chad had kind of shared I believe with the buildings and grounds committee that with our floor after we um had it repaired a few years ago um that there's not as much finish on the floor and that lift is rather heavy so when you drive across it there can be some damage potentially to our newer floor in our secondary school gym. It's a very nice lift. I mean, it does uh teleport out or however you want to say that so they can change banners, but it just really we're concerned about the the wear on the floor on our gym floor, catastrophic wear. So, I don't want to say just because
046the wheels are going over, it's just the weight could do damage where we have to repair that. So, we're going to put that out for a um quotes uh because I did put the policy there. I think anything under 25,000 you have to request quotes. So, we'll do sealed quotes. We did this a few years ago, remember, for that John Deere lawn tractor lawn mower up at um North Elementary. So, we'll do the exact same thing. The board, my suggestion would be to have the right to refuse any and all bids just in case they all come very low because it's still a nice piece of equipment. Um I think we initially looked at a tradein value and we want to try this first to see because we still need another lift. So, we can't
047we're not just selling this lift not to have something else. We do need uh Chad was pretty clear. I said, "Please know that we still need a lift to get up to change light bulbs, to change manners and things like that. It just doesn't need to be in as large, but we just need to take care of that in the most financially responsible way that we can. So, we will get that posted as well. Um, I think there's my understanding of some electrician shops and various places. So I'll maybe see maybe Darren, you know, too of where we can post that where some place may say, "Yeah, we're looking for a used, you know, piece of equipment or something like that and would be willing to submit a bid um there too so we can
048get a fair price for that piece." But again, that would come before the board. That's not just sold on the open market. That would come as a sealed quote to the board and you get to determine if that's a fair price and and things like that. But it would be sealed. So we're not people can't call up and say, "Hey, what do you have now? It's sealed." we would just open it up at that meeting and probably have a minimum, you know, price set for that. Any questions on that? So then I would look for a motion to approve the disposition of obsolete equipment for that list. Second. All in favor say I. Motion carries. And then that brings us to our closing the meeting for our negotiation strategies. Um look for a motion to
049close the meeting. So move. Second. All in favor say