001All right, it is 6:30 and we will begin our February board meeting. Let's start with the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. And a moment of silence. Amen. All right, Mr. Martin. All right, welcome to our February board meeting. Um, first on the agenda is our consent agenda. I didn't skip it this time. Good. Um, are there any questions? Okay. With that, I'd like to make the recommendation of the consent agenda financial report and four minutes of the regular board meeting held on January 16, 2025 and the special board meeting held on January 22, 2025 be approved as amended. All right, I have a recommendation. We have
002a motion. Motion. Motion by Eric. Second. I'll second. Nope. Ryan, a second. All in favor? None opposed. Um up next is our um our MAP data report. You know, MAP growth is it's it's one piece of data that we use to help measure our students ac academic achievement level and track their growth over time. For right now, we're doing from fall to winter. And um this is this helps us personalize instruction, ID, identify areas that needs improvement and and highlight our strengths um to help to help improve student outcome. Um our building level leadership or principles, they're going to share their some of their map assessment data. They're going to share a growth an area a bright spot area of growth and how they're going to replicate that in their building. So we're excited to
003hear what they have to say. And I believe the primary up. Yes, it is. So, we have Miss um Miss Bennett. Okay. Um so, we were really happy with our max data from fall to winter this year. And so, our bright spot was that our first grade saw a 9% increase in students who met growth in reading and an 8% increase in students who met growth in math compared to this time last year. So, our first grade team has really been working hard. They did a great job. um an increase in percentage of students who met growth in K2 reading is our area of growth whereas we were pleased at how well they did. We always feel like there is room for improvement and we would love to see some of our percentage be a
004little bit higher than what they were. So it's an area of growth for the whole building. Um how we're going to replicate it is we're going to continue to utilize our PLC process, collaborate amongst our teams and analyze our data to inform our instructional practices. Any questions? That's good numbers. Up next is Miss um you're good. Our bright spot um was that our fourth grade in math and literacy both surpassed projected growth. So um you know Mr. Martin a couple years ago wanted us to make sure we grew every child one point. um which is great, but they survive surpassed what the projected growth was, which means that um they grew kids beyond and more kids that um than what was anticipated before we took this area for growth. Um our third grade did not
005meet projected growth numbers that we would like for them to have met. So what are we going to do? I couldn't honestly have filled that box with lots and lots of things. But um we are going to do and we already are doing deeper digs into our standards to see like which standards exactly did we not um need projected growth on and how did we teach that and how can we like either intervene or go back and do a full retach on it. Um we are also going to collaborate with Tillery Elementary and Rogers. um they have a co-t talk class and some uh general education classes that we're going to go watch their literacy block just to see what are they doing in comparison to what we're doing because it's hard when you're on
006the team with the same people and you don't all you see is what each other is doing. So we're going to go outside of that. Um so those are our top areas that we're going to work on to help us meet projective grow. Is is Tillery a place you've already know of that's achieved a certain level? Yes. and we went through um their district office and their executive director of teaching and learning to get connected to their school as well. Great questions. Thanks. Okay, so we were very happy with our map data this time. We got to celebrate today with our staff at our staff meeting some staff meeting for some of it. But this time both grades and both contents met their projected growth for the first semester. And looking back two years, we
007have not done that winter in all of our contents and grades. So, we're very excited about that. Our achievement percentile and literacy is 16 percentile points higher than this time last year. So, that's a big growth of of how high our kids are coming up thanks to the grades coming to and us being able to continue to grow them. um our area of growth. Um we started today in our staff meeting after celebrating looking at if we don't look at what individual students aren't meeting their growth and trying to get that number higher, we're never going to keep growing and keep that going. So our teachers are making a list of the students that were low growth, whether they were low achieving or high achieving. If they have low growth, looking to see what factors
008might be causing that and how we can how it connects with our Atlas interim data that we'll have next week. So um they're going to work on that for our area of growth. Um we're going to replicate the success. We plan to continue that PLC process of data-driven decision- making and providing clear learning targets and success criteria for our students. We've seen that that has really been um a key factor this year of seeing the kids grow them knowing where they are and knowing where they want to be. So any questions? That was great. 62 your first time. We have some bright spots and I'm I'm learning those as I go, but one of them is our freshman. We think they're about ready to go to high school. 17 point increase in the percentage of
009students meeting projected growth as compared to this data last year in mathematics and an 18 point uh increase in uh reading. Our area growth is our seventh and eighth grade groups. Uh increasing percentage of students who are meeting the projected growth particularly in reading that seems tends to be our challenge. And then we're going to replicate the success by using more frequent checks uh and then using our data wisely when our 783 teams replicate the success that are not ready to happen. I think the data shows the longer they're in the building. Um, I think one of our bright spots, uh, that I wanted to point out, which was, I think, a little different than kind of the years past is, uh, we saw a growth in some of our our reading, uh, as opposed
010to our math this year. I feel like it's kind of been the opposite in years past. So, we were really proud of that. Um, obviously that kind of brings about our area of growth is we're going to continue to try to grow in that the same way we grew in weed. um and replicating success. We plan to to continue following the PLC model, but more importantly kind of focusing on our bottom four, bottom 25% of students uh to continue to grow them. Um I think they correct me if I say something wrong here, but I think across the district um we were growing kind of our our top cortile kids and and not the bottom cile. So um we're going to continue to try to work on that and continue to try to get better.
011Any questions? It's interesting. Every time there's a break and a transition of a building, right? So, if we just have everybody in one building, right, should Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That would not be total chaos. No, not at all. Thank you. Thank you. Let the record show whose idea that was. I just It is interesting though to watch every time every time there's a there's a transition. Yeah. I think that um with that transition that gives us a lot of work in our office. How do we replicate in a shorter amount of time what the success is happening and so we're really spending a lot of time on um upcoming transitions especially on students that have targeted needs whether it's special education language learning behaviors and so we're going to attack transition meetings different this spring.
012So, we're excited in our March principal meetings. We're going to do specific time with those feeder patterns to get a better handle, I think, on kids specific needs versus like, watch out for these 10 kids or these 10 kids are your top tier. Really getting into their unique needs and seeing if that can maybe help some of that. And I also want to brag again on the junior high and the high school. I haven't been down to the middle grades. the work they're doing in the CAP conference this year is looking um very different with the personalized conversations. Um I saw the junior high counselors pulling kids out one on one. So every single students getting their pre-conference and the parent meetings that are starting this week at the high school are just going really
013well. That's the work of those four counselors and the building teams um making that happen. So I think we'll see some difference to speak to that transition maybe good. And um I'm gonna go ahead and back next for Miss Jennings. Miss Jennings couldn't be here tonight. Um but I really wanted to celebrate and talk about the exciting things happening with career technical education in our district. Thank you. Um I don't know if you knew before, but before we were a part of a consortia for career technical education, meaning our CTE coordinator director was housed somewhere else and we were a group of schools. funding was collaborated. So this is our first year to go independent and Miss Jennings is doing an amazing job and with that lens of the communication she's able to really highlight
014and showcase as well as this fall the career technical education updates from the state as it ties back to learns are some of the biggest we've seen in probably my career which I'm a CTE teacher and so we're have a lot of changes a lot of things happen at state even at the national level the uh career what we noted as the occupational outlet handbook back in the day those career career fields have all changed and morphed into more um common terminology and that jobs reflect the current industry versus being so there's a lot of being um historically kind of dated. So we're seeing a lot of work in this area. So I'm really proud of that work she's been doing. Um, what we've been doing too for a big piece of that with it
015being cap like we said is really making sure our website is getting a base lift and where can we f get a big concentration on our programs not just career technical education but our arts and athletics. I don't know if you noticed a difference in our website but the content has definitely elevated this year and we're really excited about that. Um but what they've been doing is each uh pathway career and technical education pathway has information about the entire pathway and what to expect um the courses to be be about. A video featuring our students and photos of our students doing that work and action in the class. Information about the each of the student associations or clubs DECA Skills USA um HOSA um I'm trying to think SECLA and all those things. It's been
016great. and a course progression chart to help them see the full pathway. So, I'm gonna take over the computer for just a second and highlight that. And this has really been the work of Miss Janine's um Mr. Cook and the student interns have really taken on and developed our website. So, all the websites are going to look the same. It'll let me scroll. Um when you go, you'll see theformational video about how I'm not going to show it to you, but get take some time and look at it. And then it talks about what's it what's it mean and it shows pictures and there's a gallery of students actually doing the work with this pathway talks about the hands-on experiences and then talks about dream big certifications and some real world projects and then the
017student uh technical organization that goes with that and then a bio on the teachers. So that's very exciting. Um that is for a power and I want to show you culinary real quick. I think she's got me link to both of them. You can access those from our main website and go to schools and see district. But it's been a great content and it really is getting our name the career publication out there as well as outside of every classroom junior high and high school that ties this pathway is the actual work QR code and some of the pictures from the face from the website to get you straight back to that. So we really worked on that. So, a lot of parents, I saw them scrolling um when they were doing the parent conferences
018over at the junior high the other night, the rising parent night. And I also wanted to highlight this graphic. So, every page has an exact graphic that takes you from eighth from 9th grade through the end of the program so you know exactly what it takes each year. So, we made this graphically appealing and tried to really hone in. So, with all that being said, February is CTE month. So, be watching for um news articles and updates on our website celebrating the great work of career technical education. And I'm excited to see our enrollment figures because on Friday the ride 2B eighth graders and the 2B ninth graders toured the high school and got to get into the each of those programs including fine arts and um theater and visual arts as well. Also, I'm
019excited to see how that recruiting tool along with the personalized conferences really gets kids going. Good. So, we're excited about that. Thank you. Yeah, I like the format of the web page. That's nice. Especially I really encourage you to get on our website and look at it, spend some time. They've done a tremendous amount of work and the content created by um Mr. Cook and the interns is just phenomenal. So, we're really good. I mean, more than beyond thrilled with that work. Great. Yeah. and our transitioning to having an act coordinator on site instead partnering with the co-op has been has been a blessing for us. Our our teachers have more um support and our programs are able to grow more. So that's been a very good move for our district and the funding. I
020know you need up next. Any questions? Yeah. Up next, we do not have any board transfers. I don't anticipate any of those until probably after July because the way the school choice falls are now that that will be our primary mode of enrolling kids from outside district. But up next is the purchase of a school maintenance vehicle. Um what you have before you is a vid. Um we had three um dealerships give us a bid. um Crane Springdale while they are the lowest bid that's also a used vehicle and um Daniel was at 47,000 Ford was at $52,70. Our recommendation is to go with Mclarde Daniel for $47,000. We are looking at transitioning from half and 3/4 ton vehicles to one ton trucks simply because towing band trailers, football trailers and everything. It's just safer.
021They have a larger tow capacity. We'll also be able to um equip this truck with a snow plow as well for later on. That will give us three snow plows instead of two, which will help us clear. We we struggled to get ready for the ball game um the last fall winter weather and everything but that was actually perfect snow was nice and heavy and dense and it rolled up literally like but um a lot of times that's not the case. So are there any questions? This is in budget according is a brand new one then. Yes ma'am. Okay. It it's brand new. It is a um a board what's called the four-door truck crew cab. It has an 8ft bed in it. It's a 110 ton. I believe it either has a 16 or
02220,000 lb towing capacity, which is far more than um the van trailer is. It will allow us to um go to the rental store, pick up a skid steer if we need it, or a min to without having delivery fees and stuff. So, it will be put to use and use all the time. Okay. Okay. With that, I'd like to make the recommendation to purchase a 2025 GMC Sierra 3500 pickup from a Clardy Daniel in the amount of $47,000. All right, we have a recommendation. Do we have a motion? I'll make a motion. Ryan second. I'll second. Second, Mindy. All in favor? None opposed. All right. Thank you. Um, up next we have our state trips. We only have one requesting and this is our junior high band. in May they're going to go to
023city for reward for them and that that occurs on the second which I believe is a Friday. I've cleared it with this paper no testing. Um that's not in a testing window of any sort. So it's a good day for the band to be able to travel up there. And you said junior high. I'm sorry. Yes, ma'am. It's the junior high band. Senior high y'all approved last month or the month before. I believe they were going to Dallas. Okay. I thought so but then I got my I was like hold on. So, all right. And I believe in the past they have gone to Kansas City. Yeah. What's it wherever world would Kansas City? Kansas City. Okay. Are they going to perform in Colorado City? Uh, I would assume they are. Usually they do, right?
024Yes, sir. I don't think the junior high is perform. I think it's more reward. Oh, it's just I think they mistake it, but I think the the high school band going to Dallas will perform. I like funnel cakes really this time. Yeah. And rides. And rides. I will call. I mean, I could be honest, too. I feel like it's a great reward. Absolutely. Yeah. Any questions? I'd like to make a recommendation to approve the out of state travel on May 2nd, 2025 to Branson, Missouri. Okay. We have a recommendation. Do we have a motion? Motion. Motion. Mindy. Second. I'll second. Second, Eric. All in favor? None opposed. Great. Up next, we have our with Arkansas Children's Hospital. This is an we do every year. It allows us to have um access to educational aiology services
025or a consult or consultant for services for speech with a speech and language pathologist. Their expertise is in hearing impaired children and everything. Um we do this every year. Um the cost is very minimal or no cost at all but it allows us to have access to that to help the kids. Any questions? Okay. With that, I'd like to make recommendation to approve the memorandum of understanding of Arkansas Children's Hospital as presented. Okay, we have a recommendation. We have a motion. I'll motion. Do we have a second? I'll second. Second, Ryan. All in favor? Not opposed. That's a good one. All right. Up next, we have our calendar. We have to have a pre calendar and a K12 calendar based on the law. So, Mr. Amy has been working with the BC and having our
026faculty and staff vote and so I'm going to turn it over to him for our calendar discussion. We would like to bring um two calendars to you uh tonight. The prek calendar. Uh Miss Markfeld and myself met with uh Miss Ryan and her team uh to create the the prek calendar. Uh prek operates a different from our school calendar. In fact, they have to go uh 178 days where our uh academic calendar for K12 students is 174 days. So, there's four additional days built into theirs that that are within their guidelines and and meet their u rules and laws for for prek. But, um Miss Ryan's team was happy with this calendar and so we'd like to present uh it's actually no change for what they did this year. It's just a mirror for the
027prek of exactly what they did did this year. So, it's no change for the uh on our academic calendar. Uh we operate uh under the alternative calendar within the state of Arkansas. And so, um we must uh to operate uh as an alternative calendar, we have to put,98 total instructional hours into our calendar. Uh it's 168 hours and 30 hours of snow makeup time. Um and so you can see down at the bottom uh each of our schools u meet the the amount of instructional hours uh that that must be completed. Primary and intermediate have 1160 hours, middle school, 1110 and the high school and junior high 112. And so uh we exceed that 1,098 uh that we must have. Uh we've got our our time schedules uh for each of our our buildings uh
028built into here. But uh highlights of of this calendar and I'm really proud of our PBC. They we had great discussion did a lot of work in putting this um together. But we will start school um on August 12th and end on May 22nd right before um Memorial weekend. Five days are built into this. So, so if we have five snow days, we won't have to add any time on if we if we go uh beyond that where we have an excessive year, then we would have to to look at how we had those days back. Um, but we do have five five days of instruction built in. We have our normal fall break that we've had over the last couple years there in October around the 17th and the 20th to give our students
029a little extended uh time off. Uh we have that full week at Thanksgiving that's been a tradition for our school district and then two full full weeks off at at Christmas. Uh one thing that this calendar did that's new this year is we start we're starting school one day earlier than this year we started on a Wednesday. Next year we'll start on a Tuesday. And so starting one day earlier we will we're able to create the same kind of fall break that we have in October. We were able to create the same thing in in February right around Preston State. So February 13th would be a day off for everybody, students and staff and then Monday coming back our staff would have a professional development. Students would be at home um and then we would
030pick up school on that Tuesday. So uh just to have that little break uh in February from from January to spring break is a is a long time for our our teachers and our students. It's also sick season where we see the most illness, most absences, most absenteeism from our students. Uh and so and we see discipline rise. And so we're hoping just having just a little short break there in the middle of February. You know, you got something to look forward to from January to February, we know we take a couple days off and from February to March, you know, we'll have spring break. And so maybe we can break that up a little bit. uh we can help with some attendance issues and some discipline issues uh and and that sort of thing.
031So, we're excited to kind of add that into our u our calendar for next year. Other other than that, uh we meet all of the requirements of the state. Uh we've always tried to balance our two semesters and get as close as we can the number of days. So, first semester is 85 days. Second semester is 89. And so, that we're we're fairly close there with the number of days. It's always uh it's easier. The second semester is always a little longer, so you can you can get a little out of balance, but this gets us really close. So, uh we're really proud of of of PBC putting this together. We had 56% of our staff vote for this one. Uh we had 44% vote for our other one and it was one day, it's
032one day different on the calendars. And so this was the kind of that the majority of our our staff vote for present to you. Can I ask what was the one day difference? The one day difference was starting on August 13th instead of the 12th losing that break. That's Do we have to get since this is the alternative um calendar, do we have to get this approved by the Department of Education? No, ma'am. Okay. Um they allow you four different options. Um traditional year round 4 day a week and alternative. Okay. The the problem with having a traditional calendar at 178 is there's no snow days built in make up everyone. We still go the same number of hours. I'm thankful for the 1100 and 2 hours which is 4 hours above but 1098. It
033allows us um few weeks ago we had an early exit. I used two of the those four extra hours for that. So, we still have one, let's say that we know the roads are clear up by 10 a.m. We can start a little later or go home earlier if we need to and disrupt the day. And on the prek calendar, the best thing on there is like our K12 population will start August, I think the 12th. PreK will start August the 11th. That's a good thing. Um, but getting them situated in everything. Mhm. Okay. Do we know how the spring break here matches up with other schools in the area? State law requires it weekly. Oh, okay. I I think it's like the 36th week after the week of the 4th of July that all
034schools in the state have for weekly. Good. And I believe that also. Has it always been that way? No, it has for about the past 8 years. Before it was a a rodeo roundabout. Yes, sir. and you would have cousins not matched up, kids at U of A or another and families were very frustrated with them. So you had some legislation passed. It is it is important to know we're in the middle of a legislative session. School calendars is one of the issues with the legislature right now. We don't think it'll affect this model. This calendar we think four day a week and some of those are under scrutiny. Okay. Um but uh we don't think it will change anything but just in case law changes we would come back with the board at a
035later date. We've had to do that before. Got it. But we don't we will pursue that. Okay. And this calendar so that basically um if they did away with the alternative your dark blue days I believe they're dark blue. I guess the darker blue days on the calendar the um teacher PC work days those would more than likely transition back to student days too. Got it. To make that so we have make make as few changes as possible to still be able to keep going because parents as soon as we send this out there they'll be um you know it's vacation planning it's what we're doing over holiday planning all that stuff. Yep. Anything else with that? I would like to make the recommendation to approve the 2526 calendar academic calendars as presented. We have
036a motion or I'm sorry we have a recommendation. Do we have a motion? Motion, Eric. Second. I'll second. Mindy, all in favor? Up next, we have some updates. Our football field track um update. Um you can see the road grader out there. They're finishing up um grading the area. Um they've mobilized the asphalt um asphalt machines there, the steel roller. Those things are there. I believe as soon as they get a break from the weather, it's um temperature- wise that they will start doing asphalt. So, we are we're on schedule. I know everybody would like for it to go faster, but we cannot as temperature that it is right now. So, yes. How's coach Wade um accommodating with the logistics to Rogers and when they're not the indoor, how's that all starting? Well, it's going
037well. They are busing kids to Riders Heritage and everything. Um, Coach Way has been outstanding, you know, driving the bus over there and everything. And when you go the mornings to our indoor facility, our indoor facility, we used to think it was the most used building. We were wrong. It's now. You know, you have both our male and female athletes warming up together, stretching together. They are utilizing every square inch of that indoor to make sure that our kids needs are met. Are we letting student drivers drive over there to Rogers like Yes, ma'am. That would be the same, but they're not coming back. That would be the same. Parents have to sign off on it. And I believe no one can ride. No one can ride with your buddies with you. Okay. Up next
038we have um first reading the policies. I emailed those to you. Um this is just first reading no actions tonight. There will be more. There is a lot of motion in the legislative session. So we will be getting several more updates. And you know I don't anticipate it being at the same level of changes when the learners act was passed. It felt like almost every policy changed it and just changed the word learn in there and everything. But we will have some movement in there and you will see some some changes. So we're eagerly eagerly anticipating what what's coming our way. So any questions? We should have our second reading probably in April and approval in May. I would hope we may have to push that to May and June, but I'd like to have
039it approved in April and May if possible. Next is guaranteed energy savings. This is our second year since construction. Um to be going through this process, um what we're going to talk about today is from November of 23 to October 24. Um for that year, our year kind of got off with the delay instruction. 12 month periods aren't following perfectly the purpose of the year. Um you know just to refresh our scope of work completed for the fun for that project was light body upgrades it now this is a work except for the high school it was in construction that in um had this but lighting upgrades districtwide in HVAC system at our intermediate Utah campuses um HVAC control management throughout the district water conservation improvements that's everything from foot pedals to aators on on
040the faucets and power factor correction at the junior high. That's how we're, you know, making the energy cleaner coming into the building so it's more efficient. Building envelope improvements, that's weather stripping, just making sure we're not losing air um during this air conditioning in the summer and heat in the winter. And new roof systems that are intermediate junior high campuses and high ice machine heat exchangers. Um, when we did this project, our main goal was to get new roofs and HVAC systems on two of our buildings. And we were able to uh use partnership funds through the state to basically pay 25 cents on the dollar for the upgrades. We we financed those upgrades to the money bond. We're using the guaranteed energy savings to pay that to pay that note. Our note is right
041around $160,000 a year for that. And so we'll go over that. So what we did is we upgraded our facilities with a cost neutral solution to because we desperately needed to work specifically at the junior high. We leaped more than more than a little bit. We leaped a lot and so we were able to make those upgrades and when you look at our year 2 energy savings um from our measured energy savings from electricity demand and natural gas and water savings we're right at 140 $139,000. our non-measured savings. We adjusted in 2000 and you have to remember those non-measured savings. Um it costs more to measure the savings that once you actually get back like the the roof is in there. You only have so much savings in electricity from a new roof. But from
042a repair standpoint, we're miles ahead. Um operational savings, that's kind of where the roof savings are coming in is right at $29,800. And this year we had some rebates. Um furnaces from Black Hills Energy. We got around $30,800 last December and re not last December, two December ago in rebates. So that brought our total savings for this year um guaranteed savings verified at $29,869 and our guaranteed threshold was right at 168 which is a saving variance of about $41,700. So, we were very pleased with that, but please remember we had $30,000 in rebates. We will not be getting $30,000 in rebates in a year. So, to put it in terms of the project so far, um, we're right at verified savings of $5.1 million for the project. You have to remember that partnership funds their
043savings on the project and everything with a guaranteed savings price point so far at 4.9. So right now we're ahead about $153,000 in energy savings from where we thought we were going to be. So it it's a it's it's beneficial. Um Mr. Neon Shane is doing a great job. One of the things that you have to do is it's electricity use and our biggest use of electricity. It used to be computers. It's not anymore. It's the HVAC systems. So run the automated controls and making sure we stay on top of those are are what drive your energy savings with LED lighting. Don't get me wrong, there is energy savings there, but nothing is comparable to the HX system running up when appropriate. So good stuff there. Are there any questions? No, I just I I
044know. I was when we did this, I was really questioning that the net neutral cost on this and I'm really impressed. Yeah, I'm pleased to see that it is. We will, but you have to remember our price points were set at um at the current level as inflation takes hold and unit takes a unit of energy takes more, your your savings will be um about the same. Um, we haven't seen a reduction in our our bills because well the prices have gone up for everyone else and we added about 150,000 square ft of high school space when that came on. But it definitely gave us some cushion to that. But the main thing is we were able to utilize about about $4.5 billion of partnership funding for the new HVAC systems at our intermediate and
045junior high campuses. That's amazing. That's it. Any other questions on that? Okay. Um, up next we have our financial advisor agreement. Um, every 3 years we're required by law to renew our financial advisor agreement. We follow you first security bure. They have done a wonderful job for us over I'd say here at least 25 years in here that that I know of. Um you know they help us with a lot of things. Um some of it is you know with our assessor's office. They confer um you know abstract changes. They help us with assessment valuations assess value changing every year. You know that's real personal and utilities. um with the village all back which we just did. They help us verify that to make sure it's correct. The review current pass um state a notices
046they consult and advise the annual school election which we have coming up and when we um ever go out for a bond um they help help us manage that as well. Um, I've been very pleased with them over the past I've been a central office now for I think 14 years and we've been very pleased with Mr. Love and um are there any questions? I don't know. Okay. Um, with that, I'd like to make the recommendation to employ um, u security biz beardsly as financial advisor for a period of three years effective as the date of adoption. Okay, we have a recommendation. Do we have a motion? I'll make a motion. Brian, you have a second. I'll second. All in favor? None opposed. Up next, we have our proposed budget of expenditures um of tax
047levy for fiscal year beginning July 1, 2026 and include June 30, 2027 and our sample ballot. Um every year we're required to approve a proposed budget expenditure that's actually two fiscal years away. Um it's a state law. Um we work with our financial advisor for security to ensure we are compliance with the law. Um we are also asking for the sample ballot to be approved for the upcoming school election. Last month we discussed the 2.1 mil roll back um for our community that budget and sample ballot reflect the mill roll back um from 47.2 to 45.1. The one thing on the sample ballot that's not on there um we haven't had the window to do for people to um state that they're running or not for the school school board election. So that part's explained
048but we won't know that part until this is part two. So we're well in compliance. Are there any any questions? With that, I'd like to make the recommendation to adopt the adopt and attach proposed budget of expenditures with tax levy for fiscal year beginning July 1, 2026 to and including June 30, 2027 and to approve the related sample ballot. Okay, we have recommendation. Do we have a motion? Motion. Motion by Eric. Second. I'll second. Second by Ryan. All in favor? None opposed. The wording for that recommendation was yeah next we have All right. Uh it is 710 and we will go into executive session.