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2026 June Board Meeting

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2026-06-23
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Blue Earth County, MN
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2026-06-24

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001We got enough >> three. >> I will I was kind of waiting to see what you guys were doing. >> Okay, I'm gonna call a meeting for order at 6 o' Do a roll call, please. Nick. >> Sure. Ben, you there remotely? >> Yes. >> Connie is here. Myself? >> Karen? >> Yep. >> Sarah is absent as well. >> Doug, >> yes. >> Mr. Collins >> here. >> Miss Holland >> here. >> And Mr. Gensel? >> Yes. >> Roll call complete. >> Okay. And then I need a motion for approval of the agenda. So move. I'll >> second. Thank you. And then we have positive recognition. >> Well, no >> this is just giving positive shout outs. One is to our very own Miss Holland recognized by me Mesa as principal of the month for

002June. We put that out in ENU. So congratulations. >> Congratulations. Spartan softball all conference Pton Blunt Madison Winkler all conference honorable mention Avery Wilmis academic all state Aubrey Mathwitz Braxton Breezy Brena Irvin Paige St. Peter all district Braxton Breezy the entire varsity team received the academic allstate gold level team award awesome academic allconerence Aubrey Maths Braxton Breezy Bren Iran Paige St. Peter A. Blunt, Hannah Brekie, Cell Breie, Melanie Davis, Taylor Holtz, Patty Job, is it Joel? Patty Job, and Ava Osmanson. Cyclone baseball, all conference honorable mention. Jacob Van Burkham, Spartan Golf, all conference. John Pierce, Sam Fry, all conference honorable mention. JJ Cumberland, Nathan Nathaniel Olsen. All conference girls, Brooklyn Mang, Celia Johnson, Addison Fox, and the section finals participants, Celia Johnson and Nathaniel Olsen. Trap shooting with the JWP target team, Janessa Carson, top

003female shooter, Cody Weederhoff, top male shooter. Cycle and track and field, section 2A coach of the year, Ashley Swanson. Class A Minnesota State True Team eighth place state Valerie Quas first place in the 800 meter state champion third place in the 1600 meter run sixth place in the 100 meter dash eighth place in the 200 meter dasha Leslie Caitlyn Anderson Mia Leslie eighth place in the 400 meter relay Wyatt Lean Oliver Schul Blake Mlinton Huntley Lent sixth place in the 4x100 meter relay. Ma Leslie eighth place in the 800 meter run. School records Valerie Quas 1600 meters and the 800 meters. Oliver Schul 200 meter dash. Laya Clauss, Aaliyah Leslie, Caitlyn Anderson, Micaia Leslie, the 4x 800 meter relay. Wyatt Lean, Oliver Schul, Blake Mcclinton, Huntley Lens in the 4x100 meter relay by the Quas

004the triple jump. Kate Dailyaly Pball. It's pretty easy to see why we did pretty well at that true team section with that level. Academic all state girls team gold level. academic all state and Aaliyah Leslie. >> Very good. >> Outstanding friends. >> Yes. Congratulations to all of you young people. >> Okay. Next we have our donations. Tell me. >> All right. We have a big list. We received 170 library books and some additional books for the annual Misfit book event from Britney Genen. And that was $1,75 value. We received 18 books and again more misfit books from the Jackson family at $160 value. We received fidget toys for the AR treasure chest from Ian Marzinski at a $50 value. We received an anonymous donation for the meals for the May school update gathering with the

005backers, the gifts, and the PTO in the amount of $328.65. We received boxes of two pocket folders from Denny Dodson with a $45 value. We received $800 from the St. American Legion Auxiliary Auxiliary for the 2025 scholarships. We received the meals for the sixth grade WOW zone end of year event from the St. Clair PTO and the value was $62 that they paid directly to the WOW zone. And we received $24545 from the St. Clair State Bank for the donuts and juice for the students on the last day of school. And finally, we received $51 from the graphic edge for the baseball activity account. So, thanks to all of those. >> Okay. The board hereby accepts with appreciation donations as presented and directs administration to acknowledge contributions accordingly. Thanks everybody. Okay. Any no unfinished business

006on to the new business? may need to consider consent agenda items and ident favor. >> Oh, that's right. Roll call. >> Karen, >> yes. >> Ben, >> yes. >> Myself, yes. Connie, >> yes. >> Okay. Thereby, I'll approve. Thank you. Next, we need approval of the consent agenda items. the minutes of the May 18th, the bills as presented, student enrollment and our policy second reading. I need a motion. Oh, that was already considered. >> You did that. >> That's all there. All right. Next on resignations. Included in your supporting documentation is the resignations of Alexandra Bane, Jonathan Hack, and Terra Courtz. Also, the resignation of custodian Hannah Heler and via text communications custodian Rick M. So, I need a motion, please. >> Okay, we have a motion by Doug. I have a second. >> Second

007by Karen. Roll call vote, please. >> Call vote. Karen, >> yes. >> Myself, yes. Ben, >> yes. >> Connie, >> yes. >> Doug, >> yes. All in favor. >> All in favor? Motion passed. Next, we have it. So, appointments. The administration recommends approval of the appointment of high school counselor Anthony Cester, art teacher Jesus San Diego III, and custodians Lisa Himleman, Mike Loi, and Don Baker. All the resumes have been included for the board review. Entertain a motion. >> So second >> motion by Karen and a second by Mick. Roll call vote, please. >> Karen, >> yes. >> Ben, >> yes. >> Myself, yes. Yes. Doug, >> yes. >> Okay. Next on the agenda is the summer employee employee listing and the following is a list of summer 2026 employees. Kids connection. Tiffany Hinger, Carrie

008Altamari, Maria Miller, Braxton Breezy, Lincoln Freighic, Aubrey Matawitz, Sophia Tolberg, Morgan Romeilt, Lily Trier, Lexi Shorts, Steven Ller, and the subs are Nora Romeilt, Jack Romeil, and Natalie Casar. Uh, the building and grounds, Chris Lynch, Brian Strand, and Dale Hall. The technology is Will Froman, Louis Simonette, and Cole Wilson. Gball and Little League, Ashley Sander, Patty Joby, Madison Winkler, Harper Wilness, Stella Brekie, Taylor Holtz, Ava Agustinon, Edrey Audrey Anderson, Parker Hopper, Regan Aspelin, Hannah Brekie, Chad Swanson, Ka Carter, Avery Romas, Eli Zeber, and Tyler Sander. Targeted Services. Cassandra Kim, Ashley Sander, Casey Gerity, Ashley Miller, Jennifer, Jennifer Corpsstein, Caitlyn Young, Vincent Bose, Hattie Joey. The employees that are paid through the special education budget are Landon Freighic, Hannah Young, Mallerie Art, and Cassandra Mart. So, I need a motion to approve the summer employee as

009presented. >> I'll make the motion. >> Motion by Doug. >> Second by Karen. Oh, second by Ben. Okay. Roll call. Wait again. >> Karen, >> yes. >> Ben roll call. Okay. Myself. Yes. County. >> Yes. Okay. >> All right. Motion passed. Including your supporting documentation is the summer wage schedule for 2026. If you haven't had a chance to look at it, look it. Otherwise, we'll enter a motion to approve it. Thank you for putting that together. Motion by Nick. >> Second by Karen. >> Roll call by >> Yes. >> Ben. >> Yes. >> Myself. Yes. >> Yes. >> Doug. >> Yes. And then we have the targeted services budget included in the supporting documentations and budget for this summer's targeted services program. We need a motion to approve the budget and final staffing for targeting

010services as presented. >> So move motion by Karen. >> I'll second >> second by Doug. Roll call vote please. >> Yes. >> Myself. Yes. >> Yes. >> Doug. Yes. Motion approved. All right. Next on we have removal of district policy 701.2. A copy of this policies included with your supporting documentation. And we're going to approve the removal of district policy 701.2 which is the general fund unreserved undesated fund balance. This policy was adopted in 2004 prior to the district's adoption of MSBA model policy 714 fund balance in 2011. Provisions contained in policy 701.2 are fully addressed within policy 714, making policy 71.2 redundant and no longer necessary. I need a motion to approve the removal of district policy 71.2, please. So move. >> So move by Nick. >> I'll second. >> Second by Doug. All

011those in favor, roll call, please. >> Karen, >> yes. >> Ben, >> yes. >> Myself, yes. Connie, >> yes. >> Doug, >> yes. All in favor? >> Okay. Motion approved. Then moving on to policy 714 fund balance. Pursuant to model policy 208, a school board may amend an existing policy by a single motion. The proposed revision to district policy 714 increases the unassigned ghetto fund balance from 30 to 60 days of operating expenses to 50 to 75 days of operating expenses. Revised policies included in the board packet. Do we need to say anything about anything to that, Jim? Yeah, I think um you know we had a work session. This was one of the topics that we spent a lot of time talking on. Even when we have presented to some of our groups and

012presented publicly when we were going out for the bond and levy, we showed that our low threshold is 30 days and uh 60 days was our top threshold. And I think just the concern u from you as a board and myself that the cost of doing anything nowadays is just crazy that we don't want that to dip down um to that 30-day. Uh and so bringing forth a recommendation based off of our conversation to move that threshold to uh 50 days and 75 days. Those would be the two thresholds that I'm recommending based on all of our conversations that we've had on this. >> Okay. Can I have a motion to approve the district change policy? So motion by Karen. I'll second it. Roll call vote, please. Nick. >> Karen. >> Yes. >> Ben. >>

013Yes. >> Oh, I thought we lost you. >> Myself. Yes. Connie. >> Yes. And uh yes, all in favor. >> All right. Thank you. >> Next, we have the high school activity participation fee. Approve the adjustment for grades 9 through 12. The Minnesota State High School League activity participation fee schedule. The participation fee will increase from $110 to $125 beginning with the 200627 school year. It will increase to $130 beginning with the 2027 2028 school year. you want to add to that? >> You as board members are aware there's there's lots of levels within the participation fee. There's there's a junior high level what we charge seventh and eighth grade students. Uh there's the knowledge builder speech. There's different levels that we off that we looked at following our conversation. Um and and again, we

014want as many students participating as possible. And in no way does this fee ever come close to supporting financial financially these activities. Uh and yet at the same time we all know that uh research has shown kids being involved in activities extremely important and almost every school district is about two to 2.5% of the entire budget where it's costing the school district and the taxpayers to run these. But I I think it's also um letting our parents know that our costs are going up a little bit. We're not trying to recoup all of it, but it's just a way of lightly keeping that increasing in front of the the parents. So, that's where I'm saying high school only. And you saw the wide range. There are schools in our area that are charging $200 at

015the high school level. There are some that are charging 90. Uh we were right in about the middle. Uh and this would really keep us still in about that middle. So I'm recommending for high school 9 through 12 athletics only increasing it as stated in the in the motion. >> Okay. Any other comments or questions about it? A motion to approve it. >> I'll make that motion. >> Motion by Doug. >> Second by second by Karen. Okay. Thank you. Nick roll please. >> Karen. >> Yes. >> Ben. >> Yes. >> Myself. Yes, Connie. >> Yes. >> All in favor? >> Thank you, Nick. Next, we have the blended learning requirements and schedule for the 26 27th school year. You want me to read that if you want to do that? >> Yeah, I can talk

016about a little more of what we discussed at the study session. Um, new for next year will be a concept called college study time. Uh the state of Minnesota requires that when students are participating in college in the schools or concurrent enrollment courses that the district allow them time during their day to attend to their studies. Um from what I've been told in the history that was what blended learning was supposed to accomplish as well as giving students a real life opportunity to manage their schedules and those types of concepts. we are switching gears a little bit to where we are going to give that time back to students within their day daily that they'll qualify for those college study times as opposed to simply a Tuesday and a Friday also as a result of

017this which will more closely align with what the college requirements are we are going to raise the GPA requirements to a 3.33 repeating up from a 3.0 the current requirements are 3.0 No, no grades below a C minus, not on attendance probation. Those things will still stay with the exception of the GPA part increasing. Students will also now be required to be at least partially meeting on NCA. Also, blended learning will move to being Fridays only. This will allow for the teachers to have four straight days of instruction, which will then hopefully increase our students ability to learn and manage their time. So for a student that is taking CIS courses, they will not see a dip in their amount of time that they get to attend to those learning activities. In actuality, it will

018increase for them throughout the year, but it will be on a daily basis, not on Tuesdays and Fridays. I think I think too that in our our work session and and you have to remember we've been talking about blended since I've been here because how did it impact uh PSO? Um does it impact PSO? how many classes should this so we've been talking about this uh the six years that I've been here and I know that in our work session when we were um talking specifically just about the GPA moving to 3.33 and the MCAs you had board numbers quickly all came to a conclusion yeah that's that's something that it should be if you're going to be in blended learning uh and so I think that we got to that you know real quick

019and then of course changing um that blended to one day um when you're changing your history what you had done but when we found out at the college of the schools with study time I think that we all in that session said yeah let's move this direction and so then I said I want it public and I want you to approve it tonight because this is the direction that I believe we should go as well >> and I think a board member I think we all pretty much agreed to it was a good way to to go in the setting time for the college student taking college is a would be a really good thing. I think >> and just as a note, one final thought with the blended learning is that a parent can

020still say they don't want their child to have blended learning. As well as we have a number of students that while they qualify for college study time because they're choosing to basically take an overload, they're taking band, they're taking choir, they're taking Spanish, those students may not have college study time, but it's because they're going to use that time to take additional classes. So, >> I think it's also um as as Troy talked about it, it's important to note that I've said this before, St. Clair for a school our size, the number of college and schools offerings that we have. >> Um when that was started way back, that was extremely wise. And also try to talk to you about board members then it's a good problem to have. than scheduling for him to try

021and schedule that when you have that many. He has to be very careful in how he's scheduling to make those opportunities and sometimes students have to make choices. >> That's good lesson for life. >> Yeah. >> Making choices. >> It's also it also should be noted that blended is a privilege not a right. and it should be rewarded to those students who excel in the classroom and who are doing the right thing. So I just wanted to thank okay then I would like to entertain a motion to approve the blended learning requirements and schedule for the 26 27 school year as presented. So motion by Karen >> second by Nick roll please. Karen, >> yes. >> Ben, >> yes. >> Myself, yes. Connie, >> yes. >> And yes, all in favor. >> Thank you. Okay.

022The 2627 environmental services contract recommending a renewal agreement for the 2627 school year with Holland Solutions Company for environmental health and safety services. This agreement includes 15 site visits per fiscal year at cost of $6,525. Last year's agreement was $6,225. A copy of the 26 27 proposal included in our packet. Any questions or discussion on that? Collins have been doing that for us for quite a number of years and do a very fine job. >> Very good job and a great question um was asked to me like what what does it entail? Just to give a quick picture, it's keeping us on schedule with our radon testing, keeping us on schedule with the lead in the water testing, then lining up those individuals who come in and do those things. As you know, we had

023um I'll just say a revolving door of custodial staff. Uh we rely on them to come in, do the health and safety training, um bloodborne pathogen training for our staff. Again, it's just making sure they stay up with all the laws and then they make sure that we're staying up with it and doing the hiring at a very very reasonable rate. >> Any more comments or discussions? Motion. >> I'll make that motion. >> Thank you, Doug. Second call, please. >> Karen, >> yes. >> Myself, yes. Connie, >> yes. and >> yes all motion pass. Thank you. Next we have our invitation for milk bids. After the invitation for bids for FY27 milk and related products is included in the packet. We're requesting receive sealed bids for milk and related products for the period of July

0241st, 2026 through June 30th, 2027 with bid opening be held Wednesday, July 8th, 2026 at 10:00 a.m. >> Where's that bid opening at? >> District office. >> Okay, other questions or discussion? Need a motion, please. So, thank you, Karen. I'll second. >> Second. Thank you. >> Karen, >> yes. >> Roll call. >> Yes. >> Myself, yes. Connie, >> yes. >> And >> yes. >> Okay. Next on the agenda is a resolution calling for the general election. Can I read all that? >> You can wait for reading of it. >> You don't have to read it all. >> Okay. Okay. We're going to be holding the general election for the purpose of electing three school board members for the terms of four years each. And then the rest of it you can find in the board

025packet you want to read about it. >> I'll introduce the resolution. >> Thank you. M second. Okay. Um have a motion and a second. All those in favor or actually roll. >> Yes. Ben, >> yes. >> Myself, yes. Connie, >> yes. >> Doug, >> yes. >> All in favor. And you don't have to answer, but I would like to know if you want to answer. I know that uh Ben, Connie, and Doug, you're the ones that are up for reelection. Do you plan on running at this time? It' be just good for me to know. >> I'm planning on box. My feeble brain doesn't really give up on me. >> Okay. Doug, do you want to share? >> My intention is to >> Okay. >> And Ben, do you want to share or not? >>

026Yeah. My intention is to run this one. >> Okay. Thank you. And thank you for sharing. >> Okay. The audit engagement letter copy of the audit agreement for the year end of June 30th, 2026 is good in our documentation. The FY25 audit was 26,487. The proposed contract amount for F26 is estimated to be 25,725 plus out of pocket expenses. We need a motion to approve the agreement with I have discussion on that. Kelly second by Roll call. >> Roll call. Karen, >> yes. >> Ben, >> yes. >> Myself, yes. Connie, >> yes. >> And Doug, yes. All >> Motion approved. Thank you. Workers comp property liability insurance removal. FY27 proposals for workers comp, property liability, cyber insurance, $166,965 is the total package. And a note is that the work comp is always adjusted at year

027end based on actual payroll. So we're looking to approve a motion to approve the proposal for the workers comp property liability cyber insurance renewal as presented. >> And unfortunately we're a reflection of what's happening in the the world are of all those items. How many are there? Six or seven different ones. Uh the average is they're going up on an average about 10%. I would make that motion to approve it. >> Second by Karen. Call please. >> Karen. >> Yes. >> Ben. >> Yes. >> Myself. Yes. >> Yes. >> All right. All approved. Next is the FY27 budget proposal. >> Kelly is up. >> Yes. >> Okay. If you want to look at your onepage summary sheet that I had handed out, um I just again use the same format and I will go through

028um the lines quickly and then you can just holler if you have any questions as I don't go. At the top the top three lines are all of the actuals from our audit report. So um that breaks it down by fund. Obviously the general fund um has the the bulk of our operating expenses. So at the end of FY25, our total general fund balance was 4.5 million. And with the end of FY25, we also had 1.8 million left in our building construction fund. And so I'll talk about that a little bit more as we go down. So the next three lines, the FY26 projections, those were all basically um everything that you approved last year at this time. So, it's it's old information, but it's what was set in stone and approved by the board

029in June of 2025. And so, um, I did add the green line item to move the the building construction fund balance. And so, when we approved that FY26 budget a year ago, I had thought that we'd have about $1.1 million left in the building fund at that time. Um, but per the actual audit numbers, we had the 1.8 million. So, I needed to code about $700,000 more to that building fund in FY26 just to close that out because we are going to close that out through the audit process this year. So, as of June 30th, 2026, um that that fund will fall off. So, um it's not increasing those expenses, it's just recoding those things and um hopefully we'll get things cleaned up. we've had a hard time just getting closure on some of the

030items and so we'll get those things cleaned up different mechanical things that have come up and so forth. So, >> so just as an example, um part of the project for the last three years has been to red curtain. They're finally doing it tomorrow. >> Well, that's going to be then deducted from the revenue that's been put over. There's still some constru the parking lot Neielson is coming back this summer to fix a low spot two years um two years in. Well, that's 15 to $18,000 that's going to get deducted. So, even though you see the money moving over, there are still things that were planned that we've held the money back on some of these contractors that we will now be paying out u throughout the summer. And so, there's a list uh of

031those types of items that are clean up and definitely we want to clean up and gone by June 30th of this year. Go ahead, Kelly. Okay. So, um with that said, then looking at FY27, um as you had noticed earlier, Kate had the enrollment and we're looking at about 800 students right now as as the projection for this coming year. Obviously, that will change many many times throughout the summer. Um but again, I'll start with the general fund. Our projected revenues are 11.5 million and our projected expenditures are 11 million. So, um, looking at that, we are looking at an increase in the fund balance of about $477,000. However, as you can see below, that includes restricted funds. And so, um, we've talked about that each year, um, all of the the long-term facilities maintenance

032revenue is included in that fund balance amount, but that is restricted for those types of items. And so we've been fortunate to to build that restricted fund balance up as a result of the building project and doing those kinds of of projects through that fund six. And so um with that said that of that $477,000 that we're looking at the increase would be about $177,000 to the unassigned fund balance. And that's after all of the staff right sizing that that we have gone through and and discussed for this upcoming year. So again, that will still um increase by about 177,000 for the unassigned fund balance. >> I think that's there's two things that important to note. The LTFM is 300,000 of that, which is good because then we can save that for the projects that

033are the roofs and that are going to be here within five years and the track that we have to, you know, put some money into. But we made budget reductions, right sizing of almost 500,000 and we're only growing by 107. I don't want to say only, but so that tells you how our costs are going up and I think the board did a good job of trying to match the expected expenditures with our revenue that would be coming in. Go ahead. I'll keep interrupting you. Don't worry. >> That's good. Um and then just yeah just a to reiterate about onethird of our projected general fund balance is actually restricted. So again we've we've been very fortunate to continue to build up that long-term facilities maintenance fund balance. And so that's going to be getting close

034to $2 million by the time we're done with FY27. And so we'll be ready to um you know have the increased costs of all the maintenance of our new additions. Did you just say LTFM will be around 2 million? >> Yep. By the end of FY27. >> FY27. >> Yep. Yep. >> So, um then moving on to food service. Again, we've been fortunate to to have a fund balance in that fund. So, we've been able to do the um equipment or purchase the equipment needs out of the food service fund instead of out of the general fund like we've had to in the past. And so um with the revenues we are looking at 664,000 and our expenditures 643,000. So we're looking at increasing that fund balance by about $20,000. And I have budgeted $25,000

035of new equipment in that fund um in that fund as well for anything that comes up throughout the year in the food service. And then community service. Uh we are looking at revenues of $346,000 and expenditures of a little over that of $348,000. So we will be dipping into that projected um or into that fund balance by about $2,000. But we do have an $80,000 um fund balance in that fund. And that is one that we talked about before where I do allocate um a portion of salary to community service fund. So that always gets it about to the break even. We've just been lucky to have a fund balance in that fund as well. And then the next column I'm super excited about. As you can see that nice zero at the bottom again,

036building construction fund will be over as of June 30th, 2026. So um and then the next fund, the debt service, that is based on all of our um actual bond payments and the principal and interest. So um that always has just a slight increase per statute. And so that will have about $180,000 in the fund balance after we make those required payments. And then the student activity um that's always their budget is what their balance is. And so that's just volatile throughout the the school year. And so I just have that as a a net zero and we don't technically put a budget in there. It's again whatever if they make a fundraising or do a fundraising event, they have that amount to spend and if they spend it tomorrow, then it's gone. So, so

037with that said, um that brings us through all of the funds and we're looking at about $6 million total in all of the different funds at the end of FY27. So, >> and of that, how much is that restricted percentage wise? >> Um again, I'd say it's about a just looking at the general fund. I didn't go into the other funds, but the general fund would be about um a third of that. So, we're looking at six That was five. So we probably have about that be probably about $2 and a half million dollars is what we'll probably have in the general fund. Just looking at all the different codes here. >> Again, you know, that LTFM is the huge one. We have compensatory that that's been, you know, a hot topic with the legislature.

038Um we do have some leftover um student support personnel that we'll be using for our social worker and but again LTFM that's a big chunk. So any other questions >> just a lot of money sitting in the food service. >> Can't do nothing about it. Well, and we're we're doing some >> doing some offsets. Yeah. >> Yeah, we are. Yeah. And it's, you know, it's perfect timing to have that fund balance because normally that when when the equipment, you know, it's the end of life, it's usually very hurtful >> to pull that from the general fund. You talk about the government eliminating the free >> and all come and gone. We'll see the next session. >> See what happens. >> It'll be a topic again. Okay. Okay. Any other questions or comments? I need a

039motion to approve the audit agreement. >> Proposal. Thank you. 27 budget proposal by >> Nick. Aaron. >> Yes. >> Ben. >> Yes. >> Myself. Yes. Connie. >> Yes. >> And >> yes. >> All in favor. >> Motion pass. All right. Next is the long-term facility maintenance and your capital plan. >> All right. As we just chatted about, um the long-term facilities maintenance revenue or the LTFM revenue um has to have a separate revenue and expenditure 10-year plan that we approve every year piggybacking on our budget. So, all of these amounts that are on those three spreadsheets that you can't read because they're so small, all of the the numbers on those are actually included in our regular budget. So, um, when you look at the first page of the handout that I, um, gave you

040at the very bottom in the yellow, that $335,000 is approximately what our revenue will be for this coming year in LTFM. And of that, about $200,000 is aid and about $125,000 is the levy portion. And so, that's basically the guts of those first two pages. However, it does show all the anticipated revenue going out the 10 years and it's pretty constant as you can see if you look at the bottom of page one that's the grand total going out those 10 years and FY36 and so then if you flip to the third page that is our expenditure sheet and so we also along with the revenue we need to um break down and there's separate codes now for for all of the the types of maintenance expenditures that we do And so in including the

041Holland solutions um those types of expenditures and roof projects any anything like that um is coded to this and again we've been able to use the building fund a lot of that and so um our fund balance has continued to increase and so if you look toward the bottom of that page it shows the FY26 and 27 revenue projection projection model revenue and so it'll show the fund balances listed across cost. And so basically the last nine line of actual numbers on that that third page there. And so as you can see um in our base year we are looking at about 1.5 million as the the fund balance at the end of the year. And as we talked about at the end of FY27 we're looking at about 1.8 again depending on what comes

042up throughout the year if we decide to code anything else there. and then so forth. And if you keep moving over, um, again, I have some of the expenditures in here, but we'll continue to use this as a working document and and add things like the roof replacement schedule and those types of things. So, um, it looks really nice and huge right now, that $4 million going 10 years out, but obviously we're going to have a lot of things that come up in between now and then. So that is the plan that we need to also approve and then resubmit this to the department of education with the final approved minutes next month. >> Okay, that's do I have a motion? >> Motion by Doug. Second by Karen. All in favor roll call, please. >>

043Yes. >> Myself. Yes. Connie, >> yes. All right. Thank you. Okay. Next on the agenda is the school calendar for 2027 2028. The administration recommends approval of that school district calendar developed in collaboration with the teaching staff. Those calendars included in the supporting documentation review. Please note that graduation will be on Friday, May 19th, 2028 at 7:00 p.m. >> And this was tabled at our last uh board meeting. I think that everybody like the core part of the calendar. Our only discussion was really on graduation whether it would remain on Sunday or move to Friday through the work session. Um not only moving it to Friday but moving it uh ahead when the senior's last day so to speak. Um and again as board members we all know that you take a poll across the

044state of Minnesota there's graduation on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. So, um I think as a board we said let's give this a shot and move to that Friday on May 19th. So, that's a recommendation we bring forward to the board meeting tonight. >> I would make the motion to approve the 2728 school district calendar as presented. A second. >> Okay. Motion second. Thank you. Roll call, please. >> Yes. >> Ben, >> yes. >> Myself, yes. Yes. >> Doug, >> yes. >> Motion pass. Approve the district. Policies for next time will be the 7.1 procurement policy as revised and dollar. Elementary will report. Um, summer is usually a pretty short port. Uh, we have summer school starting up. Uh we have 61 participants enrolled and that will run from July 13th to August 6th. Um

045I am going to be done with class with the initial draft of class lists by the end of this month. And I want to put the disclaimer out there that um Sarah will start entering kids into JMC just so she's not scrambling to get it all done right before the beginning of the school year. But until the email comes out from our office saying that this is the class that your child is in, I do reserve the right to move kids around as we get new enrollments and that sort of thing. So um it usually doesn't move a lot, but every year I do end up moving some kids around even after Sarah has had it in JMC. So for all the parents who are getting super excited and going to be, you know, creeping

046on JMC starting right after Fourth of July to see if she's got it in, that is my disclaimer that it's not final. Okay. >> Um and then the final thing I have there is um we are as an elementary staff and I think we may be doing some collaboration with the high school as well. We are um applying for the school of excellence. Um it's through MESPA which is the the state elementary principles association but what it is is it's an evaluation process. And so it's based on six national standards of excellence. So, as a staff, it's really like an internal audit of how we are functioning and how we're serving the community and how we're serving our students. And um the the purpose of it is to come out with an action plan on

047how we can continue to improve. And so, the things that they look at are learning centered leadership, um community diversity, which is something that is a challenge for us. And so, you know, what does that look like in a community like Sinclair? We look at school culture, the quality of instruction, um how do we use knowledge and data to make decisions and community engagement as well. So, um you know, there will be a lot of a lot of deep dives into, you know, the data resources that we have here in the building. There will be surveys that are going out to community members and families and to students and to staff to how we're doing. So, um we've applied for a two-year process with the idea that if it's not as big a challenge as

048we think it is, we may be able to wrap it up in one year. But um yeah, so that's something that we will be doing for the next two years and hopefully that will give us some really good information um on on how we're working. How long that certification last? >> Yeah, we do. Once we receive the certification, it's good for seven years. >> Hey, >> yeah, again, congratulations to the class of 2026. Um, I'm always been very impressed with the community participation um in graduation. Those that are there, not because they have uh seen in the game with the kid graduating her grandchild that just because they want to support St. Clair. Um I thought the part of Tim's speech where he talked about the grandparents and their role there participation that's what makes

049St. Clair unique and that small town feel. Um with that as we look at scheduling to piggy back on what Nikki talked about uh 72 students already received their schedules before they they left. Um but with that those were very unofficial as well as um we get new enrollments or students possibly leaving for open enrollments elsewhere or moving um there may be changes to that as well. So with that for students that are looking to enroll that might be listening to this um on Wednesdays during the month of July and August that is the great time for you to come in if you would like a tour of the school if you'd like to learn more about the school. Um I'm coordinating with uh Miss Sherry High School off lead secretary as well as our

050new school counselor Anthony Cester so that we are all here on those dates to read those families. >> That's all I have. >> Sounds good. >> Will that be um put on like social media or newspaper or anything? >> I would love if Jay would you guess Wednesday July Wednesday. >> Wednesdays beginning in July through August. So if you're a new family looking for a tour, that type of thing, come on in on Wednesdays. >> Okay. So >> yeah, I just had two uh quick hitters reminder. uh board members would like to meet with meeting and Troy just for not all board members but uh Connie Ben and Karen uh meet for just 10 minutes following and talk about negotiations and I just want to um talk about I know that you was a board

051uh at our work session we walked down to the the small gym but the theater seat project was crazy how it all evolved and it just turned out >> but the I don't think she'll me mind me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me mentioning her name, but Stephanie Leler reaching out to me saying that she found these seats for 160 seats for $200. >> The ability to go up there, look at them. They disassembled all the seats for us graciously um had them ready. And then our high school, some high school seniors and juniors were loaded up on a bus. We brought them here on trailers. Mike's crew then disassembled all the old ones. Duke helped with the uh scrapping them out

052and putting in his D trailer and getting rid of what we need to get rid of and Tim HR and Jason putting them in. It's just a project that evolved that looked really good. >> It was really nice. >> So yeah, just a unique project that worked out, but it took a lot of things that happened. So again, it all started with somebody saying, "Hey, >> I found a good deal." >> You're welcome. Thanks to him for help. We'll start. >> So, yeah, just a couple quick hitters and our high, as you can tell as you walk in here, our custodial staff is already getting things. It's June 22nd. They're getting the high school side knocked out and going to the elementary and Mike's been I know today when I pulled him, he was over

053at this um preschool building putting in some cameras that have been needed and >> takes a lot of little extra leg work there, too. is coming together quite well compared to the years when it was just total dust shamps off to the crew. >> Okay, thanks. Board reports go >> met on June 9th in typical year resations and we're also working on business manager that's always up in the air. >> Okay. uh city council um the fiber install the seat hall is done and they're we're working on the stuff for the water yet that's done now you know okay um and the road construction update at that meeting which is on June the second they were about a week behind due to rain on road construction but I think with the United um they had

054some donations they accepted Um they're talking about some way to do a speed zone on Front Street and 18 Street because the speeds there are pretty pretty wild. I guess kind of a sad news. Dan McCullum who's been uh city maintenance crew for 27 years retired. So um I'm sure they'll be interviewing her. >> Hold I just talked to her. >> Yeah. Well, she did >> September September. >> Okay. Like, wow, she's already back. >> But she's she lot of knowledge, but I know a lot of phone calls from people. What are we doing? Um, they approved an audit and they're looking at maybe trying to purchase some chairs that are on wheels for the board members or the council members because on the carpet, the chairs they've got, you can't even just slide it

055back. It's sticky and they're heavy. And so, they thought maybe they could have some wheels. They said, "As long as you're not racing around them around the room when they're trying to have their meeting, that would probably be a good idea." Um, 53 fire chief calls. They have two new members. Um, they've been doing the mosquito spraying and we got the street sweeping set up and that was kind of pretty much it for anything that would probably impact us. >> So, what we're doing right now is we put the application up for people to apply >> for deot. >> Yeah, that would be nice. in the bus getting applications out and next week or so see what happens other than that everybody knows we're still trying to work on the street >> keep hearing people

056complaining they're doing things they shouldn't they got they got a camera vehicle. >> Wow. >> It's not Tim Collins. >> I I need to get home sometime. So, >> right. >> I ain't saying nothing. Yeah, >> a little bit. We're hoping that they're down on that end now working and on this end down here by stuff putting sand down and stuff. Once they get that done, hopefully they'll open up Adams that way. >> Oh, okay. >> What we've been told where it's been going everything change. >> Yeah. We'll see what happens. >> Well, at least the weather's been sort of cooperating with me as far as not too much rain, so that's good. Okay, thanks. Okay, open forum. Anybody else have anything you want to say? >> I got question. >> Yeah, >> it's easy.

057What's the story? I mean, >> is it the money or the >> I think it's the money and it's just uh it's people are transitioning more than ever before. You know, some are they come and then they move somewhere else and >> Yeah. But definitely part of it's the money. >> It's getting hard to find people that want to do that. >> Yeah. And always the nighttime shift is some people like it, but most people want to work during the day. >> So it's tough on the nighttime shift. >> New job, dude. >> Looking for a new job. >> Go from your day job to night time. >> What's that? >> Go from your day job to night time. >> Okay. Okay. Well, if nobody else has anything else, then uh I have a motion

058to adjourn the meeting. >> I'll second. >> Okay. Motion by Karen. Second. >> Okay. >> Karen. >> Yes. >> Ben. Motion to adjurnn. >> Yes. >> Thank God. Mick. Yes. Yes. >> Yes. >> All in favor. >> All right. Motion adjourned at 6:52. Thanks everybody.

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