001Ready to order at 601. Roll call, please. M uh Ben here. Connie here. Myself Karen here. Sarah here. Julian, I'm here. Mr. Collins here. Miss Holland not here. And Mr. here. All right. Introduction to visitors city. Thank you. All right. Welcome to St. Clair. Recently moved into town. Congratulations. We considered you one of us anyway. Now you just really really are. Now it's legit. You're right in town now. Are you right in town or out in the country? You live moved here? Yeah. Okay. All right. You got the brand new [ __ ] Yeah. Oh, you got the paved alley. Cool. During the weekend. All right. With that, can I get a motion for the approval of the agenda? So move. Got a motion from Karen. We got a second. Second. Second from Connie. All in favor
002say I. I. All. Motion carries. All in favor. Positive recognition. We have a lot of positive recognition. Uh I'm not going to follow it exactly because some of the school records were broken several times. But in track school record for the 4x two, Brooklyn Henzy, Janessa Carson, Ashley Mills, and Brook Hagen. Then the uh high jump 5 foot five school record Kate Dailyaly and the long jump school record Janessa Carson. Uh the school mile at 505.82 Valerie Quas and the school record for the two-mile at 1109.2 Valerie Quas all conference Brook Hagen Ashley Mills Janessa Carson Brooklyn Hensey in the 4x2 Brook Hagen Miley Quas Valerie Quas Kate Dailyaly in the 4x4600 Valerie cost 3200 Valerie cost high jump Kate Daly the 4x400 Oliver Shul Huntley Lince Wyatt Lean Paxton Holla uh and I do
003think that also all conference Wyatt Lean was supposed to be up in that section too you see that down below I'm not going to made all the track academic allconerence of 3.75. But of course, as a school board and school district, it's nice to see that 35 or 36 of these student athletes perform not only in um athletics, but at the academic at the highest level as as well. Track section runner up 4x400 LS Brook Hagen Kate Daily Val Claus section runner up 400 Wing section runner up PV Kate Dailyaly section runner up 3200 Valerie Class section champion 1600 Valerie Class and section champion high jump Kate Daly the girls track team was the section runner up the subsection champions and the conference champion so I'd say that was a pretty dang good year and
004then state uh Uh getting there is just unbelievable. But then when you perform at the highest level that Kate and Valerie did in the high jump, third place, second in the 1600 meter, and third place in the 3200, it's always very gratifying and you can go and perform at that level as well. Softball prep athlete of the week, Adeline Lton, all section Nikolai, all conference practice and Breezy. Mariah Miller, all conference honorable mention. Adeline Lton um softball academic allconerence. Again, I'm not going to read them all, but again, um our percentage of performing at that level is extremely high. And then softball academic all state, Madison, Nikolai, Maria Miller, Natalie Kaspovich, and Mackenzie Leos. Baseball all conference honorable mention Jacob Van Burkham all conference Ryan Ben Burkham Joseph somebody help me with that name and
005will youber golf academic all conference Kendall Cumberland Jack Swanson JJ Cumberland Adam Jones Brooklyn Ming Garrett Mills N Gilman and Andrew Hurley all conference honorable mention John Pearson Sam Fry quite awesome. All right, thanks for that Tim donations. All right, we have a bunch of those as well. We received $250 from the Eagle Lake Fire Department and that went to the after prom party. We received $500 from the St. Clair American Legion for the after grad party and another 500 from the St. American Legion for the class of 2027 parents. We received uh $2,417.94 in supplies and equipment from the St. Clair PTO and that went toward the elementary and high school staff school supply cupboards, elementary science fair treats, and the sixth grade wow zone meals. And we received a library book with a
006$10.99 value from Bram Badart. And we received uh two library books with $30 value from Henry Rother. So, thank you for all of those. Awesome. I have a couple from the St. Clives last weekend. We have a lot of our groups from the school that came and celebrated the parade. For example, our SRO officer led the parade. Um was there a thousand degrees with elementary teachers. We have FFA, community ed, um athletic backers, home bus, westside transportation class, a couple classes, and then um some track coaches played in the kickball tournament and Mrs. Drummer or Mrs. Carpenter and the drum line debuted in it was fabulous. They did a great job. The kids did so good. Fantastic. And hats off to Sarah. Absolutely, Sarah. not serve the committee. With that, we'll skip down to new
007business, but we we last month we tabled the retreat. Does that have to be put in the minutes? Um that it was tabled. Well, now that we approve, is it business? As far as old business, um well, the day still might be in question because not all of the board members can make it now on the 28th. So, I am part of that as well too. That's why I'm so unfinished. Unfinished. At the end of the meeting, we'll discuss our calendars and try and get get to a date. Well, thank you. You're welcome. All right. Some new business. Motion to consider the consent agenda. Make a motion. Second. Second. All right. All in favor say I. Opposed. Motion carries. All in favor. Okay. So, we have the appointments of Joe. Ster think there's a T
008missing. Oh, is there more ofense? All right. Holly for the elementary. Sorry, first is for the high school counselor. Holly is for the elementary position. Do I have a motion to approve those two appointments? I would make that motion. I made a motion. Second, second by Karen. All in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. All in favor? We have the the termination of kids connection employee Aaron discussion on that this time to move in a different direction. So do I have a motion to approve this termination Jillian made a motion second by Connie? All in favor say I. I opposed motion carries. All in favor? All right, resignations. We have the resignation of second grade teacher Heidi Heidi. All right. Uh, any discussion on this? No, we're happy for her. She landed a job.
009Um, we wish that she would have been able to stay with us, but we wish her the best. So, we are recommending that the board accept the resignation. And I know that that means that Nine will be interviewing again in a week or two. reason. All right. Do I have a motion to accept this resation? Motion second. Second. Second by hearing. All in favor say I. All opposed. Motion carries. All in favor. We have a request for family leave from Christina. discussion. No, it's um great reason going to bring a new little one into the world and um also is willing to hop in on workshop days and still get prepared as she knows that that's also commitment is to our kindergarten students. So, we're recommending that as well the family congratulations to her. Uh
010do I have a motion to approve and I'll make a motion. All right, Sarah made a motion to have a second all in favor say I. I motion carries. All right, we have a resolution to place a teacher on unrequested leave of absence. Have a member that wanted to introduce that. I'll do it. Nick has made a motion. I should say any discussion on this. Um, we acted on this at our last board meeting and we At that time, I clarified that there were it was definitely a gray area because the state changed the law on how many years would be accepted outside of the state of Minnesota, etc. So, our attorney at the time wrote that if we approved a non-renewal, the employee could say, "Well, I still want to be on ULA and
011that we wouldn't test it." And so, um, after receiving the non-renewal, Terra said that she would to be put on ULA for.57, which means she has a right to come back for a.57 position, but she does not have the right to come back for a full-time position for the next five years. So, upon her attorney's advice, and she's exercising that right, I'm recommending approval of the place. So, Mick may introduce the resolution, but I have a second. All right, Connie seconds. Yes. Yep. Sir, yes. And Julian, yes. So, next we have 2025 targeted services budget. Any discussion on this? This is an annual targeted services. It's basically money and money out. So, it's a um no cost program and a very good program. and we spend the money that we have coming in. Do I
012have someone make a motion to approve the target service? Motion second. Second. Connie second motion. All in favor say I. I opposed. Motion carries. All in favor. Next we have the 25 2026 yearbook publishing agreement. Discussion on that. Just again an annual for the year. I haven't looked at it closely but the committee has recommending some recommend July by Sarah. All in favor say I. All opposed. Motion carries. All in favor. Next we have the environmental services contract for 2025 2026 discussion of this. It's one of the few contracts that hasn't increased. Thank you Chandler. Chandler does a really good job for board members. Chandler comes in and trains all of our summer staff on health and safety issues. He hosts regular meetings. We talk about lead and water. Um he lines up all the
013testing on those things and just provides us with a really good service at a very fair cost. The same test. Yes, he lined up. It was more last year because of that, I assume. Is that right? Well, I don't Well, that Yes. Yeah. Well, that's a separate code. Everything has Yeah. Separate. So, this is just the environmental services. So, the basic code that we get a certain amount per pupil unit and then we also have all of the It's tied to the LTFM. And so when we get to my fun spreadsheets that that are like an I exam with the little red print, um I'll show you there's a code basically for everything. The building envelope right I'll make a motion. July seconds. All in favor say I. All carries. All in favor? Next, we
014have an invitation to promote bids. Standard business. I'll make that motion. Motion second. Second. Second. All in favor say we have the MSBA membership renewal. renewal for MSBA membership discussion provid technology lease. So in your supporting documents technology from capital management services for 2ear lease of $75. Yeah, this has pretty much been a standard too and St. Clair has been doing this for a long time since they've been on a one-on-one initiative and Mike Godberg is very fiscally conserv conservative and he goes through this in great detail. Um it's gone up about a,000 or 2,000 from last year which All right, with that sorry motion to approve the motion second. Second all in favor say I. All carries all in favor. Next we have the engagement letter $28,760 that was actually last year last year
015down which is great $2425 for the audit engagement in session and the the main reason it's going down is because when we had the uh FEMA grant um the offer was a little bit more intense and because of that the a little bit more intense. So that's the main reason we always do. Yeah, we have been they've been great to work with and you know we've gone back and forth and everyone has um you know we've had discussions before where um we've had different people from their auditing firm but I think it's really helpful because they know um what to look for and they've been here so it's almost like another you know another staff member that has has a lot of knowledge on our process and and Yep. Yep. They've been really good to
016work with and I do contact them throughout the year when things come up. I'll make a motion to motion. All in favor say I. I carries. All in favor? Next we have workers comp property liability insurance renewal. So you have a shoe on your desk. It's got all the information for that. It's gone up significantly. Any discussion there? Yeah. Um this is one of those costs that the board can't control. I can't control and it is skyrocketed in the last five years, but so has my homeowners insurance and my we have a business in downtown Was it's doubled in the last five years and this is a reflection of that as well. Are we allowed to shop around on this? We are. Um and we do we go through different um agencies and so forth
017and get the bids. Um this had a lot to do, you know, you know, what we've been living these last few years. So this went up last year. Um we had an estimate for our building value. So last year that was a reflection of $10 million increase in the building value and we went up another $12 million in FY26. So, you know, we're jumping our building value and replacement cost. So, that's where 22 total over the last years have gone up or I I guess I took that to mean it was an additional $2 million last year. It is an addition 12 million. Yeah. So, right now our building value is at over $55 million replacement cost. And so, just the building increase of that $12 million is $17,800 of our $24,800 increase. So that's
018a huge surprise taking that out. It actually seems really reasonable taking that out of the mix. Yeah. Hate to say that I hear you. Could you anticipate this stabilizing? Yes. Yes, for sure. For fiscal year 27. I would guess it'd get back down to about 10% is my hope. Okay. Which is still crazy. Still not in the world. Yep. All right. Any more discussion on that? With that, do I have a motion to approve? Got made a motion. Do I have a second? Second by Karen. All in favor say I. All opposed. Motion carries. All in favor. We're going to get a first name for a second. Can't do nothing about it. No. Uh, next we have the long-term facility maintenance 10-year capital plan. Anything to discuss here? Um, first the budget proposal. Budget proposal.
019Oh, I skipped right over that. Thank you. You're welcome. Sure. Uh, so yeah, fiscal year 26 budget proposal. So in the supporting documents, it's the re revenue and expenditure budget discussion on this. So I hand it out and I just um went with the same summary format that I have in the past. Um, so looking ahead at this moment, of course, it's going to be a revolving door um throughout the summer, but we're at 814 students is what our projections are. And last year for the budget, we projected 804 students. So, we've got a nice little increase again for this coming year. Um, and I know Tim's going to go over a lot of the legislative um information, but I'll just go over this quickly. So, the general fund is the bulk of our operations.
020So, that's the first column. And when you look at the three lines on this spreadsheet. Those are all actuals. And so that's all based off of the FY24 audit. And so it shows the unassigned fund balance and then it has the restricted committed assigned. So that would include a large chunk of that is our LTFM revenue and fund balance. And then um so if you look at the third line, that's all of our fund balance totals as of June 30th, 2024. And so then going down um the next line, the FY25 projected increase or decrease per last year's budget, that is exactly what you approved one year ago at this time. And so there's nothing modified on any actuals or or so forth. So that's exactly as it was one year ago. So um the
021historic information there. So based on that, then the next line would be our projected fund balance totals at the end of this fiscal year, which of course I'll be working on all summer. and the audit will be in September. So, um, if you go then to the FY26 projected revenues, the general fund, we're looking at $10.9 million and the expenditures, we're looking at 10,872,650. So, just a slight fund balance increase, but that does include um the restricted totals. When I'm doing the budgets, I just put all of those items together. Um and so our unassigned fund balance is predicted to go down this coming year. And so we will be spending into our fund balance um a little bit this year. And so the final fund balance we're looking at um maintaining and and the
022end result for general fund would be 3.8 million. And so looking at the notes below, that general fund budget includes $326,000 of LTFM revenue and only $38,000 of LTFM expenditures. And that'll be discussed at our next um agenda item. So, a lot of those um you know, we're continuing to build up that LTFM reserve, which we are fortunate to do because of using the building funds for roof projects for you know, all of these maintenance items that we've just um you know, re redone these last few years. So, so that will be nice um once we are ready to do the next rope section, we will have a nice fund balance there. Um so, then going into the next column, the service um that the projected revenues are $647,000 and projected expenditures are $628,300. So
023that should be going up um about $18,000 as well. And we do have a nice fund balance in that um fund. We are going to um plan to use $25,000 of that for new equipment this coming year. We did have a large chunk that we used for new equipment this past year, which um due to the the new free meal structure and the funding of food service, that's been very helpful too to get um out some different equipment items changed out from our 20 year old ones that we had with the last building project. So instead of having to transfer from our general fund, that's been very helpful to be able to take that right from fund to the food service fund. And then the community service fund that includes community ed as well as
024preschool um early childhood family ed should that be coming back and any school readiness activities. That's all taken from there along with our kids connection program. So that's all in the community service fund. And so the revenues we're looking at 331,400 and expenditures 347,500. So, we're looking at spending into that fund balance just a bit as well. What is the increase in that? Um, a lot of that has to do with how much I code of Brett's salary. And so, because we have the fund balance, I've been able to make it a little more realistic and and code more of his his time to that fund. So, and then um but I do always look at even though they're in the same community service fund, I do always look at kids connection, pull those out.
025They have different codes. pull those out on their own to make sure that's self-supporting. And then preschool, um that there's just about $15,000 that comes from community service, otherwise that would be self-supporting as well. And then the building construction, um I put a note on there so that this definitely happens. So I would I would hope that by June 30th of 2026, we are at a zero balance in that fund. So, um, at the end of this last year, um, we had the fund balance for the audit was 4.3 million and we've spent about 3.2 of that. So, we're at about a million dollars that we'll be spending on phase three, four, five, wherever we're at right now. And so, um, that will be spent down this year. So, then we will be able to
026close out that building construction fund again hopefully with the the next audit cycle. And then debt service fund that is totally per our building bond payment schedule. And the student activity um that all has its separate codes and so I basically just do that as a wash because whatever they have in their account is basically their budget in any any given moment. So so that's in one big breath. That is our FY26 budget projection is the U projected expenditures for FY26 that includes all step it does. Y so budget well a couple things. Um I just want to focus on food service. We spent 58,000 that was very purposeful. Some of it was lunch room tables etc. Um, and again, one of the the biggest things that we're looking in there when we had our
027power outage and we still had to serve lunch. So, we're looking at getting some battery backup for the some of the food service area so that if the power does go out, we've got enough light in the building. We got classrooms that have exterior light with our west. We have enough uh light. We we just put in emergency lighting in all the elementary bathrooms and the high school bathrooms. So, part of that 25,000 that's part of that equipment. Um, again, Kelly shared that the first three items lines are solid. We know that. The next couple lines are our projections for how this current year just ended. We don't know that for sure. So, we could be off one way or the other on that a little bit as every school is. You're never perfect. And
028then yes, even though our overall fund balance is basically growing slightly because of LTFM and the fact we're probably over budget next year on our und designated fund balance by about 250,000 and that's the first year since I've been here that we've been over but we also pass operating levies to spend on children spended on students and so that's part of the equation too. So again, when you go back up to the undesated in that first line of 2,460,000, um I'm guessing a year from now at this time that will be that will drop that amount 2.2. Yeah. And then of course steps and lanes and movements, then what does that become? And um so Kelly sits down with me and says, "Okay, I'm going to do this budget. What do you think we'll settle
029at?" So, I pick a percentage that I think will settle at. I give that to her and then she bases everything off of that. What do you think our health insurance costs are going to go up? What do you think our property liability is going to why is wrong on that? Let's have the real number in it. Yes. But the real number is in there. Um, so when she started doing it, I give those assumptions and then hope when we sit down, we're in that ballpark and I'll I'll give you those details as I start meeting with you on negotiations coming up here. So, basically going through this, you know, it's thousands of lines of count codes and just going through and um confirming that all of our staff are accounted for um you know,
030any FTD changes, any of those types of things. And then again the legislative changes that Tim will be going over you know making sure things are reflected on that we know about the enrollment side of things when do we expect that to I know you've been saying for a few years a place like that's going to I think that what um is going to be unique for St. Clair is that I think we're going to be cresting about a year from now in total bodies but what's going to really hit St. hard two to three years from now is remember a high school junior senior sophomore is worth 1.3. So let's say there's 70. Yeah. Is it 1.2 now? I missed that. Um so as that class of 72 graduates and you have 55 kindergarteners
031coming in, you think you're only losing 17, but you're losing more than that. So as those big classes roll, that's where I think St. Clair our our funding is going to drop a little bit faster pace probably two to three years from now. So should we start maybe trimming some fat right now then to counteract that any way we can? Not saying cutting personnel and stuff like that, but there's got to be No, I think always um one ply instead of two ply. You know where to I think that gets to be very difficult. Um I've been through the budget cutting process many times. becomes very difficult because everybody has a different value of what's important to a system and what's difficult in small school districts because I've been in big well the fact the
032dollar doesn't get well there's that but there's when you're in a larger system you do have more layers of management in a small school system you don't so you can get rid of some layers of management it's also easier in a larger school district if you And I keep using Hastings, but I'll use it because that's where I if I cut one third grade teacher at Hastings, it maybe added 1.2 in to every class, every section because there were 15 sections. So I could cut five elementary teachers and maybe raise class sizes just a little bit. If you cut an elementary teacher here, good stuff. So, but is that going to be part of our negotiations discussion? Yeah, I think when I walk you through the legislative recap, you're going to say you're gonna have
033to stick to your guns. Not only not only for St. Clair, but for a lot of schools, um the legislation isn't good for education. So, can you help me understand a little bit more? I don't see them back until next year's fifth grade class, right? It's so but when you look at like our seventh eighth and ninth grade bid right now they're all at like seven that's going to push us up and then we're Yes, we're on the upswing is what you're seeing. Yes, we're on a we're on a good upswing right now. I I want to call it good fiscal management. Sounds a lot better. Yeah, it definitely helps when you have those numbers. And I've said it before, when you have a class or a grade level of 75, that is perfect efficiency
034for funding. You have 25 in each section. When you have a class size of 62 or 63, you need that third teacher. And it's not it's not financially as efficient. So when you look at those classes, there's financial efficiency there coming through as well. So not only are you getting some good revenue per student, the efficiency is there right now. And I think to to say what Mike was talking about about cutting the fat, I think you don't look at cutting the fat. I think you look at promoting rather than cutting. You start now trying to promote St. Clair out there to other districts, to other families. and trying to get more students that come in on those smaller. Yeah, that's but to air on the side of caution though too. I agree with you
035Jillian as far as either delta both ends. Oh yeah. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. I'm just saying too. You have to look at it from both sides. Well, we're building the shed. Thought we said that couldn't be the class. you up there. All right, we need to move on. Sorry. Uh, fiscal year 26 budget proposal. I have a motion to Sorry, there's Is there any other discussion on that? So, I just interrupted everybody. All right. Motion to approve the I would love to make that motion. All right. Jillian's got it. Second. All in favor say I. I. I. All opposed. Motion carries. All in favor? Next, we have long-term facilities maintenance, 10 year capital plan. Again, I told you in an email, I put little to no time in this right now. Next year,
036I will get serious about it. Kelly did put more time into it than me. But the wonderful thing for all of us is we don't have to put much time into this because we have new chillers, we have new boilers, we have a new parking lot, we have a new playground, um we're getting some new sidewalks, we're getting a new track. So, a lot of the big ticket items that would be in this plan, we're very fortunate that we've taken care of those and Kelly did put some of them in. So, for example, I don't if you want to walk through it. Yep. I'll just go through again. I apologize. Get your magnifying glass, but I'll just tell you exactly what it is. Um, basically since we've been receiving the LTFM revenue, we always have
037this 10-year plan that um, we need to approve formally and submit to MDE. And so they'll basically populate um, our revenue information so we know what the aid and the levy portions are. So the last three pages of the LTFM chunk are all revenue, but the first page is the expenditure side. And so I put in our base year information on everything I've coded to LTFM codes um which amounted to about $52,000. And then the FY26 chunk I put approximately 52,000 again which is included in the budget that you just approved. And so beyond that um there's a lot of copying and pasting on the basic stuff that um you know Chandler's contract those types of things indoor air quality fire marshall orders those things. And so then toward the bottom um and Tim will
038talk more about the the one change that will be effective um as far as roof leveies. But toward the bottom um any of the bigger projects, they all have their separate codes like I mentioned. And so I threw in um so in 2032 I threw in $300,000 in the roof code just knowing that we're going to be having a section of of roofing that will need attention, you know, down the road. And then um a couple other things, some site site projects in those things. So just again looking at the first couple of columns um that are are more critical at this time. Um at the end of this year, we're looking at about 1.5 million in our LTFM fund balance reserve, which is awesome. And we are very fortunate that we were able to
039use um our building fund for everything that we did. So So we have this ready when we those other things that inevitably will come up. So, so yeah. So, that's that first page. The second page, um, actually, let's go away to the last page that breaks down the second to the last page. I have second to last page that breaks down the levy and aid in the middle. Um, it has FY26, the total state aid, we're looking at 195,000 and the levy is 117,000. So again, that is included in the budget, but that is the the chunk that will be um in our revenue side of things for this coming year. Can um the safety upgrades that we walked last week, Mr. Collins, can that be come out of LT? Yeah, because um part of
040LTFM is health and safety. Okay. Yeah. And we also have our safe schools lobby as well. And so I've been doing a lot of um the the security upgrades and things that we've had that have come along have been using that as well. So, for example, when the track gets finished this year, I'll say to the track company, you tell me the year that you know for sure we'll have to resurface it. And if they say the year 2031 or 32, I'll tell Kelly then to put in the LTFM $10,000 for resurfacing or whatever that is. Just so that everybody on the board knows, hey, it's coming. It's coming. We need to have some money set aside there for it. Whether that be roofs, whether that be sidewalks, whether that be the parking lots are
041going to need to have maintenance done five years from now. That's that's what the plan is for. With that, can I get a motion to approve the capital? So move. Kind of made a motion to a second. Second. Second by Karen. All in favor say I. I. All opposed. Motion carries. All in favor. Sadly. Next we get to resignation on the school boards. resation of board. We're sorry to see you go. Do I have a motion to accept Jul? I'll make that motion. Made a motion. Do I have a second? Second by Karen. All in favor say I. I'll abstain. just rip the band down. Just uh you see in the the board packet that um some of the timelines, etc., but we don't have to make this decision in the next week. We don't
042have to make it in the next two weeks. I told all of you as board members, there's many different ways that we can look at replacing. And Ben and I will have conversations about that following this meeting. and better. I will reach out to all of you about the next steps then for replacing Jillian. No one can replace I don't and I think that uh then you should be thinking because Jillian does the invaded and that is that once a month? It's every two months. Okay. So that's every two months, the second Tuesday of each of that month at 6:00 p.m. I believe in St. Peter. So I think one of the more veteran board members, you wouldn't want to have a new board member come on and and and fill that role. And it
043is another time commitment. So that's just something that you should be thinking about as well. You'll see in my legislative recap that they changed the law, but um it used to be that yes, you If you're on vacation and you wanted to tune in tonight via virtual, you could, but you couldn't vote. The law now has changed that you can um tune in virtually and you can vote. It just has to be recorded in the minutes of why you're not there. Um so I guess it be embarrassing if you're in Vegas and you're not meeting. Um so I think that will help the event situation specifically because you just couldn't get there on that Tuesday night, but you could do it virtually. That would that would help that situation as well. So, that's just something
044you should be thinking and I'll reach out to Ben and we'll reach out to you and we'll go from there. Thank you very much, Jes. All right. Next, we have the first readings of policy 614 and 714 followed by So, Going back to the the budget for targeted services, um we will be starting that program on July 14th. It runs Monday through Thursday through August 7th. And um as Mr. Collins mentioned, this is a self- sustaining program. And so we look at the money that's going to be coming coming in. We we are paid based on the number of hours that kids are actually here. So every time a student is absent during that program, we lose funding for that student. Um, and so for the first time ever, we actually had enrollment that exceeded
045our capacity of of balancing that out between being able to pay our teachers and having the fun funds that come in. So, um, in grades one through four, we actually had to turn away children who were not able to be in attendance all the weeks. And we did it that way for that reason because, you know, if we're if we're not getting the full funding for them, then its up budget. Um, unfortunately though, like we didn't turn away enough students that like the the money that we're losing by turning away those students wasn't enough to pay for another teacher to keep them though. So, that's that's kind of where that all came in is trying to find that balance and run it efficiently. So, um, who knows, maybe next year if we have even more
046kids that register, we'll be able to do that. But um that's kind of where that that budget fell. Where would we had service those kids through that funding? I I would have to go back and look. I don't have a tip of my fingers, but um it's definitely something I can look up for you and I can get you guys that information. Um, in other news, all of the staff members who participated in the letters training, which is part of the read act, they all completed the requirements for the first half of the course, and everyone passed their final exam, 80% or higher, which means nobody has to be placed on a remediation plan. So, yay, stack. Yeah, no kidding. So, we have one more year um and we'll we'll finish up book two and
047then um staff members that are coming in, we'll we'll work with the service co-op to get anybody caught up on training if they are not coming in with with what they need. Um along the same line, all of our paraprofessional staff is going to have to complete an eighthour training in the same program. Um and so we unteered to host the training sessions. That way we could pick the dates so we could maybe do it on days when we don't have students in the building because that would really be a bummer if all of our students had to be gone or all of our pair professionals had to be gone one day and there was no par support for any of our special education students. So there will be some days where you'll be seeing
048um trainers coming in from South Central and we may they may bring in pair professionals from other districts too so that they can do that training. So once we have the dates for those we'll be able to pass that along. Is is that is that letter string for the pairs? Is that just for like non college graduates? That's is that something different that that is for everyone. So basically this is going to be a crash course so as they're supporting students with their reading in the classroom that they'll at least have the background knowledge on what we're trying Gotcha. to to get done as teachers. Yeah. So uh had some fun planning the last day of school with the student council members and adviserss and kind of a similar flavor to what occurred in the
049past but uh a little bit different this year we started with the social hour with donuts and juice that was provided by St. Clear State Bank. Big thank you to them. Uh which was kind of nice for the kids to come in. They were all crazy. They want to show off their summer outfits. So, we had kind of had to ignore some dress code things that day that otherwise wouldn't have been acceptable knowing they're going to go outside. Um hope I said right with Rev Coffee Company was here to sell drinks. Um I know that I think some elementary staff stuck out too to enjoy that. There's free hair tinsel by Nova Academy and then gift card giveaways. As we look to next year, the last day of school looks slightly different as um one
050of the things student council and I were discussing was a final schedule for the students where right now finals kind of get spread out or they're all lumped together and as opposed to having more of a predictable where let's say it was a two-day where you take finals, you know, one, three, five, seven on one day and then you'd still see the class for the other opposite periods or something like having a study period where you have like a 25 or 30 minute review period in between your final exams. Um, kind of mimicking what they do at a college level, but more so the goal is taking the stress off the students of the ones that have eight classes, especially those that take your upper level college classes. Four finals in a day is kind
051of the max that the college ever does. We have students taking seven or sometimes eight. Now, I will give credit to some of our departments. They do a really good job of spreading out, but every department has to get their finals in. So, that was actually things for the student summit that we did um which is tradition for Slair nothing new this year was asking that question of what they would prefer but also as we looked at our seventh eighth and ninth graders things like what's something you wish you could tell a seventh grader beginning now an eighth grader beginning now a ninth grader or a new student to Sinclair something you wish you would have known um things like homework matters you have to study for tests now listen and stay on the teacher's
052good side those are kind of the four big highlights. Um, but then also asking them, you know, what are some challenges you face this year? What are some strengths for our school? What are things we can do to improve? Is there an elective that we don't offer that you wish we did? Um, and then the last one for student council's benefit was what do we want for themes for next year for homecoming? Um, overall the kids took it seriously. It's always interesting when you look trying to look for themes from the teachers on what classes are saying the same things. Um so for me looking at it's looking at those big areas of what our strengths we can build on what are small areas we can improve. Um graduation recap um it was it was
053a really good experience. Um my goal was trying to get to right around an hour and we were close to it and it wasn't that I wanted to rush the formal event. It was more of those kids just want to go. Um they uh this year's senior class gave me a lot of feedback throughout the year and one of the things as we were doing the graduation practice that came out was how fast can we make this uh we want to get going here we got you know other things we want to do and I think that that's something that we all have to keep in mind is it is about them but it's about the parents too that got them there so you want to respect enough and making it a formal event which
054the kids did a great job of keeping it formal um I don't know what past year's attendance has been like but I felt like spectators it was well attended um and I felt like it truly was a formal event that kids got to have that moment and parents got to have that moment and grandparents etc. Um, last thing was, and I think this is something that maybe occurred in the past, but I gave all the seniors a survey on the day of graduation practice. Kind of 10 questions recapping a variety of things like accessibility to programming, academics, sports, clubs, quality of instruction, level of counseling, guidance, and support, sense of belonging, and then preparation for high school or for after high school. So, kind of some highlights for you. um one of the questions asked
055about the access to sports clubs and other programs that 94.2% of our students either agreed or strongly agreed that everything they wanted they had access to. Um another one was uh and I thought I came up the question so I thought this was a really good question. Um, I felt that at least one staff member took a genuine interest in me and personally helped me succeed through high school. And 97% of our students either strongly agreed or agreed, which again says a lot about particular staff and their ability to connect with kids. Um, and then the other big one, and this is what the the state cares about for college and career ready is as I'm completing high school, I feel prepared for and I'm hopeful and optimistic about my future. And 97.4% of our
056students said that they did. So, um, just something that, you know, as every year as you ask the senior graduating seniors those same questions, looking for themes and also where can we build on, where can we get better, but also what can we celebrate that we're doing really well. Um, and then my last thing is I end my first year here. Um, just a big thank you to everyone. Appreciate it. What What percentage of response did you get? You know, so that was the one disappointing thing, right? They get time. I gave them 20 minutes to do it. Some of them did it ahead of time. Um I had 38 out of the 55 or 56 that graduated. Um I did give them a small window though that when they walked out of that room,
057you know, I remove the the window to take the survey just because well you can protect a lot of things. I wanted to know what they thought, not what perhaps friends and things like that and um just the validity of it. But I thought 38 was still a nice representation to see some themes the question. I told That's a always a good thing for us as a board to look at at a work session. Just you get it all ahead of time and um try to get it to me and I was I was very happy with the results of it all. Very positive comments overall. Thank you. I'll start out with uh the legislative recap that Mike has up. And again, there's a lot legislation session of what I'm sharing with you. So, for
058example, I'm not going to go through what they're doing with the read. I'm not going to go through what they're doing say on ESST or how long how lunch break should be or how long break should be for hours and employees because there there's lots of stuff that that goes through that legislative recap. Um, but I'll just take you through some of what I call some uh high points or low points first. So, Mike, can you click it? What's been interesting about this legislative What's been interesting about this legislative session for the first time since I've been doing this, they are looking three years out to make decisions. They make decisions for every two-year cycle, but for the first time, they really focused in that if you project it out, the state of Minnesota is
059going to have a six billion deficit. And that drove a lot of their questions. I don't know why they kept focusing three years out. That that'd be like Kelly and I trying to expect what the budget's going to be three years from from now when we don't really know the enrollment. We really don't know some of the inflationary costs, etc. Um, but that drove a lot and it drove panic into legislators to know that you're six billion. So the next one, so the positive news is they stayed with their formula increase percentage which is like 2.7 74%. So that was a real positive because that Governor Walls had introduced that two years ago and I was like, "Oh yeah, right. That's not going to stay. They're not going to they'll change that." And unbelievably it
060ended right at $200 per student. So the per student formula increased by $200. So that's very easy math for me. So we'll talk about that later. Um so that was very nice. They chose to spend $100 million on unemployment to cover the unemployment costs this summer and next summer. Unemployment is new. It's not something that's been around. That's somewhat frustrating for me as we have other programs that need funding, but they stuck to that. So, the good news though for us as a board is we're not going to have that's not going to come out of our fund balance. And then they continued with the free lunch and the the breakfast program. There was a lot of discussion on that. There were lots of different formulas, but in the end they stuck for the free
061lunch and the breakfast program. So just example, some of the formulas were that if you make combined household income of 100,000, then it's not free to pay a ratio of 150. Those are different things that they're tossing out there, but it ended back at this. So the next one might this came out of nowhere. I was not expecting this at at all. Um I was able to retire rule of 90 at age 56 and get my severance. Uh and then two years after they you basically had to work till you're 65. You could retire at 63 or 64, but it wouldn't be full retirement. So, they did um change it to now you you they lowered it from the 62 to 60 with 30 years of service. That's where they get the 90 the rule
062of 90 and they are contributing 20 million to help pay for it. Um school board members may now vote remotely. That was another change. But you don't have to open your doors to have somebody come into your house, right? That's true. But this now this one shows you where they're headed. They established a committee to find $250 million to cut or save from special education. I would not like to be on that committee. And then they also um reduce transport special ed transportation aid by 5% for the upcoming year and 10% the following year. So let's say our special ed transportation costs are 100,000. We're going to have 5,000 less this year, 10,000 less the next year. Um my belief on why they did this is this is supposed to be a federally funded speech
063special ed is supposed to be fedally funded. So they're sending a message that Mr. President and everybody if you're not going to fund us then we're not going to keep funding these either and I think that was a subliminal message but this is a loss for us for the next two years in revenue and I have no idea where it's going to go in fiscal year 2829. Was that reallocated somewhere else within education? That's how they did it to save their budget. Oh. So they had their targets. So their big target is the year 2829. Remember that 6 billion. Yeah. So now they're setting up these committees to say you go and find where we should cut by 2829 because we have to get six billion out of our our state budget. And I I
064just special I don't know where you could find any savings. a child. It's underfunded right now. Um, next one might they reduce the library aid for all schools. Um, the formula is typically per student for larger schools. And if you're under that threshold, we received and all small schools receive 40,000. So next year we're going to be receiving 20,000. So it's a cut of $20,000 to St. compensatory revenue. Everybody was worried about this one big time. Um they kept it stable for one year. I don't they've never done that before. Usually it's a two-year cycle. Our projections were our compensatory revenue of what they were looking at. We weren't going to be we were good. We were okay. But there were a lot of schools that were going to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars
065in this area. And then you've heard me talk a lot about the student support personal aid. Uh because that was going to be able to pay for a counseling position or ated. Um they say it was reduced, but I checked with Kelly and right now we still have the $40,000 coming in for this position. So as of right now, that's not a loss to us. So so far, go ahead again. This was a big change that was totally unexpected too. a district you they they give you money for LTFM and for the first time ever they're going to let a district levy under LTFM for a roof repair per site. So Mano might have 20 sites. So Mano could levy $100,000 per site. I'm guessing they'll look at us as one K12 site. But what
066they're doing is putting some of the ownership back on you as a board. They're not going to keep increasing the LTFM aid as much to schools. But then if you don't have it saved in your LTFM, you without getting approval from your community could say, "Well, we need to replace that section of roof and we're going to levy $100,000 in one year." Well, that's I asked that to Kelly and I don't have that answer yet because I was like, if I could do that every year. Well, it shows in the the LTFM documents. It did show, you know, there's obviously going to be an approval process. So, I'm assuming you'll have to do the you'll have to have that quote that proposal and submit that to the health and safety management that could come without
067voter approval. Yes. Correct. Approval. Yep. So, it's six years from now. Six years from now, if we have any LTFM to do two sections of roof up there and it's going to cost 400,000 and we only have 300,000. We're a poor example because we're going to have the money. But if we're a district that didn't have the money there, then you're like, that road's going to cost 400,000. We only have 300,000. Do we want leving? And of course you get into a district the size of mano 1100 for repairs it maybe raise the taxes on a home 10 bucks a year but here would make a difference. They also gave a lot of latitude to food service funds um can be used for plumbing electric air handling ventilation. So basically there's where your new generator
068comes in. Yeah. Um, and would that backup generally just facilitate the food service that? Yeah, I would buy smaller units. I'm still researching to see how they supposedly plug into a wall and they could do an oven for like two hours. Um, Mike, you've been doing that research for me actually. I'm blaming you. But we've been looking at that and and specifically for that. But yeah, you could use it for that. But you know, before you wanted to any of that you could not use food service funds because that was facility issue and so for them to give that latitude I think part of it is legislators are saying well if we're going to pay for breakfast and meals and schools are now healthy in their food service let's use it a little bit too
069and then school year may start the next two following years before Labor Day if the board wants to because day is is late. So that'll be a board decision down the road. Next one, Mike. So if you look at this year, I use 900 students because yes, you saw we have 814 students, but our high school students are worth 1.2. So 900's a nice round, easy number. We have 180,000 in new revenue coming in. Then I subtract 20,000 for the library aid that's getting reduced from us. 5% special head. So probably around 155,000 of new money coming in to negotiate with. And if we have 100 employees, if each person gets $1,000, you're using all your money. So it's not And then the bad news is the next years are worse. So this is the
070good year. So the net for us would be this 180,000 minus that. And then you saw our enrollment grew by about 10 students. So that's about 100,000. That's our total money. So when I sit down with you as a negotiating team, I say to you, if you spend any more than that, then you're you're eating into your undeated balance. You already Yes, because we also have to pay. That's just that's just based off. We've already It's already This just made up a little bit. Just made up a little bit. Yeah. And I think Is that it, Mike? Yeah. Usually negative. That's That's reality. But think if you're in a school district where you're losing 10 or 15 students a year or 20 students a year, you're you're in a much worse place than fire uh
071safety signs. And I just um I actually just sent this today to Stephanie Jan. I did go meet with her personally after Um Mick and I and Officer Wyberg met with the the engineer from the county and we did a walk of the safety concerns. You know where they're at. Right where you turn on Agency Street. That's a very tough one because of the angle of the street. Um right by the the bar crosswalk. We talked about that. And then the third one is the crosswalk that that's right behind the bar that cuts around across the county road. Um, I'd say, Mick, that it was a really good meeting. We had the right person at the the meeting because he's the one that he knows the rules and regulations and approves it and he's the
072one that approves it. So, if you're ever going to have a meeting, make sure that that person's at your meeting. And basically, where the crosswalks are, our signs are too close to the crosswalk areas. They should be 40 to 50 ft away. So, he said we should move those. Um, Mick read the date on the back of one of the signs. It was like 2020 or 2000. It was the year 2000. So, he asked him, "How often does the county replace these signs and he said it should be sooner. He goes, "I'll talk to my sign guard." He wasn't going to tell you how often, was he? Yeah. Um, so I think through that the county will I mean these are low fruit items. They'll look at those signs. They'll upgrade them. They'll be they'll
073be nice and shiny and new where you can actually see them. They will move them back. uh he talked to us that the crosswalk across County Road 28 behind the bar, it really shouldn't be there because it leads to nothing. That a crosswalk should always lead to a sidewalk. And so we question whether or not I mean that we should even have that there. So which one is that? By Claire's little library. So you talked about that and and we did talk about how you could If you cross over the street, you could take the curb out a little bit and build a 15 foot platform type sidewalk there and then students coming from the newer edition, they would know they go stand on that landing before they cross the street. And he said that
074um that would have that would be typically a cost shared by the county and the city um if they decided to do that. And then I think the big one that Mick and I and Jeff didn't know if we really believed or not because I made the comment that when I go home every day now I notice the blinking lights on County Road two and three and they're solar. I was going to bring exactly that up when I read that why they keep putting them up. Yeah. Um he said that research shows that the blinking lights over time become non-effective because you get used to them. And my rebuttal to that was like well it's time for enforcement again. Yeah. So I said to him maybe but I said every day that I come in
075that intersection now I notice them. They literally just replace. Yeah. And I said I I think they're wonderful. I And he did talk about that on agency street there and you have to be out there physically. The handicap access to cross the street is at like two different angles and he said that it should be very clear that it's a handicap access straight across and it's not. So he said that he would talk to the city um about that. Definitely the neighbor on that corner on Agency Street. There's a tree or a bush there. And I'll go talk to that owner about would he be willing to move it or take it down or because that's definitely on the sideline. So Katie just uh the gentleman who took the notes of our meeting, he put
076it all in an email and Katie just finished this afternoon for me. She took those notes and I'll align it in a one page uh document and I sent it to Mick and I sent it to uh Stephanie at the city and I'll forward that to to was just talking about some of those things. I'd say Mick that I I didn't see in my opinion anything that was like oh my god we're not going to be able to do that. Did you? No absolutely not. You know the onus is going to be on us to get correct and if we want to put new poles in. Obviously, we would have to uh get a locate, but from the vicinity of where these signs are now, push them back 100 ft. There's poles already there. So,
077essentially put new signs on these new poles. If we're going to move forward and buy them flashing ones or whatever that are solar operated, you know, they will fit on those poles just as well. The um county The deputy sheriff that was with us says they do have a they have a speed box that we could mount on one of the telephone poles that are out there. It's solar powered. Again, know how effective is it? But, you know, it's effective if you enforce it. Jeff did email me since that meeting and Jeff shared that he checked with upper management. They said that yes, he can permanently put that on one of the pools whether it be on the county road or coming by the agency turn. So he said that once we get the post
078established he'll put it up permanently on one of those. Can we put a camera on top of it too? That I don't know if we can. I mean we can put a fake one or what? That's what I'm saying. the the the only more for the kids. They see a camera and they're like speeding. The only portion that is not on here is I gave is the flight I gave it is the u out there by the preschool coming in off of 83 or 15 coming this way. Put another school zone sign up there by the cemetery as well because of all the little children and preschool and stuff like that. plus parents who pick up children there as well. He said one of the first things that came to his mind when he looked
079at it, but he knew that St. Clair would not have enough traffic was he said that that corner on agency there where the high school kids are coming out. We talked to him about right turn, left turn. He could do all that. He said you're just you're moving your traffic for a neighborhood to another area. You're not changing your problem necessarily. Um he said that a three-way stop there could be would be something to consider. But he said I I know you're not going to meet the quota of the number of cars that would go through 12,000. I pay some kid to just go back. Isn't that what it was? It was 12,000. It was 12,000. Wow. A day. A day. That's crazy. Which get out there and just with enforcement more I mean that's
080what I I had brought that up but again you know with the sheriff deputies and state troopers we have in this town I think it's also other it's some of the other flow times the day of graduation um the day of the last day of school when parent grandparents are coming that aren't used to the area. Band concert. Band concerts. Yeah, we had somebody Christmas concerts. Yeah, we had somebody hit in the crosswalk at 6:30 the night of the the band concert. I think it's those unusual flow times that created more problems for us. But overall, it was a a very good meeting and again we had the right person. No, go ahead. So, is the county going to help pay for this? The county said that they would um on some of the things.
081Yeah. He he shared with us a few that so like if we would put that sidewalk landing along the county road, they would be responsible for half the curb, which was probably going to be about 30 ft of curb, and they would pay for some of the sidewalk, but then because it was a sidewalk, then the city would be responsible for some of that. Um So yeah, there were a couple things that they all the signage, okay, they would they would come up with that. So he said our plan at the end of that day, it was Mick I him and Officer Wyberg. We just had put all this together. He then was going to go find out about signs, you know, how often they do update them, that type of thing, how many posts.
082I was going to go talk to the neighbor before we met again. Jeff was going to check with the speed radar. And you guys, this will all be done by school. Yeah, I mean some of the simple things. Absolutely. You know, the curb and that sidewalk that'd be that'd probably take longer. So, here's the thing. If we can try to get that done when they're in town, you know what I mean? Not saying it's, you know what I mean? Because light that's all going to have to get red. I think with then just pulling together the three entities, school, county, and city and say how much of this do we want to do and then who's paying? But he was not opposed to the county paying some of their fair share. Yeah, it was the
083signage primarily and then the the curve up there. Those were what he felt was the county's two responsibility was signage and then the curb, sidewalk, that part of it. If we wanted flashing lights, that was our responsibility. Um, I hate to go against research because it was still in my own mind. It's like I sold out. The other question I have is I notic in reading this it said we'll either do the signage or you guys can put it on sides. Should we just let them do the signage and see how it looks after the fact? It's not good enough and do our signage that we want. There's no way. Right. That that would be my advice is let them do the new signage and where it goes first. They would just be the static
084signs that are there just hope so. right away. Right. You do. I think my opinion seriously would be combined city and school. Okay. That would be my my opinion. Yeah. At most there would be four of them cuz I think it looks really bad if the city doesn't want to go 50/50 on safety for children. Well, I sound like something but that is a that is a good point. Call County and find out. Yeah. And then let's see. Yep. Start negotiations. I think um the first round is MSA and Sarah, Mick, and Karen. And so if you want to write this down, July 9th, I'll send you an email, too. July 9th at 6:30 is our first meeting of that group right there. That's a Wednesday night. 6:30. And if all three of you can't
085make it, that's fine. That happened since summertime. And then facilities update. Um we had the work session ahead of time. We all went out and looked at the track that's still moving along. They're looking the end of June, which is next week already, or the first week in July, they they don't have concerns about getting it done. But of course, if it keeps raining three days every week, but nobody can control that anyway. I think like end of next week is they're going to start moving in equipment. But again, this week, who knows, they might be delayed somewhere else because of the of the rain. Um, we have the uh BLK has been here. They've done the underground out to the the playground for our our cameras and our safety um speakers out there. Um,
086we're now ready to have the uh the grass and the sod, and you know, the old playground that being shaped by James Brothers got the the bid/p for that. You saw the elementary hallway. Um, working on that. We just have to fine-tune a few areas that they need to to come back. I don't know if the classrooms I haven't checked on Tammy Street classrooms by yet, but they have that as well. And so most of our projects are are on pace. Sidewalks will get again um Tom Nicol I got that quote for the the entrances but again rains impacting his business. What about the pillars out there? Is that this summer as well? Yep. That's this summer as well. And then the uh crack in the wall. Crack in the wall. Um I'm probably going
087to wait on that a little while longer yet. I don't believe that's a rush right now and I still want to monitor for movement even though we haven't had movement in a year. Correct. So yeah, that's my updates. We do need before we do a we do need to talk about a work session. Thanks Tim reports. Okay. Um well the uh road project was approved by the county and BCM referral was going to be doing the road projects here in town. Um while they had the breakfast for fire department for St. Clair base and that was well attended. Um the road street update that's done and they even did the the little alleyway. So, that was kind of nice. Uh the ash trees are all removed from the city park now. They're all gone and
088done and they're taking a look at if what if they want to try and start replacing some of the trees, what type is would be good. And the new bill payout is ready to go. City hall was closed on Junth and that was kind of kind of it. They had a they had a good which was a good audit. Yeah. You think we got to change stuff like that. So now with the street we don't know when they're coming in yet. They don't tell us nothing. We don't know. But supposedly what I got today was that XL's coming to the power and the gas. They start getting that stuff. They don't know what they're going to start yet. That's the problem. We're thinking right now what I had heard is waiting for some parts for
089the bar down to the post office. So thinking maybe the government start at least get that taken care of. So they leave us in the dark. We don't know a lot of things happening right now. So that's where we're at right now. Find out more. So they're doing and stuff like that. So, they're getting ready to come in. They're coming tomorrow. Oh, they are? Yeah. Because they asked if they could store some of their equipment off site on our parking lot area. So, I know that the gas is coming tomorrow. The power is coming tomorrow. They're bringing in their equipment tomorrow. So, at least they'll get the equipment in town to start on. They can't tell the city council that. Why would they? my invite meeting. Um, so there's a lot of things going on.
090We went over the plary budget. Um, they do have excess money. Usually in Fed's budget, they like to be money comes in, money goes out, and it's equal. Like there's no money left in the general fund. Um, but right now there is a surplus of money in the general fund. Um, so the board members talked about maybe having that uh a percentage um set back kind of like we have a percentage set back um for the three years or whatever, whatever it is. But in a case of say a district pulling out of ENB like with sewer Henderson did, it kind of left the rest of the districts a little high and dry not and having to like recoup that money um some way somehow. There was talks then of maybe um Jainsville Lord Peterson
091wanting to come in because they're not happy with they're getting their services from cities or something. Um but so that is something that they're in the works with. the director is in the works with them um to kind of talk about what their needs are and that could help our districts relieve a little bit of the the stress that we have right now not having that many districts in the co-op. Um principal resign um and now since there is kind of a hard pool out there to find a new principal. They're thinking about doing a dean of students instead. Um they don't have to have the lure of what a principal would have. They could do dean of students instead and just have the director come in and then you know oversee um the special
092education transportation for the legislation. It's going to impact St. Peter probably the least because they're right there in town. So the rest of the districts are probably going to have a bigger impact. Um but most of the students that go to invad are from St. Peter. So there's that upside of that. Um they're in need of a speech therapist. And then they did about $350,000 worth of building improvements. And if you guys have never been over there, it was horrendous. And um the building has been in shambles for I don't know, I've been on the board for 10 years. I mean, when you have level four kids there, they punch walls. They There's holes in the walls. There's, you know, doors are don't work because they kick them. Um the building just was in a
093lot of, you know, deferred maintenance. So, they've been having new walls been put in that are like reinforced. So, whoever goes over there next, they were going to start putting in tile, new flooring. Um, I think like this week actually. So, um they're going to take before and after pictures um just to because it's been like a huge a long time coming. So, and it's good that that's happening. Other than that, that's all they're they're going through right now. Thank you. With that, our next regular board meeting has been cancelled. Yeah. So, board tree will take place maybe on July 28th, but probably not at Sunday. Yeah. I say we just talk about that right now because um if we can't do it in two minutes or less, we'll we'll throw it up. I moved
094it off at June 21st. That was our regular. But can you make can June 21st work July 21st? Can you make July 21st work? I can for the retreat. I do as a board meeting and as a retreat. Oh, I think you're I know you can't I may or may not be there, right? And I knew that, but as far as the five board members, could you mean July 21st work? Yes. Okay, I'll think that through then. That's the only I'll confirm it tomorrow. It's definitely not the 28th. Yeah, definitely not the 28th. Then that's an open meeting, right? What's that? So I can come and just like So then so we have the retreat on the 20 we do the the I do the retreat on the 21st and the meeting and the meeting
095on the 21st. So nothing on the 28th but maybe on the I I originally moved off of the 21st. I knew that N couldn't be there. Right. Okay. But the key for me is all board members to be there for sure. Okay. Um so I'll confirm for sure tomorrow but I strongly know looking at July 21st. Okay. And really the board meeting in July is usually about 15 minutes of bills and those types of things because we've already done the MSBA. So I'll I'll confirm tomorrow at some point but I am looking at July 21st for the retreat for the work session retreat and board meeting. All right. So have a motion to adjourn the meeting. Motion to a second. Second by me. Meeting is at 7:30 on the nose. Okay. Is everybody planning on
096heading for a refreshment?