001should stand in and justice for all. Good evening. Thank you all for coming to the May regular schoolboard meeting. We'll start tonight off with a presentation from the robotics team. Go ahead. You want to set the microphone or Sure. It might be off, but that rolls. You can move the or the screen. Well, this rolls. I think like that rolls. If you want us to be at the microphone, everything rolls. Everything rolls. You see the TV or should I? Yep, we can see it. All right. So, I know most of you, you know most of me or most of you know me. Uh, Alex Urick, uh, teacher here at Becker High School for the last 20 years. Uh, proud graduate of 1997. Um if this is uh I think the second time that the mic
002um it might not be it's on. Okay. Um thank you for having us tonight. Uh I've got uh our driver and our lead designer and one of our main builders uh kid that's been around since 8th grade, Eli Ring. Um Charlie's on our impact our awards part of the team. So she works a lot with our business side presenting these types of things. Um, and then also putting uh F FRC 4607 in the limelight when we go to these competitions. And I also have uh Nicole Wentland here who is one of our mentors and her sons have come up through this program. So she's here both as one of our mentors and uh a mom. Uh Impact Robotics. This is kind of what's been going on for the last number of years. Again, 2012 was
003uh when we first started, Mr. Co bearer came in grabbing the hallway and said, "There's a bunch of kids that are wandering on Becker High School that have no attachment to this school. Once they leave here, they're gone and we never get that back." Uh 13 seasons, 133 awards and accolades, 10 state tournament appearances, uh three or sorry, nine world championship appearances, and along with that, we have three state championships and two Einstein appearances. And that's really cool, and it's awesome to hang those banners. Um but really the what tells us the story about Becker Robotics is this right here. We've got 122 alumni. 73% of those are in the STEM fields with NDSU being the biggest piece of the pie here. Um U of M with 15, U ofMD, uh 12, St. Cloud Tech
004College 9, and then the most proud that I am. We're still missing one. We've got five in the armed forces. Um but we haven't been able to get one in the Coast Guard yet. I don't know how we've cracked that, but we've got the Marines, Air Force, Army, and Navy all represented. And it's pretty awesome to see these kids go off. The cool thing now is with this group of alumni, um, they're starting to come back. They're starting to come back to this community. Uh, they're starting to come back to, uh, help mentor. We've got five of our alumni that now mentor 4607. Um, I can't explain how incredible that is. We've got 15 mentors on our team. Uh, we've got, sorry, but 20 mentors on our team, five of which are uh uh alumni.
005Most teams have a mentor, maybe two. Right. when we take a look at the numbers that we have uh the success that we've had along with the mentors um these students sit in a situation where for every three kids there's two mentors available for them on any given night of the week. So anything you like to say on that end of things? They're not just here for there's more information they're going to talk about in just a bit. But this is my slide here. Uh we've been documenting this since the very beginning. Like I said, very proud of what the robotics team's been able to do and we're starting to grow this into other areas such as Yeah, the brick. Do we want to start with the video? Go ahead. Just toggle out and go
006to slack finish. There you go. So, if you don't know who the brick is, we brick. We'll go back. It's the Becker Robotics Innovation Center. As of about three weeks ago, it was called the bra, the Becker Robotics Arena. We're not calling it that anymore. Um, yeah. Yeah. So, we'll just show you the space where we talk about what we've done with it. Volume. Yeah. Add it. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. So, that is what the space looks like. Um, if you haven't gotten a chance to come in and actually look at it, highly recommend. We don't bite. Come stop by. I can show you the robot. Um, yeah. So, as you can see, 23 F FRC teams have been in the space in the last 3 months or so. We currently have a system
007set up where they can sign up to use the practice field and then we have students and mentors that are there to basically watch them, make sure they're using the space correctly. U, we've logged over 250 plus hours of free practice space for these teams. So, that's been a big resource. This is the only space like this in central Minnesota as far as Eric knows more about it than I do. Uh this fall at the brick we used it for the younger students as well. So I helped um coach the first Lego League where we have had 60% 60 participants um through that time and we also did it for FTC. So LL is for fourth through sixth graders and FTC is for seventh excuse me six seventh through 9th graders for that piece of
008it. So, it's being used now for F FRC, but we also used it this fall for our younger programs as well. So, it's been a great space for that. And when we say 14 events in one year, um Dr. Schmidt was able to come to what we have called now Shamrock Showdown the last couple years. Um 16 teams come in. Um upwards of 16 teams and they're there just to scrimmage. Uh, when Charlie says this is the only thing like this in central Minnesota, this is honestly the only thing like this in Minnesota, I compare it a lot to the old road and the Edina Ice Centers. Why are those two programs such a strong or such strong programs? I believe it's because the community invested in them and were able to uh create a
009space that we can host this type of thing. uh when Charlie talks about we have teams coming up and and working. I've got a quote from um Sam Velman who is the the uh head coach for for uh Fairmont 2047. So Fairmont is what uh two hours 45 minutes away. There we go. They had to come through like Kimble Erie and all that. Um, so his comment on it was, and I can get to it in time, but if I do, we'll get to the end, but he was so impressed by what's happening up here in central Minnesota with this space with what the local hubs, alliances, and coalitions, which is like a conference, are doing uh the hot bed of robotics in Minnesota is central Minnesota. Uh, New London, Spicer, Raori, uh, Becker, obviously
010St. Michael, what did you say? St. Michael. Okay. Um, these teams don't just compete against each other. We're all at the state tournament this next actually there's seven of our hub teams at the state state tournament this coming Saturday and we're all vying for that state title. We all won. Um, but we want to make sure all of us are competing at the very best and this, like I said, has been the biggest thing for all of the local areas. Um, it's been absolutely phenomenal to to watch this thing come to fruition over the last really 10 years when we started planning for this. Um, we finally got a space like this. We do appreciate it. Thank you. I was just going to say, so last note on that, um, our community is very supportive
011of us financially, too. The resources we have there are over $20,000 worth of field elements and a lot and a lot and a lot of hours in designing and constructing all that. So, thank you to sponsors who are great in supporting us for things like that. Introduce us. Yeah. So the PMI pack challenge um well PMI is the largest packaging and manufacturing association I believe. Yep. And basically what they want to do is introduce the things to younger people. Uh so three years ago now we went down two yeah three years ago. Um three years ago we went to the pack expo to show off our FRC robot and we saw the pack challenge happening. Uh we thought it was cool. So we decided to submit and there were 60 over 60 teams. Yeah. 60
012teams uh submitted their uh design and only six were chosen to be finalists and compete. Uh we were one of those six. So then the year after that we got to build the machine and go down to Chicago. Uh we won best in show as well as the factory acceptance test award which meant we also had the best machine basically. And so from that uh I our machine back there by the way the little thing that says spruce packaging in the corner. Yeah. Uh we worked with Legacy Christian Academy in Anver. And so uh I spent a lot of time on it myself. I was the main designer for it as well as uh traveling to Andover two to four times a week for three months to uh build the machine and then we went
013to Chicago and once that was cool. Uh we're working on expanding it in Minnesota. Uh so the we've had a great working relationship with uh pack challenge people mind the last number of years. The reason why we got into this like Eli had mentioned we went down there because they invited us as a first team to go to present for first side of things. Um students were walking by a bunch of these these machines like this like why don't we do something like this? um we went and talked to him and said, "Well, it's really reserved for um the Chicagoland area, including Milwaukee and all the way down to Indianapolis. We're not looking for participants from Minnesota or beyond. Ultimately, that's their mistake." So, uh the teams got together, both Andover and Becker, put together
014their bid, their proposal, which is quite extensive. Um the first year of the program, you are putting together the bid based off of what the challenge is. You submit the bid and then they come back uh you submit the bid in April, they come back in around August and tell you got you're accepted or you're not accepted. So then you have about three months to get the thing put together. The cool thing about this is uh Eli took this from seniors that graduated last year. So there was four seniors and two juniors that worked on this and then the seniors graduate. They've got to hand it over. um you have to rebuild the whole team and you got to take this big proposal was just one and you got to retrofit your team to work
015on it. Uh now they want us to help build this stuff 500 team station wide. So with our winnings last year uh it was just over $10,000 that we were able to take home. Not only that, but they're flying us down to Las Vegas in September, late August, September to go, no, sorry, late September, early October to go and present this machine at their other pack challenge. We got pack challenge in Chicago that happens every uh even year and then the Las Vegas one that happens every odd year. So now we get to go down and present that as well. Um so that's where we're at right now with this. I'll kind of take over then. So robotics is um struggling for memberships right now, but we want to make sure that the PMI pack
016challenge is something that we're still able to participate in. Um so the Becker engineering club is something that we've been talking about for some time now. The hopes is that we can get a group of students together that either isn't particularly interested in robotics because of things they might have heard in the hallways for one reason or another or just doesn't have the time to commit to it. Uh so this club would be targeted towards like summer time and students would be able to come and go and work on these different engineering challenges. The pack challenge is an awesome one and it's one we've been able to get involved with, but there are thousands of these challenges across the country and there's no reason that we can't get more students involved with these things. Um,
017as says pack challenge become the main event for this club. We did get the new challenge for the next two years as of May 1st. So, this is something that we could kick off whenever. Um, it's just a matter of getting the students to do it because the robotics team does not currently have the capacity to take this on. Um, and yeah, like it says in the bottom there, we want more students to be able to join these engineering clubs without having to commit to robotics because it really does take a lot of time. So, you guys have anything to add? We'll just open up to questions if you have anything for us. I'm maybe just going to add one thing kind of a mentor and a parent. Um I have four boys who aren't
018much into sports and if I think about my oldest who just graduated last year like he went to pet had a place at Becker High School. He went to had an activity but um robotics really became like his family and became taught him so many skills that now when he went to UND to go for mechanical engineering like he jumped right in there and is excelling in many ways and already into his first internship as a freshman. um because he created something that was printed at M UMC. UMC learned it was him. They printed the part for robotics and now has an internship through them and things like that. Um so it's helped him a ton. But my other sons aren't interested in the engineering part. That video was made by my 10th grade son
019who's into um drones, into photography, into making videos. So the cool part about robotics is it's more than just building a robot. there's a spot for a lot of different students within that capacity. So, you talked about the alumni you have working at in Becker. How many of your alumni are working in clubs elsewhere in clubs like other teams? Yeah. Um we have Sartell actually as one of our prominent uh members, Ryan Swanson who's a 2014 grad and has become a force in the world of robotics. He's taken that team from five kids and now they're over 50. They actually have uh a varsity JB team. So they put out two robots a year. Um beyond that uh a lot of our mentors have gone on to other teams and working with other teams. Now
020um it used to be people joke about Becker being the black hole of mentors or they would all come here. Well, now we're starting to uh form other schools and other teams uh with those mentors as well. So not just alumni but mentors. Yeah. even if they're not mentoring. Two of my favorite people I've ever met are alumni of this team and I get to see them on a semi-regular basis now, but they are not mentors just because they're not in the position of like to devote that time to Well, I just want to say congratulations to you guys on um really all the success um truly growing a fabulous program like this. I mean, everywhere you go, you hear about Becker Robotics. Um, so I don't know what it is about the water, whether
021it be robotics, the bass team, or archery. Um, Becker is definitely doing something right. And you guys deserve a lot of credit for the volunteers that you get, the sponsors, all the hard work that you guys do behind the scenes to make this a reality. So, I think your front slide, you know, said it, you know, best. You know, the the dream finally became a reality, but it's the hard work that you guys put in to make it happen. So, congratulations. Thank you. Any other questions, Mark? Thank you. Thank you guys. Good luck this weekend. Yes. Okay. Good luck. Do you know are you that I have a question? I'm sorry. Rick area. Yep. Uh what will you do with that in the summertime here? Well, to be honest with you, uh we have Becker
022Freedom Days that happen shortly after the end of school and we want we found out that there is absolutely no um there's no Chili Dog Fest in Minnesota. So, we thought why not have a Chili Dog Fest during uh during Fector Freedom Days and then open up that space and let people come in and see exactly what this space is. Um it's very close to downtown. They all laugh. There's a whole song. We have a whole song. We want to say we got a son. It's kind of our nan now. Um but that's one thing we'd like to do. We'd also like to be able to run our camps out of there um and get it ready to go. The part of the problem is is that field that you see sitting up. Charlie's partly
023right. It's $28,000 to purchase just the dasher boards of that field. Um the carpet is right around $14,000 if you buy new carpet. We don't get to buy new carpet because we can't afford it and we can't find it. Uh it's a first exclusive. So when we go to these different events, we try to get the carpet and call it back home with us. But when you're having that many events and it's not glued down to the floor and it moves, it starts to stretch that carpet. So we go through carpets. We probably see some in the North Commons. There's some in our war room. Um we interchange these things the best we can to fit them. Uh packing down that space is incredibly uh intensive manhour wise. and just anytime since it's all aluminum
024uh stuff. So, anytime that you have to send those aluminum pieces back together, they don't always fit because those 150lb robots are coming in at 12 to 14 miles an hour. They're hitting it and bending things a little bit. So, we like to keep it together as much as possible. You do like taking down uh a basketball court every time they're done practicing or removing the goalpost whenever they're finished uh practicing football and then having to put it back up again. So gaining this space was huge. We really thought that we were going to have that space fulltime. So it wasn't a loaded question, but you asked what answer. I wait for that. Um yeah. Uh so we'd really like to keep it up because it would allow us to practice. We do have offseason
025events. Um like every other sport activity, uh if you're going to be if you're going to enjoy the success that we've enjoyed at this level, it's not just a six-month program. It's not a six week program anymore. It's uh like if we're going to Indiana, we'd be going in July. Uh we'd want to be practicing all along here. So yeah, I would like to have a meeting with you and Rick, talk about what kind of space, what can we use that space for in the future if we can keep that stuff up because we don't have anywhere to put it. And I would be really leerary about having kids running around and we got a bunch of aluminum panels and polycarb panels just sitting up on the side of the the brick there and they're
026running around. So Yeah. Yeah. I I think it's a discussion maybe want to have just just to make sure. And it really my biggest thing is to make sure we're using it. If we're using it, if it's going to sit there for four months, then we probably should take it down. But y um that would be something we need to probably look at. Good. All right. Thank you. All right. Moving on to item two, reports and start with just the student report. Charlie, you're all by yourself. Feel her absence. Okay. Um, in the past month, so last weekend, three Becker track athletes, three Becker track athletes qualified and competed in the hamline elite meet. Carter Carter Reckleberg won the long jump, Owen Angel won pole vault, and Kaylee Thompson placed in the 100meter hurdles. The
027girls lacrosse team has been working hard these last few weeks. They're showing great teamwork and hustle during games. They've had some tough losses, but also some great wins, putting their record at 2-4. After going two and one in their home tournament this weekend, softball's record is now 8-6. Yearbook is finishing their third and final deadline tonight. They worked hard this last month, finishing up their spring supplement. NHS participated in an Easter egg hunt by placing Easter eggs at homes for children to find the next day. They are also wrapping up their service hours for the year. DECA is mainly focusing on improving their food truck. This includes getting it powered, water, and items to stock it. The spring play just finished their third performance of one town, one stoplight town this just this weekend, sorry.
028All cast and crew members had lots of fun putting on this show and look forward to next year. Alongside the performances, they also had their theater and speech banquet the day of their last performance. Um, baseball has won five games in a row as of May 3rd. Um, baseball has, sorry, boys tennis has a record of 11 and two. Boys golf is ranked fifth in the conference and hosted an event at Pebble Creek last week. Girls golf has had a great month and has two conference meets this week. Boys lacrosse has a record of 0 and seven, but is practicing hard. The rugby teams have been sharpening their skills through drills with veteran players while actively recruiting new people to grow the team. Robotics is wrapping up their season after the world tournament last April.
029The bass team has been meeting weekly to continue learning fishing tips and the student council has been finalizing details for spring fling the week before graduation. In the upcoming month, boys track and field will have true team on Tuesday at Raori. Um both teams are going into the meet with lots of anticipated success. Girls lacrosse is looking forward to their two g home games this week. This Thursday, softball has their tackle cancer game against Monaceel at home. Yearbook will be putting the spring supplement into the bound parts of the book to prepare to hand them out during spring playing. NHS will be having induction day on May 18th and will be holding elections for new the new executive board. Baseball is home tonight and has two more games this week. Hopefully they will keep a
030strong winning record. Boys golf has had one meet has one meet this week on Friday and has a long break with another meet next Friday and sections at the end of the month. Girls golf has a meet Thursday in St. Cloud. Boys tennis will have two meets this week in addition to one today. Boys lacrosse has a game in Delano this week. The robotics team will be down at the state tournament this weekend and they hope to secure a win to end the season on a high note for seniors. The student council will be meeting tomorrow to make some final decisions for fundraisers and activities to wrap up the school year. Notably, they will be doing a movie on the field on May 23rd at 8:30. The movie will be The Greatest Showman and will
031be open to the public. I encourage you guys to stop by. It's very cool. Um, and our music programs are in their busy season with the final concerts of the year in the next few weeks. The marching band has also kicked off their practices and is marching out in the parking lot right now. Might have seen them on your way in. That's it. Any questions? Any good feedback from prom? Um, yes. Very highly attended this year. So, just good. They did a great job. And with it being the away year, it was a good wrap-up for the seniors for sure. Well, Grand March was fantastic. Yeah, just did great. Did a great job with it. Thank you, SH. Um, moving superintendence report. Uh, we have a meeting confer scheduled for May 14th. Graduation at 7
032o'clock on May 30th on multi-purpose field. Plan to be there by 6:30. Talked to Mr. Craft on that. So, they're working on speakers. So, they've got three people up for speakers. It's just a matter of which which spot they're going to take. And so they're they're working on that part, but they've got all the flowers. They've got the uh um programs, the gowns, were they distributed last week maybe or this week? I don't know when the gowns are going out, but they're here in the office. I saw them at one point. I haven't seen you haven't seen them. Oh. Um there was one gown in there for a 66 Michael Jordan, it says on the name. So he didn't play basketball, but uh yeah. So anyway, they were in the high school office, but all
033those kind of pieces are being worked out and uh hopefully we'll get a better grasp on the weather this year or we'll just have a day like today, which would be great. Uh staff appreciation activities, oh, excuse me, the end of the legislative session is uh May 19th. I I don't I'm guessing, but I don't know if they're going to be able to finish by that date or not. Uh unemployment came up last week or week and a half or so. There were some agreements, but then some disagreements, but um the unemployment insurance kind of be the seems to be the hangup in the House of Representatives right now as far as educational piece. And um there's a lot of lot of things in on the table. The good news is they're going to have
034to come to some compromise. Uh I'm trying to figure out what the benefit is to uh the Republicans or the Democrats to to finish on time. The governor's maybe the only one that needs to finish on time as just in my opinion again. But, um, they both have a way to blame each other on different things. And so, uh, yeah, I'm just trying to I'm trying to keep up, uh, on some of that with, um, Representative Meckllin's been kind of keeping me in touch, too. And, uh, some of the things are going on, but, also our legislative updates as well. Lots of things in the air, so we'll we'll see. It could be a crazy finish like it has been the last few years. Staff appreciation activities are taking place this week. Uh we had
035bagel and cream cheese tomorrow uh in each building sponsored by the cabinet. Also having a social on May 7th at Pebble Creek. So that's Wednesday. We'll do some some appetizers and and things like that. We're going to draw a bunch of drawings for gift cards. PTSA's also did an appreciation on Monday uh and did some trail mix and did some drinks and things like that. And we have social media posts going out each group uh for each group during the week. So those are taking place as well. Summer construction work. We'll mainly be roofing on the high school and primary school and it's being kind of finalized. It's pretty much finalized, but uh working working on getting excited for that to to start here soon and that will go into next summer as well with
036the high school primary should better finish I guess this year. Right. Thank you, J. Uh item 2 C committee reports for you have a curriculum report. We just met today actually. We just met today actually for a curriculum meeting. Um some information or updates on our staff that's going through letters training. Right now we have 25 staff members that have completed. We'll have another 58 that will complete by November 25. Um with that phase two which is kind of your non again more of your high school staff will be looking at kind of doing that starting next year as well that letters training that is mandated by the state. So that'll be going on. Uh the other big kind of thing that we're looking at is our curriculum recommendation for our English teachers. So 6th
037through 8th is recommending to adopt the curriculum common lit 360 for their core instruction. There's also some new novels that have been looked at through for grades 6, 8, 10, 11, and 12 that have been up for approval. All of that information is going to be on the website to share. Uh but for the sixth grade, there was two novels that were kind of there that they were just we just had a as a committee just had a few questions about um one of them was they there's a a school read already the elementarymentaries and they want to read it again in sixth grade. So is that something they want to do or look at? But again like I said all of those novels will be on the district website um posted here tonight or
038early tomorrow. Otherwise, if you have direct instructor questions, you can always reach out to our director of curriculum and instruction, Carla Nolan, on those as well. All right. Thank you. Any questions for you? Uh Pete, you have activities? Uh yes. Uh Connie and I um attended the activities uh meeting Monday, April 28th. Um and we're uh was brought to our attention that we had a new opportunity to get a trainer back in actually a full-time trainer um back into uh the district which I know people have been talking about. Uh I believe that Dave came to see Jeremy and uh Kevin. I might let them talk a little bit about the financial side of it. Um just last year we did raise fees, activities fees, and we kind of set it up as an every
039two-year um type deal where we wanted to renew that. So um we're going to have to find a way to pay um for the trainer and we all agree that it's a good idea to have one. Um and I believe that that was the the financial piece that you know Dave and wanted to see how we could make it work because at the end of the day these people aren't you know readily available. when one becomes available, you have to pretty much jump on it. And I think the one that was going to come here already took another job. So, uh, so yeah. So, Connie, you want to add anything on the extra we talked about? It sounds like, uh, Dave came to you and, you know, cover the the cost for next year and
040then after that, we'll be looking at Yeah, the increase. And then um we'll be looking at probably raising fees again after next year. Yeah, I mean and we're still historically towards the bottom of the conference and and where we're at for fees. So, um I think a lot of the parents, a lot of athletes will be happy that we've got this back on the agenda. And I think we have to strategically look at who gets what kind of increases because high school athletics uses it more than say you know the fine arts fine arts and yeah middle school you know athletics just because they're at every one of the varsity games. So kind of looking at different ways we can be creative in that way. Yeah. Yep. So, more details on that to follow how
041we can do it. But, uh, exciting that we'll have one back back on staff through Novaare. All right. Thank you, too. Uh, Connie, you have a finance. Yes. And so, Tuesday, we had a finance committee meeting and we went through the revised 2425 budget along with the proposed 2526 budget. And so Kevin will be going through those later in the meeting. Right. Moving on to item number three, consent agenda. I'll make a motion to accept the consent agenda in front of us. We have a motion to accept consent agenda. Do we have any questions or discussions? All those in favor say I. I. All oppose. Motion carries. Troy. Troy, are you here? I said I motion. Yep. Yep. Um item number four, resolution accepting donations. Make a motion to accept. We have a motion to
042accept the donations. We have any questions or discussion around that? All those in favor say I. I. I. I. Motion carries. Brings item number six refies 2425 budget. Kevin, that's you. Yeah. Um, so the the first item here is the current budget that we're in. And you know, remember the original approval was back in May of last year, uh, which we still had some unknowns at that time. So, uh, the biggest changes that are in the general fund is, as some of you know, or most of you know that were on the negotiating team, we settled the contracts evenly. Um, and last year's fund balance went up because of that, but we knew we were going to be spending it down this year because it was not even the way we got the revenue, but
043the expenditures were even. So, uh, I had to adjust the expenditures for that. The other big uh change that you'd see in the general fund is under the operating capital and that's from the uh the primary school roofing the insurance part of that uh because that'll get finished this year through June and then there'll be some even next year for July and August. Um but in the total the fund balance what we're projecting to be at the end of this year 3,269 uh is uh 8.44% of the fund balance. So we're still within the policy of the board. Um food service uh we do we are doing some little bit of changes there. Uh we are putting the freezers in each of the buildings and we're we're we're moving out the centralized food service programs
044out to each of the buildings so that the the cooks will actually prepare all the meals right in each of the own buildings. Uh the one this year is the intermediate. It's actually going on right now. They'll probably finish that freezer here in the next week. Uh, and that's that's what we have to do in each of the buildings because they don't have freezers right now. Um, and then this summer we're doing the middle schools and then the next year will be the u the primary uh community ed. There really wasn't a whole lot of change there for this year. It's kind of a wait and see how we do. Uh, the new director, you know, really didn't set any of this up. So next year's budget is going to be hers and she worked
045very diligently on next year's but this year's is more of a okay let's see where we end up for this year. Uh and then the building construction you'll see we're projected to have about 3,100 and some thousand which that right now is really for the existing programs that are or the existing uh projects that were out there for all the other buildings. Uh we have a $35,000 retainage on one uh vendor or contractor and then we have about a h 100,000 for um the construction managers which also includes part of the roofing and then the rest of it the rest of the 3 million will be going towards the roofing. It's not total amount, but we have LTFN money that we were saving up to also put towards the rest of the roof. About 700,000
046that we'll have that from the LTFM that we've been saving up the last two years and next year. Um, other than that, nothing else really whole lot of changes mainly just in that general fund with where the wages went to the different years. Okay. You have any questions for Kevin? I'll entertain a motion to accept the revised budget. I'll make a motion. Do I have a second? I'll second that. Okay, we have a motion. We have a motion to accept the revised 2425 budget. Any questions or discussions? All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. Brings us to item number six, the proposed 2526 budget. Okay. And then so that's this is now for next year. U budget what what we have out there. And this one will pretty much spend all the
047insurance money uh under that operating capital. So that's why you'll see that uh fund balance come down to a 47,000 at the end of next year. Um the unreserved, you know, we have a bunch of reserved there. We'll see where those end up. But then the unreserved, which is that middle column or middle line there, general fund unreserved projected at a 3,206,000. Um there's a few more estimates in that one. uh biggest portion being uh the uh negotiations with what settlements will be but we'll talk about that at this one going to the close one. So we'll talk about that but projected to still be at 3,206. Uh so that percentage goes down a little bit but 8.25% 25% but still meeting the board's uh tumbler balance policy. And then the food service fund there
048you'll see does come down a little bit more because now finishing up the middle school project to get uh theirs in their freezer in their building. And in community service fund, uh they're pretty much balancing uh still showing a decrease in that reserve for community ed did come down a lot u by like 40,000, but we'll see. There's a few things also that I need to talk to Jen Johnson about the director that will probably even bring that down more. So, uh, then the construction fund at the end of June of next year be pretty much spent. It'll just be that last July and August of the roofing project. And that's still kind of a guess. We don't know exactly how much that'll be, but I got to put a number out there. We'll it'll
049be gone by the end of September of 26. And then the debt service fund is that's the principal and interest that we levy and then pay the principal interest on our debt. So pretty much a level for this. I don't know if there's any questions on next years. Do we know for sure that we're getting a 2.74 for this year? Yes. For this first year? Yes. Okay. We're getting 2.74%. That's in law. Okay. We don't know what the second year is. We just know for next year for sure. That's the only a little bit more for sure. We don't know yet. They don't set it until February. Okay. So, next February, they'll set it for Yep. 26 27, but we know the parameters between two and three, right? Yep. They're between two and three, right?
050Yeah. Well, yeah, they're between that's another topic at the legislature that they're talking about as well, whether it's a freeze on those to to not do the inflationary increase for a couple years and then bring it back or to get rid of it. It's set to go yet still to be inflationary rate then the next bianium they said it will go away but then come back the next ban for inflationary. We will see a little a little bit of unknowns. I entertain a motion for item number six proposed 25.6 budget. I'll make a motion to accept the 2526 proposed budget. I'll second. Okay. We have a motion to accept proposed budget for 2526. Any questions or discussion? All those in favor say I. I. All opposed. Motion carries. Brings us to item number seven, school
051board renewal of operating levy authority. This is back for second month after a 30-day grace period. So, I will entertain a motion for item number seven. Yeah. I just uh make a one last comment about this. Um, you know, again, um, motion before Can I make a motion to open this up for discussion, please? Or I'll make a motion to to pass the referendum renewal resolution. Okay. So, I have a motion to pass this. I'll second. Okay. Now, we're up for discussion. Sorry. So, are we going to just take out Pete's motion? Just so I want to make sure Angel had confusion last month. So, I want to make Are you okay with that, Pete? That What's that go with? Yes. Yes. I I I'll make a motion to remove my motion with a sign.
052Okay, that's Yeah, thank you. Okay, go ahead, Pete. I'd like to make a motion to open this up to discussion. Um again, I brought this up again last week or last uh last meeting. Um again, really what we're deciding here is to um extend this 10-year levy out another 10 years without letting the the public vote on it. So, um, and the bottom line, I just I don't think this is a routine matter. Um, in 2015, you know, voters approved a 10-year referendum, not a 20-year one. Now, you know, we been granted the authority to, you know, commit that to them to another 10 years without their input. So, I just don't think it's a decision we should we should take away from the public because at the end of the day, it is their
053their money, it's their schools, it's their future. I just I believe they need they deserve a say in it. So that's just kind of my thoughts on it. So we've had 30 days. Have we heard from anybody on it? We've had 30 days. Have we heard from anybody? Have you anybody? I've asked quite a few people what they thought and they just think it would be irresponsible to go through the motions of having an election when I mean we're not raising any we're keep keeping everything the same and everybody that I asked said you know of course we would and because we can't what if we don't do this do we get rid of 10 teachers I mean you know it's it's crazy to think that we're not not crazy that we're discussing it but
054that anybody wouldn't pass is for our kids, you know. So, I I don't think it's a a stretch. I think we just need to pass it. Yeah. We're not raising anything. We're keeping it static. So, I feel as a board member that is part of our job. No. And I again, I respect you guys's opinion on it. I just, you know, we generally discuss, you know, daily and, you know, yearly and and policies. We normally don't make 10-year decisions for the voting public. So, um, you know, I just I I know that we've had discussions about if people don't like it, they can vote us out and if if things like that, uh, you know, we, you know, I just don't think elections are about passing buck, you know. I think, um, it's the public's
055way involved in decisions. It's personal to them, right? It's their kids, it's their families, it's their community. It's kind of unlike cities where you know we all the whole general public use use things that cities buy but school districts you know it is it is personal a lot of people so and it's one of the really the only ways they they can have a say how their tax dollars are at. So um again I respect everybody's opinion but I just wanted to make sure that uh you know everybody understood where I was coming from too and I appreciate that. Um, and I'm kind of on the fence. I agree with you. Like, yeah, I mean, let's give him a chance to vote, but I also with Ryan, like it it seems like a waste to
056go through all the work to have, 1700 people come vote to extend what we're doing. And I think have a hard if we're going to go for a referendum, I think we'd have a hard time saying let's do it status quo. I think we probably be asking for more if you look at our budget. So yeah, I mean there's no doubt it would be a risk. I understand the risk factors be on it. But you know at the end of the day that's kind of what democracy is. You know it's it's you know you ask people you know it's it's it's a system for the people by the people. So we extended we extended it for 30 days. Yep. And I showed up. How many people did you hear from? I just the people that
057I talked to probably, you know, you know, two handfuls of people. I also know that we struggle sometimes getting word out to the community and no matter what it is, whether it be sports or extracurricular activities or clubs or open houses. But u you're right, people had an opportunity to come and speak and there's nobody here. Can't deny that. So, all right. Any further questions or discussions? All right. Vote. All those in favor of accepting schoolboard renewal of operating ley authority say I. I. Opposed. Nay. Motion carries. Brings us to item number eight. Pursuant to Minnesota statute 1798.01 to 1798.25. Um the school board has the right to close sessions to discussion negotiations. So we'll be heading to close session. We'll return to the table to close their meeting at the end of that. So
058thank you.