001Sorry. my co I'm freezing It's 5 o'clock. I'll call the board meeting to order and we will start with the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay, roll call finds uh Susie Rip and Cindy Flechek absent. Uh we'll start with an admin report for marketing and communications. It's not you, Dan, but you can hang out with me. Okay. Hi. Hope everybody's good this evening. I was told to make it short and sweet and quick, so hope you got your finger ready on that mouse because I'm going to talk faster. I do. Just tell me when to go. Okay. So, flip to the next one, please. All right.
002So, basically, um, end of the school year, there's a lots going on in every building, and as I am one person, I cannot be everywhere. So, I appreciate all the staff, um, and admin sharing different photos. Um, so thankful for that off the bat. But jumping in here, um, we have photos of our weight room rearranging project. Um, lots of investing in the future, a lot of the updating of the branding and different things. So, there's students on the left at the high school helping load to take the items to the right where the center is. And we have branding, new stickers for in the wall down there, which are not actually the one that you see. I just mocked I just taped it on the wall to see if it would work and it
003worked. So that's just a few photos of the the new items. They turn they're it's really turning out to be beautiful spaces and so as we continue to move forward and finish these projects, I'll continue to share the progress as we're going forward. Okay, flip. And so here's a few more of the soontobe and in process. Um the MK8 floor gym floors are starting and they look lovely with their sanded spots. Um so that'll be one. Hey, we're sharing this is starting. We'll do in progress and then finished photos going forward. Um but one of my favorite ones is going to be the new poll banners and those will actually be up this week sometime. So, it's replacing the old TCU swish logo with the fist and um the bright blue branded. So, that'll be
004up all in front of the high school before graduation. Right now, they're all currently on the floor in my office, but they look lovely on there. So, okay. And you can flip. Um so, like I said, lots going on the last few weeks and going forward. So, these are just a few photos and a few things on this slide of what's been going on. You know, we've had the honors nights, lots of concerts. I think last week there was something every single night to to show up to um and enjoy. Um we also had a couple of the outside events, the Lndale Street Fair and the kickoff to the center. not the same week, but it um they both were great evenings, great turnouts, lots of um good conversations with the public. Lots of new
005families actually stopped by um and asked questions and, you know, set up tours and different things like that. So, that was really um it was a really good face meeting with these new families. Um, you can flip again some more photos of it. Um, one of my favorites was actually the principal for a day with this little um, kindergartener wanted it at the carnival in in Lawndale and she was lovely. She had a marketing meeting and we toured the school and showed me some items. She had helped me take some pictures and um then I interviewed her with Tony and she was just relieved to be sitting down because apparently you walk around a lot as a principal and her legs were very tired and so that was pretty fun. And so she she ended
006up being our Titan spotlight Tuesday also for you know staff of the week and um she helped design that. So she was you know very into cats and different things. So, it was it was a lot of fun. We had um some couple of feel-good moments that w that were shared and I had, you know, sent those out to the universe, too. Finished our art show. Um updating some information for summer meals, which Amy will talk more. Um yeah, all kinds of things going on. So, flip away. Next slide. Um future projects. Think we're going fast enough. Future projects. um got the pictures from Kevin. Not 100% accurate, but close enough um right now. So, we'll be sharing I will be sharing photos of these pro projects like I said when they start construction in
007process and then the you know the shiny finished photos. Um so that's really it. um updating some branding information with some building ramp wraps for the budget reasoning and stuff like that because prices changed for some reason in the world. I don't understand that part but it happens. Um so yeah so that is you know just an in process thing that I constantly am fighting you know you can't do anything about pricing but we just stay on top of it. Next slide please. Um digital presence is really doing amazing right now. um we're up to like 9,300 um on website just in the last 30 and it's 100% organic. So we're not paying for anybody to to put the website in front of anybody's view. It's just showing up and people are navigating that and
008viewing it because they want to, which is a great thing. Um Facebook is always growing. Instagram's really growing. Twitter comes and goes. It depends, I think, what people are in the mood for, but it's not the main social media platform right now. So, um, and that's pretty much that. Hey, next slide. And upcoming, we have I'll be starting the community catalog for fall already and then um prepping for July and August when the rest of the events come for school. So, I'll be sharing signups for everybody. So, if you want to hang out and we could talk more. Um, Kalashki Days, we'll be walking with the band, the parade, Meet in Montgomery, um, the Lonsdale Community Day. I think we're having the band there, but we'll also have a booth. Um, and that's like an
009all day event. And then obviously the county fair and the county resource fair. Um, and those are on the same day, so we have to tag team people in both places, but they're both amazing events. Um, so like I said, I'll share everything with everybody and if you have want to join us, that'd be wonderful. And yeah, I think that's I think that's it. And that's it. Any questions? Fastest ever. I think so. I love it. Thank you for sharing. Yes. Thank you. Thanks. Okay, I won't steal your You got food service. No, I'll take a a co-chair. Well, good evening everyone. I like uh how Anna brought up transformations because I feel that's kind of what our kitchen's going through with all the nice things that we've been able to upgrade. Um but first
010of all, I'm going to announce that summer meals, our program was um approved on Friday. And I would like to do a shout out and thank you to Miss Brenda, Anna, Kayla up in the district office um helping getting our budgets put together quickly and on time to the state. And um yes, we will be set to go both in um Lee Center and Montgomery starting on July 7th ending on the 31st. And so we'll be at both sites. We will have an alternative um serving location at both sites just to be outside of the construction zone of the flooring, but it was approved by the Department of Health. So, we're excited about that. We'll be transforming that space um and get some pictures out on social media so everybody knows and Anna's going to
011take care of all of our um things that we need to share out with families so they know where to come into the building and at what time. So, and then menu should be online in the next week or two after they get approved so that everybody will know what we're serving. We're planning on doing a cold and a hat item for both breakfast and lunch. So, we're able to bring some of our equipment in those spaces and we're just looking at electrical outlets right now just to make sure everything fits, but we feel confident it will. So, we are excited to have families in the building over the summer. It'll be kind of nice. Um, our transformation. So, I gave you guys some um drawings of some of the new equipment that we're getting.
012Um, the items that I'm going to share with you in our drawings are the things that we're getting um that should be shipped sometime around mid July. The first one is Lndale. We're getting a new servant line station there. And um you'll see a front and a rear um view of both things. Something different that'll be happening here is we're going to actually have the cashier station on our serving line. Currently, it's not on our serving line. So, it'll be nice to have all of our staff back in the kitchen. We'll be able to have a better flow and a little bit more efficiency for the kids. Um, and as I share the rest, um, something that you'll notice too is we're going to do our hot food first and our cold food second. That
013allows us to put our fruit and veggies in that cold bar and our cold entree. So, if the kids are going to the serving lines to check out, they missed a fruit or if they're eating and want to come back and get more fruit or veggies, they can get to the middle of the line and not have to go at the beginning where we have other kids standing. So, we'll be doing that all and then all of our sites will have hot food first, cold food second. So, um, first drawing is Lndale. Second drawing is the new Montgomery setup at the elementary. Beautiful. We, um, grew both lines. Uh, currently they're both sitting with three of the wells, and those are the serving spaces for hot and cold food. We moved up to a four,
014which is awesome for that site. So, all of our sites in the elementary schools will have four hot stations and four cold serving wall areas for the kids. So, we'll be able to put more product out there and get the kids through quicker, which is nice. Our third station is something we're pretty pumped about. And there's our branding. This is our alle cart station that's currently in um the old um booster kind of the concession stands. Right now, the booster's moved into the other part of the um cafeteria at the high school. And we um now have that space and uh we have a station now that will hold everything cold. it will have a space with a cashier station because currently we didn't have one and we were just using a drawer off to
015the side. So, this will be really nice for the students to come up. This is a space where we not only serve all cart, but we also offer a meal. So, we call it a quick pick. The kids can come up. We have about three different options that they can choose from and actually not have to wait in line. They can come up and grab a meal. It has a fruit, has a vegetable, has milk, and uh right now currently when we're super busy over there, she does about 50 of those a day. Um, so that's going to work really great, be very efficient, and it's going to fit beautifully there. And then our third or the last page are the um new salad bars that we're going to have at the high school. Currently,
016we have one that's probably from I don't know, they thought it was like in the 70s. We call it uh the pink Cadillac because it is literally a salmon pink color. So um that we are getting upgraded and we are going to Sorry, Bren's laughing. Um, yeah, we have a pink Cadillac and then we have a little pink Cadillac. They're both pretty much that color. So, we're upgrading that equipment, replacing it with two new salad bars. Um, the nice thing about our replacement salad bars is they're all going to have LED lights in them, which is awesome cuz you're going to be able to see and it's going to really show well. And then the last station that the high school is getting is a utility station which will hold our napkins and our silverware
017out there instead of the little pink Cadillac that we had out there currently. So, that's some pictures of some upgrades that we're getting. Again, those were ordered. Um, and they'll be here in July. So, we're super pumped about that. Um, and then in Le Center, we got a new re-in cooler in that building at the beginning of the school year. That's for their fruit and vegetable station. And with that addition of that reachin, that would make all of our sites all have a reach-in cooler for a fruit and veggie station. It's really um close to the serving lines, and we can pretty much put our daily prep in that space. So, that's been a great addition. And then um Lee Center also got a new hot holding cabinet um in their food or in their
018kitchen and that's helped us improve the food temperature because our other one was um kind of on the list for repairs all the time. So, it's been really nice to get those upgrades. Uh let's see. Um districtwide, you saw the pictures of our new cafeteria tables coming earlier. um and had some kind of some specs on that at our elementary schools. Um upgrades that we've done also is we've got non-slip floor mats in all of our kitchens that we upgraded to for all of our staff. We bought a smaller model of a floor mat so we could easily pick it up and run it through the dish machine to clean. And then um we've been using our floor scrubbers at all of our kitchens which has been super nice because we're not having to mop
019and we're really getting the grout nice and clean. And it's um been really a treat because if we have a spill during lunch, we can pretty much run right out there, clean it up, and it's dry. We don't have to put a sign out saying wet floor. So, that's been working great for us. Um so, those are kind of our updates on the uh kind of the equipment updates. On the staff training side, we've been really kind of focused on uh safety this year. Um we did our CPR Red Cross training with the Lee Center ambulance. our whole staff was there back in March. Um this summer we've got two more staff doing food safety training which will make us have um 12 of us that'll have food managers license. And currently we only really
020need one at each building, but we require both our lead and assistants to have it. So we actually have more people that have food manager license, which is nice for our program. Um upcoming projects for the rest of the summer. We are upgrading our electrical systems for all of the new equipment that we purchased because uh some of our equipment or the electricity needs to be um upgraded. And then we are looking at purchasing um two more of the combi ovens, the current ones that we have. The high school has the smoker. We're going to make sure that all of our schools have a smoker because we've been doing a lot of fun things with smoking different meat and we have more plans for that next year. So, the combi ovens are great because they'll
021steam, they'll bake, they proof. So, we've been able to um proof and bake rolls, sub buns, cinnamon rolls. So, it's really really efficient and like a great thing about it, it's kind of gets cleaned like a dishwasher. You put tablets in it and it just runs a cycle because there's water attached. So there's nobody that has to go in and spray oven cleaner, pull it out, scrub it and get your head in a big dirty oven. It does all the cleaning itself. So it's well worth it. I just tell the staff, don't be afraid because the cleaning alone is worth putting two tablets, hit a cycle, and let it clean over. We leave the building and it's cleaning and come back in the morning and it's all set. So yeah, we have a lot of
022great things going on and we're just excited to keep moving forward. Does anyone have any questions? I don't have any questions, but all that new equipment is really going to make the spaces look really refreshed, so that'll be great. Yeah, it's going to look really nice. We're excited. Thank you. We'll share pictures as it comes in. Great. Thank you. Thank you. I'd have to sell those Cadillacs, too. Yeah, it's retro, right? I had a small one for your house. Kevin, I had a question before I seek to approve the agenda. Um, for leave of absence, is that something that has to be voted on or is that a different under last one under the consent agenda for leave of absence? Brianna Peach. No, I think I'm just curious if the leave of absence isn't that
023something that has to be voted on. No, this one is it's a maternity. Got it. Okay. Okay. That's all I need to know. Thanks. All right. Next, I'll seek a motion to approve the agenda. I'll make a motion. I'll second it. All right, we have a motion by Trevor Hol, seconded by Marcia Craft to approve the agenda as presented. All those in favor? I. Those opposed? Motion has passed uh 6. Okay. Under the consent agenda, I have the approval of minutes from April 28th, 2025 board meeting. Under personnel, we have employment ending. Uh Carrie Langanger, student support teacher. Uh TD Ericson, NHS advisor. Carolyn Mat, kitchen helper. Jared Van Van Dorp, basketball coach, boy C squad. Julie Scott, paraprofessional. McKenzie Lahan, Jun JV, volleyball coach. Jennifer Frederick, student success coach. Josh Gtle, custodian maintenance. Under
024new hires, we have Lucas Hardell, technology assistant. April Iverson, paraprofessional. Lisa Coul, elementary teacher. Emily uh Meger, administrative assistant. Joseé Ortega, custodian maintenance. Jared Van Dorp, basketball coach, boys B squad. Julie Scott, special ed teacher, special education teacher. Austin Pincky, special education teacher. Jeremy Towi, custodian maintenance. And under leave of absence, we have Brianna Peach, teacher. And approval of bills in the amount of 1,44,436.92 and the finance report. I'll seek a motion to approve the consent agenda. I'll make a motion. I'll second. I have a motion by Chris Leach, seconded by Hillary Birds to approve the consent agenda. All those in favor? I. Those opposed? Motion's passed. 6. No open forums tonight. Uh, student schoolboard report. Thanks for coming here, by the way. Uh, I apologize for being late again. You have other things going
025on. um end of the year. I don't have much. It's coming to the end of the year. We had um a blood drive here at the school led by students and we were four pints short from upping our scholarship dollars according to Mr. Bitter. But he called and we actually got that like we got the scholarship dollars even for being four pints away because we are the like highest number of donation school in southern Minnesota and part of Wisconsin. And part of Wisconsin. Yes. So that was pretty cool to hear. And then we had honors night for the seniors last week, last Wednesday, and a lot of scholarships were given out. A lot of um or yeah, the community members came and so that was a good night. Today was the last day for seniors,
026like last day. Tomorrow we have unity day. Um graduation this Friday. Oh, and I also heard a lot of teachers are cracking down on the phone policy right now because teachers are getting written up. So, they're getting written up for students having their phones. So, a lot of teachers for the last week are cracking down on that. Well, why have they been doing it all year? They have. I'm just I just go here. That's hilarious. Well, enjoy your go here for a little more short time. So, yeah. So, we appreciate uh Nissa being uh on the Go ahead. So, Nissa is uh since I've been here the first school board student member uh maybe for a while. I think we had maybe way way back when. Um but as we reinvigorate that program and get
027our students involved in leadership, I appreciate you reporting and sharing with me some things about the school year. and we obviously wish you the best of luck uh because you're going next year to the U of M to U of M for nursing for nursing. So, uh she'll do really well at U of M. Um thank you for TCU taking care of you and thank you for helping to provide some stuff for the board. So, we appreciate you. What are you guys doing on Unity Day? Um we're going to Clearary Lake and Prior Lake. Hopefully the weather stays nice. But first, we have graduation practice. 7:50. Don't be late. We just got the email. Do not be late. We will start without you. Don't be on your phone. Don't be on your phone. Don't be
028on your phone. Don't forget your cap and gown. Awesome. Thank you. Uhformational items. We got the enrollment update. Yeah, enrollment uh is up two students. So, that is fantastic. We have pretty much maintained our enrollment the entire year, which is phenomenal for schools across Minnesota. So really really happy with that. Uh we're getting some more students in for next year. So it'll be next year's report. Um so from some neighbors. Um so we'll see what happens with next year's. But we're going to finish the year on a on a positive note being up two from last month. So really excited. Great. Right Brenda? Yep. Yes, we are. All right. Thank you. Next we have the task force update. Plug in. So you want to I can unplug here. Yeah. You got just a HDMI, Dan.
029Sorry. You have just HDMI plug? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Do you want to uh You want to sit back here? Where were you? Wherever you think you can do that and I'll just grab another chair. No, you can just plop down next to Josh and I'll grab this chair right here. It just might be easier. I'll put this over there. Thank you. Come closer. You want to duplicate yours? There's a reason why Carl was here tonight. Just all hooked up. Great. I think both of us com now he comes down on it. I think they're going to make sure. Yeah, they don't roll. You got to scoop. I was telling you. That was classic. Okay, so um There's a camera right there. Do I stand here? I don't I don't know. Sure. That's good. Okay. Yeah.
030Well, uh, to the board members I have not met personally, my name is Dan Rooney. I work with Site Logic. I'm the guy who speaks with an American accent. You don't need closed captioning when I speak. I hope so. Uh, in contrast to to Michael, we've got two things to talk about you today. I will note that to Michael, by the way. Yes, I think it was very you could understand him very well. Oh yeah. Well, uh so we've got two presentations for you today and I'll I'll start so you guys can take a little little rest back there for just a second. And that is uh the first one is the community survey review. So we have uh we sent we being site logic and the district sent postcards to every home in the
031district. Now, caveat to that, as we talked about in our group quite a bit, is the fact that we deliver the postcards to to the US Postal Service, which means once they get it, it's out of our hands. And that means the goal is for every single house to get one, but the post office isn't perfect. So, uh, we get it to most houses. And there was a opportunity for people to fill it out on their phones or on their computers. And then they also had the opportunity to come into the school and fill out paperwork and then I put in the answers manually there. We're going to talk about a few of the findings we had to uh through the the the uh the survey here. demographics, the communication and satisfaction of the district
032with the uh community itself, what their priorities are for the district, and some of the financial appetites that they feel based on where they live and what their age group is. So, here are the results. We had 600 people fill out this survey, which is a great great number. the second highest that I've seen in my time here at Site Logic. Uh that's about a 5% participation rate, which you may think to yourself, are you kidding me? Only 5%. That's actually really good when it comes to people in general in our society are surveyed out. And a 5% and 600 people participating is a really good number. Anything over 4% is considered to be statistically viable, which means whether it's 8% return, 12% return, 21% return, the results are pretty much going to be the
033same once you get above that 4% uh threshold. Survey was open for 3 weeks. First, how did you hear about the survey? By far, even though we worked real hard on that postcard and spent a lot of money on it, it was the district email. So, thank you district for sending that out. And no offense, Anna, social media just a little bit. That's okay, though. That's all right. We try better next time. Who filled out the survey? No surprise. Like in most districts, it's that middle age group between 35 and 44. Those are the parents. Those are the people who receive the email, look at the social media more often. uh so they are much more likely to fill out the survey than the 55 plus group. Now we take that age breakdown into account
034when we wait uh at the end. Wait being uh uh when we we wait the the results. We'll get we'll get to that at the end. No need to get into it now. Live in the TCU district? Most everybody does. Where do you live? Do you own egg land? About 75% no, 25% yes. Are you registered to vote? Okay, 7% go register to vote unless you can't, unless you're under 18. Are you a district employee? This is a actually a pretty good number because we don't want too many employees to fill it out. We don't want the survey weighted really hard toward people that work at the building, but at the same time, people that work in the building's voices need to be heard. They're there every day so they know what the uh what
035the pluses and minuses of the facilities are. Are you a TCU student? Love the student representation. So, uh that's fantastic that we had 9% students fill this out. Perhaps a lot of those folks are not registered to vote. Maybe there's a correlation there as well. Do you have schoolage kids in the district? This is pretty standard when it comes to uh who normally fills out surveys. About 2thirds normally have kids in the district. Unfortunately, this is flopped from the percentage of people who normally vote. So the people who don't you have school age kids normally are in the 666% range of people that vote. And the all those parents who are super interested don't come out to vote quite as much. Where do they go? How likely are you to recommend TCU schools? I look
036at it about at eight and above as people that are being pretty darned happy with the school district and those are very good numbers and what's terrific is seeing that 0 1 2 3 and four being really infantessimal very very small numbers which is impressive here are some comments about whether someone would recommend TCU schools I took the 158 people of the 600 that chose to write something down threw it into AI and told them to come up with uh three bullet points uh in summary of what they said. So number one they said caring, welcoming and dedicated staff and I'll let you read what is there. I will be sending a copy of this presentation and the task force's presentation uh to Superintendent Babcock who can distribute it to the board. So you don't
037have to worry about you didn't have enough time to read all this. So you'll have the opportunity later. Strong community, small school benefits, and room to grow. That pretty much sums it up, doesn't it? That's been my experience for sure. Facilities equity and program expansion and task force. How about that first one right in the middle with the CTE that popped up organically. question about what factors help students learn best. No surprise that safety and security is is number one in this day and age. Also that people understand that classroom temperature does have a major impact on the learning environment. When people, not just kids, when people are comfortable, they're more likely to to pay attention. And when they're more likely to pay attention, they're more likely to learn. What is the importance of spaces
038contributing to student success? Comments about the learning environments. And I go and I won't spend forever on this, but I'll leave it up there for a second. space growth and specialized programs. Community expectations and fiscal responsibility. So these are the facility uh priorities identified by the previous task force in 2022 2023 which were then presented in the survey and gave people the opportunity to rank them based on what they thought. What is the importance of addressing the projects that were identified by the previous task force and the district? So the numbers there are strong. I look at uh four to five being kind of the the the sweet spot of where you want to be. And those are very good numbers uh from both parents and non-parents considering the 50% threshold that is needed to
039pass here in Minnesota. comments about the task force's facility priorities. That second one is common throughout the United States right now is that people really want their tax dollars to benefit the most students possible. Athletics in general are not super popular because my kid doesn't play track. What do we need to redo the track for? Uh that seems to be the mindset in the United States right now for for whatever reason, for good or for bad. This is something we heard in the task force quite a bit about Lee Center. And this is no surprise to anybody in this room. I wouldn't think fiscal responsibility. This day and age of course is a major concern. Here's a priority list of the community of some of the infrastructure items that were presented to them. And there
040it is again. That very last one. We see it again and again. Anything having to do with athletics seems to really fall like a like a like a brick. Here are some comments about the infrastructure. and how do like people like to be communicated with? What information would be most beneficial or you interested in hearing about? Money and student success are the two big winners here. This helps us from site logic should you decide to move forward with the referendum, but it also helps the district too to know the best way to to reach people. So, emails definitely seems to be the runaway winner with uh with families and it also is pretty good for people without kids as well. But US mail seems to always win when it comes to people who do not
041have kids, which unfortunately is the most expensive option. How often would you like to receive updates regarding the school district as a whole? Monthly preparence, quarterly for non-parents are the big winners. And what do you want to hear about again? Student success and district operations and finances. All right, here's what you all want to hear about the tax impact. What is most popular for with your the 600 people that took this survey? Now, here is uh always the the the strategy here and that is as a district, you want to be able to maximize how much good you can do for your district. But if you ask for too much, you're, you know, you're gonna and it doesn't pass then you get nothing. So, how much how can you maximize your dollar without going over?
042Thank you, Bob Parker. So, here's how it breaks down. And it's difficult to see, I'm sure, for a lot of you here, but here's how it breaks down with age groups. And essentially what this means is starting again with that 35 to 44, you got young kids in the district in general here. They're willing to pay the most. Makes sense. They uh have a vested interest in the school district. They have young kids. and know their kids are going to be here for years to come. They want to see improvements. They're willing to to put the most in. The people who normally want to put the least, and again, this is not different from any other district we work with is the 55 plus group. In this case, both 65 plus and 55 to both
043want to contribute, but on a lesser scale altogether. And there's a couple of reasons for this. Of course, you've got fixed income here. You've got me in this level, 55 to 64, where your kids are out of the house. You're like, I'm tired of paying for kids stuff, man. And I've got to start saving for retirement. I need to I need to be putting more money away and less going into my taxes. So, I'd like that this to be as small as possible. Here's another way to look at it. Broken down by city. Sorry if I was blocking you. Oh, no. You're fine. And that red line 50% is obviously what it would take to to pass a referendum here in in TCU. And so what does all this mean when you break it down?
044Well, if you wait again, those age groups that we talked about, the the non-parents are usually about twothirds of the voters. Parents are usually about a third of the voters. As I mentioned, that's exactly the opposite of who took this survey here. So, we waited that to make sure that the non-parents were represented that much more than the parents because of voting patterns. And here is the number that comes out after 600 people took it. The maximum amount per month the uh the 600 people would be willing to invest is $7.34 a month. Here are some comments about the potential bond. And of course there are concerns. And a sp a space there was for final comments for people taking the survey. A number of people I just want to pass along to the board
045specifically said thank you for this opportunity to tell you what we want. They really appreciated the opportunity to have their uh their feelings uh recorded. I'd like to say that no matter what year it is, everyone says this probably isn't the right time to raise taxes because of X, Y, and Z. People have said that every single year in the history of the United States. I think um this year feels a little bit different. I have, you know, to be honest based on what we're hearing here. Uh there's a lot of uncertainty financially. So, uh, we certainly heard that here, uh, in the comments. Any questions? Can we get copies of all of the responses? Yes. Okay, you may. Yes. I'd be curious to see what they all said. Yeah, for sure. It's a It's
046a fun read. And just to confirm, the the Lndale residents that received the survey were district only, correct? Not the entire city. That was what the USPS was asked to do. Yes. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks, Dan. You are welcome. Well, let's move on to the main event here and move on to the hardworking task force here. And do you guys want this? Okay. Should reach that far. Okay. So, I want to introduce the the task force. We have a a really nice representation. Thank you. representation of the task force that is here today. We had I don't know what we got a final number on it. 20 20 to 30 somewhere in that range throughout the entire set of meetings here. And so we've got a good representation of the folks that
047participated and I want to thank them personally for participating and volunteering your time and your opinions and uh and working together uh to come up with the recommendation for the board. We've got three folks here who have Yeah, sure. Yeah. Give me a hand. Thank you. We have three folks here who have volunteered to to present on behalf of the task force. Just to let you all know here on the board, I put this together under their uh uh guidance. So everything that's here uh comes from them, not from me, not from site logic. This is their report. This is their recommendation 100%. Um, I want to let you all know in the back that uh, and all three of these folks agree, we talked about it earlier. If you have something to say during
048the presentation, if you think, "Oh, yeah, we forgot about that." Or any of that kind of stuff, you are absolutely welcome to participate and and speak out for sure. Um, so anything else? Did I forget anything? All right. So, I'll turn it over to our three task force representatives. Awesome. Um, I think we're going to do introductions first and then we'll talk about Brandon, you want to introduce? Sure. Uh, good evening. My name is Brandon Brockway. Um, like it says, I'm friendly center. I got three kids in the district. Uh, what else we going for? Why you join the task force? Oh, so I joined because I I was on the 2023 task force and I guess found it insightful and and interesting. I enjoyed my time on that one. Thanks again for for that.
049So thought keep the involvement, be involved in the community, um be a part of the future of our schools and take the project across the finish line. So hi. Uh I'm Maggie Stencis. I have three little boys. Um the oldest of two uh which are in Lale um and then I'm also a farmer uh with my husband um just south of Ldale. Um, I wanted to be on it because my kids are in the district. Um, and also as a business owner, I think it's really important to be involved in our schools, um, and be a part of what's the future going to look like. Good evening, board members, superintendent. Uh, my name is Wayne Gizaki. Um, my family and myself, uh, we open enrolled here at the TCU school district. Uh, we actually targeted
050this school district when we were in the process of moving. Um, and uh, and look forward to the years to come. I have a daughter, Lena. You guys met her, Principal Lena. She um, she's still using that that car at home. That's awesome. Over her little brothers. But, um, yeah, it's, uh, it's an enjoyable atmosphere there in Lond. Um, there was a trick question at the end of that survey, I think, is how I ended up on this committee, but uh, in all seriousness, it's a it's a good it was a good contribution for myself to the family. Um, so I, uh, put my name down and I'm glad I was part of it. Awesome. So, we're going to talk about our process, what we learned, um, some of the priorities, and then lastly give
051you our recommendation. Um, but first, we want to say a lot of thank yous before we get into it. Um, so we want to thank you guys for seeking input from the community as you go forward um, and look at the facilities and and what you're going to make with this big decision coming up. Um, so we appreciate you asking. Um we appreciate the transparency, the openness, the depth of information which we were giving. We were given a lot of information. Um which was great. Um helped us make the decisions that we needed to make. Um and then we also wanted to thank all of our tour guides um and everybody that presented and and helped us um answer all of our millions of questions that we had and and give us really an insight
052into all of the schools in the district as a whole. So, we met on five different meetings with optional tours beforehand. Um, invested about 16 hours um into everything. Um, and some of the people like Brandon here have been a part of the task force in um 22 and 23 um and then in this task force as well. So, it's helpful to have their insights for us as well. So you guys charged us with um forming a citizen-based group of district residents to serve an advis advisory capacity to the administration and the school board um when it came to the facilities. That's why we're here. Um it was a really great cross-section of people from across the district. So we had every community represented. Um, we have people who live here, who work here, who
053have kids that attend, um, who farm here, who are multigenerational. Um, so we had a really good cross-section, which I think helped, um, get an idea of, uh, our communities across. Um, we also went back to our communities and and talked with people in our communities as well. Um, so that we knew that we were representing more than just ourselves. Um, so the process, let's get into how we were formed. So the purpose, um, we really came back to this a lot. Sometimes we got into the weeds of the how. Um, and Dan was really good about bringing us back to what is our purpose. Um, and our purpose is of a school district and and us as well. So a school district exists entirely for kids and their education and betterment. um it is
054a direct reflection of the communities it serves um and it belongs to our communities. And so I think it was really important when we were thinking about making decisions keeping those three in mind. um a critical component for success um that we found is that school boards need input from the communities to be confident in the direction um that you know that the communities are going to back what you're going with. Um the communities must be involved in the process when being asked uh to fund the outcome. So, we need to have buy in uh when we're going to be funding what's coming forward and then to have a shared vision um to help realize um when school board and district officials and communities when we work together we can have that shared vision for
055a successful outcome. So, really it just came back to does this make sense for the kids? That was something that that we came back to a lot is is this going to make sense for the kids? Um does this make sense fiscally? Um and are we going to have community support? So these were three really big things um that we discussed to make sure that our direction was was going in the right way. Yeah, I can take over. Um go to the next slide. Oh, I'll talk about this real quick. So we understand that when you're making the decision um we're just one piece of the the puzzle. we're just one slice of the the pie. Um that you have a lot of input coming from a lot of different directions and that we're just
056one recommendation um when it comes to making your final decision. Um, and like I said earlier, we we wanted to make sure that we were being a key communicator in within the group and allowing everybody, but also outside of the group, um, and within our communities and and talking to our neighbors and our kids' friends at school and and people we see, um, to make sure they were knew we were doing this, um, and to share what we're learning, which I think for me was, um, something that I was really proud of is sharing what I was learning in the facilities and and what I was seeing. um but then also to get other people's input that that we could take back. So, what we learned um through our various tours, you know, and up
057up on the screen you'll see the the tour dates that we did and the locations and and I I I got to say every every single tour that was presented with uh Superintendent Babcock and and the representation, they're very thorough because it's it was very informational. Um, every every tour guide was very knowledgeable in in in what they were presenting to us. Um, and before I go any further, I just want to say I want to thank the rest of the task forces here. I didn't do that in my introduction, but we have a very good representation here of the rest of the of the task force. So, I just wanted that to go without said. Uh some of the uh engineering reports that were presented in front of the task force group um you
058know were were eye openening and and in this slide you can see that you know what we had presented in front of us in this format um if this is an accurate analysis of what we had obviously an itemized plan should be put in place right because you can see that the school district is what we learned is in in very good condition. However, you know, that that amount of caution area um that was presented to us should probably have a an itemized or a developed executed plan moving forward. We don't want that all coming to fruition in the same time frame. um in the engineering reports um you know my takeaway on on and I think in as a task force in general you know these are some big dollar amounts right um with
059all things aside on these dollar amounts um there are they're all very in need after the site visits you know walking through some of these individual schools um it was it was evident that some improvements could be made. Um, and obviously our success is dependent not only on our students but our our people and our employees to to ensure that continued success that TCU is having. Providing a safe and healthy teaching environment is is is a priority not only for the task force but as as a community as a whole. Um, we had a financial presentation with with Matt there and I found that that presentation very very informational. I I like numbers. I like diving in the numbers and and I think the the task force as a whole um was able to pull
060a lot of out of out of that presentation. So um going through that down through this slide, you know, what was presented to us was out of the 660 students, 87% um being open enrolled out of the school district, right, to New Prague and Cleveland. So opening enroll um in we're 203 students and each student with a with a head value of 10,000 right around $10,000 that's a that's a big number as a you know for financial income for a school district. So if if that number is accurate and and true, then we as a task force feel that the school board or the school district should capitalize on that. Um district funding sources um the LTFM. Yeah. Side note, I don't know obviously a school board members in LTFM. I mean that's a that's
061a lot of lingo, right? to know that back and and know what you guys are doing and dealing with and um I just it's a lot of lot of information I guess is is my my takeaway on that. Um the egg to egg to school credits for agriculture. Um and then obviously the former uh school districts of 392 and 394 having that debt sharing agreement um out till 2034. Um the big question right or the big big advantage here is the debt drop and which would allow for the extension of debt that could generate a 25 to $35 million in revenue in a bond. Um that's a very unique and probably uh advantage right um situation for a school board to be in the expansion uh these are uh our priorities of the task force.
062These are our priority projects that that we had uh formed as a group. And this is the 2023. Oh, 2023. Yep. Sorry. So, this is what we were given when we came in was the priorities from the 2023 task force. Thank you, Megan. Um would you feel you want me to read through these or you guys want some time to take read them through yourself, familiarize yourself with them? I think we're pretty familiar with them. Yeah. Yeah, we're pretty familiar with them. Thank you. And then uh this was a an activity as a group that we did one evening um prioritizing our projects and I think it was a good group interaction project. Would you would you agree fast forward and in out of that project site logic developed these survey results and these survey
063results basically Megie again refresh my memory the red is infrastructure the red is infrastructure y and then the blue is more programmatic correct I'll give you some time just to kind of look through those. The numbers really have no correlation other than, you know, what was priority in in the task force out of those survey results and the lines just are dividing like 8 765. Um there's no other reason for those. And this is the continuation down to the uh remaining portions of the project at discussion and these slides will be shared correct? Yes. Yeah. Okay. So some questions that the task force had uh raised um through site logic and then came back to us within a actually within a meeting, right Dan? Yeah. Um you know a question was generated about how much
064would taxes go down if the bond was allowed to expire and these were the numbers presented to the task force committee. So then Bayard's response was if we bonded for 15 to 20 million, 15 million or 20 million, how much less would taxes be? And Bayard's response was borrowing amounts ranging from 15 to 25 million are basically the same. Um the payments have been structured in this matter with a goal of paying off principal early in the bond schedule, which minimizes interest costs. Um, I think that's a a takeaway there is is when you look at the bond referendum amount, um, it was easy for our task force to get off subject when we started talking about individual project costs, but you know, the the end goal was to minimize that interest cost at the
065end. the tax impact on a medium home median home 15 to 25 million. Um, as you can see, what was presented back to us was the former district 394 Montgomery would be the same or remain the same as current and as well in the L center district. Tax impact on median home, $30 million bond, slight increase in Lenter, slight decrease yet with Montgomery Ldale. So, as a group, we could start to see the value in the position we're in with this debt drop. And again, with the $40 million referendum, I'm up with all that. Yeah, we we're ready to present our recommendations. Brandon. All right. Um before we go into it, um one thing that we wanted to to call out was we talked about the numbers. We had a group of 20 plus people
066um representing all three uh different communities. So a lot of different personalities with a lot of different opinions going throughout these meetings. So we had plenty of really spirited conversations at times. Um but the final night when we were looking for a majority vote on our recommendation um we were even we were shocked and in a very pleasant way that when we the final vote came through we were 100% unanimous on what we were going to move forward with the recommendation. And I'll tell you me from the 2023 committee I would have thought that was impossible. And I don't think anybody on the committee for all the way up until the last couple weeks would have thought that that was a possibility. So the fact that we didn't land on a close majority vote um
067that it was unanimous for whatever that's worth I mean I don't know if we're a perfect sample size or representation of the communities but um if we are we're off to a good start when it comes to the community collaboration. So we just wanted to call that out ahead of it. Um, first part of our recommendation, we're looking or we're recommending um that we look at a big expansion in Lonsdale. Um, with that projecting out uh 20 plus years of of growth. So, in Londale, we're already short on space. Um, and once again, we're not talking about a small expansion. A few classrooms and some activity space would really just be a band-aid um for what we need now. and then what we'd be looking at in the future. So, we're looking at significant expansion
068that may include an additional building. Um, but we're looking whatever we do, whether it's an expansion, whether it's a new building, um, we want something that could support Ldale's future growth as well as potentially um, K8 in Lndale and match up all three communities with that K8 representation. Um, why did we come to that? Lonsdale is growing and that's not going to slow down. That's that's our fastest growing community. We're losing too many students to New Prague in Northfield. Um, I think that's our biggest leak point when it comes to um losing our open enrolled students. Um, and this would make it more appealing for these um community members and students to stay with TCU. And like we talked about before, each student being worth $10,000 ahead, that's that's a big deal for the district
069if we could retain some of those numbers. Then lastly, when we look at the previous bullet points on the the the other slides, this could also solve some of the shortage in gym space and different office and classroom space issues throughout the the rest of the district. So um before we move on from this, I I also think it's important to note that this was a top priority in the 22 23 committee as well. So our next recommendation is to expand the egg and CTE um area within the high school and and within the district. Um especially as a rural community, um we thrive a lot on egg and CTE in our communities. Um but there's also a huge demand for students. Um when we toured uh they said they weren't offered to uh able
070to offer 9th graders welding because they didn't have room because all of those spots were filled up by the older students. Um and I think that's incredible that we have all these students that are trying to do these courses. Um, also they aren't able to offer welding and shop at the same time because they don't have the space to do it separately and it's not safe to do it at the same time. Um, so if we were able to expand that, you could offer both of those at the same time, offering more courses to students. Um, as a farmer in the district, I also think it's really appealing to our farm crowd that we're investing in the future of agriculture and um, other bluecollar um, fields. And I think that we can look at this
071as a way of um investing in our community to help them stay within our community. Um and that these students will have jobs that they can leave high school and and get a job right off the bat. Um the other recommendation that we have with this is to seek matching funds. Um I think there are lots of um egg companies or welding companies um that are looking to have employees. there there's a huge shortage of skilled labor. Um, and if we are able to to partner with them and say, "Hey, we'll put your name on the building. We'll we'll have you at our career fair every year. Um, if you match our funds, then I I think that could be a huge incentive for them. I think that also, you know, farmers are always looking
072for a good deal. Um, and I think if you tell them, hey, we're taking your money and we're doubling it and we're putting that back into your field." I think that's a huge incentive um for farmers throughout the community as well. one more time. Then any leftover balance on the budget we'd be recommending to use for infrastructure improvements, whether that's roofing, HVAC, electrical, got the essentials that were in our previous bullet points. We're recommending a 35 to $40 million bond. Um, and then the last bullet point there, um, the committee would like to request that after the board makes their final decision that we would request one more additional meeting, um, with kind of an open forum where we could do kind of a question and answer. And, and the reason behind that is we
073feel we're pretty well vested in this. Um, and we want to continue to be an advocate throughout the community. And so the more information we have on the reasons why we landed on where we did, um we feel that we can continue to spread the word and get the information out there. Um going for the bond approval and probably the biggest part, this was kind of fun um conversation in our uh last meeting is obviously we need the community support. We need the votes. So, why why would the community support this? Why why do we think that this would get the votes? Um, first and foremost, we all want what's best for our district. That doesn't matter where you live, where you're from. Um, the students come first. Um, and also, the more students we
074retain through open enrollment, the stronger our district is going to be. That being said, we need support from all three communities and each community is going to want an ROI on their investment. So, what's in it for them in this Lndale? Pretty pretty obvious if this went through, right? There'd be major investment in the community um of Lndale, specifically Montgomery. We think we could get Montgomery support because all students and their families are eventually going to flow through Montgomery um in the high school and the more we grow the better it is for the city of Montgomery. Also talking about the space issues if we got K through8 in Lonsdale and got them the space needed that's going to open up space opportunities in Montgomery as well. Uh, Lee Center speaking in generality here maybe
075is a little bit of a blanket statement, but Lee Center wants one thing and they they want a school. They want to make sure that they um have school representation for years to come. And so I know there there's a fear in the community that there's an agenda to someday continue to slowly consolidate to Montgomery. whether that's true or not, right or wrong, that that perception's out there and that eventually there's going to be a point where um Le Center isn't going to have a school anymore. So something like this um even though the investments in Lansdale, a major investment in Lndale would be viewed as an investment into our outlying communities, ensuring a three community um school system for years to come. So that's where we think that um a recommendation to this point
076could have. It's going to take marketing and it's going to take a lot of word of mouth and all of us being involved, but we do think we could get the support from all three communities on this. There any questions? I do have one question. When you guys were shared the information on the open enrollments, were you given the reasons why people open? I don't think so. I don't recall that. I probably not. Okay. Because I mean there's a lot of reasons why they open or roll and unfortunately, you know, that's why you would have open rolled in, you know. So again, unfortunately, there's a lot of things that we can't control um with people going out because it makes sense for their family or because of their living situation or where they work. You
077know, those things we can't change. But um but I like the thought of all of that what you guys presented. I was just curious to know if you had seen the reasons why people had open up. Not necessarily the specifics, but I I I there was a lot of conversation on Sure. Obviously, Lansdale has opportunity to go easily three different directions. They can go to Northfield, they can go New Prague, they can stay with us. So, just knowing that that what could make it more enticing even if your mom worked in New Prague and whatever the case may be, right? It's easy to go there. It's pretty easy to stay in your backyard too if it's enticing or there's a school there or maybe my kid can stay in Lonsdale additional years through throughout their
078schooling too. So um we lose a lot more kids that direction obviously than we do any other direction conversation we have all the time. Yep. I'm sure I'm sure of it. And I think anecdotally as like a lonel parent you just hear things you know a lot of ane the district lines are very wonky in lale that is for sure. So, well, I think you know, if I may, you know, the board is in a unique position, right? You have three three separate communities that you're dealing with and that could be a challenge in itself, but as a task force, you know, it was very one-sided during that first that first get together and first meeting. Um, so there was, you know, that and Maggie uh mentioned it that we reached out again and generated
079more interest and there was interest out there and we were able to create that that well diverse task force committee and um and to Brandon's point once we were that diverse right we were we were unanimous um we we we made our recommendations solely on on thoughts, not necessarily financials. Um, so I think that's huge coming from a task force the size as you guys came through and to have 100% uh unanimous that doesn't happen very often. So I'm very very impressed with that. I do have another backup question. um with the expansion in Lawndale, what was the vision as far as because Brandon, I think you had mentioned K8, so I guess I I'd like to know what the vision was. It is a preK6 right now. Um what is the vision? See, that
080that's where we got into the nitty-gritty and we were planning it out and and everybody was they had their ideas. Um and and we probably would never have agreed had we nailed down what we all thought. So we all agreed that there something needs to be done. The way it is currently isn't going to stand with the community growing. Um I think we'd all like to see a K8 eventually prek8. Um but you know we weren't didn't agree on how to get there. We headed down those roads. I'm in in a lot of different conversations and Dan dialed us back in and would remind us that the planning is for the board. But one thing that I think still remains in that unanimous consensus is we obviously need classrooms over there. Gym space sucks over
081there. Music space there pretty much isn't any. So we we need space. And so if we're going to expand for that 20-year vision, factoring in growth, factoring in um hopefully the vision of K8, it would include all of that stuff. It would kind it would be all-encompassing of plenty of the bullet points that were on there and the parking um situation and and the safety from that aspect when we talk about drop off and pickup and emergency situations. you know, I was part of the whole process when we built that school long ago and what the intentions were for those classrooms weren't even a possibility for for quite a few years. So, you know, the music room is not, you know, although they're on a cart, right? So, um, but again, that's I like that.
082I think from for myself, Principal Johnson's numbers that he was throwing rattling out there, you know, as far as the outgoing kindergarten class at Lonsdale and what could be potentially coming in, um, you know, was another classroom itself in the next one to two years, right? So, those numbers could continue to compound. Build it, they'll come, right? I have a question uh regarding the expanding of A and CT kind of along the same lines of what the vision was. What I know you mentioned welding. I think that's important. What other things would you envision there? Um yeah, again we didn't get into the nitty-gritty. I think when we had discussed it just um like the the greenhouse isn't really a greenhouse. Um and the the welding space I think is one of the biggest things.
083I mean, kids can graduate with a certificate and go right into a welding field. Um, and I think that's uh, yeah, carpentry where they're, you know, making money for the wood shop and and stuff. So, I think we had just kind of envisioned maybe bumping it out and just expanding everything that they have so they can offer what they're currently offering only in a bigger scale at the high school level. At the high school level, any discussion on like the middle school, right? Um what we did not discuss it was mentioned we we did minorly and that and that kind of goes down to the possibilities if we expanded Lndale and I don't want to keep beating that horse but if that opens up space in Montgomery and we know we have space in Le
084Center and we got building opportunity in Lansdale there's going to be space opportunities to expand that down to a younger level as well. So, we didn't go real far in the weeds, but we did have short discussion on that. And I and I think you need to be aware too that like these kids are already excited in high school. And if you show them in middle school, you're going to have more kids excited. And if you don't have the room in high school, then they're not going to be able to have those opportunities. So, I think you need to expand at the high school level to make sure that you can fulfill the excitement that you have. Um, and then once you have room, then you I think you can bring it down. Part of
085it also we talked about is in our community shop is big that helps sell the sexiness they're going to go up and play at least when we get some out of it more people are attracted to part of that market. Well, I think you see more kids going into the workforce after graduation that we've had in the past. The four-year degree isn't always going to be the go-to depending upon what you're nursing. I mean, obviously that is that's one thing that you needed, but um you know, I had one that went right into the workforce after high school. So, he used the skills that he was taught through the eggs program um to do what he's doing now. So again, it gives them a taste of what they could potentially do after graduation or it
086gives them an opportunity to work through college. So my husband attended a high school where he got all of his carpentry certifications, OSHA, everything. Um, so he was able to be a carpenter, you know, making $25 an hour throughout college, uh, you know, versus making $8 on campus. So I think it offers opportunities there as well. Any other questions? Oh, thank you guys. A lot of time. Yeah, thank you for appreciate it. Late night. Thank you. Yeah, thank you for all the work. Good information. Yeah, from from my standpoint, thank you to that entire group. Uh from the first time that I met all of you because like like you said, it was it was all over the place. uh to hearing that 100% agreement is very gratifying. Um because these these three communities are
087TCU. Our kids are Titans. Um they want to be Titans. They they like being together. Um and how we look at it and how we get them to grow uh to come back. I kept mentioning that how them come back to our communities. The schools are the hub, right? Uh, and so when you had the ability to sit and chat with each other and formulate some some ideas and thoughts to to give to this awesome board, um, it's going to be it's going to be fun. We, you know, the first one, Brandon, that we did u, you know, three years ago, we we met some of that stuff already, right? And there's some more that's going to be taken care of out there. Um, so the school board has listened, you know, and they will
088they will continue to do that. And the communities are are vital to our growth, right? You know, you talked about open enrollment. uh you know, we upgrade our buildings and we you know, we have the facilities to for people that want to be able to see and want to come into them. Um they'll want to be here. We're we're getting some we're getting some enrollment back already. Um part of that is uh some of the steam stuff that we're offering that wasn't here uh two three years ago. Um, so our kids are starting to take some more interest in some things that is trickling out to uh the public and you know having Anna's help with some of the marketing pieces, our teaching and learning, I see a lot of there and our technology, all
089of our infrastructure things are are up and blooming right now. Uh, we just need to promote some more. Right. We're at a space where our LTFM budget is is is very low because we've been trying to maintain some of the facilities. Um, and we're at a spot right now where we can really do some work uh that would really uh just invigorate this district to to move uh greater distances. And uh I'm very happy and proud of uh you know the task force for doing this, but the the admin team and the teachers that uh do the work in this district um and staff that we're maintaining going into next school year is amazing. Uh we got some pretty satisfied people and we need to keep that going. Um and that that that takes some
090work. Um but we're not going to stop. Right. So, I appreciate everything that the task force has done uh to give us the tools and some of the information that that you've given to us. So, from my behalf, thank you. It was great being a part of the tours. Um I could have went forever, by the way. So, thank you for the kindness. It was a great tour. It was hard to do that in 45 minutes, by the way. And and that's my feedback. As a as a parent of elementary school kids that doesn't see the high school much, you got to get parents in this building. like you got to show them what you're doing here because that was a lot of feedback of the parents is wow this is cool you know and
091and there was one parent in our group that said we had considered sending our kids to New Prague but after touring I'm reconsidering it um so I think the more you can get people in this building showing them what you're doing the better off you're going to be we want to get people in all of our build all of them but because we we got some we got some fun stuff coming up right so I I welcome the task force to come back uh tovious you know obviously the um the center in Montgomery building because obviously you know about the the cafeteria flooring and the cafeteria tables uh the gym floor at the uh at the TC Montgomery is going to match the high school one that'll trickle to trickle to the center the following
092year. So there's some really fun stuff that's happening and our kids are noticing um and of course they go home and tell their parents and that's how we get their friends that are open and roll to come here. Um, so we're we're gonna continue to work. So, thank you for your time and you know, school board, you know, you can always run for the school board at some point in time when there's seats available. So, Wayne Wayne, you're gonna have to move though again. Good thing you guys, good thing you do. And I forgot to say thank you to Dan, so I apologize, but Dan, thank you for leading this group. Um, amazing. So, appreciate it. Thank you, man. Yes. Thank you guys for your time. Yeah. Um, is it done then? We'll get copies
093of the presentation and whatnot. Yes. Send it to me and I'll I'll give it to the last presentation. This last time we're going to see you. Thank you. And the last time? Yeah. For a little while. Okay. But I'll be back. Okay. And I'll make sure to get all the comments. Appreciate it. Thank you. You can go visit at the mall in December. What? Santa Claus at the mall America. Oh, sorry. Nissa joking. No. Oh my gosh. Okay. Uh, thanks again to the task force. That's very, very, very helpful. Um, anyway, uh, community updates. We have community advisory. Um, the only thing I have to update is that all of the stuff for the Lee Center fact room has been ordered and it is going to get put in and the first summer community class
094will be June 17th, I think. Um, so Alida and Lane and I are going to go and organize and put it all together and it's going to be so much fun. You're just in heaven, aren't you? I know. I'm going to have so much fun. Um, and then I'm also representing or talking about QMP. Um Jeff Balman is now done as the leader of Q comp and Sarah Tupi has taken over. Um and we are just waiting to see what the uh Minnesota House and Senate decide to do with QC comp because it is on the cutting decision. Um not for this next year but for two years from now, right? No, next year. Yeah. Yeah. Not next year. But um if they get rid of Q comp, they we will need to figure out
095what else we're going to do instead. So unless they filibuster it because they've spent too much other money. So we'll see. We're waiting on the outcome at the special session. Thanks, Hillary. Facilities. Go ahead. Gosh, when did we meet two weeks ago? We just did this whole meeting. Facilities. Yeah. So there's obviously a lot of things to take into place. Uh the community group that just spoke um Kevin also shared with us feedback from staff administration administration staff staff um okay lot of a lot of information a lot of wants a lot of needs a lot of things to consider even with this uh report. What does that do for operating cost? Um, so that just kind of weighed a bunch of those decisions and prioritized things. But, um, that's kind of the basis of
096what we were talking about. Well, it's needs. What else am I missing? No, that's pretty good. That was that was pretty much bulk of the meeting. Yeah. And like you talked about operating costs that we always got to consider of of adding on to schools. What's it going to do to the operating budget as we're already overspending with the walls we have now? So we always got to consider operating into the next finance. Independence is yeah finance. Uh we met today to talk about finance look at the projected budget for 2526 costs increasing um Dion's going to be presenting that in at next Yune board meeting. looking at areas of opportunity within the budget so we don't deficit spend. Um what else? But we are deficit spending. Yes, deficit spending this year projected to deficit
097spend next year as well. Y um so looking at ways to avoid that and Marshia Mlen the uh insurance insurance insurance and we'll be what that will be on our next meeting the quote there. set up. All right. Thanks, guys. Uh, under new business, we've got, um, TCU Titans technology access plan. Um, any comments on this one? I don't think at all. I'll make a motion. Reviewed this at the last work session, so pulled up there. All right. All right. So, I have a motion by Trevor Han, seconded by Chris Blessock to approve the TCU Titans technology access plan uh including a yearly $25 fee uh and repair fees as described within that plan. Um all those in favor? I those opposed? Motion is passed. So, be five 50. Okay. Next, I will seek a
098motion uh to approve the 2526 Tri United School membership to the Minnesota State High School League. I'll make that motion. I'll second. Right. I have a motion by Marshia Craft, seconded by Hillary Birdsel to approve the 2526 Tri City United School membership to the Minnesota State High School League. Uh all those in favor? I. Those opposed? Motion is passed. 5. Next, we have the Iowa designation. Um, this is the designation that allows the superintendent to be appointed as the identified official with authority with the Minnesota Department of Education for Tri City United 20 Independent School District 2905. Um, I'll seek a motion. I'll make a motion. I'll second. All right. All right. I have a motion by Trevor Hol, seconded by Chris Lesock to approve Kevin Babcock, superintendent uh to be appointed as the identified
099official with authority with the Minnesota Department of Education for Tri City United Independent School District number 2905. All those in favor? I. Those opposed? Motion is passed 5. Next, I'll seek a motion to adjourn the meeting at 6:28 p.m. I'm make the motion. I'll second. Have a motion by Marshia Craft, seconded by Chris Flesach to adjourn the meeting at 6:28 p.m. All those in favor? I. Those opposed. Motion is passed 5 Z. Thanks all.