001everybody ready here we go call to order the regular meeting of Independent School District 695 which is in Minnesota Lisa could you take roll call please Dr roner here director C Simon here dry here director Raa here chair Casey here and please make note the super was unable to join us this evening um we'll skip right to approving the agenda I'll motion approval motion by director Raha supp report by director Lappy any discussion there no discussion all those in favor signify by saying I I opposed motion carries item five we'll get right to our reports we got Paul peler and RAM director uh is going to give a short presentation talk on Rams to us you recall we just put director Raa back on the board Rams so Mr peler I want to say peler
002but it's peler correct I'll answer to anything Mr chair uh show is yours thank you very much Mr chair my name is Paul P I'm the executive director of rams which is the range Association of municipalities and schools uh we serve 69 local units of government all within the tanite assistance area you might know that is the I RB area of the Iron Range here so uh cities townships school districts that's the big picture for us and our laser focus is on any and all issues that are important to areas affected by Mining and that is where we get our start back in 1939 with Fred China and the crew of Iron Range Mayors who decided to push back against the Oliver Mining Company taking local wealth and leaving us high and dry if you
003look at all the paintings in the Getty museum that was basically paid for with mining money back in the day uh so these people were at the Forefront of keeping local wealth where it was generated and that continues through this day through the red or days all the way to tacite and now into the future um resources are where a lot of our wealth comes from and so we're we're interested in tax policy on but um I want to talk to you about the important work that we're doing for schools um I myself am a 15 your band inquir teacher and how did I become the director of rams will you stay engaged in politics and education in local government and then you can you can get to do something like that too in in
004your future um but we have 15 school districts uh that are our members in Rams on the education side and our board contains 24 local elected officials and they're made up of elected officials from lots of different units of government all across the geographical distribution the tag night assistance area I've shared with your superintendent uh digital copy of the physical map you see in front of you I call this affectionately the placem because you could spill on it and you could never stay it okay uh if you take a sharpie to it as my four-year-olds does uh you will definitely make some marks but uh you can have that put that up and refer back to it because this is where we find ourselves this is the place that we call home and this is
005the place that we've chosen to live and so when uh you look at this you can tell a story based on who's in and who's there right so you can see all the little Township all the larger cities and the biggest Municipal boundaries are the school districts so um you're in the tanite assistance area according to legislation Rams is established in the Minnesota set of statutes uh in 471 and so we're actually a local unit of government we're our own little thing in and of themselves we're pretty unique in that regard we don't have any taxing Authority but we do have uh we receive benefit from tanite production tax which as you know is money that mining companies pay in Li of property taxes and for the school district in Chism a large amount of
006your unencumbered financial dollars come from tacite production taxes as it should because that's our local dollars staying local now we also pay a portion of taxes called the occupation tax to the state general fund that is kind of our contribution to uh the state general Levy but when it comes to matters that are important to our area one of the most important things to realize is that we're not in alone when you realize that there's 69 local local units of government working in the same direction for the good of the whole Iron Range area that should give you a little bit of hope that you're not in Al loone too so if you know something that maybe a school board director in m r bule or Virginia or Grand Rapids or Aken or Crosby or
007Two Harbors needs to know you've got a network that you might not know you have right now okay so I work with the superintendent with your superintendent as well as one of your school board members who sits on the Rams board to talk about things that are really impactful for our region some of the things that we do um and some of the um really important legislative priorities that we have have to do with school things that have to do with allowable uses of funds to increase um some of the really bottom line barebones things that you need to survive local governments like municipalities have like LGA right you've got Equalization you've got general fund dollars so those are things that we go after and we try and make sure that with our lobbyists who
008we hire um that our needs are represented well at the Minnesota state capital and then my work primarily centers on our work inside the tanite assistance area I also go down to St Paul to build Bridges and relationships because you know what happens sometimes the people that make decisions about where we live don't always live here so that's really important for us to tell our story across state boundaries and across our regional Community boundaries so I want to go back to um some of the things that we're working on for schools right now we know that um attendance is an issue you're school district has benefited from receiving money for an attendance pilot um My Hope Is that that money is being put to good use and that you're having a positive experience with it
009and that it will continue for the three-year term and then you'll have something to to reflect on after that right uh there were two school districts in the TAA that received those compensatory dollars and I'm happy to say that I was one of the people who made the formula happen so we had got to have input because we have relationships and when legislators at the Statewide level from not here call and they say what should we do to help the range I'm there to pick up the phone and help answer that question for them um we work closely with the entire range delegation both Republicans and dflers because we are a nonpartisan organization we're not ignorant of politics we know how things move we know what levers to pull at the right time but we
010also know that it takes everybody especially our range delegation to have a strong voice down at the capital so we work very closely with that um I am currently personally a member of the permanent School fund committee you might be aware of the school trust land and the endowment created there from 85% of the dollars in the state school trust land account came from our area their mining Revenue so people say oh Greater Minnesota doesn't pay their fair share you iron Rangers you're just takers you have a very strong reason to point to that thing and say hey guess what I know canit you get $2.3 million every year generated from mining Oney you never have to ask for it I haven't gotten a thank you card yet but I imagine someday I might get
011a Christmas card from them okay um all that being said we're uh we're engaging in a very interesting process right now through the permanent School fund distributions committee on which I sit and I'll be going down there on Wednesday um and we're deciding how does that formula change my big angle is how can it also benefit the area that generates the wealth for us should we have an increased distribution what would that look like who's left out what would be a just solution to that um we know that local operating revenue is an interest topic we have our near budget time in our school board discussions with our communities so we're pushing for higher levels of local operating Authority as well as uh compensatory Aid buckets for funded and unfunded mandates that you have to
012deal with as school boards we know that there's a lot of encumbered dollars right now and while some of this may be work that should be done anyways it is not funded to the extent that it needs to be right now and therefore we need to have a hard conversation about what that looks like and so with our education Partners at the state level we are trying to determine what the best path forward is and often that means um a tricky conversation and so Rams is often at the center of some tricky conversations but you have to have context nuance and discernment in order to navigate those well and it takes a lot of relationships and so you might think well you sound really busy I am really busy and I really really love this
013work because it's a place that I was born in Hibbing my dad worked at hipac for 32 years he drove 55 miles for that many years to put a roof over our head this whole region gave me every everything and now this is my turn and this is what paying it back looks like um and when I get to come to the school it's always a bonus because I'm a school person until I die I really do think that once you're a teacher you never really stop being a teacher um I do get to teach people a lot about Iron Range I get to teach people who do not live here what this is all about There Are Places across Minnesota that think we don't do any mining anymore believe it or not they don't
014understand that they don't know it they don't know their own Minnesota History and so being an ambassador for that a kind of a jolly warrior with is kind of also part of that charge as well um we're focused on EMS we're focused on regulatory reform for permitting reform that means we get to work with lots of different stakeholders whether it's the Minnesota Chamber our local Chambers of Commerce whether it's establishing um the office of emergency medical services um which is brand new uh state level agency this year uh we worked closely with members of the range delegation on the EMS task force to establish criteria for what eventually became the bills that delivered a bunch of state aid to our region over six Mill close to $6 million was over $5 million and I know
015the Chisum Ambulance Service received a large chunk of that as well so we also know that any at all investment we can drive to the region helps with tax tolerance it helps with easing the tax burden generally upon all taxpayers and what that ultimately means is good decisions are possible for schools it gives you a chance at a better conversation no matter what your needs are hopefully we can contribute in a positive way to that um one of the things that is really important about my presence here today is to share a little bit with you about Rams about the role of some of those production tax dollars and what we do and why we matter but also most importantly to ask you what can Rams do and what can I do to be helpful
016to the school board at Chisum and what do I need to know in order to be effective in my job what can I do to be helpful for you and I hope to engage you in a productive conversation for a short time during your busy day well I'll tell you what there's there's I know this might be later on in your presentation but the the helium gas project okay um can you explain where that's at and what Rams is roll in and what we're trying to do there and where that yeah is going to be spread so uh as you know or maybe you don't know um helium was discovered your back in in in the rock formation and we sit in a unique GE ological space in the country and frankly the world because
017we don't have oil and natural gas production in Mesa we don't have oil Shar now I used to live out in Western North Dakota I met my wife out there uh her father had a law practice I said who's the cute secretary and he sheepishly said that's my daughter so he did a lot of oil and gas work out in Western North Dakota they have different different land over there we have something slightly different here we have copper nickel deposits we have helium deposits it looks like we also have coincidental hydrogen and carbon dioxide you wouldn't think that carbon dioxide is an asset but it is and so it's capturing a lot of these coincidental gases is a real thing currently Minnesota has a moratorium on the production of gases so that means if no
018legislation changes we can't beneficiate any of those resource bodies so it means this year and if nothing happens this year nothing will happen until the end of next year too um we will be taking a look at uh temporary rules and transitioning those to permanent rules that allow for the mining and production of helium near bit and surrounding areas now that straddles both Lake and St Louis counties and so there's an interjurisdictional question to address as well and the DNR is involved in PCA the Minesota Department of Health this is a a situation where we've never done this before so what do we do um Rams and our communities have provided a lot of money to a lot of communities through the production tax the production tax has benefited everybody in the tach andite assistance
019area whether you are a producing Community or not because at one time you everybody produced something and most importantly we all produce the workers that make this world go around there's a kind of a worker classification study that is done by deed about how many people leave whatever County and go somewhere else for work there's like 8,000 people that leave itasa County to come here for work there's like 6,000 people that leave this County to go over there for work it's a myth that these arbitrary lines aren't a part of a larger dysfunctional family and I say that kind of tongue and cheek because the Iron Range is only made up of 155,000 people it's a big 13,000 square mile landmass you look around Maple Grove any two random suburbs they got us beat both
020in NE tax capacity and voting rights so they so what do we have to do we have to band together we have to work together otherwise uh I'd rather be at the table actually in the kitchen than on the menu I'd rather be cooking the meal than than anything else so um in terms of understanding where helium and uh that gas goes we have a presentation coming this Thursday to our Rams board to educate them on uh what the gtac the gas technical advisory committee is recommending to the legislature and Rams submitted some comments saying that communities should be involved in this process and as a result of that we are now involved which is actually really great because the DNR has been a good partner in this for us they've been had an open
021door policy they bring us in on certain items and they share their knowledge with us so that we can as elected officials make good decisions for the benefit of the region so ultimately decisions around will this be looped into the production tax what will the royalty structure be like who will benefit how will communities be able to make the most of this moment uh that will rest with our legislators and our local elected officials and we play an important role in forming that conversation so hope that answers your question okay the next where's okay go ahead are you sure y because I I'd like to know um poly twin Metals okay they're just standing there status is what where do you know where it's at as far as opening up and getting going well we
022don't know that short answer is we don't know yet around other resource beneficiation and um it's important to remember that um that the new Range project formerly po Now new Range um they were issued their permits and those permits were revoked so they did receive their permits to operate okay um there is currently a a ban on uh a mineral withdrawal technically called in the Rainy River Watershed so that you can't do any resource beneficiation like that within the Rainy River Watershed by had predecessor EA Ravina now Commissioner of V RV she went out to Washington to testify against that provision when it happened the mineral withdrawal testifying that it shouldn't be there and be allowed to beneficiate those or bodies and so we carry on that proud Legacy of supporting lots of different types
023of mineral beneficiation whether it's oil whether it's natural gas whether it's copper nickel um because we know that in a mineral extractive economy like we have we have to use it as a bridge to L things and it's a it's a source in and of itself as well it's a viable career for lots of people and many of our communities are waiting a really long time to have this happen now think of think if you've got a a decades long dental practice in Aurora H Lakes you've been waiting 20 some years for something to happen that's preventing other economic opportunities for people to move forward so if um if and when and I like to say when um new range and TN metals are allowed to operate it will be a net benefit for the
024region because that will roughly triple the size of the school trust land account go from 2.1 billion to roughly $6 billion doar and imagine the benefit for schools you take whatever you get and multiply it by three every year um then in addition to that tax capacity increases and spin-off jobs and surrounding things so this is a large conversation organization Rams gets to tackle all the things which is both dangerous and awesome at the same time um dangerous in that you could go down any rabbit hole and awesome in that you get to kind of find things that turn your crank when you're involved with organization and as one of 24 members uh on the board Mr Raha it's nice to have an asset in every Community across the attack and assistance because as busy
025as I I can't be everywhere it's nice to be able to pick up the phone and and ask how's Chism doing today so I I do have a couple of questions and and Paul I I commend you on this map it's very nice yeah and I I noticed that there have been some additions on here compared to 20 years ago sure yeah there there were some school districts and municipalities that were not members of rams that uh resided within the TR but my my question is and I get this all the time is what does Rams do that our local Representatives don't do I mean you work with them but they're supposed to be working also for that is rams's role to get them all together on the same page do you act like mediators
026um that's a great question Mr chair uh Ram's role is defined in our Constitution and bylaws and I'm going to refer them because I don't have all 11 points memorized get out spoken like a treei teacher all right there go do laps Bel here wouldn't be the first time I heard that one um we when we're functioning at our best Rams as an organization made up of really strong bricks our board members our communities all working together understanding where we find ourselves in Rams is not in competition with msba League of Minnesota Cities Coalition great Minnesota cities we're the only organization that's laser focused on the tack andite assistance area and as such we sit in a a place of bride that we are of this place from this place and for this place no
027one else can say that and actually we're the only ones that actually do that okay so when it comes to working with our local Representatives whether it's a senator or a House of Representatives person um we're there to help remind them to be them their best selves like remember no matter what your party whether it's a dfl independent or republican you range first above all us that's the goal of rams is to connect all levels of local government to one another so that we have an informed conversation and make a good decision no matter what your stripe is or what your vent is or what your priorities are so that housing as an issue cuts across all Municipal boundaries we know that people need to have education on certain items so we raise issues up
028our and those points come directly from our members and from our board members as well and so um we're a lobbying organization we're a membership club we're the tanite assistance area um local government units working together right so it's a unique system and I'm proud that it's it's our system because I've had people come from all all parts from Southwest Minnesota and farm country and say we could never do what you guys do and I'm like well why not like we fight amongst each other all the time I'm like yeah we do that we do that too but in the end we realized that we're stronger together and we would get torn apart if CH went Al went and you just answered my question question you know you mentioned Coalition of yeah City Y TR
029to think of with the league of Minnesota cities and things like that and I was going to ask if there are any other organizations like Rams throughout the state but you would answer that and said and to be clear we're proud to partner with M with Darren stro with Sam W on a very close basis seasonal rack seasonal wreck tax based replacement aid for those areas that have school districts that have large tax offsets due to seasonal recreational you would often refer to those as cabin homes or second homes or something like that if you were to have an operating Levy they wouldn't be paying into your Levy they'd go down to the business L at the state general fund we have a bill in with our legislators that would correct that and allow anyone
030in Greater Minnesota and anywhere else here too that if you had an operating Levy it would basically buy down the cost and return that money back to the district where it's generated currently it's going to the state general fund it should stay home if you're going to pass a referendum and a levy why not have an easier conversation with your voters about that make it make it an easy easy maybe or an easy yeah we'll talk about it not an easy yes that's never an easy question but give you give yourselves a chance at a reasonable conversation that those are the kinds of incremental things that we look at it's not really sexy to talk about tax policy but guess what you're kind of in that role you're kind of in that world I think
031you guys get it and sharing that story is one of the things that we do well um we're always value add to your point earlier about what do you do that no one else does and why do we care about it right well I think most people want someone who's um excited to have their Mac and not just excited like in a whole nice good for you I hope you have fun with that no outcome driven we are always about outcomes and I can say that whether it's bonding and really Municipal bonding is huge for us because if these projects don't happen now they're going to get more expensive next year and so Rams is a strong proponent for municipal bonding um and yes it's borrowing but we don't have any other way to get
032projects done do Highway projects get done I mean the legacy of Jim art is is one to look to within the city of Chism as well and how how much investment has been driven through bonding and through through Regional investment like that any other questions for Mr poer U we appreciate apprciate your time I'm happy to be here appreciate importantly we appreciate the work that you're doing thank you very much it's a privilege to do this work and I just want to let you know that um if you don't already have my phone number um it is 431 1317 any of you can call me anytime on any issue my phone is always on I might not pick up right away but I'll certainly take your call um and obviously you can work through your
033chair or or Mr Rahab who's on our board but any of you can feel free to ring me up on any issue um then he might not want you to go through camera he might be like leave me alone I want to sleep who knows that's it I know where his office is I'll find him there you he'll track me down in the Northeast that's right and if it's all right with you I'll stay through the end of the meeting kind of listen to how things are and gives me a good sense of what the conversation today looks like in Chism and at the end if we could snag a picture together for my newsletter I'd be be more than grateful so thank you very much everyone [Music] okay moving along uh item number six
034approving the consent agenda these are the minutes of the February 10th 2025 regular meeting motion I'll support motion by director cowy Simon support by director R solder any discussion all those in favor signify by saying I I opposed motion carries item seven 78 actually motion to accept the resignation of Jaden jarmer from job number 258 Transportation foreman and job number 227 Key Club advisor effective February 28th 2025 motion by director Lappy I'll support support by director C Simon any discussion i' just like to add we'd like to thank Jaden for her time here and the efforts that she had put in uh she's going on to bigger and better things and hopefully at our next meeting we'll have um some answers as to what we're going to do with that position I believe all of
035you have uh read some of the information from the superintendent so hopefully we'll move on from there hearing no other discussion all those in favor signify by saying I I oppose motion carries item 7B motion to accept the resignation of Alyssa Ostrander from job number 288 PA professional Elementary School effective February 17 2025 so me motion by director C Simon support support by director Lappy any discussion again we'd like to thank Miss ol strander for her time and efforts within our school district heing no other discussion all those in favor signify by saying I I oppose motion carries item 7c motion to accept the resignation of Brian hake principal High School effective June 3 30th 2025 I'll motion motion by director Raha I'll support support by director Randa solder any discussion I'm sure we'll be
036having plenty of discussion on on this issue in upcoming meetings and uh Mr H is willing to help out as much as he can uh during his final few months here again like to thank him he's done a nice job for us niob so but he is going on to bigger and better pastures reti it's a nice the [Laughter] way no other discussion all those in favor signify by saying I I oppos motion carries item 8 under business 8A motion to approve the sponsorship agreement between National Bank of Commerce and Independent School District 695 for sponsorship naming and or local rights associated with the new gymnasium as presented uh our activities director Mr boy is here I ask that he step up to the podium if you have any questions or he would like to
037add anything hi hi unlike Mr H you're going to have me for about 30 more years we're happy to hear that don't have to put up a new building hopefully not uh but hopefully I'll be able to have sponsorships like this come through um you know during that time period uh this is our first major sponsorship um uh NBC and us started talking a couple of years ago actually and finally uh got it to to a fruition and so the $200,000 Mark that um we agreed to is based upon funds that we have um in their bank and um it's good for a 10-year period And so um I don't have the color sheet but you can see on that color sheet that I gave you all with the scoreboard it the the logo itself
038will be under the video board in a in a box and it'll be blue and match the match video for so um that's the agreement we came to and that's the number we came to and uh all we need is your approval and a signature unless I'm wrong on that unless you have anything that nope okay my burning question is yes and I I didn't quite get an answer on this I asked before but um that's 200,000 that's it no more coming next year or the following year or correct it's a long sum payment of 200,000 okay um the 14,000 that's coming out of your budget or whose budget uh well you want me to do that now or when we get to the next yeah go ahead that's that's it 8 that yeah so
039so um I guess it it's up in the air um and I say up in the air because technically it's going to come out of uh right now it would come out of FF however based on the agreement for the the scoreboards with that Tronics um we right now we have to pay 30% up front so we're going to get 200,000 and we're only going to have to pay out about 65,000 right now and so then that money will just sit with us until August when they actually do the installation and then when they do the installation 60% has to be paid once that's completed and then after a year of warranty I think the last 10% gets paid so we don't have to pay the 214,000 like tomorrow which which is a good thing
040so in the meantime of that um we have the fany budget worst case scenario best case scenario I have a meeting with us Steel on Thursday um where I'll be asking them for some sponsorship I have um already have a request in with Cleveland Cliffs Foundation okay um so I'm anticipating we'll get something there and then I also have a meeting on March 3rd where I invited um Community businesses to come and and hear our sponsorship opportunities so I fully believe that we'll have more than that accounted for by the time it has to be paid so that it doesn't come out of FF at all is my goal but verst case scenario that's where it would come out so this is just for the new gym this is for the new gym about the
041football field yeah that next I I mean it's a different I understand this is for the new gym that that is be installed in the new gym when the new gym is ready correct yeah yeah and football field is is my next project so hopefully in the next couple weeks I'll have yeah a better grasp on that thank you sir we have to fully own that before we can start getting grants yeah well we need to a signature everything else done so and I might be on there we might be good I do have to Mr VY he's been working very hard on this these sponsorship agreements and we're not original to this other communities have done this but it but it is new basically with our school district and uh hopefully will be able
042to add on to that and get additional fundies as bre ra mentioned the new scoreboard hopefully up at the football field and maybe some new s or something like that so and just so you know this the the 200,000 and this agreement with electronics does include the football scoreboard the name on it won't be NBC it'll be something else but it is included in this packet so that 214,000 does at minimum cover the football scoreboard okay saw that's that's good I mean it's it's nice to get it all included into one and then we're not picking away other stuff Tris would like to see is lights recing of the field all really important that's very it is it is really it is really nice to have a new gym to have you know new you
043know new scoreboard new tables I be things that we trying piece together year after year so it's just systems yeah that's all included in this system our legendary Mr not denic is no reverting back to item 8 a I entertain he no other discussion I'd like to entertain a motion for the sponsorship agreement between the city of City between the school district and National Bank of Commerce I'll make the motion motion by director rer support byy any other discussion he no other discussion all those in favor signy by saying I I opposed motion carries I may B motion to approve the sourcewell Cooperative contract with AM Electronics in the amount of $24,885 director C Simon any other discussion hearing none all those in favor signify by saying I hi oppos motion carries I'd like to
044thank Travis for all this extra work I he's done a marvelous job you know and sometimes we don't hear what he's doing so it's nice when you can show up once in a while and let us know I appreciate what you I don't like to toot my own horn that's not really my an well I but thank you I'll blow mine and you know it'll be flat appreciate that thank you thank you Travis thanks thanks for all you do for the kids item 8C motion to adopt the Early Childhood family education School Readiness voluntary pre kindergarten fee schedule starting with the 2025 2026 school year so motion by director Lappy support support by director Simon any discussion no this is what Don last thought it was and it had the um sliding scale for in
045I think it's I think it's a good starting point yeah have start somewhere you're right you're right we can't continue to operate in deficit in a bigger and bigger deficit it's a great service and it's very good education early childhood education so it's hopefully this will slow the rooll [Music] yeah any other discussion hearing none all those in favor signify by saying I I oppos motion carries items d e f g h i j k l m o I went to CH High scho I'll be these are the policies we have discussed in the last couple of meetings I will go through them one at a time however we'll accept one motion to approve them all and if so choose you can uh extract one out appr approve policy 701 establishment and Adoption of of
046the School District budget policy 702 accounting policy 703 annual audit policy 705 Investments policy 706 acceptance of gifts policy 710 extracurricular Transportation accounting policy 712 video surveillance other than on buses policy 713 Student Activity accounting policy 74 fund balances policy 720 vending machines policy 7 721 uniform Grant guidance policy regarding federal revenue sources and policy 722 public data and data subject requests I'll motion approval on all one motion by director Raha support support by director fry Simon any discussion all those in favor signify by say I oppos motion carries item nine discuss any discussion that the directors would like to bring to the table um I have one thing Mr chairman I U Got a catalog in the Northeast service cop about Cooperative purchasing and in that catalog there are things that we can purchase
047it's under contract it's just like the scoreboard and stuff like that it's through the northy service goop with a discount disc okay Furniture track resurfacing gym floors things like that so now I my understanding is that Luke F hour from in jensa is kind of pushing this you can pick from any service Cooper in the state of Minnesota but we have one right here and they all get the same price so this is something that you know you can review it if something comes up you have questions or whatever Susie roer runs this program at the northy service C she's very good at it and she is volunteered if necessary to come and explain it to us if we need to so uh that's why I handed out that catalog and U Just for information
048for everybody that wants to take a look at yes and Noah has one too yeah and I I think what they do is they do part of the leg work for us they go get the state bids which which then we don't have to get competitive bids from everybody did you email that no I have them oh you got them okay perfect I think that's great if you can go through a place that again can is doing it for a bunch of different schools and you get better pricing that way those are big ticket items that would be great to get any exactly what it's just another little thing to be um a member of the Northeast service board so absolutely might as well try and take advantage of it Mr chair Bob brought that
049in I looked at it in the first place I open to was that Electronics so I immediately brought it to mark I said find out right now that Travis got that deal for the scoreboards they immediately check the numbers I don't I don't know it's just a different Co-op so we went to you know sourcewell which is a co-op network okay although Northeast did not get any credit for that it's okay it's all right it all works good thing to be good thing to be like any anything else uh just a couple of things had a discussion with some of the PTA members here looking for room to store things and um I don't think my answer to them was let's just wait and see until the new building is is finished because obviously we're
050going to sort in this building that's going to disappear anyway so also I still get a number of uh questions on a 4 School school week I don't know if Mr beler has uh anything about that somebody somebody's going to have to show me as I tell everybody somebody's going to have to show me the savings yeah other than in transportation and possibly the increase in grades because they're in four days um I'm not against it I'm not for it uh it's just I've just got to see it's one of those things where you just you don't quite know how it's going to work and interesting maybe we watch Mountain iron see I just say maybe we should just watch the neighbor IND District before I don't want to be my kids S I don't
051know if there's that many districts have been doing long enough you said I'd like to see the the effect on education are you really seeing you know you know better performance or is it good for older kids because I have time work I get that for the younger kids that parents who are yeah how much more difficult to find daycare on a Friday Friday I and are they really going to save money if they're then offering Child Care on that Friday like where's your savings like what's I mean I'd like to see how that structures out because and I know our community's lost another dayare daycare so I mean that child care is a huge thing I just thought I'd bring that up and I'm sure we'll be discussing it at later meetings the superintendent
052from Mountain Iron did a community survey and came out in favor staff survey came out in favor students everything came out in favor so they rolled the dice and uh I'll find out I know one of the board members I won very well so well it sounds like they did the same survey for the St Louis col schools I don't I don't think so they did a survey for it went out to teach oh lovely uh item 10 you see our enrollment numbers again pretty steady actually which is a good thing so no other business before us any motion for by all in favor signify by saying I I oppos motion carries time is 5:45