001Good evening. Let's call the meeting of Lake Park School Board to order. Let's start with roll call. March >> here. Cole >> here. >> Sarah >> here. >> Susan here. Let's all rise for 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. >> Uh, can I get somebody to approve our agenda? >> I move. >> Can I get a second? Sir, any discussion? Any discussion? Any discussion? Agenda passes. 2.1 recognition to the visitors to the board meeting. We have no no visitors tonight other than who are just watching. Uh 3.0 board reports. We have 3.1 breeder pride committee march. In a short version, we had our very first meeting.
002Uh we covered athletics, fine arts and the different goals that we want to set up for those uh objectives uh for those uh coaching activities, activity recommendations, improvements involving uh putting positives on the radar. So that's kind of a short consensus over what it is. Perfect. Thank you. Uh 3.2 ECF and community ed. Uh the attendance was presented in ECF classes. We had open spots available in our three-year-old classroom. Attendance was presented in Raider Care and the needs were addressed for increased staffing. Committee is looking into info in information options for the families picking up from Raider Care while upholding the safety of our district. The committee was informed of summer w procedures and we discussed upcoming community ed classes and idea for ideas for future classes. We discussed ideas and interest to increase our
003community involvement in our district. And we discussed increasing the length time of our summer daycap camp to open how long it is open to increase our support for families in our community. >> Madam Chair, >> yes, >> good evening everyone. Just want to touch on a couple of those items. The Raider Pride and the ECF community ed meetings. I felt like they were very productive meetings. I just want to throw that out there. And also speaking in community ed, myself or the school district, the city of Lake Park community ed and the pumpkinfest committee are going to be sponsoring this together on Saturday. The pumpkinfest. Um, of course I want to give credit to the pumpkin fest committee. They're the ones doing all the work. But a letter has been um agreed upon and we
004have all signed it. And I want to thank the city of Lake Park, um the pumpkinfest committee and the school district community ed for working together so that we could um provide a bus. We're going to be providing a bus. So if anybody's asking questions out there, that's what we'll be doing. So thank you. >> Sounds wonderful. Thank you, Doc. Dr. Burquist. Okay. Consent agenda. Can I get a motion to approve the consent agenda? >> Yes, I'll make a motion. >> Can I get a second? >> I'll second it. >> Any discussion? Any discussion? Any discussion? Consent consent agenda passes. Uh 5.0 staff reports. We have the elementary principal. Okay. Well, good evening. This is my first one of these. You got to cut me a little slack. Um I just had some very general
005points on there that I'll speak to each of those. But first and foremost, it's wow. like my short time here thus far has been well. This is an amazing community. The teachers, uh, the students and the families have been nothing short of phenomenal, and I am so blessed to be here. Um, I'm going to start to get emotional, but when Dr. Burrquist the other night was talking about all the great things that are happening here, I wanted to stand up in the back and, you know, hoot and holler and cheer. I just I want you to know as schoolboard members coming from an outside entity or an outside school district, this is a great place to be. Uh just to kind of sum things up here, the first uh three weeks of school, we're off
006to a great start. Uh just so you all know, I met with all the grade levels during the first week of school. We talked about expectations. Uh really focusing on those basics of walking hands to self, bullying, name calling, and respecting all adults. That was kind of my theme when I met with the kids, uh the students and staff. Uh just so you're aware of that. kind of rolling into our PBIS update. Uh all of the grade levels walked around the building and talked about expectations in each of the areas around school. Uh which is always a musto for PBS. Uh in that program, uh classrooms are earning class coins for meeting expectations. We've already had several rewards uh with those classes. You've probably seen it on Facebook or in our live feed. Uh kids
007are getting freezies, going outside, extra recess, those types of things. Uh super cool for them to be involved in that. Uh and then in addition to that, I do tape morning announcements every day and we acknowledge those classrooms at that time as well. Uh we have a meeting this Friday. Our PBS team are looking at adding some large school assemblies uh to go along with that PBS piece. So super excited about that. Uh behavior update. Um so far this year we have 26 behavior referrals, which is not bad at all. Uh 19 of those are defiance and disrespect which can be understood. You're rolling into a new year. Kids are trying to get school again. Uh and we're placing a very sol solid and sound effort on that respect piece. So it would make sense.
008Uh a large majority of those are happening in the classroom setting, which also is understandable from my perspective. I will tell you uh in this building, if you're not aware, kids get green slips for caught being good. And I will tell you that I my hand gets sore from writing out writing my name on all these green slips every day. And it's truly awesome uh the amount of time and effort that we spend acknowledging those students for what they're doing uh the right way, the Raider weight. Uh let's see. Again, just that focus uh all staff are focusing on kind of those hallway expectations, the name calling, the bullying uh and respecting all staff. Doesn't matter your role in the building. as adults, we demand respect uh and and the same back to the students.
009And if those things aren't happening, we have those conversations and we we try to make sure that it does the next time. Uh then finally, staffing update. We are fully staffed with our licensed staff here at the elementary school. Uh we still are looking for two pair of professionals to help out in our special education world. So, if you know anyone, we'd love to have them come in. That's all I have. Obviously, there are dates listed of things coming up. I don't think we need to spend time on that. You can look at those if you have any questions if you more than happy to answer them. Uh our enrollment, we're looking at about 300 students currently. >> Well, thank you and we're thrilled to have you. >> Thank you. >> Madam Chair, I have
010a question. um just in the future if you could put your name on the top of um your updates just because you are new to the community and I just want everyone to remember who you are and what you're doing for our school. >> Um and just forformational purposes, our prek is not wrapped up into the elementary school. Is that just >> like our numbers is that geared towards early childhood and we have separate numbers for that childhood. Okay. >> So, it be in our case for case for six number count. >> Okay. So, what count is that in? I guess um it's in our preschool count and we currently have 40. >> Okay. >> Believe that the 40 was at the 20 in each classroom. >> That is correct, Madam Chair. And probably the
011reason that they probably traditionally historically don't put those in, Sarah, is because we don't get funding for preschool per se from the state. I I just would suspect that was maybe part of it. But um yeah, we can sir Johnson can surely put the preschool members uh on a rotating on this basis as well, Mr. Johnson. That's would be great. So, >> thank you. I guess my next question is if they're not listed underneath the elementary school principal, where do these prek and preschool kids go if they need to go to the principal's office? >> They would come to me. >> They would come to you. Okay. So, they're still under your jurisdiction. Okay. >> Yeah. We still >> I guess that's what my question was was just wondering if something happens and where these
012kids go and they're not listed >> Yeah. under your numbers. Okay, >> great question. >> Yeah, we can definitely add those. Sarah, it makes sense. They're in the building. It might as >> Mhm. >> anything else. >> Okay, next we have middle school principal. >> Uh madam chair, uh Mrs. Zick is not able to make it tonight, but she did put her numbers as well too along with the raider online. Um you can see that we have a total of 19 students for our Raider online program. We also have 104 students in grades seventh and eighth grade. So >> perfect. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Anybody have any questions there? >> Madam Chair, one last thing I'm going to I've asked um I've talked to a couple middle school teachers and they're really passionate
013about middle school, which I completely understand. and I asked them sometime in the month of October to come and do a probably a 15minute presentation about what happens at the middle school and in their schedule and so forth. Um I I like to uh you know showcase I I want to try to showcase different things each month of something that's happening in our district and a couple teachers asked about that and I said why don't you come and present so I'll keep everybody posted exactly when that is. >> Perfect. Thank you Dr. Okay, we had the high school principal report. >> I'm not sure how I'm supposed to outdo Mr. Johnson's introduction, but uh first on my list was our our reader snapshots. Uh something we're doing a little different this way. Uh at the
014beginning of the year, I went to a workshop and I think the the guy uh had us do an activity and what he does he put us into a group of eight in a circle and you picked a leader and the leader would have there was a script on the screen and the script read, "Three brown chickens laid two yellow eggs, sea biscuit at a lobster supper." So the leader would have 30 seconds to memorize that caption. And unfortunately, I was the leader. and like the pressure was on you. And then what you would do is when 30 seconds was up, you'd whisper to the person to your left. You form a circle. And then they would then whisper to the next person. And then the last person around here would then write down what
015was said to them. And it is really funny what message gets out there. >> That's what I was going to say. >> Yes. So what was said and what was actually on the screen. So we've been working at the high school with uh we do great things like everybody mentioned here but if we don't tell our story then people get second and third and fourth and version of what is gone got in place. So we started the Raider snapshot. So every Friday you'll see on our Facebook page just different things that are going throughout the school with our leadership pride and achievement winners our staff uh winners of the week but also just things that we're doing in the classroom. So, if you have time, take a peek at our our Raider snapshots. And I
016think it's it's gotten a lot of likes. Uh, as we've gone through, we're trying to tell tell our positive story. That's something we're trying to do this year. Uh, to go along with what Marge was talking about with the Raider Pride, we're also have a committee at the high school. Uh, we had mentioned at the last board meeting, we're working with Lucas Pickle, which is our Renaissance Justin, which I'll talk about in a little bit. He works with our classrooms with graduation, but he has a playbook that we can use. Uh so month by month, we'll have different themes that we're going to work to spread the positivity throughout our school. So the first one that we threw out there, we put on the Facebook page was picture of the chalk talk of our staff
017welcoming our students uh that we had in the front and then to our athletes on the west door and then also our senior sunrise. So we sent that in for each month. you can send in different posters and hopefully one of these times will be a $500 winner and then we could use that towards building our program. Uh we also Dr. Burquist and al myself also met last week with Naomi. She's from Lakes Country. Uh she is a compass leader for them uh that works with climate and culture in the school. So she's going to work with us on with the committee that we developed which is our our PBS team, our student council, our pay group, our national honor society. We're collecting nominations of students. Uh right now the staff is putting in pretty
018much the leg work to get things done and then we have students that are going to take it from there and it's we want to give ownership to our kids and let them take it from there. So then the next poster they can start making and different things throughout the school. So, that's something that we're working on. Uh Naomi said that she has surveys that she's done with other schools, she has different ideas. So, you can do the fidelity like we're instead of us coming up with questions. Uh but I said, can we tweak it? And I would like to have our students send out the surveys. I believe that they'll answer them more honestly than an adult sent out. So, that's something that we're working on uh at the high school level and middle
019school. Uh so, our team's been working. We're going to meet with her next uh be October 10th coming up on the Friday. Uh I'd like to mention Jos's will be in here tomorrow uh to work with our 10th graders on class rings and then our talking graduation caps and gowns uh having that conversation with our seniors. And then homecoming is next week. So, if you were invited to our coordination, which be next Tuesday uh at 10:40 uh in your board, I have the the king and queen candidates uh with the junior escorts and then the MC's that are in there with the different activities that we have during the week. Uh our enrollment is uh what I gave you at the last report were preliminary numbers. Uh these are actual numbers that we started with.
020Uh, I think the only difference is we had one student that do believe was in the 10th grade that said they were going to come and they decided not to. And then our junior class had two kids decide to go secondary. >> So that's the difference between last support and this report. >> Well, thank you for the update. >> Any questions you chair? >> The only question I have is about the the last that you mentioned. I think it was um maybe part of homecoming week. Um I haven't seen anything about that or any announcements that have come out. Did it go out to just students and guardians or did it come out to everyone? I'm trying to remember the last thing. >> It's on our Facebook page. >> I think it's on our Facebook.
021>> It's on our Facebook page and I can I can send it out to parents if that's because it mean our dress up days that are in there. No, I think it was an evening thing that you had mentioned. >> Powderpuff was powderpuff on the Wednesday the first >> the night game. >> Yes. Yeah. >> Sorry, you mentioned a lot. So, I was like trying to keep up. No, I just don't remember hearing something that was happening in the evening time and or no, the 10:40 thing. Okay. >> What was the coordination royalty? Okay. So, for the board members, and I think most of us work during the day, but I have not received anything about that, and correct me if I'm wrong if we got an email. I would like to attend those things
022as much as I can as a board member, but I don't I didn't get any information or invite specifically for that event. I guess we get a lot of emails as board members saying like what's going on, but I feel like maybe if like a week prior or a few days prior just a kind of reminder because I would like to attend some things as a board member. >> Would you like the big events or would you like all >> like all just specific? >> Um I I know I'm being difficult. I apologize. Um, I think it's just more of like knowing what's going on. Like I put the LPA calendar on my personal calendar and so it says there's a board meeting tonight, there's grandparents day on Thursday, you know, so on and so
023forth. But if there's a bigger event that you would like us to attend or be a part of, a separate maybe like calendar invite would be really good for that so that we know that it's something that you would like the board to attend and not just like an everyday event for the school district. Does that make sense? >> I know. >> And then let me know. >> It's asking a lot. >> I think it's fantastic idea. Okay. cuz I would just normally ask my child, but next year I won't even have a child in the in the high school. >> Well, and I mean mine in the school is four, so she doesn't tell me any. >> I can send you like our music department does a great job. They have all the events
024for the year. >> Okay. >> So that would be so I don't want to like what what are the big events but somebody might be sure. So I want to don't want to like >> programs uh coordinations. I I mean if anyone else has anything to add or maybe a suggestion to >> just help us board members know like when it is important to the school that you have support and that the board is there. Okay, >> let's say that because we're all somewhat parents as parents of kids that go here. So we know all the events but that's as a parent and guardian. I think I'm more questioning like when you would like us as a board to be there and not as a parent or guardian or community member. >> Maybe what we
025can do is our Dr. Burquist and our admin meeting monthly meetings. Can we sit down and kind of make that so districtwide that way everybody's a board? >> I think it's a great idea and actually I would really like to see board members at events like that. So, I think that that that says a lot for our school and our communities that they see the board members, the superintendent, principles at these events. So, I think it's a great idea. >> Yeah. The more we can show our support, the better. >> Yeah. I mean, even if only one of us are able to come, but >> even if we can just Yeah. Just take turns and kind of one of us showing up every six, seven weeks. And, you know, I mean, I I want to
026be a part of things. I can't be there every single thing as I'm sure the majority of the board can't be. But if it is important to you or the students or the school or the district and you want a board member there, I just want to know that that's what the district needs and it's not just another regular night or regular game or what have you. I think it speaks a lot. You guys like Susan and Marge were at our open house like our back to school workshop and then at the end of the school year last year you guys were serving cookies. I think it >> Yeah. >> speaks volumes. >> Yeah. So if there's something specific that you need one of us there, I would rather know that just looking at the
027calendar and it's going to say everyone's going. No, I want Mr. Meyer to say I want someone from the board there. I want Dr. Burke was to say, I want someone from the board there or anyone else because then we know that our presence is needed and one of us needs to step up and and be there. >> Like for instance, uh grandparents day >> a lot of times I'll say you need help >> clean up table. So >> yeah, that's >> usually put to work. >> Yeah, I mean honestly >> we'll do with a smile. Yeah, we'll just I mean we're volunteering like that's part of our job. But if we don't know that we specifically are needed there, then honestly I'm not going to take PTO and take away from my day job
028to come and do it unless you say, "Hey, you should be there." >> Okay, I'm there. >> Perfect. Anything else? >> Thank you. Uh 5.4 Superintendent Report. Yes, Madam Chair, board members, thank you. Um, I just want to give everybody an an update. Um, myself, Sherry, and the business managers met today for probably about an hour and 45 minutes to talk about different things. I know um it's a very powerful message last Thursday. So, we are working together um on that. I I sense in the future that we will have a finance meeting. Um, but I'll keep you posted on that once we get to know more. Um, Wednesday, building and grounds at 4:30 and then we have teacher negotiations at 5:30 and that will be in Lake Park. I would like to set up
029a policy meeting next week. I know Susan, Marge, and Cole are on that. If there's I don't know if w Wednesday would work. Um, next Wednesday evening if that would work. Try not to do it during activities. But just let me know if that would work out. >> Wednesday evenings don't work well for me at all. Dr. >> Oh, Cole, I'm sorry. Yes, of course. My my bad, Cole. I >> I apologize. >> It's all right. >> Well, maybe you could have >> any other time. I'm flexible. >> Okay, let me check the schedule next week. Uh Cole, I apologize for that. And then I'll send something out to three of you. >> Is that okay? >> Yeah, sounds great. >> Okay. Um, so like I said, we've been meeting. Um, I've asked Mr. Masten
030from Lake Agassy. He'll be on our next meeting. He's our special ed director. I've asked him to come. I know he's meeting with you, Sarah, I think, next week. So, I did put him in contact with you, Sarah, regarding that question. >> Yes. Thank you very much. We've been in contact a few times. >> Great. Um, and I've asked him to do a short presentation on Lake Agassy because we do have a number of new schoolboard members just to talk about what, you know, what Lake Agassy does for our district. Um, that'll be in conjunction probably the same time as the middle school uh, teacher talking about that. Um, I did send out the presentation districtwide this afternoon from last week and I did mention if anybody has any questions or wants to sit down
031and talk about it, I'm more than willing to do that. Uh, I don't know how you say is it Mahubi. Mojave. >> Mahab. >> Mojave um received a call from Mojave and asked if we could please uh showcase early Head Start position potentially in Aottabon. So that's been on the uh we put that on the website I think three days ago just in case anybody asks. They'd asked us to um send it out. I said of course we'll do that. I just saw that the letter from uh the Pumpkin Fest is on our site. It's on Facebook as well, too. So, if you hear anything about that, remember we're working on this together so that we uh can provide the bus and the state of Minnesota will be happy with us. Okay? And in the
032next week or so, I think I might have mentioned this. The sign uh that we talked about, you know, out um south of Lake Park, it should be moved 50 ft to the north probably in the next week or so. And um please, if you want to come to lunch at the elementary or the high school, you're more than welcome to do that. I think it would be great to come and sit down, maybe talk to the students and say, "Hey, I'm so and so on the school board." You're more than welcome to attend. We have building grounds on Wednesday night, but you're always welcome to set up a meeting with Mike Zack and or myself to check out the building, you know, and just the buildings and see how things are going. And um
033that's all I have right now, Madam Chair. Thank you. Any questions? >> Any questions? No, I was wait for >> Dr. Burquist. >> Yes, sir. in that um in that information that you sent out to the district um in regard to uh where we're at financially um from last Thursday. >> Yeah. >> Um so in there it it shows that our student numbers are down, our spending is up. So my question is is what happens if we use our current budget that we have for this year along with the current enrollment that we have? Where does that put us at the end of this year? Not with the projected enrollment that we went into. Do we have any idea where we're at? >> That's a good question, Cole. Um, you might recall that last Thursday,
034um, and Sherry and I met with those ladies yes, Thursday, I don't know, morning, maybe it was Wednesday, I can't remember for sure. >> I'm not going to lie, I'm concerned about the the numbers that we're at right now as opposed to what was input into the levy certification information. Matter of fact, that was our and I'm being very transparent here. I want people to know what's going on in the district and so forth. Um because my understanding that we probably placed them almost 40 we had 40 higher numbers of students or 40 higher than what we actually currently have. So to answer your question, which I think is is we're going to have to seriously look at all aspects of our district whole from administration all the way down to and everything else from
035full-time superintendent to to everything all the way down. The only thing is is that I I'm working on we were working today on on staff development funds. Um you might recall that um the board approved approximately $500 per teacher for staff development in March and I will take responsibility and said that's just too much. We can't handle that at this point. So, we're going to have to be picky and choosy when we have teachers and or paras or administrators go on to staff development opportunities because we could potentially use that money uh at the end of this year to help offset the general fund, the general ed costs. Um, so I I I think that kind of was geared towards your question, Cole. if I didn't answer it an appropriate manner. Uh we're going to
036have to look at the like I said look at the numbers. Um you know October 1st is a big deadline for our number of roles of numbers of students you know and I think where we're at is right now with our numbers that the principles provided is kind of where we're at. Um so we're going to have to take a look at everything. Did it was that your question Cole or not? Yeah, I mean I'm just seeing that that downward trend um in terms of our fund balance and I was you know can we project can we look forward and see based on these current numbers that we have for enrollment can we see where we're at with our fund balance you know because right now if we're looking at what our projected was which
037was 30 students more >> um >> that question are you asking how close we we would be to SOD. >> Yes. How close we would be to SOD? >> Yes. >> So, I think in >> I think in the meantime, Dr. Burquist, what we're going to do is see what we can put holds on and pull from, you know, pull from to be a little proactive in keeping that reserve there so we don't go further into it. Um, so what Dr. Burrquist was trying to say, and that's we talked about it today, >> is that the staff development funds were previously pulled out of the general fund, right? We really want to maintain our general fund to be proactive for the SOD. So if we put a hold on that, we have a chance at
038saving more money there, which could be a substantial amount. We need any little amount right now. >> And Cole, honestly, I I I wish I knew where the um fund balance is at right now. Um as a matter of fact, when I asked our business managers, maybe they're online right now. I don't know. Maybe Sherry's online, but when I asked them, they said, "Let's hold off." Because remember, we're still in the auditing process right now. We're getting audited um from our auditors. So, I know today there were a bunch of questions on different things. I'm going to guess that it's going to be under 10%. I'm hoping it's not as close to SOD at 2.5%. But I don't know. When I have the answer, I will be very transparent with everybody and let them know
039where we're at with SOD. The projections we talked about today, we made some changes to um more reflect where we're actually at as toos as opposed to um what was there before. And we remember we have to go into this system in the in the through the Minnesota Department of Education and and soon you're going to have to vote on the levy certification. That changes all the time. And you might recall Wednesday I have a levy certification meeting um in at Lakes Country. And if there is a board member that would like to join me for that, you sure can do that. Um I promise call be back by Wednesday night if that's something you're interested in. >> Sure. you know, or somebody. Anyway, you don't have to, but it's a probably a six-hour. I'm
040sorry, what? >> What time on Wednesday, Dr. Burkequist? >> It's 9 to3 and they go through it with all the districts and they have the special ed I mean the finance lady from the state come and they go through all 39 pages. It's not the funnest meeting. I mean, I when I go through it, I'll come back and I'll provide the information, but um it is informative. Thank you. >> I'll check my schedule. >> So, Dr. Burfus will keep updating us on the reports and then we'll just please keep continuing to look into what else we can do in the meantime. >> Okay. Anybody have any other questions there? >> I can't. I would. >> Any other questions for Dr. Burquist? >> No, thank you. >> Okay, we have the technology update. Yeah, Madam Chair,
041I don't know if Mr. McDonald's there, but um you can see I I I appreciate I actually appreciate the all the administrators putting together information because then people in the community and the schoolboard can see exactly what's going on, but he's been very busy. Um, I know what's kind of going on right now is I don't know if I can't remember, I'm not the tech very good with technology, but there's a lot of fishing emails out there that are coming and um their their scam um emails and so we've worked on a couple of those and only in the first three weeks of school. I think we've had Mr. Meyer, Mr. Johnson's been there two or three. >> Don't answer for me. >> I know. I know >> been there. >> I have a question
042and maybe you can answer it, Dr. Burrquist. When he when he spoke on the theater upgrades, I was wondering if they had any issues installing any of it. >> Not that I know of. Um I guess I'll have to double check because I still think I think they're still trying to get some things done. Um and I can check >> final wiring and lighting schedule to be done during MEA. Yes. >> Perfect. Thank you. >> Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. >> Any other questions? >> Um, Madam Chair, I do have one question. >> Have we implemented the student cost to the tablets for uh secondary school? >> Yes, we have. Yeah, we talked about that was approved. >> Mhm. Um, remember it's um, yes, we've implemented that. Mr. Myers, is there anything you want to add
043to that where John is with I think he's been so busy just with getting all of our computers up to date and getting them out. I guess he I'm not sure he is in that phase of things but >> well it's been approved so we will do it for sure because it was approved at the board meeting August September whenever it was actually we're in September now August. So I'll double check on that and find out where we're at with that. >> Thank you. >> Any other questions? >> Okay. At 5.6 six activities director. >> Uh yeah, I just just want to touch on a couple things in there. I just want to give a big thank you to all the corporate sponsors that have been um graciously donating um to our to our corporate
044sponsorship program. You'll see the dollar amounts pop up, I think, in the donations list. But I want to say off the top of my head, I think we're a little over 20 um corporate sponsors right now. Um, so big thank you to them. Um, big thank you to everything that the Brewster Club's been doing as well. They've they put on that little pregame um, football party uh, that first week of school on that Friday night. It was it was pretty fun. It wasn't the greatest of all weather. Um, felt like fall that first week there of school, but uh, we still had a great turnout for that and um, had had a really good turnout. It was a fun little family opportunity. um bring the kids out and enjoy that before the football game. Um
045got homecoming week coming up next week. Um Mr. Tman's been doing a great job as student council getting getting everything all prepared and organized for for that busy week ahead. And then um yeah um kind of like I always say um if you want to follow our LPA activities Facebook page, I'm I'm posting stuff on there quite regularly. And then um got a link to our activities calendar at the bottom of the page there if you want to see the week ahead for for uh rest of activities going on. >> I have a question for you Landon. >> Yeah. Have have they started announcing each of the sports accomplishments? I know we had talked about that. >> Yeah. Um so in those links that I have in the um in the board report here that
046brings you directly to our LPA activities page in a lot of these and um we're posting you know results of cross country meets um junior high football games. Um >> I think I was uh I I I have seen that multiple times. Are they announcing it during the school day so the other kids can hear what their peers are accomplishing? >> Yeah, so um one one time of the day when we do do it is regularly on Fridays. >> Okay. um or you know sometimes periodically throughout the course of the rest of the week, but typically on Fridays when we're announcing our leadership pride and achievement um we usually give our um our activities groups little shout outs um from night before or even previously earlier in the week as well. >> Thank you. I
047appreciate it. >> Yeah, no problem. >> Anything else? >> If you want to see our a lot of times Mr. Schultz has the huddle. Most schools have huddle. So they has a link there. So if you want to see our sports teams on the road or here Friday was raining after you want to be inside, it's an easy way to watch our sports teams too. >> And that's on the activities Facebook page. >> Yeah, if you follow that page, I'm I'm regularly posting um live streaming links for a lot of the athletic events that we have taking place. >> Yeah, Mr. Meyer, you can watch the games as well there, can't you? >> Correct. Okay. Thank you very much. >> Okay. 5.7 transportation director. >> Uh Madam Chair, you should have a report there. Matt
048is not able to be here tonight, but um does anybody have any questions? I know that they were servicing the two-way radios. Um so I'm I'm excited to do that. The camera installation has been completed. Uh, so that just gives us added security and protection for our students and our staff. >> I just had one question for you, Dr. Bquest. How are we sitting on school bus drivers? Are all of our routes covered? >> Yes. Currently, what somebody say? No. Perfect. I think Mr. Jensen's doing a great job. Um, yes, all our routes are covered. And I I know for a fact a lot of schools in our area aren't they're not covered. So, I appreciate uh our bus drivers and how hard they work. >> Perfect. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Any other
049questions? If >> I could add one comment. >> Yes, please. >> The quality of the cameras and sound are outstanding for the ones that are installed. So, Matt does a good job. If there is a bus incident, he'll send it to us and we're able to review them right away. And he's great to work with. >> And these cameras uh arch are supposed to see the whole bus, right? some uh >> there's some wide views >> and then there's some straight views from my understanding. >> Yeah. Well, that's fantastic because back to school night they gave all I shouldn't say all. They gave some parents the tour of the buses and he had talked about how some of the cameras were different and so it was good. It was good to see. So, I'm excited
050for our transportation meeting. >> I really am. >> Perfect. I'm glad you're excited. Anything else? Okay. 5.8 Building and Grounds. >> Yes, Madam Chair. Um, just talking about some things. Um, Mr. Zika put this together, but we, uh, you can see they put Wednesday, September 24th at 4:30. We're going to have a detailed uh spreadsheet for the building grounds transportation because remember we only have an hour before teacher negotiations start. So we'll have everything ready for there. We've got some decisions that we need to make um on some things. But um we do have a state fire marshall inspection coming on October 7th. So the district staff, teachers, and staff all know that that person will be coming here on October 7th. Mr. Mr. Zik did a nice job of putting out some things that
051we need to make sure that we're watching for in our classrooms and so forth. So, any questions? >> Any questions? >> Thank you, Dr. Burquist. >> Okay. 6.0 donations. Whereas Minnesota statutes 123b.02 subdivision 6 provides the board may receive for the benefit of the district bequest donations or gifts for any proper purpose and apply the same to the purpose designation and the behalf of the board may act as trustee and the of any trust created to provide pupils of the district with advanced education after completion of high school and the advancement of education. And whereas Minnesota statutes 465.03 provides any city, county, school district, or town may accept a grant or device or device of real or personal property and maintain such property for the benefit of the citizens in accordance with the terms prescribed
052by the donor. Nothing herein shall authorize such acceptance for the use of religious or secretarian purposes. every such acceptance shall be a resolution by the governing body adopted by twothirds majority of its members expressing such terms in full. And whereas every such acceptance shall be a resolution of the governing body adopted by twothirds majority of its members accepting such terms in full. Therefore, it be resolved that the Lake Park Audabon Lake Park Ottabon School District number 2889 gratefully accepts the following donations as identified below. Uh thank you to our community for their generous support. We have corporate sponsorship. Musketel Burns Automotive Group, $500. Musketel GMC Incorporated, $500. Als Gr Grill, Ottabon Liquor Store, $400. Dewey Septic Service, $750. Abid Arie Schwint, $500. Sea Boys, $750. Team Laboratory Chemical, $300. State Bank of Lake Park, $750.
053Football student activities. State Bank of Lake Park, $300 for a golf fundraiser. Marsh Auto Body, $200 for a golf fundraiser. Lakes Community Cooperative Tools, CAF, $132 in school supplies. Thank you very much for your generosity. And okay, and we will do a roll call vote on this one for accepting. Uh, Sarah. Yes. >> Uh Erin, >> yes. >> Cole, >> yes. >> Marie, >> yes. >> Susan, yes. Uh five eyes, zero nays. Whereas whereas the resolution has was declared duly adopted. Okay. We have nothing in old business and 8.1 levy certification. >> Yes, madam chair. I just want to address again remember I'm going to try to keep it simple Simon um kiss method remember the levy certification is on our taxpayers we have to have that approved by September 30th the option that most
054school districts do is that they do the max right as I tried to explain this last week they do the max which is traditionally historically done LPA has done however However, if you don't want to do the max, you can have a number. But remember, in December on the truth and taxation meeting, if once we get everything finalized, if you decide to go below the max, a certain number, you can do that. If in September you do the max. However, if you put a number down and you say, "Oh, I don't want to do the max." You in December at the Truth and Taxation meeting, you cannot go past that number. I hope I make sense. That makes sense. >> Does anybody have any questions? >> I do, Dr. Burquist. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> I
055guess it's two parts to the question, but one, do we have specialty taxes or levy taxes incorporated into our budget? >> Yes, we do. Um, and actually one of the board members did a really nice job and I think I forgot to thank that board member for getting the information. Um, remember we have the L, local operating referendum for $724. There's an extra Maybe that board member would like to step up and say what that board member did last week to find out um, exactly when that expires. It's $196 I believe that was voted on I think in I can't remember. >> We have we have two Dr. Burquist. One in 2010 for the new school in in Lake Park that was $21 million. That >> that bond expires in 2027 and then a $22.9
056million bond that was approved by voters in 2022 and that runs through 2042. Right. I guess I was Yes, those are the two bond ones, but I was just talking about the operating referendum. >> Oh, excuse me. >> And um which is like $196. Um so Sarah, to answer your question, so we have two for the bonds, which are the buildings. Um which it's nice that one's going to come off the books in 2027. The other one will stay on the books till 2042, I believe. 204142. So, um, but we do have an operating referendum that's $196, which is not very much. So, Cole, thank you for providing that information, by the way. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Second part to that question, Dr. Burquist. Um, so if we have 196 and we already know what
057it's going to cost us and we already know that we have the two bonds that we're paying on in our budget, did we exceed what our current budget is so we have some wiggle room, some fluff, or so that we can just pay this small amount upfront or are we looking to pay further taxes by paying it over 7 to 10 years? >> Um I I guess I'm not exactly Are you talking about the levy amount? What >> I'm sorry I'm not understanding the question. Um >> it's okay. Go ahead. >> So you you the levy is the amount that we put on to the taxpayers, >> right? And every the state gives some funding and the rest of the funding comes from our taxpayers, right? You might recall last week that it was like
05814.26 or 62%. Um the budget for this year at LPA was determined back in June before I got there, right? And it was based on remember our money is going to come from our students. It was based on students that we we don't have that number of students that it's based on. Okay. So because this levy certification process is such a big thing, it was based on what was projected back in June as opposed to what it really is. Okay. Um so if we go down to even even if we be a little bit conservative, we're off five or six, we're off about 35 students. So the levy certification gets updated every day now. until well for sure till September 30th also gets updated in October and November. Um but it takes like a 24
059to 48 hour turnaround when we give them numbers at the state. So the budget itself for this year is we are going to have less money than we anticipated because our numbers of students are not what we currently have. Remember the auditors and our business managers are still figuring out our budget that ended on June 30th. So the numbers, the big number that we have right now going forward is that we're basing it on about 30, we'll just say 630 students, right? But when it was projected back in June, we were basing it off 660 students roughly. So we're down about 35 students. If you take 35, let's just say 30 times $7,481, that's $210,000 that we're not going to get because of our numbers being lower. Okay? That doesn't mean we're going to ask
060$210,000 more for our levy certificate for our taxpayers. It just means that the formula is going to change. And that's why most districts do the max because that max number is probably going to change tomorrow, the next day, and next week for sure. And so that's why most districts won't say, "Okay, we only want to do 400,000 or 320,000." So hopefully, Sarah, I explained that well enough. Probably not. But the budget we have, we can't do anything about last year right now. But the budget for this year that started July 1st till June 30th is based on what we have accur actual numbers of students. Does that make sense or or not? Am I >> No, it makes complete sense. And I apologize if I did not ask my question better. So, in our budget,
061we already have the two levies, correct? Because we already have those. So, those are in our budget. >> Correct. >> My question, and I'm going to try and make it better than the last question. I guess we have that in our budget, but do we have anything additional in that tax area of our budget like specialty taxes already incorporated into the budget or will this be above and beyond what we budgeted for? So the local operating referendum L which the board approved I I don't know it it approved before that doesn't have to go to taxpayers the okay I'm not talking about the bond referendums that we have the ones that Cole was talk the ones that Cole was talking about >> and that's the 720 >> 724 >> okay >> 724 the school board
062already approved that by state statute the school board can approve that without going to the taxpayers In addition to the 724, we have approximately $196, which at some point would have had to have been approved by the by the community at some point. That could have been 15 years ago. It could have been 20. I have not had time honestly to get to that where that's at. >> The only way >> what's that? >> 2009. The only way that we could get some more money is by going out for an operating referendum. Okay? And that's what the district did most recently. Okay? So, there's obviously pros and cons going out to operating referendum at some point. That would be probably a bigger discussion than right now. But the bottom line is we have to probably
063make right um our district first uh with the number of students that we have. Does that answer there's no other specialty taxes out there? You know, I'm I'll work on grants which will help hopefully deplete some of the general ed money that comes out or community ed and so forth. >> It does. Thank you very much. So if we ask for the max now, we can always lower it later. But if we set that number now, we can never add, >> right? >> Anybody else have any other questions? >> And Sarah, Madam Chair, I I just so you know, I'm I'm really transparent. I don't want people to think that we're hiding anything in the district. What we have and what we what's been presented is what we have. The business manager and Sue from
064CISO presented last week some of that information. And one of the board members asked me is the same information that I found out in June. And so, um, we we got to move forward and, um, you know, try to make things right and anything that just go forward, I guess. So, thank you, Madam Chair and Sarah. >> Just to be clear, Dr. Burquist, I think you are very transparent and I appreciate you very, very much. Most of my questions are for a learning opportunity for me and that's why I ask it. It's not in doubt of anything else, but I want to make a an an educated >> vote. So therefore, I ask a lot of questions. >> No, I appreciate that. And that's I I'm feel bad to be honest with you if I
065don't explain it well enough. Um so if I don't I apologize but um look 39 pages of levy sheets is very complicated right it's um it's really complicated and a bunch of smart people people who think they're smart at the state developed that a long time ago and that's how we have to kind of follow it. So thank you Sarah. [Music] >> Okay. >> Any other questions? Okay, then Dr. Burke will be voting on the levy certification tonight. >> Yep. If that's what you would like to do, I you know, yes, please do. >> Okay. Would you guys like to vote on it? >> A motion. >> I need a motion. >> I'll make a motion to levy the max. >> Okay. Can I get a second? >> I'll second it. >> Okay. We'll do
066a roll call vote. All those in favor say I. All those oppose say nay. >> Sarah. I >> Baron. >> Hi, >> Cole. >> I >> Arch I Susan I. The eyes have it. Five eyes. The motion passes. >> Okay. 9.0 succeeding meetings. School board work session October 8th, 2025 5:30 Lake Park Alaban High School Media Center. And 9.2 regular monthly schoolboard meeting October 27th, 2025 5:30. And I think I asked you earlier, Dr. Burkquist. Is this one at the elementary school? >> Yeah. So, I know Sus's Susie's there. Um I put we put together a schedule and Sounds good. So, >> so this one will be at the elementary. >> Yeah. >> Lakeon Elementary School Media Center. >> Perfect. Just wanted to double check. >> Meeting is adjourned. >> Thank you. >> Keep switching
067that. Somebody's gonna have to call me and Jade and tell us where we are because we always go to the wrong school because sometimes I jump and I'm like, "All right, let me just go through my emails really quick and make sure I don't like need to know something and then I'll look at the