LPA School Board Meeting

001I have a terrible OCD. I like my papers. I'm similar except mine's I keep everything in a binder for every board I've ever sat on. I still have my husband. All right. Uh I'd like to call this meeting to order. Meeting of the uh school board district 2889 April 28th 5:30. Roll call. Jen here. Susan I am here. Sarah here. Jade here. I am here. We are missing Marge. Uh she is attending a funeral today. So uh everyone else is present. We could all rise to uh to pledge allegiance. I pledge to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with all. [Music] All right. Uh continue on now to uh approval of the agenda. Could you speak after? Yes, absolutely. Thank

002you. All right. Do I have a motion to approve the agenda? I motion. Motion by Jen. Do I have a second? I'll second. Second by Sarah. All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed say nay. All right. Eyes have it. Agenda is approved. Moving on to section two. Recognition of visitors to the board meeting. I still can't hear you. Okay. I'm apologize if all right. Uh Lake Park Ottoan Schools welcomes all attendees at our LPA board of education meeting. While this gathering is a public meeting, it is essential to clarify that it is a meeting for the board to conduct business. In our commitment to transparency and fostering goodwill, the LPA Board of Education invites members of the public to share their thoughts. We kindly request that public comments be expressed in a

003civil, courteous, and thoughtful manner. Any disparaging remarks directed towards board members, employees, or community members of the Lake Park Ottoman School District will not be tolerated. To ensure a balanced and efficient session, the public comment period is limited to 30 minutes total with each speaker allotted a maximum of three minutes. We kindly ask each individual speaker to state their name and address before presenting their comments. During the meeting, board members and administration will not respond to comments. We appreciate your cooperation and thank you for your support of the L students at LPA. Susie, do we have The first one is Wally Miller. Okay. Uh, all right. The the board recognizes Wally Mueller. Afternoon. Sarah, I'm Wally. Hi, Wally. Nice to meet you. First, I'd like to say a little prayer. Dear God, we thank you

004for your guidance for these schoolboard members here tonight as they seek to make good decisions for this school and community. Give them rest from any worry and peace to trust in the outcomes from what they vote on in this meeting. Guide us safely home and let them awaken to your love in the morning in the name of Jesus. Amen. I have a number of things. uh open meeting laws for one thing. If you I believe if you people if you board members hold a meeting of two or more people it has to be open to the public. Am I correct? Bullying in the schools. We have bullying in both the high school and the elementary school. And a lot of these parents are concerned about bullying going on in the schools. Um bus driver rules.

005None of us bus drivers have ever been given rules what we can do or what we can't do other than touching a a student. Um and the agenda Susan asked to have things put on the agenda and she was denied. I'm wondering why that was. Um, people have been coming to me and I don't know why they come to me other than I get riled up. Um, wondering what's going on in our school district. So, that's why you see a lot of these people here today. I said, "Don't ask me. Come to the school board and ask." Uh, Richard, a lot of people are wondering why you fired Richard. Um, Richard followed the rules that he thought were the rules. Um, the only rule we've been told is you can't touch a student. So, what

006he did and what I have done in the past, I was called on the carpet at one time for something that I did. Um, what Richard did, he didn't know it was against the rules. There were there were kids on his bus that should not have been on his bus that he couldn't was tired of handling. Um, we were told that if you wrote up a student, well, Art told me one time because I had written up some students and I went to ask him why you didn't kick these kids off my bus. Remember that conversation, Art? I had Billy in the office with us. Uh, I had to end up apologizing to Art afterwards because I got heated. Um, but we don't know what the rules are. There's never been anything told to us.

007So what Richard did was not wrong in his eyes. And a lot of these parents believe the same thing. They're upset that you got rid of Richard. How much time do I have left? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Uh, doesn't appear anyone else or do we have we have more? Okay. All right. Okay. First one on the list. The board recognizes James Jenner. I guess I'm here because of the whole school bus situation. I mean, two years ago, we were driving our kids to and from school. And that's pretty hardship for a lot of people. And now, now you guys fire a bus driver over something that it's not really the bus driver's fault. I mean, why would you get rid of such a good bus driver because of a problem child?

008If a dog continually bites somebody, do you do something with the dog or do you do something with people? I know it's not the school's responsibility to teach discipline or to teach respect, but at some point you need to do something. You can't just have a problem child. That's a safety factor. If the school bus driver is continually looking back because some kid is being a nuisance, we have all our kids on there, too. I don't want that bus driver to be distracted. So, why isn't the school doing something about the problem child? This is a bus tracker. And I'm really disappointed with the My wife sent a nice email to the superintendent Tim and I feel like he got maybe not even two complete sentences back and it was very snarky and almost like

009thought he was better than Jim. Try try to not uh talk. I'm just saying people. She sent a lot really nice letter. I don't think she got two complete sentences back. And does anybody really have any answer of why he got fired? I would just say that's I mean I got the email from Richard, but I know he sent it out. So I don't know. I think you guys need to look at that. I mean, we choose to open roll our kids to Lake Park. I live in the Holly school district. If I mean, if it comes down to it, we have to bring our kids to school, I'm sending them to Lake or Holly and I have a lot of neighbors that actually would probably do the same thing, too. So, I mean, this

010is should be addressed and it should have been on the agenda tonight. So, That's all I got. Thanks. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Uh, our next um Marjorie Hughes here. I'm just here supporting the parents and to let everyone know that I'm the state affiliate leader for parents rights of education and if you have any issues, you can reach out to me and I can bring it to the state and that there's been a lot of talk and there needs to be more transparency. Um, I think a lot of us know what's going on in the school. It's just getting shut down and not being addressed. I've had multiple um I'd say people of the LPA family reaching out to me about fundraising and things like that where their funds aren't being seen and

011they're not being able to um get them after these students work very hard in raising these funds. So during Summerfest last year, I actually had to write a almost $600 check to a coach um instead of the to the school because they just don't know where the funds are going. So I would like for the school board to open up all financial records for the community. You are a tax paid school. You are a nonprofit. It's all public paid. We should have clear financial records. Um also the employment or um enrollment rate is way down. Um, I for one pulled my son out of high school. I homeschool him now. My daughter is in fifth grade. If stuff doesn't change, I will be pulling her, too. Um, but on that note, I just want to

012let you guys know that I'm here if you want to reach out to me and have a good evening. Thank you. Thanks. All right, moving on to uh Carol Ericson. one of the topics regarding bullying. I have evidence on my phone and I think the biggest bully is right there. Uh ma'am, ma'am, no. I have evidence. We can't. on the very last day of my employment and I've lived in this school district since 1981 and I've worked in this school district. There are people in this room that know me, the real me and my heart for these kids. And I was falsely accused of something I didn't do on the very last day of my employment. And there he didn't bother saying I'm sorry. I got no apology. And I've held this in for two

013years because it was that painful. And it's got to stop. Thank you, Carl. All right. Uh, sorry, Karen. Uh, thank you. My kids graduated a long time ago, so I do have a grandbaby. And, um, I was notified of this meeting and so I thought, well, I'll call some friends. And in calling um some friends, I found out about, you know, the bullies and I found out something beyond that. Um a child had been beaten up another child in the bathroom and then another child, third child came in to stop it. But we have a no touch rule and everybody got suspended. The kid being beat up, the kid that did the beating up and the kid that tried to stop it. And so I agree with no touch, but something something is not right

014about I would be really upset if I were that parent. And so I just wanted to share um I'd be upset if I was all those parents. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks. Right. Susie was no more. All right. Well, uh, thank you to everyone that that did, uh, come to speak and appreciate the the support from the community. Move on to the next section. Nothing for board reports this week. Uh, staff reports, elementary principal, please. So, we have enrollment numbers. They're pretty um, nothing changed since the previous month. um elementary school carnival. Just a thanks to everyone that came out to support us. Um last Friday it was a great turnout of events. Um always great to see everyone come and enjoy the events and also just see the students all their hard work and

015putting the baskets together and um all the artwork on the wall. Um just all of that um fun things coming together. So thank you to everyone who volunteered but also um those who donated to make that event a success for everyone. So, thank you there. Um, we are wrapping up the school year pretty quickly. MCA testing is finishing up this week. Um, field trip, schoolwide events, and many other fun learning opportunities coming up. And then just some other events, fifth and sixth grade musical May 8th. Um, kindergarten spring concert on May 9th. Our Raider Field Day is May 16th. Um, and then May 22nd, last day of school. So, short, sweet, to the point. You mentioned MCA tests. Do we get early quick results on that or is that months later, weeks later, year later?

016How do we how do we hear about our results? So, we get preliminary results from the MCA. So, as students finish in a matter of a I don't know if they come out in the matter of like an hour or so, but we do get those results pretty quickly. So, we have preliminary results right now. So, we have results. Correct. Is that something we can share? No, we cannot. So the state has a law, actually a statute that governs that. They're what's called embargoed until September because they'll go in and clean things up. So the state won't even when they release it to us and and Dr. Watson's just talking about what you can look at online. When they release them to us, we're not even allowed to release them until September. And they actually

017tried to change that date in the legislature this year till November. And a lot of school districts dug their feet in. By state statute, you're not allowed to release it to the public until September. Okay, Mr. Chair, we can look online, Jade, though, and they show all the prior previous years. Yeah. Yep. I have a link in my report tonight. I just put it in there so you guys have access to that to see that as well. Thanks. Any further questions for elementary? No, not seeing any hands. All right, move on to 4.2. Middle school principal. Um, same with um enrollments been consistent. Um, we have a just our studio recognition, promising practice award that we got recognized for. Um, highlights the dedication, hard work put into fostering character development among student, staff, and the

018um school community. So, um, a few teachers um will be attending that to recognize our school for that. Um and then just a couple updated of our studios, forestry, wilderness, landscaping, mini golf, and knitting. We're sixth grade studios. Um our seventh and eighth grade will be switching studios next week or in the following week. Um and more looking for like um just transitional fun things. Some eighth graders will be looking at um like nth grade requirements and GPA and looking at some of that stuff, transitioning them into nth grade. Um we did sixth grade transition days this week. So each class is coming over and we paired them up with a eighth grade um peer leader and so they follow um an eighth grader around for the morning um have lunch with them and attend

019their classes and then they do a teacher um panel and ask the teachers some questions on things like coming into seventh and eighth grade like what kind of things to look forward to. Um we are also wrapping up our science MCA scores or MCA testing. Um eighth grade is taking their science this week. Our math and language arts were done last week. And then just a couple upcoming things. Um kind of very go back and forth between both schools. So day caring is coming up May 7th. Um our sixth graders are taking a field trip to the Red Hawks game. We have Raider Field Day. Um for first time we're going to do a um 6th through 8th grade school dance from 1 to 3:30. So the kids are pretty excited about that on May

0209th. Um just a kind of fun end of the year recognition for that. Uh the you said the school dance or um their sponsors or chaperones or anybody that uh do you want to come? It's just going to be from 1 to 3:30 or 1 to three. So, we're not it's not gonna be after school. It's just in the afternoon. Okay. And just going in the theater and um having some snacks and some a little DJs being there and just kind of like a neon one, I think, is what the eighth graders are kind of planning. So, Mr. Chair, I think you would be a fantastic shop for that. We'll get you a neon hat. Yeah. Participation on the the cleanup or the what do you call it now? Day of caring. of caring. Are

021we getting participants, students that are engaged? And then when they are out there, are we engaged on doing tasks at hand? And I bring that up because I hear last year was my first year here and um the group I had worked awesome and they were they were very good hard workers and they they cleaned I mean I think we ended up with like 30 some bags of leaves and so they were really good. How are we sitting on volunteers at this point? Cuz I heard that we're in need of volunteers. We're need all the to volunteers to supervise. Every year, at least since I've been here, we get thank you cards from our community. Our some of the groups go out and they do tremendous things, repaired porches, clean up yards, things like that.

022Um, but Miss Savers, who's leading it this year, has let us know that they're short of adult volunteers. So, chaperones. Chaperon. Yeah. Basically supervising them as they're doing the work and making sure they're on task. Sure. So, you try to have how many kids per chaper owner or per adult? Well, it depends. Um, try and keep it that 15 to one. Um, because that we split our groups up in smaller units like that depending on what the job is. So, it's all based on that. It might take a handful of kids. It might take a lot more depending on what it is. So, who who's volunteering as students? Everybody. As students, they can just volunteer or all students are involved. 7 to 12. Okay. Good. Okay, good, Mr. Chair. Dr. Godfrey, do don't our teachers

023usually shop around it? They do. It's just we have So, my understanding is they took over, you know, more uh tasks than usual. Okay. So, we have more need in the community. Yeah, I'll be out there. I know u Mr. Meyer will be out there. Miss Dick will be out there. We'll all be out there chef running. So, how many chaffrons are we short? I'm not sure yet. We'd have to ask Miss Sabers. So, I'll uh I'll shoot her an email when we're done and she can give an update on that. How does our community know that we need Chef Rhones? Is there somewhere where it's posted or how does our community know? How can they volunteer or come to Miss Savers or you to get more involved? I'm not really Usually we don't usually

024don't need extra shop rooms. Usually we have enough staff to cover it. It's just they this time they took more more requests. They don't have to accept every request that comes in, but we typically accept the majority of them because I know there's a lot of people out there in need. Hard to say no. Yeah. No, absolutely. So, Mr. Chair, I think what she's asking is how can we get the community that like the folks standing behind us? Yeah, we can uh I'll have something posted on Facebook then for that. Um like I said, it probably wasn't thought of on that end because we haven't had to do it in the past. Mr. Mr. Chair, I have a question. Um, so I ran my religious ed program for a long time a woman is there

025qualifications to volunteer because when I ran the religious ed program, anytime I took a teacher on, they had to have safe environment training. So what we what we do background background check for all volunteers. Okay. We have to have it in place before. Yes. Okay. We can get those through pretty quick though. Oh, I know. They go very fast. Thanks. Thank you. Thank you. Any other questions for Oh, all right. Sorry. um that if just to kind of summarize that that conversation was centered around the the day of caring coming up and uh requesting chaperones because we've taken on more uh I guess projects or or requests this year. So, they're going to put out a a link on Facebook if you'd like to shop around for the the day of carrying in May 7th.

026Yep. Um, so keep an eye out for that if you have Facebook, Mr. Chair. Or come up closer. My voice is gone. I'm I'll try to talk as soon as I can. I know. Oh, I forget it. I try to lean up against stuff, but my voice is, but I will do my best. Okay. Next up, go to the uh secondary principal 4.3. Uh this past month uh for dollars for scholars, I'd like to thank Miss Miss Jamie Peterson, uh Miss Becky Peterson and our scholarship committee on all their hard work and to our donors uh all their effort. 21 of our seniors are rewarded for their hard work and scholarships started a new chapter in their life. Uh it was on April 8th. If you ever get an opportunity, it's an opera, it's an

027awesome opportunity for our community to give to our students and that's where uh we liked the day of caring to give back to our community as a a great example for that. Uh Golden Path uh for some of you board members that are new on our career pathway. Uh we work with Golden Path. Uh they help our students and staff guide uh career interest for our students. Uh as ninth graders, Miss Jamie uh Nelson will take our kids out to career career affairs. Uh from then they take a careers one class. Uh so then Golden Path works with them on career interest. They fill out a career interest inventory survey on to be able to direct them on whatever path they may be interested. And then from there they will update that as they go

028through careers 1 to 10th grade, careers two and 11th grade. and then when they do their workbased learning as a 11th to 12th grader uh to be able to get them into their area that they they would be interested or maybe they're not interested in that area and they can find a new new pathway. Uh but also our middle school also has some career interests and uh kind of their studio path. Uh I attended a a conference called leader in me. Uh it was an evidence-based comprehensive model uh that teaches you life skills for students create a high trust school lays the foundation for sustained academic achievement. Uh what they do is they work with schools in three areas that most schools need to improve on. One is leadership uh working with students and staff

029to create support systems for family and community engagement. Uh culture, support environments for students, staff satisfaction and student engagement. And then academics, how can we empower our students and empower our staff? I look forward to working with our constituents as uh we can make LPA greater. Upcoming events, our master schedule is in the process. Uh our students are have pre-registered uh to be able to try to get some of the kinks out. They will register. They will have till the end of the school year and then when we have open house, they can also make adjustments if they want to make adjustments. And typically they got two days into the school year to make that final adjustment. You guys already touched on the day of caring. Uh I just think it's a great way for

030our community. Uh the thank you notes I get is so worth the effort. Uh our our community and then we got graduation coming up May 17th at 2:00. A lot of stuff behind the scenes uh getting ready for that special event for our seniors and family. And our enrollment is the same as it was last month. Right. Any questions? Mr. Chair, I have a question. So, uh, Mr. Meyer, I have a parent teacher conference letter that was dated April 7th, and it was cancelling one week prior, 7 days prior for a conference April 14th. And I did look up as per legislation. So, administration is allowed to cancel it without contacting the board, although this is something that we originally noted on the school calendar. Um but it did I did talk to MSBIA on

031this subject as well. So I guess I would say for a personal question as a principal do you feel that if a child and family attends a successful conference in February they will not have any upcoming concerns in April because a 7day where we just give seven days and we say we're going to cancel it due to two successful conferences. We have always had two separate nights for families to attend. I missed the whole conference alto together because I was unwell that time. and my daughter's doing good in school. But I do like to just even go and touch base with the teachers. Sometimes they say, "Why are you here?" Um, but I would also like to point out that in my degree and my education degree, it stems in families when they have negative

032experiences and it can stem from childhood and they have negative experiences in school. They're going to be less likely to do the second part. If you still would like to connect with your stu students teachers, please don't hesitate to reach out to them directly. they will feel more uncomfortable to do that and they would feel more comfortable in the setting of a guaranteer conference because they don't have to individually schedule. Typically we have the in February we were going to have the two board meet two parent teacher conferences and that's where we typically at the high school we had one per quarter. Well, we almost I was thinking back in it and I've had kids in the district for many, many years and um we usually have the two nights, but I'm just saying if

033it's dated April 7th and it's for a parent teacher conference 7 days later, that's very short notice to cancel. Yeah, that was kind of a impromptu event. Yeah, that was like they typically like I said, we had it scheduled for that, but then uh with busing stuff with having two routes, we went to the two nights back to back that way. Elementary had the same as the high school the way we used to do it probably three years ago. That way it was the same day. I I understand that. I did talk to the elementary and they had their schedule prior, but I'm saying as the board we sit down and look at the schedule. So that was on the schedule and to me 7 days notice would put out a family and they might

034not reach out and is that schedule something at the beginning of the the year we voted on proven to calendar. Right. So then are is that I mean are are we able to adjust a calendar without our approval? Yes. Should we be you? From what I've looked up, you can, but then what they say is best practice is that as a schoolboard member, then you can ask why why was this canceled and such, you know, and this and if it's an event of rain or snowstorm or something like that, you reschedule it. But in this one, it was just canceled. And it really urged me that it was 7 days notice cuz I know a lot of I know with the calls that I have in the community that these they might want to come

035in for these issues and I want to retain our kids in this district. I'd love for them still to come in. We had had a lot of concern from elementary parents because they're they have high school siblings not been able to watch their kids. So that's why we kind of went back to the the same day. That way all families can go at the same time. Well, I would have understood it if it was maybe we did it maybe next year. It was on a pre board calendar and I get maybe hopefully these parents come in. Uh to be honest, I would have probably attended the conference myself because I would have liked to connect with some of the stuff that's my daughter. Our staff are available whenever you want to talk to. Well, with

036that being said, did we have any was there a high percentage of the parents that called inual conferences with the kids? Not that. Okay. Because my whole degree is on people don't they don't come back and do it. If we take it off the table, it's my degree is on helping young, you know, working with kids and families and it's just it's a bias and they don't know how to overcome it. Sure. So, it's an issue. Thank you. So moving forward, we're going to schedule it accordingly and stick to it for the year that I would So they're scheduled that way for next calendar year. So they're scheduled, high school and elementary together together. Okay. Like in the past and that's the way we'll do it from this point forward. It was tough because we

037would do an early release for one building and full day for the other building. So the drivers are running two routes in the afternoon. But that's done that a few years now, right? Couple years and it's kind of been chaotic. So we've gotten some word that sometimes there's It just gets the families don't understand that. So we probably should work on planning a little bit better there. So we don't put parents in that spot where they did adjust to be there. Yeah. So I just want to clarify really quick because I even as writing the notes down. It was because we were having two routes that's why we canceled it. Correct. Part of the reason. Yeah. Okay. Can you say that again Jenny? It was because what because the bus drivers were doing two routes

038like he was saying the elementary get out early but this high school would have full days. So the bus driver were dropping off the elementary and then coming back and dropping off the high schoolers. So they're moving back to just everybody on one day and that's why it was cancelled pretty much. Does that make sense? Okay. Any further questions? All right, move on to uh 4.4. Business manager. Lisa, are you with us? I am. Hello. Hello. We got you loud and clear. Okay. So, um, on the update today, things that I've been, uh, working on were, um, are the budget, miscellaneous sped related work, the LCTS quarterly report, um, SAM.government information gathered for federal funds for vendors that we pay over $25,000 to a year. And then the past due for Brightwheel as of April

0394th when I did this page was $18,815 coming up in the report reports. Why don't instead of me saying what's coming up, let's just go to them. How's that sound? Okay, so the first report is the revenue and expenses by fund for the month of March. Well, let's start annual budget, month of March, and then year-to- date figures. Expenditures on top, revenues on the bottom. The next report summarizes that information, summarizes the expenses um by source code type and then the graph um reports the expenses in um also the source code showing what percentage of the expenses are for instance salaries and wages which is the 100 source code being 63%. This report on the top shows the cash balances March of 2024, February of 2025, and March of 2025. So, you can see the

040progression for each fund over that those different time periods. So, the good news here is the cash cash position improved um year-over-year and over the previous month. And that report, the bottom part of this page shows budget versus actual for this period, last fiscal year, and this fiscal year. Um, so it's grouped by the general fund, food service, community service, the building, construction, debt service, and student activities. And then this report shows the expenses that were charged to the project in the month of March. That is the end of the report. Is there are there any questions? Lisa, you mentioned the source codes. Have we been consistent with that over the last five years or is it been inconsistent on our coding because it's all coded through the Uforce manual uniform financial? You know, I

041can't really speak to the period of time I wasn't with the district. Okay. Oh, Lisa do a lot of cleaning up of things. They're all used, they use the appropriate source code. Some things may have been coded in the wrong category. So, Lisa went in um when she first got here and started cleaning a lot of that up. So, with that being said, a lot of our numbers, if we do year over year or year over last couple years, there could be some major inconsistencies. There could be some inconsistencies. I wouldn't I wouldn't hope to say that there were major inconsistencies. Is there a certain area in which we would have saw that more so than others? Um, you know, I don't know if I can particularly point to one certain area. Minnesota School of

042Finance is so complicated. Um, you don't only look at the source code, but you look at the finance code and the program code. So, there's a lot of thing moving parts, so to speak. So, it's it's really hard to um pinpoint an exact spot where there might have been issues. It's just just some adjusting was needed and has been done. So, I've asked you this last few months and actually probably at the last levy meeting, isn't there a way we can take these numbers and break it down to simplicity and and and for an example, what's our busing cost per student? So when we look at this as a community, as a board, we can start to understand that if we were $10 a kid last year, are we at $10.95 a kid this year?

043And of course, enrollment is going to accommodate and influence that. But I think we I don't know if any of us at this meet board table can look at these numbers and really make true sense of it. It's a lot to take in. I think what we could do is at the end of the year, I close out once all those expenses are through. Yeah. incurring then lease and I can sit down and do a spreadsheet what we have per pupil cost for transportation for food service for all those things. I think we get it simple numbers based on our students and our cost and we can look at real simple numbers then we could really help drive what is important to the district. If you do me a favor and just email me exactly

044the format you'd like to see that in and I can work on that. And really for that it's cost per student really. I mean and it be trucking trans or facility facility cost. Yeah. You know, uh administration cost you broken down more. That that was just question. I I don't know what the answer is, but I just think if we can break those numbers down to be very very simple for us at the board to understand and even the community. So when we start talking about as a community, we can understand where our costs are at. I I mean I was in a whole different world and that's how we did it. We broke it down to just real simple minute numbers so you could really understand it. So I mean I think I can

045put something together and take a look at it and if you want more detail after that we can we can Okay. I know right now we average about $13,000 per pupil cost to educate a student in our district. Well now is that our true cost or is that what the state is allowing us or providing us? No, that's our true cost. Okay. Yeah, Mr. Chair Jay, this is the broken down housing should be quoted by the state of Minnesota. was a list of codes and has transportation as everything in this separate. I when I was going through all of our um detailed payment register by vendor for in my front end um we're we're not having transportation foods listed in they're separate but there is a very very easy quotes I would like to see

046it be easier when we're looking at the payment register to have it at the end just broke down into sections so instead of it just being whatever took place in the consequence of time to be like transportation 02 food costs boom you know what I mean it'd be a Wait a minute. That's all in the report that's on this that's all in the page one of this report. Well, he's just asking for a further description. And I was pointing out the fund uh if he's looking for further into transportation. They do have here pass. They do have as for Minnesota Department of Education general fund is 01, food service fund is Z2, community service 04, building construction. But when we get down like custodial 18, I mean, it's just it's okay. Custodial's in general fund.

047Yep. I I noticed that. I I would like to say I do have a question too, Lisa. When we get over to expenditures on your report, it shows 101%, but then it says in revenue we have 71% has came in for the year. I just asking for a little more clarification on that. Can are you looking at this report or I'm looking at the one you submitted which u four out of four which fund the expenditures okay and it shows 101% and then it shows revenues and it shows 71 I was just asking do we have we have spent more for the year are we going to be on track with our budget our revenues um Dr. Godfrey, can you page down to the report she's referring to? I'm right there. It's the first one.

048That first page. It is the first one. Okay. So, debt redemption. All of the expenses have been incurred for debt redemption for this fiscal year. Is that what you're talking about? No, I was talking about line E expenditure or is it 101%? And I just noticed that the other ones they trend to stay in the 70s because we're that far through the school year. So I was just asking because it says 101% in expenditures for line E but then in revenue it shows that we've taken in 71%. I was just asking for some more information there. Sure. I think that the student activities number there um skews that 101% because really the state requires some numbers to be put in for student activities. But we we really can't budget student activities because we don't know

049what kind of fundraising students are going to want to do or what expenses they're going to want to um have. So, as you can see, $50,000 was budgeted for um student activities, but $129,000 has been spent. So, that will skew that 101%. Okay. I think you know the if you look at that's only $50,000 on the budget. The general fund is is a high much higher proportion of the total and that percent is much more a representative of what's happening in the general fund. That makes sense to me. I did not notice the student activities and I did notice that they took in quite a bit of revenue this year. Thank you. I have a question. Um, just to kind of piggyback off of Jade a little bit and so I do a P&L every

050month for my board which is very similar to what this is and we have a summary and then we have a detailed version which is what I look at. So when I have questions asked to me I'm able to look and a little bit more microscope to answer questions. Do we I think that's what Jade is asking for is do we have a detail of all of these lines and not just a summary of our that's what we're asking for it'll be quite lengthy but we we do we can do that it's just another report y I I am still looking for just simplicity just the simplicity what's our what's her food cost per student right now and what is that compared to last year year before and of course enrollment will impact that and

051then cost will impact that and if cost goes high and enrollment goes full it's really going to get distorted but it gives us a easy point to say hey we got an issue here let's dig into those then those numbers that we really need to dig into but as a broad number thing right now I mean my accounts are $100 bills and then that's it you start getting to six seven figures this gets to be a lot to look at yeah it does so just a simplicity of seeing where does our focus need to be and then dive into the deep numbers if we can wait till the end of the fiscal year so we have full expenses in there then I can show you a better picture which is June 30th is the last

052day of the fiscal year. Mr. Chair, and then expenses continue to come in into July for the previous year. So, it takes a lot of time to to get it all cleaned up. But so, if you go down to the next page again, I think it is. This shows you a little more detail on the expenses by fund. Um, but it doesn't include the student numbers in which is what you're talking about. So, I just wanted to point that out. Mr. Chair, I would be interested in looking at the more detailed one as the treasurer because when I took training to be the treasurer, it was everything about looking into all the little things. So, I feel like that is um Can you shoot me an email tomorrow? Tell me the exact exact type of

053report you want. I'll work. No, just whatever the um whole financials whatever because from my training it was that the treasurer needs to be looking at all that. Well, the the reason I say that though, there's reports where we have the line item report. That's the one I said it's 1,200 pages going through that. I don't know. So much fun. I don't know. That's a lot of work. Um, I'll talk with Lisa. I think we can find a report out of there. That'll be arduous. No, I'm fine with I'm fine with anything. Hit me with the big stuff. I will go. Okay. All right. Thank you, Lisa. Thank you, Lisa. Well, I think that's that's all the questions, Lisa. Thank you. Move on to 4.5. Superintendent second here. Okay. Um I know Jade had asked

054for an in-n-out for the school year for numbers. I want to show you that real quick. So, we did one for elementary, middle school, and high school. Um if you look our numbers in and out for and we got the the different reason open and rolling in and out online in and out uh moved in and out and then homeschool in and out and you have this link in there so you can pull this up anytime to review that. Looking at 7th through 12th grade, same thing here, the in-n-outs. Um online learning, we do know we have quite a few that left the district for online learning. Only one thus far has come in. Um but we have open enroll in and out. So we have a bit of a disparity there. I calculated total

055in we received open enrollment or somebody moving into the district 39 and then 65 out. That's what I wanted to see because when we look at the net the debt net doesn't mean as much as this means to me. I mean when I look at we're losing 65. We lost an entire class. That's a massive amount. Let's say that's less that's more than this right here. last year. How how is open enrollment compared to previous years? I mean, I would imagine there's some stability there because we typically open and roll out more than we open roll in. Okay. So, we have more more that open to district for a variety of reasons, of course, but um the majority of them open and roll into DL. We're they live closer to DL than they live to

056the school here. There's just a variety of reasons. Siblings are going to DL, so they want younger ones going to DL. the I mean I feel like my last two months on the board has been very stagnant and I feel like this is where our finger needs to be right now as a board. We're losing students that we need to stop and then we gain we could be very positive real fast. Mr. Chair Jade, I haven't just had it. They're not just going there. They're actually just leaving us to not be in our district because that's all my bonus thought. Yeah. So that's a deficit of 26 students. We have to retain them. Yes, we retain them and we're successful. And I've already had numbers of people that are already telling me that they're not

057going to be here this next year. Do we Is there any way to do as you leave a business, leave a job, you got to exit the interview process. Oh, for students. I wouldn't even say student. I would say family. It's families that are leaving us. It ain't the student. It's the family making. It's a I said paperwork. Tell us why. So, do we have that? We don't. I mean, is there something we could talk about about maybe like a link we could put online and that you know, hey, please send it out. Fill it out. Tell us why. I I think it'd be important to understand why, right? We want to know why because we can't fix we don't know about. Yeah, we can work on that. Any other questions on that? Nope. Thanks

058for getting that for together. Appreciate it. You bet. Okay, let's go back. Channel of communication. I just threw it in there. I thought we'd have stakeholders tonight. Just the appropriate channel for who to contact when you have questions about what. Um, just a reminder for everyone that is actually on our website. I'm not sure if everybody knew that. So, you know, I think everybody's mostly aware of this. I really do. And the reason why it's getting to the point where it's getting to is there's a disconnect in those four columns. Going back to 65 kids that we've lost, chain of command, we're not getting there. That's communication. How do we fix that? Mr. Chair, I want to say in our policy manual, section 100 code 103, um it says a person may file complaint at

059any level of the school district, principal, superintendent, or school board. However, persons are encouraged to file a complaint at the building level while appropriate. So although we have this ideal section where it says we mainly just follow these people but if they t if they go somewhere and they're not happy with the result then we go to this as was in my training that is here's all the teachers and staff and the superintendent and schoolboard is at the top we are there to answer their calls we were elected by them morning noon and night let's figure it out so what what Exactly. Would you like to see change just the the the flow of communication or more? Well, I think the flow is clear. I think the flow is clear. Like more followup or feedback?

060I think that's what is I think that's what is being requested. I I think they feel like the community doesn't feel like they're heard. They feel like it gets stopped and jumbled somewhere else because they come to the board and they're like, "Did you not hear me? Did you not why why do I not have a response?" And we're like, "We don't know what you're talking about." If it's getting to the board, something has bottlenecked and it is not getting a far. It's not being handled at that level. We shouldn't have to deal with this. this is not we just had a gentleman that sat of the board at a work session telling us that this is not our responsibility but if it gets to that point it is our responsibility and I'm hearing that

061there has been a lot of responsibility been given to phone calls so I think we're very clear with our organizational chain of command that's been very clear I think we've seen that probably three four five times now it's the levels of where is it getting bottlenecked and who is going to take care of that issue and I don't have an answer for it. I personally had experience with this but I don't have an answer and I think we have to have an answer. Mr. Chair, I think it would come down to how it's being handled because if if when somebody calls up and they have a concern, if they're I mean it stems back to like when you're working with a small child. Sorry, that's what I do. if when they're saying something and you're

062like, "Okay, so Susie, let me tell you that." Um, this is what I'm hearing you say. And all of a sudden, when I'm dealing with that kid, they're going to be like, "She heard me. She understands it." But we just want to make sure that we're handling it. We're listening to our community, their voice is being heard, and as simple as that. Because yeah, we shouldn't be having non-stop calls, but if they if that's where they fill because I I've had people texting me, this is I've had this communication with this person in administration, this one, and I'm done. And so then if they have to call the schoolboard, call the school board because that's what we're there for. So it's just work harder. I can't disagree with you if if you've gone through the

063chain of communication. I mean that's well that's that's what I was as high as you could go within the we got I got that when I was first in the so if you waited through that and you and you went through whatever teacher administration then you talk to the superintendent but sometimes they get frustrated they don't even go to the superintendent because they're already too frustrated and they just jump right up and that has to be their uncomfortable factor because we just want to make sure we're there to listen to them. You know you touched on something there. I think I need to be they need to feel comfortable. Yeah. I mean, if we have a community full of people that are comfortable in communicating with us, we're going to thrive. There's the we're going

064to thrive. There's just no way around it, right? I mean, we got to feel comfortable around one another. Well, we're too small of a community not to feel that way. Let's tackle the tough things. Yeah. Pull our pants up and get to work. Get to work. Yeah. I don't disagree with any of of that, but I I do think we're getting kind of dangerously close to like if you talk about something enough times and like you're we don't want to go down that road in the meeting. Um so we can we can address these questions and and items. Yep. Um, but if you're if you talk around something long enough, it becomes insinuated and I'm not I'm not insinuating anything. I'm just I'm just saying is it it's just I when I when I seen

065that and I seen the chain of command thing and I wanted to and everything was about just be very comfortable. I'm not insinuating anything. I don't insinuate just as a a point. I just want to make that clear. We we can we should not and cannot yes be doing that. Well, I 100% know that. But I'm just saying it's just is that that's the chain of command, but we should also have it maybe at at the top like this that the school board is always there as well. Not that we're looking to take 7,000 calls. But if need to, we're there. That's all I'll say. It's fair. Chain of command is covered. Yep. We can we can discuss that in more detail. um as as to what that chain of command is for. Um sorry,

066Jim, my public comments over. Any more questions on that? Okay, Dr. Godfrey, if you please. Um, so Susan had mentioned where you can go to find our report card. So the links on here, I'm just show you how to do that. Um, once it pops up, you just type in the school, Lake Park Elementary. Again, the links in my report, so you'll have that from this point forward. And then down here on this side, you have several different options. Okay, students mastering standards. If you are looking for academics, that's one place to go to. So, there's Lake Park Elementary, um, math achievement, and if you keep scrolling down, you have reading achievement. As you see, we're above state average in both categories. And you can type in any district if you want to go in

067and compare where our scores are um, compared to people around us. Um, this will be elementary and secondary. Middle school is not in here. And then so how how then that's K through six then and then 7 through 12. Yes. Okay. Yep. And then um let me see. You can also break down by demographics. I mean there's a variety of different things you can find in here. And then of course up here using report cards that'll give you detailed instructions. Really everything's right here down. That's the left side if you want to find out any from any information about data and statistics. Any questions on that? It's a good tool. So, this is where when we talk about um releasing the student data on MCAs and we can't do it till September. So, they'll go

068in and the test norm. So, they have to go in and clean things up and then it gets posted on here should be on here simultaneously when it goes out to the public. So you'll be able to find years worth on here as well. So the numbers that we're looking at now are only through LA last year up to September when they posted. So since school started, none of this year is even in this. These are MCA scores. Okay. So we actually have and I'll show you here. I have uh Amanda is going to come. Amanda is our MTSS coordinator. She will be coming to the May meeting. She's going to show you some different um she's going to show you some different data. She'll do our uh benchmarking data. We use fast bridge to

069benchmark where we can show where or students that are tested with benchmarking show where they're at. So it's elementary and middle school. So I'll have data for that. So we MCAS are what's called a sumitive assessment. That's kind of like an endear assessment to see where things have culminated. Our benchmarking happens all year long. So we do it three times a year to show more data. So MCA's only go through what grade? MCAs are through 8th grade and then is it 10th grade that's science? 11th grade 11 that's science. So as a junior they do it for science and science only. Correct. Isn't it math too? Mr. 10th graders are bigger. Could have swore my daughter took 11th grade math. Dr. Dr. Can you go back to that one more time because I thought you

070said that it was K through 6 and then 7 through 12. Is that what I heard? Yes. But it's not. So this is Yeah, that's why I guess I'm confused because that's not how our schools work. So So it's the way they set it up in the system. Okay. This Well, that's why you said there's no middle school. It's just the separation. Okay. It's really not through senior. It's just eighth. And then you said juniors as science. Science as juniors. Any other questions? Then the just touching on a couple things that I can show you that if you want. These are the things that um Miss Zik and uh Mr. Mayor already covered. The first central roles of leadership was a training we went to. Very good. It was through um Franklin CVY who works

071with leaders trying to just hone in our leadership to build more um more cohesion to support student achievement. And then out of that there's a a pro a program called leader and me. We received books in that. We're considering it actually there's student curriculum with that. We're considering working with middle school next year with leader and me. the promise and practices award again that's coming up on Monday. Show you down here if you want to go in here and look later too. Oh, we don't want sponsorship of that details. So, we're one of six schools recognized in the state for our promising practice awards for middle school studios. If you haven't had the opportunity to see what they do in middle school studios, it's pretty interesting. Sometimes they have amazing things where they link what

072they're learning in the classroom to more practical skills and they use our profile of a graduate as well budget development. Just to let you know, Lisa and I are currently working on revising the budget on this year's expenses. Um the deadline for um fiscal year 25 requisitions was April 15th in case there unless there's emergencies like food service is going to always have some we know that fax because they have ongoing programming and we know that uh a will have expenses but like classroom supplies simple things like that as long as it's not an emergency those requisitions are cut off so that way lease can start working on uh calculating expenses and we don't have anything coming in that sometimes we get massive orders at the end and we spend our time focusing on approving

073those and looking at budget and everything. So that's a cut off that we've had pretty much every year as it's always been followed to a te this year. We're sticking pretty hard to that so that we can get going on our budget. Basically what we do is we review three-year trends for spending and kind of gauge where last this this year's and last year's spendings were and that's how we build the budget for next year. Um, we'll have a budget proposal and I actually as treasur be more than happy to come in and take a look at that when the time comes and then we can kind of go through where we're looking at as far as revenue to expenses and then look at if there are any cuts we need to make going forward.

074Update on open ed. They haven't even begun enrollment yet and when there are 66 applications um those will be split with Managa since we are the two districts that they have enrolled this year. Um I calculated with 33 applicants that's roughly $180,000 of revenue extra above and beyond what we get from the state. Um they had predicted 50 enrollment which from the looks of it they've only done soft advertising thus far. They haven't done any hard advertising basically getting it out to the homeschool networks. Um, so I think that more than likely we're going to reach that 50 student threshold that we're hoping at for the first year. Our district only. Our district only. So right now this is split that 66 is split between us and Monaga. We'll So we'll have we already have

07533 that will be coming to our our school. Um I I see no reason why we're not going to reach at least 50. So how are they creating that split? Um they're going through grade levels. They'll create an even split. Open ed. That's that's their process cuz I thought the curriculum curriculums could be different or are they similar? Well, the the curriculum, remember, they had choice curriculum is for homeschool. So, it depends on what the parent picks. So, they have a variety of curriculum choices, but it's what the parent picks. Okay. Um, let's see. View of overall health of Minnesota market does not provide us at this point with breakdowns of the grade levels. Um, not dynamic. there's a dashboard. I didn't share the dashboard link just because I don't know if that's private for

076their company or not. So, I don't want to share that information till they give me a go ahead publicly. Um, and I don't know if there's any way to go in there and manipulate it, too. I would hate for somebody, you know, if somebody was just clicking on it and click something and all of a sudden it all disappears. I'm not sure about that. Um, I'll have um every month I'll have an update on the enrollment. Again, these are applications. They haven't even begun enrollment yet. So when they do enrollment that'll should boost up more. Dr. So if Managa hits their cap then does 100% of the rest of the students automatically come to our district unless it gets to the point where we have a cap. So I think we we hadn't set a

077hard cap with them. I think we talked about maybe a thousand students would be excuse me the max we would want just because for us the juggle is going to be with enrollment. we'll have to have an extra person do an enrollment with a thousand that's going to be quite a bit of work. We've never set a hard cap with them and I don't believe Monaga has either. Okay. Um but if by all means when Managa gets to the point they don't want to take anymore then they'll all come to us until board makes a decision that's enough. So if we get to the point where I feel we're going to stress our system to the point where we can't handle I'll just bring that to the board and then we can set that hard

078defined cap. Here's the not so good news. Um, every two years in the state of Minnesota, we have to bid out insurance. This year with our current plans, there's a substantial increase to insurance health cost or health insurance cost. Um, as you can see, the top tier plans 33.6% increase. And, um, so I just kind of explained this as a lot. Um, if you don't understand it, you can ask me a follow-up question. I try to explain a little bit better. Sherry is our um HR specialist, so she works primarily with a lot of the um payments and everything. So, we met with our brokers. We work through uh a broker that will put this out on the market for bid. Uh and it's a pulled bid. So, we go into uh the Minnesota Health

079Consortium. So, it's a pulled bid. So, it's not just us getting an insurance bid. It's us and the group getting an insurance bid. They told me the when you look at a flat increase, which means only an increase for inflation, it's when you're at 80% stop loss, which means um what we're paying in is 80% compared to 100% of what they're paying. So other words, they can absorb 20% over what we would typically pay in for premiums. We are at 151% in healthcare costs. So we're well over that. They explained to us we're probably one of the top ones in the region. So we have the highest stop loss in the region. Just means we provide insurance. Um we provide in the contract a certain amount of district contributes to health insurance policies for both

080of our unions and then um whatever costs are that's what drives so whatever health costs are in our school district for that year that's what drives the increase. What they did for us is they pieced together everything down on the left side. And again, this is going to be in board doc. So, if you want to review it again, everything down the left are our current plans and then they're kind of piece together, different plans with a smaller percentage increase, but a higher deductible. Um, because we know that some um employees probably can't pay a higher deductible. For instance, down here, 13.6% 6% $6,000 deductible. Um, we met with number one, first we met with our brokers, Sher and I, and then we had our board presidents, I mean our our union presidents involved in

081that conversation because it's such a drastic change and because the out-of- pocket cost would go up exorbitantly, we have a district meeting. Um, in that district meeting, we explained the differences. It was actually broken down very nicely in a um a per pay period cost increase. Sher provided that for employees. We can pick six of these plans whether we want they want these plans right here, six of those or they want to peace meal together. Those are the options. So we're going to have a meeting next week again. Um Amanda Snder who is a co-president of the EA our teachers association created a video for all staff to watch kind of explaining this. We're going to the brokers will be in on that discussion. Then um staff can get any questions answered. They're going to

082have a survey that's Amanda created as well. A survey is they're going to pick six of these P plan coverage plans and the the majority goes. Um so I have a quick question as far as so we're going to stick with this company for the insurance by far the lowest bids is it? Yeah. And it's Medicica. And the thing about it is so when we switch every two years, another problem is we have to get new referrals. So people that have ongoing care, we'll have to get a new referral. Sometimes they have to prove um existing conditions. It's a mess for our employees. Medicica was the lowest by far. And that's by far the highest. Uh Mr. Chair, who did we use this on our payment register? Who are we currently using for our insurance?

083Medicica because I have a Lakes Country Service Cooperative. That could be through the the co-op. So that Minnesota Health Consortium, but our providers um our providers Medicica. Okay. Cuz I know Lakes Country Service Cooperative 3 to 5 years ago, a lot most of the people dropped due to the high price for the insurance. Um you mean dropped? Thank Well, it shows and it shows that we paid74,511 on page 28 of that. But Lakes Country Service Cooperative, I just uh that name just stuck out to me. So, I did some looking. But if we're using Medicica, and I know last time I was when I got newly on the board, we looked at polling couple different insurance places. So, I would assume we're doing that again. Yeah. And if this is Metica, I just said that

084in our billing, it shows that. So, a couple things. Um, when we got the feedback from the brokers, we had several companies that would not place a bid. Yeah. So, the initial the initial quote they gave us, we looked at them side by side. Um, they're all pretty bad. Y um so we asked them to go back out to the market, contact those companies that wouldn't submit a bid and see if we can convince them to submit one. They still would not, and it's probably because of that stop loss at 151%. So Medicica is the consortium um the consortium provider. So that's what Lakes Country Service Co-op uses. So it's just what fell under our Minnesota Health Consortium. It's just that I heard that maybe it's something to look at, but three to five years

085ago all schools dropped using them just because they were higher fees. And I know the the drop which Lakes Country Service Club, they dropped that entity. But um I was asking my husband how the city of TL does it and they have and I should have had it wrote down. But then they go to a place and then they outsource and look around which would be you getting the bits. But that just uh that just made me question just because just to make sure because our teachers we want to have the best health coverage. I know even in my family right now we keep moving around and it's a big deal when you have a diabetic daughter because oh we have a different insurance now and it'll be um I know she's going to go

086to abroad but it's completely different because whichever insurance network I have is a whole different on how it have a diabetic daughter and you'll understand it's a whole different thing of working with it. So I I'm really concerned on insurance and I want to make sure our teachers have good coverage. Absolutely. That's why we're giving them the opportunity to make those phrases, but we will all be w with the bits that you get, we will be presented with the different options. Yeah. Whatever this whatever they come up with. So that'll be a contractual thing. Um and then whatever they choose, that'll be presented to the board next month. No, it's the consolidated. Is this the insurance? This is the Medicica broker. That's our broker. That's the broker. Yep. Yeah. So Medicica is not I mean

087the broker is just helping us find the services. Yep. I understand that. So I'm just trying to understand it because I actually have the two but it's United Healthcare is what mine is. So is that kind of the same thing that is instead of United Healthcare? We have United Healthcare. Um we switched to Medicica because of the difference in the premium cost. My medic is healthare like it's together. That's what my is. That's why I'm just asking is is this like the port the the the co-op is the portion of that? The co-op is the co-op is the Minnesota Health Consortium. Dr. Godfrey, so all of these quotes are from Medicica. They're all from the same company. And maybe I missed this because I'm new to the board, but did we did we did the

088board get to see other quotes? I mean, because you said that we could do that. There were some companies that didn't want to quote us, but are we able to see, you know, other brokers in general or not not the brokers, but the companies, the health insurance companies? Okay. The broker is just this one at the top. So, Consolidated, that's who we're working with. Um, and then, uh, uh, Dean Meyer Insurance. Those are two people we work with. They're the ones that go out into the market and seek the bids for us. The health insurance companies, Samford, Essentia, I can get those for you. these was dwindled down to this because they were the least expensive. So the least expensive you can go with Cadillac plan or the high deductible, right? In the end, the

089reason we're letting employees make the choice because they're going to get only so much what's contracted for district contribution and the rest comes out of pocket of course. So what and you said whoever or whatever the majority is, that's what everyone goes with. Correct. According to what the unions have decided. Yes. Okay. Is there a possibility to look at something um there is a company called Gravy that does like a stipened type of um plan so that each employee gets to choose whether they want the Cadillac plan or they want you know the Ford Escort or whatever plan, right? The Prius. Um, okay. And this way and everyone everyone gets the same stipent but and then they pay the difference of I want the Cadillac, my stipent is 500. They do get that. Okay. They

090will get that with this. So they get to pick the top six plans. So out of this they get to pick the top six they want. So they'll be high-end plans and they'll be low-end plans. And so at the end of the day they get to pick whether they want the high-end or the low-end. Not everyone has the same plan. Correct. Okay. So out of this let me I'll just back up and explain it and then hopefully it'll sound better. So, if you look, we have down the left side of that's what we currently have. And if they choose to keep that all those, that's what we'll have. As you can see, the top is Cadillac. All the way to the bottom is actually it's not the Cadillac, but it's not bad compared to some

091of the other ones. Or they can go out into these various plans here in the middle and they can choose six of them. So, my guess is they'll choose top tier all the way down. And again, the difference is going to be that difference in out of pocket costs through deductible, but employees get the opportunity to choose that. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions on that? Last thing. I have one more thing on here and I'll just leave this for you. That strategic plan review. We are for the month of April. Um working on budget right now requisition deadlines. We're reviewing threeear trends. We began discussions for elementary MTSS interventions as multi-tered systems of supports. That's interventions for students that are below proficient. Master schedules are being created. I gave open ed update. We're still

092working with RCD and seven mindsets restorative circles. RCD actually our training will begin our first two days back. PD plan has been approved by the board. There's a link to it if you want to go back and refer to it. And then u as far as community service continuing to support LCRC. Um just a heads up if anybody wants tickets to the annual banquet. Their banquetss Friday. And then right now there's ongoing negotiations. new elementary principles been hired and end of year staff survey was sent out. So I do an end of year staff survey started last year where we talk about what we love about the district what we um aren't necessarily what we are concerned about um possible changes where we feel support's coming from and I give a a spot at the

093bottom for just complaints. So I think everybody needs an opportunity to vent at the end of the year within respect of course. Um so we get those two. Um that went out to all district employees. I'll probably cut that off May 15th. And what I do is I then extrapolate the data. I build graphs so they can see where we're standing. And then we'll come back to school. I show that to staff and it gives an indication of things we need to work on as far as um relationship building, climate, and culture for the next school year. So I'll share that with admin over the summer. I can share it with you guys, too. I won't share the complaints because some of them are and it's not because of the complaints but some of them

094they it will give away probably individual protected information. I'll definitely show you the graphs and everything and if there's anything glaring too I can pull that out and show you. Any other questions superintendent report? And again just some more legislative updates are going to be winding down here pretty soon I hope. Unless the governor calls for an extended session. I could have an emergency session. Part of that is because the house took so long getting started, but we'll have to wait and see. Those are good hot links if you want to look at those bills. They they do a pretty good job of explaining them. Okay. is uh John. So, I will let you know this. Um Mr. McDonald is not here. His mother um is I'll just say his mother has health issues and

095probably won't be with us much longer. So, he's with her tonight. Understand? All right. So, nothing for 4.6 4.7. Is there or do you want to get an update on that? I say the big thing is uh this last weekend Marba she went to the state speech uh tournament. Uh she took third in the section. They take the top three of the state tournament. She have the top 24 in the state. Uh she did not make top eight. So out of the 24, but she represented hope very well. uh very satisfied with she was happy with the experience and uh she's got another year next year on on the state speech. Then Kaylee Sherninsky uh went to Utah for archery for their the national tournament and she qualified for the super national tournament which will

096be in Florida. Nice. Last year our our entire team went to nationals. Yes. They would have qualified again this year, but they felt they set a goal of certain amount of points. So, they take the top 10 teams in our region, which they were in the top 10, but they had their points weren't as good as last year. So, they wanted to have a standard up here in order to go. So, something for the kids to shoot for for next year. Then the other piece is spring sports are trying to get going, but the weather keeps on delaying things. So, moving forward, pretty much if it's postponed, it'll probably be cancelled because there's only a certain amount of days left in the school year under 20. I will say that the honor band for Mr.

097Ecklund Bradley did get an award. I don't remember what it was called, but there and then there was the another little girl that went for honor band that was I think junior high and they did really well as well. I got a busy week coming up next week. The middle school will be on Monday. have their end of the year concert and then Wednesday will be high school uh the end of the year concert plus the awards to go with it. So are these successes shared in morning conversations throughout the school? Do we do like morning announcements or anything? Yep. And are the successes shared with the schools? Yeah, most on a Friday. Okay. because I I know we got some folks in track that are setting records. Are those getting shared? Okay, they should

098be. Mr. Chairman, my daughter's record didn't never got shared. She threw the shot put on that. No, last year. It was just an oversight. It's not told her it doesn't matter. We got to celebrate our wins. Yeah. Make sure it does. Well, they get pretty excited when they have it. Dang right. even our PRs or whatever it might be or even if you put your names on the board down. So, anything else for activities keep the meeting going. All right. Not hearing [Music] anything. Move on to the uh transportation director. So March March transportation report is in there also. Um just wanted to if you scroll all the way down April is there. Um so the new bus uh bus boss routing software. Um training on that working on building the routes from what they

099are to going into next year. Um there will be a parent app for that. that can't be launched until we get every uh every route completed. Submitted the paperwork to shed key bus sales uh for the purchase of a new general ed van. And then uh day of caring, we've got nine buses lined up to take our students around the community to help clean and um and field trip season. It's uh that time of year where we go every direction three or four different ways a day. So it's fun-filled activities and all the drivers are willing to help do that so we get everything covered. So Mr. Chair, I do have a quick question. So you talked about the cameras or whatever being on the buses, correct? Now you can see when you like go

100over the tape, you can see basically the entire bus, correct? I cannot I cannot. So when um just to touch a little bit when when I was hired June of 23, that's one of the first thing I noticed. Um I I come here and and I know there's three of you that are new to the board that are new to me also that weren't on the board when I was hired. Um so when I was hired, I went through um went through everything when I was first hired. And that's one thing I seen was the cameras on the buses were stationed midb and 3/4 of the way rear, nothing in the front. I questioned that. Um, and the answer I got was from the previous person that was in charge. They didn't think that there

101needed to be cameras in the front of the buses. Um, so I said that's not going to happen. We're going to get cameras in the buses. Um I applied for a grant. Um that grant because we got a grant before was denied. Um so this year that is in the budget for purchase of cameras for all the buses. And that's be about 20 to $25,000 to get those cameras uh extra cameras put in. But that's going to take out a lot of what I've ran into this year with not being able to hear audio or see video to validate or to reassure the parents that this is what we seen. So, we're that's what we're running into. Um but yeah, it it's uh in a process with the budget approval um that'll be get taken

102care of. Okay. The cameras that we're getting now, are they much improved? So, it's a clarity from front to back. So, the cameras that are in there now are are fabulous. I mean, the audio is good, the the the video is good. It's very clear. Um, so the camera heads that are coming are compatible with the systems that are currently in the buses. I think we've got three buses right now that need a full system and those are our new buses that we purchased. Um, um, dating back to the fall of 23. So, and that again, those aren't on the buses um due to just not having the funds available at that time. Okay. So, you're saying you can actually like see really clearly with those videos then? Yeah, 100%. I mean, it it's it

103it's high definition. Yeah, it's it's high definition. I mean, you can So, like if I was sitting in the back of the bus, you would be able to recognize me. Tell it's whatever student is doing that. But you just don't have them in the front of the bus. So, like what the first 10 15 seats or something? No, it's about the first six. First six. Okay. Um, on our short 59 passenger, it's probably the first three. Okay. But it's still why I'm focused so much on the front of the buses. That's where a lot of our little kids are. um just kids are rambunctious and like to do things and come up with good stories and and uh but also I want to be able to see the driver compartment because if we get unauthorized

104people that enter enter the buses right now we can't verify who they are if they come in you know that breaking the law there's either unauthorized person on the bus is unacceptable so we Yeah, none of that stuff right now. I have a question then. If we have an if we have a concern that arises and it happened on the front of the bus, what does our school district do to put a parent or a school bus driver or a student at ease because we have no camera and no way to back a story or confront a story or you know what say you? What are we doing as a school district to to combat that until the new cameras are brought into our buses? We have a a system um a bus referral slip

105is turned in to Mr. Jensen. He reviews it to see what the the scale of it is. Some things can be taken care of on the spot. Some things go to the principal. Then the principal investigates um talks with the bus driver, talks with the student, talks with other students, and then makes a determination from there. And then consequences. In our student handbooks, we have consequences. Um, first slip, um, depending on the severity. If it's somebody threw paper on the floor, you wouldn't suspend it from the bus for that necessarily, but there are suspension levels resulting the very uh extreme one is suspended for the remainder of the school year from the bus. So, a quick question on that one. So if you suspend suspend a a student from the bus one year and then

106you let them back on the next year again and so they start fresh again. Yes, that's what we've done. It doesn't necessarily have to be that way, but that's what we've done. And sometimes um that suspension for the remainder of the year and usually when we have a suspension for the remainder of year that comes up. We did have one early in the year, but then it usually comes up this time. So their suspension is usually only for a month or two because it's come they get to that third slip that usually results in the remainder of the school year being suspended usually around this time. At least what I've seen. So my quick question is like so do we have like what happens when we have a a student that continuously like every year

107gets suspended? Do we finally say like okay this is your third strike you're you know fourth strike whatever you're out. we would have to we would have to take some consideration of that. Unfortunately, we're obligated to provide transportation to students. Um, so there's a variety of different ways we could do that, but if we had to remove a student permanently from the bus, we would probably have to pay parents to transport children, which would be better than a safety issue on the bus. So, we don't have like there's no law in place to protect the school and the bus drivers or anything about that when you have a child that's completely unruly on the bus. Well, we do have situations where we have specialized transportation if they if they qualify for that. Um, but we

108do have to provide transportation. Our policy, they can work themselves up to be suspended from the bus for the main year. The year we Yeah. have to flip them over because by state law, we have to provide transportation. If we provide it for one student, we have to provide it for all. Mr. chair. So, my oldest is 24, but they've been on the bus and they've got to rock out the bus for a really long time. But if we have the kid that has just constant because I have the fences here, just constantly getting in trouble, put them right behind the bus driver. Don't give them another kid in their seat. So, we always suggest that um bus drivers, it's their prerogative to create seating charts. Y we do that. Some do and some won't.

109Some don't. Yeah. But that's always the first suggestion. always a suggestion. Just put them not necessarily right behind you, but if you put them over put them right on the side where you can see because nothing's as much fun when you're really close to supervision. That's usually one of the priority suggestions. Uh I do have a question um for you. So my question was it was before this night is I wanted to know more about the trainings that are in place for bus drivers on intake. So what trainings do they have? I mean is there certain paperwork the the trainings that we do. Yeah. Um so based on what I mean the trainings no just because I've been uh so to me I've just I've been having a lot of calls but what is the

110when our bus drivers say I didn't understand that what makes me question what what training do they have? Do they understand what they can you know what I mean? Do we have some I know when I start a family on intake I go through the paperwork and I'm just what what do we do when we start a bus track? Yeah like policies and procedures and procedures that I haven't got a direct policy and procedure. Um, I went through some files that I got when I first got in. Yeah. Um, and it's very very vague on those sort of things. So, um, my guess is that's something that we can figure out because those those policies and procedures are put into place for the directors and administration that are hired to follow. And when there's nothing

111to follow, then if we give answers, then that's when the community jumps that chain of command and comes the school board. Yeah. And and and I'm not sure I just any of us really know. Yeah. So right now, correct me if I'm wrong, we have a transportation committee. Yes. Yes, sir. It sounds like we should probably have I mean that is where the responsibility lays right now. We need to give Matt support and have our transportation committee. And again that's open. Is that not that's open to public. Yep. And this is really where it needs to be handled. We need to create policy, create procedure, create our what is needed to be created in our committee meeting to help support our staff in a not a really comfortable situation and an individual that took the

112negative because we did not have proper relate to that though. I I don't know. I don't know the story, but right now I'm just hearing there's a concern. I'm assuming so. I'm I'm hearing concern that as also as a board we can't fix that here but as the transportation committee we can sure tackle the problem. Correct. But that would be different besides what took place with the individual. So I think we need we have u handbooks. We have staff handbooks, student handbooks. We have schoolboard handbooks. We can definitely develop a a bus driver handbook where we have rules and procedures and processes and then we can develop a training for them as well. Okay. Yeah. Sounds like they need some training. And then my other question is, do we currently have enough bus drivers with

113us losing one? We have enough. Yeah, we're okay. Like we're not subbing because it's going down when we're just we're still we were okay. Yeah, we're we're fine. I've hired 11 since I've been here. I appreciate that, too. So, we're not We didn't have to hire a substitute to replace that person. We did not. One thing I promised is and I'm fulfilling that is no, we're not contracting anything. Okay, we very appreciate that. So couple we got on. Any further questions for the transportation? Can where do we go with setting up the committee? Is that now or is that later? But I think it's important for us to determine that we need to get together because it's been once. How about I send out an email tomorrow? We look at schedule and currently right now

114there's only two of us on that committee and we could have at least three. Yeah, correct. So, can we now ask for a third to participate? You would have to have that as an agenda item. But we could put that on the main agenda. So, and we can I'll send out an email. We'll try and look at schedules and try and schedule transportation committee. I and I as far as committee meetings go, I think we're a little weak on that. Am I I mean, we're missing some other meetings. We're already most through through the school year and we haven't had some. I think need to get on to the basic fundamentals and discipline. So, we're we can talk about all those things going forward. Awesome. Uh right now though, we're going to continue building and

115grounds. Our building grounds director had hip replacement surgery. um a couple weeks ago. So, he is out um out but still working from home. Um you can see what he's got here. Finished items for the month. Uh the greenhouse is up and running. They actually have plants in there now. Um they have a succulent plant sale going on. Elementary school rad's complete. Uh roof repair north gym fifth and sixth grade. We actually had a company come out called Techa America. So, we're switching our roofing business. They we're looking at a multi-year plan with them where it's preventative maintenance. They'll come in August, go over all the roofs in this district. They'll do any light repairs at that time. Anything major, they'll consult with us and then if we have a leak, they come out like

116that. Where they at? Fargo. They specialize in flat roofs. They specialize all kinds of roofs, but especially flat roofs. Um they they've my other districts have contracted with them. We've had great service. The best service we have is when we have a leak in an emergency. Have we put that out in your request for all roof companies? Do you have an opportunity for an RFP on that? No, because the amount is so small. So RFPs you usually do when it's a larger amount. Um this is a small amount. Like I'm talking under $10,000 annually. Annually. And we were comparing that to But 10 grand is to walk around a roof and tell us it ain't going to leak. It's not Nope. They do the patching when they're up there in August. But if there is

117no need for patching, 10 grand's awful a lot. It is. But they'll that also includes coming out and doing the you know leak repairs and all of that that's including there. Is that something we can see what all is included on that? Yeah. Kind of something near and dear to my heart. Sure. I have a quick question. So I was at the elementary. The water faucet and the soap pumps aren't always working. We're replacing them. So, we getting like a totally different brand because from my understanding the I don't remember what his name is. The custodian said, "Yeah, these are always going out. They're wearing getting worn out." Yeah. I think he talked about that a few months ago. Yeah. Because it got it happened during co I think is when we put all that

118in and they didn't expect to have so much. This is these are new. These are brand new. Yeah. Construction. And the problem is like you said, they just they've worn out. The elementary students really like to which is great. They really like those. Yes. They got clean hands. They really appreciate them. Yes. Is there a possibility to maybe since we're there since there's so much use out of it, can we get like just another I know in the the older park I guess is what we got to call it now has like extra hand washing spots. Can we get like one more cuz they have three when you come out of the bathroom. Does that make sense? Are we talking about where the single bathrooms are? Um, by like here's the sixth grade or right

119over down that hall that bathroom and the hallway that goes Yeah, like over to like the old gym. Yeah. And then like over by where the old principal the principal office is where they have like you come out of the bathroom there's like a sink here and then a sink here and then like a sink out there. We can look into it. I don't know what the cost would be. I think cost would be pretty high but we can look into that. Okay. Because I was going to say if if that's you know if it's being used so much are we not going to burn out the next ones too? And they're being used a lot all over the building too. Even in the primary wing upstairs and downstairs they get used quite a bit.

120I mean just general in general they get used quite a bit. My teacher standing out there and they'll wash your hands. On on the uh finished items for the month on high school it has west entrance tiles all for bits. Yes. Explain that. We have some cracked tiles in the west entrance, but if it's such a small moment, why are we doing bids? Why are we not just getting it handled? We did that before and it was a disaster. Will it be done before graduation? Um, I'll find out cuz it needs to be done before graduation. I was on Sunday. It's embarrassing. Mr. Chair, I agree. I'd really like to have it done before. Frankly, no matter what we do, it's always going to be a band-aid cuz it was never done properly the first

121time. And and I will say at the tournament, um there was an elderly lady who hit that corner crack and stumbled. She didn't fall. Somebody was able to catch her. But that's in my eyes. I was like, "Oh god, safety issue." So yeah, if we can something if we can't get them fixed, we need to do something to prepare prayer or whatever so that elderly people that are coming in for graduation are not going to trip over that spot. And special needs people special needs people walk through that area, get hung up in a tile. Mr. Chair, even if it's a temporary fix, then we can come back in the summer. I don't know why we can't just replace the tile, though. It's Yeah. Yeah. I just uh our schools are reflect I just want

122our school to look like exemplary raider pride. Yep. I agree. Especially when it's a main walkway or safety. Yeah. Uh yeah, it's not even a question really, right? Yeah, we have to be careful of that. Any other questions off of the buildings and grounds? Okay. All right. We'll move now to the uh consent agenda. Uh do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda? A motion. Motion by Susan. A second. Second by Jen. Any discussion? No discussion. All right. No discussion heard. All those in favor of approving the consent agenda say I. I. I. All those opposed say nay. Eyes have it. Agenda is approved. Move on to recognitions. So we are very fortunate in our community that we have every every month there's donations. We'd like to recognize anyone who is able to

123provide some type of aid to an individual sport or activity or just in general to help support the community and the kids. uh for the elementary school carnival um a BTD client insurance agency, Dwey Septic Service, RNR Transportation, Bell Bank, and Heather Kibi, uh DDS all contributed to help support the elementary carnival, and I know the kids love that. It's a really good good opportunity for the kids to get involved in something. Archery. Actually have a pretty decent archery uh donation list here. Uh Lakes Community Cooperative, Keith and Julie Zacharias. Hope I said that right. We did. Uh Brian and Emily Raw, RDO, Westland Excavating, Wild Rice Conservation, Bear Egg Corporation. I guess you never heard that. Correct. Uh, No Limits Egg, Whitetails Unlimited, Nature's Embrace Soap Company, and SBLP. All very generous donation. And

124uh that was specifically to the archery program. They don't get a lot of funding uh from the school per se. So, all of that is is very welcome and and needed. Then finally, trap uh Midnight Riders and Whitetails Unlimited donated to them. And let's see, we've got uh Charities Aid Foundation, School Supplies, and Midnight Riders donated to the robotics department as well. So again, can't thank the community and businesses enough. uh smaller districts, we we really we can't count on those obviously, but it it helps get through here. So, all right, moving on to new business since there was no old business. 8.1 business management proposals. So, as we discussed at our um board work session, we have two proposals. One is from CESO and the other one is from Freshwater Education District. Um we

125also discussed the level of detail in the freshwater and the lower cost. Um and the freshwater is a lower cost than we're currently spending now on business management services. So I need a a motion from the board to accept either of these or to accept one of them and then can open up for discussion. All right. Is there a motion from the from the board for acceptance? Right. Yeah. If you want to accept or Okay. Yeah. Not yet. Okay. I will make a motion I guess then. Uh I move to accept the LPA business service proposal from Freshwater. Do I have a second? All right. Not hearing a second. Are there any other just motion dies? Yep. Are there any other motions? I think we motioned to bring us up at the work session and

126I think we need to better understand if the.3 that we're asking from them is going to be acceptable and we're not putting ourselves in a spot that we're hoping it is but it doesn't become that. So I think we got to better understand this. So I'm motioning that we table it. I really do. Next work work session. Yeah. I said yeah. So motion by Jade to uh table this agenda item till our next work session and a second by Sarah. All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed say nay. Is it possible to have them present interact I'm going to try and get them to okay to present? I don't know about the cesco or ceso. definitely can get fresh water. Um, but I'll try and get both. And I think from the

127work last work session, our we're leaning fresh water, but I think there's just some clarifications that we really have to have. Yeah, absolutely. If the board's not comfortable yet, that's Mr. Chair, even if they would consider doing virtual. Dr. Godfrey, I think they would have. Yeah, they're based out of cities, right? With Ceso, is it fresh? Did you want me to try and get both to present? It would be nice. I would like that. It'd be nice. And any staff that is going to be working hand inand on this would be highly in my mind it'd be nice to have them available because they're the ones that would have to work with these companies, right? Primarily sharing. Okay. I mean, if it would work, maybe not. I don't know. But I can see if she's

128a piece of value. See if she has any inputs. Sure. Okay. So, a motion was approved. Closed out on that item. Move over to 8.2 meal reimbursements. We discussed again at the work session of changing what we currently plan or currently pay for meals the $7 breakfast, $9 lunch, and $15 dinner to um change the state perm. Um and there's a government website. You type in the zip code and it gives you what the cost of those meals are. So that's what we would pay out. We don't often have to, you know, we don't often pay out for more expensive areas, but there are times when we do have staff traveling to that. $7 will not cover breakfast, $9 won't cover lunch, and $50 may cover dinner. Um, I don't know if it's covered dinner,

129McDonald's anymore. Just changing it from those base rates. I'm sure he told me they've been here since she's worked in the district to a state predium. Okay. Do I have a motion to We have to have a motion before we can discuss it. Um, so do we have a motion on the table for this agenda? Okay. I have motion that we change our policy to the state pdium for I guess faculty and staff travel. Do I have a second? I'll second it so we can discuss it. Okay. Second by Sarah and open to discussion. Mr. Chair, I have a question on this one. Um, so when we had the presentation at the report session, it sounded a little bit like we didn't have to turn in those itemized receipts. And then so I I'll get

130clarification on that. When we pay permium, we don't turn in itemized receipt. Okay. So that's what I'm really struggling with and that's why I have an issue with voting on it tonight is Lisa, are you still on? No, she's the clarification I think is important. Yeah. So I had when my MSBA training it is MSMS123B.02 and I wrote it down verbatim when they were saying it if you're traveling with interest district submit detailed receipt for all food items. And then when I was taking the training it said non-stop make sure you're looking for if liquor is being had in it because if something let's see um if an expenditure isn't approved the school employee must refund the school. And I did make an email out, but not fast enough to a lady that is in

131charge of it for the state. I just haven't got it more information on it. So, if people want to go ahead and vote, but otherwise, I'd be really interested in looking at this at a talking about it just a little more with a little more. I ran short of time. I'd love to talk about it at a work session. Um because a lot of people use state pdium but they don't pay with it but they use the knowledge of it because you do want the staff to be able to say if they're in California like the trip where we gave that information we want them to be able to afford the food there not the $9 lunch but they just don't use it as reimbursement. I'll talk with Lisa. I'll email her to find out.

132I'm sure what the requirement is for state when you have PDAM versus um we do have staff that will turn in lunch receipts or turn in meal receipts um because we don't pay perium so and I'm looking into it further too. Okay. Is there any other questions or discussion? I don't think anybody at the table is concerned about paying them. They deserve that. It's not about paying. We just want to make sure you just want follow on. Yeah. Make sure on on what's required. Exactly. Just make sure to cross the tees and dot the eyes. We absolutely want to pay them for the meals. We'll appreciate them anywhere they travel. We tableing it until work session. Is that where we're motion? No, we got a motional to approve it. Yeah. So, we approve it or

133not. Take care of the motion. Um just wondering if we can amend it. Well, if if the concern is a procedural concern, you can approve this because if you want to pay the state per DM, then we'll find out what the procedure is for turning in receipts. Our business manager will take care of that or HR person. If the state says we have to turn in receipts, even if we're paying per DM, then we'll just tell them to turn receipts. And if we don't for the state uh we can still have a policy internally that requires So can we amend the motion and say it I make a motion to change the state PDM as long as they can produce itemized receipts for us. I'm talking to somebody that does it for the state. think

134that that's maybe we don't maybe necessarily even have to do that. If the state does require it, it would just be assumed. So, do you want itemized receipts turned in? Even if the state doesn't require it, you probably shouldn't pay per DM. I would say then we just pay direct because if we're paying per Dam, say they go to the cities and the PDM for dinner is $35 and they spend 20, you're not going to pay them $35. If they're going to turn receipt, you're going to pay them 20. So, I'd say just vote against it and then if you want to just itemize receipts and and to uh reimburse them directly with what they paid, then we could do it that way too. It sometimes will amount to more than what PDAM rate is

135probably. Um but the PDAM is a way to just match the area where they're they're at where they're eating. Um, again, I I know I've seen the reimbursement, mail reimbursement forms come in and they pay way more than what we currently pay. I say if you want the itemized receipts and again, if we're going to pay perm, pay per DM or pay them for what they paid. Doesn't make sense to do both. Well, from what I heard, and I just need to if she would have called back, but every time to make a phone call during the day, I do child care. So it's like yes yes yes I'll take you to body and so it's not always convenient. So I did the email approach but from what I'm hearing is they do the state

136pdium because we want that we want them to have we do not I mean the breakfast and lunch and dinner maybe it'll work here but in down in the cities it might not work and you know what I mean but to me I'm just not ready to vote on it yet because I want just a little more information but I'm definitely interested in using state pdium. just don't know if I'm looking to do I don't have a good enough answer, but everybody else can vote however they want as well. Well, if you want to choose not to vote, I would ask for a vote and let it die because you have two motions. You have a motion and a second. You can't you can't change that motion. Y just take a vote and let it

137die. But I I do I'm not done on the subject. I want to deal with the subject. So if if we if anybody else is interested, I would want it immediately on my next workboard session. Yeah, agreed. Just because I think we all want to pay more information. Yes, we do definitely want to do business. Just want to make sure that it's more appropriation. Yeah. Okay. So, because of the motion that's currently out with the second uh any further discussion? No. Okay. Uh, all those in favor of accepting the change to state predium say I. All those opposed say nay. Nays have it. Uh, motion fails. Um, okay. We can do we put that on our Well, I'll have it on there for the W session and then we just need to nail down exactly

138what our responsibility on the accounting side needs to be. That's Yeah, if you want to talk to Lisa, and then I I don't even mind contacting whatever lovely person gave me the training, Joe Stencil, director of association finance, but I can do some looking on my end as well. I just want to uh there's a lot of right and wrong and gray areas and to me if we're going to do something but I just want to make sure everything's 100% proper. All right. I have so that's all we had for new business. Um move on to section 9 uh succeeding meeting. The next work session will be May 14th at the elementary school media center at 5:30. I don't know if anyone's noticed, but we changed it so that all of our board meetings are

139here at the high school at 5:30 and all of the work sessions will be at the elementary at 5:30. So same time just one will be at the elementary the other one will be at the because I know there's been some confusion in the past when I get confused but uh so that just for everybody's situational awareness. Um next work session will be May 14th at the elementary. Uh I was handed this I must be getting old adult education uh Lakes Area Adult Education. May. Yep. It's a a flyer. Uh we'll put it out if anyone wants to look at it, take a picture. Um it's for the 2025 graduation and awards ceremony May 8th at 2 p.m. uh 900 Highway 34 East, room C101 in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. They're asking to for people to

140please RSVP ASAP. There's a number and email if you'd like to attend. So that's all the information I know about it. But what is it? For adult education adultation partners Detroit. So outside of that I don't have any other announcements. Um all right move to adjourn. Thanks for your comment. The what else?