001Mr star we are live good evening everyone please stand order for the Pledge of Allegiance iedge Al to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all all right thanks everyone for coming in tonight for our next board meeting Pam you can hear us out out in the country all right if I don't see you someone on the other side your NE or neck or someone and P raises her hand and waves out as those know P wants to speak all right thanks fam all right let's get started here call order adoption of the agenda is there motion to adopt the agenda thank you Jill is there a second second second by Pam thank you any discussion
002on the adoption of the agenda if not all in favor oh excuse me we have to do the roll call uh uh Rob shrock and not be here tonight so we without six members Nate hi agenda andette I wanted to add something to the agenda add what something to the agenda um just I wanted to talk about Infinite Campus and our educ climber data that we've been collecting as far as disciplines in the school okay yeah put together a good report for us in about a month and a half they're going to have a nice report to cover all three uh months worth of information and we can talk about it during the admin report section today if you'd like yeah something and then to get it on itely correct yeah have they work on
003a program for for that just specific information they're going to cover a whole a big data for okay so you don't want to add it on to the just wait until the am we can talk about it on that okay so you approve the adoption yes thank you Amy yes Pam yes Jill yes Mike is yes 60 to adopt the agenda consideration of visitors we have one two three we four uh visitors tonight so we have three minutes to speak at the 2 minute 30 second Mark you'll see a marker put up for 30 seconds you have to wrap up no 30 seconds again make sure you know the rules of the uh presentation here when before the group here you don't know the rules you violate the rules I'll ask you to please take
004a chair if you any questions after you give a presentation we do not have discussion with the people who have consideration of visitors we now have the information yet if false and misleading information is put out myself or the school superintendent will speak up will correct any false information is put out for consideration of visitors so again 3 Minutes tonight 32nd Mark watch Vanessa and you be finished so first up tonight will be Amy Amy for Sr not standing room only we're talking about Amy thank you uh my name is Amy thas and I have been here um before to talk about the school resource officers um in the last meeting on February 12 um there was some conversation about the SRO and it was um said during the conversation about the potential another credential
005Levy that um I believe superintendent said that no one has come forward to talk about the need for Sr and I just wanted to make that correction I have been here to the board four times this is the fourth time I have been here to speak about the need for SOS most recently in the meeting on January 8th so I just wanted to make that correction and I have emailed the um board um numerous times about the need for more security for adelan so I just wanted to make that correction um I feel that having SRO in our building doesn't just protect our students and staff against a potential Intruder it also speaking fast because it's only three minutes um um it doesn't just protect our students and staff against a potential Intruder it also
006builds relationships with police and that is just is something that they can't get anywhere else um I think that's really important another um information that I wanted to point out is that in the last city council meeting just last Tuesday on the 20th there was conversation about it I attend most of those meetings as well um you might want to go back and listen to it um they were talking about it because the um police chief was giving an annual report and apparently in 2023 um the police were called to the schools 243 times um and I thought that was a pretty alarming number um and comparatively they had 210 traffic stops in the same time period in 2023 so so I think and their conversation was why isn't there SRO in our building and
007I think that y'all should maybe go back and listen to to that it was in the um February 20th meeting um kind of near the end um a couple other things that I just wanted to say that just seem like common sense to me um things that you all have been talking about lately I think that if a cost of living raise is not given to employees I think that management should not take a hostility raise for themselves and as far as books um I'm the first one to say that appropriate books um inappropriate books should not be in our schools but if a book cannot be read here in this room it should not be in our middle schools um I think that's really important and also two of the books of the nine
008the superintendent said that they had not been checked out in years um but thank you your three minutes are up you talk so nicely for I tried to be fast all right so thank you thank you Amy can I just add one thing um I believe my comment uh maybe at the last meeting or the time before was that uh we haven't had people asking for referendum and I do stand in corrected because you did uh tie SRO with referendum so the intent of my comment wasn't that no one cared about Sr or we don't want sro's uh but my comment is was um simply a concern that well instead of saying no one very very few people have come forward and said we should pursue a referendum so I I appreciate you coming back
009again tonight all right thank you great thank you uh next up agreement our sh me Richard good evening school board and members of the audience first thing I want to talk about is the political caucus is there tomorrow both Republican and Democrat please find your caucus and ATT 10 that's the Grassroots level of our political system second I'm I have Minnesota Department of Education report cards for some of the St Francis schools uh St fr Middle School 2019 math was 58% reading was 67% science was 53% in 2023 math was 19% reading was 37% and science was 133% that's abysmal there's a graduation rate from St Francis High School over time it's dipped a little bit but not too much just a couple of percentage Points East bethl Elementary math in 2019 was 66 reading
010was 59 and science was 56% in 2023 math was 45% reading was 45% and science was 41% keep going down Cedar Creek Elementary in 2019 math was 63% reading was 64 and science was 71 in 2023 math was 46% reading 52% science 50% St Francis Elementary School it's kind of the start of the program math was in 2019 math was 67 in 2023 it was 68 it went up reading was 57 and went to 63 it went up and science was 67 and went to 73 and that went up and then St Francis High School number of students meeting standards in math reading and science over time in 2019 it was 53% 2023 was 41% reading was 64% in 2019 and in 2023 it was 56% and science in 2019 was 60% and 2023 it
011was 54% these scores need to be going the other direction I'd like to know what the school board and the schools are doing to raise the test scores for the Minnesota Department of Education thank you thank you also help out the audience who who's here in the building and those who may be at home for us uh after Co or during Co they estimated 55 5 million students scores will be affected because of Co since Co our school district has done a great job in hiring coaches in the area of reading and in math and I foree in the future here the near future all of our scores going up because we will be having the new coaches out there to help all of our students and they are on the ground and they are
012working in our buildings at this time so the num you just heard are two numbers and those two numbers are across the state and they're across the nation not just in St Francis and our culture will make a big change our curriculum that we adopted for map will make a big change in our future stores thank you Richard all right next up will be Jean Hodo Jean School Board staff good evening I just want to touch on one thing uh this in regards to those who can be on the libraries materials Review Committee as state in policy 66.5 that's the current policy the district 15 Rie that removed the following statement from the Minnesota State Board model policy the state said two members of the school district Community with no direct connection with the request
013for reconsideration should be on should be included in the review I'm asking the school board to revise the current policy a 605 66.5 by quoting that statement back into the policy uh the state has it and there was no real reason to take it out there are other areas in the policy that also need to be revised that include District residents you see my mark up so to pass it out there are a lot of residents in St Francis school district have had children into the school some residents have lived here here for 30 years or more and have paid taxes to the school board system they should have the right to participate in review and Library materials this is not a big deal the state thinks we should by their own policy model have
014it include so please take some time to revise the policy which I understand is in process or plans to be and updated as per my markups thank you thank you [Music] Jean all right last up will be U Melinda Melinda School Board my name is Melinda I'm a resident of bethl and future parent in the district I'm speaking in support of fair contracts for our teachers I know you all had a mediation session recently I don't know the results of that but I'm fingers crossed with it as well um I just wanted to give a little public perspective so we have heard repeatedly that higher wages for teachers are just not affordable for the district I'm sorry to say that that's hard to believe knowing that the district's Revenue has increased 6.3 million as was
015previously stated at a at a meeting in the last 10 years and that the fund balance has grown right along with it um we have also heard that the fund balance is basically off limit because it's supposed to be for economic downturns or emergencies the ongoing refusal to make teachers wages keep Pace with the cost of living and surrounding wages is causing an economic downturn for our teachers and I would say that the mass Exodus of teachers of which we are on the precipice would constitute an emergency without downplaying the vital role that all staff um play in schools we would not have schools if we do not have teachers and the fact that so many have left already should be more alarming thank you thank you for coming in tonight all right next up
016will be the consent agenda is there a motion to accept the consent agenda thank you Jil there a second second thank you Nate any discussion on the consent agenda any discussion all right all in favor cons agenda Nate hi Amy ex me Anette hi Amy Pam hi Jill hi and Mike is for the Cent agenda thank you very much uh there's no one here tonight I see from St Francis High School student council no one's in the audience high school student council not here all right so next up will be uh St Francis Middle School student council sopia and Elsa come on up I I had I told the young ladies here that we wouldn't ask any questions until they get their presentation completed so we'll let them do their presentation then we'll ask questions
017if need be go ahead L all right we're gonna introduce ourselves I'm Mrs crit I'm the principal of St Francis Middle School I'm sop I'm okay um you want to tell them about how you got B and told to do Miss requested us because we're vice president president of [Music] council our advisor Miss and president Sophia and vice president is me secretary is Elise and treasur is Kenzie what does it mean to be in student council Le promote school spirit our student leaders at St Francis mle School conduct service projects that help our school our students and our community work with other students and communicate all upcoming FES in advents to your PE what's this right here really like this picture I know you want to what going on here this working um um probably
018the most recent thing we're doing is sending cards to the ERS at one of the and they didn't know I had that picture but that's so what are the academic Behavior expectations of being our student Cil be a good role model to like the younger kids and don't have like any pearls or any things where you got written up don't have any like bad grades and we'll attend and participate in all meeting and had more than two exces result in remal from student C and the absences from your meetings right school meetings some of the leadership opportunities they wanted me to do this one um is that they are held by eighth grade students and you can see already they talked about the U leadership opportunities um one of the great things is I've gone
019to a few of their meetings and Miss doll does not run their meetings uh they really do run them and they're really getting some great leadership um development through that um and seventh grade the students can start asking to be the leaders for next year and when they are selected then these two and the other two leaders start mentoring them like have you started doing that yet yeah kind of yeah and start mentoring them so that that it's just kind of a nice easy transition in those leadership roles anything else you want to say about that get it all how do you become a student council member there are 40 total positions available four of these are taken by the leadership and application selections are as follows teach teacher recommendations Behavior review student availability academic
020review and there are people that don't um complete some of those things so they didn't get selected that happened this year what have you done so far let's talk about your fundraisers so first fundraisers is beautiful Scholastic Book Fair heg Pizza holiday G fundraiser and chipot fundraiser those have gone pretty well right yeah what are some of the spirits and activity things that you've done for homecoming spirit week on Monday we had crazy day Tuesday was celebr day Wednesday was twins day Thursday was colored by grade and Friday was sa Pride day and who who does all the organizing and deciding what days we're going to have for these things and usually student engagements of that stuff what is student engagement is that a special committee so we just decided to throw this in there
021because we think the staff and fun on these days as a students do right they get pretty silly can you tell us a little bit about Halloween spirit week that was new this year Halloween spirit week we did Monday was Halloween spirit so we're Halloween C Tuesday coste contest Wednesday Best Fest Thursday Hawaiian day Friday keep it comy and what was the best day you think all people like Frid we're on your pajamas to work on school all right there's some fun days the first time we've done costume and the kids were amazing and the staff really got into it too so it was really fun all right wi Winter Wonderland day was just the greatest it was just so fun and it was the day before um holiday break so tell us about what
022happened that day um some of our activities at the dance were the official DJ of the Minnesota Minnesota Wild King and we did roller skating face painting trench selfie station con candy and more and it was a free event for all the students and we had a spirit week and on Monday was ugly sweater day Tuesday was ugly pajama day Wednesday was holiday colors and Thursday holiday hats and Friday was wear fancy clothes what do you think that was the favorite of the students that week of those days [Music] P yeah those kind of they love the pajamas and they really were dressed up pretty nice with have boys and suit and girls with sparkles and it was a lot of fun there is Winter Wonderland you want to talk a little bit about what
023H was decorated in there with the H so they got the day before this off of school while they were at school but they got the day to organize this and tell them all the hard work you guys didn't get ready for this so um a lot of people were in the gyms helping set up some fairy you can see in the back and the selfie station you can see one those pictures and then some other people like four to five people were in the um like the staff room oh the staff oh yeah yep that smelled really good yeah that was a lot of work it took them they were there and then they also helped clean up afterwards so it was a great Community project that they did for our Middle School all
024right let's talk a little bit about some of the service things you've done can you talk about the Holiday Drive um we hosted a Holiday Drive they went from 16 to 24 helping like the homeless in the northern twin City's metro area and every grade had um like competition they want to beat the other Saints times and whoever won in that got like a prize so there was three prizes and one went toed so there yep the type of items that you they collected were there on the bottom and they did a great job they exceeded your goal with that one of the glass um rooms that we have right when you enter that whole thing was full and they cacked it up delivered it they did all all of the [Music] work tell them
025a little bit about the carrying closet our caring CL closet is organized by Food hygiene products clothes school supplies and other stuff and it's easier for staff to find needed supplies for students and families and we're starting a form for families to fill out and it'll be anonymous for like Miss CR Miss doy so we can f orders get it to people that's one of the problems we have know is that we just get these things out as we see them like we just ped up a bunch of stuff for a family that we knew last but we don't always know and people aren't always aware that it's there so we have some great donations in there and it looks better than any closet I've ever seen amazing job what do you guys do up
026to next so next thing is Spring Dance which is like the winter wonderland but a little bit different and raising King fiser and making cars own nursing hom you working on that right now yes that's the most you know what the theme is going to be for the spring dance decided yet maybe or you don't want to tell the secret secret okay you don't have to tell okay what's this right here this is for like our next year's leadership miss all like picked people for next year who like shows up every day and like gets stuff done and she picked our new president is a our vice president is Gavin our new secretary is Kaitlyn our treasur is tavin and our student engagement lead is Henry our fundraiser fundraising lead is Andie and our community
027outreach Outreach lead is Penny so we have like all seven graders ready for next year and what's your guys's job with that what do you have to do for these people we got just show them like what to do for like each of the things so student engagement they would Shadow the student engagement leaders which is me and sopia and the F re lead is McKenzie and Gretchen and community outreach I think is Alise and Colton so to make sure they understand what they're supposed to be doing and yeah and that's next so all this is something that M gave me she couldn't be here tonight I wish she could because she's just done an amazing job um developing leadership but she wants to organize a couple leaders leadership activities over the summer to prepare
028so that this can be more student driven than it already is she already does a great job with that but this will take it to another level we're also n part we weren't before but we just joined the Minnesota Association of um student councils and Miss doll just went to a um professional development um session and with other people around the state and so she was actually be able to get some more ideas and then there's also things for students that can participate um so we're looking forward to offering more um of those events for our kids and most importantly Mrs has becoming certified to dry the B so we can more easily transport our students so that's our presentation all right well thank you very much board questions go ahead ma' I have four
029we can spread them out um are you meeting before school during school or after school after school from 2:153 ship meetings though when are they um those would be on Tuesdays that'll be during 6 hour okay um what are your goals for your fundraisers like when you do the B Brees and and raising games coming up need to know so but what are your goals for that um we try to get as day as we can for the school to get like more stuff gy and classrooms and for your eventss that you have right like the D like the materials for the dance lights all those type of things very cool and what is trench it's like a okay do you have the date for raising canes yet yeah we'll get it out we'll get
030it out on the website this guy back here will help us get information I think the one for people yeah think so that's all I have great presentation oh sorry go ahead how do you guys feel the carrying closet so I've been there I've seen how organized it is it's amazing amount of stuff every time I'm there there's boxes that you guys are organizing so where do you get all that stuff from who gives you that well usually people just bring it in if they have like extra stuff that they don't need or use and TR expire or anything so usually just and J the different we have churches that have brought things and people are extremely generous right now we do some large extra large skirs yeah people are extremely generous what did you
031say you could need some sweatshirts I think you know they the the hoodies they like those we don't have any at the I'd say eighth grade seventh grade boy Middle School Boy size right now and I too would like to we will get that out thank you for your support I also would just like to thank their families for bringing them in today too so it was super yeah great presentation um I'm really actually really impressed with all the different kinds of activities that you're doing this year I knew you did a lot of work because Miss kitley talks about you guys all the time but I didn't realize how much great work you're doing so thank you we didn't have as much stuff last year so we kind of wanted to squeeze more stuff
032and they you did it yeah did and purging these two and others to continue on this leadership journey in high school any more question from the board well thank you for coming in I know it's very uh it's different for you to speak in front of people like this but it's a good for your leadership rool it's a great place to come into want to come back in the future you're always welcome to come back and give an update what middle school is up to all right again you stay with us all night tonight or you want to go home and do homework homework all right next up is apack Abby Andy correct Abby Andy evening St Francis School District members my name is Abby Wy I am the APAC chair I'm Haley dagel I'm
033the American Indian education coordinator for our school district thank you MC for helping for welcoming us to this meeting so glad to be here again and so glad to have a little more of your time this evening have okay at the heart of aiee is the sharing of teachings aie is the program that Haley's been coordinating it stands for American Indian education I'm on a parent advisory committee so it's different but um one instance of sharing the teachings is when we presented indigenous star knowledge to middle school science classes I know this is a review for a few of us these slides are thank yous we received from students following that presentation we celebrate the welcoming the stories received a separate instance of teachings I want to share as last night's storytelling event our American
034Indian families and friends from around the community gathered at the high school for a lovely time we used materials to create story pouches I brought mine for you to see um I grew up being a student of what was known to me as indanet this program is still very special to me so in the pouches we used traditional and non-traditional elements to create a way to share stories old and new the contents in the pouch are the characters and their stories so I wanted to say m Haley dagel for your planning and effort and M school board members for providing the opportunity for American Indian education so I trust you are aware of the indigenous education for all requirements in Minnesota the relationship iea and AE the relationship between them is mirrored in the two
035experiences I've shared between um doing the star knowledge in science class and then this community event that we did last night they are similar in topic yet they are different in who the recipients and facilitators are in a way they also differ in the intent most importantly they differ in funding allocation did you want to talk about um your work as coordinator um maybe going forward what you envision yeah um so as coordinator I oversee our Indian Ed program um and so part of that is uh working on creating the events so like last night we had our storytelling event um and so um me along with lisaa who is our Indian Ed liaison um we planned that event we got all the supplies Lisa cut out the pouches I sewed them and did all
036the whole punching um and so it's a labor of love um but it's to really help bring in um all these people and build that Community aspect um but also as coordinator I um write our federal and our state grants um I keep track of the budgeting for that making the purchases um I work closely with admin through all of the buildings um and also staff so something that um I think um ab's going to touch on a little a little bit too later is um you know uh I've been going into these schools and doing presentations for staff um just letting them know what our program is about um just some background information and just hopefully to let the teachers and staff know that we want to have a good relationship with them we
037want to provide um support so that they feel like they can teach um about Native cult culture in an appropriate way um and once we've started doing those presentations we've had a ton of Staff um reach out which has been really cool like that first year that I was here I'm in my third year now um that first year I think I only had maybe two staff in the district reach out for support whether it be um looking for resources or if they had a resource and they just wanted to make sure it was okay um or if they had an idea for me to come in um but after that first year when I was starting to do those presentations we saw a huge increase and I've probably had about 20 different staff members
038reach out um looking for that extra support which is really great so okay so we just wanted to bring up IFA because we're kind we've been looking at it and it seems like the way it will get implemented might be similar to when um Haley was able to support the school science teacher but that is not an AI coordinator role in general nor is the indigenous people's day required programming so we're seeing potentially that IFA will require a person Dev voted solely to serving all the teachers and fulfilling the IFA requirements have you all seen the requirements like the page for the IFA I don't believe so okay there is there is if I'm correct Mr you're funded through Federal and State dollars which then those Federal and State dollars are tied to if I
039read correctly that you have to directly work with the students correct with the Indi students yes when your Sal and how much of your salary is funded through the Min to federal and state um I don't have are any well I guess I'll put it this way is any District dollars put into to your salary yes so my salary is through State indanet funding Federal indanet funding and then um also through special ed funding and then there's a few other funding sources um that the district uses okay so in addition to the special ed funding it's about 54 $55,000 that's spent a you know using local money part of that I think is for Haley but then perhaps Lisa you know I'm not sure what the the breakdown is on that but in order with
040the federal and state dollars those dollars are tied to work with the students am I correct on that it isn't to work with other teachers it isn't for um doing work for anything else other than direct work with our American Indian students correct yeah thank you for making that distinction yes but yeah so we kind I think that's what you were trying to yeah everyone might see it differently so we just figure we present it in maybe different terms you know how it's going to but yeah so we feel like we've want advise hiring an IFA staff you know for the district and then going forward hoping to maintain clear definitions for IFA and then I AE as the district begins to develop your your plan for IFA um we are Guided by the mission
041to see our American IND students succeed the district and parent partnership is foundational to this so we have given our time to learning things like State statutes federal law and District policies even education standards all while holding and trying to hold our relationship to each other at the center let's take a look at our annual compliance business you think you should have that was that posted by chance yes whatever they gave to me the packet okay so it should be titled 2024 non-c concurrences so as a parent committee we took our annual compliance vote we did not find the district is currently meeting the needs of American Indian students so we issue a resolution of non-c concurrence and deliver our documentation for your review and then subsequent response um in Broad terms we'll be looking
042for a few things there'll be a plan for effective communication with the parent Community Committee Outreach to the community collaboration towards hiring additional aie staff which has been kind of an ongoing process already and then all district persons engaged in training on American Indian education and lastly Staffing to work on the IFA which isn't really in our non-c concurrence but things just move at the speed of light so I added that on there so I don't know we can walk through the non-c concurrences but if you haven't already looked at it it might kind of take a little while if you didn't already have highlighted some different ear marks so we can talk about that outside of theing too um what do you think oh we could look at the pie chart um but I'm
043have to think for a second about where what the uh oh wow there are a lot of these while you're looking for that just a reminder for the board it's um under the Schoolboard agenda packet under the APAC presentation 2024 non concurrences is the title of the document so the question that Miss Kelly asked a little bit ago about funding kind of is like what spurred she didn't ask us but we asked kind of similar questions and so I created this diagram of what um different funding pictures of funding in different ways so this one on the left is if you're primarily funding the Indian Ed programming from the district would be the blue portion and then the lighter green would be the state the other green would be the Indian education yes yes that
044um what do they call it yeah education fing okay and their whole point is that um green should be enhancing the district's primary funding so then well what if they're not primary then it maybe be equal which 50/50 between a green and this is what we currently have um pretty accurately there's some differences in the numbers but I just have been pulling together different stuff with the legislation so that's what that that text is there in the green box so it says that the a ea which is the state Minnesota state funding that the program receives is not allpurpose funding and cannot supplant any state or federal educational and co-curricular programs um so there's a lot that they have to say about it and make it they make it pretty clear so anyway this piie
045would be where it is supplanting can youm say exactly what is being supp planted the district's funding slash programming providing Indian education but for example I mean is there a particular program or particular staff that we're supplanting I've never heard of this 5050 split before well you can't have a it has to be the first picture that one on the left where it's primarily the district is that in State Statute yep the 124d 74 and then the federal terminology is also uses this supp plant that's kind of where I learned what that word I've never heard that word so you're saying that the district has to use its general fund to pay as much as the federal and the state together I've never heard that before and I might be mistaken you know don't get
046me wrong but I've I've never heard that before and we can figure that out together I'm I'm not worried about it be working on it together because these are just my pie charts you all probably have better pie charts so this is the pie but so that's what I have prepared but again just to clarify what you're saying is that the district would need to spend $120,000 total to be compliant and you're saying that yeah the numbers might change year year right yeah again I've never heard that before so we'll have to do some research uh into that okay so go ahead one of the non-c concurrences was the hiring of a liaison officer yep what happened there because I thought we at the table at one time someone had mentioned that there was going
047to be a hiring and that s funds were going to be used or user funds could be used or um and I'm not sure if it was mis GE it could have been Mis GE before she left and now I'm hearing that that person was never hired am I correcting that yeah and maybe I can give a little background information love that um so when Miss geese was here um and this was with our previous APAP chair so it was Andrea Carlson at the time um we had had conversations about hiring additional or that we needed um more support for our students and for the program as a whole and um Andrea had asked for potentially two um additional Indian education lisons um and when we had that conversation with Beth geese she um she
048understood that we needed that extra support um and she thought it was reasonable to have an additional liaison so then last year um when Minnesota um was going to be increasing the amount towards Indian Ed State funding um that was one of the ideas that we had was to um put some more towards Staffing so that we could hire um an additional person so if you're looking at the 2024 non concurrences list um the the very first recommendation or the first request that um the parent committee came up with was um Desiring a collaborative relationship with staff and in that there's a little chunk that talks about a timeline um where and I believe yeah June 14th 2023 um that was presented um here at the school board meeting by the superintendent um and just
049kind of breaking down like a timeline of how could we get that additional Staffing um and so I created a a proposal um and then we worked together and with business services to get some um data on how much funding we would need um and it just never fully came um or it didn't come full circle with that so um currently it is still just me and Lisa um zika um I don't know if you want to add anything else to that because some of the concerns missel is that your salary U needs to be spent with direct work with the American Indian at that's according to when you receive the dollars am I correct or yeah so when you're asked to do other things for the district as far as work with teachers and
050get them to learn to get them that really that's why you're looking for someone else am I correct yeah and why you needed someone else there's a lot of other because when they what was it this year when we got the increase in funding they also expanded the um the requirements for the coordinator and just for the program in general as far as needing to meet with every family which wasn't there before and already with the work audit that was done before those added requirements there was a lack showing some yeah so our hope with the additional Staffing would be that um I would be able to focus more on um on kind of the admin aspect of the programming and um to be able to help more easily help staff with those resources that
051they need um in the trainings um and then we would have Liaisons that could work directly with the students um and kind of the vision with it was to have one that could work with like prek through fifth grade and then one liaison that could work with sixth grade and until they're done in our district um and being able to put that additional time oneon-one with the students and and really provide that additional support so you're asking for this is this just Holly asking for this or has someone actually looked at what you're doing and said in order for you to be efficient and to really have a quality American Indian education program in district 15 St Francis this is what we should be doing I mean who is who's driving who's driving to what
052the needs are within your organization is it you two just standing here and just saying this is what we want because or is there someone that's actually done an audit as to what we have in our district and what could be the needs that then we could provide the um level of service to our American Indian Ed American Indian ed students that we need to that we'd like to provide them the service for does that make sense yeah and that's a great question and prior to my arrival here um the program did have an audit done um I'd have to look back at the exact date but it was by Karen Godfrey and so um that's really what kind of spurred these conversations because one of the um M main suggestions that she had was
053that there's just too much work and not enough um Staffing to be able to to do that work so we were kind of already just treading water and now um there have been even more um expectations added with our type of programming um like Abby said you know having to meet with the F every family um or at least have a conversation with each of our families and you know we have 30ish kids um and so that's like 80 families right there and that takes a lot of time to be able to to try and um meet with them and let them know what our program is about and yeah so I can I can get that um I know we've talked about that audit before but um I could send that out to to
054the board um as like a refresher if you would like yeah and and I I got to say I'm a huge proponent of American Indian education and Indian education for all I don't completely agree with kind of some of the statements tonight and so again we will work together and we'll share information with the board we want to do the right thing uh but you know it's it's there are different perspectives on this and uh you know I I'll continue to work with you to to do the right thing for not only American Indian kids you know but you know for the whole District any further question from the board bam I think there's there's a work session coming up on this m cor yeah typically and it worked really well last year we got
055the list of non-c concurrences and then I worked with Abby and Haley and Marsha you know I know that um Marsha is involved too because she has a lot of expertise and so we kind of develop a a plan you know moving forward and then you know I have the uh a list of the efforts that we did to help comply with that plan and so I can share that as well as you know the latest plan uh moving forward so from what it sounds like you're requesting another $75,000 to uh to be 5050 on the local contribution versus the state and federal is that fair to say based on the part pie chart that you Shar um yeah I might have to take a couple years or whatever I don't know but um we're
056just my role is to represent what I'm learning off of the laws and advis you with them so yeah and we appreciate that I mean we want to be compliant we want to do the right thing no doubt um but you know it just takes time to to work together on that and they have a report already signed off on it that will be sent out so we have the report on areas of non comp cor y so um the parent committee make does their vote and then they have to come um and present that to the school board and then um what I do is I will send off all of that um non or the annual compliance paperwork to the office of American Indian education through mde um and then they'll send out
057like a formal um email I believe it goes to all the school board um so you have 60 days to respond to the parent Committee in writing um regarding the um recommendations that they provided and then that gets submitted to the state as well so I think that date is April 26 the goal would be for us anyway for me would be to have a discussion at the next workshop and then hopefully you know adopt the plan in March if not in March then we could do it in April but let's we'll get going on it you know it's really important I do need to clarify one thing I haven't looked at the breakdown on percentages for each employee but you said earlier that you are paid out of federal state and local funds okay
058so the way we've been working it is that the local funds that pay for part of Haley's salary would be the things working with teachers work working with you know the the programs and activities that are not solely benefiting the American Indian kids that's how that's how we go uh that at least that's what I've been assuming so that's I think that reconciles your question with with what yeah I'm just asking the question I've been I was told that when you receive the federal and state dollars that that person has to directly work with the students and that's they can check it out or you can check it out to make sure that that is correct or not I'm merely asking the question and again a percentage of Haley is paid out of state and
059federal funds those funds are you know Haley needs to work with American Indian kids on that work but then the percentages that are not um paid for using state or federal funds would be District represented funds and so then we can use that part of her time to do that kind of work to do the work with the teachers with um you know all sorts of you know curriculum work uh I know Haley and others go into the classrooms to do like the star project and and those those kinds of things are benefiting all kids you know and so I view that as kind of a district kind of thing and so the district should be paying for it uh the same with um uh providing a an American Indian language like a jibway in
060Dakota that work would benefit all kids not just the American Indian kids and so I think the district should be paying for that and that's also kind of a state requirement you know as well that we need to implement at some point in some way and so Haley has been working with us on coming up with that plan and so that's kind of part of the percentage of her time and Pam has questions Pam yeah is there some kind of time reporting also that's done because I know Haley said you need to meet with like 80 families I know that's you mean I think you have to actually go to their location if need be to meet with them do you do some kind of time reporting that segregates between the federal funding or the
061working with students versus how you're coordinating and working with staff and and teachers is there something that can it segregates those two different funding tasks good question um right now I record my time using a par form so it's um on my par form it split between um Indian education funding and special education funding um so I guess what I would have to do is look back at like the actual amount of hours that I've put in to see the the breakdown even further than that um so I don't have a good number for you off the top of my head but um yeah right now there's that distinction um between the Indian education funding and the special education funding yeah because I mean I think that would paint a much clearer picture as to
062where in the you know what areas are lacking in your attention you know where do you need the funding actually to you know to to help support from a district standpoint the other question I have to is I know last year didn't we have the statute that we actually had to review so that we could compare the non-c concurrences against the actual laws did I think Carson you did you provide that for us or somebody did I thought I don't recall do you think it was Marsha Vandenburg I thought we had something because because the non-c concurrences um to me need to be spelled out against some specific for the law and I think that we asked for that last time and we got that from somebody I don't remember who I don't know Vanessa
063did you maybe maybe Mara got it to us somehow through Vanessa I don't remember it might be the rubric about um so the off the office of American Indian education through MBE has a rubric on their web page um and that's kind of what um Apex are supposed to use to help guide their decision on whether or not they feel the district is doing enough for the native students um so that could be what uh you're talking about that might have been it I just know that there was something because I know there was questions last year around how do we I mean if there are non-c concurrence that means there's requirements so if there's requirements then we need to know specifically what those requirements are and be able to timee them out and I
064think that was the question last year so that would be helpful if we got that from somebody I can um what I'll do is I'll send um everybody on the board here um the Karen Godfree audit from a few years back and then I'll also add the rubric so then you can look it over and that might be beneficial too for your work session so that would help that' be good very good thank you y okay question uh two questions at first might not be answered tonight but uh your number two uh talks about curriculum recommendations um so if you haven't already uh just looking during the work session with Stacy if you can provide some input on any curriculum recommendations instead of you know ask going directly to teachers that are coming to you
065with it uh if there is something that we can Implement across the board or recommendations that we have across the board and then the the second question um your number four or significant concerns concerns um that we're not going to be prepared to implement can you just elaborate a little bit on that I see the timeline that MBE recommends and I'm shown 2425 as pilot programs so just if you can just elaborate on that one specifically a little bit I think land LS what we've seen so far with how Haley or the coordinator position has been utilized or um what has been supported or not supported when what we've seen as needs for the program so it's sort of like oh this is now coming too and it's not going to be able to follow
066the status quo like something else is it's have to be a new plan thank you okay any more discussion am question when the talk was a year and a half ago to bring on another coordinator there was discussion was that discussion at your meetings as well as here the possibility of bringing forth someone else on or we've had a lot of different meetings um so I know we've talked about it in the non-c concurrences in the past um and then we've also talked about it at the APAC meetings um and then we've uh had conver conations um and meetings even outside of that kind of like a like a subcommittee meeting I guess you could say um so we've had some yeah some additional communication my question is with the Esser funds there's how much
067do we have left of the Esser funds do we know how are we going to spend down all those I think we had $1.5 million yeah so we're making plans to spend that down this year before we lose them they expire on June 30th most of them expire on June 30th some of them go to September but they're they have significant restrictions on how we can use them yeah and some of those we could use um expanded language access um indigenous education there is money that can be tied from the Esser funding into American and I think there was talk of that before that possibly happened when Beth was here and then it disapp I think uh what may have happened with that was Multicultural uh position uh was funded out of Esser so Abby
068uh pton uh position it was uh she replaced Serena pya Serena so I believe that was coded to Esser if I'm not mistaken um and I there may have been other discussions about coding you know Haley or Lisa to that as well that I don't know but um I'm pretty confident happy was coded there that's all I have okay well thanks for coming in we have some work to do with you yet compliance by April 26 yep something like that okay well thanks for coming in tonight thank you all right all right next up will be the first reading of policies here you see the revision 497 503 524 and 610 if you have any questions on on that tonight please bring it up because in two weeks from now we'll see it again for
069an action item you have any questions on it you tonight or when you get home tonight please call the staff and get a lot of your questions answered on all these policies right here Pam you got a question yeah I I just want to make a comment on the um on policy 524 the internet use and safety policy um I am really happy to see I we reviewed this a while back but I'm happy see that um that the users will not use the school district systems for pornographic of scene or sexually explicit materials or other visual D so there's a there's a list of abde there vulgar rude inflammatory threatening so I'd like all of this that this is in our internet policy but what I'd like to see is I'd like to see
070this also in our library policy so there's some really good words here that we should duplicate because this is having to do with material s and so if we don't you if we don't want kids going on the internet and getting all this we really should copy the same language into our library policy so that's a recommendation and I can put that in writing if you guys want me to but I would recommend this is really good language to to um be very descriptive around explicit um it's it's it's seually explicit material pornographic obscene profane threatening disrespectful obscene inflammatory all the words that we've been talking about in the past with the library policy so I just wanted to point that out and make that comment for the policy committee if we could get those
071words in the library okay so noted who have our notes here for you for policy committee to take a look at information like that in the future here coming up and I can write that if you want me to I can send it to you if that's a like Amy or chill let me know all right thank you Pam good idea y thank you all right uh any further questions on the policies if none move on to First reading 2025 uh 26 school calendar is there any questions issues on the school calendar looking ahead the next uh year 25 26 so ways out it's nice to have a two years in advance people can do a lot more planning y missionette I was comparing it to last year's did we move um that break down
072two weeks it um is going to remain at the uh the traditional uh spring break so it's back I think to the second week is that right so there was that one year when it was bumped to the fourth week and now it's and then it was back to the second week for next year and then that's the proposal for moving forward keep it at the second week okay at least for the 25 26 school year because we do it every year and we'll see it again in in a couple weeks all right no more questions on that 56 here 2024 operating L referendum discussion update uh are you covering that superintendent myself uh both of us yeah I did include the uh the one or the two-pager from the last referendum uh so you
073can remind um yourself as far as some of the important data and how we're going to spend the money um so that's kind of an FYI um as one of the attachments and um really that's all I have to add um I sat down myself you know talking about the the levy over the time frame I don't have one to pass out to everybody but I kind of use a river format here you know going down the river we got two options for the levy one do nothing just sit back and forget about it number two have a levy break away from the past what can we do take on a new challenge use fact and why we why we need to have a levy hiring staff retaining staff wages Pathways again our Levy compared
074to other schools make sure we talk about that when an NOA henan has 1,199 and we have 1,400 plus over Elk River and St Francis is zero for student approval what can you do you can do a whole lot that's why we're losing our staff all the time uh we can show all of our staff openings be open to about it how many teachers are we short how many EAS bus drivers custodians office staff whatever staff we may have let's show that let's show the people we are short and we're short because we can't have the pay that other districts have that's how we lose our staff to the districts all the time we should be able to give our students the same opportunities to be just as successful and Pathways and with us teachers
075that stay with us for long term as other dist offer their staff and their students why should St Francis always be second place I have been hearing this for years and years I'm I graduate of St Francis we had nine kids go through St Francis we had two nephews two nieces through St Francis we have a Goods District here except we don't pay our staff the way they should be paid and we need to do something to offset this and when we have to get out and talk to the public I was honestly I was taken aback by the survey I thought the survey would do it for us I didn't work hard enough I'm going to change that if we approve the levy I'm going to change my way of affecting the uh the
076levy out there I talked to staff right now I've talk to the staff people what are you doing about the levy and I'll be honest with you when I get letter sent to me support our staff support our teacher support support support I respond one way to the people now thank you for your email did you support the levy last time yes or no thank you for your email that's how we respond back to everybody are you supporting our staff are you supporting our district are you supporting our kids you can talk to talk walk to walk and help it pass a levy and we need to have a levy yes we know it increases our property tax that's just the way it goes to support our people and take care of our people we
077need to have a property tax how much we going to go with we're going to stay at 325 500 700 what be the time frame we have to figure that out uh by next month two months from now is there time within two months and then we have to have somebody come in and do the tax thing if we come up with a certain amount of dollars we're looking for and I'll be right up front with you 325 is not enough 325 against 1,400 325 up against 1199 is not enough and p25 was $14 a month what it cost get a birth on a non Burger night over at The Dugout yeah it's about $14 for one burger and they should go on Monday nights then it's $6 I think it some M ni used
078to be five now they're six and they good burkers at Dugout please go over and try them out I've seen Barb over there I good burgers so think about it folks we have to have some numbers here and I don't p25 is enough honestly I would propose a $700,000 levy $28 approximately per per uh home in our district and we just have to sell it to the people how we're going to hire staff how we going to do Pathways for our kids how we're going to maintain and retain our teachers out here that's what it's all about and not just the teachers I'm talking all staff in our future when we go into negotiations so that's M uh Spiel on it board with your comments anyone else it's going to be a tough sale I
079agree yet the sale has to happen we just can't get back and say no we're not going to do it if we do know what's going to happen you're going down the Rum River right here you're going to take a bypass end up in a dead end piece of water on the Rum River otherwise we go down the Rum River catch on to Mississippi and have a nice easy ride all the way down to New Orleans unless it's flood but we need to do something folks we can't just sit here and do nothing so think about it yes ma'am so I think we need to have a plan on how a when are we going to make a decision B what is our communication path and we have to have details of what the public
080can grasp for where we're going to how the money is going to be used because that's the number one complaint I heard from the last Levy is that there weren't enough details it was very o it felt open checkbook right and there wasn't enough details so I think if we're going to do it we have to set a deadline and I would like that deadline to be sooner versus later um that way we can start communicating with the public before school's out um and let them know and get feedback before we put our questions together in the summer and that's why we got to show all open staff positions they've been open for a long time with us promote our program promote pathway do comparisons again to other districts how they are taking our people
081all the time and we know that I heard that from the gentleman last B Vera was here 25 26 teachers were they all hired away from us I would say the majority of them our German teacher this year hired away from us first time since 1971 we don't have a German teacher in our district because she got 10,000 more in okah henan than we can pay up here and that's why we have to be competitive to take care of our staff and I'm sick and tired of being second class to our with our staff and our Administration we got to pay people for what they're worth and that's why I push hard for the levy any more questions comment Miss Amy I think we can have a at some point I not sure if it's
082tonight but figure out if we're if we're going to go up for a levy um it's on the agenda for tonight so I don't know why we're doing pushing it down if people are strong on one way or the other then we decide I mean what is I will say I don't know which way I support currently right now we do have to be frank and honest with our taxpayer base if we're going to go out for a levy because of salaries I'm fine with that but I can tell you most school districts who go out for for levies aren't they say oh we're building a school that's what an okah Hanan did twice they built two schools right on our border they're kissing our border you could spit on the wrong day and it's
083going to land on that school and you're standing in district 15 they told their voters and I I know people in an okah we need to pass this Levy because we need to pay for more staff the majority of taxpayers don't understand how L work what you're funding them for but if we're going to do this we need to be honest with our citizens and why not now it's out there right now that we can't pay our teachers everybody's it's all over Facebook so why don't we just come out and say everyone said we have parents that come here and you need to support the teachers and I think to myself I want to support them how did you vote last fall I voted to put a levy on the on the ballot this community
084said no we need to do a lot of because they're all supportive of the teachers Ryan can tell us this they're all supportive but but they think we have this magic tree in the backyard that I can go and pull off of and say oh here you go it's rain and money you get all this money now and we're going to give you raises because but we're the evil ones no it's the state legislature who decides funding we all know that in this room where are they when the state legislature was getting together and deciding how much they were going to pay teachers they all show up in here they're all mad at us because we're not giving them the raises and yet nobody wants big class sizes but if we give more than what
085the state gave what happens class sizes go up that's just the ma mathematical fact so we need to sit down and have a good conversation with our community if they support that as I'm hearing they are that they want their teachers they want to keep our staff here we need to say this is what it's going to take and not hide it behind anything else other than this is what we're up against folks because we can't afford to pay them and I would like to see some of it possibly go for um techn or um technical education at the high school I believe we're behind the apall years on that we need to get in front of that because everybody's struggling for the trades out there they can't find a job if you got to
086foure degree unless you're in certain um Industries but trades where are they why we need to send more people in the trades in the current T it starts in our high school it starts with our counselors pushing kids in that direction so we need to make a turnabout here and we need to be honest we need career and tech training and get them in there and we need to be honest with our folks to say we do need a ly to increase salaries they've all we had a parent tonight here stand in front of us and say we need to increase salaries I bet they have no idea how you do that how you do that you go up for 11 and that's all you're tieing into the pathway and our staff has gone down
087to other school districts and looked at their pathway programs such as welding machine shop and the auto shop and they're doing two hour classes down there and they tie in English or language arts and math into their uh CTE to give them a two-hour time block and they're still getting the information now again the miniapolis paper just talked the other day about all these other schools Minneapolis and St Paul and these big pay raises and how they s in the paper they're tapping their Reserve fund to pay these big pay raises at the same time there's going to be multi-million dollar shortages out there already talking about that and there's going to be some multi Cuts in some of these districts of Minneapolis St Paul because they're touching their rainy fund for salaries you can't
088take ongoing salaries out of a your fund are you're going to drain it to be zero and then we're in deficit and then we're in trouble with the state so granted there are some dollars we can move around possibly but the levy is the big help for us to make this thing happen so we all have to come together uh you're saying what two months from now to make a final decision well we could um I mean we would there'd be several steps for example if we're going to consider it we need to identify how we would spend the money and we could do that in the next month yep um and then Michael would run the numbers on how much that would cost taxpayers uh and then we'd have a vote um to consider
089moving forward or not but I just want to remind everyone there was Zero interest last November there and maybe it's the Pres presenter but I you know I think there's are fewer than five employees who shared information or advocated for the referendum and and I didn't hear anything from parents or community members and I don't think that's going to change this time around you know except for Amy who brought up uh she's not here um you know the using referendum pay for sros I haven't heard anyone advocating for referendum to pay for teachers or referendum to pay for more programs or referendum to do anything you know where's the where's the passion from people that's the only way we're going to get this you be consider I think what happened last time again I said
090I got Hood rink by the survey it came in Yep they're going to they support you at 325 it looked really good and I got lazy I okay 325 not enough but you want to give us 1.5 million it's going to help power so I got lazy I talked to a few groups but not enough I didn't talk the way I should have before we did for the bond we talk a whole lot more I just got lazy over the survey and this go around now I will not be lazy I'll be going out the door pushing is saying big time for November I mean sorry I so I did post on social media that we'd be discussing this tonight I ask that everybody who typically attends our meetings or that has been coming and
091sitting in our meetings for the first portion of them and then leaving um to stay and listen to the discussion um nobody's here well I should think we got three great people on this side and two still left on the back side we got five five great people on that side got five and we got that's seven and a half no I mean I I posted about it I said why it was important I said I support all staff and to support all staff and give all staff arrays we need 11 because we can't go to the our Reserve fund and drain it we need something to offset that and explained it all and I got some questions back I had one teacher share my actually to share my post um so we got work
092to do I asked superintendent earlier tonight on our future agendas can we have something on there to show one enrollment two where are we short for for St for Staffing how many shortages do we have this list each and every month one time a month how short are we let's put the information out there and two can we do some kind of a pan over here can we do some kind of a small black and white Financial to show where we're at each and every month does have to be very detailed like we do for our big meetings and briefings but showing something about finances out here here so when each and every month we can tell people here it is it's on the agenda look it up it's right here for you plus all
093the other work we do but we need to really talk about it more than we did last time and we can do that and we have to get the staff out and what can we do for flyers and send home stuff uh through the internet system what can we do we just got to brainstorm this and really hit the populace let them know why what for how come we need a letter you may say anything well and I think think it's really confusing for our public because on one hand they hear the teachers saying that we have this pile of money and we're not spending it on them so then what happens when you go out for a levy well you guys don't need the money you guys have a pile of money that you're
094not spending on the teachers and yet we all know that we've been trying to be responsible here that's all I've tried to be I know that one time dollars is just that you don't spend it on ongoing expenses but the general public doesn't understand understand the finance the general fund why you have a fund balance why is it important and how are we what are we trying to do to come to terms with not increasing it but understanding that the majority of that fund balance we all know is from unfilled positions so you know how do you where do we go because the public right now is very confused I can tell you that they're not calling me I haven't received I he people say call up the school board and demand that teachers get
095a you know an increase I haven't gotten one phone call on anyone demanding and if I did I'd be happy to explain the pickle we're in that you know we have this fund balance but you know it's important that we don't spend it on ongoing salaries every year because pretty soon you're spending money you don't have because fund balance is onetime money and salaries is ongoing every single year but the majority of our public doesn't understand that and I would say a lot of our teachers don't even understand how the funding Works they were surprised that that some of them were surprised that the $388 million that the state gave for school lunches they called that education dollars the free lunches and that could have possibly gotone to their salaries along with what was it
096the bus drivers and the EAS now have some are in unemployed M I think that was hundred and something million dollar 138 million or something all these things that they gave to education could have gone in to help increase teacher salaries but they didn't they opened up gave it but I don't think even think the staff understands what education funding was last year because all I'm hearing is you got World wins of money it was the biggest year for schools and I'm looking going yeah a bunch of mandates and you have to spend the money here and there but not a lot on how I get to spend it on my employees and my teachers trying to up their salaries four and two was all it was but our teachers don't even know that well
097I don't know if you're phones went crazy on your or not but my phone went nuts and I turned it off I'm looking back here to see what happened 195 emails that just been sent to me since we came on board here at 6:30 every one of them is almost identical that's all from our staff asking for a pay R check your emails out 195 just came across my phone that's why I F it off during the meeting they started coming in here at 6:30 so again how much is in there about education that's what we need to do to help all of our staff understand how this financing works for us out here so let's take a look at it folks between now in the next eight weeks we say Mike has to come
098in ahead of time and give us some information once we give him what we want to do right yeah what we could do maybe even in within two weeks is at least draft um potential list of things that we think um should be considered if we go for an operating Lobby so for example increase wages um SRO Career and Technical education which we've talked about before you know and some other things as well and just lay it out there to to see what you think uh the the one thing I I think Jill and maybe some others talked about is more specific information so people can see what it is and uh one possibility would be to actually specify how much wages would increase for hourly employees for example and actually put it out there
099because I don't think the hourly employees believed us when we said we'd be raising their their wages I mean because like I say there there was not any interest at all um so maybe it's one of those things where we just have to be really specific and then let it fly but if we'd even consider it we'd need all cabinet members all principes the staff all seven board members and the superintendant all talking about it all the time with a consistent message a consistent the same same amongst all of us yeah and that's not an easy thing to do but that's the only chance if if we're really serious about sharing information so the public knows how to vote Yes or no then we're all going to have to be part of it so all
100right so let's move forward on it bring your ideas back in Mr Nate so I'm with Amy on making a decision tonight if we're going to move forward with with the levy um I think the March 11th work session that should be our main topic that we focus on and we get down into the details I know that's asking a lot of you Mr Anderson and the administration to get us uh some of those details but if we really are serious about this we've got to start talking it now and we've got to come up with our plan of how we're going to go forward uh the details the dollar amounts that we're spending and what we're spending at towards that is the resounding uh sound from the community is we don't know where you're
101put your money you've got money why aren't you using that money so we have have to be very specific with it and I think we don't wait let's get to this next work session that's what a work session is for is let's talk through it let's get it on paper let's get it knocked out um and move forward with it I've you know you and I have had conversations about this before I think we're way behind the power curve on going for a levy in November already um but we're silly not to because we have a need we all say it we have our excuses and our reason um why we're doing things and we need to back it if we say that levies are going to support our staff then we have to show
102how we're going to do that and we can show it for the hourly folks uh because we can reopen negotiations at any time it would be very challenging to say that we're going to increase the levy uh to pay for teachers because they'll have a contract that we cannot reopen you know and then it comes down to trust you know in terms of what the next settlement would look like so there's a little there's some nuances there um you know the recommendation would not be to increase administrative page you know wages for buildings or cabinet or superintendent that's that's off the table you know it' be the teachers and the hourly folks that we would do and that's what we got to bring together talk about it get the word out show that we have
103support for all of our staffing out here and we do that in the work session here come up with some ideas and be consistent with our message out to all the people and we just have to be ongoing with it it can't just be okay for 30 days we'll talk about it we've been talking long lot of years let's try it if we fail we fail if we don't try we never know so let's do it and let's see what happens hope you want do you want a motion well it's information report so I that on the March 11th meeting but it's not an acttion item though if there information reports can we do that and information reports and motion what would you like to see on the 11th uh that the current agenda be
104replaced with a discussion on moving forward with the ly on that for okay yeah we can do that that's just change what's on the agenda I not posted yet just yeah I don't think we need a motion I can I we can just change it we'll make it happen yeah and then we'll have all have a board members in attendance to discuss it bam any questions out there I couldn't really hear what you were just talking about with uh changing something what were you talk about this agenda or on the work session in March 11th we'll have the uh main body the main discussion be on the levy okay yeah good yeah all right any further comment between now and then if not sending send them to myself send them to the superintendent and this's
105just get some discussion going out here and let the people know we're working that we can we're not the bad guys we do all that we can also would be fiscal responsible to the district and to all of our employees because I do not want to end up like miniapolis St Paul is talking about multi-million dollar shortages and they're going to had some massive layoffs to get their pay raise taken care of there's going to be some problems down there they talk about in the paper all the time and that we don't want to happen in our school district all right move on thank you every for your information thank you admin report go ahead sir all right I just lost my spot here maybe I can look at your screen sorry about that me
106bring it up for you I can probably get it pretty here reading first reading admin admin before blow it up we can read it because I'm blind perfect you know me well all right so the um uh the first is just an update about the American CLS uh flags and classrooms obviously it's important for us uh Chris uh uh wanted to take the lead on this to kind of make sure that we get the flags in the classrooms and so you know I shared information that I received from principles as far as which rooms don't currently have flags and uh so we're going to make a strong effort to get those in uh ASAP so I think uh the the whole thing are during the renovation process I think Flags had to be removed so
107we could do the renovations and that's where we ran into the to the hangup is that um you know finding those flags and putting back up and then rep placing the flags those kinds of things so uh we want to do it I'm just not sure how long it's going to take but it's a it's a high priority for us so thank you Chris for working with others on that the um um we did have mediation last Thursday and uh it was productive um U the mediator asked us not to share details and so that's why we haven't been sharing it out with board members or the public uh we're going to uh follow what the mediator suggested we do have another mediation session scheduled for this Thursday so we'll uh we'll see what happens
108then one problem we have with this coming Thursday is that uh it's an election day uh and so we cannot have meetings between 6:00 and 8:00 pm uh on that evening uh the mediator also has a different mediation session on Friday and so we may not have as much time as what we had hoped uh we're still going to make every effort uh to come up with a settlement that's fair to both sides but just want to let you know that that's those are kind of some of the constraints and then finally um uh School Board uh procedures uh this is just an offer uh I'm not pushing it I'm not trying to change things up uh but um you know I get questions all the time about what we should be doing when like
109how long should public comment be and um how should the reports be set up what we include in consent agenda you know those kinds of things so if you wanted I could certainly uh create a proposed manual uh that the board would consider uh possibly adopting no big deal if you say no to that it saves me time but if you want me to do that I can certainly come up with a rough draft and then share it out with cabinet and the school board so you don't have to answer right now but if you want to think about it and then it won't be on the agenda for March because we have a different topic now so uh but if if you think about it then and I'm willing to spend a little time
110on that uh a couple more things uh first of all Anette asked about the behavior data is that right yep the discipline not well not bad um because we we've been using Infinite Campus and educ climber I don't know which one we've decided on across the board which one we're using but we've hired clientele or staff to assist with with behaviors and to help Monitor and track that and last time we talked about this I think was June of last year um so I'd like to see where we're at because we don't have at this point we don't have a baseline about what that staff that we hired has um given us as far as assistance so I I'd like to see that information that data and have it shared and I'd like to um
111propose that we do that on a regular basis I don't know what that looks like but so that we can compare how um behaviors are being tracked and and where we're running into problems if we have multiples across the board but we haven't spoke about this since um June of last year so it's time that we look at it again yeah Dan your first question uh we track behaviors on educ climber and Infinite Campus uh but the different schools are putting information differently in each system and so we're going to we're going to set up so that it's the same for everyone in fact Stacy uh Samantha and I have meetings with each principal over the next two weeks where we're going to talk about that I you and actually look at their behavior data
112uh then we're going to compile it and you know I don't want to promise necessarily but we'll be able to present the the latest greatest information on Behavior data uh I would assume soon within a month or so kind of depends on those conversations uh go and uh so we're we're going to be ready to do that uh we do have something scheduled in May but if we can do it earlier we'd love to do it earlier where we're going to review a whole bunch of behavior data along with school climate uh committee work uh and social emotional learning because they're all somewhat intertwined uh but if we can provide the information earlier that you know that would be better what I Envision at some point uh hopefully next year is to provide monthly updates
113of behavior data you know that's that's even easier than doing it trimester by trimester because you just run the report every month we can compare it um you know with a previous year to see if we're making progress uh not only in terms of how many minors and Majors but how many suspensions what type of infractions we have a pretty wide array of options to share and so I think it should be monthly um you know which is a little more frequent than maybe what we planned earlier so we're really close to getting that information but we have to go through these rounds of discussions did that answer your questions for now okay thank you and then Pam got a question yeah I guess I guess I love that to to report on it monthly
114and what I'd like to also do is we should also see how the grades are going on a regular basis and so we can compare the two because those distractions and disciplinary you know they they probably correlate I mean that's what we were hearing before as far as um teachers time and that so maybe we could get the grades on them more often from Fast bridge on a regular basis to Caron that would be great yeah I'm not sure about grades necessarily but um certainly we can share more regularly our fast Bridge results or maybe yeah that's what I meant are weing yep yep yep how we're doing and because we get those report we got only got one report since we've been doing these um coaches and that so it would be nice to
115get that on a more regular basis too so we could really see how and again I think that is going to build our our community support of the school district is you know we just heard again tonight from one of our visitors you know how the grades are so if we can if we can show progress and how we're using the funding to bring the grades up and the fast bridge scores that I think is going to help us with our community yeah and fastbridge is done three times per year so the logical thing to do there would be to report out every three times a year uh and then MCA would be um the onetime per year obviously so right yeah in fact you know Stacy recently shared the the the fastbridge information for
116the winter assessments so we're actually really close to sharing that uh what we'd like to do though is not only share the information but also talk about what adjustments we're making uh as a result of that data so we we can share all that information at the same time that'd be great yeah so go ahead question with the Minnesota report card is this all from last spring these members when students were tested the ones that were given to us tonight uh for 2023 it would be last spring a year ago yeah so we're coming up to testing our students again I guess I'm really curious as to what St Francis Elementary is doing wa because they came right out instead I mean St Francis Elementary is The Shining Star right now in this District when
117you look at and I'm just going to call it out way to go St Francis Elementary we want to start having a competition between um schools I'm all for it but I'll say this this is what are they doing what are they doing that's different I would like to know because there's a big change between you know some of these lower numbers 45% 46% these are Elementary and you have 68% yeah Fran Elementary these are kids that all live in this community but that's what I want it's all about sharing sharing the good news of what a building's doing if we can tap into what that building's doing yeah and and share it with the other buildings come I'm for that yeah there's great work happening in every building I'm not saying there's right here
118we can say there's great work happening in every building but this is this is shine in the light right here I'm excited to show you winter math clast bridge on all the sites it's exciting good news for K5 so I I look forward to showing the V yeah I'm excited to see it yeah and uh there again just like with behavior there are adjustments that are happening uh depending on the data and uh there are some really great things to share and some things that aren't so great to share uh but we're going to keep working and making adjustments as we go and we're willing to share that data I mean there's that's something something we want to be doing and U problem solving together well and I think it's important we problem solv together
119because if I remember right we were having behavioral issues and there was a concern about um certain individuals in buildings not being able to teach and putting it all on our principles so we hired individuals I think the Board needs to hear how is that helping and so that as we move forward and we're looking at Future budgets for us to have in the back of our minds this was a great investment or how can we invest our money differently MH all right move on all right there's through that then uh action items approval Bond sale uh Bri Mike to be presenting if Mike wants to come up first and then we'll get a motion in a second Mike good evening everyone Michael har with PMA I'm happy to be here tonight um I've got
120a a a short slideshow I'm going to go through to review the results of the refunding sale that we held this morning for you so to remind everybody what we're talking about we are talking about refinancing refunding is a word for refinancing the 2018 bonds these Bonds were associated with the referendum that was passed in November of 2017 in your community we refunded or we refinanced part of this bond issue in late calendar year 2022 and so we're doing another part of it here today and we're doing a current refunding um under statute 475 so this chart gives you a little bit idea that green block so that the original bonds that were sold in 2018 were sold to be paid back over 25 years with some principal interest each year the green block those
121bonds that were matured in 2024 through 2032 we that's the part that we refunded in 2022 what we're talking about tonight is the next uh set of 2033 to 2037 bonds that are are being proposed to be refunded here by the board we did receive nine bids this morning uh at 10: a.m. we had set the time and the date the board authorized us to proceed forward with this at your meeting in January and the the ultimate winning bidder was bny melon capital markets out of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania and it's really an exceptional bid I think when we look at this you could see there's a pretty big difference between the first and second place place and then again between second and third place in terms of the bids what that tells us is that you
122know the winning bidder here it uh is kind of overpaying you compared to the market for uh in terms of when I say overpaying you they're offering you a lower interest rate then what most of the rest of the the bond market believes is a fair interest rate today which you're going to see here is leading to more savings than I would have I would have expected as of 959 this morning this gives you uh a an a comparison of what was uh you know shared with Administration prior to your board meeting on the 22nd we are expecting about 1.59 million of savings at that time the final growth savings today is 1,971 th000 if you put it into present value dollars uh the idea that a future dollar is worth less than a dollar
123today that turns into 1, 54,000 uh the the overall all-inclusive rate that you're uh being offered here is 3.23% one thing that's important here when we talk about this is that the savings as taxpayer savings is not budget savings so these are dollars that are going back to your your community in the form of a reduced tax rate in future years it this this $1.99 is not money um that you could spend you know to the conversation you were just having in terms of helping we cannot pay teachers out of that that or other other staff this is what the savings looks like over over time it's not equal uh because of the way that we did the refinancing it's about $56,000 a year until 2033 when it's about 315,000 I've combined this together on
124the next slide to show okay in 2022 we saved about $2.2 million if you combine that with this uh savings is about 4,171 th000 you can see it's over $300,000 your reduction in your tax U Levy based upon these two actions that the board has has had in front of you I I always think it's good practice to put in here just the cost of issuance that are being paid all of the savings that I have we have talked about is after all of these costs are paid but going through a bond issue as the chair shared with me it is not a doing your own s project there's a there are a fair number of professionals that do get involved in the process and your Finance staff have been very actively involved in this
125process as well and you know the final uh piece in here is a calendar of events we've been working hard on this since the beginning of the year the board took action to authorize us to proceed forward with the sale and ultimately Tonight is the last action that we'll ask the board to take uh and the the funds will close on March 13th and the old bonds will be paid off on June 11 so I'm happy to take any questions from the board otherwise we do have a resolution okay we do let's get a a motion a second and then we have discussion we have all on record for that okay have a motion to accept the bond Mo for the Bott second is by Nate okay all in favor Nate Anette Amy hi Pam
126hi Jill hi and Mike is yes okay we have a motion discussion Jill um you know you heard our discussion tonight about our Reserve fund L um having a reserve fund how does that impact a bond sale like this how has it positively impacted Us by having a reserve fund and having that positive balance and being able to manage our funds wisely or if we spend down our Reserve fund and at zero what kind of impact would you typically see for a board yeah it's a good question um I'll take with just like kind of the really hyperfocused version of how it affects this the short story is that you got a lower interest rate because you were seeing to have uh what's I think if you look at the rating report and I certainly
127the administration could give you access to that there you have a stable strong fund balance it's not excessive okay you were in a position five seven years ago where your fund balance was Far Below what it should be in order to operate a district and that was cost to that would have cost you a lot of money through this process and it showed up in your bond rating your current Bond rating is an A1 rating which is the median when I say that add that average rating for all school districts across the state of Minnesota so the bulk of school districts fall into that category and by far in a way there's lots of things that go into the r process that are out of your control like property valuations and median income values and
128things but by far in way the most important thing in your control with the rum is your fund balance and it's your specifically your general fund unassigned or unrestricted fund balance and that that has seen a lot of improvement you have seen your rating improved with that but I kind of go back to what I said it's you're currently at a really strong good level it is not excessive in the eyes of you know these a third party opinion and if you had a really excessive rating or or fund balance your rating would go up kind of beyond the medum it'd be in a double A or the highest rating you can have is a triaa category and sometimes there's a Temptation you know amongst us Finance people we want you know we want the
129A+ the best possible the AAA the best possible score over but we don't we're not running a bank here we're running a school district and you need to be spending the money that you bring it in and you're at a good I I guess in an outside opinion not just my opinion but the report is that you're a really good level right now um and if you spend that down it would have consequences for when we're going through this kind of process for your taxpayers and your in this case it's really directly by taxpayers but it it's also going to affect when you need to make improvements to your bildings whenever that day comes okay questions anyone else forther question okay if not all the favor of the bond sale did that first disc wel
130come I'm saying that again all I know is that when I went through your paperwork Mr Mike I stopped reading after about page three maybe it was like wow it's a lot of work to put something like this together I was amazed all those numbers I I don't understand those numbers so thank you for coming in tonight all right so make it happen thank you Mike and Ron for your help on theond did we take a vote Yes okay yeah we took a vote wow I forgot thought motion so all right uh Mr Brown is up approval of the budget assumtions including Personnel changes Mr R all right good evening chair SAR superintendent Anderson and school board members before you this evening for consideration are a set of general fund budget assumptions for the fy2
131budget these assumptions will be the basis for our fy2 budget creation and they reflect our current best understanding of key elements to uh the overall budget in your board documents you will find the assumptions document that I will briefly walk you through uh if you pull out that document at the top of the document is our enrollment projections for next year uh from prek to 12th grade the K12 enrollment numbers are also indicated by grade level on the second document that's included in your board packet you will see the fy2 enrollment projection in the yellow column of that second document and just to give you some context of these projections the kindergarten projection is calculated as a percentage of school district birth rate data and it's based on our current Year's capture rate or the
132number the percentage of actual kindergart students that actually attend St Francis area schools we typically would utilize a three or fiveyear trend for capture rate but the pandemic has changed how we look at some of these models and so we believe at this point that a one-ear trend data or current year Trend data is the most accurate for now we're watching this very closely as we move forward as we rebuild Trend uh data and models for these projection models for the uh first through 12th grades uh we utilize a cohort survival or migration methodology essentially we look at Trend data to determine how many of the current kindergart students will come back for first grade next year our current first grade that will come back for second grade and so on and so forth with
133these methodologies applied we are anticipating that we will have very similar enrollment next year to our current year so current year you'll see October 1st uh data shows 4120 and next year we're anticipating 4116 if you look at the kindergarten uh we have a very similar number of kindergarten age students in our district next year that we have in our current year so you'll see it's only a two student difference on that kindergarten area as well we are anticipating uh a very slow decline enrollment as you see in that fiveyear projection model over the course of the next five years and so it is uh slowly declining we will continue to analyze this data uh particularly how to uh Implement that trend line as I uh mentioned as we move forward and as we continue
134to get further and further uh from the the P the impact of the pandemic so now as you shi back to the assumptions document right below the enrollment numbers at the top you'll see some of our Revenue assumptions ions the first is the increase in the General Ed formula which we already know uh because of the legislature passing a two-year ban budget is 2% or $143 per student you also see an increase in our compensatory for next year which this is based on our entitlement uh that the department of Ed uh currently has calculated for us this could continue to fluctuate but that's uh the data that they have given to us at this point you see an increase at our local level which board approved in uh December uh that one on the leftand
135side actually should be in the middle because that's an increase in our local uh our local Levy again as you approved through the truth and Taxation process uh as a reminder this was largely due to increases in our optional Revenue uh which is based on students our transition Revenue long-term facility maintenance and our lease Levy um then as we continue to go down we're estimating anywhere from a zero to a 2 2% increase in other uh revenues uh such things as our interest earnings or state aid adjustments and then uh some of our federal programs like our title programs finally uh you do see and we talked about it a little bit earlier it was discussed a little bit earlier in the board meeting uh that there is an adjustment to the federal funds uh
136federal revenue for uh for next year um this is due to our Co funds expiring most of them expiring on June 30th there is a few that go out to September uh we're anticipating and we talked about this at a revised budget uh presentation that we did a few weeks ago uh that those are uh budgeted currently for our current fiscal year you also see the offset to the decrease in expenditures uh a little bit down below that we'll get to in just a moment so now we can shift into the expenditure assumptions uh the middle section of the page you see at the the top of that middle section that we're uh assuming that employee salaries and benefit costs uh will go according to uh the parameters negotiated contracts and the parameters that the
137board set for those contracts we also have assumptions for various increases to some of our variable costs things such as utilities insurance and other expenses that H uh that might be impacted by inflation I want to point out one quick note about the property insurance that you see uh on the page there initially insurance broker indicated as we are putting together uh these assumptions for uh this board meeting as a first step in our budget process that uh based on things like natural disasters and just kind of the overall Insurance Market that our rates would be increasing about 10% so you got uh a sheet last week in your board packet that showed that 10% uh Friday afternoon uh I got a phone call from our insurance broker uh that one of the things our
138insurance company that we're currently with is actually increasing our overall property values as well so because of that it will increase cost they're estimating at 25% 25% 25% at this point so uh I do want to just let the board know that we are uh planning on at this point because it sounds like it hasn't been done for a few years actually going off to market for insurance determine whether or not there are other uh more cost effective options for us specifically for that property insurance um one of the things uh the last line of that expenditure item as we kind of already talked about you'll see that $1.5 million reduction for those covid funds uh that were reduced both on the re both on the revenue and the expenditure side so now as we
139go to the bottom section of that sheet uh you'll see that this is a place for any budget additions or reductions specifically for uh for positions or for staff as we have previously indicated we don't anticipate any reductions for staff I believe superintendent Anderson talked about that at one of our most previous uh meetings um but there are a few additions for consideration that are listed the first one is a Transportation safety manager this is to give some additional support uh to our transportation department that continues to have challenges with Staffing as well as some of the compliance uh continued compliance challenges and additional compliance components uh that they continue to to have to navigate through uh this would be an important role for Peggy and for her team down there at the transportation department
140and would be mostly offset uh by some efficiencies that they have found uh in their routing team with the implementation of their new routing software that superintendent Anderson has talked about previous in previous meetings as well so we anticipate that the total impact of the general fund uh Allin salary and benefits with offset and those routing deficiencies will be $330,000 the next two positions the maintenance supervisor and the American Indian education liaison are positions that at this time would not have any general fund impact the maintenance supervisor would be funded from ltfm funds that is a an authorized expenditure that we can use it for staff that are specifically uh specifically doing the work uh for our long-term facility maintenance program and the leadership team also continues to work with our American Indian Ed team
141to find a noost option to add that additional vion uh position and you heard a lot about that this evening as well there has been discussion about a districtwide media specialist and so you see that uh uh also at an average uh teacher package there for the total cost of that position as well as an additional uh El teacher you can see uh for the E teacher there on the right hand side in the comments section that um that position is being uh recommended based on an increase of case load for uh for those teachers as as well as uh for the additional students in that growing program we also did uh receive some increased funding from the legislature uh last session that has increased uh the funding for that program as well as part
142of Schedule C and D that superintendent Anderson has talked about prev viously at the board uh level we are recommending some additional funds for PBIS and web coaches and then finally uh we are recommending a part-time position for an oju teacher um which this is an important uh position for us to be able to meet the state requirement that we have for offering uh this particular language option for students so and that would be a a part-time teacher or the equivalent if we can come up with an arrangement with a local college or something like that so it's kind of a placeholder yeah so with that Administration recommends approval of these budget assumptions for the fy2 budget development and the next step then in our process is that our team will continue to work with
143budget managers and Leadership across the district as we actually apply these assumptions and we uh create the budget for all of our funds that we will be bringing back to the board in June question Miss Amy question under the American Indian Ed theone is this a budget addition a budget reduction or a realignment if I could jump in and answer that question so the American or APAC suggests that another lay is on uh to work directly with American Indian kids uh currently they're not spending as much as they could on these positions instead they've been spending it on you know like supplies and consultants and those kinds of things things and it's all good work uh but I've been working with Pam Jensen of ceso to uh at least offer an option for the APAC
144to consider where they could spend more on Personnel that would be working with American Canadian kids and uh so that's the part I'm looking at right now it would not be a uh full-time leaz on it would be so many hours per day for so many days and then we'd have to rely on carryover to to increase those days or hours uh but the goal is is to to essentially max out what they can spend on Personnel while we um you know try to find a ways not to impact the general fund so right now it would not impact the general fund at all so this would be in this isn't mango that we're looking at here no this would be a third person that's what I was thank thank you yeah but again the
145numbers haven't quite fallen into place yet uh it's just a part-time position like four or four and a half hours per day and I think APAC is hoping for you know someone full-time so but I'm going to keep working with Pam on that okay questions concern boards on the insurance world is that dedicated a fund to help pay our property insurance where does that come from thatly from the general f general fund well that's an unexpected uh bill for sure and uh over the last several years we have seen School District insurance rates have been climbing significantly 25% uh is is more significant than than certainly I am comfortable with which is why we're we will go to market and see what that based on the value of your property overall is it based on
146incident that's happened yeah so the 10% was the initial one that's if our property value stayed the same that's what they were anticipating but because and uh my understanding from our insurance broker is is that a year ago we start the insurance company started increasing those property values and so we saw some of that increase last year or for our current fiscal year and so next year is the second phase of that and then after that they should have property values listed on our insurance stocks according to what they anticipate so well and some of that is and I'll Fair us to the insurance company is are we talking to rebuild or correct so so I mean that's to be expected everything's going up we can't expect I mean if one of our buildings burns
147down that that's how much it cost to replace it so we need those numbers in place so that if something were to happen we're not stuck we not being able to to you know have our building rebuilt again that's 100% replacement cost but we have currently not something old I I'm I'm not concerned necessarily in relooking at the property values I think that the bigger concern is just that um just wanting to make sure that we're regularly going up to Market to making sure that we continue to have the best uh the best rates that we can so I appreciate you taking that back out to Market I know insurance is um going up everywhere across the board and I I feel like this is a low number compared to what I've been hearing but
148it doesn't hurt you know certainly when you're saying something like this to go up to Market and I appreciate you taking the initiative and doing that all right so do we have a uh honesty I'm behind time here I guess do you have a motion on here right question vote where are we on SR funds will it all be spent by September how many dollars will be left over I mean what are we look because I think it's by the end of September right September 30th most of them are are uh to be done by the end of June but we do have a few uh few of the programs that are through September so our team is working hard the um the dollars that we have left some of them have a little bit
149more flexibility for us to be able to spend and we are able to spend those just Finance qu 160 some of the other uh uh Esser dollars are very restrictive in terms of what we can use them for so our our cabinet team our leadership team has been working to get very creative on how we might be able to use those to benefit our students um and so we're we're working hard to be able to spend down those as much as possible if we don't find ways to spend them they do go back to the federal government okay so we have a motion to accept the uh approval of budget assumptions including personal changes update is there a motion to accept thank you Jil there a second Thank You by Amy second discussion any more
150further discussions questions if not to vote Jill I Mike is I Pam hi Amy hi Anette hi and Nate hi we got a vote thank you very much uh upcoming meetings and primary topics you've SE make some changes out there again that's flexible if you see something you want something that can be moved around quite easily we already did a moving tonight for it so let us know and we'll get around there for you other than that school board member report Mr Nate good evening uh first to start off uh we've got six wrestlers that uh qualified for the state tournament so congratulations to those six individuals hope to see a lot of support down in the next couple weeks to support them I know uh Rob's talked about the dance team already as well
151um uh superintendent Anderson when it comes to the request you had about a board packet uh so my comments on that are um the way way we always do things might not always be the best uh or the right way to do it so I'm I'm fully supportive of any type of assessment or look at how we do our business so thank you for bringing that up we already talked uh the negotiations other than that that's all I got okay I have nothing aming you and I talked earlier the conversation will take place in yeah right now it's scheduled for the first meeting in me unless we can move it to April y Pam I have nothing thank you thank you i' just like to Echo Rob's comments that are in the board packet the
152snow day dance was wonderful I volunteered at that on the Elight party hosted it it was a complete success for something that really wasn't advertised it was weird M um the kids had a great time I think the adult Shing also have a good time with was a really nice event and hoping that there'll be more of those all right now all I have is that last week East Belco city council they approved the 242 new homes for the Viking golf course so that one's on the agenda now they'll start building over there this spring supposedly plus 190 town homes behind the new uh uh quick trip over there in East Beth so in the future who R into buses around here you may have to do a bus route in that area in the
153near future we'd love to there is no formula they threw the formula out a few years ago but yet I proceed as you saw in your assumption for enrollment we should have some of those kids over here I see it so other than that that's all I have we make an adjournment at 8:42 8:42 thank you for coming in