001We'll call the meeting of the Floyd public school board to order on June 22nd, 2026. Will stand the pledge of allegiance. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The mission of the Foley public school is to bring together students, parents, staff, and community to provide a quality education with an emphasis on developing the full potential of the individual. I need a motion to approve tonight's agenda. >> Motion to approve the agenda. >> Hold on one second. We have to we have to make some changes to the agenda. I'm sorry. Um, we need to move number um 13 to number eight and number 21 to number nine. So if I can get a
002motion with that those changes um Ryan does need to be after his um portion is done. >> Motion to approve with the proposed changes. >> All members in favor I um approval. Um actually I'm going to add one more thing to that or how should I do that? Should I can I add one more thing to the agenda? >> Amen. >> Okay, we'll have to make a motion to amend. Um I do have a statement that I need to read um before the routine business. So can we make a motion to approve? >> So I will make a motion to amend the agenda to include this new statement. Okay. And a second. >> Okay. All members in favor. >> I >> Okay. [clears throat] >> Okay. So to the community members and to all the
003board members, I mean just so our to the community members, the board is aware of the concerns um in the community that regarding the attorney fees for 2025 and 26 school year. The board and the administration are working together and are costconscious and involved in the district attorney only when necessary. Legal counsel is typically brought in when the district needs assistance complying with nuisance in state and federal laws such as um Minnesota's government uh data practice act, the open meeting law, the individuals with disability education act and the Minnesota human rights act. Legal counsel also assists in responding to complaints, threats or threats complaint threatened complaints against the district in the state agency or state in state agencies or state and federal court. In some years, there's very little attorney involvement and attorney fees are
004low. In other years, they're greater and there's a greater need. For example, this year the district experienced a significant increase in data request in particular compared to previous years. I want to ensure the community that the board and the administration are very well aware of the ongoing legal fees and are working to minimize them to the extent possible while also ensuring the district remains compliant with applicable laws and policies. The administration has been working with our insurance carrier to get reimbursed for any costs that fall under the scope of our insurance policy. At this point, I'll take approval for routine business items which include consent agenda board bills and approval of meeting minutes. >> I'll make a motion to approve. >> Can I get a second? >> Second. >> All members in favor I [clears
005throat] Um resolution for accepting gifts. So we have Peter Whitmore uh deep chest freezer for the student council for the full intermediate school and Gooden company for $500 for the fishing club um Jazz and Hills Nationals. Thank you very much to those who donated. Can I get a motion to approve? >> Motion to approve. >> All members in favor. >> I [clears throat] >> Okay. Update on general obligations facilities m maintenance. Ryan, that's you. >> Thank you. Good evening. I'm Ryan Feders. I'm the business manager here at Foley. Uh the first item, I have many tonight. Uh but the first is uh an update on the proposed bond issuance that we have uh sale in July for a closing in August of a $240,000 general obligation bond. It'll be paid out of LTFM revenue. This
006is for our indoor air quality uh project that we have. So, uh, this is a small just about a three-year term bond that is being issued in order to finalize and finish off the remainder of the costs for the project that we have uh for that. And again, we've talked about this in previous meetings and it has been authorized by bond resolution a number of months ago. this will not be a tax impact of the way that we're financing this through um some additional funds that we have on hand. We're able to keep this tax rate neutral. And so the plan would be to issue these bonds again in August and have approximately $388,000 which includes other monies that we have set aside in order to go towards the project. So with that, um, >>
007I can take any questions on that. I just want to see if there's anything else. >> So yeah, >> this is the final step then on when we discussed the financing. Um, I think it was probably March or April and we said this is our plan. We'd ask for a plan to be tax neutral. How would we fund things? Is this the final step of all that? >> Yes, it is that to me. Yes. Yes, it is. That's the final step in the process. And uh these will be sold as what's called a because of the nature of the small term. So the short uh $240,000 is a relatively small amount of money. Uh and it's a term of about three years. So we're taking requests for proposals. Our municipal advisor is Ellers. They're reaching
008out to many area banks including Franson and Falcons among others to get a interest rate schedule for this uh bond and uh then from those results that they tally the the lowest cost overall to the district will be the winner. So this is just a discussion item. >> Yeah. December. >> Any other questions from anybody? >> When you say other funds that you have set aside. >> Oh, sorry. >> It's you are able to ask that at the end when it's time for >> questions. So we have >> That's all right. I can go ahead. I can go ahead and answer that right now as part of this item. Hold on. This is it's it's board question. >> Sorry. >> 2627 adapted budget presentation discussion and action. Ryan, >> thank you very much. So there's
009a presentation here. So tonight what we're doing is uh proposing the fiscal year 27 budget and this presentation. So, uh, first slide here is there's overall some overall changes within Minnesota school funding. They're important to mention before we get into the actual specifics of our budget. So, number one is that the general ed formula, the allowance per pupil increased by about 2.7%. So that each student is worth each student's um amount allowance generates approximately 7,682 per adjusted pupil unit. That's a a weighted form of student count and is what's used in the formulas that the state calculates for what types of revenue. In addition, uh, some of the sped funding changes, the state's reducing funding for transportation. And so in 25, fiscal year 25, we had 100% and it's gradually uh dropping off. And so
010in fiscal 27, we're expecting about 90% of that. The third item is summer unemployment for hourly workers. And so in talking with the state, we understand uh that in terms of the funding, it's 100% funded by the state for this summer. And then for next summer, we're estimating at the time, uh, it's kind of the what's left process after they're finished. So, we're estimating about 80% of that will be funded by the state. Uh, then also effective as of January of this year is the Minnesota uh, the paid family medical leave. So, this is a payroll premium or tax that's based on the salary. So, the rate is 88%. So up uh at least half of that is paid by the employer. So the district is paying half of that and the uh the employee
011pays the other portion. So we're anticipating based on that ratio and that uh that rate that it's approximately $67,400 is the estimated impact for the district for that additional uh fee that we're paying for our adopted budget. Tonight we used uh we had some we had many conversations uh with directors uh principles uh and other stakeholders involved with the budget process and in determining these assumptions uh we have to be thoughtful about prices and the other things happening in the economy. So uh to start with the most important number for us is students ADM. So our fiscal year 27 enrollment, we're projecting it for the budget to be approximately 1,822 out of ADM. So that's a decrease of about 13 from what we were using in the fisc year 26 revised budget. Uh compensatory revenue
012is projected is projected to decrease a little bit by about $30,000 from fiscal year 26. And then looking at the cost of fuel, we were mindful that diesel is expensive. So we've impact we've uh increased the cost of fuel diesel by 6% from what we're anticipated to have paid this year. In addition, uh the district participates in services with Benton Sterns Education District Facility. Um and so they're going to have a new space that they're looking at. And so our share of the cost that would be associated that with the other member districts is approximately $109,000. So that is another expense we had uh included or budgeted for. Uh our budget includes the planned use of restricted fund balance. So we have certain fund balances that we get or funds that we get and they
013can only be used for certain items. So certain buckets for certain things. We can't just use any dollar for any purpose. So over time we built some balances in these funds. One of them would be long-term uh facility maintenance for example. So for deferred maintenance that's one. Another would be operating capital. These have certain uses and we can only use those dollars for equipment repairs and whatnot. So we are using some spending down some of those balances that we have. So in the budget tonight you will see that there are revenues and there are expenditures and our re our expenditures are higher what we're showing here than the revenues but that's because we have additional funds. So it's an annual revenue that's coming in that we're looking at when I say revenues but we have
014funds set aside that have to be used for certain purposes and we're spending down those accounts to offset uh those expenditures. So that's a point I just want to make sure is clear. So we're using funds that we have set aside for certain equipment and uh uh including the IQ project. So that would come from the bond proceeds that were issued. We had a bond issued in 2025. Uh federal general fund expenditures are budgeted at 26.93 million and that's an increase of 737,000 compared to fiscal year 26. And again like I said uh the increase in this the expenses of revenues is a one-time capital planned capital expenditure uh funded through this restricted restricted reserves and bond proceeds. And then for general fund revenues those are budgeted at 26.48 million and that's a decrease of
015about 99,000 from the uh fiscal year 26 revised budget. So, so Ryan, if I could just connect some dots maybe where anyone on the on the previous slide you showed about like pupil rate per pupil basically, right? Yes. >> So, what that connects to on here is when we go to the ADM and that's that's the those are the important two dots to connect, right? Like that we did X here uh per pupil. This is and we base our budget primarily then on enrollment of 1822. Am I connecting those dots correctly for everyone? >> Okay. And because that is how most of our funding comes for our school is from uh the the state the state funding based on state aid based on formula. So when we look at the previous slide where it says
016um the allowances per pupil is 76 almost 7 not quite 7,700 per pupil and then you look at how many pupils we have. That's why those numbers are important. So that's why we we always call it the budget enrollment report obviously because of these things and it's not like they look at us it's it's a daily thing right? How many peoples do you have today? is kind of the the magic thing like we have this menu today. >> We have key points directly that we put in reports on. >> All right. So, yeah. So, that's how those two slides really connect for anyone who isn't. Sure. Thank you, Patrick. Uh and then on this slide here, we're looking at so Patrick talked about one of the aspects of the revenue. So there are others. The
017largest component of our uh funding comes from the state aid. It's about 85% in these pie charts showing the breakdown of the revenues received versus what how we spend the money. So we also have about 2% of federal funds that we receive. And then it's also very important to mention that we do receive property taxes, but it comprises only about 11% of our total revenue budget. And then we have other local fees uh interest and other things uh that uh comprise about 3%. And then on the expenditure side our largest component are salaries and wages and employee benefits. So the salaries and wages comprise about 57% that blue uh section of the pie. And then the red section is the employee benefits for another 22. So we're looking about 77% of our budget are excuse
018me 79. I can't add in my head. 79 is the uh the the uh the portion of the [clears throat] high point there. And then as well 412% for purchase of services and then 5% for supplies. Uh then we have another 3% for equipment and other expenditures is a very very very small amount shows. But what I think is really interesting about these charts is you see that basically the state aid covers basically just the employee piece of of the school. It doesn't you know there's a little bit more from the state aid with the 85% and that 79% but not by much. So those are those are very even things which is why then uh those other sources of revenue are so important to us obviously and the expenditures and the other things you
019know we have to match those two other pieces. And then in terms of the ADM and we talked about the reason why it's important because that means dollars for the district. This next graph or chart is a look at how our ADM or enrollment has been trending over time. So we can see that back in 2022 we had about 19 1,915 students. uh but we have stabilized over time right around uh 1830 18 uh35 for this year for the revised budget and then for the proposed budget we're estimating about 1822. So that all impacts the state aid that Patrick's talking about. I mean you think about it that's like 100 students. So, you know, to do easy math, 100 * 7,600, that's a very large chunk of change for our school. And and so, um,
020just to bring this around, this is actually why open enrollment is really important to our district because, um, if a student, say, comes from Malaca and they enroll here, well, then we're going to we're going to get their dollars that are associated with them. Uh, just like if a Foley student decides to leave and go go to Malaca, then Malaca gets those dollars. So that's one of the reasons why we watch the enrollment and we're very um we want students to enroll here uh to that to that point, you know, uh to have that happen. >> Still a little underground. >> No, that's okay. I'm happy to have the >> I'm trying to try I'm also trying to speak nerd for translate the nerds for everyone. You also have to remember like the city of
021Holy has not been able to expand for the last 20 years and now in the next few years we will be able to have extra horses coming into the community. So that's a positive thing. >> More room for kiddos, right? Fantastic. >> And of course our online program is another way because if a student does our online then those dollars would come in too. Correct. So student from Sock Rapids decides to do fully online, they would count towards that amount. Correct. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Uh then this is a chart showing the unassigned fund balance history. So the fun unassigned fund balance of the general fund is the portion of the general fund that is really a good metric for the health of the district. And so what it is is we look at
022the balance that's not obligated for something in the general fund. We divide that by the total expenditures in the general fund and that's how we come up with this percentage. So our formal policy from the for the district is to have a 12% unassigned fund balance. And so over time you can see that we've been above that. We've dipped below and now we're back at right around the 12%. So in 2023 we're at 13.3%. Uh we dipped down in 2024 and 2025 and then with the revised budget this year we're anticipating the end of the year out at roughly 12% again. So with uh the proposed fiscal 27 budget, we're trying to keep pace with that and that's what the budget does. It's pretty uh pretty flat in terms of revenues and expenditures overall when
023you look at just the general fund. >> And if you compare it the chart you're showing now with the one you just showed, you can see when it goes down is when our enrollment started to drop. And so to bring it back up, even though enrollment is going down, we've all are very aware of the cuts our districts have made this past two years. You we just did our third round this past year of cuts. This is the real-time numbers basically how you can see when this starts to happen with enrollment going down and we're all dramatically aware of inflation uh on goods and services that we needed. Um so these these charts match perfectly. So to fact that we actually did stabilize back [cough] 12.2 [clears throat] inside of three fiscal years I think
024is something that shows that there was a lot of hard work and decisions being made and um I think that is something to be commended the next slide. So let's start at the bottom here. the total of all funds because this is where I was talking about the revenues are less than the total expenditures. So I want to explain why that is. So the total of all funds and this is the these are the amounts the revenues and expenditures that the board will be considering for approval tonight for the fiscal 27 budget. That's the purpose of the meeting. So the total revenues of all funds are approximately 32.6 6 million and the expenditures are higher than that of 37.4 million. And I'm going to go through the items and explain why that is. Okay. The
025major reason why and actually I'll just point to a few. The major reason why we're showing higher expenditures is if we look at the construction line here in the middle, we have expenditures of roughly 4.9 million anticipated to come out of that account. This is money that came from the bond and is sitting there already. So, we're going to spend that down, but we have to account for that expenditure even though we already have the money and we're not getting that this year. So, that's why the expenditures are higher. That's an example why the expenditures are higher. Another very important reason is the general fund. You can see at the very top, this is the operating fund. It's the most important, one of the most important funds, the most important fund for the district. You
026can see we have revenues that we're getting. We're projected to budget or to get that we budgeted for about 26.4, but we have expenditures that exceed that of 26.9. And the reason that is is because we have buckets of money that have specific purposes that can't be used for other things that have gained over time balances and we're using that balance to offset this. And that's why in the general fund you're seeing higher expenditures than revenues. Does that make sense? Okay. All right. So, going through this um the general fund we have revenues of 26.4 uh million expenditures of 26.9 budgeted for food service. We're looking at 2.1 million of of revenues versus 2.16 million of expenditures. Community service. So, food service is our child nutrition program. Um and then community services, we have a
027million, we'll call it 70,000 uh in revenues anticipated. And then we budgeted 994,000 for expenditures. The construction fund we talked about, this is also the 220 is the uh in revenues is the bond that we're going to issue, the small bond we just talked about at the beginning. Uh so that'll go towards this project as well as um there's the 4.9 million uh that we have uh in total to spend on construction for the IAP project of the debt service, the total debt service. This is what we levy for to finance and pay back the principal and interest on the bonds that the district has issued. And so we have revenues of 2.215 215 million uh expenditures of 2.24 million. There is a fund balance in the debt service. So when we levy for it,
028the state allows us or requires us to levy a little bit more to make sure that with tax delinquencies and um possibly the shortfall of when we receive revenue that we have a balance there to make sure we can cover the payment. So that's why um the revenue is a little bit less than debt service. Then for custodial we have just uh expenditures of 18,000. We've got internal service fund where we've got 119,000 revenues and 113,300 expenditures. Uh no oped revocable trust. Therefore uh retirement of 400,000 in revenues and again all of these revenues together the major fines we're at 32,64,038 of budgeted revenues. and expenditures of 37,42 excuse me 37,42,242 of expenditures budgeted for the fiscal 27 budget. >> Can you explain for anyone uh watching what OPED's revocable trust is? I think everything
029else is kind of self-explanatory, but we got an acronym. >> So OPED is other postemployment benefits. So these are the types of things that when someone retires after they retire from the district and they qualify for that if they qualify uh that there is money set aside to help the ongoing payments for that. >> Oh that's a great question. Thank you. And this last page uh was just the only difference here is we took out the construction fund because that sort of skewed the numbers a little bit that 3.9 to show that the variance in the total in far right is still 78,000 but again it's more than covered by the balances we're paying of those restricted funds in the general fund LTFM operating uh capital and some others. Are there any questions about that?
030questions. >> So, um it's always me but um what we're talking about doing tonight is the proposed budget for fiscal 27. You talked about revised budget for 26. We're going to revisit this again in about sixish months, seven months. Is that correct? >> Or less. And we're going to have a revision to this. things that cause revisions in our budget because obviously the big one is enrollment and that's why every month uh we see the enrollment tracker, right? Um to see where things go up or down, hopefully go up. Um the biggest cause for a miss on budget is going to be enrollment. Um that's got the biggest impact. Hopefully the impact is good in that we have more students, you know, maybe more joining our online program, maybe more uh come in than we
031anticipated and budgeted for, you know, in our in our class numbers, whatever it could be. But in the previous years, that revised budget has been because of enrollment decreasing below what had been our target in June. And so that's the budget process is is is a lot of different moving pieces and a lot of it based on enrollment. >> It's also the timing of estimates and revenues. Uh Minnesota school finance is extremely complex and so there's the timing of when information is available. So this is our best calculation with the information that's available now as to what we think is going to be received based on that information. So, it's a plan. Plans can change. And to Patrick's point, the budget revision process, the purpose of that is is throughout the year once we begin
032fiscal year 27, that more information will come in and that's the time at which we start getting tightening down and figuring out the exact revenues and the exact expenditures that we have. So, that's the whole purpose of the revised budget process is you have more information and revise the plan that we have. Now, it's a good plan, but we need more information, too. We look forward. >> Thank you very much, Ryan. And thank you for indulging me. >> Oh, absolutely. >> Anybody else have anything? >> I need a motion to approve the 20 26 and 207 adopted >> budget presentation. A second. >> Second. >> All members in favor? Hi, >> I'm here again for the budget and enrollments reports. >> Fantastic. Repeat. Well, okay. Well, thank you for uh sticking around. What we have
033is the update here. It's hard to see up there, but thankfully I have a copy here that I can stick to. So, what I'm giving now is the update of what we just talked about, the revising budget process. So we're comparing where we are to date as of May 31st of this year uh in the revenue categories and expenditures. So so far if you remember the pie we had the state the federal property taxes and local fees that's that revenue pie. So to date um and there's more information coming because we'll have June's information and and and whatnot but we have about 86.8% of the revenue from state aid collected so far. Uh for federal revenue, we received about 43.3 uh% of that. So there's more coming uh [clears throat] and we'll get that very
034soon. As well as uh property taxes, we'll have some property taxes here in June uh that are going to come through. So uh there's more revenue to be accounted for the expenditures. So expenditures by object class. So again, that other file that I had about how we're spending the money, salaries and wages, those comprise the largest that with employee benefits comprise about 79% of the uh the pie. So we've received on both of those just about 80% of the salaries and w excuse me expended about 80% of the salaries and wages as well as the employee benefits thus far uh as of the end of May. And then for purchase services, things that we have contracts for, various services that the district uh purchases uh that we don't do internally, uh we've spent almost 100%
035of that uh as of May. For supplies, uh we're right around uh we're just we're right around where we need to be for the revised budget there of about we're just over at 106% on supplies. And then equipment as well. We are just getting close as we're at the end of the year right to that 100%. So we're at 95 94% there. And then we've got some other expenditures uh that so far about 60,000 to you know we've budgeted about 65 of those expenditures. And then on the other funds. So other important funds that we talked about tonight are food service. We've received about 81% of the revenue. On the expenditure side, we've spent about 77% of what we budgeted in the fiscal year 26 revised budget. For community ed, we're at 78% of revenue
036received and we've spent about 80% of what we budgeted. Uh, community ed we're at maybe food service is at 81%. Community ed is at 78 and 80%. Excuse me. Construction, we talked about construction. We're you can see that outside it's going on. So, we've uh we spent what we budgeted thus far on uh construction thus far. road expenditures about 2 uh 3 million year to date. So we're right there and you can see because we're getting into the next stage of this and talking about this additional 4.9 million and additional bond that we have more to spend yet this summer. So then we have the debt service that we've essentially spent [clears throat] uh with our January payments for principal and interest. Uh and then for custodial, we've got about uh we're right at or
037just a little bit above where we have budgeted for expenditures of 18,000. Uh and then for internal service fund, we're right at about 115% of what we planned. And um then looking at overall, we've spent this far uh about 85% of our budget that we planned for and we've collected about 78 almost 79% of the funds that we had planned to collect this year. And that's the update for May. >> That collection will continue on to the new fiscal year that may bring us the last 10%. um in July, August, September, >> right? And it'll be Yeah. coded for this year, right? >> So the spending variance that we have towards the end where it looks at what we receive versus what we've expected to see receive versus what we spent, it'll narrow because everything
038will come in and everything will be spent at the end of the year. And we'll have a weird overlap moment where we'll be starting to get funds for accounts for fiscal 27 where there's funds for other things coming in delayed for fiscal 26. So that's >> right. >> Why not need working on that? >> Yeah, we get 90% of our funds throughout the throughout the fiscal year and then the last 10% comes in July, August, September, October, November. >> Right. And just clarification on our fiscal year. Our fiscal year begins on July 1. So, and then we finish on the following June 30th. So, we're finishing uh fiscal year 26 on June 30th and we'll begin fiscal year 27 on July 1. So, we're different than cities and towns and counties [clears throat] that are
039on calendar year. And that's because it coincides with our students and school year. >> Thank you so much, Ryan. Does anybody have any other questions for Ryan? Um, number 10, which is Minnesota State High School League resolution for membership for the 2026 2027 school year. This is a discussion item and action. This is the annual um approval of our district building high school week so that our students can participate state high school events. >> Anybody have any questions on that? >> Um anyone's curious? >> Any questions on it? >> You have questions? >> So can we make a motion in regards to this? >> I'll move we approve. >> Okay. A second. >> Second. >> All members in favor. >> I >> Okay. Resolution for general election relating to the election of the board member.
040Roll call vote. >> This is just a second. I'll be back to the Minnesota. >> We are at >> that's resolution. >> Hold on one second. Resolution for establishing dates for filing affidavit of candid call for. I did the wrong one first. So Sharon, >> yes. >> Stephanie, >> yes. >> Nathan, >> yes. >> Patrick, >> yes. >> Alyssa, >> yes. >> And myself, yes. >> Resolution for general election relating to the election of school board members. Roll call vote. Sharon. Oh, motion. >> I'll make a motion. >> Okay. Second. Roll call. Steph or Shar. >> Sharon. >> Yes. >> Stephanie. Nathan. >> Yes. >> Patrick. >> Yes. >> Melissa. Yes. Okay. Identify official and authority IO WA resolution. This is a discussion and action. This is an annual approval of the school board to
041um it's usually the superintendent's um task to be the the identified official authority to provide employees and others that from other entities that are part of our organization to get information from the state of Minnesota on our behalf. And so it's basically I'm giving people permission to be able to get reports and so forth for the school district. So currently this >> anybody have any questions in regards to this motion to approve >> second. All members in favor >> I >> education identity and access management proxy board resolution. >> This is the same um this is related to the Iowa the identified official with authority. Uh it's just a second person to be charge of that to be able to give people permissions if I'm not if I'm not able to do so. In this
042case, it would be Kelly Gretzky. She has served in this role for the last year as well. It's normally the administrative assistant to recommend approval. >> Can I get a motion for that? >> Motion to approve. >> Second. All members in favor. >> I um fully education assistance contract 25. 2025 through 2027. This is a discussion item. this action. >> The secretary contract that was approved that was the education. >> Oh, sorry. Educational assistance contract that was approved that was negotiated by our committee and has been approved by the educational assistance >> [clears throat] >> any comments from anybody on the negotiating team? >> I want to say thank you to everyone. Um I thought again I' I've never been part of the um the union negotiations and I uh one I always thoroughly enjoy
043just I feel like it's a good chance for learning. Um and I thought all the discussions were really very collaborative and I appreciate that. I don't have a a measuring stick or anything to compare it with, but I I felt very collaborative in the environment and I appreciate that. So, um you know, it's never something that's fun and pleasant, but I think it we made it as fun and pleasant as we could on both sides. >> Make a motion to approve the fully educational assistance contract. >> Motion to approve the educational assistance contract >> and a second. >> Second. >> All members in favor? I >> take secretary contract 2025 through 2027. This is the negotiated contract. All these contracts were negotiated by by the school board negotiation and the different groups committees as well
044approved by their groups. Take a motion to approve the secretary's contract. >> Approve the secretary's contract. >> A second. >> Second. >> All members in favor. >> I child nutrition contract 2025 through 2027. This is the same thing that we did. >> They worked hard to get everybody's approved before the end of the fiscal year. >> I'll take a motion to approve that contract. Motion to approve >> and a second. >> All members in favor? >> I custodial contract 2025 2027. >> Same thing. They did good. They got a lot of them done. Signed a lot of paperwork for today. We'll take a motion to approve the custodial contract for 2025 through 2027. >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> All members in favor? I >> a van driver contract 2025 2027. Um motion to
045approve. It's the same thing as the rest of them. >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> All members in favor. >> I pay equity compliance report. This is a discussion action item. So yes, we um the district is required to um have a pay equity report sent in every three years. The the last one that was sent in did not pass. We are expecting it to pass now that we made a change in the in the custodial uh contract. We added um longevity as a step which shows And pay equity is to ensure that the different classes of employees throughout the district are um they are measured for the how. First of all, each each class of employee is determined to be either more female oriented or more male oriented classes. And then they are
046compared to each other. And there's many different steps that are looked at and put into a testing format for the for the pay equity uh guides. But uh basically it determines that males and females have equal opportunities to gain uh funding and gain wages at equivalent or equal amount of opportunity. And so we changed uh one of the steps for the custo which should put us back. Was was this brought up during our audit because we during our audit it's not just budget right it's also compliance issues was this one of our compliance issues during >> I don't recall >> it feels familiar that's why I ask >> we talked about it during negotiation >> maybe that's where I'm also coming >> there any other questions >> so have they seen it now and said
047it's okay or are we sending it to them and waiting for them to get back to us >> well it won't we we can't enter it into the system and submit it until the custodial contract is approved. Um, which you just did and then we'll submit it this week and see if that's the >> and they'll ask. >> Yes. >> Is it unusual for districts to be out of compliance with this particular thing in any way or >> I'm not sure if it's unusual. happened. Uh it happened in our last district. >> Okay. >> But um we were able to make things a little different and change some pay wages and similar what we did back. We just always have to make sure that we're thinking about those things as we negotiate a contract. >>
048Thank you. We'll take a motion to approve the pay equity compliance report. >> Motion to approve >> and a second. >> Second. >> All members in favor? >> I. >> Okay. We're going to go over policies requiring review discussion. This is a second reading and call for public comment of the following policies. Policy 305, public implementation. Anybody have any discussion on that? >> The policy committee met I believe I was unable to attend that particular one last two weeks ago on that. Uh any feel like that one they didn't really have much a lot of them didn't it was more just state recommendation and like statute a lot of And when I recommend that supposed to affect me, I was just curious if this committee had anything. >> Policy 404, employment background checks. >> Um,
049policy 506, student discipline. just literally like very small changes. Policy 515, protection and privacy of pupil records. Same thing. Policy 610, field trips. Policy 707, transportation of public school students. Um policy 709, student transportation safety policy. This had more changes to it and would be u different than what we've used for the last rendition of this uh this policy in past. Our policy 509, sorry. um related to the student handbook more and the student handbook had much of the um bus safety rules listed in the student handbook. Um this they're very they're similar to what we have now or what this is performing. >> I assume that there was some changes on that. Yeah. >> So does that mean that the stuff that the kinds of things that were in the handbook are now part
050of the policy whereas they weren't before? They're just being referred to the handbook. >> The hand more. Yeah. It talked more about referring to the handbook and the handbook included similar to what the policy of 709 would be although there are changes but 709 [clears throat] would be a policy. If you have it in the handbook, it's easier to change and make um alterations to it throughout the year if necessary. With the policy, you're with it, you know, for for you need at least 3 months to to get that change made unless it's for an emergency, but then it have to be reviewed in the year. Um the changes that are being proposed would be um a little more harsh or a little more strict or penalties are longer. So >> which means riding the
051bus is a privilege. It's not a right and that we need to make sure that we're on the bus. >> Yes. >> So >> thank you. >> Any other questions in regards to the policies? Okay. Um, administrator information and reports. Mr. Foss, do you have anything to report today? >> Not really. I mean, there I talked about graduation. Graduation is another one of celebration of our seniors. We had 53 local scholarships for about $55,000 from local groups, families. Um, so I just want to thank them for that. >> How's your new office? or your your makeshift office. Well, >> is that okay? >> I'm getting to be housed in the elementary due to construction in the high school. The elementary is much quieter in the summer. So, uh yeah, it's a little bit different. So,
052hopefully I'll be back in my office. >> Mr. Cooper, >> nothing. >> Mr. Also, nothing. Thank you, >> Mr. English. I just want to say thank you um to the Holo public school system, Holey community for uh fantastic 16 years of having the opportunity to serve in numerous roles. I'm studying as the tennis coach in 2010. um and becoming a teacher in the science department at the high school um several different roles in the high school and then I think for the last four it's been phenomenal phenomenal run um and I wish fully nothing but the best and I found myself using the term collabor um it made a big impact on who I am and I just want to again say thanks to everybody for the opportunities that were provided to me. >> Thank
053you >> Mr. Jacobs, what'd you bring for us today? I [laughter] >> think about that. >> Um, so I brought a PowerPoint presentation. I know you're all thinking, where is this going to be? So, my PowerPoint presentation is PowerPoint supposed to be Powerful Point. So this is what my student summer workers have to do over what I call let's just call it 12 weeks. They won't call it anything else. Um and this so then what happens is each room has to have this done. So when those kids um go through all these rooms every they have to do this in every room. So I couldn't fit all that on the board obviously. Um, and then at the end of 3 weeks, and I am not an artist, so one of the student workers did this.
054I couldn't draw for Bill Beans. So, because they made these three weeks, they're on top of things. I'll take them to Dairy Queen tomorrow. So, we're going to Dairy Queen tomorrow. And then if they make the three more weeks, we'll go to a movie. And then the last I always just wait because a lot of them start to drop like flies on me right about The week of August 3rd through 7th is when I lose a lot of them. So, they usually don't make this goal because with high school being constructed. And I think I just heard my finance guy say something about this is just a plan as to what I'm today as construction happens this will get really messed up as we get closer to hopefully finishing. So, while there's some blanks, some
055of this stuff is one line item, but it takes forever. So, furniture moving with only 10 people is going to take for 72 rooms. >> That's going to take a little while. So, anyway, this was my my rendition of a PowerPoint presentation. So, and they're really busted. I mean, there's there's no the air conditioning units are off. Everything's turned off. There's no air flow right now. It isn't like it is during the school year where you at least have air handler units. Um the construction guys stole my barn fan the other day. So, um it made it a little even warmer. So, anyway, that's kind of give you an idea what happened around here during the summer. The only other thing I was going to show you was as this project's going on, try to
056save money wherever I can. So, one of the things that happens and you'll notice like Jeep Paul, you're you're not keeping up. All these bulbs are burnt out up here, right? So, I knew in this project they're converting to all what's called LED flat panels and those are just strip lights. No bulbs. So, guess what? They get rid of oh about 1,000 bulbs, right? So, one of these at Home Depot in a box of 10 is about five bucks each, right? So, I saved them all. all the LED ones so that I can replace all these. That's why I didn't buy any bulbs yet. Wait till this project is over. But this um that's just part of what construction happens. They they put those flat panels in because they're required by law for rebates and
057stuff. You can't just reuse these when you do construction. So So I kept them all and um there's probably a thousand of them. So, at five bucks a piece, that's $5,000 a bulb I just saved. If you need any at home, I might have some. So, um because right now, you most you know, fluorescents got banned as of January 1st. I can't go buy fluorescents. So, then you're forced to buy these more expensive bulbs. Then I kept and you can't keep everything. But even these diffusers, these plastic diffusers, they're 25 bucks each. So, if a kid accidentally hits a ball with them and cracks them, I saved as many as I thought I could just to keep down on because this end of the building's probably never going to get taken care of. Not in
058my lifetime. Um, so anyway, that was just to show you kind of what's going on. That's it. >> Thanks, Paul. It's never a dull moment when you come around and show us what's going on in the world. >> Mr. Post, do this. Well, you got my report. I I just want to thank the school board and the staff and all the students and the community for a positive and successful school year. I know that there's been challenges, but uh I feel good about uh this school year that we [clears throat] started uh just a little over a year ago and uh thank everyone for that. Um, our 202627 budgeting was well explained by Mr. Frederick and um, as we as we continue on with our indoor air quality project. Um, that means that we're going
059to continue to do everything we can to stay on on target. Uh, I know already we're looking at some um we have to do some or the the the vendors, the contractors have to come up with some plans to try to catch up because there's already been some delays that going to have to catch up for and those are things that they are uh they are in tune to. So, in today's meeting, we found that we they're going to have to do some catchup work already. uh they want to make sure that they get uh finished on time and so forth. Contract negotiations have um been a long process. I thank everyone for all the hard work, schoolboard members, the the associations and unions that have worked together to come up with these agreements. Um
060we will continue to meet um we meet with bus drivers still and uh then all the individual contracts as well and principles and then u I just explained the um the Iowa and the individual with authority at the bottom. School board members any questions? Committee reports. I think that will all be much on hold a little bit. Um finance today before the meeting. Building and grounds. Do they have any meetings coming up? >> Okay. M doesn't have anything else. >> We had Yeah, we had the meeting last week and they approved our >> um X is not going to be until October. >> Um, health and safety, same thing. >> Insurance. >> I have insurance with my >> We just We have >> just a MSBA. nothing. >> Uh, you know, they went they had
061the uh they had a big proposal um that they pushed forward through the legislature to have the permanent trust funds put on the ballot for approval for this coming fall. Um that'll be and they did get it on the ballot for this fall. Um this is for uh the permanent trust funds um allowing the permanent trust funds took two sections of land for every single district in the state of Minnesota and put them together and they're managed by the DNR. Most have been sold much in the northern section is now um uh it's all forestry and u it's controlled and managed by the and with those that fund has grown um quite a bit and in the original law they're only able to provide all this money that is generated from this goes to school
062districts and uh in the original makeup of this they were only allowed to provide certain amount of money from the fund to school districts and uh this will be on the ballot to allow more funding to go to school districts from this fund. It won't be an increase in any u anyone's taxes. It's funding that's available there and it'll pro provide us 30 to $40 per pupil additional. It's not a lot of money, but it's it's real money. Um, MSBA is going to be talking more about this between now and November. That's what Minnesota State High School will league. Is there anything here? >> The big thing that will be coming up in the next couple months will be changing eligibility starting in the 2027 2028 school year as far as online students. Um, and
063you have the opportunity to next year be grandfathered in, provided that you don't transfer the rest of your high school career. Um, so they're they're compiling a toolkit at the moment that should be available number two um for activity directors to be able to to share with administration and school boards as far as how that will work in the 2027 28. >> Thank you. policy we already talked about and tenure and contract and negotiations being in the midst of it. So, school board members have the opportunity to make comments. Stephanie, Sharon, um our commencement ceremony was a salute to achievement. Um I thank our student speakers and Alyssa Schumacher for their positive messages. Um, thank you also to those who helped getting the school and program ready for this annual celebration. I want to thank
064the Legion for the presentation of colors. This um ceremony was followed by the allnight grad party. Once again, thanks to Tina Helman and her crew for making this event a special memory for our students. I want to thank the community for their tremendous support. Thank you also to the negotiation teams for their willingness to work um within our budget. Thanks to Dan for leading this charge, Ryan Feders and Kelly for keeping us informed um on the financials. Um, you know, sometimes if you don't even have good things happening, you know, you're going to have to make cuts and stuff, but if you are made aware of what's going on and truly um have the information you need, things are easier. Um, we had an insurance committee meeting. Our usage is high. We do have a
06514% cap for next year, but we'll we will be going out for bids again. Um, not only schools, but each and every one of us has to navigate the the continued rising cost of health insurance. Our legislators truly need to work on a program that better meets the needs and pocket books of all involved. Aaron Casper and his crew do an excellent job again of making us aware of the market and um we continue for re to look for relief in this area. I want to thank um our community ed for all the wonderful camps and opportunities offered um to our students and celebrate summer. It's the best time. Nathan Nothing. >> Patrick. >> Well, first off, I want to say thank you to Mr. Engless for all his many, many years of service. He
066doesn't live old enough to have been here for that long, so he must have started as a student. But uh thank you very much. Um you had one of my children and um he adored your class and he was very excited when you became activities director. You got to do a wonderful job with it. I remember very specifically when you interviewed for activities director there was a student committee as well and the question put to the students was how do you feel about losing Mr. English in the classroom and they said that it was going to be hard but it was going to be worth it and so I think that speaks uh a lot to you as a teacher and an educator beyond your role and administration. Mr. Jacobs. I just want to always
067say thank you uh for not just your presentation but um what I really see when I look at this as another educator right uh Mr. Jacobs is running a summer class for the the students who are privileged to work with him and um you are you go above and beyond with our students and I want to say thank you very much for that. I want to say hooray for our marching band. They've got just a few parades left uh this coming weekend uh Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Um they walked out on some nice weather. It hasn't been terribly hot for them, but Ms. Hesh and uh Farley and um our um drum line instructors, color guard instructors put together an amazing show this year. Um musically, I just think they've done it better. We have the
068largest band we've had in years with over 60 members. Um, for that perspective, we're usually hovering at around like mid like low to mid50s. So, the program is on is growing. So, I want to say thank you to them for all the work that they're putting in. Um, and finally, you know, we we passed resolutions today for election. Um, I I always encourage people to run for school board. Um, but I also want to say that like uh my first couple years on the board were very much an eye openener. you know, the board doesn't always do what you think it does, and it doesn't always do it how you think it does it. Um, and so, uh, you know, if you're thinking of running for for not just the school board, but you know,
069maybe talk to people who are doing it already and you think, okay, so what's it really like? You know, what's the real time commitment? You know, uh, sometimes when we're really hard up and trying to recruit people, we might think, well, you know, it's not that hard. But other times, you know, the truth is you heard the list of committees, right? And all of those are another hour outside of being here tonight that people do at minimum. Um, you know, there's there's emails, there's um subcommittees, there's all sorts of things. So, there is a I'm not trying to say poor, but um, whoever is on the board, it is it is a time commitment and um, and it's very rewarding and it is also you do learn so much. uh as a as a board
070member. It it really isn't I think what I thought it was. I think it's better. So, please I hope you will also >> um I just want to wish luck to our fully trapped team. They go to state tomorrow. There's 64 kids participating. So, just hope they do well. It's supposed to be kind of questionable weather. I just want to wish Eric, as I said before, thank you Joel. Thank you for the great graduation program. Also want to congratulate Janelle Hesh. She was citizen of the year this year um for her hard work and she was uh nominated by a community member outside of the school district um in regards to all the hard work that she does with the kids all through adults the whole year. So congratulations to Janelle. Meeting our next meeting
071will be on um July 14th meeting. Oh July 20th started July 14th um through July 28th is a period um for filing affidavit for candidacy for for the office of school board [clears throat] um members for Holy Public Schools. The notification is in the district office. Kelly is a $2 fee for that. $2 fee for that. Um I recommend that anybody that wants to be a part of the school board, that is your chance to sign up. Um otherwise check the local calendar on the website for any other um events. I don't think there's much going on until August unless you're on community a time. So, any other questions or concerns or anything else that anybody wants to address? Make a motion to >> motion. Second. >> All members in favor. [clears throat]