001All right, let's call the October 20th meeting of the full school board to order. Uh all members with the exception of Nathan Anderson, our president and account is at the uh girls tennis tournament this week. So uh best of luck to that team. We'll start with pledge of allegiance, please. [clears throat] I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> And we have a special guest as always reading our mission statement. So let it go. >> All right. The mission of Holy Public Schools 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. >> Very nice. Very nice. All right. Uh
002we're going to have our let's see here. Commended scholar by the National Merit Corporation. Oh, excuse me. No, open forum for citizens is next. Excuse me for those up here. Okay. Uh now uh do the approval of agenda please. We have the agenda in front of you. Was sent out last week. So take a motion to approve in a second please. >> Motion by Pam, second by Wayne. All in favor? I opposed. Motion carries. Next will be the approval of routine business items. This is our consent agenda, board bills and meeting minutes. All those good sorts of things. When you're ready for that, I will happily take a motion to approve that. Motion to approve agenda. Okay, we have a motion to approve the consent agenda for Wayne Wilson. Any second? And the the fundraising
003applications are part of this, correct? Yeah. So that does include the fundraising applications and everything which are pretty routine, I guess. Yeah. Second for the consent agenda. I guess I will second the approval of the consent agenda. Is there any discussion? Right. Well, all in favor of approving the consent agenda, please say I. >> I oppose, which is not very chatty today. Um, next we'll move on to our resolution for accepting gifts. This month, we got a bunch of gifts. Um, again, I always say this and I genuinely mean it. This is a very generous community. um very appreciated by the school district and the students and teachers and the staff and and everyone um that this affects. So I always want to say thank you um genuinely thank you. So this this month as
004you see we have the fully American Legion donated two cases of scrambled eggs for the child nutrition program. Uh the Falcon Swim and Dive Team donated $2,87.78 uh stop box for the pool. So with their efforts, that was great. Uh Dwell Area Lion Club donated $250 to second grade reading. Kim Hansmeer donated school supplies to the public schools. Dan Post Humus uh I think I know that name, donated school supplies public schools. and Heron Holmes uh donated prizes for the Holy Elementary School fitness vest to the elementary school. So I will happily take a motion to accept these these gifts to the district. Motion by Pam. >> Second. >> I'll give it to Alyssa. Second to Alyssa. All in favor? >> I opposed. Fantastic. All right. Now we'll get to some meteor. Now we have
005our uh our insurance RFP item discussion and action. Uh who would like to take this one away? You want to come up or you want an introduction? >> Casper come up and talk to us a little bit. >> Yeah, you can just if you want to sit over there as the table too that's good. >> Good afternoon everybody. So you've uh Aaron Casper as Dan mentioned um with National Insurance Services. Um just wanted to um kind of walk through just kind of high level the the um information you received in the board packet just showing that showing that we um performed our statutory required health insurance transparency act bid for our medical insurance. So, uh, real quick, we received, um, five different, uh, proposals, including from our incumbent terrier, uh, health partners, uh, three of
006which responded with a best and final, uh, response. So, the the responses ranged anywhere from a 10.8% increase to a 26.2% increase. Um, it was um, pretty easy for us. We're recommending that we remain uh, with our incumbent carrier health partners um, at the 10.8% 8% increase, which also includes a for not to exceed 14% uh rate cap. Um, and I've told many people this. Um, I know Sharon and Dan have heard me say this before. Uh, you know, a few years ago, um, you know, a 14% rate cap would would seem high. Um, the market has changed in the last 24 um to 30 months. uh significantly impacted by stop-loss um increases in premiums not only here um in the Minnesota marketplace but also nationally uh due to um higher number of high cost
007claimments and um just the total cost or severity of those claimments across the board. Um we've had some of those here as well. Um so we're really kind of seeing an uptick in addition to an increased inflation or medical trend relative to the to our medical insurance. So, the 10.8% uh increase, although it seems like a lot, um is actually one of the lower increases that we've seen for a lot of our clients here in the K through2 marketplace. We personally or or our office works with a little over a third of Minnesota K- through2 uh school districts and various funding um mechanisms whether we're fully insured like we are here or um self-insured stand in a pool whether it be through PE the public employees insurance program or what the uh Minnesota healthcare consortium
008uh pools. So, um, overall rates are up, um, inflation is up. Um, in addition to, um, our plans, we just had one slight, um, IRS index indexing from our 3,400, 3,300 plan. We bump up to 3,400. We talked that through with our insurance, our representative insurance committee. Additionally, we are going to be offering uh effective 111 of 26 a much higher deductible plan, an $8,000 deductible plan um to go ahead and help us um offset ensure [clears throat] that we are meeting the ACA affordable care act um minimum value plan for affordability kind of here at the district. So, um we're working with district administration to go ahead and and roll that out. Um but other than that the two plans uh that we have today are not are not changing with the exception of
009the IRS indexing up of the deductible which is an IRS mandate to maintain our benefit structure. So with that I guess what I would say is uh if you if anybody has any questions or comments I would be happy to entertain those. >> All right. >> I just want to say thank you for the direction that the committee got from Aaron. I he's always been very straightforward and the person in our district office, Miss uh Leot, um they'll be they have to sign up quite soon. That's all gone gone out to our staff, but um she has explained things to people and um is a real benefit to us. This is not a not a fun job. It takes takes up a long time to get through all the steps and make sure you dot
010the eyes and the te's and um we're very fortunate to have people that understand so well and look out for our best interests. >> Agreed. I look at this and uh I basically hire so I appreciate that people are experts. Any other questions or comments for Mr. Casper tonight or Miss Le here. All right. Well, then I guess uh nothing else. Thank you. Thank you. And I will take a motion and a second to approve. >> Motion by Pam. >> Second by Stephen. >> All in favor? >> I opposed. Motion passes. Thank you everyone. Thank you again. Thank you very much. Thank you, Sharon. >> Thank you. >> All right. Well, next up, we have our friends from Site Logic with us tonight. Why don't you come on over, introduce yourselves to the crowd, and
011Oh, I guess you're just on your own, huh? >> Come on. I know Jean's kind of Yeah. Uh, I'll let you introduce yourselves to the crowd and take it away from there. >> Well, I'm Andy Fields. I work for a company called Logic and we are currently working on a 2-year uh project to support uh and implement new HVAC in the building. And so, uh tonight, uh the agenda that we have for you is we want to really do four things. So, uh we want to provide an update on the first year of construction, uh which is going very well. Um and then we also want to talk about year two in construction and make sure that there's a solid game plan to move forward. And um talking to Superintendent Pzunus, uh there's a a
012thought to think about what would need to happen to add back some scope that was taken out. Um there's some equipment that you have purchased. Um and so we want to come back and have some conversations about how the project looks. Um we're prepared to talk about some dollars that we've saved through engineering and look at the budgets that others have uh drafted up for you that's current. Um, and then uh talk through some of those funding options and then we're prepared to answer any questions that you might have. >> So, I think I'll let Gan talk through uh the construction project to date. Uh what we've accomplished this year and some things some exciting news that are coming up here this week. >> Sure. Thank you. Uh again, my name is Jean S. I'm
013project manager for for this project here at Forward. And uh what I want to do is start off just like you said talking about what we've completed so far. So the list uh kind of explains it. We have uh several five air handlers here that feed the auditorium school store, the uh auto classrooms, the locker rooms and offices, the wrestling rooms, as well as the woodworking room. Those are are complete started up running right now. um with a couple of things that there's a punch list that we still got to get through, but they're running and they're operational. Uh current work that we're doing right now is uh what's called the pool deification unit. Um and that is going to be started up on the 24th. Uh that feeds the pool. stay around where it
014feeds the pool and um it's a very complex unit and took a long time to get get it in. Uh delivery date was postponed uh by several months and we finally got it. We put it in. And uh and then also air handling unit 22 is a fielder house air handler that's being worked on right now and they're in a fieldhouse actually working this week to complete the duct work in there and we'll be starting that up on the 24th as well. After that we'll have some balancing. So we go in there, we balance the air side, make sure that each individual um register has the right amount of air. We it's called airside balancing. And then we'll also have some um wet side balancing and that is simple enough to say that you know
015it's the pumps and the water that runs through the system. We'll have some of that but that'll be all completed that the water side will be all completed [clears throat] finish the entire project. Other things that we worked on was try to get ahead of the game a little bit was some chilled water piping is up on the roof. You probably haven't seen it. Maybe some of you have seen some pictures, but it it's up on the roof and we're going to try to get some of that insulated this winter yet, too. So, these air hammerlers, and I'm not going to list through, you guys can read through them, but all of these air handlers are what we're going to be working on next summer. We're going to try to get in and do as
016much work ahead of time. Um so like when the boilers go down we go in there start demolition in the pen houses that affects these ones here. Um and then we'll complete show water and piping as well that goes to each one of the pen houses that's currently run on the roof. We'll complete them right as well. And you can see all those areas just quickly through you see all the areas affected. So, um, just looking back, one of the things that was a disappointment to I know the school board and the district and to site logic as well as the bids came back higher than anticipated. Um, in in the course of making a decision to move forward, um, there were some items that were left out of the scope at the time to
017make the budget work. Uh, and so those items [clears throat] you can see are listed above. Um, and it's estimated to add those back into the scope that there's a range of approximately $375,000 to $500,000 that would need to be needed to add back uh to do the work. You own the equipment um um you're storing the equipment and so we wanted to make sure that you were um able to know different ways that that could still be paid for and be part of the scope tonight. Clearly, that's a board decision as far as how you want to move forward. And so, we started a preliminary kind of thought process as to things that could be considered if this is something that you want to add back and still have included in the school for
018next year. >> What was the dollar amount to add back? 380,000. >> Yeah, it's approximately, you know, we're thinking between 375,000 and 500,000. Yeah. Yeah. >> I'm just going to remind the board that no one is asking you to vote on this tonight. We're just providing information. So when Amy talks about it's your decision, it is your decision, but we want to give you preliminary information on what has been updated at this point to be considered in a future date. Um, so when we ran the bids out, um, and this this graph doesn't do justice because I'm sure you can't see it very well. Uh, but by spacing the construction over two years rather than one year, we were able to get some deductions from the original cost from the contractors involved in in the
019big document, which was a third alternate. And so those alternates from mechanicals to electrical to balancing and commissioning uh those items at the time that were rebid um were in that 330 to $340,000. We've gone back to them to ask what would it cost to do it. It wasn't selected then but moving forward now. And those numbers have escalated. We've seen an escalation uh by the surprising construction costs. Um uh and so that's how we came up with the range that we we anticipate we're still waiting for one of the contractors to respond, the mechanical contractor, but we anticipate the range uh to complete this work is between 375 to $500,000. We'll have no exact numbers. Uh we anticipate by the end of the week. Any questions on that scope? I know that you're already
020familiar with it. So, we wanted to just do a dive into things that the board could consider. Um, this this is right now your construction budget to date. Um, you've spent approximately $8 million on the project and have about $6.5 million left going into next year to pay for the remaining parts of the project. So, you're on track. Um, one of the things that you tasked not me with, but Gan with is to see if there's any value engineering that could be done. And Gene has found about $70,000 from the project that can be added back in the contingency. So the board made a decision to spend down the contingency to do more of the project and in doing so um the board tasked Psychologic to seek out any value engineering that doesn't compromise the
021project but looks for ways uh that that we could um provide some cost savings working with your contractors. So we feel good about that. The other thing I wanted to allow the board um to to know or remind is that there was about $275,000 that um Ellers municipal adviserss thought that he would be able from a conservative standpoint to approve in construction. [clears throat] Um we've asked Ellers and I think that they responded back to Dan with a more updated amount. Um that amount has increased. I'm I'm not sure exactly, Dan, what what that is, but um but I think it's significant in the scheme of if it was $275,000, it's it's significant. It's not going to double, but it's a significant amount um that that we um believe will be there. So, that could
022be added towards this project as well or added back to contingency. So, that is good news also. So, I wanted to provide the construction budget update. Um, and as it relates to the construction budget update, Gan runs um regular meetings with your business manager just to make sure that um that Foley and Site Logic are are staying informed as we help manage um all the all the receivable payables um with the contractors you're working with. So, as it relates to LTFM IQ large projects, which is what your project is, um there are a couple of ways to fund it. Um, clearly you could use general fund unassigned day-to-day operations. That's really complicated. Districts just don't have those dollars to fund projects. Um, you could use your regular LTFM to fund those projects. Um, on average,
023school districts get $380 per pupil for your long-term facility maintenance, and that's their maintains on a day-to-day basis. Um, and again, districts uh simply don't have the funds to come up with 275 or 375 to $500,000 using your LTFM. It's it's just there isn't enough money to to do that. And so, the other way that school boards, similar to how you funded this project originally, is you have the ability to use board authority under IIAQ uh to to fund the remaining balance of of the project since it's still under IAQ authority. So, those are three buckets. The other two buckets again that I just wanted to bring up, we'll continue to value engineer. Um I don't think I can safely say that we can value engineer our way to $375,000. Um but we'll continue to
024value engineer with with the goal to make sure that you have enough contingency that if something goes on next year in the construction cycle that that that there are funds in order to take care of a change order that the district wants or that um wasn't anticipated. Um, and then of course you have other information um from your construction your construction interest earnings um that that you could look at as well that could offset any other costs that you that you pass um in your board packet or handed out today. Um we asked others to provide some information as far as what your debt structure is today. Um it's um you'll see a sheet that you were handed that just has you know public school district number 51 and some information. If you were to
025sell bonds the item that is in turquoise represents what that one year dollar amount would be uh for um to to pay it with the rest of this project. And that's estimated at a high amount that $500,000. Um so clearly that number could go down when we find out what what those numbers are. The other important part of this information is that the Holy School District has a significant debt drop after 2027. Um, and I I partner with, you know, a number of districts across the state. Your financial situation, while times are hard, and we can't deny that, um, you've done an incredible job with your finances. Um and and you know it's one thing for somebody like me to say it but the graph here and I apologize that I don't have a visual
026for it for you but um but it really shows that the district has been good stewards of the tax dollars u that the community has provided because you have a significant debt drop. And what this says is that after 27 um elers has estimated that with no increase um with no increase to community taxes keeping it tax neutral um there's an opportunity of improvements whether it's operational or bonds to improve your facility at a tax neutral standpoint for about $20 million. So again most districts are in the position that fully is in. Um, I think you guys should feel really good about um, what you've done to put yourself in that position. So, um, I just wanted to provide that information. Should the board in future conversations, I think want to look at at this
027as an option to pay for the remaining work, clearly you're going to want to work with your municipal advisors and others and have conversation as a board. The second page on this would be that the one-year impact. um if you were to go out and do another board authority on the paper of the work. So um you'll see um by residential, by commercial um and so forth. And again, the dollar amount that you see aligned with the home value prices would be an annual amount. It's not a monthly amount year. Correct? So, it' be what what they call in in the LTFM business a pay as you go. Um, um, the last thing I want to say before uh we open ourselves up any questions that you might have, I I know that there's some
028consternation um in in our previous couple meetings about the pathway to move forward. Um, we're part of several projects across the state. Um, at the time that we were board decided to do this project, we looked at the data and and while we're not happy with the outcomes of the bids, um, a project was was certainly uh, warranted given our findings and I think it's going to be something that benefits your school district. Um, but I also would say that if we were coming forward today in this bid market, we would be looking at a 10 to 15% increase over what you got last year. Um, and so I I think we got ahead of the tariffs. we got out of a lot of the other things that are impacting districts in in their in
029their current bids. Again, it doesn't make me feel better that we didn't get the bids that we wanted to last year. Um, but I just wanted to share that piece of information. So, with that, I'd be happy to answer any questions that you have. >> Well, first of all, I kind of wish I could get I should get a recording of you and put it on a loop, but we've done a good job being stewards. It's nice [laughter] to hear that compliment. Um, but in all in all seriousness, um, I want to say thank you for all your hard work. And I know, like you said, there's been some road bumps and disappointments, but I appreciate both of you very much, um, working so hard to get us the best of everything we can get.
030Um, Mr. Post Humus, they said that they you might know a little bit about that interest. Do you have anything just ballpark? We wouldn't hold it to you or an oath or anything on it today, but anything you could share? I was told I received an email that I haven't looked at. >> Okay. I was just curious. >> Andy told me that when uh when I walked in here, I've been in the meeting since before. >> All right. I was just curious. >> You just told me it's positive, but not >> it doesn't make us. >> No. Well, >> but it's but it's better than cuz as I understand it had predicted 325 >> 27 sorry $275,000 um and G has found another you know that that's that contingency has gone up uh from the
031very small amount that she had to start with went up another 70,000 and um so we've been able to make that positive happen. I I think uh you saw the number earlier, Andy, I said I think it was like 50,000. >> Yeah, I think it was about 50,000. >> So I mean those are all positives towards helping. >> So would you say to say that would be like about halfway to that 375 500,000 you were talking you mentioned earlier like we're about halfway there. No, the 275,000 that you had initially um conservative um conservative amounts from your municipal advisor was built into the project. >> Okay, that's an additional amount of I think approximately 50,000 um would would go towards whether you wanted to rebuild your contingency or put it towards >> um offsetting any
032cost to to install the three units that that didn't make it into the project. >> That's the part I didn't understand. So that's why I need some clarification. Thank you. >> Clarification if I may is so when we we went and left when I left this board meeting we had $20,000 $21,000 in contingency found about $70,000 but we have added about $60,000 50 to $60,000 in change orders that we've had so far this year. So right now we're sitting at I think 457,000 >> in contingency >> which is a very minimal amount. >> Yes. It's very scary to me. >> Okay. >> Yeah. That's what I was trying to figure in >> 5%. >> Yeah. 5% of of the total construction cost wouldn't include our constructs. That's what we try to do. Other questions? >>
033Well, I just have a comment like the tax impact, just to run numbers here. Like, so if if we have a $350,000 home, it's going to cost you $6 a month because sometimes people like, how much are my tax for one? >> Yeah. Right. Like $6 a month for the year. But then there was the initial push for how much they paid originally. This is an addition. >> It's going to cost you a cup of coffee. >> Well, a good cup of coffee cup, >> right? >> At the same time, you know, again, you know, go back to that stewardship mention. I I always think of stewardship and stuff and I we are all very aware of the Benton County [clears throat] government center airports things of that nature. So this is not something we
034would cup of coffee but it's not something we don't take seriously would not have a work session and discuss very thoroughly before making any kind of decision. So I I do want to reassure everyone of that that it sounds this one way, but we also are very all very much aware of what everyone has going on in their tax base beyond the school. >> Yeah. I I wasn't being no disrespectful with the cup of coffee, but I think when it comes to construction, like doing if we're already in it, it's going to cost us less. Like if we stop and then assume things are going to be better or less expensive or we're going to get a contract, what it's not going to happen like we if we're already in it, let's just in my
035opinion, let's do it. >> This is something that we need to discuss at a workshop. >> It is at a later time >> once we have all the information in front of us. >> Maybe we should look at trying to schedule a work session on this. Do we want to do that maybe now in November? >> Yeah. So, let's talk about that. >> Absolutely. But yeah, I I agree that you know this is something we really work session out and figure out. >> Are we able to get this information sent to us too? >> Yes, >> I have. I was just going to say that uh once we once I had an opportunity to talk to others and see what the number is and get some ideas from them as to when they could come
036out and present to the board for a work session. I think that would be very beneficial to you and to me and be able to get everything figure out as to how we want to move forward. I mean, I know we've all been kind of thinking in the back of our heads, you know, if we can just get to after 27 with that that tax burden drop off, you know, then we have tax neutral opportunities where people would not see an increase in taxes for us to do things, you know, and I think we're all thinking that in the back of our minds. So, but before you know it, those those days are going to be here. So if we're going to do any voter approved referendums or anything, we need to you know that's
037why we have those in the goals and stuff that you know. So but you know once again that that chart that we all have we've seen it before. We know we can get there. We we have room to maneuver and you know all these cuts we've made at the very least we potentially stop and things like that. So, you know, we we have a light at the end of our tunnel. We've got good work going on to get us there. I I'm I'm very appreciative of all that. Just have to keep going, everyone. >> I'd like to finish up with just something positive. I think that you guys should know that, you know, we have SCR and BCI here as well as um True Industries and JCI. And I want to tell you these this
038is a team. They're really working with talking to each other. Before we even approach them, we've already talked to each other. They work extremely well. I found they work extremely well with not only Psychological, but the owner as well. Um, we run into problems just like any project in new construction or old construction or renovation. Always run into problems. It's part of construction. They get in there, they help us find the solution at at a reasonable cost and rate, you know, for a change order. And uh and when we've had problems, even the the equipment that we have at the pool at air handler, SBL, we worked with SPL um very intently made sure that that they had a temporary unit field and SDL picked up the cost for that completely um because the contractor,
039the supplier for the equipment, um you know, was late. So, they're picking up and and uh it's just been a really good team and that's what I wanted to share [snorts] with everybody here that got a great team here and it's a it's a it's a joy working with these guys. You know, you got new team members here. It's really great to work with them. I appreciate that. Well, and I'll say I think at least at our end communication seems to have been really good too. You know, if there's any questions, people have been able to get answers, you know, and Mr. Post Humus has had updates I think every week, you know, in his board updates and it really feels like, you know, even if it's not the best news, it feels like there's
040still progress being made, like no one is just kind of, you know, like that, you know, and that also feels really good, at least for me. So again, I want to say thank you. >> The bond issue here, the 20 20 million, I thought it was 14 something. originally ordered to get >> this. This would be if they if you would be able to have $20 million to put forth to future projects for the cash through the tax through >> the blue is this is 20. >> Yeah, that's when the drop off $20 million. >> This has nothing to do with the project. >> That's just check >> except we need more money to finish the project the way it was initially. >> That would be just in the future. >> That's that point we're
041trying to get where we would have space and it wouldn't have a negative impact on people's taxes, which is again one of our goals. It's just who we are. Anything else for our friends from Site Logic? >> Thank you so much. [applause] Thank you. >> All right. Well, today we have some staff handbook updates. I'll let you take it away. >> Very good. Thank you very much. We have uh some some new updates that we want to add to the staff handbook and since the handbook for this group we want to make sure that those get approved by the board as well. >> Do we need to approve this tonight because discussion on here just we can just I just didn't want us to have a vote. Um so the first one for your consideration
042would be um employee position changes and the impact on their benefits. So when a if an employee chooses to go to a different role in the district, um they often times go from one union to the next. And um this would this just kind of explains what happens to their benefits if that if they get hired in a new position. For instance, if they go from an EA um to a custodian, there's different roles. If they go from an EA to a secretary, there's different benefits. Uh so this explains what would happen and have it in the handbook for everyone to see right off and everyone would hopefully everyone would understand it. I can't guarantee you're going to understand their name, but it's the that's the um the goal of this. Um basically, uh if
043they change roles, they would have their current benefits prated to the new value so that they don't lose all of their benefits, but they it would be adjusted. Um and then they have an option to go with the the new benefits. uh they'd be able to change their uh insurance and like at that time pretty much um we also have one regarding a hybrid or dual role position. So for instance if a person worked as a as an EA and a van driver it's two different um amounts to and and And also sometimes if somebody worked as a as a EA and custodian or EA and whatever the different roles are, we would take their benefits and combine them. So it's not just, you know, if they're working half time at this and half time
044at that, they only get a half of each. We combine their benefits so that they can get benefit. So um talks about this more than specifics, but Um just for anyone who might be watching later in our audience, could you explain how and why these are being added to the handbook now? >> Well, we got the handbook approved in the fall. That was something that we wanted to move forward with. And then also it's been brought up in discussions. It's been brought up as a as a item in discussion for negotiations. >> Oh, okay. >> All right. >> And we wanted to clarify it so that things are more fully understood before people maybe before they take on a new role or apply for. So, >> so this isn't just for like Okay. So, sometimes
045I know like a teacher will teach and then they'll also drive the van later. So, their benefits won't change that much from that. Like it's >> probably not very much, but they might get Do they have benefits as a van driver? >> Yeah, some >> like some time. >> Okay. It's more if you were um It's okay. >> Like if you want the part-time position, another partition. Okay. >> You're Yeah. We're wanting to give you the benefit of being a full a full person. >> Yeah. Okay. Or full time. >> Yeah. So yeah, the goal is to make things easier for >> I mean in most employment age places you if you work part time in one spot and part time in another spot you are considered a full you should get full time benefits.
046>> So that's >> yeah you get it. We just want to make sure >> makes it easier especially if you have like new administrators coming in right [laughter] >> or new employees but yeah everyone on the same page. All right. Well, thank you. Uh next up we have a discussion on e-learning days 2526 school year. >> So I would recommend that the school board allow us to continue with e-learning days. Um that's something that to be decided each year. We do have that option. Um the state allows school board or school districts to use up to five per year uh for a snow day. It can only be used for snow days. They can't be used for other ideas or other issues for being out of school. But um it really is a good option
047for students and for um everyone to be able to try to maintain as much as possible the um education continuing on and then it also makes things a little nicer for the end of the year. People say we just add it on to the end of the year. The problem is if you have a number of days that you have to add on, that becomes challenging for people's summers, but also the education that is happening. It's nice that teachers, especially at the high school level, teachers can interact with students during that day and help them then because by June 2nd, they're on to something else and they're not as engaged. And um it's not a perfect solution. Um having school in person and being able to be at school that's better, but um weather isn't
048always prevented. will continue to allow >> I I will say that I think this has been a great tool for us um in the past couple years now have this option um from whether I think it's really given us more latitude of being feeling feeling better about okay well if we if we can't come to school or you know not not pushing the envelope on safety so I I love the first one >> there clarification with How does it Joel? You might know this. I have a high school the hands-on classes like welding and woodworking. Like how do they >> Well, even hands-on classes have lessons and safety things they have to talk about. So, they assign those sorts of things or they might have an instructional video. But like Mr. Pumis was saying, we
049lose the days in second trimester and get them back in third trimester. So, it it's just completely disjointed at the high school level. You know, it's not like the old year-long system where you just bump them on the end. We have classes that end at the end of second trimester and they lost two or three days. Well, now you added them on the third trimester. Well, if I had this amount of material to cover, now I got to come up with three more days. Is are those three days really as functional as they would have been during the So does is this action too >> or is this just like you have our blessing? >> I think it's good discussion. We just have to inform parents that we care. >> Do we have a certain
050amount of snow days that the school gets to begin with? Like do you get any snow days like >> you get the first one held harmless and then you have the five e-learning and then is it one more after that or that's it? >> I would [clears throat] >> I know the first one is type note and then I think there's a second one maybe on the edge if you lose them but but I'm not 100% sure we've gotten a guitar. I just look at sometimes the I mean if it's bad weather outside keep them home like I am a true believer of that but I also think like sometimes the e-learning days I don't think a lot of kids get a lot out of that. So that's my concern is I do not think
051that kids get as much as they should over days. >> It's a challenge. >> Yep. >> Absolutely. has to be very dedicated both staff and and families to do that. So it's it's to me it's [clears throat] hard to do that. >> But and what are they gaining none of the adding dates at the end of the year like unless they switch it where you add dates to [clears throat] that trimester >> and have to move things around a little bit versus adding it to the end of the year. So that I mean just that's my only concern is >> I do not feel that kids get what they need >> you know as what they would get in the classroom. I think like everything else, you know, depends on the students may aim down
052in the middle. Some students do great, you know, doing home or e school, online school. Some students don't. Some students do great on in class and some students, you know, they're like, "Oh, I can do this by myself." You know, we try to aim down the middle and uh best we can. I think it's one of those cases where it's better than nothing, which has been what it has been. you know, there's a snow day. Um, what I what I've I mean, what I've liked about it is usually teachers are like, "Oh, we we might be gone tomorrow, so they send packets and stuff, right? They get it all." I mean, in my experience, teachers like, "Here's your work." And then, you know, they kind of like, but I don't think they'll miss anything more
053for, you know, an e-learning day than they would like if they have a sick day, you know, or something like that. and kids miss. It's it's I mean it's just a human thing. So I I think this is the best mitigation of any learning loss and a good tool >> and I think they I mean obviously they don't maybe for some they don't learn as much e-learning than they do in school but like you said depends on the student but I think adding at the end of the year no like I'm in the camp of like start after like Labor Day and end before Memorial Day or obviously beyond that but like to add like they just they're so checked out by the end of the year >> and high school they've got graduation schedule
054they've got all their other there's so many events you know around seniors and things like that that I mean we're talking about big scheduling problems we have state tournaments that are happening you know and kids do miss for for those and things too I mean so you know we don't we live in an imperfect world and I think this is a good tool for us to have But we don't have an action on that, right? >> You can have an action. We believe action. >> Well, you want you can make a motion. It's totally cool. >> No, I'm just saying I keep eating stuff. >> All right. >> We all agree on it. I'll make a motion. >> Motion by Wayne to approve the 5 days. >> Second by Stephen. All in favor? I oppose
055there. Perfect. It's not sitting on our hands, right? [clears throat] All right. Our next item is framer bank name changing the old national bank which I've been hearing about from my mother now for a solid one. So, who's got a got this one to talk about? >> We can do that. >> All right. It's just a notification to the board that we'll be seeing the new name and we just want you to be aware of it that we're changing it. So, if you see that new name, it's it's not part of it's not part of the um listed banks that we have in the past, but it's the same. >> And my understanding is account numbers and routing numbers are going to be the same for a while yet. Um, but there were like debit
056cards, things like that issued as part of this >> and each person is is working on that on their own, but I just wanted you to be aware that we had that information. >> Thank you. All right, item 14. We got a lot going on this thing. We have anou for the redact training again. >> [laughter] >> Um, one of the things that we are planning to do this year, um, is we're we're required to do this year by the state is all of our educational assistance, our EAS have to go through eight hours of training for um, the read just as our teachers had to go through all that training last year. And um, part of what we did is we used some of the beginning of the school year, a couple hours then
057uh we're going to provide a couple hours in November with this and um Christy is providing that training again. So, thank you very much Christie for providing that for our for our EAS and our new teachers as well. But um one of the things in the EA contract states that they don't have any training on early outs or for these days on November 14th. So in order to include them in this and we wanted to have them trained using that day um we wanted to do a mou so that everything is okay and a bug board and all that so they can come in they will get those two hours of train those two hours of training from Christie and then we're also adding them um another 45 minutes of training along with the rest
058of the staff that can attend at that time to um have some training with officer Cody on standard of response protocol and that was also added in here. So they'll start at 4:45 and not 1:30. But um standard response protocol is a list of it's a it's five different call standards or protocols or keywords that would be used to determine a potential emergency. And instead of just saying we're having a lockdown, we would have five different options for that. training will go on for for the staff. Uh we will have an additional training for staff for those that can't meet it on on that day. And then we'll also be sending uh we'll also be trained students and we'll be sending information on home to parents to let them know what that's about. But with
059those five, you have an option instead of just having a lock down, you can have um a setting where you can just be in the classrooms in case there's uh something in the hallway that we don't want kids to be around. If there's a medical emergency and there's an ambulance, it has to deal with some something going on in class in the hallways or or if there's something going on outside all students. There's a another for that. with all like a cold bread or something like that. >> Well, they're not we don't use the word code red. >> It's uh what are they? >> Oh, um so we have lock down obviously in context. We all know what that is. We have a secure slide would be maintaining keeping kids inside of a building. So,
060if we had something in the community going on or something at the jail across the road, we could call a security to just make sure we keep kids in the building and let our community resources manage that. Um, we have evacuate. That'd be something maybe gas leak in the building, right? We need to evacuate the school. Uh, shelter in place. That's the fourth one. That's where we maybe have a tornado warning or some type of serious weather. And then the other one is a hold. And what that is is that would be a temporary hold to keep kids in the classroom. Um, like Mr. Puba said, potentially like a medical kids having a seizure in the hallway and it's passing time, right? We don't want kids in the hallway walking by. Um, what this does,
061it gives a little bit more context and understanding for why we would use these things instead of calling everything a lock down, right? Um, so that's something we're working through um at the district working with our staff with >> and we would still have >> Yeah. And we we do still have that obviously as an option >> but with those five options to to address specific situations. >> Yep. >> Now thisou with it's just with the EA for right now. >> Correct. >> And it's it's on two things the readact and and this new >> standard. Right. And for anyone >> is it all um it's not online. It's all all eight hours that will be in person. >> Well, the eight hours for the readout will all be in person. >> And for anyone's
062unclear, we keep saying and I say it's always kind of for people who watch the video. Memorandum of understanding basically an agreement being added after the fact. So you need a motion for this. >> Yes. Motion to approve. I'll >> make a motion to approve. >> Second by shar. Any other discussion? All in favor, please say I. I. Opposed. Motion passes. Thank you everyone. Next is the Minnesota State High School League Foundation. Uh discussion and action. And um this is something we do every year for anyone watching home face because uh yeah we're part of the Minnesota State High School League and all of our students can compete in Minnesota State High School League events you know go to big sections subsections etc etc so u all the way to state right so that's what
063this is we just have to do every year right >> that's the agreement are form A and form B is a little bit Okay. >> Yes, please. >> Um, for main is something that the the state high school league offers every district. Um, if you approve this, then the state high school league will ask that you do this, provide some some discounted rates for some of our students to be participating and they provide some money back to our district to help pay for some of these things. And then the form B uh provides the district with some funding to help with health, safety, and trans and or transportation. And what we've been doing with that money is uh providing um uh first aid training and AED training to our all of our coaches and then
064also um the maintenance of a >> great all good stuff. We like Any other questions about this? >> Take a motion. >> Motion by Pam. >> Second by Wayne. Thank again you guys. All right. All in favor? I oppose. Motion. All right, we're up to our policies now. And this is just for discussion uh for anyone who's never seen policies before. So basically we are continually reviewing all the policies uh for the district. Uh most of these are basically if they're updated it's just to reflect new wording from the statutes. These are all basically just Minnesota state statutes uh model policies that come from Minnesota uh schoolboard association. Basically you go to any school in the state they're going to have these policies more or less. We just continually review them, make sure every all
065the wording and everything is up to date with any new law changes. Uh and so then we do three readings of these uh both for discussion from the group and then the third one we vote to actually approve them as the policy as they stand. So this is our our third or excuse me our our first reading and uh this time it is policy 102 uh equal education opportunity policy 503 student attendance policy 516 student medication and teleaalth 526 uh hazing prohibition 530 immunization requirements 601 school district curriculum and instruction goals and 614 school district testing plan and proced procedure. So, any comments or questions about these at this time? Okay. Well, in that case, [cough] [clears throat] move on to our favorite part of the meeting, the budget and enrollment report. >> Good evening,
066members of the board. Todd here to present tonight. Um, so as of the start of the month for October, um, we are at 1,876 students. So these are steep counts. It looks like um I can't see what that first count is. 1,887 if that was the start of August or September probably. So we have lost a few kids uh since the start of school and we have roughly 32 uh students enrolled in PSO which will um it's possible that we will still generate ADM on a fraction of those kids depending on the arrangement and then uh ALC students uh losing 16 uh to the ALC and I think that's everything any questions on the enrollment report. >> Doesn't sound like it, Todd. >> Pardon me. >> It doesn't look like we have any questions. I
067think you can keep going with your next item. >> Okay. All right. So, this is uh good news on the FY25 financial results. Um we are not final final yet but as of October 14th revenues are exceeding expenditures by 111,000. Um so the way this translates into our fund balance we had projected a decline in our unassigned fund balance of a little over 400,000 for FY25. As of right now, our unassigned fund balance is decreasing um about 114,000. Um I do believe though we have some restricted fund balances such as uh the ALC and um English learner and some other things. So um by moving some expenses to those restricted fund balances we should be able to keep the unassigned fund balance flat or even increasing slightly. So that's wonderful news. Um all of the
068other funds revenues exceeded expenditures except for the community services fund um at which there's a loss there of about 59,000. Expenditures are exceeding revenues by about 59,000. Any questions on the preliminary financial results for FY25? >> Can you tell me the percentage of our fund balance? >> Todd, there was a question from Sharon about the percentage of the fund balance. >> So, essentially, like I said, it's going to remain unchanged. So, um, I would have to do just some real quick math on that. Let me see if I have the file open. Yes, I do. Could you scroll up for me, please? Just a little bit. >> More. >> There we go. So we would end at a 10.28% fund balance if we remained completely flat. I think we're going to end up going up
069just slightly. So probably just a little bit better than that. And at the end of FY 24 we were at a 10.24% fund balance. So, >> okay. >> So, the percentage will be pretty much unchanged as well, going up slightly. >> Any other questions, comments? >> Thank you. >> So, what is our goal supposed to be at 12? >> Okay. So, how do we need to what do we need to do to get back to that or what happened that we're that much? I know Danny weren't here when it was at that, but what do we need to do to get back to where we're supposed to be in that situation? >> We have a few there's a few different ways that can happen with school financing. Todd, are you hearing me? >> Can you
070hear me at all? >> I can barely hear you. >> Oh, how about now? Can you hear me now? >> Yeah. >> I put on my microphone. I thought that might help. Um, so you can either get more students which will generate more money. You can um spend less money or the state can give us more money which they're projected to give us probably 2% next year maybe a little more. And um you can also go up for referendum to gain more funding through a voter approved operated referendum >> or or or grants if you could find a grant of some sort. But those are >> far few between. But also they're just not you can't really count on for a lot of great things. You know they're mostly in education grants. are for starting
071something new >> and spending more money. >> Thanks for clarifying that. >> Yes, ma'am. >> Any other questions about this? >> That's kind of a slippery slope. The fund balance makes me a little nervous. This might be something that we need to talk about more at a workshop so that we can maybe come up with ideas or talk about something with ideas in regards to what we can do. >> Uh, you know, the fact that it really won't change from last year to this year. You know, we made two years some pretty big cuts. We we've uh slowed the bleeding nicely. I guess you know for a while we were like in free pulse. the fact that we're not going down anymore. It's a step in the right direction, but it's not the journey. So,
072I want people to remember that enrollment is going down. So, that means less money coming. >> So, you know, we got we got very we were very fortunate this year. If you look at our projected enrollment back last spring, right, we we projected an enrollment for the whole for the whole area or for the whole, excuse me, for our district, excuse me, 1,836, right? And when we actually where we're at today is 1,876. So we are, you know, 40 more students. cuz that's a that's a big deal for a school our size. You know, that's why we're fortunate enough to keep our class size small by having enough students add sections for a few grades, things like that. >> So, we we were fortunate this year, but we're we're hanging on by the skin of
073our teeth in a lot of ways. I I I want people to always we appreciate the good, but we also still have work to do. But I don't think we can walk around with blinders on because we have no um >> we have no contract set. >> Yep. >> We we've got ways to go. That's what I'm saying. So be appreciative of our good news of you know, hey, our enrollment is higher than we thought it would be than what we budgeted on. Our fund balance didn't go in the wrong direction this year, but we didn't go we didn't go in the right direction, right? So we have to Take the good with bad. Take them both. There you have the facts of life, I guess. All right. Anything else for us, Todd? >> Todd,
074you have more for us? >> Oh, just a quick update on uh FY 26 through August. So, this will be quick. So, revenues of 240,000 through August 31. Um the revenues for the year to date are um look really small because we have a large reversal of over 2 million from the June 30 uh state aid receivable. Um so that reversed out right away in July. So that's why revenues are looking so low. Um otherwise federal revenues 88,000 are comparable to last year at 73. Um property tax revenues, we must had a a small county payment come in and then local revenues at 20,040. Um expenditures are tracking um comparable to the prior year at 2.4% of budget. Last year we're at 2.7. Benefits were at 4.9% of budget. Last year we're at 4.3. And
075overall we're at 8% of budget. Last year at this time we were at 8% of final. So all is looking good on the year-to- date budget as well. >> Any questions for >> Thank you, Todd. >> Thank you very much, Todd. >> Thank you. Have a good evening. >> Okay. Uh, we are going to move on to administrator information reports and uh see if anyone has anything yet. I'm gonna go to Mr. Jacobs last because I have learned show and tell. He's a hard act to follow. Um, so we'll start this uh this weekend at the principal's table. >> Well, I'll go first. Um, one thing that wasn't on the donation list that be on should be on next month's donation list is if you're driven by the high school, especially at night, there's a
076new sign in front of the high school. It really pops. Um, the old one was for rust stain or what it was, but you can barely see it. All the Lions Club generously donated again for the sign. Like I said, that donation will be in next month's. Cory Gross did a lot of the leg work finding the company and actually going to the Lions Club and asking for a donation to a big part of that part of the Lions group. So when you leave here every night, drive by that sign really sticks out compared to what sign. So that's my one is >> Yeah, sign looks awesome. That's awesome. >> Mr. Cler, >> no additions to my department. >> Mr. Whitmer. Uh just would I just want to give a couple shout outs. I know
077we're kind of moving into fall here with uh some of our fall intermediate sports and also our high school sports wrapping up, but I just wanted to say thank you to all our coaches for their time and dedication to our kids. Um additionally, I also want to just give another thank you to um all of our students, families, and then staff that made our um homecoming so fantastic for all of our students as well. So, I know I have it in my board report, but just want to say thank you to all the people involved in all that. Mr. Posima, say anything to add still my [laughter] uh I will say we have just a just a fantastic uh pet fest today to usher the girls off to state for their test tour state tournament.
078Um congratulations to coaches and the players and parents and everybody involved. Um, and good luck to all our sports as they continue to down the path uh towards tournament time for all that. Um, had some very positive things going on this fall and just very excited to be part of it. So, thank you. >> Well, Mr. Jacobs, show and tell time. >> So, what did I do last month around? So, I went to my annual facility managers. Um, it happens down in St. Cloud. Luckily, a lot of guys are coming in from International Falls and all the way down towards Iowa. Luckily, I only have to go an hour. Um, what I what do I learn in those 38 classes? Well, I tried to tell the kids, if you think homework goes away when you're
079in facilities management, it doesn't. I had to go to classes such as new indoor air quality updates and laws. Um, I went to eyewash stations, inspections, comp compliance and consequences. Um, glycol filtration, HVAC, closed loop management. I don't go to the, um, custodial performance expectations. I've been around the block long enough for that kind of stuff, but a lot of laws is what I'm learning about new updates and things. So, went to that. Um, the other thing was we started the boilers up, tried to figure out where all the Don't let sight logic fool you. I'm a big part of the air around here. It's all I can tell you them [laughter] I have to deal with. Um, if example with all the boiler, not the boiler, but the two pumps and piping, you get
080a lot of air in the system. They tried to pump it all out. It didn't all come out because we only started the boiler on Friday. It was there's water columns and we had two lines. Don't go above this line. Don't go below this line. That thing shot up and we started pumping the water through. Had to let the air out, bleed the air, do all the system. So, a lot of things that they do have consequences for my um not bad, just it's expected. So then a couple things I wanted you guys to know is, you know, you hear a lot about long-term facilities maintenance and you are like, "All right, what is what do we use those dollars for?" You hear about the big things like the UPA system and things like that.
081There's a lot of little things that fall. There's 10 codes that I deal with personally that LTFM fall under and it's for deferred payments. So, example, we couldn't figure out why that door down the high school lock football locker door would not open. We troubleshooted to see if it was the where you swipe the fob. Nope, that's not it. Went in the socket to find out the socket was saying. Nope, that's not it. We start falling the wires. Well, lo and behold, in the bar going to the striker are these wires. Well, apparently they weren't attached, but that took like 6 hours to figure out why why did that happen? So, if you're like, "Welcome to my world." Well, never was my my, you know, big thing. But here's another piece for long-term facility. Your
082our high school now, [clears throat] it's our high school. Um, the high school is filled with these hands, which are no longer made. They're no longer supported. There are no parts to these anymore. Your whole high school has these. If you look at those pant doors, those are bonup prints, which are really good. These are not bundrints that are not really good. What happens is, and this is have to be the high school weight locker room. You can see how you know that's probably not really good, right? Well, all these parts fall apart and they're no longer replaceable. And you pan hardware that goes with this. This pair costs 1,000 bucks without installation. Just the pair is 1,000 bucks. So if you're wondering how much do things cost to run the school, figure you got
083about 60 of these in high school. They're not all going to break at once, but I think we did the whole front entrance before I arrived. My understanding from Darwin was it was like six or seven of these every place all the way across. You start to add that up. If anybody in public land wants to know where money goes to, these are not cheap. Um, the other thing was you can see this bar. We had it actually machined at a local place. Well, what is this little bar? Well, you ever seen the bleaches pulled out? That's snap off. So, that bar runs this and goes together. And you can see how it snaps right off. So we had to have one custom made because again these are all made 30 years ago. These are
084not product available. So some good machinists out there. That's one of the things my job is to try to find a way to get things fixed without spending a bunch of money on a 30-y old vehicle and you know what I mean. So, so if you're wondering some of the things we were dealing with this this this week other than our own boiler startup. Um, but the these are all fall under that LTFM budget. Questions, >> educational as always. >> Well, I was going to say out back I don't know a lot of you drive around the farms, you see the big white totes. So, a lot of dairy farms, they have those 250 gallon totes. Okay, we have 15 of those back there filled with 40% glycol. Glycol um or polyropylene because it's food
085safe. That's going to go in that chiller, right? So, when I go to some of these classes and we talk about maintenance, we do a $13 million prior break for IQ. One of the things that needs to be made sure of, okay, that's $40,000 in glycol back there. There's 15 of those totes back there that have to get filled. Okay, that glycol wears out. You have to maintain 33% or you're going to freeze your pipes. Well, that requires testing to make sure it doesn't get oxygen in it because if you get oxygen in your system, you will you will rot that away. Um, it's funny to hear a story. They found one school that had a construction project. They filled their glycol with splash >> to get away with not spending a lot of money.
086So, there's things we hear, but if you're, you know, that's just kind of what we do. So >> for any kids that ever see this, I don't want to pay point out all the stuff you talked about today. Engineering, machining, physics, and chemistry. [laughter] And that's in a a fivem minute report. That's a lot of stuff you have to know. >> Yeah, there's a lot. Awesome. >> All right. Thank you very much. I always enjoy that your presentations. >> All right. Well, then we'll go to meeting events and notices. We have on the 29th the Leah banquet at St. Cloud Riverside Convention Center at 4:30. Uh on the 18th of November, we'll be back here for our next regular board meeting at 5:30. And once again, we have our open forum. And again, uh please
087remember the rules and stuff we talked about, but if anyone has anything they'd like to say now, please don't be shy. All right. Uh, we'll go to committee reports. Any committees meet lately? No, I don't think so. >> Meeting monthly >> right now due to planning um lots of meetings. So, we are working on a gala. So, that will be coming up. Information will be coming out on that um to help support our athletics and fine arts. Um we have another meeting. We've brought in um coaches and um other representatives from the um activity are back athletic booster clubs um to just talk more about what we do or what our plans are to help vote. Um so our next meeting will be the first Wednesday of the month, the 5th. >> Remember remember the
0885th of November. >> All right. Pam, maybe you want to share the date of the date of April. >> We can do it next time, too. >> No, I got you. 2026. >> Saturday, April 11th. >> Okay. Well, be on a Monday, so April 11th. No, it's on a Saturday. >> All right. >> More information to come. >> Awesome. Awesome. Well, then we'll do our board member uh comments. We'll start we'll start sharing and work our way around. Sharon, during since our last meeting, I've had um the opportunity to celebrate um academic achievement with the National Honor Society. We 33 students were inducted and I I think it was very good for all of us to have Mr. Rudolph visit us today. Another chance to um celebrate um academic excellence. Um you can see where
089the student and the staff and the community work together to bring success to this young man and his determination to do it. Um and all I have to say is go Falcons to be going to be an exciting week. Thank you, >> Melissa. >> Um, as a fully tennis alumni, my tennis heart is very excited and happy for our tennis team. Um, so I want to congratulate those girls because they worked hard and it's been a little while since we've been able to participate in the state tournament. So, they have definitely made you proud. So, hopefully they do well. We'll be rooting them on. >> Stephanie Um, I also have to agree like her tennis team, congratulations. That's super exciting. And Paul Jacobs, you're I look forward to your presentation every month because you are
090probably the most exciting part of our board [laughter] like you. So, thank you for >> that's she's expecting higher expectations. So, I don't know if you want to bring some extra books next time or something that you guys could share with us. I don't know. The state um again, thank you to the state. It's exciting. I've seen them practices from my house. Uh even this weekend, they were practicing which was exciting to see. And it wasn't just exciting to see them, it was exciting to hear the enthusiasm from them. And granted, I can hear from my house, so it was fun to hear the we're going to do good. like they at the end they were all like getting together and we were in our car and we sat like roll down the window so
091we can hear what they're going to say and it was fun to see that. So, um I'm proud of them. >> That's great. >> Wayne, I have no comment. >> All right. Well, I've got two things to say that'll happen before we meet again. And the first is next weekend on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday, you have a wonderful opportunity to get your shaboo your shaboo on the 76 trombone to go see the music man uh by the Holy School, our yearly musical uh Janelle Hesh uh leading the directing team there. Um it's got students from 7th grade through uh 12th, so it's always a good time. That is the the fall musical is always probably one of our most popular shows. So get early so you get a good seat. Uh that's very exciting though
092for them. They've been working hard since like the first day of school. Awesome. Awesome. Large cast by the way. Large cast. Uh and then the second thing uh we will have juniors and seniors from our band participating with the St. Cloud Municipal Band uh at their Paramount concert again this fall. Uh I'm part of the municipal band. So uh but we have every fall our ambassadors program where it's kind of like an honor band. Uh but basically band directors nominate students to come play with us at the Paramount. So they will be at our Paramount concert. And I got to I'm going to make sure I double check that date here so I don't screw it up. If I can do that. Uh that will be on the 10th of November at the at the
093Paramount. So uh get your tickets, come see the students. It's so cool. They're going to be playing with us the whole concert. So it's not like they just there's going to be students from here, Malaca, all the St. Cloud schools, everybody. So it's a it's a really cool opportunity. you know, they're going to be playing with musicians, you know, who've been playing for, you know, 50, 60 years, as well as people that have been municipal band, you know, for a year or two. It's but it's just a huge much different group. Uh some professional musicians are in the group and some less professional musicians are also in the group and then our students get to come and see that music uh isn't something that just goes away when they graduate. They can do it their
094whole lives. So I invite everyone to those two big events for our students. And with that motion by second by Jared. All in favor? I