001Thank you everyone. And tonight our mission statement is to be written by Mr. Robertson in our audience. The mission of Foley Public Schools is to bring together students, parents, staff, and community to to provide a quality education with an emphasis on developing the full potential of the individual. Thank you, sir. All right. We do have uh a couple tabletop items. Do those go just in the consent? Yes. All right. So, that'll be for the consent agenda. So, uh, when we approved our agenda tonight, I'll need a motion to approve with the, uh, with the tabletop items, please. Oh, sorry, I missed the open forum. I talked to people, but is there anyone that would like to speak tonight in our open forum at the beginning of the meeting? But I I will say I did
002talk to one of our audience members and she mentioned she baked us some goodies and brought them for us tonight. So, she didn't want to say anything. Yeah, but thank you. Um, anyone else though want to jump in? All right, then we'll move on to the approval of agenda, please. Just need a motion to approve with tabletop items. I'll make a motion to approve agenda with tabletop items. Motion by Wayne. I'll second. Second by Nathan. All in favor, please say I. I oppose. Thank you. And now we'll move on to number six which is our consent agenda. This is approval of routine business items such as consent agenda board bills and approval of meeting minutes. So I will take a a motion then to approve our consent agenda please. There's a motion by Stephanie to
003approve our consent agenda. Second by Wayne Wilson. All in favor? I oppose. Thank you. motion. Hey, good job. Uh, we now move on to number seven, resolution for accepting gifts. By the way, I love our speech tonight. I think we all want to get out. Um, we have two wonderful uh donations today. Uh, from resource training and solution, $600 for our PBIS grant. Um, very exciting. Um, our PBIS system is very important to our school, so I want to say thank you. and the American Legion kindly donated $1,000 to our seventh and eighth grade BC trip. I will happily take a motion to approve those two wonderful and generous donations. Motion to approve. A motion by Sharon, second by Alyssa. All in favor? I oppose. Thank you. Motion passes. Good job. All right. Now, I
004know the next one says Iowa on the agenda, but it's got nothing to do with the states from the southwest. uh it is identified official with authority resolution. This is something we do every year. Dr. Perry, take it away. Um yes, this is an annual um resolution that the board will need to approve each year and I would recommend that you approve it um including Mr. Hosmus's name because he will be the responsible authority to Iowa moving forward. Any other questions or comments on this resolution? want to take a vote. I'll make a motion, but the motion has to read that this isn't effective until July 1st, 2025. And I think the other one ends it ends on June 30th. It ends on June 30th, like always. So, we don't need the date. We don't
005have to. No. No. Okay. So, get a motion. I'll second. Okay. Motion by Sharon. Uh second by Stephanie. Uh all in favor, please say I. I opposed. Motion passes. All right. Now, it's uh our adopted budget presentation. Um just for our friends in the audience, we did a little work session on this. So, um our adopted budget. This is our proposed budget for the ne next fiscal year, which is fiscal year 26. Um we have Todd Neski with us tonight um kind of go over a few things but when we do budget we have our proposed budget that happens now uh typically speaking there is I don't remember what month exactly but a um a revised budget that happens a ways in what in February and then uh the meeting before this one I believe
006was our May meeting there is the accepting of what happened in that year. So, it's kind of a three-part process. The revised budget will be like, "Oh, this thing actually happened, that thing." You know, this is kind of like we're we're guessing. That's a better guess. And then the last one is this is what we were able to do. Um, of course, these are all educated guesses. I guess I shouldn't say guess. These are more like a hypothesis. I have the data. I'm drawing this conclusion, things like that. Uh, that said, uh, Mr. Nesky, are you with us? Yes. Um, should I share my screen or Well, we have it up on our screen. We have our our budget piece. It was just there a second ago. Hang on. Oh, you can see it. Okay,
007we can see it. Yeah. Okay. Um, I will talk through the highle assumptions first or shall we just hit get to the numbers? Um, just kind of give us the highle breakdown and then we'll uh Yeah, let's go there. All right. All right. So, enrollment, we're projecting a a decline in ADM of 39 for next year. That has a impact of about um around 350,000 less than state aid next year due to the loss of uh enrollment students. A pause you talk this for anyone who's not sure. ADM basically refers to we get a for adjusted um pupil unit basically uh for daily enrollment. So ADM is saying how much we get in our we call them ADMs for our students basically but every day a student is here that's how we get a large
008large most majority of our funding for our school. So, all right, Todd, thank you. Go ahead. You bet. Formula allowance is increasing 2.74%. So, those students generate $7,480 next year. Again, for adjusted pupil unit. Uh, compensatory revenue was held flat, um, held harmless. Our library aid is decreasing by 20,000 due to legislative action this year. and summer employment co summer unemployment costs were funded in FY26. So this is a estimated revenue of 235,000 to offset our cost there. Um we factored in budget reductions of 573,000. We had to estimate increases for negotiation settlements and we're estimating an increase in health insurance costs. Uh we know TRA uh due to legislative action is increasing by 12% from 8.75% of earnings to 9.81%. That will be partially offset by TR pension aid and we are also budgeting
0093% across the board for inflationary impacts on supplies, services and so on. Okay. Looking at the the budget for 2526 uh general fund revenues 26,491360 general fund expenditures 2639984 that's a positive budget of 91,476 projected to end FY206 with a general fund fund balance of 4,173 and our unassigned fund balance with decrease increase 29,172 ending at unassigned fund balance of 2,23373 which represents 8.46% of our um total budget. Food service projecting a slight deficit spend of 1405 revenues of 1,982828 expenditures of 1,984233 and community education projecting a deficit spend of 70,128 ending with a deficit fund balance of 210,859. Debt service fund projecting a positive variance there of 21,675. Um anyone with a fund balance of 353697 internal service fund projecting a positive spend there of 5700 and OPED uh budgeting interest earnings of 500,000
010ending with the fund of 4,384. Overall total revenue is 31,715946. Total expenditures 31 million 168628. So overall a positive budget of 547,318. Any questions on the budget? It's a lot of numbers. I don't think so. um for our for our audience watching at home as I like to say. Um so when we do budget stuff, we do have a finance committee. So Mr. Nutski, superintendent, our our business manager who's new. Hi. Um welcome welcome Bridget. Um they they meet on a fairly regular basis to kind of go through all these things. A whole bunch of stuff is going to start with them. There may be a work session of the entire board on financial matters. We had one of those just before this meeting. If it's a work session of the board, those are always
011publicly noted. So, if people want to come in, they can. Obviously, the kind of stuff we're talking about is not going to be um any kind of like um staff or other privacy sorts of things. We're all, you know, very um cognizant of that. And then when it gets to here, it's kind of like all that leg work should have been done. So, we are here today to uh approve this budget and it must be approved by the board. By statute, every school has to approve their proposed budget by June 30th. So, that's kind of our process as we go along to get here tonight. All right, that said, u any other questions or comments on this tonight? Todd, anything else to add? No. Well, fantastic. Well, in that case, uh, barring any further discussion,
012I will happily take a motion to approve the proposed budget for FY26. Make a motion approved. Motion by Wayne, second by Nathan. Thank you. Uh, all in favor, please say I. I oppose. And the motion carries. Thank you, everyone. Next up on our agenda, we have some policies requiring review. This is our uh uh third reading and final reading and call for public comment on the policies. Uh policy 203.1 school board procedures rule of order. 203.5 schoolboard meeting agenda. 203.6 uh consent agendas. 213 schoolboard committees. 533 wellness. Um, and again, just to kind of pull the curtain back, we have a policy committee. They go through these policies. Basically, what they do is they try to make sure a lot of this stuff is basically boilerplate. Comes from statute. We get it from the NSBA
013and we kind of change the names to protect the innocent as it were and make it be foldy. But all these particular things are pretty much standard statewide. Goes through policy committee making sure everything is correct. when it gets to here uh for 3 months we read them and at that point after 3 months we will approve it. So we say like first reading call for comments. So if any board members say hey I've got a question about this well then the policy committee would get back together on that and figure out what's what that means things like that. Um so we are at the final reading tonight of these policies which means we are looking for a motion to approve them after any comment or discussion. Any comment or discussion on these policies? I'll
014make a motion approve policies. Motion by Wayne. I'll second. Second by Pam. All in favor? I opposed. Perfect everyone. Great. Number 11. U we are up to our budget and enrollment report. Who would like to take this one? We got two of you guys here tonight. So you let Todd do it? I think Todd left. So I guess it's you. I think you know it's the end of the school year. So kind of final. Yeah. Um so Okay, bear with me here. So typically what you get here is your estimated enrollment numbers. Is that what you're looking for? It's Yeah. What it's our typical report um like enrollment by the time I I think like during the summer time obviously we don't keep track of enrollment. So I would anticipate that you'll see a enrollment
015report. Um Todd had had shared what we're anticipating for enrollment for lots of of students. Um, I think once we get a little bit closer to August, then we'll be able to really kind of firm up some of where we're at because at this point, we do have students either leaving a on the district and we also have students coming into the district. So, I would just hold and wait until we're a little bit more closer to August for that report. And then the budget report, we've heard quite a bit um tonight. and I'll let Bridget kind of explain where we are as of May 31st, but it looks like we're tracking in where we should be at this point. Thank you. Is there anything else, Bridget, that you'd like to highlight? I don't know.
016Yeah, like you said, the enrollment numbers are going to be the same as what they were at the end of um the end of May, I suppose. And then looks like 2024 we are at 84.7 um% on the revenue and we're tracking about the same now this year. So and same with expenditures 79% just about 8%. So everything looks like it's right on track. It's all the same as it was last month looks like. So yeah, if there's other questions, I'll try to answer them. Otherwise, I'll find the answer and get back to you. I like it when things are normal, not having large variations. Anything else on the uh budget enrollment report as we move on? Uh number 12, it just says community concern address on 610 25. Um so I'll kind of give
017a preface. This is referring we've had some uh concerns about our baseball parking situation with the with the road with traffic and you know we talked about this we had a work session the other night. A lot of these things we talk about at work sessions just so folks know. Um it's kind of like when we do the brainstorming and just kind of hash some things out and say, "Okay, what how are we going to do this? What are we going to do? Is it ready for a vote of any kind?" Things like that. So, um, there was a parent and an neighborhood group suggested we put up some one-way signs, things like that. Um, and here's kind of where we landed. So, we're here. First of all, we all acknowledge, yes, something has to
018be done. Absolutely. we, you know, I think between our whole group here and we don't even we can't even probably agree on which side of the road the oneway signs would go on, but it is also an administrative piece to solve whether it's the one way, whether it's um a no parking, not one way, no parking, I keep saying the wrong word, no one no parking signs, things like that. Um, a lot of amazing ideas were brainstormed actually at our workshop, our work session, excuse me. Uh, where it was even talked about, hey, we have this area over here. Could we convert this to parking or something? Well, um, is there something we could do with like the fencing for follows so they don't go out into the street there? So, there's a lot of
019different things. Um, ultimately, as I said, this is going to be an administrative piece to solve with. You know, we're happy to help out with things like that. Um, Dr. Perry is your last meeting with us by the way. I'm just acknowledging that now for the first time. Um and Mr. Postuous is sitting right there. He'll be with us next time. So this will probably be uh something for him to be looking at in the near future. Long and short of it is it's not going to be solved for the end of this summer. Um but it should be better by start of fall games um next year. That's kind of the long and short of it. So I I do want to say board is aware. Board is not ignoring it. Um and yeah,
020we are all concerned about this. I wish I could say it's a new problem. Sadly, it's not. It's kind of one of those things like, okay, yeah, now we should get to this. Um probably could have been dealt with years ago. And that's kind of where we're at. Uh, did that kind of sum up our discussion the other night fairly well or anyone else kind of chime in there about other thoughts? Patrick, I just have um just one thing to say and um I I want to go back to what Mr. talked about because he he said it so very well about that chain of communication and it's important for the board to recognize that um administratively we may get a lot of different emails from one or or two people but it's important as
021the whole for the board to also give that direction of um okay this is what the wish of the board is the will of the board is to solve this problem and once we receive it that way versus one or two people working in isolation. It's much easier when it comes from the direction of of the board just in that chain of communication because when as an administrator you're getting seven different opinions and people and telling you what to do, it's hard to really follow what it is the direction that it should be. So, it it sounds like uh from your conversation on on Monday that it is the will of the board to move forward with some solutions to to the parking. And I think it's realistic um we've had some internal conversations already
022about what that could look like um and how to solve um the problem. Um but we've also um discussed some barriers to that as well. So, I know Mr. list. Um you'll be able to keep everyone up to date um on that and that conversation, but please know that it has been um discussed and and how to move forward, but again some of those those barriers and you know when we say move the board, we also are cognizant that Dr. Perry is um you know moving on and so we didn't want this isn't really the kind of thing probably to start undertaking in your last few weeks. So, we said, "Well, we'll put a pin in this." And, you know, we'll we got we we said it's just it's probably not this summer. Um I
023can't imagine it being this summer. So, we're we're going to try to figure things out and make it the will of the board known to our incoming superintendent. And of course, uh his whole administrative team and as always, the board is happy to work session with anyone and listen and have ideas and brainstorm. But yeah, it is, you know, we got seven people probably could come up with seven different solutions, but you know, honestly, this is all going to come down to the administration making a plan, following through and all that. So, that's where we landed as well. Thank you. I mean, just a heads up that this was discussed with you guys back in May. It wasn't like it was just discussed on June 10th because it was brought to you guys attention before
024that and then it wasn't discussed until the the community member got their whole community together. Well, and so I'm just the reason I'm saying that is because we have I know we have two weeks now, but it was two months ago or a month and a half ago that it was discussed and we did not bring it to anybody's attention, but actually that was it it was forwarded to Dr. Perry and as she said the the administrative speaking has already been looking at it. So that is the stuff that did start two weeks ago. Um so or excuse me two months ago. So yeah we I mean you know that's kind of sometimes how it is like oh hey this thing popped up we forward it and you know because it's administrative it's administrative. So
025it's administrative but it's safety concern. So to me when I look at it like that it's a safety concern of our kids in our community. not only our kids but all the kids that come onto our school property and families. Um so none. All right, we will um any other comments on this agenda item? So really just wanted to address a way to respond to that letter and everything. So I want to know that this has been this is something that's being worked on for a few months now. But yeah, I mean if you if you spend a significant amount of time along that road in those fields, you will understand how much of a problem it is. I'm not saying that it's not being a trust. It is a dangerous situation. I can't even
026tell you how many times I've witnessed. I mean, kids are running across the road because they're chasing phone calls and you know, like we talked about, we need to come up with a better solution. the signs, you know, if it's what you said, there's some barriers and I understand that, but if you go into other facilities, baseball fields, I mean, it's night and day and they have the solutions. So, I mean, we needed to be creative with this whole process and it will take time and you know, that's okay. Sometimes taking time is is okay, but sometimes in a situation like this, you may have to put in something ahead of time until you have a full solution. Well, you can start small, right? That's exactly what I That's so there are Yeah, not starting
027small is all you know something is better than not doing anything and I think you know all this was brought up at our work session. So really what I'm trying to do here tonight, the idea is that so the the public knows that we have we're acknowledging the concern and the work is being done. All right, we'll move on to administrator information and reports. Um, anything to add today, Alyssa? Uh, nothing. Okay. Well, Paul, we'll be seeing you a bit later. He's going to do a little tour for all of us of our new project, but anything else to add? Uh, just two quick things. Um, one of them I'm going to thank Dr. Perry for all of her work here and wish her nothing but the best of luck moving forward. Um, and the
028second one is on Saturday they had the uh clay target and a lot of people refer to it as trap shooting state tournament um and fully had their first ever state champion um in clay target with Delena Reich being the the top female participant in the entire state of Minnesota. So I wanted to know that happened after my report. So, I wanted to make sure there'll be more that comes with that, but just wanted to congratulate her at this point in time as well. Mr. Clover, anything tonight to add? Um, just want to wish Dr. Perry all the best. Thank you for all of your support and guidance the last two years and we'll miss you and hope the best for you. And on this side, I know you're new, so I've got nothing new.
029Don't even have your sign up yet. We'll get that for you next time, Dr. Perry. Well, you're going to work you're going to walk through the IQ project tonight and you'll see some open feelings and some floors that are covered. But just so the board is aware, you you did receive the weekly update, so you'll know what that progress is, and you'll receive that most likely each week moving forward. Uh Bridget and I, we did attend um one of the weekly meetings where um all of our contractors do come together, they problem solve, they talk about um where they are in the sequence of events. quite honestly was above kind of where we understand things. But um you should know that we are really in in good hands and when you're talking and you're listening
030the people that are working here on campus really do care make sure that this project is executed um the care and fabricating pipes and I mean it was kind of it was a little overwhelming I thought just to sit there and listen um to that. So I am excited. I don't know how much you'll see tonight, but as a pro as a project starts to um gear up a little bit more, you'll see you'll see more. Um I am not good at goodbyes, so I appreciate the the kind words and when you just keep going on till till Monday, but it really has been an honor to to be here the last two years. So, thank you for your support and to the leadership team. They're excellent people. Um I think about what Mr. Beerman
031says um each day in his morning announcements is to be nice to one another. And I think that's important that we remember that as we as we continue on and it's it's not going to be any easier. There's still many challenges that are ahead for public schools. that you have good people that are here and that are really working to make sure that they provide a really good um service and an opportunity and experience for kids and for staff and for parents that come into into the buildings. um meeting events and notices not a complete list uh but we do have our regular schoolboard meeting on the 21st of July right here and hopefully it won't be too hot. Um once again open forum for our citizens. If anyone would like to take a moment
032to say anything at the end of the meeting now once twice sold. All right. Committee reports. Um, yeah, nothing's going on with those during the summer. I was just like on those buildings and grounds were going to have something to say. Yeah. Um, we had a few meetings since our last board meeting Sterns met um this last week. We still don't have a new new home still looking for space. So, that will be an ongoing conversation and I'm looking at some staffing as well. um buildings and crowns. We did meet um we reviewed our projects for the incoming school year. We've kind of tapered down on some of the potential projects um due to the IEP project and we wanted to leave a healthy balance um in our LTFM funds because of the shortage potentially
033of the IEP project. And then um our tenure committee met as well and we reviewed um our staff members that are up for for tenure. So that was a a very good meeting as well to talk about strengths of our staff and how they shine. Well, in that case now it is time for any uh board member comments. We'll just go around starting with Wayne. Well, I just want to say good luck for coming up events in my life and always same uh same sentiment. Good luck in the future, all the challenges we hold for us. Thank the retirees for all their years of service and commitment to our communities. I think we have a great group of community, our retirees that are have done a lot for our community and I thank them. Sharon,
034I want to uh thank our retirees, Rosalie Whitworth, uh Patricia Lowry, uh Sherry Bartholomew, and Mona Bombers back um for their years of service and contributions to Foley Public Schools. Um, thank you to our new soontobe superintendent Dan Post for heading the principal search and welcome to Peter Whipmer as our new FIS principal. Um, thank you to our retiring principal, Eric Beerman, and to Trish Perry. Um, thanks to those who contributed to the graduation ceremony with the words of wisdom and thank you to Tina Helman and her crew for the successful all night party. Um, they have it down to a science. Um, and condolences to the family of Jerry Benson. He was the fully athletic booster treasurer for more than a decade. Also, condolences to the Rich Tampa family. Rich was a former school
035board member. Um, thanks to both for everything positive they brought to our school and extended community. I love [Music] just wishing the best. Well, church, I am also my goodbyes. Um, but I want to say thank you. I will miss you dearly but I wish you nothing but the best. Thank you. I guess it's me. Um so again congratulations to Mr. Beerman who will be partying in just a few days. Um he was always a very positive person in our in our unity school with kids. You know that's a hard age group at fourth through 8th and I think having positive person was always a very good thing for a lot of kids. Um, Dr. Perry, I wish you nothing but the best. Um, I know that you will find success and that there is
036a time in your life when you're retired and people say, "Oh, I knew Dr. She was one of the best superintendants we ever had." And I really get back to you. So, um, yeah, in my my first, uh, few months here as board chair, it's been a a joy to be working with you. So, thank you for the past two years. You came in some hard times and it was not easy times and do appreciate that. All right. Okay. Well, in that case, normally I would journal