001Jenny. Jenny. Should I just turn it so she screen or what should I do? Sure. Oh, hey Jenny. Hi guys. We joined you on my computer because Stan is doing the Zoom for the um Piper Jaffrey guy that's going to join later. So, I'm just going to face you towards the the big screen. I don't know if you can see that is working. Absolutely. I'm not really worried. There's three of us here. Coming from what I know. Yeah. M's not on yet, but Yeah, quite ready yet, but excuse me. Or quite Hi, Kelly. 30. We have about 30 pages in hand. Great. You've had some birthdays at your house recently. Yeah. Parties galore. I saw that. To play all time quarterback for a couple of them. Not too bad. Not as bad as can be
002on the only can be on the winning side that way. That's right. Yeah. Hey Matt, how are you? Good. Thanks. I'm gonna mute it and then when we get to that point, I'll bring you up. Is that okay? Perfect. Like I said, we have some stuff at the beginning. So, thank you. See how good you are with your trafficking skills. That's Did you hear? That's why she's doing the Google Meet with Jennifer just stuff on here. How big was I could have two screens going. That's about it. Well, it' be one thing if that was separate and I could move them over there, but I got to kind of run that. So, I know. Okay. We'll go ahead and call the meeting to order. Yes. Okay. And we'll do the public hearing first. Okay. We'll
003go ahead and call the public meeting to order. Sure. I can't see you otherwise. It doesn't matter. Is anyone here to speak at the public meeting? Any public for the certified budget for the budget? Is anyone here to speak on the budget? 15 million to me. Yeah, I I speak a lot on this. Graduating seniors, I think should we'll go ahead and I'll ask for a motion to adjurnn. I'll make that motion. Okay, Jenny, could you second that? I'll second that. Okay. All in favor say I. I. I. I. Okay, that is adjourned. We will then switch over to our regular meeting. We'll call that regular meeting to order and I will ask for looking at our approval items. Our agenda first of all I have a motion to approve the agenda. I'll make a
004motion to approve the agenda. Okay. Is there a second? I'll second that. Okay. All in favor say I. I. I. I. Okay. That is passed. Next, we will go ahead with this five schoolboard basics. I'll just read them all. Okay. Put students first. Follow the law in your own policy. Respect the chain of command. Base decisions on shared objective information. And operate in the public eye. Okay. Next, we have our public forum. I don't have any sheets filled out. So, we will go ahead to our consent items. And looking through those, Kendra did give another set of um or some more bills that came in. Is there anything you wanted on that? They were mostly regular. We are purchasing a mower from CNB. Okay. And starting some Hibbing um lawn care is going to start
005some a project under the football bleachers. So that's to start that out. Okay. Yeah, that'll be to do a little bit of the prep work under the bleachers and alongside it before we resurface the track so that it doesn't wash out under the track. That's happened last year. Some rocks always end up out there. So they're going to dig some of that out and then put a little bit of tiling in there to get that away and do it at in the grand scope of things as minimal cost. So Okay. All right. If there's no other questions, um, do I have a motion to approve the consent items? So moved. Okay. Is there a second? I'll second that. Okay. All in favor say I. I. I. I. Okay. Those are approved. We'll next go to
006our administrative res reports with our principles, Mr. Deo. Yeah. So, at the elementary school, we are kind of busy in our assessment season. We wrapped up our ISASPs. Um, very thankful the week of April 7. Very thankful to the staff and also the students. Um, very proud and and um proud of the effort that was given there. We got all of our tests completed in 3 days. Um, felt like you and 3 days sounds like a short amount of time, but doesn't feel like we rushed through them. We took a test per day. Uh some of those kind of things. We had to make up one extra test, but all of the kids were there. Um they were engaged. They really tried their best. We have some preliminary um reports or data coming back in
007terms of proficiency scores, some of those things. So, as we get more of that data, we'll we'll continue to dive into it and um make tweaks and adjustments as we go to best serve our students and staff. So, um also the ELPA assessment was conducted. uh Miss Reader with the help of Miss Williamson um at the elementary school really worked hard on um proctoring and giving that assessment which shows our language growth for our students who are non native English speakers and and trying to get them to understand the language so that they're able to better understand the learning that we're implementing in the instruction that we're giving in our classrooms. Um, so yeah, and then we're getting ready for our spring assessments in terms of fast reading and I Ready math, um, grade level
008assessments, those kind of things. Uh, secondary state reporting. So, good stuff. Um, but it does feel a lot like a lot of assessments all of a sudden. And so, um, but that's kind of how we're wrapping up our year. So, um, getting ready for some field trips. Uh, they're listed in my report. You can read through those. Um, I'd welcome any questions or anything like that, um, if you need to, but um, and then obviously a lot of my time has been working through staffing and making sure we've got the correct team in place to best serve, uh, siblon and our, uh, especially the elementary building here as we move forward. And so, it's taken quite a bit of time, but uh, feel good about where we're at and where we're heading. So, just very
009grateful for those who have been a part of all of those teams to give their input and, uh, make those decisions just a little bit easier. So really really appreciative of those. So we've got a lot of stuff going on in terms of conversations about scheduling transitions. Um the big summer project that's happening at the elementary building trying to make appropriate plans to get that started on time and then completed on time. Um so just a lot of planning and preparations as we go. So yeah, that's my report. You can see the staff attendance and the PD attendance that hasn't been reported yet is also included in there. So yeah, a lot going on. Not a lot going on, but a lot going on all at the same time. So, very good. Any questions? Thank
010you, Mr. Dazo. Thank you, Mr. Herz. Yeah. So, similar things to the elementary um kind of first big checkpoint in the spring. The master schedule is pretty much done for the fall for high school. So, a big thank you to Mrs. Rugles and Jennifer Brookxford and Twilight Heapstra. They do a lot in getting students scheduled and building the courses within JMC and those that makes it easier for me to take those next steps. So, big thank you to them for their work. And then Mrs. Schuler, her work getting the middle school master done. There's a lot of complexity because of the sharing of staff and just changing in staff and she did a great job getting that all figured out. So, we hope it's all figured out. Um, ISAS testing. Middle school is pretty much
011complete. Just a couple kids to finish up. High school we started on Tuesday. We're scheduled to be done April 29th. And so far that's going well. We did a kickoff during success for A&B. Just kind of talking about the importance of taking ISAPs seriously and you know what that means for students and and the school district and the community in general. So uh for community outreach today we had our spring cleanup. Um, we didn't have as good a turnout as we were hoping for. We were down a little bit compared to last year just in participants. I think we had about 60. So, still good. We were able to do a lot around the school community, but also the city parks. Uh, crew went over to Ochetin to prepare the uh softball diamond and get
012that cleaned up as well. So, still accomplished a lot, but looking to get to that 100 participant number. That's what what we're shooting for. So overall good day. We got a lot accomplished. Um so grateful for our volunteers and students that participated in that. The career fair was uh this past week Thursday. We had about 25 local businesses represented at the career fair. Uh that's a big undertaking. Lots of coordination. So lots of people to thank. uh Ashley Acriman um from the chamber helping to coordinate the businesses and Andre Abdi from the county helping to outreach and and with organization and then again Mrs. Ruggles helping with the planning and and logistics here. So that day sophomores do business tours. So we had multiple businesses offer to host us, you know, for tours and then
013we come back for a panel of speakers. So we had five speakers present to sophomores and then all students participate in the career fair at the end of the day. So really great opportunity to see what our community has to offer for careers and also great just community and and uh school interaction. So great day. Um, PD-wise, we continue to focus on our individual professional development plan goals, hoping to have our one my one-on-one check-ins with staff and then uh need to get started on final evaluation meetings with staff um here towards the end of the year. Anybody who is going through the observation cycle has to have a final eval with me. So, and then decap, really good news to report there. Um I I reported a few months ago kind of what the
014decap was, what things we were looking at, and we put a lot of work into improving that. So last year we had a 13 out of 36. This year we scored a 30 out of 36. So we made a huge improvement there and that's due to just I think a lot of work and time put into it. So lots of people to thank there. Jordan Menning, Katie Schroeder, Katie Colling, Terresa Rugles, Matt Verier, Maria Mans, Amber Brinkhouse, Carly Klein, Hesselink, Mike Wedge, Aaron Hench, Dez Cop, Mike McCarti, Caitlyn Espie, Tristan Bramer, uh, Michaela Fredle, and Emily Hogland. So, most of that is staff, but also some other contributors. So, those are all the people who actually contributed to the decap plan itself. Um, yeah. So, a lot went into it, but we did much better.
015We had the highest score in our region. So, yeah, that was good news. So, we're a little surprised by that. We didn't expect to do that good, but we're happy about it. So, then at the bottom, attendance and PD attendance. So, and I I will add I didn't realize that the score. That's awesome. It's not yet, but I I think down the road, whether it's this fall or two from now, I think they're going to start using that DECAP score as part of the high school performance profile. They they indicate movement toward there because they want more experiences that go into your DECAP. So, I think they're leading to that, which would be good for us in terms of that score. Right. They haven't said that, but y all signs point to that. Yeah. A
016lot of the pieces that they require are already being folded into the performance profile like the industry recognized credentials, your post-secary enrollment and performance and then your um your work-based learning. We have school to career but the state calls it work-based learning experiences. Those are all part of what they look for on their performance profile already. So, yep. Very good. Yep. Good work on that. It's a big mountain to climb sometimes. That was a big project. Yeah. Yeah. Stamp. Um so for my report in the three areas here the district liter literacy and math scores just in regards to that the resignations and staffing decisions in regards to that and finding people to fill that and how that schedule can go and that's been a lot of work by um what Casey and Julie have
017already alluded to this evening but figuring that out looking at our math curriculum and I put this on here initially that we were potentially going to delay that a year and I think I had mentioned mentioned that before, but looking to delay the whole cycle a year. What we're looking at doing now potentially is we might buy the math curriculum. Correct me if I say this wrong, but looking at potentially at getting this spring summer for next year the 712, no, high school curriculum. Yeah, we're not exactly sure, but either 712 or 912 and looking at what would fit best for us, right? just because of where they're at in the process and some of the things, but more than likely for sure K6 or K8 delaying that until the following year that we'd continue
018to evaluate it next year and then purchase it for the year after. Does that make sense? But not for this coming year. Part of the reasoning for that is if you've been following legislation, just take more time to look at it. But they're making a big push on really doing for math what already has been done for literacy in terms of tracking and if you're behind, how do you progress monitor and bring them up and so giving but they haven't come up with a list that's necessarily state approved with that. They have recommendations. So how do we pick a curriculum that we know will fit those requirements and looking into the specifics of that? That'd be a simple way to summarize that. 100%. So um just taking the time to do that. So it might
019be split over two years, but in terms of what we have on our curriculum schedule next year, any any way I think we can fit that without having to delay anyone and I don't think we have to push the whole cycle back if we split math in two years and we can still move forward. So just talking through that and and doing that as well and just looking at where we're at with our testing data and continuing with plans for the team for the PD schedule for next year. Maybe not as far along as that is we normally would be, but I don't think that's a bad thing with some of the the discussions that we're having and plans and the changes with what we're having next year just to to keep that out there.
020So, it it will happen. Staff retention engagement. Some of this is what we've already discussed, but discussion of the cost-saving measures and outside teaching positions and continuing those from last month. I do hope that when we get to the end of this year and next fall that this year maybe will be better than we initially projected. So that's a positive. And then just how we're going to continue to fill these open positions and timing it right through retirements and resignations which you know I said the bloodless attrition and and keeping us in a position where we can do that and don't have to make some rash decisions. Um and then for the retention engagement that ties in with the financially viable but we've been working through our save pebble projections a lot. maybe not in
021the last week or two, but we've done a lot of work towards looking at that with what we're going to talk about later with our bond and the building projects and seeing where we're at. Um, I can't stress enough all things bonds. Today was a big day and we'll talk about that a little bit moving forward here about the bonds and what we're going to use from that. In regards to financing the building project, um, right now we're looking in in visiting with Amos and where we're at financially. I don't think we're going to make a a decision on the bus route for this year, but we're going to start on that earlier next year for the following year. So, we're looking at right now having that the same to start the start the year
022next year. That is our plan at this point. Um, spent a lot of work with Kendra, finalizing our budget projections and the amendments for this year potentially, which we'll talk about later in this meeting. And the other stuff already mentioned and I did add on here, our audit was given an extension. Nothing that we did. They just didn't have that done. So then we have to file for an extension and it was granted. So that's the attachment there more just as an FYI. Any questions? Okay, we'll move ahead to board committees. Um yeah, policy we met. We're going to approve that. Do you have anything to add to that, Laurel? Some just a minor. Yeah, overall minor and then one one kind of policy specific that I'll go over with a with a change for
023our school specific, but the rest were legal recommendations. Um, finance committee, we have been meeting to finalize negotiations and take care of that stuff. Um, before I forget, then Jamie and Greg, when we're done this evening, if the two of you could stick around because we got to schedule a meeting before our next board meeting to go over a few things. So, I'm saying that now so that I don't forget. Yeah, remember you sent out on an email that so and I figured we could talk about that after the meeting tonight, but but really they've met a few times um to finalize negotiations and some other things and we just got to finish those discussions. So, thanks and then we haven't met as facilities. So, that's really the summary. Okay, any questions on any of
024that? Okay, we'll move on to recognition of excellence. Hey guys. Okay. So, for the FFA, we did a bunch of awards at state. So, our Iowa degree recipients were Ben Buyers, Tyler Marco, Jackson Pedley, and Sienna Van Halton. Our chapter also received a gold on our national chapter award and received a bronze ambassador award. Um, I just want to add too, getting a gold on our national chapter award is such a big thing. And then we also weren't just one of the golds that got to walk through, we were one that got to stand on stage. That means we're in like the top 20, which is very impressive this year. And then Marshall Skipoff and Claire Breeman earned a gold rating on their um chapter display CDE, which again is that gold that they got
025in the top four. And then I personally placed in the top 18% of the farm business management test. And then our jazz choir has an So Night Sound. The Night Sounds has a fantastic season of growth and achievement. They got third place at Shake the Lakes, which is a jazz choir competition. They're in the 2A class. improved from fifth place last year, fourth place at the University of South Dakota Jazz Festival, 1A class, USD uses a different classification system, and they improved from second place last year. And they got sixth place at the vocal jazz championships. And then this year, our jazz choir achieved sixth place in the class 2A division at the Iowa Vocal Jazz Championships. While this was a step down from last year's second place finish, it is important to recognize the
026high level of competition and the dedication our students showed. incredibly proud of them. Um, we're especially proud of our soloists at Shake the Lakes. Only two students were chosen as instanding soloists from all 2A ensembles and one of them was our very own Gabe Vandy Hoof. And then at the Iowa vocal jazz choir one, Emma Holbeck was named one of only two outstanding solist from all 2A class groups. And then many students from a high school choir shared that after this year's jazz choir season, they are planning to audition for next year's so jazz choir, which is just a testament to the positive impact and experience it has on our school community. And then our 2025 IHSMA state/solo and small ensemble contest, our jazz choir night sounds. It's the same thing. Did it just repeat
027twice on here? Yeah, I think it did accidentally. So, my bad, guys. And then um generals of the week in March um for the week of the 7th we had elementary Joey Tanaple, middle school Jose Perez Hernandez and then high school Tristan Denga and then our staff was April Durans. In the week of the 14th elementary was Sophia Gonzalez, middle school Addison Doden. High school Dylan Martinez and then staff was Megan Nag. And then in the week of the 21st we had Kyler Julius in the elementary middle school was Pedro Martinez. High School, Kyler Schaefer, and our staff was Bear Poland. And then for the week of the 28th, we had Hector Ramos for elementary. Middle school was Salvador Zapetta. High school was Victoria Gomez Mitchell, and our staff member was Twi. Then that's all
028I have for you guys for this part. Thank you. Okay, we'll move on to our discussion items with our literacy goals, fine arts. So, Mr. Jacuzzma is going to present and he's the the head of our finance department. Thank you for having me tonight. Tell Mr. Z try to keep it under 90 minutes. So we had a good year at fine arts. You can see our staff up there. I did not put completely correctly. Nick Glade is also elementary and middle school part-time. We also have a couple other people that are doing some middle school uh PE as well. So, that's a slight addition to that. You can see those people, they work hard a lot of times. I always laugh because we'll be leaving. It'll be well after hours and those are the cars
029are still in the parking lot. So, it's always kind of fun to see them and we'll wave to each other sometimes from the window. But anyway, um great group of people to work with. Um Mrs. Madson is is moving on to a different opportunity. So, um we want to thank her for everything she's done. She's been a great asset to our group. So, we will miss her. Um, some success stories there. I just kind of put those down. I know you can read. I'm just going to highlight a few of them. Um, obviously, but honor choirs, the honor bands have been well represented this year. Um, PE has finished up pickle ball recently. They've been doing a lot of units that are life skill type activities and they have been enjoying that a lot. You
030see a lot of kids out playing pickle ball at night if you drive by the park, too. So, that's kind of a good good sign. And I think also all PE kids in high school have been completing the mile walk or run on Fridays. So that's good. Art program is setting up for fine arts show tomorrow. We are bringing that back. That's kind of in there later too. But uh it's kind of a fun thing. We've kind of worked together with all of the fine arts people speech debate our speech and drama and also with Mrs. um SB and um getting everything lined up that way. So it's been fun getting that ready to go. We should have a a longer program tomorrow night. We are not doing our formal recital that we did at
031the lantern this year. So, we're doing u this fine arts night. If you remember from fine arts night from years past, a number of years um we used to do this already. And so, we're bringing that back this year trying to make that uh something normal again. Um we've done it all the way through until co hit and then we stopped doing it because of that. So, it's been a number of years since we've done it and so this will be uh hopefully a welcomed addition. We'll have Bamboo will be serving some refreshments as well, too. So, you're welcome to come out tomorrow night from about 5:55 until 8:40. There'll be performances going on throughout the night. So, come and go and uh enjoy some good music and drama. Um let's see the I was
032going to hopefully share the best communities award, but we didn't get that yet. They've moved the date back a little bit on the announcement of that. is supposed to be the end of April now. So, I had that in there as hopefully having that today because that in the past it's always been this this day we could announce it. So, hopefully we have that again and we'll send out emails about that. Um, again, vocal jazz kind of highlighted that earlier. We had a lot of uh kids perform at nursing homes for Christmas and that people really enjoy that. Kids really enjoy that too. I think that's a lot of fun doing that. It's been a good thing to work towards um and an excellent thing to presented a musical this year. So, ensemble contest went
033very well for both high school and middle school. Um, for high school, none of our groups received anything less than a two rating, which is great out of five. Um, it was our goal for my goal, I should say, for high school band to do all students involved in something that were eligible to do it. And we had that. Everybody was there. Everybody was involved in at least one group, either a larger group or a solo or both or whatever, and all of them got ones or twos ratings. So, that was a a great um accomplishment for them. Uh, middle school contest was just last weekend, weekend before I should say, before Easter. And again, all ones and twos. Kids all worked hard. Judges were very impressed with kids. Um, lots of parents in attendance,
034which is great to see again. Um, marching band had a good year. Um, we recognized for our music in our schools month activities, which if you've paid attention, we had a lot of concerts in March. So, in between the different activities going on, lots of concerts going on. Some March Madness, not just because basketball. We had about five performances as well. um drum line color guard performed at uh games. Um we've had uh last year community uh memorial day services. The band students performed at that. We've already been in contact with the people from both communities. This year again already getting that ready to go. High school band went to San Antonio last June. Um we also played it summertime parade. We had the middle school drum line do that since we just got back
035from the trip. So hoping to have another group representing the school and the band program in the summertime parade. Um, band boosters, fire boosters, very active, continue to thrive and do great things and help our programs a lot. So, um, those are just a few of the things. There's a lot of other things. You got the upcoming events here. You can kind of see that, too. I won't go through all those, but in the next 3 4 weeks, we've got basically a performance or two each week coming up here. So, our March Madness continues into April. So, yeah, and that's going on. And that's that's basically what's kind of coming up now. We've worked hard um doing some of our lit literacy stuff. We don't really follow that as much in our department, but I
036still do close reads with my groups. I don't know that all of our rest of our staff has been trained in close reads and that kind of stuff, but they still do their um you know, professional development plan. All those things are implemented in their classrooms and we certainly carry through with those things. So, yeah. And clean up day was great today. Had lots of stuff going. We took two big trailer full to the dump for my my group anyway. So, it was good. I had to go home and shower quick to get back here in time to do the subway. Yeah. All good. So, any questions on anything we've been doing this year? Kids have worked hard. It's been a good year. Lots of good things going on. Thank you, Kelly. Thank you. Yeah,
037thank you. And student presentation from the CAPS project. Brianna and Eric here are both here. So I will let them speak about what they worked on for their CAPS project. You have the link. I'm not sure. I do. Maybe she sent me to you see the paper. I can get it. Here you go. Thank you very such a funny order. There you go. Thank you. Just requested access to There you go. You should have. So, can I go up on this board? What is that word? It's high school it TV cart one. It cart You guys want to control? Great. Thank you so much. Perfect. Well, I'm not sure if you guys know this, but I'm Brandon Sailor and I'm Eric Rosenberg. And um this is just kind of a summary or an overview of
038our CAPS project. So, this all began basically when Mrs. Rugles actually was the one to approach us. Now, as some of you may know, Mrs. Rugles has taken it upon herself to um slowly start up the closet that we have here at So, which basically is um or part of it is how she distributes different feminine hygiene products in our different bathrooms from 5th to 12th grade. And um these are donations taken by our community as well as by herself, too. Um so she had approached both Brienne and I just because she knows that we've been groomed to do a lot of public speaking through um caps and as she was telling us this we realized that it was a very dire need especially in our community for these hygiene products. However, there is also
039a huge number of people who aren't having complete access to these products as well. Um so with the help of Mr. Zoo, we were able to compile um quite a bit of numbers up, I would say, from the different districts as well as people who had um needed um lunch assistance. Yep. Free and reduced. Free and reduced lunches. Thank you. Um and so we took numbers from that and then Mrs. Rugles had also taken account into looking into the different absences and then um who was all here taking it from last year to this year. Not saying it's complete, but it definitely has been a factor in helping our attendances. Um, I would say it also took into a factor of also our cost when it comes to um, menstrual products and then our toilet
040paper. So, again, we had to ask Greg Greenfield and then he explained the different financial situation with that and we realized that it really wasn't too big of a difference for it, which is great to hear. and we compiled a bunch of statistics um following like we researched a ton for like the weeks leading up to it and we made a handout. These are just a couple pages from the handout, but it was about a 12 to 13 page handout that we ended up giving to the legislators on our day at the hill. So Bri and I woke up super early in the morning with Mrs. Rugles was there warming the car up. We love that. Um, so we started our journey at from four o'clock in the morning and we continued all the way
041through with a little pit stop to Duncan. Um, and once we got there, Brianna, Mrs. Ruggles and I were brideeyed and bushy tailed. And um, right away we met with um, Senator Lynn Evans. Correct me if I'm wrong, Brianna. and he actually gave us a list of a bunch of different house reps that we were supposed to meet with along with different senators. Um, and then Len Evans wife, MIJ, actually took it upon herself to give us a little tour of everything. We even got to go to the tippy top, which most people do not get to do. Um, so that was pretty neat. Um, and then she got to tell us some of the history about it, too. We got to learn about the different jobs that everyone has as well, which was quite
042fascinating because you would never think of all these different things that they have to do in that crazy building. Um, and so from there, we actually got to meet with going down the list, people like uh, Representative Deacon, and they all took loads of time to listen to us, and they really did pay attention to what they were we were saying. Um, and they had questions for us, too. that that's how we knew that they really wanted to hear us. Yeah. Um then we after lunch at lunch we had a call with the Northwest Review which is the paper in front of you. Um we had a call with her over lunch and kind of talked about what we were doing and why we were doing it. And after that we found out that that
043guy right there that is Skyler Wheeler. He is the chair of education and the bill which was previously house file 543 which is now known as house file 883 was sitting on his desk. So he was a very important one to talk to and try and convince that we needed this. He asked a lot of questions and he it was actually during debate so he was running back and forth back and forth in felt a little bad but um he ended up listening and the bill ended up moving from his desks to a great subcommittee right after we talked to him. So we like to think we had a little part in that. Um then we got to talk to Simly Sibly alumni John Wills and uh along with the writer of the house file
04454384 883 now um David Young. He was previously a congressman. He is now a representative and he was the writer of the bill that was introduced that day that we were there. So we got to talk to him. We got pictures with him. We talked to him and his clerk and we kind of I am still in contact with uh David Young following that just kind of figuring out what we need to do and it was a great experience. Super fun. He was great guy. Now the aftermath. Um we gave our research over to a nonprofit, Love for Red. They've been working on trying to get feminine hygiene products provided in all Ian's high schools and middle schools for the past four years. So we gave them the rights over to our um statistics, our
045handouts, project on period is now part of love for red. Um this is due to the fact that um my internship with Miss Ruggles and our senior semester is coming to an end and we don't want to see all that great work that we did go to waste and they reached out and asked if we would collaborate. So it was a great opportunity and it was really fun. So, I am still contacting Senator Lynn and all that trying to get it moved because the bill, House File 883, is currently in appropriations, education appropriations, and as we know, money is really hard to get around. So, it's just a tough spot right now. So, we're trying to keep it moving, but that's where it is. So, and that is it. Any questions? I just have to
046say that We couldn't have asked for two more professionally behaved just I was just so impressed by both of them all day long that just and I think it says something about CAP's program too. Their public speaking skills, their professionalism, their interpersonal skills. It was just I mean I just stood back and said I was just their chauffeur. Just just let them go. And they and they did they did us all really proud. and the love for red group said, "What was you guys' secret?" Because it may be stalled out in appropriations right now, but for the first time ever, the bill made it out of the education subcommittee um in the House. So, and it passed unanimously, which which the other senator or the representatives that had tried to get it moving forward on
047it. There was like two different bills introduced, but we kind of liked this one because it was simple. It just just was high school girls restrooms. It's all we're asking for. And um David Young was they didn't even say too they got Senator Evans said if they got there by 9:00 he would recognize them on the Senate floor and he and he had them stand in the balcony introduced them and everybody stood and gave them a standing ovation which which they deserved and they worked hard all day long in heels which I don't but just a testament to good things And you guys, we're going to miss you a lot next year. You've done a good job. Thank you. Thank you. Great job, Carol. Thank you. So, the whole process going through it at the
048state house, did you think that's how it was going to be or was there a lot of It was definitely in my head when I got there, I was like, these are just people from Iowa. Little Iowa, the state, it's in the middle of nowhere. Um, and then getting there, you're like, "Wow, this is like it's way bigger than I thought. It's so pretty." And so, it wasn't at all like I thought. I thought I was going to go in, talk to these also people from small towns who had no idea where I was from and just kind of talk to them, sit down with them, and then move on with my day. I did not know it would get as big as what it did or get the cuz even when we were at
049the capital people would come up to us and be like what are you doing like wow great job and I was like oh so this is like you guys don't do this or we were like stopping them like will you want to please listen to us like we thought at least in my mind it was going to be something like this where we're sitting down and I initially thought we were going to do a presentation so the handout we were just like, "Oh, I guess now we got to do a handout. That's cool." So, it was it wasn't at all like we had thought. It was a lot of um improv and hustle. It was a lot like, "Oh, so we're doing this now." Okay. So, yeah. Well, I think you girls were really prepared.
050And I think the CAPS program, this is a great um example of what the CAPS program can do. And look at the difference you've made. Yeah. Good job. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you guys. Is this your first year in the CAPS program or It was So, it wasn't offered to juniors at first. It was only offered to seniors and now it's a junior senior class. So, it is our first year. We've both taken it both semesters. So, we're caps students, which is where the internship comes in. So, y if I had been able to, I would have taken it my junior year. Very beneficial. For sure. So, yeah. Good job. Wait for present us. Of course. Thank you guys. Thank you guys so much. We appreciate you having us. Nice job. Thank you. Have a
051good meeting. Two minute board policy. I'm finding out. So when you get a chance, you want to exit out. Mr. Herz, I'm just Oh, I'm sorry. No, no, you're fine. Multiple things here. All right. Um, knowing we had a lot of other stuff, I didn't put a lot on here, but we're going to start the new business portion in in a section in a second here in the next section. And I wanted to point out when we're talking about bonds, the difference between revenue, which is what we're financing, or general obligation, you might hear them called GEO or debt bonds. And the big difference is um we don't increase necessarily our levy rate and we don't have to go to the voters for approval for revenue bonds. for borrowing against future revenue which comes in
052through um the SAFE fund, the the penny sales tax for lack of a better word, where the general obligation you go to your voters for approval and then they approve increasing your levy by X amount of dollars to pay that off. And so yeah, we might have less overall capacity to do that, but that is a big difference and there's some minor differences when we're going through the bond sale for that as well. So for you guys as well as we start moving forward and people hear that, you know, we're selling bonds to facilitate the um construction and the remodeling that are going on this summer. Remember we sold it through revenue bonds and not the general obligation or debt bonds or geo bonds. You kind of hear three all terms. So um just kind
053of being aware of the differences there and that's important if people come up and ask that question. So that's my two minutes. Very good. Thank you. We'll move ahead to um new business. Consider approval of FFA Junior Senior Trip. I will try to make this as short as possible, but I didn't know if it's going to be two minutes like his was. So, this is our I'll wait for it gets all the way in there. I hit the wrong one. This is our 2025 junior senior trip FFA proposal. Um presented to you guys by me. Um, the purpose of the FFA junior/ senior trip is to develop further education in the following areas here. Yeah, that might be easier. Meeting with leaders in agricultural and government areas. While on our tour of the nation's capital,
054we'll be meeting with governmental leaders and experts in the industry such as the White House. We visit and then we visit the American Farm Bureau and other farm and governmental agencies. um visiting the American Farm Bureau. I know that they go in and they talk to I don't know I think it changes but they always go and have a really nice meeting there. We've stopped there for national convention too. It's very beneficial. Um we also meet with southeastern agriculture. We go and visit farm operations. So by viewing farm operations in Florida and Kentucky we will further our development and understanding of the different types of agriculture in various parts of the country. Obviously what they grow down there is not what we grow up here. So it's very interesting. And then our trip will develop,
055personal qualities and cooperation, friendships, and the development and execution of a plan. The requirements to go to this trip have changed. So we still have to sell at least 15 boxes of fruit each year, work annually at the FFA lunch stand, be in good standing with the school, remain active, and help with major FFA activities. What's really changed is the FFA lunch stand um shifts have changed just a little bit, and that's what makes it a little bit different. But otherwise, it's basically the same. Additional requirements are no outstanding bills, all payments are to be made in advance, you have to sign and turn in all parent permission slips, agree to abide by all the triple rules, and then you post a $500 trip bond to be cashed only if a member does not abide
056by the rules. Expenses. The costs involved with travel and lodging will be the responsibility of the Sibiochin FFA chapter. And then the Sibliochin FFA chapter will also cover the costs associated with most tour groups or group tours. All FFA members are required to put money into a fund before the trip starts. This will be used to defay the cost of all transportation. And then FFA members will pay for the cost of their meals, any souvenirs, cleaning of clothing, and then any other personal expenses that may arise. Schedule for the trip is June 17th. Everyone participating will meet in the a shop at 8:00 a.m. where they'll have their luggage checked before loading the bus and then they will leave for Gettysburg, Pennsylvania at 9:30 a.m. They'll drive through the night and then that's where they'll
057stop at the Gettysburg National Military Park. Then they will head on to Washington DC and they will do activities there and they include tour of Mount Vernon monument tour. So they go to Lincoln, Jefferson and then the Washington Monument. Then they got tickets to the Holocaust Museum this year, which is so exciting cuz Lori said they don't always get that. So, it's very great when they do. And then Washington Monument again. And then they get to go to the White House this year, which is super exciting. And then Ford's Theater, the National Archives, the Russell Senate Office Building, and then they get a tour of the Capitol, Library of Congress, Smithsonian Institutions, and then a tour of Arlington Cemetery. the Pentagon 911 memorial and then they will leave Washington DC June 21st and they will
058head to Florida and drive through the night. The activities in Florida include Daytona Beach, Daytona International Speedway, Showcase of Citrus Tour. So that's the southwestern agriculture cuz we're not growing oranges up here. and then Universal Studios and then they'll travel to Paris, Kentucky, which is again through the night June 24th where they will tour the Clareborn Farms and then they will leave for home and then this is just us and then that's it. Any questions? What's Clareborn Farms? Clareborn Farms is where they actually raise a bunch of horses that make it to the Kentucky Derby. It's really interesting. So, it's not like going to Church Hill Downs where you can see all them race, but you can see like where they start as little colts and little fools and stuff. So, it's really cool. How
059many are scheduled to go? How many are scheduled to go? Yeah, the same question. I believe it's 20 something. I am not going cuz I signed a paper saying that I would go rowing college and I have to unfortunately go get my physicals done during that. So, I will not be there. But I believe it's 20 juniors and seniors. Juniors and seniors only. Yes. It might not even be that much, but yeah, thank you. A good number. You're close. I think it's around. Very good. Any other questions? Looks like you have a great agenda. See some really cool things. I'm really excited for them to go to the Holocaust Museum. I went when we were younger cuz we went to Washington DC and it was it's a good museum. It's really impressive. Very good. Okay,
060perfect. That's all I have. Thank you. Okay. Consider approval of opening and considering sealed bids by We have to technically vote to approve on that one. Make a motion to approve the FFA. I'll second. All in favor say I. I oppose. Okay, that was passed. All right, so for our next agenda item, um Matt Gillespie here with Piper Sandler is gonna get us started and talk us through these next two items. So Matt, can you hear me? Yeah, I can hear you. Can you guys hear us? All right, we can. So um you're on I'm kind of projecting you on the TV, so they're all kind of looking up and watching you up there. Unfortunately for you, you will only be able to view me. So, I apologize for that in advance, but they that's
061all right. And I and I do have that up if you need that. So, yes, they do have your stuff up on the board. Okay. So, uh good afternoon, good evening, board. Um those that haven't met me before, my name is Matt Gillespie from Piper Sandler in De Moines and we are the financial adviser for the school district as it comes to uh infrastructure financing. and I've worked with uh Cindu for about 25 years actually over lots of different administrations and boards. So have some experience around that area of the state as well. Um so what you see on this uh first page, we'll go through this relatively quickly, but I'll come back and let you guys ask questions so you can take as much time as you want questions certainly. Um but I have
062had time to go through this this afternoon with both Stan and Kendra, so I'm pretty confident they understand it. Um, but we'll go through it as well here with you as the board. So, on this first page, what we see up in the top heading, uh, we originally asked the the biders to be bidding on $6,130,000, although you would held a hearing for up to 6.5 million. So, it was determined that you could probably use the full amount uh for this project. And if if there is any extra money, if there's any extra money, there are other needs around the district that that could be used for. So we did in fact change the final amount to 6.5 million. What you will see on this page though, all is relevant to the 6.13 million. So
063the purchase price and all those numbers. Um the this standard of cores met with your uh supervisor or excuse me, superintendent and business manager about a month ago. I myself, they assigned an A+ rating to the sales tech bond. So that's a a very good rating. That's about as high as really almost any school district in Iowa would get. Um the winning purchaser today did choose to use bond insurance. So that bond insurance company has a double A rating. Um you see the bids here on this page. There were four bids that were received. Whoops, sorry. Uh four bids that were received. Uh the winning bid from Stifel Nicholas. And we look to this number that's here in the light blue or gray. This 4306. That is a weighted average rate. So it's weighting the
064longer term maturities more heavily than the shorter term maturities since you're going to be paying the interest on the longer term for a longer period of time obviously, but it also factors in the fee that that bidder was going to charge as well as if they were paying you a premium or taking a discount. That's all wrapped into this number. So the best of all of those things is the low lowest and is the winner. So in this case 4306 once we made the adjustments for the 6.5 million and reposition some of the principle uh that number ultimately became 43000. So not much different uh but a little bit lower slightly lower. Uh the other biders you see there Raymond James in Dallas, Robert Barry in Milwaukee and Key Bank in Cleveland. Uh the page
065after that shows the sources and uses for today's transaction. So you're issuing $6.5 million of principal. This bidder is paying you a premium of 101,568. So together that $6.6 million in in proceeds, gross proceeds. And from that you are paying an underwriter's discount which is the fee that that particular bidder factored into their bid 140,775 which includes the insurance premium the cost of issuance the 101525 that's a combination of all the other professional um entities that we're helping along the way. So that would include your attorney which is allergy here in de mo uh standard of pores for the rating Piper Sandler the company that I work for and United Missouri bank uh who who handles a few things as well. Um a bigger number though here is the reserve fund. So when a when
066a municipality not just a school issues revenue back debt um it's very common for there to be required to have the reserve fund. Uh it's kind of like a rainy day fund or a lockbox fund, whatever you want to think of it. Um cities would do this if they're issuing utility revenue bonds. Uh universities if they're issuing dormatory revenue bonds. So it's very common. Um and in this case that is required is 647150. That is the district's money. You do not lose the money but you do lose access to the money while these bonds are outstanding. So once the bonds are finally paid off, that $647,000 will be released to the district and then you can go spend it on whatever you need at that time. Um it you can earn interest on it. So
067you can definitely invest it and Kendra and I talked about that. So hopefully you can earn a reasonable amount of interest over the the years. Um and the interest that you earn is money that you could spend that would be treated just like sales tax money. uh it is not money that can be transferred to the general fund or management fund or some other fund. It is treated as though it's sales tax. And then the big number here 5 million712 that's the net amount that's left over for the the board to be able to spend on the project itself. We're going to see on another page that there are some other monies in and out that get this ultimate expenditure number to a higher number. from the bond itself 5 million712 there's a note at
068the bottom of this page if I go slow enough not to skip past it there's a note that shows that the bonds are callable beginning July 1 of 2032 so on the next page we see the amortization schedule or the debt repayment schedule and you can see principal payments being made in the spring or summertime semianual interest payments that's pretty typical for most municipal bonds uh But that call date of 2032 is right here. So up until that time, the district can't change anything. You have to just keep making the payments as scheduled. You can't pay the bonds off early. You can't refinance the bonds. You can't change anything about them. But once you get to 2032, if you have accumulated some sales tax surplus possibility, um or somebody's donated, you know, a trillion dollars
069to school, I guess that's a possibility. But if there's extra money sitting around, you could begin to pay the bonds off early. And you can do that any time at 30 days notice once you get to July 1 of 2032. And you can do it at any amount uh in $5,000 increments. Now, you're not going to waste your time to pay out $5,000 probably because it'll cost you a couple hundred just to get a resolution from the attorney, etc. Uh but do districts do very commonly pay these off early um with excess money. You could also refinance the bonds at that time. So if in 2032 or after that uh interest rates are low enough that it becomes mathematically feasible to refinance this debt, no different than how you or I might refinance our house
070or our car loan or student loan or what have you. Um the district could refinance the bonds and save money that way as well. But until 2032, uh everything's locked in the way you see it. On this page, you just see uh the interest rate, the yield that the that the investors are earning, and then the price that they're paying you. Uh we can come back to that if you have any questions about it. But most importantly, probably more interesting to you is what's happening here at the bottom here. I just put in some examples of other sales tax bonds that have been issued over the last year to give you an idea of where the market has been. So this I just pulled out some examples from today. your one year, five year, 10
071year, and 15 year yield. And it's the yield that we can compare one investment to another. Um unfortunately, a couple weeks ago when Sheldon was selling bonds as well as Marshalltown, um that was right when these these uh um tariffs were being announced and then taken away and then put back on. And it was causing lots and lots of turmoil in the market and interest rates were significantly higher just for that short period of time. Now, that doesn't mean they could get higher again. They could be higher tomorrow. They could be higher next week. We don't know. Any day, any week, you know, the market moves. Uh sometimes it moves up and sometimes it moves down. Uh you you happen to sort of luck out, so to speak, uh today because rates were back down
072for the most part. Uh you could see a month ago, St. Ans sold similar bonds and they had fairly similar interest rates to what you had. The very short short term was lower though, although it doesn't mean a lot because again what I said earlier, you're not going to pay that interest very long. So differences in a one-year rate aren't that significant. You look back three months ago, Glad Reinbeck sold. Interest rates were just across the board lower at that time. Six months ago, Williamsburg and then a year ago, Jessup all doing just what you're doing. Williamsburg and Jessup did not have the one-year maturity. their principal. They didn't pay any principal for a few years. So that's why you don't see a rate there. Uh but of course I think most of us know
073just inherently just from watching the news or you know whatever talking to your neighbors etc that interest rates have risen. Um they're still very low overall but they're quite a bit higher than they were a year ago and especially higher than they were three years ago when we were just you know in the middle of and coming out of COVID. They were at record low levels at that point. This page here now brings kind of everything together. So this the main part here is the amortization schedule. So you've already seen that. I'm going to blow this up a little bit because I we really want to look mostly at the right side of the page here. So what this is showing you first of all sources. So money coming in again you have the $6.5
074million in on principal plus the premium. But then we estimate that you will earn approximately $140,000 in interest while the bond money is just sitting in the bank. You'll certainly begin to spend some of that soon, but you're not going to spend all $6 million of it right away. So, it's going to sit in the bank and earn some interest. Um, you already have paid some of the fees out of your pocket over the last sixish months. So, you've contributed some money to pay site logic and some equipment that you already purchased. So that's already those are assets basically money that you've already spent. And then back to the top here, you do expect or at least you were this doesn't have to happen, but this is what would have been planned that you would
075reimburse yourself for um about $10 to $20,000. Now, that's I believe that that's some of these expenses, but um you know, Kendra didn't explain that more if that's not true, but that's money that you probably will take from the bond and then put back into your sales tax fund or couple fund. So it could even be that you borrow money from your management fun general fund. Those things happen. Um again the net amount uh here the cost of the projects it was estimated to be 5.7 million. Certainly we don't know what the cost is for sure because you won't know until you finished it. Things do crop up. Sometimes things get a little bit more expensive. Occasionally they get cheaper too. Not often but sometimes. But if this was all accurate, if all of these
076estimates and projections prove to be pretty close to true, you actually may have close to $347,000 extra. Um, don't go spending that money right now because it's not written in stone. It's an estimate. But if that's true, then when this project has been completed or of course this project itself could get more expensive and it would be tolerable because you have this this extra um revenue. But if the project is completely finished, all is done and everybody loves it, uh, and you still do in fact have 300,000 or 320,000 or maybe you have 400,000 left over, that money can then be spent on any legal purpose that sales tax money could be spent on. Um, so you could go out and buy some buses or fix a roof or buy a boiler or do some
077trucking, you know, whatever the district might be to do with that money. Of course, you could also use it a make a payment on the bonds. That's no different than just using sales tax from buy. It's really just swapping out funds. But you could spend it on some other needs. Um you won't know for sure though that that is really a surplus until you're finished. So So again, don't don't go spending that money quite yet. Uh and then the timeline, we're pretty close to the end here. Today we were taking bids at 1:30. The board is meeting now and presumably here in a moment you will award to the lowest bidder. That's all that you do tonight is award to the lowest bidder. All of the rest of the legal documents are going to be
078done at that May 19th meeting. All of those documents will come to you prepopulated by your attorney. Uh it'll be very simple. There's a lot of paper. So Kendra might be a little bit thrive from all the paper. But from a board standpoint, very easy. You just have to approve those things in order to get the bonds completely issued and completed. The money will come to you on June 3rd. So you did actually receive some money today. That's called the good faith deposit. It's like earnest money. The low bidder has to wire that to you within a couple hours after sale deadline, but the bulk of the money is going to be wired to you on June 3rd. So then it can be invested at that time. You could, you know, pay those other funds
079back to yourself if that's necessary. You can start to pay architects and construction costs, etc. And then the rest of this packet, if you have a printed copy, or if you want a printed copy, is just the rating report. I'm not going to go over that. You can come back and read it if you want to. But you see this is where you see that that A+ rating was assigned. Um and then their commentary does you know talk about the district's project uh some of your budget practices etc. But you can come back and look at that. So what's going to happen now? I'm going to open it up for your questions. We could talk for 20 seconds, we can talk for 20 minutes, it doesn't matter. But once your questions are answered then we
080will go to the next agenda item which is the actual action. And I will lead you through that. But before we get to that, uh, does anyone have questions about what happened today? What what you see in these worksheets, the process, what will still happen here in the future, you know, how do the bonds work? Any questions that you have? Uh, we want to make sure you're comfortable before we go to that that action item. All right. So, now's the time if anyone has some questions specific to the financing of the project to ask Matt as an expert. I don't have anything. I don't either. Very well just explained, Matt. Good. Thank you. The only thing I was in to add and ask, yeah, we'd had some concerns and emails in the last few weeks
081with the volatility, which Matt alluded to, with the the bond market and just rates in general and so forth. So, I mean, would it be fair to say that we were pleasantly surprised today where they were at, Matt? Yeah, I mean I wouldn't say that I was surprised just because I've seen it in the last couple days because a couple other schools have done this in the last few days but since you know you guys don't obviously you know follow the market every day. Yes, definitely compared to you know a week and a half or two weeks ago this is a pleasant surprise. Um certainly what we'd like to see happen that the rates have come back down. Of course we'd like to see them go even lower. That would be even better for everyone.
082um well I shouldn't say for everyone but in this situation when you're incurring large amounts of debt uh it's it's better um but they have they have sort of recuperated now that as I said earlier with the president doing what he's been doing we don't know what could happen tomorrow I mean literally um so this could now have locked in assuming that the board approves this in a few moments but something could change and these rates could go back up tomorrow they could fall even lower tomorrow we just don't know on any given Okay. So, if there aren't any other questions, I'm going to we'll lead you through the the next item. Uh the next item is the the only item that's really actionable. Uh I'm going to paraphrase the resolution and that is acceptable
083for me to do, but one of the board members simply needs to so move what I say and then another board member needs to second the motion. And then Kendra, I'll remind you, you do have to have a roll call vote that's required. Okay. So, the resolution before you is directing the sale of $6,500,000 of school infrastructure sales, services, and use tax revenue bonds series 2025 to Steif Nicholson Company of Birmingham, Alabama. So, a board member can still move that. So moved if you choose. Second. Okay, we'll do our roll call. Okay. Laurel, yes. Jamie, yes. Greg, yes. Jenny, yes. Okay, so I'll I'll Yeah, go ahead. We had That's all that you need to do tonight. Um, just one more real quick thing as because as I was reading the name of the firm,
084I'm very familiar with who they are, but I realize that you might not be. Sometimes we get questions from board members that want to they're kind of curious like, is this is this a reputable company? You know, is this company good for the money, so to speak. Well, if you think about it, it's them that has to be concerned with you because you're the one that has to pay them back. They don't owe you money. They just have to give you the money at least between now and June. So, we do know who they are. They're a very large brokerage firm, but it's really the other way around. You know, they're they're repres they're they're waiting on you to pay them over the years. Um, so they're more concerned with with your credibility than you
085would be for them. So, just in case that was kind of going through your mind. Um, I'll leave it at that. If anybody has questions, if you do come up with some, if citizens ask you questions and you're not quite sure what the answer is, definitely pass those questions back to uh Stan or Kendra. We want to make sure that anyone's questions are answered. And that could be tomorrow, but it could be next year, anytime. Um, Stan and Kendra, you're going to get some more messages from from us and from all over the next couple weeks. If you guys have questions, definitely ask them. And as I said earlier, you know, probably better to try to ask me first. I probably will know the answer. If I don't, you know, you can go back to
086the attorneys, but it might save you some money uh to ask me those questions. Um, otherwise, congratulations uh and good luck with your project. Have a good night tonight, guys. Thank you. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you. Yep. Good night. Good night. Okay, then we're ready to move on to approval of 2025 graduates there. So, Mr. Herz prepared this list. They've um reviewed this. Did you have anything to add, Mr. Herz? Um, no. 41 graduates. Uh we're expecting in May we have a few uh with some outstanding time of community service that's due May 1st. Um and we have a few that um have required classes that are cutting it much closer than I'm comfortable with. They're maybe a little more risk tolerant than I am. So, you know, our hope is always that all 41
087on this list walk across that stage in in May. But of course they have to meet the graduation requirements to do that and I've spoken with every student that is cutting it close and they're well aware of that. So um we hope I don't have to enforce that but they are aware of the policy. So okay is there a motion to approve this list? So moved. Second. Okay. All in favor say I. I. Okay. And that is passed. consider approval of FY26 certified budget documents. So, we didn't have any comments since the first hearing when we presented back in March and then there was no one here to comment on that at the second hearing, which both are required by law right now and legally um at the beginning of this meeting. So really what
088it takes is um a motion to approve the certified budget as presented and then we will submit that electronically. We used to have to bring it in by hand. We'll work through that but right and verify but right now we can submit that electronically to Michelle at the auditor's office. Excuse me. We have to do a call. Okay. Is there someone who would like to make a motion? I'll make a motion to approve the budget as presented. Second. Okay. Um, roll call vote. So, Laurel, yes. Tammy, yes. Greg, yes. Jenny, yes. Okay, this passed. Moving on to set date for public hearing. We need to have a public hearing to amend the FY25 certified budget, which is this year's, and those budgets have to be um amended and approved by the 31st and turned in.
089And so we're proposing to do that on May 19th, which is our next scheduled board meeting. Um we don't have the the final numbers, but we're just doing that in anticipation if we're um over in a few categories that could potentially happen. The big reason is you got to remember we approve our budgets pretty much for 14 months 15 months before the end of that fiscal year. A lot of things can change. One of the things with this year's budget is we approved it before the legislation with TSS even happened last year and the increased teacher minimums. So yes, we had increased revenues, but that doesn't matter on the budget. We had excuse me, increased expenses. And then the other reason we're looking at is obviously because of the construction project and some of those
090obviously expenses and things will occur this fiscal year yet. Is there a motion? Make a motion to set the public hearing of fiscal year 25 amended budget for Monday, May 19th, 2025 at 5:30. Okay. Is there a second? Second. All in favor say I. I I I that is passed. Consider approval of forgiving uh missed time for students and staff. So, we had one weather related snow day this year for all students. We've already taken care of this with seniors um and so forth. But I'm proposing that we forgive this for students and staff this year specifically so that we can move forward. Every day is going to count with our timeline for the construction project. So, we would not make that day up. Um, our last day would continue to be Friday, May 23,
091and then we could get started with work on Tuesday, May 27. Monday is the Memorial Day. Um, but we need board approval to forgive days. In terms of hours, we're fine. We're Yeah, we're fine. Okay. Is there a motion? I'll make a motion to approve uh forgiving m time for students and staff as presented. Second. All in favor say I. I. That is approved. And approval of new contracts. So we have two new contracts to approve here. Rose Fernandez to be the fifth sixth grade middle school science um teacher position. And then John and I'm not quite sure how to say the last name. Pacific R. I'm going to say for the middle school math position. Okay. Is there a motion to approve these two people for contracts? Make a motion to approve the news
092contracts as presented. Second. Okay. All in favor say I. I. I. Okay. That is passed. I. Okay. That is passed. consider approval of TLC contracts for 2526. So, we always go through when we do negotiations, approve all contracts, and I did this last year, and it it just kind of makes sense after we've approved contracts. I've waited till the next board meeting to approve the um TLC contracts for the following year. Um so, once again, Katie Schroeder and Barb Williamson will be our two instructional coaches. Katie in that 712 really it's f I I put it on there but she primarily serves 512 and Barb K4 they do some overlap there with the 56 and some duties that they do districtwide and then our curriculum lead teachers as an example Kelly presented tonight that's why
093he presented for the fine arts so the 612 ELA the changes with some staff that are resigning and and those that we have in place so um Katie Schroeder will be doing the 612 ELA and then Jean Nag would do the Elementary, ELA, um, special ed would be Amber, um, Brinkhouse, math, Carrie Krogman, science would be a change as well. And Daryl and Brendy, Brenda Tuji, um, we'll do that together so that we have kind of a someone representative at the elementary and then someone at the buildings up here. The two assured me they could get along. Um, fine arts would be Kelly Jacobsma, CT, Matt Verier, and then Mr. Weisma for social studies. Is there a motion to approve these contracts? So moved. Second. Okay. All in favor say I. I. I. I. Okay.
094That is passed. Consider asking adding high school girls assistant wrestling coach. So with the number if you remember obviously we did um girls high school wrestling on her own this year and we have the head coach. We do not have a paid assistant coach on the salary schedule and so I'm recommended adding that and then we can advertise for that. But we can't do that till we get to that point. But there just with the nature of the sport and we've had enough girls out that there's a need for two coaches. We had some serve in that role volunteer this year and it's not paid. Is there a motion on this one? Make a motion to add high school girls assistant wrestling coach. Second. All in favor say I. I. I. And that is passed.
095Consider approval of payments to site logic. As we've been doing the last several months, we approve the monthly payments. Um the difference here is these last few months and now that we know that the um bond sale is is happening is the last few Kendra are we paying the full amount on the invoices. Correct. Yep. Instead of a percentage we're paying the full amount. But once we receive the funds we'll pay all the back part that we didn't pay. Yes. Okay. All right. Is there a motion to approve this? I'll make a motion to approve the payments of sight logic. Second. Okay. All in favor say I. I. I. I. And that is passed. First reading of board policies. Um to summarize, I will summarize and then um Laurel, maybe you can or Jennifer can
096feel to correct me if you have anything to add. 99% of the changes here are um legal or policy driven. Um the big change is with the legislation and civil rights and title 9 changes, anything that was representing gender identity. Um can be bullied, but it can't be a a class that is discriminated against for like employment purposes and things like that. So that language was removed. There were references for employee records. It used to say the board secretary and it's adding anytime that was in there the board secretary or their design to handle that. So that would mean how we currently do that. We keep those in Kendra's office. But if someone brings those in Chrissy Acriman for instance as our administrative assistant processes and puts them in there. It's just board policy saying
097that. My guess is that was happening in a district somewhere in Iowa and someone through a complaint that someone was processing the employee records that wasn't listed in policy. So, this just covers us for that. And um oh, there's language to update the cell phone bill to match what's coming through. And so, the recommended changes that we did for that are minor um but just talks about parents or guardians who need to communicate with students during instructional time may contact the school building administrative office. That's a policy we currently have in place. it just wasn't listed there. Meaning, don't you're not supposed to call or text your students during the day. Call the call the office. And the big thing is just clarifying that you have in policy that kids aren't using their phones K12
098during instructional time. You can have policies stricter than that. You just can't go lenient. We were already at that point. So, obviously, they don't use them at all in elementary. Middle school kids can't have them out during the day. The really only kids or building that have access to that during the day are the high school students. and it's in passing periods and this really isn't changing that. It's just the wording to strength. Would that be a fair way to put that? Yes, Laurel. Yes. So, that's the policy there. The only policy that isn't based on a regul regulation that came from ISBO that I am proposing and the um policy committee was good with is with our sick leave bank. This ninth point um in the past it said it can't be used for
099um maternity leave. We're recommending and I I'll read the policy. It's here. It says here, "These days can be used for maternity leave under the following condition. The individual's personal sick days are all used up." Obviously, that's the point of a sick bank, right? Sick bank days can only be used within the individual's first 6 weeks of leave and cannot be used to extend 6 to 12 weeks. They have the right to take 12 weeks. We're just saying the sixth bank would not apply to that. It would apply within the first six weeks if they don't have enough days. individuals still have the right to take 12 weeks of leave, but that sick bank cannot be used for weeks 7 to 12. Um, this was brought up initially by the association as kind of a
100benefit. Um, and talking through they realized that was wasn't something that was negoti negotiable, but I said I would be willing to look into and I think I mentioned that to you guys briefly with the finance committee, but ultimately came down to wording that with the policy committee. That makes sense. Okay. Questions on any of that. Okay. Then if you will read the motion including those numbers make a motion to approve the first reading of the following policies. 102102 R1 102 E1 102 E2 102 E3 102E4 102E5 104E E4 104E2 104E3 206.03 302.01 303.02 401.01 401.05 402.02 2501.08 503.09 503.09 R1 506.01 600 603.04 605.01 R1 710.01R 710.01 E1 710.1 E2 804.02 2901 and 409.02R1. Is there a second? I'll second that one. Okay. All in favor say I. I. I. Okay. That is passed.
101Consider approval of termination. So I put the board policy there. We are recommending for termination Juan Hernandez as elementary custodian. Okay. Is there a motion? I'll make a motion to approve the terminating the work agreement of Juan Hernandez. Second. Okay. All in favor say I. I. I. I. That is passed. Next meetings. So, as we discussed a few times tonight, May 19 is our next scheduled. That's the the traditional normally scheduled um night for the May meeting on May 19th. And this is really weird to say, the next month is June. So it' be June 16 and then July 21. And right now those are the dates it was normally scheduled on. And sometimes we've had to move that for conflicts with other things, but that appears to line up with fair and everything going
102else going on. So we're proposing leaving those on those dates. Okay. Was there any uh dates with um let me miss Oh, Lannne. Lann. Yeah. Yes. I got to work through that. I don't have finalized dates with her yet to go through. Um, but yes, we are working. I'll get that back on the schedule. Correct. Thank you for bringing that up, Jamie. And talking points, code red. Yeah, definitely. Very, very good job. Yeah, they did. They put a lot of work into that. Yeah, they did. They did. That was a good experience for them to be able to go to the to De Mo and Yep. Yeah. Not too many kids get that experience. So that was really cool. Reviewed it in this article. Our fine arts presentation by Mr. like hearing that. And and
103even when I work here every day, you kind of forget like how many different things they have going on. That's a lot. Yeah. In that department that I mean, and that's what that department's for, but there's a lot going on. That's great. Okay, that being said, is there a motion to adjurnn? Make a motion to adjurnn. Is there a second? Second. Okay, you're adjourned. Oh, all in favor? I I Okay, we are journey. How many How many kids are in the caps? Come on. I thought the roster was seven this semester.