001To the flag of the United States of America and to the stands one indivisible and justice for all. >> Okay, roll call. Derek is not here. Julie's not here. Chad >> here. >> Lee here. >> Melissa >> Here. Spencer's gone. Craig >> here. John >> here. Gretchen >> here. Sammy's not here. Adoption of the agenda. >> Lee moves it. >> Chad seconds. All in favor say I. I. >> All oppose say no. Motion carries four to zero. Warrior Pride. This is a resolution accepting a monetary don or donating their time from just mesh upholstery to uh fix the uh school district's gymnastics mats. Just you guys know Matt Steer took the mat down and she uh said, "Oh, don't even take it out." She fixed it right in the back of the truck. And Matt's
002like, "Well, have to let us know how much we owe you and she said she wanted to donate her time and supplies. So, pretty awesome. >> Okay. Awesome. Well, I'll move that one. >> So, Mike moves it. He seconds. All in favor say I. >> I. All post say no. >> Motion carries four to zero. Board showcase. Uh Jake, Jeremy, and Casey are here to discuss the wire drive extension. You have the board, gentlemen. >> Thank you, board chair and members of the board. So, I'm Jay Dixon, the city administrator. And I we give you it's pretty small handout. There's not a lot of documents as far as what we're going to ask you, but so if you remember, you probably heard about the roundabout in 44 and 76 already. Um the state of Minnesota
003came to KC and I and told us that they were planning on building a roundabout, that it was going to cost the city about $850,000 for our leg of it. And then they gave me an application for funding for 800,000 of that. Told us that basically we're gonna have this roundabout whether we like it or not. So that brings us to today. Casey and I have spent the last year asking them to please consider not wasting money on a bypass or a detour at um down in the ditch and to instead give us that money and we will build Warrior and give them a detour. And so the by my absolute surprise they took that deal and that's what we're going to do. So, we have a commitment from the state of Minnesota and we're
004committed that if um the board is sees fit to u I guess transfer the those two pieces of land there to the city that we will run Warrior next summer and it will stay there. Um and we serve as a detour for four projects that MDOT has coming up. So, the city would actually be reimbursed once and then we would be have a maintenance agreement. So, we would get a little bit more of that cost paid back the next four years. So, we would like to do this at no cost to the school district. We as long as uh if you give us the land, we'll give you a road. Um I don't know, Mr. Mayor, if you had anything you wanted to add to M school's going to help out there. It's going to
005help everything. >> So, and we've applied for a lot of different funding for this to try to make this happen. We were even lied to once that we were going to get it, not the guy took a different job and left. That one really bothered us. Um but so we still have a couple few funding things to apply for. We think we can actually drive the cost of this even further down. Um but essentially the deal in front of you is if you give us the land, we'll give you a road. And I think that the effects of Warrior on the school district and just on the town in general will be pretty massive. But I'll start with Friday night football games. If you've ever tried to lead one, it's not very possible or easy.
006So we at least give you another way out there. speaking to the bus company and the police department, the fire department, everything like that. There's a lot of benefits for this road and then um for just what the future of that part or that part of town will look like in five years with this road running through it. That may have quite the impact as well. >> Thank you. >> No, thank you. So, go ahead. >> I was going to ask when do you need need a decision on this? I would imagine it's fairly timesensitive or >> Yeah. Um, so there's not really a deadline. We need to have it done, we think, by about September 1, 2027. So an extra 3 weeks right now will not cause us delay. If you need to look
007it over and things like that, that'd be perfectly fine. This is something that I believe was it in 21 or 22 the board agreed to when the the first goound was. Um, and I think we talked about the benefits of the busing and and you know getting out of sporting events and uh I know our buses can often times sit at a corner by quick trip for quite a while trying to get out and create some hazards there. So I think it would be a great idea. Is there any downside to you guys? >> The only the only downside I could potentially see um would be I could imagine some of the kids from across the road trying to get AC across and >> gardens. Yeah, they might have to you know I don't know
008what that addition is called over there. some of that some we have basically our end of the bargain is to build warriors to mind standards and then correct me if I'm wrong but as as the 76 re resurfacing goes and all that they will pay more attention to a turn lane at the shoulder and potentially crossing those or crossing controls at that but right now they're just focused on our end of the um jurisdiction limits here >> but otherwise during the when it's being used as a bypass we're going to see more traffic through there but I think that's a small price to pay >> and then with doing with doing this method, they can build the entire thing in one go and shut down the entire intersection. So, it should shave off a month
009and then we have it planned where they should only be using Warrior for heavy traffic during the summer months. If they can hold if MDOT can do their job and build it as fast as they say they can with no traffic and everything, it should mean that we're just detouring during the summer, maybe the start of the school year, but hopefully not. So, if we can if everybody does what they're supposed to do, it should work out just like that. Any discussion questions? >> Is there any >> for all of us? >> Yeah. >> Well, is there any reason why we would delay that decision any further? Can I just make a motion to approve the >> would the Guess this would the city attorney take care of all the paperwork and everything that >>
010take care of it. Um if you I guess I don't exactly know how boards of education work, but if you were to approve the transfer pending the city's acceptance of it, that would be fine because I will do all the legal work in between. Well, in that case, I would like to make a motion to grant or give for gift the land to the city of Calonia. I have a second. >> Okay. So, that's a mo I don't know how you want to write that, Karen, but that's a motion to grant the land or give the land. What do you got? I was going to wondering if we should look at the one that we drafted a couple years ago and just re redo that, but I don't have that handy. >> What do you
011think, Karen? >> It's just just a track of land for the road. There isn't anything else. There there might need to be a survey that's done and if the city would pay for that survey that >> because the the the track on the left hand side that be to the north there >> actually hooks in with the school one. So >> yeah your your land your side of your schooling came from the school parcel is all one go and then the deering side. So we'd have to do a subdivision, but it's >> it's not that we can't handle. >> Is there any other parties involved? >> No, just the city of Ma will be the only one taking for it at this point. We are going to apply at the end of this summer here
012for what's called LRIP and LPP, but those are just road funding projects. And hate to say it out loud, but they told us we have a good shot at it again. So we'll see how that goes. But um so if we get that all that would do all that does is just makes it cheaper for us to build it. There's no we don't have any future. We're not going to come back in a year and say this is what we need from here or anything like that. If if we have this land that is truly it because we have this is the first time that Mindot's ever done anything like this. So we are doing everything we can not to screw it up. >> Well it benefits them greatly too because they don't have to
013>> Yes. And if if this if we do our job and have this road built next summer well ahead of them and this works, then they may go to other towns and pitch things like these because we're way I mean they waste hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars on building the bypasses and the detours and things like that. So if we can be a shining example then hopefully they can keep doing this across the state. And then we do have that is it sprayed avenue that I believe technically this school still owns. >> Yes, right here. >> Yes. >> You could wrap that into there and get that taken care of because for all intents and purposes the city owns it. I mean we don't maintain it or anything like that. Um, I think my
014understanding is way back maybe even in the 1900s that that land was supposed to have been given to the school and something didn't or given to the city from the school and something didn't get filed at the county or something like that. >> Yeah, sounds about right. >> And if we can get that cleaned up too, that would be this would probably be the time to do it. >> No problem. >> The spray road >> in front of Peterson's body shop there. Um, technically the school owns that and we don't want to own it or maintain it. >> The city. >> Yeah, it's a weird deal. >> So, you guys good to >> So, maybe we should have something more formal written up. Is that all right, Karen? >> Yeah. So, you want to just
015go ahead and get this out of the motion for August. >> Yeah. Get you guys, but we're kind of thinking for a motion and put that on our August. >> Then we'd have the other board members here too. Might be good to have this. >> Fair enough. And as far as like that's gifted that's made you're talking about is that far into the future is that forever >> that road where it'll be part of this city street system >> the city >> y >> instead of them burning $900,000 in the parking lot we're going to get a road out of it >> that's going to be here forever it's a great deal for us >> just looking into the future. >> What's that? just looking into the future what cost would you know come back
016to us? >> No. Yeah. This the school will have once once we subdivide it and take it out you'll have no zero responsibility for it. Um and I should have mentioned this earlier will be we're doing an urban section of the road there. So that means that curb gutter just look like a regular city street. Um just as our comprehensive plan goes that that part of town should be residential in the future. So we're trying to act like it as well. Will the speed limit on 76 we will that go down or I think it's like 45 right now. >> 45. Yeah, we were told that would stay the same. That extension of where you're at would be 30. >> We would include continuation of that pathway or sidewalk all the way up to 76.
017Okay. >> Um I think it was like you said 21 we ask the school for a letter of support along with some of the other businesses for that application. Part of that was road along the pathways. um it'll connect the trail down Beaver Park eventually and as Jake was saying earlier some of our mid concepts for Highway 76 as it's coming out of town to meet with that intersection looking at potentials for walkways there ways to connect that neighborhood to the city as well probably crossings think that's all to come Anything else? >> Great. We'll have something formal written up. We get it approved next month. >> Thanks for coming, guys. >> Thank you. >> All right. Uh, student school board member report, nothing there. Public comment, nothing there. Consent agenda. Um there's been three
018changes to the consent agenda since this uh the original uh agenda came out. They are as follows. the hiring of Liz Bruce as elementary special education teacher, approval of the cooperative agreement with Spring Grove, and uh appointing me as the HBED to the HBED board of directors to place Spencer like we talked about previously in all that stuff. Is there any discussion on any of that stuff? >> The video Athletics. What? Athletics or I can pull it up here. >> Um, athletics. Oh, yeah. The spring grow. So the only the only changes to last year's is we added a 2% increase for inflation and um there are several hor uh activities that could be considered um boys and girls soccer, gymnastics, wrestling, boys and girls track, boys and girls golf, softball, baseball. But the ones
019that we would be approving for this year are boys and girls soccer, gymnastics, boys and girls track. >> So that the other ones come they've already been agreed for some time. >> No, which ones? >> Well, I'm just I'm curious on the golf one. It's >> that's something that they has been in the agreement that it could be considered to be, but nobody's brought that forward. Is there is there interest in the Gulf? >> Well, we have zero interest in spring growth. >> Yeah, that's I can tell. >> Right. >> And if if you go into the cooperative, then it increases your >> chance of going up into a higher section. >> Yeah. I'm not to be honest, I'm not sure why this number three uh needs to be in there, but it's we've just
020continued the same agreement. These are the ones that could be considered. To me, the meat and potatoes is these are the sports that will be cooperative, which is the same as last year, boys and girls soccer, gymnastics, and boys and girls track. So, really the only change is the 2% increase in the cost of that. >> Yeah. All right. Would anybody like to uh approve? I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda. >> Moves it. >> All second. >> All in favor say I. >> All oppose say no. Motion carries 4 to zero. Action item A is the school crossing agreement between the city of Calonia and99. Something that we renew every year. >> Yep. renew this every year. Um, and they have a hard time filling we have a hard time filling this
021one, but uh, especially over there by the quick trip. This is where the city agrees to pay part of that. They have any questions on that agreement? So with the hard time filling it, have reached out to our grandparents. >> It's hard to find somebody that wants to be here at 75. So they get paid for the time. So they may only be up there, but they do get paid up there. Um the lady we do have she so whenever she can, she does it for us. The city has thankfully stepped up to the plate. >> I just from my experience at St. Mary's anytime you give the opportunity for grandparents to be involved, they seem to step up. >> I think it's mainly the highway there and our crossing roads and times. So there
022somebody at least be on their fast moving at a less situation. >> Yeah, I know. I'm not talking like >> Yeah, we can certainly try and reach out more, I guess, a Facebook posting or something. All right, I'll move that one. >> Chad seconds that one. All in favor say I. I. All oppose say no. Motion carries. Four to zero. This would be action item B. This would be a resolution for the designation of identified official with authority for the MP external user access reertification system. That person would be correct. >> Correct. Yes. And this is again one each district has to have somebody that's designated as the designated as the person that can approve other people to do things uh within the department of education website and uh have to have somebody need the
023last seven years. All right. Melissa moves it. Second. All in favor say I. >> I. All oppose say no. Motion carries 4 to zero. Action item C is the tall sports coaching contract for 2025.6 school year. It's just I Melissa's husband is on here and I she would usually abstain and I think still can tonight and I think an abstension goes with the majority, right? It just I'm just confused because we only have four people here. >> What's that? >> I think so. >> Three of the four are voting. >> We have the four Yeah. >> All right. Well, and do you have any any discussion, Jeff? >> Okay. [Laughter] >> Go home. >> All right. Who wants to move that one? >> Okay. Lee moves it. >> Chad seconds it stays. Correct. Okay. >>
024Uh or wait a minute. All in favor say I. I. >> All oppose say no. Any abstensions? >> All right. Now it's official. So motion carries three to zero with one extension. >> Nicely done. >> That was hard. All right. Action item B. Co-curricular coaching contracts for the 2025 2026 school year. And I guess this would refer to the previous one too, but like proving the contracts. I don't have any numbers. Is that just they just roll over the same? They're just pretty standard. >> That's a good point because we might not have enough numbers to fill them. I think this would be approved p and it says that from the bottom. The contracts are approved contingent appendent contingent upon participation numbers in each of the activities. Is that was that what your question was?
025>> Pay. >> Yeah, that is. Yeah, >> pay is in the master agreement. teacher master degree. It's just it's a schedule just like teacher salary schedule years of experience position >> it'll make more sense when you see it >> I better ask Yes, sir. >> I'll move. >> Lee moves it. >> I'll second. >> Melissa second. Said all in favor say I. I. All oppose say no. >> That one carries four to zero. Action item E is discussion or action regarding the scheduling of public meetings for early start renewal beginning 2026 27 school year. So we've talked about this a few times and um obviously this year we're starting school on August 18th with kids and we've done that. This would be our sixth year in a row that we started before Labor Day. And
026in order, if we want to continue to do that beyond this school year, we need to have three public meetings and had those. I think last time around, we just held those a half an hour prior to the normal board meeting um in September, November, and December. Um, so, you know, the last time we also did a survey, we had 70% of our respondents that wanted to continue to do it that way. The only caveat I would share is that if we're going to look at sharing teachers with other districts, having this schedule makes it more difficult to do that. We're we're locked in with this year. I like it. I think most of the teachers like it. I think a lot of the families like it. Um the only potential downfall I could see
027is if we wanted to have a point4 physics teacher and shared.3 with Springrove, the schedule would make it difficult for that person to do that. >> Thought Springrove was considering it early. They are starting early this year um because of construction, but I don't and then I think they're they're going to look at doing public meetings to consider doing it too, but I don't know exactly what they're going to do. We are meeting as superintendants on Tuesday and that's something I can bring up to others because others have reached out to me and asked what the process is and how to do it because they would be interested. Um there seems to be more interest to look when like Labor Labor Day is late like it is this is it this year or next year
028it's really late next year. >> Okay. Next next year I think it's September 6th. So >> and I think they've already they've already done something to allow schools to start pre-Labor Day next year. So I don't know >> when do we have to have all three meetings held by >> I believe the application is due either February 1st or March 1st. So September, October, November or >> we just go October, November, December is late as possible. >> We could do that. >> Do we need to make a motion to do that? I don't think so. I I think we just need to if if you guys want to have those meetings and see what people think, it wouldn't hurt to have those meetings whether we decide to move forward with it or not. After those
029meetings, then we would need to have decisions meeting. Public meetings are considered. >> So, make a motion to have the three special board meetings. >> Okay. So there would be a motion for three special board meetings a half starting at 5:00 half hour prior to October, November, December would be perfect. Okay, I'll make the motion. All in favor say I. I. All say no. Motion carries 4 to zero. Administrative reports. Mr. Ber is out of town. Mr. Wall Street. Uh yeah, not not too much. Super excited. Um Liza Bruce, we just offered her the position today and she accepted it. So, she's going to be a great addition to our team. Um she fits fits our team well and I'm super excited to make her a warrior. She lives here in town and has a
030kid that'll be coming to fifth grade. I guess I don't want to speak for her too much, but just excited. She's a great addition to the team. Um, other than that, wrapping up some staffing. We have we have open positions for special education pair of professionals. Um, ESY summer school this year. Um, we have a couple more sessions of that, but that's all dialed up, ready to go and getting ready for the next school year. Any questions for me? >> Thank you, John. Miss June. >> Yeah, we um His name is John. Just busy getting stuff ready for school. Our preschool open house is August 12th, so that's coming up very soon. Um, a lot of new kiddos starting in the daycare recently, so we've just began to tell them to their families. Um, getting
031used to, um, the new routine of being in a daycare. Um, we had our annual licensing visit in June, which went really well. um just busy with um so as of July 15th the childcare lacy moved from Minnesota Department of Services to Minnesota Department of Children, Youth and Families, which doesn't really change anything except I have to go in and change all of our paperwork over to say the new department. So that's just time consuming and busy work to get that done. Um and then working on the fall community classes. Um, we've got a few new instructors who are proposing some new class ideas. Um, we're excited about that. And then we have someone interested in teaching ECF. So, I'm working with her to set up our fall schedule. So, excited about that one. That's
032it. >> Thank you, Greg. Mr. D. >> Um, couple things. Um, you probably noticed the black top looks fresh and and shiny and new and that so that ceiling project wrapped up here a couple weeks ago. Um, and for some reason I'm excited about that. It just looks fresh and clean. Um, we weren't able to get any of our uh any applicants for our speech position. Um, so we did reached out to several different vendors for uh online services and we have contracted with talk path Live um and they will be able to help fill our gap there while uh uh for that maternity leave. So got that done. Um had a little bubble of uptake with enrollment uh which is kind of exciting. Um, want to give a shout out to Sue How recently
033resigned, took a job at a private company. Um, we want to thank her for her 10 years as work as the elementary counselor. Um, the distributed antenna system, all the cabling is done in both of the schools. There's apparently some technical guy from Alive Telecom that needs to turn it on. And I think by the end of this week, um, he's going to come and do that. And then we'll have the uh police come and check to make sure the radios work because until that gets turned on, they get inside the building, they don't they don't work. So that'll greatly improve safety when that is finally completed. Um that's about all I have for right now. Any questions for Craig? Right. Craig lawyer. Um, you approve the 10 years long-term facility maintenance plan by the
034end of July and then just some other reportingly multiple leftover payments on funding that we had originally forgot. Um, and that's closing up 425. >> Thank you, Mark. >> All right, old business strategic plan update. Uh, that's getting booked out August and hopefully Nate will have his part done on that. And then the, uh, old business be the HBED project update. Nothing new there that I'm aware. Um we'll know more on Wednesday because that'll be my first meeting on that board. Uh and then the new business operating >> sure I I sent out an email talking about uh our operating referendum expiring in 2027. Uh the last time our operating referendum expired in 20 I think it expired in 2022, but we went out a year early and uh passed a five-year operating referendum. We
035renewed a five-year operating referendum. Um so if we want to go out a year early, we could do that in November of 26. Um we have a couple different options. Recently the legislature approved that Uh, school boards can do a one-time renewal of operating referendums. Um, I I don't know what the what the best way to do, but a 5-year extension would would allow us to have some sustainability. Um, I think there's a lot of different things that we need to talk about, but I wanted to get it on your radar. In September, we're gonna have Shelby from ELERS is gonna come join our school board meeting to talk about some of these things and Sue Peterson from ISG Engineering is going to talk about potential projects. Um, we obviously have this building was built
036in the 60s. Uh, the new high school um still seems new to all of us and I have people say, "Oh, I haven't even been in your new school yet." Well, it's been there 22 years, so more 25 years. Um, so it's not really that new, but when a building gets to be 25 years old, there's a lot of things that need to happen. So, it might be good to pair up some of the repairs that need to happen. Um, but I just wanted to get it on people's radar and talk about it a little bit before we talk about it at length in in other meetings. Nothing we have to do or decide right now, but I just wanted to stick a pen in it and say this is more to come on that
037questions on that. So this this one time renewal that that's not one year that's >> I I think in the thing I sent out my update I sent out I think I said one year but it's a one time renewal for five years correct Barb extending an existing one for more extend >> for five years >> so that's our current for you can go up to 10 >> so like one time in the history of the district. I mean I don't >> the legislation yes had changed that a board can do that one time. So if we had a 10year operating le you could do it one time just the border proving itself to the voters that one time except for 10 years. Ours is five. You could extend the current one for five years
038without going to the voters. >> Yeah. One of the potential dangers of extending it is if you need more, I guess you could vote to resend and renew, but I think those are things that we're going to really need to know about. I believe it's August 12th of next year is when we have to decide if we're going to go out. >> Yeah. 84 days prior to the election. >> Um, so we have some time to to discuss them. whether we want to go out in 26. We wouldn't have to. That would be a year early. Um and then as we said, we we could now just just do a renewal for five years with board approval. We could wait and go out for a vote. >> We could do it anytime from now until
039July. So that that legislation that allows for that one that's really new >> legislation >> 23 >> now they could do the next more than one >> right as it sits right now. >> So something to think about. So that would get us through 31. >> 31. >> If we went out in 26, it would get us through 31. >> That's a year early. >> If uh if we just decided to do a renewal in 27, that would get us through 32. >> And then 31 would be an offyear offyear elections. So it would be that would be the only thing on the ballot. We have to pay for that election. Correct. Well, next year will be this year would be no, >> right? 27 would be off too. So, you're correct. We would have
040to flip the bill >> or in 27 if we decide to wait until 27. >> The idea of pulling out a year early was always if they look at the budget say, well, this is a good thing. We're going to cut vote first to vote the final year, see if they pass or not. >> Y >> that was the reason we needed >> if you go for Let's see here. This might be a dumb question, but if you go for a vote fails, do you no longer have the option to but just theoretically >> not a year early? >> Yeah, >> potentially then, but if it was on a year that you had to have it done or would have an option, >> but I can check into that. probably wouldn't be a great idea.
041Go against these. Okay. Any other discussion on that for now? The referendum stuff. Okay. Uh school policies. Try not to review those. Any discussion on the school policies? All right. Board member reports and dad. Okay. Uh thought I had something. Oh, uh teacher negotiations are going really good. Hopefully we'll get that wrapped up on Wednesday. Um hopefully. But it's been every getting along great. It's been going really well. So hopefully I get out and then uh after that I'll be heading up to my first H meeting. So excited about that. And anybody who wants that job is welcome. All right, that's all I had. Um any any last items to tidy up here? All right. In that case, I would like to make a motion to adjurnn. Do I have a second? >> Second. >>
042Melissa seconds. All in favor say I. I. All oppose say no. Motion carries 4 Z. It is 609. >> Thank you everybody.