001okay it is seven o'clock pm on tuesday july 13 2021 and i will call the meeting of the manitoba public school district board of education order our first item on our agenda is our pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the thank you okay then um all board members should have the minutes of our uh june 17th and june 22nd meetings i would entertain a motion in a second to approve those minutes i hope that we approve the minutes please present any additions or corrections to the minutes hearing none all in favor say aye aye aye opposed communications i do have several letters from students who received scholarships thank you letters from them gotten a bunch of those the last couple of minutes so we
002appreciate that next item is public input and i have at least 10 individuals requesting public input we try to limit our public input to 30 minutes um and i'll give each speaker a maximum of five minutes if you don't have need the five minutes it'd be appreciated by those who have to come later um that you might not use that full time but i'll just go in the order that they're given to me so keep your comments uh pertaining to what the district does and other than that i'll just call your name and it'll be your turn first one i have is aaron mancheski aaron here yeah there you go aaron where would i oh right there's perfect right here nope right here all right thank you i guess uh hi my name is aaron
003mancheski i have been a teacher in the lap program for 10 years uh stan grahl cindy rhodes bonnie luco and myself have worked to develop a strong program for students who struggled at lincoln and helped them get caught up with credits or just to learn in a small individualized learning program the strength of this program can be seen in the 100 graduation rate of seniors who ended the school year in the lap program but lap has been more than just a credit deficiency program it has also built life skills and relationships i believe our one room one teacher and one aide 15 students for the whole day strategy work to help students who may have struggled with challenges at home anxiety issues or just got lost up at lincoln because we have a small group
004of students we can design individual learning programs for each student who work to support them in the various areas of need whether academic or career planning in a district where every student can learn at a high level i believe we need a diversity of programs to support support our diversity of students lap allows strong support typically for our at-risk population for students that require that level of support to be many years ago i was told i would have to be an advocate for the lep program and for students that needed it and i'm asking the school board today to remember those students and keep the lap program thank you thank you aaron uh the next speaker would be addison butler addison my hello is addison fowler i just graduated this past june from the lap
005program um and i'm here today to talk about the lep program um i just wanted to say that i feel as though i would not have graduated on time if i wasn't in the lap program um and i was personally a student that had anxiety issues up at lincoln especially like going through the halls during passing times or just being in a school with so many other people um and i felt that being in the lep program where i had 10 other students in my class it was very easy for me to learn um in that setting um i my teachers mr manchowski and mrs luco were amazing they supported me through every step of the way every second of the way and i felt that it was such a big change with them um
006as opposed to being up at lincoln whereas i felt personally i felt like i it was hard for me to ask for help um but i really built strong relationships with mr mancheski and mrs lupo and um i think that i can say the same for many of the other students in my class as well um i think it would be a shame to uh discontinue the lap program just because it has helped me so much and my friends so much and i think that it would be taking away a great opportunity for students who might need that to meet that environment thank you thank you anderson i would just ask that you refrain from that type of activity that's a board meeting so we don't want to get into cheering for some and not
007for others and stuff like that right thank you um the next speaker would be john jacobs hi my name is john jacobs i retire from the air force i flew airplanes in in vietnam and i was trained to run to danger and i want to uh kind of address what i consider a danger going on now and i want to read a quote these are the times that tri-man souls the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this crisis shrink from the service of their country but he that stands by it now deserves the love and thanks of a man and woman tyranny like hell is not easily conquered yet we have this consolation with us that the heart of the conflict the more glorious the triumph what i'm addressing is critical of race
008theory none of us i would smile i don't know but none of it i think nobody would want to be called a racist because of the color of their skin listen to what martin luther king said the content of your character not the color of your skin i got on a website checking the manitowoc school districts of reading and and in it it said there was okay it evaluated reading and arithmetic one was 31 met standards and the other one was 33 how would you like to have a doctor that only got things right 31 or a plumber that only fixed your toilet one third of the time i don't think you would the united states is 25th in in in stem throughout the world instead of critical race theory why don't you teach critical
009reading theory critical writing theory and critical arithmetic um again please refrain from making any extra thanks john uh the next one i have is marilyn wire the school board formed an equity advisory committee to address the disproportionate number of ebd or emotional behavior disorders noted in the state in other words there are more non-white students getting designated as having emotional behavior disorders than white students you were told to fix this the equity advisory committee wanted to explore if the adults have a bias that is leading to the disproportionate numbers is this the teacher's fault i want to read the march 25th 2021 equity advisory committee's goals rule number one supporting a diversity equity inclusion club why would you need this this would further divide our children and problems exist between them aren't children taught to
010teach each other the way they would want to treat each other the way they would want to be treated or learn the ways to solve a problem if there is a problem between some that is where a solution should be worked on with your equity club you're causing them to be even further divided dividing children because of their race or ethnicity is racism don't you have teacher student guidelines on treating bad behavior if you are not enforcing rules equally on every child no matter their color then that's the problem the color of their skin or ethnicity has nothing to do with it if bullying or bad behavior is the problem you are the adult and i hope you demand respect and consequences for that behavior are enforced you should have been doing this all along
011parents expect this of you remain this reminds me of the safe spaces you hear about in college campuses this isn't needed if you're doing your job these are k-12 children who need to learn how to respect each other and develop healthy intellectual skills for getting along you would be promoting racism among children with this club goal number two and three including an equity question in the interview process when hiring employees in the district and providing a statement of support and continuation of the route training did you know and i'm quoting dr carol swann former professor of political sciences and law at princeton and vanderbilt universities that quote crt training which pressures people not to say certain things take a certain stance or forces them into some segregated settings may infringe on people's constitutional rights and
012even violate civil rights laws does your equity training divide the world into oppression oppressors and oppressed that the white people are considered oppressors who benefit from undeserved advantages whites are deemed guilty of having set up a system of systemic racism the root webpage says quote we build the capacity for racial justice in organizations by developing the structures routines and processes that disrupt white supremacy and enable racial justice dr carol swan says the demonization of one group of people because of the color of their skin is something that is discriminatory and white people are protected in the same way as black people are by civil rights laws goal number four encouraging parent engagement and involvement why wasn't why wasn't there parent involvement and engagement already before behavior problems got out of control where is the informing
013of the parents and the involvement in fixing the problem did you set up a meeting with all school parents to tell them that your solution was to indoctrinate equity ideas into our teachers and children to solve this problem did you find out if this is what the parents want the answer is no rule number five um updating the art in the building by adding artwork or posters of more diverse leaders does this mean hiding or deleting out our history on which this great country was built i feel you can add but nothing should be removed literally what you have 25 seconds you know it the lincoln statue will be gone and the name of the school will be changed and then a final goal possibly including an appointed non-board member to be the representative of
014diversity in our schools why don't you strive to bring everyone together instead of dividing maybe you could call this person the representative of unity in our school i hope the state looks outside of the schools for classes why children have ebd such as parents or home situation or influence of from the outside the school i don't think it's fair to criticize the teachers and go for the oppressor white children and expect the school to fix it thank you marilyn respect everybody's else right his right to speak okay uh gene wire is next okay ready go and if you've made one minute let me know okay as you can see this equity push back is not going to go away it's not going away you could possibly improve things by being more transparent let me tell
015you what we know but more importantly what we don't know we don't know how this all started we've got no idea at first i thought and i've been coming to these meetings at first i thought that well okay geez it's uh we're doing equity because it's the thing to do and then i heard nope we got a learning cap and then i heard nope it's a behavior issue so we went through two years of minutes two years and minutes actually a little bit more than that okay and here's what we found out so here it comes okay april 2019 behavior issues come up there's learning uh liaisons have been put in place june of 2019 test scores not meeting goals and personnel december 2019 learning problem not hitting test scores learning environment concerns people can't
016learn because of the environment that's what that's what the minutes like and it's not those are those are your words january 2020 behavior problem behavior problem this came up a couple of times and uh brought in michigan education association question is why and if it was to improve things terrific okay what was the purpose no idea no transparency one board member says aha i got it it's equity that's what the issue is march 2020. disproportionality plan regarding discipline submitted to the state april next month black behavior problem i didn't put i didn't i didn't use that word it's your words okay that's that's that's what's in there black behavior problem adding personnel second notice from the state regarding black emotional uh behavior disorder ebd june 2020 achievement camps july 2020 ad hoc committee with a
017formalized statement october 2020 the roots coming into play oh by the way they've already been working with you for three months and it's not in the minutes the question is is who selected them how were they selected what was the process how many dollars does it cost i think those are all legitimate questions no transparency so equity right now is the focus okay and as you heard okay one of the real concerns this is on that hiring okay you've got that question it says okay are you gonna are you gonna handle equity and are you gonna continue to support it so i come back to this again what is the original driver okay if it is behavior then one of the big questions has to be okay how many students are there what is the
018number you ought to be able to tackle the number it's a probably a relatively small number proportionately for that race group it might be large if it is a learning gap then why hasn't there been any transparency regarding proficiencies by greats the only thing that you find in two years of minutes is february of 2021 for franklin for math and reading that's all that you find so my suggestion is this you need to have a public session if you have a public section questions and answers should be just just really like uh you did a great job guys did a great job when it came to the referendum open session three times and uh uh you did a great job with that i got it one minute okay i also think that you're doing a
019great job in publicizing the good thing i think that's a great thing okay apprenticeship program uh energy reforms uh alternative schooling uh relative to the uh offline or not face-to-face okay so the bottom line is this okay if you do that i think you're gonna get some uh some stuff going um some of the questions that i'm i would not ask is i wouldn't ask anything on social studies because i didn't ask that once before the information i did receive which i did get okay was from 1998. okay uh i also think that what you're going to see is you're going to see a question that's going to be what's your plan if the teachers don't conform and the overriding thing how did this all start so thanks very much for your time thank you
020gene uh the next person in my file here is john lewandowski john here no john okay the next one is john kress thank you conserve time i'll start talking now my name is john crest thank you for the introduction i live here in manitowoc wisconsin i might pound on the table so i'm going to sit down because uh what i have to say i really can't sugarcoat and that is you all need to stop this now um and we know who you are you're the true believers endless mass and lockdowns equity and critical race here you are the equity cartel uh and we see what you're up to in exchange for money and power you're teaching our children fear that's the big lesson fear of lockdowns fear people with different skin fear of your heritage
021fear of your own family a few of your friends appear to have your own thoughts if you dare to have them fear of losing your jobs especially if you think for suit yourself when you're an mpsd teacher fear of um embarrassed ridiculed and isolated that's what the fear cartel does very very well these policies have intentionally and systematically inserted fear into the minds of young children it must stop these policies are allowing emotional and psychological abuse to happen right in our classrooms and you need to stop now i'm just one person here but i mean a lot of others and we do not fear you at all um is a result of multiple failures in your service to this community we will be submitting a petition delivered in this venue for the public record to
022request letters of resignation from each and every one of you including the superintendent uh we hold this board and the superintendent responsible for the damage you are doing to our kids and this community and we will not forget it thank you what is your button uh thank you john what does your button say let it go here um educate don't indoctrinate the next speaker i have listed as ryan hanson good evening i want to start by thanking each of you for your service to our community by supporting the educational needs of our children in our community during what has no doubt been the most difficult time our generations have faced i'm sure that the decisions you made were incredibly difficult to make with so many different needs to meet facts to consider and many opinions
023to contend with yet the pandemic isn't over yet and tonight i'm here to ask you to continue prioritizing the safety of our children my children by requiring students to learn masks when school starts in a few short weeks during the last several months adults and children over the age of 12 have had ample opportunity to receive protection against coca 19 through safe highly effective and widely available vaccines positive cases have dropped significantly thankfully and remain very low for now life thankfully has started to resemble something more normal yet the fight isn't over and while we were optimistic a few months ago that the pandemic would largely be over for us the delta variant looms on the horizon positive cases in our state are slowly increasing again um and uh in the absence of herd immunity
024which manitoba county is far from achieving at just 47 vaccination rate and without vaccines available yet for children of elementary school age under the age of 12 younger mpsd students remain vulnerable to infection and outbreaks though they may not at this time cause serious illness and death open 19 infections in children are still potentially risky and risky to members of households around the community it's also worth noting the illnesses disruption of learning and the disruption of work for a caregiver perhaps and at times perhaps a disruption of income for some yet these disruptions and risks can be kept low with masking a simple and proven method of slowing the spread of cobia 19. the most recent recommendations i think as recent as four days ago for schools from the cdc recommend that those who are
025not vaccinated wear a mask and this would include every single child under the age of 12 at this point by diligently wearing masks last year there were a few infections among mdsb students so i'm asking you to reinstate the mask requirement not for the entire year but for as long as it takes for children under the age of 12 to receive full immunity a reasonable time for that to happen once the vaccine is approved for those club not every parent will make this choice for their child for vaccination and i'm not asking them to but for me and numerous other parents in this community waiting for this vaccine it's imperative that our schools do everything possible to keep them safe until that day comes and for now the simple and effective protection is wearing a
026mask finally i want to note that virtual schooling is not an acceptable alternative for children whose parents share these safety disorders some will choose them but not everybody wants to choose virtual school virtual school is not a viable means providing other social and emotional needs to young children thank you thank you ryan um i have one more request and that's from melanie gold well thank you for allowing me to speak my name is melanie goble i am a veterinarian and i also run an international suicide prevention nonprofit i would like to state that as was just said there is a lot that we do need to be worried about with the delta variant as it is showing that it is affecting and killing children at higher rates than the previous variants that have been out
027there so something to keep in mind i'd also like to state that teaching history and any material to be honest or any material to be honest with accuracy responsibility and compassion is imperative for the education and well-being of children and of society as a whole i have learned a lot in the last few years about what i was not taught as a student and what i found out is that those things affected my ability to do my job in order to be compassionate of those of different cultures and colors and races and educational status and other backgrounds without knowing the reasons why that they may have had the situations in front of them was very difficult i learned that i could not do my best job because i did not have all of the information
028thankfully i have learned a lot and i'm open to the truth that i was previously closed off from understanding the roles of individuals and society as a whole changed the way i live my life and it has made my life better people toss critical race theory around as if it's being taught to children critical race theory is an upper level law course that looks at the effect of race on the creation of laws and we know for a fact that that is true let me give you an example take two men that fought on an aircraft carrier in world war ii one white and one back after the war they both came home the white man went to college on the gi bill and graduated with a degree in accounting the black man was excluded
029from gi education benefits so he went to work as a laborer which is a reasonable life choice to be able to do but he wasn't given a choice a white man brought bought a home in one of the new levittown suburbs which were white only and his loan was funded by a very inexpensive fha loan the black man wasn't eligible for the fha loan he rented a house and saved as much as he could the white man after a few years had enough money and equity in his home to buy a new bigger house the black man took several more years to buy a small home in a black in a in the black business and residential community downtown soon after he bought an interstate highway was built through downtown right through the middle of
030the black man's neighborhood property values dropped to almost zero and that lead and the lead build up from car fumes though he didn't know it was damaging his young children's friends sixty years after coming home from the war the black man's net worth was approximately six percent of the white man's he couldn't fund his children's education through a second mortgage because he had no equity and when he died he left his children and grandchildren with nothing but debt the white man who died a few days later left his children and grandchildren with enough money to pay off all the kids debt and pay for the college of the grandchildren the difference was driven entirely by official u.s government policy and those who benefited from it continue to benefit from it today those who suffered from
031it continue to suffer from it today that is critical race theory it says official racism in this country had a negative effect on those it targeted and those effects continue today as a country we've made mistakes in our past now is the time to accept that mistakes were made and change them if nothing else this teaches our children responsibility and compassion if iran is perpetrated upon you would you want that wrong corrected in some way i know i would i would want that for my friends for my family and even that stranger that i have never met because i care we are all humans that are deserving of life dignity and respect within the educational system we need to recognize that we all learn differently and at different rates this does not mean that one
032person is better than another but rather that we all have gifts and skills as well as weaknesses by building each other up we learn how to prepare ourselves for the world and life ahead of us by giving children the opportunity for equity and education we allow children to have dreams of the future where they are able to succeed we do not want every person to be a doctor or a lawyer because we wouldn't have anyone to build roads and homes to grow food and to prepare it the children need to have a chance to learn what is out there to learn the good and the bad to learn how to grow and be better as individuals and as a society if we do not provide the truth of history then we are robbing the next
033generation of knowledge and the ability to be great please choose to educate this and future generations with equity factual reality and compassion thank you thank you melanie excuse me i did submit my name online as i do okay um yeah i don't have one but go ahead come on up just state your name and address for the record i live in manitowoc county okay um i guess i find it really state your name and address nobody else has given their address right they all had it on their sheets so i didn't need to read it off i guess i find it hard to even believe that any of you countenance the inclusion of crt and the curriculum of students in mspd system call it what you may equity or some other word the citizens not
034the teachers or dpi or we act or nea not providing administration the taxpayers of this city and the parents of the students who you are subjecting to this divisive racist material voted for you to make sure that the students learn the basic skills to move forward if the teachers choose to spend their time teaching hate among the races do your job educate the students don't indoctrinate them it's a parent's job to teach their children life issues how about doing something with the 64 0.7 report card on achievement that you receive from dpi it's only 1.8 points away from meets few expectations you cannot expect to foster love and acceptance through the vision i cannot believe that parents across this country have had to raise up to make you see how wrong this is since when
035did school boards and teachers unions take over teaching morality to our children what really is your purpose this young woman that spoke is a perfect example of what we would all hope happened to our students they got a good strong foundation they were happy in their classroom instead of this you're pushing your ideology no doubt about it folks i think there are a lot of woke school board members and superintendents who need to be replaced and i'm not the only one that feels that way thank you ah okay again you're not asking me to frame for that you know if you just behave if you misbehave in class you can sense the principle please behave this is a board meeting you don't allow it at the county board meeting you're not going to allow it
036here citizen's input is done i have one letter to me thank you for the respect that you give to people that are in a position to you know educate our children and you just forget i do have one that was submitted to me and i was asked to read it and hopefully i get this done within five minutes um it's from jenna poff since i live in minnesota now i'm not able to attend this meeting in person but i wanted to share some thoughts on history and critical race theory that you all should hear as a lincoln high alumnus i am painfully aware of how much mpsd is lacking in its job to educate students on history students are taught to celebrate murderers like christopher columbus and are taught nothing about the people he murdered
037and colonized the history taught us seriously you're going to cut off people in this community from talking and you're going to read something from somebody in minnesota um i'm going to ask you one more time if you are going to speak up i'm going to have to ask you i didn't cut off anybody everybody had the opportunity to speak during their public life that's enough that's enough sit down i said sit down i'm in charge of this meeting sit down mr press publicly is that on the agenda because you close public input is closed we are going to be launching an exercise is it on public agenda or is that part of your job and we'll go to committee reports personnel committee carrie you are the um a couple things personal committee is pretty busy
038right now um we did meet on the 21st of june uh with joyce to discuss the need to add a a 0.6 fte in her office in order to be able to have the work and to be able to take on the responsibilities that need uh even though we don't have the authority to approve or disapprove of that recommendation uh joyce was good enough to come to us and talk about it listen to listen to our points of view and um the committee ended up by by supporting her request and um there were some questions that were raised that have now been not been and so uh the addition to the personnel department is is now an administrative decision the other the other the other issue that that we've been working on is the uh
039the annual evaluation process for the superintendent of public schools and um we did ask at the last meeting if we could have an extension on that and uh we met yesterday i have the minutes but i haven't distributed them yet but we met yesterday in closed session and had a tremendously productive cooperative you know absolutely like you know uh a satisfying meeting we met from portal of quarter to six um we talked about what what what was what was needed or or what was what was uh uh what was appropriate uh we reviewed documents like the the job description the professional standards uh provided by the state uh looked at looked at evaluation survey forms uh i talked about uh goal setting et cetera so and and and the fact is is like with everything
040that i've been involved in with the main ruckwork school board everybody worked very constructively together on this on this important project and we came away i think feeling pretty pretty pretty positive about what we've accomplished at least initially accomplished and then this morning um when i turned on my email i had a i had a survey that we talked about yesterday from stacy all all typed up all ready to go uh all plugged in uh so that i could i could respond to it uh and i know meredith got to got the same survey so we feel that we have really begun to get a clear and clean and constructive process going here and because stacy was so so active in providing in doing and doing the uh survey um the suggestion was made i
041think was made by both meredith and stacy that that that uh one of the things that we really want to do to start this is to provide feedback to the tomorrow the superintendent concerning the past year in order to get a kind of a baseline for moving forward in order to get a you know a a a um just as just a simple review of you know what what the board's reaction is to what was accomplished or not accomplished last year and um we would like at this point to submit this survey to the board for examination and approval so that we can have it completed and the results can be available for the august 4th meeting and then we get a jump start on the on the on the process um i mean is
042that is that parliamentary um yeah that would be achievable okay we're not going to do any action items on that we're not going to do any it'll just be discussion but you could bring it up at the next meeting for action well when was the next meeting uh i know we have to decide that at the august 10th would be our regular meeting oh yeah see we'd like we'd like to we'd like to get the results by august 4th and then you can you can ask that we have a meeting just to take up that action that's what you want to do i mean if that's what you're if that's what you know could we add it to the new business can we add it to this new business today yeah uh where are you
043we just want everyone i've emailed it to everybody we want you to just look at it and approve that that's the instrument that we can use and then um that everyone would fill it out and the deadline would be our retreat date yeah oh you just want us to [Music] look at that evaluation say that's what we'll use exactly exactly um i mean we don't have the authority to just put an impact i mean it has to be approved by the board and as long as it's just to move forward with it and not to make it an official document then that we'd have to have the board approval and that has to be on the agenda okay because you know we have to i mean i'll tell you why i mean i could just
044put it on the agenda for the third two if that works i didn't want to have anything on the agenda because we wanted to have open discussion on the four well it's to move forward at the regular sure we could do that you know i was going to have discussion of personnel committee issues and i could just we could just have that as an accident and we can do that then we don't have to have a special meeting before that just to prove that that okay all right is there anything else that we we need to add um other members yeah i'm just thinking if we don't do a special meeting to approve that when we have enough time to meet our september deadline we don't we don't we don't well our september deadline is
045to have the board approve of the whole package on the september first meeting okay that's what we're then okay anything else gary no not for me any questions uh yeah i had a concern when i was one of the minutes um and it popped out at me the community board does not technically need to approve the request um so i guess i'm confused then why that's the case because as a school board we're supposed to oversee resources and to make sure that you know the school board or that the district is brought well that is our job here so if we're not if we don't have the ability to approve those that are operating within that confuses me as to what our role is here oh which one were you talking about uh it's right
046under budget impact 25 to 35 first sentence the points yeah there's the point six conditions yeah i know yeah i guess i'm just curious as to why that is the thinking there so i guess i could articulate the the administration will move in and out all kinds of pieces based on the need that the district has it could be we have 0.5 fte in french and we need 0.7 fte in french that approval comes to the board in the personnel committee meeting and so the board then generally approves the 0.7 model in this case we're moving from a 0.4 to a 1.0 we're articulating that that's what we're doing when we post the job interview for someone and hire them that will then technically come before the board for formal approval so in the end
047yes that happens but you know as as a board you're not going to have the time or resources to review you know 750 employee contracts so some of those just move forward and some of those we identify because there's a change in this case we're identifying because it's a change okay and i think joyce wanted to be transparent about it and talk to the committee and get our thoughts so it wasn't simply the i guess that it was the fact that the individual in that was directly being reported on and and so on it wasn't the fact of that there's the request to seek a position is because it says that does not exactly need to recruit the request of those physicians so they don't that's what i'm yeah that's why i'm confused so we
048didn't take it yeah just to give a little background so what had happened was joyce brought the position forward and we were told i'm not saying necessarily by joyce but that this was a courtesy and that we did not have to be told um or to approve this new position um and my what i asked for was if we were gonna move from um to a full-time position with kicks and benefits what i asked for is i wanted some background information about how that position was going to be funded if it was going to be in the current budget meaning that uh we were going to allocate funds from somewhere else to fund this position and if it was not going to be um if we hadn't allocated that and we couldn't uh see how
049that was going to be funded then i would have preferred that we waited to hire this person for the next um fiscal year the next budget because then we could include that in there um you know i i believe that i was asking a very simple question um i believe that what i do understand is let's just say we give a pot of money of a million dollars to do salaries uh i don't expect that we would micromanage that you know the district knows how they want to spend that 1 million but if we're going to increase ftes and we're going to um do that in a year that we've already budgeted for and that wasn't budgeted i was asking for some i want to know what we got rid of what we cut for
050instance if we took money away from and i'm making this up we took money from a reading program and we stuck it into having an ft for hr i would have a problem with that because that money is is needed in that or a teacher that was uh doing uh reading and we moved them to an hr position so what i had asked for i believe is in my right as a school board member to help us be transparent and i got a paragraph of information but again i want to see the budgetary numbers of where that money is coming from why we have a surplus of 500 000 and because and and where that money came from specifically if we're going to do that in this budget here so that is the background of
051where that came from i would add to that that i articulated verbally twice that where where the money was coming from i shared with you where the money was coming from we don't that we agreed as a board that we were going to make a reduction to the tune of about 340 000 that's where some of that money comes from the administration works through a process where we have either a zero funding or a negative funding model we have always for the history of this district had eaves and flows and staffing to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars because we have 800 employees we are not bringing every one of those eaves and flows whether we're moving a third grade teacher at will uh from washington or from franklin to adding a sixth
052grade teacher at wilson that is we we will market within our system we are not bringing forward ever to the board something that's not previously thought about discussed reviewed and can be funded and so i shared with you just an example to the tune of i don't remember what the number was 600 000 of which part i already articulated to the board was part of our overall reduction of 1.3 million dollars because we have been relying on fund balance that but that again has to be part of in in our role as administrators if you don't believe that we are trying to do the best we can to conserve the resources that we have then we have a bigger picture to do and to work on the trust process if in fact what i gave
053you still isn't good enough i don't know what else we're going to get because we have for example a 40 million dollar teaching and learning staff budget probably even greater than that right um we don't have a line item for every teacher that says teacher a mrs smith and mr jones 42 612 we have a snapshot that starts at one time and we use that snapshot and move that forward that's how public school funding goes so when we're talking about a twenty thousand dollar piece to move forward a 1.0 fte position of which we believe is very critical in this district you know we're not trying to move a reading teacher or fund something else we're trying to do what we think is best right and all i'm asking is that out i want to
054know what the cuts were made that left this 300 000 specifically and i believe i should fund that i shared that did you not get that document i haven't seen positions that were changed that had exact positions that we got rid of or moved or changed an email to everyone saying that there were for example two special education teachers two middle school teachers building grounds elementary classroom teacher and lhs based on formula of minus five fte for a total of six hundred and twelve thousand and five hundred dollars yeah thank you so that was sent to the entire board i did not see that okay so i'll review it i'll review it but what what i was saying um is that because the other thing is if something comes up on here because i know
055we have posted the position and we've interviewed for the position and if anything ever comes up on here um you know that isn't something that we talked about or was discussed or doesn't make sense we can take that off of here because it talks about funding so um you know if if we don't have the information to be able to um approve a personnel committee report then i don't think that we can approve it or we need to take that off of there and so that was the only other thing that i suggested but i'll thank you for that i will look at that um and hopefully when it comes up we'll have all the information that we need stacy do you want to try to include that on our next meeting i mean a
056broader discussion of that so that we have a better understanding because i mean it seems like there are questions here that we probably can't answer tonight right completely because we don't have the documentation you want me to let's let's include that then we can have a better discussion on it and maybe have that information for us i think that would be good that john said answer your question uh yeah i'm good with uh okay thank you thanks um if there's nothing else that's good for me thank you gary um i'll have a bigger report next we need to let me know we need a motion a second any discussion on that all in the building and grounds committee toured the multiple service center facility located at south 30th street on june 21st this facility houses
05790 percent of the maintenance department staff and equipment this facility has a warehouse that stores all the school and custodial supplies for the district it uses a program called school dude that is an inventory management tool used for supply ordering this facility also houses a district print shop and where chartwells has their food preparation kitchen building and grounds director chris dupre also shared with the committee the overall department flow chart the building and grounds department is comprised of 50 staff members which are 35 custodians and 15 maintenance staff austin brooks the operator supervisor is primarily responsible for overseeing the custodial part of the department the cleaning quality the hiring and training of new and existing staff and overseas new product and equipment acquisitions the maintenance part of the department has a variety of skilled personnel
058we have a master plumber an electrician carpenter welder mechanic heating and ventilation technicians it and data infrastructure technician maintenance technicians warehouse manager and intra district delivery drivers so i don't think a lot of people know that we have in our hire a master plumber electrician carpenter they are all employed by mtsd and we do that basically to save some money and also to be sure that we can get service on time and it's just a very good idea to have that the next topic of discussion was the maintenance and repair of the 14 mpsd facilities that totaled 1 million square feet mpsd also mains 305 acres and 4 buildings at the school forest chris showed us examples of the roof surveys that were completed five years ago of the district facilities and it provided details
059regarding the size of the roofs the age and the condition the surveys included estimated costs for repairs and or replacement surveys were also completed for building masonry tuckpoint as well as the blacktopping of parking lots and playgrounds surveys helped decision making of maintaining the facilities and planning for future needs over the past several years chris has focused his focus has been allocating the referendum funds for repairs and replacement of roofs the group discussed major improvements and the challenges of doing this with the current funding so if anyone wants to know where the referendum money was spent a lot of that money went to roofs so just just to pass along that information the next topic of discussion was that the district has begun utilizing a building automation system called automatic logic controls this is a
060computer software program that helps manage and monitor the building's heating and cooling equipment the advantage of having our buildings on a computer software system like this is the instantaneous view of temperatures and operations of the building's heating and ventilation system at a glance of the computer screen you can see which rooms might be hotter or colder than what is targeted it also aids our troubleshooting and repair efforts to be able to see if a unit is running or not and gives us insight into what might not be working properly this often helps us diagnose and make repairs more efficiently at the present time three buildings which is riverview franklin and the central office have most of their building spaces on this system the other mpsd buildings only have a small portion of their spaces on
061this system however the district is planning to use coveted federal covert related funds to install the upgrades so all the buildings will be on the automated logic control system the timeline for this project is scheduled to begin this month an added benefit of this project is that it will boost our efforts in saving energy costs synergistic is very supportive and acknowledges the automated logic control system will be a great benefit to our energy goals in closing the committee appreciated the behind the scenes tour giving committee members a better understanding of the function of the multiple service center and the staff who work at that facility any questions on the report colin you want to make any comments you were at the meeting carrie it just was amazing what what a complex and large job it
062is and i think that you know chris of course should be commended for having it all all under control all the time i want to make a comment that i did appreciate the very comprehensive view of all the um you know i requested to see what kind of projects we were going to be seeing and there was a very comprehensive and thorough detailed explanation that i appreciated so i want to say thank you okay i would entertain a motion in a second to approve the minutes from that meeting probably we accept these people going to see them second any discussion all in favor say aye all right okay that's carried on our final committee report would be financed the budget that is yours kathy all right well since lisa bradford uh so we have a
0632122 budget update the director of business services angela irvin shares several different revenue limit scenarios along with the historical summary of the revenue limit for manitoban public school district and a sample equalization a worksheet without knowledge of what state aid and property value amounts and enrollment figures at this time the various examples offered a glimpse into how different scenarios could adjust the revenue limit amount and the no rate mr ehrman also shared that the initial estimate of state aid would be released the next day which was july 1st with the official aid certification taking place on october 15th of each year as we know more regarding or as we know more information regarding the state budget and more final pieces of the revenue limit calculations fall into place we will have a clearer picture of
064what our budget will look like not only for the 21 22 fiscal year but also to plan ahead for 22-23 the committee also discussed the history of the revenue limit manitoba public school district has was highly conservative and is spending in the interest of using taxpayer money wisely due to this responsible approach when the revenue limit formula was put into place which was by the way in the 90s management public school district was determined to be a low spending district and since that time received significantly less per pupil compared to 90 of schools in wisconsin on the 420 school districts while tax to change the approach in funding schools has occurred the revenue limit remains in place with other adjustments to areas such as per pupil categorical aid that are calculated outside of the revenue
065limit i would strongly urge all of you to contact your congressmen and the people in power within the state to help create a change in that formula formulation formula sorry um it does hurt our district greatly and it was put in place in the 90s and they haven't changed since um we also had a gears answer and um here's fun to update and the most recent update of here's esser and gears funding and spending that is money by the way from covid mpsc has used up all of our sr1 dollars are funding and approximately 95 000 in years funding for mpsd remains the parochial schools are in different stages of spending their funds and will continue to support them until their spending is complete the committee requested that the district provide updates of what items
066are purchased using us are in course funding and we will be providing that information in the upcoming meeting lastly we discussed the textbook and professional development budget and these are insured amounts in the current budget for textbooks the suggestion was made to forward additional requests to the curriculum committee as the process for textbook purchases and adoptions are handled through that and that was it we also have an upcoming meeting which is tomorrow july 14th at 4 00 p.m um it is essentially a new board member training and um everyone is invited because there may be changes to that to things that have happened in the past or you may learn different things so that's at four o'clock tomorrow and that would be it any questions for kathy otherwise i would entertain a motion to approve
067a a minute a second any discussion all in favor say aye aye okay we'll move on to the report of the superintendent the first item is our payment of vouchers angela that would be you [Music] payments of vouchers and an additional attachment uh we have uh total expenditures i included the total from the attachment of uh for ap for five million nine hundred eighty thousand four hundred and seventy two dollars five cents hundred and eight dollars uh and seventy four cents to void we always have to with our system with voids we always include them you know our personal checkbook we can just shred it but we've got to officially take it in and out of the system um payroll we had a lot of for julian uh balance of contracts so with our teachers
068we pay them for the summer months so uh that's just important to know why the totals are a little higher so payroll was uh four point eight four point eight million total is ten million six hundred and sixty thousand seven hundred and twenty nine dollars and sixty six cents for approval okay you need a motion and a second to approve that report any discussion all in favor say aye okay then uh monthly financial report okay uh yes and just as a matter of standard practice at this time our our fiscal year has ended june 30th so that's just especially bringing board members that's an important uh we run on that from july 1 to june 30th so uh you know now we've been in the process of preparing for audit and so uh margo wagner
069voice does a wonderful job uh putting together our financials um just always puts a note on here that they're on audited financials so that they're subject to change uh especially at this time of the year uh we have you know somewhere around uh you know four to five million dollars that we have to open receivables that are not reflected on here so we do that in the next couple of weeks as we're finishing our preparations for audits and just making sure everything is tied up so um when we have the official financials through the audit we'll be sure to share them uh you know as always we have the graphs on here that show um just the spending from compared to the previous year so um you know you'll notice at this point of the
070year a lot of things are in the 90th percentiles uh fund 27. that's always an interesting one where we have to balance that to zero for special education so we make a big group about 8.5 million or so over to that fund to zero it out so that's just kind of our very standard operations for a school district so uh yeah those are the highlights they have on my end and um any questions for angela thank you and then we will move on to the personnel report joyce i think we have two reports right yeah thank you so um the original report could have been in a boardwalk late last week and then today added an addendum and i knew there was a paper copy at their price settings as well certainly as you can
071tell um it's definitely a busy time of year with interviewing and bringing candidates forward forward for approval so you want to take them separately mr nichols well i you know um they are similar items i would ask that we um for a motion to accept both reports or that don't ask if there's any questions for your choice yeah i just have a question um i noticed the large amount of virtual teachers on there um i do know that we are looking to do you know the virtual school and everything most of those virtual teachers are those to go towards that virtual schooling that we're looking to do okay and i would entertain a motion in a second to approve both the uh regular report and the addendum anybody want to do that again i don't
072care if we do it gotta do something okay second a second any further discussion on the report hearing none all in favor say aye opposed okay there's kerry thank you joyce then i'll move on to the superintendent and director's report and i'll turn that over to mark holtzman okay thank you um i'll have a clear opportunity to just review that obviously it's just information that are going on in each other department so if there's any questions or clarifications on the report definitely would pick that up i do i have a question of the um disproportionality work section uh essentially that's the section that alludes to the dpi um and the emotional behavioral uh disabilities um one that many of our public input and discussed um the it is my understanding that this was a mandate
073that came down from dpi correct and that it was disgusting um minority children uh having a disproportionate behavioral uh they have incidents and so the in the dpi plan it says that there was um an unfunded mandate that i believe was attuned to 15 was that correct now what are i have a couple questions as to where that uh what if we say no to their dpi mandate and what would that amount be um and then two i guess was the question as to um why it was what the action was to pursue the action plan that they that was pursued okay so just there's some court case thanks for a question um so the dpi identified network public school districts of having identified a disproportionate number of students specifically black students in ebd and
074so because of that we were required to set aside and when we say take a set aside we have to take money from our own special education allocation set aside a percentage i don't know if joanna you can tell articulate i want to say 12 i but and we can get to that number i don't know off top my had the percentage we are required to do that by dpi um to answer your question what happens if we don't do that i'm not sure but i do know that the dpi gives us millions of dollars in special education funding and i would garner that we wouldn't want to risk the millions of dollars to show them that we get to say or we don't get to say so i think that we need to be
075cautious about that but the dpi then says to us you need to come up with a plan you need to develop a plan to reduce the number of disproportionate so what they're saying is that we have way too many students identified specifically in this case black students or ebd that's the dpi looking at our numbers identifying counting the number of students that we have that are black and counting the number of students that we have in the district that are ebd and saying that's not appropriate let's see educational behavioral disability okay so we are then required to come up with a plan in order to do that and so joanne metzen and her team came up with a plan to that we then shared with the dpi and that dpi has to approve that plan
076so that plan then expends the mandatory set aside that the districts must do that yeah i don't have the exact number and we can get that for you but this side is from um is 15 of what's called cceis funds right and it is an amount that's just under 190 000 that we have an obligation to set aside to remedy disproportionality and that's in those two areas one area is that we have then noted that we have too many students who are black receiving iep services so they're already in special education for emotional behavioral disabilities ebd the second indication that we receive from dpi is that we have too many students who have ieps in any area there are many ways that a student you know many different avenues to receive special education services too
077many of those students are removed for disciplinary reasons and to make it simple that's typically a suspension so it is for disciplinary removalism any student with an iep and for black students too we have too high of a percentage of black students who are receiving emotional behavioral disabilities services i think you asked the second question that we didn't answer i and um so if i could do that i think you asked kind of what what was what was the plan or how do we get to the plan yeah i i guess that seems to be a very uh i mean it concludes to the you know some of the public input had touched on that um i know it was a concern of my own um and the action plan i guess was the the
078one that i wanted to hear more about yeah um so dpi has um an action plan uh template called a data inquiry journal and and if any of you have been involved in action planning this data inquiry journal really provides a format for us to walk through a process and fill out this data inquiry journal so it asks you to look at some history and some data and to um make some uh decisions about what you notice in that data and what action plans might you know put some things in place so there was a small group of um people from across the district who worked together around october of 2019 we got together and worked together through that data inquiry journal process to do some action planning around that and then that plan was
079submitted to uh to dpi and after only receiving it back once um that is pretty good after after only receiving it back once and making a was it change approved by by dpi now we are in between action plans so that action plan was a two-year action plan with an end date uh at the end of june of 2021 but because we continue to have a disproportionality issues in those two areas that i discussed we continue to have the mandatory set aside it's still approximately just just under 190 000 and we have a action plan due in october so we'll go for a similar process is the action plan that you guys are looking to do pretty close to the identical one that was just put forth that so many people seem to have an
080issue with it has not been created so hopefully it has not yet been created let me just be clear that the action plan created for the disproportionate has nothing to do with teaching and learning of diversity it has to do with behavior so you know what i'm hearing about i i think it's not the same it's too sick different pieces this the absolute mandatory set-aside is about the behavior and identifying the behavior of children and working with our staff on behavioral models right well i think and again i i'm not going to comment on what the public input was right there but sure that it i don't i i would tell you that that is a different model that model is something that i'm not sure where where that's coming from but this mandatory set-aside
081is specifically about our educational behavior models and how we're supporting the behavior uh and and learning of our staff to work through reducing the number of referrals we have so the as to the uh the thing that you just said the the thing that kind of keyed into me because i did ask for some of that dpi paperwork from this medicine um the uh middle of page 13 on there it alludes to the fact of um i would have to scratching for the uh exact words here but uh white privilege equity things of that nature some of the same common topics that crt is and that's where i was under the impression that yes they are the same and then uh also the it is my understanding that de root one of the contentious uh
082or organizations of contention was also involved in this as well is that wrong yeah dude's not involved in any of this druid's not contentious right it's a professional development show right so i'm not going to say it's not intentional and it has nothing to do with this who suffer that's why i think there's separate pieces that we're talking about here the dpi set aside and professional development can you speak to the part of the uh the other thing that i mentioned about the white privilege and the equity you can't speak to page 13 i mean i don't have it up in front of me so i'm not sure where we're at with that i can definitely come back to you but i would articulate that equity is not equity as we're working through the process
083providing opportunities for all kids so i'm not sure why you're thinking that that's not something that we want to do right we're talking about our goal here as a district to provide opportunities for all kids in this case dpi is saying you're not doing a good job specifically for these students who have identified black students in ebd so we need to do a better job of that we know that internally but the dpi is saying you're doing it miserably they don't do this just because they're saying you're doing this miserably you need to do a better job since there are more people since october of 2019 to um view that plan and then and then that may help clear up some of those questions sure yeah we could we could uh yeah because i don't
084think we have an answer here um filling up the agenda here okay that's good of the the plan i haven't specifically seen it i know why we have to and that the state came forward saying that we're trying to do certain things the reason i know that is because of this last year's meetings so this this actual item has been discussed a couple of times in our meetings so while you go back some of you and look at minutes not every word is spoken for laurie is not a sonographer so like we have had those discussions but maybe they haven't been written down word for word specifically but that's how i know as a board member starting in april 2020 that's how i'm aware of this issue that we've had with ebd and our disproportionality
085is from our board meetings and it and then i had had one discussion with with medicine last year but otherwise that's how i know about it so it has been out in public we have been transparent maybe you weren't at that meeting so that you would have been made aware of it yourself and it probably wasn't reflected in those minutes just you know that's how i personally know about it so it has been discussed before but again i'm gonna put it on the agenda for the third you know and include that i appreciate it and then i think you and you had sent me a document yeah i will include as part of that so thank you good okay good i don't think that requires anything um district activity update yeah just real briefly um
086we're in the midst of summer school and finalizing that week we have um 450 students in our elementary academies going on we have this summer almost a thousand students participating in our activities at lincoln high school in wilson washington so we're excited about just continuing to engage our kids if you pop by the schools you'll start to see cars and vehicles in the parking lots as our teachers are heading back into their classrooms and starting to just get organized and prepare for what's moving our buildings are working together as as leadership teams planning and getting ready for august 30th we have about four weeks and then our new teachers come back and then five weeks our uh full staff comes back and august 30th school starts so as much as we appreciate the summer to
087kind of look back and reflect on what we've done in the past and really look forward to what's happening in the future we are uh really getting close to starting again so we're excited about that um and let's continue to do the work to make sure we're ready anything else for them i'm hoping that you can explain more about the lincoln alternative program and like how that is going to be how those changes were taking place in the future i know you gave us an email saying some of that but especially with mr vince husky thank you um here and some of our students i'm just wondering like how does this affect those people specifically and what opportunities are there for them for those students you said we're down to eight students for this next
088year versus 15 yeah so you know here's here's what i would tell you um the administration had a conversation with the staff members involved uh prior to the school year ending administration that had another conversation with the staff members involved and then um apparently that piece was uh communicated on social media before we could all do that and communicate with all the individual families so um as much as i can appreciate the passion and interest that's going forward um there's a there's a process that we hope that all employees work through and that wasn't followed at all so just want to be clear about that second piece that i would articulate is that um lincoln alternative um has been a place where again 12 to 15 kids and they've had some success working through that
089process both staff members will move towards mckinley academy the students who graduated and so it's juniors and seniors obviously they're gone we've given an option for those current juniors to continue the programming in mckinley academy or if they choose they didn't want to do that to go back so again that would be there's you know in the range of eight eight to ten students depending on who wants to go back and wants to stay there the opportunities that exist in that small class sizes and small areas the same the place that they report to is exactly the same the employees are going to work in the same building we're talking about a small again learning environment so some of the some of the things that we're excited about is we have again a credit recovery
090program that can provide many many opportunities for our kids and we have a staff that's ready to do that and we're asking the staff member to participate and join three other staff members who are at mckinley to provide that service with the kids that are there so what does that specifically look like as far as change for the students like so rather than being in a room separated from mckinley academy they'll be in rooms joined with okay so they won't actually be at one point they were never at least those students right those students were at stangle learning community in a classroom those students will stay at staying the learning community and join the classroom of mckinley academies as their as they choose this something different though no no it's called so lap will join
091the kinley academy so the mckinley academy will take up those services so i'm assuming that since since the you know before school let out you've talked to the parents and the students coming back the accounts i personally have the counselors who have called those students and the parents yes and how is that being received from parents are they optimistic again i have not had a conversation i talked to christopher today about that and this week and he said that the students were like i i understand that and then again there are i think he told me there were still three that they had left message on and hadn't gotten all right thank you for that somebody said that facebook somebody indicated that they lost the job openness is that true that's not true okay that's
092good helen i have one last question on the on-site vaccination clinics for students um and this is discussing the covid 19 vaccine i was pleased to see that you know parent consent for um for this you know it should be up to the parents right the only thing that did trouble me though is once we got to the individuals who are 16 and 17 that they are required to have parent consent but in the event that parents or guardians cannot be present a consent form must be signed and brought to both doses i the concern that i have is in the event that those parents do not subscribe to that thinking and then the child does subscribe to that are we then deciding for that shot before that parent and going against their own wishes
093should we should we or should we not have on something you know that is another hot topic make sure that we cover our bases and have the parents there are we opening ourselves up to problems those are we those aren't like our protocols we're following what the health department protocols are so so again i mean i i understand you're saying you're saying that a 16 year old who wants to get a vaccination we're going to fake a parent signature bring it to it to get the vaccination and then we don't know i mean i i we just we're following what the county health department is and so i'm i'm assuming again i'm not sure what happens at the county health department but i'm assuming that you could do the same thing at the kelly health
094department i don't see that as an issue i do not see students running role to get no i mean i mean so what i would say is we're always liable we're liable anytime somebody steps in our district but we are what we're saying is we're following a protocol and doing the due diligence we're saying that if you meet the age requirement that the state sets forth that you have to have a signed parent permission right it's similar to going on a field trip right so are we liable for kids going on field trips yes is it possible that over the years that somebody signed their parents name and hand it in to go on a field trip yes you know and i did the parents not want them to go on that field trip i
095don't know i mean i'll just be forthcoming personally i don't like the fact that we're getting involved in the you know giving out vaccinations in school so just be i don't mind so we're not giving the vaccination we're just providing the option for kids to come if they wish we're just advertising here's an opportunity for you to get the vaccination it's like a rental group that's all we're doing we're not we have no employees that are involved in giving any vaccinations or taking any of that piece it's not our employees okay we're just providing a place any other questions for the superintendent okay we'll move on to [Music] a couple of action items under new business we have student loans i'll turn that over to you angela yes uh thank you in four book with
096the list of student loans for the upcoming year uh we have it was 15 students requesting uh first loans and then uh 51 for additional loans we offer the program there's the scholarship program that was referenced at the beginning of the meeting tonight and then we offer [Music] up to four two thousand dollar loans to students to get it through their undergraduate careers and then we sort of service and work with a theme to help um you know provide those loans and provide that like a lower interest rate for students it's a program that started back in the 70s i believe so it's been around for a very very long time so we're very uh we're very unique and you know it's a great opportunity for our students uh ken mishler mentioned in the meeting
097a month or so ago that just when it was established it was important to offer both loans and scholarships to have flexible options for the students so uh really a very uh very nice program that we have and uh joyce stuckman in the business office works very hard to work with the families to provide the services with the loans and and that i help with the signatures and that kind of stuff but uh so you have to give that for approval tonight and what i'm wondering what is our oh i'm sorry what is our payback percentage from students on those loans so do we have a very good percentage on that uh well it's that's a great question so we do have some that uh that we've run into problems with at times historically and
098another piece that i probably should mention uh is that this loan program and the scholarship has kind of been a transition period where it was managed just under the school district since its inception but now it is really officially a part of the manitoba public school district foundation because it's not typical to keep a program like this under the books of the school district so um so part of that transition plan will be to take uh any of the loans that have not been paid on uh and and have that taken care of by a collections agency that has absolutely no impact on our funds as a district so that's very important it's all held separately so um there was with the initial gift and one market you can remember someone from the manitowoc mentor
099and then it um you know it's the interest growing on it it takes care and it it can still run even despite some of the um people not paying at times it's a it's a little percentage though so and i noticed we didn't even come close to the three hundred thousand dollars this year so is that kind of normal where uh numbers are low joyce had mentioned to me to just in my learning too that usually we come closer to the three hundred thousand but with especially the kovu last year and this year that uh there was a decline in that and so uh you know lincoln high school the counselors worked very hard to advertise the programs to the students and so uh hard to know i mean i would hope that more will
100take advantage of it in the upcoming years okay um i would entertain a motion in a second to approve those loans one second any further discussion hearing none all in favor say aye aye okay and then we'll move on you're still up uh repositories for our district funds okay uh annually we approve the depositories for different funds and the listing was provided on the memo and these are the bank first nationals our primary bank that we hold a majority of our funds we also have some additional funds and other um invested in other areas um the other main one would be the local government investment pool um so that's just um you know we share this with you and have it approved annually uh interest rates are nothing too uh right about so at this
101point so uh let's look at a little but uh yeah so i present that for approval any questions again it's a requirement that we do this and there's there's no changes right now from previous years i would entertain a motion in a second to approve second any further discussion hearing none all in favor say aye opposed okay that's kerry then we'll get to our future meeting dates our next we're not i'm i'm not planning on having that second tuesday meeting in july right that's okay with everybody yeah not doing that and just going to that august third meeting instead and there's some uh you know one of the things that'll be on that is our goals but then i want to have open discussion on issues that pertain to our district that we don't always
102get to have at these meetings um and thanks to i think carrie and stacey we have an action item but uh yeah yeah it will be quick okay okay well that's good but if you have other items that you want and it's you know well this is likely a longer meeting just so you know because it is more open discussion and um i try to allow you all to have your input regardless of what what it is so um feel free to you know say so is it a meeting i mean it's right like you don't do input or something at that one too no no this is just for the board to discuss uh issues on a broader basis than we normally can at a meeting like this where we have fixed agenda items
103and we have action items so we can expand on those things such as what we were discussing before and then do our goals we tried to do this every year good we call it a retreat but we had a we had a basically a meeting because it was a personality issue so we we we just you know we just let her go i mean we said what we wanted and it really it really worked yeah and that's what i want this to be yeah you know where you can discuss those issues um things that are brought up in public input for example we don't always bring them up you can do that you know um you you all get emails we all get communications bring those up and that's the time to do it that's
104time for us to have a broader discussion on we've been given a lot of communication yeah well that's okay um yeah quick question here uh carrie are you having a personnel meeting before that i don't think so well i'm sorry no i think um well let me let me there'll be some documents that will be generated by members of the committee that will be shared among the members of the committee that doesn't constitute a meaning i mean we're not that's that's no no just that you don't all respond to everybody that constitutes a meeting but say stacy sen i say i got that so she can do that i can look at it but i'm not going to send a reply to everybody oh yeah but i'm sure and then we'll talk about it you're
105free to send information to any board member on your own you'll get you'll get this stuff from us before that meeting yeah okay that's so you can look at it it's always helpful to see it before we discuss it it takes away and if you can find page 13 colin you go for it there is something else that i wanted to bring uh that i'm trying to bring to personnel so it's impossible that i can bring that to that meeting then yes okay i'm encouraging you to bring things up that maybe we don't always put on the agenda or regular meetings because their agendas tend to be more fixed right at most of our meetings this allows you to watch a broader discussion okay great thank you um any are there any uh committee meetings
106planned before august 3rd i'll just reiterate that we're having one tomorrow on july 14th at 4. okay that's here and that's for um is that finance and budget and you were going to do like an overview of how finance and budget works right okay are there any other committees chris do you have anything building around your enjoy okay well that's good okay then our next meeting is august 3rd at noon and again it's probably a longer meeting than we normally have that's how it's usually worked out uh if there's nothing else i would entertain a motion to adjourn in a second got a second second all in favor all right we are adjourned thank you [Music] um you