001I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Can we switch that? I'm just creature. Oh my gosh, I'm looking at the Minnesota. All right. Um, we need a second to accept the agenda tonight. Make a motion. Second. All in favor say I. I. Again, same sign. The agenda is accepted. Uh, we've had no one sign up for open forum as far as I know. And we'll move right on to communications. um our director of business services will give us her update. All right. Thank you, Madam Chair. Members of the board, you'll notice we do not have an enrollment in the packet tonight because we haven't started school yet. So, we'll bring that next month. Um I
002did do something. Okay, so DBS report first. Um we do not have graphs on here either because of the month of July. We get so little revenue. I know. I got something new for you though. um so little revenue that the the graphs were ridiculous. They didn't look right, but these are the numbers here. Um one thing I wanted to point out in the general fund under supplies and materials, you can see we're already at 50% spent in July, that's textbooks. Sarah has purchased a lot of her textbooks obviously for the year so they have them. Um and we used a little extra capital money in there this year so that she could get what she needed. Um, and in food service, their expenses are up a little bit compared to prior years too because
003we purchased some equipment as well. We're still trying to get some of those kitchens. Um, though otherwise everything is pretty small and you can see, you know, 1.4% here and 1.5%. So, there aren't a lot in in July. Um, can you read? So, here's the new report that I did. This is the treasur's reports and I've done this before in previous districts and I've told you guys that sometimes I get bored with my old report so I try something new. This is something new for us here. Um and um I did have I do have one formatting error there. You can see the first bank southwest Texas or it says 45855. That's not a date. Supposed to be July 17th. It's not a number. So there's a formatting error in there. And Michelle said this
004will look prettier next month because I didn't let her see it until after I was done. So it's not pretty for her. But what this shows is these are our cash balances. So at the top it shows each fund and the cash as of um starts with June 30th has the receipts, the payroll, the bills and any journal entries that are made in each of those funds and then the ending balance of cash in each of them. Off to the right there um is our bank reconciliation. So, we put our cash into what's called the Minnesota School District liquid asset fund and most of our cash is in there and just a checking the checking account itself is at 4.15%. Which is pretty good. So, right now we do have the bulk of our money
005in well not the bulk but then there's also a max account which is more like a savings account and now it's on 4.24% to 4%. And so between the two of them there, we have about $16 million. And then we have almost a million dollars in um in investments. And those are off to the left there. And those are the four investments that we have there. And those are at 4.6, 4.55, 4.54, and 4.5. That's what they were when we invested those. So just wanted to give you a different look. I appreciate that. Thank you. You're welcome. You're welcome. just something different and looking at a different way where this is revenue and expenses that we're showing on this report. This shows our cash balances, not our fund balances, but our cash balances, what's actually
006sitting in the bank. So, like I said, it'll probably be prettier next month because I'm assuming Michelle has announced here. So this might be a question we're at this point here. But as far as the investments, who makes that decision about because that's, you know, school money that we're investing, it's pretty important decision what you choose to invest in. Is that Well, we as a as a governmental unit, we are very limited in what we can invest in. Okay. So, and they're all through the liquid asset fund, so they're all safe and we can invest in them. and when one comes due or they'll send it to me on actually a daily basis and say, "Hey, would you like to put some money, you know, in here? This is how much you can invest. This
007is the interest rate." Okay. Um I will tell you when Jack was here, he did a lot of investing. He really enjoyed that. And since Lauren came, we haven't done as much. So, we're trying to just kind of get back into it now and say, you know, we've got quite a bit sitting here. Let's invest a little bit more. So, we're trying to look at that. So, I guess local decision. Yep. Oh, yeah. Thank you. Yeah, you are more than welcome. Any other questions? Treasury support. Thank you for that. Yeah, I I will say there is like I was $7144 off and I couldn't figure out why. We still have $7144 in our construction fund. $71. $7144. So, but what can What can we buy? No. screws. Yeah, maybe a couple screws. So, and I've
008already lot I was going to say I just want to keep it open, but Okay. Yeah. So, any other questions for Robin? Okay. Thanks, Robin. We will move on to committee updates for last month. We had the organizational meeting um their audit kicked off a little ahead of ours. Yeah, they're early. Really early. So, we have to get stuff to them. Say we can't, you know, they're in two parts because not all the districts give their stuff to them in time, but school I know I still owe them some information, right? And I see we got our invite already for legislative October. Yeah. similar format to last year. Opportunities to have conversations and hopefully a little bit more conversation happens in our heart too. Any other and we'll move on to our superintendent. I have
009two items to cover tonight. The first one is that lights back in our buildings. It's been going on for a couple weeks now. Uh students are coming back, staff's coming into the woods and getting stuff set ready. Uh today I went to the tennis matches and the soccer match with Corey this afternoon. So it's just fun to see our students back and just being a part of the climb and culture. So it's it's hard to believe we're already going to be here next week with all staff back and then obviously everyone coming back and starting in school after Labor Day, but it's it's a really cool energy right now and it's just a fun day just to go out and support kids. So that's been great. Uh, I mentioned before when I first got here,
010we actually align some of our work at Bethle University as a partnership piece and we always have a check-in twice a year, usually right before school year starts to talk about opportunities. And I think that one nice part is they're very complimentary of the great things we're doing in our district. They're very happy with that piece. They're pushing some things to us because they know that we don't just do things well, we do it at a level where they want their students to have access to that piece. And today was really a cool opportunity to talk because they really sort of centered on a partnership needs to go both ways. And we've talked about ways we can support one another. And I just want to just tell you that we've had some really good conversations
011today that I'll bring you more information next month or two. But that really lives to that promise of as much as we're trying to support the work they're doing, there's going to be some things we're going to be doing to get more access to their teachers in our buildings and to do things that will give us a a front row seat to working with them which will benefit us greatly in doing that work. So don't have a lot of details because we just sort of figured out some logistics today. We're working through some details, but I do want to come back and share that because I will say this um BETHL has been a great partner. We hired our first BETHL teacher this year that starts this fall here at Lakeside and we are seeing
012a lot of benefit from the partnership we're having already in which it's reciprocated both ways. So, I'm just really excited about what's to come and how we can have a major imprint on the lives of future educators and how they can actually impact our kids and our staffs, you know, possibly as much. So, more to come on that here. Uh, tonight we have an initial conversation about the bond. It's not quite done yet, but to get the ball rolling a little bit, but I just thought I'd spend a couple minutes real quick talking to our public about this is that ever since the election was completed in May, we spent a lot of time again going back through and looking at data. Uh, you know, whether through surveys, conversations, just trying to extrapulate through everything
013we possibly could so we could have some real authentic conversation about what we see and what we need to do. And for the last three months, that's been our mode of operation in which you guys have been a front seat in that piece by working together to try to figure out what is that next step look like for us. And tonight, we're taking a smaller step towards that piece. One aspect of us going out for a bond is that we have to get a positive review from the Department of Education and there are timelines for everything. And knowing that we want to be ahead of the game and not miss timelines, we're going to get this work done tonight. you'll be authorizing some of the projects we are contemplating and looking at for this potential
014election coming up here in the winter 26. So, I just want people in our community to know that I really think that the process we've gone through this summer has been very mindful and I really am excited about feeling that as we continually close that gap, educate our community what our needs are and come up with a plan that makes sense for people. I think we've hit the mark at this point. More will be coming down the road, whether September, October, that we'll take the action, bring the question to you to go ahead and get approved. But it's a good step and like I said, we have been making progress over the last couple years. This is our year and we need the support from our community to make this happen. And I'm just excited
015about what we've done and also proud about the fact that we've been so centered on thinking about our our colleagues, our students, our parents, and our communities, our decisions. I want people to know these aren't just knee-jerk pieces. We really scrutinize what we're doing and feel like we are going to end at a really good point that's going to make a difference for our district. So that'll be tonight and obviously more to come in September and October. And on that same note, we'll end with this. Sent a message to our staff last week about the topic for or maybe this week at least blend together for our topic for our get together next Thursday about optimism. And I I'm really excited to sort of launch that piece because throughout the last couple years, we have
016just been really launching and doing a lot of great things at all levels in our buildings, our staff, our students. And there is so much that we're building towards that I'm just really excited about that topic of optimism because within that it really talks about beliefs. What do you believe? What do you think's important for yourself? So, that's going to be the theme on Thursday for my introductory speech to staff. And um we have a lot to be thankful for. We have a lot to be optimistic about moving forward. And it's just going to be a fun time to really sort of again talk about this and get ourselves ready for another great year. We're doing great things in this district. We have a ton to be proud of. I couldn't be proud of our
017staff, our students, and our communities. Um we have a great year ahead. I'm excited about it. Thanks, Ryan. So, I see on our agenda the superintendent contract, but I see it later on 7C. So, I think we'll just wait and cover it later. Okay. Yep. Any questions for Brian about his update at all? We're excited for the school year, too. So, thank you for your optimism. All right. We'll move on to the consent agenda. So, we have the claims and accounts, some personnel items, um past meeting minutes as part of our consent agenda. So we'll get a motion in a second to accept those unless there's questions about them. Second. Any questions? If no questions, all in favor say I. I. Again, same sign. Consent agenda passes. Okay. So, we're moving on to old business.
018We had second reads on a series of policies um that I know the policy committee looked at maybe. Yes. Yeah. And then there were some changes denoted. Um did anyone have any questions about the policy second? Okay. If not, we'll need a motion and second to accept the second reads on um policies 102, 214, 401, 402, 406, 410, 413, 506, and 806. I make a motion. We can batch the Yes. All in favor say I. I. Again, same time, those policy changes. New business. So, just like every year, we have some handbook updates for the elementary, for the middle school, and the high school. Um, they were all sent to us previously. We will need a motion in the second to accept the handbook updates and then we can also entertain questions if there's any
019questions about the hands. If anyone here can answer questions. I have a motion. Do we have a second? Do we have questions about the handbooks? Were there any changes or major changes or little changes? No. Uh, small changes. Anything that was basically legislative is what we really focused on, which is usually the norm for most years. So, um, there's a document in there that sort of just goes through a couple things, whether it's our language access plan, information about staff directory, um, school drinking water, food policies and food service updates, cell phone, personal electric electronic devices, things like that. Basically, there are smaller pieces that if there's updates with the legislature in the bianium or even an off year where we don't have a banium, um we take that information, integrate it in there. Otherwise,
020what we have in place is pretty resolute. It stays the same for the most part every year. So, we just make the updates we need to and if you click in them, you know, I noticed like the high school gave a summary of the changes. Some of the levels highlighted the changes. You want to see that the changes were highlighted. Okay, I've lost track. Did we do a vote? Motion to second. We have a motion second. Um, all in favor say I. I. Again, the same sign. That motion passes. All right. We have a new ice arena contract um before us. Uh did anyone want to comment on it or is it just as presented? I mean, I can tell you the differences if you want to know. I mean, the practice rates went up
021$5 an hour. The ice game ice rates went up $50 a game. Section rank games went up $50 a game. And then the the spring trip rate went up $6. And two things to add as well. The rates are commensurate where the averages are around the region. Um, we did check that as we were making some of these decisions and legal counsel looked at it a couple different times on some items that we were just concerned about to make sure that we didn't cut down a road we couldn't number one or that we were just making sure that it wasn't written in a way that would harm or impact us negatively as well. So that was discussed and brought back a couple different times. So I feel like those areas were addressed properly too. There
022was a decrease in the parking lot lease. So it went from 3500 to750 but not but we are also responsible for following that parking lot. So do they own the parking lot? Yes, they own the parking lot. Okay. Yep. So we're leasing it from them questions. If not, we'll need a motion and a second to accept the new ice arena contract. Is there a one year? Yes. I make a motion accept ice arena. We have a motion to second. All in favor say I. Again, same sign. The ice arena contract passes. Okay. So, on to the superintendent contract. So really as the board chair, it was my responsibility to meet with Brian and negotiate. Although I did involve the other two um certified negot negotiators and I just want to say a couple things. First
023of all, we're just so thankful for Brian's leadership. We talk about this on his evaluation week that I mean leadership really matters all the way down to every decision you make and I've just been so grateful for your positivity and your experience. Um, so going into the superintendent contract, one thing that I thought was really notable is Brian right away told me intentionally he did not want his total package percentage to be above the other groups who were recently settled with. That was his main just said I don't want a higher total package than anyone else gets. So I just thought that was admirable and that it should be stated publicly. I thought that was very impressive. So the contract is attached and I'll entertain if there's any questions or Cy can answer any questions
024if you have any. But I just wanted to say that well often when we do you know are getting rid of negotiations difficult negotiations. I mean it was terrible down and dirty. Kind of really, you know, on on the edge of our seat wondering how that all went. So yeah. No, not difficult at all. That was my perspective. I don't know you. And we looked at comparables like we do with our other groups. I mean, you look at comparables, Brian's behind. He has 20 years of experience. But again, his intention was not to have an inflated contract. So that was So if no other questions, we need a motion and a second to accept that superintendent. Madam chair, I make a motion to accept the superintendent's. We have a motion. I will second. We have
025a second. All in favor say I. I. Again, same sign. Motion passes. Thanks for being here, Brian. All right, so that is I'm sorry, that is a three-year contract, right? Yes. Four. So now we have to do as Brian mentioned earlier, we have to authorize Nexus to submit the review and comment to MDE. Um, do we need to talk about the changes right now though or are we submitting plan B as we talked about in the work session? Yes, I I can talk about a little bit. So, okay. Generally speaking, the nice part of the work we're going to do for the review and comment is the fact that it's pretty similar we did in the past. the date that we'll talk more about September, October as we really worked on how we're presenting the
026potential question and we're going to talk about multiple questions and the dollar amounts being significantly lower as we adjust and look at different things on this plan. The major pieces since it's just a global piece where you don't have to really separate out how you're doing more talking about what we're doing. It's pretty much a mirror image. But knowing that we're going to probably look at two questions, they'll go ahead and make more differentiation between where stuff is placed. The major change that happened just one significant one I would say would be again that we recognized after another analysis of our pool. We were at critical mass in the pool area. We have to get some of the stuff done not only in the body of the pool with the drainage and the tiles, which
027just for the record, it's over 40 years old. The other piece too is the back and the mechanical stuff that exists in the entire high school. We have the same issues there too. So that's now going to be addressed more in that first question and take care of that stuff which is good as well. Um the other big thing that probably also just talked about is that with recent legislation roofs are now something that the state has authorized stitchers to take care of. And back a month before this in our July meeting, you guys authorized us to go ahead and use that mechanism to do that down the road uh in the after June 30th of 2026. So it's important to note too that that was a big part of our plan that we had
028asked for three consecutive bond elections and now the states gives authority and the needs we have those dollars are now off of that. So that will not be reflected in the plan because that's now a different mechanism for districts to use that piece. So that's really pretty much it. It's going to be almost a carbon copy of what we did before. But knowing there's always some work and unfortunately the state sometimes takes a long time on stuff and there's timelines, we want to get in as early as possible. So the goal will be I will text our partners tonight and we'll work on it the next week and it will be done hopefully by September 1st and submitted and ready to be printed in the paper sometime in November. Any more questions about that? It's
029going to be a quick board meeting, you guys. Okay. If not, we need a motion and a second to authorize Maxis to submit the review and comment. I'll make a motion. I'll second it. We have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. Again, same sign. That motion passes. If there's no other new um we'll need a motion second to adjourn. I'll second it. All in favor say I again same time the motion meeting is thanks everybody. I can't get it. Everyone's