001I thank you to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Nice to see everybody. Thanks for being here, Joy and Corey. All right. We'll need a motion and a second to accept the agenda for tonight. Madam Chair, I'm going to make make a motion to accept the agenda for tonight. Second, we have a motion in a second. All in favor say I. I. Again, same sign. The agenda is accepted. We have no one signed up for open form as far as I know. Is that correct? Okay. So, we'll move on to the director of business services on auditive reports. Madam Chair, members of the board, um I don't have a ton to say tonight, which
002is probably okay. Um we did finish off the year. Yay. June 30th. Um and I'll wait till she Okay. Obviously, it's still unudedited. So, this and it it really isn't a great comparison year-over-year either because in 24 and 23, we have receivables and payables in there. And for the current year 24 25, we don't have receivables or payables in there. So, I guess it's not really showing you a whole heck of a lot right now, but this is where we're at right now. The month of July for us is kind of a hurry up and wait month because everything's coming in. We're going to learn about what our receivables and payables. I told Lauren today I'm try I started doing our state aid workpaper and I had to stop because the state doesn't have it
003ready yet. So I'm like, oh trying to get get ahead of things and do some audit workpapers, but I couldn't. But speaking of audit, we do have preliminary auditors coming in on August 14th. I think sometimes they'll call one of you as board members. So, just I'll probably try and give you a heads up if they're gonna give you a call. Um, and then we have field work September 29th through October 2nd and then October 22nd through October 23rd as well. So, they kind of space it out a little bit so we can kind of catch up in between. Um, can you show the graph? Just showing the graphs. um where you can see our revenue and expenditures showing right about even right now and they'll both of them will go up with receivables and
004payables. Um and that's the general fund. Food service, we're showing a revenue. Food service is probably closer to being a actual at this point. There may be a little bit of a receivable there, but not a whole lot. So, that one's going to probably end up there. Community ed will have some receivables and payables. Like I said, I just don't have a whole ton to share with you yet, but I'll obviously have an updated um version. So, what I'll do in August is I'll bring you our July, which will really show hardly anything, and then I'll give you an updated version of the June the June last year. So, any questions? Robin, I have a question that you may not know yet, and that's okay. But, you know, you're hearing a lot of the news
005about frozen funds and that, you know, Minnesota's joining the lawsuit and I know there's significant impact for larger school districts. There's less of an impact, but I know it's a lot of title funds. Yes. So, could you just tell us, do we know the financial impact for funds? What they've done so far is they have shown us what our title money or title one money is. They are holding back on title two, which we use our title two money to pay for a teacher at Taylor's Laws. So, that is how we pay for that title. It's a class size reduction. At some point, the district wanted to add a class or keep class sizes low and they use that money there. So, that's how that's been paid for. We don't know how much that is
006going to be yet for next year. They told us they've given us a placeholder amount in our application and so we've just put that in for now, but again, right now we're counting on it and we teach with it, but it's kind of late to do anything about that at this point. We just our budget needs it. So my other question is I heard some of the funding was for things like you know um ESL English as a second language and I know we have students who need those services. So no I haven't heard many federal money. We don't get any federal EL money. We don't get it. Yeah because I think title three isn't title three as well but we don't get any of that. Okay. So you think it's mainly the position at
007Taylor's Falls that will fill the financial? Yes. If if we don't actually receive the funds. Okay. Right now they've told us to plan for them, but yeah. Any other questions? Thanks. You're welcome. All right. Board committee updates. Josh and I had the facilities basically talked about everything that everyone saw at the work. Anything in the future? No, no, I think actually the work session basically rehashed everything. We went line for line for line, but you saw it just as a grouping as a whole, but we went with the vaccine lying by lying revolver. We're not well and it might be worth noting publicly, right? But then it led to a work session so our voters know we're actually taking a look at the survey that we did listening to their voices but also looking at
008needs that are still all there and trying to deal with how do we meet community needs and also listen to our voters. So we are in the process of looking at where we go next because people have been asking what are you doing? What's next? What will happen? So we're in the process of processing all the data and trying to come to our next our next decision. I think it's important to say were there any other committee meetings? Um Jen and I did meet with Superintendent Gates. We are working on Superintendent Dates as the next contract and that'll probably show up in August of the August meetings. Think that's all I've got. All right, we'll turn it over to Superintendent for an update. I said two items. First one is that my first year here
009I started doing presentations at the cities. That was a really good way for us to connect and for us they had an opportunity to tell our story and share information what's going on in our schools with their city partners. And so done, majority of them at this point this summer with one more next week. But again, it's always great to go out and have that connection and that chance for them to learn about what we're doing and answer questions. And I think it's just a really good experience. And we get a lot of nice positive feedback from people on the city council, the mayors, as well as people in the audience, too. So it's going to be a really positive experience. And then some of what you just said, Lori, I wrote in a couple
010of comments just about the work on putting together information from the last bond in May and trying to make sure that we're moving in the right direction. So, I'm going to talk about a couple things. The survey, we did a survey for our community uh in June and which we've had an opportunity to take a lot of good feedback from the bond post election and the nice part is that everything came back at pretty level. um put this at that's sort of like a it's just similar to what we did in 24. So we didn't go up, we didn't go down, we sort of say the same, but that's pretty good because we had some really good results in 24 and I feel like it opens a door for us like you said to for
011listening opportunity to hear what people have said. We try to gather information throughout the campaign afterwards surveying to get some insight of what people are thinking. The learning piece too is to know how we're going to take that and look at what we want to do and then it leads to solutions. You know, what are we going to come up with as a potential alternative to do some of this work? So, we did meet obviously uh this week and we'll meet again in August and keep working on that plan because as mentioned before at the meetings, these problems are going to go away. We're going to have to address them at some point here. And I think what we're hoping to be able to do is really sit down and come up with a plan
012that we feel our community can support and just, you know, have an opportunity to tell that story again this fall. That's all you have for us. Oh, yeah. All right. We'll move on to the consent agenda then which includes claims and accounts personnel and past meeting minutes. We've had an opportunity to come over. We'll need a motion and second to accept the consent agenda. I'll make a motion to accept the consent agenda. Have a second. I'll second. Second. Any questions about that? If not, all in favor say I. I. Again, same sign. The consent agenda passes. There appears to be no old business. um for new business. Uh we received a donation it looks like from the Taylor Falls parents for education for their calling for calling order Corners and it's $1,836.58 because it's a
013donation. We will take it as a resolution but we will go ahead and take a motion in a second just to be covered. I'll make a motion to accept the donations from the Taylor Falls parents for education and express our appreciation for the donation as well. We have a second. I'll second it. Josh, Jen, I that resolution passes. It looks like we're moving on to our property and liability and workers comp insurance. I bet Robin has something to say about that. Sure, I can talk a little bit about this. Um we met with our broker and talked a lot about property liability and workers comp again this year. Um we did have just a slight increase in our property insurance but we are staying with the same company which is AFM. Uh that was about
014a 3% increase. Uh our liability went up about 6.6% and then uh and we're staying with the same with handover again. And then uh our workers comp went up about 2.66. 66%. And we're also staying with SFM there. So, no major changes in in that, but we did have some pretty big changes in deductibles. I know we've talked a lot about insurance in the last couple years. So, we do have a $25,000 deductible on most claims. Outside of wind and hail, we have any wind and hail, we have a $100,000 deductible except of the high school is a half a million. So, if we have anything happen at the high school, our deductible is half a million dollars. And to be honest with you, this was probably better than what the quoted us at first.
015A lot of companies are going to a percentage. So it would have been 1% of the total value of the building. So then we would have been looking at like about 8 for deductible. So So we're actually grateful to have $500,000 at the high school. But so that was the biggest change we had in our insurance. Otherwise, otherwise the process was about the same. Is that due to the condition of our moves? No. It's not all about us. has a lot to do. No, it's not. Okay. Um it has a lot to do with um wind and hail that have happened and not just in the Midwest, but all over the country. Yeah. They don't want to pay for It's always an interesting process, but we're insured. It's a good thing. Yes. Okay. So, any
016other questions about our insurance increases? If not, we'll need a motion in a second to accept. Well, just briefly check. So, this school work has a broker, right, that you guys work with. Um, and do they shop this out? So, they go back, they go out the markets, yes, you got multiple quotes from different companies. And they just happen to be the same companies we have been with at least the last couple years. We have switched since I've been here, but Okay. You know, I I'm sorry. But I I just look at that $544,45 up roughly what 53 $3,000 previous. And how many claims do we have? You know, it's kind of like our, you know, you think about, holy cow, it's a over half a million dollars and and out the door and and
017it takes a lot to get any money, you know, I guess, you know, just like you have a fire. down or something. If you don't have it, you're I Yeah, I had this comment last time. I said it's just one of those costs that you don't think about really being an expense of a school district, but it's obviously there because it's there for all the rest of us. You know, we've seen our home insurancees go up. It's a crazy amount that likely Hey, but here's a story for and I did not use our property insurance for 30 years and then all of a sudden we just changed insurance companies and on day one of the new insurance company a tree fell through our house and pretty much destroyed the entire house. So we were glad
018we had insurance if it happened. You don't have that many close treaties, Lori. I'm just saying. It's good to have them. I got a $33,000 grocery place. I thought I was going to have to teach another year burden to a principal for another year, but I do hear you on it. It's just pile of money. It is. And you know, property and liability, I don't think we had knock I don't think we had any claims this past year. If they were, they weren't large. But workers comp I know we have more claims there processes there too. That makes sense. Business. Yeah. All right. Wait. So we have questions but I think we still need a motion. So we need a motion second. I make a motion to accept the property liability works comp insurance. I'll
019second it. We have a motion and second. All in favor say I. I. Again. Same sign. That motion passes. Okay. We're moving on to looks like a few things under LTFM. There's a few things attached and I know they're tiny. Next time I'll print them and I can email them all to you as well if you want to look at them and you can blow them up a little bit more. Sure. Can you make just Yeah. So we can pack it might be easier to read. No. So our first attachment is the letter, right? And Okay. So, that first letter that's on there, and maybe that's not the one we want to talk about first. Can we skip that one? Sure. And go to Sure. Um, the first one I kind of want to look
020at is the revenue one, and you don't have to pull that one up, Michelle. But there's a there's a revenue one, and that is generated from MTE. They generate that for us. And I just kind of want to talk through what we generate is about $1.3 million in LTFM funds every year. It's $380 per student or per ADM for about 400. And I'm saying approximate numbers here because things changed a little bit here and there, but um approximately $420,000 of that. We I just need to stop you. We're all if you look around and see people's faces, this is when we what we get when we put up the revenue. We're all getting I did that at first and then I clicked back down. And for some reason it all came up into a I
021clicked it again and it came up with the individual ones that I think. So is it the one? Oh. Oh okay. I will send these all to you guys because this spreadsheet it, like I said, it's generated from MDE and it's just generating our revenue. It's going to start with the 1.3 million. It's going to take off $420,000 and that's what we pay in our debt service. Those are the two LTFM bonds that we have and that amount of money, that $420,000, we're borrowing against our LTFM money to pay those bonds back. So that's what that is. So it leaves us with approximately $875 to $880,000 left for us to spend every year. And I know we talked about that during the bond, too, that we only have $800,000 to spend on all of our
022buildings for deferred maintenance every year. And again to take off the top, we take about $240,000 off the top of that for health and safety because when LTFM was put was uh generated, it was health and safety money plus your deferred maintenance. So we take the 240 off that. So really it leaves us about $640,000 a year to spend on I'm going to say six buildings because we do include the bus garage in this as well. So those are ongoing health and safety $240,000 approximately projects. Yes. I mean, it's it's money that we spend every year on those on health and safety issues. I mean, things that we have to have. Yeah. Sorry. No, that's okay. Um I'm trying to think what we have to do. So, like the vector training, all those kind of
023things. Some of the vector training we do at the beginning of the year, all of our staff have to do that. We have to pay for that. We have um that's like bloodborne path bloodborne path. Thank you. I was those things were not coming to my head. Yes, I love those by the way. Everybody does, don't they? We just got our emails on. We also pay resource training solution a contract for our environmental management so that they manage all those contracts for us as well. Um some other things on here. Some of our HVAC systems are under health and safety. There's yeah fire code violation any not violations any kind of fire code any testing of our inspections all those things yeah and they come into classrooms too in science rooms they come in and
024do some testing yeah so it's all that does that make sense so from there what this you want to bring up that expected since the expenditure one was showing we show um I just want to kind of talk about the first two years so the first year on there is going to be um FY26, which is the summer that we're in right now. And I think you all know what we're spending most of our money on this year. And this in FY26, what you're approving tonight is FY27. FY26 was already approved, but I want to let you know again that basically we're doing a lot of LED lighting. We're doing some flooring at Taylor's Falls. We're replacing a lot of door frames at the primary school. And then there's a few other some carpet replacement
025at the high school, some drinking fountains at the middle school, and a little bit of curb striping out here at Lakeside. We want to make sure we don't let things get away from us here either. So that's what's happening in FY26 for the um this summer going into next summer. So FY27, what we're looking at, it's a little bit more generic just because we don't know exactly what's going to happen next year if we if we do put a bond out to the voters again. But of course, we did set money aside for again door frames, back stops, um floor drains, um and there's about $200,000 worth of deferred maintenance projects at the high school as well outside of the the other ones were at the smaller schools. Um and here's some snow fencing. Just
026some very I guess it's a little bit more generic, but we do have a lot of projects that we need to get done in the buildings. So, who like prioritizes our LTE? Good question. And we talked about this at our um facility meeting, too. So, in the spring, Kyle and I sat down with the head custodian of every building and each building principal. Went through what their priorities are along with Kyle's priorities as well. And I mean, I could show you, I've got a his Google doc in front of me right now that he has priorities. It's by each building and then he brings them down into each year or each summer that he wants to get them done. and they're moderate, high, or we really don't have a whole lot of low priorities, but
027they're mostly moderate and high priorities on here. And then we put them into a different coding class, too, of what they would what fund they were actually. So, it was it was a pretty extensive process that we went through this year, and it was a really good process because then the principles and their their head custodian got to get together and actually have those those conversations with us. And if you remind me of what we have against our LT families at Sprinkler work at the Taylor's Falls School that we didn't anticipate that was one of that's one of them we had one in 2020 and one in 2018 and how what's the length of the one was a 10 year one was a 15 so one will be done in 2030 and the other in
02820 the 2020 is 10 years and the 2018 15 so then in 2030 what is our LTFM bounce back up to well that was $1.2 $2 million. So, it'll bring back so much money into us to use. The other one of those three 3.7 actually number 3.7 we talked about so many times and 1.2 and yeah it'll it'll generate the 1.2 will generate about hundred some thousand a year back into the good questions. And if you look at the bottom, can you scroll down a little bit farther in that yellow box? This is the new legislation on roofing that we've had. So, this is added in here. We talked about that at the study session as well. The $4.8 million is added in under that 2027 year. So, it's added in. And then you can
029see we'll be bonding for that money just like the LTFM bonds that we have right now. So it's bonded at the bottom. So it's showing up as revenue and expense in there. 4.8 million in and 4.8 million out. Those will all you can see there it goes into a fund six which is actually a construction fund. So that'll go into a whole different fund. We'll keep track of those expenditures separately. So if it's we bond for it in 26 27 and then when will it work? Next summer. It can't start until July 1st. According to we I should we can't pay we're going to be some really quick roofing projects getting done here. Um and if you go back to that first letter at the top that I said skip it. That was the first
030one. That's the letter that when Troy Thompson was here on Tuesday morning, we he talked about he did the narrative that will go to MTE that I will send all these documents in telling what our project is. So that's just the letter this time that to do. Usually we do this in June and it's pretty much a slam dunk. But with the new legislation, this adds a little bit little different twist to it, which I don't know. I'm excited. It'll get some projects done. Absolutely. So, help me understand. Thank you for sending that over with by the way about how the kind of bidding process works for state. Yes. Um, but as far as like just getting the work done, you budgeted say got on your t like electrical or whatever. Um, and you have
031budgeted like 364,000 something like that. Um, do you guys break that into small projects and then go off for individual bids based on those small projects or do you contract with one electrical company and say, you know, we're going to do all 300. That triggers a completely different process. You can do it both ways. Um, how we did it this summer is we did quotes and so we could get two separate quotes because it was under the the bid law. We decided we get quotes for vendors that we've used in the past. How about the quotes on those? So, um, and then the rest of the spreadsheet, if you look out, like I said, it's hard to do 10 years, but you can see numbers just carry forward. And we are keeping an amount on
032there for turf. So that you'll see there's a big chunk I think in 2033 maybe on there where the turf will need to be replaced again as well. So we've been keeping that fine balance carried forward. That was something started before. Sorry. What year? I think it's if you look at Oh, you can't see it that well. 2031 I think. It was replaced in 2021. Yeah, it wasn't that long. No, I think they usually last about 10. They usually last a certain amount of time. It lasted longer. it lasted longer. So, we just kept kind of saying, "Well, we don't need to quite yet. We don't need to." Well, because of CO, we didn't use it right away for those couple years. So, I think it's in here in 2020 2031 and that can obviously
033that's an estimate of 2032 actually. Any other questions? Thank you. I mean, it is pretty remarkable that you were taking care of six buildings with 600 grand. I mean, that's that's truly a um a daunting task, especially when every thing in here is extremely expensive. Yeah. And that $380,000 that we or $380, sorry, per student that we get has not changed since I was test. Yeah, there's no there I think I think it was 2017, wasn't it? That sounds right. I know it was before I got here and it has not gone up since you are totally right. The other thing just remember too is that things we're sharing are important in scale but they're very small in stature. Anything's big, there's no way we have enough money to take care of. we talked about
034during the campaign too is that everything's important but we're trying to take the smallest of the small to get it done because we have revenue to do it in LTFM but take any of the projects you can see on any of the pages you guys read through line by line and most of those are well beyond our means that we can't do it so I mean I think I think sometimes again that came up during the campaign about well don't you have money yeah but not even close to enough to take care of these types of things so it's always a good reminder for people that um the 600,000 goes back to the stretch of talk about everybody else does. We do a really good job. And that was a predominant question. Why haven't you
035taken care of these maintenance things? Because 1 880 doesn't cover especially when you whittle it out the health and safety 660 or whatever it is does not provide $63 million worth. Correct. If you really broke down most districts LTFN plans, ones our size or smaller, most are going to be in probably the tens of thousands of range because they don't have the bandwidth to do any more the same. So all those other ones that have prices that just cost a lot like an HVAC system about four to $500,000 could do it. I'm emailing you guys right now. Thanks. We're just all You'll read them all day long. My glasses aren't working. I have to I can barely All right. So, we need um we we still need a motion in a second to accept the
036long-term facilities maintenance 10-year plan. I'll make a motion to approve the long-term facilities 10-year plan. Easy for you to say. We have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. Hi. It's a resolution. I need a resolution. Oh, so we're also going to do that. Sorry, Jen. I thanks for the reminder. That's something different because it's in July as well, but usually we do it in June. Then we got the minutes approved in July. It's a whole Okay. Or whatever. Very specific rules on this. Okay. Follow the rules. All right. Um, next thing on our computer says policies, but here it says CL and let me see if those are just in different. They are. Yeah, they're good. So, we'll just do we'll just do the policies. Um, we have a lot of
037first readings. Sounds like the policy committee and Corey have been busy. Yes. So, what would you like to tell us about it, Cy? I will say obviously there's nine of them there. We go through all the changes if you want the team way too long the next day. So what I will say all of these policies are either the ones we have to review yearly anyways with very very little if any change or they just have a few words here and there that has changed to make it fit better to statute. The example I'll give is that one of the policies um it says our policy currently says we will not discriminate and the policy that MSBA wrote to that better with statute says we will not unlawfully discriminate. That's the only change in the
038entire policy. So, and I would say all of these are the same. Um, they just a few word changes. The one I'll point out, probably the biggest is 506. That's our discipline, our student discipline policy. We went through a massive change in that in 2023. Um, really is all it did is just um update the wording. So, a lot of people get concerned with the C policy 506 because the student discipline, but we already did the massive legislative change back in 2023. So, now it's just a few words here and there. I don't know if Josh wants to say anything. He I know he read through a lot of them. Um but yeah, well I did read through them. Um and I don't know if you if you could share the Google Doc where you
039compare them to the rest of the board so we can see that. I think that would be really helpful for you to be able to see the changes. Yeah, I mean I I can certainly I mean what we've done is we've utilized AI even though sometimes we think it's a it's a crutch, but what's what's really helped us with this is it gives me a sideby-side comparison and then a narrative at the bottom that says here's the main point that you need to know of what the difference is between NSBA policies and your guys' current policy. I mean that would be helpful. So yeah, I can share that with you guys. I can share it with Josh, but it was it was helpful to just kind of see it side by side, right? But I
040did read through them and um they are small word changes. Okay. Sounds good. So they'll reappear for a final reading, but we have them now to look at for a while. So we'll look for the notes. Thank you. That's great. Any other questions about the policies? All right. If not, we do need a motion and second to accept the first read of those policies. I'll make a motion. I'll second it. I have a motion to second. Any more questions about those policies? Oh, hold on. Yeah, we don't need a motion to second. It's the first read. So, you wait till next meeting for the second read. Then you can go ahead and Sorry, that's okay. We'll just now we got to go through. Okay. All right. We will now move to the CLMU. And it
041looks like Cory's still standing, so he must want to talk. You guys can meet through the rest of this. The CLOU for those of you that were on the negotiations committee last time, we had a long talk about six week stuff. Um, and we kind of put some ideas together, put some words in place. Um, I I will say there's been probably a delay in getting this done. Um, just more on the lines of getting busy. And I I would even say sometimes a change in leadership um on on Clem's side um probably put us you know didn't put it to the forefront until the previous presidents were like where is this at because we thought we had something in place. So it was delayed a little bit from the last negotiations and then we're
042going to start negotiations again. But really what this is is that there's always been a line in the uh Clem contract about how many sick days they can accumulate. um that has never been followed from the district's perspective. And so we did say that we want to start following that uh piece of of the contract. And then what do we do with individuals who are above that maximum threshold so they didn't lose all the hours that they've been accumulating over the years. Um so what we did is that we um we we gave an initial proposal. Um I would say that came up with a very good proposal that made a lot easier for us than what my initial thought process was. We were drawing buckets on boards and um we had like eight buckets
043up there at one point and uh and then when they came back they just made it a little more simple to where there's a buyback clause in their contract that buys back eight days a year um and puts it into an MSRS account for them. Um that that would be pulled from that what we would call excess leave um sick leave. So that that makes it a lot easier administratively. Um, and so we have about 30 we have 33 people who are over the threshold of 920 hours. Um, I think 115 days. I used to have the hours on my mind. Um, because that's what our system tracks, but 33 people over that. Um, and so those 33 individuals will have kind of this excess bucket that's viewed in smart and then we'll pay them
044eight days into MSRS every year out of that. Just a little bit of history with it. when you were under severance, you needed 100 days in order to get your severance. Well, that would leave you this case with 15 days. Now, most everybody is off the severance track, right? And so they actually do have 150 days where if you were somebody like me and you needed the 100 days, you may not have any. I think numerous days over 115, but you always kind of had like you had 115, but you really didn't have 150. You only had 50 or 50 or whatever. So I don't know how many people are left on the summers track. There's 10 12. as far as teachers go, right? Yeah. Which the 403b match is much better than the seance,
045but it's kind of historical historical ais like a really old teacher. No, actually those pieces of history sometimes were searching for them like how did that happen and when? Yeah. Well, it kind of and they never did keep track. I think because they realized don't necessarily want you to use a whole bunch of them. And the other thing is you have to kind of have a bank of 100 hours or 100 days just to get sevens which turns out to be a lot of money but so I'm glad you worked it out with CL you should have seen us trying to go through this about five times and I I think I explained it differently every time. So by by the time she came with that I was like oh that's way easier. Why didn't
046why didn't we start there? We had this done a long time ago. Yay. Joy. Well, a lot smarter leadership used. Okay. So, we need a motion and second to accept the CLM regarding I make a motion to accept the CLEM. I'll second it. We have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. Again, same sign passes. I thought I heard groaning. Is everybody okay over there? Again on your piece of paper on the next page. Sorry. Oh, that's okay. Okay. Um, miscellaneous wage sheet. So, it looks like there were some adjustments made to our miscellaneous wage sheet. Does Cy, you want to tell us? Yes. So, um, every year we improve a miscellaneous weight sheet. This is coming much sooner than it used to. We used to bring in October and November and
047we just felt that it was it was important as we're going through this stuff to get everything done over the summer because it's going into the new fiscal year and it's for this year. So um just some changes you know just kind of based on where people have currently been paid where some of their pain points were um you know taking some steps off adding some steps. Um, one I think one of the biggest changes I would say is that um the gymnastics instructor, we think it could really um be a huge uh benefit for our uh community uh service department to have um the the high school gymnastics instructors in there um because we've kind of been piecing it together over the last three or four years. So, we did add that as a
048position um with what we were paying them anyways um when they would come in, but this was allowing us to probably take on more students into that gymnastics program as we um move forward. So, it was a really big change for us to be putting the position in there, but it was really um important for Keen Education as position added. Um and then just some brief updates to some of the um the individuals in there. Um we we have had a person who's been an associate for like three years and in those three years they've made the same amount of money. Um because we made changes to the lower steps but not the top step. Um so we wanted to make on that you know updated um so that way they could actually receive some
049extra compensation for being with us for four years that way. Um other than that just mostly remain at those few spots. Are there any other Are there any questions about this great shape? Hearing none. A motion and a second to accept. I'll make a motion. We have a motion. Second. All in favor say I. Would you allow discussion because I have a question? Yes. That's nice. Um, are there any positions that are hard to fill as you looked at the changes in salaries, our wages, our hourly rate? But when I ask the question, because that's always the question I start with is before we change anything, what? I I wouldn't say they had like a very like massive sticking out moment of like this is super hard to fill. I think we made a lot
050of changes last year that really helped them out. I would say specifically at the pool level with lifeguards and then adding for that morning shift differential that they have. Um they they have mentioned a little bit about uh if the lifeguard is under the age of 18 they have to have a full supervisor that's over the age of 18 and sometimes they do struggle to fill that in the morning. um it kind of came up last minute so we didn't move it that direction just because from what I heard from the meeting that I had with Dan is that a lot of associates fill that that role as pool supervisor and we already pay them additional money to have that role. Um and so we we did not move forward with that. But really, he
051just said obviously gets a little bit harder when all the college kids go back to college with that full supervisor role and some associates say that they're not willing to do it. Um, which then, you know, can make it challenging if they're the ones that are scheduled at 5:30 in the morning. We have a lifeguard that's at the age of 18. But, um, I think we we just added the supervisor, the pool supervisor supervision, sorry, I shouldn't say supervisor, supervision role. um just last year onto this. So um and just just some people I kind of came out and said, you know, I've been we had a lifeguard that's been here for four years and um literally it's again the same amount as the associate who's been here for four years. And so we added
052a step to the lifeguard for that purpose. That's the only one that goes to step five. Any other questions? We take vote. All in favor say I. I again. Same sign. I'm mixed up now. Motion passes. All right. The next thing we're going to do is we're going to have a motion and second to adjourn the meeting because we're going to have a closed session for the purpose of evaluating the superintendent and then we will reopen the meeting to give a short statement about the evaluation. So, we need a motion and a second to actually adjurnn our open meeting at this point. Motion second. We have a second. All in favor say I. I. Um, the open meeting is closed now. We need to thanks for being here. Yes. Eventually made a motion and a
053second to open the close session. Michelle. Okay. Just let me know when you're ready. Yes. And then does everyone have access?