March 2026 School Board Meeting

001allegiance 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. Next [clears throat] up is attendance. Dave, do you have any questions on attendance? Agenda approval. Does anyone have any additions or corrections to the board agenda? I have a little bit of both. Um, under communications, added cuz you all received something from MSBA today, so I just want to talk through that. Um, I made some changes to the social media for student participants. We just added what the student consequences would be. Um, e-learning days, made some changes, just changed up it said home learning and e-learning throughout the whole document, so now it says e-learning just for some consistency. And then, uh, I was notified today of

002two donations that came in, so those have been added as well. Um, can I ask something? Mhm. Um, can the transportation be moved up in the agenda? Cuz I know that last month it got really really full for the drivers, and um, I don't know where the best spot if that would be under the first one under 12, um, but if you can move that up a little bit. Okay, if that's what the board wants me to do. I can just make a motion to move it. Up in the agenda? Under 12 or what? Yeah. Well, after the new business that we'll Oh, yeah. >> [clears throat] >> So, I guess my motion would be moving transportation up to 12A. There's a motion to move transportation up to 12A. Is there a second? I'll second.

003Okay. There's a motion and a second. Any discussion? All in favor, say aye. Aye. All opposed? Motion passes 7-0. Oh, sorry, 6-0. >> [clears throat] >> Does anyone else have any additions or corrections for the agenda? Did we have to approve it again? So, I'm looking for a motion to approve the agenda. I'll make the motion. >> [clears throat] >> I'll second. There's a motion and a second. All in favor? Aye. All opposed? I'm ready. I'm ready. I'm ready. >> [clears throat] >> All right. Next up is open forum. Rules for open forum. 3 minutes per speaker. >> [clears throat] >> Open forum shall not take more than a total of 15 minutes. No complaints about individual staff members, about students, or about other persons at a public meeting. All presenters will conduct their business

004in a manner that meets community standards for decorum. The board will not take action on items presented in the open forum. Brian, did anyone sign up for open forum? No. Does anyone wish to speak? Go ahead, Pam. Um, well, I'm here on behalf of the hockey program, and the girls hockey program that we have, um, right now co-opted up in Sauk Rapids River. Um, I had asked Brian to send forward an email to all of you that I had written expressing my concern for it. Um, I won't get into the specifics of it. You can see kind of my talking points in that email, but I'm asking that it's on the agenda for next month, that it's discussed, and um, things are talked about at that time. Okay, thank you. Yep. Does anybody else wish

005to speak? Mhm. On to the audit. So, before we get to the audit, the board needs to do, um, one final part for the district, so then we can present the audit. Um, I'm recommending from the general fund that we transfer 147,894 to the food service program, and 41,446 from general fund to community education. Um, just because I've received some questions, we believe this will be the last time, at least for food service, we'll have to do a transfer that high, um, as there's some commodities dollars that we'll be able to capture, and we already are capturing. So, I would assume when you're approving the audit roughly a year from now, that number will not be as high. Um, we found out in the '24-'25 school year about it too late, cuz to get the

006money in the spring, you have to I'll start the other way around. To get the money in the fall, you have to fill it out by March, and to get the money then for the spring, you have to fill it out by October. We had missed those deadlines for last year, um, just we didn't know about it, so I anticipate and that was some other internal changes that it'll be the last time we have to make as big of a transfer from general fund to food service. Um, biggest reason, and Bridget could help me a little bit more, but big biggest reason from food, uh, for community ed's money being transferred there is to help offset some of the cost of the pool. Are there any questions on the transferring of money? I have a

007question. Do you have any anticipation what the the the community ed and the pool look like this? The fee being charged across the board? More fee? Any estimates? We can pull that revenue for I don't off the top of my mind, but Bridget and I can pull that and either get it to you both behind the scenes and then at our next meeting, so we can talk about that more. Okay, so I'm looking for a motion [clears throat] to accept the audit and transfer $147,894 as well as transfer $41,446 to [cough and clears throat] the community education fund. This is just transferring the money, not approving the audit. Correct. Okay. >> [clears throat] >> I'll make the motion. I'll second. There's a motion and a second. Is there any further discussion? All in favor, say

008aye. Aye. All opposed? Motion passes 6-0. Now we're to the presentation [clears throat] of the audit. >> And we have Mr. Andy Bryce, uh, here to talk about our audit, as well as Bridget [clears throat] Knutson, so I'll turn it over to Andy to start. All right. Yeah, I know I had a PowerPoint. You got it. It's in your packet. Make sure you got that to reference. Awesome. Well, thanks for having me here tonight to present the audit results for the year ended, uh, June 30th, 2025. Um, going on to this first slide here, I just wanted to first summarize the different components of the audit. So, in your agenda packets, you have two documents, one being the district's financial statements, and that includes various audit reports. Uh, one being the opinion that we're providing

009on the district's financial statements, the other being a report on government auditing standards that talks about, uh, internal control over financial reporting and any deficiencies, uh, there that we'll talk about here in the next slide. Uh, also goes over the compliance audit related to federal programs, um, the Minnesota legal compliance report that talks about, um, our, uh, report on certain state statutes related to to school districts, and then last their communications letter that has some, um, financial analysis that we'll go over, uh, with some charts and graphs. Uh, the first one that I wanted to cover here is our independent auditor's report on the financial statements themselves. So, um, that talks about what our role is as your auditor, and that's to provide assurance as to whether we believe your financial statements to be fairly

010stated in all material respects, and that's, um, based on an audit performed performed in in accordance with government auditing standards. And, uh, we are happy to report that we are providing a clean unmodified opinion on the financial statements, which is the best that we can give as your auditor. And that again provides that reasonable assurance that those financial statements appear to be, uh, fairly stated. Uh, the next component here is that government auditing standards report. This talks about how we consider internal control over financial reporting when performing our audit, so we take that into consideration when going through our risk assessment process, and we are required to report any material weaknesses or significant deficiencies that come to our attention as part of that process. Uh, we did have three findings to report this year. Uh,

011one being the lack of segregation of accounting duties, that's one that's been present in the past, just related to the size of the finance office. Um, and then we also had material audit adjustments and error corrections, so just kind of acknowledging that there were some proposed adjustments to the financial statements this year. Uh, the next component is, oh, still kind of hanging on that one slide there. The next piece is the federal program audit, so we did take a look at two major federal programs this year, uh, the Title I program and the child nutrition cluster. So, we take a look at internal control in those programs, and also take a look at compliance with the applicable uh, applicable compliance requirements there, and we had no findings to report when it came to those programs.

012Uh, the last piece is our report on Minnesota legal compliance, so this, uh, uh, relates to the Office of the State Auditor's legal compliance guide, so that has certain state statutes that are applicable to Minnesota school districts, and we don't provide any opinion as to compliance, but if we do become aware of non-compliance as part of our audit process, we are, uh, required to report those there, and we did have three, uh, compliance findings reported from that report. That then brings us to our communications letter. That does provide some trend data related to the district and more focusing on the general fund and then the food service fund and the community service fund. I wanted to start by taking a look at the general education aid formula allowance before we before we start to look

013at the financial results in the general fund because about 80% of the district's funding in the general fund comes from state sources and that's mainly driven by this formula allowance as well as enrollment at the district. And so just taking a look at how that formula allowance has changed here over the years, there has been about 2% increases over that this time frame. There was a larger increase back in 2024 of about 4% but then kind of coming back down to that 2% increase level which just kind of provides, you know, some insight in terms of some of the, you know, budget pressures that can occur given that, you know, inflation and other cost increases, you know, have been exceeding those those percentage increases that we see in that general education aid formula allowance. The

014other piece of that calculation is enrollment and before we take a look at students served, I wanted to take a look at resident ADM and so these are the students within the district boundaries that the district could serve and how that's changed here over the last 5 years and it is at a low point here in 2025. It decreased from 1,035 down to 980 here in 2025. And then going on to the next chart that we actually maybe one more. We take a look at the pupil unit calculation and this takes a look at the waiting that occurs to calculate that number and that the district gets a 20% premium for secondary students but then also takes into account the open enrollment process or the open enrollment and we can see here how that's changed

015here over the last 5 years and the pupil unit loss line item there did stay relatively flat here between 2024 and 2025. However, the non-resident gain, so those are students outside the district boundaries that are coming into the district, that declined from 217 down to about 185. So going on to one I had one more slide. This kind of gives a bar graph presentation of that data just to kind of show the trend, you know, that it is kind of moving in in that down down direction there. The next chart highlights the rate of change when it comes to resident ADM and adjusted pupil units served here over the years. There has been declines in four of the five years presented which was the most significant occurring here in 2025 with again about an 8%

016decrease in pupil units served. That then brings us to general fund sources of revenue which did decline here in 2025 from about $16.4 million down to about $15.6 million and there's a couple different reasons for that overall decrease. One being the decrease in state sources again with the decrease in enrollment, that decrease at a greater rate than that increase in the formula allowance so you did see an overall decrease in those state sources of revenue and then the other sources decreased from $2.3 million down to about $1.9 million. That other sources include investment income, donations but but also includes the federal federal sources of revenue in terms of grants and the COVID-19 related funding. You can see back in 2022-2023 that's when a lot of that was being spent and some of that last spending

017of those COVID dollars occurred here in 2025 so seeing those kind of come back down to more normal levels. You can skip ahead one more slide here just to highlight the general fund expenditures here over the the last 2 years and how those expenditures are allocated by program. The allocation has remained pretty consistent here over the last couple of years. Everything I think within a one percentage point change. About 62% of overall general fund expenditures are going to those instructional categories but those expenditures have remained flat here over the last couple years just a 0.6% increase comparing 2024 to 2025. That then leads us to the budget to actual results just to kind of highlight the board's role as it relates to the financial statements and that's adopting and monitoring the budget. And the original

018budget that the board approved called for $15.1 million in revenue, about $15.1 million in expenditures and anticipated about a about a $46,000 decline in fund balance overall. When we take a look at actual results, actual revenues came in at about $15.6 million so that was $456,000 better than anticipated. Majority of that came in that other sources line item and that was really being conservative for those other sources. Again, that's where donations, investment income come into play and the district historically has been conservative for those amounts and also getting more grant dollars than anticipated and that was offset by about a $215,000 variance on the state sources side again with less state aid than anticipated. When it comes to expenditures, expenditures were about 3% over budget or about $444,000 more than anticipated. The two categories that

019stood out there were regular instruction that was over budget by about $261,000 with some benefits, supply costs and some capital expenditures occurring there that were more than anticipated. And then special education was about $209,000 more than anticipated just with the additional programming needs there and some additional salaries and benefits costs. That led to expenses exceeding revenues by about $33,000 and then taking into account those transfers that were approved tonight, ultimately did lead to an overall decline in fund balance of about $220,000. We did have a couple other charts to provide to just to get some further perspective on how the district compares to some statewide averages and that the metrics here are revenues per ADM served as well as expenditures per ADM served. I think actually skipping ahead one more, I think kind of helps

020to give you a better visual there in that the district has been fairly close to those statewide averages here over the years. You do see an increase in the revenue and expenditure per ADM number here in 2025 and that's due [clears throat] to revenues remaining fairly flat whereas enrollment declined so you can kind of see that ratio increase there for 2025. Skipping ahead to the general fund operations slide here. This provides just a 5-year picture of those overall operations and the impact on fund balance. >> [clears throat] >> With the decline in fund balance here for 2025, we did see that total fund balance number decline to $5.1 million. And the unassigned portion of fund balance is something where the district does have a policy in place to maintain 25% a minimum of 25% in

021that unassigned fund balance category as compared to expenditures and with that number declining here in 2025 from about $4.8 million down to about $4.1 million, it still represents about 25 and a half percent of expenditures based on 2025 levels so the board is in compliance with that policy. Also wanted to provide some data just in terms of how the district compares in fund balance compared to other districts. Historically, the district has been better than those statewide averages and continues to be to be better than those averages here than those numbers here in 2025. It did decline from about 39% down to 33% but that's basically been the level it's been at in those previous 4 years and again, historically we've been better than those statewide averages. The last couple of funds that I have to

022review here tonight are the food service fund and the community service fund. The food service fund continued to experience a expenditures in excess of revenues which did provide for a deficit of about $76,000 and after transfers in from other funds, ended the year at about $90,000. And the next fund or last fund here to cover here tonight is the community service fund. This one has experienced deficits or operating deficits over the last 4 years. Here in 2025, that was a deficit of about $24,000 but after those transfers in, ended the year at about $31,000 in total fund balance. That's a high level look at the audit results. Next, I'd just like to open up for any questions. So I have read the whole report. Lucky [laughter] you. I I do know myself. And [clears throat]

023it was in the long form of the page 18 and it talked about the fund balance. And on the fund balance about um Page 18? Yeah, it was in the long form I think it was on page 18. But if it's yeah, with the financial statement that if the fund balance is too high then that can affect funding. So that's in the management discussion and analysis so that so um That report that is from Bridget and then her team so so if there's anything there in terms of terms of statute or just in terms I guess what's the question here? >> with the is keeping it 25% too high? I mean, are we at risk of losing additional funding if it is at 25? Now, we did go down to 23 I think it was

024in 2022. I'm I guess I'm not aware of any specific threat to funding or putting at risk any funding is it really is it really sad when you find balance that high? But yeah, just looking at the historical averages I think 33% isn't anything to be concerned about in terms of you know where other districts can land. There there are some other districts that have been at that same spot. Okay. I just didn't know if that would be an issue down the road. Not that I've seen or ran into other school districts don't have some of the opportunities that we have. I'm unfortunate for that. Mhm. But nothing that would prevent us from getting any grants or state funding or anything like that just having the high fund balance. Okay. Any other questions? If not,

025I'm looking for a motion to accept the I F T. I'll do that. Okay, there's a motion. Is there a second? I'll second. Motion and a second. All in favor say I. Opposed. Motion passes 6 to 0. Thank [cough and clears throat] you. Thank you. Thank you. All right, next up is the consent agenda. Does anyone need anything pulled from the consent agenda and placed later in the agenda for further discussion? Brian, did you add anything? No. Is there a motion to approve the consent agenda? I make a motion. Okay, there's a motion. Is there a second? I'll second. Okay. Motion and a second. All in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion passes 6 to 0. All right, then we go to the bills. >> [cough and clears throat] >> If you have any questions

026on the bills, please state the page number and the bill number before you ask your questions. If not, I'm looking [clears throat] for a motion to pay the bills. I'll move that. Okay, there's a first. Is there a second? I'll second. Motion and a second. Is there any discussion? All in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion passes 6 to 0. And then we're on to the reports. Next is superintendent. Go ahead, Brian. >> Mine is fairly short. Um, just let's start with number two with board committees uh meetings that are coming up. Just reminder of all the superintendent search meetings we have coming up, including next Tuesday, um which I believe that one's at 7:00 here in this room. And then interviews are March 30th, 31st, and April 2nd beginning at 4:00 p.m. in this

027room unless you all think it should be in a different room. Um I guess we haven't really talked about that. Maybe we talk about that the 17th, but my thought would just be have them in this room. Unless you guys want to do something different. Yeah, I'm getting stuck. Okay, you're you're distracting me. Sorry. >> [laughter] >> Um so I I don't know if you want to be somewhere out. Last time there were superintendent interviews we did do them in the community ed space. Um we could certainly do that again, but How many [clears throat] extra weren't there four additional people? Yes. So what Three or four depending. Yes. So I'm wondering if that's going to be big enough if you move them. Okay. Depending how many community members come, but last time I don't

028know that I don't remember if it was open, but >> It wasn't. Okay. >> [laughter] >> They do need to be open, so if community wants to come you know, they could sit behind the applicant. So if it's got to be that large you could go to the media center. That's kind of the only other larger Yeah, we could go up there, too. Those chairs aren't as comfortable. >> [laughter] >> Um otherwise, Heather agreed to hand out diplomas at graduation. Um being that we're prior to April next time you hear from Mr. Latimore, he'll share his graduation plan then. Um and then the only other thing I have to report is our APAC committee, our American Indian Parent Advisory Committee did issue a vote of concurrence on our American Indian Education Plan to MDE, which

029is just saying that the district is doing and following through on the plan that it laid out. So that was the vote we were hoping for. Okay. Are there any questions for Brian? All right, then we will move along to the high school principal's report. Joe is not here, so it is written only. Are there any questions on Joe's report that we could send back to him? >> [clears throat] >> No. Brady and Haley, would you like to still report? We would love to. Oh, great. Yeah. So we had snow week in February. We enjoyed lots of activities in a packed week. Uh we had a three-on-three basketball tournament. Uh we had a multi-team dodgeball tournament. We were charades in the morning. And then there was a pet fest. And we were able to purchase

030Mr. Latimore's face tattoos at one So that was fun to have. And then the dance. We had a dance and that was well attended. Um last week we wrapped up all of most of our winter activities. Uh we wanted to thank coaches, advisors, supervisors, scores table personnel, all the people that helped put that together, bus drivers bringing us to games. And then most spring sports started today. Okay. Um robotics had their competition this past Friday in Duluth. They placed 22nd, I believe, out of the 42 [clears throat] teams um with a record of six and five. The Hinckley High School also sent up a fans bus on Thursday. And we're thankful for the funders for the funders who provided for that as well. Um speech had a meet this past Saturday in Cherry Friday in

031Cherry. And they got third out of eight or nine teams. Um so they did well. They don't They're continuing to go until like April. So they've got a ways left. Yeah, we're excited for spring break. Coming up. >> [clears throat and laughter] >> Thank you. Does anybody have any questions for Brady or Haley? Did you get the furniture for the senior lounge? Yes. It's here if you guys want to check it out eventually. Very fancy furniture. Yes, and the Hinckley Lions and the Finlayson Lions helped fund raise for furniture. And there's funds for that as well as well as student council and the HF fund. Thank you, guys. All right, then we will move on to the elementary principal's report. Bonnie. [clears throat] Good evening. Don't have a ton in my report. We are prepping

032and starting to get ready for our MCA testing coming up in April. It is a process. All of our kids who have some accommodations and stuff and all that grouping needs to be set up. So we're starting to do that now. Um Last number of years we've gone through different incentives to try and really get kids to buy in. And we haven't quite found that ticket because I I do believe they're more capable than what they show on the test. And I know it's at the end of the year and and test fatigue has definitely set in. But we continue to really um work with them to see how we can get the best out of them. So that'll be a work in in action right now. Our kids came back from Wolf Ridge. Um

033We had seven that stayed back from Hinckley and two that stayed back from Finlayson all on their choice. Um trying to find a way to encourage kids that it's a really good good thing good opportunity for them. We had a ton of kids talking about the amazing opportunity that they had up at Wolf Ridge. And you just see a whole different side of them. Um so thinking of having those sixth graders go to present to the fifth graders versus us adults telling them it's really fun. Um maybe they don't believe us anymore. So um trying to get them connected to say, "Hey, take the chance. It's it's really cool." Huge shout out to our incredible teachers who spent hours and hours hours preparing for that, our drivers, our kitchen staff. And um a huge shout

034out to our chaperones who give up a week of their time to make that happen. So uh we could not do it without all of them. Um Scheduling, we're starting to work on class schedules for next year. Um with enrollment declining just trying to figure out how to keep some of those really rich programs that we have. Um Trying to figure out a way to put STEM back into some science classes or something because it's those opportunities that they're not getting right now because of um lack of uh staffing, I guess. So how to be creative and and make sure we're still providing those opportunities. Uh so that's what we're working on right now. Uh spring conferences we had the 24th and the 26th. If you haven't heard, we had about two and a half

035weeks of illness go through our schools and just kind of deplete our our attendance. Um with that, we still had pretty good attendance rates at our conferences. Um That fifth and sixth is where we always see a little bit of a decline, but we still are are getting parents in. So, um that's what I have for you this month. The one thing that I didn't put on there we're we're experiencing right now. We have uh Tony from the Kid Whisperer in at Hinckley Elementary and he's working on all of our common areas. So, day today was our first day with him. He's here all week and he's doing an audit on um hallways, cafeteria, restrooms, uh recess, any of those common areas. So, um we're super excited to see kind of what he's going to

036present to us and how we can just cheer up things in in those areas. So, more to come on that. Are there any questions for Bonnie? >> [clears throat] >> Thank you, Bonnie. Thank you. Next up is Community Ed. Back to me again. Um you can kind of see [laughter] what our enrollment has been for some of our activities. [clears throat] Um Pam did make a little change just to if you didn't catch as far as when you get down to walking track um and fitness center, those are the number of members we have, not how many times it was used. So, just so you note that. Uh we had free swimming in the district in the month of uh for the month of March thanks to the Hinckley Lions. The thank you to the

037Isle Fitness and Lions for the donation of $2,000 towards the senior dinner. Um Walmart also provided a donation of $500 for youth >> [clears throat] >> equipment for the summer programs. Um I know there's quite a bit of excitement for this Wednesday going to Chanhassen. Um we are still looking for costs and other ideas [clears throat] for a pool cover. Financially as of right now the best quote Keith has found is still $42,000. However, there is a product that you can which he texted, so I'm not going to pretend I know what it means, but basically it helps provide UV light that he can pump into the pool that would help uh reduce some of that corrosion and extra chemicals that come out that may be something that could work. So, he's investigating that. >>

038[clears throat] >> Um East Central's looking into something like that as well as their pool cover also went down. So, um things we're watching on and we'll look to have a solution for as we head to next school year. Otherwise, some other dates Mother-Son Bowling's coming up uh in March as well. Uh the daughter dance is coming up in April. Senior dinner [clears throat] obviously May um 13th. And you can see the other activities that are [clears throat] coming up um as we head into summer months for Community Ed. Questions on anything Community Education? Thank you, Brian. And then we will move to New Directions. Julie? Hi. Um so, I have um just kind of the numbers that I usually give um when I report for um this time it I do numbers recorded through

039the end of the semester. So, I would say historically low um is kind of an accurate uh description for Hinckley. Um since the start of third quarter, second semester, there were 11 new referrals added with 15 um unit days served. So, just so you can kind of compare um the start of second semester with first. Um I don't have any staffing changes to report, so consistency in my um uh assistant position has been great to see this year. Um the biggest issue I guess potential issue I was looking at at the start of the year was the cell phone um policy changes which happened in all of my districts. Um honestly, I was kind of bracing for a little bit of a struggle with that. Pleasantly surprised there was little to no issue at all

040with students from any district. Um so, that was really really good to see. Um I talked with Joe a little bit about the number we were just kind of casually walking through the hall. Um you know, I think talking about the cell phone policy as it relates to behavior, you know, whether it's causation correlation, um I think it's a pretty strong argument for causation for just behavior um that I see being less as far as numbers. I don't know if the district itself has any like hard and fast numbers on that or there is tracking, but I mean there's plenty of data just in schools in general. Um as far as behavior improving and referrals being reduced by that. Um the other thing I noticed with Hinckley and I noticed too just walking around the

041halls being just kind of out and about. Um just very I would say noticeable difference in the hallways just student interaction, kind of level of energy, um respect, things like that, focus. Um so, it's just it's uh nice to see that. Happy to report that just kind of being a an observer in that sense. Um the other thing is uh I believe the start of the year was when advisory meets. the beginning of the year. Um just I guess being in this uh business for years I in my opinion I think that's something that probably could be a causation case for lower numbers too just where students are starting out with an intense academic hour. It's that time to connect, you know, right away in the morning, a little more relaxed maybe. Um I think

042that's definitely something to look into as far as the reason for numbers being significantly lower um as far as those suspended behaviors. Just my opinion. I don't know if there's any hard and fast numbers on that. Whether you guys looked at that, but I would say um definitely something to consider. Any questions? Any confusion? Yes, Julie. Well, thank you, Julie. You're welcome. Thank you. Okay, and [clears throat] then it's board committees. Would any members like to present from their committees from the last month? Um so, I had a PD meeting. Um and we talked about the epic day that was in January. Um and then we went over some of the grants that are coming up for spring and we also talked about what's coming up in the agenda, um moving the PD days off

043of curriculum release schedules. Um so, there was a lot of discussion on that and then when those PD days would occur. And so, I think the calendars in line What other PD committee talked about this coming month? >> [clears throat] >> So, with SCRIPT, um some of the things with the SCRIPT uh with SCRIPT the academics um they did a presentation at the last meeting that was pretty interesting and they talked to him about how they're working with the districts every year and what they're doing and just um a lot of what the district see, not necessarily the community see type of So, that was interesting. Um there's an upcoming meet challenge and that is for um the it's like a development adaptive track and field day and that'll be in Rush City on May

0445th. And then there was also a discussion about the um identified need for increasing the capacity um for the setting for programs and that the superintendent operating committee is collaboratively with activity exploring um those needs and how that might help serve students, staff, and families. Yep. Any questions on that? No. And then we'll move on to Communications. Um MSBA sent you all, except Leo, um an email today with instructions on how to get to the superintendent applications. Um today's email my understanding was how to set up your account to view those and they'll be viewed by alphabet. They'll alphabetize them instead of name them. Um >> [clears throat] >> but tomorrow morning you should get another email where you'll start having access to how many candidates and who the candidates are. Um that would be

045your week to individually review. If you remember MSBA is also in the process of vetting all the candidates and and they I believe will come with recommendations next Thursday or Tuesday. The board can also have its thoughts and part of that conversation. So, if you don't have access to that tomorrow, I don't know what time in the morning, but um email the person who emailed today or let me know so we can make sure we have that. Uh we will have one hard copy in the district office. I'll work that out with Leo. Um so, he'll have time to see that as well. But uh as far as the copy that we have, it has to stay under lock and key. Um only one board member can see that at a time and either Julie

046or I need to be with you. It's the rules they sent. So, just so you know the rules that I got from MSBA as well. So, just make sure you are paying attention to your emails tomorrow morning. All right. Next is Unfinished Business and Budget Topics. Um I just I don't want to miss the first one. I know we have a lot of dates with the superintendent search coming, but I think it would be good to also look at dates in April for the admin team and the board to have a work session as we narrow down uh what the budget will and will not look like. Um there's still a lot of things happening at the state federal side, um some on local things that have to to decided, but I think it would

047be important for uh the principals, myself, and potentially other managers to come work with the board or at least explain kind of what changes we could be seeing. As I'll get down here to revenue projection in a second, we don't necessarily have to pick tonight. I could certainly send some dates in emails after the superintendent search on April 2nd, but I think it'd be good to have a meeting with board and admin before we get to May and June and finalize the budget. Um capital budgets here I don't have a lot of changes other than updated numbers. Um you can see if you scroll through this at least compared to last year we're a lot higher. So there are still some changes that will come. Um I will meet with Keith, with Bruce, and with

048Mike McKee over these items as well as possibly the principals as we finalize these. One big thing and and I had put this to the board as well. I asked Mike McKee to put the highest cost for some of the technology things we're considering. Um if you saw some of the communication that that I gave you as far as leasing options, this would bring uh the technology number down quite a bit cuz that's the highest area that the capital budget has grown. Uh and by leasing not only does it reduce costs cuz it spreads it over 4 years, but it would bring um most if not all of our devices back under warranty and and get back into a more attainable rotation cycle. Um those numbers I believe for the elementary were the highest at

0492:30 does go down to third grade. We're still talking about if we need to go all the way down that far. We know we do for testing reasons. Um but so there's still some discussions that are happening around that with Mike, with Bonnie, with myself, and the tech committee. Um but I do know the technology number will be lower as my mind leasing makes sense cuz it puts all of our devices in a better rotation, puts it under warranty. Um and we can we we roughly we don't spend this much every year, but his leasing cost is roughly what we typically spend on computers every year anyways. So in my mind it'd just be good to have things under warranty and covered. But Keith is still waiting on a couple numbers up at on the

050top uh unless they got put No, he got them in there. So earlier the the pump at HCS and pump at FPS were not in there. So those numbers now do look complete. [clears throat] So um he and I will begin to go through these. Some of these we absolutely have to do such as the fireproofing of the curtains in the FAC and obviously we need a lawnmower and to reseal some of our things. Um the track lines are fading pretty quickly. They do need to be redone. And the other big one that's not typically on here is our softball field varsity softball field needs some leveling out. If you remember the baseball field we did that a few years ago. Sounds like it's softball field's turn as well. So we we got some work

051to do still. Oh, I see he put uh band and choir room carpeting back on there. Um so we will go through kind of what we can do versus what we can't. Um my hope is the board will approve a capital budget next month, but as you can see there's some work to do. Um are there any questions on anything that's in the capital budget so far? When was the last time we uh did work on the mound of the baseball field? I think it was a couple years ago. I wasn't able to find out that answer today. I believe it's been in the last 5 years. >> That's what I thought. Okay. I I will find that out for sure. I think the ninth took care of it a >> few years Okay. Um

052otherwise continuing um you can see what our revenue projection is and this is the big part. I'll just kind of go down here to the bottom. Um these last two columns, the second to last column is what our revenue was for the 25-26 budget, the budget we're currently living in, about 14.8 million. You can see we're just [clears throat] over that. It was million 803,000 roughly. We're projected at this time to get 13,809,000. There are [clears throat] still a lot of things that the state is working on. Um we we know we're going to have some enrollment changes again just if nothing else for graduating a large senior class and our current 4-year-olds are at 38 I believe last I checked. So we know there's a change just right there. But the other reasons the

053budget has gone down is compensatory which a lot of people refer to as free and reduced the free and reduced lunches. We're projected to get about $400,000 less in state revenue with that. Um really what kind of happened is when the state went to free breakfast, free lunch for all people stopped doing those forms. And now the way the state calculates it, we would be at a $400,000 reduction. At this point last year it was a similar case. The state did elect for the current year's budget to have a hold harmless. There is a bill at the capital to hold harmless again. So we're kind of watching that one very closely. Um the other place we're projected to lose money is in special ed. Um also if you've been listening to the blue blue ribbon

054commission um which was basically a commission to look at summer unemployment for school workers trying to find a way to fund that. Otherwise that money could come out of special ed um or the cross subsidy cuz they made some additions in the last three or four years to the cross subsidy. So we're watching that projecting right now with a $200,000 loss in special ed funding. Uh and we know special ed transportation reimbursement is going down another 5%. So there are again bills on the capital floor talking about all those things. They have not voted on them yet. But we've got to start cuz we don't want to get to May and not have a game plan. So admin is working on some game plans. There are some things that are starting to happen behind the

055scenes. Typically in April the board sees some of those changes or reductions, but that's kind of the picture we're looking at if the state doesn't come through with some fixes or changes or enrollment doesn't come back, we are looking at a quite a bit less revenue as we go into next school And with that I think then I'll just hit enrollment numbers. You can see we're at about 808 as of March 1st which in February we were about 804. So we have been right around that 800 to 810 number all school year. The budget was built for 825, so a little bit less than we were anticipating. Um and then you can see our daycare enrollment where all the spots are filled. Um except for we have a Friday only spot open for pre-K age.

056So um otherwise the daycare is going very well. And with that I'll take any questions on the first part. Do we know if we're at break even yet at the daycare? Uh we sweet probably won't break even this year just because we had hired staff and bought a lot of supplies prior to December. Bridget and I are going to run the number as as we get to revenue and expenses for next year we're going to look at from January to well June and see how we did there. But for the school year we're probably not going to break even just because we had staff hired, staff working, getting training, and ordering supplies and such from September to December. But we expected that, right? We did. And it's above what we kind of hoped for. The

057revenue? Well well we're what's happening over there. >> It it's going very well uh as far as revenue coming in and some of the grants and things that Sarah's been able to get. So I I anticipate enough if there had been a full year's students, it would be making money. Thank you. So are you looking to have a work session before the April meeting? So cuz you said you wanted to look to approve that in April. The capital budget, correct. Uh we can look before the April 13th date, but that's going to be close with superintendent No, I'm just saying that you mentioned approve that. I thought I heard you mention approving it in April. Well then we need to have that work session before. Right. So Sorry. With the lunches, the breakfasts and lunches,

058what is looking like is what's going to happen with that anyway? Is the state looking at still I haven't heard anything about that being repealed. Okay. I know some school districts have advocated and are advocating to say don't fund that, fund something else cuz there already was a mechanism for those who could not afford school lunch or breakfast, but I have not seen anything moving forward on that. So then what is the purpose of filling out the free and reduced forms then? There's other benefits that the district gets Um, from sports to other funding streams, it's just not as well known in the community. Um, but that form also helps bring in some different aid into the district, but typically people see that and think free lunch, free breakfast. We try to call it educational

059benefits and list out those other things when that goes out in July and August, but forever it's been known as that free and reduced lunch form. Yeah. There's a lot of information shared on there that parents don't feel like I don't see how it's benefiting me anymore, so I It's It is tougher to get in. Yeah. And nothing It's not applying to any meals. Right. I would too. All right, then we are at policy reapproval. We are looking at policy number 536, social media for student participants. Policy number 612.1 for parent involvement, and policy number 408.2, information security policy. Would anyone like these pulled individually? Um, I'll just add on 536. They have not These three policies have not changed since you saw it last month, except for this one is, you know, the policy

060previously had laid out what happens if a parent breaks this policy, but since it's a social media for student as well, uh, Mandy and I did pull today what it says in the student handbook, so that's what's highlighted in yellow. Um, basically what happens is it's a code of conduct violation, which there's some rules that, uh, the high school league lays out as far as steps for that process. Um, so that's the only thing that's been added to any of these three three policies since last month. Are there any questions about the three policies that have been presented? I I'm not seeing where it said the actions are in the handbook. It's just replaying what they can't. Failure to adhere these outlines will result in the code of conduct violation of the code of conduct.

061So, it would depend on where that student is in the code of conduct, where typically the first offense is two games or two weeks. The next one, I think, is three or three weeks or six games, and the third is a year. I don't know if it's a year. See, I guess I'd like that part spelled out in here. So, they don't have to go back to the handbook to see it. Like, spell out It spells out what the parent consequences are, but it doesn't spell out what the student athlete or student participant who um, consequences are. You want like each step included? Like, step one would be to >> Like, it's it's listed on there um, for the parents. I mean, is there It's all the social media, so the This is actually a

062form from the Minnesota State High School League. That's what we're following. Cuz the yellow stuff you have in there is just What's reiterating what's already on this form. The yellow stuff on there is a redundancy of this If you look at Look at the top paragraph here, and I'll go to the top of this. It's the same. Yep. It's It's not the consequences, it's the policy. You know what I'm saying? Yep. Yeah. So, I guess I'd like that one pulled and we look at it next month with the consequences for the student participant. I guess if I can pull 536 and make that a motion to take out the stuff in yellow cuz it's redundant and add what the actual consequences are if a student breaks the social media policy. Instead of them having to

063go look it up. I I just think it would be cleaner if it was right on this form. So. All right, so Angela's made the motion to approve the policies, um, but taking out policy 536 to make some changes and then bring that one back next month. Is there a second for that motion? I'll second it. Okay. Any further discussion? All in favor, say I. I. >> [clears throat] >> Opposed? I. Motion passes 6 to 0. And then we are at school board goals discussion for 2026-2027. So, I highlight or linked in the current school board goals, which the three main categories are continuing to improve staff climate, staff morale, uh, student academic growth and achievement, and fiscal responsibility. Um, it does have some bullet items under each one. Uh, I'm hoping to bring some

064proposed school board goals next month to you all. Would you like to see anything different? These are pretty similar to what we used last year as well, but looking for any board feedback if you'd like to see different areas or different subcategories for school board goals. Looks like it's good. All right, and then Jaguar track quotes. Last month I was actually asked to pull what a mini Jag track quote would look like. This is roughly for eight pages. Um, and I do have linked in what a possible short Jag track could look like. Not that it has to be, but just kind of what a shorter Jag track would look like. Um, the quotes we got both black and white and color, um, from Kettle River, from Kanabec Publishing Publications, and Minipack, and as well

065as North Star Media. So, you can see what those costs are. There is a bulk permit mail permit fee. There's a one-time cost for startup and application of 370. So, you can see the permit's 570, a startup application fee for a total of 940, but just note that some of that is a one-time cost. It looks like the annual fee starting in year two would be 570. Um, the staff time, again, I'm not I talked about this a little bit last month. I'm not as worried about the staff time and who's creating it, things like that, as that could be built in to their time that they work already, but you can see kind of what the costs would be of printing of about $2,500, postage uh, still being around $1,700, and that $500 I'm

066not as worried about that staff time, but the costs, take out that $500, still comes in around 4,000, 4,200-ish, um, to do that. That would be each time that we would do that. The board talked about last month, uh, would that be something we'd want to do monthly, quarterly, couple times a year? Um, and and the kind of goal is to get out some of that positive communication and happenings in the district. Um, so wondering if the board would like to move forward with that or would like to see something else or other options or other thoughts. I think it's a matter of money, so the best thing we've got to be cutting different other funding. The postage rate, the 798, that was the same as it was in the last one we had from

067last month. Um, and that was at 23 pages. So, would that postage rate actually go down if you only had six pages versus 23? I did ask Jill that today. She thought it would That would be the price. I can double-check that tomorrow, but when checking with Jill, who did the bids, So, if we're allowed 23 pages and we only need six, could we find businesses to fund this if they had a full-page ad and we charged 500 bucks, you get 10 businesses, and then that pays for it. I mean, if it's the same price. I just think we have to get this information out there. People don't look at the paper anymore. Social media is We're hitting the same people because we put it on social media now. It's They're the same people who

068are always following us on social media. And they're usually people that are already in our building. That's a good idea. Some of the people are not I mean, if it truly is the same price, I think it is cuz it they just send it out like it, you know, and it's like a pamphlet. It's not like folded up and put it inside. Maybe that's why the cost is the same, cuz it's just like [clears throat] the whole Right, so if we just add a few I mean, half of it is us, and I mean, how many businesses do we need? How many households did it go to? I don't know. 4,400. So, uh, the Evergreen they are not sending out that paper anymore. Right. And so, what if something similar is done, where they were

069printed and then they were placed at the locations where people can pick up the Evergreen? So, if they're going out and picking up the Evergreen, they can pick up Jag tracks at the same location. You still have the printing cost. You have printing cost, but you wouldn't have the mailing cost. With the mail. >> [clears throat] >> I mean which one people would mail than Yes and no, that's >> to have to put it in the stamp with the cost of that. The maintaining of it and yeah. Possibly, how many people are reading it? You know, so you getting any feedback on how many people want to see it? How many people are reading it? We have to question put in the paper. So then I'll find out if it's something they like to keep

070getting or not. And we'll certainly know then. >> to be on the mailing list? Mhm. Don't know how else you could do it. >> be better than to just start doing it and if you don't want it just to go in the garbage. Do it and then monitor it somehow. Typically, when we do surveys, we send it out electronically, which is going to hit the same people. I mean, I could put some in the newspaper call the district office if you'd like this or like this to resume. And try it that way. To get more data. I can call some >> researching a little bit more. We can continue our research. How long have we not been sending I don't think it's gone in the mail since COVID, since 2020-ish time. I think it stopped

071or right around COVID, either 2020 or 2021. [laughter] >> Mhm. Have you had any feedback since then that people are wanting to see it? So, on and off I'll get board meeting or committee meetings or things, you know, it's been brought up at retention, communication, it'd be nice to get that out. As far as general phone calls or things like that. >> I can honestly say I have I have I have not received from community, but I don't know that it's on people's radar or anything. But if people want it, the district office is available to people, right? We have a We We always print some if people want to come get it. We have some here. And that has been put out if you want that right now in a few months, or maybe

072it was put out in the summer, but we have from time to time time if you want to come get it, there are copies in the district office. I thought they actually mailed some to people if they asked them. Okay. I don't know I don't know if anyone wants the mail anymore. I think we did at one point. I don't think we do that anymore. Okay. I figured you'd like a a mailing list, you know, so that we know that the people we're mailing it to really want it and it doesn't just go Mhm. I know I get one mailed to me, but they might treat me differently. >> [laughter] >> The whole world Everyone knows Neil. I can get I can do more researching. We can talk more about it again next month. >>

073[clears throat] >> All right, then we will move on to new business and talk about transportation next steps. I'm going to have I will start and then if if Bridget needs to help explain some of these things, we certainly can. Um and and that's why Bridget is here. So, the commodities team met first and at that time we had two bids. We had a bid from 4.0 and we had a bid from Palmer. The commodities team met and decided to just compare 4.0 and Palmer together at that time and then not comparing it against the district at that point, just comparing each company against each other. The commodities team decided that 4.0, if there was a company that the district move forward with, that 4.0 had more favorable numbers overall than Palmer. So, the commodities

074team decided to take 4.0's numbers and compare that to Hinckley-Finlayson's numbers. During that, we've also talked about leasing buses as well. So, I we have those numbers to look at as well. Because it's such a big document and because there may be a whole lot of questions, I guess my thought was to go through each kind of category by itself, at least to start. Um and Bridget can help me with this as well, but the first one is just Hinckley-Finlayson and we based all these using the 20 4 25 school year's numbers, because then we [clears throat] had comparable numbers for a full year that we could use for all three areas. Um and we had Bridget do this for four years as the bids um 4.0's bid could be up for up to four

075years. So, that's why we did 27, 28, 29 and 30. The top one, you can see what our costs are for daily regular bus routes. Um our total daily regular bus for next school year um would be about $3,746 and you can see that going from there. Um Bridget, do you want to explain a little bit how you got these numbers in each of these areas? Yeah. Um our the daily regular bus ones, we have to do a big transportation log. We take logs from each of the buses, how many miles, and it gets split up to regular, extra, admin, football, baseball, softball, you know, all the bells and whistles. So, we really narrowed down to I just took the regular route miles um that were completed in fiscal year 25 um and just divided

076it by 171 to get our total daily miles for that. Um along with the big transportation report at the end of the year, we get about we get what it would cost for a bus to go a mile. And again in FY25, that was 2.20 cents. Um so, I added 3% for inflation for each year. So, starting FY27, it would be $2.32 or 33 cents uh per mile. So, that's how that was calculated on that first line there. And then again took the wages and benefits from the just the driving regular routes uh for fiscal year 25, divided that well, took that by 3% again adding raises and then I divided that by 171 student days to get the wages and benefits for So, similarly in the Hinckley-Finlayson category, we did the same for special

077ed type three routes, where she did very similarly for wages and benefits and mileage um and and got a daily rate and and factored the same 3% each year going forward. And and you can see what those numbers are for each of the fiscal year. That would be our vans um for our special ed kids and things like that. Um when you put those two together, you get a total daily transportation of at least the first year of $5,491.92. And take that number multiply by 171 student days, 939,118. And then from there, you can see how that kind of grows over the three years after that. With that, we also have extra driving uh for athletics activities and those things. Bridget, do you want to explain how you came up with the extra driving categories

078as or numbers as well? Yep. So, same with the I took the same how much it cost per mile, that $2.20 and added the 3% for each year. Um taking where we went for like athletics, um all of that, I took all of our extra driving bus mileages on there. And then multiplied that by the 2.33. Uh same with our drivers cost, so that they currently get um this year with benefits, it's $24.18 an hour. Um then multiplied that as well to get all of our extra driving on there. So, then we also Go ahead. >> Can I ask a question before we move on? Um does that include field trips and Wolf Ridge and like every mile a bus has put on is in that extra driving? Yep. That That those extra that 18

0796 That's only athletics for that one. Um but I used that 18 658 for the same amount of driving miles as all the other bids compared. So, it's the same amount of miles across the board. Because field trips vary for do they go to the same place every year? Um athletics was really the only consistent amount of miles that yes, we go to Mora 12 times. If you go to the next sheet um on this >> Yeah, on this I had all of it cuz for one of the bids I had to do it by out of district miles. So, I had to take a map of where our out of, you know, northern boundary is if we're going to Duluth, take what it would cost for the miles from here to there. And then

080all the extra miles from each of our points north, south, east, west going. Um but those were all I went with Mandy and how many times we go to each of those schools and how much it would cost for those. So, when you Okay. All right. So, then we also had our in-house costs um >> [cough] >> utilities, supplies, tires, repairs, labor, things like that. Um, supervisor mechanic pay in there as well. So, you can see what our I've been adding 3% each year. You can see our projected annual cost of just over 1.3 million. 1 million 342,810. Um, Bridget, do you want to talk through the the fuel >> Yep. So, our fuel cost I did not add that into our bid because I was taking our for like how much it would cost

081per mile. That includes the wear and tear and the fuel to go. So, I didn't want to inflate that number and add it twice in there. So, that was not included in ours, but it was included in 4.0's. Cool. What? So, I see the in-house cost. What about the out when we send repairs up to those? That would be like our in-house cost. Like any of that labor. So, that's included in this? >> Yes. Yep. Those are all stuff that we currently have to do you know, in-house. Yes, some of those are outsourced, but it's an in-house issue that adds all those up. So, from there and we can come back and ask questions on the whole thing, but I want to get through how we came up with the numbers from 4.0. Their bid

082um, had daily rates prescribed in there. Um, so that's how we came up with their daily regular bus is they had a daily rate of 352, then 364 32, 376 16, and 388 39. So, using 9 and 1/2 bus routes um, they also had part of their quote that any mileage over 80 5 miles a day would then be um, have an extra charge of $2.95. So, that's factored in there well as well. So, you can see their daily regular bus is 3,750 and 95 cents. And then it goes up from there based on this daily rate that they charge. Bridget, anything you want to add on that? I did. I sat with Bruce and we went through all of our bus routes assuming they're the same. You know, we have the same kids coming

083back every year. So, that's how we went down over each bus and how many miles was over that 85 miles. And that's how we got those numbers. And so then again, we factored in type three, our special ed transportation. We have five and a half type three routes um, going um, to bring our kids to and from school and they had rates that they charged for that with a three-hour minimum. Um, where they started 68 83 and you can see how it goes up from there with a three-hour minimum. Um, so taking those numbers, that's how we came up with the type three transportation costs uh, for the next four years. Which puts 4.0 at least in the first year of a daily transportation uh, just to and from school of 4,886 dollars and 65

084cents and then multiply that by 171 student days, 835,616. Um, again, we still have those extra driving, athletics, activities, things like that. They had in their quote extra drivers hour hourly rate with a one-hour minimum and you can see what those rates are. Again, Bridget factored in the miles. Um, we had to do a little calculation where we're averaging about 50 miles an hour, which is consistent for Hinckley-Finlayson's bid, 4.0's and the leasing. But Bridget, anything you want to add on that extra driving from 4.0? Yeah, with with theirs, they didn't It was hard to just say, "Okay, they're taking this many miles. This is how much." cuz you can't say, "Oh, you know, 71 dollars and 67 cents per hour." Well, how do you miles into hours and then Yes, you can take it

085by the how fast you're going. So, that's why we went with 50 cuz you're either going 30 through town to get to 35 or 61 or 18 and then you're 55, 60, or 70 miles an hour going the rest of the way to our other extracurricular. So, that's how we came up with that number. Um, and then do you want to talk through the bus I mean, the fuel. Yep. So, I took that, added the 3% consistent with every other 3% that we added and that is included in their bid because in their bid it was us paying for the fuel. Mhm. Which gave them uh, a projected annual cost of 971,582 dollars and 30 cents. Um, noted here in yellow is just what 4.0 has offered uh, to purchase our fleet at the cost

086of 712,000 dollars, which would be a six-year contract for deed at 5%. General questions on 4.0 before I go to the leasing category. Leasing is very similar, at least the top part to how we calculated the Hinckley-Finlayson costs um, as far as daily bus, type three, very similar um, how we calculated that. Same for extra driving, athletics, activities. Um, Bridget, do you want to talk through how you did uh, the costs for labor supervisor, mechanic insurance, things like that since there'd be some lease options cuz this would be a little bit different from the first category we went through. >> Yes. So, the biggest one here is that the supplies labor, that um, I took our total number and divided it for the first year by three, um, the next one by six, and then

087nine and nine because that's how many um, was at least brought forward that the first year we'd only do at least three buses. Um, the next year then we'd have the six and then we'd go all nine and nine. And fingers crossed that if you're leasing a bus that it wouldn't have as many breakdowns as older buses, right? So, that's why we took some of those costs of the in-house off of that because yes, you're still going to have things that happen. Um, like I said, fingers crossed they'd be less than having an older bus that you're maintaining over and over. Um, and then you can see with that um, we also did similar with the mechanic, correct? That we That one we left in there the same [clears throat] as adding 3% just because

088of our type three vehicles that we would still have to maintenance. And and at least to start that first if we leased only three, we know we'd still have some buses that are diesel, some buses that aren't under leasing. We still would obviously have our type three vehicles that would need some maintenance and things like that. So, um, but that's why we kind of kept that in there. Um, cuz we'd still have some of those things of our own that we'd have to take care of. Um, which brings the projected annual cost there of 1.2 million, 1 million 248,062 dollars 75 cents. Uh, the lease rates which are proposed and and we could do something different, but the first year we thought three and uh, basically the lease per bus is 25,572. Um, so the

089first year we'd get three, that's where the 76,000. Then we'd start another three the second year, so a total of six. And then the last two years we'd have nine like Bridget was talking about. Which then when you add in the lease numbers, brings it to a a grand total of 1 million 324,770 dollars. No, it's not included in there. The fuel The fuel isn't >> not included in there just like our one. Cuz it's factored into a how we calculate the daily rate. So, that is at least the explanation of the numbers. Um, are there questions at least either how we got or clarification how we got those numbers either based on 4.0's bids, based on how Bridget calculated them. Are there any questions at least on how the numbers came to be what

090we are presenting? And the numbers actually be higher cuz we have to we do either uh, Hinckley-Finlayson bid or the leasing cuz we have to buy vehicles. Mhm. So, the number would be >> [clears throat] >> higher yet. Yeah, cuz that's we don't always buy a bus every year a type three. So, I didn't want to include that on just an off chance that yes, I'm throwing it in there, you know. >> Okay. I did not include that. And they would also be higher for any sort of field trips or anything like that because you were not able to get like that consistent number. >> I could take our last year's numbers, um, but sometimes in the budget field trips get cut because they are expensive. Um, and so no, that was not included. I

091just took a the consistent number of that 18. Yeah, so what we can compare Apples to apples essentially. Yeah. Okay. Yep. So, if I mean, if that number went up to 25,000 miles it would be the same calculation for both of them. Both costs would just go up more. Can you explain the extra driving of 4.0? I'm not I'm going to have to I figured out how that was calculated. Yeah, so I took the miles that we went Okay. divided it by 50 miles an hour. Okay. Cuz that's an average of what they would be driving to, you know, anywhere else. And then multiplied that by their rate per hour. Mhm. And there's a 1-hour minimum as well. Mhm. Okay. So, we don't we pay that rate no matter if it's an hour or two

092or not even an hour, you know, Pine City, go in there and back. I don't know if it takes a driver a full hour to get to Pine City and back or E-Central. So, they don't have an hourly rate. What's the 7126? That's the That's what they bid per hour. >> That's their rate. >> Oh, okay. So, got you. And then each year in '27-'28 it went up 3.5, '28-'29 [clears throat] it goes up 3.25, and '29-'30 another 3.25%. >> Okay. Okay. I got it. Thank you. Sorry. >> [laughter] >> It was not. So, that's their hourly rate for extra driving. For a driver for us, you know. So, I will say that I [clears throat] was in a meeting with There was six districts present. And the subject of transportation came up. And I

093think it was four of those districts >> [cough] >> contract [clears throat] services. And I was really surprised that the feedback was all positive. Um one example that was given, at least with 4.0, was that they had students that were on their way to a basketball game that was a couple hours away and the bus broke down. Since they were with 4.0, they were able to call them and within 5 minutes another bus was there to pick them up and got the students to the game on time and they were able to play. And And until they had said that, I hadn't thought about the scope of 4.0, how broad they are. That Yeah, that because they had other buses in the area, they were able to pick up the students. Until that was said

094at that meeting, I hadn't thought about that. You know, whereas you said if it was in-house, it would have been a couple hours before the bus picked up. So, that was a surprise to me, but they all they all did speak positively about their transition. So. The drivers, a few board members, uh myself, Bridget, also met with 4.0 last week, last Thursday, and I included notes from that. Um I don't read all these to you cuz it's many, many pages, but you can see some of the topics that we discussed with PERA, um compensation, seniority, employment terms. Um It was stated we're in the middle of driver negotiations, so what would happen, um if the board does make a decision tonight and knowing that negotiations are still ongoing, um 4.0 did say they'd honor whatever's

095negotiated in the next 2 years. Um and I certainly stop me. I I just don't want to read all the pages unless the board would like me to. We talked about seniority, routes, operational practices, um We talked about if drivers would be able to bring buses home, type threes home, um kind of what the operations look like, um reimbursements for electrical like they get now, and um other scheduled servicing on the buses. We talked about what it looks like for hiring paraprofessionals for bus routes, for van routes, training, safety, um you know, kind of networking if if the board does decide to go forward with 4.0, that E-Central and Pine City are right here already under their umbrella. Um But you can kind of see and again that I just don't know which questions board

096members may have in the long document, but you can kind of see what we talked about. There is one part that if the board's going to consider going forward that I I know was talked about quite a bit is many, if not most, if not all of our drivers or transportation staff have accumulated quite a bit of ESST time and or vacation time, PTO, what what whatever you want to call that. Um and and what that would look like if if indeed we do move forward with 4.0, what that would look like. I know that's a big concern. Um Just being transparent, our handbooks don't say things like we would pay out things like that, but however that's typically for employees who choose to leave the district. This obviously is not a choice the drivers

097have brought forward or made or things like that. So, I I really think that would be something the district and drivers would need to work through here going forward is is what that would look like if if if the board decides to go forward is is how we would make that right, um because some of the drivers are at or very close to the maximum that district allows them to carry cuz they don't call in sick. They come to work all the time and that's amazing, but that also has benefited them by having those days built up behind the seat. Um I don't have an answer for that today, but I that is something at least in my mind that would still need to be worked out um prior to the end decision. Um there

098was also discussion about benefits, insurance, uh what kind of how 4.0 determines routes and who does what and where people drive. Um Talked about contracts, pricing, um Talked through the bids a little bit and kind of how at least the district came up with the numbers that you all just saw on the spreadsheet. There were There was three board members also there. Anything you guys want to add from, you know, I I know that was a quick summary. Certainly slow slow me down, have me go back. Um just not knowing [clears throat] what the board wants me to hit for sure. Any other big topics the three board members who were there want to highlight or or give feedback on from your perspective from that meeting last Thursday? Uh 4.0 was very transparent on what

099they offered the drivers, so there was no you know, secrets behind the scenes that that they're very open about. And the drivers uh ended from their questions like they got answered and uh every one of them I thought they were very I think receptive to it, receptive to it. I kind of think I felt the same way. I felt like the drivers did come in with really good great questions and they felt like 4.0 did meet them and answered every one. They didn't shy away from any question. I feel like anything that was answered that 4.0 could answer was. Um I think that big thing though is that yes, the senior but that would be on the district, so I feel like as far as 4.0, they were up-front. When when 4.0 and after this

100I'll then just slow down and let you [clears throat] guys ask questions, but the last bit of information I had was 4.0 sent a list when they gave the bid of all the districts um that they serve. So, [clears throat] today I reached out to everyone on this list. Um I don't know if I've had more emails since the board meeting started, uh but I kind of just asked some initial questions. Um First one was after your initial bid quote from from 4.0, did their price make a significant jump? If they remember how much did it go up? Um I asked what their district may have done with ESST time, sick time, PTO that had been accumulated. If they had to make the same decision again to go with 4.0, would they? And then any

101concerns they've had, any missed routes or active you know, I was just trying to get some general sense of um >> [clears throat] >> kind of how these districts have feel. Prior to the meeting, I think I I have six or seven um and I won't read all these to you, but um Initial bid after the initial negotiation, it was a typical 3 to 3 and a half percent increase. Um This district figured it out with their bus drivers on how to take care of that sick leave and that those benefits that they've um had in in past. Um this district would absolutely go with 4.0 again. Um, they've never missed a route. Biggest challenge is just communication with their administration and just because it's another company, not just someone that the district employs. Um,

102and going on to the next school district, they were a little bit less uh, giving of information, but they've done a good job. We've been with them 20 year years, so the superintendent hadn't been with them for 20 years, so didn't know a lot of that negotiation process, but um, they said we do negotiate with 4.0 and it's been around that 3% when they had to do the next contract. Um, this school district said there has not been a significant jump in the next contract. Uh, they were not the superintendent, so they don't know the information about sick time. Yes, they would go with them again. They do really well. That's also because of their transportation director they hired. Um, this one, sorry, I have all my emails filled. This district, um, initially when they

103went to rebid did have an increase, but what they told me is they were going through similar budget concerns, things like that. They went back and negotiated with 4.0 and and got a freeze on the net first year and then got 4.0 to be able to reduce their proposed increases in continuous years, so they felt that was very nice of 4.0 to do and they were easy to work with. But, that's some of the reference feedback I received. I could have more. I just haven't checked my email since the board meeting started. I had asked them similar questions at meeting that I was in. You know, like what was the significant increase and most present people said no. Um, they said this is significant leverage in negotiations because if you you can always contract up

104to another service provider. The other thing was um, uh, that some issues that they like one of the districts had, they said that it was resolved quickly. So, um, and then the concern about not having uh, your own buses and how did that look? And they said it's it's been okay. That it's been fine that there hasn't been any any issues with not having their own buses. So, >> [clears throat] >> that was it. Are there any questions about this at all? Any of the topics or any of the numbers, how we got there, how we compared, what we heard from 4.0 specifically, anything else the board's wondering that hopefully we can answer. How does So, we have administration and teachers and others that are driving bus that don't necessarily get paid as a bus

105driver. How does that factor into these like the extra driving? The extra driving just I just base it off of our what the price is that we pay them. Per like we pay it'd be $24.18 an hour. So, I took what we would pay them times the mileage. No matter who's driving the bus driving. Correct. Got it. Okay. It's like some people, yeah, they I don't want to say in quotes volunteer their time too. I know we do have some drivers right that have in the past as well. Um, but But, that's not figured into the extra Correct. That's all based on everybody getting paid. Got it. Yep. Okay. Thank you. Where have Where are things at with the mechanic? We do not have a mechanic currently. Okay. Unless something came in today, I don't

106know where Mhm. I've always felt that if we if we make the switch to 4.0 or whatever, we can never go back. But, now with the cost of the what they're offering, >> [clears throat] >> I don't see how we can't not go with 4.0. They promised the drivers that they would never go backwards. They're going to lose their I'm going to call it P E R A, but they do have another option available that you could put in. So, um, I think money wise, I think we almost have to go with those or at least explore that. I don't know what the you know, their uh, some of the benefits like uh, that we owe the bus drivers. And actually getting it writing from 4.0 like Yeah, you said it in a meeting, this

107is what you would do, but are you going to Yeah, I I would think >> Can we get all that in writing? I I would think before the board says, yes, we're doing this, 100% certain. I would think before and and I know this might push the can down the road another month or so, but I would think a next step would be we would want to get into actual formal negotiations with the company cuz there are still things that we don't know all the answers to. ESST being in in my mind at least one of the biggest ones of what that looks like or how that would get funded or what we would do. I would think we would want to actually see a contract with all this laid out in it before the

108board made a finality decision. Um, so in my mind if if that is something that would be the next step if if we were not just going to leave it alone and say, nope, we're we're good. We're we got this with our own, you know, how we're doing it currently. Before we would say 100% yes, we're doing this, we would want to negotiate with the company, get everything in a legal document. Um, then the board would make the final decision cuz a lot could change in that negotiation. Yes, we have bids. Yes, we have numbers. But, until you have a a contract in front of you, you know, you don't have that finality. And is that something that Bruce could be part of? Mhm. In that contract writing? Yeah, we talked about it in that

109meeting and 4.0 [clears throat] did say that um, they would then negotiate one-on-one with each driver, but that Bruce could be present in that as well, so that each driver then would be able to like meet and they would tailor fit their um, to each person like, you know, because everybody's different. And then um, yeah, and so and that they would be willing to work with. So, if we decided to to move into negotiations then those conversations could be had. And then we could make a final decision once there was like pen to paper and like so each driver would know what they're getting. There wouldn't be any surprises. And and the same for the district. This it wouldn't be a surprise for you all either cuz that would also be in writing. And that

110would give us the time to because [clears throat] we have negotiations with the drivers next week. So, that would give us time to like finish that up. Um, 4.0 did say that they would honor negotiations that we gave and possibly like have like a like a driver stipend like a a bonus unless something like went really weird and like we gave them a 25% increase or something. But, so that would give us that opportunity to go through negotiations with the drivers, let 4.0 know what those were, and then it would be like an actual what your real numbers would be. And in that time we look into options for like the payout for their employees and everything like that, too. Bridget, do you get any kind of estimation of what the payouts would be? Mhm.

111Yeah, I mean rough number, about $100,000. If we paid everything out. If these bids follow what our costs are, the first year we'd save $371,000, so we would easily be ahead paying drivers what they have approved. Um, and that's only the first year. Mhm. Would that be able to come out of uh, you know, cuz everything's in different categories. Could that come out what they are paying for the fleet? Or would it come out of staffing dollars or how does that work? I think that would be a conversation with 4.0, so I don't want to speak for them, but my my thought is you if 4.0 is decided, you all get to decide what happens with that $712,000 over 6 years. Um, or maybe it comes out of that or maybe they don't give us

112I don't want to speak for 4.0. If they'd be willing to, we could certainly ask. Um, if they wanted to help compensate some of that or if we just said, nope, the first 100 to 100 however much it costs thousand of our savings would pay that part out for the drivers. Or the I should say the transportation staff. >> Yeah. So, >> [clears throat] >> my recommendation would be to we need to get some more of that information. And and not that we're saying yes or no yet, but to direct the district or myself and Bridget Bruce to reach out to 4.0 to be in that negotiation process not only between 4.0 and district, but drivers and 4.0. Cuz then we're going to have all the information. Again, I know that might push it down

113um the road a little bit further here, but I think we still need to gather some information both for the district, for sure for the transportation staff um cuz we we want it to feel if if if a change is going to happen, we want it to feel as good as possible for the employees as well. Okay. Yeah, I think it's fair to to move into a negotiation process and then see everything and so that when when and if we did approve, well, we we we know exactly like this is what it's going to cost, this is what our drivers are getting, this is what our transportation supervisor is getting. If you know what I'm saying that I know. Maybe not that I'm saying that. So, my recommendation would direct administration to begin negotiation both

114for district, but also for transportation staff to see what those details, specific details are. Once we have that, then come back to the board for either approval or denial of what that shows. Knowing also that at least Bridget and I would look into what we can or cannot do or should or should not do, whatever word you want to use with [clears throat] that accumulated time off PTO benefits that have been accrued. Yeah, so I think we're just looking for a motion. I'll make the motion. I'll second it. There's a motion and a second. Any further discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion passes 6 to 0. Can I can I just make a comment? You can. Um I think Bridget should be um we should thank her very much. We went for

115a meeting on Monday and less than 24 hours later, she had all the information for us. I I think she might have stayed all night. >> [laughter] >> She went beyond the call of duty, so I think she should be commended. I agree. Thank you, Bridget. Yeah. It was appreciated more than you know. >> [laughter] >> So, thank you. Applications to go on. >> [clears throat] >> Okay, so next up then we have Jaguar Pride. Um congratulations to FCCLA FCCLA star event state advancers Jaden Snedegar, Keanna Halvorson, Katie Fritz, and Payton Erickson. Congratulations to the advisor Katie Krieger for leading the FCCLA participants to state. Thank you to the anonymous donor for the purchase of a buggy for our daycare program. Thank [clears throat] you to HES PTO for feeding teachers during conference nights. Thank

116you for the FES PTO for feeding teachers during conference nights. Thank you to Bridget Knudson for completing a successful district audit. Thank you to Vonda Beckman, Julie Nelson, and Jill Carlier for their help with completing the district audit as well. Beth Chaput, Brett Arkey, Debbie Henn, and Tony Seal for organizing such a great trip to Wolf Ridge for our students. Congratulations to high school choir for receiving two excellent and one superior rating at the large group choir contest held in Rush City on March 4th. And congratulations to high school band for receiving a superior rating at the Rush City band contest held on March 4th. And then we are moving on to home learning during inclement weather days update. So, a year prior to the start of the school year, we have to approve a

117e-learning plan. It's been other than cleaning up home learning versus e-learning versus virtual, you know, just cleaning up some words. This is pretty much the same. Um when we get to calendar, if again, I'm going to propose that the district uses e-learning days first next year. We can use five. They can only be for weather related events. Um but this would be the plan where elementary students use choice boards. Uh students in the high school use Schoology. Students are available remote I mean, staff are available remotely um through email, possible Google Meets, things like that through the work day. Students do have some flexibility to still turn that work in as not everyone has internet and that's laid out in there as well, but looking for approval on e-learning plan days for next year. Just

118one little typo. I think under the media outlets, I think it's supposed to be KSTP, not W You got it. All right. Any other questions about e-learning days? All right, then we're open for a motion to accept. I'll make the motion to accept. Okay, there's a motion. Is there a second? I'll second. There's a motion and a second. Any further discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion passes 6 to 0. >> [clears throat] >> And then we are at extended school year. So, these plans from both the elementary and high school are required plans. Um our special ed teachers need to provide ESY extended school year services for those students who qualify. Um so, these six teachers or programs have developed those plans based on what those individual needs are. So, we certainly

119could go through all six if you'd like, but um the the principals have gone through these. They have seen that with the case managers. These are written into those student plans. So, I'm looking for approval uh for the summer school extended school year plans. Um these six plans that are presented for this uh upcoming June. That's I'll make the motion. I'll second. Okay, there's a motion. Is there a second? All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion passes 6 to 0. All right, and then we are at policy review first reading. Just first reading of of these two policies. Um I highlighted the changes that MSBA maybe did or did not have. Um so, you can see those recommended changes. >> [clears throat] >> Um but I'll take any questions now on any of them.

120The second one had no changes recommended from MSBA. So, um but I'll take any questions you have now before we approve them next month. Okay, no questions. So, we'll move on to expenditures. You can see where we're at district wide through the year. We've spent about 61, just over 61% of our approved budget. We as of end of February completed 66, just over percent of the school year, budget year. Um you can again see where that spending is or isn't. Uh community education continuing to be higher and again, that's mostly because of daycare. And that's how we're that's where we're running the funding through out of daycare. So, that is why that one is higher. Capital, um I would anticipate next month you see a little bit of a adjustment there as we're finishing up

121coding where some of the purchases were, things like that, but all in all, uh we're right where we want to be um at this time of the year. We know as we get to summer that uh the that last budget, that last payout in June is a bigger one cuz we pay the basically the teachers for their July and or we put it on this year's budget for what they get paid in July and August. So, to be under right now is good cuz there's some expenses that come after June or on this school year, if that makes sense. But otherwise, Bridget's also here. So, if you have specific questions, [laughter] she can dive in a lot deeper than I can. Are there any questions or discussions about the expenditures that have been presented? All

122right, then we are moving on to the school year calendar. Taking some feedbacks from last some feedback from last month and and kind of like Angela said coming out of PD committee, um we did move some of the PD days um where we took them off of the end of the quarter and we loaded more of them into the beginning of the school year. Um so, you'll note that the as after we get to February, there's only one day, which is the end of March. Um kind of that some rationale was putting that PD earlier in the year, you're going to have longer benefit throughout the year. And then uh controversially at the end, you may not controversially, but the opposite perspective, as you get to the end of the year, um you know, yes,

123you can continue some of the training, things like that, but also you're at the end of the year, are you going to be putting new things in place? Um probably not at the end of the year. It's more of a continuation. So, we did that, um and other [clears throat] highlights I wanted to make for you. Oh, that got really big. Um first day of school for K-8 would be September 1st. Um again, we begin school September 1st, which is before Labor Day. Um 9th through 12th would start September 2nd. Um there is a full spring break in here. Uh East Central has the same spring break. Pine City, getting feedback from them, they only have uh Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, but it's the same week, or maybe it's even Thursday, Friday. They had a longer

124weekend. They didn't have the full week, but it their time off is the same week. Um I would recommend, like we talked about, starting with five e-learning days first. I did build in two additional makeup days just cuz in my experience it happened. It only happened once, but it happened. Um to still have those days on there. Um the second one being the the um students would end on the 4th and teachers would have to come back the 7th. If we don't need to go to that, school would end the 3rd of June, teachers would be done the 4th of June. Um this calendar does not have early releases in it, and it is based on 170 days, not the typical 171. Um as you may recall, there was a request, a late request to

125add an additional uh teacher development day, which we added in there, but to do that, um at least the administrative team thought with extending early releases, um students are going to gain more time throughout the year than that one day. Just that one day, if that makes sense. So, um this calendar is based on 170 instead of 171 days. Questions? Thoughts? So, I understand the added PD day, and I know how important that is. Um but also essentially teachers did or did vote to not have the early release on Wednesdays. Initially, with early release on Wednesdays, I didn't like it, but I saw how beneficial it could be for, >> [cough] >> you know, teachers to be able to meet together to make those shifts uh weekly basis as needed. Um so, I do struggle

126with losing a day of school for students to add in an added PD day when it was voted on to essentially take those out with the Wednesday early release. So, I will just say that. I am I am struggling with losing a day. So, it's not just a day of learning for students, but it is also then that revenue from the student attendance. And then the other thing is is when you look at students, you know, how many sick days do they have a year? The minimum is 160 Five. Five. And if they're missing five to 10 days a year, they're going to be over that. And some of them but some students are over that. So, that is a concern we just taking out days. And the feedback just why it came late, when

127when we had initially said that, um we're going to get rid of early release, we're going to try to put a PD day once a quarter in my mind, which I don't think matched the teachers' mind, which is okay, but in my mind, we have a PD day, it's epic in January. The perspective I got back was we've always had that, and they thought I had meant we were going to add another one that quarter, if that makes sense. Um where in my mind, like, got a PD day that day. Granted, it's different PD, but it is a staff PD day. Feedback I got back was, we always have that. We're losing that time with early release, so how does that come back? But I I get the point, especially with attendance things. Like, I

128I get it. We have some kids that Now, wasn't this the fourth or fifth version? >> Uh at least this might be the seventh or eighth. >> [laughter] >> Cuz I know this has been out for quite a while, and to have a last minute request We've been talking about it since end April early or end of November, early December. But my understanding, because we're not having early release, what are we getting 170 times? Is it 45 [clears throat] minutes, 50 minutes extra student time? Uh we're gaining about So, if we roughly had nine months or we, you know, 36 weeks of early release, we're getting about 36 weeks of 50 minutes added. Okay. Whatever that adds to. Yeah. So I was a math teacher, but I'm not going to try. We're just here if

129you have any questions. >> [laughter] >> I'm just So, I guess coming from the PD committee, um I talked to Jonathan about it moving the one on the 29th cuz they had a full week off of spring break, and then they had a PD day on the 29th. >> [clears throat] >> Just given this last weekend with daylight savings and kids getting readjusted um to waking up at that earlier time, did you experience any kids being tired and it It was a one day, so yes, but we did have >> [laughter] >> So, I guess we had it. I would say we had a a fair amount of you know, that happened frequently, but I could say it was probably more excessive today than So, I guess I was just wondering if he thought it

130would be cuz he originally wanted that PD day. He thought it would be better to have it earlier in March. So, if we move that from the 29th to the 15th, cuz next year >> Daylight savings. Next year's the 14th. Yeah. Just to give kids and families that extra day um after that weekend instead of they've had I just think that's a long break. You have four weeks of spring break, and then you have an extra day. Move that up to I don't think it Yeah. It doesn't hurt anything. I mean, I I hear your the perspective. I think why we built it there is so families did want to take that extended they can take that off. Our teachers can't cuz our contract says they can't take personal days on PD days, but that

131way if families are gone, they could extend that, but if we were to look at that daylight savings time, I Cuz I know Sorry, teachers, best day of PD is >> [laughter] >> Yeah, we want them to to be awake. Yeah, it was a challenge. Plus our 6th graders were just coming back from Wolf Ridge. So, I mean, we already had a long week plus an hour less of sleep. And then it would give if there was staff that was traveling for Easter, it would give them they could take that day off now instead of they have to be here that day. I guess that would be an advantage. But I don't know what your thoughts are on that. But the I'm okay either way. Yeah, I don't think it hurts us. I mean, I

132do like your your idea of like if people do want to take that personal day for Easter, that is Easter weekend. It don't doesn't hurt us. The goal from our teachers is they wanted an additional PD day. There's a PD day. I don't That hurts us either way. I don't think so. We say the 15th in the forward calendar? I think so. >> [clears throat] >> Um do we need a motion? Is that a motion? Yeah. Well, no, I have one other question. So, >> [laughter] >> sorry. Just next year is the 3-year-old going to stay on Fridays? Do you know? Yes, that is our plan as of right now. Okay. Cuz I noticed there's a lot of Mondays off, Mhm. but that would make sense then if cuz otherwise we're eating up a lot

133of 3-year-old Fridays. Okay, that makes sense. Okay, so yes, my motion is to approve the calendar um with March 20th 15th off instead of the 29th. There's a motion. Is there a second? I'll second it. Motion and a second. Any further discussion? All in favor, say I. I. Opposed? Opposed. Can we roll the call? All right, Angela? Yes. Heather? Yes. Leo? Yes. Janelle? Opposed. Jamie? Yes. Dave? Yes. >> [laughter] >> Motion passes 5 to 1. Thank you. Yes. Okay, and then I want to see Yeah, moving on to resolutions [laughter] to accept donated funds. This resolution comes from Brook Park Women's Softball is the donor. Uh they are donating $600 towards the softball program. So, looking for approval of that donation. I'll move that. All right, there's motion and there's a second. Any further discussion?

134All in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion passes 6 to 0. Choose another resolution at this time. >> This time the donor is Walmart and [cough and clears throat] they're donating funds for youth sports and activities and they are donating uh I believe it was $500. So, looking for approval to accept that donation. I'll make the motion. There's a motion, is there a second? I'll second it. All in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion passes 6 to 0. [clears throat] And one final resolution. This donor donation is from the Pennsauken Youth Lions Club. Um they're donating $2,000 that will go towards the senior dinner. So, looking for approval to accept that funding. I'm on the wording and it is Do you see it? Number one. Yeah, it just says Brook Park Women's Softball program. I'll

135make the motion to approve it with that change. There's a motion, is there a second? I'll second it. With a motion and a second, all in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion passes 6 to 0. And we have reached the end of our agenda. I'm looking for a motion to adjourn. I'll make the motion. There's a motion. I'll second it. And a second. All in favor say I. Motion passes 6 to 0.