001All right. Welcome everyone. Please rise for the pledge of allegiance. I aliance 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. All right, Dave, do you have any questions on attendance? Nope. And we're going to go on to agenda approvals. Does anybody have any additions, corrections to the board agenda? No. Mr. Mastersonson? No. So, I'm looking for a motion to approve the agenda. There's a motion. Second. There's a second. All in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion passes. 70. Next up is open forum. Rules for open forum, 3 minutes per speaker. Open forum shall not take more than a total of 15 minutes. No complaints about individual staff members, about students, or about other persons are
002permitted. All presenters, excuse me, will conduct their business in a manner that meets community standards for decorum. The board will not take action on items presented in an open forum. Did anybody sign up? No. Does anybody wish to speak during open forum? and we will move on the consent agenda. Does anybody need anything pulled from the consent agenda in place later? If not, I'm looking for a motion to approve the consent agenda. There's a motion. I'll second. There's a motion and a second. Is there any discussion? All in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion passes 6. Next up is the LTFM revenue. Um, last week we approved the LTFM for SCRED. Uh, now we can now the legislation is done, we can approve ours. This helps us uh plan facilities maintenance for the next 10
003years. Um, it also helps part of how we use this funding is it covers our expenses and things for checking our fire extinguishers of any asbestous that may have to show up or be removed. Um, it's really a projection of what we think is going to happen based on past year's experiences. Um, and and we factor that out for the next 10 years. So that's what this first section is in blue is is it's a lot of our safety and required things, our chemical health training, our OSHA things, uh our fee that we pay to resource training and solution as they come out and do a lot of that fire safety and um and and other indoor air quality things. So that's where that cost or those numbers on the top come from. And they're
004pretty historic. every couple years we we bump up different categories because we don't have to pay for everything every year. Some are on a rotation. Um and this is also how we've helped uh fund um roof projects, our gym floor that we're in the process of doing. Um there is probably starting next year going to become more revenue specifically for roofs. That was the part in yellow. You saw what the state approved. They are going to put uh where we can go out and eventually levy for more uh roof repairs. Our roofs are good. We just went through uh quite a bit of roof remodeling in the last 5 years. Um but that's good news that the state's going to uh allow us to go out and levy and and have some revenue for roof
005repair. Um, and then when you get down a little bit further, this is for other things like our building envelope, um, hardware and equipment that Keith needs, um, electrical, mechanical, plumbing, those type of things. Again, we kind of project numbers. Um, and and we factor that out for the next 10 years. Um, finally is kind of where our LTFM is. Uh as of at least July 1st of this year, we were at 168,000 which is a little high. Um but the levies numbers changed um based on enrollment things like that. It's a little higher than we thought. And then um what it does is take that 168,000. It subtracts what we project to spend each of the years and then it it guesses what the levy is going to be for LTFM revenue for the
006next uh 10 years. the state uh does that calculation. That isn't something that we have to do internally. The state comes up with these numbers, but you can see where that revenue is going to be. They do project really big increases uh in about 10 years from now. I guess we'll see if that happens, but um don't know why they were that high, but that is what they're projecting our LTFM will be 10 years from now. Um, but I'm looking for approval on our LTFM plan for the next two 10 years to have this money set aside for any building envelope, roof, interior repairs. We can change it every year. So, it's really we're not set to this. If if in a year from now we need to change it, we can. Um, but I'm
007looking for approval to send this to the state for their approval. Just real quick with the levy, is that just what we can vote on or does that have to go to the community? That's what we would do at that truth and taxation in December with the new law. Yeah, that's how I understand it. That's how I understood it. Yeah. I I just wanted to make sure that I was interpreting it right. Anybody else have any other questions? I'll make a motion. Second. There's a second. All in favor? Motion passes. 6. Next up is the DNR lease. Um the DNR would like to enter into a one-year lease, which is what we were um expecting. Um and and if you remember the reason they want to do a one-year is if there's a big remodel
008they want to do on the inside of their building. Part of the waiting uh before they sign off on a longer year, typically we've done fiveyear, is they'd like to see what kind of state monies are there to help with the remodel. Um part of getting in prep for that was they agreed to the rent increase up to $2,000. It was $1,632 a month. So some of that additional revenue is for us to help uh pay for some of the interior things that we can do. Now uh what we have done this year already the state funded uh replacing one door widening it. Um it was a 10t wide door now it's 12 ft. Uh this we paid for it but the state will reimburse us for that. And then if you remember there was
009a big garage door they wanted added. We had approved that in our capital budget that will happen this summer. Um, but the increase in rent will help us with other interior things. There's some plumbing, some painting, some just things we need to update. And then we're waiting for the state to see what kind of additional money would be for that big remodel. So, looking for approval. They've been great tenants, great working relationship. Um, looking for approval to continue the lease for one year. Um, with an increase of the monthly rent going to $2,000. Second. I just have one question. Um, on the lease or on the remodel itself, the state is bringing out architects or is that something we're going to need to do? We would bring them out. They would help cover the costs
010if they're able to reimburse. So, okay. So, it'll be run through the district. It'll be run through the district. Correct. I thought originally was the newest state. Yeah, that's why I just said I think they had said at that meeting they'd like us to be the point in organizing all that when when we had a facilities meeting probably back end of March. had somebody internal they were using. Yeah, that's that's what I thought when they presented here. I don't know how I can go back and double check. It's fine. [Music] Um, [Music] okay. That was just [Music] how I understood it too. I will clarity on that and and update you whether it's next board meeting or an update on a Friday. Okay. So there is a motion and a second. Any other discussion? All
011in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion passes. 6. Next up is our 2526 budget. Um certainly stop me as I go through this or certainly ask questions when I'm done. Um as of June 11th, which is when I put this together, you can see what our expenditures are for this school year. 14 14,900,900,679 roughly um of what we predicted for this last school year of 17,515,667. So as of June 11th, we were $2,519 519,988 under prediction. Uh June is a more expensive month with summer school in there with some contracts for some employees having some payouts for cell phones, electrical, things like that that maybe hadn't been turned in the whole fiscal year. So we know this month is more expensive than a lot of the other months during the school year. As Bridget and
012I have gone through kind of what we think will happen, again, it's still a think. Um you can see as of June 11th that was 94% roughly of the school year and we had spent about 85% of our budget. We anticipate that probably coming closer to 90% low 90%. What we're predicting is at the end of June uh we'll probably spend at least by $500,000 if not more. um which is a percent or two when you kind of look at fund balance percentages, things like that. I'll know a little cleaner, clearer when we get to the July meeting. I'll know officially, not until the audit, but we we do believe we're going to have at least $500,000 of what we had thought we'd spend this year that we won't, maybe more. Um, so I want
013to start with that that as I go through this proposed budget that's not factoring in anything that we didn't spend this current school year. So the the kind of weird part about creating this budget is I start with where our expenses were back in July and it's kind of like we don't pay attention to what happened this year um and then project the revenue and expenses for next year to get the balance uh fund balance that we think will happen at the end of that year. Um so all these numbers where I started with actual balance does not take into effect that we're going to underspend this year. So all these numbers I p would predict would be higher than what I'm actually proposing. I just don't know that officially yet. Um when I started
014the blue is our unassigned fund balance. That's the one that we always kind of look at. I did factor when I started with this number. I did take out the fact that the board approved spending into the fund balance a little bit for the gym floor, for those technology purchases we made, and for a bus. If if you recall back a few months ago, we had made those um you had approved making those purchases coming out of our fund balance. So this blue number is starting um with that in mind. So you can see um where our projected revenue it it the state general revenue is higher than what I had been saying all spring. I had been predicting anywhere from 14,400,000 to 14,600,000 throughout the late winter, early spring with the state changes. The
015biggest change was in compensatory revenue. Uh that went up to 14,83,443. You can see where that are proposed expenses would be for next year out of general, which is 15,593,317. Um, I'll go through food service, which we I do remember and the board approved transferring from food service. Um, we actually transferred more than than we needed to, which is okay. So, we started the the year with a $19,000 um surplus in food service. I I'm happy to predict at this point, usually we've been predicting this to be a zero or a loss, that we feel that food service we're going to gain money next year. Not as much as I'd like. We still have some work to do in food to service, but uh with some changes in vendors, with commodities, with staffing, with ours,
016um I'm I'm very hopeful that we were going to see a revenue at the end of next year for the first time in a while. Um, all in all, when when it comes down, I'm predicting that our overall revenue will be 17,198,434 with total district expenses of 18,53,100. Um, so what that means, and that's where this number that I'm kind of hovering over, but I also have in bold. Um, if everything plays out as it should, at the end of next year, we would have 3,743,42 in the fund balance. The board a few months ago did uh change our fund balance policy to be between 22% and 25%. So, I ran the numbers for each of those percents what our fund balance would be. If we wanted to go as low as 22%, there'd be
017still a cushion, meaning that we could still spend up to 312,000. If we wanted our fund balance to be 23%, you can see the cushion's 156,000 roughly. We're basically at 24%, but we would have a cushion of $646. Um, and then if we wanted to go to what our old policy was, I just wanted to put that on there that we have uh over spent by $155,000 to get to 25%. Um, this number I have in bold 3,743,42 puts us just over 24%. It's like 24.02 or something like that. Um, I'll pause there. Are there any questions on that? So, wasn't the state going to reduce some of their reimbursement for food service? Is that what I had read? Eventually, not for not for not next year. That's a projection going forward. Okay. Well, that
018was okay. Got it. Yep. Um I I don't know where we are with the burnt bus. So, is the burnt bus to replace the burnt bus since we are replacing it? Is that in here? It's not. Uh we're hoping we can find a used one is our first priority. Um that's where we're researching right now. We we will we have not gotten the check yet from insurance company. We are hopeful we can find a decent used one or one that's come off of a rental or a fleet somewhere that wouldn't have terrible mileage on there. So, we're looking there first. If not, um, we'll get about, if I remember correctly, about around $80,000, which about 2/3 of a cost of a bus. So, we would have to spend a little more if we wanted to
019purchase a brand new one. That is not in there cuz we're still waiting to see what we can find. Are we able to get a brand new one if we can't find a used one? Is our goal to have old buses by the start of next year? Bruce would like to have both uh to move one towards more gas in our fleet. Um, and just some of them, that's the one that's on order, right? And the one that burnt was also gas, so we'd like to replace it with another gas. Um, yes, they are passing DOT, but they are also getting old and the miles are racking up. So, we'd like to stay up. That's why we'd like to get another one if we can, a second one to replace the burnt one. So, is
020there a second one available if we can't find a use? Yes. Okay. Thank you. Are we doing something with the old He has sold We have sold three. Oh, we have sold three. Um we did not have to go out for bid cuz it's under that minimum. So, we have gotten rid of three this spring. Like $3,000 each or it's not a lot of money or $1,500 each, but it's better than nothing. But otherwise, I'll keep going. I don't know if you want to go through the revenue spreadsheet. I certainly can. Not much has changed. Uh again, the biggest uh positive that came out of this was the compensatory. Um it was a hold harmless back to what our budget was in 2324. So that's the number I'm using because we were projected to get
0211.6 million. Um they said it was the greater of either what the projections were going to be or they would hold harmless to the 23 24 uh school year. So I had br Bridget double check this. This is what we did receive in revenue. So that 1.8 million I just moved over to this year's budget for compensatory. We did lose uh a little bit in our library aid. We had been receiving 40,000 the last two years. will only receive 20,000 for next year. Um, and we will lose a little bit of revenue uh in special ed transportation. Um, I'm part of that the reason why is cuz they've had to find ways to fund that compensatory. So, um, we kept those positions in there. We will still have to transport our special ed kids. Um,
022special ed special transportation is hard to predict as needs change. Um last couple years we've you know for example we've had to transport a couple kids to the Rum River program in Cambridge. We don't know that could change for any kid at any moment at any time depending on the needs. So that's hard to predict but um if you want me to go through the revenue sheet in more detail I certainly can. I'll pause if there are questions on that. Otherwise, just kind of a a summary of where and how revenue came. The state increased funding by 2.74%. Um, they did keep the inflationary piece in there. Um, like I said, they did give the hold harmless on compensatory aid. So, that is much of what has changed. Uh, the revenues built on an average
023daily membership of 827 kids. We did end the year at 844. Um, we know we're enrollments, we're losing enrollment for many factors. Some of that is there's just not as many kids uh in Finson and Hinkley that are going to school. So, um, we hope all 844 come back, but we also know we graduated about 70 and our kindergarten class isn't 70. It was about 45 or 50 kids. So, that's part of also why uh we're building the budget around 827 kids. Um, we've talked about where the state increased with with compensatory. Um, there's some operating capital we talked about. Um, and then we also will still get aid where that helps us fund a second school psychologist. Um, local levies, we we levied the max, so we we were able to secure as much
024as uh the funding as we can from our taxpayers. Special education dollars are continuing to rise. Um, our revenue, we're still predicting it to be similar as this year at that 2.4 million. Um, if more kids qualify for special education or move in, that could go up. Um, but like I said, we we do anticipate not having as much funding from the state for the transportation aid that comes with that. Um, decreases in revenue. Again, we we still do not qualify for federal impact aid. We used to for many years. Um, we do not cuz we cannot claim the land behind the casino. Um, we can only claim the land up by Sandstone where the uh prison is, but we don't have as many residents there as as as we would need to get that
025$100,000 back. We had used to count the land uh out behind the casino. We can no longer to do that. Um, so that's why we don't qualify for that $100,000. And then our biggest reason all of our revenue is down is is our enrollment. Um decrease in enrollment. It's just every every way they calculate all the funding sources is tied to student enrollment. Um expenses, we've talked a lot about this this spring, but the high school as far as uh reductions reduced an English teaching position, a smart mentor who was uh in the math department. Empower staffing. We are proposing to stay the same. I should also add we're hopeful at least as of today that um there maybe won't be as many pair professional needs. Um again that could change tomorrow with some enrollments
026and kids needing one to one but both in the high school and uh the transition program they just don't have as many needs as of the creation of this budget. Uh class size we're predicting to be very similar at the high school. Keep we strive to keep everything under 30 where we can. Uh, you know, talking to Joe, it sounds like average core classes will be around that 25 number, maybe up to 27, but we we strive to keep them under 27. Uh, the elementary program is where we saw the most decrease in staffing, uh, because that's where our enrollment's declining the most as of right now. Um, so we have a decrease in both teaching and support staff positions there. Um FES and the HES will both run VPK now four days a week,
027but class sizes will still be very similar around 20 per class after talking to Mr. Scullard in the lower grades and hoping not to get above 25 in the upper grades. Transportation budget is stable as of now. We do have a type three in there which will use MA funds, some of the restricted revenue to purchase. And the bus is in there. We talked about that. Uh we do think we're going to reorganize and relook at our routes where we might not have as many bus routes. We'll still need as many drivers to help with type three para needs things like that. So as of now transportation is budget is stable. Uh but there could be some shifting once we kind of re relook at things uh and figure out our special ed needs for
028staffing. Uh staff development we always have we're mandated to spend 2% of our general fund on staff development. So that is the same food prices we saw last uh month did go up a little bit. Um but to help with that we we're making uh staff cuts in their hours and we will we do uh feel we're going to get some more money in revenue from commodity bids uh that we haven't had for the last three or four years. Um lastly in this area athletics budgets very stable compared to this year. We did add in uh the biggest add in transportation is as the board discussed uh adding transportation for our co-op sports both going north and south. We budgeted for a bus both ways just to be on the safe side. Um we'll see
029if we need type three or bus but we we budgeted for the bus going both ways just in case. I'll pause um as I feel like I'm talking a lot. I don't have a lot more to go through but questions up to this point so far. I have a couple questions. Um, so since we're sitting at just over 24%, um, if we do get in some more like kindergarteners, first grade where the numbers are already at like 18, 19, 20 in a classroom. Um, we would have we would have the funds to hire Yep. Okay. Yeah. Our first grade right now is at 20 a piece. Um and kindergarten is 15 and 14. That's where they're sitting at right now. Okay. Uh we haven't seen a a huge influx of students coming into kindergarten. They're
030just not registering yet. Okay. We did hear that we have potentially about six coming in from district 3. We haven't seen them uh registrations come in. So we know there's some more out there. We assume they're going to come in. We just haven't seen it yet. I guess it would be nice to have like kind of a number if you're when you're adding back like at what size do we want to keep that that class size at before we start looking at adding. Can you refresh my memory on what we were at for class sizes for first grade uh for this year? This past year? Yeah. uh about 14 15 um say Finison right now I know it's a different beast but we're looking at eight in kindergarten four in first grade uh potentially 10
031in second grade seven in third six in fourth nine in fifth and six in sixth grade is there anything that either principal sees that we could really use to help our kids that we don't have in the budget right now. [Music] Well, I think right now just I I think what you've done is given the superintendent the flexibility in case something does arise that there is a need for with that 22 to 25% fund balance. I think there's wiggle room in case there is something that is needed. Uh right now um I don't have anything that's super needed right now, but I think given you guys giving us the opportunity to be flexible, I think is what we need. So we appreciate that. What about the cut with the smart mentor? The smart mentor. Is
032there going to be assistance for math if needed? Yes. So there is going to be uh we do have a plan in place for there to be um so a a math lab is what it's called. Um so add so we would have a smart um it will be used by one of our other smart mentors that we currently have. Um so we've worked that that out that way. Um so um I think we'd be okay there unless we had a high number of need coming in next year might need to add but so then my question would be what about smart boards that is always seems to be like a need we don't always fulfill we talked to Mike um when we were slotted to get five and then we added after we had
033a district meeting and hearing some needs from a different perspective. Um I think you budgeted for one more. Y um I haven't heard from Mike if that's if we've met that quota or not. Um but I will say most of the teachers that want a smartboard at the smart TV in in my school have them. Uh, we have I mean there's always going to be a little bit more want than what we what we can give in a in a fiscal year, but I think we're doing a really good job of equipping our teachers with them, especially the ones that need them. Um, I think one of the questions Leo asked like what do we need? Any we need some more training for our staff and we're working with Jerry Mikola from Malaca from ECMAC
034to provide some of that training. In fact, we're looking at um some October time to give some supports around how to really engage our students using that instead of just using it as a projector. Uh because we want them to be more interactive. So, um, getting more of them in the classrooms is is huge, but giving them some some PD around that is I think is truly what we need. Cuz I guess if you look at our fund balance of over 24%. And if we're coming in under spent of roughly 500, that's three more%. So now we're at like 27%. I I do think minus the boss. I do think there's going to be some daycare costs that will come up um as we see what we need to do to revamp, redo, purchase. Um
035so I do anticipate that. There's still a lot of unknown. We did receive a grant uh from the deed from Pine County for 98,000 which half of that will probably go towards a playground and some other supplies, but I anticipate that there's going to be more cost than what we've budgeted for for remodel or changes or things like that. Um we did meet with an architect about that last week. I have he has not sent yet his projections. He made it I don't know if he talks the same big numbers as we talk. He didn't make it sound like it was going to be scary big numbers. I don't know what scary big numbers mean to him versus us. Um but I anticipate receiving that this week. Uh so you guys can consider that at
036our next meeting. But so I do think though there's some costs that we don't know which kind of leads me into this. Um support staff salaries and benefits are indeed set for next year. So, that's good. It is a teacher negotiation year. We did build in uh raises uh for staff, for teachers, as well as for insurance. Of course, we don't know uh how that's going to go until that's complete. So, that's unknown of exactly where that will fall. Um but like I said, support staff are in the second year of their agreement. So, that's set. We know that the board next month will finalize other costs like entry into games, substitute rates, uh, meal reimbursement, things like that. So, that's something we'll look at. I did have a typo, which now I've highlighted, so
037I apologize. Uh, the IRA IRS rate of reimbursement is now 70 cents a mile. I had 65.5 still in there. Uh, it is up to 70 cents per mile. Um, but daycare would be the biggest one of unknown that I'm not 100% sure what that all is going to cost. Um, but knowing that we're also going to underspend this year should help offset if not all that cost, most of that cost. I would at right now anticipate all that cost, but there's still some unknowns. So last at our last meeting we had talked about you know some of the um testing scores especially in that fifth grade. Is there any and you were going to talk with like the advisory group? Yeah they didn't have a whole lot added needs to maybe help those students
038before they finish sixth grade on seventh grade. Yeah, we did talk at leadership team on Monday and they didn't have any um glaring like concerns where we could really focus our efforts more than what we're doing right now. Like we said there that group made a ton of growth. It's just once they have that big of a deficit to to make those gains and then meet grade level is would be astronomical to see, but um they don't we don't have any great ideas of where we could provide some additional supports outside of taking them off core, which is what grade level is given. Um really it's additional time and we don't necessarily get that with them. I mean there if there's a there's no magic pill or program or you know so you had mentioned
039that that group there's a significant number of students that are in IEPs. Mhm. Is it SLD EBD say we have a fairly good mix. Um, [Music] one of the tabs actually has that open just because I I'm I'm just really concerned about they're going into sixth grade and then they're moving on to middle school and the farther they go without really truly being caught up that's guess one of the things that we're doing is changing our um special delivery model too. So, we're going to have like more hands on deck, more qualified people. So, we're going to have if we have a group of, let's say, 15 um students who are receiving special ed services with a reading service, we're going to have Leo and Janelle and Heather who are all licensed sped teachers with
040a smaller group. So, we're breaking them up a little bit more. So, we're doing some work with our school sites to ensure like those groupings are appropriate. Um, so if I'm at a third grade level and Joe's at a third grade level, we're going to be getting our services together instead of, you know, so we're doing some work there, that might help. Um, we have a we're sharing up our process for problem solving team to get those kids to that SST support, that special ed support. Um, I I still think our title access really is our our ticket to target those services. And again, Melissa Chin, our one of our school sites, is working with them to ensure that we're looking at where that deficit is. So, we're providing that exact service versus just an
041overview because in fifth grade, you're going to have deficits that are across the board. It might just not be with fluency. It might be with you know phonics or your phmic awareness like how do we really narrow in on that skill and once they have that sheared up to move to the next skill versus trying to hit them all even though we need them all. Um so that's an approach we're taking through our PST as well to is there we both know you send homework home with a child and it never really reaches often times the attention of the parent. Is there a way to have a meeting with the child and the parent so the parent could replicate things that you do in school? Uh because you know maybe the child comes home and
042they go well what do you do? You know they don't know how to teach it. They don't know exactly where they're failing. They just look at the grade and say it should be better. Is there assignments for the parents? Um that you can give them so they can kind of practice the same things you do in school. There's resources that go home with them. But I mean to contact a parent directly cuz stuff stays on the bus. You know, there is a sheet that comes home weekly with the new curriculum that has a parent caregiver guide or something. So each week that paper comes home with it. That's with the new curriculum. the fifth graders now. We're part of that curriculum. So, they're getting it now. It's catching the fifth graders up to I would
043say like just trying to think of avenues to get to parents. We as many parent meetings as we try and set up like every students who's on like a check and connect program. So they have a little mentor that they would check in with once a week and then that mentor is to call this the parents to say, "Hey, you know, something great that your kid did. This is an area that your kid could use a little bit more support." Um, we could maybe use that meeting to try and give them some tools. Um, I mean it just look at math and how differently it's taught today versus how some of us learned it in school. Um, yeah, getting the resources in in parents hands are is an area we could maybe improve on. Maybe
044teach have meetings with them and and and show them how to teach it. I don't think I don't think teachers that are not providing it. I think it's I I get it at home. So, I I mean it's coming home. It's And you have a great percentage of parents that come to conferences. Mhm. And I'm pretty sure down here they are telling their parents the same thing. Like these are coming home. Go through these. Kids either are bringing them home or parents aren't involved enough to read them and find out what's going on. That's just from my you know and that's one of the things that we have to try and focus on is what can we control. So, one of the things we are doing is adding an additional 10 to 15 minute block
045into every grade level every day. It's going to be a fluency block where they just read. They're practicing reading, you know, and those skills would be different at grade levels obviously, but we know that it takes a great amount of repetition to solidify a skill. And we don't have that even in this curriculum. It moves pretty quick. They get to go through they run through a story once or maybe twice. The teacher reads it, you know, we we try that gradual release of I do, we do, you do. Um, but we are building some more time of just plain practice into their and that might help. Um, do the kids still do reading logs, Bonnie, where they have to read minutes or so many pages a month? Not necessarily. So, our leadership team talked about
046that as well because Even at home the kids like first grade does fluency folders per se in Hankley at least it goes home and they get credit extra candy whatever for bringing those back right they can accumulate so many uh the only time we really do a like a reading log is during I love dream month for February we do a little challenge uh we are looking at bringing one program in whether it be through pizza hut with book it you know more they read, the more they earn. Yeah. Um but what we find is those kids who don't have that support at home are the ones who miss out. And how can we then use some sort of a mentoring program or leadership team to go down with those lower grades to give those
047kids an opportunity to get what they didn't get at home. So, could they add in like their title work that they do with somebody that could be towards their minutes or their Yeah. Anytime they're reading, they should be getting credit for, right? Especially if they're not especially the kids that maybe don't have the support at home because they're probably most likely with other supports in the school. Mhm. Let's be honest. And it's like I don't care if you're reading a cookbook, you're reading a recipe, like cooking with your kid, they're reading. Have them do the reading. Read the tool. You know, a lot of comprehension because of the cooking. Yeah. Like, [Music] so are there ways we can get some more tools in in parents hands? We can definitely revisit that of like how can
048we send more stuff home? Um like at parent teacher conferences give uh the parents assignments that they need to do with their children. I mean really get tough with them. Teach this at home. Help us, you know, kind of a partnership. I don't know. Maybe this exists. I'm just uh maybe I'm bringing up ideas you already have. I don't know. We have I mean every grade level has a remind. So, that's an easy way to send stuff out of like, hey, try this with your child, you know? Um, we do a lot of that, but does it hurt to push a little more? No. You know, it's and we'll be honest, education just isn't a priority to a lot of people. So, that's where we have to start is like, how can we help people
049understand the importance of education? Well, of reading of reading. You're going to read and you're going to math the rest of your entire life, right? Yeah. Help help our kids out. Have you ever had an expressed interest from parents wanting to understand how to teach or work with math and how it's taught now with their students? Yes. The high school did a um it was a few years ago the math we came in for like a when we first when we switched over to CPL. Yep. Do you do any like workshops at all that for parents? Our title Access groups used to run um a tutorial per se during conference nights of like come on in. This is what fluency is. This is what phmic awareness is and this is how you would go about
050teaching it. Uh we didn't have a great amount of attendance, but seriously, if you get one, people are talking, right? Like, oh my god, like Mrs. Oden Doll told me this, this really worked with my kid, you know, it would have a ripple effect. Um, so putting something together like that, even twice a year conferences could be good. We talk to our title team about setting something like that up again. running some community ed running some through community ed like a a night of fluency or a night of math or something like that to get parent engagement stuff. We had our math games night the same night we had roller skating. So we had that for the first hour and a half and was one for every grade level. It just wasn't well attended. Then
051we they were given math games to go home with their students. Like lots of efforts there. It's just whether it's people are busy, it's hard to get there, you know, getting tools in their hands. Otherwise, this other link just shows you how the funding is broken down by buildings and areas and and you might think, well, why is the numbers seem high? number for at least every one of these areas. It's in factoring in salaries, benefits, supplies, uh any kind of cost that goes with that area. But it just kind of gives you a breakdown of each area, how we get to that $18,53,100. [Music] Um my only other question is you said, I'm going to find it here. our enrollment. We're going to go off of 8.44 or 827. 827. Okay. So, we're going
052to go off of 827 for the year. Um, this does not include PSO students. Correct. Um, and the only thing I I kind of wondered about was um our PSO numbers and the loss of revenue and what we lose um when students aren't passing the PSO classes that everybody's losing if they go full-time PSO. uh we lose their at least. So the state gives typically more for high school students than elementary school students because of sports. Uh we lose the elementary portion of that which is about oh I have it written down. Just got to find it on the right sheet. It's about $7,500 a little bit higher than that. Uh per kid, sorry. Um for next year it' be $7,281 per student. So we would lose that if they're full-time. we still keep the
053the difference um in case they're in sports, things like that. So, we do lose that if they go part-time PSO and part-time here, we lose a percentage of that depending on how many classes they take versus how many classes they take here. uh this year as far as withdrawal. So in in the past when even when I started as principal if a student withdrawal from a class after the withdraw date every college usually has a two week you can withdraw from for free kind of withdrawal. Now if a kid does that after what we used to do in the past is the student would have to reimburse the district. PSO laws you can no longer do that. Um, so this year I had Katie Hardle pull me some numbers. In the fall we had five
054students uh withdraw for a total of six classes, total of 15 credits. In the spring we had four students, a total of seven classes, 20 credits. um fact, each college is a little bit different, but factoring in roughly $250 of credit. We lost just in withdrawals uh $9,400 um this year that in the past we used to be able to ask the family to pay back. We can no longer do that. Um one thing, and I don't know how far Katie Hardle had said this, I don't know if it's gotten to Joe to be honest. One thing we can look at um at least for sports eligibility is if you're withdrawing, do we treat that kind of like an F, do we treat that like we would a kid who fails a class here and
055now they're ineligible from sports. Um Katie had said she was going to talk with that and look at that. Um that wouldn't catch every single kid. Katie in her email to me said she could 100% agree with one of those withdrawals. Other times it's just either they're not doing the work, not passing, not going too hard, um, and they're just with they get to PSO again then. Do they get to continue to PSO when they're failing and withdrawing classes? Yeah. Do we have to allow Is that a law? It's a good question. I can look into that, too. I don't know that off the top of my head. Cuz if we're just losing money Mhm. that they are not responsible for. No, I I will find out. I don't know if we have to keep
056letting them go PSO if they failed or withdraw. I don't know about this, but um and maybe this isn't really part of the budget. I think it is how much how many kids do we have PSA next year? Do we know? Katie didn't know that off the top. We don't know that. We know what we had last year. The date was May 30th is when they had to apply for it. I would say I don't know I probably saw I don't know six to I understand it. It's a position where some kids PSO is a great opportunity for them. I I and I don't want to take that away from them. I'm not trying to say that at all. I'm just looking at it as we have kids that are are PSDing that are not
057passing the classes where they would have been in the school in the class. A they would have been learning it and b we would be losing the money. And I think part of that's like from what I've heard again I'm not kneede in the weeds of this but there's not a lot of communication between the college and us. So sometimes they're slipping through the cracks and we don't know about it until it's the end of the but that's what PSDO is there. I mean you don't get you don't get daycare anymore. Yeah, we're just not Yeah, we're just not being notified about are they withdraw this year. I I know we had five full-time PSO I guess I don't know how many from you know took partial days things but we had five full-time PSO
058kids this year. [Music] According to this, shouldn't there be better communication between the school and the college? And who would that fall on? The college a lot of time and we help the family get it set up and get their materials and get them, you know, lead them through the registration. Katie does that, has one-on-one meetings with these kids once they're there. Yes. We, especially if they're full-time, it's hard because we don't see them. um and their counselors don't necessarily always communicate back to the high school. Um I feel we do a good job getting them prepared, getting them the materials, getting them registered. We probably do a much better job with those part-time because we have access to them, but those full-time kids, we may not see them again till graduation day unless they're
059in sports or things like that. um can require the those students to divulge their grades. They have to quarterly we know and midcourt mean that the college reports because we have our we still have to report that cuz they're still a high school kid. So we know that you know at mid quarter and quarter but you know before those four weeks 8 weeks in if something sideways we don't necessarily know till if the kid hasn't told us we don't necessarily know till the grades come out. So during co we couldn't provide online school and then that went away. Mhm. Is it because we we didn't have a dedicated teacher? Does that You can't have So they don't like if I wanted to be an online instructor, I could only teach math. We what I was
060remember my first year, we were looking to continue that. We would have to have what it we'd have to have an hour a day with a licensed teacher. Like I couldn't just run it through in power like we did during co Tom London might have to take an hour of math. a science teacher would have to take an hour of science. And for us, could we do it? Sure. But does every teacher want to take a sixth assignment? Um, is that what's best? Um, so could we do it? Yes. But I I don't know that staffing wise we have enough to do that or the want of that many staff to take on a sixth assignment uh to meet that need. My guess is I I know we wouldn't have enough staff that would want
061to take a sixth assignment. Um, and I don't blame them in some ways. Otherwise, if there's no other questions, I'm looking for approval of our 2526 budget. a motion. I'll second. There's a motion and a second. Is there any discussion? All in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion passes 60. Next up is our close session. I recommend going into close session for the school board meeting according to Minnesota statute 13D.05 05 um to discuss district-owned property. I'm looking for a motion. I'll move that. I'll second. There's a motion and a second. Is there any discussion? All in favor say I. I. Opposed? Motion passes.