All right. Um, good evening. I'd like to call to order this in Anoka Henipin School Board meeting for today, June 23rd, 2025. Please join the board in pledging our allegiance. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic
for it stands one nation indivisible. All right. Our first order of business is to approve the board agenda. Is there a motion to approve the board agenda as presented? So moved. Thank you, Director Langenfeld. Um, is there a
second? Second. Thank you, Director Dashaine. Is there any discussion? Hearing none, will all those in favor of approving the board agenda say I? I. Any opposed say nay. With six in favor and
zero opposed, the agenda is approved. So our our um first recognition or our recognition tonight is um sorry about that agenda item 4 a the county school's destination imagination
teams global finalist teams participant um welcome Lynn Montgomery destination imagination state director and district di coordinator Okay. Thank you, Superintendent McIntyre and members of the school board. It is an honor and a privilege for me to bring
this year's Anoka Henipin Global Finals teams to this meeting. As in past years, close to 150,000 students from around the world all competed to create their best solutions to one of six challenge
areas: engineering, fine arts, science, improvisation, technology, or community service. Only the top 1% of those students advanced to global finals. And
this year, Minnesota qualified 12 teams to represent Minnesota in in the global finals uh competition. And I'm very pleased to share with the board that six of the 12 were in Noah Henipants. Okay. Which is truly amazing. Four elementary,
one middle school, and one secondary level. On the first night of the competition, there is always an opening ceremony. And so if if you would Jim, would you advance for us so we can Yeah, there we go. And the opening ceremonies, think the Olympics in that they create
they have representatives from each state and world country to carry their state flag and their uh state sign as they travel around. There's thousands of teams, families, uh, spectators, officials, judges in something like the
target center kind of arena field and they march around and Noah Henipin because of our large number of teams were selected to pick six representatives. So, we chose representatives from each of the um the teams coming. Okay. And if you're kind of wondering, they're down there on the right. If you're kind of wondering about
the fishing attire, one of the traditions at Global Finals is each state and country chooses to create a pin set that represents their state. So, China frequently has dragon pins and um you know the uh you might find from um
California surfboarding pins. Well, in honor of our 10,000 lakes, we created fishing lures, okay, which were very big pin traders. And so I saved the very last set for the school board. I don't think you'll get any fish with them. Um
but I'll leave them with Debbie. Um so that that you each have your your own piece because the the kids were saying really they should have something. Yeah. So yes, you have your own fishing lures. All right. Here we go. Okay. So here we go. I am so excited to share with you the the teams. Our first team that I'm
going to introduce is our first elementary team is from Rum River Elementary. They are a first year team that chose the scientific challenge and so if they will come in um the team members are Sasha Curry, Simone Evans
Evers, Tolto Ibraham, Gracie Lewis, Gianna Mackey, Claire Astrude, and Norah Quacken. So Tolto, if you'll come right up here to Mr. Adette, and they will give you the medals, and then we'll turn and face this way. Come on over by me and we'll turn it face this way so we
can get a good picture. Perfect. And as I shared with the teams, everyone is the best of the best that's at this competition. There are literally hundreds and hundreds of teams in your challenge area. So if you even place in the top 50, it is amazing. And this
first year elementary team placed 35th in the world. So I'm very, very proud of that. Yeah. And that I'm going to at this point I was going to share their team manager is Christa Yelfink and she is unfortunately in Alaska with her family
on a well-deserved vacation. So she's not with us. But I do want to acknowledge the principal of Rome River because he has been absolutely phenomenal in his support of Destination Imagination and that's Mr. Jeff Clausio. They're No, not the picture. Thank
Okay, Lyn, will you get the photo time? No, you're going to take take photos. Yes, that's it. Perfect. Thank you, Matt. Okay, we'll take a couple here, then the families. Thank you. I don't know if you wanted to
invite families family members to come forward if they like to take photos. Yeah. If family members want to come up to take photos, please do that now. Perfect team. Yep. If you will walk out over that way. Just walk over that way. Great
job. There we go. Our our next team is also Our next team is also from Rum River. Um, this is the engineering team and their challenge this year was very complex in that they
needed to design a vehicle that would remotely transport as much weight as possible up an inclined wire. It was called the highwire act. Um, and so this team, please come up. Jacob Ball, come
on right up here to Mr. Yep. Um Ashton Bayer beha I'm sorry Natalie Clark Rashmika Nepal Mariah Paddock Lindy Payer and Essie Sakura. This team was also uh
managed by Christa Wyel Frink. Um and this team placed 21st in the world. Wow. Mr. Cladio, will you come back up and join them? Yep. And I'm also going to ask um for um
Julie Waldock to come up. Julie Waldock assisted in the in the uh coaching of this team and then one other one. So perfect. Yes. Family members want to come up and take pictures. Yep. Okay, if you guys want to work on your
way back. And now our our third elementary team is from Oxbow Creek Elementary. They chose the improvisation challenge. um the spontaneous seven um some of them were brand new to this this challenge, others were um had joined us with a different
challenge the year before again advancing to globals um for the first time. A special piece for them is they did such a phenomenal job. They were selected by um their performance was selected to be filmed and their team was selected to be
interviewed for promotional materials and for how to do an uh improvisational challenge for next year. Um so that was quite a highlight for them and you see them being videoed there. Team members are Athena Hong, Henry McNaten, Quinn
Antran, Emma Tran, Maris Vans right up there and Nolan Vanderbeck. and can and their team manager is Min and she is a parent at Oxbow. I would like her to
come up and be recognized as well as the principal from Oxbow Creek who has been again very very supportive of the students work in Destination Imagination Melissa Mson. And in case I didn't say it, but this team placed 15th in the world.
Perfect. Okay. Thank you. They know how to take pictures. Okay. Thank you. And if parents would like to come up and take pictures, now's your chance. Congratulations again. Thank you.
And now our our fourth team um which is also from Rum River Elementary. Um, they also chose the improvisational challenge. Um, the preppy pink penguins are team members Eleanor Brash, Emily
Clearary, Jackson Cox, Noah Cox, Amelia Mattis, and Mila Riley. Their team managers are teachers Julie Walduk and Anne Mattis. And they placed 13th in the world.
And then Mr. Clausia, will you join these people for their picture too? And Julie and And that would be great. And I can take that if you would. Okay. And parents, if you'd like to come up and take photos. Wonderful. Thank you. Thank you, team.
And now our middle school team representing Oakview Middle School. They also this year chose the improvisational challenge. Um the Jazzy Rabbits, they they did just a phenomenal job. And you see them uh pictured on the one of the pictures with with the um actually the
the uh appraisers that watch everything they do. That's probably the hardest part about improv is that they do the research and study uh travel uh kinds of things and and this time destination locations etc. but they don't know what they're getting and they literally have to create the solution in front of an
audience. All right. So team members here, Anas Equel, RJ Frovik, Colin Luwendowski, Haron Richards, Kayn Shotti, Ryland Smith, and their team managers were Laura Martins and Nancy Shotti. They placed 24th in the world.
They were just amazing. Thank you. All right. Couple picks. Thank you. Friends and family, please feel free to come and take photos. You can do some family ones here, too. All right. Thank you guys. There we go.
And I would be remiss if I did not share with you our high school team. Unfortunately, they are not able to be with us as uh half of their team is at another educational experience in Europe, currently in Spain. So, I said I I would let them skip. Okay. Coming. All
right. and I would get their medals. But this this team is they did the community service challenge. Their the team members are Garrett Bower, Ryan Cullen, Andrew Francis, and Karsten Furnus. Their team manager is Jana Bower. What's very amazing about this is they placed
seventh in the world and this is the third year they have been in the top 10 internationally. um truly an amazing um opportunity and and piece for them and their their work this year in community
service again was on on choices you make as as a teenager um and how to how to be successful in the world. So it was very interesting. So I want to take this opportunity to thank the board uh and the superintendent for all of the incredible support for DI. It is just
truly an amazing and life-changing experience for kids. So Linda, stay at the table for a moment, please. Um board members, you've already picked up on this. If you know Lind or spent any time with Lynn, she doesn't like the spotlight. Um and she's very humble as just wouldn't even take the photos with
them. So, um I just need to take a moment to kind of recognize Lynn. You know, your focus is always on our students in this program. And I have to recognize it's necessary to recognize your outstanding record of service for over 40 years. I'm feel I'm
feeling schools. Old Corey. growing and maintaining this program and there's no doubt you've made a lasting difference in the school district for all you've done. Um if you look back in time um this started as Odyssey of the
mind um and as state director and I think you were also north metro regional director. Yeah. um your efforts um really resulted in Anoka Henipin hosting our events over the years as kind of the the hub of so many so many uh proud
hosts of those events. So uh I think our records at least show that the first Olympics of the mind event for the state of Minnesota was at Morris Biology Elementary School. Yeah, you did that with Dr. Don Rod. Yes. Yes. Are you are you going to share the year now Mr.
1984 we were the very first district in the state to ever do this type of creative problem solving piece. Yeah. So that's a great example of you were ahead of your time. Okay. You were ahead of your time and somehow you just kept innovating in your work with our district and you know I want to also um
call out the Anoka Henipin Educational Foundation. Your work with Anoka Henipin Retired Educators. Uh you're active every I see you all the time at an NOA Rotary Club meetings and your activity there. Uh all all making positive impact. So, um, just also want to acknowledge that you started with us as
a classroom teacher, uh, at Morris by Elementary, Adams Elementary before moving into district level roles in a number of ways. Um, also serving as assistant director of student services. So, just Lynn, thank you for all you've done, all the impact you've had on so many students over the years, and we just want to take a moment to recognize
you. Okay. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. Thank you. Thank you very much. Yes. Well, thank you very much and congratulations to the Anoka Henipin School's Destination Imagination Global Finals Team Teams.
Give everybody a minute to uh file out All right. In the meantime, members, the next item on our agenda is item five, the consent agenda. As normal, members can remove items for separate consideration and discussion if that's their desire.
With that being said, is there a motion to accept the consent agenda as presented? So moved. Thank you, Director Ducha. Is there a second? Thank you, Director Langenfeld. Is there any discussion? Hearing none. Will all those in favor
say I. I. Any opposed say nay. With six in favor and zero opposed. Our consent agenda is approved. All right. Our next agenda item is item six, the communications, delegations, and petition section of our meeting.
This is time for community members to provide input directly to the school board about issues that fall within the school board's authority. We plan this agenda item for 15 minutes. Our policy allows for community members to speak for up to five minutes, but if there are several persons that want to speak, the chair has the discretion to reduce the
time to comment, to hear from all, and also to keep the meeting on schedule. During times of large community input, we have been flexible in allowing the meeting to run late. Tonight, we have 15 cards. So, to keep the meeting on time or as close to as possible, I will ask individuals to keep their comments
to two minutes. I will ask um co-chair Duchaine to monitor a timer and if you run over, she will ask you to wrap up your comments quickly. We welcome written testimony if you have more to say than time allows. And uh please complete a yellow card and provide it to Miss Kofsky so that we can provide a
written follow-up. A couple of procedural reminders. Our meeting participation procedures are in place to asssure open and orderly public comments as well as to protect the due process and privacy rights of individuals under the law. Speakers, use the specific names of students, staff, or board members. I will need to interrupt and or
stop the speaker. Please remember to direct your comments to the school board chair. Members of the audience, please listen respectfully. If the board cannot hear, speakers, I may reset the timer and allow speakers to be heard. Audience members that disrupt this portion may be asked to leave for the remainder of the meeting. All of that being said, our
first speaker is Scott Mackey. Welcome to the board. All right. All right. All right. Good evening, co-chairs, board members, and superintendent. My name is Scott Mackey. I am the boys swim
and dive coach for Andover High School. I'm here because during the last work session, a question was asked about how many schools have been have competitive swimming and how do they h how do they maintain them? To answer that question, we checked
Minnesota State High School League websites and had and collected data that swimming is a priority across the state. An NOA Henipin is considered a double A school for swimming. Out of 129
doubleA high school teams or schools, only 4% of of class doubleA schools, just six of them do not offer competitive swimming and diving. 100% of high schools with populations comparable to to Anoka Henipin schools offer
competitive swimming and diving. Among the high schools with student populations over 500 students, 92% of them offer competitive swimming and diving. So eliminating and or underfunding schools would be a
downgrade for our school district. To help continue to help answer this question um about how to maintain things, a few years back, Mountains View School District had similar issues with pools. They shut down two pools,
Edgewood Middle School and Irondale High School pool. They shut them down because they were falling apart. Um but um but they re ended up rebuilding a brand new facility at Edgewood Middle
School that now hosts Irondale High School and the and Irondale High School and a competitive swimming club. So in conclusion, um I would ask that when the when comes to making decisions either repair or remodel schools to our our
pools, please conclude your remarks. Thank you. Yep. Thank you. Thank you very much. Our next speaker is Jill. Sorry if I mispronounced your last name. Remler Rimler. I get I get to choose. I'm going middle.
Hi. Um I'm here today to speak to you guys um in regards to some comments that were made at a previous board meeting um that I have watched several times. Um, I am the parent of a Champion Park
softball senior. The Minnesota School Board Association oath that you guys all took um states that you will strive to work together to foster excellence for every student in areas including citizenship and
personal development. The oath also states that you will create an environment designated to ensure that all students have the opportunity to attain their maximum potential. Comments were made by a few board members that make me question their
commitment, qualification, and understanding of the oath that they took. Some could say that I have a unique perspective because I have a daughter who played within the Champlom Park community since the age of three years old. She was a four-year starter on the varsity team and a pitcher. She
has grown up alongside her teammates and has learned valuable lessons in humanity. We as adults can learn and should take lessons from these kids. They are very kind and they are inclusive more than we are. They play together
during the high school season and they play against each other in the summer season. They are family when they play together on the field and when they compete against each other, they embrace it. A board member used the word
discriminate multiple times. So, I'd like to give you the legal definition of that word. Discrimination is the unfair or unequal treatment of any individual based on certain characteristics. I stand before you today. I'm actually
sitting, so I apologize. 10 seconds. I didn't know I'd be sitting, but I sit before you today and could not be more proud of my own daughter and her family on the field as they are the perfect example of how not to discriminate and how to be inclusive. I would like to give them the proper accolades on their
accomplishments. Congratulations, Rebels, on winning state. This team has not lost their sport. They are playing the sport in the spirit of humanity and elite athleticism. Way to go, Champlain Park High School, for creating an inclusive environment with
top-notch coaches that create allstars on and off the field. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak to you tonight. Have a good evening. Thank you for your comments. Our next speaker is Ree Rimler. Hello. I'm also speaking on behalf of
Champl Park and their softball team. And I'd first just like to thank the board for allowing me this opportunity to speak to you all. I am an alumni of the Chample Park softball team and many outsiders have commented on how it's important to teach the younger generation teamwork and sportsmanship
which I agree is very valuable. That being said, teamwork is the biggest aspect in softball. Some of the best players I know don't even get the opportunity to make it to state because it takes nine outstanding players to get there. It disappoints me as board members you assume there is an advantage
in this game without fully understanding the sport, specifically as it pertains to pitching. I want to bring awareness to the fact that there is absolutely nothing unfair our team had presented. The only advantage a male could possibly bring to pitching is velocity. As if you were curious, our pitcher was
averaging 61 miles per hour, while our opponent on Bloomington Jefferson was averaging 64 miles hour, a 3 mph difference. As a former pitcher myself, I am well aware of how much dedication and time it takes to become even slightly effective
in this sport. Despite all the hate and outside noise our team had endured, we stuck together and continued to play as not just teammates, but as family, our team's accomplishment is truly a reflection on everyone's combined efforts and relentless training. Thank
you to the board member who spoke up in support of our team on this topic, and I could not have been more proud of this team and what we accomplished, and I would not change a thing. Thank you all. Thank you for your comments. Our next speaker is Dean Helters. Again, sorry if
I misread it. Help us. All right. Thank you, board uh for the opportunity to speak tonight. I've lived in the Northwest suburbs pretty much my entire life, over 50 years. I am married. I am a proud father of three daughters, all who as of recently now
have graduated from Champlin Park High School. All three of them fell in love with the game of softball at a young age. Um, as a father, some of my fondest memories with my kids are out on the ball fields with with them. My youngest daughter was part of this year's state champion Rebels team referred to
earlier. Um, she's definitely going to take the great memories from this year with her as she continues to play um at college next year. At the previously before mentioned June 9th schoolboard meeting, very partisan and honestly a bit naive statements undermining the accomplishments of that
team were made as well as a personal attack on me as a father. As someone who's actually quite qualified to speak about girls sports in Minnesota, I'm just going to emphasize a few points. First, softball is a team sport. Already been said nine players
out on the field at a time. We had a roster of 15 through most of the year. 15 people. If you didn't personally watch the games, you're not qualified to pass judgment on anything that occurred. The statements that were made were clearly based on negative, extremely
biased social media posts, not on what actually occurred on the field. So, I have a challenge for you. Go back and watch the games. They're available. Watch a few of them. Watch the 24 we won and the two we lost. All of them will show you something that I don't think a
lot of people get, which is number one, we have easily the best hitting team in the state. That's the number one reason we won the state championship. Number two, we've got one of the best fielding teams in the state. Number three, we're a team with not one but three solid pitchers. And by the way, as
previously referenced, none of them were the strongest or fastest pitchers in the state. None of them. So, in closing, living this firsthand, it's taught me that these situations are way more complicated than you might think. Don't assume you don't assume you know what me and other fathers are doing or not doing for their children. The team's deserving
of an apology. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. The next speaker is Carrie Cotmith. Hello. Good evening. Thank you for let giving me the time to speak to you all this evening. I am also a parent of a Champlain Park varsity softball player.
During the last board meeting, some concerns were raised uh regarding the inclusion of a transgender player on our softball team with the stated aim of protecting girls opportunities. While respecting the board's commitment to ensure equal opportunities for all
students, I strongly disagree with any notion that including a transgender student athlete diminishes the achievements of our entire team. Success of the championship team was a result of years of dedication, rigorous training, exceptional teamwork by all
members. Their accomplishments include D1, D2, and D3 college commits. We had allstar selections out of that team. Those all speak for themselves. This team of girls was stacked with talent, as you've heard. So to suggest
that their state championship was not earned or credible because we happen to have a transgender player is not only unfounded but also deeply dismissive of the team's hard work, talent, and skills. Ironically, that type of dismissiveness is exactly what women
have been enduring for years. Our contributions and abilities being continuously overlooked and undervalued, which is a direct contrast to protecting girls opportunities. I respectfully ask the board to thoughtfully consider next time the time and place to share those political
views. To connect those views to a moment that was intended to celebrate our championship was hurtful to the entire team, the coaches and the par parents and families. If members have an issue with the current um Minnesota High School State
League, please take it up with them and leave our daughters out of it. Because I can tell you one thing, my daughter didn't need your protection. and she needed your support during the season. 10 seconds. Our varsity softball team championship was earned under the current policies
and deserves to be recognized, celebrated by the district leadership and not dismissed, not overlooked, and not undervalued. Thank you. Thank you for your time. Thank you for your comments. Our next speaker is Brad Johnson.
I had requested to be last on this because I'm speaking for two people. Uh, one of which is my wife who's deployed to the Middle East with the 133rd Airlift Wing. So, I'd ask a little bit of grace um with this. My name is Brad Johnson. Um, I'm the father of Abigail
and Leilani Johnson. and I'm also the county attorney, but I'm here uh today as Brad the dad, as my shirt says. Daisy would be here tonight, but she is deployed, as I indicated. I want to talk about three topics very quickly. The budget, the vision, and why it is
important when you consider the pools in our district. We have big jobs. The public looks to us to maintain and increase the service we provide to our communities in a fiscally responsible way. That means multitasking, avoiding waste, and investing in critical infrastructure and
the talent we need. The Fred Moore pool, the home of the tornadoes, where I went to school, and now the Huskys and the Northdale pool, the home of the Cardinals and the Bengals, and the site for the true team sectionals are critical infrastructure. They must now be prioritized. I know
something about how these hard decisions are made and how hard it is to speak to other electeds and also to our constituents about the reasons why, why now, why so much, etc. If you need help having those conversations in the community, I offer
myself to stand with you in that process. With respect to the vision and plans for this, I know from watching the prior work session that you're talking about a combined total of 9 to 12 million for mechanical and structural repairs. Was a little disheartened, I have to tell you, to see less than 2.5
million as budgeted for next year. It's not acceptable. I'll disagree with the notion that you would be frustrated if you walked in after the updating because you wouldn't see any changes. Here's the reality. If you do not take care of this critical infrastructure, you'll walk in and see blight and ruin in our schools.
It's unacceptable. Worse, you won't have a swim and dive program for these young men and women, and that's not acceptable to anyone either. These decisions are similar to those that the county board is currently faced with with uh having to decide to build a new jail and a new
parking garage, except here, you're clearly investing in the future of our children rather than in the day-to-day public safety of our community. 10 seconds. I'm going to ask for a little bit of grace, Mr. Chair. uh engage with your community um your
parks and reccks department the county if necessary to play a role in this process but you need to prioritize more than two two to 2.4 4 million per year for this. Why is this important? Pools are where leaders are made. I want you to take the opportunity to go over to
these pools and spend a moment with the banners that are in there. Listen to coach Nicole who is here. Think about the leaders that you have in this community. The Birklids, the Big 10 swimmers like Reeseian, my daughter Abigail who is one of next year's captains whose dream it is to attend the
US Air Force Academy where she was in camp. This last week, I took swimming lessons in the Fredmore pool. Pools are where young people are challenged. They experience setbacks. They grow. They push their boundaries. And they learn how to support one another. They learn about teamwork,
cheering the underdog, self-sacrifice, and moral courage. Leaders are forged in difficult and challenging situations like the ones you are faced with today. Leadership can be a deep dive, but all you have to do is take a look around you and you will see the investment pays
dividends that far exceed the dollars spent. We have all come today to defend your decisions to make and improve these pools or to maintain and improve these pools. And if you want to help shape a vision for the district and these pools in them, this community is here to
support you. Thank you. Thank you for the extra time. Thank you for the comments. Um, our next speaker is Monica Helmer's. Good evening all and thanks for this opportunity to speak to the school board. I am the parent of three Champl Park High School graduates. The youngest
recently graduated. This is her commencement um bulletin. On it, I was reminded of what CPHs stands for, our values, which are cooperation, pride, high expectations, and success. Nowhere were these school values
exemplified more than during the recent postseason play of my same daughter's Champ Park softball team. These team of girls grew up playing together in youth softball. They now spend their summers and falls and winters honing their skills, traveling the country, playing for elite teams. This year, we watched
them become laser focused on their long-term goal of being the first Champion Park softball team to make state. We had seven seniors who helped guide the path. And as they held extra practices and almost weekly to team bonding events at each other's homes or
at the local DQ, as my daughter said, they were dialed in and more than just teammates, but also friends. They not only made state, but they went on to reach the championship game and win. Through it all, this team of teenagers faced social media mistruths, gossip,
harassment, and also comments around the fields. Even though they were doing nothing wrong, they persevered on and off the fields with grace and composure beyond their years. How do you think the student athletes felt when they heard that a congratulatory message at the schoolboard meeting was hijacked by two members who decided to instead make
disparaging comments and ridicule their accomplishment? Schoolboard members are supposed to be champions for students, all students, and model respect. It wasn't the time or the place for such comments. Truly, this team is owed an apology. They model the decorum that
those schoolboard members lacked. I would ask our Noah Henipin schoolboard members to never use our students as pawns in complicated conversations and not use schoolboard meeting time to put their own political or religious agendas above their rights, protections, and respect the district and the state gives
to students to all students. I know the team might not get that apology, but no worries. We are rebels strong. Our team accomplishment was attempted to be erased, but it failed. We are very thankful for the support of our school, the parents, our community, and the school board members who did attend some games. We'll try the announcement again.
Congratulations to our Champlin Park Rebels, champions of class 4A Minnesota State softball. Thank you for the comments. Our next speaker is Caitlyn Hill. Good evening. My name is Caitlyn Hill. I proudly represent Chaml Park softball
as assistant varsity coach. First, I want to thank the members of the board who who support our district areas and to our administrators and superintendent McIntyre who supported us through a historic season. On top of getting to watch extremely high level softball, your presence at games, your cheers from the stands, and your encouragement meant
the world to our team, and it showed what it truly means to serve all of your students. I'm also here tonight to speak on behalf of 16 incredible student athletes, 15 players, one student manager who just became state champions. And I'm also here to address the deeply
concerning comments made by some at the last schoolboard meeting. What should have been a moment of celebration for a team completing a first in school history instead became an attempt to discredit their accomplishments. Let me be clear, they worked incredibly hard. They earned every win and they did it with grit, grace, and unity. As a former
triport athlete of this very school and now I have the pleasure of being their coach, I know firsthand what sports can do. They build strength, resilience, discipline, confidence, and lifelong bonds. That's exactly what this team embodied every single day. At the start of our season, we chose five words:
positive attitude, trust, discipline, unselfishness, and confidence as values of what we need to lead our team to success. Every player bought into those values. Every practice, every game, every tough moment. They weren't just words, they were actions. And this team lived those values. That's how they
built that legacy. This wasn't a oneperson success story. It was collective. This team played for the name on the front of their jersey, not the one on the back. They sacrificed personal stats for team wins. They lifted each other up on and off the field. They practiced six days a week, supported each other through pressure
and injury, and they never lost sight sight of what really matters, which is each other. Yet, some adults in this room tried to undermine their success because of divisive rhetoric that tries to question who belongs, who is worthy, and who gets to be celebrated. That kind of thinking has no place in our schools.
It has no place in our sports. It has no place in our community. This team exemplified Champlain Park's rebel values of responsibility, empathy, belonging, equity, leadership, and service through and through. The issue here is trying to strip young athletes of their joy because you don't agree with who is standing beside them. Let's
not forget who they are. They broke last season's record with a near-perfect 24-2 season. They graduated seven seniors, five or more of whom will continue playing collegiate level sports. 10 seconds. They made game-changing defensive plays. You had a se to believe. Three players collected a hundred or more career hits. They
brought home all state, all conference, all section, all academic awards, and supplied all-star players. They're phenomenal role models for our youth, and they're state champions. Even more importantly, they're leaders. They're inclusive. They're empathetic. And they're exactly what we want our children to be. They give me hope for a
future that doesn't discriminate, hate, or exclude, but instead embraces courage, compassion, and dignity in every individual. A future led by young people who choose unity over division, who show up for one another every single day. And that proves that inclusion makes us stronger. If you claim you support female sports, support them and
come to a game. Don't let fear disguise itself as fairness. Don't let bias masquerade as concern. What these girls built is way more important and more powerful than a trophy. So with that, board members, let me assist you. Congratulations, Rebels. You earned that championship with every ounce of sweat, heart, and determination. You didn't win
a title. You made history. Stand proud. And you are the everything a champion team should be and more. Thank you. Thank you for the comments. Our next speaker is Nicole Hedman. Good evening board members. I'm Nicole
Hedman, head coach of the Anoka girls and boys teams, 1987 Anoka grad and a member of the swim team for all three years when I was in high school. Also a mom to three boys who were members of the Anoka boys swimming and diving teams
from 2008 to 2016. Swimming and diving offers our students a unique blend of benefits that reach well beyond the pool. Being on the team creates consistency in routine, resilience, and goal setting habits that translate into exceptional
self-discipline, stress management, and time management skills. The academic payoff is measurable. Across Anoka Henipin's eight high school programs that participated this year, six teams earned coaches association silver
academic awards with GPA between 3.5 and 3.74. Two more reached the gold standard. Champlain Park girls at 3.81 and Anoka girls at 3.91. Our athletes are proving that excellence in sport can drive excellence in school. From 2020 to
2022, Anoka Henipin had seven individual state champions in swimming. An incredible achievement that speaks to the strength of our programs. In 2024, three of our alumni from Andover, Anoka, and Blaine qualified for the US Olympic
trials. While in high school, each had to travel 25 to 50 minutes to club practices because no year-round teams exist on the Anoka County side of the district. Many student athletes go also go on to swim or dive at the collegiate level,
continuing their success in both academics and athletics. Swimming and diving prepares students for life both in and out of the water. Thank you. Thank you for the comments. Our next speaker is Mike Phillips.
Good evening, co-chairs and members of the board. My name is Mike Phillips. I'm a teacher at Champlin Park High School and I'm here tonight to stand in support of and solidarity with the students and families of my community. Something I was disappointed to see multiple board members unwilling to do at their last
work session. Instead, those board members in their role as public servants came to a meeting with prepared remarks aimed primarily at ostracizing a child they're supposed to be supporting while also diminishing the accomplishments of an entire team of students who worked incredibly hard to win a state
championship. The comments made by those board members during a time that was set aside for celebrating the successes of our community were outrageous, appalling, and factually incorrect. Ironically, I'm prohibited from naming or pointing out the specific board members who chose to single out and
denigrate one of the students are supposed to be serving in their roles as board members, but I hope those members specifically can find the decency to do better. letting personal ideology lead to statements like theirs is unbefitting of their role as board members and actively harmful to the community they
were elected to serve. I asked them to figure out how to serve all of our students or consider stepping down if they can't set their ideology aside in order to support students. Our students deserve a board who will celebrate them and their successes, not one who will tear them down to score political points. If you can't find it in
yourselves to do that, you're in the wrong place. Again, please do better. Thanks for the comments. Our next speaker is Cadence Brandon. I'm speaking on behalf of the In Noa swim and dive team. Um, my experience on
the swim team is something I could never compare to anything I've ever done before. It was one of the greatest things I've ever done and I can't imagine my life without it. I'm speaking here today because I want the team to stay available available not only for myself but for my friends and future me swimmers to be able to have the chance to be on this team. 2024 was my first
year on the swim team. I was new to the district, swimming in general, and I was coming back to school after 5 years of homeschooling. I had no friends, no prior sports experience, and I was recovering from a shoulder injury. Since being on the team, I have made some of my best friends, improve not only my physical health, but my mental health as well, and made some of my favorite
memories. I not only learned to shave seconds off my personal record or perfect my stroke, I learned how to be a good teammate, friend, and athlete, and how to set goals for myself and work for them. I will forever be grateful to my coaches and teammates for that. The swim team is such a supportive, welcoming, and kind group of people. I've never
seen another sport quite like it. This is why I believe everyone should have the opportunity to join the swim team and have the experience that I had. If we lose a swim team, many students would not lose just a sport, but a source of friendship, confidence, and purpose. Students deserve the chance to not only do the sport they love, but learn lifelong lessons and make lifelong
friendships. My experience on the team has been nothing but positive, and I want other students to be able to experience that, too. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Our next speaker is Ruth Guy. Good evening, members of the board. My name is Ruth and I'm a class of 2023
graduate of Anoka High School where I spent four years as part of the swim and dive team. Now, as a college athlete, I can say with full confidence that the pool and the swim and dive program played a major role in shaping who I am today. Being at the Fredmore Pool has become second nature to me and my family. as my oldest brother started on
the swim team in 2016 and my youngest brother just finished his third year on the team as a freshman. With spending almost 10 years at the pool as a spectator and an athlete, I've learned valuable skills that have helped carry me through life. Closing the pool won't just take away a facility. It would take away a community, a support system, and
an opportunity for countless students to grow in ways that go far beyond athletics. Swim and dive taught me discipline, time management, gave me friendships that carried me through high school, and a sense of belonging that I know many students need. I understand budgets are tight, but the value of this program can't be measured in dollars.
It's measured in the confidence as it builds and the future it helps. As I mentioned before, I'm a collegiate diver at Minnesota State University, Morehead, studying speech, language, and hearing sciences. And without the Ina Swim and Dive Team, my future would look nothing like it does today. Please don't take
away the opportunity I had away from the next generation. Keep the pool open and keep the team alive. Thank you. Thank you for the comments. Our next speaker is Rod Good evening. Until recently, I've been a lifelong Democrat. My interest has
always been civil liberties. After 1965, the South turned Republican because of the Voting Rights Act that drove a dagger into the heart of Jim Crow, black voter suppression. Since then, I've associated Republicans with bigotry and Democrats with civil liberties. Then
came Vietnam, the Central American proxy wars, Bush's war, and now the genocidal war in Gaza. All of which were jinned up with lies and all of which were supported by Democrats. Finally, the silence of Democrats and our DFL regarding CRT
made them complicit in the maintenance of systemic racism. I resigned to my position as outreach officer and quit the party. Does that make me a Republican? Not likely. As noted, the Republican party has been the party of segregation since 1965. In May 2020,
George Floyd was publicly lynched by the Minneapolis police. The resulting ground swell of outrage alarmed the white supremacists. Four months after the lynching, Christopher Rufo appeared to appealed to uh Trump via a Fox News broadcast to stop CRT because he claimed
CRT was anti-white and divisive. The complaint was a flatout fraud that flourished unimpeded because Democrats and our DFL decided to abandon both uh black community and educational legitimacy. Ironically, the denomination most supportive of Trump and and
previous generations of slavery and segregation claims CRT is uncchristian. My reading of the Bible clearly indicates that the overwhelming message of Jesus is to love your neighbor. A lesson amplified by CRT, seal, and DEI.
Some folks want us to return to the base basic academics. But publication, but public education was always in emphasized moral duty and moral standards. The McGuffy Reader was full of moral guidance. The call for straight academics is a national effort designed
to obstruct teaching the truth about our history as well as love your neighbor. 10 seconds. Um, how then do we prepare our children for a world in which murderous lies are normalized through generations by both Republicans and Democrats? How do we teach our kids to recognize malevolent manipulation? How
do we impart the confidence and courage required to teach their hearts and stand tall for the transcendent? The clearest way is to teach and model respect for each other to avoid being stampeded into seeing our neighbor as an other who is undeserving of respect and the right to their pursuit of happiness. Furthermore,
we should model outrage when leaders are caught trying to manipulate us through the use of lies, especially when a member Please finish up your comments. Uh helps students sort out these difficult questions. Think of it as an updated McGuffy's. Thank you for the comments. Our next
speaker is Abby Johnson. Good evening board members. My name is Abby Johnson. I've been competitively swimming for around nine years now. And as a rising junior, this next year will be my fourth year swimming for the Anoka High School and my first year as captain. I'm here to speak on something
more than just a sport. Our high school swim team isn't just about practices or competition. It's about people. It's a community that builds and fosters healthy relationships and grows leaders in ways that extend beyond just the pool. On a swim team, you learn quickly
the importance of self-drive and teamwork. Whether it's cheering for your team, not giving up in practices or races, or showing up with the rest of your team all still asleep at 5:30 a.m. for morning practices before school. It's about commitment to the betterment
of yourself and to each other. These aren't just friendships. They're lifelong bonds built on trust, shared struggle, and respect. A swim team teaches leadership not through titles, but through action. Upperassmen lead by example. They aren't
just fast. They are the ones who show up early, pick up people when they're down, and hold the team accountable. They are the role models, and the younger swimmers learn to grow into these roles, building confidence and a sense of responsibility along the way. This isn't
just valuable in the pool, but at school, in our academic lives, too. Cutting the swim program doesn't just take away a sport. It takes away a space where students learn what it means to be part of something bigger than themselves. Where they develop grit,
empathy, and leadership skills they carry into every corner of their lives, from the classroom to their future careers. The sport of swimming is an investment in character, in community, and in the future leaders. Thank you.
Thank you for the comments. Our next speaker is Abby Montto. Again, sorry if I mispronounced your last name. It's Abby Montigue. No problem. Everyone does it. Um, thank you, Madame Chair and Mr. Chair for the opportunity to speak
to you in the board. Um, I am here as a pediatrician, but more importantly as a parent of two little boys who go to Sunrise Elementary School and uh members of my neighborhood and I had raised concerns about the proposed transportation boundaries um for Sunrise as well as other elementary schools in
the area. Um I appreciate on the latest version of the agenda tonight that appendix P does actually address the concerns that we've been raising since May. Um, I am surprised that we didn't hear any um response to our concerns
until we continued to message and message and message the board about what was going to happen and why the proposal wasn't discussed. Um, we were very dismayed to find that our concerns were not discussed at the last board meeting
where the proposal was approved by vote. um and to find on the summary provided tonight that it says our concerns weren't raised until after that meeting which is untrue. We were invited to provide feedback in a survey in May, which we all did raising our concerns
and we never heard anything. And so I'm wondering when parent feedback is sought, where is it discussed and why aren't we told what's going to happen to address our concerns? I do have ongoing questions and concerns about the proposed changes to the walking
boundaries, but I will address those to the transportation committee and listen to um the discussion later in the meeting. But I would appreciate to understand better why we're not being heard as a public from our elected representatives. Why are our concerns
not being discussed before things that we've raised questions about are approved? So, and as a pediatrician who works with kids every day in mental health crisis, school sports are incredibly important and protective against suicide and depression. And I
wish every patient I had had a team as supportive as clearly our swim and dive program and our softball program are. So, whatever we can to protect those spaces for the mental health of our students, we should be doing. Thank you for the comments. And with that, um, we are moving on to our next
agenda item, which is item seven, the board calendar and district updates. I'll hand it over to Superintendent McIntyre. Thank you, Courtchair Arco. And tonight, I'll be presenting some items of interest for the board and community regarding activities and events that we are proud of in the district. We do this to celebrate
students, staff, and community members who are contributing to the accomplishment of our mission, which is to effectively educate each of our students for success. First though, I want to start my report by just sharing some comments um in respect to Melissa, Mark Hartman, and
John and Yevette Hoffman. So, school districts reflect the communities we serve. Over the past few days, our communities have experienced a wide range of emotions following the tragic gun violence that took the lives of House Speaker Ammerida Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark and severely injured Senator John Hoffman and his
wife Yevette. This tragedy especially hits close to home for us here in Anoka Henipin schools. Both Representative Hortman and Senator Hoffman were dedicated public servants who served their local communities, including many of our own families within the In Noa Henipin School District. Prior being to
prior to being elected as senator, John Hoffman served eight years on the Noah Henipin School Board, including four years as vice chair. Yvet also served in our district for a number of years. We continue to keep the Hortman and Hoffman families in our thoughts during this difficult time and also want to thank
and show our appreciation for our continued close partnership with our law enforcement partners at Brooklyn Park and Champlain uh police departments. They kept us informed during the time of immediate response to these tragic events in the hours and days that followed so that we could continue to
ensure the safety of everyone at our school campuses in the area. So again, thank you. So now I'll move on to other uh events and happenings in the district. And um coming up soon, the Rapids High School all class reunion is set for
Wednesday, July 2nd from 5 to 10:00 p.m. as part of the city's 4th of July celebration. This event will be in the large tent near the music stage at the city of Rapids uh celebration. This year's event marks the fourth all class reunion for Kon Rapids High School. From
the first graduating class of 1966 to the most recent graduates, all are welcome to attend this familyfriendly event. Next, I want to take an opportunity to encourage community members to consider making a difference in their community by joining our team here at the Noka
Henipin Schools. Many different positions are available from working with students as a PAR educator to serving meals, working in our student transportation department, and many more. Anoka Henipin Schools is hosting a summer hiring event on Thursday, July
24th at the Educational Services Center in Anoka. You can visit ahschools. us backjob for more information on the positions that are available. Anoka Henipin Schools is making a change to the parent view portal next school
year to improve connection with student information, including grades, attendance, fees, class assignments, and more. beginning June 23rd. So on on today, parents and guardians can start accessing the parent view portal via the
login tab on the ahschools US website to update and create their new parent account and establish their username and password. Parents and guardians will be able to update accounts in their settings and change passwords 24 hours a day, seven days a week with no longer needing to call or email the district to
get their password during regular business hours for support. This new system also creates a more efficient use of staff time with over 80% of our calls to the help desk involving those basic questions about usernames and passwords. And I know I experienced that myself as a parent. It's hard to keep it all
straight. Uh this is a very large project project happening all over the summer months and the district will be sharing information widely on the website as well as through district uh newsletters and school newsletters uh and through direct emails to parents. So, we're going to do our very best to
make sure everyone's informed as we lead up to this the start of the new school year. And speaking of that, I know we're only two weeks into the summer from the last uh school year ending, but we are thinking ahead and I know some parents and guardians are as well. Uh so for those who are already looking for back
to school supplies and those lists, that is on our district website already. Uh along with times and dates for school open houses, start and dismissal times, activity registration links, and and much more. Parents and guardians should also remain alert for the back to school issues of our focus e- newswsletter new
newsletters from their schools that will help them ease into the uh 2526 school year. And finally tonight, no henipin's efforts to inform and engage students, staff, and community members have been recognized as some of the nation's best. The district's communication and public
relations team earned six awards from the National School Public Relations Association. Uh that organization is for public and private schools and districts including post-secondary institutions from around the country. Awarded projects included the school board's own
academic growth recognition program, the Two Rivers Transition Program at Franklin branding package, high school senior reflection videos, our security signage, and feature stories on district graduates along with our power of purpose uh back to school video last
year. Anoka Henipin's fourmember small but mighty four member communication and public relations team includes Jim Skellyy, Heather Peters, Tim Evans, and Jessica Sorro. We appreciate them all very much and congratulations. Co-chair Erl, this concludes my
superintendent's report this evening. Thank you. Thank you for the report. Are there any questions or comments from board members? Director Duchaine. Thank you. Just really quickly, as Corey mentioned, um, Senator John Hoffman served in this school board seat for eight years, and
tonight I just want to take a minute to thank him for his service to our schools, um, in an NOA Henipin and his ongoing service to the community in the Senate. I wish him and his family well in their recovery. Um, his true care for all students is a model for all of us.
Thank you. All right, with that we will move on to our next agenda item which is a resolution brought forward by employee services. The resolution is item 8A resolution to resend the inclusion of certain teachers names in resolution terminating probationary teachers.
Welcome Dr. Jennifer Cherry, executive director of human resources. Good evening, co-chair Arco, members of the board, Superintendent McIntyre. Uh this evening, uh the resolution is to um uh recent the the names of the eight
teachers listed who were previously identified as um non-renewing their contracts doing due to their probationary status. And so this evening we're looking for uh adoption of the resolution as presented.
All right. Thank you board members. Are there any questions for Dr. Cherry on the resolution? All right. Hearing none. Um the clerk will call the role please. Simon votes I. Oakman I. Audet I. Langenfeld I.
Desaine I. Arco I. With six in favor and zero opposed, the resolution in appendix K is adopted. Thank you, Dr. Cherry. Thank you. Next, we have communication and public relations with item 9A, legislative update. Welcome Jim Skellyy, executive
director of communications and public relations. Lori Gria and Chris Ammonson, Ammonson Strategies. Well, good evening, uh, school board. I quots Arco and Dashaine. It's our pleasure to do a 15minute presentation on the legislative session. Let's see if
we can get right to it. I'm Jim Skellyy, executive director of communications and public relations. We've got uh Lori Gria and Chris Amonson who have really done excellent work on behalf of uh On Noah Henipin and both you as a school board in our community advocating at the capital and they'll provide the majority
of what we're going to be talking about tonight. We're going to go over some session basics. We're going to talk about the board's legislative priorities and then review the results like what actually happened as a result of those priorities. So, let's get right to it. And I'm not sure who's going to start off, Lori or Chris, but take it away.
Thank you very much, Mr. Chair and board members for having us this evening and we really appreciate working with all of you and um with Superintendent McIntyre and with Jim as our first point of contact. So, thanks for having us this
evening. Um first I just I want to say you know after a significant budget compromise um passed in special session on June 9th um four days later uh just a horrific tragedy occurred and all of us
who um are part of the capital community or for you who are part of the the district community um of these significant leaders. you know, we're just really re reeling and um grieving the Hortman's and um also keeping the
Hoffman's in our thoughts and prayers as they recover. And of course they were both um legislators that we worked very closely with. and um you know book ends just kind of thinking about the beginning of the legislative session and
the end of the legislative session included two deaths of significant members um with Senator then majority leader Carrie Ditzik from northeast Minneapolis um a leader in the Senate which resulted in a special election and
then now with um House Leader Melissa Hortman and it's just you know such enormous losses So, we just wanted to recognize that before we dive into some of these details that now seem um a little fuzzier than they did um on the
9th of June. Um so in the house uh after the election and a special election and a few legal disputes um the house was evenly divided at 6767
and I know all of you can can relate to that a little bit and um so they finally put in a shared leadership agreement which it took them some time to get to that point at the end of session and needed a special session but they did get there. And then in the Senate there
were two special elections and um the DFL did hold the majority by just one vote 3433. So overall the legislature was just one vote Democratic 101 200. So it was very
very unique times. um when the budget decisions um by leadership and the governor kind of in in middle of May um put the framework in place uh the bulk of the budget was
really left undone and then um when May 19th adjournment came. So that was what happened between that time frame and the June 9th special session. Um, so workg groupoups then were put in place and met
mostly in private, although the tax work group spent quite a bit of time meeting in public. Um, so it's hard to kind of hammer out those public discussions um when you when you flow into workg groupoups. Um but the philosophical
differences on many of the issues included summer hourly workers, unemployment issues, um eligibility for undocumented adults for Minnesota care, um surprisingly a Senate floor amendment on the use of seclusion rooms, so very
much in the education space and also private uh school funding, which was something that the Senate was pushing and the governor had had supported as well, but didn't happen in the end. Um so then 3 weeks after regular session, the 14 budget bills passed and what we
thought was going to be a 24-hour legislative session but didn't go nearly that long um on June 9th. And now Lori is going to go through some of those uh education finance specifics. So when we uh start our work, this is
the document that we use. this is your legislative platform and we base everything on this and I we use so many and give out so many I have you know we print off copies to give folks because they need to be reminded all the time as we're talking about um a lot of the
issues that come up and so like I said this is so important so when we're developing this this is really what this is what we use um and so on just as as a refresher and for the public a a big part of our work this session was your
one of your major priorities on K3 discipline and you know the district was really a leader on that. We were looked at um to to provide data um testimony. Um some of our legislators were always
texting. They offered amendments on the floor. Unfortunately, as Chris said, with a 101 to 100 um so close, we we just couldn't get um that across. And so there was a lot of
discussion on that. And we think in the future, you know, there'll still be cons some discussion, but I think we've raised issues on why it was so important for the largest school district in the state to have this as a priority and that so many of um the the folks here,
not only the school board, but staff, the superintendent, and um we're able to kind of talk about that and to be a joint voice for that that piece of it. Um the other thing that you know we we talked a lot about and of course at the
beginning of session and this was before we had the February forecast you know looking for money on the formula because as you knew your budget uh deficit was going to be a huge issue and looking at needing more funding formula and it's
the flexibility on the formula that gives you the most flexibility when you're doing your budget. And unfortunately with the state um budget forecast that was just not going to be a priority. So our priority was making
sure that what was currently in place as an inflationary increase that was built in to the formula would stay that way. And that was talked about a lot during session and and um fortunately that did not um
did not get cut. And then of course the read act and looking at the readact and all of the implementation issues that are going along with that and discussion about that. Um we had a lot of conversations about what was needed for training and for for uh materials and
for just frankly um staff time to be able to implement this huge transformative um state initiative on the redact. Um, also looking at um, as Chris had mentioned the unemployment insurance and
while you know we said either fund it or you know what are we going to do? How are we going to pay for this? In the end it did get funded on with a special bill for the next two years. So fortunately um the impact to the district right now
will still be you know as you work through kind of all the staffing for summer but the district will be funded with UI. Um, and the last piece was paid family leave, the paid family program, which is a state program that impacts
everyone, not just school districts. And there was a lot of discussion about how um that is going to impact the district and how there could be modifications made. And in the end, there was just a very very very minor change to that um paid leave. But um for the most part, we
just wanted to make sure that you knew that your priorities are what we talk about at the capital. There's so many other things that happened in, you know, as you talk about education funding and policy and obviously we're working through all of those. And in the final
bill, you know, we there was not a lot that, you know, happened because in that special session, chapter 10, as Chris had talked about, um, in the special session, you know, the the the budget was a flat budget for this
year, and so they moved around money, but in the end, you know, we were able to at least keep the the funding formula um at the 2.74%. Now, that might not be recognized for you as you're looking at what your inflationary increases are in all of
your different areas, but from the state level, that was the 2.74%. Um, and also a big thing is the compensatory funding formula. That was changed in 2023 when um the the state
went to free um breakfast and lunches and the impact to districts on on calculating that compensatory revenue um was all over the place and for our school district it was going to to be a
reduction of almost $4.5 million. So included in this budget um will be a hold harmless as they have a task force start talking about how are we going to address this funding formula in the future. And frankly we had another
little side thing because the district also gets um compensatory pilot money and has since uh 2005. And the governor had proposed um eliminating that and that would have impacted um our district by oh gosh
4.730 million each year. And so we were able to stave that off. Um obviously that's going to be a discussion next year as the task force looks at the overall compensatory funding formula. Um, there's other reductions and I'm
sure Michelle's going to talk about that as as you start talking about your budget and some of the things that are are going to happen. the the biggest kind of impact I think going into the future because they have to look at a $420 million reduction in the next
bianium is uh special education and looking at special education as a blue ribbon task force that is charged with trying to find $250 million in reductions. And if that does not happen, it's going
to fall back on districts and and that $250 million will be coming out of um the uh cross subsidy. Thank you. Which we're always fighting for, you know, the cross subsidy anyways. And so that will
just be another reduction there. So, we're hoping that some good um conversations will help with that blue ribbon commission um which will be mostly governorappointed in in in being able to do that. Quickly on policy, there was one provision that
Senator Abler actually championed in the Senate that would allow the disposal of surplus books to donate to either a district family or to a charitable organization. And believe it or not, you guys were not able to to donate those um surplus books. And so a staff member
here did provide testimony on that issue and that made it through the finish line, which is which is good. So um hopefully that will be helpful. There were some modifications to the readact, no new funding. Um and so um with that
there's um they did some changes on talking about you know the science of reading. Um there's no more uh read act literacy aid. It's going to be compiled into just your regular literacy aid. That was usually called literacy
incentive aid and now it's literacy aid going forward. And that's going to be the expectation that any kind of readact implementation and all of the other programs that you have in literacy will just be coming from literacy aid only.
And um I think from there we're going to just go on to Chris has something just very briefly on pensions slide. Uh there was a pension bill passed uh before the end of regular session and the governor signed it on May 23rd and it kind of
helps uh three big areas. It was $78 million in total and it's uh for teachers, police and fire and state employees. And um so it increases the state funded pension adjustment
um revenue and employer contributions by 31%. So for those um who are 60 and um have reached the 30 years of service um
they can take advantage of this and an NOA Henipin uh leaders did partner with our Anoka Henipin school leaders and supported that with an important letter um of support. Um, next slide, Jim. Thank you. So, just
to recap, um, some, you know, being the biggest school district, legislators always say, what does Anoka Henipin think? And um we've really worked hard um to work in a bipartisan manner with not only all of our Anoka Henipin
legislative delegation members because we really have some key ones um but also with other um key legislators, key committee members that maybe aren't in our district but are key, you know, a chair, vice chair, and of course in the
house this year we had co-chairs. And so there were a lot of members to work with, but also leadership and the governor's office um and our our colleagues in the education advocacy world. So other kind of key um community
organizations that are at the capital. So we really had a strong presence there and many of you spent time at the capital. Um certainly uh Superintendent McIntyre was over uh several times to testify including like right away in the
Senate um and also in the House and I think we supplied a lot of that information in our update. And then as Lori mentioned, um Holly Grubner had testified on Senator Abler's bill and we also um had the Ramsy elementary
principal um Denise Schnable testified on the K3 discipline bill and along with that we had some really thoughtful letters that were submitted to to committees and they really do pay close attention um to those. So, we just
wanted to make sure um that we're accountable to you and and ever if you have suggestions for us. Um we're very open to that kind of collective discussion um to share ideas about other things we can be doing.
And and just to follow up on that, we really had daily connection with Lori and Chris during the session. So, great support from them. Um we relayed that information on to the school board and then our senior staff through weekly updates. Um our superintendent McIntyre
was able to present to AMSD kind of the Ina Henipin position. That was a preview event. I believe you were there uh Dr. Langenfeld to during that event. Um we did conduct the session preview which is a no henipin tradition kind of trying to get the legislators here before the
session. And then during the session we hosted a couple of tours which was unique. We had um uh Danny Nadau from had toured Dayton Elementary and Riverview Early Learning. I think a couple board members were there for that too. And then Senator Michael Kun had um
toured Blaine High School with Principal Pasy and Superintendent McIntyre as well. So overall um we our communication was our goal and um it felt like there was a lot of communication happening um and a lot of action happening down at
the capital. So, with that, um, this is a time just to answer any questions or any conversation the board would like to have on the session. And just a reminder that we're looking forward to February 2026 for the next legislative session. All right. Well, thank you for
presentation. Are there any thoughts or comments from board members? Director Langenfeld. First of all, thank you for the hard work always. Um just to share publicly and with the board, I was part of the days at the cap and and I know that um
could see firsthand to watch our team uh get meetings very quickly with legislators. Superintendent McIntyre were and I were able to talk with many legislators in very short order. And again, Lori, you have the paper and the
page. And you know, I know some folks were wondering how I could represent the board. We represented that document and so spoke directly to the concerns in the document. Um, specifically I think the other piece is just the opportunity to
build those relationships. Um, and clearly you can see the relationships that that um, our team down there has had and and I was privileged to be part of those. And obviously uh Senator Hoffman's a dear friend and as well and
be able to have those conversations with Senator Abler and sit in his office. Very very important. So I'm hopeful that next year um others come down to the day at the capital if your if your schedules permit. It's very important um for them
to hear from board members and they welcome it and Lori and Chris tea it up so nice that you feel like you're part of the the team at that moment even though you're not down there every day. They they tee it up just beautifully so
that you can advocate from your board perspective and they want to hear the board and community perspective. um they have the insight from the lobbyists and daytoday but to hear from superintendent but they do want to hear from board members as well. So I thank you for all
you you did this session. I know it probably wasn't quite well so many different turns and bends. Um but again we are at a place where we can continue those conversations next next year and I
think that'll be vitally important as well. So thank you Director Simon. Thank you, Zach. Uh, thank you for the presentation. Thank you for all your hard work and Jim, you your team also. Um, and I just want to recognize our our legislators who
represent part or u quite a bit of an NOA Henipin. They are very engaged with our school district. Um, I know obviously Michelle mentioned going down there. I know Corey was down there often, probably all of us, including me. um during session many texts back and
forth um about questions about what's happening where's Anoka Henipin and things like that. So just a a a really big shout out to our legislators who are very engaged and very knowledgeable about an noa henipin and that's thanks to the board um administration and your
team. So thank you very much. Can I just make a quick comment? And on that note, we do our legislators are very good about, you know, asking questions and then bringing up data on the floor to to represent our district. So, I would concur. They're very they're
super helpful. And the other thing I just wanted to say is that staff here when we you know we get a text and say hey how many say for instance how many classrooms were evacuated for K3 discipline and you know come up with the
number right there so that we can give that information or um some of the fiscal information. Michelle Vargas has always been very prompt in getting um those numbers to us so that we can convey that to give that perspective to our not only our legislators but to
other legislators because they really care about what happens knowing that in no if something is impacting no handpin it's it's impacting every school district in the state superintendent McIntyre just um I want to thank the board for having a very
strong clear understandable able platform. So when we have those conversations, it's easy to grasp. People walk away from those conversations understanding what what you are all in agreement on and it's focused. Um we didn't get everything we
wanted, but I do think there was lots of success in getting our issues on the table and a high level of awareness. So we're building as we move into next session, which should be a policy session. I think we laid some really strong arguments for some changes that need to to come. So, um, it's a tough
financial climate clearly and we we avoided some it could have been a lot worse. I'm just saying comped and some other things were on the table that would have really really uh added to our deficit. So, we were able to push on some things and continue to work on some things and being able to go and tell our
stories what it really looks like in our district um was was really important and I agree with uh Director Simon. you know, we we get a lot of requests kind of just in time for information, which means they trust us. They trust us with the information that they can bring forward into those um those moments. So,
I think uh we made it we had an impact. We were able to really lay out the realities of things and and that's something we can build on for next year. Director Wangfeld, just didn't want to lose sight of Thank
you, Jim, for uh providing the updates to us. there's a lot to sift through um to make it just, you know, bite-sized nuggets for us to to take away. So, I appreciate because I get all of it from AMSD and all of them and yours was
always the easiest to digest quickly. So, I appreciate that. Thank you guys very much for the presentation and just the updates. Um I have two questions. So you had mentioned you had discussed this idea of you know the K3 discipline act and then the
classroom evacuations. Did any of the legislator legislators um that you talked to about that act have anything to say about the classroom evacuations? Like what was their take on that? Cuz that to me that seems pretty extreme that that occurs and I just want to know what their
reaction was. And yes it it it was extreme. And so not only our legislators but other legis legislators that are working on have been working on this issue. There's you know kind of two sides to the issue and
wanting to know more and how why is that occurring and um and I think that um there's just a lot of continued conversations I think that will happen. I mean this is a kind this is a an issue
that's been embedded for a long over many years and so when um I think that you know looking at now the legislation happened now what is the impact and how does that impact the schools and how does it impact staff I think that's the
story that we tell and I think they're they just want to understand that from both sides both perspectives and it's not just our legislative delegation it's other folks that have been working on this. I was just going to add on to that. Um I
think often times it takes several years to to pass something to pass legislation. And I think because this was just put in place um four years or so ago. And so some of those authors
that put it in place are still in office. And so, um, they have strong feelings in why it was put in place and, um, how students are reflected in some of that data and, um, and so that is
partly where, um, kind of run in run up into the wall a bit. Um, but I think we did make headway. I also think that there is some interpretation differences that we hear. um from legislative
lawyers versus our lawyers versus the principles. I mean, our lawyer and the principal's lawyer are on the same page, but there's some um kind of confusion when you read the different parts of the statute and put them all together that
we need to keep working on. Mhm. So, um, you mentioned a comment about how they're concerned about the different students that this law affects or maybe would affect if it were removed. What What are they referring to there? I guess what are you referring to there? Well, I think when um, Mr. chair,
when when the law was first put in place, um the house author was from Minneapolis and I think the data showed that the number of students that are suspended or expelled are predominantly
students of color. So last work session, Director Langfeld, we discussed this and I made the claim that this law or this rule was motivated by equity. You said you didn't seem to agree with that. There you have it from our lobbying team
themselves. So, Superintendent McIntyre. Yeah, I'll just add I think I think we're really close to getting this changed. Um the the real issue here is time and planning. So, when bad things happen, our teams with parents need time to come together and
plan. And when you can't do that, it it it it's a real problem because everyone comes back the next day and it's not not resolved. So I think we got through the issue of safety. We got through the need for time, need the need to be able to involve parents in that and we need we
need time. Not not every parent can just come as fast as we need them to. So I think we got the practical impact message across and I want to commend principal Schnobble for for telling what that looks like dayto-day in our buildings. Um, a number a number of
others from across the state did the same. But, um, we we we had the ears of our legislators and and they were really listening. Um, I agree. At one moment, I thought this this was going to work. Uh, so we I think we're close. We just got to continue to really tell those
stories, use the data that really explain their impact and realities of the day-to-day functioning of our buildings so we can keep everyone safe. So, I'm optimistic that I just add in one other thing. As Lori said, bills were slim because the more controversial the measure, they weren't going to take
time to try to sort that out. And in the House where it was, you know, half Dems, half Republicans, things that were controversial um fell off the table. So, I think, you know, Superintendent is right that we made a lot of progress. You asked me a question about four years ago and why it
was implemented. That was one of the reasons. I mean, I can't rehash like every single argument that was made back then in terms of why it was put in place, but we could go back and do a little research for you if you are interested in that. Um, but I think
legislators come to the table with a lot of different opinions and beliefs and positions that they have. So, it's hard to just summarize it in one tiny capsule. Well, it sounds like we had their ears, but we did not have their votes. Not one of them chose to break ranks to repeal
it or modify it, which is what we requested. So my second question, um, this maybe this is better for the finance agenda item, but it makes just as much sense here. What, and maybe this is more for the superintendent. What are
what is the district's total shortfall now with now that everything's been passed for our budget? What's our total short shortfall for the next year? Um Michelle will verify this for me. So I reserve the right to be a little off, but I think we actually came out a little shy of a million dollars to the
good on this. So we were I think if my memory is we were about 16.7 was our projected shortfall and I think at the last board meeting she showed you all five 15.6. So um about a million dollars. Now, we
were at risk of losing nearly $5 million or at least four million in compensatory added another five in the compet pilot. So, we were getting I think at one point we added up some things. They all went the wrong way. This was another 20 million added onto our target. So, half of our efforts were just avoiding those
additional cuts, at least in the short term. I know the comped um that that task force is going to look at that and we got one year to figure it out. Um I will give Michelle Vargas a ton of credit. Um she was constantly reaching out to MDE and others who had listened
about here's the impact of the different formula um calculation options. Um I've also I don't know if I'll land this or not, but I've asked to be on the blue ribbon commission on special ed. We this is an opportunity to get some things changed in our state around um
um some regulations that exceed the federal law. I think we we could turn into savings. U we'll see. I know it's an appointment process, so I've at least made it clear I'd like to serve on that. Um I think the other thing that gets a little glossed over, but if it's not addressed even more in the near future,
the issue of pensions is a very serious financial end of this state. I think for if nothing were to change in our district, I think the calculation was $120 million that um will really hit us hard between now and 2034. So this was a step in the right direction. A lot more
has to be done though because the state simply can't afford the the way the system's set up now. So I think you're going to hear more about that from a policy perspective in the next session. And you know we got some adjustments that were minor but meaningful for us on the read act. We will spend all of our
money that we get. So I know there are some questions on whether our adoption would could be qualified even if it wasn't. We we have more costs than money coming uh for materials and or training. Um, but the LA I think right at the end there there was some adjustments that give us this gives us even more flexibility which was a was a good
thing. So we we kept on that. We kept on that. I know. Thank you Lori and Chris for continuing that message on needed flexibility so districts can pick what they think is best for them. And I think that uh at the finish line got through.
Um and we were lucky to keep the um the notion of the the regular aid, you know, the 2.74 um that was on the table to come off that would have made our our target even deeper. Um so I know right now they're
that CPI index and we at least hope to have that for another year and then it'll get it's going to continue to be discussed, right? Um but that that is hugely important to us. Um so those probably were the high level things. There's lots of you and we'll follow up with continued. There was other policy minor policy things that happen every
session that we're still unpacking. We we had a two-hour meeting today with MSBA and MDE and others just to get realities around all those changes now that they're done. I'll stop there. Lots to talk about. Yeah. Director Simon. Thanks, Zach. Um
I'm just going to go back to the quick discussion about the K through3 discipline. Um, you know, it sounds like there's some optimism for the future, but we we don't control the legislature, so we can have as much optimism as we want. We have no idea what's going to happen.
So, I think what's important for the public to know and the board to remember is that Anoka Henipin is taking steps to address that in Noah Henipin for K through3 legislation. We're not going to live on a hope that the legislature will fix that in the future. And that's I won't that's not on a agenda tonight so
I won't go into the details but um we've talked about that at previous meetings and I know we'll talk about that at um at additional meetings in the future. So just wanted to mention that. Thank you to add to that quick followup. I do agree we're doing everything we can. I
do still think it's worthwhile to just point out to the public that we are facing twin crises right now in the district and many districts are I believe as a result of the actions of the state. The number one is we are over $15 million short. That is entirely the state's doing. They could have funded
us. They chose not to. And then the second thing is we're evacuating entire classrooms because one or two students act up. Again, direct result of laws that the state has passed. Obviously, we're going to do everything we can, but
I don't think um the public it's I don't think those dots are connected as much as I would like to believe they are. And I just want to go ahead and point that out and just draw the public's attention to that because, you know, of all the things that people pay very little attention to,
schoolboard politics is one of them. And these are really important issues that are impacting us. I just wish people had a better understanding of. Any other thoughts or comments from board members? All right, hearing none. Well, thank you very much for the presentation.
Um, next we have community education with item 10A, the 2024 population certification resolution. For approval tonight, welcome Michelle Trellstad, executive director of community education. Good evening. um co-chairs Arco and
Deshaine, Superintendent McIntyre and the board. Um every year we work with the state demographers's office to get an updated um population estimate for the district. The reason that we do this is because community education revenue several of our programs um use that
number for how much money we get for all of our community education programs. So if that um census and if that number increases, we absolutely want to capture that extra money. Um so our population um this year has increased by 253
making our new population estimate um 255,645 this year. And so I am here just to request board approval for this new estimate to be certified um to the state demographer for the use in our revenue calculations for community education.
All right. Well, thank you very much board members. Are there any questions for our presenter? All right. If not, members before us is the 2024 population certification resolution for approval as presented in appendix O. Hearing no request for discussion, the clerk will call the
role, please. Simon votes I. Hman I. Audet. Langenfeld. I. Desaine I. Arco I. With six in favor and zero opposed, the resolution in appendix O is adopted. Thank you, Miss Charleston. Thank you very much.
Next up, we have elementary and secondary education with item 11A, the non-transported walk boundaries update. Welcome, Greg Cole, chief operations officer, and Michelle Trollstad, executive director of community education. Good evening. Uh, if I could make one quick comment first. Sure. Um,
so I just want to apologize. I I actually failed to see that it was added kind of at the last minute to the consent agenda last work session. I did actually intend to bring up all of the concerns that community members brought up. That was totally my error. I apologize and I'm glad that we can have
this opportunity to discuss these concerns because some very serious concerns were brought up. So with that, sure, the floor is yours. Sure. Co-chair Arco and Cochair Duchain, Superintendent McIntyre. Um I'm just here as a followup to um respond to
questions that came from board members uh after the last board meeting and the approval of the uh non-transported walk boundary. Uh just a review uh came to the board with uh transportation director BJ Eisen for the first time to review this on April 14th. That's an
annual review that we do. Sometimes it um it it wouldn't come to the board when we review it annually if we are not recommending any changes. Um this time we we did have changes that we wanted to recommend. Um so that was the first presentation and read. Um took an
opportunity to get feedback from board members. Um and then after that, uh had uh two transportation safety committee meetings, also reached out to the public. Um brought brought all of that information back to the board meeting, uh at the May 19th, uh meeting, and then
requested approval on consent at the at the June 9th meeting. So, apologize for any miscommunications on that. Um so, I wanted to come tonight. I think there were two topics that I understand were additional concerns. Obviously, there may be additional ones to that. Um, one
has to do with, so we had a number of schools that we made recommendations to change the boundaries for, non-transported walk boundaries to bring them into alignment with the rest of the school district. Um, I think uh the first specific concern, well, both these concerns I think are related to Sunrise
Elementary School. One has to do with uh Lever Street, which runs north south. It's a 35 mph zone except there's a school zone uh in there and uh concerns it would with regard to students walking across that street. In working with the city of Blaine, they have assured us
they will be installing a crosswalk across Lever Street and then we will have a crossing guard um which would be in alignment with how we um provide safety to walkers at all of our other elementary schools in the school district. And then I believe the other
concern had to do with uh enrollment for A+ for child care. Uh I think there were some people who expressed concerns about not having enough time to sign up for that and missing out on the opportunity for that uh specifically at Sunrise. And
um I asked Michelle to join me because she oversees uh that program. So I'll let her kind of talk about the issues there. So, um, at Sunrise Elementary School and in a lot of our schools, but especially, um, our larger schools and our and our,
um, schools in the newer areas, we have a really difficult time getting enough staff to staff our Adventures Plus program. We have over 300 kids on a wait list right now. Um, and that is just because we've we've increased wages. We've done everything we've can. We've worked with outside hiring agencies. And
it's not just Anoka Henipin. It is the entire state that really has trouble filling these roles. And so I just wanted to start with that knowing that that's why we're not making the Adventures Plus program bigger at Sunrise, it's due to lack of lack of ability to hire any more staff. That
being said, the Sunrise program um this year, as much as we would like to have more children be able to enroll, it is capped. And in this instance, as in with many of our schools, it's actually capped even before new students. So it's capped with current students. So, our
current families get to register first and then we take any students who haven't been in the program yet. And so, it was capped before it was even open to any new students. So, um while, like I said, it is unfortunate that we aren't able to add any students that are now walking instead of taking a bus, it
would have been capped regardless before that, um before that decision was considered. And then before I open it up to comments or questions, I'll just reiterate that we do not take these recommendations lightly. They're always difficult. Um I
mean, no one no one wants to take away transportation. Um it's it's they're just challenging circumstances and situations. So we absolutely understand concerns that parents and families have. So with that, I would take any comments or questions from board members.
Well, thank you very much. I will have several. If anybody has any, please chime in. Um so let's start with the A+. Um it sounds like it was kind of full upon opening because the current enrollment the currently enrolled students just get first choice. Correct.
So theoretically then there was I guess no chance that any new students correct. Not your fault. Very frustrating. Still I would if I were a parent I would feel a little cheated. Again nobody's fault. So I I guess my question is why is it
that it's so hard to hire for that particular position? Is there some impediment that makes nobody want the job or There's you know there's really several reasons. Um a lot of times it's a split shift. And so if you want full-time work, we don't do ch child care all day. And so you're looking at
us 6:00 a.m. until school start time and then coming back again in the afternoon if you want your full eight hours. So that can be difficult. um it is a lower paying job although we are very competitive and have worked really hard um with HR over the last several years
to get those those rates up. In addition that um state of Minnesota um also we have a grant um from back when the COVID days that pays these um staff additional dollars. Um so it's it's really hard to say. We've we've just really struggled. Um the whole state struggles and I think
it's just a lack of a lack of bodies honestly. I think it's just really um hard to find those additional employees. So it to me at least if I were thinking of finding a job if let's say I didn't have a job a split shift employment is
very strange if you're going to work beginning of day end of day has there ever been any consideration in making like a dual role for that like having something for that employee to do in the middle of the day that isn't necessarily a plus but then that way they can have like a full-time employment. We do that
and in fact that's something that we really worked hard at. Um we're right now we're doing a pilot with um child nutrition for that exact same thing. We tried to we used to not be able to hire um staff that were paras because it would go into overtime and we've adjusted um and figured all that out
with HR. So we've done that. Um we are also looking at doing other um pairing with other you know other situations but the child nutrition and the paras are usually the biggest um the biggest one and we are doing that just recently though still sounds like
the struggle still remains even with it. Okay. Yep. Um so two other things being brought up or just I just want to mention of all the emails and comments that came in. So you'd mentioned that a crosswalk is going to be added. Yes. Um
there was a I had talked to a state trooper who had he's seen the area and he was saying that he still saw a lot of people speed there. Um he had recommended that one of those yellow school zone signs be put in as well as a possible deterrent or just to make people aware that you got to slow down.
Do you know if the city of Blaine or whoever has any plans to do anything like that? If not, is that something we can convince them to do? And then I guess the followup is what level of confidence do you have in whatever measures are taken that we can actually
make sure like bring the speed of cars down to I guess the speed limit as weird as that is to say out loud. Um do you think all the measures we're put we're putting in place are going to keep that road safe because it is this will sound weird. This is just like a feel I have I've been down in that
area. It feels like it isn't but it feels like it should be like a 45 mph road. It's just maybe it's the width of it or something. I don't know. So, not saying people should speed, of course. I But that's where my concern is coming in is do you think all the safety concerns or do you think all the safety measures
we're taking will actually control that? I do. Uh Blaine's all of our municipalities are great to work with. Um we because of the size of Blaine, I'd say we work with Blaine maybe um more than any other uh in the in the
district. um and they've been very accommodating to our requests with regard to signage and ways in which to keep you know the the roads around our school safe. Um it's true for others as well. Uh another option uh that we can
pursue and do pursue with some of some schools where we seem to have some more concerns or the safe routes to school grants to kind of beef up some of those crosswalks. But I don't we don't need that uh grant to to make that safe. will also, like I said, have crossing guards
there. Um, that's another method that we use to, in fact, that's a pretty significant kind of intervention when you get people there um controlling what's going on with regard to traffic and students and so forth. Um, I I will say just to acknowledge what you're
talking about, we have other roadways like that in the district that feel that way. It's um well I thinking back to to Dayton Elementary School the speed limit is actually higher there a little bit but it feels like right that the people
are going faster than that. So I I do recognize what you're saying about that because it it happens there's there's others elementaryaries in particular where we have a similar dynamic. And then I guess my last question. So a number of people brought up because there's a like a onem radius that we use
and there's a certain software we use to determine that. Like I think somebody even said they were 1.01 miles Yes. outside which is again particularly frustrating if you're in that position. Can you speak to that? Is there anything that we can do to accommodate that or is it just I I've
had a discussion with you. Is it just a a function of how that neighborhood was designed? Like what's the issue there? Yeah. I think it's uh it's a function of aesthetics. So many of those uh and this isn't just unique to Blaine, it's a lot of new developments where you get windy
roads that end in a culde-sac. Um many of it just turned out many of those culde-sacs nearby um there are a small handful of homes that are maybe 0.01.02 something to that effect uh distance away. and uh we would have to drive a
bus through the entire neighborhood uh just to pick up a student or two that's just slightly beyond that. And so uh we feel the spirit of the the policy is such that that's that's not enough of a distance um to kind of change that for
just a handful of homes. If it were significantly different, I think that'd be a a different story. Um, and then I I mentioned that, you know, if we need to adjust policy language to specifically state that in in more explicit terms and maybe that's something we need to do and
that would be working with the school board on that. Director Simon, thanks Zach. Uh, thanks for the presentation. Um, I'll I'll stick with the road first and then I'll go to A+. So, um, I was involved with one of the one of the dangerous roads
outside of Rapids High School, right? High school maybe is a little different, right? Because you have students going all hours of the day and evening with activities crossing there, but um, we had to um, we had to partner not only with the city of Rapids,
also with the uh, Anoka County because they both owned part of the road or something along those legal thing. And um what we were able to do was really effective. So we I think we narrowed the road a little bit. We had um a crosswalk
with flashing lights. Um and it it's been very effective. So is that what you're doing on this road? Is it going to be similar to that? Uh I wouldn't say it's similar to Rapids High School exactly in terms of the infrastructure that's there, but there will be signage.
There will be a crosswalk. There will be cross flashing light signage. I we I don't think there will be flashing lights. The cities don't do that at all. The city the cities don't do that at all. That's a county thing. No, I'm saying that would be above and beyond. So, that would be something we would have to partner with the city on and and
pursue in the future if if we determine that. We don't that's not a regular um crosswatch crosswalk feature um at all of our So, at Rap High School, that was a partnership with the district and the Yes, there were three three partners in
that. Okay. and and that just for the public that that roadway splits the campus in half. So literally every period we have students walking across the street for via different things. So it's it's kind of a unique very unique circumstance. It's it's unique and and
Sunrise is unique as an elementary school, right? So I mean maybe there's uniqueness with all of that. So I I'm just an advocate for I don't think we can do enough to ensure elementary and all students, but at in this case, elementary student safety. So I at least
I would be an advocate to say let's explore those things. Yes. Um maybe you are, but even if it takes an Noah Henipin partnership, I'm for that. Um and maybe it sounds like they're not going to narrow the street. I think that
is very effective to help speed um you know who knows if the city can do that or not but at least this one board member would like to would ask other board members if you're interested in exploring that and ask our transportation too. Um and then I'm going to jump over to A+ just with a
couple questions. So at at that location is it is it only um lack of employees that we can hire or is it space and size also? Lack of employees. Just lack of employees. So when you have a school um that that when you open A+ there's no
space right because like in this case um all existing fill up the space that we have does that school get some type of priority for if we're able to hire someone new they're going to go there and we're going to expand like do we have a set or maybe the board needs to
think about a policy that we help prioritize schools that are full and we can't even give any opportunities to new parents. We do um yeah, we do prioritize the schools that that are are full. There's there's a lot more to where we need
staffing though. Um a lot of times we need staffing because we need to serve a a student with special needs and that person's been on the wait list and so that that if if that person has been on the wait list, you know, for a certain amount of time, we have to hire someone and serve that student first before we
can go on. So there's a lot more to it than just space, but there are other schools that do have openings. cuz I mean there, you know, we're not full everywhere as far as space goes. Um, but our bigger schools and our, like I said, the newer schools are packed because we have lots and lots of families of young
children out there. Yeah. Packed without working as that team is working as hard as they can. We even hired community ed last year, hired our own outreach person um to help us attract staff and it's helped. It's helped, you know, a lot, but it's still it's still difficult.
So, um, it I'm hoping that this meeting isn't just the end of the discussion at Sunrise for A+ like we're still continuing to try to hire. Are we? And if we can and we can expand seats, we'll let that community know. Absolutely. Okay. So, that it's not ne right now.
It's where it's at for next year, but that could change and the community will know if it does. Is that fair? Yes. And I I'll have to say though, our wait list, we're not even taking a wait list anymore because there's so many already on the wait list for Sunrise. And so there's not even a wait list for for
this next year out there for Sunrise. Got it. So it would only impact if something could happen, it would only impact the people currently on the wait list. Correct. Okay. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. Um I have a follow-up thought. So if there's that many people on the wait
list and we can't even take anymore, um I Okay. Okay. I don't know the exact mechanism of funding for it, but is it possible to just offer more money for the position or like what's preventing us from doing that? Is it possible for us to charge for students that go to it
in order to raise funding for it? Like are there any other avenues like that that could help? Adventures Plus is 100% family funded, so there is no funding that goes into it. And so the families pay those fees. Um, and we're about, you know, we're we're we're priced well. Um
but we're not low um according to you know the schools in our area. So there's really no funding like community ed can't contribute funding to it um it's fully fully family funded. So again, just a thought I have. If if
we have this many people that want to pay for it and want to you use that resource could like it sounds silly, but there's always a like you could raise the dollars per hour for who's ever working. At some point you're going to have people flooding in to take the position. We offered them. We're never going to do this. Of course, a million
dollars an hour. Everyone in the United States would be applying for the job. So, is there not some I don't know some threshold we could reach that would make the position more appealing to just draw in employees or is this I'm assuming you've probably considered all this. We have actually the last three years, three, four, five years actually that
those positions have increased in pay substantially and so we've we've worked on that. You have to remember also that there's many layers to those positions and so you know you you start bumping up the bottom and you bump all the way up and pretty soon it gets to be not affordable for any family to do. And so,
um, I feel like we've done a great job with HR continually looking at how do we encourage, how do we offer incentives, how do we, you know, get get people to just come take a look. And it's it's like I said, it's a struggle across the whole state right now.
Well, I appreciate the input. So, here are my kind of concluding thoughts. Um the history of Sunrise, one of the newer elementaryaries in the district, has been rocky just because of at one point they ran out of space. Nobody's fault. Again, my understanding is like a sad
farm in the area had sold and then houses were built. So it was just kind of an unexpected population rise. So that was a point of great frustration a number of years ago. Um and then now although this is true of any district of of any school, we have a situation where we're just now introducing the bus route
changes. Now, to be fair, um, every school has a walking radius. That's going to be true of Sunrise as much as it is any school. So, that does need to happen and I'm obviously in support of that. Um, but just given kind of the history of Sunrise and some of the challenges it's facing. If board members
were interested, I'm not going to make a motion for anything. But, Director Simon, you had said you hope you'd hope to see maybe some of these items looked into. I would very much love to hear like an update on this maybe at at another board meeting before the school year starts if there's interest other
just on some of the stuff because otherwise all of it's just going to it's talked about but then that'll kind of be the end of it for this year if that makes sense. So if if there is any interest I certainly am interested. So what do you think? Can I just um propose
uh we do we typically will bring to you a safety report safety and security and then we also do a facilities update. So there's really the facilities update is usually after school begins. So just awareness there but I mean we we those are two things that we do annually. So
those could be opportunities uh to bring you an update on those that are already uh you know typically in the in the cycle. Our safety and security updates usually the August work session. So it's August 11th I think is you know would it be we
have a July board meeting the next meeting. So that's an opportunity. I think it's appropriate for that topic. I mean I would very much appreciate that. So sure. Seems like there's general support for it. So, well, are there any director Langfeld?
I know that um some of the A+ uh folks that are working there are college students and I'm just thinking the proximity at Dayton where we recently toured obviously is close to uh some community college opportunities.
Um but I'm wondering I I would assume we're advertising on college campuses. We're there all the time. Okay, that's good. But I just just I'm sure because they're closer to that's been a benefit of we've we've had a person in our Adventures Plus program that's already done that's done her own outreach and
and we have we have two staff people that are just in charge of staffing and outreach just in Adventures Plus. And now in community education, we've added our own person also and he's at the college fairs, he's out at the colleges. He has great relationships with all those people and it is and it and it is
a great job for college kids. Um especially, you know, you can go to work in the morning, go to class, and come back. Um and vice versa. And so, um the problem with college kids is they aren't college kids very long. So, true, we have a we have a a turnover. And sometimes they they decide to stick with
us and make a career out of it. So, that's that's great, too. And the other place that we're really trying to um target right now are are seniors and retired folks because they're up early a lot of times and and some of them really like to have just two and three hours, you know, with with our kids. And so
that's been another spot that we're trying really hard to recruit from. They go into lot lots of pickle ball courts these days. Superintendent, I'll take another chance at the plug here for our hiring event July 24th at the ESC. Um
those jobs I would hope are, I believe, are posted always. Always. Yep. So um just another shameless plug to encourage people to take a look at those openings. Yep. All right. All right. Well, are there any other thoughts or comments from board members? Well, thank you very much for the
presentation and again, I apologize to the public for not bringing this up at the last board meeting. So, thank you very much. Thank you. Um, so the ne next we have item 11B, the long-term facility maintenance LTFM tenure plan for approval tonight. Welcome Greg Cole
again, chief operations officer Ben Martinson, director of buildings and grounds. Good evening, uh, co-chair Arco and Dashaine, Superintendent McIntyre, members of the board. Um, as Chair Arco mentioned, I'm joined by Ben Martinson,
director of buildings and grounds. Uh, we are, uh, seeking your approval tonight on a second read of our 10-year uh, 2027 uh, LTFM plan. Um, so we're just going to review that with you uh, tonight. Um you have a number of
documents uh with this. You have a board briefing with this presentation as well as the documents that we are required to provide to the department of education. Those are labeled the fiscal year 27 LTFM tenure plan approval packet.
Um and in that packet uh just a an uh for your awareness um that's that's listed by project type. You can also look at individual buildings if you have any curiosity about uh plans for the next 10 years. This is just for LTFM
funding which again is uh related to repairs and replacements of existing infrastructure. Um so with that, what is LTFM? that long-term facilities maintenance is a revenue program supported by the
Minnesota Department of Education for the purpose of allowing school districts to address deferred capital expenditures and maintenance projects necessary to prevent further erosion of our facilities. Um, how is this funded? Long-term
facilities maint maintenance is funded statewide on a $380 per pupil allocation generated by levy and general fund aid. How does the Ina Henipin School District qualify for this? In order to qualify
for LTFM revenue, a district must develop a 10-year facilities plan and submit that plan to the commissioner of education. It must be updated and approved by the school board annually. LTFM maintenance may only be used for deferred maintenance projects for
increasing facility accessibility and for health and safety purposes. And they may not be used on leased facilities, which thankfully we are almost out of uh districtwide. And then how do we determine projects? Um please know that the plan that you
have before you is a placeholder. Um, as as you've heard uh tonight and at other board meetings, uh, we get surprises. We we get things that occur that um, we maybe didn't uh know about. It's sort of like taking your car to the mechanic and
you get a call with some surprises. Um, those things happen with facilities as well. Uh, but most of the things we know about, we know the condition of, we can plan for, but that would be a reason why something might move. So, for example, a school may may know that they're on the
docket to have um a significant HVAC upgrade say in 2028. 2028 comes along, we might have to bump that to 2029 because of some other things that we had to attend to. Um so that that's one way that projects are
determined is by urgency. Schoolboard priorities um drive uh our priorities. buildings and grounds department collaborative process. Um what that process is is working with our building leaders um collaboratively to try to
identify what the biggest needs are. Our our facilities condition index um which was done about six years ago provides us with a kind of a district-wide look at the condition of all of our uh assets
and then uh input from individual school sites. Um, so it's not just administrative teams, we'll get input from other entities as well, um, and the public. Um, so with that, I'll turn it over to Ben Martinson, who's going to get into the details of of this plan.
Uh, thank you, Greg, and good evening, co-chairs Arco, Deshaane, members of the board, Superintendent McIntyre. So, if you're looking at a summary of our fiscal year 27 LTFM, uh, here's a broad breakdown of by major category for this year and where all the money is going. Um, as you can see, the big ones are
mechanical systems, and that's our continued commitment to districtwide dehumidification and replacing the old like unit vents for more modern displacement units. Uh, health and safety safety is another big driver as well as sights and grounds. And this is our parking lots, asphalt repair, replacement, and some curbing, of
course, professional services, and salaries is one of the big ones there. Go to the next slide. This is kind of our proposed major project list. You can see again that commitment to uh dehumidification with Eisenhower. um Andover, Sanberg and Madison all going
within their phase projects of their humid dehumidification projects. Also the final phase of Dayton Elementary for the safety and security which was a board-driven initiative. Um and lastly uh was some pools. So Anoka Middle
School and Northale Middle School. Those are kind of the main ones that we're attacking within this year's fiscal uh compete capabilities. So, based on the priorities identified in the project scheduling process reviewed, uh the next step is to seek your approval for this 10-year plan this
evening. Um and with that, we take any questions or comments from the school board. Any questions or comments from board members? Director Simon. Thanks, Zach. Um thank you for the quick presentation. That was really conducted. I appreciate
that. So, let's talk pools a little bit. So, we heard a lot about pools tonight, right? and we've been talking about that for quite a while. So, um, a lot of the public comments tonight, it almost seemed like there's a perception out there that we're getting rid of swimming and diving. We are we're not
getting rid of swimming and diving. Correct. I mean, we are definitely that is not part of a schoolboard priority that I missed. That was not a recommendation. So, just we we brought to the board an update on pools at the last board meeting and I think we've over the last year we've probably
brought at least three different updates, maybe four. Um, and the reason for that um was kind of combined with the this 10-year plan. And then also we've just learned new information where we had to make sure that you were aware
of the fact that an original estimate of the costs of Northdale and Fred Moore's pools was about 3 to four million more than the last time that we met and we felt last work session that was brought in. Yes. Okay. Yeah. I was felt it was important to bring that to the board for
awareness. Um and I mean that's just a it's a reality that we're going to have to address somehow some way. So Okay. um kind of took away from that meeting um some homework on our part to really try to explore any and every option um to
see how we can address some of those needs and and and bring that back to you at some point. But as you can see, we have you know we we do have pools on our LTFM plan. Could you go back to that slide quick? Yeah. Itemize slide real
quick. All right. Well, um Okay. Thank you for that. Yeah. And I I I wasn't here in person. I did watch that. So, I just wanted to make sure um the board has not talked about or I think will not get rid
of swimming and diving. I would assume I definitely am not um for that. I won't speak for all the board members. So the money you have out there for a NOA Fredmore campus pool at 1.9 and the Northdale at 500 for um 27
um do you need to increase that or is that what you need for that time to make sure these are still functional pools during this time frame? So we would probably start work prior to 2027. Yeah, I would. Um, we need to do a phased
approach to that because you can only do so much work in some of these spaces without shutting it down for a long period of time and possibly compromising a swim season. So that's why you phase the projects. Yes. As well as we only get so much money in LTFM each year.
Now, as you know, that's only one funding source. We usually do any project with multiple funding sources. Um that's that's just the nature of school um finance and construction. Um but uh anytime you have a project um
using LTF M funds that exceeds $2 million in any given fiscal year, you have to go through a review and comment process, which is a pretty significant process. Doesn't mean we can't do it, but we also have many other needs across the school district that are significant
needs. um and and ones that that's kind of why we brought that to you to just make that aware that we're you know potentially facing some really tough decisions on you know what we're going to invest in right so so I'm going to give my recap of where I think we are
and you correct me if I'm wrong so what you have in the LTFM will keep these two pools operational for next school year and the school year after that possibly. Yes. And then you
will need Okay. So that's correct. Structurally and mechanically. Yes. Yep. So kids will be swimming in them if that Yes. That's what would happen if we repair them. Yes. And then for the future it's going to cost more and that will come back to the board and the board needs to figure that part out.
That's what you said it. More than you thought it would. Well, these two facilities are going to cost more than we thought. Yes. Yeah. And but that work needs to be done, you know, in a phased approach all together. We can't just put some of it on. These are becoming urgent. And I'm going to let Ben chime
in if I'm saying anything that he thinks isn't really accurate. But well, we're doing some work this summer and we're continuing to do more investigative work on both pools. The problem is the more we look, the more we find. So that's where that money that dollar threshold is getting pushed up. Um and some of it
we can't pick apart. Like we would not redo redo the mechanical without redoing the roof where the mechanical sits, right? Um, we found out that there's some structural issues. I mean, it's not failed, but it's end of life and it's like we can't replace the roof without replacing the the sidewalls. So, just
there's just like how far do you want to go down the rabbit hole to replace and repair this when there's maybe some other options that we're continuing to look into and we'll bring back with recommendations. But that's just where we just again want to make an awareness that it's getting worse. It's not getting better. And you know again not
advocating for anything but just where do we how do we just manage this with everything else we have within our systems. Got it. So I'm going to I'm going to um revise my comments. So you will so these pools are going to work for next year and then you are going to
bring back a plan for the board to consider or plans options on how we continue these programs and where and how. Is that fair? Yeah. I I unless we get a different direction. No. Yep. I'm not speaking for
the We just wanted to that we were transparent about the condition and what we're facing with with the pools because the the information has changed in the last couple of months in terms of what we're discovering and that'll be up to the board to decide. Yes. Thank you. Thanks. Absolutely. Superintendent M.
Yeah. Just to expand on that just a bit more. We talked about this at the last work session too. the the phase three timing of budget reductions when you think programs, not not facilities, but just programs. So, um that's a November decision for the 26 27 school year. You
made that decision last November for this coming school year. So, you we'll we'll be starting that process this summer into the fall for the the phase three timeline that we talked about last meeting. Uh, Director Hulkman, thank you. Um,
yeah, I'm just trying to get my head around um all the demands and the concern that we have to ensure that the pools are going to be there for our kids so that they can enjoy their swimming opportunities and all the great things that we heard u commented on earlier
today is you mentioned how the LTFM um sometimes gets reorganized and according to priority. Do we need to rep prioritize this to put some more money behind the pools at this time compared to the amount currently listed?
Well, again, so phasing it is important um for two reasons. One is the access, but the second is review and comment and then I guess I should say three, the projects. We have a lot of I mean there's a number of things parking lots, right? Uh we have annual that we just
have a lot of parking lot space that constantly requires upgrading. Um we have roof systems. We have tennis courts at uh middle and high schools that those are pieces that we're going to have to bring to you because those are pretty significant costs. Same sort of a
dynamic. We have a lot of students using those during the day and and in extracurriculars. So there's a lot of competing demands. That's the I think the tricky thing. and they're all great for kids. That's the So, we're trying to figure that out as best we can with the
funding that we receive. I don't know if I answered your question. You certainly so many demands, so many things that need attention. I'm well aware that we have high schools that need gym floors replaced. I mean, there's there's so many things. Um I just don't want us to
be stuck in a situation since we do have so much pressure on these two pools. both of them are used by two school teams. We have to ensure that we're keeping them in the right place so that we have them available for the teams that need
them. So, um just want to make certain that we're staying on top of this and providing those opportunities for students. That's our plan. Director, yeah, I'd just like to build on what Director Hookman said. Um because
earlier this year the decision was made to close the opio pool which I did not support and I I in part part of the reason why it was determined that could happen was because we had these other pools and we made what we said we were going to do was what we're doing which
was invest in them. And um it's somewhat the nature of facilities. You guys know it better than anybody that as you say sometimes you dig into something. It takes more money to uh you know bring it up to the standard it needs to. We experience it in our own homes and it's
tough but it just comes back to the same thing that all of our budget problems come back to which is prioritization. It's priority and we can prioritize one thing over another and we can make these things work. So, it's part of the reason
that I have spoken before about the need to look at our budget in a different way so that we can have an opportunity to prioritize things and this would be one that for me um definitely a priority any of the pools. So, thanks
Director Wangfeld. I I appreciate the clarification about not eliminating the program because I think it is a vital program to part of our student experience just as each of our our young people testified their own experience and I actually was a
competitive AEU swimmer. Um that being said, more importantly, anytime there would be a program decision is something much bigger for us as a board to to address. And so I I don't I know we haven't talked about eliminating a
program and with a that's a different conversation. Um as far as the budget, if I heard you accurately and I know we talked about this briefly in my head and I think you referenced it. You're looking into other areas and options as well in terms of resource and support
and you know just clarity around maybe there are some better better ways to address this. And so that that would be something that I know that um we'd all be very interested in hearing as well. Um just because as we as we look forward
creative innovative ways to ensure what we can do the very best with is very much appreciated and and having juggled a lot of resource myself and back in the day um looking at priorities. Um anytime
you remove a program you've lost it and I just really am that would be the last thing I would really want to see happen. So yeah, I think um I don't know if it was a current high school student
swimmer or a graduate who mentioned um the challenge on the Anoka County side to access to pools. That's that is one of our challenges. Our pools are the pools, the competitive ones to to there's there's pools, but it's a whole different matter to have one that is
large enough to hold a multi-team event. And really on on this side, anything close is truly Anoka Middle School and and uh Northdale Middle School that that have that kind of size. So that's our challenge. Um you know, as you're aware,
for example, with hockey, um we don't own hockey rinks. Um they largely because they're super expensive. So we are able to use lease levy dollars. So, if there were a facility on the in Noa County side that provided that type of opportunity, we that would be a
potential savings where you could lease the facility. Um, and but that's not an option for us. Um, you start to get into some pretty long distances for students to be able to attend a practice or uh go to a swim meet to to find anything comparable in the area. So, but with
that said, I mean, we're still exploring. I was still trying to figure out what what the options would be. But this is on here for a reason because right now this is the best option that we see. It's just an expensive one. So it sounds like I'm not speaking on
behalf of the board, but it seems like we're likely not going to close the pools. It's more just a matter of how are we going to get them fixed and when. It's kind of the sentiment I'm I'm sensing. So, I have a seemingly unrelated question, but um has come up at previous budget discussions. What is
the amount I guess again this is probably a cory question. What is the amount that the district spends on um teacher professional development? I believe it's 2%, right? Um different budgets that can't cross over uh when it comes to facilities. So, um we have to yeah, we have money we're required by
the state to spend on professional development, but we can't use that for for this. No, that Yeah, that's fair. And I expected that it is about 2% though, right? Yeah. Um, and what what is the requirement around that? Is it
like a state law or like when they gave us the funding, they said it had to be used for Yeah, it's in statute. In statute just for teacher professional development, staff professional development. Staff professional. Can we uh implement a how to fix a pool class and then have them all participate in
that one next year? Maybe. That'd be great. Um, maybe if I can jump in here. Uh, these are good questions. I'm glad you raised them up because it's not always information people know. And I know you mentioned last meeting that the costs are going
the materials services. Yep. Is a challenge for everyone in every industry. It feels like I feel like so um you're you're giving us estimates on what you project costs and services materials to look like. Um, you know, I went back through this again tonight. It
looks like nearly 150 projects uh if you if you just kind of went through the list over 10 years with that 15 million a year. So, and I I just want to be sure people know that's 150 LTFM projects, right? That's not total projects because we use capital.
Sometimes there are board priorities. So, that is just a portion of the projects. And that's why I appreciate the board weighing in because really what they're doing is putting that puzzle back together on a regular basis. and how to how to really squeeze every dollar out of this, right? Um, and I
know your goal is to be on time, on budget, done safely and and and thank you to buildings and grounds team um because I know we're trying to be as efficient with with what we have and squeeze everything out of that. And so it's really helpful to know we're on
point uh with the board on the kinds of projects that matter the most. So, I think if I could just add to another huge thing is making sure that um particularly with athletics um that you don't create a situation where you're preventing a team from having their
season. Um, so there's a lot of timing that goes into these projects to not bite off more than we can chew. So that so that you know when whenever season comes around, whether it's fall, winter, or spring, right, that the facility is
ready um for the student athletes to be able to use it and compete. Any other thoughts or comments from board members? All right. So, if not, members, before us, is the long-term facility maintenance LTFM 10-year plan for
approval as presented in appendix Q. Hearing no further request for discussion, the clerk will call the role, please. Simon votes I. Hulman I. Audet.
Langenfeld. I. Desaine I. Arco I. Six in favor and zero opposed. The resolution in appendix Q is adopted. Thank you, Mr. Cole and team. Thank you. Thank you. So our next agenda item is item 12,
finance with 12A, fiscal year 26, proposed budget, all funds for approval tonight. Welcome Michelle Vargas, chief financial officer. Good evening, Chair Arco, Superintendent McIntyre, members of the board. I am back once again with our FY26 budget.
Um, tonight I am looking for approval. Um, there are some changes as was in your previous um, presentation from the legislature. That is really the only changes from the last time that um, we were together. So, I will um
not go over every item in detail as much and leave more time for questions and comments um and really hit the changes from the last time that we um met on this item. So, where we are today through our whole process, we started out last December certifying the levy.
That's the process that'll start up again pretty soon again for you to do it in September for next fiscal year. Um we are here at June 23rd to the approval of all funds for tonight. Um so the change is here in the general fund. We have
changes due to the legislative session. Um we're up 4.75 million in revenue in the general fund. Um and 3.6 million for the expenditure side and we'll go through that. But tonight we are looking for an approval of a $750 million
revenue budget and $780 million expenditure. Revenues are up 1.8% over the current amended 25 budget and 2.9% um for expenditures. So our revenue assumptions um our revenue increase is 13.6 million or
2.1%. Um this is due to the levy that was down um by 2.8 million. Um our basic formula is an increase of 5.2 million. There's no change there. The 6.95 million increase for special education revenue reimbursement. I know that
there's uh was something said about the reduction for our transportation. Um as numbers are being updated. Um I feel that we are still in the ballpark and that we don't need to bring it down with the conservative estimate that I generally have when you you really don't know what your expenditures final growth
are going to be from that standpoint. So we did not I did not make a change to that um with our projected revenue. The next line item is the recognition of that pension aid. So that is that increase of their um there was an expected increase already and then it
was just it grew by the 31%. So the contribution for employer will grow from 8.75 that we had this year um to 9.81% for employer contribution for the teacher retirement association. Um and
that is a $3.6 million increase. Um the next line item um we had 1.3 million projected for our increase in the student support personnel revenue. That was one of them that they decreased when they were moving around funding. Um, so
we did um lose $780,000 in student support funding. So our increase is only $520,000. Uh the library aid was another area that they reduced. So we um are down 240,000. We were at 663,000
um as part of the session. That was the decrease. The next items are not changes um with the English language earner learner achievement integration is a reduction just due to pupil unit counts. Um facility revenue is a part of the
phase three realignment from community ed and our transfer on the English language learner 212,000. The next one is we maintained our 2.1 million. So that was a plus. We had that reduction for the unemployment. The funds were going to run out. There is that one time
again of $100 million. Um that likely will last us through um 26 and 27 at this point. So uh at that point will be back at the legislature again looking for funding. Um and then invested income
is stable about 4.6 million. So those are the real changes that happened since the last time that we were here. Um the 2.1 million in the 3.6 6 million recognition of the funded portion of the the pension increase is all funded. Um
and then the reduction of the 780,000 student support and 240,000 in library aid. So as you look at the general fund revenue, we now have an increase um as mentioned of the 13.6 million up 2.1%.
It was four 1.3% at my previous presentation. Um, as we always talk about the legislature and state revenue over 76% of our budget. We rely very heavily on it. Our property taxes are about 17.5%
of the budget. So, um, that time that we spend at the legislature obviously is very important because it is the majority of our funding. Um, when you talk about federal funds, our federal funding and the general fund, um, in other funds it's it's more when you look at child nutrition that, um, with the
the heavier funding. source. Um, our federal funds in the general fund are only 2% of our actual funding. Um, but still very important. 13.7 million is 2% but um, as we look at our uh, reductions and that u, it's very important to what
we do. On the expenditure side, uh, we're looking at a 22.2 million increase or 3.3%. Um the only change um in expenditure assumptions is the recognition then on the expenditure side of the TRA employer
contribution of 3.6 million. So again our assumptions the two and a half on salaries and 5% on benefits we had a net reduction of 10 FTE based on our ratios and then adding in um 16 FTE for special ed projected special ed increases. Um we
have the pair of professional and office professionals increase for the second year of their contracts at 2.2 million. Um the transportation that's our largest increase um at 10.3 million. The majority of that was charter transportation. Utilities are in there
also um in our contracted services. Uh the Minnesota paid leave act as was also discussed that takes um effect January. So we have a half a year of it. that 044% um employer side of it is 900,000 for us and then um the increase on our athletic
trainer contract um that that was a large increase for us um very chain a change in um how those were done. We used to get them for free. They used to want to be here to have access and it's not as uh uh funded for them. So that
went up um each site. So the total is 325,000 and then um the recognition of that transfer for the English language. And just a reminder, this budget does include the $9 million in reductions that were approved back in November um
of 2024, which included 4.9 million of district-wide staff and non-staff reductions, an administrative reduction restructure um of 1.2 2 million and then our realignment child nutrition the supervision chargeback a recognition of additional 400,000. Um that's where we
are able to charge back the child nutrition program for the supervision that's done in the um K or not in the kitchen but the cafeteria during lunchtime. um the increase in the technology levy, we were able to access that increase in transfer technology
staff. Community education, they used to retain 120,000 to run the facility rentals that they are not retaining that anymore. So that will stay in the general fund. And then the student support aid realignment is $2 million Lincoln dollars. we will
still be able to make that realignment happen even with the reduction um by moving um into other categorical funding sources. Um so and then we had the fund balance transfer that the fourth year of the strategic investment will move back into the unassigned in order to um
offset any further depletion of our target for the 10%. So, as we look at um the expenditures, we are now at a 22 million increase, 3.3%. Uh it was 2.7% the last time I was
here. Um again, we are a people business. Our salaries and benefits are 79% of what we do. Um the next largest area, as you can see, is our purchase services at 80 million. A large portion of that is our transportation. Board
member Simon had asked about it last time. might put some numbers down more. 43 million of its transportation. 7 million of it is our sped tuition that we pay. Um we do that out of federal in order to generate the revenue. That switch generated 7 million more dollars
in sped reimbursement by using our federal funds to do that. Uh we also pay for contracted for our sped services contracting and PSO that's 9.2 million and then our utilities are about 9 million. So 68.2 2 million of that 80
million of those items. So, Superintendent McIntyre did really good at trying to remember those numbers of where we are at. We were at 16.7 million. So, that adjusted operating surplus is now 15.6 million. So, we made it um with the unemployment and the
offset of what was reduced, we went up a million dollars um in revenue. So, that reduced our target. Now, that would roll into fiscal year 27 um by a million dollars. Um our unassigned fund balance
is at 8.5%, we are at 8.3% at the 47 million. Again, looking at all of our assigned and unassigned. Um 81% of the budget is in the unassigned area. 18% is in the
restricted. Um as a previous comment, we do have the restriction for staff developments near the bottom. You can see it's $6 million. It's 2% of the basic formula and not 2% of our entire budget. And in previous um budget
reductions, we've already taken almost half of that as a budget reduction and we charge professional development days and the teachers contract to that. So in previous um reductions, we've we've set aside half of that almost and then the
rest of it is going into professional development at this point in time. And as Superintendent McIntyre said, it is restricted to professional development. Um, as you can see, you do have the long-term facility maintenance program in the middle at 14.9 million. It's
currently um in a deficit. You can pre-spend some of it, but at some point you got to make it back up as we've been doing. So, we're as Greg and Ben were talking about it, you are prioritizing and moving and it is a very fluid program. But overall our operating
deficit is 25 million. The um unassigned portion is that 15.6. And you can see we are still spending down um our strategic investments um as we move. The largest portion that's left is really in the the original strategic investments and the
majority of that right now is our um textbooks that we set aside um for secondary textbooks. At this point, that is the general fund. Does anybody have any questions before I move on to other funds?
Um, the rest of the funds have no changes from last time. Um, as you look at the food service fund, all of our revenue um has to do with a decrease in projected participation. In speaking with director Noah Atlas, what he's
seeing is just kind of a uh people are the students are getting old with the free lunches, so they're not seeing as much um of the usage of it. So they're they're seeing an actual reduction in it. He said it's just kind of wearing off with with students um from that
standpoint. So overall, this projection is just based on the reduced participation that they're seeing for the 2.6 million On the expenditure side, as with most of our budgets, you have your wages, your benefits. Um, so the projected increases
in salaries and benefits um are $700,000 based on our open contracts. You can see there's decreased purchase services and that was a discontinuation of contracted staff. So they um are doing better like most of our areas on staffing that they
had hired um a contracting service to bring in staff when they had um multiple openings in in positions. So that was the decrease. There is a projected 1.9 million for supplies due to the higher um projected food and um milk costs
which we're all seeing um with that. It's no different for our child nutrition program. And then they're decreasing their equipment purchases by 1.1 million. They've been very heavy on doing all the upgrades and spending the excess fund balance that they've had and been given the leeway to carry that. And
as you look at the next page, you can see in our fund balance coming down to 8.7 million. We're at that 3 months which we generally are um in that area and and where the restriction is to carry. It's been lifted for a few years and still is, but um they've done a lot
of improvements and made capital purchases and and redoing um the kitchens and the lines. So, we're back in track in that area of the $9 million fund balance. Um as you can see, a very um consistent program.
Any questions about child nutrition? Uh community service fund. Again, another special revenue fund. Um, and very consistent. Our revenues and net increase of 1.4 million. Um, most of the increases that you see on here, that's 730,000. Um, and is due to projected
growth. So, we have growth in our, um, adult basic ed. We have growth in our early learning programs and in our our non um, publiclix and home schools. In addition to that, we have an increase in levy. Um, some of that has to do with an increased population. That was a
certification of the population that was done by Michelle Truststead earlier. That is in directly um in line with as we get ready for levy and that that sets um uh the amount that we get the following year then for some of the community programs. Um the other areas
that you see is early childhood family education and that was a levy shifted to equalization aid as they get more equalization aid and then a decrease in the general community levy with adults with disabilities levy. Other program fee and revenues are
projected at 384,000 and that's just annual increases to keep the program stable. So overall a $ 1.4 $4 million increase or 4.7% with um kind of a split increase between
local revenue and state revenue. Um many of these programs are funded by fees. Then on the expenditure side, you're looking at a similar increase about 1.3 million or 4.2% the majority of this being in payroll expenses. Um this is
you have people in front of all of our programs. So, as we're increasing our projected um enrollments in these programs there, we're also seeing increased wages. Um and we're using the same two and a half% on wages on salaries and 5% on benefits. Um they're
also recognizing the paid family leave act because it's all based on salaries. So, all of our funds will see that um increased. It's a straight tax basically on payroll. There are some staffing additions again which then align to increased enrollment
that you see. So AB, ECF, early learning coordinators and cultural leaison. There are some reductions um also with the ECF home visitor prek teachers and prek assistant and we did reduce a community ed director which was part of phase um
two reductions. There is also um increase in purchase services. So they run a lot of services especially in the ventures plus program previously talked about they do a lot of um field trips and that and those are all contracted services and they're
seeing um increases for all those in the transportation also increase in supplies as they are reinstating their supply budgets as um those were were temporarily decreased in order to balance out funding and there's still timing of their technology
replacement schedule as part of that Capital LA is consistent and 7% of their expenditures they use for that. So a $31.6 million program a 1.8 1.3% increase or 3 1.3 million increase or
4.2% for community ed and very similar to our child nutrition fund. They also run about a 30% fund balance. um very similar um size budgets and very um similar when it's a primarily fee
based or large fee based program in order to carry that type of a fund balance to ride any sort of ups and downs. Moving on to our capital projects fund. This one um just recognizes that we're done. Uh all projects have been
completed. We've actually spent all of the money. It's finally um down to zero at this point. So, we will no longer have a capital projects fund until um the only time we would have it is if we had another bond referendum or if there
were projects that were over $2 million in LTFM. We have to track them in this fund versus the general fund. So this just shows how we are going to finish out fiscical year 25. Um so there will be no proceeds left for fiscal year 26. And just kind of to zero out that
fund and show um that we are completed for our debt service fund. We have revenue decreased by 252,000 which is due to our increase in debt access and expenditures are unchanged. Our projected fund balance is 3.6
million. Uh the debt was very well planned in um as we moved into the fit for the future. So it's very flat as you look at can we go to the next slide please? Um where we sit at right 15.2 million um dollars for our expenditures
and very flat and that was very much intended to keep it flat. Um it's very confusing and can be deceptive if if you're going up and down in your debt service. Um so it was very well planned. You can see that we sit at about 3.6
million. The debt access that we talk about is a calculation done by the state. We levy 105% of what our um debt service payments are principal and interest and if that grows over that they take it back and reduce our revenue for that amount. So very stable as a
requirement for our debt service um and has to do with our bond rating. We need to show what our debt service funds are made of. So at this point in time, we still have three open bonded debts. The first one being our taxable oped
bonds and then our the 2018 2020 were the fit for the future bonds. So you can see we still have at the end of fiscal year 26 a $216 million uh principal balance.
We are also required to talk about our legal debt limit and our legal debt limit is based on 15% of the market value less our outstanding debt subject to the limit. The OPED bonds are not subject to the limit. So it's just the two fit for the future bond issuances.
So we have a margin of $5.1 billion um that we are under of what technically our limit is. Our last fund is our trust fund. Um that is what is the the OPED debt funded. So our revenue is projected to increase by
1.2 million to 2 million. This is just based on anticipated market gains what we've been seeing um in our our debts or in the trust fund. The expenditures are also projected to increase by 1.2 million. Um we do we've been seeing a 2 million
um uh OPED credits to the operating funds based on the prior year amounts for retirey creams that are greater than the premiums. That's the implicit subsidy. So our retirees are allowed to remain on our insurance plans until they
reach Medicare age at the active rate. And the difference between because we're self-insured, we get a report that shows the actual premiums that our retirees paid and their actual claims. The difference between that is what we're allowed to draw out of this fund and
then replenish and reduce our expenses and our operating funds. Our uh fund balances to remain stable then at 36.9 million. when we issued these funds, our projected OPE um
liability at that point in time was I think 26 and a half million. So if you look at it, we did that in fall of 2009. We've maintained, we've offset expenditures since that time and we've
increased um the the actual principle that's sitting in that that funding source. Um originally the actuaries expected us to run out of money in 10 years. We're we're past that. So we're doing good in that area. And it was um a
budget um cutting measure in order to issue those bonds and then help us in our operating funds. So with all of that again I am here for approval of our fiscal year 26 budget in
the amount of 200 20 750,959,13 in revenues and $780,56,454 in expenditures. And I will open this up to comments and questions. Thank you very much for the presentation. Um, any thoughts or comments from board members?
Director Simon. Thanks, Zach. Thanks, Michelle. Um, uh, the only comment I have is we talked a little bit about, um, the potential cut, right? So, it was 16.7 million and now in this budget, it's 15.6 million.
Potential deficit. That would be our cut target. I should I should quote it that way. Um, and that's great. That's good. Well, that's good. It's not great, but it's better. Um, but one thing we have to remember is that our our fund balance was a little better than we thought it was going to be. It's 8.5%, but that's
still not 10%. 10% would take about another $25 million. We're obviously not going to do that at one fell swoop, but um we talked previously about that 15.6 might, if the board agrees, I agree with
this, would have to be a little more to start building back that fund balance. So, I just wanted to uh remind folks and let the community know that part of it. Thank you. Any other thoughts from board members? Uh, director Adette. Thank you. I'm just
going to speak to the way that I'm going to vote on this budget and which I'll be voting no tonight. um which will be the fourth time that I've done it in the four years that I've been on the board. Uh there's a number of factors leading to the budget crisis that the district
faces, but the biggest one that remains is like I mentioned before, it's a matter of priorities. And for anybody who's watched our board, you know that this board is not aligned on priorities. And the administration is yet to put forward a plan that can solve
that. Uh the clearest recent example is the inclusion of social emotional learning in our programming. SEAL was among the issues I raised last year during our very public budget deliberations and as part of the agreement that led to the passing of
last year's budget. The board agreed to a plan to review SEAL. Many hours were spent by a committee of people and three options were proposed. All of which uh would have met all of the requirements.
And when it all played out, it's now clear that there never was any intent to compromise on programming. Despite significant opposition, the administration and their supporters on the board were determined to see it through, even if it exposed the fact
that they had negotiated in bad faith. So tonight's proposed budget includes a $16 million operating deficit that'll have to be resolved with budget cuts. Admin and half the board does not want to do budget cuts. So they will review the call, renew the
call to raise additional revenue through a voter-approved operating levy in order to make the situation as desperate as possible. They'll make the case, as they already have, that the 16 million will have to come through the elimination of classroom teachers if a
Levia referendum isn't allowed to proceed. The tactics are likely to include some of the following, some mix of it. Lobbying efforts. Administration and their allies will engage in extensive lobbying to garner support. They'll hold meetings
and discussions in which they'll share reams of information with no other purpose than to pressure members of the board. Public campaigns to build public support. They'll launch a campaign highlighting the benefits of their plan
that will be heavy on emotion and light on detail. One-sided opinion surveys will be used, which will undoubtedly suggest, as they always do, that support for their plan is overwhelming. negotiations and compromises.
Recognizing the need for consensus, they'll call for compromise, but will bring nothing of substance forward from their side. All compromise will need to be made by those of us who do not accept their proposals. Now, they will do all of this even
though admin has already reported that all possible cuts have been made and half of this board has already signaled an intent to accept that conclusion. And so, they'll renew their calls to trust the experts. They'll tell us that school finance is too complicated for
you, for themselves, frankly, for anyone to understand. And they'll claim a moral imperative to let the public decide. In previous meetings, I've asked that the district adopt a zerobased budgeting model, which if done well, would require
each expenditure expenditure to be justified using data or other evidence to demonstrate its effectiveness. We've already heard how difficult this kind of budgeting is, and with that, the process to ignore my request has already
begun. There won't be time. They won't have the resources. and the detail will not be needed by a board majority which will lead to no changes to the way the budget's done. And in short, the shenanigans that we saw last month with
will repeat. As I've said in the past, the steamroller will come out. Our budget issues are a matter of priorities. comes down to choices and they're choices we can't make if half the board refuses to do the difficult work that's required because it's easier
for them to just trust the experts who just happen to share their worldview on virtually every issue that divides the board. Thank you. Any other comments from board members? Director Hookman,
we've heard a lot of things tonight and uh putting students needs uh ahead of all else is the fundamental responsibility of this board to make certain that we're giving kids the opportunities um that they need to be successful. In 2024, the board addressed
phase 2 um spending cuts, and at that time, we delayed the necessary reductions and chose instead to rely on the district's fund balance to cover the budget shortfall. In the six months since that decision, there's been no further discussion to explore
responsible or long-term solutions. Um, in fact, I was requested that we revisit certain budget items and was told the budget has already been reviewed. I find it deeply concerning that the district responsible for the education and future of nearly 40,000 children is not
continuously evaluating opportunities for efficiency in a system this large. Ongoing scrutiny is required. Without a review of this massive budget, the cuts will tragically target classroom teachers. And at a time when academic
performance continues to decline, I refuse to accept that raising class sizes is our only option. Tonight, I'm voting no because this board must commit to transparency, eliminate spending unrelated to the classroom, and prioritize student
achievement above all else. Any other thoughts or comments from board members? All right. Well, if there are none, I guess I have a few thoughts. Oh, Director Langfeld. Thank you. as we think about this budget and we've
had a lot of information. Thank you for sharing that. I I don't believe we have the budget strategy even agreed on by this board. We've talked about it a little bit. A couple board members were not at the last work session. So my my
intent and belief was that we were going to have that conversation about what our priorities are. To the best of my knowledge, we've not had that. So to um already determine uh what some board
members will do or not do um seems to be a little ahead of what kind of jumping ahead. So, I would offer that um while I am not completely 100% on on this budget, um it my my vote will be in
support of it, but I too would like to understand what the budget strategy is because I believe the priority needs to be our students. And I think that, you know, I've had some conversations. I've been looking deeply into it and I'm I
was looking forward to having the conversation with my fellow board members to understand. We can say zero budget. I'm not sure um what perspective that that means. Um there are strategies
and I would be very interested in having that conversation before I would determine how other board members are thinking about this budget moving forward. But I do think in all reality that we have some very hard decisions to
make. And I do think that the most important person in that school is that teacher in front of the kids that that the research would play that out and then what comes next and layer upon layer. But again, I would offer that I
do I could not predict exactly what other board members would be thinking or saying at this time because we've not had that collective conversation. Any other thoughts or comments from board members? Um, okay. Well, I have a couple
thoughts. Um, so obviously there's a lot that could be said about the budget. There's a lot that has been said about the budget in the past, but I guess I'm going to keep it very simple. Um, as the uh Star Tribune has pointed out in a previous article, it said just a
quote, "The six member board is split 33 between more conservative members and others more inclined to support equity issues." Generally, we call that being liberal, but I guess they can describe it however they want. But the board certainly is split. That's why we have co-chairs.
Um, so, you know, a very effective way to ensure that we have a bipartisan agreement, so to speak, on the budget, um, is to do what I had offered last time, and I'm just going to keep going back to the same offer and throw it out
there again, not for this budget, for the future budget. So, not not this round, but for the next round of budget cuts that we're going to be discussing in the future going forward. If the board agrees to a clause that when Corey and his team bring forward the next proposal, it's going to
be, you know, itemized in some capacity. We can discuss the details of that when the time comes, but if they agree that any board member may point out any line item, say line 53, we're paying for this. I'm not convinced the board actually wants that line item to be paid
for. Let's take a quick poll of the board. And if we can't find a majority of the board, we'll just pull that out of the budget. If the board would agree to have that clause, that way of operating for the next round of budget, budget considerations, budget cuts,
budget passing, I will agree to vote for referendum. And there were no takers last time. Um, directors adette and Simon were not here. So maybe director Simon would be willing to do that. The reason I put forward this proposal is it's very
straightforward. If we were to do that, that guarantees that every single line item in the budget going forward will have a majority of the board, which means left and right agreement, bipartisan support.
So, we've often been accused, Matt Lind and myself have been accused many times of being the divisive members on the board. So, I find myself in the strange position of being the one offering a bipartisan a collaborative solution that I have yet to have any takers on. Um,
you'd said, Director Langenfeld, maybe the idea sounded good, but you weren't willing necessarily to commit to it. Um, I really hope you will. I hope. But it it will take a a formal motion at some point and a formal vote to actually do that which will then guarantee that
every line item on that budget has a majority board support. Not just here's what Cory and his team brought forward, it's this way or the highway, which is essentially what Director Adet was getting at. So you can all prove us wrong. You can prove me wrong right now. Prove to me
that you guys are in fact not the divisive board members and perhaps we are and agree to my bipartisan proposal. If not, then I guess the question for you is why would one of the divise so-called divisive board members be the
one offering the um bipartisan proposal that is for some unknown reason getting rejected. Director Deshaine. Thank you. So a few thoughts. Um, schoolboard service should be
nonpartisan. The fact that some board members continue to bring politics and partisan perspectives is concerning to me. Um secondly, your idea is
undefined and unrefined and therefore unable to be agreed upon with with a one-s sentence proposal at a discussion like this one today. I also think that
there the phrasing that you're using, the way that you're speaking to fellow board members is inherently divisive. You're trying to inspire reactions or create division. Um, and I'm not I'm not
sure why you're approaching it that way. Uh, it's it's concerning to me. You know, I think Director Homan said it well when this should be about students. We should be focused on student achievement. We should be focused on what they need to succeed coming out of
our school district. Um, I haven't heard a lot of that discussion come out in in what you're proposing and what you're talking about here. Um, I think some of the phrasing, uh, folks, you know, not
wanting to do the work, take the easy way out, and just rely on the experts, uh, is is convenient rhetoric and talking about zerobased budgeting, and if we just do it this simple way, that sounds so easy, all the problems could
magically be solved. And I think that that just ignores the realities and it dismisses the hard work that the teams have done to share this process with us in a
transparent and complete manner. Um we talk about the budget consistently year round. We've seen the dates at the beginning of this proposed budget presentation. We've talked about what the next phase will include and h how we
can get the perspectives on the table, what what items are important to board members so that we can land at a place in a discussion that all feel comfortable with. Um I just think it's really disingenuous to imply that that isn't happening. Um and that there's um
you know just some easy path through this. Okay. Okay. Well, let's consider a couple of the things you said. You said, "But I was proposing was undefined." Well, I did define it. I'm going to do it again. The proposal is when the when Cory's budget proposal is brought
forward, if any board member points to any line item in that budget and says, "Let's take a pull on that item. If we don't get a majority, we're going to remove it from the budget." That is as specifically defined as it can possibly be. At any time, you can agree to that.
So, don't know how to define it further than that. What counts as a line item? Anything that's in the budget. So the la to use an example, uh the last time we passed a budget, there's a big discussion around teaching coaches. That was a line item. And it it's broken into various line items, but you could go
through them. It to whatever extent any board member wants to bring a line item up for a vote, they can do that. That's kind of the whole point. So again, it it is, and I mean this in the literal sense, it is as defined as it can possibly be. Don't know how to define it more than that. So you say that we have a nonpartisan
board. I agree with you in in theory and in concept that it would be great that or or rather the board should be nonpartisan. Yes, in theory I I agree with you. Um it should be. Like I said, the Star Tribune doesn't tend to agree with you. We have co-chairs. To anyone
who has eyes in their head, it's plain to see that the board does appear to be partisan no matter what we say. So I wish that were the case. It simply is. Um, and then finally, you're talking about how it's creating division. Okay. Well, perhaps, but that's why I offered
a bipartisan proposal that if you agree, by definition, eliminates any division because it includes a majority of the board, which no matter what will mean we have the conservative and the liberal board members agreeing no matter what on every line item. That is that is the
cleanest way to show that this budget has majority support from the board is bipartisan and that there's no division whatsoever. So you say that I'm being divisive, but for some reason this divisive board member is the one offering the non-device bipartisan solution that's not being accepted.
And then lastly, I'd like to point out that you've mentioned in the past that we, the board members, when I've brought up all the people that have voted for us and voted against us, that we represent the whole public. I agree with you. Just because somebody voted against me or you or whoever doesn't mean that we still
don't represent them. I agree with that wholeheartedly, which is why I find it so problematic that the way the budget plays out is it essentially excludes what the Star Tribune has described as the three conservative board members. So if we represent the whole public then
again I go back to my proposal agree to the proposal and then that way it ensures that this budget will have bipartisan support from both halves of the board and that we will in fact represent the whole budget because it's not me excluding the other h other side of the board. Right now I'm the one
being excluded. And then one one final thought to throw out here and this is this is why I find it so strange. Again I I hope you guys will accept the offer. I'm going to be honest. I don't think you will, but I I've put this on the table and again test me on it. I will agree to vote to
go to the public for referendum if you agree to do this. And what's fascinating to me and again because me, Matt, Linda, we're always accused of being the divisive board members, but here I am offering a referendum. Here I am offering a bipartisan solution to the budget. It's being rejected. It's
strange to me that when given that option, because I want the school to be fully funded as much as you do, that it seems like you would rather have the liberal members of the board be in charge of a bankrupt district rather
than the entire board be in charge of a fully funded district. That is the saddest thing to me. It's very simple. If you agree to this, it ensures the whole board is represented. Therefore, the whole public and you'll get your referendum and the school will likely be funded. But it's ultimately your choice.
Director Langfeld. Uh having uh been a superintendent for nine years, I've never bankrupt bankrupted or gone into statutory operating debt. So, um I think we have to be mindful and careful of that statement. I think the second thing that
I would offer um I'm not sure even the board members where anyone is on referendum. So that's an interesting if you do this then I will do that. That's an interesting offer. But for me personally, the question I have is that
and I don't have a problem with any board member asking and it's been very clear this board if you have an item or things you want uh to to actually delve deeper into that will be something we would all want to hear and discuss. And
I I can hear uh Director Simon say that if a board member brings it up and wants information we should be doing it and addressing it. But my question to us and to you in particular is that if there is an item
on of question are we or are we not interested in understanding what it will look like if there how will we avoid perhaps is the better question. How do we intend then to pull the board
and not recognize or how will we recognize any unintended consequence? because we've seen the result of mandates that were put forward um at the state level and and sometimes you know that we've talked about and unintended
consequences have rolled out because they did not ask the people in the trenches um what the impact would be. So, are we going to exclude all the administrative
um voices and principal voices, teacher voices in this conversation? We're just going to make those decisions or is that I I see that as part of the work. So, I just want clarity and I think that's where I'd like to know. I
would say certainly not. We are going to listen to them and I I don't know how you envision the process playing out, but I think you will find if you choose to do this, we agree on far far more than we disagree on. It's just what my gut's telling me. But no, we're we're certainly going to listen to the advice of the experts. Um they're going to be
the ones bringing the proposal forward with their recommendations and their justifications. So hopefully that answers your question. Uh Superintendent McIntyre. Yeah. And board members, I thank you for the conversation. And I I want to here's my perspective. What's in front of you
tonight is putting in place the decisions you made in November of last year. Michelle and her team have worked up to this point to put this in place. So your vote tonight is how we're going to operate July 1st. Um making all the
the reductions that you the board gave us direction on. So um a lot of the conversations about phase three that we haven't started yet. So, it's good to hear perspectives. I mean, that's that's helping us shape that. So, I'm just trying to ground you back on your dis your your vote right now is just how
we're opening the doors July 1st in in a week. Um, and then we'll we get year end. I Michelle reminds me a lot about how we got to get year end and get these things in place. Then we'll take on what this process looks like. What are the acceptable and unacceptable things you
want in that process? And so, um, I value both discussions. I just want trying to ground you back in tonight. Your decision is to act on the things you directed us to do back in November. And, you know, as we've kind of put that and we've been through staffing, now we're doing all those things. So, it's
just it's um allowing us to act on that and our in our legal requirement. And then we will begin and then transition to that phase three process. Um, things you want to see in there. And you all clearly have ideas and perspectives on what you want
that to look like. So, I hope that gives a little perspective because we have a lot more conversation to come on what phase three needs to look like and you got an update on the target. That's about as far as we've gone on it because we have to end this year's f um fiscal process. Get all those things in place.
We're we're going through a lot of adjustments and changes in personnel um in the next couple weeks. Director Simon, there it is. Thanks, Zach. Um, Corey, you're right. I mean, the the decision tonight is on the budget, but lot has
been said. So, I I haven't I didn't prepare anything in advance, so I just took some notes and want to give a few comments from my perspective. So, on the budget tonight, I as we're continuing um our strategic
investments, it does not raise class size and in my opinion does prioritize student achievement. So, that's on the budget tonight. So, I am going to vote in favor of the budget tonight. Um, regarding how to see the budget in the future, I've advocated and I will again
tonight that board members need to be able to see the budget in a fashion that works for them so they can vote on it. Right. Um, and I will continue to say that. My understanding is that that's going to occur for uh when we come into these budget cuts. I I believe that's
going to occur. I I guess I'm looking at Corey. believe that's happening. So that would be good. Um and I and I um believe in that. So I'm going to continue with that. Um on the um you know I I
personally do look at my service. You know, we all have our personal opinions and I consciously try to take off my blinders and serve in a schoolboard role as nonpartisan. I have done that forever. As a matter of fact, I can say when I first started on the board, um,
community members went to the superintendent, Danny Carlson, at the time, and said, "You now have a Tea Party member, an ultra-conservative Tea Party member on your board. What are you going to do about this?" Over the time, I've been asked from the Republican party and the DFL, both of them, to run
for state office. Um, I have voted in the four years often with Matt Audet on items that you would consider um or some might consider um conservative and liberal, right? Um I'll give one example that when secondary came forward before
the board, I voted no to not bring it forward. When um the list of items with our new board came up, I forget how many, nine or 13 items. Um I sat down and worked with folks and we could go over that whole list and see how an NOA penipin has moved. There's been a lot of
compromise in that area. So I would say when the Star Tribune labeled me as um as a as a progressive branch um I reached out to our communication department Jim Skellyy and said please call the Star Tribune and tell them to correct that because that's not true.
So, anyone who labels me as um left or right or whatever, I'm a public figure, so I guess you can do that. But I really wish that I could I could bring legal action against you for doing that. And I would ask board members to please not do
that. Um I can't make the media do it, but I'm going to ask you not to do it. Um and then for this, uh I don't really totally understand the line item. I'm calling it a line item veto deal offer. But I guess what concerns me is that
I've heard things from board members and I'll give one I'll give a very specific example. Um a board member has mentioned that schools only need one principal. We should get rid of the rest. So what you're saying is that if that was a line item on a budget and three board members
said let's only have one principal per every school that that would happen. Well, there would be unbelievable rep in my opinion, unbelievable repercussions to our schools, to our students, and to student achievement and student
disruption that I just my conscience wouldn't let me vote for that. So, I don't exactly know what that deal means, but because of that type of thing, I would not be comfortable with it. Thanks.
I have some follow-up thoughts. Um, so I'm just going to read from the August 2024 board meeting recap. It's a it's an agenda item. I did this once before, but it's worth reading again. It's about theCCL vote. This is the agenda item. Anyone in the public can look it up. It says, "Below is a recap
of the direction from the school board that has support from the majority of the school board members regarding the recent schoolboard work session action plan items that originated from the April 23rd, 2024 schoolboard work session. Here's a summary of the outcomes of the July 15th work session
and what the direction of the full board was agreed to. One of them was the superintendent. So this is about um sending coming back with a recommendation for what to do with. It says this is the bullet point. The
superintendent leadership will have to make sure that the recommendation will get at least four board members support hopefully all six. So that did not occur and I pointed this out before and it's worth mentioning again. Um it's
if I am giving the maximum benefit of the doubt to superintendent and his team and say well they tried and they couldn't do it. There's just nothing that this board could have agreed on. I would like to do that except for and I pointed this out the the Achilles heel of this entire process is that at no
point in the in the review committee at no point in that year time where we were reviewing it and Cory and his team are coming up with with a recommendation did he simply ask the question of me who was on the committee or any other board members so far as I'm aware he didn't ask the question what will you support
and what are things you refuse to support and since the bullet point says says the superintendent will have to make sure that the recommendation will get at least four board members support hopefully all six. That is the very first step before you do anything else.
Just pull the board members and say, "Hey, what do you have to have in there to approve it? And what are things that you absolutely refuse to vote for?" If Cory and his team had done that, they had come forward and said, "Look, we tried our best. Here's what you guys told us. There was no o there's simply no overlap that you can agree to. Oh,
sorry. There there's just no proposal I can bring forward that will work. Then I would be inclined to agree with him and say, "Yep, I do remember that you did ask us. There's simply nothing we agreed to." Except that never occurred. And in fact, not only did that not occur, um Cory knew for a certain fact that at
least director alone had said that he will not support any curriculum that's castle endorsed. So, right off the bat, the superintendent's recommendation already excluded at least one board member right out the gate. And to my knowledge, none of us were asked in the first place despite me being at the committee. The reason I bring all this
up, going back to what you're saying, Director Simon, is you you did mention that at one point you had voted with Matt. To my knowledge, that's the only significant vote. I'm just being honest. I don't recall any other big ones that it was like you and Director Adet versus other people. You voted with him before
the three of us were on the board um regarding a no vote on anCCL adoption. So the way that politics works is that when there is already majority vote, um someone who you can safely vote no as an
individual and it will be more of a symbolic vote than a vote that has any ramification whatsoever. And while we'll never know for sure if that's what you intended at the time, at the time it was only going to be director. And then you also voted no, but it was still going to be 42. It was going to pass no matter what. Matt knew that, you knew that.
Everybody knew that. whether or not you voted with him, it was going to pass. So, while it's true that you voted with him, it's also true that perhaps it was a symbolic vote. And we'll never know for sure because we don't know what your intention was. What we do know for sure is that you did agree and you gave the
superintendent the direction that I just read, he did not do it. And when it came time to vote for theCCL curriculum, you did not vote with director. So when your vote actually was going to make a difference, you chose to depart from voting with director. And
all of the board members, despite it saying right here, the full board agreed to this, I have yet to see any board member say that we're going to go back and make sure that this occurs even though the full board agreed to it according to the agenda item. So, if you're wondering why Director Adet is saying that all of these things have
been done in bad faith, well, there's your smoking gun evidence that all of this has been done in bad faith. At the previous in the previous year, I had mentioned that, you know, board members had offered to work together on various things and we're going to work through some things and I was optimistic and I said I'd vote for the budget on those
grounds and so I did. Unfortunately, since then, I've kind of been disproven as I just read. I I I don't really think that a good faith collaboration effort has been made. That being said, I still do not think it is in the best interest of the district to vote no on the budget. But what is also simultaneously
true is, as we pointed out many times, despite Director Simon wanting to remain nonpartisan, the board is still split. It's a reality. Anybody can see who looks at the board, it's split, and it's not hard to figure out on what lines it split. So, I am going to um just give
this one to the public this year. There is an election this year and if they would like the board to remain split, that is the public's choice. And if they'd like the board to to get unstuck, that is also the public's choice. But at least for now, I still think it is in the best interest of the district to vote for the budget despite having some concerns over it. So, that's what I'm
going to do tonight. Director Simon. Well, as I was publicly disparaged by you, I would like to um make an offer. And I'll say that to start, the very first time I've ever been on a board
that a board chair, co-chair has um has mentioned to the public in a in a way to say, "Hey, you know who you need to vote for." Right. You didn't say that specifically. That's what I took from it. Um which is wow. I mean, talk about bringing politics and partisansship into
onto the uh board table. Um, but again, uh, if you go back and actually look at my votes over the years, you would be able to see I I'll speak to the public because you, in my opinion, publicly disparaged me on the seal vote. Um, I
said in the public meeting during that night that if um, there was an option to continue with the elementary and get rid of the secondary, I would do it. That was not an option. I also said that I
looked at every lesson in the elementary and there was not any concerning cultural issues that the national talking points are um about what is infused in public education. The public every board member could have looked at
that. Maybe you did. Um no one has ever brought up a concern. And then I addressed Castle specifically is that I thought it was reasonable for U. Member Audet to bring that up. In the past when um when a program has come to the board
um I brought that up also. The difference between, in my opinion, again between Castle and the previous ones that I voted no on um was that it was a direct company with direct um concerns.
Specifically, they were lobbying the federal government for gun control and that was the specific company that was trying to get curriculum into school districts. Um Castle is a separate company from the the the company that makes our curriculum. So, I just want to
make sure the public, you know, you can the public gets to believe who they want to believe. I think having a board member um mischaracterize and put intentions in another board member's head on the vote is
unprecedented, first of all. So, congratulations there, but um I also think very inappropriate. And on the on the bipartisan part, I've said this before. I I haven't heard board members say they disagree with it. In my
opinion, it's not a left or right or conservative and liberal. It's board members who trust our experts and believe in our experts and board members who do not. And you know what? If I guess if being called um liberal is now
because you trust our educational experts. I mean if that's the new definition, that doesn't make sense to me. So interestingly enough, Director Adet is also up for election this year and he can also get voted off. So you can
choose to interpret my words however you want, but the reality is there are two ways that the public can unstick the board. I did not specifically mention which one it was. I did. I think the public did too. Well, that's fine. There there are two ways the public can unstick the board. Second, you were in fact on a board with
a chair that disparaged another board member. In one of her last meetings, uh, Chair Anderson previously did disparage Matt. I got to watch it. Not one of the other board members decided to point of order her or say anything or do anything about it. It just occurred. And that was when it was essentially Matt versus the
rest of the board is kind of how the vibe of the board felt at the time. So that that did occur. You were on the board. You did nothing about it. Second, I did not assign any intentions to you. I simply pointed out the fact that when there was nothing at stake to vote with
Matt, you did it. And then when your vote could make a difference, you didn't vote with Matt. If I would have gone one step further and say, so this is definitely what your intention was, then yes, then I would be assigning intention. But I didn't do that. I'm simply connecting dots. And as you pointed out, the public can draw
whatever conclusions they would like. But the reality is when there is something at stake, you didn't vote with Matt. It's really as simple as that. Director Dasha, so you had mentioned um that the current
budget isn't reflective of this current new board. Um and Director Simon mentioned the list and the changes. If you look at the items that were brought forward on social media by director Audet and then brought into work sessions by this board to discuss, you'll see the following changes that
are reflected in this current budget that were compromises or movements of the district toward the direction of yourself, Linda, and Matt as you have characterized it. the cessation of standardsbased grading,
the delay and the lack of implementation for social studies curriculum, new new textbooks in the standards, um major changes and reductions in professional development opportunities for staff, cancelling the participation in the
Minnesota student survey, um not adopting new physics curriculum so that students are still using 25-year-old textbooks. an entire restructuring of the curriculum department as a part of our administrative changes. Those are just
the ones I could quickly grab out here. Um that that are that are just some some directional changes that have happened that are reflected in this new budget. You you also mentioned that you know the superintendent didn't ask you for your
um uh support and not like what would you support and what wouldn't you support but you mentioned that you were on the committee and so my question back to you would be did you participate in the committee did you offer your feedback and your perspective as a committee member which is the purpose of a
committee. We are all professionals sitting here at this table who sought out this role to do the hard work of schoolboard governance. And part of that is saying what we need and what we don't need. We don't need to be asked. We don't need to wait to be asked. So
that's that's a perspective that I would share. And then lastly, I think the the split that people feel on this board can be defined in many different ways. Um, I would add that it appears to be
based on the lines of those who love public schools and those that do not. Director Langenfeld, if if uh you recall, um I'm looking at an email that I had sent after a meeting asking why we would do a cell review if
we are going to ignore the voices of the people. And for me, the reason I supported the cell curriculum is because of the strength of the feedback that we received. And the response
um afforded me the op opportunity to think that we would be not disingenuous in making that decision prior to asking the people. I am a firm believer that you don't go out and ask if you're going to ignore what people respond to. So,
and you I've sent it to to co-chairs and the superintendent as well and and my my sense of your response um co-chair was that we would it it wasn't pre-ordained or predetermined. So, I had concerns if
it was or it wasn't as well. I'll send it to you so you can review it. It's funny you say that. You're a firm believer that we don't ask if you just going to ignore the people you ask. Perhaps that's why the board was never asked what they wanted to see on because had the question been asked, we would
have been ignored anyways. It's true that I could have raised questions at the review committee, but that that's not really the question. That's not really the the main issue. The main issue is if I ask questions, does it make a difference and does it do anything? I did try to participate at
the first meeting. There was no traction there and I participated in the second meeting. again, no traction. It made no difference. And so, and I want to go back to something. So, so now if we're going to talk about intentions, that actually was an intention, what you just said. Those who love the public school and those who don't. You can point to
actions I'm doing that would indicate that I do or don't love the public school. But to bypass the actions and just go straight to what my intentions are, that actually is what Director Simon was referring to. So, Director Simon, I'm looking forward to seeing you condemn Casey for doing that as you just
did me. But let's just discuss that for a minute. Do I dislike the public school? Well, I went to the public school. I had a great time. My kids are going to be going to the public school. My oldest child is entering kindergarten next year. And the thing that troubles me is that when we have a public school
where half of the students cannot pass standardized tests and we're evacuating classrooms on a regular basis, removing the opportunity for an entire classroom of students to learn while because one student is acting up and then I'm trying to address those
issues. I'm trying to bring those issues to the forefront to do something about these things. And now you're accusing me of not living in the public school. No, I do. That's why I want the students to pass. And I'm simply here acknowledging that everything that we've done thus far with the classroom evacuation thing being perhaps one of the cornerstone
issues is has not lent itself to students succeeding. And so simply because I'm here advocating for changes that you don't agree with doesn't mean I don't love the public school system. It just means I don't agree with the direction that you think the public school system should be going. We've
done it the way you've been advocating for for quite a bit of time now. it previous boards. That's exactly the track around our previous boards have put the district on. It's not working. So simply because I'm advocating for a change doesn't mean I don't love the public school system. I do. It just
means I don't agree with you on what it will take to make the public school better. That makes sense. Director Adette, I think the discussion is about ended, so I'd like to call a question on the budget. All right, question has been
called. Um, all right. Um, will the clerk please call the role for the vote on the budget? Simon votes I. Hulman no. Aette no. Langenfeld I. Daine I.
Arco I. With four in favor and two opposed. The 2526 budget in appendix T is approved. Thank you Miss Vargas. Thank you for bearing with us. Thank you for the presentation. Next we have item 13A. Authorize Anoka Henipin Association of
Community School Coordinators 20252027 master agreement. Welcome Dr. Jennifer Cherry, executive director of human resources. Good evening again, Chair Arco, members of the board, Superintendent McIntyre. This evening, I'm pleased to announce
that our community school coordinators have ratified a new two-year agreement with the effective dates July 1, 2025 through June 30th of 2027. Thank you to the members of the association and the district bargaining team for their work in negotiating an
updated employment contract. The tenative agreement reached includes a 2-year salary increase for employees ranging from 3% to 6.18%. Within this, employees on steps 1 through 10 of the schedule receive step
movement and salary schedule increases of 1.5% each year. and employees with 20 years of seniority receive salary increase of 3% in the first year and 0% in the second year. District contributions towards insurance
increases by 5% each year of the contract. The total cost of the 2-year agreement is 1.3 million. There are eight employees in this unit. This is a change of 59,000 which is equivalent to a 6.1% package.
The proposed agreement as provided in appendix V in your packet is within the authority provided by the school board and as a result I'm seeking approval of the contract as presented. Board members are there any questions for our presenter?
All right. If not, members before us is the Anoka Henipin Association of Community School Coordinators 2527 master agreement for approval as presented in appendix 5. Appendex V. Hearing no request for discussion, the clerk will call the role, please. Simon votes I. Hulman
I. Audet I. Langenfeld I. Desaine I. Arco I. With six in favor and zero opposed, the Anoka Henipin Association of Community School Coordinators 2527 master agreement in appendix V is approved. Thank you, Dr. Cherry.
Next, we have item 13B, labor relations update. Welcome again, Dr. Jennifer Cherry, executive director of human resources. Thank you, board. Uh, this evening I will be presenting a labor relations update. This is in alignment with policy
209 which is our negotiations code of ethics uh which indicates that administration will review the status of negotiations at public school board meetings. Again note this is consistent with open meeting law. The information I will present as long as well as Pelra.
Um and with that our detailed negotiation discussions are addressed in close session of the school board. background information on our employee groups. We do have uh currently 19 employee groups which include five
unaffiliated groups and 14 bargaining groups. One of those bargaining groups, the one with the 2425 master agreement for school readiness and K readiness teachers or our preschool teachers um has actually um uh will um be concluding
on June 30th of 2025. That group is going to be absorbed by our um uh comprehensive teacher group um and will be negotiated along with our K12 teachers, AB teachers and ECF
teachers. So moving forward, we will have uh after the end of this month 13 bargaining groups. Uh we do have uh master agreements already in place for uh 23 through 25 for our child nutrition
assistants, community school coordinators, and actually you just updated an approved uh contract for them with a new 2527 agreement. Education support specialists, principals, teachers, school office supervisors, school service employees, special
education supervisors, and technical specialists. These are the groups um that I'll be providing an update on tonight. Uh the other groups have uh existing uh master agreements that go through June 30th of 2026.
So moving forward um we are uh in the beginning stages of negotiations uh with our uh a few of our groups our building service employees which is uh represented by SEIU local 284. This is a
group of almost 200 employees um made up of our custodial maintenance and warehouse employees. Uh we have met uh uh three times so far. Our next
meeting is scheduled on July 1st. Um and uh I would say we are still at the preliminary stages um of finding uh agreement on a settlement. Uh I just mentioned the community school coordinators. We actually um were not
able to remove that before this presentation went to print but we do have a uh a ratified and now authorized agreement with this group. Uh the next group that we will be starting with is our largest group of uh teachers. Uh
they are represented by a Noah Hannipan Education Minnesota local 7007. Within this group, we have 3,267 employees and we begin negotiations with them on July 10th. Um um looking at uh the future, we have
six additional groups that you see on the screen here. Our two largest of the six are our child nutrition assistants and our principles. Uh these uh groups um are yet to be scheduled. Uh typically
many of these groups choose to wait until we get further along with our larger group, our teachers um before we begin negotiations. So, we will continue to come back to you with updates uh as we progress through this negotiation
season um and provide regular updates both here at schoolboard meetings as well as uh update our negotiations web page uh which will be on our new employment link to our new employment page on our website. And so with that,
I'm open to any questions or comments that the board may have regarding our labor relations update. Any questions or comments from board members? All right. Well, hearing none. Um, thank you very much, Dr. Cherry. Thank you.
Uh, and finally, we are nearing our last board agenda item. Item 14, board correspondence and communication. Members, this is your opportunity to share happenings in your community, report on committee assignments, or other items of interest. Does anyone have anything they would like to share?
Director Shane. Thank you. Uh, I just want to offer congratulations to the Champlain Park baseball team on making state and sharing a third place finish. I enjoyed watching your strategic base running, your excellent fielding, and the teamwork at your games this season. Great job.
Director Simon. Thanks. Um I just I had the opportunity to go and help um chaperon a um an eighth grade field trip. Many of our schools were there, but I was with Rapids Middle School um at Valley Fair. And I could just say
I rode on the bus. I was there all day with them. And I will tell you um I think we had, don't quote me, it was two to 300 students. It was a lot of students and they could not have been better on the bus. Perfect, great, great
kids at Valley Fair. They represented in Noah Henipin just wonderfully. There were some other schools there not in Oka Henipin. Maybe didn't represent as well as our folks, but our students just did amazingly. And specifically, I was mostly with Rapids Middle School, but saw I think Sunrise Elementary was
there. I think there were a few fifth grade classes, too. So just wanted to mention that that our students represent very well. Director Wangfeld, I have two things. Um, first I want to uh thank the administration to who
worked closely and Tim Fornier who worked closely to open up Champlain Park High School last week to have an opportunity for community from Champlain as well as the community of Brooklyn Park come together to recognize um and
honor uh the legacy of of uh uh the Hortman's and then um as well as uh the Hoffman's but to get more details. So, thank you for that. Uh co-chair Duchine and I did attend. Um there were many
many community members who expressed their gratitude for having something bringing the two uh cities together and um clearly by the work that they have done together through this difficult time. They spoke very much in the
importance of unity. And um the mayor from Champlain actually shared a story, a personal story where he and the mayor from Brooklyn Park um just are so so
together on making sure each other have what they need. And they came together Sunday night, I think, after they uh had apprehended uh the perpetrator. and um they just hugged and he said, you know,
it just really was a really important part of bringing our cities together. So, as we honor and remember um just to recognize also um not only the legacy of Melissa Hortman and the work that she
did and I think um several talked about her being a unifier and crossing the aisle and speaking respectfully and working together that that we keep that spirit of collaboration and and work toward that we're not maybe where we
need or want to be but we all can do better is really my takeaway from that and the other thing I just wanted to share is that tomorrow there is a retirement for Dr. Wolverton um at from 2 to 4 at the education service center
and I personally have worked with Dr. Dr. Wolverton for a very long time over many years in different capacities. But what I really think a very important thing that she has done for our students and for the future of this district is
to land that ELA curriculum with the science of reading. um she was well ahead of our teachers um being involved in getting getting the training they needed well before it was directed to do so and having that insight knowing that
even though um when Wonders was adopted it was it was probably one of the forefront leaders in trans transforming the literacy uh curriculum and and to the board who who voted in favor of that but recognizing that there is much more
that needed to be done. So, she went out and made sure our teachers were trained and that's why we are positioned well. So, I just wanted to publicly thank her for that. Literacy is a priority of this board and she certainly set us up to be in in good shape to to embrace that and
to continue moving forward. So, it will be great for our students. It already is. Any other comments from board members? All right. The next item on the agenda is 15, the executive session. The executive session
will be closed pursuant to Minnesota statute 13D.05 subdivision 3B for discussion of attorney client privilege information regarding matters related to female athletes United versus Keith Ellison at all. Close session will be held in room 317, the Michael Sullivan
room. I would entertain a motion to move to close session for the reasons just stated. Thank you, Director Adet. Is there a second? Second. Thank you, Director Duchaine. Is there any discussion?
Hearing none, will all those in favor say I. I. Any oppose say nay. With six in favor and zero opposed, we will move to a close session in the Michael Sullivan room. Uh we'll take a fiveminut break. The current time is 10:22 p.m.