we will begin with roll call Kelly Kevin here here D here here spear here John Ward here great and please stand for the Pledge of [Applause] Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the
flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with libery and justice for all thank you all right we will move along to the
approval of this evening's agenda as presented there are no amendments this evening I'll make a motion to approve second so we have a motion from director spear with a second from director Hyman to approve the agenda as presented any discussion hearing none those in favor
signify by saying I please I oppose same sign motion carries public input is next a member of the public can address the board during this time comments will be limited to 3 minutes complaints or allegations against students or employees may not be discussed due to data privacy complaints or allegations
must be submitted in writing to superintendent Grant the Board of Education and superintendent will not converse with guests to address the topics discussed at this time and I believe we only have one uh public input this evening be Mr Mark Olson please Mark Olson 12336 Thompson
Road um first thing if we don't learn from the past we most definitely will repeat it um I sat at two committee meetings last week um pretty good meetings I
thought first time I was ever at a committee meeting um I congratulate the board on the resolution that hopefully gets adopted on the cell phone moving that forward you heard what I had to say
on the cell phone I'll just I I think it's fantastic I think it's going to uh move people back into the district but when I said about the past in the last s to 10 years the oversight has been terrible in my humble
opinion 181 uh blueprint wasn't um stated very true uh the numbers that came out was 205 235 you're going to be well over 300 million by the
time you get done with that um now I know there's issues with uh financing sat sat in the finance committee also and listen to that there's ways to do that without doing a referendum if you guys think a
referendum is going to pass you're highly mistaken look at your tax uh and I'm sure you all all have um that's a problem you're you're constantly leving um there's other ways that you
can do this obviously you have a rainy day fund tap into that try to get the kids back at schools I think you're doing a great job on the cell phone I would have preferred it MO D in September but I understand you can't get
everything done as quick as you want so January looks like a good date if you do things like that to move people through uh the community is going to get behind you but as far as uh thinking that you're going to push an operating
Levy and I know it doesn't say that on here you're going to direct the superintendent to check out to see how that would go but in my humble opinion and it's just one guy but I talk to
numerous people um the referendum in 2018 wasn't as uh fourth right as it should should have been so thanks for listening um and good luck thanks bunch thanks
Mark all right that concludes public input so we'll move on to the approval of the minutes from our last meeting on June 10th I make a motion we approve June 10th meet minutes I'll second so we have a motion from director Breen with a
second from director spear to approve the board meeting minutes from June 10th any discussion hearing none those in favor I I oppos same sign motion carries I'll move on to the consent calendar um
I'll make a motion to approve I'll second okay we have a motion from director spear with a second from director Breen to approve the consent calendar as presented discussion I got something sure so
um I think it was not last winner but the winner before it started out at the college and so what's happening is is kids are calling what they're doing is is they're saying Get your parents your Aunts Uncles
relatives neighbors your parents friends and give them a call so we just split everybody up so next thing I know the high school's doing it like my nephew called me on the hockey team this is for funraising this is for fundraising okay right so they're just calling up oh I'm sorry I didn't
tell you which one I was talking about yeah so they're just calling up and asking for money which I think is really tacky I think it's not teaching them anything they need to be learning I didn't want the pizzas that I bought from those kids I didn't want the cookie dough that I bought from those kids I
didn't really want the beef jerky I bought from those kids but if they got the guts to come up and knock on my door I'm going to buy something from them right but this crazy train how did I go with that crazy train word again is it's got to stop I talked to Jack about it and maybe it's out of here but I I don't
know that it needs to be addressed in a policy but I just want everyone to understand what I think you don't just call up and beg for money you want to go shovel the roofs you want to do this I was a little mad about the deal because I support the rink at Forest View uh I talk to
quisberg you know they give $110,000 a year to brard hockey plus all they do for sports boosters and now we got four different kids called them to just asking for more money you know it's not right and it's not fair to the kids and it's not fair to the locals so I think we got to just make sure that I would
like to think that our board would say that hey you have to do something to earn the money you know I told the hockey coach back then I said hey it's going to snow like five times this year I'll pay your kids uh uh I don't remember what I told them an hour but I go if fit snow as this many times you guys will make 4,000 bucks I'll gladly
do that so my salesman don't have to be here at 5 o' in the morning to do that stuff and you think there's any takers no which I understand but I wasn't expecting them to do it but I'd like to see a little bit of effort put in in return for the the money that they raise without
just call up asking money how did they get payment when they because I've never had anybody call well so they had they wanted to do a credit card oh and it went through the people that were promoting this so Mei and me and it was my nephew I told him go I want to know
how much the team gets if I give you $100 how much does the team get guess how much the team gets 80 bucks but you can give a check so the hockey coach was smart enough to know what I was doing so he call me back he said you can just drop a check off and it was like you know you drop a check off yeah so if you
didn't use your credit card then the people that are teaching them they bring them in a room they coach them up on what to say give them scripts and then all these little kids or big kids or whatever kids get on the telephones and call their parents friends and it's just I just thought it was just ridiculous
and I saw we had a policy on it and so I don't know it needs to be part of the policy but I think it needs to be stated that we can't just be all begging for money I don't think it's I think there's a lot of it going on I just think that you should offer something in return you know the
football kids uh I don't know what do they have that gold card or blue card or whatever that card is you know I saw those guys coming down my driveway I just walked right out in the driveway and I liked them so much I get I bought one from each of them they were doing it as a team you know two of them and uh I
don't know what I did with the cards I never used them I can tell you that much but at least someone was learning something learning skills learning eye contact learning to get over your fears and you know talk to somebody you know I think it's good for them I think that's one of those horses that maybe people
fell off during covid so you know maybe you didn't do it and then people forgot to go back to doing it well as a traditionalist I know that my little bicycle and Cub Scout uniform struck fear into the hearts of rural Pillager when they saw me coming up their driveway they knew I was selling
something well you know what uh we'll just leave him unnamed but someone told me from the school that's in charge uh said that a lot of people are like I don't want the cookie dough I don't want the beef turkey you know me being me I'm like
well just give them the money I'm pretty positive they're not going to like tell you I can't take it if you don't take the beef turkey or those pizzas or whatever they're selling you know so I think it's good for those kids to be out doing that and that this I it seems like it went away last year like I don't I don't remember it happening this past
winter I mean it was the CLC basketball girls that's where it started funny part about it is my brother-in-law that kid's my nephew's dad he came to me just furious about the whole deal right well then it's a week later two weeks later I'm like hey buddy your kid's doing it
too like it's it wasn't I I don't think it left a very good taste in people's mouths so we should get away from that business that's all I got to say so Randy or DJ I will tell you this it's Universal across the state vona that
this operations of raising money um it used to be service directed then it became the punch card or you know right Subway card or discount here and there yeah and
um I'm just going to say I is from my perspective whoever publishes those cards weren't making enough money then they had to come up another gimmick of how to we make this work oh really and that's why they went to the phone
um I don't have an answer to it I know that as a parent and coach and school administrator and so forth I detested begging for money from the kids but it's kind of the norm today I don't I don't
know what the solution really is but I do agree with you that it should be more than just pan handling yeah cuz that's kind of what it is and kids should not be used that way at all I don't believe but um clubs and everything they need
fundraising and I don't think they have found the golden ticket ticket to make it work but I don't like it when kids are used to Panhandle because that I don't think they'll learn anything from it personally other than be either
rejected or you give them cash and say keep the card and they go but we have to sell so many cards so it's a lose lose proposition for either the consumer or for the seller one of the two some of those kids might just put it
in their pocket too if take a card well I know if John and I were to eat from the menu of these cards uh we would be seeing our cardiologists a lot more often uh some of the you know uh at least the one C that I bought had a you
know was a gas coupon that last for six or seven months but I mean I just saw on Facebook today the warrior Little Falls girls hockey team starting to raise funds are they yeah well they need it and I think it's a fine deal I just didn't care for the you need to do
something even if you just walked in the door and said could did you help our team out you know a lot better than just calling on the telephone at 8 o00 at night is this something we want to remove from the Cent agenda and take back to policy committee or do we want to pass as is and I don't think it needs
to be do we could I mean we could certainly review it without having take formal board action I I be honest I have never delved that deeply into the the minutia of that particular policy I just read it and I don't think it needs to go on I don't know we need to change the
policy okay you were just trying to a board dman policy i' just like to see the attitude of the school take the high road thing if it doesn't get fixed I guess we can change it later I I'm fine with voting for it that's I just have another comment too when as
I was reviewing the agenda um and it's along the lines of student fundraising and Peter you may not know the answer to this but I'm are there systems in place in collecting These funds that it's
being managed or monitored or accounted for I I've had personal experience in a district where um just one adult was collecting the funds and it was questionable whether or not all those funds almost all of these are not school
related oh okay the school district is not involved specifically okay so you have all these clubs which I understand okay and they come up to generate money for football basketball wrestling track dance whatever it is and it's generated
by the booster clubs and um so those monies are exterior of the reach of this District they can pretty much determine where those funds are going to be spent and how and so forth and that's why
I it is a really battle um a lot of communities have gone to one major fundraiser for the entire activity program where um there might be a major golf outing or there might be a major
raffle party or silent auction so forth all the proceeds go to Student Activities and then the school does have control of it but otherwise you're at the will of you know anybody selling a product that they think they can help
fund but there's always a like DJ said you know you raise 100 you only get 80 I mean that's the that's the good and the Bad and the Ugly of it all and a lot of the stuff that they rais money for the way I understand it correct me if I'm
wrong Peter but let's just say there the football foundation so that could be so that they get to ride coach buses instead of regular school buses or they say well we got to play Rochester now so those kids need dinner right we don't
have that budgeted for the football team way I get it right or after the game they feed them or it's that's what they use this money for um and maybe buy new jerseys or something for the hockey some smaller teams you know the big teams it's pretty hard to buy new jerseys for a football
team it's like 100 of but um so yeah I understand this is kind of weird as a committee topic because it kind of rests kind of partway between policy and part and partway between like Community right right who's on community I can't remember community relations community
relations it's policy we're policy and community relations yeah yeah maybe we should look at that is in the same policy never mind it doesn't cross two it's the same we have two names on the committee I guess we should invoke the other name for some weird reason we've been spending a lot of time on
policy um so maybe we should take a look at that you know just but where did this where did this policy come up did it come up in it's just up for it normal it was up for its normal cycle of of renewal and and then if there is no redlining or anything like that we throw
them in the consent agenda you know in theory to save time in [Laughter] theory so does anybody object to the idea of just uh of uh us taking a look at this through the community lens on
that Committee just for Giggles okay well we can do that and we can report back any other discussion on the motion I I got one John did you go through the discipline Matrix though the what that discipline Matrix did you look
at that no well here we go me making the meeting take longer again sorry yeah jeez what's wrong with me I don't know about that but well I'm looking at these these uh managed behaviors and minor is pushing shoving
kicking impulsive actions and loss of self-control H I just don't know if those are minor infection I I think kicking I mean I understand if a first grader two first graders get in a little spat out in the playground and
one kicks the other one I don't think we're going to be doing anything but if somebody kicked a teacher oh or if it's somebody that's 14 15 years old and big and tough and young and strong and start kicking people or is this thing just kind of
a guide where we take things and you know principles and teachers and stuff make the decision whether it's major or minor because I just don't know what it takes to be major well there's a list I could read them you know it just seems to me
like shoving and who are you shoving if it's you know like I you know we all grew up and went through school the shoving matches happen at basketball practice you know baseball practice it happens I don't think that's a major offense but start shoving adults things like that I would hope would go
into um into the major examples I I do see threats of VI of violence sexual harassment racial harassment bullying cheating I don't know I just was I was
curious if you saw it John because I know you're kind of concerned about this yep I am too we did talk about that in a policy committee meeting it's been a while I think you asked some really good
questions about it yeah I think uh I think director Ross uh was the individual who brought it to a policy committee meeting quite a I'm not sure a couple months ago maybe so it's it's fairly new is it fresh freshened up it's it's fairly new
and and you know maybe we can send that back to the policy well I mean it's it's here today because we did that discussion a few months ago or a few meetings ago is that right do I remember that right director
Ross any other right because I think director Hyman had some concerns about the way the original Matrix was and we adjusted it based on that dialogue that we had back at that meeting if I remember correctly now that's a I wouldn't take the over on that bet just for the record
but is this procedure or is it attached to the policy I don't know it's a separate thing this is a separate behavioral Matrix yeah it's a separate uh because we didn't like again a lot of our policies we don't like to have to rewrite them if we have an addendum and
I think this was an addendum I'm not mistaken right yep that is correct director hin this is a procedure that's attached to policy 506 um at your request that gives a guidance to staff it doesn't list every
possible outcome of a behavior um we are working currently with admin and staff to identify what is disruptive behavior and what constitutes an opportunity for relearning and what constitutes an opportunity for immediate
intervention um there's all kinds of degrees for that while you're seeing it in your packet today is because we added some language to include our collaborative workers and some other folks that were not previously listed on
The Matrix as people that could provide additional support for students when they need opportunities for relearning or talking to somebody about a situation that they're having there's not going to be a matrix that we can provide you that
would list every possible example um and sometimes something starts out minor and it becomes major or vice versa it's very uh situational it's part of what we do is understanding our students and having
relationships with our students and um our staff will get more information about this and our back to school welcome um with superintendent Grant this um fall um and they'll have ongoing learning with the behavior Matrix as
part of our mtss plan and there'll be a special emphasis on bullying this year so that those are already in the works based on the guidance that you have provided us in our last few meetings and at the board retreat so is this essentially the
same essentially the same just a few mitor minor wording changes so that we can include our collaborative workers and our school counselors and some of the essential um supports that were missing in the first iteration but I think to director
dinger's point when I reread this now outside of the committee structure it seems presumptively student to student in terms of what it's defining right and that's kind of how I read it and then what you're saying is you're you know you have concerns about student Behavior
towards staff I just think that if um I mean I think we all have we can continue to make strides in student Behavior you'll have happier smarter kids coming out of the school and I think you'll have less def factions if you want to call it
you know deserters moving to home school going to online schools whatever they're wherever they're going there a lot of competition out there so if we could make it a better environment where if you're intimidated by somebody we can get that person under control so that three kids in the class can learn
because they're so afraid that they're going to get be the one today that going to get it yeah you know what I'm saying yeah I think that it was probably way too harsh especially back when Randy and John went to school my God I mean I can't imagine what they did to those guys young guys like us Kevin we came
out had muzzle loaders back then so it wasn't as dangerous but I think I think that it went you know that was too strict and then I think maybe this is just my opinion I don't know that much about it I'm not an educator obviously but all of a sudden it got to be a little bit lopsided the other way and we
kind of need to come back to a center where there are consequences for what your actions but yet we're not going to have them drop them in the principal's office you know it's we get you know what I'm saying so I just want to make sure we're kind of striding that way a little bit you know I don't think we're just going to snap our fingers and fix
this but it'd be nice to think that we're starting to make some Headway and make it a better working environment for our Paras teachers administrators um I just think it'd be a it it should be a fun place to work yeah absolutely and we want it to be a a well Bal
learning environment for everybody absolutely um policy 506 if you remember excuse me was um Rewritten this year um msba gave us a new draft it was attended to in the legislature and it ended up to
be something like 20 pages long so we gave you this Matrix as a summary document from the 20 some pages that it was yeah so much like we're talking about with other policy um tonight maybe it's this is an opportunity for us to
dig into the existing policy we have and be more intentional about what does that mean for student behavior um in terms of student to student student to adults definitions of bullying other aspects of
some of the things that contribute to a learning environment it already exists we just have not done a whole lot with it because it was so new last spring I feel like this document just basically identifies the various types of
behaviors that can be exhibited it it does not go dig deep into consequences because we trust the staff to manage those misbehaviors so we I don't think it's probably our place to really
identify what they should do with various misbehaviors this is just a guide to be able to decide okay is this a major or a minor and based on what the staff determines that behavior to be and kicking could definitely be a major even
though it's listed as minor I mean I I I think we have to just trust that the staff will make the best decisions that they're half of these actions are subjective to they're all subjective I mean like you said where did they kick them how hard did they kick them and who did they kick and how many times you
this is just a guide here's my devil's advocate to that okay all right is you put out a list so we don't talk about my kids kicking anybody because they're down with school okay but my kid kicked somebody well we didn't know that it broke his leg and then he did a flipping
Karate Kid Chop on him and beat him up pretty good right and kicked him so I'm going to say hey it's right here I I'm wondering why we even have this list it's right here says right here kicking minor offense what are you doing sincey my kid like we're just asking for
trouble with this list I I'm with you I think that that you guys are plenty capable of deciding what's major and what's minor but when you put out a list you put out a list oh let me just let me just go to shoving
so you shove one student shoves another and you know I didn't like it one one student shoves another and falls down okay what happens if a student shows another student down a flight of stairs
still a shelf but the consequences that have to be determined is what's the how far did that repercussion go to bodily injury and so forth and then you ramp up consequences so it is a guideline to
address especially with younger kids you know a shove is a shove I mean it could be playing basketball on the playground right so you have to determine and I would like to think that as educated as we are smart have to figure out the degree of
consequence is going to be from a shove playing a dodgeball whatever to I shoved a kid down the stairs and there was significant accountability for what happened to that other student so I mean you just have to trust that the I trust people in the classroom and in the
administration are going to make the right decisions on how far is that consequence going to carry well that's the pro that's the problem quite frankly and I was going to say my comments till updates said director updates but I'm not going to save it until then um I don't know if
any of you have watched I put out an email to all of us I don't know if you've watched a movie about Joe Kelly Joe Kelly had a son that was brutally bullied in school and it drove him to suicide and Joel Kelly was his
father and uh walked across the nation and talked about bullying to anybody that would listen and what we can do about bullying Joe Kelly and his walk across the nation got killed and hit by hit by a as he was walking got killed
it's an unbelievable documentary drama film about bullying now does now that has that I know of at least one student in this District that has um been significantly bullied to the point of mental health
issues big big time and that's why I said I want to see some Zero Tolerance in bullying Zero Tolerance period And I don't want to I don't want to see anybody saying those kids are
just feeling bad about themselves and picking on other kids bull crap if there is bullying existing he that person he or she needs to be gone and then they they shouldn't return until the parents come in and say
okay this will never happen again that's what I want to because I think that's why we lose kids when they're when they're afraid to come to to to the school when they're afraid to sit in a class when they're afraid to walk down the Halls when they're afraid to sit in the cafeteria when they're
afraid to go into The Home Room period could be part of our treny problems kids just don't want to go they're scared to go so we have to we have to address bullying my friends big time and it's it isn't just it's a it's a nationwide kind of deal but so so I mean it's like Co we
we we blame everything like Co okay it's n bull crap what can we do here to make sure that our kids are welcomed and safe um and respected and appreciated and included you know when we talk about
inclusion it does it that doesn't mean just inviting people to the table that means understanding that they belong at the table that's what inclusion is inclusion is accepting everybody and and feeling like they belong not just come on and sit and and and getting on a
little bit Soap Box I'm sorry but this is really significant in my opinion um so I'm hoping that we have some kind of of a of a a solution by the beginning of the school year about bullying administratively yes we have to deal
with that but I know that I know that there are kids that are uncomfortable and that have left because of that period and let's try to turn that around let's try to say you know what we have a zero tolerance of bullying here and we're going to and we're going to deal
with it deal with it and sometimes you get kicked back from the parents um I understand all of that as well um but I that I was going to save that until later but I but I didn't obviously obviously and by the way the other thing
about um student fundraising I was going to keep my mouth shut about that too but I'm not um put a in them look what happens student fundraising is happening because we because because we haven't done the
job we haven't done the job not us not we all of us you got Thief River student elementary students doing fundraising to keep their classroom sizes down can you believe that that's the fact that's the fact it's in it's in the media it's
elementary students and I know we shouldn't be using students we shouldn't be using students but when the kids are saying we want and need something people better start listening people better start listening and and as
a coach as a as a former coach everything's getting more expensive and um when you have when you have the athletic programs or the academic program I mean the clubs the organizations the extra co-curriculars that you want to have to provide an well-rounded education for these children for these young people it costs
money and if and if and if we have only so much money then we got to tap back to the community I don't have I don't agree with Mr Olson that we we you know we don't we we won't pass an operating Levy I think we show the need and and we get
community support that's what I think and that's why I'm on this board so um I want to bring out those two things I'm done for no thank you
anything else on the Matrix I can help you with watch Jill Kelly's film by the way well I think yeah I think this was like you you had mentioned uh director Rob Ross this was just a bringing to fruition so we could see
what this massive piece of legislation was passed and what what we need to look at and and a flowchart um I thought initially it was a great idea I still think it is now if we need to do something as far as student to
teacher then let's have at it well one recommendation I would offer is we could bring 506 back to the policy committee and revisit some of the language that is already existing in 506 that talks about
some of the scenarios that you brought up tonight to see if you're comfortable yeah I would see no reason not to do that what I would say is on that one and really on Bully too I haven't been all the way into the depths of that one but you know there's a if you want to
think of it in terms of government right there's a legislative layer and then there's an enforcement layer right and a policy layer right so our policy is our legislation so the terminology is a little different right but um I suspect we probably have all the words in the
policies that we need what we need to do is what we're doing tonight with the cell phone thing which is giving a direction on how we want that policy implemented and enforced sure because there's a difference between you know how many times do you hear it we don't need more laws we need people to enforce
the laws that we have and so let's before we get too crazy and start cracking open more policies we should look at the policies we have and then and that also gives the professionals the latitude to do their day-to-day work and intervene and do the things that they need to do with board
Direction you know that's that's kind of my take on it well we the DJ's Point too about teacher assaulting a teacher or or bullying a teacher or whatever physically harming a I mean there's there's that could be considered a criminal a criminal offense as well that
could be a um well a criminal offense but it could be the same for a child as well and um I I just think we need to look at all of that so what did you suggest John do we vote on this or do you want to take it
back to policy we need to vote on this because the MSP because msba has asked us to update our policies and things as such or whatever um and we can do it again at the policy committee I mean there's no burning need
that this has to we can pull this out send it back to committee if you want to and then we can take another look I don't know what we need to I just we have meeting a week and a half a little confused well this is just for the Matrix correct the policy ISC has changed and approve the Matrix I mean to
did to your original Point DJ I mean you know kicking you know it's like hockey what's a two minute what's a 5 minute those are always going to be judgment calls judgment calls y well yeah in some cases but in some cases it's pretty cut clearcut well it is well but I'm saying if you walk up draw blood mean you're
you're going to be sitting in the locker room for the rest of the night probably my point is that a parent or a child can't walk up kick another kid in a way that that child is on the ground for 10 minutes writhing on the ground then come back and go it's a minor based on your chart I don't think that's going to fly
you know that's not how it works um well if any of you have been in the forest view during uh lunch hours those kids are just running down the hallways I mean there was going to be kids crashing and burning uh into each other I mean it just well I had I had an actual scenario
where this happened to my middle son where he was kicked by another student when I lived in California and he was in middle school so my wife went to the administrator they wouldn't tell her what they did from a uh discipline perspective it was all private so I
looked up the California statute on assault and I walked into the administrator and said here's the California statute for assault you can tell me or you can tell the police I'm going to file a complaint and suddenly some new information came to light that I was had access to um so I think to the
extent that we let the professionals do their jobs um and and let them know that we'll back them when they do the right thing but then to John's point you know they've got to be repercussions and consequences but I don't think that's driven by policy that's driven by procedure and implementation exactly
mhm and it's an attempt to make our schools welcoming safe inviting positive period And I think if we you know I think if we don't speak up as
board members about these kinds of things for the direction I think that the professionals don't really know the direction that we want them to go and we're the ones that are elected and that's what we're here for is to help
direct the superintendent right isn't that our main job so if we don't ever let them know what we're thinking uh other than one at a time I think that we're doing them a disservice and our students and our parents and
ourselves so there you go I think you're exactly right I mean I think we're the first and last line of defense and so we talked about this last week in the policy committee meeting I mean that's really what this resolution tonight about cell phones is about is the board saying with one voice we don't have a
new policy yet but we have existing handbook language and we're telling you as administrators as teachers as peras as other workers in our schools enforce it and if somebody wants to have a problem with that they can call me they can call him they can call you they can
call you and you know what they're going to hear the same thing from every one of us there's a power in that that you can't dispute there's that's that's consistency as Peter has preached since he came in to meet with us before we we before the ink was done on this contract
Y and I think you can do the same where I was going with that is you can do the same with these other things too yeah which you can say we already have these things we have to identify and then the staff knows where they stand and they know somebody's got their back they don't they aren't just dangling out there with an angry parent by themselves
to get chewed up and I think also if if it need be if if uh some of the board members if we need to be in the High School uh first first week of school I'll be there we get spefic reti guys let's just sign up the retired guys Peter get it on your
list those two right there well this one too this one over here is retired too I think aren't you Michelle kind of she's the K9 unit should bring Rosie in I just want to make sure that everybody knows we are in the schools we've been in the schools
so no I think talking about for this you know what we're talking about all right so uh um where we at with 506 Matrix do you want it to go back to committee or are we okay with it as is I'm okay with is I'm okay with it too
all right then is there any further discussion on the consent calendar as a whole thank you director Ross hearing none those in favor signify by saying I please I oppose same sign motion carries thank you everybody good discussion all right we will amble along
to new business we'll start with our first action item for tonight which is the approval of the administration recommendation to issue a 2024 2025 contract of the following certified staff members that was missed during uh last month when we were doing a larger number of them resulting in the granting of tenure uh the two staff members in
question here are Hannah Anthony and Mary oh goodness I'll probably kill this P waset that's how I would have said it yay um so yeah we want to approve that I'll move second so we have a motion from director Ward with a second firm
director Hyman for the approval of uh tenure Grant granting of tenure any further discussion hearing none those in favor please I those oppos same sign hearing none Mo or excuse me motion passes next up is the approval of we got uh well
this is the Angie Bennett section of the agenda so first we'll start with the ratification of the head Cook's benefit and compensation handbook for 2425 and 2526 yes good evening oh yeah I'm good how are you good good so we have three handbooks um we
reviewed a few also last board meeting so same process was used for these three groups where we invited them in have a discussion about some proposed changes to their handbook sent out a survey to see what they're looking for um with an increase in their handbooks to see if
there was anything that we were missing get some input from them uh so we had groups come in at varying levels summertime is a little bit more difficult to get head Cooks in um in the Community Education folks but we did have some representation from all of
them so with head cook specifically the biggest change I think was um kind of normalizing the the wage scale so long time ago they used to be a union um with food service they broke away from the union but really kind of still acted
like a union and so negotiations it was really with a district very much like a union so everybody was on the bottom step so they wanted all the increased on the bottom step well that has skewed our whole salary SC schedule so as folks are retiring we're
not going to be able to recruit and retain newer staff and so we kind of did some normalization there the do bottom step was also out of market so we always do a market analysis with three districts that are smaller than us three that are larger than us see what they do
and see where we're at to make sure that we're still being competitive um so we kind of gave a less increase on that bottom step because we don't want to continue getting out of Market to kind of offset and um still acknowledge the longevity we did some adjustments to
longevity scale instead so the longer you stay you get a little bit of a bump instead of adding it to a salary scale where you get a percentage increase if that makes sense and then just realign personal uh time and ESS language so
pretty basic for head Cooks I'll make a motion I'll second all right we have a a motion from director dondlinger with a second from director Breen to approve the head Cook's contract or excuse me handbook yep any
discussion hearing none those in favor post same sign motion carries next up we have the uh Community Education child care workers benefit compensation handbook language for the same periods yep so again in the efforts to make
things more clean and clear for everybody on the last handbook had a separation for childcare workers that work in fun and friends versus pre prek workers they had two salary scales became very cumbersome because a lot of times they'll start crossing over where
they're doing some fun of friends some prek workers so what we did was we combined um so we have one salary scale um for three different types so we're doing a little bit of a restructure um where we're going to instead of like prek room leads we're going to have assistant site supervisors and site
supervis visor is very similar to the what we have in funing friends so we just kind of cleaned up all that stuff added ESS um and then yeah that's about it then the salary adjustments kind of based on our budget for
that I'll move approval second so we have a motion from director Ward with a second from director donlinger to approve as presented any discussion hearing none those in favor please I oppose same sign motion carries and the third in the trilogy the
approval of the ratification for technology and specialist same period hand again very minimal changes on this one um it was basically language cleanup uh we removed the network administrator position as if you can remember a couple years ago we
had when Ryan kind of moved into a new role he was the network administrator we're not planning to refill that so we took that out of the hbook and then just um updated the salary scale clean up some language and added essd so that was about it not a whole lot on that
one motion I'll second okay so we have a motion from director dingo with a second from director Breen to approve as presented any further discussion bearing none those in favor please oppose same sign motion carries thank you very much and that is the end
of our handbook so now we have three more Union contracts lingering so hopefully within the next month those will be done thanks than thank you thank youie all right approval to direct Administration to research Consulting for firms for
referendum survey Mr Grant so um Marcy and I haven't had a lot to share about it but um in Minnesota there's really just two major ones that do very very well one of them
I've had experience with um I told Marc here earlier today that during the time I was at otana and we passed a levy and a bond backto back almost we used the same company and um unbelievably I mean I kind of have a
I don't know if I trust him or not you know when you hear a 3% margin of plus or minus they both both surveys came in within 2% of accuracy of where we should go for how much money that the public would support and um we were astonished that
they were so accurate so um I think Marcy and I can figure out talk to both of them I mean the there's probably one more but I wouldn't trust them very far if I could help it but um if you give us the direction we we'll go
immediately into start talking to them and find out um they come and see us what is their proposal I mean it's going to cost you money the way it goes but if you want the accuracy of what a survey is going to do um to go into this next
stage for the financial operation of the district you have to do the survey and it covers a large swath of information it isn't just about money you know they talk about you know how do you feel about the district do you trust them
what are some things that you would like to see different or do you have kids in school you don't have kids in school did you ever had kids in school um how long have you been in the community it covers a large area so that you can get a real grasp of
how the consensus is drawn and they don't survey 30,000 people but probably do there's I don't know how many in the district 40,000 maybe 35 they'll probably do 17,800 people
to get the information they want and then they say well based on what we know this is how we can guide you into believing this is where you can go this is where you don't want to go my experience they would say if you want x amount of dollars here's the
support we think you'll get if you go a little bit higher the the support goes this way if you go across that threshold it says you're not going to get a a positive vote really simple really but they have to find out through talking it's about a 15 or 20 minute interview
on the phone they need to be able to get people to agree for first of all to participate and then they go through their question in and sometimes they might go oh this question didn't work for that person what about this question then and then at the end it's always open
comment you know do you want to say something specifically about the district and then they'll jop all that down they put the uh Matrix together of all the responses and they tell you exactly where every question fell into
the feeling of those people that they interviewed and they're surprisingly incredibly accurate about where you're at where you stand and where you should go and where you should not go where you should not go is probably more important
because you want a yes V versus a loss because when you lose it's a regroup that's not much fun how how much do these companies cost depending on the size of the district um
oana I think it was about 12 Grand um there a city of 25,000 people um I don't know where they rates are today compared to sure they're higher 2016 oh yeah they're not going to
be going to be lower they won't be lower but um sometimes you can bargain with them depending on how much work you want them to do because there'll be a large scope of things they'll say they can offer and you just kind of we don't really you know let's do this let's do this because
it's important data but you don't want to cut off your arm to get it so superintended Grant did you did you look at a couple different companies or and how were they how were they price comparison and and service comparison um really to be honest with you John
service was more important than cost we wanted really good service we wanted them to be us we didn't want them to be an outside entity coming in and everybody goes who's this so um the company we chose we felt uh first of all had a great track record one on
service and then they would adjust their prices according to what you wanted them to specifically do the other the company I thought um they were more about um collecting their paycheck although their data was
good but I didn't feel their service was nearly as personable you know you go buy a car right the whole game every corner you can buy them all over the place so you haven't really actively done this now no we're this V past
history this is from The Retreat right to have an actual board action to empower them to we'll get some estim GA proposals and everything has to be approved by you I know and we can have them come and talk to you probably will at the end
yeah but the the the supposition is that you and your team will come forward with a recommendation right right y a recommendation of what company to go with right yeah okay they still need to present to you what they're going to do okay because if you don't like what you
hear you don't want them I'll move that we direct Administration to research consulting firms for referendum survey I'll second all right we have a motion from director Ward with a second from director spe to approve Mr Grant team to
uh begin the vetting and search for a consulting firm do we excuse me m Jer do we need a a timeline at all oh that's a great Point yeah um
um well you can tell us after we I mean that isn't really part of your motion but you you can tell us anytime can amend the motion that's why I'm asking doesn't take very long to you know get an answer let's put it that way do you need I mean do we need time
probably a month you know to make sure we're asking the right questions getting the right information and then present it to you yeah so I would say the end of the month we can have an answer for you okay so August 12th board meeting sure why do we even need a motion for them to
go shop around well because you're asking us to spend your money spending money but we're not spending any money right now though are we no but I mean that's the core of the plan is you you go find somebody and we'll approve it um we really do need your direction to say
go ahead and do it it primarily though DJ it was because we had this discussion in in the retreat format where we the six of us discussed having them do it and had he gone and done it one could make the argument that we took a board action in that Retreat which wouldn't be
legal so by doing it this way we Legalize It by saying that we talked about this at The Retreat we're actually taking a board action to compel or request that they go do it it's fine I I don't it's dotting an eye if you want to think of it that way I mean the retreat
was an open meeting so I don't think I mean it was but we can't do motions and and do vot we did we counted noses at that thing I mean so now we're formally counting noses to do what we did at the retreat and just make it formal to your point they could have gone and done all the homework and he
could have presented it as his own agenda item without even telling us ahead of time but based on how the this that's not really that's not a good way to go no agreed any further discussion okay hearing none go ahead I
guess I guess the the deal with me is from The Retreat what made me the most excited about this because I don't think a referendum will pass um I think people's property taxes home insurance car insurance gas heating has gone crazy
and I don't think they've got the extra money um plus there's still a little bit of a taste in their mouth from the last 200 million um but I was more intrigued with when uh Peter said that that we're going to learn all about the reasons that people are in the school people are not
at the school if they think about us as a school and I think that information can be really valuable so I guess I'd be happy with doing it but I I'm doing it for different purposes than okay other people that's what we call a win-win because I'm after all of the data because I I I I don't know that I feel
as strongly against what you're saying or for what you're saying that's why you hire experts to get you that information what I do know is I don't like the idea of perpetually punishing the next 6200 kids that come through this district for whatever was done in 2015 and 16 well that's trueth none of us are here your
board members that's yesterday yesterday doesn't pay the bills today yesterday doesn't teach kids today I think uh in fact we had a public comment tonight said doing the same thing basically but here's the deal Kevin we can't erase it so maybe it wasn't our fault but it's still there
and it's a 40-year note so the people understood they stepped up they stepped up we said we needed more room yep but every car on your lot has a smaller rear view mirror than a windshield for a reason looking forward is more important than looking behind true we got to do
both y go all right any further discussion on the motion hearing none all those in favor signify by saying I please I oppos same sign motion carries all right next up are Marcy L and Reed TC with the ltfm
report 10year plan yeah that's I was in the meeting when so in your board packet are the two required forms from mde for our ltfm plan and this was reviewed by the uh finance committee just an FY I the first
report is our revenues for the year and for excuse me for the following 10 years so on line six I do adjust the adjusted Pew coordinates and then beyond that the only change is what we talked about at the school board retreat now we do
qualify for the 1A funding so on line 26 you'll now see a new amount in fiscal year 26 so when we send this off to mde they will recognize that and get that onto our Levy so that's the revenue
report and then the other document is the expenses which is a summary of all our projected expenses which comes from um Reed has a more of a detail of all the projects that we have planned and then I summarize it onto this
document and there's all sorts of Finance codes and um requirements by MD of how we break out those projects but this is just a summary Mercy this is the summary the okay that
easy little summary yeah I know like I said these are mde forms which we're required to send them once you guys approve them okay and then the very bottom does summarize our fund balance you'll see in the fund one that pretty much after
2026 you know whatever our projects are is what we can Levy and I know Sarah you expressed some concern at the Schoolboard Retreat so then next year we'll update this plan again and we'll fine tune 27 and keep going so it's a
10-year plan but it gets reviewed every year the the only set in stone year that you're going to look at is the next fiscal year that's the only thing set in stone any years after that the nine following are up for adjustment as we go
through the this school year our priorities may change projects May po up they may Elevate to the surface because a roof leak or parking lot degradation or whatever it might be and we'll move those projects around on those nine years to balance out that
budget I'll make the motion second we have a motion from director Don linger with a second from director Ward to approve the maintenance plan as presented forur the discussion um I mean I'll be the first one to admit this things are pretty
complicated but um since the motion was made by the you know by two guys that are looking at the dollars and cents a fair bit and then Michelle any other thoughts that you have you're on the ltfm piece of it right yeah no don't have any thoughts looks looks good thanks for all the hard work on it this
is this always a little kind of a beast to get your arms around and with you know with blueprint 181 remember the last four years with the remodel going on we've addressed a lot of our ltfm needs there's still a lot of needs out there and those are the needs that we populate in that 10year plan obviously we're looking ahead to saying you know
hey we put this roof on 20 years ago and we know that that system typically lasts 20 to 25 years trying to put a sticky note on that year to say hey I know this is going to be $200,000 we're trying to best guess on some of those later out years that's why those plans get flexible as they as they come closer and
closer we got any money pardon we got money well that's a very broad question money for for what well all these projects we're talking about there is money uh there is funding available to fund more projects than we've had in years prior
yes after next year yep starting in in fiscal year 26 and that's because of that new classification because of the alt facilities funding resource that's available through MD correct so when I see the
zeros does that mean that those were in all these very ious categories these are um were a lot of these categories addressed with project blueprint 181 they're just categories that we've never had used them okay either we've never
used them or we don't qualify for some of them okay but they're part of the form yep okay exactly so really the under category five is the kind of the bulk of what you got it we are looking
okay yes so for any project whether it be HVAC replacement Roofing electrical like lighting improvements anything like that depending upon the type of project determines what bucket it falls underneath here and so those are all uh
MD's process of how they fund things through ltfm they said hey instead of each School District doing it differently we're going to standardize on how all the school districts apply for maintenance money for health and safety and environmental and facility fixes that instead of just one code we
had to have all of these so they know what we're doing yeah okay well I'll apologize this probably a fairly dumb question but it'll be good for edification for those watching listening whatever is this the fund then that benefits from that additional maybe you
talk a little bit about how our square footage increased and how that that this into a different read says it better than I do yeah yep okay so for for the largest school districts in the state school districts with over 1.5 5 million square ft of facility um they typically
they they're they have the opportunity to apply for this 1A funding um and what that is it's alt facilities funding uh what it does is it allows the ltfm mechanism based on student enrollment numbers they realize that the largest districts in the state
that funding mechanism is not really good it doesn't work really well for those types of districts so when you get over 1.5 million square F feet which or 1 556 somewhere in there we 50,000 ft over um that helps those larger
districts then be able to Levy for the improvements that are need needed to take care of the facilities versus having to go out and say uh like a Crosby or a Pillager which doesn't have the the square footage we do they would have to go out and say we need a capital referendum in order to put you know
Roofing and parking lots and Technology into their facilities so um this funding mechanism this 1A mechanism allows us to do that internally um and take care of those largest needs projects thank you but that one a funding is just for facility can only be
used for ltfm projects so health and safety asbest removal um electrical mechanical site projects like roof uh parking lots uh roofing systems building envelope doors windows you know the shell of our
facilities is really what it can be used for can't be used for anything else can't be used can't get teachers with this money can we only qualify because of blueprint 181 right so thank you community for improving blueprint when you when it gives us a little bit more
funding yep any other questions or comments or discussion on the motion hearing none uh those in favor sign by saying hi hi hi post same sign motion carries thank you Marcy thank you
Reed Kevin can we think I have a one minute recess all right thanks okay we are recess for e e e uh looks like director donier has returned we are back in session and we will move on to our last action item of
the evening which is the approval of the resolution on the cell phone policy motion second we have a motion from director Don linger with a second from director Ward to approve the uh resolution on the
cellone policy discussion all right Mr chair I think that was director heidman wasn't it yes there you go oh I'm sorry we look quite quite
similar I'm a little shorthanded but that he's trying to think if that's twice in a week I've heard that one now or no it isn't it's like nine days okay so uh motion from director doninger with a second from director Hyman
discussion uh again just for the benefit of those that may not have read it not the board um the intent of this resolution is to do two things primarily the first is to to demonstrate the board's commitment to what we've
outlined in our new strategic plan which is to create a safe and healthy learning environment for the kids and as a result at the policy committee level we were looking at the student handbooks that we have and there is language in every single student handbook for all of our facilities in the district regarding
cell phone use in those facilities uh to date uh we really don't have issues with the enforcement of that in almost all of the facilities the one glaring exception being r at high school at the moment so the purpose of this resolution was to demonstrate the board's uh desire to see
that enforced to buy us the time to create an updated cell phone policy that we will put into place when the students return from winter break in January so part one of the resolution is to essentially direct Mr Grant and the
building site people to enforce the student handbook language at the beginning of the school year with the boards enthusiastic Resolute and strong backing and then secondly to compel this board to have policy 524 worked on and ready to be reviewed
at our October meeting which is on October 21st so just for the benefit of those that didn't want to have to read our board meeting October is October 21st yeah I thought September is the one we moveed to the both of them are later than
usual uh also thanks to director Ross for taking this Frankenstein thing that I put together and making it look pretty thank you very much um so then any further discussion thought we ALS we also discussed there was another policy out
there that we were going to try to oh yeah we have a there's a policy 540 which is a explicit uh msba mobel policy for cell phones yes and then 524 as written is a student policy around internet usage and that's where the cell phone language that we that compels or
or drives the student handbook comes from so as part of that at policy committee meeting we have a a meeting on July 17th uh as of right now the intent is to essentially Sunset 540 and just put all the meat into 524 so we don't have two policies saying the same thing
or Worse two policies conflicting with each other thanks for that note Mr chair um I just want to say um in regard to Mr olsson's comments about the nice job that the policy committee did on
I'm like DJ I I'm not a patient person either I want to see it done yesterday along with bullying done yesterday but I'm really thankful that you guys that the policy committee took the time to be more um realistic in in the
process and the goal is to um you know make sure that uh cell phones don't don't distract our education uh our education and our students education so I'm glad you really did a nice job you guys really did a policy committee did a really nice job and I appreciate that
just like Mr Olson said so thank you Kudos Kudos what we're trying to do is we want to make sure we have Buy in from all all the parties and they're not going to get Buy in that was sort of the realization we had at the committee table was that we could get an updated 524 right at a rle by September 6th or
whatever that day is but it would be done without student voice being heard without a really great chance to talk to teachers Beyond you know just their rep their Union representation but that would been about it so um you know director Hyman came up with the idea of delaying the actual implementation of
the new policy till after winter break I thought that was a super compromise job so the intent of the policy committee is to combine 524 and 540 into one for all intents and purposes y 540 as policy today is sort of ignored yeah yeah
anyway it it's yeah it's not very it doesn't have a lot of te yeah okay I'm generally not a fan of managing performance expectations especially of Staff if that's Peter's job through board resolution but I think it it works
because it's our commitment to say that we're supporting that and I think we need to do that with one voice so I the context for me works but I'm generally not in favor of managing performance that way I would say your point is well taken
um what I would say is again um we had administrative staff representation at the committee table so in the perfect world you know with more time than this could have come from the superintendent's office but instead of it trying to appear like the board's compelling this it should be viewed as
the board is supporting this that the board has said through Retreats through individual comments through everything that we've said that all of us in some way shape or form are in favor of more cell phone enforcement based on the voluminous data that's starting to come out as it relates to other districts
around the country that have begun to do these things um we haven't seen a single I haven't seen a single data point where this has resulted in neg negative performance whether that's an increase in behavioral issues or a decrease in academic performance no such data exists that I've found and I've looked right
doesn't mean it's not out there but it means it would be the exception and not the rule so I I I mean I think that's the messaging is important I think context is important and the context is this if there's a teacher watching when you come into Brainard High School on the first day of school and a kid pulls out the cell phone and and you're
concerned about what a parent might do and that parent concern comes to fruition and they're in your face give them my phone number I will gladly take that phone call seven days a week twice on Sunday and his number is my number is on the
website so in your the limited time you the policy committee has had to research cell phone Poli policies District cell phone policies is it typical that it's a districtwide policy or is it typically more building wide it's both okay so
what what think again in legislative terms so what you're seeing in probably the largest example would be the Los Angeles Unified School District now has done this it'll go into effect when they go back to school this fall so basically think of 524 as an umbrella just like we were talking about with the disciplinary
stuff with 506 same concept it's broad Strokes it's this is what we're trying to achieve these are the policy triggers for it now you have to come in underneath and write procedure and enforcement and all of those things and fill in the meat because it's going to vary at an elementary school versus
Forest View versus the um BLC versus uh you know LEC and the high school so it'll be you know that's where we let the professionals come in and and and do that with but the the the policy's intent is to give the letter of the law and what the intent is and that's where
I suspect over the next two meetings we'll probably have some vigorous conversation about that because you have variables that have to be decided upon at the board level are we talking about a full day ban on cell phones or are we talking about perpetuating what's on the books
for the high school now which is classroom only so as of right now the student is allowed to leave the classroom pull out their cell phone text do whatever until they get to the next classroom and then the policy kicks back in again we didn't talk to that level so there hasn't been that level of discussion on where of the six people at
this table know split up on that and I for one want to see more data I don't really have an opinion on it I know what sounds good but I don't there's no data behind it so that's it's just a feeling that I have well I know and I know Mr Jo when you um make a policy and you have exceptions that usually weakens the
policy that usually weakens the uh process of the policy uh the um the follow through in the policy however having said that there um I've already had some Educators tell me um in one building for sure we they use their cell
phones for um um disciplined Behavior kind of situations or whatever as well so there are going to have to be some ex and even even um even in the IEPs there's some kids that some students that need to have access to their cell phones for uh
hearing loss or other um impairments that that these students have so there there are going to have to be exceptions and I think that um um that's that was wise also to um you know look at these exceptions and and um and try to make it
as Ironclad as possible but with some Flex with some flexibility um if that's possible so so question at this point right now what we're doing just so I'm clear on this we're just voting that we're behind making a new
policy right that and we're tying ourselves to a timeline to deliver an updated 524 based on the timeline and the resolution right now just me meting and we're asking the staff we're getting off on these things that we're going to talk about in the next meeting meeting
after that so we probably just what what this what this res I think from a transparency perspective it's nice to have all this stuff on the table at the outset so again the everybody but the six of us kind of know what we're thinking and talking about I mean because here's the the reality of it is
the timing is pretty good for us to do this as they say the first soldiers out of the trench get the B the best bullets right we're not the first ones out um there are districts that have come before us and and and to John's Point they've discovered what exceptions work what which ones don't work and what
accommodations need to be made there's going to be best practices or at least um you know preferred practices that seem to be working instead of us just feeling around in the dark so we have that going for us I mean it's you know trailblazing is a little difficult
sometimes but yeah that's all this is is you know if if nothing else came out of this vote then saying that we're going to have you know a reading of a policy on October 21st that we either like and we finalize it or we send it back to the policy committee one more time so that we have it because my vision our vision
as a board was to have this communicated articulated forcefully and uniformly by the time everybody leaves for winter break so when everybody goes home they know what they're coming back to that's good idea no surprises right good plan but I think the biggest thing
in there that maybe isn't stated expressly is that we as a board and as an administrative team we have the staffs back on this thing that when it the going gets tough nobody gets thrown under the bus that we're all standing shoulder-to-shoulder
and saying this is this is how this has to be not going to be easy for anybody I mean the Articles I've read on it says it's a the first two or three weeks of it is very difficult adjustment for everybody the other thing about this resolution uh d is that we want to make
sure existing policy is adhere to I'm fine with it I just don't know why we're starting to talk about IEPs and all these different things that that's not part of what this is on the agenda I just think so the public understands what's happening why I understand we're
we're soap boxing I guess which is fine I I didn't know I just was wondering we're not going to craft up this policy tonight so before we start getting people's hopes off and stuff like that we should wait till the policy committee uh Peter and his team you guys
put together what you think and then we'll be we're going to have this discussion a few times yeah I mean our involvement in this as a board is is functionally closeted now until October right the policy committee will do its work Peter and his team will do their
work Andrea Rusk and her team will do their work and then we're going to learn some things and we may have to be nimble and pivot a little bit here and there while remaining consistent which is perhaps a little bit Rory but the other thing is it just needs to be you know the res the point of the resolution what we came to in the policy committee
meeting was the a resolution by its definition is six people saying we all agree on this or depending on how you vote but yes yeah yes unanimity and
consensus strong messaging because I think you know I get it I get it I get it I get I get I just don't know why we're starting to talk about all these other things like except because it's F we felt the meeting was going to be too short okay let's get I got a headache to this top of truck any further questions or
discussion um the last thing I would say is I thank thank you to everybody on the policy committee it was a it was a a fun and Lively uh discussion and I think we got to a good place where you know we were kind of chasing our Tales at the beginning of the meeting we sort of figured it out so it's pretty cool July
all right so uh hearing no further discussion uh all those in favor oh I got I had it all circled and everything Breen yes DJ D yes Randy Hyman yes Sarah spear yes John Ward yes
Kevin Bo yes carries all right then next up we just have a few uh committee meetings as uh updates um director Hyman let's kick it to you for policy uh we already talked about so the only thing we talked
about in that committee meeting my cell phone stuff so and we've already talked about it so there's nothing to report on okay sorry and director Ward uh any other updates from Finance um the um we talked about some celebration successes we talked about polic policy and
legislative updates um we did reschedule the September 5th meeting to September 19th um The Farm property proposal is still in um play um nothing decide on that um Carrie gave us a good uh um
summary synopsis of the uh adsis uh special ed funding um and Marcy gave us a good uh review of the uh compensatory review um and we did the handbooks we did that uh already tonight we did the 10-year long-term
Finance uh facilities maintenance um that's it great thank you director Ward all right next up is Marcy with the Business Services report all right so the financial report in the board packet I was just going to note
that community service and OPB are down a little bit compared to Prior year but no concerns there construction's up from prior year and that's due to a better budget estimate and then there will be no financial report in August because we are working on closing June you guys won't get June's financial report until
that's completely audited and final and that's all I have unless there are questions questions for director Lord look at you thank you very much Marcy thanks Marc and now I feel like we should have like intro music like the the old Johnny Carson
music when he would come out at the beginning or something but we'll turn it over to huh who's goingon to be DJ that's my what am I going to Doc no um I I don't have a lot to say other than I want to thank everybody for being so welcoming um you
know my brain got back into gear today so to speak on all the acronyms because you know when you're out for a little bit you you forget that stuff that doesn't matter anymore but um it it been a very very smooth Start From my perspective I can't speak for anybody
else but um we got a lot of work to do though and um we have some really talented people who aren't afraid to work which I feel really good about because um it's not one plow horse pulling a sled of you
know Lumber out by itself um so for Carri and Marcy and Reed and Kelly and all those people um and I don't want to leave anybody out but I have but um this is going to be fun you know I remember I told you at the beginning I'm
not having fun this isn't worth it trust me um but we got a really good group of talented people and I look forward to working with them and in the board as well um a lot of work to do but it's good work it's not bad work it's
really really good work and in the end um I think we're going to be very successful and I think the district is going to make a step forward we're not holding water and I I'm not going to be a place card holder I'm just telling everybody that right now I didn't do this to be a place holder older so we
got things to do we got people to move make decisions and um we're going to get it done we're going to meet your criteria what needs to get done and um I feel good about where we're at so there you are thank you and welcome
aboard once again than one one you know one week in and he's still here so that's good that could go both ways you know and then uh I guess the next based on our Last Retreat we decided not to do the roll call director updates um so I
would say just point to me if you have something you want to close with and I will recognize you and let you I already did director Hyman the only thing I'm going to say is uh I am going to use a term that you uh coined at least in my brain let's not interfere with what's
going on in the classroom that's the most important thing and if someone's interfering we need to deal with it and I'm all on board with that because uh we're here to educate kids right that's our main duty so that's all I
have okay make a motion to adjourn second so we have a motion from director donlinger with a second from director Ward for adjournment any further discussion hearing none those in favor I hi post same