All right, 6 o'clock. I'm going to call the meeting to order. Uh, both Luke and Randy are gone. They're shapering some kids at the Target Center, but we got four of us, so we're going to move on. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. I aliance to the flag of the United
States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> I got no additions to the agenda. Jeff, you got anything? >> Nope. >> No one else has anything. I'd look for a
motion to approve the agenda as shown. >> I will make a motion. >> I'll second. >> Pete on the motion. Joe Lynn on the second. Any other discussion? All in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. Motion carries. >> We have no scheduled presenters tonight.
Uh we'll move on into public input. Uh if anyone has anything to speak to the board, I will open up public input. If it is something to do with the calendar, we will have a separate public input for that.
Would anyone like to speak to the board? Then we will close public input. Move on to committee reports. Does anyone have anything that they'd like to share for the cause? Um I have no new committee what um news
um but we are at MSBA. Um took a little bit on about the Minnesota paid leave which seems very cumbersome. So I'm like kudos to Lori for all that she does. Um it's a lot to take in. And then I did
another one about AI which is very interesting on how some people are handling things. um and some of the upcoming things that are happening with the smartwatches, glasses besides just the cell phones. So,
a lot of those coming up. So, um yeah, for MSBA, I don't have any committee reports either, per se, um but MSBA, I went to the um the wraparound childare. We had a class on that actually, which was interesting, ironically that we are dabbling in that
right now, that conversation as well. um for the school that was hosting that one, they talked about how it helped increase their enrollment, right? Um it kept it brought people in um you know, because it was child care and it was rolling right back into school, right? So, it brought folks into the community
for that purpose and kept them there. Um they talked about how the students helped staff it. um but they had it formulated in a manner that those students could also get credits um with with work and college because they were working in this type of a child care
setting. So it was beneficial for their students to be staff as well um their older kids. Um they talked about how grants and federal funding were options depending on how we went about things. Um so that was kind of awesome to hear. Um and they also mentioned that some
local businesses um were helping financially support some things as well. Um if they got priority in getting their kids into a spot kind of thing like so local companies in the area were taken priority over others they helped
financially. So I thought that was kind of interesting as well. Um the other one that I went to was a career pathway um programming um in a school system. And by that it they they just utilized their
already in place classes and curriculum and just organized it in a manner when you looked at it as this would be a healthcare field, this would be a you know industrial field, this would be this, this and this. um and just how they organized it. It made and they started it as young as a middle school
level to help guide kids and pointing them in a direction here if you want to dabble here for a little while. Um and then there was um stuff in there too with a little bit of shadowing or they would have you know meet and greets and somebody would hang out with them for you know a couple hours or so and somebody would walk them through this is
what an entire day looks like as a nurse. This is something this is what my whole day looks like. Let me walk you through this. Um but um but it was just interesting. It wasn't, you know, obviously they added other curriculum to it, you know, you know, some, but they utilized their current and just organized it in the manner. Um, and
there were programming um to help them do that. I think Zello is what it was, I think, is what it was called. Um, and I just thought that was really interesting. Um, they and then lots of college credits were involved in that um as well. It's it's something that I guess I'm just really interested in in
making sure helping our kids that next step, right? Because that's hard. That's hard to make that decision. what am I going to do for the rest of my life? And I just remember what that was like and that was just hard. And I think anything that we can do to help our kids go that direction, guide them, point them in any
type of direction, I think is helpful. But >> yeah, I like that one. That was a good one. >> All right. I'm not going to talk nearly as much as uh I always like to go to Minnesota State High School League. Uh kind of get
updates on how things are going. uh girls wrestling really taking off uh and expanding. Same with boys volleyball. Uh a lot of discussion about some title N stuff too. So uh which I'm not going to get into it, but it's just interesting
to hear some dialogue with uh uh other people with that. And then the other one was superintendent contract. So that was that was that was a fun one. So there again, I won't dive too deep into that, but uh uh I just want to say
on uh facility committee, we had um uh a really short meeting. What was that about two and a half hours roughly? >> Okay. Um the main object is something that's going to be on a action item on here. So we'll discuss more about that
then. Uh also talking more about uh bus garage and u office there. um looking at different things on how we can uh possibly go forward with that. Probably sounding un it's unrealistic for it to
be looking at doing something for that this summer, but for the the following summer we can try to plan for that to see what works out there. Um, else besides that, uh, possibly talked about adding some bleachers, uh, on the
other wall in the fieldhouse, but majority of the conversation kind of revolved around what was on the action item for tonight. So, we'll discuss that later. So, no one else has anything else, then uh, we will move on to
consideration to approve the finance report. Josh, >> sure kind of cash flow worksheet here. Um, if you were kind of paying attention from the last cash worksheet, the amount of cash is significantly down. Uh, and it is for the debt service payments that
went out uh the mortgage payments essentially for uh the district uh fieldhouse auditorium CTE project those items. So about $1.9 million went out for the debt service payments um which were due at the end of January. So, um,
good thing is we're still stay real positive for our cash, uh, through the rest of the fiscal year. This report goes through the middle of April. Outside of that, uh, there's not a whole lot of excitement in there other than the normal, uh, day-to-day operation of the district, payroll taxes, payroll
itself, uh, influx of cash for ideas, which are the 15th and 30th payments into the district. Um, one thing kind of to note, there still is a a small section of payment due for the roof section. uh once that is all finally done and and final finalized, we end up
having that uh final payment go to the retainers on that project. So, there's still about $70,000 to go out on that project. I just keep pushing it down the list on the cash flow until we finally get to that date that everything is finally uh checked off and signed off on. Um there any questions I can answer?
>> Any questions for Josh? No. If not, I'll look for a motion to approve the finance report. >> I'll make a motion. >> Jody on the motion. >> I will second. >> Pete on the second. >> Any other discussion? All in favor say I.
>> I. >> Opposed. >> Motion carries. Consent agenda. Items under the consent agenda are considered routine and will be enacted under one motion. In the event a board member wants to discuss any item, it will be removed from the consent agenda for a separate action.
Uh Jeff, can you read the resolution of acceptance to gifts, please? >> Yes. This month we received $1,000 from the Canop Falls Fire Department for the robotics team. We received $1,000 from the American Legion for the robotics team. We received $3,000 from the VFW
for the girls soccer program, $4,000 from the VFW for the Canon Falls High School band, $5,000 from the VFW for the robotics team, $3,200 from the River Country Co-op FFA,
$12,000 from the VFW for a digital display down by the gym, $20,000 from the Donald W. and Margaret M. Anderson Foundation, Steve Ruticelli, uh, for the middle school math curriculum,
$750 from the Herky Heating and Cooling for robotics, $23,79 from the CF Diamond Club for baseball, $1,000 from the American Legion for music activity account, $20 from Marilyn
Phelps for the music activity account, $114.95 from the Ed Foundation for Lego sets for 11th and 12th graders for Mrs. Schwarz, $1,99163 from the Ed Foundation for book challenge for third through fifth
graders, Mrs. Schle, and $15,000 for the Ed Foundation for the Eagle Bluff fourth grade, all fourth grade teachers on the request. So, thank you all to our generous donators. >> Thank you. >> Super fortunate.
>> Say very generous. Those are some big numbers this time. So, >> from the BFW, I guess keep buying those pull tabs. >> Uh, one note I just wanted to make on the personal items. Uh, Steven Clark is, uh, retiring.
We don't quite know the exact number of years, but we know it's up in the 20s and and, uh, but he's also taught, uh, at other districts as well. So, uh, but he's put in a lot of time here and so you're told that this is probably his final.
>> Yes. >> Okay. So, he's come back and helped us out quite a few times. So, uh, thank you, Mr. uh, Clark. So, with that, I'd look for a motion to approve the consent agenda. >> I'll make a motion. >> Join on the motion.
>> I'll second. >> Jody on second. Any other discussion? All in favor say I. >> I oppose. >> Motion carries. Uh administrative board reports. Uh we don't have our student rep here tonight,
so we'll move on to elementary. Uh Mr. Strauss, anything you'd like to add? >> Uh no, I had sent one in at the last meeting and I got nothing really to add from that because gosh, based on school days ago, that wasn't very long ago with the bowl days and snow days mixed in. Um just uh obviously with the snow or cold,
there's been the walk to and from school for the kids and staff has been cold. Just a shout out to I mean the kids most of all, but some of them young ones being able to handle that, but then staff being able to do that. Any staff that help out up front with their morning arrival and dismissal. This morning was cold out there for 25
minutes. Um >> and then uh I will say though, I think I take that more than being a classroom teacher doing indoor recess all these days. So those teachers, the classroom teachers, too. Just a shout out to them for handling that cuz that's organized chaos, I guess. But they they
do well with it. We haven't had a ton of issues with that. So it that's caused the snow and the cold has caused some some issues there. Were you going to I have one thing to add, but it's more of a positive thing. Are you going to do it on the horn thing? Yeah, I'll save it for that then. >> All right. With the silent auction coming up, right?
>> Yep. Yep. Silent auction's coming up. uh all the PTO stuff. I guess you know we won't have another meeting for them. >> So yeah, that's all coming up February >> whenever it is next week. >> Yeah, next week. >> Yeah. From Friday. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Already.
>> Yep. And I'll be at next week at the elementary school principles association institute Wednesday through Friday. >> Great. Uh Mr. Hodgees, you got anything to add? >> Yeah, a couple things from my last report. Uh the big one is uh February,
Friday, February 10th for grades 6 through 12 will be a bold day. Um >> April, April 10th. >> Did I say February? >> Yeah, I meant April. Um I'm pretty sure in everything I put out to parents, I said April. So pretty sure
>> you did. Um, but we are hosting the Minnesota State High School League solo and ensemble contest and on April 10th and uh due to the number of rooms that they need for that, we just we can't have
school and have have that at the same time. So, we're uh 6 through 12 hold day. That's also a PLC day for that. Uh the other thing is a technology related thing. You probably saw that our our website changed on Friday. uh of last
week. So, that's what our new look will look will be. Um we're going to continue to uh tweak and improve that as we go. But that's kind of the general layout of things. And if you've got any suggestions or any improvements or see anything that doesn't look right, like maybe the high school principal put
their own date on something, let me know. >> Thanks. >> Thank you. Uh Reed submitted his report. He is not here. Um, Mr. Johnson, anything you want to add?
>> Lots of snow and ice lately, so we've been pretty busy at that. And then plus with all the cold it comes a lot of breakdowns. So, we've been, me and Bruce have been pretty busy trying to keep everything afloat around here. Not literally a float cuz that almost happened, but
trying to keep it above water all over that. Um, yeah. So, we got a lot of projects on the loom here for the possible next year, fiscal year. Um, so I'm just trying to get my head wrapped around that. So, we got some good things for the district coming. Um, a lot of
things in need. One of the fix it problems was one of those items, the bus scratch. >> Um, with all this cold just it's just not made for it. Um, down there is got neglected for so many years. So, we uh look forward to improving that for our bus drivers cuz they are very needed in
this community as well. And >> um they kind of get looked past a lot, I think. Um so, it's going to be good to get that project done um started, whatever ends up happening, but um they need it. School needs it. Uh other than that, just a lot of cleaning in the
hallways and getting that salt off that we've been spreading outside. So, camp. Isn't that funny? When you try to take care of one problem, it leads to another problem. >> Uh, soups report, Jeff.
>> Uh, not a whole lot other than the fact I was going to remind you Tim didn't about April 10th. Um, yeah, just trying to make through and navigate the ice and the snow and cold weather we've had here recently.
Unless you guys have any questions. the rest of my reports just on the agenda items there. >> Any questions for Jeff? If not, we will move on to action items. Got no old business. We'll move on to
new business. Uh the public hearing and comment opportunity number three for the proposed calendar changes for 2627 and 2728. Jeff, would you like to go over what those potential changes were looking
like? >> Yes. So, for the proposed twoe early start for the hearing here, um, next year is the latest that Labor Day
will be and therefore school will be slated to start on September 8th. So, we are proposing to have that start on September or August, I'm sorry. um 24th and um which would be a two week early
start. And obviously um as you go through the calendar you see some natural breaks um especially around the quarter breaks and most significantly at the semester break because we would end the semester right at Christmas and then kids coming back
would have um a fresh start to the new semester unlike right now with this schedule that kids come back for maybe a couple weeks and then they take finals and then uh we start the new seme Then uh in listening
to our staff and some of the conversation around the board at the time uh we incorporated a spring break starting each of those calendar years for the next two years. And uh the reason why we're going to have a consistent break here is because
a lot of our groups just happen to be gone during that week. So we felt that that would be a good time to have a consistent spring break. And then the graduation ends up being on Friday, May 21st, right here with the
students getting out at the last part of May and then obviously all of June and all of July. >> And so the break for third quarter that falls right on the the spring break, correct? That was also kind of a natural
break for that. >> Yep. And then yeah, students would come back on the 29th to start fourth quarter. >> So I've I've had a few people just kind of reach out to me like wondering why we can't take away some
other days and, you know, shorten it up in a different way. And uh I guess I kind of know the answer to my question, but uh it's a lot easier to take away days on
the second semester than it is the first semester. Correct. And then all of a sudden it really becomes unbalanced. >> Right. >> Right now it's unbalanced a little bit how it is.
Does that affect the curriculum much? >> Well, with year-long classes, and Tim can maybe speak up here a little bit because it mainly affects um the middle school, high school, if it's going to affect anybody. Uh the elementary obviously just kind of keeps going with how they're going on. There
really isn't a change over different classes. >> Most of the high school classes are year-long ones, but we do have some semester classes. And I don't know if you want to speak to that, too. Yeah. So it's uh semesterl long high school electives are the ones who are impacted
most by that balance or that imbalance in the number of days in first and second semester. Um there is just not a way given the number of days that we have off during first semester though to make those balanced and to have those
breaks kind of hit those >> natural sure natural times. So, um I think it what does that look like? It's like seven or eight days I think is the difference between first and second semester. We've been through this we
went through this a few years ago and uh again like Jeff said the majority of our core classes are year-long classes even though they may change kids may change section. Um it that really doesn't impact you know curriculum too much. that might
shift some curriculum that would normally be done during first semester to second semester or vice versa. Um, but they're not really missing they're not going to miss any curriculum. So, and and where you know in the grand scheme of things where those breaks come
in curriculum is really kind of arbitrary anyway. That doesn't they don't really matter. So, it's really those semester long electives. So, it would be art courses, uh, our business courses, uh, our career teched courses are the ones that are impacted by that
difference in number of days. Um, and I think those teachers are are all flexible enough to be able to make things work. >> So, we've had those conversations >> and quite frankly with if you look at the number of snow days we've had and ice days, yeah, they're more than likely
going to happen that January, February, March time frame anyway where you have >> more days to play with. Right. >> Correct. >> With that. So, Second semester is a little bit longer. It's not >> Well, then that kind of leads my other question. So, I've had a few people reach out, too. So, we have what 174
days uh set on here. So, the state requires us to have 165, correct? >> Yes. >> So, then what is the main reasoning of why having 174?
>> I'm guessing that that's probably been negotiated over the time. Okay. >> Trying to make sure that we have enough days to get all the curriculum in that we need to and obviously contracts are based on 174. >> Sure.
>> Everything else. So, >> do we have any data on other schools what they're doing in that area? Most right in >> most are right on 174. >> It's either 174, 173 or 175. It's usually right in that area. >> And and you say that's the curriculum
that's driving those extra 10 contract >> 10 days in contracts. >> Well, you got contracts that are based I mean it's been based on that forever. Okay. And then um uh get both >> and who help? So who I know we talk about a calendar committee who's
actually made up on the calendar committee. >> We have administrators and staff. >> Okay. >> I know you pulled people in the past, parents in the past. Did they any get pulled there? >> We did not pull anybody. Um the the teachers did some internal polling I
believe in each building. >> Okay. >> Um we did not p uh parents this time. Um it was about from what I remember 55 45 split with the last time and I recommended at that time
um not to move forward with it. But that was before I believe we actually went through that full year of the early start. And then um I'd be curious to see what parents are feeling about like that now if they remember what it felt like early.
>> You know, >> nice there. The majority of staff wanted it back then before we did then. Y >> but you're correct. It was just just a hair of parents were like me. But correct afterwards. Who knows? >> Right. >> Yep. >> I have one other question. So is this
reviewed every two years and that's why we're doing it now? We set our calendars for every two years and >> reevaluated then. >> Yeah. Now the application if we do decide to go with an early start the application requires three years worth of calendars. >> Okay.
>> And so we'd have to move or add on another calendar that would be similar to the previous two. >> Can you show us can you pull up what the calendar would be? uh what it would look like if we were starting right after Labor Day. >> Yes.
>> And while you're pulling that up, was there some is there consideration for is it the fast bridge testing? So the kids come back for two weeks. I thought there was an elementary school play. So it's a more of a natural break for what these calendars are reflecting. That correct?
>> The break. So fast bridge the window we try to keep the window the same as the GCED window. That's what kind of drives some of the local fast bridge testing and their window generally is the first three weeks of September. >> Okay. >> Um >> September >> as far as the other breaks, um those
breaks don't really line up for on that calendar for anything like trimester breaks don't line up with the natural break, but like Jeff had said, it doesn't matter as much in the elementary. Okay. >> Nobody's switching sections. Um there aren't trimester or semester grades that matter towards credits or graduation or
anything like that. Okay. All right. Thanks. >> One of the things that with the twoe early start, um it would allow uh all of us to get more curriculum in before we take the statewide MCA tests.
>> Yeah, if that's maybe that's >> I think Yeah, that's maybe what I know last one of the meetings we talked about some >> advantage of starting early because of the testing. Yeah. >> Yeah. We would have two more weeks of curriculum before we took the state test >> and even like the end of semester
testing like you talked about, right? Like they leave for Christmas break and then they're back and then a couple days later test, >> right? Regarding semester. Yeah. Yep. >> Understood. >> Uh here is the uh calendar for the post Labor Day
start. So we would begin on September 8th and then uh some of the breaks would happen uh almost mid November for first quarter and then Christmas would happen and then
you would have the end of the semester here on the 22nd of January. February would be wide open. March with spring break built in and then probably more importantly
um graduation would be on June 4th I believe. >> Yep. That well that's graduation and the last day of school for students. So that is the Friday after Memorial Day which is when we have traditionally done
graduation is that Friday but because of how late everything is. June 4th, >> right? >> This calendar obviously kind of lines up a little bit more with how things are currently functioning >> close >> with the addition of the spring break.
>> Yeah. >> But Memorial Day so leave in this calendar also. You're >> pushing it into June. Would if we didn't do the early start and the like earlier out, would we still want to move forward
with a every year spring break or would that not work? >> Well, if you take out the spring break and you bump up this date to the Friday before Memorial Day >> for graduation >> and last day.
>> Yeah. Or no, it'd be the day before that because there's four days that week. >> Yeah, because Memorial Day is one. >> That just puts a lot of people in a weird situation for graduation if they have graduates and stuff too if having a
Memorial Day >> weekend. And a lot of discussion happened around uh spring break with if you look at the time if you take this out here there really isn't any breaks happening
from January when you come back through um whenever Easter is that year I'm guessing it's probably March >> here and some years April is where Easter happens at as well >> for sure >> there may
There may be a mistake in February. I think we usually have President's Day off and it's not on that. So I think that's the 15th. >> So that would be that would be the day off. The days the day off. >> Yeah. And and staff and students need
that >> break away from each other, >> so to speak. Uh the legislature did authorize schools to start uh September 1st the next two years because of this late start for the
cycle. Uh we did put together a September first start calendar as well. Just to give you an idea of what that looks like. Uh everything's pretty much the same. The quarter break here is in the first
week of November instead of the second week. Semester is a little bit week earlier, but still after Christmas. Um >> it's just that the graduation ends up being on that memorial. >> Really, it's the graduation. >> That's the tough time right there is the
28th, the Friday of Memorial Day weekend. >> Yeah. Obviously not ideal to have a graduation ceremony on a holiday weekend when a lot of people do like to travel. So >> yeah, one big concern we have is, you know, we have our choir and band perform
that too and >> that would be yeah >> dicey especially because the 28th is the last day of school on that calendar >> for everybody. So >> So it's really not centered for them to come back. Exactly.
Do you have anybody here that wants to speak? >> Yeah, I'm going to ask that right now. >> So, right now we will open this up for uh public comment. If anyone would like to speak on this matter, um you're more than welcome to. Please state your name
before you start. >> I'd like to speak. U my name is Katie Lindall. I'm a parent in the community. I have a third grade daughter and a fourth grade son. Um, also, you know, like everyone wear many hats, I've emailed you guys, or some of you
probably got it today, some of you didn't. Um, just with the time restraints, I wasn't sure if I'd be able to get through um all of my concerns with the calendar as proposed. Um, I were 252 members. My husband is the Vesa
Township. he's the sole um person that does the roads and I believe that is our farthest route in our school district. So um we have many reasons just besides having kids that we're concerned with the calendar and that um we are
supportive of the school district for sure. Um so I realize that the Labor Day being late is challenging for you guys and for the whole district. Um, however, as you mentioned, it was already kind of brought to the community about the late
start and I think it was actually after we had the late start for the building. I thought that's why it was brought up and at that time it was decided that we would leave the school start date as it was. I know the teachers were more in
favor of it than parents seem to be, but at that time it was decided that it would stay in the late area. Um, one of my concerns or my main concern is I still consider uh Can Falls to be a rural school district. I have a lot of
rural values. My kids are involved in things such as 4 and moving this up would really be a problem for all 4ers specifically those sixth grade and on. They spend most of their summer working with livestock especially there's other
projects but livestock the fair would be the week before the teachers would be slated to go back um on this 2026 27 calendar. The teachers would come back August 18th. The fair would be the Good Hugh County Fair would be the week
before and all the kids work really hard to get their livestock ready for the fair with the goal for most of the kids sixth grade and over to make it to the state fair. The state fair next year, the dates are August 27th through
September 7th. So, the kids would have to choose to either attend the first week of school or second week of school or bring their animal to the fair, which seems like an unfair choice for kids
that are working really hard. Um, not only does it show dedication in taking care of their animals, but there are um quite um financially nice scholarship opportunities for kids who do make it to the fair and who um exhibit their
animals well. So, I just feel like it's not um it's not a good thing to ask not only of the kids who are at the fair, but my kids for example, they're not old enough to go to the state fair, but they like to go and support their friends and our
um family members, kids in our community that do get to the fair. Um I realize that's only one small part of the population here, but again um one of the reasons we chose Can Falls to raise our kids is because of those rural values
and I believe it's important to a lot of other people um not just my family. Um, another thing that I felt um with the proposed calendar is that um it was sort of being decided for me that
um June is more important than August. And I realized that's just a matter of opinion. But there it seemed like well we don't want to go into June, which it only seemed to be June 4th, which isn't that late. Um so we would rather just go into August instead. And I feel like
again that's just one opinion over another. And I know from folks a lot of people you know up north cabin time is a big part of our state and if you've ever swam in a lake memorial weekend versus the end of August you might not agree
that June is more important than August. Other things such as the state baseball tournament um June 11th through the 15th next year softball tournament June 2nd through 5th. there are many activities in the high school league still going on in June where I don't feel like well if
school's out everyone just can go on vacation things are gone I do feel like that end of August time is important for families and there's a lot going on that we plan around um obviously again no solution will leave
everyone happy I don't envy that but um you guys already talked about some of the things I had some ideas. Um, spring break, we've always done an every other year spring break. Suddenly, we're moving to an every year spring break. Um, it's not important to me and my
family to have a spring break. I didn't even know it was a thing until coming down here. I didn't think high schools did it. We used to do Easter break when I was a kid. Um, I find it terribly expensive to travel during spring break. I quite honestly, my dad winters in Texas, but I do not want to bring my
kids to South Padre Island during spring break because there are things there that elementary kids don't need to see. So, I find it um better to just sort of leave it to the families. For me, I have to plan vacations around my job. I'm a
full-time nurse andist at Mayo in Redwing in Can Falls. So, I have to plan around my job. We have um a cow calf pair operation. We have to plan our own cving. I um breed and raise royal performance horses. I plan it around polling. So, every year it's just different. It's never going to match up
with what the school tells me. I still think if it's important enough for me, I'm going to pull my kids from school and we'll vacation when it works for us personally. And that's between us and the teachers and how my kids are doing in school, obviously. Um, another thing
is I think that if we could adjust the calendar, it seems like there are some days where we could make it. I I hear a lot of we should go Labor Day to Memorial Day. I'm not sure about the graduation thing now. It sounds like that can be an issue, but hypothetically
speaking, it seems like there are enough days in play where we could easily make that happen. Again, if we get rid of spring break, there's five days. We talked about the eight days over. I had 173 student days on my count out of the 165. So, there's eight days in play. We
could, again, not saying we have to get rid of all of these, but there's days in play. Um, Martin Luther King Day, um, the Minnesota statute 128.42 does allow us to decide if we want to send students to school that day. we do have to have an hour of programming if
we do, but again, these are opportunities to gain an additional student day and maybe drop some of those August days. Um, >> I'll I'll just add that that's one thing that we were just kind of talking about that it's tough that all those things are in second semester.
>> So, you're you're you're continuing to drop >> more days off and making it even more lopsided than what first semester is. >> Yeah. And I do as um I appreciate your email response to me that it is not just as simple as dropping and adding and some of these breaks are nice by
definition. I'm sure there's a reason um that's above my knowledge base, but I see the elementary school is that trimesters versus the semester quarters. And it seems like the trimester dates really do end up well. If you push those
back, they do end up on more of those natural breaks. So again, I don't know if um that is an option or if that doesn't match up because of PSO and other concerns. Um and again, these are just days we're taking off. I'm not saying we have to we could add Friday
and Monday of Easter. I'm there's a lot of days, you know, I to my math, I gained 10 plus 18 days of flexibility. So there of course could be some days, you know, you could leave Martin 13 day just options out there. So, um, but I do
really appreciate your time and all your dedication to our school and to the community. And so, I thank you again for letting me talk tonight and bringing up my concerns. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> And then the one thing I'll just say
about the uh state fair is we definitely definitely recognize that and then that would be that would be fully excused. uh you know, I don't know exactly how many days they they'd be gone for that, but I mean it, you know, and it and I know
it's tougher at that it would be at the beginning of the school year, but it it is similar to uh any other sports activities if they happen to make the state tournament or uh go on a a trip of some sort where they miss a few days where it's fully excused. So that they
would be fully excused. So, >> which is great, but I do know some Um, some of the kids are maybe more able to miss days than others too for multiple reasons and they're trying to do, you know, they don't want to miss days if they're playing football and things like
that. And I appreciate that they're excused, but >> it's still a tough challenge and the days are different based on species and what they're showing. Thank you for acknowledging. >> But no, it just it gets to be tough on on multiple aspects because at the at the same point when you're
if you know if you talk about uh baseball playing into June, well, you look at all the all fall sports, I think, if I'm correct, they would be starting like August 16th, >> 17th, >> 17th next year. So, I mean, they're
always starting before school starts and stuff, too. So, it just seems like there's activities going on constantly all the time. >> For sure. >> Yep. It's one of many. >> Thank you. >> Okay. So, we'll move on to uh item number two, consideration to approve the
2627 and 2728 calendars as proposed or we have different options. So, um, any comments from anyone?
>> Um, I guess I would like to bring it up again. I I had brought it up in the beginning when we had brought this calendar up um about potentially sending out a quick little survey to ask parents because I know we did it previously. Um, and then we just kind of moved forward
with having these three meeting options to give parents the opportunity to speak up. Um, but it just kind of seems to be that um the the longer that this has kind of gone on and as we've progressed through um the more emails and the comments and the questions um and
concerns um from other folks about um the calendar um and wanting to have a say and an opinion um like previously. So, I guess I had a suggestion and a thought of potentially um back burnering this to next month and seeing if we were
able to do a quick little survey just to just to feel it out and have it just be a majority rule and just kind of go with that. >> Hey, you and I can agree on something. >> It happens sometimes. >> No, I I u I definitely agree with that
thought. Uh uh Jeff and I talked, we do feel that there's room on the timeline that uh we can still do this uh next month and get all the notifications uh in place in time that if this does go
through uh the if we were going to go this route, it's deciding what is on that survey. Uh and uh talking to Tim, it sounds like that's relatively easy to put something
together somewhat >> a survey. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Survey monkey or >> new Google survey. >> Yeah, it would be simple. But then it it would be deciding what I would like is
that we are deciding tonight on uh if we are going simply by a majority or if there's another percentage level in order to make a change. So uh I think to make it pretty cut and dry it is pretty simple just to go with
majority. >> Correct. Correct. Mhm. >> Uh and kind of remind me how these surveys take place. They go out to uh both or all parents. Uh how does that
all work? Um if we sent if we did a Google form and we sent it out through Infinite Campus, it would go out. We could send it out to all parent contacts, all student contacts. So both parents would have an opport if if we have an email address
from both parents, they both have the opportunity to to to do this, right? >> There's a student that has stepparents or there's m multiples. Do you know if there could be potentially four compared to two? I I don't know. I'm probably getting way too technical.
>> Uh I don't know the answer. >> Is there primary contact secondary contact? Yeah, it would. I mean, if if we send it out without doing some filtering, it would go to potentially all of the contacts who are listed as a as a guardian
contact. >> Okay. >> Which could be four, >> which that should be >> everybody should have. >> Yes. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> The only the only instance where it wouldn't would be if we don't have an email address for both. >> Okay. >> Parents.
And you can you can you make it so there's not a duplicate >> so somebody can't do it twice. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Yep. >> Would this be going out to the teachers and staff too? >> Uh it could >> or do we have we know they're
>> feel strong support from I don't know that we need to with the staff because >> the representatives did pretty good job keeping them up. >> Miss Courtney feels different. My opinion is not going to change. >> Yeah, I agree with getting some
community input on it. I think it's important. I think it's the right thing to do. I think it'd also be helpful to put on there how we got to this, right? So, calendar committee just so everyone's informed of >> the work to get here and then what >> the drop deadad date and maybe we can talk about this too is what is the
actual date we need for submission because it's a application, right? So, an application to the state. >> Okay. >> Um there's there's timelines in the contract that we have to have stuff done and kind we'd be rubbing up against that pretty hard
>> if we go into February. >> Yeah. >> Um not saying that we can't do that. Um, but the um I believe the application is due April
15th, but >> I would send it in February the day after February, you know, the day after the February meeting >> because they they take up to 45 days to >> approve that application. >> Yeah. >> I think it's important for the committee to know >> for the families to know Absolutely.
>> for planning purposes as well. >> Yep. Yeah. I'm I'm all for a survey as long as we put some informative dates for prime examples that we talked through tonight would be helpful. >> Well, that's where I think we just give two options because also if you give you give more than
>> more than two then you're going to get some really confusing numbers. So, >> uh >> well, I'm not talking about options but options around or how we got to these dates, right? Just a natural. Yeah, just to give people a background of these weren't just pulled out of thin
air for >> lack of better terms. >> I I think if you if you if we go the survey route, you you give two options because if you give three options of starting after Labor Day, starting one week early, starting two weeks early,
your majority is going to be maybe 34% >> 66% of the people that are met. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> And that's never a good thing. No, I think there's two options. >> I I think you go with the post Labor Day and like a two week start. >> Yeah.
>> Would be my recommendation. >> Yep. I agree. >> And we keep a spring break or what's the would be the recommendation? I >> I guess I would recommend keeping it one because of the the mental health of staff and students that was
talked about a lot during that calendar committee. Okay. of having some level of break >> in there because there's I still remember the calendar it had been three years ago >> when there wasn't a break >> from
beginning of January through and it was a late Easter that year and people were chomping at each other and >> things were Yeah, it wasn't good. I think the other thing to remember about spring break is um we were trying to put
that in a place in the calendar that would make sense for the the groups that were taking spring trips. So >> um with baseball doing a fairly regular trip to Florida and softball starting a regular trip to Florida and band and
choir doing an every other year music trip. um that spring break around that time uh can fit those needs so that we don't have kids missing before we >> and I understand the point too that families are going to take their kids whenever
>> it works for them also but a lot of families don't get that opportunity to go anywhere and so they're just here grinding you know and so that gives them a chance for a break as well >> we need I think we'd still need to take
a look at that post labor day calendar to to do some tweaking. >> We have to tighten that up a little bit. >> Definitely. >> Yeah, it um Yeah, if that's how it goes through to look at that graduation date um to see if there's anything you can do about that.
>> Yeah. >> So, would administration would you want a few days to kind of tweak that last one before you send that? >> Yeah, I mean we could send it out for sure. I'm guessing by Thursday at the
latest. >> We can firm it up Thursday morning. >> Yeah, we can firm it up Thursday morning during admin and send it out Thursday afternoon. >> Did I remind you that I'm gone? >> Oh, yeah. >> At my principal's convention this week. So >> that's right. So maybe tomorrow.
>> Tomorrow. >> Shoot. What do you got going on right now? We got some time. And I'm assuming if we give a couple of weeks for parents to respond,
>> then we have then we have >> whatever you want to do as far as how long you want that. >> We'll have results by the next board meeting. >> Yeah. >> Yep. >> So I'd say like we probably initially send the survey out and then probably at least one reminder email, something like that. >> Sure. And we can put a reminder on our
new website so it's easy for people to >> Absolutely. Yeah. Click into it. Right. >> Perfect. Now, this is not going to be a open communitywide survey, >> right? >> Parents, >> it would just be parents, correct? >> Yeah. >> Correct. >> Well, we're all looking like we're on
the same page. Uh I would look for someone to sum that up in a motion. >> I will make a motion um to send out a parentonly survey um to decide the next couple calendar years for a two-way vote.
and decided by and >> decided by the next >> by a majority >> by a majority vote. Yes. >> By majority vote. >> Yep. >> And to table this item. >> You table this item. Goodness. Okay. Yep. >> Yes. >> Thank god you falling too. >> Yes.
>> You get the long-winded one. >> Did you write that all down? >> I quit after two words. Yes. I got Lori back there. >> She's got it. >> Scribble that in somewhere. Perfect. Great. >> All right. Jill in on that for a motion.
>> Yep. I'll second. >> Jody. >> Any other discussion? All in favor say I. >> I. Oppose. >> Motion carries. Moving on. Consideration to approve the Limestone Fire and Security Building Future Scholarship for
awards of $500. Yes, this is a new scholarship that we have uh from Limestone Fire and Security, a local company, and I I would recommend approving these four awards of $500 for our seniors. >> That's amazing. Awesome. >> That's incredible. Thank you. >> Thank you.
>> Again, generous community. >> I'll look for a motion to approve. >> I will make a motion to approve. >> Second, Pete on the second. Any other discussion? All in favor say I. >> I oppose. Motion carries.
Consideration to approve the fiscal year 26 revised budget. Josh, >> good news. >> Yeah. Well, right direction anyway. >> Okay. >> Uh so we put together the initial fiscal 26 budget uh quite early uh as we're
trying to plan for u potential reductions uh going into the fiscal year as well as since the operating requirement was going to be in place. Um, since then numbers have tightened up a little bit. The what if spreadsheet from the state of Minnesota, which is
our revenue sort of estimator for the fiscal year has had some updates. Um, and now we're, you know, roughly halfway through this fiscal year. So, we were able to tighten some things up. Uh, obviously the the audit for 25 then two was complete. So, uh, there's some changes here. We see the top listing of
numbers would be, uh, the revised budget by fund. Uh, the middle numbers are the initial budget summary by fund. uh this really kind of fun formed from about 75 pages of uh 17 digit code uh and funs into these main accounts. The main one
that you guys are going to be concerned with is going to be the general fund is that's the main day-to-day operating of the district. Uh as the revised budget shows, we should come out to the positive about $175,000 assuming everything were to hit um and no big surprises uh through the end of the
fiscal year. Uh it' be June 30th. uh we essentially more or less had a balanced budget on the initial uh budget uh after doing the reductions coming into fiscal 26 and where the uh kind of estimations were for revenue. Uh now as it it's kind of tightened up and it will tight up again as we do the final revision in
June but we'll show that uh revenue over expenditures is about $176,000. To kind of put that into perspective, our unassigned fund balance coming into fiscal 26 is $675,000 which equals about 4.4% Um you'll see later on we have some fund
balance policy stuff to discuss. Uh ours would like to see 12 to 16 uh% as that would give us uh two months a month and a half two months of expenditures to cover if something catastrophic were to happen in the district where we weren't having revenue coming in. Uh this 675
plus this amount uh will push us more towards roughly about a 6% uh if everything were to hit in the fiscal year. And again, there'll be some more discussion further uh in the board meeting tonight that could help benefit that out even a little bit more. >> Um so coming into the fiscal year, a lot
of changes. Obviously, we made the reductions coming into fiscal 26, but uh we have things like the paid family medical leave that is in here. Uh contract negotiations. Uh we settled the teachers contract after the uh initial budget was complete. Those numbers are
now inside of this. Um we have added two new ads positions for fiscal 26. Uh they are funded through EEDRA or special ed funding. Um but you have to pay the first year in advance so you have to cash flow that that was put into the fiscal 26 budget. Uh we were able to
hire one of those spots. Uh one we may still be looking at but so be able to reduce the expenditure in that. So that helps uh increase that variance in a positive direction for us uh in this revised budget. Um so again, you know, it's as tight as
it can be as of now. Um things will obviously change. A cold snap can make a big difference in things in our world of planning as well. Um as long as it's not prolonged for very long, it won't have as big of an effect, but it can certainly do have some damage to a to a
budget district our size. Um but generally, and we've talked about this, you 70 to 75% of what we do is all going to be salary and benefits. is directly tied to payroll personnel coming out of our district or substitutes are paid through TOC fees or services. So um
really when we're playing with stuff it really is the the the salary portion. Um if any question the other the other funds will go through pretty quickly but you have any questions on the general fund I can certainly answer. Um when we get into the food service, you see it's a quite a big variance from
the initial to the revised. Uh reason being in there is some equipment needs. Um this just shows what the revenues versus expenditure variance would be. Uh while we are spending down about $16,000 in food service, there is a healthy fund balance uh that allows us to do so. Um
so we're able to fulfill, you know, some needs or requirements in the food service department. Um a large part because of uh the way the revenue is coming in for food. Uh the free lunch is now state supported. Uh prior to that
during co the fally supported it kind of helped uh quite a bit with the food service fund. um which is really beneficial to the kids in the district and the district itself that are able to kind of support that program because generally when they have a deficit in
food service the general fund has to cover that difference. Um we're not allowed to operate the food service in uh deficit. So at the end of the fiscal year if we have that the general fund has to write off that difference. Uh we've been very self-supportive for the last several years. So that's it's a good thing. So even though that's a negative, it's not cause for concern as
we do have a fund balance to support purchases that are made in food service. Uh community ed, we had a really good thing happen during fiscal 25. Uh you are allowed in statute to have a negative fund balance in community service as long as there's a goal in place to help push that towards positive
or eventually the general fund has to also uh support that or clean it out. uh during fiscal 25 we very uh fortunate in uh the number of students that are participating in either bean of kids or the preschool programming and the rates are being charged for that and where we offset with salaries obviously the
largest expense but we're able to push that fund balance in itself uh to a positive number so this will actually increase that fund balance slightly and we're not talking great numbers here but at least as positive which is very uh beneficial thing for the district and
for that community service fund in construction. >> I'll just add that. But I I also feel like that's just >> that's good. That's good for everyone. That we're just keeping it even. We're not making a huge amount on it, but we're not losing our butt on it, too.
And I just think being right there, that's a good spot to be. >> It is. And and the reason why by statute you're allowed to do that in a deficit is largely the community service fund is supporting uh outside activities that are supporting the district and offering opportunities for community members.
Obviously the students will be the biggest number but community. I do obviously have you know adult sort of options as well. Um and I think you want to be you're exactly right on that Clinton you want to do some way of breaking even uh offering programming um but not at a really a big cost to the community. You want to make sure you're
able to support them but We're not we're not here to make make mucho bucks off of all of our community members there. Everyone's already paying taxes. But if if we can keep that rate right rate kind of even with what the services are cost us,
that's a win-win. >> Yep. Absolutely. >> Um there's a big change in the construction and that is because we went out for bond to have uh a section of roof replaced as well as some transport resurfacing. uh when we did the initial budget, the thought was that it would be
done prior to fiscal 26 starting. Uh that didn't happen. And so you're just seeing the the the revenue from uh some of the interest as well as the expense going out to make those payments. That's just right sizing that there's no uh real hit to the district on that other than to make sure we're recording it
correctly. Uh debt service, those are set up to fulfill the needs of the district for essentially what we would call the mortgage payments on the debt. Uh the levy is set to record or receive 105% of our need. Uh assuming that there's going to be delinquent uh taxes.
Uh generally in Guy County, we are successful at collecting taxes and we'll end up building a an excess balance in debt service. Uh those funds by statute have to be uh given back to the taxpayer. They're not allowed to go into other funds. So when we do have a debt
excess, that's allowed to have some relief on the burden on the tax. So we'll we'll see a reduction there. So when you see expenses higher than revenue for debt service, that's because we had built up an excess in that fund and that is totally fine. Trust in agency is essentially the the scholarship at least it had been until
the last several years. Uh now we've had some large donations whether it be Gemini for innovation lab or now we're collecting pretty good advertising revenue for the scoreboard account that stays in trust in agency as that that fund is allowed to carry over from year to year. uh so that those groups uh
don't lose those funds kind of rolling into the general fund. Uh they stay in trusted agency so that um they can self support the scholarship funds or some scoreboard type issue facility issues for activities or innovation lab type activities. So uh you'll see you know sometimes the expansion revenues don't
quite tie out in trust agency as uh those things fluctuate but that just kind of balances out to where we're at there. The last one on this one is new and is have a recommendation of audit. Um because student activity is under board control. It's uh it shows up on our audit report.
Um we generally don't put a budget in for student activity. They uh put money into their account. They can only spend what they have in our account. Um but it does report now in budget variances. So uh oftentimes we get to audit now and you'll see a large variance in our budget. Uh it's not really the case.
It's just that we don't have something for student activity. So, uh, we've added in student activity to the budget report. So, you can see that it just takes the fund balances for all the student activity accounts and puts it in as a revenue and expense. You know, it puts as a budget that that'll all be spent. Uh, probably not realistic, but at least there won't be the larger
variance at the end of the year uh in our budget. Uh, so hopefully help with the reporting audit. Uh, in the end, you see the total variance that 478,000 most of it is made up in the construction account and that is because we borrow those funds and it's being paid out. Um, but in general, it's a it's a positive
uh revised budget for the district. Again, starting to move the needle a little bit in the right direction for the unassigned fund balance. Still not at the, you know, maybe the gold standard for the audit, the 12 to 16%, but we have been at two to 3% for the longest time. So, this will put us more
in that six with some changes further on the agenda that could help it out as well, >> which is awesome. >> Yep. For sure. >> So, any questions? I can certainly answer. >> I think you did a great job, Josh.
>> Thank you. >> All right. I'll uh if there's no questions for Josh, I'll look for a motion to approve the fiscal year 26 revised budget. >> I'll make motion. >> Join on the motion. >> I'll second. >> Pete on the second. Any other
discussion? All in favor say I. >> I. opposed. Motion carries. Item number five, consideration to approve the recommendation from the facility committee to move forward with specifications and quotes for the stadium field improvements behind the
middle school high school and the practice field improvements behind the elementary, including dirt work, irrigation, grass, sod, drinking water, and all aspects of the project not to exceed $200,000 of the long-term facility maintenance funds.
Stephen, you want to take that one or you want me to take that one or what do you want? >> I'm sure you'll jump in. Um, so we we've kind of neglected this back stadium field for a long time. Um, their fixes weren't really fixes. It's been
just kind of dumping dirt on top of dirt. Um, so we've kind of ended up with a nice crown back there as to which nobody wants to play football on and nobody wants to play soccer on. Um, but we have a beautiful facility back there with all the amenities, bathrooms, um,
the stadium seats. Um, so our idea is to get soccer, a good varsity playing field up here. Um, and that possibly would save us if we ended up getting a timeout from John Burch Park with football as well. Um,
that's going to be another thing that probably will come up in further meetings. Um, so we're we're trying to get ahead of the game here by improving our facilities that have kind of got neglected for a while. Um, but with doing that field comes we're kicking
them off their practice field now. So then we're going to have to make sure that the elementary school with what we have left of our campus has a safe and playable um practice field for our football program as well as soccer. Um,
soccer fields are already down there. Those will continue to be down there. We're just talking about adding some irrigation to the top part, the northwest part of um the campus back there. Uh where there are two goals back there right now. So, we're talking about
adding um some goalpost so they can have an actual football field back there, too. So, our junior high levels could also play back there um for games. Um so, it's going to be a good thing for the district. Um something that's needed to be done for a while. Um, and I can't
wait to just enjoy the beautiful facility that, you know, we don't really get to enjoy for um, varsity sports back here. Uh, so I I think it'll be a good thing in the end. And, um, I've been working on some quotes with different people on it. And I think we got some
pretty good numbers on this to where we're getting a pretty good deal um, and with some good work. So, I'm excited about it. So, I hope you guys, you know, think about that. how you know it's it's been neglected for I mean since I was here probably since you were here Clinton >> you know it's it's never been a great
field back there and then they added the great bleachers back there and it still wasn't a great field so um looking to do it right and uh get soccer up here and give them something to be proud of. Um we kind of just shove them in the back of the elementary right now and uh the girls soccer made a heck of a season
last year by making it to that section final. So, um, kudos to them and, you know, we're behind them. So, >> this is just kind of taking care of a few things, uh, at one time because soccer has been getting neglected, uh, down there when without having a
bleachers, uh, press box, just nothing really for facilities. And so, with looking at just putting bleachers and stuff down there, that's over hundred some thousand dollars. And uh
with us having this sitting right up here, this this works out really nice that if we can get this to a to a game field and then we can change that down there all into a nice big practice area for both football uh and soccer and plus, you know, potentially have some
youth football games down there once in a while. Uh but and it and this wouldn't just be uh you know seventh and eighth grade football would be playing their their games up here too as well as as well as probably the 3rd through uh sixth on Saturday. So, uh, so this would
be a game field. And then what Stephen was alluding to is just I believe it's coming up in 28 is when that state amateur, uh, >> correct >> baseball tournament comes up here that >> we potentially just need to have a field ready as backup if if needed for varsity
football. So, uh, >> this is not moving varsity football up here. Please, you know, we know how that can go. So, but it it is having a game field ready here and uh um
no LTFM uh dollars have been used for fiscal year 26, correct? Yet. And so, we have about $300,000 allowed every single year. And so, uh, with the numbers that we've been getting back for this
project, we feel we can comfortably come in under that $200,000 mark. So, that's kind of like that's what the recommendation is from the uh, facility committee. But, what I would like to do is just have uh, every time there's long-term facility maintenance dollars,
I I like to have that explained to everyone so they know where this funding is coming from. If you could explain that, please, Josh. >> Yep. So long-term facility maintenance funds is put in place by the state several years ago to help districts with the cost of deferred maintenance items.
Uh a lot of districts because you know the way the districts are funded uh were maybe pushing off things for a very long time and not taking care of it and either buildings or facilities or uh kind of the internals that run the districts um were falling apart and now
district finding themselves in seven figure plus type uh dilemmas on how they fix things. So uh long maintenance funds are available through the state. Uh we've got a lot tied up in a project that we did for some HVAC several years
ago. Um but we do have about $330,000 that comes to the district annually for uh deferred maintenance type items, long-term facility maintenance, uh health and safety would be kind of covered in that arena as well. Um we have spent a little bit of it this year because things like you know fire, sprinklers type things are all covered
in in that sort of realm. Um, but we do have a balance available that when we did the finance and facility committee meetings, about $200,000 could be put towards this. Uh, it's important to note that these are funds that can only be spent on deferred maintenance type items or health and safety type items. They're not general fund dollars. They're not
unassigned dollars where the district has uh discretion to use it how they they want. They have to look towards items that uh would fit under these categories. Uh certainly in that field is going to fall or something that has deferred maintenance and some could argue maybe some health and safety at some points too. But um there are funds
that are allowed to that. They're just not general fund dollars that were allowed to use at our discretion. >> These were also funds that were used on the roof project uh as well. Correct. That we got the bond. >> Yeah. Uh this that was a little bit different. That was a little capital project bond. Okay.
>> For that one. But um certainly when we did it be the UNESCO project would be the this is just ter of it, but a large HVAC project that we did. Um, you're not able to do an $1 million. I think $8 million actually of that was through health and safety uh long-term facility
maintenance project. Um, we're not able to just get $8 million. So, able to use those LTF funds and able to structure the debt, which is another part of where we kind of look at uh the field LCR trying all those things. Uh, when our debt falls off, um, we'll do some great
things for the district, I think, and give you some tax relief. But until we get to that point, we are a little bit limited in the amount of long-term facility plans or long-term facility dollars that we have. Uh we have a running project list of things that are going on, things that are needed. Um we keep updating that list annually. Um but
with the recent projects that we've done in the district, whether it be the roof sections, whether it be the CTA HVAC project, um a lot of the district is in pretty good shape. Um there are a lot of day-to-day stuff and Stephen can attest to the things that need to be uh you know, taken care of and maintained. Uh
but big ticket items uh knock on what we're doing at previous spots, but it does make available some funds for this year to to designate towards this project. >> And and you are right. We are paying off those bonds for that roof section that
we did through the >> right. >> Yeah, >> that's what I that's what I thought we combined. >> Yeah, >> the capital bonds are >> Yep. Does the maintenance on the bus garage also fall into that category as well?
>> Uh, potentially could, but I think we're looking at a different avenue for that. >> Okay. I'm just curious if that was also something that falls under that umbrella >> potentially. Yeah, it's our property, so it would become >> Well, I think it's awesome to utilize our own facilities that we have here.
It's It's long overdue. there some for something to just be sitting there and not be getting used to its full potential. Um, again, long overdue. Um, >> I I you know, that's getting used out there right now, but it it could be it could be correct. It could be better.
Correct. What this is doing is this is making that area down by the elementary now getting more utilized because uh adding irrigation to two more of those fields back there. Those things are rock hard >> and so they're really uh >> they really don't get much use unless we
have a summer like last summer which we don't have that often where it's like a rainforest. So um this will really help out both the soccer and football programs. This is going to give football a lot more practice room, a lot less uh running around from drills to drills.
Their space has been pretty uh minimal back here. Uh so it's kind of nice getting them all together and stuff too. And uh you know, football team's definitely in favor. Soccer sounds like >> they're going to have this for a field now. So they're in favor. So
>> uh makes a lot of sense. >> How many different quotes were we looking at? How many different companies were >> there's I got like three out for the dirt work and everything right now and irrigation a couple different ones. Um so just kind of depends on how we keep rolling with this um with
>> you know if we start looking at potable water down >> at the elementary obviously we'll get some more for that but yeah >> this would start in the spring of this 26. Yeah, I mean practice fields would, you know, plan on starting as soon as
that snow comes off there. We get that all ready and right and >> um go with this after track season up here. Um that way that doesn't affect track season at all. So contractors were also all in the know of all that like how pressing it was for them to be here
right when we needed them here so it's done in time for fall sports and >> um >> Yep. So this this field would be getting soded. So that's why the goal would be for all sports that they're ready to go. >> Cool. >> Yeah, I think it's great.
>> There's no more questions. I'd look for a motion to approve that. >> I will make a motion. >> Pete on the motion. >> I'll second on the second. Any other discussion? All in favor say I. I I
>> oppos. Motion carries. Item six, consideration to approve the changes to policy 714, fund balances >> or 714, whatever you want to >> 714. >> All right. >> Yes. This is a recommendation coming
from the finance committee. Uh Josh talked extensively uh about the revised budget uh what our audit showed from December. Um, and the history on this fund balance policy is when I first got here,
seven years ago, uh, the very first meeting I had uh, with the board at that time is that we had a 2% undesated balance, which is about one week's worth of uh, savings. And, uh, our policy said
that we were supposed to have I think 8 to 12% at that time. and I said, "Well, either we change the policy or we make cuts." And we started we've been cutting ever since until this this past referendum passed and trying to get that
fund balance savings account unassigned up to that eight or 8%, but at at the time the board changed it to a more manageable uh percentage and I believe it's at four to six right now and we're in that range
currently. But as Josh stated, we'll probably be at that 6% and I think it's time to look at changing this fund balance policy back to 8 to 12 after the years of cuts and money management that we've done to square things away. And obviously the operating levy will help that as well.
>> And eight, you said 8% would be like a month's worth. >> Yeah, >> roughly ballpark. >> So still >> Jesus. >> Yeah, it's not >> still right there. completely out of the woods, but we're a lot better than what we have been. And we can certainly work, you know, if we get up to 12%
eventually, we can certainly talk about moving that percentage up to make it more even healthier. >> Do you know what the average is for most schools in the area or what their objective is for most schools in the area? >> It depends on the district and where they're at. A lot of variables. Open
enrollment can affect plus or minus those things. Okay. We got districts as far as you know as close as Kenyon that are sod which be less than 2% obviously there's districts the apple valley rosemont district which is probably about 25%
>> must be rough >> it is yeah >> so for to I mean to achieve that it's what 50% jump is that or 100% basically would you outside of financial discipline which you know you've gone through with our district on this recently what helps us get to that
number outside of passing referendum. >> Yeah. So enrollment district is 100% enrollment based can't charge more or less for our product that is kids we serve. So attracting and maintaining
enrollment is probably the biggest driver of that. Outside of that it is financial management and it is tough because 75 to more percent is people selling benefits and you get times and that's a large part of why you probably
got a situation where we have to you don't want to have to reduce staff if you don't have to. Um which makes for some difficult decisions when it gets down to it. Um, I think that given the fiscal 25 audit, the potential to
maybe push that bill a little bit more towards a positive after fiscal 26. Uh, you've got a discussion item coming up with tracked. Um, and with the operating referendum, we've got an opportunity to make sure that we're looking out for the best interest of the financial security of the district. Uh, and still giving
what we need to the students and the staff in the district as well. So, >> okay. I think it's a beneficial thing to push that back up to 8 to 12 and then even review it again in a year or two if we're looking at positive that um it's policy. It kind of helps guide us along,
but uh and there was certainly was a reason at the time why we had to reduce it down to 46, but I think it's time to push it back up. >> All right. Thank you. >> Any other questions? If not, I would look for a motion to approve the changes to policy 714 with
the fund balances. >> I'll make a motion. >> So, you motion second. >> So, when on the second, any other discussion? All in favor say I. >> I oppose.
>> Motion carries. That leads us right to our next one. uh consideration to designate the first track payment to increase the un unassigned general fund balance. >> You want to speak to this or you want me to I can give the history of it.
>> Sure. Um, as most of you know, uh, tract, uh, we engaged with conversations with them and ultimately tracked had agreed to give our district, uh, because they are not in our taxing district per
se, the same way they are with the Randolph School District, uh, they agreed to give us $500,000 per year perpetual, plus uh, an inflationary factor in there as well. Um the first payment for track is due to
come in in the March April time frame and then it'll be June 1st every year after this first payment uh is there. And so, um, obviously in keeping with the making sure that the district is
financially healthy, uh, we talked to the finance committee and they agreed with our recommendation to deposit this first check into our checking account and put it basically into the unassigned fund, which is our savings account for the district,
>> uh, to help bolster that uh, unassigned uh, percentage as well. And so that's what we're asking the board to consider with that first payment that we're getting here. And that should bring the percentage up closer to 8% if you're thinking. >> Yeah. You know, you're coming in at 675
into this fiscal year. Hopefully you're putting I mean 176,000 that's projected not necessarily all be unassigned, but say it's $100,000 and you put this in, you're essentially doubling where we're at. So it should be at 8 to 9% on assign. Uh again, assuming all stuff
holds true as we go through. >> I think that sounds like a great thing. >> Correct. >> So, no one has any questions. I would look for a motion to approve that. >> I'll make a motion. >> Join on the motion. >> I'll second. >> Pete on the second.
>> Any other discussion? All in favor say I. >> I oppose. Motion carries. Item eight, consideration to approve the recommendation from the finance committee to add back a middle school high school social studies position for
2627. Um, so this position here that the social studies is kind of a it's going to be a general catchall because what this adding this position back and the way the um scheduling works is that it allows us to
cover uh required new classes from the state. Um, it allows us to open up the innovation lab again to have supervision in there with a facilitator in there like we had previously.
Um, and is there something else I'm missing besides the required classes from the state? >> That's the biggest thing is the required um new requirements from the state for studies. And then it allows us to fund or at
least open up that fac uh the innovation lab to what it was prior to the last round of cuts. So we talked this through with the finance committee and they agreed with the recommendation as well. >> And these are new additional classes or requirements or
>> Yeah. So uh was it four years ago? These are four Yeah, I think four years ago the state added a bunch of requirements that could fall anywhere, but for us, social studies makes the most sense for them to have it. So,
starting next year, um, all students who are sophomores or above have to take a personal finance course. So, this year's sophomores are the first year of that. We didn't we didn't offer it to them this year because we've got some other transitioning things happening with
social studies because of some changes that they made before that. Um, in addition, we have to offer an ethnic studies course that we have not offered in the past. So, at this point, we don't know whether that's going to be a course
that we actually have or not. That'll depend on student uh requests. >> Um, but there's potential for four sections of social studies to come back next year. >> Okay. Um, so this will allow us to cover
that and cover innovation lab like we've done in the past. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. >> Yeah, that innovation lab was packed with kids and they loved it. Yeah. To have that back open, I think that would be awesome. >> All right, no more questions. Uh, I'd look for a motion to approve the
recommendation from the finance committee to add back middle school high school social studies position for fiscal year 2627. >> I will make a motion. >> Pete on the motion. >> I'll second. >> Jody on the second. Any other
discussion? All in favor say I. >> I. >> Oppose. Motion carries. Item nine, consideration to approve the recommendation from the finance committee to add either a dean of students or an assistant principal
position for school year 2627. >> Finance committee is busy. >> Finance committee is busy. Um, so, uh, this year, as most of you know, we cut the assistant principal from last year coming into this year.
And um I think both staff and obviously administration notice that uh for a lot of different reasons because the supervision of students, supervision of staff um getting items completed
uh put a lot back on the principles uh with the lack of the assistant principal there to help out. Um in talking this through the finance committee, we could we we had two routes that we gave them. either come back with a dean of students which is an unlicensed
principle basically that can only uh deal with attendance and some levels of discipline but they cannot suspend kids. Uh that's where the license piece comes in. The assistant principal can do everything that a principal can do uh except for obviously it's an assistant
versus the lead principal. uh the assistant principal would be a K through 12 um assistant principal and then our two principles would decide how to share that person as would be the dean of students would be K through 12 as well.
Um there's a couple I think I pulled that list up. So here's a list of some key differences. The Dina students is a teacher on special assignment. There's 184 days per year for their assignment. So it matches the teacher contract. An
assistant principal is a licensed administrator. Uh AP can do more than a student with student discipline and can observe and evaluate teachers as well. And their contract days are 212 days per assignment.
Um some of the duties of this person whether it's going to be a a dean of students or an AP is building discipline. And obviously the dean of students can be limited as to how far they can deal with discipline not only with students but also with staff.
um districtwide bus discipline, manage targeted services. That would be only with an uh assistant principal because the dean of students unless we up their days from 184 obviously does not have any days in the summertime to deal with targeted
services which is like uh Bomber um Bomber Academy >> Bomber Academy. >> Um that person would serve as the district assessment coordinator which is currently done by Mr. else and obviously it would be the AP only as the there's
not enough days in the Dina students unless we have that in there. Uh they would help with supervision needs in both buildings including recess lunch before and after school. Uh assistant principles with teacher observations uh that was mentioned before as being AP
only. Uh I will say that Mr. Hodgees is doing lunch supervision right now. U >> I'm doing lunch supervision and I have two study halls. >> Oh, you do have two study halls. So >> sounded like when I talked to you on the phone today you were at lunch duty. >> I was at sixth grade lunch duty so a
little loud. >> Um they can be a district representative at IEP meetings. Um they could potentially be the district literacy lead which is uh depending on licensing currently. Uh they are traditionally have been the district safety committee
chair, the curriculum committee chair and the MCCC coordinator which is dealing the Minnesota common course catalog which coordinates our current class offering off offerings with the state is the best way to describe that.
>> What is the big um financial difference between the two? >> Good question. I got that right here. So, I had Josh put some numbers together uh which took the average grid price of
an assistant principal and with the dean of students, he did the average teacher cost that we currently have, which is MA step nine. And so with 212 days for the assistant principal versus 184 days for
the Dina students, you're looking at about a $42,000 difference in costing, which is total package costing. Um, if we do go decide to go the Dina students route, I would recommend either
moving that 184 days up to 200 days or 212 days, which was going to add roughly $20,000. And so really, in effect, it's about a $20,000 difference. Okay? And obviously, you can get more done with
the assistant principal uh because of the licensing piece of it. Um, if you want my opinion, um, if you do decide to go this Dean of Students route, I would recommend that you put it up to, like I said before,
200 or 212 days. But with the licensing difference, uh, the bang for the buck, I think, is still coming with the assistant principal piece because there's so much flexibility with it. Did you guys also have an opinion one way or another?
>> Well, I I mean the the biggest help to us would be if it was an assistant principal because one of the things that I think we're both seeing more and more is we have new staff as older staff retired, newer staff come in and visit with staff. we've had more staff
turnover which means um our uh observation schedules are are a lot more because non-tured staff we have to do 30 observations a year and 10ear staff is one. So, um, we're both seeing more and more observations and have being able to
split that load up is very helpful. Um, because again, I have I have three lunches that I supervise and I've got two study halls this semester, which doesn't leave me very much time to get into classrooms to do what I really need to do is observe
and help teachers get better. >> Aside from like lunch supervision or like a study hall, where do you find that you spend the vast majority of time? Do you find do you spend the vast majority of both? Do you find you're doing a lot more in the discipline area, a lot more in the evaluation area, a lot more like
>> It kind of depend. For me, it kind of depends. I don't want to speak for Stephen, but I it it depends on the time of year. Like there are there are times when I try to focus my my observation time. >> So, one of the big ones is in the fall I have to get the first observation of
non-tenure staff done before MEA break. So that usually is a couple of weeks at least to get all those done. Um uh the other two observations I have to do for non-tenure staff can fit in wherever, but I try to get them done by the end of
February depending on the things that happen. Yeah, I had one scheduled with a teacher on Friday and obviously that one got postponed, but I I tell my staff kind of flippantly that as soon as I put your observation on my calendar, you know, something's going to come up. So
just don't be Don't be upset if it doesn't happen. >> Um, discipline is an all year long thing. >> Yeah. >> So, it's it and it just kind of depends. This is starting this is the start of the heavy time usually for middle school, high school discipline is the
weather gets colder and kids can't get outside, you know, things start to boil up. So, um, so this is a busy time for that, but it's also a busy time for things like, you know, we're doing high school registration. I'll start putting together um a schedule, a master
schedule, and scheduling students. That takes just time being able to sit down and do it. It's it's it's a really hard thing to do. A little bit here, a little bit here, a little bit here. You just kind of need some uninterrupted time to get it done. >> The assistant principal really helps out
with that because I can kind of say, "Hey, I need you to cover this so that I've got three hours to to devote to to something like that." So, Yeah, going from the availability piece is probably my
biggest uh point where you asked where where the need is. Um the discipline is year round, but there's, you know, heavier times a year, you know. Um we went from three people on our contract down to two, so two people doing the job, three people this year, and it's it's manageable. We're doing it, but
we're missing things, you know, and we're also getting uh as Jeff can attest to, we're getting more meetings just kind of thrown at us for different things, more trainings. Um, and when we're gone at those uh we don't there's nobody else that need some of those
things. >> It's the availability for staff when they need them. Yeah. >> You know, that you get taken away from student discipline, which somebody else could handle. >> Friday was one of my most productive days of the year by far. I I had and that's including five meetings I had
virtually um that were either scheduled already or with people. >> Yeah. >> Um okay. >> And because in between those I actually had a chance to get stuff done. >> Whereas if I would have been on campus there those meetings may or may not have happened depending on what happens during the day and there's no way in between the meetings I would have had a
chance to get anything done because stuff would have popped up or I would have said hey I've got 20 minutes I want to go get in the classroom or go pop my head in a lunch something like that. you know th those things. It's tough to do some of those things like Mr. Haj said with getting into the classroom which we both want to do. Um it's just tough to
do some of those things without another person another body the observations. >> I mean we will be thrilled with whatever decision you make >> and the teachers union is supporting this as well. Right. We had heard that that they had met. I know Tyler
Quintland that was in here as a finance committee rep must have taken it back to their group and it sounded like that they were in favor of I didn't get any official notification of it but they saw the reason for meeting it.
>> I think for the behavior part of it helping out the administration. Yeah. >> So high higher value on an AP but cost more. >> Yeah. I mean, I guess that's what I'm trying to feel about like where is there more of a need for an extra set of hands because clearly there's a little bit of
a difference >> if the dean can't help with behavioral stuff and if and if there's a little bit more of a need of help in that department between the two of you guys kind of thing then obviously then that makes sense, right? I mean that >> I think between not having limits on what they can do
with student discipline and the teacher evaluation piece because a dean of students is a is a teacher on special assignment, they're they're at an equal level. So, we would we would never have ask a de to >> to evaluate a teacher. >> Yeah.
>> As an assistant principal, they can. >> And um I I I feel confident in my ability to evaluate staff, but I also feel a lot better when somebody else has eyes and we can say instead of me doing all three evaluations, I'm going to do
two, you do one, and then we talk about that. I there is a lot of value in having somebody else be there and I think Stephen and I have worked closely together with you as assistant principal and I I I think we both see a lot of
value and trust each other and and that is is a huge piece too. >> Does the AP give you benefit when you go to your trades or the seminars you guys are receiving? Yeah, I mean they're they're they're a licensed administrator. So everything everything
that you rely on me to do as far as >> you know what my license serves as an assistant principal holds that same thing. So there's some value there. And just >> so for example, Tim said he's going to be gone Wednesday through Friday at his high school principal statewide
>> conference. And so, you know, Stephen's covering. >> Yeah, I was going to say you got double duty. >> Hopefully, it's warm. >> If I'm if I'm in the building, I can, you know, help out with that. Sometimes I got meetings, you know, the cities of Rochester
>> so that EP can step in. >> Yeah. for >> is there any other positions that either of you are seeing potentially needed for next year >> in either building as of as we sit right now?
>> Well, the the between the two positions there that will help a lot with my supervisory kind of deals. So, you know, one of the reasons why I'm covering two study halls is because
I I have two staff members that now have five preparations. So, by contract, they get two prep periods. So, it pulled them out of a supervisory role and I don't have I don't have any extras to that go into those now. So, it came down to pretty much
my study halls in the atrium and I kind of read them there. I had act and say I'm expecting you to behave yourselves and to be where you're supposed to be. I'm going to check on you about once a day, but there's going to be a high level of expectation that you're doing what you need to do. This kind of
eliminates that when we get back to the point where we've got teachers that are doing this supervision. >> Okay. >> Yeah. Mr. Stro, >> no adding of anything. just, you know, a shifting of overall teachers based on
small or large grade levels moving through. >> Fourth graders move fourth grade spots. >> Fourth grade right now we got 96 kids. So yeah. >> Yeah. But fifth grade already there's two 302 classes with three students in if we didn't add a fourth one. If we didn't shift to add one to fifth grade,
it would be 32 students in each class. >> So no adding actually just shift. Oh. We're going to hope that we have to. >> Well, I'd love I would love if we come back to you in May and say, "Hey, we got 20 more kids have been added in whatever grade or overall. >> That would be awesome."
>> All right. So, I will look for a motion for either adding a Dina students or an assistant principal. >> I would make a motion to add an assistant principal. >> I'll second. Pete on the motion to add an assistant
principal for school year 2627. Join on the second. >> Any other discussion? All in favor say I. >> I. >> Oppose. Motion carries.
All right. Informational items. We'll go around the horn. Stephen, you'll start to figure out that I start from my right and I go to the left. >> Guy any mad? >> Jody doesn't count.
>> We come back to the board last school here, but okay. >> Um, I mean, just as far as stuff going on around here, I mean, we're really busy in the winter here, so um, my staff's been doing great. Um we're really young
and green, but I I think we're in the right direction here to, you know, keep going forward with what we've been doing. And um this winter sucks, though. Um I'd be happy with some warmer weather. Uh that
that is a big toll on u me and Bruce and I mean just anybody in general here in the school right now, teachers, um administrators. >> This is supposed to be about good news right now. >> Yeah. Sorry. The good news is we haven't had any slips and falls, you
know, to my knowledge lately. Um, >> none reported >> reported >> because of the conditions outside. Um, but, um, on that note, uh, like to brag about my little Matt Rats a little bit. Uh, we traveled up to the
Brawl uh, this last weekend. Uh, it's the biggest youth wrestling event in the world. Um, and we got in the upandcomers bracket this year and we got sixth out of 16 uh teams. So, I'm pretty proud of that. And, you know, that's also something that I feel like can, you
know, bring kids into this district if we have >> great youth involved sports like that. Um, families move here for that. So, um, I love it and hope the community loves that I'm a part of it. So, >> yeah, that's all I got.
>> All right, Tim. I kind of missed the whole bit about Around the Horn. So, what's this about? >> I just I just started it last last meeting. >> So, I wasn't here for that. >> So, now you're here. >> So, just good news kind of things. >> Yes.
>> Well, or just anything that's on your mind, I guess. >> Uh as long as it's not too negative. >> I'm all about positivity. Everyone knows that that knows >> won't be negative. Uh, I want to give a big shout out to Ryan Buck, who is our new social studies teacher.
>> Uh, she is doing a great job. She's, uh, you know, I think kids really like that kind of new vibe that she gives off and she's working really well with our staff. So, and she stepped into a tough situation uh to come in with a couple of
preps just right before the beginning of semester. She's doing an awesome job. Um, want to give a shout out just in general to my staff about being really supportive and really helpful through some of these transition times. They've really stepped up. They've been really understanding and I I think they're
they're doing a really good job for this time of year. So, that in general, Stephen staff is awesome. I I really uh you know, Dylan is awesome. Um, >> Mercedes, >> Mercedes and Isaac and the night on the
night shift Gavin. uh during the day shift. Uh Gavin is a student and I like treating him like a like an employee when he switches in the morning to to being a a custodian and he's he's a great kid. So he's doing
really good job. So I really appreciate what they're all doing. >> Awesome. >> Thank you, Mr. Strauss. >> Um kind of echoing too things since then I'll get into depth with one more. Shout out to just the custodial staff in general. They're awesome. That the sidewalks are cleared in the morning.
They're iced. They're they're ready to go. If we say we need something, they're there. >> And we don't have elevated concrete to trip over either, too. Right. >> That has worked out well. Pretty good. >> And then, you know, from last year to this year, tons of changes at the elementary and then throughout this year
too, changes in both buildings and now specifically in elementary. I gave a shout out to all my staff during my last staff meeting because of those changes. anybody that's been uh a mentor to new staff, any new staff, any long-term subs, any student teachers, which between those, you know, different
categories there that covers pretty much everybody down there. Um they they've done a great job. Everybody that's new is incorporating well. Um just it's just been going well. And then the one bigger one that I wanted to mention was there's just been a couple meetings that I've been involved in recently down there that I wanted to highlight. Um, regards
to I guess it doesn't matter the specifics, but within the meeting, anybody that would have been a part of the meeting would have been very impressed to hear the conversations that the staff was going through. Um, there wasn't always agreement. They handled it well. It was,
you know, you want to see something happen, but you're looking at the data and what's good and what's bad with it and what the data shows. And they were just some very productive meetings. And I think everybody learned a lot from them. And I think that in general, you know, at the end of it, everybody came to a common consensus and went the right
way to do what's best for students. And they were just, like I said, if anybody, if any of you would have been in those meetings, I think you'd have been very impressed with the conversation that the staff had. So, just a shout out to all the time and effort that the staff put into preparing for those meetings and then coming into them with their ideas,
their biases, but also data and what's working, what's not working, what's best for kids, what's what's showing up on these tests, what's showing up on the behavior analysis, what's showing up in discipline referrals, what's showing up with our curriculum, all that stuff. So, just a lot of really good conversations around education. >> Awesome. Thank you. Thank you,
>> Josh. I think you got to hear a lot of the good news that district night for me, you know, not obviously, you know, 100% awesome, but moving in the right direction. I think that's a good thing for the district and the financial security of the district uh is heading in the right direction. That's
awesome news for the the district. Uh one of my other hats, I drove bus on Saturday. It was cold. >> Oh. >> Um but the other one I mains are playing fantastic. They're 13 and three. Outside of the outcome for the final, uh we played a great game last
Saturday. It was a fun one to to watch. >> To coach, but a fun one to watch. Uh at the time, Zotto was seven in the state, we were eight. Uh 98 in overtime. Got another big week. We've got number one good coming in tomorrow. Uh Steuartville on Thursday has usually been top 10 in
3A. And then alumni weekend this weekend, but basketball should be pretty busy and we'll host Randolph on Saturday night. So hopefully we can fill the gym all three nights and uh hopefully can only three wins would be the uh the camper around if we could do it. So >> thank you
>> Lori. You got anything you want to add? >> I had a great week with you guys last week. >> Good news. >> That was good news. >> It was. >> Yeah. >> Uh I'll come to Jody. >> Um I was just going to mention too
alumni weekend. It's exciting with volleyball and basketball and then the hall of fame is on Saturday too. So looking forward to that. >> All right, Pete. >> Um I we had some that book I was had a question around the book vending machine. More of a check-in. Is that
going pretty well down at the I know that was well received last year. >> It goes well. Uh students that win the weekly real deal award. There's one free level prek through five. they each get a token that they can use up on that and then each classroom teacher gets two tokens that they can use within their
class um kind of at their discretion. >> Um and it's great seeing the kids eyes light up kind of when they realize when they get the token what it's for, >> you know, that they get to Hey, that machine that's, you know, you see the books in, you know, and some of them have gotten them before, some of them have seen somebody get it, but it's it's a good idea. Yeah.
>> Okay. Very good. Thanks. Yeah. And then the big PTO event at the elementary school is on 6th this Friday. So, >> all right. Spin off on that. Do you guys have enough books to keep >> I would have to check with Maggie on that. Maggie is the one that kind of does the monitoring of everything that's
within there. I can check with her. She's >> enjoying Florida weather right now. >> Good for her. >> I'll get back to you on that. Carolyn. >> Um I would like to give a shout out to the Canon kids staff and the elementary school office staff because um my kids
like to sign up for every activity under the sun which sometimes they're after school activities and I may or may not uh maybe forget to let kids know that my child is not going to be there. They're walking to their activity. Um so it is a very very quick and efficient phone call of where is this child? Let's help this
like find this child. Um they are very efficient. um and good at that and keeping track of all of our kids no matter what. So, I am very appreciative of them. >> All right, Jeff. Um Josh stole a little
over my thunder about uh some really good meetings happening recently with the facility and finance committee. And it's a lot it's amazing how different conversations are being had now as opposed to the last five to seven years
>> that we've had in those committee meetings. And that's nice to see. I think I mentioned that to you today on the phone that you know here we are our biggest concern is you know uh which way do we go on this uh calendar for the next couple of years and I said you know it's you know quite the changing
conversation that we had >> that would have been about number 15 on the list last year 20 >> you know if that's our biggest concern I think we'll be okay >> all right uh I was going to talk about alumni too I guess I still can uh if you want to come see me play. I should I
should probably put about 5 minutes in. Thank goodness uh our next meeting isn't until the end of February, so I should be healed up and look somewhat normal by then. >> Are you going to live stream the game? >> Yeah, >> why not? >> What's that? >> Are you going to play in shorts?
>> Oh, well, yeah. Just want to know. >> I got to wear something. I need to bring sunglasses. >> I said like shirts versus My name charge up the ad. >> Should I make a bevel for ortho call next week?
>> Maybe. >> That's the problem. As you get older, your mind still thinks that you can do it, but your body just can't. >> A lot of ibuprofen and ice packs goes out. >> But no, that's a it's a real fun day. not not just only alumni, but you you
add in the Hall of Fame and then uh uh cap it off with basketball. It's a both JV and JB C is too and that's against Randolph, correct? So that even just kind of adds to it a little bit. >> Busy busy weekend. >> So no, real fun day and a fun weekend
for our town. So all right, I think we spent enough time today. So uh I will look for a motion to adjourn. >> I'll make a motion. >> Pete on a motion. I'll second. >> Thank you. We're >> out of bodies here to make motions.
>> Join on the second. Any other discussion? All in favor say I. >> I. Opposed. >> Thank you very much everyone.