all right it's 6 o' we have four board members here tonight uh so we do have a quorum I would ask all of us to stand up and say Pledge of Allegiance I pledge aliance to the of the United States of America and to the for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for
all all right moving on approval of the agenda Jeff is there anything that you have to add no I just an introduction of our student representative uh that we talk about faing them right after the schedule presenters okay anyone else have anything to add to the agenda if not I will look for a motion to approve the agenda with the addition of the introduction of the
Su I'll second with the motion go in with the second any other discussion all in favor say I I oppose motion carries scheduled presenters uh we we have three of them tonight uh so get cozy and um we will start off with the Ed phonation would you like me to be uh
let's off to the side somewhat make sure we can get you on camera please would you like any of these slides up what's that would you like any of these which slides would you like up are you just going um I guess just as people have question if people have questions then we could go to the slides otherwise I don't know what how much of that information people want but we can take questions if anybody has questions on those things able to AIT out of that you just click into your screen
maybe we go okay I am Jerry geen I'm the current president of the Education Foundation this is Cliff uh Gorman he is the chairman of the program commit so he takes care of the requests that come in from staff and present them to the board we just have a quick overview of where we're at what we're doing and how things are going so the Education Foundation
was for a little bit of history on us the foundation was started in 1993 was started by a group of business people as well as some school board members and the superintendent that was here at that time they put the foundation together in order to provide a funding for educational programs that go above and beyond what the school's regular budget is so normally we think of uh the things that can enhance the students classroom learning and enhance the things that they're already learning there um the
extra things that we can give that make learning more interesting learning more fun and of course over the years since 1993 those things have changed pretty drastically the way that you educate is very different than it was back then and the opportunities that we have for enhancing educations have changed dramatically also so we are very proud to be able to partner with the school staff and um be able to provide some of those fun things for the kids and interesting things and learning things
for the kids uh the foundation board is 12 to 15 members at the moment or this fiscal year we are a full board with 15 members it's strictly volunteer there's no paid positions uh in our foundation the board members serve a four-year term and they can serve two consecutive terms and then you have to be off for a year before you can come if you choose to come back on we're currently doing three fundraisers
every fiscal year in the fall we've done the poker social the last five years that's been a really fun event it's a good way for us to connect with the community it's also been a great way for us to get people downtown and into some of the businesses who have supported the foundation for many years it's been a a fun thing to see a way that we can kind of give back to those businesses that have supported us for all of these years to get us to where we're at right now um we also have a fall fund drive we do that in conjunction with give MN in
November the Statewide um they what do they call the great Minnesota G give together I believe so we've done that in the in conjunction in conjunction with that in November and we do a mailing um we do news print and social media notifications for that event we also in the spring do a benefit auction that is coming up in April that'll be on Saturday April 26th at the Cana River Winery that's been our largest fundraiser of the year it's a lot of fun and it's a great um social
event for the community also people look forward to that event so those are the three big things that we do for fundraisers um attached to the agenda was all of our financial information um our those were the financial reports from uh the end of December um and I can answer any questions if you have any questions on finance or where we're at financially if anybody has any questions on that Cliff's going to give
kind of an overview on the program committee and the things that we funded and the budget do you want to do questions on finance now or do you want to listen to what Cliff has and then we can take questions after sure no uh anyone has any questions uh for Jerry whether it's uh from there or anyone up here looks like it's up to you Cliff save the questions for me sure yeah all right good evening everyone yeah I just a quick just want
to talk about our program budget for that foundation so this year we had $115,000 coming into the year for 24 25 school year so it's up nicely from the previous year um so far this year we've had 22 requests come in for $56,000 so that leaves us about 58,000 bucks for the rest of the year um some of the larger things that we've funded this year uh fourth grade Eagle Bluff trip which always seems a big a big hit here coming up in April um Joel beckman's coming on March 18th and that's going to be um presentation at the school during
the day and then open to the community in the evening as well um kindness Retreat for students in fifth grade and a courage Retreat for students in seventh grade in several items um for the stem students in the Middle School some of the bigger projects this year I know we got six more I think that we're looking at here in February so and then I gave them okay yeah so um one thing we did just also want to highlight to is that um earlier this year we were trying to find ways to promote promote and uh recognize our
largest owners the club 252 members so we worked with um Bonnie's stem classes I think right then they were able to put together some decals that are out there that hopefully you'll be able to see on some Vehicles here um for Club 252 members I know they did a little write up in the beacon on that too so it was kind of a fun full circle moment where they were able to put stuff together on some of the equipment that we've been able to fund we did a bit of a design contest with the students and I don't
know for sure which grade level that was that did the designing but this we asked the students to come back with some designs they came back with I think there were four different designs that we were able to select from and then that was the one that we chose and that they printed for us so that was a lot of fun to see that come together in kind of a full circle moment for us some other um highlights for from students giving back to us uh a lot of times students will or at the auction will end up with
student made items that we can auction off in the spring and those are always a big hit with parents grandparents aunts and uncles and those kind of things but it's nice to see um the results of the things that we've funded in the past and see that come full circle like that any questions for us I don't have any questions but I think it's absolutely amazing that this town has you guys I I think there are there are so many things that our school and our kids and our staff would just be
totally missing out on if it wasn't for you guys and it is awesome there are some pretty amazing things and I always feel like when we do an event especially like the auction it's a ton of work but when you see how the businesses in town and even private parties um um how they come behind this and help out with things and support the school it's pretty amazing to see I've gone and visited with other schools when they've been trying to develop Ed foundations and bigger cities than us and they don't
have the business Community like we do of course bigger communities they those businesses are being pulled in a lot more directions than ours but it's pretty amazing to see the things that we're able to do in a community of 4,000 people you know when I look at other other Ed foundations records and that kind of thing it's pretty amazing the things we get to do here it's pretty fun to see well thank you both thank you for everything you guys do and and your
members uh all your members and yeah it uh hopefully the public uh a lot of our parents and stuff just realize that uh how the costs are kept down because of the funding that is provided and additional supplies and everything else so thank you both and thanks you guys for serving as our Lions too it's helpful to have school board Li on that we can bounce ideas off of or have that connection so that we know when we get a request in what how does the school board foresee that
fitting into the into the school so we appreciate your time that you put in with us too all right thank you thanks thank you all right uh next up we will move on to the middle school and high school PTO stand whatever you're comfortable all
right tell everybody um so we're not as established as the Ed Foundation um so we're a newer group and I'm just going give a little background on kind of How It's how our group started um a couple years ago there were a handful of us parents probably in like different age groups so some of us had high schoolers some of us had middle schoolers some of us had just elementary students and we kind of all had a common theme of um kind of looking at the elementary because I know Melinda does
the PTO for the elementary and just saying hey we could use some extra support in the middle school and high school um a PTO group didn't exist um I personally had um three children go through
we met uh we have uh few rough issues uh that were looking at And discussing uh different strategies of how we are going to attack back that and pay for that as well as the tennis courts need to be repaved so our funding is a little tight so we're trying to get pretty creative on how we can uh tackle that also went over all of our pricing uh for what we
charge for our facilities and also um how we categorize everyone so that was a little bit on facilities and then also I was just going to say on negotiation standpoint uh Joel Lynn uh Jeff and myself are attending a seminar tomorrow all day down in Rochester for that uh anyone else have anything to add we have a kickoff meeting for we Tech next week on so February 20th so I should have an update at the
next okay all right we will move on to administrative board reports uh Elementary School uh Stephen you have anything you want to add to your report uh just a couple things one uh Friday night uh Nikki green and some PTO members help get get set up the corner of the office um with a very cool um colorful design with some bean
bag chairs some stickers on the wall uh a rug it's going to be kind of in coordination with our PBIS program it's going to be like a reward area for kids so if like today for example we actually had some kindergarteners and I think some second graders come in during indoor recess time and read books there play some games color things like that um didn't have a picture of it before this was submitted but I'll I can send you each one it's it's a really cool area so thank you to Nikki and Elementary PTO for everything there um what else I had a couple
things oh the other one is uh just in my report I had mentioned that we've had a fair amount of indoor recess days with some fluctuating temperatures I gave a shout out to the Pais and teachers for keeping it everything calm there and I want to give a shout out too for all the arrival and dismissal teachers and pairs that we have outside cuz on those cold mornings um it's cold it's just putting it nicely so we got a couple of them here tonight um but that whole team is just great and they're always out there
they always got a smile on their face somehow and it's just great with having elementary kids walk in seeing them every day sure all right Middle School High School Technology Tim anything you want to add to your just I I just want to reiterate a thank you to uh Cory n oh I'm going to miss somebody in this uh Cory n uh Chrissy Nelson um Jeff Kathy Stark uh Alicia Dolson Mr Strauss uh for helping me get the Middle School
High School portion of the adsis grant uh completed last week and uh that was submitted on Friday so we're looking forward to having some atsa support in this building man okay thank you Tim add activities Department Reed anything to add couple things that I added after I submitted uh Thursday we have section wrestling at plan view Elgen milville 6:00 we wrestle Austin at planville Elgen milville and then the winter will
turn around right away at 7 and and face uh mville um that is Thursday and then the winner of that last match will advance to male Civic um Friday and Saturday state dance our bomber dance team at Advanced to State again jazz is Friday they will uh perform at 11:58 kick is Saturday they will perform at uh 12:12 and we will have a state send off for them on
Thursday 2:00 down at the elementary and 2:20 up here at the M SCH High School sounds like the fun time of winter sports is coming up got all right I did not see here uh SS report Jeff yes um so uh couple of things here first of all there's a couple items that did not make my report but uh going to speak
about it anyway uh a week ago this past Friday Canon Falls Area Schools uh hosted the legislative breakfast for Southeast Minnesota and and it's we're I it's an honor that we get to host that because we are one of 41 schools within southeast Minnesota uh within the southeast Co-op region and we were asked to host that legislative session and it is a session for house members and Senate members that are currently in
this area of Southeastern Minnesota to come and listen to issues uh in regards to education from uh school board members and superintendant uh we had a good showing from our school board members here in attendance that day along with myself being the Master of Ceremonies uh we did have lots of good presentations we got a lot of good feedback from not only the the Senators and the representatives but also from different school board members and
superintendents on those presentations and uh as a followup to that I've been asked to speak via Zoom tomorrow with a group of senators and Republicans to let them know our uh con concerns here just in Canon Falls over unfunded mandates and the type of dollars that we are spending um I do plan on giving those amounts and and speaking truth to what is actually happening here with the unfunded
mandates and how our cuts that are coming up later on today uh in our meeting are kind of a result of a lot of those unfunded mandates and so more to come on that I can let you know how that goes uh during our next meeting uh as far as my report is concerned uh we do have a community collaboration planning meeting coming up and if you remember it was uh our partnership with the Eda in uh doing a lot of the walk around town if you remember that from
earlier this year I think Ronda you may were a part of that prior to coming on to the school board but we are having a follow-up meeting coming up on Wednesday February 26 to further the work of that Community uh collaboration planning meeting and so I know myself will be there and I think Clinton will be there but we want to see if there's another board member or maybe two that show up what's that I'll you'll be able to go when is it it's uh February 26 we should not have a quorum there though so you
guys may have to arm wrestle uh when uh you may be able to to go to that so just uh let myself know for sure and um I'll let L qu know as well um and then coming up if you're an officer here on the board uh there is a workshop coming up
on that March 7th from 9:00 a.m. to 400 P p.m. uh Schoolboard chairs treasurers Vice presid presidents clerks are highly encouraged to go to this especially if you have not been to a session like this before uh it is on Friday March 7th from 9:00 a.m. to 400 p.m. uh if that day works for you uh please let myself or Lori know we be registered for that day
as well Rochester it'd be in Rochester at the Rochester Public Schools Edison building downtown so other than that unless you guys have questions that's all I have other the agenda items any questions for Jeff all right we'll move on to public input comments are welcomed from students residents of the District taxpayers of the district people with
children in the district and employees of the district and must relate to the current agenda and not exceed 3 minutes the board may or may not engage in a discussion during the comment period but we'll take the information and find answers that is appropriate due to dat data privacy concerns a speaker may not address criticism towards an individual District employee during public input individual complaints should be handled privately with building administrators Andor the superintendent as part of the board protocol it is unacceptable for
any speaker to slander or engage in character assassination at a public board meeting is there anyone that would wish to speak to the board yeah I would respectfully ask uh the board to reconsider the proposal to cut both Junior High Assistant football positions and instead retain one of them football is one of the most popular sports among our Junior High boys with nearly 40 students participating each year maintaining at least one assistant coach would allow us to have a total of three coaches at that level Which is far
more effective both for practices and games at practice the third coach is invaluable they assist with equipment issues help set up and run drills and allow the team to be divided into three natural position groups enhancing player development during games the role of the assistant coach becomes even more critical one coach alone cannot effectively call the plays manage substitutions address injuries and handle everything happening on both s both on the field and the sideline an assistant coach helps ensure the game
runs smoothly and that our athletes receive the guidance and support they need for for these reasons I strongly urge you to consider cutting only one Junior High Assistant coaching position instead of both doing so would allow us to maintain a strong and structured program that continues to serve our student athletes safely and effectively thank you thank you Dan anyone else like to speak to the board yeah Don okay um Donn lny um
so I was trying to look up some of the committee information and there really isn't anything um beyond the Schoolboard committee assignments on the website anywhere besides agendas and um the finance committee meeting that you had last Friday wasn't announced at the last Schoolboard meeting it there wasn't um an agenda I don't know maybe you published an agenda a little bit ahead of that but not not not a far way ahead
of that committee meeting um so I was just wondering if you know committee members aren't aren't published on any anywhere um you know it'd be nice to have that stuff available so if people want to attend the committee meetings they can attend the committee meetings if they're interested um and then when I was looking for information the last curriculum committee meeting that I found was back in October of
23 and um the what came out of that was at the middle school and high school um that there should be a review of the middle school and high school language arts that was scheduled for this year I don't know if the curricul committee has has any plans to do that or when that that would be done because I can't find anything and then the other thing too is uh from the superintendent report I think there was a a student survey that
the students took last week or recently I'm just wondering um when those results will be shared or discussed um so then the other the last thing on the school bus route um it said that you're going to eliminate a school bus route I was just wondering if you're planning on eliminating a bus like if the coverage you know the routes are just going to change to Encompass a lar
larger bus route you know so you're still going to be covering the same area um for busing students or if you're planning on shrinking the coverage of your busing kind of thing um and then I think that was it oh and it would be nice if when you get to it if you can elaborate a little bit on what the administration reorganization is because that's about a fourth of what you're saving and it's pretty big so it' be
nice to just kind of go into that through that thanks Lori can you answer for the agendas where are they all posted for the different committees yeah they're on our website the agendas are there's no meeting minutes and there's no schedule for committee meetings so like you know like if you had a regular Cadence for committee meetings kind of thing that'd be one thing or you can just say Well they're a
lot of them are on different days all the time it's it's to make the scheduled work for whoever's all on the but if it could be announced at a board meeting you know that those meetings are coming up it wasn't I mean we can look at doing that if we if we know but like right now as we sit right now we might have another committee meeting of some sort next week but we don't even know as of like right now so it's all when things come up I believe those agendas need to be posted 3 days in advance correct y
they are so they are always there at least three days when at the bottom of the agenda does it say then when the next meeting is for each not necessarily we don't always know what does always there are a few committees that do stay pretty regular but like Clinton said there are a few that kind of vary a little bit but right anyone else wish to speak to the board all right and we will move on there is no old
business new business consideration to approve an intermittent FMLA request in accordance with the teachers Master agreement article 10 leaves of absence Section 8 medical leave from February 18th 2025 to the end of the year this is for Bonnie to Austin and I recommend approval all right I would look for a motion to approve that I'll make motion
jool Lyn on the motion second Ry on the second any further discussion all in favor say I I oppose motion carries consideration to improve the Student Activity Bank rotation schedule Jeff as Ry mentioned earlier in the finance committee meeting there was discussion around uh possibly looking at
a different or a change in the in the rotation because some banks are left off completely uh for the possibility of up to 10 years U of seeing school money coming in and so we they were asked us to see if there was a fair way of doing this and we pretty much agreed with that as a committee or the committee agreed with that statement and so the outcome is a recommendation to continue the main accounts that we have that we rotate
every five years and keep that schedule but also rotate the Student Activity account which for whatever reason when it was set up it was never rotated out of uh Merchant's Bank and so that will follow the main account if you can think about this in your head so once the main account leaves One Bank the Student Activity account follows it and then it kind of shifts around every five years into that
rotation uh our help me out Josh the uh HSA accounts will stay at Merchants because are basically employee base item right and so there is one account that we will keep there at Merin permanently but they will also catch the rotations as they go by as well so that is a recommendation to approve that new schedule for the finance committee Josh you have any feedback on
that or input it's just more work is a half moov it with the electronic stuff but it is it's moreor and all of I think originally fairness us be four Banks we rotate them every 3 years um now that there are three banks in town the 5 years makes a little bit more sense uh is a lapse of time about 10 years if you're not on that rotation so to add the Student Activity account just allows two of the three banks at one time to have uh have a hold of some of the funds of the school district um
so we just be adding that student account to follow the the main account all right so again this is a recommendation from the finance committee um I would look for a motion to approve this I'll motion it I'll second e with the motion joelan with the second any further discussion all in favor say I I
oppose motion carries sorry Josh you got some more work that's all right all right uh moving on number three consideration to approve the fiscal year 26 proposed Bud budget reduction and revenue increases Jeff walk us through this yes at uh an earlier meeting the board uh asked me and the administrators to come back with a list of
$535,000 uh worth of cuts per the recommendation from the finance committee earlier to create a balanced budget uh for the next fiscal year and through a process with our administrative team we've come up with this list and we have uh passed this in front of the finance committee and this is a recommendation from the finance committee to pass these as well uh as we' brought it to the board here but I'll go through and talk about these uh line items in each of these areas and if
you have questions uh we can certainly talk about them as we go along um but I'll try to do my best to explain them so we we kind of cut down on the number of questions as well um some of these are pretty self explanatory and some of them may need a little bit more uh information so uh as we go through this just please feel to feel free to interrupt me uh the first one is a technology subscription and this is mainly Uhl and
another programming subscription uh that we use and uh the cut for that will be $99,000 and some areas we will keep ISL I believe in special ed ad oh ad thank you uh we will be keeping that uh subscription but for the rest of the designated uh grade levels we will be cutting that subscription second light item is a elementary teacher and this will be specifically in
third grade as the numbers coming into third grade next year only warrant three sections as opposed to four right now and can I ask what those numbers are yeah I believe there's 66 kids in that grade level in second grade right now so third grade it'll be three section about 22 per class uh the next item is a secondary teacher as well Innovation lab
facilitator currently the lab is open uh in each hour of the day I believe for students to come in and out and for classrooms to use that uh currently we do not get any funding for the students attending that and so the teacher that that is uh funded in there is out of our straight out of our undesignated fund uh with closing of that lab as an Open Lab to students classes will still be able to access that lab moving forward so it
won't close completely it'll just look different in how we are using it uh moving forward part of that cut also is um reducing the required amount for social studies and the board will have to if the board passes this uh we will have to come back at a different meeting to lower the amount of required social studies credits currently we are a half of credit above what the state requires uh whatever reason that was
back in whenever they passed that so we would uh bring that back down to what the state requires and not be above that uh eliminating most sixth assignments um and that is the total for all of the sixth assignments that we are looking at um eliminating and for most six assignments those were extra sections of some classes Tim is that an accurate statement correct and um so we
wouldn't necessarily be eliminated Singletons unless they didn't have enough kids registered correct for that as well we'll be looking at putting some classes in some departments on uh rotation so instead of offering these classes every year they'll be offered every other year okay um and when we say most six assignments when we get to the end point
or the end game of scheduling sometimes we do need that extra assignment to make schedules work sometimes correct for that uh High School scheduling is not an exact science some years is the best way to describe that um acap testing fees will be turned over to students currently uh the district puts in about 50% from what I remember of those exact numbers 50% for AP tests yep act act
district has been paying it all what's that the ACT has been fully subsidized by the district so the ACT is being fully subsidized and the AP is about half uh a little more than half about 2/3 okay so then that would be all turned over to uh student costs at this point uh we would eliminate bomber Academy transportation and Stephen correct me if I'm wrong in saying this but currently uh we do go over budget in our uh
targeted Services each year and that's mainly due to Transportation a lot of area schools do not provide transportation for this type of um services for students and so we will eliminate uh that Transportation here do we know how many kids are roughly using in transportation rough idea right now I would guess 22 22 kids 22 of the 50ish that we have in right now is that mostly rides home or yep in the
summertime it's two a and from uh in the school during the school year during our fall and like winter session it's just ride home because it's right after school sure uh the next line item is a curriculum purchase over two fiscal years um the the one that we currently have coming up is K through 5 and it's it's a new language art series uh that was shocking at the cost
of it and it's mainly due to the react coming up and the cost total was $164,000 for that which is usually a lot more than what we would normally spend on a series and so what we plan on doing is is using the remaining dollars out of this fiscal Year's uh prum purchases and shifting it into next fiscal year as part of the cut and so we'll be able to cover those or that full purchase out of next fiscal year by that uh accounting
shift so it' be covered over two fiscal years instead of out of just one fiscal year uh we would eliminate one bus route by having the buses um we would combine basically two routs Allison felt comfortable with doing that and by doing that uh we saved 29,7 57 uh I still need to find the policy on this but I've been hearing reports that there was a policy passed back in the
day that said that kids will not be on buses over an hour we still need to look for that policy which it hasn't showed up yet um but if that does happen Allison felt very comfortable uh in saying that kids should not still be on the bus more than an hour even with this uh shift and condensing R but if we do find that I may bring that back as well just in case uh we would reduce our marketing budget by $10,000 with the next decline
item jeez what are we uh what are we spending on that right now Josh do you have that off the top of your head is it about 30,000 if you add the social School 3 40 40 with the social School piece to it um and this was created a few years back um and we used the justification with um gaining
students out of the marketing and a lot of schools are actually turning to this type of marketing that we've been doing for quite a few years now and so but we are reducing that but still have some of the program right uh administrative restructure uh in looking at this we are looking at going to currently we have a middle school high school principal Elementary principal and until recently A K through
12 assistant principal uh we would be looking at having for next year a middle school high school principal Elementary principal and a k through 12 de of students and the difference in that restructure going from a K12 assistant principal to a K12 Dean is that the dean cannot supervise staff nor can they uh suspend students and so that would still fall on the lap of the principal those
are the two biggest things but uh the pieces that that third person uh picks up outside of that and in the areas of testing and other student supervision is um in at that time or at this point as far as still needing that third person uh would that Dean be able to teach some classes some too or not suppose they could depending on the
lure sure um and that would tie them up and maybe even restrict a little bit of their admin time as well okay do we ever have our PR princial have to step into a classroom currently they sub I mean all the administrators sub so this person potentially could also maybe do the same thing depending if they need to and subbing you can just be any
Li uh quite a bit of the next few are in the activity area and facility areas as we go through this uh there will be an activity fee increase starting uh next school year and we will be moving from 125 up to 185 for each of the activities that students participate in um there will be a few one-offs like the
weightlifting fee increase that'll go from was it 65 Now read and that'll go up to 185 as well um the family activity fee cap will also inrease and what was those numbers 650 up to 650 now or it was 650 and up to 900 900
now the credit go ahead on the activity fece how is that compared to schools in our I don't know if you want to speak to that how is this compared to schools in our area how doeses the our the fee to 185 compared to schools everybody's looking at this right now there are some that are already going to 200 okay so I I would say we're not high right we'll be in line and we have not but I can go back in regards to our HL sheet that we
share as HS we have not increased our activity fees since at least 2018 it might have been it might be even longer but that's as far as the data on this shared report goes us to 2018 got it thank you there's also a few schools like they're they're bigger schools but in the area like your Farmington your Northfields they're well in the 300 sure so I don't think it's yeah
okay uh credit card fee to users on the school lunch side we have uh credit card fees PID by the users on the activity side we have not been doing that so we will be adding that starting next School as well um the next line item uh currently we are not charging uh for usage of our senior center or we're not charging seniors for the use of our space to be
called a senior center is probably the better way to say that um we are looking at having $1,000 a month uh as the price for that and we have informed the senior center of that currently in case you are wondering uh We've also increased the School of Dance rental uh from what they currently pay and can do you remember the prices on that read that was 100 and now it's
going to go to 3 350 a mon 350 a month from 100 okay and you said both the senior center and the school Dan agreed to that or is that they've been made aware of it okay and so these some of these and we'll get to that at the bottom that some of these if they don't agree to not rent it that's 12,000 and we'll talk about that at the bottom of
this um we have an increase to the activity pass fee I don't know if re if you can a little bit more on that y um the adult single will go from 50 to 75 and the family which is Abed very sparingly with the students getting in free will go from 140 to
175 uh the next few here are eliminations um we would eliminate the junior high paid scorebook and uh scoreboard workers we would eliminate two Junior High football coaches assistant coaches eliminate a cross country assistant coach we would eliminate the cheerleading
program eliminate the BPA adviser which is what again uh business Professionals of America and the final one was that we would be eliminating would be the band choir concert stien and that is it's our understanding that that was used when we had two band teachers and that was the stien that they could apply for for concerts and so with us not having two band teachers uh we don't have a need
for that anymore uh the next one is the reclassification of the Huddle package expense uh currently that is in our general fund and that will we moved into a fundraising fund the scoreboard raising fund out of the ad's office and finally we would have thermostat changes throughout all of our buildings where in the winter time we would drop the temperature by a degree I
got to make sure I say this right and then in the summertime we would raise it by a degree as well and if you have questions about how we came to that dollar amount for that you can ask Josh and Josh is pointing at but there was a scientific method to that that wasn't throwing darts at the 9500 still but and so the the total amount here you will see is over the 535,000 it's
$563,000 uh approximately uh there is some areas uh that when Ry brought that up that if the senior center decides not to rent from us obviously $12,000 comes off of that if the school of dance pulls out that was what was that 3,000 and so same with activity fees and oh sure the activity fees it all depends on who's coming out how many people come
to games you know so there's we we have historical data that we base these numbers off of but again there's there's still that need for a little bit of flexibility around that number and so with that I do recommend that the board passes it at the 563 uh just because of the need for that flexibility around that and and quite honestly if the board decides to go out for an operating Levy next year and it does pass uh we still won't get the
funds for another you know at least until past the fiscal year so we're going to have to make additional cuts to help balance even if we do pass something and heaven forbid if we don't pass something those will be deeper Cuts even then so I I do recommend that we do go with the 563 uh what's what's listed there um and then obviously if you feel uncomfortable tonight to make those uh to okay this list from the finance
committee and our Administration we can continue planning again for next year uh if you don't decide and you want to delay this until another meeting we can certainly go until the next meeting but keep in mind that we don't finalize the cuts until a meeting after you guys finalize this list because then we come back with actual names that go on the list as well so that is all I have if you have questions go ahead yeah I got a couple
Jeff could you speak to the timing on so if this passes this evening timing on when the communication will come out let's pick on the bus route so family would could prepare if there's a change to their pick up and I think once Allison knows when she goes through her process of these the actual bus route won't change until next year and so when Allison finds out which route she's putting together she would communicate to those families that this is going to be your pickup and would that come out
this summer would we guess just I'm thinking right but as parent of kids who have taking Bost how to plan sure is Alison give you or did she contact you at some point at the beginning of the school year I think it was yeah I'm guessing that's probably that would be well I would assume that she's planning RS earlier on in AUST right yeah summer is when we yeah there was some talk too and this
maybe out of turn um Alison did mention something about um maybe doing a more strategic opt in op out to make sure that we're running buses to appropriate houses and if there's people that maybe only ride once a week that would just completely opt out that would restructure some Els as well yeah we talked about actually implementing that system this coming year so we would get a good feel of how much busing we actually do need because we don't want
to make blind cuts to that and so we would probably start implementing that uh this coming fall where we would ask families to opt in for transportation and if we find out throughout the year this actually work then we would Implement that the following year to probably even cut more routs if we need to with our like activity fee increase for example with some of our our Sports fees kind of um going up a little bit do
we have a system in place for maybe kids or families who um maybe have like Financial burdens and need help yeah we would have the same system that we have in place and how many students are in the the cheerleading program do you know how many students were in the cheerleading program read what's that how many students are in the cheerleading program six the cheer sorry what was that six six okay we window down the last each year
the last three years question just think all buses can I do that no uh yeah I'll go ahead and one question oh how are there because I live in the country so like in more like the sitting limits do kids go to one bus stop or is it always picked up at every house and I ask cuz where I live my neighbor a
separate unit comes to their house and then a bus comes to our house and I just when I think of like the logic behind how that's all moving I don't know how that's aable every year in town they have specific pickup points yeah for multiple houses yeah um in the country I'm assuming it's every house because of the distance between them um I I can't say that
that's 100% true in all cases just depends on whoever says it's easier to pick up if you'd like to restart to Alison I'm sure she Happ yeah guys have any other questions I don't think so Jee I'll ask uh what what is
the when you know that we need to come up with some Cuts what what is the initial process of how it gets started how do where do you start is this a full admin team is this you and Josh starting is this we look for input from our admin team uh from each of the areas uh the principles Reed's area um Stevens area the head of
facilities and um we look at such things as class sizes obviously some you can't cut $535,000 worth of pencils in your acers and so 7 % of our budget is staff and benefit or staff salaries and benefits um and unfortunately that's usually a lot of it right uh you got to look at what's required from the state as
well um you also have to look at programming how everything fits together and that's where a lot of the admin discussions come in about okay we can say we can cut this but how does that fit into our overall all programming and does it work with what we want to do the following year and does it make sense thank you yeah I got two more questions one on the curriculum purchase so from if we're does there will there be an impact to our purchase schedule right do we have a regimented schedule
you touched on what the curriculum may be but as we're looking at do we buy a curriculum every year is it every five years is every three years yeah we have a curriculum purchase cycle and last year because of the some questions about the react implementation we didn't purchase Elementary reading curriculum last year um and then we got the quote for the purchase this year which was
over double what we normally pay for a whole great like Elementary curriculum purchase so um this will move shift everything down a year so something that we would have been looking at purchasing for next year will be moved down for two years was it just that particular curriculum that was spendy or do you notice that other curriculum packages are increasing as well you know we
haven't done a big one in a while um and it kind of it it's changed over time um preo textbooks were much more expensive than online subscriptions um after Co we found out the textbook prices dropped but the subscription prices increased pretty dramatically so um I it's it's normally not my part of things to look at elementary curriculum
purchases this one seemed really really high the biggest purchase that we've done in the 15 years I've been here before this was our last science curriculum purchase and that was a little over I it was almost $90,000 so this is almost double that which is and I think to your question as well and Stephen can maybe touch a little bit on this but I believe there was the the Elementary staff looked at two or three different curriculums yep the literacy
committee last year selected two different programs to look at and they had samples and took a vote and so the one that won out amongst that vote uh is the one that will be purchased the second place one is only $5,000 cheaper wow okay right and I think there's I think the react and that legislation probably prompted a lot of this price increase I'll say it unfortunately um is there a mandatory
rule for how frequently we are are expected to purchase new curriculum no there's not a mandatory rule but standards change over time from the state and so we have to kind of Monitor and adjust that but curriculum cycle to meet those our our cycle has changed uh just about every year for the last six or seven years based on how the state has put out new um standard requirements so when I started um we had
a seven-year cycle that we were on for about 3 years before the state kind of threw a wrench in that and we've been essentially we've been reactive to to what the state changes have been um I I think we're in an okay Place uh by moving that curriculum purchase down a year um but I don't even want to have it to guess at what yeah the cost of that's
going to be because like Jeff said I'm not really a conspiracy theorist but it is coincidental that the read act came out and then all of a sudden the curriculum that we want to purchase for reading is twice as expensive as it had been the last time so and and it should be known also and this is part of my beef with the state as well currently is that it's only partially um um meets the requirements of the of the reack there's only one curriculum that's fully approved by the
state that we would never really go with I think is the best way to say that and so we are picking one off of the partially approved list and the only one that's fully approved is um how do I say this it's with the company that really put in helped put in the
react so yes I'm on camera saying that so with with that talking on the topic of so with unfunded mandates anything that would come up with new new classes or requirements would we be setting ourselves up for we're not going to do this for the next two years anything that's coming out from an unfunded mandate whether it's curriculum based or or class based that we need purchase a curriculum are we going to have a lack in funding from that perspective for
GCO there's one uh new class that I believe starts next year and that is the financial uh personal finance personal finance and I'm guessing we can pull resources from various areas for that yeah so one of the changes uh I guess it was actually two years ago um or two sessions ago was the state required personal finance for students in grades 10 11 or 12 starting with the
kids who are currently freshmen so um the way we're going to address that next year is we're pulling personal finance off of the elective rotation for everybody else and we'll offer a section of personal finance next year that can be taken by our sophomores and then uh as students progress through we'll eventually have three section of
of personal finance every year um essentially one for FR one for sophomores Juniors and seniors um I don't think that putting this uh push in a a purchase off a year is going to really negatively impact anything the next purchase after the elementary Reading purchase would be uh middle school high school language arts purchase and uh for the most part that department um creates their own
curriculum off of the standards so they don't have a a big textbook purchase what they what would be more um likely with that group would be purchasing classroom sets of novels which is significantly less expensive than doing a textbook purchase so we'll have to address that we'll have to address the personal finance um but that's kind of a limited scale uh purchase it's not like something that is hits every grade uh
you know uh in in a school um so really the the big ones that would be kicked down the road are like uh Sciences coming up for both the elementary and the middle school high school that one is going to be a year off we're we've we're already a year off with them now so another year is not going to impact that those departments to terribly okay thank you y uh Stephen on the bomber Academy
Transportation what is your what's your gut feeling on WE eliminate that are we going to be losing students that are attending that we'll lose some yep um there are some especially ones who like depending on work schedule and where the student lives like out in the country um right now we have after bomber academy one van and one bus that goes out um I worked with Alison to try to keep it to two vehicles it used to be
three um that was much more expensive so it's been two the last couple sessions um of the what I say 21 or 22 students I think I guessed um I don't want to speculate too much some some probably wouldn't be able to make it worth I don't want to throw a number out there though sure some some probably wouldn't be able to make it work I guess y like Jeff did say um I reached out to other area schools um and we are the
only one of the ones that I reached out to that that are close in size with us that is paying for transportation to take kids home from targ services so that was somewhat were prompted this thank you y uh the other thing was on the uh whether it's Tim or Stephen on the ACT Testing um you were saying that we fully subsized that before as a school for the ACT Testing is that correct it is that something that's
normal like are are other schools doing that as well do you know I don't really have any information on that the the requirement from the state is that we offer one session or one examination during the school year um when that was originally when that originally came out the state paid for it and after one year the state didn't pay for it anymore um so uh we have we
chose to continue to pay for the test because we wanted the kids to take the test right so that's kind of been an incentive um that we' have offered for families is to have that so I think that number um it's roughly $100 per student and we have you know between 55 and 60 kids who take the ACT um every year we get a little bit of um the state pays for uh students who uh qualify for
pre-introduced lunch so we get a little bit of money back for that but it's really a relatively small amount of that total anyone else have any other questions no I just have one on bomber Academy Transportation so if we do you know once we find out if we do that do we allow families to opt in to pay for transportation or is that something that you know is not allowed or that is allowed I'm not familiar with how that
process works I mean if at that point I mean could it be an option for those particular students to if it's Elementary building for a lot of them to go to can kids during that time frame yep that's current op there R kids and everything like that cuz we work with you know Elementary secretaries tamy um even just the general workers kind of work on okay this kid's going school then bomber Academy then um Canon kids or on this
particular day this kid's getting picked up at 4:00 because they have to go to dance you know or whatever so we try to work with the parents and the secretaries and the workers involved of who's going where so yeah that is an option okay because bomber Academy done at like what 4:15 420 420 420 and then Canon kids goes until 6 yeah okay thanks is there any other
questions so before we do this I just want to make sure everyone knows what your options are as the board members so you do have options that you can pull out any different items that you wish and make a motion on that you can also make a motion to table as till the next meeting if you wish or you can make a motion as shown so just so you're aware
of all these different options okay and again this is a recommendation from the finance committee so at this time I'd look for a motion what do we think about making a motion to table it to the next meeting just it
it's it's a lot of cuts it's a lot of money if anybody has any additional questions wants to chew on it a little bit that's for your decision to make we have two people who aren't here that's my thought is that a motion that you're making I'll make a motion to table this to the next
meeting is there a second or a different motion I motion to pass it to the point of joh two board members I will comment on that saying one of the missing board members is on the finance
committee brought this for approval I think it's a very concise list to where we are landed so I I motion to pass can I have two motions okay two motions uh you need a second to move forward on either one of those uh if you have a second I'm guessing those are polar opposite I can I'll second the to approve as
PR so now you need to move forward on that one sure so we have a motion and a second to approve the budget reductions and revenue increases as fully shown is there any further discussion all right all in favor say I I
oppose motion carries all right folks right now uh we are going to be heading into a Clos session you are more than welcome to sit around in the hallway and then come back after we open up but right after we open up we're just going to adjure um so thank you all for coming and our next meeting will be back here on