##VIDEO ID:zJh5hKHiHrI## we are now in session um Katie won't be with us she's got a work commitment that she couldn't get away from so it'll be us everyone else is here as is our usual custom would you please stand face the flag as we say the Pledge I pled aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all we have an addition to the agenda we will add that as number eight Family Medical Leave Act more when we get to number eight anything else that you have no so I would look for a motion to approve the agenda with that addition I'll make a motion jolen second seconded by Luke other discussion all in favor of the agenda as shown with the amendment say I I I opposed carried we'll begin with scheduled presenters Smith schaer Representatives here for our fiscal year 24 audit presentation sir you're off we going to have a you know what I didn't put that up there yet did I do my paper if you want no that's fine I got to turn it on too boy I'm just way behind my apologies wouldn't let us bar the door open uh he's doing that I I'm Steve sson from the Smith shap for office red wi um our firm is about what 10 people now I think we're number 209 in the US which always thought was kind of funny because I've worked for Madry and I Bailey and and they're quite large compared to our firm but I've been to Smith schaer since 20 2005 actually so I started in Rochester and then I moved to Redwing in 2011 when we emerged in that office so I actually run that office there and and uh we do I think 35 schools and told me I used to run all of them when it was 20 some and when I moved to Redwing I gave up a lot of them because a lot of them are South and uh my wife is from the south so it's kind of fun South Rochester going down there a lot of people knew me and didn't know anybody else which I thought was interesting so but we're charged our firm was charged doing your audit this year and uh it was a solid year and with that we'll get going I'm going to present it in a summary fashion using the PowerPoint and summary um we are charged of doing an opinion overall and as you can see there we had an unmodified or clean opinion we call it same as same as you had last year because now we have the opep on the books and all that so we didn't have any issues or items to report with regard to the opinions we have a clean opinion as far as Minnesota legal compliance um we we have to test certain things you got a letter from us um that that uh talks about some of that and we had no Exceptions there uh intro control uh we've had this in the past we actually prepare the statements but we list that as an in control finding but it's it's not Material uh we did have some Student Activity compliance non-compliance with regard to mafa and you can see we we couldn't find a purp statement of purpose statements for those activities listed and there was some with no activity so if they have no activity you're supposed to close them that's actually quite common and uh so you just want to put something in there to keep them open and then um the out a committee letter which we'll go through at the end next slide please so we start with our adms so you can see our adms didn't changeed much they only went down 1.2% and when I look at them I got yes to me it's positive because you see in the the orange and the blue those numbers have went up which means you know they'll end up in our high school in in theory so at least we hope so we can maintain where we're at at least and and that's good versus and we've been pretty solv the last three years so next slide please this is the revenue for all funds and you can see uh property taxes are up a little bit that was our our levies for debt Serv general fund up 100,000 each uh State AIDS you can see there's quite a jump there our Genet Aid was up about 345 and our special ed date was up 600 over 600 so we gained a million there that was that was good um you see the federal AIDS dropped off because we sped down our Esser and all the other federal funds we had from the past and you kind of see you know it's kind of interesting when you look at that you can see preco and and postco where we're getting back to where we were so all those funds are gone and then the other Revenue you see a drop there well the biggest thing was um in in 23 we had that large Insurance Recovery and and so that's that's gone so that was that was uh 600,000 plus so next slide please and this is just a pie chart of the same thing that we can see how it how the the mix transformed you know the federal drop cup perc the other drop C couple percent well then our state went a 4% so you know it kind of makes sense so next slide please uh just to our property levies you can see they're fairly consistent next slide please expenditure all funds Mak see administration's about the same uh support is up about 86,000 that's primarily benefits um Regular see is up a little bit uh that's primarily salary benefits and Student Activity was higher this year than last year too that's in there too vocational uh that up about 60 that's salaries special HS about the same which is interesting our revenue is way up but our expenditure is about the same that's good so we're gaining there um humidity Ed you that's going to go up with with the programming that's going on there inst structural about the same uh pupil is up about um almost 200 and 111 of that is contracted service the rest is Food Service that's actually in the pupil um expenditures Satan building is down about 400 uh that's mainly uh supplies related to the storm in the prior year and and this year then and then countering that as the lease we have the new bus and paying off leases and then fiscal and other agencies up a little bit does primarily property insurance next slide please so this General fun as a whole and the the blue is the revenues and the uh yellow's expenditures you can see they basically offsite each other and then we had U some transfers and other so that was our lease for the new bus has 100 some thousand and um you can see the green is actually our change in fund balance for the year that was uh plus 198 so solid year next slide please and then we get into uh our unassigned and our assigned balance for a general fund you can see our unassigned went up from 388 to 500 so that was our 198 added on there and our restricted uh grew a little bit so next slide please Food Service the Food Service it revenues are a little short um the red is the change at 67,000 but we had a solid fund balance on the next slide you can see we dropped down to 71 the 21 is the inventory uh so we still got a solid food service balance so that's good next slide please Community Service uh you can see for the year our revenues did exceed our expenditures so we bid into the negative fund balance see on the next slide you see it went down so we gained about 28,000 on there and uh that's good we want to eventually get that to zero if we can um next slide please Debt Service again we're funding our debt which is all that matters and we did drop down on the fund balance 150 Grand next slide please but we still have a solid fund balance and we do have enough to meet our requirements and things like that so no problems there next slide please and now we get into the sticks so this is where we take the expenditures and we divide them by the adms and in theory it should be a straight line right in theory well nobody has much Theory because of coding issues things like that you get up and down so the best we could do is compare to the prior year compare to the state compare to districts of our size you can see we're a little higher um but you got to remember the state average and districts of our says that's the year before so if I look at the year before and I look at our 2023 we match up pretty good so I'm suspecting that we actually match up the number 24 next l regular instruction and this does include Student Activity and you can see we're actually below the state average and almost right on districts of our size for the year before or in 24 those numbers are 23 because that's the latest that was available so that was really solid and the one after that next slide please this is the one I like because it shows everything so the uh admin one you can have coding issues you know if you code things differently you can make the the the sticks jump up and down right regular instructions a little more stable I mean everything everybody pretty much holds the same uh between admin and support and and pupil and stuff like that you can move stuff around so you end up with a weird stuff this tells you then as a fund as a whole and you can see we're we're way under the state average for the year before and and we're almost equal to the average for district of our size for the year before so uh I call that very solid uh next slide please and this is our summary so you can see general fund was positive 198 and our uh unassigned is three 3.3% at 500 uh Food Service had uh a reduction and uh but still has solid fund balance and community Serv made a gain on his deficit and uh that'll take us to our letter does anybody have any questions I go through quickly and I'm just doing a summary and I don't want to take up a lot of your time so we'll go to this letter and basically it just talks about our responsibility planning what are the significant risks in the audit did we have any changes policies on page two we didn't have any what are significant accounting estimates depreciation of capital assets that's for your government wide statements that are in the front that nobody understands uh opab and pension are estimates put out by the state and your opep person and and they go into your financials on the government wide that nobody understands and then we have a general and special ed Aid and those the special the general normally we can get pretty close on the Special Ed I saw one that was off half million dollars so we get reports from the state I I was looking at their reable I don't remember how yours came out you we're fairly close leave it for next year approval so I was looking at one that um last week week before it was AIT one doing the draft and their receivable was 80 and they got 400 for that year and it's like why is that I have no idea and he usually doesn't fin out till March generally it takes quite a while for out yeah so that that was a tough one and and U I don't know ever since they changed the form it's really gotten weird but but I thought that was really good what what we had you look at our expenditures and they're almost a straight line but our revenues take a nice jump that's that's positive um uncorrected correct statements we didn't have any to report um and then other matters are issues we have nothing to report there so that's that's all I have is there any questions I do have copies of the PowerPoint for you um of course then you do have the electronic one than Josh had to suffer a lot longer than you guys just do veryy quickly that's to the fam oh but you know if you think of something later thank you you can always call me just look at for the office for that's all I got any questions for she thank you for your time thank you I appreciate your time thank you very much and thanks for letting us in yes absolutely appreciate it thank yep take care so our bottom line would be that we increased our fund balance by about a half a percent right 2.8 to 3.3 yeah so when we talked fund balance overall fund balance we did fairly well but there's some things are assigned we've got some ltf dollars and some SE dollars and other assigned dollars but the unassign grew to 3.3 um which is positive for the district um relative we bump up $100,000 it sounds like a lot of money but on a $15 million budget it's not a whole lot to it's the right direction anyway I noticed our community service fund also increased which is yeah uh in the right direction smaller negative amount and what he didn't mention what he usually doesn't has Auto presentation it's real common districts are size that their Community Fund is in a deficit um as generally that you we're offering uh things for our community that uh the board and the district SE is a positive um and to be honest a lot of that is what is the feeder into our our school so um but we want to make sure we're keep an eye on that and not aded for too long when we uh we made a conscious effort to lower our fund balance goal a couple of years ago and it one point in time they want us to have four months in our pocket which is just unreasonable and uh we lowered it to what 5% four to six four to 6% so we're on the right path moving up it isn't the utopian yeah you know it's real interesting I was just at a MMO event and some districts are kind of all over the place depending on their situations um district 196 is 125% and they they have that uh another District this largely open en roll 50% is their fund policy um and then there's some in the single digits as well but it's all kind of a matter what is best for their District I think that um we're probably I think by and large very you know conservative here and we try to do the best we can with the dollars that we have um I don't you know in my chair I would love to see 8 to 12% it just makes um just for better budgeting and and it kind of takes out some of the the high peaks and valleys but um we've been very consistent what we've been doing we try to present a balanced budget each year and we've been pretty consistent hitting on that as much as we can uh that being said with some of the things that are coming down the line for us that we're going to need to cover whether it be unemployment FMLA uh those sorts of things um you know contract settlements um it's very important that we have uh good showing and and a good result on the Opera refer that's coming for the public thank you so I think a good goal for us would be to try to increase our general fund by 04 to half a percent kind of every year yeah yeah you know slow and steady is certainly good I think that we just want to avoid the stepping backwards as long we keep making the steps forward I think we're progressing the right direction good work thank you I I thank them to they came in early I had my son was home in the military so I wanted to get down a little bit early so we came in early sometimes of presenting this to you in December so uh it's probably good for the District Two and jist to have that sort of information as a plan forward okay moving along public input comments are welcome from students residents taxpayers people with kids in in the district and employees not to exceed three minutes and it has to follow whatever we have on the agenda this evening the concerns um we may or may not uh engaged in discussion during the comment period but we'll get back to you as deemed appropriate due to data privacy concerns a a speaker may not address criticism toward an individual District employee during public input having made that statement is there anyone here that wishes to speak to the district about things yes um so don Lanning um you know I look through the meeting minutes that are up on the consent agenda I think right and on those meeting minutes there's no notes of any public input from those meetings is there a particular no I just made that I'm guess I'm just making that observation that none of the public input from those two meetings are included in the meeting minutes and I'm kind of thinking they should be so um and then the other thing that I noticed or I have questions about like you said maybe you can answer them and maybe you can't then maybe you're going to tell me to call him but um there are a couple of items on your budget um I'm assuming these are check numbers 67833 it was um something to Bank of America for travel and Conference fees but it was a almost ,000 for that and I'm kind of wondering what that what that was for you know what kind of conference or what that was for and then the same thing with something going to the Canon PA education fund it was another big donation for it said glow Forge and it was um another I think $3,000 or something like that that I was kind of wondering what that was for but um that was it and you are correct we will uh push you toward him to get those answers you are right so we don't have that information here at this time but we'll certainly get it for you you do have that okay we'll take the here go Forge is Ed Foundation approved project uh they donate the knowledge to the district and then we pay out for that project so uh it is actually used in the CD area are so it's the materials for them to use oh so that's an offset there's no cost of district for that one okay uh Bank of America is the district's credit card it's not all travel conference and fees it's just a on line description that goes in there so it could be uh for events it could be for registrations it could be for uh subscriptions or instructors applied it just that August lumped into there so it's just the district's credit card paying each month okay thank you m anyone else wish to speak we're moving along consideration to approve the finance report John y u just how many you got enough for the last meeting with the audit so this is just kind your normal cash flow statement and some sort of things to to highlight in this document I think the the big one um is the County taxes up at the top so this would be the we get two payments of this the second half of the annual property tax um we just got the notice from uh the county and that was 824 so we hit the the kind of estimate on that pretty close uh the second payment will then come in the usually that first week of November uh generally what happens when we get uh tax revenue is the ideas payment is pay from the state is reduced uh so you see on the ideas payment is just $350,000 generally that is in more of a $600 to $800,000 range so uh while we get the tax payment uh the state part of it uh usually follow also count more or less equalized um we've been talking for it seems a very long time about the CDH project and we still have some tails to wrap up in there and as long as we do we've been able to use that uh uh fund and trust is kind of a a mechanism for us to earn some in so we've got some reimbursement there that is just to pay back the district for those costs it's all CTE HVAC expenditures um but as we finally get towards the final wrap up of that uh we've done pretty well maintain some interest in are which has allowed us to get some projects done uh throughout the district and save uh would be ltfm or maintenance type items that um you know they not the flashy things but they're things that helped take items off of that longterm list for us um that need to be taken care of in the district and would otherwise either not get done and go to you know more deterioration um or we have to do you know bonding for so uh the project and all all really has been a good thing for the district a great area and space for staff and students uh to learn in uh and some bonus items for the district facilities wise to maintain and get done with uh kind of the last thing to to mention in this and it may show up later or I know we we talked about uh some Transportation but bus leases the the one there that says one of three uh that bus was ordered last year for this fiscal year it's still uh in the process of being uh built and finalized and gotten to us so uh we may not see it for a while that number will be a placeholder and just keep moving down each month in the cash flow until we finally get that bus done um the other bus lease is one that's falling off it's the last of five payments um I know you'll see later in the meeting uh the approval of a school bus for next year uh the whole goal in transportation we have I think 18 buses um is to always have uh one bus purchased each year and then one bus sets on lease so that we can rotate those buses every 15 years uh it's been a process to get to that point uh we're finally now next fiscal year to that point where we'll always be playing for one bus purchase one bus will be on lease and turn those things over so uh it's taken some time but we've gotten there it'll just be better for uh our office and the district to plan and budget for those items coming up the difficult part is uh it seems like every year five to eight or more per on those buses what used to be $90,000 bus is now $145,000 um as everything has gone up that's just has been pretty drastic um the last thing I guess to to kind of mention and it doesn't really show necessarily in the cash flow right now uh the district is purchasing another ban we were scheduled to purchase a van this year um but there's been a need to purchase one that's handicapped accessible so uh we should receive that in about a week and a half two weeks um it'll be uh available for the district but it will free up not always haven't have that bus to transport maybe one student on handic uh need they have that van to do that um where that benefits the district a little bit is uh the cost is much more it's about $66,000 for that handicap bus versus about 45,000 kind be plugging in nowadays for one um but because it'll be largely used for special to appreciate that and get some funing back on that too so um the difficult part is it's a cash flow we've got to pay for it first and then be able to get some depreciation off it over the next several years if any questions I can certainly do my best ask whether it be this or even the audit presentation just one one question on the on the new van I assume we're not going to sell off the another one no uh van kind of become a premium for us um had it been prior to the recent legislation we probably would have traded in they would have generally a lifespan of 12 Years from the date stamped on the sticker so 2023 van has be PR service after 2035 uh now as long as they pass do inspection we're allowed to keep driving those just like the buses um and Andy and his crew and and CH to take pretty good care of the Vans usually uh they end up being rusted out before are mechanically unsound for us so as long as I can pass do we'll we'll keep them we have very little back for a van and we have a high use uh for those vehicle especially whether it be it's not always uh you know special ed Transportation IP Transportation uh but sometimes it's you know unsafe uh areas or turn arounds where buses can't quite get to that we need to have those bands used and then since we started the uh bus rotation have you seen a difference you know before my time of Maintenance and and what that's done for the has it has it made it difference yes and no um we got to a point where for budgeting reasons we keep pushing off buses kicks a very expensive can on line and then we'd have a ton of buses on lease six I think six or seven at one time we had it it's fine you can lease them but then you've got several buses that are required to be changed out at the same time and it's just hard to turn over so you maybe have a new Fleet when you have all those buses on lease you know half your Fleet on on lease start um but then also you get to a point where you got to kick out six buses and turn them over and that's difficult to do so it'll just be better for the district all around mechanically maintenance wise budget wise for us to be able to stay on schedule that doesn't mean you're not going to get a clunker or a lemon in there someplace we're going to have to you know maybe maintain one a little bit better a little longer because one gets kicked out um but in general it should be better for the district to be on and plus paying the lease premium for each of those buses also over that time frame thanks you have okay I would look for a motion to approve the finance report as listed I'll make motion approve L on the motion second I'll second second by any other discussion all in favor the acceptance of the finance report say I I opposed that is carried 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 singular item it will be removed from the consent agenda for separate action as a rule we always start with Jeff recognizing the resolution of gifts yep we'll recognize the resolution of gifts and then we have another recognition coming up after that as well and so this month's resolution for gifts uh we have $10,000 from Gemini for robotics $500 from the Ed foundation for CPR training and certification $3,597 from the Ed foundation for 3D pens for the stem lab $1,489 from the Ed foundation for decodable books $1,967 187 from the Ed foundation for differentiated instructional tools $1,500 from Argy foundation for robotic and $500 from flux craft for Robotics and we thank you for our uh donations for this month from those GRE sponsors uh the other recognition that I'd like to have the board be aware of is that uh Linda Jensen longtime custodian in the district is planning on retiring coming up on January 2nd 2025 so just after the beginning of the new year and we'd like to thank her for 31 years of service in the district uh she was one that came to the job every day did her work and did what was best for kids so we thank her for her service it's awesome absolutely you know um she deserves she deserves the Accolade that we give her she's been here for 31 years she's gone she's seen a lot of people come and go in that department and if you know her she just uh goes about her job and she doesn't uh she doesn't do anything that would cause any uproar she just does a magnificent job and uh we forget sometimes uh our people in the infrastructure but certainly she deserves all the praise we can give her and we'll miss her so thank you thank you Linda for your time yes and good luck in retirement hopefully I'll get there one day to Jo back um consent agenda does anyone have anything that they would like to contribute to the consent agenda any questions that they have if not I would look for a motion to approve when you're ready I'll make a motion Julian on the motion second I'll second it second by Brian any discussion all in favor of the consent to agenda as shown say I I opposed that is carried superintendence report uh yes we just have the items listed there and then um I wanted to give you a public meeting update on the operating Levy I gave my last meeting today at uh 10:00 a.m. to the senior center with our coffee group I was at a local church yesterday giving a presentation and so I don't have any more presented and so um unless you guys have any other ideas for me to go to present to or people want me to come and present I'd be so happy to do that uh but the vote is coming up next Tuesday and then City Hall um normally during um a general election they will have the results of just precincts one and two for the in town uh precincts and so you'd have to follow the results on the Secretary of State's website for that night but I plan on going down and getting the results at least from City Hall but I'm not going to travel around to the other townships uh to get their results that night we'll have to wait for those but um I would imagine that the the city would probably get give us a good indication of where this is headed at um whether it's going to be close or definite yes or no so how did your um seminars your presentations go last couple uh good good I would say um was there's a lot of good questions as always but um I would say positive for the most part what was the same question you think you got boy a repetitive question repetitive question I I think it was maybe not more questions it was comments about the mandates and comments on those about you know what is happening Y and encourage people to talk to their local represent of whoever that may be um you know there's questions around inflation and where is that headed and we know what is happening for that I think I think the ones that I was a part of I would agree that that was did you get the feeling that because I took it as the people understand the mandates and understand we're in a tough spot did you get the feeling that they were going to support us or try to stick it to the legislative leaders because of what they've done I I would agree that people understand uh the spot that we're in I think that's I think that's been well communicated I I guess I can't get a good read on whether people are going to vote Yes or no you know um they may vote Yes and then contact their state legislature and blast them you know they they may vote no and not do anything about it I don't know I I couldn't get a read on Bon uh was it 48% of the districts in the state are going out uh there's 48 districts districts going on yep and that's about a sixth of the districts and I'm guessing that there will be more because the there's for alarm fires going on in the Twin Cities metro area now about making cuts and they're all coming out to the outstate asking us and wanting to have conversations about how we make Cuts oh oh okay so when they get a tremendous amount more funding right there absolutely is a frustration um from the community when it comes to the mandates they understand them and they're not very happy and they're at least willing to have some discussion we know you're in a tight spot kind of thing so yeah there's definitely empathy with that and it's it's more unusual than has been in the past you know we they we talked about mandates in the past but it's so evident it's so out there that uh it's just a unique spot we're in I think people are feeling those pinches at home as well and so that I think that's where that empathy is coming from they're like huh sucks for us sucks for these guys too yeah and we're not a unique District this is going on throughout the state correct you know not only out state but also in the metro area when we're talking about how these are in school districts uh that's all I have unless you guys have a question okay let's move along action items under old business we have none under new business consideration to approve a student trip to Spain June 26th with Spanish teacher Karen yes do I stand up I've never been to yes please closer please come on up if you wish to sit down or it's okay I can stand up it's good to stret my so hi I'm Keno um I teach Spanish here I've stopped for four years here and then 10 years overall um I'm just bringing forth a really good opportunity for our students um for the board to approve but before I get into like the nitty-gritty of it I just want to establish that this isn't a new trip for the Spanish Department um preco uh the Spanish Department had history of travel um I have also had a history of travel with students I've gone to Spain with students and also Costa Rica and I've also lived in Mexico for a bit and then also Spain um so uh the plan is to go to Spain if approved um it would be the summer of 2026 so it would be every other year with the humanities trip which was the history of it uh prior to uh Co um and it probably be in the summer either in the second or third week some of the stuff isn't uh concrete right now because I wanted to bring it to you guys first and then I also want to survey students in past I would survey students about like What's the timing what's uh uh what are some things you want to do so I can really cultivate uh a trip that all students are really excited about um the days would be anywhere between 10 to 14 that's pretty uh common especially when you're traveling to uh Europe there's some travel time along with that and I want to make sure students are in the country for as much time as possible um the cost would be similar to the humanities trip um in past it's been 4,000 to $5,000 um and I know not all students can afford it so um I've thought about fundraising like I said I uh took students of Costa Rica and Spain so I'm well versed in fundraising concessions is a great way to do that but then also there's a lot of scholarships for travel um that I would seek out to and personally I think it's so important that I know I'm probably going to do some sort of scholarship with my family and have students like uh uh write in uh what things they've been doing why they're interested in going on the trip and so I'm going to be personally along with my family investing in students is uh opportunities for um for travel because I think it's essential um for everybody to be able to experience it um and it's also similar to Humanities in that there is going to be a prerequisite students will need to have taken a Spanish three or signed up for Spanish 3 um and uh we've seen Spanish 3 increase so when I started here there wasn't Spanish 3 at all um and then I uh the second year I was here I kind of was starting to say we should have Spanish 3 and I got enough students um actually double that amount and then the following year same thing and then this year the same thing so um I expect that there's going to be a big interest in uh students wanting to take uh the trip um with the increase in students uh taking Spanish um so it would be and I'm assuming that next year's numbers for Spanish is going to be similar to this year in the mid to Upper 20s um and like I said I've traveled to Costa Rica and Spain um both of those trips were in a smaller school like this um so I would say easily 12 to 45 students would probably go on the trip um that's a big scale but again um I want to survey students I want to see what uh they are interested in their financial situation what they're comfortable with and what their parents are comfortable with before uh before moving on um and so yeah I didn't want to also start the process before bringing it to you because in uh a previous school I worked at uh I needed to present to the board as well so I just wanted to bring it to you I think it's an incredible opportunity um every student that goes on the trip uh changes in such a positive way and they continue to talk to me post High School this was like the best experience this opened my eyes this made me decide not to necessarily be a Spanish teacher but to do something outside of their community and then they they it opened their eyes a lot to what's more out there so do you guys have any questions at all it's very overwhelming presenting to adults but I present like 34 students every day no problem what made you pick Spain this time um well Spain is really uh good in the summer if you go to uh Central South America in the summer uh it's the rainy season so then all the activities the outside activities that you want to do have the potential of well it's going to be raining um also so it has the best weather and then also I know a lot of students are very very busy in uh the school year and so I wanted to make sure the most students could do this opportunity and I've had other students feel feel like overwhelmed when they've only gone on like a week or five day trip um about getting back and trying to get caught up so I didn't want to say okay we're going to go over spring break but then we're also going to extend it a little bit farther because I know that pressure for school workor and other things gets to be a little bit overwhelming so I wanted to make sure students had the most opportunity in the uh country that we go to and not having the pressure when they get back or before so to try to catch up academically probably you um how you fix for chaperon what are you going to do there um so that's that's always a popular conversation because it is uh a trip to Spain and because it's with the Spanish Department I really want students to be practicing Spanish when they're there and so a lot of times if we have a parent that parent is pulling that student out of Spanish or when I'm communicating with the group then I have to say okay now we're going to say it in English and so it it just it it lessens the opportunity for growth when we're traveling or when the uh travel guide is talking to us in Spanish the parent or whoever is lost so I I would assume there's many parents that would like to go but I would also caution parents to maybe give their students this opportunity to practice Spanish to engage in Spanish and also it's kind of a bubble wrapped Independence right they're not fully on their own um but they're getting close to junior year senior year where they're going to have to be out on their own um but there's somebody like me who knows Spanish who's traveled a lot um not only in Spanish speaking countries but throughout the world that uh feels really comfortable and we also have a lot of great tour guides that come along with us I've never had a a tour guy that I was like this was a self- sell person so so I'm I'm assuming there might be sheffron I I was thinking my husband cuz he also minored in Spanish and uh uh worked in the US Embassy in Spain so he had to navigate the Metro he had to talk all in Spanish when he was uh working uh those days too but uh we'll see how the numbers shake out too to see how many uh how many uh chaperon are warranted but um I'm open to parents I just I want to give students the best opportunity to grow and learn and sometimes that's not always the case with parents um when we're speaking Spanish IO it Bob you should be about ready by that time right yeah you he's working what is it's not duing what's it called again Babel Babel yeah Babel that's I'd be standing there with Google translate which is a smart way to go you get a you get a certain age and you need to keep clicking upstairs here and that's given me the opportunity she and I talked a little bit about my uh my Endeavor into a foreign language if you will she's very supportive of it always at any age at any time you're right it's it's a year and a half away I I might be able to say 30 40 words per perfect and they all have to do with a menu have to battle Trav any questions for I just say thank you for being will to do this for sure it's an incredible experience I mean I myself went when I was 16 and it was just incredible and even my friends who are in their 30s now talk about the trip that we went on and it also jump started them to again not be Spanish teachers but do travel on their own in college and then after super cool thank you thank thank you okay this is an action item um consideration to approve the student trip to Spain June 2026 uh with Karen is the head do I hear a motion to approve I'll make a motion I'll second motion by Brian seconded by jool Len any other discussion all in favor of approval of the Spanish trip to Spain June 26 say I I opposed that is carried thanks so much I got to run to see my baby before he falls asleep see you guys thank you consideration to to approve a bus purchase fiscal year 26 yeah uh Josh alluded to it earlier but we're in this uh still covid washing machine of being about a year behind in bus purchases and so last year around this time we approved a bus purchase for this year and the bus still isn't quite here yet but hopefully coming soon and uh we need to approve a bus for next fiscal year I'm asking the board to approve a bus purchase for next fiscal year that will come in after July 1st and so you said by next year then we'll be in that sweet spot will it be purchase lease purchase lease this is kind of the last year finally getting it to switch over so next fiscal year starts uh one bus purchased one bu will be on lease uh the one that will be on lease is the one we're currently waiting for uh the one purchase will be this one for next year okay Andy's got some initial paperwork on it is $145,000 for this one ex so it also allows us to plan and put that number into next year's budget of well so essentially buses are route buses and then we somewhat demote the other buses to activities no go activities activities get push into the road generally and and we don't have a surplus of buses right now we have what what we have no I well Surplus be may have Miss number you might have one that's allowed if there's one broken come down to be able to put one out um we're never in a spot where if we had you know a r day we don't have bus to go um where it would get tough possibly is all Vats are out and everybody's team is trying to leave at 3:00 for their events then we have do some either adjusting or planning better we have a limited number of activity buses to send out when all the roades are going I don't know if you know last year we had 11 routes that's still the case yeah I think it's probably 10 regular R and one that's have a special one but yeah and that's for the bus um they start all the BS that go out as well and that's a consideration it's gone back and forth uh many times over years depending on where you're at with budget and where things kind of move but you know technically within the two miles you would need to transport we do in our district um a large part of it is the Highway 19 right in front of the school it's kind of a hard place to have kids cross um so we kind committed that we' pick up all kids or at least have the opportunity to pick up all kids throughout the district so that's the number of the routs that are included there um all I really would do is help may put a bus uh not out onroad each day we're still going to have a fleet to at least 17 every we went that way so any other questions if not I would look for a motion I'll make a motion to approve Clinton a motion to approve a bus purchase of fisal year 26 correct correct second oh second Luke on the second further discussion all in favor of the approval of the bus purchase for fiscal year 26 say I I I opposed that is carried consideration approved the 2425 teacher your seniority list Jim Yep this is a yearly item uh that the district needs to approve this seniority list this seniority list could be used in the case of potential Cuts if the district would need to go into those uh sometime next spring for the next budgeting year once again we do this every year yep look for a motion to approve the senority list I'll make motion J on the motion second I'll second second by C further discussion all in favor of the 2425 teacher senority let's say I I opposed that is carried consideration approved the 2425 winter coaching list read uh we did make some updates here today so if your paper copies didn't get till the day there are some changes um pull that up uh the only thing left here to fill is we do have some openings here for boys basketball uh coach Davis does have a couple leads here that he's exploring um so we will get those updated here uh for the next meeting for your approval used to be uh I wouldn't say people standing in line to coach but we uh we well can let Josh speak to it but it's a lot of ask for next year as for next year so and that's understandable everybody's busy everybody's got uh other activities with their kids or whatever that looks like when we're going to get to be uh that age so hopefully we get a little swing back where we can get a few more people that are interested the hoop season is a very long season yes it is it is um for me I've been doing it for 25 30 years and I'm used to the Thanksgiving Christmas New Year is not being WR um it is but we'll we'll get fill out I've got some pretty good leads I'll be following with some others as well so just been kind of focused on AUD until now so be all right anyone have any questions for re on the on the coaching list if not I would look for a motion to approve as shown I'll make motion to approve the who on the motion a second second by in other discussion all in favor say I I opposed Carri consideration to approve Minnesota state High School league resolution of governing board supporting form a application a mouthful this is something the high school league will will offer each fall depending on their tournament revenue and whether they can offset anything for the districts and our amount as we apply here will depend on how many other districts apply and then what they'll what that'll look like they'll usually try to give out anywhere from 100,000 or a little bit over so it's not going to be a ton but it'll be some that will help off at any shortages it's a resolution so we will uh make a motion in a second and then uh clerk will read the resolution motion I will make a motion to approve Clint on the motion I'll second seconded by Luke any other discussion clerk read your resolution oh we start top or where do you want s the rle whereas the Minnesota State High School league Foundation was formed to provide support for Minnesota's High School youth to participate in athletics and Fine Arts whereas the governing board of school district 252 um recognizes the value of student participation in extracurricular activities whereas the mshsl foundation is offering granted funding to assist schools in recognizing promoting and funding extracurricular participation by high school students and athletic our programs therefore be it resolved that the governing board of school district number 252 supports the School's application of the Minnesota State High School league foundation for form a grant to offset Student Activity fees any need to vote Yes vote would be for the approval of the resolution okay Luke yes Bob yes Clinton yes Brian yes and myself as yes that passes by a 5 Z vote I have a question on that have we done that before and been granted it before we have what and do we do it every year yeah okay as long as they offer it we apply for it co thank you okay moving on consideration to approve a leave request in accordance with teachers Master agreement article 10 leaves of absence Section 8 medical leave from January 6th to January 20th 2025 and a leave request inord ordance with the teachers Master agreement article 10 leaves of ab in section 7 Child Care leave from January 2125 from January 2125 to April 18th 2025 with a return date of April 22 this is for Liza O'Brien and I recommend approval motion I will make a motion I'll second Clinton a motion to approve believe leave Julian on the second to approve the leave other discussion all in favor say I I I opposed carried consideration to approve a retirement request effective June 5th 2025 this is for pan wolf and we do thank her for her service to the district as well she took us through a tough time yes absolutely look for a motion to approve the retirement request I'll make a motion Brian on the motion I'll second seconded by Luke other discussion all in favor the retirement request say I I opposed that is carried we have a family medical leave act that uh word salad up above I think I don't want to read it because I'm going to mess up the dates but essentially Family Medical Leave Act 10214 to 11304 this is for Sammy Lawrence I recommend approval I'll make a motion motion by jool Len I will second seconded by Clint to approve the Family Medical Leave Act for Sammy any discussion all in favor say I I I opposed that is carried so you see what the information items are upcoming anything else that you want to add if we have room to add it we will do so but before we uh adjourn Canon Falls is taking the uh the path that they did last year and won their first two games football a nice trip to Rush City when we could only drive 25 minutes and find several of our schools here in the area but to our benefit how was the attendance I thought we had a decent crowd Saturday at R City it was a gorgeous day you could ask for better weather I actually think we had just as many people there as what they did yes so we got um one thing for everybody to not here is we are now on nspn no more huddle we are now on nspn TV for Section football and also section volleyball starting tomorrow night um nspn started doing basketball last winter at Mayo Civic and had good success where the region was able to get some Revenue back um and so they have committed that to doing that for uh this fall for volleyball as well so it is nsbn so just buy that monthly subscription and that will take care of what you need for tomorrow night and Friday night if you're not able to attend and male Civic is all cashless now all cashless you know if uh having used that it's not only opting into the Canon Falls activities every activity in Southern Minnesota and even Northern Minnesota is on there so anybody who wants to watch benil in St Thomas can do that not that they do I also want to give a quick update on tennis they did uh we had three girls make it to State um we had one last year three this year one as a singles two and doubles um we went up as a good crowd there that came out to support those girls in in their matches um tennis I'm going to get in trouble for saying these things so I'm going to apologize but tennis is a little different where if you when you're first match but you lose your second match you're done and you don't Advance the next day but if you lose your first match or yeah if you lose your first match and then win your second you do advance to the next day okay so um I struggle with that I also kind of struggle with the soccer offsides um but none of our girls made it to that second day uh but nonetheless we had a uh a great send off at the high school in the elementary and uh fire trucks in the community and U it was a great accomplishment so and they had a a great season as a team too right like that was individual but team was really good we had a successful fall with all of our progr no seniors and ten and they just missed the state tournament as a team went down to the third doubles but but with with with ten I think it's even more prominent than anything else where there should be it's like a private school class and know yeah they are going to three classes right I heard yeah they that'll help and volleyball tomorrow night we got the four seed we pleas and brms up at 6 o' inest totally cashless so your ticket online the goal is Tuesday Thursday Saturday yeah football on Friday I was to say squeeze football in the middle there bus busy busy things thank you so once again um looking forward to the next meeting will be November 11th and uh we'll do some canvasing of the election results and uh I'm sure we'll have an abundance of things in addition to that we always do so I would look for a motion to adjourn I'll make a motion jene on the motion seconded by who I'll second seconded by Brian any other discussion I just have one quick thing since we won't have a meeting before election day that when you're out and about just encourage people to go out and vote we got a chance to do some some really neat things here Lely um we'll have some new board members um throughout that as well and um obviously State and presidential is all important to get out vote so to make a push um as you're on above good thought okay we have a motion to second on the floor no other discussion all in favor of adjournment say I I I opposed we are adjourned