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today 4.0 is to approve the agenda I'll move to approve got a second I'll second any comments or questions on the agenda all those in favor of approving the agenda say I I I any oppos motion
carries 5.0 communication reports start with superintendent Grover okay uh again as usual no specific order um I'm going to start with an update from Brandy which is Food Service um she' asked she'd give me a a piece just to keep you in the loop um she says I'm happy to
report that we have been awarded a few grants one worth $5,000 to purchase Minnesota grown and raised Foods this funding will help us build stronger connections between local farmers in our communities while providing fresh sustainable products to students in addition to the 5,000 they're also
awarded 715 to put towards a new warmer um she also took the initiative applied for another I think it was a federal Grant and she got awarded good news um give her credit she she works very hard and
so that's that um if there's questions I can take them back I don't know anymore um on that are all going into one place or no well I don't know how the like the the fresh food is being broken up or or exactly how that's
the steamer I believe was for new heights I I don't it's you know that's for one building where they were replaced and she wrote it specifically for for that um whichever building so um good news bad news um the block grant
which we were applying for for the facility audit we we had three kind of four firms three firms met the deadline got everything we we selected a um group to work with this morning we got notice
that the block Grant's on hold now it's Federal money and so it's one of the first um so that being said the facility assessment um which again main reason we were going for it is it was going to be a free assessment but not saying it's
done um I'll be honest and everyone's been notified IC was the one selected um again they were all um the the ones that um got in on time were uh cruss Anderson inbuilt which used to be Apex I don't know a lot about them but they've been
in the business and then IC and IC um was selected um but anyway just got off the phone with them a little bit ago they know we on hold they're actually working with several schools so they weren't necessarily happy but it is what it is um uh attended last Thursday that
intergovernmental meeting which which was interesting Lindsay was there um it just a I'm gon to say a cool concept where I came from we didn't have such a thing where it brought everyone and I just I might have missed someone but Eda chamber there was a representative for
cater Tina Smith um the county the city and multiple people on some of them um that gave updates Northwest Technical and Community College um ourselves um we didn't get a lot of the other reps and senders that they were hoping for just
didn't work in their schedule but um groups shared information um two and a half three hours I don't know you know wasn't didn't go to four o'clock but um you have no it was an it was it was a good meeting I thought it was a nice
informal way to get some more information and have some conversations and just update each other and then there the piece I guess I didn't add and then there were a few um several businesses represented and at the end they did you know anything you were specifically looking for or wanted to update and so um they had a chance to to
speak and go forth um so so that's that um another piece just to put on your radar more will be coming um at our next meeting is we're working on updating our achievement integration Grant okay um and just to give you a little bit of whether you're we've had achievement
integration for I can't speak of how long um they called a grant our our district is able to apply um you have to write meet meet certain criteria um for the most part um part of deca comes out of there part of Dara comes out of there
and a chunk of serea comes out of there um you have to meet and I just I I put this my first district my other District didn't qualify and so just to give you a little heads up um uh it's for racially isolated districts so you have to have certain population you know when they
say racially isolated um you know that qualifies you um you should have some goals to reduce disparities in academic achievement so you're trying to bring um bring um academics up and and things like that um you're to increase racial
and economic integration so bringing together but here here's the piece I kind of starred it it's a frame framework for districts to address inequalities and ensure all students have access to Quality programs so it can the money can be used for instance
let's say you did a tutoring program after school you know that's a piece of it that will qualify all students can participate but the hope is you know some families that truly need it which for unfortunately often is the racially
isolated is what they're saying um pulls up one of the pieces we're looking at trying to get off the ground um and again um it's it's come fairly quick but we're we're digging in and seeing if we can get it um is investigating Aid which I know um like to talk some more after
but we've had several meetings um it there's a cost to it to get going um you know the the upkeep and stuff there's a cost to it too so we're seeing what we can work out um as far as the program the couple schools I've talked to um are
all behind it if you can do it but like I say we're still in the the money piece of scene we have another uh call tomorrow I think it's four o'clock or something to to look deeper into it but um like I say we're also looking at the achievement integration because we're
skirting if we've used everything 100% appropriately and so you know um we want to make sure if I'm signing my name to it at least yeah you know we're meeting the goals and stuff so so I think there's a possibility but um I don't want to say we're 100% we're bringing it to you yet
but just so if you hear um and I'd love to have some conversation offline and get some thoughts um I think that's other than like budget and work session stuff I think that's all I have now but can I hit committee stuff yes absolutely okay um just so you're where the calendar committee has
met um we had a couple rounds of voting um there's a version that's going to come to you on the 10th we um actually administratively I mean the the one they voted on we have no reason not to bring but we met administratively and and set
conference dates and things like that on Friday tomorrow night at um 3:30 or after school I think the committee again gets to bless it and then it'll come to you and course I mean you can accept it you can amend it you can do whatever um but that's coming um just so you're
aware that they chose the twoe uh Christmas Christmas break um that was most popular and so that's that um health and safety I actually um I didn't plan on postponing it but it was recommended when we had the Thursday meeting I was just going to have someone
else but they they wanted me there um no no no no not no no no no because I I didn't postpone earli I knew I had the meeting but knew I was going to be at the um intergovernmental or whatever and I I just was going to have one of the attendees take notes and they're like no
you should probably really be there and so I'm like okay so that's why it got postponed like a day ahead or whatever whatever so that's this Thursday um we're we're redoing that just so the groups aware U meet and confer there was no um was to be again today there was no reason to meet um but I did notice and I
apologize um we had 224 and on that calendar sheet I think I had five I think it was 55 there's another date in there I missed because I thought we were going quarter but We snuck another one in at the end of March good so it's Lindsay Holly and Josh if it works we
have 331 and I remember um the reason we did that is we're in the budget time and work session that thought okay if there was one now maybe there's stuff if not probably come the end of March that's when we're going to be trying to finish things up and maybe there would be some more so I apologize that's not on that
you know the the so did you say March 31st March 31st the four o'clock y whether we need them or not like I say we've had two scheduled you're supposed to have I think four in a year and I think we've had two and we haven't met on either um so um not saying we will or
won't but um I didn't have that um policy Review Committee has not met but we we got our first round of updates today I got an email I have not had a chance to look at them but that is amand Amanda Lindsay and Holly so I'll probably see what's in there like I said
I haven't had a chance but legislator is in session and things will start coming so um I'll shoot you an email sometime this week and try try and figure out if there's assuming there's some major changes um in there we'll want to get together and start looking um again
there's not a has to be done tomorrow or anything so I think that's all I have okay um at this point until we get to the work session or other pieces okay any questions we don't have any updates from
anybody anybody in the audience okay all right we'll move on to 6. with the consent agenda I'll move to approve the consent agenda as presented I'll second go with
Josh um all those in favor of approving the consent agenda as presented in morebook say I I I any opposed right motion carries 6.1 approval of minute oops that's a consent agena sorry
about that 7.0 opportunity for citizens to speak did you have any 8.0 is District business 8.1 is revised fiscal year 25 budget um we'll move to approve the revised fiscal year 25 budget as presented and attached in
board book take a motion for that no I didn't motion I'll take a motion okay a second any questions or discussion yep can I throw a few things before um and uh
Carla is not with us um she she is out um today um so so a couple things as you if you're looking at it um first of all um uh the expense which you're going to see um over on the right if you're looking at um we're 348,000 in the whole
so to speak which overall is better than you know looking at roughly a million dollars but of that 250,000 are the two scoreboards okay that are in the expense so theoretically if you take 200 you're in the ballpark could be in 100 100,000
okay and so they're paid for we're going to get revenue for the next few years to pay those off but they're in the expense so ballpark you're about 100,000 okay now as you look down there food service um is about 14,000 the the piece and
again um we have went through twice now line by line for the most part through the budget and we've reduced where we think we can reduce and that includes food service and so I'm I'm just making the comment that there could be some places we've reduced more than maybe we
can truly again food service is working on it seeing if they can but I mean with Ron Ron's many different buildings if they weren't you know it looked like we had a cushion we've taken it out trying to get um as close as we can I'll be honest and I'll be honest um it's
probably tighter than I want to be but I'm trying to get as close as we can so that as we push it Forward into next year um we're not doing things maybe we don't have to but the tough part is and I mentioned it to someone on Friday you know if you have two three years
experience yeah you know and you're a little more comfortable it's a little easier to be comfortable you know but um it it's good I think um but it is up to date I mean just a few things like the fourth grade position we didn't fill that's been adjusted in here you know so
I mean we're going to have to look and we'll talk about some of this stuff in the work session that you know it just doesn't mean if we roll it forward and we get 2% and we you know add 2% that everything's going to be perfect there are some anomalies in here um uh the revenue is is higher um in a couple
different places the the prek is um bringing in a little more and we talked about that not knowing exactly we can the student piece but when you start getting compensatory in the different pieces that are attached that's a piece of it the um we've updated the student
count and again um we're fairly close and now I don't have like I said if we look at our enrollment you know we still continue normally to lose a little more as the year goes on we have a little cushion but not a lot I mean we've updated as of last week Carla updated numbers remind me when they take the
enrollment number well well the enrollment well our FTE changes all year so it's it's not like in October 1 where you're set at that number all year so like if a kid left tomorrow that changes our funding all year so I mean you know we started out higher we've slowly lost
some we're able to update to a certain extent to date but like I say we we don't have a huge cushion we're not under shooting a long ways and that that's helped us a little financially now if we happen to lose 30 kids not you know it's not but I mean
we'll be off because we don't have that type of cushion but but that's some of the reason why the the re Vues come up um a little more than probably because we have and Carla has done a good job about tightening things up um and then
we'll like I say work forward um and as we hopefully approve this and move on but as we get some direction and go forward into bringing you next I think the next meeting the projected for next year um we'll have some conversations a
little bit about um what that looks like so I don't know if I answered any or none or well I know at one point the Lunes the lunches were doing good like we were making a little bit of money are we assuming that we're going to not
looking at the budget well there there's a there's a piece of that like I say that we tighten things down and and I can't speak to exactly and I I Carl and Brandy could a little more of um it's not depending on what our expenses are because that's all lumped together you know if they bought you know a $30,000
and I'm just throwing an out piece of equipment that's going to be in there right right now but like I say we have tightened like the supply and it's not uh you know again prices that's a piece of it you know hate to say it they're using eggs they've went up a lot you
know or whatever and so some of that's playing in and we'll see um exactly how it plays out so I I think it's G to it'll come out close but and then what with salaries and wages and stuff was it adjusted at all it's adjusted it's
adjusted as close as we can get with the staff that we have right now um like I say um and I just use fourth grade as an example when that it's unfortunate you know the same with when we didn't fill you know part of the year that Tech position that was out now the tech
person's in there I mean it's as close as we can get um good or bad um but it's good because that's what we should be at you know or should be doing but I think it's good you know like I say I mean it's better
um better than I thought at this point you know can things change they can but um it's not going to be drastic unless we you know lose major heating unit or something there that you know but that's a different different
story any other questions or discussion on the budget and I thank Carla um she's done a ton of work so all right all those in favor of approving the budget say I I I any oppos
motion carries 9.0 payment of claims and accounts okay I make the motion to approve the payment of the K12 bills 28857 through 28957 in the amount of $177,200 I'll I'll
second okay any questions or discussion okay all those in favor of paying the bills say I I I any oppos motion carries 10.0 or the board member comments Matt I'll start with you this time um I don't think I have much for comments other than we're in a fun part
of the sports season getting to playoff time so good luck for all the teams I got nothing tonight nothing new Anda nothing hly nothing all right I don't have too much either um
turning the peak on weather and I agree all the all the activities even like Robotics and speech and all of the activities that's this is the fun part of the year so uh the next 11.0 the next Board of Education meeting will be March 10th 2025 at 5:30 and we'll take a f
minute recess so that we can start our work session and we don't have to videotape that okay we're in recess