Good evening everyone. At this time, I'll call to order the business meeting here for the Furbal Public School Board on June 23rd, 2025 here at Furbal District Office. Uh, having said that, we welcome everyone who's in attendance and those who are
watching online. Uh, Miss Steve, Director Steves, will you determine if there's a quorum present? Yes, Mr. Chair, there is. Thank you. Will everyone please stand for the pledge of allegiance? I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the
republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Agenda item number two is approval of the agenda. Is there a motion for approval of the agenda?
Thank you, Director Robo. Do we have a second? Second. Thank you, Director Steves. Any discussion? Discussion. Mr. Chair. Yes. I Director Moore. Yes. I would just like to uh ask that we pull out um policy 550. We'll do I will uh
acknowledge that when we get to the policy thing there, Director Moore. Thank you. Any further discussion? Further discussion. All in favor of the motion signify by saying I. I. I. Opposed. The motion passes. Agenda item
number three is recognition, awards, and presentations. There is none this evening. Agenda item number four, items of information. School board members, school board members, the floor is open. Anyone?
Director Moore. Yes, thank you. Um I I do have I I've been on the Fable public school board now for two and a half years and I am really concerned about our achievement levels in reading, math, and science and really they are unacceptable.
Um, and these scores have been going down every single year for the past six years and even longer than that. I'm thinking even possibly 10 years or longer. Um, I don't think it can get much worse than it seems to. Um, I think there comes to a point statistically
speaking when they have to go up. Uh, I believe there is some hope in that we are getting back to phonics coupled with a structured systematic approach to learning and reading. I think that's a positive thing. But to reiterate, I have been sitting here for two and a half
years now and in my tenure scores have been tanking. Um I am really responsible for this decline, but so is everyone on the board and so is everyone in administration. Um if this were a business with the exception of Candace because you've been
on only a couple months, I think we'd all be fired. Um, you know, you have to ask what's going on in our schools and I think the teachers are on the front lines for our children's minds and education. So, what is hindering them from doing
their jobs? And I've been hearing that morale is not that good either. Uh, teachers aren't speaking up. Um, why? I wonder about that. Um, has any of what I just spoke about
increased our achievement levels in the sex six last six to 10 years? Um, I don't know. And it's a sad thing. Uh, a couple of things I'd like to see happen though is what I'd like to see is
to randomly and unannounced be able to walk through the halls and go into the classrooms to speak to teachers without administration present. And I can do that because of
se uh Minnesota statute section 123b.09 09 and that said the board must superintend and manage the schools of the district and that's part of my job. Two, I'd like to put a temporary moratorum on adding administrative
positions and as one constituent said to me recently and so aptly, put these resources back into the classroom and possibly add a few more teacher positions as well. Right now we have two administrative
positions open. Can we eliminate one or both? Uh one of the things I did look what look at was coordinators. Uh they usually have six figure salaries not counting benefits. In the fall of 23
we had 18. In the fall of 22 uh 24 we had 22. We added four in one year. And one day I just looked in the staff directories and I plugged in community and under
community I found Owatana had one administrator, Washington had two, Farbo had 19. Uh I ter put in the terms uh community ed. Otana still had one, Austin had two,
farbo had 32. you know, community uh connecting with community, I think, is great, but I think what we have to do, but we have to focus back on K through 12 in our schools. We have to do that. Um because
what we're doing too with coordinators adding all this, it's not sustainable. And the last thing I'd like to mention is diversity, equity, and inclusion, DEI. And from what I understand, this has been around for a very long time, probably at least 10 years. Uh Mr. Benty
has it's been around a while, right? I think DEI in our school. The term DEI has been around for D well yeah the term but diversity, equity, inclusion. Uh and whether we app you approve of it or not, we have to look at the facts. DEI
focuses classroom instruction around teaching morals or moral consciousness. So we've got to get back to teaching English, reading, math, science, and reading. Uh secondly, it's not the school's job
to teach moral concepts or moral consciousness. It's a parents job. Um another problem is people have different values. So if we get into teaching one set of values, we're going to have to teach them all. And I guess the bottom line is how has this has any
of this what we're doing? How has this affected has this has the achievement store has this increased achievement scores and that's my question you got it's a yes or no question and we look at this so thank you very much for listening
Dr. the show. Director Mo, question. When in your opinion did we stop teaching reading, writing, arithmetic in our district? When did we stop it? My first When did we stop?
Answer my first question because I asked the question. First question. Yes. Has any of what we've just done sp what I've spoken about increased our achievement levels in the last is a yes or no question. I'm asking you when did we stop anyway?
I Excuse me. I'm asking you to answer this first question. No. Well, then I'm not going to answer yours. Thank you. Directors, let's move on. This is board uh items of information. So, listen. And and director Moore, I'm assuming that information you have you can make
public. Yes. Good. Thank you. Any other uh items of information, school board members? So, I have just a few things. Um, you know, a few weeks back, um, most of us attended the first outdoor
graduation ceremony in quite a while. That was really wonderful to see. Um, thanks to everyone that took part in that planning process. Um, it went off without a hitch. Um, just to piggyback on Director Moore's some of her comments
about achievement. Um, I have two kids that are currently within the district and and one that will enter next fall. Um, and I'm proud to say that just a couple of weeks back, right after graduation, um, we got my now second
graders report card and she's reading better than 97% of children across the nation. So, the achievement scores are there and not just across the district, across the nation. So, they're there. there's it's there and in my experience
um academics are are of course should be as an education system our number one priority but teaching kindness and sharing that that is really really really important. Conflict resolution is also really
really really important and it's not just being taught by parents. It it needs to be taught at school. And that's I guess all I have to say. And um I'm proud of our kids. I'm proud of how hard that they work. Um are the
scores where I want to see them? Of course not. Um but celebrating the little wins continually is going to help boost the confidence of our kids and keep our mission going forward. It is our job to educate kids, but it is our
job to celebrate successes, too. Thank you, Director Steves. Any other comments by any director? I will just add that I I also did attend the uh graduation ceremony with most of
us board members uh there out at Roosemith. Um was I think it was June 1st, I believe. It was a warm day. Nice warm day. But what a what a uh uh wonderful ceremony. What a great venue to have the home side field basically
full and the visitor side about twothirds full uh was great. The sound uh was was very good at least from our perspective on the field there whatever. So what a what a great sendoff for our seniors and a pull together uh with our
community here u uh for our for our graduating students. It was really really great to see and and things. So, um, and thank you, uh, Principal Joel Olsen and the assistant principles for pulling that off and having the band, orchestra, uh, choir, uh, the whole
whole student body, uh, being very active there. So, it was very, very, very good to see. So, I want to thank him for that. Mr. Director Budro, just to dovetail on your remarks, um what I heard from those attending is there was more space to sit
and you weren't limited to just having I don't know how many tickets we were allowed, but weren't limited and uh was just more spacious and comfortable. So maybe we'll continue with that. Hopefully the weather continues to be
good. Yeah, it's all weather dependent when you get out there. So, anything else? Okay, we'll move on to 4B. Uh, items information. Superintendent Benty. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Um, so we're proud of all the graduations and transitions that have been spoken of um across our
Fairbell public schools from prek and kindergarten to fifth grade, 8th grade, high school, our ALC, and our adult education all had transition or graduation programs um in the the last weeks of school. Each milestone reflects the hard work, growth, and
accomplishments of our incredible students. Um, some of our Falcons online academy students are taking the next step towards a future in healthcare thanks to a partnership with South Central College and workforce development. Students who completed our nursing assistant class uh this year had
the opportunity to receive additional skills training and take the required exams to earn their certified nursing assistant or their CNA uh certification at no cost to them. We're proud to support this nursing pathway and excited to see where it leads our students.
Um, we proudly honored our uh, English learner, our EEL students who have officially exited services after demonstrating academic English proficiency. These students have worked hard, overcome challenges, and grown into confident and capable English
speakers. Um, rain did not stop the fun at Farwell Public Schools agricultural day. Elementary students en enjoyed hands-on agricultural experiences from meeting farm animals to exploring combine simulators um and interactive lessons.
Thanks to our community partners and our Farbo FFA for making it a memorable day. Um Roosevelt fourth graders spent their weeks preparing for their wax museum event. Uh they were researching, writing, and creating presentations. Each student chose a historical figure
to study and brought them to life with impressive displays and speeches. And then last month uh the farbo honor society which is an offshoot of national honor society uh held its final meeting of the year celebrating a year of
dedication and achievement. The chapter honored eight graduating seniors, inducted 16 new members and installed new cabinet leaders for the 2526 school year. They also celebrated an incredible milestone, over 900 combined volunteer hours given back to the community this
past year. Um, we're so grateful for the Farbo Police Department and everyone who helped make this safe summer kickoff on the last day of school success. Uh, thank you for supporting us fun and safe start to the summer. In May, we celebrated our incredible
retirees and their years of service actually right here in this very room. Uh so thank you to all of them for your lasting impact that you've made and we wish you all the best in retirement. And then uh one upcoming event, Farwell Public Schools is partnering with Sedexo
to pro provide free meals to students all summer long, including weekend meals. All children ages 18 and under can enjoy breakfast and lunch at select sites with no forms or income requirements. And weekend meal packets will be available every Friday at the
community action center. We also encourage eligible families to explore Minnesota's Sun Bucks program, which offers $120 per eligible child to help with grocery costs during the summer months. Mr. Chair, that concludes my
report. Thank you, Superintendent Denty. Next, we'll move on to uh agenda item number five, public comment. We have no one signed up for public comment this evening. Agenda item number six, the consent agenda. The consent agenda consists of the minutes from the May
19th, 2025, June 2nd, 2025, and June 12th, 2025 meetings, employment, additional assignments/ other authorization of payments, transfers, and investment account, and retirements.
Is there a motion for approval of the consent agenda? So moved. Thank you, Director Robo. In a second. Thank you, Director Budro. There's no discussion on the consent agenda. All those in favor of the motion signify by saying I. I. I. Opposed.
Motion passes. Agenda item number seven, district advisory committee. There is no report. Agenda item number eight is the policy committee. There is no report, but we do have the second reading of policies. So, what I will do as requested by director
Moore is I will pull policy 515 for individual study and I'll entertain a entertain a motion for approval of the second reading of policy 701.1 budget modification
703 audit annual audit 705 investments uh I'm sorry policy 705 investments policy 714 14 fund balances, policy 730, payroll periods, and policy 704,
development and maintenance of an inventory of fixed assets and a fixed asset accounting system. Is there a motion for approval of the second reading of those policies? So move. Thank you, Director Budro. And is there a second? I'll second. Thank
you, Director Kudson. Any discussion? Discussion and discussion hearing none. All in favor of those that motion signify by saying I. I. I. Opposed. Motion passes. We'll move on to
then policy 515. Is there a motion for approval of policy 515, protection and privacy of pupil records? Thank you, Director Roisho. And is there a second? Second. Thank you, Director Kudson. And discussion.
Yes, Mr. Chair. Director Moore. Uh, yes. I've got actually four amendments and I'd like to go through them each. Would you like to present them all at once or would you like to go through them individually? Individually, please. Okay. So, please state your first
amendment to policy 515 and the amendment only. No commentary. Yes. Okay. Thank you. Um, it's page 23, I believe, 8B. Private records not accessible to parent after the language
of 1E. Please insert to upon parental request, the responsible authority must not conceal or deliberately withhold information to a parent regarding their minor's child's a request to use a different name or pronoun to be recognized as a different gender or B
request to receive gender affirming care that involves medical interventions including but not limited to puberty blocking medications, hormone injections, or sex altering surgeries. Okay, we have heard Director Moore's
amendment to policy 515. Is there a second? Is there a second to that amendment? Last call. I will second the amendment. Thank you, Director Budro. A second and discussion. Uh, Director Moore, I'll focus uh I'll have go back to you could
speak to your amendment, but it must be about the amendment only. Please don't deviate from that amendment. Okay. Um, what I'm concerned about is that it's B and D whether the personal situation of the minor is such that denying parental access may protect the
minor uh the minor data subject from physical or emotional harm. Then D says whether the data in question is of such a nature that disclosure of it to the parent may lead to physical or emotional harm. I'm having a problem with the term
emotional harm. uh that is very objective and it could be interpreted in different ways. Uh one way is if a child wishes to transgender and the parents disagree under this general term of
emotional a child can go to administrator and state that he or she wishes to transgender and his or her parents do not agree thus causing him anxiet him or her anxiety or trauma emotional harm.
Due to this scenario and the present policy 515, the school administrator may withhold the subject child's records from the parents, thus denying parents their rights over their child. Um, Colorado was already moving in this
direction. Um, and I I've said that um, I think I can refer to a few things here. Um, Colorado is doing this. They branded the bill an attack on parental rights with one saying the measure could be more accurately called how to break up
families and use the law to steal children from parents. California legislators p passed a bill to take children from parents who who don't affirm the kids uh their child's general uh gender identity.
And also there's a bill, this was from the uh Colorado Denver Post, family courts consider a parents misgendering of a child in a custody dispute. Um this according to the article, this could infringe on parents' rights and of being
part of a broader effort to coers children. Uh and so that that is very disturbing to me and I think it's important uh that we protect parental rights and children's and children's uh
identities. Uh since emotional harm is open to interpretation, this amendment would ensure protection of farwell public school parental rights. And uh thank you. That's my stand, Mr. Chairman. Director Budro.
Okay. So, all of you know that this amendment's been brought before. I've brought it a couple of times, and the last time we had our attorneys do some research, and we found that under the guardianship statutes of our
Minnesota laws that adopting this amendment would put us in a vulnerable position um legally because um It does give the responsible
authority under Dr. Could you pull the microphone just a little bit closer to you? Thank you. Sure. Sorry. The responsible authority who is the person that's mentioned in this amendment and in this statute does have the ability to withhold data from
parents if he or she determines it is the best interests of the minor. Whether we agree with that or disagree with that, that is state law. And I You know, I know I don't want to be
vulnerable to lawsuits, but I believe I mean, I actually support the concept, but I believe that judicial decisions are will be forthcoming. I don't know when, but this issue needs to be resolved in a court decision.
It's broader than just the responsible authority. So, I just wanted to inform the board of that and um just reiterate because it was my amendment initially. Thank you, Director Budro. Is there any
further discussion on the amendment proposed by Director Moore? I just have a question. Would this, as you had stated, would this put us in a vulnerable position legally and probably monetarily uh if they could
someone could sue us? Yes. then are we putting money ahead of a child's um safety or that's what we seem to be doing. Uh also I think at some point
sometimes we have to stand up to a bully and I don't mean violence or fighting but at some point we have to stand up to a bully that's taken away our children's identity god-given identity. And uh I have a problem with that. Uh I know
people in history, one of my actually one of my heroes is Rosa Parks. She stood up against the law that was not right. And I think there's a time comes a time when we have to stand up to a bully. And I don't mean fighting physically,
but I do mean um coming because this in the meantime while we wait for judicial, you know, for judges to make decisions, our children are being transgendered, their body
parts could be beaten, cut off, they could be treated hormonally without even the parent knowing. And that is I can't I can't in good conscience vote for this or vote uh vote against this amendment. So thank you. Last call for
discussion on the amendment proposed by Director Moore. And remember we're ready to vote now. So we are voting only on the amendment as proposed. Only on the amendment. Could we have a roll call, please? I will accept a roll call. Okay. Thank you. Director Steves, will we do a roll call,
please? Linda Budro, no. Candace Kenson, yes. Linda Moore, yes to the amendment. Jerry Roisha, no. Cassie Steves, no. John Bellingham, no. Passes for It fails.
Fails for two. Fails for two. So, we're back to the original um motion of approval of policy 515. Uh, Director Moore, before you get into your I go to your second amendment, I just have a I wish to have a discussion or
throw out a discussion. As uh was mentioned by Director Budro previously, just remember these uh this policy was reviewed by our attorney as she said, has gone back to policy committee, I believe, twice. Now, we started this
this policy and I I looked it up the other day uh was brought to the policy committee in February of this year and uh so it's been back to the board sent back to policy committee to to legal and
back we and in fact our April or May meeting I believe it was April meeting was the uh reading of the uh opinion of the attorney and exactly as director Budro said it would put the district in harm. So, um I I'm in favor of the
motion uh pass this and move on and let the courts uh courts settle this or legislation change. So, uh further discussion on policy 515. Director Budro, do you or Director Moore, do you wish to present your second amendment? Yes, please.
Okay. Um it is on. So you're gonna you say I I move to Oh I move to uh make this amendment uh to 6B16. It's prior consent for disclosure not required. Uh it's a
to appropriate health authorities to the extent necessary to administer immunization programs and for bonafide epidemiologic investigations which the commissioner of health determines are necessary to present prevent disease or disability to individuals in the public educational
agency or institution in which the um investigation is being conducted. And um oh not yet that's your amendment correct? That's that's it. And I I would just like to delete that. Pardon me. I'd like to delete that
paragraph. To delete that paragraph. Okay. Thank you. Is there a second to the motion to amend? Is there a second to the motion to amend? Is there a second to the motion to
amend? Hearing none. The motion to amend fails due to lack of a second. Discussion on policy 515. Director Moore, do you wish to propose your third amendment? Uh, yes. It's basically the same thing
for non-public school students. The prior one was for public school students and the second one was for non-public school students. So, would you read it, please saying I I moved? It was uh I think it basically says the same thing. Uh to appropriate No, you need to say I
move to amend. I move to amend. Excuse me. Uh to appropriate health authorities to the extent necessary to administer immunization programs and for both bonaf bonafide epidemiologic investigations which the commission commissioner of health determines are necessary to
prevent disease or disability to individuals in the public educational agency or institution in which the investigation is being conducted. It's basically the same thing. And I move to delete it. Thank you. Is there a second to that motion to amend? I'll second the motion. We have a second to to amend the
motion. Discussion. Director Mo for you may speak to your motion. Thank you. Um I guess my concern is uh does this mean public health policies may come in and vaccinate our children without parental consent? Is that what that means? I
don't think it means that. But could it mean that? I don't think it would. Uh, also, should public health agencies be aware of an individual's child's vaccin vaccination records? Uh, because what we're talking about with with this
one, and it was a prior one, too. We're talking about personally identifiable information. Now, some parents may object to this uh and uh you know, maybe they don't want their person, and I don't mind if
it's in the aggregate, but this is personally identifiable information. They may not want a parent may not want their child's identifiable information to be given out. I don't mind the aggregate, but in both of these
instances, this is what I am objecting to. I don't mind the aggregate, but public health agencies, you know, um does a parent want that? Again, parental rights and should the school even be involved with this? This is parental
rights, a problem with parental rights. And um and actually there was a court case. Wait a minute. Uh, well, I'm not going to go into that one, but I think this is
going to be a problem in the future. As I said, I will repeat, I don't mind the aggregate, but personally identifiable information. If a parent does not want it to be sent off to health authorities, I think the parents wishes should be honored because they
know what's best for the child. That's where I stand. Thank you. Any further discussion on the motion to amend? Mr. Chair, Director Budro, um I would ask director more than is the purpose to
delete this because to avoid having immunizations in school or is it about data? I'm confused. Well, actually the specific point is
that it's personally identifiable information and the school would be sending this person this child's uh vaccination records or whatever it is to either public health or wherever and
um that should be in the aggregate. I don't know why they would why would they need an individual child's vaccination records? Um I think it should be in the aggregate and I because I think also
there's certain instances where um a vaccination or something could be you know parents just don't want to know the government. It's not the government's business. So I have a problem with the person personally identifiable information and that's basically what it
is. I guess I would follow that up with do you have examples like specific examples? I guess my concern and that's probably the wrong word is if my child is unvaccinated for
measles for example and there's a measles outbreak that's been reported as federally and state mandated to do. Mhm. Wouldn't I as a parent want to know to quarantine my child to not send them to
school or I mean I guess where where's your where's your why would the why would the health agency need to know my the personal identify I think a parent if they're don't want this to happen they're probably I've kept up on my child's
records and and all of that so I think if something like that would happen and some some parents parents too they they can be injur there's vaccine vaccination injuries and they may maybe the per the doctor may say you shouldn't vaccinate this child for whatever this reason so I
think it's it's between I think the parent will know this uh and uh why should the parent if they don't want the health agency to know it's really none of the government's business it's between them the and I I don't I don't
disagree I'm just asking for specific speific. Maybe I'm not understanding. And maybe I'm not understanding what your concerns are. It's the personally identifiable information. Okay. So, goes to the health agency. Maybe a parent
doesn't I phone a friend. Um Rob seems to know a lot about health. Um, so what happens when I, as many parents do, all parents do I would assume, send most updated vaccination records to
school. The school nurse confirms with Minnesota Department of Health registry. Thank you. So the Minnesota Department of Health already has that information. The doctor who performs or doctor's office who performs that immunization is required to submit that information to
the Department of Health and that's called the mix system. Correct. Yes. Okay. So they already have that information. Our nurses check to confirm that we have the correct student and that we have a match to the immunization and then we just we
are in campus that they have to have. Okay. The only time probably that we would communicate and give them new information is when we that the certificate that the parents don't want to have their child immunization we are
then that would be information that the department of health does not have that would be information as part of law okay so may I clarify no I'm sorry director Steve are you completed did that um maybe yes for now
go ahead director more okay so they already know it Right. So why do we have to send it? But then if a parent doesn't want their child im you know the vaccinated or whatever do
we send that then to the that information what if the parent doesn't want the government to know we're required to by law. Okay. So I guess that's what in order to enter the school district they're required to produce those records. So okay they
could home. I don't Yeah. Okay. I guess what my point is all of this is that we have to be very careful that the government is not taking over parental rights and uh now when I but the parent I I had my child vaccinated and
everything I think we only had eight eight vaccinations now we have what 49 say 4965 and so I'm a little concerned about all of that so that's why I'm bringing this up I realize this isn't going pass, but
I think it's important. Let's pull it back to the amendment to the motion to amend is uh item uh 6C3, non-public school students to delete the paragraph that begins with uh page 193, excuse me,
to the appropriate health authorities to the extent necessary. So that is the motion to amend. Is there any further discussion on the motion to delete the paragraph to amend? Hearing none. Uh, Miss Steves, will you do a roll call on the amendment, please?
Vote. Excuse me. Voting yes on the yes means you're in favor of the amendment. No, you're not in favor of the amendment. Go ahead, Director Steves. Uh, Linda Budro, no. Candace Kudson, no. Linda Moore, yes. Jerry Rocha, no.
Cassie Steves, no. John Bellingham, no. Fails 5 to one. Motion fails 51. Continuing on the discussion of policy 515. Uh once again reminder uh any change here would be a change uh in in
this policy which is embedded in law. So the policy committee has gone over that. So director Moore, do you wish to do your uh do the uh amendment number four? Yes, I'd like to make a motion or uh to make an amendment to the last one here.
Okay. 6B21, second paragraph. Um, A. Any data collected shall be protected in a manner that will not permit the personal identification of students and their parents by other than authorized representative of the secretary. Um, I
guess my amendment would be the uh delete and their uh excuse me by other than the authorized representatives of secretary. Thank you. Is there a second to that motion to amend? Is there a second to that motion to amend?
Is there a second to the motion to amend? Seeing none, the motion fails due to lack of a second. We're back to motion to for approval of policy 515, protection and privacy of records. So, I
ask for discussion one last time and we will do a roll call on policy 515. Is there any further discussion? Hearing none. Director Director Steves, will you do a roll call, please? Voting yes means you're in favor of the motion.
Voting no, you're not in favor of the motion to approve policy 515. Linda Budro, I. Candace Gibson, hi. Linda Moore, no. Jerry Roisha, hi. Cassie Steves I Don Bellingham I passes
five to one. Motion passes 5 to one. Thank you. Agenda item number nine other committees uh finance committee. Uh that would be uh myself and uh Director Moore or Director Budro. Sorry. Everybody straight here. So I'm going to review
the uh finance committee minutes that are in the on board book here. And that meeting was held on May 12th, 2025 at 7:30 a.m. Um, we had approval of the previous uh
meeting minutes. Uh, the minutes from April's meeting were amended um as as we had uh a document was uploaded to board book with amendment to strike through the correct information. Uh, contracts, agreements, bids, and grants for review.
We approved the fiscal year 26 ice arena contract. We also I believe on the May 19th meeting the entire board approved that as well. Uh next thing we had we approved the revised fiscal year 25
budget. Uh this was a this is a revision of the adopted budget that was originally approved back in June of fis of 2024 for fiscal year 2025. The revision is necessary to ensure that our budget correctly aligns with what
our actual expenses are predicted to be. The general funds adopted budget showed 273,000 in expense over revenue compared to the revised showing 664,000 expense over revenue. Again, that was
the general funds adopted budget. In the adopted budget, benefits were underbudgeted by 1.16 million. And if I remember right, that part of it was um title capital equipment and long-term uh
LTFM and other expenditure budgets were increased by 375,000, 302,000, and 70,000 respectively. Total expenditure budget in the general fund increased by 1.9 million while
revenue budgets were increased by 1.5 million a difference of 391,000 expense over revenue uh as compared to the adopted budget.
Uh a committee member posed two questions. How was 1.1 million in benefits missed? And how was 702,000 in special ed and revenue missed? As to benefits, this was an oversight as
to the increased cost of health insurance. As for special ed revenue, Mr. Mr. Dana stated that just as LA of last year in fiscal year 24 federal funding was used for t used for tuition billing and while
the expense line was added in the fiscal year 25 to the budget to account for this the revenue budget line was not updated. The food service fund showed 38,000 in revenue over expenses but our fund
balance is too high and must be spent down again. That's in the food service fund. Miss Raceler stated the new equipment has been purchases from purchased for almost all kitchens including a remodel of McKinley in order to house ALC ALC students beginning in
fiscal year 27. Uh the revised food service budget for fiscal year 25 now shows 145,000 expense over revenue. Community education didn't change too much with an overall increase of 44,000
expense over revenue compared to the adopted budget. In construction, projects are being completed sooner than predicted. So, we had more expense being shown in fiscal year 25 than was originally bud budgeted for. We've seen more claims in our self-
insurance fund as well. Also, our revised budget for fiscal year 25 is now 373,000 expense over revenue as compared to the adopted which showed revenues over expenses in the amount of 117,000.
A committee member asked Miss Raceler if she had any concerns over this budget revision. Miss Racer replied that she wasn't concerned because our unassigned fund balance remains at a healthy level and there were no real issues or concerns with any of the other funds. As far as our financial performance, our
April student counts, uh, Mr. Dana spoke to the committee as to the new site to report students through Alina's creation of a partial hospitalization program where students needing mental health treatment stay up
for 14 days. Fairbowl School provides a teacher to district one for 90 minutes per day in order to provide these students with education. Most of these students are already students of Fairbell public schools. So this is really a shift in student counts
from one site to the PHP site. However, some district some students in the PH PHP program are from other districts and will bill those districts for the appropriate tuition. Overall, our student counts as of April, we were down
71 students as compared we had budgeted for or roughly $710,000. Our April comparative financial report, we see a clear difference in HVAC as April of 2024 shows no expense and April of 25 shows $70,000.
This is due to a timing issue of when we received the bill. Miss Raceler stated that in one instance we received the bill early and another received it late. As we are entering and paying these utility bills, they might not necessarily correlate within the month
they are for. Uh in April, water is on par with last year. We continue to see rebates in electricity and showed a negative expense for April of 2025. Uh we did see some snow in March. And so we did have an expense in April, but
overall we're well under budget for snow removal for the year. Our self-funded insurance showed revenue over expenses for the month of April and year to date. And we're moving in the right direction. We're showing a $37,000 expenses over revenue compared to
$100,000 last month. And then our April invest uh investment report. We're continuing to leave a small balance at CCF Bank because we still have some outstanding checks to cover any unforeseen AC withdrawals or deposits. Uh but most of those have been
switched over to Reliance Bank at this point. Our main checking account at Reliance is an automated sweep of any dollar amount over $750,000 into our savings account. also our CD with once our CD with the Reliance matures, we'll move into that savings as
well and no longer renew that particular CD. And then our April analytics, we updated the yearly analytical report to show that the revised budget was approved earlier in the meeting. This report and that be the finance committee
meeting. This report now has more us more aligned where where we are sitting as compared to years past. This also shows deficit spending of 5.3 million in fiscal year 25. 4.3 million of that however comes from our construction
fund. Revenue from the sale of bonds for this construction project was already recorded in fiscal year 24 and is now sitting in the ' 06 fund balance. And the motion adjourned at 8:28 a.m. So I went over in details. We had
some questions on that. Uh, Director Budro, do you have anything you'd like to add from the April I'm sorry, from the May, not April, May finance committee committees? Not from the May. No. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Director Moore. Uh, yes.
Okay. Um, for the uh for the administrative fees um 10,318. For May 24 and 25, it's 124,9.99. Um it's this is based apparently on a per employee per month calculation.
Um so our usage has increased significantly this year. Um could I I'd like to for the public could we ask I'd like to know why why has it been so increased so significantly from 10,000 to 124,000.
My understanding from being on the committee and director Budro as well is this based on per individual. So when an individual files a claim there's an there's administrative fee to that and obviously with with $100,000 more in claims than pre previous year. So that's
thank you. It's per per person. Yes. Thank you. Okay. We'll move on to our next committee report. Uh community education advisory council. Director Steves. Um thank you Chair Bellingham. Um so we met
at the uh not the district office, the adult education center um and Cassie Riapel um gave a really thoughtful um presentation about project AEL um which
is doing really great things um yeah um talked about um plans for next year in Zach's absence um and that community education advisory council meets uh four
times annually. So, they're not meeting through the summer. Um but will begin, I would say, September, October for next year. Excellent. Thank you. Move on to agenda item number 10, uh gifts, donations.
It's resolution 35-31. Uh before we have a motion to uh accept the or accept resolution 25-31, I will read the donations for this resolution. Um Michael Palmquist donated
brand new tennis shoes estimated value of $1,500 to the nest. Donation to Little Donations to Little Falcons in memory of Ed Doobabic, David and and Michelle Elhorn, $100.
Steve and Bonnie Wickstrom, $200. Steuart and Shirley Shaft, $75. Bart and Sherry Sneer, $25. Donations to Little Falcons in memory of Bruce Parish. Beth Johnson, $40. Oliver
and Diane Larson, $25. Dollar General Literacy Foundation donated $10,000 for adult basic education. Farbo Area Chamber of Commerce donated $500 to Lincoln and Jefferson for third
grade egg in the classroom farm tours. Taylor Family Farms Foundation donated $15,000 to Falcons Beyond and Little Falcons for free swimming lessons. Molly Lenway donated $500 to the Fable
Booster Club for the Golf Center. Katie Anderson donated $100 through the Fable Booster Club for the golf center. Donations to the ALC Community School are as follows. Fair grocery store, three gift cards of $25 each.
Joanna Arvalo, sorry about that. Three gift cards and $10 each. Tianda Maya Quinc, a piñata filled with of candies, estimated value of $75. Guadalupe, Guadalupe, Del Carman pa,
$20. Trinidad and Cynthia Gonzalez, six packages of ribs, two barbecue sauces, Jamaica drink for 50 people, and Mexican candies, estimated value $130. And Grand Plaza Mexican Grill, rice and
beans for 25 people, estimated value of $130. Number 10, Supply Children/Fairable Youth Services Center. donated $2,000 for school supplies for all and Farbol Foundation donated $1,553
to supplement the cost of retaining an athletic trainer. Those are all the items in resolution 25-31. Is there a motion to approve resolution 2531 accepting gifts donations? So moved. Thank you, Director Steves. Do
we have a second? Second. Thank you, Director Roishau. Is there discussion? Just a um huge thank you to all of the donors um no matter of what size. Um this donation resolution I did some
quick math um using a calculator. Uh $32,000 um donated from our community to our community. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you for supporting our students and our staff. Yes, I I echo that remark. Board's
grateful and we are thankful that we have continued donations almost at every meeting it seems. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yes, I concur with um I agree with what uh both uh director Bedro and uh
director uh Steve has said and I especially um with the egg the the the children in third grade um the egg, you know, the tours, farm tours. I've got grandchildren up in uh up north and uh
they enjoy those tours and it's too bad because I was raised on a farm and they don't know sometimes what's you know but now they know and they talk about it. Um and also to the donations to the ALC community schools. Um, the ALC I think is a great program and I happen to be at
the graduation and I just so proud of those students and thank you so much to all of the people that donated but especially to the ALC. That's a kind of a soft spot in my heart for the ALC schools and thank you to the graduates.
Great job. Any further discussion? Once again, I I I can't say for any other district, but our district is totally blessed by having our community really invested in our in our public school here. So, we we're very fortunate to have the community we have. So, Miss
Steves, this is a roll call. Will you please do a roll call? Linda Budro, hi. Candace Kudson, I. Linda Moore, hi. Jerry Roasha, hi. Cassie Steves I John Bellingham I passes 6. Thank you. Agenda item number 10B consider approval of
resolution 25-32 certification of updated district population estimate. Is there a motion to adopt resolution 25-32? So moved. Thank you Director Steves. Thank you, Director Budro. For the
second and discussion, Mr. Benty, would you just give us an update on um just the just the census figures updated from 31,318 to 31,557 uh determined by the state demographer.
Um this just allows us to pull in a slight bit of revenue on that difference between the two. Thank you. From the state. Okay. Any further discussion? Mr. Chair, I just have one technical question. When they do a census, do they consider the residents
at the prison? That is a good question. I don't know if they I believe they Okay. Sorry, Mr. Roshaw. Could you repeat your question, please? Yes. When they do a
census, do they count the residents at the prison? Oh, uh, that's a great question. I don't know the answer to that. I can find out. I think they do, but yeah, Google tells me yes, incarcerated persons are counted
in US census. Now we know. Good question. Any further discussion on adoption of resolution 25-32? Miss Steves, this is a resolution, so a roll call, please. Linda Budro, I.
Candace Kudson, I. Linda Moore, I Jerry Roisha. Hi, Cassie Steves. I John Bellingham. Hi. Passes 6. Thank you. 10 C. Consider approval of the fiscical year 25-26 school year PNC insurance renewal.
Motion for approval of the fiscical year 25-26 school year PNC insurance renewal. Please also move that. Is there a second? Second. Thank you, Director Budro. And discussion. So, first I think I will ask
uh Miss Raceler if you would just explain the uh PNC insurance renewal. Yep. So, um one of the um handouts that you have included in the board packet talks about um the different types of insurance that we're talking about with
our property and casualty insurance. And then we also have a section for our workers comp. So, um, we were, uh, fortunate to have, um, Grant, uh, Wilson with Hartman Insurance, um, at our finance committee meeting, and he did
speak about, um, he did speak about what we're looking at with our insurance information. Um, and so what he stated was that our insurance is based on the replacement uh, rate of $250 to $350 per
square foot. Um, and what this uh the the main item that we're talking about is the uh cop coverage. And that's um making sure that our buildings are being insured at an appropriate rate so that if something were to happen to one of
those buildings that we're covered well enough to um be able to replace the items within within those buildings. Um, we talked about if it, you know, if it would help if we would increase our uh,
deductibles, as an example, and he felt that it really wasn't a significant savings for us to increase those, and so he did recommend that we leave our um, deductibles where they are currently. Um, so what we're seeing actually is uh,
an increase in the in the total property and casualty. We're seeing an increase from uh fiscal year 25 to fiscal year 26 of only $47,333. Last year that increase at this time was um 63,825.
So we're seeing a lesser increase, if you will. Um really good news on the workers compensation package is that we're actually seeing a de decrease. And so that's really due to the great work of our buildings and grounds um director
Kain Smith and um Tom Katra and Matt Krennic who who also work in those areas and with workers compensation. So um doing some preventative uh work there to ensure that our workers compensation claims are going down.
So, uh the basically the recommendation um that I have before you is to just um to uh approve the rates that we have for fiscal year 26 as presented. Thank you. Discussion.
Mr. Chair, I would just like to say that we discussed all of these next nine items at our finance meeting, but you didn't really cover them and as they come up, maybe if we need to add comments about it. Um, we did ask a lot
of questions and Barb Barbie just re reiterated that on the insurance and um I just I just wanted to mention that these were all approved at the finance meeting. Thank you, director. I was going to mention that director Budro I forgot that there all these were in
front of the finance committee uh in our um meeting just a week ago but on the board book we were just dealing with the May finance committee report there are questions on that so that's what I'm going to do from now on so anyway is there any further discussion on the
approval of the fiscal year 2526 school year PNC director ro thank you um I think given in your first opening paragraph about all of the disasters that are happening and the insurance industry facing the financial strains
that they are a $47,000 increase is pretty significant downsize for us. It could have been a much larger increase. So good. Thank you. Thank you. Great. Great point. Any further discussion?
Discussion. Ready to vote. There's a motion for approval of the fiscal year 2526 school year PNC insurance renewal. All in favor of that motion signify by saying I. Opposed? Motion passes. 10D consider approval of the food service management
agreement for fiscal year 2526 school year. Motion for approval of the food service management agreement for fiscal year 2526 school year. Thank you, Director Budro. Is there a second? Second. Thank you, Director Roashau. uh discussion. Miss Raceler, if you want to
go over it briefly. You bet. All right. So, um this uh the uh food service management agreement for fiscal year 2526 is year four of the contract that we are currently in. Um we cannot go
higher than than five years of a renewal. So, this contract was originally uh created in fiscal year 2223. So, as I stated, we're on year four of that renewal. There is nothing changed in the um in the contract except for uh
page two of 10 where we um are seeing an increase of the um fixed meal uh prices and this is coming from our uh vendor our contractor if you will uh Sedexo. So
the most that they can increase those prices is 3.1% and that is what they have done. So they're showing us um what our prices will be then for the uh new fiscal year based on that increase of 3.1%.
So again on page two of 10 uh we're showing the uh like the meal service as a snack. um and it was originally at 1 point uh 107 and with that 3.1%
increase um we're simply going to um the uh the new amount that's listed there. So um I don't know if there's any questions on how that works. Uh if you have any questions on what the different types of meal services that we provide.
Um, but that is really the only thing that's changed from last contract to this contract. Good discussion. Mr. Chair, I just I just have a question on page two there. It says the price of milk must be included in the total fixed
meal price. Um, does that mean if a child doesn't want milk, it's they they still are charged for it then or do they get the milk anyway? the the um so an entire reimburseable meal y has to have
a milk so they can throw it away if they want. Yes. Okay. So there may be some waste in all of this. It's not your fault but there's w I've heard um from well actually wasn't a teacher in this district but a teacher u happened to say that there's lots of waste in some of
this. So is that what you're seeing? There can be. Yes. What what we do with our um milk is if the student doesn't want it, we have a crate and they can put the milk back in the crate hole on the open um as long as you know and then
we have to check the expiration dates and all those different pieces. So you do Thank you so much for that. I appreciate that and I think the public does too because it's our taxpayer money. So Right. Okay. Thank you. Yes, Mr. Chairman. Director Budro, we do as as Barbie explained, we do have a crate
where people unopened milk cartons. And if another child would like milk, they are able to take that milk if they would like it. But we also um those that aren't that are already opened, we have to dispose of that milk and we have to
throw it. Yes. So we just wanted to mention we have a provision to try to protect and save milk. Yes, we do. Yes. I appreciate that. Any further discussion? Just for curiosity sake, what is the difference
between the national breakfast program and the SF? My I can't read that. SFSP SSO breakfast. Yep. So, the National Breakfast Program is what we serve during the school year. And the SFSP,
we're, you know, heavy into acronyms. Um, that is the summer food service program. Got it. So that's what we serve during the summer here to our students for breakfast and or lunch. Cool. Thank you. Yep. Last call for discussion.
Hearing none. All in favor of the motion for approval of the food service management agreement signify by saying I. I. I. Opposed. Motion passes. 10e. Consider approval of the school nutrition program joint agreement contracts for the fiscal year 2526
school year. Canon Valley Special Education Cooperative and Surroad Academy. Is there a motion for approval of that school nutrition program joint agreement? So move. Thank you, Director Budro. Is there a second? Second. Thank you, Director Steves. Uh, Miss Raceler.
So, uh, our joint agreement contracts, we actually have three of them. And, um, I should have done it differently, but I didn't. So, the three that that we have are the Canon Valley uh Special Education Cooperative, um Sarat Academy,
and then also Nurse Strand Elementary, but we have so many contracts with Nurse Strand. I actually put the food service one in with all of those contracts. So, but they're all basically saying the same thing. Um we're indicating um what year we are in the renewal of um our
joint agreement with them. Um and and just I'm not sure how familiar we are with what the difference is between a joint agreement and the vended meals. So the joint agreement means that we're actually tracking the meals and so we're ensuring that those meals are
reimburseable that um we can uh get aid for those meals whether it be from state and or federal. Um so any joint agreement we're actually claiming the meals basically. So we're we're keeping track of those meals. We're claiming the meals and then we get that
reimbursement. So we do that on behalf of of these organizations, the uh education co-op and then the two charter schools. So that's what a joint agreement means. So, um what you're seeing in the joint agreement then again
nothing has changed from uh past years as far as any of the you know um information of what we're providing, how we're providing it, who's cleaning up, who's in charge of delivering it, how it's delivered, um who's serving those
different pieces. So, nothing in that portion changes. Um the only thing that does change then is when we talk about um what the um meal prices will be and that then hasn't changed from last year to this year. So we're just keeping the
same meal prices. Thank you. Discussion Dr. Rob. I think just for transparency I serve on the co-op board. Okay. But I don't think there's any potential conflict on this. Thank you. Thank you, Director
Overshield. Any further discussion? Discussion hearing none. All in favor of the motion signify by saying I. I. Opposed. Motion passes. Uh 10F. Consider approval of the vended meals agreement for fiscal year 2526
school year. Uh for Discovery School, Head Start, and Little Scholars. Motion for approval of the vended meals agreements for fiscal year 2526 for those three institutions. Please. Thank thank you director Budro second director
Robisho and Miss Racer. All right. So uh what a vended meal um agreement is is basically we are charging then the entity for the meals that we serve. So they collect the
reimbursement for the meals. So they do all of their own um it's called it's a it's a program where we have to report the meals how many re were reimbursed. They do all of that um accounting and
reporting themselves. We supply the food and then we charge them x amount for for breakfast, lunch, snack or whatever it is that they're getting from us. So we are truly just like um we're a
contractor for them in a sense. So they are one of our vendors where we invoice them on a monthly basis based on how many meals they say they want per day. And so that's spelled out in this contract that they have to let us know by a particular time each day how many
meals they want for breakfast, how many meals they want for lunch, those different pieces. and then um we charge them for those meals that they have specified and send them an invoice. So that's what a vended meal contract looks
like. So again, nothing in here is uh different except for page three. We did increase than the cost that we will charge the um the entity um based on the increase that we're seeing for our
costs. discussion. Um, Mr. Chair, I just have a question. Director Moore, uh, on page one, it's the first paragraph, the last sentence. It says, "This agreement template may not be used to obtain SNP meals from a commercial vendor." Um, if
we went with a commercial vendor, would that be cheaper or can you explain that a little bit? Why they don't do that? Uh, it's on page one. Uh yeah, I think well, yes, it's on page one, first paragraph, last sentence. Oh,
this agreement template may not be used to obtain uh school nutrition program meals from a commercial vendor. Right. So, what this is saying is that we're going to cook the meals. Okay. And then and then we will charge them. We're not going to take from somebody else. And
so, it'd be cheaper for us to do it this way. Thank you. Correct. Correct. Discussion. Last call. Last call for discussion. Seeing none. All in favor of the motion signify by saying I. I. Opposed. Motion passes. 10G. Consider approval of the
Minnesota Statemies and Fable Public Schools tuition agreement for the fiscal year 2526 school year. Motion for approval of the Minnesota Statemies and Fable Public Schools tuition agreement. Thank you, Director Robisho. Do we have a second?
Second. Go ahead. Thank you, Director Moore. And Miss Raceler again. So, this uh this um agreement, this tuition agreement is the same that we've had year-over-year. Um and so, basically,
it's stating that um in the contract, it states that no tuition will be charged, no tuition will be charged in either direction. Um however um Rob at the um finance committee meeting in June stated
that we do collect that ADM. So if you know if we've got someone attending uh their site we are going to still collect that a that um student count if you will because that's our student. Um but we also then do provide shared time
opportunities for any of their students who attend Fairbowl public schools if they attend a class or something like that. So um just wanted to make sure that that was known um transparency. Great discussion.
You want to know how long this has been in existence? Director Olish. Yes, I would like to know how long this has been in existence. Probably since about 19 85 or 86. And you must have been part of that agreement I would. Yes.
Excellent. Further discussion hearing? None. All in favor of the motion signify by saying I. I. I. Opposed. Motion passes. 10H. Consider approval of a new grant manager
position. Is there a motion for approval of a new grant manager position? Thank you, Director Budro. Is there a second? Second. Thank you, Director Robasho. And discussion. So, um, Miss
Raceler, so uh, what you have in the packet is, um, basically there the, um, the job description of what we want, their essential functions, those different pieces of it. Um, the reason that we're
bringing it uh, forward is our current grant manager is also our um, director of community ed. So this is like a new FTE that we would be uh requesting to continue on with the grants that we
currently have. Uh I think it's important to understand how we are choosing or how we are able not choosing how we are able to pay for this position. Um, so with the grants that we have,
each grant does allow what's called indirect costs. And these indirect costs allow for um the grant itself to be charged. and we can then back off charges um to different areas, usually
the business office that has to take care of all of the accounting for the grants, ensuring that the reporting is done for the grants, the desk audits that have to happen for the grants and those different pieces. So with that negative expenditure, if you will, um we
are able to capture then dollars that don't affect the budget per se. So with those indirect costs, what we are proposing this grant manager to do is not only write the grants but also take care of the management of the accounting
to do those um you know to do all the paperwork if you will to get all the documentation together that needs to be reported on a monthly or quarterly basis as well as ensuring that um all desk audit, desk reviews, those different
pieces are done timely as as well. There would still be oversight of all of that accounting because we always want two sets of eyes on anything that's done in the business office. So, we are so someone such as myself or Brett
Martendelle, the controller for the district, uh, one of us would be overseeing that just as we are now. Um, so that is one way in which we can pay for the grant manager. The other way is as we currently are doing, we can use
dollars obtained from a grant to pay for this position. So we are able then to say that because because we have this grant portions of this position can be paid through the grant itself.
So, in in effect, it doesn't have a um an increase into our salary budgeted for the new fiscal year. Thank you. Discussion, just a question for clarification. Um,
so what you're saying is that in the grant itself, you could write a line item for grant management. Yes. That particular grant, correct? In addition, you could access some of the indirect cost. Correct. To help support that position. Correct. Thank you. Correct.
So, how much would this cost the district then? It's it's it's in the it's it will not have a cost to the district per se because we can use indirect costs and we can use the grant
whatever grant this person gets. If we renew a grant or those kinds of things, it would not cost the district. But it comes out of taxpayer money though, right? Okay. And so, how many years have we been receiving grants about? Do you
know? I don't know the totality. I know that Zach Puit has been with the district for three years. I guess my question is, have any of these grants increased our district's reading, math, and achievement scores? So,
I'm not just a rhetorical question. Thank you. Further discussion, Mr. Chair, Mr. Bendy, in my four and a half years here on the board, I don't believe that we've ever
reviewed a job description, if you will. Um, but I appreciate it. Um, one thing that uh in reviewing this um the reporting, the evaluation, the collaboration, the communication um not
that um the current grant manager wasn't doing that um but I appreciate that it's written right here um for all of us to see. Um I think it's a great um a a great idea. I think Mr. recruits
been um e exceptionally like he is a magical unicorn that our district has really um carried us over the hump. Um I'm supportive of this position. Um and I think it's a great idea um to use the indirect cost or write that in. Um just
for clarity sake the salary for this position would be dependent on whatever um grant management can be written. Okay. So that could be one amount one
year and one amount the following. It it could be we would try and make sure that it you know has a has a steady Yes. Right. Right. and a natural progression for that person. Okay. In the business world, we might say
working on commission. There you go. With grants, right? Yep. That's the bottom line. Okay. Director, I ask one more question. Included in the grant, you can also not only cover the salaries, but the benefits. Yes. Yes. Absolutely. So, the cost to the district
is minimal. Correct. If anything at all. Correct. Correct. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Director Budro. Um, I just want for some clarity because um I believe we would be offering a salary amount
and the person's position would not be maybe I'm not certain about this but it would not be enhanced by the number of grants that they write. So it is a position with certain salary and that
salary is about tell us what the salary is about at um I think that's going to u very much depend on the um qualifications of the
candidate. So um and uh you know I I have a figure of what that indirect cost is and that amount is roughly $80,000 and so that gives us a ballpark of where we can at least start and then if we can
you know if we can use then a a grant here or there uh depending on what the um salary range is needed for that particular individual. Oh miss are you done? You finished. I
forgot what my next question was. We can come back to you. Must not been that important. Director Moore. Okay. Just said the salary is about what eight 80. That's how much we have in indirect costs. Okay. What about benefits? If you added that, is that what your question
was? Maybe added benefits in there. So, what would the total? Yeah. And and I don't know if Miss Yokum has a has a guesstimate of what we you know would do for um the total range of salary and
benefits. I personally I think it's going to depend on again the qualifications and then what grants we can Can you give me a range total just you know 87 what is the normal um you know do you have that
a little range 25% it'll depending family insurance, single insurance, dental, all sorts of different things. Thank you, Mr. Chair. My question was, would this
person report to you then, Barbie? Um, what we have uh talked about is that the position will report to the superintendent as far as is it the grant we should go for? Does it, you know, does it make sense? Is it something that's within our, you know, goals and
strategies and whatever? And then, um, I would oversee that the accounting piece is done correctly. Okay. Thank you. Comment um, not a question, but a comment. My experience with grant
writers is that uh if they're diligent in their work, they can bring a significant amount of money into the district as acted as community ed director, a significant amount that enhances what we're doing for our kids
in our district. So, somebody who's really aggressive and uh delicate in their work, that's going to be a benefit to our educational program. I I agree. And I'm not sure if Zach would ever toot his own horn. I'm sure
he wouldn't, but he has uh brought in 15 million over the last three years. Yep. Any further discussion? Further discussion? Okay, we have a motion for approval of a new grant manager position. All in favor of the
motion signify by saying I. I. Opposed? No. Motion passes. 51. Agend agenda item 10 I consider approval of the nurse strand lease for fiscal year 25-26.
Motion for approval of the nurse strand lease for fiscal year 25-26 please. So moved. Thank you Director Steves. And there's a second. Thank you Director Budro and Miss Raceler. Sorry. Okay. So the building lease that you're
seeing in front of you uh does look a bit different. Um um we are working with Nurran Elementary Charter School um to uh potentially sell uh the Nuran building. Um and so uh in working
through that at this time what we have agreed with the executive director of Nurse Strand Elementary Charter School is that we would do a twomonth lease so that they have time to find a buyer and get all the paperwork and their ducks in
a row so that um we could potentially sell then uh the building to a new owner um which would then commence you know, August, September, something like that. So, what this particular um
contract is showing is simply two months versus 12 months of the lease. So, it's it's going uh July 1st through August 31st. And so, that is uh $27,375.
Nothing else is changed in the wording of the lease. discussion. I have a question. Director Moore, a couple questions here. On on the first page number five, it says care and maintenancees of premises. The landlord,
which is us, correct? Shall be solely responsible and liable for all major repairs. I think down a couple of months ago, we talked about I think the roof needed repairing and that would be a major cost. Is that correct? Was it the roof? Something like that. I I guess I'm just concerned. I I'm thinking if we
have to have a major repair and we'd have to foot the bill. I think in number 18 they talk about insurance. The insurance probably would cover that. Correct. Because on page 18 I meant no number 18 we have to have enough
insurance to cover some major catastrophes. Correct. So the insurance would cover that then I'm guessing. So I don't have to worry about that. Okay. as long as I got two uh two more things on the on page I don't know what page it was but with the prices uh the breakfast
program was two um 89 uh lunch 363 and I know with Sedexo it was 310 so why is the difference um you know it's a different comp yeah yeah different company but right in and this is just the building lease this is just the
building oh I'm sorry you're ahead of sorry about that okay no that's fine I got more questions later. I had them all tied together here. Okay. Thank you. Yep. Mr. Chair, Director Budro, it's my understanding, Barbie, that we are trying to accommodate the potential
buyer. Correct. They need a little bit more time to get approval and those all those administrative things take time when purchasing a building. So, correct, we are offering this for two months, but willing to go an additional month or
additional month as needed. Correct. Trying to work with them and accommodate them and I thank you for working on this and coming to this agreement at this point. So, um the lease includes the land, not just
the building. Correct. Yes. But it's the whole It's it's the whole property. Yes. I'm sorry. Yes. The entire property. Yeah. Any further discussion on the motion? Last call for discussion. All in favor
of the motion signify by saying I. I. I. Opposed. Motion passes. 10J. Consider approval of the nurse strand agreements, the custodial service agreement, nursing agreement, food service joint agreement renewal, two-month text service
agreement. Motion for approval of those nurse strand agreements. Thank you. Uh, Director Budro, is there a second? Second. Thank you, Director Steves. And once again, Miss Raceler. Okay. So, the um agreement for the
custodial does not change at all. Um so, we have talked about um that the the lease on the property would be for two months. However, Nurse Elementary Charter School would still like to use our custodial services um to provide,
you know, cleaning and maintenance and those types of things. So we have had a a standing agreement with them. Nothing changes in the agreement. We um we bill them on a on a monthly basis for any
sorry for any um uh uh custodial time as well as an administrative charge uh just for doing the bookkeeping and having to do the the um invoicing and that sort of thing. So nothing changes um with the custodial
service agreement. Thank you. Discussion, director Moore. Yes. I'd like to ask a question. Okay. So there's a difference between on this on this one. Uh uh joint
renew of a joint agreement. Yeah. Uh there was a difference I guess is 288. Uh lunch is 362. I guess what is the difference? It's just because of the different services or right when we get to that. Yep. Yeah. Oh, you haven't gotten to that yet. Okay. I'm sorry.
This is just Okay. I'm sorry. This is just for custodial. No, I have no questions on that one. Okay. Further discussion. Okay. Further discussion? All in favor of the motion signify by
saying I. I. I. Opposed. Motion passes. 10K. Mr. Racer, you've been talking quite a bit and you have the uh adopted budget coming up. Would you care if the would you mind if the board take a took a recess? That'd be great. Okay, great. Uh we'll have a 10-minute recess. We'll
reconvene at 7:10. We are in recess. I don't know. I didn't go up there. I went south. Thank you. We'll come out of the break here, the recess, and now head into agenda item 10K,
which is consider approval of fiscal year 25-26 school year adopted budget. Is there a motion for approval of the fiscal year 2526 school year adopted budget? Thank you. I'll give that to Director uh
Budro, a second by Director Roashau. And discussion, I'll turn it over to you, Miss Raceler. Thank you. the uh budget book uh information is included in the agenda and I'll just kind of hit some of the highlights
that's included here and um we'll uh hopefully get through this without any um without too much confusion. All right. So um the first page that we're showing is just uh indicating our school
board and our district administration. And the third page basically uh does the same uh indicating our school administration at each of our sites and um at some of the different programs that we run. The next page kind of gets into some of
the highlights of what I'd like to um focus on uh in the general fund. So on page four um we are talking about uh the general fund in in particular uh as a whole. So in our revenues, I am
projecting our average daily membership, that's what we get our funding on is the average daily membership. I'm projecting that to be 3,57. So what is included in here is a decrease actually of our enrollment if
uh nothing would have changed, but we have picked up some students from uh the STEM charter school that closed. And so as of uh it would be about two weeks ago now um I took the number that we had as
registered online and included those then into um how much how many students we have then uh that are coming from the STEM uh charter school as well as who we are uh rolling from one year to the next
in our uh projections. The second item talks about the basic general ed funding formula and so that uh is now at 2.74%. We did find out in February which is new
due to legislation from 2023. We do get to find out now earlier rather than later what that um percentage increase will be um to the gened formula. And so for fiscal year 26, it's actually 2.74%.
Um, most times it's going to be based on inflation with a cap of 3%. Um, no, it's going to be uh based on the the rate of inflation with it. Yeah. With a cap at 3%. Um, and so we we were aware
of that going in. There is in this budget an increase of compensatory revenue. I'm uh being rather cautious um because we um we have seen different uh indication that we may receive more in
compensatory revenue but as of the time of creating this budget I chose to be somewhat uh conservative and only increased our compensatory revenue by $400,000 based on what it would have uh regularly been. Uh we would we were going down to
6.8 8 million for our compensatory. What I'm showing is 7.2 million in the budget. Uh you'll notice the asterric there. And what I've stated is while it's likely we'll get an additional 435,000
in compensatory revenue, confirmation of this has not yet been provided by MDE as of June 18th. And so I wanted to indicate on what you are approving to show um that yes, we may get more, but I don't know that for sure when when
creating this budget. And so I I chose to be conservative. We will see a decrease uh to state aid for the READ Act and uh those grants that they had provided and that totals 236,122.
So for fiscal year 25, we did receive two one-time amounts of state aid specifically for the readact and those have been discontinued. We will also see a decrease in state aid for our special education
transportation. Um, as you may know, the um it was uh decided on, it was voted on, agreed, passed that uh special education transportation would no longer be funded at 100% but instead at 95%.
So, we're seeing a decrease in a revenue there of $131,000. In the expenditure uh side, um the board did approve uh earlier in the year budget reductions of $794,200 and approved um enhancements of
$520,800. the proposed and negotiated contract settlements. Um so uh not just teachers but all of the contracts were showing an increase of almost uh well of 2,472,920.
So that includes all contracts not just not just the upcoming teachers. Um transportation increase our cost to um Farwell Transportation um that you know has to increase each year. It's contracted service. So, we're seeing an
increase of approximately $425,000 and we will see a decrease to um our long-term facility maintenance. Our our goal is to increase our reserve there. So, we're trying to decrease the amount that we're spending on long-term
facility maintenance to ensure that we can get all of our projects done. So, we do have our construction money for the HVAC projects and we're going to use all that just in case. Um Kane wanted to be really conservative to ensure that we've
got enough to get all of those done. So, our long-term facility dollars can be used on HVAC, on windows, on carpeting, on, you know, all if take your building and you turn it upside down, what doesn't fall out is LTFM.
So, um, we wanted to make sure that we had enough money, um, to cover whatever costs may come up as well as have a little reserve, um, in case the HVAC projects, uh, if we needed more than what we had bonded for. I hope that
makes sense. So um when all of that is taken into consideration, our unassigned uh fund balance is projected to be 6.9 almost 7 million or 10.54%
of the budgeted expenses. So our uh minimum fund balance for the undesated is uh 9.5. more highlights going through each one of the different funds that we have in the food service fund. Um we are
actually now providing non- congregate meal opportunities uh this summer. So what a non- congregate meal is um it's for uh families who have children 18 and younger um who need meals over the
weekend. So currently we have sites available where families can come to get a lunch uh uh students can come to get a lunch. Uh what we're providing then and that is Monday through Thursday when we have our when we have our summer steam programs going. So we have those open
sites Monday through Thursday for those opportunities. What the non- congregate provides then are meals for Friday, Saturday and Sunday. So, uh, anyone with kids 18 and under can come get, uh, a
breakfast and a lunch for Friday, Saturday, Sunday. So, it's essentially six meals, if you will. And so, we're doing that in uh, uh, collaboration with the uh, community action council. And so, that's where the meal pickup is
being held this summer. This is the first time we've done it. So, um, so far we've had over 300 meals on uh when we first opened and again last Friday. So we we hand out the meals on Friday and they're good for Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
Uh we are providing summer meals then as as stated um at the high school at Lincoln Elementary and then we also provide meals on Fridays for our kids, world kids. Um, we're using five different meal programs and and we talked a little bit
about what what each one of those is a little bit earlier tonight. The CACF we didn't talk about, but that's like the child care one. So, this is a program that um helps anybody in the in the child care world. And so, that's our kids world.
Uh, the C is a community ed um eligibility program. And so, that's anyone low income. And so that's that's um another program that we use. Um talk about our vended contract meals. Um
again, as stated for the FY25 budget, we continue to purposefully spend down the reserve. So that we're um meeting the requirements of MDE. We did get a letter stating that we had too much money in our reserve, which most districts in the
state did. um they are um allowing us to use some of our food service money for m uh different purposes such as we can now buy lunchroom tables with our food service dollars where before we couldn't we had to use general fund dollars um
and we are going through a remodel at McKinley as stated earlier most of the equipment that we're choosing to purchase should be done in this fiscal year 25 um but we are hoping then that um that uh the project at McKinley will
get that completed then in fiscal year 26 and I have sent in all of that information to MDE so they know that we have a plan to spend down our fund balance and how we're planning to do that so that should be taken care of in the community education fund really
the modifications are just very slight tweaks to um you know to include increase to salaries and benefits that come out of community ed for for our for our early learners um as well as our adult learners. And then also some of the grants that we have, there will be
some grants that are sun setting and um new ones that um will be or renewed ones, excuse me, renewed ones. The building construction fund, that's fund six. Uh we're uh continuing to work on our HVAC projects. So I I think we're
all understanding what happens there. debt service. That's just our bond uh principal and interest payments that are scheduled for the year. We've got a few different bonds that we continue to make um interest payments on twice a year and then principal payments are only made once a year on those um outstanding
bonds. Our internal service fund is our self-funded insurance. And so this is where we, you know, collect the insurance premiums or our COBRA people pay us via invoice. And then um we uh
pay out the claims. Um as you may recall, we did have a 15% uh premium increase going into the new fiscal year. So that's uh you will see that in the in the um budgeted data. And then we have our revocable trust and this is the
district share of retirey insure insurance payments. Okay. So then the next uh the next page talks about our enrollment and so you can see our enrollment trends. Um we have been in uh
quite a you know decline of enrollment. Um we're going to see projected to see a slight bump uh increase um and that's coming from um you know various factors but most largely from the STEM charter
school. Um after that initial increase, we do see some decrease continuing to happen but not as rapidly if we would not have th that additional uh those additional students from STEM. The next page then is
kind of the meat and potatoes of the of the presentation. So, um, as you may recall, the, um, revised FY25 budget left us with an unassigned fund balance of
almost 9 million, which is approximately 14.26%. So, that's where we're anticipating to end the fiscal year for 25. our revenues then for fiscal year 26 um just for the unassigned fund balance.
This is where we're going to see most of the um gened formula increase um and then our student count. So we're seeing revenues of approximately 50 million453,000. the expenditures
um are at 52 million. And so this does include then increases to um any um general fund uh salaries, wages, purchase services, all of the things. So
we're increasing um our expenditures uh estimating those to be roughly 52 million. The next column then says transfer and what this is is an amount that we would like to take from our unassigned
fund balance and put into an assigned fund balance and that is specifically for curriculum. So, initially when we had talked about this um a while ago, we had talked about perhaps trying to uh set aside, you
know, 750,000 or 500,000 or something like that. What we decided to do to ensure the integrity of the unassigned fund balance in total is to do a $250,000 transfer this year and then see how we are and hopefully then do another
$250,000 transfer in FY27 and then another one in FY28. So that's how we are choosing to um continue to focus on curriculum that needs to be spent um and setting aside dollars totally assigned
for that. So at the end of the year then this leaves us about u almost $7 million or 10.54% in our unassigned fund balance. the following items in our restricted
fund balance. So they have a specific purpose. So our student activities um we're anticipating that our revenues will actually exceed our expenditures and so at the end of the year we're hoping to have at the end of uh 26 we're proposing
or projecting that we'd have a fund balance of 113,000 staff development. Um we are anticipating that our revenues will be 53,000 and our expenditures will be
almost 500,000 leaving us a slight uh fund balance for staff development. Part of the reason that we would like to leave uh additional dollars in staff development is because of the read act. We know that there will be additional trainings needed and we aren't confident
how much we will receive in um additional literacy aid to be able to pay for some of that read act. And so we we do want to have a cushion of some sort to rely on our literacy incentive aid. Um this is
not new. It's aid that we have received year-over-year. But because of the ReadAde Act, we can now specifically use these dollars um to assist with getting everyone up to speed with with the Read Act, getting curriculum, training people, those
different pieces. So, we have another bucket to use for um our literacy incentive aid, our American Indian aid. Um last year was the first year that we received this. Um and so we are anticipating um
we've already received how much we will um expect to to get and that is $48,500 and we anticipate that we'll spend all of that. This year it was uh $42,500 our operating capital. So this includes
any types of equipment. It can include some salaries and wages. Um it includes uh different uh you know different um projects that the sites might want to do. You know big ticket items if you will. That's what the operating capital
is. So um again we're trying to be somewhat conservative with our operating capital um to also assist with long-term facility maintenance needs because our long-term facility maintenance um reserve is not real strong. So, we wanted to be able to capture another
bucket that may be able to ha help with that area. Learning and development is usually an in and out. So, um we don't uh you know, we we don't anticipate that we'll have
much of anything of a of a um fund balance at the end of fiscal year 26. And so that's used for different um different types of of um trainings and and uh those pieces. Our area learning
center is actually um we split it into two different categories. One is the area learning center itself and the other is targeted services. So, our aerial learning center um the revenues that we receive from the ALC
um are not keeping pace with the costs of the ALC. Um and that multiple factors there. It could be staffing, it could be, you know, supplies, it could be whatever. Um so, we do have uh a fund balance there, but
at the end of 26, we're not anticipating that we will. So, that's an area that we'll want to look at. And then we also have our targeted services. Targeted services are extended year um not special ed, but it's it's um in addition to additional time after
school um for uh specific kids that might need some assistance with um whatever area of learning that they that they might be falling behind on. And it also includes our uh our um summer school needs as well. So there we are
seeing uh that our our fund balance will be about 50,000 at the end of the fiscal year. English learner support aid um we are anticipating that um we'll be uh
spending all that we receive there and we do multiple programs with that anything um you know with with helping with English learning in in any aspect. Um so it it's you know spent at all grade levels and in multiple areas to
assist um those uh students who need assistance. Basic skills that's compensatory. So what you're seeing in basic skills is uh essentially we're going to start the year off negative and we can't. So we'll zero that out through audit entries and
those different kinds of things. Um, our revenue, as I stated, um, we are anticipating to get another $400,000 here. Um, so hopefully that comes to uh, fruition where we're able to to put that into the budget. And then our
expenditures, um, we are spending all that we can out of the compensatory that we have because, um, if we have a negative balance, it has to be taken out of the unassigned. So that that just kind of takes up the the difference.
School library aid. Um currently we have uh a fund balance there. Um the amount that we're going to get is actually decreasing from the prior year. So we'll get 34,980 and we anticipate to spend all of that. It's um it's really quite easy to spend
that. We could spend it on people or supplies or whatever. Um achievement and integration. We're anticipating to get about se 793,000 and spend 722,000. Um uh Elizabeth Daniels is the one that
works heavily with this and so she and I spent a lot of time deciding what are initiatives for achievement and integration and you know how can we best spend those dollars and you know what what areas um do they work best in
safe schools levy. Um currently our safe schools levy uh what we take out of here is like our um school resource officer and then any type of um surveillance cameras and those kinds of things. We
try and take um all of use up all of those funds for that purpose. Um my guess is that we actually will not have um now that you know a month has gone by since we did the revised budget. Um I
don't anticipate that we'll have any dollars left in the um safe schools levy going into the new fiscal year. Um so I'm just anticipating that whatever we have in revenues we'll have in expenditures as well. Then we have literacy incentive or literacy aid,
excuse me, literacy aid. And we did receive uh an amount in between when we approved the revised budget to today. So we did receive uh $124,000. So we can actually keep that in a reserve to use for redact purposes. Um
whatever purpose we want. We can use it for curriculum. We can use it for um teaching. We can you know use it for personnel how however we would like. The next one then is teacher uh compensation for readact. This is specifically for teachers only and it's to train them for
the read act. So we can't use it on pair professionals as an example. It has to be on teachers. Long-term facility maintenance. We talked about that how um Kane um we're we're trying to be as conservative as possible. Kane is doing a a great job of
of really tailoring down what it is that we need to do for projects in the new fiscal year. We have moved some projects that we were thinking we would do this year into next year. Um what we would do in fiscal year 26 into fiscal year 27
just to have that reserve. if we find that, you know, we're going to be fine with our HVAC projects, there's no need to keep, you know, squirreling money away. Um, we can do some of those projects or at least start them so that we, you know, get get more completed over the summer months.
Student support personnel, uh, school aid, uh, this is for, um, any type of, uh, supports that we do for our students. What it was initially to do is it was it was aid given to us if we
hired a new person. So it was it wasn't an increase. Um so it's it's the same concepts. We're going to give you this much but you have to you know you have to have a new person. So um there's there's no additional dollars there. And
then medical assistance um we're um estimating that to be 700,000 both in expenditures and revenues. So that brings then uh the subtotal for our restricted fund balance. You can see
those those lines and then we have our non-spendable. What non-spendable is are like um prepaids and inventory and those kinds of things. So they're they're just kind of a holding bucket and will uh be released then in the new fiscal year.
And then we have our assigned uh funds. So, we still have the uh long-term receivable uh for um Canon Valley special ed co-op and then we are proposing then the 250,000 for curriculum. So, you'll see um in the
very first line under the um unassigned fund balance, we've got a negative under the transfer of 250 and then down below we've got a positive of 250. We're simply taking it from the unassigned and putting it into the assigned fund balance.
So when all is said and done um our our end ofear uh balances our total deficit then of expenditures over revenues is 1,488,522. So you are seeing a decrease in um our
um undesated fund balance but it's still above our minimum which is 9.5. So that is the general fund. May I ask a question or wait would you rather finish your entire I would rather
you finish your entire presentation before we get off on those. Thank you. That's fine. Okay. The next page uh then talks about the rest of our funds that we have. So our food service fund as we talked about um we're going to start the year with 1.9
million. The revenues come in at 2.75 and then our expenditures are are purposefully trying to be higher than the revenue because we have too much in fund balance. Um so uh what's included
in here is the remodel at uh McKinley as well as just our regular expenditures that we would have. And so we would then uh projected end the year at 1.482 million. So a decrease of expenditures
over revenues of almost 500,000. community service. Um we have our uh restricted um category. Um and you can see that we're um basically not doing
much of anything as far as a change chain goes change goes. It's only $3,500 that we're decreasing in that particular um in that particular fund balance. Our regular community education fund balance. then we are anticipating that
our expenditures um will um our excuse me our revenues will exceed our expenditures by about $77,000. And so this is just our regular community ed that we run all of our programs and and those different pieces through anything that we do for the
community, different classes that we offer and those kinds of things. early childhood. We are anticipating um that we'll have a slight decrease in our early childhood um offerings. And so that would be a
decrease of about 61,000. Our school readiness um this would be our um uh prek programs and and those different uh pieces. So we have our school readiness. We're showing uh 1.24
24 in revenues and 1.3 in expenditures. So a decrease of about 43,000. Um please note that in this we do include our voluntary prek aid that we receive. So um that that aid is taken into
consideration. Our adult basic education program um again uh revenues are going to come in at about uh 566,000. expenditures uh will be over those by about 30,000.
So the total of our restricted we do anticipate that we'll go down about 57,000 in total with expenditures exceeding revenues. However, our um overall community fund balance is still looking really good.
We're sitting at over a million dollars in our community fund balance. And again, just from my experience, that's awesome. So, I I feel really good about uh where we are with our community ed and to note that a lot of a lot of the
reason that we have such good uh fund balances is is because of many grants that we have in these areas as well. The construction fund, we're starting off with uh three million. Um the anticipated amount that we'll receive on
those dollars that are in the in the bank is about 200,000. That's the only revenue that we'll get um through our fund six construction. And then we have the projects that we want to finish and they're coming in at about uh 2.677
um million uh which would leave us about uh 592,000. However, um just in case, you know, something isn't going exactly as we had planned with the HVAC projects, we we have a cushion then and we have a cushion in fund one and we have a
cushion in operating. So, we just want to make sure that that we're able to take care of all of those. So, again, that's a planned decrease of about 2.5 million. Again, it what is important to remember with the construction fund is we received all of that revenue in fiscal year 24 and we have to spend it
down. we have x number of years to spend that down. So this is purposeful in our debt service fund. So paying off those bonds, um we start the year with a fund balance of about 631,000.
Um so the revenues are really uh taxes and levies and then some aid that we get from uh like egg credits and those different um programs. And then the expenditures are the interest and principal that we have to scheduled that
we have on a you know scheduled basis. So we're going to end the year at about 8001,000. So we're going to end a little bit higher than um what we had started. Uh one important piece to remember on the taxes is we do collect at um an
additional 5% um on anything that is debt related. And that's by law. we have to we don't have a choice in that. So um and that's the reason that they do that is if any taxpayer defaults doesn't pay their
taxes um the additional 5% then makes up for anyone who's defaulted. So that's the reason that that's in place. Our internal service fund we're going to start the year at about 601,000 is the um projected amount. Um the revenues
will be about 3.3 million and this does include the 15% um increase in premium. Um our claims we know that our claims are jumping up. So we um we didn't project at that same trajectory but we
did project at a you know at an increase from what we were experiencing. So, we're anticipating our claims will be about 3,378,000, which again will bring down our um fund balance, but um you know, it's it's hope
that our claims are not that high. And if they are, we'll just have need to react like we have this year with uh premium increases. And then we have our replicable trust and that's um other post-employment benefits. And so that's for our retirees
and and those that have um moved on. Um so we uh have a 200 excuse me $2.3 million um fund balance and that's how we'll probably end the year. Usually our expenditures and revenues kind of even
each other out. Um we need to keep a high balance in there um because we have longterm um you know expenses that will We have long-term promises that we have to keep good on. So overall,
the total of all of our funds and all of our fund balances comes to about 20.3 million. Our revenues in total for all funds 80,38,228. Our expenditures in total 84,743,56. And then our uh endofear projected
balances, fund balances would be $15,874,66. That's a decrease of 4,435,278. The next page, page nine. Page nine shows the information that I've just went over only in a couple
couple different ways. So the top of page nine uh shows our revenues and it shows um revenues based on different sources of income. So under revenues we have our local property taxes, our levies, county aortionment, those
different pieces. And so um we are only able to levy in three funds. So that's the general fund. You're seeing 10 million there. of fund four which is community services that's 437,000 approximately and then our debt service
or fund 7 and that's 2,ion45,000. So that's what you're seeing for levies. Then we have other local and county uh type of uh revenues. And so, um, that
includes any type of registration fees and, um, miscellaneous, interest, um, donations, anything like that is included here. Um, any miscellaneous from the county as well. So, um, you're
seeing each of the, um, funds uh, with their local and county. That total amount is 8,15,388. Then we have our state sources. So our state aid pieces and we're seeing that for general fund, food service,
community service, and our debt service. So any type of state aid or grant that we would have and it's it's aid. Um you're seeing that at about 53.7 million and the vast majority of our
revenue does come from the state. Then we have our federal resources and that's um almost $6 million. So the main uh driver of this would be in our food service um because we we do get federally funded um reimbursements from
um from food service. Uh and then we have, you know, some grants in our um community education and then um also grants and and different federal resources such as uh special ed and and
those types of things uh coming in on our general fund. So the total of our revenues then equals what we saw on the previous page at 80,38,228. Our expenditures then are broken out by program type.
So um administration um is only in fund one and there we're seeing 2.5 million direct support services. So that would be uh um people like me, people in the business office
and HR and and um those different places. Um that's coming in at 2.1 million. And then our regular instruction, that's where we spend the lion share of our dollars, which we should uh since we're a school district. So that's coming in at roughly 26
million. And then we have our vocational education. So um those different CTE programs, um that's coming in at 658,726. Special education programs that is uh 17 million.
Community education is 5.3 million. Instructional support services, so that would be like tech and library and and uh curriculum, some of those um areas, that's uh 5.6 million. People support
services. Um this would be anything in food service, transportation, um also some uh like social work and and those different kinds of things come uh come out of the uh pupil support
services. And so for fund one that's about 7.2 million, food service is 3.2 2 million and uh the uh community ed is 128,000 sites and buildings. That's our maintenance. So uh what we're seeing in
in any um large construction type of projects. So what we're seeing there is 5.9 million in the general fund and 2.677 million in our building fund or construction fund. and then uh fiscal or other fixed costs.
Um so mainly what you see there then is is debt service and in internal service our are self-funded and then our revocable trust for our post um other postemployment benefits and that comes in at 6.3 million. So our total expenditures again uh match what you saw
on the previous page of 84,743,56. And again, you're seeing the fund balance information as it was projected on the other page. The next page is just a quick visual for you to um better see better understand
um how our revenues are coming in. So the total general fund of uh 65,857,215 this is just a general fund remember. Um the main source again is is our state uh sources and that's 78%. Um the second highest then would be our
local property tax levies and that's coming in at 15%. Federal uh sources is 4% and other um other so that would be you know anything like interest and
miscellaneous grants um donations that's uh 3% The next page, page 11, is another visual for you, another pie chart visual. Um, this then shows our revised general fund expenditures, and they are
64, excuse me, 67,445,737. And, uh, if we start at like 12:00, uh, we see the pupil support services at 7.2 million or 11%. sites and buildings that's at 9% other
1%. Administration is only 4% which is less than uh the state average. District support services 3%. Uh regular instruction that's our lion share and that's 38%. Our um vocational is 1% special ed is
25% and then instructional support is at 8%. So again, just a just a quick visual to to allow you to see how those dollars are spent.
The last page then does give um a quick view of what our projected fund balance uh will be looking like over the next three years if we do nothing. So again, to remember that if we choose to do
nothing, we choose not to react, this is what our fund balance would look like. So um you're seeing that the again the anticipated end to our FY25 is to have a 14.26% uh fund balance which is 4.76% over our
minimum. For FY26 we are anticipating to have a 10.54% fund balance or 1% over our minimum. The projection then for fiscal year 27
is uh 10.26 26 or 76 above our um minimum and then projected for FY28 we would actually end the year under our uh minimum fund balance by u8%.
I did include just a few notes. Um so for fiscal years 27 and 28 at this point in time we are projecting a decrease in our student counts. I only increased the um general ed uh formula by 2% to be conservative
and then uh did not increase compensatory for those two years as each legislative session. It seems we don't know um what direction that will go. Last page is just a thank you to the amazing team that I get to work with. Um
Brett Martendelle the controller, M Hagen accounts receivable and account specialist, Jill Budro accounts payable, Delila Delgado as payroll, and Brenda Pitman in Mars. That's the student accounting. Great report, Miss Brazer. Thank you.
I'm glad we took that break, tell you that. So, uh discussion Dr. Dr. Robishaw Director Rob just a couple questions on page seven. What comes under student activities for the
restricted student activities? Student activities. Yep. So our student activities are um any organization that is run by the students for the students. Okay. So it
would be um any club that they might have that's actually um been designated to be an actual student activity. So like um um student council as an example, a student advisor. There's a
student advisor. There's Yes. Yep. So um anytime uh they choose to do anything we have to have record of who the student is in charge of that student activity and we also have to have the advisor that's the adult person taking charge of
that. So does that include coaches? No no co coaches is totally separate from that. Yes. Yes. Then uh there's a couple of literacy incentives.
Yeah, I apologize. That's a that's a typo. So, okay, this is this is great. The only one. This is great. So, 412 is literacy incentive aid. 456 is literacy aid. Okay. All right.
So, they chose to name three different buckets about the same thing. So, so my apologies. Yes. No, thank you for the clarification. Yep. I have two other comments. Under food service with the fund balance, are we allowed to allocate
custodial time, any kind of aid that we might have in lunchrooms? Yep. So we can shift those dollars. Yep. And we do and we do. We do. Yep. Last thing is I'm pleased that
you're allocating $250,000 to curriculum and there's a plan to continue to do that. It's been too long that we haven't spent the money that we should have. So, thank you for doing that. Thank you. Good. Thank you. Other discussion?
Director Moore. Yes. Thank you. On page seven, um actually I have another question now with director there. Uh when student activities, the revenue is 112,000. Is is that coming from the
students or do they we charge fees, right? And I know that can be um they do uh fundraising. So this comes from their fundraising. Yep. Yep. Okay. Most of it is fundraising. Yeah. And so it's not I know there's fees to go with certain things. Some of them may charge some
fees. Yes. Yeah. And hopefully the fees aren't too high, but what Anyway, that's one question. And then uh 448 achievement in Integration Avenue. Um we partner with a couple of districts, right? Is it what was it? Otana and Northfield or who are they? Uh
Waterville Legion Morristown I know is one. Northfield is one Northfield and uh TCU Tri City United. Thank you. Tri city. Okay. Thank you. Um let's see. I had actually you answered
one of my questions on page 11 now with administration 4%. Um is that include principles and assistants principles? Y and that too that's principles and assistant principles. Okay. Thank you. Further discussion
on the motion to approve the fiscal year 2526 school year adopted budget. Um so we have declining enrollment and we do have rising expenditures it seems every year, right? Yep. Um
okay. Uh oh, I was going to ask one more question. Wait a minute. Uh where does where does excuse me on page seven where does our um online online program fit in there? Our uh
online program is going to be mixed within. It's just like our it's it's like any other site. Any other program you mean? Yes. So okay. So I Yeah. At one point I'd like to see how the program what the programs are and and you know I guess there's to
me there's we've got to have accountability. No, that's not you're in but Okay. Thank you. So it's all mixed in. It is. It is. Yes. Okay. So in other words, I don't know what programs are being how much money per
program. Correct. Like with the online or anything like that. Correct. Because there Yes. I I Yes. It would be just like the high school, middle school, Jefferson, Lincoln. Thank you. Yes. Further discussion. Last call for discussion.
Hearing none. All in favor of the motion to approve the fiscal year 2526 school year adopted budget signify by saying I. I. Opposed? No. Motion passes 51 10L.
Uh we're moving on that the first reading the FB public schools vision plan. Board members in your packet you have a copy uh copies of the vision plan. This is a report. So for the general public etc.
We spent by the way thank you misser very much for the past hour and a half working that. So appreciate that. Um we had three board retreats in which we worked on uh the visions which included
expanded expected outcomes strategies and uh growth areas. Uh they're very productive there. So we had six cate six visions which we uh worked on. They are enhanced student achievement.
The vision uh vision two is maintain maintain and grow financial health. Vision three is enhance high quality facilities. Vision four advance highquality technology.
Vision five is grow professional development and human resources. And vision six is effective communications. So with that, uh it was at our last um retreat there in May that um I think
it's May or June, I can't remember. They all It's been a long time. It started in February. So um that it was by consensus of the board members there that we would put this forward to for uh the first
reading of our vision plan. And I want to thank Mr. Venty and Miss Kenny for their work uh within the uh retreats and their preparation etc to help us to get get to this point. So
uh discussion or comments first reading it was a um as you mentioned very um thoughtful discussions at each session. Um I really appreciated
taking part of it. I feel like um each member present gave um all that they could um open and honest um meaningful conversation. This is our um this is our meat and potatoes and this is how we are
going to go from good to great. Um so yeah it was it was a really rewarding experience. Thank you Director Stevens. Anything else? Um, Mr. Chair, yes. Um, I see it it's uh
seven pages long. Uh, 14 pages have double spaced. Um, one of the things is I know for everything that we've got down here, we have to show accountability. We have to show how this is working in objective terms
um for each and every one of these. Um so when we show accountability uh how are we going to do that? Are we going to put is this going to be the burden on the teachers or are we going to have to hire more administrators to implement accountability procedures
because with these we have to have with every strategy and with every you know we have to have some accountability. So where how are we going to do that? Is it going to be burdened on the teachers or like I say we have to add more administrators
just well in my opinion from working on this uh quite a bit I believe within the strategies is is the beginning or is a accountability piece and as far as who's going to do the work I think it's every darn one of us from the board to
administrators to teachers to students so because of a vision and to get these visions completed and worked on to make as Miss Steve says effective and make us better. I believe
the burden is on everyone. So I and Mr. Benty if you wish to comment I false accountability I believe it's uh the strategy went within it and I believe your sta your staffing is there to do it in my opinion. Yeah. And
I wouldn't look at it I I don't look at it nearly as much as the accountability piece of it as more based on the this is an extension of our playbook. Um it it it shows where we're going to spend our time, our money, and our energies and
where and and what it is we're going to focus in on based on what our needs are. Um instead of just kind of chasing the the new thing that's out there. So, uh, to me, this is a the the vision plan is is one of the most important documents
that a district can have because it really narrows your focus and says these are the areas over the next five to seven years that we're really going to focus on because it's been, I believe, about seven, maybe eight years since this was last looked at. Um, maybe more,
maybe, yeah, maybe even a little bit more. So I think that it's always it's always amazing to update this and say what is it that we're still working on versus what is new that we need to focus on. Um so for me this is this is more when I sit down and I look at the
direction that the district is going or potentially the d the direction that the district needs to go. I look at this document along with our playbook and say okay is this something that we should be uh that we need to look at doing or not
if that makes sense. Anything else otherwise this will be back for our second reading for approval on the in the July 21st uh business meeting. Okay, moving on to 10M first reading of
mission statement and that's me also. Um I have sent you a memo in board book here. Um the at the June 12th uh I guess it was
June 12th, 2025 retreat, possible mission statements were reviewed and discussed. Consensus was reached by board members at that meeting on a potential new mission statement which is as follows. Fairbull public schools strives to elevate and empower each
student, every family and our entire community to achieve their full potential. Every falcon every day. I know I have visited with a couple of you about possible uh tweaking words or word switches here. Uh, so I'll just open
that up for a couple of thoughts here to derive these from. I see I've really stimulated everyone with this. So Mr. Chair, m Dr. Director Budro, I don't know
who or why or what proposed tweaks you raise the issue. Um so one of mine was to strike strives um and have it read federal public schools elevates and empowers each
student, every family and our entire community to achieve their full potential every falcon and every day. So that was just one example of I'm sorry. Would you repeat that? How's that? Thank you. Um I'm not in love with the word
strives. strives for me um insinuates that we don't empower and elevate every student all the time. Um and in my opinion uh striking that and
making a little bit more um aggressive is the wrong word, firm um in our elevation and empowering each student um would just be mine. But I can I can be okay with this one as well. Mr.
Chair, I didn't know the word strive was in there. It's right here. Reading the number one. Oh, I'm going off the Yeah. Possibilities. Yes. Okay. No, we switched that at the retreat. I did. And
at some point I when uh Miss Steves mentioned that I worked on and believe me I'm I'm not I'm not a wordssmith whatsoever. Uh I might have to have Dette help me out help us out on this but strives to me means really trying to
elevate and empower each student. as a former teacher you we do our best to elevate and empower uh and educate each student and we can ensures to me meaning is almost like a guarantee and I don't know if we can guarantee that that's how
again it's interpretation of words here so I tried to include both of them but I couldn't get the language to work out so it made sense for me but um whatever there I think the other comment or thing I can't remember was about the
community. Uh how do we and in fact when I read read this over quite a bit, how do we elevate and empower our entire community to achieve their full potential? Shouldn't we have support from our
community like we do like such as the contributions to help elevate and empower students and families? I that's that was another thing I was thinking of. Director Obisho, Mr. I was the one who brought that up. I If we're supposed
to strive to and empower our entire community, um we're going to need a whole heck of a lot of help. Yes. This community, we're not even close to empowering the community and considering
us do that. I think it's critical that we have a partnership with the community, but I don't think it's our mission to empower the community. I think that's they're empowering us as elected officials.
Just great. I I agree with you. I hear I hear that too. But I also putting my chamber business hat on is the first thing when we try to recruit a new business or a new leader to come to
our community. They the literally the first thing that they look at is what is our school district rating? Um so we're holding our community accountable, empowering them that we are fair. We're gonna play our part, they're gonna play
their part, too. We're all on the same page. We all have the same, not the same values, whatever, but we're all We want each other to be successful. If Farbo is successful, our school district is successful, our business community is successful, and our people
are successful. That's just fine. I feel like I've talked a lot about this. Um, yeah, Mr. um with the community aspect. I think uh
it's it's not the fair uh and I have to disagree but it's not the the job of the school district. Our job is to I think we have to focus on K through 12 English, reading, math and science. Um it it it's great reaching out to the
community and the community to us but right now for our mission far public schools our mission is to we really need to concentrate on the basics English reading math and science. Uh we have to let's let's fix what's in our home base
for the elementary, middle, and our high school before we embark on something else. is I think we're trying to be all things to all students and we can't do that because it's not working. Um
I've got a couple more issues here if I may unless somebody else wants to. Um I actually someone asked me this. Do teachers really need a mission statement to know how to teach the basics? That was their question to me. It's a
rhetorical question. Um I know regarding the mission statement previously I had felt that it if we removed equity from the mission this would be an improvement. However I think I've come to understand that the term equity in the mission
statement is merely a symptom of what is happening in our district. Um taking this out is merely treating the symptom while the with while the cancer ages. Um it's the I guess we're correcting the verbiage but not committing to the
action. Um another issue I have is with diversity. Uh I guess what has and actually a constituent asked me this and they I don't think they even had seen this in the uh but they said what's happening uh
with the diversity is in our elementary schools. were basically losing our their identities by eliminating the schools like mascot or whatever. I think it used to be Lincoln Lions, right? Let's just go back to our mission. I am No. No,
you're not because you did not attend the retreat and I did that for a reason. You then now you come to a board meeting which we want this and all of a sudden it comes out from left field here. So by consensus of the four board members who
were there on June 12th, this is what we came up with and I don't believe by consensus we're going to turn the whole thing around right now. I mean there was excuse me I have the floor. There was cons there was heated
discussions about the um word equity about the the this possible mission statement. and in fact getting rid of it, changing what's behind us at all.
So, um I'm not disputing that. What I'm saying having equity in the mission statement, at least it states the truth as to what's happening in our district, and the truth does set us free. Uh and the fact that we we do have diversity,
equity, and inclusion in our programs. Could could you name specifically a program that has this DEI in here rather than just throw a blanket over everything saying we have we have DEI? Yes, I can right here. It's actually in one of the grants that
came in the bipartisan safe safer communities act stronger connection grant and right here and in many of these grants I don't know what page it's on. So so let's not take let's not take the time now. You say that let's not take the time now. You and Mr. Mr. Benty
and I will meet and we'll go over specifically what what you're saying rather than saying throwing out the disclaimer everyone we have DEI in the district the the sky is falling etc. I want to get back to the potential new mission statement here in this word in
these words. What I'm saying is I I I guess some of the the uh someone had said to me we need to take out equity. Well, I thought actually we should but it's actually we're applying verb. It's we're applying the verbiage and we're
not doing action and we shouldn't change the thing up here. Well, at least it's the truth what's going on. other discussion and one and I did not because of the fact that I I really think this is a waste of time I because it's it's
like we're doing all these things but we still have this we've had years of doing all these things and we still have this and we can have anecdotal evidence that there's one or two students are doing fine or everything but this is the reality this is facts and I keep asking
anything we are doing is this uh is this affecting achievement levels and it isn't. Any further discussion? Board members, Mr. Director Budro, um I thought it was pretty great that we came to consensus
on something different and I'm willing to with Cassie or whoever to make this statement or the statement that she had brought to us and
had consensus on to tweak it if needed. willing to work to find consensus on a new mission statement. Well, we kind of did, but I will if you would work on that, Miss Steves, would you
if you two could do that and um get back to me, Mr. Mr. Benty and I by at least 10 days before the next board meeting so I can send it out to the entire board so we can get that up as a second reading and go from there.
Director, you know, and I heard what said I I think community needs to be in there somehow. It's just that I don't think it's our responsibility to enhance their their whatever the statement says. I lost it. But I think needs to be
something in there about the partnership. I mean, it's the community norms that we need to be looking at as we relate to the education students here. So, I have no problem the community being on the mission statement as long as it's identified as to what
the role is. I think what Cassie said is very Okay. Can we tweak that a bit and then once you tweak it, I'll send it out. We'll bring it back for first reading once again. We'll do that to get that changed. Okay. All right, we'll move on now to
uh agenda item number 11. And before we get to that, I'm going to take a personal point of uh point of personal privilege here. In our consent agenda today, we had uh the resignations of two people or me a few people, but two I want I wish to point out. Uh first of
all, resigning was uh senior high school principal Joel Olsen. Uh thank you Joel for your time here in at Fairville public schools as principal of the high school and your dedication to students and best wishes to you on your future
endeavors. The second is Zach Puit our director of community education who also resigned moving on to other adventures as well. So thank you for all you have done for our students and staff here at Fable Public Schools. So, I I just wanted to point those two individuals
out with my uh point of personal privilege. Uh agenda item number 11, dates to remember. Uh July 10th is the facilities committee meeting, 7:45 a.m. July 14th, 7:30 a.m. is the finance committee
meeting. Uh July 14th, uh 5:30 p.m. is a special work session. And July 21st, uh, 2025 is 5:30 p.m. is the business meeting. Mr. Chair, I can just add, I believe tomorrow is fair transportation
open house. Open house. Yes. You have a chance to go visit visit fair transportation open house and they need drivers. So if you're retired or not retired, what I'm not gonna I'm not going to drive bus. So Mr. Chair there, Mr. Chair. Yeah, I have attended the the
transportation uh and it's it's I I would recommend highly to go to that. Do a great job. They do a great job. Yes, they do. Okay. Next. So, I will uh next we're going to move to a close session. Is there a motion to move to a close session as permitted by Minnesota
statute 13D.03 for labor negotiation strategy? So move. Thank you, Director Budro. Is there a second? Second. I'll give that to Director Robo. All those in favor of the motion signify by saying I. I oppose.