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Part 1 (Video ID: rK6RgvRA3dA):
- 00:00:00: Meeting Called to Order, Agenda Approval, Gift Acceptance
- 00:03:21: Probationary EA Non-Renewal Discussion and Approval
- 00:05:11: Activity Director Contract Approval: Introducing New Hire
- 00:07:11: FUE Teacher Contract Negotiation: Key Changes and Approvals
- 00:18:03: Depository Account for Community Giving Scholarship Funds
- 00:22:36: Policy Review Discussion - First Reading and Comment
- 00:25:58: Policy Review Discussion - Action, Final Reading, Comment
- 00:27:26: Budget and Enrollment Update, Financial Position, Revenue
- 00:34:14: Administrator Information: Graduation, Acts of Kindness
- 00:38:39: Committee Reports: Gifted, Lockdown Drills, Curriculum
- 00:43:49: Board Member Comments: Graduation, Finances, Appreciation
- 00:50:15: Meeting Events and Notices; Adjournment


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We call to order the full public school board meeting on May 18th, 2026 and the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God,

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indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The mission of Foley Public Schools is to bring together students, parents, staff, and community to provide a quality education with an emphasis on developing the full potential of the

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individual. We have some possibility to add on Okay. So, we'll need an approval for the agenda with the tabletop items that'll be on the consent agenda. the Foley um uh special education teacher, Foley

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Elementary School, the special education teacher. We'll add um Caitlyn Court. Um and then we have 1.33 um FT for a fully high school egg teacher. EA for support for G

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Foley Elementary School ESY EA summer school Jerry Johnson and then a resignation. >> I'll move to approve the agenda with the uh and the new items. >> I'll second it.

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>> Got a motion to approve and a second. All members in favor >> I >> approval of routine business approval of routine business items which include consent agenda billboards our board bills and approval of um the

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meeting minutes. Can I get an approval? Motion to approve. >> Motion to approve. >> Motion was made by Patrick and second by Wayne. All members >> and then your resolution for accepting

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gifts. Um I know we had a lot of unified um Debbie Gillard donated for the unified club sportsman club donated or the unified club long club donated for the unified

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club. St. refrigeration going for senior yard science J&J transport also and the American motion >> to accept all members in >> favor

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is a resolution >> we have two rolls Not on that one. >> Mary and Melissa. >> Number seven, the following um probationary special educ education student support EAS will not be returning due to the lack of student

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need for EA support in the fall 202627 school year. This is an action discussion and action item. Is there any questions on this? >> Just for the sake of people viewing at home or in the audience, uh, Mr.

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Costimus, can you just talk about this a little bit? Give some background. >> Sure. Thank you. Thank you very much, President. We um in previous years, our school district has non-renewed um probationary education assistance at

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the end of the first school year of their first year so that we can determine our needs for next school year and then hire back those that are needed. And if we need more beyond that, we can advertise for more. But the

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concern being if we just stay with the current staff, if over the summer we have changes and we don't need as many then we have them and we are overstaffed. So this is a way for us to ensure that we are not overstaffed for next school year.

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>> So this is a yearly process that we do every year, but this time it's not something that's changed. So can we get a motion to approve? >> Motion to approve. I'll second. >> Patrick made a motion to approve. Mason

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second. All members in favor. >> I >> um activity director contract for 2026 and 27 school year. Um do you want to speak on behalf of >> Yeah, I'll be happy to. We uh as you

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know um Eric has decided to move on to a new position and Mr. joins us. And so we um advertised for a new activities director and we had many applicants and uh did

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our interviews last last Monday and uh had a great group that we met with had a great uh number of people that were involved with the uh interview process

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and um Mr. Beckers is a currently a um activities coordinator and um summer wreck coordinator in the Sock Rapids Rice School District at the middle school level and so uh he had applied and um we

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offered the the position and he accepted last Thursday. So we are very excited to have come on board for us for next school year start. There was a lot of great work that went into this. There was 12 members of um

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either coaches, staff members, Joel and and Mr. Pumis um did a great job helping out with this. Um three of our school board members were involved in it. So he was one of our our best picks and everybody out of the whole group was in

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favor. So I needed a motion to approve. I'll make a motion to approve. I'll second that. >> All members in favor. >> I >> FUE teacher contract 25 through 27.

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That's another discussion item. >> Thank you. If you don't mind to review that um since last fall, we've been negotiating with the teachers uh union to create a new contract for this year and next

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year. And um I feel like we had a lot of good discussions. Uh obviously we were hoping that we would all were hoping that we would be able to come to a consensus sooner, but we um greatly

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appreciate the work of all um all the teachers and board members uh and uh Ryan and myself as and Kelly along with the group to represent the district. I'll review some of the um the changes

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that were made for this upcoming for this new contract and uh several things that were done. Uh we of course we update all the all the years so that everything is updated with that. We changed some language here and there to

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make it more accurate. Um this year we changed we had 100 his hers and everything so we changed it to theirs. We did um staff development days. We have three staff development days that are um in our school calendar for

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teachers to work at the end of the trimester. And now during the after the first trimester and second trimester, they will be able to use up to three and a half hours of time that is just it's unencumbered time it's called. just for

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them doing their school work, their classwork. They'll be able to you do that um remotely if they choose to. Um we are also changing our way that we do our pay rates for next school year. Next

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beginning next school year, teachers will be paid on 24 payments twice a month. And uh for a very long time teachers have been paid out in June one lump sum and then they start up their uh

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normal process of two month two pay periods per month again. But this this uh bargaining session we have changed that so it's just going to be 24 throughout the year. So, that'll be nice for them to not have to worry too much

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about those summer months. Uh, CTE teachers, uh, and we do get extra funding for, um, classes that are approved by the state with certified CTE teachers. >> And CTE stands for >> U career teched.

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>> Thank you. Um, so that would be uh what we used to call shop classes, home classes, business classes, career checked classes. Um, if a teacher is licensed for that and it's an approved course, they can receive up to $1,500

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per year for their programs and then they get a core ratio depending on the number of classes that are that they're licensed for with that CTE specific license. Um, we removed the stipen for tenure.

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So, when teachers attain tenure, they used to receive a $600 stipen that has been removed from the contract. Uh, in professional leave, all teachers receive two days of professional leave per year.

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Um, and four per contract. It used to be that if you were a brand new teacher, you only received one day of professional leave per year, but um we changed that so that they received two just like every other teacher. Felt that uh new teachers might need that extra

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training as well as everybody else. Uh special education due process. Special ed teachers may use up to four hours of paid time to work on due process requirements. And that can either be during the school day with a

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substitute or they can do that um outside of the school day or uh and receive payment for that for up to four hours per trimester. It used to be that the Benton Sterns special education uh cooperative would provide up to four

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hours per trimester for um special ed teachers to work on due process. They ended that this year. So, this is replacing what was in place up until this year for Bent. Uh, they also will receive up to uh 4 hours of extra paid

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planning time uh before the school begins, before the school year begins, before student contact begins. Um, we removed the optional professional development day for teachers. In past years, there would be an additional uh

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staff development day at the beginning of the school year for teachers could uh attend if they chose to and they would get paid $300 per for that day for each for each of those that attended. We have removed that from the contract as a

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cost-saving benefit as well. Uh retirement health retirement health insurance benefit was reduced from attaining that at after 20 years. they can receive that after 15 years of service in the district. We have a memor

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memorandum of understanding for this school year um and for this actually for the year for this school year. Uh so that and through through December 26 through December

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this year so that um with the new Minnesota paid family leave the costs are um paid for by the district and for the employee half and half and that is um going to that's we

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agreed to continue that for the entire year. So, um that was not that's something that we agreed to immediately. That's what we what the state has offered for us. Um

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uh wages, our year one wages, which is the 2526 school year, the teachers increase will receive a 2.1% increase. And next year in the 2627 school year, they'll receive a 2% increase. their

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insurance will will increase 0% this school year and then next year they have a contribution of $9,500 for single plan for one uh for a single or for family plan up to

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21,525 from the district. Uh continuing with the married teachers receive paid in full the $3,400 deductible family plan or to singles with a $1,500.

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>> And and to clarify for anyone not saying that teachers they have to be married and you mean teachers >> two teachers that are married within district. >> Yeah. Yeah, I just want to thank you for that. Thank you for that. >> I was just like, oh, >> then there's also um some said um this

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the teachers that are currently hired have that option, but moving forward new hire new hired teachers won't have that option. Our total cost percentage over two years is 6.707%. And that includes the wages, that

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includes all increases of everything. um over the two-year contract. >> Thank you to the teachers union and everybody on the committee for the hard work. I know it wasn't an easy task to do to finish this. So, we appreciate

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that. Can we get >> and I recommend that the board approve this? I >> I'll say as one of the committee members, I've never been on this particular committee before, but it was it felt very collaborative. Uh that's my impression of it. that I can't speak for everyone, but it felt like a very

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collaborative environment. A lot of those language things really comes out of like, hey, something's a little wonky for one end or the other, either, you know, the district end or the teacher end and really trying to figure out like what the real issue is and trying to uh

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solve problems. Uh I feel like I learn a lot uh as a board member from the negotiations as well that you really get to see um how the sausage is made in a different way. So I I I want to say thank you too because I I I came out of

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it. Everything was always very friendly. There was never any any kind of you know sometimes you think about like there's drama or somebody would negotiate. It didn't feel like that at all and everyone it was very cordial and friendly and Sharon always had really good brownies. So

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I I I think it was a good experience. >> I'll take Oh, sorry. I want to thank the FUEE negotiation team, the district team. Uh special thanks to Dan Kelly, Ryan Feders, and Todd for all the

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information and keeping us on track. We we really had the information we needed. Um I wanted to thank Tiffany, our mediator, and to each and everyone who sat at the negotiation table. We had a job to do.

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It was done with knowledge, consideration, common sense, respect, and I think it puts students first. Thank you. >> Yeah. Again, thank you to Kelly and Ryan. I mean, uh, the things they do

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with spreadsheets are amazing to me. I don't understand it, but they were on top of everything. And Kelly has to she's the one that actually goes through the contract line by line to make sure all the changes and everything are there after we're all done. And she does not with all of it. So I want to say thank

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you to Kelly because that is a lot of hard work and a lot of very uh finite detail and everything too. Just very I I couldn't imagine being that detail oriented. So thank you.

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Anybody else have anything? Motion to approve. >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> Second. >> Motion was made by Patrick and a second by Sharon. All members in favor? I >> I >> um depository account for community

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giving scholarships for family initiated scholarship fund which will be managed by the community giving um to ensure professional investment and fiduciary oversight. This um partnership allows for structured scholarship administration

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uh or an acorn fund approach to supporting student goals while supporting or while offering a 501c3 structure for donations. >> Uh you know we had a a large donation

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that that the donor wanted this money to go towards a scholarship. So, um, Ryan worked with and created a way to make that happen. The business office certainly did had a lot of uh, help from folks at the high

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school as well as uh, secretaries and Bridget Larson as well who assistant finance director. So, make sure that they're all recognized. They did a really great job. So this this allows the um the funds to be um to be

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monitored appropriately. We all the checks and balances are there for a scholarship as they should be and we'll be able to provide that money to scholarships as >> ultimately this is normally how you

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would go about if we got a big donation for a scholarship. Normally families would take care of that like other or go different ways. I mean, if you get a donation directly to the school, >> then we're obligated to take it upon

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ourselves to manage it. >> There there are different ways in which you can Yes, there are different ways in which you can do it. you can have as much hands on, but really the the purpose here is finding out what the family wants the money to go towards if they do a specific u if it's a specific

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um or targeted need that they want to address or if they leave it general then there's more we have more say in it but uh you know you can have as little or as much um say in the investment of the monies as well but uh you can do just about anything under

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>> so because this is a 501c3 three. Uh, is this something that more donations in the future can be made towards and that's in a tax deduction deductible charity for others to donate to? >> Yeah. Um, I'm not an expert on the

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donations itself. Like I could find more information on that. >> I'm just curious. But yeah, I mean a lot of Yeah, as as you said, you know, a lot of districts use this format, you know, going through, but we could certainly look into that and see what else is possible.

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>> I was just curious if this is something like money is finite obviously. So, I was just curious if this is something that will be added to or if this is through for the life of the donation. >> I think I don't know all the details. I'm not sure if Joel or those folks have

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I'm not I feel like this was just a one full time. >> So, this is an endowment that was set aside that should generate or will generate a scholarship in perpetuity in a set amount based on um investment of this company. >> So, if other people wanted to start

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their own endowment, they could use this means um and we found this because a few of our scholarships that are awarded were some families invested. they used this company and that's how we got got in touch with them. We called one of our local

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financial people and said how do we do this and we said talk so it should be set up we believe as an endowment for the providers scholarship forever >> cool awesome

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>> Mr. Will this scholarship be given away this year? >> It will not be given away this year because of the house just got invested. >> Yeah. >> You need to regain the interest and whatnot to generate that. >> Thank you. I'll take a motion to accept.

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>> I like a motion to approve. >> Second. Second. Motion was made by Nathan, a seconded by Stephanie. All members in favor >> I. >> Um policy requiring review discussion first reading and call for public

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comment of the following policy. Policy 305 policy implementation. Should I go through all of them or should we just talk about each one first? >> Well, so the policy committee has not met on these yet, >> right? We're we're going to try

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something a little different um this time because what what usually happens with our cycle is we meet at the beginning of it where you know we like okay we went through these policies and then we got public comment for this time and by the time uh we're going to meet again the public comment has come and

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gone and so is the passing. So we are trying to kind of meet in the middle of the cycle >> so that if there is any public comment there's things we could look for and and ask questions about at that meeting. So, is there public comment on policy

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implementation policy 305? >> Oh, and when we say public comment, we mean public comment by the board. >> Okay. Just making sure >> or that they can speak on. Okay. >> Anybody have anything?

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Policy 404, employment background checks. And much of this is things that just have to be updated perspectives. >> Policy 506, student discipline. Policy 515,

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protection and privacy of pupil records. Policy 610, field trips. Policy 707, transportation and public school students. policy 709, student transportation and

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safety policy. Any comments on any of those? >> I can make some a comment about the student transportation safety policy if you'd like. Uh we have our current policy which is on our district website

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is you know it was it refers to so for consequences for misbehavior on the bus. It discusses the looking at the student handbook which does address that specifically.

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Whereas the one that is up consideration has very specific um rules and regulations and consequences that are on the policy itself. So this will be something that the policy committee can review and decide if they want to change where

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where they're referring to and so forth. After I looked at it, I think my recommendations is definitely going with what the school board association has on theirs. It's it's firm and it's we need to start supporting our bus drivers and

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making sure that kids and families understand that it's a privilege to ride the bus. It's not a right and if you don't know how to behave on the bus, then you shouldn't be on the bus. And it's I think we need to get to that point. And so >> and typically we try not to deviate too

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much I think from MSBA model policies. So you know anytime we can be make sure we're in align with that. It's they make those policies obviously they are the FDR experts legally as well uh not just school but they are legal experts when

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they write those policies. >> Any other comments or discussion items for that? Okay. policy are policies requiring review, discussion, action, third and final reading and call for public comment of the following policies.

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Policy 410, family and medical policy. Policy 625, responsible use of artificial intelligence. Policy 701, establishment and adoption of the school district budget. Policy 712, video

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recording and other than on the bus. Policy 530, immunization uh requirements. Policy 615, testing accommodation modifications exemptions for IEPs, section 504 plans and leap students. Policy 515, protection and

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privacy of pupil records. >> Uh few months ago, the policy committee met, we went through these. Um, can we recommend the approval of the the updated versions?

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>> Comments from anybody. >> We'll take a motion to approve the policies. >> Motion to approve. >> I'll second. >> Motion was made by Patrick and second by Nathan. All members in favor? >> I.

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>> Budget and enrollment. Ryan, it's up to you now. >> Well, good evening. Thank you very much. I'm Ryan Feder, the business manager here at the district. And so, the very small numbers uh up here, what we have is are the latest student counts

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as of the start of May is what we're looking at. And so, overall, I would say we're holding pretty stable uh with enrollment uh throughout the district. But in looking at the elementary school, uh we did add one this month. um

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kindergarten, first uh and second grade all were stay or break even. Uh the same amount of students we added one to the third grade uh for a total of 523 students in the elementary school. Uh and then in the intermediate school we

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added one overall from uh 771 to 772 students. And it looks like we gained one in fourth grade uh one we lost one in fifth grade. We lost one in seventh grade and uh we kept everybody uh here

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in the eighth grade. And then looking at the high school, we uh one student uh decreased here in the total count and it looks like that was in 11th grade. So all the other uh the

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other grades holding the same count of students for a total of 558. We add up all three schools. uh that's approximately 1853 students and then when we uh apply the reductions due to PSO and the ALC

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uh we had total actual district count of 1,800 and 3.32 and again we have partial student counts that's not really partial kids partial student counts. So that's our enrollment

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update. Any questions on that? >> No, we've we've talked a lot about enrollment obviously just as we talk about signing to the district and I think it's really hard to see up there. Obviously, we have copies here. If we look at where we started the school year

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at September or our our total uh our actual that that was um 1836 >> 1836, right? And here we are in 1803. So we've been talking about decreasing

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enrollment. This is this is the school year, right? So it's very you can really see it here. The decre the you know number of kids goes down um throughout the year. Um I mean numbers are always going to change throughout here but I mean this

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is it's like a classroom when we talk about you know 30 kids that's that's like a very full classroom. Um and of course that's always going to have budget impacts. So, we all have been, I know, thinking about all the cuts and whatnot that had to be made and uh we can see that this is this is one piece

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of that puzzle. Um there's many others, but I I just want to take a moment to recognize that. >> Yes. And so, it's important we want to educate as many many children as we can and all of those counts translate into

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dollars for the district too in terms of revenue. But then for the budget update. So tonight I'm here asked to speak on the update as of April 30th, 2026.

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So overall, the district's financial position remains relatively stable compared to the revised budget projections as we continue to move forward to the end of the fiscal year. Uh starting with the general fund, um the revised budget projects

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approximately 26.5 million in total revenues uh with you see it's approximately 19.3 uh million received through April 30th for about 72.9% of budget revenues. Uh

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the state revenues continue to track consistently with prior years at approximately 74.8%. 8% received to date. Property tax revenues are currently at 57.3% received through April. Uh and as a

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reminder, property tax collections uh in Minnesota are time dependent. So local revenues uh including fees and interest earnings are currently performing ahead of prior year pacing at approximately 85.9%

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of the budget received. Then on the expenditure side, uh revised general fund expenditures are projected at approximately 26.2 million with approximately 19.7 million expended through April uh or approximately 75.3%

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of the revised budget. Salary and benefits uh which make up the majority of the cost of the district are tracking in line with expectations at this point year approximately 70% uh to 73% of the budget. Purchase services are currently

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at approximately 89.6% of the budget while supplies are a bit higher uh than projections at approximately 100.4%. Uh and we'll continue to monitor those areas uh through the remainder of the school year. So looking at the other

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district funds, we have food service revenues and expenditures that are both tracking near their expected levels uh approximately 70 to 72% of the revised budget. Uh community ed activity is generally in line with expectations.

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Construction activity remains significant this year. That's I believe we're picking up and may hear something about that later. Um with approximately 5.8 8 million in expenditures recorded through April with our ongoing indoor air quality projects. Uh and then debt

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service expenditures are substantially. So they're basically we've paid all the debt service that we paid for this year. Um and then districtwide across all funds, the total revised budget revenues are projected at approximately 32.9 million and the total revised

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expenditures are approximately 38.6 6 million and through April 30th we've recorded 23.3 million in revenues and 30.2 million in expenditures across all things.

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So as always these numbers are going to fluctuate but we're going to even tighten or excuse me tighten further as we approach the end of the year end of the fiscal year but we'll continue to monitor the progress of uh of the fiscal health of the district.

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Does anybody have any questions for Ryan? >> Thanks, Ryan. >> Administrator information and reports. >> Mr. Claus, >> um with the end of the year coming with

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graduation May 30, 7:30, um I'm planning on all seven board members, unless I hear differently. Um, board members, if you can be there about 710 so we can be ready to start at 7:30. And Alyssa, you are from what I understand board comments. Is that correct? Yeah. I just

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want to make sure that I have all the information correct otherwise um you coming soon. >> Mr. Whitmer. >> Yeah, I've got two things. Um, first thing I had in my board report, but I want to highlight too, was on, uh, May 1st, uh, Friday, we had our day of

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kindness where our students, uh, 4 through8 figure out, um, doing acts of kindness. So, some of that for older students was engaging with our community, um, helping some of the local businesses, cleaning up shops, or even some of the spring cleaning out in the yard for some of the businesses, too. Um, all the way down to some of our

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fourth graders were writing positive messages on the rocks. um was a great way to showcase just some of those um acts of kindness and community engagement that we have here in our Foley community. So, I want to take a second to highlight that. Um the last thing is I do have um quite a few spring coaches in my building as well. So, I do

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want to just give a big shout out to all of our spring coaches. Um I know all the time and dedication that that takes. So, thank you for all of our spring coaches for everything that you do. Mr. >> Just a quick update. Um my written update, the annual fitness test. um has

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the date this Friday the 22nd. That has been moved to Wednesday. Um so business this Wednesday, not Friday, the elementary. >> Eric, you over there? >> Yes. I will congratulate our softball team who as of about a half an hour ago

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won their playoff game one to zero over Pillinger tonight. Um congratulations to Laney Hill who had 19 strikeouts. Wow, that's awesome. >> Paul, >> uh, let the games begin

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next week. Not this week, but next week we'll be, uh, really digging into everything. We got five more comics boxes coming, moving all our furniture. We're going to try to What are we going to try to do it with a bunch of kids in 20 minutes?

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We'll see what we can do. So, all that starts next week. So, it'll get really busy. So, but uh I'll try to update people during the course of the summer with videos and stuff of how things look or don't look or you know

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looks um the band room start to look like a haunted house. Everything's hanging all the wires and everything. And it's all um just to kind of have people see what a construction project is like. questions.

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>> So, as uh we've been talking about our summer our budgeting for next year, we have some things that are listed there, some updates. Um, so we're going to make some changes there to try to help make those um help make a difference for our

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next year's budget as was um planned with our finance committee. Uh, our indoor air quality project has begun as as Mr. Jacobs just discussed and uh the contract negotiations. Um, I just kind

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of went through some of that. Uh thank you to the teachers and all the other unions that we've negotiated with already and then uh we look forward to negotiations with um the next groups transportation principles and then

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individual contracts as well. So we still have a long way to go but we're coming along and uh things are progressing. So >> thanks for all the hard work everyone's been putting in. Thank you. Committee reports.

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We literally just had a Dex committee meeting um before at 4:00 today. Um >> Joel, do you want to go over what we went over? Do you have your agenda? >> Sure. Um we talked a little bit about the gifted and talented program, how

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students are identified and um how teachers and gifted and talented work together to differentiate students. We talked about the Stanford response protocol which is um what used to be known as the Alice or the lockdown where we've got different levels. We've got

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whole tiers. We talked about some of that and how teachers will get more training in August and students will get more training in September. We talked about our curriculum cycle and how we need to um do some updating on that. Um

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some of the last major updates have been a number of years. We need to look at that so that we can make the cycle a little more user friendly and work better for everyone involved. And then MCA testing finished last week. Um

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the scores have not been released yet. The reading scores won't come out until late August or early September. We should be getting math and science scores fairly soon. These preliminary scores, but not the score that we shared with the public until

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we do have an update on that. That >> um sure we uh veterans education uh cooperative has found the building that they are looking uh to move into probably

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well they've talked about maybe in January of 27 but it more likely will take another year to get us there but um it will um it's a building that is currently owned by central care for

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being used for offices. It will have to be renovated dramatically um and updated. And so this week the board for the Benton Sterns special ed co-op will meet and talk about that to

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reform and um look for an update coming in the future more specific information from from the co-op. >> A long time coming for that. Where is Where is the building?

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>> Well, for those of you that have been around for a while, it's the old women's and children building. >> There's still things to go through. >> Hope to be able to get out of the old building. They do have some

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all the challenging things. building and grounds. >> Yes, we did. Um reviewed uh the projects that we would like to move forward with starting the summer over for next school year, over

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for the next year's budget. and um we're able to move forward with quite a few things with food service uh as well cafers and so forth. So I don't have those for you here. We have a couple things to verify to

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make sure and ensure for food service funding that continued quite yet. >> The finance committee not right now or >> okay health and safety >> we haven't met but we do have a meeting

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this Wednesday. >> Okay. The insurance committee meets next week Monday or Tuesday. >> Tuesday at 3:30. So MSBA has not met. Minnesota State High School League has

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not met. The policy committee will be meeting. >> We'll be setting up a meeting. Yeah. So if anyone on the board wants to get any comments or anything to us about policies that we introduced tonight at the first reading, that would be really helpful for when we're going through

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that. tenure and contract negotiations. That was just >> to meet the teachers that are reviewing the tenure and the progress that our new teachers are doing. >> That was a really good meeting, too.

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It's really cool to see um our newer team members um as they're as they're going through and and becoming more and more part of our system, our district. opportunity for the board members

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comment. Wayne, >> Stephanie, >> Patrick. >> Well, I want to admit we're not quite there yet. We have seven days technically till the students are gone, but congratulations to Mr. Post Humus and Mr. Whitmer on their first year with

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us. Um, it's been a lot of work, I know, for you guys. So, congratulations. Uh, your first year is a big deal. Um, hey, come out to graduation. Uh, it'll probably be hot and humid in the gym and

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all that, but you know, it's always a good time. Looking forward to Alyssa's remarks. And, um, this is something that's just kind of been in my head a lot uh, as we've been talking about obviously the finances a lot, you know,

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negotiations and budget reductions and things like that. And a lot of times people say, "Well, I know the school's a business or treat it like a business, but I I think that's not always an apt comparison." And um you know, it's like in a business, a business can do a lot of different things with finances that

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we can't do. You know, they can raise prices, but we don't raise prices. Um they can change their inventory. Uh we can't really do a lot of the inventory change. You know, we don't have a we don't have a widget these sells. Um and so and and and the the third big

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difference between us and a business, a school to business is obviously profit motives. We don't have a profit motive. Um, so I I I just want to, you know, as I think about this, I think a little shift in thinking sometimes and you see that it's more about utilizing resources

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than in in a different way than the business does. We're we are, you know, trying to have a profit to expand our business to or or things like that. We're we're we kind of we get our funding through the states for the most

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part, you know, through taxes. It's a it's it's a fixed income in in a lot of ways. Um and it's about it's more about stewardship of resources. And I think um as I kind of been thinking about it, I think we've seen some really good

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stewardship of resources this year. Um and so I want to say thank you for that. >> Sharon, well there's a lot going on. There's concerts um seventh and eighth grade band. Um, everybody has that

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second concert of the year and they've been good. Um, attended the students of excellence given by resource training and solution. Um, that's where we get a chance to celebrate the best of the best. Um, very

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unique situation. Um, prom was beautiful and it success. Um, I attended the FFA banquet. um which was um very interesting and the unity prom um this was a very special

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experience. Um we made great use of our um our gym, our food service events. Um lot lots of fun and a a tremendous amount of support by community, parents,

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grandparents. It was it was just good. Um, I attended the staff um, appreciation events. Again, our food service shined and it was um, just an opportunity to thank our um, our

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staff. Um, I'll just say thank you and just fun. Um, I want to thank all who worked on the AD selection interviews. Um, and last night was our night of excellence. I would have to say it was efficient,

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timely, and a chance to celebrate the athletics and arts. Had a great chair. Um, uh, we have we have a lot going on in the next few weeks. Um, stay tuned. Uh, things are starting to come

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together. And I want to thank our resigning coaches for their great work. Uh, Emma Boss, our head swim coach, Becky Raspersonson, our head track coach, Maria Zmp, our junior volleyball coach, and Marissa Spitzka, the

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assistant dance coach. Our program grew and shine under the guidance of these people. Next, I want to thank Andrea Palowski uh for her work as a FHS social teacher. I saw this um young lady come into the

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district as a young teacher. She leaves us as a master teacher. Um she was a driving force in our Minnesota Honor Society and it was always a pleasure to work with her and and her results always

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made us and the students shine. Um best to her in her future endeavors. Leah Oaks. Um, again, thanks for your good work. And she's going on to be um an an administrator.

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Good luck to her. And as Amber Nelson leaves us as an EA, um, she's going to put on a teaching hat. So, thanks to all those people and exciting to see all the

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changes happening. Thank you. Congratulations to Dan Harrod and his future endeavors and he has resigned. He's been such a great great teacher for the last many years. So wish him the very best.

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I hate to go after Sharon because she have list and I'm like well I guess Sharon said it all. Soar. >> Yes. Thank you for >> start >> for making sure that everybody was I

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appreciate that. Um I do want to just do a special shout out to all the coaches um last night for coming in and honoring our kids. Eric for planning it and Corey for all your hard work. I it was a great night. Um and yeah, the chairs were great, too. So, thanks to all the people

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that donated to make sure we had those cushy chairs cuz I would have brought my own to sit back on the bleachers. So, I wouldn't I heard the last years weren't as great. So, meeting events and notices. Um, not this not include um scheduled events. Um,

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please visit the calendar and or visit the website. Um, on May 28th, we celebrate our last day of school. So, thank you to all who have done a lot for our students this year. Um, May 29th, the last teacher day. Um May 30th is

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high school graduation in the um high school gym at 7:30, followed by the senior walk-in. And then our next regular board meeting is on the June 22nd. Um, right here where we are.

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Take a motion to adjourn. Motion to move a motion. Second members. >> I thank you.