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DM, please rise 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

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justice for all. >> Before we start the meeting, I just wanted to take a few seconds to recognize Brian and his last name. So on behalf of the school board, thank you for your leadership, your dedication, and we just wish you

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the best. So thank you very much. >> If anybody else wants to say something, >> just thank you for all your years. >> Yeah. Well, I thank you all for giving me a chance as principal 15 years ago and

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then as superintendent forwards. Been a great 15 years here for my family as well. >> Thank you for your leadership, Ryan. All right, so now we will move on to roll call. Dave, any questions? >> All right.

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>> All right, then we're looking for agenda approval. Does anyone have any additions or corrections to the board agenda? >> I had two additions. Uh, one just added a name to the bus driver list. Um, and then I added something to Jaguar Pride

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today as well. >> All right. So, we have an agenda. Is there a motion to approve the agenda? I'll make a motion. All right. There's a motion. Is there a second? All right. There's a motion and a second. Is there any discussion?

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All in favor say I. Opposed. Motion passes 70. All right. Next up is open forum. Rules for open forum. 3 minutes per speaker. Open forum shall not last more than a total of 15 minutes. No complaints about individual staff

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members, about students or about other persons are permitted. All presenters will conduct their business in a manner that meets community standards for decorum. The board will not take action on items presented in an open forum. Brian, did anyone sign up? No.

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>> Did anyone wish to speak? All right. And we will move on to insurance presentation from Gabe Cessna with Town and Country Insurance. Go ahead, Gabe. >> Thanks, Heather. >> Yeah. >> Um, overall very quiet. We're starting to see from the commercial sector, the

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market kind of flatten out a little bit, which is quite nice because we've seen some years of volatility overall. Um, with that being said, uh, we've had a nice kicker with, uh, the experience modification goes from a 0.95 credit to a 0.90, which you can see from the the

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work comp, the the credit itself is almost $9,000. So, um, I think I've explained it before, but what a credit means is we're better than average when it comes to the safety and of the faculty itself within the state of Minnesota. We're we're above average.

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1.00 00 or unity is what you call average. So that's why we get a nice little credit um from the state of Minnesota and from SFM, our top carrier. So um we hope to see markets continue to be steady, but um I'm sure as you guys

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have reviewed the uh the overall numbers. Um I did figure out if we were not to have 4.0 contracted, we were down 1%. Um, as far as overall premium going into this renewal term, which is great to see. Um,

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as far as with with respect to the premium as we have the change with 4.0, um, we are looking at uh roughly $50,000 decrease. um which will also be probably I have to guess between $15 and $17,000 more because we

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need to consider three important lines of coverage when we're removing uh payroll. We're removing autos and the umbrella policy. So those three policies we're going to see a drastic uh reduction in premium dollars uh because our overall risk has dropped considerably. We've mitigated and passed

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down the risk. So, um, by doing that, what we ended up doing, um, we had deductibles at $3,000 for all the buses and all the vehicles. I did tell EMC, "Hey, let's drop this down to $1,000 for the three units we now have moving

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forward effective July 15th." Um, so that's kind of it in a nutshell. Um, we will get the final numbers on the work comp. We'll get that updated tomorrow for July 15th. Um, and that's about it. Very quiet,

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which is good to see you again. >> Does anyone have any questions for Gabe? >> Well, thank you, Gabe, very much. But, um, we are looking for an approval then. Um, so I'm looking for a motion to approve the proposed insurance as Gabe

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has presented. >> Okay, there's a motion. Is there a second? >> A second. >> All right, there's a motion and a second. Is there any discussion? All in favor say I. >> Opposed. >> Motion passes 70. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you.

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>> Thanks. Have a good day. >> I almost forgot the action. All right. So then we'll move on to the consent agenda. Does anyone need anything pulled from the consent agenda and placed later in the agenda for further discussion? >> Brian, did you add anything since

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Friday? >> Nope. Uh, yep. just sorry the one bus driver under the termination for the bus drivers um did add number eight. >> Okay. >> And he just had been missed. >> Okay. >> All right. So, we're looking for a

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motion to approve the consent agenda. >> We'll make a motion. >> All right. There's a motion. Is there a second? >> Second. >> All right. There's a motion and a second. Any discussion? All in favor say I. I. Opposed. >> Motion passes. 70.

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All right. And then we are on to the bill. No. >> Yep. >> The bills. Okay. The next item is the bills. If you have questions on the bills, please state the page number and bill number. Does anyone have any questions?

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>> Okay. Then I'm looking for a motion to pay the bills. >> I'll move that. >> There's a motion. Is there a second? >> Motion second. >> There's a motion and a second. Is there any discussion? All in favor say I.

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>> Opposed. Motion passes 70. All right, we'll move right into this the reports and we'll start with the superintendent report. Go ahead, Brian. >> Mine is short. Um biggest one just because we're coming to the end of June.

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Um, I did attach the board compensation list. So, if you have not been paid for anything on that list, please get that in to me or to Bridget ASAP cuz it would need to be on this fiscal year. So, um, I also have a link in there to a claim

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form if you need be. And then, um, now 16 years in a row, we'll be offering students in assurance insurance to families. Does not cost the district anything. Um, and we do not receive kickbacks, but it is something that we do offer our families as as some of them

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do not have insurance. So, just an update. We'll continue that. It's we probably only have a handful that do that every year, but still something good I think the district does to offer some insurance, especially uh for some of our athletes who are going into sports and and don't have insurance. So,

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that is all I have this morning. >> Does anybody have any questions for Diane? >> I got one. Brian, did anything get decided about that land that Fenderson that the city asked us? >> I have not heard my I have not heard from most of you all. So my thought if

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you all wanted would be to put that on the July agenda and I can let Mr. McNelte know kind of what the proposal was. I actually thought they were going to come here and talk about it again but they're not here. But I can put it on

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July either as a discussion or an action. Um I know they wanted to get an answer sooner than later, but that way you guys can talk about it publicly and decide. >> And where exactly is that land? I guess I >> it's right before

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>> on the other side of the tennis courts. >> Oh, okay. Okay. Thank you. >> Any other questions for Brian? All right. Thank you, Brian. >> Yep. >> We will move on to the high school principal report. Mr. Latimore.

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>> Good evening, everybody. Uh so I'll start off with graduation. We had that on May 29th. Uh we had 68 students graduated, 57 from the high school, 11 from Empower. Uh we've got three moving to transition program, which is our 18

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to 22 year old program that's housed in our school. Um we had two students who did not graduate. They are actually we've got them set up for um either transition or doing some super senior work next year. Uh and then this year we

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had uh seven foreign exchange students that participate in graduation. Uh they participate in it. They don't get a diploma or anything like that. They just had the opportunity to participate. So, um it was good to see all them there. And I didn't mess up too many of their names. So, I'm proud of that. Uh summer

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school starts uh next Monday already a week from today. Uh we'll have it the 15th through the 25th, Monday through Thursday. Uh 8:00 a.m. to 11:30. Uh we serve breakfast uh and lunch to our students. Um it's credit recovery for uh

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9 through I guess 9 through 12 uh 9 through 11 credit recovery. Uh any failed classes this year, uh they'll receive a letter from Miss Hardle. I've got information going out on Remind this week as well. Now, we've got transportation set up. Um, and then

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seventh to eighth grade, it's optional. I don't think we have any right now signed up to do it for seventh and eighth grade. Uh, handbooks. Uh, the handbook, working on that, meeting with some of the building leadership team tomorrow morning to go over some, uh,

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details in that to see what changes or things we need to do moving forward to get some input. I did send out the survey to our this year's juniors uh for not surveys but the form to see who would be interested. Uh and so I

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think we got two uh great student schoolboard members for next year uh David Wes and some guy named Noah. I don't know how Noah Hickle. So uh we're we're happy to have them. I met with both of them last

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week of school. Let them know what's going on. I think they're going to be here in August so we can meet them then uh and then just gave them some ideas about what to do, what to expect and go from there. So excited to have them joining us. Like I said, we got building leadership team uh tomorrow morning.

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Then summer school behavior data for May uh is the next one. Uh again, we're hitting those monthly uh targets 88% 0 to 1 uh 10.2 10.3 2 to 5 and then 1.4

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four um six plus referrals uh for the month. So again, we're looking at 85 um sorry 80 15 and five is kind of that target range that we're looking for uh for the health of it. So we're doing

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well in that regards. Um I did do the year-over-year um between last school year and this school year. uh we did see a decrease in referrals by 141 which is about a 7% decrease in major minor referrals from

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last year to this year. So if I did my math right somebody can check me. I did talk to a math guy about it so hopefully I'm running. So um so that's what I have. Any questions? >> All right. >> Thank you everybody.

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>> Thank you Joe. and then we will move on to our elementary principal, Mrs. Skullard. >> Good evening. Um, I too will be bringing handbooks forward in August. Um, I spend a little time in June and early August just kind of looking over them over. I

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don't anticipate much changes. They'll schedule change a little bit. Um, I think we do a pretty good job of following our handbook in regards to um any type of discipline, but I'll look that over to ensure we have everything correct. Uh, master schedule changes.

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Uh, our biggest change this year will be the bell schedule. Uh, we are going to bring our elementary kids in in Hinckley at 7:55 versus 7:45. Um, that means the high school kids will get dropped off first and then our elementary kids will

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come in. Um, that also means we're going to get picked up after the high school. Um, we had a couple meetings with bus drivers here at the end of the year. They're very excited to have less time with the little kids on the bus. Um, it just it's a lot of downtime and them

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sitting and waiting and they generally find something to do and it's not very constructive. So, um, they're excited about that. Um, the one thing I'm waiting for Bruce to do is just kind of figure out how that affects Thin Listen. Right now, he's working on summer school

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transportation. So, I want to wait to see how that's going to fall into place for fees. I imagine I'm hoping to push that time back a little bit as well. Um, but I need to make sure the buses are going to work. Um, as far as posting, right now we have

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um, speech and language pathologist open and I changed that cuz we have a band director, but we do need a choir director still. So, uh, some of the things that I'm working on over the summer um, our K2 ELA will be using um, what's called UFly

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this year in addition to Amplify. So, I really want to spend some time identifying what the ELA blocks will look like moving forward. there's uh components in ELA amplified skills that we want to keep, but how do we balance that 30 minutes of uh UFly as well as

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what we're going to take from skills? So, uh that will be much of my June developing that ELA block. Um and then our other big thing is identifying where our PD lies without our Wednesday early release and make sure we get all of that in. So,

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um, fourth quarter for, um, Hankley Elementary was our reward day was we had Ninja Anywhere come in. Um, really really fun to see the kids out there trying something new, uh, even if they couldn't do it the first time. Um, their their, uh, slogan is try again and again

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and again and they did. Uh, we had kids with blisters on their hands and they just they were going for it. Uh, so it was it was really fun to see. We had 86 of 86% of our kids who were able to partake in that fund that day. So Joe talked a little bit about summer school.

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We have about 70ish elementary kids going between um K6 as well as ESY, which is extended school year for students who are served by an IEP or special ed services uh that will come in and work specifically on their goals.

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You'll see another change there that's highlighted in yellow. Kelsey Heman um will be getting an out of field permission form to teach ESY or special ed during the summer. And there's our other teachers. Um

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we had our fastbridge data there. Um some good growth and then some areas of concern as well. So we take a look at our both our proficiency and our growth and we can go over any questions that you might have.

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Um, we had sixth grade graduation this year at Hinckley Elementary versus the Fine Arts Center. It worked out just fine. Um, it was fun to see them just be celebrated in our own building before we passed them on to the high school. It's always so it's a nice tradition that we

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started about 3 years ago and I'm really glad that we've continued with it because um they've meant a lot to our school for the last six, seven years. Oh, six, seven. Add that in before the year's over. and >> it was I mean I I don't know it's always just really fun to celebrate them. So

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that was a good day. Um looking at our behavior, we've talked about our behavior being down for the last uh few years. Uh we were right on target with where we were at last year. Um uh 82% of our kids have not received a

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referral this year. So that was pretty outstanding. Um, if you scroll down to the next one by month, and there were definitely some months we felt the the pressure. Um, no rhyme or reason, just whether it be

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more school days that we had during that particular month or, uh, overall though, we were pretty consistent with where we were at in previous years. Um, one of the best things I think we do as far as retention wise, we don't have

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we have nobody staying back this year. Uh, but we use what's called a light retention scale. Um, our our uh school sites will sit down with the families, with myself, with the teacher and just really analyze to see if retention is appropriate for some of these who are

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struggling a little bit. Um, and it was deemed not necessary for the few that we had that those conversations about. So, it's exciting to to see them moving on and just knowing that we can provide those additional supports as they move forward.

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They were ready for summer and so am I. Uh, and my very last thing is just a thank you to you guys for the continued support throughout the school year. So, appreciate that. >> Does anyone have any questions for Bonnie?

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>> No, I just had a comment. So, I did talk with a parent. um a first grader. So, I wanted to give kudos because she said her stu her child at the end of first grade was reading at a fourth grade level. So, that was pretty exciting. >> That's awesome. >> The growth in first grade.

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>> Yeah. Thank you for sharing that cuz I know our teachers celebrate um them like crazy when they when they grow if it's this much or or that much. And it sounded like that class there was a significant growth within that entire

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majority of that class. >> So she just said it was really awesome to see. >> One of the things we did in first grade specifically is we started using UFly >> probably the last month month and a half. So we had a good six weeks of um

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and what we're seeing with UFly is it's very um explicit instruction, very direct instruction. So, they're getting a lot of that mastery versus just kind of exposure. Um, so I'm super excited to see kind of where this can go with you in K2. So,

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>> yeah, >> thank you for sharing that. >> You're welcome. My sister, I'm pretty sure so she's a first grade teacher and I'm pretty sure that's what she's using and she's really liked it. >> Nice. >> Seems to be a good good product and a lot of their stuff is free. So,

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>> better. >> I do have one question too. Um, is third grade being something different with math or what is um, >> they have that 90% that just stands out so much from the rest. >> Oddly enough, they're doing stuff

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different, but it's not consistent across the grade level. Um, one classroom uses their morning work time. Um, I want to say drill and kill, but it's it's it's a lot of mastery type of work. Um, another classroom uses EXL a

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lot and we see a lot of growth from that. Um, actually Jonathan Horbach and I were just talking today that we need to look at our data from EXL because there are a lot of grades that use it and we do see a lot of growth with EXL. Um, also aligns with Bridges as well as

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Amplify. Uh, so it's the curriculum that we're using in our classroom. So they're getting more exposure with it. So uh, yes, amazing growth in third grade in math. one attributed to bridges and the other said I think it was. So, um

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they're getting it but we're seeing that growth across the board really with map uh with bridges being our second year of full implementation. Great. >> Any other questions or comments for Bonnie?

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>> Thank you, Bonnie. Thank you. Then we will move on to board committees. Would any members like to present from their committees this last month? I can mine's pretty simple. So um mine

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was I was with and so um there was a presentation from the special services. There was a report and presentation. So all of the um so school psychologist they just kind of presented what they were doing in different districts.

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um went over staffing changes, financials and expenditures. Next meeting is on the 16th of June and then SCR is also looking at doing like a governance meeting in July. That's like

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from 9 to 2. >> So if you want to join >> Yeah, >> we'll do stuff. I didn't >> let me know the date >> and superintendent are invited too. So, you know, I'm sure you'll want to come and join. >> Mr. McNelte, you'll be there.

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>> Well, I had commodities, but you'll hear about that here in a little bit. Um, and then I just had graduation and I thought it went splendidly. I don't think it could have gone any smoother. Um Joe did a fantastic job. Um the student speakers

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did a fantastic job. It was it was just really a great a great day. So thank you to everybody that has a hand in making that come off cuz it was great. Um we will move on to communications.

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>> There is none. >> There is none. Okay. So then it is the budget calendar update and unfinished business. >> Just one thing under this to uh approve these two policies. Um they are unchanged from last month. If you

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remember last month the bus stop policy we you you did ask to make sure that I put in a line item that 7th through 12th graders are able to get picked up at those City of Hley stops. So that is the only change u made from last month.

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So, we're looking for approval of the policies as presented. Policy number 711, videotaping on school buses, and policy number 712, bus stop policy. Is there any questions on either of those policies?

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I'm looking for looking for a motion to approve the policies as presented. >> I'll make a motion. Okay. >> Motion in a second. All right. There's a motion and a second. Any discussion? All in favor say I. I opposed. Motion passes

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70. All right. Next up is Jaguar Pride Isaac for her appearance in the state golf tournament coming up on June 9th. So tomorrow Bank and their senior final push program. Their generosity in the community helped seniors pay fines so

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they had one less thing to worry about during graduation. Congratulations to this spring GRCL conference athletes. Track, Jacob Lions Jr., small school track MVP. Golf, Orion Miner, and Iverson Davis. Baseball, Jack Jerry,

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Carson Hopkins, Kellen Bonruden. And honorable mentions were Ethan Martin and Zach Weedenorf. Softball, Aerys Richie, Riley Scott, and Autumn Pinovich. Honorable mention was Mindy Jenkins. Thank you to all the anonymous businesses and to all the anonymous

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individuals that gave so much to our district during the 202526 school year. And thank you to the Plank family for their donation of soil to the daycare garden. We will move on to board education. >> Can can I add one more? >> Yes.

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>> I would like to have Brian Masterson for his service and dedication for 15 years to the Hershey schools. >> Great. >> Thank you. Please add. >> I will add. >> Do that. We both tear it down.

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>> No. >> What did you say? Leo, >> you want to say that again so I can >> Brian Masterson for his service and dedication to Hankley Fitness and schools for 15 years. >> Perfect. >> Okay.

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>> Thank you, Neil. All right. Now, we will move on to board education. >> Uh just keeping some terminology in front of you. Um see if there's any questions. Not you've seen this before, but just

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keeping some especially as we go through budget stuff and some of those acronyms that are used. Just wondering if there's any questions on any of the terms or acronyms. >> All right. If there's no questions, we will move on to the bid committee recommendations.

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>> So, the bid committee met and are making the following recommendations. For bakery, we only had one bid presented, which was Pana Gold, which is our current vendor. They're up about $400. So, that will be recommended. Garbage services, we only had one bid presented,

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which is Matt Sanitation. They presented the exact dollar amount that we had this school year. Um, very high satisfaction with Matt. So that will be recommended. Diesel, we had one bid presented from Curts who is also our current uh current

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what is the word >> contractor. Thank you. Um same deal 5 cents per gallon tax exempt. Um the price is whatever the pump price is. And the committee would also like to recommend that when Kurts is closed or when Kurts is busy and gas is needed or

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for the type three vehicles that we still have that slims would be used. Um, so that would be recommended. Dairy, we did have two bids. One from Prairie Farm, which did go up about $6,000. Um, but still was cheaper than the other

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bid of Kemp's, which went up uh would have gone up $13,000. So recommending uh that we go with Panagold for bakery, Matt Sanitation for garbage, Kurts for diesel, and Prairie Farm for dairy.

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Okay. Are there any questions about the bids that have been presented? >> Did we have Prairie Farms for the milk this school year? >> Yes. >> And what was the overall quality? >> Uh, very I didn't take any complaints. I think overall went very well. Sarah, our

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head cook, did say there were at times where we had some sour mouth milks here or there, but we have been reimbursed from those and Prairie Farm has been good to work with on that. I >> think we had one at the high school, then there was I think one was frozen. >> Okay. Okay. But I think that was because of us. So, >> sure.

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>> I just took maybe one or two that were like sour, whatever. >> Okay. >> Yeah. She said it was really spotty, but it wasn't anything that deterred the kid from wanting to get milk the next day. So, that's a positive. >> Yeah.

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>> Any other questions about the bids? All right. Then we are looking for a motion to accept the bids for garbage, diesel, dairy, and bakery. >> I'll make a motion. >> There's a motion. Is there a second? >> A second. >> There's a motion and then there's a

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second. Is there any discussion? All in favor say I. >> I. Opposed. >> Motion passes 70. We'll move on to expenditures. You can see where they were as of uh May 31st, which is about 91.5%

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of the budget year, and we had spent about 85% of the predicted budget. Um so still doing very well. Do know that um it catches up a little bit because many staff members, teachers specifically,

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pick 24 months of pay, meaning they get paid June, July, and August. they just divide their checks over 24 instead of over the school year. That all comes back to this fiscal year. So even though it ends June 30th, we do count July and

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August's payroll, at least teachers payroll, uh back to the current school year. But Bridget and I have have roughly calculated that as we get a little further into the agenda with the budget. Um so still happy we're doing well overall. Um, as we've talked about,

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community ed is is still high. Again, that's daycare costs. Um, and capital is high, but that was also because we spent some of our unreserved uh unreserved capital this year that we hadn't planned that we were able to do. So, that's why

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those two are higher as far as spending. But any questions on those numbers? I anticipate we will underspend unless something happens here. Sorry, Bridget. In the next 22 days.

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There isn't any questions. We'll move on to long-term facilities maintenance levy revenue for spread. >> The first one is for spread and each of the SCRred member districts will do this. Um so I'm recommending approving the resolution as SCRED has presented to

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this board. This allows us to levy aid to plan for the care of SCRED facilities, which is the SCRED building, uh the vision building, and some buildings um that we send kids to down in the southern half of the districts down in the Chisago Lakes area. Um it

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doesn't set anything tax dollar-wise. That still happens when you get to the um leveies and things like that later this uh fall and winter, but getting this in helps start planning for how they're going to take care of their facilities. So, recommending uh we pass

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the resolution to help upkeep the spread facilities. >> No, that is not that's coming out of the levy dollars. It's not extra. >> Correct. Correct. Are there any other questions about the

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spread LTFM plan? All right. If not, I'm looking for a motion to accept the SCR LT FM plan. Second. >> All right. There's a motion. Is there a second? >> Motion. >> A motion and a second. Any discussion?

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>> All in favor say I. I. Opposed. >> Motion passes. 70. We'll move on to the Minnesota State High School League resolution. >> Uh recommend approval of the resolution to be a part of the Minnesota State High School League. This is approving all

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bylaws and that the school district will not only be part of the Minnesota State High School League, but follow its bylaws and rules. So recommending continuing our relationship with the Minnesota State High School League. >> Any questions about the Minnesota State High School League resolution for

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membership? Right. If not, I'm looking for a motion to accept the Minnesota State High School League resolution for membership as presented. >> There you go. >> I'll make a motion. >> Motion and a second. Any further

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discussion? All in favor say I. >> Opposed? Motion passes. 70. Now we're on to um renewal of life insurance and Delta Dental Life Insurance. We got good news on both life

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insurance and Delta Dental uh or dental which is through Delta Dental. Uh rates stay the exact same as they are currently. So recommending approval of our life insurance rates and our dental rates through Delta Dental. Um as as we

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talked last year, Delta Dental also gives a wider network than some other places that have been for us. Um and we don't have to make any changes. So recommending staying with those two plans as the rates are the same. Are there any questions or discussion about the life insurance and dental

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quotes that have been presented? >> All right. If not, then I'm looking for a motion to accept the life insurance and dental quotes. >> I'll make the motion. >> There's a motion. Is there a second? >> Second. >> There's a motion and a second. Any discussion? All in favor say I. I.

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Opposed. >> Motion passes 70. Capital budget additions. So, we have already approved the building and facilities and technology. Um, now that the board has made its decision last

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month regarding transportation, um, we still would need to I I would recommend that you approve still putting some money aside in capital for tires for the three vehicles we have left. 5,000 may be a little high. Uh, but Bridget and I were thinking, what if all three

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vehicles needed tires? Um, or something happened. We're were driving over things. maybe we shouldn't. So, that probably is high, but maybe it's not. Um, it's heard throughout the spring that we'd like to keep the bus route software that we have so parents can see

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where buses are. We have one more year left of that contract. So, that's that second number. And the garage door does need to be replaced down at the bus garage. So, um, these are in the budget. So, if you don't approve it, Bridget and I can take them out later, but we are

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assuming and hoping that these will pass. If they don't, we will take them out of the budget. Um, but I am requesting and recommending approval of these transportation capital purchases. >> All right. Are there any questions or discussion about the capital additions

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that have been presented? >> If not, I'm looking for a motion to accept the capital additions. >> Second. There's a motion and a second. Any discussion? All in favor say I. I. Opposed. >> Motion passes. 70.

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Moving on to the long-term facilities maintenance levy revenue. >> And this one is for Hinckley Finkelson schools. Very similarly similarly to the SCRred one. Um this help we are required to put in a 10-year plan. It can change. It does change almost every year, but it

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also helps us plan for costs that could be upcoming with electrical, plumbing, sidewalks, you know, some of those facility type things. It helps us pay for our membership with resource training and solution where they help with fire coding, fire um smoke detector

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inspections, things like that. So, this funding in the expenditure spreadsheet goes to cover that. And it also helps us slowly plan for big things that could be coming up with asbestous or indoor air quality. We don't have any projected big

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projects coming. Um but this helps set a little bit aside every year. Um that ultimately then gets decided when it comes to levy season here uh in September through December. So um I'm recommending this 10-year plan. This is not set in stone. It changes every June

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or July, but this is the plan uh that we would have right now and recommending that so we can set that so the state can then start working on levy numbers for this fall. >> Are there any questions about the LTFM revenue that was presented?

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>> If not, I'm looking for a motion to accept the LTFM revenue. >> There's a motion. Is there a second? Second. >> All right, there's a motion and a second. Any discussion? All in favor say I. I. Opposed.

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>> Motion passes 70. Moving on to the 2026 27 annual. >> All right, I'm on going to open the first link first. Um, we did just go over expenditures as of May 31st.

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Bridget and I did start with an update at the top. First of all, typically for our district, by the time we get to July 1st, our revenues and um expenditures usually come out within that 1%. Um not always perfectly. Last year, last year

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we did I I expect us to be a little lower. I mean, under spending, I don't think it'll be um as close as 1%. I think it'll be a little bit more than that. Hopeful. But um typically we do come within 1% uh of what we have set

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from the year before to the end of the school year. Some could still come up, so I don't want to promise, but as of right now, it looks like we're going to do a little better than 1%. Uh Bridget and I did update just what our expenditures were as of June 4th, which

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still we're doing very well. June 4th was 92.6% of the year, and at that point we had spent 85% of our budget. Again, the biggest part from now is those teacher contracts that go through August that

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count for this fiscal year. So, Bridget and I do know roughly what that number will be. Um, we have factor that in as we start to go forward with um fund balance assumptions and things like that. We feel that we will undersspend.

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Bridget and I had a dollar amount. We did not put all that dollar amount back into our fund balance. um just thought that a would be foolish to put it all not knowing what's going to happen for the next 22 days, b to possibly give the district some cushion if need be going

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into next year. So my assumption as of June 8th would be this budget will have a little more dollars in there than what I'm presenting, but it's hard to say that 100% because there's still 22 days

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left of the fiscal year. Um I'm looking at the chart right in the middle of that first page. The blue is our uh fund balance which general unassigned. You can see where we were um as of July 1st 25 this year and Bridget has come to

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meetings and I've talked a lot about spending a lot of our reserved fund balance. It's a little higher than So what we did is we took that reserved moved it to our unassigned. So it's higher than what our audit showed, but that's because we moved some of the

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reserved money like the extra capital things we've been able to do. We had some rollover redact money um that is in there that's helping us cover some of our expenses for next year. Um, you can see what we're projecting our revenue to

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be for general ed, for food service, for community service, and for debt service. Our projected total revenue for next year is looking at 16,944,297,00 297. And then you can see what our projected expenditures are for general food

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service, community service, debt service with a total expenditure of 18,980,272. Um, which ultimately you can see where the projected balance we're projecting a year from now for the general ed. Uh, happy to report we're projecting in food

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service and in community ed um not having to pay those back. We're projecting both those to make money. The community service one is because of daycare. Um that one we can I want to talk about a little bit. That's assuming

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that all the kids keep going that are there now. That's assuming things go as planned. If that goes as well as we think it might, there could be. So typically we take money and help cover community ed. If expenses did get

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tougher during next school year, you could take that money out of community ed and put it back into general ed. You can do the same kind of transfers that we have done for years for food service and community service. You can do it the reverse as well. Hopefully not. I know

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there's been talk throughout the year about maybe putting some upgrades into daycare, things like that. This would be the the mechanism to help make that money. Um if all goes according to plan as admin has and Bridget and I have the

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ending fund balance number would be 3,610,143 which does meet our fund balance policy of 22 to 25%. It would actually be just about 22.2%. You can see um to be at exactly 22% that

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gives us about $35,000 cushion and you can see how much under we would if you if we were going to be at 23, 24 or 25%. Um before I keep going, are there questions so far? >> Does this also include things like the

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transportation for the after school sports even though it wasn't utilized as much? >> Yes. Yep. We we did put that for after school sports. We left that in there. We didn't put quite as much as last year. So for the year we're finishing, we had put about 20,000 in. We actually didn't

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spend any. Um so we reduced that not all the way to zero cuz what if we need to take buses? Yes, it has worked very well this year to get our kids to Pine City. You heard at the last meeting that you know the the hockey coach has been helpful getting kids up there. But what

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if that changes? So we didn't put the full 20,000. We put about half that in there. Um so that's in there. Yes. Um revenue projection tab is the same. Um other than special ed was the only

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thing that really changed from when I showed this to you last month. Um we're still projecting a little less than this current year in special ed. This year we had projected 2.4 million. Next year I have that in at 2.336 million. Um I do

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think if I had my crystal globe that that will be very similar to this year is special ed is where we are not losing special ed kids. Um but this is what the state has told us. So that's what we put in. But I would anticipate that number

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being um very similar to what it was this year. Um the revenue assumptions, we did build it off 751 kids. Um this year's budget was 825. We ended at about

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800 804. I do not think you're going to lose 50 students, but those of you who've been on the board for the last we have lost some the last few years. So, and since we were able to make our budget work, we wanted to keep it at 750. I do think you will be down just

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because like Mr. Latimore just said, we did just graduate 60some kids and right now kindergarten's looking in that low 40 number. That kindergarten number could come up. It often does in August, but I don't I don't think we're not

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projected to lose 50 kids, but we did budget that way just in case something like that happens again. The state p per pupil aid did go up. is still tied to inflation by 2.69%. Um we had talked a lot about um

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compensatory things like that. We did not get hold harmless for compensatory but special ed dollars didn't take a hit. So that was good. Um we still have been kind of a a loser per se in the last few years with federal revenue. Um

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with impact aid we used to get at the tune of $100,000 or more a year. We still do not qualify for that. Um there has not been a lot of talk about what federal budgets will look like. Not as bad as last year at this time where they

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were saying all spring last year you're going to lose federal dollars. We never did and they're not really talking about that a lot for next year. So hopeful that our federal dollars won't be impacted more. Um but the biggest reason our revenue changed is all those areas

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are tied to student enrollment. And since we have had a decline in student enrollment, those funding sources have gone down. Um so some of the expenses or ways we've kind of corrected that. Um the high school reduced a social studies teacher and many support staff

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positions. Um empower staffing is proposed to stay the same. We did add in that one of the teachers would have a slight increase in days to help cover um checking students work over the summer, but class sizes should be very similar

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to this year at both the high school and elementary. Um and elementary didn't have to do as many reductions this year because they did a pretty healthy dose last school year. Uh we've talked a lot about the transportation budget. Um moving to 4.0

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0 should be a savings of around $250,000 if all goes as planned. Um part of this budget and it's built into the budget. We are mandated to spend 2% of our general fund revenue on staff development. That's in there. We just talked about food prices going up a

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little bit. Um and our athletic budget is pretty comparable to what budget we just finished this year. Um just some notes for the board to be aware of. Um there is not a lot of negotiating next year. There's a few managers who are on

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the every other year. So teachers are done, support staff are done, and half your managers have been negotiated with. So you only have a handful of uh negotiations to go through next year. The teachers will be in the second year of their agreement with a 3% raise.

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Support staff will be doing the first year of their agreement with a 3% raise. Um, next month the board will final substitute rates, fees, things like that. Um, Mr. McNelte has been given the tools to help make those recommendations. Um, we did the capital

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budget, updated that today for transportation. And like I said, I project this budget to end you with a fund balance of 22.2%. Questions? >> The money we're getting from 4.0 0 for

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the buyout. Is that going back into the fund or is that going some other place? >> It's in there cuz we had to show that that revenue. You all will get to decide how that gets spent. It it is in there just cuz as as Bridget works with our auditors, we need to we need to show all

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the revenue we've gotten. You all will determine how that gets spent. >> And that's roughly what? 150,000. >> 102 I thought next year. >> Yes. I'm looking at I can get you the exact

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number again, but I don't think it's 150 a year. I think it's a little bit less than that. >> Because it was like 750 over five years or something. >> Six years. >> Six years. Six years. >> Yeah. >> So, I'm making a recommendation to approve the budget as presented.

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>> Are there any additional questions for Brian regarding the budget as presented? If not, I'm looking for a motion to approve the 202627 budget. >> I'll move that. >> There's a motion. Is there a second?

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>> Second. >> A motion and a second. Any discussion? All in favor say I. >> I. Opposed. >> A motion passes. 70. We have reached the end of our agenda. Is there a motion to adjurnn?

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>> Motion. >> There's a motion. Is there a second? >> I'll second. >> All right, there's a motion and a second. Any discussion? All in favor say I.