okay well um just about everybody's here then so we're missing uh Deb and uh Amanda so let's go ahead and call the meeting to order uh let's uh stand for the pledge of pledge of toag the United States of
America and to the repu which stand One Nation Under indivisible withy and justice for all so are there any changes to the agenda none that I'm aware
of okay uh would there be a motion to well that's just approve the agenda we don't need a motion for that oh wait motion to approve the agenda thank you p is there a second second thanks Kyle all those in favor say I I I opposed motion
carry is there any public input okay recognition and good things happening we'd like to thank uh the Lo staff for a great school year and let them know that they are appreciated and we're excited for their return in August
congratulations to our 2024 graduates best of luck in all your future endeavors um uh Aaron your turn principal's report okay uh not too much going on right now as we're kind of getting in July but I
kept the our our goals for this year um I just kept those on the top with our PLC goals um and actually today we did a lot of we started our data diving I'll explain that in a second um our openings we filled the second grade position uh we filled the two pair of positions
and the only thing we have right now is um a part-time a part-time kitchen or part-time parel whichever feel so one it's only one position I just got to figure out who's going to take what um so that's really all I have left to fill um so that's great is it is a full-time
person doing half and half or what no I have to hire a part-time person to fill W to cuz the parent is preschool that's only like part time or it's the kitchen which was only part- time okay so I have
I have somebody internally that would take either or so I got to get another person oh does that make sense so I have to hire a part-time person they will f one and then an internal person um so uh today we had our um
First Data dive um session from 8: to noon and I had um some elementary teachers in in the high school midle high school English teachers uh looked at standard strands and benchmarks we compared MCA scores tol scores um the goal is to help Drive
instruction curriculum and delivery um by looking at individual kids um and where they're scoring so um to me it was a for being end of June it was a great session the teachers for and
Dylan can kind of test he was down there helping out but it was they were working it was a quiet atmosphere down the computer lab start of a little bit there towards the end but I think for the most part but they really were working on what they were what they had to do and um Kathy Dudley switching over to our
our DC person she was there guiding them how to read uh the MCA scores in Pearson and then we had to jump into EXL and how to rate those scores um so it was just um I was very pleased with how that went today I thought we got a lot done um in
that four hours um thank you to Dylan who was there he helped out with um Compu needs and stuff like that too so tomorrow is math um we bring the Math teachers in and we're going to do the same thing um and then really we will they have all summer to kind of um we
kind of kick started that thata dive my goal was to show them how to find the information where to find it how to use it um how to look at their instruction to use it so today was really a lot of I think me teaching them those types of
things because it is time consuming but now that if they know where to find it how to find it and then I was putting together a cheat sheet as we would go because you had to also use MD MD website that's so easy to navigate so I made sure when we found our steps I put
those in order so trying to help out the teachers so they have um that available so I was pretty pleased with um how that went today so looking forward to doing maap tomorrow and then um improving all those things we move forward so um
you've heard about the react um I finally heard back um they cannot get into our in down here from the state to train us until October um so October 21st I believe that's that Monday after mea um that'll
be our first chance to get more info on the react and what that all entails and what we have to do with that too so um and I did I don't have it on here but I did schedule uh Larry Thompson for rcd he will be here um in November again
um to do some coaching and stuff we do that's just part of our thing we do for RC so got some things already planned for next year so what do you meble to be at I'm trying to see right now the date that we had was unfortunately a Tuesday before so I did reach out to see if
there was any way we could if the following Tuesday was I think the 12 of the Tuesday so I almost was positive it was happened to be the Tuesday before but I did reach out to see if we we could
um yeah the 19th would be the board meeting the 12 so I did reach out to see if we could be interesting for those board members that have not had a chance to yeah hear him it' be it would be a good questioning session and I could give a
he could give a little presentation so I'm working on that so other than that any questions that's all I got okay thank you Aaron appreciate it uh Jen all right I have quite a few things tonight so bear with me trust me I want to get out
of here too it's hot in here I'm dying so I'll make it quick uh let's start with this so some of the projects we're working on you know in in this during the summer in a school district it gets absolutely crazy with projects and it looks terrible around here but be rest
assured it will be ready by the first day of school or at least the first staff day so please be you're sh of that but a couple things um of course the biggest one is our Highway 56 project out here and how it's kind of um made everybody a little bit uneasy and doing
things a little bit more unorthodox than normal um but kudos to our community um for you know still coming into the building um still following kind of our expectations of you know the routes they need to take when they're here so um they're doing a great job and as eron
can attest to Mad has done a fantastic job of really communicating to us about what their um next steps are as they're moving forward with all of this so that's the biggest one uh and and just cooperating with them in the city has been great uh thank you to Sharon Angie
and Deb I know she's not here tonight but for attending with me the National Grid Renewables conference it was over near Adams we had a great time that day minus the terrible weather at the end that picked up the tent and we couldn't
find Sharon she is out driving around with everybody goes crazy but um but we are so looking forward to partnering with them um just giving us free resources including $99,000 every year um for the next 20 years so we're pretty
excited about that um so that's a really good co Cooperative partnership um this isn't yet on the docket but I'll I'll just mention it briefly we are working with our community organization to purchase stage curtains um as you can see by our Cur
ones they are not good at all and so um I will give you more information there has been no exchange of funding yet so I can't talk about it too much but I can say our community stepped up yet again and we're very thankful for that uh elementary gym baskets um I know Aaron
has worked extremely hard um with our company who's installing our new gym baskets um they are having troubles with some HR stuff why they can't get people down here to do it but we sure would like those baskets in before the new flooring is in um so we're I know he's
put a lot of pressure on them to do that uh but speaking of the gym floor tonight we're going to talk about a little bit more the moisture mitigation system um but prior to that uh the guys have been in here almost every day cleaning up that floor if you haven't yet please walk in there tonight take a peek um
they've done a really really nice job of scraping it down to the Bare Bones to make sure everything is warranty proof I'll say it that way Point um Aon mentioned it already too that oh let me add this to let me go
back to the highway 56 project yes we are in uh collaboration and in contacts with a plumber to make sure that our Cardinal kids Cardinal care uh laboratory does get installed so that will happen and I know that's been on your dockets for five six seven years
long before I was here um so we're pretty excited about that but the timing was perfect especially with the highway 56 priz um let's see here quick shout out to communityi Ed Kate Roar is working on trying to come up with new ideas and one
of the new ideas she thought of and she reached out to Sharon and I with this if it's a good idea or not and shar's a big baseball lady over there so but she wants to take a trip up to the Rochester Honkers baseball game and start that going and um doing kind of cool weird
things like that in the community and so we're all supportive of that so you'll hear more about that I'm sure uh let's see Aaron talked about his data Dives um what that is and I'll send you more of a email on that too and dig a little little deeper into that but it
not only do we look at MCA data andl data per students we're also looking at instructional techniques and is our curriculum relevant to the testing standards so it's much much deeper than just looking at a test score um or just
that child we are also looking at the pedagogy or the teaching of children are we doing it correctly with the tools we have so it is deeper and I'll get into that at some point with all of you too uh let's see here uh Sharon and I met with the rville
superintendent uh we want to try to do that on a regular basis because we do share students we take from them they take from us sometimes um usually we're on the betterment end of that which is kind of nice um but our meeting actually expanded
enrollments um part of our strategic planning which I'll get into a little bit later is we want to continue to build Partnerships outside of the walls of this district and one of them is possibly rice fille whether it is sharing staff at times maybe it's um
sharing a curriculum purchase you know a national standardized one like fet is a national standardized one uh maybe it's going on field trips to each other's schools and shadowing a student you know something something that's simple but we want to continue those positive um
Partnerships with them we are hoping to do maybe a meeting with a couple members of the school board business management superintendency in both districts uh maybe August September or October uh to continue to open up these conversations
um and not not shut the door but instead Embrace what we have we're very similar districts but it seems like it's on the Iowa I think is on the end of the world and so it's like hey I want to go there sometime um and some of our kids would want to too so anyway that's what we're going to try and embrace so that's part
of another collaborative effort we're doing um so speaking of all these kind of collaborations just last week Aaron Angie Dev and I showed up for that um EA Eda meeting Eda meeting so I need
to apologize for that it was never supposed to be an open board meeting for any of you it was just if you wanted to come I think it was posted wrong and so anyway we're good now um but it was a great great meeting um I first of all I need to really commend
the city council for just inviting us and being open to uh questions and comments suggestions discussions um and they're extremely positive and supportive of the school district um they were wonderful very complimentary and um and hopefully
we gave some some maybe answers back on some things too and help them a little bit with some of their processes too too um but at the end what was great is we've decided we want to meet more regularly so maybe once every 6 months it could be maybe even every three we don't know that yet but what also came
out of it was we Aaron and I were contacted by the friends of Lake Louise because they were also there that night and we want to do some collaborating with that too um so we yet another collaboration outside of these walls that we want to continue to do so that
leads me to the Strategic plan you may recall last month I said to you well a couple months ago I said I sent that email out to all of you and the staff hey what more can we do with this strategic plan we got to keep it beefy and remind everybody we still have it and for me one of the weaknesses I felt
was the the community engagement the more Outreach we need and so as you can see we're trying that and doing that um so when you look at the Strategic plan again it's only a two page document we have again just in our administrative
positions we have hit the objectives but that doesn't mean we're done you know we still can refine we can reflect we can research and we can still do better in everything we do but the current strategic plan is complete it didn't take us 5 years to do it which is kind of nice but again we're going to still
continue to Market this we're still going to live and die by it um that this is kind of our howto Bible of how we're doing things around here and what we need to work on um but I just I wanted to share that with you tonight it's things are going a lot pretty quick right now so please keep watching your
emails for all these Community things that may be coming your way that I might need you for um but it does have to do with with what we all agreed to um was this strategic plan and Community engagement is definitely on here so and that's it for me
tonight any questions for Jen um one um with the the renewable the partnership with the Renewables yeah um is there any opportunities
for um like continuing the partnership with uh vocational curriculum great question it is a great question as a matter of fact um one of the opportunities we may have is to have
them come in again it would start at infan infancy stages maybe kind of marketing their business uh marketing what they do within their business and then eventually getting to the point where hey we have a curriculum to offer you or is there a national one
that we could maybe purchase to place in a science curriculum or to place in a math whatever engineering whatever it may be but yes we have had those very very initial conversations as a matter of fact that day I did okay because I'd like to get there somehow right um You
know cuz it is it's it's pretty big and they're already wanting to part so much with us not only financially but with other things right um they like how Innovative we are and what we're doing and um and so I think I think there's I think it's going to be sooner than later
your question will be answered that was something that they seem to as a as a company be really passionate about was was partnering with the community and and all these other entities do like that so I think they'll follow through right yeah the reason why I asked is
because we try to do do that with with our company and I know there's there's a lot of companies doing that now and I have heard of districts like putting panels up on their roof and they they get the benefits from those and they
also get the teach the kids for we did and maybe Erin can talk more about this but we did have a company come in to talk a little bit about the windmill sector and was willing to have deeper conversations I think then they got sent somewhere else this particular
company but they came in and really wanted to talk about hey we can help start promoting this profession but also even we could partner in terms of certifying kids when they're a junior or senior in high school similar that we do with the um CNA program here yes you
know open it up so it's more than just CNA may we could maybe we could do something with us um we do offer summer summer employment for school age kids okay that's a big deal that's it's almost like an internship you know and
exposes you guys and I love that true Hands-On experiences so yeah we will definitely um keep you in the loop because as Angie said they are they're willing to go I mean we're still we still have 300 questions to ask
you know but they're like oh no we'll do this set whatever I'm very willing to meet and talk with us and they're excited and and these two can speak definitely on it as well so so when they couldn't find me I was on a tour that's what she was on the bus onour you you weren't under the
tent and the the tour was amazing and I wish uh the weather wouldn't have been a factor because there was a lightning so we couldn't even get out of the van but if our kids could go down there and take that same tour just to you
know just to get a taste of it I think I mean cuz I was very very interested and I all those would be as well yes we need to do one of that get kids interested in vocational yes a little taste of it can
I just add two more things I apologize um in my report next month you will all be approving our long-term facility maintenance our 10-year plan that's every July we do that just know in your next email from me I'll kind of lay out
what ltfm is when the state statute came about um what our current kind of The Unofficial um spreadsheet looks like you've seen it before but that all plays into our true tenure plan we sent to mde so you'll be getting that next month
along with an email next week also keep in mind too our um 12E plan for the roof our preventative maintenance roof plan um they're going to start doing the roofs here now again the summer now they're a little behind because of the weather as you can imagine but just know
that's coming too and then finally um in the next communication I sent to you Student Activity accounts you may recall um Congress was looking at them to see if there would be any changes there is still no changes since the 2016 time but I will still send that out to you so you
know your roles why you see that all the time on the board agenda to it thank you any other questions for Jen other thank you very much um M on to the consent
agenda um any uh questions Corrections or additions to last month's board meeting minutes okay none uh Treasures reports any questions on any any of those reports that we received okay um there will be some
fundraisers FFA fruit Butter Braids cheese Etc sale um October 8th through November 1st um Personnel approve the hiring of Miranda Neel Reed hungerholt Mason Jansen Kira lewison Izzy bird and Tyne
schy as pool workers for the upcoming school year approve the hiring of Katherine baky second grade teacher um approval of the hiring of Britney W as PA professional um for this coming year
approv the hiring of Cassandra fber fa professional through the resignation of Malik schaer as a pool lifeguard effective immediately uh approve the resignation of Logan deer full lifeguard effective
immediately approve the resignation of Samuel deeris as per professional effective immediately and approve the resignation of Kyla air professional uh effective immediately any questions on any of
those things if there aren't any is there a motion to approve the consent agenda motion approve thank you Dave is there a second second thanks Pat um any
questions discussion otherwise all those in favor say I I I opposed motion carried all right uh looks like there's no policy review uh no no District uh
policy committee meeting this this month um no donations um we need to approve the first reading of the emergency handbook so in the emails uh or in the posting uh you'll know that you received the handbooks but
you received any changes that went along with that handbook now keep in mind uh we do always recommend and appreciate if you always approve the first reading then it still gives you time for a month to say wait a minute here prior to Second reading we need some changes that
gives us time so there were just a few changes to the emergency handbook that we all saw so looks like Bic do the same thing any questions otherwise would there be a motion to approve the first reading of
the emergency handbook I move to approve the first reading the emergency handbook thank you Kyle is there a second second thanks Angie uh any discussion questions all those in favor
say I I opposed motion Carri uh the first reading of the faculty handbook there some changes to that uh Jan or not really I think we have let me
look I don't think there was many that might have been minor that there was any I think there's the regular date changes things like that but there was a I think that's right I think there names and dates requisition Church nighttime custodian a maintenance
request form was added yes thank you deleted wiki space and study okay anybody got any questions on any of that stuff for the faculty
handbook if there are none then I get a motion to approve first reading of the faculty handook thanks Angie is there second second thanks Pat any questions all those in favor say I I
opposed motion Carri all right uh the first reading of the middle school high school student handbook any changes to that someone that has a computer call
content student passbook was updated senior class trip should be considered a school function where all school rules apply some additions to PSO requirements regarding credits and some additional information for the kids about dropping and
adding and that it is mandatory that PSO students attend in person for senior project and follow a senior paper timelines and then something about Media Center reading level permissions
okay any questions regarding the changes to the student handbook if not is there a motion to approve the first reading of the middle school high school student handbook I'll make the motion thank you Pat is there a
second second thanks Kyle all those in favor say I I opposed motion Carri all right uh first reading of the elementary student handbook very simple change of the Year some staff name changes and add Media
Center reading level permission okay pretty simple any questions on that is there a motion to approve the first reading of the elementary student handbook I make a motion thanks Dave
thanks Angie all those in favor say I composed motion carried uh first reading of the pool handbook length of break will be 15 instead of 10 and patrons are blown out at 815 instead of
825 okay any questions on that in the pool handbook if not is there a motion to approve the first reading of the pool handbook I'll make motion thank you Pat
is there a second second thanks Dave all those in favor say I I I opposed motion carried all right we need to approve the final reading of the activities and
coaches handbook for 2425 and I did not receive any changes any changes okay no all right would there be a motion to approve the final reading of the uh activities in coach's handbook
remov we approve the activities in coach's handbook thank you Kyle there second second thanks Pat all those in favor say I I opposed moan car all right
now we move on to the moisture mitigation system for the gym FL I was wondering about us taking a walk and going up there would anybody like to do that yeah I think that'd be okay can can we do that now or or we
want to move that down to something later in the agenda what's anybody think should we just take a walk up there okay let's take a walk okay um so we went for a tour and
looked at the gym and talked a little bit about what they need to do to uh mitigate the uh the vapor and add a vapor bearing there um so does everybody have that quote in front of them from uh
jungy yes okay I turn it off I don't see it so um what was the [Music] 19,6 okay all right anybody got any questions about what we have to do we need to
approve that in order to make sure that our warranty on the floor will be intact if we don't there will be no warranty right and the floor won't last like it should
so doesn't seem like we have L of choice disappointing that they they didn't know about that when they gave the call yeah I'm disappointed in that as well it seems like they they should have
known uh what would be required and I wonder too if well even the other the two other quotes we got theirs would have been higher yet too yeah so at the end it probably would have been jungy anyway um you know just kind of thinking through it
potentially well and it wasn't on anybody else's quote either no it wasn't and we had we had no idea if that's what was going on under there so would someone like to make the motion
to approve the the quote on the moisture mitigation that's needed on the small G FL I'll make the motion thank you Pat is there a second second thanks Angie any other
discussion questions all those in favor say I I I opposed motion carried okay approve the 2425 Schoolboard meeting
dates kind of a formality um so we got a list of when uh our meeting dates would be throughout the for the rest of the year third I'm sure most of them are the 3D Tuesday yes and there is a disclaimer
on there too that if we have to change them we get to do that just as long as there's a three-day notice okay any questions okay is there a motion to approve the uh school board meeting dates for the rest of the year make a
motion to approve the meeting thanks Dave is there second second thanks Kyle all those in favor say I I opposed motion carry all right we need to approve the posting notice for the filing period for
School Board elections and um I printed that off too that's got to be what July 30th July August 1 July 30th through August
13th so once this is approved tonight and I'll put this in an email tell you too um Dylan will receive an email for me tomorrow indicating this will be placed on our website then also I'm in contact with am kefir from our County
she does everything election so tomorrow I'm going to be talking with her as well about a couple things we need to do but also tomorrow our approved uh newspaper will get this to be posted roughly 10 days ahead of this
July 30th time so it's all timing with everything but we've been yeah we got the send us a timeline for the election so that would have to be done by July 16th yes yeah
so okay any questions what do we have four four openings say four seats Z four seats so is there a motion to approve the filing dates of July 30th through August 13th
and we approve filing dates July 30th through 13 okay thank you Kyle is there a second second thanks P any questions discussion all those in favor say I I I
opposed motion Carri all right so we got to approve the identified official with authority that sounds like a big deal pretty important job I have that would be Jen it's a formality we have to
formity you guys have seen it before what this is is I get to go into mde and choose people usually choose people who are experienced who have done many things before in certain Realms um give them access to MD reporting MD data so
for example aon's a great example um you choose your principal to run the dur report which is the District student discipline system um he would be the one I would choose and so there is so many reports and some of these also some of
these reports are accessible by our Auditors so I approve them as well um because you guys approve Auditors for me and then I put them into the MD system smck is part of this um where sometimes they'll reach out to me and ask me hey can you approve so and so because they
need to file a report for you on behalf of ISTC 499 um but again as Dave said it's a formality it's every year you should have appr this okay any questions L has a motion to approve Jen as the
identified official with authority I'll make that motion thank you p is there a second second thanks Kyle all those in favor say I I I opposed motion carried I don't even need
it I just assum think she's gotth you guys all right um all right so they revised budget from the 23 24 school year will approve for the final time this is exciting stuff very
exciting stuff so tonight it's all going to be about well Sharon a lot of it um she has done an exceptional job of coming here full-time uh leaving CLA to serve the Lo School District I cannot thank her enough for all the cleanup
she's done but also the Innovative um ways of doing a a large budget now keep in mind Aon does the the Here and Now budgets Sharon does the three to fiveyear budgets and I do the fiveyear and out budgets um but when I
say that we are collaborating all the time and Sharon will get deeper into this um but Sharon and I start in October working on your next fiscal Year's budget um for that July one of that next year then we start getting Aon involved around the January February
time the day-to-day operations then gets put into that budget um but she's going to share more information on this um and I'll jump in on occasion too but I'm going to hand it over to her now okay um
so to start with uh the 24 revised budget is even though it's pretty close to June 30th here it's still not you know complete and so the numbers that you on the year to date they are still
going to change and they may change one way or the other um due to uh many factors at this point and so when doing that revised budget it's still a look forward process or you know a dive deep
and figure out what where you should land for all of the revenues and expenses um because there's entries that were made for the last fiscal year at the end of the year that may still affect some
um entries for this year that need to be reversed um a lot of uh this year was um finding things that needed to be need need to be
corrected um or done differently um one thing I point out with that is there was was a large amount that was posted to revenue in the general fund and last spring and it really belonged to the
scholarship fund and so that needs to be moved out of the general fund into the scholarship fund immediately when I found that I contacted the auditor and said hey we need you know we're needing to do this adjustment and so we're still
going to be um attending to these numbers very much in the next next month or so um to revise them but under the 24 revised as to the best of my ability and knowledge at this point um we will come
out with a change in fund balance of approximately 250,000 to the good so last year it was the other way at the end of the fiscal year and so we're hoping that this does come true and that
we will fall into that 2 53 recouping much of that um decrease in fund balance that we had last year and that would be very good for the district um the change from the um
original adopted budget the biggest thing there there's a lot of things that changed but uh the biggest thing to identify there is uh special ed Aid and that was another thing that through this year things are changing so we have to
go into what's called a system called sedra and enter our special ed staff and the state mde they are constantly running a potential estimate of what our
state special ed Aid might be well that special ed Aid decrease by 100 G after I updated to people that we currently have in place versus people that haven't worked here for a couple years
so everything is just so I guess what I'm trying to say is everything is evolving and the more we get things in place and get systems and processes in place so that things run smoothly and can be done current and on time the more
definitive and better these reports will be for all of you and when we get to this point I should be able to say you know I don't think it's going to change much like maybe maybe that's why we're very happy that we have you full time
well I instead of having a I'm happy to be here full time and I truly truly love I still love budgeting and I still love diving into these numbers is it difficult sometimes when you run into
things that you don't want to address yes but um anyway I love the numbers and I'm glad that they came out um you know positive or hoping that they will turn out positive for the 24 Revenue um some
of the big changes I just want to identify in the expenditures um like Services itself went down from 23 actual and actually that was it's probably a big part of CLA so that one um and then
supplies so uh there was instructional technology purchased and some items for essers in 23 but even more so in 24 we purchased almost $200,000 worth of furniture for essers for student and
staff for uh better uh Furniture Arrangement and um health safety issues and then also some Chromebooks for 912 were purchased in we were able to
utilize some funds from essers to pay for half of those at this point too so when you look at 25 adopted we'll get to that in a minute you'll see that that drops significantly and that's why um and then the equipment there was
a vehicle purchased in 23 and then in 24 and also 25 the smth debt payment is actually 50,000 of the that amount so when you're looking at that what are we purchasing
for equipment we really haven't purchased any debt for the smth building is also involved with that so um so would the S dollar be gone after this year yes so as of June 30th we will um
have been able to capture all the Esra dollars that are available and we'll utilize uh the majority of them if not all of them and to the good of the district so you'll
hear lots of stories out there that districts are suffering because of the lack of Esser dollars from here moving forward but this District planned well there was a couple of Staff members that were paid
with s dollars for a couple of years um to utilize all of the funds and that was obviously to the best interest of the district because we didn't want to not utilize them but we also placed that in places that um we think you know we
could recover from so and if we couldn't we could possibly do without so as of yet you know we're still you're still able as a district to be able to be moving forward and not suffer from those
loss of deser funds so to right good job well done um and so yes the revenue is going to fall significantly because of that as well um
but as Jen said we are always forward thinking we're always thinking about how we're going to keep our expenses uh level with our revenues if not lower so that we can Main maintain a
good fund balance um and the other key component of that of course is your enrollment and your um average daily membership which can be two totally different things but anyway it gets down
to student student numbers and uh we ask for updated numbers today and you'll be happy to hear at this point that we estimate that there will be 20
more head count in the fall than there is now so again well done and that is the key that's the key to this whole thing sum to is that summer spe what's coming in for kindergarten to
what graduated or in addition to the difference in that all of that Tak into effect yeah just and we get to dig deeper into these numbers don't get me wrong but yeah our numbers and just today we ran so and this really is the numbers that
drive your Revenue so um open enrollment especially as well so uh Jen was talking about we met with Iowa and we're continuing that you know vprocity agreement and hoping to continue that
forward because it is beneficial to us we were able to collect money for two years back so that was good as well so it's nice to see um there's other districts in the in the area that
was only looking at the shortterm and now they're in some big trouble that's right yeah we've talked about that at length I think even at our board meetings here that when I wrote that Grant um but working with business
management year because like I said earlier he has a role in finances she has a role and I have a role even if I'm not here in 5 years I have to think 5 years she's not here she has to think 3 years down the road and it's almost forced now it becomes our the three of
us our forced Habit to talk that way cuz he'll talk will argue about wait a minute I can't sustain that for five years and he'll say well I need it next year and we will have an hour argument but that's what gets us to where we are where you have a nice looking budget and revised budget you know the other thing
too that that I want to remind you all of there are also checkpoints throughout your fiscal year to make sure you're on the right track one is the audit and they come down and they tell you hey you're wrong here you're right here this was naughty this was good right they do that for you and they're available all
the time we can bring them in the other time is our truth and Taxation where we talk about our Levy we talk about student numbers we talk about hey this is what we're predicting um that so there are two very very significant times where they're going to tell you what we're telling you but in their way
we all want to be on the same page um with that too and as Sharon said even today you go on to the mde financial sources that we use it's it went up 5,000 this morning from last night and then it'll drop tonight 10,000 you know
but she's right it evolves every single day so this is a snapshot we need approved it will change and evolve but as you can see it does I mean we went from negative which we knew we knew that was coming but we also said to you you wait till next year or the revision of
this budget you rate it won't be but we had to give you that snapshot we had to well you guys deserve a lot of credit for managing those eser dollars properly because otherwise we'd be in the same position St Charles is a good example yeah we don't have to make any
Cuts you're right you brought them so you guys deserve a lot of credit for that um so in uh finishing up with with 24 Revenue what I want to also explain is that so the gym project the curtain um those
types of projects they right now I have them in 25 they may have to move to a work in progress in 24 depending on what our auditor decides so there may be some things that move from one side to the other but they should you know balance
each other out so if numbers change significantly um that could be some of the reasoning too so so every every day is um like what we do with the lighting and like that yeah so the same thing we paid the last payment for the lighting
this year so and we won't have that next year but then you know that's why wanted to P the something else two years so anyway ended this year uh 253,000 to the good hopefully and then
next year um we're pretty much at this point in the game um looking forward we're looking at pretty much a balanced budget hopefully a little bit POS always hope for you rarely see this so take a
picture of this and share it with people cuz we should get an award for this I feel like cuz that's exactly what MD wants you to do they don't they don't want you to be sitting on your constituents dollars nor do we we're not their Bank we want to use their dollars stitches don't don't want to see that's
right right right and but also we want to use it wisely and not deficit spend all the time either so so we're pretty good there and and I was telling Dave this too as we were preparing your your agenda tonight that we are within your
fund balance policy we are over the 3-month operating expense you should be at 3 months that's what your policy is but we're over that now keep in mind and Sharon will be the first to tell you this that every single day Sharon and Aon and I are looking at cutting fat if we have
to we have to that's just how it is that if we feel like oh this curriculum is $50,000 more not worth it or if this position isn't doing what it's supposed to do we're going to cut whatever it is um we will always do that first you know
we can't just yeah love our numbers right now we're always going to be making sure we're okay we're always in mind of what's best for the student and what will give them the best education because if we can for instance not hire another person in the office it's much
better to not do that than it is to have to cut somebody that's in the classroom so that is just a big balance of no we don't want any rewards so just let's
just look at it and say hopefully this will be how it is and life is life is good and we'll work hard to keep it this way this this is the goal and we want this to continue to be the goal now moving forward to keep that balanced as
much as possible sounds good I can answer any questions and also if anybody ever wants to meet about the budget or anything about anything I'm very willing to meet and
talk through just schedule at least an hour with her and she yeah more than really that's some she digs deep into it for sure if I don't know the answer I will get the answer um and make sure that it's accurate
so anything I can answer well the numbers really shouldn't change a lot should they Shar in front you know it's June 25th today only got five more days left of the fiscal year so it really shouldn't
change much unless you have Tove project something because of because of a yes an audit this year is the first week of September so I'm I'm starting
tomorrow to work on that and getting entries done in place for that thanks so we'll be ready any questions otherwise good uh good report and a good
result and sounds like uh largely due to kind of catching up on work that was behind so that's that's great it's another reason why it's great to have a full-time business manager for
sure okay any if there are no questions is there motion to approve the revised 2324 budget make a motion to approve the revised 2023 24 budget thank
you Dave is there a second second thanks Angie any other questions or discussion before we vote if not all those in favor say I opposed motion
carried okay and we can move right in and approve the uh 2425 preliminary budget right you did the yes whole thing do okay is there any questions about that we need to approve the 2425
preliminary budget so thank you was there a second second thanks Kyle any questions or discussion okay all those in favor say I I opposed motion carried
all right I think we're to the end of that list but very good you guys uh deserve kudos for for what you've done on the budget so thank you very much um are there any committee
reports anything at all okay it is summertime I guess so other than that the uh moving on to the district calendar the 4th of July holiday this July 16th is our next school board
meeting um on August 20th there'll be a the August school board meeting August 26 to 28th is Staff Development uh September 2nd of course is Labor Day September 3rd Middle School and High School's first day of school
I'm sure they're excited September 5th Elementary first day of school so is there anything else that we need to talk about um noticing out on the
playground I don't know where the the lines are but there's a lot of big dead ash trees along that back between us and Masters that are hanging over I know there's one hanging over the ball field
in the playground okay um and in the way I've been cutting as down here lately noticed they they're turning brittle fast for being
hardwood um something that should probably be I du a lot of Limbs out of the fence pasture fence today yeah something that should be maybe thought about getting cleaned up before
the kids are out there I would recommend you sending me a quote possible okay cuz I'm sure it be under my threshold like I'm not sure what the you know do we go all the way to the fence back here along the
building I don't know the property kind of jogs there I think I don't think it follows the fence right I'm not sure about that I don't know either I I would agree though I don't think get that okay that would be something
to to look at and might have to talk to yeah um but I know like the the one over on the ball field is is hanging out over the ball field where they would
go in and out of the Dugout if they're playing kickball or whatever over there um I Haven been back in behind the the old big toy there where the playground is but okay I think
there's some that are reaching over the top of the fence in playground so you're talking more over by the the ball field on the playr yep just that line there that's the only place there there is any okay
yeah yeah why don't you get Jen I'll share for sure sounds like a safety issue more than anything yeah it you know Ash is hardwood and two years
ago never saw any of rot ash trees now they're dead but like when the Dutch Elm came through that that's hardwood too and they they died but they didn't rot as fast as this as these are they're
turning brittle and snap and you know some of this little stuff but In the Heat of the summertime where the Bark's splitting on the inside of these big crotches there'll be a a split in a limb that's this size that you can't see from the ground you know
because it's where the sun's been beaten up where the where the dead and it dries it out so bad okay yeah please do thanks come
um I guess we're to the end of our agenda is there a motion to adjourn anybody want to I'll make that Mo than second second thanks Kyle all
those in favor say I I I opposed meeting is adjourned [Music]