two more. >> Good afternoon. It's uh 5:00, so we will call the uh school board meeting for ISD 482 to order. Um if I could ask everybody to please join me in the pledge of allegiance. >> I pledge algiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The district's mission statement is that Little Falls Community Schools works together for each learner to achieve
academic and personal growth in a collaborative, safe, and engaging environment. Public comments. Do you have any, Kelly? >> We do not. >> We do not. No public comments. Thank you. Okay. Then in your packet, [snorts] we have an agenda. So, I would be looking for an approval of tonight's
agenda. >> So, move. >> Have a motion by Sharon. Do I have a second? >> I'll second. >> I have a second by Kelsey. Any further discussion? >> Hearing none. All in favor signify by saying I. >> I. Oppose. Same sign. >> All right. Motion carries.
Next. The consent agenda is in your packet. Um, concerning the personnel, prior meeting minutes, financial transactions. Hopefully, you've all had a chance to take a look at it. And once you are ready, I would entertain a motion for that as well.
>> Motion to approve. >> Have a motion by Mark. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Second by Sharon. Any further discussion? >> Hearing none. All in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Oppos. Same sign. All right. Motion
carries. Kelsey. Looks like resolution. >> Whereas the following have generously offered to donate to Little Falls Community Schools. Therefore, be it resolved by the Little Falls Community Schools Board of Education to gratefully accept the gifts. Cullerman Curbside
Treats LLC donation of $300 to Little Falls Community Schools Randall Area Scholarship Fund Flyers Athletic Boosters Gaming Account Donation of $2,000 to Little Falls Community Schools Cross Country Ski Team. Crowing Power
donation of $9,000 to Little Falls Community Schools Crowing [snorts] Power Scholarship Fund. American Legion Post number 46 gambling account donation of $1,300 to Little Falls Community Schools Trap and Field Program. American Legion
Post number 46, gambling account, donation of $1,300 to Little Falls Community School Spanish Club. American Legion [snorts] Post number 46, gambling account, donation of $1,300 to the Little Falls Community Schools facts department. Um, Flyers,
athletic boosters, gaming account, donation of $1,957.40 to Little Falls Community Schools track and field program. >> Whoa. >> Pagonic. >> Pagonic Insurance. Donation of $250 to
Lil Falls Community Services JBL Scholarship Initiative Foundation, Playing It Forward Donation Grant of $450 to the Little Falls Community Schools Spotlight Shell Lake Scholarship for Jazz Camp Initiative Foundation, Playing
It Forward Donation Grant of $650 to Little Falls Community Schools Spotlight Allstate Scholarship Fund Initiative Foundation, Playing It Forward Donation. grant of $7,860 to the Little Falls Community School
Spotlight Bamiji scholarship fund. Terresa Welters donation of $250 to Little Falls Community Schools pay playing it forward program. Uh the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle Mo and Myra Dinner Memorial Fund donation
of $1,60 to the Little Falls Community Schools James A. Mitchi scholarship fund. Mary and John Surma, donation of $500 to the Lil Falls Community Schools Randall Area Scholarship Fund. Township of Bell Prairie, donation of $1,000 to
Lil Falls Community Services general programming and Minnesota Deer Hunters Association donation of $24,140 to Little Falls Community Services target league program. And I'll take a second.
>> I'll second it. And a roll call vote. Dan, >> yes. >> Doug, >> yes. >> Julie, >> yes. >> Sharon, >> yes. >> Margaret, >> yes. >> Myself, yes. >> Okay, motion carries. Thank you, Kelsey. All right, looks like we have our first
presentation. Um, should we just introduce them or just let them throw them in the fire? Anything? >> Uh, we better just introduce them. Yeah. >> Oh, go ahead. I will let you. Oh, okay. [laughter] Thank you. Hey, I'm honored to uh
introduce our new activities director, Dave Langru. Dave's uh just had a been a wonderful addition to our district in a short period of time, and he's here tonight to introduce himself and talk a little bit about what he's learned so far and what's on his radar moving
forward. Welcome, Dave. >> Thank you, Chair Dog and board members. Thank you for having me. I'm so excited to be here. I don't know what to say. This is uh I know uh when Superintendent uh Greg told me to come in, he said 45 minutes, right? Is that
>> Yeah. They expect >> hour. We're good with that. >> I know everybody will really appreciate that. But no, I'm honored to be here. Thank you so much first of all for allowing me to be on the Little Falls team. Uh the board voting me in. That's just an an outstanding thing. It was
something I really wanted to do and I was so incredibly honored by that because um I had a few choices of places to go and this was obviously after I had met uh Greg and and his team and something that was very easy to make the selection of of coming here. So thank you again for for doing that. Um so I
have a presentation just really quick for you just this is a little bit about me so you you kind of get to know who I am and what I am. Um you'll find out that I'm very relational. I'd love to have relationships and build relationships and and collaborative types of things with our our coaches,
our our adviserss, our teachers, our staff, our kids, and our parents and our community. Um, 17 years as an athletic and activities director and so I've seen a lot of stuff change and I've seen a lot of things go on. Um, but I love
every minute of the day. I think uh one of the things I want to do is make a difference in kids' lives and and that's uh I tell everybody as I have two two main jobs that I do. One is to make sure that our kids 9 through 12 have the greatest four years of their life in high school. That's my job. Advocate for
kids. Uh a lot of times they think they're in trouble if they have to go see the AD or the principal and stuff. No, I want them to come into my my office and we want to have fun and we want to make sure that they're I can advocate for them so they have the best uh career they can in high school. The other one is to make sure that I'm mentoring and I'm helping all of our
coaches and our adviserss. That is to make sure that they have the tools to be successful. Everybody coaches different. I'm a true believer that we're all co coaches and we're mentors in our lives. All of us do this and it's my job to make sure that they have the tools to be successful to make sure that our kids have that great experience. So that's
what I feel uh as being an AD is all about. Then you'll also see I have a family of six. I have four kids, two girls, two boys. Um, I found my wife in sixth grade. It was good enough. So, I kept I just kept her. [laughter]
So, uh, I do, we grew up together. Um, she's just an amazing person. She's a teacher as well. Uh, she grew up in Ethiopia, uh, on the mission field with her mom and dad who were a doctor nurse team. And she was kicked out of the country in sixth grade because the communists took over Ethiopia at the
time. And there was either go to jail or go back to the States. So she uh they came back to the states and we're in my little town as the doctor and that's how I met her. And so um a huge advocate of of the arts. Uh I'm in a band. I play all the instruments except for some woodwin instruments. My wife and I have
been in musicals our whole lives together. And so I love uh the arts as much as I love playing uh athletics and those kind of things. And I have two uh two girls. My oldest is a nurse and she has two kids. So I have two grandkids. Um, my next daughter is in med school.
Um, she had a great career. She was a swimmer and she also worked for the Indiana Hooers for the last three years as an athletic trainer and she decided she wanted to be a doctor. So, she went back to med school and she's at the University of Minnesota now going to be a surgeon there. Um, and then I have two
boys. One was in the army and just got out and is in school. And then one that just went right out of high school and went to work for Ziggler Caterpillar and he's been very successful with that. Um and so those are my kids. Um and then just kind of um
go to the next slide after this. Uh what have I learned? And so in in this I said the real opportunity for positive change. We have a chance to build on the great things that are already happening here. I've been here for four weeks and I've
seen so many great things. It's you guys live it and maybe don't get to see it all the time, but there are so many great things happening here and great support and we want to build on that. We want to make sure that we're uh letting all the people in Little Falls and the surrounding area know all the great things that our kids and our staff are
doing. We always hear about the negative stuff, right? We always as a board, you're hearing about the junk and the things that aren't going right. Well, I've been here for four weeks and I've been in two different school districts and there's a lot of things going right here that I've never seen before. And so you guys should be proud of that as
leaders in in doing that. Um, also I sent out before I I got here a board questionnaire and some of you answered that. That was really awesome for me because I wanted to hear from you. What are we doing and and and what do we need to do better and what are you looking for in an ad? Um, you're not going to find somebody that's going to sit back.
I'm going to be out there and meeting people and doing things for our kids in our community. So thank you for that. That's going to take to heart and and uh hopefully have some answers for you there. Um, the one thing I did learn uh back in my uh last job is that we needed
to be better communicators in the activities department, especially with our our coaches and our families to let them know what's going on and all the great things that we're doing, but also how to get to things, where to go, you know, you know, we look at registration. We're going to be starting a new system,
and I'll talk about in a minute about that. It's called Bound. It's our new scheduling and registration. And families are going to say, "What is this?" you know, how do we get in? How do we do this? So, those are things that we got to communicate really, really well out to our community and and our
department. It starts with us. Um, and then the one thing else that I've learned is I've met with all the fall coaches since I've been here before we get started. I haven't met with the winter ones yet, but we've got so many great committed coaches. I was just amazed by the things that they want to
do. the one thing that I got to make sure that I do is support them better and make sure that they get a lot of really really good support so we [music] can make this a great uh time for our kids. So those are the things that you know I've learned so far since I've been here. Um, next slide for
>> Oh, sorry. [laughter] So, here's probably the most important slide of of all of this is one of the things that I wanted to share with the board and with Superintendent Johnson is something I think is extremely important that you know about.
When I got here, this is the onboarding process that I had. These are the people and I'll just let you read through these and not go through every single one of them. But my experience here to be welcomed as a new member and a new family member of the
Little Falls team has been one I've never had before. I was at District 742 in St. Cloud. I was in Albert Lee. And I've never had an experience where I had so many people that cared so much about their jobs, about what they did. They were pointing fingers if something went wrong. And
this is four weeks And a short quick story, a month ago, my brother died unexpectedly and it was crushing to me. >> I was with all of my friends and all the people I worked in Albert for four years
and I had a few people come by and said, "Hey, we're sorry like this." But I never got a card. I never got anything from anybody. And that's people that I thought were caring about me. And all of a sudden in
the mail I get a letter and cards from Mr. Johnson, from Little Falls. >> You guys don't even know me. And all of a sudden, this is how I'm being treated. So that's that's the family that you guys have built. And I really appreciated that. And I think you need
to know that because that's the power of keeping people here and bringing people in, especially new teachers. This is the atmosphere that you want to have. And so all of these people that you read in this have been in influential, but I also want to take it from the top, Superintendent Johnson and the board,
you set those standards for for the staff and for us. So thank you for that because without you guys being that supportive, we don't have those kind of things. So thank you for that. >> Next slide. >> The other things that um I want to make
sure that that we're doing is our community uh partnerships. One of the things you'll see again see from me is that uh we need to have community buyin. We need to make sure that we're uh having all of our uh um I guess all of our small businesses and all those uh
businesses helping us support all of our kids. And here's the really cool thing. I've been building relationships from day one when I got here. And these are all the people that I've met with. I went and spent three hours with Little Falls Orthopedics and we talked about all the things that we could do different and all the things we could do
more. but they've been incredible about the services that they have offered us. And so I was really it's fun to meet them and get to hear their ideas and what we can do better. [snorts] Um the education foundation, I met with them and what they're doing and some of the the fun kind of events they're
putting on for getting money for donations and grants and things like that. uh local radio station and meeting with them and we're going to start our coach's corner stuff again and we're going to make sure that they hear about all the great things that are happening with our kids so they can announce it and get it in uh to the to the uh radio.
Um FAB never had experience having a group like this that offers so much support for our athletics and all the money that they give. It's incredible that we have that because schools don't have enough money ever. So without that we don't have those opportunities. uh
flyer media again having things live streamed and and getting gotten out to grandma and grandpa and people that can't come to the events. Those are things that that were amazing to see. Um Mississippi Connections Group, I I got to sit with that group and talk to all the small businesses and say, "How can
we partner together? How how can we work together? How can we make sure that uh we can support you as as small businesses within the Little Falls and make sure that everybody knows we're going to do advertising? We're going to do different types of things um over um uh not only advertising but um we want
to make sure that donations and those things are recognized during events so people know who's doing that. Um then also that I've met with all the coaches. I've met with many many people uh over the last four weeks and again building those relationships and being visible is what I need to be because if I'm not
visible and people can't I I've always said that if people are mad at me it's better to see them face to face and sit with them in in the stand so they can talk to me and send me nasty emails or or a phone call. I'd rather talk to them right then and there. It's hard to be mad at somebody when you're sitting next to them. But those are the things. If
I'm not visible, then they'll know that uh that I'm I don't care, but I do care. So, just remember that I'm one person. I can only get to so many things, but I try to get to everything I possibly can. Finally, uh just kind of my I wanted to [clears throat] give you guys my priorities because I think it's important that you know what we're
working on. When I got here, we're moving to uh several new uh software packages. You're going to hear about those integrations here from Scott here shortly. But our big one is Bound, which is our new uh scheduling. There was nothing inbound or in our registration. So, from day one, I've been working very
hard to get all of our schedules in there so our families can see that registration. We're going to be getting out our new registration information and a video to all of our families. Uh, but part of that is that we have a new um student um software that we're using into the campus and we got to be able to
put that together so we can kind of blast out to all of our families. We're not quite there yet, but we're going to get out on social media and working with Melissa on some of that stuff. Um, we want to make sure that we're launching that. One thing that I do want to talk about is my teammate Katie. I don't know
if you all know Katie, but Katie is an incredible person and has so much energy and we're working so much on training her and getting her up to speed on a lot of things that she never got a chance to to learn. And she's going to be just an amazing person for us. And so I'm
excited to work with her and she she's just we want to bring the excellence up to here and she's already there. Um, and then partnering closely with our our community services uh team. We have a product called Arox, which is our facility management. We're building systems to put in place to be successful
for our coaches and for our community members to make sure that they can, you know, if we don't have enough facilities, we have to be smart in how we use those facilities. So, we want to have a system in place that people can sign up for things and make sure that they get those and and everybody knows who's using it and why they're using it.
Um, we have to have clear communication. Melissa has been an incredible advocate uh uh for that. We're looking at branding and making sure that our branding is consistent, the same purple color all the way across the board. Um those kind of things we want to be very consistent at as as we uh broadcast all
of our our uh advertising and those kind of things. Um and then I you'll be talking a little bit about the new activities handbook. I thought it was extremely important that we had one of those things um in place here. we didn't when I got here and so I wrote one when
I was at my last job. So I just used that and just updated it and made sure that we had all the things in place for us to have something consistent and fair across the board that all of our families, all of our coaches and all our kids knew what was expected of them. Um, and it also from a legal perspective
helps us be very consistent and not get into a lot of trouble when we have printed it and it's in writing and everybody can see it. So you I'm sure you've looked at that over the weekend. Maybe you got a chance. Sorry that it took me so long to get done, but I just I did it as fast I could. But we also had the legal counsel look the the whole
thing over. So, it's been looked over from top to bottom by legal counsel as well. That is my presentation. Any questions? I know that's a lot in a little time. [laughter] I have a million things I'd still like to do, but uh we'll get there
at a time. >> Yeah, a little bit at a time. >> No, I know. Well, I can say Dave, I mean, we've [snorts] had a chance to talk and connect a little bit, too. And >> yeah, it's it's the passion. You can see it. So, >> as much as you thank us, we'd like to thank you, too, for So, we're looking
forward to good things and >> um I think there's >> there's always room to improve, right? So, >> and I think we all sit here and know we could do the same thing. So, >> so thanks and we look forward to to watching you go. >> We'll do it together, right? >> That's why we're here. Thank you.
>> Thanks, Dave. Y. >> Thank you. >> All right. Next, looks like we have our technology update for Mr. Orans. I can get it, Craig. Thank you.
[snorts] We had to get Scott in at this meeting before the soccer season starts >> coming up here in August. >> Then it would be impossible. I was going to say Dave's, you know, presentation of talking about relationships as a fall head coach who
starts in three weeks. Uh that has definitely been a priority that I've seen from him and getting to know him and meet him. Um thank you, uh Chair Dolberg and board members, uh Superintendent Johnson for having me here to talk a little bit about just a
technology update. It's always nice to not have a specific topic to have to respond to uh in technology. um and that sort of thing. So, I'm I'm just happy to be able to share a little bit uh of an update on what we've been working on and sort of just how things are sort of
structured. Just an overview for you uh on what we do in the technology department. So, we have four sort of main goals, main areas that we focus on. Student learning of course um and and empowering effective teaching, classroom
learning, um providing access to tools. Um we work on sort of efficiency uh workflows the organization that sort of thing. Um you know the operational side of supporting a school district you know we are you know we have to provide a you know a secure and you know
[clears throat] basically an enterprise class environment uh with the number of staff we have with the amount of data that we have on our students on our staff. Um, and so there's a lot of different pieces that are involved on the back end that nobody ever sees. And then the upfront, you know, things that
are actually going on in the classroom that are on the website. That's the, you know, launching of new platforms and systems. And so those are just sort of four areas um not necessarily goals, but but those are things that, you know, that fall under, you know, the the
technology bucket. um even you know bring in a new activities director and we have a new software platform and it's okay how do we handle that um tomorrow there will be 18 new teachers in this room uh getting onboarded who need 18 accounts and 18 devices and you know so
all of that so having a strong team [snorts] that can help support all of that is really important and so that's the next sort of piece here just to sort of lay out you know a couple of those those ways that we support so Mary Beth Grahams um if you I haven't met her, I'm
not sure how that's possible. Um, she is, uh, sort of frontline, super friendly, um, connects really well, um, especially with our staff, but she is the, uh, primary support person for our student information system. And so, um,
when it comes to how do you take attendance, meal counts to, you know, grade reports and all of that, all that student data and then how do we get that data from our system to a transportation system or into bound for activities or
that sort of thing. Um, she is is key on that. And so, she has spent, we'll talk a little bit about infinite campus in a minute, but she spent a lot of time on that recently. um copers, phones, you know, reports and that sort of thing. A lot of that data management is under her umbrella. Um, as you can imagine, we
have a lot of devices. Uh, and actually, I think I'll jump right to that. So, Nate Selby helps with all of the hardware. And so, we've got over 2,800 uh just enduser devices from the laptops that our staff have here to what our
students have. Um, and so managing all of that, you know, labs, uh, devices in classrooms, there's a lot of those that that go on there, too. And then I did a count, it was easy to count, you know, client devices. We have systems that have that. I added up a bunch of things
and just managed network devices, switches, wireless access points, cameras, all those types of things that people don't really see. There's at least 550 and I probably forgot a couple of systems. So there's just a lot of those, you know, bigger picture pieces.
So Nate handles those Chromebooks, the iPads, the laptops, the classroom tech, projectors, TVs, smartboards, and that sort of thing. And so we are a districtwide department, so we don't have technicians assigned to individual
buildings, uh, which means that we have to respond, you know, all over and and that. So that kind of jumps in a little bit with Nate on hardware. And then we have another Scott and another Johnson, Scott Johnson, uh, who oversees our infrastructure, um, and a lot of the
other systems integrations on that side of things. Um, cameras, door controls, accounts, getting things to talk between systems on the on the sort of security side. Um, and then he's taking points on a number of the cyber security pieces, too. So, our fishing campaigns that go
out to staff and responding to staff, you know, is this a real message? am I getting, you know, fished here? Why am I getting this? You know, that sort of thing. He's been responding and monitoring and handling all the day-to-day on all of that, which is extremely helpful and valuable on top of, you know, all the other sort of
pieces that that we need to do. Today, he and I spent time on a lift in the gym, uh, working on the video display wall before they, uh, you know, resurface and fix up the gym floor a little bit for next school year. Um, so we all sort of pitch in wherever the
need is. Um, and as we jump then to the next slide here that that's kind of encapsulated here. So, I always I've been in technology for almost 20 years. And I've only ever worked for a college or here. And so, I'm used to this year-
round schedule, but it is different in the summer than it is during the school year. school year is all about responding to the classroom and those immediate sort of needs of keeping things going, making sure student accounts are working, make sure that they can get into the new system that we just launched, whatever it is. Um, and
and dealing with that sort of thing, projector bulbs burning out and these devices not working and all of that, you know, along with fixing and and sort of maintaining, keeping things going, um, and responding to those sort of day-to-day needs when a principal says, "Hey, this isn't working. What do you know about it?" You know, we got to jump
right on those types of things. Um, and then during the school year is when we do a lot of the planning for the next school year. That's not happening now. There be no time for that now because now we're doing all the, you know, the maintenance and keeping things getting things ready for that first day of school of going through all of our
devices and repairing them of updating them, keeping things safe and secure, um, and you know, doing any of the major projects or initiatives. So, I have four things on there that go back to 2014. So, replacing all of our copers, that's the sort of summer project we're talking about where we have to get in, work with
a vendor, get in these new machines, make sure they work, integrate them with systems, that sort of thing. Um, last summer we replaced all of our elementary iPads. And so, that was a big lift. We had to decommission all the old ones, get all the new ones ready, package them up, that that sort of thing. Um, that's
not a one day or one week project. um especially when they show up, you know, all boxed and you're like, can't you put like 10 in one box? And you know, so it's that um we replace server hardware and software in the summer, you know, those types of things that happened last
summer. And then like this summer, key big one right now is this transition to Infinite Campus. And so, you know, if you see it flashing at the top, this is slide seven of 10. So, we're getting there. Uh so, the Infinite Campus migration, you know, this is the time that we can do those sorts of projects.
So you all as a school board approved that last fall. We start working with Infinite Campus right away. Then we start our kickoff meetings in the in this winter January time frame. [snorts] And we've been meeting with them every week or every other week, Mary Beth and I uh since that time uh preparing for
this of getting them the data that they need and the data requests working with Skyward to get things moved. And so you know we have to go through all those pieces. And so we're now at that point where we sort of did a soft launch last week. And what I mean by that is we have
full access to the system with our data, but not everybody on site here has access to that system yet. Um, we are pushing out to the secretaries and asking them to check things to look at their students to see what makes sense. Mary Beth just ran a report today of enrolled students. It says we have 180
students. Okay, that report is wrong. Why? you know, where do we So, we want to we want to fix as much of that as possible before we blast it out to everybody. Um, we have had training available since the spring semester. Um, we pushed that out to especially
secretaries to principles so they could have, you know, first first access in to watch training videos to get connected on documentation to sort of see some of those things. Mostly that just spurs questions. Uh, and so we've done that and then we pushed it out to teachers to let them know, hey, if you want to get
in early and look at things, they've had that since right before school got out. Um, but the district has has built in time into um their professional development time in August. Uh, where they can spend dedicated time on doing these trainings. Infinite Campus would
like to see them each do two to three hours of how to take attendance, how to enter [snorts] grades, the basic things so that they're ready on day one. You know, I've, like I said, I've been in tech for a long time. All I know is change. Everything in my world has
changed in 20 years, of course. And so, for me, this is easy. I don't expect everything to work on day one. Like, that's normal. Things don't always work exactly how you want them to. And so, for me, I I'm not I'm not super high stress right now about it because I know
that, but I do know that our staff will be. And so finding that balance of setting that expectation of it's not going to be perfect, but we're doing everything we can to get it to that point because at some point it has to just work. And so we're in a really good spot right now with that where we can,
you know, tweak things and deal with that and have this little bit of time before staff come back and then we open it up and then we'll get a whole new wave, I know it, of questions of I didn't do the training, how do I do this, you know, all of that. Um, we do specifically have an hour for secondary teachers and an hour for elementary with
campus on like a big Zoom where we will have them all. It's in their schedule. So, they are supposed to be there and we'll be able to get a lot of that knocked out and questions answered right then and there. Um, so that's, you know, this is a big one. Um, bigger than most of the other projects that we've done.
And like I said, Mary Beth Gramps has been on this one uh from day one asking questions, questioning things, wondering, you know, what is it that, you know, why are we doing it this way? Is this a campus thing? Is this a Skyward thing? What's our best practice? Uh and, you know, continuing to bring
things to me that that need just those answers and that discussion and that sort of thing. And then we go out to the secretaries, the principles, talk with folks, and find out, you know, what do we really need in this? So, it's been a good experience. I think it's going to go well, but I know it won't be perfect
because nothing ever is. And what's a good technology discussion without talking about cyber security? Um, this is the big one that, you know, 15 years ago, 20 years ago, wasn't as elevated as it is now. um just wasn't something you
you were worried about people accidentally deleting things, not somebody getting into your network and deleting things or worse yet, you know, taking that data away and then ransoming it and things like that. And so um I've been grateful for um you know, budgetary
support the last number of years to be able to put some tools in place [snorts] so that we can feel confident that we've you know done what we can. Um there's always more things that we can do. there's always more solutions. Um, you know, every time you get a little update
on your phone from, you know, Apple or Google or whatever, it's because they're either trying to improve something or somebody has found a loophole through their software. So, the people that are trying to hack in and get at things are always that half step ahead. And so, you know, this is the area where we need to
treat things like an enterprise and not necessarily like a, you know, nonprofit or, you know, a low budget, you know, sort of thing. So that there's there's some tension there of course in all things because you know every vendor wants their money uh and wants to say that their thing is better and so you
know I spend a lot of time on phone calls and evaluating software and talking with vendors and doing those types of things but you know a couple of things you know our multifactor authentication the new smart finance system requires it our Google accounts tied to Skyward will be tied to Infinite
Campus require it so you have to get that little ding on your phone that says you are here. Um, our Google accounts, and we found this out the hard way with some staff members, um, we have some geo uh, filtering on those, so that if you end up in Russia or more likely Jamaica
or Europe, uh, your account will lock if someone tries to log in. So, that's, you know, something that we have on there as a protective device. If someone gets your credentials, your account is locked when someone tries to log in. So, that makes vacations a challenge, but you shouldn't be working on work when you're in Jamaica, is my thought. But we work
with those people and we verify and we let them back in. Um, security awareness training is that fishing and that sort of thing to try to get people to recognize those malicious attempts. Um, you really really only are as strong as your weakest link, that terrible cliche.
Um, we like to, you know, dig in at Greg a little bit that sometimes he might be our weakest link. So, we got to make sure that he's locking his computer and and and having his own uh uh you know, best practice there. Um but you know, we're trying to do that. I will say that
both vendors [snorts] that we've worked with in this sphere, their numbers show that our click rates and that sort of thing are lower than whatever they think the education industry average is. So, I feel like that's good, but I still have a little hesitation on saying that that's like in a really good spot. But
we're doing, you know, a lot in that area to get people aware of what's out there. Um, and of course data backups and things. You know, we've we've had the budgetary support to, you know, when we closed Dr. Knight to be able to move all of our backups were 10 miles north
of here. Um, move those into a more secured location on site away from the high school, you know, main data center. Um, but to be able to put in a little bit of, you know, money into getting that sort of secured, cooled, safe, uh, for that. So, um, and then of course,
you know, our content filtering, student privacy, you know, a lot of that sort of thing. So, those are a lot of the key pieces. Uh, and now I think we're already on 10 of 10 on just general things. So, you can get an idea of sort of what that cadence is for what we do, that school year difference from summertime. So, right now we're in that,
you know, get all the the Chromebooks that were broken last year sort of fixed up, ready to go. Check over all the iPads, update them to the most recent, you know, version of OS from Apple. get all of that ready while doing the infinite campus [snorts] things while then you know on the infrastructure side
making sure that Scott who did start in December of last year is sort of caught up and even joked today about you know how just wait till August 31st rolls around the first day of school um we'll be you know we won't see each other for a week because we'll be bouncing all over uh to make sure that we're able to
support folks as best we can. So if you have any questions, I'm happy to answer them. >> How has I mean I know my own experience with Skyward [laughter]
not user friendly. I guess I'll just leave it at that. I mean, how do you anticipate? I mean, I guess I understand typically any new system, regardless of how userfriendly it is, is always going to create problems, but does it appear to be Yeah. >> simpler?
>> So, there's there's so much data in those systems that becomes the greatest challenge >> and we're not Amazon. We're looking at that sort of product. So, um, with that amount of data, there's always going to be screens and, you know, that sort of
thing that has to present a lot of stuff. Otherwise, you know, you're clicking here and then you get another five options. You click one, here's another five. So, it's it's going to be a little bit similar. I would say it is a lot more user friendly once you get the hang of it as far as how they're
able to present things. Um, you know, is it going to look like, you know, your target checkout cart? Of course not. Um but it is better in that way. Um one of the other benefits here is that it um while we have these integrations with other platforms like we're going to be
able to push data into you know a bound and activities or that sort of thing. It also brings a lot of tools into its own ecosystem. So we were paying separately for a flexible scheduler at the middle school uh and the high school for a little bit too. Uh that's all built in
our messaging product. the sky alerts that that Greg would send out when there's you know weather days and things like that or principles are reminding folks about conferences or the like that's built in. So that's a thirdparty tool that we don't you know need to manage or pay for. So there's those big
benefits I think that come from it. Um yes when I started here the old Skyward um was antiquated like that was the first thing I noticed when I logged in was like what is this like this is bad and then cumulative was supposed to be
that big step forward for us it didn't turn out to be that way and it was it was time to switch um you know and having that local support as well with with Infinite Campus they're a Minnesota company so while they don't have a contract with the state like they do
with some departments of ed and some other states where they run all student information for the whole state. They have, you know, a very good understanding of the state of Minnesota and education here to support us. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> One of the questions I get asked and I'd
like a proper correct answer. As we've bought new Chromebooks and iPads and such, what happens to the old ones? Um, so old devices are decommissioned and then for the most part they're either sold off or they have no value left and
they end up being recycled. >> And so things >> sold off to how? >> So we work with a third party that has worked with a number of folks in with a number of school districts in the state of Minnesota. So >> So they go to a different school district. >> So they go to that company for the most part. Like when we're getting rid of the
iPads that we replaced, we had sixth and seventh gen iPads that we replaced with 11th gen. >> So you kind of do the math and you can see how old they were when we got rid of them. So from my perspective, they're no longer a secured device. If I was another school district, I would not
purchase those. They generally end up in third world countries or to smaller sort of nonprofits or that sort of thing that aren't as concerned about the security ramifications of using old devices. >> Um >> they're just not sitting in a closet somewhere.
>> No, no, they are not >> because that had happened in the past. >> No, they are not sitting anywhere like that. Um we actually scred up a few that we didn't get rid of last summer. So I just got a a quote from two companies that do this refurbishing work. Um, so
at some point Heidi will get a5 to $6,000 check for the, you know, few hundred that, not hundred, the ones that we found was a few hundred that we found that were in closets and cabinets that we sort of made that conscious effort to bring the rest of them back and get rid of them. But a lot of a lot of the
things like we do try to get the most value out of things that we can. Um, so generally there's a really low um, you know, they're not worth that much at the end, but the Apple products are that exception. While Apple's no longer supporting them or writing updates,
there is still a value out in the market for them. So getting something for them when we can is absolutely something we need to do. >> Thank you. >> Any other questions for Scott? >> Um, yeah. I got an email from Heidi wanting me to sign up for this. Do you
want schoolboard members to sign up for the system? >> Yeah. So that would have been that would have been from first smart. So SMART is the new finance software that's replacing the Skyward finance module that was in there. And so yes, I believe
you get a uh stipen for being on the board. So I think if you want that, you need to sign up for it. But we can talk about exactly how to do that later and get you in there. That was legitimate email. >> I spam. >> Yeah. [laughter] But see, Mark, I would much rather like
I would much rather hear that than you click on the wrong email, right? >> And set something up that is not us. >> Yeah. So, that false. Well, that one was interesting because it was from my account, but it had Heidi's name on it. So, we'll give you a pass on that one.
>> But we have gotten because I know I've gotten emails. So, I had one from Doug one year and I had a few from Tim Borgi and >> they all wanted me to go out and buy >> um >> gift cards >> gift cards for them >> and they would reimburse me the next time they >> and and you guys are prime targets for
that. Principles are prime targets for that. Business [snorts] office staff are targets for that especially because you know they have that access to >> I understand where Mark is saying okay is >> absolutely yep and that's that's where I would much rather question something than just jump in the wrong one. So,
>> okay. Well, not quite four or five minutes, but not 45. >> Hold on. Thank you, Scott. >> Thanks, Scott. Very informative. >> Okay, next we have Mr. Johnson's report. Yeah, jumping off of what Scott shared with infinite campus. I just want to say thank you to the board
this spring you made we made a decision to eliminate a workshop day professional development day [snorts] next May and we converted that to professional development time in August for our staff. So when they come back, Scott
mentioned there's an hour of infinite campus training for staff during workshop week, but they also have four hours of training, which is part of that day you convert it back in the summer to prepare themselves for Infinite Campus. So I I have a little bit of PTSD as well
from Skyward Transition, but I I feel really good about where we're at with with Infinite Campus. The other the [clears throat] other four hours for our staff [snorts] during um it's it's independent PD time is that
vector training. I don't know if you've heard us mention vector and that checks the box for harassment training, workplace safety, b anti-bullying, uh bloodborne pathogen, all those fun things. So it's a good use of everybody's time.
You have a document in front of you that has a summary of new staff and I'm not going to spend a lot of time on that and I have a copy. Um Jeff, if you're interested, I have an
extra one here. >> Okay. >> Okay. We do have a a large number of new staff. And if you look at the list, you can see um a couple of district-wide people that historically now
the school psychologist position. We've been short as school psychologist for quite some time, even so much as needing to contract out virtual school psychologist work. So, it's nice to have another person on site. And our due
process specialist has also been virtual support. And this person will be on-site supporting staff. And again, those are just really important positions to have when you run special ed on your own as a district. We're lucky to have those
folks join us. If you look at the number of new staff, pretty heavy secondary new staff when you look at the middle school and high school. won't go through those, but it's not the
only really new addition that you'll see [clears throat] in here would be the approval of the secondary interventionist, which we've filled that with two internal people and then went ahead and filled their positions.
You can see Lincoln Lindberg preschool on the back side has little flyers. We have some internal shifting with position changes of staff. You'll see the interventionists in there. And then just uh a couple of more than a
couple a handful of staff that we are in the process of hopefully finalizing their hiring process. Any questions you might have? Um, I think Dave mentioned tomorrow this room at 9:00 will be full
of those folks and that will be in onboarding orientation and then August 18th and 19th we bring them back in for two days and do an overview of district type orientation from teaching and learning business services principles
meet with them. I meet with them. >> So we try to keep them busy. Next school board meeting, August 10th, I'll have all of our principles here to present to you. And what they're going to do is provide a summary of last year,
the highlights from their building, share a little bit of data, and then they're going to present some information about what they're looking forward to this year, what their areas of focus are, which will also include data. They'll give you a little bit of a staffing update so you can hear more
directly about new staff impacting their sites as well as enrollment numbers. I hope we can enroll a few more kindergarteners between now and August 10th. Also would like to schedule schoolboard
committee meetings in August. I'll send an email out to you folks. And I'm going to turn it over to Mark. Just a couple of building project updates. It's been a little bit of a quiet summer, but in regards to our solar array and high
school kitchen. >> Yeah. Hi everybody. So, um I'll start with the solar array. That project, if you remember, we received a grant from the Minnesota Department of Commerce to put in a ground mounted solar array, and that
work has finally begun. all all the approvals through the state have taken place and they have started the uh they've they completed the driving of the poles into the system. So as as you drive down 11th Street around the corner
to Fifth Avenue Southeast um you can see the poles there and you can get an idea of just how big this array will be. Uh I I'm being told that we should anticipate that that project will wrap up sometime
uh the end of November for all of that construction and tying it into the um existing system. We'll have to we'll have to find a day when we don't have school to uh to do the cut over because we'll have to cut off power to the building
and while they connected into the high school for us to be able to capitalize on that solar power. So it it'll take some coordination at that end. Uh the high school kitchen is coming along.
Um we and [snorts] we've if we've provided a drop dead date of when we need it to be done of August 14th. >> That'll give us a full week before workshop week for us to get in do the final cleaning. Um start to get it
organized and put back together. Um you can imagine it's a 52y old building actually 54 year old building now um with 54 year old plumbing and a few other surprises that you have to
deal with. Um but uh we've been able to navigate those and and [snorts] come up with some solutions. Um, and that project, I think when people see it, they're going to go, "Wow, wow, this is really going to be much more efficient and much more effective, not only for
our kitchen staff, but for the students as well, and they're serving wine." So, it's coming along very nicely. We need to thank uh Lindsay Kren and her team at Woods for helping us come up with a really good plan for how we can create [clears throat] these efficiencies
uh for the building. So that any questions? >> Maybe we can look at a uh opportunity to if you're interested to walk through and take a look at it some point in August. >> Sounds good. >> Thanks, Mark.
>> Thanks, Mark. That's all I have. Certainly have. >> Okay. Thank [snorts] you. All right. So, next we'll hop to new business. Um first item is the approval of the activities handbook. I know we all got a um draft of it before and stuff.
Hopefully you have a chance to take a look at it. Um any questions or concerns? Otherwise, I'd entertain a motion to approve that. >> A motion by Dan. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Second by Mark. Any further discussion,
questions? Okay. Hearing none. All in favor signify by saying I. >> Oppos. Same sign. >> All right. Motion carries. All right. Looks like we have another resolution. Yeah, this this is the approval of our
long-term facility maintenance plan. And we have a couple of experts here to help us walk through that because it is a little bit unique where we have our standard annual 10-year LTFM plan that we need to approve tonight. And I'll have Heidi speak to that here in just a
minute. And then in addition to that 10-year plan, as we've talked about at our work sessions, um we have an LTFM plan plus because of the indoor air quality work that we want to move ahead with and take care of at the high school which is necessary. And
I'll talk a little bit more about that after Heidi walks through our standard LTFM plan. And we do have a resolution at the very end which is more connected and and ste let
me introduce Steve Steve Pumper from L PTMA financial advisors who is a big part of our team and as Mark mentioned Lindseay Kren is here too from Woodset. So if uh I need to be be corrected let me know. [laughter and clears throat] But one of
the things that we'll need to do is approve that 10-year plan which includes the indoor air quality work. And then we also need to approve a resolution and that's what you have in front of you there, [clears throat] Kelsey. That um allows us to move
forward in stating that we want to issue bonds for the Why don't you two come up to the table? Yeah, thank you. >> I am going to just step in and correct you just a tiny >> Please do Steve. I assumed you would. That's okay. So, um, Superintendent Johnson's correct that you every year, every district, including yours, takes
action on a 10-year LTFM plan, long-term facility maint. Um, included within that same resolution, however, is an intent to sell some bonds to do the IAQ work, which we're going to talk about. So, what I would suggest is, you know,
certainly Heidi can lead us off. You can go through the project if you want to describe a little bit what the project's going to be, Mr. Johnson, and then I'll tell you how we're going to fund it, which is all included in the one resolution. There's not two separate actions, is just one action. >> Okay. >> Super. Thank you, Steve.
>> Heidi, you want to speak just to the uh call it the annual projects. We have a little bit shorter list this year just because of some of the work that looms ahead. >> Yes. So, as both Superintendent Johnson and Mr. Pumper had shared. Every year
the school board is tasked with approving the 10-year long-term facilities maintenance revenue, which we are funded through uh the state of Minnesota uh through our levy process, some state aid, some levy, and some debt
service for prior long-term facilities maintenance projects that we that the board approved. and then also general fund money for those ongoing uh deferred maintenance upkeep uh on facilities across the district. So our revenue is
based on uh a few factors uh the age of the buildings uh the number of students uh pupil units we have and then it's split out uh in our case between fund seven I think I said fund six earlier
but fund seven to pay for those uh projects that we've uh did and approved prior and then the other half other portion of the proceeds goes into fund one and that's where we build that long-term facilities maintenance fund balance, which is about a million
dollars um that we're projected to see uh with our audit coming up. Uh and over time, we continue to get that annual revenue. Uh we continue to maintain our facilities. Some years our projects are high cost items uh that we have been
most recently the last couple fiscal years. And then we plan out 10 years what what will that look like? And it's a you know it's a highlevel snapshot. I work closely with Mark uh have worked closely with Woods and um PTMA team uh
most recently because we have some big bigger projects uh and what falls into what we'll talk about in the IAQ versus what I'm uh presenting tonight. And so on the expense side, uh over the next 10
years, we're looking at uh uh probably about a $400,000 uh project uh with general fund uh LTFM money uh to replace the high school gym floor. I believe that's going on 30 plus
years. >> 54. >> Oh, 54. So we even haven't replaced it once. Okay. So, and I think they last 30 are are slated to last about 30 years. And so, it's a much needed uh facilities maintenance requirement to do that. So,
we're slating that for fiscal year 28, which would uh mean they would begin that work next summer. Uh and then the the next couple years out slating uh again about $400,000 to uh maintain the
bathrooms in the different buildings. So whether it's the high school bathrooms, our elementary school bathrooms, uh each year looking to uh uh update those uh just like for like repairs and maintenance of deferred
uh uh bathroom facilities over the years. And then we have what I would consider just annual uh every year uh long-term facilities maintenance costs which include uh your annual fire inspections that are required by the
state um any uh health and safety consultative uh partnerships that we have. And so we can use long-term facilities maintenance funds for those as well. >> That's about it on my part. pretty standard.
>> Yeah. >> Make things a little bit more complicated and exciting. Mark, if you want to come [snorts] up too and and be a part of this. I I guess what I'll do is have Lindsay and Mark talk more specifically about the plus part of this
year's plan and adding se over $17 million worth of work to improve the indoor air quality and mechanical systems at the high school. something we've talked a lot about throughout the referendum process and the importance and need for us to be
able to do that work moving forward. So, if you two don't mind taking it away. >> Yeah. So, um during the referendum, we talked a lot about the indoor air quality issues at the high school and that that was something that no matter
what we were going to have to to wrestle with. and and so uh we myself and um the team from Seth and the team from have been looking at >> [crying] >> uh what that work needs to be to improve
the indoor air quality at the high school and we have uh put together um with Woods Seth's help a report that will go to um Innesota department ad for
their approval for us to uh do the indoor air quality project uh moving forward. And so really um there that's the budget. There's another slide or another page there that kind of
has a map. Greg. >> Oh, I didn't see that. So if [clears throat] you look the colored areas, whether it's the green, the gray, the pink, or the blue, those
are all areas that are affected by this indoor air quality project. Some of those spaces are affected in different ways, and that's the color coding, but they're all affected to some degree by this project. And so you can see it's
taking up a large portion of the building. It's about 110,000 square feet, I believe, if I remember right, of project work. So that that gives you kind of a perspect
perspective on the size of the project. Now, if you want to go back to that budget, [snorts] there's a lot um there's a lot of different things that have to happen, but you can see that the biggest share of this is dealing with putting in new
air handler air handling equipment um upstairs in the auditorium down by the girls locker rooms That's that's where your $9.6
million comes from. And then there's the electrical work, the ceiling work, the sprinkler work. Those are all things where stuff has to get adjusted and shifted around. And so in order to do that, you have to account for those expenses. And we built that in. [snorts]
So all said and done, uh, you get to a total of 17,272,000. [snorts] Do you want to add anything to that? >> I think you did a really good job. >> I don't have anything to add. >> Before we go to our presentation, which
will um describe how you're going to pay for this, right? I mean, if you have the $17 million, do you mind one of the two? Um because we're also going to talk about um at the same time that you do this work, you are going to be doing some um classroom remodels at this the
space that that work is being handled in. So you just wanted to kind of describe for the board what's going to happen there. >> You go back to the maps >> and the reason that I mean this is pertinent is because it's going to happen at the same time and there'll be two separate funding mechanisms how to get that done. So, the rooms that are in
pink and in blue are are spaces that um so this is this pink space is your current media center space. This space we would figure out a way to divide it up into at least six classrooms.
And then up in the social current social studies area, there is a classroom there that uh needs to have a wall added to it to enclose it. So there's a room there. And then there's three of those rooms down here at the bottom that we would do the exact
same thing. There are three walled rooms. We would put a fourth wall on uh add a door and enclose those. that would be done to allow us to um eventually move the middle school
students, seventh and eighth grade students to the high school. This blue space is well, if we're going to take this space for the meat as from the media center, we would take this blue space, which is back here, is all air handling equipment. We would turn this
whole space into a new media center, an open concept media center where uh it would be open from the corridor into that space instead of kind of a closed off room. But that's what the blue is representing. And so that's the
other pieces that Steve's referring to. >> Not part of the LTFM plan. >> Correct. Right. And do you want to switch to the presentation I have then? Great. Great. >> Good. Yeah. If you go to the the first
page or second page, I guess there. Okay. So, what we're talking about is is what Mark just mentioned that the cost of the um indoor air quality project, they we say IQ a lot. Um is that $17.2 million number almost $7.3 million.
And the state of Minnesota, I mean, the Minnesota Department of Education um allows districts through board authority um to issue bonds to fund this type of work because they realize, as Heidi just mentioned, you have like a million
dollar fund balance, you know, for LTFM. You do not get enough money on yearly basis to do a project this size. And so there are certain exceptions. Indoor air quality is one of those um that the Minnesota Department of Education, actually it's the legislature of course
that passed the passed the statute allows school boards to take action to fund that type of type of um construction project. So, what your your long-term facility maintenance plan resolution that you will take action on
tonight is saying is that you are um planning on issuing bonds to fund 17 almost $3 million worth of of projects. Now, where comes in is there's a narrative that goes into the Minnesota Department of Education that explains and gives them all the data um why this
is necessary because it has to meet certain code and as long we still have to wait for Department of Education to approve it. We certainly expect they will based on all information. This is a pretty much a slam dunk. Um but that's the process and that's resolution that you're taking on right now. [snorts] The
second piece um which this is the first time we've mentioned the total here. So just under $1 million is what Mark just described as some of that renovation on the classrooms. The state does not allow school boards to um levy this on their taxpayers cart blanch. Okay. So we have
to come up with some other type of of funding mechanism. the what the what we're showing you right now um is selling um capital facility bonds um which would mean that you would issue the debt, you get the $1 million upfront and then you'd pay it back from future funding that you receive, but it's not
additional levy dollars. It's just regular capital dollars that you get an annual basis. So you're you're committing yourself in this case for a 15-year period of time to use some of your annual capital appropriations to pay back a bond in the future. I'll show you show you that different slide. We do not know for sure that this will be the
mechanism, but I want you to know that you have a mechanism um you know in place because we'll determine that as we go forward. The next slide just shows you um how we plan on issuing the LTFM bonds. Um it' be 20-year debt um even over the course of the 20 years. Um we
still have that big drop off after a 10-year period of time that allows the Little Falls um school district some room to do additional projects if they need to. um you know as you as you look forward um and then the next page which this is important for board members to understand is based on the information
that we have us today with increasing rates by a half a percent of what the market was actually last week on the 23rd if you look at I mean it shows various um dollar amounts of a residential home and commercial industrial etc but the highlighted one just for discussion sakes a $225,000
home um would have their taxes increased by $119 $1 um annually um if the district takes action on selling his bonds. Okay, that's our estimate at this point in time. All right, the next page has a little more data on it, and
this is the capital facilities bonds. Um this would be 15-year debt. What's probably most important on this for um I believe board members to appreciate, I know Heidi and Superintendent Johnson do, is the green column on the far right hand side, which would say um that if
you you'd be making almost a $100,000 a year payment on that, which would represent roughly 17% of your capital allocation um on any given year for the next 15 years. So you still have 83% left of your allocation to spend on the things you need. Um so that's you know
just one of the options just to let you know that there is an option available to get that that funded as well. The next slide I'll talk about the next [clears throat] steps. So, um, as both Heidi and Superintendent Johnson mentioned tonight, you are acting on the
LTFM plan, which, um, includes the regular tenure tenure stuff that that Heidi talked about, but also says that you're going to proceed, um, with a bond sale of up to the $17 million that we're we'll wait for approval from MGE to get.
Um, we are not um, you are not taking action on tonight's meeting to sell a bond. We'll come back in the fall for that once we have approval from the Minnesota Department of Education and we'll go through those steps as well. Um, but these are the required steps to be be able to get it into your levy for
taxes payable for 20127. And then the last piece I have on here is that Witsth is, you know, um, as board members know, completing a facility study that they will share with you. When we have all of those [snorts] projects put together um and the board decides what projects they want to
proceed with, if any, um we'll come up with a financing plan which would include the remodeling. So again, this is suggested right now from the information that we know to do capital facility bonds. There might be a different methodology when we know all the projects that you want to do at that point in time. um but you're not taking
action on selling bonds for capital facility and you're not taking action even on on issuing LTFM but you are um stating that that's that is your intent. Okay. U there's one more slide I'm sorry superintendent Johnson and that just
says that again you're approving it. The one piece I didn't mention is that part of the approval process is uh you do have to um publish a notice of intent to sell these bonds in the newspaper. So that will happen. Um, and with that, I'm happy to stand for any questions [snorts] you might have on the financing.
>> So, just to summarize for the I guess for [clears throat] the remodel, the million dollars, so to speak. So, the options, if I understood it, how you did it is we could get the financing for it. We would pay roughly over the 15 years
17% of the allocated money that we're we're getting a year. Correct? If I understand that correctly. Or the other option is we pay it out of the general fund, right? >> General fund, assigned money, >> assigned money, whatever. >> So, we could do it without >> And there's other
>> there are some other bonding methods. There's even a bonding method that you could >> um would have a tax impact. So, you wouldn't be using any general fund money. We have just um if you recall, we just paid off a capital facilities bond
project that helped support was it the last uh air handler unit or indoor air quality project >> for Lincoln in the middle school. >> And so that was just paid off in October of 2025 and so now we have our full 100% allotment of our capital facilities
unless we decide >> down the road. And I believe if I'm right, Heidi, that was like a $250,000 payment annually. >> Okay. So that was more than Yeah. Right. >> Okay. >> So we get 400,000 a year roughly. >> Um
>> I think it's 560 >> 560,000 roughly a year. Yeah. So [snorts] you would have 460 left. >> Um >> does that increase every year? >> It's based on the number of students you have. >> Okay.
If we did go out for a bond, what's what's the current interest rate we would have to pay? >> Well, it depends. If you're going for like the 20-year bonds, those facility maintenance bonds, they're going to be north of 4% right now. The bond market has not been good to you the last or anybody the last couple of months. The
war certainly is made an impact on that. Um, but again, when we would sell these, you would obviously know this and it would be back. It'd be sometime this fall likely for it to happen and think a lot of things could change between now and then too. >> But yeah, I would say it's north of 4%
for sure. >> Not five, not four and a half even, but >> north of four. >> All right. Any other questions? >> Want me to read this then? >> Resolution time. Yeah. Thank you,
Kelsey. >> Okay. Take a deep breath across the water. >> All right. Resolution relating to general obligation facilities maintenance bonds declaring official intent to issue and approving a 10-year
facility plan for fiscal year 2028. Be it resolved by the school board of independent school district 482, Minnesota as follows. Um the official intent facility plan approval and district indebtedness. The
district is authorized, pursuant to Minnesota statute section 123b 595 and chapter 475 to borrow money by the insurance of its general obligation facilities maintenance bonds. This board hereby
determines that it is necessary and desirable and in the best interest of the district to declare its official intent to issue its general obligation facility and maintenance bonds in a principal amount not to exceed $17.5 million.
The proceeds of the bonds will be used together with any funds of the district which might be required to finance indoor air quality projects at district facilities as described in the district's 10-year facility plan for fiscal year 2028 hereby approved by this
board. Pursuant to the provisions of Minnesota statute section 123B59 595 subdivision 5, it is hereby determined that the total amount of district indebtedness as of July 15,
2026 is $19,635,000. The bonds may be issued in the 2026 or 2027 calendar year, issued in multiple series, and issued in combination with any other bond bonds authorized to be
issued by this board. As such, the bonds shall have the title and series designation as it is deemed appropriate by the district's municipal advisor and bond council. Approval by Commissioner of Education of
the State of Minnesota. The facility plan will be submitted to and approved by the Commissioner of Education of the State of Minnesota as required by Minnesota Statute Section 123B 595 subdivision 5.
Notice publication. The clerk has or will cause notice of the intended project, the amount of bonds to be issued to finance the project, and the total amount of the district's indebtedness to be published in a local newspaper of general circulation in the
district. And it looks like I'm ready for a second. >> Okay. And then we'll do a roll call. >> Whoever that was. >> Sorry, I seconded it. Okay. >> I seconded his second. >> Okay.
Way to seal it, Mark. [laughter] >> Stan, [snorts] >> yes. >> Doug, >> yes. >> Julie, >> yes. >> Sharon, >> yes. >> Mark, >> yes. >> Myself, yes. >> All right, motion carries. Great. Thank you everyone. Appreciate >> Thank you, Steve. Thank you, Lindsay. Appreciate it.
>> Thank you, Mark. >> All right, so next we have Facilities recommend >> facilities recommendations. >> You know what that part of what we just blended that together. Yeah. Thank you.
>> Yep. Okay. Then next we have the approval of the district handbook. Um again you should have a copy of it and a chance to look at it. >> Some minor language tweaks. Um we we ran it through AI and it it encouraged us to
make it a little bit more user friendly, nicer language. So, we made some minor tweaks and we did add some AI language as well, >> which will probably change tomorrow. So, [laughter] >> and this is part of the required reading for staff during their orientation when
they do that eight hours of work with Vector training. We're able to dump and put our handbook into Vector where they can read it and then sign off that it's been completed. >> Okay. So, I'm looking for a motion to approve the district employee handbook. >> So, move. Have
>> a motion by Dan. Do we have a second? >> A second. [snorts] >> Second by Mark. Any further discussion? Okay. Hearing none. All in favor signify by saying I. >> I. Oppos. Same sign. >> All right. Motion carries.
>> Next, we have the approval of classified and non-certified sub rates for the 2627 school year. Um again we have uh like two documents in there. One as the non-certified and one as classified sub rates. Um that is an
action item. So something that we would need to approve. >> Um so I'd be looking for a motion. >> I'll make a motion. >> A motion by Kelsey. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> A second by Dan. Any further discussion or anything to add on it? Um
>> these get tweaked as we settle contracts then we adjust and >> these numbers as well. >> So they went [snorts] up a little bit from last year. >> Correct. >> Okay. >> Okay. Any further discussion or questions? No. >> Okay. Hearing none. All in favor signify
by saying I. >> I. O. Same sign. >> All right. Motion carries. And next, um, you'll see there's a student handbook, first read for all the various the CEC, the preschool, and all
the other schools. Um, so again, just take a look at that. If you have questions, certainly get them to Superintendent Johnson or um Chelsea. >> We'll approve those next meeting. >> Okay. There's a lot of reading.
[laughter] >> Okay. All at once. >> Yeah. Um next 10.7 the approval of a memorandum of understand between Little Falls Community Schools and MEESA school employees association for behavioral support parap para profofessional
classification. So within the parah contract we have two parah classifications. We have building student support parah and then which is at a lower pay rate and then we have a special education para pay rate which is slightly higher. We've instituted in our
buildings behavior paraprofessional support to help teachers uh put together in buildings put together proactive plans to support students that are nonsp specialcial education primarily that are struggling with behavior
um situations and need that support. And so we're asking that those behavior pairs because of the level level of work and data that they collect that they would be paid at the special ed rate of pay and not the building general ed pair
position. And that's what theou states. Okay. So that is an action item. So looking for a motion. >> So moved. >> A motion by Kelsey. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Second by Sharon. Any further discussion?
Hearing none. All in favor signify by saying I. I. >> O. Same sign. All right. Motion carries. Uh, next is approval of the MA um membership for 2627. It's a just a local
I guess a for lack of a better word. >> Yeah. Well, it's an annual deal, but it's kind of a like a lobby group for >> for rural education. So, um, do I have a motion? >> Motion. >> I have a motion by Sharon, second by Dan. Any further discussion?
>> Hearing none. All in favor signify by saying I. >> Oppos. Same sign. >> FYI, the MA fall conference registration link is out there. If you're interested, give Kelly a shout. She can sign you up. >> Okay. >> When's the due date for that, Kelly?
>> I'm not sure right now. >> You let us know. >> Yeah, I'll let you I'll send you I'll just link you all in tomorrow. >> Okay. >> Thanks, Kelly. >> All right. Then 10.9, we have a an approval of the Woods IQ contract. Um
that was just the discussion that Steve and Mark and Lindsay put together. So >> standard uh contract and next the next meeting we'll have the integrity contract as well but seeking your
approval so that Wit Seth can begin this work which they kind of already have. >> Okay. Do I have a motion? >> Drag it out. [laughter] >> I make a motion to approve. >> Motion by Mark. Do I have a second? >> Second.
>> Second by Dan. Any further discussion? [snorts] All right. Hearing none. All in favor signify by saying I. I. >> Oppose. Same sign. All right. Motion carries. Looks like no old or unfinished business. Board member reports. Mr.
Gerby, what say you? >> I attended the class reunion >> of the ninth grade class in 1972. So that class was the first one that went through
>> the new building. >> The new >> Were you a guest or were you a participant? [laughter] >> I was a a participant. >> It was only our 50th year class reunion. >> Exciting.
>> So good time had by all. [laughter] >> Good. Did you go to the principal's office for time? >> I didn't tour the high school. I [laughter] said I still owe detention. and I wasn't going back in that building at gunpoint. >> That's all I have. >> Okay. >> Sharon,
>> uh going forward, August 13th is registration day. Um I will be there to let teachers and parents know that are watching this. I've received a number of donations to help parents with crayons, paper, things like this. If anybody else
has any contact or donations to get them to me or they can be dropped off at helping hands [clears throat] um store in Little Falls and Rose will get them to me, but I will be up there for the day on August 13th and then whatever there's one package we have
that is mainly just for teachers. So, especially new teachers, we're hoping they'll pick all those items up. >> Super. >> Yeah, that would be awesome. >> I did tell them I hope I was correct. I was hearing from teachers they didn't need backpacks, but if anybody needs backpacks, we have a slew of backpacks.
>> That's good. >> But right now, she's filling the backpacks and giving them to the courthouse for foster families. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> Thank you, Sharon. >> Okay, Chelsea. Tim,
>> uh, Little Falls 14, you Flyer girls had their state softball tournament this weekend and they took second place. >> Wow. >> Thank you. >> That's great. >> Nice. Your daughter on the team? >> She was. It was hot. [laughter]
>> I bet it was. >> Good. >> And I have done before. So, >> I'm sorry there. We had two, speaking of that, we had our two track coaches were recently named the AAA coaches of the year. Meg Cameron and Caitlyn >> Scalazich.
>> Thank you. >> I think Dave had it actually in his report. It was up on there. >> Yeah, >> I was reading that when he wanted me to. >> He probably didn't want to say the name though. [laughter] >> Sorry. Sorry, Caitlyn. >> All right. Any other business to come
before the board? All right. Hearing none. A motion to adjurnn. >> So moved. >> Share. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> We are journed. Thank you everyone. >> Exciting.