okay I need motion second please second was that John right any discussion questions those in favor say I
opp0 comment okay 5.0 is the being on the community ed committee I just want to wholeheartedly thank Denise for her years of just growing the activities that we have for not only our students our
you've done an amazing job so thank you you all the best andise yeah okay now we got work at 6.0 Communications report and Denise who are first here I am um we had a pretty successful uh winter Youth Sports uh program as you can see we had a long
list of um basketball teams um nine teams in all I included pictures in my board package it's always fun to see the kids that are doing it and it's fun to see um the smiles and them wearing McCrae jerseys and um future lies with them so um and then uh we did Saturday
Hoops for basketball we had 26 kids in that and then we also hosted two um basketball tournaments um the boys were January 18th and the girls was February 8th um if you remember that was probably the one weather day that we had all winter um so there was a few schools
that couldn't come that day but we still had it um wrestling was a really successful we had coaches Mike bristley and Jeremy schaer we had that on Wednesdays after school seen with the wrestling program is we really have made an effort to connect with the quad Elementary program so more of our kids
are actually going into quad tournaments and going is um part of that so I think our programs some um you know some improvement on that um but I do want to publicly thank all my volunteer coaches
because they put in so much time and we couldn't run a program without them so other programming this winter um lot of other youth enh a lot of steam classes with engineering and science and art and crafts and music and then adult sale um
Fitness bball Zumba and joh would working again this year and we've had open gym on Sundays and we average about 35 to 40 um people at that so that's been good I included my spring booklet um in the packet so that's happening right now and that'll go through me um
we had our ECF preschool registration night last Tuesday it was a we had Zoo here so that was fun um the snakes are a little too much for me but the kids seem to like um touching the um the snakes
one thing we really try hard and that's why we call an ECF because we have a lot of resources for parents educational things and different things that they can pick up that night too um so it's just a chance for us to reach parents um on helping them with parenting which is
such a difficult difficult job these days um and um I included in the packet kind of a comparison for tuition um again um Just for information purposes um if there's something that you want to consider it wouldn't be for this next
year those prices are set yet for um what we have for two days is $160 four days is 320 um but you can kind of see how area schools it's really it's hard to compare because everyone doesn't really different we have four days they have five days sometimes they
have half days we don't off half days so it's really you know you have to take a lot into consideration when you're looking at this comparison but it's just something to maybe look at for the 26 27 school year if we do one because we haven't raised rates since I started
with it's been a while something to consider on that um the other thing that I've been working on is I've had some meetings about summer W already um we've had a decrease in the 212 leag as far prinsburg and bold have dropped out of
it so we're forming like a mered league for sum rck in the mornings and that could included there's still some unknowns but Benson dson boy um us of course mon video RCW Yami and mile um instead of like traveling a lot we would
just have game days so there would be two schools that come to one site or three schools total and then we would play kind of so I'm hoping to save some money Transportation expenses on that adult adult basette is going well um we
have our daycare program with it we average about six adults on Tuesday nights and about five or six kids are in a day program um community garden with our nice weather today um people are starting to think about that and we'll have a planning meeting in March where
we kind of lay out kind of how to be a good neighbor and some of those type of things but we'll probably have some open thoughts so if you hear of some people that want to do some gardening let me um the you scholarship we have around $2,000 in that I am going to be writing
a care collaborative for because Summer is a high use and sometimes we can almost spend $2,000 just in our summer program um you can see the facility use um it's going to be busy this spring the lion senior bank for is the 24th of March senx has their annual meeting on
March 25th we're going to host a volleyball tournament on March 29th um bricks Motley will be here April 12th and after P will be uming um one thing not on here is that we've lined up a charter bus for the game on Thursday um it was hard to find someone
that had a bus available to us but I finally going one and Falls um we do need to charge $30 for it because it was pretty expensive um but the Hoops Club is going to help sponsor part of it so that's good but I couldn't find a bus for so at least we have
Thursday um but I do want to take this opportunity to thank each and every of you been always so supportive of my work and made it quite aate any questions GNA ask are you recommending that we change those
preschool tuition rates you know I think it's something for you to consider um I think we're on the low side of what's being charged by area schools I know Lo over6 that's a 5 program but they get done at 230 we go till 3:30 so that's why sometimes it's a
little hard to do a comparison but I do think it's worth talking about you know looking at our expenses and and considering we haven't raised our rates in probably 10 years it's considerably less than Day Care pass it really is and when you look
at that it's it's it's really a good deal Charing I think but we want to keep it affordable really we met a couple weeks ago about really trying to you know figure out some scholarships for families and stuff too because we do know that there's some
families that even at $320 it's difficult so we try everything we can to work with families come up with a different payment plan um scholarships and some of those kind of things I think that just needs to be part of the conversation to make sure that we don't
something that can exclude people because of that large one time cost or of a hassle to constantly collecting money right we um bill out monthly you know um we start in August and our last bill goes out on April 15 um we do give
them the option to pay for the whole year um and some op for that not not many some do automatic withdrawal from the checking accounts um so again too we try to be very flexible we try to I think
we're for this next 2526 but we should like again you bring up a good point I think now is when you have the discussion so that you can plan that out so when we do registration next march it's already that you know if you decide
to do a price increase what do we have an idea Denise about um the past had some issues with pains is that still an ongoing yeah we there's always a few families that we have to work a little bit more with but there to we come up with whatever they can pay
for the month um so we set up a different payment for them although it's going to take them longer really good about that some um kind of do like every couple months or they make kind of a payment when they can monitor
them we do the best we can to help famili so here's just another thought I have because um Child Care is so hard to get into and what not do we have any idea how many families are having to pay for child care because maybe they don't
have an education complate effort at the facility that they're at and are sending their kids educational component so are they p double those just wondering yeah that's a good question I guess I don't know the answer to that I could try to look into it if you want me to Yeah
because sometimes if you get with the provider you pay regardless if you're or not so right especially because we don't have to go on Mondays or we do but um what Arrangements do they have with daycare and then to hold their spot do we have to pay
more I'll question hopefully did you guys get an updated one it's yellow one in the I made some additions and then [Music] pairs um so the top part there um about State BPA we did not have anybody
qualify um outright to go to the National Tournament but sometimes qualifiers in certain events May back out from another school which offer an opportunity to of our kids to make the national um competition that would be Tolen Iris
Dunner and then the team of Rachel seen Leah hardbeck Irish Dunner and Kennedy shamla Izzy Gore and Addy Su one of them place but they're the ones that if some other people would drop out of other schools that that potential is
there um the second one there just to highlight gymnastics as you guys old gymnastics team that we are we have a couple girls a part of over Ben Kan Mass made it to the state tournament first time I think their coach is that's the
last and they made it it's been a long time 194 um they got seven place but we have M post and Addison your daughter you agree there watching oh yeah Cella they were they
competed in in their individual events they didn't make it as individual part of the team and I I see here Mia was on the bars and Addie on the ball so but it sounded like I I reached out to the coach Chris Noble um she actually lives in our district here but she uh she just
said they both did a great job and and really enjoyed it the girls enjoyed we did a little walk through the school for them they did that at each community and that's that seemed to be pretty well received the elementary kids that weren't in the lunchroom pretty happy they had some kids making posters for them and all that congratulations to
them um e there Blake Grimley is is our sole hockey player we do have a pairing agreement with Marshall which there are lots of different schools in that pairing agreement because they might just have one hockey player or two Blake is a real big part of their program last
year they had a lot of success of as a team this year they weren't near as good they ended 11 and 15 their coach just said he was he's a real big part of their program um then the yellow highlighted an F that is where we have some new information obviously you know the teams
we beat in the subsection and then last week we defeated Hills beer Creek in section finals and it was uh it was quite a battle I I never felt relaxed the whole time I started to maybe about two minutes left I think when we started to foul G out and she started sinking
free throws and stuff that took a little uh stress off but uh we play that we were the number seven seed and we play number two Watertown mayor they took the fifth in state last year there's some common opponents this year the first time we played minota we beat him by
around 30 Watertown mayor beat him by may excuse me mayor Luther yes thanks did I have it wrong yeah Watertown mayor there's another May Luther is it in watert I think it's in mayor oh okay but
um they're good they got a couple twins that are exceptional athletes and uh we just hope for the best we we'll play at Mat matur Pavilion which is the backside Williams Arena um at 3:00 on
Thursday uh on the back page then justel Johnson set some records this year she get her coaches record of he was an area of 1600 points I think she's an AA of about 2,200 right now with more games in the state tournament a full season next year so I got a feeling that's going to be
way up there but she's just a phenomenal player um a thousand rebounds during the season she got selected as Cana conference player a year which that hasn't come out the media yet but uh well now and I think I I I got a Instagram
post that she received like the second te which they made it look so real it turned out to be it was like a it's like a basketball magazine that they've selected it and I tried like crazy for me to find where it was because she was actually selected first team All State
and there's only 10 members per class so she's one of the um first team Minnesota girls basketball coaches association All State players out of 10 in the state so again congratulations to her and her team I mean she needs her team with her they've all done a great job they all
they all have their um their roles on the team and like I said we just wish them the best of luck uh let me skip five for now I'll go down to just more positive acknowledgements but Math League finished it season you can read the majority of that but Mr Olson wanted
me to acknowledge the seniors toen do Ella Hulen em owned do Meer and Elizabeth Wallace Klein and then point out that Ella Hulan finished her math League career the third most career points scored in Mr 's 10 years as the adviser but so congratulations to them on on sticking out math lead and being
part of it for all these years number seven knowledge bow um we're Seth folk is the coach he's he's actually going to keep working with the kids he asked is okay if he work with more this summer the last couple years we've only been able to have a JV team and this year he he chose to take the JV team and compete
at the varsity subsection and uh they qualified for the section meet or the regional meet and there were the majority of his team were at BPA state so they they had to give their position up to someone else but still that was that was kind of neat
that they did JV all year and still qualified so congratulations to them uh wanted to point out the dance team received the bronze academic recognition recognition plaque and it's out behind this desk out here and that takes you
have to have a average under team between 33 and 349 for GPA so that's pretty fantastic as well uh the spring play is practicing getting real close here March 22nd and 20 or 21st and 22nd is our two or it's
going to be our two presentations the performances uh if any you guys have an opportunity to get out at 7 o'clock each night and of Green Gables is what they're performing I was going to have a verbal presentation large group but that didn't start till 5:30 this afternoon so it'll
have to be next month and you'll see the date so coming up in Benson and number 12 spelling be Mrs bristley leads that up for us and we had a seventh grader Ethan Deacon took third place at the regional event out of 29 students so he
was I think he was given a medal and something newspaper so that was pretty awesome for him um something I didn't have on there we we are working on looking at our tennis courts our tennis courts have some damage and some pretty severe
cracking right now and across four of them so we do we're looking at some estimates we just don't want that water to continue to go down underneath and then we have destroyed courts pretty quickly so it's something we already met with the city so they're aware of it also since they have some ownership in
courts as well and I know it's not 50/50 but um just so you know that's something we're looking at right now that we don't want what happen our track when we stopped taking care of that um we want these to last as long as they can but we definitely have to get something fixed
there so those cards are quite new right seven or eight years yeah and that's it's six to eight years that they need to be yeah Reed recognition so there's no like warranty things like this is kind of expected this is expected y it's SP they said it's right in the there of
seven years and this is exactly when you plan on you should be doing we want to now because the deterioration will go fast you know once it's at this point um and lastly thank you for coaches I'm still working or thank
you for approving the spring coaches I'm still working on a couple positions yet lastly was what I passed is number five boys tennis I only had one boys sign up I had a had a sign up meeting in here one day where I did an H call to 12
actually to 6112 and not one kid showed up and then we've put it in announcements and had sign ups in both offices and one boy stay up and just can't so I wouldn't say we have to cancel for the future but we have to try
to start promoting and maybe find a way in the offseason to create some interest and stuff so we can keep the program you know moving along but it doesn't look like you no something that I missed it's what I have anybody got any other questions for
Jun noer city is connected there yep I I've heard different talks about pickle ball courts in the area is that kind of the same has there been anything the schoolall courts or anything that we're not in favor of painting all over the new they're going to be freshly painted
lot of towns do that on older courts you know just you start getting all those lines on there it's just difficult for the tennis players and stuff and we are looking at other options um we got a a black top area back here that we talked about painting pickle ball lines on last
summer I think we looked at that and you know I know people want to be outside too but we have six painted on the floor in this gym six in the big gym over there and three so we actually have 15 pickleball courts pain in our gym this point no I I I'm not in favor of
having those lines all over theor uh and the city is talking about doing something else so we talked to them they the other day Julie Al said they they were not in favor of paying pickle lines on torts either but she said we have some other discussions going
on okay thank you Jim I will be brief um as Denise mentioned Mar 4th we had our preschool registration just a great event she a nice job of really stream lining things getting a lot of families in preschool team does a really good job kind of
setting up booths so they kind roll through they they register they pick up snacks uh they get little token stuff an animals they have a picture station and then the zoo was there so just a really fun event and a good attraction to get people in into our our school numbers
are right around 60 so that's a little bit below weev around 65 but we'll get a few more that are going to uh triple in as a we so pretty close to that jump on down the bottom we'll do our kindergarten round up on the 25th of this month and that
will give us a better idea about where those numbers are going to be and for kindergarten right now looks like those numbers going to be a little bit lower than we had we had had hoped for so we'll see how that turns out um just a quick update for you on the MCA
Academy um we only have four sessions left and then we'll have our celebration we we going to miss one day for a really good reason the real State basketball tournament so um it's been I would say a success for our first year we've got about 30 kids that have been coming out
a pretty consistent basis uh nine in third grade 12 and fourth grade and nine in fifth grade there's always you know a week to someone sick or I think um Jil volleyball start announced that PS a couple of our fifth grade girls but uh overall they're having fun I think we're
make making gains so we're excited to see what those results were be take those tests which is coming up so next time weet we'll be talking about the NCA test that will start right away that first week in April that is it unless you have any questions for
me no questions for you thank you all right Mr we awesome thank you very much good evening everybody got things I want to go over here with you uh first one would be bullet point number three we had uh February 20th we had the West Central
CEO group came into the school and sat with our 10th and 11th grade students a bit of a Sal pitch uh no pun intended there but it's an opportunity for them to talk about a program that's outside the walls of the building and a great opportunity for our kids stretch sh legs and some skills that will carry them
over into the but we ended up having 20 could be 21 uh students that came over our own and then they they gave a little presentation a little Q&A and then we also had a couple of local businessmen came and sad just talked about the
opportunity they wish they would have had and how this would have been tailored to them and just keeping prais with on it this program has actually been in place for I believe it's six years ago it started under M Sparks through a li Grant if I remember correctly and so we're proud to be able to keep it going and it's a really good
opportunity to really showcase and highlight the cooperation between theun District I want to make sure I highlighted that been a wonderful evening uh or two evenings of parent teacher conferences uh I did did round up the number for you we ended up having
about 79% attendance 80 is kind of my goal and we've been really good up to that point I had a couple numers that came in over the weekend that I was able to Crunch in they dropped it down just T So 79 nothing to nothing to be ashamed of actually I was talking to an area principal and said numbers were looking
like and he said wow whatever really 10% to show up so very happy with our parent teacher conference numbers uh we have our senior class officers they've been elected and so this is going to be the my first of three sales pitches for highlighting the fact that we have
commencement coming up when we hit the may may meeting the the church method and reach out to if you're interested in attending participating so we get that going uh 2526 calendar will be on its way through next month have an inial of it going out
and making sure that it close down the the hallway here and we get numbers crunched and all that good stuff so we had that for you one of the final things that we were waiting on was our react dates that we were going to have on the calendar and just heard from Mr beram today that they got back so we're going to be able to get that in and get
that final answer pretty quick so looking forward to getting that taking care of it's it's not an easy thing to do and lots of opinions and getting feedback and all that it's be to get to you guys uh the calendar happenings things I'd like to highlight the spring concert was be on 313 again because of
basketball game that was adjusted tentatively to the 18th which will be next Tuesday from the on that still so I just want to highlight that for you make sure that you knew it was going to be adjusted uh
the the the beginning of the end of the school year happens on March 24th that would be the lion Starship dinner and that again it always always surprises me how quick it comes but it's a wonderful wonderful evening to come and celebrate all the scholarship opportunities and be
up to our great uh and then on 44 just wanted to highlight the Minnesota uh Dental sealing program good opportunity to support our our students and families in the district that might need a this support of that Avenue and so we have them coming in to work with their kids um couple little bonus nuggets for you
here um Mr Bertram and I uh posted the north collaborative principles group last Tuesday uh that would have been principles from Bold ecgc and ler Prairie we did have one individual from Buffalo Lake heer was on so we did a tour of the whole facility and then we held our monthly meeting with them so
that was good and then lastly I just wanted to make sure that U it was publicly acknowledged for Jim and Josh and all the leg work that went into uh everything happening since last Thursday evening and the massive amount of work and and feedback that they've been getting and make sure just to say thank
you to them for making sure everything is the right direction to support our girls you you well good evening to all um I too want to reach out and say thank you to to all of your your work and I'll I'll come back to that in just a minute but
um hats off to our girls basketball team and the coaches and your managers you know what a celebration of success that they have the opportunity to go down and compete in the in the State uh class a basketball tournament and not only represent their classmates but also to represent our school and and our community so hats off to them um before
I get into some of my other notes I do want to talk about the schedule for this week and I also want to single out some people that are in this room right now um I want to thank Denise for stepping up in community ed to get a community bus so that the people that that may not have the opportunity to drive down to the metro area would have that
opportunity to go down and support the kids um thank you to to Jim um ever since that game got over he's been texting and calling with me and others you know and work on Logistics um you know for the coaches and for the the teammates the managers the you know all the others that need to go down there
and have their names in the Vota State's High School league and you know the registering of rooms and food vouchers and things like that um it it's just a little thing but typically you know schools will give money as a stien to kids for meal money well now when so many places are are cashless you know in
the metro area it's like okay now what are you doing you give the kid each a school credit card so we're not doing that but uh through Kim and Jim's work they've been able to get that taking care of um thank you to Jesse who ever since Thursday night has been working on
communication through the alerts and through social media you have to make sure that that our families know what what to expect this next week um thank you to both Todd and Jud who have been working on daily schedules to adjust that so that every kid that that would like to go has the opportunity to go with a with an excused absence and then
also working with our adults and our staff members too so we can adjust some things so they can go down whether it's on a fan bus or whether it's they traveling with aam whatever might be um there's a lot of behind the scene things with with that going on and then uh to Kim too with just the the scheduling and
the financial pieces to help you know gym with so to pull this off so it really is you know the best experience for our kids in our community so thank you to all of you and then to the school board thank you very much for for keeping your phones on on uh live so so
that you could take a messages and voice mails and calls from me and from others too I really appreciate that you all six of you and how you have represented our constituents um you you have you have answered tough questions um you have you have you've given them the background to
why we're doing what we do and and you've done that all in the best interest of kids and so I appreciate that so thank you very much for your service and your commitment so this week the state class a tournament starts on Wednesday um our girls do not play until Thursday as Jim said at 3 pm so we have
chosen on Thursday to have an early out at noon on that day I said we'll have fan bus and we'll have a steady stream of traffic going down to the Pavilion which will be very exciting on March the 14th we're guaranteed so the state tournament a number of years ago made a
change and I think to benefit many outstate teams that don't have opportunities to go to the state tournament that often it used to be a one andone for many many activities and now they've guaranteed more opportunities to play a second game that's a good thing for kids that's a good thing for for our community to see
that but there's no guarantee on what time that game is on Friday chosen to have no school on Friday so that people could attend the 10:00 the mean or the 2 p.m. game on that that Friday Championship then would be on Saturday and we're not going to have school on
Saturday so so those of us that wanted to setek we're not going to that um half a day early out on the Thursday um we will be making up Friday on Monday March the 31st um any student that attends the game um with permission from their moms
and dads will be an excused um so if there's any concerns or if there's anybody that's watching online that has know questions or concerns certainly call the the district office and you can visit with me or others and um we'll listen to to um to your voice so I appreciate that so thank you any
questions about that before I go on with some of the other items okay all right our school year calendar 25 and 26 is in the works both Todd and Jud have been working with their staff um getting some inut on calendar will look like next year but also to preparing for what it might look
like you know in the near future you know two years out or three years out the reason I say that is because the react certainly has changed our calendar with this year and next year we'll having three professional learning days for our our teachers primarily in kindergarten through fifth grade they
need that literacy training but that will change uh after next year and the secondary will look a little different when I say secondary I mean the sixth through 12th grade teachers their literacy training will look a little different Elementary staff will need to do um finalizing those PD days like I
said specifically with the redak literacy training and that's something Mr buram has done a wonderful job and taking the lead you know making sure that the teachers development that they need um right now looking ahead also to to next year's um Staffing um looking at numbers
you know looking at classes that have big numbers looking at classes that have smaller numbers and just making sure that um that we're doing what's right in the eyes of our community and our consents and also to our students um wrap up with IC IC is the company did that did our athletic project and also
did our building project um Dan Hans has just been a wonderful person for us um not only with those projects but also too when we had the flood this last winter um so he has come out met with Jim Kim no and myself just to kind of wrap up up some things um four day
school week we've been reviewing past applications we've been looking at other schools past application we've had three public meetings um has taken the lead with with sending out surveys to not only our parents but also staff and students you can see some of the the data there we had over 270 parents that
that uh sent back survey results with over 90% of those people responding I'm hoping that we'll continue to have a 4day school week um we had a table set up at the middle school high school and Elementary conferences on nights and there are some people that came by and I think at first they thought we were
giving away pens or giving away treats or something like that and then the next question they wanted to ask is you're not going day week are you we're seeking your interest on a four day week not the opposite some parents did want to have a six day week um but we we hope to have you look at that today and hopefully that can be finalized and get sent to
MBE we continue to work with acgc and BBE they're in our areas they have four days School weeks just kind of throwing things around just to see how they are changing with times and just so we're using best practices with the time that we have with our kids um negotiation prep we will begin a teacher negotiation
and staff negotiation uh all the contracts of the district come due on June the 30th with new contracts language starting as early as J July the 1st um thec teachers union has started the process and they have to request some information and actually you know ask the school board to meet with them
and uh that that's really typical for a school district for their teachers you need to ask for certain data so that's not out of the ordinary um for them to ask that I have sent out students or EXC me I have sent out staff surveys to gather data just in regards to what is their is their dreams what is going well
what could we improve upon just to get some climate prior to going into those negotiations um legislative action continues to change just within the last six weeks I've been to the capital twice um today I was in in St Paul and visited with some of our Senators and our
Representatives um Senator Lang and then also Senator Baker and uh just in regards to primarily School finance and uh looking at how does earn safe and sick time how does Family Leave affect the school district differ than than a business um and then also to sharing
some highlights of what we do with a four day school week um it it was great to have time you have very limited time with them you know they put you on the clock and it's like okay 28 minutes later you're walking out the door um but but it was good and and they both have have uh have shown interest in in
visiting our school and not just to visit the school and talk to Administration but also go into a classroom you to to share who they are their responsibility I think that would be a great education um we're in the process of finally finalizing the redak the memor memoranda
of understanding and what what that what this redact is for is how are teachers compensated for the red so part of their compensation is their regular day when they come in to have professional development but also between sessions that we have at school they're expected
to put in some additional hours working on some modules independently and they do get compensated for that um part of that is an option they could be um financially with with dollars they also could be possibly compensated with credits and then those credits could be
used towards a lane movement if they 15 total credits 15 and then an increment of 15 more to get to 30 so that's another option that they might have we are finalizing our Southwest West Central these are our Co-op contracts making final decisions on what services
we're going to get through the co-op and maybe which ones will put to the side and rethink about um commercial for the co-op it's they provide great Services um but at what Financial cost what are some things that maybe we can do inhouse um that we don't have to then sign a
contract with them to do miss bristley on March the 5th took 30 about 30 10th 11th and 12th graders to a summer job and internship fair at Y where kids could be exposed to different opportunities this summer to work um whether it's seasonal thing whether it's restaurants or whether it's career
opportunities so they came some some good information there and uh as we speak we're involved in the superintendent Search msba is with us tonight and uh prior to this board meeting we began to talk about candidates and that will be narrowed down very soon and that will be shared
with the public and then after this meeting we'll also continue with our special session to narrow down interview questions um and the interview process process itself that is my not for tonight anything else so when do we find
out this 40 we application it's approved yeah that is a question I'm going kind of look to my left to see for those that have gone through this half how quickly do we do we get that usually the last possible day which they give us 45 business days from when we submit so if
we get it submitted tomorrow 45 business days is like May 13th or something like that and I believe last time we got the letter from the state on that day the last possible day with the application I think this is
interesting for you folks to know too is each time McCrae or other 4day school weeks have to reapply they have to go back and look at what did they do for an application process before and then what are you doing currently to improve upon what you did before and so an example public meetings we looked at how many
people totally met at a public meeting the last time and it was it was under like two or three per site when they had them so we decided that would we change that up and put it on nights of conferences or on nights of activities and uh we had dozens of people that
stopped by our our table to ask questions and then also too Jesse did a very nice job of he set up um QR codes for those people that could take electronic uh Fage right then and there we had it in both English and Spanish and then we also had paper copies available for those people that didn't
have opportunities to do it electronically um one of the one of the cooler episodes that night is um we had a homeboys basketball game during one of those public meetings and the officials while they were announcing the the the the starting lineup were're at our booth talking about the four day week like are
you guys going to get out there before they temp they were so intrigued and had so many questions about what how do you do this and really you do that it's like get in there you stretch out anything else great thank you yeah well I was just going to say if they
don't get back to you in a timely manner and they don't approve your application yeah let that that goes go ahead ask with the paid FMLA based upon our total amount that we paid off for salaries have we figured out what our
percentage is going to be I don't it's um well the percentage is8 4.4 would be our the school and then employees what is our total Sal 50,000 us 50,000
yeah is not is not I know not I think the maximum can and then on top of it TR is going up well that's going to cost us more and actually they're raising it for the
employees long that and that still is in session you know it's going to be both the Senate and House being so balanced um but there's there's many bills out there there's many house files and Senate files out there about you know pushing that off one year at least
um to prepare for that for the family leag but it's it's just so keep but there's people out there that are working working for you know not only schools but also for employees too Josh you addressed
excused absence for students yes um one of the issues in the community that came up is teachers who want to leave early as well as bus driver staff things like that yeah can you just address that yeah so first if they are a district employee um like you mentioned two different groups you mentioned teachers and also
bus drivers we do contract with Palmer and so they are their employeed so that would be something that I'm hoping that they'll be able to work out for our staff that work within our building you know they should be going to their building principles they should be going to their supervisors um they should be coming to meet so that we can work
something out it's going to be a caseby case basis um but not only do we want as many kids down there but we want staff down there and we want them to get there safely not have their rush I think uh that's an important thing to point out thank you okay anything else for
Josh thank you 6.2 is committee I would add one thing we had some windage oh yes and we were able to that Andor
but when got broke on the return oh I going to say is that an insurance issue so because of the deductible we have it could be an insurance but um we we know people in the community that know how to those
repair we do and so okay I will say one thing to the football fields have been tilted because of the wind out there that happen when they inst
so should it's only they are but so you think the contractors insurance helping TI that ticket move back up is going to cover all that all right uh let's see
question 6.3 I guess I was along with what you're talking about so I'll get that taken care of anything else anybody wants to yeah we'll keep on moving here okay business items 7.1 I need a motion to
approve the four day school week for school years 25 26 through 3031 I'll make that motion we have a second that you've been any discussion on
that after looking through the application I just want like the district did a great job collecting data kudos to the efforts like what you described Jos I mean very favorable the
respons have I was just going to say some of some of the editing um is unique because they give it to you as like PDF they being MD then they want it back to them as a Word document and we work in a Google platform so we'll we'll look that and
address any of those typos can I keep this oh thank you one question is like if something were to change if we wanted to go back to 5 day not that I see that but if you're locked in until 2031 are you locked in until 2031 or can you
like recuse yourself of your request I think you'd be able to go go back to MD and give your explanation I think this for for most State most schools I'm just going to say for Rural school districts that already have a four day week this is this is this is great to be having for six years versus three it allows you
to focus on something else in the next three years other than another doc it's a beneficial thing I certainly think they would um especially with the current commissioner will Jeet that if he was still here during the course of six weeks you could sit down and read
that all right uh those in favor of approving scho for years5 26 through 3031 say it's a okay 7.2 a motion to approve the revised budget
for fiscal year 2025 so have second any discuss about that I upd one because I found one I've gone through this a gazillion times
there's one number that changed and that was the revenue under Capital outlay it's $4.99 now it was little I just have one question just as I'm going through this more like and understanding so you're working like
three years worth of budgets like last year this year then looking forward to next year I mean to me this difference from the original and the revised budget seems pretty minimal I is or is this kind of consistent with what you normally see this is pretty consistent because as we go through the school year
MBE adjust some of the numbers based on student enrollment in Resident versus um you know the um districts yeah open enrolled and served you know who served in the school actually so the numbers
are fluctuating and then you know sometimes you have more subs and you know different things change throughout the year so but I try to get it as close right any other questions those in favor of approving the revised
budget for fisc year 2025 say name okay 7.3 need a motion to approve changing the school calendar to have an early out at noon on Thursday March 12th school on Friday March 14th and having
the full day of school on Monday March 31st I'd like to make an adjustment before we make a a Mor March 13th 12 12 the 12th is the 12 the state tournament we are y
That's okay so it'll be an early out noon on Thursday the 13th no school on Friday the 14th and the full day of school on Monday 31st any discussion fa say
I we need a motion I'm way I'm sorry okay who was going to make a motion all right second I'll second it such a hurry say looks like we just got a list of our
meetings there and we canj so motion for it good good with okay um those in favor say I