Welcome and good evening as I am calling to order the regular school board meeting of Independent School District number 882 at 6 PM on June 16th, 2025. Um, please note that uh, Superintendent
Eric Olsen is not here with us this evening for the meeting. And please stand and join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance 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. And before we approve the agenda, um right before this, we had uh a little hospitality hour for all of our donors
and volunteers in the district. Um which was awesome. It's our second year in a row that we've done that. And so, um we had more of a turnout this year than we even did last year, which is great. But for anybody that's um watching tonight and has been a donor to our school district or a volunteer, um we just want
to say thank you so much. We wouldn't be able to offer the experiences that we do, the enrichment or the support to our students without people like you. So, thank you for helping our school district. All right. Now, we will move to approving tonight's tenative agenda. So
moved. Second. Moved by Melissa Curtis, seconded by Casey Root. All those in favor, please say I. I. I. Opposed, please say no. Motion passes. 6. We have no citizen comments tonight. We
will move on to item number five, fiscal stability, and we'll look for approval of consent agenda. So moved. Second. Moved by Melissa Carter, seconded by Casey Root. All those in favor, please say I. I. Please say no.
Motion passes. 6. All right. Now we are on to collaborative connections. I'd like to welcome up to the podium our activities director Gary Revnag to go over the men the Minnesota State High School League resolution for membership
for having me here tonight. Um each school um that's a member school for the Minnesota State High School League has to do an annual resolution. And so at this time, I'm asking for our school board to please do that so that we will be a member school at the Minnesota State High School League for the 2526
school year. Resolve that the governing board entity of Monosel School District number 82 located in the state of Minnesota delegates the control supervision regulation of intercolastic activities and athletics to the Minnesota State High School League and so hereby
certifies to the state commissioner of education as provided for by Minnesota statutes. Second moved by Jeff Hegley, seconded by Melissa Curtis. All those in favor,
please say I. I oppose, please say no. Motion passes 60. And then we're going to move right into our activities update with our athletic director. All right. Thank you. Just put some pictures together here
right before the meeting that will be on while I'm speaking. So, uh, what a school year for Monosel activities. The entire school year was absolutely amazing. our student athletes just did exceptional. I'm going to give you a quick spring sports update. I'm going to
start with the adaptive bowling. Um we had another outstanding season for our team. We had eight athletes qualify for state. Addison Lees, Payton Mossman, Brianna Parks, Hayden Ford, Cademan Cruiser, Kaden Lam Lambert, and two
bowlers placed at state. Jenna Kingstead pictured here. She placed ninth at state and Braden Anchuk placed third. So there are two medal winners there. But then also earning all state honors for the regular season. That's top 20 in the whole state in their division. We had
four bowlers, Jenna Kingstead, Brianna Parks, Payton Mossman, and Addison Lees. So congratulations to our bowlers and coaches. Uh we also have this as part of our uh adaptive fied program. So, we have Coach Grahams and Coach Miller that oversee our adaptive bowling team. So,
congrats to them. Adaptive softball this spring again were called the Coyotes with St. Michael and Buffalo and they had another dominating spring. The Coyotes team uh finished five and three. AJ Joseph from our high school led the
team in home runs and brought the energy, they said, to every game. So, congrats to the Coyotes. They were one win away from advancing to the state tournament again this spring. We did advance to state in soccer and in floor hockey the previous two seasons. So they
had an amazing year. Boys tennis. So boys tennis, they finished 17 and five. We took third place in the Mississippi Conference in the section individual tournament. We had two players, Wyatt Hansen and Caleb uh Colbuck advance to the final day
represent us representing us in the doubles tournament. So congrats to everyone on the tennis team. Two state or two section finalists are are in the pictures there. Trap team, we finished first in our conference and Lance Clery who is the defending state champion last
year at state trap. He is a junior. He's a senior this year. He was a perfect 100 out of 100. He was Star Tribune athlete of the month. First time they picked a trap shooter. Well, Lance's parents are our coaches. They do an amazing job. And uh he's qualified for state, which means
he's in the top 100 out of 10,866 uh students participating in trap shooting this spring. So, Lance is our state representative. He will shoot on Friday. I'm not sure what time yet. Sometime around 12:00, I think, at Prior
Lake. So, good luck to Lance. He's our only athlete that's still competing here this spring. So, other uh performers for the boys, our top performers on the team, we like I said, Lance Cle is a senior. Mason Gibson, a senior, tied for
second in the conference. Riley Bunning, a 10th grader, also tied for second with Mason. And Dylan Giri was a 10th grader, was fifth in the conference. And our top performers for our females were Lily Zacharias. She's a senior. She placed
third. And Evie Bloom, a sophomore, finished in fifth place. The team placed second in Alexandria. So, they missed out by one place advancing as a team to the state tournament. And there's a picture of me handing one
of our shooters. He was 25 for 25 when I was out watching him one night when they're at the sportsman's club. So, they get a patch when they shoot a perfect round. So, he had a perfect round while I was standing there. Softball. Softball team had strong
leadership from our seniors this year. There were many close one-run games and some that went extra innings. The wins were fewer than we had hoped, but the perseverance, commitment, and heart shown by each member of the team was undeniable. Josie Ordorf was voted into
the All-Star game, and she was all state honorable mention. She's shown in the picture on the left there. So, congrats to our softball team. Baseball team. Varsity baseball team won the Mississippi A Conference for the second time in the last three years. The
team finished with the record of 148 and one. They beat Zimmerman 9-0 to start the playoffs and then they beat Becker six to zero before losing to Princeton and Tatino Grace in the final. Senior Brock Hol will be representing, he's pictured here, you're representing the
team in the All-Star series in June. and Brock Holt House, his brother Kale Holt House, and Carson Dybo were all named to the class doubleA all state team. There's a picture of Carson. He was a strong pitcher for us this year as a sophomore. And his dad is our head
coach, Cole Dyel. Boys lacrosse, after graduating 10 seniors last year, our team had a lot of spots to fill and needed a lot of players to step into new roles. Thus far, they've continued to do that dayto-day with the young roster. the milestones that they accomplished this
year. They beat Morehead and Morehead has gone to state the last five years and we're the only team in our section that beat them during the regular season. Unfortunately, we lost to St. Michael Elbertville in the semifinals and they went up to Morehead and Morehead beat St. Michael to advance to
state girls lacrosse. The Magic went six and seven on the regular season highlighted by wins over Becker, Brainard, and St. Cloud. Captains were Willa Charmer, Addie Kipith, and Brooklyn Lindberg. They had a strong 2025
class of nine total senior players. Five members of the senior class are going to be going on to play at the collegiate level. They lost their first game in sections to Elk River, and Elk River ended up advancing to the state tournament. Boys golf. There's uh Brady McGriff
right there in the picture. Boys golf team finished third in the Mississippi Conference. We took fourth at sections. Uh three out of the 11 advance as a team. So we're just one place from advancing the entire team to the second day. But uh we did have three golfers
that made it on their individual scores. Brady McGriff, Carter Leky, and Campbell Bosacker advanced to the finals. And congrats to Brady Griff and Carter Lumpkkey for advancing to the state tournament. A picture of Carter here. We hadn't had a golfer qualify to the state
tournament in over 25 years. And we had two this year on the boy side. So it was a lot of fun. I went and watched them tee off at the state tournament. And um amazing golfers in the state of Minnesota.
Girls golf. What a season. The girls golf team had the best season they've had in decades. They won all eight conference meets were the conference champs for the first time since 2003. During section play, the entire team advanced to day two of competing by
placing in the top three out of the 11 schools. Junior shown here, uh Laney Opats advanced to to state for the second year in a row and she'll be back next year as a senior for us. Boys track. Boys track started out the
season with the largest freshman class in recent history. Boyce finished third in the conference despite having some key guys out with injury. Our JV finished second in the conference and we finished second in sections to Becker.
And then in the state tournament, we placed third overall at state last week and Becker ended up winning the state tournament. We had 12 individuals advance to state which is impressive. And we had two state champions. Gus Starzac pictured here. He's in the lead
there. Gus is the fastest athlete in class doubleA winning the 100 and breaking our school record. Elvin Bro play is the state champion in triple jump. The like I said the team finished third. Um advancing to state. Gus
Starzac advanced in shotput the 100 and the 4x100 relay. Elvin Bro play in triple jump and the 4x100 relay. Tavy Girtton in the triple jump and high jump. And um Tavy Girtton. Tavy finished second in state in the
high jump. And he broke a school record this year at 6'7 in in the high jump. Courage Durango uh in the 4x100. DJ Hman in the 4x100 and the 300 hurdles. Ben Fosen in the 400 and the 4x400 relay.
Stanley uh Sterker in the 400. Alex Zederval in the 800 and the 4x400. Eastston Mack in the 4x400. Aiden uh Penna in the 4x400. John Curtis in the long jump. Melissa's son and Ethan
Wilmer in discus. So just an outstanding representation of Monaceel by our boys track team. Here's a picture of the boys and the girls at the state tournament. So the girls track team, they finished second in the conference and the JV team
won the conference meet. We finished second at sections and we had school records set by the following. Kayla Gead set the school record this year in the 400. Isabelle Mahoney set the record in the onem and the two-mile and Lauren
Hansen in the long jump and the triple jump this season. Advancing the state, we had Lauren Hansen in long and triple jump, Isabelle Mahoney in the two-mile and the one mile, and shown here is Isabelle Mahoney, and that just happened
to be me. I was working the state meet and they said, "Hey, the board members aren't here yet. Would you like to come put the medals on the place winners because your runner won the state tournament?" So, I said, "Absolutely." So, I was able to put that on Isabelle
Mahoney as a state champion. She's worked so hard for that. So, that was the 3,200 that she won the two-mile. Kayla uh Skistead went in the 200 and the 400 and on her relay. Kayla is the state champion in the 400 meter dash and
she broke a state record with her time there. I believe it was 54 seconds at the state meet. The 4x200 relay of Lauren Hansen, Casey Liladol, Maya Paladins, and Kayla Skieststead advanced and they won the
state 4x200. And this relay from Monosel has won the state championship four straight years. So, we've only had double A in track for four years. We've won that race every year. And I was talking with Coach
Niggard today. Next year will be the first year someone else will have an opportunity because we will be in AAA for track. So we will not be at the double A track meet. Um also going to state in the 4x 800 Whitney um Salah Mia Morris Lauren
Wringle and Kylie Anderson. And then uh we had our Mississippi 8 conference meeting today. Kayla Ski said because she's a two-time state champion. She's been named the female Mississippi 8 athlete of the month for June. So, congrats to all of our spring athlete
athletes. Huge success again this spring. Any questions? Pretty amazing. That is absolutely amazing. And in fact, one of the the track athletes grandmother was here tonight for our donor. Yeah. And so that
was kind of neat to see. Yep. Yep. We have a proud mom sitting over there with her son making it to state and um yeah, it was just a lot of fun the whole school year. Um all of our teams did so well. Our athletes represented our school and our community so well. And um
yep, we're in a move up a class for most of them. Some of them are already in the big class, so it won't be a change. But um most of our teams will be moving up next year and I expect us to compete very well again next year. this year's junior class, so next year's seniors
extremely loaded with talent. So, we are going to reload for next year and run it back again and try to win some more titles. But, uh, this is year 15 for me. We have never had this many state champions. And one of the goals this summer at the high school, we'd like to
do a recognition board of all of the state champions since Monaceel High School started competing with the Minnesota State High School League. So hopefully we can get that done this summer. Um to recognize all of the individuals and the teams that have won state or school. Oh, that's fantastic,
Gary. And that's really a large testament to you too and everything you do. I mean, you're in those pictures, you're at those events every single night. You're supporting our athletes and it doesn't go unnoticed. Thank you. Thank you. Good job.
[Applause] All right, we'll move on to item number seven, teaching and learning. This is where um we get to celebrate the career and retirement of um Miss Cindy Fashing. So Cindy, if you want to meet me up by the podium, that would be fantastic.
You get to stand here awkwardly when we talk about you if that's okay. Yeah, just gonna hold your plaque there. So, tonight we and I'm sorry Eric doesn't get to be here tonight um for this because you guys have worked many years together, but tonight we have the
great honor of recognizing and celebrating the retirement of Cindy Fashing, our director of teaching and learning. While our superintendent can't be here in person, I'm proud to share these words on behalf of the staff, the administration, and the entire school board. Cindy has been a cornerstone of
our district, someone whose impact has reached every single classroom, every teacher, and most importantly, every student. Her passion for education was not something she ever clocked in or out of. It was part of who she is. She worked long hours, often going above and
beyond what was asked because she believed in the power of teaching and the importance of doing things right for students. Whether it was leading curriculum work, supporting staff, or helping guide the district through challenges and change, co many others,
Cindy approached every task with professionalism, heart, and a tireless commitment to excellence. Her thoughtful leadership and unwavering dedication have left a lasting legacy in Monaceel. Cindy, thank you for putting your heart and soul into your work here. You've made a difference. You will be deeply
missed here. We wish you nothing but happiness, rest, and adventure for your retirement. You have certainly earned it. So, please help me celebrate and give Cindy applause. [Applause]
Congratulations. So, we also have this here for you made here. Of course, you know that. And um I'd like to read it a little bit. Okay. So, please accept this gift as a token of our appreciation for your service to the Monaceel School District. It is our hopes that the shakuderie board serves as both a
reminder of your many incredible years of service and as a symbol of the gatherings's experiences and finer things that are still yet to come that yellow card and this is from the board as well. So thank you so much. A
plant of course because you help everybody grow and learn. You got it? No doubt. Okay. I I'll bring it to I'll bring it to your chair for you. Oh, thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. I appreciate Do you want to say anything, Cindy? Really? You absolutely can. No, I I just want to
thank um Monaceel 10 years ago who chose to hire me at the ALP and I got to got to get my start here with students who struggle. And that happens to be my passion is helping those students who struggle the most. And so I've kind of kept that close to my heart all the way
through my advancement kind of up to my position. And so I am grateful to Monaceel for giving me the opportunity to reach my professional goals. So thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you. Does anybody have anything else they
want to say before I move on? Okay. All right. Now we will move on to safe and healthy culture. I'd like to bring up director of business services Tina Burke Holder to go over our 2025 2026
budget. Good evening. I have now all 49 slides of the budget that I can go over in great depth or I can give you the highlights. So, we've gone over the budget in May and June
kind of in chunks. A lot of it's the same. I only did a couple tweaks to a couple revenues in the general fund based on the final bill that was approved during the special special session. Um, but tonight asking for approval. We're in June. Uh, that's
where we're at so that we have an adopted budget for July 1st. Um, I want to go to the general fund. quickly slide
go back. So on the revenue assumptions, we um had our general education aid at the 2.74% uh for our major source of revenue. Uh legislation did approve 100 million more onetime funds for summer unemployment.
So that should get us through this summer and next summer. Um we had uh an additional 200,000 for our compensatory funds for next year. There's a hold harmless on a per pupil count um when it looks at I think FY24
and FY26. So, we got a little bit money there, but we did see some decreases in our student support aid and our library aid, but overall it had a small increase to our general fund,
which uh we'll hit maybe one more and this slide. So I think previously it was about just over 200,000 that our fund balance was going up. So it will go up 419,000. Of that 6 million our unassigned fund
balance is targeted to be at 7.3%. Uh in on June 2nd I think I had 7.1 so it did increase a little bit. again didn't hit our minimum fund balance target of 8% but um hopefully we'll hit
that with different things. Um any questions on the general fund or any other funds do you want me to go through? Otherwise just asking for approval on the budget. We we've gone through this many many times in the past couple months and just
to reiterate, you know, going through line by line um of where everything's at with the audits and everything. So I it's up to you on how much more you want to go into detail on this one, I think. So, so with our other funds um that are
close to the general fund, our capital projects fund, again, that's mainly where we have our insurance claim money sitting where it's just interest money coming in and the roof repairs going out. Our co-op fund is basically uh purchase staff that the co-op purchase
and that's the revenue coming in to cover them. It's not it's a budget neutral fund similar to our hockey. It's a budget neutral fund, community service uh fund. There's many different components in that fund with adult basic ed, ECF, school readiness. Within that
fund, it's increasing a little bit with youth activities participation, uh magic adventures, and preschool rates. Our debt service fund is our mortgage account with our bond payments. So, a lot of that's just property money coming
in and the mortgage payments going out. Our self-insured uh fund is where we house our dental program. So, not a lot of change there with the dental claims and the insurance
premiums coming in. We did project a 3% increase with the premiums and with our OPED trust. As of now, there was a little bit still a draw from the trust because we don't have all of our groups having the sunset language with the
retiree insurance. Um, so we do have some uh retirey premiums coming out of there. But once those sets sunset language is in place, we could look at the gener levy or the property tax levy for the retirey costs. But again, we still want to utilize the trust and
balance out the levy to see where it makes sense. Um, so we can have a little bit of control of the levy and and how to make it work in our favor of not having big swings. But overall, not a lot of change. Our
biggest um focus was the general fund and we went over a lot of the highlights. Not a lot of changes in the special final session. Any other questions for Tina? This is an action item.
So moved. Second by Melissa Curtis, seconded by Casey Root. All those in favor, please say I. Opposed, please say no. Motion passes 6. On to item B, cash flow update by
director Business Services, Tina Burkeholder. So this is just a review um that I do once a year. So I look at the cash flow projection for the next year and a half, all the ins and outs. Um, and just looking on the far right side
of that summary sheet, it shows that we have positive cash balances throughout the whole uh time. What tends to happen which could happen in the next bianium where the state uh deficit is quite large. Sometimes the state likes to
balance their budget where they borrow from school districts. So instead of us receiving 90% of our aid during the year and 10% after the year, um we have gone as low as only receiving 65% of our aid during the year and 35% after the fact.
So when it gets that low, we start to see uh where we have to borrow short term. So we haven't had to do that in a while. We've been at the 9010 metered payments for a while now, but just know that could come and that's been around
well back then it was about 60 70,000 of an interest payment for us for any school to borrow again. So, but right now we're looking pretty good. Uh we have some term investments out with our insurance money and our regular money.
um we can only, you know, invest in very conservative, safe things. And even our money market account, um if it's in there, you if it's in there for 14 days, it earns a similar rate at 4%. So
overall, it's safe, it's earning good interest, and um hopefully we can continue at that 9010 meter payment from the state. Any questions about the cash flow update
from Tina? This is good because I mean there there has been times where we've had to borrow money cover our cash flow. So this obvious is a good thing. Yep. For whatever reason our low point is around March, but other than that we stay
pretty good. Deal. Thank you, Tina. Yes. Now we'll move on to item C which is approval of our 2025 2026 handbooks and we'll bring up director of human resources Rob Daner Steven members of the board. Um so
tonight uh we are going to be looking at approval for the various handbooks you see listed there. So, we have uh five handbooks coming for approval tonight by way of the work of the policy committee. Um, and just to take a step back, so what we've tried to do the last couple
of years, and maybe this predates me even longer, but um, we've tried to make our June policy meeting, uh, really about the handbooks and, uh, given the policy committee time to vet the the various handbooks and then, um, bring those forward to the board for, uh,
formal approval at the last meeting in June, which we're doing tonight for five of our six handbooks. The six handbook, which you don't see there, is the high school handbook. Um, as you know and as our public knows, the high school has been going through a lot of significant um, fundamental change, structural
changes over the last two years in terms of moving to trimesters and implementing new programs and things like that. So, they've asked for a little bit more time uh, to um, put some things together and they also they were waiting on some uh, some action from the legislature to see
how they were going to uh, coach a couple different things as well. So the policy committee will see the the high school handbook in August and we'll bring that forward um for formal approval prior to the start of the student year. So the five handbooks for tonight uh we have the elementary handbook, we have the middle school
handbook, the activities handbook, the coaches handbook, both those from the activities department and then from the HR department, the employee handbook. Uh really the theme for tonight is all about alignment. Uh you'll notice that we have three elementaryaries but only one handbook. And so the elementary principles have done a great job of
putting their um buildings and programs into alignment. Uh similarly, the middle school and high school have been working on aligning uh various elements of their handbook at the secondary level. Um you know, Gary's done a wonderful job of integrating the activities handbook with the coach's handbook and vice versa. And
then of course the employee handbook um attempting to align with um various elements of whether it be district policy, whether it be the coach's handbook, everything like that as well. Um so um before we move to action you any questions that the board might have
happy to answer any of those um and um then we can towards action. Any questions on the handbooks? We went through them pretty intensely a couple weeks ago. So they just had a couple more tweaks to do before being
ready for approval. But Are the middle school high school and pretty similar? I mean, obviously there will be some differences, but um right now there's probably more differences than there are similarities, frankly, but we are trying to um as we
move forward over time and as the high school and also the middle school have now both moved to trimesters, try to build alignments where we can. Um, one of the things that we did do across all the building handbooks this year, for instance, was try to create alignment on food services, um, uh, the language for
food services for students and and what that looked like for fund balances and things like that. Um, the other place where just off the top of my head, the middle school and high school ones have built similarity or alignment over the last couple years has been on cell phone policy and the way they're treating cell phones, um, which is different from how
the elementaryaries treat cell phones. Developmentally appropriate, of course. Um there's definitely more work to do. Um but hopefully we can dive deeper on that, Jeff, as we get towards um uh as we again finish with the implementation
of trimesters and start rolling forward and all the leaders were in policy where we reviewed this and that's where some collaboration's happening too which is great. If there's no other questions, this is an action item. So moved. Second. Moved
by Mary Bartell, seconded by Casey Root. All those in favor, please say I. I. Please say no. Motion passes. 6. One more thing. Uh, Chair Steven, just uh you we had a retirement celebration for
um Cindy Foching, and Cindy's been a a dedicated member of our policy committee for quite some time. And since the policy committees are public meetings, um this a permanent invitation for Cindy to join us whenever whenever she wants to have a fun time at a policy committee meeting in the future. Yes. Yes.
I love that. Open invitation. Thank you. Thank you. All right. And that brings us to item number nine, which is adjournment of our school board meeting on June 16 at 6:33
p.m. Hope you all have a great evening. Thanks for joining us.