All right, we will call order the February 9th, 2026 school independent school district 152 suburban. And we'll take roll call. Starting with our left. >> Van present. >> Bergen present. >> Berg present.
>> Mark present. Buen present. >> Steph present. Vote present. And please stand for pledge. All right. Uh, preview the agenda. Dr. Jimmy Lson. Uh, there are no changes. Recommend approval. >> All right.
Uh, Scott move to approve the it says minutes, but I guess agended as presented. >> Melissa, >> I second. I have a motion by Scott, second by Melissa to approve the agenda as presented. Yes. Any
discussion? Any discussion? All in favor say I. >> I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Moving on to we are proud. This is the time during the meeting to recognize studying achievements of students, staff, and community members. After an
honory after an honor's name has been read, they will accept the certificates and a photo will be taken. And I think Scott did. So, we are proud of Morhead High School dancer Audrey Murphy,
who was selected to the Minnesota 3A all state dance team and the Minnesota 3A all state kick team. The Morhead High School dance team is coached by Denitri Sts, Haley Stephus, Ingred Scogan, Carly
New House, and Maggie Presard. All right. Uh, consent agenda. All items on the consent agenda are consumm public forum. Yes. The public forum will be open for up to 30 minutes for public comment on an agenda item. Individuals who wish to speak during the public forum have submitted a written request
by 100 p.m. on the meeting day. The school board chair will call speakers to the microphone. Recognize one speaker at a time. Each speaker can speak up to three minutes. Public forum will be will not be recorded or live streamed. We have anybody then we do. All right.
Thank you. Now, consent agenda. All items of the consent agenda are considered to be routine and have been made available to the school board at least two days prior to the meeting. The items will be enacted by one resolution. There will be no separate discussion of these items
unless the schoolboard member so requests in which event that item will be removed from the agenda and considered under a separate resolution to the extent possible the schoolboard member inquiries on consent agenda items are be to be made directly to the uh district administration prior to the
time of the meeting. A superintendent Dr. Lynn approval of the January 26 2026 regular and close session meeting minutes. B, business administrative services reg resignations, retirements, leave of absence, new employees, 2026
pay equity report and six affiliation agreement with the University of North Dakota. Um, Cassidy. >> Uh, I move to approve the consent agenda as presented. >> Keith, I second. Motion by Cassidy and a
second by Keith to approve the consent agenda as presented. Any discussion? Any other discussion? All in favor, please say I. I. >> Oppos same sign. Motion carries. Any new business? The 2026 2027 school calendar
district calendar. Uh Briman. >> Good evening. Um tonight I'll bring forward the proposed 2627 uh school district calendar for your consideration. Uh this calendar reflects a thoughtful collaborative process that include teachers, staff, administrators, and central office leadership. My goal
tonight is to briefly walk you through the process, highlighting key feedback themes, and share the final recommendation before asking for your approval. So, I'm going to start by grounding us in the process because that's been a priority throughout this work. Um, the
calendar advisory committee includes staff representatives from elementary, middle, and high school along with administrators and central office staff. The committee met in December to develop two draft calendars and those drafts were shared with all staff in a survey
and we received 451 survey responses in early January. The committee then reconvened to review the feedback and revise the calendar. A second very targeted staff survey was sent to clarify one remaining um professional
development day decision. And then after reviewing the data, the central office team is now recommending the calendar that you'll see tonight. So this slide shows the results from the first staff survey. As you'll see, we had strong participation across roles
and levels and from every one of our buildings. over 450 responses representing teachers, pair professionals, support staff, and administrators. After reviewing the two drafts that were available to them, 62.1% of the
respondents preferred draft A. Um, and uh, what was especially helpful were the written comments. There's a place for additional feedback. And while staff had different differing preferences, a consistent theme emerged around the importance of regular breaks during the
spring. um semester to support student learning and staff well-being. This slide reflects feedback on the start of the year structure. Both drafts included a 4day first week. Um, but
staff was given the choice about whether they would want the Monday or the Friday of that week off. And about 64% um uh um clearly wanted the um Friday off for
a long Labor Day um holiday. So, the draft that you'll see has school starting on Monday, August 31st. Um the structure was seen as more predictable for families and staff and helped ease students back into the school year.
Um, we also asked targeted questions where feedback was especially important and one of those was the elementary conference schedule. Um, elementary staff shared preferences for how conferences should be structured and you can see there the results showed no one
single overwhelming option but rather a strong preference for evening conferences um minimizing disruption to family routines with and child care. Based on this feedback, conferences for all levels will be held in the evenings. Uh the second survey addressed one
specific issue that emerged from the staff feedback. So originally draft A included a professional professional development day on March 9th. Um that's the eyed holiday and staff raised concerns about that date um
corresponding with the eyed holiday. So in respon in response the committee moved March 9th to a no school day in recognition of eyed um that required um relocating the PD day. Staff were asked to choose between Monday March 8th or
Friday April 23rd for the uh remaining PD day and about 66% uh preferred Monday March 8th. So that's also reflected in the final calendar. This is a good example of how staff feedback directly influenced adjustments and the the final calendar that you'll
see. So, this slide shows the full draft calendar that's being recommended for approval. A few things that I'd like to highlight. Um, the calendar includes 171 instructional days as normal. Um, school begins on August 31st, 2026 and ends on
May 28th, 2027. The first two weeks of school are 4-day weeks as we talked about earlier. Um there's at least one non-school day each month to help support student learning and and well-being. Um spring breaks are intent in intentionally placed to avoid
long interrupted stretches of instruction. I'll close by highlighting a few key details we know the community and staff often ask us about. Um, so school begins before Labor Day this year, um, which the state allows, um, due to the late
holiday. Um, kindergarten will have a staggered start during the first week. We did that this year, um, with very successful, um, results. Um, and families will receive details about that directly from their schools. There are three scheduled early release dates and
those are October 9th for homecoming, that's the homecoming date, October 14th for um the MEA break and May 28th which is the last day of school. We've also built in three weather makeup days at the end of the school year
recognizing our Minnesota winners. And then graduation is scheduled for Friday, May 28th at 7:00 p.m. Overall, our hope is that this calendar reflects a balance of instructional time, family needs, and staff feedback.
I want to um give a huge shout out and thank you to our calendar advisory committee um our staff who took time to share their feedback um in the surveys and um you as a board for your continued support of a thoughtful and transparent
process um to our our calendar. I'm happy to answer any of your questions. >> I don't see any questions. So, thank you for the everyone who's had input and the time in it took to put it all the calendar together. It's not an easy project by any means. So, thank you for
your time in doing that. Looking for a motion, Melissa. >> I move to approve the 20 26 2027 school district calendar as presented. >> I'll second. >> A second. >> I have a motion by Melissa, second by
Lor Lee to approve the 2026 2027 calendar as presented. Any further discussion? Any additional discussion? All in favor, please say I. I. >> Oppose. Same. Sign. Motion carries. Thank you again. All right. 2025 2026
special education child count update. Dwayne Bergson. All right. So tonight we're going to look at the um December 1st child count that we get from the state and then look at our numbers in district 2 based on the kids
we are actually serving. So um we're looking at two sort of different sets of numbers but they're really very similar. The source is different. Um the end result is quite similar.
There we go. Um, every year I have um this chart in there and it's getting longer and longer and harder to read every year. It's just our raw numbers of students in each disability category and the disability categories are defined
below there. Um, and these numbers are students who are residents of the Morehead district no matter where they're served. So, um, some of these students are served at DGF. Some of these might be served at
Lakes Country Service Cooperative. Um, bar wherever the kid is served. If they're a Morehead resident, they're in this count. And this is a snapshot from December 1st, 2025. That's when the state does it. It's when the feds
require it. So this is a child count that gets reported to the federal government through the state of Minnesota. Um you'll be able to see this on the next slide too, but we have increased our percentage of students served K12 to
about it's not about it's right on 17% um this year and up from 16.22% last year. And if you go back, it's I guess it's a little easier to see in graphic for format here. Um, going back
to even as recent as 2013, we're under a little bit under 12%. And now we're at 17. Our trend is very similar to the trend we see across the state. So, who's receiving special education?
There are really six disability categories that make up the biggest slice of our pie. Um, speech language in our district is the biggest. It's a little over 6%. Um, SLD or specific learning disabilities is also slightly
over 6%. And then DD is developmental delay and that is largely our preschoolers age zero up to age six. Um ASD is autism spectrum disorders. And if you look back um that slice of the pie
is continually getting larger each year. Um then other health disabilities and emotional and behavioral disorders um round up our six largest categories um where we're providing service. And then um
there's smaller going oops and you'll see in again in a different kind of graph on the next slide um kind of how these compare to the state averages. You're going to see we are above state average in most areas a little bit to
very significantly. Um, speech language is the one where we really greatly exceed we're almost double state average, the number of kids served in speech and language versus, excuse me, versus the state average. And we've, you
know, had a lot of discussion, a lot of work with our speech clinicians about that one. And you know we it comes to be that we have a lot of kids who are eligible for speech service and that's sort of the way it is. Um specific learning
disabilities are also a little bit higher than the state average but the state average has been increasing and it's kind of catching up to where we are. It's very interesting that that area is growing across the state because there are a lot of interventions in
place to really focus on that particular group and try to keep them out of special ed. But we're seeing increases across the state within the next two years. Um the state is going to introduce new criteria for specific learning disabilities. So we'll see what
happens in that category, excuse me, when that happens. a little bit higher. A question. Can we interrupt now or do you want to wait till the end? >> No, go ahead. Anytime. Keith, go ahead. >> On the prior slide, the pi slide. Um, do you have the percentages for this chart
by chance? Is that what's on the prior page? >> If you go back here, it would have all the percentages. >> That ties out to Okay, thank you. I just wanted to clarify that. Okay. Thanks. um a little bit higher in autism spectrum disorders than the state
average. Also higher in developmental disabilities and other health disabilities. um they're smaller and they wouldn't show up in the pie quite as much, but our kids with severe who are severely multiply impaired. Um moderately to
severely cognitively impaired, mildly cognitively impaired and physically impaired are all higher than the state average. You know, those are very much low incident disabilities, but we are above the state average in those areas, too. I think a lot of that goes to us
being a regional center. You know, we have the medical center with Sanford here. Um, families tend to live on the Minnesota side because there is some advantages on the social services side of it to live in Minnesota.
So, I, you know, that plays into our numbers as well. Um, not going to spend a whole lot of time on the next slide. You can review these at your reading pleasure, but it these are from our system. Then going
back to 2021, how many kids we served by month and these are our kids served in our district. So now we're looking at a little different number regardless of the home district of the kids. These are the students we're serving in Morehead. So these are the ones we really see show
up in our buildings on a daily basis. Um you see we started or ended um 2021 and this is COVID year so these numbers you know might be a little bit different um at a little over 1500
students um you know we ended the following year then about 100 students higher than that 23 add another 100 onto Yeah, 24 um we didn't increase by quite as
much but still increasing and we saw growth throughout out the school year. Um 2024 25 again we jumped up 70 kids or so. Um and now this year it's a little bit interesting. We have held steady to
actually declined a little bit this year and especially last month. I just ran them this morning for February. Um we dropped about 30 students almost entirely at the
high school. K8 numbers have stayed very consistent. Um let's go down to the high school count here. Um, I did add in this month MOSA and you can hardly see the number. We have 16
students in MOSA we're serving, but I did think it's getting to be enough that it should pull it out of the high school numbers. Uh, so that's that accounts for some of the drop at the high school. Our numbers at the alternative school went up. That also accounts for some of the
drop at the high school. So when you add in high school, MOSA, and alternative, um overall we've decreased about 30 students. Some of those um it sounds like about 10 have been 15-day drops
since the start of the second semester. And then um just um move in, move out. And we see a lot of transient, families in, families out. So, you know, next month,
you know, we could see an increase. Although, high school does tend to, if you look back, historically, high school does decrease over the course of time. And ignore always that last spike because in June, we have the new kids from East that are
actually in there. So, if you look historically, that it's not atypical for the high school to be decreasing like that. Um but our elementarymentaries have stayed pretty stable across this year. Um EIS has grown but a little
slower than EIS grows in most years. So um that's interesting too. And um I think we did start a little bit higher this fall. So that probably accounts for some of the slower growth in EIS because we started at a higher number than we
typically do. And I believe that's my last slide. Yes, it is. >> Any other questions for Dwayne? >> What's MOSA? >> Oh, that's a good question. It's the online academy.
>> I'm sorry about that. >> Online secondary. >> Thank you, Jeremy. Anybody else? All right. Well, thank you, Dwayne. Moving on to the fiscal year 2026
revised budget and fiscal years 2027, 2028, 2029 projected budgets. Dr. Kristen Greer. >> Thanks. Um, I'll invite Cambach, our director of business services up reviewed fiscal year 2026 budget um for approval
and answer any questions as needed. Good evening. Thanks for having me tonight. Um, tonight I'll go over the FY26 revised budget. Um, the revised budget's normal step in the process of of the budget process. Um, typically
January, February is where we um, introduce the changes after the board's um, initial adoption of the budget in June. So, um what the FY26 um revised budget reflects is um
updating information that wasn't available at the time of the adopted budget in June. Um primarily um updating enrollment assumptions, um final staffing, state aid estimates, um grant awards and um costs that change
throughout the year. So, can go to So here we have uh the categories of the revenues. Um, I'll focus it on the next um I'll focus on this slide, but these two
slides prior just kind of summarize the revenue lines and then the expenditure lines. Um the revenue is broken into categories as listed here and then the expenses are are broken um down into
program areas and within those program areas um these costs are associated um with those associated lines. So I'll focus on this um revised budget summary here. Highlighted
in yellow is the um revision budget and the column to the left there is the adopted budget that was approved back in June. So the main um summarization here of our
revenue um our revenue increased 1.4 million and our um expenditures increased uh 2.2 2 million from our initial June adoption. And I'll kind of go into more detail on
those. Um I'll start with the revenues. Uh property tax. Uh we had decrease there of 335,000. Um mainly due to levy adjustments from the levy certification as those aren't
finalized um when we initially come out with the budget in June. Um so you'll see a lot of those levy adjustments throughout most of these lines here. Um the local sources
increased 143,000 just to true up um local grants and uh donations. So that's ted up year to date. Um the general education aid is where we had the biggest change there of uh an
increase of about a million dollars and that was mainly due to some ADM adjustments using um current numbers from December and comparing those um to the adopted 2526 budget which was a little more
conservative. Um, also the extended time, extended day increase for K6 students with uh expanded programming as part of their student contact day. Um, certain
students qualify for that additional aid uh based on our schedule. So that was factored into the FY26 projected or the revised budget there. Other state aid, we had an increase of 140,000. Um some adjustments to our
border city disparity aid closer to state estimate. No change or nothing really of note there with special ed aid. Kept that pretty similar. And uh same thing with student activity.
Uh jumped a little bit forward there. Federal aids and grants had an increase of 217,000 uh mainly due to carryover funds from prior year and um some adjustments to the title one and title two awards
and then operating capital was just a slight change um due to um adjusted pupil units and then long-term facility maintenance there was state aid and levy adjustments as well. So overall $1.4 million increase. Again, the main
drivers really were the gened aid there and the federal carryover. Um, another thing included within that general education aid was our in was an increase in our English learner cross subsidy aid which is um something that was passed in
FY2 or excuse me 2025 uh legislation. So that increased a little bit as well. And then going through to the expenditures, um the there was an increase here of $2.2
million. And the majority of that was because of um the sports center roof project that we shifted from FY27 to FY26. And you'll see part of that in our
buildings and grounds. So that increase in our buildings and grounds line of 925,000 was um a roofing project that we moved up a year to distribute some of those expenditures as we're allowed to levy
for the ice arena uh running the ice arena um at a loss. And then LTFM uh will have some of that sports center um roofing project shifted from FR27 to
FR26 as well. So that's why you see that increase in LTFM and those are the two big lines that increased the most. Um some other items that increased uh were uh special ed services which is
um an increase there just there was a lot of payroll shifts um reclassification from staff. So moving some from instructional to special services. um you'll see some some up and down uh
movement for expenditures within those lines and that's part of the reason why um but the other reason um is that we have our ASIS employees were were shifted from uh instructional support to special services for our instructional
coaches. Other than that, there was um each of these lines um were just mainly due to salary and uh fringe benefit benefit changes. as I uh ran those numbers again and and re-evaluated each of those
lines. Um transportation at a decrease of 241,000 due to um level four special ed decreasing and that's just related to IEPs and we didn't have as many this year. Go ahead. Please stop. Laur's got
a question. Oh, well your student activity. >> Yeah, I'm kind of jumping around. Sorry about that. >> So, I was wondering about the student activity line. Um, I'm not seeing on here like how we pay uh coaches or buy
uniforms or all the things that we all the money that we spend on um sports um um maybe band and orchestra or other um academic activities. So, where would I find that information on here?
>> Those are all included within that regular instruction program. They're all under uh 200 program code. So, they're all in that same uh regular instructional code. >> Could we have that broken out from now on? Because
regular instruction is um something that the school must provide to everybody, but um the afterchool activities are not mandatory. >> Yeah, we can certainly look into breaking that out and providing a little
more detail. Yeah, that'd be wonderful. Thank you. >> Um, so with with that, there wasn't a whole lot of other changes. Instructional support went down uh 161,000. We had a little
bit of a correction with some noon hour and detention supervision and substitute costs that were a little overstated. So, that was just adjusting to year-to- date trends. Um, and the rest is just salary, compensation,
fringe benefit adjustments. Um, after some of the settlements that were agreed upon. On the next slide here, Cam, I got one more. Keith got a question. >> Um, I just was looking at the I know we're jumping a year ahead with FY27
projected, but um, the item number one, property taxes, and item number nine for 27. I know we're not on 27 yet, but um there's a pretty significant jump for property taxes and operating capital. Um is there any thing you're seeing behind that or
>> Yeah, that's because of the operating referendum and then the capital project levy that kick in in FY27. >> Okay. I think it's important to mention that as well. So, >> yeah, that's why you'll see um that increased Yep. fund balance that we're
trying to target the 12% 12 to 15% uh unassigned fund balance target by FY29. >> And again, these are just these aren't >> being approved today. These are just to show kind of >> I just think it's important to note that
and call that out because that wouldn't have been there without the support of what was just passed. So anyway, thank you. >> Yep. So, here is the unassigned fund balance. Um, after those changes that were made, uh,
we're looking at a projected 4.63% unassigned fund balance after FY26 after the audit of FY25 is it's currently at 2.81. And again, the the board policy that you guys have is 12 to
15%. So, so with with the referendum and the capital project, like you said, Keith, that will that will help toward reaching that goal. I think that's all I got. So, if there's anything else, um, I'll open up to
questions. Keith, go ahead. I just wanted to say I thank you for putting this together and for kind of drawing everything out, walking us through it, but also putting it here in the the packet as well. I appreciate that. >> Yep. I have it in here as well. >> Yeah. Yeah. I I do appreciate that
because if there's questions later, you can you don't have to refer to the recording. You can just take a quick snapshot of that. So, thank you. >> Any other questions? If not, looking for a motion. Scott,
>> move to approve I'm sorry. Move to approve the revised fiscal year 2026 budget as presented. >> Uh Cassie, >> a second. >> I have a motion by Scott, second by Cassidy to approve the revised fiscal
year 2026 budget as presented. Any discussion? Any other discussion? All in favor, please say I. I. O. Same sign. Motion carries. All right. Thanks, Cam for coming in and presenting that.
Looks like next item we are looking to for a proposed cancellation of the March 9th, 2026 meeting. And um should I do discussion first or should I talk about it or just wait for a motion? just tell them why. >> Okay.
>> Um we're just looking to um that day is the MSBA uh day at the capital and majority of the board members are looking to attend that and and be with uh representatives in in Minneapolis. So we're looking to cancel that to head down to Minneapolis. Scott, I'll make a
motion. Move to approve the cancellation of the March 9th, 2026 schoolboard meeting. The month of March will have one schoolboard meeting scheduled on Monday, March 23rd, 2026 at 6 PM. And Cassie
second motion by Scott, second by Cassie to approve the cancellation of the March 9th, 2026 schoolboard meeting. The month of March will be one board meeting, school board meeting scheduled on Monday, March 23rd, 2026 p.m. Any discussion?
Any further discussion? All in favor, please say I. I >> same sign. Motion carries. Thank you for that. And next on the second reading of our policies, Dr. D. >> Um, tonight is second reading of policies, uh, school policies 212, 305,
401, 406, 612, 6:30, 905, 921, and 9:22. There have been no changes made since the last reading of January 26, 2026. Cassidy. >> Move to approve the second reading of policies as presented. Melissa,
>> I second. >> Motion by Cassidy, second by Melissa to approve the second reading of policies as presented. Any additional discussion? Any discussion? Please say uh all in favor say I. Same sign. Motion carries.
Super updates. Something that um Dr. wanted me to mention was um again on March 1st is the MSBA MASA day at the capital. >> Oh, sorry. >> 9th. Yeah. >> Oh, March 9th. Yeah, that was the date of the cancellation. My goodness. March
9th. So, if you're looking to attend that, let Dev know shortly because the to reserve and to register you to um attend that day. I know several of us already have signed up for it, but if you need to, please do that as soon as possible. It did.
All right. Ajournment, Keith. >> Move to approve the adjournment of the February 9th, 2026 schoolboard meeting at 6:38 p.m. Li, >> I second. Motion by Keith, second by Laura Lee to adjourn the uh approve the adjournment of the February 9th, 2026
board meeting at 6:38 p.m. Any additional discussion? Any discussion? All in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Meet ajourned.