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Call to order the April 27th, 2026 Independent School District 152 School Board meeting to order and we'll start with the roll call to my left. Violin, present. Bergen, present. Bergod, present. >> Markwardt, present. Bjorklund, present.

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>> Steffes, present. Vogt, present. All right, we'll stand for pledge. Preview of agenda, Dr. Lunak. There are no changes. Recommend approval as presented. Melissa? I move to approve the agenda as presented. Cassidy? Second.

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Motion by Melissa, second by Cassidy to approve the agenda as presented. Do we have any discussion? Any further discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, same sign. Motion carries. Round of "We Are Proud". This is [clears throat] the time during the meeting that we recognize outstanding

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achievements of students, staff, and community members. After an honoree's name has been read, they will accept their certificates and a photo will be taken. So, please stay up here and we'll get a photo at the end. We are proud of Moorhead High School

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students Payton Flagan, Gabe Sherrell, Reese Gord, Cedric Donahue, and Ryder Offerdahl for their outstanding performance at the State SkillsUSA contest. SkillsUSA is a career and technical education partnership that

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ensures America has skilled workforce through competitive events and professional development. These students earned top honors in categories including facilithon, mechanics dexterity, power equipment repair, safety knowledge, and tool and equipment

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technology. The SkillsUSA program at Moorhead High School Career Academy is led by Jeff Jeff Schneider, Andrew Herman, and Chance Root. We are proud of Moorhead High School freshman orchestra for their outstanding performance at the Minnesota String

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Teachers Association Association's middle level orchestra festival. Following high high scores at the initial festival on March 17th, the ensemble was invited to perform at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis where they participated in sectionals with with

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professional musicians from the Minnesota Orchestra and performed on one of the nation's premier stages. The orchestra program at Moorhead High School is led by Anthony Edelston and Josh Byles. All right, congratulations again for all

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of our We Are Proud people tonight. Uh, there's nobody for the public forum tonight, so we'll move on to the consent agenda. All items on the consent agenda have been considered to be routine and have been made available to the School Board at least two days prior to the meeting.

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The items will be enacted by one resolution. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless the school requests. In which event, that item will be removed from the agenda and considered under separate resolution. To the extent possible, School Board member inquiries on consent agenda items

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are to be made directly to the district administration prior to the time of the meeting. Start with Superintendent Dr. Lunak, approval of the April 13th, 2026 School Board minute meeting minutes, business administration. After Damer, April

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claims, resignations, retirement, and new employees. And that's the last one. Keith? Move to approve the consent agenda as presented. Scott? I'll second it. Motion by Keith, second by Scott to approve the consent agenda as presented. Any

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discussion? Any additional discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, same sign. Motion carries. Under new business, letter of support for the Clay County solid waste um composting grant program. Steve Moore.

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Thank you. Um, Steve Lindquist is coming up to the to microphone and they're coming to brief us on a great opportunity that we have to participate in a grant opportunity with Clay County that would allow us to participate in a

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comp separated organic source separated organics program. As you know, we generate a lot of food waste in the school district and that goes straight to the landfill and barring any technical terms it gets all juicy and uh that forms leachate I think is the

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official term but they'll explain the nuts and bolts of this but this has been a challenge and particularly I've been looking at this or Crystal used to we worked together when I was a public works director and where I ran sanitation as well and this is

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always a very complex um issue that had a lot of obstacles but this is a great opportunity. So I'm going to turn it over to Steve and he can give you all the nuts and bolts of this program. Thanks Steve. I want to make sure the green light is on and then you're good

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to go. Thank you. Green is go. Um can you hear me? Okay. So I have Corey who's from county does the landfill stuff there and Crystal and Fred and Marissa here too so in case there's questions you you know give me that I can't answer I have

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backup. So essentially what we talked about is it has been sort of a tricky issue to solve. Essentially what we want to try to do is convert food scraps into soil so we can actually use the soil and not throw it away.

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So there's three main reasons why we're interested in doing this. Economics we'll start off with the with the big dollar sign. You know every single acre of landfill costs $3 million and so if we could delay having to build new landfill assuming you can get a

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permit from the state of Minnesota to build new landfill it's going to save us money and by us it's the community the wider community and this would be actually the whole of Clay County potentially other counties and it's also then if you're removing

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that which is about 37% of the general waste is organics. So if you could remove that wet waste you now have better waste that could be sent to perm for the power generating plant there. And so essentially the economics of this is kind of a

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positive in all all all senses. The environmental benefits are basically taking things that would decompose and instead of being basically with oxygen if you decompose with oxygen you get a

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well you get less methane produced and so when you have methane produced that's a very powerful greenhouse gas and so if you essentially take that organics and now compost it you're going to have a very large beneficial environmental

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impact and Crystal ran the numbers and essentially assuming we do 750 tons of organics which is the low estimate of what we think we can actually do in the county we're going to essentially have a net positive 500 almost 500 megatons or

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millions of tons of CO2 equivalent removed from the atmosphere. Again a real good positive. So we got great things both on economics and environmental and because I'm talking to the school board I'm going to have to bring up the educational benefits not that they're last but they're the most

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important ones so we leave them to last because we want to really stress the fact that our our students can benefit from this in their educational curriculum in multiple levels whether or not it would be actually going just on a tour of where does your

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waste go and how can we actually make something useful out of the waste because they'll be part of the enterprise they'll be source separating at the schools. So they'll they'll see it hopefully in action in multiple place but you know in terms of

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the carbon dioxide and methane reduction that's a an obvious physical science activity right there. So there's an awful lot of educational value in this and essentially empowering students to see that they

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actually can be stewards of the environmental change economic changes that that you want to make. So the plan facility essentially and one of the one of the I would say the hurt biggest hurdles is that you know Clay County said hey we

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can put this on top of the landfill we can do some things to make this fairly straightforward. The biggest cost or the biggest hurdle has been essentially getting the equipment and so this grant that we're

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applying through through Minnesota Pollution Control Agency allows us to buy $2 million and I think we almost ate up like 1.8 I'm turning to Corey like 1.8 million dollars is just in equipment. Um you know anyone that's a farmer is

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probably going yeah combines cost millions of dollars what are you telling me to do? So this is a great opportunity to be able to essentially not have to buy it ourselves but get a grant dollars. So we have to have partners as part of this and so we're coming to you

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to basically ask you to support this with full partnership not just hey this is a good idea but we'll help actually implement this. Um so one of the questions and and I've gone over this really quickly but you know the logistics and how how this is

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all going to be working. Corey did some pretty straightforward stuff to figure out exactly how it would work and I think Corey's mantra has always been hey the logistics we'll figure it out. If we need to adjust the pickup times for partner sites

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or you know if the dumpsters that aren't big enough we'll figure out how to work this because we don't want to make more problems with with this this process we want to actually solve problems and and create a good good process.

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Um so go on to the next. So essentially what we're asking for is that partners that that are implementing this essentially you're going to have to train the people the users and the users are not just the students that are source separating which

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probably going to be the easy ones to train. They're usually very easy to figure out how to use the different colored bins. It's the me problem of me figuring out okay what do I do with this now and especially the the staff and the teachers that are

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actually going to have to implement these things. So those are probably going to have some kind of training. We're looking into probably trying to put together some training package. We have a community group that that's very involved in this and but I fully expect a bunch of teachers probably to jump in

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and say hey we can help with that too because that's what usually they do. Um so one of the benefits of this would also be asking for help communicating the benefits of this. Um the amount of money that you have to put into this is zero in terms of upfront

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costs. So we're going to basically provide you with the bins or I should say the county's going to provide you with the bins. They're we're going to part of the grant is to pay for the extra pickups because there's going to be extra pickups now because you're going to have organics

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picked up besides your waste pickup. Um and so initially for the five years of the grant there's not going to be any extra costs. What we're looking at down the line is when you talk about tipping costs for costs for picking up waste at

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um the landfill what we'd hope is that you could actually have a reduced tipping costs for organics versus your your regular waste. And then when you think about it your regular waste is probably not going to be as much because you have over here. So overall we're

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hoping to be able to do this that it's going to reduce costs for everyone but it's definitely going to have a very large benefit for our community even if the costs were neutral. Which we're expecting for partners not to have this. So what are we asking for you today? Um the last one is a whole

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bunch of words just to keep them from speaking to me. So basically this is a reiteration of the benefits but what we're asking for is a full support. So we need to ask you to be able to say hey we can fully support this we can be beyond board as being a partner

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which then allows um Director Moore to write write something in support of this grant and and then to basically we'd work with Corey to figure out how

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to pick up at each one of the sites. And then maybe because it's probably not a one and done we're probably going to have to work on other grants and other things that we might need to do. If we have your support if there's other types of grants that we

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might be applying for we can come back and and and and tell you about them or you could say hey Steve if the if it's not going to cost any more money we'll just support you right away. So that's that's kind of what we're

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asking for. Questions? Scott you have a question? Yes I do. So will this only be for Clay County then in the or just be with the city of Moorhead at first or It is Clay County. Just Clay County. Well so the whole grant actually we're actually

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going to get some about 200 tons per year from Becker County. So Becker County was like hey you're building this that's great. We can we can make use of this. There's we're not the last county, but there's a whole bunch of other counties that have um,

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organic recycling um, centers. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is very interested in getting more of these out there because it's going to help the overall landfill situation. Um, so Yes. Yeah, this is for Clay County. We are definitely not going

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to um, say anything about anyone that might live on the other side of the river. Um, but I have a feeling that they might want to take advantage of it. Okay. And one other question, how many times a week will this get picked up from our schools? And like

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you're going to have a dumpster there or is it going to be How's that going to work out? Corey, I answer this or you want to answer it? Thank you, Corey, for coming tonight. Our plan right now is to keep it basically on the same as the garbage schedule. Um, you're putting the same material in the garbage, so the smell shouldn't be

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any different or anything like that. If there were to be a problem with the smell would get overwhelming, we would increase our pickups. Um, so it's it's basically going to depend on which location and which volume at that place, so. Okay, that's what I was wondering. It'll be a separate dumpster. Yeah, it'll be a separate dumpster, yeah. And

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I would also like to add that the Becker County product that would be coming to Clay County, they would be paying for. Yeah. So that would help offset the cost to Clay County residents. I was just kind of hopeful it was going to be a like a regional type thing, so that's what I was kind We'll work with other people, but other counties are going to pay for it to bring it into this

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facility. That's the plan. I think it's a wonderful wonderful project and I think we need it in this county, so thank you. Question? No. Yes, the soil will be available for like >> Loralie, you have a question? Okay, yes, Steve, go ahead. Um, Steve, this is

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probably for you. Have you looked in uh, if this is going to cost our employees any more in time or like overtime like will there be more processing or anything for them? No, it shouldn't because if the the collection will be in the lunch rooms and student

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driven, so essentially the way I see it is there'll be separate bins for the food waste and uh, when you're talking about we're just diverting the same waste stream, so the amount of times out to the dumpster will be the same. They'll just go in the separate

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dumpster. Thank you. Loralie, go ahead. I move to approve uh, sending a letter of support for Clay County's application to the Statewide Organics Management Infrastructure Grant. Matt. Second. Motion by Loralie, second by Matt, to approve the sending a letter of

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support to Clay County's application to the Statewide Organic Management Infrastructure Grant. Any further discussion? Keith. Just a comment. I I think it's long I think it's a great option, long overdue, and I appreciate everybody that contributed to to bringing this to us

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and um, I'm excited to see it come to fruition, so thank you all. Appreciate it. Any discussion? All right, all in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, same sign. Motion carries. Yes, thank you, Steve, and everybody else who's here tonight for that, so.

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Moving on to the Moorhead, Dilworth, Glyndon, Felton boundary realignment plan for 2026. Dr. Lunnick. >> [clears throat] >> I was supposed to do that. Okay. Um, tonight I want to take you through the um, process

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that we have in place right now that was adopted back in 2016, but if I could take you back on a little history journey of the Moorhead area public schools and the Dilworth uh, public schools. So if I could get you to turn

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to page 26, uh, we'll start there in your packet. And uh, in case you didn't know, uh, the Moorhead area public schools was established in 1873 and merged with district number two in

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1955 to form the current school district that we are uh, today. Uh, district 81, which was known as the Dilworth public school before uh, they merged in the I believe it was the '90s, uh, was approved in 1896 originally

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serving eight children, but grew rapidly by 1908 into a more established school district. And then the boundaries were in the 1950s were formed in Dilworth uh, at the time in the 1950s

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uh, made the decision to be a one by one square mile school district with no bussing. In turn, uh, the Moorhead area public schools stepped up at that time and took all the rural transportation uh, ultimately affecting the boundaries uh,

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that we see predominantly today, but uh, were um, modified with this uh, 2016 plan and uh, we'll continue to go into this a little bit further, but do we have any questions on the history so far?

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A lot of it was before we were born. Sorry, Matt. >> Who are you looking at there? >> [laughter] >> Who are you looking at? But at at [snorts] the end of the day the on page on slide 27 here, we take you through kind of a continuum

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of what happened over the history of uh, the Dilworth and the Moorhead uh, public schools relationship. Between 1978 and 2005, there were multiple uh, requests uh, submitted to Moorhead, but ultimately rejected uh, because the the

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Moorhead area public schools at the time didn't see value in the requests. You can see in 2010, uh, Roger Warner did a study recommending a land swap to allow open enrolled DGF families to become uh,

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DGF students. Uh, that was ultimately uh, turned down. And then ultimately there was a standstill with really no um, progression on this until about 2015. And in 2015,

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the communities of Dilworth and the communities of Moorhead were uh, were growing and they were and were continuing to grow today, but the growth plan for the Moorhead area public schools was to go south and to go west.

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And the growth plan for the Dilworth community was to continue to grow west uh, and also uh, somewhat to the north. And so when you look at and I'll get you to a map in a minute, so this will all

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make sense. Uh, a task force was formed in 2015 to look at the benefits of potentially moving some land to better align school district boundaries with city growth plans.

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And the school of thought in 2015 and there were I believe there were two board members on at that time was that if we didn't make an amount if we didn't modify our boundaries, um, it would have been down the road,

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but a school board sitting here possibly 50, 60 years down the road would be in the same challenge that Dilworth is in uh, today with not having their boundaries aligned to their city. Okay?

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So it was determined in 2015 that we would modify our boundaries and um, but to do that, we needed to get legislative support cuz you just don't get to change your boundaries

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uh, willy-nilly. You got to get legislative support and then the governor has to sign it into law. So as of 2000 uh, 15, we worked with uh, Representative Marquart and

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he helped get us through the boundary realignment of 2015 into 2016. And because of that, I'll take you and show you what those new boundaries look like, but the goal of that modification

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was to make sure that our boundaries were better aligned to the city growth plan, so there the both school boards in the future would not be tied to having another school district inside someone else's city's boundary, if that makes

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sense. So if I could uh, take you uh, to this slide on page 30, there were parcels that were identified and a majority of those parcels have

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been moved as a result of 2016 and 2017. The parcels that have not been transferred or moved as of yet are these parcels that you see listed here, parcel one, parcel two, three, and four.

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These parcels one, two, three, and four make up a little over 700,000 of our overall value. So a little over 1% of our value is what we're talking about tonight. So if I take you through this map, you

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can see on the line here, any land that was identified in green was transferred uh, to the Dilworth, Glyndon, Felton School District and any land that you see here identified in that sky blue uh,

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was transferred to the Moorhead area public schools. So you can see uh, if I point out that little blue section that uh, is right by East 10 shopping center, that that is like where the quick stop is now, the

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um Dairy Queen, the Pizza Pizza Ranch. I was going to say Pizza Corner, but that's in Valley City. I don't think our boundary went that far. So, that's where that parcel is, and then you'll look at the 336 area, and that's the Moorhead Airport, Titan

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Machinery, and those uh those places. What you'll see is if I if you go back up to the where it's green, and you come down to where we have that blue line, and it's shaded, you see that little black line in there? Those are the four parcels we're talking

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about that have not been moved yet as a result. In 2017, the two parcels you see up above that black line have been moved. So, the only parcels that remain to be moved as part of the 2016

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plan are those four parcels you see right there. Okay? So, this gives you a little more detailed version of what that might look like. So, this is parcel one. That's parcel two. Can I go back?

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So, there's parcel one. There's parcel two. There's parcel three. And down below is partial parcel four. Those four parcels would complete the 2016

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uh boundary realignment or what people affectionately call the land swap. Um Now, I'm not asking you to make a decision on this tonight. You can think about it, but um

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moving ahead, um the last meeting in May, if uh there is support, we would bring a resolution to move the last four parcels, and then we would be closing the book on any boundary that isn't aligned to our city,

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and they would be doing the same. So, I'll take you through uh table one, table two, table three. Those come further here into the um presentation, and I will apologize in advance. Uh the tables came in a PDF,

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and um I had to cut them and make them bigger so they were readable. So, I do apologize in advance. They're not as neat as they are in the document that starts on page 48, which is

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basically what we're talking about in presentation form. So, we'll take you through some of these phases. So, uh when you look at the DGF uh levies and revenue, you can see a

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levy aid and revenue change. Um that is affecting their referendum market value on this page, but I'll get you to the overall page where it says all levies and transportation at the bottom, you'll see that um

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they ultimately gain a levy and a um Whoops. And an aid change. So, on the levy column, they they would gain uh they would have to levy their taxpayers $66,000,

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and they would um lose $60,000 in aid as a result of the property valuation moving into the DGF school district. Probably not as much of a concern for

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you folks sitting here, but for us, the one thing that I want you to be aware of is that we would be affected about $101,000 of that 77,000. We would gain 77,000 in aid because we

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would lose value. And then I I Dan, is there any way that you can take that little thing off the corner here? That works. Then you'll see that um Okay. Thank you. So, we would Is that me or you?

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Now, I have that thing up again. So, how do I get rid of that? Anyway, I'll get you to the what I need. So, on that portion on the Moorhead Area Public Schools, we would gain because we would lose

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value, we would gain 77,000 in aid, and we would lose $24,000 in revenue. So, on that 24,000, I would just say that Dilworth has agreed to pay us that difference of the 24,489

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for one annual payment to get through uh next year's transition. So, the Moorhead Area Public Schools are not out any revenue making this transition. Um and we do hold on to $77,000

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in aid. Otherwise, if we don't make this trade uh or we don't finish the transition here, uh we would have to move that $77,000 to levy. So, there would be an impact to the taxpayer either way

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because of our land growth um moving forward. So, that's the big component of this, and then on these slides right here, those the impact that would happen for

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the taxpayers that stay or the parcels that stay in Moorhead, you can see the tax impact on an annual basis. This isn't the monthly basis. This is an annual basis. So, that's the impact. Um and and again,

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what I want to emphasize to the board tonight is that this is just one component of your overall levy. There's going to be other things that we put into that levy that that are going to impact it. This is just one component that we're pulling out for you to see tonight.

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Uh I would have a larger picture for you come September after Cam has done putting in all the data in the summer to what we call the summer levy, and that gets kicked back to us in September for us to review the final or the preliminary levy, and then we'll mod it

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we'll try to modify it the best we can from the time we see it the first time in September to when we certify it in December. But this isn't this is just one component of what we're talking about. So, this is how this would impact this one component, not your overall

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levy. That could change based on the number of students we put in there. If we have a smaller kindergarten class, obviously we're levying less. So, there's a lot of variables that I can't get specific on, but I can get specific that this is what it would be for this

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component only. Okay? Does that make sense? So, moving forward, this is what we would have facing us if we were to move these four parcels. Now, there's advantages to moving the four parcels. For instance, if we were to run an

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election, and these four parcels weren't in our district any longer, we would not have to have a precinct in the city of Dilworth any longer. Um I want to make it very uh clear that to our end user, to our families, to our

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students, we would continue to provide the bussing and the services that they are accustomed to for coming to our school district. So, to them as an end user, they wouldn't see anything different from us. They would just be a difference on who they would pay their school taxes

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to, whether it's Moorhead or DGF after the switch is made. Now, um with that said, uh our goal, and our goal will always be to make it as easy as possible on those end users. So, we

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would take care of those families just like they're our own, and we would continue to do what we do today. So, we would make assuming you would support this in uh May, we would then communicate to our families uh those that are affected uh what's happening,

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and then uh also the county come July would also then uh let them know what's happening because then their tax statement will look different because it would no longer be Moorhead Area Public Schools on it. It would be uh the Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton School

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District that they would go to. So, um If with that, I'll take you through the timeline here. Good question, I think. Keith, >> Yeah. are you able to say how many families or students are part of that I can I can

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get you a specific somewhat accurate. So, right now, we currently have 217 students with a Dilworth address or a zip code, okay? In that area of those four parcels, we have 60 students that are open enrolled

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to DGF. That means we have 157 students that remain that are potentially in those four parcels in another portion of town. I couldn't break it out cuz I didn't have um I didn't have the right information

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for me to pull and to drill that down, but I can say that there would be 157 students remaining after the open enrolled would move. So, But the the end goal is that the experience that

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they would have would be the same. Their taxes would be then going to the >> They wouldn't know the difference at the end of the day if they still chose to come to Moorhead. They would just be open enrolled school They would be open enrolled students to the Moorhead area public schools.

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We would pick them up the same way we pick them up today. It would just be they would now become open enrolled students. Are we going to continue bussing for how long? We would continue to do bussing here because there's enough volume of open

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enrolled kids that we would continue to do it. I mean we're looking at 157. So when you think about the revenue that that generates two or two or three bus routes is a is a pretty viable option. And we've talked about that with Shawn and

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transportation. So we would be good to go. So for the foreseeable future. foreseeable future Yep. I think it's important to recognize that for our students and the families that choose to come here

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we've always provided bussing in this area. Generally we don't provide bussing for open enrolled students, but that them that demographic or that geographic area is close enough to home that we feel it's

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worth continuing to provide the three buses to do that. So we wouldn't change a thing for those folks. If that makes sense. Scott These all the parcels that were would be trading them that

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I know the four parcels there, but I thought originally and Matt can correct me if I'm wrong. I thought originally there was like seven different parcels that we're looking at that stretched down quite a ways into Every parcel every parcel Scott has been

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I don't know. I don't maybe my memory's off on that, but I thought it was like seven. Seven seven in total, but those have already been moved and the only ones that remain are these four. Okay. So Thank you. Matt go ahead. I know our our time on

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the board this relationship that we have developed with DGF has been wonderful and we thank the staff for that and the boards. This was I think the vision that we all had back then and it's nice to see it becoming to fruition. Should be a win-win I think.

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So on the timeline tonight you're you're getting introduced to the history of the 2016 plan. I would bring a resolution back on the 26th of May for your support. We would turn that resolution into Clay County.

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Clay County would begin the work in June of then identifying They already have the parcels identified. They would then communicate to those folks that would be affected just as we would and then July 1st effective

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those those those parcels would transfer and then January they would see it on their tax statements. Keith go ahead. And then you had explained the the difference. There was a gap of 24,000 that DGF would cover for year

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one. Do we envision that being a They're covering it one year, but do do we know what the next year would it be similar? I don't I don't envision there being a gap because of the If you look at I'll go to this slide right here.

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This slide right here shows our growth on an average basis and so you can see over the last even with those 10% change on the on the tax base our our average growth has been around

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3%. So it won't take long for that 695,000 to be I'm not going to use the I don't want to use the word overcome, but we will we will be able to surpass that 695,000 loss

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within a year based on a 3% growth and that's what our average has been if you take out those two 10% years when that was in pay 23 and pay 24. I consider that 10% kind of an anomaly, but if you look at everywhere else we've

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been pretty steady in terms of our growth at three around a 3% average. So I'm pretty confident that we would make that up moving forward. And that would be the mutually beneficial is they're stepping up for that one year and then we're getting that our the next year

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would be >> Yeah and and and we don't want to lose sight of the on the mutually beneficial side of things that it's not just finances. It's it's it's aligning our growth plans and they've already been aligned to to some degree, but

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right now there's just four parcels that need to be moved to complete the alignment. So that becomes the part of the critical or part of the mutual benefit in the long run. And then I think Deb

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can speak from running an election that we had in the same facility we had Moorhead booth and we had a Dilworth booth and it created some confusion in there. So all of this would be alleviated by not

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having to have a Moorhead presence the next time that we would run an election or they would choose to run an election. We wouldn't have to be there. So this to me just aligns everything and then we're done with the 2016 plan to never have to

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visit it again. Perfect. Thank you. Any other questions? All right. Thank you Todd Lunak for that information. Moving on to the approval of the fiscal year 27 capital LTFM facilities program.

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Steve Moore. Good evening. I'll like to submit for approval our upcoming fiscal year program for FY27 and I'll talk about capital and LTFM and this is for the facilities side of the house.

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>> [clears throat] >> You saw this slide last time when I briefed the 10-year roof plan and 10-year payments plan. So this is just to show that we are currently at a $40 million LTFM backlog for the district. As stated

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before not to minimize $40 million in long-term facility maintenance, but it's fairly standard for public institutions and educational institutions to have this kind of backlog just because we don't receive enough long-term facility maintenance dollars. So but our goal is to use them

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to the best of our ability and keep things running. So through various funding sources this isn't there's this is the types of funding that we're looking at. 32 projects totaling 3.6 3.7 million. So

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of those LTFM that's just the total. So we're going to use ice levy and we're also going to come back and talk to you on the 11th during the 11 May school board about some changes in state what the state will allow us to do with

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with our roofing plans and payment plans. So we might be able to access the different dollars outside of our long-term facility maintenance funding stream. So we can pull the roofs and the payments out and stretch our dollars farther for other things.

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And then there's one small project that's just an issue to change order through the construction project at the high school. So um This is kind of the breakout by facility and where the money's going. Sports Center is the big dollar item cuz

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that's the roof project dehumidification air handler work that's going to be starting that you've already been briefed on when we awarded that project. So um That's kind of how it shreds out and then at near the ends there's some

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topics like gym floors and and gym equipment and things like that that I'll talk about. I won't go over these. You've seen all these. These are the three roof projects that we're doing this year. So unless you want me to rehash I can

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skip over those slides. No, okay. Next is our pavement part of the plan that we're doing this year and it's just basically for this year we're doing I set aside [clears throat] a certain amount of money for various potholes and

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crack filling and and seal coat that kind of thing and then striping. So that's set aside. I went out and did my survey whatever the one day we had a nice weather here. So I hit all the schools and I have a striping and pavement plan

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and I can provide those details, but they're not included in this briefing, but if you the link is available and it'll show you which locations. The other one is a design cuz we're going to reduce some pavement that we have at Vista. So we're going to give that parking lot

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a diet and then make some design some improvements cuz I have some issues with the some of the storm drainage catch basins that we need to do some repairs on. But that is just for the design. So that's just a quick picture of uh

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what we're planning on doing. So we need to do some some pavement uh design to reduce the amount of payment we have and then do some projects in FY29. That That's what I'm forecasting to actually do the construction to remove pavement and do the mill and overlay on the

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existing on the remaining pavement. Any questions on that? Go ahead. I think you had uh mentioned it last time that there might be a a bus turnaround. Did [clears throat] you figure that out logistically? >> Yeah, cuz the the main that'll be on the north side of the

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building. So I think we'll be good, but um we are I just met on site with a design engineer. So they're putting some plans they're working on the design now. So we'll work through that. Yep, thanks for that. >> [clears throat] >> Next is uh some health and safety. The

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first three projects are the older older buildings that need new fire alarm panels. They're just uh not I mean they're past their useful lifespan. So uh and then every year we have all of our playgrounds inspected. I set aside a budget. That budget is for repairs and

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that's based off the last 3 years that I've spent on playground repairs. Um I'm awaiting on the inspection reports. So until those reports come in, it usually accompanies a quote for repairs and then I'll have a better budget number for that. Uh same with uh basketball hoops and

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bleachers, 140 some odd hoops and bleachers and curtains that we have throughout the district. Uh those are inspected. Uh I got a new contractor. I got a lower bid. Inspections are going to be about $11,000 to do all those assets and then the money left over uh will be to make any

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repairs necessary. But we did pretty robust inspection and repairs last year. So I'm hoping that bill go down goes down a lot this year. And then this is just exciting pictures of the fire alarm panels. And then just what our

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reports look like from Safety First. Those inspections were done in March and I should have those reports at any time. I'm surprised they don't have them already. I'll ping them here this week. And then yes, I awarded the inspections uh going to cost $11,625.

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That's a lot of assets. So um Any questions on that? Okay. >> [snorts] >> Next is capital. Uh the first two projects uh we're planning on uh spending I have allocated about $286,000.

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I have in the budget roughly $400,000 set aside. So I don't have it all allocated yet. Um so uh and I don't I'm I have all the priorities identified. The first top two priorities are

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upgrading the security at door one vestibule at the high school. And that'll be uh putting ballistic glass there where you see the opening. Um right there and then putting some shatter resistant film material over the

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rest of the glass in that area. This will also help with uh when we had extreme cold temperatures. That roof there, you can see the chill beam unit there. It's it wasn't keeping up with the during the cold cold weather in the three passing times. So it was we had to

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put some space heaters in the front office area. So when we put that ballistic glass in, that'll close that area off from an HVAC perspective. So that'll solve that problem at the same time. Next is uh the Career Academy. We're going to do the same, put ballistic glass and that in the opening as well as

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those four panels immediately around the opening and then the remainder of of the glass will be uh shatter resistant. We can't physi- realistically put ballistic glass everywhere. So we're we're going to focus on the actual service desk area

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and then make the rest of it shatter resistant to provide time um of entry if there was an intruder. So we think this is the most cost effective way that will add security uh to that area. Any questions on those two

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projects? Just a a brief discussion or a brief description of ballistic glass. Mhm. What it can and can't do. So this one, the ballistic glass that I put in at Horizon and Probstfield and now here and high school will stop uh 7.62

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round which is like AK-47 and 5.56 which is AR-15. The preferred weapon of the mass shooter. So that'll be. Does it bounce it? What does it do? It It'll absorb It will It will not penetrate it. >> Okay. And so for a certain number of

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hits Mhm. it will resist and then before it breaks. So yep. It's uh crazy we have to think about this stuff today. Um The next project, this is uh FDD. It's fault detection and diagnostics. This is a

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a new system. So we have three types of maintenance. We have reactive maintenance which is the worst kind of maintenance when things break. We have preventative maintenance and we also now we have um predictive maintenance. So fault detection diagnostics uh we're going to do this in the high

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school, the sports center and the middle school and Ellen Hopkins. Those are our three uh The first three are our highest energy users. Um but Ellen Hopkins is trending upward and I don't know why. It's the only building trending upward

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when we're seeing downward trends in energy use in all of our other other buildings. So essentially what this does is it uses uh it takes thousands of data collection points in a certain time span and

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and does an analysis using AI on what is going on in your HVAC system. So for example a couple weeks ago I came in and it was cold everywhere in the high school. I think it was the high school. Maybe it was Probst- I don't know. I lost track. But anyway what this would do was would

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send before the failure occurs, it's it does an analysis and says, "Hey, there's something going on with your HVAC component X." Like the compressor's running too high, the pump's running too high. There's something wrong in the system and you're it's going to lead to

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failure. So what this will do will identify using thousands and millions of data points and provide recommendations on what's going on in your system so you can um address them before failure. So uh this is kind of a pilot program. Uh

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Fargo Public Schools beat me to it. They did a couple of buildings last year. I met uh I met quarterly with their facilities guy. Um and he said it's it's unbelievable on what the the information their maintenance team is getting out of this.

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So um I'm looking forward to this pilot program. And it's already they've already recouped their cost uh within the first 3 months of operations. So this the payback is is less than a year uh for this type of activity. So

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I'm super excited about this. So Steve, this is a pilot for just for Ellen Hopkins to identify what's going on there, but it might Is it something you're considering elsewhere with >> Yes. Yeah, it's it's a pilot for high school, sports center and the middle school, both East and West and Ellen

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Hopkins. So I would like to deploy it to all the buildings, but we picked those based on energy usage. The Career Academy is also a high energy user, too, but um I wanted to I would have probably thrown that in instead of Ellen Hopkins, but Ellen Hopkins is wonky which is really

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odd because it's not tracking with Robert Aspen. They're almost identical. Uh so We have a motion. Is there any worry after you implement this that after using it for a few years then it's going to all of a sudden be

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not it's going to cost more because it seems like some of these things come about and and grab us in and then all of a sudden it's super expensive because they realize that we're kind of using it as

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to help us. I mean it could, but this is is I'm going through Ameresco which I currently work with through uh our asset planner and their all their stuff has been consistently um and this is new for them. Uh so uh there's always a risk. That's a great

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question. But I don't expect it with with Ameresco in the partnership that we have. Thanks. Mhm. Keith. I almost kind of the way you're describing it, I almost see it as a benefit cuz if you're getting all these activities, you might be able to identify identify like a rooftop unit

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that's failing before it goes out and then it's yeah, two times it or whatever the cost it is to get it replaced ASAP versus maintenance wise. It sounds like it sounds like a win-win. Yep, that's a great example cuz we had a rooftop unit on the sports center that hadn't been

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operating for like 3 months and we had no idea. And you only know if you go into the BAS control system and look to see if it's running or a customer complains. Um and with 11 buildings, 11 different BAS systems and no, you know,

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it's I go in and we'll target uh a few buildings to look at, but my head custodians are charged with going in checking their systems. But one, they're not super I mean that's not their primary core responsibility and if they show up in the snow season, they're not going to have time to check the BAS. So

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this will do it for us. So Okay. Any other questions? Thanks. Uh this one is speaking of Ameresco, this is our since we're finishing the high school and uh sports center, I need to have them come in and do

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uh an inventory and add that to my asset management system. So, this is just to add the new square footage into the system. And they go and take pictures and all the serial numbers of all the components and then they enter it into the system. So, that'll be for the remaining phase

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phase 1B and phase two of the high school and then the work that we've done in the sports center. Uh and then the field house wasn't done yet either cuz it was it was under construction. And this one is in conjunction with that, it's the 360 imagery that I have

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on all of our buildings. They're going to take the same 360 imagery of the those phases in the high school and the sports center and also update our first responder maps for those locations. As you can see, the current first responder map says 2025 construction. So, those will all be updated and provided to the

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police department and the fire department. Um and this one is a stuck traffic study. I think I talked about it during the pavement briefing. And this is uh in conjunction with the 40th Avenue South 14th Street South roundabout project. Uh

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the city's going to come in and I included some pictures from the design. I don't know if if you can it's kind of hard to see. So, it's going to be one way coming off of 40th and one way going out on 14th and they're going to cut do a curb cut to connect those two and then

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I the the flow and the striping has been updated. So, all the traffic will go south and to the east except for the one loop that goes in the south parking lot. So, um this is what the city's going to do and we're going to restripe it and then

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we're going to do the traffic study after the new construction is complete so we can analyze it during the school year in September and October. And I'm hoping trying to be optimistic that just this change will make things

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more manageable in terms of student drop-off and pickup without having to dump serious dollars into a parking lot reconfiguration. Okay. Keith. Do we um are there going to be two lanes then that'll support two cars going into

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that entrance at the same time and two cars going out? No, so if you if you look um I don't know if I Is there a laser pointer? So, up up here

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there'll be one lane that'll turn in from the west side and then you'll have a turn in with that head crossing and island where that primary crosswalk for the students is going to be. So, it's kind of hard to see there but

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there won't be two lanes. Yeah, there'll be two lanes, one coming from the east, one coming from the west. I think they'll combine >> to one lane. And then we'll we'll see you we'll force them into two. So, these folks coming from the west will come down here

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Yep. this route. The ones coming from the east will take this route and then split off into two. Okay. And I I I guess what I'm thinking is and maybe you're already thinking about this is I would encourage some sort of stakes or road cones to get people to

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not make that a pinch point of people coming from the east wanting to get to drop their kids off by [clears throat] the school closer to the school. >> Yes. Yes, so we did install and we might bring it farther out you know, when it's not snow removal season we have uh into the pavement we have

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uh Gotcha. Yep, I know what you're talking about. I just feel like I'm like my dad's visiting and he can't remember names and I can't remember what those things are called. So, but he's 81, so um Yeah, so we we're really trying to

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increase the curb area cuz that's where everybody wants curbing and right now we're getting cars doubled up and so we're basically going to go from two curb line lanes to four essentially. And then there is a choke point cuz

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you're going to filter in three of those from the north lot to go in. Um but we're hoping that with that constant traffic flow around the traffic circle there's not going to be any choke points of people waiting to turn left and you know, it's all meant to flow

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together. I'm sure it's not going to be perfect but it should be way better than it is now. Thank you. Yep. Steve, so I think that's 14th where the exit. So, there's no way to get into the parking lot from 14th I have to go all the way to 40th to come into the lot. Yep.

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But that but it's it's takes you to the traffic circle. So, you just you just traffic circle around and then make your left your right your left-hand turn off of 40th. So, Yep, so if you're coming from the south, you're going to have to enter the traffic circle and and it'll spin you

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around. But there should be plenty of queuing space to do that. Cuz right now they can go in on that south parking lot and drop off also, right? >> Yes. Which is causing safety issues as well. Uh because then you got traffic people

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parking in the church parking lot, kids running across the street. Um so, the whole thing is to just keep things flowing cuz then when you get out 14th you just have traffic flowing this way and this way. Course, if somebody comes southbound on 14th they'll have to wait before they pull out but it should be

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minimized because people aren't coming down 14th to go into that parking lot anymore. You don't think they'll run across in the church still? They will. >> [laughter] >> Okay. And and you can only >> [clears throat] >> how do I put this? You can only design as best as you can

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and communicate as best as you can. Um but we still get people doing whatever they want to do. But this should still help. And we just we'll just educate and I'm meeting with Tiffany and her team in May to kind of go over this because this is

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a heavy lift for them every morning and every afternoon. So, um they may see some things that I don't. And so, Cuz don't you think people are going to try to take a turn on into that south parking lot from 14th? I mean, so it's going to be that's going to be a that's happening for one thing but also

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just try to get in there. Yep, of course but um they'll probably we'll probably post somebody there to keep them moving. For the first cuz we'll have to post some extra and we'll probably look for some volunteers for the first week or so

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to help out at those points where people might try to go against the flow of traffic. >> Scott has a volunteer and has a question. >> [laughter] >> Yeah. And I think too uh you know, the SROs are usually roll out during the first week of school for kids' safety, too. So, we'll

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coordinate with with PD as well and let them know what's going on. Okay. Scott has a question. So, I see how you have your two lanes coming in on the east side there and then your one coming in on the west side down to the south of the parking lot there. But I don't understand the choke point

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there. How that's you know, the yellow box. Yeah, that'll be open curb. That'll be open curb and then they'll just flow out to the 14th Street. I I guess I'm kind of confused how they're going to flow out there. Yeah, so they'll be able to

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So, they'll be able to flow out. So, you could they'll either be able to go this way, let's say if they haven't picked up their kid and the kid's and the kid's over here. They'll have two options when they hit this when they hit this point. They'll turn

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right to go here to pick their kid up or they'll turn left and go into this lane. Of course, you know, these cars are flowing out here so maybe somebody will want to come here to go south. Okay. But

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we'll have to kind of figure out. That that is going to be That's going to be That'll probably be the biggest problem? Yeah. Yeah. Let's put a roundabout in there. >> [laughter] >> That'd be sweet. So, we'll see how it goes and then but that's why I think we'll we'll still

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follow on with our traffic study and then they'll have you know, some data that they can take of how this is working. But it should be an improvement. I would imagine that the um that far right lane going out on the

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west lot there, they'll want to turn left. That bottom lane they'll want to turn left rather than right. So, I don't know if we want to mark that, too. Mark it as a right turn only. >> Mhm. Oh. Yeah. >> So, you're going to have two people trying to make a left turn there going out.

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Oh, yeah. [clears throat] Yeah, it'll be yep, there'll be arrows that way. There you go. Yep, and signage. Yep. Yep. >> Just like at the middle school. Yes. Yes. Yep. No, signage. It'll be big. Good. So, they can Yeah.

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But next is uh We have one more question, Loralee. Oh, I'm sorry. I was just going to say you probably already thought about this but if you could have um maps for back to school night for the teachers give out and explain to the SRO parents then they can talk to more people.

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>> Yep, we sure will. Yep, we'll have a promotional campaign and Tiffany and her staff have been really good at that. When we made the change from bussing to that side to that side, they did a pretty good job of getting that out to the parents. But we will work that hard. Yep.

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Um any other questions on this one? This was I knew it would be a hot topic but that's okay. All right, and uh next is uh we'll fully enclose the playground at Robert Asp or at Ellen Hopkins. Um so, I don't have a that's a

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programming estimate. I I just took pictures and haven't got a quote on that yet, but um have some issues with a few kids and the proximity to this one of the parking lot. There's so we'll we'll fully enclose that.

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This one was the one that I just did a change order for the high school project. This is not a requirement, but it is just really a good thing to do with our health office doors. We have a particular student that has to make that

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is that doesn't is fairly independent and has to make trips in to the health office. So this will just make it easier with ADA access. So. And that'll be done after school's out. And we're also doing the same at the

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health office at at middle at East. We did the West one last year and then that student Yeah, so we're we're kind of following some of the students as we do this. So. But. But they yeah, these are We did one at Dodge, too. So we did the

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Dodge and then West and now East, so we're just making our way through. This one is a facility envelope scan. I got um There's a contractor who did a demonstration and of a drone did the envelope scan of the of the Career

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Academy. That provided tons of useful data that I'm still going through cuz we have lots of um There's some issues with the envelope at at the Career Academy in terms of water infiltration.

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Mr. Schneider knows all about that. Um so um this will give us a road map and I picked Hopkins and Asp because it's been a couple of decades since we've done some major window work and I want to know exactly what's going

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on if these two facilities are going to have to be taken um yeah, we're going to be using these for for quite a while longer. I want to see where we're at in terms of uh windows, exterior doors, water infiltration, energy use and loss, so

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um they actually take a drone around take an infrared scan of the entire building envelope from all angles. And that is a is a actual um dashboard of the Career Academy. So this one helped identify we have 200

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skylights on that building, so um there's some useful data there and we're able to make some repair proactive repairs on those before cuz we've had some leaking issues and the age of those skylights we're going to have issues, so we're trying to be a little proactive on

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that and this data will be useful in that. We've also identified some um deficiencies in in in wall insulation and some water infiltration. Um next one, this is um these are the doors between East and

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West and we want to fob those and tie them to the fire alarm so we can secure one side of the building from the other. Um That will help during the day with cross flow uncontrolled cross flow of students

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from East to West and West to East. And also allow us to tie off the building if only using the gyms and you know, that'll give the building administrator some security options. >> [snorts] >> Um and this is

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LTFM, so the big one is that's North rink project at the sports center. It's a combined between FY26 27 ice levy and LTFM. So this is the LTFM piece. We have to replace some bleachers. I'll go through each of these. So this is

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sandblasting. We're actually mobilizing the contractor today. Um that whole North rink will be blocked off um with plastic and they'll start sandblasting operations on the 4th of May. Um

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And so we're removing all that rust and then we'll be repainting the ceiling, putting new lighting in, adding dehumidification and then additional rooftop unit. And roof structure repairs, that's the sandblasting and the and the repainting. So good news is we did some structural

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analysis and even though when I came here in 2014 the roof was rusting when the city owned it, but we didn't have the money. Um the the it's still structurally sound. So the rust has not corroded it from a

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structural standpoint. So that's good news. Um bleacher in the gym needs to be replaced. It's it can't be repaired anymore and it's become a safety issue. And yeah, those are not cheap, so

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we're doing that as and then this one, so we're we're resurfacing the track at the high school. Um The track at Horizon also needs to be redone. However, that one's degraded to a point where it's extremely expensive,

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so I'm not sure what to do. But this one we're doing it now because it's the right point to do it. I don't want to wait till it's going to cost $450,000, so um this will take us, you know, it's it's a good surface and

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it'll take us 15 years into the future for this track surface. And then we're on our normal refinishing program for gym floors, so we're going to do about half of them. I'm splitting the ones at the elementary school so we can keep one gym open at

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all times except for Reinerson. The second one isn't a wood floor, so that's they only have one wood floor gym. So now we're on a cycle. I did these a few years ago to get them all caught up and now we're on a good rotation where that annual cost will is is 19,000, so

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it's not going to be it's manageable. And then we keep those wood surfaces protected. This one I just got the quote on this one and it's way more than $10,000, so I'm not sure what I'm going to do with this one. So.

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Um There's just we just need all the pods in East need to be walls need to be repaired and painted and the damage is extensive. Uh quite honestly because there are 1,800,000

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staples in the walls. So I can't get people to stop stapling on the wall in the walls. So I'm not sure what to do um at this point, but we're going to remove all the TVs and put whiteboards in there. That was the extent of the project, so I may just do that because

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at the request of the principal just to put whiteboards in there to make that space more usable and teaching space, which is great, but the walls really need some some TLC, but it is way more than I anticipated, so I'll be working through that one.

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I might have to phase it. But until I get some commitment um from staff not to damage the walls, then I'm really not motivated to repair and paint walls. Next one is uh what this one is not my favorite

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either cuz I already lost one water heater at our Horizon Middle School. So apparently water heaters are only lasting 8 years these days. So that one that one's still down and I thought I was good. I was just going to keep it with two because we're not running gym

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classes and showers out there, but I got a report from food services that they're running out of hot water near the end of the shift, so I'm going to have to replace it. And then yeah, this is ice levy. So that's just the ice levy part of that North rink project and then I got to

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replace a couple Zamboni batteries on the Zambonis and then we're going to add some fobs to some of the areas there. Where um Deans Maddie's working in stores a lot of uniforms. So it's a there's a lot

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of assets in there that we want to protect. Um and that's just yeah, so that's it. So. Keith. Just a quick question. I know when I did the school tour of Vista, they had said back then when they were housing or they

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are still housing um some of the child development programs. They had mentioned a fence would have would be nice because the railroad and there's a ditch there. Now with it pivoting to ALC, I don't know if that's still needed or not, but has that have you heard anything about a possible fence to keep

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Yeah, kids safe. >> With ECEF moving to the Career Academy, we probably won't be doing that, but we're going to have to look at some space and what we need to do at the Career Academy. So they all had the early learning classroom um space and I they usually

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play on the side of the building right along whatever road that is. But yeah, we should we're going to have to look at something like that. I think what we'll do is I'll work with Brandon and her team and when they get settled in there um where they're going to be located, there is a potential where we could

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provide some fencing in a play area for them. So. Okay. Thank you. Mhm. Cassidy. Um in the sports center, is there a plan to paint the walls? So not blue and green. Yeah, they will be eventually. Okay. Um so I have

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working on a 5-year plan for the sports center to keep our ice levy stabilized so the tax so the levy remains consistent, but we can start planning those out. Um so once we get the infrastructure stuff done, so we got new roofs on both North and South. We're doing the work in

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the North rink and then we can start working towards some aesthetic improvements after we get the infrastructure and the the envelope solidified. Yep. Can I go off-topic for the new softball field? Been out there a few times watching games.

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Beautiful, wonderful. Anything that's great things happening there? Is there anything changes that should have happened or anything with the field? >> I have not heard of It's all been joy. >> been positive, yeah. I've heard the same thing. >> Yeah, it's been It's been really good. Dean has has not communicated any

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challenges or issues with Yeah, it's good to have those games in. Big pile of snow, but we took care of that. Yeah, it's great to have the facility. So, it looks good. Yeah. All right. Any other questions? Or Cassie, go ahead. Yes, go ahead. Um move to approve the fiscal year '27 capital LTFM facilities program

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as presented. I'll second it. I have a motion by Cassie seconded by Scott to approve the FY '27 capital um LTFM facility program as presented. Any other discussion? Any additional discussion?

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All in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed, same sign. Motion carries. Thanks, Steve. Moving on to um accepting donations. Thank you. Um tonight we accept the following donations. Uh VFW Auxiliary, a monetary donation for homeless services.

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Mathematica Inc., a monetary donation to food service. Our Redeemer Lutheran Church homeless services, a monetary donation. And Bethesda Lutheran Church, a monetary donation for homeless services. Lorelei. I move to accept the donation presented and direct

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Cassie. I'll second. Motion by Lorelei seconded by Cassie to accept the donations as presented and direct administration to send a thank you. Any further discussion? Any additional discussion? All in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed, same sign. Motion

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carries. Policy updates. Dr. Lunnick. Thank you. Due to um changes in Minnesota law, Minnesota School Boards Association recommends these seven policies that are in your packet be approved with one reading. And

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uh you'll see them there on page 108. You'll see the updates that were made. And uh be on the lookout for more of these to come in June. But uh I would recommend approval of these seven policies as presented with one reading.

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Scott. Move to approve the policies as presented in one reading pursuant to MAPS policy 208 section the four adoption of the review and policy item D. Lorelei.

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>> [laughter] >> I second. Motion by Scott seconded by Lorelei to approve the policies presented in one reading pursuant to MAPS policy 208 section four adoption and review of policy item D. Any further discussion?

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Mhm. Any discussion? All in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed, same sign. Motion carries. Superintendent updates. >> Okay. Just real quick, uh we're getting to that time of year where we get to talk about the fun things like

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uh graduation, AVID senior night. Uh so, I just want to put these dates on your calendars so you can be aware. Uh this Wednesday, we do have academic awards night at the high school uh 7:00 p.m. Uh AVID senior night, 7:00 p.m. at the

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high school. Um I'll have to look at the date on that. I thought I wrote it down, but I didn't. I think it's May 13th. You're right. May 13th is the day. Thank you. I don't know what I was thinking there. I wrote it down and didn't write the date. And then on May 29th, uh 7:00 p.m.

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is our high school graduation. So, those are three big uh big events here coming in the month of month of May and of April. So, I just want to get those on your calendar Mhm. as we go. So, and I will continue to remind you of those dates uh as we go and we get closer to them as

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well. So, those are the three updates. Um we'll continue to monitor what's going on legislatively as well. Uh not much is happening as of right now. Um but as time goes on here, hopefully we'll be able to report something back to you. So,

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those are my updates. Matt. I'm glad to see that Mr. Schneider has stayed. Uh I just wanted to say that I've heard a couple of interviews on local radio stations with him and students, and they've just been excellent. It's a wonderful uh news to to hear about our Career Academy when we

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have difficult news sometimes. So, thank you for your good work and and uh just wanted to see that relationship you have with the media. Keith. Are you sure? You ready? I think I'm ready. Move to [clears throat] approve the adjournment of the April 27th, 2026

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school board meeting at 7:19 p.m. Melissa. I second. I have a motion by Keith seconded by Melissa to approve the adjournment of the April 27th, 2026 school board meeting at 7:19 p.m. Any discussion?

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I will add I went into uh I was asked to do a Catalyst observation last week. And I think another invite might be coming to you guys too to do one next week or this week. It was a great to go there and observe that and the the hard work the teachers are doing to get trained into implement those

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strategies. So, if you have the opportunity, please try to do that as well cuz it's it was pretty interesting. Any other discussion? All in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed, same sign. Motion carries and meeting adjourned.