you said we go so the bottom portion of this is what you were just looking at scroll down but I want to for big picture I want to be able to show and then back up again what you approved um by June 30th of this
year is everything was on the top portion um and uh this had by State Statute we have to have a preliminary budget approved by the board by June 30th of each year as we say every time we don't have there's a lot of information we don't yet have at that time so we have our our best estimates
um and at that point we had asked you to approve that we were showing that we were going to deficit spend around 247,000 um on the unassigned fund balance and uh since then we now we have better information we ended the year also this is a difference we ended the
year 23 24 at a 14.5% uh fund balance un assigned fund balance um so that was approved June 30th I'm sorry down to the bottom and then here this is what we're showing with the truth and Taxation presentation
tonight these are our revised numbers um these numbers fund one 486,000 looks like a big scary number um what we need to do though is come down to the middle here and show yes $486,000 but we do have reserved assigned uh dollars that are going to
offset that bottom line reserved ltfm this is a change from last time we did increase our ltfm expenditure budget um those were for Health Department orders that came through food service if you have further questions on that Trevor's present um assigned projects 200,000
we've done curriculum we've done some um technology 200,000 we have again that is in assigned dollars so with money is there as think of it as in savings and then staff development Reserve that's for our Tech integration Specialists again those monies are in reserve so when we Factor all of those in we're say
in our general fund we now have gone from 247 negative to 76 negative so definite Improvement we left our um enrollment numbers the same uh for where we're at 1390 is what we're basing those on 3K through 12 Food Service came in um
this number also has increased but we budgeted for 150,000 equipment that we have for some ovens and Equipment upgrades in the kitchen their fund balance will sustain that so it's a good way for us to be able to spend that down Community Ed also improved um from a
negative uh 24,000 up to a positive 1970 pretty briak even there uh that's additional sack revenue and we had some additional lovey dollars for disabled child care and then our debt Redemption um that went from a positive to a negative we do have a fund balance to
support that this St State simply comes in every other year and if there's exit there's a we get a 5% over Levy and if it's building up the fund balance they'll come in and reduce it um that's that's a very standard so 4982 again that's a there's a fund balance that
will sustain that so bottom line um these are numbers that we're going to ask for approval on later in the meeting I can take any questions it's good news good news and that we're we're uh we're still projecting a slight deficit but it's
certainly with our 14.5% fund balance it's good news that that's there to to sustain that so Jan in food service we have money that set aside for certain things yes yeah the
state definitely has regulation yeah and we at one time had wanted to do some um remodeling down there and they said no to that that had to come out of General FLL which was unfortunate because we had service and still do um when we came through with
the free reduce um the federal dollars coming through it's built up our fund balance and now we're doing our best improvements and spend it down for that thanks next one this is just that statement that I
talked about earlier so it just kind of gives you the timeline we are almost to the spring here where so now would be the time you're going to the hearings or want to um do a rebuttal to your proposed taxes
that you get involved and again that is at the County uh level m this just shows the the effective tax rates um so these are I would use a uh a
home for example if you got a $100,000 home you could roughly take the 1.14% times the 100 and that's going to give you your rough tax you can see Farm is taxed a lot lower um just because of
um the fact that of how much farm land there is here's the tax liability I've got two slides on this I I threw this one in um because this as you can see in the corner there there's a m symbol so the slideshow um comes from
m m which we're a member of this is the breakdown for the state of Minnesota so this is Statewide um you can see Farms make up about 19 % got a 6.8% share on the taxes then you keep going
residential 57% and 54% the next slide this is actually for our district specific so this is district 28.99 and 53% of our Market is is
Farms um 34% is the the residential homes um commercials vary um 56 % uh the other really is um about three or four it's like uh seasonal is about three or
four things that make up that whole um department or area and I didn't choose to have those broken down there the nice part of this slide is um this next slide Mara is we benefit greatly from the agda
school credit so this started in 2017 um it affects all the existing fund seven debts uh except for oped bonds uh there's reductions to Farmers and uh Timber owners it remains at 70% in 2025
but what happens after 2025 is is going to be decided at the legislature this upcoming session but for our district and for many districts in southern Minnesota um this is a huge huge component to um our funding so um
to have this continue is extremely important it's important to realize in this um Shifting the state isn't over penalizing somebody else to get these funds these funds to backfill the agda school credit actually come from a whole
different um taxing system comes from our in uh income and sales tax so you know nobody in the property tax um end of it gets gets punished it's actually a win for everybody and this just tells you you know it
started out um it was 60% you can see it's at 70 and is now maxed at 70 if you're an a owner um you're not going to see this on our Levy it doesn't show individually but it will show um individually on your um tax statement
you can here's how you go to look to see how you're benefiting this just tells you from a district and this 376,162 that's last year's number that's a confirm number that our district saved
in 2023 as far as this tax season the 24 it's yet to be determined um but I would say it's very safe to say it's going to be at that or or above that the yellow and the red all of that basically how that works is um even
though we got the 37 6,000 um we are as you can tell from this in the medium so we're just above the medium we're not well above it and there are some districts pretty close to us you can see in Red
so this is lore and lore stands for local operating uh Revenue so our district has a a board approved Levy of $724 um this just gives you the equalization factor and it's a little
confusing but if you keep in mind where we're at we're tier two with the lore um that 587,589 you know the Acres the houseold on that's tax things that impact the the district as far as the tax levy the change in the
value or classification of your property are enrollment numbers the change in the evaluation of the property in the district so um the equalization Aid depends on our district property wealth that we'll talk about a little bit later local decisions and requirements adjust
ments for prior year so again sometimes they'll come back and make some changes from estimate to actual and then legislative changes as I said we do not have an operating uh referendum there are 94 other districts in the state of
Minnesota if you want you can click on these uh it's an interactive map um if it doesn't work because of the way we posted our uh agenda if it's a PDF just go to the m um site that's listed up above this map is on their website and
in is current so you can take a look all around us so that number I was talking about the 484 so you see we're at 538 220 or 256 so we do qualify for a very little
bit of Equalization but not a whole lot and it's a very complicated system um as far as determining your property wealth but basically you can see where the medium is there at at 61,000 in our district we have a lot of
Agland which benefits us on how how we receive the funding how we have to our Farmers have to pay the taxes but it also um you know the value of that even though it's going up and it's good at at an acre it doesn't compare to some
districts that have um three $400,000 homes throughout their district and no Farmland um there's a big difference in that so one thing that's on our Levy is our ltfm so these are our current numbers we
do have a 10-year plan um as Jan stated earlier we did add 140 to that because the um Health Department went through our kitchens and and there were some upgrades codes in storage areas you now have to have a drop ceiling and paint
your floors even if it's in a storage area so when you have three campuses and you need to do those things it adds up in a hurry so otherwise we're planning in polling Revenue um pretty much on an
asold basis other than our roofs that we bonded for as part of that U building project now I'm going to hand it back over to Jan to do a little on the levy um in September we had you certify
the maximum on our preliminary Levy certification by stat State Statute we need to have that in place by September 30th we didn't even hand out a report to you guys if you recall because it was nowhere near wreck um they are required to have it posted December 7th I think
our meeting the 8th and it was more confusing than helpful at that point to hand out the information they had which they have since corrected at that point it was around a one point a little over 1% increase what wasn't included and that was on the general fund was not
included at that time was the HED lease Levy that has now been corrected added in and that's what's leading to this 12.38% increase um so we'll Levy those dollars and then we'll turn around and pay that back out um over the years for
that for the AGB um these ly the on Community Education we were able to take advantage of some disabled child care um dollars there so 18% looks like a huge increase we're talking about a lot lower dollars here though also I'm going to backtrack I do want to point out this
12.38% is not a new portion but it does include the opab lby um we uh added that on a couple of years ago and that is a piece of this if you approve the bottom line tonight that does include 103,000 in the op ly dollar um and Debt Service
again this is just our 5% over Levy that we're allowed to do every year uh so bottom line our total increase on our Levy certification is 8.59% we will need to get approval from you guys on that later and tonight instead of a maximum we need you to certify the actual
dollar and then there's just additional information there so if you have some questions the county auditor their information and then of course our information so thank you any questions very good okay moving on the
next item is the adoption of the agenda to amend the agenda [Music] okay yeah so we had a motion in a second motion by Jake second by Roger Roger uh
discussion I discuss why I want to do this yes okay I would like to amend the agenda to add that we um just basically discuss posting all committe me meetings and agendas and their links on our websites before the committee meetings
in an effort to be more transparent for our government so want am am second right yeah yeah so let's just State what we have on
the table here the agenda as it is with the addition of letter F under governance to discuss agendas and items committee items being
posted is that correct J yeah and just and yeah links yeah okay so we have a motion by Ron by Julie second by
Ron uh any other further discussion all those in favor say I I those opposed motion passes um very good so following that line the next item is uh
recognition well it is Julie and Jake's last meeting meeting with us so again just want to thank both of you for your service Jake three terms 12 years and Julie one turn in chair so
thank you we do have some pumpkin squares over there that should make sure that you take care of because if you leave them and they're left here I'll be eating them all tomorrow so and then uh just a couple of things
on our hungry dog I guess Trevor got in added in there um but we're making an effort this time around um to recognize our um School social workers and counselors that helped us in the recent loss with our students so kudos to those
folks and Trevor couple names left off there was Beth m our school counselor at A3 and Brook Schmidt is our uh Family Services Rochester umon I guess I School another counselor
for us that helped out that sorry uh we do not have any presentations uh next up is public comments and our first Speaker Kati Brown hi everyone my name is Katie Brown my husband and I resi in mville and our
taxpayers with two children in the district I want to say we have the very best teachers here at PM p and I want to commend them for their dedication and for all of their their ways of going out and helping our students in different ways my daughter
Sydney is a driver will not accept anything but the best and our teachers goal above and beyond to push in her to excel including her English teacher who prioritizes different exls according to the students cheap ability and mastering
skills she pushes them to really be challenged and and to do their best when Sid went through sex sexual education at school I was extremely impressed with how her teacher handed this subject I understand that as a parent I have the
option to to opt out of this but I think it is highly educational and important for art students to have the opportunity to learn it in school she learned it with a teacher that was qualified and much better than the internet and that
is how she would have learned otherwise I will tell you it led to a lot of conversations um because I was a surrogate three times and I lied to my child and how I became a surrogate and I had to come forward with how the baby seed actually got to my
belly my seventh grade son has ADHD and really struggles in school he didn't qualify for an IEP because of his education standards he instead qualified dude as ADHD schol was very challenging for him he's a very different student in
the spring of 2020 Ethan was diagnosed with ADHD and got on an IEP his wonderful teacher Miss Becker was his incoming third grade teacher she met with Ethan All Summer Long via Zoom without even me asking
she went above and beyond and really helped Ethan with his reading she made him more confident and really helped him to get back onto his level I can never never say how much I appreciate all that she did for him she let him be confident
in his skill level as a parent I've never hesitated reaching out to our teachers they've always gotten back at me back to me and I also have the ability to go on schoology and see the textbooks and assignments that are assigned MCA scores do not tell a students whole story Ethan will always
be challenged by these tests I will tell you it has nothing to do with the teachers and their abilities they are working very hard to help him succeed Ethan just doesn't do us tests H I don't do well test I would much rather stand up here and give a speech than ever take
a test and as Mr ol said as a former teacher of mine can probably attest to that not every student is going to do well and pass a test even if they don't qualify for an IEP it is not the result teachers not teaching or students not trying it might just be the way that
they are we need to not just focus on test scores but think about the overall School environment we need to set up ourselves to really show our teachers that we appreciate the efforts that they are taking as a school board please prioritize supporting our teachers not
micromanaging their lessons as a person that is striving to get my masters in organizational leadership I understand that successful leaders are ones that make others feel Val Val they are not dictators but truly leaders I stand Here With Pride knowing that the the teachers
are dedicated to providing the best education for all of our students each and every day than thank you K good the next speaker is Carly Peter my name is Carly Peter and I am speaking on behalf of my arson Peter
Nora Henry Claire sis Hadley Iden shank Lilia Beni Ellery Flanigan Delany schwein Charlie use Lydia Everman Lauren Claver Ali Shard Lexi use Hazel Bartley Kelsey niklay Alexis Caston and myself
some of these players are not able to be here tonight due to other obligations this is 17 of the 18 Varsity softball players for next year that want Mr Peter as their coach not to mention many of the underclassman and coaching staff we feel like we are going to miss
out on opportunities if Mr Peter and the coaching staff are not rehire we have already missed out on a fall ball season a dome ball season and multiple things that happen outside of the Season Mr Peter has coached us all summer and there have not been any complaints the
softball program will not be the same without him please listen to The Varsity softball team because we want him as our coach if you truly care about the student athletes you will rehire him as the head softball coach thank you thank
you and then yeah Lexi my name is Lexi and I am coming up to speak once again in support of the PM girls 2025 softball team being coached by Ben Peter before I say anything more I would like to point out the lack of words some of our board members held
when voted in we were told that they were putting the community and the students first why are all these student athletes expressing their full support for our former coach and getting no feedback reasoning or support from our board if the students were put first the
letters we sent to our current board with signatures from the 20125 girl softball team expressing our opinions would would it make a difference we presented our petition to the superintendent athletic director and high school principal and they were and they expressed their gratitude for us
speaking up about the issue the the petition we presented was signed by the girls varsity softball team with signatures in favor of Ben being our coach as high school students it has become apparent we don't have a voice in this situation so we took matters into our own hands to prove to you that we
want him back it's not about the parents or other viewers it's about the athlete and we want to be heard instead of tossed aside as if our opinions don't matter please consider what we have said this is important to us and we hope your personal feelings towards coach Peter do
not affect your decision not only hear us but please listen to us and please please try to thank you very much next item on the agenda is
information so we have three reports I can start we have the letters training coming up we have our actually this Wednesday we have another study session plus this Friday is our 6h hour synchronous training so second one
to finish up two um as you guys know I put a little thing on camon in there I can't say enough about how our staff came together about our counselors I mean it was really what a tra what a tragedy in our hearts brought to the
family but yeah what what a great I just can't say enough St um some ATT ten data that Julie was looking for you can see we hover around that 96% um for last how many years that is
but it's looking good for us and then of course we've got a lot of lot of winter stuff and Christmas stuff going on with the giving tree we got Polar Express for kindergarten first grade does gingerbread houses every class does a a big party so we're we're celebrating
celebrating but the giving tree has been um great uh of course our well I should say of course you may not know but our title math takes over that does that for us then the students count all the things so they turn into a lesson for the kids and uh very very cool thing and
then I a quick update on the playground so um hopefully soon we'll have a presentation for you guys but we've been meeting with um Tim from oh gosh what is I think I put flag Shi Recreation so the committee has been together we're trying
to come up with a a nice we're kind of finalizing a nice plan so we can put out some posters and and put out for the next year trying to do some fundraising and to update our playground that's that's needs needs upgraded so lots more
information to come but we're kind of right to the end here where we can start rolling this out to the public and showing them all the hard work that we've been putting in similar things um yes I lost my voice holiday concerts last week was the 78 this week at Thursday at the elementary
junior high again many activities the ones you've never been to this Wednesday after school rctc leg robotics at our final competition it's hundreds of hundreds of kids many schools get at rctc in the Fieldhouse Wednesday after
school letters training stand Mr Wright spelling be coming up next week and then we added the attendance like you requested got in that mid90s in February the data coaches at the 48 we did this years ago probably three years we took of attendance just a plot graph correlation
with MCAS we'll be bringing that back in February we'll keep doing that annually but that it shows you what you think you're going to see obviously there's a big correlation yeah and I appreciate that I mean I did ask for attendance rates just because we hear a lot from staff about some of the struggles with
with uh attendance issues and relating how it relates to not MCAS necessarily but performance and some of those uh assessments that you're doing so I think that helps I mean when I see 96% it doesn't make me think like oh we have an attendance issue but how it correlates
to those some of those students in particular and how their performances will be good to be able to see that data I first thing on my thing here was early or mid November I went to the m conference um main reason we went was to
uh recognize Ashley Wolf she was the South zone or region uh educator of Excellence uh very deserving teacher um on top of that she's also a product of p and so I think that's a really good kind of show of our community um they do a
great job uh recognizing teachers they put together some videos if you are able to click on that link it'll take you to some more information about her but also the video that has a couple of our students on there and things like that so it's just a really good good um recognition for for Ashley and for our
school I also think that conference is a really solid conference it's nice that it focuses specifically on the issues and and positives of Education in rural Minnesota um so that was a good educational experience for me as well um
I included just a brief thing here so letters training is happening right now obviously most of the high school teachers are not doing letters training our our 712 English teachers will likely be doing that in the next round sorry sorry Mr Walton I'm just trying to
download the thing I want to look at your presentation but now I'm super embarrassed and I can't get it off you're good you're good good it's still up um but we so what this did allow us
to do is have a little more like um consistency and how we work when students aren't in the building right so previously we really only had one staff development day in November and then a half day in December and that's it okay
and so now we've had these spread out and we've been able to have much more of like a steady plan of what are we working on and and progression throughout the year now we've only had a few of them but but already you know we can tell a difference in how we're working with our content specific goals
just our regular working on on the goals straight from the classroom and then also one big kind of building wide goal that we've talked about for a couple years and never really gotten much traction is trying to convert the idea of the Bulldog way that gets talked
about a lot of the elementary school and how does that kind of translate how can we translate that more to the high school that's one of the building goals that we working on that that's been very positive um I included our attendance totals there I would say these numbers
are anytime a kid is gone so as an example if they're gone for a field trip or a softball game or anything that's included in there um we're we're up this year uh to just about 93% which is a is
positive um and I would say it's also a little more spread out uh if you look back obviously we had covid which with totally different uh rules and ways of going about dealing with attendance um but then coming out of covid a lot of
our attendance issues were uh groups of students and now we don't have as much of that problem right now um so we're coming back I think we we've tried really hard last couple years to change our messaging around attendance um to
parents and the kids I think that's been a positive um and then adding in just some other things that we're doing recognizing perfect attendance uh doing things like that I think it's been helpful this year and the teachers and the kids have done a great job too
recognizing that parents have been responsive in a positive way so I appreciate that uh finally I'm in October I had a coffee opportunity for parents to come and just meet and talk I'm having another one this Wednesday
night at 6m in the boardroom here I I don't have a presentation but I have things ready for people to see and hopefully um for some good discussion Mike I have a couple of questions sure for you and I'm we're
going to I want to go back to November's meeting I've been thinking about this for the month for this whole month now and correctly if I'm wrong I think you mentioned that you were gonna you were thinking about allowing 10th graders to have open lunch open campus lunch as a
reward and I've been thinking about that in the sense that fellow board members cor up to me if I'm wrong here but as I see it as a board we approve to handbooks and so as it stands in there
11th and 12th graders have open lunch and 9th and 10th have closed true so it that ninth and 10th can't get open lunch unless it's board
that because otherwise thought that would be I think would just have to be a conversation obvious at the board level i' like to hear the why we're
doing me to do that now or I don't think so I wouldn't say right now but I thank you very good stud rep hello everyone um this past month
our city council has stayed fairly busy and um this weekend helped out we start up food clean tables and we sold supplies that we together as a student so sold all 83 of
them so yeah that was good and it was really really cool that just um contribute to such a special event for the community so um and then we also decorated and donated the Christmas tree to the as well so overall it was a busy
couple of weeks planning all that stuff and implementing it but like I say it's good to see our contribution to a specially so um and then we also recently wrapped up a toy
drive um for the Childhood Cancer Community Jessica arsell kind of headed this event and thanks to her hard work in the community donations we were able to collect around a 100 gifts for children in the
area um so that was just a really awesome um event and it's cool because this IR boing cancer so it's just cool to see the impact that it can have especially during the holiday
season um on top of all that we just continued preparing for our staff breakfast coming up um end of December our Christmas staff gifts and the holiday week that we're planning for we also decorated the
definitely overall though just looking forward to wrapping up the calendar year attached we don't always have Trevor here so I feel like he has something to say any questions about the maintenance report no the the only thing I got the
uh update on the health department ORD which was talking um the school district in the past is I supposedly got away with a lot of stuff Tammy's never had problem with a lot of the pit
storage and uh so that was one of the big sites plus three Department s that most updated all Department you got to have one for wash RSE and so they hammered pretty hard on it that's where the increase them is
kind of come into play uh their storage rooms even though that's not food prep it's storage they still had to be remodeled that was drop ceilings ELC all had to be moved each back had to be redu the floor still have to be epoxy and
brought up freezer work so I just wanted to inform the public where all this money and why why it is they don't have what it's all new electrical and everything that had done there's no way to get
around it I did have some stuff dropped off for last visit she was here which helps but not a lot but so I just wanted to inform the the board and the public why why that increase was
there thank you for that monthly budget report this report will reflect the budget revisions that we're going to ask you to approve and we've already discussed um so I'd like to point out when we go through revisions we go to
the bottom of this first page report this total here when we look at the budget report that I have here that these are our revenues parentheses on revenues that's a good thing that's means credit balances that gets confusing but this is what we want to see um and that
21766 1110 just to put it in perspective that will match up then with what I'm asking for approval on and the same we go all the way down on our expenditures the same 22394 607 this number here is match up
with that number that's how it brings it all together um I also want to point out too as far as I mentioned that we had that improvement from the negative 247 um to the 76 around $170,000 Improvement that does include the fact that our
health insurance is um when we got our renewal we we did come in with a decrease so that number is factored in here we did we were able to um reduce those the health budgets you won't see that as a specific line item here because this is all of our program codes so it's within all of these codes
together um because this goes by program as opposed to object code which is where you would see the the he but 40,000 is well what we saw the savings there's 7% decrease and then the board will see half of that it's 5050 those numbers are in there we also had some savings on some payroll regular
payroll um salaries we have a couple positions that have been hosted the beginning of the year weren't able to fill until actually middle of the year so we did um revise the budget reflect the actual expenditures instead of as if we had had them the whole year and then our interest savings interest rates are
still doing very well so we're um that 170,000 those three three um areas are what really contributed to that um uh other than that we're tracking this 100% you're seeing here that our insurances we pay those at the beginning of the year we've talked about that before
bottom line 31% that is where we want to be for our expenditures at this time question couple things uh first of all remind patrons so Wednesday um besides being able to meet with Mr Walton you have the
opportunity to do the virtual question and answer with msba so um your opportunity to have any questions you would like them to address you can submit those now I think until Wednesday at noon and then they will um that
session will actually be going through those questions it will be recorded in case you can't make that window but I encourage you to to try to uh either submit a question or attend or both but uh you'll get patrons or parents will
get a reminder email um tomorrow with the links included all of this is still posted on our website so you don't have to hunt back for letters or anything it's it's on the front page of the the website if you're interested Jan mentioned this earlier um
you know our enrollment actually our number is 1390 we're using for Budget um our December enrollment right now is 1399 we have nine students to the good we still feel our numbers good um
sometimes see a little bit of loss at the high school we'll see how the the year finishes out but right now I think that's a good number um next week I think it's next week December 18th Mike and uh who else is going with us to the
redefining ready Trish Trish um so Mike's presented Nate shared that with you the redefining ready um when I worked in Lake City we were also part of the same cohort as pen um we're coming back together as a cohort now to look at
our regional metric so Mike's using some metrics very similar to Lake City those were metrics that they brought out of Wisconsin I believe right um and then now we are going to formalize um our local metrics I don't know how much of a
difference there'll be but I'm kind of excited to to see what happens with that uh we're talking about attendance um I did take a quick look um I'll meet with uh sh and have a little bit more information uh next month but as far as
staff absences um teachers uh we're tracking about exactly where we were last year so at this time last year we had 503 absences um we have 511 so that's about eight teachers a day but remember that's
everything that isn't people just going on vac or PTO that's uh surgeries that's you know maternity leaves all kinds of things going on there but we are exactly I would say very similar to what we were
last year uh just a couple of things I I wanted to touch on on MCAS and first of all I want to Echo um you know what Katie was was saying earlier I acknowledge MCAS but I honestly feel
they are just one opportunity um to take a look at some some assessment scores um this is not the primary driver in our district District um we look at the whole student and and their growth
not only academically but personally there's a lot more to educating a kid than MCA however I just feel um you know I left the meeting the other night and and I'm driving home and I felt like there was a lot of good there and yet okay so
what's so bad about our MCA scores so not that I'm trying to tout us but this was shared earlier in the year with by Matt kada when they did the um data dive for us this is our stem districts
there's 22 of them and we're in the top five except for reading and we're just a notch off there in the middle so again when you look at our MCA scores um 48 we should be proud of them not
questioning them can they improve heck yes but there is an anybody's MCA scores that can't improve the other um link so I started thinking when I got home I was just like well I just wondered you know like I said not to be
mean I don't put a lot of value in the MCAS it's one data point I respect it um but this piece is every District that borders us so if you're thinking in terms of you
know our our scores aren't too good maybe should be looking at going elsewhere um this is every District that borders our school district and I I chose Sentry because if you if you choose Rochester Public you're going to
get a much lower score Sentry is the top um School in in uh Rochester last year with MCA scores I didn't use the district and again you can see here that cleanville milville
in the 912 which would be our math is uh 11th grade the reading's 10th grade and the science I think is 10th grade as well when they take biology when they take biology usually 10th grade so again plenty of room for
improvement but as far as my um take on this being a crisis or something that I'm going to try to address in my time here um no I I hope to see us continue um and again we are well above the SA average and I'm not going to brag about
our state average but when it comes to this particular test um I'm actually quite proud of of the scores our students um have received and the work our teachers have done so and again it's one piece of data I am
more interested in our fast bridge data that's going to be shared with us this February that's really our Focus at the building level and the district level um you saw the benchmarks of where those students came in this fall we want to see what's happened since the fall to
the winter um that's really the the data that drives our instruction I agree I think I'm very excited to see what Fe know a big chunk of that in relation to some of those other data points that
we've talked about that are factors and all of it great and again I appreciate John mentioning it but um want to thank our staff not only our counselors there really isn't a um a cheat sheet when
when you lose a student especially like camon um it happened late at night um prior to school and all of a sudden you just start to hear that that the day you're in school and kudos to our third grade teachers who um knew you know
especially um the classroom teacher that that are the closest to them it affected me just being here as an inum um in barely knowing that student let alone having them in my classroom every single day and I just want to encourage us to
continue um to keep the rigan family in our thoughts and prayers um it it's something we hope to continue to to help them through as well as long from over um for all of us very
good um so committee reports are attacked I don't know if we need to go through them us our to approve motion by Jake second by Roger any conversation all those in favor say I I
those opposed uh governance so we have a second reading um of policies under review which means we also vote on those tonight any conversation about those policies do you want to bring
these were some that we had the policy committee had had kind of looked at but also some that had come our way uh any conversations or anything about these remember on this process like Mara
scroll down the board right now should be looking at the firsty all of you so the policy committee is in charge of making um the formal changes but any of the board um same with patrons if there's something in a policy I I would recommend you reach out to myself or one
of the board members that's why these are up here for so the first reading are in review those will be here next month um for approval so at this point um scroll back up Marshall Mar all of those
have been um reviewed changes made and and we're asking you to approve them the stuff down below the 100s um these are in first reading if there's any thoughts someone has that's on the board outside of the policy committee they should
share those with you know colleagues that are on the the policy committee or myself and we're just going to keep reloading so once these go off tonight Marshall will move the hundreds up and I'll we'll have a new group for the
committee to be looking at move to approve motion by Ron second by Julie har to approve all of those policies any further conversation all those in favor say I I
those opposed motion passes budget revision kind like the jam you're welcome um I think we've talked about this as much unless er's got anything to
add I um approval but if there's any questions I can take those or we add to that it's always good go the other direction so yeah we're pleased to see that so um if anything comes up that makes us go even more
positive or back the other way we'll of course always bring it back for discussion this is our first budget revision we could do another one we won't unless it's significant enough um but for now this is they fly have
F so uh we are looking for a motion to approve the budget by Roger second by Jake any further conversation all those in favor say I I
those opposed motion passes and this too um we've already discussed any questions I can take those otherwise we're looking for approval on 3, 62285 38 by to approve the number
that I got some 38 Roger uh any conversation at all all those in favor say I I those opposed corrected 2526 calendar yeah we were working on
the 2627 and Clark or someone caught an error we had a full day of I believe teacher in service that's only a half day so it's just part of the process of correcting it have board approval and
then we'll repost the revised calendar approve motion by Stacy second by Ron any questions or conversation all those in favor say I I
those opposed passes em schedule so I don't know if you remember a while back um I talked about this just having a one stop shop where you can figure out everything that has a fee
associated in our district um I was hoping to get it together and have you guys approve it for next year um but I think an easier process is just to start where we're at and then this is something that um we would approve maybe in June or even after I'm gone but um
you can find this on the website but it takes a lot of work and I think if you're a parent and you've had kids go through the system it's no big deal if you're a newbie um Good Luck figuring these out so these are all of our current um fees and like I said um grow
the very top um I'll put on here approved in December but ideally this would be a May June type approval usually the only thing that we're not aware of and sometimes have to wait on are those meal costs because those are
set outside of us but you can see as far as admission athletic activity fees keep scrolling down Marca um you know fees at the ele fees at 78 technology um band this basically is
everything so and when we get closer to May or June um of renewing uh for next year we certainly could be gathering you data so a normal practice on this would be well where do we follow with our you
know our athletic bees it's easy to gather that information and get make you guys uh able to make a more informed decision on that so my plans with it after you approve it tonight is park it on the website let people use it
so can you also add the link to where people would go online pay for those no would be yeah that's beyond me actually it's a pretty much everything's
in the school store so it's our school so once once you know what your costs are I might be able to I'll take a look I'm not making any promises awesome okay any
questions a motion by J to approve second by Jake any further conversation all those in favor say I I those opposed motion passes okay uh we
added letter F to here to have a conversation just the discussion about committee agendas and L so hard I'll like to take it oh we were just talking about at staff development and it was just clear that they wanted board a
board directive so that and it would I think it' just be nice to set that expectation for all our committees that way our community can us tap in check the agenda or if there's links
first zo meetings they have that ability yeah just conversation about it today I think what will end up happening from here is if everybody is in we believe this a good thing that we can change the policy that's related to that
yeah yeah I would agree so I think part of you know where this came from is that the staff development committee um meets in person but there's also a link that comes with it so that staff
members especially at the different sit aren't having to rush to get to the meeting and then somewhere else but it does allow community members and other members to be able to join we don't we don't do anything else other
than the board meeting so I guess I want clarification I'm not planning on um the committee meetings that we run at the district level I'm not planning on zooming anything out as far as Staff Development
I've already met with Tony uh McGee is our um staff development director we're just going to um include that zoom in the posting but now we post we do a very good job in this District of posting our meetings I'll
use the ones that I'm in charge of um the other night uh we did the finance Dan and I really um probably two hours before the meeting finalized the the agenda we probably could have done it earlier but um I don't know on the
expectation of everybody being able to post is it three days ahead of time yeah okay so as long as we know we're probably going to tweak that agenda or change it but if you're going to make it across the board where you have the
expectation everybody post the agenda um a lot of people are scrambling doing other I mean just realize it might not we do a very good job with the minutes and the posting which I think are are huge but the next thing you're going to get is a complaint that you know the
agenda uh wasn't complete until 2 hours before the meeting and I'm sorry that's the reality of some of the business we do but if you want to require that of all committees that's fine but make sure we do that clarification of um the only
meeting we're zooming um is currently the board and we already were planning on allowing um that Zoom link to be used as part of the posting but not the agenda um and simply jul it isn't a matter of transparency
it's just a matter of how quickly can we get things organized to be able to um you know sometimes it is day of or two days before if we're lucky in our in our world but we'll try to get better at it yeah and I agree so the live
streaming of the the monthly board meetings will continue so not quite as people can't interact with us just being liveing but that staff devel velopment meeting is an interactive meeting uh via
and so I think having the the link posted on the website with the posting of where of when the meeting is should alleviate you know people not being able to access it I think that would be a good thing
and we do that because we've got folks in Elgen to 7 a.m. you're either doing it in the front end of school or the back end of it and it saves on that traveling um but technically um now postco you can do that for three times
unless you're opening up um you know to the public so we're going to open it up starting in December it'll be open to the public poed down the agenda for either in person or virtu yeah
virtual anybody else are we comfortable just leaving the agendas as they have then or is that something that we want to recommend being posted in advance I think we realize that things
can get added but we have some of the stuff nailed down I think that would be helpful you know what I mean knowing full well that changes need to be made apprciate that feedback we'll take it back to the
policy you're gonna have to touch I don't know if it's 213 or whatever it is once you redo your committees anyways so that's a good idea yeah there's a lot of stuff for that organization that
would okay uh business is still there um that will come into play that is an organizational that will happen in Janu which leaves us at board comments um I just want to touch on the
district advisory committee um Ron and Eric and I I think I just worked out something earlier today and my thoughts on how that would work so for your guys' feedback and I was I
think that we talked we were GNA have it I that was G to no we're going to have a district advisory committee yes that's a done deal yes how that works and what it
looks like exactly may not go exactly the way you're thinking you it corre there's the there's the disconnect so it is in statute it's in policy as others have brought up I am total 100% support of a district advisory committee however
what that does and how it looks that's yet to be determined but in your organizational meeting you're going to have a district advisory committee moving forward but we really don't it's in statute and it's in policy so it's
really not it's like the lunch prices it's really not a decision you guys need to make where our decisions come in is how do we structure this and what does it do for us that's that's where our work will be and be part
of yeah I think in talking with Ron and Julie I think the best thing though it gets as one of our approved committees and then the next step is to have that committee work on and we're actually starting that process Julie Ron and I are taking um out of our policies out of
Statute what does it talk what is this group committee supposed to do and we're actually trying to pull that all together so that when we started in January we we know it's purpose and then try to fold some of our our like
curriculum it will replace the curriculum committee because curriculum is a is a piece of what that District advisory committee should do Dy has thoughts on maybe going Su levels of it which again we can discuss
I'm just saying for sure we got to have a district advisory committee it's just what does that look like specifically that we still have to figure out yep yep and then the only other thing I want to share with the board is I had gone to all day um School Board member training
in November and uh one of the district's board chairs there had talked about how their District does a they have a community collaborative and it's made up of three school board members and then the superintend and they um they meet like once a
quarter but what they use that for is is getting Community feedb back so as an example if we were going to do our strategic plan we could call a community collaborative committee meeting everyone and anyone in the community comes to
that as a board we would say okay you know we're looking at our strategic plan we would like you to sit down and figure out in your in your round tables you know your top I don't know three to five
um goals thank you goals for our district districtwide somebody at these tables takes notes on all of that and then all of that data comes back to the board for feed for feedback for us kind of at least you know hear what the
community said I thought that sounded really interesting not to say that we have to do it I'm just throwing that out as something to think about again keep in mind your District ADV divisor can also serve that purpose in a perfect world we want two-thirds of that
um group to be patrons it would be our goal but I do like the community collaborative committee as Wells any other coms
rer all those in favor say I oppos pass