[Music] welcome to the regular meeting of the board of education for Monday July 8th 2024 uh everyone please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the
Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all okay all board members are present with the exception of directors Crosby and directors fesz uh our first order on the agenda is
the open forum tonight we have one speaker Michelle Lindell on accessible playgrounds hello good evening my name is Michelle andelle and I am a proud parent of a fifth grader who attends five ha Elementary and a third grader
who attends Jeffers Pond Elementary Claire is a part of the life skills program this past year was the first year Jeffers Pond has had the life skills program my family and I have been extremely impressed with the
inclusivity by the school and the students she is very well loved the students enjoyed including her in their general education activities and really made her a part of their classroom family however one thing seemed to be
challenging for Claire and her classmates which was recess students in our class would often ask why she couldn't play with them on the playground since all of the playground has wood chips and half of the Year Snow Claire cannot be pushed
through these obstacles in her wheelchair there is an accessible swing however Claire can't get to it in her chair and it's too and she's too heavy to be moved safely Claire's friends try to play with
her on the black top but there's only so much you could do so for the 173 days of school this year my daughter was confined to the black top while her classmates were able to AC access the entire grounds it is inequitable for her
to continue her Elementary years being excluded from developmental play Claire isn't the first student to be in a wheelchair she's definitely won't be the last there are many other students with Walkers and Mobility devices that are necessary for peer interaction as you
know the life skills program is growing really fast in this District next year there will be four schools who will house the program there are six schools with center-based programming as a mother of a special needs child it is essential to her quality of life that
she has time to play and interact with her peers however it isn't just Claire who benefits from these connections on the playground but it allows all students to learn from one another while reviewing the updated strategic plan put together
I put together some key words that represents this community District 719 believes in fostering a welcoming inclusive and safe environment where unique learning needs and goals
can collaborate together to develop essential skills to be successful I ask you today to do what's right for all students please include accessible areas to already existing
playgrounds for schools as a part of the upcoming Levy referendum thank you you you okay next next I need an approval a motion in a second to approve the agenda
so by director bullan second by director olad all in favor I I that passes 60 I okay um next we have the consent agenda the consent agenda it are items
considered to be routine in nature and will be enacted by one motion there's no separate discussion of these items unless a board member requests and the event the item will be removed as a consent agenda item and addressed the consent agenda item consists of
financials purchase orders exceeding 25,000 monthly financial report the approval of Schoolboard minutes Personnel items and approval of memberships annual memberships um all in fa uh I need a I need a motion in a second for the
consent agenda by director bernick second second by director olad all in favor I I that passes 60 and direct um Dr Thomas would you
like to address uh the memberships for the oh I'm sorry no I said nay oh nay I'm sorry so that's 51 41 41 cheeeez 4 one I can't add tonight I'm sorry also um point of order there should always be discussion
following a motion in a second please thank you just uh for the board um wanted to just share um our annual memberships um that we have historically participated in in some changes for this
upcoming year around some budget um options so um we actually last year opted out of the C committee one we just felt the the dollar figure for the resources provided was wasn't anything
that msba or amsd was already covering so we opted to pull that out from a cost savings um equally this year breit works is another professional development organization that many districts participate in that is one that we felt and we discussed as an academic team
that if we needed to um a lot of our PD is going to be around react and so that's not something that we wouldn't necessarily um um commission out we would we're doing that our on our own and so I just want to let the board know that we've also reduced that line item
in our budget as well um if we need to atten toate works we can um it's faradic slightly higher fee but we felt that was worth the annual um um subscription um or membership and maintaining um our uh
Minnesota State High School league our msba which is your service organization as a board and amsd which is our association for Metro School District um as well those are our two biggest lobbyist and um groups that uh represent uh all of you as well as Administration
so we kept those ones um as our uh memberships for this year in in Saving on bright works okay thank you uh next on the agenda is the resolution for acceptance of gifts there are no donations at this time so we're going to move move on to Laker Pride
which is all the noise you hear outside of the boardroom um so this uh this session we'll be honoring spring Athletics and activities participants and their coaches and I'm going to hand this over to uh high school principle
bezik and as Dr bezik comes forward in the absence of uh Mr Jeff Marshall um I have certificates for coaches and our students that I'll just hand to you as a packet and then we'll
uh them as necessary yes just to save on time sounds good am I uh director France can I ask a question that's it our agenda okay can has um acceptance of gifts but we have
something in our board packet for donations is that a separate that's correct that usually comes before Laker Pride so like the agenda says no donations but then we have page 108 in our board Martha did that get added I
can go back sorry I missed something okay that got added then yeah 10 okay so let's go back to the resolutions uh for gifts and let me pull that up page 108 if you need
it on there thank you oh we do have plenty of gifts actually so I apologize for that um so we have uh a $400 gift from the Prior Lake Lions Club for the flags for the the Minnesota state flags
and then we have a gift in kind for the same for the Minnesota state flags for our schools from the VFW uh and then we have a gift from Jim Le Harris uh which are funds for all seniors from Bridges to attend the banquet and then we have a gift from
Prior Lake rotary for to fund two guests uh per senior and staff for the bridges end ofe banquet this is a resolution vote and I do need a motion and and a second so made by director bullan second by director
Atkinson okay this is a roll call vote director olad I director bernick I director bullan I director Atkinson I and I so that passes 5 Z okay now moving on to Laker pride and
uh we will be and Dr bzik in place of activities director um Marshall uh will be introducing our topics and our teams for tonight sounds good thank you we appreciate the time uh every quarter to be able to recognize our student athletes and activities uh participants
and uh we've had a lot of success all year and that kept going into the spring so uh Jeff gave me their uh standard PowerPoint here and uh some of the slides he just said you know um they have their vision statement and uh uh when we're working with kids our goal is
more than just you know getting them out in activities we want to help use activities as a vehicle to help kids uh you know find themselves and develop their character and develop their skill set and learn to be leaders and all of that and you've seen a nice job of Jeff and Beth and his crew the
last couple years with the creating the lake or leaders getting our Student Activities and athletes out into the community and out with the younger students as well just kind of spreading that Laker way and uh trying to create you know kind of success breed success so um just kind of slide through some of
these slides you can see the acronyms they use about developing character and uh developing uh leadership and all that and they talk about that on a regular basis and they work with the coaches to make sure that we're instilling and kind we're trying to make good people here
and uh so it's more than just success but it's also about participation we got about 75% of our kids that are involved in some sort of activity during the course of the year and you can see the numbers here he put them up there uh it's been pretty steady uh if uh and we tell kids we uh look for opportunities
for them to be involved if they want to create a club or an activity that we don't have we say hey give us a proposal get us uh somebody that wants to oversee in their room and we'll make it happen so uh we have our you know MSL you know High School league activities but we also have lots of clubs and other things
for kids and we need that in a school our size we want kids to be involved so um that looks uh very different for a lot of different kids but we try to add a little something for everyone um and let's jump into the meat of this which
is going to be our our recognition and our and our update we're going to start with the the activities and here we go girls lacrosse on Q they're coming in they've had a great season come on up girls come on in girls right
here there you go and center the girls were 17 and two overall they were section Champs and they were state Runners up and second in our conference just so happens that you know we had we have one of theough toughest conferences in the state and they were fantastic all
year long at state tournament the the way they competed and uh you know and fought and and P and represented Prior Lake and I'm going to just mention the coaching staff is Heather Pearson her assistants are Jessica jurovich Katie pson MC McCannon Sarah Pearson Grace
Maddox and Megan mc mc McOwen and the student managers were Stella Bernard Mackie Corby and Ava and let's uh meet the team here we've got some of them here I'm going to go through the whole roster we got Sophia
basil uh Kaylee sandel Brittney pinkowski uh Sadi shappi uh Lana dude Holly Bessa uh tally baliki meline saama
Sophia Maas Emerson Maddox m mine Baloo Piper green Lauren canson uh Chrissy sa Lauren Jonas Abby Grove uh anuka
Meyer key uh mulling Addie Christensen Ava clevin Lexi Brandon and Brianna Roberts so uh great job girls we uh thank you for representing us with class on a regular basis and thanks for you know creating a
great program so congratulations we can take a a picture with the sometimes parents want to snap a picture and christe's coming okay thanks for being thanks I've got some certificates we'll get to your
coaches and we'll get those out to you so thank you thanks for a great season brings tears I'm just going to mention boys Golf and passing some a lot of people are on summer vacation and out at cabins and things so not everybody can be here
but our we had a golf participant we had Shan lner qualify for the state tournament in golf and he finished 21st overall in state so we give him a round of applause as well and boys track and field uh I don't
believe we have any of them here but we they were seventh in the uh SEC third at sections hudi hog heg had was 10th in the 1600 and nth in the 3200 Nathan betner was 16th in the 110 meter hurdles
uh Derek B batist was Baptist excuse me was 2st in the pole BT and Jackson Bennett was sixth in triple jump and I do want to mention coach clam who was with the program for 25 years is stepping away I think he 10 years as head coach he's still going to be involved in activities but he's just
going to step away from full-time coaching I think he's so I just want to give him a little recognition as well so thank you to those two teams ready for girls track and field hello our head coach is uh jumi barlas who uh
I take a little ownership of because she was a student of mine 20 over 20 years ago at Park High School whenever I see her uh and the other coaches are Joe Binger Nick Syler Megan Head Mark Oman Lindy schmidtz
sandreen Mercer and Kristen Nelson and our girls track team was phenomenal this year uh they were second in the conference second at sections and fourth at State uh Addison white was a state champ in the 100 meters and second in
the 300 hurdles Isabelle Reyers was fourth in the 400 Leila venick was second in the 800 and uh let's see the 4x400 team was the state champs that's Addison white Leila venick and Delany holes and Isabelle reinders the 4x200
was six with lir jungers Annabelle mccan Ava less and Isabelle reinders the 4 by 800 was seventh with Sarah gasty Clara Gillan Brook Mart and Lila venick and Anna kff was fourth in the pole vault and Ava less was 10th in the
triple jump so great job girls and team and uh thank you for creating a great environment for the team there Jimmy [Applause] [Music] congrats our next group is synchronized
swimming our head coaches are krie kabushi and then we have Anna Milner and Kelly Tomas as well as coaches they say that name correctly Thomas okay and let me
uh read the accomplishments here the team finished eighth at State uh nine routines qualified for State uh competition so we're going to have a number of different events here in the short Duets they played six that was Lily Cordova Clarissa Harris in short
Duets in seventh was Julia Manu Jimenez and uh Sarah Garcia in short trios they finished in fifth that was Elizabeth McNair Jenna Pettis and Sophia Suarez in short trios finishing in seventh was
Kayla Barnett Cara Petri and Tessa Westland and short team they finished in fourth that was Lily Cordova Sarah Garcia Clarissa Harris um Madison McCarthy and Elizabeth McNair Jenna Pettis and Sophie Sophia Suarez and
let's see in short solo they finished in eighth and that was clissa Clarissa Harris in short team they finished in 12 and that was Caleb Barnett uh Payton Hannah and Julia menu and menu Jimenez
and Cara Petri and Rachel vegal and Tessa Westland and then in Long solo they finished in 10th and that was Emma em Emily Forester or Forester excuse me an extended team they finished an 11th and that was Jasmine dway Els Alisa
evavold Emily Forester Claire Hils and Dinger and Addison laville and Satie stimler so was a mouthful of names but a lot of great things going on we want to make sure you all get recognized and uh we've got certificates for you I'll get them to your coach coaches later and
they'll get them out to you but again thanks for all you do and thanks for being involved and representing us thank you [Music] [Applause] congratulations thank you and next we're
going to have adaptive softball and our coach is Julia Ree hello he adaptive softball Advance the state tournament uh our coach is Julie Ree and our athletes are Ella Miller Dylan no man Addison borgus IAB Hussein
Ryland man Jack Jack White Henry herpy and Joseph or JC connley so uh great job great season and thank you for representing Prior Lake with class and uh thanks yes what would you on the
record it's Henry jery not okay thank you Henry jery I appreciate that I was trying to get the correct pronunciation I I thank you for the correction somebody's had their names but congratulations thank you
good job congratulations thank you going to scroll through they um we have a few pictures of some of the teams during the year here and they'll be in the board packet and online and next we're going to go to
activities we spend the speech team yep okay uh we have uh Speech team here and uh five individuals qualified for State the coaches head coaches Nick Eng Les and assistants are Jared dag Beth bear Emily Leck Alyssa mavon Emily Nelson Cy
Hing and Matt bear and uh let's just run down the the list of accomplishments of the speech team again five individuals qualified for State Alex Radcliffe and storytelling finished fourth Sonia Pani uh finished was an original oratory she
finished in sixth place Owen Hammet in Creative exp expression finished in 10th hamik s uh in discussion finished 11th and Isabelle Oman in discussion finished in 13th Place and then we had four individuals qualified and participated
at Nationals McKenzie B bounds was 34th in poetry which equates the top seven perc and she was also 79th in Pros uh Khloe Erikson was 44th in Pros which is in the top 9% Alex Radcliffe competed in
storytelling and Pros in the top 35% then Katie Weaver is uh only the fourth PL student to ever finish as a quarter finalist or better and finished 22nd in dramatic interpretation and the top speaker from Minnesota so and uh
we've got uh quite a quite a crew in Minnesota that uh makes it to Nationals every year so great job speech crew and uh well deserved thank you great job we're g to get a picture of you hold on hold on picture picture good
picture good job ladies and next we're going to have our trap and ski uh CL Target uh Team come in they had a lot of success and uh they've had coaches that have helped develop this program the coaches the
head coach is Scott Conrad and let's move in guys so everybody can get in here guys and girls uh Scott Conrad is not able to be here but he's one of the head coaches and uh then we have Dave happy we have Scott Bremer we have Tommy Thompson Greg worthin and uh blue
McDonald and Michelle McDonald and Tim Johnson who have helped uh lead all of these U athletes as well and let me just mention their accomplishments I don't know if this is ever happened before because they were state champs in clay targets and in ski so we kind of swept
the the competition here uh let's see Payton ha happy will Johnson Jason Rush Michael Bremer Grayson Thompson and Garrison worin and Jack Bennett Benedict were uh the clay target Champions if I'm correct on that and then uh Weston
Thompson finished third as an individual and and pton happy 19th overall at state so they should be very proud and and then uh we were waiting for the ski team uh and they also finished as state champions and that was J Jason Rush
Grayson Thompson uh TG Shader Parker Erikson and will Johnson and then Samantha McDonald finished as the second highest female shooter in the state so again we've got a great crew and I know the community has taken this on that you guys as coaches and help develop this so
very proud of what you've accomplished and how you've rent uh represented PL and the phhs so thank you and we're going to get some pictures and I'll get some certificates to the coaches at some point and they'll get them hand it out to you
[Applause] great job thank you guys that's a cool trophy congratulations congratulations and our last crew being recognized is our knowledge and quiz bowl and they are coached by Brian Olen
I'm sure they'll make their way in right in the middle on come on in don't be shy hi as I said Brian Olen is our our uh team leader here and uh uh knowledgeable team qualified for the state tournament again and our uh
activities members on this team are Kylie Mong uh James easterland Sam gang uh Shan wz and Ethan fing Stein so did I say that right Steen or Stein St fingsten sorry that I
mispronounced uh again you guys repeatedly are doing well and are at the top of the top of the boards every year Mr olsson's always telling me all the great work that you're doing and uh keep it up you're setting great example and the team is always competitive so thank you and thanks for representing us very
well and I'm going to let parents take a picture if you want and then trist is gonna take a [Applause] picture great job thank you for coming in you
congrats and uh again we've got a lot of other things going on here if you look at some of the pictures that they thrown up uh here we you know we had the spring plays and concerts and uh a whole host of activities throughout the year uh that uh you just gives give students
something you know something they challenge themselves and kind of find themselves and it kind of complements the classroom so we appreciate the support from the community we app appreciate the support from the board and uh it it just makes our our school a better place to have kids involved and
our goal is to continue to raise that you know you know number of students involved but it's it's pretty high and it's and it's great and uh we just want to show them off a little bit and thank you for your support so you yeah thank you and thank thank you Dr bizic and all
of our coaching staff and our students for representing our district and really um rounding out that uh education experience for for our students it's really important that they're they're plugged in I really appreciate Dr be your commitment to ensuring that kids find a a landing space Not only
academically but also in opportunities for them to engage within the the school the larger School community and I also just want to um recognize Nancy Ty um she was a long-standing member of our uh family here in par Lake saary schools
and we are a little bit like Hotel California you know you can kind of check in but you might not be able to leave and uh thank you tonight for for for yeah for for supporting our students continually even in retirement that you're still finding ways to stay connected with our district so thank you
so much thank you thank you Nancy Nancy and one group I just want to mention that Jeff had put in here and this this is true like to thank you know a lot of people are involved behind the scenes and activities the business office making sure the checks are cut for the uh you know all the officials
and the buses are ordered and operations and the ground scw has been great and the custodians the extra time they put in getting things ready so thanks for everybody for helping us uh make all this happen so thank Youk you thank you okay next we're going to be moving on to personal items and I'm going to hand
this over to director of administrative Services Emily Herman thank you chair friends members of the board Dr Thomas um today we're bringing forward separately um for two of our new hires and administrative roles um and here um both are here today as well to come up and introduce
themselves briefly like to um invite Dan powers and Brian Nutter up to the front to briefly introduce themselves Dan Powers is joining us as the new director of operational services and Brian Nutter is joining us as the new assistant principal of Prior Lake savader Schools
where a large portion of his assignment will be oversight of the menc Caps program good evening everyone evening um my name is Dan Powers uh come from couple of different school districts I've got experience with Burnsville and Lakeville schools um 20 years worth of
construction experience to add to all of that so I very much look forward to uh helping the district uh find their their needs to be met um I mentioned to Dr Thomas when uh I was in the interview process I look at everyone that comes
into the buildings as my customers everybody that doesn't mean whether it's the students that's the teachers that's everyone that comes into those buildings or my customers and it's my goal to make sure that every one of them have a safe and and a pleasant environment to be in so thank you very much for including me
in the district I look forward to many years worth of service welcome aboard welome thank you good evening directors good evening superintendent Thomas I'm Brian Nutter I'm the new assistant principal at Prior Lake High School and we'll also be
overseeing the pcaps program of which I am extremely excited my background in education is uh 23 years and predominantly has been spent in Career and Technical educ ation so this opportunity is uh right up my alley and something that I am so extremely excited
to begin working on I come with 10 years of administrative experience most recently as a middle school principal looking forward to getting back into the high school those five years as a middle school principal were the the only Middle School experience that I had so it's nice to be uh back in the uh uh
secondary setting at the high school level and very much looking forward to my time here at Prior Lake Savage area schools thank you welcome okay so before we move on I need a motion in a second uh for the acceptance of the administrators as
employment and employees so director bernick second and director bullion all in favor I I that passes 5 Z next is the Child Nutrition Services agreement and again uh director
Herman thank you chair friends members of the board um we're bringing forward a contract settlement um want to give a big shout out and thank you to the Child Nutrition staff who met with us um to talk about um their contract and different ways that we could make improvements within our parameters and
that's what we're bringing forward for you here tonight um as a settlement that we um came to um with that team okay thank you I need a motion in a second so made by director bullan second second by director olad all in favor I
that passes 5 Z uh next one is the kidss company sight lead agreement and again director Herman thank you chair friend members of the board um again I want to thank the site lead that represented um her colleagues um meeting with us to talk about different priorities in the
contract um if you remember the last contract was when we added steps to this contract to help with recruiting and retention um so we were able to do a salary enhancement with the everyone also getting a step this time um and then the rest of the um the package is
outlined in the memo here um for you tonight I need a motion in a second so made by director olad second second by director bernick any questions on this
one hearing none um all in favor I I that passes 5 Z okay and then we also have the kids company assistance agreement and director Herman chair friends remember the board um thank you once again want to give a
shout out to the kids Co assistants that met with us to represent their colleagues um we're bringing forward tonight uh again this is a similar contract with last round we added steps to help with recruiting and retention um so in addition to the salary enhancements they all be receiving a step as well um and the rest of the um
the details are outlined in the memo okay I need a motion in a second made by director bullan second second by director berck any questions for director
Herman okay all in favor I that passes 5 and next is the memorandum memorandum of understanding for the PLS uh FAA thank you chair friends members of the board um we're bringing forward today um and during the summer months
for those individuals that work year round we hope to offer some flexible scheduling such as 9-hour days and then a 4our day or 10 fours um but within the administrative contract they do have language in there that stated an 8 hour day so this mou would allow those
individuals to have a flexible schedule should they choose to and their supervisor agree that um it still fits the operational needs of that department and or building um so that's what theou that we're bringing forward um the intent of theou that we're bringing forward here tonight okay I need a
motion in a second so made by director bullan second second by director olad are there any questions for director Herman on theou okay all in favor I I that passes 5 and now we have the memorandum of
understanding for the superintendent contract um this is only the mou um do you want to sure um members of the board um very similar to what uh was just shared with the mou with the
executive uh directors um as uh means of our budget reductions um part of my contribution to that was to take six Furlow days um of this current contract that I'm under in my last year and so um I'm requesting that you all um consider
um the approval of U me taking six days without pay um as a means to save uh resources in our district I need a motion in a second homeade by director bullion second by director
olad are there any questions um I just would like to add you know while Dr Thomas your offer to take six days unpaid is generous and appreciated I believe that with the heavy load of implementing a new strategic plan the read Act and the
declining proficiency that Dr Thomas your six days of leadership and your presence in our district is more important than the $6,000 correct me if I'm wrong give or take yeah give or take $6,000 of unpaid leave I believe we can certainly find
$6,000 somewhere else in our budget to be able to cut and I think it's incredibly important to have you in our district thank thank you for that and I again I I appreciate those words and uh uh would agree wholeheartedly and I just
want to let the board know um that a as part of our means for negotiation of our budget um similar to some of my executive colleagues collectively it's it makes an impact um and so I I appreciate that sentiment and know that you'll always have my full commitment
and my days uh as you all know even when I'm on vacation uh my days are often times spent working and so um you will always have my 100 plus perc commitment um Furlow or no Furlow and I would just add that I well
I appreciate it I I work under a contract as well and I think we signed a contract with um pay that you deserve rightfully so and um I just believe as a board I mean we could all take a $500 cut on our compensation and cover that
$6,000 or we could look into our budget which I don't think we're going to be able to cover we're not going to spend our whole budget this year and I think we could find ways to cover the $6,000 um so I would just rate again that I'm not in support of this because I do think it's important to have you in our
district um for those six days when we have some really important things coming up like the react the implementation of the react as well as our implementing our strategic plan if I can make a comment just maybe clarifying uh thank you I I agree with
you director Aton um the uh appreciate the uh willingness and the sentiment Dr Thomas um I just wanted to clarify given director Atkinson's um words um those six Furlow
days isn't six days off you are taking six days unpaid while working it's not that you are it's not six additional days off it's fured yeah it's off you're you're you're not allowed to legally work under
Furlow okay thank you for thank you for um clarifying that because I didn't understand that completely um for that clarification um I know that given our budget constraints and the fact that uh we will definitely spend all of our budget and need much more um
and I also understand there's other people in the district who have also forfeited as well that the while um I agree that it is unfair um um and um unfortunately um the
sentiment and the um and the um the the message that it sends is that we're all willing to give everything that we have in order to support this District in extremely trying budget times um I know
other people have forfeited stiens as well as pay and other administrators have forfeited uh their increases so um while everything that director Acton is true about how much you're needed the fact that you're doing this is
appreciated and a great sentiment and I know other superintendant are doing the same so thank you very very much um where we don't agree with it Dr Thomas does have the right to request this and I believe we should honor that
request are there any other comments or okay so um did I get a motion in a second on this yes yes I did okay um all in favor I I I nay so that passes for
one the next one is the superintendent contract all board members did receive a copy of the full contract uh that is still under Personnel uh uh privacy until it is approved um the summary is in our board packet and I'm going to turn to Dr
Thomas to talk about the summary in the uh board book board packet thank you chair friends uh members of the board um so what you have here in the uh board packet is the change memo like we do all
of our employee contract agreements and um just to talk about um the key changes um there's clarification in the new contract uh first of all the new contract would be the 25 through the 28th school year dates have been changed
um the other is a clarification of earn safe and sick time which is New State Statute that's in every um contract um according to Minnesota law um currently there's 12 holidays but legally in the state of Minnesota there are now 13 and so there's been uh the 13th holiday
added of juneth that we've um accommodated in other um contracts as well um by by state law um the salary schedule uh enhancements that you see there are actually less than what my enhancements are in my current contract
again in terms of reducing budget um it's something that I feel very strongly about to support our staff and other resources throughout the district um and um and I would come uh after that and so I'm requesting that it be lowered to 1.5
on average all three years and then there and that goes away from your average 2 to 3% for superintendent in in the Metro and um I'm also uh there's like formatting language changes periods
commas um Etc throughout and so when you take a look at um three-year compounded uh salary enhancements it's 7.65% and comparing it to the other employee groups in the district which are on two-year contracts I I shared
that with you as well um and that's uh Year Board parameters are at 7.5% on average um and my two-year compounded is at 4.58 so significantly lower than any of our staff um it's something that I also believe wholeheartedly in um to ensure that our staff and other
resources are managed um given the restraints that we have right now so those are the key changes okay I need a motion in a second so Me by director olad second second by director bullan
again the full contract redlined uh was sent out to each board member um each board member had the opportunity to ask questions of Dr Thomas any other comments or questions um are welcome now before a vote just wanted to say thank you I mean
this is just kind of the environment that we and other school districts are in right now um and I appreciate it um you are you are very deserving um of you know just to to our points
before this you know I I agree um but thank you and um I think it shows um real leadership on your part um and uh I appreciate it so thank you you anybody else yeah I have a couple
questions um so while I don't really question the content of the contract compared to other bargaining units um and I agree with um director Olstead thank you for um for presenting the contract as is um I do question the timing of the contract as Dr Thomas your
contract is not up not up for Renewal until July 1st 2025 almost a year from now we as we've seen with other bargaining units including the teachers union contract the contracts begin negotiations within two to three months
typically um before the contract is up for Renewal so why would our board Rev and review this this contract over a year in advance answer this Dr Thomas per the requirements of the yeah per per statute
on the superintendent's contract can begin um July 1 prior to the contract expiration historically um it's been my practice that after our teacher and principal contracts our largest two groups um have settled that's where I've typically engaged the board and
according to Minnesota statute it's within the legal Realms to do so that's the only rationale now so yeah I did read the statute thank you for clarifying that um I just want to know how is this fair to other bargaining units when we're negotiating closer to
the contract time um and really whose idea was this to bring the contract forth for Renewal a year almost a year in advance was that something that would be driven by you or something I initiated and requested okay then the other question I
have is um for my understanding and for any new board members on that that CT here that weren't here when you when you joined um are there any other agreements in place regarding a retirement agreement or a severance agreement that
this new board should have visibility too um before we renew this contract there there are no changes to my to this proposed contract that differs from my current contract at all um there there are no severance
agreements um and in terms of retirement my same 403b contributions my vacation days all that stays the same there's no there's no changes there so there's no separate agreements like that we didn't see outside of the contract no what no there are there are no separate
agreements um the only changes that you'll see here that are significant that were in my initial contract is when I was first hired they front loaded some vacation and sick days that they don't have to do that because that has accumulated but no other side agreements
or addendum or anything are a part of this contract there's there's no changes of any of that sort from the current contract to the new contract thank you um I guess my other question is if anything were to happen between now and the start of the new contract um which
is July 1st so almost a year from now would the district be responsible for paying out the benefits of the new contract and that would be a question for Emily I I read the statute I read the contract I couldn't get a full understanding of that of what is the responsibility of our district
if anything were to happen between now and July 1st where there was a whatever I don't I can't remember the wording in it what it says a mutual I don't direct ainson is member of the board that would be attending on the situation um so it would depend on whatever agreement we the district came
to with the superintendent um depending on um the the time of the year um the rationale for the separation um and what agreement each party came to and we would have to make sure that we followed the contract link language that exist in the current contract um that has not
changed um I have had the opportunity to review the track changes proposed and um anything in this new contract doesn't change any of those parameters um to go backwards a couple questions to ask about how it impacts other bargain units to clarify um the the negotiation team
when the district is not involved with the superintendent negotiations process um so this is not impacting our workload or our ability to continue to move forward with the existing negotiations that we're moving for forward with the other employee groups um sorry to go back a couple questions but I wanted to make sure to answer that question that's
okay no I appreciate that what I'm trying to understand is that so you would be working under your current contract until July June 30th June 30th of 2024 and if there was any sort of change that would be applicable then
we'd be looking at the 2024 contract is that correct correct the current oh sorry director ainson that's correct the current contract would go through um the June 30th 2025 and then um after that then it would switch over to the new contract um and again from my review
of the contract any of the separation language has not changed um that's the same language that's in the current existing contract yeah thank you thank you and by the way the contract clearly states that if in the event that there is um uh board removal or something else
that happens that there is a provision in the contract for that negotiation to occur and that is the same uh language that was in his original contract um and uh having been a tenur board member I can tell you that um the contract for Dr
Thomas went out of the way to remove any semblance whatsoever of anything that would be considered a golden parachute it also removed um some of the benefits that were in the previous superintendent's contract I appreciate that like I said I read it from top to bottom so um I I
just didn't clearly see it stated I just saw the one um one one sentence um I guess I would like to make a motion I move that the superintendent contract discussion and vote be moved to the May 5th 2025 school board meeting to align
with other bargaining units timing and to also capture another full year of a performance foreview for Dr Thomas which I think is only fair to be able to um be able to as a board to evaluate Dr Thomas will have one more full year to evaluate
his performance um before looking to write the new contract plus as you all know a lot of things can change in a year um even with finances in our district so I would like to make I move that um we move I move that the superintendent
contract and discussion and vote be moved to the May 5th 25th school board meeting do we have a second okay hearing no second is there anything else no I mean I just like to add that I think leadership in a school district is
imperative and that I think of a superintendent as not an Atwell employee so managing a contract ahead of time is something that I think is a it would be a lack of leadership on the board's part
if we weren't proactive and didn't allow ourselves to plan ahead and wait until Dr Thomas may say well what are my other opportunities out there because like any other industry people that work under contracts they do negotiate their
contracts ahead of time they don't wait until the 11th hour and I know it's different for our bargaining groups but that's because they're under like two-year program like it's just a different situation so I respectfully disagree with you on that situation but you will be here you know if you can get
yourself a second but I I think leadership's important and imperative to our district so I appreciate Dr Thomas I appreciate sharing statutorily we can um it's typical to start negotiating the contract July 1st of the year before um it's also standard
in the state of Minnesota for that to happen for budgetary as well as planning purposes um I would challenge that I checked with several boards in the state of Minnesota in six months is pretty standard so um I understand it's under statute um but I did do my due diligence on that and I checked with several
boards um in the state of Minnesota and six months is pretty standard um I also checked with them and most of them do start negotiating right away in July 1st matter of fact statutorily that's when we do it so perhaps different board contexts Dr Thomas do
you have anything you want to add I don't I nothing further okay is there anything from anyone else are we ready for a vote okay so um we already took a first
and a second so all in favor I I I so 41 on the superintendent's contract okay now we have no unfinished business from last time so we're going to go into new business um and the first one is the Child Nutrition update there
is no board uh action requested so I'm going to ask uh director Malone to please address the board J FR board of directors and Dr Thomas just going to grab my right I'm excited to share My Child
Nutrition update with you guys a little bit from this past school year and a little bit looking forward um last school year was really fun uh we got to get back to some of those things that we had to put you know to the side during Co in the aftermath of everything so um
this first picture slide here is got our Casey's Acres sweet corn farm to school event that we did um we also uh had a large Gathering of people come to that event from all kinds of different agencies so that top rate picture right
there is um a Minnesota grown representative having lunch with us and then um I was on WCCO a couple of times again last year so um that was fun okay in case you didn't hear we won the uh two 2023 District of the Year
Farm to school um award um we had an unprecedented amount of uh Farm to school grant money that we got last year the USDA um not only matched but enhanced this the Minnesota Department of Agriculture grants and it
wasn't a match type Grant so it was just take this money and do what you want so we went from seven um Farmers to 12 farmers and we got to add proteins uh we added some cheese and a lot of ground beef um that picture on the bottom right there is SJ Farms little tiny Family
Farm in Minnesota um the top middle is US winning our award a couple more fromto school events um and then part of the award was uh they had Chef Rebecca come and do some training with our um
Child Nutrition managers so that's that bottom middle picture there um so the other big thing that happened last year was We went um to free meals for kids so everybody knows the March prior uh Governor walls signed into law
Minnesota free meals for kids so I'm using last school year school year 23 to compare to this current school year that we just ended I should say um because that's really the only time that we had that traditional meal pricing in the last three or four years because of covid so so I'm looking at um what our
meal participation was um category and then total last year 23 2223 and then 2324 comparing traditional meal paid pricing to the free meals for kids legislation so as you can see in total we went from
a breakfast participation at about 10% to a breakfast participation at about 17% so we really increased breakfast which is wonderful um and then at lunch not quite as drastic we only went up about 2% overall um and you can kind of you know I won't
read all the categories but you can kind of see where we went up and where we went down just a little bit so along with that and being that we have been now 10 years off of the National School Meal program at the high school we decided it was time to ask we needed to ask our stakeholders if they would still like us
to continue not to be on the school and meal program at the high school uh our first first stab at that question survey was in March uh we sent out a perception and priority survey where um all the stakeholders parents and guardian staff and students could kind of rank what
they thought um what they preferred the most when they are thinking about school lunch at the high school um not surprisingly everybody chose price so that uh you know we kind of thought more about it and realized yeah anytime
anybody spends money you're kind of thinking price is the Reon you know kind of the the first thing I you're buying a couch or you're buying a hamburger you're kind of thinking price price price so we decided that we needed to um first of all do a little bit more education we wanted more to participate
we thought that was a really slow or a small um uh sample size so we came up with the idea to have a two- week trial period where the high school would be completely immersed and you know really get to experience what it would be like
to be on the National School breakfast program and the national school lunch per program did a lot of advertising we told parents and staff and students about it we did it from May 6th to May 17th um during that time students were able to students and staff anybody in
the high school is able to survey daily and then anybody uh and parents and Guardians then were surveyed between May 15th and May 19th what we found out is that many of the um like the general feedback was portions are too small we really like
the old program um we're a little concerned about families in need but we really like the old program we like having free things but we want to we want to look like it looked like before um so as a result of those surveys um we
we're going to stay off of the meal program at the high school um breakfast will remain free lunch will remain at $3.25 which is no change from about eight years now and then families in need will continue to receive free meals
then um I was hoping that um State and fed would have would I'd be able to populate this chart but it's uh July 8th and they haven't given me reimbursements yet but um it's it's just kind of showing the the grants and the supply chain assistance funds and the things
that kind of were still rolling out of um covid time are definitely ending and decreasing so we will not be receiving any more of those supply chain assistance funds um this past year we got $218,000 almost
$219,000 and 2425 we'll get none um the farm to school grants again that Minnesota or the USDA is not matching or offering anything so traditionally we we normally from the Minnesota Department of a get about 25 to 40,000 so so far
we're getting 30,000 for this coming year and that will help us just continue those relationships with our local farmers and then again I don't know the state Federal reimbursement rates I'd imagine they will change by very very little though so looking ahead um we've added
Minnesota so we always did a Minnesota grown day um the first Thursday of every month the entire menu was things that were're growing in Minnesota um but now we're going to add we're going to make that every single Thursday so we've increased that um to every Thursday we're adding more scratch
and quick scratch menu items uh we're going to restore our student Wellness committee and then continue all the programs that we're currently doing which is things like the pric high school garden the five Hawks indoor tower garden which we would really like to continue um and kind of footprint or
you know blueprint the five Hawks indoor garden and do it everywhere um and then Farm to school events like our cornhouse relays and of course try Tuesday I just included a cute um quote there from a LOL parent they sent me um happened to be on a
Tuesday so we spent the entire meal talking about try a Tuesday what was their favorites of all time dragon fruit juice chocolate cake I don't remember ever doing try a Tuesday chocolate cake but that's what came out of their mouth um and pumpernickel bread for my middle schooler uh their least favorites and
all the days they could remember and then what culture they all came from it was more chatting at dinner than I can recall out of my middle schooler and super fun to hear their perspectives and favorites so just thought I would share that that's all
good thank you um opening up to questions if that's okay yeah director Malone any questions from the board I have a question on the student wellness committee can you tell me more about that what does that look like yeah what did it look like in the past and what are you hoping for it to look like now
as you re resurrect it it's um so it's in the past we had I think we had a board member it was all pre-co so once covid came about it all um fizzled and the state didn't require us to um have those meetings anymore um in the past it was a couple of students a couple of
teachers maybe a principal and I believe a board member um and we would come up with fun projects for student wellness and so we in the past had gotten a ship Grant and we bought um like I think we bought hula hoops and Frisbees and
basketballs for the middle schools so that they could get outside more um during their on the days that they do get to get outside during recess since they're going from you know K5 pre5 out having physical activity every day to Middle Schools where they're not
necessarily getting that every day and it's not required I don't think um for them to have gym every day so so that was one of the projects that we did the five Fox Tower Garden was another project that we did um we did a project for um the prake high school garden and
we bought um like kid knives and kids um like shears and stuff like that to allow them to get into the garden and and use um use the garden so done little projects like that and good yeah um I have a question for you so um
first of all I I love that the fact that we're staying off the national food program in the high school I think it shows the uniqueness and the um of our Independent School District and I've actually had other board members come to me and say how do you guys do that and I said well you can talk to Emily Malone so I'm not exactly sure how we do that but um what is one of of the questions
that came up is what is the financial impact of us not being on the school lunch program versus parents paying for it um is there a financial difference like is it cost neutral or is it a negative or positive or like how do that
way out and maybe that's a a question for director Frederickson uh so meaning the the prior high school program itself yeah is in the black is that what you mean no no I just want to know like with us being off the national food program for lunches is
there a financial impact either positive negative or is it neutral meaning I think the answer is positive because we make money is that what that's kind of we asking yep that's what I'm asking yep we make money and we're able to uh support the students in
need as well right that's wonderful okay yeah so we contribute to the general or the fun balance okay wonderful that's wonderful and then secondly um you know it's it's great you said that years our cost hasn't is did I hear you correctly I think it's been eight years since we haven't increased from 2000 from the
$325 okay so 2016 17 with all the increase in food costs and I think there's like a little graph out there saying like how much French fries cost at McDonald's from like a dollar to four um how was our district able to maintain the same cost for the high school
lunches so it's a little so I I live in the school lunch world and so I'm not sure about McDonald's but in the school lunch World um we have the cost of meals and the cost of olart and in a in a free meal program
situation you're making your money on your reimbursements you're really relying on that reimbursement as your source of Revenue and in the older model or the traditional model or the one you know kind of that we're doing with the high school we can keep our costs down for
the meal prices because our all cart sales are strong enough um we the only time we've ever I think we've increased all our cart prices twice um and this last year it was um
like 50 cents on anything over $3 or something so not a lot but it's just that no that makes sense so you're basically subsidizing the to order to keep the meal price low you're subsidizing it with the increase in the margin in the
um the allart all carts the coffees all that kind of great stuff so right that makes sense thank you for explaining that yeah I have a question somewhat related to that cuz I kind of had the same question like that's great that we're not raising the price of that but when
you look at you know the grants and the reimbursements you know we're going from 218,000 almost 219,000 to zero so I know that's a different fund and everything like that but how a I guess my a question is what kind
of things falls into this supply chain assistant fund that we won't have anymore and then and I know you're like you said you're still waiting on some numbers but yeah the supply chain assistance funds the grants don't ever touch the high school so the high school runs all by itself in its own so that
doesn't anything to do school so those funds and grants and reimbursements are only uh prek-8 plus Bridges okay okay so same so is there is there I don't want to say
opportunity because he never want to raise anything but is there is there a world where we might I mean well it's free lunches I I I guess I'm just trying to figure out what is part of this supply chain assistance
fund like what do you pay for with this or did y with this 218 like what did that go to yep that we're not going to have anymore and and we've only had that for 3 years and the first year I think was 67,000 um this past year you know as long as we use all of our money we can
say hey we'll take any extra on the table so that's what we do like Hey we're P Lake we'll take some more so that's how we got so much that time but um so that is for minimally processed foods so milk fresh fruits and vegetables um uh they didn't allow bread
um you know whole proteins nothing processed and so um what we'll be doing is you know just watching to make sure that we're not
um you know that center of the plate because we're we're relying on reimbursements we'll have to make sure that we can even out and and make sure that we don't go over that $455 um you know we really want to stay around like $2 for our center of the
plate item and then um kind of go from there kind of getting than nitty-gritty but um but yeah we'll have to kind of we'll have to watch it more you know just watch our budget more well and and I know we're getting to this too in our agenda when we're talking about you know
the milk contracts and things like that so when we when we look at I'd be curious and not for now but I'm just curious overall you know when we look at you know the amount of milk that's poured down the thing I mean even in our
own houses right like when my kids put down a whole glass milk down the sink I'm like and that I know that's happening at school too right so how do we knowing that we're not going to get some of these this grant money
anymore and some of the waste and I know you're this is rhetorical I guess but I just I'm curious about the balance there and what we can do about it as a district we do do things um and milk is a great example and whole fruit's a pretty good example as well um
[Music] um in the elementaries there is the ability to have what we call a share cart and that's legal and we can we're allowed to do that it doesn't work once you get to you know 400 300 kids in a lunchroom that's really hard to manage a share
table because it's but in the elementaries we're able to do that we've got new supervisors that are in there managing that with us um and we're able to because of the meal program the structure of it we have to have them take a certain number things so many students are taking things that they're
not going to eat and they don't want and then immediately they can just put it in a share table and we're allowed to recycle that we wash it and we are all to recycle it and put it right back into our meal program that's one of the things that we do for waste the other thing that we do
for Waste is we have historical numbers and we are really really good at batch cooking exactly what we need um so that's another thing that we do um yeah those cafeterias are a well oiled
machine they are in all the buildings yeah so thank you yep anybody else okay um Dr Malone I had a question sure and that had to do with the free and reduced lunch um and I understand um
with the being off the national food program and not having the free lunches etc um that people still have to apply for that um my concern concern is the actually the application process is usually a little overwhelming uh and has
to be done every single year also the poverty rate that actually allows families to uh to um be uh eligible for the free and reduced launch program has not changed and yet the cost of living has gone up
significantly what are we doing or have you seen any evidence of of students who potentially are harmed by that and how are we handling that yeah so
um include it in here I just yes student eligibility so um about 85% of our students are directly certified um so they're not filling out forms so for example
um so for example Le um applications um so income based there's four students at Lao that are on the free reduce program because of income um there's 12 at Westwood there's
10 at five Hawks the majority of kids that are being approved for this program is are there being directly certified because they are on a program that's housed somewhere else like Snap Snap or Wick um uh Spud kids you know they're they're
somewhere else Department of Health and Human Services is approving them for a different program so they're automatically getting approved for our educational benefits AKA free reduced um so it's a very small number of students
that are actually filling out that form and we do work with um you know we got some Clues if kiddo's not not paying or if they're they've applied in the past you know if there's a language barrier if they're brand new student we work
with um social workers to try and identify those students and we we have a really good um relationship with students and principles and teachers where they're coming to us saying you know I'm just not sure like well they didn't fill it out I think they you know so um so then we encourage we can send
it in a different language we do things like that to try and catch some of those students as well it does concern me a little bit more at the high school because you can't really tell whether they're eating or not yep um and that that is concerning and also the other thing that was brought up when the state passed uh
the free lunch program was the impact upon those students who qualify and how that trick how that qualification trickled down into let's say getting subsidized hockey equipment or something like that for so they could still um participate equally with other students
without the cost burden is that an impact still yes so in order to qualify for those other programs they still have have to fill out the form and of course we still encourage All Families to fill out the forms because of our compensatory Aid that is attached to
those qualifications in the state of Minnesota so we're encouraging everybody who thinks they may um qualify to try and qualify because and we you know we we uh explain it as a benefit you can qualify for all these other things but then also try to explain a little bit
about compensatory revenue and how helpful that is so we're asking all students All Families pre to fill out that form even though prek and bridges are already getting rece you know receiving free meals we're still asking all of them to fill out those forms so
but like I said that direct CT list is is the majority of our students so thank you yeah and Emily um correct me if I'm wrong no child has ever denied a lunch I mean they can I think one of the flags you could look for is how much of the
lunch balance they're they're um you know acing orur but no no child has ever I know my child has had a negative balance and he comes running home and tell me Mom you can put money in my lunch account but um he's still not denied a lunch so that's correct thank you Lisa that happens in our house too
yeah yeah it happens in my house apprciate that you serve him lunch still so thank you minus all the extras yeah thank you thank you Emily you're welcome okay um moving on to the next
agenda item are the meal prices um uh so obviously you're staying up here um and just to for exped expediency why don't we take a motion in a second and then we'll let director Herman explain the meal so made by director bullan second
second by olad okay go ahead all right so prek 8 and bridges will remain free on the free meals for kids program the high school will remain off of the um School Meal program and lunches will be $325 and and there will be a free grab
and go breakfast and again all students um in need will be allowed to have free meals okay uh any additional questions or comments okay hearing none all in favor
I I that passes 5 z um 60 S 5 Z I'm sorry I can do advance calculus but I can't subtract one um all right um next is the milk and bread uh bid Awards and before we start I'd like
to take a first and a second motion so by director bernick second second by olad okay go ahead director Herman me okay you I'm the other I'm the Emily I'm sorry Emily I'm sorry I was
looking at you know sorry milk and bread tell me more Emily um okay so oddly I've stood here for I think eight years doing this with never ever getting a bread bid and we've always had milk bids this year we got no milk bids and we got two bread
bids so really interesting a representative from Denny's um bakery called and said I'd really like to bid on your bread this year and I said great so we put out a bread bid he never bid but we did get you know two bits so um
and we're going to end up going with pan of gold they um their pricing is very close but they're hamburger buns which is what we have the most volume of is like almost $3 cheaper so uh we're going to go with them and we've already um yeah I've been talking and talking with
them and then our milk company uh not one bid came back for our milk bid and um so we asked St Paul beverage if we could just renew and he sent what I have in the board packet for the pricing so it's just a slight
increase any questions um am I to understand you correctly that St Paul beverage Solutions didn't submit a bid until you called them so we got we received no bids no bids not one milk bid what happened to agreer that's St Paul
beverage now that's yeah they don't even have that cuz they just the their portion that's here in Savage is actually a co-op right right yes okay so that's not actually part of the full okay right yeah there's been a lot of things happening with milk companies and
validating yeah Prairie Farms went out of business like two weeks into summer food service last year they've been around forever and ever so um yeah and we've had St Paul beverage solutions for as long as I can remember correct okay
we had Hastings crey I think in 2013 14 and then it's been either agur or St Paul beverage who is now or Agra is now St Paul beverage so yeah okay so just out of curiosity if we didn't approve this would we still have milk
and just that sounds silly but it's like we don't you tell me I I don't know I mean if you didn't approve it I suppose I'd try and go out again and see well there's not a lot out there so okay there's not and we're actually very well
we're doing very well compared to other districts um so it's very competitive okay any other questions all right all in favor I I that passes 5 okay and the next one is the
enrollment report uh by uh director Frederickson thank you director thank you and I got your name right okay thank thank you chair friends director superintendent uh the um enrollment report that I had
given last time um had our projected enrollments through June 30th and so I haven't updated those they obviously are not going to change now that school's done uh but what I have given you tonight is an estimated enrollment uh
for the next few years and when we estimated our budget for 2425 we were estimating about 8,512 and as you've heard me say throughout the last couple months uh we
were still about 200 kids short of reaching that number and I'm happy to say that our kindergarteners have um really jumped up so we are if you look at the actual that we have enrolled
right now as of June 30th we are pretty close to what our projections were with the exception of kindergarten we're about 20 students 25 students more than what we had originally projected um so that is good news if
that Trend continues then hopefully we'll see um a slight up Tick in our enrollment um but we are very close to what we projected so um barring anything happening in the next two months we
should be fine with our current um approved budget for next the 24 25 year are there any questions yeah director F Frederickson I recall the number 8700 I know I don't I didn't go back and pull the board packet but I know it's in the board packet where we had talked
about 8700 students um is our budget built on 8700 or is it built on the 85 12 so we I think um we had like 8660 and that includes prek kids okay well I'm only including
kindergarten through 12 in this report but we do have um get revenue for some of those prek kids so the 8700 you're referring to re included the prek kits correct I think it was 8660 was the number we
had thank you for clarifying that it's encouraging to see the increase in the in the um kinder LEL definitely thank you chair France if I if I may just um speak to this um so it was going to be in My Soup report but I think it aligns
to this topic as well so today um every July uh I join um our Mayors um in the metro area with all the superintendents as well and we have a convening down at dorsy Whitney um to just talk about issues within cities as well as issues
within school districts and um as you can imagine a big conversation topic today was around school budgets um also around school enrollment and um just letting you all know one of the conversation pieces today was centering
around um the big push in the next legislative cycle um around the state funding formula for Education the base funding formula for Education this is something that we're hearing it may get some Traction in terms of ears and so um
justay stay tuned on that um this is something that you know was brought up uh by Treasurer bernick uh several months ago it's been a conversation piece that I've been pushing in a lot of my uh spaces as well today was no
exception um and really aligning to um folks around the metro to take on this this conversation around how Minnesota is funding its schools uh because if if the bulk of it is premised on enrollment
of of school district resources and we are a state that is uh clearly projecting around demographics of Aging demographics this formula is not going to make sense in the long run and so that is something that um was a big conversation topic with many mayors and
many superintendant um so I I'll keep you all posted as that continues to grow in conversation spaces thank you any other questions comments okay moving on to the operating Levy proposal um we are now going to discuss
the 10year operating Levy request to put on the ballot on November 5th 2024 before we get started I'd like a motion in a second so made by director bullan second second by director bernick okay so I'm going to hand this
over to director Frederickson again to discuss what we've already discussed um the last couple of board sessions thank you chair France I do have um a new table that shows the tax
impact and I think um one of the things that was uh questioned was how much um is the levy as opposed the current Levy as opposed to um what the new Levy you look like because there is Debt Service
and we'll be dropping off some of the U Bonds in a couple years so we wanted to show kind of the next through 2034 what that would look like uh so you can see the dark blue is the current debt
service and our lease Levy and then the light blue is the operating referendum and the equity tax so you can see in 2029 as those um two bonds drop off that The Debt Service portion is going to De
be decreased um and then the table below that reflects that um the other the other page has the referendum Revenue per adjusted pupil unit and then we added that inflation Factor so the
inflation factor is set by the Department of Education and they have a table out on their website that shows the inflation through 2031 of what they are planning on using as the inflation Factor so that first year there will be no inflation because we would just
approve uh whatever the the amount is and then after the 2031 because mde doesn't have those numbers yet we were just using 2.25 in this assumption um and then also the other thing to note when you look at these uh numbers that
are calculated out here that this is assuming 0% growth in referendum market value and net tax capacity um that's probably not going to be true um so these numbers would change but at this point I really um couldn't tell you what
the um referendum market value or the J the net tax capacity is going to look like we'd have to get those numbers from the county um I can tell you that the net tax capacity over the last 10 years has gone from um
48.7 million in 2014 to 2022 it was 96.3 million so that's um an increase of 97% in the last over the last 10 years for net tax capacity so as you know a
lot of our formulas are based on that net tax capacity so as that's going to increase um some of those formulas are also going to increase and then the last um study session we discussed those different scenarios so
um this is just kind of formalizing all that we also have on here the um question a draft of what the ballot question would actually look like um the next board meeting we have we will have a an actual resolution that
we can discuss um should this move forward um Dr Thomas do you want to add anything with regards to the use of the funds I know we already discussed this in all those slides were in previous presentations yeah there there are
really no changes in the usage um of the fund uh as we've stated already um I think this this evening we we heard um conversations from our community this is a this was a big conversation topic that we had around our overall Safety and Security um to look at some of our
playgrounds that was actually this that's a very timely um uh piece of information from the parent um that is something of great concern for us to ensure that kids have access to um all aspects of the school uh experience uh classroom uh playgrounds Etc um I Just
Dub tail on that but nothing has changed since what we've um since last presented to the board opening up to any final questions I know that we've already discussed this multiple times um I have a clarifying question um was
brought to my attention by a constituent if we um if there's if the levy is being based on an ADM of 8,593 students are approximately there um and it's
$183 per pupil is what the we're looking to put on the ballot I calculate that and it's 15.5 million and I in our last board packet we had a slide that based basally said that the referendum would be bringing in
10.8 million is that 10.8 million in addition to what's already being generated I understand the difference in the question I'm trying to come up with in my mind what is the dollar amount that we will be receiving from the tax
levy which like I said when I calculated it's 15.5 million so I'm wondering if you could clarify that for me no it would be um as we saw in that the other documents that I had given you from PMA when they calculated out it's
about 10 million a little over 10 for that the $45 um and also just note the referendum is calculated on adjusted pupil units not the ADM so anything from the 7th through 12th grade they count as
1.2 um adms um and then prek counts usually is 6 special ed would be 1.0 but um kindergarten through 6th grade would be a 1.0 ADM so you have to calculate that in the factor so what's the
adjusted pupil unit number that you're using to get to that 10 million it's on this sheet about 9,68 9,68 it's one of the lines on oh okay the calulation I'll take a look at that yeah I I peaked at it but um oh I see it
up on the top the Apu okay and so if you times that out 9608 * 1803 should equal the 10 million cuz that's higher than that then um not quite that simple because again it's based on um adjusted net tax capacity there's um um Equity
you have to take out the $300 and $424 so there is a very complicated calculation that um you can kind of follow in the levy certification reports so when I give you that Levy report it kind of spells out all the
formulas yeah I think being as transparent as we can with our community about how much money they're going to be paying in the next 10 years I mean given forecast whatever there was some a lot of CR criticism in some districts that the levy didn't pass where the district came out and said it's going to be x
amount and then it was like double that so that's kind of where this is coming from um to be honest with you so that's where I was trying to get an understanding of the calculation that was used to come up with that $10 million I don't know if you can add any more information to that or not or we can
take it take it offline and represent or talk about it at the August meeting so we're not voting on this I thought we were voting on this this evening we are voting on it this evening we are voting on it this evening yes and again the information's been out there for some time the biggest difference is this PMA
that shows the average medium household and what the um annual total would be based upon that and how it's broken down between uh over every single year for a household with the average medium home value of 445 in the Apu staying consistent over 10 years and is there
any chart that shows like if an average household of$ 445,000 is currently paying $1,533 annually in taxes what their currently playing now um versus what this will be like with the current Levy
versus what the new Levy if it passes um is there any way to show that I don't know that we would have their what they're currently paying but um we will have a um a dashboard that had you can put in your address and
it'll show you what the uh Levy would look like um should this pass um I can work with the company to see if there's if it doesn't pass what it currently looks like but I mean it should be on
your property taxes because you've already got those for this next year right well I mean logic would say if we're if the taxpayer is paying 637 and we're looking at 1,800 I would think their taxes would triple I mean that would be logic right um again it depends
on the adjusted net tax capacity of and the property value of your home right understand I don't want to say that that's cut and dry what everybody would look like um I mean logically that makes sense but again there's a lot of factors
into it okay um especially home values director bernick I think at the last meeting you gave an example of your own and how it didn't change and it does depend um I guess the question that I have is is by showing the 10 years at
the average of 4455 um for the medium home value even though as director Frederickson uh pointed out um that doesn't reflect um inflationary increases or home value
increases at least it it gives a consistent variable is there something in here about how the taxes are broken down uh compared to um a personal tax statement that isn't here that you would need or you were asking for no I was
just I mean this isn't their total tax because there's also an operating Levy there's also I mean this is just what I was trying to see is like an Apples to Apples comparison is like before and after yeah operating pieces included in the graph above but that's after it's
pretty easy to say that you know it's on the I like the way the question is worded it's very similar to other districts um you know that they're going to be paying 623 and it if this passes it'll go up to 1,83 1883 per pup which is triple the
amount so that's why I think it's pretty clear to see that I just didn't know if there was a graph showing like this is what your current would be currently paying and this is what you're projected to pay and regarding director we live in different cities so different cities are going to have different impacts on the taxes based on everybody lots of
different factors so but that's what I was pointing out and my taxes did not increase that much hardly at all so well a lot it has to do with ageia house just to be honest with you so and what you paid for it and all the things and how much appreciate it and all the good things whether you live in Prior Lake or
Savage right I'm familiar yeah and I'm just being really honest when we talk when we talk transparency you can look at mine and you'll see mine is very different than yours yeah and that's a good thing and I think that's the point here like you know I think we can sit here and say
logically like 2 plus 2 plus 2 equal 6 yep but there's nuances that I think we just want to make sure that we're not we can't equally say yep it's six for you six for me and six for you because of other factors and I think that's the general point that I'm hoping that the
board and our community understands that you can't apply simple math logic um across the board and I think that's the challenge um that our community needs to understand is that we're trying to U be as explicit as we can in the question um
that you see there um and that that logic holds true in what we would receive per student um that that will hold true but what that equates to proportionally in your payout as a tax um uh payer is not you can't apply that
same logic right so that's what I want the board and our community to take away from that right the other thing that I think it's important for the board to remember is that we're asking to send this to the voters right that's the only question we have on the ballot here I mean on the on the on the um board
agenda here um it is not to say yes we are going to do this because we do not have that power the only Power we have is to send the question to the voters for them to ask those same questions look at their own tax statements and determine where their priorities stand
um so is and I think the the reason why the question is on here if you're okay with the language of the question um which I believe is also somewhat statutory uh of what we need to put in there um are there any other questions to go ahead and send this to the voters
in November are there any other questions to send I just had one more yes and I may have missed it um director Frederickson on the chart here in our board book um where we look at it's the
10e the yellow and the blue tell me why those are highlighted and because they're very they're much more specific numbers than the just 400 600 why are those two highlighted and why are the numbers so specific the
445 500 is the actual average salary or the average home value yep um and then the next one is the next highest so we were rounding things off but we were trying to get a little more specific so something between 500,000 but it's
actually sure 455 to 520 351 okay rather than saying I figured that's what that was for okay I just wanted to make sure and then um thank you uh and then chair Frans I just
want to be clear on what we're voting voting on tonight because it says the resolution will be on the August 12th agenda for board action so what are we voting on tonight I just want to be Crystal Clear well um we were going to vote tonight
Martha are we voting tonight on the levy or are we not voting until August 12th because with the L the resolution itself will be on August 12 okay so we're we're tonight we're voting to go ahead with the levy proposal and the question
than and then we do the roll call resolution on August 12th so are is the difference yes I just going to ask what's the difference what's the difference we're giving approval to the district to go ahead and file uh and then we give the final
approval to stick it on the ballot okay correct and part of our issue is the timing so we need to get for the final resolution we need to have the actual values from scottt County and
we don't have them yet so we could give you something tonight but we know it's going to change because Scott County hasn't finalized what their numbers look like so we thought instead we'll just show you what the ballot question would look like vote whether we're going to go forward with it or not and then we'll
bring you the actual resolution question with the final uh numbers that we would actually have um and we should have them shortly we just didn't have them as of Friday okay thank you for clarifying so the two
numbers on the ballot could change 1802 1803 those numbers won't change so what we're seeing is going to stay okay um I would just like to add some content to kind of my thoughts um
surrounding this and I would just say you know when I ran for Schoolboard I ran on a platform of being held accountable for being fiscally responsible taxpayers and our previous board in 2017 which I want to add some historical um information here um quickly when they put a levy on the
ballot that board made a promise to our community that our community taxes would not increase for 10 years expiring in 2027 without an inflationary factor and even with that promise in place our district has received 7 million in covid
funding 1.4 million in since we Max certified the levy and in 7.6 million in additional State funding and federal funding that's 16 million more we have received in funding with declining enrollment and declining proficiency
scores so I have to ask myself is it the lack of funding really the issue or does the district leadership need to change their spending habits and while I've heard fellow board directors sit at this table and say we need the money we need the money that is correct if the
spending continues at the rate at has been in the past two years we will run out of money fiscal responsibility means operating on a balanced budget where expenses do not exceed revenue and this is something I have not seen during my
time on the board as a board member um last year we approved adding 63 new positions to the board or to our district last year and with declining enrollment and declining proficiency scores that really blows my mind to be honest with you a fiscally responsible
board would correct the mistakes of the p board this is this is my suggestion is I would you know as a fiscally responsible board I do agree we should put we should always send this to the ballot um and our community needs to know that whatever does if it passes the
board due to legislative reasons the board in 10 years has the right to just pass it on their own so I think that's a really important thing to to note but in my opinion a fiscally responsible board would correct the mistakes of the pass board by putting a question on the
ballot this fall to keep the same Levy dollar amount of 62397 and add an inflation Factor this I believe is something and based on our Morris Leatherman survey this is something that I believe our community could support or would support but
putting a levy on the ballot asking for three times the original amount of the 2017 Levy and adding an inflation factor is just is just wasteful in my opinion and will only create further division in our district district and community and I do
not support any other comments or questions yeah I mean I appreciate that opinion that you share I mean that's great to share it with the community um I personally have been on the board almost four years and I shudder to speak for the community as
a whole I just do um because my sphere of influence in my circle is one area and so I feel like it's our job to send out as much information this PMI pmaa information is fantastic I've never seen
that detail before um director Atkinson you referenced a few things pretty quickly that I can't exactly get my AR arms around about the back in 2017 the board promised never to I'd have to go back and watch that because I I wasn't um may have been something would never
think that a board would promise something well I can clarify that what I'd like to also clarify that a levy and a bond are two different things the levy goes for education and the bond that was passed in 2017 was for building and
infrastructure uh so we are not comparing Apples to Apples when was the levy passed then I'm talking about the levy that is up for renewal in 28 that was Levy the operating Levy correct okay that's what I'm referring to what was passed then and I did have some reservations because it was too low it
didn't include an inflationary Factor so we were going to end up circling the drain fairly soon and I did have some concerns and uh about the enrollment numbers cuz they were wrong and unfortunately I was correct um but um
there is there was a difference because the levy that was passed was for the operations berck is trying to add some content to finish statement it's director bernick not berick I apologize we've worked together for a long time I would appreciate it of we my sincere
apologies bernick thank you but I was still talking Andor all I'm saying we you can sit up here and you can argue about the past let let the community go out and watch every we it's all out there go read the minutes go back dig their history it's not my job to give
the history I'm just saying I appreciate your opinion but I feel like our Administration has put together a plan the finances of our district are what they are we can are argue that we're overspending and that would look at in
in my opinion 80% of our budget goes to people so are we overspending on people I don't know that's not my problem to address I feel like when when our teachers are here we're all really in our staff we're excited to fund them so it is our job to give the
community a chance and it's my job to step aside and make sure the things I say are representative of just as much much truth as there is so I do shudder to speak for the community and I shudder to share what I think the community
needs I think it's the community's job to pay attention and study what's on their ballots so I appreciate all the information that we have put together and going back to not arguing it's what is our job up here as a board to do and it's to present the finances and say to
the district Community this is an opportunity to fund our students and our so I'm not sharing my belief on how I decide to vote in a Ballot Box and I it's not our job to do
that and um if I could just make a comment um I appreciate all the work that has in the information gathering that we've done that the district's done um I think um I too I
appreciate all the view the different the differing viewpoints but it to me I feel like it's irresponsible to not bring it to the public and I also um I'm challenged by saying
it's something divisive to bring to the public I think giving the public the opportunity to vote it is not that to me is not divisive I think it Al it allows for the community to speak and that's
you know that's what that's what we need um I think it's also um I'm challenged by just saying that the district is not spending wisely when um so much that we do is
mandated um we have many unfunded new new mandates that have been brought down um and those [Music] things they all they all add up and um I would um I would not be
um I would not be uh representing myself or anyone to say that I completely understand all of what is entailed and and you know having to I you know I appreciate the the work of our senior
leaders and all the and our superintendent and what they do to bring forth where we're at currently the the places that we're falling short and and bring that to the community for their
final vote and and um that's my two cents uh I just I I look at what our what our kids need um and I you know looking at everything going on I think this District operates as leanly as
possible we have a superintendent taking for low um we have other people you know donating time we have you know other things happening to make and you know you're right it's it's when we're
looking at you know Dr Thomas you're fur it's $6,000 I get it and I think in the grand scheme of you know our large budget right it may seem like a drop in the bucket and I get that but I feel like it's 6,000 we didn't have before and could that 6,000 be used somewhere
you know where we would otherwise have to cut something um and I just look at what do our kiddos need what does our staff need um you know we heard from a family tonight um and you know what do we need to do and I
you know I wouldn't put my name or my vote on something if it wasn't in the best interest or I felt like it wasn't in the best interest of our kids um and uh and it's an investment in our in our community when it's needed and we're
certainly not alone we are not on on an island um you know there are other you know districts in the kind of the same boat if you will um and so I I I truly appreciate all perspectives I think it's needed and I think um you know it it
brings other points of view that you know maybe us to your point in our in our in our little bubbles of the world that maybe we don't see and I appreciate apprciate that um but I I do support moving this forward
um first of all um to call into history we did have significant budget cuts and layoffs when the original amount was not sufficient and that was right in 20120 at the
beginning of covid where we had to make significant Cuts because the original amount that did not contain an inflationary Factor was actually biting us pretty hardly pretty uh severely um but um I also want to
point out to the community that the covid dollars were restricted many of the funds that we received from the state are restrictive and um the state funding has not kept up with inflation with any school district and it never has we've also had severely as as
pointed out by director bullan uh unfund and underfunded mandates that have added up over the years that do take away from money towards education and I don't understand that we added 63 brand new positions um that's not the number I
don't have the number in front of me we often replace for attrition and have to add based upon um restricted areas so I would call that number severely into question and ask director Hearn to
research that can we get a point of information on that pleas can we get a point of information on that please approval to to see if that's a number we want to validate because I have every right to call for point of information can I get a point of information on the
position have a right finish speaking director Atkinson um I can call a point of information you can wait till I'm finished speaking um the other thing that I that I want to add is as we're going into this referendum there's going to be a lot of numbers and a lot of everything
thrown around um I will say from personal experience with this Administration and uh under Dr Thomas's direction that I am overwhelmed with the amount of factual data that I am able to
receive as well as as well as what has been put into our board packets that is validated and I encourage the community to actually look at those numbers because I'm pretty picky myself and I can tell you that the Integrity of those
numbers the frequency of those numbers and the validity of those numbers are the highest I've ever seen in the history of this District so I want to thank our Administration for that under Dr Thomas's leadership because if if people actually look and do not assume
um numbers that are thrown around but they actually look at what's being presented in the board packets and in the information related uh to this Levy as well as our current budget situation I'm sure that they will have all their actual detailed and at questions
answered in a very factual manner you me no speak I asked my point of information um I counted 63 new positions I top of my head 15 or 20 were teachers I don't want to quote myself um 28 were admin um there's a lot of Paras
there's so basically every new position where we went and approved um on the agenda where it said new position that is what I'm referring to so director Hammond I don't know if you have that number at your fingertips but perhaps you can provide it to us at a later date I apologize that Dr ainson members of
the board I do not have that number off the top of my head and to make sure I provide accurate number I will look back at that um I can say I know that with most confidence we did not add 28 administrators um so I can but I can go back and look and I I will follow up
with the board on the specifics yeah and I think think those the administration would be Deans the counselors the any student support that doesn't fall under a teachers contract unior contract Dr ainson members of the board we'll have to make sure that we have the same terminology um that is not what we consider an Administration those are all
fall under the teachers contract so I'll make sure that we um clarify our categories and and what they fall under I appreciate that and I would just say that one other thing that I was looking at is I looked at um since 2017 like five different categories our
per PE purle per pupil teacher ratio has gone down our admin staff is more than doubled our students student support staff sted about the same our sped teachers of course have increased and our teachers have increased but keep in mind we have about the same number of
students and our um enrollment is declining and our proficiency rates are declining and I agree I think I'm I'm pleased with the information that the district puts out um I think it's incredibly helpful for to be as transparent as we can with the community so that they can make the decision at
the ballot what I was stating tonight is that um my belief as if we were going to spend the money because how much does it cost how much marketing money are we going to be spending um promoting and educating our public on the levy director ainson we can come back to
the board with a package of what we anticipate we would need to spend in in our marketing campaign for the levy um it all depends on what information that we'll be carrying versus what we might contract out with a Consulting Group as well so we're negotiating through some of those details still yeah I appreciate that because I think there's a risk
versus reward right I mean we want we want to all get behind something support it and pass and see it pass and I just think based on our Morris Leatherman survey that the information wasn't there so that's why I brought up the idea of putting on something on the ballot where we can you know correct what was done in
2017 add the inflation factor I guarantee you that's something our our district could get behind I can I can appreciate that director ainson and as I shared a couple of board meetings ago um where that makes sense my challenge um
to to the board and to the community is also within that survey there were deliverables that were that the community was expecting in return and the challenge of doing that um and meeting a dollar amount are conflicting
um and so I think that's that's that's why it's so important to bring this conversation forward in what we would like to deliver something in return for a dollar amount that we know looks different than where the support began to wian and and so that that's very
clear I don't I've never shied away from that fact and I think that still holds true so as much as I appreciate that offer of finding something that passes then we're going to fall woefully short on our ability to deliver anything in
return which I think has greater unintentional consequences than perhaps the the current conversation before the board tonight that's my that's my personal opinion and I think then the the the community would expect us to right siize our district I mean and
that's just what most businesses do when they have declining customers or whatever um declining enrollment is like I said it forces us to change our spending habits so that's that's the content behind why I feel the way I do I think every single board member here
adds a different perspective that's what we're here to do that's what we're elected to do and um I appreciate you giving me the time to be able to share the perspective of the feedback that I've heard from our community and um I'll leave it at that thank you can I add one more thing quickly I would
encourage the community to go out to the website and then just put in the search engine the dashboard I think we forget to talk about the dashboard yeah go out there look at the buildings your kids are in if you had kids in the district and if you don't and you're just curious what an elementary school operates on
it's all out there and it's so simple to look at and it breaks it down a little more simply than these $122 million budgets that seem gigantic but if you break it down by building so I would just say look at your tax statements look at your County City School District
portions and then go look at our buildings and see what things are looking like and if something doesn't look right to you reach out ask questions that's all I'm going to say so are we ready to vote to uh to on
the levy question and then the final res going into the final resolution in on August 12th yes okay so um Martha correct me if I'm wrong but this is not a resolution so a roll call vote is not need needed okay
all in favor I I I'll opposed nay I'll opposed nay okay so that passes 4 one all right um uh moving on uh we now have um the
adoption of the resolution for establishing the dates for filing affidavits for candidacy for the school board um do you want to yep uh chair France board directors um I won't read um the entire uh document that's uh within the
board books but essentially calling out the fact that we have openings in our school board and what is the process for um filing for candidacy and just want to um read one portion the period for filing affidavits of candidacy for the office of school board members of
Independent School District 719 begin July 30th 2024 and shall close on August 13th 24 and an affid David candidacy must be filed in the office of the school district clerk and the $2 filing fee paid prior to 5 o'clock pm. on
August 13 2024 um that's the critical piece I just wanted to bring forward um and turn it back to you chair for any further discussion no I think this has been fairly typical of previous years the filing dates start July 30th and end
August 13th um and I believe it's a state same for the whole state uh still our requirement is that the board um does pass this as a resolution prior to the July 30th so uh are there any other
questions no I would just say if anybody is interested in running please reach out I think you know any of us board members are probably open for questions on what it's like to serve on the board and um looking forward to seeing um the candidates that step forward okay so uh this is a roll call
vote so I'm going to start with director Atkinson oh I sorry okay um director bullion I director bernick director olad I and I so that passes 5 did I get a motion in a first on that
I didn't so excuse me let me redo that so director bullan and second director olad okay we're going to do this one more time uh director Atkinson I director bullion I director bernick I
director olad I and I so that passes 5 Z okay so um the next one is adopting the resolution for refined hand count procedures for school board election again that resolution is also in our board packet and I believe this is
the this is um not new this is the same that we've had before okay there's one new aspect it's new for us to vote on it but the process has in correct okay so basically what it says in here is the
refined hand count procedures established hearing shall apply to the counting of right in votes cast during any primary election special election or general election held in the school district following this the date of this resolution um so first I'm going to take a motion in a
second by director olad and second second by director bullan okay um has everyone read the resolution yes okay any questions I don't think we can change anything all right so I'm going to call
for a roll call vote we'll start with director olab hi director berck hi director bullan I director Atkinson I and I so that passes 5- z uh next on our uh agenda is the
long-term facilities maintenance and that is a 10-year plan that was released and presented on June 10th um so we need to actually certify this and vote on it so I'm going to ask for a motion in a second and then I'm going to ask Dan
Powers our newly appointed uh director facilities and operations to come up and speak on it so first a motion so made by director bullan second second by director olad okay director
powers greetings again I'm not used to addressing you all correctly so I apologize I already warned Emily this was going to happen so I'll get used to it I um as many of you know we're required for the 10year plan
to formulate this pan so we can make sure and keep up on the bare maintenance that we for the buildings um I've been going over this with uh Marine um and this will be a good chunk of what I'm going to be looking at for the next
couple of months um I'm going to be honest this number seems low to me um I know there are needs that are not being met and I want to make sure and and clarify those and understand them and uh and make sure
that we can look at addressing those in the future um this year we uh went with a much lower dollar amount um because we were making up for previous years when we were spending a lot more so that's why we ended up with the $380,000 for this particular cycle um
and then we're back up to the mid 1.5 range um most of the projects that you're going to see in here um are the bare minimums there again we're doing seal coating um parking lots um seal coating is going to happen
periodically no matter what to make sure that we don't get those parking lots more damaged um you're looking at stuff like the tennis cart repairs hallway carpeting um some of the carpeting in the schools some of the older schools um is definitely deteriorating um even in my quick visit
already I've seen some of the locations the crews the custodial crew is really doing a good job keeping those up and I was happy to see that um but it's a cumulative effect it's just over time they're going to get worse and worse quick glance through the rest of them if there are any questions about
anything in particular on there just reach out or holler at me right now um but I can expand on those and I plan on doing a lot more research on that so that we can get uh a more inclusive um list of projects um one thing that I don't know
if you meant to include or you actually referred to was the front loading of some of the projects that actually occurred when we redid the two middle schools last year so we actually move things that should have been this year into last year in order to get them done
uh because it was going to be more cost effective exactly and that's and that's why we ended up with a $380,000 budget for this season okay yeah any questions okay so
um this is a um resolution so it's a roll call vote so we're going to start with director Atkinson I director bullan I director bernick I director olad I I that passes 5 uh next we are going to be discussing
the APAC uh response letter um board uh is board action is required or is this informational only it doesn't say here used to be
inform me yeah information only okay thank you uh and go ahead director o yes um so uh we had a presentation two months ago from our APAC executive committee um around the letter non concurrence or the voter non concurrence
um according to mde we would have then 60 days to respond to that letter um the letter is in in the packet there and it highlights the things that we've done to address the areas of concern uh from our APAC committee um along with opportunities for growth in the future
we really value the relationships with our um APAC Community members and we're proud to serve uh the parents of our our native community and our students um here in our school district and we hope to continue doing that um in the years
to come within the past three years there I've seen great growth in the amount of programming that we're able to do and um the relationship has also improved and grown um with our native Community um in the area here
uh and I want to make one correction uh we do have to vote on this um so I'm going to take a motion in a second before we ask uh questions by olad and bernick okay um hopefully all board
members have had a chance to review and meet with director Oak and um review this letter are there any questions concerns or comments I my only comment is just I want to just thank you um director Oak for uh your
just the positivity that you bring um and the collaboration with you know through challenging times of we've been non-concurrent for a while and um your your the way that you collaborate and
the way that you um um just stay positive through some of the challenges is is really appreciated it it represents our district really well uh and I really I appreciate that
you know going through listening to some of the things that you've experienced in with the challenges and also with you know some of the celebrations that you've had um I just appreciate all
you're doing um to um Foster a health hey working relationship um with them so thank you you anybody else just thank you Sam and I understand that there are um some
outgoing board members on APAC so we wish them well and then the new members really look forward to working with them yeah and building some great relationships so thank you um for myself director Oak um I
appreciate all the time and effort you've put into this I don't believe we've ever been concurrent but I think we're the closest will will we've ever been in this past year and I have every confidence to believe that we will be um I believe that under your uh leadership
the relationship with our native communities have improved uh quite a bit and also the work that's been done in this uh in our district to actually um not only uh gain those funds in order to
improve our educational quality when it comes to Native education and curriculum uh but also um the uh people that you have brought on board in order to propagate uh that education through both staff and students has been exemplary
and and has not been with very many people but they have been very good um so I appreciate it and I know that this letter took a lot of hard work from you I know it took a lot of time to meet with individuals of the board and other people in order to ensure that you are
representing the district well so thank you very much for your time and all your efforts okay so with that uh if there's no other comments or questions um we can go to a vote I would just apologize I came on in laid I just wanted to comment thank you
for um adding the the APAC advisory committee will be um invited to attend the equity committee as well as the teaching and learning committee I think having that representation um on both those Kitty committees will be greatly beneficial to our district so thank you
um and Sam I want to also add that we used to have them on the um teaching and learning committee um so I appreciate you actually pushing that forward to make sure there's more representation on the committee so thank you um are we ready for a
vote okay uh all in favor I I I okay that passes 5 Z okay moving on to policy we have one policy uh up for discussion and that is
policy 5251 the student use of personal digital electronic devices uh this will be the first reading of this policy the second reading will be placed uh on the board in the board packet for August 12th so no vote will be uh performed tonight however because we don't have a
study session in July uh we're using the board uh meeting had the business meeting in order to discuss the policy and director hermans and director Thomas superintendent Thom yeah we we'll tag team a little bit chair friend and
and board directors um this is a this is a topic that we discussed with you last time we met uh it's been something that we've been engaged in for the past couple of years actually um looking at the impacts of cell phones in our school
namely at the middle school um and the language that you see here today was um some draft language that we wanted to bring forward to you um to get feedback from the board more as your input that we then bring back to um members of the
policy committee virtually as well um and I would say that since the last conversation that we had with the board msba has come forward with some language as well that um uh director Herman and I were talking
that we feel maybe a better approach to incorporating some of that language um and subordinating some of our language into actual procedure um so that the nuances that may be in flux as we work through this don't have to come back to
revising policy versus procedure um that could be instant um and uh so for example if we should choose to go all the way through uh High School tool IM immediately we would have that flexibility versus coming back and amending policy Etc so so that's something that is new to us that
happened over the just before the the Fourth of July break that some of that language um was then released um but what you see here essentially is uh what we're calling away for the day very common term with districts yet again another big conversation Topic at the
mayor's superintendent meeting um in in Minneapolis this afternoon um where uh many mayors were asking about this statute um specifically and obviously all of us are seeing the compounding research Around The Addictive algorithms
that are kind of pulling our kids in and getting them off task and perhaps impacting you know deeper levels of mental health um concerns of kids being isolated Etc a whole host of issues and so um as we uh really ratchet you know
our um focus on academic Excellence minimizing the amount of distractions for our kids is going to be absolutely critical and this is one aspect that we feel um is going to be critically important again over the past two years at our Middle School we've really been
engaging in looking at cell phone usage um and uh the the staff overwhelmingly are 100% behind this we don't have issues really with cell phones at the elementary but we're just making this a K8 we do also have a a semblance of this
at the Freshman level um with bar at the high school but like I said said last time we are engaging the high school Community similar to what we did uh this past year with the Middle School Community to look at affecting change at the high school um and just feedback
from some uh neighboring super or collegial superintendent in the Metro conversations today many had uh their freshman uh uh cohort kind of restricted but then gradually had that open release by the time they were seniors so it you
know it it looked a little differently with every different SCH School District um so with that um what you see here tonight is some proposed language Let me just go back to the um proposed language that um is
iterations of a variety of different uh conversations with different school districts looking at different policy across the country looking at different legislation across the country and incorporating that language in um the first document which is the 5
25.1 um document and that's the uh the actual policy and in that we are looking at ways that we can incorporate um a new version of 5 25.1 to just essentially be a leading
paragraph into that because oura for the day is during the school hours so if you're in after school activities or it's before school or after school and you're waiting for you know uh parent Guardian pickup you can use your cell phones uh in in those spaces but during
you know Bell to Bell of instruction is when this typically would apply the the new restrictions and then the rest of this would hold true um so again with the conversations that we're uh engaging in now with msba with that new release
we are considering uh a possible pivot to um address a more General position on cell phone personal device personal electronics um versus getting really prescriptive into procedural
aspects Dr Thomas thank you very much um members of the board um the language that came out um in terms of 5251 that we um were able to discuss today that we feel would be beneficial to get feedback on is changing all of a respect the
environmental um environment instead of having specific um details in in there changing it to be more General that the school board directs the superintendent and School administration to establish rules and procedures regarding student possession and use of cell phones in
schools these rules and procedures seek to minimize the impact of cell phones on student Behavior mental health and academic attainment these rules and procedures may be designed for specific school buildings grade levels or similar criteria when discussing this and looking um at some of the feedback we reive from the policy advisory committee
um such as concerns around field trips concerns around are we going to be expanding this in the high school some desires to expand in the high school um we felt that if we could minimize the specifics in the policy and allow us to look at the guidelines that we could bring forward that would allow us to be
uh Flex on a um and pivot on a more timely basis so can I just clarify something the version that we see in the board packet as of today that is not the version the version that we should be discussing it's another version
um uh chair Frans this language um came to our attention today um that we would be that we would like to uh get your feedback on so it's not in the board packet um this is a version from mba's new template policy for the cell phone um policy that they added into their
acceptable use policy template okay um and um I matter of fact in my msba chair meeting we did discuss something like this but I didn't realize it had already been uh released um so I just want to clarify and just make
it really really clear what we're seeing in the board packet right now is not the version correct okay it's actually our current policy it's our current policy right so your friends our recommendation is if the board is in agreement with
moving in that direction we would be um editing that to bring forward um at the at the next board meeting thank you and the policy committee will see the edited version okay when is the next policy committee meeting um chair FRS members of the board we do not have one over the summer so we've been soliciting their
feedback electronically um we solicited their feedback on the guidelines um to bring forward today again those that feedback that we received was um some questions and desires if it's moving forward into the high school as well um and then also concerns around field
trips at the elementary level um did say that smart devices outside of cell phones like watches um is something that um one of our staff members shared is important to to parents to see if they can bring that on their field trips when they're um going off campus so those are
situations where um Dr Thomas and I discussed if we had guidelines and procedures versus specifics in our policy we would be able to Pivot um in a more timely manner based off of what we learn as we make these changes okay so you're asking us to wait till the next
meting in in the board packet the guidelines that you see initially started off as policy language revision and we've Rebrand uh renamed that um uh a away for the day electronic
device guidelines okay with now the new language coming from msba that is more policy language so um I think we would engage the policy committee around the guidelines that's that important of a topic I think we would get a little more
perspective from from that group as well okay okay uh I for one uh will'll post it to the to the board here to wait on our discussions for the new version but um I will say that um here's this has
been a long time coming I was involved at the first parent committee meeting in 2014 asking the school district to remove um personal mobile devices um presented at the 2015 and 2016 technology committee when we still had one given what I do for a living
um and by the way I just want to say that the everybody that was part of the msba meeting that I was in all talked about um glad that there's now maturity of understanding of this issue um and
how that maturity of understanding is reflecting in the policies across the state so very happy about that um but I do want to ask uh so we will table this discussion completely
for uh or you still want to discuss it and get feedback from us because I see you shaking your head I'm trying to understand what our direction is at this point time I would I would appreciate feedback um from from the board tonight um on the msba language that we just
came across tonight and then the guidelines that we have here would love to get that perspective on that and I appreciate that um chair France your job is to to conduct the meeting and allow for feedback from all the board members so I do have some feedback on this that I would like to
share um the one thing around the guidelines first of all I'm incredibly thrilled to see this um come to fruition I you know I have my own thoughts on the high school but we can talk about that when we get to the next meeting but the one thing I when I'm reading this um the
away for the day oftentimes the way this has been implemented in under other districts is it's only away for a day so it's not like a daily thing they would take like a Monday or Friday and not have cell phone use I think that's not the intention of this this is every day
right right no I understand that so the way for the day um I I love like I love the I love it but I think we just need to be real clear on um I mean this is such a it it is a people have a lot of passion behind this topic and I think that the more clear we can be in our
policy to provide guidance to our staff and to our parents par um the better there is some language that I like in um Minot taka's policy that you can look to that basically gives really clear guidance that regardless of what building you're in um cell phones and
other devices shall remain silent um during instructional time unless specifically Allowed by the teacher other staff and so I understand what you're saying is that there'll be different guidelines for different buildings but I think overall as a district no there there wouldn't be
different High School versus is k through eight oh yeah K K through 8 is where we're focusing our conv ALS and you know um but I think you know this is really our opportunity as a board to say like what is our stance on this and director France you talk about how you've wanted to see this since 2014 or
15 um I think we as a board have the opportunity to to make some really great changes here in our district and um the more prescriptive we can be about not allowing cell phone use in any of our classrooms I think would benefit our students so that's my only feedback was
adding some more prescriptive language under that respect for the educational employment and then just really clarifying that a away for the day is not a day but it's I understand what you've said and but just so that's clear and how it will be communicated
so yeah I I'm I'm liking it too I uh I mean I did I certainly didn't survey all 8,500 kids or whatever the number is my C audience of my middle schooler um when I talked to her about this her first reaction was oh
bro she's not going to be very happy that I said that but why are we being this is this is me as a mom simply giving the feedback right not necessarily agreeing um why why is
everybody being in her words punished for something that you know maybe a smaller group of kids do again I don't necessarily agree with that statement I'm just providing the feedback from a middle schooler um I did have a question again we can discuss this at the next
meeting about if we're going to do it for some why not all for consistency's sake K through 12 um and I had a question about
um you know enforcement as well in terms of I mean you know kids can be in class and the teachers kind of like let's listen to music while we finish up our project you know so I want to make sure like if it's on a cell phone it's the teacher's cell phone because I know this doesn't NE this doesn't apply to staffs
and I think maybe that needs to be a little clearer too and maybe it is clear to other people I just kind of making that distinction you know why is why does Mr Smith able to have his cell phone when I can't you know type of thing um and
then do we want to make sure that from a staff perspective do we have the ability to really enforce something like this is that is this something that we want our staff to concentrate on knowing as I'm thinking this through yes this is going
to be a change of rules and it's going to be hard for like the first month right and maybe after that it'll be fine and even out and things like that I know you've probably thought all of this through um of course um and then my last comment is
where it says in an emergency perceived threat of danger a student may possess or use a personal device kind of hard to do if it's in their locker and that's my only again I don't I don't call or text my kid during the school
day and God forbid something happens and that's my last opportunity to talk to my kid but he or she can't get to their phone cuz it's in their locker and I understand why it's in their locker believe me I get all of that it's just
that thought kind of came to my mind when I was reading that number one which I understand and I get and I'm in agreement with it but in an emergency they can't get to their phone and and I would say does that make
sense y makes perfect sense and um in just a couple of points so I want to just be clear that no student is being punished I understand that that's her and and and I understand you're just relaying that message and I just also want to be clear
with our community and our students no student is being punished we are clearly recognizing the need to minimize the distractability of of our kids minimize the levels of isolation that often time
come with personal technology heavy usage I don't want to say addiction I'll just say heavy usage where I walk into a cafeteria and the only conversations happening are five kids huddled around a cell phone while they're playing a game and buying skins
for characters and all this other stuff but not having conversations about relationships and school and um life you know just the those just want to be clear about that um we hear you on the
high school aspect um and and that is something that we're in conversations about kind of dovetailing with the our new SRM Proto our safety protocols um when we also know that many of our high schoolers are also very mobile um PSO
and things of that nature so that's why we've isolated initially the K8 as we work through some of that and um and we know to your point I think or whomever talked about like within a period of
time you know the the fury will ease but there is going to be push back for sure um and everything from the bruh are you kidding me to um parent this is absolutely not okay and I can't you know
and then there's going to be lots of cheers and joys as well I want to be very clear about that so um keeping it on their person uh was something that we went back and forth in regulations whether it should be in their locker or
if it's in their backpack um or if it's going to be in a classroom lock bag or phone folder we haven't worked through what those protocols would actually look like um in the individual classroom but those are some aspects that we're going
to work through in terms of these guidelines um but points uh very well taken from both of you all in terms of level um of should this be K8 or should this be K12 so I just to put my
historical mom had on um my youngest has been out of his master's degree now for over a year um but when they were younger they were in districts that had no cell phones um and
also in my personal professional area I can tell you that the use of cell phones during a crisis event particularly if there's something like a security event um is actually more damaging than good and most of those districts had it pretty well down and within I even new
students coming in within a week or two you get that phone taken away once it doesn't happen again so the enforcement um level in my own experience has been fairly low but we are dealing with a district that's going
from somewhat no inhibited use except for the experiments that have gone on for the past over two years at the middle school uh to slowly reduce the use of cell phones uh what wasn't included is the use of uh the fact that
now you have even calculators that can send messages and are connected to the internet you have watches uh that are connected to the internet things like that so that is part of the maturity that I was um really grateful for the
discussion that happened with one of the msba meetings that I was in with the different board me MERS and um all that as they were working through that uh and had actually um a very evolved and
already somewhat use case tested uh mediums for that um so we will have to um come at it from a different direction from having it to not having it um and
in two of the three school districts that I was part of they they didn't allow the kids to have it at all on their person uh through 8ighth grade and then they had to keep it silenced um in high school uh and uh one of them had in
your locker the whole time um I saw absolutely no difference in the enforcement uh or the um or the acceptance of it but then again again I think one of the things that we're going to struggle with here is going from
having it to not not having it and um you know when we're when we are in our full-time jobs and in business meetings we're not accepting personal calls we're not walking out of a classroom or a uh a training or a or a business meeting or
our day job for that uh um and that is something that we need to then relate back to parents who want to call their kids non-stop during a school day and accept text messages during classrooms um it's still isn't going to be easy um
but I think that with feedback from the community and a work through of this policy um and also all of us coming together as well as the policy committee with those use cases and making sure those questions are answered and the transition into this is done uh uh with
well thought out um protocols and uh some serious listening to everyone in their concerns in the community I think we're I think this is is going to be incredibly successful and by the way as I heard from other districts who are now implementing or
have already implemented this long overdue my only question is is obviously we are in a time crunch because we want to get this in place before the beginning of the school year and I assume having it having it part of the student handbook that's going to go out
so are we going to then be ready on August 12th uh with all the feedback from the policy committee and everything in order to get get this in and also to positively impact the student handbook and everything the students need to know and parents need to know in time before
the school I I would say yes from the policy standpoint particularly for adopting the msba policy because then the handbook language is Administrative and so that's something that we would have to be revising between now and the start of school you brought up a good point when
you were talking about watches my mind automatically just goes to phone and I know we say electronic devices I think maybe once we revise our policy we have to Define what devices are and can you make someone take off a watch if it's something they're
wearing director Olstead um members of the board I do uh believe we have we have the ability to to limit the technology device that they are wearing um but we can definitely seek legal counsel if that's a concern also in the general statement of the policy we do
describe um what the different devices are we refer to everything as a personal electronic device so that we're not constantly repeating um all the all the different aspects of it but we list some specifics and then we also describe it as um a device that's capable of Capt
capturing and or transmitting data or images okay yeah I don't know legal question that I kind of can you make somebody take off a watch Mara what's director olad I'm pretty confident in that but I can double check
um the same that we can require a dress code policy right good point and the same as many districts confiscating the phone and removing the phone from the person um for a period of time parent coming pick it up Guardian
Etc so to address uh the question earlier that uh director Fran asked around uh Readiness uh to implement I would say that we definitely do feel that we have because we've been obviously engaging in these conversations uh recent
conversation today I had with uh principal kabek around um he was engaged in a a principal conference the last week of June and this was a topic of conversation at secondary principal conference he had opportunity to speak
with a number of principles at at middle schools who have been uh in this which we had already had awareness of from a variety of documentation that they had provided us so and again that was uh something that was brought before the Middle School staff so spe uh speaking
specifically to the middle school and again as Dr Thomas has pointed out at the elementary uh level the uh they our elementary principles are not concerned about uh putting language out that will be clearly understood uh and uh
principal kabush also heard from colleagues at other schools who had been at this that uh to the point that's been made up multiple times here that the initial uh shock of the System Shock of the new uh ways protocols procedures um
doesn't take long to uh become the the new Norm uh of operation and he had a a renewed or a a new sense of confidence uh as we spoke today about that um after after hearing that from some of his uh trusted colleagues that he has
relationships with in other districts assuring him that that will U be a shortlived time frame of adjustment and that uh students will be prepared for that can I add one thing sorry no I I
can wait till you're done mine was super short I'm supportive of it completely on board even as it had possibly to a high school scenario my only concern is or question is can we make certain that it's very clear that I mean these are
they're very expensive I mean we all know what our kids have lost them um all of the above right um I just think it's pretty important to make parents know that we're not liable for something that lockers aren't always
safe and backpacks aren't safe and um so I think it's very important that we spell that out very clearly you know um because and then at the high school they don't all go to lockers and they don't have lockers and all of that so I think we just have to be very careful because I could just see a lot of people saying
well it was your fault and my kid put it here and and it's you know I don't know they're like $1,200 I mean they're not cheap so I think we should be very clear we're not responsible it's like bringing a gold chain to school and losing it
yeah that's all I would add um I think I am um in support of all of this my biggest um concern would be not having to be across all grade levels I do understand
um the uh additional challenge that might be um incurred uh on the early onset for the high school level um they've been using devices for longer than our k through
eight children however my question is would be you know what best serves our students and um whether it be through the strategic planning all of the community events and that whole process
to grad parties to you know running into uh stakeholders here and there one of the uh you know cell phone use and and um restricting cell phones has been a
hot time topic um and yeah my it is my biggest concern of not having to be a k through2 um policy um again I agree with the you know how do
how do we manage that um what does that look like I don't have a I don't I don't know those details but I I would ask um senior leadership to really look at what best serves all our students and
um not including 9 through 12 um I don't know to me that is my biggest area of concern that you don't want it to go it should that it should go through K through 12 okay okay um got it got it
you know the cell phone use I mean we've all talked about it right it's I my my challenge would be keeping it k through eight only I believe we should look at K through 12
um I think that not doing it K through 12 just adds another layer of well why I look back to um you know back during the pandemic when there was certain rules
for K through 8 that it wasn't for the high school it that just creates additional layers of challenge I think that is a divisive um component that we really need to weigh out and and look at and I
don't want to uh focus on the divisiveness I want to focus on what's best for our students and them um having the least amount of dist actions and and um fostering an environment where they
are um communicating face to face um with their peers and their and their teachers um in the in the beginning I can foresee it's going to be challenging but I I would
say I I'm hopeful I think about my own uh students and when they have spaces of time where they have had to give up their their uh electronic devices and in the beginning it's like oh my gosh it's the worst thing that you could do to
them and then and then you speak to them after that they've had to um you know be in relationship with people instead of on the phone and it's been their best experiences um and so you
know that would be something that I I'd ask that we stay really mindful for yeah and director b i I agree with you wholeheartedly I think what what I find from having a a student in the high school is that a lot of the teachers are doing exactly what we're talking about
here um they are having the students put the cell phones away during class I've seen it with my own student but I think um I think we would see more support for that than any of us really realize and teaching our students like you said director France that when we go to work
or when they go to work or when they go to college they have to be present they have to put them cell phone away during their school or during their work day and so I think it becomes part of teaching our students and so I also would be fully in support of figuring out a way to do it through um K through2
and I think you know we've all seen the emails um one of the most heartfelt emails was basically hit me at home when a student wasn't able to make relationships in our building right because of other students were on cell phones so
thank you all this is good feedback do you have what you need are there any other questions uh director Herman that you need from us uh chair France members of the board I I believe we're good
okay um so um I don't know if wait do I introduce it now for the for the change in for the rules or the notes oh we got no I would go through these
okay okay um then we have a way okay that's the way for we talked about that already okay uh now we have administrative reports so I'm going to go to the superintendent um just just real quickly um I all my other notes were covered uh this evening but just
one other one I'll add is um Southwest Metro uh uh uh special at intermediate District they uh hired a new superintendent and so Dr Jeff Horton has now joined Southwest Metro uh replacing
Darren kermes so that happened I think two weeks ago uh I do have a quick and I think a couple of us do uh update uh specific related to our various committees that we uh oversee and specific to the teaching and learning advisory committee
we do have some vacancies uh and we will be putting out a considered effort to uh pull uh membership uh applications uh out so we'll be putting that out in the next week or two here uh wanted to wait
till after the busy holiday season uh put it out in mid July and then uh accept applications to the first part of August so that we could uh bring forward uh committee rosters to the August board
meeting so we will be advertising for a few uh vacant slots specific to teaching and learning and I think how many sorry we also have some vacancies on the um Finance advisory committee so we'll also be posting um applications for that
committee also um Dr be will you be following the same process you followed in the past okay thank you how many vacancies on each currently we have three vacancies at this present time in the teaching and
learning and then right now I know of three there may be four finance and how about policy um and my colleagues are showing me up I don't know yet I need to send the recommitment um email out to our membership um and I
will get that done so that we can um we did talk about that we will be communicating all together um to have uh the community have access to all three applications um I do know of at least one staff um opening that we will need to be backfilling
thank you all right um and any board reports okay um I have well first of all for the future events and for board report I just want to give an update on the retreat I sent out a message um to ask
everybody for days they were not available um and it's really important that if we do something for the board that we have the maximum maum amount of participation and the Delta was 2.5 days actually between all of the rest of July so I'm going to be resending that out
for August uh and also uh asking the board if they want to extend the study session uh in August I know I asked for an additional one and I know first time it was no do not extend them any longer because nobody wants to stay later um
I'm wondering if that just has changed anybody since we already have that date reserved I my comment Remains the Same that I would be open to having it after um because we're here for a meeting and
in the summer summertime it's harder to add another thing to our schedule or it possibly could be harder to to get the most participation so I'm open to it being after a meeting even even if it stays later yeah even changed for the
board members who did not want it to be after a study session when is our study session in August sorry it's like the 1th no that's our board meeting the board meeting yeah but there's only one meeting it's August 12th we have a study
session in August and that would be the 206th yeah yes 26th okay so in July we have no study session uh so I try to get the retreat scheduled in July and unfort Al um it just wasn't doable to try and
have everyone squeeze it into the two or three days that were actually available in between vacations and work obligations and things like that I think it was fair to take that one day away yeah I would be open to adding it to the
end as long as I think when it was discussed before it was going to maybe be tonight or when we already had a pretty big agenda so if we have a smaller and I don't want to keep anything off of it that we need but as long as we could assign what we think discussions might take so that
it's not past midnight understand I would agree I mean I would pick either the board meeting or the study session depending upon what's the heavy load of topics to follow okay so we'll take a look at the study session for August but I will be sending out another survey to find out uh if
there's any other time in August um that would also work uh just to be safe and get as many options as possible um also understanding that August is late it's right before the school year uh we still may be dealing with people with kids on
vacation Etc um so it's understandable um the other thing that I wanted to ask Martha is earlier tonight we had a point of order um did you capture that okay the point of order was on not
having discussion on the consent agenda but I clearly read off that there will be no separate discussion unless um a board member or citizen requests so we had no request so I'm wondering if the point of order is valid um if I recall there was no
opportunity to request or have discussion it went very quickly that is why I called the point of order I did leave time and look around the board and no one said anything as usual but um I'm not quite sure Martha what you want to do with that
okay why don't we do that um other than that uh the future events the only thing I had was the retreat uh and uh if nobody else has any future events then uh we can adjourn and transition to a
closed meeting for negotiation strategy nothing else make a motion to adjourn okay um director buam makes a motion second by director bernick all in favor i i i that passes 0 and we are
going to take a short break and transition to a closed meeting by 9:05 so we have less than 10 minutes but should be enough it's passing time for for the classes so