good evening and welcome to the St Peter School Board a regular board meeting this Monday evening of July 15th 2024 we call this meeting to order and our first order of business here we will send Pledge of Allegiance
I to the FL of the United States of America and to the repblic for it stands one nation indivisible justice for all right thank you uh next up we
will consider the adoption of the agenda Mr Vice chair I move the adop of the agenda as presented I will second that uh do we have any discussion my only concern is
that um we have set as number one for our first action items the acceptance of gifts and donations and I believe that we don't have anything to I saw address today yeah I was wondering why it was on
the agenda because then it said we don't have any and I'm like well it's just good to know that we don't um so we can just leave it at that or we can strike it from the agenda whatever is most comfortable when we established that as a standing agenda
item um we didn't say what what we should do if we didn't have anything to report so we opted to leave it on the agenda and just report that we had no items to report okay fair enough we can leave it at that
any other discussion uh Mr graph could you come up and help us celebrate our graduates that are on the consent agenda please yeah so I would like to read the names of three graduates into the record um these three students have met all
requirements of St Peter Public Schools uh those students are Nathaniel norin Abdul Kadir Adan and Mercedes anando very good congratulations congratulations awesome thank
you uh with that I will call a vote to approve the agenda so is this approving now just the agenda correct okay all right and we had a motion in a second I'll call for a vote to my left can I'm
sorry oh yeah all those in favor please say I I was opposed same sign thank you okay now we're I thought we W consenting I'll just confuse everybody it's July now if we have any requests to speak um
on the agenda um please approach us and we happy to see you here and I don't believe we have any requests tonight okay thank you all right the consent agenda we have in front of
us so we be seeking an approval of our consent agenda tonight I was excited to see those Nam on there those diplomas for those kids that earn those requirements it's always nice to see them come through while after been typical times
um I didn't know if we wanted to talk more about like the um the lease amounts I mean I you see they've gone up but like what the processes and how that's determined wanted to pull that off or it's just been talked about at the business committee and then we just put it in
there with this consent item or a consent agenda because I kind talk today um if there's anything to add like I mean they went up that's good that's great we do do we do that every
year how are those rates determined typically there is an a yearly increase to that lease amount recognizing that the expense of operating the building and the staff to carefully for the building has an increase and so we try
to cover that expense each year and so this year uh they were increased 4% in recognition of those additional expenses I appreciate the business office being on top of that to get those
extra earnings in so I also saw the resignation of Mary powers and I feel like she's been with the district for a long time but hadn't she already resigned okay she did she had come back on a temporary basis to
fill in when we uh had a nurse opening that we couldn't fill and so she came back okay I think she's been back a number of times yeah well she only maror you only get a special should out one [Laughter]
time so did I read that right were there four there there were four individuals sharing the position so they all came in on different days and times um and that position is being
replaced and I'm not sure if that one's in here or not Jody fishnick no not yet um not yet so that one will be coming didn't realize we had four people in the office nurs for they were not there at the same time
but yeah well I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda item okay thank you and I'll second that very good thank you K any discussion further discussion Mr Vice chair just a a quick
question of uh Mr GSA with the uh significant number of of hirings many of those are Replacements of course has it been difficult to Source Talent are people available for those positions or is it a a bit of a challenge you know some of
some of the positions that are um more specific have have been challenging um you know there's elementary teachers there's there's more elementary teachers um but specific areas like art um where
those individuals are a little harder to find sometimes we end up going for a tier 2 license uh which is the case with one of at least one of The Hires that we're doing this year so that person has a master's degree in the content area
but not a teaching license and so they can apply for a tier two teaching license uh and fill that spot okay okay thank you any other discussion okay that all call VES all those in favor of approving consent
agenda you say hi hi hi oppos sa sign thank you consent agenda is approved um other thing excuse me short kind of a thinner agenda today we don't
have student Spotlight because we are in the summer months looking forward to meeting our new student spotlights here in the fall let's let's get the buildings cleaned up here little work to do um all right that takes us into our
action items as we discussed previously we don't have any uh gifts donations or grants to accept tonight move right on to number two which is considering a resolution to approve a 10-year ltfm Revenue plan for
fiscal year 26 um so in front of you you should have three documents I'm really only going to cover two of the three um the third one is more informational for you so the first of the three is a spreadsheet that mde puts out it's a 10-year plan the
revenue portion it's the shorter of the two um so we get $380 per pupil for ltfm Revenue um and in the past it's been split a and Levy uh equalized and it's always been in fund one now that we
passed the ltfm bond you'll notice that in starting in FY 26 the aid portion of that goes to fund seven to offset the debt um so up above the blue sort of bluish teal lines those are our bond
payments for the IAQ and the Deferred maintenance the two green lines are the ltf ltfm revenue that we'll have so the top one is going to be our fund seven Revenue to offset those debt payments and the bottom line is the revenue that we're going to get uh for fun one for
projects so this is the revenue spreadsheet that we have to send to mde it then flows through to the second spreadsheet that mde has us compile so this is something that every District does it's the expenses broken down by category um and then spread out over the
10 years so you'll see that top section um probably a dozen lines or so are the expenditures that Seth um and Mark work together to put put out um put our plan together the green lines are the IAQ and the Deferred maintenance expenses so you'll
see those up above and then down below in fund six so that's just what the green lines signify are those expenses tied directly to the projects um one thing that we did want to draw your attention to is the maroon lines sort of off to the right hand side so um one
thing that that Seth really wanted to to talk about is um Roofing projects so we have quite a number of our roofs that or segments of our roofs that have to be replaced in the next 10 years um and currently right now you have to use your
$380 to cover those expenses or $380 per pupil um and something that we're really pushing at the capital is to either a receive more than the $380 per pupil because the dollar amount hasn't changed in a number of years and or B um you would receive additional dollars or the
above and the Beyond similar to like our I our I AQ project um and roofs would fall under that as well so it's something that they're really trying to push at the capital we're hoping that before we get to having to replace some of those larger roofs that that is put
into place but if it's not um we might have some issues on our hand so that's we wanted this we we talked at length with mde about it to get their feedback on submitting this because um if we submit it as planned if we don't get additional dollars um if they don't make
changes to the current funding formula we would have quite a negative fund balance in our ltfm uh fund and so this is something that we really want to push because we do have roofs that will need to be replaced yep so in the history of the
roofs have they've never done them all at once they've always always done them in sections every year one or two section comes up and that's just the way it's been set up and you can see in starting back in 2030 is we're going to start seeing some of them sections come
around again to the best of my knowledge the history that I have the roofs have been pushed back for quite a few years already and it's getting to the point where at in the near future we're going to have to address there isn't going to be any way around that and that's why
you're looking at you know large sums in the ltfm it's in there um I had a when did we have our meeting Wednesday something like that after we had our meeting I was on the phone with one of our state representatives and uh Sam WTH
about this problem so the last two years I've had the opportunity about four times to testify in front of the state senate on how things need to change that $380 per pupil has been that way over a decade almost two when they first in
first came out with the debt Equalization that was the fund that they had it has not changed since then you have inflation uh enrolling declining enrollment and just stuff when Co hit for an example all the materials
jumped a minimum of 30% that was never accounted for so we pushed that two years ago and that one didn't go through didn't pass last year we went in front of like take your roofs the Project's roofs parking lot sidewalks all of that
comes out of your ltfm and they are very high very high dollar things so what we tried doing is pushing through why don't you take those out of ltfm open them up for levying and that would definitely decrease the amount of ltfm the money
that's needed in there that one failed by one vote so after this meeting we had we're starting again this year we're pushing both we're going Full Steam on this because something's got to change we are not the only school that has um
in the next 10 years we're going to have a huge deficit in ltfm there's many many schools that that's happening to right now they're already in critical shape I feel fortunate we're not there yet but it it is a Statewide thing it's not here
it's just something that we have to work work to get changed no so we're looking at that and these numbers are real and that's the sad part that this is reality what's going to happen in the next 10 years so I will share too that both with
the business committee and with MD um we talked about the possibility of pushing some of those projects back to keep our fund balance more positive but a that is not realistic at least for what we're anticipating for expenses and B submitting something like this because it's a public document it helps our
legislators see the predict that we would be in if they don't pass some of this funding um so they actually pushed for us to submit it as we have it but of course it would be a decision that you have to make if you would want to approve it as it is so I have a question first off thank
thank you cuz every time I hear this like it starts to make more sense and I appreciate that but theoretically speaking let's say it just doesn't change can we do that can you go negative 1 million in your ltfm they will allow you your realfm can
be negative yes um the her exact words are that they don't like to approve plans that have chronic deficits seems kind of chronic yeah we we had been negative there was a roof
done 2018 2019 yeah maybe around that area and it did go negative since then we've been trying to pay that up and so that's how we got where we are now and then the the cycle
would kind of repeat itself when those roofs came to again I suppose because it would probably go like this like we go down and then eventually it would kind of maybe inch up maybe closer to zero again and then it would okay but we really can do that okay so what are we
looking at for like I don't know any Nuance tradeoffs if we were to approve it consider this or if you're not going to approve it consider this well you know if you don't approve it then we have to go back and have to
look at what can we push back what can we take out what can we move back to get it outside that 10 year frame that's not always a good idea because if you take it out what happens if it two years you have an issue but
it's out of your pushed out how do you get the money or how do you sell that saying well you pushed it back why do you need it now that's one of the issues that some of the schools are going through um there's seven schools in Minnesota right now that cannot get
insurance because they couldn't afford their ltfm kept pushing their roofs back kept pushing them back they're in such disrepair that they cannot get insurance on those buildings without insurance on the buildings and cannot open those buildings so it's a real dilemma that they're
facing and the way things are going with the financing for schools right now that might be a near future which I'm hoping not yeah sounds to me like this is a real good opportunity for legislative ad advocacy we got five
years to fix this yes ma'am we're not the only ones in uh the number of schools that would be in this situation should be listened to so y next year that's why we started that conversation already and I and if it helps them to to
see it as it is yes I'm good with that yeah that was a recommendation from Sarah um from Sam and from Bianca is next year the the budget year for that it is yeah so
I'm of the opinion that we approve it as presented if we do that and we don't get any correction from the legislature you have to approve this plan the next year which gives you an opportunity to
push things back if you need to but um I'd happen to be in Seth's office looking at bills while he's on the phone sometimes and uh they're working very
hard to to um try and correct the situation and he is working uh well with Roofing Consultants also so they they're doing a lot of studies so if they feel that they have
to be done in that time frame I think they'll have to be done in that time frame and it does I mean if we have a bu cycle next year at the legislature and then two years from that we we have opportunities to really push this so
that it doesn't become our deficit yep that's what we have to do get our community behind us could also give msba the support need to to get it on their agenda Mr Vice chair sir the business
committee went over this in in really a fair amount of depth uh the uh if you just look through the categories there isn't luxury items there there things that are essential that need to be done and completed much like your own house and roofs are expensive and nobody has a
house of quite as many square feet a roof as the school district U but anyway it's something that we need to deal with approve annually and recognizing there are concerns down the road but at this point I would encourage approval of it uh that may need to be addressed in the future
but at this point that's the best information we have you have any more or can I make well just as a side notes then the last attachment is what they use to budget for their projects so I won't go over that in depth but it's just for your information um it's the different categories and then broken down by
building for the projects that they'll do plan to do in each building over the next 10 years so that's if you ever wanted to know where some of these numbers came from it's from that larger packet super excited exced to see tuck pointing happening at all the schools love tuck
pointing we just had it done itself and it wasn't cheap it's always cheaper than we bu it's always yes always always always well Seth thanks for and um Megan thanks for being on top of it but for
being on top of the legislative part of it too that you take the time to figure that out because that is very important important for us so then and we'll consider a motion I would move the resolution to uh approve a 10year long terms long-term facilities
maintenance Revenue plan okay 26 do we have a second second very good any discussion or further discussion just again thanks Megan getting this to us so nice and early it's not early it has to be
approved this point we have a motion on the floor um all those in favor we say I resolu oh it is a resolution now we're back thank you one all right resolution will be going around the table thank you for helping me catch
that we'll start on my left Mr R hi I I I I very good unanimous the resolution passes thank you Megan gets to stay we are now considering another
resolution U approving the sale of the district's General Obligations offs this Michael hoisel has joined us from be yes thank you you might remember Matt Rano was here
last time must have scared him off he's not coming back yeah M no uh well he's got a young family and we gave him the night off uh but I'm I'm not in I'm not in North Dakota I'm not in the hospital
I'm down here so that's a good thing oh the first one was a little bit of emergency surgery after my son graduated from high school nice in Still Water uh I looked like this at graduation ceremony and then my kids told me dad
you're look yellow maybe you should think about going in oh 9:00 at night and I said I'll be fine and uh 5:30 in the morning I woke up and said yeah I'm going in and 3:00 I was all better so it was a good it was good to get my
gallbladder out so um in uh congratulations on passing the ltfm uh I'd love to hear perspectives uh because uh behind the scenes I worked on the legislation uh that was uh talked about in order to
take a few more buckets and say hey if you're going to keep us at 380 bucks per pupil um let's keep that to carpeting walls whatever we talked about we talked about uh building envelope uh with uh
with MD staff pushing and we talked specifically r Paving sidewalks and we had tuck putting in originally and that one got thrown out uh right away when the legis when legislation was being written for it really um that one was
tossed immediately and so that was sad that if we can keep the elements out of your building that 380 bucks is going to go a lot longer and the impetus for that was that what is the right number for schools well it's so hard per pupil to
find out because as we're declining in pupils those dollars per pupil are you're getting less each year and you even though uh people are patting themselves on the back that they're giving you more funding and it's not happening because you have less students
generating those funds so just uh keep up the good fight and uh uh I know MSB is in your back msba is in your backyard and uh keep pushing them so this is your third ltfm plan that's been approved while I've been on watch in the last year
because you had to do an intermediate one and that intermediate one is on the single piece of paper that we shared with that should be uh on the side of your packet uh so uh to begin anytime we bring anytime we bring you into the
market there's a number of things to bring you into the National Market one of those things was trying to coordinate a rating call with standard and pors and between administrator schedules and getting information now we chose that uh
we chose to uh do or bill was on out of the office so he had to pre-write his answers and he did an outstanding job and Megan was the other person along with a couple of my co-workers Matt being one of them in the rating call and
she I just want to say she did both of them did an outstanding job in their roles uh there were two questions we couldn't answer a few questions we couldn't answer during that phone call uh bill got right back to the rating agency and uh we thought we were going to have to postpone the sale and uh we were able
to keep it uh they actually got us the rating two days before we thought we were going to get it so uh thank you Bill for responding over the weekend and getting information so um you have a AAA credit enhanced with a A+ underlying um
keep in mind that they threatened on the phone call they thought that you were right for a downgrade that downgrade was based on where your budget deficit has beened and what Megan did was turn the tide on that and say yes but here's how
we see this budget folding out over the next couple years here's where we think the kid Count's going to be and by moving this and this and this making budget adjustments like you all know you have done um they like to see that you're zero based budgeting and that
held the rating and that held a lot of people in uh with the A+ underlying we still had a couple of the big insurance compan companies uh pass on uh on our national desk so that makes a difference if we were to get it one more jump on
number of people that were interested in your paper uh but we had uh I believe at one point in time we were 4.6 times over subscribed on on uh I think there were seven or eight maturities if I remember correctly that we wrote so we took bids
on the whole 34 or we took an hour and a half pricing on the whole $34 m290 th000 package um remember that's made up three components down the down the bottom left hand side it's got the voter approved amount the indoor air quality amount and the regular deferred maintenance all
wrapped into that 34 m290 I'll draw your attention to the interest rate in the middle that tic that's true interest cost uh that's your mortgage rate as we've talked about uh on the referendum piece of this we went out with a 5% 4.98 was what we projected to the Department
of Education and I think it seems light years ago since we did that I think it was December when we put that document in front of you all and uh the market held and we were able to get a 4.14% um that's a difference of
$2,483 th000 Less in interest than we projected paying on this 34 million 290 so congratulations in turn um we not only look at at trying to come in better on in Investments but we you don't get to do this all the time you don't get to
go to market so if you draw your attention to the lower right hand corner uh in those three buckets of money uh we also raised an additional $1,941 th000 now if you think of the roof discussion you just had in the regular
deferred maintenance items that'll give you uh right now depending on how you buckets of money uh Pat over and his crew at ICS are going to come back to you depending on how they can maneuver those buckets of money and then invoice them we think
that's going to give you at least $193,000 to the Deferred maintenance bucket which could be an additional roof patch or a part of a roof patch or what have you whatever you decided to do with those dollars um the other thing is in
these numbers and I'll have to grab Megan after this agenda item when she's done with her grouping um you're going to turn around and get these funds in the middle of August and uh uh I even have the date that you're going to get that Meg you know that off the top of
your head August 13th August 13th you're going to get the full all these funds and then Meg and district will turn around and invest those proceeds none of those Investments are accounted for here right so if you open up the walls
and something gets you have a change order investment earnings or this dollar amount or a project differentiation that hey we think this should be done instead of this you have the opportunity to make those changes that time so with that I'll entertain any
other questions to otherwise uh what you're looking at is basically what I call a ratifying resolution uh awarding basically awarding the bonds uh to be uh L and further Debt Service levies to be
put on your taxpayers uh until they expire uh I think another question I that that came from a board member was all bonds callable after 2031 and with that that would leave us
that makes eligible 28,9 30,000 of this 34290 eligible for refinancing so even though we thought we were at five we're at four if we get rates in those threes or twos this will be a you you will be able to refinance it and further save
taxpayers down the road now any questions okay wow right there at the end you said something about we're not going out and buying the bonds right away so if we open up the walls and see something else can you just repeat that whole statement so so
uh let's say you it's the old high school because it's a middle school project so one of the projects you were doing off the top of my head uh was redoing the last up at up at the top third floor okay so you open up that wall whatever you were
going to do and all a sudden something sticks out and says uhoh we got to regroup and redraw or we need to do something else to repair this or make this the flexible learning spot that we thought we would let's say that costs an extra 100 or 200
Grand if investment earnings could cover that so don't be don't be alarmed we have room to make to fund surprises so to speak okay okay I thought you were talking about the timing of the Investments
versus the opening of the walls and I'm like we're not opening any walls before August 13th that's where I was I I was just not understanding that part but okay now I'm with you okay this sounds like you you really are
golden right now this looks good I am that r with with the high interest rates yeah you know we did a lot of analysis for two months on whether or not we should only sell a portion of these bonds what we were
looking at draw down schedules with IRS Rags what have you a lot of discussions with Pat Uh calling him in a truck going across uh Central United States and he said well I still think we can you know
we they gave us a draw down schedule for three years I believe ic's intent is still to try to get it as close to two years as possible to for the construction if they can fit it in and so those have different connotations about how much money you
can keep of your investment earings and so they can kind of in working and working through it we said no let's lock it in we think interest rates are going to come down a little bit but what we're seeing right now is a flattening of the Y curve where we've got like 5.3% Treasures up front in the first six
months to a year and we're looking at 4 I think it was 4.4 when I left the office St on the 30-year treasury so our yield curves kind of going like this I anticipate that we're going to see a balancing point I don't know where this is going to go I don't think anybody
knows what interest rates are I think they're going to C interest rates before the election at least once or around the election how that fits into the balancing of this so that was the impetus to say hey if we can be in a
lower Supply time right now let's get let's get 34 million to the market let's let's see what we can get and uh uh I think Matt showed you 415 416 when he was when he was down and uh uh and 1.8
million versus 1,941 so uh we thought we thought that was the right balancing act for the taxpayers and the district well we're doing we're doing what we're we can with the taxpayer dollars and that's what we want to do
yeah I I I am Tickle Pink I could bring this to other other boards or turn it around tomorrow and do it again with you I would be Tickle Pink we can say thank you to the taxpayers who supported the reference for certain yeah we ask one quick question relative
to the Arbitrage rebate as you indicated the proceeds will be available of August 13th obviously there'll be interest that URS on that or income and the U that's a I guess it's on page 14 of your packet
uh section 7.03 is that paid back to the state what kind of a timeline is that uh you have you have three so it's it's not a state regulation it's a a Federal
Regulation and we put in the document that you're looking at that we assume the district will will be able to make a uh construction draw down schedule if they get near the two years if you can't you are eligible to earn at least
3.68% on your money so what would happen is if we earned 3.68 on uh uh 35 million 230 oh that's not going to work 0368 I should have had this one and
figured out 35 million 239 7971 that would give you an extra $1.2 million okay million 267 that you could keep you might earn $2 million at
5% you guaranteed to keep the 368 and that's all rebatable to the FED not the state at all depending on how it works out yes you may have to send that to the feder government that extra 1.2 million difference or whatever the difference between the two and the 1.2 in that example sure okay thank you well
we will work with Megan to make sure that she's got a handle on that and depending on who you do your Investments with they will track that on your behalf and I will Shadow it thank
you um we the last one I wonder if we should last resolution yeah um I'll move approval of the resolution and
um you like me to read it yeah please yeah if you got like exactly resol of the school board of Independent School District 508 uh St Peter Public Schools Minnesota approving the sale of the district's General obligation bonds to the
purchaser thereof determining the form and details of such bonds authorizing the execution delivery and registration of such bonds providing for the payment of and the security for such bonds and authorizing and ratifying certain other
documents and actions in connection therewith very good I move the resolution as read okay thank you I'll second second very good do we have any discussion just to reate that was
appears to be a very good job of taking that the market thank you excellent thank you very much all right we will do call votes I'll start with my left here Mr I I I I I all right nice have
it all those in favor say I those oppos yes we did that sorry I'm already two steps ahead of myself yeah we're good we get to do one more resolution is approved thank you very much guys thank you thank you Michael all right next on agenda the consider of resolution of approving the
sale of the district's don't we that consider resolution authoriz uring the superintendent to be our iwa for St Peter Public Schools I feel like we just did this but was that having Kimberly be the assistant I right yep exactly she was
the Iowa proxy and so once once a year uh we are required to identify the identified official with authority this is is attached to really all of the
data banks for the state and who has authority to enter that information or to be an administer administrator of that data for the district and so uh
that is myself with Kimberly as a proxy each year we go in we looked at um all of the people who have the authority to enter data into those systems and we make sure that the correct people have
been identified and when someone moves on we take them off put the new person in so um that's what that's all about this is a resolution this is a
resolution do we have that uh I think you can just read the recommendation uh the resolution is uh the recommend recommendation is that the school board pass a resolution authorizing superintendent Bill gret to
act as the identified official with authority for the St Peter Public Schools I so move I'll second second okay very good this is a resolution quick question if I may yes please we officially approve
Kimberly last time as the alternate or should she be part of this as well is identified as the proxy um so on the what's included here though there's only a spot for you on page well it says a 92 on the
bottom of my page right so you identify me as Iowa and then I identify Kimberly as a proxy oh it's just not on here yeah okay uh further discussions very good call for my left I
I I I I very good resolution passes thank you just a little bit more on that so each year I have to approve everyone but I can't approve myself so that's why the school board approves Mone ah that makes
sense no next up um we consider approval of tenure action of probationary teachers and uh I do want to point out that um Mr cout director cout pointed
out that this is technically as of July 1st because that's the date at which people would need to be um non-renewed if they were going to be uh it says August 19th because that's
the first date they are on contract for this year but technically there's this period between July 1 and the first day of the contract that we technically couldn't non-renew them but they're not
fully tenured yet either but anyway um so what is the right date July 1st or August 19th technically it's August 19th the first day of their fourth contract so we have uh one two three
four five six seven teachers who are earning their tenure status this year that means that they have successfully completed either three years with us if they have not been tenured in another District or one year with us if they
have previously been tenured in another district and I'm not sure which is which on this list so that doesn't change anything with like their contract or anything like that like their contract still
starts July 1 um it receiving tenure gives them more rights to the position through contract language in the first three years which are or one year if they're if they've been tendered in another District um they can be
non-renewed without giving a reason um if they are tenured uh you they can't be non-renewed without reason um they are still subject to contract language if we
were laying off people so they would instead of being non-renewed they would be on an unrequested leave of absence and have rights to a job if it opened again so that's the turning point of tenure basically probationary teachers are
non-renewed and if you have a disciplinary issue with a 10e person you don't non-renew and terminate and there are rights that go through um as far as hearings and so for
can your teachers enter onto the senority list all all the benefits to that y I was just trying to figure out the time between July 1 in August 19th like it's no yeah well congratulations to these seven
individuals that's they've had a couple years where I'm sure they were all holding their breath and so congratulations you guys made it really honestly I mean that's awesome do we need a motion I move to accept the list as presented for
um 10 your action second ladies first we have a motion in a second do we have any further discussion left or right okay very good I'll that I'll call for a vote all those in favor please say I I I oppos same
sign very good resolution pass sorry those no yeah yeah right we're done with resolutions um next up thank you the consider approval of the social studies curriculum purchase thank you Dr gra yes thank you
Dr gra yeah so I'll speak to this uh while Annette is I'm sure enjoying her time overseas um but uh the high school will be uh engaging a new concurrent offering through a partnership with MSU Mano um
it's a social studies course and to run that course there's a required text that required text is called Give me liberty uh and there's a cost to that text of $3,090 so we're recommending that the board approves uh that
purchase so is this kind of like a college within the schools course yes yes so who's teaching I do not know that answer I thought I knew the answer but I'm not sure so I'm not going
to say the wrong is this replacing AP American history yet I don't know that answer def definitively I from what I saw of the curriculum it is an AP like or it's an
AP credit I believe it's a second right yeah Mr rce shair yes sir to formally get this on the floor I will uh move that we approve the uh social studies curriculum purchase very good got a motion to approve we have a second I
second then I do have a question if I may yes please U Dr G just a curious um you had the request from the middle school and Mrs linger did from the high school will the course be offered both middle and high school this is this course yes just a high school level
course okay y I'm just here uh representing the net okay yeah in the the uh in the packet there was a uh document that indicated that was a presentation and I guess that's what you're doing okay thank you filling in
there you go I was the impressive fifth graders could take a a college in class they're pretty Advanced but I don't know if we're there yet give us a couple years I know you hav on the fast track that's right um just out of curiosity so we don't normally approve like every
textbook we order do we MH we do yep okay I just don't ever remember approving a textbook so it typically comes through okay typically comes through during the curricular review process but because this is off of that cycle that's why it's coming to now
okay last year we purchased some eel materials but it had come um as part of the recommendations we're all in the media center and we had all the teachers presenting what their recommendations
were well who's the publisher of this then I guess maybe I should um do we know I mean I know that's probably a silly question and I probably should ask it sooner but I'm just curious this is an MSU course or college
and school right I correct yes it is and I would need to I looked it up online and it's uh it's like a four and a half five star I looked at the review of it online as well and it's an AP level course so I know I'm just worried that
I'm approving some textbook that I'm going to regret approving but I'm going to just give me liberty and give me peace on this generally with these partnership courses it isn't our staff who are
selecting the books it's the college so I can it's really just a formality really is what we're doing here tonight we just have to purchase them it's just a formality I mean we don't really have it's just a formality you know I mean
theoretically it could be an MSU Professor who wrote that yeah sure it would be a ethics thing or something so I mean Tracy that's I think good concern
well I know I just and you can always obstain if you are uncomfortable well I I feel like I should have probably done more due diligence on it than I did so I guess I feel like in that sense that I
didn't do my part in thinking it through more so um I just Revisited it it's uh by Eric foner who I don't believe is an MSU Professor so and it it is reviewed and so on um
various birth book purchasing sites well I'm just probably gonna abstain only because I didn't review it um look at it and I promise I'll do better for the next meeting if we're doing things like that and I apologize for not and I really honestly have no excuse no that's fair so I'm
sorry sorry Mr grat any further discussion in essence if that's the course textbook that's required if we're going to offer the course we have option it's just a formality yep we don't have
the Liberty to goad question I'm not going to abstain I'm voting because abstaining is abstaining and I'm not going to abstain I'm going to vote very good okay thank you uh any
further discussion anything else all right with that we'll call a vote all those in favor please say I I I those opposed same sign very good we have a pass action thank you Mr
graph what's our Dr graph I am so sorry we'll get that I know I know um one last action item that information it oh information sorry I was like we made a mistake so informational items today we're
talking about the changes to the 2425 school day start and end times high school and the middle school yes uh the education committee was also presented with this information there's no change to our preschool uh K
ready south or north schedules those are the same as they were but I wanted to include them in this report just so people would see that there was no change there um with the middle and high school we are making some changes to the
school day it's really was motivated by the middle school schedule the middle school had the longest school day of all of the schools and it was really based on our transportation model and um
because we used the middle school as a hub they were the uh really the first dropped off or the the last to be picked up um after they gone to the all the other schools the
effect was um Dr graph really had no time left to bring teams together to have staff meetings together for those IEP meetings that are trying to be scheduled because we would run out of contract day because of where the school
day was falling within those hours so we got together with Saints bus and the other principls really tried to work on how we could make some adjustments to allow for their teams to have some time during the contract day for those
important meetings and uh working with Chris laclair on um how many minutes of instruction are in each day uh we were able to identify five minutes during the Middle School lunchtime that could be
really counted as part of the instructional day so although the time shift is 20 minutes for the Middle School the actual realized difference is 15 minutes um given a start time of 8:25
and an end time of 3:10 p.m. at the middle school and then at the high school 8:15 to 305 uh I'll it still keeps all of our schools within the required um time
requirements um with enough left over for that traditional snow day and even a couple of emergency days if needed so we still have cushion within that that time frame so we're looking forward to these
teams having a little more time to to come together and and do some work what is the teacher contract time our teachers report at 7:45 and are dismissed at 3:45 okay
and with the buses um leaving around 3:35 there just wasn't a lot of time to get together for our collaboration so I actually thought it was 7:30 to 3:30 so I was wondering how you were having school to 3:35 but obviously that was why because it was 7:45 to 345
so are we still in a situation where the buses stage through is it Lincoln Drive yeah and that's just a must because of it being the only space that we it's probably the
safest spot it's a clean line of sight super smooth Kids come out kids can transfer uh and we have about six staff members out there supervising On Any Given uh afternoon it's it's smooth um so as much of a as it gets tight with
the middle school schedule um it's the best spot okay I do want to commend the Middle School staff for doing that cuz I have been out there because they aren't just supervising the middle school I mean because there's kindergarteners getting out there in first graders and second
graders and I see like Middle School teachers like taking kindergarten their hands and so thank your staff for doing that because you know this I'm not blame self teachers but they're not hopping on the bus to take their kids so it's all really falling on the Middle School staff so I don't know I guess we've never given them a shout out and it
seems like now would be the perfect time to do that so because that is a a big undertaking because it is organized chaos only for the first few days like day three think you're getting pretty smooth mean there's a random Sho langing
out there sometimes and it's like heyo who gets this shoe any further questions comments before we move on okay our building
principal just the one love to see up here again he's the only one working this summer getting my steps in here we go all right so uh summer months uh they're kind of Bittersweet for a principal uh bitter in the fact that like a guy like me can't sit still and I
need people in my life and there's not really anybody at school uh and I have to sit in my office so that's the bitter part but the sweet part is there's a lot of downtime and downtime that big list of to-dos that you can't do during the school year gets done uh so some of the things that I'm working on right now just kind of to give you guys an idea of
what we all do in the Summers uh a lot of scheduling uh working on emergency action plans this week student handbooks curriculum work uh and hiring so those are the big things on the list right now um also going on right now which makes me not so lonly during the the morning
part of the day is we do have k through eight targeted services and extended school year going on um that started on August I'm sorry July 8th and will'll go all the way through August 1st Monday through Thursday about 8 to noon uh for our schools K through four is at North 5
through 8 is at the Middle School uh in those numbers we have 51 students that were serving at the middle school and 155 students that they're serving at North Elementary um with those start and end times I just want to speak a little bit more to that uh it's going to be I think
a game changer for the Middle School um our entire philosophy is built on collaboration with our house uh model and we just didn't really have time to get together to have the conversation that we need to about curriculum or about student needs uh so this will really help with that uh preliminarily
we plan on having a weekly staff meeting uh every Wednesday to just make sure that we're on top of our game uh next uh the men the middle uh oversight committee has met now for the second time this is new for me uh it's very interesting to hear engineers and
designers talk um last meeting we talked about the design for the science room the stem lab the art room um kind of what the general classroom might look like we even got into some color schemes just a little uh preview not enough St Peter blue for me oh no so
working through that but it's a really cool project uh process and really excited to be a part of it and and really excited for what's coming coming down the road for us um in terms of hiring just an update for for me at the Middle School uh we're still searching for an art teacher we've had some interviews and trying to narrow down
candidates looking for a long-term English language learner so sub uh to fill in for Helena as she uh goes on her mity leave and of course uh we'll start interviewing PA professionals here in the next week or two and then lastly uh we will be welcoming our fifth graders
on August 1st and 2nd in our Jump Start program and then we're also hosting two new two District orientations on August 14th and 15th so we'll blink and the school year will'll be here for sure yeah any
questions how's your um maintenance in the building you know summer like how's it progressing yeah I mean it's a little more difficult I would think with all the kids that are
yeah so they they plan it out really well so we know ahead of time which rooms we're using for summer school and they make sure to get those taken care of first uh a little bit of an overlap with the media center this year we do have some summer school kids in there because it's a a good space kind of push them to the side to do the
carpet move them to the other side to do the other side of the carpet but it's progressing really really well um it's amazing to have Seth around Seth is is very well planned and it it's looking very very nice I just told him earlier I've never seen the floor on third floor look so shiny uh you walk in and it's
like wow it looks good so very excited very cool thank you oh yes one quick question has there been a real pleasant surprise R and an influx of a lot of new students um we haven't seen that yet end of end
of the school year we did we got a good influx of students uh that typically comes in August I think families are starting to make decisions about next year right around August and and we start to see those enrollments come in sure okay good but we haven't seen a l lead right not as of recent no we have
not so we don't usually hear about those yeah those that's what happens in a yeah thank you thank you all right my turn BR your turn yes I had it
on my list to speak to the the kudos to the maintenance Crews as well I too have been all around the middle school and I did note that the third floor I thought it was wet it was not it was just that
clean so I see that those crews are hard at work every day all around the school and I appreciate all that they're doing as we start to get ready for the fall there's something about that you know that right before
school starts and everything is shining and all the classrooms are clean it's just uh great to come back to so glad to see that is going and I also want to remind folks that reading is the number one way to avoid a summer learning slip
so I encourage families to read every single day get to that Library it's a great place to find reading materials and for activities and some contests that have going on um so read read
read very good thank you and uh we'll do what's around the table here the board members to my left Mr R U just to reiterate what Mr Grant as just said I I'm very involved with the friends of the library here in St
Peter tremendous resources available at the library and we encourage people just as you indicated take advantage of not only the books the periodicals but the programming that's available it is really outstanding and please utilize it to uh to benefit
everybody well I was also going to talk about the floors at the middle school because my husband my husband is a teacher and he commented about the floors being waxed so I was going to give a shout out to them so um and also I mean nothing like just getting floors waxed and having us all get excited
but yes they look good um Fourth of July fireworks out of community Spirit Park feedback on how that went for us here at the school was there any sort of like were the parking lots all pretty clean how did our citizens do how did they leave us I I think for the most part uh it it
went well I do know that edley was up on the school grounds like as the sun was coming up to make sure there wasn't anything left um that was one of the concerns that we had shared that there might be mess or damage and so he was um
making sure that it looked all good I think it was a good opportunity for us to be able to you know do that I'm glad the fireworks would be able to stay in town and it really didn't as long as our facilities weren't damaged which I don't know how driving cars in our parking lot would do that so I was glad that that
could happen so we have anything else but good job on the floor go do some more uh Mr count um one thing that's not on the upcoming meetings is our mediation
session Friday right so just hopefully say a little prayer for us that we can get our last agreement taken care of uh during the mediation session that would be nice to get everything around
that is not a public meeting so correct yes so does it have to be posted if it's not public probably wouldn't hurt to post it just it's on there uh C says it's there really it's the
bureau's meeting so I don't know if they're in charge of posting it or not very good thank you good case I just feel like we had a good meeting I feel like we got some good news out of this in some direction for our next 10e plan I think this is good thank you yeah very
good very good anything else to share all right thank you uh we've got some upcoming meeting meetings to uh to your attention July 19th this Friday we've got a negotiations uh meeting with one of
our office support groups yeah one of our groups um we got an education committee meeting coming up August 8th in the district office at 1 pm. and Wednesday August 14th business committee meets at 10:
a.m. on the district office we don't have our next regular board member or board is maybe I missed the last of paper very good policy committee meeting coming up August 14th at 4 P p.m. in the district office and our next regular
board meeting is Monday August 19th uh 6:30 right here in the governor's room at the community center we have a study board session schedu we we should have a so this I think the study session last
year was to go over the re your review that's what it was listed on the minutes for that meeting was your review and then there was um talk about the embed lease so when we had talked about it do
we have goals to go over we will later in August maybe I before the August meeting I think is what Charlie said in the note that he said yeah I so yeah the conversation was had that things were maybe a little bit behind last year that's why the special or the special
board meeting or study session happened a little bit later so this year maybe we're ahead that's why we were able to do it in July we'll work with Charlie to find a date for that study session but there will be
a study session coming up yes yeah I forgot to mention I won't be able to do it 10 the next round I thought you were going to see the study session in July I'm like it's not even scheduled yet but it's the one in August so I likely will be in the
same boat we'll see we'll get to that anything else to share why are there Nets in here I don't there are everys everywhere so City needs to all right I will I'll make a motion to
adjourn very good we have a second second any discussion was a NE I got it thank you all those in favor please say I I and POS same sign motion passes meeting is a jour