Oh, all right. Good evening, uh, and welcome to the meeting of the St. Peter School Board. It is Wednesday, July 16th, 2025. We are in the governor's room at the community center. Uh, we will call the meeting to order. It is 5:02 p.m. First thing up is pledge of
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. First item up is to consider and adopt
the agenda which is before you in paper version and also online in the board book. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Yeah. So I think we'll add it as an yeah when we do around the table perhaps as aformational.
I think we wait. Well, because I don't think anyone would have had a chance to review it before now. Right. But we'll if you want to talk about it, that would be really helpful. Okay. Uh Kimberly, anyone want to speak? No.
There's a quiet quiet audience tonight. Oh, wait. Did we approve the agenda? No. Sorry. Any further discussion? All in favor signify by saying I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Sorry about that.
Uh now any consider consider any request to speak. None. None. Thank you. Uh we need to approve the consent agenda which is uh starting on page four in your packet. Mr. Chair, I move the approval of consent agenda. I'll second. We have a motion and a second. Any
discussion or any items we'd like to discuss from the consent agenda? Mr. Chair. Yeah. Just one thought in terms of the of the various staffing hires and people that are departing for one reason or another. Um would it be helpful to know what's a
replacement position or if it's a new hire relative to budget constraints and that kind of thing? 100 years ago when I was on the board, we did that. But I'm not sure if that's useful to anybody, but we found that helpful. Right. If a you know, individual A is
hired, is that a replacement for the prior person or is that a new position? Past practice, the memo would state that. So I can ensure that our team is doing that. Okay. Again, don't make it burdensome, but just a thought that may be helpful.
Okay. Thank you. And then would your wish be that we mention those in the meeting or just so it's that we're aware? Um I think just so it would show right to show on the list. Right. Pull out to speak to just so that it's on the list. Exactly. Okay. Exactly.
That is a fair request. Any other questions or comments about the consent agenda? We do have a motion in a second. I found the last bill today. So, so you're you finally got it through. It was only 92,000.
Small discussion. Discussion discussion. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed? Same sign. Motion carries. The consent agenda has been approved. Thank you. Uh we do not have a student spotlight or
student council report tonight because it's July. That brings us to our action items. The first item up is to consider acceptance of gifts, donations, and grants. Dr. Graph, uh there are no gifts, donations or
grants at this time for this month. I'll move the acceptance of the report. I think we have to do that. Motion in a second. Any discussion about the lack of gifts that we we need to get out there. Uh all those in favor.
Post. Same sign. Motion carries. Thank you. Next up, consider a resolution approving the 10-year LTFM revenue plan for fiscal year 27. Miss Gracia, welcome. Seth. Um, Seth is homesick, so I'm going
to try and win this by myself as best as I can. It'll be great. Um, so as a reminder, every year by July 31st, we have to approve a 10-year LTFM plan. Uh, the spreadsheet that is in board book is a two-page document. Uh, it's a
spreadsheet that MDE requires every district in the state to um complete and submit. So, LTFM is the dollars or the programming that we get to repair and maintain our building and facilities. Um, so it used
to be 10 years ago a couple different programs that they brought into one. So, health and safety and deferred maintenance um is now consolidated into LTFM. We receive $380 per pupil for this program. Um, and then it's adjusted for
the average age of our school buildings. So on an annual basis we receive between8 and $900,000 for in in LTFM revenue. Um our revenue is split roughly 50% aid in levy um in a regular year. So prior
to 26 it was about half and half aid and levy. If you look at this spreadsheet so like I said this is something that MDE asks us to put together and to submit to them. So the expense portion of this is broken up into multiple categories. So they have health and safety projects at
the top. Category one that are less than $100,000. Category two is health and safety projects over $100,000. So that's going to be our IAQ project at the middle school. Category three we don't have which is VPK andor single gender
bathrooms. Category four is accessibility. Again we don't use that one as well. And then category five is deferred maintenance. Um, so that's going to be a combination of projects that we have as well as the middle school project. So Seth has a 10-year plan. Um, it's split into each
of these different categories and then he has a section for each building. So he'll add this building needs sidewalks repaired in this year. This building needs a water heater in this year. Um, and continues to update that spreadsheet as we go. So that's where these expenditure numbers come from. When we
plug it into this spreadsheet, then he might have to shift around. we don't, you know, this year is looking particularly negative. We're going to move a project maybe back a few years or we could squeeze um some sidewalk cracks into this year. So, we're able to sort of fluctuate some of those projects as
as needed. Um so, then all of those expenditures roll down to the very bottom. So, if you'll see at the very bottom, it's going to be the fund balance piece of it. So, we have both one uh fund one and fund six. So, I'm going to start with fund six. It's a little bit easier. Um, fund six is our
building project fund. So that's going to be the middle school. If you'll see the very running down the very center of the page is fiscal year 25. So at the bottom for fund six, we started with a negative fund balance because we had a few expenses related to the middle school um that were incurred before the
bonds were sold. So we had a negative fund balance there. Um you'll see the $23 million are the bonds that we sold related just to IQ and deferred maintenance. So it's not the men the middle portion and then that very bottom line then is the expenditures that we
plan IQ and deferred maintenance for men for the middle school project. So you'll see as you move to the right um we have obviously no more revenue coming in because we sold only sold the bonds once but then we use up those those dollars year after year until the project is over after the three summers. So that's
fund six. Um and then if you move up to fund one this is going to be our everyday projects. So again, roofs, sidewalks, parking lots, electrical, plumbing, all of those things. Um, so 25 is based on our revised budget that was approved. So we started with a fund
balance of just under 300,000. We received aid and levy. We had expenditures of just over 800,000 and then we estimated we're going to end 25 with a fund balance of 311,000. Moving into 26, you'll notice, and this is the same as last year. If you
compared this 10-year plan to last year's tenure plan, they look very similar, if not almost identical. Um, you'll notice in 26 that when the revenue portion, we have um our levy amount goes up slightly, but all of the aid that we receive goes to offset the
bond payments that we have to make from for men in the middle um for for those bonds. Um, so while we still get that revenue, we don't get it to use like on our everyday projects. So,
um, and that was the same as the 10-year plan that we did last year. So, you'll notice then, um, we do have a negative fund balance at the end of 26. And as we move right, um, some things that I want to point out. So, it's the same structure, starting fund balance, the
levy dollars that we get, the expenses that we plan for, and then an ending fund balance. The big things, the key things are that um in fiscal year 29, we have just under $2 million of roofing projects. And then if you would turn to the second page, in fiscal year 32, we
have just over $2 million in roofing projects. Um so after 10 years, given this plan, we would have a negative $4 million fund balance. Um, now we have talked, um, Schwickerts came out and they had talked to Seth and they
gave us this plan to have all of those roofing projects in one year. We could move those. We could try and push those back as as much as we can. Um, but the expenses are still going to be there and at some point those roofs are going to have to be taken care of. the legislative um what happened this year
in the legislative action was that we can levy for those roofing projects um bond for them and then levy for them without voter approval. That's something that we'll have to consider down the road with the financial situation that we're in. We're just going to have to
look at all of those pieces um because at some point we will have to take care of those roofs and we're we're going to have to evaluate how we're going to how we're going to fund that. Um, but given the expenses as they are, this is the 10-year plan that was put together. It's a lot of words. Are there any
questions on this? Yeah. I mean, it's Do you know this is probably a Seth question? Sorry. No, but like it's a roof question, right? Like that's a big price tag. Like how how long can we reasonably push some of those out? You know, this says
2032. I know this is a Seth question. I apologize, but I'm just, you know, is there five more years you squeeze out of those or is it like, oh my gosh, 2032 if you don't do it then it's going to cost 10 million or Well, and I know that the um the roofs
are broken up into sections. So like if I if we looked at so this is the the plan that he has. Like if you looked at the middle school, it's broken up into 10 different sections. That's all of the sections at once. So we could do section A and leave nine sections for another
year. I mean there there is some room to do that. Um the only thing to to consider is that if we were to bond and levy, it has to be over $100,000. So we just have to we'd have to keep that in mind if that was the route we were to go. But if we were to break it apart, we
have that that option. I think all of the buildings are broken up into sections like that. I think you mentioned they get on top of like all our roofs kind of expiring at the same time because of the tornado. They all got put on at the same time or
I mean that just seems like a a lot of money for roofs. I thought in our business committee meeting he said 30 years. So yeah. Well that would be right then. Pretty close. Well obviously the high schools
right are different. Yeah. The other buildings. Megan if you know this I'm going to be really impressed. I'm not trying to be picky. Do you know about roughly the square feet of all the roughs in the district?
Off the top of my head, no. I could look it up for you, but I have a tape measure. Let's go. I'd be interested to convert that to acres because it's it's massive. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. What's that? This one. Obsessed.
It's not. We do have a square footage um agent square footage report that we submit every year. So it would be very easy to look up and tell you, but I don't know off the top. You would have known that. That would have been pretty impressive. And you could have told us said anything. You would have. That's an awesome thing.
Except it's on film. Roughly 35 square feet. Any other questions for that's a lot of numbers and very thoroughly laid out and job and it's something that can be revised every year.
Absolutely. Right. I appreciate seeing a 10-year plan of any sort. So, I'm happy to move to approve the uh oh move a resolution approving the 10year LCFM
revenue plan. I'll second. We have a motion and a second for the resolution. Any further discussion discussion discussion discussion this is a resolution so we do
do need to go around the table. Um, but this would be to approve a to pass and submit a 10-year facilities maintenance plan to the Minnesota Department of Education. And a reminder, it was reviewed by the business committee and is recommended for us to accept. So, we'll go around the table. Miss Razot
I, Mr. Russell, I Miss Stewie, I I I have it. Resolution has been approved. Thank you, Megan. And thank you, sir. Hope you feel better. Wherever you are, probably watching.
Agenda item number three under action items, consider a resolution authorizing the superintendent to be the identified official with authority for St. Peter Public Schools. This is a resolution. Uh we are required to do this on an annual basis
to annually designate in Iowa with official with authority. Um, the Iowa is responsible for authorizing, reviewing, and reertifying user access for their local education agency in accordance with the state of Minnesota enterprise identity and access management standard,
which states that all user access rights to Minnesota state systems must be reviewed and reertified at least annually. Um, so this would identify Dr. Graph as the Iowa and typically it is our superintendent who is the Iowa. Um, and
then one of the roles that uh is the Iowa has is then to identify a proxy who would remain Kimberly and has has been longstanding has been the an assistant to the superintendent. Mr. Chair, I will move the resolution. I'll second. We have a motion and a second. Any
discussion? Discussion. Discussion. Resolution. Oh, I'm sorry. specify a proxy. We we we didn't just believe so. Okay. Very good. I don't know. Double check that.
Yep. But that we approve the Iowa who then identifies the proxy as right. Yeah. Okay. So, we will double check. Yep. Sorry. We did talk about that beginning. Great. Well, she already is, right? She already currently is. The question
we didn't know is if we had to reertify annually the proxy. We have to reertify the Iowa but then that person designates but you designate the proxy. That's how we understand it. Yeah, I agree. So that's what we're doing now. And then if there's something different we can
when I send this in. Yeah. If we need to reertify Kimberly, we'll just do that at the next meeting. Right. Right. Or if you like I can uh modify the motion and imply that that includes Kimberly as our
designated surrogate. Do you want to do that or do you want to do it separately after it's shut? We don't need I think we're good to do it how we resolution says anything. So I think we're good the way that we're doing it.
All right. Um so we are at a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Hearing none, we'll proceed to vote. This is a resolution. We need to go around the table. Miss Rosbach, I rasel I. Miss Dwey I I I
I I. The resolution carries. Congratulations being official. I guess this isn't the thing, but it is one of the things. That Iowa thing shows up again and again. Yeah.
Yeah. Haunted. You might say Ken may have made fun of Iowa. Yeah. Previous meeting. In a very positive way. In a positive way. I was only slightly offended. Action item number four, consider
approval of community center lease for Rockbend relocation. Dr. Graph. Yeah. So, uh, for the past few months, we've been discussing a relocation of Rockbend. Rockbend is currently out at the MVED building. Um, it is mutually beneficial for Rockbend to move from the MBED building. Uh, beneficial for
embedded programming and beneficial for Rockbend. Um, we've been exploring various areas. Um and we have come to an agreement with the city of St. Peter to lease space here in the community center. Uh there are multiple benefits to that. Um the space is on the first
floor of this building. Uh the space is adequate uh for Rockben's needs. It is a large space that can be broken up into um multiple areas, maybe a work session, a teaching section, and so forth. Other benefits of leasing space here at the
community center is proximity to walking track, gym, park, library, all the amenities that the community center has. Um so I would recommend uh approving of this lease. Uh the space is 1,270 ft uh
at $12 per square foot. So uh that includes everything uh except internet and phone um which Gus assures me and Mr. Pky assures me is an easy thing. Todd's response was oh yeah Gus knows how to do
that and I said awesome. So I would definitely recommend the approval of the lease. What is the what does the move look like? you know, like how what's the So, we would be able to move in August
22nd. All of Rockben's stuff is still at the MVED building. Um, so we would mobilize our team um to get that over here in time for the school year. Are there any modifications that need to be made uh this year? Uh the modifications would
be um probably mounting a like an interactive monitor. And then there's discussion should this be our long-term space for Rockbund. Um there's discussion about potentially adding windows that would look into the hallway just to provide some extra light, some added supervision and then potentially
um a drop ceiling um similar to this just to help with some echoing. And then that would should that be the move um that would be added on to the cost of our lease. which we would discuss at okay this at the business committee and then at the full board. Gotcha.
Do we have any needs for putting up permanent walls or other structures inside that space? Not at this time. Um we've and Miss Engledinger and I have discussed temporary or movable walls. Um we have access to those at the middle school
that don't really get used but they're you know those dividers on wheels. trying to kind of try out the space, try it on for size and see how it see how it fits um before we make any construction decisions. I'm excited for that program to finally
have a more temporary permanent home, but more of a permanent home. I mean, because currently they were just in two rooms down there, right? So this will be a a nice place for them to be nice for embedded to have the
extra room too. So and the MVED program and the the Rockband program just serve different needs. Space between those two is is important. Um should the board approve this uh lease um confident that the next step would be the city council would then
also uh go through the process of approving as well. And then once both entities had approved then we would go forward. Now, I will say we there was discussion about other potential locations, but the idea of being in the community center around other people with access to
things that would benefit the education, including, you know, physical spaces, the library, just seeing other people around and interacting with other people was a was a bonus y this is more cost effective at our current time as well.
Cool. I move uh to approve the community center lease for Rockbend relocation. I'll second that. We have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Discussion. Discussion. Discussion.
Hearing none. We'll proceed to vote. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Has a new home. Next item up. Consider approval of amend the middle change order exceeding
$100,000. Dr. Graph. Uh so the board has approved a three tier change order process. Uh that process for approval uh zero to $50,000 just needs approval by the superintendent. Above 50,000 to 100,000 requires
superintendent and board chair. Anything over 100,000 requires the full board. Uh there has been a change order um that has come about uh due to the discovery or a discovery during demolition. Uh
when they were removing the original chalkboards from the classroom walls, they discovered that some of the walls did not have plaster behind the chalkboards. And what that equates to is big holes in the walls. Um so plaster, a
dent, clay tile that isn't supposed to be exposed. Um, and then back to plastering. Uh, so the the team and and Seth have have thought about all potential solutions and the best solution and the most cost-effective solution and the solution that will
allow us to keep on our timeline is to fur out the walls. Um, that was a new term for me. I'm learning a lot. Uh, fur out the walls and then put drywall over. Make them smooth, make them pretty. Um
the estimated cost is 122,000. Let me find that. 122,76810. Um and that is a strong estimate. That estimate is based on if every wall needed it and not every wall needs that.
So I would recommend the approval of the change order and this will not affect the timeline. We will still be on track. Okay, I'll move. I'll second.
Motion and a second. Further discussion. I do have a question. How many how many rooms does this affect? Um I Seth would have that number. I don't have the number. I do know that some rooms it's not. It doesn't affect at all. Yeah. Um and these are just the phase one
rooms of course right now. Um some rooms it's one wall, some rooms it's two walls, some rooms it's all three of the exposed walls. Um So, it just varies by room. Okay. So many questions for the people who built the building. I know. I want to say I want to say so many things like we're putting that
saving do you think to not build a wall? I mean then they had to cut all those angles to like build around that chalkboard. It just anyway any further discussion? I have a lot of discussion there. Discussion discussion discussion.
Hearing none, we'll proceed to vote. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Oppos. Same signs. Motion carries. Those walls fixed. Item number six, consider policies for
approval with a rare third reading. Bring it back again. Uh so if you remember last board meeting, uh policy 610 came in front of you uh for a final reading. Uh and Mr. cow had some great questions uh about
the policy really regarding trips not sponsored by the school district. Um asked some great questions which generated some discussion and we just didn't feel like we were in a spot to be able to answer those questions. Um so we took it back to the policy committee meeting last week. Um and we feel that
we have that hashed out and policy committee please feel free to step in. Um but we what we really talked about is the section D trips not sponsored by the school district. We feel that that section really is in place for the school district to be able to say
this is what happens when it's not our field trip. It's just a protection for the school district. I think what we tried to do at the last meeting was think about a field trip that would fit that category and we couldn't because every field trip we could think about was school sponsored.
So this would be math teacher outside of school time, outside of her their role as as a math teacher organizes a trip, school employee, possibly some students going on it, but the school district has nothing to do with it. So this policy
spells out the school district is not liable for any of that. And we felt that the language indeed that talks about the non school sponsor is very basically kind of parenthetical which says the school district is not responsible for reliability or has no
responsibility and no liability for those type and so we didn't we didn't uh see a need to change any of the other language that the language stands the rest of the document is talking about school sponsor the one if I may interject the the one
space in the in that section that we did adjust was we removed the words booster organizations um because the the section reads that they could be entirely um sponsored by booster
organizations and for St. Peter that felt confusing because of our booster club that would be school sponsored. So we removed that to take out any confusion. The rest of it stood. So what did we decide then the with
particularly the summer like sports camps and trips and things that happen with coaches and so are they or are they not covered or is the school liable for any of that? So once again, policy
committee, please step in. Um that that would be a school sponsored activity. The boys basketball team was just in Duth. Yeah, I got back last night from that and that was school sponsored part of their I mean coaches were leading the trip. Okay. Responsible for transport. Coaches were
responsible for transportation vehicle. Okay. Okay. So where does trap shooting fall into the description? That's a great question. Um, trap shooting I believe and and I will get
clarification for the team. Um, I believe would fall under the school sponsored activity. Certainly very popular. But it is a school sponsored activity even if it's not a state high school league sponsored, right? Because it's not currently state high school. I don't believe so.
No, but it's school sponsored. And so associated activities with that would be then therefore school I think the high schooling endorses it but doesn't Yeah endorsed legal terminology. Yeah. Right. I mean that's like the most bizarre
passes theoretical conflicts. Sure. Okay. I would move that we uh Uh, accept policy 610. Motion and a second to approve policy
610. Any further discussion? Thanks for your additional work on that policy committee. We had a good discussion. Yeah, we did. And thanks for the input from board members with your questions. No further discussion. All those in
favor signify by saying I I oppos same sign. Motion carries. Policy 610 has been approved. Thank you. Item number seven, consider policies for approval with a second reading. Dr. Graph. So policy 417 is up uh for its
second reading. This is the chemical use and abuse policy. Um this provides schools with guidance on how to reach its goal of preventing chemical abuse uh within its schools. This policy was basically the
modifications necessary to match the standards and the Minnesota um schoolboard association recommendation. So entertain a motion to approve. I'll make that motion. Second.
Motion in a second. Any discussion? Discussion discussion. Hearing none, we'll proceed to vote. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Policy 417 has been approved.
And last up with policies. Consider policies for approval with a single reading. Dr. Graph. Uh so the policy committee uh brought forth three policies uh to pass with a single approval. Um we have the ability to do that if policies have minimal uh or just
you know small changes. Uh and policy 423 employee student relationships. It outlines just some guidelines for how employees and students relationship should look. Um there are only changes to the legal references in the back of that policy. Policy 424
license status. Uh it outlines uh the school's responsibility or the district's responsibility to ensure that its staff is licensed. Um changes to legal references only compared to our our current policy. And then lastly, policy 427, workload limits for certain
special education teachers. Um that policy outlines that workload limits for special education teachers u is a managerial right. uh and that the union and or or sorry the district and teachers will work to set those
standards uh and that there are no changes from our current policy. Uh so the policy committee um recommends those being passed with a single reading. Mr. Chair, I move the approval of the three policies as commissioned.
A second. Have a motion and a second. Any discussion, Mr. C? Um, are these kind of rotating or are these annual required approvals? Great question. So, these uh are part of
our three-year review. Okay. Up next, um, we've just completed this. This will be the end of the 400s. So, up next for the policy committee will be the annual, the ones that are required annually, and then any that are required, um, to be changed or reviewed
due to legislative changes. And then once those are done, then we'll move into the 500s, uh, which starts that three-year review cycle again. A lot of excitement to wrap up the 400s here. Yeah, we have a motion in a second. Any further discussion?
Well, the reason I wondered is why you would be approving one that has no changes. Yeah, it's part of the part of the cycle. All right, we will Any further discussion? Did we have a motion? I think
we do. We have a motion to second discussion. All those in favor signify by saying I. I oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. We've approved policy 423, 424, and 427. Thank you. Thus ends the action items uh in
ourformational items. Item number one, emergency action plan update standard response protocol. Dr. All right. So for a number of months uh the safety and security team um which is made up of administration uh and and a
few others in the district has been talking about adopting standard response protocol. Uh standard response protocol is a pro an emergency response protocol uh that has five procedures uh in your packet. I'd like to have you take a look
at this document if you have it in front of you. This document outlines the five procedures. Those five procedures are hold, secure, lock down, evacuate, and shelter. So what the standard response protocol does, it's in the name is it
standardizes our response in emergency situations. Um many emergency management organizations around the state, school districts and so forth have adopted standard response protocol because just that it standardizes the way we respond.
It standardizes our signage. It standardizes our training. standardizes um just our our response to multiple types of emergencies with five different actions. Um so we'll just briefly go through those um just so that you have
an idea and then we'll talk about next steps and and see if you have any questions. So procedure number one is a hold. Currently we call that a dock lock in the district. Uh a hold is anytime that we would need to keep students in
the classroom. So most often maybe a student is injured in the hallway, maybe a student falls and twists their ankle and we decide that we need an ambulance to come to assist that student. We would call a dock lock now that keeps students in their classrooms uh to protect the privacy of that student and to allow
emergency staff um to do their thing without kids around. We would now call that a hold. And we would call a hold for many reasons. Maybe somebody gets sick in the hallway. Uh maybe there's a fight in the hallway. Maybe there's a rabid raccoon in the hallway. All of these things uh we would call a hold.
And in the training, kids would It wouldn't be a rabbid raccoon. That That doesn't happen. That was a joke. Thank you. Seth would never let that. It's a little stuffy in here. Just kidding. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Um but from,
you know, kindergarten on, kids would know what that picture looks like. they'd know what a hold is and they'd know exactly what to do and we would call that over the intercom and the response would be the same or the the the message would be the same. That's what's standard about it. The next one
is a secure. A secure is when there something going on outside. We would call this a soft lockdown right now. We would make sure that kids didn't go out for recess during that time. Uh we'd have doors locked, pees would come inside. Um that would be if there's a
threat outside of the building. A lockdown is when there's a threat inside of the building. We would call that kids would go into their classroom. The saying is locks, lights, out of sight. We're familiar with lockdowns. We're required to practice five lockdowns per school year. The next one's evacuate. We
would use that in situations such as a fire where we'd need to leave the the building. And the last one is shelter. Here in Minnesota, that would be a tornado scenario. Um we feel strongly or or we we discussed at our May meeting uh that we would like
to move forward with adoption and that would come in front of the board for official approval with our emergency action plans next month. Are there any questions about standard response protocol?
So will these like be posted in each room? Yep. We have signage around the building. Um, all of the signage, all of the training, it's free. Uh, this company called I Love You guys, uh, just really wants to get this out um, and
have the language be the same for police departments, emergency management, and schools. Uh, Mr. Dohy was just at a national conference uh, in Seattle and he site said he talked to many principles from around the country and he didn't find a single principal who
doesn't do standard response protocol. So, it is widely used. I think it's important that that information is there like for substitute teachers etc. people who
maybe have student safety responsibilities but are not part of our regular employees. For sure. I do have a question as far as like at the high school in the commons
area where you can have quite a few people and if you have to go to a place that's secure, where do they go? I wish Seth were here. Um I cannot
remember if the theater is rated as a like a tornado um shelter or not. Um but you're right, we would have to disperse those students into individual classrooms likely. Um if it were a scenario
well for a lockdown where they're supposed to in that scenario um protocol may be if we know where the threat is evacuate. Okay. Then I guess the other thing would be
when we do our emergency action plans, do we do we need to call a closed meeting or is that information? I don't believe there's anything in the
emergency action plan that would not be viewable by the public. Is it correct to think that like the emergency action plan would be something that would be like people would know what's going on, but maybe not detailed enough that we would know like where
people do go in the commons area if there was a lockdown that you might know or the kids might know, but we wouldn't really be openly like talking about that in a meeting. Correct. Do you know what I'm saying? Like
Yep. Well, that's why which is kind of your that's why you can close the meeting. Yeah. Yeah. If you want to get into for security purpose. Yes. Question if I may. I'm sure there are mechanisms in place for individuals that
have auditory issues, mobility issues, vision issues in terms of evacuations particularly as as well as the others. Yep. Yeah. We're required to have plans for any any student with extra needs. Thank you. Uh, and then I guess the last thing I'd
just like to mention if there are no additional questions, there's a timeline in your packet as well and go through that just so you're aware of what we are up to. Um, so we'll start at the top. That was the May safety and security meeting. Uh, that's when the team voted to move
forward with adoption. Um, I've since reviewed the plan with John Hughes. John Hughes is on the safety committee team, Officer Hughes. Um, but he and I reviewed it again. Uh, Miss Butell was there. Uh, and he is also in favor of of the plan. Um, I brought this to the
policy committee, the education committee, and now the regular board meeting as a an agenda or aformational item. On the 6th and the 7th, there's a free I love you guys training in Mano. Uh, the administrative team, those who are available, will attend that. Mr. Dohy, myself, and officer Hughes have
all been to that training. Um, but we'll try to get the rest of the team there. And then this would come in front of you as I mentioned in August with the emergency action plans. Our goal would be to implement these five procedures this coming school year and then develop
a reunification plan. Uh and that plan is how we get students and parents reconnected after an emergency. Um so we develop that during the upcoming school year and implement that reunification plan 26 27. So give ourselves a year um
to develop that because that is a hefty lift. Yeah. Any other questions for Dr. Gra? Um just a FYI, um Miss Butell will take over as the safety and security
chair or facilitator, whatever we call that position. Uh um I I was filling that role as a middle school principal, but that'll be handed off to Jesse. Perfect. Awesome. Time for reports. Building
principles. most of our principles uh are are on vacation uh right now, but uh as they should be in July. Jesse is available. I miss the memo to be on vacation. Yeah. So, um well, thank you. I um I'm
honored to be here. I'm honored to sit here as the new St. Peter Middle School principal. So, uh I am coming from Mano Area School District. I spent 14 years there. I started my career as a paraprofessional. Um I was going to grad school and kind of went into that route
because I just wanted to be with kids and then moved into a special education teacher. I was there for roughly eight to nine years. Can't remember. It kind of all blurs together. So kind of did multiple levels and then I was approached to kind of we have access now
and so I was approached kind of those students to create a program we called it empowering student success and working with those individuals to see if we could reduce the amount of students that would be assessed for special education services. And then from there I was approached to uh develop and
implement our middle level ALC um called peak. And so I did that for two years where I would take students from Dakota Meadows and from Prairie Winds and we kind of worked through that collaboration of their standards that they had, but then how do we relay those into the community aspect to give them
kind of relevance to what they're learning and how does how is that um what can they do outside of school, right? And so what are the things in which they're interested in uh what are their skill set and so did that for two years and then I moved into my administrative role as a dean for a year
and then two years as an assistant principal at Dakota Meadows. So yeah so I 16 days into the job I still counted. So and you're still here? I'm still here. Yeah. So it's been it's been amazing uh the amounts of the outreach from the community members. I
was telling Rita and Ken, the community members that have reached out to welcome me, the staff, it's been phenomenal. And then just the administrative staff here as well. So they've been they've been great, top-notch. So I felt very very welcome and moving into more of a
comfortable feel. So and John's been been great as well. So So with that, the things in which I've been learning or reading about or working on um policies kind of the systems of St. Peter Middle School or St. Peter district uh policies, handbooks, um making sure that
I'm communicating with our staff already, newsletters, summer school, get to meet some of our students and some of our staff. So, that's been great. I love to be around the kids and I love to be around the staff. And so, um I get really antsy at the end of the year because I'm just by myself, right? So, just kind of do my own thing and I like
to be around the students. So, looking forward to that construction process. So, that also I got to sit in my first construction meeting yesterday. So, that was interesting. just kind of figuring out like the timeline and so uh I'm really excited to see what what this will be and excited for uh the students
at St. Peter Middle School as well. They deserve that. So other than that um I'm a mom of four. I have a 13-year-old, twin boys that are 10 and a sevenyear-old. So we're very busy. So um and my husband, he also is a teacher. He's a seventh grade English teacher. He's been at Dakota Meadows for I think
his 23rd year coming up here as well. So, um, he's doing all the daycare things for dad in the summertime. So, we're very active family. We're busy. Um, yeah, those are things. Any questions for me? Anything I didn't hit on the report? The
building? They didn't give me an outline, so I'm just kind of going off here. Oh, we're excited to have you here. Thank you. Thank you very much. Is she gonna tour with us tomorrow? I am. Yay. Hey, he's come back. So,
I'm kind of excited about that, too. Yeah, very excited. I'm more excited about the hard hat. So, I thought maybe you have to lead it. Oh, right. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I'll see what I can do. Awesome.
All right. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Graph. Uh, I just wanted to remind everybody of the tour tomorrow night, six o'clock p.m. Um, I will get in contact with Seth and then send a text or an email to everybody. My assumption is he'll have everybody who's available meet in the pool lot at the middle
school, but I will confirm that and I will also confirm that Seth is well enough um to lead that. Yeah. Yes. Thank you. Thank you for that. Thank you for that. I would say if Seth is not feeling well, we can probably reschedu.
Yeah, don't force. Yeah, for sure. Seth, don't feel like you have to be there if you're really under the weather. Please take care of yourself. Then I also just wanted to mention um I went to the first of I believe seven meetings for the great start cohort um
which is uh put on by the superintendent association. Uh it's a cohort for brand new superintendents. um in Little Canada is where we were today. Um so the topics that we talked about, we talked about board chair relations led by Gary Lee,
uh evaluation and legislative updates, and my takeaway was thank you so much for being an incredible board. Thank you. Yeah. Um you're welcome. People shared some things and I was like, whoa.
Yeah. So for real, you you are a very high functioning board and I just really appreciate that. So thank you. That's all I got. Cool. Board members around the table. Reva um enjoyed attending the Hall of Fame induction. Um thought that was really
nice. Nicely. Very well done. It was indeed. Charlie, they overlooked you this year. Next year. Someday. Under the radar. There you go. Um, just like to mention I had the opportunity to attend the uh uh area
adult learning cooperative u program that they had on June 26 and that includes diplomas and uh GED certificates for uh believe there were six students as well as excuse me citizenship and uh language achievement
and it's really impressive some of the uh the challenges that those students have overcome to arrive where they're at. So, it was very meaningful and and uh well attended and and a lot of family support for uh for the students that were there. It was a a good experience.
I'm good. Just enjoying summer. I was also going to mention the Hall of Fame uh ceremony was really nice. Uh congratulations to Neil Anderson, Megan Vogle, Brad Baker, and Jeff Baker. Neil was the only one who was able to be there, but it was very nice. His family
was there and it was a nice gathering to honor some great St. Peter people. Didn't have quite enough food. We can we might still be eating that food if we were food was outstanding catered by it was our food service.
Wonderful. But the only unfortunate thing about it was the turnout. And so hopefully the Hall of Fame committee will re-evaluate and
when they have that. Yeah, the Fourth of July weekend was tough. Yeah. with attendance. But I understand the philosophy of that, but I think the all school reunion was down
to and so there were maybe what two three people that were there that weren't directly involved. Well, really shoe makers nominated one
of them. So I guess just about everyone there was But it was nice. Yes, it was nice. And it it would be so much nicer if we could get all the participants to be there
because I mean to read about it is one thing to hear about it, give them an opportunity to talk a little bit about and catch up on where they're at and what they're doing. I think was very meaningful.
Okay, I have a couple things. Um, well, I guess only one thing now, and that would be the paper that Kimberly gave you with the big MSBA on it. Uh
this is the preliminary document for a proposed resolution that the MSBA has changed. It used to be individual board members could submit
resolutions. Now, it's required that all the resolutions are either submitted by the board, the MSBA board staff or school district boards. So, I would like
um us to take a a good look at this and in the August meeting pass the resolution so we can get it in by the deadline. Um, I was up at MSBA and
talked with Terry Mororrow and and Gary Lee. They both felt that this was a worthwhile resolution um given a number of things that are happening, the impact it
potentially has on the amount of money that's made available to school districts from the state. Um they thought this was a very innovative and thoughtful way of gaining revenue without having to increase the
formula. Instead of increasing the formula, it increases the pupil count, which and it it should benefit all school districts. So to me, it's very worthwhile
for um and should be a slam dunk, but I know nothing's a slam dunk at the legislature, especially when it comes to money and so forth. But the idea is that in the past few years, the legislature
has made some changes to labor law uh involving uh prek programs and they've now included them in the definition of teacher Pelra and passed legislation
to place them on a salary based upon the regular K12 teacher um salary schedule. So I mean they can remain to be hourly employees but that
hourly wage should be equivalent to what they would make depending on what step and lane they would qualify. Additionally, I believe, and I hesitate to say the year, if one
of you knows the exact year, feel free to correct it, but I think 2027, all the prek people have to be licensed. So given those changes
and the fact that they're dealing with students but our group like K12 now we should develop a way which we can be reimbursed from the state on a per pupil
version like the rest of the staff. So or I mean the rest of the the students that we educate. So that's basically what it's said at the bottom of the back of
this page and then some of the uh rationale and changes and so forth that have to be made. I think if this were to pass then the government relations team would
probably get in touch with us. Um, as far as that, get in touch with the finance people of the legislature to determine what changes might have to be made. Currently there is a scholarship
program which is limited in the amounts that they give and my understanding is this district applied for being part of that program the first year that it was available. We
were not selected and every increase that's made to that program has been gobbled up by the current recipients by just increasing the amounts that they get rather than
adding new people. So it would look to replace that and give money for each student that each district has. So it should if we can get the out to school districts
through your organizations. Hopefully get all of the education organizations behind it and be able to mount some
pressure on legislature to correct this problem. So, we will I will probably get with Megan and do a kind of history of the financing
where we've been and what we've how much we've in the hole and get with ET get more uh data than just the one year that was on the information I gave
you last year about the success that graduates from the prek program have had in kindergarten. I mean, the previous year, every student that made it through the program maxed
out the screening, pre preschool screening coming into kindergarten. So, it's been very effective. There was research that was done around the turn of the century
which is a while ago now. Well, it's 20th to the 21st by the the Federal Reserve of Minneapolis that said we would get far more bang for the buck if we put the money in the
preschool programs. We would save money that would end up in the prison system, probation system, and so forth. Thank you. So, that's where we're at with that and I be asking for your approval next.
Thank you, Mr. Dixon. Nothing for me. Welcome. Just welcome. Glad to see you all here. All right. Uh committee updates, educa, any if there's anything that you need to add that we didn't discuss that hadn't
been talked about tonight? um education, business, policy, HR, the ad hoc legislative or shared programs. If anyone has anything, please let us know what committee and then share. If you look at that list, you'll notice
that the HR committee is starting to get very busy. We'll have our first meeting tomorrow night with the custodians. We have office support on board for August 5th and
is on the 13th. Thank you, Kimberly. So, we'll get into that. Hopefully, we can get through some of these real quick. So, we only have six or seven. Mr. Chair,
I'd like to bring just clarification to a recent article that was in the St. Peter Herald. And before I start on that, u I would also ask that other business committee members and any other board members that have input please please uh provide that and no
disparagement at all of the writer. The article itself was generally I think well done. But the headline could be mistaken for dire financial circumstances if people did not read the whole article.
And what I'm getting at is on the July 3rd issue of the Herald, uh, on page two, it talked about the school districts facing a 10.9 million budget deficit. And that's
not at all correct taken in context. Uh, as you know in the article also bore out that our general fund is really very stable. The pro projection there is around a 3% reduction and that's roughly 70 days of operating which I think the
board has been real comfortable with. We're concerned down the road obviously given other financial pressures as we proceed through the the next three four years and of course there are a lot of unknowns there but that technically the article is right because there is 10.9
million more or less dollars available but that's coming from the construction fund which we're supposed to use to mend the middle and that's approximately a third of that and as just for the public's information the u excuse me once the bond um was approved approved
or the levy was approved, the voters approved the referendum, the bonds were let and then the proceeds were received and invested and that money then is drawing interest until the bills come in. And as the bills come in, then it's paid out and we're anticipating about
$10 million of bills will be paid this year or roughly onethird of the estimated construction renovation costs. So it it works exactly like it's supposed to. But please, if anybody that's watching this has questions, I've had a couple calls and I greatly
appreciate those. Have the opportunity to explain what it is. A simple analogy that I've used several times is you take out $30,000 loan to remodel the kitchen and the and the bathroom. And uh you don't leave the money sitting there, you remodel the kitchen and the bathroom, but those contractors want to get paid.
So at the end of the time period, you have an updated house, but you don't have quite as much money in the checking account. So it's very simple but please read the article. So Bill Rita I think that was very nicely stated.
Thank you. Thank you. Any other updates from any other committees? If not, there's a list of upcoming meetings of the board. Uh several negotiation meetings, all of our usual monthly policy meetings, and then
right back here for a regular schoolboard meeting on Wednesday, August 20th. And then the school year is literally around the corner. Not literally, figuratively around the corner. We're ready.
All right. Motion and a second. All those in favor? Meeting is ajourned.