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I tell you what tears. >> Okay. So, we're just Okay. I agree. That's >> But we'll see when we get there. >> Lots of questions. >> Okay. >> Right. It is 6:30 and I will call the

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April regular meeting of the Sartell St. Steven School Board to order. Thank you to all the community members that are attending in person as well as online. We appreciate your interest and engagement in our school district. The expectation of our community is that all participants and attendees will conduct themselves professionally and with

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respect for other members of our community. The first item on the agenda is the 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

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for all. >> All right. Uh, next item on the agenda then is approval of the agenda. >> So move second. I actually make a motion to amend the agenda to remove Nancy Priscilla's name from the consent agenda

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5C. Dr. Share of the board. >> Members of the board. >> Oh, hang on. We need a second to that. >> Sorry. Thank you. >> Second. >> Okay. So, the first motion to approve the agenda was made by Jen, second by Emily. Motion to amend by Trisha. Second

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by Jen to remove a name. Discussion, please. >> Dr. Reard. >> So, this evening we got a rather late notice from one of our employees. Um, she was planning on resigning and we think that is still the case, but she's trying to determine whe resation or

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retirement. We're going to ask that she works with our human resources department over the next month. We'll bring this forward during the meeting, but we do have to have her name. Right. Any other questions or further discussion? All right. Hearing none, we're going to move we're going to vote on the

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amendment to remove the name from the consent agenda. All in favor say I. >> I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Okay. uh amendment passes unanimously and now we will vote on the original motion to approve the agenda with the

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amendment. Any further discussion on that I should say before we vote? >> No. Okay. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? All right. We have an agenda with a slight amendment.

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Uh next item was typically uh public forum but we do not have anybody signed up for public forum. So we will move on to the consent agendas or mo motion to approve consent agenda. >> So move. >> Second.

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>> Motion by Trisha, second by Emily. Uh all in favor of approving the consent agenda say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Consent agenda is approved unanimously. And right on to our reports. Uh first

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report, well, and I will preface this by saying last month I said that there would be possibly two Saber Star awards given out tonight, but one had to be postponed yet again. So that will be next month. Uh but we do have our Riverview principal, uh Britney Sheper,

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here to give the Saber Star for Riverview. Welcome. for the board. We have the postponement of another one because I say we're stars coaching this evening because they're truly our stars. >> All right. Good evening. Um I'm Britney Shepster, the proud principal of

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Riverview. Um and I am excited to be here with our art teacher, Erin Hewitt. Um and she was nominated by um her colleagues to receive the um Saber Staff Star. So Erin, I'm going to read your um your nomination. You haven't heard this one.

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I am pleased to nominate Aaron Hwitt, our art teacher for the Saber Star of the Month award in recognition of her outstanding contributions to our school. Aaron is an exceptional art teacher who shares her passion and talent with all of our students. My students truly look

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forward to art class and are often disappointed on days they don't have it. She has a unique ability to make every student feel like an artist, even those who may not naturally see themselves that way. However, this is only a small What makes Aaron so deserving of this

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award? She pours an incredible amount of time and energy into our school. From painting murals throughout the building to organizing an impressive art show, largely on her own, to leading meaningful fifth grade art projects each year, she is continually seeking new

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ways to enhance our school environment and enrich student experiences. Congratulations. Thank you. Congratulations. >> Congratulations. >> Thank you. >> Okay, our next report is our school

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board student representative report. Welcome to our student representatives. >> Hello. >> Hello. >> Um, starting with Oakidge, kindergarten students continue developing foundational skills in reading and math through engaging um play-based learning

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projects. A highlight included um learning about colonial times and exploring how people in the past worked together to build the nation. Kindergarten students also focused on preparation for the spring art show and music in our schools concert that are held in the end of April. Preschool

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students extended their learning about neighborhoods and communities through readalouds activities and guests visitors and improved weather has supported increased outdoor learning and play experience as well. Staff have actively engaged in planning the end of year activities including field trips

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and family engagement days along with the kindergarten transition to Pine Meadow Primary and the big truck night and various themed days to create meaningful end of the year experiences. And for Pine Meadow um they also have a music in the schools. They had two last

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week and one tomorrow for first grade and the others were second grade that were last week. They had their grade concert earlier this month and they also had um an all school bagel night on the 6th. And for Riverview um the month began

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with the recognition of Paris in honor of their contributions to the school community. The school also held its second annual schoolwide trivia event in celebration of meeting the saber strong goal. Um, student council hosted a speakout contest in partnership with the

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optimist club and fourth grade students participated in a wack museum highlighting not notable individuals. Um, music programming was a highlight for the third and fourth grade students who participated in spring concerts. Um,

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these events also marked the upcoming retirement of two music teachers. Fourth grade students were introduced to fifth grade ensemble opportunities through instrument andformational meetings. Um there were field trips this month as well. Fourth

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grade attended the science museum following a weather related reschedule and fifth grade students went to um JA Biztown engaging in a simulated e economy experience and third grade students visited the SCSU planetarium to support science learning. staff

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completed their letters professional development, including a two-year training focused on evidence-based reading instruction and early release day supported this professional learning as well. Moving on to the middle school, Sartell Middle School experienced a busy

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spring month with a variety of academic, extracurricular, and community activities. The adaptive music performance was held on April 9th and was well attended by families and staff. On April 14th, students were scheduled to visit with Officer Terry Bonfield and

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Kimbo Kimber providing an opportunity for connection and learning. MCA testing began during the month while many students also transitioned to spring athletics. Student advisory groups planned activities in recognition of Earth Day on April 21st promoting

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environmental awareness and engagement. Looking ahead, Sart Middle School is preparing for the Sarton Middle School Sergeant High School Jazz Extravaganza which will highlight student musical performances and collaboration between grade levels. And finally, at the high

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school, this past Saturday, the high school student council and national honor society partnered with Make a Wish for the annual funfest. There was a great turnout in the final total race dystopian calculated and we're looking forward to donate that money to the foundation. Spring sports have fully

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kicked off and in light of this, the high school is trying out a new schedule for the fourth quarter. The essay and savor time periods have been moved to the end of the day to minimize missing for athletes and other participants and activities during this time. Sabra

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Robotics is again qualified for worlds and is currently raising money to attend. The spring musical DZY Chapron is opening this week on April 23rd and performances will last until the 25th. There is a motivational speaker that is coming to the high school on Thursday.

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And next week is the mental health awareness week at the high school. And there's a variety of activities planned all week including therapy dogs. Any questions? No, >> I was so excited. I thought you were going to tell me the amount you were leading into. I was like, "Oh, how much do you want to press raise?"

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>> All right. Thanks very much. >> Thank you both. >> Right. Uh, report number three is superintendent report. Dr. Revard. >> Good evening, members of the board. So yearly I do come to the board just to explain how we're doing staffing wise

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and throughout the last few months we've been discussing staffing. We are now going to the kind of the final leg of this. So this evening I've shared with the community I'm going to get a little bit more details about what staffing is looking like next year and how our budget reductions are impacting our very

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employees. So we are going to be going into the 26 27 school year with a budget impact of about million budget reductions. The the general fund is looking at about $1 million15,400.

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But we also know that just because of our decline in enrollment, our continuation of insurance, we have enough funding that does impact our community education and our food services funds too. So to just give you a general overview of how that is dispersed out across all of our

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programming that we do, we know that at this point in time we're going to have to cut 10.39 full-time equivalents of teachers. So you hear me say numbers throughout this. It's always going to be related to FTEES, which are teacher FTEEs. So if you hear me say that that's equal to

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like.3 of a teacher FTE even though I might be talking about a custodian or nutritional services or anyone else it's all going to be equal to the teachers. So at this point in time we are going to be cutting 9.14 FTEES for teachers. How is that broken

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down? We we know that part of that is going to be through our certified staff reductions. That's 7.84 that are being reduced and some of that is through our district services and operations and that's 3.05.

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So some of this is going to come together at 10.39 because then it also includes our community education which is going to be one FTE and food services.25. So as you go through all of these and I'll speak just very broadly to some of

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them. U we do have some elementary section reductions due to declining enrollment. We have some specialist reductions of 2.34 that also is related to declining enrollment and having less sections where we need to provide specialist

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coverage. We have early childhood that will have a reduction. our high school sections, we're looking at about 1.5 and special education is also having some reductions just so overall what we're seeing is a

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reduction of $1 million being covered not only just by certified staff and our teachers but also being covered by district services and operations. Sadly, that's my superintendence report for this evening. As I said, we are

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there any questions? >> I have one. Are some of these um FTE reductions attrition? >> Some are always going to be through attrition, but we don't retain them. >> Sure.

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>> Other questions. >> Okay. Hearing no further questions. Thank you, Dr. Revard. Report number four is our district finance report. We have director of business services, Joe Proud. Hello. >> Hello.

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>> Hi, Joe. Uh further down in the agenda, we'll have the um looking for an actual approval of a revised budget for this year, but posted on the agenda for the financial report is our original budget. Um till that's approved, that's the

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working budget. So, um there's a report through March of 2026 um based off our our original expenditure budget for the year. So, we are spending We spent about 65% of our

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general fund through March. Uh tracking at a little over last year's where we are about 64. Same with transportation just slightly ahead of last year's percentage. And then in food service we're a little bit ahead again. And then community services pretty close even but

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actually slightly below where we ended up last year or where we were at this point last year. 74% of our competitors for the year. Overall our 69.61 61 across all funds is really close to the 69.86 we were at at this point last

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year. And this will change slightly um as we go into the revised budget, but I'll I'll go into more depth, I guess, on the revised budget changes questions. >> All right. Thank you, Joe. Okay, the last item on our agenda for

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reports is the schoolboard committee reports. So, I'll go down the list in order. Uh, first one is Benton Stern's Education District. Um, Dr. Revard and I attended the monthly board meeting this past Wednesday.

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Um, not a whole lot happened at the actual meeting. I'm We did approve um some personnel changes and I guess restructuring might be the word to use. Um, Aaron Dorman, the

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executive director, been busy lately with putting together a long-term outlook and plan for what the personnel will look like. So, we did some uh needed reshuffleling of the personnel there and also approved our preliminary

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budget for the coming year just like we're doing tonight um later on. Um but I think the highlight for me of the evening was that we toured another facility um potential facility in the St. Cloud City boundaries. Um that would

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be big enough to replace all of our student programming but not the Benton Stern's main office. Um so there will be more meetings about that. That was a basically a second walkthrough for some of the folks but for those of us on the board uh who showed up that was our first time going through the facility.

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So we'll share more details when things um get further along in the process. I don't want to disrupt any negotiations, so I won't disclose where we were, but it's a cleaner facility than we've seen. Um, more promising, I would think. So,

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fingers crossed that this can work out. But, anything to add, Dr. Ripard, from our board meeting? >> No, the space was the space was very nice in terms of having >> Yeah. >> And yeah, pretty modern fixtures. You just got to move some walls around, create the classrooms, that sort of

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thing. So, it's Like I said, fingers crossed. Um, moving on then. Career and tech ed. Looks like there's a future meeting coming up. >> Nothing has happened. >> Okay. So, future meeting on May 20th is what I have written down. So, then we

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can move on to communications and technology, which also has a future meeting next week, April 29th. and community education advisory committee also has a future meeting August 3rd. Am I correct that there's

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been no meeting since our last meeting here? Yes. Okay. >> Um finance and personnel also has not met since our last meeting, but they are meeting June 8th. >> Uh the city and district ad hoc committee that Jen and I sit on is

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meeting on May 15th. That'll be our second meeting. Then the legislative network and schools advocating for fair funding. Yet another future meeting. Uh this Friday, April 24th is our um general membership

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meeting down in Roseville. Uh comprehensive achievement and civic readiness did have a meeting April 14th. >> We did have a meeting last week. So high level overview. There was um

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kind of two main items that we talked about. One was a capy update. So cap ti and what that is is that underneath the read act overview um which again is reading to ensure academic development. The goal is to ensure that every student

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is reading at or above grade level. So CAP is another way of kind of diagnosing um assessments and where students fall and where they maybe need some additional support in specific areas. So that is a tool that is approved by the state of Minnesota or a vendor that is

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approved by them. Um and so right now we are using it we're administrating it to students who score below the 40th percentile on FastBridge as like an additional tool to kind of provide um more in-depth analysis of what areas

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would help them the most. And so there's six subtests as of this last year just four were required to be taken. Um, and next year all six will be required by the state of Minnesota, but our uh review did all six of them this past

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year for for students that had qualified. So those areas include word recognition and decoding. So some examples might be like what is or isn't a real word or what sounds like a real word. Vocabulary where they're covering like synonyms and association.

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Morphology which are words with prefixes and suffixes. Uh, so those three are all required ones as well as reading efficiency. So it's kind of like a maze selection technique where each sentence within a passage, one of the words has like three different choices to see

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which one makes sense. Um, and then the other two that weren't required yet this year but will be next year include also sentence processing. So single sentence processing, what word makes the most sense within a sentence? And then reading comprehension. So um then that

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assesses discourse level comprehension. Uh so kind of read a passage and then it might be like this passage um you know gave two benefits of exercising what are they and then it would list out and you would kind of get that comprehension.

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Um so we were using that for our fourth through 12th graders is where that's used. Um in winter of 2026 we screened um about 166 kids at RS um and then

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start to high school 79 students. So a lot of the more common areas of opportunity were in morphology and reading efficiency. So, a lot of like the the teachers and staff had really great things to say about Capy, very impressed with it, very

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informative, um, and really felt positive that they'll be able to make interventions even more direct and influential. Um, one of the questions did get brought up, would we maybe eventually just like get rid of FastBridge or use this instead? And

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because we're using FastBridge in some other areas, we're continuing to use that. and it's kind of a nice way to help narrow down the demographic of students that might be best fit for this test. Um, so that's what I have on the CAPT. And then the other one was a K through

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five math curriculum update. And so uh as a we're kind of on a annual schedule plus due to um not an annual schedule but we're up due for reviewing our math curriculum and then in addition to that the math standards that the Minnesota Department

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of Education released in 2022 um are going to require that full implementation is done by 202728 school year. So we do have a committee that is working through um identifying vendors and evaluating them. The updated

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standards place a greater emphasis on data science and financial literacy. And so one of the items to as it pertains to math standards, Minnesota is one of the eight states that did not accept common core math. So, one of the items that our

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committee is finding is that, as you can imagine, when you have 32 states who have fully accepted common core math, finding a curriculum that uh allows for a little bit different variety in what we're looking to teach um has been uh a little bit extra to navigate. But they

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have they do feel good about two of their final vendors, which is Bridges and Mathematics and Envision Plus. Um, so hoping to kind of have that narrowed down and selected by the end of the month.

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>> End of the week. Perfect. Even better. Um, but yes, they've surveyed teachers as a part of that, uh, as they're narrowing on their curriculum in addition to what they've reviewed and seen presentations of those about. Um, and then finally, we just wrapped it

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up. Membership for Quaser is kind of a two-year cycle. So this was year one of the cycle. So there was just an acknowledgement that if there was anyone who was not wishing to continue the rest of their term next year um to reach out to Maryland

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I have Emily. Anything else you got? >> No, not really. The only the only thing that just back to the point of could we transition completely to CAP because there's a cost involved having both assessments. Um CAP currently kind of a

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math assessment component. It's really for literacy for language arts. And because of that, we have to keep FastBridge as well as CAPY currently. That could change in the future. FastBridge doesn't allow or hasn't allowed in the past for a district to

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just purchase only reading. It has to be the full package of reading and math. So, as it stands right now, there's really not a way to transition to just CAPD because we're being required by MDE to use CAP. Unfortunately, it doesn't it's not all-encompassing and it can't

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provide the math assessment um portion to us as well. So, as it stands right now, we will continue using both and it's not necessarily a negative. I think the question came up from a cost standpoint because the district pays for both. So, that was essentially the

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spirit behind that. But that's all I had. additional. >> Right. Any other questions? Thanks to you both. Um, next on the list is the Minnesota State High School League. Have you

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>> um it got switched to Tuesday and I didn't realize that, so I was not able to attend. >> Okay. Um, I did have my quarterly uh region 8A uh advisory committee meeting and that

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was this past Wednesday, April 15th. Um, I guess there's a few points I could raise. Uh, first, of course, we're the ones that administer the actual section tournaments. So, we did an overview of how the winter tournaments went. Um, the

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biggest takeaway I had from that is that this was the first year that we really moved almost entirely to having section final games at the high seed instead of at a neutral site. And that had a huge impact on our attendance. Attendance was

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way up. Uh, feedback from coaches, fans, players was all very positive. So, I think they're going to keep going with that trend of having the high seed host the section finals. It's been very very helpful and very good experience for our student athletes. Um

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the we did have a couple updates um from meetings that had occurred. So our executive secretary uh John Ross who's a former Sartell employee um gave an update from his secretar's meeting and also our uh high

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school league board representative gave an update from the last board meeting and they kind of talked about similar things. So, I'll just kind of blend them together. But, um, the three sports that are kind of in the spotlight right now are well, esports, girls flag football,

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and girls wrestling. Um, the discussion with esports is that they now want to be what's called a quote unquote presenting partner, which is the same status that Clay Target and robotics have currently. So, they want to move into that same >> again. What do they call them?

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>> It's called a presenting partner. So yeah, same status then if that's what happens. Same status as clay target and robotics. Um a comment was made by our board rep. Um just noteworthy that

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esports is a relatively minimal expense and burden on administration compared to some other activities. So thought that that was an interesting side note. Um girls play >> a burden. >> What? >> It is a burden. No, it's relatively

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little burden on admin and expense-wise. The I I think trying to think of how he expanded on that. It seems that those teams just kind of run with the administration of their own events. So, there's not a whole lot that school

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staff has to do relating to setting that up. Girls flag football. It's kind of getting to be decision time now that we're coming, well, we're in our second year of that as a sport. The NFL, of course, has donated a lot of money to

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get those programs up and running. Uh, but that those donations are being weaned away as each year goes on. Um, what's being considered now is whether girls flag football in the future will look like how it does now, which is

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competitions on Sundays. It's not an MSH HSL sport. Um, you can be in multiple sports. So, spring athletes in other sports can compete also uh on flag football in the spring because there's very few competitions and very few

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practices. The concern is if they go full steam ahead because flag football is seeking what's called emerging status, which if you know anything about how boys volleyball has progressed, that's kind of the next step toward becoming a

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full-fledged MSHSL sport. Um, if they get to emerging status and eventually an MSHSL sport, there's no way they can stay the way they are now because there's no support um for the idea that competitions would remain on Sundays.

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first of all, and all the athletic directors and their staff can't be there seven days a week. Um, so they've kind of a decision time of whether it's going to be adopted by the MSHSL or just kind of leave it as it is. One comment was even made that could be

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a community sport. That way you can have just like it is now people in two sports at once. So we'll see where that goes. Um, so far it's just discussion and the uh, what did I say the other one was? Oh, yeah, girls wrestling. there.

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There are some programs who have a lot more wrestlers than maybe others do that are looking to schedule dual meets and really get that looking more like the boys wrestling program which is really highlighting the disparity of numbers because there are some really big programs that have enough kids to do

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that and there are others who have very few competitors relatively. So the thinking or the fear I guess would be that if you start adding dual mates to the schedule, you're going to increase that disparity even more. So that's that's a growing

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pain issue that girls wrestling is dealing with right now. Um there was also some celebrations. So we are region 8A uh which is basically every bigger school from like the Monaceel Buffalo

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area all the way up the I94 belt to Morehead and uh Detroit Lakes and in that region we had incredible success uh for state championships just in the winter season. So the boys doubleA

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hockey team from Morehead won a state championship. The Monaceel gymnastics team in double A won a state championship and the Detroit Lakes Class A gymnastics team won a state championship. Um, double A dance brainer

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had the title. Um, and then in addition to those state championships, I think I mentioned at my last update um that we selected our finalists for what's called the AAA competition, which is arts, athletics, and academics. and our two

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region representatives, one from Bamiji, one from Tech, a boy and a girl, both went on to win the overall title at the state banquet recently. So, not only do we have strong programs winning championships, but we have very strong and well-rounded student athletes in our

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district. So, I think that's something to be very proud of. >> I think that's about it as far as my update from the high school league. J, you have something else? Well, I just pulled up the synopsis from their meeting. Um, and it looks like the state tournament calendar was approved.

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Um, >> yeah, I'll just interject there. Um, >> I forget if it's boys or girls basketball, but there is going to be a scheduling issue next year again like there was this year with um the Gophers hosting the first round of the women's NCAA tournament.

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>> Yeah, it's cross country, girls basketball, and boys basketball are listed as TBD. Y >> um it looks like the recommended heat policy with that um wet bulb globe

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thermometer and hourly monitoring was approved. Um so I'm sure there'll be more communication on that. Um yeah, I think that's pretty much it. Then I will say from a

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scheduling standpoint also or not scheduling but uh more public relations standpoint when the new section and class assignments come out which we're in the first of two years right now for our section and class assignment. So next year is already set. It's going to

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be the same as this year. But the ones for the following year so that'd be for the 2728 school year will come out very early next school year. So there could be some confusion when everybody gets, you know, I think currently they come out or in the past they've come out in the spring. So there's only been

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confusion about spring sports, but now it's going to come out maybe even in the fall. So when they're announced this coming fall, it won't change anything for this coming school year. >> So they brought that up because of the challenge of schedule. >> Yeah, I think um >> it's what they've been working on so

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they can make the class and section determinations earlier is my understanding. Yeah, I think that's true. So, >> yeah. >> So, just be aware that if people start hearing next fall that we've already changed sections in some sports, it won't have any effect next school year,

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no matter which season it is. >> Did you say what were the sports you said that were TV? Cross country, girls basketball, and boys basketball. >> Yep. >> Okay. I don't have anything more. Do you? >> No. >> Okay. Moving on. Negotiations. There's

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no update. Uh facilities, we have a future meeting. Uh date is not set yet, but it will be in August because that's a good time frame for getting an update on the Riverview HVAC project that will begin at the end of this school year.

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Uh policy committee. >> Um well, once again, we were very efficient with our time and we got through a couple additional policies. Um but I can go through what we did with each one. So

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203.5 we marked as review. There were no changes. Um 414 um there were just some legal updates that needed to take place or statutory updates. So it was just one reading for that.

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Um we are moving to or recommending to uh resend for one or 414.1. Um it's a form and like the other forms we've been taking those out um because it's a recommendation to resend that's

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rereadings. Um 525 we adopted MSBA's changes. Um so that would be three readings. We reviewed

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uh 533. Um, we are looking to recommend that 541, which is athletic acceleration policy, be removed um

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because we already follow the Minnesota State High School League, and this would just be more of a procedural um item as it's written currently. So, that's what our committee's recommendation would be.

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Um 605 just a review. No changes. Uh 611 review. There were no changes to that one. Um 612 I said admin recommendations, but those were just statutory I believe,

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right? >> Yeah. One reading for that. >> Yes. And then the policies that we moved um to address earlier um 203.2 there were no ch changes so we mark that

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as a review. Um 607 all we did was reformat the policy so it might look different but there's actually nothing really changed so we marked that as a review. And then 609 we um decided to adopt MSBA's

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changes um which most of it or some of it was statutory um changes as well but three readings for that one. And when we say reformat literally all it was is ellipses and really strange places for no apparent

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reason in the policy. So like just removing the ellipses and nothing substantial there at all. I might miss one or two. You said was 541 on your list. >> Yes. >> What was that one? >> That one was >> Oh, that's the one to follow the And

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then what was there one after that? 605. >> 605. Just review. >> That's all I miss. Thanks. >> All right. Uh, next one is Sartell Senior Connection. Chelsea. >> Yes. We met on April 6th.

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Um, so see they uh there's a presentation by Janelle the news leader about different advertising options. So they just continue to look at ways that they can get um their name out there more and the things that they're offering and the events that they have.

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Um partners gave their reports and then from um kind of a discussion perspective it was around Funfest. So they had um they had a booth at Funfest this year that they were excited about. So they're

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finishing planning for that. There are also finishing up plans for um trucks and tunes which will be on June 9th. So discussion around vendors and um how that event will run. The puzzle contest

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is on April 25th. So it was almost full at the time that we had our meeting a couple weeks ago uh with Rome only left for two teams. There are also hosting a docu shred event on April 23rd. So coming up this week and it's open all

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day. Um and then guess who's going to dinner? Their next one will be May 14th at Ants. Um and then I just covered kind of the regular programming. Um, so mixing it up, Mondays, their coffee and

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conversation, chair yoga, menshed, bingo, uh, and trivia. So just a coordination of of some scheduling things and making sure that they weren't overlapping each other, but overall just a lot of fun things that they have going

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on. I think they had started talking about that document shredding event when I was still there. Um, I forget is that only senior connection members or is that open to anybody? >> That's a good question. >> Anyway, >> anyway. Okay, that's what I thought I remembered. And that's this coming or

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this week? >> The 23rd. Yes. Thursday. >> Okay. At the communities >> at the community center. Yep. >> Great. Thank you. >> Yep. So, they'll essentially be bins that like you can go in and just put papers in and they'll have the shredding truck there. >> Okay.

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>> Thanks. >> Any other questions? All right. resource training and solutions. >> Um I believe I had two meetings since our last meeting. So I'll start with the March meeting. Um we did a canvas of the

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director's election. There were six openings, six people on the ballot and all six are currently board members. Um we also discussed some of the changes to the awards. There

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will be venue changes coming up starting this fall. Um and then uh we are also changing the format for like who the performers are. So, originally we had

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people that would come in, we had a magician, we've had music, um, kind of like Julian pianos, but this time we are going or we're looking to move to small musical ensembles that are coming from

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the membership school districts. Um, so we're excited about that to have our students be the ones to um, be performing at those award ceremonies. Um, I think I sent this to you, but I'll leave it. It's just, um, if any of our

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school buildings want to apply, that's >> already forwarded out. >> Okay, perfect. >> Music department received them, probably. >> Oh, awesome. Wonderful. Well, then I'll just keep that. Um, so that was March. Oh, and then we discussed we have our

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annual Minnesota service cooperatives conference up in Duth in July. So, there was just some discussion about that. Um the April meeting all of us newly elected um board of director individuals

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were there. Um we decided to implement board committee appointments um kind of like what we do at the district level. So we now have a policy committee, a personnel committee, and a finance committee. Um so we're going to give that a try for a year um and see if it's

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beneficial or not and then continue or discontinue those committees. >> What are the committee's policy? >> Policy personnel and finance. >> Okay. Um, I will be sitting on the policy committee and then

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we did have our superintendent board exopicio resign because of new employment. Um, so how they fill that I'm not entirely sure but anyone's potentially looking I don't

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know. Anyhow, so we no longer have a superintendent sitting on our board right now. >> All right, >> that is that. >> Okay, thank you. It's the last committee report on our list. Uh so now we can

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move on to action items. Uh the first one thankfully is going to be a fairly long one because it's the approval of the resolution to accept donations. Do we have a motion to approve? >> Second.

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>> Motion by Jen, second by Trisha. Uh, and Trisha, it is your month to be the one to recognize and thank all the donors. >> So, our first donation is from the Sartell All Sports Booster Club for the Sartell High School of $2,000 for

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baseball uniforms. Another one from the Sartell All Sports Booster Club for the high school at $95462 for the ICS transportation. The Storm and Sabers booster club for the Sartell High School, $7,175.14 girls hockey transportation.

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Storm and Sabres Booster Club for the high school, $5,500 for the girls hockey coach pay. Granite City Tire and Auto for Pine Pine Meadow Primary School of $1,100 for the art department. St. Cloud Metro Lions donated to the high school

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of $500 for Clay Targets. Non Magnetics Incorporated to the Sartell High School at the amount of $12,000 $12,025 for the Saber Robotics team at the high school. Integrity Auto Glass for the middle school, $250 for the national reading a

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month award for Miss Young's classroom. Bernick of St. Cloud for for community education and $150 for summer recreation sponsorship. Nelson sanitation and rental for community education. $350 for summer summer recreation sponsorship.

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The Saber Dance Team Booster Club for the high school at $3,435 for the dance team. Granite Partners Foundation of Minnesota for the high school $2,000 for Saber Robotics. Massmin Companies for the Sartell High

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School $1,500 for Saber Robotics. Magnify Financial for the Sartell High School, $250 for the Saber Robotics. Matthew Kaden, Sartell High School, $450 for Saber Robotics. Dylan Simones, Sartell High School, $200 for unified

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club track and field event. MJS services for the high school, $200 for the unified club track and field event. Craig and Heidi Hilner from Sarville High School, $200 for the unified club track and field event. Sarpal St. Steven Education Foundation for the $200 for

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unified club track and field event. Kurt and Chris Derwter, Sarl High School, $200 for unified club track and field event. Pleasure Inc. Incorporated, Sarl High School, $200 for unified club track and field event. Dearwood Bank for the high school, $200 unified club track and

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field event. Shields for the high school, $200 for unified club track and field event. Upper Deck Sports Bar and Grill for the high school, $200 unified club track and field event. Craver Construction Company, Sartell High School, $200 for the unified club track

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and field event. Sartell St. Steven Seven Education Foundation for the high school, $200 for senior awards night. St. Cloud Optimus Club for Riverview Intermediate School, $100 for the Riverview Student Council. Sartell Auto Sports Booster Club, Sartell High School, $1,423

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for softball. Magnify Financial for the High School, $200 unified club track and field event. Anderson tax services for the high school $200 unified club track and field event. Blue Line Sports Bar and Grill for Sartell High School $200 unified club track and field event. So

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just wow that was a really big mouthful and thank you thank you thank you so much for all the donations to our wonderful students, athletes and Trisha. Any other questions, comments? >> Right. All in favor of approving

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resolution to accept donations say I. >> I. I any opposed? Passes unanimously. Uh next I will look for a motion to approve the resolutions for non-renewals of employment as attached to the agenda.

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>> So moved. >> Second. >> Motion by Emily, second by Jen. Any questions or discussion? Hearing none. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any oppose? All right. Action item up.

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Resolutions are approved unanimously. Action item number three uh is approve individual contracts. And I will preface this by saying there is a handout in front of each of the board members. And Dr. Revard had emailed this out this morning. Um these are the 21

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separate individual contracts that are up for consideration tonight. As of this morning, I believe the people who are currently holding each of these 21 positions have signed their contracts. >> That is correct. >> Correct. Okay. Um, so with the

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understanding that these are each separate contracts that have been separately signed by each individual person, the summary of the changes compared to last year is in our agenda packet. Do I have any motion? >> So moved.

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>> Second. What what's the motion? >> Oh, um I move to approve individual contracts >> 1 through 21 or >> um individually. Do you want me to? >> You got to make a specific motion. >> Okay. Then I move to approve the

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activities coordinator position. >> Okay. >> Second. >> Motion by Jen, second by Emily. Um if we're going to go through these individually, I'm going to go really quick as far as asking for discussion. So make sure you speak up right away if there's any questions. Uh any discussion

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hearing? None. All in favor say I. >> I. >> I. Any opposed? >> Okay. Activities coordinator passes unanimously. Any other motion? >> I move to approve the position of assistant nutrition services director.

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>> Second. >> Motion by Jen, second by Emily. Any discussion? All in favor say I. >> I. I any opposed? Okay. Uh I guess I'll ask for motions now. Try to speed this up. Um do I have

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a motion to approve the contract for the behavior interventionalist? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Motion by Jen. Second by Trisha. Any discussion? All in favor say I. I. >> I. >> Any opposed?

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>> Passes unanimously. Is there a motion to approve the contract for the business office assistant? So moved. >> Second. >> Motion by Jen, second by Emily. Any discussion? >> All in favor say I. >> I. Any opposed?

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>> Can I make a motion to approve the remaining contracts? >> Sure. >> See if there's appetite for that. >> Is that your motion? >> Yeah, my motion. Okay. Second >> motion by Chelsea, second by Trisha to

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approve contracts 5 through 21 on the list. Am I understanding that correctly? >> That's correct. >> Okay. Any discussion? >> While I appreciate the expedience, they are individual positions and I do think that it's beneficial to allow people to

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have discussions should they so need to. So, I would like to not do that. I guess I would point out since all of the remaining contracts are currently under a motion, we can ask questions

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about any of them if we have them right now. Does anybody have any specific questions or concerns with any of the remaining contracts? Is there any further discussion at all on the motion?

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Okay. Hearing none. Uh the motion in front of us is to approve contracts for positions 5 through 21 on the sheet in front of us. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Okay. Passes unanimously.

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5 through 21. All right. Um, number four on the action item list is to approve the revised 2025 to 2026 budget. So, Joe Crime is back with us. >> Motion second. >> I have a motion to approve the revised

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2526 budget. >> Second. >> Motion by Trisha, second by Emily. Discussion now, please. >> Thanks. All right. Um, so there are a couple of items linked under this action item on the

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agenda. If you're looking at it online, you probably have to get them all, right? >> I literally I'm just turning my head right now. >> Um, and then there's just kind of a narrative that explains some of it. I'm not going to read the whole narative to you. You guys are probably have a chance to do that on your own. I'm going to go

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through some of the items though. We did go through um some of this in the finance and personnel committee meeting that we had. I believe it was February correct >> and um there are not a lot of variances from that but this is that was more of a

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forecasted model with things we knew um with with with some changes of contracts stuff like that included. Um and then um as we put everything in line by line numbers changed a little bit here and there. We discover some things we thought we knew maybe they're a little

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bit different. Um, and then we put that plug that into the revised budget here. So, um, it's a it's a group effort, but mostly myself, Michelle Nelson, controller, and then some other help from other other folks inside office,

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some other people. But, um, that's kind of the process we do. So, that's why, um, we've got a little bit of time we have between the the committee meeting and this. the detailed work we were doing. Um, if we look at the uh general

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fund budget, that's kind of the top twothirds of the budget kind of grid that's in the in the board agenda. Um, those are I start with the totals on the top, the total revenues, the audited fund balance kind of on the upper leftand corner from last June and then

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um updated revenues and expenditures, change in fund balance and then projected fund balance. And then as we move down towards kind of the middle right there's we subtract all the reserves and the and the restrictions and and fund balance assignments to get

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to the general fund unassigned amount which is really what our policy is is based off of. um to get to uh you know projected unassigned fund variance of a negative 372,578 and a negative unassigned fund balance

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projected at June 30th of just over $6.9 million. Um our total general fund budget revenue increased by about $250,000 from the preliminary budget. Um, and me jumping around throughout some of the documents

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a little bit as I talk through some of these, but the biggest element of that was basic GED funding. And this was kind of a pleasant uh positive variance. um as we looked at our enrollment um first on October one is kind of when

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we take the first snapshot, but then we also keep an eye on that as the month in the months that follow and then we project those through the end of the year because as the year goes on we there is some fluctuation of kids moving in and out plus um more especially on the juniors and seniors um taking PSO

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classes. So um so we there is some projecting even though we know what kids are here there's still some fluctuation that happens throughout the year but our revised budget includes an in increase of 23 pupil units and when I say pupil

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units again that's one student attending all year um is one pupil unit in grades K through six and then 1.2 pupil units as we move from 7 through grades 7 through 12. Um So, we had an increase of

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23 pupil units, which at the basic formula allowance level of $7,481 is a um projected change in in gen basic Gen 8 of $175,000. So, good news, we'd always rather be gaining than losing compared to what we

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thought we budgeted. A lot of that was in the upper levels. Usually, our net number even in October one from one year to the next, as we look at our junior classes going from sophomore to junior and went from junior to senior. Usually those classes go down before we even

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consider PSO. >> And this year they actually held they're even at plus plus a couple. Um and usually the trend is that those are down somewhat significantly you know in the double digits numbers just gross numbers before anybody enrolls for BSO classes.

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So that swing alone can be pretty significant of you know 10 to 15 students just staying versus um opting for some other option. A lot of times at that level, if it's not PSO, it's like a full-time online learning program somewhere or it's a halftime online

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learning with another school and you know a bunch of you know 30 kids taking online school for half their you know half their uh time is is 15 APUs. So um we saw we saw those kids stay basically.

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Um >> do we know why? Sorry to interrupt. >> Not necessarily. I don't think we have a trend yet. Um but but it was a positive I guess feature going for this year is that that helped us gain compared to where we thought we'd be.

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>> Um yeah talking to high school administration about that a little bit too you know can we >> replicate that >> replicate that. Yeah. And see you know if we can get that for two or three years in a row and we got a trend going. Um but that's the biggest reason for for a revenue increase this year. There were

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some other state aid elements that increased. There was a safety and cyber security onetime grant from MDE that came through um that was about $80,000. And then there were some some changes up and down and some miscellaneous revenues. Um obviously some increases in

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donations, but most of those impact the U reserves were the assigned the assigned fund balances for some of our fund based accounts. Um not huge changes beyond the uh change in enrollment estimate affecting our genetic enrollment.

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Um expenditures increased about $350,000 in total, but not all that affects um the unsigned fund balance. Um there was no significant change in total certified FTEES. I think we were within one FTE of where we budgeted last year as far as

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teaching staff goes. Pair professional support ended up going up when we looked at the final what the revised was. It's one of those things that when we looked at it back in February, I thought we were closer to where we were at the beginning of the year. Um but then as we went in and put in person for person, we

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had almost 10 positions higher than the preliminary budget. So that's something as we work with administration for go for now as we shift forward to preliminary budget for next year we have to look at each of those and say okay let's follow the students again because most of those are related to special ed

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students where are they and where are the param minutes and do we need all those positions as people resign or leave as they typically as typically happens over the summer which ones do we have to for sure bring back so those will be things we look at very closely in the next couple months for next year

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um contract settlements, you know, beginning of the year, contracts were all were open for teachers, principles, multi-unit support for staff. Those were all settled um between uh mostly between what December and March, December and

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February, something like that. Um those of you obviously we've been keeping you up to speed on those. A couple of you've been involved negotiations. So, I've done a lot of heavy heavy lifting on getting those those contract negotiations done this year. The net cost of all those personnel changes kind

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of uh was about $196,000 total. Um and then the transportation budgeted up by about $103,000. And as we've had some drivers retire or um or leave or we resigned throughout

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the year, um we've had to contract more of those out. And um we've also had an increase in fuel costs as fuel costs have gone up. The trend in fuel cost has gone up this year overall. Um utilities and snow plowing are also

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included in that total. A little bit of an uptick compared to last year. Um and then our capital and LTFM went up by about $14,000. So our overall deficit is projected at a loss of about 1.2. when you subtract out all the reserves, some of those are

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related to one-time things for redact training. You know, some of that money we're spending this year that won't be spending next year. Um, you know, our as you subtract all those out, the total decrease to the unassigned fund balance is expected to be about 373,000.

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The original budget was a projected deficit of about 400 545,000. So, that is an improvement compared to where we were originally anticipating ending up as far as the unassigned fund balance is concerned. Um, we've got a couple charts that kind of illustrate

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where our fund balance is at, where it's been at over the past uh 10 years. And one is in dollars. We anticipate being at about we're at we're at about $7.3 million to start this fiscal year. We anticipate with that $372,000

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uh spending deficit to be um to be at about $6.9 million at the end of the current fiscal year. And as you look at how that equates to a percentage, um, we had topped out at about 16.3% back in 2021-22

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and slowly have gone down to about where we anticipate being at 12% at the end of this fiscal year. Mike mentioned the projected or the um anticipated reductions for next year. And of course, this is part of it not

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wanting to go further close to the red line of our um polic of 10%. That kind of covers the general fund piece. We also are updating the budgets and our other operating funds that includes the food service fund uh which

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has a healthy fund balance and we update that for what we've seen for participation and enrollment. um we had an increase in revenues by just about $5,000 overall and then um actually a decrease in total costs after we plugged

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in all our staffing changes, anticipated food costs, etc. And um so we we anticipate a net um surplus uh of about change in funds, I should say, of about 18,500 this year to bring that to a

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surplus of just about $1.4 million. community service. We're anticipating a budget for this year, a deficit of about $188,000. Um, we're looking closely mostly at school readiness um for next year and and early childhood programs to make

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sure we're starting to bring those back in the black and also just at our community service offerings and and um programs um this summer to see, you know, if we can get some increased revenues from all those. Um we we've had a trend of about

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three years in a row now where we've been in a deficit spending mode in community service fund and we'd like to see if we can stop that bleeding starting this year. Um the building construction fund right now is just accounting for the money. Uh

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the the revenue in there is just really um interest earnings on invested cash before we have to pay contractors. And then um the expenditures of about 5 million. That's just our uh probably conservative estimate of what we'll have of the work that'll be done through June

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30th of this year. Debt service is all really just um it's basically the tax levy that was approved the previous um previous December. So that would be the the levy that was approved in December 2024.

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That's the bulk of the revenues there. There are also some pretty major tax credits that offset that like the egg school bonds uh credit and um the yeah the the market value credit the debt equalization credit that we get in there as well as some interest earnings and

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then the expenditures are just principal and interest on the bottom that's what I have for presentation any questions I can answer for you this revised budget >> um Joel as far as expend go. When we say the total net cost of personnel changes

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was 196,000 with all factors considered, that is just referring to settled contracts, correct? >> Settled contracts and then additional like additional pair of professionals. >> Okay. >> Uh things like that. um making sure that we um you know with with the PFNL making

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sure we had all the leaves covered and those types of cost related to those sums related to those which actually we were pretty pretty close on this year as far as concern. >> Sure. >> Is there a simple way to explain to

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people what it would mean if we if our unassigned fund balance dropped to 10% or below? >> Yeah. if it drops below 10%. I mean, um re really what that's there for is to

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protect us from any unexpected changes, right? Um if it's spent down, um you know, anything that we don't adjust and we spend down further is really double the impact of next year because it's not

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only spending next year, but then spending that the following year. Basically, once you get in a pattern of cutting into that fund balance, um it's hard to get harder and harder to get the the direction turned back up. So, what having that 10% fund balance does is

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present like if if we had a sudden loss of enrollment for some reason, um we'd be able to absorb that. if we had some unexpected cost, you know, if we had to uh if we had something catastrophic happen to one of our buildings, well,

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our insurance deductibles have gotten higher and higher on on things like property casualties. So, I mean, that could be a situation where we might have to pay a couple hundred,000 out of pocket we weren't anticipating. um if we had you know major lawsuits we were

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fighting and our legal fees went through the roof. Those are things that may be unexpected when you set the budget. But so really that whole purpose for that fund balance as well as the legislation. You'll hear like people talk about well if the legislation decides to to meter our payments you know we'll have to have

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the cash flow on hand to absorb that um in the future. I don't that won't happen this legislative session but it could in the next. So that's why you just kind of want to protect those things. That's why you want to carry that fund balance and really make sure that um really it keeps

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you from deficit spending year after year after year. >> So essentially it would be like an emergency savings account. >> Correct. >> Okay. >> And how long would it sustain us? I mean in reality that's like a month or two. >> Yeah. I mean, you know, uh, yeah, you

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know, and if something take a major event to hit, you know, $6.9 million in unexpected, but you're, as far as the cash flow goes, yeah, it wouldn't take much where you're behind and having a hard time making payroll, especially in some of the months, >> you get to the end of the summer and before you get your property tax

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payments in in October, there's a period where our cash flow gets lower. And if there were something that happened and we were counting on income, we didn't have it, it wouldn't take long. might be challenging for a line of credit. Some school districts will encounter is when new schools or charter schools or

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something opens a little bit later or even a little earlier and you can't account or know exactly what their enrollment may or may not be, but your staffing is already so you can't just cut those staff necessarily or reduce

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that part of the budget. So we have to get through that year. I just think of the Amplify CKLA. Remember when we purchased that that was $800,000 expense roughly, give or take, right? And that we thought because there

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was so much confusion at the legislative level at the time there was supposed to be reimbursement and then there ended up not being at >> for at least part of it, right? So that I mean that's a >> close million dollar expense that we did not expect to >> stomach completely in full. And that I

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guess when people Gen fund. It's it's items like that that I say are your unassigned fund balance. Anything can happen. >> Well, and currently our our summer unemployment is covered through fiscal 27, but that could change very easily. You know, it takes legislative agreement

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to keep that going, and that's not always not always easy to come by, right? Um so that so that could change a lot. You know, we got um we got an election in the fall that's going to impact just about every seat in Minnesota. So that's we never never know what next legis

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>> Right. Right. >> Thank you. >> And just one final question. The I'm looking at the bar chart with the percentages for our fund balance. It's kind of that upside down curve, which if I remember from several years ago, you

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first explained that that's typical of um your operating levy. >> Yeah. >> Years. You are kind of highest in the middle of that time period. And now that we're getting into the last two, three years of our operating levy, we're getting closer to that 10% fund balance. It's just that we don't want to drop below.

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>> Yeah. I mean, we'd like that peak to come a year or two later. Um I think as we saw some of our enrollment lower in the what's what's now in you know kindergarten, first and second grade that that that peak happening in 2021 22. I think we were hoping to see that

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happen in 22 23 or 23 24. But as we've had to respond um the staffing that's just kind of where kind of where we're at right now. >> Okay. Any other questions for Joe?

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Any other further discussion? Okay. Then we will vote on the motion uh to approve the revised 2025 to 2026 budget. All in favor say I. I.

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>> Any oppose? passes unanimously. >> Thank you. >> All right. Next action item is for approval of policies 527, 999,

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414, and 612. Is there a motion? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Motion by Emily, second by Jen. Any discussion? Okay, hearing none. All in favor say I. >> I. >> I. >> Any opposed.

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All right. Policies are approved. Uh action item number six. I'm looking for a motion to resend policies 527.1, 529.1, and 806.1. Is there a motion?

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>> So moved. Second. >> Motion by Jen, second by Chelsea. Any discussion? Uh just a reminder that those are forms. >> All in favor of rescending the three policy forms say I. >> I. Any opposed?

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>> Passes unanimously. Action item number seven. Uh looking for a motion to lift the moratorum on new outdoor advertising contracts. Is there a motion? >> Some move. Second >> motion by Trisha, second by Jen.

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Uh discussion. Dr. Revard, do you mind explain please? >> Back in October, we were having that discussion about sponsorship and relationship with advertising this evening with the approval of board policy 999. It is that time to remove

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the moratorum which was asking us discontin adding new contracts. Now policy we can move forward knowing what the board is looking for us to do. >> Okay. Any questions? Further discussion

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hearing? None. All in favor of lifting moratorium say I. >> I. Any opposed? Passes unanimously. Uh discussion. First reading two policies 525 and 609.

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Just got to get down here and make sure they weren't >> okay. 525 violence prevention 609 religion >> the changes in 525. I know you talked about these but these were >> MSBA. >> MSBA. >> Yep.

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>> Thank you. >> And then 609 um >> with three readings for >> statutory. >> Yeah. >> The addition of the American Indian cultural practice observance for ceremony portions. So they added to the

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title and religious cultural observances. >> Looks like one of the statutes listed as a reference must have gotten updated. Okay. >> Right. Any questions? Further discussion? Okay. Moving on. Uh, another first

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reading this time to resend two policies, 414.1 and 541. >> So the 414.1 is a form and then 541 is because we follow um the

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Minnesota State High School League and that 541 is for the athletic acceleration and it just seems more procedural. So that's why we recommended to remove it. >> And it was a district only policy. It wasn't an MSBA policy at any point from my understanding.

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>> Uh yeah, I recall when I was on policy committee in let's see it says revised February 2023. So we must have met on that a few months before that and rewrote a lot of it. I think Bruce visited with us when we rewrote it.

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Um, yeah. Where is does MSP or not MSBA, MSHSL, do they have a published rule or guideline on their website or where are we where do you reference that? >> Yes, there should be policies around the

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accelerated. >> Okay. >> I can double check. Give me a second. Did we ever get any history as to why that was put in? No. Okay.

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>> 2014, >> right? >> My internet doesn't >> Yeah, that's okay. >> I can send out a link to you if you want to >> if you want. >> Yeah, this is only our first reading, so I can look into it also. >> Um, okay. Any other questions,

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discussion on discussion item two? >> I guess just before the final reading, I'd like to see those policies as well. Okay. If I recall right, Minnesota State High School, whatever we were looking at that evening, dictates

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the movement up from middle school into a high school sport. Correct. There's already guidelines that have to be followed under Minnesota State High School policy. >> We were just almost reiterating it. >> I guess I just wonder if in 2013

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maybe that wasn't in policy for this disaster. >> I don't know. I I think our thinking on it at the time was >> didn't we kind of say it probably stemmed from if there was >> questions from the community about

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athletes that had been moving up maybe they felt like too often or not given the opportunity enough one way or the other I guess >> if if it please the board I'll put together something from with Bruce and I and I'll send it out to the board and then if the board would like we can also make that part of a public presentation

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or I can present on briefly during our next second read, okay? So that the board and the community does fully know, but I'll send something out preemptively to the full board of either why this happened in 2014 and or the Minnesota State High School rules because I am not

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all. >> Okay. >> And it might be in their bylaws, their 200 bylaws. It talks about student eligibility, but but don't quote me on that because I'm not entirely I'm not 100% sure on

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that, but >> Okay. Yeah. Uh thank you, Dr. Revard. That sounds like a good plan. So, we will if there are questions at the next meeting during our second reading, we will further discuss. Discussion item number three. I'm sorry, everybody was done with number two.

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>> Okay. Discussion item number three, second reading of policy 524.5. Is there any further discussion at this time? >> I'm going to I don't expect an answer tonight, but I we are going to be doing a final reading

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to approve it and put it into policy at our next meeting. I guess I just still am really questioning why the hesitation to at least try the current like actually enforcing what our current procedure was supposed to be and putting what our current procedure was in to

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policy and not going to such a strict policy. Question I've had a couple of people ask me and I've just also been curious about as well. I don't really have anything to add because that would be more of that as well.

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Appreciate that question. I will keep it on my mind as we move toward the final reading. But I'm going to take you up on the offer tonight, speak to it tonight and get my head around it myself and yeah to address that and other issues when we have our final discussion and

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vote. Anybody else have any discussion? Okay. Hearing none, then we are on to our final discussion item, which is to put together our three takeaways from the meeting. Members of the board, I do have two of

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the three that I thought would make the most sense. Uh the first one is my superintendent report, but not really about the superintendent per se, but a little bit of discussion about budget reduction with the community through the news article.

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a little bit more briefer for one of the takeaways. The other is approving of the revised 2526 budget that Joel presented on. And a third I am open to suggestions. >> Well, I instantly thought that we needed

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approval of individual contracts given the fact that we have had a struggle as a board of in the past and you weren't part of that, but just be able to celebrate the fact that we were able to get that on tonight pretty awesome. I mean, it was like the most donations I

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think I've seen in my time on the board. So, I feel like that would be worth pointing out is just the >> We only have three. So, what would you like to subract? >> I'm just throwing that one out on the table. >> I'm okay with subtracting. >> What about um the fundraiser that the

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high school students did? Did we get a total as to >> not yet? They're still calculating it. Okay. >> I think we could blend that one in with the donations. Just >> fundraising >> activities or fundraising results, that sort of type of thing. That's a good

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good comment. Um >> I don't know. I guess if I was going to speak my own piece, I would say we don't do the revised budget and we celebrate the donations, the contracts, and the the changes in there. Anytime we highlight Joe a little bit less is probably

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>> well I just feel like we do the budget every year so it's not I mean although very very good good and >> okay so I'm I'm back I think I still have one two three four >> donations I can certainly pull the

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budget reduction I have fundraising results which will be under number two the school board student representative report which I'll make that the funing and include donations also. Then I have our budget reductions and then improve

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individual contract. >> Just taking out the budget uh the revised budget approval. Correct. >> Okay. >> All right. >> Yep. >> Thank you. >> Um

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upcoming meeting dates. So in our committee reports, we had mentioned a lot of future meetings. So, I'll list the ones that are actually on the agenda here. Communications and technology committee meets Wednesday, April 29th, here at the district service center at 4 p.m. And our next schoolboard work

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session is here Thursday, May 7th at 6:30 p.m. And our next city district ad hoc committee meeting, Friday, May 15th, here at the district service center at 1:00. And our next regular board meeting,

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Monday, May 18th, and that one is at Sartal High School, I assume, in the WAB room, although it's not specified here, at 6:30 p.m. Right. That is the end of the agenda. Is there a motion to adjurnn?

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>> So move. >> Second. >> Motion by Jen, second by Scott. >> Anna Silver, please. >> Any discussion? >> We're all waiting for discussion. >> Right. Hearing none. All in favor say I. >> I. >> I. Any opposed? We're >> journing

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your fuel lately. Can you at least do it for the last