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It is 6:31. I call this regular meeting to order. Please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation

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under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> And I believe I said regular meeting, but this is a special meeting. So, we'll call it what it is, a special meeting for tonight. Uh with with that, that just means we can't adjust the agenda at

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all tonight. You can't add to it tonight. Uh good evening, fellow school board members, district staff, and community members. Uh as a reminder to us all, the mission of Saint Francis Area Schools is to equip all students with the knowledge and skills to empower them to achieve their dreams and full potential while

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becoming responsible citizens in a dynamic world. Uh we have two board members not present tonight, member Schoenrock and member Working, and Superintendent Anderson is not present tonight as well. He is available on his phone if we need to ask any questions for tonight.

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Our first item for tonight's meeting is the agenda, uh adoption of the agenda. Are there any questions prior to a motion being made on the agenda before you? Seeing no questions, is there a call for a motion to approve the July 13th, 2026 special meeting agenda?

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>> So moved. >> Thank you, member Anderson. Is there a second? >> Second. >> [clears throat] >> Thank you, Ms. West. Any discussion on that motion? Seeing no discussion, all in favor of the motion signify by saying aye and raising your hand. >> Aye. >> Aye. Motion prevails.

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Next agenda item is consideration of visitor. Vanessa, I don't have any. Did anyone give you any cards today? Uh no consideration of visitor for tonight. We'll be moving on to the next agenda item, which is consent agenda. Uh we have five items currently on

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tonight's consent agenda. Are there any questions or requests to remove any items from the consent agenda prior to a motion being made? Seeing no questions, is there a call to motion to approve the consent agenda? >> So moved.

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>> Thank you, Mr. Anderson. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Thank you, Ms. Bakken-Flood. Uh, discussion on that motion? No discussion. This will be a roll call vote, so if you are in favor, signify by saying I. If you oppose, signify by

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saying nay. Mr. Hubbard? >> I. >> Ms. Anderson? >> I. >> Ms. Bakken-Flood? >> I. >> Ms. Weiss? >> I. >> And I am I as well. Motion prevails. All right, information items and

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reports. Again, we have Uh, we have four items tonight. I'll hold questions to the end. There is some detail in some of our reports tonight. Uh, so let's get the let them get through all of that detail before we ask any of the questions. Our first item for

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reports is Crossroads East update. Uh, Deb, if you want to come up and update the board on the impact to the district on events and actions taken by Nexus over the last few weeks {slash} months, and then uh >> Good evening. Um, so it's been kind of a roller coaster

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ride, as you may or may not know, Crossroads East is housed at Nexus East Bethel. They were um given a notice by DHS to temporarily close their facility, so they removed all youth from the facility, started shutting down, making

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the adjustments as as they were directed to do so. Um, and this should be in your packet as well. It's pretty straightforward. We got a notice on May 15th that they were issued the temporary closure or pulling the license, which closed them down. But

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then by June 12th, so about a month later, we got another notice that's DHS um removed their temporary suspension of their license, so they were able to reopen given some stipulations. So, they need they need to do some corrective actions, then they can start

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taking in youth. They can only take six to start with, and they have to hold that six for 60 days. DHH DHS will come back in, reevaluate, and then they can start taking in more youth at that time. Um So, when I reached out and asked for an

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update, there was no timeline, there was no hard and fast terms on when we're going to start taking kids in. So, right now we're starting as small as possible as far as the staffing. Um I don't want to get into the district into that situation again where it's shut down and all of a sudden we have

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all all the staff in place. So, the staffing plan right now, um we do have a have a application to state that says we need an admin out there, so there will be a program supervisor, one licensed staff, and then teachers of record as

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need be. And then as more youth come in, we will look at adding, but instead of adding full licensed staff, we will be adding behavior interventionists. Um it'll be more of a one-room schoolhouse type of feel to it, and we will only add classrooms as the numbers

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increase. So, we're taking it super slow. Um they're hoping to have another update for me um in next week, actually. So, hopefully I'll have more information, but we're moving pretty slow. I don't anticipate more than six kids

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even to start the year, so. Any questions? >> Any questions, Glenn? Glenn? Deborah, I have two questions for you. Do you know the age range of the six youth, or are they They don't have to have a certain >> They they can decide which um I have

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requested that they don't take elementary to start because that's a whole 'nother staff that we have to provide. So, if they could stick with secondary would be the most beneficial. >> Okay, and then that program supervisor, is that in addition to what we currently have for program supervisors or would it

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just be an additional fee? >> She's just going to be assigned out there. Yeah. >> So, you say one one-room schoolhouse. How does that work if you have different ages between that those six individuals? Yeah, I got you. >> the academic base is an online platform,

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so they can set their curriculum to meet any age group and then the teacher will just meet individually or in small groups. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Okay, got you. >> Yeah. >> Any other questions? >> I mean, thank you.

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>> it. All right, our next agenda item is the 2027 budget update and Don will provide an update to the 2027 budget as requested by the school board in our last meeting. All right, Don. >> Good evening, once again. Um,

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good evening, Chair Brown, school board, cabinet. I was asked um by the school board at the last uh meeting when I presented the adopted budget to um give an update and do some corrective action on our 2026-27 adopted budget.

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Um being that St. Francis School remains dedicated to maintaining our school board policy of 12% unassigned fund balance, which serves as a critical buffer against state level budget volatility and helps us avoid financial pitfalls.

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That's that's our main priority and I did hear that loud and clear when we talked last board meeting. So, I did present in the senior packet as a bulleted list of changes that have been made in the working budget. Obviously, the adopted budget was approved, we appreciate. Um so, now we've moved

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into a working budget that we can address throughout the year. Um, keeps us on target, keeps us um, real and fluid. Um, so the fund balance that we wanted to address the fund balance concern when I presented the adopted budget. So,

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these changes created a 12% unassigned fund balance. So, the first change um, I made was the contingency that was proposed with the budget assumptions in January of 250,000 was eliminated. And I also did a reduction of 350,000

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due to not contracting transportation services. We were in talks um, with a few potential transportation companies to provide 25% of the routes in on a contracted manner. We we decided against that this year due to

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the cost of it. We also did a $360,000 parking lot operating expense. That was assigned originally to the unassigned because the board had approved operating capital in May. I did move that over to our operating capital because of fiscal

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criteria, so that got moved over to finance 302, which was close to a reserved account. And it's also going to be a lot more than 360,000 um, it right now we're up 469. So, I had originally budgeted 360 when I

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knew that assumption. I also did a reduction of 350,000 in special education positions expenses that have not been filled. They were placeholders for speech pathologists, OTPTs that we haven't been able to fill. Um, I did reduce that. There are still

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there are still a $400,000 or $350,000 out there placeholders. We may fill it. I just want to make sure that it's in the budget if we do fill them. I did a reduction of old tab expenses of $50,000. Um, and I also did a reduction of 60,000

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in district-wide licensed over contract salary. And that speaks to two FTEs that we held from both Crossroads and Barnum. We also did 50,000 each as as

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positions that were the bottom right. I did reduce that. I actually counted out and that's about $60,000 savings. And I removed 75,000 a line for high school equipment that that should have been in operating capital. It was in the unsigned in error, so that was my error.

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So we moved that also moved that over to operating capital. And I moved $102,000, which is an FTE, to finance 373 out of that was supposed to fund balance 471, which is student support personnel. So that came off the unsigned fund balance.

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With all these changes, that brings us up to 12.15% fund balance. Are there any questions? >> Any questions for Don? >> Yes. >> I just want to thank you for doing this seminar. We spoke pretty clearly about what we're

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looking for and our expectations and you knocked it out of the park. >> Thank you so much. >> [clears throat] >> So I appreciate all the work you did in this area as well. I'm very concerned in the district about

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the not contracting transportation services. I know I mean it's it's all hitting the fan at the same time and our financial thing I understand. That's an talking with the ESC over there and even others and then parents. And it just seems like such a logical

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thing. >> We do have a fix a potential partial fix for that. When talking about contracting the transportation also I'm sure Superintendent Anderson would probably want to speak to this at some point, but um there have been some some potential

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consolidations that we're doing to save dollars in the transportation area and and uh you know, minimize some of the route overages that they were experiencing. Um Peggy and Steve are Tom Watson our consultant. They went through the routes

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with a fine-tooth comb and found some some savings in in changing some of the routes up. So, there is a partial fix there. And I don't think it's 100% and this is, you know, a management decision, I guess, that it's off the table, but for right now with

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the adopted budget coming in at, you know, 9.72% um it was a consideration that we needed to move in a different direction and really look at how efficient we were with our routing. And then if that wasn't a a proposed fix, then we um

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definitely wanting to research contracted transportation, but I think we owe it to ourselves to wait until September, October to really give that other avenue and uh a sure thing. If it doesn't work, then then we're back into having ample time to look at contracted

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transportation. We did not have enough time. It was like already when we were looking at it was the 11th hour, so our bids came in very high. And it's always costly more costly to to contract transportation than keep it in-house. So, it's not off the

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table completely. I think there was some things we need to put in place first and then look at it. >> I appreciate that and uh looking into other avenues >> Superintendent Anderson's admin report highlights this just a little bit, but uh October they're going to go out for prop

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possibly another request for proposal looking at it. And yeah, right now the initial plan and Brandon can correct me if I'm wrong, but uh it looks like they're going to be able to reduce two of our routes by making some adjustments. And they want to see how that plays out before they ask for it. So,

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it's not off the table, it's just off the table for the >> I think >> the current budget. >> Right. >> That makes perfect sense. I This I've been talking with This has been a pro problem now people have been around forever, and it just seemed I would rather be on deficit spending and solve that

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problem than than uh you know, be at 12% versus 11.3% or whatever it would be without greater program. But, I understand trying to make this working. It's just we have people there that have been advising and we've been looking at this for a long time. They're about to retire, and so it'd be ideal if

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um we can listen to them before they step out the door cuz they have some really good ideas in this regard. But, that is one concern of mine, but I mean it is what it is. 12% thing is working here, so thank you for letting me. >> Are there any other questions? All right. Well, thank you for giving me

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the opportunity to address it again and know that we are in the right direction. Also, we don't know where your amounts coming in. We just had auditors in the building today who prelim, so that's a that's a big wild card in in the whole equation right now also, so I can thank you guys for giving me a chance to

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address it, and we're going to move forward. >> Thank you, Don. Appreciate your time. >> All right. I'd like to move on to the next item, the stormwater management system update. Chris will provide an overview of the issues, actions taken, and uh a brief update on the plan moving

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forward. >> Hi, good evening, everyone. Thank you for the opportunity. Um the write-up I had I think was pretty thorough explaining, you know, kind of where we're at and how we got here. Um essentially, the stormwater management for the field

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is original to the field. And so, if if we were to take and build a cylinder in the ground and lay it with brick and mortar, when the field gets a real heavy rain, water obviously soaks through the sand as it does in all our yards, and then it soaks if there's an extra and it spills into these dry wells.

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Um, and 50 years of freeze-thaw cycle doesn't mix well with brick and mortar, so that's what we have that that failed. The one that was in the field that failed and that caused the original shakeup and stir um sits right between at the front of the

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home bleachers between there and the track, but it's really kind of underneath the the apron, if you will. It's in front of the bleachers. Um, and it caved in and then the manhole, the steel manhole and the the concrete rings that sit on top of

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the brick structure fell. And then it continued to rain and so then more washed out from the hill and then backfilled the whole thing. So to stabilize it, um with help of an engineer, we used um what they call a grout. It's a it's not as strong PSI as

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concrete, so when we do need to take it out, it's easier to get out, but that fills the void and stabilizes the area um and lets us continue with what we're doing. Because of some other major projects, um the parking lot up top of the youth fields, the sports complex,

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and the tennis courts, which that same engineer is helping us with, um the the the long-term solution for this issue is going to be pushed off till after the fall sports season. We have to have well delineation studies done. We have to drill to see how deep

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the water table goes. Both of those things are happening right now. And so we'll be able to play our fall sports there at at the stadium barring some additional catastrophic failure, right? I can't predict the future, but um and then after the season's over, we

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will manage to try and get uh and then as uh solution to work it out. Um, if we would have I know we asked for a turf field in 2017 when we went out for that bond, if we had done it at that point, then the

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the outdated antiquated stormwater management system in the stadium would have been resolved at that time. But, the only reason to really shake things up if if you can do that is if you're going to add a turf field. Otherwise, it's pretty much wait till they fail, fix them when they fail, and move on.

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It is important to note, um, those of you who attended graduation or around the high school at the time of graduation, but uh week before Pioneer Days, we had a similar thing happen in the west parking lot of the high school, so right off door 13. Um, there are

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essentially gutters that go from the roof down through the building and then dump into that same setup, and that failed. It was covered by patterned concrete cuz it failed once before. And what we found out with the engineers that the concrete just masked the

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problem. So, there was still erosion happening, and it was just widening outside the concrete, which is what we saw. Uh, we scrambled to get that one fixed, and we did in time for Pioneer Days and in time for graduation. It is important, I mean, for all of us to know that those are temporary solutions because when you build a

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parking lot in 2026 or 2027 or 2028, it's a lot different than when you did it in northern Oak County in 1974 or 77. And so, by law, we have to have stormwater management now. Um, it it's an uphill battle because we're landlocked and because of the proximity

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of the high school with the slope, with the proximity of the Rum River, and with the wetlands that exist on the high school property, that water from the parking lot or from hard surfaces has to go somewhere. And so, that's really the million-dollar question. Um, most places, we have one

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right behind the district office, it's a stormwater pond or it's a it's a wetland pond, you see them all the time. We've got some on the high school property or on the roundabouts. Um, anytime you put in in hard surface, you have to account for rain water runoff or water runoff and currently the north drive lane of the high school, the

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west parking lot, and the south parking lot facing Bridge Street door one, none of those have storm water management. So, when it comes time to do those parking lots, we're faced with quite the challenge. Um the retention pond is the the primary ideal source.

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Uh if you can't do that, um you know, the the next best option is an underground retention pond, so it literally exists underneath parking lot. Um I have never seen one, but I've been told by other people who have, they're

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huge baffles that go in deep under the parking lot, big enough where you can drive a half-ton truck through it. And those then water is diverted from the surface down into there and then once it seeps into the soil. So, the cost of that, I think, is pretty um extravagant, but uh

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you know, time will tell when we get the soil borings back, find out the depth of the water table, find out if we can use the pond that's already there, how much more can that pond take, cuz that pond was put in in 2007 when we did the east way. And so, the east side of the building does have storm water drainage as well.

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So, it's just the north drive lane, the west and the south lot, and the stadium creek. So, it's not how anybody wanted to kick off their summer. The facility remains closed at this time. Uh it's not because there's there's any

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safety considerations, but until we have a a solid plan, or until we can kind of understand what's, you know, if there's any other things that are going to happen, um it's a good time to close the stadium because it's summer, there's nobody here to use it, you know. So, that's what happened.

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That's what happened. [clears throat] >> I just have a question. I I don't know if you'll be able to answer this, and I don't know um is there a percentage based on the size of the piece of land there of So, is there a percentage of impervious surface and that we are allowed to have now as

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opposed to back then when we were paving and >> That is a good question and I I don't know the answer to that. I think there's always a percentage of impervious surface you're allowed. I think the greater that percentage the bigger the pond needs to be. And so, I think that's the the balance. I don't [clears throat] know if if we

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had city officials come in or local inspectors come in or even an engineer and what they would say. You know, I guess time will tell when we go to do the parking lot. You know, there's not a lot of impervious surface inside the stadium, right? I mean, the track you can kind of

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count as impervious, the concession stand, the sidewalks, but the area under the bleachers is this, you know, it doesn't count. So, we're we might be okay diverting that water into that pond or we might end up building a giant um uh dry well somewhere down near the

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stadium or near the uh post office near the stadium. So, good question. I don't have that answer. >> Okay. >> You're welcome. I wish there were. >> [laughter] >> Say what? So, the current status of the stadium, what would happen if it like

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rained excessively before a game or during the season? >> Well, currently the the hole that or the well that failed is filled in and so, water is not getting in there. So, on this in the stadium, on the home side, there's four of those dry wells and manholes. There's another, I think,

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10 to 12 in the field. Um and the same thing could happen. Another one of those manholes, you know, the the brick could cave in and the manhole could drop in and uh oh. So, that's the extent of that. Only two of them are near the bleachers.

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Uh but two are on the home side where as you know, we don't have enough space for everyone to sit, so people stand frequently. So, it would be a a trip hazard or a fall hazard. >> And if we were to get it, like is it like all of a sudden an earthquake or is it you could know when it starts to sink

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or anything? Are people >> It it's cuz it's really only going to It should only happen with heavy rain. >> Okay. >> Right? I mean, that's in theory that's what it it showed out, but um could you know, I mean, you you've seen rocks stacked on top of rocks before. One just

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wobbles a little differently and somebody jumps or Yes, sir. Okay. In theory, it could >> I see. Are we going to be able to keep the field in good playable condition in the current state as it is? >> As it is right now, yes. >> Okay. >> Okay. >> Yeah, thank you. >> Thank you.

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>> I haven't checked the forecast. >> [laughter] >> I mean, obviously these things take on the rain. >> Right. >> But with all these things >> Well, people it's like people want to know this what snows all the time. Like how come how come the the sidewalks aren't walkable? Well, it started snowing at 3:00 a.m. Right like

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So much of it is >> [clears throat] >> timing and duration and and duration. >> Sure. >> And you know, the amount that falls per hour. So, I mean, we could get we could get sprinkles for the next every day for the next 3 months and then we'd be fine.

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>> Right. >> We get one torrential rainfall of 3 or 4 inches and we might be having a different conversation. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Chris, thank you for the update. Appreciate the time and we know we're going to hear more from you on that. >> I'm going to ask you a question real quick.

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>> All right, our next agenda item is an admin report. A lot of these items have already been covered, but I'm just going to highlight a few of them for the superintendent. Uh school board election, uh three seats will be open for November's election. Uh they The filing period starts tomorrow and closes

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on the 28th. There is a form that needs to be filled out for anyone that's interested and it must be notarized. We do have a notary here at the district, but you need to call ahead of time for an appointment to make sure she is in to take care of that for you. And that all

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gets turned in here at the at the school district. >> Meet the candidates tonight. We put it on the calendars today. September excuse me, February. September 22nd. Right now we're planning on having it in the district office from 7:00 to 8:30.

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Uh it's a Tuesday night. So, we're all hopefully avoiding some of the you know headaches that we've had in the past and conflicts, but I'm sure Jess is going to still be running football practice. Probably if they're working as well. So, anyway, put that on your calendars. The backup

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plan would be to move it to the high school if necessary. If we felt like we were going to have too large of a crowd or the audio wasn't coming through well or something like that, we pushed it to the BAC, but right now it's scheduled for 22nd in the district office 7:00 to 8:30. >> And community will be running that again.

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>> The advisor will post it. >> Perfect. Yeah. Yeah, perfect. Thank you. And I'll say, can you get that on the calendar for all school members, please? Thank you. And I'll just say it again so everyone hears it. September 22nd meet the candidates currently scheduled for district office. May adjust to the high

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school if needed. Thank you, Chris. Uh Cedar Creek Elementary principal July 1st Jamie Stednicka started as a new principal at Cedar Creek. I'm sure I haven't met him yet, but I'm sure

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other admin have met him and I know he is busily working to get his program in place at Cedar Creek. Chris gave us the update on the storm water management. Um Don gave us the update on the budget and

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and addressing the 12% on the assigned fund. Uh Don also addressed the transportation outsourcing. Jake, I think we answered the questions based off of that for right now. Uh there is a new purchasing protocol that Don has implemented across the district.

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Uh the superintendent gave us a quick update on that before that that was an intentional uh thing that was moving forward, but I believe it's fully in place now uh and we appreciate that. Uh as Don said, the financial auditors were in uh the district office today. They

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have a few other meetings, I think, throughout the next month here as well to get through, and we will see that at the upcoming uh And then uh good news, we got the pathway for early learning grant, pathway two.

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Uh and I bet you Stacy can answer any questions on that if something comes up, maybe. >> Chris got it. >> Chris Chris has got that one if anyone has questions on that. So, it's not going through your budget, Stacy, sorry. Any questions on the admin report?

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All right, moving on to our next agenda item, which is action items. We have five action items for tonight's meeting. Uh one of the purposes for the special meeting tonight is these action items. So, let's get into them. Uh approve for the work agreement for laundry staff, grounds custodian, and maintenance

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2025-2027. Mr. Nelson is here uh and anyone from the negotiation team to answer any questions. We will need a motion to approve this work agreement. Are there any questions prior to the motion being made? Seeing no questions, is there a motion

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to approve the 2025-2027 work agreement for uh those areas as presented. So moved. Thank you, Mr. Anderson. Is there a second? >> I'll second. >> Thank you, Ms. West. Is there any discussion on that motion? Seeing no discussion, all in favor of

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the motion signify by saying I and raising your hand. >> I. >> Motion prevails. Thank you. Agenda item two, approval of the board charge for student discipline task force. Um You guys saw or we talked about this at

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the last board meeting maybe two board meetings as well. But the district has asked to start a task force on student discipline. This will include building admin, it's got teachers, it's got some district administration in it as well.

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And we would like to have school board members as what the board's pleasure was on that. My recommendation is that we're going to have two school board members. I will send and reach out to all of you to see who has availability or interest to be on that. It will be added to our

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district school board committee. But we will have two representations on that. We don't need to make a decision on who that is tonight, but we will get that added to Vanessa added to our overall list and that will be public notice everything else as we go forward. The reason that we need to get this one

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approved tonight and you'll see it in your board packet. It is a initial draft that is a fluid task force so it will adjust and change based off of the meetings and the conversation, but we'd like to have our very first meeting on August 1st or

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August 6th I mean. And we want to get that approved so they can start planning for that before the school year starts. There are some things and some action items. If anyone has any questions on that I can get through most of the questions on it and we can send the superintendent

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further questions. This is something that our staff has asked for as well as the school board has asked for so I think it's going to be a good thing. Any questions on the the board charge that we have for that task force? All right, seeing no questions on that.

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We will need a motion to approve that board charge for student discipline task force as presented. >> So moved. >> Thank you member Anderson. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Thank you Miss Parker. Uh discussion on that motion.

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Seeing no discussion, if you are in favor signify by saying I and raising your hand. >> I. >> I. Motion prevails. Thank you. Next agenda item is the approval of the updated board charge for the community engagement task

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force. So, as you all remember, we had the community engagement task force that is very facilities focused. They presented to the board. We had some action areas. This is what was determined as goals for the school board of where we'd like them to dig deeper.

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It's more of a refinement group in digging deeper into those areas that we asked for. This is the updated board charge. Again, we will address and change things as needed, but this is their initial starting point. We would like to also start planning those

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meetings beginning in August and early September to get the community involvement again. You If you have any questions on what is in the board packet, those are the areas. We specifically know like the number four, the athletic and

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co-curricular facility organization is already going to have some areas that they're going to have to discuss based off of Mr. Wood's presentation earlier, but we will talk through all of that. Any questions prior to a motion for that board charge?

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All right, seeing no questions, is there a call to motion or a motion to approve the community engagement task force? >> [clears throat] >> So moved. >> Thank you, Mr. Branch. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Thank you, Mr. Wood. Any discussion on that motion?

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All right, seeing no discussion, if you are in favor signify by saying I and raising your hand. I. >> I. >> Motion prevails. Thank you. Agenda item 6.4, approval policy 533 wellness. Mr. Nelson and the policy committee

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members are here to answer any questions that may arise. Uh this is the second time we have seen this. There were no changes requested from the first reading. Are there any questions prior to the motion being made? All right. Seeing no questions, there are called motion to approve policy 533

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as presented. >> So moved. >> Thank you, Mr. Nelson. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Thank you, Ms. Watson. Discussion on that motion? Mr. Humphrey? >> I would like to say um thank you to the policy committee and Jill in particular and Brandon who looked at this and

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diced it up and listened to the request of what is surely to be a very important topic in high school athletics. Thank you. >> Perfect. Uh if you are in favor of the motion, signify by saying aye and raising your hand. >> Aye. >> Aye. Motion prevails, 5-0. Thank you.

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Uh agenda item 6.5, our last action item, approval of e-learning day MOU. Mr. Nelson is here to help answer any questions that may arise. We will need a motion to approve the MOU for e-learning days. Again, this is a standard thing that we have done in years past. Uh I

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believe there are a few changes that were made based off of conversations. But we will need a motion to approve. Are there any questions prior to the motion? Ms. Watson. >> Can Can um we verbally review just go over what the changes are from the

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previous one? Just so watching have an idea. >> Yes. Brandon, are you prepared to answer that? >> Yes. If I could just be one moment. >> And just so everyone's aware, Mr. Schonrock did send some questions prior

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to. He had uh some questions that the superintendent said he would look at with Mr. Lindquist specific to early education. Uh there's some language that looks like it applies to secondary and but maybe not to early Uh but we have it looking the same. So he has those questions he then said

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those changes can be made if needed. If it doesn't apply they don't do it. But there is a couple language items that he had questions for so nothing that was going to hold up approval tonight. >> Uh Jason have you trouble finding the

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red line that showed cheating? >> Brian, what I'm going to do is I'm going to move on to the agenda item seven and we'll just pop back once you're once you find it. Are you guys good with that? No issues there? Okay, we're going to move on to agenda item seven knowing that we're going back to 6.5. Uh upcoming meetings

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and preliminary topics. Uh just so everyone knows the July 27th regular board meeting has been cancelled. Uh tonight's meeting will is covering everything that would have been discussed at that meeting. Our next meeting will be August 10th unless something comes up uh required another

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special meeting. And then you'll notice as we start these community task force, the discipline task force, we're going to start adding some items to our agendas. Uh so you'll start seeing that getting populated after next month or in the

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August one uh for some updates to the board as that task those task force go forward uh cuz we don't want to just wait for action items. We want to know what we're discussing in those prior to. Any questions or issues

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related to upcoming meetings? All right, seeing none. Brandon, are you good to go? >> Yes, and I apologize for not being >> No, you're you're good. Back to agenda item 6.5. >> The um substantial changes to it

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were updates to the virtual learning platforms that are used and um for the certain models. Now, the platforms are Seesaw, Google Classroom, or

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um Schoology. And then, um incorporated our new phone system has the ability for you can use our phone system

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being in the office with a handset or on any device or on any any computer if you're logged in, you can have that application. You can use the your laptop phone and speaker to talk. So, that gives an an additional

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ability or a new ability to communicate with um others, but all parents and um students have all been incorporated into um that plan. And um um The other change was learning platforms

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Is it the elementary? The elementary used the platforms that I just mentioned. And then, the secondary used Google Classroom or Schoology. And then, that's for the last year because one of those is being done for next year. So, the next time we will be

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getting updated for that. But, we're as we're changing those learning platforms, this software learning understanding was updated. And those are the substantial changes to it. >> Thank you. >> Any other questions for Brandon? Okay.

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Uh we'll need a call the motion to approve the 2026-27 E-learning Day MOUs presented. >> I'm good. >> Remember Anderson, is there a second? >> Second. >> Thank you, Ms. Ross. Any discussion on that motion? All right, seeing no discussion, if

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you're in favor signify by saying I and raising your hand. >> I. >> I. >> Motion prevails, thank you. We are at agenda item seven, we're moving on item eight, school board member reports. Uh member Anderson will start us off tonight. >> I don't have anything to report, Mr. >> That's a great [laughter] report, thank

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you. Uh Mr. Humphrey. >> Nothing to report. >> Nothing? >> Nothing to report. >> Ms. Bockman Pender. >> No updates. >> Good. Ms. Ross. >> Nothing. >> [clears throat] >> Well, I don't know if I should change it up or not. >> You're very quick if you don't.

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>> It would. I've got nothing to report as well. We're good to go. Uh agenda item nine is adjournment. Is there any questions prior to a motion being made to adjourn? No questions. Is there a call for a motion to adjourn this meeting? >> I'm good.

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>> Remember Anderson, is there a second? >> Second. >> Thank you, Ms. Ross. Any discussion on that motion? All in favor signify by saying I and raising your hand. >> I. >> I. Motion prevails. Five to zero. 7:11, we will adjourn.

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Thank you all for coming in tonight. We'll see you early in August. >> Thank you. >> I'm going to go to the bathroom.