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have anyone speaking tonight for public comment, so I should have at least announced that. So, okay, we have the call to order, we have the roll call, and now we'll stand for the pledge. >> 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. >> Great. I will go ahead and make the motion to approve tonight's agenda. Can I get a second? >> Second. >> Great. Director Lawler with the second. All those in favor of approving tonight's agenda, raise your hand and

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say I. >> I. >> I. Opposed? Agenda passes. Superintendent report. >> The only thing I I have tonight is I want to acknowledge the years of service of Paul Lee, who has been our director

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of special services uh since 2013, and as part of the budget cutting process, we've done some readjusting with the administration, and special services will now fall under the umbrella of our chief academic officer,

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who's Cait- Caitlin Willis. And I just wanted to thank him for his professionalism, his support to the board, particularly in these last few years regarding policy, and I wish him well and and the best in future endeavors. >> Yeah, I would say the board would echo

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those comments as well, and um he will definitely be missed. I know policy he's done phenomenal things with for the board, so thank you for that. Um I will I don't have anything tonight, so we'll go to our consent agenda. We have items A through G.

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>> K. Oh. Oh, I'm sorry, A through K. I didn't see that. >> That was true. A through K. Which are on the screen. Um I'll go ahead and make a motion to approve items A through K. Is there a second? Great. Director Kelsenberg with the

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second. All those in favor of approving tonight's consent agenda, raise your hand and say I. >> I. >> I. Opposed? Great. Consent agenda passes. We are here tonight. We had la- at our last meeting, we had a report on our

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10-year long-term facility maintenance plan. Um so we are here to take action tonight, and Mark has joined us. >> Good evening, Chairwoman, members of the board, Superintendent Funk. Um tonight we're here at for approval with the long-term facility maintenance 10-year plan. At the last meeting, I presented

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the 10-year plan, as well as as projects specifically for fiscal year FY2028. Uh I through each building and kind of each of the projects within each of the buildings that are listed. Tonight, as part of the MDE application in your packet, we'll see those same two things that we have on the screen is our

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10-year plan that's color-coded by project as well as the project specific list, the same thing as last meeting. Now, we have four four new attachments that are part of the MDE packet that we need is the LTFM, our expenditure application, our revenue projection, a

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statement of assurances that kind of says we're going to get the projects done and we'll do them on time, and then a school board resolution, and then meeting minutes for adopting the 10-year plan. So, this is very fluid from year to year. So, basically, we're adopting a 10-year plan, but it's really the FY 2028. We'll

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come back here to talk about FY 2029 and a new 10-year plan here next year at this time. So, with that, I will open up to any questions that you or anybody else may have. >> Great. Just before we open the floor for questions, is there a motion tonight to approve the long-term facility plan?

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>> I'll make a motion. >> Great. Sarah with the motion, is there a second? Great. Director Kelsenberg with the second. And now, questions. Anyone? It's always really thorough, but go ahead. Mhm. >> Nothing's changed since the last meeting, right, that you presented?

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>> Correct. >> All right. All those in favor of approving the 10 >> It's a resolution. So, I'll have to do a roll >> is a resolution. Okay. Um we have a motion and a second. Joan, roll call. >> Director Chrispich. >> Yes. >> Director Hackett.

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Director Kelsenberg. >> Yes. >> Director Lawler. >> Yes. >> Director Parker. Director Thelander. Chair Sherman. >> Yes. >> Resolution passes. >> Great. All right. Thank you, Mark. Appreciate it. Next, we have Chris up to talk to us

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about the 25-27 Nutrition Services Master Contract. And this is another action item tonight. Good evening. Board members. >> Mhm. >> Um so what we have before you, we're pleased to present um our um settlement

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with uh Nutrition Services bargaining unit. Um so this was a fairly quick one. Uh I think we only had about four meetings. Um and so um let's see, I don't have the clicker, do you? >> Yeah, I just got it. >> Okay. >> I'm sorry.

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>> Um so um these are the highlights. Um there there were not a ton of um language items back and forth, so this really kind of sums it up. Um we did agree to step movement in each year, um the 2.25% increase on the wage schedule in both years.

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Um that does include um a little bit of a market adjustment to help out our Nutrition Services staff to try to be a little bit more competitive. Um we did get the medical insurance language um into the contract that reflects the cost sharing that we've been discussing with the other groups.

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Um and then something new um is um we added a um longevity pay at 5 years in an attempt to see if we can't retain um a few more of those staff. Um and then we did the same things with um short-term disability leave um and

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long-term disability adjusting those things, removing the short-term disability benefit, adjusting the long-term disability to align with Minnesota paid leave. >> Great. >> So um this agreement um did land within our um board parameters. We are pleased

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with that. Um it was indeed a pleasure working with our um Nutrition Services negotiations team. They were awesome. Um and then I also want to thank um Ashley um Ashley Zong and Christian McIntyre in my office as well as McKenzie Christensen in the Finance Office for

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their help in this process. Great. So yes, I would recommend that that board approve the settlement. >> Okay. Um I will go ahead and make a motion to approve this contract. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Great. Sarah with the second. >> [laughter]

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>> Any questions for Chris? This will all be available, I'm assuming some update to the website now that we have um our contract information out there. Okay. Great. Mhm. >> Um as far as food service, we provide food

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service for a couple other entities that are not in our district, right? >> Mhm. >> Does this contract cover those people, too? >> Yes. >> Okay. And is So is that kind of odd that they, even though they're working at another district, they're

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working with this contract or >> I don't think so. I mean, we're their employer. They're just working at a different site. >> Okay. All right, that helps. Thanks. >> Okay. Okay. There's a motion and a second. All those in favor of approving the nutrition services master contract, raise your

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hand and say I. I. >> I. >> Opposed? Motion passes. Thank you very much, Chris. Appreciate that and all the efforts of your team and our nutrition services staff. So, thank you. All right. Um our next item is a resolution relating to the election

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of school board members. And um I will go ahead and make a motion to approve the resolution. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Great. Director Lawler with the second. Uh Joan, this is a resolution, so roll call, please. >> Uh Director Chris Fitch? >> Yes.

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>> Director Hockert? Director Kelsenberg? >> Yes. >> Director Lawler? >> Yes. >> Director Parker? >> Yes. >> Director Sealander? Chair Sherman? >> Yes. >> Resolution passes. >> Great. Thank you very much. Okay. Our uh next item, our last item

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before closed session, is an action item. This is a statutory requirement for school districts to approve a preliminary budget. This is talking now about next year's budget. Uh we kind of toggle back and forth between last year, current year, this year, and so this is

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for the 2026-27 preliminary budget. >> This is an action item. Um >> Good evening. >> Yeah. >> So before you is the uh fiscal year '27 preliminary budget for all funds. And so

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what you'll see, um the second column there is our preliminary revenue um budget. And uh again, the general fund is um just shy of 156.9 million.

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Um both in uh the revenue and the expenditures. So there is no planned change to fund balance. Uh the food service is um in the revenue, 8.5 million dollars. Uh

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with expenditures uh estimated about 8.4. So there is a slight increase in fund balance projected for next year. Community service is um revenue is about 10.5 million uh with expenditures

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planned at uh roughly 10.9. So there is a slight decrease in the fund balance about 370,000 and 70,000 dollars. Uh building construction revenue, um this is again mainly

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interest uh within the building construction funds. Uh we are planning to utilize more of our bond proceeds. Um those again are carried over from our current fiscal year. >> [snorts] >> That fund balance. So that's why it looks like a negative uh to our fund

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balance. Again, we are planned spending those restricted fund balance um for the bonds for uh our next year. Um what's left there will be our LTFM bond um proceeds uh for

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uh future years. And then our debt service, again, this is like our mortgage paying off those uh bond um those bond schedules over the years. So, we have um revenue of 20.6 million and

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then about 19.7 million dollars. So, just a slight change in our fund balance in the debt service account because we do levy at about 105 uh percent um when we do our debt service.

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And then custodial, this is our scholarship funds and we do plan on just the $7,000 a level revenue and expenditures. So, overall for all funds, 197

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446 485 for revenue and for expenditures, 231 1941. So, uh again, before you, that is the proposed or preliminary budget for next year.

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>> Great. >> for your approval. >> I'm going to go ahead and make a motion to approve this preliminary budget for 26-27. Is there a second? Great. Dr. Kelsenberg with a second. Open the floor up for any um final questions for Marie.

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Okay. Seeing no questions, um I just want to say thank you again for just answering the few questions that I had this afternoon. So, I always appreciate your availability. Um with that, seeing no questions, we'll go ahead and vote. All those in favor of approving the preliminary budget, raise

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your hand and say I. I. Opposed? Motion passes. Thank you very much. Okay. Um Oh, Marie, can I ask one other question? This will go on the website, correct? Is

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that usually like it within a day or two? Okay, thank you. Oh, Director Dr. Funk. >> Yes, I have a recommended amendment or change to the agenda. >> Oh. >> Okay.

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So, we just discovered that we omitted You had the Q-Comp report on June 2nd. >> Mhm. >> We just discovered we omitted the approval of the Q-Comp report that needs to be approved by June 30th. >> Okay. >> So, I have

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a request that the board amend tonight's agenda to add action item I think it'd be What is it, Joan? >> Um >> It'd be E. >> E. Um for approval of the 2026 Q-Comp

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annual report. The report was provided to board members on June 2nd, 2026 for review and requires board approval prior to submission to the Minnesota Department of Education. So, we're going to need a motion from you to modify the agenda. >> I second. >> Then we're going to have a

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motion to approve. >> Yep. So, I'm going to go ahead and make a motion to amend the agenda to include a action item to approve our Q-Comp program. Is there a second? Great. Dr. Kelsenberg with the second.

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All those in favor of modifying the agenda, raise your hand and say I. >> I. >> I. Opposed? Okay, we are now going to add action item E and we'll address that right now. So, we had a report at the last meeting. I don't think any questions have come in

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or I haven't heard of any. And again, another statutory obligation just to get this approved before the end of the month. I'll make a motion to approve. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Great. Okay. Any questions for Dr. Funk? >> Sorry, what are what are we approving?

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>> So Deb Van Cly presented the Q Comp update report on how Q Comp went throughout the year on June 2nd. And typically historically she's presented it and we've approved it the same night, but the practice for the

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board is >> Right. >> we like to see things before we approve it. So we moved her back and had her do it on June 2nd. It was inadvertently left off the agenda this year to approve it tonight and we have to have a board board action by June 30th to uh

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>> And that's really just to allow the board time to follow up on questions with if there is any questions. >> So it's it's a procedural error on our part. >> Yeah. Any other questions? Great. All those in favor of approving Q Comp

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um per the presentation at the our last meeting, raise your hand and say I. >> I. >> I. Opposed? Great. That passes. Thank you for catching that. That would have been not fun to have come back. We would have had a special meeting. Okay. Um we have one more item on tonight's agenda

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and that is a closed session. So let me read that um announcement. The next item is a closed session pursuant to Minnesota Statute 13D.05 Subdivision 3C.3 which allows the board to go into a closed session to develop or consider an offer to purchase or sell real estate

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property. Um I will entertain a motion now to go to closed session. Is there a motion? >> So moved. >> Great. Director Lawler with the motion. Is there a second? >> I second. >> Great. Sarah with the second. All those in favor of moving to closed session, raise your hand and say I.

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>> I. >> I. Opposed? Great. We will adjourn to closed session. >> I recommend you recess until 6:00. You'll be here about that. >> We're going to recess till 6:00. We've got a couple people that are dealing with some um scheduling, so great.

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>> Great. Put this at 6:00 then that we adjourn? Cuz we're recessing right now, right? >> Um we adjourn now. >> We're adjourning now. >> Yeah. >> To a recess. >> Yep. And then um yeah. >> All right.