we'll call the September 16th pron school board 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 under God indivisible with
liberty and justice recognition of visitors open forum and no requests okay um moving on to number four approve agenda second motion by Jim second by Dwayne all in favor say I I oppose same
sign motion carries poer Pride yeah I just wanted to take a minute to thank the custodial staff for all their work this summer um this this was uh I don't know this was probably the best summer we've ever had since I've been here as far as timing and everything getting
done before well before you know a lot of years you have that nervousness like get going get going we're we're going to be behind but I mean all the hallways everything they just uh they put together a great team and and uh they did great work this summer and I just
wanted to recognize them for that do thank you um number six approved consent agenda some move second motion by Rebecca second by Dale all in favor say
I I I oppos same sign motion carries new business 7.1 discuss approve overnight stay for students to attend the Bandon choir trip to Nashville June 6 through 10th 2025 [Music] all right well hello everybody I'm
Andrew W SP I teach choir hello Christine te B we would like to propose a trip at the end of the school year this year for concert choir and concert band um in the past this has been an every other year trip and it was always
to Chicago uh we both went on that trip two years ago and it seemed like there was medium interest from students uh some were some weren't and the ones who went you know how how was it you know did you like the trip and they're like
it's okay okay um so started to explore the possibility of other things um taking a bigger trip seemed to have interest uh so then we're exploring different cities Nashville is Music City so we hope that it would have a lot of
Attraction for band and chir students um it would take longer to get there it's farther away so as we looked in the calendar the time that seemed to work best is right after the school year is over um so if you will look in your packet if you're interested on the third third page is a
proposal for a 5-day for night trip June 6 through 10th 2025 and this packet is all made through a travel company Sunshine Travel out of Glennville I've worked with them in the past and I find them very very professional and excellent have great connections with
everywhere they go um there would also be a stop in St Louis along the way so if you're wondering about that you can see some of the things that are offered um at the bottom there is a price range we wouldn't know exactly how much it
would cost per students until we have a number of students who sign up so if approved we would ask students and parents for a downit down payment a non-refundable deposit probably due in
October and that's their commitment okay let's do this I'm going to go here some money um and then once they have the exact number then the trip company can calculate EX exactly how much it would be somewhere probably between $1,100 and $1,300 per person uh if there are
families who cannot afford that we have uh fundraising that we'll be doing we're kicking off a butter braid fundraiser uh later this week and we also have another fundraisers selling um holiday gifts and chocolates and things um later on in the school
year okay um if you flip the page there's a sample itinerary of what we might do all of this is flexible as we continue to talk and work with the travel company they could switch some things around with for us she's getting
preliminary ideas of uh different College professors we can do a clinic with different music performances we could see doing a tour of the grand old opery um things like that music related educational stopping by the the Gateway
Arch in St Louis um seeing some historic sites things like that um this is entirely optional uh no one in choir band would have to do it uh but we hope that there's a lot of interest and we think it has excellent
opportunities so we humbly ask yourh consideration you know there if something like CID were to happen what's their refund policy they well they went through all that everybody yeah and uh I think they refunded everybody or rolled
it Forward into a future trip as much as possible good yeah so for the fundraising do you have the option I know a lot of people sell stuff and sometimes you don't really want the stuff you know what I
mean I I and you get less bang for your buck do you have the option just to give money so if a student comes door to door to friends and family and says hey would you like to buy something and you say may just write you a check is that what
you mean absolutely yeah yeah how many students are in concert band um concert band right now we have about 33 to 34 oh and we're in the 30s for concert choir as well with some crossover so do the busing have a
minimum number um you have to the maximum is 50 who can fit into one of their like professional travel coaches uh I don't about a minimum when we were looking at um transportation we were focusing on seeing if we could try to
fit in one motor coach so a lot of the prices and the passenger numbers that you will see is focused on one motor coach and if we do have to get a second one if there is more interest than we thought which a would be awesome but B if we were have to if we would have to get another motor coach there would be an adjustment of prices along with that
so we would have to get that if we see that our interest numbers are higher than what we expected but there would be a way for everybody to go if you want to go and you might maybe want to reach out I'm not sure what their protocol is but reach out to the booster
club okay I'll move to approve the overnight St second motion by Jim second by Rebecca to approve 7.1 any discussion okay
um all in favor I oppose same sign motion carries good luck yes yes get you up on Instagram there you thanks everyone thankk you 7.2 discuss approved 2023 2024 audit
report here comes that test no the test is next month Choice yeah got a hand out there with the slides that Jason's going to go through all right good evening everyone
it's Jason Boon from Smith shaper be back with the or this evening to go over the results of the audit of the district's financial statement for the year end of June 30 2024 I've handed out to everybody there is a financial statements and then
inside the front cover I had a couple of additional items the letter I'll talk about in a second and the PowerPoint the PowerPoint is what I'm going to use to guide our presentation today this evening so just a quick summary of the audit so we issued an opinion on the
financial statements the front of this book here there a couple pages in there's a a letter that from smaer that says goes over what our responsibilities are and that we performing an audit of the financial statements and that we issue an opinion on it and our opinion is an unmodified opinion um lot of people in that first bullet you can see
there refer to that as a clean opinion this means that we think that the financial statements as they're presented here in this book are fairly stated in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles uh in addition to issuing the opinion we're required to do some additional
work the first area is legal compliance so the state requires us uh to make sure that the district is complying with State statutes around things like are we following the rules for paying our bills are we F the rules for bidding projects if we have to bid right and so if the
part of our testing that we do in the audit if we come across something that we feel is an issue with with those statutes were required to bring that to the board's attention which see there we did not uh we do issue an internal control letter that you know we have to gain an understanding of the controls here at
the district and those are procedures to make sure that we record things properly and everything gets recorded and those types of things uh and if we come across an issue there we're also required there's a letter in the in the financial report uh covering that but you can see we did not have any findings to bring to the board's attention
there um because the district gets over 750,000 in federal dollars uh in the in this last year they're required to have a special audit we call it a single audit and it's basically procedures that we have to do just on those federal dollars to make sure that again the
district is complying with the federal requirements so everybody's got their rules that we got to make sure that we follow uh so we do that work that's a additional cost or above the normal audit uh but you can see there we did not have any findings and second to last Student
Activity accounts so the state has rules about Student Activity accounts and making sure that the district complies with those rules no findings and then the last is audit committee letter so our our audit standards require that we issue this letter to you it's multiple
pages to sum it up briefly it's it's basically if we had a problem with the audit or a concern uh we are required to put and writing to the board and that's what that letter covers but as I just went through there we did not have any issues no concerns no problems nothing
to bring the board's attention so everything went well short answer that's quick summary of the audit any questions about any of that before I so all the districts in Minnesota what percent FAL
onits the that 99.9 pass but yeah it would be a pretty pretty rare occasion where we would issue a um a report that wasn't unmodified because what happens is if say we're performing our procedures and we find an issue then we say well problem this issue we should correct it right and
then the district says okay we'll correct that right yeah and then back in in in order and so then we can issue the opinion on it it would only be a situation where the district said yeah we're not going to change that only happened I think once in my career I've been doing it for 30 years
and it wasn't even out of school yeah all right that's quick summary so um financials are here a lot of information in there I'm not going to go through the report that's basically we take information directly out of the report summarize it to kind of give us a high level review of the district for last
year and and with the charts that we put together we can have multiple years um presented here so the first chart I put up here for you is just to kind of understand what's happening with the district which isn't going to be anything new for you but but um just realizing that you know our student
numbers are dropping uh we read a 1,153 back in 2017 where finished last year our ADM uh which is average daily membership which is a calculated number but that's what drives our funding that's what the state pays us on based on that number and so we ended the year
at 8.95 which was down about 8% from the year before so we were down about 76 ADM when you look at 2023 compared to 2024 uh about 22% going all the way back to 27 so um we do a lot of districts rural
districts it's not uncommon to have declining numbers that seems to be kind of the trend but unfortunately it's something we have to deal with I think we talked in past years about you know that drives our a lot of our revenues are driven by that number and so as that those revenues are potentially coming
down those with the expenditures and so we'll look at that and see how we get the here all right the first chart takes a look at Revenue um couple of things to note so total revenue in the far right column is was
just under 16 million so even though our ADM numbers were down we actually saw an overall increase in all of our revenues in total okay and I'll talk about that here in a second uh our buckets that we track Revenue property taxes State AIDS which includes all kinds of State AIDS our federal money and then other which
I'll talk about that as well property taxes this last year we had about 2.8 million of that 15.8 million came in through property taxes now Lev is actually about 3 a little over 3.2 million uh but the state pays a portion of our Levy through the egg credit okay so they reduce that so it's not paid
locally by taxpayers so that's why that number is lower than maybe what you saw when you um did your actual Levy resolution State AIDS we would kind of would have expected that to maybe come down with that reduction in ADM numbers but this last year there were several
things that would happened um we got additional special education Aid that was about 400,000 more than the year before okay so that came in so that that was an offset to that reduction our gen Ed Revenue did stay about the same um one of the big things in the gened revenue is we got additional
compensatory dollars from the state that's based on our our basic skills or um compensatory dollars which helped me as an offset to that as well also the state implemented Their Food Service program for this year where the state paid for meals for the whole year right
so we have another 250,000 in revenue and then the state also passed some additional AIDS um for support supporting services we have about another 120,000 in additional AIDs that we didn't have in the previous year so a variety of things that have caused that um but again you can see
with our numbers coming down our revenues from the state has up till this last year has been relatively flat Federal monies um I call this the covid bubble so we got a bunch of covid monies in those years which is why we got more and so that's coming down as those dollars are are no longer available to
us and the last category is other Revenue so that's include things like our community ed fees that we charge that's about 350,000 our student fees for Student Activities that we collect about 180,000 investment income um food sales
revenue so we do still have some food sales revenue for allart stuff and so on so that's all in that other category there all right that's Revenue sources breaking that down and on a percentage basis so we get 70% through the state through those AIDS about 18% comes for
property taxes you see the other two next chart looks at our tax levy history so the levy has broken up into three components you have your general operating Levy here which is in the the gray color the dark green is community service so there some of the levy goes
toward community service activities and then our debt Levy is the tan color there at the top uh so about two million goes toward operating about 120,000 toward community service and about 1.1 million of the Levy uh is debt service but again about a half a million dollars of that is
actually paid by the by the state through the through the a credit so this does not reflect that portion this is just the total Levy that that the board approves all right those were revenues next up is expenditures uh so this is all
expenditures and these are the categories that the state requires us to track and Report expenditures on in the financial statements so starting out Administration we actually saw a reduction in 20 24 in expenditures we
spent about 780,000 in administration Support Services is going to be districtwide things like the business manager uh Services districtwide technology all of that that was about 877,000 that was actually up a little bit um reg instruction that's our most
significant expenditures that's going to be all teacher salaries and expenses associated with providing instruction we actually saw a reduction there from 6.7 million down to 6.4 million so we did see in real dollars those came down in 2024 vocational is relatively small
about 250,000 special ed that's continuing to increase we spent about $2.2 million in Special live this last year and that's up again from the previous year so those increasing expenses is part of the reason that we were able to bring in additional special Revenue which tends
to lag based on the reporting uh inst structional support was 300,000 pil support which is primarily Transportation that's about 1.2 million site buildings and Equipment that's all the utilities maintenance taking care of the buildings that was about 1.1
million food service was 592 th000 and then community service we spent about 645,000 next chart this's just looks at the general fund our main operating fund for the district uh revenues are in the gray expenditures in the yellow and then uh change in fund
balance which is in the green if you look at 2024 our revenues for the general fund were about 13.1 million which is pretty similar to the previous year expenses were about the same as well um all right sorry they're actually down a little bit so our our
deficit this year actually got a little bit better we were at a deficit about 570,000 and that year we're at a deficit of about 326,000 this last year now if you look at the next chart when we look at the fund balance so deficit doesn't necessarily mean we're reducing
our unassigned fund balance which is our available fund balance because we have things that fund balances dollars that we've gotten that are restricted for certain purposes certain activities and so what you'll see here is unassigned actually increased in the
yellow after having dropped for a couple of years previously uh so we saw a little bounce back in the unassigned uh and that deficit was mostly spending out restricted dollars you can see from there to there that dropped from about a million that we had in restricted
dollars down to about 670,000 so we saw about $350,000 drop that was primarily staff development you'll see in a second here uh spending out ltfm which of longterm facility maintenance dollars that are specific for that as well as our gifted and talented funds I go to
the next chart then so these are some buckets of the restricted monies these are dollars we'll get from the state primarily uh with the exception of Student Activities that we have to spend them for those specific purposes so we keep track of those and again this is a history going back to 2017 so first one
our Student Activity accounts those are set aside for those activities that's why those are restricted we spent the last little bit of safe School dollars plus the current year allocation so there's no carryover balance in safe school no carryover balance in operating Capital medical assistance did increase
we have about 170,000 restricted fund balance there ltfm sorry the light blue is the current Year by the way only about 30,000 left at the end of fiscal 24 so we had been spending those dollars down on that staff development you can see that was a
pretty significant drop so during covid we didn't have much staff development activities and so we were able to spend dollars down there we had about still about 160,000 left over at the end of the year and then about 25,000 and gifted and talented uh so that's restricted there's
also assignment of fund balance so this is at board's discretion uh so we've just got three categories here so there's only about $1,000 Set Side technology uh Turf repair maintenance was actually zero so we had to set aside about $80,000 well was 200 and then we dropped
it to 80 and then we utilize the rest of that although it don't we Ed it on Turf repair on so use that to cover repurposed it and used it to cover the Z lease which that's the thing about a sign you can set it aside for that but you can also change bu later on and use it for something else restricted you
can't do that the money comes in and it's restricted you got to spend it on that and then we have small amount for student groups there as well moving uh beyond the general fund your food service uh so revenues were up substantially expenses were actually
down a little bit we generated a surplus uh there past 10 years or seven years we got here there's two years where the state paid for full funding for stool meals that was this year and this year so or is it Federal
funding Federal in 2022 in the state so you see participation is much higher when we offer Prett prly uh so we did generate a surplus that goes down to the next chart uh that increased our fund balance so we have about 340,000 up from 185 the previous year so we got a little
over half of our annual expenditures in Food Service sitting in our fund balance been working with a lot of districts it's been pretty common we're seeing that food service fund balances are increasing with the with the program uh so those dollars are available for food service you can use it toward
Capital needs within them within the operation um as well as whatever else is needed within within Food Service community service so again revenues in the gray yellow is expenses so about the same we
have basically a break even overall in community service we bring in about 640 44,000 spent about 645 so just small deficit go on the next page or the next chart fund balances here so the yellow
is uh nonspendable it's mostly restricted and that's for things like ECP which is Early Childhood family education uh community service and adult uh basic education and then we have a couple of programs that have negative fund balances uh that would be Community
Ed activities as well as School Readiness preschool and that negative got a little bit bigger this last year moving on debt service this is the dollars and this is really controlled by the levy coming in and then making our debt payments uh so that it did increase
this last year by about 40,000 so we're servicing we have about $13 million outstanding in bonds from our various projects we've done over the last several years uh we paid about 900,000 in principal down 2024 last couple of charts um so
basically we're just comparing we're basically taking the real expenditure dollars and divide them adms to get to a per ADM cost for each of these activities that we're presenting here uh and we also have some additional data it's 20 fiscal 23 data
so it's a year old okay those far two columns and there's a couple of banded ranges that the state reports on one of them is 500 to 999 we're at 8.95 students we right in that that range that's the green and then the light blue there is the overall State average for
all districts okay um and just additional information there's about 96 school districts included in this band 500 to 999999 and there's 327 districts in the overall State average and one thing
Jason mentioned too you when that sometimes that where it looks like it goes up it's actually because it's per student so our number of students is going down so the cost per student is going up oh yeah that's ask so if you look at 2023 just for illustration our
expenses were up a little bit in District School administration and support so again this is board Administration support staff districtwide technology and all those things that are grouped into here we only spent about $60,000 more but because we dropped 76 in ADM on a per
basis that definitely increased it on a much larger amount also illustrative of that if you go to the next chart regular structuring we actually spent remember earlier we actually spent less in real dollars in the current year by about $400,000 so we would have thought that
would come down but you down 76 students your per student cost it's still $7,100 per student again comparing to a year year ago at 6,200 for districts between 500 and a th000 and the overall State average next chart is pup support which
is primarily transportation to lesser extent counselors and Health Services expenses again in people support we actually down a little bit but we saw a little bit of an increase but we're pretty close to the average of districts there in that band then the
final chart looks at the general fund overall again general fund expenses on in total were actually down so we were um we were up in in special ed and a couple other areas but we were down overall in reg construction uh but we
saw an increase because of the drop in the ADM numbers pretty common but when you look at it we're slightly above the districts in that 500 to a th000 range and below the overall State average and just a quick summary again
on modified opinion on the financial statements clean opinion our fund balance so we saw earlier that unassigned fund balance did increase uh we ended the year at 226,000 which is about 1.67% of our current expenditures okay
so got a little bit better which is good when you have that larger drop in your student numbers but again we did get some other revenues that helped out in that in last year and I think our numbers are down a little bit again initially or did we I don't remember
what we said they're better than we thought they were going to be like to hear that food service we had the Surplus there with the food program funded and then community service basically broke even then overall across the whole fund there we have a positive fund balance
so those are the highlights I brought to the board today so I'll open it up see if anybody else has questions thank you Jason thank you thank you very much appreciate it recognize Amy for for work she does as
well thank you Amy thank you Amy work it's a little extra work to do this time of year than normal all right um do I have a motion to approve the audit report Mo second
motion by Dwayne second by Rebecca all in favors opposed same sign motion carries thank you so much thank you thank you 7.3 approved proposed lovey
certification maximum amount um I learned something different new this last uh week one of the one of the things that you know because sometimes people say well why do you approve the maximum amount why don't you just you know pick something less because it
changes so if you if you pick a certain amount in the enrollment changes and you just set it at a certain number then that's where you're set and that also then impacts the aid that you would get that goes with it so that's why when the recommendation is
to recommend the maximum amount because any changes then we get the maximum amount of Aid as well I'll move to approve second motion by Jim second by Dale all in favor sorry um
the least Levy um was it 12 um it's a a negative 169 or is that with the dropping off of
the other or I'm not sure what you're referring to adjustment we're doing we're approving this right 73 on on line 12 um is local Levy it's 160,000 and
then adjustment of 169,000 and because I was thinking that was that's school is dropping off but then we're going to use that money for yeah I didn't know what drops off and then what the Middle School dropped off
but then we add right The Zed building so the Zed buildings using all of our limit there was a change in the legislation that they actually added like $65 a student oh so there is actually a little bit more room left
that we did not have before okay well there is a little wiggle room now sense fall off S you're good okay do we need to revote yeah um so you want
to you need to re moove so motion by Jim second by Dwayne to approve 7.3 or Dale sorry it was Dale um to approve 7.3 all in favor I oppose motion
carries um 7.4 enrollment update yeah I have a little bit of good news for a change um our projected enrollment for this year that we set the budget on was 843 um but if you look at our number we're sitting at um if you take that
number on the bottom bottom right it's 883 that's what we ended the year last year and what we started with this year was 875 so the 875 is more than 843 but it's still less than 883 that makes sense so that's right
it's it's not what you we're still losing students but it's not as bad as what we projected and then if you go to the bottom on the left the two charts on the left we ended the year at 966 and this year we're at
970 and if you look up at the very top um the numbers early childhood and preschool so if you see those two numbers that's where you see the biggest increase so that that is helping us tremendously as far as enrollment
numbers um overall make sense questions once we get them in we use the he too so the young ones and and I should also mention like
that that 970 number we're not including the alc see Future's choice because those are partial funded versus full funded all right um 7.5 discuss policy updates um what I would like to do is
just move down to the next number and we're I think we're at the 400s now so I'll just send you an updated list of the ones that would need to be changed and then I will get those to you so you can look at the ones that uh have any changes to
them 7.6 student council report and Corey has slides this time very fun next one yeah uh so first of all we have 47 members this year which is I don't know exactly how many we had last
year but it's quite a bit more so uh we're excited to have more people who want to get involved so um yeah um and something we changed up this year is that we actually met in the summer a couple of times to like set up what we're doing for the whole year so just met it just made uh the first couple
weeks of school a lot smoother um and I just have some pictures of some of our stuff that we've done so far so we have senior Sunrise right here so quite a few seniors that showed up for that um football games have been fun um we do the halftime races with them relatable
uh suits with the little kids uh they love that so um and all the parents in the SS love watching it too so I think everybody loves it yeah yeah it's pretty fun to watch so we love doing that and um we got a display pcee right outside the library here so we're gon to start
using that for updates and advertisement for things like homecoming pancake breakfast stuff so and we got student conso shirts this year which and during my time in high school I don't remember last time we've ever done that so um thought that was fun and we uh sold
homecoming shirts and I forgot to look at the exact number but I know we sold it's like around 430 homecoming shirts this year so I know that's way more than last year so um so it's 450 now Cory so it's it is okay yeah so
making a lot of money from that um and lastly uh we're just planning for homecoming um making all the floats um planning for the dance um all the things so um it's gone really well this year so far and I think it's
gonna go be fun so I like the font that's you're big what's that I like the font that's big yeah I appreciate that too sorry I'm kind of speaking out of turn here but Cory you talked about 47 members previously with the student council what
would you say the representative of mail the females on the student council was um I think last year there's like including myself there's like only like two or three boys was you basically just me so um this year we
have I don't know exactly how many we have but um more yeah seven and eight is um so uh improving anyways so just get more people more both do you have like all class levels kind of represented
pretty evenly or um I know we have about 20 seniors we don't have too many Juniors we have have probably five six Juniors um and then an fair amount of uh sophomores and freshman so I think our two biggest are
the freshman and seniors so do they still have to interview to be um um we have like an application process and we go through and stuff like that so nothing too serious but don't deny too many yeah no no we're welcome to new
members whenever so yeah thank you nice job yeah big 7.7 Zed report uh we have not had a meeting yet we'll have one Thursday Thursday did you
have one last week yes because they're going to start having them um I did see the agenda and they are hiring some Paris like four or five of them four or five yeah well four
specialized and then one regular I don't know the difference between I suppose the specialized are more certain assignments that they have but they're feeling at least they're getting people and then for discussion is going to be the solar project I what
that means I don't know but I don't know if he said anything about any of that otherwise I have nothing 7.8 ad report hi everybody sorry I didn't uh take Cory's lead on my font size but
I'll do my best summarize um something to look forward to in the future yeah exactly I'll make sure make sure that's the first thing off the top of the list um today there was a a high school league area meeting um in which they talked aot lot about that ninth grade
governance that Craig has talked about previously and so basically currently the high school league only governs students in grades 10 through 12 as well as any students that are participating on a varsity junior varsity or B squad team and
so uh moving forward there will be a vote uh and on between October 4th and October 18th that uh the high school league is is postulating to include ninth graders in their governance all right and basically what it's going to do is it's going to
create High School league teams and non- High School league teams and so what the what the big issue that's going on right now is that you're having uh players such a that are in like grades seven eight and nine that are participating on like uh B Squad JV or varsity teams and
then going back and playing in the junior high on the junior high or C Squad teams which is technically against the bylaws of the State High School league and so ultimately what what they are telling us is going to happen is that you're going to ultimately create all of these different High School
league level teams so for instance we would have multiple C squads and then be able to communicate within our schools on the specific level of of the of the C squads or those or those ninth grade level teams to make sure that we don't have uh junior high students that are
bouncing back and forth between different levels and ultimately uh messing with their eligibility as well as the eligibility of our teams so I can provide some more information with some specifics on this but what I what I would tell you is that this is overall a good move for the high school league to
be able to clean everything up to make sure that you can take the gray area out of uh whether somebody whether a student is eligible to participate at a specific level after playing at one of the uh High School governed levels if everybody
can follow me there okay and so um I think there's there's going to be a learning process because I can tell you that almost every single activities director at the meeting today kind of had an like a specific example that they were scratching their heads on of where they possibly violated a bylaw or two
right but I think that's what what people have found is that that's common place over um over time okay and so this is trying to clean it up so that everybody can have the the set of expectations that everybody's foring going forward so what you would see from our structure is that we would create
either High School league teams or non- High School league teams and if a student is on a non- high school league team they would not be able to compete against a high school league team or if they were on a non- high school league team and we mov them up to a high school
league team there's no longer they're no longer eligible to go back to the non High School league team follow me there okay so the clarification and language will be different but I'm trying to describe it in Lay terms so that we can move
forward with it in the easy process but overall I think it's a good thing I'll work with I'll work with schlick and and D on just making sure that we are uh in accordance with our vote okay yeah because wrestling will be a just kind of a whole different correct there's there's each sport is going to be
individually have to be crafted to to work out the the the hurdles that that we'd face with it um got as Cory mentioned we've got Homecoming coming up so we've got coronation boys volleyball powder uh and the powder P football game we got the parade coming up we got the
volleyball game during the the school day on Friday and that's going to put us right into the homecoming tailgate and the football game so it's kind of crazy that homecoming is right around the corner here but I think we're set up to have another awesome week and provide our students with a bunch of or bunch of experiences that they can thoroughly
enjoy so any questions for me awesome I appreciate everybody have a great night y I'm I'm gonna be out at the soccer game so if somebody needs something give me a call okay thank you thanks Cory and I didn't see him back there thought
left principal's reports at my blind spot didn't [Music] you Mr lman is dorota with Aiden's football team tonight so that's where he is at um but I'll take the first couple slides we're off to a great start of the
school year in all three buildings we want to recognize our new teachers working from left to right uh first off on the left that is Jack Hager he's a long-term substitute for special education in the high school next to him is Julie Fox she's been a longtime par professional here come to find out last
year that she did have a four-year degree um so we applied for a teaching license and she's working in our ecse uh program doing a fantastic job right in the middle that is a brand new title teacher her name is Carlin banan um she's part of Mariah Sarah and Carlin's
title team next to car is a familiar Triton face that is Katie Fitzgerald alumni and she is currently working in the agriculture uh working closely with Mr ickler and also doing some facts and on those type of jobs and lastly on the
far right another alumni that's Caroline Gussy and she's working in the middle school as a special education teacher for our sld students she uh did some long-term subing with us last year in elementary school and we're excited to be able to continue to have her so we are off to a great great start and we
want to welcome these five new teachers awesome um been a great start at elementary school um beautiful weather pretty hot actually U but it's it's going well meet the teacher days we had 98% of all our families in to meet with
the teachers um it was outstanding attendance um it was a great two days and something I hope to be able to continue moving forward grade level meetings expectations I know Mrs Johnson and Mr ludman did at the secondary levels as well but the start of school
year means that the principal comes into your classroom we talk about what the expectations are in the lunchroom in the classroom in the hallway out on the playground so that's been a big part of my last couple days our hero Awards we we have revamped them in the elementary
school hero awards are recognized on Fridays the way it will work now is Teachers can hand out as many hero Awards as they want to their students and that's the little piece of paper that they can take home usually ends up on refrigerator it says you know Trisha has been a great listener in class a
hard worker and a great friend Trisha can take that home put it on the refrigerator for her adults there and then Trisha would walk down to the office and put her name into what we call snake pit we've got a kindergarten snake pit first grade second grade third
grade fourth grade fifth grade more times you get nominated your name goes into the snake pit we pull out names on Fridays they get an award so it's trying to encourage teachers to nominate more people in the past we just gave two for every classroom teacher would hand out two hero Awards now if they want to they
could hand out 15 in a week um and it's going to come down to more of a lottery system if they get a a trinket so do they pull out the names at the end of the weekend or whatever and start over snake bit empties out and then we we go back at it the next week and then uh Universal screening growth goals other
big thing in elementary schools start the year is a lot of Assessments um we know where we left off last year and we want top jump right into it see where we're at the beginning this year all of our grade levels and our Specialists came up with goals based around growth of all of our students really emphasize and meeting each student wherever they
are at and making sure that that person is pushed forward that's whether they're below grade level at grade level and sometimes above grade level we want to be pushing all of our students so we're focusing on growth this year in the elementary school middle and high school also off
to a great start our open house um super fun night for both middle and high school and if I had to guess I would say we probably had 95 plus percent um attendance at that too I think having our uh pictures taking place that night
really encouraged a lot to come um Chromebook distribution and picking up schedule so there's some incentives there for coming to open house but super fun night uh to mingle with the students and families so enjoyed that we had our orientation day so as you know the sixth
and nth grade got to have the buildings to themselves on that day and as I've said before I'll say again really reduces the amount of anxiety that those students have as they're starting their first day in middle or high school so those were days that were full of fun
instead of full of anxiety so thank you for supporting um that time for those students Mr vanik mentioned our grade level meetings we had those 6 through 12 um and in those meetings specifically did talk about the handbook as well well
and I know like review reviewing that is important with students and also with families so it was sent out in the Cobra connections as well with a link to the middle school and the high school um to the parents for them to review uh Mr lutterman wanted me to
share that the changes that were made with the headphones and earbuds and backpacks has been going very well I know there was some worry like how would that be received by students but uh surprisingly pleased I think would be how he would describe it with um the
implementation of that new practice at the high school um pictures you can see uh Corey showed one of those earlier the senior sunrise and then the bottom one is our eighth grade web leaders and then some pictures with the sixth graders on their
first day in middle school so fun stuff and then just a reminder about a few things coming up some of which we've talked about already but we have our first grade checks for eligibility uh this week next Monday is already our three-hour late start I feel like we've
been planning that day for a long time and all of a sudden it's it's coming up next week um homecoming of course we've talked about the parade at 10: a.m. and then our first profile of a graduate uh program will be on October 11th at 7:30
in the morning so if you're able come join us in the small cafeteria for that I would reckon that if any of you get phone calls on the three-hour late start it'll probably be based around the lunchtime so I think it's appropriate for me to inform all of our students will receive lunch but yes our
kindergarteners will basically be getting off of the bus and going straight to lunch we're anticipating that lunch starting about 11:05 so kind of thinking of what type of things would you maybe here as a board member all of our students are going to get fed they're all going to have 20 minutes in elementary school it's going to be a
little bit later right now the kindergarteners start eating at 10:45 so they'll they'll be pushed back 20 minutes but we worked uh with Misty and we we got the schedule set so everyone will eat still on 3our L starts any questions for Mrs Johnson or
myself thank you thank you than thank you 7.10 superintendence report um just want to let you know we we are pretty much done with the react mou we just got to basically sign that um but that basically is we're just taking
whatever money we do get from the state and that's going to the people that are getting the training um and I just did a a large dollar amount and then we're going to divide it amongst uh staff so um that's gone real well getting that taken care
of um exterior paint I just wanted to let you know that yes I know that some of the exterior paint that we had done is peeling um they are warranting the paint but apparently the paint ER uh moved to Hawaii so um we're not going
to be able to get him back to fix it but um they did agree on a plan with us so we're working on uh getting that done um and and then the last thing I wanted to talk to you about Dave got a bid and I believe it was right around $1,000 but
one of the things that um we did buy a new oven but the new oven has a cold water line that is required to help it cool and that needs to be a softened water line so we do have um the cold
water soften but Dave kind of did some checking and there is actually a portion of the water that's not softened so technically even though the cold water is in that system the hot water is not where it's getting its hot water from so
in order to basically soften water in the entire District it would cost about 11,000 so we're working with Amy on if we can get that done through our food service since it does ultimately end up in the kitchen um if not I think we can
use ltfm uh to cover that as well so not an expense we were planning on but it it is probably something in order to maintain warranties we should uh look at doing it I don't think it's a bad thing to have the water softened who do you go through um he
Dave Dave got the first quote from New Line mechanical since they're the ones that did most of the the plumbing in the U renovation but he was also going to get another one from uh DCM just to kind of get a
comparison but we did get our first quote today so that requires Sal then or not I I not sure what kind of system it was okay any questions for
me any other new business if not I'll make a motion to Second motion by Dwayne second by Dale all in favor I motion it's very boisterous to