##VIDEO ID:JkEQOCD4MjQ## all right you guys are live okay it's 5:33 in the West Central Secondary media center and we will call the meeting to order and we will start with 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 liy and justice for all all right roll call Gross here Porter here sandstead here sour here rri R here and Vincent can you hear us Claire did you say here clearly I did not yeah because it can hear moving no BR yeah okay can you hear us now Claire she's muted you're muted you're muted so you'll just have to unmute or you can unmute if it's sorry I can hear you now before I couldn't but now it's okay so we just did a roll call and you are here correct correct all right and we don't have any public comment at this time so we will move into um modifying the agenda we do have uh one additional um retirement to add there Sarah appan custodian um that's 5.1. 3.1 um and also we removed 6.2 uh the certif ifed staff seniority list uh there is still some uh Kinks to work out of that so um are there any other additions or corrections to the agenda then I'd look for a motion to adopt the modified agenda so and a second all in favor we'll take a roll call vote um Ross Yes Porter yes sandstead yes sour yes Al is a yes ol yes and Vincent Yes all right agenda is adopted we'll move into our committee reports um Community task force an update there I know if you and Ryan want to share anything from our last meeting there sure so over the last couple meetings the the task force has uh developed their three guiding principles that they're going to use to evaluate each of the facilities proposals um um and we'll see how those proposals measure up to those guiding Pinnacles um during the last meeting we were quite fortunate to have a few of the former board members from the early 90s um come talk to us about how they were able to get the communities to come together and make the difficult decisions that they needed to back then to form what is now the WCA District um there were a couple of things that former board chair Kent Marshall said that I I think were really meaningful and they really stuck out um the one was that their guiding Pinnacle that they used back then was that they uh wanted to do what was best for their students not what's best for the towns or or their parents it's how can we best educate the students I thought that that really stood out um and then he encouraged everybody to look at WCA as the community and not Hoffman Barrett elow Lake Kensington as the communities it's the one community um and then the one of the big big things I thought was a was a good thing that he brought up was yes we have to ask what we can afford to do but we also have to ask probably more importantly what can we not afford not to do so that's that's one of the the big takeaways that I had from that um there were a couple of presentations from while Paul gave the overview of the uh demographer study um we'll get more information on that I understand in a couple of weeks and then we got some information from the financial advisers on taxing information funding information and that kind of thing um at that point I had to step out so I'll let Maya take over yeah I was just gonna I think you you really hit on most of what I was going to say as well just the the three Pinnacles that they came down to was um future focused education operation sustainability and a United WCA Community was kind of their three main Pinnacles that they want to really weigh every whatever option comes out against is against those three items so um I mean I thought there was some really good discussion um they did come away with a you know some options that they would like to see some Finance Co cost on um and so as they work through those processes then they would bring those back and then start to weigh against what what makes the most sense what what is the most fiscally responsible and and what what is best for the kids overall so um uh yeah I I thought it was a good meeting and and those former board members definitely gave some they they really had the ear pretty much everybody in the room I thought I don't I don't know if you Mr vosene is that pretty accurate um you know there was a lot of uh you know hey they had they had some tough questions answer they had um know I was in school at that time it was there was a lot of heat in the you know we had student council meetings about the exact same thing and and they got heated you know and it was um you know was interesting time so um definitely uh we're we're not in that same boat where we're trying to meld you know different schools together at this time but you know we still need to do what's best for this community so um I definitely think it was a good meeting and um hopefully they get some more some more things come out of the next meeting or so so yeah anything you would like to add Mr Brown though nope I think I was fairly represented all right any questions comments board our next meeting is the 26th so we'll have another board meeting prior to the demographer um will be presenting at our Schoolboard meeting on the 19th so we did invite any of the task force members if they did want to observe that of course our meeting will be broadcast so they can watch it there or they can come to the meeting and I said if there's any questions in advance to reach out and I could ask kazel those questions but she'll be there to present her a 24 page report and there's some pieces there that might need some clarification and things like that but just think hopefully then we'll have some operational expenses for the group to consider as well to say here's what it costs to operate our facilities and how do we make the best decision moving forward with student Focus operational sustainability and then that was I think United WCA Community was the third piece there yeah you said that meeting is the 26 the task force meeting yeah the next meeting is the uh February 26th at 6 o'clock okay I believe that's a Wednesday again yeah any other questions comments all right then we will move on to our administrative reports and we'll start with Hendrix oh great um hard to believe we're already into our second semester our Quarter Two report cards went home on Friday and we have conferences next week um at all schools we've transitioned to the conference sign up being online so parents have um registered through parent view and then they can choose their own conference time which has been very welled I know um on our end we have teachers have liked having parents giving parents the opportunity to pick the time that works best for them at something in elementary school um and I just want to say thanks to Amanda here at the secondary school and Stacy for all their hard work just getting papers printed off and instructions sent home and um for Danielle and Tony in the office that's a lot of work to organize all that paperwork and get everybody signed up but we are on a good path and it's just exciting to move that um that direction where parents are doing that online sign up for conferences um recent professional development today we had letters training for our early release for K4 teachers our special education teachers both at the elementary and the secondary school and our reading interventionists and then our pre teachers um physical education and music continue to do curriculum work and I know they were able to participate with a secondary school in a session that Nate LED today so that was really beneficial that they got to collaborate across um across schools and then on our um professional development day in January we had a represent representative come in person from wonders which was um huge to have her come here and do training in person with us she focused mostly on assessment and helping us understand the different Assessments in the curriculum how do we use those to drive instruction how do we look at our data in a purposeful way and then answered a lot of our questions which we had quite a few for her so and she was very entertaining so it was a it was a really good day um January 20th 20th through the 26th was declared professional recog PA professional recognition week by Governor walls so um just wanted to publicly say a thank you to all of our Paras for all the hard work they put in each and every day making sure our students are successful and they're a big big part of our school our um our school and making a difference in students education and then we have t winter she is a phenomenal substitute um in within our district and we have a teacher going on maternity leave soon so she'll be stepping in and and fulfilling that um maternity leave and we're grateful for all the subing she does each and every day as well and then lastly um I had talked I know it came up at the beginning of the year and then in January I said I'd share some of some of our fast data I know that previously when I talked about MCA data we had um the question came up what what other information do we have that we could talk about so I just put together a short presentation on our elementary fast data and I will talk through that um we recently I think it was last week or the week before had another data day where our teachers really um with our reading interventionist we dig into our fast data to help us make instructional decisions and so this is this is a piece of the puzzle right as as data um is it's it's a tested it's a moment in time but I think what data gets us to do is to ask questions and say how do we move forward and how can we best make instructional decisions based on the information we have so Paul if you want to go to the next slide um fast bridge is an assessment so mde when the Rea went through had approved two screeners and fast Bridge was one of those screeners that was approved by mde for um K through third grade so early reading is the K1 screener that was approved and then a cdmr which is a curricul based curriculum based measure for reading was approved for 1 through third grade and this is just a little background for you as as we um look at reports the fast Bridge kind of gives us four different categories so students who fall in the high risk or some risk category is anyone below the 40th percentile and we use that information to then after a screener do further Diagnostics to say what do we need to do to help this student um you know a aeronics Gap is there if any make awareness Gap we need to help them in reading comprehension um so students who fall below the 40th percentile then could qualifier or eligible for like a reading intervention um and we do reading intervention where we group students across the whole grade level whether it's providing an enrichment or on On Target or a specific skill so the data that I'll show in the next couple of slides shows any students who the percentage of our grade level across both schools that had a student or had students 40 percentile or above so Paul if you want to flip forward then um you can go on so this is our K1 data for early reading so in early reading for kindergarten 69% of our students right now are above the 40th percentile so showing that they are on target um 64% of our first graders for reading and then for early math 79% of kindergarteners and 85% of first graders for second through fourth grade we use um a couple different tools a reading and a math and a reading and a math um a stands for adaptive because the test um adapts based on how the student is doing so they can get harder questions if they're doing well they might get easier questions if they're stumbling on some of them and so that's the data you can see for second through fourth grade for right now students who are 40th percentile or above and then for math our second through fourth grade data for students who are um 40th percentile Above So 84% of our second graders are showing on target 93 and 69 for fourth grade for Math and then the last slide is our curriculum based measures so students do in first through third grade do three one minute reads we take into account how many correct words they read per minute and then take the median score um the middle score and fluency is a predictor of reading comprehension and and reading um success so this is one that was approved through mde and these are our Target numbers where we're at right now for first second and third grade for our reading measure there a lot of information any questions on that fast data so this is new you didn't do this last is that right or is this no they have done it for a couple years I question a couple I don't know exactly how many years years um so we've been doing it and using this information it is by the state of Minnesota it was one of the approved screeners so it was great because it was like we're already doing this um so it's something we can continue to do what we are looking more so in now is just how to really use the data tin form our instruction and then really looking at growth as well so one thing our leadership team talked about today is not just looking at the percentage of students who are um On Target but also how many kids made growth so there could be kids that are in the high risk but have grown over a Year's worth of growth but there's just further behind in their trajectory so they've still have shown a lot of growth and and they're catching up but they're haven't maybe made it out of the risk category yet so like I mean just and I'm not picking on any one but like so there's a grade that's lower than the other you know is that something that we've tracked now for a couple of years so like we can see if you know were they you know they're 50% now were they 40% last year were they 30% the year I mean are they growing or is it just a is something tapered off you know I know we we've had discussions at the board table about fifth grade and the the little bit of a tumble they take when they get to this building and you know whatever that is I'm just curious if there's any as we look back right with this system it's nice because we can change the years and go back and track their track their data to see how have they done over time and what are we doing to change that outcome so that we can have more growth well I just wonder you know now we're at the point where like our fourth graders were prek when when we weren't in school right for covid so are we seeing that you know those is that the grade that got zapped the most by not being in school you know those kinds of things and does it carry on like do we have anything for fifth and sixth graders that does similar um they also use fast test they do so I mean so they'll be able to see and all the fifth graders were kindergarteners when you know they weren't in school does that are they now going to be lower than what you know kid that was in school got yeah and it's good to it's I think it's helpful to track and it's good to look at where we at you know it's a it's a dipic measure and it gives us information and then we can like I said ask more questions so right you know what can we do differently to change the trajectory so we don't maybe end up with only 50% of our kids so you look at programming a little differently do we change our interven you know how do we move forward and and looking at that growth too is really huge just to say maybe um they might have a lower proficiency right now but if they've made a lot of growth and something we're doing is working right um so we want to continue continue doing that so that's something I can continue to to explore like throughout the rest of the year and even into the next couple years is how you know how are we doing over time with our F and obviously was now changing some of our curriculum and you know is that gonna you know are we gonna see the spike up or you know does it flatten out you know what what does that look like that be interesting sometimes with the new curriculum you see an implementation dip um hopefully a couple years down the road we'll see yeah the numbers go up yeah what the trends are what we seen in the other in the in the other test in MCAS or whatever we seen Trend results were skewed by test but the trend is really I guess my eyes I don't know your eyes as an educator is the real indicator of what we're doing well are we doing well over time yeah looking at Trend data see that that two three year window go ahead Claire oh kayin I just want to thank you for doing that presentation I think it was great I think it was easy to understand and for the community they see those scores are reassuring and I really like the idea of strengthening that bridge between 56 and looking at that data and really starting to build like you said now on those individual needs for students and recognizing that even those students that are in the lower range may be making great strides yeah um because of the instruction so that was great presentation very helpful thank you all right right any other questions comments for looking at it simply looks like math is actually pretty high it's our reading that we we course got the new curriculum coming in so is that part of our piece do you think or is there some pieces there that we is that been a trend that we need to I think that's a trend across the state is math data is has been higher than literacy data but um yeah because that ex yeah and so we'll we can continue to track that and and yeah look at look at patterns and Trends and also look at that growth data to towards the end of the year so that's something we started just looking at a little bit more this winter was not just how many kids are on target but what is the growth of above and even if they are above but they haven't met their growth how do we change that so we have all students um making growth right I'm reading that home like what's the trend of over the last 10 years of parent reading the kids at home versus MTH big man get every but I don't know how how do you track that type of data to get that out yeah that it makes a difference they're eing at home and eing in the summer I love to read Pizza say bring back B there Pizza Hut we need Pizza Hut right I like pizza how it helps you know whe people test it you know biggest thing is cable thank you to your and your team for getting that that's data decision data driven decision making and that's what we want to do so thanks for all that hard work absolutely all right Mr wood all righty so second semester is off to a great start we had a teacher Workshop day that um was a very good success I thought um our pair of professionals engaged in several Mill trainings um ranging from some self-care stuff to some hope training to some seat belt training um multiple things that they needed to get done our certified staff participated in two breakouts that focus on attendance and positive childhood experiences um Paras and teachers both received this training you guys are probably aware of of Aces or have heard of that before which is adverse childhood experiences hope training is kind of trying to counteract the the effects of adverse childhood experiences um by building positive experiences for students um Research indicates that for every negative experience that a human has you need about three positive experiences to counteract that negative and we tend to remember and focus on negative much more as as humans so um so that was super valuable our leadership team is also working on some ideas for increasing student achievement there are several programs that are research based um being used by different schools in the area and so as a team we're working on a is this something we want to look at trying to find a way to implement and B if we do what's what type of program do we want to to look at um so there'll be some some continuing work in the next few months to um maybe some site visits and just some research the three programs that we're kind of looking at one is called check and connect which is out of the University of Minnesota um and it is based on kind of building mentorship and connection with students and then in doing so increase their attendance the other um is a bar system which um is used in perum and um looks quite um interesting it's based on kind of a framework of different um um healthy habits to build with your students and then High reliability schools is the third which is um a little bit more curriculum focused but it's working on improving instruction and connection in the school through a tiered system so um we'll be looking at all of those and kind of brainstorming some ideas in the future also want to give a shout out to Chelsea gser who is our business teacher um she's put it in a ton of work this this fall and winter and our business program has been CTE approved um this approval is good starting in retroactively for this school year um through June 30th of 2029 which will allow our district to access CTE Levy funds and provide eligibility for accessing Perkins Grant funds um and then this is in the business program so we have had that in the a program for a while but now this is adding business to that as well well um the program approval is basically the process of validating the rig and alignment of courses to the expectations of CTE education so um props to her and to the co-op for kind of working together to make that happened it's pretty cool um Monday the 27th we celebrated our triaa and Excel Award winners I'm sure Mr fine will talk about that as well recognizing their yeah achievements um congratulations to those students also um congrats to our oneac team for winning the subsection and coming in second in the section um last weekend the play if you had a chance to see it I hope you did it was absolutely incredible um we have some really really talented students and the play was some fairly heavy material but they um performed it in a fantastic Manner and then as Caitlyn said looking ahead to conferences February 10th and 13th using Synergy to sign up hoping to make this process more convenient for parents and teachers any questions for me just have one about the Synergy sign up is there a way to build in a notification that you clicked I think I signed up for about six different time frames because it didn't tell me that I was I didn't know if blue or gray or some sort of a key to say the blue is open or the you know just something I guess that was one piece of and maybe it's just me but I think I I signed up originally for about three different time frames and and I got it straightened out but okay it was a struggle but maybe it was just a I think I was on my phone you know type of a deal so versus a computer you know I don't know which way is better but most people are probably going to do it on their phones so anyway just something to if there's a way to put that in there to where it just tells me when I clicked on something that hey you got this one instead of I went back later and I had three emails saying you've got a conference at this time you got a conference at this time you I was like oh I was clicking on I was right when you click on it I think it turns purple I don't remember what I think oh right emails you right away yeah yeah so anyway so just a a thought maybe there's a way to do that that would make that and maybe again could be just operator ER I'll accept that that's not a problem so it's good feedb yeah any other questions comments from Mr wood that brings us to Mr fosen all right I have a few updates from from when I earlier submitted my report um first of all we'll talk playoffs it's hard to believe we're somewhat nearing the end of the winter season already it does feel like we just got going wrestling team sections will be next Friday at Pelican Rapids seatings will come out this Friday and if you kept any eye on Section 6A wrestling it's it's a shootout right now we don't know who's going to go where so it' be really interesting when seats come out the individual tournament is Friday the 21st at wadina and the state tournament is starts on February 27th girls basketball first round of playoffs will be at high seed on February 27th seatings will come out that was just verified today on February 22 boys first round will be at high seat on March 6 their seatings will come out March 1st playoffs for both boys and girls will be at high seed and then at minowa for the semifinals and then has of today um new change the section final will be back at Concordia not at Fergus Falls so there were some recent things that came through um today and that's what made that change so as Mr wood mentioned about one I play I'd like to congratulate Chris and Susan Ray and the students they did take first in the subsection and second in the section and those events both were here I would also like to acknowledge them for their 25 years of directing one act play we did have a chance to do that at the section event was a nice moment they got a standing ovation from the people in the audience and it was it's pretty cool pretty cool uh next thing I have here is spring coaching positions have been posted we are looking for several coaches and umpires just like we were this winter for referees um I have had a couple discussions with some people about a couple positions and hopefully we may fill a couple but they're there are a lot so uh some upcoming events today we had the region six meeting that's why you see me maybe not in ten issues and dressed up a little bit because at that meeting we did have the region triaa banquet as Mr wood mentioned uh Ben by and Kier giry were our two students um the region picked their two students to advance to the state tripol and that was a young man from Morris and a young lady from SAA so that is my report all right any questions from Mr fogan and we will move on to Mr Max good evening everyone all right as far as as technology goes um there has been an uptick recently probably in the last two to three weeks of uh of malicious emails going around between districts throughout the state um looking deep into it with a collaboration of other school district technology departments it's it's all spoofing so they're taking email addresses from one District taking the name of someone from another school district putting them together sending them out and it's the Google email server is just not catching it um so they're making it through because when they grab something they send something from superintendent Brown low but it's a weird Gmail address G Google will kick that out and alert us right away so they're finding a way through what their goal is I have no idea um it it was a little bit conspicuous of what information they were trying to collect the good news is is all of our uh Securities were in place and they did their job none of the uh emails caused any problems to the devices themselves nor the accounts um one of the pieces we have set for our email specifically is we have our email open in what's called a Sandbox so let's say you get an email and you open it it's a virus that virus you are just seeing that virus kind of up in the cloud it's not directly coming to your computer right away so those are all things that have benefited us greatly in this last round there were doesn't seem like there was any harm done at all um just a bunch of wasted time trying to figure out why um the biggest piece that I continue to say is the most essential portion of our cyber security is Staff awareness so that that's that piece where we need to continue to educate our staff on what are we looking for what do we need to do if we see something that we're not quite sure if it looks right um our staff are great at that however just like the people who are putting so much effort into making these emails look real we need to continue that education so that our staff can can be diligent um both as a member of the school district and in their personal lives I can't tell you how many people I get who have fallen for scams in their personal life and it's getting scary how good people are getting at it um so that's kind of the the tech piece we are coming up onto the testing cycle for MCA and acts um the first one will have will be our waeda access for our English language Learners so it's anybody who's come to the school with English being their second language goes through a testing process um that window open just recently and has opened through most of the month of March um we have MCA testing in the end of April and then this year we are going to be doing our ACT Testing online versus paper pencil looking back we made a decisions to do it on paper pencil because we felt that it was too long of a day for kids to look at computers however we are looking at that from more of our own perspective kids now spend their business day their school day on computers and the number one complaint that we've gotten from kids taking the ACT is they get confused filling in the bubble sheet so they have the test on one side the bubble sheet we're all used to that because that's what we did and then it goes to the Scantron and you get your score back and it's so cool but um now the kids don't they've never done that before so we're going to switch the advantages that gives us is it gives us a testing window instead of a one day everybody has to test so it's still a marathon test they still have to do all of the test sessions and it's time they have to complete it in one day however we don't have to test all the kids at one time because we actually get uh two weeks not consecutive but two weeks to test the kids in the window um so we can separate them out into smaller groups we can work around kids schedules and then as we talked about about before one of the pieces we want to advertise to kids a little bit more this year than we have in the past is the act is something that we are going to offer it is not required I think peer pressure always got to a lot of kids because everybody went over to Hoffman and everybody took it together and if they weren't there and they were here it just felt awkward now taking kids in smaller groups being able to test them in small groups less disruption necess to an entire grade it'll be easier for kids that are not interested in taking it to Simply opt out of it and correct me if I'm wrong there's more and more colleges that are no longer looking at correct so the the ACT is a challenging one and I've kind of gone back and forth the state still wants us to provide it act just this last year was purchased by a private entity so they are no longer like a um nonprofit Standalone organization so um where they're going to go I don't know um as of right now we're going to continue status quo um but that could potentially change because it's becoming less of a requirement and um it'll be interesting to see if their business model changes slightly um as um the the new company kind of figures out how to make profit from it sure um and always I have to say thank you to Stacy she is phenomenal she is the backbone of our technology department and keeps everything running smoothly and keeps me in line which is very appreciated um so when you see her please say thank you because she is absolutely the reason why we succeed as a district awesome any questions for Mr MCM one of the pieces I would like to eventually when I have lots of spare time um a lot of the curriculum pieces that we do for our staff as far as teaching them about cyber threats there are um Community components to it as well that we can share out to our community so that is something that eventually I'd like to evolve and tie our community in um simply because it's extremely valuable information but also it just helps bond that relationship between community and School of we are here to serve everyone in the community awesome all right thank you Mr arberg hi um you guys got my report we had a buildings and grounds committee meeting um got through North and South schools um I got some good direction and and holding down some numbers for our committee we have another meeting coming up uh we'll get through the secondary school and look at things that need to be kind of taking care of for all three of these schools for the summer and stuff and hopefully get some stuff lined up uh I did have a meeting with um Jared from G&R controls uh we have uh some water- to water issues uh with some units in this building um nothing too emergent right now but it's going to need some work so he's working on some prices and some models for us and when I get that we'll get that across and work on that um otherwise I you know if anybody's got any questions on my report I don't have much more than that um it was all in there there were a couple things that the building into ground that we were talking about possibly asking fire department for and trying to get some numbers on that I don't know if that's something that you're going to are we going to prioritize some of those things to bring to the board decid what we go to um look right for because it's in April right April February second Thursday a some of that stuff I I figured our next meeting we we got through the other two schools that we could probably get a good handle on on most all of that stuff so like I said if we've got projects too that we decide or think that we need it's time for we have time for the board and I still have a little bit of time to contact entities to be able to get the work done um was a good meeting long longer we anticipated for a while um and then the only other thing you guys got a later in the list but Sarah appland is retiring um and I just think if you guys see her whatever reach out an email to her or something and just let her know I mean she's got 25 plus years with with the district and I think she's worked in all 37 buildings or whatever we've got and had at the time or whatever when she started she's made her round so um it's it's it's good for her and she's she's got some things lined up that she's going to going to work on so we're glad to have her for as long as we did and and she was able to be with us so when does that a fact to February 14th okay yeah 14th a week from this Friday okay so we'll be looking for part-time custodian yeah so you know if any of you need some evening work or something I I can set you up I can set you up real good Tasha's alarm just went off for evening work so good all right any more questions comments that will move us to business manager are you still with us Todd I am good evening good evening all right should I share my screen call I think it'd be a good idea if you could yep [Music] okay so got an echo here I'm going turn my money cop work you guys probably aren't hearing it I'm just going to talk it so the Rue bud have here through January and um see were on track St we're at 41.4 at this time we're at 40% 39% in terms of dollars we're compared last year um we have federal revenue that we've drawn down Rel [Music] to funds that we carry over the final year in the final last time we'll see property taxes were at a [Music] million I think last year the entire year was booked at a different accounting process the local Revenue side were down last year 're at 46% so I I looking good from my standpoint on the revenues at 41.5% um collected any questions on the revenues so far all right and looking at the expenditure side of things so we have the revised budget you can see here and these percent of budget numbers are a factor of the revised budget now not the adopt the budget even though this preliminary So based on the revised budget we're tracking in salaries at 45% of our budget expended last year at this time we were 45.2% of final so that's coming in right where we should be have we should probably come in slightly under budget on wages uh benefits uh tracking right on as well 46.2% of our budget expended last year we at 46.5% of final and then we have purchase services and these other ones these can um vary a bit from perc of budget based on timing of spending and number of invoices process things like that but I mean all is tracking um within the norm if you will compared to the prior years so um so we're at 49% of our revised budget expended last year we at 48 Report 51 right the middle and we also have spending by program code here I won't go through those numbers in detail we can see how those are tracking and then higher level look at Food Service Community ad and Deb service um so we're at 215,000 received today on food service is 79,000 that service 8,000 are all tracking slightly up upside down at this point um Food Service revenue is always a month behind so we don't really catch up until the year's over on food service with our meals plim um commun we know is is a a challenge with our um preschool programs and early childhood programs um trying to get that back to the black um and so on so overall we're [Music] projecting that's just the year to date overall the budget projecting we had a deficit when it's all done at 2342 any questions on the budget update all right next we'll take a look at the prelim [Music] all right so looking at the general fund um we'll look at the totals first so we started the year with a fund balance of 3,199 988 um the revised budget coming in at 12,248 384 for revenue 12, 26878 for expenses so that's an overall defit of 19694 so just about balance um looking at our unassigned fund balance which is allign with our fund balance goal um we're tracking uh we're projecting to be adding the unassigned fund balance by ,79 ending with unassigned fund balance 1, 5663 which would be 12.77% and you can see our restricted here not a lot of change over the prior years um we need to find um we will find a way to spend our literacy incentiv a funding um so that we don't hand the fund balance there operating Capital sustaining in the 200,000 plus range um which is good in case we have any unforeseen needs equipment expenditures uh curriculum technology things like that is how we can use those dollars and the rest of our un um restricted here overall restricted is dropping by 8,742 and again restricted fund balance those are just things that have funding that comes to us with strings of patch we have to use those dollars in a certain way uh prepaids which end up as a nonspendable fund balance not projecting any Chang that and then at the last board meeting the board uncommitted 61744 for the purchase of the vehicle and I would I would just add the note to that we also have a in the budget we have the purchase of an $85,000 vehicle as well so that's about 147,000 vehicle purchases so if not for that we would be tracking to the good by you know roughly 138,000 s more than that 120,000 call so that's that's the good news there any questions on the general fund PA do you want to add anything to that I think I think just that big pieces are in our you kind of said that the overall funds was about 234,000 I think on the negative side that's mainly attributed to fund four our fund one is really just at the night just under 20,000 um so that fund four we really have to look at our preschool programs our daycare program to see how we're going to take care of that few years ago remember the district was doing a transfer we've not done that for the last couple years so we really need to we're going to check with some other districts to see what they're doing actually I think at the community task force meeting I think I found out how dgf is Cash flowing there's better but did she say it takes really about 50 students to make a daycare program um run in in the in the black and so I think we'll want to just check that to see I think the other key piece is sometimes it gets confusing because you see our we're we're not at a balanced budget um but we are just in the fact that we're buying those Vehicles which we're board approved you know we've not fully approved the we're getting another quote on the on that vehicle for special ad but that's money that's what I would call in the savings account however we have to show it as a negative in our current spending and it's just going to come out of that savings account you know to take care that so I think the goal is to be at that balance budget if you recall during our audit the auditor said we have to stop the negative spending or the deficit spending and start to put a little bit of money back in the account our fund balance policies 10% as Todd showed I what we were 12 12.78% or something like that so I think we're we're doing okay there but again something we have to watch fairly closely just because of the recent years of of deficit spending of course the eser money is now all gone um you know things that way so those were the only highlights I think the other highlight is food service has turned around um so partly was because of our large expense for our comi oven here at the secondary school of about $30,000 so right now I think our fund balance ended at about 1,875 but that did include about $34,000 in inventory this now will actually get us even to be better in the black and because that inventory won't even be there we should be at a net neutral or even a little bit higher than that so but again one of those programs that we have to look at is our summer food we did that you know at North Elementary last year we got to see if that broke even or you know how much money are we willing to lose in that piece there like there's some funding options there too with the child and adult food CARE program that might allow us to get those meals um you know uh reimbursed through subsidies and stuff like that so I want to check into that piece but uh yeah we still got a lot of work ahead of us but we're trending at least at it's not a not coming to you to say hey we got a $275 to a $350,000 deficit you know spend we've gotten that I think in a better position any questions comments just a big a big piece that you had mentioned trying to figure out a lot of the other schools weren't struggling as bad as we currently are with that whatever it is the Y things like that how we get that straight now what's the time frame on coming up with a different recommendations or Solutions so Megan I in her report she mentions that we're going to sit down and and look those pieces over to see had somebody stop me today that said you know actually communities somebody mentioned that Battle Lake to the north I think their communities doing the the daycare that they got some grants and things like that and so maybe we have to pair up with Elbow Lake or Kensington to say hey this is a child care issue that's not all the schools issue the hospital needs employees we need employees Banks need employees so that might be an option too that we need to to look at I think the number that somebody said there in that Child Care Program there are 50 kids I think in that Child Care Program that's Community Based I don't think it's even school-based they're doing so well that my understanding is and I I know this to be somewhat true because my wife has a coworker in Fergus that has do a battle Lake to drop their child off for daycare um so they're going to a smaller Community to do that so I think that's another place that we need to visit to see how they're doing that maybe start reaching out to our local communities to say hey this isn't a school only piece how do we work together and it might have to be businesses as well because we're all in the same boat of needing our employees and and I know one of our folks that's not planning to return is because of daycare you know it's one of those pieces that's going to become more of a struggle I and I think the that I heard is some of these small not all but some of the small inome decares are just kind of deciding not to do that anymore and so that's the other piece that's becoming a a challenge but I would so a answer your question we have to have an answer in the next month to say here's what we need to do differently from a cost perspective to what do we look at for program options different suggestions of do we need to look Community Based and things like that but I think we need to have something very S I think that was the comment she made was that there was a comment in the task force that maybe that whatever the solution is maybe there's a daycare set up you know at the end of the district to help with families and that was her comment was it's 50 to 60 students to make a a standalone daycare facility cash flow itself so unless you're going to tie it into an existing if you're going to build a standalone daycare facility today you need 50 to 60 kids to make that work and that that was her comment there was if we were going to look at putting something in it's going to take a lot of Kit you know I don't know what our number is but I know we struggled with numbers at South our North numbers seem to fluctuate a little bit they stay but they're not they're not 50 and then the hard part is as soon as you make it that way then you start well then you start to take away from the inter cares that are already there they're say you just created a competition to take my kids you know is there a way that we can PR find a private provider that we and I got to check the legality everybody this is just talking out loud but is there a a private provider that we say here's the facility do you want to maybe look at that too so I think we've got a we've got a great daycare program we got a great person running the program so we've got to be cognizant of that but we just know that the the continued operational deficit expense is significant I'm sure you're aware of it but there there maybe some opportunity to do some of that collaborating and communicate I think there's a a daycare meeting that Ki must be involved in coming up on March 25th that's all right Lake that I know I filled out a survey today on some of that stuff and um this might be a place where some of our staff should maybe go and participate and come come up and listen to some ideas or come up with something we need a back on track it's a necessary need just we need to make sure that it doesn't bleed our general fund any other questions or comments all right thank you Todd you're welcome that brings us to the superintendent report okay so it is rather lengthy there you'll see we've many of these things we've already talked about about the community task force meeting uh that was held this past monday it was a long meeting about 3 hours and 15 minutes I think but we did get some uh to some final pieces that were critical uh to get that ready to go as just a reminder to everybody this can all be found on our school's website they do have a tab up there on the banner piece there that does show where all that information can be can be found I think they're going to get the Ellers information on there as well but we just wanted to be very clear that came in with just too hypothetical that's not tied to any project just saying what's the range and what does it cost for 25 million to a $40 million but that's not even uh witth was very clear to say we have no idea what project you could do for 25 or 40 just giving people because I think that was one of the concerns that was mentioned during a few of our meetings was the fact that we have to be cognizant of our taxpayers there's a limit to what they can afford and we need to be aware of that and so just wanted to give some ideas out that way so they'll now associate um some costs with those four projects that they're bringing back so here's your cost to look at and how do we move forward um the demographers she will also like I said be at our February 19th that morning meeting uh to present there she's done a nice job of putting the report together showing our enrollment she does a cohort model so she has four different models one shows that the enrollment declines uh within in the next 10 years overall enrollment is down to about 656 students but she has her highest one that's based on migration and student or kindergarten count um if that was high higher than what she would project then it would be at 726 students and then her middle ground was around that 698 and I know that uh Mr craft has put something together that shows about 688 so I did ask her I said Hazel does this seem like a reasonable number as we look in our building she goes you fall below my lowest number and my next number she goes I don't think it's is shees I think it's reasonable that you could consider that you know unless we would start to see more students coming into the district but she'll be able to explain that better and answer any questions that way um buildings and grounds Chad's already done a nice job talking about that we've already talked about school budget um kind of where we're showing just a small decline they're of the 19,69 for but again I think the key piece being that that includes two of those vehicles that are expensed in that so you take that out of the savings account then it's a different dollar amount but I think it's still something that we have to watch closely and Todd does a nice job of keeping keeping track of that as does Maggie Maggie's done a nice job of watching all those invoices I think she's maybe been a little bit of a pain for a few folks that are um saying why do I you know here's the Bill here's what we need to look at and things like that but she's done a nice job there of staying on top of that we have started a little bit of those preliminary conversations about fiscal 26 I don't know if Todd's coming back on maybe not but we'll we'll have to get to that just a little bit too later on there's some key pieces and I know Darren you're kind of our legis ative person there so I'll make sure that you get all the M reports but um one of those big ones is just the the compensatory Aid that's the free and reduced and I know they talked about this at phase two and really the concern is when we went into the pandemic remember nobody had to tell everybody got free meals now we've stayed with free meals so the completion of the free and reduced forms has changed and so that number is quite a bit less so they thought they would just go to a direct certification so if you qualified for snap if you qualified for Medicaid different Health Care programs that that would be the way they would measure that while they're finding that those numbers are less and so we need to figure out something different there because that's also impacting the state's Revenue stream when it comes to lunch and our meal program so the state's actually having to cover more meals that used to be reimbursed by the federal government and so it's hitting the state which is of course going to hit their budget so I think they're re-evaluating that the governor does have a so um next year if the current law that's to take effect next year goes into place are with our current numbers uh their projection shows that we'd have a deficit of about $63,000 in comp compensatory Aid funding that's a huge huge hit on our budget um however if the governor's proposal that he just put out there's a hold harmless um that becomes somewhat confusing of oh it's hold harmless means that we continue to follow the same guidelines that we have this year um for another year that would give us about a $4,000 increase in compensatory so it's not a large increase but at least it keeps us from seeing that huge decline there so um hopefully that'll be the case but we'll have to just wait and see what gets worked out because it's not just a Governor's proposal it's got to go through the legislature and they'll come up with that final piece but I'm sure you've heard plenty that well first of all it would be nice if they could all get together and meet so they can start moving uh together on pieces but they're also talking this year uh this bium isn't the big deficit that they're concerned about but it is concerning in the next bium the following two years would be about A5 billion deficit so that's what they're looking to address so I'm not sure funding is going to be real strong and then part of that funding too is at least they did pass the fact that we'll have a 2% increase with some inflationary index and and Todd was saying that he's heard that's going to be about a 2.4% increase year one I'm not sure what year two would look like so at least it's not a zero and zero because that would be pretty pretty devastating to as you can see that we're already in net neutral need to get some Revenue in there for the following year uh the 25 26 school calendar uh I did add that to the for you to look at to review that did get sent out to all of our staff uh this afternoon so they can review that as well we're trying to find the best way to collect that data um from the groups and so I've asked them to talk to their building principles and the community members uh to give any feedback there's three options one of those options looks to move the early entrance conference to prior to the start of the school year so it' be an August tying that week of Staff workshops early entrances all in one week um that I think it's like the week of the 18th around there well it's on the calendars there uh but has that piece there and so we'll have more discussion on that so I don't need to go into a great depth now otherwise we won't have any discussion items but if you want to look that over the one piece that's still so and then really where the challenge comes is the Christmas holiday it's right in the middle which some people say what's challenging about it now we know we get two full weeks um off but then it does make that end time later um in June if we have those other times and we also know that the winter months become long as well so there's the third option adding some of those breaks um there too and then the final piece would be I think Darren mentioned those early outs you know can we find maybe another place to put those before a Friday um maybe there's mea breaks so it's it's easier for parents to say Hey you know grandparents are already coming up to pick up the kids and if they can just get them early on Wednesday they've got them Thursday Friday so we'll look to maybe put those um at some of those times as well I think Mr um bosen had mentioned that as well I've always been pretty consistent with it's the first Wednesday of every month so people always know that it never changes but I do understand that that other piece here if we just communicate that to say hey here's our our day here's what we're going to do I think that might be helpful to some of our amilies as well um so we had an early release today which I know B was busy with people think we had Paras doing their testing to be highly qualified some of those Paras were doing that teachers were busy with letters training so it was a busy day so I guess that's the part that I want to reiterate too I think sometimes there's this this misconception that the early outs are just time for teachers to gather have coffee talk about things they're not doing that it's it's truly some some good work that's being done and really to improve our instruction and to Hope impact student achievement parent teacher conferences next week Monday and Thursday no school uh for our teacher compy next Friday the 14th what a double header that night right Mr F am Mr wood supervisor okay and then we have our Schoolboard business meeting on the 19th just so you're aware I'll be taking off Wednesday in the afternoon it'll be out through Sunday um so Mr wood has the snow so we're probably are no he'll be responsible for that decision on Thursday the 13th um for school related issues there for weather um but then I'll be back Sunday evening ready to go on Monday oh then student enrollment I that was the other part I was going to share with you as well um so this uh time frame between January to February we gain two students I think I've got a a greater attention piece of our our secretaries for sure because now anytime there's new students coming in I don't always hear about the ones departing but the ones that are coming in they make sure to call me right way to say hey I just want you to know we enrolled four new students today that's awesome that sounds good um and Mr wood were you saying that there was a potential of some new students as well so so that'll be a positive piece there too and of course helps the budget because that decline in students doesn't help our student General Aid nor does it help our operating ly Mr if I may talk on the free and reduced lunch piece most of you know that does figure into the State High School league calculations it is a resectioning year so that number comes out February March they have a big window they don't really tell us when my assumption is we'll stay Class A but if there are changes on that direct third and free and reduced that did lower us last round but if they take some of that away who knows I mean it's really kind of a guessing game so I I'll have more information for you in March on that so sounds good I have a couple questions um one I guess one thing I'll tend go backwards with the calendar I'd encourage the board and anybody that's in that committee are making decision principles and such that maybe we talk to some of the parents and maybe get their feel on how they feel about the Fridays and and just you know it's a maybe a change obviously but I said if it if it it benefits the majority of our students and and and um and their parents I think it would be something to really look into um and then I had a question both the free and reduce lunch part and I was on the board before and correct me if this number is wrong Maya but just so the public knows do you have an estimate of how much we're losing I think when I was on the board before it was like $92,000 a year does that sound like could be I mean I know right now was in the ballpark at that time when we switch to the purchasing you know free lunch oh when we switch to free lunch in the state neglected to do all of their job and figure out how it might affect sure school districts if I remember right um back then by people not filling out the paperwork for free and reduced lunch it was affecting our Title One and official education and I think it was to the tune of about $990,000 a year if I remember the number I know there was a number that they estimated based on the fact I don't if if that's something you can maybe is there an estimate what it's what it's costing our district to right not have by by us not getting people to fill all paperwork or you know like Mr fing just you know that could be the difference of was you know mov class 2A which is you know we were we've been there before and we're there we're there with in the in conference plate which has been awesome for our Athletics is I think it really challenges us to so when we get into playoffs we can really do something but um but when you get into it as financial piece right and be the the small school it's difficult yeah it would not impact or special ed it went impact what was I you said special ed um title one is really based on your census data and stuff like that so those two aren't but I know that um Kevin's not here but I do know that our e rate's a big one on that too so yeah it's not just our compensatory it's not just I think some people think oh it's just the lunch program nope it's the and so our compensatory this year I think is roughly $650,000 so it's a huge part of our our budget and if that goes back by 65,000 you know 10% that's a that's a piece there that we struggle with and then then it's not just that like you said it's our our e rate and all programs too that are tied and associated with that I'll have to see if I can find some nice to have the number so as as we communicate with legislators as we sometimes do you know I see him quarterly in my job but it um you know just sometimes they don't always know if they're not on the Committees but if they if we can communicate show them real dollars of what it's costing us and tell them them my experience is they've always gone back and tried to find an answer if there aren't in those committees well I think this time they're going to want to find some answers because it's impacting their own state budget I mean so we got a free meal program all that's going to cost more money than what they were well we just got to keep communicating with them trying to get yeah you know some we we lose track of that and I think they really they really like it when we communicate with them as individuals and not just through agencies local stories you want to hear local stories right because that's they're representing and then the last question I have was had to do with the vehicles and we had talked about or I had mentioned the last time about looking at what what the cost forecast is for maybe trading those vehicles in every so many years have we gone anywhere with that and asking them because it would be nice to see if we could find a way to put that in the budget so because this again when I was on the board before um we had we went through the same thing where we had a high expenditure for for vehicles MH so if there's a way that we can put a smaller number in the budget every year so that when we get there because we can't forecast out that far whether we're going to be doing good on revenue or not doing good on so if we can get those like maybe a smaller number in the budget continuously that maybe has to come out one year or two years whatever but if we can get it in there so that we don't have you know hundred and some thousand expenditure every so many years that we don't know's coming no I know some districts have like a vehicle rotation cycle and they'll just say okay it's going to cost you know $155,000 a year is what we got to put in for that vehicle and it just comes out of your operating Capital that's kind of an ear Mark like a rotation for a uniform cycle they kind of Follow That same model and things like that curriculum was just one of those earmarked items so I'll talk to Tod about that to see and I know one other District that uses it so I'll ask them to show us their model and then we could bring that back to the board you should be able to I mean if it's frequently enough you should be able to be a pretty small number you know it doesn't have to you know you're going to you should if if you do it every 3 years you're going to get a fairly decent trading value on that vehicle likely or if we figure out what that less than 100,000 mile Mark is so that it's just a continuous thing it should be I mean it's going to be a you know it will depend on the S yeah6 67,000 a year but if you figured that out we have that big discount through the state so that really factors into the the dealerships and there you know the Trad in their sale of the vehicle because because we're State entities and schools we're buying that vehicle at a substantially lower level than the general public buys those vehicles for right when you get TR sold to the general public you're still making so I think you're right M I think we maybe can hopefully we can be able to put a small budget item in the in the general fund so that we don't have those just looking in the future that we don't you know think of if we didn't have to have that right yep you know right now be awful nice right yeah and unfortunately the the board did do that allocation with those committed funds you know that way because that'll be the other conversation we say in that school bus purchase um committed fund do we want to do something different with that because it's not going to buy buses so do we just say hey we're going to allocate it this way but again being mindful not to just say hey we can go out and buy four different Vehicles we've got this you know what do we do but I think helpful this time to look at that special ed vehicle will hopefully help offset some costs there too to be a little more reasonable for our district but no I can definitely get some information on that any other questions comments then we'll move to our consent agenda uh we have three items here um we will have the resignation of Teresa modal Elementary special education teacher um hire of Matt neck as a head track coach and the retirement for Sarah affan custodian any questions or comments on those three items I would look for a motion to approve the consent agenda move and a second second all in B we'll do a roll call vote uh gross yes Porter yes sandstead yes sour yes em a yes alri yes and Vincent Yes all right motion carries that'll bring us to our new business um we we have the first reading of the following policies with statutory and recommended changes from msba is there anything you wanted to touch on for these they're pretty standard and straight forward as you look in the the notes there there's nothing really that's significant as a change from msba and we kind of took their um recommendation back in August so policy 425 was updated in August policy 501 hasn't changed I think since 1999 um and then policy 502 is very similar to the same piece there and then policy 503 we made those changes back in August uh which are regarded excused and unexcused absences and then policy 522 is really just a change going back to the Title Nine policy that was uh enacted I mean title 9 has been in forever but that was revised back in 2020 there was a federal um Court change there are some guidance that we received from msba and so they're tell telling us to go back because that decision was overturned by the court so they're telling us to go back to their policy that they had in 20 uh 20 based on that final rule for title n uh regulations in 2020 so there is nothing that's substantial um that way any questions comments on those that is just the first reading so there's no action on those all right that brings us down to the discussion items the first item is the 2526 school calendar I know we've touched a little bit on that already is there any other anything else Advent team you were all in that committee is there anything there that needs to be added but Darren to your point I think we will try to figure out a way to survey survey our parents to see um you know if there's some pieces that we could do differently but I think tying that into that before a Friday or a longer holiday break or something like that I think might be opportune so we'll check that I know our teachers all of our staff because I went staff they'll be giving some feedback there as well uh to the people who serve on that committee and we appreciate their time doing that this is one of the first times that I've seen as much opportunity for variant um because of that holiday following and then the great idea of maybe moving early entrance conferences you know things there and I know I've had a few people come in and say I really like number one and number three and then we've got ABC or whatever it is but I kind of like these two options but I could see you know so we'll see we'll see what happens when you have three calendar options here's my one concern I could have a third a third and a third so by the time we make the decision two thirds won't be happy one third will be happy so I'm going to say it was Darren's idea make decision CL you had something for us yeah I think I brought up last about Fridays in J thing I worry about is do we get jammed up at certain times of the year when many of our staff are coaching and can't go to it's really it's a it's a I think if we I don't know of that to that spring is wor yeah I mean Friday's our kind of a staple event day from about September on what day Fridays are kind of a big event day pretty much all school year so yeah I I guess we'd have to see when we get close to finalizing that it is a good discussion well and I think that one thing that we could especially if we pull parents would be afternoon vers morning for that time um because I know a lot of schools do their PD in the morning and then school students arrive late um and then that eliminates some of that after school extracurricular time too does that La the middle of a week from educator standpoint I would have no idea but um how does that l in the middle of the week where students are you know you're teaching and then all a sudden you have a half day off and then you got to get them rebooted coming in again so felt like a Friday it definitely felt like a Friday for kids that I guess from a kid standpoint or learning standpoint moving at one side of the other could be a benefit to our children as well yeah might I'm just trying to when oh I'm getting my own EO if you went to a morning and provided Child Care some way you could still run your regular bus rout for parents yeah we do provide child we do provide child supervision just that we only run the buses the one time right that our early dismissal right I just say this would be a way to do Friday without running into yep meaning the morning's right is that yep absolutely okay I think the worry would be that if you did a Friday morning it's gonna be pretty tough to get students to show up for Friday well not ours about missing and how many so during a basketball season Jake how many how many of these early El we have during the basketball season and how many teachers would miss during that season or it football volleyball season or it's not like this well we do have a lot of you know people that quach multiple Sports so they would but from a standpoint of just how many are how many early Els are in you asking just a Friday or any other day anytime like right now how many early out Wednesdays are during the basketball season three probably right November or well November is early enough so it would be December January February March would be play off season because it's the first Wednesday of each month so volleyball Missy would be what October November right would be our two no what that middle that's that middle area where it's probably the most because the fall or the the spring season PR is short too as far as in school time just like volleyballers yep spray would be the March April May probably those three maybe not even March maybe just April May what you're saying though is area to do a hybrid if you said if you did it early in the day and provided Supervision in the morning now you're not affecting that afternoon time frame you're not messing with an afternoon drop off you get the same drop off in the morning if you need it I mean I suppose you could make it available if a parent didn't want to bring them till 11: or whatever that time is but you know it's just the opposite and you're just not there's not that Gap in the middle I know that was one you know we talked about no pra you know there's a gap between practice or whatever that gets to be a little bit of a mess if you're shuttling kids or whatever but you know if you're just going to bring them here at the same time and have them doing some sort of an activity again that gets to be the difficulty of who who supervises that and and how do you get everybody to professional development if the kids are all here but I mean that's the one thing I'll bring up again I'm just G to I don't mean anything other than just the statistics of it is home we're talking spend a lot of time talking about Athletics here what percentage of our student body K12 is in athletics at that time if it's 10% and the and the the rest is the 90% you know we have yes we have to look at it all but we really have we have to kind look at the 90% to it's just just to put that out there again I'll let you guys make the decision I but I think talking to parents talk you know staff and everybody just if we can make things better let make it better if it's great the way it is it just be great the way it is yeah so we'll get that survey out probably by the end of the week cuz I'm really hoping to have the calendar approved by the 19th but I guess if we feel like we need more time we can do that but we'll get something out maybe through a Google form I would think and and then just some simple questions so it doesn't make it too difficult and so we'll get that word Smith to out there CH to get some feedback there and if you have feedback please feel free to fill that out too or let us know and I'm sure staff will be doing that too all right any other questions comments calendar and that'll bring us to the revised fiscal year 25 and the preliminary fiscal year 26 budget um we didn't plan that very well with Todd we back to the front that's right yeah so I think just there you saw the um the projection for the Revis 25 I plan to have that approved by the board here at the um February 19th meeting we'll probably do one more budget revision as we get close to April or May um I really don't believe in doing budget revisits in June because then that's just your budget right you know where your expenditures are just line them all up and say this worked out good but I think we would do it in April just in case there's any other expenses that come up revenues that we weren't you know the other thing that I think we forgot to mention in our revenues which was a pleasant piece was the fact that we had Claire $62,000 I think right is what we got from the special ed Co-op of 62,000 so remember last year I think we had asked last year if there was going to be a refund and we found out no because the co-op has a policy that they maintain a $500,000 fund balance anything above that they return to the member districts based on the percentage that you have into the co-op so that's how we got that $62,000 back from them so that was a nice piece we're still the check hasn't arrived but I think it's supposed to be here this week because the the special ed Cooperative board approved that so if we have any of those changes student enrollment that would all take shape then again we do our April revision so we have one more revision but is there anything there that sticks out that you want us to before we bring that proposal to the 19th meeting just for that budget revision that you need more information I guess that's the purpose of for the discussion of the revised and then I'll get a little bit into the the preliminary you know for some assumptions for the fiscal 26 budget I do know you want to just touch on you know now it shows a $119,000 deficit we were at I mean at our finance committee meeting 155 we were positive we were positive you know so what were the just what were the in it changes and then the other piece would be what um as we talked about there were some numbers that he said were definitely conservative in there um you know that he thought maybe could be better than what he had projected even in that 155 are those numbers still in there um as far as you know are there still concern conservative numbers that could come around better you know 19 is a pretty good number compared to what we've been dealing with the last few years so I guess my question would be is there still there's probably still an opportunity for that to be a different a better number right yep yep so I think of course the one is the vehicles I don't think they had the vehicles cost out there so that that's why you mentioned that $138,000 in vehicles I think there was some equipment too that needed to be that was in prepaid that he had to move over so there was some pieces there that he had to adjust um I think the other piece too um that he um as you were mentioning special Leed special Leed funding is very um difficult to predict and so we had started um when Aon and I looked at the budget last June we said 1.3 the dollar amount actually shows 1.5 um is what they but we have a lot of tuition billing that needs to be taken care of so special ed funding is always a year behind but there's adjustments that happen throughout the entire school year and so we uh not we Todd bumped that up from 1.3 to 1.4 we think there's an opportunity to have more special ed funding coming in we could be at the 1.5 but e e for