##VIDEO ID:U_3PVuZBzVY## they call the meaning to please rise for the pledge of Al iedge Al to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all I'll read the district Mission Station in partnership with the communities the mission of the Dorth bu devel school district is to educ individuals in an environment of trust and respect so they become self-directed responsible lifelong leers call we've got everyone here except for and we've gotad here along with Brook and Wayne and um eile so any other visitors that we have so all right so the first um go on to number four this is a motion toop the agenda as presented any changes to the the only changes are under my superintendent report um e instead of questions I just wanted to put that MD is going to visit us this week so make sure I just got that finalized today uh F was just the igr is on Friday that Retreat I think I shared that but I just want to share that again with you guys and then that's F I'm sorry and then G just talk about real quick about the calendar that you have in front of you from Minnesota Farmers Union and then efgh H [Music] questions otherwise it's it's do I have motion motion by Nicole do I have a second question second any questions or discussions here all those in favor say I motion carries on number five public comments and rebel recognition uh one play performed for the middle school on Friday my days are getting next to Friday and then they had their competition Saturday and heard they got a good job yeah Elementary School had a kindness Retreat on Friday yes on Friday my daughter came home super excited about the opportunity was thrilled to spend some time around high school students know that age I think it's a big deal yeah for sure yep so that was Friday y else that anybody has speech is starting up so lots of tournaments coming next month and we have that huge Elementary uh Community tournament coming up this coming weekend so 113 G something like that be a crazy weekend be full force um and last week was par professional week correct it is and we're celebrating it this week okay this week so thank you to all the parents and sports staff yep y y we it was put on the calendar last summer and then we found out oh we're not the week and so we're celebrating this week so I know they had a bunch of stuff here today they kind of a pot lock over in the elementary thank you bringing that up all right very good let's go on to 6.1 this is the dgf Elementary report this is all fun so I handed one out to everybody you have a copy there um kind of a big deal the first item there is kindgarten registrations we've started that already and um we'll have a Kindergarten Roundup on March 18th we'll have a presentation in the gym with myself uh assistant principal Jun the kindergarten team uh nurse Kayla e um and Jamie will be there and it's really just to introduce us and introduce uh the school go through routines and and procedures and then they take a walk around the building and meet the teachers and that kind of thing um we have as of today before I left 39 registered kindergarten which is wonderful in comparison to last year I don't think we had any at this point last year which was as a weird year last year I think typically by March 1st we have about 60 we're on Bas um maybe a little bit more on P so maybe unless the words I'll hurry up and get registered but it's good news so far um I have reading curriculum down and that's really an elementary school's Focus for the most part that's why I have it there but we have raid level meetings every Tuesday and some are on Thursdays um and department meetings and it's reading is always on the agenda um we've had a focus on that last year and this year um you can see the next item is letters training and that's a a training on really probably the simplest way to say it is basic skills reading um it's not really but it's probably easiest to describe it as that uh we started that last year you can see last year we had 30 teachers and the admin uh we met weekly and monthly uh last year now this year we're doing it again it's a twoyear two-year program to be trained in the letterers this year we have the rest of our staff which is 12 teachers and they're meeting year one now so most of us will be done this year and the rest of them will finish uh next year early childhood is a one-year program and they're all finishing this year um penis Retreat yeah that was uh I will I will I love what you did because it's probably one of my I know it is because I told some of the staff it's one of my favorite days of the year um and it's the first time we had it at dgf in the elementary and I was excited to have it brought there the junior the middle school does it for seventh grade it's a different theme but seeing fourth graders eyes when high school kids are lined up like it's a pep rally or they're like they're going through a tunnel when they open the doors and a single pile and all 10 n kids are walking through seniors that are and juniors that are cheering in raon it's it's a probably the first 15 minutes is loud so it's hard on some kids' ears but and adults but um there's serious there's highs there's lows there's energy there's all kinds of stuff and now it's just to try to keep that keep that going and keep that them going with the kids in the gra but um nothing but positives from the kids that I heard and staff Concordia College we started a collaborative with them uh with all three sites this just last all um and part of that and we've done a few things at all three sites but one I have this on here because we have on Fridays through the end of March their math methods class and it's not student teaching but it's learning how to teach math in elementary schools and most students are coming every Friday for three hours in our building and it's under Lori dber and she's one of their adun professors and uh so she's doing that and then the kids are getting her lessons and then they're uh betting mering in the classroom a little bit um teacher evaluations so what you do every year if you're a non- t0e teacher uh we do minimum of three evals so I have two of the those done right now and we'll start the two weeks will start the next round we'll have three of them done uh usually I try to get done by the end of February and 10 year teachers they'll be done this we I one Mon and those tenure teachers are every on a rotation every three years and again pair of professional week if you flip the paper over um this is what we're doing this week in the elementary high school and middle school are doing similar types of things but um trying to draw attention to them every from all of our staff and and today was the big salad bar tomorrow's breakfast ban fanza so everybody kind of goes in the lounge and we're all celebrating together food is always good not always for my body but yeah okay curriculum discussions we've been doing that all year I talked about letters training that's English language arts science has been a discuss this year technolog is always ongoing um and and when I say all these subjects they're all K12 not just Elementary couple things the next two things uh started this last year uh the principal's third grade chess club I'll start that in a couple weeks with the third graders and then uh we'll meet twice a week and then uh principal it's not food principal Bagel tournaments it's uh it's a I don't know where they came with the name but it's Bagels P fmy it's I don't know if they're Latin name words or what but it's a it's a problem solving math game going to the classroom to do that for about four weeks and then we have a tournament at the end um upcoming planning topics you know that we're starting right now is kindergarten planning we're already I mean we're planning for next year already uh enrollment and class list planning Staffing considerations for next year Title One programming the spring we have testing um any end of the year events we have lot of those already scheduled budget planning Med parent involvement opportunities the breakfast for example what um one thing I forgot to put on there that I was thinking about on the way here uh February is a love to read month and so that's a huge month in elementary schools and we have a kickoff next Monday morning at 8:30 for that and lots and lots of activities were all supposedly well the theme is about reading like a pirate so if they get to their goal they get to some I I don't know exactly I'm not told all the details but they're supposed to be able to get principal Jun and myself off of a plank [Laughter] any questions for me on this or anything else I got a couple or whatever uh what is what is letters training what is I I might have missed that you might said oh uh um so it's training on uh really does what it does is just take a a teacher back through their beginnings of learning how to teach reading and it's uh a lot of it's based on on um how the brain learns how to read and in my time and most teachers times up until recent years we've never learned learned that process about how the brain learns how to read so that's kind of where it starts and then you talk about 39 being a good number being registered compared to last year whatever what's our expectation or what what's the got dealing that we're going to get I want 120 at least okay I don't know what Shannon wants probably 50 yeah we take them no average we're probably about 120 so do we have any idea before anybody registers or not sort of yeah so um um Tracy Tracy has a number uh they had 123 that had either contacted us or we've contacted for Early Childhood four-year-olds so there's 123 there now how many of those and choices they make so I think my weekly update I was optimistic based on what that data because I looked through her whole spreadsheet you know I'm hoping or we're thinking 110 120 um if all 123 and other people come from another you know neighboring town then they're in better shape but yeah so that's our projection I guess what's the class size this year 94 93 right now 93 just went to 93 we'd have to add another teacher if we had one and got that one well and so like our first grade last year we had 13 five kindergarteners and now we have 93 so we already had to shift a bunch last year and some went with the first grade and then that's kind of what when's talking about I already asked them last week as principal said we got to start looking at sapping and I said we got to let's plan for five kindergarten for sure okay maybe six and then who would it be and what would that look like so that's something couple years ago I told the staff it I was hopeful we'd be solid six sections all the way through that's five six people are un question I I do um the reading curriculum we've had now two assessments with the new assessment are we showing growth in Reading I know we were so having some challenges yep yep so the fall to the winter there's growth and then I'm confident with the spring will be what I really want to see is the impact on MCA and that till spring probably fall the results come back sure are the teachers finding it helpful the the new reading curriculum and so they were they were a little stressed last year the the the especially the ones that did the letter string um they saw a lot of reinforcement when they had the training and the new curriculum at the same time compared to those that didn't have the training at the same time uh they're feeling a lot more comfortable they feel like the kids our well into the routines a whole lot more than because it's totally different teaching Style Style um and then your math methods teachers are they the same partner teachers every week so yeah they're they are familiar with the teacher and the students and stuff so they can build on that y yeah yeah they're the same so they're taking a college course is what it is yeah and those think I didn't know if they were visiting like each grade level so they were trying to teach teach a different math method to different levels or actually they're they're they're mostly just observing or working with more of support questions all right thank you very much Mr right thank you much all right we'll go on to 6.2 i Transportation m is not as as Elementary I know transportation is the people people that's my specialty um we applied for a school bu stop arm Grant which would provide us with some additional new cameras and our buses we were notified that we are going to reink um part of the gr we don't know exactly how much yet we're waiting on the gr award uh the invid and charges been out sick um the original gr was like for1 4,500 and the new system will give us four cameras interior two cameras outside we have one in the front of the bus other St and one in the back to get them from both directions um which is a great deal uh Justin boo she hunterson and was ni support which of a a bonus Point Johnson called me back and said one but he asked for one you gave us three so we're just lucky enough to be in community we have enough people that can do that for us um Kelly Johnson our Sergeant Kelly Johnson be to work with us in the annual bus driving training with our Ty and our CDLs in March um we still got I think four bus BS left that I need to finish we're in the process of updating our bus transportation program currently it's not web based so if something happen off site we had to leave there be no way of getting into our to see who connect with like bu so the new system it will be web based we can actually anywhere to connected and up and going the right like about process to do it this once before was it was the challenge this time at least when going through some of the stuff looks familiar so I'm feeling a little bit better um especially transportation we are experiencing major grow pain right now we have like 35 kids that we are 40 uh we have cat that operates two runs we have to and bar that do three runs and that's in about an hour and a half time they get the kids home they gowhere from South cargo to Morhead Glendon World Glendon B um it's tight very very tight Barb is thinking about hanging up and going parttime so she will be having a fulltime gra position opening um I'm guessing soon give us a date for that keep them talking so that's coming up be gearing up for Spring sport so that the activity bu will be do busy it is a lifesaver goal it helps smaller groups places the bus put 10 kids on so that's going to pretty quickly we looking into the Poss add through that ster GE alerts onto our new bu program purchase which would mean that you could check to see where your bus isbe live times Britney could open up and say oh that's my buses BL away wouldn't have kids stay upside freezing um bus isn't comeing to see where it's at but we're looking into something like that and we enter the transportation for our little kindergarten which is always interesting because you have the parents that have no experience with buy and so that's very very kind cons we very popular very long light very very long that's basically what's going on in transportation right now any question um the issue or the growing pains with this bed busing is it because we're short on vehicles or drivers or both it's we just well we just more kids probably had the other thing really spre out like weid yeah are we just using the vans so if You' like to come after school and drive get it real quick I will say this too so I visit with Scott and Sarah and Eileen um last week we talked about it and we're going to meet again and just they're going to just go through with the staff to make sure that okay Shannon still requires special transportation or he doesn't you know where are we at we're just going to reevaluate she said you know obviously there's more and more added we had quite a few kids this year that came in rement school started that required it which we weren't ready for and then it's like okay and then back to what ien said the routes are so much longer so no people and we can't fit them all in so people have to wait by the time to get back it's like okay what are we doing so I know Wayne and Britney meeting with Paris too on how we're going to make sure that coverage is done so after the discussion we're hopefully going to be able to say hey maybe we can cut back on some people that don't require it any I'm not sure that's going to be the case we'll have to see and if it isn't one of the things we talking about it's okay what's tough in special transportation is you purchase a vehicle and then you lose some of those kids and then this has happened to me in the past where now you don't need the vehicle yeah but so unfortunately right now we're in these longer routes it's a little bit more waiting time but we're making it but we're making it so um yeah it's going to be an evaluation for sure what would be in the ideal world where money and people are not an issue what would be the solution like is it everybody can jump on their vehicle and go home and be done you know what I mean though so like another vehicle to pick up K so you're not making several stops and right and we need another driver out St for that to y y right [Music] yes not the problem with the bus you have we do have one that has a regular CV but the problem is C on then so then there's no backup there's no backup it would be nice because 14 of them are still on there but and then in that case we could have a pair of ride with it just to make sure but it could be yeah more efficient but yeah the other thing is thing is to some of these are children that probably do not do well about seat belt there been a lot of discussion the last couple weeks know with our growing numbers it was just curious if we added geolocation to our buses would that be behind like login credentials or would that be public bacing if would be able to any parent would be able to log in so be under your parent view or something where it would be like Joe citizen who doesn't have a dgf student would have access to I would believe it's tight with bus bu how many buses do we own how many do we own we own one bus how many do we run we run we totally have 17 buses that we run um but we only own one ourselves so then then yeah so then the grant for the1 and some thousand then we'd be retrofitting other people's buses yeah that's in their contract we're responsible providing radios for them and camps for them okay and then last question you know how how is that is it common to people are bringing kids to Fargo from that go to school I mean is that a common practice that we're sending them across the state or to another state yes when they're homeless we go wherever they're at we've been to Hol we've been up to BU State up yeah it's required by St that might be their only housing option for the homeless so you can't um pull somebody from District just because they become homeless and there's no um Community Resources for them in our district so they have to go wherever their option it doesn't always mean it's there that's where their location is you have your required well because they might find a housing insecurity you don't want to also up them from their stability and the schol in the home um their friends and their support networks if you take somebody who becomes um homeless and you take them out of every support network they have and they the their challenges become exponential not fixable necessarily so because they might find housing again in the district for their home District chances are that usually it's a temporary deal end up well they end up being in like a Morhead or something but a lot cler than well the the biggest challenge right now for us is that our um homeless population is very uh dispersed because our shelters are completely dis abandoned we've lost several um shelters to the fers United funding concerns um and they're not letting additional families in into those those locations um and the one that we do have up so then they're being placed in hotel it's definitely a regional stressor right now which thans US right any other questions for thank you thank you all right we'll go on to 6.3 this is board committee report start with the DT rec district oh and Laura's not here oh Laura's not so I was there um and I did my presentation um so maybe what we'll do is I'm going to go through the presentation a little bit during my final budget information just to kind of so the slideshow I'm going to go super fast with you because you don't need to see the whole thing this is what uh the presentation I'm going to show you is the exact same one I went through with BLT and so that's what we talked about this and if you have questions after that you can all right we're going to nsba conference Rec and I guess you know um we all went to different seminars at the conference we had two really Dynamic speakers one that was talking about the importance of seeing kids the other one was really um principal that had turned up turned around a lot of different tough schools and you know through to force I would say as far as his involment with the school um you know as far as things that are specific to the state I did go to a conference on state initiatives with the legislature i' say the legislature meeting I don't think we quite meeting yet but um a lot of lot of turmoil down there um but some of the different things that they're looking at is really surrounding budget and getting more money to the schools just because there's a recognition at least by the Uno State uh School Board Association things are tough for schools across the state right now so um a lot of focus on that one of those things is the um L ability to catch that dollar amount up to where it was with inflation started yearo Channon really so that is one of their legislative items so um yeah that's what I have I don't know if anybody else has anything that they like to add I know just a lot of lot of good sessions as a new board member I'll say it was it was very beneficial was to be interacting with other board members from across the state and just the networking of learning and spending a time with the board some of the board members here or whatever it was it was good information that's always the best part is just learn from other board members get to know I was drinking from a fire hose yeah love the information it doesn't stop so all right on to 6.4 the superintendent yeah so I'm gonna so excuse me and I'll just kind of reiterate probably what Troy and uh David B just said about msba and and uh for me as a superintendent also you know drinking from a fire hose for you guys but the questions you're asking me you know so often because we have been in education for 30 whatever years you just go well this is what we do right and you guys are going okay I've never heard that one before I've never heard that term what are you talking about and so it's good for me too just pause slow down and go okay hey good question U it's this it's that it's whatever so um it also for me as your superintendent uh with new board members it's just so you get to know me a little bit right I'm I'm Shannon hunson I'm a dad I'm a husband PA and I'm a superintendent you know so you get it's that's important for me so when we talk about sometimes tough issues or things you kind of have an idea where I come from good bad or whatever so um so this is my presentation uh to the district leadership team uh and on January uh is when we're finalizing our budget which we are doing tonight uh I told them uh in January that's going to be my meeting for them so there's parents in there there's students in there there's teachers in there there's admin uh it's a packed house down in the community room it was a very good meeting LA's not here but she would say it was fantastic anyway um so I'm just going to kind of go through it quick just because for respective time uh this is just our district uh it last number was in 2023 we have 6769 people in our demographic in our school district obviously it's 2025 if you look from 2020 to 20 that threeyear period is about 200 people not quite uh I would guess it's similar I just done grow from what we have that's people so this is all of our taxpayers that help support our school um you this slide is only to show you that public schools are shrinking private and home schools are growing so this number is year old because the new numbers AR up yet but it just and I can get this this is the slideshow I shared with you uh and my weekly updates you have this stud so this is just us since 2004 the dgf public school the one thing I and you see on top I put since uh 2016 to 2024 we're down 103 students at our current rate that's also a slide coming up at 9223 that's close to a million dollars um over that time period now it wasn't always 9223 so was a little less than that I'm just showing in today's numbers that's what it would be because it's not exactly that so you want any confusion there yeah one of the things I thought was interesting about that is if you look at 2014 2013 in that period sort of a a glut of right here elementary kids oh yeah Ando one class that had over 100 kids and now all that group is kind of coming through so now you know the high schools got a lot of kids and um elementes kind of I can slide this around too so you can see our current ones but it's not as robust it's not right and so you know for me this is what I constantly have to look at it's like okay where what our Trend well our Trend in the last eight years is about 11 less kids every year Well if you take 11 time 9200 or even 10,000 for easy numbers or 9,000 a fair amount of money that's a teacher or teacher in a par every year that we should probably cut well we don't always do it depending on where those numbers fall right and so this is just and and oh and I should also State these numbers are done in October so that's important that's our first Mars report for that school year so here's an example I'm sorry standing in your way and get doy do here um because you can see the last I'm sorry I gotta make sure I get the right here yeah 23 so it says 1563 well we didn't finish in 16 we didn't finish at 1563 it was 1551 okay and then we're at 1539 well now we're at 1512 that's our current number so these are October numbers so it's just boom this is what they were in October uh some years they might go up some years they might go down um in our audit last year if you recall on our audit uh it said 1570 well I don't remember ever seeing 1570 I saw 1563 and boom and then it went down and we finished here 1551 so this is all tied to school funding right so here it goes and it's a yo-yo a little bit but it comes out in average and the state doesn't dis no now we take it back no we so it's all figured out in a 13 page formula but uh just so you have an idea it's fluctuates obviously we have transient people in our district so so are we losing more like District kids or more the Open Enrollment type of kids well perfect segue and now I touched the screen so I gotta touch it I again so all this slide is is just to say what are we trying to do we're trying to attract so I'll get to that Troy in just a second so it's a good point so we've added an FFA right we have an alternative learning plan that's our Alp that we talked about before it's trying to keep those kids right uh we started Rebel Kids Care to keep them young if we can get them young they'll stay here as the go you know so we're trying to do these things um to keep them here to attract them here to keep our enrollment more stable and this is what I talked about briefly but last year we finished the audit said 1570 but we finished at 1551 this year our biggest deal right now currently we're at 1512 we have 93 students in kindergarten last year we finished year with 134 kindergarten this year's first grade 119 so we lost 15 of these kindergarteners to first grade what happened did they homeschool now did they go to a charter school did they move out of the community that they four of them stayed in kindergarten we held four back but with holding four back that's 93 so we only had 89 right so it's um so here's the sa way we open it and I don't have the exact breakdown of all these but um we have 484 students that come to us from outside our district great news right but unfortunately we have 227 that live in our district that choose to go somewhere else at to the good news we're still at positive 257 257 times that rate that's over $2 million this District does not have an operating referendum or hasn't the reason you haven't had to is because you got open enrollment that's positive like that that's basically your operating referendum right there um do I wish the 227 stay here too yes obviously right the bulk of those in Brook would you say maybe 400 of those at least come from Mor but we lose a fair amount to oure head too so do those 227 include home school I don't believe they do I don't think that's counted as a home school in that 227 pretty sure it isn't they choose to go somewhere else because they're on a Mars some other public school hasn't yeah good question uh to my knowledge it would be know y we have 50 homeschool students roughly part of that 484 I believe is that that road we talk about that road and D the three County Highway 9 on the other side of the road all those Dorth they live in the city of Dorth but they're in the Morhead yes but they're in the Morehead public school but also then in Woodbridge or whatever the same concept y that land swap there's one piece of that land swap with public school that still hasn't happened uh Brandon and I talked about that again this fall just thinking because the it's a tax impact that it has to get within 3% if I remember I looked at it when I first got here uh and they just don't feel it's ever going to get there because then it's supposed to automatically transfer so we're talking about how can we get that to just be done how can we get that to switch what's the investment for Mor Public Schools what's the investment for do you know what what can we do to make that done finish it I guess if we don't think it's going to make it to 3% is our district gaining more because of the tax base over there or is are we losing and they're gaining okay so I haven't looked at it for a long time Nicole but when I first got here I think we so that's why so when we swap we would be we'd have to get something I would say and that's kind of from the hip because I haven't looked at it enough for three years I guess it would be but that's my understanding yeah um yeah well obviously Morhead motivator is they can't pass their Capital project levier because people live and they're going to our school and they're going well I'm not going to vote for that why would I vote for that and so he's saying we got to come on can we come up with something and I get that and then on the other hand we need to get something to negotiate right this guys you s this is our um budget um from the audit so it's you know trending in a good spot and we talked about that before so this is just to show you but it has a direct impact um from uh enrollment the other thing that I did not talk about um during the audit or didn't get into that discussion is we this District had a 10year uh Tech Levy it ran out it was my first year here I had a few other things going on not sure if you knew that the building project was going on so it lapsed and went we would have had to renew it we'd had to go to the voters we didn't so there's a I think it was $80 a student or something so couple $1,000 that we don't get anymore so that also impacts the budget so it's something we could consider possibly Ren this is just to show you where our budget where the money comes from 89% of our money comes from the state at some capacity um 8.7% comes from the local that's does not include the bond for the building project this is just our annual operating budget 88.7% comes from the local obviously you guys are paying taxes for the building that's a different animal that's a different fund okay this is just our annual budget just so you understand that and then the feds kick in 2.3 most of that is USDA Food Service little special at energy here's where we spend our money salaries and benefits 76% supplies maintenance and everything else is here the one thing I need you to understand here uh is that we have contractors for our buses right as I you know we know that so they're not in the salaries and benefits we want to make sure you understand that I we simplified this just so you can get a general overview I could bre down the buy into about 80 different slies but in so I just want you to know that the buzz contractors fit in here under maintenance supplies it's we contracted out they're not in here typically in a district salaries and benefits uh come to about 80% of your budget if we had our own buses like my previous District we owned our own buses we were right at just over 80% because we had pay bus drivers really that right so um and then capital is 3% so that's the big stuff right um so we compare um you can obviously see these districts have an operating referendum most of these see i' put this the fiver didn't pass 20 two years ago they passed her last year for 900 per student so they're going to jump from here to right between Park Rapids and pelic they're going to be up here at 103 um the others don't they're kind of like us uh they have open en rollment it's been positive for the most part but we're all it's getting Tighter and Tighter and Tighter uh to do it but um it's not everybody I just want to give you a little bit here these are the teams we play these are teams in our region or schools in our region I should say so it's just to give you that perspective uh this is our F Formula allowance I'm probably taking too long so I apologize I just when we get into this um this is our current so this is the other thing that's very important for you as board members to know is our current number is 7281 so that's what we get from the basic formula from the state of Minnesota per student I showed you in the previous slide it's 9223 that's other sparity AIDS and this and that's that that add up to about another 2,000 for us okay the L is in that 92 so our L is at 724 that's included in that 9223 that's not here so when the state says hey we're going to give you 4% increase that 4% increase is on that number which is 62% of our budet 38% of our budget over the last two years we got 3.8% so less than two 3.8% over two years over two years yeah because of our enrollment I don't know if you know this but I've been read numbers lately uh over the last two years instead of us getting 6% because of our decline in enrollment we actually got 5.4% over the two years in our in our uh General uh formula because of a lot and I'll show you one more thing on that so this is just showing if there was inflation over the same time period you can see in 2003 is when it started was the same because here we are inflation we should be getting 8645 again obviously we're not property tax so this is just to show you this is what school districts have done with their taxpayers this is what the counties and cities have done we talked about this before we have to go for you to our public for voting counties and cities don't they just say increase sorry it's just the cost of living so you going look at their number really close to the inflated rate if you go back to this slide 8645 what's the there is at 9149 and here we are at 3991 as opposed to 7 which just it is what it is I think I showed you this before this is our value so I don't have to give it that unfortunately got DG we're not talk about Lakes Country Iron Range Minneapolis pipeline that's pretty much the state of Minnesota and why people have value and this is now not a great spot for that but this is our year in fund balances which you guys have seen before the one thing on this slide that I really want to point out because this is is that number right there last year so I'm going to show you the budget last year's budget our final Revenue was 195 19 55,1 195 this year's is $166,000 more our teacher raises were 217,000 we have non-certified raises we have admin raises we have I'm just telling you to give you a perspective that's the money we got extra this year from the state why enrollment is gone 39 kids so we're not just sitting here doing nothing we've joined a special ed cop it's going to be seven our mate billing we know is over already going to project it at over $100,000 increase in funding we're writing an addess Grant that's due this next week it's going to be worth $300,000 is basically what we're looking at to pay for a bunch of other things uh you guys know the L and the other stuff that we submitted msba so we're talking with legislators constantly um I'm constantly talking with those Regional superintendent who just had house file six is a current bill I don't know the house just heard from the from the courts that now that vote will happen in March so it's not going to happen now so now they're talking the Democrats aren't going to show in the house until March they have to have a final budget by May 19th not sure how that's going to work they got to sit down at the table the Republic the Republicans Democrats have to figure out a blank because nothing's going to happen so they said all the work that's been done so far in the house might have to just be scrapped and start over house file six is a big deal for us I think I shared it with you guys in my weekly update too that this is some work can we do some internal uh board resolutions to ship some dollars around internally and that's what house file 6 it's article three of house file 6 that's what it talks about did I share that with you I think I did didn't I yeah anyway that was a Hot Topic L country to with superintendents uh you guys know our other fund balances are in a good place that's um I touch that sorry this is not fun stuff this is just what everybody else is living in our state of Minnesota that's a video they interviewed the Inka superintendent SAR Tribune has an article these are schools and there's a b there's a bunch more that are making significant budget cuts these are the failed reference refs they're almost all outstate outstate Minnesota and operating referendums or Capital project levies failed uh well they passed less than 30% rate in the Metro was around 50% and that comes back to property value right we talked about that before so exciting so when we get into the budget oh I should go back sorry uh when we get into the budget our budget at the beginning year was going to be at 3 110 can't remember exactly apologize what you said the original uh deficit that was going to be about a zero balance we were going to have a balanced budget if our enrollment stayed the same when the enrollment did not stay the same that's kind of where our deficit is so when you look at our final budget you will see that it's it's basically 100% tied in unfortunately so if we have questions when we get to that you can uh like country I think I've already kind of talked about what we talked about down there we're also talked about paying student teachers not sure that's going to come from so that was a good discussion uh construction concerns you may or may not have known that we had quite a interesting couple weeks um in the fort gym we had glycol spraying all over the gym floor um we want to go for a tour after the meetings tonight the middle of the floor we almost had to cancel games Friday night and Saturday night because the floor was well Ripley from the moisture of the um Bol it was fixed live Thursday before was in weeks two weeks ago Thursday when we were down an MSB they came in and fixed it the next day the next week a different spot and it I have a video it's just it sounds like you're at a spot it's raining down from the ceiling anyway they came up fixed that um and so far that's been holding we also have a pipe in the middle of the brand new science room that is backing up into our kitchen we finally now put a gam it's 8 feet under the concrete floor and so we may have to be digging that up this summer so the the sewage backing up to the kitchen is that causing any sort of Hazard concerns with meal prep yep no it hasn't because we caught it when it was starting and then it hasn't and now we've been watching it to make sure we're flushing out before it get that one so yep um is our um I've noticed as I've walked through this building that a lot of the floor is like tee yep um so is that under some sort of warranty because I feel like it's pretty new to be yep that's already been replaced twice and it's a glue issue with the tunnels and the Heat of the tunnels that the Architects didn't bring into play so the heat of the pipes running in the tunnels heats up the glue and it ooz it us out we've had multiple discussions and as you guys know we're in communication with architect and working through some of that which is definitely on it the reason for the black beautiful tap is they put it down Chase is tired of cleaning up this gooey stuff in every room so it's still losing out but they're trying to put the tape to eliminate it from getting on everybody's tenis shoes and spread appreciate that too I mean you don't want to right it's just it's just or for someone to trip on a corner or whatever yeah so it it was replaced when M took over they did take it all up and put a lot less glue it just it just doesn't hear and so it's still working its way to the edge and then it starts to come up yeah neat super neat that's a good way to say super neat um High School travel labor um remember we talked about this it was supposed to be up before it did get sent out I asked Joe today kind what's the percentage he thinks we're at about a 90% return on how about um the procedure for people leaving and coming back do we have some sort of check check no nothing yet remember we did check with area schools to and they don't either that's something we're going to have to it's going to have to be a summer or something kind of like one or some options here to be efficient so they can actually get out if that's what we decide or do we just say okay we're not or you know it's yeah it's a good nothing at this thing okay um I had MD oh the Deputy Commissioner Angela Mansfield will be here this Thursday she's actually they're coming from the East so they're going to stop at this site she said they'll just stop at the municipal High School I said okay and this is just for them they want to go around to see all the schools they were supposed to be here in November if you remember I did make that un spit didn't they cancel because they had something that came up so they're coming this Thursday uh 1:30 to 2:30 they'll be there um just a reminder I have the igr this Friday that's the intergovernmental retreat at play County courthouse and I present in the afternoon all the wonderful things that are happening at P the last thing I had was you guys all got a calendar uh we are September I did make kind of a joke that I didn't I told my wife I'd never end up in calendar but I did September anyway it's the food service and it's our Farmers school and food and nutrition so I'm one of many in that photo up to the right um so just a great deal on that um Shannon got many questions so she'll be presenting you remember when is it March May yeah I can't I can't remember anyway just came through this week so yeah so kind of a neat deal another way we've been recognized any questions all right hearing none we'll move on to 7.1 this is to approve the regular meeting minutes of January 2 2025 do have a motion motion by BR a second second by any questions or discussion hearing none all those in favor say I iOS motion carries on to number eight consent agenda is to approve the bills for January 2025 in the amount of $237,800 school year and then also to prove the resignation of Angie Miller care professional effect of February 7th 201 and um last is to proove the extracurricular coaches advisors as presented also do I have a motion Mo motion by Nicole have a second second second any questions or discussion uh I do have one thing so if you look at our month budget as of 123 2025 you look at our preliminary budget at 20 milon 273 so see that and we're at 45% or 45.57 per. the one thing I did so we're going to finalize a budget today and that budget number is different and so I wanted to tell you that our budget number and you'll see it you probably yeah you have the other one too it's actually 20, 75,6 so our percentage will be 46.2 so we're about a half a percent higher as of today as of today or as well I better say of 123 because that's when he ran the numbers does that make sense so our expenses year to dat as of 123 are still the same number but now our budget number is smaller it's not the two you with me okay yeah so I just want you to understand and that will be reflected in our next board meeting because because you guys will approve this but or you we'll have discussion about the budget shortly okay I just want to make sure you guys know that all right I have a question on the um fundraising uh so are I know I asked you this last time too I think but so we're going to get these numbers shorted up so like right now I see that the two basketball um split the pots were not confirmed it looks like they're getting approved this time around um so because they've still been doing those so next year we're going to have those ahead of ahead of time right yep because that's the one remember I didn't have this at our admin meeting so I didn't have to look at it and we brought it to a board meeting I'm like okay it's something we had done in the past so Bally yeah and then um I did see that we had posted um the gifts from the heart last week that was caught um but in the event I got a good email from um Mrs Rand running it yeah so I just thought I'd share a little bit about that um she said when the Middle School relocated their art supplies went with them leing us at the elementary with a large art room but no materials our goal is to raise funds for essential items such as drying wacks easels paint brushes and other non-consumable supplies this will allow our staff to check out the art room and teach engaging art lessons I want to assure you that every child will have the opportunity to participate in this initiative um because one of my questions was um if it's only kids who can buy tickets what about the kids who really could benefit from um this initiative that maybe can't bring the funds to do that um so she did say that there would be good Behavior tickets that would be handed out through the week for those just demonstrating the rebel way behavior um and then teachers can distribute those as as they see fit uh because they want to Foster building um relationship building throughout our school Community um so the funds we do raise will greatly support both students and staff enhancing our overall educational environments so since I'd seen a little bit ahead of that um and I wanted to share that with you guys on that yeah and I was at the Staffing they talked about more because it's the first time they're doing it it's just kind of a it's something that it's either a sister or sister-in-law that does it in another school and they've had success and they're talking about it so I said well you can always bring it up and the board's going to see it and and we'll go from there but I just as far as I'm concerned I saw Ashley I said it looks one question I do have for Wayne um I thought a long time ago when we before we had actually moved the elementaries together knowing that we um had the art room and things I thought we had discussion about bringing in an art teacher to help support staff I did I make that up in okay so that was a discussion once I got that email from Ashley then it started like rolling things around um so we just don't have I'm assuming with our funding we just don't have the funds for that I guess if would ask me I'd probably no right now but yeah yeah and I don't remember it was probably before my time possibly okay yeah so on this one when it says fun to be used for going back to the staff and students it's really going to the art room I mean that's how it was presented to me yeah yeah any other questions or discuss I only question excuse me only question is good Lord is the coaching staff this is preset their suggestions for next year when over half these Sports haven't even happened yet for recommendations for the following year so how we give a good evaluation for sport that hasn't happened for next yeah great question um Mike I think we had some discussions earlier so as we look at this list just know that Katie does an evaluation after every season that's how they get their final check that's how they get paid and they have to go through their list with her and she signs up on it that and and if you guys ever want to visit with her about you know you're not going to see the actual evaluation but she can talk about what she did and what why she chose to renew their contract or if there were concerns she can talk about that um yeah so this is yeah it's that time of year it's what we always have done doesn't mean it's right to make this point but just know that they do go through an evaluation process with her and if you had questions Katie she can show you the form that we use and then how the head coaches do the assistant coaches in that evaluation form so if you want to take a look at that she has all that information for you for you I don't have I don't have an issue there I'm just so not to Pi on anything just for conversation if we have a new track coach this year we approving that person for the following year when we haven't seen how that's happened for the first year uh no this is for 2425 so this is for this year not for next year so that track coach is being approved here next year you'll have a chance to whether we approve them or not okay does that make yeah so this is our coaching staff for this win I'm office in fin B yeah I guess so yeah this is for this year's coaches yeah okay to then my only other suggestion would be if use trap for an example not a pick on it no that's so if this wasn't approved is this enough time to find a track person versus doing it earlier in a season for that specific sport coming around the court yep so I would say as a board member when you see this let's say for example when you got this board packet a week ago and you had a concern about somebody I would hope you would have brought it to me at that point and then we would have talked to Katie we' had a discussion so would have happened in this public meeting and we could have had hey here's our concerns maybe Matt maybe discussed it maybe made a change whatever needed to happen right so I guess that's what I'd ask when you guys get information on a board packet and you have a question I would hope that you would ask us before we come to this meeting so we can hopefully knock it up doesn't mean stuff isn't going to happen I don't want to you know what I mean you need to be you too but um I hope that we have that discussion before yeah just to be resp for the people and wasn't pick on anything I appreciate that any question uh kind of follow up like so like the the and I'm not again I don't want to pick on anybody either but it's like the football aspect that's are we approving it for last year or for this next you'll see them again oh so yeah this is what we had this year these people have been evaluated just so you know and then if we have any questions so let's say you know you look at this list and you go well the junior high seventh grade football coach I've got concerns or whatever let's have that discussion there's a part of evaluation so then I would say in the junior high level and I'm just going tooot from him there's probably four to five or six different coaches that change on an annual basis just because life changes it's less teams more teams so but if you ever have concerns I mean that's what Katie's job is she's here to answer concerns from whoever right I think the timing is just odd I think that's where I don't think we're talking about like people in general the timing just feels interesting we not I think we it's done seon thank you probably worth explaining there's more than one just logistically something I noticed too um Gulf is the only one that the boys and girls are all pushed together like softball has their own section baseball has their own section and I mean everything else is um boys basketball girls basketball boys basketball but we've got head boys coach head girls coach all in one all in one section and they're not separated between boys and girls it's seem kind of yeah odd yeah I was going to say cross countries a little bit but that's all one group you know boys and girls are together so yeah yeah just when you right up I looked down was like well that's weird yeah they should have it on yeah thought it really matters no just from a visual standpoint I think you know as we approved this too we started thinking about the fishing like we should probably reconsider that you know not to pick on anybody hearing none all those in favor say i i v motion carries we'll go on to another uh number 9.1 this is uh to approve the 2025 committee Representatives as presented and this should be part of your board packet the only change this was sent out earlier and the only change was um Nicole was added to the the district leadership team and Britney was put on County Joint um do I have a motion motion by do I have a second second second by tro any questions or discuss hearing none all those favor say I V Mo cares on to 9.2 this is to approve the week of January 20th 20 through 26 20125 is dgf par professional recognition do I have a motion I a second second second motion by Nicole by Britney um and I'll just read the proclamation whereas Minnesota is home more than 20,000 PA of professionals who provide multiple services in our schools that are integral to the successive students and teachers and whereas profession par professionals take on a wide range of responsibilities to meet the unique needs of students and their care their dedication support safe effective and engaging learning environments throughout Minnesota and whereas Minnesota's Department of Education is committed to Excellence in education and recognizes the important role that Care Professionals play in uring success in our schools and whereas Minnesota celebrates the essential contribution of Care Professionals during care professional recognition all right any questions or discussion just thank you to all of our Care Professionals and support staff for that they do for our teachers and students see can be a challenging job for sure much appreciated any other questions or discussion hearing none all those in favor say I I oppos motion carries on to 9.4 this is a motion to approve the fiscal year 2025 final budget this is also in your packet do I have a motion motion by m second second by any questions or discussion yeah again you see that 387 with 39 less students that comes to 300 I just did the map again just that's $359,999 just exact just on enrollment so when we set the budget you know we always are super conservative and we started our budget this year with using 1525 as our number thinking we had a big buffer there couple hundred, then when enrollment came in and we were just above it then We Shrunk and then We Shrunk and we've had to readjust it um three four different times now we're running in numbers at 1500 because we're at 1512 so it's just been yeah yeah a little bit lower than we hope yep so we are going to continue we're Marcus and I are talking about how we're going to free stuff here going forward to finish up the year and so we can make it a smaller than this impact plus impact any other questions or discussion hearing n all those in favor say I hi I motion carry on 9.4 this is to approve a certified contract for Robert Grand business teacher VA step one effective January 20th 202 do I have a motion motion by m do have a second a second second by Angela any questions or discussion uh I just want everybody know this was Roger sansky came back this fall so Robbie can do a student teaching so Robbie we had already had Robbie has been a part of our basketball coaching staff and gave him a chance and then Roger halfway through that said you guys are going to be good he's going to be okay you should hire him and then Roger then officially retired Roger retired after last year but came back to help us with this transition which was huge so special thank you to Roger yeah thank you to Roger for and good luck in his re retirement re yeah Y and welcome Robbie Roger's done then right now yeah yeah yeah we had a shortterm one semester contract adding himself to other coaching positions too so I'm sure makes K happy yes very much so any other questions or discussion hearing none all those in favor say hi i v motion on to 9.5 this is to approve the first reading of the F year 2026 SCH calendar do I have a motion motion by Nicole do I have a second second second any questions or discussion what what is the first day of school here I'm struggling at the color the second the second yep yep September 2nd September 1st is going to be uh Labor Day or Labor Day I should say the reason those are in pink because kindergarten comes in and does their R so they it's yeah PR do one-onone meeting before they start yep and the last day is May 27th it is yep May 27th and then the workshop is the 28th it's really tight as you can see if we want to be after Labor Day and Before Memorial which we couldn't be before Before Memorial in order to get to days in so yeah it's a yeah thank any other questions or discussion and we're going to stick with the e-learning days after the storm days yes Hope desire to not so far we've been fortunate yeah yeah and it's been some tough warning decisions sometimes but we've made it so so far I discussed any other questions or discussion hearing none all those in favor say I I motion carries on to 9 this is approve the administrative contract for Aaron Schindler activity transp Transportation director effec of July 1st 202 do I have a motion motion by m do I have a second second any questions or discussion just so you know too I I think I well I know I shared this with you that the official contract starts July 1 of 2025 obviously we want him to work with e especially in Transportation he has experience as an activities director but not as a transportation director so it's I believe you guys saw that there's an hourly rate for him to work with E and then I'll approve those hours when he want to do it so we can have a smooth transition and I've said this about 15 times but it's important to say it one 16th time and that is I want e to be able to retire and so we have to call her every day for and that's why Aon spending some time with her is not only going to help us but hopefully then I so will that happen then during the school year yeah so it's so some of the discussions Aon I have had is maybe he comes here at 6: am works till 8 with Eileen and goes to work right maybe he comes here in the evening maybe he works a Saturday um I I don't know I mean we we haven't set any schedule up we wanted to wait till tonight and get an approval and then okay we we should start working on what that might look like um obviously is under contract and he needs to fulfill that he has some days he said he could give you know um so I just him and E have each other's cell phone numbers so they're going to try to work out what might work best and then I'll approve what those hours make just going to help with the transition so yeah any other questions or discussion hearing none all those in favor say I I oppos motion carries on to 9.7 this is um to approve the donations as presented and this this have to reach so just a word to the public is donations um have to be approved by resolution go find in the actual resolution so I'll read it first before we get a motion whereas Minnesota statutes 123 b02 subdivision 6 provides that the board may receive for the benefit of the district request donations or gifts for any proper purpose and appli the same to the purpose designated in that behalf the board may act this Trustee of any trust gred for the benefit of the district or for the benefit of P thereof including trust gr provide people to the district with Advanced education after completion high school and the advancement of education and whereas Minnesota statute 4 65.3 provides in City County School District or town May except to Grant or device of real or personal property and maintain such property for the benefit of its citizens in accordance with the terms prescribed by the donor nothing heing shall authorize such acceptance are used for religious or sectarian purposes and whereas every such accepting shall be by resolution the governing body adopted by a two3 majority of its members expressing terms and Fa therefore be result School Board of De with Feld Public Schools Independent School District 2.64 gratefully accepts the following donations as identified below from CI sport of golf golf towels for the dgf bo golf from Debbie Benson of baby grand piano say this again baby grand player piano for the music department from St Cloud Technical and Community College in the amount of $1,000 for the robotics Club all right do I have a motion motion by Brit do I have a second second second by Troy any questions or ex thank you to all those very generous because it is a resolution we have to do a roll call so I'll call on each board member and say yay or n cor yay Nicole hi David I Britney hi Mah hi Angela all right the resolution passes all right 10.1 the next board meeting will be Monday February 10th 20125 6m at the Glendon Media Center same location near tonight and then 10.2 uh the facilities and transportation committee uh meeting will follow that um for meeting uh on 11 this is a motion to approve the adjournment of the regular meeting of the bgf scho board have motion motion by a second second second by questions or discussion hearing none all those in favor say I iOS carries have a question um