##VIDEO ID:okcqswON2NY## we're just waiting good evening chair singer is out ill so it falls upon me to call this meeting of uh the the October 3rd 2024 school board meeting to order let's stand and say the Pledge to the flag I pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for May I have a motion to adopt the agenda so moved a second second Dan uh any discussion changes it's been moved and seconded all those in favor please say I I I any opposed agenda is passed all right first item on the agenda is the school report from Deep Haven superintendent law Mr chair members of the board we are kicking off the school year of school reports each month our regular board meeting School principles are invited to come to the board and share an update on their school principal Brian McGinley from dapen always signs up for one of the first board meetings and I commend him for that out of the gate some people wait till the last he takes the first one during these presentations they highlight what's happening at their school for the year some work aligned to the Schoolboard goal and some goals and something unique at the school so all right principal McGinley welcome thank you cherl hollerin superintendent law members of the board thank you very much for having these reports I'm excited to share about our d pavment report which I'm not sure if we're going to bring it up on the screen or if that's all right if I don't know if you can see oh he'll bring it up okay um perect we might have to bring it up there it is oh there we go all right great there we are so uh for the October school report for D pavement I focused on the Excellence and well-being connection and belonging goal for our school district and under that goal we have three action steps number one is prioritizing student mental health uh create a welcoming inclusive and safe environment for all students and increase bully prevention efforts of those action steps I'm going to focus on increasing bully bullying prevention efforts before I do that I want to show you how action step number two of creating a welcoming inclusive and safe environment for all students uh actually supports action step number three and what those items are in general at theep paven so I wanted to just list those off for you uh our district we're working with search Institute our developmental relationships our culturally responsive teaching responsive classroom peaceful bus where we bring in the bus drivers uh to meet with their students in school World culture Fair where we bring in families to share about their own background buddy classrooms community outreach events where we go out to places in our community and our staff does and more so these all create that um U welcoming inclusive and safe environment by uh conducting these activities here's another example this was on our Facebook page these are first graders both in our Spanish and English program and they do an activity where they uh learn how to greet another student and then they find out three things they like and then after that a group of them goes and plays together so we're building those connections across the grade level uh between programs those activities all support our action step number three which is increased bullying prevention efforts so what are we doing specifically under that one uh well we're using this as you know the Aus bullying prevention curriculum and the program is focused on long-term change that creates a safe and positive School climate and it's designed and evaluated for K12 uh program goals are to reduce and prevent bullying problems among school children and to improve peer relations at school and the program has been found to reduce bullying among students improve the social climate of classrooms and reduce related antisocial behaviors so that's the curriculum and then what are we doing with that we're we're engaging our students parents in this bullying prevention effort I provide uh Communications weekly and to parents and our teachers have some expectations around this first of all if you go to the Middle where it says parent letter I send out a letter in September and the purpose is to explain our bullying prevention program and how parents can support it I took an excerpt from it and it says parents and Guardians play a key role in this program your child will be asked to tell an adult at school and at home if they are bullied or see bullying happening at school it will be very important that you take an any bullying seriously and tell our school staff we want to partner with parents so if they hear it please contact us next in a Weekly Newsletter it goes out every Wednesday it's called our wins newsletter I share what the lesson is for that week and as an excerpt of that this week in our OAS classroom meetings we will talk about our school rules about bullying bullying is when someone repeatedly and on purpose says or does mean or hurtful things to another person and who has who has a hard time defending himself or herself so we use that definition to determine if it's bullying sometimes it's that friend friction it's a disagreement when we have a situation brought to us we look at our definition and so having our parents know that definition is really important expectations of teachers well the expectation is that you communicate to parents on a weekly basis what that lesson topic is uh teach that Weekly lesson that we've decided as school is uh you know set out for that week and then there's a way for them to record the date of that Weekly lesson uh in a Google doc so that we make sure that everybody is following through here are examples of the communication we have a morning broadcast which is done by our fifth graders and we talk about the bullying uh topic of the week I talked about the winds newsletter we send out a deep Haven daily which is a uh 7:30 email that goes out talks about everything happening that day and it includes the bullying lesson along with our English and Spanish links for K2 and 35 then I decided to show you an example of the Google Doc when the lessons were taught and if there's an open space I can go to that teacher and I can talk to them about making sure that they get that lesson taught we had a special event for parents on the 25th which was a uh Google meet about a vas bullying prevention program and that the agenda included defining that uh bullying once again a video about bullying prevention program in fact we made it a while back I brought it out of the archives it was pretty good um even though I wasn't in it uh it was it still hit the basics of it and uh then we did a typical bullying prevention lesson a teacher joined me and she did that part and then ensuring the program is taught I explain to the parents how that worked and then a Q&A coming up in conjunction with that is Unity day on October 16th this was created by Pacer but it's a chance for everyone to wear orange and uh so if you stop by you're going to think we're working in construction that day it's going to be beautiful and it really sends a message to the whole staff that we're here to support accept uh everyone in our school show kindness and include everybody uh that that really gets the kids to see it visually as well that it's across our school um and then uh we're going to take these paper hands and we're going to have students write on a paper how they can build community and then we're going to put them around the building so each person will have a chance to add their piece to that which will be fun and then in summary I want to just share what under the goal the board goal of excellence and wellbeing connection and belonging shared how action step number two can support our bullying prevention effort efforts and then actually what we're doing to increase bullying prevention efforts and that concludes presentation any questions we have one our community survey showed a drop in parents who are aware of our building prevention efforts and so all of our principles are doing similar actions we had talked about this back in August that um he does a lot of good communication parents and you know holding a parent event but for our members of the community listing this is bullying prevention month and all of our schools should expect to receive if they have an already communication from the principles but thank you for modeling what that looks like here tonight sure yeah great well thank you very much for having me tonight oh we have a question U was I was just going to piggyback on what superintendent law said and just said and just say thank you for increasing the communication on the on the bullying side um uh as he said superintendent law said that we we heard in our survey and and liking how that you're really interweaving uh all the aspects of the goal into the bullying communication as well because all of these things are related prioritizing mental health uh uh creating a welcoming environment um and then the increased Awareness on bullying prevention is all goes together thank you you're welcome all right I'll Echo that thanks for your report and uh thanks for keeping up the good work against Bing okay thank you have a great evening thanks okay we have reached the time in our agenda for Community comments did we have anyone in the room I don't see anyone so we'll move on and now we have next we have opening of school report superintendent law chair leou hin members of the board uh the state of Minnesota anchors a lot of school decisionmaking on the October 1st enrollment that dictates everything from the percentage of students the state would consider that we have that qualified for free and reduced or a percentage of el students when you see demographic information reported from this state over the next year it's based on our enrollment Department's count that happens on October 1st shortly after that the minaka school district has a tradition of sharing with the community our enrollment or opening of school report and this includes everything from average class size to part percent of open enrollment immersion uh numbers Trend data as well as Staffing tonight the Executive Director of Human Resources and our legal council Angie flowers is going to be providing an update on all those areas Miss flowers thank you superintendent law good evening good evening Mr chair and members of the board I'm happy to present this year's annual opening school report to you the first topic we'll discuss is districtwide enrollment all the data that you see is of the first day of school for all students including kindergarteners overall we have 65 students less than we did this time last year however we are still well above enrollment from prior years we saw decreases at the ele level and that is resulting from a decrease in kindergarten enrollment which is down Statewide however the middle school and high school levels both had reasonable increases the decline in enrollment at the elementary level was across the board with the exception of deep Haven which had an increase of nine students overall Elementary went from 5,28 students to 4,920 6 students this year the biggest difference is exceler having almost 100 students less compared to five years ago and that is something that we're just still looking into and studying to see what's happening there over the course of five years looking a little deeper into Elementary we saw that our decrease in kindergarten enrollment was about 29 students that is something that we're seen nationally nationally in addition to as I previously stated it Statewide we also saw decreases in second and fourth grade first third and fifth grades were steady with some slight increases generally for the past 5 years our entering classes have had steady growth I would like to take a moment to look a bit at the average class siiz results we have been very intentional about maintaining and doing all that we can to have smaller class sizes especially for our younger students in example you'll see that the kindergarten class size averages about 19 students the class sizes get a bit larger as the students move up in grades as you can see with our fourth and fifth graders but we still have very reasonable class sizes of about 25 students and as we look at our year-over-year at our own class size comparison as you can see in the graph here our average class sizes have remained fairly steady over time we also look at data from other organizations such as bright works that organization conducts an annual study of average class sizes of 29 area Suburban District um that includes Eden Prairie y Zetta Hopkins Eastern Carver County and St Louis Park and if you look at that blue line that represents our District's data for the current year for 2425 and that purple line is bright works with their average class siiz study so when you compare their most recent study from 2023 2024 in current class sizes for 2025 and even our 2023 24 it shows that we average lower class sizes in all grades except fifth grade which is virtually the same as the brigh work study results moving on to our Middle School enrollment middle schools had an increase of 26 students for a total of 2,628 students enrollment has been trending upward since 2022 our middle schools are very popular and we actually have waiting list because we have hit our board Target while the high school increased by only two students in 2023 2024 the high school saw an increase of 21 students this year bringing it to 3553 students i' like to take a moment to discuss Tonka online and Navigator enrollment for Tonka online it's important to note that this data reflects our full-time students we do have students in supplemental courses from other districts are taking extra classes but this is representative of our full-time students there was a decrease at the elementary and middle school levels of nine and three students respectively but we saw saw an increase of four students at the high school level overall there was a decrease of 10 students but there has been steady decrease in families who want to choose that virtual option especially among those younger students so that's not something that's unique to our school district and although Elementary has nine less students we know that five of those students were in first grade last year which we no longer offer nor do we offer the kindergarten program anymore Middle School Tonka online had an increase in grade seven and decreases in grade six and 8 with a net decrease of three students overall there was an increase of four students at the high school as online is of course more popular with older students ninth grade more than double their enrollment from 5 to 11 students 10th and 12th grades remain the same and we have two students Less in 11th grade overall we had an increase of four students at the high school level immersion or our Navigator enrollment our overall Navigator enrollment increased at both Scenic Heights and excelsor enrollment the same or increased at all grades for Cena kites at excelsia in third and fifth grade we had an increase of five students each and we had a few decreases in second and fourth grade this is sometimes impacted by where a student siblings might go and parents may choose one school or the other and it's also highly dependent on just the students entering those classes and those grade levels each year but we can see from this data that the program remains strong and steady moving on to immersion enrollment districtwide our immersion program enrollment remains steady Chinese immersion enrollment is at 10% and it's hovered at that range for the past 5 years Spanish Immersion enrollment is usually around 30% and that remains true at 29% this year compared to 31% last year our immersion English split is also very consistent and always close to or at about a 40 60 split this year we saw a slight decline in immersion with an increase in English at about 2% Elementary immersion enrollment that has the same split 3961 with 29% of the students in Spanish Immersion and 10% of the students in Chinese immersion Spanish Middle School immersion saw a decrease of 16 students at mme and an increase of nine students at mmw last year it was fli the increase was at mme and the decrease was at mmw each school has about 400 students approximately in their emersion programs Chinese middle school immersion enrollment has remained the same at mme and there was an increase of six students at mmw again pretty steady enrollment there High School Chinese immersion saw a significant decrease from 3177 to 270 students from last year however last year was also the highest enrollment that it had been in the past 5 years High School Spanish Immersion has also decreased this year from 834 students to 797 again 2023 24 was a very high enrollment year for immersion the decreases that were seeing in high school immersion are now leveling back to the usual number of students the largest drop that the high school saw in both Spanish and Chinese enrollment was due to seniors who are not taking enr um immersion courses this year some of this is attributed to the variety of options that those students have some is attributed to their comfortability with their level of proficiency at this grade now so they're making other choices and I wanted to share also this data is from the first day of school which was about 84 students less and now that Gap has decreased to 64 students less and we know we have about 20 students who chose vano that were in immersion 15 in PSO and others in just different courses so it's really it's really a reflection of just the variety and choices that students have with that said I'd like to lastly just share some information about our front-facing staff of pair of professionals and teachers 97.6% of our professional position pair of professional positions are filled for 20242 so we are feeling really good about that at this time last year we had 94.4% filled so we're moving in the right direction we hired 32 new pair of professionals one in early childhood 25 in elementary and six in secondary we have 2.4% of positions to fill six openings at the elementary and five openings at secondary this time last year we had 5.6 % positions to fill and for our teachers we hired 63 teachers eight of those teachers had previously worked for the district four have taught internationally 12 are firste teachers they average about 10.4 years of teaching experience we bring in some pretty experienced teachers and 39 of them have master's degree degrees over 60% and three also have those International degrees and we also had like 10 of those teachers are from our partner schools our partner universities that we work closely with of that there were 16 elementary teachers 28 secondary teachers seven immersion and 13 in related services and we are looking forward to an excellent year thank you thank you Miss Flowers any questions or comments Camry thank you great information um regarding the excels here being down by 100 do we have any ideas around why that's happened I mean is it Market is it over the past five years I don't know that we have any concrete data superintendent uh geog geography plays a big part in parent request um when parents request Groveland and Scenic Heights it's generally for open enrolled students it's generally because those are convenient and they're on their way to the drop off at the high school or other places so when you shift those families to Clear Springs and deep Haven they're likelier to take it when you go to excel year for where open enrollment comes from a lot of parents say that's just too far for them in terms of get getting back to their work after dropping off their kids and so um we've been uh looking at enrollment differently trying to uh talk with parents about those options but that is that's part of it and you know Chinese immersion is very popular at Scenic so it isn't that there isn't a demand for Chinese immersion but the other immersion schools are coming from are all from the East and so it's just I think parents think that they can't get in the scenic get too far to go that thank you anyone else uh Dan yeah thank you for all this um just just wanted to comment you know a lot of the a lot of the discussion around uh enrollment comes up in our uh monthly Finance meeting and everything too so we've been we've been talking a lot about this there and asked a lot of the same questions and been looking at a lot of the same data so I'll I'll expand on that a little bit later but um thanks for the for the updated October one numbers thank you thank you very much next on the agenda we have enrollment or an open enrollment report superintendent lock Mr chair members of the board uh menaka given being that we have the highest percentage of open enrolled students in the state on an annual basis does report to the community explaining the status of open enroll M uh providing information about how many students where students are coming from and just some of the background about Open Enrollment and the financial impact of that tonight executive director of communications Dr Jackie Getty is going to be uh providing that report with some uh twists on information from previous years based on questions that people have asked Dr Getty superintendent law Mr chair members of the board um pleased to present tonight to give uh a little bit more I think just to to um add to what was given to you in the in the opening of school report and to focus in a little bit more on enrollment um because we do want to be really transparent um about Open Enrollment and talk about the trends and then talk about how that too relates to finances as I know that's a that's a bigger uh topic that that we're all looking at so the success of open enrollment over the last 17 years has really meant that our district has been able to stabilize enrollment throughout our schools and increase our overall Revenue we'll talk through that and that additional Revenue who has helped to address the Gap that has been left by inadequate State funding over the years um and helped us to to Really offer some of those amazing programs that we have like Vantage Advanced professional studies like momentum design and skilled trades like language immersion um Talk of research um Navigator so many more programs um and so we'll talk through that and then also talk about reaching out both to our resident families and learning more about the trends there and to our open enrolled families and thinking too about the different learning levels um now that we have even more space with the with the new building and the um expansion of Vantage and momentum programs uh and and what we're doing with that so I'll take you through this um first just really an overview um for the public and I know many of the board knows all of this but we've worked hard to maintain optimal enrollment throughout the last two decades and to avoid budget cuts keep those classroom sizes small and then fund Innovative programs throughout our district that otherwise we really couldn't afford to offer and as the Statewide birth rate has fallen we know this has impacted many districts including minona and this year at the September count uh we had 63 fewer resident kindergarteners than last year now you heard from Miss flowers that we only had 20 some fewer kindergarteners and that means we made up that difference in open enrollment um we're working hard to address how a long-term Trend if that is a Statewide Trend will affect us with enrollment as there are significant impacts to districts that see enrollment drops currently we were at September at 11,225 students and that's a combination of inperson and Tonka online our schools aren't at capacity a a capacity study done a few years ago showed that we have more room for capacity and again we really try to keep it class sizes optimal and keep our schools at optimal sizes to help us um with all of our needs and open enrollment helps us to do do that so by the numbers as of September we had 11,109 in-person students 116 Tonka online students of this 39% or 4,49 are open enrolled last year that number was 4311 and 94 our e-learning student of our e-learning students are open enrolled last year that was 98 by education level 38% of our high school students are open enrolled and 39% of our middle and elementary students are our kindergarten class though is much higher this year it's 45% and many of our young families do open and roll in and then eventually hope to move here um housing prices are difficult especially for young families but we do hear that from local realtors that there are families that come after they've been here a few years and can afford to get into the district want to stay the number of districts where our open enrolled students reside is 44 this year for iners 38 for a Tonka online most of those districts are surrounding districts which makes sense for transportation as parents are required to get their students here or to drop their students at a bus stop if there's room on that bus so we do see a lot from surrounding districts but we have students that come from as far away as Redwing um as Miss Flowers showed we do work hard to maintain those low class sizes this is a glance again at that bright work study and this is our data compared to the average in that bright work study from last year um which is the bright work's most recent data and Ours from last year to be comparable so looking at that you can see that our our numbers for class sizes are either smaller or right at the state average an example being kindergarten 19.8 for a class size where the average in the Twin Cities metro of the districts that participated in that study was 20.2 um last year know this year actually with open enrollment Revenue brought in through both iners and Tonka online open enrollment there was 53 million that came in through that and of that after the cost of their instruction 7.5 million is then spent by the district on District programming and to help us when we need additional staff or teachers this is a slide that probably looks pretty um familiar we have this graph on the annual report which you saw at the last study session and it just shows that the revenue that we get from the state is 14,20 per pupil compared with the thousands more per pupil afforded by other districts um we higher top teachers we keep our costs low despite spending $657 less than the state average per student and 2629 below the accumulative aage per student from our of our neighboring districts and what they spent um um and as Executive Director of Finance and operations Paul bis noted to me if we received enough State funding to allow us to spend at the state's average not the top but the average with that additional 657 per student we wouldn't even be talking about deficit right now looking at an economy of scale so minetonka receives 11,388 just in general state aid and local aid for each resident and non-resident student in each non-resident student the money that comes with them pays 100% of their cost of instruction plus 177 leftover per student per year and that again that revenue is used to fund our programs and to pay for additional support we looked at just one class so looking at the incoming class which is the class this class which is the class of 2037 if that's an unbelievable year number to hear makes me feel very old of our kindergarteners we have 771 of them 424 our resident and 347 are open and rolled if we only had resident kindergarteners the reduction in Revenue would be $3.95 million annually and after the cost of instruction for those open enrolled kindergarteners including the Staffing to support them there's about 560,000 that remains and we use that money for other purposes to for student supports for our programming for additional teachers and staff so over the time that that kindergarten class that open enrolled section of that kindergarten class class would be with us if they stayed all 13 years K through 12 they would add $51 million to our budget or more than 7 million above and beyond what it cost to instruct them and we talk about enrollment management really being a unique position Miss Flowers talked about how we closed at the middle level because we got to the capacity we wanted to be at we still have capacity at the elementary level there's capacity at the high school level we have room to grow and we want our resident families may be looking at other options to know that the ones that have incoming kindergarteners the ones that are looking for a high school option if their child's been in private school but at 9th to 12th they want them to go to a public school we want them to know what we offer uh so we'll continue to provide that information and really ramp up that effort to make sure that people know what we offer here so that it it is an option for them and and that they see that and we have such a wonderful expanding opportunities at the high school we want to get that information out there too um to our families and as we continue to move forward we know that there's that Statewide drop in birth rate we know that we are in a community for our resident families where they want to hang out of their houses this is a beautiful area House housing prices um property values increased and so people don't move at the same rate that they do in a lot of other communities and that also impacts how many Resident kindergarteners we have every year uh because those houses aren't turning over and so as we face those pieces we do look at at how our are we going to continue to look at the financial realities and this is one lever so we want to be really transparent to our our public that this is one lever that we look at that's been a real success point for us in the past and that helps us to stabilize a lot of things now and then I just wanted to put in a slide that shows that both our resident families and our open enrolled families were consistent in how they told us they felt about the district in our annual survey with 96% of them broken out that way 70% saying excellent and 26% saying good that they thought the quality of Education was that high so with that I am open to questions thank you thank you Dr Getty anyone on the board of questions for Dr gidy or comments Dan yeah and um this is just kind of kind of spitballing here because I think there are a lot of like structural and socioeconomic and demographic forces at work that we can't really control but like is there anything we can do as a district just to get parents over that psychological hurdle of the commute to the to the buildings that are farther farther are their busing solves are there like I don't I don't know what that is but if there's something that that we can do that would make those choices more palatable for families somehow or less burdensome on them we do some creative Transportation so solutions to move students from the edge of the district to farther schools in it's a matter of just having parents feel comfortable with that as a solution right and then um question so do we typically see enrollment grow across the school year like what does our what does our historical data tell us about that I mean I can speak to some of it but I think superintendent law has his eyes on it throughout the year so maybe you're better suited to answer um that's varied from year to year and and some of it is our challenge is our Middle School Target um is eliminating some options who want for families who want to bring multiple students our middle schools hovering around uh 1,310 students um there are families that if they can get their middle school student in they'll move the rest of their family and so uh understandably they're concerned about students in different districts and different calendars and all those other things that probably came up as much this year as any year for families as reasons that maybe they didn't choose there have been some changes in state statute on how long families have to accept placement and that that went from indefinite down to 10 days families have to respond in 10 days now there are pros and cons to that too but there may have been some families that changed their mind and we we Tred to be open to it and and I I think that practice probably made parents a little bit more gun-shy about placement MH two years ago we grew from September until June last year we were flat to slightly declining depending across our district um I I would guess that's normal is the district slowly lose students because they um maybe they're moving for a family reasons or other reasons but we we monitor it and we do our principles all keep track of who we lose and where they go to yeah and I I only ask because thank you um because I know we're going to start looking at our fiscal 26 budget and those numbers really really soon and um I think we've already had to to drop our enrollment assumption once for our future years so I just want to I just want to make sure that that wherever it lands wherever we think it's going to level off that our assumptions aren't too optimistic and put us even in a in a worse place as far as Revenue to expenditures because of that I did meet with P bis for future forecasting we're taking a very conservative approach since we learned from this year that even if we create space we don't I mean with for a variety of reasons including fewer students being born um that the number of available students is less so our budget forecast will be much more conservative than you know we've been in the last 20 years about growing 200 students every year we're we're looking at what really happened and what that means for the future great Chris um just to piggyback on what Dan said and I know there's so many complexities to managing 37 38% open enrollment uh an immersion uh versus English and all the other programs that that come through and so it's hard it's just very hard to to manage all of that you talked about the Middle School caps and our overall caps and we've made some changes over the years by increasing that we changed the date um in past years when that um and nothing to talk about or or here but is that something structurally that we need to look at to allow more flexibility targets versus Caps or you know raising that number so or you know obviously yeah we the space constraints uh um limit that the number of available students but is there something that we can consider as a board to help and offer more flexibility to you and your staff when you're making these decisions so that you have you know we can get as close to those enrollment targets that that we need so or are we going to hear those recommendations very soon from the facili task force yeah that that's likely I I think one of the things that parents who travel to drop off their kids are concerned about is how long does it take to get in and out of that school and so like at Deep Haven we're working with the city of deepen to create a drop off Loop that will get more traffic out the road and there there's some challenges with that but those are parents who choose to open and roll and drive their children like to be able to get in and out of school quickly and our principles work really hard to streamline that um we're we're really looking at how do we maximize student and family experience and not have our own resident students suffer in the process because that's our priority is all students have a great experience any other comments questions I'll just add a comment um as a family who started as open en roll Le and took part in many of the programs that we've been talking about already tonight and then moved into the district um I just want to remind the public uh this is a great report to underscore the importance that open and has had in the financial health of the district and in our ability to maintain that level of excellence and Innovation that we so often hear about in the community and so this is a going to be going to remain a critical part of that conversation not just on physical health but the overall level of uh service we're delivering for our community thank you very much thank you all right next item on the agenda is adoption of the annual report superintendent law Mr chair members of the board a week ago we were here and went through Page by Page our annual report which is a summary of the previous school year aligned to the previous board goals and our Pro progress in those areas tonight executive director of communications Dr Jackie Getty is going to give a high level summary of that same report anyone who missed it can go back and look at our now taped or recorded board meeting work session but we'll get a summary tonight for board approval of the annal report Dr gidy thank you superintendent law Mr chair members of the board uh I'm going to run through this quickly but slow me down if you have any questions uh so this uh picture probably looks familiar it's the ones that you voted on um and by popular vote this was selected as the cover image for this year's annual report the superintendent's message always kicks off the report he does a reflection back on the year talking about the goals and what we leaned into and he also looked forward talking about um again with that transparency and just with sharing information how we're approaching challenges in the district and how we plan to share that information and really be um uh forthcoming we have a section on school board goals that shows last year's three board goals and then uh a link to this year's board goals for people to see and see the new action items that were added this year and then that photo photo of all of you last June at US Bank Stadium at graduation uh Q&A section with school board chair Megan singer and I think this is a nice uh opportunity for people to learn more about what the board does how they work how you set goals um how you feel we're doing at achieving goals where we have um done well and where we have room to grow and then what to look forward to in the year ahead take some of the mystery out of what what is the school board and and how does it work in this section on celebrating academic Excellence um we congratulate the 21 National Merit semi-finalists which is a huge number um from the class of 2025 and the um let me get my numbers right here uh 46 students from last year's graduating class who earned the international baloria diploma and the 22 who earned a bilingual diploma I'll take a second to come up there it is we have a big section near the the middle to the end end of the annual report on points of Pride but we called out these two they are really top level National academic recognitions we have uh Ming way who actually was one of our student interns what an amazing young woman um but she's one of three students in the state to get a US presidential scholar um accolo Accolade and she um she hers was in the Arts um for her writing and then deep deep P ey and she was um one of the US Senate youth program participants one of just two from Minnesota so really kind of exciting to celebrate them you heard at the study session I believe from our director of assessment Dr Matt Ria about the MCA results and the nwaa results but we recap those here um and again just a couple of call outs with minona students testing um above their peer schools in reading and science second in math and uh again just for a uh example from the nwea our sixth grade students uh reading and doing their math well beyond the 12 12th grade level which is pretty amazing we have a call out on AP by the Numbers our advanced placement we have 40 courses that are offered unique programs and then we just talk a little bit about how um how many students take these a high percentage and a high percentage of them also take tests um and score well on those tests we have a two page spread on graduation from last year with a lot of great photos and then some statistics where our students told us what they were doing after graduation 99% of our seniors graduated and then they tell us about their apprenticeships they tell us about military service about two and four year colleges and and we love to share that we have a section A feature section on New Opportunities expanded possibilities in Vantage and momentum with the opening of the Vantage momentum building last year and all all of the amazing spaces and and um components within that building and then we call out specifically three different elements although there are many in that building but in the corner Health Sciences and just the amazing science labs the amazing Labs that they have to work in and with that the growth of Health Sciences to this fall um the collaborative spaces and the ability to work in small groups with each other and with their um teachers and mentors um that is a big component of what that building offers them um with those really unique and amazing programs and then the shot on the corner is a picture of one of the new flight simulators which is an expansion of our Aviation program and kind of an exciting new step for that program and definitely a lot of interest in that program we have a Q&A with our new security and Emergency Management coordinator we sat down with him to talk about what is this role all about and what have you been working on the last year um really the security has been a priority Initiative for our superintendent and he's worked with Mr gerlier on establishing those best practices in Safety and Security and taking a look at all of our infrastructure and technology which already was really comprehensive but looking where we can Shore things up and increase and improve our practices looking at our emergency response plans making sure that they were consistent across the schools and then continuously improving those District practices and training our staff on those and then another thing that he brought having more than 30 years in law enforcement himself was really understanding how law enforcement works and then helping us to develop a really strong relationship with them we also sat down with Kristen turnblad who's our new director of nutrition services Kristen was an assistant supervisor for 12 years in that program she's amazing she's also a a Skipper and Alum uh and she gave us an overview of the nutrition services program she talked us through the free breakfast and lunch program and its impact and how they're working with that because one of the challenges is it's popular and so it's been a a challenge just to staff it and then she talked about nutrition services advisory committee where we have parents that are really passionate about food and coming in and helping us to find Creative Solutions and then just the opportunities ahead in her Department we always do a signature programs update and one of my favorite parts of this is that we talk to the students and So within each one of them the students tell us um about the amazing experiences that they're having and sale and Navigator in um Talk of research in Vantage in momentum uh and so we love to share their stories because one of the most important things is that we're doing what students want you know that we're providing the opportunities they're looking for and that they find their passion here we added an article this year oftentimes this section of the annual report mirrors the report I just gave on enrollment and open enrollment and really leans heavily into open enrollment and while this section of of the annual report definitely talks about Open Enrollment it also broadens out that conversation to talk about the other aspects of our financial situation and the lovers that we can up pull and the and the ones that are challenging and the ones that we need help with and then offers to an opportunity for the public to help us get involved and come and advocate for increased State funding at the state capital and to help walk them through what that is why we do that and um and take the mystery I think out a bit a bit and to I I shared the the class study size just to talk about that because I think sometimes people don't understand that by adding open enrollment it actually really does help us to lower class size because we have more resources to be able to add more teachers and so we we like to demonstrate that as well and and really just to show that our class sizes are very reasonable compared to the state average our points of Pride section is the four or five maybe page thread in the middle um toward the toward the middle or just after the middle of the annual report and we have great photos we get to celebrate arts and theater and music academics Athletics activities and then service and then also our district and staff accomplishments and and that is a joy it actually is brought together by the recognitions that you do every month at your Schoolboard meetings uh and we get to put those together and I really should give a huge call out to my staff they do so much on this but Mary in particular for the points of Pride she puts the recognitions together and then puts this whole section together after it and it's it's a lot of coordination uh minetonka Community Education so on this page we do um a recap of the year and really highlights from ECFE and preschool from our youth and adult programs from explorers child care and then from our amazing events and we also um tell Tim litfin our retired Community Education executive director congratulations and a wonderful 20 years and we welcome our new executive director of Community Education Kim Carlson we have a great feature near the end called radiating joyful Brilliance and this is the Mosaic mural that's up in the entrance of exceler Elementary I see several of you were at the unveiling of that and students were invited there too that's it's an amazing piece that again Mary Cornelius put together and wrote but all the students in the building the teachers the staff community members volunteers got to put a piece or two of Mosaic together to build that mural that really represents belonging in that school uh and it was it was just a really a really neat um it's a neat mural and it was a neat story so uh we look forward to to people reading that the world's best Workforce summary we talk about the five uh State goals in that um one has shifted over the years so we talk through that and we talk about how we're doing within that a full report of the world's best Workforce will be given by teaching and learning uh later this year and then we have a section on prudent financial management where we talk about our expenditures we talk about our Revenue um we call out our PR per pupil spending um and I really want to shout out our finance team um who for the 29th year in a row I'm going to get the name of this award right here has received the Excellence and financial reporting award for the 29th consecutive year um and that again the district has earned the AAA rating from Moody's and then we close the annual report with just some highlights from the annual parent survey results and then a link to the full um report in case parents want to and community members want to read that so so that is the um annual report as it's drafted in its final draft and you have a copy there at your tables once it's adopted if it's adopted today uh we will then send it off to print and then we will have it mailed to every District residents and also to All Families open enrolled and Resident families we give it to staff and we give it in welcome packets to new families and we have it online available as well thank you Dr Getty may I have a motion to adopt the 2024 annual report so moved the second second Chris any discussion or questions we did have a very thorough discussion of the annual report at last week's study session thank you I think it's wonderful and I just I would like to call out how much more information is in this annual report related to open enrollment and our financial situation it's just become more clear I think being in the district for a very long time and I appreciate that messaging being really consistent so thank you thank you thank you I also want to thank Daniel Campbell who's our creative director and who did the whole layout for it Mary Cornelius did a lot of the writing but Daniel did a lot of the design so I owe them both a lot for a beautiful product okay uh seeing no other questions or comments we have a motion a second all those in favor please say I I I any opposed hearing none the motion passes and the report report is approved thank you very uh next we have a well-being update superintendent law Mr chair members of the board one of our board goals is focused on ensuring all of our students are are mentally healthy and that work uh I is multifaceted it's both responsive it's proactive it's training staff it's supporting students and not just supporting students in crisis but supporting students through grief through um learning how to be healthy chemical health all of that work involves a mental health advisory committee some national uh participation in a work group we're on tonight the director of Health Services Annie lumbar Benson is going to provide a summary of the breadth of work we're doing to ensure our students are mentally healthy thank you Mr chair superintendent law members of the board it really is a pleasure for me to be here tonight because I love this area it's a passion of mine and I just am thrilled that we get to give you some information about all the exciting things that are happening in the district and I think as was already even just reiterated in in uh principal mcginley's presentation so much happens on a daily basis to support the well-being of students and staff and so we're not going to talk about that otherwise I could go on for hours so it's just going to be just the high level things that we're doing so this will really highlight some of the key actions and priorities that support the intersection of well-being and mental health and how we're responding to student need and I think it's important to note that we really do have a multi-pronged approach in this area considering there are various aspects that can impact a student's well-being for example the loss of a family member might cause anxiety just as a divorce would cause anxiety but how we address the anxiety and respond to that would be very different I shared this recent advisory from the US Surgeon General on the mental health and well-being of parents it is a fascinating read and reinforces that schools are not the only ones struggling and I think it's important to remember that schools are really microcosms of our community what happens in the world is reflected in our schools so mental health and well-being is really now coming to the Forefront and has been an ongoing area of focus and continues to evolve while mental health and well-being was a known concern pre pandemic the pandemic brought its own challenges and illuminated that concern further social media has been one of those biggest changes there was an article published in the New York Times today that indicates nearly all American teenagers use social media regularly and spend an average of almost 5 hours a day on it they surveyed j z respondents age 18 to 27 and 60% of them felt that it has had a negative impact on them versus 32% who say it's positive the study also found that social media disproportionately hurts young people from historically disadvantaged groups so being on the Downs slope of the pandemic the needs of our students continue to evolve and we're constantly evaluating and adjusting our response our focus is really the overall well-being of students and staff using a holistic approach and as superintendent law has often shared schools are potentially look to as the catchall for so many things and we're really not equipped to be the safety net for everything we're not open 24 hours a day 7 days a week so we really need to be focused on providing our students families and staff with the tools and resources needed so our goal is really to be Pro proactive and to build skills responding and supporting kids with the necessary and needed tools as one piece of the puzzle but not the full puzzle so these are just some of the things that I'm going to touch on tonight that are those highlevel priorities that we're focusing on one of the biggest pieces is our our relationship with relate which is our collocated Therapy Services we've been really intentional about strengthening these relationships through identifying and reducing barriers developing systems and processes to ensure that students and families are at the center of what we do streamlining communication to ensure that district and relate providers are supporting families efficiently and this work has been highly effective and we're already seeing the positive benefits for students and families one of the biggest successes is being that all of our sites are fully staffed with relate counselors and that we have a dedicated licensed drug and alcohol counselor at the high school so that's been just an incredible opportunity for us the mental health advisory committee was established right before covid and we've been fortunate to have consistent members that have participated over the past 4 and A2 years and contributed to the work that we do there's also been renewed interest from the community to be part of this work so there will be new members that will be invited to participate this year our past work has included the evaluation by an implementation of the recommendations of Dr William D which we wrapped up last year updating Community Resources work continues on revising our well-being website and then evaluating current supports and resources in the district our goals and priorities for this year include identifying the needs from the perspective of the community what's beneficial and needed from their point of view prevention and intervention strategies linkage to community services and then identifying and disseminating mental health related professional development opportunities it was interesting we learned this the other day we have our partnership with part nicholet to offer support to students experiencing loss through our growing through grief program we are embarking on our 27th year we were the first district to say yes and we're the beginning of all of this so what growing through grief and parknet does is offer school-based specialized grief counseling in the form of weekly in school in-person support groups Andor virtual support they also Pro provide death related Crisis Support which is truly a gift when dealing with a student or a staff loss another piece of that is grief education and professional development and we are fortunate enough that the same therapist has provided support in our district for 21 years so there is a long established and wonderful relationship with them in 2023 to 2024 there were 45 students in seven different grief groups each week and a total of 646 contact hours for group and individual sessions this year we already have established eight different grief groups and so the upcoming work is focused on developing and piloting individ idual student bement support plans as part of this this is one of the exciting new initiatives we're launching this year and I'm really excited about what it brings to our staff and ultimately our families we applied for this last year were accepted and are now implementing this year so the grief sensitive School initiative um really focuses on all of these identified but what we also know is that grief impacts functioning particularly if it's not supported unsupported grief can lead to social withdrawal and behavioral problems and we also know that grieving students are at a greater risk for depression suicide and substance abuse so these are the partners that have developed this grief initiative grief sensitive schools initiative and you'll note that the New York Life Foundation is one of the driving forces but also that aasa is one of the the members all of these National organizations are member organizations that helped to develop the resources and fully endorse the program so it's really a unified approach to addressing an important issue how this works is really it's supported by sharing information with our school community Through resources it's by providing for trainings for our staff in the district at each site around this work helping us to review relevant school plans and practices connecting us with our local organizations including um a number of agencies that we have here and then there's also Grant funding that comes along with this to support our efforts in this work so overall is just a really wonderful program that will be really beneficial in supporting the well-being and mental health of our students and then the one that I'm the most excited about so as you have heard we are part of the district comprehensive approach the DCA which is a project with the Jed foundation and the aasa so this is the the pilot program and this talks really about who the Jed Foundation is at their very core they're a nonprofit out of New York that is focused on preventing suicide and protecting the emotional health of teens minaka was selected along with 14 other districts out of 56 districts after an application process was completed so our dedication to this was clear this comprehensive approach has been developed through Decades of research Partnerships and an investment of time resources and experience of experts from across the United States these are our c HS that are participating so as you can see it's a representation of rural urban and Suburban demographics from all over the country we are the only District in Minnesota that is represented the goals are really outlined above and and clearly delineated for what the vision is for this program just let you look at those briefly but I think what this does is it shows the comprehensive approach used by Jed focusing on seven different areas developing life skills promoting social connectedness and a positive School climate encouraging help-seeking behaviors improving recognition and response to signs of distress and risk promoting student access to effective mental health treatment establishing and following crisis management procedures and promoting means safety really the overall goal is to increase protective factors while decreasing risk factors so what I love about this is it really is aligned with our work around mtss and aligned with the board's goals of belonging well-being and connection so really there are more benefits that I can list but this pilot project is an excellent opportunity to receive a 360 degree diagnostic of the mental health structures laid out in our district receive guidance best practices and connect with other District leaders so this is just a little uh bit of the implementation deliverables that are part of this program the highlighted items are what we've already done so we have established our steering committee we've met with our district mental health specialist we've had our initial site visit we have completed the self assessment which and a side note I actually really enjoyed and she said I think you're the first district to say that that 75 page assessment was fun they said it was we completed the principal survey and then we've just launched the faculty and staff survey seeking input from all of our faculty and staff about their lens of Mental Health in the district so again the highlighted items are what we've already accomplished and we've still got some work to do with that so this really just outlines what the DCI Milestones are um and what the key reports involved in this are those initial findings Baseline report a strategic plan and a sustainability plan the yellow bar is where we are currently at so we have our initials finding summary being reviewed at the end of the month so we're really excited about what that's going to yield and then as you can tell we've got some steps ahead of us and we will have a strategic plan designed and geared specifically for us that we will be able to outline and implement it likely could be be extend beyond two years but at this point that's kind of the timeline that we're looking at all right with that questions thank you Miss lumbar Benson for this report on a critical component of our goals um any questions or comments from the board yes so thank you very much um really impressed with the intentionality the depth and breadth of what the district has been doing and now we're like really going deep in this and and really appreciate that in one of the very last slides you show you talked about being in this stage where we're doing some baseline data collection can you give us a flavor of What kinds of things we look at yeah so it really looks at a comprehensive approach to the whole District everywhere from how does our budgeting look how do we prioritize dollars to support mental health to What policies do we have in place around mental health um well-being support so it really is a comprehensive approach in terms of every aspect of District function and what piece does that play and where are our strengths and what are some opportunities for us to you know and again we don't know what those are going to be but where can we Shore up what what might be in place but might need some supports so our initial findings have been really positive in that uh we had received feedback that we have just in outstanding systems and people in place that are supporting the work so superintend I'd add because I asked that question a lot how do you know if your mental health and suicide prevention efforts are effective and one of the things that I've been picking up is we can't control the stressors that our students have when they come to us but there's a umbrella of supports that if we have in place we are much more likely to be successful intervening and that's communication about means prevention connecting parents with resources teaching mental health consistently all these things that we're assessing that are parts of a critical system and so one of the ways that I think the Jed Foundation is going to measure us is of these eight things that you should have are they all robust and in place and that's in this area that that is probably the measure of success is the districts that are most successful have these things if you have the these things you're prepared to support students anyone else thanks for the great report look forward to hearing you come back with more yes okay we'll next move on to the approval of custodial maintenance collective bargaining agreement superintendent law Mr chair members of the board uh as you know we rotate through a cycle of negotiations and those are usually started and triggered by the legislative session on an odd year and we run through the year as we have bargaining groups interested in meeting with us we are down to our last two I think bringing one forward tonight uh tonight executive director of HR and legal council Angie flowers is going to provide an update for approval of our custodial and maintenance Collective baring agreement good evening again Mr chair board members and superintendent law I'd like to to start off by thanking all the district and Union team members for all the time discussion collaboration and good work that we put into coming into this tentative agreement with our custodial and maintenance employees the agreement consists of the following this group will receive step movement in both years and additional pay increases of 3 and 4% in year 1 depending on their position and 2 . 75% in year two those are additions in salary to their pay schedule They will also receive increases to their insurance contributions both years for a total package of 10% and they will also get increases for lure pay we have some incentive for HVAC certification which is very competitive and we also added another floating holiday for this group with that I am asking for approval of these collective bargaining agreement terms with the custodial and maintenance employees so moved second thank you I wonderful thank you Mr chair members of the board last June you set forth a budget for our long-term facilities maintenance for the sub summer of 2025 immediately after that our Executive Director of Finance and operations Mr berso started bidding those projects out with the purpose of being the first on the market to get competitive bids on all these areas tonight you see a list of improvements that were part of that process Mr bis I'll introduce him once and he'll go through each of these bids explaining them and making recommendations to the board for your approval you have to approve these all individually Mr ban thank you super superintendent law Mr chair and members of the board uh we're working through um continuing to improve the infrastructure of the district for the long term uh so we have eight eight of these items this evening and uh in fact uh we are going to be under budget on several so we're going to add a few more for uh to bring forward in December since we have additional dollars to keep putting back into the buildings uh the first item is uh uh bid for replacement of Windows and R22 HVAC equipment at Groveland Elementary School R22 is a banned substance that we can't get anymore so we need to replace all the HVAC equipment that has that uh this bid was uh was opened uh at uh um 1 p.m. on September 24th we had 11 biders the the budget uh was $1,140 th000 the low bid is CM construction uh in the amount of $542,500 so moved Chris you have a second second Mike any discussion looks like I see $500,000 in savings on the table on this it so thank you for that excellent work getting this one out so no further discussion all those in favor please say I iOS okay uh the the next item is acceptance of bid for replacement of windows at Deep Haven Elementary School um we're replacing windows in the 1956 built South wing of deep Haven Elementary School uh the budget estimate for this project was $900,000 we got some really competitive bids we had seven biders on this and the low bid came in at meeting the specifications um came in at $363,000 from versacon construction company so we'd ask that you'd approve this bid to replace the windows at Deep Haven Elementary School next summer thank you thank you uh may I have a motion to approve the low bit of versacon in the amount of $363,000 for the replacement of Windows still moved Camarie do I have a second second Dan any discussion uh hearing none all those in favor please say I I any opposed motion carries thank you um thank you Mr bourjois um the the third uh bid we' asked you to approve is to replace unit ventilators at minetonka midddle school East in uh 20 classrooms in the 1964 built section of the building uh upon completion of this project uh minona Middle School East will join uh the rest of our Fleet with um complete uh HVAC in all of the classrooms after this it's been a a long slog a little by little and and uh we finally are reaching the Finish Line the budget estimate for this project is 1,50,000 uh six bids were received on September 24th at 2 p.m. and the low bidder is  construction uh with a bid of $978,000 so we'd ask that you to approve this so we can do this work next summer thank you thank you I have a motion to approve the low bit of Construction in the amount of $978,000 for the replacement of unit ventilators at mme so moved Sally May I have a second second Mike any discussion Dan I just want to thank you and your entire department uh everyone working in the district and the folks who served on this board before many of us joined it for the foresight they had to implement this in do do this for all of our classrooms we've seen this year how sometimes we get two augusts in a row through the first month of the school year and it can be really really hot so this will help our kids be more comfortable and learn better indeed thank you all right seeing no further discussion all those in favor please say I I any opposed motion carries the bid is approved Mr boura uh thank you Mr chair uh the uh fourth item that we're asking you to to approve is bid for replacement of unit ventilators at minona Middle School West again 20 classrooms in the 1964 built section of the building are scheduled for summer of 2025 and that will also complete uh the HVAC in that building uh the budget estimate is 1 mil 150,000 nine bids are received at 2m. on September 26th and the low bid came in and it was versacon uh construction company in the amount of $957,000 submitting that low bid so we'd ask that you'd please approve this bid so we can get this project done next summer thank you okay uh may I have a motion to approve the low bit of versacon in the amount of $957,000 for replacement of unit ventilators at mmw so moved uh Mike may have a second second Camarie any discussion hearing none all those in favor please say I I I any opposed motion carries Mr bourjois thank you Mr chair um and members of the board the uh fifth bid we're asking you to approve this evening is replacement uh for a portion of the roof at exceler elementary we are uh uh in need of replacing the 1958 uh sections roof which is the single story section uh at exeler elementary school along Water Street uh the U uh it's been scheduled for summer of 2025 our budget estimate uh for the project was $ 1,50,000 uh we received eight bids at 3 p.m. on September 26th and the low bid uh bidder was BL doson Roofing uh in the amount of 97,5 40 thank you may have a motion to accept the low bid of BL doson Roofing in the amount of 97,5 40 for roof replacement Atelier Elementary so moved Dan do I have a second second Chris any discussion seeing none all those in favor please say I I any opposed the motion carries Mr Bourgeois thank you Mr chair we're kind of coming around the back backstretch and around the corner here um so we're asking you with item F to approve the bid for roofing replacement for a portion of the 10 acre roof at minetonka high school um part of the 1998 section is getting its first re roof uh and uh the bid project estimate was $900,000 uh the low bid um was Palmer West construction uh they're one of nine biders who uh participated in the bid opening at 4 p.m. on September 26th Palmer West construction uh bid a an amount of $67,900 for this work and we'd ask that you to approve it thank you thank you Mr bis may I have a motion to approve the low bid of Palmer West construction the amount of $67,900 for roof replacement at the minona high school so move Chris may I have a second second Sally any discussion hearing none all those in favor please say I I I any opposed motion carries Mr bourjois thank you Mr chair um members of the board as we come down the home stretch the uh item G is um uh request to approve a bid for additional staff offices at the Minon education center which is known as the tsp but we can't officially call it that the State Department of Education so it's the Minon education center um and what we're asking you to approve there's some work that would make the East end of the building uh uh more usable and functional for a space that we need for a lot of our some of our our people uh mentioned in PRI the prior report and various people are in workstations who would benefit from having a little bit more office space in that area as we organized it so this is not a long-term facility maintenance project uh completely um about half of it is long-term facility maintenance because we would be replacing floors and lights and ceiling tile and things like that but we also be constructing some additional uh walls uh for the uh additional offices in that East End uh it's important to note that the remain remainder of the building would stay in its current condition which is for instructional space which has been used for for um Vantage programs and would continue to be able to be used for um for educational programs uh the uh also at some point time it's possible to continue to add on to that building uh to the West in a logical manner so it this does not impact any of those future potential uh opportunities should the need to rise so the uh um the budget this is also so a combination of operating half operating Capital dollars and half um long-term facility maintenance is the source for this the budget estimate for the project is $450,000 nine bids were received and the low bidder is metcon Construction Incorporated in the amount of $49,000 and if these bids are approved actually this work will be able to commence um in October and be finish approximately in January as the building is currently lightly used and we' re will be able to relocate the few people who are currently using it to other uh spaces in the district temporarily thank you thank you Mr bouris may I have a motion to approve the low bid of metcon Construction Inc in the amount of $49,000 for reconfiguring the East end of of the minona education center for additional staff offices so moved camar may I have a second second second Mike any discussion hearing none all those in favor please say I I I any opposed motion carries Mr bour thank you uh Mr chair members of the board as we try to hit the Finish Line before 8:30 with these items uh the uh uh approval of the bid for resurfacing Min Tonka High School tennis courts uh We've resurfaced the tennis courts at East and two years ago West last summer uh and the tennis courts at minetonka High School uh which are used for our Varsity program are due for their uh updating and resurfacing uh we uh had a budget estimate of $300,000 for this project and uh the low bidder uh of out of seven was binous roadways in the amount of $223,300 uh so we'd ask that you to prove this bid so we can get this work and updating done next summer thank you thank you Mr Bourgeois um may I have a motion to accept the low bit of binus roadways Inc in the amount of $223,300 [Laughter] by round math um you know we take a look at all these projects and it really defines and I think you've said it early bird gets the worm uh just round math it looks like about uh $2 million worth of savings uh roughly between what was budgeted and what these came in at and um and I just want to thank you and your team for the Strategic Management and the the the the foresight to to get this stuff done um you know with along all the other things that that you and your team have to do planning this far ahead uh uh and and really doing that is uh saving us money and it's allowing us to do more with that with those dollars we're going to be able to pull ahead significant projects uh uh for uh the summer of 25 in in order to do this and that just keeps our buildings in in uh good repair and uh the facilities around it so thank you so much I'm glad glad to do it I mean and our our buildings are in good condition uh we've been able to catch up and and and be in a state of good repair and get them ready for the next 40 or 50 years and uh it's important that our buildings are in good condition because we want our students to know when they walk in the door that the buildings look maybe not ostentatious but they look stately and they look well kept up because to canote that there's important things going on in the building it kind of helps us set the atmosphere I I hope thank you anyone else Dan I just want to piggy back on what Chris was saying here because I saw him doing the same math that I was doing over on my sheet and uh it's he's absolutely right I E Echo everything he said and the praise for your department um being able to pull that many projects ahead is great I think all of us up here would love it if we could take $2 million in savings and use that to solve uh any budgetary pressure on the operating fund we can't that's just the way public School finances work certain funds are restricted to certain uses but what this does is it to Chris's Point enables us to tackle more projects earlier in the long run we have to bond less and even if it doesn't um solve our budgetary issues in operating it saves our citizens money when it comes to paying those bonds back down the road so thank you thank you any other discussion we have a motion a second all those in favor please say I I I any opposed the motion carries thank you very much Mr Bourgeois okay next item is a consent agenda may I have a motion to adopt the consent agenda so move Chris may I have a second second Mike okay I don't believe we discussed the consent agenda so uh all those in favor please say I I any opposed motion carries board reports does anyone have a report Dan thank you uh the district finance committee met uh last week or the week before I don't remember entirely but uh we spent a lot of time talking about a lot of the issues that came before the board this evening there was a lot of community and parent interest specifically regarding enrollment the trends in enrollment um what the implications are for our budget so I know Paul and his team are looking into all their questions and working on that data and I know we'll see uh some projected numbers for fiscal 26 soon so um we look forward to bringing those before the board thank you Dan Kary yeah thank you you've done a great job tonight uh from MCE just a little bit of enrollment numbers there are 300 on the wait list for explorers still so they are looking that was kind of surprising to me they're looking to hire 11 more staff just for our information uh they are using a program called radar for Recruitment and they've been able to have some success with that as well they're still looking to keep the 1 to 15 ratio of the students to the staff so that's a little bit of what they're working on and then finally the tour to tanka is up from last year there were 2,641 Riders 163 were from Minnesota and then 30 other states which is kind of a new record for the Tatanka so yeah any other board reports superintendent's report was busy week last week with different committees happening we had the menaka family collaborative meet here and menaka cares meet here and though I I shared a little bit about that on social media but both of those organizations where our community stands with us to support the needs of our students one of those meetings covered the efforts we take to address overdoses in our community specifically um we're empowering our staff and informing our community about how to address overdoses in our community and then uh a robust conversation about mental health and so th those include our local Faith Partners our cities our law enforcement and medical medical community all together and I don't know if our committee realizes we have that those wraparound meetings in support and then I just said that we wrapped up a homecoming where if you were at the football game you noticed it was crowded uh over 8,000 attendees at the football game last week our alumni event that celebrates alumni uh sold out with 200 seats or communication Department host that Dr gon team did a nice job with that uh recognizing uh graduates from the 60s our recent graduates who are doing great work in the world and uh honoring staff who have passed away and recognizing staff it was a wonderful event and then homecoming dance had recorded attendance and uh as far as I'm told uh a very great night for students and staff two different DJs almost 3,000 students attended a high school dance nice job to our high school staff and our students for that event thank you thank you superintendent law any announcements Megan get well soon may I have a motion to adjourn so moved uh Dan second second Chris all those in favor please say I I I any opposed we are adjourned thank you very much