##VIDEO ID:DVCgJu7DVtY## right welcome everyone happy December and we'll go ahead and get started um I do know of one change to the agenda we're adding in an action item uh G4 and G5 after the close session uh for employee negotiations um or employee contracts sorry uh so that's one act one uh change to the agenda any other changes can I get a motion to approve the agenda so move by hennon second by mlen to approve the agenda and the following changes all in favor please say I I was opposed motion passes moving to some future events please check the district website for a complete list of monthly events Monday December 23rd 2024 through Thursday January 2nd no school uh DSC and child care hours listed on the district website Tuesday January 14th uh School Board organizational and regular meeting at 7 pm with communication to the board and administration at 6:45 moving on to consent agenda can I get a motion so move by Schmid second by forsberg to approve the following items of the consent agenda minutes of the November 12 2024 regular meeting bills paid for October 24 2024 and the following amounts of $ 4,858 th000 and Personnel items all in favor please say I those opposed motion passes moving on to presentation special guests and recognitions uh 2024 budget and property taxes pable 2025 presentation uh also known as truth and Taxation hearing Miss Amy Schultz good evening school board so once a year we are required to give this presentation prior to approving our property taxes for those payable in 2025 um I will do my best to go through it quickly this is a lot of repeat information for the school board someone like maryn has been through decades and Decades of these I think she's the only person who's been at more of these than I've actually presented on so um so with that we'll go through it pretty quick but please feel free to ask questions as we go uh so with that we will start with um property tax law does require us to present a few things tonight and so with that um there's a we're going to go through those um and then this is one of those things that we as a school district have a few pieces of the property tax law that we have control over one of those is not how it's calculated so the Department of Education has 40 pages of formulas um even for somebody who likes numbers it's overwhelming um and tough to get through but they go through all those fundings that's highly regulated um we are highly dependent on the state for how those work statute sets those formulas um so we have the ability to Levy less than what those are those set the maximum we can do often when you do Levy less than the maximum you lose state aid as a component of that as well so walk through how that looks on a few of these and the second piece though is and how it's calculated our property tax values and so our property values counties set those so that is not something done by the school district County Assessors set those values so that's another piece of that that we don't necessarily have control over but does impact our calculations so as I mentioned there's two things we have to present on um that is our current year budget which I know the board has heard a lot about already so we will go through that fast um as well as the proposed property tax levy ch es to last year's Levy that are significant in explaining those um another piece that we need to do along with that is open it up for public comment and so we will do that at the end as well so starting with our current year school budget that's for the 2024 25 year um with that you can see these are originally adapted budgets from June and I know we are proposing that we will bring revisions and that's something that we will do Jan I think January or planning on for the time being but we will have at least one revision coming in after this new year so you can see our totals by fund the general fund Broken Out by operations capital and long-term facilities we like to look at those a little bit differently knowing the operations are kind of our ongoing day-to-day um and capital are those things that can kind of change year to year based on projects as well as our other funds Food Service community service debt and our other post employment debt as well so you can see our total with that um revenues and expenses right around $128 million so seeing those in just a graph form you can see that our general fund makes up the majority of our revenues as well as our expenses that you'll see on the next slide um and so there's often when we're just talking about our budget we focus on the general fund it's where we have the most uh control over how we spend our dollars food service and community service are based on those programs it must be spent on those and our Debt Service as well as our opab debt service are based strictly on principal and interest payments so there's not anything that we do differently with those we set that based on those scheduled payments so with that we will focus on the general fund more in just a minute but you can see on the expenditure side the same thing our expend general fund is by far the largest part in that one as well so as we focus on our general fund and the revenues uh you can see that state AIDS make up the Lar largest portion and Levy comes in second to that so Levy makes up 15% of our general fund budget and it's the same for state has been this I shouldn't say same as last year was also 15% State makes up 79% also the same as last year so those two have not changed from 2023 24 to 20242 um the percentages stay the same interest in federal have tweaked a little bit as far as percentages but 1% going back forth of pachu so consistently we've been right around that kind of 15 and 79% for Levy and Aid split um on the expenditure side you can see the compensation does make up the largest portion of our expenditures uh we are a very um employee heavy organization with hiring of staff and all the people that work with our students so with that you can see on the compensation side that we that is I want to say 77% um and so as a part of that what we have done is added $4 million from our purchase Services into compensation that amount reflects what we believe is approximately what we would be paying if we hired our own bus drivers and we do that as a way just on this graph not in budget or how we actually report but just to kind of show where we would land compared to other districts that maybe do their own internal busing many districts land between that 72 and 82% for compensation and most of that will hinge on whether or not you do a lot of those Services inh house or through contractors so with that our budget review process I mentioned that we are planning to come to the school board likely in January with the revision so once the budgets adopted in June we do review it several times internally throughout the year we keep the school board up to date with those and come back several times to the school board to explain where some of our assumptions might have been a little bit off usually based enrollment maybe federal dollars have changed that we were allocated so then given those new assumptions we bring a revised budget to the school board for approval during the year so that is something that we will be doing in the next month or two so that's just a really quick review of our budget and then we'll kind of get into the property taxes so on that um initially before we even get to the part that we take part in on the levy calendar is the county sending out the proposed values for homeowners and Property Owners so they do that right away in the spring that gives people the ability to um appeal that if they believe their property value is not accurately respected so from a school district perspective we have the summer of 20124 we were collecting data internally to submit to the Department of Education in September the school board approved our preliminary property tax levy and we submitted that to the county and to the Department of Education in November then is when the preliminary tax amounts were mailed out by the county to our property owners and then tonight is our final approval by the school board so what gets approved tonight reflects taxes that will be payable during the 2025 calendar year and for the school district we will count as Revenue in a 2526 school year so what happens tonight from a levy standpoint will be a part of the approved budget for the school board in June so how components are calculated on this Levy like I said there's 40 page document for how all of this is done and with that the levy formulas are set by legislature so those aren't something every District uses those same formulas in order to come up with that um each component that we'll walk through the components in this um on the next couple slides each component has its own formula and each of those formula is could be calculated on one or a combination of the number of students that we serve actual expenditures that we expect to incur and property values um they fluctuate year to year based on property value so how individual homeowners see that will look different um the amount that we receive might look a little bit different even though the formulas are the same the amount that we see that comes in from the state versus Levy could change um and we'll talk about Equalization a little bit here on some of the next slides as well because that is that has impacted our taxes this year so as we look at our total property tax levy for the school district this includes all funds so general fund community service debt and again other post-employment benefit Debt Service it shows last year's final Levy as well as our proposed 2025 um so with that you can see it's a 2.43% increase and then on the next couple slides we'll go through each of these individually so general fund uh with that one you can see this has a lot more components that are individually calculated uh so with that you can see um ranges from some that have gone down some that have gone up uh the percentage change in those um so I'm going to focus on a couple of the larger changes first I want to highlight the three that have an ASC next to them those are the ones that the district currently gets Equalization Aid on so what that is is as a school district if our property values per student are lower than a state set average or don't hit a specific denominator we get a portion of our tax levy is substituted with State a so while we don't get an increase in Revenue it takes a little bit of the tax burden off of our property tax payers and the state fills in that amount instead so many years those denominators don't change and so what I would actually expect is that for next year local option will drop off of this and will no longer be equalized meaning the full amount will be paid by property owners in the district and the state will not be kicking in portion in addition to that unless they change the formula um this from last year to this year in just that one category we went from 55,000 subsidized by the state to three so I'm anticipating that that goes away next year which would still leave operating and long-term facilities um where we would still be getting Aid on those say that again um I'm trying to remember I I looked at the local option one because that's the one that I saw going down um one is 700,000 I think they're both about 700,000 so with that it's a it does help quite a bit I don't see those changing significantly going into next year so again with those changes we're just going to hit on the ones that change the most most mostly from a dollar standpoint um just because some of those change a lot percentage wise but might only reflect $20,000 so the biggest changes were in our capital projects referendum that is our only Levy that is based on values so it's the only one where we take a percentage times the property values in the district and because the values went up um that meant that our capital projects ref went have as well and then on the next one the I said the increases to local option operating capital and long-term facilities were entirely due to the switch from the state piing up a portion and having it move to taxes another of those changes that are a little more significant year to year and this is something that doesn't change much year-over-year are the adjustments and the abatements so adjustments are levies that come into play because we are doing this seven months ahead of the start of the school year for which the revenue will come in more so there's a lot of assumptions in that the biggest one being the number of students that we expect to serve so if once next year is finalized which is about two years from now those assumptions are off we either serve more or less students I mean we would see adjustments to the property tax levy based on that so they basically true it up after the year 20256 will end chew it up and make adjustments to levies on that so that we actually get the revenue based on the students as opposed to what we projected so those are the adjustments on the abatements these are abatements reflect for somebody who has appealed their property value if they win that appeal what has already happened is the county has spread our tax um property taxes across the district um it's not a percentage on your property it is we get this amount because it's what our um Levy is and then it is spread to homeowners based on their values as a percentage of the total in the district so if one person appeals theirs and gets it reduced the county will collect less based on that property so we will receive Less in cash um then the following year what they do is they take that amount add it back in and respread it as a part of the next year's Levy so we don't actually lose the revenue we just don't get C the cash in that year but they will take that amount and res sprit the following year on top of that Year's Levy so those are adjustments and abatements and you'll see those each of these funds so on the community service you can see on this one in total it increased 10% um a lot of that is our school AG Care that is based on just programming expenses for that um and then also the changes to adjustments and payments in total the dollar amounts are relatively small and on The Debt Service fund again you can see it's the principal and interest payments for our debt as well as the adjustments and the patment adjustments tend to be higher on this one because we are required to Levy 105% of the principal on interest then as we've collected it and they made sure we had the cash on hand baring any appeals um they basically take a based on the calculation and amount off the next year as an adjustment um this one you can see went up in total about 184,000 the principal in interest by 272,000 you'll see a little bit of an offset of that on the next slide so with that we have our other post employment benefit debt and you can see this one is now gone so we will be paying off that final payment this February so with that we are not loving for that one next year and so where you can see is now this one went down or the other one went up when we issued debt a new debt we often look at our existing debt and try to smooth out the principal interest payment so as one falls off we might be increasing the amount that we're making in a principal payment as we've scheduled a new one to go so with that it just kind of keeps the property taxes more smooth and even across all of those years instead of this one dropped off and this one went on so it's kind of a way of not people not seeing their taxes go up and down as much so market value changes over time you can see in the last 20 years what has happened um districtwide in our Market values So currently we are at 5.6 billion which is an increase of four billion over last year so no that is all um Property Owners within the district so property Parcels um and you can see where that did go down for a couple years and has come back up over the last few years as well and then applying for tax relief if anybody with um believes they might qualify for some help in paying their property taxes Minnesota has three programs to assist with that a property tax circuit breaker refund um specialty special property tax refund and a senior citizen property tax deferral so it's not a reduction but it does allow you to push it back and spread it out over additional years um some of those are based on age for senior citizens some are based on income um and some are based on you know there might be an increase in your taxes above a certain level so with that we really do recommend people talk to their tax professional to find out what they might qualify for so lastly we just want to make sure that our public knows we do everything we can to keep those property values we said not only steady but also as low as we can in the past the district has taken advantage of under leving meaning the levy is the cap that we can go to we do have the ability to under Levy um in any of the categories usually though that will come at the expense of losing state aid that's tied to it there are a couple that we that does not occur on and we have done that a few times over the years on years where we have May a larger increase than we wanted to see so along with that Bond refunding you can see since 2010 we have refunded bonds of over $13 million um so with that you can see the amounts for each of those Bond issuances what that did was when a bond is refunded it's similar to refinancing your home mortgage and that interest rates when you issued the bond were higher than where they currently stand and so if you do refund that Finance you can get lower rates and it reduces the principal interest payments for the future so those amounts that are reflected there are the amounts that came off of future tax levies those are amounts that go directly back to the taxpayers those are not amounts that the district keeps we reduce our Levy by the amount of that refunding savings so um with that we do review for refunding opportunities uh twice a year ERS our financial advisor sends us something at least twice a year um just kind of letting us know here's where rates are at here's where the market's at here are bonds that you might have eligible to refund um and so we look at those quite often now with that we do need to open this up for public comments if anybody would like to speak to it so with that if the board has any questions or open it to the board for discussion any questions I said this I know this is an action item later in the meeting that the board will be asked to approve this right and we've we've seen all the information in previous work sessions and meetings nothing else for the board all right thank you okay moving on to annual comprehensive financial report for fiscal year ending June 30th 2024 Miss Amy Schultz and Mr Aaron neelon did I say that correct yes all right so because December we like to talk a lot of finances uh we're going to go back to back now um so as you mentioned we have Aon neelson he's one of our partner he's the partner on our school district audit so he is with the firm Maloy Manu Kowski rasich um who specializes this portion of their firm in auditing government clients um' been at our Auditors for a number of years um so he's going to walk through all two or three hundred pages of the audit um a really quick slide summary so please ask any questions that you want um with that our audit always goes really well we really appreciate the knowledge that mmkr brings to our audit but I really want to say thank you to like Chris McGee who's our controller who really does the audit I step in into a couple sections but he really is the one behind putting it together and pulling all the data um as well as everybody that you see sitting in the audience today helps as well too um with different portions of it so we need help from all them in order to get everything pulled in together so thanks to everybody for their support and always working with us when we need that with that I'm gonna let Aon presented and if there's any questions when he's done we'll be happy to answer well thank you very much I appreciate the opportunity to be here it is nice to do it on the truth and Taxation evening because you get a lot of the lead in beforehand so um which allows me to move through it a little quicker and I'll just hit some highlights with the slide sides that I have here um so you're already looking forward with your Levy I'm going to take you backwards to the past year for the year ended June 30th 2024 um we have completed our audit for that period and are happy to go through the results of that audit so with that I'll get right to it with you know our portion of the show with uh the opinions we issue the for the district's Financial audit we have issued what is known as an unmodified opinion or a clean opinion so exactly what you're looking for that your financial statements are fairly presented as of June 30th and the results of operations for that year ended um with regard to internal control and compliance for the financial audit uh that's a requirement under government auditing standards required by Minnesota statutes and due to the single audit which is your federal Awards audit and we're pleased to report we have no material weaknesses over instances of non-compliance to share with you this evening a couple of more areas that we discuss and talk about the top slide is the top half of the slide is the Minnesota legal compliance audit so there's seven broad areas that are tested with regard to the legal compliance audit and many questions with inside of each of those areas and we had just one comment in all of the areas combined so our one finding this past year was with regard to Group insurance contracts for Group Insurance over 25 people and they're required to be limited to a 5year period before you rebid it uh in this case it was on one only one contract I believe it's probably your smallest group contract for long-term disability um I believe the district had a rate guarantee for this past year and so they're looking to with that process for the next year but just to make you aware it is subject to the state requirement for every five years for that testing um moving on to the kind of the broader testing of the more in-depth dive into single audit and federal Awards so major portion of our audit is the federal audit which is interesting because it does not make up a very big portion of your financial statement of revenues um but we are pleased to report that we had a clean opinion on the we say ca but it's a schedule of expenditures of federal Awards and we had no material weaknesses in the internal controls for that testing that was required for those Federal Awards um we we talk about your students and the resulting pupil units so adjusted ADM or average daily membership is a closer look at about the student counts the pupo unit applies a waiting system to it as you're paid more dollars for your high school students compared to the elementary students and kindergarten students uh as you can see you've had a pretty stable run of enr here for a while the last few years and just the last couple where it's ticked down a little bit uh for this past audit year there was a decrease in that ADM of just 12 students or at 12 ADM or ad just at ADM now I'm getting to that part where some of these slides are going to look similar to what you've just seen in the last presentation but uh we show your financial position over a 10-year period we grab some key indicators of expenditures unrestricted balance and cash and Investments the note I made that I wanted to share tonight is as you can see your district has done a good job of presenting a steady financial position over this period you know adapting to as the size of the operation has grown you've you've been able to maintain your cash and Investments at a similar Pace uh increasing to meet the demands of cash flow and so on over that period a little deeper dive into the general fund looking at the equity components uh you get that breakdown of your fund balance for the general fund as you can see again a slight improvement over the prior year when we look at the fund balance position at the end of the year some shifts between the in the unrestricted it was a slight increase you can see there was a slight decrease in unassigned fund balance and that's really because some of those unassigned dollars have been now targeted for specific projects or assigned for purposes within the district you can see there was an increase in restricted fund balances and when I looked into that a little bit this afternoon and preparing for the meeting largely in basic skills funding and long-term facilities maintenance so State dollars you receive that are subject to be spent in a particular manner so tracking that and you'll utilize those appropriately moving forward and I should say you've uh continued to meet your fund balance policy as I've always been able to report for you several years now uh looking at the general fund Revenue so a little different graph with a bar graph versus that piie graph you saw in the last presentation uh general fund revenues this past year made total $ 94.2 million and they came in slightly over budgeted or as an a conservative accountant we say favorably for you coming in better than anticipated but within 1% or is within 7 t0 of 1% so coming in very close in all the categ for the general fund Revenue uh again agreeing with the comments in the last presentation you can see the state sources making up a majority of the revenues this past year uh 75 or almost 76% in state sources 14% in property taxes uh I'll just throw it out there because we talked about your federal single audit but you can see in the general fund your federal Awards only made up about 5.6% of the bers for you a similar graph on the expenditure side of things we're focusing in on the object categories or the compensation salaries and benefits for your employees of the general fund uh you can see the need and in Personnel Services to educate your students and quite common with all we see with the districts we work with salary and benefits making up 75.9% or 76% of your spending this past year your total expenditures this past year were 86 .8 million and coming in within the Appropriations you approved coming in under budget about 2.1% so with that I'll move on to a couple of your operating funds so the general fund is by far your largest individual primary operating fund of the district we've got your uh not uh other operating funds of the food service and the community service fund I simply showing your year end fund balance of those uh largely due just the change in the size of the operation uh expenditures in each of these funds coincidentally is $4.4 million for each one of these operations uh you can see the Food Service fund has done a good job and is in a healthy financial position at year end again increasing fund balance uh equaling about 31.5% of expenditures for this past year uh the community service fund as you can see has really run pretty lean in fund balance for many years and um using the resources that are available to you putting it into like childhood programming and many other reasons um but you can see there was a decrease in that fund balance from 130,000 to just over 9,000 uh totaling about 0.2% of expenses for this past year and then my last slide that I've included tonight and let you run any questions by in any of the documents by the internal service funds so your district is utilizing the internal service funds for your self-insured benefits of health and dental for employees of the district I I really didn't have a whole lot to add to the slide here that you can see I mean probably a common comment you know you're dealing with is the rising costs of claims that we're all enduring of our own businesses and and you're no different than that you can see that increase there uh the increases in charges for services train off set that um but you can even see the improved investment earnings weren't enough to offset that growth that we're seeing but you do have a healthy fund balance there but it is important to make sure you manage it because it you know changes pretty quickly so with that I do want to thank your staff for being well prepared when we come out it's very important uh stole my positive note at the end with the last slide you're refunding transaction in The Debt Service funds so you know doing those things to save tax dollars for the district but um we do appreciate uh the efficiency to be able to go through the audit in that fashion um and and I realize it's a boring presentation the audit presentation but that's what you're looking for if it's exciting and I'm up here it's not a fun one to deliver true exactly board any questions um just comment if I can thank you for being here and um you know as a governance board we have complete faith in Amy and her team and we get to hear a lot about how what a great job they do um but I think it's always great for the public too you know to just have someone else come in here as a objective third party and reiterate to everybody what we know that how well our district is run and how hard we're working to um be responsible manag manages of our fiscal material um of our money fincial ources thank you thank you yes anyway thank you for being here and thank you to and her team for doing such a great job I appreciate that it's it's nice to do your presentation if no surprises when I'm sharing I'm not the first one sharing it with you so it allows me to go through it pretty quickly great thank you I just have one quick question I think it's back on slide two just it's more of a confirming question I think it's around the ca if I said that correctly does that include um the co dollar that were provided to the district also yes it would the federal Co dollars would be included in that audit there I'm not sure if you have any car over left anymore we're running out now that yeah most of our districts have utilized all of them or a little bit for IND okay no I I think it's great that there that there were no findings there because the amount of just from what Amy has shared with us as a board the amount of rules and and strings tied to it the the way her she and her team have managed those dollars I'm absolutely impressed that there's no findings I I mean I wouldn't expect any anyway just how she operates and how we operate as a organization but I'm just extremely impressed uh that that we came out clean yeah your district is always see look for a long time now done a great job of being very good stewards and responsible with that responsibility you know sometimes there's concerns with those onetime dollars of what are you do when they're gone and I feel like you from the get go how you plan for that so you don't have that fisal c some places are doing with right yeah so thank you Amy thank you Chris McGee and and your team and thank you Aon um yeah I I this just to me again Echoes the our district what we stand for you know about the kids and as long as we have that mindset it it transcends in everything we do and Amy you and your team do a phenomenal job with our finances so I I I can't say enough great things so thank you thank you you moving on to discussion reports and information items effective operations improve our effective management of human financial and physical resources uh Implement upgrade upgraded learning space and future and or excuse me Furniture uh District operational plan project update Miss hope Ron yeah and I think Jeff you were gonna kick it off here I almost forgot I was going to be doing that um all right so as you know the board has heard about this uh kind of project over the years a number of times we've began really upgrading our learning spaces with that past um with the bond that was passed and um process was really interrupted by the pandemic because what we wanted to do was Implement some things and then really see what we were learning how they were going for example Centerview had all the spaces in their school and we were able to do that and um got a lot of Staff really excited to get get U some new furniture to have more flexibility in their space and so we've been working on that a lot last spring and throughout this year I'm really excited to um move forward with that so that's what hope and uh are here to give you an update out all right well as the board is well aware this image shows the core components of our Innovative and personalized learning approach in Spring Lake Park schools and as you also are well aware all of our efforts in Spring Lake Park start with our Learners and learning and Furniture is no exception to that okay you can see in the middle of the image the ribbon that weaves through each of the four components and that's centered on designing engaging student work and learning experiences and again this holds true for that fourth component fourth circle of flexible learning environments um uh we describe this core component briefly as the flexible use of time space and resources and when we talk resources we talk both human and fiscal resources again to enhance student learning uh throughout our work in this project we've been intentional and purposeful about keeping the students at the center of each conversation on this slide you'll see the uh bullet points of the work that was accomplished as we look back over the past year the 23 24 school year um and I want to talk uh I want to focus my time here before I turn it back over to Amy um really specifically talking about the work of the design teams um that happened last year so our design teams were comprised primarily of teachers and teacher leaders and then our school principls joined that as well whenever we had a design team in we always started with some kind of what we call provocation right that means maybe it's a reading maybe it's a video maybe it's some kind of dialogue or discussion prompt that centered the members of that design team around the work and learning experiences that we want to design in order to prepare our kids for their future which we all know is rapidly changing okay um so that was just an important part like we didn't um bring design teams together and say let's look at a bunch of furniture we brought the design teams together and said let's talk about learning and let's talk about our Learners and that's where you see those other core components come in our learner profiles who are our kids what does that mean for what we're designing um the design teams also got some inspiration from Centerview Jeff in his intro Unk knowingly set me up well for that um so as you know as you know Centerview is our newest building and the building with uh the most flexible furniture and space with that with walls um that are able to move in and out um but we brought our design teams there we wanted to give them a chance to see uh how teachers are teaming together in Innovative and different ways in order to um group students in ways that really leverage their strengths and their interests and also meet their needs and our teachers there are not only grouping the kids flexibly they're also grouping themselves differently to meet those needs of those of those kids so after um those experiences our design teams then engaged in a process process um to determine then finally the type of furniture that would be conducive to the learning environment that we're wanting to create um our partners at w Architects took all of that Insight which was plenty over a series of meetings and then designed three sets of furniture which I learned through this process Architects call kits not sets um and uh and then as they did that we continued to bring those design teams in to get feedback all along the way so as we ended up 23 24 we had kits of furniture um multiple kits that we thought uh would be viable options for each grade band and another piece I think that's important when you see those four components weew together the grade bands that the furniture was designed around align with our competency grade band so our academic competencies band K2 34 56 so the furniture kind of followed along with that just kind of showing the integration of all that work together so now I will turn it over to Amy uh for looking at what what has happened this year so far and before I do that I know she just got a lot of kudos for all the financial stuff and I just have to say as a partner in this work with her it's been really amazing to see her take a leadership with the design teams and the principles and The Architects and seeing Amy keep learning and our Learners at the center and I do not think that happens in many other places so I just have a ton of appreciation for the partnership that we have when when I'm gone I have no doubts that she is continuing that conversation and keeping our kids at the Forefront so thank you just if I'm out for a day that's all okay I won't talk budget numbers I promise um but it this really was fun and it's amazing to be able to work with hope with W um to watch them lead these design teams um with just the different you know provocations and protocols that were used um so for example um you having everybody all the design teams say like I want so that I can and it might be I want room to be able to move around so I can get my wiggles out so like we're talking about some of our Learners and so those were all those types of prompts that W took and she said they were a lot of them so when they came back with these initial kits um as they had them that was that kind of got us through 2024 so um as we've started this current school year um we really we this summer kind of reconvened all those design teams again and reviewed those kits so w came in we were um at the high school and what they did they put them up and they're like okay here's one thing give us feedback and so people were great about that saying okay we like that we don't like that we don't think this will work what about this so they again took all of that feedback and went back and redesigned those so at that point then they came back to principals um and maybe a smaller group within the high school of res our leaders to really finalize them and so at that point we came up with three kits and so with that we now have three options so there's three separate kits for each set of grade bands um so what that means and you'll see these on pictures as we go through this um there's a kindergarten through second grade three options um so as they look at those you'll see option make sure I get this right option one has um tables a combination tables koi desks and soft Furniture option two on those has mostly some of the koi desks you'll see what those are with a couple soft seating and option three has tables and some soft seating so um with those you'll see for and two we'll show you option two and for the next grade band we'll show you a different option just so you can kind of see how the different layouts of furniture look um and then with that as we see those you'll see kind of there's some options even within each one um so we went through all of those initially and B came out with big Maps sat down with the teams and said okay every classroom tell me which kit you want in every classroom so they're writing them down on there and then with that we also met with all of our when we think of our regular classroom Staffing um we also have a lot of staff that work with our students in different ways so that might be our occupational therapist speech um so we also looked at each of their spaces and while we didn't necessarily say you have to use this kit it started with our kits and then we modified those based on how what the student needs within each of those groups would be so often it would say well we want a modified kit two for eight students instead of 25 but we want to swap out a couple seats or we need more storage Less storage So within each of those we really did design it back to what the learning that would happen in those spaces as opposed to here's your furniture make it work it really did come back to focusing on the learning that we wanted and the experiences we wanted students to have um so again World architect worked through all of that so they have now gotten all of those details they are now in the process then of going back and putting that in a final to bring back to to review so with that I said I'll show you a couple different options I'm not sure how easy this is going to be to see but on this one you can see of the three options you have option two and it's for kindergarten and first and second grade kindergarten comma because kindergarten Furniture is going to be a little smaller than the second first and second grade Furniture but the kit will look the same it will just be slightly different sizes um there can be different sizes on the tables so as we do that we might in the end say we want a couple tables in kindergarten that are literally this far off the ground with a couple pads for students to sit on if that's one of those variations they come back with in the end with that final look um in some of our grade levels you'll see sit to stand desks might also be an option so within those you can see the combinations so this one was the koi desks so those are those the desks that kind of fit together they're individual student desks on Wheels chairs are also on Wheels very easy to move around so you can switch between teams you can push them to side if you need to get the Wiggles out um so with that you can see then some storage components in a couple different pieces of furniture so with those different seating options you can see we have some kind of buoy seats um and hockey stools those kind of let kids move around a little bit while still staying in their spot um as well as in the chairs we have some softer chairs the stair seating and then you can see the the square on there that's actually big enough for somebody in and sit in it so we have very different seating like that so students have some choice in how like what they're sitting on while they're there um and one of the things we also want to point out is when we're looking at these this is one kit this is how it will be installed this summer when it gets delivered and then when school starts it's really up to the staff and how they are partnering working with kids and they can move that a furniture around any way they want that best fits the learning for that time of the day so it can move around within the day at the beginning end of the day but they have that flexibility and it's also teachers aren't going to own those classrooms in the same way teachers might move um while the furniture stays there so there's just different ways that um this flexibility with it will allow the teachers to do that so option three this is one where we said it's more tables in soft seating you don't see the COI desks in there so it's just another option this is for grades three through six so you can see it's a lot of that same Furniture this one does have some of that sit to stand desks so there might be a table or two within the classroom that kids who want to be able to stand up have that ability as well um this is obviously one layout and once that furniture is delivered it's really up to the staff on how they want to use it and then I will show option one so this is the one where we said it's more of Co individual desks um as well as soft seating so with that again you can see there's this one has sort of a lot more individual seating options and different ones within it um again especially as we get to those levels I think we have a lot of kids that have different preferences on some are high tops some are regular height tables some are soft seating so you'll see just all of those within classrooms and again when we um when we sat down with the principles and hope was great with this too as they would lay it out it would be okay well we might have heard well we want all of first grade to have option one and it's like okay tell us why and so it's like with that in the end we don't have a single grade level where the entire grade level has the same option so it really does give that flexibility back to teachers even within that grade band working together so what does koi mean koi is just the name of the individual desk so there's nothing specific to it um but the one we're looking at now you the very few of them there's four of them here I'm gonna go okay at top left there's a red table in that so it's an individual chair or table and with those you'll be able to see like they they kind of connect together easily so you can group kids well they can pull apart and work individually or you can group them together um so one of the things as we went through this process just to kind of show how the flexibility can be different um the kidney tables long staple in elementary education and there's going to be some feelings of loss one kit of the three between grades K through two has a kidney table in it but if you string four or five of those koi desks together because they can kind of fit together you just put them in a u- shape and it works the same way and that way you can do it with three students four students but but I mean you still have that same functionality now with the ability to pull those apart and work different way so so that's where the koyes are there's a lot of those at Center view if when you're walking around there you would see those and so they group together well and they pull apart look get partic particularly at 712 with getting those koi desks is that walking around grade seven and eight right now and they've got what are called sleigh desks where the chair is actually attached to the desk and they're super heavy which leads to teachers who are wanting to do something different as they're designing the learning it makes it very difficult during the class period to move those around there's not a lot of flexibility with the design how they group kids whereas if like you walk through the classrooms that have these COI desks the teacher will just even with first and second graders that Center youw they tell them who desks and the kids just boom and it's in less than a minute they've got kind of the classroom redesigned so all right so those are I say we showed an option one two and three so with that you can see those are just one option within each of those grade bands um so right now if you were to look at the giant map that world has you can see each classroom and a bunch of furniture all over the place so like I said right now they're putting together finalizing it going back and forth with manufacturers to make sure things are still being like the pictures that you see here could look slightly different depending on the manufacturer and what's going to be available so but with that they're putting all that together right now for one final look if you're getting to this forgive me I can wait I'm just wondering about so is this which buildings is this going in who's getting this furniture like what's the what's the scope here all of them but Center viw everybody except Center okay yeah so Centerview was an enormous help in going through this process and kind of really showing staff who maybe were a little apprehensive yeah this can be done right where all but one teacher in center viw switch classrooms between last this year like they kind of model that flexibility in owning um the building as opposed to the classroom so just the ability to move around and show that kids yes elementary kids can work independently and can work in groups and so they aren't but the rest of our buildings yeah yeah I was just going to add like there are places that in the sea building at the high school the where we had the and the science Wing they've received a lot of new furniture there as recently the 2016 Bond so it's not necessarily schoolwide because they do have that in some places but those parts of the school where they didn't have it they're going to be getting that furniture and I would imagine there's when you were saying how there's not a single grade in any school that was like we're all getting option one I imagine part of that is because they're planning as a group right like for some activities this option would be better and for some things we do this option will be better but we they're more of a community spaces almost that can be interchanged that's kind of the idea I'm guessing yeah yeah and I mean I think the question that we um we ask our teachers to think about all the time is First what's the type of learning that's happening and then second what space is most conducive to that and so that having that mix gives flexibility for within a a team or a pod or whatever it's called at all the different schools you know what I mean it's like hey here's the kind of learning I'm doing at this time this Spas is most conducive right let me run over here and do that so yeah they're working U much more collaboratively in just going to say I love the collaboration of that that's great and and positions us so well like you said like a teacher might go to a different classroom next year and just positions the whole grade well for the future so awesome thanks I think I have a question is and again if it's coming let me know um because I I think the desks that are currently in the high school are literally the desks that I had sat in back in the day so it's pretty exciting to see the options that are here and I also think it's interesting how like the third to sixth grade map is more fixed I think it had less koi tables that's because I only showed one option at each grade band so every grade band has a one a two and a three so I just used I picked three so we didn't go through nine of them got so otherwise they're very similar that's why I said one is co table and soft one is more tables and soft and one is a comination and I'm curious what like the recycling of the old equipment or do we sell that or how does that somehow not yeah we're right now we're looking into some options on how we would do that if we're going to try to sell it ourselves if there's a company out there that would just buy stuff from us and sell it and some of it is just old like most of it we will try to sell whatever we can yeah and we're trying to salvage whatever we can so we've also done an inventory and there are bookshelves we can keep there are some of the soft seating we've already purchased we're going to keep so first we were saying this is what we want now we currently have an inventory and that's what w is also working through right now is here's what we need they're going to back those off the order for what we already have on site we don't need to get rid of but right and we have a couple schools where almost every classroom is getting touched other than potentially music where our teachers said we don't really sit so we don't need seats all over the room so a few of those but I when you look at Park terce and woodrest most every classroom is being um is getting new furniture um a lot of Westwood so the stem area doesn't need it but but the rest of the building the high school it's the seawing a few classes within it are get it but otherwise it's the the rest of the building how long do we anticipate that all this furniture will last it depends on the piece of furniture I will be honest um some of them will last a long time the soft seating doesn't have as long of a useful life what we have been doing at the high school is some of the furniture that was purchased 10 years ago is we've started reholstering it so as opposed to getting rid of it and buying it new we've started to reholster some of those things um and we believe that some of the Fabrics that we're using now will hold up better as well so some of that stuff from the very first round when it was really new to schools we've learned some things so um we know which vendors we do and don't want to work with and what types of fabrics to go with so uh with that I I mentioned I was going of want to go through some steps oh I didn't get to this one this is just another picture of some of the furniture so um the board can look through up just different storage options different seating options um so different soft seating and different tables so uh then so next steps in Timeline like I said they're putting together all that information right now um so then once we have a chance to review it and say Yep this is what we all agreed to then at that point they will go back into and finalize the order and sub to the vendors so we want that in place by February 1st um at about that same time we'll try to get out like kind of a communication push with our staff too one we want to make sure that they're excited about this that they know there's going to be support when it comes through um and kind of then what those expectations are so we'll work through all of that um but we do want our students and our staff and our families to be excited about it so uh right now we are hoping to have it all delivered and installed by June so that is the plan right now world is telling us that is doable and so that is what we are planning for um we are also continuing to go through U we this isn't going to hit every space like we haven't talked about um cafeteria spaces as our Park Terrace has their hallways where they have the pods um they've expressed some interest in maybe changing that out a little bit um as well as um some of the locker bays at the high school so there's other spaces where people have expressed interest in changing them so we wanted to get through this part first like this is kind of a really big push once this part's done we'll start to review some of those other spaces um and see what we can do in those as well so with that then that is what we have but if there are any other questions any other questions from the board thank you for the pictures you know how we're very detail oriented so it's so helpful to be able to see them so thank you for the examples yes Amy was very excited to see the pictures I hope there's pictures I want to know will we have an opportunity to test out the furniture at a work session not until year we do have we can go to Center viw they have a lot of it now it's not adult size for most of it but you could have a work S I think we did do a work school space we did do that at a work session yeah we did a work session there like at the we did want at Center view too we did the well I hope the teachers and students are excited because obviously the board is really excited about new furniture at the schools so this is great thank you very much our two bar WS are really excited won be here late you're welcome to come back and try it out it sounds exciting but it sounds like a big pile of work so thank you yes exactly all right it is it's a the Amy show all right this is a really best one back your numbers and budget sorry ready to go again I'm ready to go again monthly financial report for October 2024 Miss Amy SCH all right so Treasures report we're g to do this one quick um this is our monthly Cash basis report of receipts and dispersements beginning and ending cash value um balances so um a bigger month on our receipts a very average month on our disbursement so we won't go into that um on the reate side it's about $3 million in taxes that were received October and November are our bigger months where we get in it's kind of an advanced payment who's the way they describe it but on our taxes for that um just under $4 million in state aid so a pretty good month for State a as well U $2.6 million in federal that's a lot of our budget um October reflected when we closed out the last of our audit entries and we're able to draw down all of our federal um allocations from last year so the rest of those Co dollars we talked about earlier is also a big tunk of that as well so and they are done um so with our other in addition to those kind of top three amounts that we receive the rest of them are sort of those ongoing um program revenues on the statement of revenues this is our cash basis receipts um for the month year-to date our current budget which is the one adopted in June and then our year to date as a percentage of that bu budget and then compared to this point in October the past couple of years um general fund right in line Food Service were a little lower than we were the last two years that is because the past two years we were getting Supply supply chain assistance dollars um which was something also from the federal government where they were because of Co and the disruption to the supply chain we were getting additional dollars for that because food costs have G gone up so much um it had stretched out into this past year because year over year it wasn't being used so it kept carrying forward um now that it is gone but at that point we were getting these early in the year it wasn't a spend it and get reimbursement it was here's your money up front so we're a little behind because of that happening in the previous two years um Community Education is uh really right in line Debt Service you can see the refunding bond makes it look a lot lower this is the one we've talked to the board about prior uh the refunding bond when we budgeted for it we budgeted for it in July which was the closing date and when the money kind of changed hands um when we did the audit they wanted it book back to June which is when it was approved to be done so the closing time as opposed to the actual when the money changed hands so that's why when you um if you go through the detail in the audit you will see that we had a lot more revenue and expense in fiscal 24 so we will be this is part of the budget revisions where we will reduce that now because we've already recorded it in the previous year um statement expenditures part is set up in that same way um really general fund is running right in line with where it's been the last two years within different categories it might be up and down a little bit but in total we're running really right in line um differences between those categories could just be a matter of um somebody was purchasing more workbooks this year versus supplies this year so those happen as well as time capital projects um and then for food Serv that one is a little bit lower than last year last year we had equipment purchased at this over the summer um so we had some those walk- and coolers things like that so those in a convection oven so those were done this past year that's why that one was higher and then again The Debt Service Bond so that is what I have for the month of October if there are any questions any questions from the board I'm done thank you Amy you did fantastic this evening you want to do the superintendent report all right moving on to superintendent report Finance work that Amy and her team are doing so just some things to highlight joh on first you can see our Lighthouse students learning some survival skills at the Wargo Nature Center so for each of these uh I'll just leave them up for a minute so you get a chance to see them um also students in our reach program at Park Terrace recently participated in a poetry slam um using their communication devices and they were able to read their poems along allow to their peers in fourth grade pretty cool opportunity for those kids uh woodrest Spanish Immersion has high schoolers come each week it's part of the panther buddy program um where they get to work with young kids and I think you can see I don't know who has more fun the buddies at woodrest or the buddies from the high school okay this is North Point fourth graders created color theory Wheels in their art class I really appreciate Erica and her team helped put this together each of the meetings and being able to kind of give you a glimpse throughout the district and all the different things happening I really appreciate appreciate how they do that so this is our Park Terrace first graders planning crazy some floats for a parade walk through the Halls sh off their Creations so I think our staff member in the lower left might be the most proud of her work all right uh Westwood they created gratitude trees to remind them of what they are grateful for so each Leaf reflects a gratitude that they had so this is pretty cool to go and read some of it's too bad that's a poor kid but um all right seventh graders kind of dove into the exciting fast-paced world of the 1920s so let's see what they're doing here o um always doing something cool and this was our they shared their expertise over at Westwood so our Westwood students had the chance to learn with and from some of our o students from high school so that was pretty cool and then uh we had our Shark Tank was at the semifinals or I don't know what we call them last week and tomorrow is the finals so over at the high school so we had some of our uh industry Partners in serving as judges and kids pitching their products so again this is always amazes me every year watching these kids get up and and then dealing with some of the questions n partners are not real easy on there so trying to advance it there we go so our winter issue of our SLP experience is available online it'll be hitting homes early July um some amazing stories in there when I say July yeah it's GNA take a while Pony Express um but so yeah January thank you but um some amazing stories in there one of the features is uh right here from these kids you can learn more about Abbot um and where they tell you more about that so encourage people to check that out just some reminders in January 17th there's no school it's professional learning day 20th is a um holiday for kids so there's no school that day and then our kindergarten new family information night so I just met with uh Colleen and Erica there's a ton of things that have been happening since this actually since summer um getting information out to prospective families to let them know about all the great things happening in Spring Lake Park and um so they can come learn more about that and hopefully choose to be part of our community so that's it all right there's any questions happy to take them any questions Amy likes the pictures it's not just me right all right moving on to action items can I get a motion to for certification of final 2024 payable 2025 property tax levy so so moveed by henon second by Schmidt to adopt the final 2024 payable 2025 property tax levy and to certify the amounts to the inoka county department of property tax administration um general fund 14 m762 6818 Community Services $551,000 197 or 79 and general debt 11,979 7648 for a total of 2,725 37242 or45 cents and we already had a presentation on that any further discussion or any more discussion I should say all right all in favor please say I I those opposed motion passes and can I get a resolution for uh establishing combined polling places so we move by Skully was it second by forsberg to adopt the following resolution it's kind of a long resolution um I'll try and speed through it quickly uh be resolved by the school board of Spring Lake Park Independent School District number 16 state of Minnesota as follows pursuing to Minnesota statute section 205 a11 the precinct and polling places for school district elections are those precincts or part of precincts located within the boundaries of the school district which have been established by the cities or towns located in whole or in part within the school district the board hereby confirms these those precincts and polling places so established by those municipalities pursuant to Minnesota statute section 205a 11 the board May establish a combined polling place com comprised of several Municipal precincts for School elections not held on the day of the Statewide election the combined polling places are to be established annually prior to December 31st to serve the precincts specified for all School District special and general elections not held on the same day as a Statewide election each combined polling place must be a polling place that has been designated by a county or municipality those combined bowling polling places are listed below Precinct one encompasses all territories in Spring Lake Park uh ISD number 16 located in the cities of fley and Spring Lake Park Precinct 2 encompasses all territory in Spring Lake Park isd16 located in the city of blae pursuant to Minnesota statute section 205 a11 the following polling places are hereby designated for said combined precincts for all special and general elections not held on the same day as a Statewide election Precinct one Grace EV Grace Evangelical Free Church and Precinct two and that's in Fridley and Precinct two is the National Sports Center uh the Welcome Center in Blaine Minnesota pursuant to the Minnesota statute section 205 09 the polling places will remain open for voting for school district elections between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. the clerk shall also file a certified copy of this this resolution with SE said County Auditor all right any discussion I this sounds great to me I just want where it says the combined pulling places are to be established annually wasn't there a law pass that we only have to do this if there's a change which we do have a change so this is completely appropriate but is that righton that okay so each year we used to do this every year but I think now we only have to do it when we change a polling place okay I was just clarifying thank you um Grace Evangelical is now the polling place us to be woodrest yeah other questions to clarify though in general election years would crestal still have to be a site City forly us not have um enough other options that still will site on even years so all right thank you to Grace Evangelical Free for being a polling place any other discussion CLK would you please call roll yes yes yes yes yes yes yes thank you clerk Marland don't forget to turn your on thank you all right uh moving to acknowledgement of gifts can I get a motion so move so move by valella second second by McCullen to approve the following resolution whereas Schoolboard policy 706 establishes guidelines for the acceptance of gifts to the district district and whereas Minnesota statute 4653 states that a school board May accept a gift of real or personal property by the adoption of a resolution approved by two-thirds of its members therefore be it resolved that the school board of Spring Lake Park schools accepts with appreciation the gifts as shown and we have the gifts shown on the screen wow that's a that's a large from hi ve holy Hannah yeah thank you thank you to everyone I this is this is yeah this is great other discussion CL would you please call the RO Miss ging yes Miss forb yes Miss mclen yes Mr Val yes Miss schmi yes Miss hennon yes Mr Easter yes that resolution also is adopted on a 70 vote thank you right moving on to board Forum uh we'll start with our student repubs how are we this evening good I think I mean a little cold but other than that good yeah so everything at the high school's been going pretty good I mean we've come back we're almost at three weeks so it would seem like we haven't had that much going on but we had our blood drive the first week back we had 42 sign up which was our limit unfortunately we had a few who were turned away due to medical reasons or whatever it may be so we did only have 27 donate which was our goal so and each of those 27 saved three lives which is awesome um Boys Hockey partnered with Hope for Youth family and raised $700 to then go to Target and buy gifts for the family um if you want to see more about that you can find it on their Instagram page and see photos of these teenage boys going through Target with their Starbucks in their hand picking out toddler clothes and games and splitting up into groups and they then brought those gifts and personally donated them which is awesome NHS just had their tie blanket drive so they were all personally made by NHS members and oec has their supportive family event this month where they buy gifts wrap them and then donate them to families in the community um this is done by o students but also just students and any other volunteers in our community and finally we had the Winter Market uh last weekend which was amazing to see all these little kids come in to try to find gifts for their families sometimes they were looking for gifts for themselves which you were able to find out as a volunteer but we tried to push them more in the direction of finding one for their parents or grandparents but kids will be kids so it was what it was yeah so that's what what's been going on at the high school awesome yeah and some other clubs have also been really ramping up as winter gets going we had the math team have a meet yesterday on Monday and last week knowledge Bowl also had a meet and we host those and I'm actually a part of it and so it's really fun because we get like so many different people from other schools and like I have friends from other schools that I see and it's just really nice that we have the space to like do that that and we also have winter sports ramping up basketball games hockey games the dance team are having performances and um oh yeah Nordic skiers were gone today out skiing I guess where the one act is also starting up it's called girls on a boat and it's about like the first Olympic rowing team for women so I personally know nothing about that so I'm kind of excited to go see what it's all about um and then finally in student council last Friday we just met and started planning for winter spirit week and our dance and everything and we have our new members now and so we have a lot of new voices who are like who are trying to find new ways to engage people and get more parti IP ation in our pep Fest and power buff which is boys volleyball and I'm really hopeful that we're going to have a great participation for winter Spirit Week With all the new things we're doing that sounds fun once again wish I was back in high school all my all my teach yeah that's true it I have new furn all my teachers would probably say no awesome thank you for the updates we'll start on this side with board members any updates don't forget to turn your mic thanks the Nordic team was at Battle Creek today which is St Paul um 50 skiers uh out there which is really amazing um from a participation standpoint you know once again kudos to the activities office and how many ways they tap into students um and I think that is it I mean I don't mean to as I as I come into the winter break I can't think of my specific things anywhere like it's like it's like I know I've been busy I just can't remember what I've been doing it's terrible totally understand anyone else I have a few things um the Winter Market I went to it was amazing um the people that put it on and the volunteers all um it was very impressive and all the vendors and I did some shopping and it was Wonder wonderful um I wanted to make a comment on some of the superintendent stuff my daughter is a panther buddy at woodrest and she absolutely loves it and she said that um the little kids are coming out of their shells they were very shy at first but now they're excited to see their friends that their big friends that come to visit them and then my son was part of the um oec stuff at Westwood and he couldn't stop talking about it for week so I think he might be joining o eventually so that's great and then last night um there was a choir concert and I'm always amazed at the talent that all the choirs that uh the high school offers um and the crowd even got to participate so I know Colleen was there with she could do go back to her choir years I mouth liptin or whatever you want to call it and my daughter saw me she's in the front center and she said Mom you weren't even singing but it was really fun they put on a good show so I think that's it um I attended the woodrest PTO meeting way back on November 18th so I'm doing my best no they have always have a good turnout they talked about their Fall fundraiser which went really well a bunch of upcoming activities but it was metion there was a preview of it in the um earlier slide one of their new fun things is they were able to get snowshoes so all of the kids at would Crest sometime this winter will get to try snowshoes which they were encouraging parents to come in and help because you you guys imagine just getting them on and it's I'm so excited for them but it will be also a fun um opportunity to volunteer I think so that's itome we'll go to this side I attended a couple of basketball games two of the girls two of the boys and also a little uh third grade in-house game so quite variety of events um as far as skill level and all the things and so that was really enjoyable I always like going and watching and recognizing some of the kids and getting to know some of the students and seeing some of the kids that I see on the regular um at that too so the other thing I wanted to say is listening earlier to all of the about our fiscal responsibility I'm just really proud I'm very very proud and I'm really struck by that because I've spoken with other friends that are in other districts and things going on and the C and turmoil and different things there I'm just really thankful that um all the background stuff that happens that makes a huge difference in our schools so that our kids and our teachers aren't feeling that so thank you all involved marn I agree financially we don't want to be in the nose par exactly um unfortunately I did not attend the Westwood PTA it was my grandson's 21st birthday that same night as their meeting so uh family first um announcement wise Thursday and Friday January 16 and 17 is msba annual leadership conference at the auditorium 916 has a had a retirement they're trying to uh recognize longterm retirees at a board meeting they don't have a nice spring event like we do to recognize we approved the ler fish contract and we had a very interesting AI policy assistant demonstration um all of their policies have been put into you know I'm not very good talking technology put into into a system and you can ask the system any question and it will refer you to all the polies that are related to the question you have asked and they hope to make that available to districts as well so maybe pretty soon we can say I had a child misbehaved today can I suspend him and you will get an answer with the listing of the policies that would apply so a very good use and very interesting use of AI um and as you know I went to delegate assembly uh Minnesota school boards Association 28 resolutions which were very interesting most of them were passed some of the interesting discussions uh were around um school districts who need to eliminate their Native American names from their teams and as it stands now to retain one of those names you have to have the approval of every tribe in Minnesota and so one of the resolutions was to have just the tribes that has students in that District unfortunately that fied on a very very close vote but uh Rel resolution to ask the state for monies to pay for it because for smaller districts by the time you have to buy new uniforms and everything that's associated with it sometimes changes it to buildings it's quite expensive so that had a lot of discussion the other thing that had a lot of discussion was the last resolution which had to do with suspending K to students whether there should be some leeway on that because sometimes again smaller districts don't have a lot of options what to do with that student and they need some time to do it that did pass but it was a very very close mode so I have my information if anyone would like to look at it I would be happy to loan it to you for a period of time but you want it back right yes please well it sounds like it was a very interesting assembly very more resolutions than usual oh okay can't wait to can't can't wait to see what happens with all those um it is interesting in that uh there will be a vote at the leadership conference on amending the bylaws to change the number of delegates from each area and as you know we are in a very interesting area because we are the only ones that an area and a district are the same and it happens to be the six schools of an NOA County and the metro area is going to get an increase in delegat we are going up by 1 from 7 to 8 so there will be more openings next year so this is of interest to any of you be sure submit Some Ds we'll let you pick some someone from our [Laughter] board thanks Marilyn did you have any did you have anything else I think that's enough all right so uh before we move into close session um we will after the close session we will be taking action on the two items that we we will be discussing uh around employee negotiations uh one is for um the school clerical employees and the other is for uh principal employees so just so everyone's aware we will take action after the close section on those two items all right should we move into Clos session can I get a motion so move by Schmidt second by henon to enter in a close session to discuss employee negotiations at 8:28 all in favor please say I I I those opposed motion passes we are now in closed session