001try to get down. So, I think you're good to start. >> We put it later. Do you readriv That's definitely That's right. >> Okay. All right. Good evening everyone. Welcome to the board of education um meeting tonight. I'd like to call those meeting to order. Please stand with me for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you. >> Is there a motion to approve the agenda? >> So move. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor say I. >> I. >> Motion carries. Pro calls finds us present with the absence of Ally and then Sarah will be down shortly. I'm seeking a motion to approve
002the minutes. Excuse me. Approve the minutes of the regular board of education meeting of March 10th, 2026. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor say I. >> Motion carries. Next we have diplomas. Okay. I would like to is the recipient of the diploma present. >> Okay. Uh I would like to the committee recommends uh Julianis Diaz to receive her diploma high school. >> Second. >> Thank you. Any discussion? All in favor say I. >> I. >> Motion carries. >> Congratulations. Thank you. Congratulations. Um I thought I saw Mr. Formulo. >> I saw him. >> Well, send our Yeah, send our congrats, please. >> Thank you. Next, we have the student representatives. Uh we have North High School Asia Clifton and South South High School Emma Martinez. Did you ladies rock paper scissors for who's
003going first? >> All right. >> My name is Asia Clipton. I am from Brook High School. I'm the vice president of our student council and I just have um some few things that have happened over the last quarter and then this upcoming quarter. So, we had students at um HOSA and DECA who attended our state championship and then also qualified for nationals. Um on March 5th, we had our spring plays. We had three short plays, 10 ways to survive a zombie apocalypse. Um the story of the mother and the big picture. The three plays um are three different topics. So, the first one was how to survive a zombie apocalypse. The story of the mother is about a mother who faces the death of her daughter. And then the big picture is about crayons. Our
004Red Raider robotics team was the first team to advance to the Wisconsin state championship in April. We placed uh 25th. We're not qualif I don't think we qualified for worlds, but I'm pretty sure we are still going, but just in Texas. We had sold an ensemble for our music um classes in March, March 14th. Um everyone got a tour higher. Our strings choir went to state. Uh Mark Martinez, Jonah Bradshaw, Ian Lefave, and Sam Martin all went to state for their solos. And that's those were for band. I'm not sure for choir and orchestra because I personally got in those. Um, we had scholarship night which happened last week which was local scholarship. Almost $2 million were given to I think there's 300 of us there. Prom was at the bull which was April 10th.
005Um, it was really fun. A lot of people went and we were almost sold out of all of our tickets. I think last year we had our spring band concert which was this last Sunday, April 26th. A couple of our seniors got awards and it went very smooth. And then our spring jazz and orchestra concert are May 17th. We had a volunteer day which was April 20th. Over 200 students volunteered on our professional development day. There was 15 different partners who supplied us with on the volunteer work like youth sailing, United Way, Nourish Farms, uh, Peace Parks, Shbboan, JC's, uh, the Shboen County Food Band, the Stephanie Wild Center of Maywood, and Sharon Richardson Hospice, just to name a few. Uh, we also cleaned up the North High um, school grounds. Some exciting things that
006are coming up is expo which is this week's sun Saturday. Uh we have a talent show. We're selling food and then there's also different activities. Um the people who sell food are different clubs and organizations from north. Um to name one would be the black community organization which I'm a part of. So we sell um mainly soul food just to like get people in touch with that. I know the Chinese club and u the North High volleyball teams also sell egg rolls. Um the talent show also is isn't specific to like one certain group. Anyone can participate. There is singing, dancing, slam poetry, um drum line and then also bands performing. And then also um coming up we have our senior banquet, Raider Nation family vacation legacy corp and then also a bal laorate. Um
007senior banquet is just hosted for the seniors and then admin team and teachers to come and support um seniors uh get seniors together just as a last um thing before graduation kind of same with the back la but that's held in our auditorium. It's kind of like um a mock graduation I would say. uh people come up, give speeches, there's a senior slideshow, um Northern Lights performs, and then we have also SPE scholarship night, which is May 6th. We have our awards night, which is May 20, May 20th. Um and then our business challenge at QED. Six students are going to state and then senior signing date is on May 28th. I have one more point to talk about because I was given this by uh my adviser of BCO which is the black community
008organization. I um lead it with my friend Kendra. Um, in the hallways there have been students who are passing around the n-word. And I don't think it is appropriate to say whether you're white or black or even if you are black in a school um environment, but many of these students are not black and it is extremely disrespectful and we're trying to learn how to deal with it. Um, but that's all I have for you. >> Thank you, Asa. Are there any questions or feedback from Miss Asia? I just would like to say I really appreciate the fact that it's being confronted and any role that you and the other young people have in it is admirable and I assume the adults are standing. >> Anyone else? All right. Thank you, ma'am. Um, Miss Emma.
009>> Hello again. Okay. My name is Emma. Um, March was a pretty uneventful month for us, but April was very, very busy. So, I'll start with March. Um, juniors did take their ACT. We did have a staff sponsored breakfast, so all the staff got up very, very, very early and cooked everybody breakfast. Um, I heard it was good. Um, then and then spring break happened. That was pretty much kind of like what happened there. Um, we also did have our district ensemble. Um, our orchestra group, mine, the one that I was in, we were one point away from going to state. Um, but our jazz groups went, our band and our choir went. And we did have a bunch of soloists that went to state as well, which was this past weekend. Um, we had
010the pre-ac on the 10th. Uh, the juniors had the per personal finance day. So, we had over 60 volunteers from the community come in um and work each little station. Um, Miss Sarah was there. Um and then so like others from like the Cooler Credit Union, from Chuenary Credit Union. There's just a lot of people in community there. Um we did have our Luxembourg exchange that also happened over spring break. So 11 of our students went over there. Um and then nine students came here for the week of the 13th. Um their favorite food that they said here was cheese balls. Very interesting. Each of them carried around a big jar of cheese balls everywhere they went. I thought that was funny. Um the nicest kids I've ever met. Um they were so great. So
011they came here, they did a Shboan tour, they did a brewer game. Um and then they did the Luxembourg Museum in Cedar Grove amongst uh many other things. And then that program was all sponsored by the forgive me if I but this the career family foundation. Um then we had spring swing at three sheeps. It was a great evening with our jazz one and jazz 2 groups playing as well as an alumni group. Um then this past this past weekend was very very eventful. Um, starting off Saturday morning, we had states solo and ensemble at W Milwaukee. Um, I heard it went very, very well. Um, the students from my orchestra group that went as soloist um, did get a one or better. Um, and then we had feats and follys. Um, if you're unfamiliar
012with what that is, it's basically um, our version of expo. Um so throughout the day we have different clubs and um organizations sell food, do games, we have synchronized swimming, teacher, staff, student waiting, hello staff, student basketball game, all that good stuff. And then at the end we end with our talent show. Um our theme with this year was Red Wings Lost in Time. So in between um each of the talents and acts we basically did like an evolution of cavemen. So it went like caveman all the way up till our final skit which was us graduating. Very very emotional. I did I definitely did shed some tears. Um I was an MC for that. So it took a lot a lot of work to you know put it all together but it ended up
013turning out really great. We ended up having a soldout show. Um and made over $1,500 in profit. Um so that was that. Now I can finally relax since that's over. Um, in our auditorium, our organ is actually one of the oldest organs in the state and it is having a birthday party. Um, so people coming from around the state are going to play on that organ and we're having a recital um, this coming Friday. Um, at 6 o'clock is kind of an open tour and then 7 o'clock is the recital. Um, all of our spring sports are in session. So, girls soccer, softball, baseball, boys tennis, boys golf, and track. um their indoor season did just conclude with having um one of their relays, one fifth in the indoor state um at Whitewater for their
0144x 4x4 relay. Um and then today we actually had a county government day field trip for some South High students. So that gave us the opportunity to go to the courthouse, the detention center, and do a mock trial. Um all good stuff, learning about, you know, how the local government works. Um, we also got to visit the administration administration building and, you know, just learn a lot about what goes on behind the scenes and what is really put into the government system. Um, looking into the future, we do have a couple music events coming up. So May 4th, we have a band concert. May 11th is choir. May 18th is our orchestra concert. And then the last week of May is basically all things senior. So we have our senior senior signing day, our walkthrough,
015our cookout, and all that good stuff. And then I would say pretty much that's it for South and then we'll talk about me. Okay, so over spring break um I was able to have my admitted students at admitted students weekend in Lyola and it was super super great. Met my roommate. She's amazing. And then um I graduate in a couple days actually May 15th with my associates from W Greenate. Okay, that's it. >> Oh, I said that's it. >> Oh, well, congratulations. >> Thank you. >> Um, what are you going to go study? >> Political science. >> Good. Are there any questions for Miss or comments? >> Comments about financial literacy? I know Jake was there also who volunteered. I just wanted to commend the students. I have probably done it, oh gosh, five or
016six years. And every year I can see that financial literacy is working in our students because they are choosing to be more financially sound. They are learning, they know how to write out checks, the full amount of checks. Um, and in the beginning when I first started, they didn't really even know what checks were. Um, so I definitely have seen the progress over the years. So that financial literacy course is definitely influencing our students. So that's huge impact for our kids. >> I found it very beneficial. >> I also have to say that I attended the daytime portion of peace and polls and took our youngest grandchild and she absolutely loved it. She was fascinated with the two people who were at the at the head portion of the Chinese Dragon. >> Oh yeah. And
017the young men who were part and I'm assuming there might have been some young women. They just weren't there when we were there. But were part of the robotics group were I mean they were impressive. >> They could explain things. They talked about why they did it. >> Um I explained who I was. I told them that our middle daughter who graduated from South became an engineer in part because of those sorts of things. And they were so gracious. They they played catch with my granddaughter because the uh game or the task this season involves shooting balls into something and that little ro she wanted to take the robot but I told her it was very expensive but it oh and the food I'm telling you board members if you want to go just for
018the food to die for. I have to say my personal vote Club Carter won. That mac and cheese so good. Was that brisket in there? >> Yes, it was. Well, >> full pork and then they have like I highly encourage you go to next year's event and the one at North as well. It really is a lot of fun. It is. >> It's a lot of fun and you see kids doing things that they're good at. >> And that's really a joy. Our neighbor boy went and he said, >> I saw people sing that I had in class and I had no idea they were that good. >> You know, so they see another side of their peers. It's it's just really a wonderful event. >> I also attended pizza follies. Um my husband has
019never had gone, you know, attended and he was floored by the amount of talent and dedication and I also want to shout out to the teachers who volunteered because they really put a lot of time and effort and I know I left at 10:00 and I can't imagine what time they left after all was cleaning. So, thank you to those teachers that stepped up and really guided our students. >> Thank you, Wales. >> All right. Well, thank you, ladies. >> Thank you. >> All right. Next, we have community input. Is there anyone here for community input? All right. Oh, do we have to move that stand up? Do you think you can talk loud enough without it? >> They're good. >> All right. If there's anyone here for community input, please come up here and
020start um with your name on the clipboard and your address and I will read the guidelines. All right. Welcome to this meeting of the Shoenerian School District Board of Education. We are pleased that you are interested in educational issues. We are interested in your comments and concerns about the school district. Um there will be a part of this meeting for community input. Um, individuals who live or work within the Shuener School District may be excuse me may address the board. Others may address the board at the discretion of the board president. In order for the meeting to flow smoothly, we would appreciate that the that the following guidelines be followed by anyone wishing to address the board of education this evening. One, please limit comments or suggestions to three minutes or less because we do
021have a full agenda to follow. Two, comments and suggestions from the school district are welcome. personal criticism of members of the board of educations or employees of the district is out of order. And three, if you are a resident within the Sherebo school district or work within Shuan community and would like to be recognized, please raise your hand, which we've already done. And after being recognized, please stand and clearly state and spell your name and address for the record. Also, for the record, please sign and sign your name and address to the clipboard after you have spoken. The board only receives um citizens input and does not respond or debate. If there is a need for an answer or response to a concerned issue, the superintendent or one of the administrative staff members will be
022back. We'll get back to you within the next week. Thank you. >> And feel free to say great things about your former principal if you'd like. >> Okay. Um so I'm with um my name's Courtney Oliver. Um I'm with Habitat for Humanity. Well, first I need you to state your full name and your address, please. >> So, Courtney Alawarees and 713 Superior Avenue, Wisconsin 53081. Um, I'm with Habitat for Humanity. Um, >> could you just speak up a little? >> I'm with Habitat for Humanity. Um, my husband and I applied about a little over a year ago. Um, and we got approved May of last year to be home buyers with our three kids. They go to Grant Elementary and Head Start. Um they're 10, eight, and four. So um and just tell you a
023little bit about the program. Um so we have to have 200 hours each of volunteer work that either can be done at the Restore or um on the houses that we are building and working with. Um and just we're just I don't really know what to say. Sorry. Um, just about the program is like we're just beyond thankful and I think it's a great opportunity for families to apply and just that they try to help as many as they can and our kids are excited to be in their new home and their own space and be able to thrive and be in their own house for not have to worry about moving or things like that. So I think it's a great opportunity for other families and it's something that is good for the fighting
024family. >> I think that's >> I didn't have anything written out. So >> thank you. >> But we we don't respond. Sorry. >> Thank you. >> It's good to see you again. Yeah, you do. >> State your full name and address. >> Yes, my name is Ann Smith and I am representing the Shagan Symphony Orchestra as a board member and the chair of the education committee. Our offices are at 9:30 North 6th Street in Shuen. Um, and I would like to express my gratitude for the generous support provided by the Shuen Area School District um, and uh, your staff members um, for our re recent fourth grade children's concert on March 10th. So that concert was attended by over 1,400 students across uh the county and there were several Shabboan area school district staff members
025in particular who were really involved in helping coordinate with the logistics and making it a successful event and I wanted to make sure and publicly recognize them. Lynn Hop from the administrative administrative offices uh helped with all of the coordination with not just Shabboan students but with all of the students in the county. Um, so a big thanks to her. Lori Gleam, Ann Burcham, and Jeff Jeff Prrenis are all elementary music teachers, and they are all fabulous elementary music teachers, you should know. Um, and they all played key roles in helping coordinate the event. And in addition, Jeff actually um spoke on stage and and what we call modeled the students playing the recorders and singing the songs along with um the pieces. So, as well, um, many instrumental music educators, um, from your district
026performed on stage and and I just like to again, um, thank thank you for supporting the program. Uh, thank all of the all of your educators. Um, quite simply, the Shuin Symphony Orchestra could not put on this event without the significant support of your educators and your staff. Um, and we really appreciate your continued support in providing quality music education to students in our community. So, thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> All right. Is there any other community input? All right. We'll move on to the next item, the superintendent report. Dr. Com. >> Yeah. So, I'm going to um kind of continue to state all the wonderful things that we've heard today. So, my uh theme for tonight was really gratitude and that was gratitude as we've heard from so many other people
027today uh just for our staff and what they do for our kids this time of the year. There are so many things going on um and it only happens with their their extra time and planning. So, um, first off, we had a great principal team. Uh, Rachel led the the hiring process at Horus Man Middle School. That staff is putting in extra time, obviously, uh, out of the classroom while they're interviewing at night when we're uh, meeting to discuss. We think we have a great applicant for that position. Uh, and just excited and thankful for that team coming together. Horseman Middle School play. Um, my three kids had the time of their life at uh, Wizard of Oz or Oz. 130 students in that play uh, from Horseman. How do you get I can't imagine.
028I get nervous coaching five kids in basketball. I I can't imagine. Um, and that staff, the amount of time and work and effort that they put in to make that a reality for kids, um, is just great. So, really appreciative of that. South High School personal finance we talked about early. Those kids were amazing. Um I didn't see a cell phone out the entire time. They're just there on their time. Uh fully engaged, completely respectful. Uh very appreciative to the adults that are in the room. The staff walks around and thanks all the adults uh and volunteers for being in the room. Just a great great event by South High School. Again, takes a lot of time uh on the behalf of those teachers to plan that. They don't need to do that. they just
029do it because it's good for kids. So, um really appreciated that TDI presentations. Rachel threw a heck of a party. Um and uh the teachers presented on all of their uh research action research for the year. It was a great night, great attendance, great ideas from our staff. Um and I think shows the level of expertise and knowledge that we have in this district. Our teachers are amazing and they proved it that night as well. So, many thanks to Rachel for putting on that event. That's extra stress on her and on on that staff as well at the end of the year, but uh it was a great event. Scholarship nights, uh, as you heard, we're going to give away we're going to give away the community is going to give away over $4 million
030in scholarships to our students again this year. That is, uh, amazing. When I talk with my colleagues around the state, that's something special. um that doesn't happen at likes- districts. We don't take that for granted. So, um really appreciate those nights. Other things, spirit awards coming up. Uh North High's going to have some some winners at that one. Um and just our nonprofits in general, you got to thank U. Denise, Big Brothers, Big Sisters, Lakeshore Health, which is now Noble Health, drove by Jackson today and they had uh their vaccine clinic there, SPEF scholarship night, Boys and Girls Club continuing with our 21st century grant and after school care, um United Way mental health support that we get from them. so many of the people that I've met with and interacted in the last month
031uh just providing great support and uh great supplemental um education to our students and then you heard expo feats and follys um prom balorate presidential awards all the way to graduation there's there's something every single night usually there's two things every single night that I should be at and um they're all wonderful like you never walk out of there feeling like, "Oh, I had to go to that." It's such a great thing for our kids and it's because our staff puts so much time into those things. Um, so just want to make sure they know how how much we appreciate them. Teacher appreciation week is coming up. Uh, we're so lucky to have them. Our kids are so lucky to have them and you heard that from from a lot of people tonight. So, uh,
032we know that and we appreciate the board supporting them as well. I've never had a board uh that appreciates teachers as much as this board does. So, that doesn't go unnoticed either. >> Thank you, sir. >> Thank you, Dr. Conrad. Yes. >> Um I was just I was a little concerned about what Asia was talking about and um now is not the time to get into it, but I I'm thinking maybe we should talk about that some more. >> We will certainly be checking into that. That's the first I've heard, but Okay. Thank you. >> All right. Next, we have the presentation of the 2026 2027 proposed preliminary budget. >> Mark. All right. So, um, as we've done the past several years, we've come to the board in April with a draft of a preliminary
033budget. Um, usually the second year in the state bianial budgets a little easier because we know what our revenue is going to be. So, we know that there's going to be a $325 increase to the per pupil amount for next year's revenue. Uh but we are experiencing again some deficiencies in our special ed reimbursement. Uh that's going to affect this year's uh budget. We're running at about 38%. We had budgeted uh 40. So the state in their budget estimated 42%. We know we always fall below the estimate. So we budgeted 40. Right now they're projecting 38. So just what that means is a a 1% variance is about a $220,000 difference. So we're dealing with in this current fiscal year a possible $440,000 shortfall in what we had budgeted for special uh ed reimbursement. So
034next year obviously uh it did not look like we're going to get 45% as was in the the budget. So, we have uh 40% uh in this budget for next year, but as as you may have heard over the last month or so, there's been um discussions on what to do with the state surplus that they have in their budget. And one of the main talking points that we've heard is that they want to put money into the special ed reimbursement for this year so that districts don't fall short. uh they want to get it up to the 42% that was in the state budget and then 45% for next year. There has there's a lot of talk. We haven't seen any there hasn't been any agreement or anything that's come out that's says they
035they have agreement between um the two parties. um discussions have gone on for a while and they when you talk to them they seem optimistic something's going to happen but until it happens we don't know. So uh when we look at our budget projection for next year we're sticking with the 40% right now. Uh but you'll see that we have a $700,000 uh dollar deficit in the budget. So, we did want to go uh bring a balanced budget that would would include a lot of uh reductions in it uh before we hear what we're getting with the state surplus. So, if they go back to 42% again, that's about a $400,000 um difference for this year, but for next year's budget, you know, it's about a million dollars more. So, that it will take care
036of of the deficit that we have right now. So, we're going to wait and when we come back in May, we should have an answer to what they're doing with that surplus and then we'll up update the budget. But tonight, I just wanted to go through uh the expense reductions and expense additions that we currently have in that budget and just answer any questions or the rest of EMT here is to answer is able to answer those questions. So, as as we uh take this year's budget and cast it forward to next year, when we do that cast forward, we do not add anything to um salaries at that point. And when we do that, we show that we'd have a surplus of $13,555. And that's kind of our starting point. And then we go
037through and uh we put in a CPI uh increase for salaries. And you can see those first three uh items in the budget. Uh I'm sorry, I'll do expense reductions first. So the first expense reduction there is staff turnover. So every year we have a number of retirees in the district and we are able to um get a reduction from that because as new teachers are hired they come in at a lower uh pace pay than the teachers that retire. Retirees typically uh we budget for 25. We've been having plus 30 uh in recent years. You can see this year is only 15. So um that's good. We're glad that our teachers are happy here in Stain. Uh but it does impact the budget. So that's about half of a reduction that we had originally
038uh thought we would be getting, but that staff turnover is a $387,000 uh savings to the district. And then we have a number of uh enrollment driven teacher reductions. So, uh, Rachel and Jamie and Jake and I meet, we we do enrollment projections in for each class and each school, and we apply our staffing formulas to that to see if there's uh specific uh positions that can be reduced through retirement um because of enrollment. So, we've had slight declining enrollment over the last several years. So, we always have had some reductions there. And you can see we have um eight reductions here based on uh enrollment and that's a $560,000 uh savings to the district. Uh number three there uh so through another uh leave in the district um at at uh one of our
039schools we are combining the Jefferson and Cleveland principal position into one position. So, in the past, you'll might remember that Cleveland has split principles in the past. Um, and to support that, um, we do have a lead, her position is a social worker that we are paying a stipen to kind of be the the lead person there. So, um, when that principal is at Jefferson, we still have someone at Cleveland to cover if if a situation uh would arise. So that is a $78,000 savings for the district. I'm sorry, 138,000 uh for that. Number three, uh number four is elimination of a HR position, the employee engagement position. And uh so the employee in that position has accepted a position with the Shabboan theater company as their executive director. So they're excited about that. Scott
040maybe I think that was I saw that on some of the social media posts in the district lately and people are excited about that and so though his duties with HR are being covered u from various other employees here at ASB. So we're confident we can fill that position in with with some of the employees we have here already. That's a $78,000 savings. Uh we've also number five reduced uh 75 um accounts payable position in the business office and a 0.25 secretary uh position in the HR office. So um we had accounts payable secretary leave the district. Um a secretary in HR is going to uh take 0.25 of her day uh fill in an accounts payable and then it's it's actually 75 in and HR. So, we've done a lot with the accounts payable
041and with uh automating a lot of the payments a things like that and that position just is able to be much more efficient now and we we are confident that we're able to do it with the with the time reduction. Um and then number six is a reduction of a secretary in the uh student and instructional services department. Again, this started with a retirement in the building and we've just moved some people around and uh gave some extra duties to some some people within the building. And again, we're we're confident that we're going to be able to move forward with with that and not have any, you know, problems with with those duties. So, that's a um $66,000 reduction for the district. Um number seven, in the past when we've done a cost to go
042forward, we have not added an inflationary increase to school or department budgets and we haven't done that because we used to do that and they well it was always the first thing to take out, right? So it's kind of like we just won't do that, right? But I think this is better that we add that inflationary increase and people see that by not giving that it's an actual budget reduction for us. So when departments don't get an inflationary increase, they are actually cutting out of their budget every year. And we've done this at least for the 13 years I've been here. They have to reduce, reduce, reduce, find efficiencies just to do what they're doing now. So I think it's important that the public understands that um when you don't give an inflationary increase, that's
043a big budget cut for departments and schools. So, you can see by not giving that increase of what we had in there at 2.61% um not giving that into the budget is a $248,000 savings to the district. Number eight is uh the summer swim program which was under our summer school uh is now going to fall under the community community recreation fund and um it's going to save some money in fund 10 by moving it to the rec department. So there's certain requirements when it's part of summer school to count those kids. uh one is that you can't charge for it and then the second you have to have a certified teacher oversee uh the program and that's what the 15,000 was fun 10 uh paid for that teacher cert someone to cover the program
044just for the regular swim lessons we don't need a teacher in there we have certified lifeguards and we have uh Jerry Rush who oversees the the swim uh program um so the the cost of the swim didn't make up for the minutes we got from it in summer school. It'll be more efficient from a budget standpoint uh to do it this way. There will be a nominal fee for swim lessons, but as with other WCK programs if uh families are in need of a break on that, they were able to do that for them. We also think it'll help with attendance. When we found when it was just sign up for free, we were only getting a percentage of those kids show up. and then you're overstaffed with lifeguards and things like that. So, we
045think this will be more efficient and it'll be a savings of $15,000. Um, we're eliminating uh what's called the innovation grant, which was uh actually just a district grant. And um I'm not probably the best to understand what that grant paid for, but it it uh schools and teachers could apply for that for different things they wanted to do in the classroom. And we just felt when we looked at all these trying to balance the budget was one thing we could probably uh you know eliminate for next year. We'll see where we're at the following year. Maybe it's something we can uh bring back to the district. And then uh the last one uh all right Jake laughs at me because it's a $1,000 savings but we did find a $1,000 budget for the warehouse
046that we're not using. So, we're going to reduce that. And uh >> I asked them to find 700. >> I found a thousand >> more of those. Um I will say this uh obviously Mark does such a great job uh working through this and explaining it. The the piece that I want to highlight is that enrollment driven 8 FTEES. So we are within the same structure that we always use for um determining staff at each building, right? So we're taking the total number of students. We're dividing by the uh whatever we do at each level, right? It's a different number denominator that we use at the high school, middle school, elementary school, but that's what uh we're working off of. We've done that since as long as I've been in the district. So that part
047is not changing. Um and I just want to be very clear on that. Um and then that leaves, you know, the non teacher group essentially from areas that we can look for savings. So that's what we're trying to do here. I think we've done a pretty good job on that. Uh the this wasn't the year to not have people retire. Uh we love our senior staff and we know it pays dividends in the classroom to keep them around. So it's hard to be upset about it, but um you can see that would have been and any other year now they're $400,000 saved. Um and you know I had asked Mark to put that inflationary increase in this year knowing that the $248,000 was going to get cut immediately and meet and confer, but we need
048to be talking about it. It's it's nuts. Like that's That's just very simple things that our schools need as far as printing budgets for the copy machine, uh doing all the great things that we just talked about doing for kids. It's getting really hard to do that stuff um when budgets are coming in where they're they're coming in. So, we're we remain as creative as we can get with this. The numbers are are clear as can be for our district. You can look all this up as far as what percentage of money goes to the classroom in different districts. We're extremely competitive and extremely efficient and how we do that. Southern or um Wisconsin policy forum dashboard will show that. Um so that's all there. I give Mark a lot of credit. Uh the meet
049and confer process, Jamie a lot of credit for working through this. It's not fun. It's not easy. Um it's where we are. and then he can talk about um expense additions, but obviously with a $74,000 deficit, the question is where are we going to cut from if we need to? We are very hopeful we don't need to. Uh Kitchens, Burl, Lemahu have all said to us a deal is going to get done. We're very confident in it. Uh unfortunately, Kitchens and Brill said that was going to happen last week. Um, I think Devin remains very hopeful, but he said a deadline by >> He said May 18th. >> Nothing done by May 18th. It's probably done. >> So, we'll see what what happens there. But, um, that funding is extremely important now. So, we continue
050to push our both Democrats and Republicans on that. It's I'm not sure who's holding it up right now. I've heard conflicting stories on that and I think politics are getting in the way of of making good decisions for kids right now on both sides. So, we have some advocacy yet to do on that. We're hopeful. And then, you know, there are things on here where we can we can we can create some savings to address that $74,000 deficit, but there's going to be tax implications for our community when we do that. And we're not talking an operational referendum like Appleton needed to stay afloat. The Oshkosh news just got worse. Their deficit I think is up to $10 million now. Uh so you look at districts similar to our size. Um we're doing really well
051and Mark gets a lot of credit for that. Um but it's not it's not okay. Uh it's not not that kids aren't taking the brunt of it in one fashion or another. um and they're not getting supported like they should. So, we're going to keep advocating. We're going to keep doing everything that we can. We're trying not to close that $700,000 deficit right now because we don't know the implications just yet. Uh we don't have to do that. We don't want to have those plans out there. If we need to do it, we will be back here having those conversations with you. They're difficult conversations to have, but um you'll certainly be included with those. So, it's kind of my two cents on it. Um and then Mark can explain the additions uh that we
052need to do to take care of our people as well. >> Yeah. So uh so what we have in this budget is the uh CPI inflationary increase of 2.63%. So for the teacher group that's made up of uh we first calculate the step increases. Everybody moving up a step is a 2.02% increase. And then we increase every cell to get up to the 2.63. So this this would be a $414 uh cell increase. So people get their cell get a cell increase. Obviously if you're at the the top step um there's just the cell increase. So um and then we've just applied the same increase for support and staff there. So you can see uh teacher group is 1.4 million support staff 412,000 and 27. So that's a bulk of where the uh additional expense
053comes from >> and that's a a projection that work through with me. >> Right. Yep. Um and then when we do that uh enrollment analysis and teacher ratio, there always are a few spots where we actually have to add FTE just the way the numbers work. So we do have uh two additional u teacher additions in the district that are enrollment driven just to keep our classroom sizes uh within where we want them. So, we have those at a cost of $140,000 uh dollars. Uh we have an additional uh FTE, special education position, and I think that's explained uh in the executive summary, but that's based on uh I believe kids. >> Yes, Rachel, it is. >> So, with the enrollment there, a new position was needed. Um so, you can see addition of 54,000.
054So, um, we take what we feel that position will cost and we subtract the special ed reimbursement. That's why it's a little lower because we're what that will be, we don't know, but we're planning on 40% for next year. So, um, and then we have two items that, uh, were paid years ago through co funds that we received. their uh license and subscriptions um and those have run out. So, one is the annual license that uh renewal that we need for all our security cameras. Um so, we wanted to get that into the budget at a cost of $20,723. And then, uh Google Workspace uh for education uh annual subscription. Uh this used to be uh free from Google um and then it wasn't and we used COVID funds to pay for that and uh
055that is now uh due and that's used by both our students and our staff. So we have an additional 43,124 which will be an annual expense for that. And then the last item on there is an increase in our fund 41. Um, so we really try every year to add to that because uh inflation on just roofs alone is just eating up uh that budget quite a bit. So we always want to make sure we'd like to put more in, but we always kind of got to put something in or or we're not able to keep up on the capital needs of our building. So we have 50,000 in there in this first draft. So bottom line, you can see that gets us to a deficit of $74,000. So um my thought is we'll have
056a lot of change in this budget when we come back in May. Hopefully a positive change. That would be what we'd hope for. But we'll come back and um report back and then we'll uh we'll bring this for action uh end of June for action and then of course from end of June. That lets us start the new fiscal year July 1st, but we're still making adjustments until that final budget which is at the October board meeting when it meet. So, um, so I know I went through that really fast, but any questions or comments or concerns, uh, we'd be glad to answer those. >> Hi, I know when we talked about the consolidation of Jefferson and Cleveland under one principal, it indicates that there's an on-site social worker at Cleveland. Do we have a
057plan or what is the plan for Jefferson? >> Yeah. Yeah. So, Ted Dphano will be full-time at Jefferson. Um, and Cleveland will be uh Cassie Leipek, who is social worker and will have Does she have it already or will she have her principal license? >> She will have her administrative license. >> So, she'll be able to be out there full-time. She does a a case load um kind of through the community so she can have her headquarters out of Cleveland so that we have people on site. to support and can spend the vast vast vast majority of time at Jefferson. >> And then the other question, I just wanted to make a comment on the and I appreciate your comments about reducing the no inflationary increase for departments and schools then. I mean, I I
058know we're in a mess and I know we have to get out of it and I know there's always pain, but I just want to give the teachers credit. We're going to step up and out of their own pockets for this. I wrapped packages of construction paper put underneath our Christmas tree for my kid who teaches elementary. And as a former teacher, that's a really sad thing to do. Maybe sad. Um, you know, I mean, either those things don't happen or people fund it on their own somehow. And I think we need teachers. Applause for that and my apology and the apology of probably everybody that you're in that situation. >> Yeah. You know, I think every every now and then you'll start to hear people start to say, you know, maybe we should stop
059doing that and our teachers never have the heart to they just keep showing up. But we just keep asking more of them as a community without giving them the respect and the pay that they deserve. uh and at some point they're going to stop showing up and this community is going to be hurt as a result of it. And that's been the message that we're saying to our politicians right now. Like you're taking them for granted uh for far too long and it's time to show some respect and it's time to to step up to the plate here. They have the opportunity to do that. They have a surplus sitting right in front of them. they can come to an agreement on tax relief and on support for public schools. Uh they need to get
060it done now. So we appreciate your continued advocacy with them as well because uh they need to get a job done in the next next two weeks here. >> Mark, just want to commend you on all your hard work um over the years um your consistency, your transparency. Um, not all school districts have to be as transparent as you do with every, you know, penny that we have from our taxpayers. So, thank you for your dedication, your team, everyone else, administrators. Um, you take care of the district and we appreciate it and it's going to be a tough year next year, but um, you're setting us up for success in essence. So, >> thank you. Anyone else? All right. Thank you, Mark. Thank you. >> Stay up here. >> Yeah, I was about to say
061we have the administration >> um referendum and timeline update. >> Yeah. So, good news coming from the referendum. The first thing we can talk about is just the timeline here. Um and I'll just take it in the order that it's in your packet. So, the first one you have is for Farnsworth. um looking to start right away this summer. As soon as kids get out um working on the addition and Farnsworth is pretty straightforward for the most part, right? We're building an addition. We'll move the kids into it and then we'll uh remove the building that uh the existing building, keep a few things uh like the gym and and the areas that we're renovating, but you're going to have a pretty clean break as far as the new building's ready. Let's move them all
062in. Um, and these timelines are certainly going to change, but it gives a general idea of where we hope to be. We're hoping that maybe we can change over um Christmas break at Farnsworth. We'll see how that all all plays out. Um, but you can see the timeline there for Farnsworth. That one um we feel good about, right? That's an easier build than than urban where we're doing so much renovation on site. So, um the urban timeline, um you can see what they're trying to do and I'm really appreciative of it. Um first of all, this isn't going to be fun for staff and we know that from the start and we knew that when we said we were going to do urban on its current site, Farnsworth on their current site. So, um it's
063never fun for staff. They're going to have to move classrooms. They're going to have to deal with a a disjointed building uh for some time. Uh we hear from colleagues in other districts that have gone through this that the kids absolutely love it. They're fascinated by it and it doesn't throw them off at all. So we we feel good about that. We know our staff are professionals. Uh and we will give our teachers as much uh grace and time as we can. So we've talked, you know, with Rachel and S and I about when we have professional development days, you know, if they're having to move classrooms and things of that nature, we should be giving them some time back. um and making sure that that we're keeping things positive for them to the best
064of our abilities. Um so that gets built in as well. But you can see um we're going to start already in May um with demolition at Urban. The auditorium won't get touched until I think June. They're going to do some uh graduation, eighth grade graduation stuff in there um and things of that nature, but they're going to start moving some of those classrooms that are in that area of the building. So, they're set to go right away with that. Um, the intent of all these timelines is to to condense the amount of time construction's going on, but also to make sure that they have enough time to do uh phases of this work that can be disruptive to learning when kids aren't in session. So, that's why we're getting that jump as early as we
065can at Urban. We're going to have one last night. Um Nicole is working on scheduling that one last walkthrough at Urban so community members that want to see it one more time before it gets touched uh can do so. So we'll be getting that on social media and through press releases soon. Uh we offer Shuagan Historical Society or museum the opportunity to walk through and uh look if there's anything that they want things of that nature. So we're in that phase of working with the community on that. Um and then we start our work there. You can see how long the addition takes at um urban and then urban won't be as clean as far as with as far as like saying the new buildings open, everyone move at once, we'll start moving teachers back
066into their new classrooms um as they become available and as wings uh of that construction phase complete. So um there won't be just a switch that gets flipped there. Um but we're excited for that. The um bids came in and that's that's the nervous part of my job. So, uh came in over um and we're still working on those numbers, but uh they came initially they came in well over and had me concerned. Uh we worked with contractors and uh had some other bits. So, that number is around 2 million right now, I would guess. Uh we got 1.2 2 million back um last week and some conversations and some work. So, we're feeling much better about urban than we initially were. We heard from contractors that they were nervous about urban and having to
067rebuild in such an old building, what they're going to find behind the walls, etc. That was um that was known. Interestingly enough, it really two things. One, the cost of steel. uh data centers are taking up a lot of steel. Um so that's been a problem I think and electrical code switched. Um so just the cost of some electrical work to get it to new code. Um had those two costs higher that was like 1.6 million between those two. Um so that that you can't do anything about. It wasn't the labor related to the steel, it was the cost of steel. um tariffs, data centers, all that sucking up a lot of steel right now. Um we are starting to see data centers and if you talk with contractors and subcontractors in the area, you're
068starting to hear of them uh losing employees to the data center. It's a five to sevenyear build is my understanding. And uh the talk right now is that if employees are within that time frame of retirement, they're jumping ship. um and uh getting paid quite a bit more uh for the data center construction jobs. So, good for the employees that are able to do that, but not always so good for the bidding process. So, that's where we were at urban left me pretty nervous about Farnsworth. Um so, we worked on obviously on the urban numbers, got them down to more reasonable area and fortunately Farnsworth made up for that. Um, so I think there were u contractors that bid on Urban and didn't get it that became much more aggressive with Farnsworth and I think
069contractors felt much more comfortable bidding on Farnsworth knowing that they were able to project their costs more accurately. Um, so we feel really good about where we are right now. Um, with the two combined, um, and feel good about the subcontractors, feel good about the the pace that we're on, feel good about our budget in general. We're going to do a little bit of value, what they call value added engineering. Um, so Bray does that for us. They sit down, they look at um you know, you may you may bid out uh one of the big examples is Cat 6 uh Ethernet internet wire, right? That you get run through all our buildings for internet. Uh we bid it out at six cat 6 plus I guess. I don't I don't know what this means,
070right? We ask Wayne and and get his his opinion. U but if we go to Cat 6, it saves us $330,000 or something like that. So, they look at every single thing. They'll talk with the subcontractors. A lot of times, electricians will come back and say, "Hey, you bid it out like this, but it's actually cheaper if you do it like this, and it won't you won't notice the difference. We should really be looking at that." Um, that type of thing is is what we're doing now. Um, so we'll get that cost down even further. Um, but it was a tense two weeks between Urban and Farnsworth. Uh, feeling really good about it now. and uh we'll get that value added engineering done and I think we're going to be in a pretty good spot
071from a budget standpoint. So um again talking with other districts in the area that are going through projects uh not nearly the size of ours and I'm extremely grateful for the work of of cautious and and CD Smith on this one because we're right where we need to be on a big project and I think kind of a tenuous time for construction. So Feeling really good about that. >> Thank you, Dr. Any questions or comments for count? Keep pressing on. Next we have the discussion of proposal purchase and development of district owned property located at 1227 Bale Avenue Shabbo Wisconsin parcel number 59281719722. All right we're going to open this up hopefully the final discussion. Um so whoever has something to say let's let's get it out now. I just want to say I I
072thought all of the proposals had merit um initially thinking about um the Gorman development. I I thought about that and I thought, you know, I feel like the the greatest number of people could be served um as far as housing in that capacity would go. Um clearly the uh the support for Flawless Hoops um and their community was incredible and um that was that was great to see. Um and then Habitat for Humanity um I'll say that I I go back to our last board meeting and I talked about uh how basic needs are the most important thing um in my view. Um I do see housing as very foundational. Um, I see it as going being directly correlated to things like attendance. Um, and that reflects our outcomes um, as a school district. Um,
073so although all of the proposals had merit, um, I would say tonight that I'm leaning towards the Habitat uh, proposal. Um, I think home ownership, especially affordable home ownership, is out of reach for so many people. I think about the two folks that we had here just to that told their stories about the personal impact that Habitat has had on their lives and that really stuck with me. >> Thank you, Leah. Anyone else? >> Go ahead. >> One thing I'm curious about because we've had such good response and to the request for proposals and the details and the pros and cons of each side. Uh, and there's certainly things to like about every every option. Um, I still have kind of a gauzy hazy understanding of what where we might get to with any of
074those proposals when we get down to putting it down on a seller buyer situation. So I would be interested in understanding um if the outcome of the meeting today is the board recommends or approves the administration going forward with a proposal. Um how much fluidity is is there going to be in what we finally wind up with? And then I assume at that point that um contract would be presented to the board for final approval. >> Yeah, you're exactly right. So tonight we're seeking approval if you're ready to vote uh for administration to enter into a contract talk with. Right. So then we're going to work with whatever organization you select on um what that would look like, what that purchase agreement would look like. um obviously get attorneys involved on our end and and
075likely on their end as well and then bring that to the board for for final approval. So, >> does anything we do tonight preclude any avenue or close any doors? >> I think we're looking for you to tell us who you would prefer we begin those processes with. you say we want you to look at organization A and we start working with them and we're finding that there's a barrier that's insurmountable. We're going to come back to you and say that and you're going to say figure it out or you're going to say okay let's look at organization B or C >> right >> are the sorry are the funds that it will eventually come from the sale of this property anything that will offset some of this deficit for next year that we're talking
076about? No, it's it's onetime money versus annual dollars. So, we just don't that's how we we avoid the issues of other districts. >> Can you just do a quick refresher on the money parts of it because apparently there was a change >> while being sorry. >> I'm I'm interested in just getting a clarification on how much we're selling something. How much money would we get? I honestly agree with with what you're saying in the sense that it's not just money to me. Um there are other factors, but I would I would like to have the money clarified because it seems kind of fuzzy in my brain. >> Do you have the exact numbers? >> Yeah, you saw the email from Flawless saying that um they essentially double their initial offer. Um we heard from Habitat.
077Um um it's just going to get difficult, right? Because I don't we don't know how many sites Habitat is going to choose to develop. They're paying per site. Uh with Habitat, there's an opportunity for uh them to leave off a couple sites for our house construction. So, there's savings there to the district as far as having to buy lots versus it. It's going to get pretty complicated to get an apples to app comparison on dollars um as a result of that and then Gorman's um you know proposal was was more than the others um but comes with a you know a very one was complicated just because the contingencies on that are going to be pretty complicated as far as getting to closing. They did call. Gorman called today uh and said they think they
078could do it under workforce development or something and shorten that length of time. I didn't have an opportunity to call him back and I'm not um real appreciative of getting that last minute call. Um so I don't even feel comfortable relaying that information to the board with any certainty whatsoever. >> Mark will look up those numbers for you though. Okay. I don't want to miss speak. >> I also would like to say I do think one of the positives for for Habitat is the involvement of our students in >> doing some things there. >> I agree. >> Yeah. I thought about the Wii mentality, right? I did a little bit of research in um our community about what's needed in the housing in just the city of Shbboan. So right now um went to this
079I went downtown and I talked to a couple people. We need 52 new homes in Shbboen and that's not factoring in the potential future of how many homes we need. Right now the apartments that have just recently built, 90% of them are full. Um half of the lots that are purchased um at the old hospital Aurora have already been I believe sold. Um also Habitat currently has 106 children that are living in homes that were built for them. 97 of them are SASD students. And the typical range of how long they last in their homes is 14 years. Um, for me, if we're circling back around to our mission statement of the school district, you know, presenting that teaching our kids the knowledge and life skills for the future. Um, I'm I'm voting for Habitat.
080I also did some research on um the housing need in the county and on the county website you can look at the plots of land and how they're divided and what the zone how they're zoned. Um, and one of the um, something I read on the county website was currently our rental availability is 1%. That's that's the open availability. And what is um, typically implies good movement and good availability where it's fair to renters and not just landlords is 10 or 5 to 10%. And we're at 1%. So the crunch of housing is so tight. Um, so I'm certainly in favor of looking at the housing options, but um, home ownership is one of the few ways people can get on to um, see general we wealth path and that directly impacts our students. So
081um, Habitat um, and I apologize because I missed the um, the second round of discussion. Um, but I have spent quite a bit of time looking at at at all this one. This has been an incredible process. Um, the the actual process of receiving offers and and evaluating them. And I think it really is a good community building process. So I I think one that's been good. Two, I I'm just thinking I bookended my career uh with people who can't get decent housing. I started out as a legal services lawyer and a good chunk of my case load was people who were being evicted or living in terribly substandard housing and trying to apply limited legal remedies. when the emergency um rental money became available, a friend and I started a pro bono project and
082I represented about 150 um tenants. Um some very actively, some, you know, just advice and such. the the desperation that people have when they can't find a place to live and they're just it's just it's really an excruciating process. And people who have had any brush with the law, any eviction action filed, their chance of getting housing that's not some standard at something vaguely resembling decent housing or decent money is extremely rare. the vacancy rates um for luxury apartments tend to be or or higherend apartments, there's some vacancy flexibility there, but in low-income housing, it's as Heidi said, but we're looking at 1%. And so um I I just thank all the folks who really put a lot of time and heart and effort into these proposals. But from my perspective, I have to I
083have to stand with Habitat just, you know, kind of based on my on my experience and general feelings about it. I don't disagree with anything anybody said. I mean, housing is it's a foundational piece to breaking generational wealth cycles and stability and truency and all of these things for young people. I do um I do just want to make sure that uh as a group of people who are also focused on the betterment of young people that we appreciate and think through the importance of community. I mean, the the community support for Flawless and what that sense of community brings to young people is very important. I mean, it's it's crucially important. Um, you know, as a nonprofit leader, I feel big sisterly or maternal towards uh the leadership of that group because I see
084a fledgling organization that can impact hundreds and hundreds of young people, which is what I spend all of my days doing. Um, I hope that whatever the outcome is of this process that we don't um that we don't forget that there are partners in the community that we can also look at collaboration with or other opportunities or different things that we may be able to do together to ensure that there is a home for this organization um for Flawless and and what it brings to young people. Um, it's hard to argue some of the data that Sarah that you brought when it comes to the number of kids living in spaces like this. Um, I probably feel differently if there wasn't a park already across the street. You know, I mean, as you think about
085what can kids do and if we're, you know, in filling in neighborhoods, um, I just want to make sure that we don't lose sight of, you know, the Gorman proposal. It's a for-profit business that is looking to build real estate. Um, and we need that. But I I just don't want us to lose sight of the potential opportunities in the future with this another group that stepped forward um that I think can really be impactful in this community. So, >> thank you. Anyone else? Just want to piggyback real quick on what Mary Lynn said and just remind the public that um the process for this. So, uh RFP was initially put out there um crosser proposals, right? And we had those three come forward, which was the three that we're discussing tonight. So, we didn't
086eliminate any um through that RFP process. We brought them all to you. Um they made a presentation, a public presentation at a board meeting. After that, we did a direct mailing to everyone in that neighborhood uh within a certain radius and invited them to our board meeting. We know people aren't following our uh board agendas closely thinking that we might sell property at some point in time in their neighborhood. So, we wanted to make sure that we got those invites out to neighbors and that they were aware of this so they didn't feel like we were doing anything to them. Um so uh that was done along with another presentation and soliciting feedback feedback through surveys. Um public comment I think now two opportunities um and ultimately it resulted in I think three really good
087proposals. So you all have a tough uh decision on your hand and there's good and bad with that, right? It's a hard decision but uh obviously good things in our community as well. But just wanted to make sure we reminded the uh the community of the transparency in this process. >> Take those numbers. >> Go ahead, Martin. >> Um so I'm looking at the initial proposals and some of them did uh discuss some leeway on that, but um Flawless Hoops in their proposal had a purchase amount of $100,000. They did specifically indicate that they may be able to go higher than that. uh Gorman company the purchase offer was $500,000 that was based on their anticipated some grants and loans and things like that. So, it's kind of contingent on the model they had proposed
088to us. And then, um, Habitat was a $20,000, uh, purchase price. And then they had, uh, discussed a $10,000 uh, payment every time they um, sell one of the properties, they $10,000 would go to the school. So I don't know if they know for sure the number of lots on their initial proposal they had 21 lots. So a potential for 210,000 additional with habitat. So >> thank you. >> Did we get any more comment or concern from the neighbors other than what we heard in the meeting? >> Not really. The survey wasn't um didn't have a ton of uh responses to it. >> Okay. >> And I think we if anything it was repetitive to what we had already heard. >> Okay. >> All right. Well, with all the input and feedback, is there a
089consensus on the way the board would like to move? >> I'll I'll take a stab at a motion. Um I'm not not quite sure just exactly what it should say, but I would I would move that um that uh we accept the proposal of Habitat for Humanity for purchase and development of the district own property at 1227 Bell Avenue. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Is that Is that complete enough? I I I'm feeling >> Yeah. I think you're asking administration to enter into negotiations with, right? Yes. >> We're approving them. >> Should I just Should I just give it to >> Well, you've got one by means. >> You just got to fill in the plan. >> Right. Um, I move to uh a uh authorized administration to pursue a contract with
090Habitat for Humanity for sale of district-owned property located at 1227 Bell Avenue in Shuen. >> Thank you. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Any further discussion? All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you. Is there any um opposition to taking items D through G second readings of um board policies? I'm seeking a motion to approve for second readings of board policy board of education policies number 840 0144.5 and 0166.1. >> So moved. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Any further discussion? All in favor say I. >> I. I. >> Motion carries. Next we have an annual planning session. Dr. Conrad. >> Yep. Just um typical annual planning session or June finding on June 9th. Um, so we always tell you if there's anything that you want
091us to be researching or ready to uh present out on or discuss, um, please let Sarah know and um, we can have that for you on the June plan. Otherwise, what we do on that date always is, um, we just go over our current long range plan and how we ended the year and then, uh, present what next year's long range plan can look like. So, if there's things you want to see on next year's long range plan, please let us know. I'd also I don't want to turn this into too much of a um discussion tonight, but we do have groundbreaking that we're going to want to do um at our two middle schools and we're going to want the board at both of those schools for the photo op and because it's a
092great thing. So, um there's thought that maybe we want to try to do groundbreaking at Farnsworth or Urban and then move to the next school and then um have a board meeting at that school that night so that the board can be there because we're all planning on being busy on Tuesday um June 9th at a board meeting anyhow. So, each one is projected to take about 20 30 minutes. you're going to have drive time in between. But if that sounds good to the board and we'd end up going a little late that night, um just want to get feedback on that and make sure everyone can make it and feels good about that that thought or that plan. >> Um to confirm graduations that Sunday before, correct? >> Yep. >> Okay. >> I like
093it. >> Yeah. >> Sunday. So you're thinking >> how early are we comfortable starting on June 9th then with those groundbre >> yeah I if I have it well advanced we can start whatever >> 7 a.m. Sounds good. >> Then we'll kind of Sarah and I will kind of work backwards off of trying to have that meeting wrapped up by 9:00. So we'll look at what the agenda looks like and and things of that nature. But um I would guess we're starting around 4:00ish. with those groundbreings. >> We will get that date in time to you as quickly as we can. >> Thank you. All right. Next, we have a report out of the committee's given instruction. Okay. >> Uh yes. The first item is for information, but again, I'd like to publicly commend Dave
094Miller for receiving that award for the work that he does. was involved with a couple of other organizations but his receiving of the next generation award was well worth uh discussed. Uh I move for approval of uh the field trip that DECA wants to take. They are going to be going to Atlanta in April in their international development. >> Second discussion. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Motion carries. >> And lastly, I'd like to move for approval of the robotics trip to Houston, Texas in April to early May. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor say I. >> I. >> Motion carries. Next we have human resources committee. Leo. >> Yes. So I would like to take items number one which are appointments and then number three
095the retirements and I move approval for both of those. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor say I. >> I. >> Motion carries. >> Items number two and four are for information. And then I would can I do uh first readings together as well? Excellent. Um I would also like to um move approval for item number five which is the first reading of revised board of education policy 1461 and then item number six which is the introduction or the first reading of revised board of education policy 3140 moving approval for that second. >> Any further discussion? >> All in favor say I. I. >> Motion carries. Thank you. Next we have facilities recreation theory committee Peter I would like to combine items one and two, the financial report for the theater company and community
096w. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor say I. >> I. >> Motion carries. >> And uh item three is for information is your >> Thank you, Peter. Next we have the finance and budget committee. Sarah. >> Um I would like to take um items uh one 141 capital projects statement of cash flow. Number two, number three revenues and expenditures report um four budget revisions and transfers of appropriations. Um altogether committee is recommending approval. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> All in favor say I. I. >> Motion carries. Uh five is informational the nutritional service update. Um we the committee is looking for recommendation of approval of the rental of the garden plots. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor say I. >>
097I. >> Motion carries. >> And then committee is looking for recommending um approval of the gifts. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor say I. I >> motion carries. Thank you. Committee of the whole, Mr. President. >> All listed there for your proposal. >> Thank you. Next, we have the special board committee's assignments, legislative round table, Dr. Kra. >> Yeah, you got my my two cents on that already. So, we're just going to keep advocating and hope that those uh funds come through. >> Thank you, sir. Next, we have the Shabua Public Education Foundation found. As you can imagine, uh they are all things scholarship right now. Um just a couple highlights from the last two meetings that they can focus on. Um one, there were 268 applicants um for applications, which was exact
098the exact same number as last year, which I thought was kind of funny. Um but there were 1658 individual applications that needed to be reviewed by the group. Um, all major schools in the area are up in terms of the number of applicants, which is exciting to see. Um, and there are several scholarships that are that had extended deadlines because there were no applicants for them. Um, and all of that is gearing up for May 6th, which is scholarship night at the Wild Center. Um, and more to come. >> Thank you, Mel. Um, >> just a quick question. So when we talk about $4 million that's going out to our kids, does that include the foundation? >> Thank you. We have human growth and development, but Alli is not here. I'm not sure if anyone
099else has for us. >> Um I'm I'm happy to take it. I Eric is not here. You want to go? >> Yeah. Go ahead. go down. >> They're actually having a meeting right now. So that's why Yeah, I'm thinking they might still be meeting. Uh >> but no, basically the um the big work as you can see in the packet um from some of the notes we looked at that is just really trying to get that middle school curriculum um put together and then brought before all of you. So that was uh tonight. They're trying to put the finishing touches on there. So I was there earlier than left for this meeting. Um, so hopeful to bring a couple high school updates and then the full middle school curriculum for grade six, seven, and eight
100in human growth and development. Um, and then that other piece was there's a couple open spots within the committee for human growth and development. Um, we had a couple candidates for that. Um, and I want to get the wording right, the um, healthc care open position. Um, so the team looked at those applicants and some of the letters and uh and different information and backgrounds those people. Um, and Eric uh Bulmer was the one that rose to the top of that. So I'm kind of unsure to I think we were under the impression that you all might act on that and vote on that. >> We don't need to do that. We'll do that at a future meeting here. >> Perfect. >> So yeah, any questions or anything on those? Thank you sir. Next item
101is um communications for your information. And then the next one is the future meeting. We have May 12th committee meeting and then the regular board May 26th. Is there a motion move to adjourn? >> Second. Any >> discussion? All in favor? Hi. >> Hi. >> All right. Have a good night.