001e e e check check one two test e e e I'd like to call this meeting to order meeting has been noticed the Evans Print Media Group WCW radio Magnum radio lacrosse Tribune Sparta City Hall Sparta free library and the Maplewood Administrative Building are there any changes to the agenda if um I would recommend polling policy 8220 from the consent agenda for further discussion and I have no other recommendations for the I have no changes to the agenda minus what Miss Lopez said do all in favor all in favor I opposed motion carries s0 uh could I get a motion to adopt the agenda then as stated so move second all in favor I I opposed motion carries 70 Sam if you would be so kind as to remind us of the sasd mission statement
002yes sir mission statement is to educate all students academically emotionally and socially to inspire curiosity and resilience and do we have any public input this evening I do not believe we have any public input tonight then moving on to reports a shs winter co-curricular report Mr Blaha check thank you for giving me a moment to share here some of our uh events from this winter um and I do have a few of our students I'll call and have stand as we go through as we uh honor our scholar athletes okay and please let me know if there you want me to expand a certain area um I'll give you a chance look and then I would uh I will share who our scholar athletes for each season are scholar athletes for basketball Owen Barons Grant
003Guyer Zack Gibson Gavin Reed Zack true David fa Angel Martinez Gus trip Everett lenberg Aton rmer Wesley James thirston Nolan walinski Grant Ebert Zen Gibson Noah markinson Simon schmidtz Lucas wall and Landon zolinski girls basketball scholar athletes for girls basketball leam majeski Kaylee Church Alexa Jones Cassie Krabs Isabella mickson Lily Seaford Abby Bach Abby Barons Lily Berg Cecilia hammersbach marabel Hernandez Celeste Abbott kayy Breon and Taylor scoffield scholar athletes for gymnastics Gabrielle Borman paig AER elinger sorry Abby Gilbertson AA Hansen matd legal Cy meski Ally soberg and Hadley brandal voice hockey Co-op scholar athletes for Hockey Andrew Carney savier Santino Tanner Borman Ben Carney Charlie steinhoff Ryan Gilbertson and Sterling inar and just one note that says three-way tie there so that um this would be the last year of something like that uh just
004reminder next year we are we have formed a new conference there will be six teams uh everyone in the conference this year was two and two girls hockey Co-op and then just a reminder about them also they will be joining a conference for the first time and not being independent next year um so we will have some additional things we don't have't typically seen for All Conference and those type of things and then scholar athlete Broan bear sh choire and we will have two pages there'll be a second one here with scholar athletes do the numbers here in a second thank you sorry and then just one thing M sneer wanted me to remind you I am showing only the varsity for all these so you won't see prep Share info here and if I
005could have Aubrey stand so Aubry is one of ours that actually was able to make it today so please stay as we read your name also Aubrey so sh clar scholar athletes brenon bucanan Tristan Chapman Aubrey eert Logan isers Ava Ericson iio forsberg Stella Lorac Rebecca Shido Brianna Sparks DEA Van Beek Gabriel waran um Parker Caulkins Xavier sateno Myra Charles Edmund Clark Elena Hamato dilia mat Michael rhods Skyla somal Chamilia Vasquez true Jenna Becker Yasmin compos Joselyn Jacobson Garrick Manning Zachary sorry Zachary ruling Natalie schy Madison Schwarz Matthew Smith Isidor SoDo tner wean Bella betterley Brooklyn betterley Olivia Bach Amelia Elliott Addison hson brillan Hanson laurelai hammersbach Celia Maron Lily McWilliams and Peter mine [Applause] powerlifting and Jesse if you would stand our scholar athletes for powerlifting Braden Ward Jesse Condor Camden mcer Eli Kemp
006Allie Maron and axel Hernandez for scholar athletes for wrestling Lillian Weber Cadence wiel Matthew kuderer gladen gastner Lance Greeno amadas Hernandez Hunter Huntington Pierce Masson and col McCoy and pending your questions that is our winter review question or comments from board members I'd like to just uh congratulate all the scholar athletes and maintaining their focus on grades while managing their time thank you I agree with Dr Bernett and I'd also like to thank Aubrey and Jesse for coming tonight and to being recognized thank you so much for that we appreciate seeing you and I'm just looking through these notables and this is pretty this is incredible we have state qualifiers we have First Team all mbcs we have um let's see I mean just over and over all kinds of students who are going above
007and beyond in their sport we know that they're putting in a lot of time and a lot of effort and I just want to recognize absolutely every one of them it's it's impressive the list of notables here I am I am I'm actually blown away um congratulations everyone thank you for working so hard to represent Sparta means a lot other questions or comments from board members I I just like to Echo what what Miss Lopez said um you know I think back to to these that I've seen over the last three or four years and this is by far the one that I would say has had the most if you're going to define success by wins and losses um while at the same time div defining success by number of kids who are in
008a program and percentage of scholar athletes and this year looks like it's a a a balance of all three things and I I really think John that's a testament to you the way you've been working with coaches and the way you're working to Define what you want the spart athletic um and co-curriculars to to look like um I really appreciate the effort that you put into it um thank you very very much because because this is in my estimation this is the first step towards success in spart curricular so thank you thank you and uh one thing we were hoping to do this last at the committee of the whole however Mother Nature seems to be raising some havoc in the month of March um and uh we were hoping for a little bit bigger
009turnout uh but thank you again to Aubrey and Jesse for coming tonight um it's very busy time right now with every everything but uh golf starting and a lot of these uh student athletes that you're seeing uh are still going in different sports and continuing their journey and probably hitting the books too because we have our ACT tomorrow for the juniors and the preac for the uh 9th and 10th graders so thank you very much and congratulations to everyone again keep working hard thank you facility project report Mr Russ yes we continue to work with uh today for uh today we met with all the technology education teachers at shs with honey colem our consultant uh for our uh CTE work um continuing to look at uh our spaces our equipment what is usable what
010can we bring back uh it's great to see the entire team um they put a lot of pride and joy into their equipment it might not be the most moderate equipment but they want to keep it going and uh you know it's almost a balance where it's like well we can get a new one I think for this nope nope nope so but um but no we continue to do that continue to look at the plan our goal is still uh a month from now bringing this to uh the public to make it a little bit more real we're still going through the phase of um making sure that what we bring forth that we are we're comfortable with uh what we can afford so um we're working hard on making sure everything is there
011we're monitoring everything working with um uh owner solution working with Market marking with Bray um there's some questions about the tariffs that we come up and they're monitoring as well but there's really not much right now until we start to get down to those designs and then you get to even more nitty-gritty and then you get to the bid day so uh continue to work through it um the safety aspects to um to to basically finalize our plans moving forward the best we can so in making sure that this 87 million goes as far as we can with making sure that we doing what we've committed to and we might even be able to throw a little bit more in there so we're it's exciting times but um continue to work uh with the team
012questions or comments from board members Mr Russ do um is Bid day over uh Christmas or the holiday break this year is that when that takes the bid day is it'll be open during that time but the actual bid day will be in January if memory serves me correctly yep over winter break they'll be able to come in tour the facility we'll have a short presentation because we're anticipating about 100 vendors contractors and everything like that so um so they'll see it and then they'll have uh some time to bid it out and ask questions okay thank you other questions or comments from board members announcements and information Mr Russ yes real quick before I get to the announcements I just wanted to make a quick announcement about the Department of Education we've been getting
013a few questions uh since uh president's Trump executive order um from what we know now is that the funding for the IM U immediate future I guess is is safe um they say nope the fundings for basically the 25 26 school year I'm just putting that in the words in is is safe so we can plan on that Federal funding for that um what we don't know is is what's going to happen when um the um the department is shrinking and what's going to happen because all the essential functions are still continuing so we're kind of in a wait and see pattern about what's going to happen so um we're monitoring I when I get asked we we're monitoring um I know the the DPI is monitoring we're getting updates from them as well um
014but things change so quickly um to say yes this is going to happen or that's going to happen we just don't know so but we're diligently monitoring the uh the situation along with a lot of other things that are going on in the federal government and state government we we try to monitor it all uh we meaning probably me more than anyone else I know Miss Houser's got her eye on the state budget um but you know this is the things that catch her eye during this time so uh continuing to work through just basically we're not in waitand see mode we are information seeking mode and we're actively doing that so um so I mentioned a little bit earlier uh State assessment Seasons upon us shs will be full goal tomorrow um and then
015we've already had forward going in that sort of thing and U the ACT 20 information is also still going at uh the younger levels as well um spring Sports is ramping up um everything would have started today already except for I believe Boy golf is the only one that has yet to to start up so in tennis I'm sorry tennis and golf um probably golf for the obvious reasons of our 8 Ines of snow the other day um but anyway so they're getting ready uh concert season is continuing on um we uh powerlifters were sent off uh with State competitions and Nationals um and uh shs continues to um ackn those kids during um walking down the main hall um in between classes so excuse me so a lot of exciting things going on across
016the way and then uh I just wanted to share the rest of the uh basically through the summer months of our board meetings lots of good stuff happening and hopefully we're all done with the snow thank you very much Mr Russ um if board members could please look through the consent agenda minus D and when we are content um I would accept a motion Mr McKenna I'd make a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented I'll second that a motion from Mr schy and a second from Ms Lopez roll call please Mr Shel yes Miss yes Mr Wells yes M baren yes Mr Burns Gilbert yes Dr Bernette yes Mr McKenna yes business a discussion of possible action to approve oh I'm sorry we need to go back to policy 8220 okay um revision
017to policy 8220 school day and school closures questions or comments from board members yeah um I I pulled this um just to get some further clarification on the windchill factor so I apologize for not being at the committee meeting but I did listen and I heard Dr Bernett recommend raising the limit um for windchill or making it less cold okay thank you um and I I I do see um a potential issue so I know that we only ask our uh students to be at the bus for 5 minutes before they're picked up um in reality I'm assuming that there are times when parents need the students to leave a little earlier um stand out there a little longer you know parents need to go to work or whatever but I'm also thinking about the
018students who might have to walk to school and um I I've been all over the place cuz I thought I thought it was wrong and I think it's right and now I now I see an issue so if we were to leave the wind chill at 35° because it is an ore right it's the we're we're talking about changing it to -20 for the actual temperature and - 35 for the windchill if we were to leave it at - 35 for the windchill we may have a time in here where oh maybe I'm looking at it wrong again I I just I just am concerned about the students who may be walking to school um what is the distance from school to like how far out can does a student have to live before they
019get um busing could I just add to that um so I thought we had actually changed it to a minus 25 went chill but I that's not the case Okay um it was my understanding that we only changed the andless I misunderstood the motion we only change the temperature from -25 to-2 that was the that was the extent of it well it at minus 35 windchill um I'm not exactly sure how many minutes to frostbite it's got to be down in the range of uh five or close to it I know that at minus 25 wind chill you've got 15 minutes and uh to me 15 minutes um you know is enough variability that a bus doesn't get there we've we know we've got somebody out there for 15 minutes such that you know I
020really feel that minus 25 out windchill ought to be uh the the limiting factor if I'm if I'm reading the chart correctly minus 25 is in the 30 minute range according to the Chart I don't know but you know and you start to get closer to the 10minute range so there's probably some area there that's just not um highlighted but it is closer to the I'll say dark purple or not dark purple but basically dark blue that that says 10 minutes just reading the chart yeah and the problem with the chart is it doesn't it gives you 301 and five but it doesn't give you 15 and when you look up um what it is for that value and calculate it it's it's 15 minutes for uh minus 25 so do we know how far
021out students by oh Le I'll take it um so we do offer busing to all students throughout the district we don't utilize a wax Zone um but that being said the DPI walk zone is up to 2 miles but we do offer busing now that's not saying everybody has a bus stop right outside their door though so there could be students who have maybe upwards of a f minute walk and then five minutes at the bus stop so as I'm looking at the weather.gov the windchill chart at 35 at 34 and 36 um 34 and 36 wind chill with a -5 temperature like actual temperature outside um we're looking at 10 minutes before we have the potential for frostbite for Exposed Skin also based on that chart though it's we're going to have 40 m
022per hour winds too and when Sam's making and part of the arguments that that I made last time is that when Sam's making this call he's making this call at 5: in the morning so likely your outcomes would improve slightly even slightly would would would greatly you know I mean if if you moved it two degrees down or see here I mean if it got 5 deges warmer from 5:00 a.m. to 7: a.m. you know you you wouldn't even be in the bubble and at 5:00 a.m. it would be a call for potentially a 2hour delay yeah but we're still looking at the potential for frostbite attive 10 or in 10 minutes negative 35 is bitterly cold um I I I would not be opposed at all to raising that because it doesn't mean the
023school has to be canceled it could just be postponed give the time for the windchill to warm up you can see by then that it is and we don't have we don't have the potential for students to be standing outside for more than 10 minutes or walking to school for more than 10 minutes so it's all based on you know if if the forecast is to be below if we'll just say- 35 we'll just say keep our current policy if we do forecast at about 9:00 what is it going to look like and if the data shows it's not going to be looking any better we're done and we won't you know so it's all Based on data just like when we had our we we had the last postponement when the the the delayed
024when we had the bus gelled up the data was wrong and and that's so it's really about making a decision and in moving forward but if it's minus 30 I just look at that and say does it get above Min -30 because if it doesn't get above -30 until noon we're not coming to school if that makes sense that does make sense um what is the criteria for delaying though are you looking at 9:00 for delaying yep so we could have students outside at- 35 degree temperatures at 6:30 in the morning standing outside for more than 10 minutes or or walking to school for or at 9 or or at 9:00 too 9:00 in the morning and that's where it determines if it's going to be a a full closure or a delay because it
025might be minus 35 at projected at at 5:00 a.m. it's 35 at a.m. so then I post then I forward to it just changed the the threshold doesn't change I look out and say is it what's the temperature at 9:00 for you know that's when our buses get going and that's when we start doing things and if it's above that minus 35 windchill we won't have school if it says it's going to drop and then I would have a delay most like and then I have a delay most likely just want a clarifying piece on this policy too is it is it 35 and Below or is it below 35 because there because 35 windchill cuz that there is a difference it says severe cold for or minus 35 so it would be at 35
026so yeah at at that negative 35 which is very unlikely but can happen oh yeah I think we would be making it more likely to happen though if we're at 30 and is that or yeah if we're at 30 is that helping our kids and and we we also have to understand the ranges too because if you change it to 30 that means your - 31 wind chill You' have to shut down and do we want that Mr SCH you would a comment yeah Mr Russ quick question is there a major benefit from being negative 35 compared to-30 with the wind chill that cold according to the windchill chart there is a little bit difference on the temperature for for frostbite um but it's really just just like minus 20 to -25 5 it's really
027a number that the board has to be comfortable with and me following it so if it's at minus 34 and I look in forward and it says it's going to be minus 40 at some point I'm probably calling it thank you but y so and once again if it's minus 22 in our current policy at 5:00 a.m. we would we would still go now that would change so so I'm sorry I don't mean to beler that but that is my point at 500 a.m. if at 6: a. or 5: am it's negative 35 degrees school goes on if it's -5 degrees outside but the wind chill is - 35 school goes and so students are standing outside at 6:00 in the morning or 6:30 in the morning with a negative 35 wind chill yes depending
028that we continue um with that or I may say hey we're close enough we're going to we're going to delay it's guidance and I think Miss Hower has something to say with that are you asking that it has to be -20 and 35 I'm just saying um thank you no I'm just saying that the actual temperature could be within our threshold warmer than our low temperature but the wind chill could still be -35 at 5:00 a.m. at 9:00 a.m. the projection is for it to be warmer so students could po potentially be standing outside we wouldn't cancel school necessarily at that time I mean I know you guys put a lot of effort in it I know it isn't willy-nilly I know it's you know um you use the best data at the best you
029know your best judgment but I think 35- 35 windchill puts us in a potential where we have students within 10 minutes with a potential for frostbite and to me that just seems not reasonable 10 minutes isn't reasonable to me 30 minutes is reasonable I think within 30 minutes a student could walk a mile to school and you know be okay um but that's just where I'm that's where my thoughts are all right other questions or comments from board members I guess another critical point here too is is that because we lowered our this the standard temp the standard temp because of the buses because because we lowered that at -20 so when we look at it at your say let's say the day was well we're we're uh 5 degrees outside you'd have to have
030more than 60 m per hour winds and according to the chart and uh there close down school so I mean I think I think that's that's a at zero it have to be more than it would have to be more than F you'd have to have more than 55 m per hour winds at 0 degrees outside in order to for school to shut down now do I see the likelihood of it being zero and having 55 m per hour winds probably not um and that that just where our our niches I mean we're really talking in absolutes here where where it has to be like so hyper close and I don't think we're for it to be a problem and I don't really think that's likely to happen anytime soon just because when we lowered
031the standard temperature too on top of it um I could see a negative 35 actual temperature I'm sorry I could see a neg5 actual temperature with 35 mph winds which makes it negative 35 and we're at the 10minute Mark um I moved to recommend to change the policy to -20 actual temperature and -30 windchill uh policy 8220 if that's okay for me just to do that I'll second that we have a motion from Miss Lopez second from Dr Bernett any further discussion so just just to clarify the only change from the committee would be the -35 bringing that down to -30 on the windchill right yes that is what I mean okay perfect thank you any further discussion from board members call or all in favor I I I opposed nay motion carries 61 discussion
032of Po possible action to approve health insurance for the 2 26 school year Miss Hower thank you uh I'm just going to give a quick recap from the committee meeting we had some really great news to share with our health insurance uh budgetarily we have been looking at a 10% increase to the cost of our health insurance over this year um that includes offering two different plan options to our employees the first is a HMO plan which is the alliance Network it has many Hospital Systems as part of that network but the main one is Gunderson and it has no access to mail um however we do offer a second option to our employees that they can buy up to have a Mayo option within their Network um so it's the base plan or plan
033one plus the buy up option to include Mayo both plans do have free access to the neighborhood Family Clinic which are employees have been utilizing uh which has helped us quite a bit so the good news comes in in that with our 10% budget we actually were able to get some decreases to our renewal um this came back and forth with a couple negotiations um but where we were able to settle in is we could keep exactly the plan designs that we have for a 3.7% decrease or we could go down to a 4.6% decrease if we're also willing to make the following changes the first is that the PO plan or that buy up option would no longer be offered but instead we would just have one plan and that plan would be the
034HMO gunders Gunderson plan plus it would include I'm going to say a free and that employees don't have to buy up to get it but a free Nationwide wraparound plan would go to all employees so in essence it would be Gunderson plus um Mayo is still not in included in that Nationwide wraparound but what it does provide is um mayo and Rochester or um really hundreds if not thousands of clinics Nationwide so for employees who have students in college or they're traveling there would be options for coverage outside of Gunderson um and then additionally Neighborhood Family Clinic would no longer be covered under the insurance plan but if we went with this option Administration would recommend that the board works directly with Neighborhood Family Clinic to continue providing the service in essence we'd get direct
035build from Neighborhood Family Clinic um so with that our recommendation is to accept the 4.6% decrease renewal with Group Health Trust um additionally what this should do is help to control our actual cost um that goes against deductibles and such to help renewal next year basically Mayo is a really high cost option so if we take that out of the equation that should help us also um for going forward and then as part of that um we would like to work with the neighborhood Family Clinic to direct Bill the district and all of this did go through the district's um employee benefit and wellness committee uh with their recommendation as well so um before you uh T um tackle this one um we've communicated this out to staff um a lot of positive feedback um
036and uh from those who are uh currently in the buy up there's 43 uh we have not heard uh much from them I think when the adjustments to um the Nationwide Network which also includes Rochester and Mayo uh you know I'm only speculating along with the out coverages and the reduced in uh premiums and how it affects our total budget a lot of positivity and I really want to shout out to our staff to make this happen they made this decrease happen um through the good consumerism through their hard work through the neighborhood Family Clinic and just their hard work to realize that we're all in this together and we can help each other out by keeping this down and looking into the uh consumerism options so um and thank you for the employee benefit
037and wellness committee um they they put in the work too and thank you for our our our team at marshan McLendon as well questions or comments from board members Mr schy yeah well first and foremost thank you for the time and effort put into that um just a quick question and I would advocate for it no matter what your answer is but as far as the neighborhood Family Clinic what what additional cost is that to the district um if for the full year it's kind of hard to say right now um I would say 50 to 100,000 okay uh but the savings from a 10% budget to the 4.6% decrease is about a million dollars yeah oh and it's a it's a phenomenal option and opportunity for our staff and so again I would have
038advocated no matter what but uh but just was curious thank you with us doing this for the first time we're just approximating and with all of our approximations we're hopefully High m Lopez thank you um yes I wanted to thank everybody who worked on this um our insurance agents our our staff as you said Mr Russ um and the board members who asked all the questions at the committee meeting um again I apologize for not being there I do have one question maybe a comment that um stems from that so um Miss Hower do we know if are we privy to the contract between the insurance company and the neighborhood Family Clinic do we know what insurance paid Neighborhood Family Clinic per visit um so we don't get a lot of great data on Neighborhood
039Family Clinic currently we do know the actual charges last year we're just shy of 40,000 um but we do know and we continue to encourage the growth in usage and that's where I'm like I'd budget probably 50 to 100,000 for next year but we don't know what type of visits have been being had we do have a fee chart so we know the flat fees the clinic charges but we couldn't say it was for this type of visits okay thank you um and so then my comment is I wonder if maybe Neighborhood Family Clinic would be willing to negotiate with the district like a bulk pricing or something like that a discount off their flat fees just because of the volume um that we could potentially be bringing to them in the coming year you
040know what we've done and then what we may yet do just an idea yep and we'll be having these once we move forward because this would be a change in um how they you know they'd no longer work with ght they'd work with us so we'd have all those opportunities yeah okay wonderful thank you other questions or comments from board members if not I would accept a motion I'll move to recommend we approve the health insurance for 2526 school year as presented I'll second motion from Mr Burns Gilbert second from Mr Wells roll call please Mr Wells yes Mr McKenna absolutely yes Mr shy yes M baren yes Mr Burns Gilbert yes Dr yes Miss Lopez yes motion carries 70 discussion and possible action to approve dental insurance for the 2526 school year again miss
041Hower yep um so this one's also exciting although it's a 0% change the reason ex is it it is exciting to me at least is if you'll recall last year we switched to self-insured through delto dental and with that we had no increase in rates and so this was kind of our year to test it and see if that worked in our favor and this shows that we set it up correctly and it worked well and we can continue offering the same level of service for no change in rates for coverage so this was a win um and therefore the employee benefit committee also recommends uh continuing the dental insurance coverage that we currently have with 0% change questions or comments from board members uh do we pay anything for dental insurance as a district
042or is that all staff um the district does have a share the current percent is probably around 15% we pay Mr McKenna I'd make a motion to approve the dental insurance policy as presented for the 202 2 2026 school year I'll second that motion from Mr schy second from Dr Bernett can I get a roll call please Dr Bernette yes Miss Lopez I abstain Miss baren yes Mr Wells yes Mr Burns Gilbert yes Mr shy yes Mr mcken yes motion carries 60 with one abstain discussion of possible to approve vision insurance for the 25 26 school year how about we go to miss Hower sounds good um so a vision insurance is also offered through Delta Dental this one the district does not pay anything for this is completely voluntary for the employee but the
043employee benefits of being part of a group plan which in most cases means you can get more favorable rates um we have had uh good feedback easy to use for our employees so we would would recommend continuing to offer this plan and again 0% change in rate this one has no budgetary impact is a benefit we offer to our employees discussion or questions from board members if not I would entertain a motion Mr McKenna I'd make a motion to approve the vision in insurance for the 25 26 school year as presented I'll second motion from Mr schy second from Mr Wells roll call please Mr Burns Gilbert yes Dr Bernette yes Mr McKenna yes Mr Wells yes M Lopez yes Mr shy yes Miss baren yes motion carries 70 discussion of possible action authorizing and
044approving the execution and delivery of a master Leaf lease purchase agreement and approving the execution and delivery of schedule to the master lease purchase agreement for student one-on-one devices Mr steeran and Miss hoser I was wondering and I'll apologize for the all caps it's not yelling at you I just didn't want to change it in the resolution next time next one you can yell it Mr steeran yep so this is a lease for all of our student iPads um it is part of a prek through 12 plan but this specific lease is for the uh first through 12th graders um it is the same identical iPad and keyboard case at all grade levels for them um so our total cost is $473 which includes a three-year accidental damage warranty um which I was told includes
045two cases of accidental damage this time instead of one like last time so they can be broken twice per iPad per year and will be covered under warranty um so that is a little bit better so total cost for that is a little bit over a million dollars overall um we'll break that into three lease payments we got a 0% lease on this so there's no financing costs um it just is the cost of the devices divided by three um so that helps our budget spreads that out and then three years is our expected life cycle so we'll be coming back three years from now to revisit this questions or comments from board members I just want to make a quick comment Mr steerman thank you for working with us for all these years to
046get to this point again I I know that you and Miss Hower did a lot of hard work to to make it all happen so I'm really glad that we're here to this point so thank you for that I I'd Echo that you got here with Band-Aids and duct tape and thank you um any other comments or I would accept a motion I I do have a real quick comment so this is a leas so we turn the devices in at the end just like our current nope this is a $1 buyback lease so at the end of this lease we pay I don't think we actually pay a dollar but basically we get to keep them at the end of the lease um so they are ours so we will end up trading them
047in um that is actually the same as how our current iPad lease is so all the iPads we currently have are going to end up going to trade in and we'll get some amount back for those as well our staff MacBooks were not that way last time that's the lease I think you're thinking of apologize I totally fuzzed that whole part out so okay my question does not there's a lot of Leasing and it's a mess to sort through I do want to expand on that though apple is really unique as compared to say Chromebooks and that at the end of the three years any Apple device still has a lot of value left in it and so although we'll own them at the end of three years what Mr steerman has tried to teach
048me for many years now is traded in after the three years because the buyback you will get will darn near pay for the next year with a brand new device and so we don't want to get on the path that we just broke ourselves of we now we want to get on that standard three-year rotation because they carry such a strong buyback value okay so that will be our plan correct moving forward okay thank you what is a realistic buyback I mean you're talking 30% 50% 30% so with all of the keeping and extending of our Cycles we're looking at get we're still looking at getting 80 to 100,000 for the devices that we have back um and that was pushing some of them out to six and seven years old a bunch of them
049out to 5 years old some out to four um if you stick on a three-year rotation basically the 30% range 25 25 to 35% is what you'd expect back so almost a whole lease payment that you would get back and buy back when you trade them in thank you very much other questions or comments or I would accept a motion Mr McKenna I'd make a motion for item 4D as presented CU I didn't want to yell it I'll second that I'll second motion for Mr schy is second for Miss Lopez roll call please Mr Wells yes Mr McKenna yes Mr shy yes M baren yes Mr Burns Gilbert yes Dr Bernett yes Miss Lopez yes motion Carri 70 I turn my microphone off and yell discussion and possible action authorizing approving the execution and delivery
050of a master lease purchase agreement and approving the execution and delivery of the schedule of the master lease purchase agreement for staff devices Mr steerman and Miss Hooser yep so this is for all of our um mostly certified it's our instructional and a non-instructional staff so it includes teachers health aids psyches school counselors just the whole the whole gamut of who is um getting laptops um we're looking at replacing I think 305 is our total number for this year um we've scaled that down I believe our last lease was 325 and we had also gotten 40 laptops from when High Point dissolved as well um so we've reduced significantly the number of devices that we're buying for this period um so same thing it's a threeyear lease payment they are all getting The Accidental damage
051warranty um and then same same as the iPads um they'll get a case on them and we're looking to swap those out for staff uh at the end of the school year and then we'll run the same three-year cycle on those as well questions or comments from board members real quick is the is the buyback in in this part or is that completely separate the the staff option to buy back should be a separate item thank you okay so Mr McKenna just told me it was on the consent agenda so I apologize for that I actually I had a question for that can I can I still ask that question because I thought it was under this I apologize I misread I I think you can it does won't have any impact but since you
052think so so just ask the question and we'll go perfect what was the cost of the staff buy back if they're going to choose to do that uh $20 a laptop and that was the same price as what the leasing company buyback price was so we're not making anything on it we're not losing anything on it it's just a even okay thank you I appreciate that other questions or comments from board members I'll move to approve item 4E as presented I'll second motion from Mr Burns Gilbert second from Dr Bernett roll call please Mr shy yes M Lopez yes Mr Wells yes M Barons yes Mr Burns Gilbert yes Dr berett yes Mr McKenna yes motion carries 70 discussion of possible action to approve grants and donations Mr Russ yes uh in the slides and
053in board docks we'd like to um for formal approval from the board uh generous donations from Walmart um butterfest Miller Tree Service uh TDS telecommunications in church of birch for their generous donations uh to our various programs Mr Russ can you explain the reunification Grant please uh yes Miss Hower do you want to or you want me to I got it um so reunification is the process if we have to evacuate a building or keep students in a building um past the normal route um and we have to reunify with parents and so that's a process that we follow as part of our safety planning and as part of that there's lots of supplies that go along with the unification from safety vests to um radios to poster boards and just a whole gamut of
054things um and so Liz WILX helped us to secure some money to basically build these totes of reunification supplies so that we would have them should we need them in Walmart um gave $2,000 towards that Clause yep could I get a motion please so moved I'll second motion from Mr scholly second from Miss Barons all in favor I and uh just want to recognize um some several veral organizations and individuals for uh their generous donations for information uh Citizens First Bank Culver of Sparta Herman Elementary ptg uh sfc Frederick L green retired Robin rhods Christina heightman uh Jay and KB Holdings uh Kathleen gausman Northern engraving Kevin and Ricky Uh Kevin and Vicky Riley and Northern engraving for their generous donations for information so thank you very much to all I will e you Echo
055that thank you very much discussion and possible action to move to close second session pursuant with Wisconsin statutes 19185 parent one parent C for the purpose of discussion of Staff planning regarding individual teacher assessments and duties and discussion and possible action to move to close section session pursuant with Wisconsin statutes 19.85% one discussion of initial purpose proposal of wage negotiations with the sparta educational Association and parent two considering employment compensation for administrators classified staff and middle management did I get a motion so moved second motion for Mr Wells second from Mr schy roll call please miss barens yes Miss Lopez yes Mr Wells yes Mr shy yes Mr Burns Gilbert yes Dr Bernett yes Mr McKenna yes motion carries 70 we are in Clos session have a good night everybody we're going to go into
056close session and if there is any announcement we'll come back and make it thank you very much and enjoy the evening e e e