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2025 01 06 SASD Committee of the Whole Meeting 5:30 PM

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2025-04-22
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Washburn County, WI
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10,501 words · about 59 min
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2026-06-11

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001here present here here he's on our way present thank you item C approval of the agenda need a motion to approve I'll make that motion second any discussion hearing none all those in favor to approve say I I no motion carries item two presentation students staff Community recognition and shoutouts we have several of those today first one I'd like to call up is Leah Foley nominated by Tim radkey she here okay well we'll we'll get her when she gets here then how about Kate mckenny there we go nominated by Chris berghammer he here Kate is amazing employee at spoon Spooner Elementary she wears so many hats in her role as Elementary guidance counselor she makes time for countless students and staff members on a daily basis she also works as our school assessment coordinator and

002our PBIS tier 2 coach and is a member of our building leadership team I do not have enough compliments or positive adjectives to describe Mrs McKinny we are extremely lucky to have her working in our building thanks for all you do and all all the people you [Applause] support the next award will go to Kyle Linton nominated by Mr schroer Kyle and his skilled USA students completed a very successful holiday fundraiser anyone who purchased one is thankful for the amazing craftsmanship this fundraiser raised approximately $1,800 for the program thank [Applause] you I we can do Leah when she gets here I think right you hear you can go to the shut outs maybe oh I will insert her in the agenda when she gets here so we'll move on with item 2B you do got

003some shout outs on oh yes I'm sorry we have some more shout outs exactly shout outs that's an important part of every month school board meetings like to shout out first uh nominated by Mr Scher The Varsity Boys Basketball uh team and Coach fizel congratulations on defeating Hayward taking the lead with two seconds left in the game woohoo second shout out goes to Susie Olsen Rosen Bush by Mr Sher schroer Susie the FAA chapter and shs hosted an event for the FFA leaders of four other schools where they completed applications for National and state Awards and certifications third shout out reported by Mr berghammer is for the elementary school students Miss kudon and all the elementary school staff involved in the holiday programs once again The Spooner Elementary School student staff and Miss canuteson turned

004in an A+ performance at our Holiday Spectacular next one goes to Ryan Penney and his crew nominated by Mr berghammer they did an awesome job of keeping our lots and sidewalks clear of snow the day of the Spooner elementary school program next shout out goes to the seventh and eighth grade band students Mr kadus and Mr scati our seventh and eighth grade band in choir students under the direction of Mr scaffidi and Mr cadus put on an excellent holiday concert on December 17th and the last shout out goes to the middle school student council and Mrs Bush who is the advisor reported by Mr feasel our Scher Middle School student council community service project committee organized a donation drive to Ben benefit the wasburn county Humane Society prior to break we've heard tremendous feedback about

005the amount of items that were donated great job I like to call Leah Foley to the [Music] front Leah was nominated by Mr radkey on a daily basis Miss Foley has demonstrated ated strong nursing and problem solving skills being the only registered Nur nurse for the school district she balances Public Health student injuries illness as well as students with complex medical needs that require monitoring while they're at school her nursing skills have truly saved lives Pro provided students with the ability to attend school when they have chronic medical issues and ensure that the district is a healthy place to learn and work thank you Leah [Applause] all right now we'll move on with item 2B the security camera demonstration request for information Mr Miller [Music] all right uh purpose for tonight is to kind of

006give you an update on our district security camera platform uh what we've got and where we want to go with it so what I provide you with information your packets and I just plan to kind of walk through a lot of that and then ask questions and hopefully give you a direction we can move forward with so as to start out here with uh what we currently have is a hike vision camera system has been used in the district for the last nine years um basically that system is approaching end of life and being a nine-year-old system it has issues that range from usability in areas of quality of the video how long we can record video um just usability on a big a who can access it where and how they can access it

007those kinds of things combined with uh what it become security and privacy concerns because hik vision is actually a Chinese company and at a federal level in particular concerns have been raised over the fact that there's a company that has Chinese ownership with either influenced or owned by the Chinese government that creates some real issues in terms of uh privacy and security which is a big deal for us in school with students and staff and is one of the reasons why we limit how and where you can access our system it's not available in the cloud or things like that for that very reason reason these factors combin together uh make it a compelling time for us to look at um looking at a new camera system for the district here and so with that

008in mind uh we've been doing some planning for this project and first I'll just start out with the scope and size of this project um know from the beginning here this is going to require uh keeping the board improved and receiving approval so we can ultimately move forward with some sort of implementation of a new system to that end uh we have done some pre-planning within the district technology office which consisted of uh coming up with the criteria that we wanted to use for looking at different products that are out there reviewing what those products are to kind of pick one to focus on that we can go out to bid to you know get costs and ultimately look at purchasing and developing what this project is actually going to cost the district and making

009that an accurate cost that we can you know live within and hopefully come under under budget for so what that translates into some items for the board to consider as I'm moving through this and through this project is obviously I'm here tonight providing you information I'm hoping that uh we'll be able to look at board approval at some point to solicit bids from vendors to provide products and services and move this along that sometime in early spring we could go back to having okay to go ahead and actually start purchasing and implementing A system that being said in terms of planning uh my tech office staff and me mainly Mr fult and myself initially started looking at different products that are out there we looked at four or five different camera systems uh ranging from

010axis verata um two others that I don't have right in front of me here but uh we looked at four systems narrowed it down to two and from two narrowed it to one but in looking at every one of those systems it became very clear that there are two components to this project first is the the equipment for the system the hardware cameras that sort of thing the other is the additional wiring that would be necessary to put in all Network system to be able to provide the kind of coverage that you're going to want in our building's environment from a safety security standpoint so any project we move forward with will have two components for it one is buying the equipment in the hardware for the system and then adding some additional wiring in

011all three of our buildings so we can connect ultimately the cameras back to the system what that led us to is in terms of a product to look at like I mentioned we looked at in particular the verata and access communication systems and it would be our recommendation that we look at access as a company and a Communications plat or video surveillance platform to go with um this is a sweedy space company with a local presence in Wisconsin so the company is based out of Sweden it has vendors that that it resells and works with that are in the state that we would ultimately work with it also has product support people that are actually with access that are in the state of Wisconsin that we also would work with in terms of everything from

012support to just uh staying up to date on training things like that uh overall their product aligned very well with criteria we established um in talking with other districts that are using access products they had very favorable um recommendations experiences using the product um we are also using the tools and working within the company's resources came up with a very solid number of what we think this system will cost which I'll touch on here in a minute uh the big thing that we also liked about the access system is it will actually allow us to reduce the number of cameras that we have in the district and I'll show us here in a minute while increasing vastly the coverage that we provide in The District in the life of the system like I said we're

013on a system that's about 9 years old and looking at these newer systems uh we are looking at this to have a bare minimum of 5 years everything purchased is warrantied full five years but the reality is companies and schools and people are talking to we can expect realistically to maybe push the system as far as 10 years so well within a reasonable time life for a system like this lastly um compatibility and scalability this is a system that has open-ended architecture allowing it to integrate potentially with like our door access system you want to be able to look when somebody fobbed in on a door who was actually standing there you know doing the fobbing in uh tying it in with thing like alarm systems um if we decide we want to use different

014software to manage it we are not locked into using one particular brand or vendor software so all that uh along with uh providing information and a review of this platform in particular with our admin team and others in the district we feel is a solid platform to look at going forward with um touching on this real quick here uh I've thrown up a few Graphics here all combined on one slide but on the left you'll see a aerial shot of the high school and on that drawing there all those ankled covers in blue yellow and purple that's the coverage we would have of our school grounds essentially the entire exterior of The Spooner high school campus and this would be the same outlay for the elementary middle school and old school buildings there will always

015be a few little blind spots but we are decreasing immensely the number of blind spots or areas we just don't have coverage what we currently have in our system for example right now we do not have coverage on the football fields or the practice fields on the south end of the building we have limited coverage on the east and west sides of the building and so on uh now up the right corner you will see what is hard to make out but that is actual floor plan of the high school building and that purple blue and green squares there basically that outlines is that we will be providing coverage in the high school building and the same for every other building every hallway Corridor High use traffic areas like common areas gymnasiums Auditorium certain classroom

016areas and such as that so we are vastly increasing the coverage we would have then down in the right corner here just two quick shots to highlights from a usability standpoint you not only have the ability to sit at your traditional desktop computer location with a screen of cameras up and look that our people that use this particularly our administrative team and that will be able to have access from you know remote devices like phones be able to bring up cameras while they're out in the buildings on the Fly not tied down to anyone's spot this is also huge when we talk about the ability to work with law enforcement and other agencies like them moving forward to provide secured access in a way that they can effectively use us if it's ever needed in

017a time of Crisis or security related issues then on the far right just giveing equality is like when we thought at some of those exterior areas and areas of the building quality of the video is we'll be able to read license plate numbers as people drive in and out of our buildings so as we get vehicles that kind of thing we'll be able to have facial recognition of you know who you're looking at and be able to determine who that is that along with features that are available in a lot of these systems now we'll be able to have the ability to say when something happened I need to know what happened Tuesday morning up at at the high school in the corridor on the northeast side of the building go back and get a

018spot of points where there are active cameras where there actually Motion in the hallway narrow it down say here's a face now you can take that you can track movements of people on other cameras throughout the building to be able to you know figure out who is where when establish timelines just a whole range that I could spend all night talking on of things that will provide much more usability ease of use and flexibility for our staff when they're dealing with using video is far their daily operations in the school and it also provides just a much safer and hopefully more secure environment so now that all L all the great things that something like this will do uh there is a cost associated with that and this is a cost that we knew going

019to this would be somewhere in this neighborhood working with the access system the tools I have I have been able to build a detailed list of the items we need the materials and that is based on their list pricing so that number of 170,000 or 77,000 that's a high-end number we were going to take that out to bid let vendors bid on it and other districts I talked with particularly Durant who most recently did this we expect to come in under that number I can't say how significantly but it will not exceed that uh the wiring cost I talked with vendors that have done wiring for us in the past and we came up with a very accurate cost so what I'm telling you tonight is that number that I see at the top there

020that is our maximum we would not exceed that number moving forward in the project and I would fully expect that unless there are some unknown and there's one I'll speak to in a second here but we would probably come in under budget with the number that I've laid out there as far as moving ahead uh when I do talk about one unknown uh when it comes particularly into Network wiring you've probably heard talk if you've been following anything in the media that uh there's potentials that tariffs may or may not come into play various countries and things like that that potentially could impact cost of materials down the road and nobody is saying whether it will or not we'll have to wait and see what happens but we have the ability to lock in and

021beat some of that if we continue on a timeline to try and you know do this as a 2024-25 project when it comes to purchasing uh We've laid out a couple of options here I've talked at length with Dr Asen and Trish Vasquez um if we looked at the forklift option which is buy it all up front all at once uh we would be able to do that within funds budget this year from the technology office and other areas and Dr as I'll let you if you want to weigh in here or more about those actual funding sources that would be my desired route to go is to get materials acquired that we then start with a roll out and deployment here in late spring with the intent of having it significantly implemented or finished

022by the start of school in the all of 2025 uh second option that is very doable also uh would be you could could go a phased route where you would purchase some off of this fiscal year and some next year and make it a two pane project where we start this spring and then we continue into next year to finish um where I'm going with all this is that uh we would like to move forward in terms of asking the board to take this forward to your regular meeting and authorizing the technology office working with the district office to basically go out to bid looking for bids from vendors that would provide the equipment based on the list that we detailed and that is that first number I talked about but also talking to other

023vendors in our area that would do wiring type work to establish a wiring C or bid to provide the wiring for the project and then if those numbers come in what we've projected ideally bring this back to you in uh march with the move it forward and actually go ahead start acquiring materials and services to implement the project I've talked a lot here but uh if I have questions or anything you'd like to see I'm happy to answer them now also very happy if people want to see more about the functionality and features and that sort of thing to set you up with demos or stuff like that outside the meeting if you something you want to see in the future so that being said are there questions questions from the board the the current

024wire to the cameras right now those are a different wiring some of them probably about a half a little over half of them use coax wiring which was a traditional means of doing this when we were putting a system in place the others are IP based cameras that are our Network and we're going for well the industry standard now is IP based or network-based cameras so we're looking at to establish wired Connections in our hallways corridors some of the areas in the gyms uh places like that exteriors of the building that we just updating the wire and when you start talking about pulling wire it's like the outside corner of this building that's where that cost comes in in terms of bringing a company in to you know run that and terminate on the exterior

025of a building and that kind of thing thank you how many companies do this besides AIS and this Chinese company uh well there are about eight to 10 vendor I mean there are a whole range of companies from the ones you'll find on the Shelf down at Menards and places like that to you know uh like I mentioned the four that we relooked at were verata access hike Vision was initially in there until we became aware of you know concerns of the security Chinese angle um and there others ubiquity is another one we had looked at um but in terms of a cost the other thing i' add that's very desirable from the axis is that this is basically your upfront cost buying it right now and we're done with that short of somebody you

026like coming in bashing all the cameras and having to physically pay to replace one but they're under warranty the software we're entitled to this company's been in business for over 20 years so I'm not looking at them going away uh we're not going to see additional costs or licensing costs year to year which is what happens with some of the other systems where you have to buy repeated licensing like you would from a company like Microsoft or Cisco so what are we gaining with this new system that we have now that we what are we gaining from what we have now we coverage you said more coverage and ease of use and access cameras yeah that's the cameras but then it's the the end user and uh you know I'd be happy to let any

027of my colleagues here uh speak to the uh user ability of you know somebody that's working in the office areas on a daily basis to just dump in and pull up video on a camera right now if uh one of my fellow principal says we had something to happen it happened between 8 and noon yeah we're not sure when somebody has to sit there and kind of watch four hours of video speeding it up so it's not going to be a but looking for that person running through the hallway or something like that whereas these newer systems get ability to say here's when you actually had movement in your hallway now you can go in and look and say is this what guys to it and narrow it down uh the ability to to then

028you know something comes up where we need to share video with law enforcement easily turn around provide them access to what they need so the Access Communications camera surveillance system yep are those specific cameras they use I'm not you say you go to vendors but I mean why why are they vendors isn't this the vendor it's the same as like buying a Ford or a Chevy car GM makes the products but you go to dealerships to buy your car and then if you're going to go out you're going to shop around you is going to give you the best deal so that's what I'm looking at doing and the cameras are all compatible with the system that yeah it's products or cameras but what's a not necessarily Central feature but desirable is like say you

029use software to access it these cameras that we buy from them could be used with other software packages down the road say down the road you say you know here's something that gives us something we want to use it's not available with what we have we don't we're not tied into using access branded software with those cameras gotta something like U verata it's like you use verata cameras with the verata software heard from other schools that Pros Pros or cons for this system that have it you talked to Durand you said who else Durand and oair were the two that I talked there we're in our immediate area um cost has been a factor obviously but the ability to you know replace multiple cameras with one camera that has multiple lenses um the ease of

030use reliability uh the ability to work with people you know both from a vendor aspect and the company itself within the state um it is I'm not going to say it's an absolutely perfect system but it is uh Leaps and Bounds forward with what we would have and uh from a school safety perspective this is just a direction that people are moving as far as better coverage and uh easier access to that footage does this allow go ahead does this system allow in case of a crisis uh live or law enforcement that's we would be able to give them an easy way to get in through via a phone or some access something like that but also in a way that's very secure but not so secure that it's limiting which is what we have

031right now and is those cameras 4K 8K they're 4K 1080 HP so high defin cameras across the whole Spectrum which gets you into that image quality we have no we have a combination of everything from 2 megapixel cameras up to some 1080p cameras and you can see where the quality of the video varies immensely we also are looking at cameras that are uh in the system for example there would be cameras that point at the entrance those are the ones that will grab a license plate off a car the other cameras that would be like a Crosser on the side of the camera are not going to be able to read the license plate but they're going to be good enough quality that you can tell the system say I want to know all the

032gray cars that drove through the parking lot do we have any cameras now that would be compatible with this system that we could use and buy less cameras um not really and again there's that Chinese aspect of it that's kind of discouraging and uh when we went with hi hike Vision back in the day it was driven entirely by cost which again was nine years ago it the system's been okay it's done what we've asked it to but needs have changed over that time too well I think security issues are a big deal in our school we want to make sure we're secure so I mean it sounds like reasonable thing anybody any other questions for him storage you that would be a minimum of 30 days or it would be we're planning on you

033know for every camera to be able to store video for 30 days if we decide we needed more at some point there's ways to you know increase that so that gets back into the scalability of the system too thank you but currently we now we record video for about two weeks I yeah thank you H any other questions do I have consensus then to put this out for bids to have we have to sensus to move it to the board all that but yep we'll move move it to your regular board meeting to go out yes y consensus everybody yes yes all right very good thanks H yep item C update on current Auto School programming Community Ed Mr Barnett thank you so much uh for hearing me again it feels like I'm here a

034lot but uh that's that's fun first thing I want to do is take a moment just to thank the four people that are in here that helped me make this program the best for our kids in Spooner starting with Dr Asen we have a lot of conversations about uh where we want to see things go and then Josh and Chris and Pete have been awesome in helping to formulate what the next step is um so so uh very excited uh to just sort of tell you a little bit about where we the successes of the past year um the biggest is that we secured funding for the next five years for the sces mighty engines program we've established a student Advisory Board um we've increased by about 10 members um our community Advisory Board um

035we've increased our student participation in all of our programs um up by about 15% in both sites um we increased participation in summer school um the biggest one is that we've got our own teachers to buy into what we're doing and we've seen an increase in the number of teachers that have stepped forward to lead clubs both at the middle school and the elementary school um we also now have teachers teaching that are teachers on the faculty at St Francis to sales and uh are continuing to work to build our numbers there um we've added two more positions in our instructional coaches which has made a huge difference in our ability to make sure that our programs are well staffed and functioning well um we've also worked really hard to increase student voice and choice

036um in all of our programs and Amber and I presented at the Wasa conference uh which is the out of school Time conference for Wisconsin about the great things happening in Spooner um that's the last slide I'm going to read them all um um you can read this uh you know you can see if you look at last year's to this year's we're up and that's the exciting thing um for where we are we've also at the elementary school as I told you before changed our programming model so that um there's two half hour periods um and uh rather than just one hour of instruction um at 400 p.m. in the afternoon an hour of instruction is deadly so we've uh changed that up a little bit and the kids seem to really like it

037and our Thursdays with the mighty engines is a big hit we've made pizzas cookies clean the garden um all sorts of fun things um and we continue to tweak that model um at the middle school um our numbers are again up we have more teachers leading clubs um we're really working to try to build our student interest if if we offer only great experiences for kids that are for all four grade levels at the middle school what's the incentive to stay with it when I'm an eighth grader so we've started to do more with cross things that are fourth and fifth grade fifth and sixth grade seventh and eighth grade and then continue to offer those that reach everybody but that way there's something for kids to look forward to when they get to those

038upper grades and it's HED that over time that'll help us keep students in there because if you look at the data and the trends very much is we have a lot of fifth and sixth graders less seventh graders fewer eighth graders so we want to make sure that those numbers are consistent all the time um a very exciting thing that we're moving forward to is looking forward to is uh building a high school OST program we've hit some setbacks with this and that the state uh DPI is not offering a grant competition this year and I don't want to wait two years to try to get this off the ground so we're working really hard to secure funding um to make this a reality for the next school year uh we need to come up

039with figuring out how we're going to raise between 30 and 40,000 to make this happen and I'm working on that and if anybody has any ideas I'm all ears um but our goal would be that we're going to work towards a coach tutor program having some of our existing student interest clubs be part of it figuring out how Credit Recovery fits in this and also begin building the documents that are required to submit that Grant in 2526 now so building our smart goals building our mission building our vision with the high school building leadership team so that that's ready to go and we don't have to wait a whole year to do that um uh we are continuing to um work on Community Education it is the biggest challenge in my job and it's not

040that I don't want to do it there's only so much of me to go around and doing some of these um other things for our students in the district have seemed to be a bigger priority than rebuilding that Community Ed piece um this isn't the exact uh presentation I'm hoping you have the exact one um that has the three reasons for why it's a challenge right now I think the biggest challenge is just the amount of time to connect with people um I spend a lot of time in all three buildings connecting with teachers and trying to make our program that we've got right now really effective um the bigger the other challenge is I think sometimes it's really easy when there are programs that I know I can sell to the community um this

041year the shows that are being done in Minneapolis are not things that I think are going to be big sellers in Spooner um and what I'm saying is The Big Show at the hennipin this year is Juliet which is a takeoff on Romeo and Juliet from Juliet's eyes that's not the Lion King that's not Little Mermaid that's not something that I think is going to get the excitement that we've had in the past we are looking at some other opportunities out there for those oneandone days but there haven't come to fruition yet and the other problem is really trying to make sure that we're not duplicating what others are already doing so I was all excited about a trip to Greece at Shan Hassen and then only to find out that the seniors are doing

042that already so if we duplicate that we're only hurting them and we're only hurting ourselves so it really is trying to find that Niche um we are working on getting pickle ball on the community ed website um and if you haven't heard um the Shell Lake Art Center has just started a pickle ball program um so that may be a game Cher in a lot of ways too but um definitely um things to keep uh in in mind as to why that program hasn't taken off um summer school we're very excited about an additional week of summer school to include gifted and talented experiences in ela and Mathematics um that's going to be an exciting program and then the big question on the second one what exactly uh the impact of act 20 will be

043we're ready for it whenever we have to be we have an idea for we would incorporate that into summer school we're also looking to expand greatly our high school offerings um through both Credit Recovery interest courses Sports and also academics um so more on that as we get closer to the summer but a really exciting time for that summer school and and trying to continue that momentum that we started last year where we increased our FTE pretty significantly um and then more student Choice especially at the elementary and middle school levels so that is my presentation and I'm very excited about the things we've done and know there's a lot more work to do and thank you to the people that help me make that happen on a daily basis um it wouldn't work it

044is a community effort so thank you thank you questions uh yeah you said the Arts Center I saw that as well does that open up scheduling at our elementary level at all I don't know um they haven't really decided I I may have helped them see that that that was something they should look into um but uh I haven't seen what they're doing yet so I I don't know the answer okay and my other question is and I hate to bring this back up but last time we met um asked those two groups the U Back court and the pick ball group to get together talked about those five days it's my understanding that um when they left that they were in agreement but when I talked to Melissa Smith who runs back court they

045they told back court that they didn't need all five days and said that they only needed less so they only granted them the two days do you know if that's true or not I have no knowledge okay so as the Director of community ed if there is a scheduling issue is Melissa Smith able to go to you as Community Ed director and you're able to say to the pick ball group this next week we're going to have to move pickle ball back till 6:30 or to 7:00 I think the easiest way to answer that is we're in transition to figuring out what that what that procedure is going to look like um I would think that somewhere in there there's a yes but I'm not sure exactly what that looks like today so I'd like

046to jump in if I may so so what I was told was that it was back court that said they only needed two of the five days that they talked about so well I I talk directly with Melissa Smith who runs back court or she does the scheduling and she told me that so it's something we can talk about afterwards absolutely has a community ever been surveyed on on what they might like to see offered at the high school for Community Ed like courses that aren't expensive for example you can not offer a one night course in cooking for example or welding or something is that ever talked about in community ed the answer to that is sort of but not really as as we've done things we've asked questions of the people that have

047participated like what would you like to see um but we haven't done a full out survey and if that's something the board would like me to do I'll figure out how to get that out there and well I'm not sure the community is aware that we have Community yet tell you the truth um and if we do maybe we can offer some things to the community would would bring adults in here rather than we have a lot of stuff for kids I know but Community Ed is everybody right so uh maybe we can concentrate a little on that too y over here thanks okay um yes there have been surveys in the past prior to Mr Barnett's coming on board I know the surveys have been sent out several times and I would encourage you

048to do one now that you've kind of got your feet under you a good year or two under your belt but I think that's very important there have been surveys in the past and I know it's been a responsive thing for the community so I would encourage you and we can certainly help you with getting that out there because it's important to have that out there of what people would like to see so yes there have been in the past to answer your question um we probably haven't had one in the last five years Co some things went away so I think now is a time to restart that for sure y anybody else Daniel just to clarify the addition of pickall the Community Education website is that the same group that's doing it now

049or is this separate no this would be the group that's doing it now so that it's listed as part of community yet perfect thank you okay thanks Pat we'll receive your information place it on file item D discuss the 2026 Europe trip proposal Mrs Chic and Mrs Nelson hello everybody Nelson uh well we're we're proposing a trip and a tour again through uh F tours we partnered with them and the first tour that we coordinated and offered in 2018 the tour date was for that trip um the process starting in 2016 uh it's familyowned business they have a long history and they they're accredited for um schools and universities traveling these are pictures from that tour that we took in 2018 with our student body we did have parents parents also attend with with their

050students um but it gives them an opportunity to expand their knowledge of the world and their place in it and um how to integrate their experiences and education into their future careers for academic credits the high school credits that are offered through EF Tours um last tour they were accepted by the high school it's an accredited um there there are little links down below here as well that you can look at but it's an accredited program for the high school credits and that would be for an elective um elective credit a half credit and then there are three college credits offered through EF at $360 total for three credits through southern New Hampshire University if you want more information about those they are linked into the um into the presid presentation as well uh one

051of the things we wanted to note that pricing and payments everything will be run through EF no funds will be funneled funds will be funneled through the district office or the school at all on the bottom left of the screen up there you can see that there's a tour tour donation page that the participants will have they can share a code with family and friends and they can make donations directly into their student account that costs zero money the entirety of of the gifted amount goes directly into the EF account uh fundraisers um the platform that I just shared is what EF offers and that will be the only fundraising that will be happening through the district no fundraising will be done by Senora Mrs Nelson or I um as I stated earlier no funds

052will be funneled through the school district or the accounts and there's no financial obligation to this tour tied to the district whatsoever no no financial obligation or responsibility uh then Maria so the tour that we are the tour that we are proposing is um it will be in July 2026 for 11 days and Mrs Sheik and myself will be the leaders and we will have chaperon and we will select the chaperon depending upon their experience and depending upon you know the number of Travelers that we will have total um The Travelers who will be um um able to go it will be open to a school district students and the FR uh St Francis students from 8th grade to 12th grade of the 2024 2025 school year uh the tour will also be open to

053parents and guard guardians of enrolled 8 to 12 grade students of 2024 2025 school year if we would not have enough Travelers then we will you know we would decide if we would would like to open to sixth graders but if we will open for sixth grade um the sixth grade student will have to go with a parent and then we will open to also community members the eligibility requirements um the tour will be July you know 2026 and the students that do not have four or more office disciplinary reports and they will have to agree to the EF and the school district um policies and regulations and as far as the reports means Majors not minors if that makes sense the board okay um so the tour will be uh going to Italy um

054the highlights will be Rome Florence to Road in the Austria region Munich and Prague so that will be um Italy it will be Austria it will be Germany and it will be the Czech Republic so that's what we would like to propose right there you have you know some pictures of the places and some of the highlights in each of the cities that we will be going to um right here if you would like more information there's the itinerary and there's a link that you can open and then see um and here what is included what EF includes is a full-time tour director the SI scene which will be like uh four SI scene tours led by experts uh licensed local guides which we will be do the doing the extension to Prague so it

055will be like five ex uh it will be five tours and one will be you know like a walk-in tour the entrance food themed walking tour this uh sine Chapel St Petersburg Basilica the D in um Florence and um P's ski jump that would be in Austria and then daau in Germany and then because we are will be doing the extension to the Czech Republic there will be you know like a tour there in the city and um e F have uh personalizes um um guides that they really are extremely you know engaged and they get students really engaged in the tours and it's really really nice and what is cover it will be round trip uh in major carriers um comfortable motor coach it will be night nights in hotels with bathrooms and European

056breakfast and dinner daily and and uh lunch or dinner on the third day so that would be the high you know what will be included and transportation we will work with the busing company to transport The Travelers to and back from the airport uh if there are 12 Travelers we might take the school vehicles with volunteers to drop off and to pick us up from the airport when we return oh in the for the for the last tour the district had a background check done on all adult Travelers EF also provides that they provided it then as well so that's something to consider if you would like to continue with that um background check done by the school additionally to what e f background check is for the adult Travelers adult Travelers for EF is

057anyone 20 years old and old older and they do there is around 3 months prior to departure for their background checks for the adults is there a cost for that ef ef does this that's part of what's included y there's no there's absolutely no fees to the school whatsoever and The Travelers are paying directly to them so anything Associated is covered through EF there is a cost if we choose to have it done by the school though oh I apologize that part I would have to defer to do Asen so that's something for the board to consider if that something you would like to have in addition um so the expectations of the adults traveling with students is that there will be no alcohol consumption for anyone a under the age of 21 and for

058no one who is in charge of chaperoning adults traveling have to understand that it's meant for an educational purpose and that alcohol consumption should not take place in the presence of any students so we did that in our last tour as well and the adults that went um they what's the word they accepted that and they followed that guideline for safety safety is really important to me uh there is a 6 to1 chaperon ratio um obviously if it's not a number of six 6 12 18 so forth then the number of chaperon to student ratios could vary somewhat just based on the number of participants and travelers our um tour leaders discuss safety Pro procedures with our Travelers at the informational meetings they're going to be given a list I make a list I already

059made the list for US embassies and consulates the addresses the phone numbers the game plan if something goes sideways where do we meet how do we meet where do you go to hook to Wi-Fi so we can communicate last time we used WhatsApp and it worked very well for us to communicate in Europe um with one another so if a student had an issue in the evening after it was curfew they could um message on that and then we could go to their room and and help address whatever their issues were we will have our international calls activated on our phones so we can make phone calls back to the United States and um in the event that we need to or if parents on this side need to get a hold of a traveler

060while traveling um right here right here at the fine print there's a lot of of information about the trip there so there are links there and uh we will be Distributing and collecting all the paperwork for all the Travelers um hard copies have been given to Mrs shoer shoer I'm sorry uh in December and this documents were reviewed by the district attorney and School administration and approved by the school board when we did the tour in 2018 that was led by Miss ch and uh what we are requesting is um you know whether if we would like if you guys would like to do the background check and uh mandatory for adults and we would like to you know ask the board to approve the Italy and Germany EF tour with extension to Prague for

061July 2026 uh with an option of receiving 05 elective High School Credit at uh spner High School as presented in this live show and we talked about that and uh with no money from fry Racers uh being funed through this Spooner school district and um you know and the background check that how would you guys would like to go on that questions in 2018 did we do background checks from the school yes for the first tour that we did we the school did want those okay could you since you did this before could you just give me a brief um description of the benefit from the last trip what I mean the kids enjoying and what were some of the benefits that you think this is worth worth doing uh well I can I I'm

062gonna give a very high glowing remark to Senora because she um she had some of her upper level Spanish students going on that trip we went to Paris prance and then over to fare and then is that how you say it I'm saying it wrong I'm sure I don't speak Spanish and to Barcelona and so throughout that entire trip when we got to the Spanish section uh people in the shops the the students would be speaking the language and the people in the shops would they'd stop the students and say you speak very well who who how did you learn or where did you learn and they oh well you know here she is and um they're like they would compliment um Mrs Nelson about that so the application of what they've learned and being

063able to communicate effectively the culture the cuisine the the um tour just so you know um the tours every day it was 7:30 a.m. go time and we got back anywhere between 9:30 and 10:30 every night so there was education happening the entire time that we were out there um do you want more or is that enough or yeah you're not just selling me I was just I'm just a few of the students did did do the college coursework which part of it is on tour and then part of is a reflection reflective aspect after how many kids do you need to go to make the trip I mean what's the minimum do you ever have problems with getting enough kids to go and our first meeting I think we had well this whole entire

064room was standing only um our tour I think think we took 26 and it was going to be 23 for the tour that covid canceled we'll call it that is there Max you can take I think for a private tour you can take up to 40 yeah but uh going back we could take more it just would another bus yeah it was really cool to see like on tour you know students on tour students were like oh my gosh this is so cool oh my gosh this is so different and you know it was just just their faces just a with this with the things that we saw it was really really cool and I did have one student I'm sure if she's watching she'll be like oh my gosh this is me but she

065she cried at the Lou and for me that's like the huge art museum in Paris and she just sat in awe thank you anybody else does travel insurance is that included in EF or do you guys do something separate or they have two travel insurance policies um provided through EF and they're detailed in here as well um and so one of them they have different price ranges one of them is more flexible a 24-hour Advance cancellation for no like you whatever reason you have no no Clauses on that that one is the more expensive one and they just added that after covid because they learned that people wanted that and then there's a one that's not quite as expensive and that one covers I believe it's up to 45 days prior to if they cancel

066for a reason but for sure it's in it's it's LinkedIn so you can read those the um The Travelers are required to have at least the lower one if they want to pay an additional amount for the coverage up to 24 hours prior that's up to them but we will be requiring that they have the minimum yeah isn't this L is link here and explain everything with detail information yeah my links don't work uh so let's say there's something that happens when you're there is there travel insurance in and within while you're on the trip that covers any incidents is have to come back home early um yes for example there was like one student that um lost his suitcase his suitcase was like completely stolen I think and you know the EF kind of

067took care of it and then they gave him like money to buy you know what he needed and all that so the tour director guides you to what you need in the event that you know like um something that would happened so that is really nice because they are the experts and they just kind of tell us and guide us of what we need to do so depending upon um I do not recall what page specific speically tells you about um the insurance but there's like peace of mind for example if something is happening in the the the country that we will be traveling then EF will tell us okay this is not safe to go to that Country and this is how we will you know like change it so um and they had

068also in it if there was a an accident or something happened happened and they were hospitalized they paid for a guardian to come over and be with their with their student child participant yes yeah but there's a lot of information here with a lot of detail $50 million worth of insurance that they offer thank you and it's yeah it's detailed in the fine print which we're scrolling through really fast can you read it I feel like we're in an infomercial sorry no thank you but yeah it's it's in here it gives you the details that's all anybody else no I just think it's a great opportunity I appreciate you two putting this presentation together and willing to participate and I think it's a great opportunity for a lot of students in this area that would

069never have this opportunity before and so I think it's a great experience and thank you both for doing that thank you do we have a consensus then to move this to the board meeting I do and I would recommend that we do what we did last time and have background checks from here yes from here yes yes we I have our own background checks yes yes to have our own yes I amend that so yes okay very good thank you thank you thank you item 2E superintendent search update I'll ask Michelle to give us a little Spiel and anybody else on that committee Terry and Andrew you something we had 12 candidates um and the board looked through all of them and came up with the top six um Bruce sent all the before the

070interviews we were doing questions to those six so he sent those questions out to them we are supposed to have all those answers back from those um by Friday so we can review them which will now take time to do that next um out of the six one did decline um he had to based on something that happened in his um a family medical issues so we're down to five out of the six that we will be reviewing um and we are still on for interviews at the end of the month thanks you guys got anything to add NOP okay seems to be going pretty well yeah there's some good candidates and looking forward to looking forward to the interview process thank you guys item 2f discuss open enrollment seats for 2025 2026 Mr radkey

071good evening everyone I'm just your to give a quick presentation on the Open Enrollment seating for the next school year I'm going to apologize I've had to kind of learn the process there are some errors I will correct as I give the presentation and then we'll update that presentation for you as well um it's quite a learning curve right um so just to review the Open Enrollment requirements uh by the state um were required to approve open enrollment availability by the January board board meeting or at the January board meeting each year um we provide open enrollment numbers for general education and special education for all grade levels and projections are based on current enrollment and Staffing so we don't really look at much um changes we just try to take with the numbers we

072have um so the standard practice in Spooner area school district has been five seats per grade level 4K through 12 um these are seats that are provided without consideration of special education programming um so for Spooner Elementary that would be 30 students uh Spooner middle school 20 students and Spooner high school would be 20 students um for the elementary and middle school each grade level right now has uh three sections for the next school year allocated and the more complicated side of uh open enrollment is the special education calculation so um when we look at special education calculations uh we're a mostly inclusive School District so we look at a maximum case load of 23.4 um if because um we do inclusion with students um in the general education classroom um the board of education

073is recommended to adopt the maximum rate State Maximum for open enrollment purposes uh which is 4.0 seats with an estimated Matrix number of 2.6 um so each seat is uh 2.6 let me try that again um this is where the learning curve comes in so you have a student with an IEP that student with an IEP is considered 2.6 students because they consume more resources they are more resource demanding um the recommended preference to given to applicants is current siblings that are open enrolled so um current open enrolled students excuse me siblings of current open enrolled students with special needs and in order that open enrollment applications are received so we take the first ones first um acceptance of students with disabilities that are open enrolled will be based on special education space available class

074space and then the service Services needed um that are currently available without adding positions are significant significant expense um so the current special education open enrollment available seats um we are uh full right now in early childhood um the elementary school is also full um for special education um there are 13.8 seats available for uh the middle school and then 14.7 seats available for the high school that's a different chart than we have on our computers yeah different than I have oh yeah that's I had that's the one I have to correct I'm yeah you're right my apologies um that's the that was the real one that you yep um that was me there's about eight calculations you have to make in in reviewing them I had to fix a couple things um so yes

075this will be the correct one it will be updated for you and it will be updated in the minutes or in the uh uh um board packet um oop sorry um it's important to remember these are not actual seats um the number of students accepted is less than those seats requests for all open seats may be denied if a an accepting a student results and exceeding the recommended case load in any area um so there we also consider the area of like speech language occupational therapy physical therapy because we don't want to push those positions over and then requests for open enrollment that will incur additional cost to the district if accepted or required service not provided by the district will be denied all right and then the recommend uh Next Step would be uh

076the administration recommending approval of the Open Enrollment proposal as amended when I um Jesse and I updated to you and Jesse's been so kind to me through this thank you Jesse um uh at the regular J uh board Ed Board of Ed meeting in January okay thank questions yeah the chart that you're showing we've got four teachers in the special ed Department in middle school and in high school with the seats available does that just mean that their their classroom's not as full or their their uh the students that they're capable of helping is just not uh maximized um it's a little more it's it gets a label of seats but really it's a way of measuring level of need um and that's what it is right now and that's not the entire measurement you

077also have to look at scheduling um when you get into block scheduling and everything like that to get all the needs met it's more difficult to do it's not that we have teachers with empty classrooms absolutely not there I I was talking to them today they're incredibly busy um that's that's what I wanted to clarify absolutely and I was prepared that that might get asked but no they're very good busy people yep anybody else we have consensus then to move this on to the board meetings yes all right thank you item G discuss the 2025 26 school calendar proposal Mr tro hey I don't have a fancy presentation for you um you guys all have the school calendar in your board packets uh biggest thing we heard at the beginning we started talking about the

078calendar year was We need to make sure we have our full week for hunting season we need to make sure we have our full week for spring break that President's Day break and oh by the way try and get out as soon as possible before June so if you take a look at the calendar uh we accomplished pretty much all of those things uh the major changes that you'll see on the calendar is this next year we are going to implement two floating work days for our staff so there are two days that are actually going to be allowed for our staff members to pick when they're actually going to come into work in the building and get things done that they have to in their classroom um we also front-loaded uh um our inservice

079days our PD days um quite extensively so we can try and get some of that mandatory training and stuff like that done so we don't have to take that into our PD days during the school year um the only other thing that really is a a big change um is we incorporated our spring break with the Easter [Music] holiday anybody any in March next this coming year I believe so yeah okay okay any questions can we point out one very important thing that's going to be very important to some of the audience out there I see something highlighted here that says summer school days can we explain what that is please sir sure summer school days are going to be our soft start to the school year um in the elementary school and in the

080middle school it's going to look different than the high school but in in those two areas the summer school is going to be come in we're going to get you used to your schedule we're going to get do those soft things introduce you to teachers get your curriculum get used to our classroom expectations things like that um those are going to be the summer school days in the elementary and middle school correct gentlemen uh as far as the high school um you know that we have a freshman only day at the beginning of the school year well that's going to be incorporated into the summer school uh that'll be the day the Thursday and Wednesday will be the lead crew training that normally happens during a PD day so I just dropped the clicker but

081I apologize for that but that's how it's going to look right now that's how I Envision it in the high school and for the elementary and middle school so and just one more question for all of those listening um if my student doesn't attend those two days does that count against them attendance wise it does not thank you they miss a whole lot if they don't go to those two days it's a lot of the the uh classroom beginning stuff so they can miss a little some information um and guys you can jump in here if you want to but it's a lot of the the beginning information getting used to your teachers getting comfortable in the building without any pressure of homework or anything like that I think it's a great way to start

082the school year one more question for the audience is all staff required to be in school for those two yes ma'am for all buildings correct yes ma'am thank you just Sunday April 5th is Easter in 2026 okay and so it actually starts the so it's the last week in March and then goes through that Sunday yep got any questions on the school calendar any further nope thanks we'll move that forward to the the uh board meeting do we have consensus to do that yeah all right item H discuss the high school railroad map update Mr all right that's me again hey uh you'll notice there's a whole bunch of changes to the railroad map this year um I'm really excited I challenged my staff to come up with some more elective courses because right now

083we are running out of courses for our Juniors and seniors um when they get to junior senior year they're trying to plan their schedules they've already taken that they've already taken that they've already taken that so if you take a look at it every single one of the Departments has at least one new course um in the railroad map and you can see there's brand new flowcharts the the document looks really good right now there may be some minor changes of names and things like that but the actual scope of each one of the classes that is in there um I'm really excited about some of those cool classes and social studies like pop culture through Through the Ages and uh what was one of the other ones I was thinking about uh one of

084them is actually making fishing rods through CTE and we're talking about entrepreneurship classes things like that I'm really really excited about what some of the courses that they've come up with now obviously we're not going to be able to run all of them next year but we're going to go through the requesting process and we'll run the ones that have the most requests and it'll turn out to probably end up being some every other year stuff so we can make sure kids plan out their [Music] schedules any questions uh thanks I guess that's it we have consensus to move this to the regular board meeting yes yes I think I'm on the next item too so I'll just take discuss item I discuss 2025 26 new and changed positions we have uh about five of

085so so so I'm going to kick us off with that one board members uh know that we've had conversations for a number of months now so we know that change will come for next year some of it will come through uh change in Personnel some change is going to come based on uh requirements that we have had come through us uh legislatively and uh some just based on the uh the needs of uh along the lines of what Mr schroer just talked about that we need to have adequate courses for our students and so um with that you you also know what a challenge that we've had here in Spooner has have schools across our state in in hiring the best qualified Personnel to come in and serve in our schools so we bring this

086information to you here in the month of January because uh with your approval we'll get these positions out there and have the uh the best shot at the deepest pool of qualified applicants so that when school starts next fall we've got the right people and the right places ready to serve our students here in Spooner okay and Mr short as long as you're standing there uh you can talk to us a little bit about the 1.0 FTE English language arts teacher sure um this position really is coming about it because we are going to lose one of our own somebody who's been a kind of a pillar at the high school for a really long time um he he retired came back and for the last two plus years he's been a part-time English teacher

087in our building and prior to this year we had another former English teacher who was our choir director that's no longer on our staff so we had to we were able to supplement with that English teacher to supplement the halftime position for Mr Thornley so long story short I need a full-time English teacher because English is the most required class in the state of Wisconsin they need four credits um and it's our lowest staffed area right now I have two full-time teachers in that in that area right now and I I need to get back up to three okay any questions on that so so that would be a net increase of FTE do we have that in the budget we do have that built into the preliminary budget and are you looking for one

088that has that can do the plays and everything I would love to find something like that but I I I'm honestly I'm looking at English language arts first and that's that's what I need is I need that area and I it would be great to have them come in and be exact fit for Mr Thornley but uh there's obviously uh no guarantees for that okay how about the uh high school dean of students and athletic director buiness well it's not a real big secer Dana's right here um that Mr Lucius um it plans to retire at the end of this year um and he actually plans to put his letter in before the next board meeting but we would really like to get this out right away um to get it posted out there to

089get the best candidates as you guys know this this type of role can fill really fast um and the candidate there's not a ton of candidates out there for people that are willing to do a dean of students type job and take on the rigors of an activities director it's uh it's a demanding job and I I think that we need to get out there and get the best candidate that we can do okay thank you Mr raty how about the uh 1.0 FTE school psychologist position yeah just to review um at early at the beginning of this school year um we had a vacancy open for a school psychologist after numerous attempts at posting and um we were not able to fill that however we were able to get a point for um that

090was a limited term and I'm here seeking the board's consent to post for a 1.0 school psychologist again for the 25 26 school year questions and that I just to be clear too my that role for that person would be both special education and also assisting with um RTI so response to intervention when kids are struggling in school what to do next type thing so thank you yep Mr berghammer one point0 there's a question yes you have a question Jesse can you send out the the um job description for the ones that are requesting meting thank you uh Mr berghammer talk about the 1.0 FTE instructional coach the elementary school all right uh the potential of the new role in the elementary building um the instructional coach is a result of the needs and uh

091requirements of act 20 which is a new Wisconsin law dealing with early literacy we are not looking to add an FTE to our building as most of you know we have been slowly reducing our sections per grade levels over the years our last remaining grade level with with four sections this year will re be will be reduced to three sections for next school year um we would ask to use that FTE for this new position um this job would be posted to our sces teachers and those interested could apply and go through the interview process um act 20 has been changing uh seemingly on a weekly basis um we had just gotten U 150 slide presentation here the other day about it um so this role will most likely change as well um but the

092general role for this person will be to assist in all tasks created by act 20 um administrating assessments and screeners to our students uh weekly progress monitoring and um creating an updating all of those reading plans and uh basically anything related to the ACT 20 so again just want to get out in front of this um just so we uh just like it was expressed earlier we want to make sure that we have the right people in the right place and everybody's prepared accordingly questions yeah I was just going to ask it's does it require a specific DPI license or a general educ Elementary education license the way we worded it it would be just a general teaching license yeah okay thank you all right thank you Mr Miller technology coordinator you anything they add

093about that H yeah I guess I have a thought or two um I you took time earlier this year to uh meet with me and here as I laid out some of my plans and vision for where I'm going personally um what I laid out to you has not changed or anything and so I'm intending to follow through on that and as such um you will at some point probably be looking to replace a director of Technology as I get ready to turn my resignation to you at the next meeting um one thing that I think is probably be the most helpful for you is that job description the way is written is written for a person holds the type of license I do which is titled technology coordinator because that's a DPI license a

094person has to have that license to be able do that job title many districts have shifted uh by changing it to director of Technology um I think that would be a wise decision to look at modifying that job description so that you would be able to cast a larger net uh open that up for both internal and external applicants kind of things so that you have an opportunity to hire the best person for the job down the road so any questions that's really all I just wanted to share with you for tonight thank you thank you do we have consensus then to move all that to the board meeting for decision yes yes all right item J discuss proposed 2025 wasby resolutions I included uh the packet of resolutions in your in your superintendent applications

095for you to review I have to vote on these at the convention representing our district and uh if you've looked through these they're pretty you know Standalone resolutions by wasby but I would probably i' would ask for consensus to vote in the in favor of all these unless somebody has a problem with them and then I'd like to hear what the problem is and maybe information on what I can ask when the resolution comes to the floor as far as debating it anybody have a issue with any of these yeah uh I think it's on the second page the first one the early literacy assessments my impression is that they're uh they're encouraging school districts to have to do uh like we would test a student for reading and writing abilities in English they're asking

096for schools to have to do this in a student's native language um I understand the purpose is that a student who's an intelligent person doesn't get labeled at risk but I also o believe that that would be cost prohibitive for a district to have to do in other languages um especially if a person is intelligent they're going to learn quickly being immersed in the English language I I just think this is uh cost prohibitive and something that's going to be overcome anyway okay anybody else have a comment on that particular one if not any other issues with any of the other resolutions provide me some information to talk about if they if it comes to the floor and it's debated um okay well if not I'll ask for consensus then for I guess Joe I'd

097have a yeah and I don't know exactly what they mean by that so the last one on there resolution 255 with the assistent standards across all schools which includes they say private schools receiving vulture funding have the exact same accountability reporting transparency um Min are saying they already meet the state standards all those schools do so I don't know what they're asking here you're not going to have the same between every school so I would have some questions on what what that would look like the requirement for that all right I can ask that so St Francis for example all they're teaching what they're doing might be different than here and I I don't expect us to tell them what to do as long as they're meeting the state standards I think they're right but

098above that though they're also asking for the decoupling of public and private school funding which that pretty much I mean if that's they're asking for the elimination of school choice that's what 254 is is this just a recommendations that you guys approve and is something that they bring to the state or state so basically you guys are proving some resolutions to bring to the state that may or may not get that correct yeah that's right okay thanks anybody else got any other issues not we'll move on thank you Joe item K discuss the uh second reading of volume 32 number two Neola policy updates everybody had a chance to review those any questions do I have consensus to move those to the regular board meeting yes yes yes yes very good item L discuss second

099reading of volume 33 number two Neola policy update 0164 meetings same question everybody had a chance to look at those y issues I've already expressed my issues do I have consensus to move that to the regular board meeting yes yes all right yes item M 3060 90day planning any questions on that see none do we have consensus to move that or what I guess we'll just receive that information place it on file item n Financial update Dr Asen for the month of November 2024 income of 0,96 69 based largely on Food Service claims uh expenditures of 1,478 n98 and uh onhand balance as of the end of November 2024 3,266 93045 to contrast that with November of 2023 income was $85,200 expenditures were $1,347 32279 and the onhand balance was $823,000 cash that's Food Service

100difference or that's just we're doing better or yep so the higher onand balance is a reflection of the board strategy to Levy the referendum money and Levy to the max in anticipation of the year after the referendum money is run out thank you for clarifying okay item uh oh approval of vouchers I got one question in the vouchers what I noticed there's a there's three entries for middle school elementary school and high school leak what was that I I wouldn't be able to speak to that right now but I will follow up with Mrs Vasquez and have her get you that information forever was leaking I'm not sure okay anybody have anything with the vouchers we have consensus to move that to the regular meeting as part of the consent agenda yes yes yes thank

101you item three I need a motion to adjourn so moved second any questions any discussion hearing none I all those in favor of adjournment say I I oppose no

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