001order and access to meetings are here in person and also online and we will start out with the oath of office for our newest school board member. >> You want me to stand? >> Wait, say it again. >> Yeah. >> Okay, cool. Um, I, Elizabeth Potter Nelson, have been appointed to the school board of the Stevens Point Area Public School District and swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Wisconsin and will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of said office to the best of my ability. So, help me God. >> Congratulations. >> Thank you, Liz. [Applause] >> Welcome. Thank you. >> All right, we will now move to the meeting opening and roll call. Miss Bushman is absent tonight. Miss Mercer >> here. >>
002Mr. Kowalsski >> here. >> Mr. Pope >> here. >> Mr. Liebreick >> here. >> Miss Earler >> here. >> Miss Potter Nelson >> here. >> Mr. Summers >> here. >> Mr. Leec >> here. >> We have a quorum. >> All right. If you could stand for the pledge, please. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> So we will move into Mandana Bliss Award and I will read the background behind it. The Mandana Bliss Award is a symbol of our deep appreciation for the unwavering commitment and outstanding efforts demonstrated by our staff members for educational excellence in the Stevens Point Area Public School District. It is named in honor of Mandana
003Hail, Stevens Point's first school teacher and trailblazer whose exceptional service and dedication continue to inspire us all. This award lends us the opportunity to shine a light on remarkable contributions made to this district by our staff and recognize their exemplary service. This month we are honoring Kathy Place a retired naturalist educator and volunteer at Boston School Forest presented by Carla Lman who we always love at our school board meetings. Um program leader for Boston School Forest. So, congratulations to Kathy Plants. And we'll have both Kathy and Carla's gonna say a few words. And I want to >> Well, good evening and thank you for this opportunity to recognize Mrs. Kathy Placants for this month's Mandana Bliss Award recipient. Mrs. Placants came to Boston School Forest nearly 10 years ago after a 33-year career as a
004middle school science teacher in Elman Vancraftoft. Uh she taught summer school with our friend and retired colleague Sandy Mastersonson for many summers taking kids to Iverson looking for crayfish imparting her in-depth knowledge on all things plants and birds um through the plant or the bird of the day and sharing her passion and love for the outdoors with many many youth. As a naturalist educator, Kathy has led field trip programs for thousands of students in our district. Kids absolutely love learning from Mrs. Plants, and I have learned so much about teaching kids from her. If you've ever shopped around a field trip with Mrs. Placants, you have undoubtedly laughed at her humor and the catchy songs that she makes up to help kids remember the topic. Her latest chart topper is all the single needles, which
005describes the spruce tree on our dichomous tree identification key. Since kids get pretty excited on the school forest field trip, they can sometimes be wound up. But Mrs. Placants's calm and confident teaching style, there's so many occasions that I walk into Elkie Lodge with a wound up group that I intend to come in and it's loud and it's not. She has them all just gazing on at her and hanging on her every word. And it is that calm and confidence um that I absolutely admire about her teaching style. Kathy is so knowledgeable about all aspects of the natural resources, especially our native plants and birds. She's a master gardener and so she works hard to maintain our garden beds, which is the polite way of saying pull weeds and work up the soil. Um over
006a decade ago, Karen Dosel established the bluebird boxes at the Boston school forest as part of the monitoring trail through the Aldo Leopold Ottabon Society. Um when Karen retired, Kathy took over monitoring these boxes. She cleans them out at least twice a year and records and reports the data on the species of birds number of offspring and success rates and reports those to the Bluebird Restoration Association of Wisconsin. This past July, Kathy re-retired from education. Yet, she still graciously substitutes for us whenever we need her. This last week even, and she volunteers on Thursdays and for our special family events. The Bliss Award is awarded to someone who demonstrates compassion, kindness, and dedication in serving students and our community. Kathy 100% embodies these characteristics both as a teacher and a person. Please help me in
007congratulating Kathy Placants as this month's Mandenna Bliss Award recipient. [Applause] >> Put your foot in center. >> You should do a good job. Great. Thank you. >> Congratulations. >> My pleasure. >> Thank you. >> So, memories for kids are made. Thank you for being part of it. >> Congratulations. You don't. >> No. >> Congratulations. I'm lucky to get you. >> Congratulations once again, Kathy. [Applause] Thank you. >> Thank you. >> All right, we will move into public comments. Okay, nothing. All right, so there there's no one who's done email or um here tonight for public comments. So, we will move into um welcoming our new student senate representative, Lily Meeks. >> Welcome, Lily. Thank you for being here. >> Um Lily is going to be our student um representative on the board for this year.
008Lily is a very busy student, an active student, and is really going to represent Spashwell this year. So, we'll go ahead and let her give her report for this month. >> Would you like me to go up here? >> Nope. You're good right there. >> Thank you. >> Yep. >> Good evening, everyone. My name is Lily Nes and I am your school board representative for the year. I've been on the girls tennis team for four years now and I've loved every minute of it. I am also an active member in the national honor society, student senate, feminist club, and the environmental action club. To start us off, I would like to talk about our homecoming week. Two weeks ago, we started oh, sorry, this started the start of our homecoming at Smash. We had dress
009up days throughout the whole week leading up to our bigger events. Wednesday, we had our naming of Mr. Spash, Ben Troyer. Friday afternoon, we had the parade and pepfest, which led to the naming of our homecoming queen, Kylie H. That night, we hosted our homecoming football game against Oaklair North and dominated 41 to 21. Although, I did not know that because I went to bed, so I had to wake up. Um, to close our week of fun, we had the annual homecoming dance Saturday night, which was disco fever themed. A lot of our students were able to make it to the dance and had a wonderful time from what I've heard. SPASH has their preACT coming up this week, Wednesday the 15th, for juniors and sophomores. While seniors will have an e-learning day at home,
010so lucky for me. Another big test coming up is the PSAT, which will be held at SPASH on Friday the 24th for everyone who signed up. This is an opt optional assessment that gives students the opportunity to qualify for the National Merit Scholarship. The drama department presents the 2025 Spash musical, The Adams Family, on Saturday, November 1st at 100 p.m. in the Spash Auditorium. Tickets will be $10 for adults and $5 for students and seniors. Spash's musical department has been booming so far. The band has been very busy this year with playing in the parade, pepfest, the homecoming game, and most recently playing at the Spash versus Wasa West game last Friday night. Choir has a concert tomorrow at Spash along with this Friday in the Noel Fine Arts Center. Both of those are at
0117:30 p.m. The Spash Orchestra also has their first concert of the year on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. as well. Moving on to some of our fall sports teams. The girls tennis took first at conference on Thursday, October 2nd, and is sending their one doubles team to state this Thursday at Madison. The boys cross country team is killing it as always. They are undefeated in junior high, JV, and varsity races, and they are still working their way towards state like every other year. Last Saturday, the volleyball, the girls volleyball defeated Marshfield, which led them to take first place in the conference tournament. And lastly, our girls swim team is looking forward to their conference coming up on the 30th. And I believe they're also undefeated in conference right now. Um, that will end our Spash update
012for the night. Thank you all for listening and have a wonderful rest of the month. >> Thank you, Lily. >> Yeah. Well done. >> Welcome. >> Can I just say too that Miss Meeks is the granddaughter of two of our former Stevens Point faculty, >> George and Miriam. >> Y >> born and raised. >> Thank you all. >> Y Thank you, Lily. >> Yeah. >> All right, we will turn to Sarah Guanado. All right. Report for last month. >> There was the crowning of Mr. Spash lawyer. >> I just think it's a great picture. Let's look at it for >> all right. October coverage oc or September coverage, excuse me, um being reported on in October was busy. Uh we had an opportunity to get to a lot of different um events, cover just a
013lot of different things happening across schools. We're really trying to make an effort to be present um at elementary, junior high, and the high school. Um high school coverage clearly with uh homecoming during the month of well that' be early October, but even the end of September. Um just really there's so much going on there. So we're really trying to make an effort to balance that this year. Um and we can see you've got some some fun things going on there. Turn up the beat award was recognized by two of our board members. Um just covering first day which feels now like that was like six months ago. Everybody else is feeling that way. Um but just really uh lots of really good stories to tell and capture and share across the district. Looking at
014our website and digital engagement, we can see again that year-over-year, we're seeing that dip in total views for the website. So this is down 11% compared to total views we would have seen last year. What continues to be interesting to me is that engagement time is up. I'm not I don't that's just a huge number that it's up. So how long um people are spending on the website, how much time they are taking there. And then also that key event count is up substantially from last year. So again, I would like to see total views higher every year, but I'm very excited to see engagement and key event count up. So, we're going to I'm it'll be interesting to see if that continues to be a trend as we move through the school year. Um,
015again, those key event counts would be like people downloading the calendar or a form that may be there. They're doing something or taking something off of the website. Um, which is a good thing. We want them engaged. Our top three most visited pages, boys cross country was second. Again, I was surprised by that, but you know, go boys cross country. uh things we'll be working on moving forward. Uh we did update our district landing page. If you were paying attention before after the website, we had one place where we were really highlighting stories. Um and if you knew to click through that, you could see all of the good coverage that we had. If you didn't know, it kind of looked like this was the one thing we were doing. I didn't like that. So,
016we went back and changed that. So, now we have a ninestory display there. So, you can see all of the things that we're doing. I just like that a lot better. We'll be likely implementing that at other schools as we go throughout the year. Um, but found we're just trying to get them back caught up and engaged again in the website. It's tough to take that time off and then come back and remember kind of how to do those things. So, uh, we'll continue to work on that throughout the year. We're continuing our website audits as well through November as we continue to prepare for the title 2 digital accessibility um, that we need to have done by April of 2026. Uh I'm through two trainings. We'll have two more on the 24th of October
017open and reported and available. Um so I feel good about where we are. Um but certainly a lot of work before we get to complete compliance. Media coverage and public relations during the month. We had a lot of uh just really good engagement, right? Good coverage um on things that I'm surprised sometimes that we get coverage for. Um but just really excited to see see the media telling our story um in a way that I think really reflects what is happening in our schools. Social media engagement for the month. Uh we saw total audience go up for both Facebook and Instagram. We saw a decrease in impressions and engagement of sorry I have a post-it note somewhere. 9% uh decrease in impressions and about a 33% decrease for engagements. That does not surprise me at
018all given the amount of attention and impressions and engagement we get heading into the school year. There's just a lot of questions being asked, a lot more people tagging other people, which is a lot more going on the month before coming into school. So, I'm not concerned there. And then our highest post for engagements uh for the month was our uh food service staff celebrating how many years they've been working in the district. Looking ahead to next uh well to the semester, not a lot of changes here. We continue to work on that strategic planning and alignment. Really focusing on um where our midyear update and talking about a referendum and budget. So we'll be seeing that soonish. um engagement and recognition, highlighting as much as we can our staff, our students, those good things
019that are happening across our school. Uh building capacity and support internally through digital accessibility train pling digital accessibility plan training. There we go. And uh additional trainings available for clerical administrative uh staff. And then uh continuing to work on our campaigns. The count mein campaign is completed. That was our third Friday count awareness. I have had the pleasure of awarding doughnut drops to some of our classrooms that had h perfect attendance for that day. They've been very fun. Um parent teacher conference communication will ramp up as we head into that. Um and then continuing to think about what we might be doing with enrollment uh marketing this year. >> Any questions for me? >> Does digital accessibility apply to like social media? Oh, that is a really good question. >> Since like things like adding
020text to pictures and that sort of thing is >> I would say off the top of my head like I don't know. I will check for you. My gut says no because it belongs to you and not to the district. However, it would be good to model those best practices. Um, from a social media standpoint, biggest things there would be adding alt text to images. Um, which you can do right as you're putting your text or post on there. Um, the other piece would be if you are having any, um, actually Facebook does add all text for you automatically as well if you didn't know that, but sometimes you just got to spot check it because AI is weird. Um, if you have video on there, making sure there's captions on there. for the rest
021of it, it's mostly it should be accessible. The thing to watch out for, and I'm not sure how we're going to address this either yet, is PDFs are inherently not even a little bit accessible. Um, getting them to be accessible is time consuming and frankly above a lot of people's techn skills. Um, so we're trying to figure out what we're going to do with that. We get a lot of flyers in from the community that shares a lot of really good information for our families. We're not sure how we're going to share that out in an accessible format. So that's probably the biggest thing I would watch out for. >> Yeah, good question. >> Any other questions? >> I just want to um say I mean Facebook presence has been really good and really quick.
022So like today already so many wonderful pictures about homecoming. >> Yeah. >> Up there. And I just I mean I think I know you've been moving kind of in that direction for quite some time to really be able to share out to the community like what's happening and >> yeah thank you. >> And I would say frankly that's having the communication specialist right so I'm able to focus more on making sure like our digital accessibility plan is ready to go and we're compliant with that and Brooke is able to be out and about at schools making sure that those things are getting um taken care of more quickly. >> Yeah. Thank you, Sarah. >> All right, we'll move into Corey. >> Okay. Um October 5th through the 11th was uh school board recognition week. So,
023I just want to thank each one of our schoolboard members for their commitment to our community and to our students. Um you put in countless hours, which goes underestimated a lot. I don't think people realize how much time it takes board members to prepare and and sit in committee meetings and sit in board meetings. So, thank you for that. Um, in front of you, you have a gift and that gift was designed and crafted by our students at the Charles Fernandez Center. It's a wooden pen that they made right in their own wood shop. So, thank you on behalf of the students. Thank you on behalf of the administrators and staff for all that you do. Um, I appreciate all of you very much. Thank you. Then I want to talk a little bit about
024uh two of our students, Elen or Ian Koulame and Reed Newman. They were recognized as commended National Merit Scholars. To earn this recognition, they must score in the top two to 3% on the PSAT nationally. Uh Mr. Voluntorf uh sent an email out to his staff and he said, "If you've had either Ian or Reed in their classroom, this recognition is no surprise as both of these young men are incredible students." So, congratulations to both of those students. Congratulations to our WASB business honor role recognition. Um, these are our business partners who continually support our students, our school, and our district. We are really thankful for all of their collaboration and their partnership. They are Central Rivers Farmshed, Ellis Construction, Power Engineers, Chur Hot 96.7, and Scotty Kger at WPCN Radio. So, thank you to
025those business partners for their support of our district. Then we learned that our spash botchi squad took third place at the Special Olympics Wisconsin State Games recently in the Wisconsin Dells. They did a great job working together as a team and they showed excellent sportsmanship. The team members were Quaid, Riley, Ethan, Jason, and Nathan. And Dorothy O' Conor was their coach. So, congratulations to those students. Lastly, uh I sent an email to the board just reminding them that we did our first posting for our committee uh educational services opening. We received zero applicants. So, we reposted on October 6th. It's open through this coming Friday. To date, we've got one applicant that has submitted an application. So, we'll see what happens on Friday. And then Nicole is in the process of working with G to
026vet the people for interviews. And then we'll set up a meeting date with the ED services board committee members uh to interview the candidates. More to come there. >> All right, >> that's it. Any questions of Corey? >> All right, we'll move into the consent agenda. It's the minutes of the prior school board meeting uh September 8th. the minutes of the prior special schoolboard meeting uh September 15th, the approval of the scheduled monthly bills as well as employment recommendations. >> I have a motion. Do I have a second? >> Second. I have a motion and a second. Um any questions? All right. I will have you call the roll to the scheduled monthly bills. >> Mr. Summers? >> Yes. >> Miss Mercer? Yes, >> Mr. Kowalsski. >> Yes, >> Mr. Pope. >> Yes, >> Mr.
027Liebreick. >> Yes, >> Miss Potter Nelson. >> Yes, >> Mr. Lee. >> Yes, >> Miss Eler. >> Yes. >> Motion carries. >> All right, we will move into business services human resources. And I will turn that over to Marne. >> All right. From our October 6th meeting, we welcome Liz to her first official committee meeting as a school board member, which I almost forgot, was thankfully reminded of. >> Glad to have you, Liz. >> Thank you. Uh Beth gave us an update on the Anovia clinic usage um uh showing that we have a 40% utilization rate uh among our staff which is over the benchmark of 33% um and is actually pretty impressive um and only expected to go up I think given the uh positive reputation it has with the staff and they have
028to date saved us estimated 980 n $980,000 in uh in savings. So, good news all around. I think uh on that note, >> when will we see those numbers actualized in the budget? >> Um probably when we come back and do the renewal, which I believe is in the spring. >> And Beth just shook her head, so yeah, it is. >> I remember it from last year, too. Yeah. Um and there are four items that Mike will come up and talk about. They are the bus bid, uh the cash flow loan similar to what we approved last year, um which we did not use, uh the uh van purchase, uh and a budget update. And the only other one, uh was we did go over our enrollment count, um which is down, uh around 2%ish.
029Um it is uh the uh ratio for open enrollment remained uh pretty steady around 2.4. So there is no appreciable difference in that. um the enrollment count appears to be driven by kind of statewide trends in terms of lowering birth rates and people exiting the state. So >> the first item is the uh acquisition. So we do this every year at this time. Essentially what we do is we have six leases going at one time. So when one lease gets paid off, then we add another one in. The reason why we do that is to keep stability in our payments. Um, and so for this year, we are trading 11 buses. Some of those are the last of our propane buses, so those will all be gone after this year. Um, and we're purchasing 11
030new buses. Um, any questions on that? Could you just So I know the propane buses we we went in there hoping that that would be a good option for the district, but I think what we found was the inability in terms of like driving the buses distances and being able to refill. So could you just talk about that just for >> Yeah, they didn't have the range that a diesel bus has. So that was one of the issues. They also don't have quite the power when going up hills and things like that. So, that was the main reason. They're also um when we went to trade them in, you don't get as much value out of them either because there's not a lot of people that want them. There's a little less demand for us.
031Just a question out of curiosity with decreasing enrollment why we're keeping the same number of buses >> because we've got 400 square miles that we have to cover and I mean while we are decreasing enrollment it doesn't mean that we still don't have to go to some of the same areas to pick up students and route times. I mean we try to keep those route times down. Some of them are are pretty lengthy for some of our littles to be on those buses. So at this point we still need the same number. We may not going forward. >> G I I you know I see the long lines at all the schools to pick up and drop off students. So I was wondering do we supply buses as if we were to transport every kid
032in the district or are we just transporting the ones at one? I mean, do we have to have buses for >> Capacity if all the kids wanted to ride the bus? >> Yes, but we only plan for those who sign up for transportation and not not all of them do. A lot of Spash kids, for example, will drive to school. >> Um, parents oftentimes drop off or drop off or pick up. So, our routes are just determined by those that that take transportation. And do we not does Jefferson even have bus? >> No. No. >> So we got a whole an entire school that doesn't have a bus service. >> And if you've ever driven past particularly PJs or Ben Franklin at drop off or pickup. >> Yeah. >> It's a mess. >> I alter
033my route to work to avoid those. >> It's a zoo. >> So So when all those parents are picking up their kids, we're not obligated to have a seat on the bus for those kids. Not unless they ask to be transported. >> Other questions? So, we are looking for a motion to recommend board approval of the purchase of 11 2025 type C conventional type 72 passenger diesel-powered buses with exterior luggage compartments from Ascendants Truck Centers of Marshfield, Wisconsin for 1,274,900. the cost of which is to be paid by lease over a six-year period in annual payments that are expected to be about 238,438 per year. Modifications to the bid or interest are allowed. Do I have a motion for that? >> So moved. >> Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Right. I have
034a motion and second. Any other questions on that? >> Just on the budget. We have this budgeted amount already because this is an annual thing. We have those that 200 and some,000 already budgeted >> perm. >> Okay, >> good question. Y All right. All those in favor with I >> I. >> Any oppose with they? >> Motion carries. Okay. We're moving into the resolution regarding authorizing a taxable tax and revenue anticipation promisory note for cash flow purposes in an amount not to exceed 3 million. >> Yeah. So, this is the same line of credit that we um established last year. This is essentially renewing it. I don't think we're going to need it. Um but I'd rather have it than not have it. And we do need it. Um the uh first equalized aid payment
035always comes the first Monday of December. So this year the first Monday of December is actually December 1st. Next year the first Monday in December is December 7th. So when that happens that's when this becomes more necessary. Um, but it may not be next year either if we're able to build our fund balance back like we started to do this year. Um, but I don't believe that we're going to need it, but I'd rather have it than not have it. >> Any more questions on that? >> There's no charge in having >> There is no charge in having it >> unless we draw on it. Correct. >> Correct. And if we draw on it, the interest rate 7% and then we'd have until November to pay it off. We can do it in one big
036chunk or payment. >> How close have we come? How close did we come last year? >> Close. >> Like a dollar. >> Well, we've held some some payments that we needed to make to other vendors. >> So, the amount going into the fund that we put in, the 1.4 million, I should really >> secure the I mean, we shouldn't be worried. We're not ant unless something traumatic happens and we have to spend a big chunk of money on something, but we're anticipating at this point that we're not going to have to draw on it. >> Yeah, we have a big insurance payment that is due like that first week and in uh each month and that's where having that extra week could could be problematic. But I really do I am anticipating we'll be able
037to build some more fund balance. So hopefully next year we'll be in good shape as well. >> Well, and and again for people in the community that you know maybe are hearing this for the first time. I mean, COVID, and I know we all like to blame CO on lots of stuff, but with COVID, we wound up with a lot of one-time money, and the state of Wisconsin legislature at the time chose not to provide additional ongoing funding over those years. So, literally every district in the state faced kind of a a cliff of where their their budgets were and had to dip into fund balance. And fortunately for our community, um they passed our operating referendum to provide us with additional funding, but it didn't fix >> right >> the amount of money that
038we had to use in our fund balance to help fund ongoing operations. So, our administration is continuing to like to build back that fund balance, but in the meantime, because we start our budget in July and we don't get our major payment until December, we have to cash flow almost half our year out of our fund balance. So, we're paying bills out of our si our savings account >> for from July until December. And right now, there's the potential that we're going to use all our savings up. And as you've said in the past, we've held bills. We haven't paid them. I mean, we're we're doing our best to do it because >> to the extent we can, we do not want to get into short-term >> poverty. I mean, we just we don't. So,
039I appreciate everything you're doing to make that not happen, but this is something just in the event we need to. >> It's a safety net, >> correct? >> Yep. All right. So, we are looking. Oh, >> a motion to approve the resolution authorizing taxable tax and revenue anticipation promisary note for cash flow purposes in the amount not to exceed $3 million. Do >> I have a second? >> Second. Any discussion? >> All those in favor with I. >> I. Any opposed with nay? >> Motion carries. >> All right, we're going into the mobility van acquisition. >> Yeah. So, I'm going to I'll take a little more time on this one. Uh the school district is uh responsible for transporting students to and from school including in special circumstances. Currently the transportation department has two Ford
040Transit passenger vans equipped with wheelchair lifts and driven by non CDL driver. These vans have been essential in transporting students with specialized IEPs. Now we are required to transport students who have um special needs. And I'll just read a little bit of the next paragraph. Since transportation is defined as a related service, it must be provided at no cost to the parents if deemed essential for the student to access and benefit from their special education and meet their IEP goals. Therefore, fulfilling the MAP mandate or the FAPE mandate. Um, so what we've seen in speech increase in students. So we had an increase of 199 students over the past decade. Meanwhile, our other student population's been declining. Okay. Um we had in 2122 we had 42 specialized routes by 2425. So last year we had
04162. So it went up quite a bit. This year at the time when I did this report we were at 51. Has that increased? >> Two extras. >> You have two extras already. So that may still increase. Um so we are going up in um having to provide specialized transportation as well. Um we currently have 11 students that require transportation using a wheelchair accessible vehicle. We do own six buses with a wheelchair lift, but we have to pick them up at their home. So sometimes you can't turn a bus around um at at the home. So you need something smaller. So, the van works really well for that purpose. Um, we can uh we did spend, let's see, over the past few years, we spent anywhere from 10,000 to 16,000 paying for cab services because
042again, we have to provide this transportation. Um, I don't think getting a van is going to eliminate all of that. But if we do have a student that we can't provide transportation for who is in a wheelchair, that's very expensive. been more difficult to find. So, one of our vendors that we were able to find was $109 per day. So, over 180 days, that's $19,620. So, that can get expensive really quick. So, by purchasing a van, we can claim it under special ed categorical aid. And if we do that, as you know, the aid has gone up to 42%, but that is again some certain. So, we don't know exactly what that rate will be. But we can claim that amount and get that back from the purchase. Um, we are looking at we did
043have three uh bands uh quotes. One of them didn't meet the standards and it was also the most expensive, so I didn't even include it in this report. The other two were from A&J Mobility. Um, the lowest quote was for the 2024 model for $81,719. That was that is a new van. It's just been sitting on a lot for a couple years and the warranty has been kind of ticking off it as well while it's been sitting there. Um, but that is the cheapest one and we can add an extended warranty for $4,81 which will give us 7 years 100,000 miles of coverage and then that van is still cheaper than the 2026. Um, the other thing that we we want to do is we can add another wheelchair spot in the van, another tie
044down. We have to purchase seats that flip up to provide room for that. That's an extra $1,600, but I think that gives us a lot more flexibility. Um, and so we are recommending the 2024 van with the extended warranty and the uh extra wheelchair spot. Any questions on that? >> You mentioned in the business services committee last time that it might be able to qualify for the higher level reimbursement. Have you had a chance to further? >> I'm actually meeting with someone on that supposed to meet with them on Friday. We had to cancel it and so now it's going to be a few weeks out before I meet with that person. Got >> there is a chance that we can also qualify for some high cost special education reimbursement. I think we can, but
045I don't want to say 100% >> until I know what. >> So, I think the other thing to maybe talk a little bit about is the CDL drivers and >> the potential. >> I mean, the reality >> Yeah, the reality is that we don't have as many drivers as we used to have. I mean, we had in 2020 66 CDL drivers. Now, we're down to 44. So, that's a pretty significant drop. It's getting harder to find CDL drivers. So, by switching to a nonCDL vehicle, that gives us a lot more flexibility. And there's just people that would rather drive a smaller vehicle than a big huge bus. So, I think options really help us with those scenarios as well. Okay. Just out of curiosity, >> yep. >> What do we pay a driver? What do
046we pay driver? >> That's you know the pay 2430 an hour. >> 2430 >> y >> an hour. And how long would a route be for one of these special? >> Depends where they live. >> I what I'm going for is it's $109 a day is what the number you gave. >> Yeah. >> We don't have to pay a person or paying somebody else. We don't have any benefits. We don't have any anything. We don't have the additional care of a vehicle. >> Yeah. >> Is it not cheaper to do the 109? And wouldn't that still qualify for SPE the special education funding? >> I don't know about the funding piece. An issue that we're running into. We we tried to do that and they weren't able to guarantee that students would get to school
047on time and wouldn't get picked up earlier before the school day ended and IEP minutes were not being met. So if it's our driver, our bus, we have control over when the student gets picked up, when they get dropped off at school, and then when their school day ends. We tried and and we we ran into an issue. I mean, this is a this is a necessity. It's not that we haven't tried multiple options. >> I'm just going with it sounds cheap. >> I know, >> but it it may be cheaper, but it's not going to be cheaper than a potential >> lawuit. Let's just be real. >> We went back and forth on that. >> Yeah. >> So, we have two fans right now, right? One is getting pretty old, but we do have
048two. >> And I remember you saying that you can only carry one wheelchair bound child in each one. >> Is there any way to remodel those so you can get two? >> Um, I don't >> know. Okay. >> I didn't hear what >> it can't be. It can't be. Okay. >> So, those can't, but this one can. This is a new bill. >> So, it's just a different stuff. >> This is a new bill. So, the extra tracking can be added. Okay. >> Is is there an ability? I know the other kind of issue. >> Call him up so that he's not speaking up. >> Yeah. So, the other issue I know we've had from a district perspective in terms of CDL drivers, in terms of our buses, our um athletic events and um co-curricular
049events. Again, we're talking small. Clearly, this is a small van, but do we have the ability, would we have the ability to use this for some of those options and then maybe open that up to people who are non CDL drivers. >> For this particular van, because we're using special education funds, we wouldn't be able to do that. It has to be for students with specialized transportation. We can however use it for other students that are not wheelchair bound that need specialized transportation. >> So this funding is coming out of purely sped money. >> It will come out of I Go ahead, Mike. >> It's the sped budget, but we'll get reimbured categorically for that. >> Okay. So because we're putting in for the reimbursement on the categorical side, that's why it can only be
050used for that specific thing, >> right? So if we were to purchase it out of the general fund, we could use it for all that. >> Then we wouldn't get the reimbursement. >> We would get the reimbursement. Correct. >> So when when uh you take a van out to pick up say a wheelchair bound student, uh there are also other seats, right? They can pick up other So >> only spend students with special needs. Yeah. Okay. >> Yeah. But uh is there like how many can this van hold? How many can the other hold? Wheelchair bound plus non wheelchair bound. >> So yes. >> So our first gray van will transport one wheelchair and seven seven students. Our other white one will transport five students with one wheelchair. And our proposed one will be the
051same will be five students and two wheelchairs. >> Do they usually have multiple students? They're all full capacity >> every day. >> Any other questions? >> Are you expecting as many questions, Mike? >> Actually, yes. So, I am looking for a motion to recommend board approval of the purchase of a mobility van for use in transporting children with IEPs. >> Second. I have a motion and a second. >> I have another question. >> Um, the other two vans that we have, what will we be doing with those two vans? >> We're currently using them. >> Will we continue to use? So we'll have three >> and one of those vans is actually was actually purchased out of general fund dollars. So that can be used for specialized special education students and students. >> The other
052van that we have was all special education that was federal money. So that again can only be used for specialized. >> So we're going to have all three running routes >> for this year. And then the grade of the 2016 will be taken out of service that next spring. And that 2016 you're taking out of service was paid through fed money or through >> that was fed money. >> Okay. >> So we'll still have one that could transport >> students general ed students >> to your point just >> yeah. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you Lee. Thanks Mike. We still need >> So we have a motion and a second on the floor. Any other questions? All those in favor with I. >> I. Any oppose with nay? Motion carries. All right. We will
053move into the general 2025 2026 budget overview. >> Okay. So, we have been working to finalize the budget. We're waiting on some numbers. October 15th is kind of the big day when we get our generally a certification that will come that day. We'll also find out about private school vouchers on that day. And those are the last pieces of the puzzle. What we currently have is our current budget with a projected um state aid amount with projected vulture amounts is an increase in the total levy of about 16% with an estimated levy rate of $6.92 per thousand. So if you think back to when we went to referendum, we projected the levy rate of $6.96 for the 25 26 year. So the levy rates actually coming in a little under if it stays that way.
054It's under by about 4 cents. The total levy increase is $6.9 billion. Okay. of that 5,250,000 is the referendum and the other 1.6 million is really due to the $325 per pupil amount. Um, and then we don't have any matching general aid this year to uh make up for that. So, that's where the money is coming from. Have any other questions on that? I wanted to give you an update so you kind of know where we are before we get into that October 27th budget year. >> So Mike, relative to the budget, there were some announcements from the federal government that came out this week. So first, the administration cut 8 million in special ed teacher programs. And I did see Jenny quoted in an article about that. So I was glad to see her
055advocating >> for us and what those do. and then um some $15 billion in department or you know cuts to the departments of education that oversee $15 billion in federal spending under the idea act and the rehabilitative services administration. So it sounds like those um departments have been cut 50% and then an additional 20% over the course of this year. Is that going to affect any of the aid that we get or any of our budget? Well, the the answer to that is it won't this year. Um, essentially it's affecting the employees that monitor states to make sure that they're um providing special education services under IDA. Um, but also the funding flows through those people as well. So, it was that's a good question to ask and something that we obviously needed to check
056up on. Um I did contact DPI and this is actually from the state superintendent's office and a memo by um the state superintendent and this is what it says. She said on Friday, October 10th, the federal office of management and budget announced an estimated layoff of 466 employees at the US Department of Education. Early reports suggest that these layoffs will impact the office of special education and rehab rehabilitative services. The Office of Special Education Programs and uh TRIO TRIO at this time Wisconsin's federal funding for individual disabilities education act and TRIO have not been impacted. So that money's already been allocated to the states. It's there. We're going to get it this year. I don't know what's going to happen next year, but for this year, we're okay. >> This school year. >> Yes, >>
057this school year. >> July 1 of 2026, we may see some impacts, >> but you don't know. I mean, there's there's a lot that can happen between now and then, >> right? >> So, so we have a you know, we have our budget hearing in, you know, two weeks. And I just I think it's important that the community because this is, you know, percentage-wise a big increase. It's 16%. As as Mike noted, you know, about 5.2 million of that is the referendum. I mean, it's it's what we told the community that was going to happen if if they passed the referendum, and the community did. Um the other 1.6 million is just the reality that um Governor Ivers um created two years ago, a line item veto that allows school districts to increase our per
058pupil expenditure by $325 each year moving forward for what? 300 >> 400 years. 400 years something like that. This year the legislature um kind of said okay that's going to happen. I mean and that can happen but as a state we are not going to increase the amount of shared aid from the state level. So if districts want to increase their budget by that $325 per student, then it has to come out of the local tax levy. So every district, including ours, that is the decision we are going to be looking at in two weeks. and our administration is recommending that we do that >> and and that we that we increase our tax levy to cover that. They're also noting that that the levy that we will be looking at is less than what
059we had projected um with our referendum um by a couple cents. So, it's just important for the community to know that and if people have questions or concerns and want information before our budget hearing in two weeks and then us making a decision, we really want people to reach out to Corey um and have have those conversations. So, tonight was just for information. I mean, for us as a board as well as for the community. >> Yep. Your mic. >> All right. Thank you. >> Okay. Thank you. >> All right. We'll now move into uh educational services and I'll turn that to you. >> Okay. We had two uhformational things uh both dealing with uh student and classroom management, student behaviors. uh one was the initiation of a PASS program positive approach to student success
060and the best way I could describe it is it's a multi-layered uh intensive program to teach students social skills so that they can remain in class. I think that'd be pretty good way to describe it. Uh it's um it's pretty intensive. The first couple weeks you got kids in a classroom with a teacher and it's oneon-one or What is it? >> Small group. >> Small, very small group and they're all day long >> teaching them how to act and things like that. And then they monitor them as they go back into the classrooms. Uh so that's a pretty intensive program and I think we're doing at five schools this year and hopefully we'll see good results and uh expand that if it works. The other one was the >> Uru >> Jeff. >> Impressive. Jeff.
061Okay. Weteru CPI restraint free environment. Uh CPI is something we've been using and uh it advocates the least amount of restraint as possible but Ukeru advocates no restraint at all and it's a different method and uh I think it was Jen that described some of the uh some of the ways that it uh it works. uh there's data that shows that it has worked in various places that it's been used and uh uh we're going to we're initiating that into our district. Those are the two things we talked about. >> Great. So now we're we also have safety and security updatesformational with you guys. Um, so I do have uh Chris Pazinski with me. Um, and then Lance Lewis. So both of those gentlemen are part of our uh safety and security leadership team for
062the district. Um, what we really wanted to do is be able to provide you guys as a board. One of the additions that Corey really tasked me with and both of you guys were were huge helps with it last year was really being able to lay out to a board what does our plan look like for the year so that as board members when we talk about the safety and security of our kids, we're able to kind of have a plan in place and be able to look at it. So, I'm going to kind of walk through each one of these pieces with with all of you. It's in your packet. Um the the first page that you guys are seeing there, this is my favorite page. For those of you that know me, I'm
063a planner. So, I like stuff laid out and organized. So, lays out kind of month by month as a leadership team. What do we look at and what do we check off? Um, you you will notice there are a couple of bolded items in there and those are items for us that are really critically important. So, if you look in August, we did our annual SRP SRM training. Uh, this was our reunification training at Woodlands Church. Uh, this is something that we do every single year. Um the other big ones are going to be in December. Uh Chris will be standing up here in December talking to you about uh an update on all of our school safety uh checks that we have and we report that to the board. Um they are right on
064track uh going out both him and Lance to all of our school sites and working with our partners in law enforcement making sure all of our drills are getting done. The board gets that report in December. Uh and then in January we file that with the office of school safety. So that kind of lays out um the first page. Uh you go to the second page, Nicole. Um this one, this was a new addition. Uh one of the things we did last year is we organized everything. And this year when Corey and I were talking, she said, "Well, if you're going to do all the work, you better lay some goals for yourself." So wanted the board to know that. Um the first two are really tied together. One of the things we realized in
065looking at our budgeting process, and we're going to talk about that more later, we did we don't really have a formal process for our safety and security budget. We couldn't even have told you before this year, how much we were spending on it. So, that was one thing we wanted to do. Um, the other thing we wanted to do is make sure it was equitable all of our sites. Um, a lot of it was people would make requests to myself or Chris and then we'd have to go talk to Corey, should we do this? Can we do this? So, what we did is we implemented a safety audit. So Lance and Chris, as they go to each school site and help them with drills and meet with building principles and our custodial staff, we take
066that information and items that they say they need, we put them on the sheet and then as a leadership team, we rank those on a one to three scale and we bring all of those together to help identify where we're going to go with our budget. Um, so those are the safety audits we're going to have. Our goal is to improve our budgeting process. We want to make sure all the schools are getting a chance to have their items being treated fairly um and equally. The next one is uh last year uh you guys probably saw Sarah did a great little story on this. We worked with the Clover Police Department and they did a grant uh and got safety bolts for our elementary schools. So this school year Chris's team is working on getting
067those installed at our elementary school in the Clover area. Uh once we do that process and have an idea of time how we're going to set them up, we're going to look at expanding it. But our goal this year is to get that installation process and be able to lay out a timeline for that. And then finally, uh working with Jenny's team, uh we wanted to make sure that we continue to develop the skill set of all of our staff members. So, one of the things we have heard from our staff is if one of these events happen, what resources do we have for our counselors, for our psychologists that are coming into the build that are coming in and supporting reunification sites because that's an all hands-on deck call. Uh it doesn't matter if
068your school wasn't affected, we're going to ask you to come. So, we're doing trainings with all leadership team members and all of our student services members on the prepare protocol, which provides them with resources and support. So we're able to support students at that event and then afterwards at our school sites in the weeks that follow. So those are our big goals. Um then we have our organizational structure. As I mentioned, uh Chris, myself, Lance, we meet monthly. Um items that come up from the district um come up. Uh I meet with we have a parent advisory group that the three of us meet with which has been a great addition this past year. Thank you. Um, and we also meet quarterly with our police. Um, and that's both Clover and uh, Point. Uh, and
069then we have a a task force that works kind of underneath us. That task force meets, it meets every other month as a whole group, but then we have action teams inside of it. And on that month that we don't meet as a whole group, we dive deeper into different items within each one of those teams and their specialties. Um, and then they come back and report to our full group. So that's the structure that we have in place. Um a little fast. >> That was really fast. Um so this budget is what Chris has already been working hard on this year. These are already the requests that we've started to have roll in from our school sites uh for the current school year. So we will continue to build this and this is the
070fluid document that we have. These were based on requests at the end of last year coming in. Uh we will add to this as we do that safety audit and get all that information from our school sites that goes on Nicole the next page just a little bit. Um then this one is really the this is the compliance piece but I think it is really important. It identifies what are we submitting to you as a board? What are we submitting to the state and when are we doing that? Um and then our drill expectations and this is shared with every one of our school sites. What type of drills do they need to do? How often are those done? Um, and that'll be reported out by Chris. And then if you go one more, this
071is the start of the budget for the 2425 school year. And this will go from page five all the way through to page seven. Nicole, if you just want to cycle the seven. Um, I do think it's important for this group to know when we look back at a referendum, we said we're setting aside $1.5 million for safety and security. So, in 2425, we spent approximately $411,000 on ensuring that we keep our school sites safe. Um, we still do have more big ones coming. We've got our PA systems. We want to finish getting our schools upgraded. Um, Chris has been working with Mike to get that uh put into our our budget, but we wanted for the first time to be able to show the board what have we done specifically around safety and security.
072Any questions? Yeah, if I had a question. Uh, you know, the planning and everything obviously important to do and you guys do a great job of it. Uh, but no plan is is only as good as the people that are enforcing it. So, I was curious like when you go to a door, what can they see? Like you ring the bell and they say, "Look at this thing." What what can the person who's going to decide whether you can come in or not, what do they see? >> I mean, I can tell you I've seen what at our office um when Teresa or Amber, both of them have that type of phone. It's a pretty wide angle lens, G. And if they don't see the person in it, they will say, "Can you please slide
073over so you're in front of the camera?" Um, and I've been at school sites before and heard them saying that outside. Um, so they actually those little c those little lenses that you see are almost like a GoPro, so they're they're pretty wide angle. They're not very flattering, but they do give a good view of the face. >> So, is there another camera up above looking at you when you're standing there, or is it that the only camera? >> That's the only camera. >> Um, well, our schools, the when I've gone into our schools, they're they're not they're pretty good. I mean, somebody's there asking you and uh if they recognize you, I would imagine there's some familiarity that they would let you in. Can they see anybody like they can't see people like standing
074off to the side? That's the one thing I'm kind of concerned about. Like first day of school or people coming into school or leaving school like passing through the door, you know, hold the door open for somebody coming behind you and stuff like that. That's always tough because you don't want to be rude to people, but I don't know who they are. >> And and I will I will tell you, G, this the schools talk about that. Um, and I've had people that come in behind me and, you know, I'll scan my badge and they'll look at me and I'll just be like, I I I need you to check in before I before you can come in the building. I'm I can't let you in. >> Yeah. >> And it's for the safety of
075our students. And and I really do feel like our staff has gotten more comfortable with that. um and not felt like I mean people want to help other people but this is different uh we have a process in place for a reason and you know Chris's teams and buildings team after they do the tr the uh the drills they have a debrief that comes through with that they have discussions around that I know with our um reunification one we do that training in August we do a mid-year check-in with our group and we do updates every single time so we're we're doing the same thing um to your point G is it's only as good if if we're all practicing it. So, we really want to make sure that what we ask our buildings to
076do, we're doing at a district level, too. >> Are there cameras on every door of every building? >> Uh, entry doors, yes, every single door. >> Most cameras that you see, but not entry ones where you pause in. They're usually just on that front door. Not the door is locked. You aren't getting in >> unless a student lets you. We had that problem. Uh and it truly they're called tailgators where someone lets the next student behind them. >> On the first couple days of school, you'll notice there's always an adult at the doors that are open like usually door one coming in. So they'll have adult station there to kind of be that other person that's just hey we're watching what's going on. But >> yeah on all our minds every time you see something
077that's my favorite story and I'll do take two seconds telling this one. I was at Washington Elementary last year walking with a vendor and all I hear somebody hollering. I'm looking around like like who are you? And I'm like got my ID card here. There was only one male teacher in that building and the other he happened to see and say why is there another male in here? Hollered to make wanted to know what I was doing there. Once I showed who I was it was like oh and I said I thanked him over and over like I appreciate you doing that for us. So people do that. I mean, you have to, >> but it's also, you know, I read every article and sometimes you just you worry about it all every day. You
078do, but you do have a kid in your power to stop it. >> I I was in an elementary school last week and I was hyper sensitive to it, but the the teacher, it was a hot day. They had the window open with the fan. You know, I think well keep the kids comfortable, but >> all kinds of things go through your mind >> and you know, you don't want to be like stupid about it, but but it could happen. >> Another instance that came up was one of the lieutenants from the police department has a student that goes to a school and he pulled me aside was like, "Hey, they're letting people in that they recognize. Can you tell them to stop? Make sure they admit who they are before they let them in."
079So I had to we did do some retraining with and you do. So people just it's people being proactive and looking around and being observant is what's going to prevent some >> everybody. Yeah. Anyone here and all of us too, >> right? >> I might, you know, also scared parent, but uh I wonder if there's anything ever that can be done just to like about people that might be around the perimeter of the school outside the fence that seem to be there often. I was listening to a a news art uh the other day and some schools have drones that go up above with facial recognition just scanning periodically to see if there's the same person sticking around the perimeter of the school. Um, I know that's, you know, a a lot, but I mean
080that's I notice some people around the school sometimes that uh, you know, you just >> why you always >> I will say our supervisors outside do a really nice job of scanning for vehicles and for individuals. We've had a couple staff report, you know, this vehicle keeps driving by multiple times at this time every single day. >> I heard. and then we'll reach out to the police department and work in collaboration with them. I mean, most of the time there's a really good purpose why that's happening. >> Yeah. >> Um but again, it it comes down to everybody just doing the very best they can. >> Yeah. You can you can't be too scared, >> right? >> Okay. Any other questions? >> So, I just have one question in in terms of the kind of
081the dollars that are up there. I mean, some are relatively small, some are a little bit bigger. Are some of those already incorporated into our capital 10ear capital expenditure plan or is this new stuff we're finding? >> All of it is usually in there. Like the PA systems is something we've known for years that had to get updated because we have an old analog system. We're coming to digital. So, it's been part of it already. >> So, a lot of it's a lot of it's already there, but it's that followup with each building now to get that input about what because some of it looks like small numbers and some looks >> and prioritizing it and saying all right is this and you're like yes we have to have this to alert students or anybody
082in the building to an emergency right >> you got to change that it gets over I can put buckets and catch water but I can't announce stuff without a PA so you got to do it >> and that was one of the reasons Meg we wanted to pull that cuz to a building and I understand it right when they see a thing they think they can do better with safety every building's going to say that it We absolutely have to have that. So, we needed to pull that away from a building and say, "No, we actually want another group that that walks through and prioritizes it because we're going to compare. You're looking at just your building, but we have to look at what everybody else has, too." And sometimes they might not even have
083something that you do that is actually really critical with that. >> Any other questions? >> Thank you, Jeff and Chris. >> Thank you. >> All right. We will move into policy and legislation. emergency nursing services plan policy 5310.01. So these were uh recommendations from Niola um to update our emergency nursing plan. Jenny Jenny's department oversees our nursing program. So if there are any specific questions that you have, Jenny is available to answer those questions. But again, this just came from a recommendation from Niola. So, just uh we had a conversation at agenda setting um this past week. Back in the day, we had a policy and legislation committee and we had an HR committee and we had a business services committee and we had an ED services committee. And we at a certain point found
084that most of what was coming in front of EDS uh business services and um human resources was having to go to those two committees. And we found that that there were things coming to ed services that were going to ed services. And then we found with policy and legislation that sometimes the policy and legislation would have to go through like maybe all three committees depending on on what the substance was of it. And that was before we had >> Neiola. And so um so what we've kind of realized is we've been bringing all the policy ledge stuff from Neiola directly to the board. And so what we've asked Corey moving forward to do is if we can identify that that policy and legislative substance is directly related to either ed services or business services/human resources
085that it would be helpful for us to run that through committee. Some sometimes it's not. I mean, sometimes it's not related to the substance of those committees, but moving forward, that's what we're looking to be able to do. So, we we will have that ability to have the conversation at the committee level about the policy being proposed as well as then at the board level. So that that's just a little kind of history lesson of how we got where we are. But today we have the emergency uh nursing services plan and it's provided through NEOLA. It's been vetted through our nursing group as well as admin. And so we are looking for a recommendation to approve the revisions to policy 5310.01 as presented. >> What is this like? I just read it again. I'm missing
086the substantive change between version one and version two. >> Jenny, you want to come up and answer that? >> I read through it twice now and I'm missing the substit like superintendent district admin to superintendent like it seems minutia right now. >> I agree that it's minutia. Um, so really it's just based on recommendations of I would say maybe expansion and explanations of this uh from Neiola. So as you can see the previous policy was real short and this is longer. So I think it just defines a lot more of it and make sure that we're delineating whether we have licensed school nurses or if we just have registered nurses. And so of course I've selected what applies to us. So, some of that's just making LEA specific designations. Currently, all of my nurses are
087RNs, but not all of them have completed school nurse uh programming, which is compliant as far as being a school as far as working in schools. Um, but nurses can apply and take additional certification for school nurse lensure. Um, so just making sure that that's clear in there. Um, and then I think they've really just delineated out some more of these specific circumstances that they want us to think about. We've always done a good job, I think, of thinking about these things, but perhaps in some leas they haven't thought about that. Like, have you thought about summer school? I'm not sure. Have you thought about what you would do at extracurriculars? But we we work very closely with um Claire Cullen, who is an advanced practice nurse practitioner as our medical adviser and always have.
088Um, so a lot of these things I think to us look like behind the times because we're already doing them and we have had a robust nursing plan. Um, but perhaps in some places they haven't thought about breaking it down into all these circumstances or how you would do that or who's licensed and who's not. So yeah, I agree there's not really a change. >> Okay. >> Thank you, Jenny. Yeah, absolutely. >> Can I ask a question? >> Oh, sorry, G. Uh can you give like a quick rundown of what is our uh health presence in each in the elementary, junior high and high schools? >> Uh or it's not part of what we have discussing. >> We can send that to you. Thank you. So again, just a little history lesson. For lots of
089years, we contracted with Portage County for our nursing services. And during CO, Portage County literally kind of shut that all down. And so postco, we as a district made the decision to hire nurses from within. and we worked with Kathy Reynolds who had been heading up from Portage County our nursing services um to help us recruit and create a program of in-house nursing and that's what we've been doing since. So, I'm looking for again that motion to approve the recommendations. >> All right. I have a motion from Alex. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> I have a motion and a second. All those in favor with I >> I. Any opposed? >> Motion carries. Right. We will move into donation of real estate to CISA 5. >> Yeah. So, I can give you
090a little background here. So, as you know, CISA 5 moved two of their alternative programs into Stevens Point um school district, not within our district, but within our community this school year. They're renting our professional building. Um that agreement will expire at the end of the year, which we knew. Um we've learned that there's a building in town on 3000 Minnesota Avenue that's owned by WTTC Land Management. Apparently, they acquired that through another large um deal. They're looking to give that building to CISA 5 >> as in donate it. It's it's valued at approximately $350,000 right now. CISA 5 knows that it needs some updates to wider classroom doors and an additional stairwell, which they're going to pay for to have done. Um, but every school district in the CISA 5 region, their board has
091to take action on if we approve for them to receive this donation. So there there are 35 school districts in CISA 5. During October 6th through the 23rd, every one of those districts is being asked to approve the donation of this building to CISA 5. And that's all according to state statute. So tonight, administration talked this through. That program in Stevens Point is a benefit to us. Our students that go there do not have to travel if it's in Waka or Wood County. It's right here in Stevens Point. And we think that there may be more parents that might be willing to send their child there if if recommended. So my recommendation would be to have our board approve for them to get this donation. and Corey did reach out to the mayor and um
092Mark Christensen, the head of um the city council ahead of tonight >> just to make sure that they were aware that this was happening and that there weren't any type of zoning conditional use concerns with respect to that location and mayor uh reached back out and was very supportive. how can we help if there's anything you need? Um the associate planner and zoning administrator said that there's no reszoning of the property needed as it is intended land use is permitted by right. So I don't think the only inspection or approval that they would need from the city would be after they do those facility updates. They'd have to have um approval of that by the city inspector >> and capacity. What's the capacity? I can't answer that, Alex, but I can figure that out. It's
093a pretty large building, way more than what they probably >> Okay. I was just based on if we're offering to send more students there, are we going to have a capacity issue? >> Now, we're still going to have to ship them someplace else. >> Students have to qualify to go there and they will only take so many students based on their staffing. >> Got it. >> Yeah. I don't think they're looking to expand the program, but we have recommended to some of our students in the past to go there, but because of the travel, parents are reluctant to do that. >> So, I'm not reading any downside to >> There really isn't. Okay. >> Um, we have to use our own vehicles to transport them. >> No, they pick up and drop off. >> Okay.
094>> Yep. >> In this process is it's a legal thing. We're not paying anything. We just have to approve that they can do what they want to do. >> They can get a gift. >> They can receive the >> And I think I've read through law here that said that three4s of the school boards out of the 35 Yep. >> need to approve it for them to be able to go through with it. >> So that's 26.25. I'm not sure. >> How do they get to the >> I'm guessing it's 27. >> And what's the impact on our taxes losing this one building like our income from because this now becomes a >> nonprofit. So we won't get the the the property tax from it. Yes. >> I don't know that. >> No, it's not
095for profofit. So it's there's no taxes that we get from not for profofits. They don't pay property. >> Yeah, that's correct. But I don't know what the impact is going to be on our budget. >> Okay. Just >> Yeah. I don't >> I'm assuming as a Stevens Point tax fair taking a look at the building it's going to be about >> $5,000 maybe less than that I mean based on >> I can look into that >> well what my taxes are frankly so it's the bu it's a it's it's a brown wood wooden building it's an off it's an office building that's what it was kind of designed to be right next to central Wisconsin area theater It's got the slope. >> It does have >> big side on one side of >> That's correct.
096Yep. >> Yep. >> But it's been an it's been an office type building forever. So yeah, occupied >> unoccupied for >> Yeah. >> For a while. >> A long time. >> Really? >> Yeah. >> For quite some time. Yep. >> So I am looking for a motion to accept the certification of acceptance of donation of real estate in Stevens Point, Wisconsin by CISA 5. So moved. I have a second. I have a second from Jeremy. I have a motion and a second. Any other questions on this? Hearing none. All those in favor with I. >> I. Any oppose with. All right. Our future meeting dates and times. We'll be back together on October 27th. >> Two weeks. >> Right. So, we've got 5:30 p.m. is the budget hearing and then 6 p.m. is the board
097meeting. Um, and so I am now looking for a motion to adjurnn. >> So second >> second by Jeremy. All those in favor with I. I am.