SASD School Board Meeting 2/2/26

001All right, >> folks. Turn on their microphones, please. Board members. Thank you. >> I call the February 2nd board meeting of the Stoen Area School District to order. Miss Dermo, could you call the role, please? >> Mr. Tambuan is excused. Miss Mia Croya. >> All right. She's she's hopping on. Uh Mr. Jim Moser >> here. >> Miss Don Garcia >> here. >> Mr. Zach Masa Myers >> here. >> Miss Lisa Pew >> here. >> Miss Allison Sorg here. >> Dr. Sharon Milin Bartlett here. >> Student Rep. Michaela Becker here. >> And President Joe Patterson is excused. We are on to um item 2A on the agenda which is public comment. We do have public comment tonight just to remind the public of our of our policy. Public comment is part of the meeting where members

002of the public talk to the board. The board does not talk back. We may talk about your comment later in the meeting as part of an agenda item and we may talk about it in a future meeting. Our board policies cover public comment. Each person giving public comment identifies themselves um themselves uh spoken public comment limited to three minutes per person and uh I guess I will call the person up for public comment Laura Klitsky >> and the mic's live. >> Hi. >> Hello. >> I'm Laura Klitsky. Thank you everyone uh for your time tonight. I just wanted to say that following the November 2nd meeting, I was surprised to hear that officer Orin was spending only 20% of his time with our grade schoolers. I was however reassured after emailing that uh the district

003report with our education teams is going well and these plans uh I hope are for increased growth with a positive growth relationship from what I'm hearing with our grade school students and education teams. I look forward to hearing Officer Orin's report tonight and uh the continued growth with the district. So, thank you. >> Thank you for your public comment. Is there any more public comment? Okay, moving on to item 2B. Mia has graciously offered to provide the legislative report. >> All right, so getting it pulled up. Sorry. Um so the first issue is that WASBY is encouraging everyone to contact their legislator legislators about the special ed funding shortfall. We currently have a large uh budget surplus uh 2.3 billion at the end of fiscal year 2027 is what it's estimated. And um [clears throat]

004Governor Ivers has said that he's open to negotiating an end to the 400year per pupil funding increase that he enacted in the last state budget uh with his veto power. And he's willing to do that if the Republican le legislature is willing to cooperate with him on his legislative agenda. um specifically his request um that the surplus is used uh for property tax relief. WASBY is encouraging everyone to draw attention to and make sure that some of the surplus is used to address the significant special education funding shortfall. Initial estimates for special ed funding were alarmingly lower than what we were told during the uh time that the budget was signed into law. So they were projecting 42%, now they're look now it's looking at about 35%. and um remedying that is estimated to take

005about 200 million out of the 2.3 billion surplus. So the ask is that people contact their legislature legislators and the governor and urge them to honor their commitment by to provide 42 and 45% some sufficient special education categorical aid. So that's the first thing. Second is that the speaker's task force on protecting kids released 12 bills including another school cell phone ban. Um the bills are expected to move quickly through public hearings and executive sessions. Um and they primarily address internet and social media issues. For schools specifically, the package includes a stricter mandate banning cell phones. And it generally includes the same requirements and exceptions for wireless communication as act 42. The bill adds that a wireless communication device policy may include the use of pouches or other storage devices for wireless communication devices or

006a prohibition on possession of a wireless communication device on school premise. So be on the lookout for that and others moving quickly. Um and then sorry then uh the there are bills headed to the governor's desk including AB457 which would require DPI to certify a district's compliance with financial reporting requirements before seeking a referendum that passed on a party line AB 518 which allows was all licensed substitute teachers to teach at a parental choice program school regardless of their educa education. Uh it's hard to predict whether Governor Ivers will sign that or not. That also passed on a party line in committee and a voice vote on the floor. AB592, a bill to establish a pilot program for the professional development of science teachers that has bipartisan backing. AB602, which would enroll Wisconsin into the

007federal track tax credit program for contributions to scholarship granting organizations. uh that passed on a party line and SB 391, a bill to allow the installation of audiovisisual visual recording devices on school buses and that has enjoys bipartisan support um at the the legislative update at the WASBY session. You want me to continue with that, Lisa, or is that Are you going to do that? >> I I can do that at the end during the WASBY update part. That's fine. >> Okay. Um mandates to watch is that uh so being proposed in the legislator for schools um cardiac emergency response plans, blood organ donation instruction, suicide prevention instruction, school meal ingredients, math screeners, 60 minutes of recess, name and pronoun changes, and sexual abuse and prevention instruction. So, just things to keep your eye out

008for. >> Thank you, Mia. Does anybody have any questions on the legislative update? Allison, >> not really a question, but I know um since WB is encouraging us to um write. They do have something in one of their emails to us >> um that makes it pretty easy for anybody who wants to. >> I did it today. It is super easy. It's like pre-written for you. Just a couple clicks and it went to all board members today, I think. So, anything else? Okay, moving on to item 2 C, worker reports. There are none. Item 2D, student representatives report. Not a ton to talk about as it's a little slower with second semester just starting. but few activities happening. So, the winter dance was this Saturday and about 200 students ended up attending and all proceeds

009are going to the Dane County Humane Society. Um, the Norwegian Dancers had their Norris afternoon of fun on Sunday. Um and so that event had some of the fourth grade um students who have been practicing with the Norwegian dancers. They got to perform. Um on um [clears throat] January 30th, the Stoen Unified Club attended a leadership conference at Ripen College. That's the bottom left picture there. Um and then for the last two weeks, Stoen participated in an exchange program with 17 students from Costa Rica. And then this June, um students from Stoton will go and stay in Costa Rica with families. Um for athletics, um last week on senior night, the boys wrestling team beat Portage 59 to 17. Um this weekend at uh Queen the Queen of the Mat tournament, girls wrestling um Kylie

010Soderling earned a fourth place finish. On January 24th, the girls basketball team won against Jefferson 39 to 36. Um the boys swim team took fourth in the Viking relays on January 24th and the team placed first in both the 300yard backstroke and the 500 Crescendo Relays. And then boys basketball had a loss to Middleton 57 to 47 and beat the 9inth ring to McFarland 64 to61. And then for arts, the pops concert will be held on February 9th at 7:00 p.m. um at the SHs auditorium and the whole choir will be singing songs such as Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For by You Two and We Are Young. Um and there's still time to get your ticket. And that is all I have. questions for Michaela. >> What's the easiest way to get tickets?

011>> Um, online if you go to um I think it's cure8.com curr8.com and then you look type in Stoton High School. There should be a list of events. >> We'll email email the board members the links. >> And then is the winter dance is that every winter? >> Um this was the first year that we had held a winter dance. So, that was a pretty good turnout. Um, we're going to hope to continue it in the future. >> I I only raise that because we started a winter dance as an alternative to prom. >> Mhm. >> And I don't know if it's continued, but it >> Yeah, the kind it had it we hadn't had it for a while. This was the first year, but our idea was there's only We only have homecoming, so

012trying to have the more >> good school. >> Tim, are there any photos of you at the >> I don't think so. I I do have a prom photo. >> Okay. Well, I think next time we'll bring that in as an action. [laughter] >> All right. >> You You wouldn't rec Well, [laughter] >> any other questions for Michaela? Oh, Don. >> Michaela, did you say that there isn't prom? >> There is prom. We're just trying to offer um something that everyone could go to. >> Oh, yeah. Yeah. >> Since usually it's just upper classmen who go to >> Yeah. Got it. >> Other questions? Thank you, Michaela. Uh moving on to item 3A, Dr. Keyser's report. >> All right, there we go. Um, mine's pretty pretty short going into the beginning of second semester. Um,

013lots of kind of dates that are coming up. Building off of legislative update, we'll have um many of our elected officials joining us up at the high school tomorrow. So, for board members who are um able to attend um in whole or in part, uh tomorrow, we'll begin arriving at 8:00 um at the front door of the high school. We'll be in the multi-purpose room, which is across from the the Commons cafeteria. Um the agenda will be um a little district overview. After some introductions, we'll have some um coffee. will introduce our elected officials to Fosdils um so they can get a taste of what a good donut is. And um we'll be in classrooms. We'll be hearing from our business partners. They will learn um what our transition program is, what a transition program

014is, how we um um uh do that here in Stoton um alongside our business partners. Um and then there'll also be time for conversations with students and um with the board. So, we have members um from local, county, state, and federal. And we just found out a representative from DPI will be coming. Dr. Underly could not come, but is sending one of her representatives. Um going into the second half of February, we'll have our board development. We have a busy um agenda the last half of this month. Um, our board development is our second one of the year where board members will have an opportunity to get an update from each of the schools around their strategies around growing young minds. This is the opportunity board members when you are um listening to the the

015updates to ask your questions that your burning questions in terms of the strategies and how they're making impact. So if you have questions that that you have of um a particular building or buildings um the the structure will be a couple of minutes of updates and then um the rest of that 10-minute time will be Q&A. So um think about the uh if you have a question or two um otherwise the they'll uh the members of the administrative team and the building leadership team will have uh continue to share a little bit more details about some of the strategies that they're doing. Um and I'll round out uh after that we'll have a public hearing. We have one petition to detach. Um that public hearing will take place um right after the board development and

016then we'll go right into the board meeting. At that board meeting, the board will make um uh discuss and make a decision on on that um public hearing for detachment as well as hear an update um on our interim measures around our our board goals. Um just to give the board uh a heads up statutoily um these petitions for boundaries have to be resolved within the month of February. So um this is one where we'll have uh have the um discussion and action on on the same night. Um, we also have our community conversation uh coming up and uh this will be at the high school. This will be the last of our three and then um Lynn Breedlove will um formulate a report, share that with the with the board and the participants from

017the community conversation um after we've had a discussion here at the board. March brings staffing. So March is our our month where we present um our critical staffing in the first meeting. Um have the board consider it in the second meeting. That sets up our staffing and sets up the process for developing master schedules across our um five campuses from April through um the end of the school year. And then April brings us um board elections. So end of end of April is board reorganization. So >> spring brings a lot of lot of uh um activities for the board. So just just to foreshadow um the dates that are h happening. If any board members have questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to myself or Rachel. Uh we'll be happy to answer your questions.

018Um and we'll bring some more updates as we get closer to some of these um dates in March and in April. Any questions? >> I do. Don um for the petition to um have we seen this one before? >> This is one that we've seen before. So petitions um can be done every other year. This this one um was a petition um that came before the board two years ago. >> Thank you. And um for the community conversations at the high school um do we know what kind of um participation we'll have from high school families or anything like that? >> We've sent out 130 plus invites and so far we've received >> 13 two weeks in. >> Okay. Thank you. If someone is interested in attending the community conversation, if they're watching us this

019evening, how who would they contact about that? >> They can certainly reach out to Miss Gumlo or myself. >> Other questions for Dr. Keys, >> Mia? Is she good? >> All right. Moving on to item 4 A, the consent agenda. Could we have a motion? Um move to approve the consent agenda as presented. >> Second move by SORC, second by Dr. Milin Bart Bartlett. Um any discussion? >> Alison, just confirming the contract that we have for the learning strat is a is a temporary >> learning strat >> temporary position. Okay. Any other questions on the consent agenda? Seeing none, we we don't need a roll call, right? >> No. >> All in favor? >> I opposed abstensions. Consent consent agenda passes. Item number five, a SRO update. >> All right. So, um, Officer Orin and

020Kyle Smith, um, who is our buildings and grounds and supervisor and safety coordinator, um, are here. The second, um, update of of the year. So, they, um, I'll turn it over to them. So, good evening. Thanks for having us back. Um, I am going to be the millennial who has my phone out because that's right. Have my notes shared to. I had printed them off and I think I left them sitting on my desk in the office. Um, but we will get into it. Um, so upcoming trainings, uh, next Monday I will begin the crisis intervention team training which is hosted by NAMI. Um, I was going to say it is geared to a general mental health response in the community. Um, it provides a really excellent framework for how law enforcement can interact with

021our mental health care system. Um, as well as how to interact with individuals who are in a mental health crisis. Uh, for most of law enforcement in Wisconsin, this is kind of the very I want to say gold standard, but a very fortunate course for an officer to be able to attend. Um, it it takes away from patrol typically for a week. Um, I know we are talking about trying to have my position staffed by another officer um during that time to or at least to handle any of the critical calls that might come in at the schools. Um, but that will be a 40-hour training that I attend uh next Monday through Friday. Since our last update, this is not additional calls. This is total calls. It's 187 calls for service. Um that is

022a variety as I've said before that is parking complaints that is 911 hang-ups. Um it is incidents that have happened in the community where our children or our students have been victimized that are then getting reported at school and I am doing follow-up investigations uh in relation to that. Um, we've had not had any new additional vape or THC citations since our last update. Um, we had a number of students where we had talked about uh the ENL citations or open citations that completed their AODDA coursework and and followed along with the behavior improvement plan that was set forth by the schools. Um, and we have not had not had cause the issue anymore, which is very fortunate. Um, with that being said, uh, I have, this is, I don't have statistics to tell you

023what we don't have in the schools, but I noticed that we have not had the complaints of THC odor and vapes in the bathroom since the statewide ban went into effect. Um, it's really hard to tell what is the stronger deterrent, having officer in the schools or the fact that we can't buy them at every store. Uh what I'm going to say I do know that we've had a significant decrease. Um we've had one citation issued since our last update. Not a THC or vape citation. Um going to say because it is such a small sample size. I'm not going to break down all the citations that were have been issued, but it's just the one additional citation since our last update. um other things that I have been up to. So, I have gotten

024a lot more involved in our mental health care coordination and looping services in outside of school. Um I've been very fortunate enough to be asked to speak uh in our women's issues classes and government classes with Miss Mullen at the high school. Um our students have some really great thoughtprovoking questions. It's been really fun for me to get asked questions and have to go diving through some of my textbooks and stuff from when I was in the academy. Um, health classes are constant. Um, I don't think we can talk enough about um, kind of the health concerns that go along with drug use and alcohol use and THC and nicotine. Um, we've also got gotten into the domestic relationships and intimate partner violence topics and also um, the reporting options for people who have experienced

025uh, sexual assault. um letting people know about SANE exams. Does anybody here know what a SANE exam is? So SANE exams for those who aren't familiar are sexual assault nurse examiners. They are specially trained nurses uh who are trained in how to document, photograph, and test for evidence of sexual assault. Now, you can go to I believe we have one at Meridor and UW depending upon availability and timing in the day uh where you can go and have that that kit collected and maybe not file a police report right away if you're not ready to have that conversation so it can be preserved for later use. It's a really great resource we have in our county. Um I'll be taking a little more active role in our school resource officer group in Dayne County. Um,

026we started a larger conversation surrounding truency and school avoidance. Um, I guess I didn't realize that we were doing anything out of the ordinary or exceptional, but it sounds like other districts are very much a here's our packet. The students been truent, please write the ticket. We do more home visits, conversations with families. Um, we also have the going to say, please remind me if I'm forgetting. Did we talk about how the citation works the last time I was here for truency? >> You might want to summarize. >> We'll do a refresher. So, citation would be issued for truency. This is after several meetings and home visits with a social worker, myself, or maybe a case manager like a learning strat or EA who works closely with the student. Um the citation was issued and

027the judge uh Scott Dirks who's our municipal judge says look I'm working with the schools and every day is worth so many dollars off the citation. So in theory if you attend as prescribed or is it now that could be a modified schedule say you're only at half day in person half day online or two hours whatever that is because we have students who are in our learning academy and the GTO program you could reduce that fine down to zero. um not a lot of other communities are doing that. Um so it really offers a higher level of incentive for students to attend after we've kind of exercised our traditional social work and means and stuff like that. Um we also have the opportunity to go to our Dane County school safety group. Um we

028are working on coordinating our response efforts with Dne County for a response to a critical incident. Um I was say Kyle was able to find out that our key system is how is it compatible I guess >> with other um here I can show >> everybody likes a visual aid. So most every law enforcement is keyed very similar with an RFID tag. We can key them specific to the deputy and to the officer that if they are needed in case of an emergency, a life-threatening emergency, they can key in and it tells us who's in our building when and also sends an alert to everybody on the safety team. So, we know if something is going on or they are responding. Um, we are working with coordinating that, but I was going to say that

029moves at the speed of government. So, we're we're getting there. And in lie of that, so instead of handing out each one of these to every officer in Dayne County, we can use their fobs that they already have for their agency. Speed up that process time, not just for our district or across Dane County. One FOB to get them in into a school. It can be as easy as a gym membership fob. I mean, it's it's very simple. So, um, getting that message out and spreading that. We're going to talk about that at our April meeting. >> April meeting, which we're hosting. So, It'll be it'll be big steps there. So, >> it'll be nice to have kind of a unified response on that. >> Yep. >> Um trending issues. Um I have noticed it

030especially after the the winter break. Um some social media and internet safety concerns. Um, I often will be the first point of contact for what we call CESAM cases, child sexual assault material, which is, um, material, new representations of children or something online. Um, our detectives will get referrals. I will do follow-up on them, try to help identify our students, making sure that they're being protected and being investigated, and that we have parents brought in the loop when when we need to. um truency going into the second semester students have had more days mean it's usually more days and opportunities to also not be at school unfortunately um historically talking to Lance Masters our data over the last two to three years has shown that we've had lower and lower um truency referrals towards the

031end of second semester which is really fortunate um and I did not get a chance to talk to I know we just finished up the first se first semester truency court with the city. Um sounds like he was pretty pleased with I guess that result. It didn't sound like there were very many students who were still on that which is really good. Um and mental health referrals. Um so I have been doing a ton of work referring to CLTS, CCS, all different community resources. um working with our social work teams, working with counselors to try and get students and families the resources they need. Um that is probably the largest portion of my day anymore is mental health. Um it's very similar to what my workload was on the road. Uh I when I was

032second shift that was a ton of mental health calls. Um, and some fun news, safety camp is back. So, for those of you who have been around for a little bit in Stoton, uh, we used to do a two-day camp for like third, fourth, and fifth grade students. It was an all day camp. It was from about 8 or 9:00 in the morning till 2 or 3 in the afternoon. Very similar to school hours. They can come in. Um there's MedFlight and firefighters and the National Guard and police departments and say this is I think last time we hosted this was 2018. Um I've been hearing from parents, we've been hearing it from community members and from command staff that this was a really desired event to bring back. So we are looking at July

03321st through the 23rd. It will be two of those days. I'm working on scheduling medflight. are kind of in demand, so it'll kind of depend on their schedule. Um, but that will be our plan is to host it at Ed Stoton High School, include a water safety day with our pool and and coordinating that. So, I'm looking forward to it. Before we get in too far here with the discussion, I wanted to take the opportunity to go through and answer some of the good questions that had been forwarded to me. Um, I think I answered maybe the question on the uh crisis intervention team training. Was that from Lisa? >> That was from me. I guess thank you for the answer. I did look at the NAMI the Wisconsin NAMI, you know, what they how

034they advertise the training and figured it was mainly toward adults. Have you received any specific crisis intervention training for children or are the deescalation techniques is it is that mainly what you'll be talking about and learning is around deescalation and strategies related to that and then would it be any different with children? >> So I have taken the district's nonviolent crisis intervention. I also have been very fortunate in my law enforcement career that I worked in corrections where we dealt with people in crisis in an institutional setting and I gained a large sample of experience in that short time. Um I am this is year six for me and I've yet to have to use most any of these tools on my belt. Um, I'm pretty good at deescalation. The formal part is the hard

035part. Um, I've spent a lifetime reading a room. So, I'm hoping to we can get to the part part where we're documented. I get additional tools in the toolbox. That's what CIT is for. Um, I really it's I'm not sure what the exact uh what am I looking for? Words are hard today. It's Monday. Curriculum [clears throat] is going to be sure. um they give you kind of a general outline, but uh it is a it's deescalation strategies is certainly part of it. It's actually meant to reduce the use of force in mental health calls and reduce the risk of injury to both officer and and person. Um which I think is something we can all kind of be happy about that that kind of training is out there. >> Um it also will cover

036different types of mental illness. There's um from what I've understood is that we will have community members who have schizophrenia, bipolar, um manic depressive and stuff like that who come into class and talk about their experience, what it's like when what they're going through and how what strategies work well >> for them for when they're interacting with law enforcement. Um and I'm hoping to maybe bring some of that back and and also share it with our team at school at the schools. >> Thank you. I appreciate that. >> Yeah. Um there was a question about the financial side. I don't have access to those numbers. Dr. Teaser's going to be on it. It was my understanding. >> Yep. >> So the we um made our first payment in as part of that agreement. So >>

037we'll I'll follow up with the board um later on. >> Um I was also asked about number of hours or breakdown spent at each school building. So, not too much has changed on how my time is split. It is still a large majority of my time at the high school. Part of that is that is where my office is at. That's the about the only place I can sit down and get the paperwork side of my job done. Um, great news. Your schools are utilizing every room they have available all the time. Um, but that also means that I can't just necessarily go and occupy an office or an empty room to try and complete some paperwork. And that's, you know, part of that is like if I'm at an elementary school, I'm doing a

038lot more of the social work referral, mental health care side and often incorporating parents into that. But there's also a lot of documentation and private phone calls on my end that I don't want to have in front of small children. Um, so that is where I would say about half my time is at. spend a good portion of my time at the middle school. Um I was gonna say and part of part of that too is as the children get older, they have a little more autonomy and are less distracted by me. Um when I walk through our elementary schools, I can hear the attention flying out the window. It's Officer Orin, which is a good thing. You know, they're relatively excited to see me. I hope >> celebrity. Yeah. >> But it's it's I

039I feel bad for the teacher sometimes when I draw away from that learning environment. Um, we've been I'm still working on getting into classrooms. Um, I showed up for our family breakfast at Fox Prairie last Friday. Um, I want to do safety day, which is we've had those prior. Um, very sort of safety camp, but more of a touch the truck kind of thing. Um, to kind of get my introduction in. You know, my hope was at this time I'd have a little more contact at the elementary schools, but with our late approval and then selection of my position and I was out most of the summer um due to injuries, uh I didn't get to plan and and plan for that kind of thing. Um but we're getting there. I saw the uh vape

040question. I hope I answered that well enough. I said we are we changed a few things. Obviously I'm in the schools. The vape law changed. Um so I think that's a a a good trend. Um there was a question about uh what strategies are being used to reach out and to engage students who may not already be connected. >> I I didn't hear that last part. I'm sorry. So, uh, the question was about what strategies are being used to reach out to and engage students who may not already be connected. Um, my strategy is and and continues to be I meet kids where they are. I go to lunch. I try to be there before school. I try to be there after school. I try to be there in times when students aren't necessarily as

041stressed by the school day. Um, I also try to find community pillars and change makers within those environments. There are students that other students look up to that are the they're the I say like the the jocks, whatever your your pillar, the people that people pay attention to. Um, but I also go to the students who might be sitting off to themselves and by themselves at lunch and talk about whatever cool jacket they're wearing or whatever they might be reading. Um, I'm not going to force a student into a conversation with me. I might say, "Hi, how is it going?" and and gauge on basically kind of how that response uh comes across. Um, it's it's slow work, but it's important work to to take the time and and just show kids and be consistent

042that the officer or you see here in the board meeting and in my office or in the hallways or out in the parking lot is the same officer or you're going to get every time you see me. Um so there was also another question about how threats at the grade school level are handled um viable or not and follow up after they are handled. So threats that occur in elementary schools are handled the same seriousness and process as the the high school and the middle school. Um as long as I'm informed of them, that's the the sticker there. I participate in our behavioral threat assessment and help make determination of the credibility of the threat. Um part of that threat determination process is law enforcement investigation that runs parallel to the school investigation. So the

043school is saying well this is behavioral stuff at school and I start looking at my past law enforcement contacts. You know was the threat specific? Was it a timeliness? Does the person have access to the means that they said they were going to continue the threat with? Um, at the grade school level, and I I've talked about this before, so 10 years old is the cut off for very serious crimes to be charged and adjudicated. That is not our hope or our goal for our students at 10 years old if they make a threat. Um our hope is that we can do referrals for mental health for counseling and also bring in families. Um those processes say a say a threat is made myself and administrator are typically contacting parents and that phone is kind

044of ringing until we get an answer. Um as far as followup goes I continue to get updates from the school administrator. Um school administrator obviously has their kind of finger on the pulse in the building. I have 2,700 students in five buildings. They update me as things change and ask for whatever other resources or presence they might need. Um talk about the deescalation training and tactics. >> I'll hit a little more on that too. So with that, we have a BTAM team in every school. Um >> and what does BTAM stand for? I was going to get so y so BM is behavior threat assessment and management team. And so they are certified. So each school has at least two. We have multiple resources that myself included, we have some of our directors that are

045also certified that we can come in and help them um do an assessment as well. So anytime any of these come up, we know about them internally as well. They might not even get to officer Orin's level. Um we're going to do every investigation exactly the same. Um when a threat comes in could be as much as a notes fallen found or a picture drawn on an assignment, right? we're gonna we're going to deal with it exactly the same each time. Um, one, the state wants us to, and two, it just kind of makes sure and solidifies that we're following a process. So, at any point anything ever did happen um on a violent critical incident, we follow the same process no matter what. Um, as a district, one of the things that officer Orin

046will be doing is he will be taking a BAM um training as well. There most of the time they're around our area. There just hasn't been any around really close. So, um, Blackhawk usually hosts one. They haven't hosted one this year. Our closest one right now, I have it up, is Fenomore. Um, that date does not work for him, but otherwise they're like northern Wisconsin right now. So, we're we're trying to wait till they get closer and they add them every couple of weeks. They're there's new ones coming on. So, but the big thing is there's multiple people looking at each threat in the school that's certified um before it could possibly even get to officer Orin or the police department and then we make those determinations either parallel or together um if it's what

047you know serious. So, um there's a lot that goes behind and those are each one I mean multiple page documents. So, >> it actually did well. Thank you for reminding me. So, and we have had some discussions about the subsequent days after a threat is made, how we can help that school kind of reormalize and gain equilibrium, how staff can reenter and feel safe, how students can re-enter and feel safe. Um, that's going to have to be a longer format conversation between Kyle and I and also buildings and the district as a whole on what's well informed and and feasible. >> Yeah. >> Um, you actually reminded me about training. Uh, you had asked about specialized training. I have been trying to find an adolescent mental health training through NASRO. Um, however, the nearest one

048I found was Boulder. Um, and as much as I would love to go and attend, it would take me out of the schools and out of the state for a week. And I just don't think at this time it'd be a wise use of our taxpayer dollars to send me to that training as valuable as it would be. Um, what is this? Well, what training will you h this is what led me to this. Um, so what training will you be receiving to spot children that might be in situations home and school that warrant intervention and how would you go about intervening? Um, so I have to say our social work team and our peer support teams are critical for me to identify students who need services, who need help. We just need someone to

049ask some follow-up questions. Um, there are roughly what was it 2750 something odd students in our school district. There is one set of eyes from me. I do my best and sometimes I do see students who maybe are in crisis or have changed drastically in a short span of time that I do get to pull aside because I've noticed them. Um, we are working on it. Often that leads to and CPS gets such a bad rap. We see TV on TV. Oh, they've taken the kids, they've separated the family. Dane County Child Protective Services does not function in that way. They in my experience have been a resources first or if and that's only if the family has a voluntary uh reception for them. Um once again, our our school social workers, our school counselors

050are pretty good at identifying students and getting them what they need. We're just resource taxed. There's so many people who need so much anymore. Um, and that's that's the reality of the world we live in. Um, and not everybody has the wherewithal and the bandwidth to seek out those services voluntarily, and it's it's hard. Um, I would love to get into some trainings uh specific to the child sexual assault material um, investigations. Um, mentioned the adolescent mental health call uh, training. Um I'm pretty we have WYET is what it's called. Um that is our law enforcement training network. I'm almost always once a week looking on there to see what might be a relevant training that's also feasible for me to attend. I'm really trying to find stuff in the summer. >> Um but that

051only leaves me a very short time to find those trainings. Then I say we I have the fun question for last. there's no no consideration for budget or what would or wouldn't be possible. What would you want that you don't have now that you think would make the most difference for school, student, community well-being? So, kind of the carp launch unlimited budget. Uh, jokingly I say when I get that, I'll let you know. Um, but pie in the sky, big dreams. I would love to make it a normal part of our day that every student comes in, gets breakfast, lunch, and a meal sent home. Um, I've worked with our cares closet at the high school to have meals that are easy to prepare for students donated. I'm hoping to continue that relationship. Um, but

052I wish it was a normal part of our day so students didn't feel otherred by the fact that they are going to ask for resources. I think that's the biggest barrier that most students have is they don't like asking for help. If everybody was getting lunch and dinner, that'd be great. Um, I would also love to have school-based health clinics. So, pediatricians, dentists, and mental health providers, right, based in our schools or at least in our district. Um, I'd also like to add teaching staff. Um, a lot of these a lot of students just need some more close one-on-one instructional time or just one-on-one time with an adult who's safe in general. Um, let's say Dr. Keys was in my office today to say hi and saw the line of students out the door. Um,

053that's not abnormal. kids just want to talk. Um, and I think once again, if we just had a closer to one to 10 student, one teacher to 10 student ratio, that would be great. But once again, that's a a lofty goal. Um, I would also love to develop some more structured afterchool programming, particularly for our elementary and middle school students, that draws focus away from social media usage and teaches life skills or alternate ways to enrich lives such as outdoor recreation, cooking, and art. Um, we have a youth center. That's great. Um, but often the youth center kids are left to their own devices and are making Tik Toks more so than engaging in programming. Um, and that's hard when you are have volunteer staff and I think it's one paid adult that I know

054of. I could be wrong. Um, but that is, you know, it's hard to have really truly enriching programming when it's just such a limited limited staff. Um, in the night, you know, we have certain groups that do a lot more field trips and stuff based on your classes. I wish we had more field trips. Um, students learn by engaging. I think it makes it much more interesting learning environment when you're not necessarily locked in the confines of four walls and you get to see the world that you're learning about. Um, I mean, I'm 29 years old and I still remember my trips to Old World, Wisconsin. Um, some some of you may remember um those are impactful um that are like the the Discovery Museum in Rockford. Um those are those trips matter and they're

055also just great memories for kids. Um and then my more grounded idea I still and I was going to say Kyle's going to kick me when I say this. I want a facility dog in every school. They are a tremendous resource. I was going to say and I said facility dog that's another term. So think therapy dog, emotional support dog. Um we have seen a tremendous reduction in disregulation disregulated behaviors when recon comes to visit the high school. Um also great engagement with me. Um going to say and I also love dogs but students love dogs. Kids life's better with puppies. Um we've we've seen that it works. There are studies out there showing uh that schools get safer from outburst and disregulated behavior when dogs are present. Um I think out of all my

056list that's our one thing that is the most feasible. Um and hopefully over the next few years that's something we can look at. Um I'm mad at Kyle right now. Um, Officer W from Manona Grove School District, Manona PD is actually getting recon to work with him at the high school. Um, going say you have some great stories of her interacting with students already up there. >> I I am excited to see uh how that relationship blossoms. So, >> yep, that'll be a good one. >> Yeah. Um, did my best to answer questions. Does anybody else have anything that I might have missed? >> Thank you. Yeah, let's open it up to the board members and see who has additional questions. Don, >> I have a couple questions about truncy. >> Yeah. >> Um, who

057does the citation go to? The student or the parent? >> So, it depends. Um, students 11 and under, the parent gets the citation. um from 12 to 17. First offense goes to student. Second offense will could go to student and parent. Third offense and this is we're talking um kind of extreme measures or extreme levels of truency 100 plus days. Um, I will do a referral to both CPS for the student. The Dane County has a truency board for uh juveniles for specifically truency, but also if I have probable cause to believe that the student is missing school due to parent actions, um, I can refer that for a misdemeanor. Um, and I say that all within the confines of I've also declined to charge truency because of my knowledge as a law enforcement officer

058about what's going on in the home or what you know events might be unfolding that even the school is not aware of um and try to lend the family some support and guidance and also update counselors. >> Why do you why is 11 the cutoff? Parents should always get the citation. >> So, we try to let students and parents also I mean, first of all, I don't want to write $1,400 in citations. Parents try often, but it is hard if you are say a single income single parent household and you are gone before that child gets up for school. Um, especially at 12. you know, at that age, I was able to get myself up and get myself ready for school. You're you're kind of hoping your child can do that at the same time.

059Um, and it's not just it's always not effective. Um, generally speaking, we don't see eight with this. Parents get very leery about the $691, but they are trying. And I can generally we have documentation, we have communication, they're showing us what they're doing. Students I don't know it's I don't I I want to say it's we have fewer ways to incentivize because by the time it's reached me for truency. We have tried attendance plans, reward systems, mental health care, a wide variety of strategies to try to get them to engage with the learning environment and also generally have offered some sort of alternative learning arrangement. is my understanding. >> That was my my next question is >> Don, I we're going to move we're going to move around to other board members and we'll come

060back. >> I know Mia has a question. >> Yeah. Hi. Sorry I can't be there in person tonight. Um, I also have a question about truency and I think I've sent you this in the past, but I'm just curious if there's been any thought about utilizing um the school refusal assessment scale, which is a standardized tool that helps identify the root cause of truency. Um and it helps you know once you've identified that >> what function the truency is playing for the youth. >> Yeah. >> Then it helps point you toward what types of interventions might be most useful. >> Yeah. So I have shared that email that you sent to me with our school psychologists and our school social workers. I don't know where they sit on that or what that conversation has been,

061but I will make a note to follow up with them and send an email out tomorrow. >> Okay? >> And hopefully get an answer for you. And if there isn't a conversation being had, maybe that's time we have one. And on the um same on that same website there I think I may have mentioned this as well but there's a an educator um course that's available free of charge that it's it's asynchronous. So it has individual you know short 15inute lessons that you take and then they build upon each other and it turns out to be a whole course. Mia, could you send that information to Dan so he can share it out? >> Absolutely. Yep. >> And then just have you taken those courses? Do you think it'd be something that would benefit somebody

062in my role or is that >> perhaps? >> So I've taken the parent courses. I haven't taken the educator course. >> I I mean this this organization has really good product. >> Okay. Um, I could I would be happy to take the It's a fivehour course, so I can take it and give you my feedback. It might it might be useful for you. Um, I'll I'll I'll take a look at see if I can get in to the >> I wonder if the organization >> me I wonder if the organization would have a sense if SRO's are taking the course. That might be a question you could ask to see if that's the a population they outreach to. >> Yeah, I will look because I mean it's it says it's designed for special education directors,

063RTI team members, school psychologists, attendance staff, school nurses, social workers, general education teachers, principles, and truency officers. So >> yeah, intruency officers is it depends what state they're out of and how they define that. So that'd be very interesting. Yeah, I'll have to take a look at that. And you said it was how many hours? Five. >> It it totals to about five hours of instruction. Yeah. >> All right. I just think with this as a growing concern, you know, and I've I've heard unfortunately stories um of families just taking their kids out of the, you know, and saying, "Oh, well, we'll homeschool them." Because the fear of legal um consequences is too much. I can speak [clears throat] from a little bit of experience that when you're in a situation with um a child

064who you know for a variety of different reasons may have school avoidance. Um as a parent that feels very um I don't know what the right word is. Um it's a very isolating experience as a parent and it's also you know you can feel very desperate and there isn't a whole lot of support and even when the school tries to intervene it often unfortunately doesn't feel very supportive. Sometimes it does but sometimes it does not. So we want to I I would hope that we continue to try to get more tools in place to really meet the need. >> Yeah. So, it sounds like we have some next steps with a followup with an email and more information on the training. So, thank you. Excellent. Thank you. Now, >> other questions, Jim? >> I have

065a couple things, but I'll just do one for now and then. >> Okay. >> Let me say one is a clarification with what was Dawn was asking as a difference between a citation to the youth, the student, >> and a citation to the parent. >> Are you talking about a citation that literally cites the parent for contributing to truency? versus a student. >> Let's say you give a a freshman student a citation. Yeah. >> Does the parent know? >> Parent. Yes. Parents know. I generally make a phone call and try phone contact. Not always successful. Um but voicemails are left to parents. Now that I am in the schools actually have access to like emails. I'm going to probably try and send out some emails too. But generally I was going to say they are

066statutoily required. the schools are to send a letter and have attendance meetings prior to a truency citation referral. Um, they also I also mail out what's called a parental notification letter which notifies the parent of the time, date, location, and dollar amount of the citation that is issued to the child. And that's a universal anytime a juvenile receives a citation, they get that letter mailed out >> for any for anything >> for anything. Yeah. True. or otherwise. >> All right, let's keep going around. Who other what other board members? Sharon, >> you had explained that you had about 187 calls so far this year that it included an example of a student who'd been victimized as you put it. I was just curious are there situations where someone has been bullied and what if any

067role did you have in trying to process that and support the student? >> Yeah. So I am not necessarily the first step in the reporting process for bullying. Um, you know, I generally get notified, hey, we are looking at a incident that is being reported to us as bullying statutoily as it's defined. Um, and I'm quoting loosely here. It's not exact verbage, but it's a repeated uh directed uh course of actions that would make a person feel unsafe. Um, I have not had those referred to me, that kind of incident. Um, let's say I haven't Yeah, that's that's kind of where it ends for me. I was say I know the schools take their their bullying tips and they investigate those at the administrative level. Um, our process in the city of Stoton is if

068I receive a bullying complaint and it is credible. So, there is a course of action making someone feel unsafe, um, we are required to issue a bullying warning letter. Um, it's very similar. We have a what's called a stalking or harassment letter which is a warning that has said you've been contacted by a law enforcement officer. This is the language that defines what the crime is. Continued action will result in citation and subsequent enforcement. >> Other questions? Allison? Mine's not really a question, but um just I I want to express my appreciation for the safety day, including um uh work at the pool and understanding water safety. It's very important to public health and safety of our kids. >> Well, and I'm going to take a second to plug that. I'm going to need volunteers.

069Um, and also if you guys are like, "Hey, there's some topics that we as parents are noticing that our students are lacking or our children ourselves are lacking, please let me know." I have I still have probably about a day and a half of stuff to plan. Um, because I law enforcement, fire, medflight, that's easy >> that in the pool. Like those are all the ones I know that I want to have, but I have, you know, eight other hours that I would like to get programmed with stuff that's relevant and topical to what's going on now. I'll make a note of that. >> Yeah, sounds great. >> Uh, we can go around again. I think Don's first in the queue. >> Um, so another thing you had another solution that you had uh for

070truency is um to work with the student and um maybe just go in half days. Um has that ever has that happened this year? And >> I was going to say I so I get the referral all that work as far as like attendance plans, course load that is all done at the like administrative level like the assistant principal, the social workers and the counselors. Um I know what has happened in the past. I don't I would imagine it's probably happened this year, but I can't be certain. >> Okay. >> Y that's out of like what I dictate. Um, but I usually say I'm like I'll go to like Miss Sienna at their high school. I'll be like, "Well, what all have we done?" Explain it to me. Um, so I know that we're doing

071everything we can before I have to issue a $691 citation. I don't like issuing that citation. >> Right. And and so how many um days does a student have to miss before they're considered on the verge of truency or >> it's f it's technically legally it's only five class periods unexcused >> on a what >> five class periods unexcused is truency in the state of Wisconsin. Um, truency referrals vary and are usually in the days, typically double digits before I see a referral. Um, yeah, it's >> Jim, >> it's a low bar. >> Yeah, >> legally, yes. Yeah, legally and we are we we have a higher bar for our district than that. >> The uh uh going back to the number of calls, I think was what is that what you call call? Yeah,

072calls for service sens. >> You reference different types. I'm wondering if you categorize them for yourself at any point in time. I'd be interested. For example, >> you know, how many are related to parking, how many related to theft, how many related to incidents between student, you know, any kind of categories like that that you're keeping anyway? >> So, each call type is labeled. Yeah. >> So, say it's a crash in the parking lot. Crash, no injury or crash, property damage, um, disturbance. I'm also trying to I don't want to start if I documented everything I did with the call, which I think was kind of the hope and vision, students would have hundreds of police contacts by the time they graduated just by me talking to students, right? Um, so I'm also trying to

073avoid giving students kind of unnecessary police contacts. Um, and I talk to students all the time and it's not an enforcement action. I'm just checking up on how's it going, how finals go, how you know that sort of stuff. But for how the calls that we have categorized and I have taken and made incidents, they are categorized by what their call type is. I mean that just for me 187 doesn't mean anything but to me if it's if 180 of them are parking related which they're not but >> oh gosh I don't at this point I have >> saying I'm just an example. >> Yeah I was going to say I have >> doesn't tell me much what 187 means. >> I was going to say if I didn't >> how you're interacting >> if

074I Yeah. If I took an instant for every parking complaint I did 20 a day. >> Yeah. Yeah. I was going to say do you park in the parking lot? >> Yes I do. >> Yep. You know, [laughter] >> today was especially bad because you couldn't see the numbers with the snow. >> Yep. Snow parking rules were fully in effect. The lines don't really matter anyways. >> Boy, uh do we have Sharon? Do you have an additional question? >> I had one additional one and this is something as much to be thinking about over the rest of the school year, but are there any signs you're seeing of how you're constrained? Maybe unnecessarily so, but like if we could remove some obstacles that would help you be more effective, more impactful. You know, you had

075mentioned you'd love to see staffing increase. You'd love to see, you know, dogs. >> Yeah. >> But, um, are there some other maybe even more pragmatic small things that we might be able to attend to that could help you >> in the summer and in the fall? >> For me, time is always going to be the constraint. students deserve my undivided attention but I do not always get that luxury. Um sometimes I am in a meeting with counselor and a student and they are telling me something and I get radioed for what sounds like a could be a safety issue somewhere else in the school. I have to run. that puts a barrier up for that student. Like I am not the most important person at this time. Um when I'm on the road, I

076have other partners who can go to other calls. I'm the only officer in our school. There are 2,700 students, there is one me. There only 40 hours in a week. I just I short of having an officer in every school, which I know is not financially feasible to give to every student, it's that's that's my time is my biggest constraint right now. Um, especially when it comes to documenting things, you know, student gets caught with a vape. I'm now an hour and a half to two hours of reporting evidence, adding it in, it takes it takes me out of out of the day. It takes me out of the schools. And that's that's a consideration that the other part they're like, oh, that's you know, why are you always at the high school? I have

077to get the paperwork done. I have to document these things or they don't happen. >> That's also important, too. So when he says that, then you throw all our other safety stuff like our safety assessments, um our reunification teams, you know, our just our general safety team meetings and stuff that we're also doing as a district as well. That does kind of take away from that, too. So there's there's a lot of I'm going to say clerical stuff as well that we take care of as a district that having uh Officer Orin there, it's it's very important for us and it it's very resourceful as well. So >> now I got to ask it. >> Zach, >> thank you for your time. It's really great to hear what you're doing. >> Um, for the speak

078of speakout, is there a direct streamline to you? Is that something that's goes directly to you? >> I do get a text for those text notification or an email. >> Um, would I look at those? We'll get like susso tips about vaping. Um, keeping in mind I'm not trying to go into bathrooms and search kids. That's not my prerogative as a school resource officer. Um, but I will still view the complaint, make sure that's been acknowledged by an administrator, Miss Gemma, Boyd, whoever that it's being handled. Um, I want to say that we haven't had a rent complaint some time, but been months. Find your nearest piece of wood and not court me, please. Um, and that has not changed with the SRO or not. So, the police department has always been informed of those.

079So, it just went to a detective. So, a detective got those directly to them. Um, I still think actually I'd have to look. Oh, we determine who is on those. Um, and we add and and take people off just like administrators, you know, if there's any um rotation of them as well. So, um, yep. I was going to say if it's anything like it used to be, our admin, lieutenants and chief, we'll get them and then I imagine I'll be getting a late night phone call. Um, unfortunately, we haven't had one of those in some time. >> Thank you, >> Jim. Um the question I have is around sort of whether either in your prior work or now to what extent you're able to inter interact with other kinds of youth serving organizations in the

080county that that can provide and I think of things like Brier Patch and some of the other service organizations that that provide either and you know provide stuff for parents and and students um on either kind of a regular basis routinely meeting periodically or just based on your own knowledge and outreach and then also I assume there's some resources in town here. >> Yeah. >> That you are, you know, familiar with and become familiar with that you're integrated with. >> Yeah. Um so I have worked with senior center and I've worked with Laura Braun at start. Um, I've helped organize Stoen Pride and I'm hoping to do more with that in order to kind of incorporate that's a great resource fair to have those like brier patch and stuff brought down. Um, part of it

081is just knowing who to contact because most of the time when I call it's a general intake number. I talked to an intake worker said this is I'm just referring this. I'm building their jacket so when they call you don't have to do the full rundown of phone number social security address. Um I would love to try and do some sort of resource fair. Uh we've done our reality maze. Um but I don't think we do except I'm first year in the district so I don't want to make a ton of changes. I would like to see a full start to finish right and get into next year. Um, but I'd love to see kind of like a parent resource fair where we bring down like Brier Patch and we bring down our Journey Mental

082Health and we bring down these different community resources and then parents can kind of do a walk around, grab business cards, grab a flyer, talk to somebody there. Um, and I don't know if the school district is one the right place to facilitate that or not. We'll figure out we'll grow it together. And is is your is the knowledge you have of those resources largely based on either individual efforts you've made to outreach or connection or is there some sort of other uh forum in which folks like that get together periodically and sort of share information about what's happening with youth. So that's part my resources that I utilize are hard earned and hard one from things I have experienced and got to know from our social work team. Some of it is from the

083SRO group. Um I have informed other SRO I'm like hey this worked really well for this incident might be something you can do. Um but we're also we're all drawing from the same pool. So a lot of the time it's oh yeah I've done that already. Um I I have built over my years a spreadsheet of things that I I have used and have been successful or got good responses from. >> Yeah. I think uh if folks have additional questions or should we email Dr. Keyzer and you can filter them to you? >> Yeah, please. >> Sounds like you might have some additional help and ideas for your safety camp. So, >> thank you so much for coming to our meeting tonight and proving an update. I have a comment though that >> comment Jim

084>> just just assume it's sort of assumption I guess it's not for so much for you as it is for for the administration of you know again going back to the purpose of this relates to engagement goal and how we're going to measure that this year will be kind of a baseline measure it's not going to tell us necessarily a lot but to what extent are we on target for having whatever that's going to be sort of ready and thoughtful and presented and where where are we at with sort of h so here's what we're going to do to measure this year as set a baseline >> y >> and now you don't have to answer it now unless you got a quick answer but >> no I'll I'll take some time to reflect on

085be able to respond >> okay thank you thank you all >> thank you >> thanks >> thank you >> all right moving on to item where are we are at item 5B state convention reports so um Mr. Buban's not here. I know Miss Sorg and Dr. Keyser, Rachel, myself were there. Do you do you want to share things that you learned? Um, yeah, with the, um, one of the ones I went to that I thought was really interesting and I don't know, I know I brought it up to Dr. Keyzer there with the um, the eve of our legislative day. Um and there were some really good presenters there on our legislative day. Um there was another district that um does a it's basically a a program for getting uh families and community members and

086um like outside resources um outside jobs and employers to come in work with the school on um their tech and looking at um apprenticeship. um coming into the schools and sort of helping them figure out what's going to um be needed in the job market. Um and I I it seemed like a pretty interesting idea um that they basically kind of set it up very much like our legislative day. Um, but they did also for one of their groups have a a committee um of just some community folks that they had identified that help them um get their their students meeting folks out inside that might be hiring them that have knowledge about the jobs that they would want to go into. I don't I thought it was uh it was pretty cool. They did

087a nice job. Uh, I'll just I'll run down the update from the delegate assembly since we had that on our agenda last time and tell you what passed and what didn't pass. Um, the amendment to the bylaws that would have created that tiered membership for the schoolboards association that failed. The emergency resolution to ensure that the promised special education funding reimbursement percentage was what it they said it was going to be. That passed. Um opposing removal of school choice program caps passed. The resolution to give DPI authority over federal funds distribution passed. Opposition to state limits on school referenda passed. New categorical aid created for substance use disorder passed. Required state agency collaboration for students with disabilities and transition programs passed. Universal state funding for school meals passed. Creation of public education endowment fund failed.

088Opposition to state funding for private child care providers um saying that all 4K funding must be provided through school districts that passed. Uh support for decoupling private and public school funding failed. opposing decoupling of private and public school funding passed and the change to the WIAA policymaking um policy encouraging school districts to participate when necessary passed. So a reminder those are resolutions that guide the work of the school boards uh association in their lobbying. These are the things they will be advocating for because they passed the deleation or if they failed they will not be on their agenda. Um just a couple sessions I went to. Um I'm always interested in how other school districts are using their data and sharing it with their community. Now we have our dashboard and we're talking to the

089community and talking here at the board table about how our students are doing aligned with our three goals around literacy, math, and belonging. I went to one where they featured two very different school districts, Mount Horb and KBY. They're at different kind of stages in their um kind of data sharing and where they're at um on their goals and they use a service that's created a customized dash dashboard for them. Frees up the time of their staff to not kind of have to gather and share that data. They are really good at sharing it in a really clear um concise dashboard. They um compare their schools to peer school districts um to provide some context for the community. I thought that was something worth kind of thinking and talking about here. Um maybe as a

090next step, I went to the Get Kids Ready 4K initiative. This is a new um initiative that was passed in the state budget. It is not 4K. It's um completely state funded and it's um to private child care providers outside of the 4K system. Um it's really a trial kind of program in the state. And I think what do we have two? We have one one private child care provider that we know is interested in participating. Correct. >> Okay. So, you can't be both a 4K provider and participate in this new get kids ready initiative. The funding for this, I believe, goes directly to the providers or the families, I'm not sure. But anyway, it's it's there's one some school districts are really doing some innovative things where you you cannot take both payments, but

091a student could go to a 4K program in the morning and then do um this get kids ready initiative in the afternoon. So, they would basically be getting a full day of sort of like higher level curriculum and instruction, which might mean that a school district would have better prepared kindergarteners coming in. So, I guess that's kind of the hope, but it's it's in its infancy and we'll see how many other providers maybe take it up in Stoton. I think the deadline to apply is like this week or maybe. >> Yeah, it was very short. >> Very short. >> That was interesting. Um, I went to a school finance background session just to kind of try to better understand school finance. Erica would be h proud of me. Um, and I just I was asking

092questions about the fund balance and just one takeaway I had is that it's good for board members to understand what parts of the fund balance are spendable, restricted, committed, assigned or unassigned. And so those are um some questions I took away with me and I guess and then our session was really great. >> I I would echo that. We had a we had a good attendance for for our session. Um, I thought we had some really good questions from a variety of districts, some small, some large, urban, rural, um, and, um, suburban. Uh, just asking kind of how we go about doing what we're doing. Um, so I don't know if if board members have received any emails. I have not yet as of yet, but I certainly had some people stop me throughout. Um

093I attended a session on NIL and um soon athletes which was um led by Boardman and Clark. Um >> NIL is name, image and likeness. Um WIA passed resolution allowing for that at the high school level. Um and being very new and there's a lot of questions it is very different than college. So, if you're thinking of name, image, and likeness from the collegiate level, it is not what that is. Um, and the athletic director and a attorney who's uh very close to this um statewide really was kind of trying to clarify any misconceptions because there are a lot of misconceptions around NIL and a lot more questions than answers at this point. Um so it was interesting just to kind of have that um as some background. Also looking at um kind of strategic

094approaches to to navigating data and and how to present that to um various audiences similar to what Lisa has just talked about. And then Allison, I attended one um in a small school district um rural school district, Spencer, that was trying to address uh uh um >> child care in in what I would I would classify as a child care desert. they love in home care, but no like um like a Weeble World or or Learning Tree or anything like that that we we enjoy and how they went through and actually built it within their school. Um and that's how it kind of kicked off their 4K, their 3K, and now their infant um child care center all within within the school. Um they they just shared their journey and they said it is expensive.

095they they um after all of the reimbursements um that they take advantage of, they're still infusing hundreds of thousands of dollars with within um their budget to help support um this endeavor. But more so it was just how how does a school district identify a need and how they went through the process of addressing that need was why I attended that session in terms of just the thought process and the strategic thinking that a school district went through to not only identify what a need was but then how they went about um developing internal and external stakeholder groups for addressing Similarly, but not presented was I know Sock Prairie did a public private partnership in their community with the school district for a daycare center um which also is going to be a 4K site.

096They went through a much different process in being close to that school district because of Dayne County um proximity. I know that story and this was a nice um kind of another storyline to to take from that. Um and it is definitely a lot of work. >> It's a lot of work. They definitely struggled with staffing. Um it they said that um it really was a great opportunity though for youth that wanted um to be able to come in either um volunteers um but they also had um a lot like part of what helped them nearly break even was their summer program that would come in after um like after our you know their version of summer Excel, their summer school. Um, so that kids could go there and then go right over to the

097daycare and have supervision while, you know, so parents aren't flushing around after middle of the day trying to get them from one place to the other. >> Um, you know, there certainly seems like there's a need for that. I don't know that this model would work for us, but it was interesting to see how they did it. like >> so it was more more kind of building background knowledge on strategic thinking and strategic planning. So um but yeah it was a it was a um good comp good convention and um it's good that we were able to share our story. Um the Norwegian dancers were going to were set to close out. Um we had an inclement weather day. So um that cold day cold snap uh prevented um them from attending, but they are

098I talked to um the coach and they're going to reapply when the when it opens up for next year. So we'll see what next year holds. >> Questions for anybody about the state convention? >> I thought about you guys when it was so darn cold out. [laughter] I mean, I remember last year walking between the buildings and it was all >> Rachel was amazing because she got us in the hotel where we didn't have to even bring our coats. >> Nice. >> That was >> Way to go, Rachel. Rachel. >> Kudos to Rachel. [laughter] >> All right, moving on. We are at um item 6A. This is a discussion action item, so I'll need a motion. You do not. >> It's on the screen. It's on the screen if somebody wants to read it. >>

099All right. Move to approve the 2025 to 26 budget amendment as presented. >> Second. >> Moved by Sorg, second by NASA Myers. >> All right. Um, this is a newer process for us. Um this was foreshadowed um earlier this year in talk talking about our budget and um so we're trying to do this um two times a year and uh I'll have Erica just refresh everyone's mind on what what this um budget amendment's purpose is and what you're you're voting on. And I would say that it's it's a it's actually not really a change in process other than I think we used to have it on the consent agenda. Um what's what's a little bit different if you remember in the past we would approve our budget on a very high level um summary and

100it would be a sum of our our expenses in fund 10 would be a sum of our instructional expenses which [clears throat] are any function number that start with a one our support which is any function number that starts with a two and then other when you look at I don't know Rachel if you want to just quick open up that attachment if you recall when we adopted our budget this year it was just a at a a more detailed level. So, we extended our function number out to a twodigit um summary. So, you can see 1,00 it's 110,000 120,000 130,000 for the account code. Um those used to all be rolled up into anything that started with a one and then similarly the the series that started with a two all would have rolled

101up to the 2000s. This structure is what DPI recommends. It allows for easier um data transfer directly from our software to DPI. So when we adopted our budget, it was in this format. So anytime we do budget transfers, so as principles are deciding, I want to buy I'm just going to make something up. I want to buy um a math textbook instead of uh a cost for the the copies of the copy machine. That would be a a budget transfer between different function numbers. And so you see more ins and outs at a detailed level. So really it's the same thing that we've done in the past. It's just you see all of the lines a little bit more detailed this way. Similar to the way that we actually approve the budget. What used to

102be a one-page summary was about I don't know like six or seven pages when we finally approved the budget. So this is just a tool that we use. We really enc we encourage our principles and our supervisors, our directors to you know you set a budget in the fall. This is what your initial plan is. But as things change over the course of year of the year, we want them to modify and change their budget so they can spend their money according to what their needs may shift um to over the course of the of the school year. >> Questions for Erica, Dr. Keys? >> I have a question. >> So if I'm looking at this chart, >> Yep. >> that the numbers in red are always the ones that pop out to me. Can

103you explain to me in parentheses 199,117? What why is that number in red? Where is it being transferred from? >> It could be a bunch of different places. So when you look at you see those red, but then you also see the black and you see at the bottom it's a zero. So all the negatives wash when you add up all the positives. >> It's all the same total amount. >> Yes. Yes. So it could be the central services is the one that's a negative 199. My guess is that the vast majority of it fall into the lineup above it. So, anything in that 250,000 series that it's falls under business and facilities, but it includes transportation, all the stuff that Kyle is doing, um all the stuff from my office, transportation. So, um, if

104we transferred money that we were originally going to spend, um, on something that fell into a function number 260,000, which central services is, I think technology might have some of that, human resources. Um, if they're making transfers, anything that falls into that 260, a plus or minus will roll up into that line item. And then similarly, something in that 250,000, anything that goes in or out will that. So that's like really a sum of what could be many many different account numbers. I don't feel like I'm doing a very good job answering your question, but >> it's not like it's one thing. >> If you had to do this form last year, would it have looked similar? This sort of activity happens all the time. >> Yes. Okay. >> Yes. What you would have seen

105is instead of 110,000, 120,000, 130,000, 140,000, you would have seen one 0000. And so it would have been all of those numbers that start with a one would have been added together and all of the numbers that started with a two would have been added together. So you would have just seen those line items summarized for all of those individual accounts. Questions? Anyone? Are we ready to vote? Is this roll call? >> No. >> Okay. All in favor of the motion? I I >> I >> All opposed. Any abstension? Motion passes. >> Thank you, Erica, for explaining that. >> Thank you, Erica. >> I apologize if I missper. >> All right. Um, guess what? We are on to item 7A or seven, the meeting closing recap of action items. Okay, here's what I have. In

106addition to Jim's prom picture, um we are asking folks, and this can be board members, but members of the public to contact their legislators. For us, that's Representative Randy Udell and Senator Melissa Ratcliffe, including Governor Ivers, about using surplus funding to ensure that we get the adequate reimbursement for our special education categorical aids. Uh there's still time to get pop concert tickets. Palm concert is February 9th. Um, legislative day is tomorrow from 8 until noon. Uh, February 16th, there's board development from 5 until 6. Uh, there's also a public hearing on a petition to alter school boundaries on the 16th from 6:00 until 6:30. We have our community conversation at the high school February 21st. People interested in participating in that can email either Principal uh GMO or Dr. Keys. Um, Officer Orin is thinking

107about doing a safety camp in July and he's open to ideas to help him build the agenda for that day. So, contact officer Orin. Uh Mia will be uh providing information on some truency courses to Dan and uh officer AR is going to be doing some followup on some of the truency course suggestions that were discussed tonight and then Dan will be getting back to the board regarding an update on um SRO data collection and report for our first year. Is there anything else? Right. Uh, future meetings. Item 7B. I have legislative day tomorrow. Regular board meeting 21:16, community conversation 221, regular board meeting March 2nd at 6:30. Anything else? >> All right. May I have a motion to adjurnn? >> So uh moved by moved by Moser, second by >> Sorg. I'll second. >>

108Okay. All in favor? >> I I oppose. Motion carried. We are ajourned.