001to Mr. Tim Buban here. Miss Mia Croy here. Mr. Jim Moser here. Miss Don Garcia here. Mr. Zach Masa Myers here. Miss Lisa Pew here. Miss Allison Sorg here. Dr. for Sharon Milin Bartlett here. And student rep Michaela Becker here. Moving on to item 2 A, public comment. Do we have any public comment? No public comment. Item 2B, the legislative update. I'll just give a short update. Um state tax collections for the current year. The department of revenue um estimates they're 4.8% higher than the previous year. increase largely during by income, sales taxes, and corporate tax collection. So, strong tax collection obviously a good and helpful sign for advocating for future school funding. Um, the Wisconsin Association of School Boards has a new budget resource available on their website. I checked it out. I highly
002recommend um board members to look at it. It's kind of an easy way to describe what was in the budget and kind of the circumstance that public schools are in currently. um they st share some good information if you're having a conversation with community members about the budget. Um one of the key points in there that I pulled out compared to other states, Wisconsin's per pupil funding continues at a downward trend, dropping to 26 nationally and 9.9% less than the national average in 2023, even considering declining enrollment. uh ranked 11th in funding in 2002. Wisconsin has fallen behind its neighboring states of Illinois, Michigan, and Minnesota. And um the school board associated, you know, just suggests we continue to talk to our elected officials about the importance of increasing um public education funding. Um the
003state recently released uh $1.5 million for low-income high school students for driver education grants. This is a new permanent um driver education supplemental fund. uh they release I think a total of six million and every three months they release another 1.5 million um and students themselves can go to the department of transportation website Wisconsin department of transportation and search for Wisconsin driver education grants um that website is Wisconsin doot.gov go ov pretty easy to find. Uh the legislature had a long summer recess and now they are back. Uh the legislative calendar has the assembly at least reserving what they call for for action between today and September 11th. Um there are some bills that didn't make it across the finish line and um had had considerable pro um progress prior to the budget and now
004there's already new bills that are being introduced. So there was they were always anticipating that there would be um action on education issues this fall. A few bills that the schoolboards association say are likely to move through the legislature and are likely to become law are um and we've talked about this one removing impediments to rehiring re retired workers that this applies to all public sector employees. Um WASBY has been um continuing to push for this bill to become law. Uh, another bill likely to become law, higher education data collection and requiring school boards to distribute information. Um, this is focused on getting high school students better information to evaluate their future higher education opportunities and allowing small rural schools to give more students scholarship opportunities. Um there's also some student health and safety mandates
005around sexual abuse education, cardiac emergency aed installation, clean drinking water, and prohibiting certain school lunch ingredients. These are again bills that have already had some committee um passage and are likely to be signed by the governor. Um, WASBY says that these topics are have been some areas where the legislature and the governor uh, Democrats and Republicans have found some common ground. They are mandates that all are proposed without funding, which is of course problematic for school districts, but uh, these are still pretty hard issues for um, legislators to oppose. So Wiseby just says they'll continue to point out the implications of passing these laws and how they would impact districts. And that's all I have for legislative update question. Moving on to item 2 C workg groupoup reports. Um does somebody want to provide the
006governance reports? I can do that. So in the governance uh workg group the went over a couple of policies that will be talked about under discussion action move forward um two policies updating um information around consent agenda and board member behavior and communication code of conduct. So those you'll see a little bit later on in the agendas. Any questions for Dan about governance work group? another work group employee relation. Yep. So, we met on the 25th. You'll see six more policies to add on to the two that Dan had mentioned. Um, a lot of those dealt with specific language to tobacco nicotine um by students, emergency nursing service plan, um possession intoxicants, um leaves of absence, employee leave, and students supervision welfare. A lot of it was technical language. Um there's one a couple of
007the policies there was some additional discussion but we can discuss that when we get to um uh actually talking about the policies and any other questions anyone has any questions right now for Zach. All right moving on to item 2D student representative report. All right so I don't have a whole lot tonight but a few exciting things. So um we had both the sixth grade orientation and the freshman orientation. So both um groups have like a web leader or a link leader group. So that's the upper classmen. So eighth graders or juniors or seniors and they each had a day of training and then hosted those orientations. I thought the one at the high school went very well. So I hope the one at the middle school went well as well. Um, and then, uh,
008student senate had our meeting and we did decide to change the name to student council to make it a little easier, but we had a lot of kids confused that we were student government, but we're just a student council. And then the homecoming dance theme was picked to be MMA Mia. So, that will be the theme. That'll be fun. I'm excited. Um and then for athletics, boys soccer will have their first home game on Thursday against Beaver Dam. And um volleyball will have their first game against Portage also on Thursday. So lots of home games this week. And then football was in Green Bay Southwest last Thursday and they won 40-13. And then girls tennis had their first home meet against Fort Atinson last week and won six to1. So, that's kind of all I
009have, but there's more upcoming. Questions? When is homecoming? Uh, October 11th. Is the Is the board going to have a a float? Are you volunteering? Design it, build it, and drive it. Put that in action items. Don volunteered. Only only if people throw water balloons at No water. That's right. They'll throw candy at us or throw candy. I'm I'm dumb. It won't be candy. Hard candy. Any other questions? So, you're going to educate everyone on who Aba is, right? Yeah. I actually we made a playlist for the homecoming dance of songs to play and I added like some ABA songs and no one recognized them other than Dancing Queen. I was a little disappointed but it should be fun. We'll get copies of the Aba Gold album and see no more questions. Moving on. Item
0103A Dr. Steven's report and the controller worked tonight. All right. So, mine's just a vis visual. This is a collage of first day um photos. We welcome back um 2500 of our smiling students into all five campuses. Um it was a whirlwind tour this morning. Um we also have um couple a photo from our 4K um site. So it was a great day. Um we had uh good drop offs. We had smiling faces. We had a few tears from parents. Um and then when you got to the elementary school, there was a whole lot less. No, I'm kidding. Um but being in all the buildings, it was great to see see the students back in the spaces and reconnecting. So um kudos to all of our staff, custodial maintenance, food service, um teachers, educational assistants,
011um uh admin assistance, principles, and um directors. that made all of the first day um successful for our students. So, as I say, we're off zero. We're not anticipating the start of school. We've started school. So, going up up up and to the right. Questions, what was the reaction to River by both parents and students? Were you there? I was not there for I was I was out at the elementary schools for the start, but when I checked in, they said that by about 7:30 they had about 300 to 350 students out in the front. They said it worked well having the the drop off on one side, the buses on the other. Um, kids came in. In fact, you can kind of see in the upper corner um the front of River Bluff. That
012was right when the the doors were unlocked and and opened. So, when I got there, um they were already well into their, you know, expectations and I was in um the new gym with our new PE teachers who were doing get to know you exercises where they're like, "Okay, what's your favorite color?" And then they had um areas on on the wall. So, kids were running all over the gym like, "My favorite color is blue." Okay, you got to go all the way to that gym. My favorite team's the Vikings. You go all the way over to this. So, go in the basement. So, yes, it was it was great. And everyone was saying there is a lot of light in that new space. And then up at the high school, you know, um the
013freshman coming in seeing the commons for the first time as students and not just visiting. That was quite interesting. and few people getting retakes of their their um photos or IDs and yearbook and so forth. Any other questions for Dan? Has a question? Um I was wondering if anybody could speak a little bit to how the SRO is doing so far. Like how's the onboarding been? How did he spend his first day? Anything you can share? Certainly. I saw him both at the elementary and up at the um high school. He was um up at the high school. He and Miss Gymlo were walking around with Recon and he was he had been in all the buildings the last couple of weeks getting to meet staff and um few of the students during the um
014open houses and so forth. So, yes, I'm looking forward to um having the schedule. We have our first formal um schedule time for the check-ins in November, but I know he um is looking forward to coming to a couple of board meetings and getting to meet board members as well. Thank you. Yes, no problem. All right, seeing no other questions, we'll move on to the consent agenda. I move approval of the consent agenda as presented. Second. Uh consent agenda has been moved and seconded. Uh do we have any questions? Any questions about the consent agenda? No. All right. Um all in favor I I did have a question. I'm sorry. the FFA group uh trips that are included. Are they part of the consent agenda? Okay. Um is that I'm happy to see that. Is
015that more trips than I don't remember having seen approval for those trips those types of trips. I'll check on that from IPFA in the past. So, I'm just wondering if they're trying to do more with that or that's something new. We'll look into that. I don't know. Yeah. Any other questions? Um, all in favor of the consent agenda say I. I. Any opposed? Any abstensions? The consent agenda passes. We are on We don't have anything in discussion. And we are on to item number six, discussion, action, policy updates. So how do we want to we start with the motion? Start with a motion. Oh, start with the motion. I move approval of the policy updates presented. Second. Zach beat me. Seconded by Jim. Oh, was that Jim? Questions and questions about politics. All right. Seconded
016by who? By Jim, Mr. Moser. So, one of the discussion points that we had in the meeting was around policy and 5530. Um, because there was kind of a I don't know if it was Mia or Sharon that brought it up, but the language seems a little bit different of how it addresses I don't know. It sounds um less punitive. It sounds like there's more supportive measures in 55 uh the one for nicotine and tobacco versus the one with uh intoxicants drugs, other paraphernalia. I don't know if Dan if you were able to get more clarification with that one or not. Um of you know because it seems like it was very supportive there in the the tobacco nicotine where it you know talks about how you're going to incorporate and do the students understand
017root causes and and why of the behavior etc. and why that one why there isn't similar language for um the intoxicant drugs or paraphernalia one. I don't know if you were able to more there. I I hadn't heard back back on that. Um so which could just simply mean that um they they haven't gotten to my email yet to to answer on that. But I did um ask around um some of my superintendent colleagues and they said with this they've been trying to um discuss with their boards around and very similar to our discussions in the workg group incorporating this language in um our overall behavior policy. bill which I think we we also discussed in work group um going to climate and culture and revisiting some of our behavior policies and seeing if Niola
018doesn't have language if we could incorporate some of this language um parallel in with our our student behavior policies um and talking with both uh Miss Mao and Miss Gmalo because we've been um working on this at the elementary for many years. This would be in line with where they want to move the student um discipline code for um for students in general. So, it all seems to be working in alignment at this point, but I have not heard back from Nola yet as far as an answer to that question specific to um other drugs um intoxicates. So other questions along this topic, Jim? Well, just follow up. I think that makes a lot of sense. It what if if um so let's presuming we approve these we could revisit that at some point and
019I would think if if we have some specific ideas that we might want included uh we should get those into the process somehow. Um but I think the general trend is the right trend. Correct. So when we would bring these policies up in um climate and culture work group, any board members who want to attend if you're not formally on that work group can attend and and include your um thoughts and conversation at that point or even during um as we go through the process of approval. So absolutely. Thank you. Yeah, just uh on this same topic of this PB uh policy 55112, I just want to say I really appreciate that the addition of in um that the board or the district recognizing that out of school or in school suspension increases the likelihood
020of negative educational outcomes and thereby discourages um and we prohibit or discourage um exclusionary practices. I think that's a really good change in addition. And I I guess my question for you Dan in terms of supportive disciplinary practices what what are we currently using and how how is that funded like how are we currently supporting students in that way or we are we not doing that yet? So it would be anything up to and including um having counselors or social workers or school sites um intervene first uh leveraging any partnerships. most notably are the Stoton Wellness Coalition, which has already been doing some evenings and some education all night um just talking about vapes and and the dangers of nicotine and vape and addictions. Um, I know that, um, M's been in all of our
021our buildings and quite literally we'll spend a half a day to a day just being in the office available for students, staff, um, whomever to come in and have conversations and try to connect with resources. um working with start um it often times is um attendance, behaviors, addictions all are intertwined with a larger dynamic and sometimes those dynamics involve families and and the family unit. So that's best addressed by connecting them to organizations like start where they can try to address family dynamics that may not directly address the incident in the school but get at some of the um root causes that feed that. So um that's not like X thing happens Y um intervention is put in there. It's really dependent upon all the circumstances of what was caught, why was it caught, what
022are what is found out in the investigation and where does that lead? Yeah. Any other questions? Yeah, let me let me just add because I I did read these, but this makes me think of uh these also can be places and I don't remember if it's in there um references to various restorative practices that could be implemented. uh as part of a process. So that discipline is sort of in in my mind discipline is sort of a half step. Then comes how do you how do you restore things the way you want them to be. And the both all of these might be places where something like that would be a useful addition if it's not already in there to some degree. Yeah. And on that point that makes that reminds me the reason for
023the language in policy is Nola writes policies for multiple school districts and we might call it restorative practices here. Another district might call it restorative justice. Others might call it um anti-exclusionary me. So with a variety of different names they've come up with the other kind of a nomenclature that could be carved out in under multiple districts. So, we know what it means for for ourselves and where the specifics are is in the student handbook. So, well, yes, but it makes me think it's this is our policy, not Neola's policy. No, you're you're absolutely right. I think I think to the extent that anybody sees something like that, we could we could think about adding it some somewhere down the road. Sharon, your question. I I did um this is a little bit of a
024procedural thing, but I thought I had noticed on a past meeting that we had discussed policies and the notes that we approved um the subsequent meeting said something simply like approved policies. So, I just wondered if the minutes for tonight could say like the numbers and then the name of the policy that was approved. We don't have to go into additional detail, but just for reference for the public who might be following along if we have the numbers and the name itself, that's really beneficial. Yes, we can include those in the minutes. Yeah, I think that's good education of the public too. M question. So, I just want to clarify um I think that the committee the at least the culture and climate committee's recommendation was to approve these minutes or approve these policy changes
025for the time being and continue to explore in the committee making these other changes that we've been talking about. I just want to make sure everybody's like on the same page and that that when we vote to approve the minutes that's or the when we vote to approve the policy changes, it's so that we have something in place now and then we are going that our intention is to continue to try to refine it and update it so that it better reflects our values. Yes, 100%. So, looking at looking at our other behavior policies and bringing them all into alignment. Yes. Thank you. Um, any other questions on about these policies or the two from governance that move forward? And this does have to be a roll call vote. Yes. All right. It's I'm seeing
026no further questions. Um, Rachel Mr. Buban. Yes. Miss Croyle. Yes. Mr. Masa Myers. Yes. Miss Garcia. Yes. Miss Sorg. Yes. Miss Pew. Yes. Mr. Moser. Yes. Dr. Sharon Milin Bartlett. Yes. Okay. The policies have passed. Um, are we moving on action? Moving on to our recap of action items. Yes. Okay. Recap of action items. I have um homecoming is October 11th. Um we're they're working on an ABA playlist. So if you have recommendations, uh Dan is checking on the number of FFA field trips and um if there's been any change or there's any more information on that. And the crime and culture work group will continue to explore updating and aligning policies um around student behavior to align with our values um around um more supportive disciplinary practition. Oh, okay. Oh, and also Don is
027doing a homecoming Yes. All by herself. Yeah. Right. Uh so now we we have future board meetings. Um regular board meeting on September 15th at 6:30 p.m. and also on October 6 at 6:30. Uh upcoming workg group meetings, outreach meeting is uh tomorrow at 5:00 pm and governance is on September 9th at 5:00 pm. And those are both virtual. Yes, the two workg group meetings are virtual. Um, at this time I would take a motion to move to close session. So moved. Second. Moved by Alison, seconded by Mr. I'm sorry I'm not using my last names here. Mr. Massa Myers. Um, and this has to be roll call. Oh, Mr. Tim Bubone. Yes. Mayor Croyle, yes. Don Garcia, yes. Zach Masa Myers, yes. Lisa Pew, yes. Allison Sor, yes. Sharon Milin Bartlett, yes. Jim Moser,
028yes. The motion has passed. We are now moving into close session and we will you will adjourn right after close session. So we'll be ending the So we will be ending the um the public broadcast right now. We will uh come back into open session and just to adjourn the meeting. Thank you. Perfect. Um, you can put the zoom