001I'd like to call this uh school district of Surgeon Bay regular board meeting education to order. Uh would everyone rise for the pledge? >> To the flag of the United States of America. and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> We do the roll call. >> Commissioner Stars >> here. >> Commissioner Mer >> here. Commissioner Hos >> here. >> Commissioner Jenner John >> here. Commissioner Stefani >> here. >> Commissioner Cruz >> here. >> Commissioner Howard is not here. Commissioner Schulz >> here. and commissioners here. >> Um, do we have a motion to adopt the agenda as presented? >> I'll make motion to adopt the agenda as presented. >> Second. >> We have a motion by Commissioner Spur, second by Commissioner Darren John to
002adopt the motion or adopt the agenda as presented. Uh, further discussion? All in favor say I. I >> oppos. >> All right. Now we are to the uh student council representative report and we have two not one but two people here. So Maya and Maya Mill and Lauren Michechum, you have the floor. >> Okay. So um we're still like, you know, it's the first month of school, so we're still kind of like building up momentum for student council, but we actually have a lot of things going on at the moment. Um, so was that last week? We had the um the seventh. >> Yeah, on the 7th um we had the Century Ride volunteer opportunity for student council. So we were there from 7:00 to 4:00. We had two different shifts and we were working
003the food stand at Cave Point. So that was really fun. That was a good opportunity. And we actually had a good enough like a good amount of people show up for that. And then we're also organizing this year our first ever club fair. So on September 22nd we're having an extended clipper time. So about an hour, we're going to get dismissed by grade. Each club is going to have their own table out there with people standing and little flyers and just some more student engagement and so people and students know what clubs we offered and hopefully to get to see more members to join. And then um we had our first meeting of the year and we had a record number of people show up which was like fantastic. We didn't have any we didn't
004have any chairs left. People were sitting on the floor. Um, we also had a lot of freshmen show up which is great because sometimes there are meetings so that was really that was like wonderful seeing everybody there. Um, and yeah, we had a lot of participation. Um, and then everybody was signing up for events. So that's great. We love to see that. And with that, homecoming is coming up on October for 18th is the dance and 17th is the game. And so we've been starting to plan that. Tomorrow we have like our real planning meeting, but our court is decided and then we're gonna be planning the games. It's Renaissance theme if you guys didn't know. And so we designed the shirts and so there will just be a lot of planning for that coming.
005Um also around the hallway we've been having um what's going on. It's these little posters that are around um the water fountains and the stairwells and the bathrooms. Um it just gives a brief overview of the week. um sporting events, um club meetings, um special tests or whatever. So, people can just glance around those in the hallways. And then we've also been more active on social media. Um it's I think it's been working out pretty well. We've had more participation, more people showing up, and more people are staying informed, which is great. And then also, I'm a part of service club and baking club. And this year, we're working on organizing the first ever, you call it like a Halloween run, the great Halloween run. So on November 1st, that Saturday, we're right now planning
006for a half mile kids costume dash and then an adult 5K right on the track. And then also I'm a part of baking club. So we're going to have little treats on that, but we're just we're trying to get it rolling and get the get it published by the end of the week, their people. And then also this past Sunday, I helped organize. We had a senior car wash for our class to help fund raise and it was really fun. We right off the bat at 12:01 we had six cars in line. Um but yeah, it was just like we all had fun. We got to spray each other when we got bored and we raised a decent amount of money and it it just brought our grade more together. >> Definitely. >> And thank
007you Mr. Nervy for being our overlooking that. >> Um and then we've also started this is a collaborate this is kind of a new club and with Mr. Blondic. >> Um it's called Beyond the Bell. So it's a studentrun um news program. It'll show every Friday. It's about a 10-minute video. So we started filming for that. Um it's really excited. Like we cover local news like all across the county. Um we feature um like a student of the week, a staff member of the week. Um sporting events and news and everything. It's really great. We started filming that today. Um we do some interviews. Um we'll probably talk to you, Mr. Chin. We'll eventually we'll find you. Um and yeah, >> not in Montana. >> Yeah, when you're not in Montana. Um and it's just
008really been great. So yeah, we've been keeping busy. It's been a good year so far since only September. Yeah, only the second week. We're trying to get everything we can, but that's all we have for you guys. >> That's it. >> Well, that's right. Almost there, right? Might be one of the longer parts of a meeting. Uh so, as a quick reminder, ladies, for anyone that may be watching this now or recording later, when you say clipper time at the high school, just in, you know, 10 15 seconds, what is clipper time again? >> What is clipper time? Clipper time. It's a time of the day around 1:10 to 1:15 to 1:45. And on Mondays, you go to your home room teacher and then you sign up for if you need assistance through for teachers
009or sometimes clubs meet or like you can go to the gym. Like you can go anywhere where you need assistance. And so we're just going to extend this period. >> Perfect. And then you mentioned homecoming. And so I think on Thursday, October 16th, there's a couple things going on that evening also, right? So you mentioned the dance on Saturday, backing up to Friday festivities. >> Wednesday, we have our powderpuff. >> Wednesday powderpuff, but do you play on a certain team, Maya? >> We do. The seniors are taking on the juniors once again this year. We're ready. >> Exactly. And on Thursday, doesn't volleyball play? >> Yes, we have our senior night. >> Yes. So volleyball and I think we have homeboy soccer that night, too. Yeah, the seniors are practicing right now. We've been we're
010we're confident. >> All right, we'll see what happens. >> Board members, anyone have question or comment for the ladies tonight? >> I think it's so nice that you're putting a schedule up around the school. That probably is really helpful for people to kind of clue in on why not. >> Yeah, I think it's we've had a lot of positive feedback about that and I think a lot of people like don't understand that we have sporting events almost every day. So I think like we have a lot of student participation because of those. It's great. >> And when people are like forced to see them when you're in the bathroom pair, too. That sounds like a really good idea. Unless you're right. I think there's probably a lot of kids, especially freshmen that have no idea
011that all those are available. >> Right after the club fair, everyone will get sent like a Google form and then you click what clubs you're interested in and then we'll contact you. I'm going to fast forward through the year too quickly, but Maya, are you having any thoughts about life after high school and what that list looks like before we uh >> It's a long list. >> All right. >> It's only September. >> I know. I know. >> But maybe next meeting I'll have. >> All right. Give us an update sometime. And Lauren, are you still quite sure? I think you were on a trip recently. >> I was on a trip. Um, I went to the Wisconsin Alabama game in Alabama and I was really fond or really hot. >> But, um, yeah, I
012got admitted and I um, what is it called? >> No, like when you like >> I don't want to say committed cuz I'm not a sport, >> but I've committed to Alabama. >> There we go. >> Yeah. >> So, even though it's hot and humid, not too much to scare you from going there. >> No. No. >> I think it scares my parents, but not. And I think maybe did you have a a Sturgeon Bay High School alum show you around a little bit >> in Tuscaloosa? Um I met Mattie Blonnie. Um she was in student council I believe and she was just heavily involved in the school. So that was really fun. We're involved in like the same things. So that was really great to meet up with her and she showed me around
013her sorority house and we went to her boyfriend's frat house. It was just really fun. A great experience. >> Sounds good. I think we're going to wrap up the report on sorority and frat reference. stop. >> Well, thank you very much. Uh, thank you and and uh go enjoy the evening. You don't have to stay the rest of the time. So, thanks. >> Thank you very much everybody. Have a great night. >> Thanks, ladies. Uh, next on the agenda here, u public public comment section. Do we have anyone? It doesn't look like we have anyone that's public comment section. Um so we'll go right down to the consent agenda. Uh the consent agenda which uh consists of the following. Uh approve the meeting minutes of the regular August 20 20th 2025 regular board of education
014meeting and the September 3rd 2025 learning session minutes. Point two, approve the August bills that were in your packet. Many pages of bills. um uh.3 grants and under grants and donations. We do have um um some donations. Here we have Clipper Clays Sporting Clays, $1,875 from uh Larry Johnson and also the same amount from Daily Labat. Uh uh next, Raybrook grant was received to assist with the purchase of a ventless oven at Sunrise. Uh, next we have two $20 gift cards for teachers from Papa Murphy's. And then under the Robert H. Nickel Auditorium uh ongoing effort, there's $5,000 from Elizabeth and Lillian Bour and family and then a thou $1,000 from an anonymous donor. Uh point four under we don't have anything for point 4. That's resignations and retirements. That's kind of a standing point
015on the consent agenda. Under 0.5, we have approved the new health consortium 66.0301 agreement. This is an annual approval discussed at our new health consortium meeting. This is simply a part of the annual operations associated with the consortium as we have been uh reminded by our current insurance broker which is M3. We've discussed that many times in the past. Uh, a motion to approve the consent ag consent agenda items as presented is recommended. We have a motion. A move to approve the consent agenda items as presented. >> Second. >> All right. We have uh a motion by Commissioner Schultz and second move by Commissioner Hos to approve the consent agenda as presented. Um, further discussion hearing none. All those in favor say I. I >> opposed. >> Motion carried. So now we are to the
016operations agenda which is our first point here is we're starting it's that magical mystical time where we have to approve some uh teacher associates. The first one is Jackie Snow. Yes. Thank you. Food service director Jenny Spudy is pleased to welcome Jackie Snow as a part-time member of food service teams. Jackie subbed with us last year and quickly became known for her positive energy way she brightens both students and staff members days. She'd be serving at Sawyer and then assisting at the high school and middle school as well. Jackie's cheerful personality shines through even to the point of dressing up in themed food costumes to encourage students to try new foods. A motion to approve Jackie Snow as a part-time food service staff member is recommended. >> Make a motion to approve Jackie Snow as
017a part-time food service. Second. >> We have a motion by Commissioner Haw, seconded by Commissioner Cruz to approve Jackie Snow as a part-time food service staff member. Uh, further discussion. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion carried. So, now we're down to uh the next person here, Jean Cougl. >> That's right. Miss Gan Cougl's familiar face in our district and excited to welcome her as a matchup Dor County teaching associate. Skookul has many years of experience as an admin assistant in the neighboring district and here in addition to assisting at recess and helping in the classroom, she's providing some office support when Mrs. Peterson takes her lunch over at Sunrise. Grateful to Miss for Mrs. Cougall's willingness to jump in and for her kind demeanor. That's about about two hours a day, I
018think, if I recall. A motion to approve Gan Cougl as a matchup door county teaching associate at Sunrise Elementary School is recommended. >> I'll make motion to approve Jean Cougl as matchup county teaching associate at Sun. >> Second. >> I'm good. Good. All right. We have a motion by Commissioner Jenner John. Second by commission commissioner Haw to approve Gan Krup as a matchup Dor County teaching associate at Sunrise Elementary School. Uh further discussion >> is matchup door county meets >> it's a community program. I think they are on their second or third director and met with us. Basically it's one of the many a unique thing about door county right we have so many nonprofits. They specifically look to partner retirees with um some sort of business entity or whatnot. Something sometimes it's related to
019what they did in their working years. Sometimes it's something completely different, but they just they have they still want to give some time, but they didn't want to work, you know, full-time or a large number of hours. Ironically, I bumped into Gene on Monday when I was stopping at excuse me, Sunrise after a meeting. She was just coming out and she was just telling me how much excuse me about two hours a day works great for her structure still you know feeds off of the kids sees staff wants to be able to help and I think in a nutshell that kind of is what matchup is trying to do. >> Okay, thanks. Is it a volunteer position or a paid? >> It's a paid position but on a a limited roughly quarter time basis. >>
020So how many of those positions can we have? I mean, if we have multiple people who are interested, would we entertain that? >> I think last year we ended up with was it two? Uh, we ended up at two at one point. It really ended up with one. Um, so we have one at Sawyer and one at Sunrise. We we've set it open with all the constraints being budget period. So, >> and some of it depends too when uh when we had their previous director come in and meet with the admin team. Back to your question, Tina was kind of like they're not always sure who they have that's going to be interested in a match, right? So match up just kind of like, oh, you know, some falls, they might have one person that's
021a match, some zero, another time they might have three. And so we kind of have a small pot of money for that type of thing. And actually, not to jump ahead, but only have the youth apprentice student core coming up. Kind of a a little little fund there, so to speak, where each building we kind of have said could get one. And then the high school's been nice to kind of allow theirs to go with the YA student for Sunrise. So, so um further discussion I'll call. >> All those in favor say I. >> I opposed. Motion carried. So now we're down to Sierra Wilcox. >> Director of Special Education Pupal Services Lindseay Ferry and Principal De Nurvy are pleased to recommend Sierra Wilcox as a Sturgeon Bay High School teacher associate. Sierra has earned
022a bachelor's degree in Spanish/Bilingual Studies from the University of Wisconsin Lacrosse. Sierra has also earned her certificate for teaching English as a foreign language from the International TEFL Academy. Sarah has been teaching in the school district of an Alaska prior to moving to the area. While only living in Sturgeon Bay for a brief period of time, Sierra is excited to join the school team and reconnect with students and the community that she now lives in. Motion to approve Sierra Wilcox as a teacher associate at Sturgeman High School is recommended. >> Move to approve Sierra Wil as a teacher associate at the high school. >> Second. >> We have a motion by Commissioner, second by Commissioner Cruz to approve Sierra Wilcox as a teacher associate at the high school. U further discussion. All those in favor
023say I. I >> opposed. >> Motion carried. So now we're down to uh Jazelle Munoz. >> Yes. M Jazelle Munoz returns to Sunrise as a teacher associate in the ID autism room. Miss Munoz makes strong connections with students. I'm grateful for her ability to communicate with all of our students in both English and Spanish. Motion to approve Dell Munoz as a special education teacher associate at Sunrise Elementary School is recommended. Move to approve Jazelle Munoz, the special education teacher associate at Sunis Elementary School. Second. All right, we have a motion by Commissioner Schultz and seconded by Commissioner Star to approve Jazelle Munoz as a special education teacher associate at Sunrise Elementary School. Further discussion? All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed? Motion carried. So now we're down to approve the work study
024student intern. >> Yes. Principal Katie Smallen and the staff at Sunrise are pleased to welcome Lakora Fran Japani to Sunrise or as a senior at Sturgeon Bay High School this year will help out as a work study student internally linked with the youth apprenticeship program. Uh she helped at recess and lunches in addition to classrooms. It's exciting to grow future teachers and core brings positive and consistency to this role and plans to study elementary education in the future. Motion to approve Corora Franapani as a work study student intern at Sunrise Elementary School is recommended. >> I'll make a motion to approve Corora Franapani as work study student intern at Sunrise. >> Second. >> I think I heard him first. Okay. Uh we have a motion by Commissioner Jenner John, second by Commissioner Schultz to approve
025uh court of Fran Japani as a worker Howard. >> Oh, no. James. Okay. Um so motion to approve Corora Franapani as a work study student intern at Sunrise Elementary School. Uh further discussion hearing none. All those in favor say I. >> Opposed. Motion carried. Now we're down to reports. >> All right, we'll have uh who's going to go first? Principal Nurby's walking forward. I can add from the item we just approved with Cora. I happened to stop in Molly Cornell's classroom at sunrise Monday when I was visiting or I happened to be uh in helping with a student and uh you know student kind of looked at me and put her hand on Kora's wrist and said she's mine. Cute little interaction. So it was it was great. Clearly the young students are starting to
026take the Kora even though she just started. >> Mr. Nurby, what do you got for us? >> Thank you. Well, I will tell you student council took a lot of my thunder. So, that's good news. But they don't have >> as much to share. I guess we're going to need to coordinate uh better. A couple things that I want to mention. Um just within the last couple days, we got um word and maybe you saw it on Facebook already, but um Kira Wesley was named a National Merit Scholarship semi-finalist. So that's always excited um exciting um puts her in one of the top um students in the nation um for the merit scholarship. So she's in the running for for that for later this year. So that's just really exciting to share. So I wanted
027to recognize her. Um a couple things um one the school year started. We've had a great start here at the high school. Things are really, as you heard, super busy. We're moving through a lot of great things. A lot of uh good events happening already and quickly. And um students really seem to be jumping right back into it. Um teachers were there getting back into school shape. Not that's just me. Um one of the key things that I want to talk about and and they hit on some of it with the Clipper time offering. So over the past couple of years, you know, I've been up here sharing some of the changes we've made with um trying to better prepare our students for some of the academic rigor and successes and things that are going
028on. So several years ago, we started that Clipper time um offering that opportunity in the school day for our students to learn. Um last year we started freshman seminars. So, all of our freshmen coming in are kind of getting some of those basics going from middle school to high school. What does that look like? How do they navigate that? Um, and hopefully they're finding that um useful because I know some of you have freshmen, but um it's been a great class and really helped. Last year um we significantly reduced um freshman failures, which traditionally has been one of our um highest failing groups as they come in and try to navigate and figure things out. um we had um less than six kids last year which is a tremendous growth and we really put that
029to um having that another set of eyes on those students. Um and this year we have two more things that we're offering our students. So we're starting with an afterchool study table. Um so we've had some different opportunities for students. This year there there's going to be staff um working with students after school two days a week. They can get in more help, more questions, more things um for students. Sometimes we have students who may get an afterchool detention. this is an opportunity for those students to rather than just sit in an attention room, they can actually meet with teachers and and work because sometimes there's a direct correlation between um them needing some supports. So, we're excited to offer that to our students. And then um we're starting a new academic prep program this
030year to help our students build study skills um work on some of those um assessments. And so that's built into our day as well once a week. Um we haven't started that yet, but we'll be starting that next month. So, just another opportunity to kind of provide for our students and give some of those study um prep strategies to them. I was going to talk about the uh the event we have next Monday for the um course fair or the uh excuse me, the club fair, which we're really excited about. We've been talking about that for several years. And to finally have that in place um is one of our school goals is to increase student participation. We know students who are engaged with school often do better academically. So, um, we're right around the
03170% of our students are engaged in something. We want to build that up to 80 to 85%. So, this is our goal to really try and show students all of the opportunities they have here at the high school. Uh, they talked about homecoming, so I won't mention all of that great stuff that's coming up next month. Um, but I did want to just remind everybody that um this Friday we have our Hall of Fame induction. So, we're uh inducting three um um former um um either students or coaches um into our hall of fame this Friday. So, we have a little reception for them before the football game and then during the football game um they will be brought out or representatives of their families will be brought out and honor them. And the three
032outstanding um additions that we have for the Hall of Fame are Barbara Cleach uh who Fandu Fandal. Is that it? um when she was here. >> Um Casey Rock and Jim Benish um are the three inductions this year. So um we're excited to recognize them. >> Are you joining that before the game or at halftime? >> Uh it'll be during halftime is when um is when they'll be coming in. >> Hey, how many clubs do we have all together? >> Well, that's a great question. Um it always varies a little bit because like this year we have two more that are that are starting up but we're right around 22 clubs which for our size is really really impressive. Um >> certainly plenty of opportunity then >> there's really no and I and so I
033met with all the students at the beginning of the year um you know start the year the whole ram we got this um and I talk about that there's no reason you can't find something. We have everything you from chess club to math club to you know um sailing we have you know I mean just everything baking club I mean everything you can really imagine. And so there's just so many opportunities for students. Thanks. >> Can't see any. All right. So, hey, welcome. I see you all. We just want to go through a couple brief points. Uh, our focus for the first about 11 12 days is just setting the tone with classroom behavioral expectations. Sounds simple, but let's make sure I get 20 plus people all on the same page with what is common
034in everybody's room and then all the areas in the building. Then you connect that with how we're going to be teaching the kids the social emotional learning aspects that we're going to be doing in our clipper time as well, which Jen uh will touch base on. But uh we're we're we're more on the same page than probably ever and dialed in on this than ever before. So that's that's good news and I'm proud to say that's that's been a positive because I think it just it takes a lot of the confusion on how Jay Colts would run his class, how Andy Star run his class or what's expected when someone's going to be in downtime. That's all. So we're we're really worked hard on that. On a couple another front that I think you need
035to be aware of you, we hired Julia Peterson to be our EL coordinator, right? So she's been working steadfast with myself and Moy. We have every students uh it's think of it like a special ed students has to do the individual education plan. Uh EL world is called individual students learning plan. So these students if they don't have one they get screened by Julia or MO. So we're going to be screening the kindergarters. We have all of them. uh we're looking at about 88 kids that we have written plans for and anyone new that comes into the district will receive a plan be screened within the first 5 days and this information is going to go home to parents. So we we've really I mean that that's behind the scenes. There's been a lot going
036on to her credit. She's been meeting with parents. She offered meetings with the middle school and high school staff. Uh a few staff. We need to get a few more coming, right? But a few are coming out asking for help, asking for a guidance. She's been giving them one pages beating them. Hey, this is how we're going to help out a kid that uh speaks very little English or writes very little. This is how you're going to help them help them learn the one or two main things they need to learn that day so they they you know can keep moving forward. So Julia is working hard. Uh he's working with Beth Van. I'm glad we have her. We're further ahead than ever before and it and it's taken a lot off my plate to
037focus on some things that kind of been on the back burner. And there's a just a couple brief updates here. Uh this Friday we have a we have a tailgate ties to incentives like hey you have to come to school. You can't miss you can't this point. It's only 12 days but you can't miss can't miss two or more if you're not coming and you're not invited. You also have to be taking everything and have sea better. uh September 23rd we have a book meeting with the sixth graders and a nice thing coming up is October 30th or sorry September 30th we have a seal smile program coming in and that's for all the students it's it's a free program they're doing a checkup now then in January they put sealant on students uh teeth
038that uh you know lack it's going to help fight cavities help them out so good program so thank you very much thanks >> thank you Mark as Mr. small comes on down. Mark mentioned Beth Vande along with our person Julia works with E. You've heard that name before. Beth works for CISA7. So when we talk about working with CISA to help, Beth goes around and supports districts whether they have an E person or persons, right? We have our first uh but she has supported some of our people that have been point people in the past. So a good CISA resource. Katie, what do you have for us tonight? >> Well, we started school well. Um the first days are always like learning how you do school. So we call it pool tools like how we
039how do we act in the playground? How do we act in the lunchroom? And then we just keep reinforcing and um positively reinforcing with Clipper Cash. And so a lot of new students from different districts this year, different states. And so it's really like, hey, this is how we do things here and let's we'll just keep reminding you and and doing it. um staying positive because we at Sunrise like we really pride ourselves in that and that feeling of welcomeness and positivity. So overall things going well, good start. Um every year we um for the past three years we've done Sunrise orientation. So it's uh it was September 11th and we welcome families to learn about their child's class. They sit in their where their child sits and they hear from their teachers and they
040get to answer questions and then afterward we have pizza and apples and lemonade and just to kind of help build community like you we ask them this year to sit by their class um so they can learn who their children's parents are like just kind of build that community. That's really important for us. Um by pizza count we had over 100 people there children in the playground just having a ball. So that was really great that our staff came together to make that happen and donations from Wood Orchard. Wow, some really great apples. And so we are wrapping up assessments and our PTO sponsored that too. So we like used building funds and PTO funds. It was really awesome. Um wrapping up assessments right now. So um that's good. So we can see what kids
041need, see what happened over the summer, if they did a little sliding or not. And so to get them what they need, I have a rolling office now cart. So I walk around with my little rolling office and my laptop and it's really nice. See what's going on out there. That's all I have. >> Do you ever have snacks on your rolling cart? This is smelling. >> I do. I >> think you uh made a delivery to Mr. Deandorf's class when I was visiting the other day and a young man was fascinated that they actually make a box of I think it was fruit snacks that large. And I'm so we are we're we're working on that actually because they've got to be healthy snacks. So I'm doing my best. >> They were Matt's fruit
042snacks. >> I gotta work on I gotta work on that a little bit. So >> they were fruit snacks. >> Thank you, Mrs. Pure fruit. >> There we go. All the good stuff. >> He had to verify the number. I don't know if it was the box of hundred or what it was, but he couldn't believe it. Walked right over to check. It was great. Hello, Mrs. Millers. Just like everything else, uh, school has started at Sawyer and it's been overall a really good start. Uh, Katie mentioned assessments and those are happening now. I was in at an MLSS meeting which is where our literacy math and social emotional coaches meet with our staff today and I was in literacy and I found out it's they're doing such great work. They've already finished the screening
043for Aadians for our second graders and they already know and have identified 15 of our kindergarten through 2 grade students that you know we need help beyond the universal tier 2 we call them tier three students and they're starting with them on Monday. They've not let any more time go by. They've worked really hard our our coaches and our interventionist and um they're going to start meeting those kids needs and then we'll have a dayto-day dig in October find out more and place all of our kids. So, I'm really proud of their work and we do it, it seems like we do it faster every year. They're just getting really good at that. Um, some community and school events that are coming up. Fire prevention presentations are already this Friday. That's always fun. Firefighters come
044and do that. Uh, next week, Wednesday, that bookmobile shows up. That's always fun. Giving away books to our kids. A nice event. We have two memorial events coming up for two of our teachers who have passed away soon. Um, one is September 29th. I'm not sure if any of you know where people out in the public Genie Bernard passed away um in 2022 and there is going to be in our multi-purpose room a picture and a beautiful cla having an event and some of the kindergarten teachers will be speaking at that. She was I didn't have the pleasure of knowing her but she was a wonderful kindergarten teacher. And then Deanna Vanden Leenberg who was a first and second grade teacher at Sawyer who passed away more recently will have an event on October 9th.
045We have her family donated some money. We've purchased a little library for Sawyer. So that will be outside and we'll have an event. Family members are coming. So um shout out to Scott Huckers tech guy. Uh he made the little library. So that was nice with his students. Um last but last not least a little bit about the playground. We have another uh committee meeting coming up. We are actually um changing vendors. Uh we are changing vendors for a very specific reason. We have not gotten consistent communication and feedback from the vendor that we had. Um we are going with little types commercial. They have a commercial uh area. I don't know if that's the right word, but not only have they been very responsive, but the price is less overall. Our current um got
046some fundraising coming up. You'll hear more about that probably in some board updates, but uh currently for Sawyer uh we need to raise about 520,000. It was closer to 700,000 with the other vendor and getting about the same things. Um and we have 200,000 just about 200,000. So we still have a ways to go. It's a mighty small committee. Um we had a PTO meeting this week and some more parents are joining us in an upcoming event which is a Papa Murphy's um pizza. They make the pizzas for us. we collect the um the orders and they bring them all to soy and then we split them up and people come and get them and we get 50% of the profit. So I'm I guess the choir has done it before. I don't know. I
047should ask Keith, but little things like that are happening. We're always still seeking uh donors too and and it's never stopped. It's just going to be slowgoing and and we'll stick to it. We'll get there. Um but that's all I have. >> Yeah. >> Excellent. Thank you Katie for the updates. Yeah, >> looks like uh Director Ferry is coming on down next. >> Okay, well I've got four different groups to update you on tonight. Um first, our special education group. Um coming back this year, our numbers have remained consistent with where we ended last year. So we ended with about 176 students last year in May. We are starting at 172 students. So, in thinking about what that'll look like by the end of the year, we know that we'll have um more students with
048disabilities in our district than what we did last year, which isn't a surprise to us. Um we're also servicing about 20 section 50 plans in the district. So, right now, we're about roughly 16% of the district. I know you heard me talk about percentages of districts and how healthy we need to be. And so I still feel comfortable with that percentage and where we're at in terms of all the extra work we're doing to prevent students coming down the special ed route too. Um, one thing that is new to us this year that we haven't seen in um any of the years that I've been here is that we have a significant increase in initial special education requests from parents. Um, so we have 14 initial requests from summer into August into September. Last year
049at this time I had four. Um, so that is um something that we never know when they're coming through and so our team has to adjust to accommodate all of the requests because they all come with a timeline. Um, and we have to make sure we get those dates in. So that data tells me that we do still have significant concerns from parents and families in the districts about what support their child is or isn't receiving or what extra supports we could be providing. So we're processing all of those. Um, our pupil service team is equally as busy. um ensuring all of our students have the support that they need. Um our counselors participated in Altrusa back to school events and individual family contacts to support students coming back to school. Um a huge help
050and shout out to Britney Greenfield. Britney is um when you approved her was Rickerson. She is our new district social worker. Um she's been a welcome addition to our team this year and has already been meeting with families, attending student meetings, and making connections with our community partners. Today she left a meeting with DCNC and learned about another financial option for families medical care. So she's able to reach out and bring all of this information back to our students and therefore our families. So it's been a huge help so far. Um one special note that Britney did share is that um at this point this year already we have 17 students who have qualified for Mckin Vento. As a reminder, Mckin Vento is students who are homeless in our district. And so we have 17
051students within our student population that are either um doubled up living with another family and or um motel, hotel, um car, etc. So I think that's important to note as we think about, you know, the health of our district and what our families and students are really going through as they come into school each day. Um and then two other programs. Um we have two alternative programs. So, in the past, we were housed at the Boys and Girls Club. This year, we moved both programs over to Hope Church. Um, and so it's been a welcome change, I think, for them. It's more space. Um, and they're closer to the district office. So, we've got kids coming and going, which is a nice connection for the students who are in alternative programs, still have contact with
052their school andor playgrounds over at Sunrise. Um, so the two programs this year, we have the alternative virtual program, EVP. That program is for students in grades 6 through 12 and it is entirely online. So we've talked a lot about the difference between the high school program that's housed in the library and then also the alternative program. This program is really meant for students who are either credit deficient um behind in their credit and or seeking alternative pathways to um learning. So instead of losing them to other districts, we've created um our own. And so right now we have seven students already enrolled in that program. Um tomorrow we have one more meeting. So that'll probably be our eighth student already starting. Last semester was our first semester we opened and we had five students
053total that whole semester. So we're already above what we housed last year. Um and then the other program that we have there is called Rebound Door County RDC. I like my acronyms. Um the students um who are eligible for that program are in grades two through five. And this is really an in-person self-regulation skill buildinging program. So looking to support students in giving them this those skills, giving them better strategies to cope with big emotions. Um removing them from their traditional learning environment, working with them with the hope of then transitioning them back in a better place so that they can do learning in their traditional school. Right now we don't have any students enrolled in that program which is as designed. So, we don't want to be removing kids from campus at such a
054young age um without being um having all of the data, all of the interventions attempted on campus first. And so, typically we start seeing kids enroll in that program come late October, early November. And so, those teams there have been in our buildings observing kids, helping staff, coming up with plans, um doing our best to keep kids in school as long as we can. That's what I have for you this week. >> Thank you, Lindsay. Thank you. >> We'll keep track of the acronyms in the future. >> 17's a lot. It's, you know, >> Hello, Director Weber. What do you got for us tonight? >> Hi. Uh, I always have a bunch of stuff written down and then I listen to them and I think of all kinds of new things. Um, one of the
055most interesting parts of my job is to make sure that all of those folks get to do what they need to do without shovel, right? So, I'm trying to like remove barriers and make communication and the work easier. So, um, one of my big uh, ticket items this year is uh, a program called Next Path, which is a data warehouse that we're implementing this year. Um, and I bring it up now because um, I think that as I listen to the rest of the team talk about all the things that are going on, everything from our SEAL um, work districtwide to the ACT 20 reading screen screeners, the intervention groups, Lindsay's um, alternative programs, all of those things are going to filter into Next Path, allowing us to share data, look at data together. There's
056communication tools within that program. So, you're going to be hearing a lot more about um Next Path. Uh as I said, um I rolled it out uh at the beginning of this year, worked on a little bit this summer, and so far the feedback is really, really good. So, when you have data in front of you, um it'll look a little different than you've seen in the past because we'll be utilizing that program, and I think you'll like it as well. Um back to that SEAL work district-wide. Um we've made some really large strides that I'm very excited about. Um this summer we um if you'll remember we had CISA7 come in at the end of last year to do an audit in each one of our buildings and we were looking specifically for um
057what we're doing well um what we need to improve and some quick wins and they came through in a really big way for us. Um the two consultants from CISA7 wrote reports for us and we dug through them this summer with a core team of people. From that we formulated a plan to kick off the beginning of the school year. And I know this seems like a simple thing, but it is really have has been huge. We have onepage behavior expectation documents for each one of our buildings. Um, and that just means like when my 13 new teachers walked in this summer, I was able to hand each one of them, oh, you work at Sawyer. Here's the expectations and you are going to um be supported in these. This is what you can do
058to start your classroom off on the right foot. um it allowed our um our admin team to u share that same information with the rest rest of the staff as well and we're really working on that universal agreement across the district. So I know like I said it seems like a simple thing but it's really really huge. Um and then of course I need to mention my tech team. So um you know the less we hear of them the better I guess I always think right. So if things are going well then you don't hear much about the computers and the devices and things like that. Uh but they work hard all summer, especially um Nelson and Spencer. Um it's important for you to know that they replace um all grade for 1, five, and
059nine Chromebooks. All of the middle school and high school teachers got brand new laptops. That's not just like unboxing things and handing them out. It's major major upgrades and um lots of work going on all summer. So um I'm I'm really um excited that we're farther ahead this year than we were last year and further ahead that year than we were the year before. Uh finally, uh Jen Hansen. Um you might have you might remember us talking about SIDA, which is like um a tech PD sharing conference. I should have found a better way to say that. Uh but essentially it's um teachers teaching teachers, right? So this takes place um at the end of July. Um Ashwabin has been hosting it for the last couple years. Um and it's sponsored by Ewitzy, which I
060believe is Eastern Wisconsin Integration Technology Committee. Anyway, Jen Hansen uh plays a lead role in that and she presented uh three topics this summer and several of our staff members uh participated in that this summer as well. So, um you'll be hearing more about Next Path. You'll be hearing more about um SE and we're off to a good start. >> Thanks. >> Hey Jen, we have acronym questions. We'll drag them to director Perry though. >> Jake's got some information for us. The business manager update. So now the buzzkill um so much fun. >> That's right. >> All right. So, in my report, uh, I give you some budget updates, levy updates. Uh, and then I talk a little bit about enrollment. Uh, the official count is not until Friday. Uh, so at that point, we
061count everybody, every kid that we're serving and then we start reporting officially or certify uh, make sure it's accurate all of the open enrolled in kids. Every other district's doing the same thing. So, Southern Door, Sevastible, etc. Um, we have every school has until the following Friday the 26th to certify those open enrollment numbers. That said, um, I went through with Amy Lenbach, got some enrollment, uh, and really tried to dive into where we're at with open enrollment so I can have some numbers. Um, the early returns are not good, um, or is not not as good as we'd like them to be. Um, and we'll we'll we'll go over this a little bit more in depth. Uh, and I'll have more charts and graphs for you uh at our October 1st meeting. Um, but
062I wanted to get this in front of you if you needed to start pondering prior to that. Um, basically where the open enrollment numbers put us uh is uh $20,000 surplus. So that went from 100,000 to 20,000 after we went through the open enrollment numbers. Um I don't expect those open enrollment numbers to shift a ton, right? We'll we'll have some oh that that address is actually Sebastapole vice versa. Um, but this what this handout that I put together right on the left you see what I've shared before with our base levy some updated budget numbers in there. Um, and just tried to do a visual uh with some notes over right what some of the options are. So wanted to share that with you. Um, certainly if you have questions at this point feel
063free to ask. Um but we'll also go through in depth this along with some of that enrollment stuff on the first that's that's really the big thing um that I've been doing uh working through that uh enrollments budget levy um yeah questions. >> So you're going to want us to pick one of these option >> one one or some kind of combination. Yeah. Yep. Um, right. I think, uh, deciding, okay, where do we want the levy to land or what are we comfortable with within this, um, is is what we're going to need to decide. Um, you know, some maybe not a decision on the first, but but some great direction. Um, so I'll be publishing um with the help of Mrs. the me the um you know the uh budget >> no the proposed
064budget >> proposed budget thank you an um and that needs to go out to the pulse to meet all our deadlines by the 30th. So right we won't have any of our talks or really any direction um from you guys. So, what I'm going to put in there so everybody's aware is the one that's on the left, right? I'd rather have that there and move that down than take the one on the right and move it up and have somebody complain that way. Um, so FYI on that, what'll go out on the Saturday the 4th or the Friday the 3rd in the polls will be what's on the lot. Um but yeah, on the first we'll talk through, hey, where where do we think we'd want to land? Um somewhere in here pending any other
065changes between the 1st and really the 15th. So >> Jake, I have a question. Um there's some differences in these different forecasts. Thanks for putting them together. Um, it would help me maybe understand like where like there's a difference in the projected surplus in fund 10. Um, and I think the other difference is around fund 39, which is like for a roof, right? >> Fun 39 would be our debt service. >> Oh, that's a debt service. >> Yes. Fun 39 is debt service. Fund 41 would be roofing. We talked about wall project, wall ceiling project, if you will. Um, for fund 41. And then the changes uh if you look up at the headers in each uh column that's kind of talking about okay so um like the the middle right we would that got
066cut off I apologize when I printed right add 50,000 to fund 10 um and so that's where that's that's a little bit different um >> so like what in past years like because I know sometimes we run into unexpected costs as hard as you try to forecast all of them like what is our comfort zone around having a little bit of surplus in front for us to like deal with unexpected stuff during the year. >> I usually build in I I I like to be conservative with projections. So on the revenue side that means right we know what our revenue limit is. That's boom right there. But stuff like uh um Medicaid um uh interest income from uh when we're able to set or put money into a our investment accounts um stuff like that,
067right? Keep those on the lower side. Um similar to expenses, say uh utilities or um maybe athletic blessing, right? getting that a little bit on the higher side. Um, so that can close a little bit. Uh, I'm not terribly scared about 20,000. I I think as we go, keeping a close eye on that because I history tells me that that that would grow. Um, absent anything major. Um, I' I'd like to get to we need to put at least $50,000 back into the fund balance at your end. I think 20,000 would right if if we sat here and said $20,000 projected surplus, good chance we would get there based on what history tells me. >> Want to just remind them of the connection between the fund balance addition and how then we don't have to
068short-term borrow, which we've been able to avoid now for a number of years and avoid those expenses. >> Yep. Common mistake. Um, understandable, right? Uh fund balance is not ash in the bank, right? It's not our savings account. Uh what fund balance is is on June 30th, which is our fiscal year end, we report our equity, which business reminder, business class reminder. Equity is your assets, which is your cash plus your accounts receivables, right? Um minus your liabilities, right? What you have to pay out. And so within that fund balance, yes, some cash, but also accounts receivable that for example, our last tax payment we don't get until August 20th. The check doesn't have to be written until August 20th. From August 20th to the first Monday in December, we really don't get any major
069income. We got under 50,000 maybe in equalization aid uh this past week and that is really it until we get our next equalization aid payment. Historically that's going to be about 25% of what we're supposed to get. Um so that's going to be in that 900 to a million range. 900,000 to a million range. Um and then our first January tax payment um which is January 15th. Um so uh so so what that does right that helps us operate between August 20th and that first that fund balance help us helps us operate and avoid short-term borrowing and saving some money. Before Jake came, we were pretty much borrowing every year. >> Yes. >> Basically to pay our teachers, >> right? >> Like to do paychecks. >> So we take out a loan to pay for
070and get to the tax bill that whatever healthare all the cost too, right? >> Short-term borrowing is not uncommon as some of us know, but it's nice to have the, you know, fiscal strength, if you will, to be able to avoid that. and then you know some of those interest charges and whatnot that go with it. >> It helps us too when you're right for credit ratings. >> Absolutely. >> Anything else to highlight at least for the moment Jake? Right. So again just a reminder and for anyone watching maybe this that doesn't see what the board sees. So kind of taxing to our authority through the revenue limit on the lefth hand side and then other scenarios where yes right as I talked about and I'll touch on this later in the session last night
071but we want to lessen the impact on property taxpayers obviously but we also know lessening that sometimes then runs the risk of increasing uh the impact the following year and we know right not this year but next year very uncertain what we're hearing about federal so talking about it will continue. Amy, were you going to say something? >> Yeah, I was just going to say looking at looking at what you've got laid out here and I really appreciate that we look at the mill rate from last year. >> Yeah. >> We would we would be somewhere in between the left and and the next column. Right. Right. So, I mean to me that sounds like an okay thing from an acceptance of the community. It's not horrible. Yeah. from from my perspective, right? The the
072mill rate is right, your your levy or your your total property value divided by your levy and vice versa. Um total property value is going up for 15% in the city, right? So let's say your property value goes up 15%. You're not making 15% more. >> Is that the actual number? >> Um that's the estimated number. Um as of right now, that's usually pretty close. >> Okay. >> Um right. So you're not making 15% more even though correct >> we value you when I'm 15. So >> yes, there's there's some comfort you can take in that. So >> yeah. So as you think of things, feel free, right? Shoot Jake a message, reach out. We'll make sure that uh we'll continue to kind of make this you know give you options make it as clear
073and helpful as possible for the learning session right which then gives us direction even though again you don't prove anything the night the learning session then get us ready for budget and levy approval which again is on the fourth Wednesday of the month in October board members you know that I'm just kind of saying that aloud for anyone else right so the third Wednesday because that's too close to the aid certification date from the state we bump back to the fourth Wednesday give plenty of Otherwise, thank you, Jake. >> Yeah, >> President Stefani, I'll just touch on the last four items in my report. I will go in reverse order so I can finish kind of with the fiscal stuff. Um, the very last item, communication and marketing. Okay, a couple of different things. Continuing
074to talk with Brian Nickel from the Donovan Group about again some services we already paid for last year, working with the communication uh uh marketing master plan. also then did a uh a Zoom meeting with him and their videographer Ben who's going to be coming around homecoming uh to shoot the video right Fallen Door County the video that they owe us um looking at kind of option two which of the two video types for those that were interested in that sort of thing is kind of the narrated version that's kind of the modern version of what they're going with plus they can squeeze that down shorter which again I know I'm old right you think of a nice video well you know between 60 and 90 seconds is the type of thing that can be
075shared and and viewed and social media and all those types of things. So, continuing to work through that process. So, stay tuned on that. Uh the admin team will help us out with kind of which rooms they can visit and all that sort of stuff when Ben comes. Um the w facility, right? Again, last learning session you heard from the steering committee. Yes, Mike and I certainly as far as district reps attend those meetings, but it was nice for you to hear from those other folks. Uh if you have questions again, we'll make sure you have a chance to kind of circle back to that and share those. Email anytime, ask anytime, or we can touch on it briefly at the learning session uh in person. And then the thinking is that the board just
076like eventually the city council would give a stamp of approval to the master plan, which again doesn't commit I mean that's certainly not a referendum isn't committing us to x number of capital dollars. Yes, we'll work with the city to continue to maintain, but at least giving the master plan kind of a stamp of approval so that uh between, you know, city dollars, right, through, you know, through the kind of the TIFF dollars that Josh talked about through other donations and grants that would have to happen to make it work. That just kind of paved the way to that, right? So, again, nothing that we are are committing to on the capital side there. >> However, just to jump in. >> Yeah. No, go ahead. That is probably uh something that we're going to >>
077have on the agenda for October for for >> the regular meetings regular approval to the MA master plan just >> just so you're aware just so you have time >> the city did last week right they >> the city is >> put their stamp on it I thought last week >> I'm trying to remember if it was the full council or the two committees that had seen it absolutely I mean it's going through the committ And the one thing I would really like is for the public to know that we're not using tax dollars for this >> because I I I'm afraid that there might be some people >> that raising tax dollars, >> right? Are are you are you referencing our tax dollars? >> I was going to say under the umbrella of the
078district, I think is what commission the city piece would be. Correctly. >> Yeah. >> I Yeah. >> Yeah. >> And every day there's something positive going on towards that. We had an email today that was very exciting about possible funding sources. Well, we we we're going to have to look, you know, a funding source for the city that may work. So, anyway, go ahead. >> Uh the last two items really both kind of deal with finance. So, we'll finish on that kind of circling back to what Jake talked about. Uh, so some of you know I did u show up at an event last night to help talk about how schools are public schools are funded. About 50 people in attendance. I sent you an email on that today if you want to take a
079look. Um, so that was that was that was I think good. The pulse I'm sure Elanor was there. She'll do a piece on it, etc. Uh, but was kind of interesting. um is that other than being able to kind of plug the website that we've talked about in meetings, right, that we want to have a page just for taxpayers that I want up and running before their November board meeting. I was able to put a plug in for that kind of near the end of my remarks and the end of the Q&A session last night. Uh but I was able to share like some key talking points and uh I've sent you a couple of different versions so you have those. Uh we had a couple uh parents like who are also involved in our
080PTO, couple moms that were there. got to talk to them as as I emailed one of them today. It's always nice to see a familiar face. I think we had reps from Sturgeon Base of Aastipole and Jialter. I didn't notice anyone from Southern. Maybe I missed someone. Um so I think that was good. Um and really I think uh things that they found interesting. Um in fact, you know, bordering on kind of the audible gasp uh would be around, you know, kind of like that trend as far as as Jake's talking about it, right? that the different things, right? So, on the one hand, yes, there's the piece about special ed funding, right? They they found that very interesting that yes, we might be getting another $335,000 from the state this year in increased special
081ed funding. And again, it's positive, right? Plugging that in, even with last year's special ed numbers though, that still leaves us a couple million dollars short, right? Where we're transferring from the general fund to cover that. So some of those without getting too far into that was a followup to Ann Chapman from WBO. We did a really nice presentation, right? Bipartisan group, right? Do all that research, share information. She explained some things to the audience and then Brett and I were able to kind of add some local color to that knowing Jialter situation very different from ours. Uh so anyway, that special ed piece that really uh they found that interesting. um some of our demographics uh the groups seem to find that interesting which is kind of an indirect right connection right as we
082look at whether you know Lindsay talked about right number of special ed or percentage of special ed students uh as we think about really uh that socioeconomic status right free and reduced lunch numbers you're aware I got a bit of an audible gasp too as we shared numbers and how we're the highest right in Brown County minus Green Bay Kiwi County door county so just giving them a snapshot really who we are also uh you know when it comes to our ethnicity Jake talked about it in last year's report right but for the f last October when he did the presentation right for the first time we had slid although just barely below 75% uh white students so we're certainly seeing right more ethnicity as far as you look nationwide maybe if not a ton
083in door county always uh and how that impacts in that same three county area how we have us ashwabinon and west appear basically being the most the most ethnically diverse. Um they're also in a different situation as far as who they're attracting from Green Bay and how that helps them open enrollment wise where we're not getting that. So interesting some of those facts that they enjoyed. And then really probably the two pieces um that they found the most interesting and I have shared this with Joel Kitchens and I talked about a half hour this morning about the session and some of those types of things is that as we look at that shifting support right less support than we are seeing from the state which means more involves property taxes which we've talked about the
084last several meetings including even before the state budget was approved. Here were the percentages I shared with them and then I'll kind of finish with the equalization general school age. But really total state support and again credit to Jake for pulling all these together. I pulled the thoughts together, put blanks in, Jake calculated all the numbers so I could share them with the group last night. You and this will go on the website also eventually. But really from two years ago we were looking at total state support from the state at about 35.8%. to last year about 34.7% not a huge difference to this year 31.6%. And if that state support certainly is getting less, we know what that means with local property taxes because that's how it works in the state of Wisconsin. Property
085tax support two years ago at 45.2% to last year at 51.9 to this year and again projecting basically that left column Jake talked about to 55.2. So you see kind of a roughly, you know, where that's where that's shifting. Um, and then the really kind of the the showstopper number-wise really when you look at that equalization or general school aid conversation, right? State budget didn't put any new dollars into that. So we knew that that was going to be an issue. Think, listen to these numbers. So, back in 2324, general Kool-Aid was $5,22,785 [Music] for Sturgeon Bay uh/ Sturgeon Bay residents, if you will. Last year, 2425, it went down a little bit. $4,791,472. Again, both $213,000 less, so less, but not marketkedly so. But now, here's the drop for this year and a part
086of why we're wrestling with all these other conversations even more than most. Now, for 2526, that would drop to $3,985,36, which is $86,000 less than a year ago, right? You combine those two, you can quickly, well, the math on that's easy. That's over a million dollars. When you couple that with the other pieces in play, right, that's a real impact. Um, and again, that was that was definitely something that folks found very interesting last night. And I highlighted to the group exactly what Jake made the point of that we and about I think it's 90 91 other districts right right about 90 that that drop drop of 800 plus thousands if not for the state's hold harmless situation would be worse yet because we're not no district can drop more than I think it's 15%
087um in a single year and so really if not for that whole harmless clause our drop would have been worse yet. But again, not alone out of 421 districts when you have, you know, 91 of us, uh, there's a number going through this, right? So, you look across the counties, look what's happening. Um, hm, less state support, more on the backs of local property taxes, but what else are you going to do when everything else costs more, etc., etc. Uh so again that's a part of going back to those scenarios Jake has laid out for you why it's getting more and more invol I mean it's been challenging in the past certainly but it's getting more and more challenging and those are some of the real numbers behind it. >> You mentioned that you spoke
088with Joel Caitens. Do you think uh the other 91 districts are similarly speaking directly to their representatives to consider like how this impact is affecting almost a quarter of this of the schools in Wisconsin are kind of like in this difficult spot this right now? >> Yeah. For the group last night of course one of the things is a call to action. what can people do about it, right? Like, well, contact your elected official, you know, be informed on what's going on in your local school district, of course, right? Read our materials, you know, come listen at a meeting if they're interested, whatnot, but then talk to their elected officials. And I think the reality, and again, Joe can give you his own perspective on this, but I've heard him talk about it at meetings
089before. The reality is there are some places in the state where elected officials are talking to their local business managers, superintendents, coming to meetings, right? Joel and I host meetings where we have Dor and Kiwani County superintendents come together. Joel and some of his colleagues do show up at our CIS to 7 meetings with the superintendents in Green Bay roughly every other month. Um but the reality is and again this is this is fact there are plenty that really aren't uh engaging in the conversation aren't visiting local schools or being involved in those conversations. True of both Republicans and Democrats, right? Just some are not that involved. And I think one of the things he had said when we were talking today is, you know, it's really that's concerning because we know school funding in
090the state of Wisconsin, right? That's the biggest piece of the state budget cut. So if we have elected officials that aren't engaging and to really understand school finance, which yes, can be complex, but not talking with no matter where they live in the state, their local school districts, how are they really understanding what are the ramifications then not only for kids and families now, but frankly, I've shared with a few of my colleagues in the last week like what is this going to look like in Wisconsin 20 or 30 years from now, who's going to be here to live and work and whatnot? uh when u it would seem like some strategic decisions need to be made in Madison that appear to be lacking right now. My observation, >> thanks for doing the community event.
091I think that's awesome and I heard really great things about it. It sounds like you did well. >> Told people I try not to mess it up. Thanks. And I may have the occasional story or two on Allison from her sister from their years growing up. So, who knows when some of that may show up. Well, thanks Dan. Appreciate it. Um, before I I look to get a motion to adjourn, just a reminder so everybody's really paying attention here, our October meeting is on October 22nd, which is a week later than normal. And it starts at 5:15 promptly because remember the reason we have it delayed a week is because of everything we're just talking about. We we we'll have some budgetary information that we got the week before. So if we had the meeting
092the week before, we would be trying to act on something that or understand something we don't even know. So be please be prompt on October 22nd. Be ready to start at 5:15. And just to clarify for someone listening, right, that's the budget related workshop we have, right? Anyone open meeting can show up at 5:15. The regular meeting will still start at 6 p.m. like like usually is the case, but yes, thank you for that. No, you're >> Thank you for the >> It's our workshop on the budget because we we need to we need to go through some things with Jacob is >> that and the tax levy stuff that night. >> Exactly. Yeah, you were going to say or ask. >> I was just going to ask and from what it sounded like, are
093we going to have on the agenda uh an item to actually approve the the memorial field project? just the the the plans as as pres presented that we are behind that we are behind the project that it has nothing to do with funding the project just that we it you know it's we've had we've had uh listening sessions we've had you know this has been in all the media outlets in the last >> two to three weeks um you know we had our our learning session y >> um so yes sure answer is that this would be so that potential donors and >> yes >> know that the school district is on board with the city and with the way the plan >> that the players the major players are are on board agreeing that
094this is the direction in the phases remember there's phases remember we went over the phases >> in in a phased approach to to to change >> it just seems like because that that presentation It was like, well, we could do this phase, we could not do this phase, and and so to approve the whole thing without >> I think they said that this could change, but maybe we're agreeing to the you the potential use of the land, right? Like because it's a shared >> it's just Yes. Yes. I the reality is is is is maybe Dan could jump in here too, but I from all our meetings, this is a phased approach. So really what we're looking at is if we can get to the point that we do phase one right now. My hope
095is once phase phase one starts you start shovel you know breaking ground and all that that could snowball into okay now somebody's saying hey this is great that you're doing that we're fixing you know the track the the things that are in phase one right but then there could be potential avenues of of donors or what have you that that boy I want to be part of the memorial field deal and the phase two or you know whatever phase is to know your answer. >> So that's that's the deal. >> Do we have a learning session for references? >> All right, that's all. That's all unless somebody has anything else. I have a motion to adjurnn. Move to second. All right, we have a motion by by Commissioner Schulz, second by Commissioner Jenner. Further discussion
096hearing? None. All those in favor say I. >> I posted >> hands. >> Yeah. If we don't see you again ever