001Okay, whenever you're ready. >> Call this school board school district of Surgeon Bay regular board meeting uh for Wednesday, August 20th of 2025 to order. Uh would everyone stand? Pledge. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Excellent. Thank you. And could you uh do the roll call, please? >> You bet. Uh Commissioner Star is excused. Commissioner Meyer here. >> Commissioner Hos is excused. Commissioner Jenner >> here. Commissioner Stefan >> here. >> Commissioner Cruz >> here. >> Commissioner Howard >> here. >> Commissioner Scholes >> here. >> And Commissioner Sla >> here. >> Excellent. Uh next we have a motion to adopt the agenda as presented. >> Oh to adopt the
002agenda as present. Second. We have a motion by Commissioner Jenner John, second by Commissioner Meyer to adopt the agenda. Further discussion all those in favor say I. I. >> Opposed? Motion carried. Um then uh we have let's see public comments section. Do we have any to public comments? No. No. Okay. Um then we're down the consent agenda. So, I did drink some water, so I should be able to do this. Here we go. There's a lot of stuff. Uh, we're going to approve the minutes from the regular meeting of July 16th, 2025. Approve the July bills that were in your board packet. Uh, and then under grants and donations, here we go. We have a number of them, which is just outstanding. For sporting plays project, we have 2,000 from Dick and Joan Bodwin Charitable
003Fund. Uh, each of the following also donated $1,875 to this. Uh, Greystone Castle, Whitetails Unlimited, Russ and Lacy Austin, the Jean Court family, Meisner Landscape, Lily Bay Sand and Gravel, and Ken Sto. Also, $938 from Matt and Rebecca Cross. Under the Robert H. Nickel Auditorium uh project, donations are as follows. of $1,552.34 from the Sturgeon Bay High School class of 2025. Uh each of the following folks donated $500 each. That was Daniel and Joyce Williams, Robert Hurlash, uh and then also donation in that amount in the memory of uh Jonah uh Claybench of 99 uh Matthew Felhoffer family and memory of Bob Miller. uh $300 from Merchants Meats and Sausages. Sausage, excuse me, not sausages, singular sausage. Uh each of the following donated $100 towards this. Uh the Bank of Luxembourg and Jordan Graph. Uh
004$25 from uh Lynn Gilchrist and $20 from Susan and Paul uh Filfelder. Uh in the auditorium, donation of memory of Carol Hayne, there's $200 from Andrew Olsen. And then the following donated $100 uh each. Eric and Jamie Mucus, uh Robert uh Robin McCart McCartney, uh Shauna Oakland, Corey Crawl, Robert and Rebecca Hoover, Greta uh Gtlman, and uh Joshua uh Blevens. $60 from the Hall White family in class of 1993. Uh, also each of the following donated $50. Uh, Samantha uh, Neielen Runraber, uh, Sarah Bacon, Hannah uh, Fel uh, Carly uh, Stukenberg and Liz Valentine uh, Rosinski. And then uh, each of the following donated $20. Uh Janine uh Stickman, um Maggie Edgar, Michael Gil, Angela uh Lubber, and Angie uh Sani Beach. Each of the following donated $10. Uh Jennifer Uber, Julie Wilson, and David
005Jenkins. Under staff incentives, there was $20 gift card from GetReel Cafe. Two $20 gift cards from Jimmy John's, uh, Fatsos and Scuros, three $25 gift cards from the Healthy Way Market, five uh, $20 gift cards from Walmart, two $20 gift cards from Madison Avenue Market, one $25 gift card from Ace Hardware, and two $20 gift cards from Novel Bay Sellers. also $77 from Sean Wier for the Sunrise uh ID autism program. Uh thank you to all these groups and individuals associated with them for their generosity. Uh under resignations and retirements, uh uh Terry uh Dilawal is retiring from her food service position. Dan uh uh >> Salin is resigning from his position, associate position in the middle school. and Candace Will is resigning from her teacher associate position at Sunrise. We thank these individuals for
006their service and wish them well in their next adventures. And then point five, you can receive our board board policy review 34.2 regular update. This is the second reading. You notice all of those are listed there. Um that's 5A through uh 5G. A motion to approve the consent agenda items as presented is recommended. >> I make a motion to approve the consent agenda items. >> Second. >> All right. We have a motion by Commissioner Spa, second by Commissioner Schultz, I believe. Is that right? Did I get the I didn't Who said it was uh so uh further discussion? All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed? Motion carried. Now we are down to the operations agenda. Uh approve a wellness policy assessment. >> Yes, we have a nice summary for us in the
007packet. I'll just hit on the high points. You can all read. There's also the actual three and a half page report that's in the packet uh itself. So just starting with the where this comes from just as context for anyone that might be interested. So at least once every 3 years, uh, school fruit authorities must assess compliance at the local school wellness policy level and make an assessment available to the public. Assessment measures, implementation of local school wellness policy, and includes these three bullet points, extent to which the schools are in compliance with local school wellness policy, extent to which local wellness policy compares the model local wellness policies, and finally, a description of the progress made in attaining the goals of the local school wellness policy. Right? So you see a couple pieces as
008far as the two-step process and then really uh committee some people met thanks to those that were involved in the wellness nutrition committee. See the outcomes listed there. We see three bullet point areas. We see uh information around food and beverage sales again particularly as it's talking about what's sold uh during regular school hours. You also see the reference to field trips etc. And uh maybe uh again having worked with high school kids uh the idea of having something that's a healthier alternative back to the soda back in the day. So bubblers for example and vending machines are something that is available. Um and also making sure that there are school lunches offered on field trips. Uh so again really so those kiddos who maybe are on free and reduced lunch can make sure that
009they have that for a field trip. So that's kind of in that section. The next section different opportunities for improvement. uh talks a little bit about uh I always like a snack for a good reason obviously right being careful about using anything with food or physical activity you know kind of the old school form of punishment or reward being cautious about that and then really that there's different ways of earning incentives uh class dojo points you've heard the principles talk about that more so the me clipper cash and we know some of that theoretically can be converted into uh you know snacks and so forth too and then the third bullet point priority area or focus areas is excuse me uh utilizing that greenhouse right a lot of people have worked on that project got
010great number of and county donations over time so making sure that's used in a wide variety of ways as you see that that is referenced there and then the kind of the concept of number two community physical activity engagement and again a variety of different things you see some of the things I know I remember Sunrise striders back in the day when we were new and Gabby was at sunrise a cool thing there Carol MX got you see reference to girls on the on say roads to school or bike to school and so forth. Uh last sentence here before just the motion in essence uh to you know accept or approve this says the completed trienal a second report card must be maintained on file uh at again our school district if you will per
011record retention requirements is not actually submitted uh to the DPI team. So a motion to really accept or approve, I guess technically is our word, the wellness nutrition policy assessment as presented is recommended. So you're not approving any policy change per se. It's simply that yes, several people have met and done the assessment. >> I'll make a motion to approve the well policy that's been present. >> Second. >> We have a motion by Mr. our secret by Commissioner Cruz to approve the wellness nutrition policy assessment as presented. Further discussion. All those in favor say I. I. >> Opposed. Motion carried. Uh next we have uh approving teacher associates uh with Lisa Ao being the first one. >> Yeah. As is typical in the month of August, we have some teacher associates and there's usually at
012least a couple that are come the month of September as well. So, Miss A or Lisa Ajo, director of special education pupil service Lindsay Ferry and principal Katy Deill are pleased to recommend Lisa Ajo for the Sawyer special education teacher associate position. Lisa has earned an MA in counseling from Lakeland. Lisa has worked with Child Protected Services of Dor County as well as many years as a social worker with the United Nation. Most recently, Lisa provided support to students at Sunrise, serving as a long-term substitute for the school counselor this last year. Lisa has tremendous experience in education, will no doubt bring a positive attitude and impact to Sawyer Elementary. Motion to approve Lisa Ael as a special education teacher associate at Sawyer Elementary School beginning with the 202526 school year is recommended. I'll make
013a motion to approve Lisa Ajo as a special education associate at Sawyer. >> Second. All right. Motion by Commissioner Jenner John, second by Commissioner Spritka to uh approve Lisa as the special education teacher associated at Sawyer Elementary beginning with the 2025 2026 school year. Further discussion? All those in favor say I. I. >> I. >> Opposed. Motion carried. And now we're down to another. >> Yes. Director of special education pupal services Lindsay Ferry. Pleased to recommend Ty Gurst. The special education teacher associate for our alternative program this year. Tai has been a teacher associate for the district in the past has shown ability as well as growth to manage emotions and frustrations from students. Tai's patient demeanor will make her a great fit working with students who need additional support. A motion to approve Ty
014Durst as a special education teacher associate with our alternative recap program beginning with the 202526 school year is recommended. >> I move to approve Ty Durst as a special education teacher associate with the DECAP program beginning with the 2526 school year. Second. >> Excellent. We have a motion by Commissioner Cruz, seconded by Commissioner Jenner, John to approve Ty Durst as a special education teacher associate with the DCAP program again of the 2025 2026 school year. Any further discussion? All those in favor say I. >> Opposed? >> Motion carried before going on to C. And again, in the summer, the uh principles and directors get a break from the having to write reports and you get a break from having to read them. But uh I'm sure Lindsay will touch on this next month, but our
015alternative program instead of being housed at Boys and Girls Club is going to be right at Hope Church. Uh so Lindsay talked to a number of different entities about uh available kind of classroom space. Um and it ended up in the end that hope was the uh the best kind of fit for some of the available space that they have, you know, during their school day with not too much going on over there. So again, we have some former staff members that are involved with that entity and so forth. So they've worked that out. The other positive thing is it's going to be super close as far as people being able to pop over there. So just kind of getting ahead of that if you hear anything about it, no longer at the club, uh
016but just across the way at Hope Church for your information. All right, I'll go back to our list. Director of Special Education Pupal Service Lindseay Ferry and Principal Caitlin Billers. I'm pleased to recommend Renee Mallister for the Sawyer Special Education Teacher Associate position. Renee has earned her bachelor's degree in the area of organizational leadership. She has experience working with many facets of school community serving as a substitute teacher associate as well as she's been a food service assistant. Rene is eager to build relationships with students and staff over at Sawyer. A motion to approve Renee Mallister as a special education teacher associate at soil Sawyer Elementary School beginning with the 202526 school year is recommended. >> Move to approve Bernie Mallister special education teacher associate at York Elementary School beginning with 526 school year. >>
017Second. >> All right. We have a motion by Commissioner Schultz and seconded by Commissioner Cruz to approve Renee Mallister as a special education teacher associated at the Sawyer Elementary School beginning with the 2025 2026 school year. Uh further discussion all those in Oh, hearing that. All those in favor say I. >> I posted motion carried. Uh now we're down to Emily Fl. Yep. Director of Special Education Appal Services Lindseay Ferry and Principal Katie Village are pleased to recommend Emily Plur for the Sawyer Special Education Teacher Associate position. Emily is a recent grad of Sebastapole School District and is eager to begin her career in education. She grew up supporting her mother. She worked in a child care setting and believes that her future will include supporting children. Although she recently left high school, uh Lindsay
018writes she's eager to jump back into elementary school. A motion to approve Emily Plur as a special education teacher associate at Sawyer Elementary School beginning with the 202526 school year is recommended. >> I move to approve Emily Plur as the special education education teacher association associate at Sawyer Elementary School beginning 256. >> Second. We have a We have a motion by Commissioner Sprinkus, seconded by Commissioner Schultz to uh approve Emily Plur as a special education teacher associate at the Sawyer Elementary School beginning with the 2025 2026 school year. Further discussion hearing none. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed? Motion carried. Now we're down to Miss Con. Yes. letter E for a position here at the high school. Director of special education people services Lindsay Ferry and principal Keith Nurby pleased to
019recommend Kerianne Conrad for a special education teacher associate position here at the high school in the ID autism program. Maryannne is a graduate of Sturgeback High School has all three of her children enrolled in school here. She is excited to return to the educational field and support students who may not be able to support themselves. Maryanne will bring her positive attitude and outlook to the team as she believes all children can do amazing things. Motion to approve Kerianne Conrad as a special education teacher associate at the high school beginning with the 202526 school year. It is recommended. >> I'll make a motion to approve Kianne Conrad as special education teacher associate at the high school 2026. >> Second. We have a motion by Commissioner Meyer, seconded by Commissioner Cruz to approve uh Kerianne Conrad as
020a special education teacher associated high school beginning with the 2025 2026 school year. Further discussion. >> Hearing none. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Oppos. Motion carry. There are no additional for this month. As I mentioned earlier, it's not uncommon not only to have several for August, but sometimes a couple more in September. And I know Lindsay is still working on those and talking with some folks. Actually shared in our short admin meeting today that it's in recent years it's become quite common to get a few new applicants that first week of school, sometimes even the second week of school. And so people are kind of, you know, getting back in the swing, maybe have their own kids in school and thinking about going, you know, whatever work they were doing over
021the summer and maybe coming to work for the district. should have some more for you next month. Go to the assistant. Yep. >> We'll go to four. We have one assistant coaching position for us uh tonight dealing with the football program. Uh principal Nurby, athletic director, Dupi recommend Ryan Zer as an assistant football coach at the high school level. Ryan's community member who has helped with different youth programs in Dor County for the past handful of years. Approach. A motion to approve Ryan Zer as a high school assistant football coach beginning with this 2025 season is recommend. Should I make a motion to approve Ryan Zer as high school football assistant football coach beginning with 20 26 season? >> Second. All right, we have uh a motion by Commissioner Howard, second by Commissioner Spitzka uh
022to approve Ryan Zer as our high school football coach beginning with the 2025 2026 school year. Um or I should say season, sorry, season. Um >> further discussion, all those in favor say I. I >> opposed. Motion carried. So now we are down to 0.5 which is the uh PE 12. This is a new item. It's just anformational item that uh in uh working with Niola and others that we want to make sure we uh not only did principal Nurby take care of this after talking to officer Jenner John about some other reporting uh but that we had a summary for you here that was prepared. Um, so a 2023 Wisconsin Act 12 requires public high schools to collect and maintain statistics regarding specific types of incidents that occur on school grounds and/or school transportation
023during normal school hours or during school sponsored events that occur before or after normal school hours. The requirement applies to incidents reported to law enforcement and results in filing a charge or citation. Under Act 12, each high school within a school district is required to report those statistics to the district's board. uh specific incidents can include again I'm not going to read the whole list because you can read and the good news is that's not our list that is the state level type of information that they're looking for from uh high schools across the state so uh report was compiled by principal Nurby with help from SRO Jenner John the full report can be found in your packet however the good news is Serge Bay High School had zero incidents that rose to that level
024of uh needing to be reported uh under this new requirement ment for the 2024 25 school year. Again, as written, it's anformational item. No formal no formal action is needed. Uh but we're supposed to bring that to your attention. I know one of the more interesting facts I heard about this at one of my superintendent meetings this year was in, for example, the city of Green Bay. Um some of their high schools share an address with the city park. And so because of that, if there were incidents at parks, the same address as a high school, and there were concerns about, oh boy, how is that going to sound or look? Again, I think as I've heard some different things at meetings, it's entirely possible this requirement will change and they'll they'll want to gather
025the information a different way. I think those the folks in Madison that pushed forward this will quickly realize like, oh, getting that information reported from high schools is probably not the best. really it's district attorney offices that are going to know more of that information and have the specifics. So having done this for a while wouldn't surprise me if this one disappears and it pops up somewhere else but there is ourformational item president. >> Perfect. So then we are down to the approve the strategic action plan for 2526. Yeah, the last actual item for you before we uh have some reports and stuff at the end. U as we've discussed since the February 2017 board and admin team retreat, putting together in essence a short kind of targeted one-page document uh that serves as our
026strategic action plan helps us not only with our internal processes and focus areas for a given year, also assists in our work and our communication with the community. Uh, I talked about it in this room yesterday when we were meeting with our new teachers. It helps in a variety of ways and helps us to keep focused, see that information. You've seen that annually. I'm not going to read those bullet points. Um, we'll talk about this throughout the year, right? Have a chance to provide feedback and update it over time. So, as we look at last spring and this past summer and conversations that we were had, the admin team and I worked together, right? You know, this was anformational item in last month's uh board meeting just to kind of bring you that information. So,
027uh, the first of our three kind of important buckets or target areas, if you will, continues to be, as it should be in a school district, teaching and learning. Uh, that first one, uh, that first bullet point is really kind of where we've we've talked a lot about literacy the last few years, right? So, this one has usually an academic focus of sorts. Uh, so you see academic and behaviors of growth. You're going to hear more about that, some of the things that are in motion at each of our schools this year to help uh set up kiddos for success. Probably a spring learning set, you know, you you'll hear nuggets throughout the year when the reports, but probably a spring learning session. You'll hear a little bit more information on that. Second bullet point
028is largely unchanged. We updated a little bit with the second subpoint of this, but really about those professional learning communities questions, right? That you know, what do we want our students to learn? How will we know if they've learned it uh or already knew it? And then how do we respond if they already knew it or even when it was taught in class, right? They need more help. So those guiding questions continue to be important to our district and our teacher teams. And then the third one, quality in instructional practices. As I shared with uh the new teachers yesterday, uh yes, it says engage all students and staff in responsive datadriven practices, but really this is the one that deals with, you know, it wouldn't be appropriate for a coach to tell the kids just
029do better, right? The coach needs to work with kids on, okay, what are the techniques, strategies to improve our form, our skill, etc. Likewise for classroom teachers, right? It wouldn't be appropriate for our principles, directors, or me to just say to the teachers, well, just do better, right? How do we help them um expand, improve, update their practices so they can work with their kids? So again, together everyone can have success, do better, etc. So really that's the item we've called it quality instructional practice of the last several years. Just updated a little bit of the wording there. Uh the second area, uh community engagement. Some years we put one, some years two, sub point, last year was one. And again, this deals a little bit, Mike, what you were talking about at the end
030of the just the workshop tonight, right? And we talked about this throughout the year. We've talked about an open session the last few years around changes with the state budget, property tax, tax taxes, etc. Like how do we communicate about our regular operations to the community in different ways uh whether it's uh the newsletter through the pulse that should be coming out this next weekend again or right various different communications, keeping that going. And the second bullet point I did, this is different than we've had in the past, and this deals with something again you had approved months ago, of that concept of a communication or marketing plan, right? As we worked with Brian Nickel from the Donovan Group to help us put some of this information together in a little different way to fit.
031That's why I wanted to make sure that was listed for again, not only you, but really the entire school community. And then finance, facilities, and operations. So critical to the work we talk about and do all the time. uh really that short and long-term budget planning process uh is and continues to be the first bullet point and the second one as I shared with the new teachers goes here for a reason uh right school district employs people to serve people right that we attract and retain quality staff and then some of the suboints change a little bit like in parenthesis the examples as we've met with teachers as we looked at what can the district afford how can we address different things that we continue to attract good people keep good people etc So, same
032main message with a few pertinent updates for the year, but showing people we're staying on focus on script and we don't just grab on to the latest and greatest idea after you or I go to a conference and then lead the kids and teachers down a new one and change that every month. So, that's an overview of that, President Stefani. So I think uh simply uh we would look for a motion to approve or kind of give the stamp of approval if you will from the board level to the strategic action plan for this 2526 year. >> I'll make a motion to approve the strategic action plan for 2025 2026. I'll second. >> Perfect. We have a motion by Commissioner Jenner John and second by Commissioner Meyers to approve the strategic action plan as presented
033for the 2025 2026 year. Uh further discussion all those in favor please say I. >> Opposed? Motion carried. So now we're down to reports. >> Jake, we heard Jake probably. anything you want to want to add from what we talked about in the workshop? >> I emailed out that presentation um that includes my notes. Good news is my notes are generally in full thoughts format. So most of what's on there is what I spoke about. Um let me know what questions you have. >> And again, we'll be talking about that information more in upcoming meetings. Everyone's benefit. Yeah, >> I'll touch on a couple of things. Um, we have uh from Jane Steven who continues to help us uh with and the committee really a group of volunteers uh that we certainly could thank and
034probably recognize them sometime although they probably wouldn't all show up from a meeting but uh uh put a lot of time into the Rock the Dock event. Remember that was going way back before COVID that was all ready to launch as a fundraiser and support community engagement efforts, mini grants for teachers and then kind of sat dormant and now here we are a few years into it. So, she put that together in your report. I won't read the whole thing uh to you, but I know Ann and Jane were in contact, too, to make sure that something was here for you this summer rather than wait till the September meeting. Uh Jane wrote in here how the event goal total was $15,000 as they've looked at that from year to year. The total money raised,
035not including expenses, uh was $27,521. Okay. had a few last expenses coming in when she shared the report with us. They looked at those expenses being she anticipates about $10,500, meaning obviously um you know exceeding their goal looking to raise around that $17,500 amount. Last year, she writes they raised $14,750. So really a number of folks that made donations uh different things from the Weber grills to the diamond earrings to a variety of different things. Thanks to principles and directors who took a pie in the face and raised $261. I'll just hit on that one. Way to go back there. I took a pass this year. Once upon a time, yes, but we'll let other people have that fun. Uh but there's a band again. It was another nice day that makes a big difference
036as we've seen versus the rainy day. But uh kind of a cool opportunity uh for uh you know we think of the end of the year and graduation and seniors and all the parties that happen to happen right Commissioner Meyer right that we might be involved in in a given year and really uh this kind of attracts there's certainly some high school kids and families there too but attracts a lot of elementary middle school uh families uh for that for that day and really a number of community members that don't have any kids or grandkids in school I've learned uh that really come out to the event and it's a nice day they'll show up at the yacht club and right support a good effort. So thanks to really that whole group Jane and others
037for pulling that together. >> Um >> is is yeah are those donations of spend down to zero by the end of the year? How does that work? Does it sit in some school fund the board somewhere? >> Yeah, great question. So it's a mini grant. How would you uh describe it? Maybe shorter than what I would say. >> Um yeah, miniig grants uh last year was $250 uh per grants for teachers. They write and submit it to the administrator >> to the the rock. >> Yeah. That committee actually looks at it so I don't have to make the decision. Yep. And then one or something. >> So they they push out through the principles and directors to teachers like, "Hey, don't forget to get your mini grant uh in and then those are collected and
038the group looks through them and says, "Okay, let's find this and this and this." And then kind of share that information. And then usually at the event they have uh I don't know what I'm in a given year, two or three teachers. Uh right, Mike, you've helped us at the at the microphone with different MCing things share their story about they took a special field trip. I'm trying to think to I think it was Rock Island State Park one group did or someone went to Washington Island or you know south down in the valley or whatnot. Just some of the field trips and activities that otherwise would go beyond what we could afford to provide. >> So separate from >> let's run through fund 80 >> 80. Okay. Um, so yeah, mostly separate from the
039checkbook. I mean, still still on the the school books >> properly tracked. >> Sure. >> Yeah. I was asking where's all this money go? >> I don't know. >> Back back into the different >> I'd say classrooms, but really more classroom experiences or experiences is maybe the more accurate way to put >> it's effort to write the mini grants and >> and they try to keep it pretty simple. I don't want the teachers having to spend a lot of lot of time and effort on that. >> Okay. >> In reality, it is a zero sum, right? Because they'll do the grants so that they have enough to the next year to to rent the space and the stuff they need. So essentially it is doesn't end up being zero sum. >> Good. Fair. >> It
040was Sorry, >> just one comment on it. We got blessed by the most perfect day ever, too. It was there was a ton of people there this year that did great. It was really >> two of the last three years we've had amazing. >> Yeah. So hopefully we can not have a rain day. One of you know but it's been great and it it worked and the people that the people that orchestrated this really did a nice job. One example that pops to mind, Wayne, to your question too, I think one of our Sunrise classrooms, I don't know if it was this year or two years ago, she ordered a magazine of sorts like reading, you know, you think of the type of subscription maybe that goes beyond what we can necessarily provide, but that
041you know, kids want to read it, extra information, you know, get over literacy stuff, National Geographic kind of get over, you know, that type of thing. >> Yeah, good stuff. Um, in my report, uh, again, I'm not going to touch on all of that. We're in the midst of new teacher inservice week. Uh, so Mike represented all of you yesterday at Scouturos for breakfast to welcome them. We've got the regular inservice next week. So, next Wednesday morning, if you can make an appearance in the comments again, you'll see a message you saw from Andy Me. We can send you a reminder as needed like if you can pop in if you can come in for 10 minutes or 40 minutes or whatever it is. No one has to uh make a speech other than President
042Stefani and it really just has to give a little welcome. Although maybe we could crank it up and you can get the band these years or something, you know, >> but we'll work on that for a few years from now. I got some ideas. >> Um as far as uh from community engagement, I'll just touch on I mentioned this community connection or the Clipper Connection, excuse me, newsletter. Uh the team pulled together a bunch of information by the end of school year. So that was ready. Didn't know. We thought maybe end of July. Now it looks like it's going to be going out uh this coming weekend. Um story as far as I know hasn't run yet, but Jake and I did an interview with Eleanor from the Pulse just on a bunch of the
043different school finance related things, right? She was looking to get a story or two kind of I think in the books. So she's ready to uh to use that. Um community forum event letter D from part two. This was new, I think. Well, it sounds like a few different people had passed my name along. Probably Allison was was one of those. Her sister Sarah White is involved with this group uh that looks to educate the community on different things and they want to do one about funding for Wisconsin public schools. Really, how does that work? So, they're doing an event up at the Crest Center uh coming up September 16th. So Ann Chapman from WBO has been invited to kind of talk about some things probably from a 30,000 foot view and then Brett Stson
044and Superintendent Jialter and I have been invited to make some comments about maybe what that really looks like in practice and a couple districts in this in the county which you know as we know I don't think it's any secret or kind of on different ends of the spectrum when it comes to uh property value and all those different types of things. So that one's kind of new. So I'm sure I'll see some more information before I go do that. We'll see what I have to share with you going from there. um on the Sturgeon Bay Rec facility meeting front. I think for like the outdoor complex across the way and that feasibility study, I think those those meetings are winding down here pretty soon. We've got another one tomorrow morning. Um there's still a
045number of things going on with more of the county effort uh to, you know, maybe have some sort of indoor facility someday. Again, separate from what's talked about across the street. Uh and the goal is to have uh the information that really two different city council committees are receiving this week with the feasibility study and the memo. It would be the finance committee and then I believe the parks and recck committee if I'm keeping that straight to its own right notice or this this last upcoming last week of August I should say. So that then for our September learning session we'll look a little bit at the schedule for the year. maybe have a chance to touch on a couple fiscal things, but really have a chance to talk a little bit about that feasibility
046study for the space across the street owned by both the city and the district. So, little more coming up there as far as what that could look like, right? As we know, it looks like the city has earmarked dollars from basically tip proceeds and so forth. We know fundraising will will have to occur and uh we'll have a chance to talk more about that. Uh the last item that I'll touch on, I added uh this was uh was since the uh I submitted the reports. It'll be in what I email out to staff tonight or tomorrow and you'll get a copy of that. But anyway, Brian Nickel from Donovan uh group about communication marketing. We had another call the other day just to kind of get some of that information, that roadmap finalized. Uh I
047shared a couple samples of videos. I know a couple of you have seen that. I forwarded that out. they have kind of a thought or preference on the two samples from the same district down in Iowa. So that when uh they come up and shoot some footage, this was a part of that marketing plan. They owed us owed us a video and rather than try to rush it last spring, uh they thought and I agreed that you know fall in Dark County is a little bit nicer. So they'll come up and get some footage and and so forth and that'll be promotional video for the community community really that the district can can share. And then the last one I'll add which again circles back to what you talked about Mike and I know you
048know about this because we've discussed it uh but a couple of different things been working on uh to communicate with the community about what's going on with the state budget and right the shift more so to local property taxes without giving the increase to the general school aids which we know isn't money school spends but it's welldeserved uh relief for taxpayers. So on the one hand I reached out to the city and Josh and I have discussed it as well the possibility of putting a note and of some handout some sheet when they stuff the tax bills that perhaps some information from the city and the district just kind of high level my current version you know this is hard for me to keep it to three short paragraphs but that's where I have for
049now and then in essence driving people who are interested in more information to a new page on the website not yet created there are some things that we've had out there historically right about referenda and the school district that we'd probably shift and I'm kind of like something like taxpayer information and resources just a simple straightforward title that would be a new ad to the district that I'd like to make sure is up and running probably before Thanksgiving. Uh so that's all ready to go and then we can talk it up probably in the November board meeting or when I make some of my radio appearances so that's ready as tax bills go out in December and it's a way for people then to look at information. We know that over the years, right, no
050one wants to pay more taxes, you know, all the different things. But when we communicate well and we're transparent about what's going on, that that's been very wellreceived in our community. So, that's kind of one piece of things that are going on with the note in the tax bill and then the concept of a new web page as a part of our website to share information and even information like the presentation Jake shared tonight, right? And then when we get to official budget preparation or approval in October, I put those in those types of presentations right there as well as I've been filtering through information you and I get from the legislative fiscal view bureau and DPI, right? Some of that's pretty dry and I don't know that residents would appreciate that. So, I'm trying
051to filter through what is straightforward and helpful without being a bunch of pages long. You know, a page or two or three. uh and then try to do a one or two sentence summary of what that is so they can see that and if they're interested they can click on it and read more. So, more to come on that. Uh, but I think we all know the types of questions that'll be coming up in all 72 counties across uh, really the state around tax bills this year and especially in Door County, the southern half, right, for us in Southern Door, the Sebast Jalter dynamics a bit different. Um, so that's what we're working on there. And I'll end on that note. >> Okay. I just have one thing. I'm going to like footnote exclamation point.
052Next Wednesday, the 27th, uh the all staff inservice breakfast. Um I I really we normally have at least half of the board there, if not more than that. Um we had just one person at the at the breakfast for the new teachers. I really want to make sure we don't we don't do that again. So I implore you at 7:15 you get there. 7:30 is about when you start serving. Basically, if you're a newer board member, you serve food to the to the teachers. They go through a line. It's all prepared food. All you have to do is serve it. And uh you're easily out of there before 9:00. So that's >> And it can be earlier if it needs to be. >> Yes, it can. >> Usually because you have feet, >> but I
053I I just would like to please let Ann know. And Ann knows she heards the cats, meaning us. So let Anna know who that you're coming uh to the breakfast. That's the >> And I was just gonna say it's the one time a year we actually get all district staff in the same. It's the only time we do that. We do invite some subs or all the subs >> and I think it's great if if we're the and I understand everybody's got work and got stuff going on. So I mean I know we won't get everybody but if if we could just remember that that's going on next Wednesday. So there you go. And let Ann know so she can run a tally and make sure that we have we have you know the temple
054we need there. So that's it. Uh can I have a motion to adjurnn? >> A move to >> All right. Do a second. >> Second. >> All right. That was a tie almost. We're going to give that to the the lady. So uh we have uh Commissioner Jenner John uh made a motion to adjurnn. Uh Commissioner Cruz second it. Uh all those in favor say I. I I >> opposed journ. Thanks everybody. Have a good night.