001like to call this uh school district surge of Bay regular board meeting uh to order for Wednesday, July 16th, 2025. Uh could everyone please stand for the 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 you. >> Commissioner Meyer here. Commissioner Hos >> here. Commissioner Jenner John is excused. Commissioner Stefani >> here. >> Commissioner Cruz >> here. >> Commissioner Howard, >> Commissioner Sholes >> here, >> and Commissioners Brenn >> here. >> All right. Thank you very much for that. Um, you board packet and you have in front of you the agenda. Can I have a motion to adopt the agenda as presented? >> Accept the agenda as presented. Thank you. >> All
002right, we have a motion by Commissioner Haw, second by Commissioner Meyer to adopt the agenda as presented. >> Um, further discussion. All those in favor, please say I. I. >> Opposed? Motion carried. Now we are to the public comments section. I'm seeing nobody from the public here tonight on this wonderful July evening. So, I think we can skip down the consent agenda. So the consent agenda approve uh consists of the following from your board packet. We have the approval of the June minutes of the regular meeting of June 18, 2025. Approve the June bills in your packet which Jade so nicely presented. Uh approved grants and donations. We have $40 Tyler Marketplace for teacher incentive activities. $50 by Andrea Hansen for the elementary playground. $500 from John and Benisy for the Robert H. Nickel Auditorium
003project. Uh the following RAR grants were received. Clipper sailing club high school hopes squad program and the tech ed visual arts up upgrades. We have uh in uh one res resignation to except uh Lisa Osokage is resigning from her special education teaching position and um fiveyear accept seclusion and restraint annual report. We had seen some stuff on that before, but act 125 requires that schools report annually to the school board by September 1 about any incident in the previous school year. Most most incidents of seclusions and restraint restraint in school districts typically occur at the elementary level. Director Ferry has prepared the annual report summarizing the information from the past year with a small number of students. That report is included in the packet which you have a motion to approve the consent agenda as
004presented is recommended. Also like to uh uh thank Lisa for her time here with our district. Um so can I have a motion to approve the consent? >> Move to approve the consent agenda as presented. >> Right. >> Second. We have a motion by Commissioner Spurus. Second by Commissioner Schultz to approve the consent agenda as presented. Further discussion. Real quick, Mike, I just want to point out Ashley Laazern, our bookkeeper, provides the uh checks. We're all involved that checklist. Uh I appreciate the compliment is provided. >> That's great. Your whole department, that's whoever doing it. That's good. That's good. Good to see it. Good. Um hearing nothing else, all those in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. Motion carried. Now we're down to the operations agenda, which the first thing we have here. we
005have. It's that magical mystical time of year when we approve teachers. So, here we do indeed. All right, we'll go with two A's. Four teacher candidates for the board tonight. Two, as you see, are one-year contracts. So, we'll see basically how that goes and then the other two are beginning with moving forward with still all the usual probationary teacher measures as we know. All right, the 2A uh pleased to uh bring forward here Deborah Nusbomb as a new ID autism teacher at Sunrise Elementary. Deb has a wealth of experience as a special education teacher and director both in Wisconsin and internationally including pretty impressive list Bolivia, Ukraine, Sagal, Vietnam, and the Marshall Islands. Deb is a fluent Spanish speaker and strong student advocate for responsible inclusion. He's also a doctoral student and a true lifelong
006learner. references spoke very highly of her creativity, her leadership, and being a flexible team player. As a result, they'd be excited to welcome her to the team. A motion to approve Deborah Nusf, the Sunrise special education teacher for one-year contract for the 202526 school year is recommended. >> I'll move to approve Dean Rusbomb as a sunrise special ed teacher for one-year contract for 2025 2026 school year. I'll >> second. Uh we have a we have a motion by Commissioner Haw, seconded by Commissioner Star to approve uh Deborah Nusbomb as the Sunrise special education teacher for a one-year contract for the 2025 2026 school year. Further discussion? All those in favor, please say I. >> I opposed. >> We motion motion is carried. Approve. Uh, next, uh, 2B, ele elementary art teacher for one-year contract. >>
007I have a super quick question for principal Mrs. Smallen. >> Mrs. Smallen, our just our recently approved candidate, worked several places, including the Marshall Islands. Do you know anyone that once worked in the Marshall Islands? >> I did. >> You did? Early in your career? All right. Just making sure everyone's paying attention here. >> No. There's your uh, >> Sturgeon Bay admin team trivia of the night. All right, back on script. Principal Katie Smallen and Principal Katie Dillers are pleased to recommend Lisa Clegerstrom for the elementary teacher position um at Sunrise and Sawyer Elementary Schools for the upcoming year. Uh she has a bachelor's degree in art in both computer and fine arts from California State University in Long Beach and an associates degree in two-dimensional design from a community college in California. She has
008a plethora of experience as a K12 art teacher in a variety of educational environments, most recently as a middle school art teacher in Green Bay. Been a substitute teacher in both Wisconsin and California. Her positive attitude, willingness to help any capacity, and dependability are all qualities that she will bring to her everyday work for us. Pending of board approval, the team would be excited to have her join as our elementary art teacher at Sturgeon Bay. Motion to approve Lisa Powers Legro as an elementary art teacher for one-year contract for the 202526 school year is recommended. >> I'll make a motion to approve Lisa Laggerstrom as elementary teacher for one-year contract for 2526 school year. >> Second. All right, we have a motion by Commissioner Haw, excuse me, Commissioner Star, seconded by Commissioner Haw to approve
009Lisa Legro as the elementary art teacher for a one-year contract 2025 2026 school year. Further discussion. All those in favor say I. I. >> Opposed? Motion carried. Now we're down to a fifth grade teacher. >> Yes. To C. Sunrise team is pleased to bring forward Emily Tunnan as a new fifth grade teacher. Emily recently graduated from W Green Bay Summit Cumlau. Her cooperating teacher was very impressed by her ability to confidently lead a classroom and her work ethic. Many of her former students from where she taught or student taught at Howard Swamo wrote recommendations for her and also spoke of her kindness to them. Excited to have her join the Sunrise team. The motion to approve Emily Tannon as a fifth grade teacher at Sunrise Elementary School beginning with the 202526 school year is recommended.
010>> I move to approve Emily Tonin as a fifth grade teacher at Sunrise School beginning with the 2526 school year. >> Good second. Oh, Mr. Sh. All right, we have a we have a um we have a motion by Commissioner Pearly, second by Commissioner Schulz to approve Emily Tonin as the fifth grade teacher at Sunrise School beginning with the 2025 2026 school year. Further discussion, all those in favor say I. >> I oppose. Motion carried. Now we're down to point D, Spanish teacher. Yes, both principal Nervy and Principal Small bring this forward. Miss Marie Galan has been a teacher both overseas and here in the US for a total of 14 years. She earned a degree in social studies, French, and Spanish. She graduated from the University of I'm not sure how to pronounce that
011in Spain where she's originally from. For the past three years, she's taught Spanish one, two, and three. I believe that's supposed to be at Tri County High School in Walcott, Indiana. However, she was recently married and relocated to Kiwani with her husband. Miss Galan was very involved and active at her previous school. She lived Spanish club, supported book club, and participated in different community organizations. Miss Galan stated during the interview process she'd welcome the opportunity to be part of our world language club as well as participate in other opportunities in the building and in our district. Mr. Haskins, Maria's former principal in Indiana, was extremely positive when describing Maria's time at Tri County Schools. He said, quote, "Inside the classroom, Miss Galan has brought a high level of knowledge of her native language to our
012students. Her ability to instruct Spanish has been very refreshing to observe. One of the things that has impressed me the most is Maria's ability to reach all levels of learners through rigorous instruction and to create positive relations with students." End quote. Scalan has received high praise and her principal shared that he along with other staff were sad sad to see her go, but wish her very best as she comes here to Wisconsin. During the interview process, it was evident that Maria has a passion for students to learn and grow. As a native Spanish speaker, she has a deep knowledge of both the written and oral language as well as the culture of many Spanish-sp speakaking countries that she'll be able to share with students as they learn the language. A motion to approve approve Maria
013Galan as secondary Spanish teacher at the high school middle school beginning with the 202526 school year is recommended. I'll move to approve Maria Gan as a secondary Spanish teacher at the high school and middle school beginning with the 2020 2011020 school year. >> Second. >> All right. We have a motion by Commissioner H, seconded by Commissioner Cruz to approve Maria Gan as the secondary Spanish teacher at the high school and middle school beginning with the 2025 2026 school year. Further discussion by anyone? I just want to say that that write up of her makes me want to take Spanish. That's awesome. >> Yeah, that and the the earlier Marshall Islands thing. I mean, we this is great. This is great to have those different >> um perspectives of these new teachers. Um all those in
014favor say I. >> I opposed. Motion carried. Now we are down to three approved associate at Sawyer School. >> Yes, there's one associate for us on tonight's agenda. Principal Katie Dillers is pleased to recommend Desiree Lamrech for the kindergarten teacher associate position at Sawyer Elementary School starting this 2025 2026 school year. Desiree has an assertive degree in early childhood education. She has 18 years of experience working as a preschool teacher. Desire's calm presence, patience, and flexibility were highlighted by her former supervisor. Her dedication toward providing compassionate care to the students and families she served were also shared and something that should serve her well in a role as a teacher associate in kindergarten. Desiree is thrilled at the possibility of working with kindergarten students and looking forward to using her positive energy to support all
015students at Sawyer in her new role. Pending board approval. We're excited to welcome Desiree to Sawyer and congratulate her on her new position. Motion to approve Desiree Lamrech as a teacher associate at Sawyer Elementary School beginning with the 2025 2026 school year is recommended. >> I get a motion. >> I move to approve Desiree Lamrech as a teacher associate at Sawyer School beginning with the 2526 school. >> I'll second. Uh we have a motion by Commissioner F, second by Commissioner Scar to approve Desire Lambert as the teacher associate at Sawyer School beginning with the 2025 2026 school year. Further discussion all those in favor say I. >> I opposed. Motion carried. So now we are to uh point uh we have approval of coaches for high school track and girls soccer. High school track is
016the first one. 48. >> Yes. Uh, Principal Nurby, athletic director, recommends Zach Elers as a high school track coach. Zach has been with the high school and middle school team the last three seasons as an assistant coach. Zach, as some of you know, also has helped out with football at high school the past four seasons and teaches tech. A motion to approve Zack Elers as the high school track coach beginning with the 2025 2026 season is recommended. I move to approve Zack Alers as a high school track coach for 256s. >> Second. We have a motion by Commissioner Sprika, seconded by Commissioner Schultz to approve Zack Alers as the high school track coach beginning with the 2025 2026 school year. Uh further discussion, all those in favor, please say I. I >> opposed. Motion carried.
017Now we're down to girls soccer. >> Yes. For the Athletic Director, we recommend Shane Olsen as our new high school head girls soccer coach. Some of you know Shane has been with the program the past seven seasons as a volunteer coach. He played a role in the youth program in our community prior to volunteering to help coach our high school girls. Motion to approve Shane Olsen as our head girls soccer coach beginning with the 202520 2026 season is recommended. >> Move to approve Shane Olsen as the head girls soccer coach with the 20 2025 2026 season. >> Second. We have a motion by Commissioner Schulz, seconded by Commissioner Star to approve U. Shane Olsson as the head girls soccer coach beginning with the 2025 2026 school year. Uh, further discussion. >> I was just wondering,
018do you happen to know what kind of applicants we receive for either of these positions? >> Uh, we did not receive a lot of applicants. Principal Nervy, you want to come on down and give the specifics? Um, I can say maybe a little more so. Although, as a couple of you know, my daughter was totally brand new to soccer. She really enjoyed talking to uh, Coach Olsen and felt uh, you know, took an interest in all the girls and explained things very well. Um, not sure on the number. Um, I think it may have been one applicant on the track coach side and I apologize if it ended up being one or two on soccer. >> Yeah, not very many. uh one for track and I believe we had two um for for girls soccer.
019Um both of them have been a part of the programs over the last number of years. So >> yeah, I mean I I have uh I think both of these people are going to do a really good job. Uh I don't know uh Zach as well as I know a Shane. Shane's going to be a excellent coach. He's done this for a long time. Um, but I was just wondering if if we're getting more engagement with with these uh coaching vacancies or, you know, if it's kind of stay where it would be, it would be great to increase that. We try a lot of different ways of doing that. >> Yeah. >> Feels like it's one of those things that's not >> Yeah, >> we're not getting more uh as time goes on. Unfortunately, >>
020the same 20% of the work being done by or 100% of the work being done by the same 20%. Yeah, >> we've been fortunate that I think we've had good people but not a lot of people. >> Absolutely. Thank you. >> Yeah, >> excellent. So, um, any other discussion? All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Opposed? Motion carried. So, now we're down for the strategic action plan and priorities draft for 2025 2026. give us the information. >> Yeah, informationational item. I won't read the what six paragraphs or so I prepared. You've seen that before plus you see this on an annual basis. Uh basically again for anyone whether League of Women Voters or others, we'll give them a shout out for monitoring even our summer meetings. Uh the board knows going back
021to when we had an annual retreat back in 2017 um which is starting to sound like a while ago already, right? that we uh try to categorize work and have high priorities in three main areas, right? Teaching and learning as a school district should. I'll just hit briefly on that in a moment. Community engagement was kind of our second bucket for pillar if you will. And then what initially were going to be kind of pillar or buckets three and four we combined into finance, facilities, and operations. So under finance, facilities, and operations, then I'll work back up the page, right? Short and long-term planning is the one bullet point. the other dealing with attracting retaining quality staff again should parallel what you've seen in recent years, right? We're not all of a sudden going in
022a completely different direction even though again we'll talk a little later in the meeting in the report section about some of that communication. Community engagement, we've kind of gone back and forth on one or two sub bullet points. Um the first one is pretty standard from the last couple years with some minor tweaks. And then the second bullet point I made sure to call out specifically communication and marketing plan. We've talked about that in uh some of our workshops and the board had approved us working with the Donovan group, right? We've talked about Brian Nicholas helping us out with some things. So, I thought that that was appropriate for this year to have its own bullet point. And then kind of finishing back where we started, right? High priority as it needs to be for
023the district under teaching and learning. These are that first one that usually has some sort of uh you know flare most recently on the literacy front and now as the team and I have talked about it, we thought we really need to call out not only continued academic efforts but some also some things around social emotional learning and behavioral growth. Right? The board has talked in formal meetings as well as workshops about some of those challenges and how we can work from the little kids to the big kids to be able to focus on what needs to happen for them and their classroom. So that's the first bullet point. So that's kind of the main update to this list for you for this year. The second one still dealing with those guiding questions around professional
024learning communities. I won't bore you with that right now. And then the third one really around those instructional practices that our classroom staff do day in and day out throughout a school year. And then you see kind of a little bit of an update. Again, similar in some ways to what we've had the last couple years, but kind of tweak that word. So again, really that's the focus. As we all know, it helps us focus in on those main things and make sure the staff when they come back in August aren't going to be surprised as teachers with, oh boy, here's a new list of a dozen initiatives, which we know isn't effective, right? The list needs to be short. It needs to be targeted, but we still need to tweak this uh each year.
025So, some of this information, as the board well knows, we'll talk about uh not only in regular meetings through the principal reports, but also in some of the learning sessions. Uh but that's that's kind of the update I have for you. Does anyone have just a quick question or comment uh based on that tonight? Otherwise, again, this will come back to you kind of for the board stamp approval, right? As boards uh this current board and boards be before you have said, you know, yes, trust the educators, but at the same time, you are our appropriate oversight. Want to make sure you have a chance to be okay with that. Otherwise, President Stefani, that's all we've got on. >> Okay, good. Um six, approve annual public notice of academic standards. We we see this every
026year. Yeah. So >> every year I will because of where it comes from just kind of go through not every sentence but the paragraphs here. So going back to the 2015 to 17 state budget also known as the 2015 Act 55. There were several notice requirements for school districts that were added. Those items included academic standards, school report cards, ranking levels, educational op options, and special needs voucher programs. Right? So in some form that's basically all still around even if some of the labels have updated. Next paragraph again association of school boards has reminded us that at some point and I will read especially the first part of this school boards are reminded that they must include an item on the agenda of the first school board meeting of the school year. In other words,
027that first board meeting after July 1 that clearly identifies student academic standards that will be in effect for the year. And again you see kind of the the dot dot dot and key points there rather than make you read pages and pages. third paragraph I will comment even though it's just two sentences um we know that once a new curriculum for a particular academic area has been adopted the curriculum stays in place really until a change is approved at a later date and again the requirement that we need to notify the public annually the standards began then back with that budget really almost a decade ago um in gathering feedback from various individuals and in line with our discussion on the topic in past years it continues to appear to be the clearest way of
028communicating that we follow what we call sturgeonbased standards. Working in recent years that has involved the Wisconsin academic standards for the most part but we know calling and again I've talked especially some years in the past calling them sturgeonbased standards does give us the flexibility to be able to address any areas that may come up and cause concern with our school community and also avoids the perception that we have to adopt something without any flexibility to adapt if concerns would come up really at the national or state level. Again, there's curriculum information for the public posted on the Sturgeon Bay School District website and can be accessed with that link where people can look at curricular information either by academic area or they can focus uh as kids are quite young and progress their way
029up through the years. So, kudos to several staff members who've worked on that over the years. Also, you see the link there. So I'll just finish with the final sentence of the write up. A motion to give the required annual notice pertaining to academic standards utilized in the school district of Sturgeon Bay for the 2526 school year is recommended. I'll make a motion to give the required annual notice pertaining to academic standard utilized in the Sturgeon Bay School District for the 2025 2026 school year. Second. >> Right. We have a motion by Commissioner Spura, seconded by Commissioner Star to give the required annual notice pertaining to academic standards utilized in the school district of Serb Bay for the 2025 2026 school year. Uh further discussion hearing none. All those in favor say I. I. >>
030I. >> Opposed? Motion carried. And now we're down to point seven. Board review. port policy review. >> Yeah. So, u as uh and Denise and I talked about this, we thought, you know, probably a way to tee up what in essence is almost four pages that follow are to kind of clarify not as much for the board, but maybe anyone in the public tracking this, you know, what are technical corrections? We see the different type of revisions. So, kind of to start out with, I'll take from this uh first paragraph or two. Uh it says Neola from time to time will issue an update of only technical corrections when necessary. With this change, the regular update contains more substantive policy issues and we'll get to that after this batch for review that would require consideration
031by an approval by the board. Importantly, really what technical changes or corrections are is they're technical changes that don't materially alter the policy's intent, but rather provide more minor changes that improve in essence quality and or consistency with the policy. Uh I'm going to skip the next part of that paragraph, go to the last sentence. It's the belief that the change will help streamline the process of review and adoption. Right? So, we still want to make sure the board is aware and anyone in the public is aware with these technical corrections, but it's not the type of thing where we're wrestling with more substantive information as we do from time to time. Kind of taking that forward really to the top of the next page. All right. Really, it talks about how the person in
032my position, right, or technically, right, designate authorized to review and make technical corrections to policies that have already been adopted through normal rulemaking procedures. Technical corrections are those corrections to policy language or construction that do not reflect a policy decision or substantive consideration by the board such as correction of a typographical or grammatical error, inclusion or correction of statutory citations which you know comes up quite a bit renumbering sections which happens on occasion combining of policies or similar actions. So really it's up to the district administrator to make sure we inform the board of those changes. And so what I thought we would do is Ann and I like I said map this out. I'm not going to read every one of these, but we see starting with the thou, you know, the 0152 officers,
0330164, right? Kind of that batch and then working our way down to the 1,000 series, you see a couple, you see several in the 2000 series really around student things. You see a few in the three or two in the 3000 series, 4,000 vacancies. talks a little bit about rejecting some things in the 5000, updating attendance. Ironically, the attendance falsely came up with something we're working on for DPI today. You see some other 5000s that kind of go down really the whole top half of that next page. In 6,000, you see some just corrections, for example, of a budget hearing, purchasing, assistive tech, etc. 7,000 8,000 series are the last those next couple and the very bottom of that page deals with the 9,000 series. Then we see really what continues. Number eight, board policy
034review 34.2 technical corrections. Again, another batch of those technical corrections take us through this page and the next. Again, I'll just do very similar to keep it moving. You see 0168.1 dealing with meeting minutes is the start of that list. And then we have three in the 2000 series from different non-discrimination down to intercolastic athletics. Then we see a few in the 3000 series um as well as 4,000 around gifts, professional meetings, personal property, etc. Right? There's a few or not necessary that we can reject. There's just quick uh wording pieces. Uh we see the 3000 and 4,000 series about privacy protections. Uh 5130 withdraw a drop out from school. We see that there's an error that was corrected there. A little bit of information around current terminology for 5200.01 a full-time student promotion, placement,
035and retention. Those do come up more substantively in other ways like around literacy and from one grade level to the next. This one was a quick one for 5410. And then the last page of this batch, uh, we see 5500 student code of conduct. Some incorrect legal citations have been removed. We see three in the 6,000 series from investment income down to fund balance. We see Q there 8450, right? And then the next what four of them all in the 8,000 series from personal protective equipment down to religious activities and observances and the very last one from the second technical corrections list 9150 deal with school visitors. So again those are there anyone from the public has question again the board knows how this works. uh but that we've just updated those things without anything
036too substantive which we'll get into in the next batch because it's defined. Does that work for us? >> I think it works great. >> All right. Should I keep it mo keep it moving? All right. Now go to our more traditional uh review 34.2 from the regular update. This as the board knows is the first of two readings uh which most of these uh go into the consent agenda for next month unless someone has a particular thing or we notice something whether tonight or after tonight. Um I will start with 9A policy 01000 on definitions. Really uh a new definition of school district classifications was added. So we made that update. Uh letter B policy 0144.5. Uh we see board member behavior communications code of conduct. It talks about some clarifying language has been added
037to several provisions as well as a direct reference to a conflict of interesting. Next up, 9C0166.1 dealing with consent agenda. U just some options have been added based on practical usage of the consent agenda. And we know how we've used that the last decade or so is a little different than what we once did from board reading policy readings to a couple other things. Going on to the next page 1461 unrequested leaves of absence fitness for duty. There was some additional enforcement language that was added. Letter E 24401. We could reject dealing with summer or interim school attendance. F policy 2522 dealing with library media centers. Really I'll kind of jump to about the middle of that first sentence. Dealing with challenges to materials are brought forward by persons with actual personal knowledge of the
038content therefore able to articulate concerns. Right? So want people to know that this needs to be handled correctly. We've all seen the news stories, right? But there's all sorts of concerns. I think uh we certainly want to give our district librarian or library media center specialist Holly Sully credit for several years ago making sure we had a process that if a parent had a concern whether at the school level uh about a book in a classroom which is a little different than the library or in the library that we had a process that they can clearly follow to point out exactly what the concern is resolve it you know as easily as with the teacher or the principal and then it kind of goes up the ladder from there. So, we really haven't had an
039issue with this. If someone were to bring forward a concern, I'm quite comfortable with our process compared to what I'm hearing happens in some districts. So, just good news for the board there. Uh, back to the list. G policy 31204, employment of substitutes deals some different uh outlining of some options there. We know that, you know, as long as I'm on it, yes, we're always looking for substitute teachers. If anyone knows of someone or happens to be listening to this, hey, come talk to Mrs. Deise. Right. Right. uh policy 31208 employment of personnel for co-curricular extracurricular activities uh talks about a reference to issuance of reasonable asurances notification because that deals with some other things like we have to do for hourly staff and so forth. So clarification there. So on this next one um
040we have policy 3431 and 4431 dealing with two different categories. So, it's a yes on the 3431 side. Really not uh available on the support staff side as far as the updating of employee leaves. It's updated to offer the option to add sick leave and personal leave time off as the board knows, right? We've done some things with professional staff on the PTO side separate from uh support staff. Letter J uh dealing with uh the policies here around employee sick leave and so forth. We see at 44 sorry 3432 4432 some options for the use of a benefit for certain types of appointments were clarified within those K 4124 notice of reasonable assurance of employment revision clarifies benefits are not available based on services performed for the district since that reasonable insurance piece comes up
041again uh policy 4140 termination and resignation this revision offers optional language allowing an employee to resign before being terminated I think good practice in most cases as long as we're not talking about illegal unethical behavior where we have to involve the DPI or something. Policy 4213, student supervision and welfare. Additional language has been added regarding the expected standard of care for support staff. Making some language from systems there. Flipping over next page, letter N, policy 5112 with entrance age recognizes parental right to opt out of immunization to file a statement regarding this choice in lie of immunization records. We know that that um has is starting to become more popular right postcoid probably more attention to it yet. Next policy 53101 dealing with uh it's a replacement policy I should point out for emergency nur
042nursing services. It's provided to more fully incorporate requirements of different regulations regarding development content and review of emergency nursing services. Next up 5410 promotion placement and retention. This in was updated to include a cross reference with the promotion and retention requirements specific to Wisconsin's reading readiness legal requirements that we know we've heard a lot about the last couple years. 5411 third grade promotion and retention again dealing with uh really a number of those things uh but specific to various parental notification provisions required by statute 5464 uh early graduation. This was updated to provide additional options for evaluation approval of the early graduation requests. We know we don't have a lot of them, but it is something we have from time to time. Have a process for how to handle Lois here through the high school.
043550 academic honesty. I think this is one of those things we'll hear more and more about in the coming years. This policy was updated to specify with respect to student use of AI, right? Or artificial intelligence tools, students are expected to properly uh attribute any content, right? still about citing their source even though it's getting a little bit more challenging to stay on top of that not only for young people but for adults quite frankly I think a lot of us in our day jobs right come across different things around AI too it's certainly not just a school issue this is one of those I think I wouldn't call it a hot button issue but it's an issue we're going to continue to hear and see a lot more about in the coming weeks months
044and years uh 5530 student use or possession of intoxicants drugs or paraphernalia We see update to reflect additional items included within the prohibited substances and also to include lookalike substances. Policy small unrammed unmanned aircraft systems or drones right for for short. Title was modified to include that term drones since that's what most people call them. Now was also language was updated to be consistent with the WIAA policy and procedures which have some thoughts around drones and WIAA events. Next up, 7450 property inventory. Again, dealing with Gazsby standards u and education department general administration regulations, right? Those Edgar things around different uh assets, grants, so on and so forth. 7455 accounting system for capital assets. Another revision. This was added to appropriately appropriate useful life for capital assets based on again Gabby standards 7460 conservation of
045natural material resources. This was updated provide the board with an outline of an energy conservation evaluation implementation policy 75302 staff and school officials use of personal communication uh devices. There's some options within the policy that were clarified. 8120 dealing with volunteers. This was updated to reflect the requirement that volunteers driving district-owned vehicles are still obligated to be under contract and meet driver requirements. Um I know Mrs. Deise is involved with a rotation with all the different volunteers whether they're working with I don't know clipper glaze to all sorts of different things that also does background checks. Sometimes people wonder about that. So just thought I'd mention that in passing here. 8420 school safety policy was updated to reflect the crime reporting requirements. This is uh this is a new piece enacted by the legislature effective
046for the 2425 school year. Basically for us, Principal Nurby was working with SRO Jenner John to look at the information and what hits a certain level. Thankfully, it wasn't a bunch of stuff for us by any means uh to be reported to DPI. I think we're probably going to see more in the news about this because I'm guessing the people that wanted to see this at the state level. We're looking for information at least in some communities and probably aren't going to see the level of reporting that they thought they would. Uh because as you can probably all appreciate from a school standpoint, we don't necessarily know. I mean, we know what's going on with our people, but as far as what gets to the point of being pursued by a VA and what gets
047to what level, that's really not from us. So wouldn't surprise me if uh in the next few years they changed this a few different ways to get the information they want and probably pull us out of the loop. But time will tell. Uh policy 8500 food services. Right. We see some things on this regularly. Policy was revised based on direct feedback from the DPI school nutrition team. Um and again this is one of several policies we made sure that Jenny Spoody was involved in on. So we make sure we make note of that. Thanks to and deise for giving me that. Um the next few fall into that category. So I think we have a group of five if I recall here that uh Jenny took a look at for us. So policy 8510 with
048wellness. This was revised based again on DPI school nutrition team. Jenny took a look at this. Same with the next one. 8531 free and reduced price meals. Again you see that same uh team at the DPI level. Jenny took a look. 8540 vending machines. Um, once upon a time there were more vending machines and we made a lot of money off of or off of that to pay for student t-shirts and all sorts of things and then you know all those wellness standards came away or came around and a lot of that vending dried up but they still do exist in some respect. So you see 8540 back to my notes here vending machines Jenny took a look at that for us as well. And the final one that Jenny Foody helped us take a
049look at 8550 competitive food sales. Again, you see the information from the DPI level and you see the different updates there. Jenny helped us with and the final one. I know you're sad to see it come. 9151, use of cameras and other recording devices in locker rooms. Oh yes, we want to do that policy you see was revised to include additional language concerning media presence in locker rooms and the prohibition of recording devices. uh which again not that kids don't take uh devices into the bathroom or locker room but of course they need to be reminded their signage right they shouldn't be operating that for obvious reasons that's the badge I have for you president >> really good >> nice work >> thank you visit >> get some water right you can get some water
050all right then we are down to reports we you know in July we do a press version of reports So, I think Jake, you're up right. Uh, I did a summary of state budget, how that might affect us. Uh, haven't dug in much more than what's, uh, what you see. Uh, so I guess questions, uh, concerns, the the big good news, we got more dollars. bad news. The piece about equalization aid taxes stuck. So, um we are working through we are in contact uh with Eleanor from the Peninsula Pulse. Uh she's going to do an article 23 on the state budget, how it affects us uh in our taxes. The other piece um sounds like the city is doing a reassessment this year. uh not reach out, but we do have citizens of the city
051on staff and so we are aware of that. So it'll probably get slid into the messages and well so it seems like it isn't as bad as what we were talking about a a few weeks ago. >> It's not as bad. >> Yeah, that's what I circle back. Sorry. I know you didn't. >> I meant the recess. >> No, no, not sturdy. I'm talking the state budget. >> Yeah. Uh yes. Uh it gives us uh some flexibility on a number of levels. Uh uh you know, whether we're looking at increasing our teacherbased wage to $45,000, the second part of the plan we talked about this spring. uh whether it's uh looking at potentially underleving uh to help out with the the the tax levy. Um so yeah, it it presents some some good flexibility for
052us. Uh for sure very good that we're getting out in front of explanation about and I think those of us that have got the reassessment letter right you have state budget you have that and if you're aware of the general aid thing it's like oh what does that mean you know just as it all lines up u Jake mentioned Elanor it's Elanor Corbin from the pulse she had reached out to me believe it or not she's working on an article about Eola policies Right. And I said, "Well, Eleanor, thank you. I I've only had one other person I can think of in my 11 years here actually reach out to me offering to help with policy." Not that that was her focus, but she said she just thought it was interesting because she's from outside
053the area on that in Door County now all of the school districts contract with Neiola and she's learning that boy, they they've really grown not only in the state of Wisconsin, but elsewhere. So, she and I had a nice I think we talked for 40 minutes. That's the most I've ever talked about Neiola probably uh this week. And then when she asked anything else or anything else you have going on I said well uh you know as usual not telling you what to do but you're pretty good about you know and others right others Tim BS others have asked for story ideas and so forth and I said you know I'd really recommend if not an article perhaps an article series on the state budget you've kind of been following that right she said yeah
054and I said I think a topic that is of the you know special interest to really any taxpayer and one could argue even if a person isn't a property owner if they pay rent, it's going to impact them too when the property owner then theoretically has to modify what the rent is. Um, and so talked a little bit about equalization, right? Or general school a, you know, that type of thing. And she said, "Oh, this is this is very interesting. Yes, I'm definitely going to do that." And trying to think what day this week we spoke. She emailed me before the day was over and who did Jay because I said, "But we both be happy to help her." She said, "Yes, actually, I want to start working on that article sooner rather than later."
055So probably I'm thinking midweek next week uh Jake and I will connect further with her. I've sent her a couple of the articles that whether it's Wisconsin public radio or whatever that are showing up in the feeds we get every day so she can learn about it. Uh she already understands uh that how this impacts say Jibralta for example is very different than how it will impact the school communities of Sturgeon Bay and Southern North. Uh so we'll kind of work through that. Uh but yeah so she was very open to that. So we'll do what we can to communicate about that and I think before hopping into my mind here what Jake said about like you know that whole push pull we often talk about levying right under levying or what's the ramifications so
056I think probably you know that we would want to give you some options as we get to that point in October like okay you know what are the pros and cons right because it's not going to be as simple as oh this option has all pros and no cons and these you and I know that's not how it works or it wouldn't need to be decided at our Hm, but what are pros and cons of being here or, you know, leving to our authority or what have you. So, kind of working through that and hopefully at least trying to communicate to the public how this all works. Well, at least give it our best effort. >> It's so great that you're doing that. That's awesome. >> Yes. As I told someone this week, you know,
057aside, in fact, it was in talking with Eleanor. I said, aside from ramping up with the usual school year stuff, like, okay, everyone wants a safe, successful school year, we need kids to focus on learning and growing and all that. I said, as someone who's now done this work a while, like in my mind at based on what we know right now, the number one topic I think is going to be this because it's going to impact, you know, communities across the state. Yes, there's a few outliers like a Ben realtor, but most are going to be wrestling with this going, huh, property taxpayers could carry even a heavier load even if the district doesn't spend an additional scent. H and then right, state budget and then the politics around that as it pertains probably
058to the next election for governor. There's there's a lot happening. how um you you have a thought how you're if you are at all going to tie in with the sturgeon bay reassessment on how we present this stuff or will we will we just say yeah Sturgeon Bay is going to do a reassessment totally separate from us you know what we're doing because you know last time I think a lot of people had a hard time differentiating what was happening because it it wasn't communicated very well >> yeah there there was a surprise component I'll say it nicely since especially right then city council members sat down with some of our board members right because that goes back to the whole when Mike goes to the joint review board meetings for it right some different
059things that were acknowledged I think uh Mayor David Ward who's one in particular that said we can never have you know that type of reassessment sneak up on us again and surprise people and have so much time pass which then leads right all those types of things >> based on the meetings you go to or what I go to and talk with >> you know it's like things are better but there's still communication that needs to occur otherwise most of us right if you got the letter in the past week as some of us did right your mind jumps to oh boy where is this going compared to last time >> so I definitely separate but acknowledging you know our people are dealing with all of our I think makes sense >> uh based on
060some reports just starting with the teaching and learning part uh the team and I went to a conference in late June down in Griev uh following my report, I attach my notes. I know not everyone's into that, but sometimes there's at least a couple board members that just kind of like scrolling through, okay, what types of topics are being addressed at these conferences that our admin team members are going to aside from what you're used to seeing in Janu. So, I included that if anyone wants to scroll through there, good old Doug Reeves, Mr. Bow Tai, was the key keynote. It's hilarious because he was a key person really in my principal years and a lot of his messages while some have had to tweak and update. He's talked about how it's fascinating that that
061keep it simple message and certain key things the research reveals makes a difference. It's still true today just like it was true 15 years ago. U he did share like when people ask him are you discouraged that some of the same things still need to happen now as needed to happen 15 years ago. Well, he said not really because right that's just life and he just keeps on those messaging. So anyway, the team and I went to the keynotes and a variety of breakout sessions. It was some good information that uh not only gives us ideas but also reinforces that we're on the right track with you know key high kind of yield strategies that we're focusing on. We're not chasing the latest greatest 18 things that doesn't make the difference. Uh, scrolling through, I
062think I'll just go right to facilities, finance, and operations. Not the community engagement isn't important, but you've seen some of that before. Um, Jake touched on, I think it was five different state budget level things in his report, plus some stuff with the what's going on at the federal level. I thought I would just keep it high level for two. So, on a positive side really for tonight, you see the special education funding increase. all the entities kind of simplified things came together that was definitely positive right on the and if you want to say negative or challenging front that's that whole general aid no equalization aid increase right we've been talking about that we talked about it a month ago we talked about it tonight I just thought I'd put it in writing for
063those that uh track this um we've got a meeting tomorrow uh on the Sturgeon Bay Rec facility uh to see right when those feasibility studies and all those types of things and Then um Donovan group still working through some things. The team and I sent them some info. They made some edits and I saw Brian had sent so I need to take a look. But that's the end of my report for you tonight. And I'm just going to I do one one quick thing from the uh on July 10th we did have a tiffid district meeting uh at city hall and it's really I think it's exciting. Uh it would be it would be TID number six. they are doing an additional um basically more more parts to that TID and um it's 27.47 47
064acres of additional subdivision really that's going to be like right on 8th Avenue kind of the north end of of where where uh we have currently developed parcel um similar to the what's happened in the southside port side is going to be involved in this but anyway was really exciting I looked at the whole plan I mean there's there's there's there's lower level housing their burlo smaller dollar affordable housing. There's u there's also going to be sidebyside duplex parts of that and then upper end housing all in this 27 and a half acres. Um so that's that's exciting because we need we need housing for people. So um we went over all of that. I I have a huge report that I could send you if if anybody's interested, let me know. I mean, it's
065common knowledge. It's city city city stuff, but um that that uh that's exciting. So, uh that's it. President Stefani, I would just want to remark that uh not everybody in the community thinks that that's a great thing out there. >> Well, I I from my point of view, it >> my my opinion is it is a good thing. Yep. Mind you, >> because we need we need um we had an incident I can talk about a few years ago. We had a teacher that was that was for better part of half a year traveling from on the other side of the Green Bay all the way down and up every day because they could not find anywhere to live in Sturgeon Bay. You know, if we don't have places for people to live, they can't
066come to whether it's the hospital. You had a doctor living in a garage a few summers ago, >> right? So, you know, that that can be problematic. >> So, without a doubt, >> the fact the fact that we we have I don't know why that is a bad thing. And that's also this is also tax revenue. >> Quite health people. I guess >> uh I'm not I I just know that there was uh quite a few people from the community that was uh at at city hall um just mentioning that they didn't want, you know, that neighborhood to change. Oh, it was they didn't they didn't want development like in their neighborhood. >> Correct. Yeah. It was going to increase traffic, those kind of things. I mean, you know, if if you lived in a
067neighborhood for, you know, 30 years and it's been nice and quiet, somebody wants to drop 20 houses right in there. I can understand how that might be a little bit challenging. Uh I agree that we definitely need more uh housing uh affordable housing, and I think that's a subjective term. Um and and I hope that uh what's what gets built in that pit um allows folks that would be employed by our school district to buy home from what I said saw will that's great and and so that's that's a good thing. Uh I just want to mention that that's all I can so anything else or can I have a will someone give me a motion to adjurnn? So second >> I got commissioner sprus second by danger schulz to adjourn the meeting. Any further
068discussion? >> I'd like to talk about this adjournment >> hearing none. All those in favor say I. I. All right. Opposed. Meeting adjournment. Have a great night everybody.