Sturgeon Bay School Board 05/21/2025

001cares, right? Maybe they're reconsidering. Quick trip was all over. Did you hear it? Yeah. the recording already. That's what I switched over last summer. They wouldn't buy contract over pressure. Is it because weed up here? maybe because it was already. All right. Um, the same for 30 years. I'd like to call this uh school board the district of Surgeon Bay regular board of education meeting for Wednesday, May 21st of 2025 to order. Would everyone please rise for the pledge? I pledge algiance 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. Mr. Me, would you like to do the roll call, please? Absolutely. Commissioner Strick, here. Commissioner Schultz, here. Commissioner Howard, here. Commissioner Cruz, here. Commissioner

002Stefani, here. Commissioner Jenner John here. Commissioner Hall here. Commissioner Meyer here. Commissioner Scott here. Um next you have you have the agenda in front of you plus what was sent out in your packet. Uh there is a few the actual agenda itself is not changing but there's a couple of of internal candidates and stuff that that we will do some some adjustment. We'll talk to you when we get to that point. So the agenda, if we can have a motion to adopt the agenda as presented, that'd be great. I'll move to present the agenda as presented. Second. All right. We have motion by Commissioner Hog, second by Commissioner Meyer to adopt the agenda. Uh further discussion hearing. None. All those in favor say I. I. I. Opposed. Motion carried. So, um, actually we we are

003we are down to the student council report which we have next year's folks here, right? Yes. We got Lauren and Mia, right? Maya. So, sorry. Sorry about that. See, I'm learning. She's bad. Yeah, I'm terrible at good with math. So, um, I guess just give us a little update. What's happening? I was told on a scale of one to 10, President Stefani, that tonight's report will be at 11. Yeah, one of the two I won't say which was a little more confident in the level of the report than the other, but they'll be giving us reports for the next year and here together for the first time, so to speak. Maybe playing at the holiday and this weekend, right? All the different stuff. Yeah, never mind. This whole weekend, go ahead. What do you got

004for us, ladies? Last week it was teacher apprec appreciation week. So on Sunday, we came and decorated the sidewalks. We provided baked goods for teachers every single day throughout the week. Um, and then also tomorrow we have our spring playing which is a new thing starting this year. So this past week we've had a kickball tournament going on. So our kickball tournament finale is tomorrow. So it's the winning class which I believe was the sophomores against the teacher team. So that'll be interesting. Um, and then along with the tournament, we also are signing yearbooks, which is really exciting because we usually don't get our yearbooks until like the last week. So, we actually have it in advance. And that's also like an extended lunch period. So, it's really just fun for everybody and I'm really

005looking forward to that. And then also at our last meeting, we planned started planning homecoming. So, we picked our theme. It's going to be Renaissance Fair. And so, we figured there is some good fun games that come along with that. And then coming up on May 29th, um we're having some students from Profield schools come in for a shadowing day. So I think we have about 15 students from student council that are going to help some profs come in and explore the high school a little bit. I'm really looking forward to that. I think we have a lot of kids coming in, so it's a good experience for them. That's pretty much all they have. It's quite a bit. That's good. That's good. And did Dan tell you that after you give your report, you

006don't have to stay all night and Okay, good. They're aware. They also know with tonight's recognition, we'll have a recess and then what? So, they may stay, they mingle. We'll see what they have going on. Yeah, tonight's a little different, but normally we've also talked about how they need to provide baked goods at some point. And look, Maya already brought me from the soccer dinner, right? Some leftover dessert. So, gold star there. Thank you, ladies. Um maybe very briefly, we'll hit you up more next year, but since we're about to honor some seniors and that's where you're at next year in the kind of way early poll, just talk to the board a little bit about what you're thinking as we're almost at the end of your junior year about what you might do after

007high school. I'll go first. So, I think I briefly mentioned it last meeting, but I plan on attending the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Um I'm planning on going for political science and my goal is to get my law degree eventually. Um, I don't necessarily want to be a lawyer, but I'd like to be involved in politics. I have a big passion for civic engagement and for um, public speaking, public debate. I'm a youth in government, mock trial. So, I really plan on making a change in our community. I'm like on the Y board. So, Mr. Chago, so I like making change and I just plan on doing more like leadership roles and more like community engagement in the future. Thank you, Laur. For me, I kind of have less of an idea. It's kind

008of more and that's okay. Except I'm interested in Madison, also Florida State University, and my major. I'm not It's once again, I'm not quite sure, but I really like math and so I'm thinking about public finance. Very good. Well, we look forward to the updates from you ladies on all sorts of things over the next year. That's great. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Uh, next we have the public uh comment section. We are going to have a recognition in just a moment. I think that's why a lot of people are here. But if anybody's here to address the school board, uh this is the time if you do uh want to address the board. Uh come to the podium and you're asked to share your name, address, and be aware that uh

009comments are limited to three minutes. I I will raise my hand at two minutes. So I don't Do we have anybody here for that? No, we're through CO, so that's not happening in the book. You know, we had that happen a lot during CO, but but that's good. That's good. Um, so that brings us down to honestly the recognition portion. So, yes, if I could call Principal Nurvy forward, we've got some students and families in attendance as uh Mr. Nurby's getting all set, right? School board may have heard, we had a nice senior recognition program this afternoon in front of the whole student body. So, a number of the seniors that are here tonight were recognized as were some of their classmates, which was great. Um, parents, as we do the recognition, right, we'll get

010everybody up there as far as students, we will pause. I'll do a couple snapshots for good old Facebook and you're invited to step forward and take shots. You don't have to worry about a dirty glare from your son or daughter because I'm inviting you. So, then you can use those at graduation or anything you want. So, I I see a couple moms looking at their children right now. So, it's all good. Just put it on me. That's just picture it a snowy day. I'm getting blamed for whether we have school or not. Put it on me. We're good. Principal Nurby, I will turn it over to you. Well, thank you. This is always one of the highlights, one of the fun um not that every board meeting isn't a fun night. Um but this is

011a really fun one um for me because we get to recognize and honor our our high honor students. So these are students who um over the course of seven semesters um three and a half years because we cut it at um the end of semester of their senior year um have earned a 4.0 which is um amazing out of a 4.0 scale. Um so these students have worked really really hard and I think it's important to have them recognized in front of you and and our viewers watching. So, I'm going to call them up and have them come up and then um I asked each of them to prepare just a quick five minute speech. You guys got that? I asked. No. Okay. Um I'll just ask them to introduce them uh or ask them

012to kind of share where they're going and what their plans are. All of these students um every single one of them recognized today actually. Um as uh Superintendent Shangle had said, we had our scholarship and academic awards um night or day today. Um, it's been at night typically during the senior night and we moved it during the day. I think I shared this with you last month. Um, and we really wanted all of our students to see it. So, it was an all school assembly so they could all come in and see this. Um, calculating the dollars um, our students raised over or raised earned over a million dollars in scholarships um, which is just amazing for our school um, for our students. So, it was just a really fun day um, for all the

013students to see that. So, as we bring them up. So I'm going to ask Haley Deoce De Boyce Bradvers Kate Howard Isabelle Amen Cipher some of you might recognize her Jack Con here I didn't see um Azie Azy Lenfel Hayden Lutters oh no I don't think Hayden is joining us able to Julia Mahalski Alexa Olsen Gabe Podier who's in the Luke Sy and Trey Winky to come up here and be recognized. Um I also just want to um mention that um Julia and Luke um are validictorians this school year and Trey is our saludiatoran. So all these students up here have worked extremely hard this year uh or throughout their four years of high school. I mean, it's it's exciting to see them just really a week from tomorrow is their last day and then

014graduation on the 31st. So, congratulations on all of your work. 4.0 is uh 4.0 or above is amazing. So, you should all feel very very proud of yourselves. Do you want to share with the board real quick what your plans are? Yeah, I'll be attending North Central College inville, Illinois for mathematics. Uh I will be attending Michigan Tech in Michigan for general mathematics as well. Um, I'm attending Carlton College in Minnesota. Um, on a pre-med track and a major in either biology or chemistry. I'm attending WMadison on premed track and a major in biology. I'm going into the United States Army and coming back in the spring for spring semester of college. I'm attending WMadison for pre- business, probably either international studies as a major or economics. Um, I'm attending WGB and I'm planning to

015double major in computer science and philosophy. I'll be attending Dartmouth College in Hover, New Hampshire and stud hopefully double majoring in environmental studies and sustainability. I'll be attending WMadison and I will be going into culinary science and hopefully awesome. So, congratulations. Let's give a round of applause. You want to just come together a little bit? We'll get ready for the big Facebook picture. Any parents kind of come on in. You can come right around front if you want or you can go over my shoulder in a moment. I'll slide out of your way once I get the first one here. Okay, everybody ready? Here we go. We'll hit a couple right here. Looking great. I'll slide out of the way. Parents, go ahead. And I said it today during our um during our awards assembly,

016but honestly these students and they know it, but a huge shout out to all of the families um behind all these students for supporting and working with them. So, thank you all for for all the efforts that you put into because you raise some amazing amazing kids and uh it'll be fun to see you all across the stage here in two weeks. So, congratulations. And I think we're going to just take a quick break. We're going to say congrats and so forth. And that way you all don't have to sit around for the riveting board reorganization which is right after this. So, uh we're going to go in recess for just a couple of moments here. Stay right here. They're gonna come right on down the line. Congratulations. Congrats. to do it again for a

017week and a half. All right, we are back in session. Uh we are now down to the board reorganization portion um of the meeting. Um so I guess yeah, I can run with this part. run with this part and then we'll we'll start doing yeah we'll try to make it as smooth as possible since everyone knows it's one of those things we only do one time a year so I'm just going to cover a part of what we have in the background document because sometimes wonder people wonder like well how does this really work and then and deise is going to cover a little information for you too so try to make it as clear and painless as possible all right so we know that by our own board policy we're supposed to have an

018annual board re reorganization meeting uh on or within in 30 days after the fourth Monday in April. Right? So that's when the terms of service. So like Commissioner Star, right? That's when his service started. So within uh 30 days of that, we're supposed to have so policy 0152 officers um and determine nomination voting process really states that the board shall elect from among its members a president, vice president, treasur, and a clerk. Such election shall occur again in the time frame I already touched on. I won't repeat that. Election of officers shall be my majority of voting members. Secret ballots may be utilized only for the election of officers. There were no such majority exists. On the first ballot vote, a second vote shall be cast for the two candidates who receive the greatest number

019of ballot votes. So some may recall going back years some we did this piece of paper system and Ann will touch on that and that's possibility but we don't necessarily have to go that route either. uh continuing except for those appointed to fill a vacancy officer shall serve for one year and until their respective successors are elected or shall qualify theoretically right one year from tonight more or less will have the election again. All right. There's a few other details about depositories and stuff that for school funds that we'll touch on uh but we don't need to uh go through too much of that now. So why don't I pause there and you want to just kind of talk us through what we've got here just so it's as simple as possible for the group

020and then we'll get going. Well, there's two different ways the nomination process goes. You can do paper or voice. Um, in most recent years, we've done voice, but I always have the paper as a backup plan. And in front of you, you have envelopes. And in each envelope is if we go the paper route is a nomination piece of paper and uh a voting piece of paper for each of those positions. If we go the paper route, the other route is to go by voice where um you can verbally nominate people for positions. There is also the opportunity and you have in front of you a piece of paper with the wording of um how once we make a nomination if we suspect there's only one lovely candidate who's willing to take on the duties

021um then you can close nominations and cast a unanimous ballot. So if we go that voice route we don't need these at all and this is the wording if you need it. So again, um people will take and nominate the positions and then President Stefani if we do that uh will ask three times. It sounds a little bit ridiculous, but he will ask three times if there's additional nominations so that we don't miss anybody. And then he'll look for the motion, this motion to close the nominations and cast a unanimous ballot for the person if there's only one candidate. So I don't know if that helps people understand. Yes. So, unless there's objections that we're going to try the voice because that's what we've done recently and it seems to work. It's more expedient and

022seems to do the same thing. So, I will start with president uh just because it's number one in your pack. Uh I'll open nominations for president if someone wants to nominate any. I nominate Mike Stefan for president. Okay. Um, here's the first call for further nomination. Second call for further nominations. Third call for further nominations. Uh, I'm looking for a motion to close nominations and cast a unanimous unanimous vote for Mike Stefani as president, which I feel strange saying. I move to close nominations and cast the unanimous ballot for Mike Stefani as president. Second. All right, we have a motion to close nominations and cast unanimous vote for Mike Stan's president. Um, further discussion. All those in favor say I. I. I. Oppos. All right. Motion carried. Now, just for fun, I think Vice President

023Jenner John, it's fun to point out to President Stefani that initially we thought he was going to be gone tonight. Fortunately, your wife Annette is under the weather, right? She was supposed to be a part of a recognition event at the hospital. So, we know we have people over there, too. Yeah. And about 45 minutes or so before the meeting, Mike let us know that unfortunately Annette is under the weather. So he was coming to the meeting. Otherwise, Tina and I told him, we all know what happens when you miss a meeting. You end up getting volunteered for things. So exactly. That was that. Anyway, there you go. Um that's it. So that's president. Uh vice president. Uh I will open nominations for vice president. And we have We have a nomination for I nominate

024Tina Jenner John as vice president. Second call for further nominations. Third call for further nominations. Uh then I'm looking for a motion to close nominations and cast unanimous vote for Tina Jenner John as vice president. I move to close nominations and cast unanimous ballot for Tina Tina Jenner John as vice president. Thank you. Do we have a second? Second. Second, happy. Okay. Uh, we have a motion by Commissioner Hans, second by Commissioner Meyer to, uh, close nominations and cast unanimous vote for Tina Jenner, John as vice president. Further discussion, all those in favor say I. Opposed? Motion carried. Thanks, Tina. And I'm thinking you both accepted. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Except All right. So, now we are down to treasure and kind of similar process here. Open nominations for treasure. Um, heck, I'll do it.

025Mike Stefani nominates Alison Hans board treasure. Second, no second open nominations. Yeah, for I have to go through the first call, second call first. Um uh so uh first call for further nominations. Second call for further nominations. Third call for further nominations. Since we have a single nomination, then I'm looking for a motion to close nominations and cast unanimous vote for uh Allison Hos as our treasurer. I'll move to close nominations, cast unanimous ballot for Alison House as treasur. And do I have a second? Second. All right, that's good. We got we got a a motion by Commissioner Jenner John, second by Commissioner Howard to u close nominations and cast unanimous vote for Alison as treasure. Um further discussion hearing none. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion carried. Thank you. Thank you.

026That's great. So, in that spirit of fun, let's see if we can find somebody that will do the uh for with the clerk position, which which Beth formally uh had. Uh, as you as you may or may not know, the clerk position is not a huge weight of things that you do in addition to your board responsibilities that you currently do. You will sign for some things that basically are prepared for you. In fact, there's two little documents right here that we have tonight that basically you're signing off on the last board, meeting the minutes and so forth. So, it's not it's not a it's not a grueling position. So, do I have And there's usually two signatures, right? The president signs to your point. Yes. And the clerk signs. Yes. So, it's it's kind

027of like u a check and a balance really. So, um, do we have anybody would that would love to, uh, do this position? No traveling out of town for it. It's all good. It's just here. I'm trying to sell this. So, who do we have? Who do we have? Everybody's looking down looking at their shoes. Or someone can nominate someone for them. Yeah, it's true. We don't have to nominate Angie Curos as the There we go. All right. All right. So, so question. Yes. Does this require being at convention? Uh, no. Thank you. It's really seriously like just signing a few things. Yeah. It's not a I can't think of a single thing that would involve going beyond just our regular schoolboard meeting attendance for the most part which we all have life habits but

028yeah I can't think of anything on hand right now no nothing of it and the only additional we when we certify the election um okay just in Texas okay okay just right yeah there's there's just things that you're certifying as well as me myself others on the board that you just signed. That's really what it is. Good question. Does she have to pay the taxes? She can pay you for the kids. Yeah. All right. So, I have first call for further nominations. Oh, I I should No, no, I did what you're second call for further nominations. Third call for further nominations. I feel like I should say Beller if you know they're both. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Uh since it is a single nomination, then I'm looking for a motion to close the nominations and cast

029a unanimous vote for Angie Cruz as clerk. Move to close nominations and cast unanimous ballot for Angie Cruz as clerk. Second. We have a motion by Commissioner Oz, seconded by Commissioner Spa um for u a motion to close nominations and cast a unanimous vote for Angie Cruz as clerk. Um further discussion hearing none. All those uh in favor please say I. I opposed. All right. Thank you for your service. Excellent. Yeah. In fact, right out of the shoot, there's two little pieces of paper there. Yeah, we got two two two John Hancock. All right. Uh so we are done with that. So then we have the next point here is uh appointment of board secretary um which is M uh CISA representative which is Alison Moss legislation legislative representative which is uh Wayne Sprika and

030EN representative which is Mr. Schultz. Um, we need I would assume we need a motion for that. Each one. Yes. Each one. So I think here it's pretty normal procedure, right, to have the person in Mrs. Hen's position serve as our secretary. But somewhere in our local lore, there's a situation where we, you know, purposely indicate that. Uh, so someone wanted to make a motion second that went out. It was cruise through each of those four. Move to appoint And as our board secretary second. All right, we have a motion by Commissioner Oz, second by Commissioner Star to to uh appoint uh enemies as board secretary. Further discussion hearing none. All those in favor say I. I opposed. All right. Motion carried. Next, uh same thing for CISA representative. would love to offer the opportunity

031to uh any other board member to be a visa representative. I've done it for a couple of meetings now and learned CISA, but I think it could share the opportunity. And basically what it involves is going to one one time a year you go to CISA. It was last week um and they have dinner, you kind of meet other CISA representatives from other boards in the region and CISA has a whole bunch of support services that they offer districts within our area. Um and last year they gave us the equivalent of $111,000 of services according to the UI. Um some of them are you know all sorts of different things. So they're kind of so it's a way to learn about what CISA can offer for our school district. It's just another way to connect

032with words in the area I think. And really since we're members of CISA7, right? So all of the districts in CISA7 have an obligation to have a representative, right? So if someone just as if all of a sudden all the boys got sick right before Allison was going to go to the meeting, right? If something happens and you don't make it to the meeting, it's not the end of the world. Our district's not in trouble or anything like that. So it's again one meeting a year down at the CISA office in in Green Bay kind of by Voyager Park there just out along the river. the office is close to that. if anyone might be willing to do it to sell it a little bit more. I went to Costco before I went to the

033meeting and you can be part of this um bigger representation on the season board and then they may send you to a national meeting of our seasons which um we're not on that right now but every year um people from our you know from the region I forget how many member like members make up the CISA board, but at some point Sergey might want to be on the CISA board. We we currently are not, which if you ever want as a board member want to expand your opportunities, there are so many things having to do with school boards from a from a regional and state level that that I mean I get pumbled with emails. I'm sure you get pummeled with emails, right, Dan? on that that that there are many opportunities. So speak to

034one of us if you're ever ever want to do that sort of thing. Just book any you said that's exactly true. So but the minimum requirement is that you go to this once a year meeting in Green Bay if you can make it. So would anybody want to do that? Are you doing it again? I mean, yeah, I guess like it is close. It is close to All right. I'll make a motion that Commissioner Halls is our CISA representative for 2526. Second. All right. We have a motion by uh Commissioner Star and seconded by Commissioner Schultz to uh to appoint uh Allison Paws as our CISA representative. Um, further discussion. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion carried. Next, we're to the legislative representatives. Uh, Mr. Sperka, are you still interested? Gladly. All

035right. Uh, do we have a motion to to uh let Wayne do this? I move to nominate Wayne Spur as our legislative representative. Perfect. Second. All right. Commissioner Haw uh made the motion and uh Commissioner Cruz seconded it to uh allow Wayne Sper to be our legislative representative. Further discussion hearing none. All those in favor say I. I opposed. There we go. Uh and then the EEN representative is Commissioner Schultz. Still willing to do that? I mean I sure had 0.0 communication which he didn't do anything wrong. Once upon a time is a quick review. The county had all their special ed directors and a board member meet about different program. So that hasn't happened. It hasn't needed to happen in recent years. We've said it's possible that that could come back or something similar.

036Uh but yes, Commissioner Schultz did not miss a meeting or something like that. And uh you know each year we talk about this now with Lindsay Perry, right? Sharon Sanderson before um said well you know if there's a need you have a board member rep we can always touch base with but at this point there hasn't been. We'll see what the next year brings. Then I'm going to ask since it's kind of a defunct committee. Do we need to do this? It's on our list. So theoretically so theoretically well we could do it. We could always remove it from the list in the future. Which remember falls under little board policy 01. Let's do it. 51.1 we will fulfill the obligations of our policy by 2072. That's right. All right. Sounds good. But you can

037modify that policy for the future. We should read we'd have it this I mean in the meantime I'll make a motion uh Jake Schultz and representative for 2526. Fair enough. Second. All right. So we have a motion by Commissioner Star, seconded by Commissioner Hans to to um appoint Commissioner Schultz to this riveting committee of EEN representative. Uh further discussion all those in favor say I. I opposed. Motion carried. Um then we have appointment of delegate uh Sufani an alternate which was chisom to the WB convention. Um I think and yeah and this is similar to your question earlier Angie right this is the convention that happens every January in Milwaukee right all board members in the state of Wisconsin are invited right no one's obligated if a person thinks a I might go to convention

038and b I'd be willing to spend a portion of that time at the delegate assembly with reps from other school boards talking about different uh topics issues that may eventually make the WASB I'll say official list of things they're promoting which still doesn't necessarily mean Representative Kitchens or others are passing legislation on that, if you will, but it's just kind of part of the school board association process, at least in our state. That's what it involves. And what we've done in recent years right away, we've said, "All right, let's have a delegate who's planned." And again, it's not the end of the world if they can't go. Let's have an alternate and then we at least have two people ready to represent us as needed. But again, there's no penalty on the district if the

039convention happens and neither of our reps are able to go. I would just throw out to add on to that, you know, either either like Allison has gone for for many years. Uh Mr. Schultz, you've gone, Damian, you've been going lately. you know, if if one of you could just or or someone else that plans I don't know if Andy if you're planning on going or Kathy, I mean, whomever, but um we just need to replace Beth's. Yep. I also should add that most districts handle it the way we do and that whoever ends up as the rep, if you go to the delegate assembly, you just kind of vote the way you see fit knowing there's not, you know, legislation that's locked into that. There are some school boards that actually go kind of

040item by item through the packet in advance and kind of have their own little internal vote to give the rep um direction if you will when they go in January. My previous district may or may not have done that and seemed a little bit excessive to me but hey whatever works. Some places if that's the way they want to roll they could. So, uh, given the fact that you have done this before, uh, you you voted good conscious, you know, on on the items there, right? But we have never like itemized it. No. And sent you down the list. No, however we could if you if you if you want, right? Yeah. Anything that makes more time for Yeah. And it would it would take time and I I mean, this is cynical, but I

041don't I don't know how much it really makes a big difference. I just Yeah. Is that a good way to say it? Because it it kind of is what it is and it is things are decided. Yeah. I was planning on going first year, you know, just to gain the knowledge, the insight of it. So, let's knowledge out there. Let's throw it out. Again, it doesn't matter if you end up not going. It's not the end of days. One of us will go to nominate, Mr. Star. I'll make the nomination. Okay. As the alternate or as the delegate, I think you we make we can just make the whole that whole line. Appointment of delegate Stefani and alternate Mr. Star to the WB convention. That's the motion. That's the motion by Mr. Spirk. All right.

042Second. Seconded by Commissioner Schultz. All right. All uh further discussion. We do have one further discussion point. The convention is really helpful. Like as a new board member, I learned a ton the first year and learned more this last year. So I would recommend going because it was, you know, there's lots of sessions and all sorts of stuff to to think about. Yeah. Every year there seems to be a theme something that that is kind of like permeates most of the of the of discussions and is it renaissance fair? It is not. It is question though, you know, some some of yours I mean it is it is kidding aside it is like budgetary things some like this this one the enlightening thing multiple um segments were talking about the really demographic changes of Wisconsin

043and how that's impacting school districts you know declining enrollment that sort of thing which is really honestly when you start looking at the numbers and stuff it became very enlightening how that's going to be a strain not just on our school district, but all school districts in in the state as we move through. So, it very very interesting. And maybe it's worth adding when the convention stuff comes out, Andy, you'll see it too, like they have different strengths, right? So, depending on all of your interests and day job, like if you're like, I'm really interested in like community engagement type activities, right? And all those types of things like they'll have multiple things each section on that or I'm a little bit more I'm trying to learn about the numbers or or then kind of

044mix and match. I have I usually kind of focus on the leadership stuff and then some of the community engagement is kind of where I split mine but just kind of depends on each person can do what um so we have motion a second discussions happen I'm going to call the question all those in favor say I opposed all right motion carried so now we're down to designate the official board meeting date the third Wednesday of the month backstory I'll say that this was talked about um several years ago uh and we we we kind of a board member was discussing maybe not on Wednesday on Monday and we ended up I'll just say we we talked about a lot of these days other days it's there's so many things going on that that it

045became we just kept Wednesday. Now that doesn't mean it's right or wrong. I'm just saying that's that's what happened. So, I I I personally think, you know, I I know we we we try to be careful with a lot of things on Wednesday nights, you know, in in the district, but we couldn't come up with a better time for this. And now that we moved it, thanks to a real smart guy over there, we moved the the meetings a little earlier. I think that has helped uh tremendously. So, must been pointing at Wayne. Yeah. Oh, there. Exactly. Well, it was more of a question. Yeah. Yeah. So, I I I'm I really don't care. You know, this is up to you guys. Is Is Wednesday good or not? Yes. Mhm. All right, then. Let's make

046a mo. Somebody make a motion. I move to designate the official board meeting day, the third Wednesday of each month. Second. All right. We have a we have a motion by Commissioner Cruz and I think I heard by Commissioner Schultz uh the second first um to designate the official board meeting day the third Wednesday of the month. Uh further discussion hearing none. All those in favor say I. I opposed. Motion carried. As we're turning the page, remember occasionally in October, we we depart from the third Wednesday of the month because of the way the general, right, the aid comes in from the state and gives Jake a chance to put that all in the packet so no one thinks anything's being hidden, right? Just because we say the third Wednesday doesn't mean that's not one

047example. The other example is occasionally January, right, when we try, depending where the convention falls, sometimes we move the regular board meeting up to the second week so it doesn't interfere when some of us are down in Milwaukee. Go ahead. Yeah, that's that's excellent. Especially for people out in TV land or internet land to understand that. Um, next we have approved the official deposiitories. Um, let me do you want me to keep going? I can keep going. Yeah, you can just read. Basically, Nicollay Bank and local government poolled investment fund became the official deposiitories in 2017 2018. We also added the Wisconsin Investment Series Cooperative uh during the 2017 2018 year. We kept uh all three as official deposiitories since then and would recommend doing so again for the 2526 school year. Uh a motion

048to approve Nicolai Bank local government poolled investment fund and Wisconsin investment series cooperatives as the official deposiitories for 2526 year is recommended. Move to approve Nicollet Bay local government poolled investment fund and Wisconsin investment series cooperatives as the local depositories for the 2025 2026 school year. Second. All right. We have a motion by Commissioner Schultz, seconded by Commissioner Howard to approve uh Nicolai Bank local government poolled investment fund Wisconsin investment series cooperatives of the official deposiitories for the 2025 2026 uh year. Uh further discussion hearing none. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. All right. Motion carried. Authorize authorization of investment powers. Uh business manager Jake Holtz has investment powers for the school district. A motion to authorize Jake Holtz with the investment powers for the district is recommended. um guide you. I I

049kind of look at this as something he has to do. Yep. The one time we departed from this was early in my time when we knew Tom Olsen was going to be retiring the following fall. So at that time we had the board because we didn't know we were going to be hiring Jake yet, right? We hadn't gotten through the process. So the board basically authorized Kathy Eckers at the time in our business office and me. So, we had two people, even though we weren't the business manager, authorized until we later found out who our new business manager was who became Jake. So, yeah, I agree with you, Mike. I think it's just kind of a safeguard that we have in a situation, even though Jake's not retiring anytime real soon where it at least

050allows the board to take that action. Make a motion to authorize Jake Holtz with the investment powers for the district. We have a motion by Commissioner Star, second by Commissioner Moss to uh authorize Jake Holtz as the investment powers for the district. Further discussion hearing none. All those in favor say I. Opposed? Motion carried. The next one is designate the official newspaper uh the presidential pulse as official newspaper district. In May of 2021, a bill was signed that removed the requirement that 50% of the newspaper circulation must be paid in order to qualify to publish legal notices. With that change, we were allowed more flexibility to choose a paper. There was much discussion at that time. the pulse reaches virtually all households in our district where uh another paper that's paid really was declining enrollment

051and and did not reach the same reach as the pulse. So, so this isn't that we're playing favorites. We're trying to get notices so that the general public has the most chance that they see those notices. So that's why the pulse was selected. So, a motion to approve the Peninsula Pulse and the designated official newspaper for the district is recommended. I move to approve the Peninsula Pulse as a designated official newspaper for the district. Second. All right. We have a we have a motion by Commissioner Cruz and second by Commissioner Jenner John to uh approve the Peninsula Pulse the designated official newspaper for the district. Uh further discussion all in favor please say I. I opposed. Motion carried. Um then the next one is set board member of salaries. Dan, I'm going to let you

052take this one. You got it. All right. Um after utilizing a per meeting payment approach that dated back to 2004 and beyond. We had a conversation in the May 2018 learning session and then regular board meeting that followed. And then we moved to the annual salary approach starting with the 2018-19 school year which then covered all regular meetings, special meetings, learning sessions, annual board retreat and workg groupoup sessions as follows. Uh please know we have not increased board member salary amounts since shifting to that approach for 1819. So, at that time, um, and since, uh, the board president has received a $1,200 stipen, vice president $1,50, all other board members $840. And we should note, additionally, we do offer a a stipen of $100 per day for attendance at the annual January education convention in

053Milwaukee, uh, which occurs during the week, right? People have various week and family obligations, we realize. So, that's an addition if someone intends. So then a motion to maintain the current pay structure as I just reviewed as well as that $100 stipen uh for attendance at the annual January education convention is recommended. I move to maintain the current pay structure as presented. Second. We have a motion by Commissioner Jenner Don, second by Commissioner Hos to uh maintain the current pay structure as presented. Further discussion? I just have one quick. Yeah. Uh prior to this, we didn't get paid per meeting. So if you didn't attend the meeting, we didn't get paid. Um now we get paid for every meeting whether you come or not. I thought as as a board it's our duty to try

054to be at all of the meetings. Yes. Um and so I think we need to take that into consideration when we did this. Absolutely. Um I mean it kind of goes without saying we were elected to do this job and and and um represent constituents. So we should be here. So makes sense. Makes sense. Um are you advocating to go back to that old stating that on the record to be aware that we Yes. are being paid and we should be here. There's always going to be things that are going to stop us from being able to attend the meeting, but yes, I think we just need to be aware. Very much agreed. Well stated. All right. So, we have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? I'll call a question. All those in

055favor say I. I. Opposed. All right. We are through the board reorganization. Wasn't that riveting, ladies? I told them it was quite exciting. Yeah. Yeah. All right. So, now we are down to the consent agenda. Uh the consent agenda uh consists of the following. Approve minutes of the regular meeting of April 6th, 16th rather, the special meeting of May 7th and learning session of May 7th. Approve the bills, April bills that were in your packet. Approve grants and donations uh which are as follows. Angel Fund to help pay for lunch accounts and meals. A two $2,000 anonymous donation to Angel Fund uh was made. $100 from uh Ellen and R uh Russell Clutzer and uh $50 from Sue McLean, $300 from Dale Logan towards weights for the athletic department, $579 from the James and Tom

056Ivers towards weights for the athletic uh department, $1,35 from the fifth quarter foundation towards high school boys golf. Uh, the elementary playground donations keep coming in, which is fantastic. They are as follows. $4,400 from the DC Community Foundation, $500 from Portide Builders, $100 anonymous, $100 from the Stu Sawyer Student Penny Jar Fundraiser, $70 from Ashley Adams, uh $50 from Marquy Basher, uh $50 from Lexi Ross, $41.51 from the student lemonade uh uh folks, that's that's uh Jeff and River Santi and Willow Santi, which is awesome. $30 from Brennberg. Uh $20 from Trish Schaper. 20 $20 from Jennifer Lucer. $24.35 from Willow and River Santi and Jeff uh from their lemonade stand sales. Uh $15 Katie Pashki, $10 uh Crystal Ruiz, $10 from Oscar David Castro, $10 from Rebecca Wesley, $5 from Taylor Baker, uh $100

057from the Miller Art Museum for the high school art program, $100 from Nova Nellis for the So the Sawyer Soccer Ball Fundraiser, uh $500 for the Curling Family Foundation of the DC Community Foundation High School Sailing club, $500 for the Sturgeon Bay PTO for Sunrise Endofear Picnic. Clipper Clays uh received $1,000 for pharmacy fishing charters, uh $400 from Christian Gan Court, $100 from Paula Haynes, uh Hunes Funeral Home and uh Stefan and Tracy Ross. Uh auditorium donations, $6,000 from Barb and Tim Gro. Um, $2,000 Mintary Marine Group. Uh, $1,000 from Susan May, $500 Leslie Hill, $500 in the me memory of Donald uh uh Zingrave, $200 from from Randall and Barbara uh Fondo, uh $200 from Green Bay Packers give back. That's a matching donation. Uh $150 from the Dean and Dean and Susan uh

058Anuits. $100 from Tom Thomas as Penny Jr., Alex Aiden and Ashton Dart, uh Kathy and Brian Hardle, uh uh Kirk and and Beth Ryder and Judy uh Putin and Nurat, excuse me. No, I slaughtered that. Sorry. And $50 from Scott and Lynn Brunswick and Nadon Stoner as well. and $40 from Kar uh Karen Swood. Uh the Clipper Clay team would like to extend a huge thank you to the following businesses and individuals for their donations to our recent youth tournament and fish fry we had a few weeks back. Uh Bailey's Harbor Fish Market uh donated all the fish for the fish fry. Uh Nicollay Bank water for the tournament and fish fry. Dan's cold storage cheeseburgers and other products. Uh Michelle Snow baked goods for the tournament. Whitetails unlimited trophies and a $900 banquet donation.

059Got family $1,000. Adam Duchart beverages for the youth tournament. Christian Court fish fry beverages. Andy Johnson fish breading. Hughes family $100. Ace Hardware Endless Supplies. Tattish grocery store uh donated multiple items. Milton propane do donated propane. Pack and ship sign. Pack and Ship Plus donated signs, March of Meets donations, Forbes funeral home, Lakes Propane, and the Dor County Rod and Gun Club for all their continued support and devotion to our team. Without them, we don't have a team. Thank you to everyone involved in supporting our students and programs to these grants and donations. I want to pause and just say, you're probably sick of my voice. That's a lot of donations. What an amazing thing. Although that that's great. What a what a wonderful thing. We do have uh approval of resignations and retirements. Uh

060uh Susan Bassen is retiring from her associate position at Sawyer School. Meredith Nelson is resigning from her associate position at Sawyer School at the end of the school year. Uh Janelle Kresbach is resigning from her uh ID autism teaching position in the high school. Uh Sher Vanbog has resigned from her special education teaching position effective the end of the year. and Anna Fisher Fischer is resigning from her teaching position at Sawyer effective at the end of the school year as well. Point five, approves Sturgeon Bay High School WIA membership renewal. Uh we do this we're required every year and this is also to be approved in this packet. Uh six approve overnight trips uh per board policy 2340 district sponsored trips governs a variety of details. Stern Bay High School band director Heidi Hints and

061Spanish uh three teacher uh Shelley Sternard have have assembled the proper information that aligns with guidelines and a particular uh form on the topic pertaining to overnight trips. Uh we have uh Neola policy review as presented second reading. We did do this already so I don't believe I need to go through every one of those. Uh presented. A motion to approve the consent agenda as presented is recommended. Oh, go ahead. Move to approve the consent agenda as items as presented. Second. All right. We have a motion by Commissioner Schulz and second by Commissioner Star to approve the consent agenda as presented. Further discussion hearing? None. All those in favor, please say I. I opposed. Motion carried. And now we are down to Thanks, please. Now we are down to the uh operations agenda. So we

062have approvement of social workers. The first thing a drink of water. All right. And again, the board has heard about this. This is not necessarily an additional position, right? But repurposed within the special ed staffing Jake and Lindsay have talked about for a while recent months. So, uh, district social worker director, pardon me, director of, uh, student services, Lindsay Perry is pleased to recommend Britney Rickerson for the position of Sturgeon Bay School District social worker. Britney earned her master's degree from Fair State University in social work trauma. Prior to moving to Wisconsin, Britney served as a social worker in Flaggler County School District down in Florida for three years. Most most recently, Britney served as our special education teacher or one of the teachers, excuse me, at TJ Walker Middle School. Britney has made considerable

063connection to students and families during her time in the district. As a new district social worker for us, she'll use her skills to promote parent engagement, engage students in learning, and support staff each and every day. Lucky to have Britney in this position, and I'm very much looking forward to her supporting students and families. Motion to approve Britney Richardson as our school district social worker beginning with the 2025 2026 school year. It is recommended. I'll move to approve Britney Rickerson as a school district social worker beginning the 2025 2026 school year. Second. All right. We have a motion by Commissioner Haw, second by Commissioner Meyer to approve Britney Rickerson as this as a school district social worker beginning with the 2025 2026 school year. Further discussion? All those in favor, please say I. I. Opposed?

064Motion carried. Now the next point approve sunrise school uh elementary school secretary. You have a piece of paper on your desk. Uh we have a uh we have no candidate on this signal. Yep. I will read from that sheet from principal Katie Smullen. Um we at Sunrise are so excited she writes to welcome Nicole Peterson as their new administrative assistant at Sunrise Elementary. Nicole comes to us with many years of experience as a dental assistant. committee was really impressed by her kind demeanor and desire to help students and families. Nicole comes highly recommended and again they can't wait for her to join the team. Motion to approve Nicole Peterson as the administrative assistant at Sunrise is recommended. And as a quick note, the person currently in the position right Brenda Hardle is transitioning to the

065business office next fall just to remind you why we have this. I'll make a motion to approve Nicole Peterson as administrative assistant at sunrise. All right, we have a motion by Commissioner Howard, second by Commissioner Hans to approve Nicole Peterson as the administrative assistant at Sunrise. Uh further discussion hearing none. All in favor say I. I opposed. All right, Nicole is welcome aboard. Uh next we are down to approve an associate position uh safe harbor teaching associate at Sawyer School. Yes, you see we bypassed a couple of teaching positions that they're still working on basically related to special education. I think you heard Jake and or Lindsay comment on that in a recent meeting as well. So as President Stefani said, we've got two individuals for safe harbor which again is a program that the

066board has heard about in recent months. Um Brad Sawyer. So I'll start with 5A. Jenny Hull. Principal Katie Deillers is pleased to welcome or recommend Jenny Hull for a teaching associate position on safe harbor at uh Sawyer Elementary for the 2526 school year. Jenny comes to us from working in a daycare setting and she actually worked as a safe harbor teacher associate in the past in this position. She's effectively supported children of all ages and enjoys working with students who struggle with emotions and behaviors. We're looking forward to having uh Jenny again support students and teachers at Sawyer within the safe harbor room. Excited to have her back at Sawyer and congratulate her on this position. Motion to approve Jenny Hull as a safe harbor teaching associate at Sawyer beginning with the 2025 2026 school

067year is recommended. I move to approve Jenny Hull as a safe harbor teacher associate at Sawyer beginning with the 2526 school year. Second. Uh we have a motion by Commissioner Cruz, second by Commissioner I believe Spritka, right? Oh, sorry, Commissioner Schulz. Um I just heard him in that direction. Sorry, guys. uh to approve Jen Hall as a safe harbor teacher associate at Sawyer beginning with the 2025 2026 school year. Further discussion? Just quick question. I've missed no green eyes on this stuff like uh we we are congratulating them on their new positions uh written here like before we before they have the position. I just kind of seems like a different thing. I don't know. Yeah, I think uh everyone at the building level is so positive. They're positive that the district board we will

068we will support the recommendations. Yes. No. July. Yeah. And you know as just a side note, you know, I don't ever remember in all my years that we didn't, you know, start with a recommendation recommendation from the admin team. You know, this is I we have to approve it 100%. But we've always we've always taken their recommendation. We've had situations, I would say, um where maybe before it got to this point, yes, where we then said, "Oh, a concern was raised or there was some backstory, right? Or sometimes a board member has said, I have a little bit of a concern, not necessarily that I vote against it, so maybe I'll just abstain from voting." So that's kind of how that has worked. And then I think as pointed out where even though we're making

069the recommendation if you know a majority of the board was like we do not think this is a good idea and again the way we send it out I don't think I can't think of an example in 11 years that all of a sudden we surprised you with that at the board meeting but if a majority of the board said we're not comfortable recruiting this person at this time certainly the recommendation could be voted down. Absolutely. Of course I'm just saying we haven't had that happen. Usually we try to have it. So if there's a situation They listen to the experts that are making the recommendations. Yeah. Yeah. So, u further discussion, all those in favor say I. I opposed. All right. Now, we're down to B. Yeah. 5B. Chris Salo. Uh, principal Perso for

070again a teaching assist associate student position in St. Harper at Sawyer starting next year. comes to us with experience as a home daycare provider and also has been a teacher associate with path of door county. She additionally served as a long-term sub in both Safe Harbor and second grade at Sawyer during this school year. At Sawyer, Chris has demonstrated her great passion for her work in a compassionate way she supports students and staff. And again, the team over there be excited to welcome Chris Sawyer uh and congratulate her for her new position if approved for next year. A motion to approve Chris Saleo as a teacher harbor safe harbor, excuse me, teacher associated sawyer beginning with the 202526 school year is recommended. Now move to approve CO as a state park teacher at Sawyer beginning

071with the 202. All right, we have a motion by Commissioner Jenner John, second by Commissioner Hus to approve Chris Salem as the Safe Harbor Teacher Associate Sawyer beginning 2025 2026 school year. Further discussion hearing none. All those in favor say I. I opposed. Motion carried. So now we're to the first reading of the professional handbook and salary and supplemental guide. Yes. Thank you. So going back to again a lot of this is very much review for the board but again for the official record going back to the 201516 school year we know we've had a number of changes to professional staff handbook that deal with the approval of the the new salary and supplemental pay guide and related appendices we've established. Uh since then some years really have not seen substantive changes while some have

072had more substantive changes although nowhere near what first occurred when we implemented the current system. Uh, next paragraph. Really the primary update for this next year, the 2526 year, as you know, deals with professional staff salary ladder changes that were approved last month prior to approving our returning teacher contracts. In essence, we know teachers moved up the majority of teachers to ladder rungs in the majority of situations. Sorry, I just said majority twice in the same sentence. And the starting salary was also increased. as we note although not part of the current action right we want to revisit the starting salary again next year we're waiting on the outcome of the bianual state budget third paragraph as a quick summary two years ago the board did approve some updates in the September 2023 meeting dealing

073with topics such as longevity pay adding a personal day or pay personal day and increasing some hourly rates in appendix D in 2024 some technical corrections were made and references to some policy numbers were updated in the handbook as well as updates that largely with our shift to PTO days and an incentive for those unused days that went into effect for this year. As a first reading tonight, no formal action is required by the board at this time for either professional handbook or the accompanying professional staff salary and supplemental pay guide. The board would then conduct a second reading next month, June 18th, uh in our regular meeting and then typically uh official approval files. I can continue right away. President to the next item very similar but for the support staff right support staff

074just has the handbook itself as you know they don't have the whole kind of professional staff teacher compensation and related appendices uh that the teacher group does so the board refu reviews this handbook annually as a first reading again no formal action is required tonight board would conduct a second reading next month in the June 18th regular board meeting that's it there for those again first reading situation It's not trulyformational technically first reads. And then we have the next uh approved the 2025 2026 compensation for returning non-teer employees. Yeah. So first paragraph reminds you what you already know that last month right the board approved and updated professional staff salary ladder granted the majority of professional staff members an increase of two ladder rungs rather than the usual one and approved returning teacher contracts as

075our context. Right. Each year we know we take care of the teacher group first. that is our largest and most employ important really teach group. So I think it's good practice that we do that first and then non-teers follow it. This month the board said to act on the 25 26 compensation for the non-teer employee groups list them below so that they can either be acted on independently or all as one with the motion as we've done in recent years. So we have uh a if you will the hourly employees. We have b our unclassified employees largely right a few uh staff members in district office and then uh c administrative employees in our various departments or buildings. As we discussed in the May learning session a placeholder uh Jake had walked us through his

076presentation of 3.75 was used for budgeting and projection purposes but again the board can approve momentarily what you would like. So, uh, we see some other information from business manager Boltz, but we also have the usual summary that the board likes right in front of you for action. So, as historically has been the case most years, right, we provide you three different options with kind of a range of what those are. I'm going from left to right, right? 3% was very close to that CPI figure. If I recall, at the time, that was about 2.95%. So, we see wage total. uh we see the uh difference versus what Jake had budgeted with 3.75 about $24,768 less and then we see what that increase uh effectively is from prior year. uh we see the middle column

0773.75 again the projection the total is no difference the increase and then the 4.5 which again is just context was about halfway between the CPI and the average teacher increase uh because of the the double step for the majority and you see those numbers so moving along motion to approve compensation for returning non-teer employees as presented with a 2025 2026 percentage increase of and again this is one of the rare times where We just give a fill-in- thelank uh whatever percent as uh suggested by those making the motion etc is recommended. Technically, we'd have a motion, second discussion, although theoretically you're the board. If you have questions for business manager Holtz or me up front, we're really not going to stop you from asking a question first if you would prefer. Is it okay for

078me to add President? It's always one of those. There aren't too many pause awkward moments in our annual uh board thing, but this is one of those because we give you the options similar to what you asked about before, Andy, right? But instead of a clear recommendation, this is one of those, especially since Jake and I are involved, where I think historically in our district, we have felt it appropriate, at least during my time here, to have more of a fill in the blank type. And we're okay with having discussion without the first and second on this. I don't know. Let's let's do let's I I would feel more comfortable. We had a motion first to get the vote. In that case, I'll make a motion to approve compensation for returning non-teer employees as presented

079with a 25 26 percentage increase of 3.75%. A second. All right. So, now we're to discussion. We have a mo so sorry. We have a motion by by Commissioner Star, second by Commissioner Schultz to uh to approve compensation for not for returning non-diger employees as presented with a 2025 2026 percentage increase of 3.75%. So discussion one concern that I have is that we have a lot of turnover in some of these positions. Um, and I'm wondering if one of the reasons is not just that, you know, the job is hard, but also because they can get the same pay, you know, in working at McDonald's or something like that. Um, so I just am wondering like I sent an email about why people leave like if we could do exit interviews to understand if pay

080is one of the root causes that we have so much turnover. Um because I think we can all agree that it's beneficial to our kids and the you know the schools if we have stability and if it means going a 4.5% increase then I would say that that probably would um work out better you know for our kids and I don't know that because I don't know like I want I would want to know is that part of the reason that we have so much turnover. within the group as we know we really have several different types of positions. I don't want to put words in your mouth so feel free to add on to this Allison if I'm not capturing correctly. the example you shared I think right is largely what we've talked about

081and I'll say in roughly the past decade right the whole uh you know as far as workforce for hourly positions right that's very different than it was not too many years ago and there's at least a couple of you that deal with with hiring and all that with those hourly positions and you know that as well if not better than me so I think once upon a time right any hourly position with the school district even some like part-time or back Then districts sometimes had playground supervisors, right? Some of the different things that for various reasons have gone away for the most part, right, were in high demand because that was a way for a person kind of I'll use the old phrase to get their foot in the door and then eventually get a

082position with the district when there weren't nearly the number of hourly positions available or even right the number and maybe quality of hourly positions that we see uh with uh with hiring today. So I think there are different ways um trying to remember the exact timeline or process. So Jake, you can add on if I missed this, but the concept of looking at our hourly like what we call teacher associate positions here, right? Some district call districts call those pair professionals depending on some of us that have lived elsewhere, right? And really trying to say, hey, let's look at those positions. What's an appropriate, you know, what what uses our tax dollars effectively, but tries to get us in the best position to land those. And then having in essence three tiers, right, of what

083that is and then for kind of a start for this dollar amount and then right here in that next tier of maybe different types of special education student needs or really that highest tier, right, at a higher rate yet. We've looked at that. It's certainly not perfect. I think it articulates it better than we used to. Um but yeah I I think there continue to be challenges you know because you know any number of different businesses right can can offer different hourly rates. What what are the for the hourly employees where where does that like what's the lowest hourly rate that we're we're kind of paying right now. So aids teacher aids um are going to they have these they're the only ones that have a scale uh a starting scale anyway. base is $16

084an hour. Okay. Right. And then if you're coming in uh say you have a teacher license or you're going to do a specialty position, the safe harbor special ed uh certainly like Moy doing e um there's a $150 supplemental pay. Um, and then if you're in a tier three position, generally that's going to be again those those really rough, uh, special ed kids, uh, um, including like diapering stuff, uh, that's an extra 50 cents an hour. So, somebody coming in with no experience is going to, you know, doing that tier three, uh, is going to be $83 an hour. And then we'll adjust, uh, generally, I look at a quarter, a year of similar experience. Yeah, I think thanks for sharing that. I think that we need to like like what you said like do

085some exit interviewing and also you know look at like the other jobs around the county and stuff and see like you know what those folks are you know doing with their employees to keep them and stuff too you know like because it's not just hourly stuff it's also like the quality of your workplace too. So have to think about that too. are we as a district one one that people want to work for, you know, or work with and what are we doing, right? You know what I mean? So, because other districts and stuff, we we actually go and see like my wife just recently went and did an alumni thing in Jibralta and she was like blown away by up there. But I'm not going to say anything about that history. I'm just saying

086we're doing great here. You just need to think about that other stuff, too. You know what I mean? Like, and like you said, Alison, it might just be pay. It might just be other reasons. We don't know. So, thank you for sharing that and being willing to say something about it. I shared with Allison that. So, very different in my time in Oshkosh, but in my other districts have been about 1,800 kids or smaller. Mhm. And when you're in a district that size, you have a very good sense, right? Whether there's an official process like an exit interview or survey or whatever you want to call it nowadays, right, or not, like you have a very good sense why people are coming and going. All right. Now within that there are two very broad categories

087as well right there's people moving to town for the position because it's a teacher position it's an administrative position whatever you want to say right then there's people right people aren't moving from far away to take a TA position right it's an hourly position or the you know McDonald's quickrip right thankfully we don't have an Amazon fulfillment center on the edge of town right but I mean all these other situations and again not saying any of them are right or wrong or better or worse It's just it's just different. So when we have a situation right you shared I think some what you shared Damian right you know like hey there's just a lot more hourly opportunities for people that live locally. I think what happened for us I'll say in the last couple of

088years right with some of the child care changes we saw right some of our teacher associates leaving kind of the lower you know elementary in general going to child care and I have no problem saying within administrative meetings and people have pointed out yeah you know I said well you know some of them will leave and never come back some will come back right and exactly you know the second part of that we've seen that now not just with a couple examples maybe from tonight but others like Okay, try it over there. You know, maybe they could afford to whatever the district will pay, we'll pay you a quarter more as in one of those examples that wasn't really sustainable. Sometimes people also realize like, well, you're with the school district. Again, not everyone looks

089at it this way, but the hourly rate h an hourly rate at some businesses is is just that. It's only the hourly rate, right? Some other places in town, including us, have an hourly rate and then offer other types of benefits with that. So sometimes people too um as they have a chance to think about it or the age of their kids or plan for the future like oh there's some other things to it than the hourly rate right and even though we we have staff that explain that to them sometimes it clicks at a different time. I think I mean that's again a number of good comments and some of you deal with this all the time but it's it's just it's very different now than earlier even in my admin career trying to

090bring hourly staff into the district because there's so many more options. Not that we still don't want to know, but again, I think and like Jake shared in the last learning session, right? Yes, that was teacher positions, but like we have a very good sense why people are coming and going and why we had vacancies, which is why he put it right on the slides. Hourly is a little bit different, right? We still have a sense, but there's going to be more movement. There just is now. And I I mean I would add we do need to like uh keep track of where all the other uh school districts in the area are at with the similar positions. Uh something like a McDonald's quickrip that does come up every so often. Um those are tough

091to shase. We offer different right work uh conditions. for example, nobody's working weekends here where automatic. Um so tough to match it there. Uh competitive still. Um and then also I know this year uh similar to the compensation review um we've started a uh I'll call it an a leadership team um to be able to make sure we're out in front of that. Um uh again similar to what we're doing with the teachers so that we are out in front of that um and not not just reacting we are. Yeah. Yeah. One of the things that u we recently did at the hospital was to paint that entire picture. Yeah. You're getting $16 an hour but with your benefit package and everything else. It comes out to $25 an hour. might be something you consider.

092But um you know the seasonal seasonality in Door County, it's another layer to that. Just one other question is do we have like the average uh increase with the uh teachers with with what we've done with the ladder? Like is there an average percentage uh with all those teachers? Yeah. This year uh it was 6% with the adjustments. Generally you're going to see uh again higher on the lower end on the high end. Yeah, it's going to depend that you're going to be in that 3% range uh at a given year with no adjustments. Yep. And that was part of the thinking behind right not by any means trying to put the board in the spot especially we know it's a state budget year as we've talked many times but I'm like okay what is

093their logic and as Jake and I talked about I'm like well trotting out for this group whether we're a part of it or not the 6% that's a little right the teacher situation's different right a lot of work going on there over the years but that's where we said okay where is CPI just thinking out loud okay what's maybe a midpoint because at that time we didn't know what the percent for teachers was going to be when we started and just saying okay logically let's just try to continue to give the board again about three options uh that we can then work with if that makes sense. I guess one other thought that occurs to me then we'll quit asking questions is um did you consider running it like splitting um this group we have

094them all grouped together but I think my concerns were specifically around like pair of professionals or what do we call them teacher associates teacher yeah because that's so over like would it be possible to consider maybe for future when we're looking at budget to split them out depending on what the outcome of your review group is. For sure. I think like uh I don't know if you mentioned it uh earlier this month, last month. Uh back when I initially started um I think that was Tina or Jake, I don't know. Um or Dan corroborate that. But what my first few years we did three different motions and actions. It ended up being the same percentage. So, at some point someone said, "Well, maybe we can just," and I don't remember the specifics anymore, just kind

095of go with that, but that is part of the reason I did keep the kind of the list of three. We certainly could do that. kind of what I think I'm hearing here, especially as we know we'll have more state budget information coming is that, you know, maybe um not just reporting, maybe even part of a learning session this next year kind of on what we're seeing with hourly staff uh in the area district-wise as well as other jobs and just kind of sharing that with the board like, okay, here's what we've gathered. you know, is are we coming to a point where there is a way to, you know, or a need to make a little bit bigger tweak than we would in a typical year with again basically the cost of living increases

096people have called it over the years. Uh, but yeah, we we could pull together some additional information, some history, some of what like Jake I mean I I probably have had three email or three messages today on this type of topic. um not from our staff per se, but from one or more other districts that are going through similar things to us going, "Okay, where are you guys at with this or what has your board approved or considering?" And I know there's one that'll reach out to me in the morning said, you know, "Is it okay if I follow up just to know what your board approved?" And I said, "Absolutely." So, yeah, that's that's kind of an ongoing thing, especially this time of year. But yeah, we could pull together some info for you

097next year, for sure. Yeah. And I guess one of the things I'm interested in too is like [Music] um does it matter like if we did give them more of an increase like would it stop the like turnover and like how big of a problem is it for students that they have to like meet new teacher associates through the year multiple times like depends I mean in fairness right you probably know that by asking the question right some of our students don't have as contact with teacher associates right by their very nature most of those positions agree or exist because of special education related services certainly have some at the lower elementary level as we should so I mean that's going to run the gamut I think honestly now this is a bigger topic and

098I don't want to doesn't really impact whatever you vote on here but the concept of I think where we're going is fewer hourly positions in school districts in the future and I don't just mean like okay we're being careful with attrition with teaching positions right So to kind of responsibly look at that with budget enrollment as you talked about Mike and others have based on the last couple school you know education conventions in Milwaukee. But the reality is probably where we're going this is my two cents. you can agree or disagree, but fewer kind of TA type positions. And I don't mean everything overnight, right? But fewer positions and then trying to say, okay, of the ones we're keeping, teachers know, okay, I don't have as many as I had x number of years ago,

099but hopefully I have more consistency, which also impacts kids to your question. And also like, okay, we're going to have fewer for various reasons because of supply and demand, honestly, is one of them. and then say, "Okay, maybe we're paying, relatively speaking, though a little bit more for the fewer positions we have than we historically did because of the context in the market." I just I think that's what the future probably holds with these types of positions. And you know, we would not be alone, I don't think, in that comments. Um, my only comment before we maybe maybe can call a question on this is is Um, I would also be interested in like the t the the teachers associates that we have that are in really a rough situation where they might be handling

100a special ed situation where we we have some things going on right now that we're trying to get to the bottom that you know when I don't think it it may have as much to do with pay as it has to do with what they have to go through, right? And those are high uh high turnover positions because of because it's hard. I couldn't do the job, you know, it takes a special person. So, I'd like that feedback like of of the people that like, okay, it's it's been this many TAs and then they're in this kind of kind of position. Just so that we we would have an idea. Okay. So, what can we do? What can we do because it it is it is the double-edged? cuz you're right. We're probably going down

101with the moment, but then how are we going to handle that that populace, right, of kids? So anyway, that kind of feedback be helpful. So back to this, the good news is these are three options at least I mean we are giving giving an increase here no matter what we do if we do. So uh further discussion or should we call this what again the motion to just remind everybody is the middle one. We have a motion. I have one more question. If we all vote, does it have to be unanimous or you can consent? Okay. No, it just it just would be um you know, it would it would pass by by by majority. Yes. Or fail by majority. So, um, any further discussion? All those in favor, please say I. I. Opposed. I.

102Okay. I'm going to abstain. And one abstain. Sorry, you did tell me that. Did you get that? Um, next one. approved health insurance offering for 2025 2026. We had talked about this pretty Jake's gonna walk us through this a couple times and again very lowle minor changes compared to some things in the past and what certainly some employers are navigating. All right. So we've been working through a health insurance renewal process after being with 360 the past six years as you know because of the two-year agreement signed last year. The best option moving forward at this point at this point was certainly to continue to work with PA 360. Uh Jake worked with M3, our broker, on some small plan design changes for next year. Updated plan designs uh accompanied the packet. They're kind of

103a sideways grids, kind of colorful if I can recall picturing those. A motion to approve the 2025 2026 health insurance plan design offerings as presented is recommended. I'll move to approve the 2025 2026 health insurance plan design offerings as presented. Second. We have a motion by Commissioner uh Schultz, second by Commissioner Hz to approve the 2025 2026 health insurance plan design offerings as presented. Further discussion hearing? None. All those in favor say I. I opposed. Motion carried. Now down to approve the photo photography services vendor. Yeah. Since our current photography vendor is retiring at the end of the year, we put out a photography services RFP in April. Selection committee of eight individuals was formed to review proposals uh that met the May 1 deadline as well as decide which vendors would then kind of

104advance to the next round to be invited in for a presentation to our committee. I communicated with seven vendors and the district received six vendor proposals. committee narrowed down those six to four vendors who came in for presentations to our group on the afternoon of Monday, May 12th. In the end, the vendor that rose to the top for the committee in terms of services offered, pricing the families, additional service trips to each school to capture more photos, etc. was visual image photography. I kind of go by VIP for short, based in Cedarberg, Wisconsin. VIP is a third generation family-owned company that began by doing sports photos and got into the school photography business. Uh the gentleman who would become our sales representative, Steve Laster, has been with the company for about 30 years, uh would

105be ready to come to the district to meet with key staff members to meet following board meeting approval to ensure things are ready for next fall. Hit on just a few of the highlights, not the tears. VIP would provide complimentary classroom group photo to every elementary student, even if a family does not or is not able to order photos. A VIP has their own printing lab in Cedarberg. Utilizes a system that allows parents to see pictures with a watermark online and then place their orders accordingly so they know what they're ordering. And picture orders would be shipped to families at home, so less for our offices to deal with. There also be pictures provided to the schools and athletic department for example for social media purposes and they also have a process for allowing parents

106to uh view those additional photos online um really have a portal that they call it uh so parents can uh view and even order those special photos as well. While the school district really doesn't pay the vendor for services per se, it's rather families who choose to purchase or not school pictures, athletic pictures, etc. I felt it was important to get the board staff of approval for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is the money that our families would pay to a vendor, especially over time. I should also note that we're not currently specifying a specific duration for the partnership. VIP understands, I talked to two of their key people um after the committee had kind of wrapped up that we want excellent service and products for our families and if it

107goes well, we could have a partnership that lasts quite a period of time. If the partnership would not go well, right, regardless of contract length, they know we'd be looking for a new vendor. So, a motion to approve visual image photography as our photography services vendor beginning with the 2025 2026 fiscal year is recommended. I move to approve digital image photography as the photography and as our photography services vendor beginning with the 2526 fiscal fiscal year. Second. All right. We have a a motion by Commissioner Cruz, seconded by Commissioner Howard to uh approve visual image photography or photography services vendor beginning with the 2025 2026 fiscal year. I just got that forever, right? Yes. Yeah. I don't even know the number. Long long time. Yeah. So, I mean it was always easy because we lose

108everything to just call him and he'd get a swipe. So, and I don't know maybe it's already figured out operationally like is there going to be a link on the our web page that lets everyone have easy access to that online portal? We talked about so great question Wayne. So, I will email them probably tonight. They have an email drafted to the various school secretaries and some other key personalities about the meeting when they're going to come. I'll stay overnight. Steve will do some meetings on one day and some the next morning to kind of go through like hey here are the specifics we need as we plan ahead to like communications to families as I said well like whether it's our electronic summer kind of registration communication right different things that principles communicate right

109the secretaries whether the end of the year beginning of the year both so kind of walk through that process they have a process uh where if I remember the number anytime there's going to be an official picture day if you will um as opposed to like retakes like where they have four communications that they push out with the families. So one of so like Amy and our tech office deal who deals with data, right? Amy was one of the people I had involved with the committee. So they can kind of talk that uh data language if you will. And then when we talked about through the secretary in principle to like hey giving families the heads up that this is this change is coming and that you know they will receive communication especially like next

110fall and that oh you know it's not spam, right? So just kind of walking through until families are used to oh getting that communication whether through our system or directly from the company. Uh so a few different things I know a couple of uh well a few of the members are also uh parents or moms if you will kids that have been or are in the system and they talked about different ways like oh they like being able to go back and get something from a previous year. You know, say some of us, a few of us in this room can appreciate planning graduation party and like, oh boy, I don't know that we were so good about a couple of those school photos if we, you know, like over time that a family can

111go in and have access uh to really multiple children if they have them and you're able to order, reorder certain things. So, yeah, it's it's it's pretty amazing the system that is built. We went through this in my previous district shortly before I came here. So, I was aware already at that point really where a lot of that online ordering and green screen technology and really where they're going with all that. They were at the conference and I spoke to them at the conference. They're they're seem pretty like it's it's a different it's a different, you know, it's just a a more modern take on this. Yeah, I appreciate the oldfashioned stuff, but I do appreciate the modern stuff. I'm sure everyone they realize that and all the vendors they were very responsive and right

112I mean some the committee felt were much better fit than others. We felt we had you know a couple of really strong candidates with this one being further ahead if you will of say second place but just to give you the gist um the the the family that own right three generations of ownership they do spend some time in the county so I think that's part of the reason I talked with another vendor and they said why I haven't had them come into our area before. Well, they spend time up in indoor county, Chambers Island, etc. each summer and so I don't know if they're looking to expand in this area or what. So, they were they were excited to take a run at uh providing us the service. Thank you. So, any further discussion

113assuming no local vendor? I don't know of anybody else that would even locally. Yeah, I would say Depir was the closest the next closest. Um, and there were a couple kind of down the bend there. I'm trying to think if the other one was technically a Pilaski, but yeah, the pure Pilaski were a couple of the closest possibilities beyond that. And then it kind of went, are they goofy? Or was he got some smiles on your face? Yeah, I'm not going to comment one way or another on the goofy thing, but I know what you're saying. All right, I'm going to call it. All those in favor, please say I. I. Opposed? Motion carried. Uh then we the next point is is information only received the draft 2025 2026 board meeting calendar. Yes, Mr. Deich

114took a run at it and I assisted with just a few of the little pieces that we thought were a little unique, but we drafted that for the packet guessing you probably would approve the third Wednesday officially, right? You will approve that meeting calendar with any nuances like October, January, right? So everyone knows in the public what the official meeting calendar is next month, but you have that in your packet just you can kind of start marking your calendar accordingly if that's helpful to you. That's all we have there. Um and then next policy review update act 20 first reading. Yeah, I I know you're disappointed. You usually see a long list when we do have policies. Um this is one we knew was coming. Um, as far as third grade promotion and retention, uh,

115it says in 2023, Wisconsin enacted act 20, as you know, with literacy efforts. As part of this law, school districts have to implement a policy promoting students from third to fourth grade following a model provided by the DPI. Uh, Niola along with legal guidance developed a policy that complies with act 20 as well as the DPI model. uh districts are required to adopt a policy uh by July 1st even though enforcement is delayed until uh September of 2027, right? We know that this would maintain statutory compliance. Our people internally uh did take a look at this whether it was Jen from Teaching and Learning, right, or Katie at Sunrise that they had a chance to look at this and make sure that the language makes sense with what we're doing. You know, we've invested a

116lot of time and money in literacy efforts and everything lined up real well. So, thanks to them for the assistance there. again the first reading that will be listed a second time next month. Okay, we are to the reports section of the union. Um I know you mentioned CISA any CISA reports or anything you want to um not really like like I said it was $111,000 of services that CISA provided to our district. Um, I did have some notes. Let's see. There were some different ways that they could support grant writing, I think. Is interesting. Um, yeah, maybe I'll come back. I'll circle back. I don't remember off the top of my head. I just you mentioned this. I didn't mean to call you spot. Sorry. I should have brought the notes with me. I

117like circled a couple things. Oh, I can email them to you. Oh, good. I mean, the only thing I add on what Allison said, right? So we do pay a fee to be members of CISA7 and we can choose we choose kind of the lowest if you will service level of I don't know if it's 10 days of service or whatever it is but then Allison's point right they want to provide value they know how it works right to all the districts so there's different grants or dollars that we received I'm trying to think Jake for like things related to school nursing right or right there's different types of things there's things that principal Nurby does with kids that go through different CT courses You've heard Mark Smullen talk about um EEL services, right? So,

118we know we have a teacher Julia coming on board. Well, we know that there's a key person people person or two, excuse me, at CIS7 that are connected. There's networks. I go to a monthly meeting. Jen Weber goes to a monthly meeting, right? There's a variety of different things. So, basically, they say yes, you pay us, but they give each sheet a district or each district a sheet. I got I think the same one you got that says, "All right, just want to let you know that we brought this much value, you know, beyond what you pay us, we've brought you additional services." So, yeah, that's that's fine. Yeah, they did. They were going to offer like some training maybe to the teacher associates. So, that was something that they were going to offer. Yeah,

119there's a variety of different things. The principles, Jen, Lindsay, and I all see and then we kind of some were interested in, some were not, but Yeah. Yeah. Okay. All good. All right. Principal Derby, you are up. All right. You've heard a lot from me already today or I felt like I've been talking a lot today, so I'll keep it short. Uh so Dan can be happy with me. Um we talked about the senior's last day coming up um next week already. Graduation is Saturday, May 31st. Um thank you all for um sharing, you know, be able to be there and what that'll look like. I will send out some information shortly to you as well. Um, as you know, for those of you who've done it before and those who haven't, um, you sit

120up on stage, you help walk the students in to start the ceremony, um, you'll be sitting up on stage and then handing out diplomas. And so, Mrs. O'Hanley, who does the reading of the names, will announce which board member is handing out, um, the diplomas, and then that's when you'll know. But I'll share out um, a nice color-coded picture of everything to show you which students you'll be covering and that sort of thing. So, I'll be sending that out to make it as easy as possible for all of you. So, you feel comfortable um sitting up there on stage. Um the only other thing I really want to mention real quick is we did get our um preac and act data back from our students that took that um in um in April. And so

121this week we started doing one-on-one conversations. I use the phrase by name by face um because as we look at the data, it's really easy to look at percentages and and trends. And those are all things we want to look at, but we really want to break that data down by name, by face, each of our individual students. So, our teachers this week have started meeting one-on-one with every student um our freshman, sophomore, and junior students who took the prec to go over their scores with them. Um, so students feel an ownership. Few years ago, they got their score, we moved on to the next thing. We've really worked hard over the last several years to explain that score, work with students on that score so they know what it means and and um can

122aim higher for that. So, we started going through that this week. Um Friday we have an inservice day with our staff. Um and we'll be going digging deeper in that with our teachers to show um how that looks and what that looks like and then I'll be sharing that out with the board as well um as we move forward with what that data show. So that's uh kind of the the latest update here. Nervy Smells coming on down. must have survived some youth girls softball tonight, huh? Rain out. Rain out. Desperately needed otherwise they've been talking through the the cold and the wind, haven't they? Thank you. Um, hey, so I touched base with Mr. Proson. Him and Mrs. We had 60 other students in chaprons and I think some of you have been on

123this trip and if I remember right, Mr. star. You were the first your class was the first to go, correct? Is that not or was that my offer? I'm not sure. I was uh the first allied arts class. Oh, okay. I think we were a couple minutes from the DC trip. That's pretty cool. So, it's it's been going on for quite a while. And it's it's it's a great trip. They just met with Congressman Weed today. They got a a tour at Congress. They they get to go through the doors that you and I if we went through, we could never get to see. So, it's kind of kind of cool how that works out. Um, as they're wrapping up their eighth grade year, our incoming fifth grade students came in, took a tour, met

124with the teachers. Uh, several of them commented, they really like Mr. Jacobson's chair. So, they're for puts it all in perspective, right? So, um, and there is a meeting for with those parents on June 3rd at 6:15 p.m. in the high school auditorium where we're going to kind of go a little like middle schooler as a student and a parent and some students are going to talk to some parents about, you know, hey, this is how expectation this one is really light behind the doors because you don't get parents don't get to see it. I'll kind of talk with the parents about expectations and the students will meet more and learn more with the teachers of kind of the core teachers of what what's expected from them. And then just to wrap up on that

125is just uh you know up what's up coming as things are wrapping up this year May 29th to June 3rd final exams. We have a geography B on the same night on June 3rd followed by honor society at 5 that night as well that uh parent meeting and then the next day we have an incentive field trip going to Bay Beach and then wrapping it all up tiny little bow with 8th grade ceremony up there at 10:30 a.m. So hope to see you there. So thank you. Thank you Mark. Mrs. smaller. Come on down. And you're happy because you have an administrative uh assistant who was approved tonight. So there you go. This is great. So we're we're so we are um beginning new things. Band fittings happen. Fourth graders coming. It's just kind of

126a fun thing to watch them try out the different instruments and just we have such a great band program. So to see the start of it is awesome. So that happened just a couple weeks ago. Uh our fifth grade swim unit wrapped up yesterday and that was something we this is the second year we did it. But um to see kids go from being afraid of the water to actually being able to swim like it's kind of a life-changing thing like a life-saving piece. So I'm really proud of our staff and the partnership with the YMCA that we're able to pull that off and the kids really like it too. It's um it's been good. Earth field trips. We did it differently this year. Fifth grade went to Padawatami last week to do do a

127cleanup. Fourth grade went to Peninsula today and third grade ride went to Newport today. Alice and I were in hik hiking boots with the third graders. It was a little chilly, but we hiked and it was beautiful and and did a craft peninsula. They cleaned up the beach. It It's Anyway, so it's We have such a beautiful county. I love that we get to do that here and for our kids to learn it. Um we're doing data digs, too. um reviewing data on Friday. We have a talent show tomorrow. So this is the fun time. So and a show and tell. So lots of talent. We have some animals coming for the show and tell part two. So some race cars. It's going to be wild. Stop by. Principal SM. Are you going to dazzle

128them with any talent? I I'm not very talented in this is about it. Um I have there kids bring animals. We have bunnies coming and a bearded dragon. We've had a lot. It's just that the show part of it goes first for an hour where they show their collections of things and then the talent piece where singing and dancing and the normal we've had comedians will be great and may the animals that can't get too close together may they be able to stay. Yes. Principal the villers welcome to the podium. Uh so we're wrapping up the two of course as everyone else is. Uh kids are enjoying time out in the community of lots of things that I shared in my written report. We're looking forward to tomorrow the end of the year event where

129families come and the biggest concern there is parking. So we've sent out a million parking things. We're getting a shuttle from Sawyer Park. It's always it always goes well but always makes me a little nervous but people always do a good job and it's so nice to see families in our schools with kids at the end just showing them everything um all year. It's just exciting. Um we also have a whole school field trip. We've never done it before at Crossroads uh May 30th. Looking forward to getting every one of us there together to enjoy hopefully a rainless beautiful day. Um planning for next year continues. Transition activities are a big part of what we do. Um kids are taking many trips over to second graders and kids with special needs, multiple trips over to

130Sunrise. It's a big transition for kids if they've started at 4K, gone through second grade, and now all of a sudden school leads school. We don't take that lightly. and want to make sure that it's very smooth for them. So, most kids are going once or twice. Um, uh, we are also on the 30th in the morning going to be switching classrooms so kids get a taste of next year, that kind of thing. And, and kids that want that need more connection maybe. Um, teachers are reaching out because we've started class list. They are not finalized till mid August. U, but we are really making sure that kids feel comfortable and they they know what to expect. It just makes it more fun for all of them. Um we have um almost 50 students registered

131for 4K already this year and that may not seem like a big deal but it really is for us. Um our 4K event that we had recently was a huge success. Um went really well and um got a lot of good feedback and kids just keep popping in our doors. So we're very excited because that was one of the outcomes that we had hoped for. So that's what I have for you still do the second grade parade. Is that the last day of school? We do the second grade parade. That's the last day my daughter as they're transitioning and Jen steps forward. Katie talked about the field trip on the 30th. Crossroads doesn't seem like it now with the weather, but we're projected to have and we'll see 74 degrees that day. It's going to

132seem like 94 after the past few days. I just I just want to put it out there. Even if it cools by several degrees, we're still trending in the right direction. One more thing on the third on the 30th. On the 31st for graduation, it says 71 degrees. I think we should make a motion to make my report first instead of last because while everyone gets to talk about field trips and band fittings and all kinds of things, I have to talk about things like behavior audits and data warehouse. They're gonna have to snazz it up then, Jim. I know. I'm so sorry. Um, so I always have a top 10, but I decided on the top three, so I apologize. Uh, it seems like my job is very boring, but um, it actually isn't.

133It's rarely boring. Um, as we try to close up the new year in the teaching, learning and tech departments, like everybody else here, we live both in ending this year and trying to plan ahead for next, which can be a little bit crazy. But the top three things that we're working on right now are um that SEAL, so social emotional learning and behavior audit. If you'll remember um to a couple learning sessions ago, we talked about how we wanted to model um this next move after what we learned in our literacy initiative. And the first move there was to have some folks from CISA come in and actually just kind of move around our schools um and then provide us with some big ideas of reports. Specifically, we asked for um overall current status of

134our system and some quick wins. So that's what's coming up next for us as we try to plan for next year. Um I mentioned data warehouse I've also um told you about next path and uh while data warehouse doesn't seem very exciting um it's my job to make it exciting and usable. So you'll hear more about that as well. Um and as a few um of the principles mentioned, we're planning for inservice on Friday. And I do get to say some fun stuff about that because we always have something called a lunch and learn which is the highlight of everyone's day really after all the data and all the things that we have to do um in relation to closing up the school year. Our teachers are provided with a lovely lunch and an activity

135which um everyone really looks forward to. Lastly, I think I just checked when we meet here tonight. for the first time. It's going to still be what I know. Yes. Thanks. Thank you, Jen. Mr. J. Lindsay is dealing with a sick child, so he's yielding her time. Yeah. So, Jake, what do you got? Um, only thing would be really the state budget. Uh, it actually does at this point feel like we might get something over the summer um for state budget, not September as we had originally heard. Um that's just more of a gut feeling than anything again that we've heard uh the um conference I was at last week. The really the big session where I thought I might hear something um was interrupted by a tornado warning. Um that's the bad news. The

136good news is that presenter uh left that cliff cliffhanger and is coming uh next week actually to the WBO regional uh that's being hosted in town here. Um and so uh perhaps some news there. Um but yes, otherwise hoping for some good news on state budget. Uh I think we outlined some stuff meeting with uh Joel Kitchens uh a couple weeks ago. Um yeah, I will highlight one item and add to two from my report highlighting the uh developers tour. So May 30th, there's going to be a developers tour in partnership with the city and DC EDC again. So that has happened a couple of times before. Uh this year's tour will focus on residential, commercial, and industrial properties with what I've been told so far the most interest from developers on the residential side.

137So that's positive. Uh right, with knowing we need residential housing and certainly more single family homes in the area, it's certainly possible, right? Some of those will land in the city, but not necessarily the school district. But good news because the superintendent who's on the DC EDC board at least for several more months has been invited to talk to the developers again. So I've done that a couple times. I'll be there to represent us. So I highlight that. And then the two items I'll add to beyond what was in the packet. So on the facility meeting, as Mike and I know, there was supposed to be a uh a meeting uh with the city, the consultants, bunch of the other entities about the feasibility study on May 20th. Unfortunately, there was a conflict with one

138of the consultants. So, we've gone through I don't know how many emails, but it is rescheduled for next Wednesday. So, a week from today, Wednesday, May 28th will be the next meeting. So, I don't have anything new as I hoped I would with when we're going to get our hands on that feasibility study on those two different components. Again, the one across the street is the one we're most concerned with. And then I'll just add to it, I did have the meeting planned with Brian Nickel from the Diamond Group on the communications and marketing front. one of the deliverables that they'll owe us based on what we've approved previously is a branding video. All right. So, kind of their uh their top team comes out of Iowa to shoot footage and they got excited about

139the [Music] poss. However, I told them it was it was fine not to rush because the team would love to come up to Dor County in fall. So the plan is that they're going to come actually uh homecoming week the Thursday evening and then Friday be able to visit each of the schools and get some footage. Thursday night soccer, volleyball, uh Friday football, you know, bonfire, you know, all the different things as well getting into schools. Uh so that we just kind of got arranged in the last couple of days and then that would be something we could use for a variety of different purposes video-wise. And then some other things with their draft communication marketing roadmap that we're still kind of looking at and tweaking the timeline on for those services. So you heard

140about that been kind of holding for a few different reasons. Uh but um that's good news I wanted to share. I'll end with that. All right. Do we have a motion to adjurnn? A motion to adjurnn. Okay. Second. Second. All right. Do a motion and a second to adjurnn. Further discussion hearing? None. All in favor say I. I. I. Opposed. We are journ. Thanks everybody.