001Will you accept? >> Sure. >> Yes. Thank you. >> Are there any further nominations for the position of vice president? Hearing no further nominations, I declare nominations for vice president now closed. At this time, all those in favor of Stacy Klein serving as vice president, please signify by stating I. >> I. >> Stacy abstains. The vote is 4. Next we move to office of the clerk. Nominations are now open for the office of clerk. Are there any nominations? >> I'll nominate Jack Crow. Are there any further nominations for the position of clerk? Hearing no further nominations, I declare nominations for clerk as closed. All those in favor of Josh Prell serving as clerk, please signify by saying I. >> I I >> vote is 40. Congratulations. Next we'll move to office of the treasurer. Nominations
002are now open for the office of treasurer. Are there any nominations? >> I'll nominate the chos. >> Yes. Are there any further nominations? >> Hearing no further nominations, I declare nominations for treasurer closed. All those in favor of Mitch Ellis serving as treasurer, please signify by saying I. I >> I hear you. >> Yes. Okay. Bye. Uh vote is 40. Mitch Ellis abstains. Next we move to CISA delegate. Nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nominations are now open for CISA delegate. Are there any nominations? This was the awkward pause every year. >> Probably be more of a volunteer, isn't it? >> I will say the same as I said last year. If anyone wants the cease delegate, they can have the cease delegate. I've now done it um the last few
003years. I'm willing to do it again, but also willing to allow the reigns to go to someone else if they're interested. >> Alicia Williams. >> Okay. Hi Um, I will accept. Is there any other nominations? Okay. Alicia Williams has been nominated. If there are no further nominations, I declare nominations for CISA delegate closed. All those in favor of Alicia Williams serving as CISA delegate, please signify by stating I. >> I. I. I accidentally said I 4 zero. Okay. Uh next we'll move to CISA delegate alternate. Nominations are now open for the CISA delegate alternate. Are there any nominations? Mitch said he would be nominated. So I will nominate Mitch Ellison. >> Okay. Are there any other nominations >> or do you accept? >> I accept. If there are no further nominations, I will now declare
004nominations for CISA delegate alternate closed. All those in favor of Mitch Ellis serving as the CISA delegate alternate, please signify by stating I. >> I 4. Okay, that concludes the elections of the board. Do you need anything further? Thank you. Okay. Okay. Next, we'll move to consider approval of personnel report. Okay. Let me turn to that. For the personnel report this month, we have for our hirings Tyler Wigman, a high school English teacher, and Pat George, high school head football coach. resignations. Jodi Colada, Three Lakes Elementary 4th grade teacher, and Paula Hayes, library media spell specialist. If there are no questions or concerns, is anyone willing to make a motion on personnel? I'll >> make Go ahead, Mitch. >> I'll make a motion to approve the personnel report as presented. Second. >> We have a
005motion by Mitch, second by Stacy. All those in favor of the motion signify by stating I. >> I. Opposed. None heard. Motion carries. Next, we move to June meeting dates. >> Okay. We're going to have to make a change with our June meeting. Um, generally we have it at the sugar camp building. Because of the construction and at both buildings, we're going to relocate it to the three legs auditorium. During the summer, this is going to be the staging area. Your boardroom is going to be full of boxes and we have to have a secure area that Caleb and Shannon and everybody can do their work. >> We could do next month June in here. >> We can. >> We don't start ordering until July one. So, it would be July and August. That'll be
006>> Oh, do it in here. So then we're going to just change the location >> from sugar camp to here but expect July and August to be in the auditorium just as a heads up. >> Okay. And then um so we will have the regular meeting scheduled at for June 17th at 6 p.m. We'll change that from auditorium to boardroom. And then the second point that I wanted to bring up for you is district administrator evaluation will need to be scheduled and completed prior to June 30th. Um you do have the options. I present this every year. You can include it in the regular June meeting or you can schedule an additional session dedicated to this task. >> It's always worth rolling it in. >> Yeah. Okay. Except this I I'm not going to be
007able to be at the meeting in person. I can call in possibly I'll be in the redwood forest um for the review portion. So if that's acceptable to the board, then I'll plan that. >> And you can put comments and things ahead of time. Yeah. To send as well. >> That's what I was going to suggest. >> So Terry puts together a review of her. So >> you're okay. Unless your preference would be for us to separate it. So you could be there. >> No. >> Okay. >> Unless there's anything else. Um if anyone is willing to make a motion, just reminder, Three Lakes boardroom versus auditorium on the recommended action. I'll make a motion to move the June regular school board meeting from Sugar Camp to Three Lakes Boardroom due to construction. >> Second.
008>> We have a motion by Stacy, second by Mitch. All those in favor of the motion signify by stating I. >> I. Opposed. None heard. Motion carries. Next, we move to item E. Consider approval of open enrollment applications. We bring this before the board every May. Um, open enrollment is closed. Uh, the way it shakes out this year is we had incoming applications, a total of 15. By meeting the criteria, we can approve 12 and we have denied three. Um, six are new and nine are reapplications of current students. We did also put some more information in your admin content. Please don't comment on the names of the students, but I know there's always an interest in knowing where they um are or if they were with us along um all along. And just as
009as you can see, this is mostly kids who already are at other schools and they're continuing their enrollments there. >> And just I'll be general. I talked to Nikki, too. I mean, I I looked at some of the names on the list and they're already enrolled. So technically that they fall under new applicants, but there I know for certain that four of the names are already enrolled in North Pines and have been. So whether it's an address or a movement or whatever it is, they're already so we're not technically losing those students. >> And just to clarify, you said that 12 approved and three denied. >> Isn't that what we have there? >> Our report says it says 11 and four. >> I'm sorry. That was probably printed off before we did that. >> So,
010I've got 12 here. Or is it 11? >> 15 total. 17 total. >> Mhm. >> So, what's the approved 12? >> I don't know. >> Says 11 on the >> Yeah, because that was printed up before we denied the other one. >> Okay. Okay. So, it's 11. >> 11. >> All right. So, that would be Let's revise that. That would be an approval of 11 students who meet the criteria for open enrollment. Okay. Okay. Unless there is anything further or further discussion on this item, is anyone willing to make a motion? I'll make a motion to approve the open enrollment applications that meet the criteria as presented. >> Second. >> We have a motion by Mitch. >> Yeah. So, but anyway, >> okay. I'm sorry. >> That's okay. >> Proceed. >> That's okay. >> You
011made the motion. >> Um motion is by Mitch, second by Josh. >> Okay. Motion by Mitch, second by Josh. All those in favor of the motion signify by stating I. >> I. Opposed. None heard. Motion carries. Next, we move to consider approval of salaries and contracts for district staff, including busing contracts for the 2026 2027 school year. I'm going to let Caleb speak to this. Um, I'll just start off as saying when we did our referendum proposal, we based it looking at a projected 2% per year as what we could manage. Um, we always hope to see if we can put a little bit more in there. Um, but we have to feel we feel we really have to stick close to the schedule as it is because we're starting to go into the years
012now where it's going to be uh reduced and diminished. Caleb, you want to give some more specifics for us? >> Yeah. Um, I'll just kind of build up what you said. When we were planning for the referendum, um, you know, we had talked about a 2% staff um, salary increases per year when we had were doing that planning. um hopefully hoping that you know if the state would increase some funding or we could slide some more that way we would. Unfortunately that hasn't come to pass. Um especially with news last week. Um the other thing that's kind of hanging out there is is that health insurance renewal and um I'm I'm not very optimistic on that front to be honest with you. Our u our utilization rate was 1.22 22, meaning we're uh getting $1.22
013from the insurance company for every dollar that we put in, which uh it's telling me that it's going to be an ugly renewal, at least the first number that we get back. And of course, we always try to do our our best with with negotiating that. But with that hanging out there, um I feel I feel confident with this 2% that that we're bringing to you this um this evening. Uh just to kind of remind you where this is going. So that step and lane that I've attached there, those numbers are up 2% from the previous years. And then um for all the other staff that would just be at 2% raise to what they're at um currently. Uh and then the last thing I'll remind you of is with that step in lane um
014remember teachers are also a lot of times taking that step or moving a lane. So when we see that 2% um yes this the salary schedule has been increased by 2%. But if people are taking those jumps um a lot of times it's it's four to upwards of almost 7% in some cases. So so the very minimum would be 2% for a teacher provided they're at the end of the step and lane or haven't made a jump. If there's no further feedback or questions on this, is anyone willing to make a motion on salaries and contracts? >> I'll make a motion to approve a 2% increase of district staff salaries, including busing contracts for the 2026 2027 school year, as presented. >> Second. We have a motion by Josh, second by Stacy. All those in
015favor of the motion signify by stating I >> I opposed. None heard. Motion carries. Next we move to Three Lake School District library plan report. This did not need to come back before you, but a lot has been accomplished and we need to celebrate what Paula has taken on since the plan was written and before you. Um Paula, I'm I didn't talk to you in advance. Would you like me to put it up on the board for you or that'd be great. >> Okay. And would you like to speak to it or I mean because I'm willing to tag team it with you or or let you >> Whatever you want. I could just speak to um the momentum we've had for the year or we condense it if that makes sense. >> It does.
016So, I'm Paula Gays. I've had the pleasure of serving your district for the last 120 days and it's been challenging, but it's also been really fun. Um little did I know we were going to walk into a referendum where we have to pack up almost 15,000 books. So, um working with um Kesha, we just finished the elementary library books today. So, we're doing um with some help from PTO and students. Um that looks good. Um with that being said, it's an awkward position for me because today I resign and I'm here to tell you about all the great things that your school district has allowed me to do this year. So, um and then Terry, I don't know. Do you want to go through side by side or do you just want me to highlight
017the goals? Why don't you highlight the goals? I I think that's fine. >> So, a year ago, Beth Martin was here and she um wrote your library plan for you. The state of Wisconsin requires you to have one on file and then that um exists for 5 years. As you're going through the five years, you're supposed to be monitoring the goals for the progress made towards them. So, one of the first goals was um a balanced current collection of print materials that supports the curriculum for this uh Three Lake school district. Um, basically that would be the library media. Um, every year I can see that happening. Uh, the only thing I would probably change for that is if we get to four years from now, I would say print and digital because, as you
018know, it shouldn't just be print anymore. We're looking at databases and ways for kids to access information beyond what is exists in the print collection. Um, as I look at the goals that she had, there was one that I can't address, and she listed that it was a 30% increase in a number of award-winning books contained in our collection. Um, I'm not, it would take a lot of manpower to do that. And so, I probably will not address it because we literally would have to go through every possible award and see what we have. So, um, yeah. So, that's that. Um, as I look at one of our biggest wins, I think I shared with you last time financially. Um, I worked with Flet for over 20 years and when they took over Baker and
019Taylor, we negotiated in WASA 7% discount. I asked them to acknowledge that here in our district and so for us that's going to mean anywhere from a,000 to maybe $3,000 in savings every year. Um, the same thing with uh, Junior Library Guild. Uh, it's a 20% discount. Once again, I asked them and um she acknowledged that another big win for us this year in terms of time saving is pre-processing of the barcodes and miler covers. That was always done by hand here in Three Lakes. Um so literally you'll get a thousand books in. You have to locate the barcodes. You have to um look them up. Now that's all done on the back side. when they come in. We still need to touch every single book, but it saves a ton of time and all
020of that money can be taken from the common school funds to help us be more efficient at our job. Um, I just wanted to share one thing. Um, we weeded lots of books this year. Um, this was one that was in our library from 2002 on snowboarding. Um, it's past its time. There's no Shawn White. I was just looking up. Um, Chloe's not in here. Um, as you know, since O2, YouTube has developed, um, a lot of these books that show process may not even be needed anymore because if I want to learn how to snowboard, most likely I'm going to go and watch somebody do it or watch it on YouTube. Now, if it was something with history, either way, this is way outdated because it doesn't even acknowledge people within their lifetime. So,
021I just wanted to share that. Other examples are like in 2019 um USSR became the Russian um Federation. So constantly looking at trying to get that mis or misinformation out the door and trying to update it. Um I don't know, Terry, anything to add with that or >> No, that's great. They've got all the information in front of them. I just love that you're highlighting the the key points. >> Yeah, the second goal was looking at professional development. Um, first of all, I have to acknowledge uh Kesha Hoger is extremely skilled as a pair professional. She has made my job um transition easy. She knows a lot. She knows how the district works. Um, one thing that I was used to in Wasa was um we had Destiny linked with our infinite campus and so
022we could send out emails electronically. All the kids records would be updated within 24 hours. And so when I came here, it was kind of like, oh, and she helped me navigate that and what does that look like? Um, we I spent some time updating records because we didn't have things like graduation dates in with our students. And now hopefully working with Steve, maybe next year, we'll be able to integrate that so that it once again is uh it lifts our load. It makes it just easier to do our business. Um, I've been cutting apart um, date or book due slips and so I'm hoping that I won't have to do that next year because we should be able to get the kids um, emails in there and just email them directly. Um, let me
023see what else. Talked about that. That's really about it. Um, looking at digital access, we added Pebble Go and Pebble Go Next for the elementaryaries. It's like an encyclopedia on steroids. really fast access and once again it's constantly updated. Um we had news ELA but due to cost and return on investment we're probably or we will discontinue that for next year. It's just too expensive. Swank has been a game changer for our teachers. It's almost like a streaming service that is legal and so um teachers can request movies and have them available to show for their kids within usually two days. And so it has a library of 40,000 films. Before CO it was extremely expensive. COVID happened, the price dropped and now it's affordable for most school districts in the state. Opposing viewpoints, it
024presents a lot of different um viewpoints on both sides of the issue. We used to purchase those books for $60 a piece. Now we can get almost every topic underneath the sun for kids to access. And once again, it's continuously updated. Um we'll add some new things for next year. We'll try them out. Um there was gaps in our um books collection with American history. Um culture grams uh talk with Mo Hicks. We're going to add that that should be um additional that she can use it within her curriculum. And then um a new player that's in the field right now is click view. And so it's curated video content for teachers that they can find all sorts of instructional use that has been curated specifically for education. Um this year between um Kesha and
025I we touched over 8,000 books whether bringing them into the library or getting them out of the library. So it has been an extremely busy year. Um we're both kind of tired. Um right now uh looking at books per student right now the high school libraryies at 15 to1 is which and that's about where you want to be. elementaryaries are hovering around 60 to1 which means uh we really need to go through those collections and weed out some so that the quality um content is available and so that's just uh interesting on our side overall for the whole district we had an 8.5 um% increase in book checkouts what's interesting as you look at those statistics where Kesha was last year her book checkouts were more in sugar camp as a librarian I'm looking at
026now she split sugar camp went down three lakes elementary went up and I wonder if that was her physical presence at one school and then switching I I I don't know because I can't predict that but it was just something I was looking at like huh like why is that happening um high school uh circulations continue to be extremely low um it always I'm always wondering our freshman read but as we know uh social media's is coming into play now, work, sports in the high school. And so we did almost we had a 28% increase from last year. But um I'll continue to work with that. I had two teachers uh Todd Ria and Jen Perkins who assign a book a quarter and so that really increased our reading just because the kids came to
027us. Another um positive that you have is you have a great library that's only a block and a half away and it's beautiful. And I know the kids also use that. So, um, that's all I have to share. Terry, I don't know if there's anything else you want me to highlight. Oh, I know. Maker spaces. I just wanted to talk a little bit about this. Um, Terry and Steve asked me to consider um, looking at different ways that we can engage our kids in maker spaces. These are KA planks. They're little maple planks. There's a thousand of them. Uh there's one in each elementary as well as the high school. And what the kids can do, and I'll pass this around, is there's different ways that they can build things. There's different challenges that they
028can have. Um I use these with our fifth grade class, and it was fun. Um it was interesting. It's like Legos, but there's no things to put together with it. And so, um it can be free play. It can be just kids come in. Um, you can have challenges like um ball challenges like making things go down. It's really easy to reconfigure them and um we'll use them more this year or next year. We've only had them for about a month. So, that's that. Um, the other thing that we're exploring right now is we got two of these kits and my job this summer is to learn how to use them. Um, so it's computer science and AI. So, LEGO used to have um a system for teaching AI and robotics. They have dropped that
029now. And so, this is their new one that is just emerging. Uh kids build things and then there's two mini computers where they can program it on their side. And so, these kits are about $450 a piece. I'm hoping next year we'll be able to get enough for classes and then maybe did some grant writing so I can get them at both um campuses. I had one of my seventh graders and he quickly put this together. Um but then we ran into a snag because I didn't know what program I needed on my computer and then actually when engineering tomorrow was here I was talking with their engineer Laura and she sent me the information for me to take the next steps now. So, I'll play with it this summer and hopefully come back. As
030well as I um requested some professional development so we can get our teachers on board, too. So, it's been fun. It's been um every day is a challenge, but um I really enjoyed my time here at Three Lake. So, I appreciate the opportunity to serve you. >> And thank you, Paula. You have been such a wonderful addition. Beth did a lot of heavy work to get us to where we needed to go. we needed to have a plan and uh you ran with it. So, I've got to send her another thank you for connecting you with us and and Paul is doing this all on a part-time level, by the way. So, her energy that comes in at a 0.5 FTE far out passes what mine would have been at a 1.0. So, any other
031questions that you guys have? Thank you. That's a lot of work. >> Thank you. >> How's the student feedback for you to to you individually? >> So, um with in particular the fifth class that I fifth grade class that I worked with, um Kesha and I kind of split up. Um she took kids who wanted to independently listen to a story and I worked with kids who wanted to play with the kibas. So, we've had three week weeks of this and it's been really good. Um, our challenge this week was uh you need to build something that has a purpose and so you can work with somebody. It's 25 planks per person. So, you can either do it by yourself or work with someone. So, you add those different dimensions in order to um do
032it. Um, one kid worked by himself. And it was just interesting what he came up with. Um he I asked him if he was artistic and he said no but he took his 25 planks he built glasses he built a fish he built um and he kept just recreating it was just really interesting. Um they're an active class. They are 75% boys and so it it's a very it was the quietest that I've seen them since I've been in them. So that was a good experience. And then that STEM day that we had was just um I I question what you could do with an airplane for five hours. And they did things with airplanes for five hours, like a paper airplane. And so just listening um all of these people I knew in my
033past from Wasa, they're all exceptional um teachers. Um it was about redesign, reworking. The first time isn't the final time. if you're going to fail, fail fast. And so all of these messages that were coming from engineers both virtually and local was really good. So I'm hoping just to build on that. We'll look at getting more maker space um maker spaces. Um as I told Terry, it's not my forte because it was at the high school and we always had tech ed to kind of do that charge. But I also know a lot of people in WASA, so I have those contacts that just keep asking them like, "What are you doing? what's new. Um, next year we'll go to Weima, I hope. Um, that is the state convention where a lot of these things
034are shown and so I've missed out on that for the last two years and so it' be an opportunity for me to see, you know, what are other people doing to bring the legs. So, >> really appreciate you coming in and showing us. That's great. Okay, next we move to consider approval of district library media materials policies. Okay. Well, it just seemed timely since this was on the radar to to work through that. Um I thank Nikki and Paula for her feedback and then of course working with Scott, our attorney um in our PRG to get this up to speed. A lot of these things were in place, but they weren't as clearly delineated as they needed to be. Um, the one that I really wanted to have cleared for our public, for our community
035is the reconsideration of both classroom materials and resources and then cons reconsideration of instructional library media materials because as you know there are books or items that are challenged and it's really important to have a very prescribed policy and method of approaching it. We just want to make sure that we're not opening ourselves up to somebody has a problem with a book in a different part of the state or for whatever reason or what they're very passionate about maybe isn't with in the alignment of our um educational goals. So, we really wanted to focus in on that. I feel we have a very solid plan with these. The others are more boilerplate um just separating out a policy that we had in the past that was very much everything put into one and getting it
036again delineated the way we need it so we can address it more specifically which um Scott Mish had said is really important for us. Um I don't believe we need to read through each of those. Should you want to, we certainly could. I had asked you guys to look at them in advance and then pose questions or or concerns that you did see with this. Um, with that, Alicia, I'll turn it to you and let you ask >> any questions or concerns um that you've come up with while reviewing. And second question, does anyone want to go through the policies individually that hasn't gotten an opportunity to review? >> I'm okay with having gone through them already. I guess I didn't see anything that stuck out. My question is, you know, have some of the
037staff got a chance to look through some of these possibly, you know, as far as like um, you know, have you introduced it just saying, "Hey, here's some changes that we were >> No, I I didn't take it to staff." I work, you know, >> I was going to ask or Paula did. >> Yeah. And and with um other resources, you know, that I knew like through CISA and such, um, it's all very standard. If you look at the district policies around us, they're all very very similar. Um, it's just making sure we have the legal uh connections in there that our policy was older. It didn't necessarily have the right or most up-to-date language. I really don't see that there's anything that would impact staff. um that's a change other than should they have
038a issue arise within their classroom, there's now a process that it'll be addressed appropriately. Paula, did you want to add anything to that? >> Um it's just really important to remember there's instructional use in the classroom and then there's library and so choice versus um everyone's doing the same thing. So I think it's yeah to have the two different policies is really important. Any other questions or concerns from the board? And if there are none, is anyone willing to make this motion? I'll make a motion to approve policy 361.1, selection of textbooks and other classroom instructional materials and resources. Policy 361.1 rule procedures for the reconsideration of classroom instructional materials/resources. Policy 361.1 exhibit request for reconsideration of instructional/ library media materials. Policy 361.2 2, Library Media Center material selection and reconsideration. Policy 361.2 rule procedures
039for the selection, management, and reconsideration of library media center materials. Policy 361.2 exhibit requests for reconsideration of library media materials. Policy 362, library media services policy 362.1, inter library loan as presented. >> Nobody else wanted to say it. >> What's that? >> Nobody else wanted to say it. You did great. It was so great. >> We have a second. >> I'll second. Great job. >> We have a motion by Stacy, second by Mitch. All those in favor of the motion signify by stating I. >> I. >> Opposed. None heard. Motion carried. Terry and staff. Again, thank you for um aligning the policies um with state law and where we need to be going forward because we have another one coming. Uh next, we'll move to consider revision of 2026 2027 school calendar due to construction
040project timeline. I did share um some background information with you and um what has brought this to my attention in talking with the the principles u with Carrie it's been on my mind the turnaround time if everything goes as planned gives us complete turnover to our facilities August 24th that's only a couple of days before we're having kids come in so what I looked at and got some great advice and feedback from um the team was how we could make this work better. What we want to do is adjust the calendar. So, uh we would basically it'll be the start of school date. Instead of Tuesday, September 1st, let's make it Thursday, September 3rd. That reason being we have a little bit of a buffer zone. We can get our open house in the night
041before school. teachers will feel, I believe, calmer, more prepared, ready to go because we're going to have to within our doing our mandatory trainings and our preparations, we're going to have to unpack some classrooms and get our environment set up the way we feel it would it'll work. Uh the other piece of this is looking at the minutes and looking at the calendar, it's not a real big adjustment. It would mean that we would go to the Friday in June rather than the Thursday. My one um little bit of advice, warning if you will, is if we would have a hellacious winter season, it might mean that we would have to tack on some minutes during the day to meet our requirements. It's never a problem with elementary. Our elementary comes in fine, but the
042high school has about 80 well close to 100 hours more of requirement, 87, I believe, um that they have to be in session. So, it gets a little bit tight if we have more than a few days. Um, I think we can do it. I'm confident that Justin could help us figure that out. I also don't want to run into the following week because the last phase of the construction is they again will want to be coming in here that next day. They're already talking about next year, the weekend after. So, uh, I throw that out to you. I wanted to get this done before the school year dismissed. if you are in support of this so we can begin communicating with our parents right away and maybe bring our staff all of our staff
043a little bit of stress relief. Now the caveat is we could have a delay during the summer or the unexpected and I'm coming back to you in August going oh we got a problem we might have to delay a little bit or you know and then that would be something we would encounter as it comes. other districts have met those those situations and dealt with them fine. But at this point, I think it's a really good proactive move. Um, like I said, I don't feel our students will in any way lose instructional value and it'll just make it a good feel to the start of the year. With that, if there's any questions or comments, >> do we have a plan in place for our fall sports as they're coming in? So I was the
044football schedule could be in as August early as August 4th. Then the soccer the next week, volleyball the next week, cross country and that's >> 50% of our student body is going to need access a month earlier than we're talking about. >> That's for classrooms and th this area for this year. Our gyms will be okay and the locker rooms area areas will be okay. I would just, you know, as Ann works through with it and with Justin, I'm just going to request that we have extra secure supervision because there's there's always that possibility, but it shouldn't impact that. Justin, am I missing anything? Because they've made it very clear to us that we should be fine. >> Yeah. Know, this was quite a while ago. We sat down, looked at all the first sports
045dates for the fall and given that we can access this and we're all good soccer and football. Now, and of course, if there's delays up there, that would be the only thing that's still a question mark. And we have contingency plans that we don't want to use in place um if we if we need to put them in place for events as the fall season gets, you know, the competition start. >> Uh but the the practice facility should be all squared away for football. >> And are we going to plan to like do like a public announcement about the >> the date changes? Obviously, everybody's going to know, but like is there going to be like social media? >> Yeah, date changes are like one of the top things that people get riled up about.
046So, it's one of those like yes, it'll be I have it in the newsletter since Friday for sure. And then >> pro I haven't thought through this. I'm talking off the top of my head, but probably even a um infinite campus message. Would it be bad on something that's that much of an effect on people? So, >> and it'll go out multiple times with reminders, too. It'll be in multiple places cuz it is I'm aware that dates are always a big one. >> Dates and snow days. >> We can't have any snow this year. >> But I think like I was asking that cuz I think again like that proactive message like don't worry about your fall sports. I mean we have a plan in place blah blah blah blah. >> Oh you're asking about
047sports too that along with the calendar. cuz I'm just thinking like as a you know again as a parent you're just like focused like right now end of year graduation then all of a sudden >> I'm wondering like even cuz as I start I I've taken a little bit of a pause on the construction update videos because of graduation but as we hop back into those and we start seeing progress out here in the athletic fields it might be a good time to like include some of that in those videos too and kind of like just talk about plans for the athletics that There wasn't quite enough buffer room in there to leave the last day on Thursday and then leave Friday as a carryover day. Not quite. >> No. Nope. That would just make
048it too tight. >> Sure. If it gives their teachers a hand, feeling a little bit more confident coming in and we can make it work. Let's make it work. >> This is marked for action. Um, but there is no >> Well, we we will need it to be an action. So, we need a motion. So, the motion would be to approve the revision of the 2627 school calendar as presented. >> I'll motion to approve the revision of the 2026 2027 school calendar as presented. >> Second. >> We have a motion by Brian, second by Stacy. All those in favor of the motion signify by stating I. >> I. >> Opposed? None heard. Motion carries. >> Thank you. I think that's going to go a long way with our staff. So, anything to get us in
049a good frame of mind, right? Um, next we'll move to consider approval of district wellness policies. >> We do have wellness policies or a wellness policy in plan in place, but it had not been revisited for several years. And this really came to light as we had our food service audit and review. Um, and so it was time to update it. Um, I did a lot of the heavy lifting on this because we really wanted to get a quick turnaround. We wanted to be in compliance. I just want to do a shout out to Caleb and his staff um, and Jill in the kitchen and everybody. They really did a top-notch job with that food audit review. And that's tough because there is a lot they go through. Um really what it came down to
050is making sure that our wellness policy was updated and that we're publishing it every 3 years and we hadn't had it published in the LA well since co. So this is time to get it up to snuff. Um and then we will more regularly be going ahead and calling you know the committee together to review it annually of course or if something would come up that we need to address sooner than that. Um I know it was a lot for you to look through and and read but I believe it's really solid and ready to go. Uh, the reason you're seeing it this month already is because, like I said, I'd like to with Caleb's blessings send it off to DPI and that will be the last box that's checked for our audit. Any questions,
051concerns on the wellness policies? >> If there are none, is anyone willing to make a motion on this? I'll make a motion to approve policy 458 school wellness and policy and 458 rule local school wellness plan as presented. >> Second. >> We have a motion by Mitch, second by Brian. All those in favor of the motion signify by stating I >> I >> opposed. None heard. Motion carries. Again, thank you Terry for your work and updates. Next we move to Three Lakes Town request for payment increase in Three Lakeakes School District use of town park fields. All right. Within your packet, I included for you the letter that um I received back in January when uh was first informed that the uh town is considering uh increasing the the fee for yearly use from uh
052$4,000 to $6,000 a year. Um, this led me to do a little bit more investigation and within other meetings I I did meet with them and we've talked about this. Um, Caleb, I don't remember if you were with me for this one or not. Were you? >> Yeah. >> Okay. We've had multiple meetings with the town this spring. Um, so we did talk it through. Um what I think that I wanted to really make clear with the town is uh share with them that we are still providing support from the district level with um our maintenance buildings and grounds people assisting doing the lining doing some of the work that goes with using the facilities. um the they were expressing to us that their concern was that it goes on beyond the seasons that they're
053looking for more compensation because of the repairs and the the upkeep needed during this the summer months and and such. So I did go ahead and um share that with you so you could see that more closely. I was asked to do a little bit of background which thank you to Ann Ellis for doing that work for me that leg work. Um we inquired around and I'll tell you it's all over the board with um what other communities are doing for uh providing services to the school. Um first off I just want to say right off the bat that Sugar Camp provides it for free and not only for Three Lakes but for St. Germaine and other community organizations. So, hats off to Sugar Camp for just really being there. Um, she did a little
054bit of checking with Cranon. Um, Cranon does not use any of the city or town facilities. Um, Rhylander is tied to the dome, so that's a little bit different situation. It depends if you're renting, though. I know that when we've run into a bind, they have been very helpful with us. Um, Justin, do you have anything to add to that? No, the the the Rhinelander similarity for us is the baseball. The the the rest of the fields are are for the most part now as of recently with the fields behind the dome are on on district property. So the only comparison between us and and the Horde Green is whatever they pay for Stafford Field. That's that's a town or municipal park. >> So but yeah, they're they're they're good about getting us time in
055there when we need it like football playoffs or whatever things like that. They're super with us, but that's another topic probably, right? >> Yeah. Um the school district of Eagle River um is not charged for the youth club, Legion, Babe Ruth, etc. to use the school facilities. Um if they use supplies, they are asked to replace the supplies. So, they're very much the school is helping in that that case. Um Tomahawk, they're a little different. They have the hockey, their baseball. They they use for free with students helping me with the maintenance of the park before and after games and practice. We don't need to talk about golf. Um, again, it's just like I said, it was kind of all over the board, but in this case, there was not a fee at the level
056of uh $4,000 to $6,000 for the school to use the town fields. I know that's something you have asked me before to check out. So that's what I'm bringing the information forward for you to consider. >> Questions, comments? >> I'm curious what Junker Sleds pays to the town if that's public. >> Well, I mean, it's it's beyond that. I mean, they don't charge if a if a dad and daughter, a father and son want to go out and use the ball fields in the middle of the summer, they're not they're not charging them. They're not charging people who go out and hit golf balls. I mean, the the point of having a town park is to provide it for your town and for use to to charge. I mean, you're already using taxpayer funds to
057provide that, which is great. It's fantastic. It's people get out and use that. To turn around and basically take taxpayer funds again is a little crazy. The other thing is, yeah, I I don't know. I just I'm even $4,000. You figure you pay somebody 20 bucks an hour, you're getting you're getting 200 hours out of it. I mean, that's that's a lot of field maintenance that you can do. And the whole extended into summer fixing damage is not a legit argument. I I mean I agree with with Josh here on a lot of points that I mean as a as a increase $2,000 that's not that great but like as you talk about like the double taxation of our constituents or taxpayers. I mean I think that that's kind of ridiculous. If anything else I
058think that this should warrant or open up the door that we should research what it would cost to bring in a ball field on our own property. >> Mhm. there there's lots of property behind the football field or south of the football field and a little south and east of the football field. I mean, there's lots of lots of property and as we're doing this excellent renovation, we're going to have facilities back there. I I feel in a short time period, 3 years to 5 years, we could fund raise through a separate organization enough to completely bring in at least one ball field, if not both, and then just get rid of the town entirely. And I have some other thoughts on town, but whatever. The other the other thing that I thought about is
059as um we were spending obnoxious amounts of money at concessions at these ball games, that's all going back to the town also. So they've given us the opportunity to bring in our own concessions, but without those, none of that money goes back to the town either. So there's a whole lot of sporting events that are occurring on those fields and that money is going back to the town as well. Well, that money isn't there if we don't have games anymore there, right? And do we get into a situation where okay, now we're saying that if if our maintenance staff is then maintaining at some level or doing anything on the fields, then is that are we getting back into a service back and forth? Are we then charging the town for that service? >> Well,
060and >> I think it's a it sets a really bad precedent, especially when we have nine miles away, an incredible facility that they just give to us to use. And that includes it's not just sugar camp, it's three lakes, it's youth, it's >> it helps Phelps, >> right? >> Yeah. to provide what they're maintaining if they I mean if they're saying that because uptick in cost again >> in in addition to what they're charging us they're also charging youth organizations they also run the baseball tournament which brings in which is a fantastic fundraiser for the town and for the fields that was not in their numbers um the benefits that they get from that they have not provided a new fence for the girls softball field in years that it's needed Um, right now there's,
061you know, the lawnmower hit it. There's a huge hole out in the field. I I mean, it just I don't know. I I'm I'm It's very unfortunate that that they're doing this >> and that's why I felt it had to come to you that it went to me and you know Caleb and and it has been in place since I've been here the the fee that's being requested but um they it seemed to me that there wasn't an awareness in discussing it with the folks that we met with that our staff was also providing those services and and supplies, which we did clear that up. >> It's a little bit different if if the town is leaving it in a spot where our our team just shows up and plays. >> Yeah. >> Right. But
062but the Kirby's or the Opals of the world are over there. They line it. They do the the the the what I call the the finishing touch field prep game to game to game. the the town does the the mowing of the grass and the the the overall the big big ticket field prep stuff, dragging, all that good stuff, >> which they would have to do anyways, >> correct? No matter what, whether we're there or no, that's got to be done for sure. But our our staff is going over there daily for the soft not daily, but whenever we have a softball or baseball game, they go over there and they provide the the follow lines and all the the batteries box and all that stuff, which is kind of a putsy sort of time
063intense thing. But we're doing that, the district is doing that for those. It's not a lack of appreciation for what they've what they've done and what you know, but at the same time, I think what we're paying is more than fair. And it's Brian's point, it's been on my mind once or twice, too. I mean, if if we're putting out this money every year, what if we did our own and then we would, you know, then we have our our own something to show, which is also unfortunate because >> but they're not >> right there, >> right? >> They might not get used at all. >> Which it it's a beautiful facility. There's no nothing to take away from that. But there's I don't know reaching a little far in my point >> in understanding
064prices increase right budgets are going up um the it's getting paid for by the taxpayers regardless if it comes out of their budget or ours. Right. >> Yes. >> So >> same point. A couple bags of lime and a few cases of paint aren't that bad to cover. Sorry, Brent didn't mean >> No, no. I just I mean I just don't I just don't know how we can respond in an effective way that we'll get our our in the public opinion that we they will know exactly what we're what we're saying if that makes sense. I mean, I almost feel like we should respond to them through our attorney and that's how I feel about the second matter as well. But I think we should respond to them with our attorney with our bullet pointed
065plans of what we would do and how if we do renew this, it would be on a X basis and we will, you know, whatever we games will be moved to sugar camp. We have no problem with that. Whatever. Just just to cut him a check for $2,000. I think whatever that we need to have more teeth in the response than that. >> Can Can I bring up something that I took away from our meeting that I thought deserves clarification from the town was the difference between the parks commission and then this parks general budget. Um it seemed like there was two pots of money and it didn't seem like there was a lot of communication in between those two groups. Um to the point that they weren't quite sure how much money was even
066there and how that was being spent. >> That that's a very interesting point to bring up and thank you for that because that doesn't sound like an us problem. That's a them problem. >> I I think I think they've got some ducks that they need to get in a row. Um, and I think some more questions could clarify that as well before presenting online. >> Can we respond in that manner? Just like the the request is still unclear to us. Can you detail some >> costs? Yeah. Cost >> manh hours. >> Yeah. >> Supply costs. We will also supply you with art costs and manh hours that we've known >> instead of just a generic we want >> 33% >> if it's arbitrary again we I mean >> we'd rather pay $2,000 I'd rather pay
067$2,000 in busing costs to get our our players over to sugar camp just because >> well also the double dipping doesn't feel right like you said I mean if the if the public head. We're both public entities. >> Yeah. >> It's really just moving money. >> Yeah. >> It's moving money from one budget to another. What does that look like? >> Because they failed they failed the referendum. They they'll fail their operation >> request. I mean, it would it would have to include an entire review of the town budget because I can imagine that there's things that are paid for there that are beyond the need of what this $2,000 is, >> which probably >> what they're trying to get out of it. >> Yeah. >> That prompts it, >> which I don't know if
068you're a voter in Three Legs, right? that they had that town meeting and it failed that their referendum to increase the town budget failed because of those questions weren't answered. So they just took that deficit and are trying to take that from us in different, you know, in the plowing and this regard. I mean, just part parts of it. >> They're interdependent, right? Like the ball fields don't exist without the school, just like town needs this the school, >> right? It it should be a relationship back and forth. And if there's ways, right? like >> we we should work together effectively for the best interest of the community, but a large person in this community is for the school. >> I mean, the I think the fields would exist, but I think they'd be awfully
069quiet. I I think that they I think that they get a fantastic I think that they get a fantastic boost from, >> you know, from the school being able to utilize them as well. >> I know it's set for action. >> It doesn't have to be. >> Okay. So, what I'm hearing you say is that you would like me to um probably work with Caleb and compose a list of questions, run it through our attorney, what other things we should be asking for regarding this matter and correspond with them as to our concerns >> and itemization. Yes. Of funding. >> How long we've been paying the $4,000? You said it was before your time, Terry. since I've so that's seven years. >> That's actually the second increase. My first year I think it was either
070two or three >> it was two I think it started. >> Yes, you're right. >> So this is the second increase since I've been here. >> So second increase in four years. >> Four years. >> Well from that perspective if the increase is a percentage of because gez fertilizer is more and grass seed is more and fuel is more okay. But that's a to add 2,000 to a $4,000 bill is a substantial uptick, right? Like seems a little bit out of place when your budget's wonky, >> you know, in in addition to just them answering questions about the town. I mean, they also have to answer questions about the parks commission and and that funding >> and how that ties in. >> Yeah. And if you recall in the letter, this did not come from
071the parks commission, right? This came from the town, >> right? >> But but those two are intertwined. Anything else? >> No, ma'am. >> Okay, we will take that up. >> Okay, next we go back to the Three Lakes Town Board for number L or letter L. Um, West School Street in plowing school parking lot discussion. >> All right. Um, I did attend the meeting. I shared with you the uh the notes that I had taken so you would have a feel for where it's at. Um, the board has the town board has determined that they are not going to abandon West School Street. They intend to keep West School Street. uh which means that they would maintain it and plow it, but they do not have the desire to assist with the or to do
072the um plowing any longer for the district. And if the district would want their plowing services, then they would be wanting us to consider them in the bid process. Um I did speak with Josh Patau and he offered to be here tonight. Um but after we met again, he felt very comfortable that I could share some of the points that they made. His concern was not as much financial, but the time factor being that it's in the sanitary district. It's required that this area is taken care of first. This road is taken care of first and then they do the plowing at that time. Um, also what I mentioned and and he agreed our district is probably the biggest employer, you know, so that there's a lot of people coming and going here. Um, Josh
073felt very comfortable about maintaining the road. Um, but the situation now comes into what about the plowing of the parking lot and that's why it's before you. This isn't an action item. I'm gathering information. I will bring it back to them and share with them what your desire is, what your thoughts are. Um, and go from there. Also, it was brought up. I I think they're quite well aware in some of our other discussions. Um there is that land that is if the schools right that is the towns and if the school street was abandoned that would be landlocked that wouldn't be accessible. So I think that's part of their consideration as well. Their main point was this has been in place since 1992. They felt it should have been addressed years ago. Um that
074it's a burden on the town budget that the plowing should be taken care of by the district. Where does the town road actually end? >> 300 on the GIS map. >> Well, that's and that's the thing as I look at it. >> It doesn't quite get the gas code. >> Yeah, >> it does not go to the end. >> Kind of landlocked anyway. >> I mean, there's maps that even don't show it going quite that far. >> Mhm. I I think this is just another like was being said that they they failed at something else and they're trying to charge other people for unforeseen reasons and this is this seems like a pretty petty >> they did share Josh that um in in their discussion that they don't have to plow our town lot that
075they're sharing the information with us they could just choose our school lot. They could just choose not to plow it anyway. So, I want to make sure I share that point with you. >> Well, they they say that, but the the road we >> we know people who know people. We could mark that road out. Then they have to plow it like they can't like you said, they can't not plow a paved town road, which takes up a large percentage of this parking lot of what we consider the parking lot, right? M. >> So then that leaves a small rectangle rectangle that needs to be plowed by us. So if we're plowing there like we should again write a letter with our attorney I feel and say we're happy to take this over but we're
076going to charge you for every square foot that we plow of your town road. Everybody's been here for years and years and years. They don't do a good job of doing the plowing to begin with and our contractor takes up the slack on that. And you are you are clear though just not to belabor the point that they will they're proposing that they would still plow the town road. >> Yeah. >> But >> I can't remember what the >> essentially going to do this straight down and then over to the property by Gasco and then just leave it >> turn around miraculously somehow >> with a two plow width or whatever. However wide the road is. Well, I'm not sure if it's a every town might be different, but I don't think so. But I
077think town rooms are 66 ft wide with well, the roads the road isn't that wide, but with right away is that wide. So, I think if it's there, you have to clear it. So, I guess my whole point is right if that if the truck's got to turn around >> to do two or three extra passes, >> I feel like that's just we're >> But again, if that's making or breaking the budget, the discussion's already been had with our contractor that it can be done. >> Yes. >> Right. If that is the concession that they just want to do West School Street and that it's going to save them time, money, manh hours and we can do it >> and the world >> right and we can do it with our contract without raising right
078the cost >> for our taxpayers and our budget then >> it takes that truck 10 minutes if that the empty lot right I mean you come here in the morning it's nosy in the wait room they have it done in >> it's incredible how fast it is it's not like it takes takes him an hour to do our lot with those machines. >> Agreed. I'm just saying if the principle is they only want to do the road, >> then just do the road. >> Yeah, if that's if that's really what >> if that's where we're at. >> Yeah, fine. Just do the Yeah, exactly. Just do the But also, I guess my point with the attorney is if they're worried about this plan not having access, as Josh said, they really don't have access to
079it already. We're we'd be happy if they would give up the road. At least in my opinion, again, they go off the road and we'll give them a lifelong easement across the school property to access this slice of land that they are so intent on maintaining for no apparent use. I like it. It's I mean, it's not even a road right away. This is like this is a ridiculous request. And so the the suggestion was negotiating compensation, right? So was there any discussion of like what that compens compensation would be? Is it 2,000 like or is it just >> there wasn't a discussion what the compensation would be. It would be like if we put it out to bid then they would they could bid on the project. But I actually feel why would I
080want two providers when we have our contracted service already in place? >> Well, we we put it out for bid. They could have bid it. They never have. So that's that's already gone. That's they're they're trying to make us look bad for not giving them the opportunity. We we put it publicly out for bid. Everybody had a everybody had a chance. So, like like everybody said, we have our we have our plow. If that's if that's what they want to do is just come in and plow the road and leave, our our the person we have hired will take care of the rest. >> I believe that is what their desire is. >> Okay. See you later. >> I mean, there's nothing there's not if that's their desire and we're not we have no desire
081to pay anymore. So, well, I guess that's where we're at. >> Well, things have changed on their board as well. >> Property been all winter >> since. >> Yes. We can't tell that that's ours. >> Yes, but it was the current petty like put this little bank there. >> It sounds bad, right? >> I like your idea with the like you plow that you have a lifetime easement to the property that you don't use or maintain anyway that you want so bad like it okay, you win or just give it up. We'll we'll pay for everybody to we'll pay for our contractor to take the whole thing. You can have an easement >> if but at that point they'd have to give up the road though, >> right? >> Because I because our contractor I'm
082sure from a liability point of view can't plow with town rope because he does not have an agreement with them. Mhm. >> That makes sense. So, what would you like me to do? >> Well, it's really I mean, it's really in the town's hands. I mean, if they're, you know, we could we could suggest if the town is in agreement or I'm sorry, if our board is in agreement that if they were to abandon the road, which I I understand that they have said that they don't want to do because of funding purposes probably, but if the primary reason that they don't want to abandon the road is to be able to get to their property, we could offer them the town a an easement, a lifetime easement as long as it stays town property
083if at any point it sells that easement is gone. Um, but then that would be in exchange for abandoning the road and then we take care of our own plowing. I don't want to speak for everybody. So, >> I would just say or like Alicia said, and not to paraphrase you and >> fine. You plow your road, we'll we'll plow the rest. Yeah. And I mean, that's option two. >> And or their other option was that they be compensated for plowing the lot. >> And that's where I really like think they're trying to get to. >> So, like what does that what is their expectation? What would that compensation look like? That that's that would be a I think that would be a violation of us of our contract with our current plow guy >>
084because now we just are giving them compensation. I I don't actually think that legally we >> but that parking lot is not on the contract with our contractor because the town plowed it. So it wouldn't be a viol that's not a part of the plowing contract, right? So it' be a new it would be a new piece. >> Well, it's just a plowing for anything that we own as we need, right? So So yeah, it actually is. >> It'll cost us more because he's going to be doing that, >> right? Cuz he'll do more. We put it out to bid. We had a highlighted map of the areas that that they would do. It included, you know, the parking or not the parking, the sidewalk and stuff, >> but it was not the lot, >>
085but the majority of it is around the back and not it didn't include any of that. I did include what our current guy would charge um to do it and you have that box there. >> That's what he would be. and he actually did it once this um winter already to time time it out and see if he had the capacity to do it. So he does have the ability to do it, you know, even so he's he's under contract at the moment. So I and it's our property, so they'd be we we'd have to put out for bait again if but again I don't know how that would work. I wouldn't feel good about it. >> No, I feel like we've made a commitment to him through 27 >> that we need to stick
086with that. >> Maybe it's even further. >> I think we did it by three years. So, I think that we need to, you know, honor that knowing that he does have the capacity. I do believe the town based on what I heard would would help him out if the need came up, you know, regardless of what it would be, if it would be breaking down of a piece of equipment or helping him through. I think again, I feel like the people that I talked to were very willing to support and help each other out and the district out. Um, I think I I'm pretty clear on the the options that you have listed out here. I would make the proposal that I bring this information back to the town and say this is where your
087discussion went. This is what we're thinking and then it's back in their hands for what they want to do with it. >> Mhm. >> Am I putting words in your mouth or are you feeling okay about that? Okay. >> And I think compensation's off the table, right? >> I think that's what I've heard. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> And and again, one of the primary reasons for the compensation being off the table is it is another example of the taxpayers paying twice. Mhm. >> Correct. >> Just moving money from one budget to another. >> Yeah. So they can balance their budget and make that slip back. >> And you know, I know you expressed your concern with how do we form the message. Just remember everything we're doing is recorded. Anybody who wants to watch our
088meetings can hear the discussion that we've had at the table, >> which you know, this board is very transparent and willing to share the information with the public. Anything further on that one? >> Hearing none, we'll move to overview of districtowned properties. >> Okay. Um, Brian had mentioned that he would like to see what our properties were and so Nikki, thank you. Did a great job of pulling this information together for us. Take me a minute to pull it up. And Josh and I had a quick me uh discussion before our meeting and we're still questioning if one is not showing that we've got to track down a little bit more information, but these are the pieces of property. Um Nikki, you're a great detective. She worked with the different municipalities to find out where
089we are at and this is what she came up with and she put the presentation together for us too. So the district property overview um holds real estate across the county includes primary instructional campuses and three school forests. Total acreage 161.99. You can see where those are. And then it's just showing our three lakes main campus and the grounds are located on two parcels in the town of Three Lakes. Total of 43.22. Now I know that we were really looking at school forest but it's important that we know our our total what we have capacity wise. Oops. Sugar can buildings and grounds. This is um goes over you can look at the map there. You can see where State Road Highway 17 is. Um 3 acre parcel with three additional parcels around the building for
090a total of 5.79 acres. And it's not school forest, but Steve, correct me if I'm wrong. I do believe they use those trees right there for the tapping and such. Right. >> So there is forest area there that the kids are using and utilizing. Then you know about our camp 3 forest. This is between both of um our towns. This is where we're looking to do the further development. Um this is what spurred the conversation. We're not doing any policy uh decisions tonight, but wanted to see where our properties were um as far as what we're going to permit for hunting or not hunting, trapping, etc. And that's where we're at. And this is just under 40 acres, 38.98 acres. Then there's a Stella piece of property. That's a 34 acre parcel off of 45
091and East Stella Lake Road in the town of Three Lakes. In addition, there's the Peele School Forest and that's 40 acres owned by the district um in Peele and you'll see it's bordered by County C and Gage Road. And then not showing here is what we called the Tamarak. It's it's listed under Tamarak school. And little history lesson I believe Tamarak school was absorbed into sugar camp school system when sugar camp was you know like eight different schools many many many years ago. Um so because you had the different different places in the camp. Um, it's not showing in the research we did, but Josh was able to p pull it up and I didn't get it for you tonight. Josh, unless you want to you want to do that, you go right ahead. You
092betcha. Um, where it's at. To give you a quick visual, if you know Sugar Camp Road at all, it would be going down Lily Bass Lake Road. If any of you are oldtimers, you remember the old town dump. It's back in that area. We had talked about it when we were talking about the trap range because it's very isolated. It's removed from residents and such, but in our discussion, we decided we better find out a little bit more about this because somewhere somebody's got to be accountable. And if it's ours, we want to make sure it's ours. I mean, it is ours, but we want to make sure that's recognized somewhere and and go forward with that. Do you remember the number? It's >> Yeah, I got it. It's right here. >> Okay. Oh, yes.
093There it is. Very touchy. >> Yeah, I know. I don't love the laptop. >> So, it's like 14. It's like a 40 and off the road. >> Yeah. >> Yes. It's 478. That's the part. >> Anyways, I'm done. Bottom corner or bottom center. Sorry, Alicia. >> So, that piece is also available and we will find out more about that. But >> 40 43.73 acres or something like that >> and landlocked. >> Landlocked. Yes. Who owns just to the north? >> Um I think Swinsky Farms Nope. Can Forest Conservation is there? Okay, there's Swinsky Farms. That's where the tower is located. >> Uh Sugar Camp Town still has the dump property. So >> So I'm curious if the town of Sugar Camp has those records as far as like there had to have been an easement
094at some point. at some point >> there may still exist such a easement for access. >> So the the purpose of showing this to you all too was there's a difference between the land that we're looking at for camp 3 for consideration for hunting and trapping and um public use I should say not just our school use versus some of these other pieces of property which are not going to be in the same situation. However, we would want to look at what's the liability right now. I know Justin has shared that you've seen some deer shacks or deer stands on is it the Stella Stella Stella road? Yep. I I recall that >> etc. >> Mhm. But we've never had anything in place or enforced. So, it's being used by public. I don't know how
095much, but there is use there. So, this gives you >> This is probably a little haven thinker. >> Behind there. Yeah, >> I know a sugar camper who might be interested. Right out his back door. >> So, hopefully that gives you a little bit more of a feel for what is actually ours. I you know I actually thought we had more when I first started here but it isn't more um land that was referred to in the past like Dr. Carling had shared with me that on military road well that actually belonged to somebody else who was willing to let us have it that fell through. That's where that came from but it was not actually district property owned. So, questions that you might have to help you think before we start talking about policy
096again. Um, does this help? Does it make it cloudier? I just think from a just like we had the discussion previously from a liability standpoint, like what is the school's liability, right? If if something happens on that property, >> right? I I think there has to be something in writing as far as use consideration >> from a liability standpoint and for I'll say an ease of management to say no hunting on school property and put that in policy and have it posted. That's probably the easiest approach. It might not be popular with your public, but again, I don't know. I've only had one inquiry in the time that I've been here and I can't remember who it was, but they asked if we would be willing to sell the Stella piece of property and I
097I'll have to look that up. And the response was, "No, we we don't sell school forest property." Um, that was like the first year I was here and that's all as far as inquiries I've ever had >> because likely people are just treating it like normal public land and just using the property. >> It's not going to be easy to distinguish, well, this is school, this is public. It's just going to be carryover. I think when I um not to get into the policy too much, but I think what I remember hearing is both Mitch and and Brian kind of sharing that your concerns were with this camp 3 property, why would we open that up to public? >> Let's keep that. Well, only because again that's where >> all our student body instruction is
098intended. >> I don't know how you separate those other three properties that have nothing on it. People are using it and separate that and say this is used for this no hunting and then open up the other three use at your own risk. Good luck. I'm not sure what the attorney has to say about that. But >> I I still think we would have to have some kind of We're lucky we haven't had any issues. Um, I'm not opposed to it being used, but I think we have to have some safeguards in place like you're saying too. And there has to be there there has to be existing policy like our Scott must have access to >> what is lacrosse school like what are all the other school districts doing because there's a lot of
099schools that have a ton >> and that's why he had originally shared with us some of those ideas that I mean we can go as heavily as we want with that but I guess it's for your consideration do you want them all treated the same or do we look at camp 3s being separated out from the other areas that are very much wooded and and you know wildland for the most part. >> I think it has to be separated because we're setting we're making a change. We're >> setting a precedent that the camp 3 property will not be used for hunting or trapping. >> Okay. So with that then I would suggest that I will be in contact with him again. Um he's given me some great um resources before but tell them what direction
100we're leaning and see then what we can have. I know Caleb's always thinking like I am the liability standpoint, you know, what if something happens. If there's some way, Mitch, to put in that at your risk, you know, or or what that comes to to look like, that would be good for the district to have that. >> Yeah. The other three properties are just wood and people already have deer stands and bear baits and stuff like that. >> Well, I I have a feeling that what it's going to be is that he's going to probably recommend that you still have to apply to the school. you know, to let somebody know that you're going to be out there so that anybody else who is out there without permission is is trespassing. >> And then we
101have then we have some protections. >> But that's reasonable. I think that's very doable, much more so than well are kids out there this day or are they not out there that day? That that's I think where our big concern came in with the CAN 3. >> And can it be done the same thing as we do like facilities use, right? like people submit a facilities use agreement or they want to hunt or what at least we have their name their contact information does Justin I mean that's an answer for you I mean does that put a a heavy burden if Joe who's using the Stella property submits a facilities use or a a use agreement >> if it's Joe that's no problem but if it's Joe and Bill and Fred and Tommy all wanting
102to get the first week of turkey season now now I I I don't want for Ann or myself or anybody be dealing with though. >> I don't I don't think it's a coordination. >> Who gets opening? We're going to >> do I don't think it's a coordination piece. I don't think it's a scheduling piece. I say like this is a 40, right? In order to use this land just like public land is first come, first serve, right? If you want to put your tree stand up there and take it out the same day, right? Not schedule it, but just say you have to have X, Y, and Z on file with the school. Like we have to have that information. They have to sign a liability waiver to use they right like >> so they're
103not checking out for these four hours. >> Correct. Because I'm not saying I'm gonna bow hunt there for three hours. >> Someone who would like to hunt the Stella >> then they're on the list and they have permission to use the problem. >> Yeah. That wouldn't be that wouldn't be for six hour piece. >> If for some reason today something people start erecting a building out there or right like having a random bog bash on our property, right? like we have no teeth in the game. We haven't enforced >> right >> the the property lines for how long. I think we have to have something in place that identifies who is accessing the property and how does it how do we protect the district? I will bring information back to you. This is good. This
104gives me a good direction, good feel for where we want to go and then you have something to consider more formally. >> Does that sound okay at this point? >> Sounds like we're going hunting in sugar camp here shortly. Any other questions relating to that topic? Um, okay. Next, we'll move to WSB correspondents and updates. >> What do we have? Thank you. We have the summer learning symposium. It's July 10th and 11th at the Holiday Inn in Stevens Point. Um, if you're interested in this, you can take a look at that. They are sharing their their keynote speakers. And um I have not gone to this because it does fall on a Friday and the Saturday in July, which is sacred. So, um, I have heard good things about it, but if you're interested and
105if if you want to register, if you're interested in it, need some help, Nikki is happy to assist you to get yourself scheduled. And, uh, that's really all I have as far as my communication for you from WASB this month. Of course, we've got the new school news if anybody take a look at it. Okay. Um hopefully everyone has a last uh great last couple weeks here at school. Appreciate the efforts in um everything from the construction updates to our social media presence. Um obviously we have a lot of moving parts and pieces um in the district right now, but um we're almost to the finish line. So thank you for the efforts and um if there's nothing else, I will take a motion to adjurnn. Make a motion to adjurnn. A second. >> Motion
106by Josh, second by Mitch. All those in favor of the motion signify by stating I. >> I. Opposed. None heard. Motion carries. Thank you everyone.