001all right good evening everyone I will call the meeting to order thank you to everyone for coming to our February meeting of the Board of Education if everyone could please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all okay next we'll move into the administrator report on the agenda posting and notification of the meeting to the media the agenda was posted at three Lake School and sugar Camp School via email to the town of Three Lakes town of Monaco town of sugar camp and the Demmer library media notified via email includes the Vias County News the Northwoods River news wjo news wxpr radio and the media notified
002by mail includes the WD WK radio thank you next we move to amendments and approval of the agenda are there any amendments there are no amendments okay hearing none is someone willing to make a motion on the agenda I'll make a motion to approve the agenda Mitch okay we have a motion on the floor by by Stacy second by Mitch all those in favor of the motion signify by stating I I I opposed motion carries 5 next we go into routine approvals to approve minutes of the January 15 2025 regular meeting if there are no changes if there are no changes or concerns I will take a motion I'll make a motion to approve the minutes as presented second okay we have a motion on the floor by Michelle second by Stacy all those in
003favor of the motion signify by stating I I I I opposed motion carries 5 next we move to the treasurer's report I'll make a motion to approve checks dated January 9th 2025 through February 13th 2025 for accounts payable a checks number 242 5142 through 242 5173 regular checks number 13723 through 13857 manual checks number 5802 through 5816 and wi transfers number 2024 00149 through 2024 00149 in the amount of $681,000 and AC payroll checks number 90044 743 through 90044 997 and regular payroll checks number 59 393 through 59 396 in the amount of 374,000 second by m Michelle all those in favor of the motion signify by stating I I I I opposed motion carries next we move to public comments um do any does any do we have any comments from visitors regarding our
004agenda items seeing none just a note thank you to Sophie for being our student representative tonight okay next we move to administrator's report I have a brief update on the process where we are with the referendum um and the planning you've probably seen some social media posts coming out we've actually been hitting it pretty heavily Jen's been doing a great job lot coming at folks um on our website we have what is called our micro site which is dedicated to the referendum information we're hoping we get a lot of traffic there because we feel that basically most of the questions are answered through that resource uh it's it's well done it's um been very tailored thanks to Jen's work with me and actually taking the lead and helping our um Folks at Nexus really get
005to who we are and what we want it to be so I'm pleased with that I do think people are checking it out um the concept boards are posted in the buildings and the concept boards are like the basic maps and the drawings I want to go ahead and say again for everybody here and in the public forum these are conceptual we cannot say this enough they outlin the spaces that need addressing but this is not design it has not gone to design at all so what looks like a footprint for instance like at the sugar Camp building that's to account for the cost for square footage and what's coming that is not exactly what it may look like or where it may be precisely there could be some tweaks and designs in fact we
006know there will be so if someone asks you about like this is it it's like nope this is just so you know where we're going so a lot of lot to come on that as we go forward we have some scheduled meeting dates to share the information I'll be meeting with the sugar Camp um SEO organization the parent organization on March 2nd and that's at the fire shed um at 9:00 on Sunday and March 3rd we have a meeting here in Three Lakes at the auditorium at 6:00 March 11th we will be meeting at the sugar Camp um Library IMC at 6:00 and then at on March 13th we're going to have a blue J trivia night at the am I goodness there The Brew station is that what you call the brw Station yep
007so that should be fun maybe get to share a few fun facts and figures about the history of the Three Lakes Blue Jays and had a little discussion along the way trying to make it unique so and there'll be other things that have come up um we've reached out to a few organizations let them know that if they are interested we'd love to come and share information or to contact us if they would just like to come on in or you know have a visit and so we're trying to get the things rolling to be very visible very um very out there you know answering any questions that may come to be do you have any questions on that so far that's it for my report thank you thank you Terry next we move into
008new business starting with March meeting dates our March meeting date is scheduled for Wednesday March 12th at 6:00 p.m. in the Three Lakes boardroom uh just a note last month we did decide to move it up a week because March 19th which would have been a regularly scheduled meeting Falls during spring break uh we do not need to make this an action item because we did so last month okay and just a note I will be remote and Stacy will be running the running it very good and doing fantastic absolutely okay uh next we move to Second Friday pupil membership count Caleb has prepared this for us it's very similar to what you have seen um each year we have the first Friday or the third Friday count of course that starts in September and
009then we have the um second Friday count in January and looking over the enrollment numbers this is something that's nice to see we didn't go down in our enrollment we actually went up um we're looking at like a plus six from the original count um we stay pretty stable and this number is always flexing people move in people move out but it's pretty solid it's what we have planned for within our budgeting um we're always very conservative so it's actually nice to be a few um students above where we do a lot of planning from um Caleb has also included within your packet some more in-depth information as far as um if there's questions as to what was the reason for additions or subtractions but that's really just for your information as you can see
010um there's very little movement but there's a variety of reasons people have things happening in their lives and that's what generally leads to someone moving in or somebody moving out any specific questions on our count for January okay no action as presented no okay okay hearing no questions we will move to consider approval of personnel report of new hires and resignations well we have kind of a special one tonight for hirings we do have Nate coach who has been hired as our head Varsity track coach and Alan okulski as our Junior High volunteer assistant football coach and we have an announcement a retirement this evening and Marcy is here with us Marcy running fifth grade teacher from sugar Camp who has given 30 years to the district Marcy would you like to say a few
011words can we deny it before you talk no can I say a few words I have to have them in my hand because on the tee coach but I don't do this well um as I walked in here I went taught all the years taught your oldest one your dad was Schoolboard member when I started top both ears top both years you guys want in Sugar Camp you know um is what it's been um of recent but um you received my letter and I just would like to share that with you I guess personally so dear members of thetic school board um I have been part of this district for a long time I started in first grade here uh 12 years as a student left for my undergraduate and uh returned back after a
012year and a half of teaching in point and feel very blessed to be able to have come home and and had my full career here but after 32 years of teaching 30 of which have been as a fifth grader in Sugar Camp I intend to retire after this school year I've watched all classroom teachers turn over at least once survived a few principles uh and um I've gone from saying I taught your older sister to I taught your mom and uh former students have come in and been student teachers and two of my colleagues are currently former teachers and when I look across the hall to uh the fourth grade teacher and I say oo or he brings me on he brings me on Teacher Appreciation Day still a gift and said I just had
013to do it I had to Marcus um you know uh it's time and um I love teaching and know that I will somehow always teach in some capacity but I've experienced life cut short one too many times and uh and I want to enjoy whatever this next chapter of my life might bring you got to finish a chapter in a book and turn a page to start a new one and I'm very excited to be starting a new chapter in my book but the one I am completing has been pretty darn good to me and I'm going to miss it terribly so I feel very fortunate to have worked for the three L School District my entire almost my entire career last 30 years and I'm very grateful for all of the support way that
014you all given me in the community so thank you thank you Marcy I think we owe you a bigger thank you than you owe us I would agree and you're not the toughest teacher in Sugar Camp am I not the I am I don't know the rumor is you are am but they all come to school with a smile on their face thank you Marcy thank you okay well um unfortunately we're going to need a a motion on this when we're ready I'll make a motion to approve the Personnel report as presented I will second we have a motion on the floor by Stacy second by Josh all those in favor of the motion signify by stating I I I I opposed unheard motion carries next we move to consider approval for 7th through 12th
015grade students to participate in the youth risk behavior survey we actually have a guest with us tonight from the health department I don't understand do I I I'm I'm a nervous Walker so I will shake slightly and it will be very noticeable I'll let Mr Bach take the so you don't have to worry so yes um thank you for the opportunity to talk about the youth risk behavior survey in your board packet you should have received three documents one of them was a general overview of the ybs and then there was an actual sample of the junior high uh survey and as well as the high school ybs you had a chance to look at the overview of what the survey is all about um from a local District level all the way up to
016the the county level and uh chance to look at hopefully um some of the questions and the um kind the protocol of what that what that survey looks like and like Mrs mainy mentioned we have um Camy here as an expert historically um in my time here we have not offered the yvs I'm here to our 7th through 12th graders so can talk about the historic uh perspective of applying it here but um it' be great if there's any questions or anything um as far as the specifics that you'd like to talk about from the county level yeah I if it's beneficial for everyone I'm not sure how much information everyone knows or background about the youth risk behavior survey but it be more than willing to share some of that and kind of the
017how and why we do it um at a county level it stands um so majority of this is shortterm you'll hear me call it y RBS it's a very short way of just going around it but basically this survey is just a very big General survey that measures a youth's health related behaviors or experiences that could potentially lead to Erse childhood experiences or advents that's a lot and I didn't know how much people probably understand that so in more layman term I summarized it to basically this just kind of informs us what's what our youth are doing within our community um and so the real um big piece about the yrbs is that it is done on a 2-year rotation um it is conducted by majority of Public Health Schools some of them can opt
018out um it's not required it's something that is strongly encouraged through most public schools to participate in because of some of the information I will share in a little bit um but it's conducted every two years and um what the information does is it not only provides um a general overview of what your school internally looks like with the response of some of those questions you may or might have have gotten to look at um prior to our meeting um but it also ultimately is a collective whole image of our County so individual responses are taken from the school districts um they can be Three Lakes High School Lakeland Union High School has been a participant for a while our Rylander High School who has participated for a very long standing um and then we
019have a couple of middle schools who also do participate and what happens is all of those school reports get cumulated into one giant County report and that is what gets shared with the community individual school reports don't get shared um and we try we make that very important because that is not something um that is really needed to be seen we say every school district its own Lo Colony you know you would have to adjust to however your school is needed um but we take a wider approach and just take a look at the county report which is like I said accumulative County um and so I don't have to skip ahead I'm in PowerPoint not knowing what to expect but um how we kind of use the yvs data is it is utilized not
020only for internal school districts but also at um multiple different County organization levels so there's usually about three buckets that we um use the data in um one of those is community programs or grants so many of the grants that I actually work in are heavily um when we put in applications the yrbs data is heavily used in that it supports a lot of the efforts and the um events and things that we want to put on in our community to better our community um so we see a lot of that in our community grants and it's not only the health department um we have like I can't name them off the top of my head but we have other community um programs who do utilize this um we have external youth programs like the
021boys or girls club the YMCA when they write for Grants when they write for fun they're able to use this as another supporting piece of their work um and then schools ultimately who do the the survey um get to use this data to help support School initiatives and programs and stuff like that so those are just the different types of organizations and they use those um they use that data to do a whole bunch of things like developing programs interventions shaping policies um you know applying for Grants and funding that's a really big one that we use it for um tracking Trends over time to see how your school is doing or how your youth are being affected by whatever current trend is going on in the community um raising awareness or using it for
022advocacy um curriculum development and Community Partnerships so those are just some of the things that we have seen and it is being utilized for um and so it that kind of also then touches into why it's beneficial and why we use the ybs and so it not only does many of those things like provide funing but it also shifts more into our our youth's our youth's lens um I'm a coach at the Rylander high school as well so I coach volleyball I'm also an independent figure skating coach at the Rylander Ice Arena so I work with youth on a daily basis and so I've seen the change and i' recently I say recently graduated college that's not recent but I've seen the change and I have siblings in school and looking at it and being
023able to see the change over time from when I was in school laid out in the data format it gives me hope that I know I can make a really good change for my sister and my future nieces and nephews and my kids and so we look at it as it improves youth's own health like it supports that funding it guides current trends and risks so we have help kids avoid some of those um risk factors that put them in places where we're not comfortable or they really shouldn't be in um it also influ influences policy change it helps prevent future health like issues and crisises it builds Community Partnerships which are so important nowadays and it also empowers our future generations to want to be better than what they are now or to make
024change in the world so that way we can start building the leaders of Tomorrow basically and so what I'm proposing today is that the ybs typically um we work with a Wisconsin consultant um who is in charge of working with all the schools to get the yrbs up and going um we've recently come into the knowledge of we're not quite sure where it's going to be landing right now the youth risk behavior survey is kind of up in the air at this point but what I'd like to propose today is um we would really love if you guys would consider being a part of it taking the survey allowing kids to you know Express however they are behaving or experiencing within this survey to share with us so we can help make the community change
025um and so right now uh the the survey deadline has passed um I do want to be very transparent about that but we also don't know kind of what's going on right now so it's we're in a weird limbo State at this point so um like I said my proposal here today is just hopefully get your consideration for possibly um taking this in the future allowing the students to take it in the future so and I have um the I have the web link to where you can find more information about it if you ever need it um the school or the survey is posted prior to um launch and it has different modules you can choose to um incorporate into the survey we have a grant right now our drug free community Grant which
026utilizes this data um and it is required by our grant to report on it so um it's kind of just whatever you guys feel like is best for your community and your school but we would just love it if you would be a part of it so when is the deadline when was the deadline the deadline was on the Monday so I actually upate you so they did extend it for us I mentioned that based on school board approval um that we could still register for it if the school board approves it was pass Monday so I reached out I saw that so that is a nonissue for us we could still if the board supports that okay could administer it this year that would be wonderful but like I said it's up to whatever
027you guys believe would be best for your student body is it every student that takes it or so it goes so this is this the survey is based off of actually the census so for for us to receive a county report um we need at least two school districts two High School school districts to participate in the survey right now we have one school district on board the other one has unfortunately dropped out so at this point you are our deciding factor on whether or not we get a county report this year um don't let that have too much power over anything um but it goes based off of the percentage of Youth in the county so if so many individuals take the survey so let's let's say like 50% of your students from this
028school take the survey that is considered enough students to be supported to make a community or a county level Grant or county level survey so and they have that criteria on their website too um so if you have more questions about that I can also help you navigate that is it just random kids picked to take it or is it it would be all time that's a great question I'm actually not completely positive about who would take it or how it's implemented I only know that it is um all Anonymous so no no kids names are ever on the report um and that's just kind of the extent of that students and Par have the option to opt out yes they do have the option to opt out um so what I believe is everyone
029gets offered the opportunity to take the survey if your child or if a parent decides to opt out of the survey then they just opt out and that's where that 50 that census percent would come into play and they would go based off of how many kids within your school dist kep taking it so so Ryan You' said you'd communicate with parents first absolutely and then we would be very transparent so what are we looking at for a timeline on this another great question um so how it would be is they there is a representative from the state who would communicate with Ryan about getting the survey out to to students um the hard thing is that receiving the data back from the state has taken a lot longer than many people have enjoyed or
030liked we still haven't received Middle School data from 21 which yes is very problematic and concerning um but we have just recently gotten our our high school one but that is because we strongly fought for it we had to Reach Out multiple times and work with the school districts to make sure like hey are you okay with us sharing it we would love to make a county level report um so it could range for between a couple a couple of months um it's really hard to say because like I said we're not quite sure where it's going to land this year anyway so um I think that's probably the best answer I can probably get at this point is this similar to what the Freshman did in Junior High when they get Culver's cards for
031no that was different that was different than what this is this definitely more comprehensive there's more pieces to it more categories that are assessed in the survey okay it's about 80 to 100 questions it would take roughly around I believe what they stated was 45 to 60 Minutes any any standard class time um and yes there are multiple different buckets um they can R I have a list of them um they can range anywhere from behaviors that contribute to unintentional injuries or violence tobacco alcohol and drug use um sexual behaviors unhealthy dietary behaviors unhealth or physical activity and obesity mental health technology and online behaviors um and school safety or climate so it covers a variety of different questions um and like I said like was mentioned it is optional for parents or students to
032out um is there a recommendation from the administration um well I will just backtrack a little bit Ryan and myself um met with Christ opal the the elementary counselor um we have principals there and we met with um uh Mo gross originally and we do have a few different options first of all if you were able to review the questions and all they they do get pretty in depth um we do also have the opportunity to start small um as Cammy mentioned there are two separate surveys there is the junior high or what they call the Middle School survey which is a little bit unique to us because we're a 78 program where the other middle schools would be 68 and then there's the 9 through 12 for the high school program um and looking
033at it you know we felt collectively that this would be good data for us to be informed to help us with knowing our students better the behaviors that are going on in our community and just have it as a good resource um we felt like even if we could get a start with maybe our high schoolers start small and look at expanding to the junior high Middle School in the future if the board didn't feel comfortable going on in we agreed collectively that we would be okay with that um we really didn't see a major issue with the junior high other than we did not prefer to bring the sixth grade into the data at this point sixth grader are in separate buildings separate situations they're not interacting in a middle school setting so that's
034basically where we landed on that um do Justin or Phil or Ryan did you want to contribute anything to our conversation meeting okay okay is anyone willing to make a motion I will make a motion to allow the 7th 12th grade students to participate in the the risk behavior survey as presented second I guess my comment would just be that to make sure that parents are very given the it's very explicit that you know you have the option you know so I guess that's my only thing j we'll get a communication out and make sure we're very transparent with all the details and the op process and there yeah we talked length about that administratively we we absolutely don't want to do anything that our parents would feel comfortable with um we do hope that
035they understand the purpose but yet that is their parental decision and we will respect that and that information would be overc communicated rather than underc commmunication because that's how important it is any further questions we do have a motion on the floor by Mitch second by Michelle all those in favor of the motion signify by stating I I I I opposed none heard motion carries thank you Cammy for coming in and providing your information and treats please all of those up I also had a print a copy of any of the survey information if you guys want to take a look at it so I can leave that here for you guys thank you for letting me come great thank you thank you Mr Buck thank you okay next we move to consider approval of
036new courses firefighter 1 and hazardous materials in collaboration with Northland Pines yes so we have an academic uh Co-op opportunity with Northern Pines to offer a firefighter 1 course um in your board packet you were given the description of the firefighter one course and it is a year-long course embedded in that class um is the the certified firefighter one as well as the hazardous material operations component a little bit of information that I found out above and beyond um the descriptions that were provided to you um it'll be taught at North pance High School of course historically this class has been held on Monday Tuesday and Thursdays from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. uh North and Pines they haven't uh completed their schedule yet they actually have a meeting going right now um to decide
037exactly what that schedule is going to look like but they are planning on on running the same schedule as they as they have historically for that three days a week Monday Tuesday and Thursday so it'll start at the beginning of the school year and it will be it it'll last the duration of the entire school year upon successful completion of the course students would earn 2.4 college credits for the firefighter one class and a half a credit for the Hazmat operations course so again it's year long um so they would they would earn the 2.9 college credits which would equate to one high school credit okay similar to a class that they would take um all year long here at the high school the minor conflict um that that our students um who engage in
038this opportunity May um come in you know uh what what may arise is the um start of our school day is 81 :00 so the transportation back after the course they' probably get here about 8:20 8:30ish but we could be creative um in the scheduling process to potentially ensure a study hall during second hour um so that they wouldn't miss um too much academic time um during that second hour um part of the this class or upon successful completion of the course the student would earn $500 through the CTE incentive Grant the district would earn approximately $700 for successful completion of the class so that's all part of the CT incentive grant information that we would provide the state at the end of the school year the course uh would cost $750 uh per student
039um so through the the CTE inste of Grants would roughly be a wash to the school district are there any questions from any board members do you have to be a certain age to take this cour course uh junior senior level how much interest do you think right we have a a competition coming up here at nickolay and we have four students signed up for the firefighter portion of it I think this runs in conjunction with our EMT course um some of the students who are enrolled in that course have signed up for the competition the firefighter competition at nicka so I predict um probably three to five students each year it would be interesting something like this this is something that um has been I would say Visionary Scott Foster and I have talked
040about it for a few years now and with the EMT course coming to Three Lakes which has been very well received um they have the opportunity to participate with us as well they would then hold this on their their grounds we really want to develop any kind of um Community Support type of programming that our students may have a lifelong interest in anyway or get their foot at the door maybe this gets them exposed to something in a career path that say Hey I would like to go a little bit further so it does really answer some multiple needs and I think it's also one of those things we can have pride with our kids are becoming those uh productive citizens and giving back to the community any chance we can offer an opportunity for
041for kids to go beyond school and and not just a college aspect but uh you know like you say a lifetime skill or or career I think is a great opportunity yeah ran has there been any communication with the volunteers like our local departments CU I know we have some local volunteer departments who actually employ our students here at Three Lakes and have in the past is that something that they anyone has reached out or talked to them I know during the discussion at Northern Pines tonight they were going to include the local fire departments to talk about this on class and just bring more awareness to the local departments but uh I believe absolutely um we have a community service day coming up here in May and the um local firefighters are going to
042be part of that so that's going to also increase awareness uh for our students what we have here locally and in conjunction with this class I think that's really going to yeah um increase that post secondary Readiness factor that we don't have in place right now um I could really help students get to that next level might also save them a cost to put them through fire fighter one at the the volunteer level North and Pines was very hopeful that we would go forward with um this course in programming um and it was actually said to me if we're we on board then that opens the opportunity for instance to invite the the sugar Camp volunteer department Three Lakes has um been supportive in the preliminary discussions and in fact the they feel the program
043would be much more enriched if some more Community local organizations could be supportive of it so I think it's just the opening of what it can be any other questions Fe back okay is anyone ready to make a motion I'll make a motion to approve the new firefighter one hazardous material courses in collaboration with North and Pines as presented second we have a motion on the floor by Josh second by Stacy all those in favor of the motion signify by stating I I I opposed none heard motion carries thank you Mr B thank you okay next we move to thank you Cammy consider approval of alternate Pathway to graduation requirements all right I'm going to let Mr Zeus take over on this one for sure thank you Terry um I believe you have in your
044board packets a lot of information about a program called the GP option two um the request for you to consider tonight is that we add some language into our existing policy as it pertains to graduation um the reason for this is currently uh if in a couple of cases I can think of in in the short term right now when students especially when they transfer in and they are uh we don't have fortunately we don't have a ton of kids who are credit deficient that have been with us all along uh but when it kid a student comes here and they're significantly credit deficient in their junior or senior year when they come in uh we don't have a lot of In-House options in order for them to successfully complete any sort of high school
045experience with us uh mathematically speaking it's nearly impossible or impossible to to to hit the credit Market um in in the amount of time that we have to work with students so uh what we are proposing is to put in an alternate pan halfway for students to earn a diploma or a high school equivalency or or or diploma through the Three Lakes District through a program other than shipping them out to nickol or because currently we have in our policy kids can go and get their GED someplace else and then come back two years later and we could the board could consider issuing them a Three Lakes diploma we we don't have an in-house option uh if if we were to approve an ultimate pathway we now would have an in-house option for kids who
046who are significantly uh and meet the criteria for credit deficient uh for credit deficiency um we have staff and Personnel on hand right now on staff right now who are credentialed and able to operate a GED option 2 program uh we've got tenative uh green light from the state of Wisconsin DPI uh we need to have it in our board policy though in order for us to be able to offer that um the the and Ray would be here tonight to speak to you about this uh but if you got questions about the GD option to I'm pretty confident I can answer most of them um because I we had a GD option through the last place I worked um Ray is at actually the she she's on the state board for the uh n
047and Witch uh committee which is basically your at risk planning and atrisk programming uh committee for the state of Wisconsin uh high schools GED option 2 uh programming is a way for kids to earn their high school diploma through equivalency tests that stay in house and and so we we don't have to rely on nickolay or anybody else to provide a hsd program um before I go too much further I want to just highlight what uh I or what we're asking for tonight we have currently in place in our policy 3233 as it pertains to graduation an alternate uh other than by means of of reaching our credit requirements uh we already have two criteria in there um I'm I'm proposing we add a third and the language I'm proposing we add into number three
048we already have number one number two and number three would be when the student has satisfactorily completed the requirements of an alternate Pathway to a high school diploma provided by the three L School District such as the Wisconsin GED option 2 program or a blend of GED equivalency assessments and high school course credits and what that means what that means is um I'm thinking of a case right now we have a student who is all good with credits except for in science so if we were to put language like this in place if that student would successfully complete the battery of tests to demonstrate the state level competencies in science but had credits for all the other cores and their electives we could then issue them a diploma come May that's what I'm asking or
049what we're asking uh the GED option 2 has a lot of rigor to it it's it's a good program um from having a firsthand experience of seeing it run I think it's better than most most at hsed programs that kids would get if they drop out of school and go and try to get it at at the local Tech or whatever school it's it's it's better in my opinion in terms of the the relevancy um and it's not just tests there's other requirements to community service which follows right in with what our board has in place already anyway so many schools have some sort of In-House option um I believe this would bring us up to speed with uh having that ability I don't see us having this uh fall to a spot where there's
050six8 10 students doing this every year um but in the last last few years we've had a small handful I can think of a couple over the last couple of years where had we had something like this we may not have lost them as a Dropout or lost them to enrolling to a district who does have some sort of programming for an alternate Pathway to a diploma questions discussion no we have an expectation especially if it's run by our state on the quality that comes out of it versus letting them go somewhere else I actually feel much more comfortable about this as a alternative pathway because they're getting it now while they are a high school student um what we have in our policy is a little Antiquated when you think then two years later
051you could come back and make the request you want them to get that diploma so they can be setting their future and in if you had a chance to review very thoroughly um it is more rigorous and much more controlled and much more um we're going to make sure you succeed Justin made a really good point very very few times has it turned out that one of our own students who have been with us all along our credit deficient like this because we are keeping track but it historically the last few years we have had people kids coming in juniors you know four credits that's a hill that is almost impossible to achieve this if you're willing to work hard be dedicated to it it's a an option Carrie what's your Tak does it benefit
052your program in space a lot providing it in house too removes the barrier for some of our students who may not have a driver's license and they cannot get to Nick so it really it would help us immensely what kind of a stretch on our resources is this none that's a really good question it was it was one of my initial first concerns as well um because of our volume uh we don't have to appropriate a staff member for a half a day or 3/4 of a day to run this like it is in other other places where there's so much volume but the volume that we're we're expecting that we have currently uh this is something that's probably as Terry mentioned it's not going to cost us a thing uh we have Ray here
053already uh Gman and and she would be leading the program and if anything we could potentially maybe need a support a her or there just for supervision sake but uh it's not going to be any more than one period of the day for her to get kids cranking on this so we can definitely uh at the current uh case load that we're thinking we we would be fine without having to add any stat any other questions or feedback from the board one thought I guess and this goes back over a number of things I mean we've we've added all kinds of options for these kids um from extra classes to to to co-opt education with other schools to catch up stuff um we just need to be very sure from an administrative standpoint that we
054are make that we make sure that all these kids and parents know that all these options are out there we whether it's website revision whether it's the Whatever Whatever It Takes we just need to make sure that all these people know these options are out there I guess completely agree because we should be celebrating the power of this small district and the opportunities that are being put forth very good point Josh if there are no other questions I would take a motion I'll make a motion to approve the alternate Pathway to meeting graduation requirements through the three Lake School District as presented second okay we have a motion by Stacy second by Mitch all those in favor of the motion signify by stating I I I opposed none heard motion carries thank you Mr Zeus
055thank you next we move to consider approval of the 2025 2026 School staff calendar all right we have the um draft for you to take a look at tonight um this has been a process that I started back in November actually to gather staff feedback um share the reasons the parameters of what this calendar um has to be shaped around uh on the surface there's so many factors that go into it so I'm kind of repeating myself for those who've been here for a while but um not only the number of uh instructional minutes that we have to meet but we do have to uh respect the law that you know we are not allowed to start start until September 1st and we also are looking at the way the different holidays fall within the
056calendar we now have the whole series of act 20 which has required periods of days that must occur in between testing dates on top of all of Ryan was still here all the other testing that we have with the forward exam the ACT You Name It We are very driven by outside controls that are legislatively in place um not having flexibility and not wanting our students to have to go to school until June 20th has a big big factor in what this um calendar shapes out to be so this year it tries to look very closely at reflecting what we did this past year a couple of points that I just want to share with you is we have at the beginning of the year in August our inservice days that will also include um
057bringing new staff in um for those training mentoring days and that's where we get all of our inservice work done we then also have kept the 8 one hour sessions after school um those are for continuing professional development so we can keep the work going that we have started and don't want it to get old or stale that is tough it's a it's a big ask of the staff but it is really very well worth it um and we have support to continue that we'll tweak it a little bit next Ste again to our needs but feel that that's very important that we keep that in the calendar looking at um November uh we are keeping the same proposed calendar dates for Thanksgiving there are some districts that take the entire week off uh the
058reports back were you know very mixed either way it can go and students of course have parent excused absences should that be a time when they choose to use that absence for whether it's celebrating the holiday or some people use it in hunting season though that's a very minimal Factor here at three legs the biggest change this year is looking at December with the way Christmas Falls um and trying to keep a cohesive schedule it makes for a very long break uh that was not well received to have to come to school one day like the 22nd and then have the 23rd off it was very important to many people that they have the 23rd off for a travel day or uh getting to what they need to do since the 24th is a celebrated
059day as well and then if you look on the other end of it going into January with the first being again on Thursday it was difficult to ask um families to come back on one day a Friday before a weekend again it just seemed that this was kind of the anomaly in the schedule that this year have that two week break is what falls in line questions so far looking forward within the rest of the calendar coming up in March the proposed spring break we went back and forth um anything from TY it to Easter which is in April which would be quite late um to somewhere between the 2 and the third week in March the second and the third week of March and talking with um Phil and looking at the athletic schedule
060ual and working with Ryan on ACT Testing and such there are three testing windows so we can make that fit nicely um hopefully that works kind of into the Down Season between the full force of when April May and such get going again with our spring Sports season and that's where it tends to fall some districts choose a a week that they stick to it others try to attach it to Easter North and Pines um historically used this the third week of March until this calendar that they're doing they're attaching it to April till Easter so um I do know that from them sharing that with us so that would be uh a bigger change feedback is that staff would prefer to see it earlier than later uh just because it's winter and it's March
061is still snowy and if we're going to do it it fits within the um testing windows that I explained explained earlier to fall that week questions about that one since that's probably the bigger change it seems really early I don't know if it just seems that way the March break mhm have we been that have we been that early well this year we're the following week yeah so it's only one week earlier yeah I know and we didn't have in the past having to work around the 45 day windows with in act 20 and I've said this and people probably think I'm being kind of cruel or unfeeling or we can eliminate spring break which has been what many of the neighborhood schools are doing and what many schools in Wisconsin have had to do
062to fit it in and I don't think that would be well received in our community um but it is a reality of what we're looking at now and it's too I mean it's pretty equidistant the second or third week so it breaks up the two months on either side mhm I would also want to note then looking at April it would just be Friday the 3D that would be off Monday the 6th will be a school day it's just going to be a three-day weekend to fit within our um our days this gives us safely at the high school level level two days built in of a snow or cold event and that would then allow us to be still getting out um on June 4th with that being an early release day and I
063should make a correction it's not 2 days it's actually a third day by a third day of buil in for time and it also fits well with the ACT schedule if we would have to make up time that gives us at least that Friday one more day without having to go into the next week is the staff generally heavy y well everybody has an opinion everybody was able to give feedback and I've shared right along where it is I had to land at well this is what what fits best where and I've shared this with staff and they are very well aware so they like the two weeks at Christmas there was not a a big appetite for going Monday and half a day Tuesday any questions or feedback there are none I would take
064a motion I'll make a motion to approve the school staff calendar of the 25 26 school year second we have a motion by Mitch second by Stacy all those in favor of the motion signify by stating I I I opposed and heard motion carries thank you next we move to consider approval of land use with Jan olager for the Trap Club just want to bring this formally to you we do have approval um Mr oer is very wonderfully working with us again um welcoming our students of the Trap Club to shoot on his property want to go ahead and formally get the approval um from the board and have him sign the contract as we did last year um all insurances all concerns all matters are exactly the same as last year this is just
065your formal approval questions or concerns on this one if not I would take a motion I'll make a motion to approve land use with Jan aler for the Trap Club for the 2025 season second motion on the floor by Stacy second by Josh all those in favor of the motion signify by stating I I I I opposed none heard motion carries next we move to school Forest Camp 3 update just a very brief report we have our hearing scheduled on Friday at 10:30 at Onida County Courthouse okay next move into to District related positive happenings we had incentive skp last Friday went really well it was on Valentine's Day kids like it it was a little bit cool starting out but I think we enjoyed it it was was a good time all around so
066we have 4K open house and registration for the upcoming school year and um we did that on the same day conferences uh so far in three laks we have 17 registered and 10 in Sugar Camp great well there are two potentials so might be around 12 so Room to Grow but those are good numbers just preliminarily say add to that 40% of those in three LS are girls so that's a good sign that's good I think I think one in one in Sugar Camp is a girlre um we had our teacher conferences as you know are by invitation but those were well done well attended um and just I guess Commendation to our our reading implementation team getting all those prps and act 20 requirements done that went more smoothly than I thought it was
067going to go and you know it's it's just well done so got through that too um celebrated the 100th day of school by finding 100 pictures of me all over the place I heard they're stillar still are they still sh up uh today our student council spent the afternoon playing bonco at Friendly Village and they donated a bunch of board games um from money that they raised with the candy cane sale earlier this year um our spelling be is this Friday and then Sutton pitlick will be representing sh camp and Three Lakes at the state speaking competition which is March 5th so another year that we're sending a a sixth grade student to the state competition so last year Addie Shan we took second so we're in the midst of winter homecoming week and things
068are going well um student council has done a nice job with uh events and dress up days I I don't we a red hoodie to school but this was a staff had to do what's the name of the movie please inside thank you I've never seen it um anyway uh Disney themed uh winter homecoming going well dance on Saturday is that what they picked for you for your character or no no no the angry part that was my choice my youngest child Pi F and then you should wear red I said um and staff had pretty good participation I think there was 10 or 12 in the in the picture with uh for today so that was good um also ice fishing team that we combined with Phelps 4 uh the Three Lakes Phelps ice
069fishing team just wrapped up a pretty successful season um the events I I got to look at my phone so I don't misquote any of these um the events that we participated in uh had really good showing the first uh tournament they they had uh 101 teams across the state were entered um our kids took fifth um the second one we entered there were 84 teams and our kids took seventh and then most recently the state tournament which actually got to happen in person this year which was kind of bizarre the last three years has been canceled because of weather um there were 1,50 student Anglers participating 97 teams and our kids finished 23rd so pretty respectable showing um especially in that state tournament tournament where it's completely unfamiliar water for those kids down in
070Lacrosse on Lake on Alaska and they found some fish big thanks to Mr patelli because he stepped up big this year with Mr stot stepping away from the education gig um he was kind of flying solo so we did a really nice job giving that opportunity to our kids Jen yes we had also on Feb six we had Nexus here with their camera crew and did interviews for the referendum video it was such a good day of listening to people talk about our district um everybody that came in from the community the planning committee that came in to our staff members to our students everybody was there was like this theme of community that really came through that they talked about how proud they are of Three Lakes and why this is important and it
071was we we all even cried when Mr Kirby was interviewed so it was a it was a good day um that was real positive so that'll that'll be coming out March 5th hopefully start to see some finished products from that shout out to Jen on the back stop of that if you had to get interviewed uh you and the team made it more comfortable um in a nerve-wracking experience um with the camera crew um and as always um between trying to follow Instagram and the Facebook page the digital imaging um the things that are going out to the public with reference to everything from Sports to the reference referendum um the face of three likes looks amazing to the public so keep up the great work on that fun side note I had all the
072yearbooks out I've got them in my office you know digging through stuff and the kids started pulling them out then too and we're like discovering all this stuff about the school none of us knew you know um how it was three stories and what prom used to look like so it's been fun watching them dig through it too it's awesome they also there's little fun tidbit in there one of the first interviews here at Three Lakes um Mr Busco brought his marketing class in to watch like the setup and everything so that was cool for them to see a Hands-On marketing experience happening any others okay we will move to WB correspondence and updates I don't have anything um official from them as far as upcoming dates and such uh we talked about the day
073at the capital which does not work for us because we're having a session and then I have here for you uh some member recognition certificates that go with your years of service and those arrived so I get to present those so Alicia you get your award level one for region two there you are and we have Josh award level two for you and Michelle award level two for you and thank you again so much for your commitment to this mine up I went exactly they were at the the convention I thank you all for your dedication and willingness to do this for us because it's a job that's one more job on top of everything else you do but it is a very well worth and I think reward in for me it is to
074work with you knowing you have the best interests in the heart of our kids in our district always foremost than mine so I thank you for continuing to do what you do have done and thank you Michelle for your service with us it's been a real pleasure having you on the board it's been a pleasure we have one more y we do okay um next we're going to move into our EX uh session so it'll be adjourning to Executive session based on Wisconsin statute 19.85% G to confer with legal councel that's second we have a motion by Josh second by Mitch going into executive session requires a roll call vote Stacy I Josh hi Michelle hi Mitch hi Alicia hi okay thank you everyone for coming tonight at this time we will move into executive
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