001meeting of the Three Lakes Board of Education if everyone would please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge aliance 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 okay we will move right into to the administrator's report on the agenda posting the agenda was posted at three Lake School and sugar Camp school by email the town of Three Lakes town of Monaco town of sugar camp and the Demmer library media notified via email included the Vias County News Northwoods River news wjo news wxpr radio and media notified by mail was wacd WK radio thank you next next we move on to amendments and approval of the agenda no amendments there are no amendments okay when someone
002is ready I will take a motion on the agenda approval I'll make a motion to approve the agenda I'll second okay we have a motion by Stacy second by Mitch all those in favor of the motion signify by stating I I I I I opposed motion carries okay next we move on to minutes of the October 16th 2024 regular meeting and the October 16th 2024 budget hearing and annual meeting any additions changes no okay if not I will take a motion I'll make a motion to approve the Schoolboard regular meeting minutes and the budget hearing and annual meeting minutes as presented second we have a motion by Jos second by Stacy all those in favor of the motion signify by stating I I oppos motion carries okay next we move to the treasurer's report uh
003make a motion to approve the checks dat October 11th 2024 through November 13 2024 for accounts payable a checks 2 42528 number 2425 88 regular checks number 13377 number 13490 manual checks number 5779 wi transfers number 2024 0030 and 202462 in the amount of $747,000 $173 37 and a payroll checks number 90043 979 and 44221 and regular payroll checks number 59 372 and 59 387 in the amount of $394,500 for a total amount of 1,412 and. second okay we have a motion by Mitch second by Michelle all those in favor of the motion signify by stating I I I I opposed unheard motion carries next we move to public comments is there any comments from visitors regarding any of the posted agenda items okay hearing none we we'll move on to the administrator's report okay
004I'm going to just do a very quick report on the release of the uh three Lake School District report cards they were released yesterday um our results are very similar to last year um what I did do for the on the board's behalf so you could take a quick look is I did make you some copies of uh what I had shared with you last you year with districts um that are are neighboring districts if you would like to take a look um and I didn't do schools or anything we'll do a thorough report next month where we break down our own data and we look at our individual schools and we talk about our areas that we're focusing on for improvement um the gains that have been made and our programming and and how
005it's um supporting our kids and their learning needs so if you take a quick look at what I shared with you and for those in the audience um three Lake School District ranked at 73.2 that's the number and again it exceeded expectations um the number last year was 76 and I want to caution everyone not to go by the number as much as a a a re kind of a referral to they've adjusted the um grading system that they're doing at DPI and so there's been a recalculation so it's very hard for comparables it doesn't mean we went down in scores we still exceed um expectations which is very good we're we're doing what we need to do but there's some areas where the weighted of the growth score versus the academic score has been
006reflected a little bit differently so we are doing well um our neighbor Tomahawk um they also exceeded expectations as did Ben uh Beacher Dunbar penine and um Northland Pines and then our other neighbors that meet expectations included Elco Phelps anago Laino and Rylander and then there are a couple of schools within our conference and our area that um are not meeting expectations or meeting few expectations at this point um and I just left those in there for your reference so overall we are doing very well by the individual schools very pleased to see um the uh growth continue and the academics continue um when we get into this a little bit more next month I'd like to talk a bit to you to help you understand that in a way our school because we have
007some pretty high achieving scores and we've got more Improvement to make but we have very little in the way way of um the groups that you look at for given consideration like your free and reduced or some of the other um subcategories that our our scores aren't helped as much as maybe some other schools are so please don't make this a comparison to a comparison it's just one point of many that helps us refer to how we're doing questions that you may have on this initial report which is very good and my congratulations to all the staff and students and every body doing their part to continue the success in our district than with that you're welcome okay next we'll move on to new business and December meeting dates our regular meeting is scheduled for
008December 18th um at Three Lakes at 6:00 p.m. next we move on to consider approval of the Personnel report of new hires and resignations okay that may just find a moment to pull that out our hirings to report include George lurvy boys varsity head basketball coach Tod Ria boys basketball volunteer coach Jordan lurvy boys basketball volunteer coach and Jack Wales boys basketball volunteer coach resignations and include Brad vulgan boy Varsity head basketball coach and Carly VI's Varsity track coach I'm sorry it says Jake it says Jake here I just want him to earn his keep I apologize thank you for that correction Jake Wales as boys basketball volunteer coach and I had the glasses on too my apologies uh just one point thank you uh we're basketball season is upon us so great job in
009getting individuals ready and able to start the season just so you know I didn't have to try very hard J his right I have to do much good okay if there's not any questions I would take a motion for the Personnel report I'll make a motion to approve the personal report as presented second okay we have motion by Josh second by Mitch all those in favor of the motion signify by stating I I I opposed motion carries next we move to consider field trip request overnight for the fifth grade uh this is one that comes before you because it is an overnight request um it's a new request and it won't take us very long I want Jeff to know that he can leave as soon as we're done with this because we have a
010lengthy meeting ahead of us um Jeff has a proposal to take his class on an overnight trip so I'm going to ask him and um Steve to share the information with you thank you good evening um so this would be a trip to the Northern Lakes Impact Center which is Crescent Lake just south of R maybe you're familiar with it um they've done a lot of work with students in the past they've had a lot of students students come and go schools and they do an overnight option which would be a lot of outdoor education critical thinking skills problem solving team building type of activities they have it all set up I mean they literally I talked to Maria yesterday who's the head there and she just said that as a teacher you just show
011up your your job is to Aid your job is to support you don't have to plan anything to me that's sounded great a long list of things that match the Wisconsin State Standards um lot of social study science that I was impressed with options that I can choose my students if this is approved can have some impact into that and um I did ask her I said you know one of my concerns would be safety is this a safe place for for my students and she assured me there's tons of uh training as far as um First Responders are nearby the staff is AED CPR trained I mean stuff that I went over my head but she was uh they're definitely in the state of Wisconsin to proved them you know being a a camp
012and they have to that in place so assured me that and then as far as where the students would sleep there's cabins and they have four students to a room there separate rooms adults can sleep in a different room you'd be near students but you wouldn't have to be with them and it's like a dining hall kitchen and they provide all the food um this sounds like a really neat experience outdoor education is something that means a lot to me I have had a chance um student myself to do that in fourth grade and then I led some other kids at kle Marine District when I was there in fourth grade as well so sounds a lot of fun a lot of work would have to go into making it a reality though as far
013as raising the money and it's $85 per student and I have to U raise that see what I can do as far as ideas but uh I think it's it's doable so with that are there any questions um that the board would have or is there anything Steve would want to add to uh did you want to other groups that have been there recently yeah yeah so they they a lot of schools will go there for their date trips right Lander I know sugar Camp has gone there River bmer Clintonville and Niagara are ones that she mentioned do the overnight NRA does a whole week they sixth grade and um so that assured me they've you know done this before they have a lot of winter Retreats like weekend just groups that come in but
014as far as schools that's that's some schools also I did I have contact at Eagle River they go to a place called conserve up Atlanta lakes and uh their fourth grade goes there overnight and I talked to Nicole who runs that and just got ideas from her the other day as far as what works she talked about a parent meeting how you want to just assure that everything's in place any concerns and that backtracks to Maria who I talked to yesterday said she's even willing to come to Three Lakes that this passes during a parent meeting having a PowerPoint and just making sure everyone feels comfortable with what they're getting into so yeah I would just like say thanks for finding a new way for kids to reach out and learn you know learn in
015new ways I mean it's great to keep their minds out of the routine and give them a different opportunity so I think it's a great idea this might be the only opportunity for some of our students to go to a camp overnight especially so I agree excellent we did it when I was in school I choose for tomorrow it was wonderful I still remember it so any questions no I completely support it I want Jeff to steal um borrow ideas for future development within the district because I see this really fitting into our plans for future outoor education development and you know the future is not that far away so thank you Jeff for taking this initial step I appreciate that the support and the trust thank you you bet if there's not any other
016questions anyone willing to make a motion I'll make a motion to approve the overnight Bill trip request as presented second okay we have a motion by Stacy second by Michelle all those in favor signify by stating I I I opposed nard motion cares thank you again for putting that together appreciate you ready sir yes okay next we move on to Nexus School perceptions facilities planning survey review I'm going to move so you guys can see better there we go can you hear me now yes great well thanks for having me back again um so my goal tonight is to share the results of your community survey I'm going to share my screen a little a little bit of luck can you see that yes all right so we're going to go through the report tonight
017there's some background information or the information that was contained in the server itself is also included in the report that's important because it creates context for the response we're going to look at the demographics and then slice and dice the data to help you make sense of it so again School perceptions we've been around for more than 20 years now we've done over 3 million um staff parent and student surveys uh for the sake of school Improvement and now we've done over a th000 community surveys like the one we did for Three Lakes uh to kind of help uh the board decide what to do in terms of your referendum planning uh your survey had a deadline of November 4th we had 643 responses which gave us a response rate of 16% and from a
018statistical standpoint where it just under plus or minus 4% a very good response rate we've got good data any our our goal is to kind of hit over 400 once you hit over 400 the data doesn't change much at all um so who took our survey um a lot of older folks um so we had 44% that were 65 and older and then a little bump down at 35 to 44 um age group I actually went back and looked at the 2020 census in 202 20 census has you at 43% of the uh Three Lakes Community that are 65 and older so um we're spot on with that and that's good because when it comes to uh taking surveys as well as voting our seniors tend to turn out to vote so this is good
019we had one question is your primary residents in the district 88% of our sample said yes with 11% that said no 1% didn't know where they live um no judgment and we don't know who they are um but uh this is important because a lot it's a beautiful area in the Three Lakes area and some folks uh have a second home on a lake potentially they may have gotten the survey they may have taken the survey but they don't get to vote on the referendum so we remove any nonresidents from the funding support question so that's why that question is there we did have representation from all the municipalities um roughly 2/3 from the town of Three Lakes and about a third from the town of sugar camp and we did have actually representation from
020everybody else all the way down to the town of Stella which might be one or two people 12% of our sample were employees of the district 29% were parents and we had one question on communication how do you like to receive information here we took the staff out completely because we've got we got our own internal modes of communication with staff we then broke it into two subgroups the light blue are parents um their number one far and away is send me an email and then two-thirds will read the newsletter then it drops down to I'm going to go to the website about half and almost half will will uh go on Facebook and and get information that way for our non-parent non-staff we call them the purple people then um so that's about roughly
021three4 of your community they want a newsletter um but almost half will read the Vias County review and then about a third will go to the website again the information that was in the survey is also in the report so we talked about the various projects that were under consideration the total 25.2 million potentially and then we created a prioritization I guess for Green Bay Packers tonight uh green and gold uh so every if everybody would have said we're doing or if it's a High um priority it'd be green if it's a low priority it's a light yellow um so it's if you do the do the math simple average we can get up to a no higher than a three no lower than a one we then sorted your projects from the highest priority
022to the lowest priority so the number one was mechanical and electrical even though that was the most expensive I think people get it they said that's important I'll support that Safety and Security was second building exterior in site was third followed by the classroom and support areas and building interior we did have a few other items four other items that we tested including the either a DED cafet cafeteria or a dedicated gym at Sugar Camp could be either one as a 1.87 then it kind of dropped down and the three athletic projects including outdoor Athletics fitness center and artificial tur Turf they tested in the really bottom third of the items tested um we needed some direction on the sugar Camp decision should we build a dedicated cafeteria or a dedicated gym um so we
023ask the question if the community prioritizes one of those which option should the district pursue and it's always nice when the groups kind of agree so we broke into staff being dark blue parents being light blue and the non-parent non-staff the purple people they're purple and uh they came out pretty darn similar so all three groups about 2third broke doing the de C cafeteria versus a dedicated gym and the dedicated gym did cost more so that's also a factor that influenced people's response but I think we've got clear Direction there probably the most important question on the survey was funding support uh we tested everything from a $25.2 million referendum down to a smaller less than 10 million so the logic of this kind of starts out we take looking at the top row 24%
024of our non-parent non staff uh almost a quarter would support 25 million well that's great but that's not 50% so we have to keep adding on the Assumption if is that a person that would support uh uh 25.2 would likely also support 20 so we added that on and then if those two groups likely probably also support 15 million so we uh we keep adding it till we cross the 50% threshold um and then we get all the way down to the far right side where folks said no referendum and not going support anything um Rob and I do a lot of these projects together and we we know but based on experience that that bright red group can in some districts go up to 30 35% in Three Lakes it's very low so only
02510% of non-parent non staff 12% of parents and it looks like 2% of your staff say I'm not going to support anything so that's really good news um so we broke that question into the non-parent non staff being the top row parents being the second and the staff being the third now just to pause for a second when you think about your community you need to understand that the vast majority of your folks fall into that non-parent non-staff group so yeah you hear from your staff they're there every day parents are very vocal but it's that non-parent non-staff who neither work in the district nor have kids in the district they represent the majority of your voters so as a school board you have to put more waiting on that group so we did that
026for you and we assume for the sake of this analysis that about 75% of your community fall into that non-parent non-staff purple group and about 25% of your remaining group fall into that parent group and for the sake of this analysis we took the staff out completely we said they're less than 1% and they just don't get a lot of votes they're not going to move the needle we then did a weighted average analysis um at the three levels at the 25.2 million if that were to put out be put on the ballot we would predict that you'd end up at about 26.3% if a $20 million question were put on the ballot you're getting close but you're still under that 50% threshold and when you drop down to 15 million North at 60% and
027this is not including any uh undecided excuse me votes um or um um um survey takers that were factored into that so that's kind of how that fell out we did have a couple overall satisfaction questions and these are really important because um overall satisfaction highly correlates with referendum support if someone has a bee in their Bonnet and aren't happy with something that the district get done they're not likely to support the district when it comes to U any sort of referendum so this particular analysis people could say we're doing great we're doing good we're doing Fair we're doing poor if everybody said we're doing great we'd be a four if everyone said we're doing before we'd be a one so you can see the numbers are all for the most part greater than three
028we've got a couple that drop down um but this is hard to put this into context so our software actually goes out and Compares you to similar school districts and uh so the group average um you can see the 3.3 3.12 3.06 and 3.24 our software goes out and Compares you to districts and then places you into a percentile if you're in the first percentile that's bad if you're in the 98th percentile that's good um so you actually turned out in the um really north of 80% on all four of these items tested in terms of delivering a high quality education keeping the public informed managing funds appropriately and building pride in the community that's really great um so way to go Administration and board on that and we had one overall question on a
029scale of 0 to 10 How likely would you be to recommend the district to a friend or family member again similar results uh your you scored a 7.81 your comparison was a 7.18 uh which puts you in the 78th percentile there so we did a survey what did we learn uh we learned that this Three Lakes School District scored in the top coure Tyler top 25% for all satisfaction M metrics tested um and then the next question is well we've got a potential April referendum coming up should we even consider such a such a thing we'd have to get a resolution approved in early J or actually in late January and the answer is yes clearly um folks think you're doing a good job and conce the need so you should consider taking a question
030or two questions um to the voters in April and then it comes down to money uh a referendum of 15 million or more um but less than 20 uh would likely have support and this is pretty important assuming the projects included are acceptable to the voters so again we've got one criteria which is what is it we're going to do second criteria is how much is going to cost me and if you can have those two lines cross you'll likely have support and one of the things we talked about uh actually last week with your committee was the possibility of having a second question on the ballot so in Wisconsin every school district is allowed to put two questions to vote each calendar year um next year 2025 um there is no fall election so
031there's not a gubernatorial there's not a presidential there's not going to be any voting going on so you can't go out to any kind of rough around in the fall your only Chance is going to be in the spring um so you could consider two questions on the ballot I know that's something that was kicked around last week and uh what that could look like is there is the have to have project and then there's they like to have project potentially and then we let the voters decide if they like to have project is um a good thing to do at this time or it's just not we're not there we're not we we can't afford it or it's not a good plan so that's something that uh the uh the board could consider tonight
032is uh consideration for a second question so I think that is your results I'll pause and answer questions any questions any any surprises pretty straightforward perfect perfect well I think we're uh we're good though you good all right thank you thank you thank you have a good night to you too robber I didn't know that he was going to be a technical aspect um uh so I'm Brian Fritz I am a graduate of Three Lakes 1995 class um went away to college moved away swore I was never ever going to come back and as many of us here in this room the the draw to back to the district back home was was very strong and actually um extremely happy that I came back I've been the I'm currently a commercial Banker at Ford Bank
033in Three Lakes um and have been in banking um for 20 years mostly serving the the north WIS Community um I'm a member of the the task force and also a proud parent of a sixth grader here at Sugar Camp school which we kind of open enrolled I I suppose because we're actually Three Lakes residents but um in love with the the sh Camp District so our daughter is O here my name is George pcer I've been here for 10 years I have three kids that went through Three Lakes and graduated are in college now and one that's still in the district as a junior in high school and um love the community uh really feel like it's part of us and and part of our family and and so it was a privilege to
034be part of the task force and just to learn more and it's a even greater privilege to represent those that were part of it to help communicate and summarize some of the stuff that we talked about I'm Jess Edwardson I'm a another proud parent of some sugar campers um three or two in Camp one in three lates um right now and I am also the president of the SEO and a task force member so thank you hey coach uh parent of threee kids over at three LS um I coach and teach in and uh so was privileged to help serve with the other task force members and figure out what we uh are interested in passing on to you guys as a recommendation so I think it's it's kind of important I'm not going to
035just read off the slide but I think it's kind of important to just say why we're here why task Sports was created in the first place um and really the last time our district passed a major Capital rep referendum was February of 1992 uh 32 years ago to help illustrate how long that was uh the number one song in the nation probably board member Mr Ellis was singing it I'm Too Sexy Wisconsin Badger fans uh had yet to jump around as that song hadn't come out or will not come out for another three months uh country fans were tuning in to Gar Brooks what's she doing what she's doing now um the referendum total $8 million and uh supported a district of 667 total students at that time its primary uh primary goal was to
036modernized aging facilities and bring classrooms up to DPI standards uh the facilities it address were were based on a plan from 1977 obviously 15 years old at that point uh it added 110,000 Square ft and to kind of put that in in comparison that's 2.5 acres two football fields almost two white houses so a lot of square footage was added to both facilities at that time um you know coming obviously 1992 as we said 32 years ago but uh looking forward for today our current situation reflects Decades of evolving needs challenges and opportunities um fa facilities that were modernized with the $8 million investment in 1992 are now showing significant wear and tear uh the previous administration did their best to maintain these systems but many mechanical components have long surpassed their life expectancy bubble
037gum and Band-Aid are no longer enough to keep the the things running additionally our student population community expectations and educational requirements have evolved significantly since that time uh we want to commend our current Administration and maintenance Professionals for their tireless efforts to maintain these facilities despite aging infrastructure and and limited resources and budget the district has not been idle many updates have been accomplished through the operational bu budgets I'm including in installing key card access points uh for security reasons creating Community workout room to serve both students and residents uh and replacing flooring and sugar camp in in Three Lakes very very recently uh these projects reflect the district's dedication to making improvements where possible however these smaller scale efforts cannot address the larger systemics uh challenges facing our facilities uh looking ahead it's clear
038that we need a comprehensive plan to tackle these underlying issues and ensure our schools are prepared to meet the needs of students and Community for decades to come and now is the time to really come together as a district and Community to evaluate our our commitment and hence the communication with Nexus for going on two and a half years and really a meticulous effort to go through all of our facilities with a fine tooth comb and find identify areas of opportunity areas of need and maybe some areas of want that really would be presented to the community as a task force what did the task force do well the taskforce we we got together over six hours maybe a little bit more we toured both the facilities in three L andure Camp really personalized some
039of the needs and and saw some of the the Necessities for some of these improvements and and really some of the best efforts to try to keep and Limp things along but just really realize that at some point there there is a breaking point we have to either fish or cut Bain uh we we obviously saw and and took a lot of input from the in the form of surveys teacher interaction staff interaction um and I think that we really came together and represented the the community I think that we did a quick like hand pull where's where everybody was from and I think sugar Camp was just slightly under represented I think there's three three members in in sh Camp of the 20 person group but overall we we had a pretty good representation
040in I think the the sugar Camp members pretty well for themselves um so again that brings us today and we're we're here to just make a recommendation to you and and hopefully all the work that that went into it will I we feel that it's obvious so thank you Brian so this is going to be a little bit of a repeat bill went over these next two slides so I'll but it's good to linger on this because it's kind of the meat and potatoes of everything I mean this is where the survey results are what really drive the priorities and they also reveal the project support that's what happens when you look at these slides so it's worth dwelling on um one important note is like the facilities are in great shape these are really
041well cared for there's been a lot of attention given to it new R the three L school all the flooring that happened so it's really not about hey if things gone into into disrepair it's a matter of you can't lean on just your operational budget to handle some of the big expensive stuff that needs to happen so that's where this comes about and so I think the facility staff would agree with these assessments and and numbers and things like that and the priorities so I think what you're finding is a lot of overlap between the community support what the survey results kind of demonstrate and all the work that went into compiling the information um like Bill said you know you're not going to have a three you're not going to have a one so
042what you're really keying in on is that weighted average to the far right that demonstrate this is what be attention and has the full support uh in terms of projects so mechanical and Electrical uh in terms of stuff that you don't see that's more than just changing of of you know a toilet here or there but this is like the big that needs a lot of work um so and these all these numbers are not fixed these are things that they need more attention it's it's just trying to rough it out so that we have some sense of what potential cost could be um so you can kind of see as you work through there this is the stuff that would would really inform question one and then the next slide would be the stuff
043that is still important so these are we're still I think in the category of needs not wants but this helps position us and that helps us understand what's a priority for the district and for the people that live here um I think an important point would just be that the future is now so if you wait everything gets harder more difficult more expensive so if you have a really good sense of what needs to happen and you put something in motion and have the funding and support these things can actually take effect um and a thought that I had that I shared with the task force was just that how you know the school supports the community and the community supports the school there's a back and forth here and so if we can if
044the community can understand that this is something that serves them as they they fund it I think you can have real support and traction and and build momentum that's all I to say on that um we went over a couple different financing options um without jeopardizing our operational referendum that I believe is up in another five years um we took that into consideration a lot because we cannot jeopardize that um so we don't really have any other funding in place so we have to go for the capital referendum um and yeah that's pretty much our only option all you Nate all right um so I mean most of what I can say I think the others have have said but um as we look at this as George said um you know the longer we
045wait the more expensive things are going are going to get um I don't remember if it was you or maybe it was Bill who was talking about a another school district who uh went to referendum and didn't pass and few years later they went back to do essentially the same thing and everything had basically doubled in cost um SO waiting uh doesn't pay off um when you're talking about uh facility needs and things like that um so um we had a lot of discussion uh in in our task force meetings um stuff about survey would results have been a little bit different had uh things been a little more granular and you looked at um you know if you looked at just the Athletics you know what would the track itself redoing that cost versus
046just the uh soccer football fields and things like that um if we going to break things down but at the same time it's a survey you look for brevity otherwise you lose people um completing it and getting that back uh so um I think there might have been a few small changes here or there but overall we felt like it was a pretty good um response of of what the community is willing to support what priorities are um we had other conversations about you know whether the task force should have maybe gotten involved in earlier maybe some other meetings stuff like that but um we thought overall pretty good process um and a lot of questions um that came up involving uh all the different uh projects that we're looking at here um so I
047think we got one more yeah so here would be our recommendation as a task force group to the board is uh look at the things that are really critical um and go to referendum and ask a question on that um it would be somewhere in that 18 plus million dollar range most likely uh to to hit all of those different projects um and then and that should have based on the feedback we we got should have a a high chance of of passing and then there are some other things that perhaps are not quite as high of a priority or perhaps didn't have quite as much community support but we would still be interested um in pursuing and that would be a second question keeping in mind neither of these questions um rely on the
048other question passing they are totally separate questions um but the second question would be looking at uh those other projects things like resurfacing the track um redoing football and soccer fields maybe adding irrigation there perhaps putting bathrooms out there um perhaps adding a par lot off of wrinkler Road um bring things back into ADA compliance and and and all of that so that would be a much smaller number um and we would just have to do a really good job of communicating with the community what the needs are and why we're doing some of these things um as a task force group we had a pretty good idea of why some of these projects were brought up um that perhaps weren't conveyed in the survey just because um you know you're looking Revenue there um
049but if people really understood you know what the needs were maybe they would have been more supportive of of some of the projects that had a little less important so that's it I we all we also think that you know again we kind of mentioned it in the previous slide about the frequency of capital referendums I mean 32 years is just I mean that's on the the ridiculous side right so hopefully as we kind of come together maybe more regularly 10 to 15 years is a is a better window to to De some of these things and and dar's already mentioned things about you know doing different things possibly with funds in the operational budgets to kind of help augment some of the the excessive needs maybe but um there's there's just so much need
050the original survey or the original um I would guess not survey but the original plan uncovered $45 Million worth of potential needs within the two facilities obviously we're nowhere near that but I mean we I think we hit the major things and I think we we make it better for employees students to come to school every single day and and maybe do you know match our exceeds expectations in the classroom with some visual aids uh as you walk into the building that we're proud of not only our our buildings but obviously the the academic performance of the students and one quick thing I think Rob and Terry did a great job of really leading from behind like facilitating the whole process getting everybody to uh speak and allow all the information to kind of percolate
051up from the task force and put it all out there so I I thought it was a really well-run process to just help everybody get informed and and feel that buy in and hopefully there's a little bit of an organic process to this it extends out and people can kind of see and own it so it feels like there's High ownership everybody that is in the community um but I think that would be just one last quick thing i' say any any party B well I want to thank the representative for doing this above and beyond and being part of the community task force Kelly was part of that as well which as Patrick in the back who joined us as well I miss anybody um there was a lot a of really rich disc
052disc and I always say the answers are in the room and I think that we came away with a couple of points that we're going to hold on to we're not going to necessarily let this um task force just disol we want to keep this Vibe going if you will and have that engagement so when we're talking about something else down the road maybe it's 5 years maybe it's 10 years you know whatever it may be there's already that connection with the team and also with our community and that's I think a big learning that I had that we're going to make sure we have this happen and the other thing is how overwhelmingly supportive our public is where they understand the reasons behind what behind what we're doing and why we're doing them um
053I think there's a real trust which we never want to shake that trust in um why we do what we do and we want to remain being extremely fiscally responsible but I I appreciate what uh Brian said because we're doing it with the programming we're doing it with everything we need to do but there's a lot to be said for school pride and facilities and feeling great when you walk in to your surrounding environment and I think we have to seize that because it is who we are so thank you group I want to applaud you for everything you did for us lot of hours dad snap diets but um I think it was it was worth it Rob did you want to sum anything up yeah and thanks to everybody for participating in that
054rich conversation that we had um from a a next steps perspective um at your December meeting it would be wonderful to have a in-depth conversation with the board to see what your thoughts are ultimately determine do you re uh support the recommendation of the task force are there some tweaks do you not um answer any questions you have at that time you know perhaps it might make sense to have a special meeting in between now and when that regular meeting is just to make sure that we go through as much or as little detail as you want uh so that ultimately when you have that meeting in uh December you're comfortable with whatever the result is if you decide to go to referendum the resolution would be passed at your January board meeting for an
055April election so if if I missed anything I think so any questions board members of our task force members of the process any and we'll have plenty of time to talk through this um but with the folks here if you guys have questions ask no just a thank you for the presentation it was great appreciate all of you talking to it um especially in your respective priorities yeah thank you and thank you again for the time I mean it's not easy everybody's busy thank you guys for doing what you guys did ironically what's interesting a referendum an $8 million referendum in '92 is is $18 million today so it is almost right on you know just just based on inflation just to just to add 110,000 ft bill or D had some numbers but you
056couldn't even touch that no in modern okay up next is our library plan and I might need am I right so are we switching over to the other I'm sorry so I'm wondering why [Music] did you [Music] for she sleeps in the house all the thankful excellent see you guys I come overlook [Music] [Laughter] I leave it up to you yeah well then we're going to continue with the library PL like I said if anybody feels that they want to leave that's absolutely fine um the three L School District Library plan is something that we are required to have um in the last few years we have not had uh LMC LMS an active library media specialist on staff um Ali pachowski was our specialist and she left us and Katie botnik was in training
057to take over and she has since changed her Direction and path she's not interested in doing that she's doing something else with her further studies so that does not mean that we don't still have the me and it was time to be updated and actually I wanted our goal was Nikki and I to have this done for December 10th which is when DPI does their D their snapshot of our district and um so what we're going to look at tonight is the new library plan and I'm going to go through it quickly with you um with the understanding that we're seeking approval tonight but this is going to be a continuing work in progress It's a three-year plan that will be continually updated okay so why do we need one it's a legislative requirement the
058alignment of the library program um with the district priorities is the logic and it as you'll notice if you know our um our plan our long range plan it falls right in line with what we're doing and it is the best practice that is the inspiration for this document now there's a lot of words here but I'm going to go ahead and share with you the reason why we were able to contract with Beth Martin who is a library media specialist we were f um she was found and located by cesa 9 because I was really kind of pulling my hair out not knowing where to go most of the Librarians that I've known have retired in the last 2 to three years and um they're enjoying retirement really didn't want another project so that
059made it a little difficult uh and then trying to find somebody with in another District to team up with they're in the same boat too but Beth was the library media specialist with DC Everest and she was there as it says for 36 years she is a wealth of knowledge so she has come up she's spent time with us she's our Li our library Paras um spent quite a bit of time going through our libraries looking at where we are at helping us identify our goals and really getting us going with where we want to go and we took our long range plan we took our ideas and how we can support the curriculum and programming and that's where this came from this is also the plan that we'll be submitting to DPI so that's
060why you see a lot of the extra wordiness here because this goes to DPI and they will read it as they check off their um portions of what we need to complete and here is our staff Rich Martin is new to us he had only been with us for I think he was on his start of his third week when he met Beth so he was very new and had a lot of great questions um Megan re brand she's also new to us this year she's in the Three Lakes Elementary library and then we have Kesha hoger who is a star she has got years and years 20 years in the district many years in the library and she knows the ins and outs and we are really relying on her and she has been
061fantastic with helping bring the new people up to speed as well so we decided that out of all the potential goals we could have we're focusing on two it's not a good idea to get too spread out and and too thin especially when you're starting something a little more in depth so the library prayer of professionals under the guidance of the license library media specialist will develop a balanced current collection of print materials that support the curriculum of the three L School District so that's our number one goal did you forget something I did Sir okay no that's fine so that's what we're focusing in our first and this is how we're going to do it we already developed the plan now we're going to start implementing so beginning in January the um Library Paras
062working with Beth because she didn't just develop a plan with us she's going to help us Implement and really get it going we're going to focus on our current collection of print materials that support the curriculum of our district and this is going to be completed by 2027 it's not done then you just continue with the cycle um right now we're looking an average age of the collection to be updated by 5 years uh there will be a 30% increase in the number of award-winning books contained in the collection and hopefully a 50% increase in the ability to fulfill the patron requests and then finally a 20% average per puple increase in the number of circulations for the 26 27 school year in comparison to this school year and this is something that I've always
063questioned I think that we have some really good materials and resources but I don't think they're necessarily balanced I'm always going where's the hunting books where's the stuff that might really pull Boys in you know nature or and I shouldn't say just boys boys or girls the Northwood feel we've got a lot in certain genres but we need more so that's going to be a very close Focus for us to achieve the goal we are evaluating our current collection um we're going to review and revise our policies this is especially important to us our policies are very very old they um predate much of the activity that has been focused on libraries and such over the last probably easily last three to 5 years specifically it is always in the district's best interest to have
064policy in place that is updated and current whether or not we have a book challenge whether we not we have um concerns our policies are not where they want now as the board knows I'm doing a lot of work right now with Nikki and with Scott U Mish our attorney on policy work and so you'll see the library policies among the first to come forward we're hoping to have those in front of you if not in January by February just to have that in place we're going to continue to develop more collaboration with teachers our vision is if a teacher if Aaron Marvin says I really need this instead of it just having to be her relying on pulling it that we can get that to her and save some time um consult with uh
065reput reputable reval sources and then our common School funds are something that we're looking very closely at Beth what I like about her and her experience is she's a little bit of an edgy risk taker and she's had the conversation with Caleb and I that things are buying through technology because it is technology technically will be approved and crossover into common School funds so why not do some shifting in your funds and open up some more technology monies so we're looking very closely at that and then our second goal is really investing in um our par professional staff since we don't have a dedicated LMS at this point it does fall on our care of professionals like I said they're knowledgeable they're willing and we're going to put the time and the energy into having
066them where they need to be because they're going to be with us for a while and we're going to do this again beginning in January with um Beth's support we're going to explore and Implement staff development opportunities for them um you can read the rest of those looking again at a three-year cycle we're going to make sure we have some funds allocated towards their professional development opportunities um whether that is just some release time to do some studying there is a conference that is mentioned later on within the board docks that I had shared with you the WEA conference and then I also want to start really getting a good feel with what we have in our library and informational technology or media tied more into our technology components because they will go hand in
067hand very nicely and here are some steps to achieve that goal I kind of rattled through them Beth is really I'm going to say she's taken a real liking to us we we just all hit it off really well um she's going to carry us through this year and I believe she will be more than willing to support us next year in that capacity while we're trying to invest in finding someone whether internally or externally to take on that role as our LMS and here's a timeline for you we just broke it down by six Monon periods um again looking at utilizing our destiny Library manager um training Kesha is very skilled in this Megan has quite a bit of knowledge and rich is picking it up quickly so we'd like them regularly we've already
068got plans for that in place then the second part of that plan would be to continue to work directly with Caleb um allocating funds we want to be really purposeful in when we're selecting materials of course they're recommended by you know very reputable resources that that we just don't go pick books out we are Guided by a lot of Standards through the state and through the um the standards of the library media but we also want to be wise with those funds and we want to spend every dollar because that is one of the benefits of living in Wisconsin that we get that common School funds which come from the school forest or the forest harvesting within our state that's what supports it it's really unique to us and then looking into the next years
069continue to create the target book lists um continuing allocating the funds that for our collection development we are going to move to purchase purchasing books that are already it's called Mark they're already processed so instead of you remember the old librarian days when they put the sticker on they the old day with the cards you blew that in and then you break the bindings down and you do all that stuff well we have pair of professionals and we are utilizing them in special ed pair of roles too and it's not much more virtually pennies that adds to the cost to have these things processed so we're trying to work smarter not harder and that's a big shift I know Kesha's really comfortable with it and she didn't see it as big of a a need
070but I see it as a time drainer that we can use time more valuably and then finishing up we look at December 31st as when we would go forward and um revisit the goals areas of future growth continue our attempts to get the LMS exploring our con our opportunities with the public library staff we have a really good relationship with Demmer um I feel that their new leadership has been very receptive toward what this the district and I see that continue to grow um just as a reminder we have the 4K story our community program with them and always want to keep doing additional activities to let that go farther um especially for our older kids too before and after school opportunities we're talking about at this point and then at the bottom they explore
071opportunities to support the district One to1 tech implementation and the next steps were number one we needed to get this in front of the board so you could see the work that's been going on I know I'm rattling through it because we have a very busy agenda but this was a really super heavy lift um even though it got done rather quickly now when it came together we've been you know since last December January we've been really focusing on what we had to do how we were going to do it what we needed to do and came to the conclusion we didn't want to just jump through the hoops and mark the boxes that say yes we have complied we wanted a really super solid product that we can work forward from and I think
072that's why it's becomes such quality work already and thatth has been a big part of that we're going to do a regular update then annually on where this is at I would say probably every year in the summer um board meeting time after the school year is done but before the next school year begins like the Janu or the July or August time bring a report to the school board and saying this is what was uh how our collection was used this is what we learned this is what we focused on these are the policies that we brought forward and updated looking forward this is where we're going to shift to for the following and boy I said a lot of words really fast but I wanted you to get a feel for it and
073this is is a very important project that we have you know now we have a basis to be working from and get into place and with that I open it up the questions that you may have any concerns or this is one that has been a big undertaking but I didn't keep talking in your ear like I did about the non-discrimination over and over and over you heard about that a lot this was one that had to be done but you know with specificity of the library media specialist and then really diving into the work so I'm very pleased with the product where we're at it's much more than I even hoped to start with and I did a lot of looking out there so with if with that if you don't have other questions
074I'd ask the board to consider approving this Library plan tonight so we can get it in motion and keep working from it and thank you I guess my concerns just making sure that our policies reflect where we want to be AB that's going to be I think the biggest step on this it in this whole thing and that that's um a good point Josh and that's why it's important that we have this plan in place because our policies are being you know written and worked on with us through our policy resource guide wasb and so they have the most legal language for us and then we want to have the procedural that we work on should there be a book challenge or anything that would come up we also want to have policy that's written
075specific to Three Lakes because what I don't want to see open o I don't want to open the door to what if you follow much going on in the state people who do not belong to districts like a neighboring District could come to your school board meeting and start challenging your books and we want our policies to be administered and held for the people of our three Lake School District Community not because there's a group that's coming up from Southern Wisconsin and one to make a point so our our policies are going to be written through that lens now with adding this many books I mean it's going to be adding a lot of books in a hurry is this still something that you will be overseeing being that we don't have a true LMS
076yeah I felt I had to after you know the last couple of years when there started to be some questions and even with having an LMS in the past I just think even though I've learned a lot I don't have the knowledge the skill that they do but I feel I need to be aware of what's coming in and going through the libraries because um ultimately I'm the one who has to answer to our our community what is okay and why we have it and the the goal here is to have a real diverse collection and it might not be for everybody but it might need to be for somebody you know and you can get accessibility to that also in a school library it's very straightforward in what the recommendations are that we should
077have available for our students and there are some things that we probably want to be able to give kids access to but we don't want them within our building with our partnership with de Demmer library that is a matter of a phone call and not even a half a block walk so we have that Ava availability to support our kids whatever their needs might be and get that to them when is the submission requirement for DPI December 10th the other question is there any Grant Revenue Source that's provided by DPI specific to the new requirements nothing other than our common School funds for purchasing no Caleb uh I just want to add to Josh's question about the books coming in um before any of our our people submit orders they come to me and I
078look through every single title as well um so there's a few eyes on it to make sure that we've got appropriate books coming through and they've all got the ratings next to them and and making sure that they're appropriate thank you Caleb that's a a great Point yeah and technically in full disclosure even though there is a date for um of December 10th for the snapshot DPI has already given us back in August um confirmation that if we didn't have our plan ready that they weren't going to you know I don't want to say come after us but since it's ready I'd like to have it officially in the works that we could keep working off of it and update it any other questions for Terry okay um if anyone is ready we could consider
079a motion I'll make a motion to approve the three Lake School District Library plan is presented second okay we have a motion by Stacy second by Michelle all those in favor of the motion signif by by stating I I I opposed none heard motion carries thank you Terry for all the work thank you for your support yep we're very excited excited about getting that going this is almost my favorite agenda item consider appointment of the wasb delegate and Alternate for the delegate assembly at the 2025 State education convention um before we sit hden awkward silence I did the uh delegate last year um I am happy to do that again if someone would consider consider um the nomination is there anyone else interested who would like to serve that role okay thank you um I
080will take a nomination when anyone is ready I'll nominate Alicia is our WB delegate delegate assembly for 2025 education convention second I will accept the nomination anyone else interested okay so we have a motion by Josh second by Mitch all those in favor of the motion signify by stating I I I I motion curious um now we'll look to nominations for an alternate delegate I don't know that I will be there this year so I don't want to put in for position and you have to be available for Tuesday right yeah for the Tuesday night yeah so well that's that's not mandatory Tuesday night is read what it says it something it's encouraged though so I think this was language that was passed over over from another agenda could be um because I attended that
081meeting and I'm very confident that a lack of attendance in that meeting would not put you at disadvantage for the assembly I I did not go two years ago to the Tuesday and I didn't feel like I missed anything I did go um they do provide a little bit of information but everything that comes in the delegate packet was is complete yes explains everything that is required in the assembly well no that that's that's a good piece of information to have does that mean you're really sure okay um I will nominate STC Klein to be the alternate Delegate for three Lake School second that took a while I was forgot I was supposed to do that okay I'm in any other nominations okay we have a nomination on the floor for Stacy to be the
082alternate Delegate for Three Lakes uh we'll go to vote all those in favor of the motion by myself second by Michelle um signify by stating I I I oppos None heard congratulations Stacy okay next we move to consider renewal of the girls hockey Cooperative with Northland Pines [Music] [Applause] um what should be approving tonight um is a coop renewal with Northland Pines for the 2526 and 2627 hockey season for girls hockey uh Northland Pines Remains The Host school um and um obviously we have a system that each of us that go into this Co-op there's there's a an activity fee of $30 that's that's pin's uh policy because they are the whole school all the schools involved um do the same thing there if you turn to the second page you'll see there's a conglomerate
083of teams that make up this Co-op uh and they're they're proposing to also add Norway Michigan to this Consortium uh it seems a lot of the Northwoods that the girls hockey programs um the numbers have gone down considerably I know my daughter played for Lakeland 5 years ago and they had their own Standalone team so the Pines these schools that are listed on here even rylanders involved so uh this conglomerate provides lots of area school participants to have a hockey program to compete in if you look at the Three Lakes portion it's all alphabetical you'll see we don't have any participants this year but we will have one next year uh she's an eighth grade student and she's choing at the bit to play over at Pine so um by renewing this Co-op you give
084her um any additional kids that decided to go out fory that opportunity te and it is a c like I said it is a renewal it's not something new so I just wanted to see a little bit of that information um so if you have questions ask a lot of kids anything brought forward by Pines or has been going pretty good going well it seems like it's going well um like I said it's it's just really odd for me to see all these teams in it's a lot you know it's it's like e five years ago was not like this at all are they broken downfill into a varsity and JV uh I don't sep JV at this time if you look at the participant numbers uh you're right on the cuss there I mean
085Pines has 10 kids and then most schools have one or two I think Riner has six so you know it's right on that cost I don't believe that they have a JB schedule at this time but it's possible depending if all those kids go out I think it's 14 because hockey is such a a sport of such you know physical exertion it's really hard to to feel two teams because you know those lines come in and out of there very often and you know you need those numbers to make a team so I haven't heard that they're running a GV at any other questions for Phil anyone willing to make a motion I will make a motion to improve the girls hockey Cooperative at nor second okay we have a motion by Mitch second by
086Stacy all those in favor of the motion signify by stating I I I I opposed un heard motion carries thank you Phil next we move on to parent teacher conference report we'll have our principals report out on the participation and Mr Zeus if you're ready can we have you start for sure um the parent teacher conferences attendance data from uh our the high school neck of the woods um teachers had a third of our folks uh saw between 6 and 15 uh visitors for the evening uh 20% of our folks saw 16 to 25 uh 40% saw five or less and then a couple saw 26 to 35 visitors which is pretty heavy traffic and those tended to be some of the new faces people want to meet new teachers which is awesome um in
087comparison to recent uh parent teacher conferences uh 60% of our staff reported that it was uh exactly the same real consistent in terms of the number of visitors they had uh 15% so it was more than a typical parent teacher conference night and 28% so it was less than typical parent teer conferences night um as is typically the case when we run conferences like we had here in the fall uh kind of slow for the first five hours and it gets real busy in the last hour and a half which stands to reason that's when people get off work in general L the same as the last several years Three Lakes Elementary 159 out of 162 um student families showed up either in person or by phone um we had a very the number of
088of phone or video conferences has been going down so we have still a handful but not as many as in the past but almost every classroom was 100% attendance uh sugar camp we had 90% of the parents were in person and then 10% were by phone call we did have one family that was could not be reached so but other than that everybody made contact with I didn't get that in depth with the junior high uh we had numbers wise we were about 65 to 66% of people coming in uh I don't know about phone conferences but that's how we measured it so I'll give you better statistics next time but that's kind of where we were at so I think it's really remarkable again I think it shows the connectedness of our our parents
089our community you know as a whole with the school and the staff because also what's not reported here is I believe our teachers do a really good job of keeping parents current it's not waiting to a parent teacher conference before confirmation or contact is made to say you know we have an issue or we have a concern that's an ongoing process and I'm just really proud of the staff and especially the parents for being that involved it's that involvement that leads to the kind of results and successes our kids are having I would ask the principles if they feel that the current structure continues to be successful or you know in everything that is good that can get better um Justin would you think that maybe at the high school if you're seeing five hours
090of kind of lull and then an hour hour and a half of heavy is that something as we're getting into calendar planning now we're going to probably have to consider some differences it might not be that equal means the same for everybody and this is an area if we could better address the high school needs versus the the elementary or the junior high needs I think it's something we should consider yeah yeah I mean if we don't do we don't do things by appointment at high school it's it stop in and then it gets super hectic at the last few minutes and then it's done so we could somehow adjust that would be from from the high school perspective that'd be great I don't know I mean the elementary seems to get pretty good Connections
091in time frames that we have so well calendar is on my mind and we're going to start discussion on calendar um Monday after school with staff input and then that'll be coming to you for your consideration you know I'm hoping by January meeting it's possible St can I just make a comment so one thing that when you're looking at that I noticed especially this year with the junior high it seemed like there was a big I mean we waited almost like 30 40 minutes and it was like and it was I mean and we weren't the only ones I mean there was like a line and so it was kind of a I don't know it was I don't not quite sure and I think and I think well I do know what happened because
092there was a parent that was in there for like 30 minutes I mean so like think the time frame you know so then that caused like this big long line so I I don't know so that was a little frustrating I know there was a lot of grumbling in the hallway with other parents at from the next time around that's what I was going to ask maybe High School Works a little bit better that a little bit you know looser but maybe teach too that helps yeah I worked there and it took me a while to get to well you go byy one and there's a few so you go to the next one but you can move on to the next one if you only have two people you see then you're you're kind
093of stuck right so that's great feedback yeah ran out of time we we were not able to see all the teachers cuz we work we didn't get there till later so we didn't have time to get to everybody and man as soon as you made that announcement people were out of there I'm like it had been a long day yes yes CU they had been there all day so yes that's great feedback Michelle thank you yeah and that's I was kind of wondering that too I mean how how many people really come in for the first two hours or even 3 hours I mean is it is it worth looking into maybe doing a two night system just to help spread that out and then some scheduling you know especially people who know they need
094to take a little bit longer but um you know maybe leave a little bit open time and a little bit of scheduled time just for some wandering but I I think you could I think we could do this in the high school and Junior High a little bit better um just based on the hours alone and and then maybe it wouldn't be quite so such a toil on the teachers there's also constant feedback at the high school level right so we are looking at their their assignments and their grades every day in infid campus so there is no there there's nothing really to see except maybe some Behavioral or class cooperation at the high school level because we have complete access to their performance in the classroom yeah in nor place is their parent teacher
095conference interest at the high school level that matches what is at the level that's that's typical that's normal sure so maybe that's a an alternate or like a a video or phone conferencing option as well that prevents the teachers from staying there all night if people aren't coming yeah we'll talk about it with the admin tra team and um get some feedback from our teachers you know as we're looking at the calendar and potentially make that a better better way to approach it okay any other feedback okay thank you for those updates great job in the elementary schools that's fantastic results um next we move on to school Forest Camp 3 updates all right I did put a letter in your board docs for you to review um we had received um correspondence which I
096feel comfortable talking about an open session because uh this is informational um we have been contacted or I should say our attorneys have been contacted by the uh plane uh Leo kacis and Rebecca Nikki um that want to reopen discussion about a settlement as far as the property on Camp 3 um as you all know this has been an ongoing draged out process October 23rd we did go back into court and um judge Sheik heard the case and went through the um conditions that had been cited by the plaintiffs and actually did a very thorough job addressing each of the areas brought up as to why they felt that um three Lake School District or any school district for that matter should not be permitted to allow any kind of activity to be had on
097school property whether it be onsite or offsite if it involves using um Firearms such as a trap range gun and so um what that resulted in was Judge Sheik said I'm going to have you all come back with more for your to to present to your case and he scheduled it for a further continuance hearing to to happen then on in February February 21st in the meantime we've received a letter where they would like to open up again to the board um consideration to settle this situation um they have proposed just one area that they'd like us to look at now and um that language is written as such um the district will not construct or operated a trapped shooting range within 3/4 of a mile of the creus Niki property unless and until Wisconsin
098law is clarified to explicitly allow such an exception as requested by wasb WB our School Board Association had done a um uh resolution addressing this situation last year or the year before they cited um we would not be as much interested in the wasb resolu ution which we do believe in and support but we're looking more closely to the state statutes for that reason um I bring it forward so we are speaking about it in Open Session and our public knows what is going on this is the first movement we've had with this kind of um um extension of let's have a discussion for quite some time it's over months maybe into the years area and that is why we have a scheduled session for closed because we are going to hold an executive this
099uh an executive session this evening in which the board members can discuss this situation with our attorney and make some decisions about what we might want to do going forward so that is actually the extent of the report but I'm full and transparent disclosure for our community I want them to know that this is on the docket and we have been continuing to address it does the board have any questions or comments for me at this point for me very good that's what I have on that one thank you okay next we move into District related positive [Laughter] happenings I'll go so during parent teacher conferences um you've been through the high school office it's painted so Aaron wager and I spent the day painting the logo in there and doing some branding and I
100think and to complement our goals or to start at then we've also added um I did a canvas with our school mission statement on it for the front there we're just going to extend that I was kind of using the analog I think I got a new analogy during the meeting I thinking of this so I I've recently was reading about stump burning and how when you burn stumps there's the danger of it you know popping up other places because the can sit in fester for a while and I feel like this whole project is kind of like that it was like the start of a stump burning and now I'm seeing like fires pop up in other places so um like Jason steubs came up to me after we had painted he's like you
101know we you could really use some positive words on the wall in the in the um locker rooms and maybe over in the fitness center you know people are I think you see that Visual and you start having more ideas about what to do and we're all kind of seeing blank walls everywhere and like what can we we do with them now so it was it's the start of something and I think that it'll feed into the goals and the um referendum ideas that are out there as far as improving our school and doing some branding so it was exciting to get that started there you very good thank you hopefully the junior high office is it looks like 1920 hpit get your paint brush out Phil Junior High uh well we have an incentive
102trip coming up to the poaty center on the 26th uh some other positive happenings um the high school fall plays coming up on Friday 7 pm. Saturday 7 pm and Sunday mat 1 pm uh and the program is going to be called the help desk so please come out and join us and support our kids there uh all of our winter sports are now in action um boys basketball and wrestling started on so everybody's in full swing so season is upon us quick shout out to the uh Veterans Day programs uh I thought they were fantastic uh again it's becoming quite a community tradition the the auditorium of standing M you never see it that full uh any other time so it's really a good good Community event um and it's it's really cool to
103see the littles and the and and and The Bigs with the musical and uh veterans get fed their lunch by the NHS and food service and it's just a cool cool day um in that regard and then also want to give a shout out to the um for those of you who have high school kids uh there's been class meetings all week in the auditorium with Mr Bach and the class advisors uh implementing our ACP plan that our ACP uh teachers and committee have been working on for a couple of years now uh it's starting to uh bubble into the classrooms which is where we want it and uh so if if your kids are coming home talking a little bit more about what they want to be when they grow up that's that's an
104awesome thing because we're um taking some really considered efforts to uh bring more relevance into the classroom not not not just our typical vocational classes but the core academics as well so um it's it's good to see the kids getting involved with it now finally after a couple years go ahead let good bu I think it's really good to reflect on uh What uh the community planning task force did tonight as a positive happening and I I say that because back in 2007 and 2009 the uh effort that went into the comprehensive 20-year plan went overboard on soliciting from our citizens how they feel about our community and the school and one of the overarching uh things that came out from that is that our citizens really believe that Three Lakes does not have to
105mirror our surrounding communities in other words the citizens was saying we don't feel we need to become a Eagle River or or Lakeland Monaca not that those are negative but they want to hang on to Intrinsic values and I want to say with the task force that's still alive as as we talked about needs versus wants and and the things that those values that Three Lakes really embodies and it's uh it's uh a nice a nice niche and people see that the citizens see that so that's a really positive thing going back quite a few years and is still alive today so um I feel good about what the task force um summarized tonight and U it reflects that thank you much okay I just have a couple um we did have our Red Ribbon
106Week right around uh Halloween which all the kids goe enjoyed all the dress up days for that um and then kind of eing Justin uh well attended Veterans Day program shout out to uh Jesse and Justin and then uh Garrett Manley who plays Taps every year for us and then this Friday is Grandparents Day so it's one of the bigger activities besides secret Santa that bring a lot community members in and shows her support so we'll be setting up for that Friday El uh T I have the same thing Todd basically we we P ran a book fair we haven't done that for a few years that was well attended um I just like to think I know we're not anywhere near done with this but Amy Johnson has put in a ton of work
107into act 20 and the compliance pieces and and her team and I mean the teachers in general but Amy is throughhe heading that and there's there's just so much that's going into that behind the scenes right now that I don't think people realize but she's I don't know how we'd be doing this without her so I just publicly thank her for all of her work I thank you for that Steve that's very important um I have one uh for Miss Jen um the media days that you've been doing for the teams are really cool not only for our public platform on Instagram and and Facebook uh but it's really cool as a parent to not to just have access to some of those photos so really great job especially on on marketing Three Lakes in
108that image um we portraying to the community is great the girls especially like Med they do yes you're all about it cut them off last night yes can I add one yeah oh oh I have one more first um just to say it out loud but Northern Pines challenged us to a food drive so my advertisement for you on the 26 when basketball has a head-to head we have beat Northland Pines two years in a row so let's make it three we crushed them at Pin time it wasn't close yeah so bring a lot of food come to the games and enjoy basketball and it's a really good night there you go there's my can ramp it up even more I had the opportunity yesterday to go to Madison and um I attended um went
109to the state capital with Al betri from cesa 9 and a couple of our other superintendents in the area Eric Burke from Rylander met us there as well as um Wendell queenberry from Tomahawk was there with me and um Andrea Sheridan was also there in Travis grubs from rib Lake and we had the opportunity to meet with Mary falowski we had scheduled it and I just want to say how proud I was to represent Three Lakes in the Northwoods she was very pleased to introduce us as a group to her um colleagues um she is now going to be the president of the Senate which is you know quite a big step up and as she Ed uced us if we could have the schools in the rest of the state as the schools in
110cesa 9 and their superintendent lead education we would all be in a really good place and I mean you just felt the warmth and it was a really neat place to be and just to represent Three Lakes because she called us out multiple times as to what Three Lakes is doing and how we have the pulse of the community and the hard work that's being done and it's wonderful because not that you necessarily accomplish the big task items but it keeps us in the minds of the people you know we're north of 29 that's always kind of the joke we have to keep that in the Forefront because it's easy to forget about the smaller voter impact in the Northwoods and I felt a presence was very appreciated and it was noted and um we're
111going to keep you know making our presence known and um again it was I felt like the proud mom of our of our community and when she calls us out you know it it's just that much more special to say this is what we're doing and I did have the opportunity to also bring up you know the work that act 20 um they are aware Mary is one of the people who is very aware that a lot of times things that are really good ideas for the right reasons whether it's through the legislator or through DPI impose an excessively huge lift of work and the logistics to go with it and then the lack of funding put a huge burden on districts and I am not negative but I'm going to keep saying that because
112it has put a new degree of stress and expectations on our staff our students you know our future so not to be negative but that is the reality thank you and it was [Laughter] fun okay any other one more yes um just back to sports because last night and George Went George knows where I'm going with um we participated in they had a soccer banquet for the soccer team last night and the coaches did a great job of putting that on and it was just it was I couldn't stop smiling and it was like it was just I mean I even woke up this morning smiling it was just a night I mean it took time to recognize each and every single player on that team and it was just cool to see those boys
113up there you know so stoic and it was just yeah and somebody really cool might have won the fan award I don't know that was awesome George come on come on come on awesome Stacey Brad and Phil and John Welsh they had very personal things to say about every single player so they found something in each player that was really recognizable and it really endeared me to Brad the work that he's done with the soccer team it was just really tremendous like heartfelt connection with each student with each athlete yeah it was great yeah it was awesome very cool okay just one more quick real positive thing I want to thank the school district for allowing us the opportunity to set up a resource booth and table with information on awareness and prevention of human
114trafficking and as a real positive thing uh both my wife and I have had feedback from parents with followup questions after doing that and uh you know it goes a long ways towards helping our students to remain safe U especially with the U online and social media uh predators that are out here so that's it's a real positive thing and parents see that and they feel good about it thank you butch okay going on all right next we'll move on to WB correspondence updates okay the correspondence I have is we have received our membership certificate we get that every year so we're all official again and congratulations and appreciation that we continue to be active board members and then um we have a personal note that from um Dan rossmiller he says PS I hope
115the 2024 2025 School Year is off to a great start in Three Lakes gold Blue Jays so that was kind of cool that's what I have for that one um so the next phase of our meeting is to do a facility tour um of sugar Camp Mr Rea are you on board and ready yeah [Laughter]