001I can't even officially [Music] it happened on top of the rain. We got water. way past my expertise. This goes like you make me. No small feats. Well, actually pretty sure. Okay, it's 5:30. I'd like to call the June 10th um regular board meeting to order and stand for the pledge of allegiance, please. I 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 all. Roll call. Black Celoon here. Hinrich here. Kersh here. Kissinger Wolf here. Long here. Swinty here. Bel here. Zimmerman here. Okay, we have a quorum. Looking for adoption of the agenda as presented. So movey second. Whatever. Flip a coin. Okay. All those in favor? I opposed hearing none. Carrying on for item four,
002staff recognition. We would like to take a moment to recognize two individuals whose leadership and dedication made a recent community event a tremendous success. Mrs. Cerny and Mrs. Who Zinski? Hadki. Hadki. Okay. Thank you. As advisers for the Raise Your Voice Club group, they along with student leadership organized the first ever Colorrunwalk event to honor school grounds. With around 50 participants, the event welcomed community members of all ages to choose their own distance as they made their way through the course around the school complex. A dozen student volunteers from Raise Your Voice and the National Honor Society helped at registration tables, man color stations throughout the course and assisted with both setup and takedown, demonstrating incredible school spirit and teamwork. Special thanks as well to Conor Erands for supporting the event with the course preparation
003and timing. We are also grateful for Na Northwoods and the Lincoln County Health Department for attending and sharing valuable resources with the participants. This event marks the group's first time hosting a communitywide gathering and their vision to grow in the years to come speaks to the family's foundation they've built. Thank you, Mrs. Cerny and I didn't bash a pike for your leadership and for empowering our students to raise their voice and make a positive impact. We have is in DC right now tomorrow with junior time. Thanks. Thank you. Okay, moving on to item seven, district administrative report. All right, couple things. Um I attached on your board docs a um board book a letter that will be going out to some of our state legislators just advocating for some of the school funding priorities that
004we've discussed in the past. So, that will be I'll send that out individually within the next few days. Uh, in anticipation that I know JFC is starting to um get serious about an actual vote and things are starting to come together. So, I don't have high hopes that we're going to have a state budget anytime soon, but um but we will send out the the few priority things just to keep those things on the forefront the best that we can. Um, second thing on my list is Sandy and I recently met with M3 to discuss our property insurance and the rates for this upcoming year in the renewal. So, it looks like overall we're going to see some increases roughly in the 10 to 15% range um once you add everything up. So, uh, not
005going to break the bank by any means, but obviously, you know, rates as far as property insurance could have been a lot higher than that. So, we're we're happy to see hopefully lower and closer to that 10% range, but um, we know that's something that we're going to see continuing to rise in the in the coming future until it stabilizes a little bit. So, uh, that's what we can anticipate at this point. Um, want to send out just a thank you as well to uh Chad W. Some of you came uh to the presentation for the internet crimes against children. So Chad presented three times that day, once to the middle school, once to the high school and uh then again to the community that evening. So the presentations were geared a little bit different
006uh for each age group. But I thought it was an important message. were thankful to him and and the Onidita County Sheriff's Department for allowing him to come to Lincoln County to to present to our school. I know they've been traveling to a lot of schools in our in our area recently to get that message out. So hopefully some quality education and lessons were learned by that and some students keep themselves out of trouble and adults as well. Um, couple other things. I just want to thank all of our staff and admin team for a successful 202425 school year. That last couple weeks is always a whirlwind. You have a ton of things going on. Um so the but the last the last few days were we're kind of festive and fun and kids left
007on a positive note. So all of our teachers are off to summer vacation and we're ready and planning for our workshop next week with all of you guys. So a reminder for that next Tuesday. We'll start that at 2 o'clock. And that's all I have on my report for tonight. Okay. Any questions? Um, you said you had a letter that you were going to attach. Should be on your board. So, if you look Yeah. And you should see it. I didn't update it. That's me. Okay. Okay. Moving on to the consent agenda items, you have we've got the minutes on here. We've got approval of invoices and employment contracts and adjustments. Any comments or or updates on anything here? Any questions on anything? Like to request a roll call vote. Okay. Um we'll go for
008a roll call vote to to for this. I'm looking for a motion. So move second. Motion's been made and seconded. Can we have a roll call vote to approve the consent agenda items, please? Longy, yes. Beloo, yes. Zimmerman, yes. Calhoun, yes. Hinrich, yes. Kersh, yes. Kiss, yes. Motion's carried. and just in appreciation some of those nice donations that came in from the for the community theater to the drama club and Ronda Ranch. There was some nice donations on there. Okay, moving on to staff reports. Questions on staff? I had one for Mark just it's just out of curiosity. I don't know if I can even pronounce it but for the uh professional development the catalog you what is valus act so I just had to ask fair enough and I'm probably not going to give
009it the justice it deserves for sure but it involves um using either ball literally balls or they use bags when they get you know they're more more proficient but they teach the kids um techniques. It's it's all about moving um something from one side of the body and brain to the other and it helps make connections um for reading and writing and just becoming more agile as as little people. So interesting. Yeah, they've done it for a couple couple of years and um it helps too with classroom management and calming them down um after recess and things like that. So, did I pronounce it right? Physics. Pretty close. I think close. Okay. And thank you. Yeah, for sure. And I believe that was a grant from Beyond Cranes and Chromebook that got the program started.
010Yeah, for sure. Yeah, they added more more balls and more more eggs. I think all kids will learn how to juggle. Know that mindset, you know, subbing really quick. Subbing as a FIA teacher. Get to know how to juggle. No, I mean it's Yeah. hand, eye coordination, incredible amount of bones and simple. I have a question for Mark. You you have your mentors in place. Can you say who they are or is that um right now we have three of them? Uh Aubrey Bor uh is working with third grade team. Um Denise is working with kindergarten team and oh Nicole Felus is working with the high school team. Uh we might split the high school team yet into two depending on just Nicole whether she wants to do all four or whether she wants to
011do two. Um it is it's not so bad but two of them are on license on alternative lure pathways. One of them two of them. So anyway there's more to it than just that. So, we might split that one and then um we might do an independent one for the pathologist because it's just one of those odd positions that just comes up and doesn't have the same criteria that everybody else has. Right. Okay. Thank you. I just have one comment, Sherry. I wanted to thank you for the end ofear reflection in the AGR performance objectives report. Um that first grade reading section, as I was reading through it, I was like following it and I'm like, "Oh, wait a minute. I must have gone back like six times and then I then all of a
012sudden I scrolled down and I went, "Oh, okay. Maybe I should have scrolled sooner." So, thank you for that that reflection because it kind of pulled that all together. Good. Okay. We have a presentation from Taylor. So, No, go ahead, Taylor. I was just gonna just gonna preface it for you. Taylor's kind of in that point to year where she's lining up some fall stuff and So, probably not a lot on your on your report tonight, but I I just wanted to keep her keep keep all of you informed and we go through the um also Steve, I don't believe we met. Hi, nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Um so, yeah, just an update on community ed program. Uh just wrapping up spring programs for the year. We have um for spring
013programs, we had 120 program registrants. So, alone that's 120 people in the community into the schools that wouldn't have otherwise been in our halls. So I think that's really cool. Um overall since the program launched and it's all 2024 we've had 421 total registrants. So I think that's really great um and shooting for more. So uh right now I'm compiling the evaluation survey data for spring programs. Uh so just waiting some more on for the last few final programs of fitness and aquatics uh to compile the rest of that data. Uh but as of right now the current program data is looking really great. We've got 100% people saying four out of five of did this program meet your expectations and desired outcomes. Uh and then 100% said yes they learned something new from this
014program or benefited from having registered from it. So looking great there for numbers. Also, uh there was also some really great qualitative feedback that I didn't include in here, but uh you know, great things, comments that help move the programs in the direction that we're looking to move it in. So, yeah. Um looking ahead, uh we are looking to offer a water exercise class this summer, uh dates from July through August in collaboration with our new pool director, Megan. Uh so stay tuned as registration is going to open soon through the community program website. Uh for those of you who don't know it's communityed.mmyadget.org. So that's going to open up relatively soon here so people can get registered. Usually closes up pretty quick. So I anticipate that one will fill up. Also we are approaching
015one year anniversary of the community program launch. So last year in the fall uh so I'm extremely proud of this program uh where it's headed. hoping to offer some really fun, exciting classes in the fall. Uh, and also thanks again to our wonderful instructors this past year. Uh, with that being said, currently looking for instructors for fall programs uh, going from September through December. And if you know of anybody who's interested, uh, send them my way uh, if they want to teach, you know, a fun skill or a talent or their expertise, whether it's arts or technology or woodworking or anything interesting. somebody's got a niche. Um, you know, send them my way. Uh, they can get in touch with me at Remingtons.org or I also have a class proposal that I'm advertising right now
016for upcoming instructors. Uh, that can be found on the school's website under the community tab for instructors under community education. And last but not least in my update here, uh so on the side here out of the community program realm, I've been building working on the community volunteer program. Uh so we conducted a needs assessment in the elementary school. More shares uh soon on that, but basically showing that there is a need for the program uh in the elementary school and asking teachers where they see the need for volunteers the most in their respective grade levels and what types of needs. So the goal is to launch that this fall. Uh so currently polishing up volunteer forms. Uh we've got a volunteer interest survey uh PDF Google form for potential volunteers. Uh so they will
017complete that to kind of apply to become a volunteer and that there'll be like an process. Um and then the community volunteer program handbook and agreement that's been created and I'm polishing that up right now. Uh so basically just goes over volunteer roles and responsibilities, policies, procedures, expectations, all the fun stuff and more. Um so yeah, working on that and then next up we'll be kind of creating a web page for all this information to be put out there and then advertising for future volunteers to interview and whatnot. So that's where we're at with that step right now and uh yeah to be continued. So yeah. Yeah. Any questions for anybody? Thank you. You guys appreciate it. Great job. Thanks, Ryan. You got your brain going everything on for you. Oh, you're going to work
018in his computer. Yeah, you got the computer. Oh, keep it short for you guys tonight. Everything's in my board report. Everything pretty much wrapped up last week. Uh the way things in there would be um Alicia Borman finished 13th at State and Pvalt. um to end the season for track. Uh Sawyer Hannah lost in a playoff 50 foot birdie puck beat him otherwise he was going to state individually. He was in a playoff to make it individually league. Um so he finished uh four years as a sectional qualifier individually league for golf and um baseball out who uh number four ranked team in the state number one intersectional the speed marathon today in the 10 a.m. game 11 to1. So they're playing in the sectional final right now. state and uh softball lost to Xavier
019in the back fourth game. Xavier ended up losing the uh sectional final to go to state to Michigan I believe it was. So got knocked out by good teams. That being said, uh baseball, softball, both young teams. We got a lot coming back next year. So that's pretty exciting. Um overall as a school year win, obviously pretty successful overall for us athletically. A little disappointing in spring. we thought had a chance at a couple uh great Northern Conference championships uh in a couple sports and just some other teams improved and took those championships. So, that being said, big thing for you guys today, WIA updates uh May board meeting so everyone's aware of what that was. There's some big amendment changes. Obviously, big one everyone was talking about was uh NIL name, image, and likeness.
020Um that doesn't change anything that's been going on already at the high school level. we maintain our amateur status. Uh to put it in the best perspective I can for people understand it is if Ryan Flynn, the volleyball player, worked at the old Gators and wanted to do a commercial and say come to Gators for our wings and chicken and best beach courts in town, I can now get paid to do that. That being said, they still cannot be in any Tomok affiliated apparel, anything that identifies himself as an athlete or associated with Tomok school district. So it's a way it was a way for the WIA to get ahead the charge with it's coming 37 of the 50 states already had it want to get ahead of it. So legislator didn't come in and
021legislation then come in and say hey you guys are going to do this and then it became a wild wild west. So um that being said uh parent meeting August 5th whatever that Monday is be some information out to parents community really hammered that to let them know more about those uh other things WIA we started already unlimited summer contact. Again, doesn't change anything we did. We met as a coaching staff. All the head coaches agreed we're still on the same grounds here that we are a small school. We need to share our athletes. So, uh we set up uh Cooper Kelly put a ton of time into this uh back forth working with me with weight room schedule and head coaches and we offered uplifting Monday, Wednesday, Fridays, Tuesday, Thursday. Then during the same
022time frame uh coaches could have contact for an hour with their respective sports I wanted. That way the kids run on the same schedule. It doesn't affect their summer working, driving lessons, things like that. And we're not wearing the kids out in the summer and give them away. Um, and then the last WIA thing that's going to affect us is obviously we lost appeal for hockey. We haven't been able to find you guys talk about that. Uh, so we will be up in division one next year. Um, talk to the kids. Kids are excited about it. Long story short with that, the membership vote on that performance factor. It is what it is. We qualified to move up. We're moving up. go get them in D1 and see how it goes. So, other than that,
023that's what I got for you. Questions? Anything? Wondering about what's going on around the school right now or anything? I have a question. Ryan, didn't the WIA change like contact days or something like that? That was unlimited. So, so it used to be you could only have five days where the coaches could come in and coach the kids for their respective sports in the summer. It went unlimited. Um, so essentially between June 1st and July 31st. Now, if coaches want to assemble as a team, they could. It cannot be mandatory for kids, but they can specifically go and uh skill set coach their kids. There is a dead period from July 1st to July 6th that is no contact whatsoever. Um so what we did is again we instead of allowing our coaches to try
024and set a schedule where the kids had to be here like uh just use volleyball for example because that's a high participation sport in the summer girls like to be there but avoid the girls having four five contact days where they felt it was necessary they had to be there um for next year. So, we set up where uh volleyball is doing Sunday, Thursdays. Football's Tuesday, Thursdays for an hour. Boys and girls basketball Tuesday, Thursday. Um swimming, they're working with Megan on that schedule. And same thing, we limited it to two days and an hour each day. So, we don't want to burn kids out. So, um coaches were really good to work with with that. We all agreed to again like we said earlier, we're a small school. We need our best athletes in
025as many sports as we can get. and less of us as adults forcing them to make a choice like I got to be a basketball versus be at football skills or this better we're going to be in school long run and better more stuff we can get done so um for share of it we'll see how it goes and adjust from there but you have control local control 100% local y it it just got it got too muddy um again volleyball is a big one you know there's teams out south where the husband was coaching the summer league team while the wife was sending hand signals from the stands getting reported. Is that coaching? Is that not? Um there was teams down south volleyball. Why is that girls showed up first day of practice and
026they had three teams posted on the door already based off who did what in the summer and it's still summer contact still non-mandatory. If kid chooses not to be there, that's their choice. It shouldn't affect them going into the fall or winter depending on what sport. And our co, like I said, our coaches were really good of being like, "Yep, this is where we need to be." Because, you know, take, you know, Bra, we need him all for football. We need him all for um baseball. We don't need him choosing which one he's going to even though he's going to play college football, you know, or Larson, sorry. But yeah, so yeah, we'll see how it goes this year. Anything else? All right. Thank you, I look up question. I understand the ruling about moving
027up a division based on a record how you didn't turn this. It's not just for hockey but for the other sports too. What what's the guidelines or what's the ruling then that you would move back to your normal division based on? So So it's based on the amount of points you get over threeear period. So if you win state you get four runner up three qualify for state If you're in the sectional finals, you get one and it's uh uh points accumulated within the division you are in over those three years. So for us right now, we are going to be in D1 for two years minimal. Um just due to the timing of going to state last year. So our point total is 0 2 and four. So depending on what we do next
028year, it's still going to be um two four and zero. But we can reappeal next year if we want to try to go back down. But, um, that's all going to be based on what we do within division one. Um, looking at the team and what we have coming back, uh, we did get placed in arguably in the hockey world, uh, sectional of death. Um, you know, the top eight teams always have a chance to go to state. They're all strong programs. Uh, based on what we have coming back, um, and our goals haven't changed and what we plan on doing, there's a good chance we're going to be in the sectionals or possibly compete and get back down mass in D1. So, how it plays out next year. Obviously, that's everyone staying healthy and
029um development of the JB team had a nice year. So, the development of those JB players to fill the roles of the seniors leaving, but overall uh yeah, good chance of doing it. We'll see. So, it's all based on you actually have to lose the points over a period of time just like you gain the points over a period of time. Yep. Correct. Or if you're or if it wasn't hockey per se, it was basketball and our enrollment dropped us down a division. that may might move you back down to that original division you were in. But in hockeyy's instance, there's two divisions. Um, big one for us coming up is we have a very strong girls cross country program. Again, we have some really good uh young runners. Uh, so I foresee us having
030a chance to get back down with team state next year in that sport. Um, the cross country coaches association did bring the WIA to take cross country off the list is lowered down by the membership. So we might be in the same hole with uh cross country in a couple years here depend on how the summer training goes and health. I mean last year number one runner missed seven of the season and came back at 80% to get us to stay you know so we lose one or two runners changes that dynamic throughout the year obviously too. So Yep. Anything else? All right. Thank you. Enjoy your summer. I'm on vacation right now. Okay. From the woods, enjoy your vacation. Take a break. Moving on to item nine, approval of the policy 9270. Do you
031want to address anything on that? Sure. Yeah, just a slight change to this policy that would uh the policy already allowed for any non-enrolled students in our community to participate in WIA sanctioned events. and what this but it prohibited participation in activities and clubs. So, it's just a slight change that would tweak this policy so that it did allow for both of those to occur. So, there's one word in there that would we worked on this. Y yeah. So, looking for a motion to approve the change to eliminate not so they can participate. So, move 20. I'll second. Any discussion, concerns? All those in favor? I opposed hearing none. Motion carried. Number 10, the annual DPI AGR report. So, yeah, and you had this in your actually linked in your report, too. So, it's in
032two places, I think, that it can be found on the agenda. Yeah. I I just wanted to get that over in the board report just to clarify um what it is and again it's um it's a program we participate as a district in in elementary um our achievement gap reduction that helps us stay organized and meet requirements of that program. Um we use that template that was attached to to keep track of our data um helps us track what our students are working on where they're receiving additional support map how we support them how it's delivered. um and any progress over time. Honestly, we do all of these things in other places as well. So, it's pretty actually to fill this template in because we're already tracking these things for our MLSS process and um
033our grade level PLC's filled this whole template out. We talk about it often. So, um and as a part of the requirement of DPI, it has to be presented to you twice a year after each semester. So, here we go. I don't know if you have any specific questions, but your homework's done for the summer. Okay, moving on. There's a re um recommendation to get the right one. Recommendation to commit a beginning balance of $120,883.84 84 cents plus or minus any revenues and expenditures in the school forests. So, this this has been our ongoing we commit this amount for the past I don't know how many years, but you've seen that number grow. Uh it grew by about $6,000 um in acred interest. uh so over the over the past few years. So we're seeing
034that number grow, but that is just committed to uh any school forestry related project that we choose to pursue down the road. So we commit that every year to that account. Need a nice little building. We're getting closer. Okay. So we need a motion to approve this. I so move 20 second. All those in favor? I opposed hearing done. Motion carried. Did I have to make a motion? Okay. Okay. Recommendation to commit 2 million 9,523 the payment for future post employment benefits. Yeah. So once again this is um this amount is calculated we utilize an actuary to look at how many uh what our liabilities are in that regard to any staff that would have that coming and then we have to dedicate a portion of our fund 10 or our fund balance uh to
035to accommodate that amount annually looking for a motion motion um to approve. So moved about motion to So moved as described. I'll second. Okay. Motion's been made and and second then to approve the open. All those in favor I strong opposed hearing. None. Motion carried. Public comment. Um I'm gonna just say one thing. I think maybe we it'd be nice if the leader could get some information about graduation. I'm surprised they never put anything in this paper on graduation this year. Do we have any way to contact them or do things on a regular basis? Just a thought. Typically, we run something. Yeah, we provide them with a pre-graduation spread of all the kids and submitted things of that nature. Yeah. So that's something they get each year and then afterwards they usually follow up
036with wholesome things from us. This week's paper comes out Wednesday. So it might be in this week's two weeks later. Not if not a ton of stuff every year. They usually do. They usually do a nice highlight because Marl put theirs in two weeks already. Two weeks ago it was in the photo news and it's like where's Tomahawks? all the graduation pictures and all that stuff. I guess that was a more board referral. Any board referrals? Okay. Then I'm looking for a motion to go into close session pursuant to Wisconsin statutes 19.85 parenthesis 1 parenthesis C considering employment on personal consideration. So moved. Kershin second. Motion's been made and seconded. Roll call, please. Kersh, yes. Sorry. Obviously out of it tonight. Kissinger. Yes. Long. Yes. Swinty. Yes. Beloo. Yes. Zimmerman. Calvin. Yes. Yep. Okay. Motion's
037carried. Thank you everyone. Enjoy your summer. You'll you'll see