001couple and see if we know. I won't do that to you. Because I'd be I'd be tempted to make the couple up. We can figure out. Okay. Okay. Okay. I'll call the regular meeting of the Tomok school board to order. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Roll call, please. Black. Yep. Calhoun here. Hinrich. Yes. Kirch here, Kissinger Wolf here, Long V here, Swenty here, Beloo here, Zimmerman here. Okay, we have a quorum. Uh, entertain a motion to adopt the agenda as presented. Second. Kersh second. Motion, a second to adopt the agendas as presented. Any discussion, changes, deletions? Hearing none. All those in favor
002signify by saying I. Opposed? Motion carries. district administrator report. Okay. So, tonight uh instead of my typical district administrator report, I invited Darren Severs, our representative from school perceptions. And uh he he and his team uh organized and ran our recent survey to both staff, students, and families to all three. and he will present to the board tonight the the results of of that uh survey that took place back in February. So, I'll turn it over to you Darren. Thank you for being here. Great. Can you hear me? Okay, Wend. Yeah. Okay. Excellent. I'm going to share going to share my screen. Good evening, everyone. Um I've got a PowerPoint that I'll be sharing to uh summarize your findings and I'm going to just warn you in advance. It's a a lot of data, but
003I'll try to explain how we report it out to just give you an overview of of the great growth that's taking place in Tomahawk School District. Um, is my PowerPoint showing up? Okay, it is. Okay, great. So, I merged all three reports together. We're going to start with the students and I'll share with you this the parent data and then we'll wrap up with the staff. So, real briefly, um, background about our company. We've been doing this now for 23 years. This is our third year with this with the these three survey check-in tools with with your district. We reached a point where we topped three million staff, parent, student, and community surveys for school improvement and helped over a thousand districts with referendum planning. We've been particularly busy with that this these last few
004months in Minnesota. Um, so here are your student survey. Um, here's your student survey data for 2025. You had 662 students take the survey for an excellent participation rate of 85%. This was your distribution by grade level. I don't know that I've ever seen one quite as balanced as this. Uh, very very nice distribution across all the grade levels. Sometimes we see a decline in the seniors. Um, is there maybe a little checked out, but uh not not the case in your district at all. So, as we talk about your your indexes, you may remember this from this report that I give about the same time every year. All the questions in each of the surveys feed into these index areas that kind of summarize an area on the survey. And so, in the student
005survey, there are four of them. their their feelings about their connection to school, the learning they're experiencing in school, their environment, and then their overall experience of being accepted, respected, and supported. So, now that we're in our third year, we have great longitudinal data to see how things are going. And, uh, wow, really nice progress um, with the student report. uh the first column on a scale of one to five. And I'll remind you five is the highest favorability score and one would be the lowest. If they're not sure, don't know, does don't feel like the question applies to them, they check that, but it gets no point values. So there's no three. So we want to see as many scores at or above three as possible. Um and as you can see um the
006current score where the scores land this year and then the next column over is last year's scores. Third column is your percent change. And then the fourth column is where your percent compares to hundreds of other districts in our server who have asked these same questions. So I'll particularly note the percentage changes is remarkable because you have eight to 10 questions feeding into each of those indexes and basically all of them have to be rising nicely to have that whole index rise by that percent. So to give you a more detailed story I'm going to show you question by question and I'll explain how we're going to report this out and that's how all three reports will go. So it's it should go quite efficiently from there. So let's talk about this first page. So
007these are the questions for the kids about their classes and their teachers. So let's talk about the first question. My teachers make their classes fun and interesting. First column is the percent. They gave you a four or a five. Second column is the average of all respondents this year. Third column is average of all respondents last year. Fourth is change percent change. So this question it grew by 8.22%. 22% and then finally the comparison percentile where it leaves you compared to other districts. So you'd be at the 72nd percentile or looking at the other way better than than all but 28% of other districts who ask that same question that does that reporting out process make sense? Okay, great. So we did we had to rank them some way. We decided to do it by
008highest percentage change to lowest percentage. So, um that that was the way we sorted these. And just so you know, when we see two to 3% change, we get kind of excited when you talk about hundreds of kids answering a question. Seeing six 8% change, that's remarkable. So, there there's there's a lot of celebrations in these reports tonight. So, we'll go through these. You see the scores. If I need help, I can talk to someone outside of class. I can relate to what I'm learning. That grew by 6%. My teachers calling me in class, that grew by 5.47% as in the 85th percentile. Um, next page, my teachers explain things in a way that I get. Um, again, nice percentage change of 4% has hit the 73rd percentile. I can go online and use the
009device when I need it. That grew and then I try my best at school relatively the same compared to last year. Next questions. Life at school. Most kids at school follow the rules. Now, kind of a mixed bag here. Um percent agreement lower, but look at that percentage change. U the kids are noticing um something different as far as this question compared to last year. Still has you at the 40th percentile which is on the lower average side but 12% change remarkable. And we're going to come back to this type of area when we talk about the staff because the staff are seeing noticeable differences as far as kids behaving and following the rules as well. Next question. the former counselor in me, high school counselor, I would feel comfortable talking to someone about it.
010Love to see this 8.7% change on this question. And then it has you at the 82nd percentile, which is just wonderful for a student environment to know the kids if they're they're bullied, they can go to someone. Um, I feel safe answering questions in class even when I'm not sure I have the right answer. 7.2 23% growth has hit the 77% down. I know my teachers care about me. Tremendous growth there. I can be myself at school. Something I think we'd all aspire for every child to be able to come to school and just be themselves. That grew by 5%. Feeling safe at school grew by 4.62%. Teachers treat me with respect. That group has you at the 72nd percentile. Not so unlike the behavior question. Good growth for the students. Treat me with respect.
011Doesn't have you still quite as high as some of the others on the percentile basis. In the right direction and I like to learn new things by 2.72% has you at the lower average 38 percentile range. And then the people around me, I talk to people outside of school about what I'm learning. That grew by 11.3%. Um, I don't know I've ever seen that question grow by that amount. So, that that would be what I'd be curious to know what the leadership team thinks is behind that, but that's that's tremendous. Um, if I have a big problem, there's an adult at school I can talk to. So, not that far removed from the bullying question. Um, being able to get help when they need it grew by 5%. has you in really elite company. 92nd
012percentile or top 8% compared to hundreds of other districts. My teacher or my parents or guardians help me with school as much as I can if I ask grew 67th percentile. Now I like working in groups with my classmates. That grew a bit but still has you on the lower end at the 20th percentile. And then I have friends who help me when I need it. That also grew. I have friends that sit with me at lunch or hang out at the school. Modest growth there, but has it at the 60th percentile. And then I like helping other people when I can. Stay very similar and has at the 31st percentile. We asked a question, the homework and projects I'm assigned help me learn and are more than just busy work. We ask this of
013the high schoolers. Tremendous growth there. Um to see it go from 2.8 to a 3.27. tremendous. We do ask the question every year, what makes learning hard for me? Um, you'll see the copper brownish line is the high schoolers and the navy blue line are the fourth through 8th graders. Um, too much stress and distracting behaviors of other students are the top two for the high schoolers. Amongst the fourth through eighth graders, the highest concern areas are distracting behaviors of other kids and getting nervous. Getting nervous for tests. So, couple different ways we could report out your top five and bottom five. We did it two ways. These are the five areas with the highest average score and percent agreement. Very high scores. Um, so good stuff there about friendships, parents helping them with work,
014and teachers treating them with respect. Five average scores that were the lowest on this report. Um, students treat me with respect, answering questions when they're not sure if they relating to why I learn, talk to people outside of school about what they're learning, and most kids following the rules. But notice these are also some questions. Even though the average score is lower, they're growing tremendously. So we thought it might be neat for you to see how about the items with the most improvement. So top five most improved areas, lots of things about environment, uh following the rules, safety, and every item on this student report improved. But these are the five that improved at the slowest rate or the least the lowest percentage. And I don't know that I can I've ever seen a student
015report where every item improved. So tremendous report this year from your students. And then our closing question. Most states I like my school. Last year on a scale of 0 to 10 the average scores of 5.48 that grew to 577 this year percentage change of 5.29. 29. So that's a nice way to cap off the student report. Any questions about the student data? Okay, hearing none, we'll go to the parent data. You had 28 parents take the survey for a 20% participation rate. Um that's a little below our company average of 25% but still um we're satisfied with that response because it's a nice balanced representation from all three levels and a fairly balanced report from all the different grade levels. Um a little bit higher in the 6th through 12th range but still representation
016across the board if you think about 4K all the way up to seniors in high school. different ways we can break out your data if uh asked to do so. We can look at gifted talented programming, special education, those that live um that get free reduced lunch which is used to study the poverty rate. And we did ask for planning feedback. We said if living within this world of limited finances, what are the four areas that that the parents feel should be the focus of future planning? Um and and uh this is the rank or distribution of the most frequently chosen to the least frequently chosen life skills. And this as we work with districts around the country, life skills is an area of concern. And also recruiting and retaining high quality staff. Whether I'm
017asking this question in Arizona or Virginia or all across Minnesota, Wisconsin, retaining high quality teachers is a worry. Career and tech education is a priority and student behavior, mental health services. So, your top five are very much in line with what we're seeing all over the country and and certainly in the Midwest. As I go through the list, some of these doesn't mean that they're not important to the parents. If anything, it probably sends a message that they're not as worried about these because you probably have good things in place like school safety and security, math achievement, reading, literacy. Doesn't mean they're not important. They're saying, "Hey, we know they've got that covered. These are the things that I want them to worry about for the future." So, and then you get down into things
018like um online distance learning. I think all of us have kind of had it largely with that postco um overall how would you rate communication from the school 3.56% change from last year to this year has you up to 48%. Do will you ask them how they like to receive uh school information and busy parents they want the convenience of emails automated phone calls for those wind chill and snow days Facebook um And actually fourth on the list was meetings with teachers administrators. So face to face meeting. So again we have indexes from the parents. And I do have a positive news here as far as all five group how informed the parents feel, how included they they and their family feel, the educational excellence taking place, the atmosphere and their overall family experience. The
019only bit of a disappointment in this report and Wendell and I have talked about this is great nice growth across all five indexes. It just doesn't leave you um as high in the comparison percentile um ranking when compared to reports like your staff report that's to come and the student report that I just shared. But we'll go through this question by question just so you understand where things stand um within your within your parent base. So the first three questions of survey, do they feel the district is heading in the right direction? That grew by 6.58%. Which is nice to see. Districtation doing what it takes to make our district successful um grew by 4.4%. And then the question about the school board doing what it takes to make our district successful. that moved by
020a few hundreds to the to the negative 1.44%. The school experience in all these questions are school experience questions. So again, we've ranked them from highest percentage change to lowest. Most days my child enjoys going to school grew by a whopping 8.29%. These percentile ranks, again, we included them this year. They're probably not where any of us would like to see them, but you're moving the right direction with all these percent changes. There's a healthy culture at our school through the eyes of the parents. School staff treat my child with dignity and respect. If my child breaks a rule at school, they are treated fairly. Nice growth there. 4%. I have at least one school staff member I feel comfortable contacting when I have an idea or concern. That group at 3.68%. feel welcome in
021my child's school providing opportunities for parental involvement. My child gets help when they need it. Um nice growth there, but still again has yet the sixth percentile. Um so just worthy of study and discussion there. Um my child feels safe at school. Overall, I'm satisfied how much my child learned this year. 2.51% change. I know how to support my child's learning. Have opportunities to provide feedback to school and teachers. School communication being timely and [Music] transparent. School facilities are clean and wellkept. School has high expectations for my child. And then I'm updated how my child is doing at school. Rounding out the report, I'm satisfied with our school's efforts to address bullying. Interesting that that barely changed because that's not how the kids feel. And you'll see later in the staff report, that's not how
022the staff feel. Um, school teaches with materials that reflect my family's cultural and racial backgrounds that move backwards by only a hundth of a point. So, not not anything we're going to worry about. that overall my child is able to handle the emotional challenges of school. Again, a few hundreds there, but does have you at the fourth percentile there as well. Uh we do ask a question. The overall amount of homework my child is asked to complete. 74% have it rated you as having it just right. 17% feel it's too little, 4% too much. 84% of families report their children being involved in co-curricular activities, sports or after school activities, which is one of the higher rates I've had the pleasure of reporting um this year. And we do ask a question about reliable internet
023just to measure whether families are well connected um and and otherwise hard to send virtual assignments home if a big percent don't have the internet. Wendell did ask for some customized questions in this um the survey where we dove a little bit more deeply um into what activities they're involved in. Um so we have some percentages here of what activities the kids are involved in in grades six, seven, and eight. Then we asked the same thing of the high schoolers to see what the 9th through 12th graders are involved in. There are two slides here because you have a much greater breadth of activity um options at the high school. This is good information to know what clubs are are thriving and what clubs aren have as high a participation rate. Involvement after school goes
024a long ways towards growing that connection that the kids feel. So again did this two ways. Top five average scores on that one to five rating scale and then the bottom five based on just average score. But again knowing that you're in your third year, we thought it might be more useful for you to see where things are progressing the most. And these are the items with the most improvement. Some areas that many districts are struggling with right now. District direction and the ratings of district administration. Um nice to see that the community is recognizing that things are are moving the the right direction. And then these are the items with the with the least improvement. um noteworthy even within the parents though only three questions moved ever so slightly backwards and let's be honest
025not by much measured in hundredths of a point um I've had to deliver some tough reports this spring where districts are seeing five and six% regression in some areas um and that's not the case in Tomahawk um and so as we wrap up this report um nice percentage change on this metric too on how likely would you be to recommend commend our school to a friend or family member. Again, one of the, in my opinion, one of the greatest compliments the district can get is, "Hey, yeah, you should send your kids there. That's a good place." And that grew by 3.6% from 6.64 to 6.88. Any questions about your your parent data? I guess I was just I don't know if you can comment on it. I was a little surprised at the uh the
026point made that they interested in getting more uh day-to-day learning the basic skills type stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Priority list. Yes. You know, uh I can't remember. Was it at the beginning somewhere? Personal finance. I'm going to go back here. Your prioritization of future planning. Yes. that life skills. Uh but then I see when they look down I thought that would kind of go hand inand with academic and career planning that they would uh you know be interested in seeing how the how they could uh career plan for their for their child. I thought that might be this in getting to know Wendle like I do and learning more about your district like I have. You know, we presented a couple conference together by the way and thank you for lending us his talents to to
027tell your story across the state about how you're working on things for kids and staff. Um, when we talk academic career planning, I think that's rated lower because you've got so many neat school of work things in place with your youth apprenticeships, which I know are the envy of many districts in in in the state of Wisconsin. I think what they're telling you is they feel like the kids aren't getting enough like just those daily living skills as opposed to career planning. I think that tells me that you're doing a nice job of getting them thinking about the world of work. Um, obviously they want you to emphasize teched. Every district across the nation wants tech ed to grow, the skilled trade shortage, those kinds of things. They're they're wanting and we're seeing a comeback
028in home as we used to call it when I was when I was a younger man. Um, or or family consumer education is a term that a lot of districts are using these days. that personal finance that's required by the state, cooking, caring for oneself. I think that's what they're longing for more so than that career planning. So, I think that's how I would explain that away is that you've got a lot of things going on in in Tomahawk with getting them ready for the world of work. They're wanting that daily living skills thing. Um, it's shocking how many I just had a listening session with a district in central to western Wisconsin and that was on the the mind of every parent that attend that meeting is my kid doesn't know how to balance
029a checkbook and they're looking for the school to do that. My kid doesn't know how to to cook and they're looking for more programming at the school for those kinds of things. And and I it's it's kind of a challenging topic to talk about quite honestly because so much is asked of the school already. Now they're they're wanting you to to do more. That help answer that question? Yeah. Yeah. I guess the other comment I'd make the the one uh percent where the student uh high percentage of students participating in uh all the extracurricular activities. Yeah, I would I mean I kind of look at that a little bit with a kind of a grain of salt because I think we have a lot of activities for students to participate in and when you have
030a a a low number for enrollment you're going to get a lot of high percentage because they in order to participate everybody's got to participate. No, understood. Oh, I see what you're saying. Yeah. Yeah. I just know I just I love to see that as a high number because you know as we've studied kids success in school they don't all come to school to learn. Some of them come to school to be involved in something and learning just kind of happen secondarily because they want to be on the on the football team or they want to be in Skills USA or insert your your the club that you that you like. Yeah, I I agree. It's nice to see. I just think it's beyond that final learning bell of the day. That's pretty. Any other
031questions about the parent data? Otherwise, I will move forward with the staff report. Uh, we had 124 respondents to this survey for a 73% participation rate. Our company average is 65 to 70. So, you're you're you had great participation from your staff and I think they've come to expect this. It's going to be an annual opportunity for them to give you feedback. This was the distribution by building where they spend the most of their time. And I provided Wendle with a disagregated all three of these reports have a disagregated where we can look at the data by these these disagregating factors by grade level amongst the kids by building and grade level amongst the parents and in the staff report by position classroom teacher specialist pair professional support staff etc. Um, we were able to
032do an update to this this year with the years of experience. So, kind of a nice blend of 30% first and second year, but also almost 30% with more than 10 years. And we did have indexes for the staff as well. And I'm just going to tell you this this report was stunning. um you grew all five index areas and by numbers that I've rarely been able to report at a at to a school board and to have as I said with the student report to have all five or have all of them grow is challenging because that means all the questions within there need to grow as well and we're seeing some significant jumps across the index that has your percentile comparison ranks um in some very very um strong company as well. So
033let's dive more deeply and understand how we got there by going to each question. So we have the workday questions amongst the staff. I feel comfortable sharing input and concerns with my supervisor administrator. See those numbers again ranked by percentage change. 15.26% has you in the top in the 88th percentile or top 12%. That's remarkable. We we just don't see double digit growth on any question in our surveys very often. So um clearly some efforts being made there about approachability with their supervisor administrator. With that most days I look forward to going to work grew by a whopping 8.42%. Workload the amount of work I'm asked to do is reasonable manageable. Grew by 7.87% as the 77th percentile. Um, a lot of districts I'm reporting to you right now are in the 20s and 30s
034on that question because everyone's feeling overworked. So, um, don't often get to report news like this. Healthy working relationships with my co-workers, rock solid there. Right in that average range on the percentile basis, but grew from last year. Feel safe at work. Grews ever so slightly has you in the lower average range. But again, look at the agreement percent and the current score. Um, everyone's working on safety, so these are pretty tightly clustered. So, not something to be alarmed at that you're below the 50% mark. Um, I have technology I need to do my job well by only 100, but you're at the 52nd percentile. So, right in that strong, right in that average range. Um, but what's something that redressed a bit and has you at a lower percentile is having access to technology.
035more time each. So, one question is about having the devices, the other one's about having help with running the devices. So, that slipped a bit this year. I have the materials and supplies I need to do my job well. That slid a bit this year, too. It still has at the 56th percentile. Now, here are the environment questions. Staff and value grew by 17. Again, double digit growth very rare. you have nearly 20% growth on staff input being valued and has you at the 75th percentile. I mentioned in the student report that the students are noticing changes in in how behaviors are handled and access to to staff when they're being bullied. The staff are seeing changes in behavior as well. Our staff handles student discipline in a consistent manner grew by nearly 13%. Our
036school student disciplinary practice and policies are effective. grew by over 11%. And they're hand in hand. It's one thing to handle it, but you also have to have good policies of practices so people know how to handle them. And you've got both both here. In the last year, I received useful feedback to help improve my work. This is their feelings about their their evaluations and the feedback they get from their supervisors grew remarkably. and has you in a very very nice percentile rank area 72nd percentile. All students in our school are respected for their values and beliefs grew by nearly 6%. It has you in a great percentile rank elite. When we see score is 75th percentile or above. Uh we consider that a significant strength well above average. important information to my work is
037shared with me in a timely and effective manner. That grew by 5.75% 67 percentile. So they're definitely seeing administrative changes in how behaviors are dealt with and how the approachability of their their supervision supervisors and the communication of important information. Our staff does a good job educating our students that grew by nearly 2%. And I opportunities for training and profession development stayed the same uh compared to last year. And finally, the support questions on the survey. I'm recognized when I do a good job. Look at that percentage change and where that leads you on the percentile rank. And just like the parents seeing the district heading the right direction, staff are seeing it even more because they're there in the system on a day-to-day basis. Again, I I I can't say enough. I I I
038was just thrilled to meet with Wendell and preview these results because of all the intentionality of things being done here that the staff are recognizing. District administration doing what it takes to make our district successful. Huge growth and re leaving you in that upper quartile. Social emotional of all students being met. Great growth. And this is something districts across the nation are struggling with is meeting the social emotional needs of kids. Training and support to work with students from different backgrounds. Um great because as you if I go back a couple slides this the the training and professional development to prove my work stayed the same. Wasn't maybe the greatest percentile rank but training to work with students from different backgrounds grew by 10.48% 48% and has you in the top 30%. Our school has
039a process to ensure every student has a connection with at least one adult in school. That connectivity piece grew by 10% and has in the top 14% compared to hundreds of other districts. The favorability of the school board doing what it takes to make our district successful 8.64%. Can't say I've been able to report schoolboard growth like this at all this year. So commendable and congratulations on that. All students in our school are given equal opportunities to learn and experience success. Another great growth score. And wrapping up our parents and community support. The school district grew remarkably 8% still has the 38th percentile but moving tremendously the right direction. Another area where we don't often get to report data like this, the district's pay practices being fair grew by 67.64% and has you in the
040top 21%. In these challenging budgetary times, your staff are recognizing that they're they're being treated fairly with their wages. The district seeks input from a broad group of staff members. I hope now in year three of seeing that Wendell and his principles are going to launch the survey and gather input from them, you're seeing the payoff, I think, and it's not just these surveys, but this is a great tool for everybody to anonymously their voice be heard. I feel supported by my supervisor administrator. You saw earlier in the report favorability ratings about the approachability uh of this their supervisor administrator. They also feel very supported. great growth 6.3% and has you at the 79th percentile. Our school supports students from diverse backgrounds. Um great growth there too and that kind of goes hand in hand
041with the training they're receiving to support students from diverse background. And then finally, um, we did break that out by, um, equal opportunities for students based on their background, cultural background, economic background, racial background, and then students with special needs. All hovered similarly to last year or regress slightly in the area of special needs by a few hundred. So again, two different ways we could package this for you. We could talk about the top five average scores. on the one to five rating and the lowest five average scores on that one to five rating scale. But knowing so much um has grown, we felt that the most productive way would be to highlight the five areas that grew the most. And a lot of this related to district direction and uh staff and administration interactions.
042and then five areas with the least improvement. Again, only two questions regressed on the on the on the uh staff report. Think about that. Five, you've got three surveys here with 30 to 35 questions each and you only had five questions that redressed across all three reports. So, great things happening in your district. Closing question. I've never been able to report a change like this either. I've got I got to be honest. Um, on a scale of 0 to 10, how likely are you to recommend the district as a place in employment? Look how topheavy this is. My boss when I was hired by this company said, "Okay, Darren, on this metric, we are looking for people with a B in their bonnet. Are there pockets of people down at 0, one, and two that
043are super angry?" Far from it. It's quite the opposite. Look at the huge percent of people that are extremely likely to recommend you as a place of employment. One in five gave you a perfect 10. 37% of nine or 10. Um just just tremendously topheavy report grew by nearly 14% from last year to this year. So, I think I need to ask Wendell to present at W next year on on growing staff data uh over the course of a three-year uh process because this is a very noteworthy report. So, any questions about your staff data? Any questions? No, I just want all them to stand up so we can Yeah, I agree uh Char totally. Those numbers just don't happen by wishing them to happen. Takes a lot of hard work from the staff, the
044administration, staff, everybody in the school. And uh I personally appreciate it and I think the board members appreciate it. And of course with that said, my challenge is how we going to get better next time. No pressure. Just can't stop. No. So, and I can speak to that. Darren, I don't want to keep you. So, does anybody have any questions for Darren? Yeah, please. I just want to say this. you are the model in in Tomahawk um for how to use our tools. Um I use them in Slinger. You know that that's my background is I was a superintendent Slinger. I'm in my third year at the company. It's been so fun to watch your district use this data with intentionality. Um, you know, last year we talked about that staff data and there's you're
045asking a lot of your staff and you're asking a lot of your staff to serve the kids and meet the kids needs and the kids are seeing that and now the staff are feeling great about their about their their role in your system and how supported they feel. Administration is a thankless job and your administrative team is is killing it with the data that we're presenting. So, I'm I'm I'm very very impressed and proud of what you got going here. this this uh you're the model and I I reference you a lot and we're going to be asking Wendle to be on a a future podcast to feature the district to talk about some of your youth apprenticeship opportunities that school of work thing and um we want to keep you in the spotlight because
046you're doing great stuff. So congrats. Thank you. I have a question. Would you be able to do some type of PR for our school that you could promote so we could promote it with the community from your your organization? Well, by all means, I mean, quite honestly, I I think um I don't know if there's a reporter in the room. Um but no, if there's anything that I can do, I would be honored and thrilled to do that. um whether that's if there's an educational reporter in the region or um we we did provide you executive summaries that would be nice to put front and center on the web page to uh to show the growth of your data uh particularly the the staff and the student data you know I those percentile ranks amongst
047the parents they're going to come um they they grew among across the majority of the questions but by all means um some thoughts about that. I'd be glad to to tell the story to local media or provide I think I sent you those window executive summary the onepage summaries of these glowing um data points but um if there's if there's a where you wanted me to present you know we are independent we're third party research firm so I there's no incentive for me to to blow other than I'm just this is just rare data I don't often see so think about that as a board if there's a if there's an opportunity or quite honestly um if you as a board ever wanted to uh apply at WS to present on the intentionality you've used
048to to um improve um your engagement with staff, students, and parents. Um we we can't necessarily apply to present at the school board convention in January. They don't want vendors up there selling stuff. I think you've got a heck of a story to tell as board leaders. So we could supplement that by showcasing your data. That might be a neat venue. Or um maybe we could approach the WASB uh reporter U Brock Fritz and see if he'd want to do a story about Town. I could reach out to him if he'd like that. But just something even locally here with the radio forum or with the local TV station or something just news out something like that. That's really important right now in particular for you can connect those people. I'd be glad to be
049the voice of the data or maybe Wendel and I could do something jointly with one of those media outlets. That'd be fantastic. Good. We'll be in touch. Thank you. Whatever I can do. Okay. All righty. Thank you. Thanks, Darren. Yeah. Congrats again. We'll probably see each other a year from now around the same same time and we'll see if it's going to be 80 or 90 or we'll have to know. We'll have to see what All right. Take care. Thank you. Thank you. Good night. Anything else? just to just to close that out. So, you're going to get a lot of these numbers reported back out in our strategic planning scorecards when we decide on that that workday. You see these numbers drive some of those goals that we've been doing. Um, but I you
050know, I'll speak just for our team and and like Darren said, I've gotten an opportunity to present with them a few times and there are some things as superintendent you have to do and there's some things you get to do. And those are things I get to do where I get to talk about the great work at the folks that are sitting not only at that table but that fill our halls every day. So it it has been good data. It it we grew a lot. So it's going to be a challenge, right, to stay on that trajectory, but it's something where I think we all committed to being very intentional and if you go back three years ago when we started this and we talk about the longitudinal pieces, we didn't always have great
051conversations at this table. So there is some intentionality around hiring practices, around our employment decisions, around what we do in classrooms, um what we do in our buildings, and some of them you've been involved with with the resources that we have bolstered our buildings with that sometimes are a gamble, right? You don't know what what you're going to get out of it. But we're seeing both from our staff, from our students, and from the small percentage of families that filled this out that they're the things that we're doing are are putting us on the right path. So, you know, when we talked um referendum time, we also talked about strategic investments. And that's what I mean. These things, you know, we we can't get in that stagnant path where we're afraid to add resources to
052our buildings because we see the impact that those things have. So, we have to be smart about it, but we're we're in a good place and it's it's the decisions that we make moving forward that are going to continue that trend. So, um it's impressive. We've got a lot of work to do as we start to dig into these for individual buildings, looking at the different groups and how they've answered and then filling that scorecard out. And it's how are we going to, like you said, Ron, get better for next year that drives that strategic planning process and how we're going to use the data we have to build new goals for next year as we go into it. So, and there's some things that we really see in our growth was great. Our percentiles
053across the board are not that great. There's a lot of room, even though that's good news, when you dig into it, there's a lot of room for us to improve. And and some of those things are lowhanging fruit because they're very obvious. They've been told to us, like technology, help with technology, help using technology. Uh, as as AI grows and becomes more of a part of a classroom, how are we going to help our teachers know how to utilize that uh and utilize some of those other tools? So, a lot of work to do, but I'm I'm glad we're on the the trend that we're on. you guys are getting good news and not news that we're all these efforts are pushing us in the wrong direction. So there is a little bit of help
054there. So with that, I guess I'll I'll end the portion with my report. Okay. Thank you. Any questions for Wendle? All right. Uh next item is the consent agenda agenda and several items on the consent agenda. So I'd entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda. I so movey second. Second. Motion a second to approve the consent agendas pre presented. Any discussion, questions? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. Staff reports. Uh obviously we got the staff reports from the admin team is there and we have a couple uh presentations tonight. Any first of all any questions for any of the any of the the staff on their board report? Yes, I have a question for Mark. I saw for the PD for the teachers. Yeah. You said
055a catalog. Oh, yeah. That you developed. Well, we developed that the administration developed. How very cool. Are these um like online classes or presenters? Everything. Everything. A little bit of everything. So, what we did is we we kind of the benefit of bouncing around and we just started listing different options that staff we had available for staff. elementary oral language NBCI training. Um, a lot of reading, a lot of math stuff throughout their math training at the middle school and high school with the new programs, things that we would offer anyway. Um, along with the safety training that is offered every single year, book studies, things like that that we can do. We wanted to try to promote more Yeah. Right. the right book. We wanted to try to promote more PD just to get
056staff seeing what else is going on to kind of reach out a little bit. But we're also we've also opened it up to if there is a conference that you want to go to, there's parameters around that conference, are we paying for the mileage, is it a hotel qualifying conference, stuff like that. We have some title four funding that we can use for that stuff. And that's what it's designed for. That's what the state gives us. Second question is and and who's going to decide who will who can go and we will. It'll be a joint effort. To be honest with you, the ones that have been brought to us so far, they're just no-brainer. I mean, they're just really easy decisions to make, okay? Nobody said they want to go to Hawaii. Everybody's being
057very respectful of the process. I mean, Sherry wants to go to Hawaii, don't get me wrong, but they're all being very respectful of what we're trying to do, and the conferences they're choosing are ones that we would want them to go anywhere. We have one teacher going to Stevens Point for a three-day health conference. We have another teacher who got accepted to the Wings Academy up in up in the North Woods. I'm going to say for um because we're already there. But where where is the Wings Academy? That is it's way up north. But anyway, that's a fiveday one and she's taking three days and it's all free. So it's encouraging people to go and find these things which is exactly what we like to do. And then are they doing like a report on
058it or if it's a there are certain ones where the ones that are being attended here? No. Because that they're here. But the ones where they go elsewhere that's the followup that needs to happen at the end of it. Okay. And we're hoping like book studies they have to come and they have to prepare a summary of what they learned and hopefully they start presenting to staff. That's the next step that we want to get to. And do you have any technology that shows that we need the technology? There is AI all over it. Uh there's a school AI summit. There's an AI planning session at season 9. There's canvas training at the middle school and the high school. Um there's AI kind of embedded I mean AI there's technology needs kind of embedded all
059the way through the whole thing. I just want to piggyback on that a little bit too because that came the ideas to put these together came from the increase in days that we gave staff to use independently. And so it's it's to hear, you know, Mark talk about some of the folks that are are taking advantage of those things. It it truly is fulfilling a requirement for their staff days, but it's not top down directive. It's here are some great ideas. And as I rounded with staff this year, one of the things I did hear that echoed in that survey is I don't feel like there's enough PD. Now, you know, seven years ago when I started, we used to have to beg people to get them to go to Slate or Google Summit or
060some of these things. And I think we've sort of kind of rested back and stopped begging people to go on things. And now we've got staff that that are saying, I just don't know because CISA doesn't put it out like they used to. They used to have a lot of different things that um were staff driven with um help me what was it with e funded it um with the wow with the wow pieces that we would take staff to and all of that sort of the funding dried up so there's still things there. What we're starting to discover is we haven't really done our best job of putting them in front of staff. We've expected them to go and find them. We know that's not realistic when everyone gets busy. So they're doing a
061great job of putting all that together and putting in front of people and it's nice to see that they're responding to it and actually trying to take advantage of some of those opportunities. So, we're going to grow that. That's going to continue to grow and get bigger for us. Is that separate from team days? Do they still So, they still have an individual day. They still PLC day three days that went three days. Okay. I have a question for Ryan. Could we get some data or some information on how many how the program has grown with the um advanced planning, you know, all the career plan, not the career planning, but the college credits and all that stuff when the program started, how many students get it, how many credits they get. Do you have
062the that type of some of that data I I produce in the actually the June board meeting? Okay. So, some of it becomes available from our technical colleges. We keep some locally and then all of our a lot of those things you're speaking to are actually within our strategic plan. So you'll see them on our redefining ready report cards. Can you do a year comparison to see what type of growth there has been going and when when it started or something like that just to give some background information on all that stuff too for everyone? Okay. And on that same question is NTC weren't they kind of difficult to get the data from as far as like a dollar amount or did that change produce it at a different time? Okay. So, we usually get
063like I have Nico's data right now. NTC hasn't provided it yet. So, different. Okay. Yeah. Just so we can see once how much it's grown or changed and what type of classes. Okay. Any other questions? All right. Thank you. Then we have a couple presentations. Summer school update. Patiently wait. All right. So, summer school. I'm Megan Parker, by the way. We know. We know. She's been here forever. Um, summer school is going to be fabulous. Oh, I'm sure. If you want to come, I'll sign you up. So, we have 48 um different classes this year, enrichment and support, um, plus 15 swimming lesson classes. Um, I work really hard to make sure that the swimming lessons lines up because that's what families want. They want one-stop shopping that their child can be here all day.
064Um, we have 21 contracted teachers for summer school this year and seven paras. And as I was listening to you talking about staff, I didn't have to hunt that hard for teachers. Some sometimes I do and people wanted to teach this year. So that was awesome. Um, we are providing transportation for summer school this year. I will say there's not as many families that are taking advantage of it. So, I'm not sure how that will look going forward in future years, but we are providing it this year. Um, is that through bus routes? Yes. How many how many routes? Just one. So, we don't even have the routes finalized yet. Um, but I do not anticipate there's going to be as many routes as there were last year even. Wow. Um, so So that's interesting.
065It's and a lot of kids do choose to stay all day. I would say out of our population over 60% of the kids who come stay all day. So I'm not sure. I'll investigate that though. Um our total enrollment is 402 which is awesome. That is our highest we've ever had. um last year was 428 but that included numbers for middle school strength and conditioning and we are not providing that anymore. So our standalone um number is 402 which means we definitely increased there. Um what else? We had our registration open for about three weeks and it the online registration was very smooth this year. Thanks to Colleen for sure to all her. Um, one new item is that with the swimming lessons this year, we um we are charging for swimming lessons and I
066spoke a little bit about that on the last page. As part of the grant that has now expired, um we had offered swimming lessons for free and I gently informed the families it would no longer be free. Um and people rolled with that pretty well. Um we are charging $50 for that and that is just to offset the cost of the pool. That is still not even keeping us in the black there with the pool. Did you get any any parents that said, "Okay, I'm not going to have my student come because of that." Not really. And I guess I can't say for sure. Um, but we are still cheaper than like what the Y is charging for swimming lessons, which is $75. Uh, St. Mary's did do a swimming lessons um for their students
067this year and charge 35, but we still our swimming lessons are completely full plus a waiting list. So I I would have to say based on that people were willing to pay. Um, and an added component we put in place this year was um, being able to pay online and it had a little bit of a learning experience there, but every single lesson is paid for at this point. So, that's awesome because when it starts on the first day, I think that's really going to reduce the no-shows or the people who just change their mind because they've already paid in advance. So, that's another great learning thing for our families and they've kind of rolled with that routine. Um we have some brand new classes this year that I have listed there. Um our basketball
068coaches have a camp going on um that that was very popular and then we have high school players that are coming in to assist with that. So that was a great involvement with our olders with the youngers. Um Renee Hinrich is taking over doing a gardening class and getting our greenhouse used again, which is also Yeah, I barely see her now. So, thank you. She really wanted to do and she wanted to do it all day, but but she's got some historical stuff to cover, too. I would thank you for that, too. Um, we have some new art classes, art around the world, Kilfired Creations, and a lot of our classes filled like within the first hour of enrollment openings. So, kids want to be here and they're super excited for it. Um, our STEM
069classes are continuing. Um, we had a lot of those purchases that happened last year with the grant and we're really making full use of the STEM lab again with classes and the Lego robotics and our math and support classes. I kind of talked about those numbers on the back. We have 107 students K 8 that are enrolled for math and reading enrichment. Some of them are crossover doing both as well. So, do you have any questions for you? question. I I do I have a question. Um there are 50 students that were in the summer school weightlifting. Why was that? I mean I'm I I'm wasn't privy to the previous stuff, but why isn't that being offered? Sure. So, and I wasn't in charge of the strength and conditioning, but I believe that that's an
070official FIAD class this year instead if you want. So, I can speak to it. So last year was the first year that we had FIAD credit available in the summer. Yep. So it was a strength and conditioning class and basically um there was also nonredit weight room activities as well for for anybody that want to be a part of that too. The enrollment to the summer weightlifting class, don't quote me on the number, but it was mid- teens, upper teens, something like that. And ultimately transitioning to this year doing something different where for credit it won't be available in the summer, but a new course is going to be zero hour. Okay. Every other day all year for students to take. So that's not just for Thank you. Any other questions? I suspect that that
071probably competed with, you know, the fall sports and coaches telling their students come lift up at this time and do things like that. Um certain extent, you know, I maybe maybe I think most the kids that signed up for credit were actually not athletes. So Not not none of them. Yeah, that doesn't mean that the weight was empty. Just right. What what was a credit that they got? Five credit. I mean half a half a credit. I think Mr. Iron wants to start a class with his wife working. Might might be better chance to see her then. No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. All right. Well, thank you. Work together. Thank you very much. I just say thank you Megan for all you do. Thank you. Okay, then we have a report from office assistant. All
072right. Um, so this last uh since the last time I saw you guys, it's been a little bit busier than the previous two times. So I would call it the the fourth quarter has been much busier than the second and third. um probably a little bit less busy than the first quarter. Um as far as number-wise, um like any referrals that I've had to do, they've been staying pretty consistent throughout the year. Um however, in the this last quarter, my citations that I've issued have been up um compared to the second and third quarter um and a little bit higher than the first quarter. Um, so they've been keeping me busy. Um, and it's mainly mainly most of the activity has been uh in high school and um the middle school. Um I I do
073have to give uh um Sherry and her staff some props that you know I haven't been in the elementary as for issues as much as I have been in the years prior. Um so I think there's some big differences that have taken place down there. Um, not that I don't like going down there. It's just sometimes things are, you know, better handled without me if it's if there's an issue. Um, but other than that, uh, the last time I spoke, I talked about how, um, I think at the time he was Detective Corell, now he's Sergeant Corell. He had, uh, taken over the deer program. Um, I helped him with, uh, deer graduation last week in the fifth grade class, or not last week, the week before. Um we had prom in high school. Um
074in April had no issues there. Um end of May I will be um some of you know few years ago I had gotten a grant through social services to purchase some pedal carts um that myself and Miss Hudinsky Pike use in health class with uh what you call the drum goggles. Um, so every year we try to get those out. Um, so at the end of May I'll be getting those back out and running I think she has three classes through them. And then uh the middle school has uh recruited me this year along with Wendy here um for the dunk tank. So three years running. There's a little pressure put on four years running. He tries to avoid it every single year. Well, we all know who gets it. Larson gets a quarter just
075I go behind Larson. And then uh obviously uh we got for the high school we got graduation um coming up next week and I'll be there in some capacity. Probably not official because my oldest is actually um graduating this year. So I'll have one of my officers or co-workers swan just make sure everything's going all right. Otherwise, I'm just, you know, building relationships with as many kids as I can and being around in the buildings as much as I can and going from there. Thank you. Thanks for everything you do. Appreciate it. Any questions? Thank you very much. Okay, next item is the finance report. Sure. And I'll uh just briefly highlight uh this was presented in full to the finance and operations committee passed along to the full board report. The highlights I put
076in your guys' packets. So just to summarize this revenues and expenditures are slightly higher than where they were a year ago at this time and that can be attributed to the uh influx of er funds that we got right at the beginning of the year to close out uh all of that stuff. So that will catch up as we get into quarter four. It just set things a little ahead of schedule. Capital projects, three main things. Two I mentioned here. So, out of fund 46 this summer, we will be uh renovating. We we have a much larger um project here to renovate all but really one set of our bathrooms in our building because none of them are wheelchair accessible. So, originally it was one is one is right. All but one. I said all
077but one. We're going to renovate. Um, so there's uh we were going to start out here in the commons area, but uh we had some plumbing issues down in the middle school. So we decided to kill two birds with one stone, start there, and we moved the project to there. So that will be coming out of fund 46 this year. It will uh end up it's a it's a nice plan. Uh Stacy, I think your staff are going to be incredibly happy about what happens that they'll actually have usable bathrooms in their in their break room as well because they they butt up to the the bathrooms that we're renovating. So we're doing those as well. So, there's just a wall between them, but we can access the same plumbing and run it through. So,
078a little bit of a redesign in your staff break room, but at least it'll be, you know, you'll have bathrooms for for your staff. Um, the other one is the replacement of the fire alarm system. That should be wrapping up very quickly. If it's not, um, it's it's I think the majority of it is completed, but they they've been working on that. Um, and then the one that's not on here, we're hoping to fund out of the remaining portion of Arland's budget as we have another long-term project which is to remove the tile that you see out in the hallway here. Um, and some of that is asbestous tile and some of it is is resembles asbestous tile. It's all called asbesus tile, but it doesn't mean that it has it. And we keep that
079encapsulated every year as as mandated by um, you know, by all of our safety standards so that it gets waxed. So what we're doing is replacing that with LVL flooring. So this hallway, this main hallway here will get done and then down what they call senior hallway. So as you get down here to the hub and hang a left. So all of this will get uh removed. The asbestous folks will come in here to do that even though we don't know that it's asbestous tile or not, but we'll be say you know say air on the side of of safety and they will remove it as though it is. And then that will get all new flooring that will not have to be waxed annually, which will also free up our custodial staff to do
080uh quite a few other projects that need to get done over the summer. So, we're hoping to be able to accomplish that with Arland's remaining budget. If not, we'll dip into 46 to complete that as well. The best part of the finance report is the interest earnings as always. So we do have a pretty significant um amount of money that that as it comes in in lump sums that we keep uh in the local government investment pool and in lie of other strategies that we could be utilizing. Uh that does not involve a vendor. It doesn't involve any type of fees going to anyone. It is uh and it really has had about the best rates uh return on our investment that anybody has had uh that we could go through. So and our money
081is completely liquid. We can move it in and out as we see fit. Uh so we've earned $439,3547 on our general 10 fund and an additional $103,881 on our fund 46 uh amounts there. So that's the equivalent of roughly uh six teachers right there that that we don't have to pull out of out of that fund. We've been using that money at the end of the year to put into 46 to tackle some of our deferred maintenance and other things so that it doesn't have to come out of our our the funds that would be directed to to help students student learning and hire teachers. So any questions on any questions? I would just mention especially for our two board members that you know we're going to talk about committee assignments later but you know
082it's a pretty complex topic to discuss so not going into it tonight everybody's benefit but come to the operations and finance committee meeting so you can kind of learn more about where the money comes in where it goes. Okay. Okay. With that entertain a motion then to approve the finance report. So move cars second. Second. Have a motion, a second to approve the finance report as presented. Any discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. Approve the 2025 graduation candidates list. Any comments on that? No comments. That list is provided uh for you there. So it's just mandatory piece. I so movey second. Parish is second. Okay. Motion to second to approve the 2025 uh graduation list. Any discussion? Seeing none, those in favor signify by saying I.
083I. Opposed. Motion carries. Uh next item, approval of the early graduation list for 26. This is the same just the technicality. I so move 20. Second. Second. Okay. Motion is second to approve the early graduation list for January of 2026. Any discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. Thank you. 26 27 uh district calendar. Anything there? Uh we try to get this out. So this is not next year's calendar. It's it's years down the road. We always try to get these out a couple years in advance. So long-term planning for vacations for families and other things, staff ex etc. So this would be the 26 27 draft. A couple of things we tried to accomplish with it. Uh one reduce that uh beginning of the year in service days
084down to five uh the best that we can each year with where September 1 falls out makes it a little more tricky. Uh we also try to maintain those on your own days but place some inservice days throughout the year strategically so that we can come and have some shared learning together and some of the PD and other things that our staff are asking for with this calendar. To accomplish that we raised or extended the school date from 3:15 to 3:20. So five minutes every day and it allowed us to accomplish all the pieces that we needed still in that first week of June. But we do only have 2.5 days set aside in 26 27 for inclement weather, which the past couple years would have been too bad, but well, not so much this
085year, I guess. But we know that we're going to have to utilize and grow our ability to offer uh remote learning on those days that we have inclement weather, too. So, um so yeah, that's that's what we tried to accomplish with that uh that calendar. Okay, any questions? I make a comment to add Saturdays in the second column from January down. It doesn't show any Saturdays. It's on the next page. Is it? Oh, it must have when we put it into a PDF. Sometimes I got very confused cuz I was going to comment. I was like, you have graduation on the Saturday, but no, it's Friday. Okay, got it. We used to have graduation. I know. That's why I was like entertain a motion to approve the 26 27 district calendar. Long second. Second. Motion
086a second to approve the 2627 district calendar. Any discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. Next item, as we do every year, is the uh reorganization of the board uh for the election of officers. So, I'd entertain a nomination for the president's position. Nominate Ron Zimmerman. I'll second that nomination. Any other nominations? Do you accept the nomination? Yeah, I in favor. Okay. For the vice president's position, and I'll make it. I'll second. Anyone else? Okay. Those in favor? I I Okay, clerk. I nominate Deb. I accept. Any other nominations? Seconds of nomination. Okay. And finally, treasure. I'll nominate Dave. Anyone else? Okay. Then, uh, I'll ask for approval of the second. Yeah. Approval of the positions of president, vice president, clerk, and treasurer from the from the
087board. All those in favor as nominated, please. Yes or no? Yay or nay? Yay. Yay. Yay. All right. Thank you again. I think All right. Uh, appoint the WB delegate. And I think Ann, you did that before. That's right. You willing to do it again? I didn't I haven't done it yet. Oh, yes, I did. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Yes. Yes, I will do it again. Okay. Anyone else interested? Okay, you're it. Okay. Thank you, Ann. You're welcome. Thank you. And then appoint the CISA board of control representative. I think Deb, you've been that. Is that right? Yes, I am. Are you willing to do that again? Absolutely. Okay. Anyone else? Okay, Deb, you're it. Uh, next item is date for summer school board work session. You have to se select a date. We do.
088Um, I put a recommendation for I believe it's June 10th. It's the same day as our board meeting. We've done that in the past where we just if we could meet earlier in the day and then have dinner together. We I think we broke and had dinner together at the meeting, but we can do it whatever works best for you. Um, except for Saturdays because I took those off the calendar. That's smart. I would not be able to make it uh on the 10th. Okay, no problem. No, I would not. Okay. What um we don't necessarily have to decide on a date right here tonight. Uh we can we can decide it later. We can push that off, but um I I would like to get it in June. Yeah. Yeah. I'll be gone. I'll
089be gone from the 11th to the 25th. You can go ahead without me. I'll I'll be enjoying myself over. Yeah, sure. I know Fridays, Lonnie, you had said work better for you. They do. 27. Sure. I don't know what days work for you. Uh, Tuesday or Thursday afternoons. I cannot do Fridays. There we only have two people in the office and I'm on every Friday. Okay. So, Fridays are not an option for me. Okay. I have enough I can enter. address my adjust my work schedule to a Tuesday and a Thursday. Possibly that would work. That's a Thursday. 26th 26th August 2, sorry 26th. Thursday. Why don't we do that? We'll we'll we'll agree that it'll be in June on a Tuesday or a Thursday and we'll try to avoid the 11th to the 25th.
090And then we'll um So would earlier uh in Well, it's it's hard when we're still in session that first week, right? So So this afternoon, what's that? Afternoon work session. We can do or is it an all day? I think if we give it I think three hours would be more than enough. Okay. Yeah. To get through everything we wanted to. So what we're going to do this year is just go through a deep dive and present to the board. The whole admin team will be there present both academic and behavioral data so that you can see sort of the before and after connections to the resources we added and some of the other pieces that are you thinking like 4 to 7 or 3 to what I mean? I'm trying to work around your
091guys' work schedule. So if that would work like a four to seven I can make most Tuesday, Wednesdays or Thursdays work. Okay. Um, Tuesdays and Thursdays are always going to be my best day because I technically am scheduled outside of the office. So, I'm at an appointment. This is something that we can't discuss by email without open meeting violation, right? Yeah. I think if Colleen sends a sends a form, you'll just all send your data. So, you won't have an open meeting issue like that. So, So, we can check calendars. We'll send the possible dates out and have everybody pick the few that work the best for them. Sounds good. Okay. The next item is the uh committee members. Uh I made a couple changes. Uh the executive committee is is the uh the group
092that we just uh uh nominated or elected. Policy committee. Uh Jen, I'm going to ask if you would be a part of the policy committee. Sure. Whatever you want. With uh Ann and K. I think good. Don't blame me later, but you know how I feel about politics. Uh operations and finance. Uh I asked Steve if he would participate on the finance committee with uh with Lonnie and Dave and he's agreed to do that, too. And finally, the personnel committee. Uh I've asked Deb if she would change from the uh policy committee to the personnel committee and she's agreed to do that too. Okay. Otherwise it we're at where where you were before. Yes. Is that okay? Again worth noting for our new members that you can come to any committee meeting. Yeah. You don't
093have to be on it to attend it. You're not necessary a voting member, but you can attend any committee meeting. Yep. I just always miss the dates unless I check where it welcome. Yeah. Okay. You could send out, Colleen. Like, could you send it out to the whole board so we know when Thank you. Uh, next item is to prove the copier bid. Anything on that? Well, the only um thing that you're going to when you approve the copier bid, so our every few years we go through and we replace our copers and the the service um that goes along with that. And we're in that uh point right now. Um the copier bid that we have uh we're asking that it's approved contingent upon prices remaining static because uh we know there's some clauses
094in there that would uh allow the company to adjust prices based on you know different factors that may cause an increase between now and when they're actually purchased. So if that were to occur then we'll go either back to the bid process or figure something else out. So we're basically improving this contingent Okay. I'd entertain a motion then to approve contingent upon pricing remaining stats a copy or bid. I'll make a motion to approve the food service contract. We're not ahead. Copy. Copy. Looking at the wrong page. Second. I'll second. Motion a second to uh approve the uh copier bid. Uh any discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. Approve the food service contract budget. Yep. And so what I put in here u is there some of the
095things that are going on with with TAR. Obviously food prices increase. That's an annual thing that we have to deal with. Um what we are guaranteed is this this loss ratio. uh we've been able to offset and absorb this loss because we have such a hefty fund balance in our fund 50 account and we use that to absorb this cost so we don't have to pass on a cost increase to our families. Looking at the way things are, we can do that for maybe another year after this and then we'll have to take a a look at what we're going to do with food prices. Uh but we're still looks like we'll be able to go into next year without um you know without without having an increase. One of the things that Sandy and
096I will be doing is working with our food service director to uh really monitor and try to pinpoint why some of our sales have planning and where that exactly is. So, we're going to that will be part of this. It won't impact this. This is year three of five-year agreement. So, we're kind of locked into this, but uh we're going to be taking a look at how we can bolster our food sales as well to maybe offset some of this loss as well. Okay. Entertain a motion to approve the food service contract budget. Long move. Second. Swendy. Second. Motion a second to approve the food service contracting budget. Any further discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. Public comment. You chased them all out. I'm going to make a
097public comment and thank the Tomok Mill School students for their help at the historical society was very much appreciated. They had students come over there and I think the kids enjoyed it. They did when once they got inside they got to touch things and play around with the historical stuff and they had a good time in there even though it was a mess inside but it was great to get the kids involved. Okay. Thank you. And Stacy, you make a good driver too. Yeah, it was nice. Uh the kids told me that I was bus driver for the day. Board referrals. Any board referrals? There was one attached there. That is the WB summer symposium. Oh, I believe. So if anybody's interested in attending that, let me know and we can get you all set
098up. I attended it last year. It's good. There's some good stuff there. I just wanted to say thanks one more time to the you know the whole administrative team. Um that those results were outstanding. Good job. Thank you. Anticipation of your arrival. Actually Darren was my high school dance counselor. He's a very good friend of mine. He was Yeah, he was the principal. I text him that he looks good on the street. Okay. Anything else? Okay. Entertain a motion then to go into close session. Second 20. Motion to second to go into close session. Roll call, please. Long. Yes. Swinty. Yes. Saloo. Yes. Zimmerman. Yes. Black. Yes. Calhoun. Yes. Hinrich. Yes. Kersh. Yes. Kissinger. Yes. Okay. You get to go home in the daylight.