001[Music] I thought that one last meeting last meeting last connection loss reconnect. It must be a whole different actual cancer. I don't know. It doesn't help fix that now. It's good thing there's no students presenting here. They watch you guys. Yeah. We're waiting. It wasn't my fault. We need your technology help. Okay. What did he do? We can't He can't hear us and then he can't see us. You can't fix that. I don't know what I'm just gonna leave it there. Fix that. All right. Well, Dean's going to be very unhappy that he has to get We haven't We haven't streamed because there was some setting somewhere. It's awful. See the whole technology YouTube does the last two months channels are not streamlined. So when I go to the radio the next day are you
002going tomorrow morning? I always listen Then I think about emailing again or something. Calling in request a song. Yeah. I don't know who you got talking, but keep play a song. Any song. I don't care what it is. I just can't hear this song anymore. Can I help your neighbor? I was going to call the monster. Not really. I didn't do it. Did you ever see that? No. She was a helicopter parent. Oh jeez. She just told me I never position. All right. We just watched the witches one. It was funny. [Music] Oh, see you guys must have got a little less on your mind. Yeah, I know. And I didn't know. Yeah. I don't I'm not sure which one. He didn't know cuz they just couldn't use it. Somebody figured That's the The rock
003is here. That's Hear us. Can you hear us? Never said it. audio. It's been a while since we've been down. Last time we went down, can you hear us from Licking Hills and the whole group? That's not I don't That's not supposed to. You can go up to the owl now. It's on. So there he can see us. It does have an auto. Try sl It might be too close out of the microphone. It's just It's not picking up at all. There's no lights on this thing. I'm not sure if it's supposed to. I think the eyes should light up. I think we should do a little They are kind of glowing. I can kind of see it. Well, it might be I don't know. [Music] Anything now? I saw that. Oh, that's the wrong
004one. I'm gonna call you to leave that on for now. I'm gonna try to plug that into my computer. Dave says leave it on. Hi everybody. We didn't we didn't use that little computer last What computer did we use? Yours. Plug it into your I don't think it works with that. Plug in the extension cord down. Yeah. USB. [Music] Just like that. Is that what you want? You know what? Yeah. And it's so weird. So it's all telling. So when you hook up [Music] Okay, we can hear him now. We can hear him now. That'll come on. I just No, on the back. On the back. This one. Yeah, did they turn it around? They turned the eyeballs. There we go. Now that one's on. You decided to do it on there. Okay. There we
005go. Yes. Success. Interesting. Who is that? We can change it. And they took [Music] something. Hello. Sorry about that. Okay. Uh, at the mill the IT people would under hide underneath their desk if they knew I was coming to see them. I'm used to this. Okay, we ready? I think we're ready. Okay, it's Tuesday, April 8th, 6:50. I'd like to call the school board meeting to order. Please stand for the pledge. 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. Can we do a roll call or Okay. Roll call, please. Y here. Here. Kers here. Wolf here. Long here. Swinty here. Belu here. Zimmerman here. We have a quorum. I'm looking for a
006motion to adopt the agenda as presented. Long move. I'll second. Motion's been made and seconded. All those in favor? I I opposed. Hearing none. Motion carried district administrative report. All right. A couple things tonight. First and foremost, I want to formally introduce for the first time Mr. Spiegel, Adam Spiegel, joining us from as our special education and and pupil services director. So, um, it's been a couple months since we made the hire, but we finally have him on board. He's been in the building. This is his second week. He's working close with Dr. Sample, uh, meeting his staff, bouncing around, getting to know the lay of the land. He hasn't gotten lost in the building yet that I'm aware of, but I mean, I know it's a fear of I did have a personal escort,
007please. I need to go talk to somebody. Can you please show me how to get there? So, we're definitely excited to have him. Great addition to our admin team. He's already settling in and um yeah and ready to ready to take things over later this month. So Dr. Sample will be with us until the 29th and then Adam will be taking over. So welcome. Thanks for having me. Also am excited to announce we made a couple of uh key hires that you will see in a second as we go through the consent agenda. um difficult hires typically for districts as of recent years, but we've successfully um found a candidate for our uh school site position that we're incredibly excited to bring on board. Um had interviews. Adam was a part of that last week
008and um very very pleasantly surprised with what this individual brought, but Riley Curtis will be joining us at the beginning of next year. We have an accepted offer, so it's just waiting board approval to become official. And then another key hire is in the area of um of speech and language which is a another very difficult position to fill but we had a couple of great candidates and uh one that maybe was just a little little better fit or had a few spoke to some things that that uh were important to the district. So Carrie Zinda will be um on board for next year as speech and language. So we're really excited about those hires right now. Those, like I said, are are positions that, um, you know, not very many months ago we had
009few or no candidates for. So, uh, we'll welcome both of them. Uh, I just wanted to also congratulate an on her reelection and also congratulate and or yeah, and also congratulate and welcome both Steve Hinrich and Jen Black who will be joining our board next month for their first first meetings. And then um last but certainly not least, this is Dick's last regular meeting. He's going to be here with us for a for another meeting in a few days. But uh but so the best we can figure is there's very few years since the year 2000 that Nick has not been on this school board, a part of what uh the operations within this building. So um he's seen a lot in in 25 years. Yeah. Um come through this building and how it's changed
010and hopefully for the better. I hope. Definitely. Um but definitely it definitely has seen a a lot of ups and downs through the years and as we thank you so much for your service. We actually have a um a present for you on behalf of the district as thanks for all of those years of service. Oh, how nice. It's a school bell. It's a school bell to span this. And uh pull this out. Oh, and it it's sits on the sits on it. So, if you hear that, you know it's time to come inside from recess. I've got a couple words I want to say. not quite as long as an Oscar speech, but I I did write some words down, and it really has been a privilege for me to be the representative from
011the city of Tomahawk for all those years. And I want to thank all the voters who trusted me with their with their vote over the past elections uh so that I could represent uh them on this board and and obviously work to share educational financial thoughts that would benefit them as uh as young adults. Uh I think Tomahawk can be very very proud of his achievements. Uh well of its students in the classroom in athletics and the fine arts. Uh as a board member, individual board member, I'm very proud of what this district is and what it represents in the educational community. It's it's it more than exceeds standards in my mind. I think it's one of the premier districts here in northern Wisconsin. Um I want to thank all the district staff uh which
012includes administrators, teachers, par profofessionals, superintendent staff, teachers, par profofessionals, um custodial and maintenance folks, all those who work to provide a sound education for our district children, success in co-curricular activities, financial soundness, and a safe and well-maintained facility. I think we have a beautiful facility here, a beautiful complex and and uh I'm I'm very proud of it and I know our community is proud of it as well and I wish to thank the booth service for its employee and its employees for providing nutritious and tasty meals for our students and a special thanks to dean. Uh during my tenure, I've had some hearing issues and and Dean worked very hard to allow me to participate fully by the uh technology that he put in place for me to do that. So, thank you, Dean, for
013that. Um, I really wish to thank the community for supporting the recent and past referendums. Uh, these referendums allow a small district like Tomahawk to offer a wide variety of educational programs, co-curricular programs, and workrelated programs. Programs that do prepare our students for the future. And uh I'm I'm uh I I wish again to thank them for their commitment and know that this commitment is an everending commitment. Unfortunately, through our funding structure in the state of Wisconsin, they will probably be asked again to help support our district at some point in the future. And and I hope they'll continue to respond in the same way. Fellow board members, thank you for putting up with me. Um, I know at times I probably have the wheels come off the cart and uh you wonder where I'm
014coming from, but sometimes I wonder where I'm coming from. So, so you're not surprised. But I really encourage everyone in the community uh to run for the board of education. Uh we had some openings. We've had a writing candidate. We've had some new candidates joining us. I think the secret of any board is new ideas, new people coming on the board. And I just encourage everyone in the district uh to really seriously consider uh becoming a member of this board. And lastly, uh I love being a member of this community. My wife, my three children, and I we all graduated from Tomahawk High School. The community has been very kind to me and my family beginning back in 1974 when the district hired me as a teaching and co in a teaching and coaching position
015following my tour on active duty in the army. Uh I thank your uh I ask that you continue to support this district in the years ahead. Uh we need everyone to be a part of this educational process. those who are employed here at the district and those who support the district, parents and their children uh so that we can uh move them forward to become productive, caring and happy citizens. And I hope during my tenure we've been able to accomplish that. So thank you one and all. I really appreciate it. Thank you, Dick. Um two other things just as we close out. You'll notice in front of you, you got a little gift from the from the district. So, these were purchased. Um Jeffrey is Jeffrey Johnson will be uh taking a couple of teachers,
016Aubrey Bo and Kayla Kersbomb down to WSB to their um education job fair. So, we we bought, you know, a few giveaways to to give away while we're there, some cards with information. The plan is to try to get as many young recruits or young teachers in here to just just come up for a tour of our building. just come up and meet some folks and um you know and see what we're all about and learn more about our district. So um he'll be leading that charge and u so we've been putting a little effort into making sure he's got a nice uh presentation when he's down there. So um we've done a few of that a few of those in the past. In fact Ryan Husby and I did a few number of years
017ago. Uh so we we do have a TV and some other things that he'll have a slideshow going and and a few stuff uh you know a few items we had from before but uh kind of adding to it and trying to do everything we can to get young teachers up here and learn a little bit more about Tomahawk. So um last but not least just a very very um quick and brief update on where we're at with the uh banual budget. So, from what we're hearing, there's not a lot of hope that our budget will be laid out and approved and finished anytime in July. It's looking more like early next fall before they'll, you know, everything will come together. It seems that there there is a little more traction on a few items
018that have been requested as far as helping out um public ed. One of which is the 60% reimbursement on special education. that seems to be something that's resonating with people as they learn more. I know there's a active a lot of uh activity and trying to get the word out on why that's needed, how it impacts all schools, not just large schools or small schools, but every school. So, I think that that message is is resonating a little bit and it looks like uh there might be some movement whether it's 60% or not. We will see. Um, and then there's obviously some some efforts to push up per pupil funding and revenue limits to continue that trend and keep pace with inflation. So, uh, we'll see as things develop, but all in all, it's going
019to be a little while before we know anything for certain. So, um, so I will keep the board updated as I learn more. Who knows? Any any questions for me tonight? Right. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Um, we have consent agenda items before us for item seven, minutes from the meetings. Several different meetings on here, closed meetings, and also the employee contract adjustments and invoices are on here, too. Looking for a motion for the consent agenda. I'll make that motion. Below the second second motion and second has been made. Is there any questions? Okay. All those in favor? I I oppos opposed. Hearing none. Motion carried. Staff reports. We have the staff reports attached to the agenda. Questions, comments for the reports. I do have questions. So questions or it was a nice report that
020that I just had one for Mark. Um I read about the social studies and the change. Is that going to be up to the individual teams or PLC's? So we met with them today. And I mean Sher, do you want to talk or do you want me to? So we um basically at K2 there's CK is so it has so much social studies embedded in it. It's actually a higher quality sales studies than what we were doing. So now what we're doing is we've given them the flexibility to be able to create what the other components are that they want to do. Create the schedule, create the system, and we're just we just started that process today actually. Okay. And the second question I have is we're going to have a a lot of new
021uh teachers once again and you're going through the CKLA training with they're going to are they going to be able to catch up with videos and The use of the program isn't hard. It's actually a pretty straightforward program to work with. It's the instructional tactics and that stuff. Bill talk about that in PLC and catch up on those. We will have a refresher for everybody. Um the other thing is there's going to be so much embedded in August training that it's they're going to mix right in. Okay. So that's one of the considerations we take into account when we chose CKLA was is this something that is repable year after year after year. So that was one of those big in fact we eliminated two programs because we didn't feel with our turnover we would
022be able to repeat it without a huge impulse of PE. Right. Right. Okay. And I just wanted to comment again on all the newsletters are so fun to read and to see the activities in the classroom the pictures and the students and hear about all the good things that are going on in the schools. It's just it make it makes me so proud of our district and it's the leadership right there that I appreciate the all the newsletters are great. Keeps you up to date. So, it's really nice. Do we want Taylor to put them? Yeah. Yours, Taylor. Yeah. Awesome. Hi, everyone. Hi. Um I think Colleen put some uh just an update on just a little handout that I out to there's a painting class tonight. So, they all kind of got that. You
023can see that picture they're painting right now down in the art room. Um, and then it's just kind of showing upcoming classes for the rest of the spring here. Just kind of highlighting those. So, I put that in there. Also, a babysitting clinic in there that you're welcome to share out the community or anybody you think might be interested in that. You have any grandkids. Um, that one's coming out soon. Um so just a little update on the app program. Uh right now we've got um for so far in 2025 228 registrants. So 3 318 total since the program launched in fall of 2024. Um which I think is pretty cool. And um there's a copy of all this attached to agenda in case you want to check out the notes. Um so I just
024wrapped up all the winter classes. So, now we're on the spring. So, since I was last here in February, uh we've had a couple different acrylic painting classes. Aurora Nights Pathway, those are taught by our high school ELA teacher Kate Fizzle. She's in the class now, too. Um cross country ski clinic with Michael from Cycle Works. Um so, utilizing our school board trails for that. Um and that was a really great class. I got some really great feedback from that one. Um so, definitely going to offer that again next year. We had exposing scams and fraud in our community. That was to prosper community bank. Uh that was another great class offered. People are really happy about that one. Uh it's definitely a touchy subject I know these days. So definitely want to I guess
025educate people in the community about that kind of topic. So interested in teaching more of those in the future. Uh we had a craft your own hack crocheting class that was also taught by Katie. Um an introduction to making maple syrup class. They actually went out in the school for us and tapped the for that one. So, that was pretty cool, too. Uh we had a raising confident, confident children parenting class and just wrapped up winter sessions for the aquatics and fitness classes at the end of March. Uh so, yeah, right now I'm kind of working on uh the winter evaluation surveys. I'm still waiting on some of the results to kind of finalize the feedback uh to refine the numbers um which I think will make it even more positive feedback because the last
026two class I'm waiting on I know um highly enjoyed. So those will be like the fitness and the applied class. So the first one I think I went through this last time did this program meet your expectations and outcomes? We've got 95% answered a four or five. So that's ideal. And that improved from fall classes that was 92% in fall. So increased 3%. So that's positive. Um and then we had 98% people saying that they learned something new from the the program or they benefited from taking the class. So um only one person said no. Again always got the same one. [Laughter] So yeah, I am receiving some qualitative feedback as well. Um I can share that with you if you ever have questions um on it's it's usually all really good. There there has
027been some constructive, you know, feedback that we've used and taken into future classes, some of like the repetitive classes or same instructors that they've learned from. So that's good. Um and then classes that are happening right now, we've got spring water exercise in the morning and deep water exercise class in the evenings on Monday evenings. Those will have full rosters with weight list. So um really highly enjoyed. Uh just started spring sessions last week for those same two classes and they are running until the end of May. Um everyone loves Joan instructing these classes. I hear nothing but great things on the qualitative um and quantitative feedback after both of those classes. So um great feedback there. And then we have spring fitness classes, total dance class cardio which is happening tonight right now in
028the high school cafeteria and colorful intervals fitness on Thursday evening. So those are both evening classes that just started back up uh last week and those are also running until the end of May. Um Katie Simon instructor. She's awesome. Super great feedback for those classes as well. Um, everybody loves it. So, right now we've also got calm within practical strategies, understanding to manage your stress, intro to gardening organically class that started last week and then we've got another one this Thursday in the middle school library. Uh, and then we have a Melvin's acrylic painting class that's happening right now like I mentioned. So, oops, got stuck here. Uhhuh. We're currently promoting some upcoming spring classes that you'll see on that little packet that I handed out. We've got a basics of photography class on the
029computer, a crocheting canoozie class on the 24th. So, if you want to make a canoozie, please sign up for that class. It's going to be cool. And I mean, if you want to do it for the regular size can or the thin tall one, I don't know. You can bring your, you know, empty maybe can and and decide what size you want to make. Uh we've got a blooming blues acrylic painting class on May 6th. A floral crochet bouquet crocheting class on May 15th and the babysitting clinic that's happening on May 7th and 8th for our students. And that is with uh Northwoods Wisconsin's children. I think I said that right. Yeah. Uh just also recently added a couple new classes. We've got um a bird's nest watercolor painting class with Lisa Kger happening on
030April 30th. So hoping to get some good registrations for that. And then we also just recently added a heart saver first aid CPR AED certification class which I'm excited about. Um so that's in collaboration with college. Um and yeah, we're really really excited to offer that class. Hopefully we get some people registered. Um don't have the pricing on here right now, but you'll see in that packet. Um I think if you're 62 and older, you get a discount for that one. So um have that all set up on the website. So wants to start registering that one, they can right now. Um, and that's on May 13th. That one is happening. And any questions about classes going on right now or anything like that? Okay. I have one on a past class. Where did you
031hold the cross country skiing? Um, so we had them meet, you know, where like pickle ball enters or competition. They met in there and kind of got their gear on everything. Uh and then they went out into um maintenance so graciously had a nice spot behind the where you like the the shed back there. So like that kind of field area where they got their grounds and kind of figured out what they were doing and then they went out into the forest trails which the maintenance also so we had snow. Yeah, we did. So yeah, we actually had to put the class off. I think it was the first Saturday in February and we had no snow. It was terrible. So we waited until the 22nd and we, you know, crossed our fingers and we
032had snow. So we were able to offer it, you know, and postpone it and everybody in the class was a okay with that. So, right. Was it well attended? Um, I think there was, uh, four or five people, let's say. So hopefully next year we get um I think we wanted to just get our, you know, feet running with this one. And Mike, I just talked to him today. He's very excited to do it again next year. So plus they learned they can use the school force. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. So they they paid probably paid I don't know what's the right word I'm looking for here. Um groomed they groomed yeah not paid they groomed a lot of different portions of the trail and Mike actually came out here I think the Friday before and
033like check out the trails and make sure they were all good to go so he knew where he was going and all that. Yeah, it was really great that M did that for us. So got a good team going here. Yeah, he's real community minded. Yeah, definitely. Yeah, good. Yeah. Um, so yeah, that's my update with that. Any more questions about classes? Okay. Um, just a little quick update on um hoping to launch. The goal here is for fall 2025 community volunteer program. Um, so right now gathering feedback um and completing a needs assessment. Uh so we're looking to create a community volunteer handbook. So that's going to have all the guidelines and procedures and all of that that's involved in order to safely launch the program. Um and that's going to be in elementary
034school in the fall is our goal here. So um yeah, once again, thanks to all of our wonderful instructors for the community program. Couldn't do without him. Um always open ears for new instructors and new class ideas thrown my way. Um I've got some ideas too if you want to read into notes following agenda. I've got some recent meeting this one just last week. So, thank you. So, you said some of your stuff will be attached to attached. That's right. I'm forgetting something, but I don't know. It'll come to me later probably. Thank you all. Thank you. Thank you, Timmy. Oh, I know. I had a couple posts here. Feel free to share these around. I just printed Oh, a couple flyers just for upcoming classes. Keep them, share them, whatever you want to hang
035those around the halls because those are open to high school students as well. So, and I'll take to the shop. There you go. Share any social media post you want to. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks. She only get Oh, here comes the different ones. Oh, yeah. There's just these three you want to look. I'll take them back if you don't want them. Okay. Any other questions or comments? on reports. Okay, let's move on to item reconsider. Item nine, eliminate the school fees for athletics and academic courses. Okay, so this this was a agenda item on our last at our last meeting that some more information was requested as far as totals, what to expect there. So we included the 2023 totals in your board notes. Uh the up the toate uh collections for this year
036and then the outstanding number. So this is the this is the total package of what our remaining academic and athletic fees uh total for the district. So, so those numbers represent how much comes in correct for 20 pound3 except for the bottom okay bottom one's just accured over multiple years and what I can tell you is it's um you know for for multiple reasons there are you know in some cases families that that are financial hardship that can't pay the fees but do want their kids to participate in other cases people just don't pay the fees and um you know and we're we're limited really on uh what we can do in terms of saying, well, if the fees aren't paid, then this consequence is going to be put in place. And so, uh, what
037it what it ultimately comes down to is these food fees at some points are acred starting at sixth grade. So, say for whatever athletic or or activity reason or academic reason that a fee was there and and a family just refused to pay it. Um there's really not a lot in the middle school other than saying, "Well, you can no longer participate in athletics." Well, is that really in line with what our mission and vision of our district is when we have a, you know, a kid who maybe is being punished because sixth grader doesn't have a job, can't pay the fee, and the parents don't want to pay it. So, we we try to look at all this and we say, well, you know, what's best for the kid? And ultimately where it lands
038is on Brian Husby's desk when they're a senior and about to graduate and they've got $200 worth of outstanding fees and the only thing left is you can't walk in the graduation ceremony. Are we really going to take that lifelong memory away from a child because of some of these other things? So I know the fees in some cases are important but they're not dealreakers for us in terms of a community our size and what we know some of the students and families and the hardships that they have throughout the years. Uh so that's why to me I'm proposing for this little bit of amount um that we just eliminate fees in our district at this point. Has it been a onetime fee per school year or I mean for athletics or is it for
039like for each athletics for fall? Okay. I make a motion that we eliminate the school fees for athletics and academic courses. You be second. Okay, motion's been made and seconded. Um, Sh, you had brought this up last. I just wanted to know what the numbers were. That was, you know, I just wanted to be sure that we were disclosing openly what the amounts were that we were referring to. Does this action cancel existing debts that students might have? I will talk with Sandy who's probably listening right now, but my guess is we will have to write that off in some capacity for our for our auditors to to accept that. But from this from from the end of this year, so start of next school year moving forward, we will no longer charge fees and
040then we'll have to take care of that probably at a different board meeting. Okay. So the motion will be made that will include at the beginning of the 2526 year. Yes. Okay. So that motion's been made and seconded. All those in favor? Opposed? Hearing none. Motion carried. approval of new positions. Okay. So, a couple of new positions. The first one to to talk to, we've we've been um sort of inundated in the last few years with issues throughout summer work projects. Arlland's only got a couple of maintenance guys. Uh his custodians are primarily cleaning classrooms, cleaning lockers, waxing floors, uh and taking care of a lot in a building this size. So, he's got a summer crew doing that. and his maintenance crew in the past traditionally had at least one person dedicated to just
041working the grounds, mowing grass, string trimming, um taking care of some of the just the cleanup portions that that happens uh around this this the entire footprint of our of our campus here. Um but anymore a lot of the for lack of workers and contractors and that sort of thing. Oftent times our maintenance guys are either involved in prep work so that a flooring project can get done or uh there wasn't enough workers and they're helping the crew uh to get some of these summer projects done and they've they haven't had as much time to dedicate to the grounds. Last year it it did get out of control where we got a a period of a stretch there where it rained every day and the grass grew pretty fast and then you're trying to play
042catchup and you're having to take crews off of other jobs to get out the most. So the proposal was and I talked with Arl about this to hire um two part-time uh groundskeepers. So this year to my knowledge we don't have any painting projects happening. So instead of having the painting crew, we would just have two groundskeepers and their primary responsibilities I outlined in the in the job description there, but would be to to mow grass um to, you know, string trim around the fence lines and everywhere else. Uh to clean up the courtyard areas and make sure those are taken care of. Um, we typically have had volunteers like Colleen and and will stay late and they and and sorry Sherry Sherry as well I know put a lot of time in out there
043to make sure that those areas are not neglected but typically they get overlooked because you can't see them from the outside. So um but we would have two people uh that would work and come in over the course of those summer months to take care of some of those things. And there's some other jobs out there just with um you know just looking at some of our signage out front and some of those posts that have been in the ground for many years and they're weathered and looking kind of poor. So they as they get caught up on things or if we get stretches where it doesn't rain that much and there's not as much to mow they can tackle some of those positions too. So Wendle on days that it rains for an example
044would they join the inside crew or they simply because they're part-time not come to work? It it would be up to Arland. It would depend maybe if they were needed inside if he had something lined up for them. So they do have the flexibility of working inside as well if it benefits the district. Yes. Anything on the aquatics? So the aquatics also Okay. So these would when we go to do these we can do these separately or we can do these together. But the aquatics learning uh coordinator was one that we have talked about in committee uh looking at uh ways that we um can offer and meet the demand of our public uh wanting to use our pool, but also in a way that we also can get more of our students and our
045classrooms in into the pool as needed. Um right now one of the challenges that we have is is especially as our community education um classes grow and that program grows uh we have more demand than we have people to cover it. So what we're what we're looking at doing is and and I wrote this in the job description the aquatics learning coordinator would not be the pool director. Essentially this would be somebody with a preferably a physical education degree. somebody who could teach classes, somebody who uh ultimately will have um will have lifeguard certification themselves, will also have lifeguard training, all of the certifications that um that are required uh to to to be a pool director, what pool directors would typically have, but their position is not going to be more dealing with the
046maintenance of the pool and that sort of thing. They'll coordinate with our community ed director and also with um with Ryan Flynn, our activities director coordinate with our FIN department to make sure that uh that pool is being used as part of the curriculum from grades K through 12 or as much as we can K through K through 11 anyway. Um and also that we could host a few more of our deep water aerobics, our water aerobics in general, and any of the other fitness courses that our public would like and have more flexible hours to offer those during the school day. We're currently meeting them. So that is the plan with that one. There's a is there not a waiting list for some of that deep water and Yep. Yep. currently is. So demand
047is growing. It is a community pool. This is a position that could be funded either in part or the vast majority of it through our um fund 80 which is a community fund. So it's not uh some of it we would depending as it works itself out depending how much is going to be dedicated to our students and in house we would fund that portion out of 10 but the rest of it would be funded through Is our pool director a full-time position? Currently, our pool director, it used to be our pool director got folded in with our um activities director a number of years ago. And as our activities director's duties have have grown, uh really what he's doing more than anything is looking at ensuring that um you know the clock system is
048working, the timing system is working. uh he is working with Arland to make sure that we've got um you know staffing in there as far as lifeguards and that sort of thing, but taking some of this off of his plate, we could we could dedicate more time during the day to it. So we'll have So this person reports to Ryan directly. Technically, they're going to report to me. So Ryan doesn't have an administrative degree and if this is a teaching position, then I'll I'll understand. I just didn't want to see a duplication of a pool director activities and this position. And this actually to me would be a great job description adding in the administrative stuff for a single person to be both the pool director and the uh uh educator. And I could see
049this position growing into that at some point. right now. Um, right now I want the focus to be on offering programming and and then being able to supervise and be a part of that programming and some of that um, some of that might come from community ed and some of it might come from our activities department and some of it might come from and swim team who would be responsible for swim teams then would that be aquatics or would that be Ryan? Right. So activity. Yep. would stay there. And there's going to be a lot because obviously the priority in the pool is always going to be to our swim team, swim team practices, that sort of thing. And then it's scheduling around all of those things that that takes the coordination making sure doors
050are unlocked, people have access and that it's staffed because that is one area that even though we put uh we changed the locking mechanism on the door to try to give more access. If something malfunctions, we can't have direct access to the pool if if the person supervising the event, whether they're an employee of ours or renting our facility maybe is sick, doesn't show up for whatever the reason, you know. So we we need a person who can be more just pool oriented and and focused on that area. Would they do the summer swim lessons and all that too then or would that still be under Ryan? So eventually that would that would fall under this. Yeah. Okay. For sure. Okay. The recommendation is to approve the um two grounds summer groundskeeper position and aquatic
051learning coordinator. Long to move. I'll second. Motion's been made and seconded. All those in favor? I opposed hearing none. Motion carried. Item 11, approve the second reading of the following of the policies that we have listed here. There's two policies. Um, this is just a formality that we do. They were policies presented last time. District issued student email account and summer or intern school attendance. Looking for a motion to approve these. I so no selecting second. Motion's been made and seconded. All those in favor? I opposed hearing none. Motion carried. Item 12 season 9 contract. Okay. So, um we finalized the C9 contract what a couple hours ago I think. So, we've been working on this for a while and uh and kind of going back forth. It is linked there for you um if
052you want to check it out. To give you just a rundown of it, there's been a few additions, few subtractions, few tweaks and changes. All in all, the contract this year financially is very similar to what we've what we have on any given year. Yes, or yesterday. Last year, ours was a little higher because our speech and language services were contracted through CIS. So, it is um vastly different than what we what our or what our contract was this year. less but it um but all in all it's it's just services every year we look at what are our needs where have we grown you know where have needs cropped up and and how can we utilize our partners at CISA to to help us fill those gaps when we don't have internal resources to
053do that with can I ask about the the school psychologist is that going to be for one year will it be the man that we had here supporting our new hire or how is that No, it will not be the our current one. It'll be um but it would be as if we we hired it through CESA. So it's uh one day per week that they would come one I'm sorry. Is that right? One day per week 20 days. Yeah. So it's a the number of hours that this individual would need uh because they're um essentially they're uh licensed to practice, right? But there's still practicum times and this will be a six-year licensed individual. So they'll need somebody to work underneath and to supervise that time. Okay. And then this individual will do that.
054So Okay. Be one time fee for that. All right. Thank you. Any other questions? Looking for a motion to approve the season 9 service contract for the 2526 school year. You be so move. Blue second. Motion's been made and second. All those in favor? Opposed? Hearing? None. Motion carried. Public comment item 13. 13. Sure. Board referrals. Anything from CISA? Oh. Wow. Who's the voice from mobile? I know. From the heavens. Yeah. Well, maybe some place else. But anyway, uh I would just like to take this opportunity myself to uh to thank Dick for his participation on the board. Uh I've enjoyed working with him a lot. Dick and I have known each other for a long time. and uh he talked about coming in 1974 to coach and uh teach and of course I was
055teaching then and I was the varsity coach when he was the freshman coach. So we've known each other for quite a while. We probably played on a few uh in a few golf leagues together and stuff like that. So I just want to thank him for his participation on the board. Uh actually Dick is the one that called me and uh talked to me about running for the school board. So, whatever you think about my participation on the school board, talk to Dick. Thanks, Ron. I couldn't get him to root for the Packers, though. Wouldn't change his loyalty for the whole to the Packers. That ain't going to happen. I do have one additional thing to throw out there. Tuesday, April 22nd from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. will be the new board member orientation through
056WB uh at Lakeland Union. So, any existing board members who would like to attend that uh we usually book the van and or one of the vehicles depending on who we have and um you get chauffeured up to it's not as fun as the fall when you get a when you get a meal, but you get you get some some two hours of prime instruction on how to be a good board member. So, or a new board member. So, Uh but we'll both of our uh incoming board members have been invited or will be informed of this. Uh if they haven't been already, they will be and encouraged to participate because it's been it's been pretty good. I think everybody there's a few people that went through it. Did you go last year? I did.
057And was it worthwhile? It was it's worthwhile. Absolutely. Much better than my orientation. I was sworn in. It was an expulsion hearing. Yeah. Okay. Um, you asked me about CISA 9. We had a last Wednesday a presentation by Dr. Sarah Hackett. She's the executive director of uh Wisconsin Resource Center for Charter Schools. Um, she's a busy gal. Um, they have approximately 225 charter schools and an enrollment of 50,000. Um, what I did learn is Lakeland has a charter alt ed school. I did not know that. So, it's always informative, always a great night to be there. The people are great. Yeah. And I did show off our Wisconsin state championship hockey post. I can't imagine. I have one quick question for the st who the community service hours who was it middle school or high
058school that's doing community service that can I touch base with you later on historical society actually that'd be great because we're looking for some more ideas to give to staff. So um yeah okay I've got something lined up for you. I love that community service piece that the kids do. Okay. Um then we're looking for a motion to go into close session to consider employment. Some issues coming on. Um thank you. I got to go there. Long second. Motion's been made. Seconded. Roll call. Yep. Kersh. Yes. Long. Yes. Swinty. Yes. Bel. Yes. Zimmerman. Yes. Calhoun. Yes. Cuz yes. Kisser Wolf. Yes. Okay. Well, thank you all for coming. Thank you all.