001here Mr Williams yes president Mrs zimney thank you written notice of this meeting was sent to the news media on Friday February 21st please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance i al to the of the United States of America and to the repu for it stands one nation under God indivisible withy andice for I hear something could I get a motion to approve tonight's agenda please make a motion to approve the agenda I'll second all right all in favor of approving tonight's agenda say I I any opposed motion carries next up invited visitors and guests tonight we'll have Brandon milbrook and some of the uh cast and crew of the Alice and Wonderland musical I think I hear them making their way down is that right go for it we have a new Arrangement here
002with the board tables and the new um projector um just based on some feedback so everyone can get in the camera view as we're live streaming and we can all see the projector a little easier so try this out see how it works all right I told you're ready SP I have 48 it's our first rehearsal with everybody today nobody's leaving everybody all right oh look how nice that is front follow all right so I'll just do a little introduction for everybody um so in front of you is the elb Clark um Middle School cast of Alice and wonder Disney's Alice and Wonderland Jr um they have been working they did auditions back in early December um we had our first meeting in early December and then we really started doing a lot of our
003um our big time rehearsals um right before winter break into January so we've been meeting since then um they have rehearsals pretty much every Monday Tuesday Thursday for about an hour and a half um so we are here to present a s from from Alice and Wonderland um Alice and Wonderland pretty much follows the storyline of the original Disney movie from way back when um you have Alice who follows the White Rabbit down the rabbit hole and meets a whole slew of casting characters from Wonderland um it's a really cool story it's a fun show we're having a lot of fun we're right in the middle of rehearsal tonight they have rehearsal until 7:00 so we paused we ran the first half we paused now we're here um we're going to play a little we're
004going to sing a little song for you um it's called in a world of my own it starts with Alice and then the Wonderland Ensemble joins her that's not it [Music] my world [Music] wonder wonder [Music] Wonderland the under just behind the Tre Alice in Wonderland [Music] [Applause] like take snack while my kids are filing out I'll just give you a little bit of information um we have 48 students from Alby Clark ranging from 5ifth to 8th um involved in our production along with a whole slew of high school kids that we um they can apply to be uh a part of our production to help out a lot of them are the kids that were in the high school's musical so like I have a high school assistant director Mr Carlson has a high
005school assistant music director um our stage manager our choreographer is Paige Jesy um she choreographs the whole thing with help from other high school students um I've got uh props helper we got lots of high school kids that get to come back and um it's funny cuz this year I had all sorts of emails from kids that were in the show last year that emailed me right away Mr Mar can I come and help can I come and help um so our show is going to be uh next week we open next week Thursday Thursday Friday Saturday all three times at 6:30 uh it cost $8 to get in uh we do only do cash and tickets are available at the door so and the show is here at the high school on the stage
006we're getting ready all right sounds good so thank you thank you guys I heard it on the radio today so somebody put it on the radio for you oh that's Shannon sh she's that is great I think our musical program has a great future it's doing great at high school and here we got On's coming up um next up public comment Sheila anyone signed up tonight no okay um next up communications we have one uh condolence uh thank you all right thanks Diane um next up financial statements there is one tonight and that is the referendum bills for February 2025 in the amount of $ 33,8 7159 any comments or questions we need to talk about on those if there are none I'd look for a motion to approve uh payment of the referendum bills
007for February I'll make a motion to pay the referendum bills for February second all right all in favor of approving payment of February's referendum bills say I I I any opposed motion carries I I noticed in the bills a big chunk of some furniture that was arrived at Clark I bet they were happy to see that that's got to be kind of the last of that stuff yeah it's done or nearly done nearly nearly done great all right board committee reports facility technology next meeting is um next week Thursday did we have a meeting of that committee since the last board I don't believe so I don't think so um negotiations and finance we'll have a short update from the February 18th meeting is that me sure okay um I guess we we talked we
008were continuing to sort of try to massage those financial reports and that summary um couple of pages that we'll see at the first meeting of each month if anybody has any thoughts on that please let us know um we let's see we talked um the budget which we'll hear about here in a few in a few minutes from Mary Kay and anticipating the um negotiations with TR and then those folks um in probably about a month too okay so great thank you Tim next meeting to be determined yet I'll look forward to that um policy meeting we do have our next meeting March 31st we do have uh several policies to resend or revise coming up here under old business tonight but then we'll look forward to another big slew of them coming up for
009some updates um end of March so with that we'll go to Old business and the first item on Old business are the second reading and possible approval of the policies that we had um from last meeting um let's see uh there's four of them to be rescinded and that is the last three on the list there and then also we kind of got some more updated information on the two uh non-discrimination policies um the one that we adopted in 2024 people call it the title 9 policy but that one is being rescinded and replaced with the version that was in place before that's the 2020 version of that policy so a total of four policies being rescinded the rest you saw the markups had a chance to look at those and then Diane um and
010Sheila had had reached out to us on a little extra change that's going to go into the non-discrimination policy and if you want to explain that Diane yep so um niola often will put in um specific days that that things have to happen um you have two days you have five days you have four days whatever it is that is not a requirement so in talking to our attorney um it's not a requirement to put those tight timelines in the only requirements for non-discrimination as well as uh pupil non-discrimination is a 45 day timeline where you must have it investigated by and then a 90day timeline where you have to have a report written and given to a family um if they are considering um a non-discrimination so what uh two slight uh changes is
011just instead of saying the two days saying promptly so that's it taking out the the the exact days that you must do this in two days and putting promptly um Sheila and I looked at a whole bunch of other policies that were non Neola policies and in all of those districts that don't have Neola they don't have a timeline in there so it just makes it a little bit more doable because sometimes if if we're involving the attorney or we need to talk to other people it's not always on my time it's it's on their time as well and sometimes we can't we can't communicate that quickly so um we would just be asking for that slight change so that change is really just added in this meeting for possible discussion and just inclusion in
012that revision um seemed reasonable to me especially appreciate the looking at other policies from other districts s checking with the attorneys on timelines and Neola I guess they like to put what they think is a great timeline but like you say it doesn't always work and when you get into these policies non-discrimination or these it's usually an event it's usually something that everyone is aware of and they are obviously going to be promptly notifying whoever needs to be notified but having some sometimes having the two days or five days or 10 days just is unnecessary to you know put in there so any questions on that or comments or concerns with taking two days and replacing with promptly in that policy we'll also take a look at our and we have we'll take a look
013at our other non-discrimination policies for like pupil non-discrimination and we'll bring those forward to you as well to um change some of those tight timelines I think this is a good catch also I think these policies are pretty infrequently used so they're sometimes we if we need to look at them and use them then we find things and we make adjustments so I'm grateful we don't use these every day and have them perfected because want to try to prevent that so with that I would look for a motion to accept the revisions and the re send of the policies as listed in the agenda which includes the timing what you call that wording um replacement do I have a second I'll second all right all those in favor of approving the revisions and the four
014policy resins including the time change on the 2266 say I I I I any oppose motion carries thanks everybody next up this is our second reading in possible approval of the elementary math adoption we had a lot of great information last meeting from the math task force Chad team um in our board dos we had the quotes and the prices for this was there any discussion questions concerns anybody had could that be the 4K piece also I think maybe the original quote didn't include the 4K piece which was 3600 well I went back and I looked at the last our last meetings SCS that we got and it said does include does the sales is a little bit so I just wasn't the shipping fee is quite large for sure yeah and I did multiply
015that out it's not the 11% the 8% so I'm assuming we're going to pay it Che or so I'm assuming paying it that way for the % all right with the question on the um little bit of difference on the quote would you would we be more comfortable holding it till next time or approving it with maybe just owing us an explanation of the difference how do you guys want to handle that well I think could approve adoption of the bridges curriculum but then contingent with getting an answer on the price difference and what was the difference laori um it was originally the implementation year it wased as 83756 and then the sales quote that we received and it's dat it was stated in October net total is 8849 that original quote was with the
016shipping you said I don't think they had shipping included in that 83000 it was just on a slide yeah it was just a slide bottom page btom so then the bill dra 620 plus the shipping of 6500 is the 88 so do you think that's it PR is on that one and then the two through six I didn't see 4K books on there so I wasn't sure what decided I for on that one but then salese that we got doesn't have it on it so I wasn't sure Chad is it possible or Dana can we move ahead and come back to this if one of you guys can dig up where the 83 Grand came for came from on that slide for us or would it be Poss would it be possible to call Kyle
017he's not okay can we come back to it just to buy them a little bit of time and see if we can come up with the that invoice for yeah they compare the two they'll probably pop up it was on a slide they might be buried in here just a second it's it's buried in those slides materials additional cost because shipping probably wasn't on that the um prek was not in that first quote so the quote we the 83 775 did not include the 3600 so it went up by 3600 plus some more shipping because it included the preo so it was 83 775 now it's 8849 because of the increase in shipping and because of the 3600 for the prek package so I'll make a motion to go ahead and adopt that math curriculum
018with the quote we've got here I'll second since it's less than what originally was quoted I don't see a problem with accepting for Less right and I mean if you order things where you work it's you know it could be plus or minus sometimes and I think we can go ahead and um vote on approving the Bridges curriculum and then still ask for if there's an outstanding question on the difference between the presented quote and then this just to see where that falls it's likely shipping in a combination of 4K it is it absolutely is and Lori if you see right on the top of that slide it says quotes that's highlight it's a link to the quotes that are in there there's three of them and you'll you'll see it all right so we
019do have a motion and a second for adop approval of the elementary math curriculum Bridges um all in favor say I I I any opposed motion carries I'd like to add something um a another District teacher from another District reached out to me and said how impressed they were that we had such a an amazing team that went out and really dug into everything and chose something that's um workable for them and having the little videos was was such a huge help for me to understand and also that it um incorporates into the middle school so thank you so much for everybody for doing that and I was at a Plymouth meeting and um Plymouth was impressed with just being able to um so we showed our wit and wisdom they showed their Bridges so
020just having those Partnerships with other districts around us and making decisions based on on seeing what other others are doing and how well their kids are performing um they were bragging about bridges and saying that um their scores went up like dramatically with Bridges um in the Plymouth School District so that that's good to hear that's what we're that's a positive and congratulations Elementary team and we look forward to number Corner coming up soon any other old business no all right then moving on to new business um two retirements tonight in the in the package two longtime teachers um Brett whitting social science teacher at Two Rivers High School and Joanne graph third grade at kanic elementary school both will be retiring effective the end of this year Brett had 30 years Joanne 26 it's
021always Bittersweet it sounds like Jo will stick around too and do some subbing for us yes like that awesome I talked to her at the basketball game uh last week and I said how are you feeling about this I said we'll be accepting that at the board meeting and she said oh I'm ready for that she said but I'm not going too far I'll be here to sub so we're lucky in that way I'll make a motion to accept both retirements all right second all right all in favor of accepting the retirements of Brett whitting and Joanne graph say I I I any opposed motion carries congratulations Brett and Joanne and you will be missed next up we'll hear from Mary K and the midye budget revisions okay so the last time we talked about
022our budget we had um it approved at the budget hearing on October 14th of 2024 and then at the following meeting is when we approve the property tax levy so this is um more or less kind of a housekeeping thing what we're doing is we're basically bringing the the budget as it was previously approved bringing it up to date with um some things that have transpired since then and then we'll do this again at the second board meeting in June so then we'll by doing it in the midyear process you kind of shorten those time frames a little bit because otherwise you have a whole Year's worth of changes and you know as you know a budget is something that's very fluid we do get changes throughout the year and so the purpose of this
023is to bring everything up to speed um we are adjusting tonight our general fund and our special education fund all the other funds are the same as basically as they were approved at the budget hearing in October um our general fund though had a number of changes we have some big numbers we have some small numbers we have some numbers to celebrate so we'll kind of walk through all of these and if you have any questions please let me know our adopted budget for Revenue in October was $24,995 44 as you recall from when we set the tax levy we did have an increase in our property taxes in our general fund of $321,800 enrollment revenue and that's a reduction from our Lighthouse Learning Academy enrollment of $548,500 luring Academy at this time but um
024both kanig and McGee and Clark and the high school have received these so we have the lights leadership character development minig Grant at McGee as well as the make a difference mini Grant at McGee both of those were written by Katie wilsman and then the other three schools were all um uh it was to the work of Jenny Schneider that we were able to secure the kig peer leadership minig Grant the ources of strength minig Grant at lb Clark and then the Hope Squad mini Grant at the high school again all of those grants individually $1,000 so those are going to be used in our schools for the specific purposes that the grant writers wrote for but it's nice to see all five of them usually we see two or three um last year I
025believe was four but now this year was five grants so congratulations to our schools for receiving those we did have a decrease in our school Mental Health Services State funding and that's projected for this year at $3,412 our per pupil Aid is down 12614 and then we have an increase in our Carl Perkins Grant of $1,035 as a reminder Carl Perkins is used at the high school in our CTE program our interest revenue is up $40,000 we're keeping an eye on that to make sure that is going to stay the same especially with any possible changes in the economy and we have a decrease in our early college credit program Grant of $9,200 generally speaking the revenue that you see on the top are repeated on the bottom and I'll just go through some of
026the differences um it it should come without surprise that we are decreasing our Lighthouse learn Learning Academy supply budget at this point we're decreasing it by $40,000 that's because of the decreased population we had a decrease in our workers compensation insurance premium of 9,000 and then again our early college credit program grant that also decreased by $9,250 um as a refresher from our second board meeting in October we have an increase this year in our school choice for our voucher expense of 27,540 um new this year for our staff we have implemented hsas and they have been so well-received we used to have hras which are Health reimbursement accounts um and instead this year we went to health savings accounts and then we work with Associated Bank for those by making that change because the
027contribution even though the contribution is less which as it says here $192,500 it saved the district the hras were only used if the employees had claims on their health insurance the hsas happened and those deposits are um transferred to the employees no matter what whether they have they have health insurance claims or not it's their choice if they want to use those plus the dollars are portable so they are Theirs to keep the next line is um from our second board meeting in October where we approve the tax levy this is the $500,000 that the board approved to come from fund balance to offset the property taxes for our debt service fund we're not approving any changes with Debt Service because service revenue is approved as on line item so technically the overall Revenue did
028not change it was just displaced from being property taxes that now it's coming from a CH a transfer from our general fund and then we also have a reduction in our inter School transfer going to special education or special education fund that is for the decrease in uh well you'll see that in a uh in a moment but that's for some salary and benefits as well as for some special ed Transportation all revised budget then for expenditures 2,261 540 as you can see the numbers for Revenue do not match and now we're going to talk about why they don't match there the difference is $578,500 and that is because we have expenditures that are exceed our Revenue by that amount and those dollars in total represent what is being allocated from our fund balance for
029two items number one the $500,000 that's going to our debt service f fund to cover the property tax increase and then secondly at our budget hearing you approve $ 78,3 N4 to come from fund balance for the purchase of a new van which we've already done this a new van to transport students so we started the beginning of the school year with a fund balance of$ 7,659 335 reducing it by$ 578 394 brings us to 7,8,9 41 this is 28.3 eight% of our prior year expenditures which are policy reads we need to stay at 20% or above so we are we are well above that is our our general fund at the the second page is the special education fund and this I kind of touched on already we have a decrease in our in
030fund transfer of 1451 162 the interfund transfer is the district's local share of special education expenses so because of that our reduction to match the decrease in Revenue we have a decrease of expenses and that is a combination of salaries and benefits as well as a reduction in special ed Transportation our revised budget then for special ed is 4,726 348 and then the third page is the page that will be printed and published in the newspaper as per DPI regulations any questions Mary K can you go over um what that transfer of fund balance for property tax reduction was again sure so in an effort to reduce the amount of the tax levy back in October as as it was approved in an effort to reduce the tax levy the board made a decision to
031take $500,000 out of its fund balance and transfer over to our debt service fund so Debt Service levied $500,000 less and got the money instead from the general fund so it's just like a replacement of cash The Debt Service that we pay principal and interest is still the same but instead of going to the property taxpayers for $500,000 more than what we were already asking for the money came from the general funds fund balance instead so long story short the district forked up five 00,000 to help offset property taxes correct is this common for school districts to do not necessarily in the year before it was a million dollars we did the year before it was a million but that did not come out of fund balance that came out of just the regular operations
032because we had uh an increase in our Revenue cap being that we were a lows spending School District so DPI increased or the the leg the legislators increased our amount per pupil for to a thous it was there was $1,000 increase which then generated more Revenue in our general fund and at that point the board decided to transfer a million dollars of that increase to offset the taxes we didn't have that big increase this year but the board was still being very cognizant and still balancing the needs of the students here in with public education and transferring at least transferring the $500,000 essentially out of the district's own savings account and it it's looking like the the available funds per student is going to be an increase for the next year well that's the proposal
033and you know we are a low spending um School District so you learned that last year when we went from um the 10,000 per student to 11,000 per student there's talking about increasing that to 12,000 per student to try as you know some of the districts around us are at 25,000 per student that's awesome for a district um if it's followed you know if if that is followed by state aid now if it's not followed by state aid then it's on the taxpayer and we're going to be on the same challenge of trying to balance a budget and support taxpayers um so we're certainly hoping that um if that per pupil increases um that it also increases state aid you can see from U Mary Kay's chart state aid went down so you had that
034per people increase and yet our state aid went down and there's only I I love Mary Kay's uh balloon analogy here's your balloon however you squeeze it you know it's either State a or property taxes it's not like there's more going in that's all you get to choose from and however that looks um in the end um Two Rivers being a a poverty District it's you know State Ada is a very important piece for us um and if that goes down that just isn't isn't helpful so we will watch that closely thank you Mar any other questions um than just special thanks for the HRA to HSA transfer um making that happen and just speaking for myself I don't know how the other board members think but I've got my eye on the lighthouse Revenue
035declining enrollment that's a concern it might not be for right now maybe not next year but that's a that's a concern with budgets getting Tighter and Tighter and Tighter and just trying to make that all work so could we ask Mary Kay um I did in my um update I had U was going to give a slight update on us talking with USI you and um Lana and myself talking with USI or insurance carrier do you want to say anything about the information that was provided by um TJ and ranne so this year for the first time T River School District went to a self-funded um model for health insurance and essentially our employees really don't feel any different about any difference in how they um have their claims managed um we were able to
036widen our Network which is better than what we had we have more providers now including Aurora um we didn't have Aurora for the past two years so that was a a a big Improvement that was well received along with the hsas um we are I don't have the number I don't remember exactly what our loss ratio is but it is in the upper 80s I believe now the loss ratio is how much we pay in premium compared to how much our claims are are running so there is a certain amount of um overhead that is always part of that cost and we want to make sure too that we don't want to spend out everything because we need to keep reserves for future years so we're working with USI um specifically their their team as
037which is head up headed up by Ryan bodry and she has worked um with the district over the course of over 25 years and she has been a great leader she's helped us um through many different times as far as making some some decisions regarding our health insurance to keep the district in the best position possible um to make sure that we're offering a very competitive Health Plan and one that is um helpful and that the employees can can utilize so it was a good meeting we are um looking at some early stages of what our increase will be for next year we don't have a final number yet we're waiting on what our stoploss insurance renewal will be for next year um I like what Mary Kay said about you know having those reserves
038um at the meeting I was at last Thursday uh I think it was Plymouth School District they are also self-insured they said that uh this is their second year or third year and they said oh we were doing great and now we looking at a pretty steep increase uh because of of usage rates um their loss ratio was higher so it it makes a lot of sense for us to be very conservative and be watching that money and making sure it can stay there um should we have a year like Plymouth is having this year so it's looking like this year is going to be pretty good for us um definitely not 48% increase like we were looking at uh three years ago so um we will be watching that they're still looking at some
039numbers coming in um medication numbers coming in so we'll keep you updated um TJ or ranne said that they would attend a meeting and uh provide you more information yeah I just want to Echo the important of the importance of keeping reserves because one bad year and you know where is it going to come from it's going to come from our fund balance so we don't want that happen we want to make sure that we are um being very strategic about this so that we especially as we're really in the infant stages of it yeah we're working our way through it but we need a couple years under our belt to make sure that we've got something before we start taking any significant reductions in premiums essentially we set our own premium with self-insurance well
040we work with USI they tell us this is what we recommend but I mean we want to make sure that we're being as conservative as possible so that we're protecting the district from any future large claims and that's where our stoploss insurance comes in though too so we are we have definitely um we have safety nets in place to make sure that we are um uh in the best position possible okay so I'm going to go the other way now um in the past we've tried to match those grants that faculty and staff have uh written or at least come up with a 50% match are we still um going to be able to do that for these possible five grants that were awarded do we have something in the budget for that those were
041not match grants um those were written for like specific um purposes they weren't written to I think you're talking I think you're thinking about the forward grant that uh Jake and Justin wrote that they asked for remember they had to have a piece that to to be able to receive the grant you had to the district had to put in a certain percent with these grants it's like that's their straight amount that's how much they asked for and that's how much they need okay I thought that we had proposed that we match a certain amount for a grant in the past I thought it was 50% but I think we did that with some donations that came in like maybe a $3,000 and then we that was like a one time yeah I thought we
042tried to to encourage those to write more for Grants and we would match 50% but I could be wrong yeah we look back at the notes and see you know if it's in the budget for the the Board of Education I would rather take some of that money out of that and and match what $2500 worth of this $5,000 grants of the five grants so if we could look into something like that I mean it's only going to benefit those that are writing the grants for Grants and if we can continue to get more people to write for grants for the district I would encourage that we'll take that as a little homework item see if we yep not not something that I need an answer on right now but I thought we'd done something
043in the past and I thought it was the Randy Grant or the Randy proposal one time so I was wanting to I want I was wanting to keep yeah to keep going with that you know days are numbered that's a good idea though to like you say incentivize going for Grants one another piece of the and thank you for the budget revisions the vouchers are always are a little difficult to see that and I I thought I thought I heard there was some efforts to decouple the vouchers from the school district on the tax bill or just to make it more clear you know because that's a it's big junk yeah and I'm glad we're at 28% on fund balance it's hard hard to watch that go down a little bit but we're still in
044good shape but uh like you say it's it's tightening up it is one thing to to keep in mind and I'm not saying that the $2,500 is impossible but last year with the $1,000 per student increase our budget had some flexibility this that was last year that is not this year this year especially with the ending of the Esser grants our budget is a lot tighter we're fine we're not running a deficit but we don't have the money we had last year it's just we're good and we're not we're not having an operating referendum so we're managing we're paying down a capital referendum that's what we're doing right all right is the um update the budget update isn't anything to be approved or accepted it is it does need approval that's right approval and to
045put it in the correct okay well I think it what we see is what we see so I would look for a motion to approve the um year-to-date budget revisions for publication I make a motion to approve the midyear budget revisions I'll second that as it stands okay is this a roll call vote I would presume y we'll do a roll call Mrs brand hi Mr clinker yes Mrs Hendrickson yes Mr shavick yes Mr Williams yes Mrs zimney yes all right motion carries thanks Mary Kay we look forward to seeing you back in June on this topic um next up some donations um we had $200 from the two rivers Optimus Club to support the Magic Closet winter gear for kanic elementary and then another 25 from the two rivers Optimus Club to the angel
046fund so thank you very much to the Optimus club for these donations this time look for a motion to accept the donations I'll make the not motion to accept the donations from The Optimist Club second all right all in favor of accepting The Optimist Club donation say I I any opposed motion carries thank you all right we're out of new business so we're on to administrator updates and first is Dana mclin with the AGR report good evening I'm back for the AGR achievement Gap production Grant woohoo speaking of money and grants right stand up here I am I am standing so uh this is something that we typically look at in august/september is and then we have to do an obligation for a uh midyear update so it's pretty much information that you may have
047known but some school districts have an option to change those strategies if they do they have to do a board update uh mid year to show that but we have not so I'm just going to kind of review what the AJR Grant does for us and uh what that's going to look like knowing full well that come 25 26 school year that will be our last year of AGR Grant unless they put that out for another 5year renewal which we don't know at this point so that'll be another budget conversation down the road but we won't worry about that right now so with that uh just as a reminder the AGR Grant is used to be known as Sage uh it was developed in 1718 under this new uh parameters where categorical state aid like
048we were talking about earlier that funds school districts that have economically disadvantaged in those grade levels K5 through three um those goals we have to come to you every year with what our goals are and then we have to do some assessments at the end of the year to see how we meet those goals of which are building goals and they could wrap in together so that's kind of what the AJR program looks and sounds like again ours goes through the 25 uh 26 school year ending on June 30th our hope is that we can resubmit for another 5 years but we're not sure at this point uh cuz it certainly helps our school district as well um again remember I know that we often ask about other schools kig was grandfathered in uh we
049have been a part of this since the 9697 school year when it was formerly known as Sage so we've been in it for a while so we can no longer add other schools in our district um so looking at what you can do with those dollars in terms of our schools we can uh do an 18:1 or 30 to2 for class size reduction um also instructional coaching and or one-on-one tutoring for math and literacy as supported by title one with a 316 for ELA or you can do a combination of any of those so they kind of gave us some flexibility with AGR that you couldn't do with sage that was kind of nice uh so what we do every year is we look at our class sizes and then we determine which of those
050three strategies F best fits um each of those grade levels so this year um we have decided because of our one two that we can fall within that class size reduction so we're falling below that 18 to1 um in grades three if you remember we moved that section from grade three to grade four this year um so that allowed for us to have um in grade three we do have a math person that supports that work and also a 316 literacy person so we have small class sizes in K1 two and in grade three we have the one-on-one tutoring for math and for ELA so we are under uh what they allow us to do at this particular time our grade one was kind of itching up there a little bit this year we were
051getting close to 18 we had about 12 kids come in um K2 like three weeks ago there were 12 that came to kanig um in all different grade levels our kindergarten classrooms were also itching towards that but we've also had some kids leave in the last couple of weeks so it kind of goes back and forth but we're well within what we can do in those grade level teams I don't know just maybe it's me uh so how do we measure our growth we have as act 20 has put some different things in from our spring of last year uh we currently have the really great reading that you've seen uh several times up here as a part of our Ela task force and then our act 20 updates we also have things in between
052remember the I'm going to say these uh Bop mop and EOP beginning of program middle of program and end of program uh in between there we use the really great leaning playground so how kids are doing in between those parts and then we also have our wit and wisdom all of which are on the right hand side those formative assessments and summative assessments that we currently use we also have now the personal lines reading plans as well as our math assessments and then the forward Statewide forward and the access for our ml students so there's lots of ways that we can measure the growth of our students in both math and literacy so again we'll come back um this year was a little different our end of the year survey was done in November it
053was backwards this year they gave it to us in the fall I don't know why so hopefully we can plan forward for our last school year in the last cycle a little earlier than we could this year um if you want to know numbers on what that currently let me just look here what we currently get for our dollars uh this year is $294,700 so that's the dollar amount it was about $200 more than last year sound about right Mary K uhhuh all right so that's a a great Grant to have so hopefully fingers cross we can continue to do that after the 25 26 school year and that's our AGR date any questions on that no questions on that specifically but I'm just curious when you get 12 new first graders coming in mid
054year well that's different grade levels different grade levels y that's a lot like oh yeah curious where do they come from just they moveed to to all over um we have Indiana we have fond deac we had uh Illinois we've had Green Bay and we had Milwaukee so all over there's people coming to Two Rivers though and mhm yep I was like okay we got room um good question but I have a couple other updates if they're not are related to HR if that's okay okay so next week is our reading is fundamental week dive into reading at both kanig and McGee March 3rd through the 7th so if you're out there and you would love to read with our kids please call uh Jackie at McGee or Christy at Kanan will'll get you in
055uh to read with some of our kids I know Lor's coming over so you're more than welcome again that's March 3rd through the 7th during our Library times families should have that information but if you don't certainly reach out to your teachers also want to congratulate both kanig and McGee as well we did have conferences about two weeks ago and almost reached 100% uh we're we have one more this week and we should be pretty well there so thank you to our community and to our families that both Kan G mige for such a high attendance rated our family conferences so thank you it's a great opportunity to share the information and to share um what's going on in our schools as well as how how our kids are doing so thank you for your
056participation and involvement do you get a lot of questions at conference time on the prps for those that have them uhhuh yep um a lot of questions around what does this mean for my child and how does that relate to IEPs um and how do they differ so we just had to clarify that I think we did a really great to our own horn but I think we did a really good job getting the communication plan together for ACT 20 and getting that out early enough this year like in fall and thinking about that to be proactive uh so that we had all that information in front of PRP evening being written cuz if you remember the fall was a practice time and we for sure had to do it in January so I think
057we were ahead of the game and then we could answer any questions at the November parent teacher conference so that prepared us for this time period I think awesome yeah good question thank you yep anything else okay thanks Dana next we'll get Diane administrator update yeah so speaking of conferences um two weeks ago you approved the school calendar and right after that uh lb Clark reached out and said hey could we change those conference stes uh just for middle school for October so if you take a look at our calendar for example you'll see that conferences are over on the side I mean we put that on there just for the Simplicity of um parents so they have every all the information in one spot um so they will be separated out um in the
058next calendar uh just for the fall ones because of the way that their screening and diagnostic window was falling so um just wanted to let you know that so so if you're looking at the calendar and you're like why does that look different that was just a slight change when the board approves the calendar you're approving hours of instruction days it's not so much that stuff but we we want it on there for parents it's all in one spot um some good news uh talking about grant writing um Justin Casper really is the the the grant writer I think in the school district he is always looking for um different grants and the nice thing is technical education is supported Often by grants so Justin just received a $1,500 forward Grant um that he is
059going to be using for uh towards equipment in the tech ad area he um had asked he had reached out to Tim and me I think at at Christmas time and said would you write a letter of support and we're like it's not hard to come up with a lot of great things to say about Justin and Jake in their program so um a nice donation or a nice Grant there um we were able on Friday to uh Gary and Wendy and I were able to join the senior Center in Bingo um we thank the senior center for reaching out and asking us to be their Partners um we had some nice uh swag there so we had some water bottles and some P they really like the pens um we had a few t-shirts
060and it was uh really neat one of the ladies at at break time so they they go from 9:00 to 10: and then they have a little break and then they go from um 10 to 11: and she said I really want one of those those t-shirts and we had three t-shirts left and they were all like like really large sizes and um she said that would be just a great shirt to wear to bed and so at the end um we we told people please if you didn't win please come up and grab something and um she got that t-shirt so I so happy for her but I know Gary and Wendy if you wanted to say anything about about Bingo a lot of enthusiasm um it was fun it was a between 15
061and 20 people there and made a lot of nice connections um we had a one lady from the class of 57 that's going to drop off a Douglas hog painting which is pretty cool yeah yeah uh Judy Pilger she had that and she said she would drop it off at her house and I'll bring it up here but she wants put in the the case of wherever class 57 is so she had asked the we if we could do that and we we said that we could but no that it was very nice uh it was nice to get out and and meet some of those people down there and after we got uh everything figured out I think it ran pretty smooth for us so hopefully we'll be asked to come back again and
062we got it all figured out now so it was a nice thing to do we asked for understanding because uh the three of us were new at it so they that was very nice and really a cool idea for the senior center to reach out to Community Partners again always trying to build those connections between the school and the community and the community to the school and what a perfect opportunity one of the lady sitting in the very front I I believe she said she was 94 um she was Travis Klein's relative you know so you get to meet people that you just naturally wouldn't meet wouldn't know that so that was really neat uh last Wednesday uh we were able to have crossing guard recognition have a little celebration for our crossing guards uh
063five of the seven um made it uh Wendy obviously is one of the crossing guards um so we had uh the the two of her Police Department had a small gift and we had a small gift and we were able to have some cupcakes and coffee and just say thank you to the crossing guards and that was actually the end the last day of that really cold snap that was going on so they came in bundled up and um we sure appreciate them but the best part was um the little kids at kanic and McGee made us I maybe a 100 cards and it was just so much fun to read them all and they they understand what we do and they appreciate us and it was just very special we all got to take
064a few home and remind us why we do it I think Wendy's favorite was um are you nice and then she had to check yes or no and Wendy was thinking depends on the day but very nice nice celebration nice to celebrate our crossing guards who are out there every single morning and every single um evening and then Mary Kay already gave you an update um on USI and again um TJ or and Rayanne will be here in I think we decided on the April meeting so that they could collect a little more um data and then present that to the board and that's all I have all right thank you I'm going to go through some coming events here March 6 facility technology meeting 4:45 p.m. in the district office office conference room uh
065March 10th is our next regular Bo meeting here at the high school 5:45 p.m. March 17th through the 21st is spring break March 24th another regular board meeting 5:45 p.m here at the high school March 31st policy meeting at 4:45 in the district office conference room and finally April 1st 2025 will be the spring election and the school board candidates will be on the ballot this time uh with that the Board of Education will adjourn to closed session under State Statute 19851 Charlie for the purpose of discussing considering employment promotion compensation or performance evaluation data of any Public Employee over which the government body has jurisdiction or exercises responsibility so I look for a motion to go into closed session I make a motion second okay roll call please Mrs yes Mr yes Mrs yes
066Mr yes Mr William yes Mrs all right motion carries with that we will transition into Clos session um thanks everyone for being here tonight