001At 6:30, I'd like to call this meeting to order. Uh, verify compliance with open meetings law. Do I have a motion to adopt the agenda? So moved. A second. All in favor? I. Opposed? Seeing none, the agenda is adopted. Attendance. Everyone is here this evening. If you are able, please stand for the pledge of allegiance. 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. All right, we'll move on to two public comments. Are there any public comments? No comments. All right, we'll move on to three. AP Scholars 2425. All right, I get the privilege of announcing or talking about our AP scholars tonight and uh I'm excited to do that. Now, these are AP scholars from
00224 25. Uh, obviously that was last year. Uh, so there's there were kids that are were seniors that obviously may not be back uh tonight for us to recognize. Uh, but there's also some junior from juniors from last year and some sophomores from last year. So, we're really excited. Now, just a really quick thing for you all. AP does not stand for Associated Press. Uh, it stands for advanced placement. An advanced placement uh is a series of courses that provide ri rigorous college level curriculum and they culminate in exam in an exam and generally uh getting a three on the exam is considered you know you met the kind of that college standard. Uh in the in the past um you know those courses would you you'd be able to transfer just about every university
003you could transfer those credits. uh now it's kind of changed a little bit where it depends on the institution which what they do with the credits that you take but it it looks really good uh you know on on college resumes and things like that saying that you know our I was able to do uh some college level course work in high school so we're really really proud of all the students that we have so um we're going to get into it we have a fair amount of uh our students here tonight obviously and their parents so we're excited to have them here uh so students So, we'll call you up kind of by by like level and if you're going to come up and you're going to um explain to the board what's your
004favorite AP class you took and what the most challenging AP class is that you took. Okay, sound fair? All right. So, Jennifer, can we go to the the next slide, please? Just just as just so you guys know, uh there's these three categories. There's the AP scholar and this last year we had uh 47 students that were classified as AP scholars. There's the next classification is AP Scholar with honor. And I I'll define those a little bit when we get to each one. We had 13 students that were AP Scholars with honors and their average score on their AC or their AP CL uh test was a 3.68. And then the third and final distinction distinction is the AP scholar with distinction. And we had 28 of those students last year. Uh and that group
005of kids their average AP score was a a 4.17. Remember a three is the the the score that you know everybody's kind of shooting for. So So this really great. So next slide uh if we could go to So our first group of kids and you can see them all up here are the AP scholars. Now, AP Scholars is granted to students who receive scores of three or higher on three or more AP exams. So, that not just one, but but three AP exams. So, the students that are with us tonight. So, when I call your name, if you can uh come up and just stand up here, and there's a microphone on the table uh to to to uh give your little little spiel to to us. Uh, students that are here tonight are
006Genevieve Beasley, Jenna Bur, Addison Cole, Lana Dre Dragusc. I'm sorry if I I um didn't do so well on that name. Quinn Matthew, Wyatt Pups, Kira Thompson, Aurora Torres, and Zachary Vogle. So, if all those guys can come up here so we can recognize them and give them a big round of applause. [applause] Right. Right up there. Right behind the Yeah, you go right behind the table. Behind the table. Sorry. Actually, can you guys go here? That's okay. That's okay. I didn't give very good directions, but you know, I figured you guys are AP scholar. No, I'm just kidding. So, [laughter] I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. Uh, so why don't you There's a microphone right here. So, if someone would grab the microphone. Yeah, the hand one. And if you guys could Yeah. start
007at the end. Excellent. [laughter] And if you could just share what your favorite AP class you took was and what was the most challenging AP class that you took? Um, it it doesn't project. It's just for the the online thing. Yeah. Sorry. My favorite AP class was AP US government and politics. And the hardest one was AP US History. Um, I would say the one that I like the most was definitely Oh, it was definitely AP. Um, I don't know. I took three, but they're all like kind of good. Um, I would say it was probably the first one I took. It was AP um, human geography. And then the worst one, well, not the worst, but yeah. [laughter] Um um it was it's probably one of the ones that I'm in now which what
008which is um AP um language that class. Yeah. Yeah. Uh my favorite was uh computer science A. The hardest I think was uh AP gov. I think my favorite is AP gov and the hardest one was AP human geography. My favorite was probably AP economics, but I think it was also the hardest for me just because it was like two tests in one. My favorite was AP Biology and then my most challenging one was uh AP Calculus AB. Um my favorite one was AP United States government and politics and then my hardest one was um AP United States history. Um my favorite is AP uh AP US history and it's probably also the hardest but I really liked it. Um, my favorite is that I took was AP psychology and my the most challenging one
009I took was AP US History. Awesome. Well, let's give these guys another. Yeah. You guys go right over there and and she's going to get you guys a picture. You want to set that? Yeah. mic drop. I don't know. Yeah, probably don't. It's not as crowded. I'd say it's for video online stuff. All right. You know, let's say Three, two, one. Thank you. [applause] All right. So, our next slide, Jennifer. So on our our next slide, we are recognized in our AP scholars with honor and those are granted to students who receive an average score of at least 3.25 on all the AP exams that they've taken and scores of three or high on four or more of these exams. So you can see the list up there. The uh students that are here with
010us tonight are Jacob Frederickovich, Aiden Maloney, Wesley McDonald, and Charles Meckllinburgg. So, if those guys can come up, we'd love to uh recognize you. [applause] Actually, it fell it fell right down there. Yeah. All right. So, you guys remember the remember the story? Uh favorite AP class and most challenging AP class? [clears throat] I'd say my favorite AP class is probably uh AP US history. Uh just a great teacher. And uh I'd say my most difficult AP class is probably um AP Government. Uh I'd probably say that my favorite one was AP Calc AB and I'd say that that was also the hardest one. I'd say my favorite AP class was AP Biology and my least favorite was AP language and composition. Uh my favorite AP class was AP Calculus. AP and is also probably
011the hardest. Awesome. Well, let's give these guys one more round of applause. [applause] Great. Great. [applause] [clears throat] And then our our final group of AP scholars are AP scholars with distinction. These students are granted uh to students who receive an average score of a 3.5 on all AP exams taken and the scores of three or higher in five or more of these exams. So tonight we have Andress Carr, Ethan Jakabooki, David Radkkey, and Benjamin Sutton joining us. So let's give them a round of applause. Uh, I think my hardest AP class was probably uh AP United States History and my favorite was AP Government. My favorite class was also AP US Government and the most challenging one for me was AP Calculus AB. Uh, my favorite was AP CELK AB and my least favorite
012was Lang. My favorite one was AP Calc BC and my hardest one I think was AP US history. Awesome. Thank you guys so much. [applause] Thank you. [applause] Now, uh parents and students, thank you all so much for being here tonight. Uh that kind of concludes the recognition part. We're uh if you love we'd love to have you stay for the remainder of our meeting, but we completely understand that uh you know you may have other things going on tonight. So we'll take like a couple minutes and you guys can kind of make your way out if you don't want to stay. Congratulations. So again, CONGRATULATIONS. [applause] Thank you. Bye. That was good while it lasted, guys. I know. That was so we had I was like, "All right." It's always fun to like I
013love these favorite is AP [clears throat] Calp. That's like That's so amazing. Oh my gosh. Or like AP Econ. Oh my gosh. Right. I'm like that was my favorite. That's impressive. Really? Yeah. I think when you like numbers, you just really like them. Yes. Yes. Yes. Don't get too wild and crazy. I've heard AP US history is really tough though just like across the board like everywhere. Yeah. But it was really great to hear how many people thought it was like their favorite. All right, we will move on to number four consent agenda. I'm feeling a gifts and donations. B, approval of October 13, 2025 meeting minutes. Approval of September 29th, 2025 meeting minutes. Approval of September 22nd meeting minutes. school safety drills, vouchers, vouchers payable, and uh ECCP requests. Would anybody like to remove
014an item? Jesse, can I pull A, please? Okay. Any others? If not, do I have a motion to approve B through G? So moved. I'll second. Any discussion? All in favor? I opposed. B through G have been approved. Uh, go ahead, Cassie. Sure. So, we would like to recognize and thank Wasaw Supply of Konosha for their donation of $500 worth of tools which include speed squares for the construction course students at the high school. Uh, so thank you to Wasaw Supply in Kenosha. Okay. Do I have a motion to approve 4A? So moved. I'll second. All in favor? I opposed. Seeing none, 4 A is passed. All right, we'll move on to five. Action. A, consider the purchase of a robotic floor scrubber. Uh, we had this on our meeting last time. Uh, do you
015have any other questions before I ask for a motion? I guess my only question would be, has anything changed since the presentation last time? Oh, okay. Do I have a motion to approve 5A? So moved. Second. Okay. All in favor? I I opposed. Seeing none. 5 A carries. We'll move on to uh action item 5B. Do I have a motion to approve the 2025 2026 adopted budget? So moved. I'll second. You have something else. Okay. J's going to come up and [laughter] Good evening. Um, so I'll go through some of the gist of the changes. Again, these were this was all presented at the annual meeting, but as of um October 15th, we got final numbers from the Department of Revenue and DPI, which did change some things. Um, a couple things got got changed.
016So we'll go through those. We are in the October one. So we're finalizing this. Uh again, this was the this will be the final budget that that we use for this year. Uh the uh on the next slide, we uh the a couple things. I'll go through the major this really the changes of these. Um we got final equalized value. I did 4.4% that was the initial projection and a little bit conservative, but it came back at 4.7. So that that did bump it up a little bit by a little bit. That's about I think $7 million but uh which is a big chunk when you're talking uh two two billion not a huge amount uh that directly affected the mill rate um simply because uh it's the t total tax levby divided by equalized
017value. So when the the denominator goes up, it does decrease it, which it did. Um, so which we'll talk about in a in a second what that did, but it did directly affect our mill rate. Three.3% bumped it up two to what? Two billion. 2 million. I'm sorry. Uh, correct. It went from 2 bill659,000 to 2 bill66,000. Yeah. Yep. Uh, private school vouchers. Um, we were at about $628,000 last year. So, I conservatively bumped that up to 750, which was a a big increase. Uh, and it came back at $773,000. Um, so again, a much bigger than than I anticipated and again, I'm very conservative when it comes to um that. And so, again, people are taking advantage of this and it's just continuing to grow. Um so just again a couple more a little
018bit more information up there um of what that really does add to our mill rate. Um it's about 29 cents of the 733. So it's a big chunk of that that we have to collect and adds to that. Uh finalized revenue limit uh projected uh that top number and final amount came in about $82,000 more which uh which again is a good thing. Um the the projection that DPI gives is based on um initial numbers that they have and that's why all of our numbers in our budget have to be put in um so that they can get and and and and our our annual um reports have to be put in so they can get finalized numbers. So that's why they're always going to be off a little bit. Um so in this case
019it helped us a little bit. We we got uh about $82,000 more than what we had thought from our revenue limit. So that that was that was good. Um, and again, significant increase from last year, mostly based on the 325 per pupil, which we knew was coming. So, that's mostly where that came from. John, can you go to the the last uh slide? So, on a $300,000 home, the person pays their tax. And of that tax, $87 goes towards paying this vouchers, right? Correct. It's not additional. It goes the money they pay comes out of there. We collect it for the state and then the state takes it from our from our taxes. Yep. Which doesn't which there's no benefit. Yeah. There's no benefit us to to us. Yep. Thank you. We're simply a pass
020through. Correct. Uh state aid. Thank you. Uh the state aid did come in a little bit uh a little bit better which was which was great. Again based they they base their projection on one thing and then they wait till they get final numbers um before we can get it. So, we did get about $264,000 more than we thought from state aid. Uh we knew we were going to lose a bunch and we did, but we lost $200,000 less than I thought we were going to lose from initial projection. So, um again, there was no state aid added to the revenue limit. Um and so, um we we ended up getting less because of those property poor districts that that um spent more. uh the tax levy, which so this is what we talked about.
021The tax levy did change and we uh and we were be able we were able to drop it down a little bit and again part of that um was because we got more state aid. So that dropped it down which then caused our mill rate to to drop a little bit. So our ending mill rate instead of the projection at 741 uh we ended up at 733. still an increase which we knew we were going to have because of no additional state aid in the pot um and and our decrease from that but so that did get put on the taxpayers's um backs to be able to do that and and again we we knew that was coming it's just a little bit better but do notice that while I don't want to say $181,000
022is is chump change it's great but but $181,000 in the grand scheme of things of a $19 million tax levy um it really does impact the the mill rate more significantly. So, while we did drop 9 cents, the total tax levy really I don't want to say only because it's nice 181,000 less that we have to tax our taxpayers, but in the grand scheme of things wasn't significant. So, again, this is why you look at both the tax levy and the mill rate. So, just a correction, it's 8 cents. Oh, I'm sorry. I said nine, didn't I? I'm sorry. Thank you. Yep. 8 cents. Uh the next slide just shows kind of where we've been. We are again We have been [clears throat] over the last several years much lower than we were just you
023know eight eight nine years eight years ago. So um uh again we were kind of hoping for a steady one or you know from where we where we were last year but we obviously know the reason for that so I'm not going to harp on that but we did go up but a little less than I thought but simply because of of the lack of state aid. Uh open enrollment numbers came in pretty much uh what we had uh what we had projected. So, we're we're sitting at 446 as open enrollment in and 165 open enrolled out. That open enrollment out, I think maybe one of you asked at the last one. Um, it did bump up a little bit. I think we were 137 or 138 last year out. So, we're up a little
024bit more this year. So, I think that was one of you if I'm not mistaken. So, uh, which still again which I had projected I think a little bit more than 2.8. I think 2.86 in there, but we're about 2.83 million surplus. So about the same. Uh there were really no other major changes besides what I just covered uh in the budget. Again, I was able to um again, to be quite honest with you, be a little more conservative in places where I didn't have wasn't able to do that. But since we did get a little bit more um uh revenue limit and um to be able to to to just make sure we're we're covering electricity and transportation increases and some other things that that um we've talked about or that that we were
025looking at. So, but uh our revenues and our expenditures are still balanced and um we have that those dollar amounts. Any questions? And that is the sorry. Oh, yeah. That's it. Sorry. Questions. I just think for uh correction purposes, you have 742. That's where you came up with the 9 cents on the second slide. And the first slide said 741 and the mill rate. Keep going. So 741. There you have it. 742, right? It was 742. Thank you. Yes. Yep. All right. Yes. No, that's good catch. Yeah. Yeah. So, we were 9 cents because it should have been 742 which I had at the at the at the annual meeting budget hearing. I'm sorry. Good catch. Yes. But yeah, I'll change that before we uploaded it into the public content tomorrow. There are no other
026questions for John. We already had a first and a second. So, let's move into uh all in favor opposed. Seeing none, 5B carries. We'll move on to 5C 2025 2026 tax levy. Do I have a motion to approve 5C? So moved. I'll second. Any other discussion around this? Hearing none. All in favor? I opposed there. None. 5C carries. We'll move on to six reports and presentations. Thank you, John. Uh we'll move on to a school board liaison reports. I'll just go in the order that uh it's presented here. Last I checked, they're looking for possibly one or two more volunteer slots for the middle school dance this upcoming Friday. So, if you are able to assist, they would be happy to help have you help them. And then they are having an eat and earn
027coming up at Dave's Hot Chicken on November 10th. And I believe that starts at 400 pm. That is in I believe that's the one in New Berlin uh right off of National and Morland. That right? Yeah. Right at that big intersection there. Yeah. Used to be Mod Pizza. Uh that's where it is. Okay. All right. And that is all I have for that. So I'll move on to Edertton PTO. Um so [clears throat] I just want to be give a big shout out and thank you to all the people who volunteered. Last week was a very volunteer heavy week at Edertton for our PTO. We had the book fair all week and I um we had a ton of volunteers show up for that. We also had our spaghetti dinner. We partner with that which
028is a very wonderful partnership and we had to have volunteers for that. I think Boy Scouts come out as [clears throat] well. Um this year they delivered dinners to teachers. We had families who sponsored teacher dinners and then we also were able to give books to all of our students plus quite a large amount to um faculty. Don't have the final numbers on that because it finished up on Friday and I was out of town but um I will bring those back because we definitely had a successful book fair and I also wanted to shout out the kids were just absolutely wonderful. I've been volunteering and helping run the book fair for the last couple years, and this was by far the most well- behaved students I've ever had, and their work on expectations was
029just so apparent. Anything else? I feel like I'm forgetting something, but I don't think so. Oh, and our meeting's next Thursday, 6 p.m. in the library. Oh, yes. We also had that was the other last minute. We had a last minute opportunity to volunteer at the football game. Um, and luckily we had some people show up for that with very short notice. So, that was another big volunteer. So, parents really showed up for Edertton last week and it was a big ask. It was a very busy concession night. Yeah, that's for sure. And we just had a big ask. So many volunteers made last week work. Are they going to need volunteers again this week? Yeah, I'll I'm check I'll check on that. I'll send the board uh an email again. Uh yeah, it's it's
030kind of interesting with the WIA playoffs because we never know until Friday night, you know, or Saturday morning usually what where we're going to go or what we're going to do. All right, we'll move on to HC PTO. All right. Um HCE also hosted the book fair last week um during conferences Thursday, Friday, and then it is open online through the end of this week. Uh very successful as um it's a time for I know the adults I hear a lot of comments around like yes it's book fair time the kids get just as excited uh also PTO sponsors meals for the uh staff during conferences so they have food that they can grab um and thanks also to the volunteers Alicia and I um did a shift for the book fair on Friday morning
031so um we were able to help out there and um our next meeting. I don't know if we need before then or we talk about it before then. So, it's November 18th will be the next PTO. Um, also I will highlight this next time too, but um the HCPO donated $6,000 for field trips for the year. I highlight that in the next um donations. Hey Cassie, for the online book fair orders, do they deliver to the school or do they like deliver to us? You can pick I think. Okay. So, anybody could really order from that still. Yes. And if you want the link, um, you can go to scholastic.com and search for the fair and just look for Hills Corners Elementary or if you're in the Hills Corners Elementary family, it's in the it's
032been in the happenings for the last few weeks and shopping through our link gives us the credit for um, earning free books and then which we then out to the staff usually in the spring. Sounds good. move on to music boosters. Sure. Uh music boosters met on Tuesday. Um they have a lot going on. Uh so they just had an e-waste fundraiser um on October 18th at House of Harley and that was really successful. Um they have had some different events. Uh high school choir went to W Platville's Choir Fest, Coral Fest, I'm sorry, on Tuesday, October 7th. Um Mama Mia is coming up. there's an understudy show on November 12th. So, if you want to come to that show, uh it's an option to see the understudies perform. And then the um performance weekend
033is the 14th to the 16th. Um the boosters uh helped pay for some rental instruments for one of the teachers to go to have enough instruments to go to the elementary schools. Um, and coming up, uh, there's a concert on December 11th, and after that concert, it's a high school choir and orchestra concert. They are having an event where, um, you can come and make do holiday cookie decorating, and there's other family activities. It's just a $5 um, ticket for that event. There's going to be apple cider hot cocoa and um, they're also going to start a poinsetta sale. And so, that delivery will be that same night. So, the poinsetta sale is going to start Monday, November 3rd, um with the orders completed by the 21st and then they'll be delivered um the night
034of the concert. So, they're going to like decorate the stage with them and then you can come pick up your poinsettas after the performance. So, and come and do all the fun um cookie making and games. So, um, let me see. The next meeting is Tuesday, November 18th in the high school choir room. Sounds good. We'll go over to Quinn Greenfield Park and Recre. Yeah, we just met this past Thursday and uh, one of the items on the agenda was a uh, Eagle Scout from uh, Martin Luther High School is going to build uh, we approved it. He's going to build four benches for the Joan Stevens Joan Stevens Forest which is on about 87th in Howard. If you ever want to take a little walk in the in the city forest, there's one there
035other than ours. And then we approved some uh uh rate increases for the um rental properties on in the Greenfield. I did have one thing to report and that was how we crushed Greenfield Hawks in in our varsity football game. So, I used a little different terminology and uh uh it was well taken. We have we have a one member on the board uh want to represent [clears throat] is a Whitnel graduate and then we also have uh my counterpart which is a uh Greenfield uh school board member. So, I didn't want to let that die. That's all nice. Go to uh HC Park and Wreck. So, there is one interesting to know thing to note about Hills Corners Park. If you haven't seen the news, the Hales Corners Lions Club has signed a lease
036lease with Milwaukee County Parks for the Hails Corner Park Pavilion and they will be making the facilities available to rent out for other nonprofits or for small groups and gatherings. So, there is um this is on available on the web if you're looking um to rent. Um there was a big ceremony um to thank the club for taking over that pavilion. Is that the one by the pool? Yes, feels good. All right, we'll move on to S SWSA and Karen. Yeah, I'd like to thank Brady for providing a detailed summary in his October 17th board update. So, um, CISO one became SWSA's fiscal agent. So, they help them with the money and the accounting and auditing and those types of things. Um, and then there were some legislative updates. Um, I'm curious about where that
037wireless communications bill is going to go on the governor's desk. So, I'm on pins and needles for that one. And then the rehired Newton's bill is something that we could all advocate for as well. Freddy, do you have anything to add? No, I don't think so. I I agree. I'm interested in hearing the where that, you know, the wireless bill is going to go. Uh again, it's it had bi relatively bipartisan support in both the assembly and the uh senate. So not sure what the governor will do with that one, but that'll be interesting for us uh especially the policy committee when we when that when and if that passes. Sounds good. Thank you. We'll move on to 6B, superintendence report. Yes. So, since last time we held our first Walk of Champions, uh this
038this first Walk of Champions was for tennis player Tyranny Brick, who went to state for the second consecutive year in in tennis. So, we're excited for her and congratulations to her. We're we're getting to the end of the the fall sports season. So, there's a whole bunch of regional and sectional events um coming up. Um we also celebrated National School Lunch Week. And this year the theme, if you remember last year the theme was pizza, lots of several different pizzas. This year the theme was uh school lunch around the world. So we enjoyed themed menu meals inspired by Japan, Italy, Greece, and Mexico. So those were very good good meals. Um, we also had uh first grade student Satie at Edertton. Her dad Corey uh stopped by and share fire safety tips as October is
039fire safety awareness month. Um Corey shared important fire safety tips including why it's best to sleep with doors closed, what to do if you see or smell smoke, and how to set a family meeting place in case of an emergency. He also showed the students his firefighting gear and even let some of them try it on. So that was a neat experience for our Edertton first graders. Um Hail's Corners had their first class mail day of the year. Uh so there's still three of those to go. Apparently that's where they send mail to friends and um teachers and all those kinds of things. Our National Honor Society students helped with that because u I believe it's a pretty big undertaking. Correct, Mrs. Komas? Yeah. So really great. We had our National Honor Society induction this
040year. We had the largest class in Whitel history. We inducted 52 new members at that meeting. So that was outstanding. And then last week we had our author and residents visit the middle school, Aaron Boyd. He gave an all school presentation on the artistic process and then held three grade level workshops where students created their own covers for his book, Giving Good. So, those are the things that have been going on uh within the district over the last couple weeks since we met last. Sounds good. Thank you. We'll move on to seven. Announcements. Does anybody have any announcements? Okay, we'll move on to eight. Does anyone have anything for meeting debrief? I do. It just came to me. Is SWAS's are they advocating for local control in the communication in the Yeah. Um, no. Actually,
041they're really not taking a position on that one. Uh, that it's a little bit more of the um the the legis the state legislature and the um the assembly and the and the governor and and really what they're saying is no cell phones or electronic devices. I understand what is S SWA hasn't taken No, they haven't taken a position either way on that or or advised to. Is it because of the wide variety of I think it's because of a wide v variety of membership. Yeah. Yeah. Because you know it's um local it I'm very comfortable with our with our policy. Yeah. Right. Right. And for big brother to tell us we need to do this. Uh I don't think we I don't think that benefits us. Some districts may it may uh so I'm
042concerned about that. Yeah. Yeah. That's all. All right. Anything else for meeting debrief? If none uh do I have a motion to adjourn the meeting? So moved. I'll second. All in favor? I opposed. Meeting is