001Do I have a motion to adopt the agenda as presented? So moved. Second. All in favor? I oppose. Seeing none, the mo uh agenda is adopted. Um attendance. Everyone is here. Quint is virtual this evening. So we'll move on to 1D. If you are able, please stand for the pledge of allegiance. I 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. Move on to 2 A. Are there any public comments? No public comments. Okay, we'll move on to three. Consent agenda 3A. Personnel recommendations approval of high school interim principal. Do I have a motion to approve 3A? So moved. I'll second. Any discussion? Seeing none. All in favor? I opposed. Post. Uh see none there.
0023A uh carries. We will move on to number four. Recognition. A WB honoral business partners. The town hermit. Thank you everyone. Uh nice to see all of you guys again. Thank you for carving out a few uh minutes of your time to uh help us uh highlight some of our business partners who really make an impact on our students lives uh through the youth apprentichip program. Uh the first person I'm going to have stand up is from the woods. It's uh Miss Melissa Schnell. Um her boss Greg could not make it tonight. Uh so the brains of the operation actually made it instead. Um Melissa and I met just recently um as as our students have started to work over there. Um have you guys was 2023? Yep. We just had our 2-year anniversary. Okay.
003So they're still relatively new to the area. The Woods is right over by the middle school. Um it's a long-term care facility in our community. It's very unique in that the residents all live in ranchstyle homes with exterior exits. And I will tell you, I've been in a lot of long-term care facilities. One of the questions I asked Melissa and Greg was, "What's the minimum age?" Because I'm ready to move in. Uh, that place is awesome. Um, what makes them a specifically good partner is that our students get to work very closely as CNAs and dietary aids. Um, with our CNA lab that we built as a consortium. Um, we have numbers of kids that are very, very interested in getting into healthcare and that's typically how they start. Um, there they have several different
004opportunities. um they're very open to having our our yas uh work for them and um it's just a nice facility. Uh you know going to a nice facility is a great place for our students to begin. Um and so they have an opportunity to go do that. Um both of them have participated in our consortium healthcare hiring events and uh um these paid apprenticeship opportunities really help our students discover uh the joys as well as the challenges of going into healthcare and then of course build their resumes uh for what's next. So if you guys could give a quick round of applause for the Woods. So, um, next to them we have Audra, who is a graduate of Whitnell High School. Uh, Audra is a YMCA employee. Um, on the far end, we have Rob
005Johnson, if you want to stand up. Uh, Rob Johnson is a CEO in the area of uh, a YMCA from Cal Marine. And Rob, if you want to introduce your team. Sure. Macy Slasser, she leads our YA program for us in our HR department. and Jennifer Kelly is our HR director. Don't they look like people you want to work for? I mean, anyways, um Audra is the director of school age education. She actually was the YA coordinator for one of our students that graduated in 2025, uh Savannah Schultz. Um that the reason why we bring in the YMCA is that there is a significant increase in the number of youth apprentices and apprenticeships overall. you know, statewide went from 6,000 to 11,000 in the last five years. And that really has to do with school
006boards and superintendents, principles, parents, educators, students. One, being more aware, and two, being willing to jump in. But it's all predicated on having employers. You have to have an employer that's willing to sponsor our students. Another reason for the increase is that there are new pathways like education, which just started recently, and that's where YA um that's where the Y comes in. um this pathway like healthcare gives students a paid opportunity to see if they are truly do they truly like working with kids and and get a sense if they have an aptitude for it you know um you know what I'm talking about they're great but you know can you really do this you know um we all know that we need great teachers we all know the greatest factor contributing to learning in
007any classroom is that teacher and the YMCA offers our aspiring teachers positions in their before and after school program um as instru instructors and his coaches uh throughout the summers, throughout the school year. My personal opinion is if you can learn to teach a group of 5-year-olds any skill in a way that keeps them engaged so that everyone can see some incremental growth, uh you probably have the chops to be a teacher in any school, in any grade. Um and so they open the door for that. So we really need you guys. Thank you very much for doing that because we really need our teachers. Um, like I said, Savannah Schultz, uh, class of 2025 was hired, um, by Audra. Um, had a really, really good experience. So, if you could please give them a
008round of applause as well. Um, you guys want to just have a seat. As a side note, Rob uh, Johnson and I met uh, for a different reason, and that was through the local workforce development association. Uh I was asked last year to present at their conference and explain to the other WD WDAS from around the state like what is youth apprenticeship and how it might possibly be of value as a talent pipeline for them um in their particular area. So I assembled a pal a panel of intelligent first class people like Rob uh obviously to make myself look good. Um, but no, really, I mean, it really was it was to share their experience with working with kids and sharing the expertise that they have with working with our students. Um, because like it
009is with the 5-year-olds, it's not always easy working with high school students. It takes a lot of patience. It takes um somebody that has the right um p, you know, just just understanding of kids. So, um that panel was outstanding. Uh we had a lot of feedback. Um, people were able to walk away with some really good gems of knowledge about YA. Um, it is very easy. If you have a chance to talk to Rob, he's always somebody that's fired up. Um, and more importantly, he just gets it, you know. Um, he understands that we need to take care of the next generation of our workforce. Um, and so, one more round of applause, Rob. I hope his head fits to the door on the way out. Now, um, fun fact, and I'll end on
010this. Uh the YA is really a great investment. So if you ever have a chance to talk to our local um elected officials, please remind them that, you know, just in our consortium alone last year, our students earned $864,000. And that is actually the lowest number that they possibly could because I based it on the dollar per hour average times 450 hours. And several kids do more than that. In fact, one of the students from here did almost 2,000 hours in a year uh in a manufacturing plant. I mean, that's over I mean, that is unbelievable. So, it ends up being about $11 to $1 of uh money that's earned and how much the state gives us in a grant. So, that's a pretty good return on investment. um you know, we ended um 2025
011we ended at our consortium ended up carrying over about $40,000 uh some of which will be able to help us use uh to build our own CNA lab right in this building uh in the next couple years. So, thank you guys for your ongoing support. If you guys would like to uh come on up here, we'll do a quick picture and then we'll be on our way. Somebody first hand right in the middle there. Thank you guys very much. Step that way more. We're not everybody fits the background. Perfect. Perfect. Who wants to move a bit time for me? Go back. Three, two, one. Perfect. Thank you. All right. The Y. Yeah. For the last two, you guys want maybe like you can try to do two rows a little bit. So if you want
012to go the extra taller for me and then that works. Pretend you're handach. [Music] Perfect. Perfect. All right. This way. Three, two, one. Thank you so much. Thanks again, guys. Very much. Thanks. Have a good night, guys. Thank you. Okay, we'll move on to number five, reports and presentations, high school student council report. All right, just to tee this up real quick for for you guys, we we've decided for this year, like we did last year, to have every uh every school come in and give a report. Uh once in the first semester and then once in the second semester. So, tonight we've got our our high school student council kids. Uh next month, I'm not sure if we have one in the elementary or in the middle schools, but uh I I really value
013having everybody and hearing everybody's leadership. So, I'm going to turn it over to these guys to talk about what's been going on at the high school. All right. Hi everyone. My name is Emily Tasher. I'm a senior and I'm co-president. I'm Ella. I'm also the other co-resident and I'm a senior. All right. This is just basically what we've been up to and what we plan to do in the future. First of all, this summer we kicked it off with freshman orientation. So, that's yeah, we'll go over all this later. and then homecoming, haunted hallways, um Thanksgiving, and Christmas break spirit week. And then we'll take questions after that. All right, first up, freshman orientation. Um this is basically just introducing the freshman to our school. It's nerve-wracking. New building, you get all lost. You're kids
014way older than you. So, gave them quick tours, taught them about the clubs, especially student council, and the sports that we offer. And then we had a football tailgate right before the first game to just encou encourage people to come and show school spirit. So yeah, nextly we have homecoming. This is this week obviously on Saturday we had the dance which went really well in my opinion. Um to lead us off we had the spirit days which is country versus country club, twin day, color wars, throwback Thursday and then went no spirit wear with the parade and everything. That went really well. I feel like we had a good amount of participation. This year we decided to do a freshman presentation about what homecoming is and like kind of just get them more involved because
015a lot of times you don't really know when you're coming in a building like everything about it. So we did that the week prior and it really went well and we got a lot more freshmen to participate this year which I thought was really fun. We also do lunch games like per usual. And then if you want to go to the next slide, this was just about the parade, the pep rally and the dance. The pep rally was a little bit short because we had an incident in the parade which kind of like shortened our time but we still got through everything which was really good. We did a new thing this year where we pied a teacher to help like um get the snack drive to get more people to donate and then yeah
016we had a lot of volunteers and overall the dance really well. All right, planning ahead. This is coming up soon. So um on October 25th we have our haunted hallways. This is um both run by student council and DECA, which is really fun because it's just two clubs working together and getting more people to volunteer, more people to know about it. Um or we haven't yet chosen a theme, but we choosing it this Wednesday when we have a meeting with DECA, which will be fun. And yeah, basically the kids trickor treat before. That's no scaring because they're little and be nice to them. And then later on um kids come and we scare them and decorate all the halls all creepy and fun and it's super super good I think to get everyone involved. And
017then next we have Thanksgiving or like our November month that is a little bit more dead for us. just more of like a time for everyone to take a break after all the stress of like thing of homecoming and haunt and always our ideas for November so far just kind of like to contact other clubs like NHS Leo club like stuff like that where they do a lot of volunteering. Um we were thinking about Veterans Day on November. They usually do a big like thing at the middle school that we can maybe help with like set up before and after whatever they need to do. And then another idea we had is like maybe to contact the elementary schools. Like a lot of people like to do like activities like a hand turkey activity or
018something just to like get involved with them and stuff like that. Right. And looking forward way long is Christmas break. Um the leadup to that, we're going to have a spirit week and then um maybe do a fundraising event to help families or people in need in the community and then a student versus staff volleyball game to just keep student spirit up and spirits high as we go into the break. So yeah, um that's basically it from us. Any questions or anything? Um, I really love that you have such a focus this year on bringing in the freshmen and educating them and reaching out to the other schools. I think that's really cool to see you guys taking on that leadership with the younger students. And you're right, it's hard to come in as the
019freshman. So, to see you come in and pull them up is really a nice I was thinking the same thing. I think that's really great how you guys did an orientation to homecoming. really um what a neat idea um and probably super helpful for the freshman to understand better and be able to be involved. But um I was also curious and um my son is very excited for Haunted Hallways, so we will definitely be there again this year. Um uh I was just curious, do you have any needs or any way we can help like support you guys? Um as of right now, there's not much we can think about because homecoming was like our main event I feel like that we need the most help with. Um, besides that, we've gotten help from the
020booster club. They helped us um, fund our floats, which was really helpful. But in the future, if you have anything, we'll definitely reach out and thank you. Thank you all for I'll just share a little anecdote. I was at a meeting with other schoolboard members, I think last week or the week before, and a school board member from a different school is a ref for football, and he commented on I had said something about the freshman tailgate and getting kids involved and how you guys do such a good job. And he was like, I refed that game. and he said it was just awesome the turnout and so it stood out in his mind compared to some of the other schools that he reps for that he specifically connected and commented on that. So kudos
021to you all. It stood out um to a non-resident who reps here. So really good job. Yeah, it's a fun tradition that we do that. Was there anything that stood out from feedback from freshman like, "Oh, I really wish I knew this coming in or something that would be a common theme that could be addressed in the future. One of our adviserss, Miss Puzzer, she was the one who came up to us and was like, "We need to do the homecoming like what is homecoming?" Because a lot of the freshmen were like, "What are lunch games? Like when do we do those? Where do we do those? Why like what do we do for spirit days?" And stuff like that. So all the confusion that they had, I think we really settled it with the
022presentation. even if some of them thought it was boring but they got to know like what is happening and why we do what we do and um what club is behind it all. So yeah, awesome. Thank you so much. Thank you. All right, we'll move on to 5B enrollment overview with Brady, Dana, and John. Yeah, as they're making their way up, I'm just going to kind of tee up the presentation. Um, as you know, Dana does a lot of the, um, data work that we have. But, uh, in the past, we've had some discussion around, you know, in January, we bring open enrollment seats to you. Uh, last year, we, you know, there's some discussion about those, and we said we we look into enrollment, open enrollment, and everything within, uh, the district. So, this
023is kind of the first part of of that work. Uh, we just want to share out some ahas or some things we've come up with with just just general enrollment uh for for the district and then as we get closer to those January dates, we're going to bring some different things with with open enrollment uh to you as well. So, uh I'm going to turn it over to Dana and um I will ask I think she's kind of has it set up that there's some there's some slides if you have questions about just just ask when they have a question rather than waiting till the end because there's some I don't know some interesting things and then um if there's a really like significant like big question just feel free to email me and I'll
024get we you know we'll work to get get the answers to those um but other than that I'm going to turn it over to Dana so thank you Dana and John yeah thanks Brady these are some there's a few slides but they're very data heavy so I'd love to explain if you have questions about the data as we're going Um so like Brady said the reason why we are bringing this to you today is um we have some different components of our new strategic plan that relate to student transitions either for new students or students transitioning um across buildings and levels and then also working on budget projections and developing a staffing model that's appropriate for the buildings. Um so we wanted to tie that all together in our strategic plan for this presentation. So
025our first slide is looking at enrollment over time. Um on the data chart below I pulled snapshots from every five years over the past 20 years starting today and going back to the 202526 school year. Um so there are some gaps in this data chart um but it really just shows an overall picture of how our district population has changed over the past 20 years. So, compared to our 0506 school year to our 2526 school year, um our number of resident students enrolled this year is the lowest that it's been in 20 years. Um our overall enrollment is among some of the lowest that it's been in the last 20 years. Um also notable is that our percentage of students who are considered economically disadvantaged has increased by over 15% in the last 20 years.
026Some of these are trends that we're not just seeing here at Whitnull, but that we're seeing across the state, even in some cases across the country in terms of declining enrollment um and an increase of students who are considered economically disadvantaged. The reason why that number or that percentage has a little asterisk in 2526 is because we are still in the process of having students um qualify for free and reduced meals. And so that's not a final number. That can go up or down depending on some of those qualifications. Um but overall we can see that this year our total enrollment on third Friday was 2344. Um 1898 of those students are considered resident students and we had 446 who are considered open enrollment students. Um our percentage of students with disabilities has remained relatively
027stable over the last 20 years but as we know that really is very student dependent um depending on on the students needs in terms of how much support that they need. I have a question. Does the um so our total enrollment third Friday I get that um do you feel like that's pretty representative of the number that we had registered? Does that like pretty much match what we expected from at what point in time? Um, I mean I guess like you know before school starts we have students register and so I was just curious like one of the things we talked about at a recent WASBY or WB meeting was about like attendance and kids like attending and one of the things that we had mentioned is we're not like sure is that even is
028that a concern or is that something in our district where like we have a percentage or a group of kids that like are consistently not attending. So that's our total enrollment number of third Friday, not dependent on whether or not they were in attendance. Okay, that's what I was curious. Um, yes, that's correct. We can attendance is definitely something that we continue to look at or buildings have made like great progress in attendance over the last 5 years. Um, but this is just all students who were enrolled on that third Friday as long as they had attended at one point during the school year so far. What are the um qualifiers to fall into the category of being economically disadvantaged? Um so typically I guess John do you want to speak to that? You want
029me to speak to that? Yep. Go ahead. Um qualifying for free reduced meals is one of the factors that goes into that. Um also anyone who I believe is on state healthcare insurance um can be automatically um enrolled. There's some other factors. DPI uses it's kind of like a complicated formula um that they use to make that determination but typically we say it's students who would qualify for free and reduced meals. Okay. Thank you. Okay. So after we've seen our overall enrollment over time, let's move on to looking at our um open enrollment over time. So as I mentioned on the previous slide, this year we have 446 total open enrollment students. Um we can see that six years ago that number was 363. Um and it stayed similar for the following year and then
030it's gone up a little bit every year since then. Um that means that our percentage of open enrollment students as our percentage of total enrollment has also increased. Um so this year we're at about 19% as of the third Friday. Um one of the things that I know the board has discussed previously is um wanting students wanting to get students in early and keep them in early. Um, so that's one of the things that I looked at is our percentage of our total open enrollment students that started as open enrollment students in K4 or kindergarten. And this year it's about 30% 134 of our 446 students um started with us in K4 or in kindergarten. That's when they started as open enrollment students. Um, as we'll see in the next couple of rows, there are
031some students who start with us in K4 or kindergarten as resident students then may move out of the district but choose to remain here through open enrollment. Um, so that number in the third row does not include those students. It just includes students who open enrolled into the district in K4 or kindergarten. Um, this year we had 79 of our 446 open enrollment students who started as new open enrollment this year. That's about between 17 and 18%. However, of those 79 students, 20 of them were enrolled in Whitnol last year as resident students and now are openen enrolled here this year. That's about 25%. And as we look back over the last six years, we can see that an average of about 25% of our new open enrollment students each year were students who were
032residents in the previous year. Any questions as we look at this slide? [Music] A question. I don't know where the right place to ask it is, but I'll just ask it here. Do we know how what percentage or how many kids are open and rolling out? We're at about 134 kid. Again, we don't have I don't have exact numbers for this current year, but we were about that. And I'd expect it to stay about the same. I guess I don't know right off the top of my head what percentage that would be, but um I guess do the math real quick, but 134. Okay. And then is is that number that percentage I guess maybe the number is not as important as the percentage. Is that staying stable? Is the same percentage of kids year-over-year
033open and rolling out? Are we seeing a dip? Are we seeing an increase? Um again so waiting on final numbers this year but I think it it'll it we'll say somewhat consistent I don't expect although I think it was two years ago that there was there was a dip a significant dip in the open enrolled out kit which helped again with the the open enrollment number and dollar surplus because our open in kids came in but the number were going out. Yeah. Okay. And uh just to follow up, Cassie, we'll we'll do that again once we get with some numbers. I'll send out the email or the email to see if I can set up the time to talk to some of those families to see why leaving us. Um if you remember last year
034I did that and um there are all kinds of different reasons. Um you know, one one interesting one is uh some of the communities around us have full day 4K. Uh we have half day obviously. Uh so sometimes they'll open and roll out uh to full day 4K and then come back to us in kindergarten. We find so it's one of those interesting little nuances to the way it works. And can I just add that I'm I'm very interested about that. It's 134. So a large number just the perception around that. maybe some survey data around that opportunities. Is it the 4K option, which I've heard a lot in the community about, but that would be um I did look into that very specifically last year to see our students who had opened enrolled out
035who were in 4K alone. I think it was for it was between 11 and 14. Um of those students, at least 50% of them have come back here for kindergarten. Um, and some of them we could see had siblings still enrolled in Whitnol. So, to me that's pretty tough. Okay. So, speaking of um our breakdown for open enrollment, I have broken down by grade level the number of seats that we opened for this year. That was what the board voted on back in January. Correct. Yes. Yes. Um and then the number of seats that we filled and the percentage of seats that were filled versus seats open. Um the bottom row then is the number of our open enrollment students in each grade who who are new to the district. So like I talked about
036on the previous slide, um 20 of our new newly open enrolled students. Of those 79 are students who were here with us last year as resident students. Um so we opened 165 seats for open enrollment. Um we filled 79 of those seats which is about 48%. Um John and I had talked earlier and that's pretty much in line with um the percentage that we filled over the last several years. It's typically been between 40 and 50%. Um and then 59 of those students were new to the district. And as you can see kind of looking over um that bottom row, the majority of those were in K4, K5, and sixth grade. And that's what we've seen historically over the last several years as well. Um, we did have some grade levels where we filled more
037seats than we opened and that's because after we made the initial round of offers um and we had our initial acceptances, then we made some additional offers um for some of those earlier grades after those initial offers were accepted. And it is we do have to be very careful about not knowing some of the K4 numbers when we do make those offers because once they once they're here, they're here. And then if we don't know well if our K5 numbers jump because of the residents enrollments. So we're very hesitant in January to offer and and again I say that every year when we do this we know we have some openings in in our core 4 but we're very cautious to do that. Um and as there's a waiting list we're you this year was
038part of that where um we had open 12 but then ended up filling 14. But so we know that there are some people that are out there on the waiting list, but there's that fine line between opening too many, getting burned the next year and then andor not opening enough, but hoping there's enough on the wait list that haven't accepted somewhere else so that we can still get that. So and the other sorry the other point to point out is again we opened 29 at K5. Remember last year's K4 numbers were an anomaly, very low. So in order because we didn't get that last year, we we know that that's the and that will continue to go up as we go year to year. We're going to try to fill that back up to where
039I guess I'll say it should have been had the number of K4 students enrolled that we expected or had been a trend. So that's why K5 open was very high and next year first grade will be exceedingly high or over abnormally higher than the rest of them and it'll happen until we can kind of get that back where it is and just hope we never we don't have another anomaly at C4 or else for that event. Um I have two questions. first one. So K4, the like funding is a little different, right, that we get for the K4 student. And we feel pretty confident though that it is at least paying for itself when I mean, as much as we can say that that we don't get the same amount per student at the K4
040level, but it's we're not taking in more kids and ending up in a deficit from a cost standpoint, I guess, is what I'm correct. And that's part of the whole staffing information that we'll continue to look at, but yeah, we get 6 for every K4 student because they're here for a half a day. Um it used to be up until the previous to this year. This year everybody gets 6. Some districts got five because it's a half a day. Um we got 6 because of the extra things that our staff and principles were doing. But now I think that's just an overall expectation. So starting this year, everybody gets 6 for a half day K4 program. Thanks. And then my second question is um so we originally didn't have any seats open in 10 11
041and 12 but obviously we didn't fill all the seats total. So are the kids were um better I don't know they applying is applying the right word that they put in for the lottery is a situation where they have a sibling in a lower grade. I'll just say I'm personally not a big fan of letting of of accepting new students to Whitnull that late in their educational career. So those are students who were at Whitnull. Oh, those are some of the 20 and wanted to stay. Okay. So that makes that feels more comfortable to me because then they've had the continuity of experience and Yeah. Yeah. Kathy advises them to apply for open enrollment um no matter what. Some of those students might have been a tuition waiver the year prior. Um but it's really
042sad to tell a senior no. No, I'm supportive of that 100%. And you'll see at that top line we didn't open any. I mean, that's what I wanted to understand and and I'm totally aligned and very supportive of that. Yeah. And that goes with a family like so family's been open enrolling in, they get to continue open enrolling in unless they leave the district. Okay. Okay. Um the next thing that and this I feel like this presentation also is some of my curiosities about our students our enrollment um that I felt like you all might share some of these curiosities as well. Um so I took our group of students who were enrolled in the district in the 2021 2022 school year. There were 2400 students and my thought was what happened to those students
043over the next several years? Um how many of them are still with us today? How many of them graduated? And how many of them left the district? Um so of these 2400 students when we look at the following school year 2223 201 of them graduated 151 of them left the district for another reason beyond graduation and 249 of them reenrolled for the following school year. Of those 249 students the following year 197 of them graduated. 96 of them left for some reason. 1756 reenrolled. So when we look across then the following four years this school year of that original 2400 students we have 1,257 which is a little over 52% of them are still with us today. 16% of those students left the district and about 32% of them graduated. So I'm using this kind
044of piece of information to illustrate that we have every year new students coming to us and students who are leaving. And so it's very challenging to say we we don't have the exact same group of students who are continuing along in the district every year. Um because if we have 16% of our students leaving, we know that we're making up for those numbers by new students coming in. So that's what we look at through the next slide. Can we go to the next one? Oh, sorry. I can That's okay. Thank you. Um, okay. So, I also then looked at students who were new to the district over the last five years. So, this year and then the four years prior for the number at the top row in the beginning of the year, those are
045students who had previously been in school somewhere else who came to us new on the first day of school. The second row midyear is students who didn't start with us in the first day of school but came to us at some other point in time over the course of the year. Then total is those students who came to us from somewhere else combined either the beginning of the year or sometime during the year. So in 2122 we had 344 of those students who came to us new from somewhere else at some point during the year. As of last year we had 229. So there was a pretty significant decrease of students who were coming to us new. When we look at that top line beginning of year we can see that a significant portion of
046that decrease came from students who are coming new to us at the beginning of the year. Our midyear number went down a little bit but not nearly as much as our beginning of the year number. So, while we're getting fewer new students to us at the beginning of the school year, and we can see that this year it went down even more, um, we're still getting a significant number of students who are joining the district mid year at some point other than the first day of school. Um, some very rarely are those open are open enrollment. Those are resident kids for major major majority of them. Correct. Students, um, we were discussing this earlier. I said I know of only maybe two or three students who open enrolled in the middle of the year. It's
047really for very exceptional circumstances like they're being um bullied in a different district or something like that. Um so those are resident students. Then the fifth row down is the number of students coming to us in K4 and K5 who've never been in school before. So they're coming to us brand new, not from somewhere else but just ne we call them never before in school. Um so that number of students has remained relatively steady and even increased a little bit over the last five years. So the number of total students coming to us from somewhere else and students coming to us never before in school as a percentage of our total enrollment is reflected in that bottom column or bottom row. Is that correct for 2526 though? because that doesn't quite make sense to me
048that it would be exactly at the beginning of the year the same for never before in school and new to Whitnoff. I ran it a couple of times cuz I thought the exact same thing and it did happen to be the same number. So we had 148 students new on the first day of school coming from somewhere else and at the same time 148 students coming to us who had never been in school before for a total of don't make me mad 296 thank you oh so okay so the never it's not this number isn't out of those no it just happens to be the exact same number and because We don't have midyear students yet coming in yet because this is yeah looking at the beginning of the year. Um I just took our
049beginning of the year number and again notice this is new to K4 and K5. So as we talked about K4 could be down but then K5 bumped it back up, you know, so there's not that big dip like we that we know there really was in K4 last year. So following that, um, one of the things that I started looking at over the last couple of years is our student mobility rate. Um, I actually started looking at this when we did the, um, HCI schools application because they asked for the student mobility rate as part of the application. So a mobility rate is how many students who either came in or went out of a school or a district between October 1st and or the first school day of October and the last school day
050of the year. So this is our percentage of our total student population who experienced an in or an out between that point in time. Um, our 2020 2021 school year had a little bit of a higher mobility rate because that was the year right after COVID and we had students kind of moving around and still trying to find a new home. However, even despite that, over the last five years, last year we had the highest district level mobility rate that we've had in quite a while. A lot of our students who are coming to us are coming in midyear. And that's one of the reasons why we have that big emphasis in our strategic plan on transitions, not only from fifth to sixth grade or 8th to 9th grade, but because we need that these
051new students who are coming to us in the middle of the year and at the beginning of the year to learn how we do things the Whit way. Um to learn how we treat each other, to get up to date on some of our um curriculum, our vocabulary. Brady and I just sat in an educator leadership committee meeting where they were having some of those discussions about how do we make sure that we're all using the same terms for the same things so that kids understand them and how will we get our new students up to date um on some of those things and how we do things with them. So seeing this mobility rate continue to increase is one of the reasons why that transition point in our strategic plan is so important. And
052just for comparison, we we had talked about um anything above was it 19 or 20% in the state 20% is considered um a high mobility rate. So we are not a highly mobile district or highly mobile schools, but still a significant number that when I saw it was very surprising to me. Not a question, but I'll just say I appreciate you looking at this because when you think about culture of a district and um in many cases, as you mentioned, the student the mobile students are resident students and caring about their transition early on, especially if you look the numbers are higher at the elementary level when they have less skill to navigate. They don't know how to read the room yet, so to speak. So, I'll just say I'm really appreciative of this because
053that helps them right away establish the culture and then we as the adults are in control of the culture and stay in control of the culture versus letting you know students who enter midyear and you know how it is even with adults. So, a team changes at work, you go through a storming phase again and it's not any different with students entering a school. Um, so I'm very appreciative of that look at that and then having, um, a, you know, strategic methodology for helping kids with transition. So, thank you for that. Any questions on that? Okay, so now you've seen some of our enrollment data. What's next? Um, we know we're going to be continuing to do some work on transitions and how we can best support students and teachers in those moves. Um, it's
054hard to be a teacher when you have a really good classroom culture and things are well established and then you get two new students coming in and things you got to kind of start all over again fresh with those students. Um, we're also going to continue to educate and support staff and some practices for supporting a shifting population. As we saw in the very first slide, um, our student population has changed. Students don't all live in the same neighborhood. they don't all know each other from childhood. Um we're getting students from different neighborhoods and we're getting students in different economic situations. Um and so making sure that our staff are best prepared to meet students where they're at. Um we're also going to continue to use some of this data as we consider our staffing
055needs um for upcoming years because as we've seen some of our our numbers are trending downward and how is that going to potentially affect staffing? Um and then we also have some financial considerations as well. if you want to. Yeah. Again, you know, as a business manager, there's you can see the numbers up there that that says that we know open enrollment kids are still kids. There are students. Um and and as a business manager, part of my responsibility is looking at the dollars that are associated with that. I get that there's that it's two different things and we have a priority to do that. But, uh knowing that that is bottom line is financially that's one of the reasons we're doing as well as we're doing when we have a 2.6 6 million and
056it's projected to be a little bit more this year with the bianium budget. So we're still you know I have to do my job with that knowing that Dana Adam the teachers principles have to do their job with those students when they come and their challenges that that that come along with a high open enrollment population. I think what you just said, John, sorry, is is really important that all of these kids are our Whitill kids. That we don't put little hats on everybody that says you're an open enrollment kid, you get free and reduced lunch, you know, you live in this particular neighborhood. They're all our kids and we do our best to make sure that they're all supported and all educated. And and the other part of that with enrollment in general and
057open enrollment, when we look at this, we do with open enrollment, we, you know, we kind of do get to pick and choose. go. We have some openings here. We're not going, you know, we we have some room in a classroom here. Um, and that gets harder as you get to the high school level to be able to do that. Everybody says, "Well, if you've lost 25 kids, just you can get rid of one teacher." Well, there not 25 kids all in third grade. It doesn't work that way, you know, and so we really do have to look at that and understand when and what what what to do and when to do it and how to do it and ensure well this is a dip because again we can't be the district that oh
058we get rid of this one year and we hire them back and we get rid of them one hire them back. That doesn't work either. So we really do have to be able to do that and look at the course offerings that we want to be able to offer throughout uh you know our our children's education here and the experience that we can provide. And so how do we do best do that? And there is no perfect way. Yes, there are perfect way would say nobody can open enroll and everybody's having babies, but that's not happening. So, you know, we do the best we can. Done. Uh my question was um with that five to now getting closer to 6% mobility rate and knowing that dollars don't follow students after that third Friday count, is
059that does that have a significant amount of impact on our budget? I know that the mobility rate is in and out. So, does it balance out? Yeah, I'll there's something else you want to add, D N D N D N D N D N D N D N D N D N D Nana, but the mobility rate doesn't really matter. I mean, while Well, if we have lo we're losing kids throughout the year and we are, but we're also gaining kids and there is Well, nobody talks about this. There's the third Friday count and there's a Oh my gosh, what January count? Sec What is it? Second Friday there. I knew it wasn't the third. Second Friday, January count, too. And then DPI takes that or well Kathy does a lot of that work but
060looks at each district to say this student was here on third Friday but they weren't here on January 12th. So what does that mean? And they do look at that same thing. While didn't have this student on September 18th, but they had them on January 12th. Oh, now they get some of those dollars for part of the year. That's why in the end the the final dollars are never exactly what we're going to get in two days that they say we're going to get on September 15th. There's always a little bit of an adjustment for that. So, so we get them if even if they came late, they go back and look, but yeah, they don't go back and count, oh, they got here on September 17th, they hit this. It's just, okay, they were
061here this week this day or they weren't here this day. So, we get part happier part of that. So, and it's just a different way to look at enrollment also in addition to just solid numbers because I'll give you an example. um middle school ended the year with the same number of students that they had on third Friday, but they got 16 new students coming in and 16 other students going out. Um so that's pretty significant um even though the numbers look the same from beginning. Um I was just curious about the how um the transitioning new students is in our current strategic plan. is that um has it always been like a part of our strategic plan or has there always been um like sort of a way of doing that? We moved in
062to the district after um the after October 1st in 2015 with my kids and my kids were in elementary school at the time and I feel like elementary school is an easier just grade level to move into anyway as kids. But I thought it went really well and certain things that the teachers did or like even the school did was um really reassuring as a parent who's moving their school age kids in and just even for my kids to feel welcome. Um for example, there's a teacher at HC. she retired, but she actually got in touch with the teacher at my kids's last school and like set up a little like pen pal thing so that they could like their class could write a letter to my daughter's old class and then they could respond
063and kind of have like a friendship cuz we came from a different state. Um, but anyway, I was just curious if if the transition um program is new and it's based on like feedback from staff or students or if it's kind of just building on an ongoing plan that was already there. kind of just what what's different about it now? So, we've seen this increase in mobility. We've seen this changes in our student population and we've heard we know that wonderful work is going on in our buildings right now on individual student basis. When a new student comes in, of course, your teacher is going to want to make you feel comfortable and do all that they can to help you. Um, but we don't have anything that's in a systematic way that is the
064same across the district. Um, so hearing this great feedback from our buildings, from our teachers, we know that we want to do something to make sure that we're supporting all students equally. Yeah, makes sense. Great. Thanks. I think Quinn had a question. Go ahead, Quinn. Thanks, Jesse. First comment, I'd like to thank Dana for the wide ranging data that she gives us. It's really encompassing and help very helpful to us. And I apologize if this question's been asked. Uh John, with our third Friday, how does that uh J the budget that we approve? Well, we won't get final numbers until until Wednesday. Um so I won't I won't have I don't have final numbers until then. Again, Kathy's great and and and we've been pretty pretty close. So, I'm I'm feeling pretty confident uh where
065we where we had did did the initial bud or the published budget that we we did at the annual meeting and budget hearing. But will it change? It'll change a little bit. I know it will. Um but I think we're okay. But again, I won't have those numbers until Wednesday. Okay. Thank you very much. That's it. Any other questions? Just thank you for the thoroughess. this is like really really indepth and good information to have. So if the board has you know more questions feel free to email or if you have things you other things you'd like to see as we continue this conversation that'll help you to um you know answer some questions that you have about you know because our next thing obviously is January with the open enrollment numbers and things like
066that. If you have questions uh again we things things we're always looking at as well. So feel free to email please. And I just did the quick math. We're about five and a half% a little over 5 and a half% if I use the 134 based on the 23 sorry the 2344 um again I think as we you know if there's more information or whatever that you would like to see or we can look at comparables to see again I think every district is different so I can't come right across and say you know this is what is that high is that low I think that kind of depends too on but it came up to be about five a little over five and a half% 5.6 6 or 5.7%. For out open, sounds good.
067Thank you very much. Move on to 5C superintendent report. All right. Uh, real quick update. Uh, some some things going on around the district. Um W Wh Whitnell High School senior Arturo Torres completed his Eagle Scout project uh which was replacing the the tennis backboard over here at the tennis court. Uh so that was a fun project. I know Todd uh and he worked very very well together as well as he came in and presented it uh to me uh when he was doing it. So it's was really fun. Kids get a really neat experience uh when they go through that uh Eagle Scout project. So it was fun. Um at the high school, Cara Burquist earned recognition as a National Merit Commended Scholar. So of more than 1.5 million students who who took the
068PSAT, Cara scored in the top 34,000 nationwide wide. So that's pretty pretty spectacular. Um on September 26th, the middle school held his first lunch with a veteran. Uh thank you to to Alicia for participating. It was just it's part of one of their strategic goals of building, you know, some of their community stuff. If you remember, one of our strategic pillars is to build those community relationships. Uh so they expanded on their veterans day to have lunch with the veteran. And it's really neat. It was really neat to see uh the kids uh come down, have lunch, and um they asked some really probably intriguing and and and fun questions. Really interesting. Um, again, since our last meeting, the high school softball team found out they received an anonymous donation from the Greater Milwaukee Foundation
069that uh is going to help them. Uh, we we built that beautiful press box for them and it's going to help them supply it with some new speakers and AV equipment. So, uh, they're they're excited about that. Then any additional funds will go towards various things for their team. Um, seniors Cara Burrquist, Andress Carr, Elena Asavdo, and Emily Tasher, who is uh here presenting uh tonight were selected uh the Whitmill Rotary Club student representatives of the month on for October and November. So, it was fun to see them at the meeting the other night at Double D's. Um Hills Corner second graders took a field trip to the botanical botanical gardens. Um last week was schoolboard appreciation week. So just uh on behalf of me and the rest of uh the district, thank you for
070for all you do. I know it's it's a it's a lot of work and sometimes very thankless. So just thank you for for everything that you do. Um October 3rd, sorry, we had three weeks between meetings. So you know, uh October 3rd, um HC had their field day. It was a it was a perfect day. Beautiful outside. It was actually pretty it was a little warm for my liking if I remember. Um uh also on the third, the high school teched students joined teacher Jeff Leur at Nathan Hail High School for the Foundation of Wisconsin Automobile and Truck Dealers Association Transportation Career Showcase. Say that 10 times fast. Um so that was a great experience uh just for kids to learn some different CTE pathways for professionals. As we learned last week was homecoming, the
071powderpuff game uh went went well. The parade and pep rally and homecoming game all went well. We had a 44 zero win over Milwaukee Lutheran. So that was outstanding. And then the dance was on Saturday night and I was able to be there for for a while at the beginning. They they did a really nice job of setting it up. Kids were pretty engaged for the whole time. Uh and then today we had a great professional learning day with all of our staff. kids were out of the out of the uh building. So, staff did a great job. So, that's what I have for you and I will turn it back over to Great. Sounds good. Thank you. Uh we'll move on to six discussion with future action. Consider the purchase of a robotic floor
072scrubber with Totten. You guys should think about charging me rent for one of these seats. See, make some money. You're the finance guy. Work on your contract. And I was just thinking I haven't seen you since about April. [Music] Do I have a better deal? Uh, hi everyone. Uh, nice to see you all. Um, tonight I'm bringing um the uh potential purchase of an autonomous floor scrubber to your attention. Um, we currently have four scrubbers in our district that are aging and are looking to be replaced in the next few years. Uh, this technology has been around for a while. Uh, last summer, our custodial staff and myself attended the summer custodial conference. Uh, and one of these machines was at the conference for everyone to see. Um, I followed up with our salesperson at
073NASCO and asked if we could have a special, um, kind of a tour of how this actually works. They brought a machine to the high school. They give us a demo here at the high school in the cafeteria. Very impressive machine. Um it it it cleans on its own. It's like a self-driving car. It has uh 32 sensors that guide it through the cleaning map that we establish. Uh so it there is uh a computer, a few computers on board. Um it does have an app that you can actually control it from your cell phone. uh and it will also kind of diagram and map all the areas that we are cleaning. Uh the AI technology actually as it cleans it learns more efficient ways to do that. So as the machine goes through the
074building multiple times it will actually be more productive than the first time that it went through. Uh once we deploy the machine, it'll clean the areas that is mapped. Uh then it returns to the docking station on its own. Uh that docking station allows the machine to fill with cleaning solution. Uh it dumps the dirty water and it charges the machine. So this machine drives itself to the docking station. All of the all of those things that I just said happen on their own. It doesn't take a custodian to do anything. It takes about 5 hours to fully charge it. It's anywhere from four to 5 hours to fully charge it and then it's ready to go again. Um, our goal here in using this, uh, is not to eliminate custodial positions at all. Our
075current staffing levels, we would keep all of our custodians. Um, this is one way that we can offset some increase in square footage here at the high school and also at Edertton with the referendum construction. Uh, one way to look at an out ofthe-box way to save custodial time. This would also allow us currently when we have custodians that call in sick during the the school year or they take vacation, it's very difficult for us to replace those hours. I don't have a subpool anymore. I haven't had one in a number of years because it's difficult to hire those types of employees. This would allow us not to have to take some shortcuts if we're short staffed because now we have that extra time built in because the custodian doesn't actually need to drive the
076current scrubbers that we have. Uh the goal here is to test this machine if you guys uh approve this purchase for us at the end of the month. We'd like to test it for 6 months and we'd like it to prove itself to us that it can do what everyone is telling us that it can do. that we can show that cost savings um with a custodian not having to drive it for up to anywhere from seven to eight hours a day um every day. So again, if that savings and productivity goals are met, uh we'd like to purchase additional machines in the future for the remainder of the buildings. And we would also like to purchase a second machine for the high school just based on the size of the building. So, what is
077it going to do? Uh, daily lunch cleanup in the cafeteria. Uh, some of you may or may not know, every single day at every one of our buildings, after lunch periods are done, we pick up all the cafeteria tables, we sweep the floor, we take the garbage out, and then the floors are scrubbed. This me machine can do that. Here at the high school, it takes about 45 minutes to an hour to scrub the floor in the cafeteria every day after lunch. You can't pick up the tables. No good. is not uh hightraic hallways in the winter months during first hour. So currently what we do here at the high school is once the students arrive at the building, they go to their first hour class. We have two riding scrubbers that I have two
078custodians that every morning and this starts the minute we put salt out on the parking lot. uh between first and second hour we have two custodians that drive scrubbers in those hight traffic areas and they try to clean the hallways because obviously the better we can clean the hallways during the day the less salt that gets into the classrooms and so on and so forth. So um it would manage those uh cleanings between first and second hour. It's programmable, so we can set the amount of time that the machine goes out to ensure that it's back at its docking station prior to the bell rings, so we don't have any issues with students and traffic and things like that. And then nightly cleaning, uh, hallways, cafeteria, multi-purpose room, gym floors, pool deck, and then we
079can use it in other areas as we need to. It does better in larger spaces, so the hallways, the gyms, those types of things. it it has that ability to um clean very effective and very efficiently. So here's the most important slide that I can show you. This is what the cost savings equates to based on the column on the right side. There is um the cost and the use of a riding scrubber. Um, I won't go through every line, but if we were to replace one of our current riding scrubbers with a new one at this point, the estimate for that is $32,750. If you take the amount of uh 8 hours a day at about $30 an hour with wages and benefits, things like that, um, you can see that that column adds
080up to quite a large amount of money. If you look at the column on the right, the initial cost of of that um of the autonomous scrubber, they estimated at about $50,000 there. You can see that we don't have to pay somebody a wage 8 hours a day to drive it. Um and you can see that we what we did was we took a 10-year lifespan of of the new autonomous scrubber and we did some math and worked that out. You can see that the difference over 10 years with one machine is about $740,000. Um, again, the maintenance is less with this. It does its own filling, cleaning, charging. Those are things that custodians all have to do every time they use a riding scrubber. There's always some extra time built into doing that. So,
081uh, other districts that are currently using the the Sunabot, um, I reached out to Arrowhead High School and I also reached out to Hartford High School. They currently at each one of their facilities, they currently have one and they're both looking to add a second one because it's been so productive and so helpful and it has done everything that they were told it was going to do. Uh, each of these two schools have had them for about a year now. Uh again, that's they did the same thing that I'm asking to do where they purchased one, they wanted to try it, make sure it was doing what it what they were told, and now they're looking to purchase other ones. Uh Westbend High School, DC ever, Stevens Point, Oregon, and then a few uh WMadison
082has multiple, Iowa State University has multiple of these units. Uh and they've been in service there for a few years now. Any questions? The only question I have is um I mean I'm sure it's basing it like it probably learns the route or something but the pool deck jumps out at me. Mhm. If it were to fall in the pool deck, would Cenabot like cover it? How would that work? So I asked that question of our our NASCO sales representative and she said that um they haven't had that happen. Okay. There's no guarantee that it can't happen, but it is likely it's more than likely not to. So, when the mapping is done of the area that it's going to clean, it identifies actually in the spec sheet, it identifies a cliff, which would be
083the edge of a pool or a staircase or something like that. Um, and again, there's no guarantees that it can happen. Uh, but to this point, it has not. Okay. From the feedback I got. And I got to believe that lip of fat is no different just like you said than the top of a stairway and these other school districts are using it on second floor, you know, right at that. Yeah. And then does it will it be at the high school because you can't like move it around? I mean, you probably could, but it's not efficient. We could, but we're going to start it here at the high school. Um, one one thing that I did want to share with you and the reason why I suggested that in the future we might potentially
084purchase a second one for the high school, it can't go on the elevator on its own. So that that's one of the challenges. So the the plan would be is that our second ship custodial staff would they would they would deploy it when they start in the afternoon. It would do the upper floor of the building while they're still here. They would take it back downstairs, put it back on the charger, let it charge, and then it would deploy on its own and complete the first floor overnight. Okay. So it can have multiple maps. Yes. Yeah. Karen and T. So when this is in use during school hours, will there be a staff member in the area to um you know monitor the machine or are there any safety concerns or like tampering concerns if
085there are students in the same area as the machine? I've seen a automatic machine in use. It's like a writer, but there's usually a custodian in the area when there's students around in the building, right? So, initially, yes, there would be a custodian when it's deployed between first and second hour because there's obviously still some students walking the hallway. When when we had the demo here at the high school, it was myself and um five head custodians, I'm sorry, four head custodians and our ground custodian. They intentionally put us all over the place in the cafeteria just so they could show us that the sensors actually work on it. And it actually it will it will approach you. It will stop and then if you stop it will drive around you. If you move it
086will stay in that spot until you're clear of the sensors that go around it. So yes, initially we would do that while while we're getting the mapping done and and getting the programming done, but over time it's meant to to deploy on its own and not be followed around. Okay. And then as a followup, I see this is coming out of fund 46. Since the this will be used potentially in areas that are newly built with the referendum, is there an opportunity to use if we have excess referendum dollars to use them on this type of equipment? Yeah, that would be I'd have to check with the auditors about that because it wouldn't be just cleaning new referendum areas. Um, but that may be something where we say over at Edertton, well, the majority of
087it is the new gym or the other, then that might be to do potentially part of it or 40% or whatever that theme. But I have to look into that to to ensure um that that would be the case if we could do that. But all right. Yeah, I recall when we were having referendum discussions with the community, a community member was asking about, well, how many new staff are you going to need if you build all this additional square footage? And um was very interested in the additional staffing. So, it is interesting to me that automation might be able to be a little bit more efficient for us. Yeah, my goal is that it would it would offset the need for additional staff. It might not eliminate it completely, but it would offset it.
088All right. Thank you. I think the other qu point to bring back up is again if somebody's gone or somebody's absent or somebody's on vacation, which we all know happens. I mean, people get sick, people take vacation, and so um that that Todd, I was asking Todd this and he just said, "Well, then we just have the people who are on staff kind of divvy up, but but something then has to get missed. I mean, you can't do everything otherwise we wouldn't even have that extra person in the first place." So, so there is that part of it. The other part is is is again if if everybody shows up every day, which isn't going to happen, but if it did, that then allows opportunity to do some things that oh, we can't get to
089that until spring break or Thanksgiving break or summer break. That there is some time. So, it's not like people are going to go, well, I got my job done and I got this robot. I'm going to, you know, go home early. There's always other things to do when they Yeah, there is always other things to do. Always. Okay. So my questions are around more of like any reoccurring um costs and support it would need. Obviously you had said that the dayto-day maintenance is less but then like like more like longerterm maintenance if there would need for be a need for that um and like tech support and all of those components because obviously higher tech has different needs. Yep. Yeah. So tech support is offered right through NASCO. Okay. um as well as software upgrades
090because obviously it it's going to need that over the time um because the machine continues to get it learns and it gets smarter and software gets outdated. Uh so that comes directly through NASCO. Um the maintenance of it, it's from what I was told is that it's no different than maintaining our current riding scrubbers. Okay? They you have to change the pads in them, the squeegees on them. uh sometimes motors go things like that, but it it's no different than in that aspect it's no different than a riding scrubber. With it being a higher cost machine up front, would those parts then be higher cost as well or are they comparable? I I would think it's pretty comparable because again, it's basically a a riding scrubber that that has the technology to drive itself. Yeah.
091My question is um uh I mean I think it sounds great. I have a room at home too but um reminds me of that but uh the schools usually have after school activities and depending on the day of the week it's different or depending on the season it's different or like depending on the weather outside sometimes it's different like how they use the school inside. So, I was just curious like um how that affects how often you'd be able to use it like right like if there's an event at the school on an evening, you're probably not going to run it during that event. Um like sports games, other areas of the building that the event wasn't at that time. I didn't mean to cut you off. No, no. I mean, that's I just curious
092like will it program? Well, yeah. Can we program it or can it learn that or is it just going to be like I couldn't complete my route because too many things were in the way, you know, like Right. again, it was during the demo was very easily programmable off an app on a on a cell phone, but someone has to be there to kind of be doing that or No. Oh, no. It could be programmed at 2:00 in the afternoon when our second ship comes in that it would deploy at 6:00 p.m. and if there was an event in the gym, it wouldn't go into the gym until after 10:00 at night. Oh, that's really great. So, you can The technology is fantastic. Just thinking of like if for some reason there's things going on
093different nights and it's not able to complete it. It's not as useful as we hoped or does it just create more work the next day because you were thinking something was going to be done and now it's not and you're scrambling to get it done. So yeah and then the other piece to take that one step further again it can be deployed when no one is in the building. So if if there are, you know, let's say it's at Edertton and there's an event in the gym at Edertton, well then it it does the school building portion and then it gets deployed when the second shift leaves for the night and then it does the gym portion because nobody's in there. Sure. Yeah, makes sense. Um, so then with the app, is there concerns for
094who has access hackability or there is that not a concern at this point? So, the programming is encrypted on it. Um, it would be set up that the only phone that would have access to it would be our district custodial cell phones and my phone. Um, I'm not super concerned about it. And that wasn't an issue. I actually asked that question of uh I think it was Hartford that I asked that question if there was any issues with somebody hacking into the software. In the time that they've owned it, they said there was zero issues with it. I mean, I guess somebody'd have to want to do that. So, it seems like a hacking to come to my house prank. It's got all like the bu I think I've seen one of these at like
095a Sam's Club or a Costco and it does like stop if there's people around. there were like some younger kids kind of messing with it or in the area like you know and it was like the kids always mess with them. It's even if they hacked it, they might not be able to have that much fun because it's got all the and and for the most part it it's not going to be deployed when the kids are in the hallways. You know, the the cafeteria at the grade schools, those are, you know, they're separate rooms. So, we can deploy it there and not really worry about kids passing in the hallway. the the I think the the most use it would get during the day would be here at the high school and then potentially
096at the middle school uh in between that first and second period just to get those hallways that we try to keep clear. But we would educate kids and obviously we have cameras so Right. And there there's cameras on the machine itself that are constantly taking pictures and Arrowhead High School said that they actually decorated it and kind of made it cool. So That might be something cool for the kids to do. They do that at Children's Hospital for their delivery robots which are similar. Yeah, cool. That's fun. Quinn, do you have any questions? I just I do have a question. I have a comment as well. Uh, thanks for doing the research and I'm all for this. My question is the company that we're buying, they service it as well or is there a local
097service place that uh we use? Uh, NASCO services this piece of equipment themselves and they're local. Yes, right in New Berlin. Great. Thank you. I just had a few questions. Um, are there any energy cost savings difference between the two pieces of equipment and the old one? The our current scrubbers do not have lithium batteries in them. The the new scrubber has uh lithium batteries in them. It is it is able to run longer on a single charge. Our current scrubbers can run for three to four hours. This one is up to five hours. So, we would hope there would be an energy savings because we're not charging it quite as much. However, we're hoping to use it more. So, it it might not be a savings. Okay. Um you mentioned that it fills itself.
098How does the soap end up getting replaced if it's out of soap? So, we have to fill on on that docking station. there's a container that we would have to put the solution into. That's part of why you saw in that uh cost comparison. It was like 0.1 hour. That's basically what that's for. Okay. And you mentioned that it goes back to its docking station. It obviously can't open and close doors. So obviously I mean it has the cameras like you said, but what's to stop somebody from tampering with it if it's not in a locked area? Right. So, uh, specifically here at the high school, we're we're thinking about two different areas that it could go into and be in a closet that has water and power already there for it. Um, we we
099would have to unlock that to open that door up. Again, like I said, when second shift starts and they're going to deploy it, we go open that closet up, it comes out. We have to leave the door open obviously so it can go back and charge itself and refill. So, um, so yeah, there is still again that's why it's that 0.1 hour you still need to unlock a door. And then you said about updates. Do they have to come in and do those updates or they push remotely? They can push remotely. That's nice. Uh, that's all I had. Any other questions? If not, thank you very much. Yep. Thank you. Information. Okay, we will move on to seven announcements. Um, just next week will be book fair and conferences and spaghetti dinner at Everton. So,
100I just wanted to throw that out there. I know there's another book fair competing, but get your books next probably aren't shopping at both. No. Right. It depends which one. Probably the same. Fence yourselves out. Go ahead. I said it's about 1 month until Mama Mia opens for Whitnell Theater. It runs November 14th through the 16th. Tickets go for Whitnell Theater. Put a plug in for middle school PTO Eatener on Wednesday starting at 400 p.m. at Chipotle and Hails Corners. I believe you can tell them that they're you're there for the fundraiser or there's also a code that you can put in online. Any other announcements? Okay, we'll move on to eight meeting debrief. Anyone have anything for debrief? Go ahead. I just wanted to say thank you to everybody who presented. You guys were
101very very thorough today and very like you knew all your stuff so well. So, I really appreciate that. We'll move on to nine. Do I have a motion to adjourn the meeting? So moved. Second. All in favor? I opposed.