001e e e I would like to call this meeting to order verify compliance with open meetings law do I have a motion to adopt the agenda moved have a first I'll give Rachel the second um any discussion vote then um it was first seconded but then now we have to vote yeah so I said I discussion oh I'm sorry um no discussion all in favor I I and roll call please here here here here Quinn y present here all right please rise for pledge of allegiance all right any public comments all right moving into our big um agenda item our high school winter activities recognition Megan we'll pass it to you to get us started has been a very long season for all of us athlet coaching St game workers all of us we have
002so much to be proud of and you guys all of all of the athletes and coaches in the room they have done a fantastic job this winter and we are also excited for spring to come and and get outside so we're excited for that however with that being said we want to honor them we want to want to bring up our coaching staff and some of our athletes to recognize them and all of the great things that they did do and accomplish during the winter season on our spreadsheet first we have boys basketball so I'd like to bring up coach Drew and a couple of his athletes oh thank you we'll go this way with it yeah you sure do I'm big time awesome athletes and coaches just at the end of all of us
003um Brenda will be taking pictures with the board members at the end so just H tight once we're all up awesome well I appreciate you guys for having us here and uh the guys behind me as well uh for those of you that don't know I'm Andrew wuk uh this is my first year as head coach at whitnell high school um I would like to thank Megan as well as you guys it's not always easy taking a risk um and hiring a young coach uh you're not sure what culture he's going to bring in the stuff he's going to teach so I appreciate you guys all for giving me the opportunity and trusting me with uh keeping the winning culture alive that is whitn no basketball um really proud of our season with that being
004said uh we finished 17- 10 overall uh 10-2 in conference unfortunately we did not win conference this year we finished second um we did go on a seven game win streak uh which was very exciting on top of that seven game win streak right before it we actually went on a six-game losing streak um and something we talked about all the time as a group uh was showing up every day and continuing to do your job there's a saying uh that we say in basketball and it's chop wood carry water um and it's it's a really old saying um and basically what it means is you show up and you chop wood and you carry water every day it doesn't matter what that result is or what the outcome is um and usually you're going
005to Find Your Way eventually if you if you stay consistent um it's something that we talked about all the time we went on that six-game losing streak we ended up beating the number one team in State uh kakana to snap it um and that sent us on a seven game winning streak uh which really flipped our season around uh we played one of the hardest schedules in the State uh by competition so we played uh out of the teams in state right now uh at the coal Center across all divisions we played almost half of them uh so it's really impressive these guys were challenged every single night um and to overcome that uh was really impressive and fun to watch uh we were also Regional Champions uh it's the first Regional Championship that I've
006won as a head coach uh so it makes my job a lot easier when I have great players and great kids behind me uh just some players that we would like to recognize who couldn't make it today uh one of them is here uh but the others could not so Jack L Lutz was first team All Conference uh this is the second year in a row that he achieved that honor uh miles hero was also first team All Conference he was second team last year uh Cooper ke if you want to raise your hand there bud uh he was honorable mention all conference this is the first time he earned an all conference honors so it's awesome for him uh Evan PL who was not here today was our scholar athlete uh just a couple
007other achievements that were awesome this year uh Jack Lutz was the second leading scorer of all time um in whitel basketball history which was an awesome achievement really impressive player um miles hero became a 10,00 point scorer um and on top of that both of those guys were top four in scoring in the conference so um like I said said it made my job extremely easy having great players behind me um and we're just really excited to see what the future holds and to continue to build the new culture uh that is with no basketball uh so thank you guys you thank you as Megan said guys go anywhere we're gonna get pictures after everyone thank you thanks back to you all right uh thank you for having us uh we always love coming here
008and uh have an opportunity to give a little recap of our season uh so uh we had a very successful season uh we accomplished a few of our team goals that we came into the season um looking to do uh you know a lot of work put in but we are able to do it um over overall we went 21-4 as a uh for our overall record uh we had 11 game win streak which was awesome uh you know just riding through that there was a lot of pressure that uh you know the team I think really embraced um as we started our conference play we went undefeated in conference and went in backto back uh conference championships so that was awesome uh again just learning to uh play and going to games with that
009role where everyone in the conference was kind of looking to take us down so we did a great job handling that uh we also went into the tournament and won back-to-back Regional championships uh here at whitel so that's awesome to to do that here at home few of our player awards that we have uh we have Junior Riley Ward who's not here with us right now uh she uh earned First Team all conference for the second year in a row uh cook Jor uh not here uh she earned second Team all conference uh Taylor Peta honorable mention as well as Caitlyn Kay honorable mention uh we have Ashley Gatos as our scholar athlete and Captain was Caitlin Kay uh couple other things that we like to just uh recognize players for uh junior Riley Ward
010she scored her 10,000 point this year as a junior so that's awesome uh it just really showed her hard hard work and time that she put in um and she also became the all-time leading scorer at whno uh just over or just under 1,200 points so that's awesome going into her senior year um so she'll make that that number increase next year and we'll just like to leave you guys with you know last year you know we came in we accomplished a few goals that we want to do um and I have another uh successful off season and we look to not only come back and say a few backto backs but you know make it one one game further and have some new accolades to talk about so thank you thank you they got
011it the way for we have state qualifiers I don't think that's hot got it perfect um uh when we have individuals make it to State whether that's for team or individual we always do walk of Champions so bowling we did have two state qualifiers for bowling with Nyla duzon and Preston hubac they are not here today however they started off our our season our winter season with a walk of Champions so congratulations to them however they are not here tonight um next we are cheer with Jess hi thank you guys so much for having us come um this is uh my I'm just the assistant this year the head coach couldn't make it so I wanted to give some highlights because I was there for almost every event of this season um we did have
012very successful year in the beginning of the year we had the privilege of attending a summer camp where we got to work with some uh members of the Team USA cheer program and um some of their coaches so that really got us set up for a really strong start where we were able to work on some of the more difficult stunts in the nation and even at the state level so that was wonderful because that set us up for the success to be able to qualify for for the National Cheerleading um championship in Florida for the second time in program history so that was one of our highlights this year and then um also the um JV Cher team they were able to attend uh the state championship this year and they were in the
013top four we also had tremendous growth in the program we had 28 athletes in the program this year um so we are just very excited that we are thriving and very strong now um after we had a dip I don't know if you remember but we only had 10 athletes I think about 3 years ago and now we are just stronger than ever um and then at the end of the season our Varsity program we uh we have been having third place for the past I think three years now and now we finally went another step ahead and we got second place this year at state so we are very happy to have finished so strongly and we look forward to getting even stronger next year as we have I think even 12 more athletes
014who are interested and joining our program and we only have three seniors this year so we're trying to see what can what we can make happen for next season to try to get the best team possible and that's congratulations on a great season ladies next we have dance hi everyone I'm Julia Tilly I am the Whitnel Varsity head dance coach and this is my co- coach Rachel pz we have been a part of the Whit Varity dance program for the past three years and for the first time this year we did something a little different and if you're a dance parent you'll kind of understand why um so our sport is a three season sport we fall into the winter category but we started in June of 2024 this past year and we didn't end
015until basically March 1st of 2025 this year so these girls behind us I am glad that the few that are here that could come today but we did this program where we offered an option for our girls to join either our game day team or our competition team to kind of give them that opportunity to try their sports clubs whatnot so with that being said I'm going to do kind of two different highlights for each program so starting off I just want to congratulate our game day captains unfortunately they could not join us today actually we do have one Evelyn poos but the other two Mariah Anderson and Jordan beesi were a part of our game day captains they brought high energy and our game day program was an amazing um representation of our school
016spirit and showing off our Whitnel Pride so I just want to thank our Whitnel game day team moving into our competition team we were happy enough to have our amazing captains here today Sophia ofendo and Kad and Browski both of them LED our competition team and they crushed it they qualified for wcpc State bringing home multiple trophies throughout the season including three fifth place placements four fourth place place placements a third placement and a first place placement in various different styles such as Jazz hip-hop and pond moving on to our Specialties or small group Awards we had a trio performance this year it was their third time going to State and bringing home a first place finish at WPC wacpc state in the trio category and seventh in the duo trio category so I want
017to shout out kala dembrowski that's here today EV and poos and then Sam Stak stock she unfortunately couldn't make it today but she was a part of that Trio group moving into our solo achievements we had two solos this year one was Sam sstack she couldn't be here today but she earned a spot on the D4 allate team at wcpc State and took home a first place placement at the badger competition next is our sophomore soloist her KY Gunderson she unfortunately couldn't join us today but she was a standout sophore that placed as high as seventh at various competitions throughout the season wrapping up I just want to have a a good tribute to our only senior Sophia acendo I'm sad to see her go as it is my sixth year coaching her um she
018was so inspiring to our team and really unified and brought her leadership and kindness to the program and her Legacy of Whitnel Pride will always be remembered so thank you Sophia and thank you all for the amazing season we are proud of our team so thank you congratulations ladies uh next would be gymnastics and I don't think they are here to Jo join us tonight either however we have um a co-op with our gymnasts with Oak Creek and they actually brought home some Hardware as state runner up uh for gymnastics we had four of our whitel students on that Co-op team so it was nice to see a a silver Ball come to our trophy case so congratulations to the gymnast um next we made a huge Splash in the pool uh so we have
019Perry Perkins and the boy Swim [Laughter] Team all right hello everyone my name is Perry Perkins I'm the head coach for the whitel boys swimming dive team uh I'd like to accentuate that because there's two sports in one we have not only our swimming team but we also have our diving team Whitnel has a long prideful history in diving uh for girls we took first and second and uh this year uh we podiumed again for for for diving so super proud of our divers uh I want to make sure that they get recognized as well um behind me I have the 2025 Woodland Conference champions uh we won conference this year by three points um for those who don't understand that's a very small margin it came down to 1500s of a second um so
020we were able to come away with that so that was really really exciting um other things we accomplished this year took second place at our conference uh relays which is a testimonial of how big the team is because every race needs four swimmers and they can only swim a certain number of races uh we then also placed third at our sectional and then we placed seventh overall at state um we qualified in 10 out of 12 events at state which is which is huge um I think last year we qualified in just our relays and Diving so this year we were able to to really do big things um at State we were able to secure the gold place in the 200 and 500 setting two new State records um what's that that that was
021Ethan woohoo so his 500 record sets it even for D1 so he is the fastest 500 swimmer in Wisconsin history wow nice so that's pretty exciting second so in addition to that we we podiumed on our 400 free relay could you guys raise your hand uh so on that relay we set a new whitel record uh School record um to come back from fifth place to get second place in the meet so that was really really exciting um we are really grateful that this year we don't have to stand up here and beg for a new pool so and the boys had a very very successful season and they brought some of their Hardware um sounds like yeah some of them are embarrassed yeah so uh yeah we're really excited and happy for the success
022um and now on the record board that we hope to memorialize for the new uh Ethan now holds five of the records on it so yeah uh long history and really proud of everything this team has accomplished wow thank you awesome job gentlemen and last we have wrestling with Mr Maloney [Laughter] hello excuse me I'm Tom Maloney the head coach of whitel Greendale wrestling team thank you for allowing me to share with you the successful season that we had in the middle of November the coaching staff and wrestlers were excited with anticipation to embark on a season long journey of hard work and dedication while learning and improving in the sport of wrestling every wrestling season we consider our team as a family as a whitel and Greendale Co-op our team bonded like no other
023during practices and the long weekend tournaments through this season our wrestlers not only enhanced their wrestling skills skills but also built character demonstrated perseverance and gained Confidence from their participation the members of this family have built relationships and friendships that will last a lifetime our Varsity Boys team finished with a dual record of 13 and 11 with a handful of those losses being close nail biters our whitel captains this year were couple guys behind me pton scrm Bellos um Aiden Maloney and then Ryan Whitney for the girls team could not be here today uh they did a fantastic job of leading the team on and off the mat for the girls Gabby D Silva was Woodland conference Champion um along with Damen Thomas right back here and pton scrm Bellos uh they finished second conference
024pton also surpassed the 100 career win mark and finished with 127 career wins our program had four wrestlers also qualify for the JV state tournament including Payton tonkinson Tyler Anders Shack and aliandra Austin we had 10 varsity boys and two girls qualify for sectionals this year which is the highest number in the last three years that we've had senior Teo blanken buer was our team's Woodland conference scholar athlete while always putting forth his best effort on the mat and always doing what was best for the team Damen Thomas finished second at sectionals and also qualif ify for the individual state tournament our wrestling program has had a great Trad great tradition and success now qualifying at least one individual for the state wrestling tournament in 37 of the last 40 years when I reflect on
025this past season I reminded of the individual and team accomplishments I enjoyed seeing goals met and striving to become the best we can be as team and individuals two of our highlights of this season were the opportunities to travel uh to tournaments and stay overnight in Wisconsin Dells and Nashville Tennessee these are great team binding experiences and I'm sure the wrestlers remember those times over how many wins and losses they had each season as each season ends we immediately look forward to the next season and how we can have success individually as a team on and off the men thank you thank you like I said winter was a long seon but we are up here first we'll use the oh we only had six only here we go two one all right you're good
026thank you all right dance perfect perfect even better whole bunch perfect can I get voice D you guys a lot of you so guys want to come in front of KN for [Music] me maybe switch squish in a little bit okay the now we can't see Quinn there we go perfect three two one all right and then wrestling please then we're good I get it I get it I get it perfect there we go perfect got it perfect thank everybody for you are you telling them to balance they're telling them to balance the room all right moving on to consent agenda does anyone have anything they'd like to pull yeah I'd like to pull um 4G gifts and donations please 4G anything else okay do I have a motion to approve um a b c
027d e and f so move we have a first we have a second second first and a second any discussion all in favor I and then for G Karen over to you okay sure so for gifts and donations of $1,000 or more we've got a few new ones to add from February 2025 from the whitn Falcon booster club $6,500 for the guest speaker from Center for respects to the 9th 11th and 12th graders on February 21st and scrolling down from Al Hal corners Elementary in January 20125 a PP $1,000 for the artists in Residence mural switching over to gifts and donations under $1,000 um from February 26th from $100 for the whitel high school choir caroling um and also in February from the hailes corners Lions charitable foundation in the amount of $200 for the
028snack Pantry for students in need and scrolling down to ederton elementary school um $16 from CAF America for various school programs $100 from the landowski family for some supplies and um $968 from PPG to Hils corners Elementary for Junior Achievement Bown okay so thank you to everyone who's given those generous donations to our schools all right do we have a motion to approve 4G so moved first we have a second second uh any discussion all in favor I okay motion passes moving into discussion with future action 5A 2025 2026 compensation increases uh teacher Universal allowance increase and support staff increases hi John and John and Brady over to P the presentation since administrative P I did put the presentation that we talked about at the um Personnel committee um meeting at 4:30 administrative content so
029you can see it we'll just go through that so this year's CPI oh yep uh the third one down you can just slide there you go uh this year's CPI was 2.95% I'm working through the numbers uh how we calculate um percentage increases uh we were able to uh look at and and um identify uh that we could continue to meet what we did last year um at $2,000 for UI for all teaching staff which equated to about 3.1% um uh and that as you can see the total cost increase of that would be $444,000 uh just a little bit of background that Brady kind of give and we actually several people Sarah was there too but uh at the at the State uh Capital but nobody really knows what's going on with the with
030the by any budget um a lot of negative things being being tossed around about a first of all when it's going to be done um I I guess I won't say if but who knows what that looks like and then what what that what the legislation is going to finally agree upon but right now we're being very conservative with these numbers um and and really just taking advantage of what what the governor did last year I think was a 400 year or whatever it was to to promise that so that's really what we used and I really haven't done much else this point with the preliminary budget um we feel we can we can do this um that with with with those conservative estimates uh the next one and again there's some stipulations that we
031always do no pip and returning staff and based on FTE so a 0.5 teacher would get half a$ thousand dollar uh then for uh we also again based on last year's uh conversation about a compensation model which we're still working on um and going to dive in uh we but we did want to um move forward with what we thought we could do um in alignment with with um the the um the compensation model that was discussed last year and uh in really looking at this we felt like uh we could move those 13 teachers that were still um less than one of the three uh Lanes um that that uh was part of that model that you originally approved uh the initial implementation of uh those 13 teachers if we got them into those
032one of the three lanes that they that they belonged in based on years and degrees uh would equate for for another $31,500 and again we felt like we could do that to um move forward with at least that uh initial um commitment that we had last year so um that's for the uh the compensation model and the cost of that and then finally support staff again same thing we were able to to meet what we did last year uh came to a little bit more about 3.2% so a little bit more but um again being CPI 2.95 we thought we could do that uh and be consistent with last year at a cost of about 148,000 and then the total on the next slide of all of these combined would be uh $623,500 uh and
033again we felt with conservative um preliminary budget that we've got right now um in the information we've felt this was doable uh next year's budget okay Rachel anything you want to add or share from committee um we had a great discussion um our time was limited but we felt like we got all the information um I think as a committee all of us felt that budgets may be pretty lean and and we want to do as much as we can um we echoed the fact that we heard those of us who are at the community engagement night uh thinking about our strategic plan um we the theme of um staff retention and teacher compensation did come up a lot and um we believe that's going to be part very very important discussion continuing um toward
034staff retention so unanimously um we all felt what John was bringing to us was good um with the caveat that we're going to keep pushing this conversation forward um making sure we when we can um have some value add to teachers as well that we continue to make this a great place to work um and a great place to learn so we appreciate what we have now and we're kind of still um always pushing to see um what else we can do we there was a little discussion about possible benefits in the future looking at that so I think overwhelmingly we are we're we're okay with that with the idea that we're going to still keep pushing that envelope okay any questions what there I was just going to add um being on the Personnel
035committee um and I was able to go to the capital to talk to our legislators from the whitel district um we do have to be conservative right now there's a lot of contention around this budget around the special ed reimbursement right and the per student capita um so anybody who's here or watching please keep having those conversations with your legislators so we can maybe move both the needle on what they're willing to give and how soon they can agree on that um but I think that it's really important to remember that we are trying to prioritize as much as we can within what we know we're going to have and hoping that maybe there will be more coming down the pipeline for the bmm okay good do you have a breakdown as to uh how
036many teachers were in these three categories they got are getting the bump the 13 teachers you mean which one like were in the 48 which one was in the 40 I can get that for you and send it back but I but I don't have can just just curious as to where where they okay I didn't know if there was something else and uh that figure is okay is included in the 623,000 how many how many students do we have basically 2 24 yeah a little bit less than that so 2400 times 300 supposedly $325 we getting we're getting yeah correct right right right so this will cover that because that's probably about 675,000 or so correct y yeah okay all right thank you hold on just anyone else I just wanted to mention that
037325 increase there is still a lawsuit pending on that and so that's another point of the bay any budget that is still being contended unfortunately any questions about the recommendation from committee or from Administration all right so this will come back next meeting yeah we'd like to bring this back next meeting for approval uh simply because we know we'd like to do two meetings and we this is the business meeting but we wanted to bring this because we we felt like we just got it to a point where we could present it to you and we'd like to get contracts out to teachers you know sooner than than later so we'll be bring it back next time for approval okay so now that you say that what happens if um we pass this and we
038don't get to 325 per per student um yeah that's a good a good question I guess I I find it very difficult to believe that the state won't do something um and looking at we had a business meeting a business manager meeting um last Friday and almost all the districts again not all of them have committed and filled out the the ones that have filled out have committed already to 3% again valid point um can I yeah go ahead um I do with speaking to I spoke with witkey Donovan and winguard um and um their position on that 325 IS if it if the lawsuit is successful which would mean that would go away um they were potentially willing to give more Aid to schools whereas if it up holds they would give less however
039that's just their preliminary discussion and so there's really not like we can't really predict where they're going to go with that but I just wanted to throw that into there that like they really feel that if it stays that's what they should stay with perpetuity of it yeah they only the perpetuity of it right again I find it very very hard to believe that that they at least won't agree on CPI I find it I'm not saying I can't never say never but um I would find it difficult to believe that they would give School zero again there seem to be by again I said the word again right that's why I said again two years ago right right absolutely spendable dollars y y i I think there would be not out of the realm
040I believe that as much as I believe it would give us more right right right so uh there is a catch 22 to it and I I have heard legislators that said listen if if you if you want to pay your teachers which again we all know are roughly two-thirds of our of our exactly then then then you have to go to referendum again I'm hoping that that that's not the case that they're not they're going to say zero go to your go to your voters again if you want to do that down the road maybe but but I but I to answer your question I don't I don't I can't guarantee that let me ask you this question so if we have zero if we do get zero spendable dollars in one of the
041two Byam years do we have enough to cover this without any extra income well again we we'd probably have we would have to dip into fund balance so if we got zero if we got zero from the state okay we would have to dip into fund Bal so what is the benefit to Russian to do this well to to pass this now when we don't know if we have the funds coming well that's a good point I guess to Brady's Point well do do we want to wait till November and and again if that's the board's decision I then then we can absolutely do that and get contracts out with saying no less than what you're earning currently which we've done in the past it's been a while because we like to to do this
042I guess but that's the safe that would be the safest way to do it is to say we're not we're not going to you're not going the board is not going to approve this just because we're not sure about what's happening at the state level and we feel that the state is going to give us at less than two the CPI as an overall absolutely fair and and on the on the safe side thank you but my understanding is the point of doing this now is because our goal is Staff retention y so putting off the staff until November um and making them wait to know kind what to expect I mean that's a different that's a different path but I think that the reason that this came to us now in Personnel now was
043to was to show our staff what we can commit to and what we feel that we can commit to and so don if you feel uncomfortable with that then I I mean the administration is recommending it to us and so um with the goal of supporting our staff and and increasing our staff retention trying not to lose people as we go into a new school year and I do I I feel confident that that the state will give us at least the 325 I I really feel confident that that but but I don't have a crystal ball so so there's a chance they couldn't they could say we're not giving you anything I find that very hard to believe and so do most of my colleagues could it happen absolutely and it did two years
044ago correct but there was millions of dollars of Esra funding too but correct you are not wrong um and I would agree that with our the Staffing crisises that are happening in the teacher shortages that would be a big risk to not do this as well so there's a risk on both sides and I will say Donovan and wangard were very supportive of increased funding for schools I I would definitely hope if if the state decided to get School District zero that there would be a lot of recalls and a lot of change over and who gets elected next year and I would be leading that there was a very um big consensus about what people were advocating for on all the people there I think there's a danger too with staff retention here if
045we put this off traditionally March is the time you look for a job in education that's when the most um openings start happening and this is a negotiation like this the teachers say what's my district willing to do to keep me because it's very very competitive right now I mean we last year we lost a ton of teachers we lost some veteran teachers 2 25 plus years this is just not something we should be putting off all right so we have recommendation from personnel and from Administration we will see it on the next meeting anything else from you just oh okay all right all right we will move on to our action items first action item is the resolution awarding the sale of 14 million General obligation promisory notes series 20 25 um John if
046you want to give just like a one minute summary and then I'll call for a motion yep so uh Eric pass um Eric sent me this today did uh they did find uh buyer or multiple biders um if you can scroll down to the next one so uh you saw this before this was nothing changed on this um with the exception of if you go down one more slide sorry um that that was the total ended up at 4.17 I did ask uh about because because he said obviously no guarantees that we're hoping around the 4.06 that we got and I said help me understand that and he just said you know the last couple weeks have been tough with with the things coming out of the White House and people being very uncertain and
047willing and holding on to cash versus investing right now and he just said that's kind of where where we were at the the the side note is is saying you know we could have said well why don't we wait now again we've already committed and that was already put but but but I also feel like interest rates for the investment side of it are are staying up and that helps us too and which again we can take advantage of that a little bit of that before we have these first payments so again I'm I'm feeling okay with a um what a 0.0 0.11% that again was never guaranteed just hoping but but you can he did say that is continuing to go up and not knowing where that goes so and so the recommendation remains
048as we discussed correct yep yep just letting you know it was 4.17 and he had hoped for up 4.06 last time so um that's where we're at with that um and it was um okay well um do I have a motion to approve the sale of 14 million General obligation promisory notes we have a first we have a second second and then opening it up for discussion or questions Quinn so that interest rate is that guaranteed um yes well that was yeah the bonds have 4.17 correct it's been sold well yes it's been sold could it change if you vote if you vote no tonight yes it wouldn't look very well when we issue again but yes it's so they've been issued no they're waiting for approval but it's been the rate that they've neg
049that was the lowest that was the lowest one yep okay y thank you other questions discussion all right all in favor I I opposed okay motion passes um I think you're staying we're bringing Tod up so we are going to um consider action on non- referendum summer facilities projects and um briefly again before I call for a motion if you want to just summarize what we are looking at and then I will open it up for a motion then we can discuss more so good evening everyone again uh following up on last last last week's recommendation to go with uh astro turf Great Lakes to replace our turf on our football field and also to resurface our track uh a couple updates from since last week um there was a question that BR brought to
050my attention about all of our user groups being uh being having the ability to give some feedback about the turf and about the use of the turf and about the color of the turf going forward so I did reach out to our our band director and our marching band director uh asked her those specific questions she had no concerns about uh the turf being changed the color of the turf she actually said that our current band marches in the parking lot in the summer months um and they don't really use it we do rent the the field out to an outside uh drum and bugle core um and it's only for about a week in the summer and she suggested that if there was an issue that they could use the grass field across the
051street uh second update we're still working with astro turf Great Lakes on a potential reduction in a maintenance agreement with them um we haven't finalized that yet but they are they're happy to keep the discussion going so I don't know if you want to add anything um well yeah we did reach out to the the or the the Clear Channel billboard and just see if there's things we could do to maybe work with them about that and looks promising again more more conversations to come but um the potential is there help cover the annual or work with him about the annual maintenance fee which would just be a fee anyway that wouldn't need to come to the board it's separate it's a service that we would be using in budget for every year okay and
052then the last update um after last week Monday's board meeting um that uh some of the whitnell youth football coaches watched uh I was approached on Tuesday morning about Whit youth football making a donation to the to the school district and that donation would cover the cost uh between putting in a green turf field and the upgrade to the blue turf field so they actually uh sent me a message this afternoon that they had a vote on that and that they unanimous unanimously supported that donation to the school district that would cover that cost difference so it would be no cost to the district to get what we all feel is a much better looking field okay so uh do I have a motion to approve the replacement of Falcon Field artificial Turf and resurfacing
053the high school track as well as updates to the high school softball area for a cost not to exceed $586,000 specifically for Turf and track I moveed to approve uh 6B uh with the upgrade to blue yellow field okay CU it just says possible upgrade on there it does not thank you for that okay so we'll uh we have a motion to approve as it's written Jennifer but then um add that we're also adding in that it's approved or would be approved for the upgrade first do I have a second second whoever I'll give it to Sarah um any discussion or questions Karen yeah so this is the turf and the high school softball area and so I know last time we met you didn't have three bids yet for the softball work is that
054just um has that been made more solidified now or how does that work so an update with that as well I've had more opportunities to talk with Mr Jackson our Building Trades uh teacher here at the high school um we've kind of worked out a plan where the the students are going to have the opportunity to prefab the um Press Box for the softball field uh that's going to allow them to do it safely in in the shop versus them out uh working on a two story building um and it it allows us to get that going sooner than later um because we need the students to be able to do it before graduation obviously um that's going to reduce the cost down from the original estimate because the the school district will will still
055be buying the materials to do that and obviously the labor the students are going to provide most of that we still need to have um a construction company assemble it and finish it completely so again that cost is going to come down all the projects fall underneath uh what is required for us to bring it to the board as individual projects so that's really not something that you're approving right now really what we're looking for approval on is the turf and the track well thanks for the status update yep Jason that was what I was G ask other Quinn so I don't know if the rest of you got this email from Jim fride of uh so is this uh shock pad is that what's the deal so the shock pad is something that is
056um it's it's a newer technology um it's it's actually a Home pad that goes underneath the turf it's supposed to help with the shock resistance obviously that's why it's called the shock PAD as I told you a week ago the the key features with Turf is compaction and the fibers on the on the turf itself um Jim is a great guy he's selling a product and it's not that it's not a valid product I feel strongly that if we go with this maintenance agreement where we as I talked about where they bring a machine in and it actually lifts up the infill and it stops it from compacting as much as it it normally would that that's another option for us at a much less a lower cost than the district and we don't currently
057have a pad right I was just going to say we don't currently have a pad under the field uh that technology was not available in 2012 when it was installed and we do pass all of the shock tests or I'm sorry the compaction tests that have been done on the field even though it's almost 13 years old so we're putting basically back in the same product and we're going to do a better job with the maintenance of it and improved job with the maintenance of it so I didn't feel that it was a good investment in the pad I did talk with other schools that have the pad some had good feedback some didn't so it's it's real I'm I'm I feel pretty strongly that we're going to put in a good field that's going
058to be saved for our student athletes for years they come thanks Dad any other questions all right um all in favor I I opposed all right motion carries all right thank you Todd and John and then next up 6C consider approval of course variances for fall 2526 with Adam and Charlie to get a [Laughter] break okay um just bringing this back from our last meeting just a couple updates Charlie's been doing his due diligence and started scheduling as we had in that bottom note there so we do just have two slight changes um which is uh actually a good thing so uh major dramatists dramatists uh is was at 8 when we were doing scheduling last week we are now up to 16 students there still need a variance because it's under 18 uh and
059AP Computer Science principles which was at8 students is now up to 20 so we don't actually need to run a course variance for that because that's over our board policy limit so those are our our two updates as Charley's been getting there and scheduling kids and looking for um you know those conflicting courses so those are our our two updates all right do I have a motion to approve the 2526 course variances as presented which includes the updates moved we have a first we have a second uh Second and any discussion or questions all right all in favor I opposed motion carries thank you that was easy all right so we're going to move into policy action first up 6D uh policy 6235 is fund balance and um that is the one where there we
060are putting a recommendation of keeping it at 18% at the bottom and 40% at the ceiling um Target as a Target do I have a motion to approve board policy 6235 fund balance changes as presented so mov we have a first do we have a second I'll second first and a second any questions or discussion okay see none all in favor I opposed all right motion carries moving into 6E uh approval considering approval of Neola semiannual policy updates um Brady I'll just give you can you just do like a one minute summary of that for us before I call for a motion yeah you bet again those are um just nea's updates that they do twice a year we um typically you know we the the policy committee went through and and we didn't have
061any major significant questions I did I've answered a few uh questions for people but I you know if anybody has any more I'm happy to try to answer them but uh by and large it seems like everybody was understanding the majority of them and then yep Jason just for a summary that went through policy committee and the the bulk of the because there's a bunch of them in there was uh recommended to move forward so do I have a motion to approve Neola 24 semiannual updates as presented so moved we have a first we have a second second I'll give it to Karen I think was a little louder that's okay um any questions or discussion all right all in favor I opposed all right motion carries and then um uh 6f consider approval of
062Neola Edgar policy updates and just yeah again another yeah very similar um I I didn't get any questions about these but the Edgar policies are just have to do with uh Federal funding and Federal grants and and things like that so obviously there's a lot of discussion around Federal funding and federal grants right now but these are policies that we would follow with with those and then Jason you have recommendation from committee recommended that we adopt these okay do I have a motion to approve the Neola Edgar policy updates as presented so moved we have a first we have second and Jesse's the second uh any discussion or questions all right all in favor I opposed all right motion carries and then moving to reports and presentations 7 a Brady superintendent report yeah since we
063had a meeting last week I don't have a a ton to share but uh want to let you know on the referendum we met with Bray and our kitchen consultant and we spent I don't know is Todd still back there we spent about six or seven hours well not we I I didn't but Todd and the group spent a fair amount of time talking about kitchen updates which at both of our buildings so I I think they've gotten to a really nice spot Todd also spent a a fair amount of time with uh CG Schmidt who was here last week uh just to discuss different phasing opportunities um and and how that's going to look um our our Juniors took the act on Tuesday so it was it was a quiet building and a lot
064of kids thinking uh so it it was nice our AP bi biology students went to the biof pharmaceutical Technology Center in Madison where they were able to conduct some interesting and exciting experiments that I'm not going to share because I really can't pronounce Happ what they're doing but uh great job to those uh guys uh the hailes corners fifth grade concert was last week they did a road trip across America which was just it was fantastic I don't know if anybody here got to get to the fifth grade concert but it it was fun that they did a fantastic job um seeing them do that was probably the highlight of my week uh last week so it was great and then also the the high school uh performed The Importance of Being Earnest to almost
065three soldout um audiences so congratulations to all those people I know it's a lot of hard work we had Pi Day uh 3.14 on Friday our high school some of our math uh students went out and did their annual Pi Day walk where they did 3.14 km around the track and and then had some pie um and then the Glenn Castle Irish dancers V visited hails corners on Friday as well the show featured five current whitel students between the uh ages of kindergarten and 12th grade so that was a really neat thing to see and then last week I had the privilege uh coach invited me to the wrestling banquet it was a lot of fun to celebrate their successes and then I was also able to get down and see our basketball game or
066our BAS boys basketball team Wilmont they came up just a little bit short but it nonetheless was a very exciting game uh just a quick reminder 6 through 8 or K through 8th grade summer school registration started today so anybody who happens to hear this and has a kindergarten through 8ighth grader please make sure you register for summer school and then this weekend on Saturday is pins for PA the pins for pause fundraiser with the greenfi Police Department K9 unit um Gizmo our our K9 was was actually at the Personnel committee meeting for a bit and uh we'll also be at the uh pins for pause fundraiser there's information uh we'll we'll share out information in our weekly updates um to to All Families but there's also information on the Greenfield Police Department website so
067that's what I've got for you tonight thank you all right thank you uh 7B we'll move to Schoolboard liaison reports um I think HC is usually first it's not listed I'll go first um HC PTO we had our dance on the 7th which was also our basket bash fundraiser was a lot of fun at the middle school so thanks the middle school for uh letting us use the space and um I guess the biggest thing is tomorrow is the PTO meeting and that's also the candidate meet and greet so uh it's another opportunity to meet the Schoolboard candidates um Sarah I think you usually go next yeah um I feel like there isn't a ton since last time but we did have our PTO meeting last week with school board candidates um we also I
068think I already shared about our success with our fundraiser um also we're getting a new Kiln this summer because ours at aderton has not been working um I try to think what else um we'll have some more fundraisers coming up our our our whitel Weare is on sale and you don't have to be an Edon student to buy we have some a retro design that apparently is from a parents school days as well as um a glitter Falcon design So for anybody who really likes glitter um and I believe that's po posted on the non-official Whitnel Forum but if you need a link you can always reach out and it's in the connects as well and then what else I think that's about it it's been only a week so not too many new things
069um oh I we did give a shout out at the meeting mag gave a shout out to all of our student volunteers who help with the sound like we have tonight they also help with the sound and lights at our concerts for our kids so we just really appreciate the extra high school and middle schoolers who volunteer to take their time out of their night to help us sound yeah thank you uh thank you Jesse not a whole lot I met last week for the middle school PTO um they have all of the money in and all the plans together for the Outdoor Learning space so that should be getting started very soon um it's pretty exciting um seen some of the mockups and some of the descriptions of what that's going to look like
070and um that's it's going to be really cool once the weather stays nice and they're able to use that so um no eatting NS coming up as of now um and the Schoolboard candidates had presented at that meeting too so if you didn't get a chance to see them head over to HC yes is that a structure it is going to be more of a open space so there is a wonderful shipping container that's sitting out there right now and um the high school is going to assist with gentrification of the uh the shipping container to flow with with the plans for that outdoor space so they'll be seating and then they sold individual bricks that you could customize that'll be essentially like pavers in the ground cool thank you okay car so tomorrow night
071there's a high school combined concert um choir band jazz band Orchestra I saw some announcement from the Jazz brand band that said bring your Fedora so if you have a fedora bring it but it is a combined concert um so that starts at 700 p.m. tomorrow night and beforehand at 6: p.m. music boosters is meeting so you can come to music boosters and then stay for the concert um and then there are senior scholarships if you have a senior who's participated in music and would like to apply the deadline is April 1 which is only a couple weeks away thank you uh Rachel um not too much to to update uh however with s swsa they have some really wonderful materials um I will be forwarding them on an advocacy guide a folder with fact
072sheets um request letters talking points um all about how we can advocate for funding school funding okay and Quin uh we meet next Thursday okay all right announcements Sarah I will will um offer it to you first if you want to share any uh anything else I know you've shared quite a bit already but about the day at um the day at the capital is really great it was a huge turnout of people from districts from all over the state our neighboring states who share legislators with us all our districts that share legislators with us Greendale Greenfield Franklin and then strangely we now have seen unified as part of our district as well um they were all there as well um so we were able to go together to meet our legislators which was a
073different experience to all work together um and I would just say that we should definitely make this an annual thing that we have rep or by anym thing that we always try to have somebody going because they were definitely groups from each school and they were very prepared and very good at they had their talking points and were very strong on the advocacy and the unified front was really helpful um and I think it's really important to keep fostering that relationship um my goal was to continue working with um Wingard I had met at the legislative breakfast and so his Aid and I had a relationship I was able to say hello to him and that was went well Bob Donovan was very very welcoming um it was myself and Greenfield in that meeting and
074that was a very positive meeting as well um there is some tension among some other districts and our legislators so the besides donavin the other meetings devolved I was able to excuse myself before it got heated heated um which I think was a benefit um because I did not want to be I want to build relationships not have a heated discussion um but yeah everybody was advocating for special aded funding reimbursement rates to go up um Donovan and winguard are very much receptive to that conversation that's great well thank you for going and thanks for the update does anyone have any questions for Sarah's day all right well thank you again for spending the day and representing us any other announcements have well go ahead I heard a rumor that our own Quinn happens to
075know the Easter Bunny and we'll be escorting them around the area coming up here soon um so keep an eye out for that that will be probably put out by the Greenfield Park and recck do they put it no you just we'll put information yeah so that should be coming up I I he happens to know them um and then I also WR rumor about some um Easter Bunny conversations about eggs in your yard so keep an eye on maybe the baseball team to learn more about that because they have talked to them all right other announcements I will second that Easter egg with the boys team they do an amazing job it's a really cool fundraiser so keep an eye out for the details and it's supposed to be coming soon any now anything
076for debrief can I give one more quick announcement this is not um whitel specific but on Friday it is March 21st which is World Down syndrome day um some people know my son has Down syndrome and it is also a time where you can wear some um mismatch socks because socks kind of look like chromosones if you look at a picture of what chromosones look like um and 321 because they have three copies of the 21st chromosome and board members and admin I have some socks if you would like a pair see me before you leave thanks for highlighting that anything for debrief all right do I have a motion to adjourn the meeting so move a first second and a second all in favor I motion carries meeting is adjourned e e for