001e e e in a good spot where you can see stuff yes all right it is 630 I would like to call this meeting to order verify compliance with open meeting law do I have motion to approve the agenda as presented have a first I have a second um Rachel wasn't heard any discussion all in favor iOS all right motion to adopt the agenda passes and um Kathy roll call please here here here here here yes here iedge aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to theic for stand naiv public comments moving to consent does anyone have any like to pull seeing N I have a motion to approve consent agenda I have a first do I have a second second any discussion all in favor I all right consent agenda
002is approved moving to reports and presentations for a high school student council report right please welcome um my name is Chelsea MD student ccent my name is I'm the student council yeah so we just wanted to share a little bit about what our student council has been doing this year so our big first event this year homecoming so these are all pictures about homecoming so like spirit days and Powderpuff football game we got to decorate the trucks um for homecoming court and then that picture or the that's our exact board um so that and then some lunch games we did and that's the flo we actually too so that was like homecoming week and then and then homecoming obviously after that um and we did the big pet rally there's um like the dance um
003and decorated we had the football game made banners for that um yeah the pep Valle was super fun we had a lot of games during that too and the whole decate got to get in there the morning before the dance great so I think it this year so that was great um yeah coming one picture um we also do H every year so that's where any community members can come in we do trick or treating early for like the little kids and then after I think it's like 7:00 like 7 9ish we do Haunted Hallway so everyone from student council each grade kind of takes a different portion the high school and our theme this year was like doctors stuff like hospital so that was our group um so that was us in our costume
004yeah pretty much um and then this year we did a spirit week before the winter break um so we different themes each day and then we had a pepper Al on Friday where we did just a bunch of different games or there was the student versus staff volleyball game and student it was um it freshman versus seniors or Juniors yeah it was like underclassman versus upper classman vers staff and we had games in between each one so that was a I think that was a success um it was super fun um yeah pretty much and then just recently we did our Valentine's Day bake sale um January was pretty quiet month but we wanted to do something for February so we just did a bake sale um and we sold a lot of good trats
005I guess so yeah and then those are the events we've done thus far so some of the other events um we wanted to talk about like what we have going on the rest of the year um right now we're planning our what we're doing for gives back week and we're in charge of the food drive so we're trying to figure out what we're going to do for that um and we'll advertise that around the high school make sure we get a lot of good donations for that and we usually make like posters um and we're looking for local donation um so there's the New Berlin food pantry there's one in moso um there's also one in St like at St Mary's the church so we're deciding which um food bank to go to so that's
006coming up and then prom is the really really big one that we're always in charge of every year this year it's at The Shrine in downtown Milwaukee not like marquet area on Wisconsin so that's our venue this year it's a big Ballroom um and we just voted on the theme so it's going to be Great Gatsby oh though tomor yeah we're announcing that tomorrow like Ella said yeah so I can't tell anybody well Well's going to know tomorrow morning anyway so [Laughter] secret um we have teacher appreciation week coming up too um so we're just going to plan a different a bunch of different activities each day for to appreciate the teachers at the school yeah that's usually at the end of May and we yeah like ala we do something each day so one
007day we'll do like breast breakast for teachers um we do thank you cards um what else have we done I think we've done like a supply like carts we go around and like get teachers supplies that they may need um for the remaining part of the year um and then yeah pretty much it yeah thanks for the update any questions or comments from anyone thanks for coming and I'm excited to see prom pictures I think great gasby will match up on you so well yeah that's what we thinking too yeah so yeah thanks for appreciating the teachers that's really nice of you to do and I think that the timing is great to do it in sort of the winter the the BL and so and just enjoy the whole rest of the school year
008yeah I love that Personal Touch Too with writing the thank you notes that's really cool yeah a lot of great things thanks for coming in thank you thanks for the update than you all right moving on yearly goal progress report item 4B we have Dr ranki um Adam and Jack all right so I'm gonna get started uh Dana is not able to be here tonight so our usual data presentation person is um not with us but we will um go on without her and hopefully at least you know make her proud um so just a really quick update as as you guys know and we've talked about several times uh our strategic plan was from 21 to 24 it it has sunsetted uh we're in the midst of ramping up uh to De our new
009development of our new strategic plan which will has has already started we have a we have a a community event coming up in in a few weeks and then we have a an administrate administrative day coming up on the 18th I believe so that all of our administrators will be together and really you know take all the stuff we gathered from our community event all of our surveys everything and and start to put together a plan on the 17th uh you guys we we'll have a a work session to give you an update on how our community event went went and then just give you a little bit of uh information there so we're we're excited about that um so so all that to say are strategic plan is we're we're operating off the one
010we used from 21 to 24 with a few changes and then we're we're excited to get into the the the next phase of of strategic plan development next slide please so if you remember at the beginning of the year we we had we had achieved many of the goals that had been set in in the Strategic plan prior to but since we wanted to keep the Integrity of of that work we shifted our goals just a little bit for this year and so in in our academic spaces we looked at moving kids up in their um ranking U on the forward exam now obviously there's a lot of talk uh about what's going on with the forward exam right now so U nonetheless we'll we'll continue to to monitor that and Report out on that
011and then we also set goals for achieving uh some some next going to the next level in in both uh our staff engagement as well as our um student engagement so I'm gonna let Adam and Jackie talk about uh some of those things so go forward sure all right good evening um so you can see oh cath you want to hit the okay so in our uh our district goal for uh number one and number two are really kind of what Brady was talking about is increasing that that level of proficiency as uh influence or as evidenced in the forward exam and the ACT score so I'm just going to speak just really briefly um on some of the pieces that we've done there so as you can see we've got a lot of things
012that are already complete couple things that we're still working on in progress because those are some of our year-long goals we've made some steps to that um and um obviously we've seen some growth as you know Dana has talked about at several points um we're seeing some really nice prct predictive growth in our fall to winter um on map that you can see there so um we've really uh kind of highlighted in on a few things and this is thanks to all of our principles all of our APS of course all of our staff members um and and actively engaging in that so we we really tried to work on the alignment of our um our professional practice goals and our student learning outcomes to these goals so when we look at our teachers goals
013for the year they're in pretty much alignment with what we are looking for here um so that way that kind of like some groups will call it cascading but this really creates ownership for everybody within within the whole group um we've been really uh focused in in terms of this slide on Ela we've been focusing in on those year two implementation plans for our K8 resources working on some um tier one instructional pieces in our 9th through 12th so you've heard Dana kind of talk about how we are giving or oral reading fluency uh passages to everybody and now we're starting to implement some of those tier one strategies that we learned from that data um so we're really excited for that that that started today with some of that uh tier one instruction after
014we got that data back and then um really been working uh on our professional development days as well in our new analyzing student work protocol so we've had teachers bringing in samples of of uh common Assessments in most cases and they're kind of analyzing like where are the gaps that students are um are having and then providing and planning that tier 2 instruction um to meet those gaps that's really necessary for students so we've gotten good feedback on that um that is was part of our our goals when we set these back in July um and so we've been continuing that we'll do that again in the on the April PD day and then we're looking at um how that'll roll into next year uh as well is that we want that to become part
015of our regular continuous improvement process that our teachers engage in on those Professional without L days um so you can see kind of our data there for um for forward and then Kathy next slide is our math goal they're both written same language they're written with the same markers um and then you can see uh Dana talked about last meeting was our um percent of students moving that projected growth as we see have seen some really high growth numbers in math as we've been focusing that um that instruction okay right um goal number three is um connected to our student engagement survey we've presented that full data to you um recently what you can see here is that we have um already met the goal that we set based on our most most recent we
016were over that 2% growth um so from now until the end of the school year we're focused on how do we maintain that and make sure that we either see that same number or an increase when we administer in the spring because our final goal is that spring to Spring um growth in terms of the activities that we set underneath this goal what you see here are the things that um we set as a district to be responsible for you saw in the gallery walk um some emphasis from the school buildings on the things that they are doing to help to contribute to this so we are um on track and in a good place I think highlighting like the biggest change for this year in terms of an action step was if you're a
017parent in the district receiving those month monthly um attendance information and um that's really helped I think to just to bring draw more attention you know sometimes we forget when we're having um appointments and things like that so that's been really nice and helpful at the building level and those conversations as they talk about attendance because that's how we impact learning and also that sense of belonging so the last goal we we set around was um around our employee satisfaction we really at the beginning of the year felt like communication was an important piece that we needed to dig into um back in our November survey we you know we said we wanted to increase by about 02 uh point we we only increased by um about what was it0 nine points uh but that
018was in November uh so we've learned a lot of things since then one of the the things that we we've um focused on is if you remember when Dr weitzer was here a few weeks ago and he he actually pointed out to board and and as pointed out to us that communication isn't just about telling people it's also about asking people and so we've we've become a little bit more intentional uh actually since those conversations on actually asking people rather than you know because you always jump to oh we gota we got to tell people more we got to tell people more and we we we felt like okay we're doing a pretty good job all all of our uh principal send out their newsletters and you know all kinds of stuff but it's like
019we're not at we haven't been asking so we're we're becoming more intentional with that um now we we are going to give out uh another survey not not a big survey like we did uh in November but we're going to give a smaller one with some of these communication pieces at the end of the year so we can really see hey how did we do on this goal because again it's data from November um and so we want to see how did we do with that I I will also um tell you that we've got one on there that if you look it say not yet started that's the one I'm responsible for uh we have started some of that but it's really about I'm working with Brenda to figure out okay what what does
020just our overall communication plan need to look like um it's really interesting as I'm doing my my community call uh listening T topics a lot of people really appreciate uh the communication out to the um to the community uh that we're doing so I think we're doing some some nice there but uh it's also just refining that um making sure that the different levels of uh communication are going out in great ways so again that we it says not started but we are we are working on that so next slide Kathy um so just a few next steps uh we're going to continue to develop and Implement additional activities for semester aligned with our annual goals um we we've got the Ford exam coming up uh it's it's something we need to have everyone ready
021for not only our teachers uh who are proring it and uh giving it but our kidss to be prepared I mean it's a it's a it can be a very rigorous test so we we we are working on uh preparing kids for that um again that that starts on March 17th we're going to do I believe we're doing science of social studies before spring break and then reading um math afterwards um we're gonna again we're going to bring it back um we're going to give another survey at the end of the year with some with some of this information again the the um student survey will will come at the end of the year as well as we're going to give some more information on the um communication uh the communication for employee engagement and
022then um as I mentioned at the beginning we're we're working on um our new strategic planning process so we can't wait to really dive into that and keep everybody updated on that so that's just kind of an overall update on on what what we've been doing any questions J we'll start with you I don't have any questions thanks for the update oh thanks Quinn I do not have I thought you said Quinn I do not have no that's to you're okay yeah that's okay uh Jason um not this time but uh I'm glad to see a lot of the the goals for this year have already been met and we're looking to not just be complacent and continue to push beyond that and especially with the forward exam being benchmarker I think that's really exciting
023nothing for me here Jess um I know there's a lot of stakeholders involved in putting together this this strategic plan but from your standpoint do you feel like we're on track for setting the longterm plan yeah I believe so I think we're we're in a a really good spot we've had some great conversations in our um both with our administrator our full administrative team within our director's teams U we have a great plan to as we're moving forward to development so yeah we're excited about um I'm eager to see the new plan I'm also really excited um we've seen so much growth in math in particular because I know that was an area we were really struggling in and I think it's really great to hone in on the communication and what that's going to
024look like because I think it'll be great to have a cohesive plan um I appreciate the detailed update and thanks for keeping us um aware the process and um from what I'm gathering community members are excited to participate in strategic plan and I like the idea of the well-rounded representation so thank you yeah I think I think we had right around 500 people fill out the survey um and then we had right around 400 kid students fill out the survey so Dan is digging into that as we speak so that's great yeah thank you thank you all right John quarterly budget update not not this right not that you don't need y yep good evening it's good to be back no not everybody says that about their job but it's good to be back after
025um uh so I didn't there's not a lot of changes on this because there's not a lot of changes on on your sheet um so we'll go through the PowerPoint then I'll just touch space on a couple things in here but in the end we're about halfway through the the fiscal year um and that's where a lot of the um some of the expenses should be um at especially salaries and benefits and if you look through uh that piece of it that that's about where all of them are uh again I don't want to rehash you all the details of you but we do use salary negotiations and we have a very very very good system um I'm not sure why every business manager doesn't do this uh but use the Skyward salary negotiations we
026are within a couple dollars of everybody's salary and benefit at the end of the fiscal year we have a great uh we do uh use that to be able to do a great job of forecasting salaries and benefits which as you know are roughly 2third to three4 of our our uh budget so for us to be able to say hey most of our vast majority of our budgets are are are budgeted and expending um as we see um as we expected is pretty important and and we're happy about that uh the rest of it is in there again you'll see um that that uh were expending at different rates and I'll touch base on that as soon as we go through this I'm going to go through this fairly quickly sorry Kathy I I was
027at living there um so again there's in the packet which you have a printed copy but you also have in there again I'm not going to go over every dollar uh or every line and every dollar um but but there's an explanation sheet at the back um that just kind of breaks it down for you just like we had before um um it does get you know specific into the different types of funds um different uh functions um and uh locations and objects and revenue sources so that that you can go in there if you if you want to uh you're going to notice too that nothing changes in in in the 2324 because that was already set when I presented in uh September so those those dollars we do use the previous years uh
028when we sit down with with principles and supervisors and say all right we budgeted this this is where you ended up um what was in there what what's going to be in there again this year what's not what was an anomaly um anything that's coming up that wasn't and we look at that so that's the other I'll say onethird of our budget and I feel like we have a great system for that and we have great supervisors and and department managers and principles and admin assistants that do a really good job of that as well so um again sorry Kathy keeping on the kead living uh the information's all in there just an example of that although the the actual account example at the bottom didn't didn't show up but it you know if we
029if we look in an account like 10e 400 1260 the 10 is fun 10 the E is an expense the 400 is a location so that would be the high school 411 in this case would be supplies and then 12600 I believe is science so again those codes not expecting anybody to memorize that I don't have them all thousand of them memorized but but that really does help us figure out where we want to code things and being consist consistant with that from year to year to year and again over the last three three or four years we've been able to really do that uh stay on uh in with constant communication with principles with admin assistants um supervisors to really know that they know what their budget is uh and to have those conversations
030uh once again as a reminder every single expenditure uh in this District comes through me as a final approver so every couple days I go through and look at all check requests I look at all POS I look at all credit cards statements and see where is this at where is it in relation to what we budgeted if it's over why is it over um we've gotten to the point or the principles and admin assistant have gotten to the point where they usually contact me because they know I'm going to contact them so again we have we have a really good system and I can't thank the other people for for making this uh as easy as it is or as less complicated okay uh so the fund in 1027 um uh that we do
031uh we do get Revenue at certain times of the year uh at limited times of the year I my own I don't need to do that um uh so also notice that that in some of in some of the revenues where I've provided explanation but in looking at some of the revenues you're going to see receive zero and that's going to happen to quite a few of the accounts because we don't get them until the end of the year some of them you do and you can see which ones we've started to get but a lot of those are still going to say zero for revenues because we don't get those until the end of the year or towards the end of the year so we'll continue to do that uh we do have 600,000
032in the fund 10 fund balance for self-funded that was based on uh our Auditor's recommendation and again just used as potential claims um depending on where that ends right now we're I think it's coming up uh we're we're trending about 96% of our self funded so again we're on the high side but it still feel like we're going to level off but we have that that backup just in case uh we talked about that using prior budget activity and really talking about that and uh doing that and providing that description for you next slide Kathy so this kind of talks a little bit about about the fund 10 fund balance and why we have that um and really looking at our Revenue schedule the uh the pieces in there whether it's X's or percentages is
033when we get the revenue so you'll notice we don't get uh we get a little tax levy in August um but we don't get most of it until January so we're sitting a whole almost half a year with a small portion of the tax levy we still have expenditures and we don't get roughly half of our Revenue limit income until January uh same thing with Equalization a we get 15% in September but we still have uh expenses in July and August and then October and November before we get uh the other a quarter of our uh Equalization Aid and so you can see up there when we get our our our funding but no it's not every month but yet we have two payrolls a month and we have four pay uh uh uh check
034requests and vouchers to do uh every every uh every month four times a month so we still have bills to pay but we don't get Revenue every uh every month from that so again just that's part of the reason for fund balance next y next slide uh so again uh we talked about this in our facilities and finance but again there's a reason for that uh it is calculated by dividing uh the the the the the total uh expenditures by um uh by our our our balance of our fund balance so the dollar may not change for our fund balance but our expenses may have gone up or down that next year so we could have the same dollar amount but the percentage could change a little bit um and so are that that's really
035why the difference in in percentages from year to year with our fund balance but it hasn't fluctuated much over the last several years uh board policy is no less than 18% although we would need much more than 18% uh if to to remain uh or to not have to short-term borrow uh in fact in the facilities and finance meeting before this uh back in 178 I believe we were at 26% and had to short-term borrow I think about $2.5 million that year so again um we feel like we're in a good spot um and wouldn't want to wouldn't want to go really any lower I and then the last sheet shows your 41 and 46 balances um which again we'll be will'll be coming to the board for some expenditures out of 41 and 46
036um but you can see where those are sitting right now uh and then final points yep um so we talked about not getting some revenues and expenditures until the end of the year uh but right now I feel really really good about where we're at again the biggest part is salaries and benefits and looking through all of those you'll see we're roughly about half and that's where about where we should be so uh nothing else you know I'm not concerned about any big ticket items like electricity or busing transportation things like that um they're high but but they're going to be and again depending on the winter and depending on Athletics and things like that but uh overall I'm I have no concern I feel very confident of where we're at and where we're budgeted
037again could something change next month sure but right now I feel really good about where we budgeted and where we're coming in at with with all of the numbers and going through through this so um while this is good to present it's good for me to make sure that I'm continuing to do that as well and looking over any any of the points uh the other part is just moving a little bit forward for next year I know we're not there yet but there's a lot of things that are going to come up with the governor's budget and the banian budget that are still up in the air um that that I'll say are very concerning um you know we'll start we're starting the budget process already for next year um and and you know
038we'll start to be very I'm just very conservative initially um and there's a lot of things that that if it works out we'll we'll be sitting that much better and if they don't which again you never know how that's going to work with our legislation and and our governor and and budding heads and what that looks like the final thing I don't expect that we're going to see it in June or July I think it's going to be September October again before I hope before October when we have uh to get a final budget approved but um it's going to be very interesting to see just so you know again and reiterate I'll be conservative when we do that and hope for the best but plan for plan for the worst based on what happens
039in Madison so any questions all right well thank you John for putting this together for us Quinn we will start with you sure John uh as we know with the referendum we are going to be adding square footage the uh Square new square footage at Edon Elementary and the new square footage at the high school is in fires of pool have you any discussions or have you done any research as to the new operational costs that will hit the district because of these uh no that's that's something that eventually or in the near very near future I'll be talking to Todd and Bray about and looking at that and then again reaching out to other business manager or other business managers but also having Todd talk with other uh facility managers about that um in
040area people that areas that have that uh again I think the other part of that is really looking at where we have with with the swimming pool and and the new swimming pool is there a difference you know is there a possibility that we're going to save some some maintenance cost and things on that uh but you're right about the gym and and some of that other square footage that we may have more um but nope we're several years out not that there it's ever too early to start looking at that but right now I have not U really had any in-depth conversations with Bray or Todd about that and uh I mean I I look at the the electricity expense and one way that we can we can save money is through efficiencies right
041if we could save 5% that'd be shorter $30,000 now I don't know I I I I see the the these are just some things I see the lights on in the tennis courts and there's maybe one or two courts being used there's a way that we could save money uh do we need to have the lights on all the time at at Falcon Field I don't know but I do know that Sr funds are going to wash away the state aid is like you said we we we don't know the federal what's going on with the Department of Education on the federal level so I would behoove us and I'm not putting this on you on on the board to work with Brady to find try and find efficiencies in order to keep our budget
042in control and because we do not want to go to operational referendum but we need to look at these things and I'm glad that you put those out there we as a board need to instruct Brady if we so choose to try and start finding efficiencies so that we can afford these new items that we are going to be building in the next couple years and are going to be our responsibility to maintain that's that's what I have thanks Quin sir um I have a a couple things so the codes that are on these are the same ones that are on the monthly like credit card and correct yep okay wanted to make sure and then the other thing that I was curious um is it possible to like get compared to last year at
043this time because it's nice to compare it to like 23 24 but we're comparing to the end of the budget versus like at the same time so it's hard for somebody who's not in finance to like really even though you're like it should be roughly half like just so that we can really be Apples to Apples looking and making sure um I'm just wondering if that's hopefully not too much extra anything it's just a separate report and I can yep yeah and then um and then just like I know that you're you're so detailed in all your reports and I really appreciate that um when I read the monthly ones all of them have ex very detailed explanations on what each charge is except for the credit card and so like there's like usually it
044says like for this teacher for books or for this for science or for this bus but that for some reason the credit card doesn't have that ex explanation column and I know it comes through you and you know the explanations but just so yeah the hard part about that I'll trouble check with her again and I know we've had I don't know if it was other another board member who had asked that but it's the way that those reports are run in the Skyward because we just get one the monthly statement and then we go and reconcile okay do I have a receipt for this because it's always you know the month later you're keeping and those should be updated but I will look to see I remember there being something of somewhat of a
045a hassle in not having a a report to be able to do that but yeah but um yeah which I mean if the report doesn't exist and it's like a lot of extra but just so that we can keep track of those things too thank you for this this is super helpful yeah good okay Jesse um has anything been done with fund 80 and if so what has been done with those funds yeah that's a good point I should I I should have put that on there I can I can run um a report and provide that to the board next month or at the next one to to to um to do that because you're right that was that's new and we had expenditures on that I should have put that on there so
046that's all I have Jason covered a lot of that in finan facility so thank you for the work and the continued uh focus and I know you put a lot of PR to Quinn's point I know you put a lot of pressure on on Dr ranky to make sure that he turns off the lights as soon as we're done here so here every day I told them I now have to make up I was gone for a month and couldn't go turn their light off for them when they went to out of the room so now I've got to really make it up so yeah so thanks for the quarterly reports I think they're really helpful and um I appreciate the detail and um you know I agree with uh Quinn that if we can
047find efficiencies great um I would imagine John that you're already doing a lot of that and you know I'm not going to be looking at what time the lights are turned off because that's what we hire you for but I would appreciate you know updates on if you're finding cost savings we'd love to hear what those you know you know in a moderate amount of detail kind of how how you're making some of those decisions you know we chose to go this way or not that way and eventually what's going to be really fun is that once we have our new strategic plan in place we can talk about how we're aligning our dollars along with our strategic plan and I think that'll be some great conversation as well well anybody else nothing for me
048I appreciate um the detail and the explanations and that I'm um I'm like as I'm going through I'm like I'm knowing what all the funds are off the top of my head now thanks to the regular updates so I appreciate that uh I think that's all from us thank you John all right moving to school board liaison reports I'm listed first I will go first so um HC PTO since the last time we did an update I think just had one meeting a lot of planning for a lot of the big events that happen in the spring uh the school dance is March 7th so that's next Friday um there will be ongoing uh and at at the dance is one of the big fundraisers it's called the basket bash so families donate items related
049to a theme and then uh people at the dance buy tickets to uh try to win the basket so that's a really fun thing and good fundraiser there's also fundraisers happening so if you are an hce family and you have a kid with a concert coming up um put in for the raffle for the front row seats that gives us a little bit of fundraising as well there will be a meeting March 18th and I believe that will be the one where Schoolboard candidates will be invited to um introduce themselves uh and I think those are all the big things coming up but down the road we have a planning for knowledge Aon here we're waiting it's secret um Mrs colus what we might be fundraising for but that'll be coming soon um and yeah
050so that's stuff for hce right now uh Rachel over to you I have nothing this time okay Jesse we did not have a meeting because the buildings are closed that day so no update there there is an eat and ear next Tuesday at kudoba on 76 in ederton I believe that is for dinner starting at 4:00 so don't have to cook that evening thank you Sarah um HC and ederon are on a very similar schedule so we also have our dance ours is this Friday um it is a very fun event and just like HC we have our big fundraiser which is baskets we don't have the same name but it is um there's a lot of and there's a silent auction that will be opening soon the silent auction is open to anyone and
051they really do a great job getting some really phenomenal things on that you can get some really good deals on a painter karate party uh well maybe not karate Taw um but there's just lots of very very fun things on there that you can look for that should be opening up this Friday um I think it until Monday um do you know Meg Monday yeah so um keep an eye on it because there's some really good stuff you can get a a fire truck to drive you um no fire truck parade or a police officer to drive you to school so those are some big ones and then they also do some really fun Raffles with the teachers and those actually came home so if you're not attending the dance you can still do the
052raffle that will be our concert front row seeds and then each teacher does a special something whether it's Donuts or games or sit in your chair um some very fun things um and then um yeah I think that's a that's the big one because that's this Friday so all right thank you Karen so music boosters has up to two $500 scholarships that they're offering to seniors who have participated in music so this is uh new or coming back for this year um applications are available and are due a April 1st and it was recommended to students who are applying not to wait to the last minute to get their letter recommendation from their teachers so please be kind to your teachers and um give them a heads up I want to wish good luck to
053the music students who will be participating in Solon Ensemble this spring and then um the the notes from the music boosters meetings are always online at win.com if you want to read all of the details and then also I wanted to mention that the whitel theater play The Importance of Being Earnest is coming up on March 14th through the 16th um seating is limited and it's my understanding that the seating is going to be on the stage itself I'm not sure I understand what that's going to look like but um what I'm hearing is that you should grab your tickets right away so you don't miss out on them right now there's good availability but um that's going to shrink as we get closer to the show dates okay uh Quinn uh our next meeting
054for the Greenfield Park W is this coming Thursday however I will not be able to attend that's all I have okay all right moving to uh last one Brady your superintendence report you bet uh so this week uh kicks off or is recognition of public schools Appreciation Week in the state of Wisconsin so we just want to thank take a moment to express our gratitude to our students staff families and community members your dedication support and hard work are what make our district thank you for being an essential part of our success so uh we love public schools here at whitel Public Schools so thank you um just a quick referendum update you you all we had a pretty comprehensive update last time from bray uh just on the seven last the the 17th yeah
055that would have been a week ago we had two more focus groups where we focused on the kind of the gym and locker room spaces both middle school and at the the high school so got some really good feedback uh Bray was really excited about that want to give you an update that we participated in the ner Greenhouse competition we I was able to go down there and check out all the green houses from all the schools I'm I'm really happy to announce that we won the People's Choice Award which was everybody on Sunday who came and voted uh our our Greenhouse won and we actually took second place in the technical skills we lost by one Point um we we accepted that under protest we we actually think ours was better but um it's
056okay uh we're we're super excited for next year that was a really great experience uh and the kids really took a lot of it the greenhouse was the the we made two greenh houses the one that we took was was just beautiful we're actually talking about keeping it here and then um using it in in like the Timar classes so really excited about that uh we want to congratul our our skills USA uh competition there was a there was the regional competition recently um hosted by Gateway Technical College their state competition is coming up in April 1st and 2nd a few people I'm going I'm going to list some names I may if I butcher them I I I do certainly apologize to to any um anybody who's listening but Paisley tonkinson took first in
057the me medical math Marian Zimmerman took first in the job skill demo open Alejandro Austin took first place in the CO2 dragster competition Ethan jacobowski took second in the related technical math Tang pitton took second in the medical math Micah beter took second in the failon and Ben Sutton took third in the facon and then our students also showcased talents in the team engineering challenge the architectural Drafting and the job interview competition so super job to to all of our um kids that that participated in that real quick state competition we're in we're in State uh Sports Seasons right now um our boys swim and dive team finished seventh overall in the division two state meet this weekend Ethan shuton set State records in both the 200 and 500 freestyle so that's a pretty pretty
058big deal um our cheer team finished second in their division and received the highest their highest score of the year and our Deca team is actually competing um today and tomorrow in their state competition so all of your results to you hopefully by the end of the week and definitely at our next board meeting wrestler Damien Thomas qualified for the state tournament he'll start on Thursday over in Madison um he he qualified by taking second in the sectional competition at 12 PB and then our girls basketball team gets underwear with their state tournament action on Friday they got the number two seed we're waiting to see who they'll play uh because they got a buy in the first round and then our boys team will kick off their Regional action on March 7th they again
059got the um second seed so both of their games coming up will be right here at the friendly kind confines Whit High School um Karen stole my thunder a little bit well we we do it we have the um Orchestra we have a middle school orchestra performance tonight actually as Jesse pointed out because we didn't have school on um last last week so they're making it up tonight um Sol and emble is coming up really soon and uh the next High School play is fast approaching The Importance of Being Earnest so do make sure you get your tickets for that so that is what I have for the board tonight all right thank you anyone have anything for announcements good um I just wanted to say I will be going to the capital on the
06012th as part of the WB day at the capital and to meet with legislators so I'm pretty excited about that and excited to be there very cool anything for meeting debrief all right so um we are going so for those in the audience um in just a moment I'm going to ask for a motion to adjourn and to close session um from there we will actually adjourn the meeting so we will not be going back into open as there's no action to consider after close so just want to let everyone know that um do I have a motion to adjourn to close session I have to read it hold on I'm sorry um motion to adjourn into close session pursuant to a scotson statute 19851 C consideration of employment promotion compensation or performance evaluation data
061of any public employe employee over which the governmental body has jurisdiction or exercises responsibility specifically to consider performance evaluation data of a district employee sorry about that do I have a motion to go to closed no move Cassie and can we take just like a two minute break to like reset as we go in sure um so I have a first do I have a second second second and then um Kathy can you do roll call vote please I yes yes yes hi hi all right motion passes we will go into um closed after a short recess at 7:25 take a five minute recess and we will adjourn the meeting from there thanks everyone thanks Quinn