001Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Hey. Hey. Hey. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] to order. This is a meeting of the Winn County Community School District Board of Education. It is June 16, 2025 at 6:30 p.m. We are in the uh high school large group lecture meeting notices were sent to members of the press, members of the school board, and were posted on the front doors andor in the vestibules of district school buildings. This is a meeting of the board in public uh for the purpose of conducting the school district's businesses and is not to be considered a public hearing. There may be a time for public comment as indicated in the agenda. The meeting will also be available to watch live at www.youtube.com. Please rise and join me in the pledge. I pledge allegiance
002to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Roll call, please. Stellner here. Veric here. Cowarts here. Awan here. Candy here. Hansen here. Recognizing our administrative team, we have Dr. Larson, Dr. Hughes, uh, Mrs. Dodd, Mrs. Horvath, Mr. Katie, Mr. Shrader, and Mr. Jerbeck. All right. And now is the time for uh open forum. Um Mr. Harter, thank you. Can you guys hear me? Okay. Awesome. So, after all the comments from last week and from Facebook and stuff like that, I did want to bring up a couple of things for those that are willing to listen. We were all created to be loved and that includes the children, that includes the residents here, things like that.
003And one of the things that I always was grow uh grew up being taught was to love our neighbor. There's been a lot of name calling on Facebook. I don't know about recently because I'm not really on it, but from some of the other comments that were made as well as people here and threats and things like that. We want a community that's going to grow our children to be responsible adults, we should be setting a role model for them, and that includes all of us here. So please, let's try to work together as a team to raise our children rather than fighting against each other. We're going to have disagreements. We're going to have things that come up, but if we can learn to understand people from a different perspective and learn to work
004with that person, we can come and make this the best school district in Wisconsin. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, I will close the open forum. We'll move into the business portion of the meeting. I would entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda. So moved. Second. Motion by Veric, second by Kundi to approve the consent agenda. Uh any questions, comments? Um yeah. Could I please request to remove um item A from the consent agenda for a brief discussion? Um the minutes. Uh yes. Yes. I just item A. Okay. Motion to approve um B through H. Is that okay with Mrs. Veric or Mr. Kundi? Yes. Yes. Okay. Roll call, please. Stner. Hi. Veric. Hi. Kowarts. Hi. Awin. Hi. Candy. I Hansen. Hi. Okay, Mrs. Calartz. Um, so I just wanted to bring this up to
005um let me just grab so I can read this directly and so I'm not misspeing. Um, if you look under in the minutes under number eight, the interviews, sorry if you can't hear me. Interviews for vacant board of education. Um it states the process determined to based after checking with legal counsel will have to will have the board of education president appoint the candidate. Um this is just concerning to me because that would actually be against both Wisconsin state statute and our district policy. um the president cannot actually appoint until after the 60-day window has passed since the vacancy occurred, which would be June 20th. Um I noticed that the newspaper also got this wrong and I don't want um misinformation to reflect negatively on the board or the district and I feel we should
006correct this. Um, we could remove the sentence alto together or just add in the words after the 60-day window. Mrs. Kell Kellertz, you noticed in the agenda, what was linked in there is an update from our attorney. So, that's why that was stated the way it was, but once we worked with our attorney, we learn more. So, I feel like that's what was said at the meeting and now our new minutes will reflect the actual update from our attorney. Okay. Do we is there documentation from legal? Yes, there is. I don't believe that was sent to the board. It was given in writing in your agenda. It's linked in there. Yeah, I can send you the exact verbiage from him. Yes, that I read. Which says yes, we have yet to meet the 60-day mark
007of the vacancy. So, that's essentially uh what I'm saying. I just didn't know if we wanted to have that on since the minutes are permanent record, you know, that we tried to make an appointment um illegally in our previous meeting. There was no appointment that was attempted to make at the prior meeting. Donna Donna declined to make that decision. Yes. So, so that's a misstatement. suggestion of it. There was s there was suggestion of it that I know I understand that you you did not I'm just I just want to make sure we're following the correct process. I would just reflect u Mr. Cundy in the minutes that you just reflect the update from our attorney and that should take care of it. Okay. Okay. Do I have a motion uh to approve the minutes?
008So moved. I'll second it. Motion by Veric, second by Hansen to approve the June 2nd minutes. Roll call, please. Stellner I. Veric I. Cowarts. I. Equin. I. Kandandy. Hansen. I. And moving on to number six. Um for the record, um after the last meeting, um Mrs. Wisinski did withdraw her, uh name for the candidate for the school board. Given that information, um, and given the fact that we have not approached or passed the 60-day window, um, I would look for a motion to approve Nathaniel Harter for the vacant schoolboard seat. So moved. I'll second. Motion by Verich, second by Aman to approve Nathaniel Harter to fill the uh, vacant schoolboard seat. Any discussion? Okay. Roll call, please. Verich. Hi. Cowards. Hi. Ecman. Hi. Candy. Stellar. Hi. Hansen. I. And then we have the uh 2024
00925 LEA report. Um these are reports um these next few things are reports that um come before the board on an annual basis and um turn it over to Mrs. Dr. Larson. Sure. There's some reports in there. The first one um is Mrs. D's LEA report. Oh, thank you. Sorry. Um the first one's LEA report. It's Mrs. Dodd's report on who has served as an LEA at all of the various meetings. So you can see um what's happening in that area. Then seclusion and restraint reports. That's something that we have to report out um to DPI as well as give a report to the board. And then our 2425 bullying report. You can see the incident of bullying um by building. And then our nurses service report from uh our nurse Jennifer Krowy. None of
010these require a vote. They're just an FYI for the board. Are there any questions or comments from the board regarding any of these four reports? Um, yes, Mr. President. I I don't know how to ask for this if it'd be closed session or open session. Could we have a a a listening and question session on this report in the future to to talk about indivi individuals or why would you want any close session or not individuals um just specific numbers I think we can talk about that question as long as names aren't mentioned as long as individual names aren't mentioned. Okay. Um the one is um is there any data for the average amount of time spent per incident or per student on which report? Which report are you asking? Um that would be page
011seven. The third and fourth line um school psychologist number one has 44 incidences. School psychologist number two has 47. Those are IEP meetings. Those are required. I wouldn't call them incidents. Oh, okay. Well, either way, I just want to know if that workload is proper for two positions. Um, can they take more? Um, could one person handle the whole case load? Um, I'm just going to point out to um, Mr. Eman, as in my notes that's highlighted that I would appreciate you calling me with these questions because I can get all that information for you. Um, at this time I'd only be guessing, but essentially there needs to be an LEA at every IEP meeting. So, somebody in the district who has, I'll say, the credentials to do that must be present. As you can
012see, Mrs. Dodd does the majority of them. Otherwise, it's kind of divided up. So, as far as is the workload appropriate, I mean, that's not the main focus of our school psychologist job, but often they have to serve at leas for various meetings. Yeah. Yeah, I understand that. I'm just thinking uh budget-wise, you know, basically are two psychologist necessary? Absolutely. They they are for for the school district of our size they are. Yeah, that's that's all I have. Okay. Anyone else? Um, yeah, I just I kind of just wanted to give a kudos, I guess, to um Jennifer Krowy. Um, I was really impressed with her report and I I just love her personally. I think I've worked with her a lot over the years with my kids in the elementary school and I think
013she's fabulous. Um, and she does amazing at her job. Um, and I saw the she mentioned the policy in the works for having um stock albuterol available at the health offices just like we would have like stock EpiPen and I think that's fantastic as a mom of a kiddo with asthma. Um, I think I think that's a great thing and I look forward to putting that policy into place. So I just wanted to give a kudos to her because I love her. She's fantastic. So she did a great job on her report. Okay. Anything else? Okay. Moving on to um WCSD instructional opt out procedures. Um that document was in your packet and um can have a discussion about that or um move that to a vote. I have a couple questions for opt outs.
014Are they recorded in Sky View? Skyward. Um I don't know there's exact place in Skyward, but it's noted in the office and the administrative team knows. And as you'll see, it's really important that um they use our forms to opt out so we're not getting random forms. Okay. Well, are they follow the procedures and generally that's to contact the administrator. Okay. Um that leads me to my next question. Um now I have heard of a few um optouts being overlooked. Um so how can that be prevented? Well, at the time that was part of the problem. We were getting random forms from all different sources. So they must follow the procedures that we have outlined. And like I said, generally that's to contact the principal of that building to opt out. Okay. So standard operating
015procedures would be a teacher would do a review before um uh any test was administered or or or no. The principal would let the appropriate people know that that student parent had opted them out of whatever they're requesting to be opt out of. I see. And it's only it's only those three areas listed in the opt out letter that DPI allows. Are you looking for a motion? Um, we can do a motion and then I actually have I was I wasn't sure if Dean was done. I just have a quick question. Um, in the paragraph at the very the very last paragraph of that where it says why does the district I cannot speak. I'm so sorry. Why does the district require specific forms? um the sentence that says the district's provided forms assure that
016opt- out requests are consistent and accurate and that they do not include requests or directions that are not within the authority of a parent or student to require. Um, I just would like I don't know. I just didn't I don't know if it needs to be worded different or just that sentence. I didn't care for it because to me like parent is like the top like has the most authority. So like what what falls under you can't opt your student out of Spanish and 4K. Right. Right. That's what it's saying. So, and if this is um if this letter is being sent to family, maybe we could put in like an example or something like that to clarify that sentence maybe. I don't know. I just I feel like if it just sounds weird that
017the are not within the authority of a parent. I look at that if as you read it, the district's provided forms assure that opt out requests are consistent and accurate and they do not include requests or directions that are not within the authority of a parent or student to require. I look like or look at that like it's appropriately stated that the requests are consistent and accurate and they include the requests or directions that are not going against what the parent is liking. It's actually an agreement is the way I look at it. So they understand the consistency and the requirements of their ask. Well, there are certain things that that like Dr. Larson had used the example that are not within the authority of a parent to to require. So, like she said, they
018can't, you know, right? Like there like certain curriculum part of curriculum. Maybe we could I don't know. I just don't want because this is just this is a letter to families, right? Like going home to families. It'll be in our annual notices that I don't beginning of August that usually come out. Okay. Like I understand I understand the meaning of it. It just I don't know if it's just I don't know maybe it's just me. I I move to approve the opt out procedures uh notice to parents as as presented. Second motion by Veric, second by Kundi to approve the opt out procedures as presented. Any other discussion? Okay, we'll close that discussion. Roll call, please. Cowards, no. Aman, no. Candy, I ster I. Veric I. Hansen, I. That motion is approved. 4 to two.
019Um, next we have the job description for the frontline administrator payroll coordinator and then to follow the district administrative assistant job description. If you recall, we um are not replacing the HR committee. So, some of these um job ts were um spread across different people. So um these job descriptions reflect that and new job duties. So we will first discuss the payroll coordinator, the frontline administrator. Um anything in green there is a a change. Um are there any questions regarding that job description? Okay. Motion to approve. Do we I'll second motion for that piggy? Yes. Yeah. Okay. Um did Dean make that? Yep. Did you? Do I have a second? Second motion by Aman, second by Kundi to approve the frontline administrator payroll coordinator job description. Any other discussion? Roll call, please. Aman, hi. Kundi,
020I Stellner. Hi. Veric. Hi. Cowards. Hi. Hansen. I. And moving on to the district administrative assistant job description. I'll make a motion to approve the new district administrative assistant job description. Second. Motion by Hansen, second by Verich to approve the district administrative assistant job description. Any discussion or questions? Okay. Roll call, please. Atman, hi. Candyner, hi. Fair. Hi. Cowards. Hi. Hansen. I. U. Moving on to administrative reports. Those are in your packet. Um, any questions for the administration or additions from the administration? All right. And board reports, any communications? I have none. Okay. And um the I'm going to assign the committees um tonight. So for HR, there will be no change. It'll be um Varic Hansen and Stellner with Varic as the chairperson. Policy will be um Kundi Callowarts and Mr. Harter with Kundi
021as the chairperson and then PR will be Aman Stellner and Hansen and I will be the chairperson. Those will be the new committees for this next year. And I would also like to recognize Mr. Kundi who was awarded the honorary state FFA degree. Um this is the highest state level honorary degree awarded by the state FFA association and it recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to agricultural education and FFA on a state level. So congratulations to you. [Applause] If I can just add to that, I certainly want to thank and appreciate over the years the egg instructors, the community and the parents that I've and the students that I've worked with uh through the last 40ome years being a part of the FFA. And I also want to commend our current uh student body
022as well as our current egg instructors um for the representation that we've had other and through the years here um at our state convention. Um there's a lot of effort, a lot of lot of hard work, a lot of parents, student, teacher, community involvement to get the uh the commendations that are are for our students and and for Winnie County at our conventions. We're very well represented by the student body and our department. So, thank you. All right. And committee reports, HR and finance. Uh we met a couple weeks ago. Um we've already discussed a few of the matters, the uh the job descriptions and that opt out policy. And then we have a few things for closed. Okay. Marketing and public public relations we did not meet. and policy. I have nothing at this
023time. Okay. And with that, I would entertain a motion to move into executive session. So move. Second. Motion by Kundi, second by Aman to move into executive session under state statute 19.85 to approve executive session minutes from June 2nd, 2025. Wisconsin statute 19.85 985 sub1 subf to consider financial, medical, social or personal histories or disciplinary data of specific persons which if discussed in public would likely have a substantial adverse effect on the upon the reputation of the person involved. Topics for discussion include employee compensation. The board will reconvene in open session and may take action on items discussed in executive session. Roll call, please. Aman. Kundi Stelsner. Veric I. Cowards.