001[Music] I'll call the regular school board meeting to order it is March 3rd 2025 6:30 p.m. we are in the Winn count high school large group lecture hall meeting notices were sent to members of the press members of the school board and were posted on the front doors and or in the vestibules of District school buildings this is a meeting of the board in public for the purpose of conducting the school district's business and is not to be considered a public hearing there may be a time for public comment as the indicated in the agenda the meeting will also be available to watch live at www.youtube Winan please stand and do the Pledge of Allegiance I ALG to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for it stands one nation
002under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all board member roll call please stellner here veric here Keller here Peterson here Atman here cundy here Hansen all right recognizing the administrative team present we have Dr Larsson Mr Katie Mr maner Dr mad and Mr jerbec and I do not have anyone signed up for open Forum um and all visitors please make sure you have signed in in the back with that we'll move on to our consent agenda do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda so moved second motion by Peterson second by cundy is there any discussion if none uh roll call please stellner I Keller hi Peterson hi Amman Hi cundy I veric hi all right then the Norbert Rich School Forest tree Library I am happy to introduce our school Forester
003Mr Pat Colby he is going to share some updates that's happening at our forest do would you guys want to come out here so you don't have to like crank your neck constantly I think we're okay um yeah I'm Pat Kobe I'm the school Force coordinator out at Norbert Rich um if you been out there over the last couple years you may notice that the Northeast section of our property has gotten logged off in the last couple years and you might be wondering what in the world is the plan for that um so I'm going to go over that here tonight pretty excited about that um first off I guess I just want to say it's been a pleasure this is almost my third year uh serving in the district it's been a pleasure to
004um serve in my role to all the students and staff and and have the position that I have um with outdoor education and environmental aded and fi Ed and all kinds of different roles that I play out there um so we're talking about specifically this Northeast section of the property it's it's approximately 6 and a half to Seven Acres um it was a dying or it was already dead uh section of Red Pine that was probably planted approximately like 30 to 40 years ago between the years of 2015 and 2020 we had like three of the wetest years on record in Wisconsin and Red Pine does not like being in water or having wet feet so uh essentially it killed it much of that section up here was dead um and then kind of going
005this way it was dying this section over here is still all red pine and it's we're hoping that we're in a little bit more of a drier Trend and it's going to survive but specifically we're talking about this is the area that we have logged off in the last couple years um we logged that area off first in 2022 kind of the area you can see that looks like it got logged off is the area that was logged in 2022 um and then in 2024 we did this section here so this is actually not standing anymore along with thinned out this the rest of the Red Pine section over here um in hopes that it would help it um succeed and continue to grow um we did those logging events as part of a loga
006load for kids program in which um we had our entire fourth graders out and we had like 13 to 16 Timber or logging industry stations set up um that they could travel around to and the Highlight was they got to see the live processor in Action cutting down trees um a really cool day it started with our entire fourth grade in 2023 we did uh the logal load again in a different section and we also included uh an area Homeschool Group and then last year in 2024 we actually invited Amro as well so we had their entire fourth grade our entire fourth grade and multiple homeschool groups in the area that got to rotate around to all these stations so pretty cool we you know served over 250 to 300 kids in this last year
007um the Great Lakes Timber professional gltpa helps run these events um we do get a portion of the timber sales back we've approximately gotten $22,000 give or take each year a portion of that sales is donated as part of this logal load for kids program to uh a Children's Miracle Network hospital um Awesome event some of you I think have attended and and seen it in action it's really cool a great learning experience it's an all day event for kids um and they get to to go around and learn a lot and have a great experience Pat the do the the donated part is that part of the 2000 or is that an addition that's an addition y unfortunately like with that we didn't make a ton of money off of it like when you're
008dealing with logging a section that is either dead or dying already um a lot of that Timber isn't even salvageable to make into product um in fact some of it when they started to cut it down it just kind of crumbled and you know it broke apart and and they just would leave those trees on the ground because they don't even have any timber value or worth at all so we did the best that we could with it um so right now the site very much looks like this um and if you'd come out in the summer it's all green and about 8 foot tall and impenetrable and you can't see it see through it it's a bit of an eyesore um it there's Reed canary grass that is 6 to 8 ft tall along
009with invasive Autumn Olive and Buckthorn and there are sections where the the Red Pine that is dead is still standing because they could not get to it in 2022 when we were in the process of logging it got we got a lot of rain um and they didn't want to tear up our property with the or get stuck with the logging equipment so they didn't even get to some of it and that obviously presents a danger issue um because that stuff's dead it could fall over at any time if you're out there so um what do we do with this section okay what do we do with that block that we we harvested we could just leave it and it would continue to grow into that just ey sore of a impenetrable area that would
010never get used the only value it would hold would probably be to I know the deer love it because I was in it today marking some some trees and there's deer paths and beds all over but in terms of us using it um it would would have no use um we could replant trees um or even plant a like a prairie style um in that area so considerations that I've gone through in our school Forest committee have talked about was how do we get the most value in the Regeneration um consider costs uh what is the Legacy that we're going to leave of our school forest and of Norbert Rich who was a tree farmer and planted all of those trees on the property himself um how do we enhance the educational experience versus just
011having this big Seven Acres of of invasive species and grass how can we involve students how can we provide diversity um and provide an appealing like new regeneration for people that visit um both community members and students so what we have formulated is this tree Library plan where we take this top um four and a half to five acres and we replant trees in this area uh this is a plan that I've worked on and consulted with the Winnebago County forest Tim James I got to give him more credit he kind of came up with more of it than I did um but together we came up with this plan of doing a tree Library so we would plant roughly 15 to 20 different species of trees that are all Native to Wisconsin in about
012rows of 10 um all exclusively like one species of 10 rows and then the next 10 rows would be a different species um someday being very cool that you could go out there we could sign it and kids and community members could go that's what a red oak is that's what a swamp white oak is look at the difference in the you know the trees the bark the leaves Etc um this would be unique to our school Forest I don't know a lot of other places that have something like this um we could involve the students in all of this tree planting and I think it would leave an awesome Legacy uh down the road you know kids that plant trees could drive by 15 20 years from now and know that they took a
013part in that um developing this this cool tree Li library that is special and unique to us the other two acres roughly over here and I didn't include these because these are actually standing kind of evergreen or pine sections that are still doing pretty good um we would develop this into like a wetland Prairie um again I'm Consulting with experts that know more than me on this so uh Shannon Davis Fel she's a professor at wo and she serves on our school flest committee um she's pretty well versed in the in the prairie game um we would involve some of her students from her classes along with some of our high school students to go out and collect seed and do this planting we would plant this over the winter of 2026 it would offer
014our property more diversity um an opportunity for habitat to develop for bugs birds all kinds of different animals and we have like all these beautiful boardwalks that were built I believe pre-2020 or preco uh through myin construction that are just sitting in one of the sheds waiting for an opportunity to get to use um and I feel like having a boardwalk go through this Prairie would be a pretty cool way to use those um structures that were built a long time ago and were left with no plan for me now it sounds all good and great but there certainly are challenges and costs and considerations uh to go um you can't just go out there and throw some seed or plant some trees into 8ot canary grass nothing's going to happen um the invasives will
015win every single time so in order to do this we must cleanse or sterilize the site which is through a process called like feon or Forest REM mulching and this is actually going on currently right now um we fired Tim shider out of tees construction with this amazing machine it's fun to watch they can take uh if you remember that picture before with like the 68 foot tall stuff he can go through with this forestry mulch your head and just it just pummels everything in its path so Bas basically we need to like cleanse the site down to nothing um bare ground and that's what that machine will do um Tim is a member of our community has uh multiple students that went through our district and has a senior right now um Sim actually
016quoted us at 11,000 and then donated 3,000 worth of time um plus he said he would stick around and do more extra whatever I want them to so hopefully holds up to that um so we get the we get the whole site cleansed down to the bare dirt obviously stuff's going to come back and grow including all those invasives like the canary grass so we would have to herbicide treat over the course of this summer and fall um and that has a cost to it and then when it comes to planting the trees if we just put trees in the ground and walk away um the deer are going to eat every single one of them so that is not something we can do we would if we want to have the diversity of trees
017and have these 15 to 20 species we have to fence it in um so we'll have to create a 7 8ft fence around the perimeter and what we've done if you come out there I could show you show you this whole thing um but we've left a lot of trees or through the logging process cut them off about 8 foot up so we can use them as fence posts around this section and and save us money on fence post costs um it still is going to have some type of cost to it but it would make no sense for us to do this go through the work of of putting the trees on the ground um Forestry mulching all this whole process and then if we don't fence it in and we come back the
018next year and every single tree is eaten by the deer so um the deer present a major challenge to us um in this process now considerations though positive stuff um the three Timber sales uh the returns from that the approximately two grand a year we get to put right back into the Regeneration plan um I actually did an interview with Midwest Specialties products as fall they are a a company in our own Community but I did the meeting was through Zoom with someone in New York which is strange um but they were so excited about this tree Library project that they donated $3,000 towards it um and maybe we can look into other p uh possible future donations um we have other donations and funds from years past to pull from for this all of
019the trees that we request to plant we get free because we're a school Forest through the Wisconsin DNR and and then we of course can involve and use students or community members or volunteers to help with the planting to save costs on that um and we've planted some trees these are just some pictures from the some the past uh last year last spring we planted some trees with uh community members and kids um what does success look like if this project goes great um we'll have a tree library of 15 to 20 different Native Wisconsin trees that people can easily identify through signage they can learn um Community that's going to benefit community members students of all ages 15 20 25 years down the road when those trees are mature and they're dropping seeds There's
020an opportunity to actually collect those seeds and then make money back through the DNR where they then grow those seeds into new seedlings to be sold on their nurseries um you know the Prairie's growing trees are blooming flowers are out there there's different colors we got signs Boardwalk um diversity I think this project is pretty exciting and and could be an awesome asset to our school forest and our community so does anybody have any questions I appreciate your time and support and listen to all that uh Pat I just want to mention um for what you're doing thank you um when the family bestowed that to our district that was their main concern that when they chose us for that forest was for the Regeneration the restoration and or maintaining wildlife and so on um
021so thank you for that the other thing that I really appreciate is the fact that when I talk to students within the district and their families and so on and and their children are coming home and the excitement that they have that you've you've put this within our curriculum and have the students and the children out there at the forest um the excitement for them to see that and learn and the program that you have going is exactly what we wanted and what we had intended when the family uh did turn that property over to our district and just to refresh my memory is that about 40 acres or 43.5 okay thank you thank you for the kind words um Pat so your current budget do you have to take from that budget at all
022to get this started not to get this started like uh like the forestry mulching process right now that's we're using the money from the previous three years of Timber Harvest and then that donation that we had we'll cover all that um and then we have two future we we expect to do that loga load for the next two years we have two other areas of the property that need thinning so we should get some future earnings in the next two years as well that we can use to put back those aren't clearcuts like those areas won't need regeneration they're just thinning so that the trees that are there can grow bigger and healthier so so we'll be able to use the earnings from that to also put back towards this project well thank you we
023really appreciate your presentation if anyone ever wants to come and visit and see it in person and I can walk you around and and really show you what it's all about more than welcome to come out just email me we can set up a time so thank you thanks okay next up is the middle school schedule for the 25 26 school year yes unfortunately M Horvath got sick today and Mr Shader couldn't make it but I can answer any questions I believe you've had this information oh thank you um in your packet for the last couple meetings so nothing is new as they were just going through it um they just weren't necessarily sure if they everything was finalized earlier but now we are moving forward and looking forward to um having a more streamlined
024schedule throughout the entire District does anybody have any questions regarding the schedule I just had a couple questions and that is um when this is taking place like in the morning as well at the high school or in the middle school if we pass this the principal as well participates uh with the program and maybe at a future agenda if we could have some uh presentation as far as the outcomes at the high school what we have seen since we put this in place as far as some of what we've tried to accomplish with Al this within the district yep um I think one of the things we're looking forward to is actually having 612 people be able to collaborate as well more easily so we're looking forward to that opportunity as well and then
025just one other thing of course and when we approve our calendars every year there's always one thing that I'm concerned about and that is always our reduction of actual instructional minutes within our classes and so I want to make sure that we always keep that in place and in in our mind that we Main maintain as many instructional minutes as we can within our core classes I notice that you've got a comment in here um with this as far as some of the elective times and so on but across the board our instructional minutes has always been something important to think about thank you any other questions or comments if none we will move on then to the high school skylight replacement do we need a motion for the Middle School no no okay um
026this came forward to the um finance committee um this has been something and Mr Katie correct me if I'm wrong this has been a a a need for some time and we do have it's four skylights that they're at their life uh but they are all very expensive to replace so uh Mr Katie has um tagged the most important one to get replaced and that cost is $130,000 that will be done this summer um and that comes out of fund 41 uh you'll recall fund 41 is the fund that we have money in there for uh roof replacing and and and repairing costs and that fund currently is just under $730,000 so the money is there to to address this issue this this summer anything else you'd like to add or comment I I'd like
027to make a comment on this um first of all the fund 41 when we first established that fund 41 we had to wait 5 years to take any monies out of that and we have taken monies out of that for some roof repair uh Through The Years um each year we usually put in $100,000 this last year we did not put in $100,000 um looking at this though um I would like to propose that we take and repair and do the full job uh for the skylights and if we needed to take half of the money out of fund balance and maybe half out of fund 41 this to me is not like a roof repair I'd like to see this job done in completion and so my my thought is is looking at these
028figures it'd be a little over 500,000 that we would take half out of fund 10 uh balance and then the remaining out of fund 41 and get the job complete we have the people here to repair them and I feel it's important that we get the job done all at once it's not like a rof repair where there's a greater amount of dollars and it's a larger space then uh Mark are you recommending we table this and maybe send it back to the finance committee to analyze that and bring it back to the board at a later date that would be my proposal unless the board feels as though that we could go ahead with it tonight Mr Katie um are you the time frame with the contractor for this is there a time frame
029we should be working with them to get this situated so we get on their list to yeah we need to get on their list soon uh contractors fill up pretty quick for the summertime um Mr tundy with your suggesting to do the whole thing at once the only thing that I'd be concerned about is shorting the fund because I still have roofs I have to do and they're just as important as the skylights so if you want to go that route that's fine but then we're going to have to make sure that we keep that 100,000 into the fund for the future because I got to make sure some of these movs get taken care of too right and I agree with you on that but I'm always been one in the belief that I
030don't agree with doing peace work and with the size of this and this project to me I think we should do it all at once and have that completed I do understand the roof uh questions and concerns but I'm also looking at Future dollars and future budgets and I think it's important right now that we get the job done that's my feeling I do kind of like your your idea mark Cuz um with inflation I mean if you keep peace mealing it uh I wonder what that compounds into with four skylights you know when it's 5 years from now so I think your idea does have some good substance the other thing Mr Katie maybe you can go back and say okay let's get the scope of this job done completed at one time maybe
031we can look at a reduction of cost because of a onetime completion um doing all of them at once maybe we can get a better quote and also to have them come back is going to cost us more in the future Mr Katie in your opinion um I know you're recommending do just doing one now essentially how long would you wait to do the other three I I try to do one a year okay um but just so you know when I'm talk about these skylights I talk about the ones right out here in the hall and they're individual Bays so I'm not like doing half a skylight walking away doing half another I'm doing a whole complete section putting one and we go over to the section over here the section of the library
032so I would never do like half a bay and then you have you know and I would understand that you you do a complete Skylight I understand that yes and I think the total cost uh to do all of them I believe was $ 47,9 so according to what you quoted as per one there is a quite of savings by having them done complete yeah that's great each one is a little a little different sure what it cost sure um one other thing you mentioned the 100 100,000 that we put into fund 41 um I know Monica isn't here um but when it comes to annual meeting time I definitely want to make sure that we do not Overlook that um and keep that fund um as well uh established with the dollars in that
033and hopefully then for future roof and so on that would you know help you out with your question and just we don't know what the budget is and we likely won't know what the state budget is until October we have our annual meeting and during around that time so that is good but some the reason why we couldn't do it is we just didn't have the funds to put in $100,000 because it comes right out of fund 10 right so am I hearing um we want to bring this back to finance is that what I'm hearing unless there's a motion to fund it all right now I mean either or I'll make a motion that we go ahead with the completion of this Skylight uh for the 400 and some odd dollars I forget what
034you said exactly Steve 450 7,763 in change give me a little slack on sure no I understand know if you know prices go up with aluminum or whatever this is the quote that I got from last summer I'll make a motion that we we go ahead and and do this job for repair of the skylights in completion I'll second did you want to add which funds how much funds were coming out of which accounts you indicated here that it was 13,000 is that what the committee did approved is that that's coming out of fund 41 but I I thought I heard somebody saying take two out of there and the rest yes I would like to make it the motion include the fact that we would take the cost and split it 5050 out of
035the fund 41 and fund 10 balance Steve just real quick before we vote um could you remind me I know you went over your successive plan of roof you know never ending roof repairs right um how much of that do you have coming up in the next year or two just in case funding is a challenge this year are we going to mess up your schedule for next year I don't know we have about 25% of the high school roof left that's still in Old ballast roof original 1998 um and we chisel away at that according to how much money we have in this fun so we don't have a lot of money well then we're going to scale down the project and wait for next year I mean I'm going to work with what
036we have so thank whatever you want to do all right well we had a motion by cundy and a second by Amman to move forward with funding the full replacement of all four skylights and any more board discussion if not board roll call please Keller hi Peterson hi Amman hi stellner hi Candy iich hi all right moving on to the uh high school track resurfacing again this was a um brought to the finance committee um the the track is in need of resurfacing and if we fail to do so the underlying lifespan of that track is diminished significantly so by moving forward with this project at the tune of $107,000 it'll give us another 7 to 10 years of life on this track the track was replaced in full it was 2015 um everyone thought
037it was 2019 but we've had a good lifespan out of it so far so um just to resurface it is 107,000 so you can imagine what that cost would be to redo the entire track uh this is something that would come out of fund 46 this is the fund that we are able to transfer dollars from fund 10 at the end of the year that current balance is at $884,000 so on and so forth it was probably in excess of 3 400,000 if I remember right I could be mistaken um but to get 10 or 7 to 10 years out of this track after we spent all that money uh getting it to drain properly and maintain like we have I feel it's a good a good project that we would move forward with is
038there a motion i' had moved to approve the cost of $107,000 to resurface the track pulling money from fun 46 I'll second that motion motion by Peterson second by stellner to approve the track resurfacing any additional discussion all right then uh board member roll call please Amman hi stellner hi cundy I Keller hi Peterson hi verich hi okay we are moving back to a matter that was tabled at our last meeting and this is regarding um uh the ACT 95 for the Wisconsin guaranteed admission program um uh Dr Larsson if you'd like to bring the board up to speed on that yes um so in your board notes you can see we did some research along with um our attorney Tess O'Brien um about what exactly um Madison is requiring or not requiring they are
039called what's called test optional so if a student feels that submitting their ACT test would help them they certainly are allowed to do that and they will look at that act however um it's not it's not supposed to necessarily weigh any heavier than anything else but if a student feels they want to submit it they will look at it some schools are test blind which means they will not even accept a test to look at so Madison is test optional um in reviewing what would be in our students best interest for this year um we still uh Dr mhad and I still feel that we would like to move forward with the current or the tiebreaker that was proposed at the last meeting simply because our students are aware of that process and putting something
040new out there as such as a weighted schedule there's nothing a junior can do about that right now we will look into that in the future for this sophomore years group of students but right now we still feel it's in the best interest to not throw something new with our kids so we still do need to have that public hearing regarding this process um and we need to go through that regardless so all right then I'll need a motion to move into that public hearing so move second motion by cundy second by stellner uh board member roll call please stellner hi cundy I Keller hi Peterson hi Amman hi veric I um you've seen what the uh proposal is is um I would now open it up to the public if anybody has any questions
041comments concerns you are welcome to come up to the microphone um this does not require you to have signed in ahead of at the beginning of the meeting all right it doesn't look like we have any questions what about the board I have one for Peggy sure um so testing blind what benefits a school from accepting testing blind um what would be their their motivation so test blind is not what UW Madison is but test blind means you must not even submit your ACT test they don't want to see it um I can't it I it could be a lot of reasons Madison has chosen to be test optional I I just thought it would hurt it could hurt the reputation reputation you know you accept a student with no test scores um that's that's
042what came to my mind yeah I I'm not actually sure of other schools motives again um the school we're talking about and UW systems are test or excuse me W Madison is test optional through 2027 I don't know what's going to happen after that I question yeah yeah go ahead microphone got best me last time in my way uh so first of all I think it's wise not to put an undo burden on students who are Juniors now they would feel completely blindsided like what am I going to do now so I think that's probably wise in considering the students as they are uh a couple thoughts is there an indication of where the WW system or schools are going after this next year are they giv a signal that ACT scores will become important
043again that's one question and then uh the second part of that is as we look at the W system and kind of the new policies they're taking on as they reflect uh Wisconsin students the top 10 and 5% how does that impact how we rank as as they consider going on to W School specifically does that make sense I'm not sure you're seeing your second part but your first part all I can says on the W Madison we website it says um we are test optional through 2027 okay so I don't know what it's going to happen for 28 yep um and honestly I don't um I did not reach out to an admissions officer or anything either to ask however okay so your second so the second part so there's the Wisconsin promise right
044I think that's what they call it or gue or something yeah yeah and then and then Madison has bies thing well I don't know what they're calling they're Market in a certain way but there's certain guarantees for you know Wisconsin students to be accepted or uh favorably looked upon does that factor into how this uh ranking occurs well that's what we're determining correct this directly applies to that this is the what the law stated was that the top 5% of high school juniors going their senior year are guaranteed admission to W Madison yep automatic admiss they get their their name submitted they're in y what our legislature did not think through is that the top 5% could be difficult to determine depending on how the the the schools rankings are and we are one of
045those schools not the only school there are other schools so we're we we are tasked with um making this determination to take forward to DPI this tiebreaker uh determination now some of the other things you pointed out the Wisconsin promise is actually guaranteed tuition for it's related to your income asset level ah okay so that's different that's a good differentiation that is a differentiation um so this this really what we're talking about tonight is strictly ww Madison okay and we just have to figure this out there really um there's no guidance in from the legislature at all so this leads to a question regarding that then is there a particular quota then is there a limit to how many students top 5% so let's top 5% but within the 5% is there say Hey you
046can only send 10 you get what I'm saying because if there's a tiebreaker and the ti if I'm wrong so our top 5% are how many kids for this junior class sorry do you know off the top of your head seven so we have seven kids but let's just say we have 10 with a 4.0 right so that's where we need the tie breaker to come into place and that's why we're proposing the at um ACT score sub scores I have I have a junior okay so I'm very curious yeah okay thank you y thanks uh any other comments questions from the public anything from the board just a quick question what is a composite average score of our acts for this class the the class prior I'm saying 20.7 okay um Peg you mentioned
047doing this this for just the current Juniors because it's late um what have you guys thought about as far as moving forward Beyond this year if anything we're working on oh sorry no go ahead we're working on that we're not some sort of weighted scale like I.E um let's just say AP classes could have a weight an additional weight of I'm I'm making this up right now but 1.5 okay and then down through like what would carry additional weight okay than thank you but that would be something very new to our kids if we were to do something like that this year as well as we've really tried to reinforce that it's it's been a hard I'll say it's a hard pill for some of us to swallow because we just because somebody takes an
048AP course versus More arts we're struggling with that a little bit um and we'll have to work through some of those things cuz you can also use things we could say again and I'm just throwing this out not that we've talked thoroughly about this yet but if you were in four years of ban could that get some extra weight and it should be noted that this is just for the guaranteed admission those students out of if there's as as Dr Larsson mentioned there's 10 students with a 40 those three that don't get the guaranteed admission they can still apply and get in right you know so it's it's not like they're done right it's just yes that's very true any other comments from the board all right then um we will will need a motion
049to close this public hearing then so move second second the motion motion by Keller second by cundy board member roll call please cundy I Keller hi Peterson hi Amman hi staler hi veric I all right then do we have a motion on uh for a resolution seeking wer waiver from the requirement of Wisconsin guaranteed admission program and if you'll note there is um specific language in your board notes for what we need in this motion and if anybody needs a copy of it I'm happy to share it with you I move the request a motion requested wears the Wisconsin guaranteed admission program Wisconsin statute section 118.5 requires schools to prepare a class ranking of peoples enrolled in the high school as of the classes completion of grade 11 and directs that pupils shall be ranked
050on the basis of academic achievement and the sole creation of of criteria for ranking pupils shall be the pupils grade point average and whereas wiy County High School does not apply a weighted grading system and his results needed a way to break ties between students who have earned a 4.0 grade point average in order to comply with the statutory requirements in Wisconsin statue section 18.58% for ACT composite scores and if needed act subscores and whereas the criteria aligned with the academic Excellence tiebreaking criteria now therefore be it resolved by the school board of Winnie County School District as follows I read the last part too win County High School is directed to CK waiver for um DPI to apply tiebreaking criteria of act composite scores and if needed act subscores for purposes of Wisconsin's guaranteed
051admission program Wisconsin statute 118.5 I will second motion by Peterson second by Amman any additional board discussion if none board member roll call please Keller hi hi Peterson I Amman hi stellner I hundy ey veric no okay moving on to policies Mr cundy all right everybody loves policy all right um the policies that are presented tonight and it are in your board packet have went through the committee and it is the committee's recommendation for approval the first policy policy 2210 curriculum development this policy has been revised by removing language that is part of the education outcome goals and expectations included section 18-01 of the Wisconsin statutes and not the curriculum standards as outlined in pi8 of the administrative code the appropriate language is included in policy 2131 educational outcome goals and expectations the legal citations
052have been updated to accurately reflect the curriculum standards of pi8 so policy 2210 curriculum development um as we go through these policies you'll notice under curriculum development the letter of a through e uh those are all uh been reviewed by the committee and all for recommendation to be a part of this policy um as many times Within These policies if there's time period stated and or uh so on up in the very first paragraph the five years evalu ation process the review of the evaluation process least every 5 years for curriculum development three qus of the way down the policy as well um we have listed um a b CDE E and F and as you go through the policies you'll notice as well um those letters um are been reviewed by the committee and
053are um designated to be a part of the policy when we were given a policy as the committee uh those of us that are on the committee remember we put check marks within those areas and I think maybe the board packet didn't have all the letters in in there to be checked it just indicated the letters that we wanted within the policy anything else on 12-3 12-4 on the very bottom part of 12-4 um where it indicates the board encour CES where it is feasible and in the best interest of the district participation in programs of educational research as well is an area that um in our packet when we reviewed this as a committee we had a check mark put in that particular area any further questions on 12-4 12-5 um policy number 2270
054copy of religion of religion in the curriculum and this policy here is revised to add legal citations and to reflect the annual notice requirement in the law policy 2270 as we go through the first page you'll notice the the new language any question within the policy on the first page all right 12-6 six okay and next policy policy 2271 d01 copy of start college now program this policy is updated to reflect that in addition to any tuition cost the law requires that the district pay the cost of course fees and books to the same extent that a student who was attending the technical college and who is a resident of this state uh would be charged and again on 12-7 under tuition payments of Technical College attendance the student may appeal an adverse decision to
055the Department of Public Instruction the board shall notify the student no less than 30 calendar days prior to the start date of the proposed course if it finds that the course either does not meet High School graduation requirements or is comparable to a course that's offered in the district and as you know when we get requests if there's courses that are offered within the District of course we would not pay for courses that would send them to any other uh source of Education 12-8 any questions policy 2416 student privacy and parental access to information this is a revision this policy is updated to improve the arrangement of the policy Provisions to be more user friendly and to update parental notification requirements any questions on 12-9 12-10 and again the language the new language that's um
056in the green uh coloring is of course a new language within the policy 12-11 is of course the omissions from the policy anything else on that policy policy 2440 d01 summer and interim School attendance this is new um as we go down through the policy you'll notice um the first area under summer or interim School attendance an area that we would check we would put a check in the first uh check point under the board May establish minimum attendance requirements for any classes taken for credit anything else on 1212 1213 policy 2464 Advanced learning instruction gifted and talented replacement is what we had called it and this is uh policy replaces the existing policy to account for significant revisions the replacement policy includes new Provisions based on state-based statutory language and administrative regulations from the
057Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction this policy was developed with the assistance of the Wisconsin Association of ented and gifted any questions on on 1213 again as you notice down um in the new language um the second paragraph Advanced learning focuses on identifying the instructional needs of students within K12 grade level system Advanced Learners gifted and talented are defined as students who give evidence of high performance capability or potential in any one or or more or five domains General intellectual specific academic leadership creativity and Visual and Performing Arts um I just wanted to point that those are um the five domains that are under the policy for the program uh gifted and talented uh which of course is now Advanced learning instruction 1214 the very first paragraph um where it states um the five domains as
058I stated General intellectual specific academic leadership creativity and Visual and Performing Arts and then it continues on as universal screening we do not have a check mark um in that particular area as well in the last part of that particular column uh right before students with Advanced learning again we do not have a check mark in that paragraph As we go down through the policy and look under instruction of course you've noticed that this here is all new language um we would have a check mark in the area um where it states acceler accelerated learning opportunities should be available including but not limited to early entrance to kindergarten subject acceleration whole grade acceleration and early graduation from high school um as we go down through the policy the second to the last paragraph um the
059district administrator will evaluate the effective effectiveness of identification and programming for advanced learning through ongoing data analysis to measure both the growth of individual students and consistent implementation of advanced learning instruction and opportunities across all K12 schools and then you'll see a spot there um where you could have a check mark um I do not believe that we put a a check mark in there as a committee is that what each of you have okay I which one it's a second paragraph to the end I did Mark it as no check mark okay and then the very last paragraph the district administrator shall develop administrative guidelines which shall include those for valid identification instruction implementation and assessment of learning outcomes we do have a check mark there okay any further question questions on 1214 and
060those are the policies um that we did review as a committee and my recommendation is for them to go under one motion for approval all right any motion to approve all of the policies as discussed so move second uh motion by cundi second by Peterson to approve the policies as discussed uh board member roll call please Peterson hi Amman hi stellner hi cundy ey Keller ver I all right then moving on to admin reports any Communications um yes I have one I received a letter from a group and it's from some Winnie County band families and wanting to make sure that we give recognition and Express gratitude um to m Mrs Ron for her impact on wi count students and the community Mrs Ron shows her value in many ways as a band director and
061teacher she is continually encouraging students to bet to do better and to be confident in their abilities and musicians while balancing academics also miss Ron goes above and beyond teaching she encourages students to be part of a band family by teaching students to show kindness in everywhere and everyone also known as the win wayi and also as a community member she shows her dedication to Winnie County and all she does and the opportunities that she's brought to the Winnie County Community School Districts such as state honors ban convention Soul assembles recital Etc is not only extra work for her but it shows that she really believes in our kids and their abilities thank you Mrs Ron for all your efforts and hard work it does not go unnoticed we are lucky to have you as
062a part of the staff here at the wining County Community School District um sincerely from the families of the wi County band members okay moving on to committee reports HR financial planning uh we did meet um we we discussed the the track resurfacing and the skylights uh there was it was a closed session meeting so those items that are for Clos section the notes from that meeting were in your packet and then we will be meeting again on April 4th at 10: a.m. again another Clos session meeting the purpose of these meetings uh Monica just really wants to keep us up to speed on what's going on at the state level with the the Budget moving on to PR marketing um nothing at this time in policy um yes we did meet tonight with the
063next group of policies um that we will be bringing forth on March 17th we'll be meeting at 5:30 in the library to review those um next policies um for approval as well on a next board meeting agenda there will be another set that will be there for approval and I'm just looking at this agenda I kind of glossed over admin reports I don't was there anything that anyone needed to add over and above what was in the board packet I apologize all right I uh Mr cundy I just wanted to say thank you to our community um this last yesterday actually um our winning County FFA alumni which supports our FFA and our egg education program here in our community school district uh we held our annual feed it was our 18th Annual chil feed
064the proceeds from that supports a high school senior graduate with a scholarship and we had an intendance um not only the excellent performance by our high school poker band as well as uh Tom Schneider and 25th band we usually have two different bands it runs from 11: till 3: and we had just about 300 people in attendance so it was a great activity great response and it fully supports um our egg program and education here at the Community School District so thank you to the community and all of them that helped us support that activity okay and just I would just shout out to mark because he was getting his hands dirty serving Chile so he goes above and beyond to get dirty for the community so I think Mark thanks for your continued commitment
065to the community and before we move into close session I just there are a number of FYI in this agenda that I just want to bring to the board's attention um our next meeting the high school sale team um will be presenting their work um and then Mrs Bodo who's been doing the costuming for our school plays uh since I think prior to the wcac opening um she's retiring she's been amazing she doesn't really get paid for her work and it's it's it's quite a an undertaking so a huge huge thank you to Mrs Bodo for all of her her work for our theater program and then um April 22nd at 5 5:30 we are doing that board workshop with uh Ted nitzki from cisa and then most importantly May 20th is our St staff
066recognition night at 5:30 it's at off the wolf and this is where we recognize staff for years of service in retirees and it's such a fantastic program so please mark your calendar so that you can be there and with that do I have a motion to move into Clos session so move second motion by cundi second by Peterson to move into close session um roll call please Amman staler hi cundy I Keller hi Peterson