001families and school communities. Research continues to advance from the innovations that brought us CPR, pacemakers, and stances to the early career projects that they that may spark the next major breakthrough. At Writtown, you have a community that is truly making a difference. Thank you for your continued leadership and support. With heartfelt appreciation, Karen Jwitt, American Heart Association, >> great story. Thank you very much. >> All right, next is youth apprenticeship with CC7. >> I'd have Eric introduce her and who he has with Betsy tonight for CC7. We have Betsy Bar from the7 and and Mr. here as well. Um they uh and oh and this is also here for um thank you um that are part of our youth apprentichip program at the high school. >> Okay. You want to stand up? >> Yeah. >>
002Okay. >> You can go over it. >> My name is Betsy Barrett. I am the youth apprenticeship coach here at Rightstown and also at Schwaban High School. So I'm very familiar with Mr. Richard itself. Great. And this is Mr. Gordon. He or Dave Gordon. He is our youth apprentichip coordinator for CISA 7 and NUA Northeast Wisconsin youth apprentichip program. >> Yeah, good evening. I'm here just to cover the basics and answer any questions that you may have about the program. So I don't know who's got the presentation, but if you could advance. So, if you're not familiar with youth partnership, it's a statecertified workbased learning program. We're overseen by the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development. Students have to work at least 450 hours. They get high school elective credit. They are paid for their work
003experience and upon successful completion, um they get a credential from Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development that they can put on their resume as they exit high school. Um it's a spectacular way for students to explore options uh before they have to leave high school. In many cases, they confirm uh their career ambitions. In other cases, they get a chance to pivot and go a different direction before they've committed a significant amount of money uh towards a post-secondary program. Um our consortium uh the Northeast Wisconsin Youth Friendship Consortium uh is in our fourth year. Uh during that time, we've seen exponential growth across Northeast Wisconsin. We accredit that growth to the work that our school-based coaches do and Betsy is the school-based coach for Wrightstown High School. Uh we support districts across northeast Wisconsin um everything
004from southern Shabboian county through the Washington Island school uh to northern door county. Uh one of the benefits of our program is that we are grant funded. The right school district pays absolutely nothing for the support that we're able to provide. Not only is the service provided at no cost to district, uh the district is actually eligible for money from the technical incentive grant due to the completion uh of the youth apprentichip program uh for the students that participate. So if you would please youth apprentichip uh has opportunities available in all 16 career clusters. Typically when people think of the word apprentichip they think construction and trades and that's um for obvious reasons. We certainly have a number of students working in those fields. as a consortium, our number one pathway this year was actually
005healthcare. Uh so we're excited to um offer students a career path uh in in that area as well, but it's everything from finance, accounting, engineering, so on and so forth. Uh so we're trying to break the stigma that this is just a one opportunity. We support students with any number of uh career ambitions. Those students that plan to go to college, those students that plan to go to a tech school, and those students that are hoping to go directly to work as an exit. Again, it's really confirming uh that this is something they want to do before they exit high school and commit themselves to a college program. Please. >> Right. So, as a youth apprentichip student, thank you. Um you have to be a junior or senior. It is a student driven program. So,
006it doesn't exist unless that student does the work. I'm here to mentor them and help them along. I can help them with the resume, interview, all of that fun stuff, as well as our uh school counselor uh which is Miss Pette. So she works along alongside with of me. Um they can take they have to take one related coursework credit or up to three credits in the college in college. For example, if a student wants to go into healthcare, they can take the nursing assistant class and that will count towards that. Um so or if they are going into marketing, you know, any business type classes or Microsoft, something like that. uh they can earn specifically at Writestown here which is really awesome is that starting this next year they can earn up to four
007credits for elect uh elective credits which is very helpful for some students as they increase the credit uh to graduate. So um this is it's just a wonderful opportunity. They can get two credit per semester. So and they must be on track to graduate. Um, it's it's just pass fail, so it's going to show up on their transcript as elective credit, but it won't have any weight on their GPA. Um, students can modify their schedules during the workday. They don't have to. It depends on each student. Each student is different. So, we know that some students uh they're everybody's different so in what their goals are and how uh and their path and journey into high school. So, um it just depends on every student and their um pathway to graduate. Uh it's a one-year
008commitment. So, we generally start their counting their hours in the summer if they start in the summer and then we go all the way up to next May and they can choose as a junior to continue as a senior or just do it their senior year or they can do it both years. Um and then they're given quarterly and end of year evaluations from their employer. So that way they're evaluated and um we know exactly if there's any red flags while they're uh at work and being mentored as well as uh the hours that they they do work. So it's really exciting. Uh this is specifically kind of a snapshot of what Rightstown is this year. So we have current uh 45 students enrolled, 41 active employers or 40 active employers. Um you'll see that
009we it's an average of $1520. That's just on average of what all of our students, you know, earn. Um we have some students earning 18 $20 an hour, some students, you know, 12. So it just really just depends on the job. Um we have, let's see here, the estimated wages earned based on all the students is $300,0007. So that's really Did I say that? Yeah. So that's pretty cool. Um I do have three students here from Writtown High School. Uh we have Colton Nelson. He's working at Swinkles and he is a heavy Well, actually I'm gonna have you guys stand. [laughter] >> My name is Colton Nelson. I work for Swinkles Trucking and Excavating and I am the head skid operator. >> Um my name is Brooke Hansen. I work for public professional painting here
010in Ricetown and I'm a senior at Righttown High School. >> I'm Owen Van Hai and I'm a junior and I work for Nean Sign Revival managing the office work there. >> So if you have any specific uh questions for students and what it's like to be a use apprentice, please feel free to ask them. They are prepared for anything. So, what does your typical day look like? >> Um, well, it isn't set in stone. Sometimes I'll be doing operating, other times I'll be working in the shop. It all just depends on how busy we are. >> Do you wake up and go to work? Do you start your day at work? And then when do you get to like explain that? >> My schedule is I work a full day every day, I believe. And
011then after I work or go to school half day during the A days and then after that I also go to work. >> Um my dayto day also depends because at my job we're either at houses painting. It can be newly built or repaint. So someone's already living in my house and we're painting. Otherwise I'm at the shop which we stain woodwork. So for all the newly built houses for our contractors. So, it's a lot of tedious work on there. But, um, my days my days are a little funky because of when I was able to place the classes that I wanted to take this year as well as doing the apprenticeship. But both mornings I start at work and then my A days I go to class from I think it's like 9:30 to
0121:30 and so I'm there for lunch and then I go back to work and then my other days I'm work in the morning until 9:30 and then I come into school for my one class and then I go back to work. >> Um I do work every other day. So I go to school a full day and work a full day. Um, my kind of day-to-day is a lot of paperwork and payroll and accountant stuff. So, I do a lot of the book works and the math as well as a head of customer service and employee relations. >> So, no, please. [laughter] >> I kind of know this answer because I had two kids who say you have three >> I have three kids, two who have definitely gone through the program and my two
013boys have gone. Can you tell for for those people who don't know, can can each of you and you don't have to if it's the same as the other one, it's fine, but can you guys talk about what it's like to work with our counselors on changing your schedule and managing your schedule and then meeting with Mrs. Fire and to kind of go through everything and and talk through everything. Can you guys talk through that process? >> Yeah. Um, she was really amazing. She actually set up my interview for my job. So my she's responsible for my success and she's >> responsible for his own success. [laughter] Extraordinary. >> She's really easy to work with and every I think quarter it was. You go in and you look over your from your employer and five
014minutes max. Usually everybody's pretty good about it. So she's really really nice to work with. Um, so as C said, she's really easy to work with. It's really easy to get it. Um, I'm a little bit different. I kind of knew what I wanted where I wanted to go because my best friend had worked there. She's two years older than me. So when she was a senior, I was a sophomore. So I kind of knew where I wanted to go to start working. Um, just because I'd seen her work there and like that's a really cool thing and it could possibly be a side job in the future. Um, and changing my schedule around like to make sure that each apprentichip fit in. It was really easy. I just went and I talked to Miss
015Pod and Betsy and just kind of was like, "Hey, these are the classes that I want to take. This is like this is my job. How can we make this work so I can get my classes, but as well as get my youth apprentichip in?" I was already employed going into my sophomore year, so it was really easy to get set up with already working there and getting youth apprentichip. And the school is definitely really flexible with being able to work a full day and go to school full day um dealing with customers and kind of average business hours. >> What are your guys's main takeaways? What have you liked and what are some lessons learned? >> Um I really like that I barely have to go to school. [laughter] three hours every other day
016about that and it's been a significant stepping stone in my future and for like after high school just what I want to do. Um, one of my biggest takeaways is probably getting like the experience of working for a very small familyowned business because right now it's me, my boss, and my boss's son that work for that company. So, trying to like make sure that we're all where we need to be when we need to be there. so big on communication skills as well as um just kind of getting to learn something that's not normally taught like how like how to properly stain pack like stain wood packages for newly built houses. Getting to go out and see all the different kinds of houses that are built around. We've actually been working at a house um
017down in the Apple Freedom area. So that's pretty cool. um as well as it just kind of gives me a look at something I could do as like a side job because I've known for a very long time. Um I'm currently serving in the US Army Reserves and I also want to go into law enforcement. So I knew that I couldn't really do anything youth apprenticeship related that's going to get me somewhere with the jobs that I do want to do. But I knew doing this job it could definitely be a side job in the future when work is slow. What are you going to in in the military? She's also focusing on construction. >> Yes, I'm a heavy construction operator in the army. So, >> I think it's been cool to kind of get
018to see and do all these things that is going to be a big part of my future job and kind of get a head start on it and get some more experience compared to what some of my peers have. >> Well, thank you for your service. second degree >> and you know I think it's a great option that is provided because not every student wants to just go out and you know knows exactly what it is that they want to do for the rest of their life. Um and there's probably some adults that have changed that throughout the years. Um being one um but also it it kind of introduces you to that real life of adulting a little earlier. So, >> we've actually had programs or a student who would go, he said like,
019I want to be a CNC instru or technician. I want to be a CNC technician. And so, we got him into a CNC position and he was a junior at the or he's going in to be a senior and he's like, I'm gonna graduate and I'm going to go to school and I'm going to be a CNC. He started working this summer and he's like, I'm not going to be in CNC. [laughter] So, I mean, we basically saved him, you know, knowing what going out to the position and knowing what it is. we save saved money I hope at college so he knows exactly that that's something I don't want to do so that also gives them the opportunity to say yes this is exactly what I want to do or nope this is really
020what I do not want to do yeah I've noticed that with a lot of my peers they'll say like oh I want to do this I want to do this I want to do this and then they start you with apprenticeship and they're like yeah this is not my thing I I'm definitely glad I did that and kind of figured it out Thank you. >> So just to get an idea again, if you want to go to the next slide, a snapshot again of this year, you'll see it. We're very heavy in the architectural construction area. You kind of just see the nice little pie chart of where our students are mostly employed. So kind of u this is also given to our district. I believe Dave, is that correct? superintendent every at their pack
021meetings. >> Yeah, probably every semester. So, by request, if you ever want to know where your students are enrolled, we can uh post report pretty quickly. So, >> you can sure these are just all the employers that we work with at this time. Um they're everywhere. So, we have students, you know, mostly they're all very local. >> So, it's it's really great to see that they are very local. Um let's see here. I don't know if you guys want to take a look or if we can keep going. I do want to show you the next slide actually because I'm really proud of the next slide. Um you'll see where we have grown with youth apprenticeship in the last 10 years. So you'll see that the first um at the bottom half of the graph
022uh that's when uh our consortium we weren't a consortium yet. So, the Green Bank Chamber actually ran the new apprenticeship program uh for the first couple of years and then um I don't know Dave if you want to talk about the inception of NUA. >> Um just just real briefly. Yeah, it's the the model was born out of a need to support school counselors because it can be very labor intensive and we know that there's a lot of other work that school counselors and secondary teachers need to focus their time and efforts on. So by providing um free FTE to the schools to support the career development, resume development, career research, the placement, the evaluations. Um we really accredit that and then finding the passionate people that really care about supporting students through that process.
023Uh because this graph is uh pretty similar to other districts across the region. So we um uh we thank our our schoolbased coaches and also the districts for giving us the opportunity to provide that support because uh every one of those numbers is a student that exited high school with a better idea of what they want to do as an adult. Uh and that's a really exciting piece. >> The different colors fall semester versus spring. >> The orange are the students, the blue are the business partners. So it's typic obviously we need at least as many business partners as students but sometimes uh employers will take more than one student. So that's why the discrepancy between the two you can go ahead. So, uh just showing you a couple highlights. We do like to do
024student spotlights for student uh just to highlight their successes and where they're at and just to let people know that we have students out there. So, great is one of them. Uh from he started at the local 400 and for a senior year he's actually at Garrett. Um the next one we have look at that [laughter] a day in the life. So he is uh I Coleman, can you just explain to them? I I love your story. I do. Um Coleman is very rare. So he took classes in Sarinos. He's he's a very rare student. Um he took classes actually for excavating while he was in high school or while he was a juke sophomore and junior. And um and he was able based on the classes that he took. And if you want to
025talk about those classes, where you went and what you did >> just really quick. >> Uh, so I went down to the local 139 training center in Col and I did a tour of the vicinity. And then my junior year I started doing online classes to hopefully get a jump start on my apprenticeship for when I do decide to go union for operating. And I don't know that helped me get this job and it just helped me overall in general. So, he couldn't run those uh machines obviously until he turned 18, but he was able to help and and help be an assistant or just a helper until he turned 18 and was able to run the actual um machine. So, he's actually going right now to get his CDL as well. Got it. >>
026You did two weeks ago. >> So, I mean, this is just some of the fun things that they get to do. Um, next we have Elena. She's uh she works at Kids Care here in town. She's one of our uh child care assistants. Let me just keep going. There's uh yep, Sawyer. He is at Spirit Fab here in town. And then just some more students as they're at work. We have, you can see Owen. Uh we have Paige. We have Will Cora Sarah Bren. You can't see her face, but she's uh she's working on an engine. And then Ezra Linen. And then just for an outlook for next year, we have 17 returning students who will be seniors. Um 42 of them are currently working or placed we're waiting for paperwork and then 49 will
027be working or looking for work. Um and then the numbers fluctuate within the summer uh and fall. We'll get a lot more students usually in the fall, but we try to get in as soon as we can as soon as school starts because we can't change your schedule. But just something to think about. Uh some common myths of YA. YA is only for trades. We kind of went over that. Um it's only for students going to technical college, which it's not. Um we have students going to four-year colleges. Uh they and it says four years don't value youth apprenticeships, but we know that that's also not true. My son is actually going to be a senior next year. He's a youth apprentice in in a different school, but he's applying to Madison, and they said
028that youth apprentichip is very um beneficial to him when he puts that on his application. So students must leave school during the day. they do not this is it it's a privilege to them yes because they're earning credit but it's not something that they have to do um there are some students who are you know always taking those AP classes and they just can't leave and that's okay um they're able to get their hours not necessarily during school day but after school or on the weekends and then ya limits you uh future career choices absolutely not and then ya's free time or an easy option which is again not the case as there's a lot of uh requirements to to be a part of the y questions. >> Can you just talk about and maybe
029it's not the case anymore, but I remember when I went to my first independence meeting, you talked about one of the things I thought was really cool. There's a special law in Wisconsin, right? >> Yes. So, we Dave, you might have to actually jump right in on this. We have the student learner law, which is uh why don't you you typically Myers would be um prohibited from working during the school day. Uh so because the youth branch program is sponsored by the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Develop Development and there is an education training agreement where the student signs it, parent signs it, the employer signs it, the school district sign it, and then we sign that. That's on file with the state. So the student earns what's called student learner status. So, not only are
030they allowed to work during school day hours, they're also allowed to use certain pieces of equipment that would otherwise be prohibited because they're under the direct supervision of a skilled mentor and it's a part of an educational program. That's what allows us to get students placed in a lot of environments where they typically wouldn't hire minors because it's just too much work. >> Andrew was able to work in the construction and then um Caleb as well. So, >> yeah. One of them do [laughter] she's gonna work in the CP center in >> Yes. I think Lauren wants to do that. Yes. But yeah, >> she was hired. >> But neither one of my boys there that that they went into it, found out that's not what they wanted to do, ended up doing something perfect.
031>> Well, that means you didn't have to pay for college. >> No, I'm saying it was it was a huge success. It was a huge success, just not in the typical way. Yes, it was it was a great experience. >> Awesome. >> Any other questions? >> I like to, you know, waste your time [laughter] after all. >> I appreciate it. Thank you. >> All right. Next on the agenda is preliminary budget update from Danville. Kids, you guys can leave. You don't have to stick around. >> By the way, if you have any paints, >> do you have any paints with you? Could you paint his shirt real quick? [laughter] >> Yes. >> Championship. Well, I don't know how I follow no but uh I mean it's the budget will be balanced but uh so we
032wanted to uh take this opportunity to set the stage for budget season for you. Um and Jason will talk about that a little bit later. >> Okay. So budget roadmap uh starts in January. CPI is released from uh WERC. Uh this time of year we are uh determining staff updates, budget alignment and things like that. When we get to June, we will then ask you to approve a preliminary budget and then we will finalize things as we move towards September and the annual meeting. And then in October, November time frame, we will approve final budget and tax leard me, most of you have probably heard me talk about revenue limits, and I just wanted to circle back to that. We'll talk about revenue limits a lot. Um, but revenue limits began in 1993. Uh, so
033prior prior to 1993, the school board had the authority to set an appropriate tax levy. So if uh the school district wanted to add a program or add teachers to adjust class sizes as long as they could justify those expenditures that they could approve that. Um in 1993 uh the state imposed revenue limits that um heavily limit the the two major line items in our revenue. So that's state aid and the property tax le um levy. So the there's really two eras of revenue limits here. Uh 1993 up to 2009. 2009 that was um tied to inflation. So li revenue was limited but you got inflationary increases. So your kind of staffing increases and your cost of living per se would was was more or less covered to a certain extent. But then in um
034inflation was decoupled or removed from the equation and the state took control of not only the limit but then they took control of how much increase you're going to get and most of the time the inflation or the increase rate didn't exceed didn't keep up with inflation. So that's created this gap over the last 15 years and now it's up to $3,000 more than $3,000 per student. So in district our size that's $4 million, you know. So if you think about what we could do with $4 million, we could, you know, adjust the program if we need to. We could take care of building maintenance and things like that. So go ahead, Corey. Um, so because of that, you hear a lot of things in the news about districts that struggle to manage their budget,
035balance their budget, and it's generally not because they can't spend their money appropriately. It's because the cost of the things that they have is going up faster than the amount of revenue that they have. So they then rely on operational referendums, which then also makes a kind of a bad rap as well. Um, so you know, every year costs are going up. You know, we want to make sure we treat our staff appropriately. Um, the cost of services and supplies and things like that continually goes up just like you see it in your own household at the grocery store, gas pump, things like that. And then of course we also get u from time to time unfunded mandates like act 20 and things like that that um further constrain the budget as we as we
036move forward. Um, go ahead, Cory. >> So, when we look at the the state budget where we're at, we're in year two of the bianium, the 2527 bianium. Um, as you recall, probably we have a $325 uh increase in the revenue limit. But again, this year, there's no increase in the aid portion. Uh, so the limit's going to go up and the state's not going to help out again. Uh so that means that local property tax payers are forced to take on the burden of that. Uh the other big key um is the special ed education funding. You've heard me talk about the last last few months. Uh they promised 42% in year one, 45% in year two. Currently tracking at 35%. I expect that number to be a little bit higher, maybe 37 38%.
037I don't think we're going to hit 42. Uh there was to Jason's point, there was uh some leg legislation that was proposed about a week ago um that would have addressed this would have brought more aid into the formula. That would have been property tax relief for the most part, not giving us more money to actually spend. But and then as well that would have funded fully funded the 45% actually went out to I think it was 47 or 48%. And then 50% moving forward. Um that deal then died in the legislature nature and um so it didn't pass. Um there is something I saw an article today that said that you know some of the superintendents in the state are you know urging the legislature to take another swing at it and see if
038they can uh make something happen. So um you know the state has a $2.5 billion dollar more than that surplus uh that they're sitting on. So um it would be nice if they could use some of those dollars to you help taxpayers help schools and things like that. Few other things in that bill update. >> Is it name? Sorry. [laughter] Um, go ahead, Cory. Oh, so one one thing on that piece is is when we look at that special ed piece and we can look at Well, I got some pie charts in a little bit, but that special ed increase affects the transfer, the amount of money that we move from fund 10 to cover the cost in fund 27. the special education account. You know, we get, you know, roughly $700,000 in in aid
039and grants for um special education and the rest of it is made up from a transfer from fun 10 to so if the state gives us more money on this end, that would free up that would reduce that transfer and then free up dollars in the general fund to be able to do some other things. um wanted to share um a little blurb that that I was interested because a lot of my colleagues, you know, struggle with, you know, they do short-term borrowing because they don't have enough fund balance. They're dealing with declining enrollment. They're trying to pass operational referendums to make things work. And you know, I thought we don't we don't have any of that right now. We have increase in enrollment. We have a healthy fund balance. We don't have an operational
040referendum. We never have. I wanted to know how how unique are we and I found out that only seven districts in the state have those three things. That's 1.6% of of districts. So that's pretty cool to me. Cory, if you want to look at the next slide. Um just kind of looking at, you know, our state report card score exceeds expectations. And the other key piece is when we look at revenue limit per member, we are the lowest of those seven districts. So that kind of highlights to me high achieving and low spending school district on where we're at. So go ahead Corey to the next one. So I wanted to look at you know how I don't have numbers for you tonight. We'll look at numbers next month as we look at um um
041asking you to approve the preliminary budget. But when we look at our revenue and how we're tracking, 86% of of the revenue is going to come from the revenue limit, the state aid and local property taxes. 5% in open enrollment. We get some other aid from DJI about six and a half percent. A little bit in federal um and state grants. But by and large, that's why that number is so important. That's why we talk about revenue limit so much. We're you hear me talk about it, Tiffany. You've heard me talk about it so many times probably. Um maybe next time you can you can do it. >> Yeah, I don't think so. >> A couple more times. [clears throat] Can I ask a question here? Interject. So, uh we talked about open enrollment. Is
042this this year's numbers or is this next year's projections? >> Next year's projections. So, how's that open enrollment number compare to what we had this year? Because we were talking about opening up >> from a budget perspective, I kept the open enrollment out number the same. >> Okay. >> Um, so we will increase um the in and I have the out staying the same. So, if that goes up or down, that would be you know a small change. >> Yeah. So to Jonathan's question that 5.54% is using the projected numbers that we would have. >> Oh yes, revenue in Yes. That's projected for this year. Yes. >> An increase of I think we had 15 I think it was. So >> you'll see those numbers in just a little bit. >> Go ahead. Uh so
043then look at the same thing for expenditures a little bit smaller. I apologize that for that about 2/3 is uh salaries and benefits 7% for almost 8% for that fun 27 transfer again if that if increase on on the fun 27 side that would reduce some things um couple other highlights vouchers about 4% of our expenditures is paying for private school vouchers um there's the overall out three and a half% um utilities Ed, um, cleaning and things like that. So, by and large, the major vast majority of our budget is is fixed. You know, I I project, you know, over 90% closing on 95% is is really fixed and the things that we have to do. So, really not a lot of play in there. It's a lot of money, but there isn't a lot
044of play. Um, Cory, I think the next slide is questions. So, if you have any other questions and thank you for the questions you already had. But >> so, what's your take on um I I actually thought it was very promising and and my fault for not following up on it, but I thought it was very promising news that Govern said they were going to open that up a little bit. It seemed to have some support within the legislature and then apparently it died. So, what's your I know you have a you have a very probably smart and very uh outlook as far as as far as projecting, right? You projected at 35%. So, we did the right thing there, right? The schools are in trouble for doing that. What's your what's your optimism that
045they're going to retake that up within this session? you know, there's an election in November, so I've seen some pieces, some news or thought that they may wait until um to that time frame, which doesn't really help us for this year, but it could help us in future years. Um, you know, they there I did see some things about, you know, there's three individuals came up with a deal that aren't going to be in office next year. Um, so maybe maybe that had something to do with it. Um, but I agree with you. It was, you know, maybe not perfect, but it was something and it would have would have helped a nice step in the right direction. Um, but, you know, so hopefully hopefully there's some more traction in that we think about it
046now and and we come up with something that helps us out a little bit. There's a there's a general feeling that the Democrats out bump themselves. They've taken what was there instead of trying to uh try to do more long range things. So, >> anything else? Thank you for your >> Thank you. >> No clapping for >> I just want to put out there 1.7% the 107 districts. That's it's phenomenal and I think that speaks loads to the work you put in. So help keep things running and floating especially with Aldo please. We like to spend money across the district that time. >> All right. Uh, next on the agenda is reflections from the middle school tour. At this time, just kind of want to open it up. We do have some photos um nonedited.
047So, yeah. [laughter] >> Sure. Um, go real quick to the locker room. That was my first like deep tour of the middle school and um I don't know what the right word is but these spaces maybe saddened maybe that this is what our kids have to go to band and choir and >> there there are some very impressive ive spaces, the cafeteria that you know that whole I think um [laughter] >> our teachers have great classrooms, but some of those common spaces or those the elective areas were I mean I don't know if that room changed since I was there 25 years ago. It was from 199. [laughter] Um, I am amazed at what our teachers do with the space that they have. I think that that school is in desperate need of some TLC
048and and some work. Um and it amazes me um what our staff does with the space that they have. Um so not only our teachers but our administrators um Chris and the facilities folks. Um we do a lot with with with what we have available to us right now. Um and at some point in the future we're we're going to have to address it some one way or another. But um I was I was impressed with what we do with the conditions of the school and we're there. >> On the other hand, it was eye opening and something to think about as how the use of the space while very economical and very creative also creates a lot of disruption in learning, disruption in you know having to access it equipment in the middle of
049a classroom. If there's a problem, they're coming in. If if you know, Jim is going on on the other side of band, you can can imagine the noise and the like. It's amazing what they get done and how they focus, but also just trying to keep in mind our job is to create an inviting, more wonderful place to learn. And that I think we could do better um in some way, shape, or form. But I think it was nice to get an actual peak at what goes on every day and kind of what they're doing. Like I said, one hand, awesome what they're doing, but also eye opening to see the shortfalls and maybe where we could do better. >> I just want to give a big shout out to the middle school. All the
050staff are going there. I thought it was awesome. Uh Eli is going to go there next year. He's excited. I'm excited to see him there. uh reminiscing back to my middle school days. Eighth graders when I started dunking, I don't know if those grims uh would support me. Um so, you know, basketball desperately wants to see improvements in that space. Uh then also band and music. Um two difficult classrooms I can see to try to teach and learn in. Uh I think those are programs that um we've seen some success with. when we get to high school and compete at competitions and things like that. Um, love to see more success and easier environment for those kids to learn. >> Any thoughts? >> Kind of on the same face as Nikki. It's besides the cafeteria
051and the office area. >> That is great. Everything looks like it did over 30 years ago. >> Um, yeah, I'll just resonate kind of what everybody else said. I think when you look at our three buildings, we're in the newest one right now, high school and the middle school. Um, it walking through it, you see there's we've done a really good job of keeping things and making what we have work, but it's definitely something that should start moving up in importance on our on our list. >> Yeah, I um you know can definitely mirror everyone's um feedback. I think some of the things that concern me is you're going through some of the classrooms and especially the choir room. I mean, we have a HVAC handling unit that's I don't know how you do choir
052in it when that then kicks on and there's and um access points to the mechanicals of it. Um you know, Ron's point, the hoops and basketball like they're nonfunctional. It sounds like the the recommendation was don't put them down because they probably won't go back up anymore or might not stay hooked to where they're at. Um, you know, talking about bleachers, the bleachers are um grandfathered in, but they're pass code. They're not passing code, right? So, we're grandfathered in through it. Um they're just um safety concerns of having IT equipment readily accessible in the middle of our computer lab. That was a little concerning. I have curiosity. It's kids and I know that they obviously they didn't know it was there because I'm sure one of them would have touched it. So, um you know,
053in the locker rooms there's old um PA and systems that are nonfunctional um in there that haven't been removed and probably for reason. But I mean, it's it's a little disappointing that we're going through these areas and um they're not in the same condition as other areas within the district and you know, how do we figure out ways to to get them there? So, um again, appreciate what everyone does with what we have and and you know, making it work, but um should we have to make it work? I think I like too I just was surprised about accessibility too. Um you they were talking about band in choir and there's a small elevator but it doesn't work well and just thinking about equal opportunities for all students. If you had to get a student
054in a wheelchair up there or something like that, they're really limited. So that actually breaks my heart a little bit. that up with safety with moving the pianos down to the gym. They got to take it down the stairs. That's >> no easy lift. >> Yeah. I don't know um who, you know, the last picture where the concert was. So, um our seventh grader, so I just took a quick snap when I was there for the concert just to kind of show once we have that area set up really what it looks like. I mean, again, we're making do with what we we have. Um, but it's crowded. You know, that the kids are across the other side of the gym waiting for their turn to go and perform. And um, sometimes I think that
055can be a challenging spot to be in to make sure that they're all on their best behavior. [laughter] >> So, um, it it's and to be honest, the elderly folks in the community getting in and out of those breachers is probably not the best. So, Anything else? All right. Um, next on the agenda is middle school encore classes from CL. >> So, I guess I really appreciate coming after this reflection part on the middle school because I like how you acknowledge that even though the building um needs some help, right? you have teachers in it who are doing a really good job and so thank you for acknowledging that. So today what I'm talking about are encors. So encors seem to be a mystery at almost every middle school I've ever worked at, right? What
056really happens during those encourse? So just a reminder, this is the discovery beyond the core curriculum. So when we have science, social studies, English, and math, what else are we doing? And so encors exist for lots of different reasons, not just to fill up the day. They're very purposeful. And so I just have some notes on here. Uh middle school is a key age to expose students to different interests and skills, right? Uh another just a connection there. Um sort of write down builds confidence for high school pathways. Right? So I'm thinking about these kids that presented today and what some of the interests they might have with these hands-on classes. uh supports creativity, teamwork, problem solving, hands-on learning in a different way than the core classes and provides stress relief during major developmental changes.
057This is so important. Now, I'm not going to lie to you. Sometimes encourse can be very stressful for students, right? Because it might be something they don't enjoy, but there's some learning in that, but it also can be a major stress relief because that's where some of our kids find most success is coming out of those core classes. And then at the end of the day, you know, there are state uh requirements that we have to meet. Um so we're we're interweaving some of that as well. >> Sorry, one more back there. >> So I thought about doing these on separate slides. Um but I really think it's important to see them together so you can sort of look at the consistency between each grade level, but then also um the unique differences that we're
058offering. I am so thankful for the way that this district is creative when it comes to um sharing teachers, right? I have teachers coming from the high school with some of their expertise, which is wonderful for them to make those connections with the students. Um but in fifth grade, we've got physical education, general music, art, uh literary exploration, health, and world culture, Spanish. We've got some new options and some movement that I'll talk about in a little bit. Sixth grade, very similar with physical education. Now we have the choir band um that they're able to choose art, health, world culture, Spanish. Again, I'll talk about that and uh technical education, which is a really fun uh way to see our students. And you mentioned about how great that room and space is. Um I think
059Travis does a wonderful job. Uh grade seven physical education, choir band, this is now where they're deciding choir band or digital skills, which I'll talk about as a highlight coming up pretty soon. art, Spanish, uh, technical education, and then family and consumer science, which is a new highlight for next year. And then eighth grade, physical science, choir, band, digital. Again, they're choosing what they like. Art, Spanish, technical education, and agra science. So, we have a teacher again coming from the high school. And let's go to the next one. And we can go back to that slide if we need to. But just some highlights that I want to talk about for next year that I'm really excited about. Uh, when we think about digital skills, we're doing a lot of work. um on updating that
060curriculum to focus on technology, some computer science, some financial literacy and entrepreneurship uh that we have to really think about how we want that to look. So, we'll be writing some curriculum uh over uh for the summer, but I'm also excited to be working with a high school teacher because she will bring some great insight and what our students need for digital skills uh and matching that curriculum so they're ready to go. band and choir. I'm so excited about this. If you remember, um band and choir are offered right now during that zero hour and I really worry about um accessibility for our students. So, being able to prioritize that and do it during the class or during the schedule um is going to be a wonderful u balance and really just trying to grow
061that program for the high school. Uh so, we're working on that and that curriculum. Uh world culture, Spanish, trying to get creative here. We're going to be able to offer some world culture Spanish. We're still trying to decide a little bit on that name, if you will, and we're going to be writing some curriculum this summer because we could essentially even in fifth grade start working on this language and getting kids comfortable so they have more success and hopefully we can build those programs um up in the high school. And then we have the family and consumer science, hands-on life skills, independence, financial readiness, consumer choices and career pathways. This is new for us next year and I know Miss Sisler is very excited about teaching that as well. So, I'm looking forward to next
062year and and and really just some curriculum work that we need to do this summer to get ready for these opportunities. >> Any questions, thoughts >> with the family of consumer science? Is that like some home stuff learning how to use an oven? >> It's a home stair. [laughter] >> I just remember seeing classrooms with oven. >> I don't know sewing machines. >> Thank you. All right. >> One one last reflection first. Thank you for presenting on that is also when we had our meeting, our workshop meeting, we met in the library. Um that is another space that I mean there's no windows in it. It's dark. It's very like if I was a kid going in there to read a book, I'd be sleeping in the corner. I it just wouldn't happen the boxes.
063>> [laughter] >> So, um, just sorry, wanted to call that out. So, uh, next on the agenda is staffing updates. >> You did give us a little bit of the window into your soul there, Ryan. Thank you. [laughter] Um so just wanted to update everyone that we are uh in the process of staffing and that's why on the workshops that we put uh the resignations as well as the hires and so at this point in time we have done what we can with what we could hire thus far. We have special education interviews on Wednesday. We also have obviously tomorrow is the first round of interviews for the principal ship. Um so we will continue to deal with the uh the vacancies as they come forward and uh we're excited about the candidates for those
064positions. Um so we'll hopefully have candidates for you on the June 3 meeting uh for those positions. Um, also wanted to remind everyone that we had a a re working valuable situation with the staffing this year and we were able to find 1.5 FTE in uh moving things around and being a little bit more efficient and effective with our staffing. That allowed us to within the context of the money spent for staffing that you saw earlier today. It allowed us to take a look and see where our biggest need is and where we want to add a staff without increasing the budget for that area. And with that in your packet, you have a job description for a pro program support teacher slashperson um for special special ed and people's services and the lensure lensure
065requirements. We did update a little bit today. So, I want to make sure that you take a look at that. Um, as far as what we'll be looking for, the skills and responsibilities and training all stayed the same. Um, Angie, would you like to add anything to that? >> Sure. Just want to give a little bit of background on the why for the position. I know it's as board members, it's probably good to have that information. So, I looked back to 202021 school year. um the year that the PST was added originally. Um and at that point we had 139 special ed students E through EC through 12th grade. Um and we're projected to have 175 next next school year. So we're growing. Um and our staff reflects that as well. Um you know, we
066grew 36 students and we've also added three special education teachers and six aids. So we're up to 20 aids. Um so when we look across student services, there are a total of like 54 individuals um who who work in student services and most of the the increase had been in special ed. So um also just want to give a little background on what a program support teacher does. Um because I know a lot of you had questions about that and you do have the job description. Um but really the goal is to increase positive outcomes for our students with disabilities. Um the program support teacher provides ongoing support and training for special ed staff. Um so that includes instructional and behavioral coaching for special ed teachers. Um supporting teachers with completing evaluations and writing IEPs.
067um developing academic and behavior interventions and then aliating IEP meetings and reviewing IEPs. Um also just a lot of training, non-violent crisis intervention training, restorative practices training um and then para professional training and with our growth in PAR professionals and our changes in student needs um it's really important that we spend and invest that time in training our staff. This is a across the district role supporting all buildings across >> the whole district. >> Any question? >> So currently services that I mean I'm assuming that some of this right now we're having to outsource or something, right? because we just don't have the bandwidth. >> Um, currently we are really outsourcing for this. It's um just a part of >> Okay. Um, with the addition of the position, do we feel like we'll be able
068to increase um, student time with whether it's teachers, pair professionals, or like I'm assuming that's the largest part of it, right? To get in a little bit more time with each student versus having them working on plans and stuff that asked the PSP to support teachers a lot in some of that paperwork stuff, you know, like helping uh write IDs or doing the initial evaluations for special education, which which takes a lot of time away from students. Um, and we currently hire STS to do that as well. Um, just so teachers have, you know, the time to fit that into their day. So, it would actually save money as far as sales go as well. What is the work you're hoping to get more involved with getting this off your plate? that I'm hoping to
069get more involved with. Um I think just not being um like doing so much and being able to um kind of come up with a vision for student services and grow student services um provide more consistency um you know as far as uh staff goes. I think you know being able to just like meet the needs of that more um because there are 54 people which is some of those are contracted staff um 10 of them are um but it it's a lot to keep up with. So I think just kind of spreading spreading that out among two people and being able to provide more support that way >> more director focus and a tactical focus. Thank you. Thank you. >> Anything else? All right, upcoming events. Uh, next on the agenda, so we have
070high school scholarship awards 6 pm and academic awards 700 p.m. on the 20th. Um, half day for students on May 22nd. So, this Friday, um, no school May 25th for Memorial Day. High school graduation May 22nd at 700 p.m. last day of school half day at June 5th. And then end of year lunchon and celebration for staff June 5th at noon in the high school commons. Trying to think of anything else that is busy busy time of year for everyone. So, um, appreciate that. Next is open forum. >> Nothing on that. All right. Um, next is consideration to approve or deny open enrollment applications for 2026 to 2027 school year. see the other. >> So in your executive content um we gave you what uh the consideration to approve just a reminder that there has
071to be some really good reason for you to deny uh an out you know open enrollment out and so there is no real good reason to do that. So, we're asking that you approve 51 ins and deny nine approvals and then for open enrollment in approve 51 deny 9 for the reasons that were outlined um in the the numbers that you said in January and in the approvals for the open enrollment out 25 and denials zero for the aformentioned reasons. So, if you do the math, um we're approving um ins and 25 outs. So, there's a very good likelihood that we could increase our open enrollment in versus out by 20 25. Um which obviously would help next year's budget. So I can make a motion and read off the terms of limited iteration or
072just the fraud numbers need to be in the motion. >> Yeah. >> Do we do that after we approve them? >> Are the on the bottom. We only have to deny one of them just >> I think you need to you got to approve this first. >> Then it's been denied. Then we have to pick the one person. I'll make a motion to approve the three applications for grades five uh two of them and nine. I'll make a motion to approve the 14 students for the open enrollment policy. And I'll make a motion to approve the 34 students um including the eight for 4K via random pool. Uh, and I'll make a motion to deny the eight students for space availability and the one students putting them on a wait list for 4K for a
073total of 51 approvals and nine denomin. >> Anybody opposed? Motion carries 70. I'll also make a motion to approve the 25 votes and the zero denial out. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> I. >> Anybody opposed? 70. >> And just for the record, I pulled the one from the one to deny. >> Weight >> or weight listing. >> Okay. All right. Next on the agenda is consideration to approve the piloting of Magnetic Literacy, the K through6 reading curriculum. So, first I just want to thank everyone for the amount of time and effort that they put into it. Um, it I think you did your due diligence in vetting those systems out. Um, so with that, I would make a motion to approve the magnetic literacy K through six reading curriculum. >> I'll second
074it. >> All those in favor? >> Anybody oppose? >> 7. >> Thank you. >> All right. Um, consideration to approve the annual board meeting date of Wednesday, September 23rd. I'll make a motion to approve the board meeting for Wednesday, the annual board meeting for Wednesday, September 23rd. >> I'll second it. >> All those in favor? >> Anybody opposed? 70 carries. >> All right. Administrative reports. >> We'll start with Dan and just go right down the list as they're on the on the highlights for me. I talked before about uh the legis potential legislation that didn't make it. Uh the other piece that I have for you tonight was just let you know the contracts have been issued for next year. I just wanted to say on behalf of all staff, thank you to the board
075of education for contribute for continuing to support our fantastic staff. uh technology as of Thursday, May 14th. 76 of the new cameras are installed at the high school. This is part of a project that was approved at the end of last uh calendar year. Project's well underway and entire crew has been working on these daily. I appreciate the staff members have been kind of dealing with the fact that wires at times are hanging different places. I appreciate the fact that um kind of need to do some of this during the school year because there will not be enough time even during the summer. So um officer Jess has had a chance to look into this system along with some of the administration and control for ME. She says the new system new system allows us
076to track significantly faster than our previous system. It's great to improve safety and response time. We'll also now have full perimeter camera coverage at every school which is something we did not have before. Um, so as as a result of this, we're also doing the the all the doors throughout the district. So all certified staff be turning in the door access badges in the last day of school receiving new badges. This will really allow us for like a seamless transition when a new uh system is activated over the course of the summer. We've already done all the sports staff. So anybody at that point and then everyone will come in and work out pretty well. So more updates to come. The district then also will be partnering with a new print vendor to help manage
077copers for it next five-year term. The district sent out a request for quote to five area vendors and received proposals from four of those vendors, including our incumbent vendor. The district will partner with Ryan Business Products. Um, and early estimates indicate with the new leasing agreement alone, the district is poised to save approximately $70,000 over the next five-year term on just the leasing. Uh, the per print per page, both copy and black and white, is also cheaper. So we're not sure exactly what it will be, but it will be at least that services team is working with providers to install a redundant fiber line in the district. So part of the savings that we're hoping to to uh to get from the copers is also to look at new vendor for having a redundant fiber
078line. Earlier this year, the district's only connection which is sustained through the department of administration grants went down during a critical period of ACT testing and Wisconsin forward testing. also knocked out about 93 other school districts at that time. So although a failover is not subsidized and is not something that we can irate or get a subsidy through um negotiating for more sustainable copy licensing will cover the cost and then some over the next five years of the redundant fiber anyway. So, we're hopeful to be able to get that installed and then when we have ACT next year and plan as well as we do this year, the one thing that we can't control will hopefully not cause us to go down. [clears throat] >> Um, so we are wrapping up all of our testing
079that we do um within the school year. So, all the act 20 requirements and use web testing, all of that is done. All documents have been sent home to families for their personal reading plans and all that. start testing just wrapped up on Friday and so we are nearing the end of the testing window as we have just a few short days left of school left. Anyways, um educator effectiveness is a focal point for our teachers right now as they're using all of that data from those assessments that we have been giving to write their end of the year student learning objective. Administratively, we met last week just to talk about all the great things that the teachers are doing in the classroom so that we can start uh scheduling our summers and conversations for
080those teachers who are at that point in their educator effectiveness. And then first round of interviews are tomorrow Jim mentioned for filling the elementary principal position. We had 28 candidates that was a great school uh that we're able to look through and so we're excited to meet the candidates tomorrow and find the right fit for Ricetown Elementary School. And I want to thank Jerk for walking along uh that process and figuring out how we want to make that happen. So that's where we're at. >> Can you go in the back room and change clothes or something speaking? So then you can do your other >> um I will just keep going if that's okay. So as an elementary principal, the competitive coin war was a huge success for the veterans of northeast Wisconsin. Uh as
081a school in one week we raised $1,223 in coins. Now there were some dollar bills in there, but it was coins. Uh kindergarten was the grade level winner. Um, I have to give a huge shout out to Ellie Lundorf who organized all of the student council work doing that. Um, and just putting on a really great event for a really great cause. The elementary school was able to complete all of our act 20 requirements on their PD days at the end of April. It is such a big undertaking. And so these days we're filled with whole group staff meetings, grade level data meetings, completion of personal reading plans, uh time spent focusing on placement for students next year, um completing scope and sequence work, and then uh working also with completing the science audit, which
082they haven't had an opportunity yet to do. So they they were busy. There wasn't a whole lot of down time. And then lastly, the students are gearing up for a great end of the year. Um there's a lot of fun activities that are planned as we wrap uh from kickball to walking to the blue park to safety day and of course the annual bones houses. So looking forward to uh a lot of fun as we wrap up the year. >> Can you share with Ellie next time that the board uh congratulates her and thanks her for doing the corn? Yeah, [laughter] good job. >> I like the shade of red. >> Oh, no. >> As Jim mentioned, um we will be interviewing for the two open middle school specialed teaching positions on Wednesday. We have
08310 applicants um for that position. Um, and we have, you know, some good applicants. So, we're excited to see who will be joining the special ed team next. Um, special department has been busy finalizing case loads for next school year as well as working on staff and student schedules um to best meet the needs of our students. Um, several of our students participate in the McGoody Dathlon um in Palaski last week. Um, I just want to give a thank you to Craig Hayes. Um, he really made this send off special for our students and it was so cool to see the staff and students lining the streets with signs and and sending them off. So, thanks for that. >> Thank you. >> All right. Middle school. Thank you to Mr. Baker, Miss McCulli, and Miss
084Shimo for making this year's spring band and choir concert concert such a wonderful success for our fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students. It was a little hot in there, wasn't it? Anybody who attended a little hot. The pack gym was a true reflection of the excitement and the support surrounding the performance. And the students did amazing job showcasing their hard work and talent. While we are especially proud of the courage and confidence they showed while performing, it was really fun to see. Congratulations to our fifth grade students on celebrating the DARE program and celebrating their dear graduation. We're so proud of the hard work, thoughtful participation in the overall growth and learning our students demonstrated throughout the program. A very special thank you goes out to Officer Jessica Smith and Betsy for the time,
085care, and dedication shown while teaching the students many valuable lessons about making safe and responsible choices. A special thank you uh to our parent teacher organization uh Tiffany included uh community members, schoolboard members, and our students for your kindness and generosity during teacher appreciation. Really appreciated all the thoughtful themed gifts, treats, no special touches throughout the week. Your support and encouragement made everything feel uh valued and celebrated. And I just cannot go without sharing one more competition result that came in this morning. I didn't know if it would happen, but the latest competition at the middle school by grade level is who can have all of their library materials handed in. It's been neck and neck. And guess who won? >> [laughter] >> Good news at the high school. We are wrapping up ACP testing.
086Um, our students have done an outstanding job as well as our teachers all year long. They are, as you may know, long and highressured exams running around three and a half hours. Um, some students took two in one day. Um, and so give them a lot of credit for that. Um just a point of comparison, last year we had um students take 166 exams. This year we had students take 210 which is really impressive. That's a lot of hard work for a lot of people. Just a special thank you to Mrs. Winch and Mrs. Pell. They have been rock stars throughout this process. And then one spe special shout out to one of our subs, Lisa Schmidt, who has also been proctoring and has done an outstanding job being prepared and proctoring those exams. That's
087not easy to see. So we thank her for that. Uh, as we all know, season of celebration is upon us as we wrap up the school year. A couple weeks ago, our senior class top 10 were recognized at a wonderful dinner put on by the Kakana Elks Club. Uh, we also had an FFA banquet. Uh, please let me know if I missed it as a fine arts night. Um, for our accomplishments at FFA, leadership, art, band, choir, and forensics we had last Wednesday. The gallery walk, if you were there, was incredible. Uh, I told Mr. Johnson, we should just keep that wall up. All the hard work up while you're at home is absolutely beautiful. And as everyone knows, we have uh scholarship night, academic awards, and graduation. This week is a busy and exciting
088time for students and families. Uh it was also a great time to pause and reflect on the great things happening in our schools and to recognize the many accomplishments of our our students. And then finally, we celebrated teacher appreciation week. Um, I know Atkins is kind of a dated thing, but I feel like I have to go back on that after a week. [laughter] And thank you for the more for more food the next week. Um, so we celebrated teacher appreciation week, and there's really no better time uh than the end of the school year to understand and recognize the incredible work of our staff. Um, as it warms up outside and behavior issues can increase, our staff is continuing to hold students accountable and [clears throat] focused. uh as you know some of you
089all too well that senior itis can set in a little earlier than we'd like. Uh so we thank our teachers as well for our teachers of seniors specifically for continuing continuing to hold them to high academic standards to ensure that they finish strongly. And then finally just to recognize our RTI teachers, Mr. Mullman, Mrs. Scoffield, and our counselors, Mrs. Belle and Mrs. Winch, your special education staff as well. Um there are a number of students that uh believe it or not don't do all of their work on time and so we have to try to drag them kicking and screaming across the finish line. Um but there's a lot of people doing a lot of work behind the scenes to make that happen. So just want to mention those folks. So that's the great news
090from the high school. >> All right, last but not least, Mimi. Uh before we start, I want to give a shout out to Mr. Ward and Sammy Benfield. Uh the goodie was awesome. All right. As my wife will tell you, I don't get out of rates so much. I never heard of this race. Um our ID program, I know Mr. Ward, uh from the schools that before, Miss Binsfield, they the Bondwell prom that we went to. Uh the goodie, all right, all that stuff. We didn't know any of that. This was our first year. And we wouldn't win if it wasn't for Mr. Reward and Mfield talking about that. Not only did those students have fun, I you could really see it in the high school students in the hallway. All right, it was probably
091the loudest send off that we had. All right, and then even my uh my kids were so excited to go there to cheer on their classmates, all right, that they had and they was the first thing they asked me when I got home is how we did. All right, so it was pretty cool. All right, that we brought that to your school. So, thank you. Um getting into stuff, uh forensics. All right, again, forensic just a recap. All right, the their finals uh everything that or their goals were to win an NFC championship, which they did. All right, win a WFCAD D3 championship, they did, and get a WISDA excellence and speech, they did again, which doesn't happen much, which is pretty awesome. So, I just wanted to uh say that again is as we
092are known as a forensic school around the state. >> Uh tomorrow, all right, one of the most fun days I have during the year. So, we kind of started a couple years back. All right. To uh some of our student athletes, senior student athletes that are going on to play division three college athletics, we have a signing ceremony for them. So, tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. in the high school auditorium. All right. We are going to have uh we're going to honor six of our student athletes. Uh Daniel Button is going to go play football at Bethl University. Um Ella Verbaton is going to go play basketball at Wisconsin Platville. Jack Nelson's going to go play football at St. Norbert's. All right. Jacob Benning is going to go play at the co baseball at the College
093of Lake County, which is in Illinois. Uh Katrina Haresa is going to do trap and field at John Carroll University. That's in uh suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. And Truman Wars is going to play soccer at the University of Stevens Point. So, we're going to kind of do a little fun thing for them tomorrow, which is going to be a lot of fun. Looking ahead to the end of the spring sports seasons, uh we did have our softball seating meeting on Sunday night which we ran in right now. All right. Right before the National Honor Society banquet and uh our team got a three seat so we're going to host. All right. Next Tuesday we will host Balders which be kind of nice revenge game. All right. That's against last year. So be good that they're
094coming to the Tiger Bowl. Uh [clears throat] baseball ended up getting the 12 seed and they're going to travel to Xavier on next Tuesday. Uh soccer won't know our seat until this Wednesday. Uh track and field uh will also next week will be the regionals will be Tuesday in Little and hopefully we can get some on to uh sectionals. All right, which will be Friday in Ch. But last Friday we had the NEC conference track meet in Okana Falls. Uh both our boys and girls teams finished. So we had some big time individual performances. Um, the biggest one of the night was Sam Haymon, our junior triple jumper. He not only broke the school record, he broke the NAC conference record in triple jump. All right, with the jump over 44 feet, all right, which
095is pretty cool. He broke it uh from Donald Ballard back in 2008 and I think NEC conference was uh uh by a little shoot gentleman back in 2021. Um, and then we also had Katrina Ruska that we're going to honor tomorrow. She won two conference championships. She won the high jump of 5-1 and then she broke a school record in the triple jump. All right. And that school record was broken all the way back in 1994. All right. Just so I can get the name right here. Diane L. >> All right. Had in 1994 and she jumped about a foot and a half farther. All right. 35 feet. So that was pretty cool. And then we had another our freshman uh London DACA won two um she won the 400 and she won the 800
096at the conference meet and she broke a school record in the 800 which was back from I think 1983. I lied. 1987 Diane Wagert. >> All right. And she broke that by about two seconds. >> All right. So that was a huge night for Track and Field. All right, that we got some of those legend trackers that'll be going there. >> Our golfers, all right, have had a good year. The this Wednesday actually is when they're going to have the NEC golf conference meet and then they'll open up next Tuesday as well. So, Tuesday, May 26, they're going to go to Northbrook uh golf course in Luxville. Hopefully, they can get out of there and they'll advance through Crystal Springs and Seymour. Uh, one other kind of cool thing that we get to show off
097are kind of our facilities. Uh, but Righttown, we were we I kind of put in for trying to host sectional finals and we don't get a name, but we did get them this year. We're going to host the girls softball sectional final on Thursday, June 4th. So hopefully Ray stops playing in it. But if not, we're [laughter] going to do it that way. Uh we want to wish everybody all right good luck in all our Tiger sports teams and student athletes. It's it's going to be the really fun time of the year the WA playoffs. So thank you. Go Tigers. >> Thank you. >> So to conclude a couple other things real quickly. Um, National Honor Society had their banquet last night and Rebecca Lukey and Lisa Groagal, I can never say her name right.
098>> Gro. Okay, thank you. Uh, did a great job. 16 uh, people were given their honor cords last night for graduation. I think that might be an all-time high or really high for recently. So that that's excellent. Um the kids did a great job with their presentations and their presentations include somebody that made a profound effect in their life and honoring them. So it's kind of a really cool thing to see. Um so one of our own Nikki's daughter Elena was up there and congratulations to you very very much to be proud of. OE numbers, they already were talked about. Just to put a little bit more clarification on that, um, we you approve them, they still need to come and be in our schools on the third Friday count. So, we don't get to
099count them until the third Friday count. So, we have great hopes that there'll be more. Um, more than likely there will be. Um, but there's going to be a lot of give and take between then and now. So, we'll keep our fingers crossed. Um, as Dan talks on touched on the budget, um, I like to, uh, say that there's different buckets that we have to fill or unfill, if you will. And he showed you five buckets in revenue and 12 buckets in in expenditures. And we fill those buckets up and then we spend them. Um, I think one of the interesting things, if you saw on there, uh, 1% of our budget is spent on athletics, and I think there's people out there that think that, you know, that athletics eats up a big part
100of the budget, but it it really doesn't. It's a very minuscule part of of the overall budget. So, I wanted to make mention of that as they go to finish their budgeting process. Um, you also saw in their building budgets. So the the the principles and the directors are now putting together their budgets and what we have instituted or it's pretty common practice as well is that they're submitting their things for next year and so they have a general idea. We did zerobased budgeting this year. So we wanted them to build their own budgets and see what it was like. It isn't going to be that much different in the overall budgeting than it was in other years, but we wanted teachers to be more involved. We wanted principles to be more involved. We wanted
101directors to be more involved. And so they're building their budgets right now. And so the for instance I'm going to use with that is the magnetic literacy. She made the proposal. Gadget approved it. Now she needs to fit that into her budget. So she'll build that budget with that number which is going to be probably around 30 31,000 somewhere in that neighborhood and that that has to fit into her budget. Um now that we know that meanwhile back at the ranch as we conclude this year's budget if we have a few shekeles as I like to call them at the end there are a couple of things that maybe we can purchase out of this year's budget yet. So there's some things for technology education. There's a piece of equipment that maybe we can purchase
102out of this year instead of putting having to put it in their budget for next year. Maybe we can pay for this magnetic literacy out of this year's bud. But now it's going to be in next year's budget. So that's her job to put it in her budget and then it will go to Dan then to Jim Dirk and we will overall approve it. So just a little bit different but about the same. You saw the slides now maybe that makes more sense as we look at how we build budgets and we move forward. So in June we'll have a lot more specificity, but also remember in June it's called the preliminary budget. And in this weird thing we call education in the state of Wisconsin, you do not approve the final budget until October.
103So we do the best we can in June. We do a little bit better in September and then you you do you finish it in October. Um, and then finally, if uh I I I appreciate everybody's um willingness and attention not only to the overall shape of the middle school, but to detail on things um that are somewhat noticeable. But we also had a tour of some of the things that aren't so noticeable. Um, for instance, one of the things that Corey brought up in the middle of this of the building with the different things that are housed in the middle of the building and how inappropriate that is or mentioned about the choir and the noise and things like that. So, um, very much thankful for you to take the time to do that
104and to start taking a look at it. And I think Melinda, you might have said um you know being a little bit more thoughtful moving forward about what these things are because it's just not as effective as it should be for students in the Wrightstone school district. So that's my report. >> Thank you all for your reports. Um next on the agenda is executive session. The board of education may upon motion duly made and carried convene in close session under one or more of the exemptions provided in section 192851 Wisconsin statute for the following purposes. Uh Wisconsin statute 19.851 C for purposes of considering employment promotion compensation or performance evaluation data of any public employee over which the governmental body has jurisdiction exercises responsibility specifically to review specific matter and to discuss administrative staffing and
105transition considerations including employment information of specific employees. You're looking for a motion to go into close session. >> I'll make a motion to go into close session. Second. >> Okay. Who wants me? [laughter] >> All right. At this time, we will go into close session. All those in favor? >> I >> and we will more we will adjourn out of close session. >> We will not have to come back into open session.