001is six o'clock. I will call the meeting to order. Uh we'll start with roll call. Uh myself here. Melinda is no. Uh Tiffany >> here. >> Jonathan >> here. >> Nikki >> here. >> Jason >> here. >> Kelly. We'll start with the pledge of >> allegiance to the flag of the United States of America to the stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> All right. At this time, I just want to take a moment of silence for Melinda and her family to let them know that they're thinking of her as they're going through some some family um health issues. So, join me at that. All right. Uh, first on the agenda is the discussion of January WSB convention. Anybody want to start with that? >> I just thought it
002was fun to get to know the rest of the board on a more personal level. um sat in one of the classes that pertained to information on referendums. Um and the speaker that we had seen with the saxophone at the end um I actually shared with my son who loves instruments and plays the trumpet and um he thought it was pretty cool. >> I can I can talk. I I've been told that my voice projects well. So, um I thought it was a really awesome experience. Uh it was the first time that I ever got to experience something like that. Um I was super happy that I went for the entire convention. Um things that I got to to learn and and listen about um and educate myself and then hopefully help others. stuff about
003checkered font balances, when you can use them, what they're used for, um some legal conversations um that were good. Um a leadership conversation on the first day that was like a 30,000 foot view, like you know, strategically and just from a leadership standpoint, like what are some what are four key questions that you should ask? um and and just kind of going through that and and how you just kind of set things up and then hearing about other districts um and truly how fortunate we are, especially from a financial standpoint. The number of districts in this state that go to operational referendums to get money to just start the school year is astounding to me. And we don't have that issue here and I'm super thankful for that. Um and and I just think coming
004out of that I I I've truly, you know, I was like, well, Bright Sound's just in the mix. You know, academically we're super strong. How are we, you know, fairing from a community and a financial standpoint? And and I think we're super strong and and and just hearing the struggles that other districts were going through that we aren't. Um was was a really strong message. Um, so just kind of getting to interact with different people from different districts and hear different stories and and and really just um kind of see where we are and and I felt so strong about Writ um coming out of that. I thought it was a really really great experience and I look forward to doing it again next year. >> On my side, uh I have our WASBY delegate.
005So I did attend the the delegates meeting for that group. Um there was 13 different items that were voted on. Everything followed within order of what we had supported uh and went through. Um so good to see the the items there. Uh some interesting takeaways. Um you know some little bit of uh regard and how WBY handles the um you know their kind of legislative support on these items. uh some groups wanted separate uh funding uh different uh I guess tiers of membership uh to not fall in with those supports but it was it's a very small group that item was voted down pretty significantly. Uh as far as track sessions I attended attended a couple of the the finance side of things uh being the treasurer here some of the items that they talk
006about are on the kind of monthly build listing side that Dr. in. I think it'd be beneficial if we could get a little bit more of a report card on how we uh do those. We kind of see tracking of, hey, here's what we budgeted for spending so far year to date. Here's where we're at. Uh get a little bit more um descriptive in terms of buckets that the listings are going into. Um so that'll be something you can work towards and workshop and um get something into place there. something that a lot of the districts have, but strongly encouraged uh based off of issues that happened with the Milwaukee School District. Um cyber security was another one I had attended. Uh so they kind of went through the case um at Elbrooks schools 2022.
007They ended up getting a ransomware attack within the districts. They were able to identify things before things uh went too far south. Uh, one of the things they noted was you just don't know how prepared you are until something happens and you're crawling all over everybody. Uh, so I know a lot of the work and funds that we put into upgrading networking equipment, um, updating our security within our wireless networks, things like that. Cory's done a lot of work within that space. So it shared notes and stuffing what I had there on top of things. Then engagement with AI was another topic that I had intended. Um that was a pretty fun spot. Uh they had somebody had done a lot of studies within the space and we talked to the students who knows more
008about AI your teacher or you you know the vast majority of students are going to say me. Um and just kind of seeing what uh Sarah is doing within the learning development group there. Uh how we're going to address AI, how the teachers are being ahead of it. I think it's awesome that we have plans in place. um from a lot of the other districts are attending within that session. Um I feel like we're in a lot better position uh than some others there. So just want to shout out and say, you know, we've got fantastic resources, fantastic admin staff that are leading the way uh and making right kind of as Jason had mentioned, you know, vast majority, I think 70% of districts are going for operational referendums. Financially, we're in a very good
009spot. I think 80 or 85% of districts are shrinking enrollments. Uh we are not. Um so we're just in a really good position within town here and we're excited to keep things moving forward and continuing our grow. >> My experience was a little more varied uh being a brand new member um and not having the particular role. So I attended some finance sessions which I'll echo um we are fortunate just super super fortunate and it's not to go unnoticed for the work of all the people who set us up for the position that we're in. Um, I attended a case study uh for a school uh that was doing something different with special ed and how their special ed teachers were they called it almost like a a a beehive kind of system where instead
010of having um their special ed educators being delegated to a particular classroom or a particular set of students, they're almost it's kind of almost like a help desk like a they got to know all of the special ed students and it was a different way of looking at things which it's interesting to see and it's amazing how much time these case studies take. It's not just hey we tried this in a year. It's years of data that they come back and report to the school board um and get to understand like how much this helped um efficiency and things like that. So that was super interesting. I attended um a case study about school lunches and making them affordable or that affordable non-pay for every student and kind of how that affected learning. Um so
011these are great things to understand and great ways to look at how they're being implemented in real time in a variety of size districts. Um not necessarily something that we have to come back and go, "Oh my gosh, we're doing this." But it's it's great to see that people are trying different things and trying to see how it works. data is amazing that they present uh and come back and share and and and give us a good ideas going forward. So, I learned a lot. Uh, and then I did attend some new member sessions which, um, I'm happy to say weren't super mind-blowing, which is great, which tells me as a new board, newer board member, I'm well set up by my superintendent and my senior board members, that I was well informed that I
012know how to ask a question and and who to go to and and what resources I have available. So, that made me feel good. Uh, I did learn a few things. Um, but it it was nice to know that I've set up for success. >> All right. Um, one of the sessions I had was uh change ready. Um, I did like the kind of went through how do you get change ready when you're communicating out to your public and um prepare for change, manage the change, sustain the change. So, I think it's easy for us to go, hey, we need a change. just what it is and then you know all of a sudden it's like okay well how are we managing it after we've implemented that change and making sure that we're keeping tabs
013on it. Um so they had had some um examples of that and then also communication out to community. So um engaging board members so that they're able to tell stories you know so we have information but really how do we share that when we get out to the public? So um and when people are asking questions and you know sometimes we feel like oh can't share it's board business but there's things that we can be sharing. How do we go about sharing and making sure that um we're giving accurate information and consistency with it. Um so there's a few things I I brought back with that that I'd like to um look at when we have some of those situations coming up. Um and then documentation and keeping supporting info for information for changes. So
014when we have those changes, let's compile it and put it in one spot. So you know 10 years from now we go, oh hey, we had a similar situation that we tried to implement something and here's how we went about it and here's the information that goes with it or somebody changes and okay, I want to go back to that folder and file and making sure that we have that repository to keep um some of that information in. Um, all in all, um, I enjoyed it. It was, um, nice to have fellow board members and and we were able to kind of tackle different areas and talk afterwards or between sessions. So, um, I appreciate the the number that we had. Um, I know it's not an easy thing to take time and vacation out
015of schedules and things like that and, you know, set up daycare and whatever else needs to happen. So, um, I do appreciate the time that everyone had put into it. Thank you. All right. Anything else? >> All right. Next on the agenda is a high school cafeteria and auditorium facility update. >> Testing one, two, three. Does this sound better? >> That's a little louder. >> Better than the other one. >> Yeah. >> Just out of curiosity. Testing one, two, three. >> I don't want to hear you anymore. >> A different chat. >> Oh, that's better. Okay. Um, so welcome to the auditorium. It just happened to be that we were in here tonight because of parent teacher conferences and the book fair. So, I think this is kind of a common occurrence over the years
016that you have to relocate and we thought we'd come here and see how it would work in the auditorium. Um, but since we're here, we thought we'd do a little bit of an update on this facility that is between 25 and 30 years old. Um, somewhere in that neighborhood. And so, we have Mr. Zach Baker to come in and talk to us about uh some of the things that he's notices, maybe some challenges with our overall facility. Zack, you want the mic? >> Sure. >> Ready? >> Okay. Um I was a little scared. Um good evening everyone. Uh as you know, my name is Zach Baker. I get to teach B here at this awesome school in this district. Um, I also have had the privilege of being the technical director for our uh school
017musical as well as the senior play uh both last year and this year and this is only my second year here in the district. So uh these these are my years of experience at least here. Um I was teaching in Green Bay and had a number of years of experience also doing technical directing uh probably 20 to 30 different shows in my time in Green Bay as well. So, um, a couple of the things I I don't need to share a ton of details and all any technical stuff stuff, but I did want to share a few things just that I've noticed in my time being the technical director. And, uh, as was kindly pointed out, uh, our facility is not the newest and especially when we're considering the technology that, uh, is here. Um,
018we some of the things that I've noticed as I've been here, uh, the sound war that is right back here really is fairly slow and it's it's like a kind of at this point is probably even 12 plus years old, but it's a kind of an awkward cross between a an older analog style board versus a newer digital board. So, it is a digital board, but it's kind of the older style, and it's it sometimes runs pretty slow. Um, also, there's been a couple of issues we've had with our speakers. Um, quite honestly, actually, just last week, I was messing with that speaker right there as we were trying to get rid of or get ready for our senior play and finding it just was not making sound. I had it all connected properly. Ended
019up just touching the right wire the right way and it then all of a sudden it turned on and started working. So, there's just some little things that can kind of turn into big things. Um, as far as running a show and um, as you can imagine, if you're sitting as an audience member, um, having speakers crackling in and out can be very distracting for a show, but for a play, um, having microphones that aren't always the the proper volume can be a little tricky and and which is also dependent on the speakers. And so um some of those even one other thing I I'll mention is even like our our projector um as you know technology it it has a life and so technology sadly uh expires a lot quicker than a lot of
020other things uh in in our world. And so, um, when our projector and even our our electronic screen that that is above your heads up there, um, they work, but also they're not necessarily to the quality that I I believe we are are aiming for in the district. And so, those are at least a few of the things that I've noticed. And, um, like I said, I I won't claim to be an expert on any of it. Um, there's and I'm happy to answer questions that that are needed. Uh those are just at least a couple of the examples of some of the problems that I've run into during my time doing tech stuff here. >> Why don't we hold hand it over to uh Corey? Cory, you want to go next and then we'll
021we'll ask questions at the end of all how's that sound and then after Corey if you want to go Craig. >> Yeah. So I I have not been here all that long either, but in my time here alone, just kind of looking back at that space, the front of house, you can see it's also sort of just like lifted up, shimmed it up a little bit. Um is kind of hot spots put together. Um even today when we were trying to figure out how we're going to do professional development on Friday, which we're going to be using this room, we're going to have a couple of experts up on stage and one of them's coming in remotely. That shouldn't be that hard to be able to make that person come in remotely and have some
022people here. Um, but we're going to end up having to hook up like a laptop, a bunch of adapters and things like that. We still can't get the audio to come through here because as um Zach was saying before, every one of those connections behind there is you just have to either tape it or bend it or kind of get it to a particular angle so that audio and video come through with HDMI. make sure that it doesn't buzz during the sounds like during a play if someone happens to move too close to that and and bump it a little bit. That honestly can turn audio off. I can turn video off. Um there's a number of things like that. Um there's also just a tremendous lack of flexibility. That projector is two decades old.
023Um and so it's at a point where Mitsubishi, as far as I don't want to be misqued, that I don't think they make those anymore. I don't think as a company they even make projectors any longer. Um, so when those go that's going to be at least about it's going to be about a $20,000 pickup like automatically and we don't have anything sitting around that will suddenly be able to make that work. And it's also as you can tell how it's mounted and what it's connected to. It's not going to be a quick job to be like, "Oh, you guys need it for something this afternoon." Sure, we'll just get everything up and there uh reconnect it all. But we don't it's not going to work that well. Um there's also just some situations again
024just like front of house flexibility. Um and also we have to expand the sound out into a larger space which is also a unique thing to deal with and some school districts don't have a cap a cafeteria right or cafeteria space. Um and so when you're expanding that space the sound system in the air is not very um conducive to having the sound out there. So, it really doesn't it really doesn't I guess um to think about how to say it, but it doesn't mix well when you're out in that in that larger space. Um and so one of the things that we were looking to try to do is be able to try to connect these two spaces so that when you are expanding that you actually can accommodate the sound being out in
025that space. >> Um the other part of it is >> you can't Ally, you can't close the door. >> Oh, just kidding. Yeah, sorry. >> I I knew you were. >> Um, the other part of it is you'll notice here, you know, we're using the owl in this space. Um, a lot of the uh instruction here could be uh could be recorded. We could be doing productions that are actually streamed. A lot of times it could go into pretty much any place that's had an opportunity to redo some of the audio or video in those places. we would have a camera that would actually be in the auditorium here that could uh that could be on for any kind of practices for any kind of production that you're doing. Um you're not going to have
026to set up all of this kind of stuff in order to make that function. It's just part of the a modern production at this point time stream events that you're allowed to live stream but also keep them recorded for uh for any kind of production purpose or just kind of looking to see how how did that go? how can we take uh we've got a big production coming up, we want to prepare for it, but we want to see what it looks like on stage. Um, so there's a variety of things like that. I think we just we're lacking in the flexibility that make a person, I think, want to perform here, I guess, and uh and also help students kind of realize what it would be like at a more modern production facility. So,
027>> Greg, all right, thank you. All right, these two guys are a lot more smarter in technology than I am. All right, but I'm probably the average Joe public whatnot. But uh we use this facility for a lot of events, not only school events, but community events. Uh Green Leaf, Firelands, 100year picnic was or uh showcase was here last summer. We do a ton of scholarship banquetss, our all of our class meetings. Uh this Saturday we'll probably have we're hosting team sectionals and we'll do all of our our seating and stuff in here off the video board. You can see it or whatnot. Um we kind of use both places. We use the video room up there. Um just from my point of view activities director when we get groups that come in here the
028feasibility of trying to tell them in regular human that usually we can do how to use this is not very easy. Uh it's not very user friendly at all. We actually use this room um uh incentives for a middle school like sixth grade will come over and watch a movie or something. Um and it's you can't just go and tell somebody, you know, it's very easy now like in the gym. Uh it can connect to Bluetooth. You can just press one button. It's very usable. It's very easil easily. It's accessible. Here it's not. All right. you have to go through a huge ordeal and like kind of Corey said before, you got to make sure you don't touch certain cords or whatnot or else it's not going to work. Um, I know Corey and Matt,
029uh, I bother them a lot when we have to use it because it usually breaks down and I call in a fright and try to get them to come and fix it. Um, the same thing with the video and everything else. It's uh, just kind of one of those things. Uh, we have amazing one act and forensics as you know and everything else. All right. It's one of those things I think that they probably deserve a little bit of upgrade, right? One thing is that we are all of our teachers are very flexible and versatile and whatnot. Um, but it would be a really nice thing to do. Thank you. >> Thanks, Greg. Um, Corey, do you want to introduce Roger? I bet I bet he'd love to be put on the spot and answer
030questions. >> So, we're lucky enough >> we're lucky enough to have Roger here from Northern Sound Video and I don't know your official title sales sales and design manager. So, Roger is the did the design for us in the gym has been helping us with a lot of different things um related to this. And I think we wanted Roger to be here because we wanted to be able to also have you be able to ask some questions because Roger does a lot of work with churches around the area. Does a lot of work with schools and just has a huge uh kind of breast of what you could see and what you would normally expect inside of like a school district and that kind of thing. So if you have some ideas or some things
031you'd like to ask him, he knows our space very well. Uh and and many other spaces around Wisconsin as well. So, thank you, Roger, for coming tonight. Um, just to reiterate what Corey just said, thank you for hooking up the fieldhouse and everything around surrounding that. And thank you for your diligence on that. And I know that you just got done quoting out continuing to work this way, taking care of the the audio and visual for this facility as well as the cafeteria so that all these systems would work together. Maybe you could start with just explaining that to us. >> Sure. Um because we're updating all the technology on the head end. The head end being was mixing the audio and and sending the sound to the speakers. uh we'll actually be able to
032interconnect uh the audio from the different areas uh the field house into here or here house and u and the cafeteria as well the cafeteria can be a standalone system or it can be an extension of this so those things are easy to do when you're using modern technology >> okay thank you for questions >> yeah I have a So, and I I don't know if the question is for you, Roger. Thank you for coming. Very nice to meet you, um, or if it's for Corey or or Zach or whomever. Have we done the analysis to to to say like must have, could have, should have, won't have as far as when we're looking at um you know pricing and hey look we could get the Taj Mahal for this um or we could get
033hey what's functional for this to make things better. So have we gone through that step in the analysis? Yeah, that's one of the things that we um that we try to do in this process because for example, if you were to to do this in a way that would be kind of mentioned Taj Mahal, it would be uh having a very nice speaker array. Make sure that no matter where you're sitting anywhere in here, that the audio is exactly the same for you as the person that's in the front or next to it would be absolutely perfect. To me, that's like highest level, all that kind of thing. We did look at that and then went I think that's probably not going to be cost effective for where we are at this point and brought
034that down to kind of look at what would it what would it look like now that it's been 20 years since we've replaced any speakers since we've replaced any amplifier since we've replaced any audio video right and try to get it to a point where what does it feel like that fits sort of right to town I won't say middle of the road but like we're not a you know this is it this this is a great facility right at the same time it's not a major performing arts center, right? And so we want to be able to fit it to to make sure that it's kind of uh commensurate with this environment, right? So I think we tried to do that. I had the opportunity in 2020 and 2021 to redo the performing arts
035center, the audio and video in Falls High School. Um and I would say we went a little bit higher for that one, but that again is a is a space that fits 750 people, right? That's a different it's a little bit of a different environment, I would say. And so And here we were trying to fit this space reasonably well, adding a little bit of low sound to it, bass to it. Um, we also have to rent equipment on a regular basis just to do our regular shows. We don't have enough microphones and so we're spending on a regular basis just to be able to accommodate our normal show. So we were trying to figure out how can we how can we keep some of that stuff inhouse so that we can actually practice with
036it use it for performances and all that kind of thing without then having to kind of incur those other costs and then incurring the uncertainties as well. So I think that's where sort of where we where we fit it in here right now. I guess um some things that you could cut out I suppose would be trying to connect the places together, but I would I would caution that if you're in the process of doing this type of a project, it's a really good opportunity to do that. If you imagine something like graduation or a larger event with all of these spaces are able to be heard and seen. Uh if you have overflow, you need to be able to live stream it from here to there and just be able to have the spaces
037finally connected to each other. There's some cost savings that happen with that. you're already up in the ceiling. >> One one followup question. Uh actually two followup questions. So one, are we in a better spot that we began to upgrade everything in the in the fieldhouse? Does that put us in a better position to connect things? And I think I heard yes. >> Yeah. Yeah, it does because a couple things we've had a few circuits over there. We also just um we we've kind of planned for this regardless, you know, just in in the the wiring that we were doing to say, well, you know, it doesn't really hurt us to be able to have some additional wiring that can be that can be connected over here to leave it in place and it it
038doesn't move on. It doesn't move on, but it still could be connected, you know, at some point in time. So, usually try to do that type of thing and put it in there because it's not usually very, you know, much more expensive to plan for that even if you don't ever touch that sense, right? Um, and the other part of it that would be very helpful, I guess what Craig said was the usability of this. There are three different completely different controller boards in each of these areas and none of them are even close to being similar. So, uh, to be able to turn on the cafeteria audio is completely different. It has totally different microphones, totally different amplifiers than this space. And then also in the gym, which was the way it was before
039you did the gym, too. Um, it's just that it's much nicer in there, too. So at this point, you'd be able to have uh the exact same interface no matter where you go and being able to train people with it, control it would be a lot easier. In addition, this would give us the opportunity in this space not to keep talking and talking, but um there are different people as Craig was mentioning that use this space. Some people really need a high level audio mixing capability like Zach does, but a lot of times Eric will come in here with a group of students and just need a microphone and maybe a projector. And so this would be able to have the option to say you both get this and there's a real easy road over
040here for the people that just need to push one button and make their two things work. And then there's another area that kind of like is sort of locked down over here that the people that really actually know how to run a digital soundboard can can go wild and do what they need to do over that side if that makes sense. This kind of helps separate the two for the people that really need it for big events and then the people that need it for their day-to-day operations. And one last question that I have um and and that is there's there's the difference right between going hey this is right for us right now and then that future cost avoidance right which you did with the other the additional um stuff that you did in
041the fieldhouse right have we balanced have we balanced that out too to be like hey look these updates if we made these now you know it's going to last us another 20 years now we're going to be good now again technology has It's it's like shrinking and shrinking as far as this life cycle. I get that, right? But are have we balanced that out to not go if we were going to do this, right? And not be like, oh, in five years we're going to have to do it again. >> I think I mean I can you could probably back me up a little bit on that, but we have I mean with the speakers and amplifiers we put in there. We've relied a bit on the digital side of things and some digital processors,
042but I think the the bones of it and like the hard structure of it is not going to need to be replaced for quite a long time. There might need to be some like some of these like smaller digital panels and things like that, but the conduit's there, the wiring is there, the like I said kind of the bones and structure is uh is in my mind something that's not going to be replaced for quite a long time. Um so that's kind of what we've been trying to work on here is to say I don't want to go too digitally heavy to be honest because it is also really difficult to train everybody to do that and that's the stuff that usually fades out quicker. So yes, there are digital aspects of that, but again,
043when you're when you're pulling out old cabling, putting in new cabling, even new uh you know, CAT 6 cable and that kind of thing, the the lifespan of that is very very long too, right? But there was a big transition between the older analog stuff and sort of the new digital stuff. So still putting in the back will last quite a long time. Speakers should last a long time. And we were able to reuse things too. We reused the um uh the entire uh cabinet in there. So we we really didn't, you know, we tried to reuse as much as we could. That makes sense. >> Yeah. And also because the digital processor and the mix that we're using, it can be expanded very easily in the future. There's no there's nothing that's a dead
044end right now. Uh so you're really in shape there should your needs change in the future. And one of the examples of keeping costs under control was when we had an input meeting with the teachers really the the dream was to have 22 wireless mics and that was pretty costly at decent level of wireless mic and so we ended up going with 15 of the ear mic systems and true handheld wireless so you can do stuff like this just just to keep cost down but that's where you can expand in the future. and not have to rent. But at 15, you're already going to be renting a whole lot less money than you did before. >> Do we know the cost of this combined? I know you said >> funny you should ask that question,
045Tiffany. Um, so what we did is we're working and we're about 99% there. Um, and we broke it down into six different categories so that we could knock it off kind of what Jason said, we could knock off a category at a time. So, there are six different things that are going to rank in price from from 15 to 30 $40,000. And so then we can as we go along and look at financial situations. >> Can you hear me? >> Oh, I can. >> Okay. Look at financial situations. Um I think the uh most costly one is 37. The least costly is 11. So of those six categories. So we're we're uh we're fine-tuning it. We're almost there. And the next step would to be to see when Roger could potentially get some of these
046items in, work around our schedules with spring things that are going on and see when they could come in and do it um between now and the end of summer. Just wanted to mention one more thing. And when the whole system is old, it's a lot harder to just peace meal fix it because then there's still pieces of it that are going to be unreliable. If your system was newer, maybe even half the age is now, it wouldn't be that big of an issue just to >> Thank you for that. >> As far as addressing when we open and expand this room, um what are some of the items that we're looking at for that? Right? Because audio is horrible. Like you open this up and it's you're got bleachers back there and it's like
047>> great. Glad I came to this because I can see them, but I have no idea. >> Yes. So, part of the project is like kind of breaking things down is that is to have a newer speaker system out there as well. Um, and you kind of mentioned having the the cost like breakdown. So, I wanted to explain a few things. So, you'll see one of these panels here tonight is going to be pretty helpful. There's also a very expensive projector out there that runs separately from this projector. Both of them are about the same age. And our plan was to not replace that one out there in order to keep that cost lower and then be able to make sure the audio can be heard out there, but then be able to supplement some
048of the video uh with additional things outside that makes sense to be able to say, "Okay, we can we have more digital or maybe more capable hookups. We can take this feed from here, have it on a projector. We could also have it on monitors or confidence monitors out there so people can see like I can't see the projector when I'm in the back, but you hear it now." you know, uh, being able to expand those those kinds of feeds, but we just don't have that flexibility. And what we've understood from talking with pretty much everybody that uses these spaces is that they use that projector like once a year. So to replace that projector with a 20ome thousand projector and redo all the wiring and cables, which right now, I mean, great still in
049there. I don't know, but it rarely works. So Matt and I have already gone to Best Buy numerous times to redo the plates and do all the things like that just to try to get it to plug in for the one day that we need it per year. And so um anyway, this is all you might be able to explain a little better. Replacements of speakers will be out there. The amplifiers in there will be replaced also. And then we'll be able to use microphones from uh for a wide variety of places that you can really expand. So it's okay. >> I think so. Yeah. Um >> I just had a question about maybe >> Yeah, you got real close. >> Um just sometimes I think the things don't work because of the users. So
050is there a plan or process point people an auditorium I feel like probably a lot will come on you but when community members are coming in do we have a system in place on how to maybe train them or what they can and cannot use and we just don't want people touching things. >> Um the control systems for all these spaces would be in place just like the one in the fieldhouse and if you want to after the meeting we can go over and look at that. It is extremely intuitive and very simple. So in here we are creating what what we are going to call a manual mix and easy mix. When there's a big production you use a new digital mixer and you have to know how to operate it. When you're having
051meetings like this for example uh it would be the easy mix and now there's a wired touch panel beyond the AB desk and extremely easy to understand and use. I've had people and we do this a lot for schools and also churches because volunteers in both positions. So, we've really got a good idea how to make things intuitive and easy and most of our clients figure out how to use the touch panel before the day get so that's going to be very helpful for you guys. >> I can turn the high school field on right now. Well, extremely >> I I can I can attest to that because having to support people in the fieldhouse before and then having to support them after is is night and day having the same panels involved. >> Correct.
052So that I mean I I feel a lot more confident about that because even in here I've been here I had to ask you a question this morning. I'm like, normally when I do this, the the microphones work. Like, what am I doing wrong today that I have not done the four times I've done this prior? So, why got to get this work? So, I usually feel reasonably proficient with technology, but I was not feeling it today as I wasn't able to get one other kind of nuance that I had not flicked on in order to make it work. So, in my mind, um I think one of the things we can do, you guys made some really great documentation for us that we have is a QR code that says here's how to do
053this. I also think I honestly just having a teacher background like make a video of each of these things signaling you are going on there going hey if you don't know how to use this here's a quick video of us standing right here showing you how to use it but truly for you guys always free >> and I think like you said a lot of people in the gym using that quite a few >> and we use it more than people around here like when wrestling's there during lunch we'll put on the wrestling matches All right, which is pretty cool. Senior citizen party will do those. All right, so just to see if we able to hear it, right? It it might not have said it, but the the security warning sounds we can tie
054into the new ones too. Correct. >> That's another part mentioned is that the uh kind of the alarms that will go off if we were to have an incident occurring, they're not tied into any of our audio systems right now. So, prior to what was done in the uh in the gym, if you were playing music really loudly in the gym and panic button were hit because we're having a situation, you might be able to hear it maybe, but the audio doesn't duck because the two aren't talking to each other because it isn't digital. So, it would be like you there's speakers in there and you can see one of them right over there next to that clock. That's a very tiny little speaker. These speakers are considerably bigger than that speaker. So when you
055make these ones very loud, you could maybe hear that one, but you might not. And so in all of these situations where you have significant amplification of sound, none of those right now are tied into something that audio duct. So what happens now that that capability in all three of these cases combined is that when that button is hit, there would be some audio ducking that occurs. Take these and shut them all the way down. the user cannot override that. So that they have to be able to hear uh the the sound that's going on when there's an emergency. So that's one thing that it's an additional benefit I guess to being able to do this in all those spaces. We've never had to deal with that. >> I would say as a parent of
056youth wrestling um you know if you go around a lot of our conference schools and auditorium is frequently the awards ceremony and you have kids saying up there. So, you know, we do have a buncher space, much more outdated uh equipment. Uh I was pretty impressed in one of our last meets when there were announcements made both the auditorium and the gym. Uh I was surprised by that. And you come to the right sound tournament, you're missing a kid, you're waiting five minutes, waiting 10 minutes, you're trying to get news out or trying to get that kid in and you make an announcement in one place, but it could be any of these three areas and uh it doesn't go out. So I think that's an awesome opportunity to the health of that space and
057I know we're just a small part of it. I'm sure there's a lot of other activities that happen within here that'd be beneficial for it if you guys have all heard the sound in the fieldhouse updated. That's what happens when we update the technology and also do the right design. um the results I can tell you it's going to be night and day here as well just because of modern technology but also different design concepts. >> Thank you for coming in. >> Thanks for having me. Thanks for your time. >> All right. >> Um upcoming events. So, not all-incclusive list, but this is the fourth and sixth grade showcase concert at the high school at 6 p.m. February 23rd. Um, and get this done by. Um, great community school district child development days, screenings by
058appointments only. March 5th, 2:30 to 6:00 p.m. Spring break, which I think we're all looking forward to. um March 9th through the 13th and then summer school pre-registration opens on March 19th. >> Right. And there's nobody signed up for public forum. Sure. Um on to discussion and possible approval of the January 28th, 2026 meeting minutes. Any questions on those? I'll make a motion to approve uh the January 28, 226 meeting minutes. >> I'll second. >> All those in favor? >> Anybody opposed? Uh discussion and possible approval of the February 4th uh workshop minutes. Questions on them? Second for voting. >> All those in favor. >> 5 Z. Um and then consideration to approve the monthly bills, listings, and receipts. >> Great. You can just say 501, right? >> Yeah. One instant. 901. >> Um, consideration
059to approve monthly bills, listings, and receipts. >> Discussion. I'll make the motion to approve the monthly bills receipts. >> All those in favor? >> I. >> Anyone oppose? >> 6. uh discussion and consideration to approve um rescheduling the March workshop from 34 to 32. >> So I put this on there just as a point to bring up that um you are scheduled for second round interviews on March 2nd and you also have the traditional first Wednesday of the month on the 4th. I didn't know if that would be something that you would want to combine those two and say uh we won't do the workshop that month. It's we don't have necessarily anything burning for you to talk about because we don't get to meet with Tim Banick from Miola until the 5th. That was
060his opening time. So we won't be able to discuss in the workshop model uh that this Neola updates. Um, so if you want, totally up to you. We can always find things to talk about. That's not a problem. Um, but if you wanted to, with all the meetings we've been having lately, take that and combine it. Um, it certainly would be very feasible to do. >> Right. for second. I was it was Tuesday, not the Monday. I recall or we were trying to get it down to one night and we were gonna focus on the third. Yeah, >> I just so >> that was that was our 10 because initially we had it pencled in for possibly both nights if needed but trying to scale down to one and if we had we could scale
061down to one to third the third just because of personal schedules versus the second. So you could make the motion that instead of a workshop, whatever interview schedule you have, whether it's the second or third, is going to take the place of the workshop. >> We are meeting the fifth with Timol. >> I am you are >> with Amber. That's that's our time to meet with him and get that >> to get ready for the first reading on the 18th. So, if there's no discussion, I'll make the motion to move the March 4th workshop to be combined with whatever day we choose for final interview candidates for the superintendent. >> All those in favor? >> Anybody opposed? 6. All right. Um, I'm just getting Alli and Amanda all fired up because they're next on the
062list. >> Well, they have to announce. You gota have a walk up song. >> Yeah. What What is it? Jim will say >> discussion and consideration to approve um graduation credit requirements. Thank you. All right. So, um I have the privilege of introducing these two young ladies. So, Amanda Fidella has been a school counselor at the high school for seven years and Ally Winch is new to us this year as well. And so I um along with Jim and Eric have tasked these two ladies to come and talk to you this evening about um graduation requirements. So if you look at board policy, it has moved it up to 27 credits for the graduating class of 27. The graduating class of 26 is at 26 and a half credits. And so just looking at what
063we know right now using data from the last couple of years um with increase of credits, these two ladies are going to be here to talk to you about keeping the graduation credit limit at 26 and a half. Um and so they have some rationale. So just asking um for I guess the recommendation to keep it at 26 and a half. So >> I'm sorry we couldn't hear you because you didn't use the microphone. Can you repeat what we just >> told that the microphone is silly when online? and they can hear you just fine. So, >> um can you just restate that? So, the graduating class of 2027 has 27 credit requirements and so the ask is to not for that class but for all other classes or that class included to revert back
064to 26 and a half >> to keep it at our current 26 and a half for this class and the the classes to come. >> Oh, okay. because we were we were increasing it half a credit every year. >> Yeah. >> And so starting with the class of 27. And so what we wanted to do is to eliminate that additional half credit for the graduating class of 27. And they'll explain why. >> Okay. >> So >> thank you. >> Yeah. >> I'm not use the microphone. That's okay. Um our current reality is that students may enroll in courts per year allowing a maximum of 32 credits over a four-year period. It is recommended though throughout those four years to schedule at least one study hall per per semester. So for the whole year um resulting
065in seven credits per year with a potential total of 28 credits over the four years. The current graduation requirement for seniors is 26 and a half. Um, what we've been finding is that transfer students occasionally enroll from neighboring districts with lower graduation requirements, which could create challenges in meeting Rightstown's 26 and a half credit requirements within their remaining time. The 26 and a half credit requirement provides students with approximately a wiggle room of one and a half credits of flexibility within the traditional four-year plan that includes one study hall per year. Students who encounter academic or even personal challenges may have limited scheduling flexibility to recover these credits while remaining on track for graduation. Our consideration for maintaining the 26 and a half credit requirement. Students can still continue to earn up to 32 credits
066if they choose to maximize their schedules. The current requirement supports academic rigor aligned with their student and students instructional levels. Maintaining a 25 25 26 and a half credit standard promotes equitable um expectations across all students. The structure allows students needing accommodations and additional supports to access the courses aligned with their successes. Students facing life challenges retain structured opportunities for credit recovery. While our schedule effectively serves most of our students, it does become more restrictive for our students who must retake courses while maintaining that face-to-face instruction with highly qualified teachers. To support career pathways, our youth apprenticeship students will receive four credits. It was previously three credits upon successful completion of their experience. This adjustment increases flexibility in their schedules while preserving work-based learning opportunities and progress towards graduation requirements. Maintaining strong graduation expectations ensures
067that Rightstown graduates remain college and career ready. Our recommendation overall is to maintain the graduation requirements of 26 and a half. This requirement balances the rigor, flexibility, and opportunity while ensuring that all high school writes down high school students have access to quality instruction and graduate and they are graduated and prepared for college, career, and future success. >> Both questions. >> So just just a couple of global comments. One is just reiterating in a high school if you can take six credits a year that's a maximum of 24. If you can take seven credits in a year it's a maximum of 28. You take eight credits in a year it's a maximum of 32. We cannot control the other 420 school districts. So when they come to us they might come from a totally different
068system and trying to integrate this for these ladies is very difficult. two is this is the one area where I will say that trying to lift the top up brings the bottom along. In this particular case, graduation requirements aren't helping the bottom I mean the top to get pulled up as they've already said the kids that are motivated are still going to take 32 credits. It doesn't change that. What it makes it is those difficult for the kids that are are struggling to try to meet those expectations. You're just making it a little bit harder and another dare I say hoop to jump through and scheduling nightmare for them. So it it has absolutely no effect on rigor. It has no effect on trying to make this a high class first rate quality education system.
069This is just a dare I say random number for credits. So you are not dumbing anything down. You are just making it uh available and and and more um manageable and reachable for those kids that struggle. >> So a question we are this has no effect on our academic standards. Yeah. >> Correct. >> Right. Um and have we done any research as far as other districts? And you can't I'm sure compare apples to apples, right? Um and and am I to understand that 26 and a half has been the graduation requirement for >> this is the um they used to be at 25 and a half. Okay. And this is the first year that says well gosh 20 I have to look back but >> so every year half a credit >> oh okay change
070the schedule >> you went to an 80 being able to seven >> so I do believe it started obviously on newer I think it started after co is when the change was recommended um because they guys did go to an AB schedule that will have scheduling. Um, however, we would like it to be at 26 and a half. >> Um, Jason, just a quick Google search around like Connections Academy is 23 credits. Or Mortonville is 27 credits. Um, Nashville, I think like 15 and a half credits. >> Yeah. And and I'm sure you can't compare apples to apples because classes can offer different training schedule. I I think my my concern right we have always tried to been a high achieving right district and this has no no effect on academic rigor. Um I will
071also just say on a personal note I have dealt with both of these ladies and they are putting down. So um if if this is best for our students I'm all about it. If there's no other discussion I'll make the motion. >> I just go ahead. >> Yeah. Um so yeah taking a look like Wisconsin statutes limit to determine what we have to do. Right. So our policies show matching to the policies statutes for English, math, science, etc. And we had to add on of 11 elective credits. Right? So ultimately asking costs to have to go back in adjust the policy, change the electives to 10 and a half credits. We have like we have credit electives and stuff like that. That's not going to be a problem like that. So um ultimately, yeah, you're
072not changing the baseline. >> Yeah. No, I I totally agree. And and and like I said, if if this is best for our students, I think this is this is appropriate. And I'll make the motion to adjust the policy to remain at 26 and a half. >> I'll second it. >> For policy updates, do we need to do first read and second range and stuff for individual policy updates? Um, we will we will continue to have the policy as it stands and because it is at 26 and a half right now >> and I will check with Mr. Banick to see if we actually have to >> do a resend and read from 20 to stay at 26 and a half. >> Okay. But you are, I believe, by virtue of making a motion and
073second and an approval of staying at 26 and a half. I don't think there's anything else you need to do. >> Okay. >> But I will double check for you. Okay. >> All right. Motion on the table. So all those in favor >> Tiffany did. >> Anybody opposed? >> Does the microphone still work? Thank you. Thank you. >> Time's up. >> Thank you, ladies. >> Thanks for all your hard work. We'll see you there tomorrow morning. >> Right under the wire. As soon as they were done, see they got done with their things out the door. >> All right. Um policy for discussion andor action. So, a second read on possible approval of the viola special update. >> We're going to table that. >> Yeah, we'll table that until um next meeting. >> Reason being
074that the draft policies didn't have all the jump in. >> We have to make a motion to table it. >> Nope. >> Okay. >> You just table it. >> Okay. >> Um All right. Next on the agenda is administrative updates and board reports. So, we're down to four. We're down to four. Who wants to go first? >> Colleen wants to. She's close to the podium. >> Okay, Colette. >> All right. You want me to come up here? >> No. Just stand where you're at. We want you to yell. No. Come. >> I can use my yelling voice. >> Oh, we know. >> All right. So, thank you first of all to Mr. Connor Edwards, sixth grade teacher, Miss Angela Eer, who organized an amazing opportunity for your students. You may have seen it online. Nine
075students, three elementary students, five middle school students, and one high school student received free haircuts, which is a really big deal for some of our students from Hansel Kennedy and Travis Hearning from Hand Can Barberhop. Anybody go there? No. The official Green Bay Packers Barber. So, it was a big special moment uh for our students. The barbers enjoyed their enjoy their time at WMS and are looking forward to coming back again in the future. So, these kids are still super proud even today of their haircuts, their styling. And what would uh Right Middle School be without another competition? Are you ready? So, from Monday, February 16th through spring break, we are holding a friendly grade level competition. Already, these kids are taking it very seriously. I had I don't think I had a write up
076today of any behaviors. The challenge, the grade level with the least amount of behavior writeups will earn a treat of their choice. This is our chance to show what it means to be a tiger. Uh so we're talking about being kind, being respectful, and being productive. Uh and so what do you where do you think my pet is on? >> I just think they're going to do it again. So we'll see what they're they'll get to choose on their treat as well. So it'll be fun. Uh the middle school hosted and tonight they just wrapped up at 7 o'clock parent teacher conferences on Monday Wednesday evenings this week and the event was a tremendous success. We were pleased to see strong family participation and meaningful conversations focused on students growth and achievement. We'd also like
077to extend our sincere appreciation to our PTO uh Tiffany being one of them for generously providing a meal for our teachers during conferences from Kudova. So if you want to see happy teachers you feed them. And if you want to see really happy teachers, you give them something really special like Hudova. It was a big moment. Uh your thoughtfulness and support are truly appreciated. So thank you very much. All right. So uh as all of you have seen, NBC 26 was at the high school inquiring about the use of AI in our classrooms and how students have been impacted by AI. I have to give a huge shout out to Zach Wetland and Oliver Baiton for their great interview uh regarding the change in the teacher perception that they've seen with AI used in the
078classroom uh and their eagle eye for identifying what was AI generated and what was uh real life. So kudos to them. Uh we are also looking forward to continuing our work with AI to support our planning, teaching and learning across all content levels. Uh on Friday we will have an inservice that will start off with a whole staff picture of the great shirts that the board provided all staff members. So at 7:45 we'll be in the gym getting pictures taken with all of our shirts on. So again, thank you for the shirts. And then we are going to be blessed with the band and choir solo ensemble students performing for us for about 45 minutes their routines that they're going to be taking on to solo ensemble. Then uh we're going to continue the year-long
079work that we've been doing with the curriculum. uh and resource audit. We will have Ted Rates be back. So if you want to see him present again, he'll be here from 10 to 11:30 on Friday presenting to the whole staff um following up from what he had done in August. And then uh stay if you're hungry because we're going to provide a pasta lunch that is going to be provided by the novels here for all the staff members. And then we're going to end the afternoon with a five member AI panel. So to continue our work in AI, uh staff have generated questions for the panel and so the panels will be able to answer those questions and then the staff will end the day with an opportunity to kind of like with AI. We're
080going to send them off with some tasks, get them into different platforms and then they will report back on what they were able to produce that afternoon. And then lastly, our ELA selection committee, which I've been kind of talking about for the last couple of months, but again to continue our work digging into what is going to be the right uh one or two resources for us to pilot in the upcoming school year. We did do a communication out to all of the teachers who will be impacted for K to 8th grade, just keeping them in the loop on where we're at in the process. Uh we're really hoping that by the end of uh March we have had our vendor presentations and that I will be coming to you with um a pilot opportunity
081uh for you to kind of hear and learn more about. So thank you. >> All right, my turn. Uh just a couple things from me. Uh as you may recall uh the 2527 state budget included a much needed increase to the special ed uh reimbursements the amount uh the state approved an increase to 42% in the first year and 45% in the second year. Um but when that first payment came out from DPI it's paid out a few times a year uh the projection was more at about 35% which caused a lot of angst in people in my world. Um, I budgeted conservatively at 35%. So, we're okay either way. Um, but a lot of inks in other districts if they didn't budget uh if they trusted what the state budget said at 42% 35
082is not gonna not going to cut it. Right. So, um now there's been a push um at the state level. you may have heard um about um trying to use some of the surplus dollars at the state level to uh fully fund those percentages. Um there's some legislative logistics going on right now about when the the session is happening and if that's going to come to fruition, but u uh so we're hopeful that that that will happen. I believe that costs about $200 million and there's plenty of money in the state um in the state uh surplus to to make that happen. Uh there's also a push to make that number a uh some sufficient amount meaning there's enough money to cover it rather than than its current practice which is some certain amount meaning
083that hey here's the here's you know hund00 million and it is what it is whatever that percentage works out then you have to do the math back end and figure that out. So hopefully um that takes place over the next uh week or so and uh we'll have good news. Uh so um we're hopeful on that. Um the other thing I have is we shifted gears already to next year the 26 27 budget and began forecasting salaries and benefits and things like that. So um you I talked last month about uh CPI that's 2.63%. So that's the number that we would base uh increases off of. So um once we know what that what the board approves for that percentage then um we'll be able to share some projections. So that's all I have for
084next before we get started. I just want to give you another thanks. I know it's a little loud in the cafeteria and everything, but I I just want to thank you guys for allowing our school district to be a hub. It is the hub of our community. Got a chance after this, go upstairs to see the youth wrestling, full load of parents, kids, go in the gym. Uh there's like three or four teams practicing and it's all our schools, cub scouts, girl scouts, and everything else. I just get kind of giddy. I love our the energy in schools that we have here from top to bottom. I think that's a great thing that's happening. Uh, super my port. Um, couple things. We had a lot of stuff going in the last month. Our FBLA team,
085all right, you probably heard, but it won its 17th regional championship in a row. 50 out of our 90 students who participated in the event qualified for state right and that ties a record for the most state qualifiers that we have all time. um at the regional competition. The rightstone FLA was also recognized with a first place award for its community service projects over the past year which consisted of our senior citizen Christmas party. It must have been our uh our Bob Barker that was doing the event there was saying that our USA worn flake drops and the used eyeglass collections that they but again amazing run for coach Dell and his fantastic FBA members uh which is much deserved. Uh in FFA news, uh they had a contest too. Olivia Weezy uh advanced to
086the FFA sectional speaking contest that's going to be held in Plymouth next month. So, we're going to wish her good luck and I'll update it later. Hopefully, she can advance on to state. Our rightstone dance team consisting of Ireland Don Donovan, Audrey Silinsky, and Anna Lens along with head coach Crystal Pichki and assistant coach Na Peterson. They placed fifth at state in hiphop in the Wisconsin Association of Cheer and Palm State competition this past weekend in lacrosse. All right, big Tiger, shout out to these dancers and coaches. Uh, they prepare very hard. out of all of our sports teams activities, they put in probably twice as much time as everybody else. All right. And uh these ladies are probably the strongest girls that we have in school, too. Uh they work out continuously with Coach
087Cody. Very hardworking group. Um our high school forensics team, they're off and running. Uh they captured our seventh consecutive NEC conference tournament championship last week. Last Monday, I was actually here. Uh, our team scored 322 sweepstake points, easily outpacing second place FPL with 246 points. And we still allowed FBL to be part of the conference. All right, because they had that. Uh, but of our team's 25 entries, 20 of them were recognized as all conference, right? Awesome job. Our Wrightstone National Honor Society conducted their annual flyaway cancer fundraiser that we've been doing a couple years. It's awesome event. uh during our boys basketball game at home with Little Shoot on Friday, February 6. The event consisted of a miracle minute, airplane toss, and some raffle prizes. Uh all in told, we raised over $10,000, all
088right, for Jeff Mullets as he battles cancer. All right, you know Jeff, but if you didn't know Jeff, he's a pioneer for the school district. He was our schoolboard president for many years and done many, many good things. Uh lastly, our Rightstown Wellness Center kind of talked about it last month, too. We ended up raising over $1,500 for the St. Jude walk fundraiser. Uh we raised this money with registration free fees and pledges for walks laps walked. Our members who participated walked a total of 14,137 laps across our things. And we pledged five cents per lap. So we paid about $700, right, for that, which is a good use of our money. Uh it was a great turnout. uh our members really supported the great cause and uh so that's all I have. Go Tigers.
089>> Thank you. >> Right. Well, you've heard about PAC or the auditorium, so I want to talk about that. Um, we are, you're probably going to hear just some things that are starting to sound like they're a little bit of a broken record because you've already approved some big projects and so we're just chipping away at those big projects. So, at this point, Matt and I have uh put out about 25 uh new line boards and classes. We the last building to get to is the middle school. So, I apologize for the middle school. Hasn't seen a lot of days. This largely a storage issue. So, we've been trying to figure out where to put things there, but mostly those will be at the elementary the middle. and then next week we plan to focus
090on there. So, um we've had really positive feedback on it and just kind of continuing to go through some training with them. We put we have put together just for those of you that are more kind of classroom oriented. Uh every time a person gets one of these, they also get a document that has a uh two pages and every line item is I can statements for for teachers and it says like states I can do this with a video after it like I can turn on the board, I can switch these types of things. So once it comes that way, they end up getting some uh a little bit of of training that way, but we do have training scheduled in uh in August for this. Um moving on to uh some of our
091support staff, we are in the process of going through a big physical security change that was approved recently. So in preparation for that, we're already handing out some of the new uh badges, security badges for those. Um and we're coupling that with the uh with some punch kiosks for our our staff. One of the things that's been somewhat difficult is that staff takes a long time for them to punch in. They have to log into numerous systems to be able to get into there and then just to be able to clock into the day. It's kind of a it's been a pain for a long time. So, at this point in time, uh, next Wednesday, they're going to they don't know this yet, but they're going to be receiving an email with some instructions, a
092video, as well as uh basically a layout in the main offices that will have their new badges uh and will they're already named and that kind of thing. So, they'll turn in their old one, grab their new one, and the very next day, they'll have three different kiosks around each of the schools that they can go to either punch in that number that's on the back of their badge, or just scan it. That will now punch them in and punch them out, make things a lot more accurate, a lot easier for them, and then just give them some greater flexibility to focus on just the work that they need to get done rather than am I here on time and that good. Uh, so we're looking forward to that. Seems like a simple change, but
093actually a lot of stuff in the background. And I want to thank Tanya uh in the district office for the amount of time that she spent just changing data with me and making sure that we've double checked it in three or four different places to be certain that this is going to work. Uh uh not to leave you with bad news, but uh we we're in the final stages of our audit. And so one of the last things we looked at was uh some of the changes in our virtual infrastructure. For those of you that are techy that are out here, we use VMware for a lot of that. That was purchased by a different company called Broadcom. Uh as a result of that, our 25 virtual servers, the cost is going up about fourfold
094as far as the support, which is insane. Uh and so we're looking to try to exit the insanity to a degree. So we are still under a contract with them for a little while. We're looking at what we're trying to do. Uh some of the hardware is is actually a little bit newer in this in this side of things. So we don't want to jump ship on the hardware because it's still in really really good shape for the for the server side of things. So, we're just trying to figure out how we can go about this without having to pay an, you know, kind of a a ridiculous sum for something we've just already had in the past. So, you'll see school districts dealing with this. And so, what could potentially mean for us over
095the course of the summer as we switch uh or potentially switch, we might have an outage over the summer because we would literally need to take down every server in that case. But, uh the good thing is it's February and we're planning on it. So we will figure out a way to make sure that it is at a really opportune time for the district and with minimal disruption and also lower cost. But didn't want to leave with something negative, but that is something that's coming down the way. And I do appreciate the board working with Dan and with Jim to kind of give us a bump in our budget because even looking at the the cost that they're putting in there. I still think we're not going to have an issue as far as with,
096you know, withstanding that cost if we need to without asking for more. So that's really really really helpful that I think it's still going to be sustainable regardless of that that uh increase. So that's it for now. >> Not to worry Corey, I'm right behind you so I'm going to pick them back up. >> You're always good at things. >> Yeah, I wanted to uh just a couple of things in my report just remind everybody. And I can't tell you how much the staff has loved these sweatshirts. every day that I see them around. One day last week in in district office, all Dan and the three ladies all warm on the same day. They didn't they it wasn't planned. It just happens and it's just every day >> they just want to leave you
097out of >> Well, that's for another day. >> Um but if you can come at, you know, be here at 7:45, we want to take that picture. We'd love to have you be in uni. I I mean in your sweatshirt uniform um if you could and we are looking forward to Friday for a lot of reasons um but this AI is something really really interesting and cool and nerve-wracking and scary all at the same time. So doing this uh I I'm actually really looking forward to hearing what they have to say. Um so that's part number one. Part number two is um Dan does a really good J job and this is where we call him dollar Dan because he's doing the dollar thing. So this is Dollar Dan is does a really good job
098of keeping us updated on where we're at uh on a monthly basis similar to kind of John what you you were talking about. And so as of the uh beginning of February, we were right in line with what we do in other years. And if we can continue to stay right in line with what we do other years, we're going to be fine at the end of the year. We're going to be fine. Um so we're we're that's separate of the next topic that I'm talking about. But from the budget that we start at the beginning of the year, we're going to be fine. The third thing and the other projects are that the other projects that you approve to do out of the fund balances. We are well on their way and the good
099news on that is it looks like everything that you approve is going to come under budget by about $55,000. So that's good news um on the o on those 12 projects. And as we talk about part of the things that what we talked about with the uh auditorium in the cafeteria is now we have some some some opportunities to use that money to continue to move on with the audio and visual things in here. And so that is why we wanted to point these things out since we happen to be here anyway and let you know that um we are going to continue to see what we can do in those areas. So appreciate Roger coming tonight and uh Corey and Craig's um thoughts on So that's my reports for tonight. >> All right. Thank
100you everyone for the report out. I do appreciate um getting them. Um next on the agenda is executive session. The board of education may upon motion duly made and carried convenience session under one or more of the exemptions provided in section 19.851 Wisconsin statute for the following purposes. Um A is pursuant to Wisconsin statute 19.851B. 251B considering dismissal, demotion, licensing or discipline of any public employee or person licensed by the board or commission or the investigation of charges against such programs specifically staff issue an administrative review. B pursuant to Wisconsin statute 19.851 A51 C considering employment, promotion, compensation or performance evaluation data of any public employee over which the governmental body has jurisdiction and or exercises responsibility specifically district administrative contracts and evaluation. So be looking for a motion to go into close session. >>
101I'll make a motion. I'll second. >> All those in favor? Hi. >> Anybody post? >> So, we'll take a