0016 o'clock. I'll call the meeting to order. Uh we'll do a roll call. Myself is here. Melinda >> here. >> Tiffany >> here. >> John >> here. >> Nikki >> here. >> Jason >> here. >> Kelly >> here. >> All right. And we'll run in the pledge of allegiance and start there. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and the flag for it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right. First on the agenda is student achievement, um, summer school highlights and new student orientation. So, I get the pleasure of talking about summer school. And so, I have a little note here to read. We had over a thousand Reichkestown students participate in at least one summer school activity this summer, totaling 23,919. In
002the 3-week June session, 385 kindergarten through 12th graders participated in sessions which included fun and creative pl class classes like cooking and booking, robotics in motion, and project wild. In total, we offered 34 different classes as well as offering high school remedial classes for credit recovery. Additionally, 7th through 12th graders had the opportunity to start strength and conditioning classes with over 200 students using the wellness center and gymnasium. July was also a big month for our high school egg science, middle and high school band, and other amazing summer enrichment field trips for students who may not otherwise have that opportunity. Finally, our August sessions focused on wel welcoming incoming students into their new schools. 266 kids, incoming fourth grade, kindergarten, fifth grade, and freshman students all took part in opportunities in August. So, great job
003by our summer school corer, Katie Hayes, and everybody else that was involved in that project. So, awesome summer. Now we turn it over to the high school new student orientation. >> We're gonna stand public speaking teacher feels like I'm Rebecca Leia. I teach English at the high school. I'm Melissa Gr. I teach social studies at the high school and we helped run the freshman orientation new student orientation which was new this year and we decided to call it new student orientation because we invited students that weren't just freshmen but students that were new to the district this year. We felt this was a needed change at the high school because we watched last year's freshmen really struggle on the first day of school. So in the past we had always done orientation on the night
004of open house and we ran it as a one through eight hour with their parents which many of you have had students go through the high school so you know you went like to first hour for 10 minutes and you quick went to second hour for 10 minutes. That is not how we run a typical day at the high school. We run a rotating AP schedule and we run on A days 1 357 and on B days 2 468. So on the first day of school last year, we were standing in the hallway and I'm not kidding when I say the freshmen were crying because they went to their first hour class and then they went to their second hour class. They were supposed to go to their third hour class, but that isn't how
005they had practiced it at open house. So the staff was like, we have we have to change this. This isn't okay. So we spoke with Mr. Ward and we were like, we need we need to do something differently. So we did freshman orientation new student. Um I believe we had over 90 students that came. Um only eight I think freshmen did not come which really shocked us. We were thinking like maybe 50% of the class wouldn't come or would come but almost 100% attendance was there. We actually had a couple new sophomores to the district that attended and some juniors. We had uh several what I don't know 20 plus staff members that also came for the day and were there and we did a variety of activities. We had t-shirts made. Lisa and I
006came up with a slogan and it was different building same strengths. So we wanted the students to realize that like the same strengths you had at the middle school or at St. Clair or St. done or the school you are coming from in Green Bay or the school you're coming from in Tennessee, whatever you would have inside of you, you're bringing that strength with you into this building. It's the same thing. It's just different walls around you. And so, um, Sarah Nelson had t-shirts made, everyone had t-shirts, all the students, all the staff, and we also wore those the first Friday of the school year. And we had folders made for every single student. It had a school map. It had their schedule. It had a personalized note from their home room teacher welcoming them
007to high school. It had stickers that Jessica Johnson made that said class of 2029. Welcome to Rights Town. What am I missing? It had the AV schedule. It had the bell schedule, fall athletics, so they could go with the theme so that they could actively participate right from the get-go. Um, we had a lot of our NHS members um come and help support that. Part of that is we wanted them to have familiar peer faces as well. So they were familiar with some of the teachers. They were also familiar with some of the upper classmen that they could turn to if they had help. Um so broke them down into groups did the activities had them do a tour which they actually did the tour so well that we had to cut out other activities
008because they our upper classman explained everything to an extent that when we did the AP schedule, they felt confident. They knew where they were going. Um which was great. Again, speaking on behalf of a teacher who does have freshmen and a lot of the new students who came, the first day was just a complete 180 shift from what we've experienced. The kids were confident. Um, this is the most in the 16 years, this is the most locked in. I feel our freshmen have been within the first week. Uh, academically, socially. Um, I was at the football game last Friday. You can see they were participating. They were all dressed up. So, they're getting on board and jumping right in, which is great to see. We even included like the Snapchat code in their folders of
009the school, the account where it says like the theme for this Friday's football game is red, white, and blue. So like they had a way to be involved right off the bat. And then every NHS kid was assigned certain number of freshmen and they wrote them a personalized note to be given to them on the first day of school so that they had something waiting for them at home room welcoming them to the high school. It was a kid that they had met in their group with them on that orientation day. So, there was a familiar face and in connection with an upperassman hopefully to form that bond. Um, Lisa and I had each freshman fill out a survey before they left that we could share with Sarah and Eric as well. Things the kids
010were still worried about, things they felt they were comfortable with, and activities they wanted to join. So that when the robotics meets for the first time, we have those names to give to Scott Panaman and Matt Sour when you know the one I play auditions I could go through and find the kids that were interested so that those freshmen aren't getting locked out. Just things we could do to hopefully improve school culture and make sure that our NHS members wrote that postcard focused on that survey so they could address some of the questions right away or say reach out to so and so. So that was right there right during the day. Great success. >> Awesome. >> Thank you. >> Notice how they handed that off. They just one to the other and they just
011they complimented each other very well there. >> All right. Next on the agenda is upcoming events. So, um this is a new item that we added. Um, so we just want to make a call out to some of the things that we have coming up. So, uh, National Custodial Workers Recognition Day is coming up October 2nd. The colorblaze run, which is a community favorite, um, kicking off our fall um, that's October 4th. Uh, Wisconsin schoolboard week, that is October 5th through the 11th. And then Wrighttown High School annual fall craft sale, that's coming up quickly, October 11th. Um, National School Launch Week, October 13th through the 17th. National School Bus Safety Week October 20th through the 24th. And then 2026 State Education Convention that is coming up January 21st through the 23rd. Note on that
012is um just with that coming up, we do have to have those that want to attend um that decision needs to be made before November 3rd. So, all right. Next on the agenda is open form. Um, currently we do not have anyone signed up for open form. So, um, agenda item five, board of education minutes. So, I'll be looking for a motion to discuss on possible approval of the August 6, 2025 workshop minutes. This was the one that we um amended or updated. So, we're looking for a motion to approve. >> I'll make a motion to approve the August 6, 2025 workshop minutes. Second motion. >> All those in favor? >> I. >> Anyone opposed? All right. Next, uh discussion and possible approval of the August 20th, 2025 meeting minutes. We'll be looking for a
013motion to approve. >> I'll make a motion. All those in favor? I. >> Anyone opposed? >> Discussion and possible approval of the September 3rd, 2025 workshop meeting minutes. >> I'll make a motion to approve the September 3rd workshop meeting minutes. Second. Uh, all those in favor. >> Anyone opposed? All right. Next on the agenda, item six, a consideration to approve the monthly bills, listings, and receipts. So, be looking for a motion to approve and open up for discussion if needed. >> I'll make a motion to approve. >> Okay, Tiffany. I'll second that motion. >> Kelly, any questions on the listings report? >> All right. All those in favor? >> Anyone opposed? All right. Next on the agenda 6B, consideration to approve Neola policy 2340, district sponsored trips. I'll make the motion to approve the district
014sponsorship trips. >> I'll second. >> Any questions on that? >> All those in favor? I >> Anyone opposed? >> All right. 6C policy review and rescend this new policy 8640 transportation for field trips field and other district sponsored trips. Um, this is being rescended because it's part of the 2340. >> Okay. I'll make a motion to approve that. >> I'll second the motion. >> Any questions on it? All those in favor? >> I. >> Anyone opposed? >> All right. Uh, 60, board meeting dates for October. So, I'd be looking for a motion to approve the first board meeting being moved to October 8th. Then the well workshop meeting be moved to October 8th. Our board meeting moved to October 22nd. And then a special meeting on October 27th. That would be for board development. >>
015Motion to approve the October dates for >> I'll second it. I'll make a comment that the 108 meeting I'll be logging back in uh foration I should be here on time but you >> all right >> and I will I already had prior commitment on the 27th so I will not be here for that one. >> Okay. >> All right. All those in favor >> I >> Anyone opposed? All right. Uh 6E staff and update. So this is Katie Hayes to move from 6 to a.8. Um faculty member looking for a motion to approve. >> I'll make a motion to approve. Second. >> Any questions on it? All those in favor? I. >> Anyone opposed? All right. Next on the agenda is 7A policy for discussion and or action. So this is the first read
016of volume 34-1 of the NOA updates. Any questions? I know it's a lot to weave through at one time, but >> we're going to do another setup with Nola on the phone and next >> um I don't know if Nola will feature, but at least Jim will be able to >> speak with and in past typically superintendent meet with Mola, go through it. They get kind of that draft of finalized. So what's in there should be what is going to be presented now in our executive docs. >> Okay. >> You know, I really appreciated the overview and comments that volume um that was attached to that section just to explain each of the changes or whatever it was about that part of the policies um of that. Yeah, that was super helpful. If we can
017do that every time that would be super. >> We certainly can. Uh for those of you keeping score at home, Neiola is our policy book for DOC is where it's housed. Niola is across 10 states and thousands of school districts. So they back their policies up with some, you know, legality and they'll support you if if you are in trouble or have a legal issue. So they they pretty much hone in on on good policies and so they do usually two updates a year. So this is 341. There'll be a 342 coming out in the next couple of months that uh we'll have to go over again. So you you're kind of constantly doing this throughout the years. And this particular one is the one that um I'm cutting my teeth on, if you will.
018um trying to figure out how you guys did this in the past and and figure out a great way to get it to you. And so what the the revisions are are either technical or there are some new policies or there is a opportunity to revisit something to decide if you may want to do a particular issue or you will do a particular issue. So then as a uh as the superintendent along with the administrative assistant, we go through the technical changes for you. So if it's just a technical change that they changed the word but they didn't change the meaning, we take care of that with the Neola representative and then I go through it with the the the uh do you want to say may or do you want to say will and
019then I give them my suggestions on that and that's what they're seeing in the revisions. So they get to see it in the revisions and then if they want to not take my suggestion and we can discuss it or if they take my suggestion there's obviously little less discussion but it's a first reading so everybody gets to see it a first reading. It doesn't become policy until after the second reading in the following month. So between the first reading and the second reading that month, they have more time to look at it, ask questions to make sure it's the way they want it to be. So that's kind of the policy. So what they're talking about with the overview is kind of like the cliffotes of all the changes that were made and why they
020were made. Mix is that I >> Yeah, I appreciated that too. I also appreciated the discussion the last workshop when it was just like with a transportation thing and clarifying like what counts as a trip what doesn't because without that conversation I wouldn't have felt as comfortable as I do with everything else. So I I think I think it's been great. So I really I do appreciate it process. >> All right. Anything else? on the first read. >> All right. Next on the agenda is administrative updates and board reports. So, >> we will start with Kyle and we'll go across the back row. Kyle, you get to lead us off. >> The 2025 26 school year is off to a great start. The first couple of weeks has been focused on building positive relationships for
021our students by having classroom level follow-ups. So we should build a family atmosphere within our school and within each classroom. Um the second one is our team is implementing a positive reward system for our students that are following our tiger uh traits. Be kind, be respectful, and be productive. It'll be a ticket system with the immediate reward and then students will be able to enter their tickets for weekly drawings on Fridays. Our goal is to promote positive behaviors instead focus on behaviors not aligned with our tender trends. We had our welcome back assembly last week Friday. Students play blind and band volleyball and the eighth grade volleyball team put on staff. It is always a great way to positively start our school. >> At the elementary school, our first evacuate fire drill uh was a
022success. So that's huge. The 2025 um 26 uh elementary readathon begins on September 24th. We can't wait to celebrate reading every day with special guest readers and fun activities that inspire a love of reading reading. I can do that now. Last year they raised over $16,000 with the readathon. Also, this year we're excited to introduce a new way to celebrate students who go above and beyond during the school day with compliment cards. Staff members use these cards to highlight positive moments and outstanding choices. Students are recognized during the daily announcements and their cards are then sent home so families can join in celebrating their success as well. Uh from business and finance, the annual meeting has been posted to the paper as required. Uh meeting will be next Wednesday, September 24th at 6 PM in
023this very room. Uh we expect to have our reading book available by Friday. Um if anybody wants that for office that um we're proud to report that we will have a balanced budget for the 256 school year. Um just a note on the audit Kerver Rose performed our annual financial audit. No financial findings were identified and the final audit report will be available January. in the student services department. Um we have welcomed several new special ed and student services um staff members and it's just been fun to watch them um they're very enthusiastic already formed positive relationships with a lot of students and um working to provide those students the board through um teacher assistance teams. Um October 3rd, our inservice is coming up and all new staff members across the district will be trained
024in restorative practices. Um restorative practices uh basically is a way to build a strong sense of community in all of our classrooms. Um which positively impacts academic success for students and engagement. Um lastly, our special ed department this year has been chosen for um DPI's reading drives achievement procedural compliance self assessment. That's a mouthful. Um so the goal of the self assessment is um for us to make sure that they are in compliance with state and federal laws um legal requirements and to improve outcomes for our students with All right. So uh we know that school just started but we are well in our way of our season of assessing. So star assessment is our universal screener that we use on all students first grade through 10th grade. Uh it really just gives us the
025data points to make sure that we are meeting the needs of all of our students. Uh the department teams and grade levels have been working on our year-long goal of the uh resource launch. This is a process that we're really looking for to find out what is our current reality so that we can better plan for what our next steps are when uh we're looking at standards assessment and our teaching residuals. And then lastly, our wise data team uh has been working really hard at looking at our data working with our CIS um and all those things that get uh uploaded to the state to make sure that our data uh that we're sending is as accurate as possible. um because we really want to make sure that we're showcasing all the great things that
026our students and our staff are doing here at STEM. >> At the high school, our students are settling into a new school year. Our seniors and juniors, we're very grateful uh to them for setting a positive tone and really setting high expectations for the entire building. As a staff, we're working to maximize our learning time in the classroom. We're really focusing on limiting hallway traffic and leveraging our securely passed system. uh we agreed to keep our students in classes for the first 20 minutes. We recognize that as very crucial time to learning and we're encourag encouraging our students to remain in classes during what we call uptime, right? Direct instruction, explanation of tasks, formative checks, those types of things. Uh many of our high school clubs have had their first or maybe even more organizational
027meetings. Uh with homecoming around the corner, we do know that student council is probably met, thousand times, but there has been great turnout and excitement in our in our meetings uh from our robotics uh from our esports diversity club, FBLE strength and of course student council uh and many others. So we appreciate the work of our student leaders and our staff members uh who also give a lot of their time to make those great experiences for our kids. And finally, as you heard, our new student orientation went off really good as well. I'm adequate. Mrs. Blitzkkey and Mrs. Roboc, they did outstanding job putting that together kind of at the last minute. And uh the NHS students did a fabulous job of really coming in and taking on leadership role. So that was a very
028positive way to start the year. To add on with the high school, our athletics are up and running. Uh currently our boys boy soccer team is 24 and one. We had a huge victory over Luxford Castle last night. Uh improving each match. Uh we're going to host our annual varsity soccer invite this Saturday uh with eight teams. That should be fun. Good weather for that. Our girls volleyball team is currently 1311. We're looking forward to invites this weekend at Fox Valley Lutheran and of course competing in our own 12 team tournament in October 4th. Matias Ralph is leading our cross country team with consistent top 10 finishes, a lot of top fives. Uh as the weather gets cooler, except the past couple days, uh this will improve running conditions. So, we're anticipating faster times. Ella
029Swanson has been leading our girls golf team. Uh she recently placed first place in the Shabboan Invite out of 96 golfers. All right, a pretty awesome feat for her. And lastly, our football team is off to a good start. We're three and one and we have a big stretch of tough conference games coming up. Mr. Ericson and his blood drive students will be hosting our first community blood drive of the school year in the wellness center on Tuesday, October 14th. All right. Please sign up through the American Red Cross to donate for blood. And then some other upcoming special events. We got homecoming activities next week. Uh the color blaze run that we talked about already, Saturday, October 4th, and our annual Dig Pink volleyball match fundraiser, which will be Tuesday, October 7th. All right.
030That's a good one. That's going to be with Freedom. So hopefully you can come out and watch some Tigers. Go Tigers. >> All right. Uh technology services. We had a very busy summer. Uh, one of the first things that, uh, we did was install chrome boxes throughout the each of the classrooms. So, basically every classroom at this point, there's still a couple left over. If they had runs that were over 50 feet, we still had to order some parts equipment for the majority. About 98 to 99% of those classrooms are done with wireless mouse and keyboard. Generally, been a pretty positive result from people. Um, lots of good feedback on that as we team tech services team also worked with administration and staff to develop functional processes for distributing Chromebooks and especially in the fifth
031grade through the 12th grade which is our main focus at this point. Um, our objective was to optimize our instructional time. So this distribution came with an orientation provided by staff that help students understand responsibilities in terms of internet use care for devices. Um, middle school students had an entire refresh of devices with new cases and so on and so forth. Um, so now there's a standardized model in the fifth grade through the eighth grade. Um, really good success as far as being able to have students get to their uh, devices and access and being able to actually get into digital curriculum within a very short period of time, much shorter than it was in in the past is what I'm understanding. Um, this made the support for daily use far simpler and more predictable
032for both students and staff. Uh and furthermore, this is now the start of a refresh cycle that we're working on long term so that we can anticipate having a significant refresh cycle sustainable over the course of the high school and the elementary school coming up. So the high school looking at uh replacing all the Chromebooks in 2026 and the elementary school in 2027 with that point being able to have a pretty consistent group people can rely on it. Uh and then lastly, the uh uh tech services team also was able to hire some instructional support leaders um who are already they're already full-time teachers in the district. And so these positions that ended up helping us a lot over the course of the summer and developing some um professional development with all of our instructional
033staff. They had multiple hours of professional development technology for new staff and and also existing staff. Uh and then they also helped us build what's called the WCSD staff hub where the administrative team is now working on compiling resources from all the different departments in the school district. So from business services to HR to curriculum to student services to technology services trying to place all that content into one area so that we have a location where they can be able to just get what they need in a very quick quick fashion. So really appreciative that ITL team for putting in the extra hours this summer. Thank you to everyone in the back row for a great start of the school year. And please make sure you let your staff members know um how thankful we
034are to all of them for the great start to the school year as well. I think I speak not only for myself but for the board I would suggest. So thank you for all of that. Um we didn't practice this. Sorry. Um so and also thank you to the board for moving those October dates. Um one of the reasons that we needed to do that was we get the final numbers for the budget on the 15th. So there's no way we could have that prepared for that meeting on the 15th. That's the reason why we moved it back to the 22nd because of that the the financial aspects from the state level. Um, and because we moved the 22nd back to the 22nd, we wanted to stay kind of in lock step with the workshop
035a couple of weeks before. So, that made sense to move the ETH as well. And we do look forward to Ted Nitski uh presenting um he is the same person that presented as a reminder to the to the staff and so it'll be a consistent message for the board. Um, similar message that he gave to the staff but obviously in your role. So, um excited to have him come. U another um opportunity uh is the regional meetings for uh WASB is on October 23rd because our normal one would have been on the 22nd in Green Bay, but we can go to the one in Nenina on the 23rd. Um Rain and Tiffany are going to be acknowledged um with a certification that night. So exciting for them. So those two are going for sure. If
036anyone else wants to go, please let me know within the next week or so. Um because if we have more than four go, which would be great, um we have to make sure that we post it. All right? So that would be great if you let us know. Um the la the final part of my administrative report is I put together a little bit of a historical perspective. Um I understand that I've been here for a month now. This is my month anniversary, by the way. I'm thinking there where's the cake? But um I'm sure that'll be next time. So with that, some some general ideas about where we are with the annual meeting and where we are as a school district. So, I put together a little bit of a a little diddy, I
037guess, for a lack of a better word, about um high performing schools, which you are. So, a high-erforming school district is what we all tried to do. And along the way, it's going to cost money, but you want to be a low-spending district along the way. High performing, lower cost spending. And the story or the moral of the story that you're going to hear from me right now is that's where you're at. And it's difficult to be there and it's difficult to stay there, especially on yearly budgets with some of the things that are thrusted upon a local school district. So, with that in mind, looking at a historical perspective, back in the 90s, um, Governor Thompson put together uh, a a funding formula for the state of Wisconsin, and we called it the the
038three-legged stool because there were three parts of it. The first part was the state was so supposed to supply local school districts with two-thirds funding. The second stool is revenue limits. And so when you see that per pupil increase, that's part of that revenue limit that goes back to that historical 90s time frame. And the interesting thing about that is whatever you were locked in in is what you got in 1993. So if you were a high-spending district in '92, you always stayed at a high spending district. If you were a low spending district, you were locked in there. And then they did dollar increases since then. So you never were able to catch up. You couldn't you couldn't do the gap until recently. You've heard about low spending districts. There was a floor. And
039so that floor right now is $11,000. So the floor is 11. The state average is around 14,000. And there are school districts that are probably spending close to $20,000 per student this year. So that was leg number two. The third was QEO, qualified economic offer. That morphed into act 10 and CPI. So CPI this year was 2.95%. So that's the number that we used for you use for raises and and other inflationary costs. So we just rounded to say overall inflation went up 2.95%. Okay. Um, one other factor between 1993 and today happened and in 2013 they did the parental choice the school voucher program as we know it. And so it it what we call a flowth through from taxpayers to pay through your property taxes through your school taxes. You pay for those
040vouchers. So, it's a flow through. So, they if it's whatever the amount is, $8,000, $10,000 per student, we have to uh make sure that that gets taken out of our budget. So, it's flow through. So, it goes we can tax the property tax owners for that amount of money. So, it's a flowth through tax that we have nothing to do with. And so, that was added in 2013. So fast forward to today and comparable to that. So in today's world, the average cost to educate a student in the state of Wisconsin is $14,700. We spend here in Ricetown 12,500. That's a difference of 2,000 or $2,200. You have about 1300 kids in the district. We hope to be over 1300 in the third Friday count, which is Friday. Um, but if you take that and
041you do the math, 2200 times 1300, it's $2,860,000. That is below what the average is in the state of Wisconsin that you charge per student. Okay. Mill rate is another comparable factor. mill rate. It's just it's a it's comparable to what other school districts do around the state and what they charge per $1,000 of property income. So last year here it was $563 per thousand. So do the math on the you can do it on a, you know, a thousand, you do a $100,000 house, you do a $300,000 house, you do a $500,000, a million, whatever. But it's $563 for everybody on each,000 of property tax. If you compare which Mill rate is, you compare it to other schools in this area, other schools in your con conference, we are the second lowest one in
042the area. You're at $5.63. You're one of only two school districts in the state last year that or in this area, excuse me, that was under $6. Everybody else is under way over $6. So that's good. Remember back to our original intent, high performing school district, low spending school district. So that that's a good thing. Thirdly, comparable data. I don't even know how is it niche or how do you say that that niche, right? >> Niche is a best school districts in the state of Wisconsin done by a national firm says that we are 22 out of 367 school districts in the state. We're in the top 6%. Pretty good. Another national US News World Report says our high schools 49th out of 549 high schools in the state of Wisconsin, top 9%. By the
043way, back to that mill rate at $563. The average mill rate in the state of Wisconsin is $6.68. 68 cents. So, we're in the low of 16%. We've already established that inflation was 2.95%. Our overall fund 10 budget, and we're going to get to that in a second, was 2.1% increase. So we tried to be festidious, got it down to 2.1, inflation was 2.9. You know, we know what that means. You lost buying power again, right? That's that that happens in our everyday lives, right? We lost some buying power again. So the overall budget, and there's eight funds that go into the overall budget, and I'm not going to take any uh of Dan's thunder away for next Wednesday. he he can talk to you about those individual budgets. Um, but the overall budgets for
044all eight budgets were last year was $23,830,000. This year we're proposing and remember the annual meeting is a good faith estimate about what's going to happen because we don't get numbers until October 1st and October 15th. Good faith estimate of what it's going to be. We're good faith estimating it being 23,910,000 which is an increase of $80,000 or in percentages again it's a.33% increase in the total budget 2.95% increase in inflation.33 on our entire budget. So we tried to do things to minimize the effect on local people, but there's only so much we can do as a local entity because a lot of this is dictated by the state. When you look at it, your your tax levy last year was 4.4. This year it's going up to 5.5. And that's not good. be honest,
045we're not we're not happy with that, but it is what it is. And the reason it went up from 4.4 to 5.5 is for two factors. You got double hit, double whammy to whatever you want to say. One is you lost equalization aid. You got more equal 5% more equalization aid last year. You got 5% less this year. So you lost equalization aid which is roughly half of that 1.1 million. The other half is is they increased the revenue limit that we talked about earlier. $325 per student is the increase in the revenue limit which which makes that go up you know 450 500,000 depending on the third pride count. But they didn't fund it. They said, "You can do that, but the state didn't give you any money to fund it." So, not only
046did they give you less money, but then they also on that flip side said, "You you can do this, but you're going to have to get it from your local taxpayers." So when you put this all together, it's unfortunate that the the prediction is maybe it's going to go up 15% somewhere in that area. That's going to be a mill rate change of 25 to 50 cents on the mill rate. you know, you you don't know for sure, but you need to you need to dig in a little bit farther and say, okay, why is that? So, if you look at the overall budget, it only went up $80,000 to point or 33%. Because we tried to massage some other areas because we knew this was coming and every school district in the state is
047dealing with this. So, we knew this was coming. We tried to massage it. It did go up a little bit. These are things with inflationary costs. We kept our cost down, but it costs more to educate kids and we have uh we we we started kindergarten, you know, doubled kindergarten. So, you had to add a teacher and an eight and a half. And we also knew you knew and I give you credit for it that you needed help with curriculum. So you you have a curriculum department as well. So you've added these things and we still try to fit it in. So without cutting direct lines and help to kids to kids in the classroom, we we have to ask for this money. And we don't feel good about it, right? We don't we don't
048want to see taxes go. Nobody does. But we kind of got caught here at a local level. And so understanding that this was a state issued phenomenon and not a local misuse of funds or not trying to be, you know, good stewards of the taxpayers's money. This is what happened. So you're going to get those numbers. You saw them in the paper. you're going to see him again that, you know, they'll go over the the specific numbers with Dan next week, but I I think it it justified just giving you a little explanation before next Wednesday comes. That's my report. All right. Next on the agenda is 8B, future agenda items. If anyone would like to bring anything up, >> I would say uh for the November board meeting, I will be absent. >> Anything
049else? I don't know if it's necessarily a future agenda item, but um like how we get sent the board agenda. I am wondering if we can't just share that with staff as well, like include them on the email so they can just click and look at the agenda instead of having to go and look for it. >> We are going to look into that and see what we can do. Um, you know, we talked about this before and I guess Kakana, where where you're at, Kakana does that, so I want to talk to Neil and see how we can do that. Um, >> obviously it's online for anybody to get to. Um, but if we can make it even easier for people, we certainly can try to do that. All right. Anything else? No. Then
050we'd be looking for a motion to adjurnn the meeting. >> Motion to adjurnn the meeting. >> I'll second motion to adjourn the meeting. >> All those in favor? >> Anyone opposed? Anyone?