WCSD BOARD MEETING - 3.19.2025 - PART I

001e e e so the sound is going through so you know six o'cl okay uh good evening I'd like to call the meeting order please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance Al uh the next thing I'll do is a roll call when I say your name stay here Tony uh Angela Linda here Mike here Jeff here Tiffany here and rain all right the first thing we have on the agenda is student achievement oh common commitments oh sorry sorry yeah let's do the common commitments all right couple things note on the common commitments just some observations with the last couple of emails that I've been seeing I want to be able to point out the Comon m m should be applying to the emails as well as in the board meeting so I've seen a

002couple of emails from board members that seem demanding and disrespectful and so I'd like to just point that out and try to ask each board member to be mindful of that that we're applying the common commitments to both emails and the uh board meetings as well so why don't we go around the room and each of us take two um I'll start off with number one participate with anity over Pride forgiveness we are all here to make decisions that are best for all students um who would like to go next Tiffany no enemies at the table just differences prioritize productive discussion adhere to Robert's Rules of Order all right R start on time and respect others time stay in our lane Board responsibility should not flow over to Administration dedication researching issues and agenda items

003educating ourselves about topics and be prepared for meeting to recognize and celebrate success be complimentary and show appreciation follow parses and procedures don't take offense to questions don't assume or be judgmental seek clarification and common understanding of policies commit to being our best working together grow growth mindset refrain from interruption and gotcha moments I'll commit to our community and then we'll go down to how we hold each other accountable with our common commitments we'll just take one uh for each of us I'll start with the first one on it ask for forgiveness ask questions politely and respectfully uh refrain from accusations seek out training and assistance to understand policy board Library kdr kind direct and respectful address others in conflicts Pro professionally address issues at the appropriate time when the impact is most beneficial and

004engages in something constructive okay there's a retreat idea in here for us how do you prefer to be addressed so we should all communicate um how how we prefer to be addressed how does accountability work best for us individually okay so thank you guys for doing that all right uh next thing I have here is student achievement so we're excited to talk about the March student achievement showcase including Mr Ryan Bowers PE teacher Mr Cody Chase balance strength coach and Junior student Brody Wilson we have some additional students too all right yeah um just want to first thank you guys for um having me come to the meeting today I just really wanted just to come just to take a couple minutes of you guys' time just really share all the really awesome things that

005our student athletes are doing um at at braon high school just in the school district in general um so I'm I'm Cody Chase I'm the S conditioning coach for rone high school I'm a contract Al through b or what will soon be amplify Health work hand inand with with ran Schmid I know probably lot you guys know him as well but uh yeah so I work with with Ryan Bard and then Lisa Lisa Brown too um within our our fire department um and it's really kind of cool if you guys ever get a chance to come watch a fire class it's pretty cool we have basically like three programs going at one time where we'll have offseason athletes going we have inseason athletes going and then you know we have athletes that have a game

006on on that day and they do a certain game day workout it's pretty honestly pretty awesome um just uh some more things I want to share um just about the curriculum to that we have within our class so the class is open for sophomores through seniors um and each student has a different curriculum for that class so for instance so for sophomores their curriculum is based more on learning the Basic Fitness Concepts and then you know the reasons behind why we do things in Fitness um Juniors their their curriculum is more based on um nutrition aspects of performance and then seniors their curriculum is based more on like their importance of sleep and just recover in general for as an athlete um some really cool things that we're doing to we also had some Partnerships

007um within the community as well so because about two years ago now we have a h chocolate milk program for our athletes so we have a couple businesses that generously donated some money um to our program so it was a fox wood products Pito and um um man why am I blinking oh B Grant um also donated some money to us as well so we have after each workout in the class um kids can grab two Taco milks just to help with their recovery um and then that word kind of got around too so we also had Alliance instruction um also donated some money to us too so now we have this brand new program called lifter of the month so where me and the rest of the the fire team we choose uh four

008athletes a month to be represented for Li of the month basically what that criteria is is they have to make sure they get all their LTS in for that month and then also on top of that we want to make sure that they are positively contributing to the culture of the class right and also pushing their classmates and their teammates to not only be better athletes but better people as well um and we also just got a new partnership through uh BSN uh Gatorade has a really big discount on Gatorade uh protein bars so we've been selling those to our athletes now for a buck which is pretty cheap if you go to the gas they're like almost $4 so it's a pretty awesome deal for our kids pretty big bar so yeah pretty awesome

009thing we're doing and then really lastly what I just really wanted to share with you guys is so um for Bell we actually bellan purchased a stream conditioning software that we give to all of our schools so now righted s pay is just a really small portion of that um and it's actually at a really good discount from what the software actually normally costs but anyway so in the nine months that we've been tracking data on this software our school has been the number one school out of all the balance schools that we cover five out of the nine months and then those months that we weren't number one we were in the top three and I'm talking about big schools like west of Pier that an all the Green Bay Area school so that's

010like pretty awesome Testament not to what we've been doing in the fire class but just the commitment um from our student athletes um so yeah pretty cool awesome stuff um and then obviously we've been tracking a whole bunch of other performance data as well yeah and then lastly I have just one of the students I brought in um just wanted her to have her share her thoughts on the class and just what she what she likes about it and yeah I person think that the lifting program has like really helped me um it's not only giving me physical strength but mental resilience as well and I think that the discipline and dedication that comes along with going to the gym has really like trapped back to like my studies and helped me focused in school

011more and overall I think that um it's just giving me the right mindset to overcome challenges both in the gym and school and just in the real world [Laughter] thank you folks appreciate it okay I make a motion to move the open for Forum comment to number three where we normally have it so people attending anything at our high school or other events can attend for a second also you finish or all those in favor and anyone oppose I oppose iose I find it difficult to work after those open forms I understand that they want to um do this but to be able to focus on everything and work together um after all the negativity and push and things like that it's it's very very difficult to run on work together and focus on what

012we need to focus on you know my apologies to anybody that isn't disapproval moving it um it just is hard to sit here and focus on what we need to when just related to half or whatever plan is so um all okay so I'll do a roll call on that then um so those that uh would like to see the agenda stay as is please say yes I'll start yes with the public forum being at the end yes uh Jeff yes Tiffany um no I I'll say no okay uh Tony yes rain no Mike yes and Melinda no okay so thank you for asking that question the agenda remains as uh indicated so we're going to take a look at the Board of Education minutes do I have a motion to bring the minute meeting

013minutes to the floor I'll make a motion to bring the Board of Education minutes to the floor to discuss approval February 19th 2025 regular meeting minutes and do I have a second no second thank you ton the floor is now open for discussion for the meaning minutes there is a an issue with the March 5th minutes that rain pointed out to me and thank you for that rain um I missed a a key item that should be listed in a minute so I think we need to defer the March 5th minutes until April okay anybody else have any questions or comments on the meeing minutes okay if not do I do I have a motion to approve the February 19th 2025 regular meeting minutes and move the March 5th 2025 Workshop meeting minutes to the

014April board meeting I'll make a motion all right thank you Mike do I have a second second thank you Jeff all those in favor I anybody opposed all right thank you motion carried all right next thing do I have a motion to bring consideration uh to approve Miss Sarah Nelson as the Director teaching and learning beginning July 1 to the floor I'll make a motion thank you Tony do I have a second second thanks Mike the floor is now open for discussion or questions regarding the director of teaching and learning anybody have any this is something that you folks have uh looked at twice on February 5th it was presented to you again on March 5th and so now we're taking it for formal action so there's questions uh please let us know okay if

015not do I have a motion to approve Miss Sarah Nelson as the Director of teaching and learning beginning July 1 2025 I'll make the motion to approve Sarah Nelson as the Director of teaching and learning beginning July 1st 2025 and do I have a second second thank you Tony all those in favor I anyone oppose all right motion carried so congratulations Sarah all right consideration to approve the Staffing update do I have a motion to bring the Staffing update for March 19th to the floor make Mo thank you Tony do I have a second second thanks Jeff all those in favor anybody opposed all right it's now um Staffing update has been brought to the floor so it's open for discussion or questions this is uh an item that every month at this point of

016the school year that we will have a staffing update the only thing on on this month for year approval would be uh the retirement of Mrs Dory Duo uh we're recommending you approve her retirement okay so do I have a motion to approve the Staffing update for March 19th 2025 make a motion to the Staffing update and do I have a second I'll second it thank you appreciate the uh the time of service that M put in she's been here a long time I think she's done a lot of great things with this Elementary School and definitely be a a hard one to fill so place thank you y thank you Mike uh all those in favor favor I anyone oppose all right motion carried do I have a motion to bring uh updates to

017policy 8330 Student Records to the floor I'll make a motion to forther approval the updates to policy 8330 student records and do I have a second a second thank you all those in favor I and anyone oppose all right so we now have the 8330 Student Records uh brought to the floor if there's any questions or discussion this is something we looked at at the March 5th Workshop we presented it um there's groups there's individuals inside or organizations outside that are helpful they want to make changes it's important for us to know what has happening and what kind of changes are being made so this process really memorializes it uh also gives us an opportunity to uh determine if it's in the best interest of of the district to move forward with it so we're

018recommending uh approval of policy 8330 or wait is that mine right yeah anybody have any questions or comments okay if not do I have a motion to approve the updates to policy 8330 Student Records as presented and make the moment motion to approve the updates to policy 8330 student records and do I have a second I have a second all right thank you Mike all those in favor I anybody oppos all right motion carried all right next thing is uh do I have a motion to bring new policy 7415 planning for building and grounds construction and renovation to the floor I'll make a motion thank you Tony do I have a second I'll make a second thank you all those in favor anybody oppos all right the floor is open for discussion on the new

019policy 7415 Planning and Building rounds construction this is another one that was brought to you in March at the uh March 5th Workshop um having to do with changes to the facility uh it sparked us but when the Wabba came and was going to make some adjustments which were greatly appreciative of in regards to the concession stand and uh some dugouts as well um but what the policy does is it allows us to memorialize the changes that will take place uh to make sure that they're in the best interest of the district okay anybody have any questions or comments all right do I have a motion to approve the new policy 7415 planning for building and grounds construction and renovation as presented I'll make a motion thank you Tony do I have a second second

020thank you all those in favor I and anybody oppos all right motion carried do I have a motion to bring the March 2025 bills listing and receipts to the floor make a motion thank you Tony I'll second it all those in favor anybody oppose all right the floor is now open for any questions regarding the bills listings and receipts do we have any idea what um there was uh an amount for $5,695 for buo veter we no longer are with is there a reason why we have a bill for March for that I can look into that Tiffany I believe what it is it's from a previous month that Ned get Bill but i' have to verify okay good question anybody else have any questions okay if not do I have a motion to approve

021the March 2025 bills listing and receipts as presented make the motion to approve the bill listings as presented thank you Jeff do I have a second have thank you Mike all those in favor and anybody opposed all right motion carried all right approval of the proposal Mo for our April 2nd Workshop to April 3D do I have a motion to bring to the FL the April 2nd Workshop meaning to April third make motion thanks Mike do I have a second second thank you Tony all those in favor I anyone oppose okay so the floor is now open for any discussion regarding the April 2nd Workshop meeting being moved to April 3rd due to the golden apple Awards correct yeah you guys had a consensus at the March meeeting that we do this we just didn't

022have it on the agenda for Action it was it was uh just a conversation but I wanted to put it on here so that we could formally you guys vote to make sure that we're on the same page okay anybody have any questions or comments all right do I have a motion to approve the moving of our April Workshop meing to April 3D I'll make a motion to move our April Workshop to April 3rd thanks Tony do I have a second second thank you Jeff all those in favor I and anyone oppos all right motion Carri next thing on the agenda do I have a motion to bring the progress memo regarding District rules for 20 2425 to the floor make a motion thank you Mike I'll second it all those in favor I anybody

023oppose all right so this is for information only yeah this is on our annual business cycle for the calendar for March uh annually you go through the goals that you set for the year I needed uh our admin team to help fill this out which they did uh the majority of our goals have uh had work attached to them for the board and the district overall you had three goals to monitor the community engagement and communication efforts using social media services in house and uh Katie Hayes has uh been assigned to manage all of our social media accounts and she's been streamlining that process and and making a lot of posts through our social media accounts uh the second goal was to update and Implement niola policies uh utilizing Dr Tim banck to lead the

024district in implementation um I did meet with him on January 31st uh There are 16 policies that we were going to have here for the March meeting we haven't been able to get to them uh we do plan though for the April meeting to uh hopefully get the March 16 policies and the Edgar policies uh there's nine of them to you uh also we're we're hoping May or June that we're able to get the volume 33 number two this is back from May of 2024 uh when they came out um so we have a lot of work to do with policies coming up here in the future and also we found 30 policies that were rejected but I really believe we should put them into our policy manual and they will come forward to you

025for your review prior to doing so um board development was a was the third goal and what that entailed was for the board to attend the W convention in Milwaukee during the month of January and uh I believe five board members participated we have a landing page that takes your notes that you provided and anybody can go in and see and look and and we can learn from each other in regards to the sessions that were taken and the learning that we took from each of those sessions uh let's see the second is student achievement so there were three goals in the student achievement area and the first was to make expected annual growth as defined by the standardizing district level assessments and reading and math these uh during the year presentations have been given

026to you one was during the month of November where the administrative team uh provided a presentation on the school of report cards the other was in February last month where the administrators uh provided a student growth presentation according to Star data in both Ela and in math the second goal was to assess curriculum and program offerings as they support overall student achievement talking about 4K early learning social studies K3 literacy and business education uh the first prong was dealing with monthly curriculum meetings and Ela and social studies and in blue you'll see what the administrators put together that we continue to work on the pce to literacy training and implementing the new learning into our teaching and the team meets monthly to discuss ways to help students meet those standards and I believe that's at

027the elementary level uh quarterly District curriculum Council meetings to review and continue curriculum planning because of all the different uh challenges that have been taking place throughout the year uh we're back on track and this month the team will be meeting later in in March uh for the first time this year the third is keys to literacy training 4K through 4th the last day that the elementary will be doing this is March 31st it's a couple Mondays from now and that will conclude the 36 hours of outside time teachers had to commit to their own learning and the four in-person trainings that were provided from ca7 this year for our staff and the fourth is business education curricular changes at the middle school the K12 Tech and business Ed department has been meeting throughout this

028whole school year to review those offers ings the review led to several changes at the middle school related to program offerings including utilization of the Next Generation personal finance and code.org resources uh we weren't able to get together to address uh the third area which is a focus on positive School climate and culture but that is something that we can bring forward any work that was done um the next section is professional devel there was one goal with several underlying strategies the goal was to provide consistent ongoing PD on high quality instruction and underneath it was teacher Mentor program teacher inservice day C7 coaching in Lea with Beth vand and uh the co- te to co- plan to co-s serve uh there was no work done I that I believe anyway uh from the N

029WTC dual accreditation and then the last piece of this goal was the keys to literacy training for 4K and and in fourth grade I'm not going to read it to you just because I know you've already read it um and then finally the last goal was one goal the to develop a three to five year facilities plan well that's changed we're going to develop a 10-year facilities plan and we're going to base it off of the uh I believe it was like in 2018 2019 the district had uh an audit of our facilities prior to the referendum that that came through so that'll become the base plate that Dan our business director and Chris our Bly and grounds coordinator are going to use as they they uh that work is starting this month but they're

030going to use that as the Baseline any questions on on the district's goals and progress towards them so I just have to say there's been a lot of progress looks good uh thanks for explaining welcome I think this helps us uh know what's going on and allows for transparency to occur so anybody else have any questions or comments uh that facilities is um some of you know was posted that I did that tour yes um Chris canop was very very thorough him and Dan Dan was great at at explaining things and the cost and financials and I got a lot of really good answers I got a really good Overlook of the school we're at and U me and Chris were able to go up on the roof and kind of look at the fields

031and lay things out and there was a very good scope um but so I think in turn you know laying out that 10year plan you know to get a better view of what's going on with that um will definitely entail and help so it was it was a great tour I'm glad I did it so I really appreciate it appreciate that feedback anybody else comments or questions okay so we can move on to the next item do I have a a motion to bring the future agenda items to the floor I'll make a motion to bring the future agenda items and do I have a second I'll second thanks rain all those in favor and anyone opposed okay motion carried so anybody have any future agendas they' like to bring to the floor I do

032okay um just the record request and there's an email on it so copy in not copy in on what's going sent out for so um yeah I made I made not of that rain um so basically what uh there's an open records request like a summary of all of the open records that have been requested and so uh one of the things you want to put on the agenda is to see how the board feels whether or not if the Board needs that information or not or if it's more operational and so we'll put that on the agenda so I've added that on there anybody else have any items future agenda items okay so I think that's it for that all right do I have a motion to bring the administrator reports to the floor

033I'll make a motion to bring the administrative reports to the floor and do I have a second thanks rain all right so go ahead we can now do the administrative reports okay so every month I've been giving you an update on where we're at today is day 45 on the job uh giving you uh feedback every month in regards to the people that I'm meeting with uh right now I've accomplished 21 over 45 individuals on that list not including the board ad excuse me and initial staff uh pretty excited that uh we've been asked to host the partners in education from the greater Green Bay Area Chamber of Commerce the meeting that's scheduled for April 9th uh in this room in the multi-purpose room students from the high school who participated in our ACP program

034our academic career planning program will be presenting to the group as well as high school counselor Mrs Amanda cell so this will be an opportunity for uh these individuals superintendents from the Brown County area and other Business Leaders to come showcase our district and our ACP program which is is doing very well uh as well um a little update in regards to the high school principal hiring process as you know the deadline for that uh the applicants was Monday March 10th um I've been working with with staff putting together a series of documents from phone screening forms hiring checklists uh a strategic hiring document phone reference check forms employment recommendation forms Etc we had 21 applicants uh for this position which I consider to be good one withdrew two applied late uh the admin team

035met and we narrowed that down to 9 from the 20 or 18 n uh after further review the list is currently at 7 which it may be at five uh after today um some of the two of the individuals are not going to be available for next week um on Monday uh March 24th the admin team will be uh doing a 30 minute screening interview uh with the remaining candidates it's very possible that those five could all go forward to the March 22nd or 26th stakeholder interview process or that could get narrowed down to maybe two or three uh it'll just depend on how those interviews go and what the feedback is from the admin team uh after after those interviews but on Wednesday the 26th as I mentioned that is when the stakeholder committee

036will meet with each candidate also uh the admin tetin will meet again with the candidate looking a at the candidate a little bit differently more as which one would be a better fit for our Organization for the high school um there will also be uh tours given uh students from the high school uh student council have been selected and will be giving tours and also participating on the stakeholder committee there's also some parents that'll be participating as well in that stakeholder committee um just like anything the feedback is advisory with the goal to hopefully be able to bring back to Administration two or three candidates for final consideration and the reason that we do that uh part of it's Financial sometimes you just can't come to an agreement and sometimes they back out so you

037want to have some backup people if the first one or two uh don't work out as you know uh you just approved Sarah moving into the director of teaching and learning uh so our ele Elementary principal position is uh open and the deadline for that for applicants to apply is Monday March 31st so that's coming up very quickly uh it'll be very similar to the process that we use with the high school there'll be some changes but not a lot uh we anticipate formal interviews during the week of April 14th at this time that's what we're anticipating uh obviously we're still day 45 still working on the 100 day plan um it focused on our governance team the organizational capacity and academic achievement organizational culture community and public relations you've seen this before I'm just

038going to go through a couple pieces here very quickly so this is my focus other than the other things record requests or whatever that uh that take place but with the governance team the first Focus we've been doing a lot of that work through our uh workshops um common commitments uh communication protocols that sort of thing the second area of focus is the organizational capacity and academic achievement working to increase Effectiveness internally creating processes and procedures getting them in writing learning what the current ones are that we have uh uh continuity planning uh so I've been working with the admin team uh and our assistants or their working with their assistant to try to get some continuity plans in place uh uh what else HR protocols those types of items safety organizational culture uh focusing

039on professionalism trust respect Integrity looking at communications relationship building uh and community and public relations working to build trust transparency customer service focus and Community engagement I think that's here's one more down at the bottom just a reminder uh you know last month or at the beginning of this month at March 1st we had a couple of chapters that we went through on April 3rd we'll go through chapter three which is about communication and then next month at the workshop we'll go to Chapters four and five does anybody have any questions okay as far as the stakeholders team will we know who that is or make sure you pick up them yeah I mean it's not secret but if the board wants to know I can put it out there yeah it's uh I got

040feedback from the Amin team on staff and parents and I got feedback from any recot on the the head of the student council and she selected students um I really didn't select them I just was given list and just ask people it I feel pretty confident it's a really good pool uh good question okay so thank you for that update uh so we'll go through the rest of the administrative reports and so I can't see who let's see on the right Cory is our Our IT director still kind of new we you started in October or November December December second right now currently going through multiple aits one from andure second one we're going through is a Google admin one so are in the process we m times the other part that we're working on

041right now is also going through and working on some safety options working on Panic buttons and what they'll end up doing make sure people can be notified um that's up um we have a reasonably decent plan that we're starting to be able to publish and result of our work with parland and with the administrative team working with Dan to put together a five and 10 year budget cycle um one of those things that is uh positive things that um will'll be replacing all the chome books at the middle school level next year finally getting them on more of a u kind of a standard cycle and basically calling this a sustainability cycle the idea is to try to sometimes you make a longer initial investment but if you look at the annualized cost over the

042course of five years it's actually less than buying one for grade level all along in addition that makes things a lot easier for staff and students when there aren't so many different varieties models and so on and so forth there are only two it members in the staff so when it comes to replacement repair uh anything from AV to um cyber security and so on and so forth um we do have to try to look for some efficiencies in those regards to be able to sustain ourselves in these positions so overall I think it's going reasonably well um we're also looking at different inventory systems keep better track of things and looking forward to trying to get together a uh a Health Des kind of situation to make it a little bit more manageable to

043figure out which things we should reach and and and work on immediately which things can maybe take a little bit more time to focus on all right thank you Corey Caroline Caroline um so the high school had a restorative practice training back on uh that was our last intive stay and they did they were awesome so you guys have heard me talk about restored practices before but it it significantly improved School climate redu is disciplinary issues like bullying fous positive relationships between students and teachers and at least a better student behavior and a stronger sense of community so the high school has we're really seeing students coming from the elementary middle school that are doing great work with for sort of practices and we need to keep doing it with our students at the high

044school level so that training was great for them um the high school sources of strength partnered with the prudom high school sources of strength to do a dash um Dash wipe out homeless collection and they collected a whole truckload um toet paper paper towels napkins and a ton of other things I actually was able to take up F kids with me to go bring it down the shelter and it was really cool we got to do a tour there too which was great for the kids to see how their work to raise those donations help other people and then that was SCH also do the bean bake tournament for March Madness which sounds like just a bean bake tournament but it really is um awesome because it gets kids really excited during this time of

045year that can be a little bit grumpy and um gets kids engaged so that's been great and then also special education staff has been doing a great job withing for all the exams that we have here in the springtime with the board exam testing 3dct just doing a lot to enter accommodations for kids that's been great awesome thank you Sarah um our third grade um had a lot of fun this month they have been following the I so they were learning about um the SED dogs and what does racing mean and about the musher they follow a musher along the IDE which is was really cool for them to see that and they Incorporated that into all of their learning they were also focusing on weather and they had Steve Bon from at 2 News

046um the meteorologists come so they were learning from the pros um there and they had sled dogs come as well so it was really a cool Hands-On month for our third graders We are continuing I feel this is all to talk about to work on our keys to literacy training for our teachers they are going to have their final um kind of time set aside at this in service on the 28th and then their final training on March 31st so we're looking forward to being able to get all of that um training put into place and then anded into the classroom uh forward test that is coming up we trained our teachers at our last ins service just through some test that we need to do um now we're just getting ready to start testing

047in April um parents of our third and fourth graders are highly encouraged to write encouraging notes that we sent home to our students students love that um teachers are working on touch St in their classroom um and probably the most important is that we really um stress just continuing to provide high quality in for all of our students just because this is coming we continue to do what we always do um a really cool thing I have to give a shout out to Amanda Diner and asley Moser they created um they kind of had these spots and they put it together so if you look on the way out we have an Integrity clip which our theme for the whole school year is have integrity from the inside out and our students and staff had

048completely embraced that and so after m in heart had every student had some sort of um touch on a h que and then um Amanda put it together so we had this beautiful um Integrity quote that all students have been responsible for um hanging right outside the gym so on your way out if you want to take a look at that so our teach that um I have to give a huge congratulations to Dory who is sitting in the room here tonight with us um again she is retiring after 30 plus years the the hole that she will leave at R to elementary school is going to be large her shoes are almost impossible to fill um I think she said she has touched the lives of over 900 students that have walked through her

049classroom um she is flexible she is amazing um she is so worried about getting the pink clip and Dory I want huge congratulations to time here atary School you will be missed but um and then lastly I think we all thoroughly enjoyed our spring break that was so ready to the last last Weir good all right thanks Sarah all right Bob um heing up for next year's scheduling I'll be finalizing some letters that I'm going to send home for parents explaining the process also asking them if they're student will be interested in banded choire next year it's really the first steps for getting individual schedules built for kids um our Middle School academic team competed on February 20th in Chon special thank you to Ali moral and er SC for leading our team to four

050Place V the right toown middle school music department recently hosted our solo and Ensemble Festival that was on March 7th at the Middle School seventh and eighth grade Bandon choir students perform solos Duets small ensembles and they received evaluation from adjudicators based on tone intonation balance technique and expression just so you know Mr Baker and uh Mrs M wrot this but uh we're really uh happy every student who participated earned a one or two rating meaning all performers will receive a gold or silver medal for the achievements band director Zach Baker and coral director Rachel mcau both expressed how proud they were of our students hard work dedication and outstanding performance and we thank them for all their leadership in the programs our WMS fbl team compet by the way I feel like Craig right

051now just but anyway I have uh fbl Team competed at the state competition Wisconsin Dells on February 23rd and 24th um students who placed in the top five for their events at the state conference were Val Johnson first place in business etiquette here pet second place in business etiquette Eller Mills third place in business eut Tyler rant second place in exploring economics over cin fifth place in exploring economics Autumn Fitzgerald third place in exploring leadership Natalie lit fourth place in financial literacy and Dylan Meer second place in learning strategies top four Advanced Nationals in California great performance by our kids um thank you to Mr delu and Mrs vortal for their leadership in our Middle School UPA and actually this one just kind of C me I didn't even have this on my report but

052normally I would wait until next month report but I'm so excited 27 we will be having our Middle School Dance hey Bob I have to tell you my son made note of that and he's like well that should have been you know when I was in eighth grade just letting you know just glad to see you all right good anything else Bob okay Craig here for as well for Scott um he wanted to tell you that Juniors will be taking the ACT next Wednesday uh thank you to the high school staff and katosi and our kitchen staff who will be supplying breakfast for everybody um next Wednesday our Juniors will only be coming to school they'll take a they'll take the test up until probably 1 2 o' depending upon and we're actually bringing the

053eighth graders over as well just uh in the afternoon since we don't have it there they can kind of check it over so kind of ease that transition in the following year uh our staff has been working on a testing schedule for a prea for a freshman and sophomore which is going to take place on April 8th our Junior Prom is set for April 12th and Scott will be attending as 27 here in a row yeah I can't complain about we're working on the master schedule for next year all student requests are in and have been ented uh as we approach the end of third quarter which is coming up very fast uh we're focused on making sure our seniors are on track and understand what they need to do between now and end uh

054to make sure the school graduates that's from scottt from here we have a lot of stuff going on activities Department uh first off our fm6 te continues to dominate uh really looking forward next two we get to go to our two different state competitions we have because we're part of two different uh State conferences uh looking forward to that our robotics team had stayed last week in h Green Bay and uh unfortunately it was a little rough competition for us our robots did not uh we had a lot of M robot melt functions all right and the robot couldn't last till the end so we didn't do as well as you wanted to uh however some of our teams were going to Nationals actually next week to Iowa next weekend and then we do have

055a team that qualified for worlds which is in Dallas Texas all right which is there too so pretty cool for them Le to get to continue to compete uh Kaylee Annis Jules Martinez and Ivy Mets all qualified as the youth art month state qualifiers uh which is an awesome H honor for each of them along with advisor Jill ba right she's doing amazing students qualified for State soul and S competition is the Dual of Tiffany gerz and Sarah P uh with the Barone saxophone and flute to it and then Sarah pic on her own she qualified in two other events for her solo and flute in Piccolo uh right now as we speak the class of 2025 our seniors is proud and they're presenting the video game of paloa a comedy about the history of

056video games pong Tetris Super myio Brothers Legend of Zelda fortnite Minecraft and more uh the show features over 40 members of this year's graduating class will take place tonight and tomorrow at 7M all right it's really fun um a lot of our seniors haven't always get afterwards mad I wish I would have done the musical earlier all right so it's kind of one of those things but they do a great job um now to some of our Sports Lou Hawk LED our Tigers wrestlers at state with a third place finish and the 144 pound bracket of division two Easton felon took fifth chesy marosek finished six and Brook was in the top eight it's pretty good for our two first two girls wrestlers all the time so it was a great showing for our Tigers

057our girls basketball team uh lost to Seymour in the wa Regional semifinal after beating uh Clint bille it was a very close game and it came down to the end uh they finished the season with above 500 record at 14 to 12 our boys basketball team had an awesome Regional week uh they won a w Regional Championship with three wins uh over Amhurst at home and then two big victories on the road is underdogs at Windber burningwood and Seymour it was a great week unfortunately last week was spring break I know everybody likes it a lot but I didn't because that jym was 80% Freedom fans G but we did lose that game of freedom but we finished with a over 500 record 16 to 12 uh 16 versus 12 so it was a good

058year our Co-op boys hockey team with ashw plas and Seymour um we won our first round match up but then lost in the regional semi-final the Nina the next night 5 to2 both of our hockey players will be back next year as they're going to be seniors and sophomores next year our spring sports are going to get on the way actually starting tomorrow uh our boys track and field team is going to compete in W oskos which is kind of cool seems like about a 100 different schools all right and then our both our boys and girls track teams are going to travel to W lacrosse this weekend all right do uh do an indoor meet on Saturday uh we have about 50 students in track all right we're looking forward to it our softball

059team we were lucky I've been trying for years to get us an indoor tournament and we did we're going to be playing three games in the Rylander Dome next weekend uh so that should be pretty cool good competition for them um we're also scrimmaging at w asash Rexx next week too so by the time we uh get to go Outdoors we should have a couple games to uh baseball girls soccer and boys golf are going to start next week so a couple weeks from away from competition the NEC winter sports All Conference Award winners were announced and kind of go through there uh for girls wrestling we have Chesney bosic She was on conference for boys wrestling we had five athletes we had Easton felin was first team Cameron Schumacher was first team Louie Hawk

060was second team Dawson Smith was second team and Owen Rey was honorable mention for a girls basketball team eler baon right took almost all the awards she was a unanimous first team Team all conference she was also part of the defensive all Conference team and she was elected as the NC Player of the Year all right pry good award for Ella and she works super hard great kid and uh she gets to come back next year and play and then we have three seniors that uh receed vable mention for girls basketball Maller C Kyle Lake and Ella for boys basketball we had Ethan Sager was unanimous first team All Conference selection and then we had uh kayen Cowell and Aiden humph were both honorable mention and Kaden was also elected to the defense All Conference

061team and for boys hockey we didn't have anything um other than that that's a wrap we'll have more next month as FPL has stage and forensics and FFA is we got a couple teams going to State as well to so thanks Craig is Daniel that's it that's it okay good thank you very much that's a that's a lot right so next thing we have is meeting summary um I've got a couple things okay so uh just to give you an update I got a couple updates uh one is on the public comment section uh so it's been decided that we are going to move the public comment section to the end of the agenda to ensure that we can focus on a structure business items as well as any required discussion and decision- making so

062this adjustment allows for a more efficient meaning flow and ensures that the board members are fully engaged with Critical Agenda items before addressing public input uh placing public comments at the end also uh allows attendees to hear the full discussion for sharing their thoughts which may answer some of your questions in advance additionally this approach enables the board to provide clear more informed responses based on the discussions that have already taken place so for example uh where this has idea has been generated from I recently met with Mike sha Walter uh Jeff and Ron and we discussed concerns about the open public forum in our last meeting uh where there was Interruption and and trying to ask question and clarity as he was speaking and so what was good about meaning with Mike is that

063during our conversation we realized that there has been some misunderstanding regarding the Baseball Field improvements including some of the waba's involvement if there was board involvement or not and which companies contributed to the project for recognition last fall uh this discussion that we had was very productive in clarifying miscommunications addressing mistakes and improving transparency regarding past administration actions which resulted into why we didn't really understand what was going on and as for the the strong um message Mike was trying to express uh in our public forum and what came from this meeting is Mike sha alter and Jeff are are committed and continuing to do what's what's right and so they work together to establish what updates are needed to the baseball fields and so I really want to appreciate and thank Mike for taking

064the time to meet with us and allowing me to share his name as well and so I I indicate this example to the public because this highlights the value of direct discussions when working towards Solutions uh while we continue to offer a public forum for individuals to share their thoughts with the full board I encourage community members to reach out to board members myself or Ron directly for a more in-depth conversation as Mike did uh these discussions can often lead to more effective resolutions versus public open Forum statements and so that was the intention for for moving the public open Forum uh to the end so I appreciate that and I I thank Mike for that um he also had somebody else there uh Jason fedori uh he gave a lot of insight as well

065so I don't want to um not know him as well but he he gave some really good input as well uh the other thing I want to talk about is um some might have heard that I'm going to be speaking at some events or meetings and this was more of an idea and I've asked Mike Mullen to participate with me on this and this is really about uh going out talking about the good things that the district has done so it's basically you know 10 15 minutes maybe 30 minutes at most and we're going to just talk about you know what things are discussed at the board meeting so for example tonight you heard the great work that the uh administrators are doing and so we want to advocate for that so we're going to

066go out and talk about all the work that they've done and the things that they're doing to advocate for them uh we're also going to talk about some of the board work that we're doing and the things that we're doing to improve as a board and so I want to encourage all board members that if you're interested in doing this uh feel free to do it on your own or if you want to work with myself or Mike um or be part of that just let me know I think it would be good that we start own the good work um with a lot of the changes that have been going on I want to get away from any of the animosity and negativity and focus on what's best and that is what's best for

067the kids uh lastly we have upcoming meetings so our next board Workshop will be April 3D rescheduled due to the Apple Awards we do have a school board election April 1 so uh I wish the best luck to everybody that is uh running for for this the school board at rightstone uh but other than that uh thank I want to thank everyone for your engagement and your participation and then we'll go into the next thing which is can I add one thing to sure go ahead sorry about that um as some live here for 40 years a lot of you know me a lot of you may not um you know I'm always willing to engage in public conversation with Bri store any see this have phone call email something that if you have questions

068on anything do free to get CHS me I don't always reply to the emails and stuff because one I work a lot of I work a lot of nights I work a lot of ways I if anybody can ATT test that knows me personally knows how much I work it's nonstop you know and there's times where I just have to take time with family too so if you're ever in the public in store Dollar General anywhere and you want to talk to me stop I'll willingly have a conversation with anybody about anything at any time that I have so so feel free I encourage everybody else to do too all you know just just get to know me that's that's what I ask all right I think I think that's good for all of us

069get to know each one of us including myself um so I think you know having copy with myself or or just oneon-one I think you get to know a different side of me that maybe you're not aware of so that's the other thing too is is you can't always read an email or a text or or the vibe that somebody's giving you um whereas if you're one-onone you can really get the feeling from somebody you can understand understand the emotion you can understand the passion that they get um and that speaks volumes I think if we can have a one-on-one and a manto man conversation um I think we can really see positively through something I mean and we can agree to disagree um you know everybody's got their views and I'm open in listen

070at all those so feel free to talk me all right thanks Mike so next thing that we have on the agenda then is public forum and I'm you know interested to in the rest of the board are interested in listening to them folks that want to speak um so we do have several folks and if you got the time watch so as I have I have to read the statement this is a Public's opportunity to bring concerns to the board board discussion in action on public foreign items is prohibited for the open meetings Lodge and the posting requirements items may be taken under advisement refer proper channels or basic general information may be provided uh we don't encourage any hearsay personal attacks Anonymous concerns will not be considered those wishing to speak will be given

071five minutes to speak and the board M minutes will reflect only the open Forum General comments there was also a policy that attached I had spoke last week uh just to give more transparency that the presiding officer May interrupt warn terminate participants uh statement uh related to to lengthly personally directive or abusive or obscene or relevant uh which I don't want to do but I do have to indicate uh what some of our guidelines are with this policy uh I can request any individual to leave a meeting request the assistance of law enforcement call for reesus or urement but again uh we want to try to stay away from that and give you guys the opportunity to speak to our board so with that uh the first person that I have on the list is

072Kimberly denkins I'd like to express some concerns regarding the potential contract extension for the current interim superintendent I'd like to first start off by saying that the Wisconsin Association of school boards recommends that school districts do not give automatic extensions to superintendence during the first year to protect the school districts if this is the expectation for someone in the role for one year after a thorough interview process why are steps being skipped with our current interim superintendent that's been in his role for only 45 days a quick search on the Wisconsin Association of Schoolboard site also provided interesting items that should be taken into consideration with your review tonight has the Super intendent demonstrated efforts to be visible in the schools and the community outside of board meetings has he been at any extracurricular activities

073at our schools and had interactions with parents not that we are aware of has the inter has the superintendent demonstrated meaningful engagement with and work to gain the trust of Staff members in the community no why do you think this district has had the largest increase in Union membership in the past two months has a superintendent demonstrated flexibility and sound decision-making skills when addressing unexpected circumstances affecting the school district has a superintendent consistently adhered to District policies and procedures has the superintendent carried out his responsibilities ethically and professionally the answer to these last three questions are all known the fact that sensitive personal information was shared as part of an open records request shows he cannot adhere to District policies and procedures cannot handle the current circumstances this District finds itself in and whether intentional

074or not this is a very serious data breach that this board should not be taking lightly I strongly urge the board to follow the normal hiring process by opening up the superintendent position to all qualified candidates the current interim superintendent can certainly apply like any other candidate and would then be fairly considered and compared to the long-term superintendent position this transparent competitive process would allow the board to make an informed decision that is in the best interest of our students staff and Community our district deserves leadership that is not only competent but also ethical responsible and transparent I trust that the board will carefully weigh these matters before making any rash decisions regarding the superintendent's contract extension thank you for your time thank you okay the next uh person I have is Tina geta all

075right good evening my name is timy G I have been a resident of Ron for 12 years I have two boys at a tener Public Schools I'm also a public school educator I have a lot of passion for public schools and want to see them all succeed because our kids are our future that being said I don't believe Mr SAR is the person to help this District succeed he has a small track record of how he's left his previous District on a personal note he's currently violating his own social media policy on February 28th he sent out the new consent forms for parents to assign on March 5th I signed the forms for both of my boys yes to the direct District directory information and no to the media Cent on March 7th Mr sari

076sent out his weekly update my son was included in both the pictures and the video a direct violation of the consent form I signed I brought this to the attention of Mr SAR Mara via email so to be rectified as of this afternoon this has not been rectified in addition there's no record of being told that an extension of this contract was on the table which seems the opposite of transparent it's also not fair to the staff and students of this District to be a superintendent in the middle of the school year watch the board go through a quick interview and hiring process and then instead of trying to find the best of the best during Peak District hiring season watch the board just push Mr sari through this room is full tonight because people

077are not happy we don't believe Mr SAR is best for this district and we don't believe you're listening to US Post the position go through an actual hiring process find our staff and students a suitable leader take the time and energy to do the process right thank you Jessica Johnson as most of you know my name is Jessica Johnson many of you have seen me here before where I'm often sharing some of our students amazing accomplishments through the your department tonight however I'm here as a member of the right toown teachers Education Association to speak on the Union's behalf I've also been asked by other staff members who are not part of the Union to let you know that they Echo our sentiments each of you received a letter via email on March 2nd from

078the wtea expressing Our concern with the hiring process for our interm superintendent and asking for a copy of the criteria that will be used to evaluate him we have yet to hear back from any board member with any of the information you were requesting in the spirit of transparency which we are also asking in return from you I will read the rightstone teachers education association's letter to the board so that other staff and the public know what teachers are asking for from our Board of Education dear members of the board we are writing to express significant concerns regarding the discussion that took place during the February 19th Schoolboard meeting specifically regarding the evaluation and the potential extension of the contract to our interim superintendent for the upcoming school year the union is troubled by the

079proposal to consider extending the contract of the interim superintendent after only 25 days of service with the district given the limited amount of time the interim superintendent has been with the district we believe that making such an important decision without conducting a thorough and transparent candidate search or hiring process could undermine the Integrity of our District's leadership structure additionally the union has concerns regarding the high ing process for the interm superintendent while we understand the necessity of keeping the superintendent position filled to maintain continuity and Leadership we feel that the interim superintendent was hired without what we believe to be a thorough candidate search the union strongly believes that a more comprehensive hiring process should have been conducted allowing for more transparent and deliberate selection given this we question why the board would consider extending

080the superintendent interm superintendent position without first posting the position publicly to evaluate other potential candidates for the job opening the position for a formal search could offer the opportunity for ident to identify qualified individuals who may bring fresh perspectives and new ideas to our District's leadership this step seems essential before making such a critical decision about the leadership for our upcoming school year furthermore we are committed and to fostering an inclusive and collaborative environment within the district we would like to formally request a copy of the current evaluation criteria that will be used for the interm superintendent it is essential that all stakeholders including our teaching staff have a clear understanding of that evaluation process we also see clarification regarding the process of evaluating this interm superintendent specifically we would like to know if the

081evaluation will be limited to board members and administration or if there will be an opportunity for teachers and other District employees to participate in the evaluation process as well teachers have a unique and valuable perspective on the day-to-day functioning of this district and we believe that their input should be considered in any decision- making regarding District leadership we respectfully request that the board provide the further information on these matters and and ensure a transparent and inclusive process that reflects the values of our district the union looks forward to working with collaborative excuse me working collaboratively with the board to ensure that our District's leadership decisions are made in the best interest of our students staff and Community we hope you will hear our requests this time and make available the evaluation criteria for a super

082for insurance superintendent and we seriously seriously we ask you you to refrain from making any decisions about whether or not to extend the interim superintendent contract until you've done a thorough search for candidates you skip that step the first time around and no offense Mr Zary you hired somebody you guys guys could find on short notice you skip that process you owe it to us you have all been elected to make sure that we have the best candidates to choose from for the permanent superintendent position we hope you will wait until after the upcoming Schoolboard election to take any action on hiring a permanent superintendent we feel is irresponsible and not in our District's best interest to offer a full-time contract to anyone without a proper candidate search and interview process we're already seeing more

083time and effort being put into hiring new principles than we saw when you hired our interim superintendent although there are already concerns being raised about that process as well uh begin that candidate search now while you work with Staffing teachers to evaluate our superintendent it doesn't have to be either or put each candidate through the um same rigorous interview process that you're putting for it for our new principles if Mr sar's the right man for the job after that then vote to extend the contract if not then offer the position to the most qualified candidate and the best fit for the position J Scott good evening Bo members I'm Sher Scott I'm a parent of four children in the district our children are at least fourth generation in the school district I don't know I

084can't trace everything back more than 110 years ago when my great grand have gone to school in this area but that's not my point here tonight the item I want to discuss here tonight is the possible contract extension for the interm superintendent I emailed all on Monday and would like to summarize it here in case you haven't had a chance to read or digest all the information understand that there were some concerning allegations about Mr space and he is no longer here I understand it was critical to fill the interm position quickly and so we could find a full-time qualified candidate that fits the district culture and understands the needs of the students teacher staff and the community Mr space gave his resignation on December 19th there and then within about four weeks of that

085day we advertised went through Christmas break went through New Year's and then Mr sari was hir hired and started working at the district on January 20th to me that seems very rushed hurried and coincidental even in the private world for the best and most capable people you typically have to wait and be flexible on a start date why was a superintendent available on short notice of it here where did he come from what are his credentials all question is still looming in my mind and likely many others there have been some very basic and personal or basic student and personal privacy issues brought to Mr sar's attention over the course of his 45 days on the job I think now is the perfect time to slow down and advertise for a full-time superintendent position and

086go through a thorough process that includes key Administration staff and Community to find the most qualified and F person to do this very critical job of leading and uniting the Administration staff and the school board by all means Mr sari can also apply and go through the typical District selection process for these critical position for this critical position with the other candidates chosen please slow down for the kids and the staff let's make sure we have the best thank you thank you ctis hello good evening everybody my name is John Fus I got a couple kids in the districts and one excited to start next year in 4k Mike I'll make it easy for you I'm gonna be giving a lot of thanks out for tonight uh so first off Mrs Zuko thank you for

087all your years of service uh you had both of my boys for kindergarten uh they were very appreciative of everything I learned in your class and I know you've even done a you know hour trip down to quac the ten qu fa all the summer to see them show CS so you really touched our lives and we're gonna miss you and Zan's gonna miss out but we got just good teachers and I'm sure that they'll get an opportunity and we'll get new faces to meet uh Mrs Nelson thank you for your time as well in the elementary principal role uh congratulations on your advancements I know um exciting times we're really open with he's a bit of wild card uh you have a little bit you know friendly face that we can relate to um

088and then yeah ultimately I want to thank Tony as well uh last board meeting Workshop you guys talked about uh your book study Tony you did a great job I think you're really involved and and working in there and I know one of the items that got brought up was that a lot of people were surprised at how slow things move through boards um I think that's an important thing to emphasize tonight I think a lot of people are making that point that we need to make sure we're slowing down and that we're doing things the right way uh Tony you had a difficult task uh you know you had more than 1300 signatures that you had to verify um you took your time you worked through the right resources you got it done um

089so we appreciate your efforts within that um thank you guys very much thank you community I see a sea of red out in the uh the audience here so I think there's a message that's that's being brought forth and I hope you guys listen to it thank you guys uh Lindsay wendland okay uh let's see here Andy Lun it's great to see so many people here in the audience and and one thing I know we've talked about before we know we have a lot of people coming in these meetings and we have a great facility here uh why do we end up having to cram in this little room all the time can we not find a different spot that's more comfortable for everybody so hopefully we can look at that for future meetings um

090also just echoing the sentiments of everybody else with no disrespect to Mr sari is I believe we do need to have a fair and transparent um system of deciding the new administrator and to do that we can't take a vote tonight we have to slow down post it and make sure we have the most qualified candidate anyone who votes for extending the contract tonight um I would question their agenda of what what is the harm of belaying us why do we why do we have to get this through tonight why can't we wait so I strongly encourage everyone to take the comments that everyone's been saying here into consideration with that also I applaud Melinda for trying to move the um open public forum to the beginning of the meeting uh I do respect what

091the comments that Angela that you made of why uh we are moving into the end however I think it's really important as the public this is our opportunity to talk to you guys particularly if you're voting on stuff uh we would like to give our feedback to you prior to you voting uh we have comments on those sections and by waiting till the end we no longer have that opportunity so I looked at that as um now you're just telling us you know we don't care about your feedback go sit down and talk at the end um and you know Mike I appreciate your comments as well but I think that's a horrible excuse like you you guys are elected by us and you should want to hear our comments and give us the opportunity

092to do that prior to voting so I hope you reconsider that for future meetings as well Carrie Van van grey hello I'm Carrie van a lifet Community member I also want to say thank you to miss Doo she had my kids as well um and she to let me bring my golden doodle in um I also want to say thank you to Mike what you had said earlier about being able to talk to you yes yeah I thank you for that and I really hope that you listen to what we all have to say um and each and every one of you I sincerely hope that you listen to everything that everyone here had to say tonight um so I used to be very proud to say I was from light down this community always

093felt like family to me that's community that was there to support anyone in need and as I look around now I do not see that there is a Facebook group page called right down Community which resembles nothing of what a community should be I see friends and strangers fighting with one another because they have differences and they are presenting these differences as facts on social media there has been a public display of hate towards one another that we should all be concerned and there's a difference between attacking someone and challenging someone and we all should be aware of that we should be able to ask questions there are also Anonymous posters that put out fake or misleading information and they sit back and watch the community attack each other because they are trying to defend

094their position it appears one of his social media sites isn't a community page at all and instead it's a direct connection to members of our current board and the problems that are currently taking place to solve problems and work together we need to be brave enough to have hard conversations in kind respectful transparent ways not behind Anonymous inflammatory and fear inducing coasts I know I've posted things and I've never been Anonymous when there was a post regarding the agenda item for tonight to discuss the extension of the interim superintendence contract I responded as a right on Community member because I am concerned I urge you to slow down and please listen to us and not make a quick decision on any extension our district has no more room for additional investigations I asked this of

095you because I do have connections with one of the previous school districts and I personally spoke with two individuals and read an email from another individual that had Direct experience with our inum this can all be found on open records request um one of the individuals had a grievance against Mr sari and it was also found that Mr sari was not going to have his contract renewed by W Paca School District instead they asked him to resign another statement another stated that he was known to be unapproachable and there was a cloud of secrecy surrounding his actions and nothing seemed transparent we have enough problems with transparency don't we okay um the admin ministrative office experienced a number of surprise resignations of long-term quality employees during his tenure how many resignations do we already have

096already ready people retiring moving on to other districts we don't have room for that here both of the past districts experienced unprecedented number of resignations under Ron's leadership feedback from the black R Falls district documents on being exited from the superintendent in October for mismanagement to funds and questionable election campaign practices along with other professional ethics concerns untrustworthy skirting professional ethics manipulation and Leadership by fear and Punishment were also shared in conversations regarding his tenure any sort of retirement of resignation agreements from these District districts may be found in open records so feel free to request them and you also may find that attorney James Macy settled the wacka agreement bottom line he has been asked to leave his two previous districts we had heard multiple times that we incurred legal expenses for investigations into

097previous superintendent so why would we knowingly put another superintendent in place with a history like this we don't need any more open investigations we do not need to incur any additional legal expenses because we rushed an extension of his contract I really urge you like everyone here tonight he urging you to please listen to us please to slow down for the sake of our school district that is already in termo is there Faith Nelson good good evening my name is Faith Nelson um my husband and I have lived in the district for eight years and we have four children in every level of the right toown Public Schools um we chose to move here because of the School's ranking and excellent reputation so we've had family whose children have gone here and they have raid

098Bel Rights Town kind of annoying actually um but we're here and and we we we're getting it now um our children's education is a top priority in our family as is many others in this District the credit for this should be given to the cooperation hard work and commitment of the teachers administrators and board members however it seems that lately things have changed and that people are putting their pride and personal agendas in front of what is truly important I have chosen to speak tonight in an attempt to persuade the school board from taking yet another step to diminish what has been a highlevel functioning highly rated school district for years the lack of transparency communication and cooperation is undermining the community's ability to be involved in your decisions a great example of this is

099the closed door sessions that are anything but transparent administrators used to be a part of many of the closed door sessions it has been almost two years since they have been allowed in and didn't the administrators used to sit at the same table for Workshop meetings from the outside it seems a dynamic has changed drastically the entire process of the forced resignation of Andy space and hiring of Ron sari has been anything but transparent in fact it has been extremely rushed and secretive this leads me to a few questions does the board think that this type of behavior is conducive to maintaining high quality administrators educators and attracting new Personnel in the future is the board listening to the administrators and following their recommendations on important issues that affect them and the Educators directly typically

100administrative position openings for the next year are being filled by this time to ensure a quality candidate the position should have been posted long ago why hasn't the superintendent position been posted on the weekend website already is the board following any of the WD guidelines for the hiring of superintendence if not please explain your process that will provide the best candidate for the position that our district deserves does the board agree with the current superintendent threatening the jobs of Educators for exercising their freedom of speech by saying thank you on a form that is not linked to the school in anyway I have seen election signs that say vote for transparent Arcy I think the people of the district are paying attention and we'll do exactly that come election day if this board has been

101focused on transparency then there wouldn't be an insane number of open record requests closed door sessions jamack board meetings or a recall election for board president thank you for your time I'm good okay all right did I miss anybody that's on here that would like to speak there's a hand hand and what's your name Rene Rene okay all right thanks Renee come on hi everybody my name is Renee FL um I'm a parent of children in the district I have um an elementary school child I have a middle school child and I have an ad ad sum that graduated in 2018 when we transferred into the district it was when my oldest was a senior in high school and we transferred into this District moved into the district because of the school and the wonderful

102U support that students have um we came from ashwag on School District the experience that we've had in rown is 100 times better than what we had in just wanted to give it a little and I prob listen that it's just right um I need to take the time to express my disappointment to see what is going on in our district and I'm going to try not to get emotional about it so bear with me a little bit on that um we used to be a district of destination in my case I think there's a lot of people who have felt that way and moved in for those reasons unfortunately given the current board leadership that it is no longer the case I urge you to honor your statements around transparency and Community engagement and

103open the superintendent position to be conduct on three conduct a thorough process to find our next leader who can work together with administrators teachers and the board to return the focus on the mission of our district of providing a quality education for every single student our district deserves a process that does due diligence to highing of this important position during the comprehensive search if you have faith and confidence in the current interim superintendent performance then he will rise to the top of that cand and earn his position I also urge you to assure an inclusive search for the next high school and Elementary principles please make sure the process forhe his position includes PR staff members including administrative assistance they tend to know the most guidance counselors and other key personel Personnel from the buildings

104all these positions are too important to leave solely to an interim superintendent who has been here for 45 days please go back to focusing on the students and teachers of our district I am so TI of hearing about secret investigations fear laundering contacting attorneys creating a hostile work environment and following AAL agenda our teachers are doing an incredible job of of staying focused on our students but how much longer can they do that given a current extremely negative situation in the district finally I also encourage you to recognize that over, 1300 people were willing to sign a recall petition because they are concerned with the direction of the board leadership what can be learned by that level of commitment by the community how does that help us to return to being rights to strong true

105leaders don't lead for recognition they lead to make an impact that last forever right now the impact you are leaving does not support the Mission Vision and values of right Community School District it does thank you another person in the back okay uh your name my Brian yes Brian come on up all right for those who don't know me my name is Brian deer I've been a resident here for seven or eight years now and I have three young boys two of which who are in the elementary school now and all three will be here eventually a concern I'm raising tonight one you maybe haven't heard before there's a short fused vot um to name Mr SAR as fulltime superintendent I want to jump right into some things that I've read at home in the

106lone area Spirits Mr SAR we you created a boards what we call board's Collective commitments the the BCC is to enhance the effectiveness and productivity of school board meetings I do want to commend you for creating this I didn't create it whoever created it I think in this talous time I think it's really important that we have structure feedback discussion and structure are really important at times like this so to whomever created that thank you uh in the memo it was noted there were five key reasons for creating those commitments one of which you've heard a lot of here tonight is to support transparency and accountability we want clearly defined commitments to ensure that board members remain accountable for their role and responsibilities when expectations are transparent there's greater trust among board members staff and

107the community I think what we tonight is loud and clear from the community we have expectations that there is a thorough and exhaustive search for a full-time superintendent back to those boards Collective commitments they're comprised of 14 common commitments that's what I wrote down on here one of those is dedication to researching issues and agenda items another one that I highlighted is commit to our community our community has kindly asked for a thorough and exhaustive search for the next full-time superintendent during it's my opinion that a sudden vote at this time just doesn't make sense a question I have is why why not if we would all step back and just look at the Optics it doesn't look good we have an election in two weeks two and a half weeks maybe this vote now

108it doesn't look good and in my opinion it wouldn't be fair to Mr SAR either it would erode trust from the community I don't think that's a position you want to step into so again I go back to one really simple question why why not we talked about an interview process uh I took some notes tonight um for the high school principal position 21 applicants we whittel it down to nine and then maybe down to seven for phone screenings that seems reasonable I know nothing else about it but that seems like at least