001for the pledge of allegiance. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Um, >> is there a motion to approve the consent agenda? >> All in favor say I. >> Opposed? Motion carries. Um, before I forget, about every couple months I get somebody who tells me, "We can't hear you." So, put your speaker closer, wear it on your neck if you need to pick up and speak directly into it so that people can hear. Um, some of us they can hear and some of us speak softer and they can't hear. >> Um, Mr. Schaper. >> Yes. Uh, I would like to introduce our unbelievable and talented student rep that we have,
002Daniel Castillo Barona. Uh, so I want him to have an opportunity to talk to you guys and introduce himself so you get to know the great young man who will be sitting in on our board meetings. Hi, thank you. Uh, I'm Daniel. I'm a senior here in high school. Uh, I wanted to do this because I really feel like I could really represent the student voice here with basketball. I'm really involved in a lot of clubs and other activities here. So, I'm really excited to work with you guys and thank you for having >> Thank you for being >> um I I should note the superintendent is at um the superintendent's conference, but she's here with us um listening to the meeting and available um with questions that elevate to her level. But um she
003assures me Mr. Hills and Mr. Schaefer will handle everything needed. Mr. did you have anything that you wanted to highlight other than your report? >> Uh yes. Um something that's not in the report uh that came through after that um WSB uh reached out and they are interested in hearing the presentation that I provided last January to the board. So we'll be going out to the state convention and presenting >> hard to follow that but um um nothing outside of the agenda, but I do want to just take a moment to really acknowledge the efforts of our staff for their preparation in this school year and and building relationships with our students and and getting routines in place and all the work that they've done. uh this year for our students we've uh ch we're
004challenging them to be uncommon to do things that separate themselves to be exceptional and go above and beyond. And then also in a couple of weeks we have our homecoming game and I just want to give a huge shout out to all the staff that devote a lot of time. I know when we go there we enjoy the football game and the tailgate and all that stuff that happens. Um there was a tremendous amount of work done behind closed doors where our staff are meeting with students and planning and organizing our week and and I just want to give a huge shout out to them. It's uh it's awesome uh what they do for our students and all that they put into each and every child here. So thank you to our staff and thank
005you to the students for a great start to the school year. >> Thank you. Um, you all have the gifted and talented report and the a report. So, could direct your questions to the superintendent on that. The superintendent doesn't have a report tonight. She's been kept us updated though via her emails to us recently. I don't have anything. Um, on committee reports, uh, I think she reported to you the communications committee met. been working on most recent um newspaper and um also decided that we would not publish the 100 year book because we're so far out from the 100 year celebration. um building and grounds. I was that mostly about the tower which we're going to talk about later. >> Tower range. >> Yeah. >> Um move to open. I think Mr. Gil has something
006on the elementary student handbook. >> Yes. Uh we did take a look um the big change uh in the uh updated PM bump that you were provided in your packet um to be consistent with the middle school and high school. Uh we changed our we had an acronym called PCDs for personal communication device. We changed that to ECDs and they were consistent at middle school high school. Uh just calling them electronic communication devices. Uh for the health section, I'm going to continue working with our uh school nurse and as we get any updates uh we will send out those notifications through our newsletter monthly newsletter and then uh late this semester, early next semester. >> Okay, that's it. >> Thank you. Well, just that the school nurse reached out to me and like showed me
007the like the big graph just like physician type nurse level stuff and we kind of took a look at it. So, it made sense looking at that because that's kind of Yeah. So, I think more to come. I think she's doing a lot of hard work and kind of a heavy lift to update that. Um but looking at just from because with the nursing leadership and then with the position on um I think they're doing a lot of work and I think that will benefit the team. >> Thank you. >> Sorry approval on those changes. >> I brought it back in. I mean we can wait another month. >> Um it's not on for action. Okay. It's on there. So, technically we need to bring it back to that >> approval. Sure. >> Um before
008the board discusses the 911 tower, there are some representatives of the county here that wish to speak. Um do you all wish to speak? One of you wish to speak. Oh, for the tower. We're just I'm here to speak unless you guys have questions for us or have questions in regards to the correspondence we included. So, >> okay. So, you had the draft the letter that Randy received from the county um with their proposals. Um her recommendation is the lease option so that the property doesn't doesn't ever permanently get separated from the school district. that was a lease option. Um and as you said it in five or 10 years satellite um we prorate whatever money we got back to the county. So from there um discussion >> these options are how many years? >>
009I think it's 100 year lease. you didn't the option I mean if I mean if something happens to power no longer is deemed uh useful I mean it's in here that >> you have to speak louder so thank you >> the only question I so if who's carries the load of the expense that the tower has to be this They count equally >> even though if you because if you were to separate and go to a different techn is the county is a tower always going to the county or is a tower now go to a another company because technology may come up that the county doesn't need a tower anymore but there are other services on the tower that need to be utilized. So that means the county would no longer be in the
010tower business, but the the the tower company still would own the tower. Correct. Can I address you or? >> Yeah, feel free. We're friends. Sure. >> Sorry, just for introductions. Kim Hav County administrator. And again, if we get a real deep detail, I have our attorney here as well. Again with the lease those are the types of details that we need to work out. Um again when we had specified our preference obviously we specified that the purchase with bike cleaner and again the reason why we were doing that is simply because of the arrangement that we have with endsite. So again under our other towers we're buying the site ends vertical bridge is actually building the tower and maintaining the tower. So that's and then as part of that arrangement, the county has the right
011to use that tower in perpetuity in terms of for 911 uh communications. So with the lease arrangement, we obviously have the same type of arrangement, but obviously we'll have to build in some additional clauses, right? In terms of like you said, if if in 25 years the technology changes, we don't need that tower, right? then how do you know how does that change the agreement right if we put on our equipment and what's the expectations of endsite so again if I think that'll be a we'll have to go back because that might be a concern for them right in terms of you know if we're going to change those terms that way so it makes a little bit more complicated we're willing to do it I'm not saying that but that's why when we had
012talked with the facilities committee obviously a lease from our standing our standpoint makes much more complicated so >> so under a lease The school district is still responsible for that property. If something happened to that property, you know, wind I mean trees go down or something like that, the school is still responsible for maintaining property, right? Well, again, there's there's different things in regards to insurance coverage, right? So, if we own the property, we're we take on all that liability and all that. as a lease. Obviously, there's liability clauses that would probably be within the lease term itself, but obviously as a lease, there's going to have to be some type of coverage you're going to have to take on. >> See, I I think we don't I I don't think we can answer the
013questions tonight about sell or lease because we don't know what the lease term. We don't know what all those things in the lease are. That's why I advocated that we have a draft lease so that we can have all of that information and then make a decision. But I mean these are factors that we have to take into consideration. I mean if you own that property then you are responsible for the upkeep of maintaining that property. If we lease it then we are responsible for it. I mean there's ways you can sell the property and then if the power is no longer used and it automatically would revert back to us. If we sell the property as opposed to leasing it, then we are free from any type of extenduate circumstances other than the no
014>> and the lease can be written that they are responsible for maintaining the property like a triple net lease on rental. >> They're responsible for the tenants are responsible for everything. >> Okay. with with I guess again with the offer the purchase the one thing that was discussed at the facilities committee we did include that now you know we had put down that um obviously within the agreement we could record a title for the first refusal and we just put down now that under the first refuel you could purchase it back for a dollar whatever we purchase it for we're fine with and at the end we you can take it back for a dollar or >> I guess I just linked more to Because no matter what, if you're leasing it, there are things
015that could happen where you're still going to be named in a lawsuit because you're still following the car. If if the thing were to fall over and crash into somebody's house or somebody's car or somebody's injured, some great attorney, nothing against attorneys, but they're going to they're going to find their way back. Oh, but this place is really open home owned by the school school. Bingo, bingo. We got two big pockets. We got the county has big pockets and the school district has big pockets and we can go and see everybody. Okay. As opposed to just anyway, that's stuff I need to look at when it's all >> I guess my question will be um do we need some advice from legal counsel? >> Well, this has to this. Yes. That's why we're not voting
016on it, right? Because it has to go to legal. >> I I think you need legal counsel advice on sale versus >> because it sounds all simple. We live for 100 years but as opposed to sell them for 100 years and come back to us because they We don't want to give it back to us for a dollar eventually and there's nothing. >> So our direction is to adise the superintendent to talk to get legal advice pros and cons of versus lease. Um the >> you want to know this by when time >> well our biggest concern is you well our concern is your timeline. So really what we were told is that you need to have it on your agenda to get authorization to proceed with one of those two options. So our biggest
017>> our timeline is we'd like to ideally would be to have it at least lined up or know that it's vital by the end of the year. Otherwise, we have to find a different site. >> If if we elect to sell the property, we need to have it on the annual meeting agenda for the authorization from the community to sell property. If the option is to lease, it doesn't matter. So she could she could bring this back in October to the October meeting. We could decide. And um Tasha, how far out from the schoolboard meeting is the annual meeting? >> The annual meeting is October 22nd. So it's a week after the October >> So there's time to notice it in the >> Yes. >> annual meeting. >> Yes. >> Okay. So the direction is
018for the superintendent to gather information from legal police versus sellers and police. >> Again, if you don't mind, just one last thing. I mean, they the committee did ask us for what our preference is. And again, we we're in a we're in a position where we'll work with either option. But again, from our standpoint, some of the things you brought up, we concur with, but also again, not that the lease is hard, but a lease of 100 years means someone has to manage and re remember that lease for 100 years versus a title with a report in on it for the first knowing that'll come back. So, no matter what those lease terms are, you know, someone's then managing that part of it. So, from again, that's why we specified in the letter. We prefer
019purchase. But again, if you feel that it's better for the school to maintain the property, we're still looking for that partnership either way. And that's why from our standpoint, I know we went way back. There was some discussion on, you know, we put in $28,000, which we feel is like market price, and there was some discussion what should be done for a dollar. Our biggest concern is whatever we can do to make sure we build the community partnership. We're not trying to take advantage of the school or anything. It's truly a partnership and making sure that we have a place to establish 911 communications with the added benefit of knowing that if there's a tower there, you're going to have a lot better cell coverage and that will penetrate this building a lot better. So,
020there's a benefit to that as well. So, and I think as a point of information, the land, the area of this land that we're talking about is a 100x 100. So it's basically about a quarter of an acre and it's a freestanding tower. It's not a guy wire tower. So it's going to be contained within that 100 by 100. >> Okay. So we will get legal counsel. Now I anticipate legal counsel having a lot of questions about lease terms. So she'll want to talk to the county attorney. That's like I also wish the county would give us the lease to give to our attorney so that we don't incur a lot of back and forth between the attorneys and our attorney has less to look at. So if you can accomplish that um that would
021be great but >> again I guess I guess we need to know the way because again a lease when you're saying generate a lease that's an entirely different I mean a triple net lease for a storefront is entirely different than a 100red-year lease for a tower. and all the revisionary causes, maintenance, and all the other kind of stuff. So, it's it's an entirely different beast. >> So, certainly so certainly our attorney is going to have questions and all of those. So, she may contact. >> Okay. I'm just I think at this point all we need is our attorney and then we can get into all that together. >> Okay. >> Good. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> All right. We'll come back at your next meeting. >> Keep it moving along. >> Thank you. >>
022Keep it moving along. >> Come up long enough you become a res. See, there you go. >> Okay. We have the second reading on a list of policies. Um we have those question on those updates. I will move to approve the second reading of the policy as this. Second. >> All in favor say I. >> I. >> Motion carried. >> Um, >> did you have anything to do that you need to report legislatively? >> Uh, yes. Um, there were several of us last night at the presentation by Ann Chapman on school finance. Lisa was there, Tasha was there, Randy and myself. It was a very interesting presentation I thought and uh Tasha and I were talking before the meeting and I think it was eye opening for a lot of people who were there. They
023had no idea how the funding formula worked. I heard comments as I was leaving about that and uh they had no idea how the voucher system worked. So, I did not check the invisible um website, but I think there may be some things on there. So, if you want to look at that invisible website, that would be an option. Very well done. >> I did I did wish I did wish they would have been a little more um exact. I ran into some people in the coffee shop this morning when we talked about it. You know, she had a lot of big state numbers. 1 point, you know, 1.4 million new education, this much, this much, this much. And then she gave overall numbers on how the state of Wisconsin is doing as far as
024reading and math. I think having been more if they could have been more exact to to show that D County really does better than the state especially Sebast people don't think well we're spending all this money but we're really almost below the state average in a lot of those things would have been helpful and then when they talk about you know all the money it would have been good if they had a slide gearing toward saying toward the end, this is our special education budget. This is how much we got from the state last year. This is how much we're going to get. This is how much comes out of our 110 and more specifics like that I think would have been more eye opening for people. Lisa, I can certainly include those in our
025annual meeting report and in the presentation when we do budget in October. But at least our our residents can have that information about us. >> But for the whole I think in a presentation like that drilling down and getting more specific to the locality would have been really eye opening for those people. Um, also we've talked a lot about the U state report card and the cut scores and there has been a group Jerry, I know this is a favorite topic of yours um that uh has been looking at these cut scores and this panel of educators voted to recommend changes to those scores essentially raising them by one point which uh really is a minor change and there's been a lot of criticism about this that uh more needed. So, I don't know where
026that'll go, but um that's the latest on those. And then, uh WB as well as other groups are encouraging everybody to contact our legislators about the rehiring of annuitants uh to help schools with their uh staffing shortages. This was on a assembly committee agenda and the bill was approved instead of uh dealing with it. And the rumor is that there are still some in the legislature who feel this is double dipping and they might want to go ahead with it. go >> ahead within it at all because that the the reason it got pulled is Jo Jack presented a bill that included rehiring police officers and firefighters but didn't include teachers. So they're okay with that but not the teachers or it's just no double dipping. >> It's the teachers that were brought down, >>
027right? Yeah. >> So more to come on that. Um Representative Kitchen I mean I think sometimes I use my WBA. Do they do they have something where they send out and say here you should contact your legislators about this topic and give you a >> There hasn't been one that I have seen. >> It would be so great if they could develop that system where you >> sometimes it is in use but not this time. >> Um >> yeah, it makes it very easy. >> It makes it real easy because we're all lazy. you'd be willing to do it, but oh, I got to look up their addresses. How do I get them? What do I put in the letter? >> Yeah, I can remind Chris of that. >> If if you want to do
028that, Mindy has a draft um email that you can send or you can customize to yourself, the addresses of those legislator. >> Yeah, I can send something out to Representative Kitchen in particular to bring a motion. something. >> I think she had she has said something to him. >> Yes. >> I've said something to you. So, anybody else that wants to say >> if you support it, right, you vote supported. >> We haven't had a couple years. >> No, we have. >> Well, it seems like they've heard their schedule's still done. doesn't hurt that >> we can show them where our schedule is and available. >> I think the superintendent meet with them on a monthly basis. We can ask >> so brings the legislators to those who are willing to come. >> We can
029ask the superintendent. We can ask the superintendent to ask um well they meet with the kitchens. I don't know that they need but we can ask. >> Yeah. again for them to meet face to face, >> right? >> Well, the constituents >> I guess we could send them in for you know sometime far out like January. >> I think we should I think we should have some of these when we meet. When when are these dates are you available? These are we know our dates. So, here's our dates. >> Which ones can are you available? They have to put you on the agenda as opposed to >> I will um Doesn't hurt to ask. >> I will ask who do you want to invite? >> What's that? >> Who you want to invite? >> I
030think we not. >> Okay. Okay. We'll prepare an invitation. Joel Kitchens is also looking at um math improvement, looking at a math screener, um kind of following the path of what went on with u reading. And he's also looking at a bill to make it illegal to fly drones over schools without permission because of privacy concerns and safety concerns. and also looking at a uh declining enrollment bill particularly to look at consolidation and how consolidation could be easier for school districts because of the declining enrollment. His question is can we afford one school districts anymore in the state of Wisconsin? So um that's out there. Uh the mill rate has been an issue. We know that. We talked about that when we talked about consolidation and that's one issue that they're looking to address at
031the federal level. Nobody really knows what's going on there. It keeps changing day to day and uh it's pretty hard to keep track of it. But one thing that I did find interesting because uh we have been designated a blue ribbon school and integral that program has now been eliminated. So, um, WB has received, uh, 20 resolutions from school districts around the state and the policy and wellness committee will be looking at those the end of September and then again in November and uh, we'll be voting on Elizabeth in January in Milwaukee. Uh Carrie Bowman from the Jialter District is a representative on that committee and uh very enthusiastic about that bill. Some of the things that uh are on there are kind of interesting. Um federal funding is one of the resolutions on there.
032I guess in that there's uh a resolution opposing referendum restrictions which some legislators have supported. Uh there's one on universal community bills, one on support for DEI and uh there's one on the school report card processes and there's one opposing and one supporting decoupling. In other words, taking the voucher money and taking that right out of the general purpose revenue rather than impacting the aid of certain school districts. It doesn't impact us much, but it does for some of the districts where they have a large number of voucher schools. Um, Green Bay, for instance, now is putting on their tax bills. The amount of aid that the Green Bay public schools are losing to the voucher schools and more cities are trying to do that. If it's decoupled, that will be hidden and it will
033be hidden in the general purpose. So, there's a lot of contribution about that topic. So, never. Thank you, legislature. I'll start Mr. Warrick. You were advocate to get naran station in this school and I know that um there's a movement now to require that nationally. >> You were leaders not >> congratulations. >> Um we will hear now about the global trip from Mrs. Vanderhaki. My name is Miss Lowaki. Uh this is my second year at Sebastical. Um Miss This is my 10th year at Sebastical. So we're here to bring you a global trip proposal for 2027 to Germany, Italy, and Switzerland. Um, just this last summer I traveled to Ireland with our student Doss Henderson and one of my former students, Lane Landrich. Um, I partnered with EF for this and they are education first
034tours. I'm looking at partnering with them again for this upcoming tour in 2027. Um, part of why we choose EF is their family-owned and operated since 1965, and they have a mission of opening the world through education. Um, they offer 17 products spanning across language learning, cultural exchange, academic achievement, and educational travel. They employ 27,500 educators and 24,500 office staff within their 612 offices and schools in 50 countries worldwide. and uh they also aid us in on the ground support. So we'll talk more about that a little bit later. >> So basically they know what they're doing. That's why we partner with them. >> They're one of the leading leaders in global education. >> Um EF puts safety first, second, and third. So when we were in Ireland, thankfully never had to use that. Hopefully
035we don't in this trip either. But they have a safety incident and response team available 24/7, 365 days a year. and they react quickly if travelers need help. So, at that point, um our tour director that will be assigned if we're to be approved this trip tonight, um they ultimately get help us get in contact with that. If for some reason a tour director were to get sick, they immediately fill that in with a new tour director. So, our trip is unhindered the entire time we're traveling. Um they have unmatched world presence. They have staff on the ground in 115 countries. All the blue dots on the screen are places they have an EF office. So where we're traveling in Europe, they have quite a few surrounding offices where we'd be going. Um they're best
036in the industry experience. They are ready whatever happens. And so we travel with a group. Um through Ireland, I learned this whole process. So uh our tour director meets us as soon as we arrive at the airport. They hold up this beautiful sign for us to follow them. Uh they bring us to our meeting location. We meet our bus driver for the first time. They help us load the bus and they get us off to our first hotel to drop our luggage. They have an extensive knowledge of our destination where we're going. They manage everything from hotel check-ins. They even emailed me weeks before our trip when we left for Ireland this year. Um, and ultimately getting making sure our hotels are all ready for us. They take care of everything for the entire group
037of kids that are on the bus with us. We traveled to Ireland this last year with kids from Random Lake High School, which is my friend Whitney Rafki teaches there, egg education. And then we also met up with groups from Arkansas and Florida on this trip. So we were consolidated down to a bus of about 50 people. And so she uh our tour director Audrey of for Ireland took care of everything for us. It was amazing, an amazing experience. and they teach from the heart. Honestly, delivering engaging commentary the entire time we rode on the bus in Ireland. She talked about the surrounding area, told stories. It was an absolutely amazing experience. Uh so why is mobile competence and travel based learning necessary to prepare students for their futures? Um we look at tech literacy
038so uh social and emotional intelligence, problem solving, adaptability. When we travel worldwide, these students are gaining that human connection. They're meeting kids from across our country and across the the world, honestly, where we're going. And that makes them better problem solvers. They solve their problems immediately. They can adapt to new cultures when we're visiting these places. It's an absolutely amazing experience. No problem. So, our students learn communication effectiveness. Obviously, when we traveled to Ireland this last year, they spoke the same language. They still I mean, they do speak Irish. It was like what what Audrey would tell us. Uh but our students did have that have a language that was in common. When we go to Switzerland, Germany, and Italy, they're going to be learning some different languages and seeing those different cultures, which is
039an amazing opportunity. Um task performance in virtual teams. They're learning collaboration skills while we're there. various tours that we go on. The the kids got to learn. We can go to the next slide and it kind of leads into this. Our students learn from the different guides that we visit with the instructors that they come in contact with. Uh the local residents are even part of this with different places that we visit. They meet different mentors and peers throughout this opportunity. Um and they can put in unfamiliar situations. When we were in Ireland, the kids um got to visit a couple of different production farms. I'll show you those pictures at the end, but they got to interact and be a part of the experience. So, when it comes to futurep proof skills for um
040our businesses in the area, they're looking for kids that can be adapt can adapt to situations, solve problems on the fly. Um having hands-on experience improves their overall retention and material. Already in this first two weeks of school, I brought up Ireland from just traveling there in content where I'm teaching right now probably 20 times. It's a lot. So the more that I travel, the more our kids travel, the more that dialogue comes up in everyday conversation. So how do outcomes of educational support the school board's number one goal? You can find this on our website. So ensuring students are prepared academically, personally and socially for educational transitions, career opportunities and life responsibilities within the community and the n the nation and the world. So looking at agriculture, our students are looking at food production.
041They're looking at how these countries use their land. Okay, sometimes it's similar to how we use our land in the United States and other times it's very different. Uh fostering innovation, thinking creatively. Our kids have to solve problems we've created today. So thinking about how can we use our technology to make things more productive. We have to feed more people with less land. Um addressing global agricultural challenges. Food scarcity is huge. Um real world connections. Okay. Building relationships with kids from other places. Um in Ireland they love the United States. Not every country is going to have that same experience, right? So they're going to build those real world connections and build and help kind of bridge that gap. Um international agricultural business looking at we buy and sell and trade goods all the time.
042Okay. So that's huge. And then um we chose to look at just a few other subject areas. So English because that's what I teach. Um but a lot of the places that we're going to be visiting are um sort of like cultural hubs for some of the literary periods that students um study. Uh they're also going to have a Swiss folklore experience which ties into reading and experiencing literature from other cultures. Um Venice, Italy would be one of our stops which Oll Shakespeare's Oll takes place on the streets of Venice Italy. And I don't know what better way to actually, you know, get kids into Shakespeare than for them to actually be on the streets that it takes place >> for the version. Um, and then also just um analyzing some of the cultural effect
043on literature as we travel. Um, we also looked at family and consumer science, connecting the culture with cuisine. I know I've talked to Terra a lot about that. Um, and her desire to want to do that as well, but textiles, fashion, and design, obviously that's different all over the world. Nutrition differences and how different countries view nutrition. Um and then the family and human development. Families operate in different ways throughout the world. When it comes to social studies, we will be visiting many of the historical landmarks in these countries. Uh the kids get to see geography in action when we're traveling from one part of Germany, wrapping our way all the way down to Italy, back through Switzerland, and back up to Germany to depart for home. They get to see all of that in
044action. Um as we travel, they get to see the economic awareness. they have to be able to convert the US dollar to euros and the Swiss Frank as we travel on this trip. Uh looking at political and social perspective, when we were in Ireland, one of the things constantly brought up was global trade. When we visited a lot of the farms in that area and ultimately how the United States when you when you um ultimately right now, it's really hot. Um like thinking when you're just tra trading globally and you're putting >> Thank you. There's a magic word wasn't coming right there. Tariffs. There it is. They talked about that a lot and how that impacts them. Uh global citizenship as a as a whole as a not very well global citizenship at large. When
045we look at agriculture standards, we pulled out my standards as one of our main examples for tonight. Uh one of my standards and this actually repeats whether we're talking about animal science, horiculture, uh ner goodness natural resources. This magic word agricultural literacy is the word that changes but that standard actually repeats in every one of my content areas. So students will examine the components applications historical development global implications future trends and career opportunities related to agricultural literacy. The learning priority for this is investigating global implications of agriculture. Three different performance indicators to showcase this are identifying types and diversity of the agriculture, food and natural resource systems on a global scale based on geography, climate and social constructs are going to be seeing that throughout that part of the world. Researching and using geographic and
046economic data to solve problems in the agriculture, food and natural resource systems and researching, examining and discussing issues and trends impacting the AFNR systems on local, state, national and global levels. So our kids would ultimately be meeting the standard by traveling to these countries. >> And this is one example. We could have pulled a lot of standards, but we thought maybe we would be so interest. But there is the personal and social um aspects as well. gaining the cultural appreciation, collaborating with people from other countries, collaborating just with your peers too because traveling in a foreign country is um there's a you come across a lot of um hurdles that you have to overcome and figure them out. Uh being able to communicate with people who maybe don't speak English or um have different views
047or values than you. the psychological and so uh socioultural adaptation um and the cross-cultural flexibility. We sort of have an example here. So, one of the stops would be St. Mark's Square and St. Mark's Basilica. And there's a dress code when you visit there, not just inside the basilica, but when you're at the square. Um visitors have to dress modestly, right? Covering their shoulders, chest, and knees and and so on. Um and it's not an option, right? Like students don't make our dress code. Well, they got to follow this if they're gonna if they're going to go there. So, it's one of those things where you respect their culture and you respect what they're asking and it's a good experience. But the special clothes will regular >> as we pack for these kind of trips.
048It is something I have to we have to tell the students in advance you need to bring X Y and Z because otherwise you are turned away and you can't get you can't go on site ultimately. You you have to sit out for that one and that that you lose out on opportunities if you're not dressed appropriately. >> Right. Um, and then financial literacy, obviously that having to exchange the currency, but we also talked about having to save for this trip, make payments for this trip, um, and, um, bring their own money and spend their own money on this trip will meet some of those requirements as well. Well, so we just talked about, you know, some people who say like, well, people can travel in college, but a lot of research actually shows that
049that's just too late for kids to travel. So they uh research shows that if students don't travel in high school, they're going to be less likely to take advantage of those opportunities that are offered to them in college. When it comes to creating access, uh EF provides a global citizen scholarship for our students to apply for. Doesn't mean they'll get it, not necessarily, but it is an opportunity that students can capitalize on. Every student gets a tour donation page. So when EF makes our students profiles, they get a QR code that's associated just to their account and they can send that QR code to their families, their friends, their aunts, whoever, anybody that they want to share that code with that can contribute directly to their trip and it impacts nobody else. Uh pricing and
050payments, they're dedicated to providing the lowest possible prices and practical payment options. We'll talk more about that on the upcoming slide. Um and culture, they've made travel for everyone. And so they've made this room affordable for our students. So this is where we're looking at going. Germany, Italy, and Switzerland. We would be flying in at Frankfurt there, working our way around and back up through Frankfurt. Frankfurt to fly out. The program price for students is four to get started. It starts at $4,249. That's including roundtrip airfare, their housing. Am I >> good? Their housing. They are provided breakfast and dinner as part of that cost. Students will be required to bring money for a lunch stop as they get to choose their lunch choices. So, EF takes upon themselves to order their breakfast and their
051dinner. So, they're trying cultural foods uh that are unique to the areas we're traveling. Uh that also covers our full-time tour director and any daily activities, tours, and entrances entrance fees to attractions that we do. Um, the Swiss Fondue evening is something I opted to add on because the these extra things that we do are an amazing experience for our kids. So, that's $120. Global travel protection is $190. One of the advantages to paying for global travel protection is if our students get sick overseas, EF pays their bill in the end. That's an amazing thing. Honestly, I may have to flip the bill right away with my credit card and say, "We're covering this right now." I submit that receipt to EF and they will reimburse me that cost all through their travel protection program.
052Uh early enrollment discount. Our students that travel for the first time, if they enroll by the deadline EF sets for us, they get a $200 discount. If Doss Henderson chooses to re enroll in this trip, she gets an additional discount because she's a frequent flyer with me now. Okay. So, she gets an additional I think it's $150 discount if she chooses to enroll. Uh ES peace of mind program is free. Uh total for students is $4,359. Part of why we opted to do three countries instead of just say Switzerland. Switzerland would have been a trip on its own of $6,000 because their country was more expensive. By pairing this with three countries because Dawson turned to me at the end of Ireland like Switzerland. Um looking at that, it ultimately reduced the cost for our
053students and they get to see more places which is pretty exciting. And you'll see that it's broken down to if we can get into the program um next month $186 a month. I think there's some kids who pay more than that a month for Starbucks. I mean really. So I think it's pretty affordable. It's something to work towards. And I traveled in high school through the trip offered at Sebastical and I didn't pay that much less than this. So I was really surprised by um how competitive the pricing is. Our students do room in groups of four typically is kind of the magic number or three depending on what the hotel can can work with. Um adults if they opt to travel with us, so parents or other community members that want to travel with
054us, they're always welcome to enroll. Um their total is increased by $820 because they only have one other roommate or they can adopt they can choose to have one single room. Their costs would just be um broken down a little different too. But overall for for an adult to travel, $5,000 really is not bad for for two countries. And this is the detailed itinerary, which we might have been here, but um they get to visit, you know, a lot of different landmarks um throughout these countries. >> I see you go to they go to prison. >> Uh I don't think that was on the list, but there there may be that possibility with um >> on your map. >> Oh, very well. We stop in a lot of these areas and they give students an
055opportunity to visit some of the sites around. So there's always that possibility that they can have those kind of attractions on. Yes. >> Or ride. That's really unique to that area. >> Uh so one of the awesome things is the Swiss folklore evening excursion. U that was one of my favorite things we did in Ireland was we did the Irish folklore experience and that's dinner dancing um and just music and the show. It's just it was an amazing experience and the kids were with the Ireland trip they got to see one of the performers was Celtic women and Susan Mcbaden performed for them. She had like the voice of an angel. So it's amazing the performers that they line up for these kind of experiences is just outstanding. >> And you get to go to
056the top of Swiss mountain and have like your sound of music, you know. Um, and so I think a big question always is how is the trip going to be funded? So, it's a supplementary trip obviously, right? It's not required. It's not for every student. Not every student is going to be able to afford it unfortunately. Um, they can enroll in a payment plan which makes it more affordable. We are going to offer opportunity. We thought like bagging groceries, right? That's something TADEX is always looking for. Um, and so we will offer that opportunity. We will be there with the kids so that they can earn money towards their trip to do that. Um, we'll also support them in trying to figure it out, right? If they need help budgeting or whatever, we'll be there
057to help them try to figure that out. We are not going to be, we want to make this clear, we're not going back to the community and asking for money. We're not fundraising. That's not the goal of this trip. And then, oh, and then other, you know, schools are traveling too, um, to a lot of different places. And we think that these are probably um, like upcoming trips that they have. you know, some schools plan them two, three, four years and then I wanted to give you some Ireland highlights uh from this last summer. So, I have two different slides here that I'm going to highlight for you. When we first got to Ireland, we stopped in Dublin. We took a walking tour of Dublin and got to see St. Patrick's Cathedral. So, here's a
058picture of all the night helmets and some of their flags. Those flags exist in that church or in the cathedral until they disintegrate and fall off. Honestly, they're there for the entire life of that. Um, that's pretty awesome. We explored the interactive museum of Irish immigration. It was very, it was amazing how much pride Ireland takes on all of their descendants. Uh, ultimately, no matter where their Irish descendants ended up in the world, they were highlighted in that epic museum, and that was pretty amazing. Um, we toured the Irish National Studying Gardens for the Irish racehorse experience. I do have a picture. This is of one of the resources they had in the paradox. One of the experiences we did at that place was um my student Lane and I were partnered up for this
059racehorse experience. And so he had to design his racehorse. Um ultimately looking at genetics, looking at the profile of it, had to design it. In the end, I didn't include the picture of this, but I had to ride the mechanical horse to the finish line, which was really amazing. Honestly, that was a lot of fun. Uh students spend two days engaging in hands-on learning activities at several local cattle and fruit and vegetable farms. Going back to this one. Um so behind us here, you can kind of see the strawberries being grown hydroponically there. The gentleman that owns this facility for seas in the future. Every place in the world is going to grow strawberries hydroponically 4 feet off the ground because you can control temperature, you can control control the amount of water, and your
060employees do not have to kneel on the ground digging through the strawberries. So that was an amazing thing. They were all at basically chess level when we were harvesting strawberries and they tasted absolutely amazing. Um the students had the opportunity to learn about the sustainability of oyster farming and students got to sample their first fresh oyster. They taste like cucumber if they are um fresh ultimately which is pretty cool. Uh we toured the Glenola mine and we were able to watch a sheep dog demonstration. One of the things uh that owner had promoted to us is diversification is key to a successful business in Ireland. They ultimately had to have multiple uh ways of making income in order to ensure their sustainability in the long term which was really amazing and a lot of the
061businesses we toured mentioned that multiple times. We toured an apple orchard and the kids got to see um the equipment for cider making and just for all of her different products, her vinegar that she made, apple cider vinegar. kids got to sample some of those products as well that she had that were fresh and they could purchase to take home. Um on the dairy and beef farms there we learned there's a limit on the number of animals they can raise on an acre of land. Uh rotational grazing is huge there and the gentleman that we went to that we went to his dairy farm. The cows they actually you've ever been to some of our area farms that have robotics and everything. These cows are trained. They walk into the facility and they're waiting to
062be milked. And when they're milked, they get sent back out to pasture. He resets up which pasture they're going back to and they know how to walk out where they're going and they come back in when they're ready. It's just amazing the way this man had his farm and facility set up. Just amazing. And his other second income was he built fences. So he had the dairy farm as like a side income and his primary business was um building farm fences. So diversification again. They are the leading perform one of the leading producers of baby formula worldwide which is cool. Um, we ended up taking a walking tour of Balway. Our kids got to see the breathtaking cliffs of Moore and were able to take a cruise on the river forum. That was kind of
063a last minute addition. Audrey worked out for us. So, we got to do something a little extra when we were there. Our kids enjoyed the local cuisine. We were able to meet kids from the other from Random Lake High School in Wisconsin as well as from uh schools in Arkansas and Florida. Um, pictured here on the next slide, the center gentleman right there was our bus driver, J. Oh my gosh, that man was a phenomenal driver. We got in a couple pinches where you're just like, is he going to be able to back the bus up? He was just absolutely amazing. Audrey was our tour director. She was with us from the start of the trip all the way to the end, as was Jared. These two individuals made our experience absolutely amazing. Had not
064you would have never known these two people had never met each other before this this interaction. They met each other because apparently uh at one point in time they probably crossed paths with with the cruises that come around Ireland and everything, but those two had never actually worked together prior to this. They both worked for EF. This was their first time. You would have never known the difference. Like truly, they were absolutely amazing people. Um so for me, this was an unforgettable experience and that's why I'm bringing back another international trip for our kids. It is something these kids will talk about for years as well as Oh, Mindy has talked about >> her some years later. Awesome. Where did you guys go? >> Uh we went to Italy and France. >> Absolutely an amazing
065experience overall. We hope you support this international trip that we're proposing to you this evening as hopefully our kids going forward. We'd love to bring you back another trip even next year and just keep it going year after year as we find it very valuable to our kids. Give them a year and a half out to pay for their trip. And our goal would be by next fall we bring you the next one for 2028. It's kind of our hope for this. Anybody has a question? >> That was a really nice presentation. >> Thank you question. >> How is your trip? >> So our trip is paid as you enroll six travelers, your chaperones travel free. So every six travelers you have chaperone travels free. When I went with Ireland with Dawson Lane, I paid
066$3,000 myself. I am more than willing to pay money to go on these trips. Let me tell you that. Okay. It's just an added benefit that Mindy and I if we get 12 kids enrolled, we both travel free. or in this case. >> Yes. Well, we still work. You work on the trip of course. Absolutely. But that our trip would be fully funded if you have 12. Um if not, we would prorate it and ultimately so both of us have an affordable trip as well questions for them or is there a motion immediately? >> I I think it's well planned out. You know, the presentation is very detailed and I like the, you know, that we're not going to be going to the community going door to door asking for donations and payments are flexible.
067Students can start making program like when is the school year? Is it like spring break or is it >> This is July of 2027. It does not impact our kids whatsoever with missing school. >> July 2027 so July 20th to the 29th I think is what we're earmarking of 2027 year >> and wallered by just >> well I think based on presentation and and your report I would move the global trip >> second other questions or discussion All in favor say I. >> Program profile. >> Yes. Um so in your packet um I know that Randy had included some information about what the purpose of this profile sheet is. Uh basically it's just an opportunity to put a lot of information about our district in an event format something that can be shared with the
068media can be shared on our website could be handed out to respective families. Um then the idea would be that that would carry over. We would do profile sheets for each building as well as uh student services. So don't know I didn't pack it if there's a safe home district like yes in there 151. >> So the uh the other building something similar to that. >> So this information you're looking for people to move forward. I do believe that it's information and then looking for uh kind [Music] >> second >> question like it's something that the newsletters through the newspaper included in there in packets when we have prospective families walking through. So, there's a number of different favor. >> I carried. Um, I'm going to back up a minute, a second, and apologize. Um,
069I'll have to remember that Daniel, I probably should have asked him um what he thought about the trip for students. >> Well, as a student, I would love to be able to have an opportunity like that. Sadly, I won't be here for it, but I know moving forward. I know a lot of students would love to do that. I have a younger sister who um definitely travel a lot. She loves it. I know like personally she so um I know she a person should be considered. You won for two years. >> I don't think so. >> We have a couple of early graduation requests. >> Yes. Thank you, Merry. Um, so we have two dynamic young men. First of all, I I I can't say enough about these two two young men and who they
070are and what they've done here at Sebastable and um both uh both Austin Pogles and Gavin Jones have positioned themselves to be eligible to graduate early. Um their letters very well written letters are in your packet. Um Austin Austin wanting to pursue a career in masonry and as you probably have read you know he's been doing that since he's 14. He has some pretty high aspirations of owning his own business one day and um that this is really important and if you've ever spent any time talking to Austin he's incredibly passionate about what he does and his career and uh Gavin is wanting to graduate and to work on a farm as as he had mentioned in his letter. uh he was offered a job in early August. Also, tremendous young man who positioned himself
071to be in this position. And I think the thing that I really love that we do at Sebast is we meet our students where they're at. And when students are ready to graduate early, get in the workforce. Uh I think it's important that we promote that and and both of these students. I couldn't be more proud of them uh and who they are. So I would really like you to consider allowing a early graduation for both Austin and Gavin. >> Is there a motion? >> Very impressive letters and uh it sounds like these are two young men who We have a well committed young men want to speak. [Music] >> All in favor say I. >> I opposed. Motion carried. Congratulations. >> Then we have employees soccer renewals as a core program. that motion. >>
072I'll make a motion to approve the property. >> Second. >> Danielle, are you a soccer player? >> All in favor say I. >> I post motion to carry. Um then we have the resolution authorizing transfer fund the establishment of an escore account with respect to the defeasence of certain of the general application refunding bonds dated March 19th 2007 and we'll let Tasha Ross explain that to us. >> Okay. Um we spoke about these the last meeting and went through a couple of different options for the board. board decided on the option which I think provides the district with the most flexibility going forward which would be an option that allows us to pay off some of our debt at um the middle to late maturities and it gives us more flexibility the next time we
073go out for referendum um with our funding situation to know what's going on in you know 2028. So, this option, and it's been tweaked just a little bit from August because we had to wait for, you know, real numbers and real interest savings to come in. Um, gives us a savings of about $557,000. So, still a really good interest savings for the district. Um, and so I would like you to I recommend that you approve the resolution 2526-01 authorizing this diffusence and that diffusence would take place on October 1st. >> Do you have questions or comments? >> And is there a certain way you want that motion? You want >> I would just the way it's written here. >> Yes. >> Yep. You want to appro approve resolution D and then just read it out.
074I would move to approve resolution 2526-01 resolution authorizing the transfer of funds the establishment of an escrow account with respect to and the refusance of certain of the general obligation the funding bond dated March 19 2019 >> second >> questions or discussion >> is this a one time >> this is a one time thing this is our reasons, but each time you have to >> make a motion and go through the process. >> This is probably the last one. >> All in favor say >> I motion carried. Um then we have the propane bid which you had to repackage gas. Second >> question or discussion says car boys. >> Take a motion to approve second >> questions or discussion. All favor say I carried um Our field meeting is October 15th. Annual meeting is October
07522nd at 6:30. And then we have a special meeting October 22nd um right after the annual meeting. And that will be for >> that would be for any followup we need after the meeting, but particularly the line of credit that we will need. Is there a motion to adjurnn? >> I make a motion to adjurnn. Second. >> All in favor? >> Motion carries.