001be on social or everyone please stand the flag alg of the United States of America nation for tonight. She's sitting next to her Jerry. Yeah, just turn the meeting over to the superintendent for disconnecting and the reorganization of the school board. Thank you. Um the floor is now open for nomination to begin with the president. Second. Are there any other further nominations? Are there any other further Nominations are closed. Vote for the president of all those in favor say I. I opposed. Madam chair turn back to try to keep us efficient. Um we will move then to vice president vice president move to nominate for vice president. Are there any other nominations? Any other nominations? Hearing [Music] none. Is there a motion to pass? All in favor say I. Motion carried. Um nomination for clerk
002move to nominate [Music] Jeff. So, are there any other nominations? Any other nominations? Any other nominations? Hearing none, all favor say I. Motion carries. Um, assistant [Music] clerk. I would nominate your board. Are there any other nominations? Any other nominations? Any other nominations? Hearing none. All in favor say I. I. Motion carried. Treasurer. That's where I was. Second. Um, any other nominations? Any other nominations? Hearing none. All in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion carried. um if anyone wishes to um drop off a committee they're on added to a committee, please let me know um sometime before the next board meeting and I will report the um committee sheet and we are going to I can't remember what they are but we were going to eliminate a couple of those because um we just don't
003use them anymore. So if you want to change, drop off, let me know before the next board meeting. Um, and then I should have read right away that the board will be to close executive session tonight to consider promotion compensation or performance evaluation data forward in public the government jurisdiction or exercises responsibility under Wisconsin statutes 19.85 85 brand one brand C to consider um the district administrative assistant as varsity boys girls cross country coach administrative contracts l position um did we have anyone sign up to speak? They didn't sign up to speak. sign up for attendance in the meeting not to speak. Yeah. So I was just looking at this to see if anybody wanted to speak in public comment and we don't have anybody that wanted to speak in public comment that registered. Correct.
004Um I would look for a motion to approve the consent agenda. So move. All in favor? All favor say I. I. Oppos. Motion carry. And that includes um some nice donations. Again, $2,89125 from the playing athletic club and the special ed department for an adaptive tricycle in the life of classroom. $500 from Steve Tan for the hall of fame. $1,595 from the Pioneer Athletic Booster Club to the baseball team for baseball fans and um the resation of Rob I think that is as the most gold football coach. So um thank you for those donations and the coaching service. Then we have um a report from the esports um esports group team. Hello. [Music] Hello everybody. Hello. Thanks for letting us come and talk about esports a little bit tonight. Um it was about a year
005ago that we were here presenting trying to see if we can do esports here. Um and so we did successfully put that through and we did have a pretty successful year. So I just wanted to kind of recap everything that happened. We did have some challenges at first with technology and some other things but by the end of the year situated we ended up having a pretty successful year. Um you got this in your packet but just you dig through it and find it and stuff. Um just to kind of recap a little bit we had over 30 uh new players that uh participated this year. uh that included boys, girls, um middle school. We also had uh six or sixth through 8th grade. Actually, we had students from all grades 6 through 12 participate
006in some form or the other. Um we also had students that had five or four plans, IEPs. Um and we had at least one student that had autism that actually participated. So, we had a lot of participation from a lot of students. We also had one of our exchange program students participate. That's right. That's right. Exchange students participate. Thank you. Um over the three season, even though we had some overlapping, we had over 64 students um participate over the three seasons. Um we competed in two leagues. We uh the National League twice and then we participated in the middle of the winter in the Wisconsin High School Sports Association league. Um yeah, and we had two of those teams. So, it was pretty good. Um, you kind of see there what how well we did,
007the teams and the or the number of players and subs that we had for the uh for the three seasons. Um, and just as a recap, the spring season was our best as far as performance went. We were still kind of working off the kings at the beginning, but you can see down here we had in our spring season, we had before as we went into playoffs, we were 25th out of 158 teams. We were 32nd out of 187 teams and the one uh down north we were fifth out of 110 teams. So that was all going to play. So we did pretty good. Um it was fun. Um on the back side you'll see a list of all the students that participated. Um keeping in mind that a lot of these students had never
008participated in any outside of after school activities. Um and we not only had students that you know participated in activities, we also had um students that were also athletes that participated either off season and we even had some athletes that participated during their season uh when they could and then you know they maybe did the beginning for a little bit and they didn't play sports at the end. Um so it was really good. Um and all this basically other than what we got for the siphons it basically cost nothing pretty successful kind of looking forward to next year too. Anecdotally it was really fun to talk to the students especially some of the seniors because the seniors really stepped up and took leadership roles even though we didn't officially have captains or co- captains or
009anything like that. I was particularly impressed by AJ Pollson. AJ mentored the underassman in ways that I would have not expected to see. So, it was really refreshing and exciting to see him take on that leadership role. I think this was a great opportunity for some of those students who maybe otherwise fly under the radar. A good kid, but doesn't doesn't show us what they're really capable of. So, that was very exciting to see. And I think our juniors are going to just feed right into that next year where they're going to be our leaders. I'm really excited to build this program that they especially when you're looking at our list of students. Esports is primarily a male dominated sport and we have a wide range of female athletes who are joining us and participating
010with us. There's scholarships for both, but it's just exciting to see some female neighbors out there and and thriving. So, yeah, I I think these numbers are only going to get better and they're going to continue having success. Yeah, I really like that you're getting students involved who have not participated in other activities because we know that students are more engaged that will happen 100%. And now they're with David and I team. So we get to monitor them and talk to them. I mean, we've had to have conversations with them about sportsmanlike behavior and the dialogue is what is appropriate, what is not appropriate. And so, it's just been a good learning experience for them and rewarding. It's rewarding for me to be bad for a year. Should this meet your expectations? I think I
011think it's exceeded my expectations a little bit. Yeah, definitely. Where we ended up in the playoffs in the spring season that surprised me just because I was anticipating, you know, every most students think that they're good gamers, especially, you know, they're chilling in their basement and they're playing against their friends. So then for them to play on the national stage, a lot of times they're shocked that openness. Oops. Um so for us where we ended up in the spring playoffs I thought was fantastic. Um also the you know the number of students that we subs became something that was very important. That was something I hadn't really counted on at the beginning. Um because you have to have everybody officially signed up before they can actually participate. And that includes the subs. Um and you
012know whether they have to be gone for a sporting event or they can't be there because they got to go to the doctor that night. If you don't have the subs and you either got to play down or don't play at all. So some of those like the marbles rivals teams have six students that have to play at a time. And then we had six subs. So just that team alone was 12 students we had to manage. Um you know it was 10 for ballet. So I mean it really depends on the budget students. Yeah. So that was a little higher. I think everybody needs people that me high school kids or Mr. Phillips high school. Thank you so much. The fifth grade is that tomorrow. No. No. Oh, okay. [Music] Reduce the recycle by
013Easter worker Rosie Orlock Mah Andre and Mony. What is our project? Our project is to start recycling, reusing and reusing things that we would have thrown away any other day. We wish for less garbage and landfills and a healthier, cleaner environment. To help achieve this goal, we have been recycling milk cartons and using reusable plastic bags. We encourage people to start using less Ziploc bags and always recycle paper, plastic, and other items that can be recycled. We have set up recycling bins with the milk in the cafeteria where there are two and the fourth grade and fifth grade lunchroom where there is one. The fifth graders also passed out reusable bags, one to each home room elementary teacher and three to each fifth grader. Our hope is that people will be throwing away less Ziploc
014bags. With reusable bags, we are reducing the amount of trash to go somewhere else. Plus, these reusable bags can be used for about 5 years. Why are we [Music] using our beautiful hair? We have a community of science that we about 10,000. We're at trees for tomorrow. We know that kids put their thumbs in the recycling as fast as school knows that lots of kids threw away their bellies. So, fifth graders might stop that. Every day we have kids that go downstairs do not make sure no kids so in the future. We also got music because just the graders alone have 2,8 as a powerful project for teacher practice for the graders and overcome elementary teachers. Right now the parents are calculating how many bags we send to every year. So far we have saved
015over 200 bags in one month. Every year every fifth grader will be about to make sure for kids. This goal is this goal is to model how to learn and to encourage using this is hope for other school. This is an image of the schools. Who helped you get your funds? Something you may ask is who helped you get your funds for this project? Well, the organization who helps us is George County Community Foundation. They have been a real help by donating $389.87. Isn't that crazy? In March, four of our classes met with Dor County Community Foundation coordinators and presented our project to them. Our classes helped answer the questions that they had and within a week they approved our request. They helped us purchase three green recycling bins for our milk bins, three white
016buckets for disposing our milk, and three reusable storage bags for each fifth grade student. Truly, we would be nowhere if it weren't for them. Respect the administration with very much and your generosity. How are we implementing the love project? We fifth graders are doing a very good job on our non project. We are taking time to make sure that the little kids in elementary school are recycling the milk carton and also number one. We are doing this by way the trash can and the kids and the white buckets so that all the little kids all the little kids are doing a very good job on the recycle on the recycling. They're not um are not they're not although some of the little kids are not listening and showing why they're in front of they are
017trying to repeat themselves and be better. What is next? The next generation of fifth graders are going to keep up the culture recycling. They will help introduce into the new full case students because they do not know. Our goal is that in the as fifth graders, our fifth grade classes and middle and high school, they will be in the habit of recycling and eventually all in high school will be recycling their malfunctions. These are the reusable bags that teachers and fifth graders have. Here are some of the plastic bags that get thrown away by every day. These are the little little kids recycling. This is a fourth grader recycling. Kudos to them. Uh here is an image of a fifth grader of mouth college. Impact. The impact of our project will be there will be
018less plastic bags and more content than paper. Also, we are protecting wildlife because they can donate trash as food and hold their hands. Recycling facts. When you recycle one ton of paper, that saves 17 trees, 3.2 cubic yards of landfill space, and 4,100 kilowatt of energy. as well. Milk items can be recycled into new paper or building products that you use every day. The average US elementary school uses 5 53,200 every week. Over five peers and average school 9,3 pounds of paper almost five times recycling. An average school can save 45 trees by recycling cartons and 13,000 gallons of water over 5 years. We use about 5 trillion plastic bags a year. Thank you for listening. I like it now. That was [Applause] excellent. Um like we put Yeah. So we use them for our
019lunches. So like all our let's say we want a pizza for lunch and we put a plastic bag instead of put in the [Music] plast because then you can just clean the usage bag off out and just reuse it again. Washington. Or you can watch this later. What are you going to do in sixth grade? we're going to we're going to teach the next year's fifth graders to keep doing your age. We got to put back money going forward. We don't know about that. Yeah. All I know is that sprinkler said that only us only the for this year for this year this because thankfully for Thank you. We have got the buckets of anybody else. Well, thank you very much. Well, administrators, you guys just cut all your reports short because we can't follow
020that report, right? Mr. Schaefer, I have to follow that. All right, fair enough. Um I'll just touch on a couple of things that I had on my uh principal report. First of all um obviously in the month of May is teacher appreciation week uh May 5th through the 9th and I just want to say uh that I personally I think Sebast is incredibly fortunate to have such a passionate and dedicated uh team of educators and staff who go above and beyond every single day giving our students everything they can to provide you the most outstanding education. And beyond academics, our teachers spend a lot of time and prioritize meaningful relationships with students, creating a school cult culture that's rooted in in in the three big or care, connection, and support. Um, we had a fun
021week. Um, everybody did their part. The card of awesomeness, made its second year annual return, so we were able to deliver uh goods to our our staff um multiple times throughout the week and just to let them know how much we appreciate them. And uh we are truly blessed here at Sebast with the with the team of teachers and staff that we have. So to all of our teachers and staff, I just want to say thank you for your unwavering commitment, your hard work, and the difference that you make every single day. Sebastical is better because of everybody that we have in this building. So thank you to them. Along with that, I just wanted to acknowledge our National Honor Society and awards banquet that we had. I know it was at the end of
022April, but just wanted to touch base. Uh I was uh talking about our dedicated staff. Um one thing that we do with our new inductees is they have to nominate an influential person in their life that cannot be a family or a parent. And it was awesome because uh listening to the letters and how these mentors influenced their lives. And um it was actually also what was great to see is we had several teachers that were nominated as well. And that's really awesome and a testament that kind of aligns with the teacher appreciation. And then um just because of memory, but I did want to share with you because I don't know that I touched on it and I I definitely should, but very proud of our junior class who uh had a average ACT
023score of 21.3, which is very good. Um very uh nice performance by our junior class. We did have several 36s in specialty areas, so that was really impressive. There's a lot to celebrate there with our students and teachers as well. Thank you, Mr. Thank you. Um the one item that's not in my report that I wanted to share, uh Mark Touser, I think you name sounds familiar to play with the Packers and Badgers. Uh something that he has created is a trifecta grant. Um he's advocating for uh reading and getting people to do our students to do more reading. So, um, he encouraged people to or schools to, uh, submit a grant proposal and, uh, those that were selected would get, uh, funding for whatever it was that they presented. Um, I was able to
024submit for our, um, literacy night and that got funded, uh, which is excellent. It's a great event and, uh, brings in a lot of people, which is really nice. Um, and then the second thing I know I talked last couple months about the reading challenge that we did uh recently uh where the kids for every uh 20 minutes of reading they would get one mile for their uh class their group and uh track that they traveled about 5,000 miles all together uh across the elementary school which was about 100,000 minutes that was read. I know kids read more than that that was just scored. Um, and we were able to get grant funding to cover the cost of the map that we bought and uh the cookies that the kids got afterwards for so much
025question. Um, I seem to recall when you gave that very fine presentation on student achievement, uh, that we talked about doing the proposal for the WSB convention and I don't know if we have a chance to do that or not. Um, yes. Um, Randy and I have been working on that. Okay. Because the deadline is coming uh, June 20. And I also if if you care to uh the rural schools conference in October is looking for a proposal as well that you have a deadline on that something and just check the rural schools website Wisconsin rural schools uh website and there's a section in there on submitting for schools and it's a great opportunity because it is just rural schools who are attend funding and with our being a rural school, there'd be a lot
026of interest for sure. Okay. I'm just going to echo a little bit what Mr. Schaefer said and just thank the staff, uh, the students, families for letter excellence. Learned a lot, have a lot of work to do, but it was really, really productive. Um, a lot of us are, you know, um, working towards the end of the school year. I'm letting everyone know that summer school is ready to go, right? We've got 60 kids coming. We've got um evidence-based interventions that are going to be in place. We're going to be collecting data on kids from the minute that they start and and when they end. Um really using that to make sure that the the days that we're here um teachers and students will certify improving their reading and studying. So we're looking forward to
027it. I think the staff are staying on board and being excited about um you know staying and and and wanting to continue the work into um you'll end reports out um superintendent report. Thank you. Uh just want to start with a congratulations to our GI teams. We had five teams that went to globals and four of them placed in the top 10 and one placed in 11th. So a huge shout out to those teams, to their parents and to the community support. Um that is an extremely expensive opportunity for our students, a very um challenging opportunity demonstrating leadership, demonstrating creative thinking, problem solving. um students, parents, staff alike have an absolutely wonderful time and again congratulations. When we talk about placing in the top 10, we're talking about placing in the top 10 with over
028600 teams coming in internationally. So, it's a huge shout out to our staff and to our students and to the dedication to that program that we have. I also just want to add a little bit about the goodie um triathlon. What a great experience for our students. Um, and they were so excited to talk about what they were going to do next year when I got a chance to meet with them at the barbecue that we had. Um, was that just last week? Um, and we uh partnered with Sturgeon Bay and Southern and Southern Door both. And it was just a great opportunity for our students to collaborate with each other and um, just had a nice fun day. So, it was it was great to see that work. The rest of the items will
029be in the board agenda as we come up with. So, thank you. Has the policy committee made any report? Have they been policies that No, we have the policies that we've been working on in tonight's package. Um, anything for the budget? I don't have anything specific to report. We did receive our lottery credit funds. Um, and our budgeted expenditures are on track for year. anything to report facilities? Um just a couple of pieces. We're continuing to um troubleshoot the heating and the cooling. Maintenance team is doing a wonderful job, but at the end of the day, it appears to be on the load on the old HVAC because the HVAC is a lot larger than what we need. Um, we're hoping that the offset when we flip the two new HVAC systems in that that
030will help offset that load and we won't keep basically we're flipping up the breaker and it's taking us off the system and so then Dan has to go reset it and bring it back up. Um, other than that, we've got a lot of projects coming up this summer. Just a reminder to the board, we're resealing um the parking lot. We're doing the roofs. We're replacing those two HVAC uh pieces. Our red door uh for the red They're not red doors, but the doors for the red shed. Um, we're getting those replaced and so that that's up to date. We've got a lot of lot of work going on um over the summer months for the for the buildings and including the customer experiment find out where it is. Tell you best right now. It's hard
031to put in the first air conditioning system or the first time we take product A and product B. Honestly, they don't either. Honestly, they don't either. get out of this kind of luxury. I just I just find it amazing. Person can't say this is hopefully 103 days before now the end of the school year. Um then we have the ventilation for the high school woods dark room and dark room bins. So this is um a piece really kind of finishing up work of the referendum when the new addition was put on u both the print room and the paint room need to have ventilation put into place. This has been a conversation with buildings and grounds committee um throughout the entire year. We finally have two bids. one from Johnson Control and one from Herman.
032Um, administration is recommending going with the Herman bid for the sole purpose that it is significantly less than what the Johnson Control bid is and still will keep us in compliance so that our students and staff can be in a safe place with ventilation. Is there a motion on that? I would move to approve the uh Kirkland mechanical bid for the ventilation for the high school wood/ second. Any questions or discussion? Three none. All in favor say I. I motion carried. Then we have the student representative to the board of education. In your board pocket, you will find the application from Daniel Castella Bar as the senior representative to the school board for next year. Um, I would recommend that we accept his application and that we continue to seek, and I talked to Mr.
033Schaefer about that this morning, continue to seek that junior representative. This is not, as we talked about earlier, just to reiterate, this isn't to showcase the work. That's what Mr. Schaefer does in his board presentation. This is really to get our student engaged in topics that are relevant to them. Whether it's weighted grades, whether it's the calendar, whether it's the student handbook, but giving them an opportunity to have at the voice table. Um they are not of course um participants in executive session and they don't vote, but other than that they are an active member of the board. Yeah. Starting in September, we did give them the summer off. I would move to approve the uh application of Daniel Castillo for the uh school storm representative on the school board questions or discussion. I think
034Daniel will be I was very think um hearing no other questions or discussion. All in favor say I. Opposed? Motion carries. Congratulations, Daniel. Um we then have the 202526 student handbook. So, um, Dave, I just put down a list of changes that, uh, we're making to the handbook, and they're really, um, honestly just very minor. Um, there is one oversight there on page five. We are waiting for today for the change of board positions to put put that in. Um, I think the the areas to really be noted, and I can go through each one if you really want, but really page 14 and page 40 was um where we changed the word from um event to contest to to remove any clarity or unclear about what that means. So, referring to an academic contest
035means a game. Um, and so that was a big uh it's not a huge change, it's just a one word change. And then we're adding about esports and DI and just uh uh like the page 19 we're just removing the word should and just uh to make it more directive about all of our roles and responsibilities. So I and they're all laid out for you and they're just minor changes to the handle. Just a couple spelling errors in my name and Jerry's last name. Oh, on this sheet right here. Yeah, I apologize for that. There there's a lot of mistakes on this, but um it was one of those where I started and uh honestly soon I realized I don't even know the position. So, and I apologize for that. I will that will be
036correct. Is there a motion? I'll make a motion to approve the 2526 student handbook as presented with changes and then also the updated school board titles positions. Is there a second? Second. Any other questions or discussion for Mr. Schaefer? Hearing none. All in favor say I. Oppos. Motion carried. Then we have a proposal for the middle school and people. Yeah, this is exciting. After uh our wonderful elementary presentation on recycling, uh we have a very uh enthusiastic group of middle school students that want to start the young environmentalist club. uh they really want to promote uh educating uh students, staff about how we can be more envir environmentally friendly um and understand the importance of composting and I like this sentence the most but they said not only will we be educated but we'll be
037taking action. So uh they are they are very enthusiastic about this opportunity uh Mr. Shyer will be their adviser. Uh, I think the great thing is even after they wrote the proposal, I shot off a bunch of questions for them to answer and that's what you see in the bottom where it says responses to questions. So, um, it just speaks, I think, to their passion and for this opportunity to make a difference and really it's really awesome to hear young people wanting to really take an active role and care about the environment, the future, and using terms like that, and wanting to not only get this club off the ground, but just like the other group, wanting it to continue on after they graduate from middle school and end up in high school. So, um
038they're asking for your support to um approve this uh awesome club and awesome opportunity to make a difference around Sebastian. I would think W Green Bay would be a great resource with their environmental education campuses for this club. Yes. And um and also because we're doing this with fifth graders too talking about recycling, I think there might be a partnership with the elementary groups too. Absolutely. Yeah. So I think I think it's a really nice initiative and it's really great that all of our students across the people at the university. Is there a motion? I move to approve of the application by the middle school environmental club. Second. Any questions or discussion? Hearing none. All in favor say I. I. Oppos. And we have a proposal for an FFA officer retreat. Uh yes. Um so
039this is a proposal by our um agricultural teacher Missaki. Um, and yet she would like to propose an FFA officer retreat, an opportunity for them to kind of get away for a few days, uh, spend some time either at an Airbnb or a um, rental property where, uh, they can do a bunch of things together, activities, and focus on leadership, communication. This is uh one of Miss Luaki's ideas to really continue to build and pursue her passion for FFA and building leaders through FFA um through a variety of activities and having them you know set goals for the upcoming year to talk about what they want to do uh their responsibility as FFA members. What does it mean to be an officer? uh all those types of things and uh uh pretty cost effective and
040well well thought out a good a good plan for how she can spend some time with her future officers and create a dynamic FFA program and it's paid for through the through the FFA activity fund. Yes, ma'am. A motion. I make a motion to approve the office proposal second. Further questions or discussion hearing? None. All in favor say I. Motion carried. Do you have any legislative items you need to discuss tonight? No. Just to say that Representative Kitchen listening session on Friday of this week. If anyone is interested, I plan to attend. The uh budget process grinds on in Madison. And uh I did hear summoned uh today from the rural schools feel that uh the legislators on both sides of the aisle are supportive of uh retired employees coming back to work uh without
041sacrificing their ability. So that is a positive sign. It has uh lots of implications for public education at both local state and federal levels particularly around [Music] yeah you know what's going on with the federal department of education if we have some figures on what impact our school would have uh if you lost all that federal funding because the state has indicated They might well they may be responsible for picking up that. Exactly. I think it might be through 300,000 $400,000. I mean, we have that number. I don't have it on the top of my head, but I can send it out. Y I'll be meeting with Mr. Kitchens on Tuesday of next week. It's Dr. in Madison, but I'm the only one going for this group. Um, and so I also might be helpful.
042Um before you get a resolution uh regarding the state budget and uh a copy of that and I'll put together some information that you can be also there'll be other people but I'm not it's been one of the pieces we've been very targeted across education and all the different organizations on the topics and I believe that it has ultimately led to hope for some success, but we're too early to say that. But there seems to be pretty clear message. And I'll just reiterate special education funding, looking for that. The retirement piece is important. Looking for the um increase of the student aid and I think those are the those are the big three up the top. Yeah, increasing revenue limits. Thank you. Um then we have the request for proposal for photography bids program and
043order for years since retired. So um sign up. Thank you. Um so this is a huge transition for us at Sebast. Um Mike had been our school photographer for a really long time. Matt, thank you. Um and with his announcing of retirement, we went on to an RFP. We had several um competitive bids. The administrative team came together taking a look at it, looking overall at student packages, looking at the athletic side of the house. Based off of that, the administrative team would like to recommend that we um offer Carmen Studio the contract with a one-year contract. As I shared mentioning that if it is successful after the one-year, we would extend to the 2-year, but we really don't want to bite off a three-year when it's such a huge transition for us. So, we're
044seeking approval for apartment to approve the contract for school. [Music] Everything is new again. Oh, really? Oh, yeah. She was Um further questions or discussion on that motion carried. Um and we have these student policy updates. We'll take those by motion one at a time. uh the public participation at uh board meetings. Wasb had recommended that boards look at their policies in this area to make sure that they were up to date and to do it before you really need it. Uh because once you need it uh it doesn't look very good if you're uh modifying your policy. So uh this is what the policy committee did. We took a look at it and made adjustments to it. Is there a motion on that one? We have a motion to approve policy public participation. A
045second question to discussion there is that motion carried. Um third grade motion and retention for atrisisk students. Motion Mr. HS brought this to our attention that uh this was part of the uh legal ad requirement. So if you did recommendation is there a motion on that policy? Motion to approve the third grade motion. Second question and discussion. All in favor say I hear and then after several memos to us on crowdfunding further comment on that. Um yes this was something that um came to my attention. We had uh not allowed crowd funding previously, but uh this seems to be the direction that uh other districts are going and other organizations are going and we spent a considerable amount of time reviewing it. And uh what you see is what we came up with. Randy is
046consulting with Google console and guidelines to my recommendation would be is that we would um go back to the original policy which is in your board packet and that we would select option two either the first or the second um and that's board decision which one you want to to go with And either one of them allows us to um do the crowdfunding. So for our fundraiser piece one was um action one is the school board. Option two. So option one does not permit. Option two is permit one with the district administrator or the second piece is the board. So either you want the district administrator to give the approval or you want to need the approval. And just for information, can you give an example of what crowdfunding what crowd funding would be? So,
047do you ever go on Facebook and see um the GoFundMe pages? I mean, so the most recent what brought this up was Destination Imagination was trying to get donations from um like family members, um aunts and uncles. Like for instance, with our family, we don't have any family here local. Um, and so it was a way to send an email and that our friends and family from far away can then donate to a specific kind of group. Um, and so similar sports teams do this a lot. Um, obviously GoFundMe is kind of for um or like medical stuff like carrying room. So it's just a way to solicit donations for a specific event. Um it's usually administered through a certain company that does take a percentage. Um and different groups take different percentages. Um but
048um and then this one just ask for a donation. They don't take percentage, right? And that's the one that if you donate $100, they don't take 10% of it, right? They ask you to donate. She said that you know there are people who want to fund uniforms for a team but they want to do it in the right way. Right. So unless we want to look at every request, we should maybe allow I don't think we should I know that responsible for [Music] further questions or discussion hearing none. FAT I opposed motion car. Then we have the hazardous transportation route. Thank you. So as we know um a majority of our route for this trans um if we currently we transport within 2 miles um we do not receive state funding for that. So as
049a district we put together a plan. We had a conversation with the sheriff's department. They approved the plan saying that it is important for us to bust those students because we don't have crosswalks, we don't have intersections, we don't have sidewalks. And so now I'm seeking board approval in the plan that was in your board packet to approve and then we'll submit that to the state and we'll be able to it's a minimal amount but every dollar helps support our district. Um and once we've been designated as that we don't have to go back and seek application again. So just seeking your approval that we are designated as a hazardous transportation route. I make a motion to approve the hazardous transportation. Second. Questions or discussion? Favor say I. Motion carried. We have a school resource
050officer contract. So um this is an annual contract that comes before you. I want to note that the sheriff's department um is seeking additional funding and has been historically funded 8020 for the nine months and they are seeking 100% as I shared with you in your board memo. Um we will transition that increase to community education funds based on the community outreach that she currently does. Is there a motion to approve the SRO contract? Are you to approve the contract? [Music] The county isn't like county discussion after a second. I said I think the county picked up the other 20% through the sheriff's office department and they said no we're not we're not doing that anymore. [Music] She's a home. So she we just made the salary all that stuff. She says retirement question. Are
051we allocated that or we just pay the we just pay that flat fee. [Music] wages. I don't I have no [Music] question. I just don't want anybody else by the way. Who would ever It's not us. We've already paid for it for one. That's right. [Music] We didn't pay that. Is there any other discussion on this school resource officer? Hearing all in favor say I. Motion carried. Um the sees a seven contract for various services. This is an annual contract that's brought to the to the board. um there's no significant changes in their professional development and then support in our um professional organizations within the district administration is seeking approval. We did not do a 2-year contract just because of budget constraints. They didn't want to be hiding for two years with a professional and
052I was um in addition to the contract we get uh $70,7568 free from this past year. Is there a motion to the CC7 contract? Move the appropriate contract as stated. Second. Questions or discussion? All in favor say I. I. Motion carried. Um and we have a staff handle. items. I'd like to bring to the board um for consideration a stipen for teachers in the school that are national board certified. Uh national board certification is an opportunity where staff are reflective on their practice. They um demonstrate their contact knowledge. They um learn how to be a better uh practitioner to be an effective practitioner. It's a three-year commitment and then they renew that license much like a mast's but it's a national board certified. um other districts in the area to compensate. And we do have
053a teacher on staff that is national board certified. And I think it's a great opportunity for us to acknowledge the excellence in our staff um with a $2,000 annual statement just like the master's on top. We have several move to approve the stipen for teachers national certified teacher credential way of validating our staffing. Is there a second on that? Second. Further discussion or questions hearing? None. All in favor say I. I. Opposed. The motion carried. Then we need to talk about school and high school graduation representation. Middle school is June. Yep. So, um I'm sorry, I'm having a hard time here tonight. I don't know what it is, but um so middle school graduation is Tuesday, June 3rd at 6:00 p.m. And uh doing it would be great if I just knew how many board
054members would be present for that just so we can establish that. And if I do remember correctly those that attended last year we did have you sit on the stage, right? I can't remember off the top. I have that plan or I can Okay, I will. depending if I get out of Madison on time. Okay. So, discussion. So, we're at 2 for the middle school. 66 p.m. on the 3rd on June 3rd for our middle school graduation. Be there. Yeah, you got you can just I just want to make sure we Yeah. Yeah. It's a reason to do that. Yeah. Okay. And then uh the high school graduation is uh Sunday, June 8th at 2 p.m. I'll attend. Yes. I will tenatively be there on I'm on call like so I'm here. But can I
055see you raise your hand? Yes. And I I can make sure six. [Music] Good. Good. Dick, are you able to attend camping weekend? The camping weekend. What is it? And I have a plan. Now, this is where I need you cuz we're going to change the high school. Hoping to change the high school graduation date for next year. So, I would like to use this as an opportunity to share that with you. Is that okay? What is because you changed it this year. It was always the first first Sunday in June. So, actually, I didn't I just want to say that. Um, but when when uh when I first got here, I was told what graduation was and I followed that. Um but I through a little bit of research and um looking at kind
056of how things worked out this year, it has been tradition that my understanding is that seniors when it's their last week that Sunday we have graduation which typically as you are correct falls on that first week but in this particular case next year it would fall on May 31st. Is that a Sunday? That is a Sunday. I had a I I was telling you this. I had a suggestion that it should go back to Friday, Saturday night. It should go back to what? Friday, Saturday night. I prefer Sundays. The only problem with Friday night is we do the senior casino. I'm just I'm just passing I'm just passing it along. If you want to survey the parents, you can do that. But I'm just passing it along. So, Memorial Day would be that Monday of
057that week and then this is the last uh Memorial Day. I just don't want it on Memorial Day weekend, you know. My understand he's proposing that Sunday. It's not Memorial weekend. Yeah. So, Memorial Day 2026 is Monday, May 25th. Yes. Congratulations. their very first. Yeah. That would conclude our review of business. Is there a motion to executive [Music] session? I think so. Roll call. I hear we're back in open 757 and we'll move for um a motion on the district assistance. Second questions or discussion? All in favor say I. I. Motion carry. Um then we will meet at varsity boys and girls cross country coaching. Shel back as a high school head cross country coach boys and girls. Questions and discussion. All in favor say I. Oppos. Motion carried. Um and we will look for
058a motion on um administering contracts. I would move to approve the administrative contract. Second question discussion. All in favor say I. Opposed. Motion carried. And last teacher motion questions or discussion favor say I. I motion carried. We have 8th grade graduation attending that June 3r 6. Um, we have high school graduation attending that June 8th at 2:00 and our next meeting is June 18th. Is there a motion to adjourn? So move second. All favor. I oppos.