001Yep. Good. >> All right. Good evening. I'd like to welcome everybody here tonight to the regular school board meeting for in January. Uh previously met in close session to discuss uh personnel items. And I would ask for all of you now to stand as you're able and join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance 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. [clears throat] >> Thank you. Uh, we are missing Steve tonight here in person, but he is zooming in with us remotely from the balmy Las Vegas. They were struggling to get up to 70° I hear today. So, jokes's on him, though. He's coming back in on Friday. Haha. >> Steve, can
002you hear us? All right. >> I can. And I and I I know what to expect on Friday. [laughter] All right. Well, to have you here, Steve, um tonight by remote participation, uh you did not participate with us prior to in close session um for personnel, but I do have some guidance from uh our legal for you to participate in remote tonight. And so I will read that now. Uh the school board strongly encourages all individual board members to be physically present at all board meetings in which they intend to participate in any capacity. However, um it is otherwise unless otherwise required by law or unless otherwise expressly provided under board policy in specific circumstances. A board member who chooses to participate in a meeting remotely via communications technology acknowledges all of the following. Such
003choice is the voluntary exercise of a privilege and the board reserves discretion to limit, suspend or terminate such privilege for any lawful reason. The board member assumes all risks of any unavailability, inadequacy or failure of any communications technology that is intended to enable remote participation. Such risks include, but are not limited to, the possibility that the board member's remote access and participation may become unavailable, limited, or disabled, and that the meeting may continue without the board member's participation. The inability to participate in a meeting remotely using communications technology does not constitute an unlawful exclusion from the meeting. The privilege of remote participation by board members in a board meeting that is directly authorized by this policy extends only to open session of regular and special board meetings. We will have to take a motion from
004our board to allow Steve to participate in the regular board meeting. So I would entertain that motion from the floor now. >> I will make that motion. >> April, is there a second? Gwen, it has been properly moved and seconded to allow Steve to participate remotely with the understandings of all of the affformentioned. Is there any discussion hearing? None. We'll proceed to vote. All those in favor for allowing Steve to participate remotely in the board meeting, please signify by saying I. >> I. All of those opposed, please signify by saying no. Motion approved. Steve, [clears throat] you're with us until >> Thank you. >> we drop you or you drop us. >> All right, [clears throat] we have Spotlight on Education, our athletic program, and the warrior mindset. And we have lots of eager young
005faces here. >> You guys who look forward to death and me reading that. >> I We're going to need a couple more over that way. >> Whoa. hear you. [laughter] >> Awesome. [snorts] All right. Well, thank you guys for joining us and everything. And I just wanted to say um firstly here before we do introductions kind of what we're doing here. Um, you know, [clears throat] we have really gone over the last couple years just a drastic amount of changes and I don't think there has been like an official and proper thank you to the school board for all of the work, the planning, the late nights, stresses, what have you, for all the amazing athletic facilities. So, we did just wanted to say thank you for that and we kind of wanted to share
006a little bit what we're doing with that. Um, and we didn't want to just go into this year with everything done and just playing on the field. we want to do something more. So, what we're doing with that is called like our our warrior mindset. Our students here uh this summer in August, we got together with uh it's a program called Upward Spiral. We got together with all of our coaches um and then we got uh together some staff members. We got together with some community members and we really built ourselves um our kind of standard but for the athletic department, the warrior mindset of effort, growth, teammate and community. And so now we'll get into introductions and have these guys kind of introduce themselves and share what we're doing with that. >> Go to
007the next slide. >> Um I'm Keith Wallen. I play football and basketball. Um what I'm most appreciative of the new athletic facilities is the new football uh stadium and turf. Uh it allows our team to practice and play on a quality field. I'm Jenna Van Summer and I'm in volleyball, basketball, and track. And I'm incredibly grateful for the 10 lane track around our new football field because it allows so many new opportunities for our athletes and it helps our track meets go by quickly and more efficiently. Um, and it also allows Amy to host bigger meets such as sectionals, stuff like that. >> I'm Carter Sornson and I'm I play soccer. I'm thankful for our new scoreboard on the turf field and also our movable goals. >> Um I'm Miley Brutzel. I play basketball and
008I'm grateful for our scoreboards in the gymnasium. Gives us a great place to be able to see um not only who's on the court at the time, but the score and how many fouls they have along with the shot clock. That gives the players a very visible time of how much is left on the clock. Uh, I'm Carter Meyer. I play hockey. Um, even though I don't play these sports, I'm very grateful for the football field and the baseball field. It just makes gym classes and activities a lot funner. >> Um, I'm Calli Anderson. I play volleyball and basketball. I'm extremely grateful for the new speaker system in the gym. It allows for a more fun environment with like better music quality and like speaking qualities during our sporting events and our pep rallies at
009school. I'm Tony Soell. I'm a wrestler and I'm very thankful for the new mats that we have. It makes us uh wrestle better. It feels more comfortable. It gives us a nice good look when we wrestle and it's way more easy to clean than the other mats. >> I'm Mia Burns and I play tennis and soccer. And I'm really thankful for our new soccer field because it's allowed our team to play on a safer field, but it's also allowed us allowed us to collaborate with other teams and um create a more open and welcoming environment for everyone. >> Yes. Our concepts here is to bring uh the fall season, winter season, and the spring season instead of having them be kind of siloed, bringing everyone together and having this community aspect to it. Um and
010so the prompt I had for the fall sports here was what did you do for the warrior mindset and how did it help? Um, as a member of the football team, uh, we held family or like, uh, team dinners every Thursday night, um, before the big game Friday night. And, uh, that was like it helped us bring like community and family together. And, uh, it also like allowed kids that aren't able to get like a good nutritious meal before every game to get one. Um throughout the soccer season, we invited like the younger community of soccer players to come ball boy for our soccer games. And that really helped our players not only get through with the soccer games faster, but it really helped us um it really helped our community through showing like the
011younger generation. Yeah. Awesome. And uh kind of going on into winter here, how are you building off of the Warrior mindset and have you improved your leadership from fall? What have you been doing and such? >> Okay, so for girls basketball, we have our team motto. It's one heart, one team, one family. Um it's on like the back of our warm-ups and we follow closely to that. It just like helps us stay together and like make sure we remember to support each other and remember that we're a family no matter what. like if there's problems off the court, like you don't bring that onto the court and we just want to support each other always. >> Um, also team dinners before games. So like before every home game, we meet at someone's house and we
012play games and just eat together and spend time before we get to play together on the court. >> Yeah. And then um at the beginning of each season, one of our coaches gives us little like elephant stickers or like a little elephant like trinket thing. And so we follow the elephant mindset. So it's like essentially elephants support each other and protect each other and so like we want to be like elephants I guess and like girls support girls and just like making sure we always support each other. And then also with our booster night we have the younger kids come in and participate with us before the game and like the national anthem and our run out just trying to like encourage them and let them cheer us on and watch us during our game.
013>> Yeah. And then ways we've improved our leadership. So, three out of five mornings during the week, we lift as a team and we encourage all the younger girls to come and lift with us. And like sometimes if younger girls can't get there, even our like older varsity girls will offer to drive them in the mornings just to make sure they get there and making sure we do that as a team. And then just as captains on on the team, we just make sure that everyone knows what's going on and make sure everyone is participating and together, I guess. >> Yeah. Uh so so far during the first half of this hockey season, a few teammates and I have helped out the youth teams at practice. I'm the goalie, so I kind of helped out
014one of the younger goalies. I think it's great for their development and it really improves our leadership skills. Um so before every game we have a morning shoot around and uh some of the eighth graders come in and just more on like development for the younger generation to come up and interact with the older guys come mature not only just basketball but just life just interacting with older kids. >> Awesome. Lastformational side in our prompt. What is what are your goals this season? How will you make sure the energy of this year is building into next year? >> Um, so my goal for this track season is to improve connection and support throughout the entire team because track usually brings a lot of athletes. So, it's important to build that community with everyone. And I'm
015going to do that by cheering for everyone and supporting them through their ups and downs. And I think it's important to be a role model and encourage younger kids because it creates a positive environment where everybody feels welcome and appreciated. So for this um soccer season, my goal is to improve our team's overall mindset and keep our team's energy high and not let the mistakes affect the game because I feel like that's the key to success. Um, I think a lot of times just girls can get down on themselves and I think it's really important to lift each other up and I hope that that positivity on the field will be inspiring for others and that they feel like they can look up to me and look to me for support. >> Awesome. Great job,
016guys. And thank you guys very much. If you have any questions, these kids are wealth of knowledge as well. But thank you again very much. Thank you. >> All right. [applause] appreciate it. >> Did all a really nice job. Thanks for coming. Especially cold outside, too. So, guys, I mean, I can get all >> they're like, "We don't want questions, man. We're >> ask anymore." >> Yeah. [laughter] They they One of the first things they brought was, "Are they going to ask us questions after we talk and stuff?" So, >> I usually I usually do, but there's a lot of them. >> Yeah. [laughter] Carter was me because his mom messaged me today wanted me to videotape him as he talked tonight. I'm like, "Oh, I don't think we're allowed." [laughter] >> Like, girl, it
017is being videotaped. [laughter] >> All right. Um that was that was great. It's um really nice to hear how the athletic facility upgrades has really impacted um some of the students because uh we heard a lot from them as we were moving through the planning process of things that they really you know wanted and um you know how [snorts] our facilities were kind of lacking and and going to other schools that it was um you know you know safety and things were were high on the list. So, it was really nice to hear them come in and uh say how things have improved for them. So, >> the only thing I would, not to steal their thunder, but to see the elementary, middle school, intermediate school kids, you know, I get to watch them all
018the time from the cafeteria at the high school and it's used by the entire district. So, >> which is good. We want that. We want that. >> Um, off to our consent agenda items for tonight. Gwen, you had vouchers. >> Yes. Um everything looked in order. So I would move to uh approve the consent agenda items. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Larry, it's been properly moved and seconded to accept the consent agenda items as presented. Is there any discussion? Hearing none, we'll proceed to vote. All those in favor of accepting the consent agenda items, please signify by saying I. >> I. All of those opposed, please signify by saying no. Motion passed. The consent agenda items are approved as presented. Uh we are lacking on administrators tonight for a variety of reasons. So,
019uh we have our reports for whatever doesn't get covered here. So, Mr. Gold, it's off with you. >> Yes. And and Jess and I will be able to kind of cover up things for a number of the buildings as well. For instance, the entire district is going through winter fast bridge screeners right now. We're in our our window of time right there and all the buildings are undergoing through that. Uh high school just had honors band perform uh kids involved in Oaklair last week. We're at the big old semester change at the high school. Kind of felt like the first day of the school year again. Kids all change their classes and there's always a buzz in the air. Uh next week we have freshman registration night. So the eighth graders come over during the
020day in the afternoon for some tours and then we have some parent meetings at night and kind of talk to parents about how we go about registering their child for their freshman year of school. Snow week, the week of February 2nd. All sorts of fun activities. Kind of rivals the the homecoming type schedule atmosphere. Always good for building morale, especially coming off a polar vortex. And then uh February 9th and 12th, once again, this is kind of for the whole district. We have parent teacher conferences on Monday night and Thursday. I think that's the 9th and the 12th. And that covers kind of all the buildings are doing those. So, >> so as Josh shared at the intermediate school, we are um just finishing up fast bridge testing. So, it takes us two weeks um
021to do that. And then in addition to that, we have Ames Web Plus. So if you remember as web plus is our 4K through grade three students. Um based on the as web plus data that we get our wonderful title one team myself um start begin uh working on personalized reading plans. So any student that scores below the 25th percentile then has to go on and get uh screened again with diagnostic screeners which is fastbridge. Um and so then after that we develop the personalized reading plans that go home and that just ensures that any student that's falling below the 25th percentile. We're communicating with parents on what exactly are the supports that that we are providing them. Uh we then also provide progress monitoring that goes home monthly to just let them know how
022their student is growing or developing in their literacy skills. Um winter break reading incentive. So over Christmas break all intermediate school students were invited to participate in a reading challenge. So students had to read a minimum of seven hours over winter break. We had um a large amount of students that did that and then this week they were able to enjoy a cup of hot chocolate and a craft in the library with Mrs. Brighten and it's always fun to see. Um January 16th staff in service. So here at the intermediate school um we really focused on diving into our data. So myself and our title one team met with each grade level for over an hour. Um, we went through student scores, where were they deficient, where did they grow? We then use that data
023to create our title one and our win groups. Um, here at the intermediate school, every single one of our students gets 30 minutes of win, which is an intervention time. So, meeting kids exactly with what they need, whether they're students who are struggling in a skill or there are high-f flyier learners, they're also in a group. And so we really took the time on the 16th to with a fine tooth comb go over where is every single kid for those 30 minutes. Um it felt really great. I can tell you it was fantastic to look at the data that we have. I'm really proud of how our kids are growing. They're doing a great job. So to see the hustle bustle of them getting put into new group is is exciting. They recognize that they're
024doing well and we really try to build it up that every kid is going someplace to get what they need. So just the atmosphere of that 30 minutes feels really good. Um in addition to those academic um meetings, we then uh intermediate school staff worked on forward just prep. So we started looking into some questions talking about the schedule. We have a lot of students that can test in alternative settings and so we talked about where would those kids go. So our our eyes are on March and April on our next big assessment piece which was which is the Ford exam. Um director of curriculum update. So Josh and I met a couple times already with the high school math curriculum um team. We met with them probably about two weeks ago. We feel very
025confident in um what we're going to be bringing to the curriculum oversight and you as a board uh greatly considering a resource called amplify decimals. Um so myself and Josh met with one of one of the vendors for Amplify along with all four math teachers. Really got into the intervention pieces, the assessment pieces, how how would it be a great fit for us? So, we we took about an hour and a half to do that. Um, there's still more ongoing work, but I wanted to update you on just the math curriculum piece. Um, our curriculum oversight committee met and Gwen was there as well. Um, Nick Stewart and Josh brought a course called >> [snorts] >> um, literature through film. Um, this was presented as a course edition for next school year, so 2627. Um,
026our committee was there. We will were able to ask questions. U, Mr. Stewart did a really great job of of tying it to the standards, letting us know the value of it. Um, we had a really great conversation and ultimately the curriculum oversight committee did approve the course edition for next fall, January 16th inservice from a district-wide lens. Um, we had an hour and a half of district-wide PLC's. So that would be our K5 department teachers meeting and then our 612 department teachers meeting. So our middle school and high school math teachers met. Um, same for grades K through five. ELA met uh the purpose of that time was to reassess essential standards. So each subject area and each vertical PLC team met and um went through their essential standards. We're going to a new
027format of just how it's laid out. So it's a so it's more user friendly has everything that's necessary if we had new teachers or someone wanted to you know see see where we are in pacing. So, we took an hour and a half of that time to to be able to dig into the assessments um and the standards alignment. That's ongoing work for us. Um we just we need more than an hour and a half to do that. But it was great. There was a lot of productive work. I checked in on teams. I know all the building administrators did and it was really great to see the progress that each team was making. And looking at events, we have Storybook Theater this uh week, actually today. So, that's exciting. Uh in addition to that
028uh storybook actually comes to the intermediate school here starting tomorrow grades um 3 through six students are offered um to participate in a class. So um storybook brings their staff here and then they go through uh just acting skills with with our students and so any student that's interested in that has the opportunity um to possibly participate in that. >> Did Tracy show up at the high school today for old time sake? [clears throat] >> I did not. Great. [laughter] Um, IPL Winter Ball is one of our uh very favorite fundraisers here that the parent organization runs. So, that's on uh the 31st. We run our book fair along with parent teacher conferences. Um, no school. On the 13th, we have a love your library event. So, every February we invite community members and parents
029into the building here to just explore our library. Mrs. Brighten oversees that and she's got some really great ideas. Um, and then this is a a thank you. use of the Oaklair Children's Theater comes to the high school uh and puts on a play this year. They're putting on Curious George. And I want to thank our IPO. They actually pay for every student here to be able to see that play. So, that's a wonderful event for our kids as well. All right. And obviously we have the reports from um Tom at the middle school and from Megan at the elementary school and from um Abby uh for um our people's services. So we'll if they have questions we can tackle that at a later time. And Sean did you have anything to add to that?
030>> No. >> All right. I think then we are off and running into our school nutrition report with Mrs. Moore. >> All right, I'm going to make it short and sweet. Um, >> as usual, >> you [laughter] know, Michelle's like, "Don't keep me here any longer." >> Um, I just have an update of meals served. Um we went down a little from 23 24 to 24 25. Right now we're kind of on course. We're up just a hair which um and then there's some participation. It's kind of dropped a little bit which is weird because we're up a hair. Not sure. Um our next slide is free and reduced numbers. Um districtwide we are at 38%. A couple schools have stayed the same. One got up, one got down, so it's pretty much even evened
031out. Um, this is my second year of produce of the month, so we've had some fun things to try. Um, the kids, we actually brought in whole cranberries and made stuff with them. Uh, we did an orange cranberry bar, which we served at breakfast. Um, next week they're doing an apple cranberry coffee cake and at the elementary level they call it breakfast cake because when you call it coffee cake they [laughter] kind of give you a weird look and they're like, "I'm not eating that." So the ladies have started calling it breakfast cake and it's gone over really well. >> Good job ladies. >> Yeah. Um, we've had a few other, you know, the harvest blend veggies. We did pomegranate seeds which were a hit this year. We did our big potato bar. Uh, next
032slide I have just a couple nice cute little friendly kiddos. We did sweet corn over um homecoming and um just different apples and pears. There was some figs we did. Not a hit. We probably won't do them again. Um but they did get to try them. So that was [clears throat] kind of fun. Um this year we did a pumpkin breakfast cake cuz you don't can't call it coffee cake. We tried eight different turkey for Thanksgiving and it was wonderful. Um we did our pot roast Christmas dinner and then we used some of the turkey meat and some of the beef to make turkey noodle soup and vegetable soup. Um vegetable soup was kind of the kids that took it loved it >> but they were a little apprehensive to try it. Um and then
033we did did chicken and biscuits again the other day and they actually took that pretty well. Next slide. I just have a couple of the student favorites and just nice looking trays that the kids get offered. Um, at three of four of our three out of the four of our schools, we have a really nice salad bar. Elementary has just a nice variety of stuff to pick from. Salad bar doesn't work very well over there. Um, just a huge [snorts] thank you to my staff. They go above and beyond every day to feed the kids. And then just some fun pictures. Um, some that dressed up over the holidays. Uh, I didn't get a picture of the Grinch, but we had the Grinch in there. I should have got that there. Um, our elementary principles
034helped serve on Thanksgiving and wore her turkey hat. And then that's it. Any questions? How do you feel uh the school nutrition program is going? Like what direction do you see it headed? How are we assisting kids um with are we able to assist all the kids that need meals? How how is all that going? >> I feel it's going okay. Um of course there's always, you know, some that just don't apply or they get, you know, in the hole and then they apply, you know, trying to work that out with them. I think the meals they certainly are offered plenty of choices, different, you know, got to have a fruit or a vegetable on your tray and there's many things to choose from. So, I think it's going okay. Good. Um, do we see
035numbers of participation going down strictly because we have fewer kids? >> I think so. >> And, you know, I guess it's not in percentages here. So, maybe like comparing percentages would probably be helpful next year if we're going to track. >> Sure. >> Um, rather than just total meals served because with the declining enrollment, I would expect that to go down. So, right, >> I think maybe >> percentage of participation would be a better tracker to see >> absolutely >> where where we're at. But um I like the new food choices. I always like the new food choices. Pretty cool. [laughter] It's kind of fun, you know, to see what the kids like, what they don't like, and >> Yes. >> to try. >> Yes. You guys have had some pretty cool uh new food
036choices in the past. So, >> yeah. Just get in and try it. Sometimes that's what it takes. You know, 17 times they say you have to try something. [laughter] >> Very cool. Very good looking. Um, [clears throat] do you see any big changes coming? Nothing that I can foresee, but hopefully not. Okay. Yeah. Anybody else have anything for Mrs. Moore? Steve, you good? Good. All right. >> [laughter] >> Um, I do want to just uh give a big shout out to the rest of the school nutrition staff because they don't get enough recognition and they're the unsung heroes and keeping bellies and tummies full, feeding brains. Uh, we couldn't have good learners without full tummies. So, >> very true. >> Um, they all work really super hard and and uh they just don't get the
037get enough of credit for what they do. So, very true. >> Thanks to our school nutrition staff. Appreciate that. >> Please pass that along from the board. I absolutely >> appreciate it. >> All right. Thank you. >> Thank you. [clears throat] >> All right. Building and grounds report from our committee members and Dr. Derler. >> Okay. We met as a committee last week, Wednesday. Um we have a date on the calendar from the subcontractor for the high school roof to come and visit with us and show us what they're about to do. Uh again, that's midappril. Hopefully, we won't have any snow melt or snow up on that roof and uh we can get our bearings in regards to what they are going to do when it's ready for that work to be completed. They
038are telling us um May, June, and about 3 weeks for the crew to address those issues at their expense, not ours. And uh that was an update that George provided that was hot off the press. We also talked at great length about uh seeking to provide greater efficiency and how we are using our buildings and our bus fleet, specifically energy savings. Um keeping lights off, keeping rooms regulated at set temperatures between 68 and 74. Seems a little strange to talk about when it's -15 outside, but that's part of where we live. So, we're seeking to put money back in the bank, so to speak, by being more efficient in our use of our buildings and uh in regards to our bus fleet. Um fuel prices um are always an issue. That's an expensive thing to
039run a bus. So, we want to make sure that we aren't um uh doing things in an inefficient way with our bus crew either. So, those are the highlights that I took away. I'm not sure if Larry or Steve had anything that they wanted to provide. I'll turn it over to them. >> Yeah, I would just say that uh it it was a very good meeting and I really appreciated uh the focus on making efficient use of our you know some big expense items electricity 40 to $50,000 a month for their electric bill. So any of the little things that we can do to tweak that uh can amount to some pretty significant savings. Same way on our HBA uh C systems, George will actually uh go in and reprogram them when we're on when
040school is off. You have spring break or Christmas break, you know, and all of that is designed to save some money. It it takes time to do that, but they're working real hard to u to be as efficient as we can on those kind of things. So, great meeting, Steve. >> I've got nothing to add. You guys nailed it. Thank you. >> All right. Thanks. Yeah, that's um super important. Something that I think we're going to be uh looking switching our focus to uh very much so moving forward is efficiency and uh getting the biggest bang for our buck and the most that we can out of our facilities. So, thanks you guys. I'll look forward to hearing more from you guys uh in the coming months as we move forward with budgeting concerns going
041forward. All right, off to then our 2024 2025 pupil non-discrimination and educational equity report. Abby was supposed to present that. She's clearly not here due to family emergency. So, I would ask Dr. Derflair to take that. >> Yes, I will. Uh, by state requirement, by state statute, we are obligated to present any areas of harassment or discrimination broken down by type and by building. And what you see before you uh are the sheer numbers of reported incidents uh in each of the four buildings. Uh there really isn't much to highlight. Most of what occurs and in this case all of what occurred was an informal complaint of in every case not well not in every case some discrimination some harassment in a variety of different environments and those were handled inhouse. and um resolved in
042house. Um I see there was only one formal complaint that uh was lodged and we're simply obligated to report that as a board through a board meeting to the public and we are meeting that statutory requirement by doing that here this evening. Couple of items. There are proactive strategies that exist in each building. Just giving you the highlights in the high school. We're doing team building activities there. We have kindness campaigns. We have digital signage all over the place about how we handle the warrior way. Uh we go through anti-bullying lessons in health class, middle school PBIS, positive behavior intervention, supports and systems. They have clear expectations. They've been doing anti-bullying units there for decades. uh interventions of kids centered around the issues of treating each other with respect, peer mediation, confidential reporting system. Intermediate
043school uses social and emotional learning skills as done by or taught by weekly school counselor classes. Anti-bullying weekly classroom instruction with second step uh utilize restorative practices and they use data to drive their uh proactive approaches. elementary school. Uh they are explicitly teaching lessons uh through counseling about how kids can um treat each other with respect to kindness, utilize restorative practices. Um they have small group instruction. Um skill streaming is what they use for curriculum to help students with lagging [clears throat] skills in the area of uh kindness and respect. and they have a green zone where kids can reeregulate before they get plugged back into their classroom experience. So, those are just some of the ways that the buildings address these particular issues of harassment or discrimination and I'll take any questions if you
044have them. >> Just curious on the high school how often they have health class. Is it just the one semester, one year? >> Yep. Freshman year required course for most of them. Just curious if um looking at the other schools, how they have it sometimes as much as weekly um if it needs to be addressed every year with with high school kids or how we approach that with addressing it with high school kids considering that's probably where you're seeing a little bit possibly more of it. >> Yeah, I mean that's something that we talk about in our win times. We've got lots of digital messages, kids doing testimonials. I don't know about once every 3 weeks, Mr. Gould goes on the PA and gives a motivational speak as well. And um so that happens a
045great deal. To be honest though, so much of the stuff that we really end up cleaning up is social media and texting stuff that happens from 400 p.m. to midnight when they're at home. at home. >> Looking at the results of this non-discrimination report, I would say that those proactive strategies are working. I'm pretty pleased with uh what I see in terms of results. So, can always improve, but I think I'm pretty impressed. And the complaints um that are filed informally versus inform informally, is this just peer-to-peer or is this adult and student interactions as well? Right. >> Any right >> any kind of harassment or discrimination >> and we don't have a breakdown of >> no >> if this was all peerto-peer or in >> my hunch is most of it's peer-to-peer because there's
046a lot more interaction between peer peer peer and adult. >> Yes. You don't need to take action. This is just a report that needs to be made. There it is. All right. Any more questions? >> All right. We'll move on to ourformational items then. Our strategic plan 2530 update with Dr. Derkler. >> Okay. Well, we met a few weeks back and talked about uh where we came in on uh report cards for district and specific schools and we indicated on that evening that there were a lot of areas within the strategic plan where the report card is noted. So if you'll turn to the second page of the strategic plan document on strategic goal number one, you'll note there that a measurable objective underneath successful students is by the end of 2029 2030 school year
047we will increase our district achievement growth and target group score by 8% in comparison to the 2425 district report card. and the sheer numbers are there. That means we would need to increase our numbers from 74.8 to 80.8 as prescribed by the 8% marker. Further in the second um bulleted point measurable objective underneath successful students by 20930 we will create a pathway for a fully functioning virtual school option. That's something that the IT committee has talked about a great deal. So that is certainly on the radar and it is something that we need to achieve. The fourth bulleted point uh the first item there uh underneath the invest in future oriented academic learning. Uh what the the report card asks you to do is to have advanced courses, dual enrollment courses, industry recognized credentials, and
048work or projectbased learning. And I'd like to share with you there is an overall score. And I got to get to my computer screen here in order to speak knowledgeably. We have on our district report card 313 students or 75.6% 6% of our students met the criteria for inclusion in at least one post-secary prep course total below. And I'll go through the four specific areas in a moment. So in order to increase by um 3% is what we what we wanted to do there. We would need to move from 75.6 to 77.7. So that's our marker. Specifically in advanced courses, the school Amry High School in this case had 22% of their kids take a advanced courseman class. The state average is 20.3. In dual enrollment, we have 63.8% or 264 of about 400 of
049our kids uh take a dual enrollment course, meaning they get credit here and credit elsewhere. The state percentage is 26.6. I'd like to emphasize again, we're 63.8, the states at 26.6. That's moving towards three times as many. That's a pretty significant difference. Industry recognized credentials. These are really narrowly focused items. So, you don't have as many kids. We have 23 students that have learned at least have earned at least one industry recognized credential. That's 5.6%. The states at 5.5. And on the last marker, in a workbased or project-based learning environment, we have 150 students participated in a workbased learning program. That's 36.2% of our school, meaning one of every three kids ultimately are in a work-based environment. The state's average is 8%. So we're almost five times as many. So when you want to talk
050about success of Amry High School in regards to its achievements, it is certainly a place where academic achievement is part of uh the picture. But achievement looks different than just the classroom achievement. There's achievement that's happening outside of the the four walls of the high school too. Kids are taking their talents all over town to be quite honest. And this is an indication of that very item. So that is um highlighted in the strategic plan as a goal and we certainly agree because we're doing it already and we're going to keep doing more of it. Um and there's also a maintain a measurable objective of maintaining financial commitment to continually supporting instructional technology, innovative mini grants, hands-on learning opportunities, student labs and maker spaces. So, the hands-on experience that they're having at the high school
051starts far before the high school. The elementary, intermediate, and middle are doing the exact same thing. And I'm almost done. And then I'll turn it over to you for your feedback. On the last page, you'll see there noted in a highlighted yellow underneath efficient and accountable board of education. A measurable objective. The school district of Amry will improve by 3% the district scorecard on the state of Wisconsin school report card as determined by comparison to two 2024 2025 and the 202526 report moving from 74.8 to 77 cuz what you just saw a couple weeks ago was a reflection of 2425. When we revisit this in December of 26, you're going to be looking at 2526. So that's the the market that we have set through the strategic plan and we have a check mark coming
052up that we can hopefully check that box and we get that next December of 2026 and alternative you have questions or comments but those are items that are directly connected to back to the presentation you saw some two weeks ago. I just want to give kudos to Josh because those numbers are pretty amazing. The number of students that we have participating in dual credits um and um learning outside of the classroom um yeah those are some pretty big numbers. So good >> close to the high school not. >> Yes. Yes. >> Absolutely. >> Yeah. This was um something that was put in motion, you know, a while ago. Um it's been wonderful um for everybody to continue to support that plan. Um the way our class structure is um done there, we can see that
053it pays dividends for uh our students. There's been some really amazing things that uh these kids have been capable of doing. Um and then great jobs that they've had coming out. Uh I just I want to say that the two young gentlemen that came in and presented us with those um our butcher block boards were amazing. I mean they can talk about the the process of going through that which sounds painstaking and and long and then I saw videos on it and it is and I just can't believe how much work and craftsmanship went into that. And so personally, I would like to say um thank you for for bringing us those wonderful gifts. And then looking at like what those things sell for are like $150, which after I saw how much work goes
054into it isn't enough. Um but definitely um super appreciative and on my end to receive one of those and then thinking of like a career, a real sustainable financial impact that could have in somebody's life whether they want to do that as a side hustle or something that they really wanted to get into on their own cabinet making whatever that leads to endless possibilities and a fantastic um service to their communities and uh path to financial freedom for them. So kudos to those boys cuz that was a lot of work. >> Those cutting boards are look so nice that I don't want to cut anything. >> I didn't either. >> And I did what I know April did because I used them at Christmas for presentation for our sheri boards and everything else. I I
055didn't put stuff on them. [laughter] >> They were amazing. Like absolutely fantastic. I couldn't believe how much those things cost. So um I want to say thank you. um not a bribe is is accepting on the school board cuz they're not able to vote yet. So [laughter] just want to put that out there. They were amazing. >> Um >> one other item I'd like to mention on the the workbased experiences that can't happen in Amry unless we have folks that are willing to host these kids. Correct. And we have folks all over town that have opened their doors of their business for kids to come there and uh learn >> in essence and uh without their they're doing that we wouldn't have this many kids. >> We talked about trying to increase the number potentially
056on the strategic plan but when you have almost every business in the community >> involved >> it's tough to measure at that point when you have so many partners. It is. And not only going for our kids to go to these places, but the amount of trades people that have come and helped with um education, the house building or the the shed building or even people donating uh machining uh items and things like that to our shop, >> lectures, demonstrations. Uh the amount of time that people have in the community have volunteered to um educate, you know, these kids coming up and moving forward has been um a real blessing to have this. >> Many in our community really have a pay it forward mentality and they they love to come back and >> and
057share their knowledge with our kids, which thanks a bunch. >> Yeah. Which it'll be fun just to watch these kids come back and pay it forward. And I I was, you know, happy to hear um I think it was Katon Wan talking tonight about uh basketball and how he's doing a little shoot around with the kids and just those young kids and having them, you know, come in. And I' I've heard that um that he's done that even on his own. And so just those leadership skills to to see from the community coming in and then our kids doing it to the younger kids, it's just a real >> Well, it's they're heroes. >> Yeah. You know, and I watched a bunch of little girls the other day try to get autographs from the girls
058basketball players and, you know, call it what it is. I call it being a hero. >> Pretty awesome. >> All right. Anything else? [snorts] All right. I guess we can move on then to our schoolboard election update. >> Okay. We have a school board election set for April 7th of 2026. Uh the candidates in ballot order, vote for one uh is Steve Oaso. So that's what the ballot will look like. This is a printed version of it. It'll obviously look a little fancier than that when you get it, but this is what it looks like here on the screen. Same thing. >> It's important that you made the distinction in valid order. I'm I'm glad that that was >> that is it. distress. [laughter] >> All right, off to our action items. We have a
0592026, 2027, 2027, 2028 WIAA hockey cooperative application with uh Mr. Johnson tonight. >> Yeah. So, you folks looking at this right in front of you, it's a super it's nothing too complicated. It's just a cooperative team sponsorship for our boys hockey. So what that means is we're kind of getting together with clearly Clayton and Unity because we wouldn't be able to have a team on our own. They wouldn't be able to have team on our own. We get together and every two years we have to reissue this cooperative. Um and so uh yeah, get your folks's approval. Uh get the district administrator, but then also the conference commissioner say it's okay. And then uh WIA says let's play hockey. >> I like that. >> Yeah. So if you have any questions, feel free let me
060know with >> Who are the partners in this program? >> Clear Lake Clayton and Unity. >> Okay. >> Yep. They've been great to work with. >> Yeah, they're they're wonderful. >> How long have we been doing this? >> Oh boy. Forever. >> It's my time. >> Prior prior to my time as athletic director years. >> Way back. >> Yeah. >> Way before me. >> Yeah. It's been a long time. Yeah. >> Any other questions for Dylan tonight? >> You don't need Do you need action? >> I do. I'd like I'd entertain a motion to approve the cooperative uh team sponsorship. >> So move. Gwen, it's been properly moved and seconded to accept the cooperative team sponsorship uh for boys hockey for the next two years, 2026, 2027, and 2027, 2028. Is there any discussion? >>
061The only question I have is do the fees change every year or are those set inside of this contract too? >> Every two years, Steve, I don't know if they would be be changed in here. I'm unaware that they would be changing. >> Yeah. >> So, >> I think if they if we had to there would be an amendment through the WIAA and then we would take action on amendment to add in another school or a school to drop out. Is that what you're asking? >> He was talking. >> Well, I just I I know that you pay per student, right? >> Oh, the fees. >> Yeah. So what what happens is you you basically add up the the price of the coaches, the equipment budget, the travel, add it all up, and then you
062divide it by a number of players. The hard part is it's kind of a moving target. Some years you've got 38 kids, some years you've got 31, 32. And and so we've kept it pretty consistent. I think it's around I want to [snorts] say $1,700. another school pays us for their kid to play here approximately. I It's been a while since I looked at the number, but I think it's in that ballpark. Okay. >> Okay. All those in favor of approving the WIAA hockey cooperative application, please signify by saying I. >> I. All those opposed, please signify by saying no. >> Okay. Motion approved. We are off and playing hockey. >> Playing hockey. Thank you. All right, thanks Dylan. All right, off to the 2026 2027 school calendar. >> Okay, typically in the month of
063January preceding a school year, we have approved that school year's calendar. What you see here is the 26 27 school district of calendar. I'm going to walk through it month by month. A lot of this is set in stone for us because Christmas, Easter, and Thanksgiving we don't get to pick and uh we sort of schedule around that in so many ways. The first change to this calendar is we have moved our new teacher in service to Thursday the 20th. Typically that would have been on Monday the 24th. The nature of that change is it then frees up an additional day of inservice during that August inservice time slot. One of the big differences though beyond that is that 24th is a teacher-led inservice day with no administrative agenda whatsoever. It is their day to
064get ready for the start of the school year. Then once that's out of the way, then there is Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday of that week to um do the inservice activities that need to be done. So that's the two changes in August the 20th and the 24th. September 1st is the [clears throat] designated start of school. You cannot start a school year prior to September 1st unless you have an exemption to do so. And we have not filed for an exemption. September 3rd is the first day for 4K kiddos. September 7th, again, not a date we get to pick. That's Labor Day, so we're off on that day. The 28th is a no school day, 28th of September, but it is an inservice day for our staff. October uh mirrors what we are about to
065do here in February. We have a parent teacher conference evening on the 5th and then we have an inservice no school day on the 8th and then no school for anybody on the 9th. Uh November nove uh November 9th is an inservice day. Uh November 25th, 26th and 27th those are Thanksgiving break days. Christmas break. You'll see between the 24th and the 31st, and I'll come back to that in just a moment. Uh January 1st, obviously, that's New Year's Day. January 25th is the turnaround for end of term, end of semester at high school, and end of quarter. So that's an inservice day and an old school day. February 15th, 18th and 19th very much looks like what October of 26 looks like where you have an evening conferences and then you have inservice/conferences no
066school on the 18th and 19th that is a week later than traditionally we have had it and the reason for it being a week later is Thursday the 11th we are hosting solo and ensemble and that is a lot of folks and a lot of kids so we've moved it just to clear out the conflict Spring break, uh, the 15th through the 19th. I'll come back to that one again. 26th, another date that we don't get to choose. That's Good Friday because Easter is, uh, that Sunday, the 28th. 26th is an inservice day. No school in April. Memorial Day is May 31st. And then the first week of June is the last week of school. We have the last day on the 3 and then there's an inservice in the evening on the 3rd and
067then uh the morning of the 4th and we're wrapped up for teachers on the 4th. So two areas were calendar committee and advisory committee which is a group of teachers that meet with myself. uh two areas that they had biggest question about uh were December 23rd and also where does spring break fall and I'll take the second one first. I think you could probably imagine no matter where you put spring break in March, it's going to conflict with something. Either you're conflicting with the end of winter sports or the beginning of spring sports. I'm not in the business of making predictions about who's going to state. We could look at last year and not have any idea that we would have had two teams go to state in winter sports season, but we did or
068almost go to state in one and did go to state in the other. Um, we don't know what's going to happen. So, it might conflict with something I couldn't tell you, but that's where we have placed it. There was some conversation about doubling it up with the 26th. We simply chose not to do that. And the big reason we chose not to is the forward exam happens in three of the four buildings and that test window gets split up when you move it to the week of the 27th. So we kept it on the week of the 15th. The other conversation that we had was December 23rd being a no school day and the logic behind that was traveling for Christmas for the holidays. Um, my position and my response to the advisory committee and
069also to the calendar committee was if you do not have school on the 23rd, you need to pick that day up somewhere else. You could either plunk it on Monday, June 7th, which would probably not be very popular. Or you could move your remote days around and do two days where you don't do remote and then you start remote on the third day as opposed to the fourth. My honest response is I think it creates a childc care issue for a lot of folks if we don't have school on the 23rd. But this isn't my vote to be had. I'm simply presenting a calendar for you good folks and you can all chime in. So that's the calendar in summary form for 26 27th. >> Um yeah, I I agree with December 23rd. I know
070there's been some talk uh among staff um community member that uh reached out. Um I I think it's um I know that everybody would like to have an extra day to prepare for Christmas. Uh I think a lot of people fall into that same category that people would like to have extra time. Um, we know what day it comes. It comes every year the same day. And so, um, I have I am a poor planner myself. And so, I've always just said that if it doesn't get done by now, well, it just didn't really need to get done. And so, maybe I'm just trying too hard or doing too much. Um, I think we need to be cognizant of the people that this district serves, the taxpayers, that they do expect school to be open.
071Um the 24th isn't December 24th isn't the holiday. The 25th is the actual holiday. Um I know that it's very common where we live that that is our uh religious uh or the 24th that we have a lot of family traditions that we celebrate. Um, it's been brought up about families traveling and if there are families that are traveling, they certainly have that option to not send their kids to school on the 23rd and travel. Um, as far as our staff traveling, we're done at 3:30, 3:15. We could be out of the building. I don't think anybody has to stay the contracted time that day to 3:40 or whatever that is. I think everybody gets to pack up and leave. Um, I understand there are people that do that that travel a long ways, but
072I don't think that that's the majority. Uh, I think as a board we need to consider what's the majority for our um staff and our families. I I agree with Sean. I think it it creates a a hardship for a lot of people who have to work on the 23rd and even on the 24th. So, that would be two days worth of child care that they may have to pick up or provide for. I think it it causes all kinds of issues and we'd have to put it somewhere else. I don't think anybody wants to come back on June 7th um on a Monday. So um and you know the the idea we hear is there's two days at the end and so then we're only here 3 days but then if we took that
073Wednesday off then we'd hear well we're only here for two days and so what difference does that make? and and now we have spring break off for a whole week that's been happening I don't know three four years in a row now which that wasn't typical before with that used to be an every other year event I think that we have time off that's built into the calendar quite substantially so >> the districts where you see off the week of December 21st don't have spring break >> right >> because if you have both off then you just surely run out of instructional business and then you are going to June 7th and 9th >> right I I would hate to shorten our calendar. It was suggested to shorten our calendar built-in days for um bad
074weather here. Um I certainly don't think that's a wise idea. We've done that before. Then we have to go remote. Again, I don't think that anybody is really interested in doing remote learning. It's not what's best for kids. Um and that we do really need to see the overall picture here of we are the board of education. Um and what's best to educate our kids and and remote is not one of them. If we have to do that, we've already used two of our days. >> Yeah. >> Looking at Friday, we're looking at maybe with chills at uh 40 below. We might not be able to have school and we would we would be switching to remote. And I just don't think that it's wise where we live to shorten our days that were built
075in. We did that. And we got into a real sketchy situation here a few years ago. Do you remember? >> We had to add minutes on >> Yes. We we literally had to add minutes to our days because we were we had to take it we I mean we get ice in this part of the world in March and April. So just because we're coming out of January seemingly unscathed doesn't it's uh it's not always the case. So I'm not a proponent to adding the 23rd. I understand the I understand the want and we all have wants. I just don't I'm not sure that that's a a prudent thing for us to be doing. But that's just my opinion. Anybody else? Steve, do you got anything on that? >> No, I think that's I think
076it's good. We need to move forward. [clears throat] >> Um, any other conflicts with the calendar? I know the spring the the spring break situation, but we kind of discussed that at Nauseium of and really we did need to be cognizant of testing over anything else. cuz if you recall in web testing for at 20 has to be 45 days. There's a really tight window. >> That's that tight window. And I know we discussed that a lot um when we looked at preliminary planning of spring break and preliminary calendar. So >> you're you're never going to be conflict free in March. That's not going to happen. >> No. The only thing uh someone brought up to me was is there a reason we do evening conferences like on a Monday and a Thursday? Um their
077concern was Monday when it gets late and it makes the rest of the week a little bit long. Um and so just curious if there was a reason we chose Mondays and Thursdays. >> I don't I don't think there's a specific reason why we chose those two [clears throat] days. I know why we chose those hours so we have the availability for parents to get here and have conferences. If you have a 1 to eight time slot, that opens it up pretty wide for folks to be able to engage with school staff at conference time. I have that conversation with advisory committee as well and one of the advisory committee members stated if we have uh Monday till 8 and Thursday till 8, we have Friday off. Do you want to do less time on
078Monday and Thursday and then not have Friday off? And then we moved on to the next agenda item pretty quickly because you can't have it both ways. If you want Friday off, >> I I think they were just looking at the Monday. Um >> yeah, I I think two nights a week it's going to be harder no matter what. >> You can't do Wednesday. I suppose >> you can, but you you really run into issues with the church community. There's all sorts of activities on Wednesdays. No, >> Monday is your least conflicts for athletics other than Wednesdays. >> My assumption would be there's more athletic events on Tuesday. >> Oh, yes. [snorts] >> Mondays. >> Oh, yes. >> Well, I brought the >> Y. So, that conversation was had too. Yes. >> Is given. >>
079Yeah. I I do think, you know, I I understand that long week. I've been there um you know, in the education world, but it doesn't matter which two nights you really pick. I think that week just gets long and it's that's just part of the job and it doesn't it doesn't matter what what night you pick there's always going to be it's going to be a long week but you don't have kids either um >> not on Thursday >> on Thursday so you know that does make it a little bit easier >> it's about trying to make as convenient as possible for parents is really what it comes down to >> it really is I mean and that's I mean that's we want parent engagement that's the only way to for our students to improve.
080The school can only do so much and um we need to have that parent support. We need to want to see them um in here so that we're constantly touching base so we know what's what's um best for their kids, what they feel is best for their kids to have that input. Um I think if that's where we're if that's where we're looking at it from as far as a board of education, then it's hard to not see it that way. Any other discussion on the school calendar? I would entertain that a motion to approve the school calendar is presented. >> Also move that. Gwen, is there a second? >> I'll second it. >> Larry, it's been properly moved and seconded to approve the 2627 school calendar as presented. Is there any further discussion? Hearing
081none, we'll proceed to vote. All those in favor of approving the 2627 school calendar, please signify by saying I. >> I. All those opposed, please signify by saying no. Motion passed. The school calendar is approved for 2627. All right. And then we have a 2627 open enrollment space limitations. Again, that was supposed to be Abby, but I'll ask Dr. Zer to step in. >> Be happy to do so. By state statute, we need to make declarations in regards to our space limitations in the area of special education for each of our four buildings. In order to do space limitations, you need to look at current projections. And what you'll see on the back side of the first page and on the front side of this the second page are what our current projections are. And
082the far right column gives you open enrollment available space. And the only spot that we have spots open is at the high school in SLD. And there's only two spots. This is obviously a moving target, but we have a special ed population that has eaten up most of our spots. So, we don't have a lot of availability. So, when students are enrolled here, that is a factor that plays into it. But we have to have this as a formally approved item in order to make a denial if the denial needs to be made. So that's the nature of this presentation. So the numbers pretty much speak for themselves and the availability sort of speaks for itself as well. And you would need a a motion if you wanted to do that. >> Yeah. Um I
083I know that our um special services um are pretty well maxed right now. Um they're some of the most expensive part of um educating kids. And so I think we have to look at what that availability looks like, what that uh cost is to the district. And this is kind of where we're at. So >> I have a question. >> Yeah. If we approve this and we need to approve this document, but once this document is approved, if something happens where a student moves out of the district or and and doesn't then fall onto this chart. Do are can we let people into the district to fill that spot or we still beholden to what we approve here? >> You can still you can let them into that spot if a spot becomes available. What
084this allows you to do in essence if a student open enrolls from X district to here and they are a student uh who is supported by an IEP and they wanted to say come in for instance into the elementary school there aren't spots available. We have then the opportunity to say we simply don't have a spot available because we don't have the staff to render that service for that kid. So your application's denied. That's what this allows us to do. But if a spot's available we'll happily take a kid. If the kid comes and they're supported by an IB, if we have a space for them. >> Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> I would entertain a motion to approve the um open enrollment recommendations. >> I'll make that motion. >> Okay. Second, >> Larry.
085It's been properly moved and seconded to accept the 2026 2027 open enrollment space limitations as presented. Is there any further discussion? Hearing none, we'll proceed to vote. All those in favor of approving um the space limitations, please signify by saying I. >> I. I. >> All those opposed, please signify by saying no. Motion passed. We have is approved for the 2627 open enrollment space limitations. Next, donations to the district. >> Couple of donations. The Elen family. Many thanks for your donation of $1,450 to the FFA program. Melvin and Viv Hansen family, thank you for your donation of $750 to the Angel Fund. And lastly, Eileen and Leslie Marquee, thank you for your donation of $100 to the high school choir department. >> Very cool. Well, I'm sure all of those uh programs and projects appreciate
086those donations and we'll put them to good use. I would entertain a motion to approve the donations as presented. >> So move, >> Larry. Second, >> Gwen. It's been properly moved and seconded to accept the donations as presented. Is there any discussion? Hearing none, we'll proceed to vote. All those in favor of approving the donations to the district, please signify by saying I. >> I. >> All those opposed, please signify by saying no. The donations to the district are approved. With many thanks on behalf of the school board and the organizations receiving those. Thank you very [applause] much. And off to personnel action. New employment contracts for Lana Jansen, special ed parah. Jennifer Stone, library media para educator. Alexa Tober, special education para educator. Resignations, girls varsity soccer coach. Matthew Kerry, school psychologist. Kelsey Cisco,
087effective end of 2526 school year. Amelia Tanner as a special education pareducator. And lastly, am Andrew Wolf High School football assistant coach. >> Anybody entertain a motion to accept the personnel action items? I'll make that motion. April, >> is there a second? >> Second. Gwen, it's been properly moved and seconded to approve the personnel action as presented. Steve, you were not in close session with us tonight. um to ask about any personnel action. I will give you the opportunity to abstain from the personnel action voting if you so choose or unless you were able to if you had questions were able to talk to Dr. Derler before or if you have no questions then I would invite you to participate in the vote. Either way, those are yours. If there's any discussion, there's we've had
088the discussion on personnel action and so I'll move to a vote. All those in favor of approving the personnel action, please signify by saying I. >> I. >> All those opposed, please signify by saying no. Steve, did you vote? I >> I will abstain. Just >> All right. And there'll be um let the record show that Steve would abstain. The personnel action um was approved on a four uh four 40 vote with one abstaining. I'm assuming that there's nobody signed up for community comments since there are very few people left here that aren't employees of the school district. So, um we were set to move into close session tonight uh for the district administrator's evaluation. However, um we have decided to postpone that action until March and put that on the March meeting. Um Steve,
089I would like to have everybody here in person to discuss um to discuss that performance evaluation. So uh there is no need to reconvene into close session. With that, I will just take a motion then to adjurnn. >> Larry >> Gwen, it's been properly moved and seconded to adjurnn. All those in favor, please signify by saying I. I. All those opposed, please signify by saying no. Motion adjourned. Thanks for coming in with us tonight, Steve. I appreciate it. >> Yeah, thank you much. We'll see you guys back in Amry. >> Enjoy the warm weather. >> Can you guys see? I can see the sphere. The sphere out my window. >> There's a sphere. That's pretty cool.