Amery Board of Education regular meeting May 19, 2025

001already in the general direction. My idea is Okay, I think we are ready. I will call the board meeting for the month of May to order. We have a Well, first let's do the pledge of allegiance. So, if you are able to stand, join me in saying the pledge. 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. Okay. Well, we have some guests here this evening and we're going to start with our first of two spotlights on education. We have our fifth grade math masters. Where we at? Math masters. Okay. Who's giving the big speeches? Well, this is a We took 11 kids to uh Hammond on April 25th to a math masters

002competition. U Mrs. Helt and Mrs. Curtis and these wonderful kids and a couple others. He's not here. It's okay. Not everybody's here, but almost all of them. So, yeah. Uh we trained for about 12 weeks doing a lot of extra practices um eking out every half hour that we could to practice some extra math problems. So the board said that they were interested in seeing some of the questions and they were guaranteeing that they'd be able to solve them. So let's look at the first of two questions. I want to know what board member said that. I think let's get there are some questions. I know there were some sample questions. I know it. Here we go. All right. An aisle in the grocery store has 45 shelves. On each shelf, there were 12 loaves

003of bread. Wheat bread makes up 30% of all loaves and onethird of the wheat bread is honey wheat bread. How many loaves of honeywheat bread are in the grocery store? Go. 54. I knew it was Steve. Steve did. I have no idea what the right answer is. Is that right? Did you get to see it ahead of time? Yeah, I did. There's no way you could have popped that. Nice try. Listen, this information was released two weeks ago and I I would have got it yet. I didn't I did I didn't know the other one, though. No, the rectangle. Is there another one? A large rectangle to the right is made up of three congruent rectangles. Find the perimeter of one of the three congruent rectangles. Benson's been working on this one for a month.

004Well, we had two special winners within the crowd. You want to talk about that for a moment? Yeah. Zedekai, this is Zedekai and he placed second in the um fact drill portion of the competition. And this is Blake and he placed third out of 77 students. Baseball player, too. Apparently, it's been about it's probably been since my daughter Emma was in fifth grade, so 15 years since we've had any student from Avery place in that competition at all. And so this is really a tribute to these two kids. So yeah, and and the whole group to be honest, they worked together, but these two really outperformed everybody. So did a nice job. Do we have any hard non-math questions for these kids because they'll get the math ones right away? Yeah. How do you how

005do you prepare? Or is it just understanding concepts of math or do you actually get the questions ahead of time like I did? Well, it's a time time test. So, you'll get the papers flipped over. Okay. And then when they start the time, you flip the paper over and you start it. So, you get one piece of paper where you write down the actual answers and then you get another piece of paper for just extra work if you need help. So, is it is it how fast you get it done with the number of right answers? No. How many answers? Just how many get ready? We get five minutes for the solo and then 15 for the group. So there's eight tests. They took math tests almost all day. Eight eight math tests and three

006of them were individual tests. So they each had to take their own individual tests and could not collaborate. The fax drill was also individualized. Um and then three of the tests were group. So they were in two teams, two teams of five. And then they could collaborate. So they also had to work on collaboration skills and being able to work together and and under pressure under the time situation too. So what did you guys do? What were some of your um tactics that you used to try to help in this group competition? Tell them not me. Yeah. Go ahead. Anyway, uh so we split up into groups and and then like we had on some tests we had a sheet in the middle that we wrote on. So we had like one person doing that

007and then we had since there was five, we had two people doing different problems as a team and then we told the person and each test we switch around and it was the person writing down the answers. Did you guys have fun? Did you have fun? It was a fun day, wasn't it? So what comes now? Like is there another competition? You going on another level? Is there sixth grade? There there is no further competition, but there is math masters in sixth grade as well. And I'd imagine a lot of these kiddos be a matching. Do we plan on moving on guys to sixth grade math masters? Good. You liked it? It was good. Yeah. Did you when you worked in your group, did you ever come up with different answers and you you had

008to fight it out like who was right? Can you use calculators? Not for the fact. Not for the fast facts because that would kind of be a waste of time too because you got to know. Yeah. Okay. Could you introduce who you are quick and then we'll send you on your way unless you want to stay for the meeting. So just say who you are so we know who you are. Anybody? I'm Violet. I'm Carly. You can say your last name. First and last. Violet Denzel. I'm Carly Johnson. I'm Becca. I'm Alice Lee. I'm Maron Rder. I'm Zenica. I'm Blake B. I'm Edith Grayson. I'm Aaliyah Cone. Nice job, you guys. Congratulations. Well, we know where to go if we get stuck in a math problem. When it comes to budget time, we'll bring you

009back in. Okay. Thanks, you guys. Great job. I just love my family's leaving. Okay, we're short. Okay, we have a second spotlight on education. Innovative mini grants. We put out applications in the fall each year and typically we award from the district office a mini grant for each of the four buildings and for special ed. And we have some mini grant presentations here. If you follow along up on the big board, our first presentation is titled 4K nature playground. Kylie Black, Darly Hughes, and Trish Meyers. Hi, I'm Trish Myers. I'm Darly Hughes. And Kylie here. But um we gave the kids some time to explore the new playground that we got. So, thank you for that. But we decided that they needed a little more on the playground. So, we kind of came up with

010some ideas um of what to add to the playground to help them really explore gross motor activities and some fine motor activities. So, we plan to put some stumps on there. We've ordered some um stepping stones, an easel so they can also practice some fine motor skills outside and then a web kitchen for our sandbox when we get it. Um, one of a quote that um, us in 4K love is by Karen Kervis and it says that scientists have discovered that it takes approximately 400 repetitions to create a new uh, synapse in your brain unless you do it in play and then it only takes 10 to 20. So we feel this is very important for kids. So that's why we did it. Um the reason we chose the natural playground um because it mimics

011the natural environments and it incorporates elements that you saw in the pictures like logs, rocks, sand and plants. Um they it offers many benefits for children that includes increased physical activity, enhanced cognitive development and it's a greater connection to outdoor play and nature. Um, we wanted the playground, the natural elements of the playground to be an extension of our classroom and an environment where they can practice all the skills that we introduce inside of our classroom. And we would there's a quote by Angela Hansum that sums up what we want our children to experience on our new natural nature playground. Uh, that the outdoors offers limitless potential to young children. It becomes a place where they can go to relax their mind, to be inspired, and to deep dive into the world of imagination. It's

012a place where they can design, create, and explore. The possibilities are endless. So, we thank you for offering us the grant and giving us the grant so we could offer some of these opportunities to our kids. Well, we thank you for that work. The amount of screen time that our kids have, it's always good to get back to nature and do those things. And when we get ready to take those trees down, then we think we should have them go ahead and just consult with the 4K team here. They should cut them. Yeah. Really, really cool. A good words for all of us to live by there to get back to nature and uh make sure you play because they form good habits. So, thank very nice. Very nice. Our second mini grant presentation was

013the masked reader over here. Nice. You're not fully mass. This was brought to us by our title team at the elementary school of Carrie Shu and Lynette Wentz. And it was a huge hit when we did it back in in the fall, early winter. I don't remember exactly when winter. Yes. Go ahead. Um, so my name is Carrie Shu. I am a title one teacher at the elementary and um also the district reading specialist and I think teaching kids to read is serious business. And also I'm from Anoga which maybe you don't know is the Halloween capital of the world. So when given the opportunity to put on a costume that's an easy yes. Introduce yourself. Well, I'm Lynette Wentz and I'm really her sidekick in this department. handler probably is the right word. Um,

014but I know that when this opportunity came about, Carrie had the idea almost immediately um, bringing it to the table among our um, K well K prek3 um, representatives on our reading language arts or special ed. Our school has done family reading night for 31 years in a row, which is pretty exciting. Every year we have a different theme. For at least as long as I've worked here, which is 17 years, we've always had a different theme. Sometimes it's connected to a story book or a particular author. Um, sometimes it is a challenge of some sorts, like let's take a reading road trip and then we drive the little jeep around the school and track our minutes as miles. Um, every year it evolves a little bit. And this year we decided to um parody

015the masked singer, which you maybe have seen on TV. So, we were the masked readers and um big thank you to our committee who were volunte. So, you're going to put on a costume and read a story book to a group of children and their families, their loved ones. Um and then we had a big reveal at the end of the night. So, they had a program which gave them clues as to who the volunteers were. Um of course, their identities were concealed in costume. We had inflatable costumes. We had um very realistic looking masks. Lynette was a German Shepherd. Um and so we had kind of a traditional story time followed by free books. Every child was able to um select a free book from Scholastic. We had lots of fiction and non-fiction um

016books for them to choose from and then also their own mask to take home. So we encourage them that if you had fun tonight at school, you should go home with your new book and your mask and be a mask reader yourself. Um, so thank you for your part in that and thank you to our committee and thank you to PowerUp. PowerUp supplied healthy snacks for all of our families. And um, it was a hit. So much so that um, we are um, getting the tote out again and maybe cooking something up for the track and field meet. If you've ever gone to a Brewers or Trim game and seen those um, characters race across the field, we might uh, might have something in store for you on Thursday. So which which costume did the

017principal wear? Oh, come on now. You'll have to come and find out. So, it was a great night and we partnership tonight. Failed it. Failed it. How many costumes do you have? I think we purchased five. Six costumes. We used four for the event, so we're we're going to use some new ones for the track and field day. Um, we had over 130 people in attendance, so we felt like we had a great turnout. Um, you never know in the winter who's going to show up and what the weather will be like, but it all went very well. So, we're very pleased. Next year, we we need a new idea. So, if you've got one, shoot it our way. Come on, people. You guys have been doing this for how many years? And I'm just

018telling you right now, this never ceases to amaze me how creative you people are. You ain't getting any of that from us. This is all you. This is very cool. Very cool. I like I like the ice there right after the fifth graders. Sorry, the fifth graders upstate you, but thank you. Don't let her blow away. Okay, our next mini grant presentation brought to you from the intermediate schools. We have these lovely four fifth graders to we'll give credit to Mrs. Yesi. This was sort of her brainchild. I just piggybacked on top of it and helped out with a lot of it. So, we've been working together with these fifth graders and they actually wrote the grant themselves um with just a little assistance from us. So, we're going to let them take take the

019reigns. Go ahead. I can explain. Protect our monarchs and our pollinators. The importance of pollinary gardens and monarchs and why they make a difference. By Edith Grayson, Lydia Wickoff, Alice Lee, and Becket Earth. Our goal is to educate others about the decline of the monarch butterfly population. Create a model pollinator garden and educate our community about ways we can make a difference. One, educate others about monarch population decline. Two, create a model pollinary garden. Three, educate our community. Students create a bulletin board and fact sheets to display in our school and present it to the school board. They will also have an article published in the district newsletter. A pollinator garden is an important place for pollinators to come and it creates a beautiful, healthy environment. But why is this important? What makes a pollinator

020garden such a wonderful place? Why are pollinators considered necessary to us in nature? Monarch butterflies. Last year we had an odd winter which made it so that lots of bad bugs came that harmed our monarchs. So now they are on the endangered but we can save them. Mrs. Yesi and her family collect monarch eggs and raise 100 to 200 monarchs each year. The most they released was 2003 monarchs in one summer. Mrs. Curtis raises monarchs as well and saves between 25 to 100 monarchs every summer. Think about how many monarchs they saved. Monarch butterflies aren't just beautiful. They help our planet stay healthy. But in order to have a healthy planet, we have to have healthy monarchs. Pollination is so important. It creates a strong, healthy ecosystem full of life. Without a healthy ecosystem, our

021world would increase in pollution and global warming. That's where monarchs come in. A monarch's favorite flowers. Some of the monarch butterflies favorite flowers are milkweed, purple cone flour, sweet joe pie, golden rod, el cleasa, maximal sunflower and zenia. Remember these are just some of the very many flowers and there are a lot more. It is important to have these flowers because monarchs need nectar to survive. Also, the reason monarchs prefer certain flowers over others is because of the nectar and the colors. Basically, tack flies. Tacifies are monarch predators. When the monarchs are young caterpillars, flies come and lay their eggs inside the caterpill caterpillar's bodies. When they grow up, the caterpillar or chrysis turns the color black and monarchs journey to the south and back. In the winter time, monarch butterflies need to go south

022to California, Mexico, and Florida because they cannot live in the cold winters we have here. It takes them about 2 months to fly to Mexico because they have to fly 1,92 miles to get there from Wisconsin. That's a long way to go. Parts of a butterfly and a flower. For the butterfly, there's a forewing, hind wing, antenna, head, eyes, abdomen, and a thorax. For the flower, there's a stigma, anther, filament, style, petals, cypical, seepil, and the stock. How to create a pollinator friendly garden. When you create a pollinator friendly garden, you need to have food. Monarch caterpillars that has milky leaves. When they are adult butterflies, they feed on nectar from milkweed clouds. To create a pinary friendly garden, you have to have lots of flowers, but not just any flowers. You have to make

023sure that there is no invasive plants in your garden. You also have to make sure the flowers in your garden have not been treated with pesticides, insect dyes, or necotenoids. You have to be willing to water your plants at least an inch of water every week. But most importantly, you have to enjoy the presence of your new garden. Pollination through the seasons. During the spring, pollinators need early blooming plants to provide food after hibernation or northern migrations. Old spring aials and spring um blooming fruit trees are visited during this time. Summer is the best time for flowers to bloom. The long days of summer provide pollinators the maximum time to forge for nectar. During the fall, late blooming plants provide many pollinators with needed fuel for hibernation and for the southern migrations of pollinators like

024monarchs and hummingbirds. Throughout the winter, even when there appears to be little to no activity, pollinators are in the garden. Leave decaying plants alone. They may be sheltering pollinating insects as they overwinter. What is pollination and why is it so important? Pollination is when pollen grains, which is part of a plant or flower, an organism, is transferred from one plant to another by a pollinator. The pollen cells combine and create seeds for more flowers and plants. We need our pollinators because they pollinate most if not all our food. Which explains why without pollination almost all of our food disappear. Did you know that one in three mouthfuls of food and drinks that we consume is dependent on the work of pollinators. Pollinators and pollination are so important. We wouldn't be able to live without them.

025So that that is why it is important to help provide land for our pollinators. Did you know that pollinator friendly gardens are great for education? Pollinator gardens are great for education because they can help children learn by teaching them to help pollinators wanting to help them survive. I think having a pollinator garden would be great for learning at our school, especially for science in the plant and animal use. It would also be a great way for kids to learn about the life cycle of monarchs and how to help animals. We hope you learned a lot about monarch butterflies and are willing to help these wonderful butterflies as they increase in numbers. They are such an important part of our life. Thanks for listening to our presentation. You can make a difference. We thank you for

026for the grant. Um, we've got the the boxes. They're going to be ready. I guess they're going to be out kind of behind the dumpsters towards the where you enter the the forest. Um, and we've got the plants. We're ready to plant. We're going to plant later this week. So, when once we are pretty sure there's no frost coming tomorrow, probably Thursday, Friday. It was all going to be planting the the pollinator gardens. Well, we these honestly they put together this presentation. We didn't do we just edited a little bit of it, but we didn't have to do much because they're amazing kids. These kids are. So, um and they they did most of the grant writing as well. So, we just guided them through that process. So, we figured they probably deserve the right

027to be able to help plan the garden, too. Um lucky for us, um a nice gentleman in our community named Mr. Curtis is going to come in put together boxes with the kids and uh he was volunting us with some things like that. So he's he's going to come on either Wednesday or Friday depending on what the weather looks like. So they are they raised raised beds that do you need dirt because I know where you can get some. Oh well we we think we had enough. We part of the grant money helped us buy the beds and the dirt and the plants. Well, if you run out, give uh my wife a call. Okay. Don't call me. She can trailer it in. Okay. Thanks. Thank you for that. Now, you know, we just finished

028up with graduation yesterday and and I think of all the graduation parties going on and all of those kids that wore their their nice medals and all of the things crossing the stage. And I guarantee that this this video is going to be played on a loop at you guys's graduation in seven short years. Very cool. There'll be something to be on the mountain. I know. Outstanding leaders that I expect to see more great things to their teachers. I know, right? Bars been set high for bucket golf. Better lower your standards. You guys aren't as cute as those guys. Just not even close. You're up. All right. So this year, last year we uh got a mini grant through a modified volleyball game called Nitro Ball. This year we wanted to add a new unit

029which would be golf. And so this is a modified version of golf called bucket golf. Bucket golf is like a a backyard style game um where I guess I can get into the other portions of this, but essentially we want to make sure it tied to some standards. Some new ones that we could implement at our district would be simple uh striking and implement from a stationary object. And then the second one would be more uh what we see in the high school, but I think with the middle school version, we can actually use um getting students outside uh for individual performance and outdoor activity on the second one there. But yeah, um simple way to play this game, um if you want to even go to the next picture, then people might get an

030understanding. Um, simple ways to play this game is, like I said, it's an outside outdoor game, but those buckets are essentially the holes, the cones are the tea boxes, and the ball is just a whiffle ball, harder plastic. Um, and then the club is a modified oversized uh head, but the shaft, the grip is all standard size if you were to go golfing with your actual clubs. Um, but you tee off from the TE's. We let the students on our first day pick our location where they would like to go from. So they essentially built our course the first day we went out and we went out on the turf. It was a little cold out. So we wanted to make sure we were hitting off a predictable ground instead of if you got out

031under the grass and we had a frost you'd snap a club. We did however find out that a student was made it possible to snap a club on the turf. Um but the company we worked with still intact. Oh yeah. I'm not worried about the turf. I'm worried about the club. What could go wrong with clubs and middle school students? Yeah. But we uh the company that worked with us, they even sent us a complimentary club to uh replace it. So, it was really nice. Um but you tee off and we let the kids choose like if if they want to go to bucket one, just make sure no other groups are heading that way and you hit. We teach them etiquette. The farthest back hits next. Uh so that we're never hitting into people.

032Um if you do hit into someone, they already know the the the saying for so they watch out for one another. Um, essentially what we're trying to do is make sure on whole 12 in a couple years they are not in Tom's backyard. Um, I aim for Tom's back. Straight deal. But yeah, so we were able to purchase all this equipment and if if all goes according to plan, if if there's another opening for next year at the middle school, we would even be interested in doing this. Again, I I don't know the protocol of doing this, but the clubs are very expensive at $35 a piece. We just we barely have enough right now. Some kids have to share. It's expensive. How many do you have? We have 26. We have 24 right-handed clubs

033and then two lefties. Our largest class had uh four lefties. So, they just had to partner together. Um when Larry and I went out like we would challenge some kids like we challenged Danner, we challenged Cole or I'm sorry, Ryder. We've been going out there and and it's fun to share a club because we teach students the importance of communicating while you're on the course and if you are frustrated, how to maybe even talk through when you're playing good golf and how it feels and simple stuff. Uh so I I'm not sure if the um the golf is the main thing as much as it is just the the the socializing and the community around it because we have a great golf course in town. I know a lot of us here probably go there

034regularly and it'd just be nice to make sure that we have members in our community staying here for a long time. How many more clubs do you need? Well, a dozen probably. Yeah, I would say maybe we're pretty good on holes and all that kind of stuff. And the balls don't last forever. So, another round of those would be good. They're not exactly a whiffle ball. They're a little bit harder, I believe. So, we try not to use them for other sports like a pickle ball looks similar but it bounces differently. There should be one more. I think there's a picture of the kids and I think that middle one's actually a video. I thought the cool part was hearing kids say things like, "I've never held a golf club before." I mean, it's pretty

035hard to introduce something new to kids in eighth grade. They've kind of done it all at some point. But a lot of them have never done it. And I hear a lot of the same stuff I hear on a golf course where I go, frustration, excitement, trying to figure out why that didn't go where they wanted to go. So, it was neat. And it was We have some kids that do golf a lot. It was kind of fun for them to almost show off orers. We'd send kids that haven't built before like your buddy will teach you and they would try to show them how to do it. And it was kind of neat for them. They really enjoyed it. And then next time we went, we went behind the middle school and did on

036grass so kids could see the difference between a predictable surface and now the grass isn't so predictable. And we would do things like put the hole maybe over the soccer goal. So we turn it kind of into a miniature golf, real golf, all kind of rolled into one. And so the hope is every time the kids kind of design a new course slightly, at least a little bit. And they learned things about like we put this one farther away. It has to be a higher par and all that kind of stuff. And then we did a little bit, but that'll be our next week. Now, we did some alternate shot stuff, some scramble shots, just teaching them different golf games they could potentially play. So, the kids really enjoyed it and it was neat to

037hear them like, you know, two or three days later go, "Are we golfing again? Are we anytime it's warm, they ask, are we golfing today?" So, so they were into it. How far does it go? Good shots 25 to 30 yards if you really get into it. So, yeah. And Larry even found on uh a video of the long drive competition golfers. They were playing this and the farthest they could get it was 60 yards. And I think I maybe got it to 30 40 yards. It's very hard. If you have good back wind, it's fun. I think even playing with the wind or side wind makes your shots even more unpredictable and a little challenging. So, and because so many kids had never done it, it was easy for them in two or three

038days to see improvement. So, they could say things like, "Hey, I'm getting better." Like, "Well, yeah, you only had one way to go." So it was fun. Can I ask one question? Was it a Derpler or a DM Rosio that broke the club on that one? I would if it was mine. I would not have if it was great excitement. Yeah. But thank you. Thank you very much. It was fun. Well, Bunny put to good use. Yes. Well, we got one more. No pressure. No pressure. Jeez. My golf game used to practice with those guys probably. Tracy, you just let me know where you want me to stop. Right here. Perfect. Perfect. All right. I was told to keep this short here, but I'm a history teacher currently, so you know, we have a tendencies

039of getting long- winded, so I'll do my best here. But I'm Dylan Johnson for some of you who may not know, current social studies uh teacher. Um, and I received a grant here uh to be uh doing like a Native American uh tour for um our 10th grade US history students. And so our standard that we were really focusing on here was ACT 31. Um if we want to go to the next slide here, I kind of wanted to take a two-prong approach here. wanted to go to Fort Snelling, get a diverse uh different exposure to different things here locally uh in US history, but also uh kind of more expansive as we talk more about Native American histories. Uh so looking back at at this day here, we just it was perfect. It was

040like 75°, no wind. Kids were loving this day. But we learned about a number of different things. what life was like back in the 1800s. Um what the economy was like, how different currencies was used, but also more so about Native American history. Uh we learned about the three sisters crops, how Native Americans figured out how to, you know, have corn, squash, and beans planted together so that, you know, you have nitrogen released back in the soil. It was it was really great. The kids had a really fun time there. And I wanted to have a little bit more of a unique experience. And on the next side, we kind of go there. Excuse me, I'm battling battling my allergies here last week. Um, but I wanted to uh kind of show some local history

041here uh on Native American history. And so where we're at here is Burkable Park in Hudson, Wisconsin. So on our way back from Fort Stelling, we stopped and got lunch and we had lunch at um really old Native American burial grounds. Uh so way back like 2,000 years ago, the Mississippi mounders were all along the Mississippi and St. Croy River Valley area. And this was a religious temple that we had learned about way back at the start of the semester when we studied the city of Cahokia that is currently in St. Louis, Missouri, which actually at the time was the largest city in the world. So that's one thing that we try to focus a lot um in US history. Um when we talk about our first nations, you know, usually when we talk about

042first nations, many people think about uh you know the trail of tears, a lot of sorrow type stuff, but we also want to celebrate a lot of successes that Native Americans had as well. And so we see that with the city of Cahokia and their advancement there, the three sisters crops. And I suppose to say Ira Hayes up there, not just Ira, but Johnny Cash has a wonderful song of Ira Hayes. He was one of the uh brave young men uh who uh stormed the Euajima Hill and raised up the flag uh and he was a Native American and so we were able to uh learn about him here. But we wanted to have a transgression throughout our history and this was just a great way to put a kind of capstone project with it

043and so kids had a great time. Really appreciated that. Great. So thank you guys. Appreciate it. So thank you. Okay, this is the time of year where we reorganize the board. We had a school board election in April. We did the swearing in of new board members, April Zemer and Larry White here in the month of uh April and now we need to reorganize and that we have two new faces in the room. So, the first order of business is to appoint a teller. Do I have a motion to appoint a teller? You just tell her. We're going to tell you you're the teller. Becky Schmid, you are the teller. Okay. Do I have a motion for the position of president on the school district of Amry Board of Education? I make a motion for

044Charlotte. Do we have any other motions? Just nomination. Just just a nomination. Just a nomination. Do we have any other nominations? Sorry. It's okay. I have to say it three times, so I'll say it two more times. Do we have any other nominations? Do I have any other nominations? Hearing none, we will I would move to close nominations and cast a unanimous ballot for Charlan for president of our school board. Okay, I'm going to pass the baton over. Take a vote. I will take a vote. I'm not the guy clearly. Is there you have to ask for a second for that. Okay, a second. Second. Thank you, Larry. Uh now we need to do a vote for SH as president. All in favor say I. I. Those opposed. Hearing 4 Z. You are the motion

045carries and you are present. Thank you. All right. Now I'll turn over to you. You know what you're doing. Well, we'll pretend anyway. You do. All right. Um with that, thank you very much for uh instilling your confidence for another year to move forward with this position. And I'd like to welcome two new members to the board and we'll proceed going forward now with the rest of the elections. Is there a nomination for vice president? I nominate Steve Oro. No second. You're happy. Thank you though. Larry, are there any other nominations for vice president? Any other nominations for vice president? Any other nominations for vice president? I would move to close nominations and cast a unanimous ballot for Steve Oro for vice president of our school board. Is there a second? Larry, you second that.

046I'll second. All right. It's been properly moved and seconded to close nominations for vice president and if I cast unanimous ballot for Steve Oro to be vice president. This is uh does not require discussion. Has been properly seconded. All those in favor of closing nominations and casting a unanimous ballot for Steve Aero to be vice president, please signify by saying I. I. All those opposed, please signify by saying no. Motion passed. Steve, you are uh nominations passed. Steve, you are now the vice president again. Moving on to clerk. Are there nominations from the floor for a new clerk? Even this is weird since Dale was a clerk for 21 years. So, can since since Dale always did this, can we talk about what was the role of the clerk? I I I think the one

047of the big ones that is helpful from a district office perspective for a clerk is somebody who's got somewhat flexible uh availability just simply because the vast majority of the things that we have to submit for state record, for bank record, that sort of thing does have to be signed off on by the the uh by the clerk. Um, but really I mean I I guess that's primarily but the big ones are going to be the the annual uh schoolboard elections and then ultimately our uh PI 401 or our tax levy certification after the October board meeting are probably the two bigger heavy lifting activities of the clerk every year. uh contributing to the minutes, approving meeting minutes, keeping close session, you know, Becky is the one that kind of keeps our open session along

048with video uh record, but close session minutes is important. So in the Is there a nomination from the floor? I would nominate Gwen Taylor. Sounds good. Is there any other nominations? Any other nominations? Are there any other nominations for clerk? Would anybody make a motion to close nominations and cast unanimous ballot for Gwen for clerk? I will make a motion that we close nominations and cast unanimous ballot for Gwendo for question. Is there a second? I second. Thank you. April. All those in favor of uh closing nominations cast unanimous ballot for Gwendo. For clerk, please signify by saying I. I. I. All those opposed. Please signify by saying no. Motion passed. Nomination uh office goes to Gwen for clerk. A new clerk after 21 years. Big shoes to big shoes. Just remember a pet [Music]

049at all times. Honestly, if you don't have one, Becky's got one. All right. And then the next office of treasurer. Is there a nomination from the floor for treasurer? And what is the what does the treasurer do in our case? So I I there's you know there's a lot of things that the treasurer can do. Um you know the the big one is going to be um reading the annual treasurer statement during the annual meeting. Um, and really I think from there it kind of goes down to whatever the individual how deep the individual actually wants to get in the world of school finance as far as um what uh input into the annual meeting. Um what topics we discuss, that sort of thing. Um but really I mean there's not a lot of daily

050things. It's quite a few signatures a couple times a year and um some just frank conversation about state budgeting, but that's probably primarily what it is. Do you have anything to add? Yeah. Yep. Uh any kind of borrowing, have to sign off on borrowing, those kind of things um be needed to come in. Yeah. I mean all the the president, the clerk, and the treasur by board policy um will will have to capture your signatures prior to departure today um so that we can get updated signatures across all of the the checks both payroll and uh and PBD and CCD payments. I would nominate Larry White check. His background in business there would be some interest there for you if you'd be willing to accept that. Yes. Okay. Are there any other nominations for treasurer?

051Any other nominations for treasurer? Do I have anybody that's willing to close nominations? Make a motion to c close nominations and cast the unanimous ballot for Larry for treasurer. I'll make that motion. All right, April. Is there a second? Second, Gwen. Thank you. It's been properly moved and seconded to close nominations for treasur and to cast unanimous ballot for Larry as treasure. All those in favor, please signify by saying I. I. All those opposed, please signify by saying no. Congratulations, Larry. Unanimous new treasurer. And that leaves, we don't even have to. April, you are now the director. Thank you. We don't even have to vote it. You just we just tell you now you are the director which is also responsible for going to all of the seesaw meetings being responsible for the No. She's

052like what? I didn't sign up for that. All right. Congratulations everybody and welcome on to a new board for 2526. And now moving on to the designation of district depositories. Nope. We have meeting schedule, board meeting schedule the same as it's been in the past, just pushing those dates forward. Here's what we've done for years. Is there a motion to approve the schedule as presented? Does anybody have any conflicts or anything? I have conflicts in in July and January the and I'm willing to remotely attend if if need be. So, we don't need to move anything on my account. I just want to make that aware. There are a couple months where in the past we've been going to the fourth Monday, but after discussion I don't think there's any longer a reason to do

053that. At one time there was a reason. So you will see I think primarily the third Monday except um in March because of spring break I think we're actually the second Monday there. So a little earlier in the month and we had discussed for June and we historically did the fourth Monday just in case there was leftover funds. But the reality is with the way that state budgeting is and everything, there's no longer a mileong wish list that we're looking to fulfill and need more people for. I may have a conflict in February, but I could join remotely if that's an option. It has been an option. You can also you can miss one or two if you have to, too. I mean, it does happen. I think that'd be the only one. Okay. All

054right. And nobody else sees anything glaring like we don't have anything scheduled over anybody's like six vacations or anything that we have coming up. All right. Is there a motion? Huh? Just the month of July. Is that your vacation? Yeah. Yeah. All right. Yeah. Well, I'm going to make you zoom in. Yeah, that's fine. From camping. You're going to tell me that you have no service? Yep. I'll be in the parking lot at Piggly Wiggly. All right. Uh, do I have a motion to approve the 2526 uh, Amry Board of Education regular meeting dates? I'll make that motion. Steve, is there a second? Second. It's been properly moved and seconded to approve the 2526 Amry Board of Education regular meeting dates. Is there any further discussion? Hearing none, we'll proceed to vote. All those in

055favor of approving the meeting dates, please signify by saying I. I. All those opposed, please signify by saying no. Motion passed. the meeting schedule is approved as presented. Can I ask a question? It doesn't I mean it relates to this but it does relate to it. Um when the gohead when we when we figure out who's doing board vouchers um how do you go about that so that we know you know know about the conflicts and all of that. Yeah. I usually just put something together like when did it tonight so now she's off the hook for a while and I'll just go down the list. I'll probably work with Char to figure out how you want to mentor Larry and April on that. So, I'll put together a schedule, send it out to you

056all, and you could just let me know if anything doesn't work for you. We'll make some adjustments. Perfect. Yeah. Becky schedules that ups. It just happens. I just remember it happening. That's all. Yeah. Yeah. Becky makes everything. So, now I know a few months I can avoid for like for you and Larry. So, I'll I'll do my best to put put something together you can respond to. And I wrote those down, too. So, we got to do that. Okay. Moving on to the designation of district depositories. Sean although this this generally the same as in the past. Yeah. I'm not sure if there's anything you need to check. Yeah, there there's there's no change of the this year. Um there's really there's there's three that are going to be targeted throughout the course of the

057next calendar year. Primarily Bremer Bank being acquired by Old National Bank. Um, so we're still I'm still trying to figure out what that looks like and what interaction the board's going to have to have when that actually happens. Supposed to happen in October. It is. So, as of right now, we're going to continue pressing forward with Bremer. Um, but you know, the big question that'll be on the docket is, are they a local bank? Um, and so that'll be something that we'll have to kind of discuss and and contemplate. Um, Wisconsin Credit Union will fall off July 1st. Believe it or not, we have a $7 outstanding balance that we can't pay in this fiscal year. We have to pay it in next fiscal year for SEC guidelines. Uh, and then the Wisconsin Investment Series

058Cooperative, which is where we've hosted all of our um investments for the referendum proceeds. U, that'll also fall off here come end of summer timeline. Uh but other than that there is no changes as of this moment. Okay. Is there a motion to approve the uh official depositories for 2526? Do we have to change do we have to revisit this when the changes? I believe so. I think we just have to revisit this once a year. Okay. Yeah, that's my understanding. Yeah. Okay. And I would make a motion we accept it as presented. Is there a second? Second. It's been properly moved and seconded to accept the official depositories as presented for the school district of Amory for the 2526 school year. Is there any further discussion? Hearing none, we'll proceed to vote. All those

059in favor, please signify by saying I. I. I. All those opposed, please signify by saying no. Motion passed. uh the school depositories are approved as presented and then um authorization for use um of Weld Rally for legal services. Again, um I know we talked a little bit about last year uh looking at other options as far as legal services go. Uh, I think what we found is that Weld Riley Services specializes in school district business. Um, they've been good to work with. Um, we know what our costs are there. We know um they're very familiar with the business of the school district. So, is there any motion to approve um the use of Wellley for legal services again this year? I would make that motion that we continue to use Weld Riley Steve. Is there

060a second? April, it's been properly moved and seconded to authorize the use of Well Riley for legal services for the 2526 school year. Is there any further discussion? I would have a question. Um, is is the rate fixed or is it variable? It's variable based on the work that's completed and um we're invoiced uh sporadically. Usually it's every two three months and um we work primar primarily with Steve Well and Sven stress though they do have all sorts of folks that work all sorts of other areas of law but Steve well typically works the personnel. I own the HR and um Spence Struts works all the legalities surrounding any new uh legislation that's been passed, open records requests, any kind of work that's happening in Madison that's hot off the press. He works that angle

061and um they they've been awesome to work with and we've been with them for quite some time. Are they out of Oaklair? They are out of Oaklair, but they have other offices beyond that. Any other further discussion? Well, I think you said that they work with the majority of the districts in the area. They do work with the majority of the districts in this part of the state. So, they're going to have their finger on what's happening in the area. If I call them about something that's just been passed or something that's just been introduced, I'm typically one of many people that have called and the answer is very similar there. It's not new news because we're all asking the same questions. So, it's very helpful to have someone that we have a very strong

062working relationship with. There's a sense of trust there. I know I can call and get a straight answer and I'll get very good help. I think those of us who've been on the board for uh some time now have found their um guidance to be helpful um and professional. So, whatever that's worth to the rest of the board. Is there any further discussion on approving Weld Riley for legal services? Hearing none, we'll proceed to vote. All those in favor of using Weld Riley for legal services for the 2526 school year, please signify by saying I. I. All of those opposed, please signify by saying no. Motion pass. We'll use Welley for legal services. Next would be the authorization for use of independent hearing officers for expulsion hearings held in the uh year 2526 school year.

063Hopefully there will be none but in the event that there is some we have to um appoint that that is also usually been wild Riley in the past that has come to provide those services. So what are we what is the action item here? Just the fact that we will use an independent one or that we will use Weld Riley that you're going to use an independent hearing officer. Yes. Okay. And the reason for the independent hearing officer, they're not there to represent the district. They're making sure that the district is there to follow all statutory requirements of an expulsion hearing, which there are many, having gone through a few. We haven't had many, and that's a good thing. But the quickest and easiest way for an expulsion hearing to go wrong is to not

064follow the statutory particulars. So that person's there to make sure you have the guard rails on. So the motion would be to use an independent hearing officer for expulsion, but not necess doesn't have to be locked into one. Is there a motion to um use an independent hearing officer for expulsion hearings? I would move to use an independent hearing officer for expulsion hearings in 2025 2026 school year. Is there a second? I'll second that. It's been properly moved and seconded that school district will use an independent hearing officer for expulsion hearings held in 2526. Is there any further discussion? Hearing none, we'll proceed to vote. All those in favor, please signify by saying I. I. All those opposed, please signify by saying no. Motion passed. The school district will use an independent hearing officer for

065any expulsion hearings held in 2526. Next is the appointment of CISA 11 delegate. And it looks like we have an annual convention of school district board reps. Is that um included in that or we've been doing that for years? And that would be Monday, June 2nd at 7 p.m. Any volunteers? Yeah. If anybody's interested in it, um this meeting, if it's one that I'm thinking about, we um we meet with the other representatives and then they do some elections on who's going to be involved in what, you know, throughout that year. Um, and then the big one is the con the state convention, which you're not obligated to go to, but you should go to if you can. And that falls right in that January time frame that I'm not available. Um, I went I

066was able to go two years ago and I couldn't go last year um just because of that conflict. So, if somebody is interested in in being that representative and and also keep in mind that that state convention, even if you're not the delegate, if you're free and you want to go, you can go. board. The big thing is going to be just the the local contact here with CIS 11 and it is a budgeted it has been and will continue to be a budgeted item for at least one board member but with that budget line it's enough for two maybe even three to be in attendance for the state convention and it's probably in my opinion it's the most beneficial convention to actually go to and they have a lot of firsttime board member activities

067and tracks for you to kind of participate in, including a three-hour marathon session called School Finance 101. It's great. It was fun. I just want to point out there's actually two different delegates and we're only voting tonight on the CISA 11 delegate. We would vote on the WSB delegate at another time. In the past, we've done it at the same time, but it's so far in advance for someone to come into January that we're just doing the CE. The local stuff. So, is anyone interested in that? Is this something odd for a new person to do? Not at all. No. I'll go. Okay. Fantastic. April, would you volunteering to be a CISA 11 delegate? Are there any oppositions to April being the CISA 11 delegate? Do we have a motion to appoint April as the

068CISA 11 delegate? I'll make a motion that we appoint April or nominate April for that position. Is there a second? Second. Is there any further discussion of appointing April as the CISA 11 delegate? Hearing none, we'll proceed to vote. All those in favor of April being the CISA 11 delegate, please signify by saying I. I. I. All those opposed, please signify by saying no. April, you are the CISA 11 delegate. Motion pass. Thank you for volunteering. I can walk us through the next item, the board of appointed committees. We have some replacements that we're in need of with departures. So, the building and grounds committee, we um uh meet once a month and we have a lot to see over the course of the last year and a half. Um, and we'll have a lot

069more to see cuz we have some big decisions on the horizon. Uh, Joe Beeran was the building and grounds rep along with Steve Astro. So, it would be nice to have another board member. I'm not sure if there's any volunteer there. I would volunteer. Okay, that sounds great. The community ed advisory committee, um, Tracy's replacement as director of community ed makes sense. That would be a logical fit for that person. And then Dale Johnson was the other person. So we would need someone to step in there. I would do that one. Okay. Curriculum oversight. Uh Jessica's the point person on curriculum and instruction in the school district of Amry. Um they meet two, three, four times a year depending on um the curriculum order and it and its size and we have some big tickets

070coming up with mathematics here. Uh we would need a new person on the curriculum oversight committee. I would be interested in that. Okay. and jump in if you want to disagree and say human growth and development committee I think the obligation is every two years correct and we have met I think last year so we'd be up again next year so we would need um a representative not from the board but another student representative because the person that's on there is graduating so we'll grab someone for that technology committee uh we'll make the name changes uh with the the new hires that would fill in there. There's no board change there. Outdoor ed, we have a retiree there with Colleen, so we could grab another staff person there. And I think that wraps it up.

071Okay, thanks for volunteering everybody. Uh, is there a motion to accept the board appointed committees? I would move to accept the board appointed advisory committees. Is there a second? Second. Is there any further discussion on uh board appointed advisory committees at this time? The only question I have is do we have to revisit anything that those other people are asked were appointed that we didn't talk about? We can if you're referring to like for instance human growth and development. Yeah. We have uh over the course of the last two or three cycles we moved some people on the list and some people off based on availability. Do we have to make a motion on it at that time? We haven't in the past. I think this is more for who's going to be the board

072person. That's what I figured. Some folks have simply retired out of the profession. They no longer work in that area and so they're no longer available or interested. For make sure that we know what committee discussion. Okay. Hearing none, we'll proceed to vote. All those in favor of accepting the 2526 board appointed advisory committees as changed, please signify by saying I. I. All those opposed, please signify by saying no. Motion passed. Larry, April, welcome aboard to your your appointed committees. All right, that takes care of all the housekeeping business except I do know that April has to leave at 8:00 tonight with her first board meeting. She's got a conflict. She's heading down through the tornado alley to go to Arkansas for for a graduation, your family obligations. And so, um, just wanted to let

073people know that April needs to get up and leave at 8:00. April, please feel free to do that and get on the road. Be safe tonight while you're driving. Thank you. Okay, moving on to consent agenda items. Gwen, I believe that was you tonight. Yes. Uh, all questions were answered and so I would move to accept the um consent agenda items. Second. 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 tonight, please signify by saying I. I. All those opposed, please signify by saying no. Motion passed. Consent agenda items are approved. Off to administrative reports. You got off easy last month. You're back on this month. Gosh, you're up. There's

074not much going on. Not at all. It's been the, you know, I went back to our last board meeting where we all ran from here the fine arts concert. It was a great night that night and choir, the art displays. Um, we had the state solo and ensemble contest down in Oaklair. We had bus load full of singers and instrument players down at Oaklair. It was a great day. Senior awards night, May 7th, senior class trip last Wednesday. Gorgeous weather, 80°. It was a great day. Kids had a blast. I told all the parents we could have dropped them off at 9:00, said we'll be back at 2:00 and nothing wrong would have happened except for there had been a lot of hungry kids. Just fabulous group. Last Friday, graduation practice, the senior walks, splendid

075day, and we had a great graduation yesterday. So, coming up, we've got uh spring playoffs are just around the corner for our sports team. And June 5th, we have our underassman show kind of thing that we do in the morning. And a shout out to Tracy Hendrickson for creating her 10th and final senior walk video. It was fantastic. If you haven't seen it, you should check it out. Um, I watched it with my son at the end of the day when it when it chipped out and went through both in tears. It was fantastic. And senior walk at the elementary is the next level. I can tell you that much. There's it's like the wall of sound over there. So awesome. That's pretty cool. Tom, you're up. All right. Well, we just uh completed our

076Genius Hour Expo on May 9th. I don't know if anyone was able to be there in the board but uh we had uh 300 different presentations from the students and for the you know I know we've presented on genius hour before but the concept is to give the kids voice and choice to present about their passion and present it and research it and then um basically use whatever strategies they want to also convey their information. So there's um a lot of voice and choice there. um saw everything from what adaptive technologies help students with disabilities. These are student driven um to what strategies help prevent bullying to um some research projects on um what types of foods help goats be more productive. So it was all kinds of things and we had a little like

077on a regular own farm going back there. There was steers and cows and goats and pigs and everything on the back a tractor. someone was showing up the tractor. Um and and then we followed that up uh with our 26th annual 8th grade youth jam, which is sounded like an eighth grade graduation um activity for the kids. Um Memorial Day parade's coming up this coming Monday, and our sixth grade has now joined the seventh and eighth grade band, and they've been preparing the music and playing together for the last two or three weeks. And uh today we had to move lunches and for the next two weeks move lunches around so that they can get out and practice marching because band typically is at the end of the day and there's too much traffic with

078parents coming in. So we then move and they march outside and they were practicing marching getting ready for the Memorial Day parade on this Monday. And if you haven't been to the Memorial Day program, it's pretty neat and it's a really really neat uh way to see our students interacting with a lot of seniors and um a lot of uh the old guard from the Legion. It's really fun. And then not just marching when they play when they march, but they also perform at the program. It's a really neat um neat deal. Uh on in May on May 30th, our sixth grade will be attending the Pioneer Village field trip. And this is part of the history program. So they get to see what what school and life was like back in the pioneer days.

079Uh last day of school June 5th. Uh June 14th and the 28th we have the same group kids will be performing in the Clayton parade and then the Clear Lake parade. And summer school starts June 16th. Uh but I want to really want to do thank the band Mrs. Sunderland, Mrs. Rose Lungren and all those parents that help with the parades and they're invaluable. So that's what's going on at the middle school. Thanks for being flexible for the traffic situation, too. That's I know that's not easy to have to move lunches and things. Well, we make it work for them. Thank you. All right. Good evening. Um, each summer we offer summer workbooks to all of our elementary and intermediate school students. So, every pair has the option to buy a workbook just to make

080sure that learning continues over the summer. Last year was the first time that we offered it to um our title one students as a free resource when we use our community or we use our angel funds to be able to pay for that. So we did offer that again. And so using our building angel funds at both the elementary and the intermediate school, we were able to purchase 37 summer workbooks at the elementary and 39 workbooks for students at the intermediate school. So, just want you to know how those angel funds are being used and it's a fantastic resource for our kids to hopefully continue their learning throughout the summer. Um, leading literacy as an administrator. I've had two different opportunities this year to present to either principles or different administrators just to really share

081what's happening in Amory. So, the first one was in October. I presented um at the principal's conference um in on the east side of the state uh just discussing literacy and how we are leading it here in the school district of Emory and then this past month CISA also invited me to talk at our principles network meeting um just to guide on how we're accomplishing the task of act 20 but then also how we're growing our readers and so I'm very confident to say that we're doing really great things when they're asking us to reach out and and share how we're handling all of it. um fifth grade math masters. So, we already had students here talking to you about that restorative discipline training. So, myself, Mr. Milan Archek, our uh school counselor here, and

082then Mr. Graham's a school counselor at the elementary school. Um we did a full training on restorative discipline training. And so, that's moving from uh punitive consequences to more restorative discipline consequences. And so that focuses on increasing instructional time but really really working to build a sense of community with kids and that they have value. And so um you know if if there's harm done here at school then we work hard to fix that harm here. So whether that's repairing a friendship um helping you know with the restorative practice here um that's something that we've been shifting to over the last couple years. And so that was a full day training and I feel like all three of us felt like it was very well worth our time to do that. um fifth grade Montasuri

083concert. So we had that just several weeks ago. So that was our fifth grade band and our fifth grade Montasauri together and it it was fantastic. So thank you kind of echoing off of what Tom says about our music department. It was fantastic. It's fun to hear our first beginning band students as they're starting their career with us. Um Mrs. Sunderland also had her fifth grade band sign up just a couple weeks ago. And so I'm happy to say our number has increased from the board report that you have in front of you. We have 58 students that have signed up for band. So that is about 65% of our students. So over half sign up for our band program every year. Um in addition to that more band, Mrs. Sunderland, Mrs. Curtis, and all

084of our fifth grade students take an entire day and they go to unity. And so they have different instructors that work with them, but then they also do a whole group festival at the end where they put all these bands together and they learn different songs throughout the day and then they play them at the end. And um it's always a really great opportunity for our kids to just hear different music and kind of be put on the spot in terms of learning something and working with other districts. Um our kids really really enjoy it. Earth Day program. So each year we welcome the Amory Women's Club to come in and they read a book to each grade level. They do a craft and activity. They talk about the history and the importance of Earth

085Day. Um our students really enjoy it. So I always want to thank the women's club for that. That's an annual event that our teachers really look forward to. Um, and then finally, we had our kinship celebration last week. So, all of the kinship students from the high school came over and had a party with our three through five students here. And I really want to thank P County. I want to thank our high school kids that show up every week. You see these big kids walk in our building and kids are our littles are so impressed and think they're just the coolest kids around. And so, they show up every week. They give our kids a half hour of their time. I'll walk around the neighborhood and they're either playing a game or reading a

086story or just talking about their weekend and that really means a lot. So, I want to thank Amy Danielson as well who organizes all of that for us. It's a fantastic support for our kids and and we're really grateful to have our high school kids that we do. When we talk about upcoming events, we uh did not have our track and field day uh tomorrow. We won't be having it tomorrow just with the predicted weather. So, we've made the call that that will actually happen on May 22nd. Uh, in addition, our Title One parent meeting will also happen on Thursday, May 22nd. The weather looks a little bit better. Uh, May 21st, we have our schoolwide title one leadership team meeting. So, in order to be to remain a schoolwide title one program, we have

087to meet multi multiple times throughout the year with our leadership community committee. on that committee is um myself, our reading teachers, a couple grade level teachers, and then actually some community members as well to be able to look over our title one school plan. Um we'll do that again in the fall, which then gets the stamp of approval, which will then be our our plan moving forward next fall. So, this is just wrapping up, making sure that we met our goals for the year. Um in addition to many field trips that are actually happening over the next couple weeks, our big uh kind of end of the um intermediate school era for our fifth graders is our May 28th and May 29th. Our fifth graders will go to Camp Waffle and they spend two full

088days there going through a series of um different stations and our kids really really like it. It's a good it's a good experience and it's a great thank you to them for giving us their last three years of being here. Thank you. Okay, as you already heard Jessica say, we were planned for tomorrow, but doing a track meet when it's 45 and raining is probably not going to be the best experience. We're moving her on to Thursday. We've got a couple of upcoming field trips happening this week. The kindergarten uh kids are heading to Frozen. Uh that's happening on Wednesday. We have the Makasauri Children's House is heading to Bonder Rosa. Um, and we have Memorial Day off next week, Monday, and we have one of the bigger events at the elementary school, the hot

089dog, the last day of school. So, I stand ready at the grill. I don't have Josh Gold's skills at the grill, but I'll you do you do, he says. I work the grill with Josh's assistant at the senior trip many a time. We'll be able to make her happy. Maybe Josh needs to come to the elementary school and help you out on that last day of school for the hot dog. Nothing would be going on at the high school. Well, you already got rid of one class, so maybe you can wear the lobster suit. Be awesome. That would be awesome. And that's all I have. Go ahead. Uh yeah. Um just want to do a special shout out to the special education teams in the building. This time of year, we start building the schedules

090um for students supported by for next school year. Um and it is a major big puzzle. You shift one student and you start over. So, they're working really hard at that. So, I would like to shout them out to appreciate their work. Um, one of my favorite parts of the um end of the school year is that I get to sit in in graduation IEPs. Um, we have to have a final meeting for any student supported by an IEP before they graduate. It's kind of a culmination of all the work they've done and then we get their paperwork prepared for their next step. So, they're all set once they leave us. And it's really fun to get to celebrate um each one individually that way. Um, we actually had five students last month go to

091CI 11. They hold a um kind of they called it the treasure hunt this year for students support part of NIP for deaf and heart of hearing. Um and a lot of the work that this teachers from CISA um do with these students is working on advocacy skills for themselves and learning how to take care of their hearing aids, learning how to ask for help, making sure their microphones are on. Um so they have all the students in CISA 11 area. They invite them to CISA and they do a great big day of celebration and they call it treasure hunt to learn some skills. So, we got to have five go to that. And then finally, um, just this week, this past week, I got the privilege of meeting with all the special education support

092staff for their end of the year. It's one of my favorite days that I get to spend with them. Um, again, we are very lucky. We have some amazing support staff in our in our building. So, it was fun to celebrate with them and look at their year. Thanks, administrative team. Any questions for the administrators under the reports? Just the only question I have is for Jessica. Um just because you mentioned act 20 and and your talks and your you know going around. I know we talked about it months ago. Can you remind me are we in act 20? Are we in the process of preparing for act? We're we're in we are there really wasn't the process of preparing for act 20. It was kind of here it is. We've taken the entire year

093to navigate it. At first, the DPI said we're going to initiate it in September. It wasn't ready to roll out. So, per Act 20, we've screened our students in winter and spring and up and coming. You have a promotional policy that we're going to talk about with act 20. So, um, a lot of just the speaking I did on literacy was not only navigating it, Act 20, but then also how we how are we using that to really be champions of our kids. And I think we've done a really great job here. Thank you. I think that's a large part of your leadership on that and being welcome here. Thank you. Thanks, Jos. All right, off toformational items. First reading of clubhouse childcare compensation and benefits guide. Well, over the course of the last couple

094of months, uh, as led by John McBride and Gretchen Wahberg, we have been engaged with the clubhouse child care staff in regards to a handbook, which is all their own. There are circumstances are simply unique enough to where it warrants needing a different document. It just is a different entity. So what you see here is a first reading of the clubhouse childcare compensation and benefits guide and it's mirrors much of the same language as the support staff and the certified staff but again some of the workplace scenarios just look different. Last Monday evening, we had a listening session with members of the clubhouse staff. We had a half dozen or so folks there with April Sh, myself, John, and Gretchen. And most of the conversation surrounded really, I don't want to steal anyone's thunder, but

095really two topics. The the notion of PLT, which is personal leave, time, and then the uh how do you cover shifts, the switching of shifts, so to speak. And um that's the document you see. If you're not making a motion to approve and it's done and over with and passed, you'll see it again next month. But if there's any questions that folks have, John Gretchen, I we all work the system so we can all help you. Um I'm not sure if you want to do any walk through the document. I know you've all seen it. Um that's up to you. However you if you have questions, this would be a great time to ask points of clarity. Go ahead, Larry. Go ahead. Yeah, I would have a question with regard to work schedules. Uh, trading

096shifts with other staff members is not allowed. I I'm just curious as to what the the issues are there. Well, so there's there's if if I may, there's there's kind of two two separate So the issue that the uh clubhouse or child care staff have raised is um primarily as it revolves around ratios. And that's where a large percentage or a large portion of why we're doing this uh clubhouse handbook separately is because a lot of their language has to revolve around the ratios. So for instance, and I am not the ratio expert whatsoever. Um but for infants 6 months to one year, the ratio I believe is one adult licensed teacher to six infants. Okay. But then when you get up to two year olds now you're one for every 18. Uh so Clubhouse's

097contention is if we can switch shifts it can help to make it easier to hit those ratios so that we're not having to have uh Rachel the the director step into classrooms and so that we can kind of meet some more of those licensing guidelines. Um the issue has always been that as soon as you unrestricted allow people to switch shifts in lie of PLT, they're just continually getting additional PLT days without calling it a PLT day. Um so that's kind of when is that a I mean is that a fair way of saying that? Well, you kind of because they're still working. Yes, they're still making up for that day. Correct. However, it does then being allowed to change so much, they can bank those PLT hours and then get paid out at the

098end of their career for them. And then it it raises some ethical questions and and really raises budgetary questions of if you were allowed to take a day off that you needed off, but yet you switched it with somebody else. you were still working the hours, but you're maintaining that PLT time. So, it's getting a benefit that you instead of using that benefit, you're just gaining them. And then that has real implications to the district after a while. Um, not that we we sat in this listening session and it was April and I did and it this was the biggest source of contention with the employees. So we asked them what that process looks like and right now there isn't a good process for that to happen. It's left to the employees themselves to kind

099of work out which as a board member as administration causes concern that when you leave it up to the employees that well I was supposed to switch with so and so and then so and so didn't show up and now you have ratio problems and now what do we do? We don't have subs. Um, currently that is like unchecked and they can do that as many times as they wanted to. The the proposal here is zero. Um, then they they kind of floated out maybe four. Um, I had said in the meeting maybe we beat in the you know we go with two. I wouldn't be necessarily as a board member opposed to doing it twice in a year's time. I don't think it's going to have that much of an implication to our our

100budget at the end of the year's uh paying out, but it certainly can't be left unchecked and it certainly needs to have a process in order to do that. Right. And so we talked about instead of them just making the arrangements between themselves that they should go to Rachel, the director, and then she could try to find a person that would be willing to swap with them in one of their two times that they were able to because then it's really accounted for. Okay. The any other issue that we had with that is that we have leads there. So we have lead teachers versus just our regular uh employees. And so you wouldn't want to take a regular employee and put them in a position of a lead where skill sets are different. They're they're

101being they're leads for a reason. Um so they would have to be kind of swapped within their same roles. So regular teachers would swap with regular teachers and then leads would be able to swap leads. But being able to inter swap those that becomes difficult. I don't. Yeah. And I I would just add one more thing which is just simply it can be a logistical nightmare because you have 30ish staff who are working approximately five to six different schedules. Some are 10our days, some are 8 hour days, some are 6our days, some are threehour days, some are an hour and a half a day. And so you you're trying to put those into all of these different pieces and who can cover what while still maintaining overtime boundaries, while still maintaining ratios. It's just by

102the time if you were to let it go unchecked, we would find that Rachel, the director's job, is just simply scheduling. Yeah. And that's not what the the mission is here. and and the and then we have the whole idea of 10our shifts versus eight hour shifts versus five and a half hour shifts, right? So we have three different shifts down there too. So if you're asking somebody to take that's normally a five and a half but then taking a 10 then what does that look like as far as acrewing PLT and all those things because it's the value of a day. So I would be opposed to as a board member I would be opposed to looking at something there to that's not zero but not unlimited either. Does does does trying to get

103your hands around that and control that also create a problem where you don't have the flexibility then? Yeah, that's the dance I think you have here. We don't want to create an inflexible system where we can't cover the kids that we need to cover. But right now, it's sort of the wild wild west where people are switching and Rachel's simply finding out about it on the fly when everybody else is finding out about it. So, we've already created a form which declares who you are, where you're going, when you're doing it, etc. So, you can account for so Rachel would actually have something to look at and say, "All right, next Tuesday I got so and so's going over here." because she literally is finding out in real time as it's happening and that is

104getting dangerous. How is how is she scheduling those people? I think she does it via hand. I think she needs to see it and move it around. I know that's I think that's how she does it. You certainly could do it electronically, but she literally needs to see it the moving parts of it. Uh but I don't know that she fully is able to have a handle on if it's the employees decision. that just gets a little sketchy. It's dangerous. I would I would say that if if it was something that the board wanted to entertain as far as language for um being able to switch shifts, it would be a district office created and implemented process with oversight on our end as well um with input from from Rachel. So, it wouldn't be I

105mean, we we've kind of it would probably end up being very similar process to how we're doing certified staff and support staff. um uh time off requests and those types of things with approval chains and everything um which we've gotten pretty good at. So um but we would definitely have to help manage that. Yeah, I I know it's a headache, but I also it was a it was a valid concern, I think, and especially when you have a number of employees. It it is one of our hardest areas to keep employees. Um and we have a number of employees who are currently used to the way it is. It's very hard to go from something to nothing. Um, as a, you know, I guess as a, you know, good faith effort on the on the

106board's behalf, I would like to advocate that we would not go to zero, but to keep something, but with checks and balances from the I think it would it would run more efficiently. I think it would be better for the administrative staff this way to do it to do it this way. Um, and if we run into problems, we can always revisit this. This is something that we would revisit every year just like we do the certified um and uh um non-certified staff and support staff handbooks. So, yeah. But if we make these changes and find it's an issue, we need to revisit it sooner than a year. Yes. Yes. Always. Yeah, you can bring it up. Of course. Can you tell me do the are those uh those roles those those jobs those folks

107have are those steady jobs in that you know it's the same time every day for that individual they come in and go or they fluctuating week to week no not usually okay they're if they're a 410 Tuesday is my day off they literally speak that language Tuesday is my day off yeah it come I think the factor is when people are gone or have vacations or have babies and Rachel's that to figure something. So, it's not scheduling in general, it's scheduling the special circumstances. Yeah. And I I would also I I would just add that I there might also need to be language in there that and I don't know what that would look like right now that this could be essentially blocked out for a period of time. um because we do have quite

108a few that are going to be going out on maternity leave here coming up between now and the end of fall. And so I think if if we just again if we unrestricted, we're already going to be, you know, uh running a real tight ship there this fall with all the maternity leaves going on. And so this might not be able to actually happen. And I think it needs to be at the discretion of the the the director. Yes. You know, if and when based on availability of other full-time employees. That's how I think I would look at doing that because we did talk about the number of um people going out on maternity leave. So, yeah. And I look at it as another added benefit that they get. They do have paid time off

109right now. It's not like they don't get time off. This is allowing them two extra opportunities to switch without having to use their Yes. And I I think that was kind of the gist of the discussion that we had the other night is that um you know they wanted a number of four was thrown out. I personally feel that four is too many when you are afforded other paid time off opportunities. Um and so but I thought that two would might be a a good compromise um that it would be a detrimental hit and you're not then gaining things that other people aren't gaining. John, can you also speak to the the value of a day necessarily of PLT and why we're moving to this why this was created? Yeah, without without going into the

110the full 20 minute um kind of presentation, if you will, I have faith you can do it in three. Yeah. Essentially, um when we were going through this process, um a little bit before then, um we since the in since its inception, we have allowed staff members to work 10-hour shifts, whether that be on three 10-hour shifts or four 10-hour shifts. I will say, thank you. Um the by virtue of just simple clerical error or computer glitch um those who work 10-hour shifts have been acrewing PLT in increments of 10 hours. So their day has been equivalent to 10 hours versus uh for instance a custodian who works five 8 hour shifts same 40 hours worked was only acrewing eight. So by the time you amatize that out for the 40 a week folks that

111are 12 months a year they were clubhouse employees were acrewing 120 hours 12 * 10 12 * 10 and everyone else was getting 96 being 8 time um furthermore the three 10-hour three 10-hour a week individuals were getting 120 hours of PLT because it was the value of a day times 10 hours. So they were acrewing 120 hours annually versus others who work 30 hours in the district were only acrewing 72 which would be eight time or which would be six times 12. And so that that right there is no small inequity. I mean that's a pretty large inequity. Uh and the the confusion honestly stems from the definition of what is a day. Is a day is a day your day what you work or is a day based off of averages. Um, my

112contention and I believe Sean's as well is that we have to look at what is a workday as it relates to the vast majority of employees in the school district of Amarine, which would be 40 hours divided by five working days would give you a value of eight. Um, so therefore, the language that's reflected in this handbook is essentially going to And Becky, if you want to just scroll to the the point on their letter of appointment. Um, so remember where that is? Is it above it? It's below it. Is it? No. Yeah, the example. Yeah. So, what what we would seek to do, and this would be uh only on their letters of appointment. Um this is not currently on anyone else's letters of appointment, but you can see next to that little arrow

113tick there, one that says paid time off value. So, we would take what their contracted or their letter of appointment hours would be, divide them by five, and that would be what they would acrue as far as PLT is concerned. If we do that then regardless of whether you're 410, 310, you're one day working 40 hours, however that would happen, regardless, you would still acrue paid time off the same as every other uh staff member that's in your category here in the school district of Apr. I think that and the reason I'd asked is because the other concern is obviously people are upset that they're going to be losing hours but they're not really losing hours because our people that have already acrewed their PLT get to keep those. Yes. So um unfortunately we do

114have you know we have the two types of people that everybody has. You have the type of person that it keeps every PLT hour group that they acrew and then you have the people that use them faster than they can get them. So so they don't have it. Um, but that's just the nature of the beast. So, and I I will add just a couple other quick points. Um, I was proactive in that one of the beautiful things about working for a school district is when you call other school districts, we don't view each other as being competition for kids or for staff. Um, so there's this free flow of information that you can gather. Um, and I've spoke to five different districts over the course of a week and I can tell you that

115their number is 96 hours. That's the number. Whether they do that in days or they do that in hours, their total v whether they call it vacation, PTO, PLT, sick days, blah blah blah. At the end of the day, 40hour a week staff are entitled to 96 total hours of paid leave time of some variety uh throughout the course of the year. Um, so I believe that this would make it equitable and as a gesture of goodwill, we will be on June 30th, we will run a report based off of bank leave their bank leave time and they will get credited as a day being equivalent to 10 hours for rolling into next year. So in theory, if you had 50 banked PLT days, you'll have 500 hours on the first of the year. So,

116so they will be they will be allowed to take hours instead of taking correct. Yes. I I apologize. So, that's essentially what the change is districtwide. Everyone else will still take it off as a day. Clubhouse will be taking it off in increments of hours and they understand that portion. Correct. Um the other big thing was shifts that now um everybody that would apply and get hired moving forward is no longer that option of those 5 and 1 half or 10our shifts. It's 8 hour shifts. So five eight five days a week. That's it. But the people that are here now that are on their 10our schedules that they like their four tens or their three tons, they are going to be able to keep them. So we're not moving forcing any current employees to

117a new schedule. They're going to be able to keep those. So they'll be grandfathered in. Y just so the board understands until they resign until they resign. If they get rehired, then they're back then they're on as 58. So even if they worked here before, they cannot come back as whatever they were prior. But if they stay on for 20 years, they can still they can stay their shift that they have. Were were the was the 10hour schedule put in place for the role that was in place or was it put in place for the convenience of the employee? The the I think it was to cover classes. Correct. I think so. I think there's some of both. Correct. I think there's some of both. Yeah. There was also at the time um I think

118there was a fair number of the staff that was also enrolled in school uh in in post-secary education. Uh and so they were utilizing that off day as being their school day to be in in person. Um and and again that that's not to say that we're trying to not encourage them to go to school. Um but I think there's other flexibility that can be made versus compromising that. Um but yeah, I would agree with John. I I think it was to to cover those ratios. So, so then the followup was would be if you go to eight hours for everybody, does that create another problem and that you wouldn't have the coverage that you would need? Yeah. I don't I don't think it does. I think Rachel has mapped that out well enough to

119know that it it will not. Yeah. It's a matter of how you schedule them in because 8 hours doesn't mean 8 to 4, right? You schedule them to overlap because we're open 6 to 6 a.m. 12 hour day, right? It's a 12 hours. You can't do it just by everyone doing 8 to 4. Yeah. So, you got to stagger them. And and that was kind of the argument that was brought from the employees is that well if you get rid of our 10-hour shifts then we don't have that continuity because they're seeing somebody else when they drop you know set child off and then they're seeing another person when they pick up. But that's going to be the case anyway because most people have their children here more than those eight or 10 hours anyway.

120So it's that's it happens anyway. We we have plenty of methods available to staff to communicate with parents if need be or if the parents want to. I mean, we've got I I without listing them, I mean, you if you really needed to communicate with those parents or they needed to communicate with you, they certainly have multiple avenues that they can do that. So, that was just our job as um the people that were there at the listing session. Those were the I said to what was your top things that you would like to have the board hear on their behalf and that those were the top three um items of discussion. In fact, those were the only items of discussion. Although I think that there were people that who came to that meeting who

121were unsettled who felt much more settled after they left because I don't think they understood in that depth the first couple of presentations that you gave that they were able to just ask more questions and and be more comfortable. So it sounded like really I mean I think if I would have to say on behalf of the the employees is just the the biggest concern of being able to trade those shifts was um after everything was hammered out was kind of their biggest thing that they wanted the board to address. So no action required first reading. Can I just clarify? Am I hearing that on the second reading you would like to see language under work schedules a proposed language that allows a small amount of shift change swapping? I would advocate for to see

122uh up to two uh times in a year with uh to the discretion of the adviser. That would be my personal Well, that the draft version of it is too. Yes. Yes. So that would that would be my personal um opinion on that, but that's obviously for the board to weigh in what they would like to the rest of the board to see if they want to put that in or not. You need a motion now. No, I don't think so. No, we just if he we can bring it next month and we'll have it then part of it. Yeah. So we'll vote at that time and then it's either in or out. Anything else anybody had any questions on? All right, we'll move on then to act 20, fourth grade promotion. Jess, wonderful. This

123is the first reading. So, per act 20 by July 1st, we have to have an adopted uh board policy that talks about fourth grade promotion. So, um a student who is in third grade who has not exited a personalized reading plan, uh personalized reading plans, the acronym is PRP. So any student between grades K and three can um be developed a PRP which says that they are not uh meeting the assessment benchmarks that have been laid out by the state of Wisconsin using Ames web as a screener but then also using fastbridge which we have locally as a diagnostic assessment for them. Um so what you have in front of you is the is the first draft. This is very similar um to what many districts are rolling out. DPI has provided some guidance on

124it and so this draft was developed by by that guidance from the DPI. So I won't read the whole thing but I'll I'll definitely hit on some topics that I feel like are important within our plan. Um so this needs to be adopted by July 1st. It will not go into effect until July 1st or till September 1st of 2027. Um the guidance on that is it gives us time as a district to uh put some big things in place. for example, um we have to offer intensive reading instruction in the summer for a student that's on a PRP. And so that takes time. Um so we're looking to implement this um in September 1st of 2027, which was recommended by the DPI, which I would say most districts around us, if not all, um

125are looking for an implementation date of September 1st of 2027. Um there's two different sections in it. So again, this is for a student who has not demonstrated um reading proficiency, has a has a has a PRP, and at the time of when they're moving on to fourth grade has not met the criteria to exit that PRP. So I'm I'm under section two right now. Um so part of the process is um is that a student of IND a team of individuals will engage in the determination process. So, it's a team of us that will look at the data to make a determination if the student will be promoted or retained. Um, representatives from the school will consider all available data demonstrating the students response to reading instruction and interventions. Um, and so that will

126come from FastBridge and Ames Web Plus and then also the Wisconsin Board Exam. And on the back of the first page, um, representatives from our school will determine whether the student is eligible for a good cause exemption. I'll share those in just a moment. Um, if the student has an IEP in the area of reading or is an English learner with a language acquisition plan, the school representatives will review the student's progress towards those goals and communicate that to the parent or guardian. Um, representatives from the school will communicate long-term risks of retention. There's a wide body of research out there that that demonstrates that holding a student back or retaining a student has significant impacts socially, emotionally, and even academically. And so the bullet points that you see underneath that um are actually researchbased.

127The DPI has shared those out. So those are are pulled from the DPI's recommendations of these are the long-term effects of retaining this student. Those would be shared with parents as we go into this conversation to let them know just the effects that could happen. Um representatives from the school will consider alternatives to retention. The school will not deny any student advancement to fourth grade based solely on the students performance in reading in the third grade state summitive assessment or universal screener. The school district will not deny any language learner English language advancement to fourth grade solely based on language proficiency. The team may conclude that promotion is in the best interest of a student even if the team also concludes based on clear communication that the student was unable to complete their PRP due

128to a student's lack of reading proficiency. And then the final bullet point is um we will then make a recommendation of promotion or retention for that student. Um on the final page you will see based on the holistic evaluation the entire team will make one of the following choices. is then based on the parent meeting. We share all this research with them. We will either make the promotion to fourth grade um with applicable services and supports. Um the student's non-comp completion of the student's PRP was not primarily due to the student's lack of reading and the student isn't promoted. Their parents are guardians and school reps agree that the retention is more appropriate than promotion to fourth grade and the students or parent parents will give written cons consent for that retention. And then the

129fourth is the school representatives recommend retention but the student's parents or guardian does not consent to retention regardless of any other facts, circumstances or analysis. The student is then promoted to fourth grade. So these are are our guidance for promoting a student or retaining a student. Um and then section three just describes the post-promotion mandates and exceptions. And so with that we're saying that we will provide intensive instructional services, progress monitoring and supports to remediate which we currently do. and and have continued to do. Um, we will notify the parents or guardians in writing that the student did not complete a PRP and we'll include a description of the intense instructional services that support. So, that will be happening at the end of the year this year. So, our students that have not exited a

130PRP, we will be communicating that home with parents. We will be sending a letter to say your student did not complete their PRP, they didn't exit out of it, um, but they will be moving on to fourth grade. And then on the very back page are some good cause exemptions. And so again, that's limited English proficient, a student that has an IEP, um a student that scores proficient in the DI dynamic learning maps or another standardized assessment, a student has a 504, or the student has received intense interventions in reading for two or more school years and continues to demonstrate that deficiency. So this is we're presenting you as our first reading of our district's fourth grade promotion policy. So I have two questions. What's the reason for the delay from 25 to 27? Is

131it because you're trying to build it? What it does is it allows us as a district to build all these commitments. So, one of the big commitments is that we have to offer intense summer school instruction. And so, you know, we have wonderful summer school teachers right now that teach academics, but what we're saying is starting next summer is that anyone who teaches reading instruction to any of these students, and this is this is going to be a challenge for us to build this. I've already talked to Mrs. children as well is that any teacher who teaches reading in the summer to a student that has a PRP must be taught by a teacher that is highly trained in the science of reading, which all of our teachers K through three are. Several in fourth

132and several in fifth are. Many of our summer school teachers are not. They may not be our teachers. They might be retired teachers who are not trained in the science of reading. So, this allows us time as a district uh to build that capacity. So when summer school comes the following summer is that all of our teachers are highly trained in a science and reading program. We've chosen top 10 tools and that's what we've continued to go with. Um so this allows us the time to build that robust purely about implementation. There are districts that are swimming that do not have the title services and a director of curriculum instruction like Mrs. DM Rochio. There are districts that are truly swimming to try and keep up with this. We're in good shape, but we're in

133good shape because of the staff. Well, and then the next question is how many kids I know it's a loaded question, but how many kids fall into a category now where we would be looking at recommendations to hold them? It's not all kids. It's it's K What? K3, correct? Yeah. Yeah, K3. But between K and three, you've got approximately 400 kids. There's a lot of kids. What was the number? We have approximately I can pull it up while we're talking and I can share it with you, Steve. I would say in third right now, third grade right now, we're looking at about 37 kids that have not exited their PRP. You're looking at between a third and a half of nearly every class and and it's significant in kindergarten and first grade because there are

134screeners that they're using. Um they're they're a lot and and these kids are just learning and we're screening them three times a year, multiple measures. We screen with fast spread, we screen them with Ames web. Um, so we screened in the winter, we screened again here this spring. And the really good news to report is the number of kids that we had fall off and no longer need a PRP. About a quarter of our kids moved out of that category because of the instruction that we provide. There's a lot of gains that are happening in the elementary and intermediate. Correct. Over the course of a year, particularly between se or January and when we did the most recent screening here in April, that's that's a big gain time. And and the reason why is third

135grade research has shown that by third grade you really need to hit them with reading interventions. Really when you're when you're providing reading interventions fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh grade, it's not that it's not important, but early intervention is best, which has always been what we've done here and really have focused on. So we really are growing our learners. having, you know, approximately 35 37 students in third grade here with a personalized reading plan, we would not seek to retain any of them this year. But moving forward, we're going to have to have this in place for any student that doesn't exit and we're going to have to sit down and we're going to have to have conversations with parents and we're going to have to make a recommendation. So, do you do you think that

136there's value in the program as it was presented or do you think that the legislation was designed in a way to promote failure? There's a loaded question and I'm I love curriculum instruction and I love data and so when I look at act 20 there's you know this is me personally speaking I think there's a lot of value and what it's asking schools to do that maybe weren't set up that we're already doing it. I think it was heavy-handed in its language, but our approach has been, well, if we're going to have to do this, then we're just going to do it really well. So, what it's done is it's really pinned us down in regards to the identification of kids. We don't have just one or two data points. Now, we got five and

137six. We really know who those kids are and we're really targeting them and we're moving them forward, but we already were. This is really legislation for school districts that didn't have progress monitoring in place. We've been doing progress monitoring here for 30 years and we progress monitor our kids every week to say has just grown their own. There are districts aren't doing any of this on. So my point is you're see there's a path there's a value to us. There's value. It's a lot of work. I I mean this has consumed my life for for quite some time as well as our title one team. But I will say I feel very good about the work that that we're doing and I think if anything it's just strengthening us as a district when it comes

138to literacy. I really do. and our instructors and our title team are fantastic. So, we are in really good shape in implementing this mandate. And again, some districts are swimming because they don't even have a title team. We got four all-star title teachers. So, we're in very good shape. And a director of cooker and curriculum instruction because that doesn't happen elsewhere as well. This policy, the policy that Jessica has authored, this might be the most significant policy this a board in this district's seen in 30 years. This is a gamecher policy. This asks us to do a ton and that's okay because we already were. Now it's just formalized and this is a monster policy. It is I think Jessica for taking the time to do it because it's really significant what's there but again

139it's sort of doubling down tripling down on what we've already been doing. So next spring when if we have students that haven't exited their PRPS I you know it will require myself and a team to sit down with every single one of these families to describe to them right where their growth is how their progress monitoring where's the gaps and then make a commitment to them um how to move forward. So for me that's just cultivating the relationship even more with parents to say look look what we're all doing for your kid right that we greatly care about your kid. Let's talk about what's best for them. And I think it puts us in a in a good spot just in terms of fostering relationships with with kids and and getting them to grow, right?

140Reading is the key to everything in life. I do want to point out that um especially the last part of this policy really hits that it does put the choice squarely back into the parents hands. I mean this really is um very much parental consent driven when it brass tax comes down to it. So either they can choose to move their child forward because of those things like you said that that would be harmful if holding students back. Um my question is if we have to um have children here over the summer being intensely um educated, what do we think that looks like as far as parental consent for kids to come to school? And then what is our obligation as far as transportation and how does that work with kids that are on IEPs

141and things like that? Maybe that's more for those. There is no teeth in that. We can we can ask it. We can hope for it. We cannot require it. If a parent says no, summer's off, summer's off. We have to offer it, right? We have to offer it. And so part of that offering is that the people who are doing the teaching, the educators that are doing the teaching have to be highly trained in it. And there has to be a seat open for that kid. We can't turn down a kid and say we're at capacity when it comes to academic reading. It is we'll make a seat for you and we'll make sure that we have a really strong educator that has had this training. So, you know, I'm I'm already looking towards next

142summer and what is what does that look like for us? Because it's it's a lot in that that offering as to all of our K3 students is is you know, intense reading intervention throughout the summer. that aspect, the heavyhandedness of this doesn't fit the dynamic of what we face in public education because they don't understand. Not everyone's eagerly anticipating and wanting to put their kid in summer school for intensive reading instruction. I it was honestly the first thing that I they're not there, right? Why would we do that? They'll get it when they come back to school in September disposition, which they will, but this requires us to offer it. So, we'll offer it. And just to highlight how ahead we are as a district is two years ago we adopted an actual reading curriculum.

143I I I worked with Bora and just researched different reading curriculums that were out there as just specific summer programs. Right? We have HMH into reading which we love and has given us great gains. But what could we offer kids so that when they came there was something prescriptive that as if I'm sending a kindergartenner I want to know what is the scope and sequence that my kindergartener is learning that they're learning the skills that they were learning. And so this is year three for us going into a program called the 95% phonics. So we we as a school district, you know, we're offering reading, but we're we're offering you using a a really high quality resource that is backed by the science of reading. So we're already getting giving our kids, you know, five

144weeks of intense reading intervention. Um how act 20 lays that out for us, we might have to pivot a little bit, but we're we're already doing it right. This is year three for us of offering something that's really high quality at this point. So, I just have one question. I want to make sure I'm clear on this. Every student K3 has a personal reading plan. Only if they score below at or below the 25th percentile in Ames Weber. They all were screened. Every kid, not all the 25th, then they've got a PRP. So, I will say our title one team um there I'm going to give them all that credit is we screened all of our K3 students. Any student that was under the 25th percentile which was over about 100 kids had a PRP

145written for them individualized with progress monitoring. So that means every week a teacher is sitting down with a computer and seeing h what have they learned this week. So that was happening every week. We communicated with parents multiple times throughout the year, but each plan was written exactly for that individual kid, whether they had a 504 or an IEP. I mean, we they they really went above and beyond enrolled. So, a student could not be on it as a kindergartener. Yeah. But could go on it as a first grader. Correct. And could exit it and then could come back on as a third grader. How do you exit the PRP? Is it by just completing the requirements set forth in the PRP? Is it through testing? Is it a combination of all of those things?

146So, another thing I'm working on is our early literacy remediation plan and that is not a board pass policy, but it is a school uh plan that we have created for both buildings. I'm going to bring that to you next month that has I think it's seven subsections that I've I've worked on. Um and within that we have exit criteria. So, how does a student get off of a PRP? 25th percentile of what population? State population or local population, national. And then what? Because of having these intensely trained um teachers for summer school, which would be above and beyond our regular. What does that look like as far as a financial impact to the district? Are we going to have to pay more? I don't know yet. I don't know yet. I We We've already

147had to pay more for Act 20. Um not a a staggering amount. Um probably about $25,000 total. And then of course with screeners and everything. Um, so far Jess, Tom, and I have done one kind of subsidy claim for $3,000 and it was aggressive to say the least. Um, I have heard whispers that the state is going to try to weasle that in somewhere into the state budget as well. Whether they do or not is anybody's guess. Um, but you know, we do know that we've got how many educators this year? Three that we have to put through top 10 tools as an immediate uh as an immediate requirement for staying within Act 20 compliance, which is $1,500. Um, so that you know, it's Yeah. So, has it altered the the school district's budget in

148a massive way? No. Uh, could it? It certainly could, but we don't know yet. that the summer school has to be offered free of charge to the parents. But it is at present an unfunded mandate. It is that is absolutely true. That is a very accurate. We just have to make sure that we get the right teachers in that are I envision investing in our educators. We as a district have invested in them and paid for their science and reading training. And so how great would it be to have our teachers our own our own teachers that we've coached and invested in that they're the ones teaching the summer school, right? They're our experts. Do we have willingness from our own staff to give up their summers to to do this? Because that we haven't

149broached that subject because it's a it's a huge commitment. It is a commitment. You're absolutely right. I would also hope that at some point, you know, we could be the district would be paying more for training the trainers than having to submit every individual person through. You know, it'd be great to be able to have someone in house that's not just teaching top 10 tools or whatever the case. I'll give that out. They earn do they can they earn PDH hours for that? Our inhouse training. That's exactly what it is. Yes. Top 10 tools required 45 hours of training for each of these teachers and they were compensated with PDHs. Do we want to clear the confusion between those 14? secret. It won't be secret. Those are my words. So, there's no action required at

150this time. It's a first reading of a very important policy. We will bring it back to here next month. Oh, it's a very comprehensive policy. Obviously, questions, but well written. And any anything else other than questions moving forward with this? Thanks for presenting that tonight. Welcome. All right, off to action items. And there was um on the agenda was the liability insurance renewal with Jim Lee Home. Jim was uh not able to be here this evening. And so we haven't gotten our our we have not gotten our bids back yet. Okay. So that is will um not be an action item tonight. We don't have to table that or anything. We're just going to modify that on the agenda that we'll be skipping over that tonight. Um obviously there's just not enough information there. So

151Skyward cumulative finance and HR software proposal. John, you're up. So I'll be I'll be as brief as humanly possible with this. Um uh essentially the largest software that that we live in um there's two softwares that we live in daily. Um the educators and educational admin live in P school and then the business office lives in a program called Skyward. Um we've been a customer of Skyward since 1994. uh and they've gone through two iterations before what you see in front of you right now which is called cumulative. Um so right now we are actually using two separate softwares more or less that communicate with each other to get the Bailey daily business office needs um taken care of. Um so Gretchen lives in a thing called pack where the rest of us live in

152something called web. So the first page that's in front of you right here is to bring it all back into one big beautiful picture which is called cumulative. Um so if you scroll down just a little bit Becky what you see with cumulative is on the left hand side you have fiscal year 2026 if we were to continue as we did in the previous year versus what it would cost to switch to their new software. Um so as you can see the annual cost to the district is exactly the same. Um it's built differently because it's not all these individual modules. It's all under one umbrella. Um but the annual cost is the same. The biggest thing is that the migration fees are to the tune of $8,000. So that includes um training. Um you

153have to think for just a second. We're going to be merging 10 years worth of budgetary information in a process that takes approximately 12 months to complete. Um, so with your approval, this wouldn't actually be anything that we would even see turned on until April 13th of next year. So that's how long it takes. Um, there's kind of two big big facets for why I'm pushing for this now. Number one, we have to uh they are no longer going to support pack at some point. Uh and right now, and Lonnie can attest to this, PAC is a server on someone else's server at a different place that we don't have control over access to and we have a restricted amount of login that we can do. So, for instance, um Gretchen logs in on that

154under B through is corp. So there's a little bit of a safety concern potentially. Um but you know the the other portion of it is there are modules within cumulative that we could be using to have a much better um and slicker uh uh just kind of operation if that makes sense. Um, so I'm asking for your approval to allow us to spend the additional $8,000 this year uh in order to kind of kick this process off uh and make Aaron Oro's life a lot more complicated in the next 12 months. Well, you should be voting for that right off the bat then. No, actually the the good part about doing these and and again I think if you talk to software or data people, one of the really good things is the first step

155in transitioning to new software is cleaning up your data. And boy, do we have a lot of data in there that just needs to be cleaned up. And it's it might seem very innocuous to some. Um, but in since 1994, we've had how many district administrators versus business office. So, we've got Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction listed as a vendor as WID DPI. We have it as DPI. We have it as DPIW. We have it as So, even just that one one small little bracket um cleaning up data just makes life easier. Um, and it ultimately kind of on the far back end of it also leads to greater transparency because people know what the hell we're talking about. Yeah. And it will not drive our auditors nuts. Correct. Because every year our auditors complain.

156Um, so that that's kind of the first portion of this. The second page, and this is just a uh uh I just wanted to bring this up for the first time since we're talking about the other side. As I mentioned before, we use P school and we use Skyward. Uh P school had a pretty significant data breach here back in December where they were actually the victim of ransomware that they paid. Um and so our impact from a local level was relatively small in that we had fewer than 150 compromised um individuals, meaning that we had social security numbers, that sort of thing. that was in there. Um, and but the impact in St. Croy Falls was much bigger. So, they had thousands of student and staff social security numbers in there to a point

157where they have filed suit against P school. So, in conversations with Sean and in uh kind of the what we're seeing with Powers School as a student information system, um there is some pretty real concern that they're not going to be able to financially pull through and out of the hole that they've kind of gotten themselves into. Uh which if we had to make an immediate change in student information systems, can't do it. this this process right here would be at least 16 months. Uh and that's just because there is an insane amount of data with student enrollments etc. So when we're looking just kind of future um and I will present on this likely in July um the big thing is I think there is some missed opportunities as well. I think Skyward is

158a much better and a more robust student information system. I think from what I've understood from going to conferences, parents are much happier with communication avenues that they have with parent portal information. Uh administration administrators seem to like the data um portion of this. Um in reality, the annual cost of this would actually be saving the district $12,000 a year. Power School costs about 28,000 and if you just kind of look at the average for switching, it's about $16,000 a year through Skyward. And then it's one system. So our entire district, our staff, our teachers, everyone is using one system, one login, which would make Lonnie's life a lot easier. Uh it's more or less one database that we're trying to maintain for compliance reasons. Um, we would be saving money on the annual, but

159if you see that big bottom line under services, it will cost $56,900 in order to actually implement that. The vast majority of that cost is on back-end training for teachers, administrators, etc. Um, I have gotten them to agree to splitting that out over the course of the first three fiscal years. So, it would look like a three-year term deal. Um, and that $56,000 could be split out over the course of those three years just to make cash flow a little bit better. Um, but again, this is just something I just kind of wanted to bring up while we were starting this discussion. So, for today and the reason why it's an action item is for the HR and finance side, the student information side will will not happen without a full in-depth kind of uh

160presentation to you guys. Well, I'm all for this. However, I I do have questions for you and Lonnie, please. Um, these are both hosted elsewhere, right? No servers here, correct? And if you've got concerns over Power School not being around and you're saying it's 16 months, then we're already behind and should we be waiting? And I recognize it's a big undertaking no matter what you do, one system versus the other, but are we focusing on the right system first? So I think we've we've we've had internal discussions that that P school will at least make another year. Uh and that's more or less because legally they have to because everyone's signed. So if if they can't make it another year, um well then you know they're they're going to be even more of a world

161of hurt because the litigation that's going to come out of that would be absolutely insane. Um the the what we've been told is we can condense it as much as fast as we want. Uh and they could have it up and ready in as short as 5 to 7 months for a go live date. The bigger issue is that would put a go live date smack dab in the middle of the school year where we would have to teach other we would have to teach parents, teachers, Sean, I mean you name it. we would have to teach on how to use it and because of all of the various portals and different modules that are a part of it. It is a lot to learn. I think everyone will embrace it. I really do. Um

162I know it's a daunting task. Um but you know I think it can be done. So, I I would say for an expediency standpoint, um I'm not super concerned about that because I think we could be able to get that to be a go live if need be for school year 2627. If they do shut the doors, Lonnie, do we get the data? Yes, we can still get that. Yes. Okay. And then I can't speak to a lot of detail but for the other board members um I will just tell you when my wife has come back from some conferences we are one of very few schools using our school and almost everybody else is on Skyward and I I'll do one pitch and one little plug here. Um, Skyward is a Wisconsin company. So,

163they're based out of Steven's Point and all of their and it's very clear that when they do new things and different modules, they're doing it based off of the state of Wisconsin and how we educate kids in the state of Wisconsin. Um, and so it's even to the point where they're coded in woofer, which is the language that only Wisconsin uh school districts speak. Um, is is It's It's really great. Um, so I I I like it. There was actually several years ago there was a push at the state level to standardize the softwares that all school districts use and they had chose Skyward until they realized that they constitutionally can't mandate softwares. But regardless, so the 569 for the implementation that you've negotiated a three-year three fiscal year split. Is there any fees or

164interest acred with that three? There is not. That's a good question. There is not. So, we're still just paying 569. We're just doing it over three years. Correct. Dumb not to. But that's but that's not what we're actioning on tonight. Not tonight. Tonight, what we are actioning on is the $8,014 for moving us forward with cumulative financing. Right. Do you think that just just knowing that my wife is one of those that's involved in what you're talking about doing, do you think that whoever's in that role, it can get through whatever you need to get through here before you move to the student information side of it? I think you can you you could do both at the same time if need be. Um, we already the first step in doing this is going through

165this diagnostic exercise for downloading and going through and sifting through the data that's going to be transmitted and and gone through. And we're already a pretty good chunk of the way through that list already. Um, there's just a couple of different uh data sets that we've never used that we need to to do. Um, so I think they can be done in conjunction with each other. I would estimate that by the end of this summer we will be done more or less with our portion of the uploading of data to them and it'll be more into the onesie twoosy everything. So if need be we could also be merging uh student information at the same time. It just might take a little bit you know another person if you will. I would make a motion

166that we uh move forward with what was presented on page one. of the Skyward documentation. Is there a second? I'll check. It's been properly moved and seconded to move forward with Skyward Word cumulative finance and HR software proposal presented tonight by John. Is there any further discussion? Hearing none, we'll proceed to vote. All those in favor of moving forward with uh the proposal, please signify by saying I. I. All those opposed, please signify by saying no. Motion pass. We'll move ahead. John, go ahead and spend $8,000. Thank you. Sure. All right. Elementary, you've been here a long time. Thanks for your patience. If you're here, elementary high school, uh, display screen purchases, correct? We're spend some more money. Yes. Uh and it's actually originally we had uh budgeted for two other iterations of spending as

167well on that. We've decided not to go forward with those two due to our devices being sufficient to get us through at least the next year. God bless you. Okay. So that's uh intermediate and elementary school Chromebooks should not have an issue getting us through the next year. Staff laptops should also not have an issue getting us through the year. Um, so currently the only thing I'm looking at purchasing this year would be the BenQ RP04s, uh, displays for the classrooms. Um, in addition to four e- signers displays for the commons at the high school. Um, and the notion of it being elementary high school is we already did middle and intermediate and we avoided the elementary and high school based on referendum work. We didn't want nude screens with all that crazy that was

168going on, so we just delayed it. Sorry to interrupt. All right. Um, currently the 75 in boards are going at $2,800 per unit and ordering 66 86 in. These will be done in the media centers at both buildings, intermediate and elementary school, a total of two per building for a total of four at 37.49. Uh, carts for the larger one, the 86 in. Uh, we're getting adjust electronic adjustable carts. That way they can be moved throughout the building to wherever they're needed, including the cafeterias, the gyms, or anywhere there's any event going on uh in those buildings. Um and then for the high school, we're looking to get four 65 in electronic signage. And these are for purposes of putting announcements, lunch menus, uh events, uh displaying any information during events. Uh we could possibly

169do the streaming right there on the board during the game that's being played. So if we have the wrestling event next year, we'll be able to they'll be able to sit in the comments and watch that on these boards. Um right now we're looking at a total of $211,252. Um and we're looking at a three-year lease or a 5year lease. Uh I'm sure we'll go with the three-year lease is 75317 uh for three years. And these do include a fiveyear warranty. So after we're done painting, we'll still have at least two additional years of usage after these boards. And and just for for quick math sake, uh the three-year lease terms um you know would be a total payment of 225,000 which would be plus or minus about $14,000. If we go the five-year lease

170route, it's about $31,000 in interest. So, it is quite a significant interest savings. And I'll just add a couple of different points. Um the like Lonnie said, we we've decided not to move forward with staff or student devices um for this year, which is about $93,000 a year. So, it is a pretty significant savings on the 2526 fiscal budget. um we are kind of looking for a more expedient answer than maybe we wouldn't. Um and that's simply because we were informed at our meeting with Ben Q that there is going to be tariff related increases of at least 15% I believe is what he said. Correct. So there is a little bit of a sense of urgency with getting this order placed. Now, it won't happen until July 1st that we actually pay and um

171get them. Um but we've been doing business with Vantage Financial for a long time. They've always done the district really well. Um my recommendation is just based off of the savings that we would go with a three-year lease terms with a $1 buyout. So, essentially at the end of the three years, we pay a dollar per device that's on that lease and they're ours to use. Uh, and that way we're not um we're not hanging on to any any uh leases that we don't need to for an additional time period. Is the price locked in even if we don't order if we don't have to pay or order until So the price is locked in until tomorrow. Okay. So yeah. So if if even if we don't pay until July, the price is locked in

172correct tomorrow. Till tomorrow. Till tomorrow. That's that's good timing. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that's about as that's close we can get. That's as close as Yeah. Yeah. So, Lonnie kind of had to work his magic there on that one. Um, so budget, correct? Yeah. In fact, it's it's quite a bit less than what's actually budgeted as of right now. So, and just to put it in a little bit more context, um, you know, his base budget line item, which is other general administration, is budgeted usually at about a half a million dollars a year. uh this year fiscal year to date so far we're at less than 200. We still have some bigger things that'll come through between now and June 30th. Um but he's been doing a pretty good job of managing that budget.

173I didn't want to tell you that because that usually means now he's sweating now. He's like, "Oh gosh, I got to hold the line. Good job." Yeah. We had all these same discussions in the technology meeting. This is exactly the same information I've seen at other meetings. And so with that, I'd make the recommendation we move forward with the purchase of the Ben Q models that you've uh brought forth and the three-year terms as well. Second. It's been properly moved and seconded to move forward with the elementary and high school display screen purchases uh summer device purchase proposal as presented by Lonnie. Is there any further discussion? Hearing none, we'll proceed to vote. All those in favor of moving ahead with the display screens purchases, please signify by saying I. I. I. All those opposed,

174please signify by saying no. Motion pass. Go forth. Spend your money wisely. Tomorrow. Get done tomorrow. Tomorrow. The email. Don't be sick tomorrow. Yeah, the email will be sent from tonight. Okay. I'll be working from home. I'm actually off tomorrow. So, you're going to stress me out. Thanks, Lonnie. Yep. All right, moving on to the approval of the 2526 open enrollment applications. Okay, what you see on your sheet or up on the screen, a green column and a red column. The green is applying to open enroll into the school district of Amry for 2526 school year. You see where they're coming from. Resident district means where they're coming from and you also see the grade as in who they are as in which grade they're in. In the red column, you'll see again what grade

175they're in. But this is a kid that lives in Amry that's going elsewhere. And you don't have to declare one location. You can open enroll and choose to go five, six, seven, 10 different places. You simply got to list them all down. It's only three. Three. Sorry, my bad. Three. Okay. Um, you can declare the intent to go elsewhere. And these folks are declaring that intent by my count. It was 29. Yes, 29 listed and the number one destination is uh New Richmond. What we have found in seeking to discover why people are leaving the school district of most of these folks live towards Star Prairie and for workplace convenience they're heading towards that direction and they're going right through the school district of so rather than backtrack to here they're dropping into Richmond in

176the morning they're picking up on the way back home which makes sense from a logistical standpoint. So, you would need to make a motion to allow these folks to to arrive and to depart, so to speak. I would make a motion that we accept the open enrollment um documentation and numbers as presented. Second. It's been properly moved and seconded to accept the open enrollment in and out for the 2526 school year. Is there any further discussion? It's unfortunate that we're upside down again this year. It's not by much, but it's unfortunate. I would like to hopefully we can close that gap and and keep kids here. So, I understand that work is a huge huge concern for people. And is there there's Medford here. Is there is that a virtual virtual? Okay. All right. Is

177there any further discussion? Hearing none, we'll proceed to vote. All those in favor of approving open enrollment in and out of the school district of Amry, please signify by saying I. I. I. All those opposed, please signify by saying no. Motion passed, open enrollment is granted. Next. Actually, I do have a question. It doesn't affect the vote. But when open enrollments happen mid year, how come we don't vote on those? There are two different windows. This is the traditional window and then there's the alternative window. The alternative window happens all the time. Uh the traditional window I think is February, March, April, something like that. And then the alternative is all the rest of the months. Uh you would need a decision too quickly. I think it's not really private. The answer is because Wisconsin.

178Okay. All right. And I I don't know that I have seen uh open enrollment application other than for space limitations uh be denied and it be upheld. I mean, if you declare and intend to go, you will always have that opportunity. This is very much a school choice state, and I don't see that changing. So, then we'll let you move about uh both directions, people coming here and people leaving here. There is, maybe I'm wrong about that. Maybe that's changed now. But we can't open and roll out though more than a certain percentage of our total enrollment though, right? We can't lose like is it 10 is it 10%. Am I right about that? The clause of that. I thought we couldn't approve any more than a certain percentage of our out. We've never opened

179in the nontraditional window, the alternative window. Yes, I don't know that we've ever open and rolled more in, but we've never open and rolled more out either. It's just a lot more movement now. Yeah. And virtual school is part of that puzzle certainly. Okay. All right. Off to donations to the district. We have donations to the district from Cardinal Glass. Thank you for the new mirror for the boys locker room and the North Lakes Community Clinic dental outreach program gave staff cookies. Not sure if there's an ulterior motive there. [Laughter] We would make make need to make a motion to accept those two donations. I move to accept the donations from Cardinal Glass and Northakes Community Clinic. Is there a second? I'll second now. Thank you, Larry. It's been properly moved and seconded to accept

180the donations from Cardinal Glass and North Lakes Community Clinic as presented. Is there any further discussion? Hearing none, we'll proceed to vote. All those in favor of accepting the donations as presented, please signify by saying I. I. I. All those opposed, please signify by saying no. Motion passed. The uh donations are accepted with many thanks. Thank you. But yeah, every month we've always got something. The mirror of the boys locker room. I That was with all the flexing they were doing. All right. And then personnel action. uh reassignment of Christine Shogrin moving from kindergarten to first grade and resignations for William Kaine, regular ed PAR, Eden Hosy, special ed PAR, and Ashley Long, special ed teacher at the elementary school. Do I have a motion to accept the personnel action as presented? Can I just

181clarify? Can I confirm with Abby Day will is actually a special education parents as regular head. So, William Kane, special education parent educator. Okay, I need to fill some special ed roles real quick. You can check on your director more often. It'll be fine. It'll be fine. Yeah. Yeah. What is that with the director almost like a new director? [Applause] Everybody off to school. Yes. Yes. Continuing education is a great thing to do. Make a motion we accept the um uh personnel changes with the change you brought up. Sounds great. Is there a second? Second. Gwen, it's been properly moved and seconded to accept the personnel action items with the change you've been presented. All those in favor, please signify by saying I. I. All those opposed, please signify by saying no. Are you going

182to speak? Yeah. Sign up for some community comments. I'm just back here in the cheap seats all by myself. So, personal action uh has been approved. All right. No community comments. There's there's nobody here except for poor Tracy if she would like to go. And we do need to um re adjourn back into close session for considering employment promotion compensation or performance evaluation data of any public employee over which the governmental body has jurisdiction to exercise responsibility in order to take personnel action pursuant to Wisconsin statute 19.851 subc. I will take a roll call vote. All of those uh for the members that are um in favor. So, is there a second for um adjourning back into close session? Second. Glenn, it's been properly moved and seconded to go into close session per Wisconsin statute

18319.85 subc. Uh when I call your name, please uh vote with either yes or no. Larry, yes. Gwen, yes. Char, yes. Steve. Yes. All in favor of reconvening into close session for um personnel action. So we are in close session. Thank you.