001at 7:00 we'll call the meeting to order uh all school board members are present this evening uh 3.0 the open forum for public comments we do not receive any uh 4.0 is the approval of the agenda there's two additions to the consent agenda uh under resignations would be Michaela Zimmerman and then under um employment or hires would be spring coaches and you got that uh list in front of you so those two items Michaela Zimmerman a resignation and then the hire of the spring coach to approve the spring cultes anything else that we need on the agenda for tonight if not I'll take a motion to approve with those two Corrections motion by Scott second by any other discussion on the agenda he none all those in favor I oppos motion carries uh 5.0 is
002approval of the last meeting minutes which was February 24th are there any changes uh to those minutes motion by Danny second second by Shannon any further discussion on minutes hearing none all those in favor I post motion Carri 6.0 is the honors and recognitions ahead Scott all right um being recognized today we have stie hacker and Addison frens are they both here come on [Applause] up and what they're being recognized for is excellence in the area of Music both qualified or were invited for the SSU honor band is that right and that's a that's pretty high honor that doesn't happen to many kids in the state so congratulations thank you can I have Nissa um she if you're at the ccer you he this but Nissa would you be willing to kind of explain what
003um what they had to do to get that onor yeah um so scsu puts on an honor band every year and so last fall they put together um some auditions so they recorded themselves playing a song and specific things that judges want and then they sent them sent their recordings into panel of judges and then the judges reviewed them this year there was 300 applications from across five different states and so out of that they got accepted into the honor band and that went in um February they played um for a couple days and they ended with a concert and they did some um college level music it's good time [Applause] all right then we'll move to 7.0 the student council report uh this past month uh for student council we sent out a survey
004to the all the students and staff asking them what kind of activities they liked for snow days and coming and they like the elimination style games musical chairs scavenger hunt and the pool race and then we also asked them like what kind of dress up days they like is PJ day college gear day class color day and Camo day and then for activity night they like Bingo open gym and and then we are looking at creating new queen and king Thrones um because ours are considered unusable they' be used for homecoming and snow days and then some of our members are in Mr Olson's class and they would be willing to um make new ones with neutral colors so they could be used for different events um and then for one of our service projects
005we are looking at getting a new Eagle mascot from Mount Olympus mascots and then the estimated cost is like 7,500 and to like $8,000 um the sophomores are going to fundraise the necessary funds in order for it and if fundraising is an isue we're going to ask the community for donations and or other school clubs in order to reach the goal and we sent out a survey the students asking if they would like a new a mascot and if they would be interested in being that mascot or if somebody if they're in a sport for being the mascot if they can't do it all any questions for student council Kent do you have any specific yeah feel free to grill them all right thank you ladies thank thank you all right 8.0 is the live
006update sounds good well there's a few different items on the agenda um the first one that I'd like to talk about is um a proposal for music that we have um I met with our both of our music teachers here a few weeks ago just maybe even over a month to go now to talk about just the program and some some different ideas and one of the things that that we're bringing up or that is coming to my attention is we have some kind of this a a feeling like the mandatory music at seventh grade is maybe not the best for for the program um we have some kids that that don't want to be in music and that is creating some challenges for those that do want to be in the music program so
007specifically if a student wants to be in this really is impacting the choir program is is where it's at specifically if if students want to experiment with band um they typically begin that process in fifth grade and they continue on and on um for the way things are currently set up it is not required to participate in choir in fifth grade or in sixth grade but then we do require it in seventh grade not in eth grade so what happens is when students get to seventh grade for those that don't have an interest in it they cre some challenges for classmates that really do want to be in there um as well as um the teacher at times and just the whole classroom management um piece of it so what what I'm proposing I guess
008for the help for the growth of program and I I do know that there are some kids that have enjoyed singing music have have enjoyed being in the class that have stepped away um because they're frustrated with the behavior of a few that are in um I know that I have one that's an eighth grader right now that enjoys singing but didn't want to uh be around it anymore um because of that and I've also heard some other kiddos talking about how frustrated that is and I know that it can be frustrating for our teachers too um I'm not a big advocate for forcing people to do things I do think music is important but our students are receiving music in grades um K through six General music that would continue um and so I
009guess what what we are looking at as a music department and and myself would be a proposal that we no longer make it mandatory for seventh graders to be in music um for the sake of the program if you feel that it's necessary for it to be mandatory to be in choir per se I think a more appropriate spot for that would be fifth grade um where they come into the building and get a taste of the um the performance aspect of of it um I think we can still give that per performance aspect in our general music class which um with Mrs markworth which all of our fifth and sixth graders are are already taking um I think I've covered all of the details so I just kind of wanted to as we get
010into registration for next year and and solidifying things I just wanted to ask the board um for any discussion or your support on on that proposal thought so right now fifth and sixth grade we don't require band and music band or choir choir yeah so they are in general music all K through six is in general music and that occurs once every well in the Middle School it occurs once every three days I'm not sure the k4s k4s once every four days once every four days so there is that requirement there is performance-based aspects to that um so yeah we mandated it for seventh but we don't for eth correct how about nth no seventh seventh grade is the only grade and I'll be H I know it's confusing here's here's what I think I
011don't know this for sure but this is what I think happened it's been around since I've begun here and I think what happened is probably since the high school was built they probably when seventh graders first came out here wanted to give them the exposure and the taste of um performance and and music and get them exposed to that and we're just we're in a different spot right now than we were back in 1991 or whatever it it and I can speak to that it is it's it's a vestage from when La parl first opened up as a as a 712 building and has just never changed even though kind of the structure of our school has changed so is there any benefit looking at the two music people here to doing moving it to
012fifth or sixth grade or fifth grade mandatory versus so if we abolish seventh is there any benefit to requiring it for fifth grade other than they already General music that they already have to do to give them a taste of entertaining or performance there may be a benefit um we have a very high percentage of our fifth graders are already voluntar um choosing to be in band and or choire and I think we'll continue that Trend um so um guess we don't have the number in front of us but we went through the class list and it is less than a handful this year that are not in one or other or the other so and that was totally their choice with not you know no high pressure situation just would you like to join
013us and they they signed up they just quash it and if they want to they want to if they don't they don't you guys are okay with that well I think our plan would be to continue requiring music General General music for all students grade at the same time and I think the other thing too that we talked about is um you know if we see downfalls to this it doesn't mean it has to be a permanent plan but but we'd like to um we'd like to see if we can uh develop this program to the point where those that are really want to be in there can take it and and run with it and Thrive and um you know we're seeing more and more boys participate um especially from our micronesian culture which
014is very exciting especially in the choir aspect of things we had some great performers in the band concert the other night so um I I feel like if the atmosphere can be that of of one that of kids that really want to be there it it can take another step even um for enjoying the experience is there a separate choir from general education in like fifth grade like is there choir offering there is y so y so so they have the option like they do y so starting in fifth grade they do have the option to be in choir band both they're already in general music so the only thing that would be changing is the the one outdated piece in my opinion of um mandatory seventh grade for me so basically the three like
015my my girl is in abandoned choir so basically she's getting three times of music she General music too so we have no required band and that's where it really does hit choir because you know if you start in fifth grade sixth grade and um you not in either one of them and then you hit seventh grade it's kind of I don't want to say it's too late but I mean you're going to be far behind your peers in terms of the band aspect of things right so what happens is those kiddos pick choir that's the natural one to slide into and when they don't want to be there and they create a difficult learning environment for their peers um just don't think it's the healthiest setup that we could have yeah the requirement is music
016band or choir but you just people that haven't been in music Don't join band in seventh grade they join choir I go rent and buy an instrument other thoughts questions and I think whatever way we go I think we would want the board to know we would be monitoring as we you when we talked about this today we only want to do this if we think it's going to have the the potential to build our program over time not shrink it and so we'd be monitoring that as we go along to see we're getting where we want to get I to speak to that the numbers will be less as if this is a choice you make because there'll be anywhere from 15 to 25 seventh graders that will just because they won't have the
017requirement they'll choose not to be in music so you'll probably we'll see lower numbers in the junior high choir um but um Quality will go up so monitoring but you will see if you're going to compare numbers you will see that's are those two classes at the same time every day oh every other day so the kids will have the kids that aren't in either will just be in so then our academics are going it's a win-win perfect watch out MCA scores now that as a motion I'll take that as a motion we got a motion by Danny second second by Scott any further discussion he none all those in favor I I oppos motion carries um two two more things that we want to bring up here um I want to acknowledge our our
018three area U medical centers hospitals um they approached us on continuing to expand our um medical offerings with our students uh fully funded by Appleton Madison and Dawson and we work together with Dawson and so we currently offer the CNA course for our students which is a one semester course and they've approached us wanting to work with Min West so our students would be getting like PSO level credits college credits for this um but where we would be working to provide different courses um essentially two two medical courses in the first semester each year two medical courses in the second semester each year each year fully funded by the three area hospitals and they are eager to be supportive of our kiddos that are um interested in pursuing in that field so uh we're just
019kind of working through the Dynamics there but um the win is there there's no extra cost to the district and the win is our kids are getting an outstanding experience with with experience exposure Etc from Top topnotch um instructors and and whatnot so um just wanted to keep you posted on on that that's kind of an exciting deal again collaborating with with area businesses is a win-win and then the other thing here is um the third thing is a housing grant that um uh Paul has has been a spear header in and we have been approved for a $100,000 Grant and are waiting to hear finalization on the second $100,000 Grant um working with the Eda with uh in Madison to um uh the word slip slip in my head to fix up uh renovate
020um a home there details that are not worked out yet um that we have to get to it's a two-year Grant so there would be two years to finish the project um we need to make sure that we have an instructor that is a pretty significant piece right now that we are trying to find the right person uh we're looking at details with insurance because it would be offsite uh details such as what is the best route to go legally in terms of who purchases the property does the school do it with our grant money does the um Eda purchase it so conversations that are in the works but um an opportunity that it's been a long time since we have built the house here on site um and so this is now an opportunity
021for our kiddos that want to get into the construction field to get a taste of that and um and again we we'd be we're looking to find and this is a shout out to anybody who's listening and knows but uh we'd be looking to find local contractors or contractor to kind of help guide us through through this as well with our instructor um so very much a community based project that um we're working through the other thing that I'd like to point out is we um this it was approached through Madison at this particular point but our goal with this grant would if we can fix up the house if we can sell it and kind of keep this pot of money going we would really like to work with each of the communities on
022a rotating basis to kind of help enhance living conditions housing conditions in each of the each of the communities would be would be the the hopeful long-term outcome for our students could participate in this so this is where that block scheduling comes in would come in significantly a little B more time on the job per se for sure yeah good to fight that idea yeah any other questions on any of the topics so once you have all the details worked out we'll come back we we'll continue to keep you in the loop we just this is a process that it's it's really kind of taking off so we wanted to make sure that you were informed of we're we're moving forward and and we believe that this is going to be a strong possibility that
023this is going to be something that we'll have for our kiddos here else question okay uh 9.0 is the resolution on acceptance of gifts for donations and grants you see those on uh page four big thank you to Madison art and Innovation Center John Sher and lock count oil oil and be for the C than I'll take a motion to approve make motion any further discussion so is the CD class already moving forward yep yeah we've completed the uh seat B based portion of the class and uh we kind of in the transition phase our students are working on getting their uh permits to uh start behind the wheel portion so another discussion none all those in favor post motion carries uh 10.0 is the consent agenda a reminder that we have the OFA and
024of thees by any discuss discussion on consent agenda very n all those in favor post Mo carries 11.0 is the monthly financials Brenda um enrollment senior agenda package 20 go ahead well um missed one um the actually doesn't have a number that's why we missed it so you mind if we do this one quick then it's the shared contract Service we can do it after BR let's go brand go ahead okay um enrollment you've seen your agenda packet page 20 uh up slightly from last month uh by one student to be up slightly again for month end March um and just a reminder I know you guys know this but um we talk about enrollment every month because that is the main source of our funding formulas they all um have enrollment intertwined in them
025at some point um in in some point or way so um requisition process that has begun uh teachers that that uh requests um come in from certified teachers to their building leaders for um supplies of materials workbooks textbooks um field trips for next school year uh those are due to the building leaders the end of um end of the month and also to the district office by the end of the month also for next school year we just finished our Capital outlay meeting that was last week um that was Mr Luma myself and each of the department heads basically going through um all of the needs um that they're seeing each of their different areas putting them onto a spreadsheet and analyzing each of them prioritizing them and um um seeing what we can put
026into this year and the things that will delay into a future year uh meeting went very very smooth everybody was very um um cordial respectful and we were able to get it done very very quickly this year uh the report um we'll share that report with the buildings and grounds um at some point in the near future we have sent in our first end of the year Mars each of the building um secretaries and Christy goddess have accumulated that that's our first um Mars submission that's the accumulation of all of our student data uh so we'll be doing one of those each month um until the data is final which will be sometime this summer State forecast you may have heard that in the news um we were hoping that they would have a little
027bit better news and um they did not see any improvements So currently they're a little bit slightly um worse off than what they had forecasted back in November um I know the governor put out his um updated revised budget I believe on Friday um so we don't have a lot of information on that there's been some bullet points on what he um addressed in in his revisions and at some point in in the near future we'll get some more details on that but um we'll have to wait to see what ends up happening at the end of the session um there'll be a lot of negotiating I'm pretty sure but um not a lot of information there at this point in time any questions that's all I have Brenda what uh what kind of funding
028are we looking at for when we do the CNA Trucking and house renovation additional CTE money that we would get do you have any idea additional fundings from the state we wouldn't receive any no the CDL is fully funded by um um some donation dollars and it's and it's funded to the level of oh probably several years I would say um and then in addition to that students will pay a fee to do the behind the wheel um CNA is covered 100% by the hospitals um as um Scott had mentioned and what was the other one you question the house renovation um that's in process would be covered through grants there is a state gr we apply but we're waiting any questions for Brenda thank you uh now we'll move to uh let's call it
02910 a shared contract yeah well I think it'd be great if we could separate it up just so the board could be contract um so as the board um in previous updates is aware we've been functioning without a food service coordinator here for um this the year to this point and I'm very happy to report that we were able to reach an agreement with minowa school district to share the services of theirs and I would like to introduce uh Bridget gallager Bridget step forward so we can meet you this is Bridget and uh and I have the pleasure of working with Bridget in minowa and so uh she did great things for us there and so Bridget is going to be coming on board basically to provide Food Service Coordination for our district approximately two
030days a week um but we're we're going to probably be front loading more time into the first couple of months just because she'll be getting her feet wet and getting to know us but um bridet maybe share just a a really brief synopsis kind Power Point um well thanks for um having me and having Scott uh have the don't know what to say the um totally lost my word sorry um so anyways I've been in minowa this is my fourth year as the food service director there um two of those with Scott um and prior to that I actually own uh piz wrench and Lenwood for 12 years so that's kind of my restaurant business so going into the Food Service part of it um was very new um I absolutely love the atmosphere I
031wish I would have known how much I enjoyed uh the school atmosphere having that balance of being able to be out with the kids and teachers and then being able to go into a closed office space and regroup um I probably would have sold my restant on sooner because I I really thoroughly enjoy it so when Scott approached me um about taking on this responsibility and um I said yes I didn't really give it much thought um I'm right now I live just 15 miles south of Starbucks so it's almost an hour from my driveway to this location um and I'm actually a graduate of Benson initially so um most of my relatives are from the ders area um and so it'll be nice coming West more again instead of north um but yeah I've
032been here I spent two days last week um and I was able to spend a day here and a day in Appleton and right now I'm just kind of taking it all in observing making lots of notes on the current equipment um your scheduled times for breakfast and lunch and getting to know the employees and um we have completely different operating systems um with menuing with the POS system so um that's stuff I need to learn um because again they're completely different than what I'm currently used to um but your staff is very hardworking um those that are here they get a lot done in that short amount of time um our district is 400 just roughly 400 more at minasa and I have 13 correction I have 15 employees between the three locations so
033your staff is working at half of that um so kudos to them because they're doing a lot um so I look forward to it and I'm terrible with names and faces so if I in the hallway I apologize um I'll eventually get to know everybody's names but I do have an email set up I don't know that I have an inhouse phone number yet or anything I don't know but um yeah glad to be here yes we're glad to have you thank you plus your Pizza Ranch is an awesome place to when you a lot of good thank you brid and uh and so this was I think in the consent agenda but just because it is a new contract that is kind of out of the ordinary what we've had in the past I
034just wanted to point it out to the board and and certainly wouldn't be bad if the board wanted to provide a vote um I don't know I'll be that to you let probably doens of contract make motion motion by Scott second second I can't any discussion very none all those in favor iOS motion carries all right 12.0 was the payment of bills and claims make a motion to for the board bills of March 2025 for $253,400 and the March 25 construction bills of 866656 for a grand total of 74 he got a motion by Scott I'll second second by Matt any discussion on the bills and claims for the month he none all those in favor I I post motion carries 13.0 is the 2025 lease with prie five Scott you want to give some
035details on that if anything's changed from previous contracts yeah if you look at exhibit nine that is the the Prairie five um lease agreement and you'll see it's the same as last year it's almost identical with the exception of we did add um the uh $100 per month you know for use of the dumpster because they they'll be you know taking care of their own stuff and that's the other piece we we froze costs for one year um and in return for that we asked um that they take over custodial duties for the spaces that they have so basically their offices bathrooms kitchen area they will now be doing their the the cleaning and um and all that and so in return we're keeping the cost Frozen for a period of one year I do
036have one question hre paragraph three so the Lei has the option to request renovation of the facility to meet their needs it's my understanding that some of the Lees there are potentially moving with the completion of that new building over Madison from the Prairie five group from their what I'm getting at is a prairie 5 this is just their current space that they're renting right now so it's just that so they're not we I'm going with this if we approve it and sign it today and then they come back and they say well we would like to renovate and the price is Frozen right now then we have to absorb that cost of renovation their requirements I see what you're saying you know what I'm saying so but it does say in the lease that
037the cost will be adjusted as a result potentially right so I would think we'd still be able so that gives us the open loophole to adjust the the lease if needed if they we renovate so coming out of our pocket yes there are there are no known requested Renovations for this year at this time and but but that would be the understanding is if they want to approach us with Renovations then I think we would have to reopen this agreement I just wanted to make sure we have that question I make a motion motion by Danny second by Shannon any further discussion on the lease very none all those in favor all right post motion carries 14.0 is the 2526 school calendar okay so um if you look at exhibit 10 um provides the the
038draft of what the calendar would look like this has been to meet and confer the leads twice and then just some side conversations with meet for members as well just making sure we're on the same page um the the really the the calendar if you look at it um closely it's it's very close the calendar we're operating under this year the the change that you will see is there are um four total places uh there's three that are um a late start two our late start and one where we are adding in um an early release back that we used to have before Thanksgiving break um and the purposes of that I presented to the board I believe was at the January meeting to talk about um the need to add in some collaborative time
039and this is not I want to help make sure that people understand when we say talk about this collaborative time these late starts are not it isn't prep time it isn't uh it isn't just kind of more general meeting time there this would be for the purposes of conducting work on identifying the standards pacing guides um to develop a guaranteed and viable curriculum in all of our subject areas and so um there would be directed work we would be doing during that time and then also um just in case the board members were curious if you flip to the back there's also a chart provided um thank you Lisa for putting this together but it just basically gives you a rundown of what the state's requirements are for the amount of hours of instructional time
040um as well as where we would fit in compared to that if we were to move forward and then I should add as well um that I have been having conversations with Miranda with um with the child care in Madison as well as Ashley um in Appleton about looking at offering an option for parents on those um late starts if a parent would like to be able to sign the child up for U late start daycare basically so they could drop their child off at the same time we're working on being able and we we we feel there's really no reason we shouldn't be able to offer that on some level so we'd be trying to to make that available families the parents have um we haven't gotten to the the nitty-gritty of it I
041I would I think right now what we're looking at would be something parents if they did elect would have to pay for but we would try to keep the cost as as minimal as possible just to cover the cost of having the the adult support they have a drop in fee already early there like a extra little that's not it's not terrible but I would assume it probably be similar to that yeah so I got a question like totally going out in the left if you are a teacher and you have a contract what you do it's basically the SU much is off right but they still receive paychecks right corre so why can't we start moving some of this collaboration and that to Summertime where they can collaborate all they want you can get
042a valid and better curriculum instead of taking school days away from our students additional school days that would have to be negotiated because their contract is based on 184 186 days somewhere here 184 so there contract is for those days which actually pans up to what our calendar is so if we wanted to change something like that we'd have but um but something Danny I think your question is a good one though one of the things I should also point out too is that that part of what we want to use this time for too is to be able to look at data in real time you know and so at what this would be providing if we have this is each month we would have um this a chunk of collaborative time built into
043the into the calendar that would also allow us we have new assessments like the fast assessment now in place at the elementary level um part of what this is for too is for teachers to have time to to periodically stop and do a check on where kids are at and determine do we need to provide timely interventions um and if so what are those going to be and things but to do that um in you know the 45 minutes or 50 minutes before school starts every day it it is a rush and about the time you kind of get the ball rolling you run out of time and so this would part of that purpose would be that we're in real time stopping to look at how our kids are doing on things too so
044our scores are going to improve well that's the goal that's why we're doing it well I mean no absolutely that's what we want I'm just trying to be up honest here right up front right you're asking us to you know say yes general public or their representatives they're like okay now we got to worry about this before we go to work what do we get in return yep and and what what the purpose behind this would be that what what families would get in return is teachers being able to have the time to collaborate to be as prescriptive as possible um that's the whole goal is um are Paras involved in this or is so the Paras wouldn't be involved in this however um we the first year especially we're required um to have our
045pars trained um in letters training by you know the state has a a PA of version of that that we have to do and that that actually takes what is it um mde has a a science of reading program for Care Professionals and it's hours and it's broken down into four or two our blocks and I've talked to our current letters trainer through swwc and she would love to come and work with our pars on those four plate starts so pars would not be losing any of their contracted hours either and they'd be getting some valuable professional development so while we have to we would try to piggyback on that and get them trained during that same time period but then after that part of our goal to would be our special education teachers often
046don't really have time to meet with Paras you know it's kind of they're coming in Dorn it's a mad rush to okay here's our schedule today and and so this would potentially also allow us to one every year we'd have some time in for training um which we would like to do more of but then secondly we could also build in um some time for you know for parents to be able to collaborate and work on the things that that they do with kids as well so how many late starts are we looking at so a total addition of I believe it was three my biggest concern is just parents parents work trying to deal additional time there's something we can do toate that so um to answer your question it would be the the
047only changes to the the calendar so we would not lose any school days the we would have on November 26th we'd be adding a three-hour early out which we used to have in the calendar we didn't have it this year but it has been there in the past and then on December 19th January 30th and February 22nd would be the three 2hour late starts so there's four toal to days that would be affected throughout the year and then we would what we would do for the other ones rather than adding additional days as we have days already built in um as either work days or sometimes our qm and and I've been talking with our qm team and um they're very open to a lot of this work that we would be doing would be
048work that CU comp would be wanting to do and so we would try to piggy back on those days rather than add more days so is there a way to assess you know if we do these two our early outs next year if that's what people want to do because I mean people will have problems with it I don't know if they'll necessarily come forward right I think we need to maybe not keep in mind that it's not just set right we can adjust this year after year depending on what we absolutely yep it's not yeah I think the two-hour late start is difficult app there going to work late or take that off vacation Etc I I think the what what the plan is I totally agree with that I think that's to have
049it ready as far as shouldn't matter if you come from appin or Madison that when you come out here you're at the same point right and I think that's been a gap for a number of years and would this also be I would assume this would also include you know one of these times are the Madison aan teachers collocating for this I mean that that very well could be done yes I mean um o over time we you know we've talked about and and talking with the qon people too we've talked about at some point do we want to to to focus more on what we're called professional learning communities and that's what I shared at one of the board meetings as one of the things we can do with this time is um at
050some point that can be professional Learning Community time where plcs they called um you know and and that yes we could have vertical conversations with that time it's it's you know there's really no limit to what we can do but it would be focused on and and one of your questions too is you know what how can we measure is this doing what we want part of that I think would be Marina and I have talked about this is you know um we once upon a time I think we had pacing guides and some of those things in some of our subject areas um and over time you know it you know I don't think we have those in as complete a form as we once did and this would be that would be a
051a big focus of this would be creating those curriculum documents to have a guaranteed viable curriculum um and that's one of the things I think we would be able to measure the progress with is that you would be able to see the progress that we're making on those documents and and and things so when a teacher comes in brand new let's say into second grade or into life science it you know they're not starting at Ground Zero there's someplace to start and go okay I have a pacing guide I know roughly what I should be getting through in month one I'm not kind of feeling my way through that if that makes sense would be the goal of what we're creating I guess I would like to recommend that we table it again since it's
052not going to affect this current school year and send it out via parent square or something get some type of feedback from the public if they choose to give feedback because granted my children all go I don't have that issue but there's a lot of people that do and a lot of people also travel to a different town to work I just I'm not saying it's like Kent I'm not saying it's not an option I mean it's you got to sell it good but and I and I guess Lisa when when if we typically had our calendar provided to families for the next year by that March and it's it's G it's gone as much as April before too I mean I don't think there's a certain date contract my thing is is if the
053earlier that parents know and they could put it on their calendar um it's over a year so like if you know that January 1930th and 27th is a 2 hour whatever late start um you figure it out I mean it's just kind of the way it is and my my thing is if I think we should try it for a year if it doesn't work we come back to the table and we're like we're scratching it when it's work when I presented on this a couple months ago I think I shared this too but you know I tried to reach out to others who've um done versions of this I know um mon videoo has has either late starts or early releases I can't remember which one it is but I I talked with with
054them um and their feedback was you know what parents want is the time to be prepared if they know well enough and advance that they they didn't feel like they got a lot of push back it was more just don't spring it on us let us know in advance I'll go with Shannon we can try it for a year worst case scenario we're going get beat up a little bit and we have to readjust but well I'm off like I was just thinking of like we were me and um what we were just talking about the whole pacing and I felt like since I do a lot of something like it feels like a lot of times teachers feel like they're just rushed and rushed and rushed so like a pacing guide I'm all for
055that so and I think if we can help r that burden of that license art one way or another whether it's dayare if NHS can set up hours of babysitting somehow or something like that you know to to take care of that I think that would be that would help a lot I have another discussion on the calendar part besides that if we're done with that part of it sure the the three days after Memorial Day they're they're completely worthless days in my mind nothing gets done nothing happens right we we send the kids to school to come and watch movies and talk so the hours of student contact is not beneficial and we're already over so I'd say in my mind we either make we either start making that these are actual useful days
056or we get rid of them so you're saying we're already actually we over actual required Days by state if you look back here so we're we're at 1,95 we only need 1,20 this is actually from how many years has it been since we've G after Memorial this is the first year in 10 years weally we're typically always done I think it's just because the way the calendar fell everything is so much later but I mean we're starting in we started yeah which we always have 10 years I think some of the past discussions and some of you teachers can help me if I'm wrong on this but I think there was an opportunity to maybe get a day in here or there throughout the year for some some time um I the end of the
057year is hard regardless of where the end of the year is at because there's checking in computers there's checking in textbooks there's tying up Loose Ends there's all this stuff so my my quick initial thought without thinking too deeply on this is um probably the last dayish or so are going to be those tying up loose ends and having some kind of celebrations of of a great year and fun stuff like that and kind of sending the gets home on a on a fun note I mean it's I don't know I feel like it's been that way forever great or wrong um I I mean I agree I don't like the idea of coming back after Memorial Day anyway I just look at it from the standpoint like so like having multiple kids if one
058does graduate you still have two kids that or three kids or how many kids that have to come back afterwards but usually typically after graduation and you have your party the whole family feels like oh we're done we're done for the year yeah now just the way the calendars set up everybody's like oh crap now I got to go back for three more days really I get I mean I get it too I mean I think regardless when school day ends so if we or school year ends got rid of 26 27 and 28 then it just becomes 20 21 and 22 well that was what I was going to say is do some of those things didn't we one year correct me if I'm wrong didn't we one year we didn't touch anything snow
059days do we not aate a couple days I think we aate a couple days at the just because we did had shows I mean this could be reserved as like hey if we miss then they would be school days but if we don't we just you know instead of baking them into the the normal year just put them on the end we couldn't turn those three days the contract still leaveing as contract days or could be collaboration is well what I mean I think you still keep these to for at least the first year keep the the early out or the late starts in there so we get a basis of the PLC so you start building it but maybe that's something we need to look at the last three days is is there a
060way to have it as Workshop days for the teachers as well and students are just done well and something we could look at too and I haven't shared any of this with with any of the teachers or got their opinions um or the leadership for that matter but um you know our district has two Workshop days to start the year and that's that's kind of a rush you know you you fly in you're get everything ready and then you get parents coming for open houses and things like that um an option would be to to flex some of that forward and have more Workshop time before school starts in preparation of school and less at the end we got I don't know teacher reps I don't know how you feel about that yes well I
061mean we still got to have a day in there somewhere it's the week before whatever to collect all the stuff make sure everybody's T Compu and I think Cory's point is a good one if if we if we eliminate 3 days those things are all still going to have to happen they're just going to happen the week before you know and I would just argue that I would say that if they happen the week before they're not as strung out because coming back after Labor Day after it's a much more it's a different mental scenario for everybody right so it's yes the last day or two are going to be whatever but that means this definitely means all week is just going to be well I think we can forgive them if that's if we
062I we've done that in the past where we didn't have any snow days at all we did at least two the one year in this case we proba do all three we negotiate back and don't have any days at then you have to add days you could take one day and move it so there's another day for teachers to prepare right but then the two days Scot I think you're right that that I think there the way the calendar Falls this year won't be that way every year I think it's just for the next two years think it's pretty close to get back on schedule again but I mean that would be an option if if the board wanted us to look at it um I mean we could look at moving one of those
063to Workshop week and then keep the other two as is that would be an option and I guess if we were going to you know forgive them or give them back I would just want to look into that with msba or some make sure we got our bases coming that I mean so for all int intensive purposes we can pass the calendar that we have now look into a few things and we can always just do an amended amending calendar after at least at least for 95% of the calendar is going to stay set the way it is at Le people can start planning that way I just say as long as we can close that out the next coming months so people oh yeah I think we'd want any changes that we can we'd
064want to come back right away ail April yeah families motion to adopt the school calendar motion Scot second second by Shannon any fur the discussion on the calendar he none all those in favor I oppos motion carries 15.0 is the qom fun I think you were going to give us a description on this one roll over um pretty self-explanatory there but basically there is a law change um and they are now requiring cuom to be restricted so it's restricted based off of Statute we have always tracked it in in a different section in our financials um so we've done that since day one um so it really doesn't affect us other than um just for cleanliness I think we need to make sure that the board you know makes a motion to officially move the
065balance up above into the restricted area basically just a statutory change um it's just the GL change pardon me GL change yep within the general ENT yep and so we won't have to fund this like periodically or anything we expect this to always have to cover what it needs to cover um yeah yes it's in the um teachers contract that the funds that come in or the funds that go out and then here's where we track whatever remains at the very end we keep it at a pretty low level um just um because we want to pay most of it out but there's usually a little bit residual at the end of the year so that's where this comes from second second by Shannon any further discussion hearing none all those in favor I post
066motion car 16 is the threeyear engagement for audit services with I Bailey so you'll see the 25 26 and 27 schedule there um including their the actual audit and then technology fee ISM but submit Buton smitth button fee of 5% so so looks like correct okay Scot all right any further discussion hear none all those in favor iOS motion here 17.0 is the union 70 letter of intent to negotiate so this is they're are signaling to us that they want to negotiate their next contract Union 70 is our U Care Professionals uh maintenance some secretarial Etc or certified staff essentially so we just need to formally acknowledge that we've taken receipt of that collective bargaining agreement intent to negotiate motion okay motion by Shannon second second by Scott any further discussion car none all those
067in favor I oppos motion carries 18.0 is notice of non renewal for a probationary teacher so this is for Ryan Hill motion motion Scott second my shanon any further discussion he none Shannon hi Matt y Danny y that yep cor yes motion passes uh 19.0 is uh the lawnmower bids um so in uh Milton and Mar and Assa only one bid was received that is 190 per time at both locations 190 at each location I'll make a motion motion by Danny second I can't any further discussion none all those in favor motion carries 20.0 is to call for bids for the waste collection recycling service Mo by Scott second by Danny any further discussion hearing none all those in favor I post motion carries uh 21 is to review adopt updated policies and Corrections so
068Mo Shannon and Kent anything to highlight in those policies basically just some word changes like nothing no no major dot here we do have to strike the gby one from that because not a procedure currently have a policy we are looking into a couple things if we need if we want to move forward with this we'll have to stri that anything else I'll take a motion with uh policy number 704 the gby one um stri motion by K second second by Shannon any further discussion on the polies car none all those in favor I post motion carries monthly building leader reports uh V guard got anything no Scott anything to point out black anything all right Scot you're up just a few things to um highlight here this month um wanted to give you a
069heads up on we've been doing some changes to our website um you may have noticed there's a a welcome video now that's on there um to greet families and also highlight some of uh kind of as a marketing piece highlight some of what we offer is that makes us stand out um it's titled it's great to be an eagle um and if you haven't seen it I encourage you to see it but um also we um uh Q92 does a monthly um they just interview me to get updates on the board um usually within a day or two after the board meeting and then they they um put those at a podcast area on their website and we've got those now linked onto our site so when families want to um when they come to
070our website they can actually get the latest update on on what's been going on at the board and things like that then I um I asked Dave RIT if he'd be willing just to share a little bit we do have a plan to uh move into a different software platform for our website moving forward and so Da Last fall I think I talked to you a little bit been looking into the websites and and reviewing some other companies and stuff like that so I have selected going forward to partner with parents Square they also do what they call their smart sites U so it'll be a direct intergration with our communication platform that we currently have uh just a real responsive design we're looking at getting the refresh or we had our current website for
071the last four years so just to get that updated fresh and go through the content find toothcomb and get everything updated so uh we'll be moving forward with that it's the contract price is less than what we're paying for our current provider so there'll be some cost savings also uh one of the big features too is the does live translation on the website so if you're different you can select your language and it just automatically do it so it'll hopefully improve some communication barriers too and Target the switch on that would be July first so we'll the rest of the year to get it up and just pull flip this switch in July I know that that's been an area the board's wanted us to look at too and so I just wanted you to
072have update that we're moving forward on that here on the live streaming we do activities I know we score supposed to have capabilities put the score on the screen have we got that or we at that I'm not familiar what what our scoreboard has yeah so the new scoreboard if I remember correctly supposed to have the technology that would put the score on the actual screen that we I guess I was not involved in that project probably have to talk to Zach on that okay because I think we're almost the only school now that doesn't have the score on the screen so it be nice if we could find that on not have to look at a little scoreboard in the I'm getting old eyes are not good okay okay um and then other than
073that I just wanted the board to know um the Construction Construction weekly meetings are starting up again with uh late April early May demo starting in the auditorium um and phase two um work getting underway so there's nothing really to report there now other than that we'll we'll be updating you moving forward it um and uh Adam ly will be here at the next meeting to to give you the latest on how things are going with construction projects and then I just wanted to update you on the community feedback meetings that we've been doing as part of uh you know trying to write and and build our strategic plan we had one in Appleton last week um and we had one small U group of people um then in Madison we um had a slightly
074larger group I think we had like eight people or something there in Madison um but in both cases really good conversations and a lot of great feedback um that we were ble to collect um the staff survey we've got 70 responses so far the community survey 95 responses and we're still putting that out there and asking for feedback um but I do want to put a plug in for the the final community meeting is tomorrow at the middle school high school and so um you know anybody watching at home or whatever we just we we really do want voices to be heard so people um have feedback to give us we would love it if they would show be a part of that conversation and um that happening tomorrow any questions for Scott just sorry
075on on the school website do we have students involved in making some of the pages or doing is there any classes that we uh you know to speak to that point we we did have a computer science class that some web page design and with some of the transition here with Staffing um that class got scaled back but the plan is to bring it back next year um moving it into the math department um so I think it maybe would be more more uh consistent um instruction I guess maybe would be the way to put it so um so we I guess had and we have in the future um some course we're dealing with web page and then the eighth grade um computer science Discovery as it's called I don't think they get real
076in-depth but they get into some web design um in that class as well okay anything else for tonight he none I'll take a motion to adjourn motion second second by shanon all those in favor post