001Great. Good evening everyone. Welcome to the school district uh of Brown Deer Board of Education meeting for Tuesday, April 29th, 2025. I call this meeting to order. Uh verification of public notice at 6:01 p.m. Verification of public notice. I verified that the meeting was properly noticed. verification of a quorum. Uh we have six of our seven board members present at the start of the meeting. Right. Our next agenda item is the approval of the minutes. Would someone like to make a motion to approve the agenda? I will make a motion to approve the agenda. Director Robertson has made a motion to approve the agenda. Would someone like to second the motion? Second. Who second? Merida. Director Welch has has seconded the motion. A motion has been made and second. All those in favor say I.
002I. Any opposed? The motion carries unanimously with a vote of 620. Right. Reading of the district's uh mission and vision statements. Mission statement through the lens of excellence, equity, and engagement. We are dedicated to empowering every student with the essential skills to build a foundation of lifelong learning and our vision statement to provide a rigorous education that empowers our students to confidently navigate in our everchanging world. Next up is the election of a board president. So we are asking for nominations for board president. Are there any nominations from the board of education members? I would like to um nominate Todd Beetle for board president. Are there any other nominations at this time? Right. Hearing none. All those in favor of the nomination of Dr. Todd Bele to serve as the board president for the board
003calendar year. Please vote I. I. Any opposed? The vote carries with unanimous approval of 520. And with that being said, Dr. Beetle has been nominated and approved to serve as the board president for the 2526 schoolboard calendar year by a vote of five to zero. Congratulations, Dr. All right. Thank you guys. All right. Our next item is uh nomination for vice president. Um I'd like to make I'd like to nominate uh Denthia Robinson. Accept. Yes. All right. Do we have a second or is there any other nominations? All right. All in favor with uh Dorothy Robinson as vice president. Uh I or raised hand. Any opposed? Hearing seeing none. Motion carries. 5 to zero. Miss Robinson. Congratulations is by our vice president for 2526. Our next item is 3B. Uh, treasurer, I'd like to make
004a nomination for Dorothia Min. Uh, any other nominations? Miss Min, you accept? Yes. That's what I was getting ready to say. All right. All right. Yes. Thank you. All in favor will raise hand and or I. I. I. Any opposed? Hearing and see none. Motion carries of five to zero. Miss Bacon, congratulations as our new treasurer for 2526. All right. And our last item is for B, our board clerk. All right. I'd like to nominate Felita Daniels Ashley. Uh, any other nominations? Miss Ashley, would you accept the nomination? I'll accept. All right. Thank you very much. All right. That being said, all in favor of the nomination of Felita Dains as board clerk for 2526, uh, with with I or raised hand. All right. All in favor? Any opposed? Anyone? Motion carries. Five to zero.
005Miss Ashley, congratulations. Thank you. All right, so we have our slate of board officers for 2526. And with that being said, since I am virtually and it's kind of hard for me to be able to see everyone, uh, our distinguished vice president, Miss Robinson, would you take over the meeting, please? Absolutely. Thank you so much, Dr. Vidle. Uh up next we have our district administrator report. Thank you very much uh Director Robinson. Good evening board. Katrice Cotton Proud, superintendent for the school district of Brown Deere. I'm happy to report events that took place in the district for the month of April. Uh these activities promote our students as caring, thoughtful global citizens who are interested in serving the needs of others and making positive choices regularly. So down at the BDE, our first thing is
006a pirate party. The first graders spend an entire week enjoying pirate activities and incorporating the theme into their lesson plans. Students got to dress like pirates, make treasure maps, wear eye patches, and finish their week with a treasure hunt. All first grade classes participated. I had the opportunity to be interviewed by Miss Grossnik's classroom. The students asked hard-hitting questions regarding my favorite color, food, animal, all the way to what is your job? I truly appreciate my time that I spent with our young upcoming journalists. Uh, autism awareness bands. Miss Kelly Schustster donated autism awareness month wristbands, buttons, and ribbons to staff and students as a way to celebrate and promote awareness, diversity, and inclusivity for our students who may be neurodeivergent. One of our wrestlers on the Brown Deer Youth Wrestling Team became a WWF
007state champion. Our second grader, Jackson Moa, took home the 2025 Wisconsin Youth State Champion title in his weight class. Congratulations to Jackson. Scholars got to in uh oceans library week. Scholars got to learn all things related to oceans thanks to the amazing work of our librarian and Miss Cara Turner. Students learned about the five different oceans and their characteristics identifying their locations, habitats, species, and ocean zones. at Brown Dear Middle thanking our volunteers. As a way to say thank you, our middle school administrators passed out goodie bags to to some of the most some of our most important volunteers. Volunteers included bus drivers and reading assistants. These goodie bags were just a small way of showing our appreciation for those who dedicate their times toward making our school environment a wonderful place for our school
008for our students and staff. This month, the middle school completed the forward test uh forward testing. Students demonstrated excellent focus and attention to their testing. Staff was incredibly proud of how smoothly the testing was conducted and the high completion percentage. And lastly, a shout out to Mr. D who took a group of middle school students, I think about 26 of them in total to experience the beautiful sounds of the Wisconsin Lutheran Choir at the high school. Our art department and several students attended the fourth congressional district reception and award ceremony at Northwestern Mutual Tower. Brown Deer was well represented with 12 students having their beautiful work on display. Some of the participants included my Leo Lure, Bana Gomez, Ada Vang, Jenny her, Sydney Evans, Leam Maize, and Elise Pendleton. Brown Dear took home several awards
009including for Mariana Taylor honorable mention for her acrylic painting and Malia Lure second place for her embroidery piece. On April 8th and 10th, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design or MAD alumni Lee Leah Good, a communication of communications design piloted the future create creative student program at Browner High School when she graduated in 1999. The program Miss Good created is a two-day hands-on workshop that focus on careers in arts and designs that engage students through team-based visual research, interactive lectures, individual creative work, and team presentations. On Thursday, April 10th, Browners's middle and high school choir students were given the opportunity to learn from some of the best performers in the area. Milwaukee Symphia Symphony Orchestra Opera soloist Sonia Hedlim and Desawn Burton gave the students personal vocal instruction and advice on performing. This past Friday
010night, Browner High School showcased their talents at fine art night. Students demonstrated all of their artistic talent, including live art demonstrations, performances by the band, orchestra, and choir, as well as an improv show in the black box. I would like to thank all of the staff, students, and parents that participated in this event and showing brown deer has talent. Maximus Hayes and Mai Rogers competed for a spot in the world champion wrestling team last weekend in Las Vegas, Nevada. if they achieve qualifying scores, they could possibly represent the United States of America and compete in we think it's going to be soul uh South Korea. We are extremely proud of our young men representing Brown Deer in a positive light and showing our competitive spirit. And finally, our theater stars worked hard at putting this
011production together, a modern take on Homer's The Odyssey. This play shares the the story of a young refugee entering the United States and the powerful journey uh he travels on. I was able to attend the production this past Sunday and I am always amazed at our students performance skills and their ability ability to deliver their lines flawlessly. Congratulations to Miss Kinder, Mr. Dah and all of our students for a wonderful performance. And that concludes my report for the month of April. Wow. Can't even keep up with all the things are doing around here. But South Korea though, yes, it's going to be some place foreign and they're going to represent the United States. So, I think they're on their way back today. So, we'll find out how they fare, but we're very hopeful. Very hopeful.
012Right. Very good. Uh, up next we have our public comments. So this is where we are allowing you the public to uh make comments related to something that is on our agenda for this evening. If you would like to make a public comment, we ask that you state your name, your address, and um the agenda item that your comment is related to. So is there anyone who would like to make public comments at this time? Okay. So, I see no one in the room and no one online has stated that they would like to speak either. So, we will continue on at this time. Up next is the consent agenda um where we will have the approval of minutes, schedule of vouchers, and approval of school safety drill. Vice President. Sure. All right. I'd like
013to make a motion to approve the consent agenda, including minutes, the March 8, 2025 special board meeting, March 18th, 2025 regular board meeting. The schedule of voucher payments via check, ATH, and wire transfers in the amount of 1,387,862.76. and the general checking account and the food service account including funds 10, 21, 27, 39, 46, 50, 73, and 80, and the April 29th, 2025 school safety drill update as presented tonight. Thank you so much, Director Daniels. Ashley, can I get a second, please? Second. Thank you, Director Min. Any discussion? All in favor with I. I. Any opposed? All right. Motion carries. 6 to zero. Moving on to our next agenda item, which is items up for discussion. Starting with the business office report. Mr. Clement. Good evening, members of the board. Uh, congratulations on your re-election.
014Thanks. Uh just a couple of brief items this evening as part of my report u which I have already shared with you through board docs. Um just wanted to update you on some u banking changes that are coming uh to the district. Um one of which we've discussed previously about just kind of verifying that we have detection for our main account through Beimo. So we are actually working on moving that not moving it but um the account will be collaterized collateralized very shortly. So there will be um um through an agreement Beimo's um through some merger they've been able to offer some different products and so one of the things they're doing to their municipal clients is is offering that uh as a service. So um through a partnership with the Bank of New York
015Melon um they will be setting aside those uh same dollars on a daily basis so that in the event that BEMO would have some kind of catastrophic failures um the money would exist elsewhere. um that would be because it obviously exceeds whatever um the federal deposit insurance corporation. So um so we're just working through that. That'll be invisible to the district, but just to let you know that that is happening so that we will be protected that way. And then just also alerting to you to the fact that so um one of the companies that we deal with regularly is PMA. Um and we have a a significant number about half of our money sits at PMA and the WHISK funds. You've seen WISK on a depository list before. Um, and we run all of
016our payroll through that account. They use US Bank as their um, their back-end bank. So, that's why you see US Bank on our um, list of depositories every year. But, they are they've made an uh, they've shifted internally. All of their clients are moving from US Bank to Beimo now as their back end. So, um, we were trying we were going to do this earlier in the year, but then when our accountant left and we were trying to, uh, address that, we decided to pause that that transition. But we are now uh moving forward with it. Uh and because we already have a Beimo account um set up for our own work. Um everything will be similar to us when we talk about positive pay and the interface that we use and all that. So
017this will be a nice transition for us. Um again nothing in the front end that you will notice or anything like that. It does mean that now all of our payroll will be run through Beimo. So um we get some new checks and other things. I will be updating all of the banking signers anyway. um not tonight but at the next meeting I'll have all that paperwork ready to go for our officers so that we can get the updated signatures on all the checks. So there be there won't be now uh signatures for US bank and be will all be for those. Any questions on any of the banking changes a little more streamlined. So that's trying to do that a little bit. So it was dependent on what you know what services other people
018buy. But PMA when they said they were switching, we're like um next item is I do want to provide just a quick update on the cops grant um spending just to let you know where we are as we are approaching the end of year two of three. Um and just sharing with you where we are in our budgeted versus expenses and we uh this is again is updated with the change that we made last fall where we shifted dollars and the camera project. So that's where the the budget for the camera project, which is $91,000, significantly higher than what it was originally. So you can see right now we have spent um approximately $28,000 um in total. We're getting $156,000 from the feds. 52,000 has been spent locally and we have about $69,000 in total
019that we have to spend. uh basically addressing door access, uh window film, and we do have a little bit of money left over on radio, so we may be able to purchase a few more of those. Um but and those projects that we'd be working with, I believe, is that I think they're already already on schedule. Yeah, they're already happen this year or depending on if they happen over the summer, it might the next fiscal year, but um but we are uh we will easily have all the plans. The deadline was September 30, 2026. So, that'll all be done probably this year for sure. While we have talked about the COPS grant uh potentially applying for a one down the road, all of those grants right now are kind of on hold uh through the
020federal government. So, we're going to just focus on what we have here and then if the uh if that opportunity presents itself, I'm sure the team will talk about whether or not it makes sense to apply for another. Any questions on the cops grant update? Uh then uh very briefly, we're going to go into a little more detail later in the agenda, but I did want to share that um the negotiating team of um Dr. Beetle and Miss Daniels Ashley met with the BDA on April 17th, uh Thursday night. Uh we had a threehour meeting, I think it was or so. Um but we did come to a tenative agreement and then I did hear from the BDA uh over the weekend that they have ratified the agreement. So tonight, um we anticipate the board
021will do so as well and then we will be all set for teacher salaries for the 202526 school year and the business office will work hastily to get all the contracts up and ready to go so that when uh they are released in early May uh that all the teachers will see their contracts with their adjustments already on them for the next week which is be the second year in a row that we've done it which is great. I can get a lot of positive feedback and try to do it early and we do recognize the fact that we do want to support our staff and know that we're still a little bit um uncompetitive compared to some of our neighbors. So we are kind of we are continuing to move forward. I'll get into
022more details of what the what the details of the of the agreement are again later point of the other thing I did share is the March 2025 treasury report which is out there. uh there were any questions we are still tracking um you know you can see compared to the previous year revenue and expenses are basically pretty much online where we have been and again last year we had a we did have a surplus u again we start this year with a deficit budget so the surplus I think we'll only make the deficit less it's not going to be a we're not going to end up with a surplus but I think we'll we'll we're still performing pretty positively I am working on um recommending a few budget adjustments that I will give you at
023the end of May um just to tweak some things as far as DPI is concerned to help our aid estimate uh going forward because we know that that some of these pieces are going to be a little less than what we anticipate. Uh but I'll have that those numbers for you um at about a month. Were there any questions about the treasure report? I did add one other thing just so that you know I did add on the last page we have that cash flow that I've been sharing on a regular basis. I did add um just so you can see how the pack levy receipts are coming in. Um so as of u so this is again the March report as of March we had received um about uh 70 uh 70 um 2%
024of our tax revenue. Uh we still anticipate um another $3.1 million. We did get a small amount in April. will get another payment in June and then our final payment which will um uh make us whole will be the payment we received in August. So I did want to ask about that special project grant number 730 on the revenue side 10. Yes, the revenue summary page one. Yep. tell us what that is. Uh 7:30 would be any um so esser dollars was included in that. So that's where you see the 1.6 million was budgeted last year. Um and we did take a little while to do it. So you're going to see part of the 4 uh 21 that's in there right now was the $225,000 in Esser that we spent at the beginning of
025this school year for the elementary school curriculum. We have claimed that already. That was all had to be done by September. Um um but any other um that anything else that falls out on that special project project which also includes the um the after school grant as well. Um we did we were thinking and the way I budgeted we had spent all that we thought we could spend but we did um DPI work with us to get what they call an indirect cost claim where they do allow you to use a certain percentage of the funds just to administer the uh the grant. So, we were able to basically claim the entire value of the um after school grant, which I hadn't budgeted. So, that's one of those budget adjustments that I would make to
026help make sure that that aligns with a little closer to where we are. So, you see we're we're above this year, but that number dropped because [Music] they are they're done now. We we have used if Yeah. The last 200 and some thousand was we spent it on the uh on the curriculum purchase at the uh it had to be done by September 30th and claimed by September. Okay. We spent it in the summer. We claimed it by September 30th. So and we already received those dollars. So that and and then the the after school grant was the other piece because that was part of the um ARPA the American Recovery whatever that act was that included extra $3. It also included the after school grant which was about $450,000. And we claimed um I
027have to double check, but I'm going to guess it about 80 or $90,000 in the fiscal year. We we did offer some additional tutoring help in September because again we could spend through September 30th. So we did that and then we had those indirect costs that we're able to claim as well. So that was a little bit more revenue than made. Any other questions for Mr. All right, let's move on then to approving the resolution authorizing the transfer of funds. Yes, the the lovely defeasence. So, um we did talk about this a couple weeks ago. Uh three weeks ago, Kevin Mullen was with you from Bear to explain the situation. I'm going to share my screen really quick just to remind you. Um I did share updated information So there's obviously a lot of documentation
028that's a part of the agreement. Um that's paperwork that uh the officers will get signed uh later tonight. Um um so the uh just as a reminder so what we're doing is um this is technically called the feeasants because we can't theoretically prepay the debt. Um bonds that are this young usually there's a 10-year waiting period before you can actually call what's called calling them and actually physically buy them back. Um in this case what we do is we put money aside in an escro account through this process called defeasance and then a bank is going to manage paying their paying the interest costs and things going forward and then when the bonds are callable they pay it. So basically what happens is it's as though the debt is paid it's off our books but
029theoretically those bond holders still owe the bonds. So, now that they've been able to do the computation of what we're able to um spend, you're going to see that if you look in this first column here of the before defeasence area, we have um this is all for the $15.9 million portion of the 2018 referendum. The last payment, which was the 4% interest payment, which was due in 2038, $950,000 of that of this $1.1 million will be used to pay that last payment off. And then a small portion then will be the remainder or will be applied to the 2037 payment. So you can see in the second column after defeasance the 2038 payment goes away. The 20 um 37 payment drops from 2.7 million to 2.59 million. Um as I scroll down to the
030bottom of the screen then it does show you it's going to take $1,15,542 for this entire process. You see that the deposit uh that will actually go into the esport job is about 1,91,000. Then there are ancillary expenses that go to our partners at Coral partner at um associate bank and all of that for the total amount. And then over here we do note that the savings the future savings from this defeasence um will be 522 almost 523,000 in long-term interest costs. So that is the plan. We are planning on closing I believe May 15th. So I do need to I know Dr. rea out uh right now. I will need to get signatures from the three um officers over the next, you know, early next week to be able to send all the paperwork
031in to have a closing occur on the 15th. Um but other than that, we should be we're all ready to go from from our end. The money is already sitting in our debt service account. So the that's where um you won't you don't see it now, but when you see the April um cash, you're going to see this cash drop off because it left the general it left our general bank account, went over to uh whisk in the debt service. So there'll be a $1.1 million payment that we'll make um payment lot of stuff there, but any additional questions? Um, if not, there's just some uh I have a lot of paperwork I have to do for this. And one of them is I do have to list um a roll call vote for the
032uh roll call vote for the voting on the approval of the resolution. So when you do it, I'm just going to note make sure everybody that's involved I vote say and I know we have at least one absent. So we get a motion for that. Yes. I'd like to motion to approve the resolution authorizing the transfer of funds, the establishment of an escrow account with respect to and the defeasence of cert of certain of the general obligation school building and improvement bonds dated July 10th, 2018 as presented. All right. Thank you so much. Director Homer I can't live. Thank you, director. Can I get a second, please? Second. All right. Thank you, director Maker. Any further discussion? Roll call. Right. Roll call vote. I Daniels Ashley I Farington absent I Mini I Robinson I Welch
033I and the vote is six to zero six to zero with one caption. Okay. All right. Well, thank you very much. That over the last uh four years, we've just feased uh over $3 million. So, it's a it's a it's a nice testament to show that we're show the community that we're taking advantage when we can and and save money. So, thank you very much. All right. Thank you so much, Mr. Clement. Um up next is the approval of new hires, Miss Jax. All right. Good evening, board. The hiring season for the 2025 school year have officially begun. Human resources and principles participated in the CISA 1 job fair at Greenfield High School on Wednesday, April 16th, 2025. 52 teachers in the market for teaching assignments visited our booth and engaged with principles from the
034elementary, middle, and high school. The principal's team from each building were on the spot conducting interviews, engaging and building relationships. The elementary principal team was able to interview a new teacher and secure the hire. The high school principal team was able to engage interview and recommend an offer for a new teacher from the fair who had verbally accepted an offer to be officially announced at the next board meeting. Top of the success um I'm sorry top of success for the job fair our superintendent Dr. Katrice Cotton was in attend in attendance, rolled up her sleeves and engaged with potential hire. VM summary as of today's uh is presented as new hires for 202526 Raven Shot Elementary School Music start date August 25th 25th 25 replacing weman Tatum Margaret Murphy elementary school counselor start date August
03525th 2025 David Millita High School science computer science starts August 25th, 2025. This opens up a math position. Matthew Mansky High School math start date August 25th, 2025, replacing Fred Harris. All right. Thank you so very much. Um, can we get a motion, please? I'd like to make a motion to approve the hiring of Braden Shrot as an elementary school music teacher, Margaret Murphy as an elementary school counselor, Shawn Bona as a high school science computer science teacher, and Matthew Litmansky as a high school math teacher. All effective August 25th, 2025 for the 2526 school year. All right. Thank you so much, Director. Well, I get a second, please. I'll second. Director Daniel Ashley. Any further discussion? Seeing none. All in favor? I I Dr. Vita. Do I got your vote there? All right. So
036motion carries 620 to zero. All right. Up next is the approval of resignations. All right. Resignations for 2025. I'm sorry. Resignations for 2024 25. Our uh Eric Schmidt High School position physics uh resignation was submitted April 17th of 2025. Last day will be June 11th of 2025. Second resignation, Austin Zing, elementary school, uh, and the middle school serving as a physical education teacher. Resignation submitted on April 22nd, 2025. The last day will be June 11th of 2025. Third resignation, Wayne Tatum Elementary School Music Teacher submitted April 29, 2025. Last day will be June 11th of 2025. Get a motion, please. I'd like to make a motion to approve the resignation of Eric Smith as a high school physics teacher, Austin Zayn as an elementary and middle school physical education teacher, and Raymond Tatum as an
037elementary school music teacher. All effective June 11th, 2025. Thank you, Director Welch. And second, please. I'll second. Thank you, Dr. Peter. Any further discussion? All in favor? Any opposed? All right, motion carries 6 to Z. Thank you to all of our individuals who are resigning. Uh, best wishes to you in your future endeavors. And as we always say, once a falcon, always a thous. All right, let's move on to our next agenda item, which is our safety update. Good evening, board. Mr. Mess is prepared to share information regarding upcoming initiatives for our district regarding safety. Mr. Russ, good evening board. Health. I hope everyone is doing well. Um tonight, um I come to you guys to give you a little bit of an update on our safety. Over the last couple weeks, we have um
038had clear armor, which is the company that um puts our protective film uh finish a project at the middle middle high school. Now, all of the middle high schools now have protective film on security. Um secondly, um the facilities and grounds department along with principles and the director and district administration are working to provide an updated emergency operation plan EOP for all buildings and districts for 2526 school year. And I'll be working with them uh very closely next coming weeks to get that approved before July. In the upcoming school year, a review and in-person training of procedures related to school safety will be provided to all district staff. This to include Alice training, tornado drills, and evacuation training. So, we've been working due diligently having with our meeting with our safety team and trying to
039get this all secure and ready for us for 256 school year. Does the board have any questions? Any questions for Mr. Rex? Sorry, I'm out of breath. I can't breathe. Yeah, you you tend to be here when you shouldn't be, sir. as you know, I will always give you a hard time about that. All right. Thank you so much, Mr. Right. Let's move on to our next agenda item, which is discussion and approval of the middle school social studies National Geographic text. Okay. So, this evening, this evening, board, we seek your approval for the purchase of the social studies curriculum for our middle school. Mrs. Leticia Washington, the proud principal, is here to share the process used to select National Geographic Sengage as our textbook in this area and she is also supported this evening
040by Miss Claire Hirshman, the instructional coach at the middle school. Miss Washington, evening Dr. Beetle and members of the board, uh, Latician Washington, principal at Browner Middle School. So coming into this year, there wasn't a textbook curriculum that the teachers had access to. Uh we were finding that it was problematic. When teachers were leaving, they would take all of their lesson plans with them. So we thought that a textbook would help us with vertical alignment to make sure that we had something there for teachers to start with. Um we went with a six-year um proposal from National Geographic. For this process, we went through um a needs assessment with our social studies teachers, uh our instructional coach, Miss Hman, and myself, looking at what we needed for our students to make sure to ensure success
041for them with learning. We went through the process. We Miss Hman was able to get five textbook companies to give us samples. teachers were able to look over those samples using a scoring rubric sheet, gone through the materials, narrowed it down to two companies that we were able to schedule virtual meetings with. Uh what was nice about this was that teachers weren't given just a general sales call where everything looks good. They were actually able to look at the materials first and have really good concrete questions for the um the salespeople. Along with that, we had the curriculum, the materials, the textbook materials available for teachers, um, sorry, for parents during parent teacher conference night for both of those evenings that parents could look at what we were trying to review for materials for school.
042Um, with that being said, after the presentation, we narrowed it down that we really appreciated and liked what National Geographic had to offer. Um the one thing that and I want to give both sides of it. So what we did notice that of all of the companies economics in those economic standards were something that were missing. So we are looking at working with JA Bistown for our sixth graders and our eighth graders. Uh we believe financial literacy is huge for our students. Um so we want to make sure there are programs that they're offering for both our sixth and our eighth grade. The teachers love that idea. they're on board with it. We think the students will love that opportunity. So, we do want to have that in the future knowing that National Geographic touches
043on the economic standard but does not coverage on completely. Yeah, I think you got the the big pieces. Our final two um companies were National Geographic and HM. I think uh National Geographic includes a physical resources and online um resources whereas HMH only has the online resource and um in those final two National Geographic is about $20,000 less which is also appealing had been with the quote we were looking at having actual textbooks in the classroom just a classroom set um knowing how our teachers and students like to work a lot with online materials. So we have the physical there as well as the online and then National Geographic is more than willing to do PD with our teachers together but then also oneon-one with each of the teachers. So I noticed I thought I
044saw somewhere there was a timeline for which so if this gets pro approved tonight the period in which you're going to use the books and the materials is for when is it a it's a six year six and we will first year next year okay so starting in August we are approval we would like to lock in national geographic with professional developers. Awesome. And are they willing to continue throughout the six-year period that you're going to be utilizing the material? Yes, they did not tell us anything would be different, but yes, I see. Yeah. Okay. Okay. I like that you have um included the parents and enabled them an opportunity to review during the um parent teacher conference. So I think that was very good transparency and also letting people know where it is that
045you know we are with serving the students. So I think that was great getting their buy in too. Absolutely. Cool. I'm curious. Is it common for us to not have textbooks for classes and just go with the lesson plan? So we have so I will speak to we have materials we have the juice and ISL. So we have some online things but we we did not have textbooks and in middle school it was just social. Okay. And one of um during my tenure, what I've learned is we've contracted with people like Sharon to help align materials to standards because a lot of districts have moved away from like physical textbooks um because it's very expensive to align plans with um state standards. But as she told when people leave, they forget that whatever they create
046belongs to the district and they take it with them. So interesting. So now that brings my brain to care like where are they storing this material and can we make sure that we have access when they leave? Yeah, absolutely. We can recover. Um, it's hard though when like if you if you think like as a teacher like the materials that I create that created for me and my students that I have in front of me at that time and while it's a guide, it's definitely not grab and go ready, you know, for somebody else to to use. So, they would still have to kind of put it together based on the scope and sequence and the needs of the kids and things like that. And so, it's not terribly uncommon. Um but um but I
047think like um like Miss Washington said in the in the brief or you know the executive summary is that the burden is always on the teacher the heavy lifting. I'm I I joke that I'm a recovering social studies teacher and I but that was that was no different um 32 years ago when I was teaching you know social studies. I didn't I had a very old 1972 textbook to look at maps in and things like that but um so that's not uncommon. Um but uh but it is it is you know the burden on the teacher to put those materials together. It's fun teaching social studies which you know because things are constantly changing and you're bringing in new materials and stuff but having that core resource and I think with the younger teaching population
048um teacher prep is a little different. It looks a little different. The world is a little different. The tools are different. So, pull it back together. You know, I've done subbing at some other school and they asked me to make sure that I submitted my lesson plans two weeks in a in advance. So, they always had those lesson plans there. So, if if I were out, there would be someone else who could come in and they wouldn't have to um start all over. Is it possible to um ask people to put it in a clearing house of some sort even though it's just generic so that there is something there that can support teachers in the event that they're out or they leave or they get sick or whatever. and and they do and the
049principles have a have an emergency subfolder with with you know lesson plans and the ad uh admin assistants who are responsible primarily Amanda at the middle high school um and Miss Davis of the elementary school they do a great job making sure facilitating those lesson plans they're mailing them in, you know, emailing them. They we have a process for distributing that. It's not the it's not the short-term issues that are really kind of problematic. I would say it's the it's a longer term meeting the scope and sequence of the standards and when I will give you a small history lesson when um when um when Dr. Garrison was here. Social studies curriculum was up for review, but the state was also updating their social studies standards. At the time they hadn't completed that work, so
050the timing was suboptimal as we say in our house. And so, you know, so I think there was kind of a pressing on the break and then we decided and especially because then we dove into co nice. So then we had access to all these electronic tools and resources. Then the teachers kind of curated those resources. But now that is passed and and I think the time especially given the teachers and I think the the greatest impact this Brown has great stability at the high school. Um the greatest impact has definitely been at the middle school where um for no fault of anybody it's been a bit of a revolving door there in terms of some of the teachers and stuff. They stay for a couple years and then they move on. And I I
051would say that our social studies team does have a well articulated scope and sequence that is standards aligned that they're working from. Um and they have had materials that they've pulled from. But those materials have changed a little bit over the last few years they were using actively learn and before that they were using the discovery at textbook. And one of the the biggest things that they said to us going into this process is we want a standardized resource where we can pull um thoseformational texts from. So instead of uh googling to find an article on the American Revolution, they want to be able to like have a textbook where it's a vetted resource um that they can can pull from. And and that's really was the lens that we were looking at these tools
052from. and National Geographic just has a a really nice and user friendly um text. It has their each section of the book. So on each topic is about one page of reading with u graphics. So it's pretty succinct. Um it's very studentfriendly and it just gives everyone on the team a place to go back to when they're looking kind of for those anchor texts to supplement all of the other standards line work that they've been doing. And that purpose of why you all want the text makes perfect sense. Which is why I asked the question of don't we have that for everything? And even if it's not a textbook, even if it is an online resource, just having that credible source um where we know that that information is relevant, we know that it meets
053the standards that we need met in that subject and we're able to provide that consistency with our curriculum. All right. Any other questions? Okay. Well, can I get a motion, please? Okay. Um um I would like to motion to approve the middle school social studies national geodraphic um cinnage textbook adoption for the school year at a cost not to exceed $63,190.38. Right. Thank you so much director second. Right. Thank you Director Welch. Any further discussion? So I that's a very specific number. So we know that that's exactly how much it is. Yes, ma'am. Okay. Yes, ma'am. In the So we added the quote. So really has our we need for there the online access for the teachers and then the virtual product like the virtual training like we're Yeah. Okay. I I'm just I'm like
054why didn't they just say 63,200 but we put it down to the Oh yeah. I I want Yeah. I work a lot with Mr. KC. I know that all the coins he likes to know the details. I do have a question about this though. So am I reading the quote correctly? Did I see a grand total of 531 190.38 and the motion is 63. Am I missing some money somewhere? Yep. $53,190.38. Oh says 53. The motion says 63. Yeah, I was getting ready to ask the same thing. What? What is it? Ask, right? Yes, ma'am. Okay. So, then director Director Mum, will you accept a friendly amendment to your motion for the amount of $53,190.38? Yes, ma'am. All right. Thank you. Okay. Any other discussion? All in favor? I I Any opposed? Motion carries. Six
055to zero. So you all will have your new curriculum for or your textbooks for the poster. All right, let's move on then to the discussion and approval of the high school bowling team trip. Tonight, Mr. Skyelli and members of the division 2 state championship bowling team are here and are seeking board approval for a trip to National High School Bowling Championship in Fort Wayne, Indiana. I will now introduce Mr. Skyle who will present this information to the board. Mr. sky over. Well, we're back. I brought four state champions with an incredible show um up at state about a month ago now. Um so with winning the state title, you had the opportunity to go to the national championship which obviously encompasses all 50 states. uh this year happens to be Fort Wayne and he missed
056Florida last year and Pennsylvania the year before. So we get to go to Fort Wayne Indiana. Nothing wrong with that, but um you know it's Fort Wayne. Um and so with that being said, um it's the weekend of June 6th through the 9th and these guys will already all have been graduated and the thought would be that we would travel down on that Friday. They would I I left in the executive summary I gave you all kind of the not the itinerary but the information. They would bowl Friday night of practice round at the bowling alley. Saturday would be the team event and Sunday would be the individual event and then if anything advanced on to Monday uh as individuals playing event would be the month uh the the individual championships. Um so I guess
057a lot of this the executive summary is very similar to the one that I did for state. Um, this one it's got a little bit higher budgeting requesting 4750 to cover the cost of lodging and meals in the team registration. Um, I kind of break it down. I don't think lodging is going to be as high as what I put on here. So 4750 was like the top number. I did some research. I have a bunch of hotels. I looked on hotels.com which I'm a member of. So the numbers here might be a little less important hotels.com. It can be a little bit less. month. If not, it might be a little bit higher, but I don't anticipate. So, I found hotels for three nights anywhere from 900 to about 1,500. Um, it's all based
058on availability. I haven't been able to book yet because I wasn't sure if they were going to have this approved. I wasn't sure if the guys were going to be able to go. They obviously have a lot of stuff going on and see because there's Phil athletics. They're on the track team. These guys are on the track team. Uh, the other two guys have jobs and are on the tennis team. Um, so we got a lot, they kind of got a lot going on and they got to graduate as well. So, um, so we still need to have that discussion, but uh, just wanted to, you know, reach out to the board and ask. It's 450 for the registration fee for the team. Gas, I don't know how much it would cost. I would drive
059a school van again. Hopefully, like I put on here, not get hit by a big chunk of ice when I move back to semi. Let's hope that in luckily we didn't fall over or anything, but we survived it and uh stay title. So, it was a traumatic weekend yet a very exciting weekend. Um so, yeah, if you guys have any questions for me, um you know, we appreciate you guys' support from when we were here about two months ago. Um it's it's been a tremendous three years with this group. Um, and we just were hoping for one more weekend together after they graduate and little culminating event and maybe put our name on the map as national champions instead of just see just state champions. But, uh, it's been a phenomenal ride. So, we appreciate
060all the support. So, you have any questions for me, please feel free or any questions for the gentlemen, ask them how they're tournament. I got I got a question. Hey, first off guys, excellent job always. You know, we're so proud of you and everything that you're doing. I guess my question is more for Kevin. Would it We're still covered under all of our insurance because they've already graduated and everything else like that, but they're still covered. They're still covered under our insurance under our umbrella and everything else like that if we're sponsoring. Correct. That's an excellent question. I'd have to confirm. I don't want to say yes or no 100%. But I would I just want to make sure because you know we had that incident with the van before. So I was just sitting
061there thinking I was like if they've graduated but again we're still sponsoring. I just want to make sure that the insurance is covering it. I mean yeah from that standpoint I mean it's a district event whether or not there students involved. I mean it's the same situation. So yeah in that sense yes. All right. Perfect. All right. Question for the guys. How does it feel to bring us our first title since 2015? It's a very humbling moment. Uh that's what this the whole point of starting a team was to bring a state championship. Appreciate our love you guys. Very humbling experience. Glad to be Very cool. Thank you so very much. Uh any other questions by any other team member? Oh. Oh, I got one. Uh how many uh 300s are we going to bowl?
062You know, at the beginning of the year, I wrote down a goal list and what the top goal that I had was to have these guys bowl of 300. And we didn't get one. And three years I figured Yes. Yes. Yeah. In the three years I figured they would get one. And I've had numerous coaches ask me how many 300s these guys got because they're so phenomenal. And I I got to kind of hang my head in pain like bad coaching. That was the only goal that they didn't attain that I had written down. So So we got five 300s getting ready to come. Right. Right guys. So, we got 5300's getting ready to come. Okay. I couldn't hear it. All right. Um, no. Are there questions? Can we get a motion? Change this the
063motion though to say not to exceed a certain amount. At this point, we don't know exactly. Yes. So that was going to be my uh point of discussion but yeah I can say it now because this is a very specific amount not to exceed do we want to say are we okay Mr. clinic if we say not to exceed 5,000. Right. It's all Yeah, we should be we should be good. Uh VP, we should be good with that. Not to exceed 5,000. All right. Um so I'd like to make a motion to approve the high school bowling team trip to the National High School Bowling Championship in Fort Wayne, Indiana during the week of June 6 through the 9th, 2025. any amount not to exceed $5,000. I'll second. All right. Any further questions or discussion?
064Let's go. Brown deal. Favor. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries. Six to zero. Congratulations, guys. Brown Deer Strong. Let's go, guys. Thank you all very much. appreciate your time and your support. Hopefully play that brings some more hardware back. If you want to see the hardware, it is over by the uh house in North, right? Very cool. Yeah, we were all sitting online that Sunday like, wait, what happened? I got it. I got it. But yeah, we are very excited for you guys. Good job. All right. Up next is everybody. Okay. Up next is the Neola policy revision first reading. This evening the the administration drinks administrative policy. PO 9500 relations with educational institutions and organizations for your review. This policy allows outside organizations the opportunity to conduct research in our district. This policy
065was adopted by the board previously, but current administration has added the need for researchers to complete a comprehensive research proposal application to the district that indicates the purpose of their research, who will be involved, duration of the research, and educational benefit to the district. The goal of this added step is to ensure the research conducted adds value to the district, prioritizes student staff well-being, aligns to our district mission, vision, and goals, and has the potential to broaden the impact of the educational community. And how this really came up is that we just received not not too long ago someone who was wanting to do research in the district, but we didn't have a process um in regards to that. So working with um so we accepted the bottom halves of what you see checked in
066in your packet and then I've asked also Dr. Glass she's in the process of um solidifying a process um where people who want to do research would send a letter to her. She will give them information. There's a packet that they would have to fill out online um in order for them to move forward. And this is just done to just protect district to make sure that the information um that someone is attempting to use in their research is mutually benefit beneficial to not only us but to them but to us as well. Any questions for Dr. Can we get a motion? Yes. I would like to motion to approve the first reading of the NEOA policy revision relations with educational institutions and organizations as presented. Very good. Thank you, Director Homer. Second. Very much
067director. Any further discussion? Okay. All in favor? I I oppose. Motion carries. six to zero. Thank you. You are welcome. Uh up next is the discussion and approval of appointment of school board members for CISA one. Dr. Bele, is that will that be you to talk about that one? Um well, okay. Well, yeah, I can talk about it. Well, basically what we end up doing is the person that we always have that represents us for the CIS of one at border control for the annual convention uh for that school board delegates. Uh and I think in the past I think it was director Min who we had um that was the representative for us the past two years I believe. Director Min. Yes. All right. Um and and so with that with that one right
068there is just being able to represent Brown Deer and being able to represent us in that CISA one for that board of control at the convention. Um so with that being said um I don't know if anyone else would like to be able to uh be able to do that. Um Director Min, would that be something that you would continue to like to be able to serve as again? Um Director Beetle, I don't mind serving again. My only thing is is that I would like another eye to see um whether or not I don't know. I I was kind of hoping this year you could just see I just don't see where we have any power where we are um being voted into any positions where there's collaboration there. It seems like we are on
069an island by ourselves. So I I'll work with you. I I'll work with you on that one, uh, Director Min, as long as you would be the person that that, uh, that they would do, but I'd work with you. Okay. Okay. I I'll continue to do that. Um, but, um, somehow another, it seems like we I don't know whether or not the other school districts are meeting with one another. And so, when it comes to voting for positions um, for different board positions or whatever, then they're voting one another. They know one another. And it's kind of interesting because I've done this more than twice now and I'm the only black person there and nobody remembers me from year to year. Wow. Really? Well, you know what? What we'll make that change on there because
070remember there was some things that we talked about when we were at the uh statewide um back in January that we talked about or whatever. So, what we'll do is is together we'll go ahead and we'll try to make that change. Okay, cool. Thank you. Hey, uh, Vice President Robinson, I think now I guess someone needs to make the approval or the approve the appointment. So, I'd like to make a motion to approve the appointment of Dorothy Min to serve as the CIA one board of control for the annual convention of school board delegates pursued to Wisconsin state statute 116.02 parent one parent A. Thank you. Thank you, Director Welch. A second. Thank you, Director Daniels Ashley. Any further discussion? Great. All in favor with I I. Any opposed? Motion carries six to zero. So,
071thank you, Director Maker, for agreeing to take on that responsibility again and share. Thank you. All right. Up next is the appointment of school board committee assignments. Dr. Veto. Uh yes. So with that being said, uh everyone, as you know, there are four different um uh four different board. There are four different reports that we ask for the board to be able to ask an an individual board member to serve. One is the SWSA and legislative update. The other one is the WASBY update. um educational foundation and parks and wreck. Now, individuals on the board that serve on the that serve here, only thing they're doing is actually coming back and reporting back to the board uh kind of what was kind of going on during that time. Now, um each one of them, they
072actually do have meetings. Uh Parks and Rex has meeting, Ed Foundation has meeting, WSBY has meeting, SWSA and legis and legislation, they actually have meetings as well too. Now again, it is something that we definitely have to do. Uh and and we definitely want board members to uh be able to serve on those. Uh so currently, I know I serve as the SWSA. Um and I think Wisby is uh director Ashley. Uh Ed Foundation right now is director Robinson and Parks and Wreck was director uh Walker. Um, so with that being said, is there anyone that would that would like to be able to serve as um on the committee for the SWSA? Dr. B, can you tell us what SWSA is? South uh Southern Wisconsin School Association. It's right there. Southeastern Wisconsin Schools Alliance
073and Alliance. I'm so sorry. I'm said association alliance. I'm so sorry. And I can actually serve back on that one again. I don't have a problem with that. Well, what exactly sort of like a little bit more detail about what the focus is? I mean, obviously the focus the the focus of that one is is all of the legislative updates that are happening within the state of Wisconsin. And so like there's representatives from all the school districts from the surrounding areas that get together and they're like a coalition of sorts. Yeah. And what they do is they do member out they do the member outreach. They have the meetings to find kind of talk about issues that are going on within the state of Wisconsin uh from um a school district assoc from um from
074school districts and everything else. And that's what SWSA is for. How often do they meet? I've served that way before. I've served on board meetings. When I served on it, they they were going monthly. How often are they meeting? Monthly. The SWSA that meeting is monthly. And matter of fact, actually, um, Mr. Matt Russ actually goes to the SWSA meetings as well, too. Is that is Aren't you still doing that, Matt? Uh, he's not he's not here anymore. Okay. But yeah, they meet they meet monthly. I believe. Yeah. So those So SWSA they actually meet monthly. Uh generally in the morning is it in person or virtual? Virtual. Virtual. And then are the wise meetings monthly as well? So the WASBY meetings are not regular meetings. It's primarily representing us our district at the WASBY
075conference. Um staying updated on all kinds of stuff coming out. that WASBY and SWSA really really complement each other because whatever is happening on the S SWSA side is also happening on the Wise side. Right. Right. Budget. Yeah. Yep. Only difference is is the SWSA is one is really just talking about uh south, you know, south um uh the southeast southeast region for Wisconsin and while the Wisby is statewide. But again, they're still talking about the same there. They're still talking about the same thing. I'm almost wondering like why do we have two separate ones for that one and stuff because currently me and director Ashley, we be almost saying the same thing. We almost be trying to figure out what not to say, right? So, yeah. So, in regards to what he just said,
076I pretty much tailor my comments and reports on a, you know, monthly basis based on what some of the stuff they're saying. It's almost very repetitive. Yes. Um except minus the meeting, right? The official meeting, but you know, so it sounds like it almost makes sense for us to have one person do both of those. Um I can't Yes and no. Yes and no. You almost have to do two. Yeah, you almost Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Right. But like I said before, I I'll do the SWSA again. That's not a problem. and I'll stick with the WSB if it's okay with my colleagues here today. So, sticking to it is great, but I want to ask Director Welch, are you interested in either of those? I mean, I am interested. I'm interested. Oh, well, you can
077have S SWSA. Director Welch, if you like, you can have the S SWSA volunte. So, but that's part of what my I'm asking trying to get some more clarification on like when the meetings are and that kind of Oh, they'll let you know. So, there there's a a notification they'll put you on the list. Yeah. But I mean, typically though, typically like what sort of the meeting schedule I heard you say obviously it's monthly and this is irre for wise means a little bit irregular. Are they virtual? So, like it's a Y like typically when you meet I heard you say it's in the A.M. So what does that mean? 7 a.m. 7 a.m. 7:30 7:30 to 11 and then for there's no meeting. It's just conference or conference and making sure that you you
078remain a breast on all of the stuff. They've got two three different entities. They got a legal analysis entity. They have a school district related and then when budget season comes it's a whole budget thingy and so you know it's just you know just remaining a breast and on top of on top of the emails the emails and then reporting back out to then reporting back out to the board. Yeah. And a lot of boards for you there's a lot of information because a lot of new board members have been elected and so they have a lot of resources directed to folks who are joining boards board development stuff and alike. And what about the ad foundation? So the air foundation um has been in a bit of transition um with uh leadership and kind
079of getting our footing since there is no leadership uh but just regular uh basically overseeing grants that are distributed to teachers um within the district or uh the community scholarships for the students is what we're currently working on. Um so those are the two main things that we do and then there may be some funding opportunities throughout the year. Um as well as managing the campaigns around uh the ad foundation as well and what does that mean? There's that's why I say it's been in transition. It was previously monthly. It's not always monthly now. So, and then for the park and wrecks committee, basically you attend the monthly park and wreck department meetings and report back to the board um anything that may be impacting the school. All right. So, with that being said, we
080know with our current members where their where their interests um are and if they'd be willing to serve again, but director Welsh, do you have interest in any particular one? No, I I really am between. I mean, I heard you I heard exactly what you said in terms of like it it's a similar scenario, but I do like the wise what I'm kind of interested in. Okay. Just to get sort of like a broader picture of what folks are doing across state because it sounds like that's part of the conversation, right? Well, emails, not conversation. Okay. So, I would land there if that's all right. And then, director, I know that you're just getting your foot in the door. I not quite have a good seat yet, but is anything of particular interest? And it
081doesn't have to be because you are just coming in. So, okay. Just wanted to give you that opportunity. Um, Dr. Beetle, did you talk to Director Fington at all about interest in either of those? Uh, actually, no. She actually wasn't she really wasn't um thinking about any of them at that moment. So, but again, I think potentially outside of the um Ed Foundation, but again, you know, I think she was talking about because of her schedule. Okay. All right. So, then it sounds like what we would have would be Dr. Beetle for Dutch SWSA. Um, Director Welch for Wisby. Uh, I'm perfectly fine with staying on for Ed Foundation. And then we would need someone for parks and recreation. Any any board member um interested in a parking wreck? I I tell you what I
082Well, this is what we could I could do. If someone else would um like um um Director Ashley, if you would do SWSA, then I I would do park and wreck if needed. I can't do I can't commit to that because of my work schedule, right? That's the reason why I, you know, had to back out the first time because Yeah. Okay. All right. Can we table parks and wreck till different time then? Uh, yes. Um, but wait, I guess the question next question is is when is the next park and wreck meeting though because I know uh director well former director Walker was in charge of park was doing park and wreck. I just don't know when the next meeting is. And so until we come up with somebody, I'll do park and wreck
083until we talk to uh I can talk to another board member. Maybe somebody else would like to be able to try to take that over. But we definitely got to have a representative on park and wreck right now. So I'll do it for right now, but I'll see if we can find someone else that would like to uh take that over in the future. Let me ask a question about the um SWSA. You said it meets once a month. Yeah, at 7 a.m., but it's virtual. So I mean so again you would just virtually do it as well as like I said before um Matt Russ is actually part of that as well too and Dr. Superintendants are on there too. Yeah. So for all intents and purposes um director Min if you if you'd
084want to I mean there's other people that are there but I mean definitely it would be a good one for you to uh be part of especially because you're treasurer now. Thank you. Thank you. Sounds good. Okay. So then I will um I will make a commitment to do that. All right. Fine. And then I'll just do and I'll do park and wreck for right now. And if it's okay, if she can't do it, I could probably if we can plan it out, right? If there's some conversations where you can't do it and I can hop on for a little bit, I just can't commit to doing something at 7:30. My schedule just But here's the good thing though, guys. And I was going to report out on that. So now they just came up
085with the meeting calendar for SWSA. So there is no meeting in July. So then there there'll be no wait, I'm sorry. There'll be a meeting July 15th, no meeting in August, and then the next meeting won't be until September. That's a meeting. Okay. So July and September, nothing before July. Uh there will be there there will be a meeting in May. So yeah. So there'll be a there'll be a meeting next month in May. There'll be a meeting in June and then you have the July but then no meeting in August. Sounds good. What did you do? Same thing about the second. I was just going to say there's a comment um online that the parking the next parking rate meeting is this coming Tuesday at 6 o'clock. Oh, I say not according to their
086calendar. Uh oh. The village village website does not have anything for the 6th of May. They have the next one scheduled for June 3rd is what the I was going to say. It doesn't look like they had one now. They didn't they had a meeting in April that was cancelled. So, they didn't actually have it, but they don't have it on their calendar. So, if they typed in it, it's not publicized that way. So, I'm not sure. Possibly somebody that I'm planning, right? So, if the next meeting is June 3rd, I I would have I would need somebody potentially just to kind of go for me. Uh there's I know I can't make the June 3rd meeting. Okay. So we we can discuss that. Right. All right. Sounds good. But but otherwise, I'll go ahead
087and I'll do park and wreck. I just can't uh do June 3rd. Otherwise, I think you guys will probably be um uh carrying me. My 30th anniversary on June 3rd. So yeah. Yeah. No. Oh, wow. Don't want that kind of trouble. I would do you worse than I did Matt for being here tonight if that were to happen. So, all right. So, then can we get a motion? So, I'd like to make a motion to approve SWSA to approve Doroththia Min to serve on the souththeastern Wisconsin schools alliance and legislative committee as a representative for the school district of Brown Deere for the 2025 2026 school board calendar year. I'd like to also make a motion to approve uh Meredith Welch to serve. Okay. So, it won't be separate motions. So, it's either one motion
088or each individual one. So, okay. So, I'll stop there then. I'll stop with the motion to approve. So, you can say all of them. You just don't have to say you want to make a motion each time. Oh, okay. So, you got Okay. So I'll move to approve um that Welch Welch who was so min Robinson and Dr. Beetle serve in the various um committees as presented tonight. Okay. That's how you do it. All right. All right. Is there a second? Second. Okay. Any further discussion? All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carry six to zero. All right, let's move on then to the discussion and potential action to implement the district's totalbased wage offer. Yes. So, the next two items work in tandem. Please don't do one without the other. workarily for us. So, um
089so we went through the negotiating process as I mentioned earlier in the meeting with the BDA. Um they uh were still under the current um and well they agreed to operate under current rules post act 10 uh even though there's obviously litigation that's not safe but nonetheless. So what what we did um what we do is then we uh present an offer to the the um the BDA then we we can negotiate only on base wages up to CPI. So CPI for the 202526 school year is 2.95%. Again, recognizing the fact that we are still not as competitive as our neighbors, um we wanted to make sure that we incorporated a plan that would again continue to boost the entire scale in a very thoughtful and careful way so we're not overpromising too soon. Uh
090knowing again, we're still in a deficit situation. So what we do is we calculate what the current base wage as an entire unit is as of January 1st of this year 25 and then we apply whatever percentage we're going to apply to that group as a whole. So again with um so we do this in two steps because we can only under act 10 negotiate up to 2.95% for the base wage visa and anything else that we decide to do in excess of that is supplemental increase. That's why there are two separate motions. Um so the way that the the the model works again is that we do have um um a plan that every year a teacher will move down the scale based on successful completion of educator effectiveness. So it isn't automatic. If
091you're on a performance improvement plan, there's no movement. And then the scale is slightly weighted so that the first seven steps um when you're a new teacher starting at the starting wage um up to step seven, they're $1,500 increases and then after that they're $1,000. up with the rest of the scale. So what we do is we compute here's everybody where they are in the scale and then we move them all an additional step. So that's the first part of the plan. We look at everybody that's eligible um as of the date we we we agreed to this and so we have 131 teachers. Make sure I'm using the right uh yes we are 131 teachers as of April 15. Um and so by moving all those features the one step um they would the
092total cost of that is $146,000 over that. Then we implemented a couple years ago the this additional what we call a retention step increase. They called it a bonus sort of thing, but really what we're doing is we're looking at teachers who are entering certain years of employment and giving them these milestone years. We're moving them an extra step. So they would get an extra 1500 or an extra thousand depending on where they happen to be. And so um we do that for any teacher entering their fourth year, their ninth year or their 15th year of local service to our district. Doesn't matter how many years they're teacher just how many years they've been here serving as a teacher here but not necessarily their entire education experience. So in this case for this year with
093that and I and there's an appendex A which is included in the list which I list all the features that are included in this either entering four year year four year nine or year 15. There are 20 or 18 of them and the total cost of that portion is $20,000 to do that. And then if you remember as we've been doing this over the last three years, one of the one of the things the BDA was trying to do is pretend that that was in place since the beginning of time. And so everybody that's planning here would have experienced those extra increases. And so the first year we did this, we gave everybody that was year four and up the last year we did everybody year nine and up got an extra an extra ketchup
094raise. This year it's only those 15 and up. So there's um an additional 10 teachers which is at that point $10,000 to do this extra catchup where anybody those those teachers who are entering their 16th or higher year get that. So now everyone will have received whatever catchup raises or whatever retention steps they have passed and so now it'll just be the teachers moving into those going forward. Does that make sense to make sure? Right. So next year it'll just be teachers entering fourth uh 9th at at 15 at 15 going forward. None of the other teachers will get paid. So then that's a certain amount of money and then to round up to get to the point where we're at 2.95% we're going to increase the value of each cell. And this is where
095the math comes in by basing on how many teachers are are in the in the plan at that point. So to do to do that under the negotiated base wage increase, we're going to increase the value of each cell by $524.86. When you add all those up, you get a total of $245,16, which is 2.95% on the base rate. So that's the negotiated part and that's the first portion of the of the first motion. Then after that, the second part is what we call supplemental page. So this is what the board can do above and beyond if it has to be treated separately. So what we're going to do is we're going to increase the value of each cell by an additional in addition to the 524. We're going to do it by an additional
09697514. The total increase in the cell is going to be $1,500. And that total cost of the supplemental increase is 120 almost 12 um $8,0001 which brings the total cost of both plans together um $372,850 or at this point 4.49%. So it's it's obviously in excess of the 2.95. Um this will take your starting salary will be now $47,000 in the 2526 or 455 current. So, in the time that some of you have been on the board, we've gone from $40,000 to $47,000. So, it's a nice, you know, jump. We're approaching 20%. Um, and I would like to see that, you know, process continue to help get us to a point where we're we're again more competitive. So, those are the two pieces um for the for those for the package deal. Um, and again,
097there are certain teachers that are included in the 4, 9, and 15 step. And then there's another group of teachers that are in the 16 up staff that will be identified with additional um those additional step increases. Are there any questions about how either of those two work or why we're doing them? Um I guess my I'm making a comment more than anything else. Who is there? Yep. I'm just going to say that you know what, it was um the process that we went through and um director uh Ashley, you can correct me if I'm wrong, but it was a pretty smooth uh it was pretty smooth uh uh meeting and and the way that the uh the numbers came about and this the interaction uh between the BDA uh the um the schoolboard members
098that were there as well as the administration. Uh we we think that this is really really fair. Uh it it it takes it's it's a great thing for us to understand and know what the dollar amount is that when we get ready to do the budget from a board standpoint, but I also think it's just as great uh for the teachers to understand and know exactly where they're going to what their dollar amount is going to be for the upcoming uh upcoming school year and us getting in front of this. So Kevin, thanks a lot for trying to jump in front of this thing uh early rather than later. Uh, I think it lets I think it lets our uh staff know how much we value them and our teachers know how much we value
099them, how much we're trying to uh stay competitive uh and and improve our lines of communication uh when it comes to this and being and being financially and physically responsible on top of everything else like that and stuff. So, I like I just like to have shout outs to the BDA, Rob Green, him and his team uh for doing that and Kevin for you and your team and um Dr. Cotton for for coming up with this and and making this thing work and making this process pretty seamless. Agreed. Um I I really like the process. I mean, it was long. It's about a three-hour meeting. Three and a half. It was a little long. just a little bit. But I mean, but the exchange was um something that, you know, people showed up, they were
100prepared, and um I feel happy that we were able to um come up with something that everybody could. Y fruitful dialogue is what I want to like to call it. Fruitful dialogue. So yeah, so there's two separate motions to deal with them separately, but just obviously in totality when you pass both of those, this will be the plan. Okay. Well, is everyone anyone have any other comments? Um, otherwise then what I would like to do is to make a motion to approve the district's totalbased wage offer as presented to the Brown Deere Education Association on April 17, 2025 pertaining to the terms of the 2025 collective bargaining agreement at the cost of $372,850 or 4.49%. Sorry, I was not here today so I didn't get a chance to see that. Um, can we correct those
101numbers? Sure. The base wage part should be 45106 106. That's the total cost for the for the base wage increase. Is it still the 4.9? I wouldn't use a percentage on that because it it's 2.95. It's 2.95% under um like the bargain. Yeah. So don't don't worry about don't worry about Yeah. If you do the total amount that's fine but it is it does match. We are paying CPI which is 2.95%. But if you could redo the motion or pull that back. I'll pull it back and and re read it just to Yeah, you could do a friendly amendment. So I'd like to um do a friendly amendment to change the cost for the collective bargaining agreement for to $245,16. Right. Is there a second? I'll second. Any further discussion? Okay. All in favor with
102I I opposed. Motion carries six to zero. And then the next and then for the next one, I would just use the the supplemental increase has a has a a cost of $127,744. Okay. So, I'd like to make a motion to approve the distribution of the $127,744 and supplemental pay as presented to eligible teaching staff for the 2025 2026 school year. Okay. A second. Second. Thank you, Director Min. Any further discussion? All those in favor? I. Any opposed? Okay, motion carries. Six to zero. Great. Thank you very much. I'm sure the teaching staff will appreciate it. We will get the word out now that um uh sometime in around the 10th or so of May, we will have contracts out for staff to sign. Very good. Thank you. Okay. Uh up next are our board
103reports. uh SWSA. All right. So, the budget process is on track with the joint finance committee. Hearings are underway. Uh the committee is expected to start making decisions in early May. Uh but there may be some delays due to pending uh Supreme Court cases and discussions about potential tax cuts. Um all members which all districts are encouraged to submit of any of our comments to to the JFC and continue meeting with our legislators in relationship to funding. Um, another thing is is uh there's a new indexing mechanism that provides a dollar for-doll increase in the voucher and charter school funding. When public schools receive an increase in revenue, this is happening with low revenue ceiling increases and high schools get a a onetoone match. K8 gets a 90% match. Um, and 75 to 80% of
104voucher recipients were already in private schools effectively subsidizing private education. Uh this is a difficult advanced topic to explain to the community. Public awareness and understanding uh and understanding is low. So we'll be continue to be able to move on with uh how the voucher system uh and the GPR funding is actually uh being done. Um and everything else is pretty I guarantee you uh director Ashley is probably going to tell you a little bit more under the WSB. I just wanted to talk a little bit about this S SWSA part and uh the joint finance committee and the funding and that is the S SWSA report. So, with regards to the WSB um report, the item that Todd just uh director Beetle just referenced was one of the things that got um resolved in
105the delegate meeting in January at the state convention. That was one of the things that got voted on that um is now being considered and nobody understands it got um voted. but it is here to stay. And what WSB will do um is they're now going to educate you. So that's what WSB is really really good for educating different resolutions that come down the pipe that get voted at the um statewide convention. Which one was that again? Oh, I cannot remember the resolution. It was a um one of the ones that took up a whole lot of time in the beginning. um start. But anyh who um with that said um there's a lot of um energy going with the state education convention in January. So there's a call for uh submissions for papers um
106to present at the conference. Um they're also hosting a virtual new board member gathering virtually. Um I'm looking at you um director hallmire because these are wonderful educational um virtual experiences to to explain what your role is as a board member particularly new um board members across the state that are joining Wisconsin boards. And so um this particular um virtual meeting is happening this Thursday from 7 to 9. And I'm not sure I what I will do is I will forward this to you and then that way you can go in um and then get yourself registered to attend. So they're um virtual now instead in person. They're Yes. Oh, I did do I did do an orientation earlier in the month. Okay. So I and it was very helpful. So I definitely will look
107at this one to you. Okay. Yeah. Thank you. They're really good. And then of course just I'm so sorry to interrupt you but again you mentioned the call for proposals for so I'm just saying again that I think we would be well positioned to be able to submit a proposal so well have we we haven't yet but I have shared it at cabinet and so brown deer should be represented as long as they select us for the upcoming school year. Yeah, we have until I think it's June, I'll say 30th, but it's in June in order to submit a proposal and I know definitely there is um one that's going to be considered. I also shared it with the art department so that our students artwork could be displayed and then I think they just
108recently sent out the stuff and music and I had already talked to Mr. Dfield about looking into it and um you know seeing if he could showcase our music department. So yes, once that came out, I definitely send it on. So yeah, we want brown deer to be on on the stage on the on the screen in the place. So that um if it's worth us having a small aha committee where we would talk about different topics that we could submit because um I like your idea of submissions um from our students. Um, I'd like to see us present um at those um conferences, but you know, we a uniquely situated board um if you know what I mean. And I think that we could also bring um some, you know, very very valuable um
109information with regards to how um you know, we govern the the school district of Brown here and what works for us. um meaning that we want um majority floors, right? Um, and certainly, you know, in our conversations with some of the other board members around the state, people would like to know what our secret sauce is and brown beer and we should be um shouting from the mountain top, you know, what it is that we're doing and yeah, let's take the secret out of it. So yeah, and I would say to not just suggest that those folks apply, but then to also follow up and make sure those applications have gone out. I still have a little leeway with, you know, my brother-in-law. So you say the word. Wait a minute. Say say the word.
110I don't know if you want to say that. Okay. All right. Um and that's that my report. Okay, thank you. Um so for the Ed Foundation, we are currently reviewing those scholarship applications. Um I think we had 24 students um who applied for the community scholarship this year. Um so that information should be forthcoming in the next few weeks. Um for parks and recreation, I heard that their meeting was cancelled in April. Sounds like so wouldn't have an update for them. Okay. Uh up next is the board planning calendar. Just a few items that I want to mention that occur before our next meeting. High school prom is on Friday. Should crash it. I was like, what should I wear? Think about that. So that's on Friday at 6 o'clock. Um the MMAST 2024 teacher
111recognition event is on 530 at 5:30 on May 3rd. Do we have folks that were nominated? We do. Yes, we have um the three winners are at the elementary school um our representative will be Moren Waldo. In the middle school it is Rebecca Sh. and at the high school time. Those will be the three that will be recognized that MAPS teacher gave up this coming Saturday. Very cool. We have a band concert coming up. Oh, that's going to be 6 through 12. So, that's a big one. Then, uh on May 13th, the meeting with state senator Jodie Havish Synin, can you tell us a little bit more about what that's what's happening? She sent us a meeting request just I think that she's just going around and just probably sharing updates and legislative stuff um
112with boards and we were selected and so we'll be meeting with her this year her information. So is it just newly elected newly elected just for the board? Okay. All right. Very cool. And then our special board meeting will be at six o'clock on that same day. Okay. Our next item then will be our motion to roll call vote into close session. I'd like to make a motion to enter into close session pertaining to San Statute 19.85 parent one parent C the board of education may move into close session for the purpose of discussion of potential approval of 2527 administrator employment agreements. Approval of February 11th, February 25th, February 28th close session minutes and a motion roll call vote to return to open session to announce or take action if any and if appropriate. All
113right, very good. Thank you, Director Welch. A second, please second. Thank you, Director Min. Sorry. Yes. All right. Roll call vote. Uh, I have to abstain because I'm virtual so I can't go into a closed session. Daniel Ashley Irington absent. Palmar I Robinson I W I. And so we have a vote of five to zero. moving to move into close session at 7:45 p.m. All right. So, thank you all for joining us on this evening. Um, we wish you all the best and enjoy the rest of your evening. Um, Dr. Peter, are you paying attention to what the books are doing? Say again. Are you paying attention to what the books are doing? No, I'm actually I'm I'm sitting here paying attention to what we got going on, but um I will I guess I'll
114start watching uh as soon as uh All right, so we are now back into open session at 8:29. Um can I get a motion to adjourn, please? I would like to motion to adjurnn and a second. A second. All in favor? I motion carries 520. Thank you all for this wonderful meeting. Thank you. Thank you. 829.