001All right, let's go. All right, good evening everyone and welcome to the District of Brown School Board meeting. I'm Dr. Tabino the president and I would like to call this meeting to order at 6:01 p.m. Verification of public notice. Meeting has been public notice. Verification of quorum. We have all seven board members in attendance this evening. Approval of the agenda. Would someone like to make a motion to approve the agenda as presented? So move. All right. Thank you very much, Miss Ashley. Motion has been made. Do we have a second? Second. Thank you. Motion made and seconded. Any discussion? Hearing see none. All in favor raise hand and or I. Any opposed? See that? Motion carries unanimously. 720. Now in the reading of our uh vision and mission statement. Our vision is to provide a
002rigorous education that empowers our students to confidently navigate in our everchanging world. And our mission is through the lens of excellence, equity, and engagement. We are dedicated to empowering every student with the essential skills to build a foundation for lifelong learning. Since tonight is our regular school, our regular board meeting, public comments are going on into effect this evening. If you would like to uh make a comment is on a comment on anything that's based upon the agenda that's presented only on the agenda, you can make a comment, not a question, and you have three minutes. What you need to do is state your name and your browner address in order to be heard. All right? and we will be monitoring uh we'll be monitoring the chat if there are individuals that are online with
003us or individuals that are in person with us. Again, you'll have three minutes, your name and address. All right, when we come to that part. So, with that being said, let's go to our district of communications, Dr. Cotton. Thank you, Dr. Bele. Good evening, board of education Krice Cotton, proud superintendent for the school district of Brown here. I'm happy to report events that took place in the district for the month of March. Many activities promote the Brown student as caring, thoughtful global citizens who are interested in serving the needs of others and making positive choices regularly. These accomplishments showcase sports, theater, academics, and community service for only half of the month of March. At the BDE, students from the Brown from the BDE student council took a trip to the Milwaukee Rescue Mission and dropped
004off nearly 3,000 pairs of donated socks. The students were able to ask questions, tour the donation center, and learn about the impact their donations will have on the community. The announcement of the summer school session was provided to families during parent teacher conferences. A copy of the new summer school brochures and flyers have been provided to you for your reading. So, they are sitting here in front of you. Students who participate will receive math and reading enrichment at the elementary through theme-based instruction. Real world learning activities will provide students with experiences that can be used in their daily lives. Enrollment for our summer session opens this upcoming Monday at the Brown Deere Middle School. Um, our eighth grade science classes got a visit from the WMadison Department of Physics. The demonstrations included Newton's law, inertia,
005vortex cans, tornado simulations, vanity growth, generator, liquid nitrogen, just to name a few. All students enjoyed the demonstration, and this type of exposure opens up endless career possibilities for our students. A huge round of applause for our orchestra students who performed at the Browner Orchestra Festival on March 10th. From the middle school orchestra to our high school chamber strings, each group brought their hard work, passion, and love of music to the stage. Our BD uh at the B at Brown Deere Middle School, our middle schoolers um competed in the MLFA state forensics tournament. Our entire team qualified for state with seven entries. Our entire team qualified for state with seven entries making it to the final round. Nadia Cotton took home third place in news reporting and Amira in Hannah Rowski and Jay Lee Reed
006and Aaliyah De Jesus both took home second place in group interpretation. Congratulations to all. And then lastly, this Friday, Miss Peters is taking her science classes to the zoo. Shout out to Miss Peters for finding a fun, engaging, and relatable way to connect students with their classroom content. And after high school, of course, our state championship bowlers found their varsity bowling team made up of six seniors capped off their incredible season and high school career by winning the school's first athletic state championship since 2015. Our bowlers won the title of division 2 state champions. Special thanks to Mr. Skyoli for being such an enthusiastic and supportive coach and our outstanding seniors Aubin, Zack, Wyatt, Joe, Ryan, and Adrian for a job well done. Jerry award nominations. This cast will be easing on down the road
007on this year's Jerry Awards. Congratulations to our stars of The Whiz for being nominated for multiple performances in the outstanding lead performance and outstanding supportive performance categories. The Jerry's is a Wisconsin high school musical award program that honors excellence in high school musical theater. Industry professionals attend productions for over 100 high schools across the state and provide valuable feedback. This year's Jerry Awards will be held in Madison on June 8th. Good luck to all of our students. Miss Buford took a group of students to the headquarters of Landmark Credit Union to compete in the Titans Challenge. JA Titan is a part of the JA Financial Literacy Pathway where students compete as business CEOs in the phone industry. JA Titan brings business economics to life. As students work in teams or on their own to make
008financial decisions about production, marketing, research, and development, and corporate social responsibilities, they begin to see how every choice made in an organization relates to that organization's future success. Students were able to hear from the speak from a speaker panel and took a tour of the facilities. Students in our TED classes were able to tool at Signiccast. Signniccast is a leader in precision precision precision. Thank you. Investment casting providing a full range of metal solutions to industries around the world. And finally, in the high school, eligible student voters were invited down to register to vote with the help of a nonpartisan group, the League of Women Voters. Mr. Jones brought his entire creative writing class that included several new voters to the registration area to ensure his students were informed about the issues on the ballot.
009From this class, an additional nine students were able to get registered. Lastly, yeah, great. Lastly, the administration would like to thank Director Lisa Walker for her service to the students, staff, and families of the school district of Brown Deere. Miss Walker has been a pivotal member of the board of education since April of 2022. Director Walker, please accept this token of our appreciation for your countless contributions and commitment to educating our students. This concludes my report. Yeah, you got a photo. Yeah. Well, you got to take it out, Miss W. Take it out. Okay. Take the Take it out. That Take it out. Yeah. Take it out the packaging. And then the base. That's the base. The base is incredible. And that concludes my report for the month of March. Oh, thank you very much,
010Dr. K. Board members, any questions for Dr. Yes. So, I I noticed that you sent the flash out and everything for um summer session. Yeah, for the summer session. Um thank you for that. I've been looking through the pieces and that's the only comment that I wanted to make. I think this it's a nice nice way of again showcasing classroom and activities within the district. I'll make sure Katie hears it. Definitely definitely. All right. Any other further questions uh for Dr. C in relationship to uh administrative report? All right. Let's go on to our next item which would be our public comment. uh anyone wishing to be heard uh right now either if you're in person stand up and what you need to do is state your name and your address. Um and again it
011is a comment not a question and it has to be uh something related to our board agenda. Is there anyone that's uh online that would wish to be heard? League league is in an on hour. Um Mr. I know I know um Miss Z and I can definitely get a hold of her in regards to um the Lego League. She was the first one that even introduced the Lego League and robotics to the um to the district. So Karen, I don't know if you you can just tell her that I will get in. Can you do that? Can you in the chat just let her know that I will get in contact with you. I'm here. Thank you so much. Looking forward to talking to you again. Okay, sounds good. All right. Uh, anyone else
012wishing to be heard? Uh, Alex, that was that was Alex. Who's up on top? That was me. Okay. All right. I can't see nothing but and I apologize. Um, I just wanted to give the shout out to Dr. Cotton and to Miss Undelino and Dr. Harris who have been the faculty. So please let's let's make sure that this uh program continues. Um but I will work with Dr. Cotton directly. Um All right. Sounds good. Thank you very much. All right. Anyone else hearing see no one. All right. Let's move on to our item number uh four, our consent agenda. Would someone like to make a motion? Dr. meeting. I'd like to make a motion to approve the consent agenda, including the minutes of the February 11th, 2025 special board meeting, the February 25th, 2025 regular
013board meeting, the schedule voucher payments via check, ACE, and wire transfers in the amount of 1,216,950 915.84 84 cents in the general checking account and the food service account including funds 10 217 39 46 50 73 and 80 and the March 18 2025 school safety drill updates as presented tonight. Thank you very much Miss Ashley. A motion has been made. We have a second. All right. Thank you very much, Mr. Spac. Motion made and seconded. Any further discussion? Hearing seeing none. All in favor will raise hand and or I I. Any opposed? See that? Motion carries nly seven to zero. Thank you very much, Mr. Ashley. All right, let's go on to our next item, which is our item 5A, our business of uh business office update. Mr. Clem, good evening members of the board.
014Just a few quick items this evening. Um uh first of all, just uh a reminder, we did discuss at the last board meeting about increasing our district capitalization threshold from 5,000 to 10,000. That was our attention. I we talked about the fact that federal guidelines have changed. so that we're trying to match that so that from a county standpoint we can what we would have to do for federal grants. Um and so I did include some language in there. Um the uh the changes are reflected in the policies you're going part of the policies you're going to review tonight um from a fiscal standpoint that have those changes in them. The one thing that we did do uh based on feedback from our new audit firm was to um use the verbiage of have when
015any item that would be capitalized would be having a useful life of more than one year and a per unit or significant per group cost that exceeds or exceeds $10,000. That's because um it's not just basically on on each item being over $10,000. They work as a significant group from the auditor standpoint. They would want those to be included as a capital object. So um and I gave you the definition there. That's a set of assets acquired as a group near the same time with a single objective that has significant value in Eggbit even if the individual assets fall below a capital vision. So one example would be the Marcata camera project where none of the cameras or any of the hardware that cost more than $10,000 but in aggregate of the entire project being
016$400,000 that will end up being a capital item for us going forward. So again we made we're going to make the change and it'll be included in the policy updates that you see today. So question would that be under would that be under PO 6114 or 6231 or that or the procurement piece 600 property um there's 7,000 I I can get the number for you but um see the only reason I'm asking is because if we're going through the Neola policies and this is something that's actually going along with that I wanted to make sure that we all understood it's in there we we we've met with them and We made the changes and those are part of what you're not you don't have to do separate policies, right? I know it's all the same
017thing, but I was just letting the board members go because there's so many these Neola policies and what you're speaking about right now. I just wanted everybody to make sure that they got it. They understood which one which property inventory 7450 is one of them. Um because it seemed like it should go over multiple there were two there were two policies that it was mentioned. Okay. All right. I think also procurement of federal funds and grants. That's the one that I had talked about before when I asked about the procurement one. Okay. 7310 um with the um that's with the 10,000 there's just that's the procurement 6325 but it might be 7 but that procurement was 6325 there were two policies that we reviewed again with and we just I wanted to confirm on that
018on that language since originally we were $5,000. All right. I just wanted to just make sure that we all kind of understood where we're at just in case it ever comes back up again. Okay. Okay. Um and then uh so that's it. No other question that then um um we are approaching a discussion on uh defeasance. So we um as the board did in fall when we we approved the tax levy, you approved a $1.1 billion increase in the fun 39 levy to keep the total levy flat. So we will be performing um a defeasence. It's kind of like prepaying, but it's a little different mechanism um where it comes off our books, but the bond still exists for the bond holders. So, um I'll be working with Bears and I'm meeting with them next
019week. Uh my plan, they should have information, preliminary information for us on April 8th for you to um see and you'll understand what the projected cost savings will be for the for the interest down the road. And then we'll work on getting all the paperwork together and then on the 29th, you would actually approve the resolution authorizing the the features. So, you don't have to you don't have to approve anything on the ETH, but just generally as the board just saying yes, go forward with with the work to to do that. And then you'd actually approve it on the toilet and then we pay that. We'll have a closing date shortly after that, probably around May 1st and then we'll send the $1.1 million to the bank and comes off our Any questions on that?
020Board members questions. Um and then last topic really is um we have begun the process of onboarding our new benefit consultant. you know, a couple weeks ago, we had some changes. Um, and so we did, uh, you did approve a new relationship with RNR Insurance. Um, and our team, including Miss Jackson and a couple of people on the business office staff, met um, uh, last week, and we are pretty excited about this partnership. There's already some positive that are coming along with the process. Um, they're working on just finalizing quotes with our current vendors to make sure that, uh, we have the best options for some of our lines of service. We are not uh not going to make a change in health insurance. We're not making a change in dental or vision. Those those
021are locked in, but we might look at um potential shifts with our life and long-term short-term disability uh products. So, we're we're just finalizing that. Um there will be some changes to our open enrollment process that what what our staff has been used to over the years, but we are working on finalizing that and we'll communicate that out to the staff. That'll be held in May. But in advance of that, RNR will be um we'll be uh providing several sessions. we that we will schedule that will allow them to meet with our staff to explain our benefit package in more detail for them so that they understand. I think that's one of the things that we probably haven't done as well as we could have is making sure people understand like all the things that
022are part of the package and so even things that you don't necessarily lack there are other things that are there and there are some things that get added this year as a part of this relationship. Um and so while I don't have any quotes, I will just say that um we uh we did get some very positive news as part of this. Um our we are going to be receiving an extremely and I'll use the word extremely favorable renewal with um WCA group health trust for health insurance. Our premium rates will actually go down. So in a in a market where 8 to 10% is the norm for just regular health inflation, we had a really really good year and RNR has helped leverage that to to get a a little bit of so we'll
023have more information details of that. But um that's a nice that's a little bit of a side budgetary standpoint, not having to come up with several hundred,000 just to maintain the insurance. So we're very excited about that. Does that indicate you have a healthy uh workforce? Uh this year we do. I mean it does it does shift but yes we our claims are are way down this year. Stab some wood. So yes very much and any and any high claims previously were you know condition that were ongoing. Very positive feedback. So great like that. And especially uh not not having to add any else any other dollars to the budget. Well my well the uh the overall extra extra extra but but the the the what could happen though just so you're aware is that
024it could cause people to jump on our insurance. So you know if they compare if we're cheaper it might mean that so it might end up costing us more for more people. But you don't know. But at least we're not I can live with several hundred,000. I can live with that because then you know if more people are using their insurance that mean they're happy with being here at the district and they are more tied into us and stuff because the insurance not only their job but also the insurance. So so that so but we're just happy that it's we're excited about the the cost. Um and then finally I did share with you the February treasures report out there. Everything again is still tracking um as anticipated. Um, I didn't get any questions, but
025if you have anything that you need me to look at, I'm happy to um talk about or look into it if I can't answer it right off the bat. But again, we're we're tracking very well. And again, that's also considering that last year had a $1.3 million surplus. So, um, you know, even tracking at the same page, we won't have that surplus, but at least we know we're still tracking. Okay. Board members, any questions in relationship to the treasur's report or business office uh report? That's okay. All right. Thank you very much, Mr. All right. Let's go on to um our next item would be our approval of new hires and resignations. And from what I saw, Miss Jackson, the board member at this time there are no or we will take it definitely. I
026will say, however, we did get our first two uh candidates for 2526 today. So, we will be working on starting that negotiation. So, hiring for 2526 is underway. All right, sounds good. All right, let's go on to our item D, facilities and ground updates. Matt, good evening. How are you this evening? Good. Um, I just wanted to give you guys a quick update on the facility and grounds. Uh, facilities and grounds is uh actively getting ready for spring sports. that includes soccer, baseball, softball, tennis, and track and field. So, our our uh facilities is uh heavy into getting everything prepped and ready uh for spring sports that are about to start. Uh our baseball team just happened to be on the baseball this afternoon. So, that brought a sight of uh spring coming. So, um
027we are also uh getting ready for graduation as well. make sure that all the signs and all the traffic control stuff is all set up and ready. Um making sure that we have the appropriate staff uh prepared and ready both the security all of our maintenance staff as well. Um, we are also preparing for summertime cleaning, getting all the supplies, all the uh needs that we need for making our school buildings uh both with elementary and middle high school uh set and prepared for uh the 256 season. Um we are also uh we just uh attended uh this week we had a meeting at the ASC for safety um as far as uh knowing where to go for tornado drill uh fire drills and for lockdown drills. So we kind of reiterating to our staff
028about that. Um we are that is one of many new protocols that are going to happen here. Um my staff, me and uh my assistant Tiffany are going through all the maps getting ready prepared for the tornado drill. Um the state mandated tornado drill for April 11th. Um so we are getting set prepped and going through all maps making sure that where children are going safe that our staff know what um our procedures are and what the expectations will be for that. Um after that the one last thing that I have um for the board is that um at the beginning of March um I attended uh the WASA convention to uh get my certification in the Wisconsin school safety coordinators. So I now have a certified safety. All right. So if we're in trouble,
029we know who to go to, right? Yes, sir. There it is. And that should have been a part of my report. So, I charged to my name. That sends my report. All right. Board members, any other questions for for Matt? Yes, Miss M. Oh, I just say I just have a quick comment and it's more of a frustration again because we had tournament this weekend and there was grass which really disgusted the land and I did see two police officers up here on campus. Normally I call them and tell them to come up here. I didn't have to do that because they were already on campus giving out tickets. But what is the matter with people? Why do they come to our district and think it's okay to park in our grass? I mean really
030nothing frustrates me anymore. So I mean we talked about like signs, you know, parking on the grass. Maybe we need those people just we do. I mean it just makes no sense that they come up here and they park on the grass and they zone. I mean, I was happy to see the police here. Like you said, I call and tell them tickets. Yeah. People are ticketed. We got matter of fact. We we we got some phone calls in relationship to getting tickets and we just let them know just don't park on the just you shouldn't park on the grass, everything. So, we got the So, we've got the signage. Um, matter of fact, we just had a conversation with Matt again and stuff. So, we're getting ready to update our signage in relation to
031not parking on the grass and everything else. You should say, "What district are you in? When you go to that district, do you park on your district's grass? Is that okay there? Because it's not okay in reindeer. So, okay, good. I'm glad you couple minutes. It's been terrible. Yeah. The next time you come here, you'll probably see. I mean, I live close, so I'm around here a lot on the weekends like up and down 60th a lot. And it is it's a major frustration. I mean that that just brought me to just a question that in terms of in terms of ticket sales you're not this district is not in charge of the ticket sales correct as far as what in as far as the tournaments that he had hosted. No, those are that's WIA,
032right? Cuz I think they oversold to They did. It was too many people, right? There were just too too many people um here. Um yeah, I just wanted to I just wanted to just kind of bring that to the attention because yeah, we I don't know what kind of communication happens between us and WA in terms of the max um number of tickets that can be sold in relationship to that how many comfortable the folks in that building which leads to then a bunch of problems that you're talking about and so one of the things that uh Dr. K, we also spoke about like, you know what, I think one of the things that we potentially may end up having to do is is when we do have the things for WIA or whatever that
033they also know that there's a parking lot down at the elementary school, we just need to have signage to let people know that you need to walk this way in order to be able to get to the building and then potentially even speak back again with the church that's over here. Yeah, that either the church that we have the the staff park in or also the other church that used to be the old library and potentially maybe we need to have conversations with them as well too as whether or not we can u go ahead and utilize uh their their parking lots as well too. I I am in contact with the pastor from Shalom Church. Um we've been conversating back and forth to see if we can get permissions for bigger events if I
034can give them a heads up if it's okay. Yeah. But I mean we we know we don't need permission for the elementary school. We have 55th Street parking lot and we have elementary school. Yeah. Um we can have some sandwich boards maybe up. Yeah. And then we also got the other part that other little parking lot that's right there where the soccer field is at. Um so I mean we've got different places or whatever. It may not be as convenient, but you know what? Hey, it is what it is. You can find a place to be able to park and if they go any place else they may have to park two or three blocks away and stuff. So, hey, it is what it is. So, all right. Uh, any other questions for Mr. Russ?
035All right, let's go on to our next item, which is our, uh, hygienic management presentation. Presentation, I'm sorry, uh, by Sarah. All right, Sarah, you're on. Welcome. Thank you for having me. Um, I am your new district nurse. I started at the end of April of last year. Um, Dr. Cotton had asked me to prepare a presentation on hygienic management. That is what I am going to go through right now. Is my PowerPoint up there or do I just go? So I'll let you Um, so basically hygienic management in my opinion goes beyond the cleaning of the classroom. It's the basic care and education of our students so that they can excel in the academic environment. Um, I'm going to go through some of my cheers of this year and um, what I'm doing to
036try to improve the health of the children so that they can do better academically. some of the programs that I am still continuing from the past. I do vision screenings on all of our K5, second, and fourth graders. I also do hearing screenings on all of our first, third, and fifth graders. I do all follow-ups with these families if the students did not pass the vision or hearing screening to ensure that these families are getting the resources that they need so the kids can get whatever devices are necessary so that they can succeed in the classroom. I also continued with dental and cleaning screenings. Denzel clinics were done at the elementary school. I had them done between February 10th and 12th. We saw 175 students. Um I was told that was one of our largest
037numbers. What I did this year is I tied in the um consent from the parents with registration which I think helped get more students. I am going to extend the program. I'm doing a small group in the high school this year and next year I will be I will be extending this program through the middle high school. I'm also looking to extend this program so that our children are being seen twice a year. That way I know they are meeting all of their dental needs. After I had seen all of these children, I got 22 children who had severe needs. We are talking children who had anywhere from 7 to 12 extensive cavities and abscesses. I did all the case management myself to ensure that these children have seen a dentist. Every single one of
038these children has now been seen and had the care that they needed. Um I worked with families on what their insurance was. I reached out to dentists around us to ensure that these families would be able to be seen and I helped the families set up appointments. Sarah, I got a question in relationship to the um for the dental and I'm I'm about to date myself or whatever, but I know when I was going to school, like the the people would come in like the dentist thing or whatever have have like the tooth guy or whatever and then we'd all take these little red pill things and chew them better than that. I'm just saying you know again but as a whole everybody did it. So everybody's chewing the red pill thing and if you
039had whatever you know then it was kind of like that. So now are we doing something to where we is it is this are we doing this for every student or are we every student is able to sign up for it. So with the families are signing up if they consent the children are getting a free screening the teeth are getting cleaned and examined and sealants are being put on. So I have to have parental consent from that. We can't just do everybody. Um so of our elementary students 175 um families chose to sign up. What I'm hoping is now I am teaching different class different classes to all of the students at the elementary. The more that the families me and are more familiar with me and seeing what I'm doing that every year
040I just keep increasing this so that all of our kids are meeting their dental needs. Okay. Sarah, did you mention who partner with to provide the service? Which um I did Dr. Nol. It's with um dentist smile. Um, it's a state of Wisconsin sealant program. So, that's who I partnered with. And then our high school, I'm doing the high school a little bit differently because I want to see how this works. I'm actually having a mobile dental clinic come. They're going to do the screening on the children and then if the children have um any needs, the parents can consent for further dental care which will be conducted on this mobile unit. I want to see how this runs and see if that would be a good um fit for the elementary. I just want
041to try it out before I go full speed ahead. Okay. All right. Sounds good. I was sorry I had that question because I had flashbacks. Then when you then when you turned around and said that to 175 out of our How many elementary schools we have? Like 700 something. So that's like you know a fraction. Yeah. So I was kind of wondering if you got 175 like that with 22 with really really critical issues or whatever have you. I guarantee you throw another hundred in there and you'll probably I w I wish every family would. I am working on how I can get more information out to families to keep like tracking it. My thought is the longer that you have me here after you see everything I'm doing, the more um happy and familiar
042these family staff members, everybody is with me. You're going to get more and more people coming. I guarantee you. I'm hoping next year I can tell at least 300 and some and we're doing a whole week of dental clinic. All right, cool. Because that's something we probably need to really publicize. period point blank or whatever have you because that that whole piece is is is huge the fun. Yeah. Is that pastor? No. Be a nice opportunity here actually. Yeah. Because you got every pretty much every kid that's running around here and there. Okay. And she's amazing though. She said how you how you um work with the insurancees. It's like, wait, they have insurance and they still have those kind of well because what happens is a lot of our students are on state insurance
043and not every dentist will take Medicaid. So then I have to struggle with the families. What type of HMO under the Medicaid do you have? Then I have to try to find a dentist. Then I got to make sure that dentist is actually taking Medicaid patients. So it's not as easy. It's not as easy as it sounds. And there aren't that many dentists in Milwaukee here. Sorry about that. Sarah, you know what? Ask me as many questions as you have. Sorry. Um, okay. So, projects for 2024, these are projects that I have now started. Um, when I first came to the school, um, I wanted to make sure that I had absolutely all accurate information in Skyward. So what I did working with Cara and the IT team who was amazing in helping me through
044all of this, I came up with a custom form that every family had to fill out at registration. That information then compared to what was in Skyward and dumped anything that was not jing together into a spreadsheet over the summer. I had to update and fix 875 records in Skyward. Um that was a massive undertaking on my own. Um I then went into Skyward and I went through all the codes. Codes are things that are associated with like a health room visit. Why did you come in? How did I treat you and what happened after I completely went through merged modified every code so that I can present you at the end of the year with really accurate data so you can understand what we're doing in the health room. That was another huge project
045that I worked with Terra and the IT team. They were amazing in helping me literally go through everything. Um then and then um another need that I noticed is our allergy students. I went into Skyward and found out that I could put critical alerts in with the food service so that when a child with a peanut allergy, shellfish, whatever, um, shows up and scans their card, they now turn red so that the um, food service staff is very well aware of who these students are. That was new for this year as well. And then I think we had a peanut table in the past, but then it went away. I have a specific peanut allergy table in the elementary school so that those children who do have peanut allergies are sitting in one specific table
046to try to contain any um allergic reaction that we would have. Um I also started the implementation of a medical response team. So what I have been doing is the three principles picked out who they wanted on their merc team. I then did an education with them. I then partnered with project Adam. Uh we are going to be hearts safe certified next month and we are one the only school besides Whitefish Bay was heart safe certified in the Northshore area. Um so that was a big undertaking this year. Um and our certification I think our celebration is May 5th. So then what I do is like tomorrow is our drill for the elementary school. I throw a mannequin out and I time them and we go through a whole entire drill to see what would
047happen in the event of an emergency. And then we debrief and discuss what happened, what went well, what didn't go well, and then I work on educating the staff on how to deal with emergencies. Because of that project, I then decided that we needed three more AEDs. Um, I did runroughs on how long it took us from the furthest point in our buildings to get to the AED and back. It was too long. So, we have since now added three new AEDs. I have one that has been added to the middle school, one is added to the elementary school and then I felt that there was a need with sports starting spring sports that there was no AED outside. So what I have done is there is now an AED underneath the ASC by the
048locker rooms. In the event that there is a spectator or whoever has a cardiac arrest out on the field, there is another AED easy to access. Right. So now with that with our ads or whatever because majority of the time they're kind of stationary and they're put someplace. So are we do we are the next three that we're getting are they the portable units that you can turn around and you can take them with you anywhere you want. So the um the athletic director always has a AE on her, but my feeling was what if she's not at a practice? What if she's not there? She's sick. Whatever. Now there's an additional a cabinet downstairs that can go where it needs to go. On top of that, I also added Narcan to each of our
049AED cabinets and trained all of the staff on how to administer Narcan in the event of an opioid overdose within the school. I also did hands I also did handson CPR. Since then, I have become a CPR instructor for the district and will be holding CPR and first aid classes to all the staff members. That was new this year. This has not been done by the nurse. Um, the other thing I began as I started here is I went through both health rooms. I organized, cleaned, redid, and made them beautiful. So, this is the example. This is my elementary health room. I didn't take pictures of the high school cuz this one was just so much cuter. Um, so that is the health room. Now, for the elementary vaccinations, this is another thing. hygienics, not
050getting sick, especially with the measles going on down in um Texas. Our compliance rate for the previous school year was 92%. When we talk about 92%, that means either the children are fully immunized or they have a waiver on file. This year we were we were at 99.9% at one school and 99.7 I think at the other school. I started back in 2023. At the end of the year, I had realized I had 500 non-compliant children and this was going to be a massive undertaking for one person. So, I started at the end of the year calling families, emailing families, talking to them about immunizations. Um, I then held a clinic with the Northshore Health Department in October so that we could try to get more students immunized if families were willing to get them
051immunized. Um, I have another clinic that I am holding on May 14th with the Northshore Health Department. I am targeting the sixth graders and the 11th graders because the following year they will have new requirements to try to get a jump start on um the requirements so it's not so difficult for me in fall. And then in fall of 25, I'm going to target the K5 students because they have new requirements as they turn five to try to make sure we have the most kids immunized. I've also dealt with um working with the Northshore Health Department in regards to the measles outbreak taking place in Texas. I've already sent letters to all of our non-compliant measel students to let them know you're underimmunized, you're not immunized, if you are traveling, this is going to be
052a problem. Trying to educate them on what is measles, what can happen to you, and then giving them links to go to the Northshore Health Department. Northshore Health Department and I are both in agreement. We are not going to do a vaccine clinic for measles yet. they want to wait until if measles comes to the state of Wisconsin and it becomes a um state of emergency, they can get a massive amount of vaccine very quickly and then they will not have to have rules on who they can vaccinate. They can just come here and vaccinate everybody. The way it works right now, only certain students can get free immunization from the Northshore Health Department. So, that is why I am not quite dealing with the measles. Um it's still in Texas. I know at some
053point it's going to be it's going to get worse. Um um education. I have spent the last several weeks doing hand hygiene for every single class in the entire elementary school. I go in, I give a fun presentation, we watch a little video, and I do science experiments with every single class. Um, with our little ones, we did um where you take litter and they see how soap works. My older kids, we took bread. They didn't wash their hands. Some wash their hands and we put it on the bread to see what mold grew and what happened. And then in the fifth graders, we are doing um I have fake germs with a UV light. I have the teachers shake their hands in the morning. We go through the whole day and then when I
054come in, I show them where all their germs are um to try to get them to understand why we need good hand hygiene. I've pretty much gotten through everybody. I just have a couple more classes I'm finishing up this week and then I should be complete. And then I did tell the teachers I did work on presentations on healthy eating for the students because I do see one of my biggest if I could fix something it would be the nutrition of our students. Like that is a whole another presentation on what I feel needs to be done. So besides that, I did a two-day human growth and development class for all of our girls. I did fourth and fifth grade girls because I have noticed that our girls are developing sooner and I think by
055not getting fourth grade, I am missing a chunk of girls who may not be getting that education. I then partnered with the PTC and provided deodorant and menration um supplies for all of our female students. It was the biggest hit ever. They were so excited. They got to ask me every question you can even imagine and they got truthful answers. So that was good for them. They were They keep ask They asked me the next week if I was coming back. I don't know how much I can talk about periods, but I had a flashback when I when I had when I was a principal I end up with an incident with a sixth grade girl came out like okay we we'll figure this out. So I had okay flashback girls are happy. So we
056did that. So then um focusing on the education of the staff. Um I do not only serve the children of Browner. I do service your staff in a lot of capacities. The first thing I did this year is I did a PowerPoint for all of our special ed assistants on proper toileting and diaper changing. So to meet the just the basic needs of our special ed students to make sure that they are getting the hygiene that they need in in regards to um I do blood pressure readings on many of our staff members and discuss lifestyle changes, give advice, healthy eating, exercise, you name it, I go through it. Um I've done Narcan training on the staff. I also met with every single teacher at their staff meetings and I had a whole presentation for
057them on what to do in an emergency in the classroom so that I think by now they are all extremely careful on if a child would have an issue in the classroom what they need to do. I also did training for the merc team for each of the buildings and then all of in order to be project atom certified I had to do a presentation on identifying a cardiac arrest which every single staff member in the district did. So hopefully now if anything happens we all know to do um in regards to staffing I am the only district nurse. I have a health aid who is at full-time at the elementary and at the middle high school. um uh when they are sick or they take a day off, I become the health assistant for
058the day. I have so far staffed 16 days of being a health aid between the two schools. I also provide lunch coverage every day to both of the health aids. Um I for me I love this time of being with the students. It allows me to understand what is going on with our kids. What am I seeing? What are they seeing? It just it gives me a more hands-on that is like my favorite part of my job. Um and then services that I provide but are not limited to I've done lice treatments this year. Um dental, asthma, you name it, under the sun, I feel like it's happened. Almost done. Um so in summary, I believe that my actions have been a positive addition to the Brownier School District. Um, I believe the health of
059the student student body and staff has improved since I've come. And I believe that my dedication is felt not only by the staff, but the students and the families of our district. Wow. Sarah, great presentation. Wow. But we're going to start off with this. Excellent job. Seems as though that you're you are definitely in the midst of it and and doing all that. I'm just glad that you're not doing the uh germ piece with the adults in the room or whatever because you know I think that we'd all be calling in sick tomorrow and the day after um and everything else like that and stuff. So may I appreciate it. Uh board members questions for Sarah in relationship to this. Yeah. So Sarah, that was great. You're excellent. I love school nurses. Um the really
060I do um the project Adam certification that she's about to get is really big. It it is a it is a pretty um hefty undertaking. So um when I was here I I started tried that process. So I need to come to that celebration with the balloons I told them to bring when I was here. So, I'm gonna make sure I try to make that for you because that that's really big for us to be um art safe certified. So, I'll be here hopefully with the if I'm not here, I'll make the I'm wondering is there a particular sort of condition or diagnosis that is more prevalent in our district? Asthma. So, you So, what is going to happen is I am going to present all my data for the year. I'm working on it
061right now in June for you guys. You will have an understanding of the extent of the asthma issues. What I will be putting in place for next year. We will have stock inhalers in the school along with a flowchart. One of my biggest like my most difficult things is getting parents to understand I need the paperwork for the inhalers. I need to understand what needs to be done in the event of an emergency and I need an inhaler. A lot of our students, we probably have 20% asthmatics in our district. I probably Oh, yeah. I If I ran the numbers, I'm going to tell you probably between 15 and 20. I think I think you'll get the numbers in June. It'll be hard numbers. Um I probably have 5% enhancers. Wow. So, I know that
062we did the purification systems during COVID. Um is there anything else we could potentially do to help that population? I would say it would be looking at what chemicals we use in the class, what chemicals we use in the buildings can be a trigger. It would be telling staff members not using air fresheners, not using air wick, that kind of thing. Like getting staff to understand like this is the irritants that it can cause. I don't see a lot of that. Um I will say like I'm going to knock on so much wood. We have not had a massive um asthma attack here. So there that makes me feel like there must be good management with the air filtration. What we're doing must be working or I would be seeing constantly kids coming in with
063asthma related issues. Um I think the biggest thing is me getting the stock inhalers in the school is huge. I was going to ask then Mr. Primos in our in our budget. I mean can we do we do we already have this in our budget someplace or whatever to be able to buy all these inhalers? And then I guess the other thing too is is when they talk about the allergies and stuff, the peanut allergies and stuff. Do we all right? Do we have um like millionaire? What's the So I get So this is another we're going to give another cheer to Sarah. Um so what happened with um epinephrine? It used to be a shot and we would get them for free. They went to a nasal. I already have our nasal. I get
064it for free. The staff's already been educated on it and it's in that box over there. I have and so if anyone has an allergic reaction, I already have the nephe, which is the nasal, and I have Narcan in that AED. So all the staff is trained on how to use these apparatuses, when to use it, and they're already stacked. It doesn't have to come out of our budgets all free. The inhalers, I already contacted numerousarmacies. I only need to have two inhalers, one here and one at the other building. And then what you do is you use um cardboard um spacers. And then you can use the same inhaler for a bunch like as many students as I need. And then we're going to put the their um disposable chamber in a ziplockc bag
065with their name labeled on it. We can keep using that until it is dirty or doesn't seem like we should be using it. The same student will use their same one. So I already have a system going for this. I will say that Erica has been amazing. Anything I need, I have gotten what I need. And I am very uh my life before this. Um, I ran two manufacturing companies for my parents that were in complete financial distress. I turned them around and had them profiting within a year and a half. I am very fiscally responsible. I do not ask for something unless I really need it. And we I keep it bare bones of what we need. I do not spend one extra dollar than what I need to. Sometimes I have a little
066meat on that phone, too, though sometimes. All right. All right. Any other questions? All right. Appreciate it. Good job. Thank you very much. All right. Now, let's go on to our next item is approval of the uh early college credit and start college now applications. So, this evening, I'd like to share with the board information regarding 23 students who have requested permission to enter into the early college credit program and high school special agreement for their senior year. Students are seeking amendments for W Milwaukee Marquette and MHC and forms have been completed by the students and reviewed by counselor miss documents require signature of the board president to so three 23 for the spring for the upcoming school year. Okay. Yeah. All right. All right. So, you hear about this? Was there something in our
067packet or something as percentage of them? Well, this is what we do every year stuff for uh for our students for college. All right. All right. Would someone like to make a motion? I will make a motion to approve the college credit program and start college now applications as presented. All right. Thank you very much, Miss Welch. Motion has been made. We have a second. Second. Thank you very much. Robertson motion made a second. Any questions? Hearing see none. All in favor raise hand and or I. Any oppose? Hearing see that? Motion carries unly 720. All right, Miss Frost, you should have all of that. All right, sounds good. All right, let's go on to our next item. Item number G. No, I just wanted to ask. So, is that around the average amount of
068students that we need to get for that program? actually incluate. Um last year we had 36 this year we have 23 23 and so it's it fluctuate depending on like how they qualify. So we have many students apply but they have to meet like the academic threshold, they have to meet the attendance um threshold and they have to get um specific endorsements that they're able to um successfully complete the classes but it has increased I think um the first year this is my second year the first year I think we had like 12 or 13 so it is becoming more popular among students. All right, thank you very much. Let's go on to our item G, approval of board of canvasers. I guess that would be Dr. Cotton or would that be Miss Frost or
069would that be Miss Ashley? Actually, I think I'm going to present on this matter. Um, as everybody knows, April 1st is election day. Um, and what happens is after the election, um, myself and two other canvasers will meet to certify, um, the returns of the election. And so we meet up on the Monday following the April 1st election day. Um according to the Wisconsin law, this has to happen within that week. Somebody asked me why was it um that specific day is because it is state law. And so we pretty much got together and we validated the election results. And so um it is a public of it is a public matter and so we have to bring it um before this board for approval. Yeah. Are there any questions? All right. Would someone like
070to make a motion? I'll make a motion to approve Anisha Belea Anisha Beetle Cynthia Stokes Murray and Kita Daniels Ashley as the school district of Browner board of canvasers for the upcoming April 1st 2025 spring election as presented. All right. Thank you Sparker. Motion made. Do we have a second? All right. Thank you very much, Miss Bacon. Motion made and second. Any discussion? See none. All in favor raise hand and or I. Any opposed? Hear see that? Motion carries nicely 720. All right, let's go on to our next item. Item eight, our Neola policy review. First reading included in board docs this evening are the overviews of each policy that have been updated and revised. The overview includes information about a specific change or updates that have been made to existing policies. The policies are
071listed under the following book starting with the wording ready for review under drafts. Right. Anyone have any questions in relationship to that first reading from the EO policy? Uh only the reason I actually really talked asked the question when Kevin was given his uh giving his report is because part of what he was talking about is actually part of the Neola policies within probably like two of them or maybe possibly even three. But uh any any questions in relationship to the Neola policies? All right. Um hearing and seeing none. I don't think we So with that being said, would someone like to make a motion? No. Hey girl. Oh my god. What is happening? All right. Someone that's could you please mute yourself? It's RL. There we go. Good job. Okay. All right. I'd like
072to make a motion to approve the first reading of the Neola policy review, including um just go from the first one to the last items listed as listed as amended. Good job. Thank you very much, Miss Fington. Motion has been made. Do we have a second? Second. All right. I miss Robinson. All right. Any other further discussion? Hearing see none. All in favor raise hand and or I I. Any opposed? Hear a seeing none. Motion carries unanimously 720 to zero. All right, let's go on to our next item, our S SWSA legislative update. The only thing I'm really wanted to talk about because it actually seems as though they possibly affect us in the future is watching for bills on the referendum is the SB81 operating referenda. Uh this bill eliminates reoccurring operate operating referenda
073and limits uh non-reoccurring operational referendum to no more than four years. Uh SB58 referendum tax transparency and SB61 referendum and a equalization aid. All right. So those things are are things that actually would affect us as we continue to look forward and talk about possible referendum in the in the future and being able to do that and some of the legislative uh things that are actually going up right now which are bills uh that are going up to be voted on. Can you send that to everyone? Yeah, no problem. All right, that is the S SWS. That's all I want to talk about for SWSA. And our next would be our WASBY. So Dr. Beh, thank you for that because um WBY usually does a really really good job of watching these referendums and anything
074that could impact um the school district. So I am saying to all of you as board members, sitting board members to really go on that website. It is chalk full of information, particularly pertinent information that um impacts us. The second thing is is that yes, April 1st is an election and um WASBY does have a really really good new school board member gathering and they host these gatherings around the state. And so I would ask that you go to you would go to um the website to figure out the closest um event around um the new board members gathering. And basically those new board member gatherings um particularly if you're a new will provide you with information related to code of ethics related to you know you know what the role is in the board
075and that kind of thing. So they sent the invite for your for our area. Oh okay don't remember the date. Is it April 17? Sometime in April I think it's April 17 22 through 24. Are they pretty much the XL went to one? Are they like the same cycle? Pretty much except you know laws change every year and our obligations change from year to year depending on the registration. So it really doesn't hurt you know to just um you know kind of reaclimate yourself to what your role is and how we should be interfacing with each other and how we interface with the community and those sorts of things. Right. No, the one they sent is for April 22nd at PP High School. Okay. 20. Okay. Because I have April 17, 22, and 24. So,
076I'm not sure where but the 22nd is a PYP. Okay. And that concludes my report. All right. Was anybody able to attend the day at the capital earlier few weeks ago? I thought it was on March 12th. Okay. Okay. No. Um I did um obviously we didn't go, but um there were uh just some general feedback that I heard through the my business officer regional meeting that for districts that did go. It does sound like it's going to be very contentious budget season. I think there's a lot of animosity toward the 325 for 400 years um um thing from last time. I think the courts don't overturn it. I think uh the general consensus is um the legislature has the opinion of that's all the money you're going to get like new money. It's like
077it's going to be that and there's not going to be anything else going forward. Um there may be some appetite for special education funding which does help to some extent but I think maybe that's also why you're seeing some of the um attempts at maybe restricting referendum ideas uh going forward. So I I think that there was a a sense that uh it's possible that we won't even have a budget by July 1 and that they're just prepared to let money roll over. So maybe seems like it's a little bit more contentious. So we'll see. And I know they just released um so it might behoove us at some point to reach out to our legislators because now we have four of them to at least engage in some conversation. But they also did announce
078the joint finance um um testimony. they go around the state and one is coming up uh the week of April 1st at Paper Park West that'll be the southeast region one. So, um, and they usually have a large contingent of, you know, choice advocates that show up. Um, and I know there'll be some business managers that'll be pairing in superintendents and some other people supporting public education as well. Just trying to see what be done. But just to prepare you for the uncertainty of the budget season, it sounds like it will be a little rocky trip this time. We got an email if anybody's free Saturday. There was something at Nicola. Check your email. It's there's a Senator Drake. Yep. Senator Dora Drake is going to be there for a listening session. You got it.
079You have it already. Yeah, we all got it. It's from Senator Drake. Yeah, that was from Nicholas, but that's her. That's her staff person. That's from Yeah. Yeah. Sorry. Yeah, I saw I read it. Yeah. All right. Okay. Um, thanks, um, Miss Ashley. All right. Ed Foundation. Um we are just preparing to open the scholarship um application for the year. Um that's just that's all we're working on right now. So okay, sounds good. Park and Ray. Uh there the next meeting is April 1st. So it may be rescheduled. I don't know. So they have the same day as the election. They she proposed a new date, but I don't answer. So she didn't tell me the new date. I'll send it when I have it. All right, thank you very much. All right, we'll go
080on to our item number seven, our board planning calendar. Uh, March 24th through the 30th is spring break, so there's no school. April 1st is our spring election. The 7th, the board of canvasers will be at the village hall at 8:30 a.m. The 8th special board meeting at the ASC. The 15th, uh, CISA 1 at Brown Deer Job Fair. Um, April 18th, Good Friday, 29th, regular board meeting. May 26, Memorial Day and May 31st, high school graduation. Thank you so much. All right. So, with that being said, we're on item number eight. Would someone like to make a motion to adjourn? Dr. Beetle, I would like to make a motion to adjourn. Thank you very much, Miss Spankin. All right. Motion has been made. Do we have a second? Second. All right. Thank you, Mr.
081Sp. The motion made a second. All in favor raise hand and or I. Any oppose? Never hear that one. I carsley 720. I call this meeting adjourned at 707 and 57 seconds. Ma'am, get those numbers. So,