001To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right. Next is our mega statement read by our student representative Addison Zimmer. All students will graduate prepared to succeed with the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors necessary to achieve their personal goals and make a positive impact in the world. Thank you, Addison. And Addison, you also have a student representative report for us. Correct. I do. Good evening, members of the board. I am pleased to present an oral summary of the activities across our school district this month of October. A more detailed written report will be available at the CF AUD, sorry, CF AUSD stakeholders um in the public minutes and in the board's monthly newsletter board
002um considerations. So, at the high school, 53 students were inducted in the National Honor Society, which is one of the largest um groups inducted into the Chiple Falls chapter. One of our women's golfers went to state where she finished 18th out of 78. The women um the first women's golfer to compete at state since the 1970s. 232 parents attended parent teacher conferences and music along the Chipua event had a um good turnout and ended with a performance by the Blue Golds at CVHS. On October 15th, seniors took a trip to C um CBTC. They had a um they have made a slight change as all students are in the Jag or Jobs for America's graduates um classes. On October 29th, two members of the HR department will visit to explain what they are looking for
003in applicants, as well as how to fill out tax forms and other employment paperwork. at the middle school. On October 2nd, the seventh grade truck team went to Camp Manito to do team building activities. On October 3rd, middle school students visited local manufacturing sites for skills to schools to skills tours. Fall parent teacher conferences um happened on October are happening on October 22nd and 24th. On October 28th, they will be starting a spooky all school Halloween bingo. At Homestead, they have been using their CARES room to give students a place to calm themselves. They also have several families show also had several families show up for their PTO ice cream social. At South View, they had Wade Fernandez, excuse me if I pronounced that wrong, a touring m musician who draws inspiration from nature and
004incorporates diverse musical genres into his compos compositions. Um, students participated in free vision and hearing SCA screening from the Lions Club. And um they are also going to be participating in penny wars with all proceeds going to local veterans at Hillcrest. They are starting their fundraising for their new all-inclusive playground. Their go their goal is $200,000 to create a new playground area including gaga ball pits, swings, and green space for soccer, football, and kickball. At Stilson, they are working on building community by creating fun activities to get students from different grade levels connected. They are continuing their happy hives where students are um paired with a staff member in groups of 10 to 12 which is all um all grades mixed and do activities together. And in conclusion, our district is working on um exciting
005and new opportunities for all students across all levels. Thank you for your time and attention. I would be happy to answer any further questions. I have one comment. Uh the donkey ball game we are bringing back. Crosby family and Jim Falls had donkey ball for many years in the 50s and 60s and 70s and they travel the United States. So it was held here at Chih High many years. It was not pretty but it was held here. So good luck on that. I do know Yeah, I do know that a Coonsman did send out a nice little you know board members are welcome. So if you want to you want to go the donkeys trained really well to Yeah. They sit down whenever I I'll say no members. Any other questions for Mr. Thank you
006for your report. Well done. Easy being the bearer of good news, isn't it? All right. Next up is welcome and guideline for public comment. Is anybody signed up under the non-aggenda related public comment? Anybody signed up under the agenda related public comment? Next, we will go on to showcase a school. We are going to start with 5.01 2024 WASBY WASB business honor role recognition. We'll start with an introduction with Mr. Holmes. And all right, here's Charlie. All right. I can't thank you folks enough for being here tonight and being recognized for your partnership uh with the school district at Typical Falls Unified School District. My name is Jeff Holmes. I'm the superintendent and I can speak on behalf of our staff and our students certainly and their families that the work that you've done particularly
007over this past year with the district is we are very grateful for the things that you've done for our students. I know Laura Bushendorf who has probably worked closely with all of you in regard to those things that y'all bring here. Uh everything that you do for our students particularly where our career and technical education work going on in our district is concerned is absolutely fantastic. I you know again uh you know I also give kudos for Kathy for recognizing the opportunity through WSBY to bring you here and recognize that work. Um and and on our behalf again thank you so much for what you do. It is greatly appreciated. And with that I'll turn it over to Mr. Ch. Great. So on behalf of the board I do have some things that I'm going
008to read as sort of an introduction. But before I do that, again, on behalf of the board, I want to say how important it is to to have you here and what you do for us. Not what we do for you, but what you do for us. This board and this district really believes in the partnerships with the community. Community employers really believes that, you know, going to a a college is not the only thing that we do in this high school. We really believe in the STEM programs and the programs to get the two-year degrees to get the training. And that's exactly what you bring to the table. I mean, it's just incredible that we're able to do those partnerships and that you guys take the time out of your busy working day to
009be able to do that for our students. So, just on behalf of the board, thank you for everything that you do. Um, the WASBY business honor role recognizes outstanding local businesses that support their schools. Triple Falls Area Unified School District nominated the following businesses to be recognized on the WASBY 2024 business honor role. So, I'll start with TTM. They are not here tonight. Uh, we've already figured out who's going to go there and who's going to get the picture taken with them, but TTM Technologies has partnered for many years with the Chipo Falls School District in helping coordinate and co-sponsor a bianual event at our high school that we call steam night, which stands for science, technology, engineering, arts, and math. TTM representatives work diligently with school staff to bring together businesses, public service organizations,
010higher learning institutions, nonprofits, and other organizations from our area who host boot to share how and why steam skills are utilized in their given fields. This event has been a large success for many years as it enhances post-secondary readiness and close the skills gap. CFAUSD appreciates our partnership with TTM Technologies. Next is Chipo County Economic Development Corporation. Uh I'm told that Charlie Walker and Deb Chilson are here. First, before I read the statement, I'd like to have them introduce themselves very briefly. Deb. Hi, I'm Deb Chilson, uh formerly Chilson Automotive, but now Chilson Property. So, thank you for having us here. Charlie Walker, president Chipo Economic Development Corporation. Uh Chipo County Economic Development Corporation has been a great partner with the Chipo Falls Area School District for many years in many ways. This past year,
011CCEDC once again co-sponsored and helped coordinate our eighth steam night. This openhouse type event is held at our high school and the access to CCEDC's extensive membership of businesses throughout the Chipua Valley allows us to invite many companies to come and showcase how steam skills are used in their businesses. The staff at CCE DC make the connection to school very easy and CFAUSD is grateful to have this strong partnership. At this time, I would have the board recognize uh both Charlie Walker and Deb Chilson on behalf of CCEDC. [Applause] Yeah, we can do this individually now. Where do you want us? Uh anywhere you'd like. There's good if you Yeah. To smile and be in the picture. Just everybody can smile because you know this is not a criteria for school. All right. Great. Thank
012you. Thank you. Well, hold on. We're not doing this the right way. Oh, Charlie, were your ears ready? You want the certificate? You got to give them the certificate. We got to do something fun. Oh, because otherwise our you know who we're talking about will get mad at us if we don't do us a Oh, you do that. What is that? Selfie. A selfie. Short selfie stick. Selfie. Yeah. I've got some students as you know are better at it than us. But I thought you were going to try reading. I got a story for that, too. I'm sure you do. It helps to have longer arms for I was going to have you do it. You you know. All right. Next is uh PMI. We have a bunch of people from PMI. We have Chris
013Conrad, Lisa Hyp, Dana Hansen, and Travis Parent. If you could stand up and introduce yourselves. Okay. Good evening everyone. I'm Travis, training and development coordinator for PMI. I'm Lisa Hike. I'm the HR manager at PMI. I'm Chris Canard. the president of PMI and Dana was not able to make it tonight. So, all right. Thank you. Uh PMI is a local company that does steel processing and manufacturing and has been a very strong partner with our district for many years in supporting students in our youth apprenticeship program. This past school year, PMI employed five YA students, engaging them in real life experience. This solid relationship is one that CFAUSD appreciates greatly and plans to continue for many more years. BMI, [Applause] now that we've got this down, we need a bigger Dennis, you got that haircut.
014want to receive it on All right, just smile. Thank you. And this time, you get to keep it. Thank you. Having those kids at our shop has been incredibly important for us. our workers that get to work alongside them. It inspires them to have young people very interested in the work that they do every day that sometimes they find mundane. So when you have a young adult come in that's excited to get the work done, it inspires our people. So thank you. We also know that funding's tough, right? And you continue to fund to have the people here like Laura that makes this possible. That's so incredible. So please keep the funding coming. Thank you. Thank you. [Applause] Great. And now we have Northern Crossarmm and Pat Bishel, Joy Berseron, Amanda Emp, Kevin Waltz, and
015Peter Anderson are here. Actually, Joy and Pat weren't able to join us. Okay. I'm Amanda Empy. I am HR manager for Northern Cross Company. Kevin Wy and I'm the plant manager at Northern Cross. Jennifer Anderson, wife of Peter Anderson. Well, Peter Anderson, um, vice president, but I'm currently in the process of, uh, purchasing the company. I'll be the excellent that provides the finest quality pressuret treated lumber to retailers and the lumber industry across the nation. They have been a champion of students in our youth apprenticeship program, employing students in each year in their production operations division. These opportunities are so valuable to our career and technical education efforts and give students experience that will help in many ways beyond high school. Thank you, Northern Crossarmm, for your continuing support of our students. [Applause] You're holding.
016you want to say a few words? Um, I guess we just, you know, we appreciate the, uh, the young people that come and work at our facility. Um, it's encouraging that there's still young and motivated um, kids that want to come and put a day work in. They're happy to be there. Just had a conversation one with one this morning in a review and asked him how things are going and he said it's nice to come to a place where it's fun to work. So, uh, we appreciate the students. Thank you. [Applause] So just in in closing, I would say, you know, other than obviously another thank you. Um, I think it's it's wonderful that you look at how other communities you may have the educational field be kind of set aside from industry and
017sometimes they're kind of pitted against each other for dollars and this is just amazing that we have this cooperation here. This is exactly what every other community should follow. So again, you guys make that possible. Thank you guys. Match everyone. Thanks Laura. We didn't say you could leave. I got work to do. Still waiting, Laura. Still waiting. We're taking that dramatic pause. Thank you, Laura. Okay, 5.02 is Cardinal Care and we will have our Cardinal Care Showcase presented by Jamie Gansky. Hi, I'm Jamie Gansky. I am the principal at CVHS as well as the mental health and resiliency coordinator for the school district. And I am very excited for the opportunity tonight to talk about all of the mental health supports available for our students and their family members in our district. So I'm going
018to give just a very brief overview of what we offer as well as a little bit about the data. So when you look at cardinal care, that is all of our mental health supports that we offer within the district. Our mental health department consists of two people. It is myself as well as Shannon Larson who is our mental health navigator. So she is the amazing one that works directly with the parents to help set up the services within Cardinal Care. Again, that is the umbrella term that encompasses everything that we offer. We have three main buckets of support that we're able to offer to our students and their family members. The first one is called our school-based mental health. This is where our community clinicians come in and work directly with our students one-on-one during
019the school day. This is locationspecific data when we talk about it. So, the pay source is irrelevant. We have several clinicians that come in and work with our students. And I wanted to give very brief overview of the data for you. We have been offering school-based mental health for the last 11 years in our district and we currently partner with 28 agencies and we have about 55 clinicians coming in and working with our students. These two numbers change quite frequently throughout the year as our needs change. So when we have an increase of referrals of students, we reach out to our community partners and ask for additional therapists. So again, that number changes. You can see the data just from the last few years. These are all postcoid data for you to show you that
020the number of students utilizing school-based mental health has significantly increased these last few years. Another point of data that I'd like to point out is the number of students that have been able to utilize school-based mental health over the summer in our district. So, for the last three summers, we have been able to offer school-based mental health year round in our schools. Now, there have been many benefits of offering this year round throughout the entire summer. In the past, if a student could not find transportation, they would typically pause over summer, which meant our therapists had to fill their slots with additional people from the community and then we'd have to wait at the start of the school year for the transition for the spots to open for our students. By being able to offer
021it over the summer, we're able to keep our students consistently seeing their therapists and consistency consistently filling our therapist slots as well. So it's been mutually beneficial for both students, our schools and our therapists to offer this and you can see that the utilization rate has been quite high for um being able to offer it over the summers. Another point that I mentioned last year I believe to you is when you look at each month specifically that's the number of students that are seen in our district that month. You can see that in 2122 in the month of September for example we had 53 students the following year 119 we almost doubled our utilization rate each each month that year and we've consistently kept at that high and so when we say that we've had
022a spike it was quite an increase in utilization over the last few years. Another area that we're able to support our students is called our student and family assistance program. And with this program, we're able to offer four free counseling sessions to all of our students and their family members. We then expanded this to also offer parent coaching and youth coaching to all of our students and their families. We anticipate that there will be around 325 counseling sessions that we pay for throughout the school year. We anticipate that we will pay for around 25 or more parent coaching sessions and we anticipate we will pay for around 50 or more parent or excuse me youth coaching sessions throughout the school year. And again this data has been based on the numbers that we've utilized for
023the last 11 years and we're typically keep it right around that util anticipated utilization rate. For our third bucket, it is called an interconnected systems framework. And this is for all of our as needed mental health needs. So anytime we have a clinician come in and offer a co-f facilitated small group or offer professional development to our staff or offer consultation to our staff or anytime we need any additional support from our community to come into our schools, that's the pot of money that we set aside for that. We also use that to help pay for staff to come into our um parent teacher conferences and our open houses so that we can have booths where we have someone sitting and educating our families about the supports available. So again, just that extra bucket of
024whatever mental health support we need, that's how we're able to fund it. So for the last five plus years, I've come in and spent my time here in front of you going over all of the data and the utilization rate. And so I figured this year I would do something a little bit different for you. So this year I thought it would be more beneficial for you to start meeting some of the clinicians that are coming into our buildings from our community because one of the most amazing parts of how this works is our partnerships with all of our clinicians. And so they wanted an opportunity as well to come in and let you know what it's like working with our school district and coming in to work with our students. So, our first one
025for you tonight is Terry Shakti. She is a licensed professional counselor at Family Therapy Associates. She has been a school-based mental health therapist for two and a half years in our district. She comes two days a week currently in our district. She provides summer school-based mental health for us. Currently located at our middle school. Currently, she comes into Homestead, Hillrest, Jim Falls, Park View, our middle school, and our high school. So, I'm going to turn this over to Terry to let you hear her side of what it's like working with our students. Hi. Well, being a resident of the Chipala Falls area, I'm really happy to be able to provide services for our community and provide services for children and families in need. the ability to come to the schools has made such a significant
026impact on reducing some of the barriers that families often face in bringing their children to to a traditional office. Um, not only because of lack of transportation, financial barriers, often parents can't take time off of work or they're trying to navigate daycare for younger children or I've often in my office had children come with their parents and their older siblings to therapy because they don't have any options. So the ability to come into schools not only reduces those barriers, but it provides options for families to receive mental health services where they might not otherwise be able to. In addition, it allows us to collaborate with teachers and support staff to meet children's needs within the school environment and provide real specific recommendations not only to support the staff in working with these children, but also
027support the children throughout their school day. It also allows us to hear about progress that uh teachers are receiving and not having to have anybody do that outside of ours or trying to leave voicemails for teachers or emails for teachers. You can meet up with them even, you know, as you're dropping a student back off at their class. So, those barriers are all really helpful to be able to come into the schools and have that kind of real-time feedback with them. Um, sorry. I asked some of my students what they liked about having therapy in school, and I thought I would share some of the answers with you. I received the following. I like therapy at school because my mom doesn't have to worry about me so much. I like therapy at school because school
028is really hard and boring sometimes, and I like having something positive to look forward to during the week. I like therapy at school because I feel happier when I go back to class. So, I want to thank you for your ongoing support in providing mental health services for our students, and I look forward to continuing to partner with everyone in our school district to build resilience, confidence, and capable students. Thank you, Terry. Our next one is is Laurel Tinsley. She could not be here tonight. However, she did send a video for us to show. Laurel Tinsley is a licensed clinical social worker at Family Therapy Associates. She has been Chipo Falls exclusive school-based mental health therapist for the last three and a half years, meaning she only works in our school district. She comes four
029days a week in our district. She provides summer school-based mental health therapy at our middle school for the last three summers and she partnered with the Boys and Girls Club after school to provide services to our students at the YMCA for a year. Currently, she is in Southview Elementary Sten Elementary, the Chipo Falls Middle School, the Chipo Falls High School, and Chipo Valley High School. So, here is a message from Laurel. Hey everybody, my name is Laurel Tinsley and I'm a schoolbased therapist here in the Chipel Falls School District. You can find me primarily in the high school, the middle school, the alternative school and some of the elementary schools as well. And I work for the company Family therapy associates in Oaklair. But I just wanted to take a minute to explain some of
030the benefits of providing therapy in the school setting. Um it my office is located in Oaklair and so it's really difficult for families in Chipua to make that trip. Sometimes there's a lot of transportation barriers there for families and so being able to see them in school where they usually are here most every day. Um it's really easy to catch the students here and be able to have that consistent engagement with them. Um, also a lot of the parents of the kids I work with, they are working and so it's difficult for them to take time off to bring their child to the appointment. Um, and something else I thought about too is when a parent does have to pick up a child to take them to an outpatient appointment, the child is typically missing
031a lot more of their school day uh with transportation to and from the appointment and then the appointment itself too. So, it's really nice that they're not really missing a whole lot of their school day by coming to see me right there in the building. Um, and then I also really love being able to support and help the teachers and school staff as they help to meet the needs, the mental health needs of the students in their building. I really, really value that part of things. Um, and it's so awesome, too, because in the summertime, um, the middle school is available to me to be able to do continued sessions throughout the summertime. Um, and that is so beneficial because, uh, being able to continue that mental health treatment throughout the summer months when they're
032home, um, is really helpful. And it, you know, not having to make that trip to Oaklair again is such a big piece of things for these families. I have many kids who um they skateboard or ride their bikes to the appointments and sometimes they even walk. Uh so it's really really um awesome to be able to be right here in the community which is convenient for the kids. Um so I also wanted to highlight too the um EAP program and grant that you guys have here and how beneficial that has been in so many different ways. But I have a lot of families who have some insurance barriers. You know, whether the parent forgot to fill out uh the paperwork for insurance and so their insurance lapses and they don't have it for a period
033of time, but each student has four of those free EAP sessions available to them each school year. And I use those all the time. It's so helpful. That way there's no um uh gap in their therapy with me and we can continue meeting uh while insurance issues are resolved. So that's really helpful. And then I do have some families where it's not very affordable for them to continue seeing me for therapy, but we have those four free sessions to kind of help offset that cost for them. So, I just truly appreciate so much of what you guys do here to meet the mental mental health needs of the students here at the school. Um, and it's so awesome to be able to provide that in your buildings and I hope to continue doing that in
034the future. Thanks so much for listening. So, that was a word from two of our um therapists. Now, we also have voices from our parent and youth coaches as well. So, the next video is of Kennedy Hailing. She's the owner of the family room and she has been providing parent and youth coaching in our district for one year. She does provide services districtwide. However, she mainly focuses on the secondary level. So, here's a message from Kennedy. Hi, my name is Kennedy. my own family room where we provide support specifically to teens and their families. We have two main services. The first is parent coaching specifically for parents of middle school and high school students. And the second is teen social emotional coaching where we provide skilluing services specifically to pre-teen and teens directly. This is
035our second year being a schoolbased mental health provider in the district. And generally speaking, Parent coaching is not a service that's billable by insurance. Meaning that without the student and family assistance program, families would have to pay out of pocket private pay for this program and service. So through the SFAP program, families are able to utilize their four free parent coaching sessions with us or their youth coaching sessions with us. And it's really been a game changer getting to break down the barriers of first of all pay and private pay and transportation by getting to service youth at school during the school day including some really awesome social emotional groups that we've ran in the past as well. And the last voice is from Sherry Larson from a new family services. She has been providing
036parent and youth coaching in our district for three years and she provides services districtwide. She put together a PowerPoint and is unable to be here tonight. So I'm going to do my very best to represent her through her slides that she's created for you. Um, so the objectives for tonight were that she wanted to make sure you knew there are several strengths of the Cardinal Care program. She's going to present data on the parent coaching services provided and parent comments in support of the service. She provided data on youth coaching and comments from the youth as well as data on youth coaching from the parents or caregivers. So to her, Cardinal Care is a trusted resource to initiate help for children's mental health. Immediate immediately meeting emotional needs with the 48 hour contact expectation. Empowering
037children and families by offering support when they are motivated for change. The DCT or district community leadership team assures quality and improvement. It provides a resource-filled website. It's data supported, a way to learn and connect with community resources. It's available at the schools, so there are no transportation or time barriers for families. It's largely represented at the local, county, regional, state, and even federal through grant funding. It's a preventative measure to support children's mental health. It's using a team approach to quickly act on barriers shown in the data. For example, youth coaching, meeting in schools, and talking with insurance representatives. It's training staff and community members on understanding and supporting children's mental health. It's committed to supporting all students with healthy growth and development. And it's committed to creative long-term funding and sustainability. So what
038Sherry did is she surveyed all of her parents that utilized parent coaching last year and she was able to get nine responses. And so it was scored on a one to five, one being the lowest, five being the highest. How you would score this? The first question in the red is I felt listened to by my parent coach. As you can see, all fives. The second question, my parent coach related to me in a positive way. And the third question in that kind of black is it black navy blue. I felt satisfied with the help I received from my parent coach. So clearly our families are satisfied with the parent coaching that were able to offer them in our district. Here is a sample of some of the parent comments that she received back from
039the survey. Parent coaching has been valuable to our family. It is not just for parents with kids that have struggling behaviors. It is a resource that is greatly appreciated and can be utilized in a variety of different parenting areas. Another one, there have been so many helpful changes in my child's situation. I felt like I was drowning before the coaching. Some days are still trying, but my child and I managed the situations so much better. The sessions did a great job of helping us shape the way we wanted to parent our sons and gave us assistance in giving us the structure to use for the summer. and these sessions have been very helpful for both my kids and me. I'm so thankful for this opportunity to learn with my family. Thank you for youth coaching.
040She also gave a survey with two questions and the youth responded. The first one in red is their response to I felt my youth coach listened to me and the second question in the white I find value in meeting and working with my youth coach. You can see more positive responses from our students. Here are the youth comments. When asked, "Do you have any suggestions to enhance the youth coaching experience?" They responded, "It helped my anxiety go away and I still take meds for it." Stayed with youth coaching longer. More time I truly enjoy it. It is okay the way it was and nothing really. When asked, "Is there anything else you would like to share with us regarding your experience working with your youth coach?" The responses were, "No, not really. I think it
041is a wonderful opportunity provided to students. It was fun and very fun. I liked it." So, obviously, our students are also giving us very favor favorable responses when participating in youth coaching. And then she also surveyed the caregivers on a scale of one to five to see um how satisfied they were. And you can see all but one were rated at a five. For the caregiver comments, do you have any suggestions to enhance the youth coaching experience? The responses were, "Things went well. My child said it was nice to be able to get problems off his chest. It would be great to have more than four sessions. seems just as the child is trusting a caring adult. The end has come. This has been a very valuable and empowering experience for my child and we
042are thankful for this opportunity and hope that it continues to be offered in the future. And then Sherry wanted to express her own gratitude. She pre she appreciates this opportunity to celebrate the inspiring and effective Cardinal Care program and a news positive data from the students and parents support the Chipo Falls Area Unified School District's efforts and funding. Respectfully submitted by Sher Laren. All right. So, with that, I hope I was able to provide you with more of our amazing clinicians experiences within the district working with our students and their family members. Do you have any questions for the summer? The transport. Do you assist students with transportation since they're not already, I presume, at the school? Really? So, all students over the summer, we have one central location at the middle school that all
043of our students go to. Um, typically the transportation is on their own. However, if they reach out for support, we're able to do our best to assist. A lot of our local churches have offered to help pay for transportation and things like that where we can reach out to our community for support. Is that four visits per year? Four per family. the following year they can start all over again. Yes. And with the parent and youth coaching is one of the comments. Four isn't enough. Um one of the unfortunate things with parent and youth coaching is when our four sessions are done. That is not something that insurance will cover. And so one loophole that we have worked out with Sherry is anyone that would like to do group sessions after they're four, she offers
044group sessions and we're able to pay for that out of our interconnected systems framework bucket. And that way it's actually an opportunity to build more natural supports because then anyone that's worked with her joins that group for additional sessions. Can we ask questions or I think so. Do you have any staff that's specifically trained in helping students that deal with racism? That wouldn't be a specific that you get. However, you could bring that up in your sessions and work through it. I mean, as as clinicians, it's definitely something that we help navigate. Um, anytime that there has been they've been a um victim of racism like that, it's definitely something we can work on in session. But as far as like specific training to like I mean, are you talking like teachers where they're more
045informed in regards to this? You mean like school staff or do you mean like therapists? Therapists that would work with them or coaching staff. Yeah. And I think in general therapists are train and how to navigate some of those some of those concerns. Um, but as far as specific training, it would just depend like we all have to do a certain number of hours per year of like ongoing education. And so if they were trained in, you know, after getting their degree and something specific, that would definitely be something that they could add onto the resume and they'll find something that I think, you know, we all should be better about. Yeah. I'm just looking children and you worked with my voice. I really love you. Okay. Thank you. Yeah. All right. Unless there are
046any other questions. Thank you, Miss Gansky. And I don't know, Terry. It's Terry, right? How do you pronounce your last name? Shocki. Shocki. Okay. I'm sure I would have got that wrong. So, thank you. This was a tricky one. Yeah. Thank you for having me. Yes. All right, board members. Next is 6.01 OE2 strategic planning. Members of the board have received the CEO's monitoring report on OEE2 strategic planning. It is now the board's responsibility to consider the report as evidence of compliance in this area. Superintendent Holmes. Yes, since this is my area, I'll go directly into that report. And I am pleased to report that our OE2 strategic monitor report shows full compliance in all areas. Our strategic plan continues to effectively align district goals with the board's results policies while ensuring adherence to operational
047expectations. Key highlights of our compliance include our budget's executive summary. Summary clearly outlines how it supports the strategic plan. The board demonstrated its understanding by adopting the 2023 2026 strategic plan in July of 2023. Administrators regularly present monitoring reports on results policies and operational expectations, providing evidence of progress and identifying areas of improvement. The board held its annual workshop to review the strategic plan, most recently at Stilson Elementary in October of 2023. Our leadership teams conduct annual reviews and updates of strategic actions and outcome measures with building and department specific plans developed in alignment with district goals. And lastly, we maintain a robust cycle of scorecard events from district-wide rollouts to mid-year progress checks. Consequently, the strategic plan reflects input from diverse stakeholders and considers external factors affecting education. The successful April 2024 operational round
048referendum demonstrates community support for our direction. While we're compliant, we recognize ongoing challenges, including national and state economic pressures. We're committed to continuous improvement, focusing on enhanced stakeholder engagement, data analysis, resource alignment, and agility in our planning process. In conclusion, our strategic planning process is strong, compliant, and positioned to continue guiding the district effectively and meeting the evolving needs of our students and community. Thank you, and I'm happy to answer any questions you may have at this time. Great board members, it is now up to us to vote to accept this report to make it our own for further discussion. So, move that we accept it. Motion by Olsen to accept OEE2 strategic planning report as our own. Is there a second? Second. Second by Martin. Any further discussion? All those in favor say I.
049I. Opposed. Motion carries. OE2 strategic planning is now accepted by the board and we can discuss it further to determine whether or not the district is in compliance. Board members have any specific questions in that regard? Hearing none. I would look for a motion using our operational expectation policy motion language. I would move that the district is in compliance and monitoring report OE2 strategic plan. Motion by Maw. Is there a second? Second. Second by fear. Any further discussion? All those in favor say I. I I opposed. Motion carries. The board finds the district in compliance with OE2 strategic planning. Thank you. Thank you, Cooper. Let's see. Next is 6.02 OE6 financial planning. Members of the board have received the CEO's monitoring report on OEE6 financial planning. It is now the board's responsibility to consider the
050report as evidence of compliance in this area. Mr. Superintendent, at this juncture, I would like to turn this over for a brief overview by business manager Chad Chridge. Thank you, Mr. Holmes. OE6 financial planning. Uh spirit of this is superintendent shall develop and maintain a multi-year financial plan that's related directly to the board's results, priorities, and oper operational expectation goals and that avoids long-term financial risk to the district. There are eight indicators and I'm happy to report this evening that all of those indicators are in compliance. Just a quick highlight about each of the indicators. Uh OE 6.1 is about a budget that is in summary format and and understand the relationship between the budget and the results priorities and the OE goals for the year. OE 6.2 is about developing a budget that credibly
051describes revenues and expenditures. 46.3 uh is about a budget that shows the amount of audited data in each budgeted category for the two most recent years and the amount budgeted for the proposed year. OE 6.4 is about developing a budget that discloses budget planning assumptions. OE 6.5 is about uh developing a budget that assures fis fiscal soundness in current and future years. OE 6.6 6 is about developing a budget that ant anticipates changes in expenses, primarily labor. Uh OE6.7 is about developing a budget uh that provides resources for its the board's own governing function and OE6.8 uh is all about a balanced budget. In terms of uh summarizing uh we did end our fiscal year uh with a bottom line that was balanced and positive which means that we added some money to our fund
052balance. So overall no fund balance was used five-year budget forecast the budget development process and budget hearing book aid in our transparent reporting. As far as improvement in our future, uh we are in the second year of a bianial budget and there were per pupil increases to the revenue limit of $325 per pupil. Uh as mentioned earlier, the district successfully passed an operational referendum in April of 2024. There are some inflationary pressures that are drastically affecting the local, state, and national economy. In addition, our enrollment has been slightly declining. This is our final year of federal COVID funding allowances which will keep our fiscal operations sound for the current year and we will continue to utilize our five-year budget forecast to prepare for our future. Thank you, Mr. Trobridge. At this time, I ask for
053the board's acceptance of the monitoring report members. Any questions before we vote to accept this report as our own? None. I would look for a motion accept OE6 financial planning and general report for further discussion. So moved. Motion by fear. Is there a second? Second. Second by Martino. Any further discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. OE6 financial planning is now our report to discuss. Board members have any particular questions for Mr. Trobridge regarding the report? Just a broad question. When do you think we start hearing rumblings what the next budget will do? Is that something that's going to far away? Certainly after November, but likely after the first of the year. It's going to be interesting. There are no other questions. I would look for a board member to make
054a motion using our operational expectation policy motion language. I move that the district is in compliance. Motion by Martin. Is there a second? Second. Second by Melan. Any further discussion? All those in favor say I. Opposed. Motion carries. The board finds the district in compliance with OE6 financial planning. Thank you, Mr. Dbridge. Thank you. Uh under our board consent agenda is a board member requesting removal of any particular item for separate consideration. Hearing none, I would look for a motion to approve the board's consent agenda as presented. So moved. Motion by Maw. Is there a second? Second. Second by Martino. Any further discussion? All those in favor say I. I opposed. Motion carries. The board's consent agenda is approved as presented. Next is the superintendent's consent agenda. Think there's anything to remove. We need to
055approve that. Do we? No. Okay. Nothing on the superintendent's consent agenda. Uh, all right. Matters reserved for board action. No items have been removed from the consent agendas. Next is communicating with the board. 10.01 is our third Friday people count under OE12. Mr. Thank you. Uh this is our official pupil count uh for the third Friday in September, September 20th. Just a compare uh current year 2024 to where we were at in September of 23. Early childhood numbers were up three. 4K numbers down 20 students across all elementary buildings. Uh down nine at the middle level down 38. at the high school level down six. Uh open enrollment in up 12, open enrollment out up 22. The net effect of that is down 57 students year-over-year, which is about what we expect. Have any questions
056regarding this report? Thank you, Mr. Curbridge. 10.02 is school health services report that will be presented by McMasters and a few others that she will introduce. Yes, I'll introduce the important people. Nurse Bethany and Nurse Caitlyn are here to present the health services annual report and to give you some information about school health services. Hi everyone. I'm Caitlyn Marinel. I am the district nurse for the six elementary schools. And this is our new nurse, Bethany Coffins. Hi, Bethany Cockkins. I'm district nurse for the secondary schools. and we're just here to tell you a little bit about nursing and health services and our role um in the district. There we go. Okay. So, first we just start with a very brief background about uh nursing in general. And so the nursing process is uh universal. It
057doesn't matter the setting in which nurses work. This is how our brains are educated, how we're trained, how we are wired to take in information, assess it, um, and make a move very quickly. So, we assess, we diagnose, we plan, we implement, and we evaluate, um, oftentimes simultaneously. Um, and in shorter terms, um, we're great critical thinkers. So, um, especially when you are the only licensed medical professional in a building, um, it is not lost on you the responsibility that you have. And so for a very small percentage of our student population, I know their names. I've met their families. I've written care plans. Um but for the vast majority of students that I oversee, I don't know them. And so the first time that I meet them, they may be standing in my health
058office, I may be responding to an emergency. And so um the value that we add to the school system, I think is apparent in those notes. but as well as a greater community. The CDC and the DPI have done some great studies that show for every dollar spent on school nursing services, not only the district, but the community itself saves twice that um on time for parents because they weren't sure what to do, doctor's appointments that weren't necessary, and as well valuable minutes that aren't spent always in the classroom because nurses and health assistants get those back where they belong. Um just briefly, Caitlyn and I have posted schedules. So, as mentioned, I'm the secondary nurse. So, um, barring any boobing back and forth that has to occur from building to building, which can certainly
059take place. My schedule is, as noted, um, primarily full days at the high school, middle school, and then a rotation of CBHS. And I, like I said, go to the six elementary schools. I try to go to the same building on the same day each week. Doesn't always work out that way, but we try our best. Um, and I rotate to Jim Falls about every six days for half a day each week. But we try to stick to the schedule the best we can, but it's just really whenever wherever the day takes us. So, um, so on top of like the day-to-day care that we provide students in the health office, you know, bandaging up bumps, bruises, taking care of students with stomach aches, headaches, whatever you can think of, you name it, taking gum
060out of students hair. Um, on top of all that, um, the district nurses here are a few of our responsibilities. So, care plan management. Um, RNs are the only individuals in the district that can create a health care plan. So whether it's a dietary care plan, temporary emergency health care plan, Bethany and I are the ones responsible for creating every care plan um that you may come across in the school district. Um this can be for students with chronic health conditions or with short-term injuries. Um we create care plans for them to make sure that they um are kept safe at school upon their return. Um, we regularly attend IEP 504 meetings and do Medicaid billing for our special education students who receive nursing um, services um, regularly at school. Um, for those of you
061that don't know, each of our schools has a trained medical first response team. So annually, Bethany and I meet with each of our teens at each of our buildings to train um a designated group of staff members on how to administer emergency medications that are relevant to that particular school as well as provide them with training on basic first aid, seizure first aid, uh anaphilaxis first aid, and really anything that might come up if we are not on premises. We have trained staff members who are there who are very confident um and to provide care to our students. Um, we also train our health assistants annually at the beginning of every school year on these emergency medications as well and how to provide day-to-day care in the health office for when we're not there. Um,
062a lot of our work too is done over the phone. Again, we are the only two nurses for the entire district. So, a lot of our triaging and um, guidance is done over the phone to our health assistants. Um, and overall we just ensure that the health needs of all of our students in the district are met, which is roughly a little more than 2,000 students that we oversee between two RNs. So, a week in the life, um, just to kind of give you guys some context of like what our job looks like on a day-to-day basis, we just wanted to give you some on insight to what our day-to-day looks like. At the beginning of the school year, um usually the week before the first day of school, we have a lot of care
063plan meetings, especially for our students who are high-risisk a lot of hands-on medical care here at school. Um we like to meet with those families um the teachers who are going to be involved in that student's care so that way we can come up with a plan and make sure staff are confident um and trained uh so that way they are prepared to take care of that student on the first day of school. Um, we review and update all care plans before the first day of school and make sure they're distributed to all necessary staff members. Um, over 150 staff members received at least one care plan at some point this school year. Um, and we also get started on training our medical first response teams within that first week of school. Um, um, some
064insight into my first day of school. Bethany and I both kind of had a crazy first day. Um, we each had a 911 call on the first day of school. You know, we just dove right in really. Um, so just to kind of give you um, an idea of what my day looked like, I started my day out at Park View on the first day of school. I was training my health assistant on how to care for a new diabetic student that we had starting. Um, training her in insulin administration, how to care for um, the highs and lows that come with type 1 diabetes. Um, at lunchtime that day, I was showing a special education teacher how to administer a tube feeding to a student. While I'm in the middle of doing that tube
065feeding, I get a call from another one of my schools that a student's having a seizure, needed to give a rescue medication. So, while I'm doing a tube feeding, trying to provide guidance on the phone about a seizure at another building, safely finish the feeding, go back to my office, make sure my diabetic gets insulin for lunch, book it over to my other building to make sure that they're doing okay with the student who had a seizure. Um, and then we schedule a debriefing um with staff to make sure that, you know, everything went okay. You know, kind of console staff. It can be really scary when that happens, especially on the first day of school. Um, and scheduled a debriefing to go over what went well, what could go better for next time. So,
066I'm sure everyone in this room knows too that you never know where your day is going to lead you, and it's just really unpredictable um, as a school nurse. But, that's just kind of some insight on what my first day looked like. It hasn't been that crazy since then, luckily. Got it out of the way early. Um but yeah, we schedule debriefings after any medical emergency and we just um make sure that we're there to support our first response team members because we're not there. So um these are some things that are specific to my role. Um these are some things that are just specific to the elementary schools. Um we conduct vision and hearing screenings. Um vision screenings are for all students, K through five. Hearing screenings are for kindergarten and second graders specifically.
067And anytime there's a parent request, we will perform a screening. Um we partner with um the Bright Smiles dental health program who is awesome. She comes in about three times a year, two times for fluoride, one time for sealants. Any family can opt their student in to participate in that dental health program. Um, last year was our first year doing a free flu immunization clinic for students um, on campus for parents who consented for their student to um, receive their flu vaccination at school, which um, turned out super well and we're actually on track to exceed the number that we had last year. Um, handwashing lessons for our kindergarten students, fifth grade human growth and development lessons for our fifth grade students. Um, and the supervision of six health assistants. Um, some things that are
068very specific to the secondary school nurse nurse role is that I am the cert adviser, our student emergency response team adviser. So, we have a really awesome opportunity for students who uh most likely are thinking about entering a medical or um professional services um response team uh field um so that they too get to be involved in emergency responses on campus. They receive additional training. We're going to be doing some CPR and AED training with them in the next week as well. Um so just a great opportunity for them to feel empowered and um a little feather in their cap for some professional development as well. Um lots of care plan development and distribution for school as well as extracurricular activities. So every field trip that our students go on we have to review. Um
069we need to make sure that anyone leaving the building who is under our care who may need emergency medication while they are out and about with their teachers has that readily available to them. We need to train those teachers so that they can use it in the field if they need to. Um and then as well I have three health amazing health assistants that I supervise at the secondary schools. This is me. So um some chronic health conditions. So yeah, aside from the acute things that come up every single day for kiddos, um we definitely have children um in our system that have chronic health conditions that need to be managed. Um I will just highlight a few of those. Type 1 diabetes. 20 students in our school district with type 1 diabetes. I know
070adults who can't manage their type 1 diabetes. So, um, this is a huge undertaking for kids as they come back into our buildings. It's a huge leap of faith for parents to to send them out into the world and trust that what's going to happen is going to what needs to happen is what's going to happen. Um, so the opportunity for us to allow students to feel empowered, to educate them, and for parents to feel safe while they're under our care is super important. Um, 97 students with life-threatening allergies. If that's not enough to keep you up at night, I don't know what is. So, um, at any given point, we are on high alert for students that may, um, inadvertently come into contact, and those are just the kids we know about that have
071no allergies. Yeah. Um, we discover a few along the way as well throughout the school year. So, um, another really, um, important thing that we do and provide training for all staff involved. Um, and then just something else I wanted to highlight, mental health. Um, that is the number for just my secondary schools. So we have 147 students whose parents offered at the time of registration under their health conditions a diagnosis of either anxiety or another another mental health condition. Um this is huge and this becomes really relevant when we talk about programs like we have um through Cardinal Care. Um I can't tell you how invaluable it is for me to be able to say but wait I have somebody you can talk to about that. I have counselors right down the hall. Um
072to talk to a parent and say yes you too can go to counseling. Um because some students don't know that they're having an anxiety attack. They don't know that that's what panic feels like, right? And so we're not out here trying to like blindly diagnose kids, but they're just learning about how to manage and cope. Um they don't have all the tools that adults do. Um and so we are often the first line of defense, if you will, as it relates to that kid that always comes down with a stomach ache or that kiddo that just always seems to have a headache at this time of day. Um so again just you know really thankful for the support that we receive by way of mental health services in our school district and um wanted to
073call that out is something that we are definitely seeing more of. We have a total of nine health assistants within the school district. They are amazing. Um I have heard that at one point that was not a full-time role and I'm not sure how you all did it without them. They are our eyes and ears and they are the boots on the ground and we physically cannot be at every single building. Um so in addition to the training that we provide to them, they are just a really awesome group of compassionate individuals who care about children. Um they do those things that are listed there. But again, they are super responsible in communicating information to us um which is important so that we can make um decisions when we don't have a child in front
074of us necessarily. Um, so we just don't want to skip over the fact that they made our jobs possible as well. Yes. Couldn't do it without them quite literally. So, so grateful to have them. Um, this is just a a glance at our annual report from this last school year. I believe you guys may have received it over the summer, but I just kind of picked out um something that kind of is was shocking to me at first. I put up like the last seven years um of health office visits that we've had on our annual reports. And in the last seven years, um we've had an increase of about 50% in our health office visits, 47,000 visits um last school year. When I first saw that number, it was pretty shocking to me. Um
075but then when I thought about it more, I was thinking like our students do feel comfortable coming down to our health office to see us and our health assistants. Um they feel comfortable coming to see us and telling us about, you know, their bumps, their bruises, their headaches, their mental health concerns, anything that they can think of. we are a safe place for them to come. Um, and when I looked at the numbers too, it looks like only about 6% of that 47,000 um were actually sent home. So 94% of those students um were able to remain in school for that day. So it's a very large number, but I look at look at it as like we were able to keep those students at school for that day and provided them the comfort that
076they needed to get through their school day. Whether it's bandaging them, bandaging them up, whether it's giving them daily medications, whether it's just giving them a break from class for 10 minutes, we were able to keep 96% of those students at school for the remainder of the day. Um, I just wanted to take a moment to like list some of like our health office achievements from last year. Um, for vision and hearing screenings, um, we screened over 2,000 students for vision, over 600 for hearing screens. Um it is um amazing to see after vision screenings seeing students come in that had a referral letter sent home and they come back to school wearing glasses um a few weeks later. We even had one student we actually um sent a referral letter home. They got it
077checked out and the student actually had a cataract that needed to be removed and that's something that the vision screener that we use um was able to catch. Um so he had surgery and now he's doing great. Has glasses that he wears at school full-time. Um, but that's something that's just a preventative health service that we are providing to our students. Um, hearing screenings. We've I've had parents reach out to me saying, "I had no idea that my student had a hearing concern. Um, we were just doing a general routine screening on, you know, kindergarten and second graders took their student in because they failed their hearing screening and they either needed hearing aids. I've had a few that have found like a hole in their eardrum that needed to be repaired and parents had
078no idea. So, that's the reason why we do these um things for bright smiles. Um, plenty of students are referred to a dentist for follow-up care. Um, a lot of things can be caught early to prevent infection. Um, needing teeth pulled, anything like that. Our flu immunization clinic, um, we had a great turnout last year for our first year, and like I said, we're on track to exceed that. It's a lot more accessible and equitable for our families to have a flu clinic on campus. So that way parents don't have to worry about um driving their student um outside of school hours or making an appointment taking forever to get in. It's very nice for families to be able to have that option um during the school day. Handwashing lessons. We're teaching those kindergarteners early
079about healthy habits, about having good hand hygiene. Um hoping to reduce our rates of illness and absenteeism by starting those healthy habits early. um teaching our fifth graders about human growth and development and puberty so they are comfortable and confident in how to take care of themselves and their bodies as they go into middle school. Um uh nurse Lexi last year and Bethany this year with our C team providing um our high school students with um these great life skills that they were carry with them well beyond high school and how to take care of like their friends and family if an emergency situation were to ever come up. Um, our immunization compliance rate was 99.12% last year, which I'm pretty darn proud of, especially for a district our size. I was thrilled with that
080number. Um, that that's our compliance rate for our district. Um, and care plan creation. Um, we had 526 care plans in place last school year. I look at that as we kept 526 students with either chronic health conditions or injuries safe at school last year. Um, and I think continuing to provide these services will keep our students safe and healthy and promote academic success in the classroom. So, in summary, we're trying to come up with something that demonstrated or or talked about what it is that we do in a school setting. And this is what we decided on. Nursing is about caring, comfort, prevention, and assessing both spoken and unspoken needs and empowering patients towards self-care. But school nursing is about doing all of these things for persons still in progress, children who are still
081learning how to be and stay well. Thank you guys again for having us today so we can tell you guys about our job and our role. If you guys ever have any questions, you can email us, call us anytime. But thank you again for having us. Any questions or anything? I was going to be very impressed that you could train your kids just to be sick on the days you were at that specific and I see that you actually on a a regular day. How many times do you get to actually spend the whole day at that elementary school? Um you know it we kind of go through spurts it seems like. Um la this year has been pretty good. I haven't had to like travel between buildings super often maybe only like five times
082due to like a medical emergency or urgent need. Last year I feel like it was at least once or twice a week I would say. Um it really depends. Um also you have to throw in there if like if our health assistants are ever absent or anything and we don't have a sub. Um you know we go over there to cover just to make sure that someone's there to give out meds and to be you know there in the health office for our students. So it's really just kind of a tossup. I'm sorry I don't have like a great number but yeah kind of frequently. And I do have a added benefit of two of my schools being very near each other. So I'll often say I'm going up the hill or I'm going down
083the hill. Um if you call Beller Boulevard a hill. Um um and then of course I love to visit Jamie and the gang out at CBHS. Um but yeah, similar to Caitlyn, you bounce if you have to. Um we're flexible. Thank you for what you do. Right. Next is 10.03, our Cardinal Cardinal Healthy Clinic update. Mr. Newer. Um, well, thank you for a few more minutes of your time tonight. Um, this is still in my learning curve, so I will do my best to answer any questions that come up tonight and or to find the answers to the questions you may have. Um, so we invest our money to take care of our employees in a variety of ways. From the traditional coverage of visits to our doctor's office to financial counseling. We believe that
084taking care of the whole person leads to a healthier and happier workforce for our students. So, we continue our partnership with Real Living and this provides our staff with a variety of supports that are needed. Some um of the areas our staff members have utilized so far this year include counseling, financial advice, legal advice, and professional coaching. There are also services that are used during the school year for conflict resolution, team building, and whole person wellness. Our partners at Real Living are willing to hear our needs and work with us to determine the best way that they can assist us in meeting the needs we have. So, we're very grateful that they're able to give their time and to attend um our opening day with all staff this year. They were able to share what
085their um their message with our people uh face to face and give away free gifts that people like too. So um our utiliz utilization of our EAP services was the highest that it has ever been um in the past year with 38% of our employees utilizing um the services. The most were for coaching sessions um or coaching sessions were mostly around career exploration and transition. Um and the counseling sessions were mainly around mental health, specifically anxiety and again for our staff members. Um you can see that our employees are using counseling sessions this year. Um as well again as the mental health and anxiety being the leading presenting concern for our staff members. Um but Real Living is willing to work with us um also on some of the ancillary services um that we just
086come up with based on what's presented to us by our staff members. Another partnership that we have is with on-site chiropractic services. We work with Dr. Amanda and Naen, they now travel to all of our schools providing care for both our staff and our students. Um, additionally, they have office hours at Corger Chestnut two days a week where our staff members and their family members can come to receive care. We continue to be pleased with the investment that we have made in building our own primary care clinic for all of our staff members and those on our insurance. This investment continues to save our district plan money and save health savings account money for our employees because they are not always meeting their deductibles. Uh we can let me get down to mine. Uh Dr.
087Joles continues to provide high quality care for people and recently we have welcomed Miss Hong and she has been very wellreceived. She replaced Do Renee Carlson. Um and we know she's well received because she's booking over a month out for appointments. So, she's being um well utilized. These are some of um the instances and encounters that we've had. We've had over 4,000 interactions with our on-site clinic this past year. The majority of them for being office visits and labs. And one of the nice things we're able to offer to our employees is that their labs um come at no cost to them. Um so, again, saving them money and saving our district money. We do partner with Marsh McClullen Agency as our insurance broker. They help us with the negotiations for our different insurance plans,
088stop loss, thirdparty administrators, the management of our on-site clinic, and they advise us on our best practices to ensure that our plans are within the legal guidelines. So, um this is our total cost to funding ratio. We did exceed what we had um projected or planned for, but back in January, Chad did provide you with that anticipation that that was probably going to happen. Um we had planned for seven catastrophic claims for the year and um unfortunately we experienced nine catastrophic claims. So we were um over what we had anticipated. Um however, we didn't um need as much of a stop loss as um our stop-loss carrier had predicted. Um so that will help us in the future to obtain some better rates um when we go for new rates. Uh this chart just shares
089our plan year total cost and funding analysis. Um this does demonstrate like I said that we went over budget that you saw in that um graphic. Um but again what I think is good for us to see is that over the last um four years uh we as a school district and our claims have been under the national trend which is that orange line. So um doing very well overall in our medical spend um even with all of the rising costs. RX Benefits is a prescription rebate program that our employees have access to. Um, and this past year, the partnership saved us $313,000. Now, we're looking to see where we can save even more money. Um, and we're partnering with a company called RX Valet in addition to um RX Benefits. So, RX Valet will
090look for more cost-effective mail order pharmacies for our plan members. Medications to be mailed directly to them or to be mailed to our clinic. We just met with them today and part of the option some of the medications that need to be shipped need to be um refrigerated for a period of time. And so, um they could be able to be shipped to the clinic and somebody could then pick them up after work uh so that everything is maintained um for what the prescription needs to be. Um there's no cost to our plan um to participate in the uh services that they offer. They are paid on a percentage of the cost savings that they provide to us. And in reviewing our 2324 plan if everything were to stay the same. Um they would predict
091that they could save us over $450,000 in the first year and again at no upfront cost to us. So what would they get? How do they're compensating on the savings? Is it a percent? I don't recall the percent. Do you recall that? It's it's based on each prescription. Um, another uh partner that we have is Althus. That's our care navigation system that we encourage our employees to use um as they have a very quick turnaround average time of about one day to get a another appointment set up um for a more specific care that our employees may need. Um so in the 2324 plan year 761 individuals contacted Althia. So it's about a 75% utilization rate. Um we pay about $14,000 a year um for their services um that result in a savings of $533,000.
092Um which we had an increase of over $100,000 of savings um from 2223 to 2324. um as well as an increase in our partic our employees participating in their services. So what is a lost opportunity? So those are the people that um did not take advantage of what Alphas recommended. Um so they might have recommended that they go to shared medical technologies for an MRI and our employee we don't force them to use that option. They may have gone to a different provider to get that service. MD Direct um costs approximately $28 per member per month. Um so we just play a flat contract rate of $162,000 a year and they um specialize more in the orthopedic care of our employees. Um, so they try to increase the turnaround time for employees um, in getting
093those muscular skeletal claims um, addressed in problems so that we're not spending money and they're not our employees aren't spending money on approaches that might not be as effective. Um, so uh, you can see what our cost has been and what our savings has been. So, um, for the $162,000 a year that we invest, last year we saved, um, $864,000. And that's after the cost of the service. Something else that they recently shared with us that I thought was um important and also interesting that since we started partnering with MD direct um compared to the five years before we worked with them and then the five years now that we've been partnering with them, there's been a 52% reduction in opioid prescriptions for our employees. Um so I think that that's telling us that um
094we're finding some more effective services um and treatments for our employees. The final partnership I wanted to highlight tonight is the one that we have with Teldoc. This is a service our staff can utilize um at any time from anywhere. So this costs us uh about $22,000 a year. It's a virtual care platform that offers comprehensive solutions for a variety of needs. Most usually sinus problems, respiratory infections, allergies, flu symptoms, rashes. um and they're able to produce a diagnosis and a treatment plan. Um and that's all done virtually. And so again, we have about 40% of our staff participating in it. Um and it's saving us over $100,000 each year when we utilize TEDOC. So that is an overview of our medical spend for the 2324 plan year. Um I can look for that percentage
095and um share back with you what the anticipation is. Um, any other questions that you have? It made me think when they were talking about a flu immunization clinic or whatever you want to call it at the schools. Do you do that for the employees at the clinic for free? We do. Um, it is happening this Friday and then I think November 1st as well. And we've also actually expanded it. So, it's free for um anyone on our plan um on our insurance plan, but then we've also expanded it to include any employee who may not be on our plan, but who wants to still have the the flu shot, they can have that. Um our thought is that if our employees are healthier and not sick, they're here and our best people are in
096front of our students. So, we felt like that was a good investment um for our people. board members have any other questions? All right. Thank you, Mr. New for your presentation. Next is 10.04 elementary attendance boundary review update by Superintendent Holmes and business manager Chad Trobridge. Yeah, it's in the board's packet. You should have found a document 23 pages long which is the EBRC's first consideration of data. Uh and it has included current historical enrollment data for each elementary school, enrollment trend analysis, projected enrollment for the next three to five years based on state data trends, demographic information including socioeconomic indicators and special population distributions, capacity analysis of our elementary schools as which is yet to be determined. That study is coming. Neighborhood development information that Mr. Metro Bridge was able to secure uh transportation
097data. Uh more of that is coming once Go Rightway takes over here on November first and they'll become a part of that process of helping us make determinations about transportation academics performance metrics. We've just gotten state results in in the last couple weeks and Miss Kern and her team are working on that and you'll also get a report at next month's board meeting in that regard as well. Uh facility information, program offerings at each school, financial implications of potential boundary changes and safety and consider security considerations. My question to the board based on this particular document that you received, are are we missing anything at this juncture? You think is there any map? A map would be helpful, I think. Yeah. Yep. I can get that put in there. That is a good one. We've
098got a Chad's got a pretty map we can put in there. Yes, it would be good to go ahead and give I should also let the board know that on uh we have our first EBRC um meeting agenda established for November 20th. It'll start at 6 PM at quarter chestnut room 2011. Should last approximately 70 to 90 minutes. Um, we have the agenda uh already worked out and we have a list of questions to send out to all those people that will be on the committee. Uh, currently we're at approximately 30 30 something members I believe. And the only people that we're waiting on is for the board president to let us know who the board representatives will be. So, first of all, I'd like to tell all board members thank you. I think just
099about everybody uh did volunteer and and I want to say it's the two people are on this ne it's it's not an honor. This is going to be a very political hot button item for whoever gets involved in this. But again, thank you all because I think just about everyone. Um but I've decided uh Steve Olsson and Peggy McKillb will be on the boundary committee. I think we need two, right? Yes. So good luck. So, with that, I've got the invit when I say I, I mean Angela has the invitations ready to go out uh tomorrow. So, watch in in your mailbox. Um, again, I I've been pleasantly surprised so far by the reaction I've had to those people that are going to be committee members. I think through Mr. Trobridge, myself and others, I
100think we've put together a strong agenda. Uh I think that the information that able to garner thus far is going to be extremely useful in this process. Uh we have um you know every elementary principal is going to be on the committee plus Miss McMasters and uh also Katie Coinbartner. Those will be the administrative representatives on that group. uh we've had approximately eight or nine parents reach out and have become a part of that committee. We also have pretty strong um representation from teachers. Uh we also have city and county folks that have volunteered to be on uh that committee. So, I'm looking forward to the process. Do you have parents from each school? Uh each elementary school? Not yet. We're we're almost there. If you know any Stillson parents, I think I send them
101send them our way, please. Still View and Park View. Check with their PTO's. Yeah, that's who we went to first. And I was surprised. You generally when you go to the PTO's, they're pretty quick to respond. Still doesn't park me on. Still doesn't park you in South View. So any parents from those please send them our way and the invitations like I said will go out tomorrow. So uh you provided under 10.04 a 23page document. Is that something that is just for our review? It's not only for board review, but it's a living document that Chad and I put together. And we believe not only will board be reviewing it, uh, committee will be reviewing it and it will be a living document for the public to be able to monitor as well. Okay. I
102will make people aware of that in the board considerations. Do board members have any questions at this time? It will include Matt. Thank you. All right. Uh then thank you Mr. Next is 10.05 review of construction projects complete for the 2023 2024 and 5-year projection of capital projects. Mr. Trump, Mr. Nolton. Yeah, Mr. Nolton is here tonight and he is ready to get his foot off the clutch and let it rip. Drop the hammer. Um just to give you a little bit of an overview of the document I provided. Um it does cover five years plus the the first page is what was completed uh this summer prior to June 30th. Um the first few years are pretty accurate. Um the last couple years are are not. Um it kind of gets less accurate the
103further out you go. Um the reason for that is it the last couple years are are mainly just placeholders. there are things that need to happen that I just maybe I'm not really quite sure of the order in which they're going to happen for those last few years. Um so there may be some jostling around but it's all things that need to take place. Um I guess to start off with the first page um projects that were completed um a lot of Oh sorry you guys don't know what happened wasn't inappropriate music. Aren't you not supposed to have cell phones? It's on no volume. Mine are shut off. Thank you. Sorry, Mr. You owe me one. Sorry. Next time it's donuts. You okay? Donuts for you. All right. That makes up for a variety of
104sins. Anyway, um so a lot of these I have a lot of things listed on this first page. Um and the reason that is so some of them are are marked complete. Uh the ones that aren't marked complete were completed after July 1st. So I will go through that. um high school rope section uh replacement uh and tennis court remodel. Uh two of the biggest outside PRA projects I've done at one time on the wetest spring of the year or of the last 10 years probably. Um the roof roofing section did get completed um prior to June 30th. Uh we had a few issues. Um weather was one uh a lot of rain this spring when they were starting uh this early summer I should say too. Um and then the uh part of the
105roofing project was removing and replacing um some of the major gas line and it's run across our building um to feed uh well parts of the kitchen, the two dryers and laundry room and a few different science labs. Um the mechanical contractor that was lined up to do that went on strike uh just as the roofers were about to start. Um make a long story short, I hired a bunch of roofers to cut up gas pipe and uh it worked rather well. So they cut it into sections that they could be handled, got it out of the way and completed the roof work. Did you recover from that rainstorm that did all the damage? Oh yeah, they actually they were really good. um that roofing company um Jackson and Associates, we did a bit of
106business with them and uh they were very good. Um actually they um did not even wait for the insurance to pay the claims. They paid them just so we would have them quicker. So that really did um that did work out well. Um also at the high school uh DECA classrooms and um some storage areas there. We had a little bit of a surprise. Found some asbesus tiles. So that turned out to be a little bit bigger project than we expected, but that was completed. Um, middle school replaced the dock door. Uh, it was a kind of a safety issue that was completed. Um, at the middle school, we started working on an exterior sound project uh with the public address and fire alarm system. Uh, it was started but has not been finished yet.
107Um, Homestead outdoor beautifification project. Uh, I was approached by a couple of teachers from Homestead and they had some grant money that they wanted to apply towards um just some outside fixing up things and um they didn't have enough money to do it. So, I told them I would match their grant and boy they did an awesome awesome job. Uh the front uh bus unloading area of Homestead, if you haven't seen that, it they they really did a wonderful job. Um let's see. Uh, Hillrest. I put this on here just as uh because it was kind of a a big issue. Uh, the air conditioners for Hillrest Elementary were installed by in May, uh, first part of May. Um, so those were used this summer and spring and fall. Um, we replaced flooring in rooms
10829 and 30 at Hillrest as well. Um, gym falls. A couple of small projects. We installed an additional camera on the parking lot or parking lot on the playground. Uh we relocated some equipment in the uh playground, moved the sandbox area to underneath the sun shelter. Um Parkview Elementary completed replacing the last bit of carpet in that building. So that is done. Something I've been working on over the last probably six years. Um South View window and blind replacement and IMC classroom soundproofing. Um those both were started but were not finished um until after July 1st. Um camera replacement. Uh there was a number of cameras in that building that were just they were modern cameras but they were just so old that uh I don't know they weren't able to see very clearly. So
109we replaced the top priority. I think we ended up doing eight or nine cameras something like that. Um so that was completed. um Stillson Elementary um uh ongoing water treatment. Um it's going to be continue to be kind of expensive moving forward. Um what we've uh determined Well, there's a couple of interesting things about that this year. Um we've determined that uh let me back up a little bit. We're treating for a couple of different things. Um we're treating for pH. um the pH which is well it stands for percentage of hydrogen. It's the uh scale of alkalinity to acidity in the water. Um if the water's too s acid it will start to leech the copper from the distribution system and the DNR believe me doesn't like that at all um with water quality.
110Um so we have to maintain that pH to make sure it's more of a neutral number. Uh we have an ozone injection system which is kind of a disinfectant and it helps solidify the iron particles in the water. And then the last step are two big iron filtration tanks that we have to replace twice a year because they are just full. Um that's all they can handle. Um we were you know the initial estimate was those would be replaced every five years or every 10 years and now it's both of them twice a year. Um so once we have started on that track things have been a lot better. Um we had kind of a miraculous thing happen over a oneweek period this summer and that is the pH of the wellwater magically started to
111be really good. um really no explanation for it. Um other than the fact that it's really dry out, I don't know if that had a factor in dropping the water tables and that has some kind of a a bearing on it. I'm not quite sure. Um typical readings were around six, which is very acidic. Um right now the well water right out of the ground is between seven and eight, which is neutral. So six and a half to seven and a half is pretty normal. Um, so we still have the treatment system in place and still monitoring it, but really have no good explanation for why that changed. Um, so anyway, things have been going fairly well there as far as uh the domestic water system. So that's that. Um, moving on to 2425. So
112this is a lot of these projects were completed after July 1st. Um, and a and a few are still ongoing to be completed at the end of this month. Um, but moving forward, I have 350,000 in there for a potential real estate acquisition. Uh, I know one homeowner had approached me and I think one had approached Chad um about some interest um I haven't heard anything new um since then. um districtwide. Um currently, and it's going to be an area of focus for me for the next few years, we have a mix of older technology components in our environmental control system, which is um connected all of our buildings districtwide to a central server. Um same thing with our security system and card access. Um like the middle school, high school, still have new panels.
113Uh, a lot of our other buildings still have some old ones and we're learning that the mix of old and new technology isn't working so great. Um, so I'm going to be a little bit more dedicated in getting that stuff replaced. Uh, getting it where it needs to be. Um, okay. High school. Uh, we completed the tennis court remodel. Uh, if you haven't seen that, I recommend you taking a look at it. Uh, it looks like a million bucks as far as I'm concerned. Um, really looks nice. uh high school did a door replacement on the back gym that was kind of a security place. Uh it was kind of a locked down location and the doors weren't able to be locked. Uh so those were replaced. Um the green team is working on a
114couple of, as you're I'm sure aware, a couple of solar projects. There's a small array and a big array. Um the small array components are underneath the uh press box right now. Uh but I had planned on dedicating like $2,000 for that installation. Um at the high school in Jim B, we did a bunch of masonary repairs. Uh 16,000. Um middle school. Um the 100,000 I have associated with that. Um I have an asterisk in the notes under materials. What I do typically if I'm going to do a roofing project, I will use whatever remaining budget that I have. and the fiscal year ending June 30th to buy materials for the next room uh roofing project. So, it's stuff that I could order have received in having in parking lot and uh basically to use
115up every penny that I can of my budget. Um so, you'll see in the next fiscal um for the middle school it'll be about $350,000 for the labor portion of the next section of roof that we plan on doing. um also replace the uh the loading dock door at the middle school. Um and the outdoor sound um that will be completed the end of this month, taking advantage of those professional development days to be able to get in and make some make a little bit of noise in the buildings. Um Hillrest Elementary door 10, uh it was a door that was uh kind of rusted out. It got to be a security issue that was replaced. Um, Park View, we had three small skylights in the building that were uh started to become problematic. So,
116th those were losing my voice. Sorry. Were replaced. Um, Southview Elementary um that window and blind replacement um that was also part of that IMCA uh or IMCA IMCA IMC um soundproofing uh project that we did in there as well. uh that was completed. I guess the blinds actually won't be completed till the end of this month, taking advantage of those professional development days. Again, uh uh water treatment. Um part of this was replacing the tanks and some other control work. Um the second part of that was one of the two ozone generators that we had there that had to be replaced. Um ozone is very costic. So the equipment that makes it and implements or inserts it into the system um is kind of prone to failure because it kind of eats itself up
117from the inside. Okay, moving on to 2526. Um I have 35,000 or 350,000 uh in there for real estate acquisition again. Um, and again I have uh for environmental controls and security $100,000 for uh updated communication and um technology panels for those for those two systems. Um tennis court resurface there's a kind of a resurfacing uh maintenance program that u I had signed up for. So that'll be around 5,000 a year just to keep it looking good. um middle school roof repairs. That's that second part. This is the labor portion of uh replacing one section at the middle school. And those sections, you know, run anywhere from four to four to 4 well four to probably $550,000 typically. Um, see, South View Elementary, the other thing that I'm going to try to start incorporating, uh,
118I got quotes from San for replacing all of our black top parking lots. Um, so based on their prices and their condition, I'm trying to work those in to get those replaced as well. Um, and again, still some water system. Um, some additional money for that. 2627. Um I have 50,000 each for environmental controls and security. That should complete that project. Um tennis court resurfacing. Uh Homestead U Elementary looking at mechanical uh working on the pumps and replacing the boiler in that building. Uh it's going to be an exceptionally well it's going to be a bigger project. Uh, basically we're going to have to do some excavation, take out a wall of the basement and cut it into little pieces and haul it out much like much like we did the high schools. Um, so
119like I said, that uh is something that, you know, it it works. It's an older unit. It works. It works good. Probably not the most efficient unit. Um, Jim Falls Environmental Controls updating some of the panels there. Uh, Parfu mechanical. Um, I put boiler and mechanical, but this one in particular is more looking at their chilled chilled water, their air conditioning system that needs to be replaced. The system that we have in place right now, it's getting very difficult to find replacement parts just because of its age. Um, asphalt for the Parkview Elementary would be 186,000 plus inflationary figures as well. Still, another 30,000 um 2728. Again, I put some money in there for real estate acquisition. Um, tennis court resurfacing. Um, some asphalt replacement at the middle school. Um, gym falls boiler mechanical. Again,
120looking at replacing the boiler in that building. Um, asphalt also listed there. Water treatment again for Stilson Elementary. And then the last fiscal um again the real estate acquisition high school doing another roof replacement. Um and I kind of have a note there between the high school and middle school. It'll be one or the other probably. Not sure which one at this point. Um Parkview um that amount of money is more leaning towards the boiler system uh and pumping system uh recirculation system in that building. And again, Stilson Elementary had about $40,000. And again, a lot of that is well, at this point, I'll probably be replacing one or both of the um ozone generators and replacing those tanks again, refilling them. So, but that is kind of it in a nutshell. So, I know
121I went through a lot of stuff. Any questions? Realistically, Randy, how far can you budget? I mean, you're just whacking that. Well, I mean, is it two years? Is two years realistic with that? Really? I mean, with any degree of accuracy, yeah, it's a couple years, you know, because there's, you know, I try very hard to be very proactive on a lot of things, but still reactive stuff will bite you in the butt. I'll give you a perfect example. high school. Um, well, all of our buildings. I have a PM contract with a company that comes in, goes through all our bleachers, inspects them, does maintenance on them, all of our backboards, make sure the safety straps are all working properly, and all the control systems work. Been doing that for a number of years.
122Well, this last after the last inspection, well, high school bleachers are all of a sudden now they're they're not operating very well. um you know the guys uh turn the switch and yet they have to half drag the bleachers out to get them to come out normally. So that's $20,000 and I'm trying to work I'm trying to get two or three days where I can be in that gym to get that work done. So I'm probably I'm just trying to schedule it right now. Um you know I got basketball season's coming awful hard and heavy here. So, um, working with, uh, Mike Thompson and Donna and to try to get that scheduled and find a couple of days where I can get in there and hopefully not interrupt the gym classes too much by having
123the bleachers out. Um, to try to get that work done before basketball season starts. Boilers, how many boilers do we have that are no longer under warranty? What's that? How many boilers do we have? Oh, I don't think we have any that are under warranty. We got bowlers. Not don't don't be don't get me going, Jeff. Um well, it's it's funny that you mentioned that the the high school, which are, you know, high school and middle school, but the high school boiler boilers, one of them in particular, um the components are still under warranty. The labor is not. Last year I spent it was probably about $60,000 because we had a major problem with the heat exchanger. One of our brand new They're my greatest fear. Yeah. So, it uh you know, it's still it's
124still expensive even though they're at least partially under warranty. Um, so yeah, but like you said, Steve, a couple of years uh is probably about the best I can do because there's always, you know, things that come up. We we uh I've got our our roofing management company, uh, Garland, going through the high school right now to find the next likely candidate, you know, for a section of roof replacement. And, you know, you get it, you think everything's going pretty good. You don't have any leaks. It looks pretty good. Well, you get that heavy snow in the winter and all of a sudden we got a, you know, a cascade in the hallway. and we've had that at the high school. And uh that was a section we replaced. So actually not this winter. It's
125not going to happen. Um so you know sometimes you still get surprised a little bit. Well, I just want to say Randy, thank you. I know that you're the first phone call when somebody has a complaint, but Yep. you don't get thanked when it does get fixed. So thank you for what you Well, thank you very much, Steve. I really appreciate that. I'm going on three weekends in a row now of stuff happening. So it's it's been exciting. A lot of squirrel electrical issues. It's not a lot of fun. And he's not kidding. What's that? Thank you, Mr. And he's not kidding. No, I'm not. Thank you, Mr. Nolan, for your presentation. Very welcome. Uh 10.06 is R3 monitoring report update. An update from Masters and Mr. Holmes. You want to complain about the state
126first or you want me to? I mean, you just want me to say that the YBS middle school is not released and I don't know that it ever will be. It will be. Yeah. Okay. So, uh, it's one of those things for me based on what I know about R3 and what the board is looking for and lack of information from the state in that regard. We may have to adjust how we report out on R3. It's my recollection that the board did approve it um, pending the outcome of the data. Um, and think it's going to come. We don't think we're going to get it. Not at all. Or pushed off. I We don't know. I haven't heard a thing. And even in safe, our data that we did have was gone. Yeah. Was
127like grayed out. We couldn't get to it anymore. So, I'm not sure having some the high school though. High school report, but I had already downloaded it, so we got it. But um I don't know. I don't know if it's a staffing issue at DPI. I don't know why we're not getting that staffing issue. Yeah, I kind of feel like they're just having turnover issues and they just aren't able to do it. We can do until we get the data. Why don't we put this table this for a couple months? We'll put it as a placeholder for say January. If you have the data, then we can bring it. If not, we got push it down. Push it down. We'll let you know when we tabled from last time. Do you remember what month? We
128had that in June. March. the March meeting. Yeah, we'll just kind of keep track of it at the executive level when we do our meetings. If they have something, we'll put it on the agenda. If not, it'll just be postponed indefinitely. The next monitoring report before I bring another I guess we what we would need to do again is hear hear what would be the data that we would look at instead. But I think we we did hear everything for the previous monitor report approved other than that data. We just didn't have the middle school. Yeah. Okay. Well, thank you for that report nonetheless. 10.07 is discussion of board activities. September 26th to 28th was wisdom sharing. And who attended that? He was raised my hand. You didn't go to see him. I was with
129you in spirit. Oh, okay. We didn't see you. I could make a political comment on that, but I won't. Um, okay. So, you do? Yeah. Why don't you tell us about that? Where was that? In Seattle. Um, this is more of of the nationwide. So, there was districts there from other states. Um it's always good to talk with other school boards um that use the coherent governance um model. Um they had three they had a three member panel of different board members and um it's it's interesting because with our model, right, our focus is on on student results and it was mentioned more than once or twice yet. no longer are we spending an hour or two trying to determine which garbage liners we're going to buy. So, um it was it was good. They're
130talking about maybe having regional meetings. Um and for Chad for the the future for budgeting. Um I know they're looking at changing it because when they have it now aligns with the superintendence meeting in Wisconsin. Um but as we near um retirements at our upper level, I think it'll be important that um senior administration um attends the wisdom sharing or whatever that's you know so we keep the monitoring reports. I know some prairie had a couple of assistant super incumbents. Um North Dakota um California was Yeah. Yep. So um we talked about desegregated data. Um spent a lot of time on the debrief part of the the meeting. Um but yeah, overall it was it was good. No, I mean often times, you know, we we really do what works for JIPA. Um, you know,
131and you kind of leave there feeling there are things we have to continue to just do, but there are things that it's like, no, this works really well. How else like not having an debrief session would be one. So, all right. Thank you both. Thank you both for attending on our behalf. October 17th was the Park View Learning Walk and who went on that me. All right. Actually, there was like four board members there. um this was the first time we invited um stakeholders and I think we had five or six and so it it brought a new kind of dimension to it and um so it like I said our goal as a communication committee was to invite people who may be considering running for the board or future or future or they may
132be looking at wanting to know how a school district operates or the individual school. So we will continue to do that. Kathy is spearheading that program. I think it had real merit and I think I don't know Jeff you probably thought it was we did it was a good start. It's actually a really good opportunity and and it sometimes when there was only two board members that showed up and maybe a you know two or three administrative staff people now we have 10 or 12 people here and so those individuals who are in charge of the walk and learn that day feel like the effort they put in was worthwhile because there is more people to see it. The feedback that Kathy got from staff members and participants was fantastic. Um the teachers really appreciated
133that um there were individuals there beyond just school personnel or schoolboard members and the individuals that responded to Kathy that were participants really really enjoyed the time spent in school and also the one that I was most thrilled about was the individual that wanted 90 minutes instead of 60 minutes. Yeah, we were moving and Melissa did a very nice job of putting it together, you know, and explained why we were seeing things and some sometimes what to look for and I think that was very helpful. Um, and then made sure that we had some good interaction, which I I always think we should have. All right. I do think I won the rocket. Did you make your rocket? I did. I made that while I think I won the rocket launch. Sounds like it was
134fixed. Yeah, fix. What grade level did you win this at? Third grade. It was third grade. Good one. Third grade. Let the guy in the ocean the place. Have the WIA look into that violations. All right. 11.01. 901 is discussion of meeting. Any questions about the meeting? Members all feel like they've had the opportunity to be heard. I don't know. We're all pretty shy. Yeah, we have a problem with that. All right. 11.02 is future agenda items and upcoming events. October 23rd, 4:30 8:30 is the WBY fall regional meeting and that is Piggy and Sherry are currently registered. October 24th is the policy committee meeting at 10:00 a.m. November 12th from 5 to 7:30 is the annual board data review. November 13th is the door building block at the Triple Falls Senior High School at
1359:00 a.m. November 18th at 9:00 a.m. is the uh AFJC official site visit at the Triple Falls Senior High School. Can I can I speak to that one for just a moment? Uh again, uh invites will be going out this week. They're out. They already went out. So, board members may have already responded. Awesome. Good. Uh, I am looking forward to that. I've been working closely with Sue and her team and with Donna and her team in that regard. uh you know I do view it as a dog and pony show that we have to put on but it's one of those things for me where the individuals coming in from Washington DC I based on my conversations with uh groups that are willing to endorse someone from the governor's office is going to be
136there someone from Tammy Baldwin's office is going to be there uh someone from DPI is going to be there. We've got three or four state representatives and senators that are planning to attend. Uh it it it is one of those things for me where I think we'll do a wonderful job of portraying what the school district is like and its potential for that program, but given what DC rep spoke about and how she how that individual spoke to our principal and to um Angela, you know, I you know, I I don't want to get my hopes up too high because we're in competition. ition with two other schools and two other states for the region. It sounds like the competition is highly competitive, but what I do know is that the work that's been done
137particularly since 2018 regarding the school district and the CTE programming and the the you know the advancements that we've been making at other levels in our academic programming. You know, I do think we have a a shot at the program, but I don't want to get people's hopes up too high. You know, I know that we are going to try our dead level best to try and get that program here because I do think it would be a feather in the cap of the district. Based on what I do know about declining enrollment in the state of Wisconsin, I think that program can help bolster our situation in many regards. uh during the course of all this, the things that I have learned surrounding uh Junior ROC and school programs, uh they're good to have
138and I would love to see it falls area unified school district, but I do know based on what I've heard thus far, it's a tough competition to get DC to pick your school. Is this going to be in the auditorium or there? It it will be in the high school cafeteria is where we're going to hold it. And we've worked with Donna to make sure that we're mindful of the passing times and things of that nature. You mean you're not going to let us walk down the hallway with the students? I I don't really want to. I'm just saying I do. Uh you will get to see them for sure in that first passing time. You will be in the cafeteria during their passing time. All right, before we move on, is there an airplane
139landing in our same thing? It sounds that way, doesn't it? Over there. Um, a cheer list, Randy. Interesting that we're talking about the Air Force and all the Yeah. What aation you put together. November 19th is our regular board meeting. November 21st at 6:30 is the information session for citizens interested in running for the board. Kathy Treker will facilitate. November 25th at 4:30 is business after hours at economy furniture and January 22nd 24th is still on our radar for the Wisconsin State Education Convention that Angela know if he will be pending. Anything else coming up in the next month that I'm missing that a board member wants to add? All right. Hearing none, I would look for a motion to adjourn. to adjurnn. Motion by Martin. Is there a second? Second by Maw. Any further
140discussion? All those in favor say I. Opposed. Motion carries. We stand.