001carrier. Okay, it is 6:30 and and I call the Milton Board of Education meeting to order. Our vision is we believe in opportunities, achievement, and community for all. Our mission is that the school district of Milton in partnership with the community prepares our students for achievement and lifetime readiness by providing opportunity for all. And if we could all please stand for the pledge of allegiance. >> I pledge >> allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you. I would entertain a motion to approve tonight's agenda. >> I'll make a motion to approve the agenda. >> Second. >> A motion from Rick, a second from Ed. All those in favor, please say I.
002>> I. >> Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Uh I would entertain a motion to approve the minutes. >> I move to approve the minutes for the regular meeting held on October 13th, 2025 as presented. >> Second. >> Have a motion from Tracy. A second from uh Rick. Any questions or comments? All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Same sign. >> Motion carries. Entertain the motion on the vouchers. >> I move to approve general checking account vouchers totaling $978,490.39 as presented. >> I'll second that. >> A motion from Tracy. Uh second from John. Any questions or comments? All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Um, someone in the back. Yeah. Could you double check for comments? >> I haven't already. >> There are none. Thank
003you so much. Appreciate it. And with that, we move on to the superintendent update. >> Three different things in the superintendent update for tonight. Our usual uh Redhawk highlights will be shared by our administrators talking about different things that are happening in each of their schools. And I see Carrie approaching to help me out and switch to the PMP microphone. Actually, while Carrie's doing that, I forgot to mention at the beginning of the meeting, we are having some technical difficulties. So, tonight's meeting is not being live streamed, but it will be recorded. It is being recorded and it will be posted. >> All right, I should be ready to go. Thank you for your patience with me, everyone. Um, as usual in the Red Hawk highlights in under the superintendent's uh update, uh, our administrators
004at the second board meeting of every month share some information about the great things happening across all of their schools. But you'll also see that we are recognizing staff uh, today in our Red Hawk recognition program. Uh, we do that typically on the second school board meeting of every month. And we have a number of students that we also going to are going to be recognizing uh tonight uh for achievements that they have had. So I'm going to turn things over to uh Dr. Smith for the Red Hawk recognition for our students. >> Thank you so much for coming. So, what I'm going to do, I'm going to get close to my mic because I turned this way and I'll I'll call each of your names and read a little bit and if you would
005come up um and then stay here at the end, the whole school board's going to join us and we'll have a picture taken with the whole group. So we are going to start with Redhawk recognition from the Milton High School for the Milton girls golf team which tonight is being rep represented by Jan Stoflel who is our coach Alena Oster Spielman Ellie Johnson Piper Williams and Naelli Kllin and congratulations LET'S Let's stay stay here. And next, we're recognizing the Milton Redhawk Marching Band. Oh, I'm sorry. I forgot to read the details. First, let me read the details. The Milton girls golf team made it to state this season for the first time since 2018. This is a young team with tremendous heart, talent, and determination. Their hard work, positive attitudes, and teamwork paid off in
006an unforgettable way. The future is bright for this group. They are not only earned their spot at state this season, but also set the stage for years of success to come. Congratulations. And next, we're going to recognize the Milton Redhawk Marching Band, which is represented by the drum majors, Tate Olsen, Hayden Lotzel, and Natalie Seeker. The Milton Redhawk marching band finished off their excellent season competing at the 40th annual state marching band competition on Saturday, October 18th at W Whitewater. Under the direction of Mr. Nathan Czech, they and led by drum majors Kate Olsen, Hayden Rozel, and Natalie Seeker. They took third place in the class AAA division with a final score of 75.85. We are incredibly proud of the hard work each band member put in and the success they had as a team
007throughout the season and it was just a joy to listen to you. >> Thank you so much. And next we're going to go to the Milton Middle School and their web leaders pres represented by Paul Whites, Brooklyn Bernett, Savannah Bill Brandt, Claire Whites and Gwen Gwen Gross and Aubrey Tupendorf. Web is our group of eighth grade leaders who help our seventh graders have a positive transition to Milton Middle School. They host welcoming activities during the first days of school, go into advisories throughout the month to lead lessons with seventh graders, and work to create a safe, welcoming place at Milton Middle School. We are very proud of the work you are all doing. Thank you very much. >> How do you want us to make enough space? >> I don't know how >> I guess
008celebrate right now. So, I'm going to start if I get a name wrong, I'm going to do my best to get it right. Let's start with Dean Boran Rogati. Did I get that right? Is defined ed teacher and transition coordinator. He was nominated by Nicole Schaffer. Do you want to go up here too or keep that? Okay. Well, anybody else? All right. Deman is not only successful what Nicole wrote. Dan was not only successful has not only successfully brought in grants and managed the funding but works tirelessly to make community connections for the district and students. He is constantly looking for ways to make transitions for from school to school and ultimately out in the community the most successful possible way. He is a wealth of information and one of the best advocates we could
009ask for. So, how about a production here? >> Yeah. >> All right. Next up is Sarah Suki. NICE. SARAH WAS NOMINATED by Terry Scher and she is a harmony and consolidated principal. So this is coming from the words of Terry. Sarah is a huge asset to her school district including Harmony consolidated and summer school. She goes above and beyond in everything she does for our staff and students. She shows this every day with her knowledge, guidance, patience and love she is she has for all of her students. So that was from Terry Schi. Ashley Williams here. All right, Ashley. How about All right. Amy Kenny wrote these nice words about Ashley. Ashley works tirelessly with staff and students to ensure student service department at the high school runs smoothly. Her daily interactions with individual students
010and her ability to plan events with the whole student population go above and beyond to ensure every student benefits from her dedicated work to the school district of Milton. Actually, what is EVERY right here? I think it was nominated by Michelle Griffith. Did I get that right? All right, that's me. I am I am nom nominating Heather Blastic because she truly goes above and beyond for all of our students. She wears so many hats and does it all with kindness, compassion, and a genuine love for kids. Heather is often the first to notice when a student needs support and makes sure the right people know, always in a thoughtful and professional way. She is such a blessing to our school community. Let's hear for Heather one more time. Oh, Morgan Darlock. Hi, Morgan. Both Katie
011and Morgan were nominated by Carl Watson, and these are the words you had to say for them. They both have been working overtime, barely able to take a breather, ensuring their overabundance of high need students get their needs and goals met daily. Not only that, but they put the students and cares before themselves. They deserve all the recognition and praise available. So, thank you. All right. Renee Murphy, school counselor, nominated by Kelly Smith. SLIDE over just a little bit. This is a flip page so there'll be a dramatic pause here. Renee Murphy joined the NS North Side team this year. She has been amazing. Capital amazing asset to our building. Renee has already done so much to help our universal instruction build and I pause and grow our Hawk hallway and boost morale in our
012buildings. She created these amazing coloring pages of every staff member at NIS and it was included in one of the our welcome back activities. They are all proudly displayed near the front office. At any point in your day, you will find kids and staff standing in front of our staff mural and admiring all of Rene's hard work. We are so lucky to have her here at NIS. And last said, I know there's a lot more than three sentences. I know this is a lot more than three sentences, but I couldn't hear it down. She's just too amazing. >> Oh, picture. Okay. Thank you all. And uh again, thank you to all the students and the staff that work so hard to bring so much to our stu our to our school district. It's um it's
013been exciting following all of the things that are happening. And that's just a small bit of so many exciting things that have been happening this fall. Uh we are going to move on to Redhawk highlights from our administrative team. >> Yeah, if we could have the principles come up and share highlights from things that have been happening in the month of October. >> Got it. Okay. Um good evening. in the 4K through third grade world. Um fall family activities have either all of our schools have either um just had them or will be having them in the near future. We just had ours tonight. We had a trunk or treat at East. So I'm glad to be in a warm place now. Um as the other schools will say, we just finished up our fall
014parent teacher conferences. So that's a great opportunity for our families to come in, see what we're doing in the buildings, um and for our staff to get to see the families. And at the elementary level, the book fair is a big thing. So, um that was pretty exciting. Um on October 6th, the four elementary principles worked together, the three elementary principles for the four buildings worked together to plan um and deliver some powerful PD to the staff um around school culture and teacher efficacy. And then finally, our first round of fall assessments have wrapped up um and teachers got to talk to families about them um with our reading plans. Um the staff is working hard to update those and um good things happening at the elementary levels. >> Awesome. At North Side, uh just
015a couple shoutouts. Yes, we had the parent teacher conferences and the book fair which were um successful like they always are. But a shout out to the friends of North Side parents group for um supplying the meals and then coordinating that book fair. It's always a hit for the entire school. um outdoor ed. We wrapped up 50 years, right, of our sixth graders going up to uh McKenzie. I don't think all 50 were at McKenzie. The first couple years were somewhere else. Someone else can fill in that for me. Maybe Miss Suki, but anyway. Um not because she was around for it, because she's good at details like that. Um but a shout out to our two coordinators, uh in particular, Emily Smith and Chris Case. um they kind of run that show, make sure
016everyone has their uh dietary needs met as well as making sure families um feel comfortable sending their children for one night, you know, because a lot of people do reach out to them, but also the entire North Side uh school because not only does it impact the sixth graders, but we have a lot of subs in our building and it takes a collaborative effort to make sure everything continues to run smooth. So >> that's it. Good evening. A couple highlights from the middle school. Uh last week we had Dr. Dana, who's our SEAL consultant, come and work with staff throughout their prep periods with focuses on u blocked care, blocked trust, and student regulation. And so that was a great half day of learning. And then the second half of the staff will have that
017opportunity in December for I Ready. We had a celebration at our last staff meeting that we are on target for the personalized instruction for students to be doing 30 to 49 minutes per week in both reading and math and we are meeting that in both grade levels in both content areas. So that's a great start to the school year. And then finally, we're doing some reviving of our student council and officers have been elected and we're having um meetings twice a month with me and coming up with some passion projects that we can do around the school to really promote that positive supportive environment at the middle school. >> All right. at at the high school a variety of things since the last time I was up here. Uh we did have uh two weeks
018ago we had a some version of the preac for all students in grades 9 10 and 11. Shout out to Tara Huber and Matt Coleman who organized that. Uh and so we're eager to get that day to start working on that within the PLC's. Uh today uh members of the egg department, students in the egg department got to witness they got to experience they actually harvested 80 acres of corn which uh is uh out by the NEX. So grateful for the community partners that work with us and gave that opportunity to students today. Uh we had two students qualify for the cross country state meet. Mason Sourge and Angelina Pis both uh qualified for the state meet which will be this next uh Saturday. Uh the volleyball the girls volleyball actually regional champions. So we're
019excited for them. Uh very uh exciting. Uh it's always exciting being Craig. Uh and they'll be competing at the sectional meet uh this Thursday night uh and then hopefully Saturday. Uh we also uh the musical just uh before the musical the Mamma Mia will be performed on November 14th, 15th and the matinea on uh November 16th. So the students uh there's over uh 50 students that are involved in that. We're excited for that program. Uh and then also a big shout out to Jessica uh mayor and Lance Kudson organized. I believe I think this is the eighth annual trickor treat event. Um for all we had a large number of the high school organiz student organizations that that uh I had stations for the trick-or- treat at the high school uh as community members weave
020throughout the whole school. Uh it's a great way to get people into the building. I had several emails from families asking about things that happen within the building. So, it's a it's a wonderful promotional event for the school district showing off educational opportunities. It's a chance to trick-or- treat inside. Uh we also did a partnership with Milton area youth coalition that had the trunk or treat there today. That added a really uh another really interactive component to that. Uh and it's estimates are still varying, but uh according to the number of candy that amount of candy was handed out, uh close to 900 students actually uh went through plus all their parents. And so it's really gotten to be quite the tradition that Jessica and Lance started a couple years ago. Uh and a lot
021of fun. So that's going on at the high school. I want to uh thank our principles for their updates uh under the superintendent's update, but also reinforce what a great job our staff has done uh at the start of the school year. Um we recognize some specific staff members today. Uh but we see that high quality of staff and the impact that it has on our students every day and in our parent teacher conferences whether the communication with parents is about how well a student is doing at the start of the year or it might be addressing some struggles that the student is having our teaching staff really puts that conversation in a proactive positive way uh to help our students be successful. So, uh, a big shout out to all of our staff for
022helping us get off to a great start to the school year. >> Were there any questions for any of the administrators? >> All right. Thank you. I will say the sign in front of the middle school right now, every time I drive by makes me giggle. So, success there. Oh, maybe >> I think it's funny. >> I'll tell you later. What? >> Uh, finance committee report Tracy. >> Yes, I will allow Okay. So, the finance didn't meet on the 67 name. Okay. The finance committee met on Thursday, October 23rd where we discussed the budget and tax levy for the 2526 school year. Uh this is an action meeting, an action item for tonight's meeting, but I will turn to Ross to present the details. >> So, good evening everybody. Uh we did meet on Thursday
023to talk through the final steps for development of the 2526 budget. Um it's hard to believe, but we are at the end of another budget cycle. And as we do every year, we approve the fiscal year budget we're currently in four months after it starts. Um, and tonight we are, if you could put the slides up, Chelsea, I want to remind everybody what the um, here we go. What the typical budget cycle looks like in the state of Wisconsin. So, depending on what year you're looking at, we are at the first or the last bullet on this page, but um, right now we're we're set to approve the tax le for the 2526 school year budget, but as soon as we take action tonight, we begin planning for the 2627 budget already. Um, it depends
024a lot whether or not we're in the middle of a state budget or if we're going into a new state budget. This past budget cycle, we saw a pattern similar to what we've seen last couple years where a lot of our actionable data comes a little later than we'd like to have it. But here we are. And uh, tonight we're going to go through some of the highlights from the annual meeting as well as what's changed since the annual meeting for further discussion and action tonight. As we review our key assumptions in the budget, we also have to keep in mind of what are the big letters that are going to move. And one of those huge items that we talk about every year is our student count. Uh typically most people are familiar with
025the third Friday count. Uh in my world, we convert the third Friday headcount into a figure called membership. The membership refers to a factored version of total student headcount based on your grade level, whether you're a part-time student. And we also have to deduct an ad for open enrollment students into and out of the district. As part of that membership figure, we factor that into our revenue limit calculation. The revenue limit is the state imposed limit on funding collected from state general aids and local tax levy. The limit is created by using a three-year average of those membership figures and multiplying it by a local student per member. Within the revenue limit calculation, this is the top of the sheet that we have to deal with every year. Uh the three-year membership average for the
026school district of Milton is down about 26 students in headcount and over the three-year average down about 24. Um one thing to note and we'll see this in a little bit later is that this is actually an improvement over previous years in changes in the three-year average and that shows a lessening or a flattening of our membership count over that time period. Within this current state budget, we know that we have a $325 per people increase which was secured in the 2527 state budget. Um, and on this note, when we talked about this time last year, we were also seeing the last of our hold harmless exemptions. The hold harmless exemption is something in the revenue limit calculation that if your three-year rolling average and your local amount per pupil calculates less than the prior
027year, an exemption is triggered on a one-year basis to sustain your revenue limit for one more year and then it falls off. we are no longer generating those exemptions due in part to the $325 per pupil. Um which is great because we can preserve base revenue for future years. Uh also in this state budget outside of the revenue limit, one of the largest factors to the the budget we have tonight is that the special education categorically was the largest single increase in state revenue in this state budget cycle. And just to show some graphical representation, this is our three year or a five-year view of our membership average from 2122 to 2526 showing that slight decrease or declining enrollment, but it is flattening over time. Here's a more expanded view of the revenue limit itself
028expanding from the slide before. I want to draw some attention here too to on the two other sections that have now appeared on this page. One is the non-recurring exemption and the other is the recurring exemption. This will become much more important next year as we pivot from our current non-recurring referendum, which we're in our final year of, into our recurring referendum, which will be coming online next year. Uh the $2.5 million of non-recurring authority in the middle of that slide will be going down to zero next year. And then the following year, the first year of our referendum, we will see the recurring authority of $5 million come online, replacing in part the money we're currently losing in this referendum next year. Also on this slide is a what has been occurring to our
029private school voucher amount which is near the bottom of that non-recurring exemption area. Uh we are seeing an increase in our private school voucher payments due in part or due in large in part to the increase in the per student multiplier also change in this current state budget. Next up is a quick overview of our fund 10 general fund expenditures and revenues. Uh we ended the year with a fund balance just below our targeted goal of 20 to 25%. Uh depending on how you do your division and into this final number here which I'll go over in a second here we are between 23 and 1.5 and 24 and a.5% fund balance for the year ending 2425 June 30 2025 for last year. There is one thing I want to draw attention to on this
030slide. Uh it might be noticed, but the total expenditures for 2425 is showing at $52 million. Uh this is not the actual ending spending for the current year. This is due because we had a capital outlay last year for staff and student devices totaling approximately $2.3 million over the life of that lease. When we do a capital purchase of that magnitude, we have to record a year-end entry for our audit recognizing the influx of material, in this case devices, and the out total outlay at the same time. So, a $2.3 million revenue and expense appeared at the last minute in the 2425 budget. And if you look online just below the revenue total, you'll see a all sources source 800 and 900. It goes from 134,000 to 2.5 million and down to 110,000. that is
031the revenue or the devices coming into the district and being recognized as a capital asset for the first time. I say all this so then we're talking about year-end progression one year to the next. We are not going from $52 million down to $50.3 million in next year's budget. You need to take about $2.3 million off of that $52 million figure to see the progression of the budget over time, which results to about a 1.23% increase in total expenditures from year end June 30, 2025 to the 2526 budget. So, what has changed since the annual meeting and some highlights since we last talked about this? Uh, we did see a slight decrease in state aid, but well within what we thought was going to happen. Uh, we were projected on our July 1st estimate to
032have roughly flat state aid from last year, 2425. And that has come to pass. Uh, we have about a 04% reduction in total aid from last year to this year. Um, we had a minor reduction in anticipated private school voucher exemptions, not because of the multiplier, because of total students that were accredited to the school district of Milton. The total amount did go up, but not as much as we thought. Um, we did see a slight uh decrease in the declining enrollment exemption overall, meaning as I said earlier that the membership total for the district is flattening but still declining slightly overall. Um this means that with the state aid picture where it is and where we currently set our our budget from last June, we will have a nearly flat total tax levy. Actually
033a .05% reduction in total levy, which is um a wonderful thing to say. And um in the next slide I'll show here. Oh, not yet. Also last thing to highlight on here is the school district of Milton has had a continual decrease in the local tax rate since the 1920 school year. On the expenditure side, since the annual meeting and a highlight since we last talked, we have updated all personnel calculations for fall hires and new hires um to include staffing reservations for special education which we talked at at previous finance committee meetings and at the annual meeting as well. We've updated all known state and federal grant awards which were still kind of in flux the last time we talked about our budget and those are now incorporated into the fall budget for approval.
034We did see a slight reduction in budgeted open enrollment out students resulting in a somewhat of a net savings for the district going into this year. Um, and as I mentioned earlier, total general fund expenditures are set to increase about 1.29%. I think I said 1.23% earlier. It's my fault. Over year end 2425 uh budget. Again, that's net the capital outlay of about $2.3 million. Which leads us to our tax levy by fund. For this uh budget year, we are looking at a total tax levy of just under $21.8 million, resulting in a 0.05% decrease over total levy for 2425. Also included tonight with the handouts for this meeting is a memo summarizing a lot of what I just went through as well as a summarized version of the entire budget for which is in
035the same budget adoption format we had at the annual meeting for comments and questions. And with that, um, oh, I did forget this. We do have one slide that also wanted to highlight the reduction in tax rate. Our high point for our mill rate was about 9.3 $9.36 back in 1920 right after we had passed the capital referendum. And we've had now 7 years of consecutive decline in the tax rate. And if nothing else, I'll entertain any questions or comments as we move into next steps. >> If there are no questions, I'd entertain a motion. I move to approve and adopt the budget as presented with a total tax levy of 21,747,325 consisting of 16,69,467 general fund 5,221,100 debt service and $456,758 community service fund. Second. >> I have a motion from Tracy, a second
036from Joe. Any other questions or comments? >> All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Thank you so much, Ross. >> And if I may, I'd like to thank the finance committee, Ross, and all of the folks who worked really hard to put this together for this meeting tonight. I know it's not an easy task waiting for things. So, thank you very much for all of your hard work. Next, we move on to the governance committee. Mr. Snow. >> Thank you, Dr. Smith. On October 6th, we the governance committee met and we had our first reading of 27 uh different policies that are having adjustments made to them, two that are being rescended. On October the 13th, those were presented to the board. Rick was kind enough to
037do that in my absence. And tonight, we are looking for a motion to approve those changes and altercations to those policies. Any questions? Otherwise, I'd entertain a motion. >> I'll make a motion to approve the Niola and other policies as presented. >> I'll second that. >> So, I have a motion from Rick, a second from Tracy. Any other questions or comments? All those in favor, please say I. >> I. I. >> Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Thank you so much. So, then we are on to new business. Stephen, thank you everybody. Hard to believe it's is oh thank you Ross is uh the previous five years of uh investments that the board has made into our district facilities. If you look through the previous five years, the board has uh put in a lot of
038money in keeping our facilities up and that's gone a long ways into uh making sure our facilities are are up to date and uh providing a clean, safe, and healthy environment for all of our students and staff. Uh the project year that we'll be running through right now uh had about $1.5 million worth of projects that we'll be cruising through. So, uh, the completed projects for fiscal year 2526, uh, starting at East, nobody likes a good boiler room like I do. But, uh, at East, we, uh, did some mechanical improvements there, we replaced, uh, controls on our unit ventilators that were obsolete and, uh, replaced our original 1957, uh, boiler. That's the big green guy there. And it was replaced by that uh, real little gray guy on the bottom right. So crazy the things
039that they do these days versus when the building was originally constructed. Uh one of the things I do like to highlight too is that that project did end up receiving just over $13,000 uh focus on energy rebate over at West. Very exciting. Some new toilet partitions. Yeah. Very fun. Uh also at West uh some exterior doors. Hollow Metal to FRP. Doesn't sound like very much fun, but won't have to do those doors ever again in theory. So, that's always good, too. And uh at west is even the more dramatic boiler room before and after. That uh one on the left is the one that we we replaced with the one uh on the left on the lower right there. And it also got a paint job and some new lights. So, it's not like we're
040working in a cave anymore. So, and that uh building also uh that project also got a just over $13,000 focus on energy rebate for that project. Uh also at west is the renovation of the library. The library was pretty original from its construction in 1989 and uh new flooring, new paint job, new lighting and uh all new furniture in there uh went a long ways to create a a much more modern learning environment. At Consolidated, we did the last two rooms of classroom flooring. As you can see the before and after there. uh Harmony, we did uh more toilet partitions and unit ventilator controls that were the same era as the controllers at East. And look at those new partitions. Uh at North Side, we repainted the cafeteria and uh we also replaced some original
041lock sets uh before and after for the gym. Uh that was a great project to do. Really brought new life to that space. And uh the replacement lock sets just replace some uh tired original door hardware with more modern uh safety functions on those to allow the doors to be locked from the inside. At the high school were our two uh fund 46 projects. Uh those two big projects were uh roof section five and six. Uh just uh some a couple pictures of the roof project ongoing. And there's a picture of the project completed there on the right. And uh the new PAC sound system is fantastic. Uh moving on to district parks. Uh so we did uh replacement fencing and we also replaced uh or resealed the parking lot and walking path which is
042a a great improvement for the park. A couple after pictures there of the walking path and parking lot. And we also got some new uh picnic tables and benches. You would be amazed at the amount of people that have commented and called and asked about those. Uh they are a great improvement to the park. The other ones got a lot of life out of them, but these ones are definitely serving their purpose for us already. And uh lastly at the park, we just have the one project yet to wrap up for the fiscal year, which is the uh replacement or I'm sorry, the addition of field lighting for soccer practice field number four. uh we just get notified at the first week of December, they'll be delivering those lights on site and hopefully once frost
043hits, we'll be able to uh get in and get those lights put in and have things ready to go for the the spring season. So, and uh yeah, big shout out to Sarah Warren for putting all this together, too. She did a great job uh capturing the before and after of all that good stuff. So, uh any any questions, comments? >> Sorry. on the soccer. Can you just so is it going in in December or how like how is that? Just curious on the status on that one. >> Yeah, so the equipment will get delivered in December and then uh you know because the park's closed, not a big deal to leave it laying in the parking lot. Then I'll work with the uh contractor that's putting it in to really let the ground get
044nice and hard and frozen before we uh let them out there so it's the least invasive uh possible. Uh there's a lot of big heavy equipment like cranes and things that we got to get out there and we want to, you know, make those soccer fields as playable as they can be come springtime. So there's really no rush on our part to get it in. We can be patient and kind of let things freeze up and it'll be done and operational for uh when we open the park back up in late March. >> That's interesting. So you wait rather than digging. So it's the opposite of most building. You do it once the ground freezes. That's where I thought I heard you say. Um, I would like to thank you for making boilers and toilet
045partitions sound very interesting tonight. >> Yes. Good. No, thank you. >> A lot of credit for that. Thank you very much. >> Appreciate it. >> I have a question, Stephen. Is it um >> We're looking in retrospect at these completed projects and the slides are labeled 2526. Is that the fiscal year they land in? >> Correct. Yes. So, yeah, >> we're still living that budget technically. So, >> these all these projects technically kicked off July 1st. Okay. >> Of this year. And uh yeah, we you know do that approval in late February to allow us to get everything scheduled and committed to for that tight time frame. So it's uh it's nice to get that approval window like we do to >> get ahead of everybody else if you will. >> Stephen, I just want
046to take a minute. I'd be remiss if I didn't thank you and congratulate you. A lot of great projects. All this stuff got done. This is amazing in addition to the day-to-day work that your crew does. So, a shout out to your entire team. >> Very, very appreciative of the work that you guys do. >> Thank you. They do amazing work. That's for sure. >> Yes, they do. Thank you. >> Well, thank you so much for the summary. Appreciate it. >> Next, we move on to Carrie discussion and possible action on critical incident drill reports. Hi everyone. So, uh, this is just our annual presentation, an overview of the safety reports and safety drill reports for the school district. Um, first off, just starting with our school safety training. The school district of Milton has
047fully incorporated the standard response protocols, our critical incident response and, uh, we are building on all staff training conducted in the prior school year and, uh, offering refresher courses throughout this year. Most notably, we held a SRM SRP course during the August 20th professional development day. And we also offered a stop thebleleed emergency medical care training as a refresher for any staff who wanted to take it. Regarding our safety plan, our crisis and communications management plan or the CCMP was officially updated on August 25th and paper copies were distributed to the administrators. Uh the CCMP contains scenarios uh with instructions for basic crisis situations and that's anything from an air quality alert to a gas leak and the CCMP manual is meant to just be a guide in an emergency situation who you call what
048the process what the steps are. Uh one highlight that I want to mention is that during our safe schools inter agency meetings last school year the admin team committed to increasing our frequency of school violence drills. So that means that during the school year we are going to commit to one per trimester or one per se semester respectively. And that's just to ensure that as we are still incorporating the new lexicon our staff and students feel more confident and empowered to use the SRP language in an emergency event. And then finally with an overview of our fall school violence drills. Um on our most ones our most recent ones I want to emphasize that we're very proud of all the staff and student responses. Overall, our staff members are uh feeling confident. We are hearing
049back from the surveys that they are feeling more and more empowered to use the SRP. And I also want to compliment them for doing such a fantastic job of taking something that can cause a lot of anxiety and always making it approachable and anxiety reducing for our staff and for the students who are participating. uh as we uh continue to observe growing familiarity with the SRP and the SRM, we are just enthusiastic about incorporating this as it matches our neighbors and um continuing the process throughout the year. So, thank you very much for that report. I would just ask the board before I open it up to questions to remember that for the safety and security of our staff and students, it's okay to ask broad questions, but if you have detailed specific questions per
050school or activity, if you would get those to me, and we'll call a close session for those types of questions. So, I'd open it up to questions for Carrie. All right. Well, thank you so much. I would entertain a motion to approve our um critical incident drill report. >> I'll move to approve the critical incident drill reports for the 2526 school year. >> I I have a motion from Tracy and I think I heard Rick first. Okay. A motion from Tracy, a second from Rick. Uh any other questions or comments? All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Thank you again. And we are going to move on to our staffing report. >> I'll move to approve the staffing report as presented. >> I have a motion from
051John, a second from Ed. Any questions or comments? All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Oppos same. Motion carries. Gifts and donations. >> Make a motion to approve the gifts and donations with gratitude. >> Second. >> I have a motion from Rick, a second from John. Any questions? All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. We are on to meeting dates. >> Our next regularly scheduled board meeting is on Monday, November 10th at 6:30 p.m. Uh we are looking to schedule after that uh board meeting a committee meeting for our instructional, co-curricular, and student services committee. Uh, we'd like to schedule that either Tuesday, November 11th or Wednesday, November 12th. Uh, Chelsea, have you reached out to committee members? >> Yep, I have. I I
052just need one more response. >> All right. So, get in touch with Chelsea and then we will let everyone know when that one is scheduled. Following the regular board meeting on Monday, December 8th, we will have a board development session. And then coming up in January, the 2026 Wisconsin State Education Convention, excuse me, is in Milwaukee. That is uh January 21st through January 23rd. Uh the registration for the convention and hotel rooms is on Monday, November 3rd. So, uh I think Chelsea said that uh she has heard from all the board members, so she will get uh that registration taken care of on Monday, November 3rd. And then we had talked earlier about uh our data workshop uh because uh we were looking at late November for that data workshop. Um because we will be
053doing some closed sessions for the superintendent's evaluation through November and December. Uh we are moving that data workshop to after the regular board meeting on Monday, January 26th. And that is everything that I have for upcoming uh board or committee meetings. >> Thank you so much. Any questions? >> I have one thing and that I'm sorry. Now I have one thing. Um I want the board to meet and say hello to Lily Rabby uh joining us in the front row here with I presume her mom. Is that true? Okay. Um we have a new venture in the district here. Uh Mr. Billhorn and Mr. YAL are partnering with uh the Rock County Civics Academy to uh launch a uh a new uh program of sorts that uh students applied to participate in and uh through
054an application process. There were four students uh selected to participate. Uh Jennifer and I were honored and somewhat privileged to be asked to mentor uh those students through this program. We've had a number of of meetings so far. there's more to go and uh quite honestly I don't know exactly where it's going but uh we'll be we'll be happy to uh assist in whatever way we can but uh I think I could speak for Jennifer on how impressed we've been at the the quality of the students and the the uh input that they've had and uh while they're classifying us as mentors and the students as mentees I could tell you that we are learning as much as the students are so um very very fun uh thing to be involved with and uh to
055see it unfold and um I'm excited for the ways that we can expand it and see where we can take this program. So, just want to say hello and uh it's it's a bit of a an effort into uh melding uh public service and local government and helping students understand how those things coales and and unfold in our little communities that we all live in. So, I think that would that characterize it somewhat, Jen? >> Yes. So anyway, just wanted the board to meet her and say hello. And um one of our other uh students was here tonight as the drum major or one of the drum majors in our band. So um you can tell the the caliber of the young people is uh really really outstanding. That's all I got. >> Thank you
056Joan and thank you Lily for joining us. All right. Anything else for the good of the group? I would entertain a motion to adjurnn. >> I would so move. >> Second. >> A motion from Joe, a second from Tracy. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Thank you. Thank you very much.